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The Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day's schedule will be a bit different this year, but its main focus will not change. Attendees this year will get an informative, concentrated dose of its core mission: To be a premier educational facility for the South's top moneymaking commodities and the one-stop, mid-summer place to see the best products and varieties in action.
Sunbelt Ag Field Day will be July 11. Breakfast will be served at 7:15 a.m. with short welcomes and comments. At 8 a.m. sharp, attendees will start boarding shuttles to tour the farm site grounds, where this year stops will be pared down a bit to 30 or so.
The tours will end by noon. Unlike field days in past years, there will be no lunch served or noon program this year. But attendees won't be rushed out. Sponsors and many company representatives will be on hand and have booths set up where the shuttles unload passengers for attendees to mingle and talk with them as long as they like. Just as in the past, there will be door prizes awarded.
"We are aiming this year to really showcase our core research and what we do best here on the farm. That would be our irrigation and water management plots in addition to our research plots. We're not taking anything out from previous field days, but we're really focusing this field day on our core agronomic crops like corn, cotton, soybeans and peanuts. For those interested, they will still get to see some experimental crops," says Michael Chafin, now in his second year as Sunbelt Ag Expo farm site manager.
Variety trials and plots are top draws each year for the field day, and this year will be no different. Despite a cool, wet spring planting season, which slowed planting for everyone, 25 to 30 top corn varieties will be past tassling stage and setting kernels for attendees to judge for themselves.
Monsanto will feature its DeKalb corn varieties. Southern States will feature its top performing hybrids. Pioneer also will have popular corn varieties, often used by high-yield winners, on display at the field day. And, Syngenta will display its Norfolk King corn hybrids developed for the Southeast.
Fertilizer tests are being conducted on corn and most other crops being grown at the Expo. Maximizing plant nutrient use is always a top priority for growers, or at least it should be, Chafin says.
Cotton will feature the top performing varieties based on annual OVT (official variety tests) across the Southeast, and representatives from the various companies that provide cottonseed and cotton technology will be on hand during the field day.
Bayer, with FiberMax and Stoneville varieties, will show old and new Liberty technology.
The Expo Farm is a part of Monsanto/Deltapine's New Product Evaluator program and the same varieties being grown by 200 or so farmers across the Cotton Belt will be shown during the field day. Deltapine uses on-farm production data from their NPE program to determine which cotton varieties will be released in future years.
Americot, a Lubbock, Texas-based cottonseed company that sells seed primarily in the Southwest and Western areas of the Belt, has developed new varieties that have performed well in OVT testing in the Southeast. The company is making a push to increase market-share in the Southeast. Several of its new varieties will be on display at the field day.
Dow's Phytogen brand cottonseed has made a big push in the Southeast in recent years and last year, and several of the Phytogen varieties will be shown at the field day.
The Expo farm has several large plot soybean OVT variety trials each year. Chafin says Monsanto and its AsGrow brand soybean seeds will be planted, and company representatives will discuss production of soybeans in the Southeast.
Southern States will have some of the company's top performing soybean varieties in tests at the field day. In OVT testing across the Southeast, several Southern States soybean varieties have produced some of the top yields, both in conventional and double-cropping situations.
Pioneer will have some of their top soybean varieties in the test program at the Expo Farm. The company's Y series of soybean varieties have shown great promise in recent years for enhanced pest resistance and adaptability to a number of yield-limiting factors common in the Southeast.
Hornbeck Seeds, a DeWitt, Ark.-based company, was recently bought by Bayer and via the connection with Bayer will show its soybean varieties at this year's Expo Field Day. The company has provided HK brand wheat, rice and soybean seed to farmers in the Mid-South for the past 30 years.
As always, the Expo farm site is a primary location for University of Georgia research trials for all major Southern agronomic crops. UGA Cooperative Extension specialists for corn, cotton, soybeans and peanuts will share their on-site research in better fertility, variety trials, disease and pest management.
More and more Southern corn and cotton farmers are seeing the benefit of well-timed fungicide applications. With commodity prices staying relatively high in recent years, investing in protecting yields against fungal diseases is paying off, Chafin said.
UGA Extension Weed Scientist Stanley Culpepper will be on hand to discuss his research into herbicide-resistant weeds, particularly Palmer amaranth pigweed in cotton. But he is also conducting large plot research on herbicide drift in response to new herbicide technology coming down the pipeline for Southern growers in the next few years.
"I want everyone to come in with an attitude of learning and with a question to ask the experts and company representatives who will be here and expect to find the answers. Leave with what they came looking for, or something they can take back to their farms or to their communities and share and say, 'This looks like a good approach or idea and I think it can work for me,'" Chafin says.


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E-Mail From POV-Ray — I thought I might ping you about an experimental feature we've added to the POV-Ray SMP beta: real-time raytracing. It's mostly useful to folks who have multi-core systems and in fact is something that I've wanted to do for years but the hardware just wasn't there (at least not in the consumer price range). It works best on a kentsfield or later, but a core 2 duo should be sufficient if you don't mind sub-10fps frame rates.
If you want to try it out it please feel free to grab it from: http://www.povray.org/beta/rtr/
This experimental software by POV-Ray was a welcomed addition to our testing and was able to spread the work load across all the cores in even our eight core test system as seen above.
Results: POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing is a great benchmark that we love to use on Legit Reviews and it does a great job at showing how performance scales with CPU cores. Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 was more than two Frames Per Second (FPS) faster than the Q6600!
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Anibal fans 10, Tigers stretch AL Central lead
CHICAGO -- These are the games that the Tigers traded for Anibal Sanchez to help them win. These are the performances that led to him being re-signed in the offseason.
A year later, it's the deal that keeps on giving. And with his latest effort, 7 1/3 shutout innings in a 1-0 victory over the White Sox, he helped put the Tigers back into firm command of the American League Central race.View Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- These are the games that the Tigers traded for Anibal Sanchez to help them win. These are the performances that led to him being re-signed in the offseason.
A year later, it's the deal that keeps on giving. And with his latest effort, 7 1/3 shutout innings in a 1-0 victory over the White Sox, he helped put the Tigers back into firm command of the American League Central race.View Full Game Coverage
"We snuck one out," manager Jim Leyland said. "It ended up being a good day for us. I'm worried about the Tigers, but the fact that Cleveland lost today, it does push us up a little bit."
Detroit's magic number is down to 11 for clinching their third consecutive division title as it improved to 6 1/2 games over second-place Cleveland, which lost to Kansas City earlier in the day. The Royals visit the Tigers at Comerica Park for three games beginning Friday night.
After five losses in six games, the Tigers gained a game in the standings in each of the last two nights, coupled with Indians losses. Between Sanchez and Rick Porcello, Tigers starting pitching essentially took over the series and salvaged the last stop of a three-city road trip, delivering 16 1/3 innings of one-run ball.
"That's how you get out of a little funk," said catcher Alex Avila, who was behind the plate for both. "Our pitchers have been good all year. We've struggled on this road trip, and the way to get out of a little funk is by having good pitching. Guys go out there and give you a chance."
Porcello's complete game on Tuesday came in a 9-1 rout. Sanchez's gem came with no room for damage. It was the 11th shutout of the season for the Tigers, third-most in the AL, but it was the first 1-0 win.
It couldn't have come at a better time.
"You have to win one-run games, whether it's 1-0 or 4-3," Avila said. "Normally, you'll see the good teams that are getting to the playoffs, those teams have one-run wins. They win those close ballgames. They're able to find a way to win. In the playoffs, that's what the games are going to be like."
If the Tigers face more tough left-handed starters in the postseason, they might well have to win duels like this. They didn't so much hit their way to a victory against a lefty starter as they used Sanchez's performance to outlast Jose Quintana before Omar Infante's RBI single in the eighth broke the duel.
Sanchez was the starting pitcher behind two of the previous 10 shutouts, from his record-setting 17-strikeout performance against Atlanta on April 26 to his no-hit bid against the Twins on May 24. He had no history on the line on Wednesday, but with 16 games left, his 10-strikeout performance over 7 1/3 innings might have been bigger.
He overmatched some of Chicago's aggressive young hitters, but not all. Three of the five hits he allowed were to rookie leadoff man Leury Garcia, two of them infield singles. Another was a leadoff single from rookie catcher Josh Phegley.
Where Sanchez (14-7) dominated was the middle of the White Sox order, where their veterans had run-scoring opportunities. Alexei Ramirez, Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn combined to go 0-for-9 with five strikeouts and nothing hit out of the infield.
That included three opportunities in the first five innings with runners in scoring opportunities and less than two outs. All three times, Sanchez kept in command. He escaped a first-inning rally by getting Paul Konerko to ground into a double play, then used Ramirez groundouts to foil threats in the third and fifth, the latter with the bases loaded after Jordan Danks battled his way to a walk.
The first pitch to Ramirez in that situation was a 95 mph fastball down and in for a called strike that sent Ramirez into vehement protest. The next pitch, and 96 mph fastball up and in, sent him swinging into a grounder to short.
All the time, Sanchez said, he was simply trying to extend the duel.
"When you have that situation, that's my mantra all the time out there," he said. "I try to keep the score close, just waiting for the team to give me the run support or give me the lead. That happened today.
"But in the end, I give a lot of credit to Quintana. He had bases loaded in the first inning. He didn't allow any runs. He's pretty good, pretty impressive. I'm happy to be part of that. That's a good game."
For a long while, that bases-loaded chance in the first looked like a golden opportunity wasted that let Quintana settle in. He walked Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder after Torii Hunter's one-out single, but induced a Victor Martinez popout before striking out Nick Castellanos.
From there, Quintana essentially picked up where fellow Sox southpaw Chris Sale had left off two nights earlier. He just never got a lead to protect.
The game was still scoreless when Quintana left to start the eighth, having thrown 114 pitches over seven innings of five-hit ball. He took his 17th no-decision this season.
"It was a close game," Quintana said. "We faced a very good pitcher. I don't control the results, I control what I go out and do. That doesn't affect me."
Sanchez has been there, having battled run support issues during his days with the Marlins. He finally came out ahead thanks to his old Marlins teammate.
Matt Lindstrom replaced Quintana and induced a Cabrera groundout, but back-to-back singles from Fielder and Victor Martinez created a one-out scoring opportunity.
Lindstrom (2-4) retired Castellanos on a fly ball and put Infante in a 1-2 count before he hit a ground ball through the left side slow enough that Dayan Viciedo didn't have a play at the plate as Fielder charged around third.
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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1837. A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. [Read 3 May] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2: 542-544.
REVISION HISTORY: Scanned by Angus Carroll, OCRed, corrected and edited by John van Wyhe 2003-8, textual corrections by Sue Asscher 12.2006. RN4
A paper was first read, entitled "A sketch of the Deposits contain-
ing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata;" by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.G.S.
Mr. Darwin premised his account of the geological features of the district in which the remains of the Toxodon, described at the meeting on the 19th of April by Mr. Owen,1 (p. 541) were found, by remarking that as the other mammalia and the fossil shells had not yet been accurately examined, the notice was necessarily imperfect.
To the westward and southward of the great estuary of La Plata, extend those level and almost boundless plains which are known by the name of the Pampas. Their geological constitution over many hundred square miles does not vary. It consists of a reddish argillaceous earth, which generally contains irregular concretions of a white aluminous limestone, or indurated marl, often passing irregularly into a compact calcareous stone, traversed by small linear cavities, similar to those which occur in many of the freshwater limestones of Europe. In the province of Entre Rios, the formation which composes the surface of the Pampas overlies and passes into a series of beds of sand, clay, and crystalline cellular limestone; containing sharks' teeth, gigantic oysters, and other shells belonging to the genera arca, Venus and pecten. These shells, with the exception of the oyster, have a general resemblance to existing species. To the northward and eastward of the Plata, the province of Banda Oriental, though very low and level, consists of gneiss, granite and primary slate. These rocks are generally concealed by a considerable thickness of a reddish earth, which, though at first sight like ordinary detritus, belongs to the same formation with that composing the Pampas. This deposit, extending over so wide an area on both sides of the Plata, abounds with very numerous remains of various extinct mammalia; among which the Toxodon, Megatherium, Mastodon, an animal covered with an armadillo-like case, and as Mr. Darwin believes, the horse, co-existed in the same district.
Proofs of the elevation of the land within a recent period, occur in several parts. Mr. Darwin stated that he had seen in the possession of Sir W. Parish,2 marine shells which occur near Buenos Ayres in great beds, elevated several yards above the level of the river; and these same species the author had found living on the mud banks on another part of the coast. He, therefore, inferred, that at no very remote period a great bay occupied the area both of the Pampas and the lower parts of Banda Oriental; and that into this bay the several rivers, which now unite to form the Plata, poured down reddish sediment, resulting, as at the present day, from the decomposition of the granites of Brazil, and charged with carbonate and sulphate of lime, perhaps derived from the Cordillera. On the cliff-formed shores of Entre Rios, the line can be distinguished where the estuary mud first encroached on the deposits of the ocean. The author also supposed that the ancient rivers, like those of the present day, carried down the carcases of land animals, which thus became entombed in the accumulating sediment. Since that period, by the gradual rising of the land, the bottom of the great bay has been converted into plains, almost as level as the surface of the former sea; and the
1 Richard Owen (1804-1892), Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy and physiology, 1836-1856. The paper referred to is Owen 1837.
2 Sir Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), British Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres.
rivers now hollowing out courses for themselves, have exposed, in many places, the skeletons of those ancient inhabitants of the neighbouring land.
Mr. Darwin then briefly alluded to a small formation of mud and shingle at Bahia Blanca, some hundred miles south of the Plata, in which the remains of several extinct quadrupeds have been discovered. Amongst these he enumerated the Megatherium Cuvieri, the remains perhaps of a smaller species of Megatherium; a quadruped closely allied to the armadilloes, but nearly as large as a horse; some small rodents, and other animals. These remains are embedded with one species of terrestrial, and several of marine shells, the latter being identical with some existing in the adjoining bay. It is, therefore, certain that the greater number of the above mammalia found at Bahia Blanca lived within a very recent epoch; and from the position of the bed in which they occur, it is equally certain that the form of the land has undergone, since that period, very little change, even of level, with respect to the ocean.
Several hundred miles further southward, Mr. Darwin found the remains of an animal which Mr. Owen says has an affinity with the Llama or Guanaco, but was of a gigantic size: this animal likewise existed since the Atlantic has been peopled by the shells now living.1
The author observed in conclusion, that the comparative recentness of the epoch at which the fossil mammalia lived, is shown, first by the shells associated with them; secondly, by the recent tertiary character of the strata underlying the deposit containing these remains; and thirdly, from the little altitude of such beds above the level of the sea; for in this country, according to the author's observations, the movements seem to have been so regular, that the amount of elevation becomes a measure of time.
These facts relating to the former existence of the inhabitants of a part of the globe so remote from Europe, fully confirm the remarkable law, often insisted upon by Mr. Lyell, that "the longevity of the species"2 among mammalia has been of shorter duration than among molluscs. The author finally remarked, that although several gigantic land animals, which formerly swarmed in South America, have perished, yet that they are now represented by animals, confined to that country; and though of diminutive size, possess the peculiar anatomical structure of their great extinct prototypes.
1 Later named Macrauchenia in Fossil Mammalia.
2 Darwin quoted from the same passage in Journal of researches p. 97.
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A Community Jam will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. May 12 in Dry Ridge.
This is a free concert, just off the Dry Ridge exit (159) on Fashion Ridge and Curry Lane, past Cracker Barrel.
The event will be a coming together to share a good time with the community for all. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.
There will be volleyball, kids games, cornhole, hot dogs and more.
Bands playing include:
• Vineyard band at 1 p.m.
• Holdfast at 2 p.m.
• First Love at 3 p.m.
• Altared at 4 p.m.
Christ Community
• May 3 - National Day of Prayer, the church will be open all day for anyone who wants to come in and pray or just sit and meditate while listening to soft worship music. Coffee served.
• May 5 - Dave and Debbie Amsler, who were the Assembly of God Kentucky District Youth Directors for 16 years and now on the mission field, join us to greet people and hand out literature. Again, the church will be opened to visitors.
Corinth Christian
Christ Community
• April 22 - We had three young missionaries visit the church and share their testimonies.
• May 3 - National Day of Prayer - The church will be open for anyone who would like to come in and pray. We are at 139 North Main Street in Williamstown. You are welcome to come in and just enjoy the presence of God.
In the continuing saga of my ongoing battle over household decor with my husband, this time it's the back sliding glass door. But before I get in to that, let me back up to say that in the first 30 years or so of our marriage my husband rarely expressed an opinion about how to decorate the house except for one hard and fast rule, I could choose any color to paint the walls as long as it was antique or Navaho white. Other than that I had free reign and I love to reign. Then he retired and all of a sudden became Mr. HGTV Design Star DIY Guy. With opinions.
Christ Community
• The church is looking forward to the National Day of Prayer and also Derby Day with a float and bake sale.
For more information, call 859-394-2586
Corinth Baptist
• Pastor Dennis Jackson
• April 25 - Senior Citizen dinner at Corinth Baptist at 11:30 a.m. This is a free lunch and fellowship provided to anyone in the community 55 and older.
• June 18 – 22 - Vacation Bible School from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Christ Community
• Christ Community also had an exciting Easter morning in Sunday School and Worship. The children rendered a special presentation, which is always a blessing.
• The midweek Bible studies are, one for women at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesdays starting with lunch and at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesdays.
Dry Ridge Baptist
• April 12 - Young at Heart will leave the church parking lot at 10 a.m. and go to Bernheim Forest.
The eggs have been found, the bunny has moved on to other things.
The lilies have left the sanctuary; the cross will be put back in the foyer of the church. The Friday fish fries are done for the year. The pastel ties will go back into the closet. The news magazines will get back to everyday politics and world news. Easter is over.
We have a tendency to get through holidays and just move on to the next one. We will begin seeing all the summer items in the stores and soon all the patriotic products ready for the next major holiday.
"Crittenden Christian Church – a community of hope and healing," are the words that adorn a banner at the front of the historical frame structure on U.S. 25 in the heart of Crittenden.
That's a mission the small congregation is focused on and could be the reason they've begun to experience growth and the need for more space.
"By faith, this congregation stepped out and said let's build," said Pastor Jerry Zehr.
Dry Ridge Presbyterian Church, 15 Warsaw Avenue, will host a community worship service at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5.
Crittenden Christian Church and Dry Ridge Christian Church members will also be a part of this service.
"Because of the strong community support of a Christmas Candlelight Service based on scripture and song, it was decided to have a Tenebrae Service, which includes the passion narrative from the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John amid decreasing candlelight," said Julie Donahue, music director at Dry Ridge Presbyterian Church.
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On Feb. 27, a mild, dewy morning, Alitalia Flight 681 landed at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome after 13 hours in the air. A balding man with gray-white wisps of thin hair stepped out of coach class. He wore thick-rimmed brown glasses, black orthopedic shoes and a dark overcoat. He had a slight limp, and his back was stiff from the long flight. His belly was a bit swollen, due to many decades of cortisone treatments to help him breathe after he had lost part of a lung as a young man. No one could see the silver pectoral cross he wore under his coat, though it was the symbol of his authority.
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Back home in Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a prominent figure, the highest-ranking Catholic prelate in his country and to many a beloved figure known especially for his work in the city's teeming slums. Here he was one of 115 cardinals converging on Vatican City for important business: the election of a new leader for the Catholic Church.
Two weeks earlier, Pope Benedict XVI had suddenly announced his resignation from office, becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to renounce a job traditionally held until death. In church teaching, the position had been handed down for two millennia, starting when Jesus said to St. Peter, "On this rock I will build my church."
Cardinal Bergoglio expected his trip to be brief. He was already carrying in his black leather briefcase the airplane ticket that would return him home in time for Holy Week, the most important week of the year for a Catholic prelate. His Easter Sunday homily was already written too, and in the hands of parishioners back home.
The Argentine prelate checked into the Domus Internationalis Paulus VI hotel for priests. Named after Catholicism's 1960s "pilgrim pope" and housed in a 17th- and 18th-century stone palazzo that once served as a Jesuit college, the Domus is a modest affair. The floors are made of marble, but the rooms are sparsely furnished. Meals are served in a cafeteria-style hall decorated with large paintings of Biblical scenes.
What drew Cardinal Bergoglio to the Domus was its location. Positioned right in the heart of Rome, near its busiest byways and cafes, the hotel is across the Tiber River and quite a distance from Vatican City. That allowed for long walks over cobblestone piazzas and bridges, past peddlers, street performers and throngs of tourists, as he commuted to the General Congregation, the secret deliberations being held inside Vatican City in the days before the conclave began on March 12. In his dark overcoat covering his pectoral cross, he blended in with the crowd. He didn't wear his red cardinal's hat, instead letting his wispy white hair flutter in the wind and rain.
Though the public paid little notice to Cardinal Bergoglio, his name had made the rounds among a small group of cardinals who had descended upon Rome from different parts of the globe to choose a new pope. Though he had drawn support in 2005, in 2013 he was definitely a dark-horse candidate. There were a dozen or so more high-profile cardinals regarded as papabili, or "popeables," being touted in headlines world-wide as possible successors to Pope Benedict. These men, who included Cardinals Timothy Dolan of New York and Angelo Scola of Milan, were accompanied by assistants and journalists. They quickly became the toast of the town, attending sumptuous private dinners with fellow cardinals and kissing babies at Mass before batteries of TV cameras. Their crimson vestments, golden pectoral crosses and sizable entourages stood out.
The Italian cardinals were chauffeured to and from the walled confines of Vatican City in jet black Mercedes marked with Holy See license plates. They were greeted as "Your Eminence" whenever they set foot inside the city's best trattorias. The Americans tooled around Rome in white minivans and lodged at the sprawling Pontifical North American College, a seminary nestled on a hill just above the Vatican.
Inside the Synod Hall of the General Congregation, however, the cardinals blended into one red-hued assembly. Erected in the postwar era, the space is distinguished among Vatican architecture for its lack of majesty. Its uniformly beige interior is as sterile as a community college lecture hall. Eight years earlier, when they gathered in the same room after the death of John Paul II, the princes of the church had mainly looked for a candidate who could guarantee doctrinal continuity with the late Polish pope. But Pope Benedict's resignation had opened the door to a flurry of unusually frank discussions. This time, cardinals had no pope to mourn, and they spent little time worrying about how to preserve his legacy.
Instead the deliberations swiftly turned to the biggest challenges facing the church—the rise of secular trends in Europe and the U.S., the need to address a shift in Catholicism's demographics toward the Southern Hemisphere and the dysfunction of a Vatican bureaucracy that had become too mired in scandal to do anything about these problems.
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Veteran cardinals who had cast ballots for Cardinal Bergoglio in 2005 saw a chance to float his candidacy again. His earliest supporters—a coalition of cardinals from Latin America, as well as Africa and Europe—viewed him as a consummate outsider. He had never worked in the Roman Curia, the Vatican's governing body, and he was critical of Rome's apparent disconnect with far-flung dioceses. The challenge was getting Cardinal Bergoglio the 77 votes he needed, representing two-thirds of the conclave, to become pope. He would need support from many different circles, including the so-called Ratzingerian bloc—men who were already lining up behind two candidates closely associated with the German pope emeritus.
In the years leading up to Pope Benedict's resignation, the pontiff had positioned two princes of the church as possible successors. In June 2010, he transferred Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet from the Archdiocese of Quebec to the Vatican in order to run the Congregation for Bishops, the Curia office that vets and advises the pope on bishop appointments world-wide. The naming of bishops is among a pope's most important administrative powers. Bishops are his bridge to the rest of the world, tending to local flocks and implementing directives from Rome. Cardinal Ouellet's move, therefore, ensured that cardinals from every corner of the planet would be vying for his attention.
A year later, Pope Benedict appointed Cardinal Angelo Scola as archbishop of Milan. Not only was Milan among the biggest archdioceses in Catholicism, it had a centuries-old reputation as a way station to the papacy. Cardinal Scola's predecessors in Milan ranged from Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who became Paul VI in 1963, to Cardinal Giuliano Angelo Medici, who was elected as Pope Pius IV in 1559.
Both men were adherents of Pope Benedict's school of thought. As young priests, each had worked on "Communio," the theological journal co-founded by Rev. Joseph Ratzinger, as Benedict XVI was then known, as a reaction to the liberalizing forces unleashed by the Second Vatican Council. As alumni of "Communio," they were seen as standing firmly in opposition to secular trends rather than trying to adapt church teaching to modern life.
Cardinals Scola and Ouellet were among the names frequently discussed over private dinners among cardinals. Such meals had become a staple for cardinals seeking an intimate setting to sound out their colleagues ahead of the conclave. All cardinals entering the General Congregation are required to swear an oath never to reveal its proceedings. Even then, cardinals did not consider the Congregation a place to let their guard down. The atmosphere inside the Synod assembly hall was fine for broad debate over the future of the church. But the forum was too formal—and porous—for the delicate matter of discussing actual candidates. When cardinals vote on a potential pope, they are backing a man they think is best-suited to serve as a spiritual pastor to 1.2 billion Catholics. But they are also picking their next boss. That is partly why cardinals vote anonymously in the Sistine Chapel, masking their handwriting and burning the ballots. Cardinals do not want to be on record voting against a future pope.
The private dinners, therefore, are regarded as the conclave within the conclave, an ostensibly casual setting that serves in fact as a high-stakes testing ground for candidacies. "Every night it's something different," said Chicago's Cardinal Francis George. "So there are different conversations going on."
At age 76, Cardinal George walks with a pronounced limp and has shed most of his hair. Yet the Chicagoan has a keen eye for the art of politics. His knowledge of Italy's intrigue-laden political system, from the machinations of the postwar Christian Democrats to the more recent antics of Silvio Berlusconi, runs deep. Going into the 2013 conclave, Cardinal George's second, he was widely regarded by his colleagues as one of a handful of cardinals who would play the role of kingmaker. As such, he remained tight-lipped about his dinnertime whereabouts. In the case of one meal in particular, he claimed to have no memory of the evening at all.
On March 5, after a long day of speeches at the Congregation, a group of cardinals arrived at the Pontifical North American College under the cover of night and were directed through long quiet corridors to a pair of double doors, upholstered in crimson leather. On the other side was the Red Room.
Named after a Vatican drawing room where prelates of past centuries once waited for news of whether they had been named a cardinal, the Red Room of the college offered a splendorous showcase of American Catholicism to the dinner guests. A shimmering chandelier lighted a salon trimmed with red marble pilasters and oil paintings depicting late eminences such as Richard J. Cushing of Boston and John F. O'Hara of Philadelphia—cardinals who dominated the church in post-World War II America.
Before those portraits, some of the most powerful churchmen in the English-speaking world lounged on velvet settees. They ranged from Cardinals George Pell of Sydney and Thomas Collins of Toronto to Americans such as cardinals Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and Cardinal Dolan of New York, once the North American College's rector.
American cardinals are an important group in papal elections. They run archdioceses that are among the biggest donors to the Catholic Church and to the papacy. And as a potential bloc of votes inside the conclave, the Americans are very powerful because they're outnumbered only by cardinals from Italy, said British Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, who attended the dinner. Often they're even more influential because the Italians are characteristically divided over whom to support.
Sitting down at a long banquet table, the cardinals began to discuss a half-dozen papal candidates. Saucers of soup were served. The candidacies of Cardinals Ouellet and Scola were weighed. Then someone dropped Cardinal Bergoglio's name into the conversation. "His name began to be thrown into the ring: Maybe this is the man?" recalls Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor.
The name didn't generate much buzz among the Americans and their guests. As the evening wore on, and glasses of red and white wine began to flow, it became clear that, this time around, the Americans were not united in their thinking about papal contenders. "I thought the American cardinals were quite divided about where to go," said Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, who didn't enter the conclave because he is above the voting-age limit of 80 years.
Some princes of the church believed Cardinal Bergoglio, at 76, was probably too old to become pope, especially after Benedict XVI had specifically cited his age and frailty as reasons for his resignation. "We came into this whole process thinking: The next pope has to be vigorous and therefore probably younger," said Cardinal George. "So there you have a man who isn't young. He's 76 years old. The question is: Does he still have vigor?"
Two days after the dinner, however, something clicked. And it happened in the span of four minutes—the length of Cardinal Bergoglio's speech when it was his turn to address the General Congregation. On March 7, the Argentine took out a sheet of white paper bearing notes written in tiny tight script. They were bullet-pointed.
Many cardinals had focused their speeches on specific issues, whether it was strategies for evangelization or progress reports on Vatican finances. Cardinal Bergoglio, however, wanted to talk about the elephant in the room: the long-term future of the church and its recent history of failure. From its start, Pope Benedict's papacy had been focused on reinforcing Catholicism's identity, particularly in Europe, its historic home. Amid a collapse of the church's influence and following in Europe, the German pontiff had called on Catholics to hunker down and cultivate a "creative minority" whose embrace of doctrine was sound enough to resist the pull of secular trends across the continent. That message, however, had been overshadowed by the explosion of sexual-abuse allegations across Europe and rampant infighting in the Vatican ranks.
The notes on Cardinal Bergoglio's sheet were written in his native Spanish. And he could easily have delivered the remarks in Spanish—19 of the cardinals voting in the conclave came from Spanish-speaking countries and a team of Vatican translators was on hand to provide simultaneous translations in at least four other languages.
But he spoke in Italian, the language cardinals most commonly use inside Vatican City and the native tongue of Italy's 28 voting-age cardinals, the most of any single nation. He wanted to be understood, loud and clear. The leaders of the Catholic Church, our very selves, Cardinal Bergoglio warned, had become too focused on its inner life. The church was navel-gazing. The church was too self-referential.
"When the church is self-referential," he said, "inadvertently, she believes she has her own light; she ceases to be the mysterium lunae and gives way to that very serious evil, spiritual worldliness."
Roman Catholicism, he said, needed to shift its focus outward, to the world beyond Vatican City walls, to the outside. The new pope "must be a man who, from the contemplation and adoration of Jesus Christ, helps the church to go out to the existential peripheries, that helps her to be the fruitful mother, who gains life from the sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing."
The word he used, periferia in Italian, literally translates into "the periphery" or "the edge." But to Italian ears, periferia is also a term loaded with heavy socioeconomic connotations. It is on the periphery of Italian cities, and most European ones, that the working-class poor live, many of them immigrants. The core mission of the church wasn't self-examination, the cardinal said. It was getting in touch with the everyday problems of a global flock, most of whom were battling poverty and the indignities of socioeconomic injustice.
ReutersCardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne
German Cardinals Reinhard Marx of Munich and Walter Kasper, an old Vatican hand, perked up. So did Cardinals Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino of Havana, who promptly asked the pope for the notes of his address. For days they had heard speeches about "new evangelization," a term from past popes that many cardinals used to honor their memory while disagreeing over what it meant. Suddenly, they were hearing someone speak about justice, human dignity. And it was simple, clear, refreshing.
"He speaks in a very straightforward way," said Cardinal George. "And so perhaps—more than the content—it was simply a reminder that here is someone who has authenticity in such a way that he's a wonderful witness to the discipleship."
To Cardinal Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru, the address was vintage Bergoglio. For years, the Peruvian had heard his fellow Latin American cardinal deliver similar remarks. And like those earlier speeches, his message to the General Congregation walked a very fine line. Many cardinals, including Cipriani Thorne, were stern opponents of any rhetoric that appeared to invite class warfare. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI had reined in liberation theology, the teachings of Latin American priests who embraced Marxism, and churchmen like Cipriani Thorne had supported the crackdown. But Cardinal Bergoglio's message to cardinals deftly sidestepped those ideological pitfalls by grounding his message in a call to model the modern church on the humility of its origins.
"He's not relating this to ideology, to let's say, rich against poor," Cardinal Cipriani Thorne said. "No, no, nothing like that. He's saying that Jesus himself brought us to this world to be poor—to not have this excessive consumerism, this great difference between rich and poor."
What many thought Cardinal Bergoglio was offering the church—after a decade of struggling to overcome the sexual-abuse crisis and years of internal bickering over issues like the liturgy—was a new narrative. He was telling a story of modern Catholicism that focused less on its complex inner workings and more on its outreach to those most in need.
"We've been arguing intra-ecclesia," Cardinal Cipriani Thorne said. Cardinal Bergoglio's speech was a call to stop "messing around" and "get to the point: It's Jesus."
By Sunday, March 10, two days before the start of the conclave, a new narrative was taking hold among the cardinals. Cardinal Bergoglio was now a contender, and even the Argentine was starting to feel the pressure of being papabile.
Late that night, the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian priest, was walking along the edge of Rome's Piazza Navona when he ran into Cardinal Bergoglio making his way back to the Domus hotel. Streetlamps illuminated the contorted stone figures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 17th-century Fountain of Four Rivers. The sound of trickling water accompanied the clerics.
"Pray for me," Cardinal Bergoglio said, grasping the priest's hands.
"Are you nervous?" Father Rosica asked.
"A little bit," the cardinal said.


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Clarence A. "Slim" Sager, 88, of Blissfield died on Sept. 2, 2012, at his home with his family at his side.
He was born Nov. 13, 1923, the only child of Walter and Opal (VanEtten) Sager in Dover Township, Mich. After graduation from Sand Creek High School, Clarence entered into the Army to serve in World War II, where he served as a sergeant in the infantry stationed in Europe. After being wounded in France, he was sent home. He soon married Shirley (Pickens) Sager, recently relocated from Santa
Monica, Calif. Clarence and Shirley had two daughters, Deanna (Sager) Pieh and Sherrie (Sager) Brown. There were five grandchildren, Brad Pieh, Arin (Pieh) Rudd and Billi Joe Erbscorn, Carrie Ann McClue and Denise Pollack, respectively. There are numerous great-grandchildren.
For the last 27 years, Clarence had partnered with Betty Prielipp and remained with her until his death. He was preceded in death by his parents, Walter and
Opal, and his wife, Shirley. Surviving are his two daughters and their families; Betty Prielipp, as well as his cousin, Evelyn Murray of Fairfield.
Clarence was employed, for the most, part by Lenawee County Farm Bureau Oil Company, Beacon Oil Company of Adrian and finally by VanStaveren Standard Oil of Blissfield. In his retirement he enjoyed working at the sugar beet factory in Blissfield as well as Royster Clark fertilizer plant in Blissfield. For a short time, he also drove truck for Dean Brubaker, Blissfield.
Clarence was a lifetime member of the VFW and DAV. He was also a past member of the Blissfield Kiwanis Club and the American Legion.
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Clarence will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, at the Deerfield Church of God, Keegan St., Deerfield. The public is welcome.
The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Deerfield Church of God or to Hospice of Lenawee. Envelopes will be available at the church. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.andersonfuneralservices.com. Arrangements were entrusted with the Anderson Funeral Home, Adrian.
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Clarence A. "Slim" Sager, 88, of Blissfield died on Sept. 2, 2012, at his home with his family at his side.


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How Not To Build A 21st Century Trade Agreement: In Secret
from the government-failures dept
We're still not convinced it's an agreement adequate for 21st century society--especially in an environment where the public, Congress, and civil rights organizations are denied access to the treaty's official text, while corporate representatives have full access to it. In a world where you can access the complete state code of Utah in Github to engage citizens in legislative drafting, secrecy and backroom deals are not exactly a 21st century way to build the 21st century society.It's still never been adequately explained why the USTR feels the need for such secrecy and backroom deals. At best, the answer has been "this is how we always negotiate trade agreements." That's not an answer, that's an excuse. If the USTR is serious about building a trade agreement for the 21st century, it would recognize that it needs to be open and transparent.


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Chair Twomey will call the meeting to order.
Chair Twomey will address the Committee and ask for approval of the Finance and Audit Committee's December 13, 2007 minutes.
Proposed Action: Approval. Motion and second required.
Chair Twomey will address those in attendance and offer opportunity for open comments.
Proposed Action:
No motion required.
In a resolution adopted by the Board of Governors (BOG), with respect to personnel and collective bargaining the UNF Board of Trustees was designated as the sole public employer for purposes of collective bargaining negotiations for its employees.
The United Faculty of Florida (UFF) and the collective bargaining committee appointed to represent the University of North Florida's Board of Trustees have come to agreement on changes to the previously approved faculty collective bargaining agreement. Approved by UNF's faculty, these changes are attached and are being submitted for ratification by UNF's Board of Trustees.
Mr. Leonard Carson, UNF's chief negotiator will present this item with Dr. Campbell, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs.
In response to the various national reports on student loan practices at some universities across the country, the Board of Governors' staff has recommended a set of standards that would ensure that each state university follows the strictest of criteria in working with students to secure and process college loans. The purpose of this item is to present a policy that puts into place these standards.
Vice President and General Counsel Stone will address the Committee and present this item.
Each year the University reassesses the fees associated with its Child Development and Research Center to determine what, if any, increases are needed to keep the Center operational.
This year the University recommends the increases in fees shown on the schedule included in the meeting materials.
Mr. Malcolm, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, will present this item.
Every three years the State releases funds generated by the CITF. In preparation for the release of these funds, the Board must approve the plans for expenditure of the funds. Because the funds are being released a year earlier than anticipated, the universities were required to submit their plans by February 29th, under the signature of the Board Chair. The letter was to confirm that these plans would be taken to the local board of trustees for approval.
The attached documentation shows the letter and the plans for expenditure of these funds.
Vice President Shuman will address the Committee and present this item.
The purpose of this item is to provide an update to the Finance and Audit Committee on the preliminary and tentative findings and recommendations for UNF's operational audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007.
Vice President Shuman will address the Committee and present this update.
Proposed Action: Review. No motion required.
The purpose of this item is to provide a summary of the Office of Internal Auditing's 2007 – 2008 activities.
Mr. Berry, Interim Director Internal Auditing, will address the Committee and present a summary of internal auditing activities and initiate discussions on other subject matters that may require Committee disclosure/attention.
Proposed Action: Discussion. No motion required.
The purpose of this item is to present this quarter's budget report.
Vice President Shuman will address the Committee and present this report.
The purpose of this item is to present the current treasurer's report.
Vice President Shuman will address the Committee and present this report.
Chair Twomey will adjourn the meeting.
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A man has been charged with the attempted murder of an elderly couple who were stabbed at their home in north Queensland.
Police will allege a man entered the couple's home at Greenvale, west of Townsville, on Saturday night and stabbed the couple, aged in their 70s, during an altercation.
The elderly man and woman suffered significant injuries.
Both were taken to Townsville Base Hospital, where the man is in a critical condition with life-threatening injuries and the woman is in a stable condition.
Police say all three people know each other but haven't given any further details with their investigations ongoing.
A 40-year-old Greenvale man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, and one count each of grievous bodily harm, wounding and enter with intent.
He will appear in Townsville Magistrates Court on Monday.


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Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) Pops 3.06% for February 22Equities Staff Follow |
One of the S&P 500's big winners for Monday February 22 was Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) as the company's stock climbed 3.06% to $43.43 on volume of 2.22 million shares.
The stock opened at $43.12 and saw an intraday low of $42.77 and an intraday high of $43.72. All told, the day saw a per-share gain of $1.29. The stock's average daily volume of 3.82 million and 437.85 million shares outstanding. Baker Hughes Inc. now has a 50-day SMA is $43.60 and 200-day SMA is $53.51, and it has a 52-week high of $70.45 and a 52-week low of $37.58.
Baker Hughes Inc operates in the oilfield services industry. It provides products and services for drilling and evaluation of oil and gas wells, completion and production of oil and gas wells, fluids and chemicals and reservoir technology.
Based out of Houston, TX, Baker Hughes Inc. has 43,000 employees and, after today's trading, reached a market cap of $19.02 billion. Its P/S ratio is 1.17, P/B ratio is 1.17, and P/FCF ratio is -473.1.
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This chip shop was where Vernon Dursley bought a post-cinema snack during a date with his fiancée Petunia Evans in 1979. As they sat in Vernon's car eating battered sausage, Petunia confessed that her sister was a witch. Vernon was deeply shocked, but assured Petunia he would never hold it against her that she had a freak for a sister.[1]
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
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Sooners win Golfweek Conference Challenge
NORMAN, Okla. — With a three-round 857 (-7), the University of Oklahoma men's golf team won the season-opening Golfweek Conference Challenge by four strokes over Virginia Tech. The three-day, 54-hole event featured 15 teams from 15 different conferences and was played at the 7,301-yard, par-72 Spirit Hollow Golf Course in Burlington, Iowa.
The Sooners, who are No. 19 in the preseason Golfweek/Sagarin rankings, shot a 1-over 289 in the final round, which featured a shotgun start. Individually, four Sooners finished in the top 13 out of 75 competitors.
The win is the fifth for OU under head coach Ryan Hybl and the first since the UTSA/Oak Hills Invitational last February.
"The boys played great this week," Hybl said. "Our consistency from start to finish was great because we never had a guy shoot more than 2 over par. We didn't play great today, but we did enough to get the job done."
Max McGreevy led the way for OU and concluded his first collegiate event in a tie for fifth place with a three-round 213 (-3), three strokes behind event winners Stewart Jolly of LSU and Scott Vincent of Virginia Tech. The freshman fired a 1-under-par 71 and made four birdies Tuesday.
"It's always nice to have a young freshman come out and perform well in his first tournament, and McGreevy did that," Hybl said.
Junior Charlie Saxon recorded four birdies en route to a final-round 70 (-2). His total score of 214 (-2) earned him a share of seventh place, his highest career finish in a team event.
Sophomore Beau Titsworth, senior Michael Schoolcraft and junior Michael Gellerman all carded a 2-over-par 74 score on the final 18 holes.
For Titsworth, the tie for 10th place marked the best showing of his career, the previous being a tie for 12th place at the Border Olympics last spring. Titsworth carded a 54-hole score of 215 (-1) and pocketed a team-high five birdies in the final round.
With an event total of 216 (E), Schoolcraft claimed a share of 13th place, and Gellerman's 2-over 218 placed him in a tie for 24th.
The Sooners will return to action Sept. 29-30 when they compete in the Jack Nicklaus Invitational in Columbus, Ohio.


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Alternate Names
PICC - flushing
What to Expect at Home
You have a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC). This is a tube that goes into a vein in your arm. It will help carry nutrients and medicine into your body. It will also be used to take blood when you need to have blood tests.
These catheters are used when people need intravenous (IV) medical treatment or routine blood drawing over a long period of time.
You will need to rinse out your catheter after every use. This is called "flushing." Sometimes you will also need to flush it between uses.
After some practice, flushing your catheter will get easier. A friend, family member, caregiver, or your doctor may be able to help you.
- Your doctor will give you a prescription for the supplies you will need.
- You can buy these at a medical supply store. It will be helpful to know the name of your catheter and what company made it. Write this information down, and keep it handy.
How to Flush Your Catheter
To flush your catheter, you will need:
- Clean paper towels
- Saline syringes (clear), and maybe heparin syringes (yellow)
- Alcohol or chlorhexidine wipes
- Sterile gloves
- ?Sharps? container. This is a special container for used syringes and needles.
Before starting, check the labels on the saline syringes, heparin syringes, or medicine syringes. Make sure it is the right strength and dose. Check the expiration date. If the syringe is not prefilled, draw up the correct amount.
You will flush your catheter in a sterile (very clean) way. This will help protect you from infection. Follow these guidelines:
- Wash your hands for 30 seconds with soap and water. Be sure to wash between your fingers and under your nails.
- Dry with a clean paper towel.
- Set up your supplies on a clean surface on a new paper towel.
- Put on a pair of sterile gloves.
- Remove the cap on the saline syringe and set the cap down on the paper towel. Do NOT let the uncapped end of the syringe touch the paper towel or anything else.
- Unclip the clamp on the end of the catheter and wipe the end of the catheter with an alcohol or chlorhexidine wipe.
- Screw the saline syringe to the catheter to attach it.
- Inject the saline slowly into the catheter by gently pushing on the plunger. Do a little, then stop, then do some more. Inject all the saline into the catheter. Do not force it. Call your doctor if it is not working.
- When you are done, unscrew the syringe and put it in your sharps container.
- Clean the end of your catheter again with a new wipe.
- Put the clamp on the catheter if you are done.
Ask your doctor if you also need to flush your catheter with heparin. Heparin is a medicine that helps prevent blood clots.
Follow these steps to flush your catheter with heparin:
- Attach the heparin syringe to your catheter, the same way you attached the saline syringe.
- Flush slowly by injecting a little at a time, the same way you did the saline.
- Unscrew the heparin syringe from your catheter. Put it in your sharps container.
- Clean the end of your catheter with a new alcohol wipe.
- Put the clamp back on the catheter.
Other Care
Keep all of the clamps on your catheter closed at all times. It is a good idea to change the caps at the end of your catheter (called the ?claves?) when you change your dressing and after blood is drawn.
It is okay to take showers and baths 7 - 10 days after your catheter was put in place. When you do, make sure the dressings are secure and your catheter site is staying dry. Do not let the catheter site go under water if you are soaking in the bathtub.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your doctor or nurse if you:
- Have bleeding, redness or swelling at the site
- Develop swelling in the arm downstream of where the catheter is
- Notice leaking, or the catheter is cut or cracked
- Have pain near the site, or in your neck, face, chest, or arm
- Have signs of infection (fever, chills)
- Are short of breath
- Feel dizzy
- Are having trouble flushing your catheter or changing your dressings
Also call your doctor if your catheter:
- Is coming out of your vein
- Seems blocked
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Tim M. has tried to stay true to the vintage route, but sometimes, exceptions must be made. For example, the original oiling system's paper element and canister are functional, but an upgraded system will be more reliable.


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The City and the City by China Miéville
And it is almost possible to think of The City & The City as not a China Miéville novel. For one thing, there are no monsters -- at least not in the sense that we are used to monsters from his previous books. This is a great surprise -- what Miéville fan, after all, doesn't know that China loves creating monsters? For another thing, the writing is lean and straightforward, with few of the meaty descriptive passages of earlier books.
But China Miéville is not only the writer of the three Bas-Lag books -- he is also the writer of the stories in Looking for Jake and the YA novel Un Lun Dun, and those works give a certain hints and glimpses toward The City & The City. (Full confession: I never finished Un Lun Dun -- just not my sort of book -- and have not yet read Miéville's first novel, King Rat.)
Writing about The City & The City in any depth will take more thought and readings than I have yet had time to give it. I also want to refresh my knowledge of the works of Bruno Schulz, one of the writers who was an influence on the novel and who provides an epigraph to it ("Deep inside the town there open up, so to speak, double streets, mendacious and delusive streets.") I first read Schulz right around the time I first read Miéville, but I read the stories as I was also first encountering the films of the Brothers Quay, and so my recollection of them is, for now, entwined with my memory of the films.
In any case, I'm also not sure how to say anything about The City & The City without giving away information that some first-time readers may not want to know. This is a problem when discussing any narrative, of course, but it is a particular problem with this book -- not only because it is, plotwise, a mystery novel, but because even revealing the basic premise could reveal more information than some readers would like -- and not just the readers who are particularly averse to "spoilers".
But saying anything meaningful about the book is impossible without giving away the premise, so in the rest of this post I am going to do so. I don't think such information lessens a first encounter with the book, but who knows. I have been surprised by people's reactions to such things before... Thus, you have been warned: Premise approacheth!
Here's the premise: The City & The City is a sort of alternate history novel in which there is a (modern, contemporary) city in what seems to be Eastern Europe that is actually two cities in one, and yet residents and even visitors are forced, through various means, to perceive only one at a time, even though everybody knows there are two (and maybe three). The cities are not separated through magical means -- this is not, as it may seem at first, a novel of alternate worlds imbricating. The two cities, Beszel (which has an accent over the z that my computer doesn't want to put there) and Ul Qoma, are separated by carefully cultivated and disciplined perceptions, and the cities have developed physically and culturally over a long time to meet those perceptions. How they have done so, and to some extent why, is beautifully and cleverly developed -- indeed, Miéville makes the premise as believable as I can imagine anybody ever making it; my brain kept trying to unsuspend its disbelief with lots of objections, but most of them were answered somewhere along the way. It's the most impressive bit of bizarre extrapolation I've encountered since I read Christopher Priest's Inverted World a year or two ago.
Some reviewers have pointed out that this premise is a kind of literalization of a metaphor (or series of metaphors) that will feel appropriate and even familiar to most city dwellers, and that's true, but I think there's more to it. The first half of the book constructs the premise; the second half deconstructs it, but it does so in a particular way. (Despite revealing the premise, I don't intend here to reveal the answers to some of the mysteries that are central to the novel's plot, so pardon any vagueness that ensues. If those mysteries were essential to what I want to say about the book, I wouldn't hesitate to discuss them, but they aren't.) What we get is not just a novel about the two-city premise, but a novel that is also about the effect of conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking. It overlapped well with another book I was reading along with it, David Neiwert's The Eliminationists, a journalistic look at fascism, parafascism, and certain types of extreme rhetoric.
Concepts can affect habits of perception, and those habits of perception can be manipulated in a wide variety of ways for a wide variety of purposes. Conspiracy theories can be a tool of misdirection and control -- used to divert attention from systems (and even conspiracies) that are more banal, insidious, and obvious than the baroque fantasies of the paranoid. I don't know of another novel that explores this idea more elegantly than The City & The City.
Ideas are, indeed, the engine of this novel. China Miéville's previous books prove that he is capable of creating complex and fascinating characters; that The City & The City's characters are not particularly fascinating is not, I think, a fault. This is a novel that exploits a different tradition, or, rather, series of traditions -- the tradition of such writers as Calvino and Borges (and Schulz) on one hand, and of police procedurals on the other. This mix brings ideas and plot to the foreground, and in this case the ideas are given life and expression through the setting in a way that is perhaps best conveyed through characters that are items within the mix rather than the focus of it. In other words, it seems to me that complaining about the lack of depth to the characters in The City & The City is kind of like complaining that "The Garden of Forking Paths" is not a Richard Ford novel.
In fact, the focus and structure of The City & The City solves a problem I have had as a reader with even the Miéville novels I most love -- at some point or another, their plot seemed to distract from their virtues. The mystery structure of The City & The City foregrounds the plot, but the second half of the book shows the mysteries to be directly related to the metaphors that are the core of the novel's philosophical explorations. The plot -- the step-by-step solving of the mystery, including shoot-outs and chases -- is itself a representation or perhaps even a manifestation of the novel's metaphysics. Thus, the pleasures of the novel's first half are the pleasures of exploring the basic premise (the double city) and of delving deeper into a murder mystery; the pleasures of the second half are the pleasures of seeing how the basic premise and the murder mystery combine to explode each other.
I am hardly the first or only person who has been known at times to state that weird fiction has a relationship to what might be perceived as metaphor that is different from the relationship mainstream or allegorical fiction has to what is necessarily perceived as metaphor -- in science fiction and fantasy, the monster is a monster first and foremost, not a representation of the id/ the evil at the heart of humanity/ the moral panic of the moment/ fathers-in-law/ whatever. This concept is fine as far as it goes, but the best SF makes it so simplistic as to be nearly meaningless, and The City & The City is the sort of book that does just that -- the basic premise is wonderful purely for its own sake and for the sake of the care with which it is conceived and explored, but the metaphors it suggests (for urban life, for certain historical and political realities, etc.) are just as important to what makes the novel work so well -- The City & The City starts with the literalization of a metaphor, but it doesn't end there, because ultimately it is not literalizing one metaphor but is, rather, literalizing an idea that is rich with metaphorical potential. It's the difference between writing a story based on the idea, "What if a guy woke up one morning and discovered he was a giant bug?" and writing the story that follows the opening sentence, "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."
One of the great joys of China Miéville's novels is their clear ambition to use popular literary forms for complex, intelligent entertainment, and to do so by bringing together disparate influences, sometimes purely for the fun of bringing together disparate influences, and sometimes to interrogate those influences and see what they reveal. Such an approach appeals to my own prejudices -- for instance, I love the fact that Borges was first brought to English-language readers in a translation by Anthony Boucher for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. The City & The City is a cousin of that fact.
There is much more to be explored with this novel and the world within it -- the systems of authority and privilege; the representation of academia; the prose style; the suggestions it makes about how ideas of tradition and progress sculpt themselves into our streets and buildings; the relationship of Beszel and Ul Qoma to Berlin and the Balkans and so much else out here in consensual reality; the connections between texts and secrets; the etymologies and archaeologies; the allusions and suggestions. The elegance I noted before is a particular aesthetic quality -- the grace of a simple idea expressed in a way that is itself not complex, but that reveals complexity. The City & The City is an entertaining mystery novel with a setting built from a weird and evocative notion; The City & The City is a richly philosophical structure that uses the reader's imagination as a tool of inquiry. That the two sides of the previous sentence are not mutually exclusive is one of the pleasures of excellent fiction. The City & The City is an example of such excellence.


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I always find it truly amazing that, however worried I get before Chelsea and whatever the vagaries of the weather, the plants seem to know that it is 'Show Time' and simply shine on the day. Who would have thought it would have been possible to have the Poppy in flower especially as, one week before the show, they were still buds.
We grew them for 2 show gardens, the Arthritis Research Garden and the L'Occitane Immortelle Garden, and used the surplus stock in our own display. The simple splash of red draws you eye to see even more detail within the garden.
Istatis tinctoria, Woad looked stunning in the L'Occitane Immortelle Garden and also the Renault garden in the new Fresh garden section of the show.
This is a traditional dye plant which produces a blue/grey dye from the mature leaves. As a dye plant it has now been nearly superseded by indigo.
We also battled with the cornflowers for the RBC Blue Water garden and even they sprung into flower just in time.
But the star of this year, as in many previous years,was Angelica. It looked architecturally splendid on the M&G garden.
It also attracted the honey bees which were being constantly photographed on our stand.
The question of the show was about Alkanet and Borage as many seemed confused as to which was which .
To make it quite clear. Alkanet, like its first cousin Comfrey, is a herbaceous perennial reappearing each year in the same place. It is not edible, the roots produce a red dye which was traditional used to colour rouge. Borage, on the other hand, is an annual herb which will happily self seed itself all round your garden. The leaves and flowers are edible and medicinal. The flowers are synonymous with the drink Pimm's.
As we close on this years Chelsea we are already in full preparation for 2013, the 100th Chelsea Flower Show, which will, I am sure, be as spectacular as this year has been.


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New Car Review
2013 BMW Z4: New Car Review
Pros: Excellent turbocharged engines; impressive mpg with the turbo four; accomplished handling; civilized ride; wonderful optional M sport seats
Cons: Fancy automated-manual transmission hurts fuel economy; driving enthusiasts might prefer something more focused
What's New: The 2013 Z4 can be equipped with a BMW Individual hardtop in one of two contrasting colors: Black or Titan Silver.
When you hear a bad word spoken about the 2013 BMW Z4 retractable-hardtop roadster, it usually has to do with the handling. Some critics complain that the electric power steering system doesn't transmit enough feedback to their sensitive palms; others grouse that they were unable to execute a powerslide.
We humbly submit that they may be missing the point.
The reality is, most Z4 drivers don't take their roadsters to the local autocross club every weekend. They're more likely to go for a spirited drive along a scenic byway or boulevard, reveling in the car's combination of luxury, technology, elegance and hardtop security. In a word, it's the Z4's sophistication that draws people in, not its tough-guy racetrack credentials.
So although the 2013 Z4 is a Porsche Boxster competitor on price, it's more of a compact, bargain-priced Mercedes-Benz SL-Class in spirit. And you know what? We dig that concept, and we bet you will too. Steering feel and tire smoke may sell magazines, but when it comes to building appealing luxury roadsters, BMW appears to have its finger on the pulse.
Comfort & Utility
The 2013 BMW Z4 hardtop convertible is offered as the 4-cylinder sDrive28i, the 6-cylinder sDrive35i and the highest-performance sDrive35is.
The sDrive28i starts with 17-inch alloy wheels, electronically adjustable throttle and steering response, auto stop/start (requires manual transmission), adaptive xenon headlamps, fog lights, heated mirrors, leatherette upholstery, push-button start, cruise control and iPod/USB and Bluetooth connectivity.
The sDrive35i adds different 17-in alloy wheels, leather upholstery, 8-way power seats with driver memory and dual-zone automatic climate control. The sDrive35i tacks on 18-in wheels, a lowered suspension with M-tuned adaptive dampers, M sport seats with 12-way adjustability (including power side bolsters and manual thigh support) and various M-themed styling cues.
Notable options include iDrive with hard-drive-based navigation, the sDrive35is model's standard M sport seats and M suspension (available on both sDrive28i and sDrive35i), a Cold Weather package with heated seats/steering wheel and a premium audio system.
In our interior evaluation, we deemed the Z4's standard front seats adequate in a straight line, but they don't do much to hug you in place around corners. As such, we consider the available M sport seats almost mandatory. Unless you plan to avoid corners at all costs, you'll want the M seats' exemplary adjustable side bolsters.
The view of the road ahead is complemented by the Z4's classic long nose, which is fully visible from the driver's seat. You're really almost sitting on the rear axle in this car, like an old goggle-wearing racer from the 1930s. It's one way in which the Z4 and Boxster could hardly be more different, as the mid-engined Porsche situates the driver practically in between the axles.
The Z4's gauges have unusual stylized circular hoods, but they're otherwise in the traditional BMW mold, with simple white numerals that turn orange at night. The controls are straightforward too, though we found that the base sDrive28i's manual climate controls took a little getting used to, if only because it's so rare to find a BMW without automatic climate control.
Although the interior materials aren't as nice as the ones you'll find in some other BMW products, they're still identifiably premium. We appreciate that the iDrive infotainment system (see "Technology," below) remains optional, as not everyone wants a roadster with every possible computer aboard.
The Z4's power-folding hardtop really is a work of art, doing its intricate origami folding act in minimal time and with minimal fuss. Trunk space isn't bad at all for a compact hardtop roadster, measuring 10.9 cu ft with the top up and 6.3 cu ft with it folded down.
The base sDrive28i model comes standard with iPod/USB and Bluetooth connectivity, but that's about it, so you can have a reasonably elemental Z4 if you want it.
Otherwise, prepare to pony up for the optional hard-drive-based navigation system, which brings with it a beautiful pop-up 8.8-in wide-screen display and the familiar console-mounted iDrive control knob. The latest version of iDrive is markedly improved from the old days, boasting a simplified interface with a number of physical buttons that allow direct access to common pathways. There's also room on the hard drive to store your digital music.
Performance & Fuel Economy
The Z4 sDrive28i is motivated by a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-4 that's officially rated at 240 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque. We say "officially" because we know the turbo four actually puts out considerably more oomph than BMW's letting on. Acceleration is strong well into illegal territory, and we enjoy the four's enthusiastic noises, which evoke the exuberant MINI Cooper S. The default transmission is a satisfying 6-speed manual; an ultra-smooth 8-speed automatic is optional.
The Z4 sDrive35i gets a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 that sends 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque to either the 6-speed conventional manual or a responsive 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual. That's a bunch of power for a diminutive roadster, and the inline-6 is also considerably underrated by BMW, so the 35i really gets up and goes, with a snarky exhaust note to boot.
The sDrive35is goes faster still, boasting a tweaked version of the twin-turbo inline-6 that cranks out 335 hp and 332 lb-ft, increasing to 369 lb-ft for brief stretches at full throttle. The 35is is only offered with the 7-speed automated manual.
All Z4s are rear-wheel-drive. Fuel economy ranges from a remarkable 22-mpg city/34-mpg highway for the sDrive28i (22/33 mpg with the automatic) to just 17/24 mpg for both the sDrive35is and the sDrive35i with the automated manual (19/26 with the regular manual).
The 2013 Z4 comes with standard stability control, 4-wheel anti-lock disc brakes, a rollover protection system and six airbags (front, knee, and side). It has not been subjected to any crash tests on American soil.
Driving Impressions
The Z4 has BMW's trademark solid feel at speed, and the cabin is downright quiet with the top up. You could take a chatty road trip with a friend and not raise your voice once. The top-down ride is quite civilized too, with wind buffeting kept nicely in check.
On the handling front, it's true that the Z4's somewhat numb electric-assist steering doesn't channel the mechanical spirit of older BMWs, but you can still have a lot of fun in this car when the mood strikes. The grip and body control are certainly there. The Boxster is sharper, yes, but it's not as good at being a top-up touring car. Decisions, decisions.
Other Cars to Consider
Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class: We've mentioned the SL, but that roadster's twice the Z4's price. The direct rival from Benz is the pint-sized SLK-Class, recently restyled and offered in AMG trim with a glorious V8.
Porsche Boxster: As a driver's car, the brand-new Boxster is even more of a revelation than its illustrious predecessor. If it's a pure sporting roadster you're after, the Boxster is an easy choice.
Chevrolet Corvette Convertible: Believe it or not, the Corvette and the Z4 are price peers--different philosophies, to be sure, but you might become a 'Vette convert after some quality time with the standard 6.2-liter V8.
AutoTrader Recommends
We never thought we'd be saying this, but the 4-cylinder Z4 is actually a really compelling package. We'd save our money--well, as much of it as we could--and get a Z4 sDrive28i with the basic Sport package (which includes the sport seats and adaptive dampers).


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In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
God has decreed four steps for ablution (wuduu), but the Muslims of today have their own rules. They followed the rules of their Scholars instead of the rules of God. The word Muslim means the one who submits to God . Submitting to God should include doing His Ablution not the ablution of the scholars. God's ablution is very simple and easy as you can see in the verse that explains it. (5:6) The purification of the ablution is the spiritual purification not the physical part of the washing process. If ablution was meant to clean the person physically, God would have ordered us to take a bath before every one of the five prayers. Ordering the dry ablution (Tayammum) (using the dust for the purification), proves that God did not mean the ablution for the purpose of physical cleaning as some claims. The physical cleaning part of the ablution is a very secondary gain that should not be considered the main goal of the washing.
Here is ablution as commanded by God Himself . Those who consider improving on God's commandments should remember that they will stand defending their practice and blame it on someone else on a day where there is no trade, no nepotism and no intercession.
[5:6] O you who believe, when you observe the Contact Prayers (Salat), you shall: (1) wash your faces, (2) wash your arms to the elbows, (3) wipe your heads, and (4) wash your feet to the ankles. If you were unclean due to sexual orgasm, you shall bathe. If you are ill, or traveling, or had any digestive excretion (urinary, fecal, or gas), or had (sexual) contact with the women, and you cannot find water, you shall observe the dry ablution (Tayammum) by touching clean dry soil, then rubbing your faces and hands. GOD does not wish to make the religion difficult for you; He wishes to cleanse you and to perfect His blessing upon you, that you may be appreciative.
It is noteworthy that in the Arabic Quran, the verse grammatically structured to mean the feet should be washed not wiped. Although the feet are mentioned in the sentence after the wiping of the head, it belongs to the washing of the face, grammatically. It is sad that even some of those who know Arabic fail to recognize this grammatical structure and make the wrong decision to wipe the feet, instead of washing the feet.
What Nullifies Ablution
[4:43] O you who believe, do not observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) while intoxicated, so that you know what you are saying. Nor after sexual orgasm without bathing, unless you are on the road, traveling; if you are ill or traveling, or you had urinary or fecal-related excretion (such as gas), or contacted the women (sexually), and you cannot find water, you shall observe Tayammum (dry ablution) by touching clean dry soil, then wiping your faces and hands therewith. GOD is Pardoner, Forgiver.


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Julie Amero Gets More Time To Explain To Judge How Porn Popup Trojans Work
from the a-break-in-the-action dept
In that link above, the police detective working on the case insisted that the transcripts would show that all of the supporters of Amero were barking up the wrong tree -- but those transcripts are now available and they only seem to support the ignorance of those condemning Amero -- insisting that she must have looked at the porn intentionally, when there's plenty to suggest that's not true at all. The prosecution also keeps shifting what it's trying to prove, from her intentionally surfing porn in front of kids to the idea that because she didn't unplug the computer (which she had been forbidden from doing) she is guilty and deserves 40 years in prison. Either way, neither the local newspaper reporters nor the detective on the case seem willing to admit that they may have made a mistake in condemning this woman. However, the good news coming out recently (sent in by John) is that, at least, the judge has agreed to delay the sentencing for a month to give the new lawyer some time to get up to date on the details of the case.


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Dark Meadow Review
Things might not be what they seem in Dark Meadow, a gorgeous new title from Phosphor Games that runs on the Unreal Engine. At the start of the game, your character wakes up to find himself trapped in a run-down, abandoned hospital. The voice of an old man comes through the speakers, telling you that you've lost your memory, and you need to defeat a witch and her monsters to escape from the hospital grounds. He's helping you, he tells you, because he's trapped too, and has been for years.
It's impossible to talk about Dark Meadow without mentioning Infinity Blade. Both games run on the Unreal Engine, and their gameplay is nearly identical. So instead of being able to roam freely in the halls of the hospital, you can only move from one predetermined spot to another. When you're standing in these spots, you can pan the camera to look all around you, but don't expect the game to play like a first-person shooter. It's more like an amped-up adventure title.
Don't hurt me!
The fighting is almost exactly like Infinity Blade's, too. You fight one enemy at a time, and they simply stand in front of you and attack. If you avoid enough attacks, either by dodging or blocking, you're given an opening to land your own attacks, which you do by swiping furiously at the screen. The one addition to combat Dark Meadow introduces is that you can launch projectiles at the enemies as they approach you. This is kind of like a fun minigame, but it's not deep. Overall, the fighting doesn't feel as visceral as it does in Infinity Blade either, mostly because the enemies you face are usually smaller and less intimidating.
The witch you're searching for beckons as you wander the hallways of the hospital by showing you a glimmer of white light near the doors that lead to her. When you find her, you fight– but, like the God King in Infinity Blade, she's very tough, and you won't likely succeed on your first encounter with her. If you die, you wake back up in the room you started in, with all of your gear and experience points intact. At that point, there's nothing to do but wander through the same environments, grinding for gold and experience points, until you feel prepared to face her again. We won't spoil what happens when you manage to beat her, but we will say that the grind becomes repetitive before too long.
Should've worn sunglasses.
And just like in Infinity Blade, as you wander around the hospital, you'll find bags of gold scattered about, often camouflaged in the environment. The inventory system, too, seems lifted directly from Infinity Blade. You can buy new swords, crossbows, and amulets that give you stat boosts. And as you level up, you can pour points into your various stats, like melee, hit points, defense, etc.
So if the game feels basically like a re-skinned Infinity Blade, why would anyone want to buy it? Simple: the story and presentation. As you explore the hospital, you'll often hear the old man giving increasingly strange monologues through the speaker system. When you hear him talk about eating bacon bits one at a time, or letting his bird die of thirst, it really makes you wonder whether this is a person you should be taking orders from. When he tells you not to trust the beautiful, glowing 'witch,' you have to wonder if she's really the malevolent force he insists she is. Also, you'll find letters and documents lying around let you piece together the intriguing back story to what's going on.
So the story and voice work might be worth the cost of entry on their own, but the gameplay relies too heavily on Infinity Blade's template. Judging by the excellent script, the developers have no shortage of creativity. So why didn't they direct some of that creative energy into coming up with fun new gameplay concepts? Infinity Blade is great and all, but if you want to play a game in that style, you're probably better off playing Infinity Blade. Still, there's a lot to like about Dark Meadow. And we're excited to see what Phosphor Games can do on iOS when they really let loose.


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