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Cape Coral man charged in officer-involved shooting
A Cape Coral man who suffered a gunshot wound Tuesday afternoon after police say he drove his truck at detectives attempting to break up an altercation that had culminated in the man reportedly dragging another person with the pickup has been charged.
David Roy Westerman, 34, of 2713 SE 18th Ave, was charged Christmas day with aggravated battery, assault on a law enforcement officer, drug equipment possess and or use and driving with a suspended license, according to the Lee County Jail web site.
No bond was set on the aggravated battery charge.
The incident happened in the 3900 Block of Southeast 4th Avenue.
Cape Coral Police Department property detectives had responded to street to take a suspect into custody in reference to an unrelated theft investigation, according to a prepared statement issued by the Cape Coral Police Department shortly after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
While there, detectives witnessed the disturbance at a nearby house. It was a verbal and physical altercation that culminated with one person dragging another down the street with a pickup truck, officials stated.
"Detectives identified themselves and attempted to intervene. The driver of the truck, rather than complying with detectives, drove at detectives, placing them in imminent fear for their safety. Detective(s) fired, striking the driver," the release states.
The driver of the truck, later identified as Westerman sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital for treatment.
The detectives involved in the incident were placed on administrative duty as per the agency's standard protocol, pending the findings of the Professional Standards Bureau.
Detectives and forensics personnel reported to the scene and gathered evidence, said Det. Sgt. Dana Coston, Cape Coral Police Department public affairs officer, in the prepared statement.
"Now that the fast-paced activity surrounding the incident has passed, the slow, meticulous process of investigation commences," he said in the statement released Tuesday. "Three things will now happen – First, the criminal investigation will take place and charges will be brought against the driver of the truck. Second, the State Attorney's Office will review the use of deadly force to determine if the use of force was justified. And finally, the Cape Coral Police Department Professional Standards Bureau will review the shooting to determine if the shooting was within policy."
Sources: Cape Coral Police Department and the Lee County Sheriff's Office


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He entered (1936) Abbasia Military Academy, where he became friendly with Gamal Abdal Nasser and other fellow cadets committed to Egyptian nationalism. A German agent during World War II, he was imprisoned (1942) by the British but escaped after two years in jail. He was again jailed (1946–49) for participating in terrorist acts against pro-British Egyptian officials. Sadat took part in the bloodless coup (1952) that deposed King Farouk. Between 1952 and 1968, he held a variety of government positions, including director of army public relations; secretary-general of the National Union, Egypt's only political party; and president of the national assembly. In 1969 he was chosen to be Nasser's vice president, and after Nasser's death (1970), he succeeded to the presidency. Less charismatic than his predecessor, Sadat was nevertheless able to establish himself as Egypt's strongman and a leader of the Arab world. He assumed the premiership in 1973 and in October of that same year led Egypt into war with Israel. He became an Arab hero when Egyptian troops recaptured a small part of the Sinai Peninsula, taken by the Israelis in 1967. A pragmatist, Sadat indicated his willingness to consider a negotiated settlement with Israel and shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Menachim Begin as a result of the Camp David Accords. He was assassinated by Muslim extremists, who were opposed to his peace initiative with Israel.
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Served: Is Cheese Good for You?
Hannah Howard has worked in several restaurants, but she's made the switch to the grocery side of the industry. She's now a cheesemonger for a small market chain, and will share her experience here.
"It doesn't make any sense. Cheese is fat," he ponders. "Fat free cheese is like meat-free beef!"
"Haven't you been downstairs?" I ask. There are aisles of "meat substitutes." But that's a different story.
Is Cheese Good?
In my book, it doesn't matter if something is healthy if it's not also delicious. Cheese fits the delicious bill.
Or the good stuff, anyway. When customers want to try or buy raw milk Morbier, a bite of its ashy, funky, smoothness always finds its way to my mouth. Same goes for the hay-y, musky Tomme Crayeuse, the butterscotchy Ewephoria sheeps' milk gouda, and the still-warm salty, milky strands of just made mozzarella.
When we're slicing a big wheel or block of industrial cheese—maybe a Wisconsin cheddar, an amply peppercorned pecorino, Havarti with dill—I sometimes think to myself, "What is this stuff, anyway?" and I will endeavor to find out. After spending my days nibbling on cheeses with layers and layers of flavors, these cheeses taste how they look: plasticy, rubbery, and the opposite of appealing.
No surprise for a cheese lover and newly minted cheesemonger to come out as an unabashed cheese snob. But it's not just me, I promise. Even the guys who mop the floors know the good stuff from the regular stuff.
My conclusion: Good cheese is very, very good. I won't waste my money, time, or calories on the rest.
Is Cheese Healthy?
Americans get a hefty dose of their saturated fat (too much) from cheese. We're eating more cheese than ever. But that's "cheese" as in cheese food and cheese product. These foods are a far cry from the original cheeses that monks and moms have been making for centuries from milk and rennet. And this cheesy stuff happens often in enormous doses, melted on pizzas and burgers and tacos. In other words, not the healthiest meals.
My former boss used to say that cheese is the perfect food—that people could live on cheese, apples, and perhaps a bit of wine, and be perfectly nourished. Cheese is indeed a complete protein: it contains the right proportions of amino acids to give our bodies their protein fix. Cheese is bursting with calcium, Vitamin A, and folate.
But cheese is really calorically dense, and full of fat (which our bodies need! But not too much!), and so for this reason scares people concerned about health and weight. The answer is unsexy but: everything in moderation.
This is where great cheese comes in. A little Bianco Sardo shaved on gnocchi or scrambled eggs is enough for a hit of flavor and salt and depth. Some Stinking Bishop smeared on a baguette will give your nose and mouth a big enough bang that you won't need to go back for more.
But I think it's a bit easy to say that quality will kill the urge for quantity. That ripe camembert is begging me to take another bite or three, and four-year gouda exhibits the same addictive quality as chocolate chip cookies.
Is Cheese Good for Me?
After toying with urging: "eat more cheese! enjoy it!" I decided against it. I believe that diet and health are ultimately personal endeavors, and everyone must discover what works best for them. I have no authority to deliver mandates about anyone's cheese consumption but my own. So I set out instead to answer instead: "Is cheese good for me?"
I keep reading about the evils of dairy, which made me question my cheese-loving ways. I eat very little meat, so cheese is a big source of protein for me. More importantly, it makes me happy.
For me, cheesy days are better than cheese-less days. My lunch at work is often something like: a crunchy apple, some cherry tomatoes, ooey Langres or a chunk of cave aged gruyere, and a piece of dark chocolate. This brings my mouth and belly joy, and gives me energy to get through a day wrapping mountains of parmesan.
I have one more week behind the cheese counter, and I intend to spend it reveling in sweet, fresh ricotta and mellow Piave. Maybe after months or years, I'd start to tire from cheese lunches and snacks. But I'll ride the wave for now.
All this cheese consumption has not yet caused any suffering or weight gain or loss of vitality, and I've developed a whole deep appreciation for the exquisite world of great dairy.
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Knicks go cold as Pacers win to take 2-1 series advantage
INDIANAPOLIS - The Knicks thought they rediscovered their offense in Game 2 against Indiana, but they lost it again in the three days between games.
Too many Knicks misses and too many Pacers putbacks led to an 82-71 Indiana win in Game 3 Saturday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The Pacers lead the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals 2-1. Game 4 is Tuesday night here.
"Offensively, we just didn't have anything," Mike Woodson said. "We didn't have any offensive pop for some reason. I've got to figure it out. We just looked slow."
Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points, but shot 6-for-16 for the game and didn't make a basket in the fourth quarter. He needed help and didn't get any. No other Knick reached double figures.
J.R. Smith was slowed by a 102-degree fever that kept him out of the morning shootaround. He played, but was out of rhythm. He finished 4-for-12 with nine points.
The rest of the Knicks weren't under the weather, but collectively they were out of rhythm all night, too. They shot 25-for-71 (35.2 percent).
Amar'e Stoudemire, back from right-knee surgery, played for the first time since March 7. He was 3-for-8 with seven points in nine minutes, and gave the Knicks a lift late in the third quarter. But it wasn't enough.
"I think our problem is we're playing as individuals," said Tyson Chandler, who was badly outplayed by Pacers center Roy Hibbert. "We're getting in there, we're taking our shot, we're forcing our shot. We're playing a lot of one-on-one basketball."
The Pacers actually shot worse than the Knicks (35 percent), but they dominated inside like in Game 1. Indiana outrebounded the Knicks 53-40 and converted 18 offensive boards into 20 points, twice as many as the Knicks.
Hibbert was the leader there for Indiana. The 7-2 center had 24 points and 12 rebounds, including eight on the offensive end. By comparison, Chandler had nine points, five rebounds and just one offensive board.
"Roy got a lot of his stuff just out of pure effort," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "I think this was his best playoff game ever. He's just oozing with confidence."
"I thought he was the best player on the floor tonight," Woodson said.
George Hill added 17 points. David West had 11 points and 12 rebounds and Paul George 14 points, eight boards and eight assists for the Pacers, who trailed just once in the game 13-11, and led the last 39:04.
The Knicks trimmed a 14-point third-quarter deficit to eight with 9:10 remaining in the game. But the Pacers answered with seven consecutive points, the last two on a Hibbert tip-in with 6:46 left to make it 72-57.
"I think we did a good job playing defense but we couldn't limit them to one shot," Chandler said. "They got way too many second-chance opportunities and when we did get the rebounds, we're not making them pay. We're walking the ball up instead of pushing it. We have to make them pay for crashing every time, or they're going to do it."
It became a free-throw game after that, but the Knicks never got the deficit under 11. Neither team scored a basket until a West dunk with 2:50 left that gave Indiana a 77-64 lead. Moments later, a Hill three-pointer made it a 16-point game.
The Knicks trailed 36-33 at the half, but the Pacers went to Hibbert and West more in the third and opened up a 58-44 lead with 3:05 left in the quarter.
Anthony picked up three fouls in a 3:18 stretch while guarding West and Hibbert on a switch and went to the bench with four personals.
Smith and Stoudemire helped keep the Knicks in the game. Smith scored twice inside, and Stoudemire had a tip-in and drilled a three-pointer at the buzzer to bring the Knicks within 62-53 heading to the fourth. But Indiana pulled away in the fourth with the Knicks missing nine of their first 10 shots.
"At the end of the day," Anthony said, "everything comes down to making shots and we didn't do that."
After Anthony brought the Knicks within two with three free throws -- two on a foul and one on a technical -- the Pacers scored eight unanswered and took a 32-22 lead on a West jump shot with 4:51 to go.
The Knicks were fortunate to only be down three at the half since they shot 38.7 percent, committed 10 turnovers and were outrebounded by 11. Indiana was a plus-10 on the offensive boards in the half.
But the Pacers turned it over nine times and shot just 31.9 percent in the first half and missed countless open shots. George Hill made his first two three-pointers, but was 1-for-6 from deep the rest of the half.


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To Rebecca:
You should see a description of what the desensitization kit does when you click on it.
It removes one "dislike" from a family member.
To Miki:
Four years in the game is really not very long. At the beginning of the game, you won't have very much money.
Just enough to keep your people fed and save up for the first upgrade, which I believe is $250. Keep your people working on their careers and they will get promotions and raises. It will start to accumulate as the game progresses. I have a family in the fourth generation (which is close to 250 years) and I'm only just now buying some of the more expensive upgrades.
To xcynicallysweetx:
Because your person was interrupted while trying to put the knob on the shed door, try closing the game and restarting. If it works like previous games by this developer, the know will return to the sandbox for you to pick up again.
To Sue:
The lottery tickets will come as random household events.
To JIGuest:
You need drop the person on the right side of the sink where the cobwebs are.
To Molly:
Marriage propose come in for all generations just like they come for the first generation.
To Kayleigh:
Children start working at age 14, just like they've done in all the Virtual Villagers games.
Hey. I've fixed the hose, I've bought the wall compound and she started repairing the wall. But then I closed the game and when I came back. The wall compound had dried up, so does that mean that I have to keep buying the wall repairing kit until its fixed thoroughly? And does that goes with other kits too?
I had a srange happening with my family. After four kids went to college the father died and the mother was alone with the youngest boy, 10 years old. He was depressed (of course) but was saying constantly: Excited about the new baby! Although his mother was 56. Only some minutes later she died, too. So I had to start a new generation - but what was that with the new baby? Anyone else experienced sth like that?
Twins!! I got twins on my 2nd pregnancy of the 2nd game I started. I didn't have to wait for a 2nd generation of the first family. I'm so excited, not sure why I wanted them so badly but I did . My other family I tried the baby boost etc but then learned on here that you have to wait for the 2nd generation, but nope, it can happen!
To Cyn:
When you praised her for replacing the knob you reset the action. You will find that the knob is back in the sandbox.
This time when you drop your person on the knob don't disturb her. Let her fix the knob without praise. Once this is done you will be able to get the key. Note: You can't get the key untill you fix the knob
Hope that helps
For Health:
Make sure you are buying organics. Also there are multi-vitamins available randomly that can add to health. But the best thing seems to be the treadmill. Make sure to drop them on it at least once and praise. My families that use the treadmill seem to be the healthiest.
For Energy:
A short term solution is the energy drink. Long term, buy the hammock and praise them for resting in it. It helps build energy over time.
One of my peeps is 64! This is the oldest I've managed and his health is good, so fingers crossed!
Best I've managed trophy wise is 77. My first family is now in the 4th generation. I've gotten all the home improvements, now trying to get level 3 upgrades on all the career rooms.
I've been playing this game for a while, so I thought I could help a little.
With the fountain pump, you have to use the part you bought and use it on the birdbath. After that, you need to place an adult on it, then quickly place another, since it's too heavy for just one.
As far as sleeping, you have to leave them alone and close the game, or they'll just keep getting up everytime you open it. That's what I've seen, anyway.
To use the bottles of weather, you just use them on one of your people and they go outside. Their action slot will be blank, they'll go outside, then there will be rainbows, or something like that.
To unclog the shower, I think you need to go into the laundry room and drop your person on the bucket with the plunger. I think if you close out of your game and open it up, though, they go away.
downloaded the newest version of the game last night, and it is soooo much easier to play...energy levels and health stay high most of the time, and the store restocks every 4 hours with useful things. i managed to repair every household thing within 4 hours! i would recommend anyone who has bought this game to go back and upgrade to the newest version if it is available where you downloaded it from!
To LauraMac:
Make sure they aren't sick. That's what usually makes them become weak. Even just a sore throat will reduce their health strength if it's not cured early. After that, you just need to make sure then have plenty of food and give them some time.
To Pam:
For each work cycle completed, they will receive only a small portion of their daily salary. But they perform many work cycles a day, so they'll get their full salary over a period.
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#1--weed problem solved, no need to buy any thing just wait to have a child who is smaller then you use them to pull weed.
#2--there is a trophy for watching movies with the family. where,and how?
#3-- most of the problems of fixing the house or doing chores are self explanitory. just ask yourself what you would do in real life.
I have waded through 4 pages of this site and every third question or so repeats and repeats and repeats. Please read through the pages and look at the spoilers if you have to, it would save the person the heartache of reposting the same info all over again and again.
To Shauna:
They will also sometimes have a giggle party, which is also very cute. :)
To Grinnyp:
Yay about 65! I had one who died at 64. One of my families is a real hoot. There are six kids and they are very active now that energy levels aren't as bad. I praise them when they study and do chores, so they are all good kids! :D
To Ashley:
All jobs will be either in the kitchen, office, or workshop. I've also posted screenshots in the walkthrough section of the specific areas in each room where you need to drop them. My guess for fruit examiners would be the kitchen.
To Zuzana0:
For watching movies, you buy the DVDs in the store and give them to a parent for the family to watch them together. I think three times gets you the trophy.
To Rhonda Pierce:
The lottery ticket shows up as a random event. You have the option of purchasing a lottery ticket. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
i know how to raise their energy levels
drop your person anywhere near but not directly in the kitchen many times or until you read that they're making coffee. praise them twice to make them do this more often. any more and they'll tell you to stop nagging. make them finnish drinking the coffee and you'll see that their energy level will go up. and also, make sure you praised for doing other things first before you praise them for making coffee again or they'll run away.
ps. you can do this as many times as you want. be patient at first though.
I found out a good method to guarantee the gopher trophy. I have 5 families going and tested this on each family. It worked every time but it does take some patience.
Pick a younger child, the younger the better. Keep dropping them until it says "Digging a Hole to China". Praise them and wait for the hole to be dug. Then after they dig the hole pick the same child and keep dropping them on the grass near the gopher hole they dug. Then when it says "Playing in the Lawn" Praise them again.
With an older kid I had to drop them alot more to get the response I wanted. I hope this works for everyone else. I tried once using a different child but it only seems to work if you use the same child for both actions.
To JenTurn:
That's an unusual situation. True, she cannot marry if she refuses to read email. If it's still happening, the only thing I can suggest is that you close the game and restart. If it still happens, you'll probably have to start a new game. Could be that particular little person has a bug in the program.
To Kayce:
To my knowledge, the most current version of Virtual Families is 1.00.05. You can find your version number in the lower left corner of the menu screen.
You don't have to do anything to get the kids to go to college. It happens automatically when the right time comes.
No matter how many times I drop my people near the kitchen, I can'tt get them to make coffee. They are so low on energy all they want to do is sleep. Please help!
[Edit: There has been a new version released that makes the balance of energy much better. You can find your version number in the lower left corner of the menu screen. If it's not 1.00.05, you may want to go back to the site where you purchased the game and download it again. Hopefully, they will have the updated version available. -Pam]
Hey everyone. I know how to speed up the game.
Just simply change the time or even the date of your own computer.
I use it all the time. It helps :)
-melliza :]
[Edit: We strongly advise against changing your computer clock or date. Not only can it ruin the game, but it can also mess up other functions that rely on the computer clock. -Pam]
Try it in the morning. If you can't play in the morning go to the main menu and in options turn day into night. Tired people want coffee and breakfast in the morning.
This works for the grande latte even in the original kitchen too
Try different people 14 or over. Some of my people don't seem to want coffee no matter what.
I like this game. Its a lot less stressful than virtual villagers and tiny details really delight me.
Especially the pet! If i keep disturbing the cat or dog, it'll run away and hide. The pet also likes to follow my little people around and always sits near the dinner table when the family prepares a meal. Very cute. :)
Just a quick question concerning the repairs. I have only gotten the wall repair kit to come up in the store once and never have gotten the repair kits for the floors or bird bath. I've been playing long enough for one of the kids to go to college. This is getting a little boring waiting for money, kits and so on. Anyone know anything about the kits? Thanks for your help!
To Nikki:
I have been playing for 3 days with 2 families and I have not seen wall repair kits and only 2 floor repair kits (for two families you need 6). You just have to be patient I think and spend that time trying to get trophies.
Also if you are fooling with the computer clock it messes up the store and will not refresh properly.
[Edit: We strongly advise against changing the computer clock. Not only can it ruin your game, it can also mess up other functions that rely on the computer clock. -Pam]
This is how I get the energy levels up:
I check on them before bed and get them all in bed then I turn off the game. (If you keep watching they will keep getting up.)
I check back in the morning and when I turn off the game to go to work myself I change the option to turn day into night so they sleep again.
I have 5 families in their 2nd generation and I have only gotten a lottery ticket once so I guess patience is key here.
Now for my own question:
I know how to put out a fire but in order to get the trophy .... how do I start one?
Like I said 5 families 2nd generation and only 1 oven fire and this was before I knew about the shed :(((
To Claire:
Here is a screenshot of cleaning cobwebs:
To Jaymee:
There's nothing to do about a vacation. She's just making conversation.
To Karp:
I had that very thing happen. The husband was left alone at age 37. He never received another marriage proposal and never got an adoption. I did, however, get him a cat. He lived another 20 years, then my game was over with nobody to take over the house.
To Nikki502:
The items for repairs can take a long time to come around. Just be patient.
To Anita:
You can't start fires. Just wait and another one will come eventually.
To Vinay:
There are three working areas: office, kitchen, and workshop. Yours may only use the office, but many other careers use the kitchen and workshop.
First I adopted a lady and then she got married at the age of 29. After a year she had a baby girl at around 30. After that I tried so many times to make another baby but they never agreed and even if they did there was no baby born. Now she just turned 50 years old. On her birthday, I just tried to put them together just to see if they agreed but I wasn't really hoping since she turned 50 already. But guess what? She just had another baby girl at the age of 50!! I don't know, I just find it kinda funny since she has all grey hairs and all.....but I'm still loving the game!!
I just started to play Virtual Families and I have been having a couple of problems. I would like to know what Game Site has the updated version and I my people are not earning what they should be. Instead of a $105.00 it registers $1.05. I really like this game so please help asap!!!!
[Edit: CasualGameplay.com has the latest version available (v1.0.5) as of the time/date of this comment. -Jay]
Just a little fun information. My family had 4 children. The oldest just went off to college so thought I would put mom and dad together for a try at another baby.... they argued at first not able to agree on having a baby it said...kept putting them together and guess what??? got twins and got trophy for having 6 children.....this is cute
Yes my chars only get 1.05 instead of 105.00, too. They really need to change the money thing as it's so hard to upgrade in this game. Also, for those of you who don't know this, you can get double the money for the collectibles by putting two people down on the coin, nut, etc. Just drop one then another right after. So move them near the thing to be picked up then drop them. Instead of getting 5 you get 10 or 50 you get 100.00 and so on.
For everyone who is concerned about money:
Say, for example, your person has a salary of $60 per day. When you watch them work and hear the *ching* sound when they earn money, they are actually receiving 1/100 of their salary at that moment. The game doles out the salary over a period of time. You don't get it all at once when a work cycle completes. It accumulates constantly as the game is running as long as your people work on their careers steadily.
When first starting your family, you won't have a lot of money to splurge. But you will have plenty to buy groceries and start on the inexpensive upgrades (gradually). This is a long term game and it can take a couple of generations or more before you can purchase things like the treadmill and pinball machine.
Your people will get raises and promotions which will make it easier to buy more things. Some careers pay more than others, so those little people will naturally have more money to spend.
Please understand that it's not a problem when you see only 60 cents added to your bank balance. Be a little patient and enjoy the game. It's all part of virtual life. :)
To Tammy:
I haven't seen anything like that. I've seen them change careers and take a cut in pay, but not when they get a promotion in the same job. It might be a bug.
To Meme:
According to the developers of the game, they have released the updated version of the game to all of the game sites that are selling it. If you've already purchased the game, you need to go back to the site where you purchased it and download the updated version on top of your existing version. The most current version is 1.00.05.
To Becky:
Oh yes! I've had that happen a few times in my families. The kids look alike, but don't look like the parents! It's really funny.
To Becky:
Take a look at this screenshot of my family tree, showing three generations of kids that look alike! :D


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I read this post: "Bad Facts About The USA".
It says that the United States, Lesotho, Swaziland and New Guinea are the only countries in the world not to mandate paid leave for mothers of newborns. There are other labour laws, like paid vacation or paid sick days that employers don't need to pay.
I did a little research and discovered these things are true. But what does this mean in practice?
Is it normal for companies to pay these things for their employees? But if I want to pay less than possible to my employee, I can legally do it? I don't know the reality in the United States, but this makes me believe that work in a low income job in the USA might have less benefits than China. I'm trying to imagine how a job in a McDonald's restaurant is.
Have workers tried to change this? Did they try in the past or are they trying today?
What is the historical reason that the United States is today the only developed country like this?


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Craig runs into Lily at the Lakeview. She doesn't want to talk to him. He apologizes for everything that happened. She's not interested, tips him off about the wedding and tells him not to show up.
I'm Tired Of Kissing Frogs.
Jack and Carly's wedding day, Parker worries about telling his father something, Rosanna returns and Craig lurks.
At the farm house, Jack thanks Dusty for donating champagne to the wedding party. Dusty jokes that it's in his best interest that this marriage work out. After Dusty leaves, Janet tells Jack that she's in a good place and she's glad he's marrying Carly. They both think they deserve to be happy. He regrets that he hurt her and then begs the baby not to come until he's back from his honeymoon.
At home, Parker is nervous and Will tries to reassure him about the wedding. Parker admits that he has to talk to his dad about something important and hopes he'll be pre-occupied enough not to freak out about it. Faith shows up and Parker tries to get rid of her, telling her that she shouldn't have told Janet about Liberty getting into FIT.
Molly runs into Holden in Old Town. They discuss how odd it is to see each other and talk about the wedding. Lily wanders over and everyone is polite.
Parker goes to see his father at the farm house. Sage calls and asks her dad to pick her up. Jack rushes off. Will asks Parker what's up. Parker wants to tell his dad that he's not going to college. Will thinks that's a bad idea.
Gwen brings Carly breakfast in her bed. Carly's nauseous and tries to drink her tea. Gwen explains that she has a surprise for her and gets her to close her eyes. She brings Rosanna in. Carly is shocked when she sees her. The sisters catch up and Rosanne tells Carly how lucky she is to have a guy like Jack. "I'm tired of kissing frogs," she says. Carly says Jack's no prince but he's perfect for her. She asks Rosanna and Gwen to be her bridesmaids. Janet shows up to drop off a gift and wishes Carly all the best. She asks for the number where she will be staying in case she goes into labor. Carly asks her not to call unless she has to. Janet gets snippy and walks off. Carly looks at her compass and then asks her friends to give her some time alone. She runs off. Gwen and her sister start looking for her and worry that she's run off. Jack and Sage show up. The women explain that they don't know where Carly went.
Gabriel bumps into Rosanna and he explains that he used to work for her sister. After they chat, he walks off.
Craig runs into Gabriel in Java and thanks him for tipping him off about Lucinda. Things soften between them but it's awkward. Craig wishes they could try to get to know each other. Gabriel tells him he has to go to the wedding and he doesn't let his father turn that into an invitation to the ceremony.
Carly goes down to the water with her compass. She remembers when Jack gave it to her and accidentally drops it in the water. Jack finds her sobbing and reachs in for the compass. He reaches in the water and can't find it. He tells her it's not the end of the world and they don't need it anymore. "I hope you enjoy this wedding because it's the last one we're going to have," he says. They kiss.
Holden and Lily go home and find Faith pouting. She thinks no one wants her at the wedding so she doesn't want to go. Her parents tell her to put her personal issues aside. Her dad asks her to go for him.
Janet goes to see Dusty and tells him that she just did something stupid. She gives him the whole story about going to see Carly. She wishes that she hadn't snapped at her and been petty. As she complains, Dusty laughs and reminds her that Carly will always be part of her life.
They go to the honeymoon cabin and begin decorating. He gets nervous when she climbs a ladder. He gets up to do it and suddenly spasms before collapsing. She helps him up and worries about him but he's fine and announces they should leave for the wedding. Suddenly, she goes into labor.
Jack takes Carly to the farm house where her maids are waiting with her wedding dress. After he leaves, the ladies show Carly that they each have a flower for her to carry down the aisle. She makes them promise to always stay in her life. Lily arrives with a gift and tells Carly that she's sorry for not listening to her about Craig.
Jack meets with his party in the garden. He tells Will that his father would be proud of him and then teases Holden and tells Parker he's the best son in the world. They talk about what a hard year it has been but Jack is sure that this will mark the beginning of good things. Lily arrives and Parker goes off to find Faith. Carly and her party arrive. She looks around nervously. He reminds her that they've done this before.
Rosanna spots Craig heading to the wedding and chases him down. He insists that he's not there to make trouble; he just wants closure and swears to behave himself. Gabriel and Liberty arrive. He spots his father and assumes his being there can't be good. Rosanna walks over to the bride and groom and asks if she should throw Craig out. Jack says Craig can't cause any trouble.
Next on As The World Turns:
Carly and Jack are married.
Craig gets drunk.
Margo tells Parker's parents he wants to be a cop.
Jack and Carly discover Janet going into labor.
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Hello Guys,
I'm a native English speaker, and in fact write semi-regularly with my job (some would say rather well). But there is one question I have reguarding using semi-colons in lists when the individual items in the list contain commas.
The sentence I am writing (for my narrative resume) is this:
"In this capacity I was responsible for: writing a generic grant proposal for the organization, which brought in more than $50,000 for [organization name removed]; securing construction materials for our volunteer construction teams, managed through a partnership with [removed]; solicited construction volunteers, liaised with the media on the behalf of [removed[, created a..."
My question is, when writing a list (normally separated by commas) where one of the list items contains a comma ("securing construction materials for our volunteer construction teams, managed through a partnership with [removed];) do you then separate the other items in the list with a semi-colon, regardless of whether or not there are commas in the items?
In the example above, there are two items in the list that contain commas. The others do not but are separated by commas. If I don't use semi-colons on all of them, it looks looks as though the remaining items are part of a single complex item in the list, as well.
Any advice?
This is one thing I cannot recall from English 101 in college...
Yes, once you need to use a semi-colon because one item in the list has an internal comma, you continue to use the semi-colon to separate all of the items in the list.
You may find that if you did have only one item that needed the comma (not true in your example), you might prefer to re-order the elements, separating them with commas and then putting the complex one after an "as well as."
So: a, which included b; c, which involved d; e, although not f; g; h; and i.
a, b, c, and d, as well as e, which involved f.
Edit: Oh, and welcome to Using English!
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.


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Whether you're visiting family or just trying to escape the
cold, millions of travelers are flocking to the nation's busiest airports
beginning Thanksgiving week.
And, many of them are going to be hungry.
A new report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine (PCRM) aims to help travelers eat healthy. The nonprofits' 13th annual
Airport Food Review looks at the restaurant menus for eateries at 18 of the 30
busiest U.S. airports.
The last place-airport on his list had only 50 percent of
its restaurants offer healthy options, including immunity-boosting vegetables,
fruits, whole grains, and legumes. The healthiest major airport in the country
had at least one healthy option at 85 percent of its restaurants.
From last to first, here are the airports with the
healthiest fare for fliers.
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The world's busiest airport ranked last on the committee's
list for the third year in a row: Only 53 of its 103 eateries offer healthy
Best bets may include Fresh Healthy Cafe for its fresh kale
wraps, and dairy- and gluten-free salads and smoothies. Or people can try the garden
mint sushi at One Flew South or the D8 Grill for a black bean burger, among
other options.
Score: 51 percent healthy
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It hasn't been a great year for this airport's healthy fare. Las Vegas dropped from second place in 2012 to 12th for 2013's list.
Some healthy choices include Pei Wei's Hunan vegetable
lettuce wraps, Sammy's Beach Bar's mixed greens beach salad topped with
portobello mushrooms, or veggie burritos from establishments including Baja
Fresh, Don Alejandro's Texan Grill, Jose Cuervo Tequileria and Moe's Southwest
Score: 68 percent healthy
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Falling three spots this year is North Carolina's major
There are some healthy options though, says PCRM, including the Dakota Pea Soup at Taste of Carolina Bar, the Pitt Stop Veggie Burger at
the Stock Car Cafe and the steamed veggie Buddhist Bowl at Genghis Grill.
Score: 70 percent healthy
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Miami International Airport drops from fifth to 10th for the
2013 rankings.
PCRM points out healthy options include a new restaurant
named Counter, which serves a bean-filled burger that goes on a bun and a salad
with more than 21 fresh vegetable toppings. Casa Bacardi has coconut mango salads
and fresh fruit plates, or hungry travelers can try Cafe Versailles and order its mixed greens topped with
beans, rice and sweet plantains.
Score: 71 percent healthy
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Another Florida airport is tied for 10th on PCRM's healthy fare rankings.
Travelers to Orlando can opt for cannellini bean bruschetta
and roasted veggie wraps with lemon hummus at McCoy's Bar & Grill. Brioche
Doree lets you build a meal-sized salad with your choice with veggies, grains,
nuts and beans as well.
Minneapolis dropped slightly from eighth to ninth place in
2013. PCRM flags its French Meadow Bakery and Cafe (pictured) for having creative health
foods like roasted beet and pear salad and grilled tempeh reubens. If you're
feeling Japanese fare, Taste of Shoyu has healthy meals like wild the mushroom
soba bowl.
Score: 72 percent healthy
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If you're traveling down South to this major airport, PCRM
recommends you hit up Lefty's Lonestar Grill for veggie burgers and salads, or Mango
Taco Truck for squash tacos and fresh mango slices. Zpizza offers a Mediterranean
plate and Yuppie Veggie Sandwich that passed the committee's review.
Score: 73 percent healthy
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Newark loses plummeted from first to seventh place after
losing some of its healthier options.
Travelers should seek out Smashburger's Harvest Salad or
swing by the Garden State Diner for its signature veggie triple decker -- but
you should hold the cheese, says PCRM. Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen offers
spaghetti, steamed veggies and fresh salads too.
Score: 74 percent healthy
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San Francisco rose three spots on this year's list.
Plant Cafe and Pinkberry have more than a dozen healthy
options, says the nonprofit. Other options include the portobello burger at
Legends of San Francisco or unique BLT from Brewing Company, which contains
bean sprouts, lettuce and tomato.
Score: 76 percent healthy
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The fourth busiest airport in the country moved up two spots
on the 2013 list.
Looking for healthy fare while traveling? Urban Taco and
Cantina Laredo offer a variety of veggie-packed tacos, tostada salads and
burritos, according to PCRM. Cousin's Bar-B-Q and Ill Forks offer their
own spins on veggie plates.
Score: 79 percent healthy
PCRM says travelers can eat healthy and not go hungry if
they snack on Brussels sprouts or kale salad from Chelsea's Kitchen, chickpea
lettuce wraps from La Grande Orange or a healthy burrito bowl from the
trans fat-free Sir Veza's Taco Garage.
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BWI rose from 10th place to fourth this year.
Healthy options include the Silver Diner's (pictured) portobello
vegetarian stir-fry or hearty autumn veggie chili. Travelers can also stop by
the Chesapeake Cafe or Rams Head Tavern for fresh cut greens and seaweed salad.
Score: 80 percent healthy
National Airport is was the most improved this year, moving
up from 11th place on the 2012 report.
For healthy options, there's the Asian peanut-tofu wrap from
Euro Café, a cup of Moroccan lentil soup or Smart Fit salad from Cosi. Stop
by National Airport Grill for a grilled vegetable entrée made with squash,
zucchini, and baked eggplant, says PRCM.
Pictured here is the Mediterranean vegetable sandwich from Potbelly.
Score: 83 percent healthy
LAX ranks as the third healthiest and busiest airport in the
country, impressive considering the airport was 10th place in last
year's healthy rankings.
At LAX, you can try the soba noodles with kimchi-marinated
vegetables at Lemonade restaurant. Or, head to Encounter Restaurant for a
California market salad with sides of steamed bok choy, asparagus, and
butternut squash puree. Homeboy Cafe offers hibiscus flower tacos, stuffed with
serrano peppers and cilantro, and dishes out guacamole with grilled pineapples
instead of corn chips.
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Chicago ties for second on the healthiest airport list.
O'Hare has plenty of options for a fresh salad, including
Zoot Cafe, Fresh Attractions, or Farmers Market.
The chili at Goose Island Beer Company or veggie roll,
edamame and seaweed salad at Wicker Park Sushi (pictured) are among the best options,
according to the report.
Score: 85 percent healthy
Detroit moved up one spot this year to tie with Chicago's
major airport.
Feel free to indulge on a veggie wrap at Slapshotz or stop
by Hockeytown Cafe for a variety of green options, including the Michigan salad
topped with Traverse City dried cherries.
Denver flew from ninth place to first for this year's
rankings -– the first time Denver has topped PCRM's rankings since 2003.
Best options include a Colorado Sunshine Wrap at Itza Wrap!
Itza Bowl! (pictured), or the barley burger at Boulder Beer Tap House. City Wok offers a
hot vegetable entrée, including Tofu-Edamame, while Woody Creek Bakery Café offers
hearty vegetable soups, fresh salads, and roma tomato paninis.
Score: 86 percent healthy


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President Bush is in Brazil today causing a ruckus, creating traffic jams, and hanging out at at a mega fuel depot touting the new biofuels agreement between Brazil and the USA. Brazil is the world's largest single producer of ethanol, making theirs from sugary cane instead of corn. While chumming around with Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bush said he wants to promote the trade of ethanol as a world commodity, but has no interest in lifting the 54-cent a gallon tariff on the ethanol already coming to the USA from Brazil. Conspiracy theorists and Senators are already grumbling about the formation of an OPEC-style ethanol and biofuels cartel.
Bush Hails Biofuels Pact in Brazil [SFgate.com]; Senators Harumph Over US-Brazil Ethanol Deal [Truthabouttrade.com]
Jalopnik Does Math Good: A Corny State Of The Union Address?; State Of The Union Schadenfreude: Bush's Big Wood...Chips


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Friday, May 28, 2010
More 'framed ink', ...and a ghost house!
So, three pieces before the weekend:
.The two in black and white are still from 'framed ink'.
.The color piece is an illustration I did years ago for a project my friend Aksel Studsgarth put together in his Copenhagen based company, Ghost VFX. The designs were about an abandoned house, exterior and interior. This one is from the kitchen, with all its 30's appliances and details. Fun film to work for!
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
FRAMED INK (book coming out, soon!)
'Design Studio Press' is going to present my book this coming San Diego ComiCon (end of July), and in bookstores and online at the beginning of September this year (available for pre-order in Amazon now). It's called "FRAMED INK, drawing and composition for visual storytellers", quite a self explanatory title :)
128 pages, 230 black and white illustrations (some posted here today and a few more to follow) as well as many diagrams, with text explaining all the thinking process behind the art, exploring the areas of visual storytelling for both film and graphic novel (with all its similarities -and- differences) using light and many other devices to deliver the effect a shot or sequence require, plus thumbnails on the lighting and dynamics used in each example.
Thanks again to everyone that has generously supported the making of this book, and I hope everyone that gets a copy will have as good a time going through its pages as I did working on it!
Mi libro 'FRAMED INK, drawing and composition for visual storytellers' (titulo que define bien el contenido :) todo en ingles de momento) se va a presentar a finales de Julio en el ComiCon de San Diego (por 'Design Studio Press'), ha sido un año de mucho trabajo pero al final la criatura echara a andar dentro de poco en librerias, y online a traves de Amazon, en donde ya esta disponible para reservarlo.
128 paginas que contienen 230 ilustraciones en blanco y negro y 166 diagramas, con texto explicando en detalle el proceso de creacion de cada uno de estos ejemplos que analizan como componer imagenes con el proposito de narrar historias.
Se exploran los campos de la narrativa visual para cine y novela grafica (con todas sus similitudes -y- diferencias) usando iluminacion y muchas otras herramientas para transmitir los efectos tanto visuales como psicologicos que la escena o la secuencia requieren, asi como esquemas que sintetizan dicho uso de la iluminacion y lineas de dinamismo en cada uno de estos ejemplos.
El capitulo de novela grafica complementa todo ello hablando de las particularidades propias del campo.
Desde aqui gracias de nuevo a toda la gente que ha mostrado su interes y apoyo a este libro, y espero que los que lo lean se lo pasen tan bien como yo me lo he pasado trabajando en el!
Un saludo.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Now we are getting serious
Don't we all know how it feels when a secret agent sends us out on a dangerous, undercover, mission? Well, ...we are there with you one hundred percent young lady!! (Go get 'em tiger)
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Sunday, May 09, 2010
Renaissance 2010
That time of the year again!. Good old Irvine here we come.
The Renaissance Faire once more in all its cool craziness, heat, fun, noise and dust. As my fiancee Alfie was saying, by the time we were leaving we were 'one with the ground, the only difference was that we were not being stepped on'.
Couldn't be more right!
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Monday, May 03, 2010
And the chat goes on... + Vikings in the storm
Somehow Miss Trouble got herself into an SUV with two secret service agents, and being demanded to do a lot of explaining.
The storyboard was an idea for the opening of 'Axterix and the Vikings'. The longship caught in the middle of a terrible storm, appearing and disappearing behind the huge waves, all of it spiced up with a lot of blinding lightning.
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The second season of "Jersey Shore" will kick things off in Miami before the crew heads back to Seaside Heights – but according to the New York Post, the return's not entirely by choice.
"No one wants them to tape here," a source told the newspaper. "They went to the W Hotel the other night and got rejected. They were also refused by the Delano, Shore Club and the Mondrian."
Is Miami a fist-pump-free zone? Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Jenni "J-WOWW " Farley, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and the rest of the cast have been spotted out and about in the Florida hotspot over the last few weeks, but according to the Post, they're not winning over new fans.
"Mike Sorrentino and 'Pauly D' DelVecchio pulled up in a black Escalade with New York plates at 9:30 Thursday morning blasting house music and parking in a 30-minute loading space in front of David's Cafe," another source told the paper. "Dozens of locals were standing in line for their morning coffees . . . prompting them to roll their eyes and whisper to each other, 'When do they leave?'"
Fans will find out how the stars do in their new locale when the show returns on July 29 – one thing's for sure, Seaside Height's Karma will be happy to have them back.
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We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow-citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations...will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done.
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
The "wrong this day done" to which Justice Harlan referred was the 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Homer Adolph Plessy, an African American, had boarded a train in New Orleans and seated himself in a "whites-only" car. When he refused to move, he was arrested for violating the "Jim Crow Car Act of 1890." The incident led to the Supreme Court case in which all but Justice Harlan voted against Plessy, affirming the right of states to enact segregation laws. The "separate but equal" ruling set the stage for the rampant racial discrimination that followed in the Deep South.
In many cities and towns, African Americans were not allowed to share a taxi with whites or enter a building through the same entrance. They had to drink from separate water fountains, use separate restrooms, attend separate schools, and even swear on separate Bibles and be buried in separate cemeteries. They were excluded from restaurants and public libraries. Many parks barred them with signs that read "Negroes and dogs not allowed." One municipal zoo went so far as to list separate visiting hours.
Voting rights discrimination was widespread. In Tennessee, as the Justice Department's John Doar discovered on a self-appointed tour of rural Haywood County, black sharecroppers were being evicted by white farmers for trying to vote. In Mississippi, names of new voter applicants had to be published in local newspapers for two weeks before acceptance, and voters had the right to object to an applicant's "moral character." Black applicants, many of whom were illiterate or poorly educated, were also required to pass literacy tests and to interpret sections of the state constitution to the satisfaction of the registrars. These tests were not applied to illiterate whites. In Alabama, many registration centers were only open two days a month; voting registrars often arrived late and took long lunch hours. In 1957 the town of Tuskegee gerrymandered black residents outside the city limits to make them ineligible to vote. In nearby Macon County, voter registration boards used discriminatory practices such as these to limit the number of eligible black voters:
·holding black applicants to a higher standard of accuracy than whites;
Some counties in the Deep South resorted to harsher means of preventing local blacks from voting. They jailed black applicants and firebombed places where voter education classes had been conducted, such as Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County, Georgia. They threatened, beat, and in some cases, murdered black applicants.
Southern blacks who resisted segregation, particularly those in rural areas, lived in constant fear--fear of their employers, who vowed to fire them; fear of white "citizens' councils," who adopted policies of economic reprisal against demonstrators; and fear of white vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan, who exerted an often-unchecked reign of terror across the South, where lynching of African Americans was a common occurrence and rarely prosecuted. Nearly 4,500 African Americans were lynched in the United States between 1882 and the early 1950s.


text: WavPack 4.41 beta available 2007-02-10 05:01:35 I have been working on speed enhancements for WavPack and think I have made enough progress to justify a release. The improvement seems to vary quite a bit on different systems, but I couldn't find a system where this didn't make some improvement (even a few percent) and on some systems (like my old 1.7 GHz P4) it is significant. The improvements apply to both packing and unpacking stereo files. Note that this is still pure C; there is no hand-coded assembler.This also includes the MMX code (via intrinsics) from Joachim Henke. Unfortunately, this only seems to provide an improvement for bitdepths over 16, so it's restricted to that for now (although it does make a nice improvement for 24-bit or IEEE float data). Regarding MMX support, is that ubiquitous enough now that programs simply use it without checking for it? Since WavPack now requires Windows 98, it is reasonable to assume that any computer running Windows 98 also has MMX?A bug has been fixed that sometimes caused a crash if a metadata source file specified on the command-line was not found, but otherwise this release only involves optimization. The output files should always be bit-identical to 4.40 regardless of the mode. This code hasn't been checked in to SVN and I haven't tested it on Linux, but that will come shortly.Many thanks to the WavPack users and also thanks in advance for any comparison testing done on this new version, which can be found here.David


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"AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL" � (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET)
"The Girls Who Crawl" (Content Rating TBD)
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS GUEST STARS � Tyra surprises the girls and gives them an in-depth lesson about how to model in front of a moving camera. One model continues to get jealous and be very critical of her competition. Later, the girls are greeted by music video director Jesse Terrero and find out that they are going to participate in a music video with Enrique Iglesias. During the shoot one model from exhaustion collapses. Special guests include, video director Jesse Terrero and video producer Billy Parks (#907).


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a Puritan prayer
One of my favorite devotionals is The Valley of Vision: a collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions (edited by Arthur Bennett). I found this prayer from the book on another site so thought I'd share it.
Confession and Petition
Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Thy mind in Thy Word, of neglect to seek Thee in my daily life. My transgressions and short-comings
present me with a list of accusations, but I bless Thee that they will not stand against me, for all have been laid on Christ. Go on to subdue my corruptions, and grant me grace to live above them. Let not the passions of the flesh nor lustings of the mind bring my spirit into subjection, but do Thou rule over me in liberty and power.
I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused. I have asked amiss and do not have, I have prayed from lusts and been rejected, I have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness. Go on with Thy patient work, answering 'no' to my wrongful prayers, and fitting me to accept it. Purge me from every false desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to Thy rule. I thank Thee for Thy wisdom and Thy love, for all the acts of discipline to which I am subject, for sometimes putting me into the furnace to refine my gold and remove my dross.
No trial is so hard to bear as a sense of sin. If Thou shouldst give me choice to live in pleasure and keep my sins, or to have them burnt away with trial, give me sanctified affliction. Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee. Then I shall bless Thee, God of jeshurun, for helping me to be upright.
John Piper's prayer for Japan
found via Tim Challies' blog
Here is Piper's prayer for Japan:
Father in heaven, you are the absolute Sovereign over the shaking of the earth, the rising of the sea, and the raging of the waves. We tremble at your power and bow before your unsearchable judgments and inscrutable ways. We cover our faces and kiss your omnipotent hand. We fall helpless to the floor in prayer and feel how fragile the very ground is beneath our knees.
O God, we humble ourselves under your holy majesty and repent. In a moment—in the twinkling of an eye—we too could be swept away. We are not more deserving of firm ground than our fellowmen in Japan. We too are flesh. We have bodies and homes and cars and family and precious places. We know that if we were treated according to our sins, who could stand? All of it would be gone in a moment. So in this dark hour we turn against our sins, not against you.
And we cry for mercy for Japan. Mercy, Father. Not for what they or we deserve. But mercy.
Have you not encouraged us in this? Have we not heard a hundred times in your Word the riches of your kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not a thousand times withhold your judgments, leading your rebellious world toward repentance? Yes, Lord. For your ways are not our ways, and your thoughts are not our thoughts.
Grant, O God, that the wicked will forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Grant us, your sinful creatures, to return to you, that you may have compassion. For surely you will abundantly pardon. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus, your beloved Son, will be saved.
May every heart-breaking loss—millions upon millions of losses—be healed by the wounded hands of the risen Christ. You are not unacquainted with your creatures' pain. You did not spare your own Son, but gave him up for us all.
In Jesus you tasted loss. In Jesus you shared the overwhelming flood of our sorrows and suffering. In Jesus you are a sympathetic Priest in the midst of our pain.
Deal tenderly now, Father, with this fragile people. Woo them. Win them. Save them.
And may the floods they so much dread make blessings break upon their head.
O let them not judge you with feeble sense, but trust you for your grace. And so behind this providence, soon find a smiling face.
In Jesus' merciful name, Amen.
A Prayer about Jesus Longing to Be Gracious to Us February 14, 2011, | Scotty Smith
(from: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/scottysmith/2011/02/14/a-prayer-about-jesus-longing-to-be-gracious-to-us/)
This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.' Therefore you will flee! You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.' Therefore your pursuers will be swift! A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill." Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! - Isaiah 30:15-18
Scotty Smith's "Heavenward" blog
Tim Challies has posted some good prayers he found on this blog: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/scottysmith/
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Snail mail, Books &
Reading, Christian, and Miscellaneous sites that I like &/or am challenged
(Those with a ♥ or + I try to check at least once or twice each week.)
1) Snail Mail Blogs:
♥ Letter Matters
(Mrs. Duffy's blog)
♥ Sharing Doubles the
Joy/Carol Ann
McCarthy (if link
doesn't open try her
home page & then
click on "blog")
♥ Dosanko Debbie's
Etegami Notebook
♥ Everyday Should Be a
Red Letter Day
♥ Letter Writers Alliance
♥ Winnie's Girl ----> Pie
- The Suburban Pen
- Cappuccino & Art
- Stamp of Approval --->
USPS Stamps
- Your Postal Blog
- Sarah's Scribblings
- East...West...
- Leigh Reyes's Blog
~ My Life as a Verb
- Letters & Journals
- Save Snail Mail
- Scribbling Glue
- Songs in the Key of
Ink: The Art of
Personal Letter Writing
- Bywater Wisdom ("or
lack thereof+)
- 365 Letters
- Oh, Write Me!
- Billet Doux & Little
- Mrs Murphy's
Mailbox Magic!
- The Postman's Knock
♥ The Lost Art of
Letter Writing . . .
♦ The Jane Austen
Letter Writing
Society (sounds like fun)
- US Zip Codes lookup
& map
♦ More links on Mail-
Art & Letter-writing
Resources page
- My DIYJapanese-
style envelope
tutorial and template
2) Books & Reading:
+ Books & Chocolate
- Lit Lovers site & Blog
- Rated Reads
- Compass Book
♥ Redeemed Reader
♥ Gospel e-books
(Kindle deals)
* Kindle Price Drop
- Inspired Reads
(Kindle deals)
- Pixel of Ink (Kindle
- Christian Novels blog
- Shelf Awareness
- Books & Chocolate
(Cindy's) ~ defunct(?)
- The Republic of
- Deborah Yaffe's blog
(author of Among the
- The Jane Austen
Society of North
- Jane Austen's World
- JASNA: Greater
Sacramento, CA
- My Jane Austen Book
- AustenProse
- Jane Austen Today
- Jane Austen in
- Central Valley Jane
Austen Society
- Austen Authors (for
readers who "need
more Austen")
- The Gaskell Web
- Mental Multivitamin -> now called Nerdishly
- A Literary Odyssey
- Across the Page
- 5 Minutes for Books
& What's on Your
- Journey-&-
- Windows & Mirrors:
sisters reading books
- Christian Bookshelf
- The Indextrious
- LiterariTea
- Becky's Book Reviews
and Operation
Actually Read Bible
- Smoke & Mirrors (&
her Borders Bookclub)
- Great New Books
♥ A Great Book
Study (was originally called
An Experiment with the Well-
Educated Mind)
♥ Semicolon: Books We
Must Have Though
We Lack Bread
- The Captive Reader
♥ Reading to Know
- A Living Pencil
+ Worthwhile Books
+ Reading Ladies Book
- Hope is in the Word
- Book Nut
- Sarah Clarkson (Sally
Clarkson's daughter)
- Mollie Reads (9/2018)
- No Thanks We're
Booked (9/2018)
♥ Country Girls Read
- Southern Girl Reads
- Books & Things (Katie
- Stuck in a Book
- Yummy Books
- A Large Cup of Tea
- In the Bookcase
- The Sunny Patch
- Fanda Classiclit
- Lost in a Great Book
- Classical Carousel
YA & Kid's Lit:
- Trelease on Reading
(author of The Read Aloud
♥ Read Aloud Revival (blog,
podcast & more) Sept.'16
- The Planet Esme Plan:
The Best New Children's Books
from Esmé's Shelf ~ not
Christian so use discernment,
but she does have lots of good
kid's books listed
- Plumfield and Paideia
- After Thoughts (new May'17)
- Story Warren (Allies in
- The Rabbit Room
- The Midnight Garden
- The Book Smugglers
- Reading Addicts (UK)
- Becky's Book Addiction
- Dickensblog
- AustenBlog
- Book Sale Finder
- Oxford Dictionaries
- GoodReads
- Shelfari ~ Amazon has
combined it with
GoodReads so they're
now one and the same :(
- the Barbara Pym Society
- BronteBlog
- Inspired by Life...&
- Jamie Langston Turner
- Julie Klassen's site
- Sarah Sundin's blog
- Tricia Goyer's site...&
her Blog
- Francine Rivers'
- Kristy Cambron's
- Joanne Bischof's
- "The Grove" (where story
finds a home) & also on
- Katherine Reay's
- BookSnob
- Mocha with Linda
- Reading with Tea
- Project Gutenberg
- The Online Books Page
- Read Central
- Page by Page Books
- Bookpeople of Moscow
- free book sites/public
domain sources
- Eldritch Press
- Digital Book Index
- Google books
- Internet Archive: Million
- Internet Archive:
Children's library
♥ LibriVox
- The Chronicles of
Narnia podcasts
* Oxford English Online
Dictionary (US)
* Grammar Girl
- My ever expanding TBR
- My Books read list
♦ more links on Books &
Reading page
3) Miscellaneous:
♥ The Pioneer
- All Things Bright and
Beautiful --> moved
- The Good Life
- Beth's Favorite
- Carlsbad Cravings
(her recipes look
- Budget Bytes
- Add a Pinch
- Three Many Cooks
- Good Cheap Eats
- Hurst Bean Blog
- DaVita's Kidney-
Friendly Recipes
(we still make - & love! - quite
a few of these recipes)
- My Double Life
- Felt & Wire
- Susan Branch blog
- The Matt Walsh blog
- Tony Reinke (author of
- Laughing With Lizzie
- Jane Austen's World
- Make Do and Mend
- Down to Earth
- Rosie's Ramblings
- Creekside Cottage (Mrs.
Rabe's blog)
- ScribblePreach
- Campaign for Cursive
- (another) Campaign
for Cursive
+ StoneGable
- Fresh Eggs Daily
- Living Homegrown
♥ Living on Less Money
+ The (Mostly) Simple
+ Prairie Home Therapy
- My cup runneth over
- Imperfectly Happy
- Home Ready Home
- This Simple Home ---
-> Simple Everyday
- The Frugal Girls:
Living Well with less $$$
- Spendwise Moms
- Money Saving Mom
- Living Well, Spending
- Melissa K Norris ~
Inspiring Your Faith &
Pioneer Roots
- Thrifty Jane Austen
- Reluctant Entertainer
- Lehman's (great
- Thriving Home
- Letters from Midlife
♥ Cakes, Tea and
- Karen's Bookshelves ~ (added August 2015 ~
books reviews from a
Christian perspective)
- The Vicar's Wife
- The Cross & the
Kitchen Sink (defunct?)
- The Green
- Stray Thoughts
- Kayla's Lifestyle Blog
♥ Coffee, Tea, Books &
+ Cottage Life on
Pilgrim's Farm ~ on hiatus
+ Georgia, Plain and
+ Modern Mrs. Darcy
- Not Quite Amish
- Nesting Place
- Finding North (lots of
BuJo info & ideas)
- Plant City Lady (for
dementia caregivers)
- GasBuddy
- CA & NV Earthquake
- Charity Navigator
(♥ Christian links ~
Bible Study & Reading
♥ Bible Study Fellowship
- BSF class locator ~
not as hard or in-depth as
Precept but a good
place to start & free
- Scripture
Compilations for
BSF lessons (Not
affiliated with BSF but
very handy)
- also BSF Buddy
♥ Precept Ministries
- Precept's Online
- class locator
- interactive guide
- blog
+ Beloved Truth - site
+ Beloved Truth Facebook
- Precept Austin
- my Precept Key word
markings: (based on
my 1st Precept
leader's system):
bookmark 1,
bookmark 2 / 2A or
bookmark 3 ~ not sure what
happened to this last file
- 5 W's & H chart
- How to do a chapter
study (This one isn't mine but
I can't remember where I got this
handy worksheet - if it was a free
download from Precept or if one
of my Precept Bible study leaders
created it)
- Kim's How to Study the
Bible Timesaver
bookmark (from an online
Precept Bible study leader)
- Biola's Unbound Bible
- Crossway's English
Standard Version
- ESV Online Study Bible
- ESV Online Bible
- HCSB Study Bible
- BibleGateway
- Bible Logos (NKJV)
- Bible Logos (ESV)
- NetBible
- Biblia.com
- Reformed Books Online
- Gospel-Centered
Discipleship (GCD)- new
Aug'17 but looks pretty
- Biblearc - for deeper
study of Scripture
- Bible Study Online (ESV)
- Precept A-U-S-T-I-N-S
ESV "Bible on One Page"
- Precept A-U-S-T-I-N-S
NAS "Bible on One Page"
- StudyLight
- Precept Camden --> Kari
Dent's blog
- her Key word symbols
- her favorite pens for
marking Just be
careful when using the
FrixIon pens - I like
them but it will fade off
of the page if left in the
sun. Ask me how I
know! ;-)
- Precept Revival's
study tips
- Blue Letter Bible
- E-Sword (free but
donations help)
- Biblos.com
- Bible Explorer (looks
similar to E-Sword)
- Logos
- Olive Tree
- BibleHub
- Prof. Grant Horner's
Bible reading plan &
more info here
- George Guthrie
+ Monergism
- Westminster Bookstore
Women & Theology
♥ HouseWife Theologian
(aka Aimee Byrd)
♥ A Daughter of the
+ Theology Gals podcast at
Bible Thumping Wingnut (there
several podcasts there but I
haven't listened to them yet)
♥ Tried with Fire (Persis)
♥ The Upward Call (Kim
+ Sally Clarkson (I don't
agree with everything, but I like
a lot of her posts, especially the
homey, tea, & bookish ones =D)
- Out of the
Ordinary (esp. Persis' posts)
+ Reformed Baptista
+ Sister, Daughter,
Mother, Wife (Lutheran)
+ enCourage (PCA blog)
+ A Narrow-Minded
+ Beautiful Thing
- Wit's End (Melissa Kruger)
- Elyse Fitzpatrick's blog &
podcast - I've been troubled
by some of her recent
comments so may be
removing this link
- The Thinking of
Things (new 9/2017) DITTO
+ Janet Mefferd
- One Quiet Life (♥ but she
rarely posts)
- Rebecca Writes
- Daily On My Way to
Heaven (Becky Pliego)
- By Grace Alone (Jessica
K's ~ Lutheran)
- The End Time (Elizabeth
Prata ~ some good but some?)
- Gritty Grace
+ Heavenly Springs
(Christina Langella)
- Conforming to the Truth
(Lisa Morris)
- Adorned (Jen Thorn)
* I'm All Booked (mostly
Christian book reviews by a
Reformed Baptist)
- The Verity Fellowship
(new to me so....)
- Renewed in Truth
- A Little Leaven (Beth S.)
- The Outspoken TULIP
- Michelle Lesley ~ books
- Satisfaction Through
- Abandoned to Christ /
Sunny Shell's site
- Brown Sugar Toast (her
Bible study series is pretty good)
- Naomi's Table (not 100%
sure about this one)
- With the Master (Susan
Heck ~ lots of women like her
studies but I have yet to try one)
- Nancy Guthrie
- Equipping Eve
- Sojourner
& her 2nd blog:
-> Solid Food
~ Deb Martin's blogs but
she changes them so
often it's almost
impossible to keep up)
- Danielthree18 (another
new-to-me blog)
- Whole Magazine - newish
blog from Australia - added 6/17
- The Verity Fellowship
(added June 2017)
- Jasmine Holmes: Not a
Mommy Blog
Reformed Baptist:
- 1689 Federalism
+ A Commentary of the
London Baptist
Confession of Faith 1689
+ The Confessing Baptist
(but on a really long hiatus)
- Reformed Baptist
+ Contrast
- Reformed Baptist Blog
(Jeffrey Johnson's blog)
- Chantry Notes ~ this is
sad but I'm removing the
link to his blog until the
court outcome - see
here & here). Yes, innocent
until proven guilty, but Pastors
shouldn't hide the story either.
- Means of Grace (BH)
- Reformed Baptist Blog (?)
- Reformed Baptist
Academic Press
Apologetics / Discernment:
Even here, use discernment as some discernment blogs are more discerning than others! Also, several of the links listed under Women & Theology are sort of discernment related.
♥ Fighting for the Faith
Chris Rosebrough's
- Stand to Reason
- CARM -- Christian
Apologetics & Research Ministry
- Stand Up for the Truth
(seems good except for their
endorsement of David Hocking -
info about that here & here)
- Sola Sisters - no longer
- Christian Answers for the
New Age
- DiscernIt (Kim Olsen -seems ok)
- Discern.org
- TruthKeepers - earnestly
contend for the faith
- Lighthouse Trails (some good,
some iffy)
- Apprising Ministries
- Do Not Be Surprised
- Herescope
Podcasts/Internet Radio:
♥ Fighting for the Faith
(Chris Rosebrough)
♥ The Whitehorse Inn
♥ The Mortification of
Spin (ACE)
+ The Thinking Fellows
site and podcast
- Gentle Reformation blog
& podcast
- The Confessing Baptist
(no longer updating :-(
+ Issues, etc. ~ Christ-
Centered Cross-Focused
Talk Radio (Lutheran)
- SermonAudio
- Bethel Evangelical Free
Church (UK)
- RefNet (from Ligonier)
- Jess Ranch Community
Church semons
- Echo Zoe (blog &
- Pilgrim Radio (new to
- For the Church (Gospel-Centered
Resources from Midwestern Seminary)
- Voice in the Wilderness
radio (new to me & not
sure about a couple of the
pastors they have on)
Misc. Christian Blogs & web sites:
- Mortification of Spin
- Whitehorse Inn / Modern
Reformation blog
- Core Christianity
- CCC Discover
- High Plains Parson
- The Riddleblog (one of
the WHI co-hosts)
+Reformed Arsenal
+ The Museum of Idolatry
(Chris Rosebrough)
- Mere Orthodoxy
- Steak and a Bible
- HeadHeartHand (David
- Alliance of Confessing
- ACE/Ref.21's blog
- Informing the
Reforming (Tim
Challies' blog)
+ Echoes & Stars (Matt
Redmon's blog)
- Veritas Manet - Truth
Remains (*New to me)
- By Grace Alone (Scott's)
- Canon Fodder (Michael
- Biblical Woman
- Flying Scroll (Lutheran)
- Martha Peace ~ (some good
but some I disagree with)
- Credo Magazine
- Time-Warp Wife
- John MacArthur / Grace
to You
- PyroManiacs (Phil
Johnson & others)
+ The Spurgeon Archive
(June'17: recently updated &
- Denny Burk
- Tim's Blog - Just One
Train Wreck After
- Creeds of Christendom
- London Baptist
Confession of Faith
- 1689 London Baptist
Confession for the 21st
- Heidelberg Catechism
- The Canons of Dordt
- Center for Reformed
Theology & Apologetics
- The Reformed Reader
- The Didache
- The Confessing Baptist
- Founders (Reformed
- 1689 Federalism:
Confessional Baptiist
Covenant Theology
- Randy Alcorn's blog
- A Cry for Justice
- Brent Detwiler: Helping
Christians judge
righteously, think
biblically and live
courageously (some good,
some not-so-good)
- Thou Art the Man (Todd
- Joyful Exiles
- The Reformed Reader
- Voddie Baucham
- Heidelblog (R.Scott
- Blogging Theologically
(Aaron Armstrong)
+ Cranach (Gene Veith's
- The Cripplegate
- Spirit Empowered
Preaching (Art Azurdia)
- The Spurgeon
- Abraham's Seed
- Joe Thorn
^ his Valley of Vision
reading schedule
- A Gentle & Quiet Spirit
- Christian Reformed Ink
- Inerrant Word
- Speaking the Truth in
- Susan's Sitting Room
- Telling of His Wonderful
- Being Taugth That We
May Teach (Al Martin)
- World View Weekend
(Brannon Howse)?
- Chapter 3 Ministries
- The Aquila Report
- Growing Together in
Grace and Knowledge
- Musings from Under
the Bus
- Steadfast Lutherans
- Daniel's Place -
(Reformata et semper
- Helm's Deep (?)
- Covenant Baptist
Seminary / CBTS Blog
- Credo Covenant
- Gospel Homemaking
- Reformed Libertarian
- The Wardrobe Door
- Reformed Report
- Dee Brestin
- Stand Firm (???)
- The Gospel Project -
- Grace Gems!
- Sunday Gatherings
- Writing & Living
(Staci Eastin - defunct?)
- Internet Monk
- All Things New (Deb
- First Thoughts
- Entreating Favor
With reservations (not sure
about yet - may be semi-Reformed
&/or Reformedish):
- the Gospel Coalition &
their the Gospel-
centered woman
(Reformed-ish but the way they
defended Driscoll and
Mahaney/& here is shameful
so I no longer have a high
opinion of TGC)
- SGM Survivors
- The Wartburg Watch
- the Beginning of
Wisdom (Jen Wilkin's)
- Pulpit & Pen (some
good posts & some not-
Advent/Christmas related:
- Christmas Bible readings
(NJ's page)
- Ali's Adventures
- Gleanings from the Field
- A Letter from Kabwata
(Conrad Mbewe's blog)
- Rafiki Foundation, Inc
- Coles in Japan
6) Pen, Ink & Paper:
♥ A Place to Flourish
♥ Margaret Shepherd's
Calligraphy blog
- IAMPETH (master
- Fountain Pen Network
- Fountain Pen Geeks
- Gourmet Pens
- Addicted to Pens &
- Inkophile
♥ Pen Addict
- JetPens' Blog
- Ink Nouveau
+ Goulet Pens
- The Well-
Appointed Desk
- JStationery
- Fountain Pen Revolution
- Quo Vadis Planners
& Notebooks
- Delectable Pens
- Fahrney's Pens
- Fountain Pen Hospital
- Papyrus
- American Stationery
- Kate's Paperie
- Paper-Source
- Paper & Ink Arts
- Pomegranate Press
- Flax Art Store
- Cat's Life Press rubber
- Highlander Celtic
- Rifle Paper Co. & their
- Maido
- Paper Tree
- Castle in the Air shop
and their class listings
- Scrapbook Territory
- Nostalgic Impressions
To read fast is as bad as to eat in a hurry.
—Vilhelm Ekelund
poet (1880-1949)
LWA member since 2009
Staples - what speed do you read? This is kind of fun. :)
November 2018
I'm not sure where to put this blog or how to classify it. This blogger is a daughter of a friend and while I'm pretty sure she's a Christian, it isn't a Christian blog, or books & reading or letter writing & mail art. It's basically about their travels so I'm putting it here for now:
Jen's blog: 3toGo


text:
If you glanced at the tech headlines over the past 24 hours, you probably noticed a lot of stories about Apple's huge patent victory over Samsung. The South Korean tech giant was found guilty of infringing on Apple patents with a number of its devices, and was ordered to pay $1.05 billion in damages.
The fight's not over; Samsung will appeal and Apple will likely ask that infringing products be pulled off store shelves in the interim. But what's really at issue here? What technologies do these patents actually cover, and which Android-based Samsung phones are affected?
In its Friday verdict, the jury found that Samsung infringed on four Apple utility patents, four design patents, and upheld Apple's trade dress. Samsung was not so lucky; the jury found that Apple had not infringed on any of the five Samsung patents in question. In an interview with CNET, one of the jurors said Samsung lost the case thanks, in part, to internal emails that discussed Apple's products, as well as inconsistent evidence.
The infringement affects 21 Samsung devices, from the Droid Charge and the Epic 4G to the Galaxy S II and the Infuse 4G. In the breakdown of how much the jury thought Samsung should pay per device, the top three infringing devices were the Epic 4G ($130 million), the Fascinate ($143.5 million), and the Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch ($100 million). The only devices for which the jury did not award damages were the Galaxy Ace and the international Galaxy S II.
For a more in-depth look at the patents in question and the Samsung devices that infringe, hit the slideshow. Also check out How Will Samsung, Apple Patent Verdict Affect Android?
For those keeping score, the 21 devices in question are: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S, Galaxy S 4G, AT&T's Galaxy S II, the international Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab, the Wi-Fi Galaxy Tab 10.1, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Replenish, and Vibrant.
1. Bounce Back ('381)
2. Single Scroll, Pinch to Zoom ('915)
3. Tap to Zoom ('163)
4. iPhone Front (D'677)
5. iPhone Back (D'087)
6. iPhone Home Screen (D'305)
7. iPad Design (D'889)
8. What About Samsung?
Further Reading
- 12 Uses for Your Old Smartphone
- 11 Useful Samsung Galaxy Features You Won't Find on the Google Pixel
- Smartphone Stress Test: Inside Oppo's Shenzhen Factory
- 5 Bad Habits Destroying Your Smartphone
- More in Apple
- More in Mobile Phones


text:
Today you can tell I'm a mom because I have one green finger and one pink finger. This is what happens when you are dyeing a few more eggs on Saturday before Easter and those silly little scoop things fails to pick up the newly dyed egg from it's vinegar scented bath. When I saw the look on my child's face, the look that said "AAAAHHHH MY EGG IS FALLING," I was forced to dive into action, leaving me slightly more colorful in the process.
Another sign of motherhood is goldfish debris. I don't think I ever ate a goldfish cracker until I had children. Now I'm more aware of the level of the goldfish supply in our house than I am of the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wall Street. I have to admit it comes in handy - f I'm ever not sure I'm in the right car, I just have to check for a slight crackery smell and the tell-tale orange fragments in the back seat.
My socks are another sign. Ever since I foolishly let my daughter raid my sock drawer, I have stopped having matching socks. This happens because I caved when I was in a hurry, and it was going to be dark, and who looks down anyway, and I wore the spotted one with the stripped one. That was it. It was over. Now I'm trapped in a perpetually mismatched sock laundry cycle. There's no way out, short of buying new socks and hiding them in my purse. (By the way, I don't recommend this approach because it's awkward when you're in the grocery check-out lane fumbling for your wallet, and the socks fall out. You know right then the clerk is wondering if they should alert security or simply look away. Consider yourself warned.)
Another sign of motherhood is the sheer number of things I carry out of the car every single time we get home from going anywhere. It's as if an explosion goes off every time we get in the car. I can enter the car with two fairly small children and a purse, and moments later I'll exit carrying three partially crumpled food bags, four water bottles, discarded shoes, a mismatched pair of socks, a book, and a small pile of broken goldfish.
Still, I wear the signs of motherhood proudly. After all, it's the best part of my life in many ways. Although I have to confess, I'm glad sandal weather is right around the corner.


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Bill Parker, the paleontologist at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, was a victim of the government shutdown just as he was on the cusp of realizing a professional dream.
Parker waited years to receive a grant that allowed him to assemble a team of workers for a thorough study of the park, which was to begin this month. Now the political impasse in Washington has indefinitely delayed their exploration of sites containing 225-million-year-old fossils of phytosaurs — 18-foot crocodile-like creatures that ate dinosaurs — and other flora and fauna from the Late Triassic period. Instead, as Congress battles over spending and Obamacare, Parker is furloughed at one of the most important junctures of his professional career.
Bill Reitze, an archaeologist and temporary park employee, is thrilled that additions to the park have doubled its size in the last two years. He needs more staff to explore the remains of ancient human settlements scattered throughout the new acquisitions, but is instead out of work.
Workers on digs have found artifacts dating back 13,000 years, including Clovis points, within the original park boundaries. Even before the shutdown, his budget was so tight that when he brought his Silverado truck in from the field caked with red clay he could not clean it. The sequester and other budget cuts mean no more car wash on site for park service vehicles, and no petty cash — not even quarters — for the car wash in the nearby town of Holbroke. Reitze is not even a full-time, salaried employee; Parker is the only full-time professional on staff. Everyone else is on temporary status or seasonal.
The shutdown's cutoff of already scarce resources for the National Park Service system underscores the ongoing problem of having the agency's work underfunded or unfunded. Places under the radar, such as the Petrified Forest, could fall entirely from view if Americans don't speak out more forcefully about Congress' irresponsible management of the federal budget.
The Petrified Forest is often perceived — even within the Park Service — as a place scattered with picked-over pieces of the 225 million-year-old trunks and chunks of trees that grew there when it was a river-rich land. Over eons, minerals replaced the organic material in the wood, creating an astonishing variety of colors and stone so hard that it takes diamonds to polish it.
Beyond its most obvious feature, the spectacular petrified trees, the Petrified Forest is a phenomenally complex park that recently added 93,000 acres. It encompasses an incredible weave of narrative threads: ancient settlements that chronicle humanity's transition from hunter gatherers to farmers; thousands of petroglyphs (prehistoric art etched on rock faces); fossils of phytosaurs, other animals and plants from the Late Triassic; and, of course, the land — the Badlands, the Painted Desert and one of the largest intact grasslands in the U.S.
Clearly a haven for scientists, the park attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors annually who arrive in cars, on motorcycles and in campers. Many are tracking the historic Route 66. Tourists who think they'll just swing by on the way to or back from the Grand Canyon find they want to spend days, not hours. Every person we interviewed who had already seen the Grand Canyon said they found the Petrified Forest National Park much more accessible. It has many trails one mile or less that nearly any age group can walk and many that accommodate wheelchairs.
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America's "Best Idea" as many have described our national park system, is dying from a thousand cuts thanks to the sequester, budget cuts and the recent shutdown furloughs. If the national parks are an emblem of all that makes this country so special and amazing, then we need to be especially attentive to their decline.
Scores of foreigners — from Britain, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, Australia and many other countries — come to our national parks because there is nothing quite like them in the world.
It's time for Americans to rekindle an equal measure of awe for their national parks. The only way to make that happen: insist Congress does its job.
Mary Collins is an associate professor of narrative nonfiction at Central Connecticut State University. Susan McElhinney is a former Newsweek photographer and current photo editor at the National Wildlife Federation's Ranger Rick Magazine. They recently served as artists-in-residence at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.


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Advance Sheet: Gaining Perspective from Abroad
The French and British legal systems feature different standards of guilt and innocence than the American systems, and different standards for how the accused may be treated.
Robert E. Shapiro
It was a scene worthy of the most corrupt Wall Street trader. On a May afternoon in 2011, police officers surprised an alleged wrongdoer in the midst of his working day, clasped him in handcuffs and, before a crowd of gawking bystanders, marched him off to jail in a show of law-enforcement zeal. With the media well notified in advance, the TV cameras rolled as the arrestee arrived at the processing center and was paraded for the world to see in the famed "perp" walk, an indignity that in some jurisdictions has become a standard feature of American criminal law. Its supporters tout its usefulness as a visible reminder to lawbreakers that they will pay a high price, including public humiliation, for their mistakes. Critics note that the practice seems to be favored particularly by those prosecutors dependent on the ballot box for their survival.
Whatever the motive, its impact is undoubtedly dramatic. Who could forget, after all, the scene early one snowy December morning in Illinois when a sitting governor was confronted by police officers on the stoop of his home, handcuffed unceremoniously and walked off to jail to face charges of having attempted to sell a seat in the United States Senate? No one can know for sure what role, if any, such memories had on the members of the Illinois legislature who later impeached and convicted Rod Blagojevich, removing him as governor, or on the federal jury that convicted him on multiple counts of corruption. Are we prepared to say it was a negligible one?
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