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Last updated: February 28, 2015
Lesson Plan
Earth Blocks
- Grade Level:
- Sixth Grade-Twelfth Grade
- Subject:
- Earth Science, Geology, History, Landscapes, Volcanoes
- Duration:
- 45 minutes (or one class session)
- Group Size:
- Up to 36
- Setting:
- classroom
- Keywords:
- deposit, Electron Mudflow, glacier, lahar, lava flow, National Lahar, Law of Superposition, pyroclastic flow, radiometric dating, Round Pass Mudflow, stratigraphy, tephra, volcano, Mount Rainier National Park, Cascade Volcano Observatory, mount rainier
OverviewStudents explore a riverbank with a geologist and learn about the Law of Superposition by arranging and interpreting Earth Blocks. This lesson plan is part of the "Living with a Volcano in Your Backyard" curriculum, created through a partnership between Mount Rainier National Park and the US Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory.
Students will:
- Use the "Law of Superposition" to determine the chronological order of geological events
- Practice logic and observation by modeling rock layers at Mount Rainier
- Draw information and conclusions from a model
Geologists generally accept that events of the future will resemble those of the past. For this reason, they investigate the origin of rocky layers (deposits) set down by previous volcanic events. They recognize that understanding a volcano's general behavior patterns now can lead to a society that is better prepared because they can anticipate likely types of future volcanic activity. Geologists have developed ingenious methods to identify the are, origin, and sequence of events that formed the rocky layers set into place by lava flows, pyroclastic flows, tephra fall, lahars and glacier, stream, and erosional processes. They conduct complex chemical analyses to determine the composition of rocks, their source, and the process that formed them. They perform sophisticated laboratory methods to identify the age of rock layers. Yet, one of the most useful methods requires little more than good observational skills, a small trowel or rock hammer, notebook and map, and a basic understanding of the Law of Superposition. This fundamental principle, which states that younger layers will be on top of layers that are older, is one of the guiding principles of geological investigation. This activity provides a glimpse into the methods used by geologists as they study the rocky layers at Mount Rainier. Students manipulate "Earth Blocks" into the likely sequences observed at Mount rainier, and practice their logic skills as they employ the Law of Superposition. See the lesson plan for "Shoebox Geologist" for more in-depth information about the layers described here.
Student pages are used to make observations and answer the questions provided by the teacher pages. Students will use the graphics pages to observe the different layers and determine their order.
Graphic: Earth Blocks - Example
An example graphic of layered Earth Blocks. Download
Graphic: Lahar Layers in the Nisqually River Valley
A graphic showing geologic layers in the Nisqually River Valley, used to introduce students to the different types of layers. Download
Graphic: Earth Blocks for Activities
A set of Earth Blocks to be copied for use in the lesson plan activities. Download
Student Page: Discover Layers - In the Field with a Geologist
Student Page to help students envision what it would be like to be a geologist. Download
Student Page: Explore Mount Rainier's History with Earth Blocks
Worksheets for use with the lesson plan activities. Download
Teacher Page: Exploring Mount Rainier's History with Earth Blocks - Answers
Answers to the worksheet questions found on the Student Page: Exploring Mount Rainier's History with Earth Blocks Download
You will need:
- Graphic - "Lahar Layers in the Nisqually River Valley
- Graphic - "Earth Blocks - Example"
- Copies of Student Page - "Discover Layers - In the Field with a Geologist"
- Copies of Student Page - "Explore Mount Rainier's History with Earth Blocks"
- Six to eight sets of "Earth Blocks" Graphic
Demonstrate Use of Earth Blocks and Explore Mount Rainier's History Using Earth Blocks
- For each student group, make copies of the color "Earth Blocks" graphics. You may choose to laminate or mount the cards on a hard surface such as cardboard or foam core.
- Display the graphic "Earth Blocks - Example".
- Project the graphic "Lahar Layers in the Nisqually River Valley" to introduce students to what these layered sequences look like at Mount Rainier. Give examples of the types of deposits found at Mount Rainier (stream, glacial, lava flow, tephra, and lahar).
- Explain to students that geologists interpret the geologic history of an area by studying layers. One method they use is called relative age dating. Students explore this concept by playing the "Hand Stacking Game" described below:
a) Divide the class into groups of four or five people.
b) Instruct one person in each group to place their hand flat on the table. The next person places their hand on top. Continue to stack hands until no more hands remain to be stacked. Ask which hands represent "newer" or "older" layers. See other ideas under the "Extensions" section.
c) Discuss the "Law of Superposition". This seemingly simple scientific principle was not recognized and understood until the seventeenth century. Think about why it took so long for the "law' to be recognized.
Explore Volcano History with Earth Blocks
- Divide the class into groups of two or three students and give each a set of "Earth Blocks".
- Provide each student with the four "Explore Mount Rainier's History with Earth Blocks" student pages.
- Students arrange blocks into the layer sequences described on their student pages. With the teacher aiding, students should identify the geologic events that built each layer in their "Earth Blocks" sequence and answer questions on the student page.
- Lead a class discussion. What interpretations did students make about the layers?
- Alternatively, students answer questions directly from the geologist notebook pages without use of the "Earth Blocks".
- Students draw their own Earth Blocks on strips of papers and arrange them in correct order before answering the questions.
- Take a field trip with your students to a nearby outcrop of rock layers, whether a riverbank, valley wall, or distant view of a volcano. Bring appropriate blocks, such as stream gravels, glacial deposits, etc. Instruct students to place blocks directly on the outcrop, or line them up in the appropriate order.
- Ask students to develop their own "Earth Blocks" that model an outcrop in their community or at other Cascade volcanoes.
AssessmentLook for students' understanding of the Law of Superposition. As the activity progresses, students should recognize that this principle enables scientists to determine the chronological order in which geological events happened. Students should understand why this law is helpful to volcanologists who seek to know the geological story of an area. Their understanding of past events helps them to determine the most likely geological events for the future, and ultimately the hazards. This process in due course saves lives and property and improves the well being of nearby communities. Use questions on the student pages to assess students' ability to apply the principle of Superposition to real-world situations. After completing this lesson, students should be able to design their own data and observation tables. Students who select an incorrect response may be able to provide a justification for their answer that demonstrates understanding of the principle.
Park Connections
This activity provides a glimpse into the methods used by geologists as they study the rocky layers at Mount Rainier to discover the volcano's history.
- Clothes hamper geology. Introduce the concept of layers and the "Law of Superposition" by instructing students to envision a clothes hamper in their bedrooms. They come home from school on Monday and take off a red shirt and throw it into the hamper. On Tuesday, they toss in a green shirt. On Wednesday, they put in a yellow shirt, on Thursday, a purple shirt, and on Friday, a blue shirt. Each shirt represents a layer deposited by the student. Ask students which layer is oldest and which is the youngest? From this, ask students to derive the "Law of Superposition." Alternatively, students pile up jackets and sweaters worn that school day.
- Snow bank stratigraphy. If you live in an area where snow banks develop during the winter, take students to one of them and ask them to interpret the relative ages of the layers while hypothesizing about the events that created the layers.
- The earth's ticking clock—radiometric dating. Use this extension activity to explain how radiometric dating works. Provide each student with a graham cracker and ask students to take exactly one minute to eat half of the graham cracker. After the one minute of eating the first half, instruct them to eat half of the remaining graham cracker, and split the remaining amount in half. Ask students to repeat this until the amount of graham cracker is so small that they can no longer divide it in half. The amount of time it takes for half of the graham cracker to be eaten is known as the half-life. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,730 years. Make sure students keep track of how long it takes them to reach the point when the graham cracker can no longer be split apart. At this point, the amount of cracker left represents the amount of Carbon-14remaining when the sample has completely degraded to one molecule. The molecule cannot be split and so there is essentially no Carbon-14 left in the sample. Instruct the students to plot the relative size of the cracker (one half, one quarter, one eighth, etc.) versus time on graph paper. If the students were to find a sediment layer with a graham cracker in it that had degraded to one-eighth its original size, how old would the sediment layer be? Make an analogy to Carbon-14 dating.
- Design earth blocks with character. Make a set of "Earth Blocks" that include common physical characteristics found in the different tephra layers at Mount Rainier. You can find this information in published geologic papers on the website of the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. See Internet Resources Page
Additional Resources
Cas, R.A.F., and Wright, J.V., 1987, Volcanic Successions Modern and Ancient—ageological approach to processes, products and successions: London, Allen andUnwin, 528 p.
Fisher, R.V., and Schmincke, H.U., 1984, Pyroclastic rocks: New York, Springer–Verlag,472 p.
Scott, K.M, Vallance, J.W., and Pringle, P.T., 1995, Sedimentology, behavior, andhazards of debris flows at Mount Rainier, Washington: U.S. Geological SurveyProfessional Paper 1547, 56 p., 1 pl.
Vallance, J.W., and Scott, K.M., 1997, The Osceola Mudflow from Mount Rainier:Sedimentology and hazard implications of a huge clay-rich debris flow: GSABulletin, February, 1997, v. 109: no. 2: p. 143-163, 6 tables.
Zehfuss, P.H., Atwater, B.F., Vallance, J.W., Brenniman, H., Brown, T.A., 2003,Holocene lahars and their by–products along the historical path of the White River between Mount Rainier and Seattle: in Swanson, T.W., ed, Western Cordillera andadjacent areas: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Field Guide 4,p. 209-223.


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Lord Lyons was the British minister in Washington just before and during the Civil War. Robert Bunch, Our Man in Charleston, provided his key intelligence about events in the South.
June 18, 1861 - Lyons to Lord John Russell, the British foreign secretary: … No doubt the prospects of the North are brighter than they were a month ago. But nothing has yet happened to give any clear notion of the probable [extent] and duration of the struggle.
The perseverance of neither
side has yet been put to the test. No military engagement has taken place — and
consequently the effect of defeat or victory on the spirit of the two divisions
of the country can only be conjectured. Hitherto the North has advanced
gradually into Virginia without opposition, but if the advance is to go on at
the same rate it will take about half a century to get on to Florida. On the
other hand, we have been again threatened with an attack upon Washington, and
no doubt if President Davis could move his troops with rapidity, such an attack
would have a fair chance of success. But the same causes which oblige General
Scott to be so nearly immoveable no doubt operate as forcibly with his
antagonists. Lack of means of transport, lack of Commissariat, lack of trained
soldiers. Unless one side make up their minds to a dash at Richmond, or the
other at Washington, we may go on in the present state of uncertainty all the summer,
and even much longer.
|The Long Bridge between D.C. and Virginia
If this be, so we shall probably also remain in the same uncertainty about the conduct of the Cabinet of Washington toward Gt Britain, and prudence must, I am afraid, lead us to consider ourselves at any moment open to a Declaration of War. Any symptom of disunion between England and France, any necessity on the part of the Cabinet of some or some of its members to around popular passion, or pander to it, might bring on a war. …


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Wow, it has been one crazy week and I've fallen behind on my cards and crafting. I've been sort of working on this card all week and it proved to be a challenge. I had this great strawberry paper that I used, but it's hard to tell what it is...but it didn't look good any other way. Also, I had the idea for the ribbon and just couldn't figure out how to get it right. I used Indie Art for the strawberry and Nursery Rhymes for the words. The stamps are CTMH and are part of a challenge on the cricut board. The paper - is cosmo cricut and just some basics from my own stash. I used a zag glue pen and then glittered in spots. I looped the ribbon and laid this first then added the layers. I doodled with my white jelly roll pen and a black pen. I have the G file if you are interested. Also, if you'd like more details in my blog - sizes and such. Please leave me a comment. I would be happy to if someone wants it! Just email at firstname.lastname@example.com
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ADDISON — One Tuesday late last month, the Addison firehouse was full of dairy farmers — most from Addison County, and some from farther afield — having a long talk with Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin about the future of farming.
"We needed to see what was coming down the pipe," said Phil Livingston, a New Haven dairy farmer and co-president of the Addison County Young Farmers group, which organized the event.
He, along with his co-presidents John Chamberlain and Derrick Dykstra, hold monthly events for the group, covering a range of topics related to the dairy business.
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To the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN), however, change is imminent.
ADDISON COUNTY — Sid Claflin and his sisters last month signed the papers on a sale that will permanently protect 200 acres of land on their family's Monkton farm from development.
The parcel of the family's 325-acre farm is now protected by a conservation easement held by the Vermont Land Trust, which permanently protects the land from development and subdivision.
ADDISON COUNTY — Crop yields were looking good this year for Addison County farmers — by some accounts, better than they have been in many years.
Craig Miner, county Farm Service Agency executive, said that from what he saw, nearly the entire growing season spelled good luck for local farmers.
"It was an excellent season — probably one of the best in recent years," he said.
Ben Gleason, of Gleason's Grains in Bridport, agreed. He said the combination of just enough rain and more warmth than last summer meant that his crops did well.
ADDISON COUNTY — The Mount Abraham Union High School garden began its first year at about 600 square feet. Now, as it wraps up its second year, the garden has doubled in size.
Mount Abe is just one of many schools in the county that have been taking the first steps toward incorporating more local food and nutrition education into their curriculums, in some cases bringing academic studies a little closer to technical agricultural programs.
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I spent the summer of 2005 on a coast to coast trip across North America. I stayed mainly Canada, but I did dip into the North Eastern and North Central USA a few times. This is the blog from that trip.
The dark blue line on following map shows territory I covered.
The list on the right is all the stops I made along the way. As you will see, each one has a map like that above that shows roughly were I was.


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Our LED hideaway 8 lights can be synchronized, flash alternately, or flash simultaneously. We recommend you have these lights installed by an EVT (emergency vehicle technician). Below, you will find instructions on how to install and wire these LED lights. If you have any questions prior to or after installation, please feel free to contact our customer service team.
When installing your LED hideaway 8s, you need to be aware of the following information.
- Don't cut the wires between the in-line flasher and light head
- Lights should only be used on approved vehicles
- Do not install or route near any airbag deployment areas (refer to owner's manual for specifics)
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- Remove reflector assembly
- Find a location for each hideaway you are installing. Use the following parameters to choose the right hideaway light location.
- 1" clearance
- Doesn't interfere with normal lamp operation
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- Place light in hole, mark mounting locations
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Monday, April 21, 2014
I Now Sell Photographs!
6 comments:
- Steinworks said...
I love them, the little child photos are adorable but that seagul photo is in the wrong place I was looking at the house photos and up popped the bird and scared me..LOL..I think they're great..you should make the post cards
- April 22, 2014 at 9:24 AM
- C.J. said...
Thank you! My son is my best model. And...we have bionic seagulls here. Really. That's not even an unusually large seagull for this area! A big redneck activity around here is feeding seagulls french fries, so if you stop anywhere to eat, seagulls will come over to your car to investigate.
- April 22, 2014 at 9:34 AM
- Giac said...
Hello CJ,
You are a wonderful photographer and I think your pictures will be very popular. Your area is so beautiful and so full of inspiring shots, but That little guy is the most beautiful little guy ever. Best of luck with the new venture.
Big hug,
- April 23, 2014 at 12:51 PM
- Hoa Bracken said...
Congratulations on your new listing, C.J.! The photos look wonderful. The colors of each and every one of them are just so amazing. I can tell that the photos you posted are raw and untouched. I'm sure they'll brighten up even more vividly when printed. It's definite that they'll sell well because you have a great eye for photography. I wish you luck on your business!
Hoa Bracken @ Master Copy Print
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- September 23, 2017 at 7:40 AM
- Polly said...
Your houses are beautiful. I also love the photo of Krishna.
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I will photograph her homemade goodies for you.
Friday, December 7, 2012
St. Nicholas evening
I will photograph her homemade goodies for you.
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Lindas as decorações de Natal. Tudo muito lindo em todos os detalhes.ReplyDelete
The table looks beautiful and I love the last photograph - so atmospheric!ReplyDelete
Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger
Gorgeous table for St. Nicholas evening. The photograph from across your road is magic - lovely to see into the windows, the snow on the rooftops and the blue haze.ReplyDelete
Your table looks so pretty, I love all the little tea lights and you view is so pretty.ReplyDelete
Beautiful table and room. Looks very festive and ready for a good time! Wishing you a happy weekend!ReplyDelete
What a cozy diner area!ReplyDelete
Classic red, remains beatiful with xmas.
Lovely weekend!
love what you've done with your Christmas decoration! So lovely!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the party!
Your table looks so pretty and love your ideas with the tea lights in the apples and the sticks of rock decorating the pot of cones.ReplyDelete
Sarah x
Your chairs are so stylish and your table very elegant!!ReplyDelete
lovely photo's the last one is my favourite the colour of the sky behind the buildings.ReplyDelete
Annie x
This is all truly wonderful and cosy. You are the perfect home maker, Christa!ReplyDelete
The view out of your window is to die for and I just... LOVE IT! BEAUTIFUL!
I missed posts ! Lovely your table and the decoration !ReplyDelete
The view of your window dreaming !
Love the hollowed out apples and the lambskin chair backs ... what a wonderfully cosy scene. M xReplyDelete


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The Virtualizer takes gaming to next level
Jan. 27 - A prototype gaming system being developed by scientists in Austria is taking virtual reality to a new level, allowing gamers to physically walk or run through their virtual world. Its inventors at the Vienna University of Technology say 'The Virtualizer' could also be used to help stroke patients regain their ability to walk. Jim Drury reports.
Tuncay Cakmak steps into the Virtualizer. The PhD student says his device takes virtual reality gaming to a new level of sophistication. It consists of a small circular metal frame, belts linked to vertical columns, and a disc-shaped low-friction floor plate. Once he's put on his Occulus Rift headset and console controller, and switched on the game, Tuncay is ready to run..... UPSOT: RUNNING ON PLATE SOUNDBITE (English) TUNCAY CAKMAK, STUDENT AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AND CO-INVENTOR OF VIRTUALIZER, WALKING ON BASE PLATE, AND SAYING: "It's like learning a new controller and you totally forget you are in the device, so the brain, the most important thing for us from the cyber Rift is that the brain decouples from reality, the brain shall think where am I in the virtual world is real." The floor plate's low-friction allows users wearing regular socks to run and walk in any direction, jump or squat, without causing the motion sickness often associated with other virtual reality games. Sensors track their movement, sending signals to the PC. SOUNDBITE (English) TUNCAY CAKMAK, STUDENT AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AND CO-INVENTOR OF VIRTUALIZER, SAYING: "The PC thinks that the Virtualizer is like a keyboard or a gamepad, like a controller. So you can use the Virtualizer with every game that exists, that you can play with on keyboard or gamepad and that's why we don't need a special software for the Virtualizer." The Virtualizer works with a variety of existing headsets... And the technology is not limited to gaming, according to co-inventor Dr Hannes Kaufmann. SOUNDBITE (English) PROFESSOR HANNES KAUFMAN, CO-INVENTOR OF VIRTUALIZER, SAYING: "You can do virtual sightseeing, you can explore wonderful new worlds and it's also great, for example, for medical purposes, for rehabilitation, you can train walking again for people after an accident, for stroke patients, it's a motivating way of walking through imaginative worlds." And the pair hopes to have their system commercially available later this year. They want to make it as ubiquitous in the home as a television or computer.....putting a spring in the step of anyone who uses it.


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L. Neil Smith's
Number 301, December 19, 2004
Happy Ngu Year!
A New Direction
Exclusive to TLE
Over this last year or so, I have become a regular contributor to TLE, and due to some comments made both in personal discussions, and on the Smith-2004 group message board, I have a proposal to make,
For those of us who write in TLE, and other online e-zines, it is satisfying to get our views out, to make our points, and hopefully, to reach a few undecided but open minds. The problem with this, is that we are attempting to go against decades of government propaganda and brainwashing, as delivered by the public school system. Therefore, the only ones we can reach are those few who have already begun to doubt their early indoctrination, and to fight against it.
So how do we address this problem? And it is a problem, if we don't wish to be overwhelmed and enslaved by sheer numbers. The only way to reach enough people, in a way that can even be partially effective, is to entertain them! We have to grab their attention, in a way that will make them start to accept libertarian ideals, even if they don't conciously realize that they are doing that. It has been rightly said that the American people think in sound bites, a result of long training by the media. So, we have to propagandize in sound bites, in easily digested bits.
My suggestion is this: Those of us who can write, do so! Don't just write articles for TLE. Write short stories, poetry, comedy skits. Write in shared universe fiction millieus, such as Kate Graham's Eden universe. (E-mail Kate for details) For those who write lyrics, compose music, or perform, use libertarian themes, such as individual responsibility. For those who engage in visual media, such as mime, film, theater, make sure you present libertarian themes.
Does the whole thing have to be libertarian in theme? Of course not! However, the libertarian theme does have to be catchy, has to have people humming the song, laughing at the comedy, thinking about the ideas. A good example of this that has actually worked is the Firefly TV series, now a motion picture, which will be released in September of 2005. Even though the network executives killed the series, the ideas were catchy enough to have a major studio cough up the cash to make it into a film, and there is even talk of a trilogy.
Don't feel you are creative enough to do any of that, or even to be a regular contributor to TLE or some other, similar e-zine? Everyone has something they have a beef about. If it is city government, tell us about it! Zoning? Everybody hates the idea of someone else telling you what to do with your own property. Tell us about your experience! The more extreme the government is in it's actions, the more ridiculous they look when it is publicized. Just remember how silly that Florida town looked last year when they tried to require a kid to have a city vendor's license for a lemonade stand!
I'm sure that most of you can think of more than one way the various levels of government have been ridiculously stupid and intrusive. Spread the word! The sillier the government looks, the less seriously it is taken by anyone, and eventually, it may spread to the point of causing the government to be laughed out of existence. A pipe dream? Maybe. But so was the original Revolution. If we don't do anything, we lose. If we use violence, unless it is so clearly necessary that even the average brainwashed American can see it, we lose. If we engage in conventional battle, in any way, we lose. Look to Iraq for ideas, look to history. What is the classic way for an outnumbered, under-equipped people to fight back against tyranny? Guerrilla warfare! So let's adapt the principles of guerrilla warfare to our writing, our entertainment, our very lives. Don't try to meet them head on, we'll only get a headache. Instead, circle around, attack from a perspective they don't expect, use innovative ideas, use their own actions against them. Especially, use humor, use song, use comedy. Make them look as ridiculous as they are!
As always, do not ever take my unsupported word for anything, and still less the word of any media or government mouthpiece. Look up the facts for yourself, do the research, prove to yourselves that what I tell you is the truth, at least as I see it.
You, and only you, are responsible for your own safety and freedom. No one else can make you free, you have to do it yourself!


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Showcase: Orruk Ironjawz Warchanter by Lecoqadoodledo
I wanted to stick closely to the box art scheme, but instead opted for a richer yellow and green skin colour. I also changed the Gorkstikk and Morkstikk bone to something darker so as to emphasize the Waaagh energy pulsing inside them.
The base needed to be simple and contrasting, with a few fun little elements to it, so I asked FruitBear if I could use a base tutorial he had previously done up. I tweaked it slightly for speed, due to needing it to be an army wide scheme, and not display standard.
I really enjoyed painting the Warchanter model, and it has quickly became one of my favourite models in the Age of Sigmar range. I look forward to trying out this scheme on the Brutes, and Gordrakk himself once I've worked through some Sylvaneth.
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Brief history: Tiny and Renegade came to our platoon back inOctober 2010 when a young local national boy asked if we would like
them. We were out on patrol and the young boy said he could not feed
them. I have attached a picture of them back then. Tiny is on the left
and Renegade is on the right. We took them back to our base and it was
not long before they became family to us. A few months later, we had to
move to build a new outpost and there was no question on whether they
would come or not. We packed them up in the trucks and moved out. Tiny
and Renegade have grown a lot since October and they are accustomed to
going on patrol with the guys whenever they go out the gate. Those two
"boys" will follow our patrols anywhere and stay right with the guys.
My platoon (29 infantymen), LOVE our dogs and any one of them would take
them home. My Platoon Leader and I understand the costs involved and
would be willing to pay whatever the cost is. Of course we need help
getting Tiny and Renegade home. I pray you can help. Thank you for your


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Located off Interstate 90, this motel in Bozeman, Montana features rooms with a cable TV. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the property, and Montana State University-Bozeman is just 2.5 miles away.
A microwave and fridge are provided in all rooms at the Ranch House Motel. Each room offers simple décor and includes a work desk.Bridger Creek Golf Course is just 2.
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PART 3 of 3
Jon Christian Ryter
November 21, 2008
The House, also controlled by the GOP, quickly replaced HR-666 with a closely scrutinized HR-2703 that became law. When President George W. Bush championed the the first USA Patriot Act of 2001, every provision stripped from HR-666 appeared in that piece of legislation. The USA Patriot Act was enacted into law on Oct. 26, 2001 and, as Bush signed the measure, New York Times columnist William O. Safire observed the following day that Bush-43 had seized dictatorial powers. But, because Sept. 11 was still vivid in everyone's mind, few people objected, believing that Bush-43—the cowboy—was more ideologically akin to Cowboy Reagan that he was to his predecessor, Bill Clinton. They were wrong. Fearing for their jobs, Congress left the most radical aspects of the Patriot Act on the cutting room floor. Doing so required an encore in 2003 when Patriot Act II, the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 was enacted to make permanent several aspects of the USA Patriot Act that contained sunset clauses.
measures included: applying provisions of Woodrow Wilson's Trading
With the Enemy Act of 1917 (as amended by FDR in 1933) against
the American people even without a national emergency. Among the provisions
was the abrogation of the 4th Amendment; the abrogation of the 5th Amendment
by forcing citizens to testify against themselves; eliminating the subset
clauses in the original Patriot Act; authorizing the government to use
any type of covert surveillance on those suspected of planning terrorist
acts by using FISA courts to secure their warrants; authorizing warrantless
searches; and authorizing surreptitious access to all public and private
sector information databases on all citizens. Further, the law would
allow government to deny anyone access to information under the Freedom
of Information Act. It would also authorize the creation of a DNA
database on all US citizens and resident aliens and authorize Homeland
Security to extradite American citizens to any country they wish—even
if the US citizen had never been there and has no genealogical ties
with that country. And by no means finally, the Patriot Act II provides
no statute of limitations for terrorism. There are over 500 abrogation
of civil liberties found in Patriot II that wore the magic eraser to
a "nub."
After winning the White House in the "national lottery" on Nov. 4, 2008, President-elect Barack Hussein Obama noted that, in his view, the Constitution of the United States was fatally flawed because it was written by white men at a time when black men were slaves. Obama noted in his book, Audacity of Hope, that "...[I]implicit in [the Constitution's] structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth—the infallibility of any idea or ideology, or theology, or 'ism,' any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, inalterable course...The Constitution," he observed, "envisions a road map by which we marry passion to reason—the ideal of individual freedom to the demands of the community."
Like the liberals on the high court, Obama sees the Constitution as a "living document." But he sees it the same way he sees taxation—as a tool for income-leveling. Like most liberals, Obama doesn't care about the strict reading of the Constitution since, in his view, the fact that it's a living document trumps the words penned by the Founding Fathers 232 years ago. Today's liberal believes they have the right to amend the Constitution by adding and subtracting a word here and there.
Today's liberals on the high court—Stephen Breyer, David Souter, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—believe the same thing. Their choice is to couple unrelated amendments and/or case law (sometimes international case law) to arrive at entirely new interpretations of established law. Obama takes his views a step farther. In his view the Constitution is a blank slate upon which his judicial appointees can write anything they want—providing those words coincide with his views of Black Utopia.
In a 2001 interview with Chicago radio station WBEZ.FM radio which surfaced a year or so ago, Obama sadly observed that the Supreme Court never ventured into the area of redistributing the wealth of the nation. (Probably because the idea of stealing the wealth of one man solely to give it to someone else who has no wealth is not only unconstitutional it's immoral.) Obama noted in that interview that he was not optimist that redistributive change would ever take place through the courts. Therefore, if its going to happen, new principles would have to be applied. Obama believes the Constitution of the United States is currently on life support. He intends to be the President that pulls the plug. What remains of our inherent constitutional rights will be completely erased during Obama's administration, and brand new "communal" rights that will, in his view, "restore fairness to the economy," will be penned into Obama's living Constitution by the three or four justices he expects to appoint while in office.
Obama has said he expects the high court to view the Constitution through the prism of political correctness When asked by what yardstick he would measure judges as President, Obama said: "...we need [judges who have] heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges." Obama fails, or simply refuses, to grasp the fact that the reason for the Constitution, and the prescribed method of amending it is to prevent this very type of arrogant tyranny.
In his WBEZ.FM radio interview Obama said he regarded the worst failure of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren's court was the way the high court ruled on civil rights issues in the early 1960s. The Warren Court, he said, "...failed to break free from the essential constraints..." of the Constitution by ordering a major redistribution of wealth. Then Illinois State Senator Obama said that, in his view, the legislative branch of government and not the courts, would probably be the best venue for accomplishing his goal.
However, the US Constitution precludes the targeted taxing of one class of people solely for the benefit of another class of people. Both State and federal courts have consistently ruled that it is arbitrary taxation for governments to subject one class of citizens of a punitive tax solely to benefit another class of people. In 22 Missouri 835, Wells v City of Weston, the Missouri Supreme Court denied the legislature the right to tax property in one taxing jurisdiction to benefit of another class of citizens in a different taxing jurisdiction. The Supreme Courts in Kentucky, Wisconsin and Iowa also ruled in similar cases and rendered similar decisions. When it ruled on a case of arbitrary taxation, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said that dipping into the pockets of one class of taxpayer to benefit another class of taxpayer violates the principles of uniform taxation which, the Justices said, was a settled principle of constitutional law.
Obama noted that the "...tragedy of the civil rights movement was...[that it] became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change." The major change Obama expects to implement during his presidency is to permanently erase the concepts of limited government from the United States. He sees himself as America's black Franklin D. Roosevelt. Like Roosevelt who knew, going in, that the Supreme Court would not sanction the core socialist principles of the New Deal—which violated the Constitution—Obama knows that what he wants to accomplish cannot be achieved through court action. "The court's not very good at [this type of thing]," Obama noted. "I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know, the institution just isn't structured that way. You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues." Obama concluded by saying he needs to scrap the limits placed on government power because they will get in the way of the planned redistribution of wealth.
During his campaign against Sen. John McCain for the presidency, Obama ran on a promise of change. Sadly, no one—not the media nor Obama's supporters pushed him for a definitive answer to the question: "What specific types of changes are you talking about?" The American people, tired of eight years of George W. Bush, thought any change would be better than what they had. The American people were wrong. The change Obama plans to implement is to legislatively erase the tenets of limited government and create a socialist democracy modeled after the Soviet Union. To achieve this goal, the Constitution must be substantially modified—or erased. The Utopians need the Bill of Rights—in particular, the 2nd Amendment's provision that allows private citizens to own guns—erased in order to make the United States an economic vassal of the New World Order without triggering a second American Revolution.
Listening to Obama's current rhetoric and his recorded conversations prior to seeking the office of President (which were adroitly concealed from public scrutiny by the media) it's clear that his campaign slogans: "change you can believe in," and "change we need," were merely synonyms for redistributive change. Obama, the Messiah of black liberation theology addressed the 99th Annual NAACP Conference on July 14, 2008 and promised that, if elected, he would redistribute the wealth of America and that he would return for the 100th Anniversary celebration of the NAACP in 2009 as the "...President of the United States. At that moment," he said, "you and I will truly know that a new day has come in this country..." Obama promised that the members of the NAACP would see the fulfillment of his promise to redistribute the wealth of America. "Social justice," Obama said, "is not enough. The inseparable twin or racial justice is economic justice....It matters little if you have the right to sit in the front of the bus if you can't afford the bus fare. It matters little if you have the right to sit at the lunch counter if you can't afford the lunch."
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Several times when he was campaigning for the White House, Obama told his audiences: "We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change it!" Conservatives latched onto the phrase because it sounded as though Obama wanted to change the greatest nation on earth and make it less great. In point of fact, that is precisely what Obama, who sees himself as greater than the rest of us, plans to do. And that is the change he plans to make. Making America less great and, of course, making White America less wealthy as he uses arbitrary taxation to strip the "haves" of the wealth earned by their own sweat equity investment in America in order to give it to the "have nots" who are sitting idly at the lunch counter but can't afford lunch.


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Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory. Col 3:2-4
The last day of May and it feels like early April around these parts. Cool, windy, very windy, hard to work outside in that. But the day is over now with the promise of a better one tomorrow. The last of the cow/calf pairs should go out to pasture tomorrow, finally that job will get done after the longest mud season that I have ever seen here. That'll set me free somewhat, very little feeding to do all of a sudden! Had a great Memorial Day yesterday. Went to a small town parade, then the Memorial service at the town's cemetery and then had a barbecue which settles in with me just fine. Drank a pot of coffee by myself, or durn near anyhow and shot the bull for a few hours. My kinda day off after a rough spring.
Ministry things are really picking up. I'm excited to say the least, but there's allot of work involved with all of that too. Finding a band or two is on the agenda, and that's looking very promising. The word is out and sometimes that's all it takes, (plus some prayer added in there, can't forget that).
Out here, working with beef cattle seven days a week has got to be one of the best jobs for having allot of time to just talk with God. A fella can literally go days without being bothered by anyone. Ain't no cussing or swearing when a person is alone working. Just the sounds of nature that God put out here. Those are my favorite days, days when there's no sound of machinery running, just the sounds of the breeze and the birds out in the pastures. Gives a fella allot of time to think. I ain't getting any younger which was proven these last few days sorting pairs out in extreme mud conditions wearing knee high rubber boots that were never designed for human comfort. There's some hurting going on where I don't want things to be hurting after this past winter's surgery, but it should be minor and go away in a day or two.
But I like to think about the things of heaven while working here on this earth. Every day is a gift and a fella just gotta use it wisely. There ain't nothing more important than eternity, and we will all know that for sure someday, and even while owning and running this cow outfit the eternal things are the things that keep me going. There is of course that most important thing, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and keeping Him there as Lord. And there is spreading the love of Christ once a fella is a born again, new creation in Christ. There's being true to your word cause it don't make much sense supposedly believing in Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and then being a liar and acting like the world.
I cannot imagine living out here, doing what I'm doing, without Jesus as the number one thing in life. Just can't imagine it anymore. There's some good promises in the Bible I tell you! And when you get right down to the simple Gospel, unlike what many say, its not a hard thing. The hard thing is when we start to take charge instead of just following the Gospel. When we have to do things to work our way into God's favor, which by the way is totally impossible and every single human being on this earth will fail at it. Nope, only believe, believe in Him that took our punishment, surrender to Him, quit fighting Him, and all of a sudden a person is set free.


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The Washington Post | We're heading into a jobless future, no matter what the government does
July 21, 2014
The Washington Post — July 21, 2014 | Vivek Wadhwa
In The Wall Street Journal, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate with futurist Ray Kurzweil about the jobless future.
In his debate with me, Kurzweil said: "Automation always eliminates more jobs than it creates if you only look at the circumstances narrowly surrounding the automation. That's what the Luddites saw in the early 19th century in the textile industry in England. The new jobs came from… read more


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Happy New Year or just New Year, depending on how you are feeling today. Some of the unconfirmed worst jokes of 2012 to get you into just the right mood for 2013.
Last night I dialled 000 by mistake, so had to set the house on fire not to look stupid!
I had sex with a head ache. Hear that girls, no one died!!
To this day the bully at Bankstown high still takes my lunch money, but he does make a good quarter pounder
Called my drug Councillor last night. Couldn't get through, they said he was on another line…
When you are married you can have sex anytime you want, as long as you are the one with the vagina
Im good at remembering facts. There are 3,500 types of lice and that's just off the top of my head
I'm have a recycling party next week. Bring your own bottle…..
Running away from your problems doesn't help, unless you are fat
The Cod population has dropped significantly. Clearly they are taking a battering.
Elvis my pet mouse died. He was caught in a trap…
An Apple fan walks into a bar, orders the same drink and pays more than yesterday
I asked the air hostess. Can you telephone from this plane Of course not she said, a plane is a big thing with wings!
The air hostess said. "Would you like Head Phones?". I said, "how did you know my name was Phones"?
Got up at 6am. Did Yoga, called a friend and had salad for breakfast. Then suddenly I found I could no longer drive…
I got in touch with my inner self today. Last time I buy cheap toilet paper
I said to my GF. Before we met I was promiscuous. She said, Thats OK I love Greek Mythology
The Olympic Russian body builders have iPads strapped to their arms..
I nearly forgot to update my status after Id been to the gym. What a waste of a workout that would have been..
Took a ring into the pawn shop to sell. They said "Is it stolen?" I said "Hell no". They said: "Whose finger is that then?"
Suicide is not the answer. She insisted it was. We lost trivia night by 1 point!
My wife says the breast implants make her uncomfortable. I said I think I look sexy!
I tried to give my office perv a high 5 yesterday. She swerved it, so I did a cart wheel to avoid looking like a complete dick…
The world is US$6 trillion in debt. Which planet do we owe this to?
Horse walks into the pub. The barman says "So why the long face?"
My boss noticed me nodding off in a meeting. He said "Not getting enough sleep?" I said "Yes, the meetings are shorter these days"
An over the shoulder stare and lip lick is highly seductive, unless you are having your prostrate exam!
When having your prostrate exam, just be sure the doctor does not have both hands on your shoulders!
We were really pissed last night. Cooked the meet pies at 15 degrees for 180 minutes.
Just saw 9 grim reapers walking down the road drinking beer. Its either a grim reaper party or someone's cat is actually dead.
Quit while you are ahead my dad said. No wonder I was never any good at the 100m sprint
"I don't know who you are, but I will find you, and I will kill you". That was my first and last day as hostage negotiator.
"Bought a golf ball that automatically goes into the hole if within 1 foot. Note to self, don't keep in back pocket!
I will deal with you in my office. said the head master. I sold him half an ounce…
Want to buy my GF some London Bridge undies, I hear they keep falling down…
I want to find my GF some American undies. I hear 1 yank and they are off…
On the Internet you can chose to be anyone you want. Amazing how most chose to be complete assholes…
Given what Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark did with their wealth, Bill Gates should be ashamed of himself…
Policeman stopped me and asked I I by any chance had any drugs on me. Said "Sorry mate, sold the lot!"
Oh, and best wishes for the New Year…


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OTHR is a homeware brand that puts together decor pieces using 3D-engineering, including its line of porcelain birdhouses entitled 'Birdhaus.' The range offers 12 different pieces all made using 3D modelling to render ornate pieces much more approachable for mass consumption.
While birdhouses are traditionally detailed homes made from wood to resemble human abodes, the OTHR Birdhaus is much more modern and minimalistic. The house is made in two parts, with a back piece that clips onto a wall or tree. The secondary piece forms the door and slides into the home with a small hole for birds to pop inside and out of. The modernist look transforms the kitschy creature home into an item that is much more stylish.Photo Credits: designboom, othr
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- By: Misel SabanMay 14, 2016
References: othr & designboom
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While I'm not really a religious person, I've always been fascinated by religious beliefs. As a child, I once spent a good part of a slumber party poring over Time-Life's The Worlds Great Religions with a like-minded peer. (Hello Katie Plimpton!) At different points, I yearned to be both a Roman Catholic and a Mormon, faiths that fired my imagination far more than my family's easy ecumenicism.
When my mother refused to buy me a rosary, I was not to be dissuaded: I made one for myself out of a stash of Campfire Girl beads and set up an altar on a footstool positioned in front of my bedroom window.
A flirtation with evangelical Christianity was intense if short-lived. Aside from the late-night revival that I barely made it through, what I most remember is the fact that the neighbors who took me had a dad who sold snack foods. I was thrilled to be the recipient of one of his corporate give-aways: A pressed felt hat topped with a tin inset filled with dirt and seed. You watered your hat and waited for grass to sprout from the crown.
All of which is a roundabout way of explaining how I've come to be at a Catholic retreat house sometime in 1990s. It was there that I acquired a small unprepossessing pamphlet of prayers that I've had ever since.
In my continued journey as a spiritual eclectic, I've thought a lot about prayer. In particular, I've pondered how I can take comfort (as I do) in words that I don't technically "believe." My all-time favorite answer came from an Episcopal priest at a church I frequented some years back, when I asked her how I could in good conscience repeat the (gorgeous, soothing, mesmerizing) Nicene Creed.
Her response: When we say "We believe"—which is how the Creed begins—it simply means that this belief is held somewhere within the body of the Church. Maybe I don't believe this. But someone does.
Some—perhaps you, dear reader—will find this disingenuous. I, on the other hand, found it deeply satisfying. It appealed to the parts of me that had studied literature in college and later learned to parse the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Which brings me back to the pamphlet. Among its contents is a prose poem of a prayer that has meant a lot to me over the years. Penned by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French philosopher and Jesuit priest, it speaks to the cultivation of patience during times of darkness and uncertainty. In that way, it strikes me as pretty much the perfect Plan B Nation companion. Over the years, I've shared it with many friends, and now (in the spirit of all the above) I'd like to share it with you.
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are all, quite naturally,
impatient in everything to reach the end
without delay.
We should like to skip
the intermediate stages;
we are impatient of being
on the way to something unknown,
something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that is made by passing through
some stages of instability. . .
and that may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you.
Your ideas mature gradually –
let them grow.
Let them shape themselves,
without undue haste.
Don't try to force them on,
as though you could be today
what time (that is to say, grace and
circumstances acting on your own good will)
will make you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you
and accept the anxiety of
feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.


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a contest
Gentle readers, I am WAY busy today. But here's a fun inspiration: could you sum up your life in six words?
Readership at Texas in Africa has increased a lot in the last few weeks. I'm not really sure why, but welcome to all new readers. I think this presents a great opportunity for you people to reveal who you are, as well as for longtime readers to show us a little about themselves. So, since I don't have time to write a thoughtful post today, we're going to have a contest to see who can write the most amusing/thoughtful/interesting summation of your life in six words in the comments section. There will be prizes of a to-be-determined sort.
So put on your thinking cap. Here's my entry:
Texas, Tennessee, Texas, Connecticut, Texas, Africa.
Ready? Go!