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Chapter 1
Endings and Beginnings
I'll never forget the afternoon Alex drove out of my life forever.
It was a sizzling, miserable day, just like the other ninety-nine sizzling,
miserable days that make me so glad to live in Utah every summer. A
dribble of sweat trickled down between my shoulder blades and made
me itch in a place I couldn't reach to scratch. I flicked out my tongue
and tasted the salt on my dry face. I was "watermelon hot" -- which
meant there was enough salt on my face to season a slice of
watermelon. I wouldn't keel over in a faint until I got "french fry
hot," but that would happen soon enough unless I went indoors fast.
Alex tucked a box into the back seat of her car and slapped me
on my rear end. "Are you going to finish loading the car, or are you
going to stand there tasting your face?"
"Do I have a choice?" I asked.
"Such a kidder," she said. She straightened up and rubbed a sore
spot in her back. "Look -- we're almost finished. Then I'll get in the
car and ride off into the sunset."
"Ride off out of my life, you mean. Alex, you know you're not a
letter-writer. If Ed McMahon gave you ten million dollars, you
wouldn't even write him a thank you note."
"Ho-ho-ho!" she chuckled, in a deep voice that was more
reminiscent of Santa Claus than Ed McMahon. Then she sobered. "I
don't like Ed McMahon. I like you. You and I will be friends forever."
But we wouldn't. Alex was my best friend on the whole green
earth, and she was the most compassionate woman I'd ever seen. But
she wasn't a visionary person: She didn't keep people's faces in her
mind or in her heart. Her friends were the people around her right
now. As soon as she hadn't seen someone in a week, she forgot that
person had ever existed. Even if that person was me.
She'd make the effort, I knew. She'd call me as soon as she got
to Phoenix, and she might call again a week or two later. Then my
face would fade from her mind, and by Christmas I'd get a Christmas
card from her or I wouldn't. She'd have a new best friend in Phoenix,
and I'd be exchanging Christmas presents with my gerbil and my cats.
I followed her back into the house. The movers had left this
morning, taking all the priceless antiques and the artwork and the
clocks. Only the boxes of clothes and jewelry and mementos that we'd
been stuffing into the car had escaped the moving van.
I'd never see that furniture again, unless I visited Alex in
Phoenix. As much as I hated Utah summers, I couldn't imagine going
to Phoenix in this or any other lifetime. As far as I was concerned,
Phoenix was farther away than Madagascar; I'd never visit there. But
then, Alex wouldn't ask me to. She'd have other friends.
I sighed.
Then I was startled by a happy voice behind me. "Don't be sad,
Amy. It's bad luck to get the blues on moving day."
Norma Jean "My-Daddy-Named-Me-After-Marilyn-Monroe"
Forrest was the only person I've ever met who made up superstitions to
fit every occasion. She peeked around the corner to grin at me,
bouncing a headful of curls that had been dyed platinum blonde in
honor of her namesake. The clock had stopped for Norma Jean the
day Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, when Norma Jean was still wearing
rompers. Just like her namesake she wore cherry red lipstick, and her
ample bosoms had been shaped by her brassiere into the cones that
women used to wear back in the fifties. She even talked in that
breathy voice that supposedly drives men crazy, but that always made
me want to pull a paper bag over her head to keep her from
"It's a bad luck day anyway, Norma Jean," I said. "Alex is
leaving. Remember?"
Norma Jean pouted, and I repented my snappishness. She
couldn't help being cheerful on a day when I wanted to crawl under
my refrigerator and die. She was just normally cheerful -- a real
sweetie, even if she did have a fixation on a dead movie star.
Furthermore, she was Alex's visiting teacher. That meant she had just
as much right to be here as I did.
"Sorry about being grouchy," I said, and her frown relaxed into a
cherry-red smile.
"No offense taken," she said. "But see -- I've unpacked some
peanut butter sandwiches for our lunch. It's bad luck to say goodbye
on an empty stomach. I've laid out a picnic cloth in the living room.
Pull up your fanny and sit on the floor."
We gathered around the picnic lunch of peanut butter and
strawberry jam sandwiches, potato chips, and orange soda. Health
food. I hate peanut butter. As far as I'm concerned, just about the
only advantage of being childless is that I don't have to keep peanut
butter in my house. But Norma Jean didn't know that, so I pulled half
a sandwich out of a baggie and pretended I was eating roast beef.
Right. Roast beef, crunchy style.
"You're leaving just at the right time," Norma Jean told Alex
brightly. "Here you are, driving off to start all over again with your
husband, and we're sitting here in a ward that's about to split and fall
"I haven't heard anything about the ward splitting," said Alex.
She looked at me pointedly, but I ignored her as I watched the peanut
butter squishing out onto my fingers. I knew all about the ward
splitting. I'd known about it for months. Reynolds Cleese was the
stake executive secretary, and I refereed his kids in church during the
Sundays when he was off on stake business. He told me everything --
all the stuff that men aren't even supposed to tell their wives but
usually do. A boundary realignment was right around the corner, but
nobody was going to hear it from me.
"It's true," said Norma Jean breathily. "Horace tells me
everything. Too many gentiles --" she said gentiles like it was a dirty
word -- "are moving in around here. All the wards are getting smaller
and smaller."
That part was true enough. Our Relief Society rolls had gone
down by twenty-five women in the past seven months.
But Norma Jean wasn't finished. "And," she said dramatically, "I
hear we're going to combine with the Old Mountain Home Ward."
"No!" said Alex.
"No!" I said.
Combining with the Old Mountain Home Ward would be
somewhat equivalent to mixing household bleach with powdered
cleanser. Boom! The church wasn't big enough to contain the
If there was one congregation in the entire world that was richer
and more important than Paradise Vue, the Old Mountain Home
Ward was it. And they never let us forget it. If we served Cornish
game hens with apple stuffing at a ward dinner, they'd serve Cornish
game hens with caviar apple stuffing at theirs. If one of our members
got elected president of the Utah Bar Association, they didn't sleep
until one of their members got elected president of the American Bar
Association. And heaven help them if a member of Paradise Vue got
put in a stake position that should have gone to somebody from Old
Mountain Home!
The funny thing was, nobody in Paradise Vue was interested in
the competition. The Old Mountain Home Ward did all the
competing and all the one-upping. As far as I was concerned, the Old
Mountain Home people weren't even members of the same church
that took my tithing dollars. I'd roll into a ball and die if I ever had to
be a member of that ward.
Except -- I wouldn't have to. Norma Jean's husband, Horace,
was the ward executive secretary for Paradise Vue. He was privy to all
sorts of secrets I didn't know and didn't even want to know, for that
matter. But Reynolds Cleese was one level up the line. As executive
secretary to the stake president, he probably carried a map of the
proposed boundary changes in his Daytimer. And Reynolds had
assured me that all the boundary changes would be going on south of
Paradise Vue, not to the north. The Old Mountain Home Ward
would maintain its pristine boundaries, unsullied by the unwashed
heathen from Paradise Vue. It was the Paradise Vue congregation who
would be getting an influx of people from poorer neighborhoods, and I
couldn't wait for the change. As much as I loved the people in our
ward, it was going to be healthy for them to see that not every good
church member was a lawyer who lived in a fancy house, or thought it
was déclassé to be seen in last year's BMW.
I didn't say that, though. This was Norma Jean's time to shine,
and shine she did. She was delighted to know a bit of gossip that the
ward Relief Society president hadn't even heard. She preened like a
mallard duck, if mallards come in platinum blonde and have phony
black beauty marks glued to their faces. It wouldn't cost me anything
to keep my mouth shut, so for once that's what I did.
Alex listened to every word of Norma Jean's story, transfixed.
When she finally swallowed her potato chip and breathed again, the
first thing out of her mouth was, "Poor Amy."
I glared. "Poor Amy what?"
"Poor Amy who hates change -- that's what. First I leave, and
now you'll be getting a new church job, and then you'll be getting a
whole new ward. You might as well go whole hog and get a job
"Or," I said pointedly, "you can unpack your car right now and
stay here. Then I won't have to lose you. And, if you don't leave you
won't be released and I won't lose my church job either. I can handle
one change, you know. Even I can do that."
Norma Jean gasped in horror. "But Amy -- she's going off to live
with Ethan. You can't make her stay home for you."
"She was just kidding," said Alex.
"I was just kidding, Norma Jean," I said. But I was only half
kidding, and Alex knew it. As much as I wanted to see Alex and
Ethan reunited, I wanted them reunited right here in the Paradise Vue
Ward. Not in the Phoenix Sunstroke Ward. Not in some desert that
was hotter than hell's Jacuzzi. And certainly not in a place where I'd
never see her again.
After we finished our sandwiches, Norma Jean cleaned up the
picnic while Alex and I finished loading the car. Then I stood on the
driveway as I watched Alex get in her car that one final time.
She hugged me first. That was hard, because I was already
fighting tears. When we broke apart I smiled and looked at the grass,
because if I looked at Alex I would have cried and if I'd gotten even a
glance of Norma Jean's chipper demeanor I probably would have
kicked her in the teeth.
"It's time to go," she said.
"So go," I said, and even though I knew I sounded like a three-year-old, I didn't apologize.
"You'll get over this," she said. She got in her car and turned
the ignition key. "You'll find a thousand other friends just as good as I
"Sure I will." But I wasn't convinced. I've always had lots of
casual friends, but true friends come along once in a lifetime . . . if
you're lucky enough to have even one.
"We all love you," called Norma Jean, jumping up and down like
a cheerleader to keep Alex's car in sight.
And then Alex was gone. Norma Jean and I looked at each
other. She smiled and I sighed, and I know she said something
cheerful and optimistic, but I just wasn't in the mood to hear it -- so I
didn't. I waved a half-hearted goodbye and walked home. I put my
feet on automatic pilot, and I don't even remember the trip.
I was met at the door by an army of hungry cats. I like cats,
although one cat at a time is enough for me. By the time Alex moved
to Phoenix I was up to three of them, however. One of the little old
ladies across the street adopted a female kitten that somebody left in
her garage. She named it Poopsie or Fluffy or one of those other kitty
names, and I never gave it a second thought.
But then the kitten turned into a cat and the cat went into heat.
When she did, her whole personality changed. From a normal, stay-at-home feline, this orange tabby turned into a wanderer. Sister
Parrimore immediately changed the cat's name to Quo Vadis, which
old movie buffs like myself knew meant Where are you going?
I knew from sad experience where Quo Vadis was going. Every
time she went into heat, she vadised right over to my bedroom window,
where she serenaded Samson, my own studly cat, until the cycle ended
and she went back home again. The yowls drove me crazy, but Sister
Parrimore only smiled when I complained. "What can I do about a cat
in heat?" she asked benignly. And since there wasn't much she could
do, I didn't mention it again.
After three cycles, I gave Quo Vadis what she wanted and let
Samson out one night. Six kittens resulted from that little mistake.
Sister Parrimore generously made me take only two. I named them
Spay and Neuter. I didn't want Spay or Neuter, but I had created
them. I owed them at least a life and a good college education.
Putting my thoughts of Alex aside, I fed Neuter and Samson,
although Samson refused to eat in the same room with his offspring
and had to be fed in the breakfast nook. Spay turned up his nose at
the Fancy Feast, preferring the cheap dry stuff to the expensive canned
liver I had served.
Normally I would have accommodated Spay, but I was too busy
feeling sorry for myself to worry about a cat. I never have made friends
easily. With Alex gone, I didn't know what I was going to do.
I didn't cry, but I sniffed once or twice. I settled into a living
room chair and felt sorry for myself. Spay sniffed my bare toe and then
bit it. She was still in the cute kitten stage, playful as all get-out. Or
maybe she was just hungry. My toe looked just like a Vienna sausage,
and it was probably far more nutritious.
I would have probably sniffed myself into a stupor, but the phone
rang. It was Horace Forrest, Norma Jean's lucky husband. His voice
was little and squeaky, which was out of place in a man who stood six-foot-six in his stockinged feet.
"Sister Hardisty? This is Horace Forrest, Bishop Nebeker's
executive secretary in the Paradise Vue Ward." His voice went up on
the Har of Hardisty, and it broke secretary clean in half. Unless
Mickey Mouse had moved to Paradise Vue, Horace had no need to
identify himself. But he always did, giving both names and his
position and then the ward, so as not to confuse himself with whatever
other Horace Forrests were executive secretaries to the Bishop
Nebekers of other wards in our local calling area. "Do you have a free
moment tonight? The bishop would like to visit with you up in his
Free? With Tim dead and Alex moved away, my whole life was
free. As I paused, considering my calendar for the next hundred years,
I could almost feel him holding his breath in the sheer anticipation of
my answer. "I think I can fit him in," I said. And then I twisted the
knife. "Do you know what it's about?"
Of course he knew what it was about. He scheduled the
appointments, and then he sat over in the clerk's office as a chaperon
whenever the bishop had interviews at the ward. He made meticulous
lists telling the bishop exactly what to expect during every time slot. I
knew that because I found one of the lists one day, where it had
slipped out of his Daytimer and landed on the carpet in the back of the
chapel. Every time Bishop Nebeker was due to sneeze, Horace had
noted it in black and white.
But in the interest of confidentiality, Horace hemmed and hawed
and said, "You'll have to let the bishop tell you that." I could feel the
heat of his blush right over the telephone wires. I would have felt
sorry about goading him, if I weren't already feeling sorrier for myself.
I arrived at the meetinghouse promptly at 9:30. The relentless
sun had finally gone down, and the air had cooled down by a hefty
one-point-six degrees. The unheated foyer was as hot as the cheese on
a pizza, but a breeze escaped from the open door of the clerk's office.
I waved at Horace. He smiled, and his Adam's apple bobbed for
a moment before he turned back to the ward's computer. Norma Jean
thought he was Clark Gable and Mel Gibson, all rolled into one, but
the rest of the world saw Ichabod Crane with a pocket protector. His
neck rose out of his collar like the World Trade Center.
Bishop Nebeker was shorter and rounder, with chipmunk cheeks
and a saintly disposition. His face was so loving and forgiving that he
made me want to go right out and sin, just so he could reassure me
that God still loved me after all. The man was born to be a bishop,
much to the dismay of his long-suffering wife. He spent long hours in
his office, offering counsel and love to anyone who needed it. Then
he took his problems home with him and stewed about them, losing
sleep over people who were slumbering peacefully in their beds. He
ushered me into his office with a two-fisted handshake and a smile.
When he said, "Hello, Amy," I knew I was the only person in the
entire world he was thinking about at that very moment.
"I'll come right to the point," he said, after we'd chit-chatted
about his newest baby and my newest cats. "I suppose you're pretty
well aware that Alex left town today."
I grimaced. It wasn't exactly something I was likely to forget.
"Well, I guess you know we're going to have to change the Relief
Society presidency."
I didn't have to call the Psychic Hotline for that piece of news,
either. When one Relief Society president leaves, they don't exactly
keep the office vacant in her memory. So I sat there expectantly,
praying that whoever the new president was going to be, her name
wouldn't be Amy.
"You might as well know," he said, "that I've called Bess
Monson to be the new president." He had moved her up from
education counselor; that obviously meant I was being moved up the
line, too. I'd hoped for that, so I relaxed in my chair. I wouldn't mind
a change of assignments; education counselor would be Retirement
City compared to homemaking counselor. I'd be glad of the rest.
But just as I was opening my mouth to accept the new call, he
dropped his bombshell.
"I thought you'd be ready for a change," he said. "We happen to
have an opening that might interest you. How would you like to be
ward newspaper editor?"
"Ward newspaper editor?" I didn't say it; I squeaked it. "I'll say
there's an opening! We don't even have a ward newspaper. And the
ward's going to split any minute, so there's no sense in starting one."
Bishop Nebeker smiled his little chipmunk smile. "I don't know
the ward's going to split," he said. "We can't put the ward on hold on
the basis of a rumor. In fact, that's one of the reasons I want a ward
newspaper. A community that has a newspaper is a solid community.
If people see a newspaper here in Paradise Vue, maybe they'll stop
waiting for the ward to split and go back to business as usual."
"That makes sense," I said.
He leaned forward in his chair and gave me an earnest look. "Of
course it makes sense. And you're just the person to be our editor."
"That doesn't make sense," I said. "Not this week. Not ever. I
know my talents, and editing a ward newspaper isn't one of them."
His cherubic face melted into such a look of abject sorrow that I
might just as well have run down Mother Teresa with a golf cart.
Immediately I repented, but I didn't want to repent too much -- not
enough that he'd think I wanted the job.
"Look," I said. "I'm not a writer. I can't even type! Half the
time I type Hardisty with two r's, and it's my own name."
"That's why God created spell checkers," he said.
"I don't have a spell checker," I said. "To have a spell checker,
you have to have a word processor. To have a word processor, you
have to have a computer. I don't have a computer."
He smiled again, and the sun rose. "That's okay. You can use a
"Not unless it types by itself, Bishop. When I told you I can't
type, I wasn't blowing milk through my nose. I'll bring my old typing
teacher right here to tell you in person. We were taking a speed test
and I got all excited, and I knocked my typewriter upside-down on the
floor. I totaled the typewriter, and Mr. Pierce totaled my grade. It
kept me off the honor roll," I said pointedly, neglecting to mention
that my grades in phys. ed. and algebra would have kept me off the
honor roll if I hadn't flunked typing first.
But Bishop Nebeker didn't know he was had. "I have faith in
you. You'll pick up typing in no time flat. And you can make your
own choice about using a typewriter or a computer. Personally, I'd
recommend a computer -- but you're the editor. I'll trust your
I actually smiled and nodded before I realized what he was saying.
That sneak was just acting as though I'd accepted the calling, when I'd
specifically told him no. "Let's back up here," I said. "I don't want to
buy a typewriter or a computer. I don't want this job."
His eyebrows arched in surprise. He nodded in contemplation,
and once again I relaxed back into my chair. Then he smiled. "I
understand, Amy," he said. "You want to work with people. Well, I
do have an opening for a Primary teacher. I'm sure you'd enjoy
working in the nursery."
"What kind of computer do you recommend?" I asked.
He grinned, and for once he looked more devilish than beatific.
"I knew you'd see it my way. Horace Forrest is the ward computer
expert. He'll help you buy it, and he'll even set it up for you. I'd like
to see a newspaper once a month, starting in July. You can have an
assistant if you want one; usually it's easier to do it all yourself. Make
it creative, Amy. Mention people's names and make them happy.
You've got a talent for that. That's why I called you."
He shook my hand and stood, and the interview was over. I
shuffled out of his office, semi-dazed. Horace Forrest had his nose
buried in the ward computer when I walked past the clerk's office, but
I didn't need to see his face to know that he was grinning. I'd been
railroaded into being ward newspaper editor faster than you could say,
"Ticket, please." As far as I could see it, there was only one possible
consolation: At least I'd escaped the Primary nursery.
I was glad I had walked over to the church. As I strolled home
under a drooping canopy of maple leaves, I thought about the calling I
was leaving and the one that now had a choke hold on my neck. I
hadn't wanted to be homemaking counselor, either. When I got
sustained, I didn't know anything about homemaking. Evidently I was
a slow learner, because I still didn't know anything about being a
I had grown to love the calling, though. The women were as
different as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Each of them had her own rough
edges. Each one had her own unique beauty. Joined together, they
made a single complete picture that I had grown to cherish. And now
I had to give them away to be cherished by someone else.
Why didn't Bess want me as her counselor? What had I done tomake myself unworthy of a place in her presidency? No, that was
unfair. If I were supposed to be education counselor, that's the job I
would have been given. I was supposed to be ward newspaper editor.
For some reason I couldn't determine or some purpose I couldn't
foresee, that was where I belonged. Even if the only purpose I served
was to give something for God to laugh at when he looked down and
wanted a little comic relief. Amy Hardisty -- on a computer? He was
probably getting a big chuckle out of it already.
As I contemplated buying a computer, I recognized an emotion
swelling up in me -- an emotion I hadn't felt for about ninety-seven
years. Greed. But that's a long story. Maybe I'd better start at the
I was poor during college, living on chicken neck soup for dinner
because I could buy chicken necks for five cents a pound at the local
supermarket. On Saturdays I walked to the store and bought a pound
of chicken necks and a stalk of celery. During weeks I was really
feeling flush I'd also buy a box of saltines to go with the soup, but they
cost twenty-five cents so they were a luxury.
Having spent my weekly food dollar, I'd take those chicken necks
and that celery back to my apartment in Provo and make chicken neck
soup. I seasoned it with lots of salt and pepper and garlic, because salt
and pepper and garlic were the spices we already had on hand. That
one pot of soup lasted me for a week.
Those chicken neck soup dinners were my big meals. I never ate
breakfasts, and lunches were spartan. I used to go to the Cougareat
and get a tiny paper container of bleu cheese salad dressing, because
salad dressing was free. I'd sit across the table from my rich friends and
their hamburgers, daintily dipping my finger in the paper container
until the dressing was gone and my fingertip was wrinkled. That was
I was not alone in my poverty. I had friends who took hot water
from the hot water dispenser and made tomato soup by stirring a little
ketchup in. I didn't like that, but I did like bleu cheese dressing. So
did a lot of other people, evidently. Every time I sat in the Cougareat,
I saw one person, or maybe two, eating bleu cheese dressing -- or
thousand island, or even Italian -- daintily sucking the liquid from
their fingertips to keep them alive until dinner. So many people ate
salad dressing for lunch that Cougareat officials, more alarmed at the
loss of profit than they were by the poverty of the students, started
charging money for salad dressing during my last semester at school.
Ketchup was still free, but I chose to fast during the day instead of
make soup out of ketchup. I had some pride, after all.
I didn't make a secret of my poverty. Everyone who knew me
was well aware that I didn't have a penny to my name. Sometimes, in
a fit of generosity, one of my friends would buy me a hamburger or an
order of french fries so they wouldn't have to watch me dip my
fingertips in bleu cheese dressing while they dined on Rack of Cow.
To this day, I have a great fondness for french fries -- and they taste
best with bleu cheese dressing on top.
But no matter how generous and loving my friends were, that
generosity ended the moment one of them got engaged. And face it:
All of them got engaged. In those days, few women made it out of
BYU without a wedding ring and usually a baby or two.
The moment an engagement ring was slipped on her finger, the
happy bride-to-be dived headlong into a black hole of self-absorption.
She forgot that her friends were subsisting on ketchup sandwiches and
were probably three weeks behind on the rent. All that mattered was
how much loot she could get out of them.
Four times I was asked to be a bridesmaid. Four times I had to
dip into my food money to buy a hideous bridesmaid dress because I
didn't know how to say no. And only once -- just one time in all the
scores of times I had a close girlfriend who got married -- did that girl
take me aside and tell me she knew I couldn't afford a wedding
present, but that my presence at the reception to share her happiness
was all she wanted from me for a gift.
By the time I was graduated from BYU, I had learned an eternal
truth: There's nothing on this earth that's more likely to fill the heart
of a decent Christian woman with avarice than the prospect of her
own wedding. Friend after friend had gotten married, and we were
never close again after the marriage. I didn't care that they were
married and I wasn't. What I did remember was the greed. I stewed
about it, and I swore that when I got married (if I got married) I would
never do to my single friends what my friends had done to me. I was
above such petty sins as avarice.
Or so I thought.
Eventually the miracle happened. I met Tim in a singles' ward
up in the Avenues. It wasn't love at first sight, but by the third date I
was planning the marriage. I wasn't planning the wedding, though. I
didn't want bridesmaids, and I didn't want showers. I especially didn't
want the presents -- not when I knew most of my friends were
counting pennies the way I'd done when I was a student at BYU.
I broke the news one night at Marie Callender's. "I don't want a
wedding," I said.
Tim stuffed a piece of cornbread into his mouth. Crumbs
congregated in the cleft of his chin. "Do you want to live in sin?"
"Of course not," I said. "I want to get married in the temple. I
just don't want a wedding."
"You don't elope to the temple," he said.
"Why not?" I asked. So we did. We didn't tell a soul about it,
except for his parents and two or three hand-picked friends. We didn't
have a reception, either.
I thought that eloping would take care of the presents, but I was
wrong. No sooner had we gotten married than a ZCMI truck pulled
up at the house one day, filled with presents of every shape and
description. The truck arrived the next day, too -- and the day after
that. For more than a month, that truck came nearly every afternoon.
ZCMI's deliveryman trained me like one of Pavlov's dogs. First I
wondered if the truck would come. Then I wondered when the truck
would come. Then I got disgusted when the truck was a half hour late.
Despite all my good intentions, avarice got a stranglehold on my
sensibilities. By the time that truck stopped coming, I needed that
truck. There wasn't a single present I would have picked out for
myself, but I wanted them anyway. I wanted all of them. And I
wanted all the rest of the presents in the truck, too -- even the ugly
It took months after that last ZCMI delivery before I tamed the
greed monster and put him back in his cage. I locked the door and
welded it shut, and it would have stayed welded shut if I hadn't been
called as ward newspaper editor.
But I was the new ward newspaper editor, and I couldn't do my
job without a computer. If I needed a computer, I needed a printer --
and maybe a copier, too. Never mind that I'd never touched a
computer, and that I'd never had the slightest interest in owning one.
This was the Lord's work. And if the Lord called me as a ward
newspaper editor, he evidently wanted me to have a computer in the
house. And an office to put the computer in -- I couldn't just stick
the computer on the dining room table.
I decided which guestroom would convert into an office, and I
chose the color of the carpet as I lay in bed that night. It was going to
need wallpaper -- something neutral and officy. And furniture. I
couldn't just put the computer on the floor.
I lay awake in bed for hours before sleep overtook me,
contemplating the task that lay ahead. I'm embarrassed to say that the
actual ward newspaper never crossed my mind. I was far too busy
buying equipment and doing the interior decorating and admiring my
new office, even though it only existed in my dreams.
And as for Alex, I didn't give her another thought. When she
drove off into the smog, I didn't think I could possibly survive without
her. By the time I fell asleep, she had been banished to the Rolodex of
my mind in favor of a green sculptured carpet and a laser printer.
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I prefer females but have trained and competed with both. My sister prefers males but has had her best success with her female.
I prefer females but have trained and competed with both. My sister prefers males but has had her best success with her female.
I trained/hunted both but prefer females. I have two females right now.
Love my females also.
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I like my female but it's frustrating when the heat cycle hits opening weekend for ducks. Just have to weight the pros and cons. It's cool to see her beat up on the boys during a hunt test and make the test look easy.
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Some people have told me that that they feel that females learn a little quicker.
"I love the rod and gun and where they take me."
"Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."
I have one of each from the same litter, 16 months old. Two completely different dogs. Male is a get along, whatever you want him to do, no problem; immature, out da box, running buddy, that'll climb up in your pocket if you let him; but leary of people he doesn't know. Female is a fun loving, wide open, git it quick, I'll do it my way until you smoke my butt kinda dog, that never sees a stranger. I guess I have the best of both worlds. Never a dull moment. We're on her second week of her first heat cycle. It's been somewhat of an interesting situation.
As someone who sees at least 100 dogs per week, it is my opinion that it's less about the dog being male/female and more about the personality the dog was born with.
Seems to me that each litter has pups that fall into a certain pecking order. There are the dominants, the weak/shy, and the somewhere in the middles. You can get a female dominant born pup or a female submissive (and the ones in between). Same with males.
Not sure which is more difficult: a dominant male or a dominant female. A shy side male or shy side female. But it's certain that a dominant female will be harder to train than a middle pecking order male. And same is true that a dominant male is harder to train than a middle pecking order female.
I've had mainly male dogs and am training my first female. The challenge is the hormone swings around heat cycles. Add that to my own hormone swings and it can be challenging some weeks.
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained through the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment." Mahatma Gandhi
What Evan said..........but I like girl dogs best......Don
It truly is a personal preference. What I have found doing fieldwork is that the boys are more consistent for me, no heat issues, no tendency to lose their mind before they come into heat after they come out of heat. Just my humble opinion.


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I have a six month old yellow lab. He is a great dog from an excellent bloodline and is full of energy. Up until recently he was responding very well to the training, but a few weeks ago he sustained injuries to both front paw pads so I didn't get to work him for some time. I just started working with him again and he is responsive to every command (sit, stay, heel, whistle commands, ect) but will not retrieve. He will get on heel but when I toss a bumper he will run to the mark but turns around and come right back to me without the bumper. I tried going back to square one by tossing a bumper a few feet out and sending him. A few times he picked it up but did not return it to hand. I do not know what could have caused him loose his drive to retrieve when he was not missing a beat during training sessions prior to his injury. I did just move into a new house where I put a pen in the back yard. This is where he spends him time now when I am away versus staying in his crate before. Im not sure if this has anything to do with this behavior. I never over worked the dog and kept the training sessions short and fun so that he would not loose interest but now its as though he forgot everything he learned and is not willing work. I tried searching the web for possible solutions but found nothing, can anyone offer some insight on how I can correct this issue and get my dog back on track.


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Even with the air conditioning on, "it's 82 degrees in the house," said North Dakotan Betty Smokov. "The heat is really oppressive and sticky." And according to the National Weather Service, the "unrelenting heat dome" is not likely to ease up soon.
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Yeah, I picked one up around the 10th or around-about. Nice ship, other than the new paint job...
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It was released on 4/2, but like many other things some areas have an overabudance and other areas have nothing.
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Florida Highway Patrol officials said the bicyclist failed to notice an oncoming car as she crossed the intersection Friday. Authorities said the unidentified victim was struck by a car driven by 74-year-old Donald Struble, thrown onto the shoulder of the road and later pronounced dead.
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Fred Williams's works of the 1970s became increasingly varied. His inventiveness is apparent in remarkable paintings like Tumblers 1967–68 and Stump II 1976 that challenge convention. The former refers to his London painting Acrobats 1955 and Francis Bacon's works, and the latter relates to images of felled trees and concerns about the environment.
After Williams's minimal works of the late 1960s undertaken in the studio, during the following decade he regularly painted outdoors in the bush in oil on canvas as well as gouache on paper, often in the company of other artists. This resulted in greater spontaneity and realism in some of the works.
Williams liked to return regularly to the same site in the regional Victorian landscape, getting to know it well. He would then paint what he described as the 'summation oil' back in the studio which was generally more abstract than the outdoor work.
The 1970s was a period when Williams experimented with a wide range of techniques and revolutionised his palette. Although he sometimes painted with luminous colour in his earlier works, they were, on the whole, more tonal than his vibrant, diversified approach later on. In 1972 he wrote in his diary: 'I have a fierce desire to paint colour'.


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...just another 'old' adage that keeps becoming more relative each day Obamacare's mandates become better known. What makes it all so much fun is when it is so ironic, as it begins to be implemented in the blue states.
For our POTUS members in Minnesoooota...get ready to grab your ankles.
Things arent going so hot. The State of Minnesota just announced that their exchange has already exceeded cost estimates by 35% before its even implemented, and the cost to taxpayers is expected to rise another 18% in the first year after implementation.
The exchanges have always been a bad deal for states. They are are an accounting trick designed to make ObamaCare look like less of a strain on the federal budget, shuffling billions of dollars in costs off Washingtons books and into state capitals, writes John Hayward in Human Events.
ST. PAUL, Minn. Minnesotas state health insurance exchange will cost $54 million in 2015 to operate, according to the Gov. Mark Dayton administration.
The cost comes in at greater than earlier estimates of $30 to $40 million. The state would not have to find the money until 2015, when the state exchanges are required to be financially self-sustaining. But the cost rises to a projected $64 million in 2016. State officials are still weighing how the exchange will pay for itself. Options include user fees, a sin tax, and selling ads.
The exchange, a cornerstone of the federal health care overhaul, will create an insurance marketplace where consumers and small businesses can comparison shop for health insurance policies starting in October of next year. Coverage would take effect in 2014.
Let the federal government bear the cost of implementing this folly, not the states.


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This weekend, I'll be at the CIDR 2009, the biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research. It's an interesting conference: not as formal or as high-pedigree as the prestigious database conferences (SIGMOD and VLDB), but the papers are usually interesting and provocative. There is one track of peer reviewed papers and one of track of "Perspectives" that are selected by the program committee to spark a discussion. I'm one of the authors on a Perspectives track paper, "Continuous Analytics: Rethinking Query Processing in a Network-Effect World" — which is essentially a fancy title for the thesis that stream processing techniques are more widely applicable to mainstream business analytics than most people seem to think.
If you'll be there, say hi. In the near future, I hope to post more about the paper, and the rest of the research I've been doing so far at school.


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A dish to convert all the Brussels sprout haters. By cooking the sprouts only briefly, you preserve their great nutty flavor. This side pairs nicely with roasted rack of lamb or whole chicken. For a Middle Eastern-flavored meal, rub either meat with olive oil, salt, pepper, cumin, paprika, and cayenne pepper before cooking.
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Good, not great. Used TJ's shredded sprouts, which saved on prep.
This was just OK until I added balsamic vinegar. It tasted much better after that. I did not bother separating the leaves, I just quartered them and cooked them longer.
Making this favorite again. I usually substitute olive oil and pecans. Today I am going with Meyer lemon olive oil and the pistachios. Often I add just a hint of balsamic vinegar and maple syrup at the end. We love all variations!
I made this recipe for Thanksgiving and it was a hit. The lemon flavor really brings out the flavor of the brussels sprouts and the pistachios. My only complaint is that it took forever to prep the brussels sprouts. I'd make again if I could figure out a faster way to get them prepped.
Delicious and easy. Had to substitute olive oil, garlic and toasted walnuts. Sliced brussels sprouts lengthwise and cooked about 5 minutes.
Tasty recipe. I used salted pistachios and it only added flavor to the dish. I'll make it again and again.
I ran the sprouts over the mandoline, and substituted olive oil and butter for the grapeseed oil. It was quick and tasty.
Simple and good. Usually I steer clear of using brussel sprout leaves (too much work) and thinly slice the sprouts instead, but I had some very loose brussel sprouts that were perfect. Didn't make any changes, except added the pistachios at the end right about a minute or two before removing from the heat. The pistachios were a nice change of flavor from pine nuts or other nuts.
I loved this recipe and I am not a big fan of brussel sprouts. It was fresh and the nuts and lemon juice finished it off nicely! I swill serve many times, my husband realy enjoyed it also.
i really had hoped to like this more. i love brussel srouts and everything in this receipe but somehow it didn't all work that great for me. i thought i was good but nothing special. i didn't have the nuts or grapeseed oil and perhaps thats the difference but i didn't find this interesting enough to try it again.


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Jon Shreve, age 61, of Salem, passed away Monday, December 31, 2012 in Rochester, MN in the company of his family. Jon was born to the late John and Norma (Olson) Shreve on May 17, 1951 in Libertyville, IL. He graduated from Zion-Benton High School in 1969. He worked at North Shore Gas in Waukegan, IL until his retirement in 2006 and was passionate about hunting and fishing.
Jon is survived by four children, Jacob Shreve of Salem; Sara Shreve of Chicago; Heather (Steve) Rondon of Kenosha and Shannon Shreve of Kenosha; two grandchildren; a brother, Dwayne (Carol Sickles) Shreve; three sisters, Sharon Shreve; Dianne (Ray) Rutledge and Julia Shreve as well as nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Otter Creek Lutheran Church. Rev. Julia Shreve and Pastor Romona Orton will co-officate. Burial will be in the Otter Creek Cemetery with full military honors. Friends may call from 4:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. Friday at the Lulloff-Peterson-Houck Funeral Home, Dodgeville and at the church on Saturday after 10:00 A.M.
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Family: Emberizidae, New World Sparrows view all from this family
Description ADULT BREEDING MALE Has buff and black streaks on back and gray-brown wings with a striking chestnut band (median coverts). Grayish white head has black cap and malar stripe, and very pale throat and eye surround. Has black crescentlike patch on breast and otherwise mostly pale gray underparts, palest on undertail coverts. ADULT NONBREEDING MALE Recalls breeding male, but black elements of plumage have pale feather fringes. ADULT FEMALE Recalls nonbreeding male, but has streaked brown crown and brown breast; palest in winter. JUVENILE Recalls winter female, but is streaked below and scaly-looking above.
Dimensions Length: 5 3/4-6" (15 cm)
Habitat Local summer visitor (mainly Apr-Aug) to short-grass prairies and more barren open ground, such as pastures; winters in similar habitats.
Observation Tips Worth visiting on breeding grounds.
Range Southwest, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Plains, California, Texas
Voice Song is a varied jumble of scratchy warbles; call is a rattling ch't't.
Discussion Male is distinctive. All birds have mostly white tail with black inverted "T" (central stripe and terminal band); courting male uses this in aerial display. Forms flocks outside breeding season. Conical bill is dark in breeding male, but pinkish in all other birds. Sexes are separable.


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Family: Emberizidae, New World Sparrows view all from this family
Description ADULT Has grayish plumage overall, but back is streaked rufous brown and has rufous edges to inner flight feathers. Crown is rufous with pale central stripe, and gray face is marked with white eyering; supercilium is very pale in front of eye. Pacific birds have dark eyestripe and buffy "mustache"; Interior birds have rufous eyestripe and whitish "mustache." All birds have dark malar stripe and otherwise gray underparts. JUVENILE Similar, but more streaked.
Dimensions Length: 5-6" (13-15 cm)
Habitat Locally common resident of stony, grassy slopes.
Observation Tips Easiest to see when singing in spring.
Range Southeast, Plains, Rocky Mountains, California, Southwest, Texas
Voice Song comprises a couple of nasal cheeps followed by a rattling chip-chip-chip chip-chit; call is a sharp, nasal d'neer.
Similar Species Rufous-winged Sparrow A. carpalis (L 5.75-6 in) has rufous lesser coverts (most obvious in flight) and stubbier, yellowish (not dark) bill; very local resident in arid grassland in southern Arizona.
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This show started out as one of the funniest sitcoms in the history of television, and the first several seasons are still right up there with Seinfeld.
But something went really, really wrong a few years ago. Namely, Niles' unrequited love for Daphne became requited, and, well, that blew it all. It wasn't just one of the biggest aspects of the show being flushed, no. The writing took a decided turn for the worse at that point, until it rapidly became less watchable than Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
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When the cameras stop rolling on Sesame Street, Oscar walks over and kicks the out of Elmo.
Daphne should never have found out about Niles' secret love until the final episode, when we find out she's secretly admired him, and in the hoopla Frasier and Roz finally get together and we actually get to see Merris.
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In the elder days, Open Source is the way of computing. Back then, the right of sharing needed no explicit grants. The good old days. Things got a bit complicated when the mass got into the picture. They started complaining that our software isn't user friendly. They've forgotten, if they knew it in the first place, that those software were never supposed to be used by them.
However, the Open Source people are very kind indeed. "If the average users want to use our software, why not we make it easier to use for the mass? why don't we promote the use of our software to benefit more people?". Many Open Source people had voluntarily take up the responsibility of making better software for the mass. Thereafter, the Open Source culture was diluted, positively for the better.


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Implications of Definitive Atonement
from Jonathan Gibson Apr 28, 2017 Category: ArticlesThe doctrine of definite atonement states that in the death of Jesus Christ, the triune God intended to achieve the redemption of every person given to the Son by the Father in eternity past, and to apply the accomplishments of His sacrifice to each of them by the Spirit. In... Keep Reading
Links We Liked (3/12/11)
from Tim Challies Mar 12, 2011 Category: ArticlesHere is a round-up of some of the notable blogs and articles our team read this week. Keep Reading
Doctrine of Baptism: Recommended Reading
from Keith Mathison Mar 11, 2011 Category: ArticlesOne of the most contentious theological issues dividing believers from other believers is the doctrine of baptism. Is baptism by immersion only, or may a person be baptized by pouring or sprinkling as well? Are believers only to be baptized, or should believers and their children be baptized? Is baptism merely a symbol, or does it effectually cause any spiritual benefits? What are some helpful books for those seeking to understand the issues involved? This list is not exhaustive, but it does contain some texts that may be helpful for those interested in studying these issues in more detail. Keep Reading
$5 Friday - Hell, Heaven & the Love of God
from Karisa Schlehr Mar 11, 2011 Category: Ministry NewsGet $5 Friday resources on hell, heaven, worldviews, evangelism & the love of God. Sale starts at 8 a.m. Friday and ends 8 a.m. Saturday EST. Keep Reading
A Primer on Inerrancy (pt. 4)
from John Gerstner Mar 10, 2011 Category: ArticlesIn this excerpt from John Gerstner's Primitive Theology, Dr. Gerstner looks at the issue of inerrancy and seeks briefly and non-technically to present a case for Bible Inerrancy that a serious-minded layman can follow and evaluate. Though by no means an exhaustive treatment, it is one that is sound and faithful to the Scriptures. This is the fourth part of the series. Dr. Gerstner has looked at four unsound bases for sound doctrine and now he will turn to a discussion of a sound basis for sound doctrine. Keep Reading
The Goodness of the Law
from Tim Challies Mar 10, 2011 Category: Tabletalk MagazineIn his contribution to this month's issue of Tabletalk, R.C. Sproul wonders how the psalmist can have such great love for God's law. "'Oh how I love your law!' (Ps. 119:97). What a strange statement of affection. Why would anyone direct his love toward the law of God? The law limits our choices, restricts our freedom, torments our consciences, and pushes us down with a mighty weight that cannot be overcome, and yet the psalmist declares his affection for the law in passionate terms. He calls the law sweeter than honey to his mouth (Ps. 119:3)." Keep Reading
Can a Person Be Evangelical and Not Believe in Hell?
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Mar 09, 2011 Category: ArticlesCan a person be evangelical and not believe in hell? That is the question R.C. Sproul Jr. looks at today. Keep Reading
The Inseparable Love of God
from R.C. Sproul Mar 09, 2011 Category: R.C. SproulThe source of Christian comfort is not that we are for God or that we are on His side. Rather it is that God is for us and is on our side. To know that God is for us is to know that no one and nothing can ever prevail against us. Paul's question is clearly rhetorical: "If God is for us, who can be against us?" The answer is obvious: nobody. Keep Reading
Juicy Nuggets In the Valley of Death
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Mar 08, 2011 Category: ArticlesOne of the hardships that comes with walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death is what you are expected to carry out. We tend to think that in that valley there grows a very special sort of tree, a wisdom, or insight tree. We think that this rarest of trees is perpetually heavy laden with low hanging, choice, juicy morsels of brilliance. You're supposed to bring these precious nuggets out the other side to share with your friends. Understandably, though they should know better, some who trek this valley think they've found this precious fruit. The quiet whispers of death on the prowl beget therefore footprints-in-the-sand poems and too often, whole therapeutic books of lessons learned. Keep Reading
Eject Orthodoxy, Lose Your Voice
from David Wells Mar 08, 2011 Category: Articles"The stream of historic orthodoxy that once watered the evangelical soul is now dammed by a worldliness that many fail to recognize as worldliness because of the cultural innocence with which it presents itself. To be sure, this orthodoxy never was infallible, nor was it without its blemishes and foibles, but I am far from persuaded that the emancipation from its theological core that much of evangelicalism is effecting has resulted in greater biblical fidelity. In fact, the result is just the opposite. We now have less biblical fidelity, less interest in truth, less seriousness, less depth, and less capacity to speak the Word of God to our own generation in a way that offers an alternative to what it already thinks." Keep Reading
A Primer on Inerrancy (pt. 3)
from John Gerstner Mar 08, 2011 Category: ArticlesIn this excerpt from John Gerstner's Primitive Theology, Dr. Gerstner looks at the issue of inerrancy and seeks briefly and non-technically to present a case for Bible Inerrancy that a serious-minded layman can follow and evaluate. Though by no means an exhaustive treatment, it is one that is sound and faithful to the Scriptures. This is the third part of the series and here Dr. Gerstner continues his discussion on unsound bases for sound doctrine. Keep Reading


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we hunted the Cedar River in Northeast Iowa this past saturday for duck opener. In the first 45 minutes Colt had himself about a dozen retrieves! With 12 wood ducks in the boat, lucky number 13 came flying by and we shot the bird. Colt marked it, I sent him and he ran a beautiful 40 yard water mark, but once he got to the duck, he turned around and looked at me with the woody in his mouth and his right front paw sticking up in the air... I knew something was wrong.
He made his way back to the boat (I met him in the water and carried him back) and he had stepped on something sharp! His pads were fine, but the skin between the pads had a nasty tear in it and his toes immediately swelled up. Of course I was worried and thought he broke his toes or worse, cut tendons as well. Long story short, nothing was broken and the swelling was from hyper-extension. 3 days later, antibiotics, ointment and anti-inflammatories the healing is going well (could not do stiches due to infection). I am posting this to remind all you hunters to be careful for objects in the field! Especially the river, pond and lake hunters out there, you cannot see what is below the water!
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An assault involving the use of bear spray is now the focus of a police investigation in St. John's.
According to the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's overnight report, officers responded to a disturbance complaint in the downtown area shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday.
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Family: Coryphaenidae, Dolphinfishes view all from this family
Description The Coryphaenidae, also called the dolphinfishes, are a family of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the Order Perciformes. The family contains only one genus, Coryphaena, which contains two species, both of which have compressed heads and single dorsal fins that run the entire length of the fish's bodies. Dolphinfishes are unrelated to dolphins (which are mammals) and their meat is often labeled mahi-mahi commercially to reduce possible public confusion.
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Backyard Wildlife Photography
by Gerry Bishop
Learn how to think small.
"Think small!" That's hardly what our parents and teachers and other adults in our lives told us when we were growing up. But if you learn to think small in your own Backyard Wildlife Habitat site, you'll quickly discover an amazing new world. And with the right kind of photography equipment and know-how, you'll be able to capture this world on film--to the delight of yourself and others.
The basic tools necessary for close-up work are a single lens reflex (SLR) camera body and the appropriate lenses and other gear to go with it. (A "point and shoot" camera is incapable of anything approaching true close-up work.) Today's electronic SLRs are precise and dependable, easy to operate, and relatively inexpensive.
The cheapest way to get started in close-up shooting is to buy some extension tubes to put between the camera body and the lens that may have come with it. (The more extension, the closer you'll be able to get.) Another choice is to add close-up lenses to the front of a regular lens. But for the best results, buy a lens especially made for close-up work--the macro. Macros come in focal lengths of between 50 and 200mm, with the longer lengths allowing more "working room" between you and your subject--something to keep in mind when trying to capture an image of a nervous dragonfly or a cranky wasp. True macros can be expensive, but they give you such versatility and such tack-sharp images that they're worth every penny. (Don't confuse a true macro with a zoom lens with a "macro" setting.)
Magnifying your image also magnifies every move you make. A good tripod will take care of that problem, so long as you have enough natural light and a subject, such as a dew-covered spider web, that holds perfectly still. But with low light or a moving subject, you'll need an electronic flash. The quick burst of light from the flash will freeze all action, allowing you to move freely through your backyard, stalking and shooting your "prey" wherever you find it.
You'll be amazed by the intricacies that close-up photography will reveal. Soon you'll be seeing in a whole new way--slowly and carefully observing, learning where to look, quietly letting new forms of life introduce themselves. Even the smallest habitat will become an undiscovered wilderness, full of tiny treasures--each with something to show you.
So go ahead--enter another world right outside your back door. Get out there and think small!
Note: To learn how easy close-up nature photography can be, get hold of one of the many good books on the subject. (John Shaw's Closeups in Nature and Larry West's How to Photograph Insects and Spiders are two excellent ones.)
Gerry Bishop is Editor of Ranger Rick, a children's nature magazine published by the National Wildlife Federation. Nature photography has been one of his outdoor passions for many years.


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Well it is official. My Apple addiction continues to grow.
After purchasing an iPod touch (4th generation) and experiencing the iOS 5 platform I soon decided to take the plunge and bought an iPhone 4S. Then came the release of the new iPad which I gladly bought on release day.
Last week I went ahead and bought an Apple TV.
So far so good. My only real issue was with renting movies. I rented "The Iron Lady" in HD and it took forever to download/stream. Not really a fault of Apple TV. More like a slow Internet connection. However I did notice that my blu-ray player which has Vudu seems to stream okay.
I also noticed that my iTunes movies, from my library, played well without the long wait. I'm not sure if that is because it streams from my computer or if it still streams from iTunes but at a lower bit rate. I did not notice a significant difference in quality but there was a significant difference in speed.
On a side note, my iPad has been great for work. I use it daily and love it!


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I have a message on my computer to update vista with service pack 2.
do I want to do that?
I am leaving for Utah on Weds. and I don't know if I want to bother with this right now LOL.
Are there any issues with this one?
Do I Want To Install Vista Sp2?
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Posted 05 October 2009 - 09:30 AM
We did on three computers, no problems. DH's brother has a computer/networking business and he recommended to do it. It did take about 1 hour!
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when it comes to those types of upgrades, everyone i know in the computer world says yes do it! those service packs fix all kinds of things from security issues, to database issues... and more.
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Yes! please go ahead and do it. It does take about an hour, but I've had no problems because of it. Better yet, it freed up about 17 GB of space--I think it cleared out all the old incremental updates.
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Come enjoy a night in downtown Stillwater at Charlie's Irish Pub! Great music, delicious food and drinks & an upbeat atmosphere will surely make for a great time!
A high-energy Irish musical entity forged from the roots of Celtic and American traditions. Based in St. Paul, MN, the Hounds perform Irish folk-rock and roots music from around the world, along with our own original material—topped off with a sprinkling of traditional Irish and Scottish tunes. The Hounds have been performing in and around the Minnesota music scene since 2007 and currently have two finished CD's and a DVD.


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Republican representatives must hold against fiscal cliff
Who is responsible for the "unsustainable path" the experts tell us we are on fiscally in America? Who is responsible for the huge tax increase we are facing Jan. 1? Republicans. Yes, I said the conservative Republicans. Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution specifies, "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives."
The House has full control over all tax and revenue bills. No spending bills can be passed without the concurrence of the House. Since 1995 a Republican majority has controlled the House with the exception of the 4 years 2007– 2011. Republicans have the power to control the out of control spending, they promote their plans for controlling spending but they apparently lack the will power to carry it through.
It is no secret that out-of-control spending and accumulation of debt is the problem. Our government is addicted to spending and more revenue just facilitates that addiction. Many of the Republicans took public pledges of no new taxes but several in leadership positions are already reneging on those pledges and are talking about "revenue enhancements." Compromising with the "tax and spend" crowd is just digging the hole we are in deeper.
I am not writing this to bash Republicans but to point out the need for us that are on the hook for this debt to demand that our representatives take an uncompromising stand against the out of control spending and "revenue enhancements." We must demand more than talk about cutting spending or our descendants will be burdened with the debt we are accumulating. Republican House members clearly have the power to force spending cuts but it is going to take the demands of their constituents to make them to use it. Is your children's future important enough to demand your representative protect it?
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For those of you that train in the snow. How do you think the snow affects your training drills? (besides losing bumpers)
Just beginning wagon wheel drills with my dog and we now have about 6" of fresh snow on the ground. We have already done the 4 spoke wheel before the snow hit. But now just as we are ready to move into the 8 spoke drill but we got hit with snow. I dont want to develop and confidence issues or problems. Will the snow affect training wagon wheel drills??
I guess I "could" clear a large spot...but who wants to do that? Its a long winter.


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Expressions dance company to perform "Ex-static," April 12-13
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Expressions Dance Company will perform "Ex-static" at 8 p.m. Friday, April 12, and Saturday, April 13, in Richardson Auditorium.
Expressions is Princeton's oldest dance company and only all-female dance group. Founded in 1970, the members of Expressions are known for their extensive dance training. The group is entirely student-run and performs both student and guest choreography. The dancers in Expressions hail from a variety of dance backgrounds, and several have danced professionally.
"Ex-static" features music by Janet Jackson, Outkast, Beck, Portishead, Aaliyah, Soft Cell, the Beatles, Angie Martinez, Radiohead and others. The show is comprised of an eclectic mix of styles, including ballet, pointe, modern, tap, jazz and hip-hop.
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Here is an example of a government punishing folks for revealing truth. It is a great story and a cautionary lesson.
The movie is pretty good if you can stand subtitles and I would also recommend "Bohnhoeffer" by Metaxas if you want to learn some more about the German resistance and a Great Man.


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Family: Aceraceae, Maple view all from this family
Description Small deciduous tree. Young bark striped with green and white, and when a little older, brown. Leaves broad, soft, 8-15 cm. long and 6-12 cm. broad, with three shallow forward-pointing lobes. Fruit a samara; seeds 27 mm. long and 11 mm. broad, with a wing angle of 145° and a conspicuously veined pedicel.
Dimensions Height: 9 m. (30 ft.)
Diameter: 20 cm. (8 ft.).
Habitat Canyons & valleys.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, New England, Great Lakes, Plains.
Discussion Also called moosewood. Sometimes grown as an ornamental tree for its decorative bark, though it is difficult to transplant.
Comments This maple needs protection from wind and sun, and performs best at the edge of a woodland. It does not compete well with grass and doesn't respond to fertilizer. The thin bark is susceptible to mower and weed-eater damage. Though resistant to insects and disease, stiped maple is not tolerant of excessive heat or drought.
Exposure Preference Partial shade to shade.
Native Distribution Maine & adjacent Canada to s.e. Ontario & upper peninsula, Michigan, s. through mts. to n. Georgia
Site Preference Rich, shady woods
Soil Preference Cool, well-drained, moist, acidic soils. pH 4-5.
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Track Like Striped Skunk's but smaller. Hindprint 1 1/4" (32 mm) long; heel pad shows more definite lobing. Stride very irregular, unlike that of other skunks.5 toes print when clear; sometimes claws show, slightly narrower, broader at front; somewhat flat-footed. Stride 46" (100150 mm).
Sign Scat: Dark, small, 7/8" (22 mm) diameter, irregularly cylindrical.


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Gas prices jump in Madison area
Market speculation, temporary refinery shutdowns to blame
MADISON, Wis. - Thursday at the pump caused sticker shock for drivers in Madison and surrounding areas.
AAA's average price for gas in Madison was $3.39 a gallon, and $3.49 is a pretty common price around the city.
AAA said some of the price jump is because of market speculation, and the rest is because of temporary refinery shutdowns.
That's not a good sign for gas prices since this is supposed to be a time of year when prices are lower.
"The fact that prices have jumped so much so early does not bode well," said Pam Moen, of AAA Wisconsin. "I wish I had better news, I really do, but it doesn't bode well for the coming weeks and months.
The price spike will last through February and March when Chicago-area refineries typically shut down to convert to summer gas blends.
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By Tiernan Ray
Dow Jones's Nathalie Tadena this afternoon reports that hedgie Aurelius Capital Management has sued broadband wireless provider Clearwire (CLWR) and Sprint-Nextel (S) to block the companies' planned merger, saying the $2.2 billion price " is a steal for Sprint," citing a statement from Aurelius.
Clearwire shares today rose 13 cents, or almost 4%, to $3.44, after last night reporting Q1 revenue that topped consensus expectations, and a larger-than-expected net loss per share.
Aurelius owns over 17 million of Clearwire's 699 million Class-A shares, or 2.4% of the stock.
Clearwire is the subject of competing bids from Sprint, which announced its offer on December 17th, and which is itself the subject of a recapitalization by Japan's Softbank; and Dish Network (DISH), which proposed $3.30 per share for Clearwire back on January 8th, above Sprint's $2.97 per share.
But Dish subsequently proposed on April 15th a $25.5 billion merger with Sprint, with Clearwire as part of the deal. Verizon Communications (VZ) is in the mix, too, having bid for some of Clearwire's spectrum.
During last night's conference call with analysts, Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch declined to comment on the transactions save to say that Clearwire's board of directors is reviewing the various proposals, and that a vote on the Sprint bid will be held on May 21st.