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It's hard being a black Republican these days.
That's one reason why I admire Sophia Nelson. She reps a small-government, Jack Kemp-inspired brand of Republicanism that emphasizes the imperative of fostering entrepreneurship in communities of color. If you've ever caught her appearances on CNN or MSNBC, you know she's a far more credible spokesperson for the black Republican cause than some of her older, male contemporaries. I was in agreement with the case she made to President Barack Obama for going on Fox News.
Sophia is part of The Root's diverse political perspective. She rightly blanches at being called a sellout because of her differing views. But it's time she and other conservatives of color grew some thicker skin.
Just because it's foul to label anyone an "Uncle Tom" doesn't mean that black Republicans can't be held accountable for the anti-black aspects of Republican politics.
There's a reason most African Americans don't take kindly to the GOP agenda. Here's what black Republicans have to own up to before they can even think about getting a "fair and balanced" hearing from the black community:
Admit that Republicans say one thing and do another.
Where was the outrage of black Republicans in 2006 when President George W. Bush and a Republican Congress passed an unfunded $1 trillion Medicare prescription drug benefit as a naked pander to senior citizens? Back then, there were no calls for restraint.
Now? There's a case to be made against comprehensive health care reform, but when Stanford's black conservative dean Thomas Sowell calls Obama "charlatan in chief," that's not the way to make it. Big words don't separate that attack from the less erudite, but more honest "You lie!" of Rep. Joe Wilson.
Stop selling what African Americans aren't buying.
Jingoism is a sure route to permanently driving African Americans away from the GOP. Percentage-wise, black Americans are the only demographic that is overrepresented in the military, but that simultaneously and overwhelmingly opposed the Iraq War from the start.
No one did more harm to Republican hopes of attracting African Americans to their party than former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, with her unadulterated championing of Bush's shoot-first-talk-later foreign policy. Yet black Republicans persist in dismissing Obama's foreign policy out of hand. Sophia says there's no evidence the Bush administration sanctioned torture. Her response to Obama's diplomatic efforts: "Yada, yada, yada." These are non-starters among African Americans.
Start holding Republicans accountable for their hostility.
I know—there's no direct evidence that Republicans are, per se, hostile to people of color—but there's a whole lot of circumstantial evidence that they just can't account for.
Sophia was one of very few Republicans unafraid to criticize fellow Republicans for their disgraceful treatment of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. But she's in the—ahem—"minority."
Republicans can't hide behind ostensibly pro-equality slogans like "Party of Lincoln," anymore. It'll take more than a new website to convince people of color that they're welcome in the GOP. Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has done more to publicly denigrate African Americans than any of his recent predecessors. He's so repellent—trying to draw interest with cheesy hip-hop slang and references to "bling"—that fellow black Republicans tried to oust him from his post earlier this year. This is not the way to get people of color into the GOP:
"Uncle Tom" is an outdated term. If there were a defense for throwing around that slur, I wouldn't be the one to make it. We're nowhere near a post-racial America, but we should be getting close to a post-Uncle Tom America. The rededication of African Americans to the American Dream that took place a year ago with Obama's election should have at least moved us past ideological racial litmus tests.
But black Republicans have to accept that their cherished narrative—that they're the principled ideological antidote to the civil rights establishment as represented by the Congressional Black Caucus and Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton—was totally upended by Barack Obama. Obama now owns the old-school Booker T. Washington and the new-school Jay-Z versions of the "pull your pants up" black man ethos. Whether they love or hate Obama's policy prescriptions, his emergence as a political brand completely evaporated their presentation of themselves as the "serious" blacks.
Here's a hip-hop maxim that Republicans would do well to embrace: Respect is earned, never given. Until Republicans, black or otherwise, deal with that, they'll never get any.
David Swerdlick is a regular contributor to The Root. Follow him on Twitter.
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We get asked about groom's cakes often, because folks in the mid-west are not too sure of the role of a groom's cake and if it is necessary at their wedding reception. The groom's cake is a southern tradition that has gained popularity across the country. Back in "the days" the wedding cake was always a white cake with white icing and the groom's cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Now days, the wedding cake can be any flavor available. The groom's cake is more often a cake that reflects a hobby or an interest of the groom.
So much of the wedding day is geared to the bride, that it is nice to give some attention to the groom on that special day. The groom's cake is a nice way to also showcase the groom and give him a moment in the spotlight! Sometimes the cake is place on the table with the wedding cake, but more often, it is given a special table of its own.
It would be unusual to go to a wedding in the south and not see a groom's cake. Here in central Indiana we generally see about 20% of the wedding receptions having a groom's cake. Sometimes the groom's cake is not taken into account for the number of guests attending, but often the groom's cake and the wedding cake are both used to account for serving all the guests. For instance, if you are expecting 200 guests at the reception, you could plan on a wedding cake for 170 guests and a groom's cake for 30 guests. Occaisonally we see the groom's cake being used for the dessert at the rehearsal dinner. Wherever it is used, it is usually a conversation piece!
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CES 2009: PowerFilm's Battery Chargers and $1,000 Solar Blanket
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch
Rechargeable batteries are much better than disposable. And recharging them via solar power is much better than using fossil fuel power from the grid. Of course doing the same for laptop batteries is great too. But at what point do you draw the line at price and size?PowerFilm has some foldable battery chargers that seem like a fairly reasonable way to recharge batteries. But they're incredibly expensive. At $80 for a mat that recharges two or 4 AA batteries in 4 hours, you might as well invest in gadgets that use solar power instead of batteries in the first place.
And their laptop charger (the box at the back) is an impressive 60 watts and operates at 15.4 volts, but it runs $1,000 and folds out to a ridiculous 60 inches by 42 inches. Where exactly are you supposed to put this conveniently for the hours of sunlight it needs to charge a battery? There are definitely more affordable and convenient options available.
It's difficult to knock solar charging when it's a great way to get off the grid in small ways, but it's also tough to give thumbs up to products that aren't all that practical.
More on CES 2009:
CES 2009: Sustainable Planet Zone is Mostly Solar Junk
CES 2009: LG and GotWind's Mobile Phone Charging Station (Video)
CES 2009: Powermat Sports Green Charging, Or Does It?
CES 2009: Nokia Working to Walk the Green Talk
CES 2009: Schwinn's Tailwind Bike Uses Exclusive Toshiba Battery Tech (Video)
CES 2009: Christopher Knight Helps Kick off Green Plug's First Product
CES 2009: The Greener Gadgets Wild Goose Chase
CES 2009: Fuji Rolls Out Greenwashed EnviroMAX Batteries


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"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," by J.K. Rowling (766p)
The fifth book in the award winning hugely successful Harry Potter series is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Released in 2003, the fifth in the series takes Harry to his fifth year at Hogwarts and into full adolescence as he turns fifteen, now having to life with the reality of a returning Lord Voldemort to his former power while battling blatant bureaucratic stupidity from the Ministry of Magic.
As has become customary, Harry Potter is spending another miserable summer with his baleful relatives. He has heard nothing from the magical world since the return of Voldemort and finds himself desperate for the slightest bit of news, even hanging onto bits and pieces on the Muggle news. Finding himself walking down a street with his cousin Dudley, the two of them are attacked by a pair of Dementors. Harry drives them off with a patronus charm, and is surprised to learn that the Dursleys' elderly neighbour is a squib and has been keeping an eye on him on Dumbledore's orders.
On returning home, he immediately receives a notice of expulsion from Hogwarts for using magic outside school. An advance guard from the Order of the Phoenix arrives at the house and escorts Harry to their secret headquarters at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place in London, where Harry joins the Weasley family, Hermione Granger, and Harry's godfather Sirius Black. They tell him that Voldemort is building an army and is attempting to retrieve a weapon, but is still moving in secret. In this, he is actually aided by the Ministry, since Minister Cornelius Fudge is conducting an extensive smear campaign against Harry, Dumbledore, and anyone else that says Voldemort's back. Knowing that Voldemort's return would mean mass panic and then open war, Fudge believes that Dumbledore is lying and attempting to supplant him as Minister. A few days later, Arthur Weasley escorts Harry to his expulsion hearing, which Fudge has done everything in his power to slant against him. But testimony from Dumbledore and Mrs Figg confirms the presence of the Dementors, and Harry is found to have acted in self-defence.
At Hogwarts things are changing. The new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is also a Ministry stooge, installed to keep watch over the school and Dumbledore. Professor Umbridge changes the face of the school as she and the Ministry steal power away from Dumbledore, and with Umbridge installed as High Inquisitor Ministry approved rules are implemented, banning anything that might be deemed inappropriate. Umbridge also introduces cruel punishment to students not willing to follow her Orwellian dream of rules and regulations, in particular she punishes Harry for his out-spoken views by forcing him to cut words into his hands with blood-ink. Her tyranny and stout refusal to teach defence spell begins to affect their school work, and with OWLs1 coming Hermione devises a way for many students to learn the stuff Umbridge refused to teach: Harry would do it instead. Students from across the school sign up to the secret "Dumbledore's Army" organisation and spend the autumn and winter months hidden away learning from Harry. As Christmas approaches, Harry enters into his first relationship with his long-time crush Cho Chang, but their romance ends shortly thereafter when Harry accidentally makes her think he'd rather be with Hermione instead.
Eventually, Umbridge's spy network throughout the school uncovers the Dumbledore Army and Harry evades expulsion again with Dumbledore taking the blame for it. The Headmaster faces sacking and an arrest but evades capture from Fudge and Umbridge, escaping with his phoenix Fawkes. But with Dumbledore gone there is nothing to stop Umbridge becoming Headmistress, plunging Hogwarts into further tyranny and depression as Umbridge completely turns the school into an effective police state with more rules and restrictions placed on students. Only a rebel newspaper out of the Ministry's control stands up for Harry and Dumbledore, printing an article where he spills the beans about what happened the year before with Voldemort, and gradually more people in the wizarding world start to accept Harry's claims about Voldemort's return. The disenchanted Weasley twins take advantage of it to revolt, unleashing relentless magical chaos throughout the school, while the staff purposely does nothing to help Umbridge regain control.
Throughout the year, Harry has disturbing dreams about running down a hallway and attempting to open a door in the Ministry's Department of Mysteries. On Christmas Eve, he dreams he is a snake attacking Ron's father. Mr Weasley is indeed found injured at the Ministry, suffering from severe venomous snakebites, causing Harry to fear that Voldemort is possessing him. In response, Dumbledore has Severus Snape teach Harry occlumency to block his mind from intrusion, but their mutual animosity ends their lessons prematurely. In the course of these lessons, Harry inadvertently sees one of Snape's memories from his school years, and is shocked to see his father James Potter bullying Snape and acting as arrogantly as Snape always said that he did. He also notices (but is not surprised) that Snape refers to his mother as a mudblood2, despite the fact that she defended him. In the middle of his last OWL exam, Harry has a vision of Sirius being tortured at the Department of Mysteries, although Hermione suspects it may be a trap. Harry, with help from various members of Dumbledore's Army, attempts to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place via the Floo Network in Umbridge's office fireplace, but he is caught. Believing that he is attempting to contact the fugitive Dumbledore, Umbridge interrogates Harry, who swears he does not know where he is. Umbridge summons Snape to bring truth serum, but Snape says he has run out. Before Snape leaves her office, Harry desperately tells him in code about his vision of Sirius. As he does this Hermione tricks Umbridge into thinking that Dumbledore has hidden his weapon in the Forbidden Forest, and in the forest they encounter the centaurs, who attack Umbridge and allow Harry and Hermione to escape.
Running back to the castle, they encounter Ron, and D.A. members Ginny, Neville and Luna, who insist on accompanying them. The students fly to London on the school's Thestrals. Reaching the room in his dreams, The Hall of Prophecy, Harry sees that Sirius is not there, but notices a glass ball containing some kind of record, that has been labelled with his name. As soon as he takes it down off the shelf, a squad of Death Eaters surrounds them, including many of the recent escapees, and led by Lucius Malfoy. Malfoy reveals that Voldemort planted a false vision to lure Harry to the Ministry, as he is the only one (besides Voldemort himself) who can remove the prophecy from its shelf. The prophecy is "the weapon" Voldemort has been after the entire year. Harry and his friends heroically defend themselves, putting up a far tougher fight than the dark wizards expected, but are outmatched. As they are nearly defeated, members of the Order arrive, including Sirius. During the ensuing battle, the glass sphere that Voldemort was seeking is accidentally dropped and shatters, and the record is lost. However, just as Dumbledore arrives in person to help, Sirius is blasted with a spell by his Death Eater cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, and falls backwards through a mysterious veiled archway. Lupin restrains Harry from going after him; Sirius Black is dead.
The Death Eaters are captured except for Bellatrix, whom Harry pursues into the Ministry's atrium. Bellatrix is far more powerful, but is taken aback with horror when Harry taunts her that the prophecy has been destroyed, and their mission has failed. In rage, Voldemort appears in person and attacks Harry, but is confronted by Dumbledore. The two duel furiously, but each is unable to finish the other. In an attempt to break the stalemate, Voldemort possesses Harry and tortures him, hoping that Dumbledore will kill Harry to destroy Voldemort. However, in the midst of his torture, Harry re-visits his grief for Sirius, and Voldemort is unexpectedly repelled by the emotion. Fudge and the Aurors arrive in time to see the Dark Lord before he Disapparates, taking Bellatrix with him. Fudge finally admits that Voldemort has returned.
Speaking alone to Harry in his office, Dumbledore reveals that he has kept many things hidden from Harry over the past five years. For instance, why he placed the baby Harry with the Dursleys and insists that Harry return to their home every summer, knowing what abusive guardians they are; the reason is, Dumbledore knew Voldemort would return one day, and that Harry would need the most powerful protection possible until he came of age. When his mother died to protect him, this created a powerful protective charm; as long as Harry stays at the house of his mother's blood-relative long enough to call it home, it shields him in a way even Voldemort cannot overcome. The reason Dumbledore says he has kept this and other secrets hidden for so long is because he has been reluctant to burden Harry with the most terrible secret: the contents of the prophecy. The prophecy was originally made to him by Sybill Trelawney, while he was interviewing her for her teaching position. One of Voldemort's followers overheard the first half of the prophecy, and reported it to him. Although there were actually two newborn boys whose parents fit the description in the prophecy (the other being Neville Longbottom), Dumbledore believes that Voldemort chose to attack Harry because he was a half-blood like himself, while Neville is a pureblood. In doing so, Voldemort inadvertently "marked him as his equal." According to the prophecy, either Harry or Voldemort must destroy the other one day.
Dumbledore reveals that he cares very much about Harry, even to an unwise degree – Voldemort has always believed love to be a weakness that can be exploited, hence his use of Sirius to lure Harry to the Ministry. Dumbledore is reinstated at Hogwarts, and immediately rescinds all of Umbridge's decrees. Umbridge herself is rescued from the forest by Dumbledore, and appears to still be in shock. Professor Trelawney is also reinstated, though Firenze stays on as well, since he has been expelled from the centaur herd. At King's Cross station, several Order members are there to greet Harry and the Dursleys. Alastor Moody warns Uncle Vernon that if Harry is maltreated, they will intervene. Harry leaves to head back to 4 Privet Drive with the Dursleys, stopping once to look back towards his two best friends, Ron and Hermione.
You will note in my review for the Goblet of Fire I made an ordered listing of my favourite Harry Potter novels, and this one is ranked seventh (and last). There is a very good reason for that – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is crap. Well, "crap" may be a harsh word to use but it is dreadfully poor compared some of the others. I found it boring and tedious, and in essence it is over seven hundred pages of nothing just to get to the death of Sirius Black. Ordinarily I would have absolutely loved the reign of Umbridge and the Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque nature of it but it just took so long to get to the main crescendo I was getting very annoyed waiting. But then the big climactic ending came in one hit and where Rowling had spent probably a hundred pages on one or two things before, it went from being in Umbridge's office to the end of the fight in the ministry in scarcely fifty pages. It felt rushed and disjointed from the rest of the rest of the novel, kind of like it was just tacked onto the rest of it when Rowling had changed her mind over something in the book. Considering this took three years to write after its predecessor that is very disappointing for a serious fan. So it goes to show how plodding the middle of the book is when it takes up more than two thirds of the story while the main action is smushed into the final fifty or so pages – what it needed was a hard edit and a shaving of about 250 pages to trim the fat, then I think it would have been a much better novel than the end product that is still sold in stores.
There is one thing that I noticed about this novel years after, probably when I saw movie, but it is a wonderful paradox of Britain's position to the Third Reich in the 1930s. The role of Neville Chamberlain, paranoid and scared, is taken by Fudge while Dumbledore acts as Winston Churchill, the only cool head warning of the imminent danger of Hitler's counterpart, Voldemort. The way Fudge used the Daily Prophet to discredit Dumbledore and Harry is reminiscent of the way Chamberlain used the The Times to do likewise to Churchill, calling him a scaremonger among other things, mostly out of fear that Churchill was after his job as prime minister, which Fudge also accuses Dumbledore of. Britain's cautious approach, dithering and deference to Hitler mimics the Ministry's attitude on Voldemort while the issue of blood purification is prevalent throughout. The racial policy of the Nazi Party is very similar to Voldemort's stance on non-magical people, and like Hitler he believed it was his destiny to cleanse the world of those people. Dumbledore and Churchill, in the end, were vindicated by their claims and Fudge and Chamberlain were ruined. It is a real pity that never occurred to me when I first read it, for it is a wonderful paradox created by J.K. Rowling, and I doff my hat at her for it.
Still, it is hard to recommend this novel, for I think a lot of Harry Potter fans will agree with me this is the "worst" (or least favourite if you're politically correct) of the seven and most people's least favourite. It just isn't very interesting. It just doesn't have the verve and excitement of the others either side of it, and sticks out like a sore thumb in a group of brilliance. There is too much of nothing to read to make it as entertaining as the others, it is just too long. For me, I think the best way to sum it up for newcomers to Harry Potter (are there any?) is read it if you want to, but for casuals wanting something to do just watch the movie. Although that was almost as boring too.
1 OWLs are a form of test done at the end of the fifth year to examine competency and magical knowledge
2 Mudblood is an offensive racial slur aimed at wizards whose parents are both non-magical, equivalent to n*gger


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On Friday Mr G and I joined some other intrepid souls at the Vatican Museum at 0800 for our 4 hour guided tour - hilariously there were some groups who came through right behind us who had allocated 30 minutes to do these whole museum, and one day to do Rome. We're on our 4th visit and every single time we find different things to do - admittedly there are some things worth doing more than once, like the Pantheon, especially if it wasn't raining through the nine-metre hole in the roof on the previous visit, but really - one day? No way!
Anyway, on Saturday we gave the knees a workout at the Colosseum - yes, 2nd visit, but this time with a tour of the underground, and access to the highest levels, both of which are not generally accessible.
And then yesterday, after an excellent lunch of rigatoni with veal sauce across the River in Trastevere, we did this:


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Orlando's Cultural Scene Has Grown Up, No Longer a Wasteland! Long derided as a cultural wasteland, Orlando's restaurant and performing arts scene has grown up in recent years, and it is starting to attract attention from national arbiters of taste. Wine Enthusiast magazine recently named Orlando as one of the nation's top wine travel destinations,


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Congratulations to our Associates of the month! Join us as we say "thank you" to these Associates for their devotion, dedication and hard work. We appreciate you!
Jim Winter - Engineering
"Over the past few weeks Engineering has been shorthanded. Jim has worked double shifts, come in on his day off and has never said NO. When I ask him, 'Can you help me out,' his reply is 'Whatever you need, I'm here for you.' I'm glad that I can count on Jim and his dedication to the team!"
Keri Fields - Woodlands Spa
"Keri helped us put together a spa party and allowed the spa to use her campgrounds for a teambuilding activity. She has also volunteered a lot during downtime to help with various activities."
Jeff Summerson - Engineering
"Jeff is an all-around great guy and a hard worker. He is prompt to respond, and is always pleasant. He is genuine and always takes a minute to chat and ask everyone how they are doing. He also is very consistent with follow-up, making sure that anything that is wrong get's fixed in a timely manner."
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"You have to milk the cow quite a lot and get plenty of milk to make a little cheese."
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
The above quote appears in the video below at the 10:32 mark. The brief video about Cartier-Bresson is quite interesting and presents photographs that are both "famous" and others that are rather mundane. I wonder how this body of work would hold up when examined by the current photography critics? Watch the video to see for yourself.
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Welcome to the website for the 2009 Normandy/Paris trip. This year we have sixteen students and four faculty and staff.
Our three-vehicle caravan will travel 2000 miles through Normandy and the Loire Valley.
Trip Schedule
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|Loire Valley
|May 26-29
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|Return Home
Students received a $700 scholarship and paid only $1050 for 16 days in France.
Watch daily for posts, including photos and videos!
Email me, Casey Cobb, with any questions you may have.
My apologies for not uploading video. Youtube is very slow in France and it has been difficult to get the files on the website.
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About Sardinia - Sardinia
Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean and is formed by a series of mountainous massifs, hills and narrow highlands. An island with diverse landscape from soft sandy beaches lined with dense pinewoods to sharp cliff tops, lonely bays, and hidden creeks and grottos overlooking emerald green pools, it is hard not to find one self taking part in the beach life that is part of everyday living.
The mountainous terrain is punctuated with wide green valleys, all covered by scrub and grassy land, including mixes of myrtle, serpillo, India figs and dwarf oak trees. The coasts are jagged and rocky, interspersed with marvellous beaches of very fine sand and countless inlets.
The seaside landscapes, especially on the Costa Smeralda, are among the most beautiful in the world. Numerous small, enchanting inlets are scattered in front of the coasts.
Discount airlines Ryanair and EasyJet both fly to Sardinia. Fly discount carrier TUIfly.com from Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne. To reach the Costa Smeralda look for flights to Olbia Airport from London Gatwick, Leeds, Edinburgh and Bristol airport. Flights to Alghero (northern Sardinia), including discount carrier Ryanair, can be found from a variety of UK airports including London Gatwick, London Stansted and the East Midlands.
Cagliari on Sardinia's southern coast has a small range of scheduled and charter flights, but is not yet as well established as Alghero on the other side of Sardinia. Look for flights from London Gatwick by British Airways, and from London Stansted by Easyjet. During the summer high season charter flights are available.
Sardinia enjoys a warm all-year round climate. Summer temperatures average 21-24°C (70-76 °F) and in the winter, daytime temperatures do not drop below 14 °C (57 °F).


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The challenging corporate scenario today makes it a compulsion for successful organisations to shuffle their staff to intensify their presence as well as break multi-million deals abroad. For this very task, the best of the staff is sent abroad in an alien country to 'Make it Big' on the global front. Assuming that what works at home should work abroad is an assumption more harmful than favorable. The very skill set that produced wonders for your staff could lead to disastrous results due to cultural differences and various other factors. Adding to this, moving – long or short term – to an unknown country can produce huge difficulties for the family of Expats leading to massive personal stress.
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The Bank of England will introduce next month a new £50 banknote, featuring the renowned 18th-century business partnership of entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and engineer James Watt.
The note will be put into circulation Nov. 2.
The new Boulton and Watt £50 banknote will initially circulate in tandem with the existing £50 banknote featuring Sir John Houblon, the first governor of the Bank of England, which was introduced in 1994. Eventually, the latter notes will be withdrawn, but they can always be exchanged with the Bank of England for their face value.
The Boulton and Watt banknote represents the first time that two portraits have appeared together on the back of a Bank of England note. Also, a range of new and enhanced security features have been incorporated into the design of the Boulton and Watt banknote.
The bank will announce the withdrawal date of the Houblon banknote soon.


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Look at these books,
Aren't they neat?
Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the girl,
The girl who has enough books to read?
IIn the very beginning, there will be books, FREE, EARLY, SEEMINGLY PERFECT books that peopel want you to read. I'm here to tell you some cautionary tales on why you should THINK CAREFULLY about eeach and every book you request, sign up to promote, and promise to review, because you will regret it ifyou have too much on your plate.
My #1 Tip for Blog Tours is: DO NOT sign up/request ALL of the books. Because even if you are blogger one your FIRST WEEK of blogging, you will STILL be accepted for at least one or more of these promotional events. My biggest downfall/stress inducer in the first four months of blogging was the fact that I signed up for EVERY blog tour that was categorized under "Young Adult." This led to stressing out because of scheduling, feeling guilty for not reading books I want to read, and a lot of unwanted pressure.
There have been SOOO many times where I have signed up for a blog tour, lost track of time, and then the night before, I am scrambling to finish the book. I kid you not, I have stayed up into the wee hours of the morning the DAY of the tour to write my review, and I have even pressed the "publish" button at the exact second the post is supposed to be live.
On top of that, blog tour books 99.9% of the time come in an eBook and I will now promptly direct you to a post where I express my issues with reading eBooks. The bottom line is that I read eBooks at a snail's pace 5 times slower than a regular book because of lack of access during school hours. Blog Tour books 75% of the time are self-published, and it tends to be (there are always exceptions) that self-published books haven't had as much editing/revisions as books that have been professionally edited/revised. This leads to issues as a reader such as boredom, cliche tropes, been-there-read-that plots, and occasionally, bad grammar.
Until you have a firm grip on what you can handle (how many books you can read a month, how many posts you can schedule, and what kinds of books you read from different sources), I would advise that you don't sign up for blog tours, and even if you do, sign up for a maximum of 20% of the number of books your normally read until you have a firm handle on the books you can read per month on a deadline. Because even if you only get onto 1 out of 4 tours you sign up for, you may still be over your head with books to read
If Giselle from Xpresso Book Tours reads this post, she will most likely fire me permanently as a host and never put me down on the blog tour itinerary again.
The same advice follows for the two programs Netgalley and Edelweiss. I have permanently ruined my Netgalley approval ratio. It aint even funny how many books I have requested and how many (to my utter surprise) that I have been accepted for, which leads me to the worse approval to feedback ratio in the history of man kind.
Something I was so surprised with and so honored in the BEGINNING of blogging was when authors would approach me to read their books. A year later, I can count on my right hand how many review request books I have, in fact, read and reviewed. If this is even possible, all of my Blog Tour book reading issues multiply by 5 (again) when it comes to review request books because of the aforementioned reasons and the fact that authors can't (if they aren't out of their minds) give you a strict post deadline, which lets you just put off and put off their book. It has come to a point where I will only accept physical books and even so, I will rarely accept. Unless I can tell the publisher has honestly researched myself as a blogger and read my policy, I won't accept. It is so unlikely for me to give into an email that doesn't even have my name on it, if it's clearly copy-and-pasted/sent as a mass email, and if its for a book in a genre I clearly don't read.
The bottom line is, if you are click-happy person in life/shopping/Blog Tour Sign-Ups/Netgalley/Review Request, do your very best to refrain because you will sorely regret it if you flail, sink, and die in the "books I wanted to read" ocean.
What made me discover that I was a mood reader was the simple fact that I had SOOO many books coming from all these different sources, and I had no idea how I was going to read them all. If you're a mood reader, you know that you can't/won't stick to TBRs, but I would advise as the very least to know how many books you can read a month and how many different sources you have books coming in. Once you delve into the dirty details of eBooks versus Physical Book, Promotional Books vs Pleasure Books, you will have one hell of a shock. Which is especially why you should stick to not being a click-happy blogger/vlogger.
If you could possibly manage to stick to a TBR or some semblance of one, this is what I would advise
20% | Blog Tour/Review Request Books
20% | ARCs
60% | Leave it up to the reading gods (aka your mood) to decide


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The Master Gardener Advanced Certificate Program provides in-depth training in specialized areas of horticulture. This training prepares Master Gardeners to become more proficient in answering gardening questions. Master Gardeners are also encouraged to share the knowledge they have gained to educate the residents in their communities; however, no additional volunteer service hours are required for those earning advanced certification. All Advanced Certificate Program courses qualify as Master Gardener continuing education hours. In addition to the Woody Plant Identification course, future offerings being considered include Herbaceous Plants and Weeds and Invasive Plants.
Success in the landscape begins with a comprehensive knowledge of plant material available in the trade, matching site conditions with appropriate woody plants. The certificate program in woody plant identification will train Master Gardeners in the identification of woody ornamental plants. Site and cultural requirements as well as understanding of their cultural requirements as well as associated insect and disease problems. Classes cover both native and non-native species.
To enroll in this program, you must be an active, certified Penn State Master Gardener in good standing and affiliated with one of the county Penn State Extension Master Gardener programs.
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To receive a certificate of completion for the Master Gardener Woody Plant Identification Advanced Certificate, you must attend all of the required modules. For each of the plant material modules, you must take a pre-test and complete the post-test with a passing score. After completing Module 1, the remaining modules can be taken in any sequence.
Module 1: Part A. Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Pre-requisite, 2 hours
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Pre-requisite, 1.5 hours
Knowledge of the physical form of plants is necessary for plant identification and classification. in this core class, you will study both reproductive and vegetative structures of plants as well as their growth habit.
Module 1 is free and is offered on-line. The link for the module is found on each county's VMS home page. Handouts for the class are located in the documents folder on VMS.
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Broadleaf evergreen shrubs add year-round structure, color, texture, and form to the landscape. Colorful flowers and fruits enhance the appeal of these garden stalwarts used as specimens and also in foundation, screening, and mixed border plantings. Fee: $35.
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Conifers provide the structural framework for many gardens, serving a variety of roles as specimens, focal points, screens, hedges and backdrops. They offer bold contrasts of foliage color and texture as well as distinctive growth habits. Fee: $50.
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8 hours
Shrubs unify the landscape, connecting taller shade and flowering trees to ground level plantings. Deciduous shrubs provide food and nesting sites for birds, attractive flowers and fruits, and a variety of foliage textures and colors from spring to autumn. Fee: $60.
Module 5: Flowering Trees
6 hours
Flowering trees provide multiple seasons of interest to the landscape with flowers, fruits, foliage color, form and bark. Available selections in a range of sizes make these trees suitable for large rural landscapes as well as small urban spaces. Fee: $50.
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6 hours
Shade trees are a long-lived investment. They provide a calm and peaceful environment while increasing the property value of your home. Shade trees attract birds and other wildlife, lower energy costs, improve water quality by reducing runoff and erosion. Fee:$50.


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The Michener Institute for Applied Health Science is a leading and unique school that provides a broad range of full time, part time and continuing education programs designed to meet the emerging and evolving applied health sciences needs within the healthcare system. It's curriculum is responsive to the workforce and the healthcare partners. The growing community of clinical and academic partners is a strength that it continues to harness and leverage so that the students get the best possible experiences in preparing them for their careers as healthcare professionals.
As Canada's only post-secondary institution specialized in healthcare education, the program offerings are robust and tailored to meet the emerging needs of the evolving healthcare system. Classes are small to ensure students get hands-on interaction with faculty. The quality and range of Michener's programs attracts students not only across Canada, but from around the world. Whether the students decide to study in Canada or are interested in pursuing the education from abroad, it provides exceptional academic solutions.
The Michener Institute for Applied Health Science is located in the heart of Toronto's hospital district. It's close proximity to Toronto's major hospitals in the downtown core will expose students to the busy bustle of working in healthcare.
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A friendly call from Hiyoshi. He seems bored. I know more about how to move around Tokyo than he does. After all, he has a job and must hew to his routine, and the city is so big. It's like people from Tribecca have no idea of what's going on over the bridge in Brooklyn. Another world, equally urbane.
Ginza back streets are a world of their own. I found this sweet old guy who presides over a 6-mat shop where he sells 18th-century Delftware copies of Chinese porcelain, wonderful Dutch platters inscribed in Old Dutch, and intricate Korean and Chinese incense burners. He told me he regularly goes to London to bid at Christie's and Sotheby's.


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Turning off a few big Websites is a nice gesture. I'm sure the operators of Wikipedia, Reddit and the other sites that are going dark are proud of themselves for making the statement, and are probably patting themselves on the back, thinking they struck a blow for an open Internet. They're kidding themselves. Congress doesn't care.
Members of Congress mostly care about one thing, and that's getting re-elected. This being an election year, they care about it more than they will next year. The only way to fight bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is to appeal to members of Congress in a way that makes them worry about getting re-elected.
The reason members of Congress pile on to bills such as SOPA and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) is that their party leadership, along with some big donors, tells them they should do this because it will enhance their chances in November. Toeing the party line will help get party and Political Action Committee (PAC) support. Courting big donors will ensure big donations to their private PACs. As you've probably noticed, movie studios and recording companies have lots of money that they donate to PACs. Thus, members of Congress tend to do what they say, unless something convinces them to do otherwise.
Your job, assuming you care about an open, operational Internet is to give them a reason to do otherwise. This means you need to get their attention in a way that works, and you need to give them a reason to listen to what you have to say.
Further reading
When I was researching my book, "Politics on the Nets" one of the things I learned is that actions that take place on the Internet or by email rarely affect legislation. Some time has passed since then, but the Internet hasn't gained much in its power to influence Congress. So, here are the steps you need to take if you really want to get something done in Congress.
1. Write your representative in Congress and your two U.S. senators a letter expressing your ideas calmly and without technical jargon, including Internet slang. Yes, I said write a letter. This does not mean an email and it doesn't mean a blog entry. While some politicians really do read their own email, the most of them delegate that to a junior staffer who decides what email, if any, gets sent along to the legislator. That means your letter must be printed on paper and signed, along with your physical snail-mail address so that they know that you're a constituent.


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Defining Behavior (Case Study Unit- The Iris Center)
Before they begin instruction, teachers must define the skills and knowledge that they expect students to learn before. Similarly, teachers must identify the behaviors they expect their students to engage in during instruction. When students do not engage in these expected behaviors, teachers need to create a plan to change students' behaviors. This Case Study serves as a companion to the Functional Behavioral Assessment: Identifying the Reasons for Problem Behavior and Developing a Behavior Plan (also available on TTAC Online under Behavior).


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Friday, May 30, 2008
Fairy Discovery
Last weekend while we were walking Lighthouse Park (one of my favourite parks), my daughter discovered a fairy (click for a larger image):
Posted by Garden Lily at 6:41 PM
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wow, fairies do exist! I have to show my daughter now! ha..ha.. well done, I am most impressed in how beautiful you were able to creat your special fairy. I'm sure April was so excited to discover her!
thanks for sharing...
- June 3, 2008 at 1:18 AM
It's Destiny again. I was wondering if I could also use this photo for the same class project.
- December 12, 2008 at 7:31 AM
- Garden Lily said...
Destiny - Please go ahead, and thanks again for asking. Let us know how it goes.
- December 12, 2008 at 9:16 AM
Hey, It's Destiny. Thanks so much for letting me use your photos. Hopefully my project goes smoothly and I ace it. I was also wondering if I could use other pictures on this website if I find some I can use.
- December 17, 2008 at 11:51 AM
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I picked this book up from the library. I chose it because I like to read about psychics. Allison DuBois is the woman upon whom the TV show "Medium" is based. I had hoped that the book would have lots of stories about Dead People she had talked to. I was not disappointed but there were chapters of the book that had none of that. I love the dead people stuff and so I was a tad disappointed that it was not all like that. I had to think, why would she do this… Then I looked at the title again.
Allison has been talking to the dead her whole life and now, with her kids ½ grown she's started to notice the pattern. So she is sharing with us the wisdom that she's learned from those who've gone on. Wisdom about how to live our lives is given. Allison DuBois is a lovely intuitive writer. I appreciate the introduction by her husband who is (just like on the TV show) a wonderful human being designed perfectly to be her life partner/spouse/co-parent.
I love how she shares her experience of talking with her close friend who's passed as well as her father. She is still grieving him, even though he visits it is not the same. I get visitation from my mother and I still grieve her too. It's bittersweet but I wouldn't change it.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves the ghost stories. I recommend this to anyone who is looking for better ways to live their lives. I recommend this book to anyone who is grieving. There is comfort in these pages.
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Chuck Waldron never really thought much about the automated people-movers at Orlando International Airport, even though he has ridden them countless times.
"It seems to work quite efficiently. I get on, I get a handrail and enjoy the ride," said Waldron, 76, a writer of thriller novels.
Here's what Waldron and millions of other people do not know about the shuttles they have taken to and from the main terminal to the four airside hubs where they get on and off their flights:
Each of the eight, three-car driverless trains covers some 80,000 miles a year, making the 90-second trips 20 hours a day, every day of the week. Thousands of times...


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Research Group Leader (m/f) in the area of Submesoscale Dynamics
- Employer
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG)
- Location
Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Salary
- appropriate salary related to the German public tariff (TV-AVH) plus the usual social benefits
- Posted
- Feb 12, 2018
- Closes
- Mar 14, 2018
- Ref
- code no. 2018/KO 1
- Discipline
- Geochemistry, Geodesy, Ocean Science
- Career Level
- Experienced
- Education Level
- PhD
- Job Type
- Temporary
- Relocation Cost
- No Relocation
- Sector Type
- Non-Government Organization/Non-Profit
Research Group Leader (m/f)
in the area of Submesoscale Dynamics
code no. 2018/KO 1
The place of employment is Geesthacht.
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), centre for materials and coastal research, is located near Hamburg and in Teltow, near Berlin. You can find more information at http://www.hzg.de. The Institute of Coastal Research investigates the physical and biogeochemical dynamics of the coastal ocean and the impact of anthropogenic influences on the natural state.
One scientific focus of the Institute of Coastal Research is the investigation of submesoscale dynamics in the coastal ocean. The Institute uses and develops a unique set of instruments and platforms ranging from a Zeppelin to speed boats and drones, as well as marine radar, towed-instrument chains, or in situ hyperspectral detectors allowing for very-high resolution observations on the order of meters and seconds. The institute has led several large submesoscale experiments (SubEx) off the coast of California and in the Baltic Sea (Expedition Clockwork Ocean, www.clockwork-ocean.com) and is using high resolution ROMS and LES models with the aim to understand the physical dynamics of submesoscale eddies and fronts and their interaction with biogeochemical and biological processes.
We invite applications for the Leader (m/f) of the research group Submesoscale Dynamics at the Institute of Coastal Research with preferred starting date on June 1, 2018. The position is initially limited to five years.
The tasks of the successful candidate will include:
- lead of the research group Submesoscale Dynamics
- planning and leading of international research expeditions
- guidance of students and postdoctoral researchers
- scientific analysis of submesoscale processes
- development of strategies for the synthesis of submesoscale measurements and modelling studies
- scientific publications and presentations
- acquisition of third-party funding
- active participation in the strategic development of the institute
- working as an integral part of a motivated multidisciplinary team within the institute and with external academic partners
Essential qualifications:
- a Doctorate degree in physical, biogeochemical or biological oceanography, engineering, or related discipline, e.g. meteorology
- very good knowledge of ocean dynamics, preferably of small-scale or submesoscale processes
- strong academic publication record
- excellent communication skills in English (written and oral)
- high degree of creativity and flexibility; ability to work under pressure
- ability to lead an interdisciplinary team with scientists, engineers, and technicians
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- experience in instrument development
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22126 South Vermont, Unit A
Torrance, CA 90502
(310) 320-5569
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Bobby Michnowicz (310) 320-5569
For Immediate Release
(Torrance, CA, July 14, 2017) Madera's Charlie Caracillo won his second California Lightning Sprint Car/USAC race in less than a month when he outdistanced the field at Jim Naylor's Ventura Raceway last Saturday night.
While the rest of Southern California sweltered under a relentless heat wave, it was a great night for the CLS to be at Ventura. Located on the beach at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, the cool breeze coming off the Pacific Ocean kept the fans and competitors comfortable during the night of action.
Ventura local Bruce Douglass started the night off when he out qualified the 19-car field with a brisk lap of 12.914. Fast driving teen Aiden Lange of Lakewood was second quick with a time of 12.941 and series point leader Jarrett Kramer of Spring Valley timed in third fastest at 13.115.
The 25-lap main was proceeded by three heat races. The wins went to Ventura local Robb Pelmear, four-time CLS Champ Bobby Michnowicz of Lomita and Palmdale's Eric Greco who started his CLS career 364 days earlier at Ventura.
For the main event, "Rockstar" Jon Robertson of Torrance and Lakewood's Wyatt Downing manned the first row. Caracillo, who qualified sixth fastest and finished second in his heat, was on the inside of row two with Murrieta's Chris Dickey alongside. Cody Nigh of Camarillo, last year's "Rookie of the Year," and Kramer occupied the third stanza.
Once the green flag sent the field on the way, Robertson took the initial lead with Caracillo, in the Jasper Engines & Transmissions/Sterling Auto Repair/Tom's Truck Repair/Campus Automotive/Fast Line Cycles/DLX/Suzuki GSXR 1000 #87, quickly getting by Downing for second. Caraccilo was not waiting around and took the lead from Robertson in turn three on the second lap. That did not bode well for the competition as he was in front with a lot of clear racetrack in front of him.
Nigh and Dickey found themselves running third and fourth on lap three and they set their aim on second place Robertson. Behind them, fast qualifier Douglass was closing in fast. By the end of the fourth lap, Caraccilo was over a half straight in front of Robertson. A little further behind him, Douglass used a sweet inside move coming off of turn four and passed both Dickey and Nigh to go from fifth to third in one fell swoop.
Douglass shot by Robertson on the seventh lap, but by that time Caracillo had nearly a full straight advantage. By the tenth lap, the leader was into heavy lapped traffic. About the same time, Michnowicz, who started 12th, started picking off cars and was headed toward the podium positions.
Michnowicz broke into the top five on lap 16 getting by his nephew Nigh and then with an aggressive move, he shot by Kramer at the end of the lap. While there was plenty of action in the middle of the field, the lead produced some unexpected action as well. In lapped traffic, Douglass momentarily stole the top spot away. Caracillo quickly reclaimed his prized possession.
Starter Kris Kornder kept his yellow flag neatly tucked away until it was necessary to reveal its ugly head late in the go. There were only six laps remaining and Caraccilo had the hounds on his rear end for the restart. Douglass was second, Dickey third, Michnowicz fourth and Kramer was fifth.
Caracillo smoked em' all on the restart and led by three-car before another lap was in the books. Michnowicz knifed his way inside of Dickey on the restart for third, but could make no headway on Douglass. By that time, Caracillo was calculating what he was going to spend the winner's check on. At the checkered, Caracillo was just about up to lapped traffic again and he bagged his second CLS main of the campaign. Douglass, Michnowicz, Dickey and Kramer filled out the next five spots.
Michnowicz ended up being the race "Hard Charger" again going from 12th to third in the main event.
"The 31 got by me a couple of times in traffic," Caracillo told infield announcer Tammi Velasquez. "I really wasn't that good. I made a shock adjustment right before the start. It was a tough race with lots of traffic. You get 20 guys on this track and you have guys who are just starting out, you are going to get into traffic."
The CLS teams get an unaccustomed four weeks off before the next race which is back at Ventura on August 2nd during the Ventura County Fair. Going into that race, Kramer will have a 64-point lead over Lange in the championship standings. Nigh is 23-points out of second with Michnowicz and Greco filling out the fourth and fifth spots.
The CLS is pleased to announce and addition to the 2017 schedule. On November 18th, the CLS will join the USAC National Midgets at the Bakersfield Speedway. Presented by TShirts by Timeless, the race will be named "The Western States Lightning Sprints Championship." It will pay $1,000.00 to win and will be a full points paying CLS and USAC National race. CLS officials are hoping that in addition to the series regulars, cars from Northern California, Washington and Colorado will also be on hand to battle for the top prize.
The California Lightning Sprint Car Series would like to thank the following sponsors for helping make the 2017 season possible: Christian Stover Foundation, Circle Track Performance, Cold Fire West, DK Fabrication, Extreme Muffler, Fast Undercar, Hoosier Tire, Keizer Wheels, Outlaw Wings, Racing Optics, Rod End Supply, Saldana Race Products, Sander Engineering, Speedmart, Speed Partz, Super Shocks, T Shirts by Timeless, Woodland Auto Display.
If you or your company would like to become part of the series for the 2017 season, please call Bobby Michnowicz at: (310) 320-5569.
To keep up with the CLS online, please visit the website at: http://racecls.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/californialightningsprints/
Ventura Main Event (with starting positions)
1. Charlie Caraccilo – Madera – 3rd
2. Bruce Douglass – Ventura – 8th
3. Bobby Michnowicz – Lomita – 12th
4. Chris Dickey – Murrieta – 4th
5. Cody Nigh – Camarillo – 5th
6. Jarrett Kramer – Spring Valley – 6th
7. Aiden Lange – Lakewood – 7th
8. Eric Greco – Palmdale – 9th
9. Jon Robertson – Torrance – 1st
10. Dan Hillberg – Placentia – 16th
11. Dominic Del Monte – Gardena – 15th
12. James Turnbull – Indio – 17th
13. Robb Pelmear – Ventura – 11th
14. Dale Gamer – Anaheim – 13th
15. Pat Kelley – Chino – 10th
16. Mike Kotlinski – Nuevo – 18th
17. Wyatt Downing – Lakewood – 2nd
18. Zach Zauss – Murrieta – 14th
California Lightning Sprints Championship Point Standings
1. Jarrett Kramer – Spring Valley – 1297
2. Aiden Lange - Lakewood – 1233
3. Cody Nigh – Camarillo – 1210
4. Bobby Michnowicz – Lomita – 1116
5. Eric Greco – Palmdale - 1047
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Story of Carolinian Who Won the Gratitude of Yankee Foes
Camden Chronicle
March 20, 1908
Page 4, col. 1
Camden, South Carolina
The following appeared in a recent issue of the
Philadelphia Ledger
Richard Kirkland of South Carolina could thank his lineage in colonial days. He was quite
a young man when the South seceded, and he became a soldier under the Stars and Bars.
At the battle of Fredericksburg, it was in December he proved himself a hero.
Through the long winter night he heard the moans and cries of the Union wounded. Gen.
Kershaw, the Confederate general, was approached and saluted by this young sergeant
who said: � I cannot stand it, all all night long the Yankee wounded have been crying for
water. With your pemission I will succor them�. The general explained that no truce
existed between the contending forces. Sergeant Kirkland requested the privelege of
displaying a white handkerchief, but the general would not permit it. Finally this brave
American said: � With your permission, I will cross the field unarmed and without the
display of white, climb over the parapet and give those wounded Yankees water�. The
general could not resist that brave magnamimous spirit and said � Seageant, the enemy is
hehind yonder redoubts with guns ready to have you fordeit our life, but if you will, go
and may God protect you�. With a bound he was off.
The Union troops were amazed at his intre-pidity and when they noticed him raise the
wounded and nourish them they broke into cheers and after several hours of service he
returned unharmed to his station to later lose his earth-life at Chicamauga by a bullet,
saying to a companion: Tell father I die doing my duty�.
His dust reposes in a little country graveyard in South Carolina, a weather beaten board at
the head of his grave giving his name. Sergeant Richard Kirkland is not seen as a �Reb�
but a hero. Possibly some who read this may have lain that bleak December day upon the
battlefield and been succored by him and this incident, along with the knowledge of his
soldier�s death and his almost unmarked grave, may induce them to start a movement for a
monument to him, either where buried or in the Capitol of our country, and with suitable
inscription thereon relative to his unselfishness of service, have his heroism inspire all
William T. Tatten
February 18, 1908
The hero mentioned above is an uncle of Mr Shannon Kirkland of our town, and the two
comrades by whom Richard Kirkland sent the message to his father were Mr Arin Niles
and Mr Jas. R. Arrants - the latter fact we get from an address delivered by Mr W. D.
Trantham on Memorial Day several years ago. - Ed. Chroncile
From the book : The Angel of Marye's Heights By Les Carroll
Kirkland was loved and honored by his contemporaries as well,
including his pal T. Rembert of Company E. Second Regiment.
Rembert and Kirkland were together in many battles. Years after
the war, from his home in Ridgeway, South Carolina, Rembert penned
a brief tribute to his dear friend. The short narrative was
published in "The Confederate Veteran" in 1903
" Richard Kirkland belonged to Company E, Second Regiment, South
Carolina Volunteers. He was at the siege of Fort Sumter, and went
from there to Virginia and was in the battles of Manassas.
The incident referred to occurred at Fredericksburg, and shows
how he was actuated by feelings of pure humanity.
"(The Union) dead and dying for hundreds of yards in front were
literally piled on each other, and the cries of the wounded for
water were distressing. The heart of the noble and brave Richard
Kirkland, a mere boy, could stand it no longer. He left our lines
and went to the brave peerless Kershaw.....Kershaw refused
and told him he would be killed; but the noble boy insisted and
Kershaw at last consented.
"The enemy saw him, and supposing his purpose was to rob the dead
and wounded, rained shot and shell upon the brave Samaritan. God took
care of him. Soon he lifted the head of one of the wounded enemy,
placed the canteen to his lips, and cooled his burning thirst. His
motivation was then seen and the fire silenced. Shout after shout
went up from friend and foe alike in honor of this brave deed.
" I knew this brave boy; he was my friend and chum; we shared each
other's blankets. He was a noble boy....... He fought through all
the Virginia battles in Longstreet's Corps, and was killed on the
bloody field of Chickamauga....... He did his duty and always
answered the roll call.
No nobler soul ever winged its flight from the field of battle.......
than that of Richard Kirkland........Sleep on, dear friend.
Your old comrades will soon join you in your home of rest."
Confederate Corner
Catawba Wateree Genealogical Society


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We started out our day leaving at 6:30am. Our first appt was at 9am. Noah had a swallow study done. Thanks to ABR Noah was able to get all the way to thin liquids. Now we need to work on a more organized swallow. That will come with lots of practice.
Our next appt was with his dietitian. Noah is 64lbs 6oz. and he is 4ft.2.5in. tall. She felt he looked very healthy.
His next appt. was with his gastrologist. Dr. K was very pleased with him. She did order some blood work to check his nutrition and white blood count levels. Noah only had to be poked once and he did so without any fussing. What a champ!!
The last appt was at 4pm with his new pulminologist Dr. R. He was very easy to understand and he took time to know Noah. Noah seemed at ease with him. The only thing that bothered me was he when lifted Noah's shirt to listen to his lungs, he made the comment that someone needs to lay off a few tube feeds. I was shocked because Noah is no where near fat. I really should have pointed out to him that he was a pulminologist and not a dietitian. I decided not to bother.
In between all his appts, Noah watched Despicable Me and different You-tube videos on his Ipad. What a great investment his Ipad has been. It sure helped him not to be stressed out while waiting. I told Noah if he was good boy I would take him to the mall afterwards and we would get a Browns outfit for his animal.
That is exactly what we did. Good job Noah, I'm so proud of you!!!!
You are a true blessing from God.
We also found the perfect shoes for Noah. The strap in the back is Velcro so, you can make them snug. They stayed on all the way home from Strongsvile and they were on clearance too. What a deal.
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Mr. Manvendra stays in Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh state with his family. He owns a large filling station in which he has petrol dispensers and an office area for paper work.
This area receives negligible electricity throughout the day. Power is available for maximum 6 hours in the whole day. The biggest problem in that area is that there is a minimum electricity bill that is to be paid to the government every month regardless of whether electricity was available or not. Manvendra paid INR 10,000 monthly for his electricity consumption. He was troubled by the fact the bills were so high but more so that even after paying so heavily there was little to no electricity available throughout the day.
Like everyone in that area Manvendra also resorted to using diesel generators. And to run his petrol pump, he spent almost INR 21,000 monthly on his diesel expenditures (INR 700 approximately per day).
Manvendra was disappointed with his monthly expenditure of INR 30,000 and wanted to get rid of it completely. He then decided to contact Mr. Ranjan (Su-Kam's authorized distributor from Hardoi).
Mr. Ranjan understood Manvendra's requirements and decided to install a solar PCU in his petrol pump.
Indian state Uttar Pradesh, receives ample amount of sunlight. With an average of 10 hours and 30 minutes of day light, a solar installation in this winter month of January would be perfect for this area.
After a detailed site inspection of the filling station, Ranjan and his team of qualified service engineers decided to install the following:
Technical Specifications:
- Su-Kam Solar PCU – 6.25KVA/96V
- 8 Batteries – 150AH
- Su-Kam's Solar Panels – 4KW
Load Running and Units Generated
This solar system generates 20 units of electricity in a day approximately, as per the weather conditions. The system runs the full load of 2 petrol nozzels, 4 fans and 10 tubelights.
This installation was a success and Mr. Manvendra is happy with the installation.
We had a candid conversation with Mr. Manvendra and he said, 'I am thankful to Su-Kam since they provided me good support and advised me with which system to install. I have been struggling with electricity issues and high bills for months. I am looking forward to seeing positive results with the installation. Solar generates about 18 to 20 units every day and I am excited to see how it works. Seeing the entire installation process, I have also decided to install a small solar system in my home and I will be increasing my solar panels in my filling station very soon.'
We wish Mr. Manvendra and his family all the best and best of luck for the coming days. It has just been 1 week with this installation. Keep tuned to our blogs to know Manvendra's first electricity bill after solar installation!
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Contact the customer on the following address –
Mr. Manvendra Singh – 9044352946
Pihani Super service
Hindustan Petroleum,
Pihani district
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Staff, supporters and committee members gathered at the Bishop Burton College, just outside Beverley in East Yorkshire, for R.A.B.I's latest 'Meet the Chairman' event.
More than 50 delegates attended to receive updates on R.A.B.I's work from charity chairman Malcolm Thomas MBE and head of welfare Trish Pickford. Questions from the floor were also put to a panel of senior staff and trustees.
The event was hosted at the college by kind permission of Bishop Burton College principal and CEO Jeanette Dawson OBE, who is also one of R.A.B.I's 12 trustees. Floristry students from the college ensured all tables were immaculately dressed and the college went to great lengths to ensure everyone was made to feel welcome.
Phil Batty, director of marketing, communities and legacy for Hull City of Culture, was another invited to give an address. Hull is the City of Culture for 2017 and Bishop Burton College is ideally located close to the developing city, as well as Leeds and York.
Paul Burrows, R.A.B.I CEO, said: "This event provided an opportunity for our chairman and representatives from our welfare, fundraising and communications teams to meet R.A.B.I committee members and supporters in the north and thank them for their hard work and enthusiasm in supporting our charity."
BBC Radio Humberside broadcast live from the college for part of the event.
A number of donations were also made to R.A.B.I in the morning including £100 from the Food and Education Rural e-Network (FERN), presented by Hugh Wykes, chair of R.A.B.I's Lincolnshire committee.
Christine Thompson, show secretary of the Ryedale, Pickering & Lythe Agricultural Society, presented a cheque for £500 and there was also a £500 donation from the Bishop Burton Student Association.
Pictured above are R.A.B.I chairman Malcolm Thomas and CEO Paul Burrows with students from Bishop Burton College.


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Through my abstract organic artworks I try to encapture the light, harmonious energies, colours and rhythms of nature. My paintings evolve through the process of using textures, paints and Palette knife. Dividing my time between living on a mountain in Spain and by a river at the Norfolk Broads UK. This being the case, luckily I am able to paint the hot Spanish light and the cool Norfolk light respectively. Am always trying to portray an other worldly feeling in my paintings, of the spirit and light shining through the canvas, to reflect the light around and inside the painting. I am totally inspired everyday to paint 'my heart onto canvas for you'. Observing and feeling with my senses the beauty that surrounds us in this amazing world. Picking the colours from the air, always striving to capture that elusive light' Whatever the medium or technique I am a great believer in the healing energy of art and create ART from the heART. Valerie Anne Kelly-aka-valzart international contemporary Fine Artist. Full Copyright©V.Kelly2017
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Part 2 - Existence
3 comments:
- billtys said...
Hello Randall,
I love Ali's honest question and your answer in Part One.
Thank you for Part Two...it's gripping...and so far there is no escape which is immensley enjoyable.
Love to you
- March 19, 2012 at 5:53 PM
- Satprem33 said...
Really cool roto~rooting goin' on over here~
Really precise pointing~
Although you really haven't said anything different, in essence, for the past few years that I've been hanging around and listening to or reading your words and pointers. After the first podcast, I was Hooked and KNEW that what you were saying was the Exact Truth and "trusting" the resonance because it created an awesome sensation in the body, like the feeling that this is IT and/or All is well. As Ali was saying on part one, (and thank you for mirroring "my" seeking to the tee).
"But it doesn't LAST and it just seems to be a "TEMPORARY RELIEF". One obvious thing is, I am obsessed with non duality and there seems to be a STRONG pull towards it".
Intake of "Spiritual Truth" is like peeing your pants in a snow storm, at first it all warm and soothing, but before long you are freezing your ass off again~(heard that in an AA meeting)
I returned Over and Over to this well and had more *Spiritual Experiences* than I could count but always left parched and empty, thirsting to read/hear that which was the Only thing that felt "right" in the world~
Once it was realized (after hearing you, Randall say Many times) that All the words were being translated from a platform of beliefs did I start looking at the filters or glasses through which I was perceiving the pointers,the "world" and especially this "me" ~
The examination of what I took myself to Be became the central point of the obsession(lol)~ I really can't add anything here, as far as information which exists in this blog, except to say again that an earnestness and openness in the investigation of the believed in entity seems to be first and foremost, above all~ Randall, Sailor Bob, Gilbert, John Wheeler and the "crew" Always say...(and I skipped over this for years)... Do Not take our word for it... Have a *look* for yourself~
This can "resonate" as truth but it is all still Belief until you are convinced (through Your Own thorough investigation) that this "me" is a fictional character~ Thank you Randall and all who play here~
- March 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- Satprem33 said...
I was looking up the definition of existence and this quote was at the bottom... made me smile~ :)
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve"
Erich Fromm
- March 21, 2012 at 8:05 AM


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text: I got that 1GB MacConnection deal at the end of 2003. The RAM they pre-installed was from "Lifetime Memory Products"--and BOTH 512 modules failed Apple diagnostics, interfering with me getting unrelated warranty service. (Luckily Apple didn't charge me.) Lifetime Memory Products wasn't easy to deal with, but I finally got replacements using their lifetime guarantee. And it happened again. So, 4 bad modules in total from Lifetime Memory Products. They WORK OK, but fail diagnostics. Therefore Apple removes them (sending them back in a safe bag) but can't do further work on my machine. So I'll have to dig up the original Apple RAM that MacConnection removed (but did include in the box). I'm wondering if other people have had problems with this RAM failing tests? I don't want to end up with SIX bad modules from Lifetime. Maybe I need to get MacConnection to provide a different brand of RAM... but after 15 months, that won't be an easy thing to get. TIA!


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Viper Motorcycle Company, a subsidiary of Viper Powersports Inc. (OTCBB: VPWI) and Ilmor Engineering, Inc., announced today that they have executed the manufacturing agreement outlined in the letter of intent dated October 6, 2009. Viper Motorcycle Company and Ilmor will partner on the manufacture of an Ilmor designed and developed Viper Motorcycle 152 cubic inch V-Twin engine. The Ilmor version of the Viper polished billet engine will be manufactured and assembled by Ilmor in Plymouth, MI, and will be co-branded with the famous racing company's name. Viper Motorcycles and Ilmor will also provide cross-marketing support to promote the relationship.
John R. Silseth II, Viper Powersports CEO, said, "We anticipate a public launch of this exciting product in May 2010. The Ilmor- Viper JV allows Viper to increase production and take its rightful place as a premiere American OEM of high performance cruiser motorcycles. The resulting product from this JV has no equal in the marketplace."
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Viper Powersports designs, manufactures and markets a line of premium American V-Twin Super Cruiser motorcycles, V-Twin aftermarket engines and other related aftermarket products through an independent dealer network. Viper Powersports and Viper Motorcycle Company.
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