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Community Spotlight: Eclipse Dragon
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Community Spotlight: Eclipse Dragon
The Escapist is pleased to introduce Ashley Otis, a born-and-raised Florida gamer obsessed with dragons, art, and most of all... dragon art! Did I mention dragons? She really likes dragons. Hopefully that isn't a problem for you, as provoking people with a plethora of draconic friends is rarely a wise venture.
Where were we?
You may know Ashley under the appropriately titled username Eclipse Dragon. In her four years on The Escapist she's made a lot of friends with numerous thoughtful posts and generally acts like a caring and helpful person towards the rest of the community. On the internet kindness can be a rarity, so we thought she deserved to be shouted out a little bit for it.
Here is what she had to say:
How long have you been a member of The Escapist, and what about the site brought you here?
What is your favorite current Escapist feature?
Your forum comments are generally well thought out. Do you make an extra effort to make them this way, or is that just how you are?
What got you into doing artwork?
Do you have anything that you're more passionate about than your art, or is that what you throw yourself into the hardest?
Do you have any pets What are they and what are their names?
Where do you see yourself in five years' time Do you have any goals that need fulfilling?
Do you have a favorite game movie band painting etc. that you'd like more people to be aware of?
If you would like to nominate someone for an upcoming Community Spotlight, feel free to let me, Marter, know through a PM or by posting in the official thread or user group! When nominating, please tell us why this user deserves to be in the next Community Spotlight and provide links if possible.
Excellent! Another Escapee with a reptile as a pet!
Congratulations on the spotlight friend! Personally, I would have loved to draw stuff, but my drawing skills are...less than good...
I like how her dragons have puppy dog noses ^_^
2 Ashleys have been in the Community Spotlight.
Suck it, society.
I wish I was this interesting and deliberate in my posts. A lot of times I'll just see all the things I would have said already covered, or I'll get there first and my mind will go blank. There's also a lot of stuff that I just take for granted and I don't feel needs pointing out.
Anyway it's nice to see a confirmed female member every now and again.
Thank you! Reptiles make great pets, although I'd never suggest going for a water dragon, they're really high maintenance! They need the temperature to be just the right heat and just the right humidity and they like to swim. Heat, water and humidity make the perfect breeding ground for bacteria. He did have a lot of personality though and when I fed him fish, the fish would jump out of the water and beach themselves to get away from him.
Thank you. I like to make them look sort of like dogs and cats, I imagine they would act more like cats than reptiles anyway.
Society knows that Ashleys are the best. That must be why it's such a popular name.
All Hail The Dragon of the Eclipse!
May doom come to those who stand in her way!
:D Congratulations Ashley! It was all deserved.
Congrats! We need more catoholics in the spotlight.
Excellent, yet another spotlight for an Injustice Leaguer, taking over the Escapist one spotlight at a time. Congrats Eclipse Dragon, I've always thought your artwork was cool.
Hah, I knew you were getting a spotlight eventually! Well done!
We really need more artists on the spotlight like Eclipse Dragon...
Well deserved :) I always fancy looking at dragon pictures when I see Eclipse Dragon artwork.
Bah! I used to have well thought out posts but then I took an arrow to the knee and now I just make tired and stupid jokes!
Anyway, congrats for on the spotlight! Your art is awesome! I wish I could draw :(
Shameless self promotion? Don't mind if I do!
It was fun to do and it's a nice challenge since you don't know what people are going to have for an avatar.
You mean you got married?
Every time you post that word I read Catholics.
OP: Well deserved!
A vastly superior dragon!
HA, I did the same thing! I thought it was strange that he was talking about how we need more Catholics in the spot-light and I was confused since I didn't recall them mentioning religion at all during the interview...
Don't worry about it. Being "toonified" makes me seem less threating, and makes people let down their guards more.
What is it with you Ashleys and the escapistforums?
Is this the foundation on which you shall base your empire?
Does one get bestowed with superpowers after doing a community spotlight?
If so, I need to get myself into one.
Alternatively, I could just work on my mind-controling device and take over the world by making everyone subject to my every whim, thus granting me the ability to decide on whom the honour of a community spotlight is bestowed and then choose to be the subject of the next spotlight. Hell, every spotlight.
On topic:
Hey, what do you know? I just voted for you last week!
Gratz Eclipse, you are one of the few people on this site who deserves the spotlight as much as I do >:D
For being the most humble, right? >;D
Well, of course! What else would it be for?
Why do I know no one in the community spot light.
That makes me sad.
Cross me Manatee and I shall show you how one truly wields the Master Sword!
Woot go Eclipse Dragon! You deserve the spotlight.
Huh... I wonder if your name comes from Eclipse, a Dragon summon in Golden Sun:
I will never tell you the secret!
Thank you, but you already have a review spotlight.
You will never steal him from me. He's surprisingly loyal for a cat.
It might possibly come from that particular dragon.
How old is your kitty?
He's seven, he's getting to be an old man, but he hides it well.
Also thank you.
Perhaps your cat is a spy?
No problem!
Congratulations on the well-deserved spotlight :). It's great to see your art getting more recognition, particularly your aww'dorable 'Home is where Mom is' piece.
I had a kid for the sole reason that she was going to be born on the year of the Dragon.
Top that.
Fun fact: The year of the dragon is also known as the year of change.
I don't think I'll ever not be late to these things :(
Though, in my defense, This time my timezone changed and I know fuck all about what time or day it is apart from what my phone says XD
Anyhoo how diddly, you're awesome and I'm glad you got the spotlight. Our afternoon random ass conversations in the IL have been a godsend while sitting on my ass waiting for class. Now, just join the hangouts more often (ever) and you can win my completely important cool member of the year award! xD
Congrats, Eclipse Dragon! If it wasn't for you I'd probably still be ignorantly futzing around with my Wacom tablet... or snapped it in half.
She won me over with that one. Grats, by the way, Eclipse. Seeing as how you're interested in dragons, do you take a liking to the many versions of Bahamut? And if you're a fan of Wild ARMs, I can only imainge the kind of art you could draw of Zephyr, Guardian of Hope.
Nah, Ashleys only use the name because that would put them on top of alphabetical lists. They also don't realise that Aarons currently are cleverer.
I am, however, going to one up you and even Aarons - my child will be called Aardvark. Ha, take that alphabetical lists!
By the way, great to see you under the spotlight :) Keep up the good work.
Excellent to see the nice people getting some recognition.
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Following the legendary David Bowies tragic, unexpected passing this week, theres been tribute after tribute, in print and online: about his incredible music, about his influence on popular culture, about the effect hes had on so many of us, and the huge, impossible space he leaves behind. One thing that hasnt been getting so much love is his creative output as an actor. Theres a negative association with rock stars and acting thats been going on for decades, ever since the unholy trinity of Sting, Madonna and Prince assaulted the silver screen with their vanity projects and failed attempts at Hollywood stardom, and kickstarted the kvetching from an avalanche of critics. Bowies always been a little different, though. You could legitimately use that phrase about anything Bowie-related, but his acting choices in particular have often fallen victim to accusations that he indulged in eccentricity for its own sake. Lets clear this up now: yes, Bowies defining attribute as an actor is his weirdness, but thats not your mate in the pubs version of the word - meaning anyone who wears a scarf indoors and/or drinks halves. Bowies screen personae meshed seamlessly with his stage personae. He projected an exotic aura, unearthly, uncanny, adapting that alien aspect to whatever project engaged his interest at the time and of course, the eerie effect of those eyes didnt hurt. Bowie would play the perennial outsider, a man on a different plane, sometimes androgynous or fey, other times otherworldly and distant. Hed come across better in some roles than others, but thats a description that holds true for the majority of working actors. If Hollywood is a menagerie, Bowies always been a breed apart: a cryptozoological curiosity, the only one of his kind.
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The five-decade-old US Summer Work Travel programme brings more than 100,000 foreign university students to America each year to work for up to three months and then travel for a month.
Responding to a wave of complaints from foreign students regarding job placements, work conditions and participant accommodations, and following a comprehensive review begun in mid-2010, the State Department has issued a new Interim Final Rule (IFR) significantly revising the types of jobs the students can do.
To strengthen the short-term US Summer Work Travel exchange programme, the State Department is implementing safeguards, including increasing the protections for American workers, expanding the list of ineligible positions, enhancing oversight and vetting of sponsors and third parties, and defining appropriate cultural activities for international participants.
Under new rules effective as of 11 May 2012, international students will no longer be allowed to work in warehouse or packing jobs, on night shifts or in jobs the Labor Department has designated "hazardous to youth." In addition, the students must not be placed in jobs involving gambling, traveling fairs, massage or tattooing.
After 1 November 2012, students will not be allowed to work in most factory jobs, including manufacturing and food processing. They will be barred from mining, oil exploration and most construction jobs.
The State Department also established new requirements for sponsors to inform students about specific cultural activities that will be available, and to review all jobs offered to students to make sure they are appropriate. Job placements "must provide opportunities for participants to interact regularly with US citizens and experience US culture during the work portion of their programs," the rules specify. Most students under the programme have worked in resort jobs, in hotels or restaurants as waiters, desk clerks, lifeguards or maintenance staff members, or in national parks.
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The Knight's Map
Will the Loyal Knight trust the Guidance of his King?
In this allegorical tale of The Knight's Map, theologian, pastor, and author Dr. R.C. Sproul continues his life's work of making deep biblical truths clear and understandable to children of all ages.
The Knight's Map is the story of a knight who undertakes a perilous journey. But his course is full of people who give him bad advice and send him on wrong turns. In the end, he must decide whether or not he will trust the map provided by the King.
Beautiful, full color illustrations by Richard Lawnes artfully reveal this rich, textured world. There are also discussion questions with Scripture references to help parents guide children into the deeper meaning of the story.
About the Author: From Pastor and Professor of Theology to Children's Story Writer!
Dr. R. C. Sproul is founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian education ministry located near Orlando, Florida. He served as co-pastor of Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Florida until going home to the Lord in 2017. He was also chancellor of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. Ligonier Ministries began in 1971 as the Ligonier Valley Study Center in Ligonier, PA. In an effort to respond more effectively to the growing demand for Dr. Sproul's teachings and the ministry's other educational resources, the general offices were moved to Orlando in 1984, and the ministry was renamed.
Dr. Sproul's teaching can be heard on the program Renewing Your Mind, which is broadcast on hundreds of radio outlets in the United States and in more than forty countries worldwide. Dr. Sproul has produced more than three hundred lecture series and has recorded more than 80 video series on subjects such as the history of philosophy, theology, Bible study, apologetics, and Christian living
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He has written more than 100 books, including The Holiness of God, Faith Alone, Scripture Alone, Everyone's a Theologian. But everyone was surprised when he began to write children's books – everyone but his family and grandchildren, that is, who knew his story-telling skills!
Dr. Sproul holds degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, the Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary. He has had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries. These include Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Sproul is ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.


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By Katy Goodwin-Bates
Sometimes a novel takes me completely off-guard. Usually this is because I haven't read the synopsis properly, but, on occasion, it's just because I wasn't prepared for the level of intensity it would throw my way, or the feelings I'd experience during and after reading. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (Andersen/Penguin Random House, March 2016) is such a book.
Zentner's story focuses on Dill, a high school senior whose life has been shattered because his preacher father was sent to prison for a particularly unpleasant crime. Dill faces hostility at school and at home, and the only solace he can find is in his friendships with Lydia, a fashion blogger desperate to escape their dead-end town, and Travis, a gentle giant obsessed with a Game of Thrones-esque fantasy book series.
"'I read somewhere that a lot of the stars we see don't exist anymore. They've already died and it's taken millions of years for their light to reach Earth,' Dill said.
'That wouldn't be a bad way to die,' Lydia said. 'Giving off light for millions of years after you've gone.'" –
While much of The Serpent King covers familiar YA ground (friendship, romance, college ambitions), it is also a resoundingly unique addition to the young adult genre in the extent to which Zentner makes the reader care about his teen characters, adding greater emotional import to oft-used tropes. What immediately emerges when reading is the southern gothic aesthetic. Set in a small Tennessee town, the book takes Dillard Early Sr.'s signs ministry as a key area of focus, and so the reader is given plenty of disturbing descriptions of snakes being handled while people speak in tongues. The whole issue of religion is explored in a truly interesting way. While Dill's father, his father's actions, and the ways in which his father appropriates his faith to justify them are repugnant, Dill's faith remains staunch and sympathetic, and in this way The Serpent King takes an idea often mocked in contemporary YA and does something entirely different with it. So often Christian teenagers are written only to highlight how cool everyone else is, and this is categorically not what Zentner does here.
Having suffered humiliation thanks to his father's actions, Dill's relationship with God is complex but always compelling. Dill is remarkably stoic considering everything the character has endured and continues to suffer. His role as the emotional crux of the novel is a masterstroke from the author. Chapters alternately focus on Dill, Lydia, and Travis, allowing the reader to witness their relationships as well as the things they hide from each other. Lydia is probably the least sympathetic of the three largely because of her immense privilege in comparison to the boys. She has devoted parents, loads of money, and a chance to get out of their suffocating small town. She defends these things firmly, occasionally bordering on aggressively, but I begrudgingly admit she has a point and shouldn't be made to feel guilty for what she has.
I've thought a lot recently about the lack of good parents in fiction, both YA and adult, and how essential this trope is to the continued adventures of teenage characters. It is basically impossible for anyone to do anything novel-worthy if their mother feeds them a hearty breakfast and their father is home from work in time for dinner. What I found interesting in The Serpent King is the extent to which parents were the root of Dill's and Travis's troubles, rather than merely the facilitating factor. It made me check my own privilege to consider there are parents who genuinely don't want the best for their children, in both passive-aggressive and plain aggressive ways. This book made me experience overwhelming feelings of sadness at least twice, and terrible parenting was the cause for one of these occasions.
It's not all doom and gloom though. There are elements of hope and optimism in The Serpent King which will make you absolutely terrified that they're about to be dashed. Zentner also manages to create humor around Dill's religious upbringing, particularly in outlining the ways in which he is forced to lie to his mother about how spiritual his activities truly are.
"Dill had a particular genius, honed over his years of friendship with Lydia, at turning any band into a Christian band on the spot. Arcade Fire? Refers to the fires of hell that those who forsake Christ in favor of video games will experience… Radiohead? Refers to how human minds have to be living conduits to the Holy Spirit, akin to radio antennas."
The evocation of the southern gothic is something else I really enjoyed in this book. The sections dealing with Dill's father's ministry called to mind the first season of True Detective, with all its attendant darkness and horror. On my visits to the US I've always been struck by how different each state is, with even areas within states seeming like different countries. Suffice it to say, English cities aren't really so easily differentiated. I actively seek out books which show me the unique aspects of the US, and The Serpent King is one of them, both in its evocation of small-town life and the contrast this creates with the characters' visits to Nashville. Suitably in relation to the latter, music features heavily in the novel, from Dill's self-conscious songwriting to the many references to Lydia's musical heroes; it's another way in which The Serpent King is truly immersive.
I wasn't prepared for how good this was going to be, and I'm really pleased to have come across it. The Serpent King fills a gap on YA bookshelves which readers perhaps didn't know was there, and I'll be looking out for Jeff Zentner's writing in the future.
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Vice President Mike Pence pledged federal support and aid for California on Tuesday as the state battles blazes in Sonoma, Napa, Nevada, Butte and Yuba Counties in the north and Orange County in the south.
The Trump administration made a federal fire management assistance declaration, according to the website of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The move means that FEMA can provide financial assistance to both individuals and communities. However, the website does not list the amount of funds that will be provided.
Meanwhile, CAL FIRE said firefighters were battling 17 large wildfires that had started in the past 36 hours. The Tubbs Fire that has burned 27,000 acres, 550 homes and 27 stores laying waste to whole neighborhoods in Santa Rosa remains out of control. The Atlas Fire, which has scored 25,000 acres and destroyed 125 structures, also reported zero containment.
Sonoma Sheriff Rob Giordano urged everyone to "please be patient. Life is more important than property. Bare with us. We want to keep people safe."
He said he had "roughly 200 people on the street right now in the county that are from outside agencies," and later named the National Guard, multiple law enforcement agencies, Office of Emergency Service and CAL FIRE. "We've got excellent resourses. [The federal disaster declaration] will give us the funding to pay for all that."
Sonoma County spokeswoman Maggie Fleming told the Los Angeles Times that the county has received reports of 200 people missing. The Sheriff's Office has located 45 of them.
Most of the fatalities also occurred in Sonoma, where the death toll is now nine. Two people have died in Napa County, three in Mendocino County and one in Yuba County, Cal Fire officials confirmed.
Earlier in the day one woman in the town of Sonoma texted Wine Enthusiast that the "fires are still very active despite the wind changes, and houses on the outskirts of town still burning."
At least three wineries have been destroyed, including Paradise Ridge Winery, located in the foothills above Santa Rosa in Sonoma, Signorello Estate, located on the Silverado Trail in Napa, and Frey Vineyards in Redwood Valley.
Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma—the oldest California family-owned winery—survived the flames.
"The winery is still standing," Katie Bundschu told Wine Enthusiast of the structure's state. "Nothing is scorched yet. There are three fire truck on our property. They're going to be here for the next week. Luckily, the weather is cooperating… We still have half our fruit on the vines," she said.
Bundschu added that while they have generators working in the winery because they are currently fermenting, "the rest of the place has no power, and I haven't heard an estimation of when we will."


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Grace Dent & Russell Norman in Conversation
On the 30th November, come to Live at The Zedel for an evening with award-winning restauranter Russell Norman and London Evening Standard critic Grace Dent.
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An old friend of mine who deceased in 1875 wrote the following sermon. He was a favorite of my father's and now is one of my favorites. He has a gift to explain God's Word in terms that the simple (such as I am) can understand.
Anchor of the Soul
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.
Hebrews vi. 19.
In the margin of the ocean that surrounds and laves our island home, an object of absorbing interest may often be observed, —a ship riding at anchor near a lee shore in an angry sea. She has drifted, ere she was aware, too near a rock-bound coast: the wind is blowing direct on shore: there is not room to tack: whether she should point her prow north or south, she will strike a projecting headland ere she can escape from the bay. One resource remains, —to anchor where she is till the wind change.
There she lies. Stand on this height and look down upon her through the drifting spray. I scarcely know in nature a more interesting or more suggestive sight. The ship is dancing on the waves: she appears to be in their power and at their mercy. Wind and water combine to make her their sport. Destruction seems near; for if the vessel's hull is dashed by these waves upon the rocks of the coast, it will be broken into a thousand pieces. But you have stood and looked on the scene a while, and the ship still holds her own. Although at first sight she seemed the helpless plaything of the elements, they have not overcome—they have not gained upon her yet. She is no nearer destruction than when you first began to gaze in anticipation of her fate. The ship seems to have no power to resist the onset of wind and wave. She yields to every blast and every billow. This moment she is tossed aloft on the crest of a wave, and the next she sinks heavily into the hollow. Now her prow goes down beneath an advancing breaker, and she is lost to view in the spray; but anon she emerges, like a sea-fowl shaking the water from her wings and rejoicing in the tumult. As she quivered and nodded giddily at each assault, you thought, when first you arrived in sight, that every moment would prove her last but now that you have watched the conflict long, it begins to assume in your mind another aspect, and promise another end. These motions of the ship now, instead of appearing the sickly movements of the dying, seem to indicate the calm, confident perseverance of conscious strength and expected victory. Let winds and waves do their worst, that ship will meet them fearless, will hold her head to the blast, and maintain her place in defiance of their power. What is the secret of that ship's safety.? No other ship is in sight to which she may cling: no pillar stands within reach to which she may be moored. The bond of her security is a line that is unseen. The ship is at anchor. The One on which she hangs does not depend on the waters, or anything that floats there; it goes through the waters, and fastens on a sure ground beyond 'them. Thus, though the ship cannot escape from the wild waters, she is safe on their surface. She cannot, indeed, take the wings of a dove and fly away so as to be at rest; but the sea cannot cover her, and the wind cannot drive her on the beach. She must, indeed, bear a while the tempest's buffetings; but she is not for a moment abandoned to the tempest's will. The motto of that ship is the motto once held aloft in triumph by a tempted but heroic soul: "We are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed" (2 Cor. iv. 8, 9).
An immortal creature on this changeful life is like a ship upon the ocean. On the strength of that obvious analogy the apostle intimates, by a bold yet perspicuous figure, that we have " an anchor of the soul." The soul, considered as a passenger on the treacherous sea of Time, needs an anchor; and an anchor "sure and steadfast" is provided for the needy soul.
In many respects the world, and life on it, are like the sea. Itself restless, it cannot permit to rest any of the pilgrims that tread its heaving, shifting surface. At some times, and in some places, great tempests rise; but even in its ordinary condition it is always and everywhere uncertain, deceptive, dangerous. Currents of air and currents of ocean intermingle with and cross each other in endless and unknown complications, bringing even the most skilful mariner to his wit's end—making him afraid either to stand still or to advance. On this heaving sea we must all lie. Even our Father in heaven does not lift up his own, and Christ the Son does not ask him so to do: " I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world; but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." The best that can be done for them, in this world, is to preserve them from sinking or striking on the shore. The soul is tossed by many temptations; but the anchor of the soul is sure and steadfast within the veil. Without are fightings, within are fears, —all these are against us; but one thing will over-balance and overcome them—" Our life is hid with Christ in God."
Hope sometimes signifies the act of a human spirit laying hold of an unseen object, and sometimes the object unseen whereon the human spirit in its need lays hold. These two significations may be combined together: they are so combined here. " The Hope set before us," is Christ entered for us now within the veil; and the hope that " we have," is the exercise of a believing soul when it trusts in the risen Redeemer. These two cannot be separated. The one is the grasp which a believing soul takes of Christ, and the other Is the Christ whom a believing soul is grasping. These two run so close together that you cannot perceive where the joining Is. " I am the vine, ye are the branches." Even so. Lord; and what human eye can tell the very line which marks where the branch ends and the vine begins? Christians are members of Christ, —of his flesh and of his bones. " As he is, so are we in this world." " Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me. -*" "Which Hope we have." If you ask me, Whether does he mean, by hope, the Christ on whom his soul is leaning, or his own act of leaning on Christ } I answer, Both. You cannot have one of these without having both. The branch has the vine; but it has also its own living growth into the vine. And if it had not that living growth into the vine, it would not have the vine. So the soul has Christ, and also its own living faith in Christ, wanting which it would have no Christ.
Mark well here what it is that renders a disciple safe and firm as he floats on the rushing tide of Time. It is not terror of the Lord in his conscience. Such terror may awaken a slumberer, and make him flee to that which will keep him; but the terror itself cannot keep him. Fear repels; it is hope that holds; —blessed hope!
The anchor must not be cast on anything that floats on the water, however large and solid it may seem. The largest thing that floats is an iceberg. But although an iceberg does not shake like a ship, but seems to receive the waves and permit them to break on its sides as they break on the shore, it would be ruin to anchor the ship to it. The larger and the less would drift the same way, and perish together. Ah! this stately Church—this high-seeming and high-sounding ecclesiastical organization, woe to the human spirit that is tempted in the tossing to make fast to that great imposing mass! It is not sure and steadfast. It is floating: it moves with the current of the world: it moves to an awful shore! Not there, not there! Your hope, when you stretch it out and up for eternal life, must enter " into that within the veil, whither the Forerunner is for us entered."
Nor will it avail a drifting ship to fix its anchor on itself It would be very childish to try this method; but I have seen full-grown people betake themselves with great energy to this foolish shift. When a boat on a stream broke adrift with a few unskilful people on board, I have seen them in their alarm grasp the gunwale and bend themselves and draw with all their might in the direction of the shore! In spite of their drawing, the boat glided with them down the stream. In the concerns of the soul such childishness is even more common. Faith in one's own faith or charity is a common exercise among men. Beware! Hope must go out for a hold; even as the ship's anchor must be flung away from the ship. The eye is made for looking with, not for looking at. Away from all in ourselves, and out through all that floats like ourselves on this shifting sea, we must throw the anchor of the soul through the shifting waters into Him who holds them in the hollow of his hand.
Mark, further, that hope in Christ is specifically the anchor of the soul. Here, like draws to like: spirit to spirit. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him worship him in spirit. There is no anchor that will make our temporal possessions fast. Wealth, and friends, and even life, may drift away any day on the flood; and no power on earth can arrest the movement. These bodily things may or may not abide with a Christian; but his anchor does not hold them. It is only an anchor of the soul, not an anchor of the body. We must not expect from the Lord what he never promised.
There are contrivances not a few in our day for fixing material property, so that it shall not drift away in the currents of time. The system of assurances both on life and property has reached an enormous magnitude. Amidst its great and manifold branches, the wicked have of late years, like wild beasts in a forest, found cover for various crimes. Things are now made fast which our forefathers thought essentially uncertain, like the currents of the ocean. Treasures are insured while they cross the sea in ships, so that, though the vessel go to the bottom, the importer gets his own. The food and clothing of a wife and children, which formerly were left to float on the uncertain waters of the husband and father's life, are made fast by insurance to an anchor which holds them, although that life should glide away. Taking up the obvious analogy employed in this scripture, one of the insurance societies has adopted the anchor as its name.
But the action of these anchors is limited to things seen and temporal. They cannot be constructed so as to catch and keep any spiritual thing. They may hold fast a wife's fortune, when the life of the bread-winner falls in; but they cannot maintain joy- in her heart, or kindle light in her eye. Far less can they insure against the shipwreck of the soul. With these things they do not intermeddle. All the world may be gained for a man, and kept for him too, and yet he is a loser, if he lose his own soul. Only one anchor can grasp and hold the better part of man—and that is the hope which enters into the heavens, and fastens there in Jesus.
The anchor—in as far as it indicates the object which hope grasps—the anchor is " sure and steadfast." The expressions are exact and full. The words are tried words. They are given in order that we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to the hope set before us.
There are two cases in which one's hope may be disappointed: the support you lean on may be unwilling or unable to sustain you. In the one case it is deception; in the other, weakness. A Christian's hope is not exposed to either flaw: it is both "sure and steadfast;" that is, the Redeemer, who holds them, is willing and able. He will not falsely let you go, nor feebly faint beneath your weight. He is true and strong—for these are the words. He both will and can keep that which we commit to him against that day.
With the same meaning, but by means of another analogy, Christ is represented elsewhere in Scripture as a foundation; and it is intimated that the foundation is a tried one. It has been put to the strain, and has stood the test.
In modern practice great importance attaches to the trying of an anchor. Many ships have been lost through accident or fraud in the manufacture. The instrument had a good appearance, but there was a flaw in its heart; and when the strain came, it snapped, and all was lost. For the security of the subject, the Government have erected an apparatus for testing anchors; and the royal seal is stamped on those that have been approved. When the merchantman purchases an anchor so certified, he has confidence that it will not fail him in his need. It is interesting, and even solemn work, to test anchors, and stamp them as approved. Beware! set not the seal on one that is doubtful, for many precious lives will yet be entrusted to its keeping.
He who is now the anchor of the soul within the veil, was " made perfect through suffering." The safety of which this text speaks, is safety such as an anchor affords. This is different from the safety of a ship on a stormless sea, and different from the safety of a ship that is moored fore and aft within the walls of a harbour. Both these positions are safe; but they differ both from each other and from safety by an anchor. Man unfallen enjoyed the first kind of safety, and the ransomed in rest enjoy the second; but the place of a believer in the body is neither like that of a ship on a calm sea, nor like that of a ship within the harbour, —it is like a ship exposed to raging winds above, and deceitful currents below. Such a soul may be abundantly safe; but its safety is of the kind that a ship enjoys while it is exposed to the storms, and before it reaches the haven – the safety that an exposed ship enjoys through an anchor that is sure and steadfast. Take now a series of practical lessons.
1. The ship that is kept by an anchor, although safe, is not at ease. It does not, on the one hand, dread destruction; but neither, on the other hand, does it enjoy rest. " Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you." Those who have entered the harbor do not need an anchor; and those who are drifting with the stream do not cast one out. The hope which holds is neither for the world without nor the glorified within, but for Christ's people as they pass through life rejoicing with trembling; faint, yet pursuing. " In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world."
2. But further: the ship that is held by an anchor is not only tossed in the tempest like other ships, - it is tossed more than other ships. The ship that rides at anchor experiences rackings and heavings that ships which drift with the tide do not know. So, souls who have no hold of Christ seem to lie softer on the surface of a heaving world than souls that are anchored on his power and love. The drifting ship, before she strikes, is more smooth and more comfortable than the anchored one; but when she strikes, the smoothness is all over. The pleasures of sin are sweet to those who taste them; but the sweetness is only for a season. "The wicked shall be driven away in his iniquity; but the righteous hath hope in his death."
3. When the anchor has been cast into a good ground, the heavier the strain that comes on it, the deeper and firmer grows its hold. As winds and currents increase in violence, the anchor bites more deeply into the solid, and so increases its preserving power. It is thus with a trusting soul: temptations, instead of driving him away from his Saviour, only fix his affections firmer on the Rock of Ages. " When I am weak, then am I strong;" when I am most exposed, then am I safest, in the hollow of my Redeemer's hand. If you have hold, it is in a time of temptation that you will increase the intensity of your grasp. Accordingly you find, as a general rule, that those Christians who have passed through a great fight of afflictions are stronger in the faith than others who have always sailed on a smooth sea.
4. The ship that is anchored is sensitive to every change of wind or tide, and ever turns sharply round to meet and resist the stream, from what direction soever it may flow. A ship is safest with her head to the sea and the tempest. In great storms the safety of all often depends on the skill with which the sailors can keep her head to the rolling breakers. Life and death have sometimes hung, for a day and a night in the balance, whether the weary steersman could keep her head to the storm until the storm should cease. Even a single wave allowed to strike her on the broadside might send all to the bottom. But to keep the ship in the attitude of safety, there is no effort and no art equal to the anchor. As soon as the anchor feels the ground, the vessel that had been drifting broadside, is brought up, and turns to the waves a sharp prow that cleaves them in two and sends them harmless along the sides.
Watch from a height any group of ships that may be lying in an open roadstead. At night when you retire they all point westward; in the morning, they are all looking to the east. Each ship has infallibly felt the first veering of the wind or water, and instantly veered in the requisite direction, so that neither wind nor wave has ever been able to strike her on the broadside. Thereby hangs the safety of the ship. Ships not at anchor do not turn and face the foe. The ship that is left loose will be caught by a gust on her side, and easily thrown over.
As with ships, so with souls: those that are anchored feel sensitively the direction and strength of the temptation, and instantly turn to meet and to overcome it; whereas those that are not anchored are suddenly overcome, and their iniquities, like the wind, carry them away. " We are saved by hope; " —saved not only from being outcast in the end, but from yielding to temptation now.
It is a vain imagination that rises in ignorant minds against the gospel of Christ, that when a sinner gets a glad hope in Christ's mercy, he will not be careful to obey Christ's law. It is an old objection, and perhaps it is human and natural; but it is not real—it is not true. As certainly as the anchored ship feels every gust and every current, and turns sharply round to face and fight it; so certainly a soul that has hope in Christ has a quick and sure instinct to detect influences and companionships and customs that dishonour the Lord and ensnare his people. And as the hopeful soul surely detects the danger, it also, in virtue of its hold and hope, turns round to meet, to resist, and to make the devil flee.
I suppose no youth, since Pharaoh reigned in Egypt, has been exposed to a greater strain of temptation than that which Joseph overcame in Potiphar's house. But it was hope that saved him, as the anchor saves the ship. If he had not been at peace with God, he would have been like a ship caught on the broadside by a hurricane. It was the anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast within the veil before the blast began, that enabled him to overcome it: " How can I do this great evil, and sin against God?''
5. When the ship is anchored, and the sea is running high, there is great commotion at her bows. The waves in rapid succession come on and strike. When they strike they are broken, and leap, white and angry, high up on the vessel's sides. This tumult is by no means agreeable in itself; but the mariner on board would not like to want it, for it is the sign of safety. If, while wind and waves continue to rage, he should observe that this commotion had suddenly ceased, he would not rejoice. He would look eagerly over the bulwarks, and seeing the water blue on her bows, instead of the hissing, roaring spray, he would utter a scream of terror. The smoothness at her bows indicates to him that her anchor is dragging. The ship is drifting with wind and water to the shore.
Such, too, is the experience of a soul. Brother, you hope in Christ. Do not be surprised that the currents of fashion rub sometimes rudely against you. It is explained by a text in the Bible: " The friendship of the world is enmity with God." If you are fixed, a great flood is rushing by, and it must needs cause a commotion round you. An impetuous tide of worldliness will dash disagreeably against you from time to time. Do not be too anxious to make all smooth. Peace may be bought too dear. When the mighty stream of vanity on which you float produces no ruffling at the point of contact, —when it is not disagreeable to you, and you not disagreeable to it, —suspect that your anchor is dragging, that it has lost its hold, and that you are drifting into danger.
Cast in the anchor while the sea is calm: you will need it to lean on when the last strain comes on!


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Original photo taken by Sansom of Herford at the top of the great flake on the first ascent of Central Buttress in 1914
Some two years ago, Herford and I, in an inquisitive spirit, climbed up a grassy scoop leading out of Moss Ghyll on to the Central Buttress. We did not seriously believe that we should find a new climb on this rock face, for it appears to be singularly unbroken and almost vertical for over two hundred feet. It was, however, an unknown region, and as such appealed to us.
The scoop was not very difficult and we were soon looking around a corner at the top along a narrow grassy ledge which apparently extended right across the face to Botterill's Slab. The rocks fell away very steeply below and a sheer smooth wall rose up to a great height above: its regularity was interrupted at one point, it is true, by an enormous rock flake which tapered out to nothing 70 feet higher. For some obscure reason this ledge suggested vague possibilities, which we did not fully appreciate at the time. The Great Flake looked quite hopeless as a means of ascent and we dismissed the idea at once and concentrated our attention on the Moss Ghyll side of the buttress, which was broken up by right-angled corners running upwards from west to east at a uniform angle of 65°.
The nearest of these corners stopped us in less than 30 feet, but we determined to try the next. It appeared difficult of access from this ledge: accordingly a descent to the Ghyll, and an awkward traverse from the top of the next pitch was effected. I climbed up this groove with some difficulty until the slab on the left almost gave out and upward progress seemed scarcely feasible; the groove immediately on my right continued upwards for a considerable distance, but the traverse into it appeared too difficult and I returned to Herford. We thereupon decided to give up the attempt and climb Pisgah Buttress instead. We did so, with searching eyes on the rock face which had so successfully repulsed us, and I for one returned to Wastdale with the opinion that Central Buttress would not go.
That day's work was not, however, wasted, for it led indirectly to the discovery of the Girdle Traverse, inasmuch as it apparently demonstrated the possibility of reaching Botterill's Slab from Moss Ghyll and thus over-coming the most serious obstacle to the expedition. Some three months later Herford made the second ascent of Botterill's Slab, and a few days afterwards the Girdle Traverse was completed. My belief, that the ledge on the Central Buttress actually joined the Slab, was founded on insufficient data, and the credit for the discovery of a feasible connection between the two is due to H.B.Gibson.
Consideration of other climbs, which led up apparently impossible but actually feasible rocks, impressed on us the necessity of not judging by appearances, but of trying all places, however impossible or impracticable they looked. The proverb "Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire" is inimical to those desirous of finding new routes on a much-explored rock-face. We accordingly assured one another that, as we had not actually attempted the ascent of the "Great Flake," there was still a chance of finding a feasible route up the Central Buttress.
It was not until June, 1913, that we had an opportunity of putting this theory into practice on the Central Buttress. It is however one thing to talk lightheartedly of trying to climb a narrow 40 foot crack, of which the top overhangs the bottom some 12 feet, and quite another thing to stand at its foot prepared to do so. The crack proper started some 30 feet above our grass ledge (the Oval) and obviously could be reached without great difficulty. I ascended about 25 feet and found myself below a large bulge in the side of the flake; I could have got over this bulge, but the sight of the crack above was too much for me, and Herford took my place and climbed to the foot of the crack. He also decided that to attempt to force it, without knowledge as to what lay above, would be unjustifiable.
GS Sansom
I was abroad all that summer, but Herford and Jeffcoat spent a profitable afternoon in exploration from above. From the top of Keswick Brothers Climb—below the variation finish—they traversed out on to the face of the Central Buttress, first downwards some 30 feet, and then horizontally to the right for about the same distance to a large flat rock, "The Cannon," which is a conspicuous feature in the profile view of the face. From this point they descended a narrow shattered ridge for 40 feet to a good belay on an exposed platform known as Jeffcoat's Ledge, and a further descent of 12 feet gave access to a shelf of rock some 3 feet wide approximally, narrowing gradually down to 18 inches and supporting various large rock flakes in a state of doubtful equilibrium. Distally the ledge was concealed by a rather larger detached flake some 10 feet high and barely 3 inches wide at the top.
Herford traversed out on the ledge, climbed on to this detached mass, walked along it and climbed down the opposite side. He now realized that he was on the top of the Great Flake, which formed the left retaining wall of the crack we had tried to climb from below. The flake narrowed down to a knife-edge, so thin and fretted that it was actually perforated in some places. Crawling carefully along it to the end, Herford descended the overhanging crack, whilst Jeffcoat paid out rope from the belay. Unfortunately the rope jammed during the descent and Herford had very great difficulty in getting down. He considered, however, that the crack was just climbable, and wrote me to that effect. Thus ended what is probably one of the most remarkable and bold explorations ever carried out in the district, and it is to' be greatly regretted that Jeffcoat, who had lent such valuable assistance, was unable to join us in the actual ascent of the climb.
On April 19th of this year Herford, Gibson, Holland and myself repaired to Scafell for the attempt. Herford and Gibson ascended Keswick Brothers Climb and traversed out on to the Central Buttress, whilst Holland and I climbed direct from Rake's Progress to "The Oval." Gibson lowered me a rope down the crack and after removing my boots I attempted the ascent. As far as the bulge, above-mentioned, the climbing was comparatively simple, but from this point to a large jammed stone 20 feet higher it was extremely difficult, as the crack is practically holdless and just too wide to permit a secure arm wedge. Two fairly good footholds permit of a position of comparative comfort just below the jammed stone and I noted, as Herford had suggested, that it was possible to thread a rope there. The stone itself afforded quite a good hand-hold, but the crack above overhung to such a shocking extent that the ascent of the remaining 12 feet proved excessively difficult. My arms gave out long before the top was reached and a very considerable amount of pulling from Gibson was required before I joined him. Herford then tried the ascent on a rope and just succeeded in getting up without assistance. We thereupon decided to attempt the ascent in the orthodox manner, and preparatory thereto descended by Broad Stand and rejoined Holland on the Oval.
Our plan of attack was to climb up the crack and thread a loop behind the jammed stone, and I undertook to do this if Herford would lead the upper part, which he was quite prepared to do. My first procedure was to soak two feet of the end of a rope in wet moss, to render it stiff and facilitate the threading. I then attempted the ascent, but six feet below the jammed stone found my position too precarious to be pleasant and called to Herford for a shoulder. He came up without the least hesitation and standing on the bulge at the foot of the crack, steadied my feet on small holds until I attained a safer position and was able to climb up to the chockstone. The stiff rope threaded very easily, and making a double loop I ran my own rope through it for the descent, which was, under those conditions, quite safe.
After a brief rest Herford tied on to the threaded rope and speedily reached the level of the chockstone. He made a splendid effort to climb the upper part, but his strength gave out and he returned for a rest. A second equally fine effort was also unsuccessful, and he climbed down to the Oval. I then made one attempt, but soon abandoned it, and we unanimously agreed to postpone the ascent till the morrow, leaving the threaded rope in situ . As Holland had already spent seven hours on the Oval we decided to waste no more time, and accordingly descended via the traverse into Moss Ghyll.
The next day we climbed to The Oval direct from the Progress and one member ascended to the chockstone to renew the loop, which showed signs of wear from the previous day's use. We decided that combined tactics would be necessary, and accordingly ran a second rope through the loop. Herford tied on one rope and I on the other, whilst Gibson and Holland manipulated the respective ropes. I followed Herford closely up the crack and hung on to the loop whilst he used my shoulders as foot-holds. Directly he vacated them I climbed three feet higher and hung by my hands from the top of the chockstone, whilst he again employed me as foot-holds, which are most sorely needed at this point, for the crack is practically holdless and overhangs about 20°.
Bill Peascod nearing the V Ledge on Central Buttress:Original photo-Bill Birkett
A minute or two of severe struggling and he reached the top—to the great joy of all members of the party. Herford thoughtfully hung a short loop over the tip of the flake to assist us in the ascent, but even then we required much help from above, and it was with a sense of great relief that we found ourselves on the crest of the flake. Murray, who had been observing us from the recess with some interest, was delighted with an invitation to join the party, so we lowered him a rope down the crack and induced him to remove the threaded loop on the way up.
We were well satisfied with the day's work, but not with the climb, inasmuch as it left 150 feet of the Central Buttress still unclimbed. Two days later, therefore, we set out, greatly regretting Gibson's absence from the party, to explore the upper part of the face.Fifty feet above the top of the Great Flake on the Central Buttress is an irregular V shaped grass ledge, from the western end of which springs a wide chimney, which is the lower section of a conspicuous Bayonet-Shaped Crack, running up to the very top of the crags. The upper section of this crack was, we knew, easy; the lower portion looked very unpleasant, but we hoped to avoid it by climbing the steep face on the left.
With Holland and Slater belaying us, we climbed down steep rocks to the V shaped ledge 100 feet below, and from there were able to look down a remarkably smooth and almost vertical wall to the top of the Great Flake, 50 feet lower. The wall was broken at one point by a right-angled arete which, in spite of the fact that it overhung slightly, possessed sufficiently good holds to permit of a comfortable descent of 25 feet. From its foot a wonderfully exposed traverse across the almost vertical face on the left enabled us to pass behind a large detached pinnacle and climb slightly downwards to the shattered ridge against the foot of which the Great Flake abuts.
Much elated at this discovery we climbed back to Holland and Slater, and the three of us at once descended the easy rocks to the "Cannon." Belayed from this point I led across the traverse and up to the V ledge. Herford then took the lead, Holland going second. Now the way by which we had descended necessitated an extremely difficult hand traverse, on bad holds, in an exposed situation, and we therefore cast about for a better route. Herford first tried the Bayonet-Shaped Crack, but it looked repulsively difficult and he abandoned it in favour of a most exhilarating traverse across its foot, on to the vertical wall beyond, and upwards across the latter for 30 feet to a steep slab, which he followed, for another 25 feet, to a good belay at the top of the lower section of the crack. We soon joined him here and climbed easily up the left wall of the upper portion of the Bayonet-Shaped Crack to the top of the Crags.
The Central Buttress climb as a whole is extremely interesting and the situations absolutely unique. As regards difficulty: The direct ascent to the Oval from Rake's Progress is decidedly difficult and entails an 80 foot run out. The Flake Crack is unfortunately excessively severe and requires very careful management to render its ascent safe. The traverses and ascents on the upper wall are extraordinarily exposed, but not unduly severe, and the climbing is exceedingly enjoyable. The climb is certainly the longest in the district.
Scafell:Original painting/image Julian Cooper
GS Sansom: First published in the Fell& Rock Journal 1914


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Love is... the Life of Grandma and their unconditional love for their grandchildren. Their feet may be little for now but they make the biggest footprint on Grandma's heart. Being a Grandma is part parent, part teacher, part best friend. Being called Grandma is the frosting on top of being called Mom. #lifeofgrandma #lifeofmom


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Ever since bursting onto the scene with classic hits like 'Cuddly Toy' and 'Family Man' in the late 80's, Andrew Roachford's maverick take on music has spread far and wide. As the first artist to sign a staggering seven-album deal with Columbia Records, it heralded something special that is still going strong today.
Roachford returns in 2006 with a new album, 'Word Of Mouth'. Stamped with Andrew's hallmark quality song writing and vocals it's an album, like the artist himself, that steadfastly refuses to be pigeonholed by today's transient R&B pop or rock trends.
Roachford has spent much of the last two years touring the globe, in particular in Europe and Australia. Indeed Germany, where he regularly plays to crowds of 10,000 plus, is the home of his new label Peppermint Jam.
The first single released from the album is the infectious 'River Of Love', a relaxed and uplifting track that effortlessly showcases Andrew's ability to perfectly turn his hand to fresh sounds and new musical styles. The funky Full intention remix of the track also provides yet another original and fresh take on this catchy anthemic track.
Soul man, musician and poet – Andrew Roachford has become many things to many people, and in an increasingly homogenised musical landscape Andrew stands out as a beacon of talent that defies categorisation. This determination to follow his own musical path affords us the unique listening pleasure that is contained in Word Of Mouth, an album that can only be defined as one thing – pure Roachford.
In support of the release of 'Word Of Mouth', Andrew Roachford will also being touring in March. For more information on Andrew Roachford and his upcoming live dates check out the 'live' page. The single 'River of Love is released on 27th February and the new album 'Word of Mouth' is released on 6th March 2006.
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We've been added to the bill of Beer Hockey's last show. We're excited for this show because
a.) we've only played one show before this
b.) everybody gets to see Bryan Kingsley rock double duty
c.) we've only played one show before this
d.)it's fucking 4/20 man!
Dylan is super duper busy with just about everything (how does he sleep?) So everybody asked Adam Salzberg (our engineer, spiritual guidance and friend) to fill in so Dylan doesn't go apeshit in the wrong way. So…Dylan will probably be there. So say hi to him.
Options is playing a show tonight at the underground lounge (same place guillemet is playing on 4/20) so ya'll should check it out. I heard bits and pieces of their set. GET PUMPED!


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Once upon a time I lived in a little field with my mother, my brothers, and sisters.
I had a lot of brothers and sisters.
There wasn't much grass, mainly dirt, but there was a bush that we would sleep under at night, all snuggled up.
Since it would be really hot during the day I would often look for shady spots to nap while mom went out and gathered food for us.
Sometimes she would be gone all day and on the bad days, she would come back empty handed.
Those nights were hard because we would be very hungry and meow through the night.
Mom would tell us to be quiet otherwise bad people would hear us and take us away.
I never knew who the bad people were and I didn't want to find out.
Most days though she came back with several mice for us and we would happily fill our bellies.
What we didn't finish mom would.
There were often puddles of water around the field for us to drink. Then we would go to sleep happy, full, and warm. We didn't know about homes or humans, or that our mom once had a family that had left her behind.
One day I decided to venture a little further away from our home bush.
I saw a neat feather that kept running away from me when I got close and before I knew it I was a long way from home.
I tried to find my way back, but nightfall came and I soon wondered if I would ever see my home again.
After all, I was only two months old and didn't have much energy without food. Although I hate to admit it, I really wasn't any good at directions either.
Every day I would wake up, my tummy rumbling, and I would try to find my way home again.
I knew my mom must be missing me, but I still could not find her.
After what seemed like an eternity, I finally gave up.
I sat under a little rose bush and cried.
I finally curled up in a small ball for comfort and feel asleep. We kittens need a lot of sleep to grow and even though I was hungry and scared, I could always sleep anywhere.
A little while later I was disturbed from my nap by a lady's voice. I often heard people talk during the days I spent with my siblings under our home bush.
This lady seemed very close and before I knew it, she picked me up and started snuggling me.
I tried to growl and hiss because I didn't know her or where she was taking me, but I started to relax when she started rubbing my chin. My mom used to do that at night and it always helped me when I was scared.
The lady said her name was Maggie and asked me my name. I tried to tell her my name was bug... but I guess she couldn't understand my meows and said she would call me Chloe.
I liked my name bug, because it's what my big sister called me, but I thought Chloe was pretty too, it made me sound all grown up.
Maggie made a comment that I was dirty and skinny, but that she was going to clean me up.
I tried to groom myself the way mom taught me but it was hard to do it by myself.
Maggie carried me to her car, wrapped me in a blanket, and put me in a little plastic crate.
We drove away.
We arrived at a small building, Maggie took me inside and put me in a cage with something she called kibble and water, I later found out kibble meant food.
It wasn't as good as mom's mice but I was so hungry I gobbled it up. I guess it wasn't so bad after all.
Maggie then took me to a small room and put me in a tub of warm soapy water.
I didn't like this at all and I tried to tell her and get away but she kept at it anyway.
Eventually I was clean and wrapped in a warm towel. Don't tell her but the bath felt kind of good.
She returned me to the cage which now had a soft bed and some toys.
I curled up in the bed and feel asleep again; there had been a lot of drama today.
I dreamed I was back with my mom and siblings curled closely under our bush.
I felt so safe but then I woke up alone.
I opened my little eyes but had a hard time seeing in the dimly lit room.
I soon realized I was still in the cage and I didn't see Maggie anywhere.
I cried out for her but was just met with other meows, I wondered if my mom or siblings were here. I again cried out hoping to hear a familiar meow or purr but I did not.
Feeling sad, I curled back into my bed and batted at the little ball Maggie left me until I fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up to see Maggie again! I was so happy.
She gave me my food and water and said she tried to find my mom and litter mates, but did not. Apparently a lot of cats were picked up that night for something called a trap neuter and release program.
I had no idea what this was, and frightened I thought of the bad people mom talked about. Maggie told me not to worry and that my family would be safe, but since they didn't know where I belonged I would stay with her for a while.
Maggie then told me she was a volunteer with a group that helped lost babies like me. She said she would give me a foster home until I was big enough to be adopted to my forever home.
I was missing my mom, but was happy to have a nice home with Maggie.
Just as she promised she took me home.
She put me in a little play pen, but since I was so small it seemed huge.
I met another cat through the screen named Kitty.
She told me she had come to live with Maggie many years ago and I was only in the pen to keep me safe until I was bigger.
Kitty stayed by my side though, she talked to me and kept me from being lonely.
She said she once had several kittens like me but they became ill when they were living on the street and went over the rainbow bridge.
I guess she was forgotten by her family like my mom was.
She asked if she could treat me like her kitten.
I really missed having a mom to love me so I agreed; I know my real mom would understand. Every week Maggie took me to the vet to get weighed and be sure I was staying healthy.
In the evenings, Kitty slept next to my pen to keep me safe. It was the first time I felt happy since I was under my home bush.
Finally I was big enough to be adopted.
Maggie told me it was time for me to go back to the shelter so a nice family could adopt me and she could help more lost kittens like me.
Although the other cats at the shelter were nice to me, I missed Maggie and Kitty.
I played with the other cats all day but wondered when this family everyone spoke of would come get me.
I started to wonder why no one wanted me.
One day, when I least expected it, Maggie came to visit me; apparently she missed me as much as I missed her.
Can you imagine?
She decided to adopt me and take me home for good.
She and Kitty will be my forever mommies now and I feel so lucky. I spend my days curled up on Maggie's lap or hiding under the blanket.
I love chasing Kitty and we take turns following Maggie around, we don't want her to get lost like we were.
My favourite game now is to take Maggie's socks and run. She always chases me but I think she lets me win. It's such fun!
I'm still not sure what happened to my birth mom; I hope she's safe and knows I'm happy and loved.
I know someday I will see her again, just like Kitty will see her babies again... and we will all play together. I can't wait to show them the sock game!
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ASU president upset at Steve Patterson's move to Texas
- Arizona State president Michael Crow said he was disappointed with Steve Patterson%27s move to Texas
- Crow said that he doesn%27t believe ASU is a steeping-stone job
- Arizona State has already hired a search firm to find a new athletic director
It is hard to catch Michael Crow off-guard but the Arizona State president was blindsided as much as anyone. For several days, Steve Patterson told him he had no interest in the University of Texas athletic director's job.
Then he walked into Crow's office Monday and said, "I'm interested, and I'm taking it."
Just like that, ASU lost an athletic director who bolted for a program that operates with the largest athletic budget in the country.
"I'm disappointed," Crow said Tuesday.
In Patterson, Crow thought he had an administrator who shared his vision for college sports, ones that shoots for high performance and fiscal restraint. That's not the Longhorns, whose football coach makes $5.3 million, more than twice what the Sun Devils pay Todd Graham.
They pay their athletic directors handsomely, too.
A lot of us would run for the money. No reason to cast Patterson as some Benedict Arnold. But the juxtaposition of where he was and where he is heading delivers a strong reminder of the vision Crow sees for ASU athletics.
It is one that doesn't always sit well with fans.
"I am looking for people committed to the model that we're trying to advance," he said. "Obviously there are other models. There are models of $6 million football coaches. Maybe that'll soon be $10 million. For me, I don't think that's the way for college sports to go, but at the same time I've got to keep the team on track, and have to keep the positions filled in a very, very rough and tumble market.
"If the only path to athletic success is the same path as professional teams — more and more money like the Yankees model — then where does that leave us in college sports?"
Still, it is tough for fans who feel like ASU is the Triple-A home for college football's big leagues. Consider the paths of its recent athletic directors:
Kevin White went to Notre Dame. Gene Smith went to Ohio State. Steve Patterson goes to Texas.
"Are we a stepping stone?" Crow said. "No. We're a fantastic university doing fantastic things. People in college sports in my view need to be more committed to the institution then they are committed only to the dollar."
Crow is adamant that success can still be found while showing fiscal responsibility.
I'll give him this. The Sun Devils are in a better place than they have been in a long time.
The football program, the lifeline of an athletic department, is nationally ranked and has a legitimate shot to battle for the Pac-12 Conference title.
The men's basketball program has taken a step forward thanks in large part to a nationally respected player named Jahii Carson.
ASU's student-athlete graduation rate recently hit 82%, the highest ever.
The program is on the upswing.
Crow thinks it can stay that way without entering Nick Saban territory. Saban is Alabama's coach, the highest paid in the country at $5.5 million.
Patterson's decision to change jobs puts a spotlight on how differently ASU and Texas operate.
The Longhorns sported athletic revenue in 2011-12 that was No. 1 in the country at $163 million. The Sun Devils were 45th at $59 million.
Patterson recently received a base salary raise to $450,000 by ASU. Texas is reportedly going to be paying him $1.4 million.
Texas has its own television contract with ESPN. ASU will eventually benefit from the Pac-12's media deal, but right now the biggest storyline remains how viewership is limited because of the Pac-12 Networks' standoff with DirecTV.
ASU is often called a sleeping giant, but the truth is large athletic budgets are mostly reserved for universities in the south and southeast, in cities where colleges are kings and professional teams are nowhere to be found.
Oregon, at No. 16, is the only university west of Texas that has an athletic budget ranked in the Top 20, and that is significantly helped by a certain booster — Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike, Inc. — with deep pockets and nice running shoes.
ASU, meanwhile, is ready to move forward. A search firm hired to find a new athletic director already is "engaged and working," Crow said, and plans for renovating Sun Devil Stadium are still moving forward.
Despite the departure of Patterson, Crow sounded confident, even defiant.
He believes in his vision.
And he won't let money cloud it.
Paola Boivin also writes for The Arizona Republic in Phoenix.


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|#include <iostream>
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Everyone knows you should protect your eyes from UV light from the sun by wearing sunglasses. But what is there to protect your eyes from high energy blue light projected from LED/CFL lights? We are constantly bombarded with high levels of high energy blue light on a daily basis from digital devices, such as computers, televisions, smart phones, tablets; headlights on cars and even artificial lights at work & home.
Over time, this may affect our vision. And this isn't just a concern for older people, children and young adults who have a lot of screen time between school, work and home should be thinking about the impact of this blue light on their long term vision. Although LED lights may be great for the environment, they aren't necessarily great for maintaining optimal eye health.
But good news, there are nutrients that may help! Read on to find out how you can protect your eyes from high energy blue light.
Why is high energy blue light a concern for eye health?
- Blue light can be harmful to the eyes, as it is the highest energy wavelength of visible light, and is able to penetrate to the back of the eye (where the retina and the macula are located), through the eyes natural protective filters. The macula is the section of the eye responsible for sharp sight and visual acuity, and this may be damaged by the high energy blue light reaching the macula promoting free radical formation.
- Short term effects may lead to eye strain and fatigue, and long term exposure may cause a progressive decline of visual function.
- As well as adults who have lots of screen time, children are particularly at risk as they are heavy users of digital devices emitting blue light between school, homework and play; and their developing eyes don't yet have adequate amounts of protective pigments in the eyes to help filter out the excess of harmful blue light.
- Too much blue light exposure, particularly from lighting at home and in the bedroom, can supress melatonin production and delay deep REM sleep, affecting your sleep cycle. This also goes for your devices at home. Remember switch off all technology that emits blue light 1 hour before bed. Yes this means no last minute check of Facebook or Instagram!
How can Lutein and Zeaxanthin help?
- Lutein and Zeaxanthin are carotenoids (Vitamin A derivatives) found naturally in the yellow/orange/red pigments in plants, where they absorb excess light energy and protect the plants from too much sunlight, and harmful rays such as blue light. Sunlight itself contains on average 25-30% blue light.
- Lutein and Zeaxanthin play a similar role in the macula and lens of the eye. They form a yellow pigment in the macula, which exerts a natural filter or internal 'sunglasses' like effect, against harmful blue light reaching the retina.
- These carotenoids provide nutritional support for the macula region of the eye, and support eye health by acting as powerful antioxidants, quenching free radicals that may collect here as a result of excess blue light exposure.
- The body cannot synthesise Lutein and Zeaxanthin, so they must be derived from a dietary or nutritional supplement source.
Dietary sources of Lutein and Zeaxanthin:
Dietary sources of Lutein and Zeaxanthin include egg yolk, corn, kiwi fruit, grapes, orange capsicum, orange juice, zucchini and squash. Lutein is found in highest amounts in corn, whilst Zeaxanthin primary source is orange/yellow capsicum.
If you are worried you aren't obtaining sufficient amounts of Lutein and Zeaxanthin from your diet, you might consider trying a supplement to support eye health. Adequate dosage for macular protection include 6-20mg of Lutein, and 2-5mg Zeaxanthin daily. Most supplements for eye health will contain other nutrients such as Vitamin C, Selenium and Zinc, which have an antioxidant effect and support general eye health.
Other handy tips to minimise blue light exposure:
- Try and limit your digital device use, particularly before bed. Having a digital device free time 1-2 hrs before bed will ensure your body is able to produce the melatonin it needs for a healthy night's sleep.
- People staring at their device for long periods of time tend to blink less, so be aware and blink more when using digital devices, as this helps to keep the eye lubricated, and avoid eye strain.
- Give your eyes a break and follow the 20-20-20 rule – every 20 minutes stare at something 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. This activates your distance vision allowing your eyes to 'reset'.
Your eye health is extremely important. Make sure you have regular check-ups at your optometrist and speak to them about ways to reduce your exposure to blue light and keep your eyes in tip top shape!


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Nano mini-exhibition applications now available
We are pleased to announce that online applications are now available for NISE Network museum partners to apply for a free copy of the Nano mini-exhibition. Online applications are due March 1, 2012.
Nano is an interactive exhibition that engages family audiences in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Hands-on exhibits present the basics of nanoscience and engineering, introduce some real world applications, and explore the societal and ethical implications of this new technology.
Nano was created by the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Network) with support from the National Science Foundation. The Nano exhibition is intended for long-term display in museums across the United States, where it will engage millions of people. Up to fifty copies of Nano will be fabricated; all copies will be identical and distributed to museum partners free of charge. The exhibition complements NanoDays events and other NISE Network educational experiences.
More Information:
- Application Overview includes application application instructions, eligibility, review criteria for completing the online application
- Direct link to the online SurveyGizmo application (please read the Application Overview carefully first) http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/742910/NISE-Network-Nano-Mini-Exhibition-Application
- Nano Mini-exhibition materials online includes host resources, photos, and walkthrough video
- Questions: For general advice about the process, or further questions, please contact your NISE Net regional hub leader: www.nisenet.org/community
- For any technical difficulties with the online Survey Gizmo application, please contact: Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota, [email protected] or Christina Akers, Science Museum of Minnesota, [email protected]