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"Music in Andover Part II" by Gail Ralston (an Andover Stories column) mentioned Daniel Pinkham, a 1940 graduate of Phillips Academy but overlooked another who graduated 10 years later.
Hayden Higgens and I were kindergarten classmates at Briggs Allen on Abbot Street. Hayden was the first graduate of his 1950 class to see service in the Korean War. Upon discharge he began his music career in jazz and changed his name to Eddie Higgens. He could have joined professional jazz groups but chose to play in his adopted city of Chicago and record his unique style of jazz.
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The average price of gasoline in Los Angeles County declined today for the 13th time in 14 days, dropping a half-cent to $4.324 for a gallon of self-serve regular. The region's average price has decreased 6.2 cents over the past 14 days, including six-tenths of a cent on both Monday and Tuesday.
According to the Automobile Club (AAA) website, gasoline at Hermosa Beach's two stations sits on either side of the average, with gas at the Arco station, 1131 Pacific Coast Highway, reported at $4.22 a gallon, and at the Mobil station, 931 Pacific Coast Highway, $4.46 a gallon. The Arco's price reflects a drop of 2 cents per gallon from two weeks ago, while the Mobil's price has held steady from that time.
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First things first... Here is a graphic of total snowfall for our region. Courtesy the NWS Jackson
Now let's look to the future. This next system has already sparked a Winter Storm Warning & a Winter Weather Advisory.
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So how will this hit us?
That's the simple rundown. Here are some model runs and how each dipicts the system as it comes into the region.
GFS 10pm Weds GFS 1am Thurs GFS 4am Thurs GFS 7am Thurs GFS 1pm Thurs
NAM 1am Thurs NAM 4am Thurs NAM 7am Thurs NAM 10am Thurs NAM 1pm Thurs
The GFS is wetter and it is quicker. The snow arrival is is earlier and the change over happens a touch earlier as well. Both are right on target with the icing potential. So I have put together an updated map showing what is what!
I think there might have been some confusion about this graphic earlier. What I am higlighting here is "BEST CHANCE" meaning these areas will more likely see this type of precip for a longer period of time.
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This article, by Warren Buffett, as told to Randall Lane, appears in the upcoming April issue of ForbesLife magazine, as part of its "When I Was 25″ series.
By Warren Buffett
Benjamin Graham had been my idol ever since I read his book The Intelligent Investor. I had wanted to go to Columbia Business School because he was a professor there, and after I got out of Columbia, returned to Omaha, and started selling securities, I didn't forget about him. Between 1951 and 1954, I made a pest of myself, sending him frequent securities ideas. Then I got a letter back: "Next time you're in New York, come and see me."
So there I went, and he offered me a job at Graham-Newman Corp., which he ran with Jerry Newman. Everyone says that A.W. Jones started the hedge fund industry, but Graham-Newman's sister partnership, Newman and Graham, was actually an earlier fund. I moved to White Plains, New York, with my wife, Susie, who was four months pregnant, and my daughter. Every morning, I got on a train to Grand Central and went to work.
It was a short-lived position: The next year, when I was 25, Mr. Graham—that's what I called him then—gave me a heads-up that he was going to retire. Actually, he did more than that: He offered me the chance to replace him, with Jerry's son Mickey as the new senior partner and me as the new junior partner. It was a very tiny fund—$6 million or $7 million—but it was a famous fund.
This was a traumatic decision. Here was my chance to step into the shoes of my hero—I even named my first son Howard Graham Buffett. (Howard was for my father.) But I also wanted to come back to Omaha. I probably went to work for a month thinking every morning that I would tell Mr. Graham I was going to leave. But it was hard to do.
The thing is, when I got out of college, I had $9,800, but by the end of 1955, I was up to $127,000. I thought, I'll go back to Omaha, take some college classes, and read a lot—I was going to retire! I figured we could live on $12,000 a year, and off my $127,000 asset base, I could easily make that. I told my wife, "Compound interest guarantees I'm going to get rich."
My wife and kids went back to Omaha just ahead of me. I got in the car, and on my way west checked out companies I was interested in investing in. It was due diligence. I stopped in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to visit the Jeddo-Highland Coal Company. I visited the Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Company in Michigan, which was being liquidated. I went to see what the building looked like, what they had for sale. I went to Delaware, Ohio, to check out Greif Bros. Cooperage. (Who knows anything about cooperage anymore?) Its chairman met with me. I didn't have appointments; I would just drop in. I found that people always talked to me. All these people helped me.
In Omaha, I rented a house at 5202 Underwood for $175 a month. I told my wife, "I'd be glad to buy a house, but that's like a carpenter selling his toolkit." I didn't want to use up my capital.
I had no plans to start a partnership, or even have a job. I had no worries as long as I could operate on my own. I certainly did not want to sell securities to other people again. But by pure accident, seven people, including a few of my relatives, said to me, "You used to sell stocks, and we want you to tell us what to do with our money." I replied, "I'm not going to do that again, but I'll form a partnership like Ben and Jerry had, and if you want to join me, you can." My father-in-law, my college roommate, his mother, my aunt Alice, my sister, my brother-in-law, and my lawyer all signed on. I also had my hundred dollars. That was the beginning—totally accidental.
When I formed that partnership, we had dinner, the seven of them plus me—I'm 99 percent sure it was at the Omaha Club. I bought a ledger for 49 cents, and they brought their checks. Before I took their money, I gave them a half sheet of paper that I had made carbons of—something I called the ground rules. I said, "There are two or four pages of partnership legal documents. Don't worry about that. I'll tell you what's in it, and you won't get any surprises.
Great. Now pay your taxes.
Please inform me when he didn't pay his taxes??
Mr. Buffet, I admire you, not for being one of the richest person on earth, but for having complained that you were being taxed proportionately less than your secretary. I also admire you for leading a "billionaires'campaign" to change this oddity in the fiscal system in the US. I also admire you for refusing to spend millions on a luxury residence and living in the same house for the past 30 or 40 years. Finally I admire you for not ignoring your fellow men. God bless you Mr. Buffet.
If your secretary has a few minutes free time, let her have a peek at my website at http://www.cpi-lebanon.org
Very interest read. He gives a brief history of hedge funds . I ve see pictures of him with various known media musicians. I myself am a musician . I would like to hire out to Buffet s organization as an independent contractor to score on some commericials and PSA s esp. for his BNSF and Geico . I have material available for. sale or license . I ve worked thisa way as a guitarist for 19 seasons ; streets, stages, studios, and events all ther east coast. Imagine if I actually did on PSA on railroad to public safety at the request of Mr. Buffet. Inspiratoinal . Hey I can dream , can t I ?
Insightful. Simple and thoughful. What real people/investor should be. I understood why Mr. Buffett did not want to sell securities anymore. I used to do that and could not stand the people or the job. I just didn't have the guts to do what he did and went on his own. I didn't read the other books he sited. I miss that opportunity.
Great piece for an aspiring investor as myself!
Warren buffett Oh God. I guess he is the real world leader.I really think that all he says and do its all wisdom.
Buffett's biography, "The Snowball" by Alice Schroeder is a really great read. I wouldn't have believed it, but it's totally worth the time you spend reading it.
Common sense rules apply in all walks of life including business. Keep an eye on trends but try not be ruled by it. Business is all about supply and demand at it's basic level.A group of people require a product or service,try your utmost best to fulfil their needs and you all win.It is not about winners and losers.This is what Warren Buffett has been doing and it is exactly what i do in my businesses.Follow your passion,provide great and quality products and services,everybody wins,and you have a successful business.Simple really.
So real, so simple and so awesome!


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Riots and police led "crackdowns" along Florida Avenue. Ax Handle Saturday in Hemming Park. "Urban blight," aging structures, declining property values, and citizen dissatisfaction, compiled with the widespread racist opinion that the presence of primarily black residential neighborhoods surrounding downtown were unsafe, led to the ill devised Downtown Loop System.
The controversial techniques employed by New York urban planner, Robert Moses-covered in previous stories- were immediately implemented to combat these "problems."
The modernization plans and the utopian redevelopment scheme described in the 1971 Master Plan (which called for innovations like moving elevated sidewalks among others) ended up creating deeper systemic issues.
Chief among these plans was the deliberate separation of the greater urban core into distinct zones. It included a sort of outdoor pedestrian shopping plaza centered around Hemming Park and the physical separation of the Central Business District from the large African American neighborhoods of Springfield, Eastside LaVilla, Brooklyn, and Durkeeville.
Central to this plan was the creation of the Downtown Loop System. The loops were also designed to alleviate the parking shortage by establishing a series of parking garages on the perimeter of a rapid one way loop system.
Most people are unaware of it today because of the half hatted way it was implemented, but if you start at any point along the loops traveling at 30 miles per hour, the traffic signals are synchronized so that you can completely circle the loop without any red lights.
The idea was that you would come in from the outlying areas, hop onto the loop system, park in one of the garages closest to your destination, and the hop onto an elevated sidewalk system with ease. The area inside of the loop would then become a huge plaza environment with wide sidewalks and street-side cafes.
Better yet, with the introduction of one way streets all the way through the grid, if one coordinated the streets ever so subtly with the placement of the Florida State College Downtown Campus, one could effectively block access to the Springfield and LaVilla neighborhoods from downtown.
Lets look at the Loop System again.
Now lets look at the actual end effect of the one way street grid when you complete it with the blocks created by architectural elements like FSCJ, the Park, and the Transit Station: think about trying to travel by car to Springfield from downtown. Its actually very difficult.
If one is downtown, the layout of the grid and the placement of FSCJ's large campus makes it nearly impossible for the downtown visitor/shopper to wander over to the Springfield Neighborhood. As indeed this was one of the plan's purposes.
The planners of the era were trying to partition off the high crime district from the suburban shoppers. After the 1970's, the only streets that lead a straight shot from downtown into Springfield are Broad and Liberty.
Not coincidentally, these are the ones that connected from LaVilla (at the time another African American neighborhood) and the police station.
Of course, we know now that the implementation of the first phase of the 1971 plan ended up totally destroying the retail base downtown. It began in 1982 and within two years, 4 million square feet of retail bordering Hemming Park was closed down due to the lack of planning and length of time taken by the 'redevelopment.'
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The Mundy's Mill Lady Tigers are sitting on top of the world after winning the Clayton County softball title.
Mundy's Mill won five times this past week at the county tournament, including Thursday night against Lovejoy.
The Lady Tigers beat Lovejoy 13-2.
Sande Taylor had three RBIs.
Savannah McHellon had two hit and a two-run homer. She had three home runs fortournament.
McHellon was also the winning pitcher with three strikeouts. She gave up just two hits in a game called after three innings.
Mundy's Mill returns to action next Thursday at home against North Clayton.
The first pitch is set for 5:30 p.m.
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[PICTURED: Humphrey Bogart [Bogie], Erin O'Brien-Moore and Ann Sheridan in "Black Legion" [1937]In Black Legion (1937), for a change, he [Bogart] played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene called "intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest".[52]
Warner Bros., 1937. Directed by Archie Mayo. Camera: George Barnes. With Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Helen Flint, Joe Sawyer, Clifford Soubier, Alonzo Price, Paul Harvey, Dickie Jones, Samuel Hinds, Addison Richards, Eddie Acuff, Dorothy Vaughan, John Litel, Henry Brandon, Charles Halton, Pat C. Flick, Francis Sayles, Paul Stanton, Harry Hayden, Egon Brecher, Robert Barrat, Ed Chandler, Robert E. Homans, William Wayne, Frederick Lindsley, Fred Mackaye, Frank Nelson, John Hiestand, Ted Bliss, Larry Emmons, Don Barclay, Emmett Vogan, John Butler, Frank Sully, Max Wagner, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Dennis Moore, Milton Kibbee, Lee Phelps, Wilfred Lucas, Jack Mower.
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957)[1][2] was an American actor[3] and is widely regarded as a cultural icon.[4][5] The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.
After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and B-movies like The Return of Doctor X (1939).
Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. The next year, his performance in Casablanca raised him to the peak of his profession and, at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948), with his wife Lauren Bacall; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); In a Lonely Place (1950); The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Academy Award; Sabrina (1954); and The Caine Mutiny (1954). His last movie was The Harder They Fall (1956). During a film career of almost 30 years, he appeared in 75 feature films.
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Love Affair (Columbia, 1932). Trimmed Midget Window Card (7" X 11.25"). Drama.
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Love Affair (Columbia, 1932). Lobby Cards (2) (11" X 14"). This film stars a very young Humphrey Bogart in only his sixth credited role. A pilot (Bogart) falls in love with his beautiful heiress flight student (Dorothy Mackaill). Cards feature Bogart and Mackaill in lower right corner. Both cards are creased down the middle with pin holes and corner dings. The "Mackaill in plane" card is missing three corners. Any paper from his early Bogart film is incredibly rare. Good/Very Good...Sold for: $92.00
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Fox Film Corp., 1931. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Camera: Lucien Andriot. With Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen, El Brendel, Fifi D'Orsay, Marjorie White, Jesse De Vorska, Marion Lessing, T. Roy Barnes, Ruth Warren, Bela Lugosi, Joyce Compton, Charles Judels, Albert Dresden, Captain Bradley, Arthur McLaglen, Tom Myers.
A Holy Terror is a 1931 Western movie starring George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, and Humphrey Bogart. The film is an adaptation by Ralph Block, Alfred A. Cohn, and Myron C. Fagan of the novel Trailin'! by Max Brand. It was directed by Irving Cummings.
Body and Soul (Fox, 1931). Jumbo Lobby Card Set of 8 (14" X 17"). This drama about love and intrigue in the dark days of World War I is notable as an early vehicle for Humphrey Bogart. Indeed, it was only his third film, and although he had made a name for himself on Broadway, it would be several more years before he became a star of the silver screen. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Bogie isn't included on any of these cards, although his name is listed in the credits on each one. One card does bear a lovely image of Myrna Loy, however. All of the cards in this complete set show pinholes in the corners, as well as in the top and bottom center. Most display scuffing on the images as well. One card has an extra pinhole, and another has a crease and a small tear in the upper corner. Otherwise, this is a gorgeous set from an early Bogart picture. Fine/Very Fine.
Body and Soul (Fox, 1931). Window Card (14" X 22").
In this early talkie, future superstar Humphrey Bogart plays Jim Watson, a courageous flyer shot down in a raid on German observation balloons during World War I. His friend (Charles Farrell) tries to track down Watson's widow, but the woman who claims to be Bogart's grieving spouse (Myrna Loy) is actually a German spy responsible for the deaths of many valiant airmen. This colorful and attractive window card had a bend in the bottom left corner, minor holes in the credits area, minor chipping in the right and top borders, and some scuffing in the credits, but an outstanding job of expert professional restoration has rendered these slight flaws virtually invisible. Don't pass this vintage treasure by! Very Fine on Card-stock...Sold for: $1,045.63
A Devil with Women (Fox, 1930). Window Card (14" X 22"). Adventure.
Starring Victor McLaglen, Mona Maris, Humphrey Bogart, Luana Alcañiz, Michael Vavitch, Soledad Jiménez, Mona Rico, John St. Polis, Robert Edeson, and Joe De La Cruz.
Directed by Irving Cummings. This bright art deco window card shows only pinholes in the corners, horizontal creases, light stains in the right and bottom borders, and one corner bump. Please see full-color, enlargeable image below for more details. Very Fine-.[THIS POSTER SOLD FOR $358.50]
The Dancing Town (1928) is a two-reeler sound short and was Humphrey Bogart's first film appearance. The film also featured Helen Hayes and Hal Skelly.[1]
Broadway's Like That (1930) is a 10-minute Vitaphone short film with Ruth Etting, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, and Mary Philips. Bogart and Philips were married at the time of this film.[1]
Up the River (Fox, 1930). Window Card (14" X 22").
In only his third screen appearance, Humphrey Bogart stars as reformed ex-con Steve Jordan, who tries to make a new start in a small town with his reformed ex-con wife (Clare Luce, in her screen debut). When a blackmailer begins to cause problems for the couple, two of Jordan's buddies, Spencer Tracy and Warren Hymer, break out of jail to come to their rescue. This terrific comedy is directed by none other than John Ford, and was the only film the powerhouse trio of Ford, Bogart, and Tracy would make together. The poster shows faint stains and foxing in the borders, and a minor edge tear at the right. This highly stylized window card, with its great art deco illustrations, prominently features Bogart for, as far as we know, the first time on a movie poster, making this a very rare and desirable collectible. Very Fine-.[THIS POSTER SOLD FOR $$1,553.50]
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HAILESBORO A Grand Island man is was jailed Sunday after a reckless driver report lead to a Leandras law arrest Sunday.
State police charged Mark E. Dlugokinski, 42, after responding to a report of a reckless driving on Route 11 in the town of DeKalb. They said Dlugokinski, who had his 10-year-old son in the car, had a blood alcohol content 0.23 percent, nearly three times the 0.08 percent considered proof of intoxication. Aggravated DWI is charged when the BAC is 0.18 percent or more.
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Parents today have more ways than ever to keep tabs on their children.
With the right gadgets, it only takes a few clicks for tech-savvy parents to find out exactly where their teen driver is, how fast he is driving and whether he's wearing a seat belt. Parents have the technology to monitor where their children go on the Internet, who they e-mail, text and talk to; and even whether they bought ice cream or chips with their school lunch.
Every parent wants to keep his or her child safe, and these new tools have the potential to help. But they also pose new challenges for parents struggling to negotiate the already fine line between setting limits and giving kids enough freedom to grow.
My kids are only 11 and 5, and already, these issues are starting to surface. I recently signed up to monitor my kindergartner's lunch account online after she struggled with "remembering" she could only get ice cream on Fridays; cybersafety was the featured topic at our sixth-grade parent night last fall.
The line between safety and privacy is becoming increasingly blurry. When are we truly looking out for our children's best interests, and when are we invading their privacy? How much invasion is justified in the name of protection?
Statistics about teen driving fatalities make a compelling case for GPS tracking devices, "black box" event data recorders and miniature cameras in cars. With car crashes the leading cause of death among teens, parents are right to want to use any means necessary to keep their kids safe. We know teen drivers are inexperienced, more likely to be distracted and more prone to risk-taking. We also know they're more likely to be better drivers with Mom or Dad inside the car.
In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, unaccompanied 16- and 17-year-olds crash nine times more often than adults, and they're less likely to wear seat belts when their parents aren't in the car. Highway safety experts say these devices can not only serve as a deterrent to high-risk driving but also help teach teens to be better drivers.
Internet safety is a more-complex issue. Tragic stories about sexual predators and cyberbullies have led to increased public awareness about online safety. Educators and safety experts encourage parents to track where their children go on the Internet and to know their user names and passwords for e-mail accounts and social networking sites.
This is where the area gets a little grayer for me. Where, exactly, do we draw the line? Isn't reading a teen's e-mails and texts as much of a violation of privacy as opening a personal letter or eavesdropping on a phone call? Is a paper diary with a lock and key the only sacred private space these days?
When making decisions about whether and how to monitor our children's activities, we also have the impossible task of separating the marketing that plays on our emotions, with scary statistics, tugs on our guilt strings and too-good-to-be-true promises.
Consider this pitch from New York City-based BrickHouse Security, maker of devices such as the Cell Phone Spy Elite, which allows parents to recover deleted text messages and data from a teen's phone: "Your children and teenagers are subject to dangers every single day. As a parent or guardian, it is your job to protect them from those dangers. From online predators, to hanging out with the wrong crowd in places they shouldn't be in the first place, our teen protection and child safety measures will ensure complete protection and prevention for them every day."
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That's not to say we shouldn't try to protect our kids, but spying on them seems like a counterproductive way to foster trust and communication. Ultimately, every family will need to find its own balance between security and freedom; trust and protection.
As for me, well, I'm glad I don't have any cell phone-toting teen drivers in my family _ yet.
I do, however, have a 5-year-old who is trying to stop sucking her thumb. I wonder if anyone has invented a monitoring device for that?
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McALESTER — By making several adjustments, volunteers working with this year's Community Christmas Dinner were able to make it a success once more. "We delivered 1,400 dinners in McAlester and Krebs," said one of the volunteers who helped organize the annual event, who, as usual, asked to remain anonymous. "Everything went reasonably well, considering the weather didn't cooperate," he said.
One of the adjustments came as volunteers prepared to deliver the holiday dinners Christmas morning, with a winter storm forecast to move into the area that day. "We moved the delivery time up a little bit," the volunteer said. "We started the large special deliveries around 9:30 and we started the home deliveries around 10." By starting earlier, those making the deliveries were able to get them finished before the winter weather hit in force.
"We were a little short-handed on the serving line, but we were able to get it all out on time," the volunteer said. "The last dinners went out at about 11:30." One big bit of help came from the Walmart Super Center. "Walmart's bakery department donated a significant amount of pastries," the volunteer said.
They were added to pies, cakes and other items prepared by big-hearted cooks in the community, to ensure a dessert for everyone who had a Christmas dinner delivered by the volunteers. "Combined with the donations from the people in the community, we had an abundance of food," the volunteer said.
Volunteers delivered the free Christmas dinners to anyone living in McAlester and Krebs who phoned in and made arrangements in advance. With no age or income guidelines, the dinner had been open to anyone in McAlester of Krebs who wanted to participate. The menu included ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed vegetables, dressing, rolls, dessert and a beverage.
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Televangelist Pat Robertson advised a mother on Monday that she could cure her son's stomach pains by finding someone to cast out demons that were possibly caused by an ancestor who practiced witchcraft. In an email, a viewer named Dianne told the TV preacher that her son had "painful shock-waves thru his body" that originated in his stomach while she was praying for him and calling on "the name of JESUS."
"My son said it felt like something hit him very hard in the stomach," the mother wrote. "I know this is not of God. He is a Christian. Can Christians be attacked by demons?"
Instead of recommending that the mother seek medical attention, Robertson said that the boy could be "oppressed or possessed by demons."
"You need to get somebody with you who understands the spiritual dimension and doing spiritual warfare," he continued. "If I were you, I would look back in your family. What in your family — do you have anybody involved in the occult, somebody in witchcraft or tarot cards or psychic things?"
"Has there something been there that you don't know about. Some grandparent, great grandparent or something. Look into the family tree, and then get some people in there and cast this stuff out. But that does not sound like normal.
Laura Helmuth, writing in Slate:
Most paranoid, grandiose, relentless conspiracy theorists can't call a meeting with a U.S. senator. Then there's Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A profile of Kennedy in this weekend's Washington Post Magazine shows that Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Bernie Sanders listened politely while Kennedy told them that a vaccine preservative causes autism.
It doesn't. It just doesn't. Every major scientific and medical organization in the country has evaluated the evidence and concluded that the preservative thimerosal is safe. The question is settled scientifically. Thimerosal, out of an abundance of caution, was removed from childhood vaccines 13 years ago, although it is used in some flu vaccines. And yet Kennedy, perhaps more than any other anti-vaccine zealot, has confused parents into worrying that vaccines, which have saved more lives than almost any other public health practice in history, could harm their children.
Mikulski and Sanders, to their credit, both politely blew Kennedy off.
That's a sign of great progress: Not that many years ago, Rep. Dan Burton held congressional hearings on the entirely made-up dangers of vaccines. I'm especially proud of Sanders, who represents Vermont, a state with one of the highest rates of vaccine denial and misinformation.
But the more people dismiss Kennedy, unfortunately, the more obsessive and slanderous he becomes. Keith Kloor describes some of Kennedy's recent outrageous claims in the Post profile:
The more Kennedy talked on the subject, the more his rhetoric became hyperbolic. During one 2011 segment on his Air America radio show, he accused government scientists of being "involved in a massive fraud." He said they skewed studies to demonstrate the safety of thimerosal. "I can see that this fraud is doing extraordinary damage to the brains of American children," he said.
Last year, he gave the keynote speech at an anti-vaccine gathering in Chicago. There, he said of a scientist who is a vocal proponent of vaccines and already the object of much hate mail from anti-vaccine activists that this scientist and others like him, "should be in jail, and the key should be thrown away."
I got a taste of Kennedy's delusions last year. After Slate's Bad Astronomy blogger, Phil Plait, criticized Kennedy for speaking at an anti-vaccine conference, Kennedy called me to complain, and I wrote about our very one-sided conversation. He told me scientists and government agencies are conspiring with the vaccine industry to cover up the evidence that thimerosal is "the most potent brain killer imaginable," and journalists are dupes who are afraid to question authority. He claimed that several specific scientists had admitted to him that he was right. I called these scientists up. Here's one representative answer, from a researcher who preferred I not use his name because he gets death threats from anti-vaccine activists: "Kennedy completely misrepresented everything I said."
To recap: Kennedy accuses scientists of fraud, which is pretty much the worst thing you can say about a scientist. He distorts their statements. He says they should be thrown in jail. He uses his powerful name to besmirch theirs. That name, the reason he has power and fame, is inherited from a family dedicated to public service. He now uses the Kennedy name to accuse employees of government agencies charged with protecting human health—some of the best public servants this country has—of engaging in a massive conspiracy to cause brain damage in children.
And this nonsense has consequences:
The number of measles cases in the United States tripled last year—an entirely preventable disease whose resurgence has been made possible in part by Kennedy's tireless efforts
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Balkanization Watch
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State
It's difficult not to despair sometimes when confronting some of the excesses of the zero tolerance crowd in the nation's schools: the toddler sent home for pointing in a way that made his fingers look like a gun, and all the rest.
Nevertheless, the news contained in this report produced by the Becket Fund, a group named, tellingly enough after a defender of priestly legal privilege, ought to give to rise to a degree of concern:
Amandeep Singh, a ninth-grade honor student in New York, was reprimanded and suspended indefinitely for wearing a kirpan—a ceremonial religious item worn by members of the Sikh faith—to school.
Amandeep became a baptized Sikh at age eight, requiring him, like 20 million other Sikhs worldwide, to follow the five Sikh articles of faith. The best known of these is the requirement to wear hair uncut in a turban. Another requirement is the kirpan, an item shaped like a sword that reminds Sikhs of their duty to speak out against injustice and stand up for the defenseless. In deference to school security concerns, school-age children like Amandeep typically wear a very small, blunt kirpan that cannot be used to harm anyone.
For over seven years, Amandeep attended local public schools and continuously observed all five articles of his faith, including the wearing of the kirpan, without any incident. Many of his teachers were aware of his kirpan and specifically commended him for his dedication to his faith. None ever told him that his kirpan–which was duller than a butter knife and secured underneath his clothes–posed any sort of danger.
Without explanation, school officials suddenly reversed course in February 2005 and declared Amandeep's kirpan to be a prohibited "weapon." Moreover, they refused to allow him to set foot on school grounds unless he abandoned his article of faith. At that point, Amandeep retained The Becket Fund to protect his religious freedom.
The Becket Fund intervened on Amandeep's behalf, meeting with school district officials to explain the kirpan's religious significance and Amandeep's rights under the First Amendment. The district quickly changed course, agreeing to allow Amandeep to continue his education without compromising his faith.
This was a victory not only for Amandeep and other Sikhs, but also for free religious exercise in public schools. The district's actions were "evidence of religious discrimination," Jared Leland, media and legal counsel for Becket, told the Journal News . "He was really being forced to choose between attending a public school and practicing his faith, and that's something that the First Amendment does not tolerate."
Now, I have no problem with the idea allowing a Sikh child—or any other child—to wear a safe, very small, very blunted and entirely symbolic sword under their clothes at school. The school's security policy should never have been so narrow as to ban it. But to permit this exception purely on the grounds of religious belief is more troubling, not particularly in itself (Amandeep's kirpan seems completely harmless), but for the precedent it may set. What other school rules or procedures could children be exempted from in future purely because compliance with those rules or procedures contravened a possibly less benign aspect of one or another creed?
A generous and broad assertion of the principle of freedom of religion is something that makes America America, and rightly so, but so too is the notion of equality before the law, and, for that matter, something else too. How to put it? Well, this will do: E pluribus unum.
There has to be unum as well, so to speak, as pluribus
Pope vs. Pot
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in law
From a week or so back, CNN reports:
That's the message Pope Francis seemed to be sending lawmakers Friday, saying the growing worldwide trend toward legalizing recreational drugs is a very, very bad idea. "Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise," he told participants at the International Drug Enforcement Conference in Rome. The Pope's call isn't shocking. Francis has spoken of the dangers of drug use before.
It's no surprise at all that the pope is opposed to drug use as a personal choice (that's a perfectly respectable position to take, and from a pontiff I'd expect nothing else) , but the vigor of the language with he goes on to attack any form of drug legalization is striking.
"Here I would reaffirm what I have stated on another occasion: No to every type of drug use. It is as simple as that," [the pope] said.
"Attempts, however limited, to legalize so-called 'recreational drugs', are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects," the pope said.
Quite how the pope knows that legalization fails escapes me. Prohibition has not, shall we say, been a great success. Marijuana legalization, by contrast, has barely been tried.
No fear though, Francis has a solution:
Francis, who has spoken out against drug use several times, said that to ensure young people did not fall prey to drugs, society had to say "'yes' to life, 'yes' to love, 'yes' to others, 'yes' to education, 'yes' to greater job opportunities".
"If we say 'yes' to all these things, there will be no room for illicit drugs, for alcohol abuse, for other forms of addiction," he said in remarks to a drug enforcement conference in Rome carried on the website of Vatican radio.
That, I am afraid, is drivel.
Pressing Some Buttons
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in culture, Religion
The Vatican has formally recognised the International Association of Exorcists, giving its blessing to a group of 250 priests in 30 countries who claim to save the possessed from Satan.
The association's practice of exorcism is now recognised under canon law, the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper reported Thursday.
Pope Francis often insists on the need to fight "Satan" and "demons", and was captured in dramatic images last year placing his hands on the head of a boy in a wheelchair who appeared to slump at his touch — an act of prayer exorcists claim was intended to free the victim from the devil.
The first association of exorcists was founded by Father Gabriele Amorth, the Holy See's chief exorcist for almost 30 years, who has described intense sessions with possessed people who scream, blaspheme and spit shards of glass.
He set up an Italian exorcists association in 1991, after which he began organising meetings with devil fighters from other countries, leading to the establishment of the international group.
Francesco Bamonte, the head of the association, told L'Osservatore that the recognition was "a cause for joy for the whole Church," saying that "exorcism is a form of charity that benefits those who suffer".
The Middle Ages, wrote that old crank Carl Jung, "live on… merrily".
And so they do.
They are good box office too. As this cannily populist pope understands very well.
Happy Independence Day!
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
"Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong."
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
Longer Spoon Needed
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Religion
Pope Francis, whose criticisms of unbridled capitalism have prompted some to label him a Marxist, said in an interview published on Sunday that communists had stolen the flag of Christianity. The 77-year-old pontiff gave an interview to Il Messaggero, Rome's local newspaper, to mark the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, a Roman holiday. He was asked about a blog post in the Economist magazine that said he sounded like a Leninist when he criticised capitalism and called for radical economic reform.
"I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the centre of the Gospel," he said, citing Biblical passages about the need to help the poor, the sick and the needy.
"Communists say that all this is communism. Sure, twenty centuries later. So when they speak, one can say to them: 'but then you are Christian'," he said, laughing.
The Raw Story (reporting on the same interview):
Pope Francis has accused communism of stealing its ideas from Christianity, and said its founding thinker Karl Marx "did not invent anything."
Commenting on suggestions in the media that his world view is not dissimilar to communist ideology, the pope responded that it was the church that got there first.
Let's just say that's a rather benign interpretation of what communism actually is. Nevertheless, as The Raw Story goes on to note, the pope has in the past rejected the idea that he is a Marxist. That's fair enough. To start with, although communism has many of the characteristics of a millennialist religion, there is that whole 'no God' thing.
The pope's critique of capitalism, if not the demagogic language in which he makes it, is better seen as a radical application of Rerum Novarum than as an attempt to give Das Kapital a clerical twist. At the same time, as I read Francis's comments I couldn't help thinking of Ayn Rand's remark about Christianity (and, more specifically, its collectivist tradition) being "the best kindergarten of communism possible." As so often with Rand, an oversimplification, but…
Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality (Yet Again)
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, politics
Cross-posted on the Corner:
Here's Radio Free Europe with a reminder of how "traditional" values are playing out in today's Russia:
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for "glory and honor." Patriarch Kirill gave the order to Zyuganov in Moscow on June 27, one day after the longtime communist leader celebrated his 70th birthday.
Kirill said Zyuganov — who in 2010 called for the re-Stalinization of Russia and has called the Soviet Union "the most humane state in human history" — deserves the award as "one of the most famous Russian politicians who has expressed interest in the welfare of the nation and the protection of traditional moral values".
And to think there are those who still believe that Pussy Riot was the problem.
Papal Economics, Again
4 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
A week or so ago (yes, I've been away) Pope Francis's views on economics took an even deeper turn into the swamplands of conspiracy theory.
Business Insider reports:
The 77-year-old leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics said some countries had a youth unemployment rate of more than 50 percent, with many millions in Europe seeking work in vain.
"It's madness," the pope said in an interview with the Barcelona-based Vanguardia daily's Vatican correspondent Henrique Cymerman.
Well, that's not entirely unfair; it is madness that so many are unemployed in countries such as Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece. But the madness is that these high levels of unemployment are in no small part the consequences of the euro, a currency that is in many ways the antithesis of the free market economics that the pope so disdains.
But I don't think the struggling single currency union is what the pope is really referring to when he talks about "an economic system that no longer endures".
No, what the pope is talking about is free market capitalism;
"We discard a whole generation to maintain an economic system that no longer endures, a system that to survive has to make war, as the big empires have always done," Francis said.
"But since we cannot wage the Third World War, we make regional wars. And what does that mean? That we make and sell arms. And with that the balance sheets of the idolatrous economies — the big world economies that sacrifice man at the feet of the idol of money — are obviously cleaned up."
Nonsense, of course, poisonous nonsense, but skilfully deployed.
Can Water Weep?
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Science & Faith
Cross-posted on the Corner:
In the latest episode of 'Gwyneth Paltrow states the absolute ridiculous', the actress has claimed that saying negative things to water can hurt its feelings.
Well, that's a little bit of a stretch (check out the actual post here), but the rest of the Independent's summary is pretty much accurate . . .
The 'consciously uncoupled' star revealed that she follows the work of Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto, whose experiments attempt to investigate whether human consciousness has a direct effect on the molecular structure of water. His theories go as far as to claim that shouting at rice – as one so frequently does – could turn it bad.
"I am fascinated by the growing science behind the energy of consciousness and its effects on matter," Paltrow wrote in a blog post for her much derided clean living website GOOP.
"I have long had Dr Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules behave differently depending on the words or music being expressed around it."
Handing over the keyboard to friend Dr Habib Sadeghi to explain what on earth she was talking about, he wrote: "Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto performed some of the most fascinating experiments on the effect that words have on energy in the 1990s….In his experiments, Emoto poured pure water into vials labelled with negative phrases like 'I hate you' or 'Fear'. After 24 hours, the water was frozen, and no longer crystallised under the microscope: It yielded grey, misshapen clumps instead of beautiful lace-like crystals. In contrast, Emoto placed labels that said things like 'I love you' or 'Peace' on vials of polluted water, and after 24 hours, they produced gleaming, perfectly hexagonal crystals."
And shouting at rice? Well, nothing was written about raised voices that I can see, but, no matter, mere insults that go against the grain are, it seems, enough.
In another experiment, Emoto tested the power of spoken words. He placed two cups of cooked white rice in two separate mason jars and fixed the lids in place, labeling one jar "Thank You" and the other, "You Fool." The jars were left in an elementary school classroom, and the students were instructed to speak the words on the labels to the corresponding jars twice a day. After 30 days, the rice in the jar that was constantly insulted had shriveled into a black, gelatinous mass. The rice in the jar that was thanked was as white and fluffy as the day it was made…
No surprise there. I have always thought that rice seemed a little on the oversensitive side. The sturdy potato on the other hand, a vegetable (yes it is) tough enough to prevail over the most British of cooking, would, if confronted by either insult or praise, merely shrug.
Wenski Demands Action: Please Fill My Pews
7 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
Here's Miami's Roman Catholic archbishop Wenski writing from, so to speak, his tax-exempt pulpit, with an attack on the position that the Republican-controlled House has taken on immigration 'reform':
As the Archbishop of Miami, a region with more than one million immigrants who came to America seeking a better life, I was pleased and hopeful when the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill endorsed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
But that was almost a full year ago. Ever since then, the leadership of the House of Representatives has offered a litany of delays and excuses for inaction and obstruction. These political whimpers stand in contrast to the cries of torn-apart immigrant families that echo in parishes across the country. Parents of American children are deported. Eleven million of our neighbors live in constant fear of losing their loved ones, their jobs, their place in a country that has become home.
A nation of immigrants and a beacon of democracy can surely do better. Now is the time for the House to pass common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform that the American people support and the American economy needs…
Wenski appears to know about as much about economics as his (quasi) Peronist boss in the Vatican. The American economy does not "need" immigration reform. And America's unemployed (the sort of people for whom, incidentally, priests are supposed to care) do not need yet more competitors for the jobs that they would like to have and, in an age of increasing structural unemployment, are likely to find it ever more difficult to secure.
Wenski thunders on:
I believe Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) knows that passing comprehensive immigration reform is the right thing to do, and that there are enough people of good will in the House to get it done. What remains to be seen is whether these legislators understand the fierce urgency of the situation. Criticism from the partisan base might loom larger than the plight of an altar boy whose father awaits deportation, but which is more important?
This priest, it seems, is not too happy with democracy (or, as he would term it, "criticism from the partisan base").
Naturally Pope Francis's notorious Lampedusa talk gets an implicit plug:
Pope Francis…condemns a "globalization of indifference" that takes immigrants' lives.
Here, again, is some of what Theodore Dalrymple had to say about that particular piece of demagoguery:
In his homily, the Pope decried what he called 'the globalization of indifference' to the suffering of which the tragedy of the drowned was a manifestation and a consequence. Our culture of comfort, he said, has made us indifferent to the sufferings of others; we have forgotten how to cry on their behalf. He made reference to the play of Lope de Vega in which a tyrant is killed by the inhabitants of a town called Fuente Ovejuna, no one owning up to the killing and everyone saying that it was Fuente Ovejuna that killed him. The West, said the Pope, was like Fuente Ovejuna, for when asked who was to blame for the deaths of these migrants, it answered, 'Everyone and no one!' He continued, 'Today also this question emerges: who is responsible for the blood of these brothers and sisters? No one! We each reply: it was not I, I wasn't here, it was someone else.'
The Pope also called for 'those who take the socio-economic decisions in anonymity that open the way to tragedies such as these to come out of hiding.'
With all due respect, I think this is very loose thinking indeed of a kind that the last Pope would not have permitted himself. The analogy between the two situations, the murder of the tyrant in Fuente Ovejuna and the death by drowning of thousands of migrants, is weak to the point of non-existence. After all, someone in Fuente Ovejuna did kill the tyrant; no one in the west drowned the migrants. Is the Pope then saying that Europe's refusal to allow in all who want to come is the moral equivalent of actually wielding the knife?
By elevating feeling over thought, by making compassion the measure of all things, the Pope was able to evade the complexities of the situation, in effect indulging in one of the characteristic vices of our time, moral exhibitionism, which is the espousal of generous sentiment without the pain of having to think of the costs to other people of the implied (but unstated) morally-appropriate policy…..
And that's just fine with Wenski.
Of course, we need to remember that what Wenski is preaching has very little to do with compassion, and a great deal to do with power, and more specifically, the power of numbers. Latino immigration fills pews, and (often) adds support for the Roman Catholic Church's ideological agenda.
As The Economist explained a month or so back:
Together with a general migration from the north-east and Midwest towards the sunbelt, the number of people leaving the faith has led to a shrinking of Catholicism in its former heartlands…
This shrinking has been offset by growth in the South and southwest of the country. The number of Catholics in the archdiocese of Atlanta has increased by 180% in 2001-11. In these growth areas two-thirds of all Catholics are Hispanic. Hispanics tend to have larger families and their children are more likely to stick with the religion than the offspring of white Catholics. This is causing a big change in the ethnic makeup of the faithful. About a third of American Catholics are Hispanic, but for those under 40 the share rises to almost half.
And that's what Wenski's advocacy is really about.
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NORMAN — Parents are the key to teen driver safety. It just makes sense — the more involved parents are in their teens' driving life, the safer teens will be on the road.
In recognition of Teen Driver Safety Week, which began Oct. 14, AAA urges parents to:
n Be role models. Our children pick up more from how we act than we think.
Kids typically mimic the driving behaviors of their parents.
n Set rules. Oklahoma has a pretty good teen Graduated Driver Licensing
(GDL) law. It sets limits on where novice drivers can drive, at what hours and with how many passengers. But conscientious parents will take these rules one step further by imposing guidelines on things like cell phone use while driving, texting, use of seat belts, highway driving and alcohol.
n Stay involved. Communication between teen and parent is vital. Ask your kids where they're going, who they'll be with, what roads they'll be on and when they'll be back. Then when they return, talk about their driving experiences — how was it? Any problems? Did you encounter any unusual driving scenarios? You know what to ask and you know you are the answer.
With high school driver's education now almost a thing of the past, who is teaching your teen how to drive? Are they gathering these life skills from TV car commercials? Video games? Their friends?
There's a reason teen drivers pay the most of any age group for car insurance — they have the most wrecks. Car crashes are still the leading cause of death for teens.
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This, in my opinion, is what a quilt store should be. Strip mall fabric is fine, but this works wonders for your soul.
The rooster meets you at the gate.
The fabric selection is astounding.
And you leave there ready to make whatever strikes your fancy. These happen to be for the Dear Jane quilt but I was very, very tempted to grab everything I could lay my hands on.
Absolute fabric addict heaven!
(Yes, I did post the same thing on two blogs.)
Friday, March 21, 2008
Field trip!
This, in my opinion, is what a quilt store should be. Strip mall fabric is fine, but this works wonders for your soul.
posted at 7:28 AM
Labels: keepsake cottage, quilt store
23 comments:
- Junie Moon said...
That does indeed look like a wonderful quilt store. I have to say that being greeted by roosters is such a novel and delightful experience that I wish I could enjoy it, too.
- March 21, 2008 at 7:34 AM
- seemownay said...
Wow, the fabric you purchased looks fantastic. I do not have any words for it. Lucky you!
- March 21, 2008 at 8:10 AM
- Berlinswhimsy said...
That store looks so fun! It's even a fabric store that my kids would like, with the animals there. Wonderful fabric, too!!
- March 21, 2008 at 8:20 AM
- Lisa D. said...
This is the shop where I work - I love it there, always something new and beautiful! Glad you liked the shop!
- March 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM
- de vliegende koe said...
That's the most adorable quilt-shop! The fabrics you bought are so wonderful! You will have fun to make DBJ with them, I'm sure!
- March 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM
- Lynn said...
WOW! The shop is so cute! And you found such perfect fabrics!
- March 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- CONNIE W said...
Looks terrific, I could enjoy myself there.
- March 21, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- Jacquie said...
Great fabrics...can't wait to see them made into blocks.
- March 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- house on hill road said...
wow! that would be so fun to visit! looks like you got nice things, too.
- March 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM
- Valerie said...
I am just beginning to learn to quilt. I am so excited. I am doing the quilt a long over at crazymomquilts.blogspot.com and also I am taking a quilting class with my mom in Chattanooga. We are excited. I also want to learn to embroidery but don't know where to start. Thanks for the great blog. I enjoyed my visit and will be back!
- March 22, 2008 at 4:01 AM
- sammyjo said...
i love the colours and the fabric shop its self, you dont get them looking like thst were i live so im very jelous!
- March 22, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- Christy said...
That is definitely my kind of quilt shop! And the fabrics are all gorgeous. Can't wait to see what you do with them. :)
- March 22, 2008 at 11:58 PM
- Cristina said...
The colors of those fabrics are simply fantastic! I wish, i whis...
I really must make a visit to the fabric store, but i will not fim that wonder there! :(
- March 23, 2008 at 5:39 AM
- Chookyblue...... said...
wow fantastic shop........love the materials you got.........
catching up.......the quilts look great.....office in very nice and light.....nice pillows - are they a present or for you.....
- March 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- Happy Zombie said...
What an awesome field trip! Drooling... I want to go there IRL. First time I've heard of this paradise... thanks Anina! I'm 'bout tempted to gas up the car and head up to Bothell!
Happy Easter Anina!
- March 23, 2008 at 1:50 PM
- beki said...
Oh wow, I'd love to go somewhere like that!
- March 24, 2008 at 6:48 AM
- syko kajsa said...
I so wish I could have joined you! I wish we had shops like that around here!
- March 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM
- Chara Michele said...
It looks like a great shop! I am definitely going to have to take a trip up there... Although I might run from the rooster :)
- March 26, 2008 at 2:14 PM
- chq said...
That is a sassy rooster if I ever saw one! The fabric shop looks pretty good too!
- March 26, 2008 at 2:17 PM
- Kelly said...
that is EXACTLY what a fabric shop should look like. awesome.
- March 26, 2008 at 4:15 PM
- amandajean said...
that place looks fabulous!
- March 28, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- Mary Jane said...
Awww, a welcome-rooster. What a great place.
- March 30, 2008 at 6:38 PM
- amanda said...
i'm a new reader catching up on your old blog posts and i know i'm like 6 months late with this comment... but keepsake cottage is my favorite quilt shop in the seattle area! the location is kind of random, but i like it better than quiltworks nw or quilting loft or any of the other places i've been to.
- October 24, 2008 at 8:18 PM


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Tommy Streeter, WR, Miami
6-foot-5, 215 pounds
Draft projection: late second to fifth rounds
Lowdown: Streeter is a one-year wonder with phenomenal physical skills. For that reason, it's hard to forecast when he will be picked. He caught 46 passes for 811 yards and eight TDs as a junior in 2011 for the Hurricanes. Then he ran a 40-yard dash time of 4.40 seconds at the NFL Scouting Combine, phenomenal for his size. He's slender. His consistency in catching the ball could be a question. He hasn't played that much. He had only five catches as a red-shirt freshman in 2009 and one in 2010. There aren't many burners at receiver in this draft. That may push him up the board.
Said ESPN analyst Mel Kiper: "There's a lot of mixed opinion on Streeter. He had the one year. He doesn't get tremendous separation. Some people think he's a 4-5 (rounder), some think he's a 2-3. People are all over the board."
---Mark Gaughan
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