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Gothics Climber's Log
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Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2005
|Climbed with Armstrong via Range Trail from the Ausable Club. Definately one of the best (and thus most visited) hike in the Adirondack High Peak Region. Could see most of the High Peaks from the top. Had a blast exploring the caves just below the summit!
|Posted Aug 11, 2008 1:37 pm
|Sam Page
Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2008
|This was part of an 18+ mile loop that included Upper Wolf Jaw, Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback, and Basin. The "trail" up the west side was quite steep. I wouldn't want to do it in a downpour.
|Posted Jul 31, 2008 11:24 am
|many times
Date Climbed: Apr 20, 1971
|Twice in deep snow, once in full-blown winter. At least once I backpacked over the top on a Range traverse.
I'm trying to go back and sign all the logs for Adk and other NE peaks... this will take a while...
|Posted Apr 4, 2008 7:58 pm
|North Face
Date Climbed: Mar 24, 2008
|Really great climb. We pitched it out so it took significantly longer than 7 hours (that's f#$king fast!) great alpine route with fun route finding. More ice than i was expecting (ugh....so tired!!) the day started off w/wind and snow but ended up clear and beautiful.
|Posted Mar 26, 2008 10:01 am
|Tom Fralich
|North Face (solo)
Date Climbed: Mar 16, 2008
|Finally did this one. The round-trip took about 7 hours with about 45 min to climb the route. There was a really cool cornice on the summit. I lost my driver's license somewhere along the way, but it showed up in the mail about a week later. Good conditions on the approach and on the route.
I've also done some of the other High Peaks (on days when climbing wasn't possible):
Big Slide 9/14/08
Phelps 2/18/08
Cascade 1/10/04
Porter 1/10/04
Giant 1/11/04
|Posted Mar 25, 2008 2:12 pm
|tons of snow!
Date Climbed: Dec 12, 2007
|1. good thing we had snowshoes; we had to break trail the whole way!
This was nice day in the mountains. Really pretty views when we were fortunate enough to see them.
2. March 20, 2008
Gothics North Face.
|Posted Dec 11, 2007 5:59 pm
|From Sawteeth...
Date Climbed: Oct 20, 2007
|Hiking from Sawteeth and over Pyramid. Windy, misty, foggy, cloudy, sprinkly at the top. Didn't stay too long because of the wind, but nice views and a neat peak. My favorite of the day. Headed to Armstrong and the Wolfjaws from there. #8/46
|Posted Oct 24, 2007 4:33 pm
|Gothics, Armostrong, Upper Wolf-Jaw
|Have done this loop twice, once as a dayhike once on an overnight trip both times from the Garden via the ore bed brook trail. Love the cables section.
|Posted Oct 17, 2007 10:47 pm
|wolfjaw, armstrong, gothics
Date Climbed: Feb 26, 2006
|Upper Wolfjaw, Armstrong, Gothics & Pyramid. Came up the Wedge Brook trail to the ridge, followed ridge to Gothics. Came down over Pyramid & the Weld trail to Lower Ausable Lake. It was cold. VERY windy. Tent was lifting up with 3 adults in it. Broke trail, lots of snow. Never used the crampons. Got a bit turned around on Gothics. We meant to continue to Saddleback.
|Posted Sep 23, 2007 5:56 pm
|From the Garden
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2007
|Along with the Wolfjaws and Armstrong. Great weather.
|Posted Sep 22, 2007 5:36 pm
|Great Times
|Great hike with my Philmont crew
|Posted Aug 20, 2007 3:23 pm
|Bark Eater
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 1977
|Midway through completing a great range traverse.
|Posted Aug 18, 2007 5:35 pm
|Weld Trail
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2007
|I took the Weld Trail from St. Huberts. I stopped to see Rainbow Falls beforehand. Gothics is a great mountain! I made a loop and did Sawteeth on the way back.
|Posted Jun 28, 2007 10:54 am
Date Climbed: Sep 9, 1997
|This peak is incredible!! You just need to be there to understand!
|Posted Jun 22, 2007 9:30 am
|The edge
Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2005
|along with armstrong; sawteeth
|Posted Mar 14, 2007 6:18 pm
|From the Garden
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2006
|This peak has one of the better views in the ADK's. Saw a bush plane fly right under us through the valley. That was pretty cool.
|Posted Feb 20, 2007 1:28 am
|From Pyramid
Date Climbed: Feb 10, 2007
|Climbed from Pyramid/Lake Road/AMR. This is a good way to go for anyone who wants to avoid the steep, icy approach from the Saddleback trail juncture.
|Posted Feb 12, 2007 3:01 pm
|great ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 1972
|long day as I recall.....easy but long
|Posted Jan 21, 2007 3:46 am
|Jerry L
|Route Climbed: From Armstrong
Date Climbed: Jan 16, 2007
|This one was amazingly easy. I had expected more from what I heard. Plenty of snow, ice, and wind at this point.
|Posted Jan 18, 2007 1:40 pm
|Bill Jirousek
|Orebed trail from JBL
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2006
|I've been wanting to climb the cables route ever since seeing it from Basin/Saddleback several years ago. I stayed at Johns Brook Lodge for the weekend and had a perfect day to do Gothics/Armstrong/UWJ/LWJ. Blue skies and 70 degrees. The scrambling was fun near the top, didn't need to use the cables. Talked to two guys who had spent the night on top, under the stars. Awesome views of pretty much all the major peaks/ranges.
|Posted Oct 17, 2006 2:16 pm


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by Matt Stoller, Thu May 10, 2007 at 10:03:33 AM EDT
So today I was at the Heritage Foundation, which also makes it a good day to debut my appearance in the New Republic with a piece Chris and I wrote rebutting Jonathan Chait's analysis of the progressive blogosphere. Naturally, Chait's original article was a hit piece on who we are and what we believe in, spinning off nice little sub-hit pieces from folks like Jonah Goldberg in the LA Times. And it's not just filtering into the right-wing bloodstream and the mass media. I've already been contacted by very infuential thinkers who took Chait's piece as an axiomatic description of what we're doing. Chait knew where his piece would go and he knew exactly how he wanted us to be framed. I guess for this reason it had to be rebutted, but it does feel like navel-gazing. If you want more, follow me to the flip side.
I guess the basic criticism I have about Chait's response to our response is that Chait just doesn't understand or care about accuracy in his writing. He throws around terms like 'netroots' and blogosphere without understanding them (the netroots is a subset of the blogosphere - um, no it's not). He situates our founding in the 2000 recount, and when we corrected him, he wrote that he considers our point a 'trivial objection' since historical analysis has to start somewhere. Trivial or not, the fact remains that Chait is just wrong. I don't get why he thinks he can just gloss over that. It's important to note that he didn't call any activist bloggers, so far as I can tell, though I haven't asked everybody. And we could have easily helped him understand and correct his errors before he reported them. The difference between 2000 and 2002, which in Chait-world is trivial, in the real world includes the Iraq War, which is the biggest strategic disaster in US history. Trivial, I guess.
I really don't get people like Chait. When Chris and I pointed out that we oppose the surge and support withdrawals not out of tactical sensibilities but out of a belief that the surge was a bad idea and withdrawals a good idea, here was his response:
Again, this is a non sequitur. Of course they have substantive reasons for their positions. Stoller, as I noted, has called Grover Norquist his political hero. Norquist, too, has substantive ideological goals. My point is that there's a technique they use in common: Once the movement has settled on a position, it will not tolerate members who side with the opposition. I'm not saying that the position itself is unprincipled. I'm describing a tactic they use to advance it. The inability of Bowers and Stoller to distinguish between the morality of their ends and the morality of their means is a good example of the phenomenon I'm describing.
This is so stupid it's hard to rebut. Why, exactly, are we wrong to oppose the surge and support troop withdrawals? Where, exactly, are we using immoral means to support moral ends? What the hell is Chait talking about?
There's a larger undercurrent here that I don't quite understand, and that gets to the concept of 'roles'. Chait is obsessed with the varied role of an activist, journalist, advocate, economist, etc, and wants clear and bright lines between them. He responds to Ezra Klein's point about economists with a telling thought.
Yes, journalists and economists can fall prey to their own biases. But does he really think economists in a university are no more biased than a self-proclaimed political activist? ? Can he not see the difference between someone who is trying to describe the world as he sees it, regardless of where his argument leads him, and somebody who is trying to create a message that will advance liberal politics?
I suppose Chait is the ultimate post-modernist. To him, there is some severe conflict between telling the truth and being guided by truth in political activism. This is weird. Boingboing and Grist both cover fun and interesting information, and sometimes ask readers to do politics. Does this make them less credible? Not really, since they are pretty open about their agendas. To Chait, though, it does. All politics is spin to be interpreted by objective journalists and analysts, who are somehow free from self-interest. Roles must be clearly delineated at all times, and you should be judged by your station in life and not your output. And people in certain stations are objective and trustworthy, whereas others are rabble. And guess which side we're on?
It must be strange for Chait to live in Versailles.
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Celebrating its 29th renewal this year, the $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup is the richest pacing race in the world, featuring the best 3-year-old pacers in North America traveling the standard 1 mile distance around the 7/8 mile oval at Mohawk Racetrack in Campbellville, Ontario. A full field of 10 lined up behind the starter under ideal racing conditions, a clear night with temperatures in the mid 70's and minimal wind and a lightning-fast track. Last year's Breeders Crown 2-year-old pace winner Sweet Lou was sent off as the 1-2 favorite, off wins in the Pennsylvania Sires stakes at Pocono and Meadows followed by his Cup elimination. In to challenge him included 5-1 second choice Warrawee Needy, second to Sweet Lou last week, and 8-1 third choice Thinking Out Loud, second in the Somebeachsomewhere Stakes followed by a third place finish in the eliminations.
Warrawee Needy went to the lead first time by and he set a stakes record pace of 25 1/5 and 52 4/5 while pressed by A Rocknroll Dance, with Sweet Lou stalking the lead pair in third. On the far turn, Sweet Lou came out wide to challenge and took over the lead entering the stretch, getting 3/4 in 1:20 3/5. Sweet Lou had a 1 1/2 length advantage in mid-stretch, but the fast pace set the race up for the closers Thinking Out Loud and Time to Roll were very wide on the far turn and passed the tiring favorite. Thinking Out Loud outfinished Time to Roll by 1/2 length in 1:47 4/5. It was a head back to Dapper Dude third, and another 3/4 length back to Sweet Lou fourth.
Also on the card Beer Summit won the Goodtimes Trot, American Jewel won the Fan Hanover, Check Me Out won the Elegantimage, Pembroke Heat Wave won the Armbro Flight, and We Will See won the Mohawk Gold Cup.


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In Review: Trinity of Sin: Pandora #3
The cover: The box that Pandora has desperately been searching for finally comes into her possession, only to have it shatter in her hands. Below her, Green Arrow, Batman and John Constantine look angered. Good cover by Ryan Sook, and I especially like the location of the box's third eye. Overall grade: A-
The story: A flashback from the past opens this issue. Pandora is at Mount Song in 1330 where she is hoping an ancient master can teach her to kill the Evil she seeks (the personification of the Seven Deadly Sins). He says he will, but "…You will face the Flood and I pray you remember my words." Then we're back in the present where various Justice League members are battling for control of the box, as "…The Seven Deadly Sins float above unseen above them, reveling in the chaos." Rather than focus on just the League in-fighting, writer Ray Fawkes wisely intercuts the fisticuffs with flashbacks to Pandora's training over time. There's also a nice appearance by Agents Chang and Kincaid, interviewing a supporting character who's going to have to pay the piper or pay the price. Page 17 was a good character transformation–simple, yet appropriate: a "Duh" moment, if you will; as in, "Duh, why didn't I think of that?" I was ecstatic at what occurred on Page 19; I've wanted this moment since Issue #1. This leads to a good "Now what?" moment, because the power levels have been changed, and I have such a burning question to ask about the repercussions of Page 19, but no spoilers. I'll wait to see if Fawkes addresses it later. Overall grade: A-
The art: Penciller Daniel Sampere and inker Vicente Cifuentes do a terrific Pandora: no matter what time period she's in, she looks great. In fact, I enjoyed the flashback sequences more than the present because they come off very elegantly. Who knew training to kill could look so cool? In the present, I've still got my grousing on the Sins' appearances, but now I can add the male heroes to this list–they just don't look great. Let me be more specific with a comparison: Sampere and Cifuentes create outstanding female heroes. As I page through the issue again I see that every woman looks great, but not so much the men. For example, the double-paged spread of 4 and 5: look at Captain Marvel's face. It's downright primeval. And his hairline has receded! Look at Aquaman's pose–it's not right. Hawkman, however, does look fine, but this is a generic pose for him. Go to Page 6 to see Frankenstein looking juvenile. The male heroes don't appear too often in this issue, but when they do they just don't measure up to the quality of the women. Overall grade: B-
The colors: Terrific job by Hi-Fi throughout the book, such as on Pages 1 – 3 and 9. I do like how each Sin has their own color which dominates a panel when they are in it. The final page is also done well with the two dominate colors. Overall grade: A
The letters: Dezi Sienty provides scene setting, dialogue, Sin dialogue, narration, gunshots, and "stuff" on Page 19. I would have liked some sounds as our heroes battle, as it was a mute confrontation. Overall grade: A-
The final line: A few speed bumps in the art but enjoyable nonetheless. Overall grade: A-
Patrick Hayes was a contributor to the Comic Buyer's Guide for a few years with "It's Bound to Happen!" He had to give that up to teach 9th graders English for 19 years. He's since moved to a high school where he's taught 9th grade and currently teaches 10th graders English. He reads everything as often as he can, when not grading papers or looking up Star Trek, Star Wars or Indiana Jones items online.


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It would be my honor to help you do this, by giving you photos that show you how lovely you are RIGHT NOW to those who love you most. Don't just keep waiting, or you'll never actually give them images that they will cherish even more than you will.
Yep, that's a size-12 me pictured at right, 20 pounds of newlywed weight gain and all, as photographed by my mom-and-assistant to celebrate turning 30 in November 2012. Take a look at a before-and-after photo of me over on my About page to see just how much the clothing, posing and Photoshop helps me out!


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WILSON — Carmen Presti's neighbors in mid-city Niagara Falls hope he keeps his monkeys and exotic birds in the yellow brick building on Livingston Avenue.
However, the 26 primates and assorted birds are crammed in the former store, and he hopes to give them more room in a primate sanctuary in Wilson. The Youngstown and Fitch Road neighbors are against it and have voiced their objections to the board.
"I think the people in Wilson are just being prejudiced. I really do. They just don't want them there, and it's nonsense," said Dorothy Bowers, a grandmother who lives on Livingston across the street. "They are animals, and people love the animals. We go look at them. My grandkids love them. I love them, and we don't want anything to happen to them."
Latisha Hall, who lives nearby said, "My 12-year old daughter comes here all the time. They have them outside and let you touch them, the little ones and big ones. They are no problem to the neighborhood, none whatsoever."
Presti, who is a Wilson taxpayer, will meet with the Wilson Town Board on Wednesday hoping he can allay property-owner fears. "It's safe," he said. "These animals are wonderful animals. You fear what you don't know ... They need bigger digs, and that's what we're going to do out here."
Presti said that he came to Wilson in 2001 before he bought the property and felt there would be no problem. In 2006, he talked to zoning board.
Opponents are concerned with the safety, the noise, the smell, the pollution and that Presti will not pay taxes.
"It concerns me as well," Supervisor Joe Jastrzemski said. "I do know he would like to be tax-exempt. I don't have a problem of him being tax-exempt himself, but if he would like to put up a 12,000-square-foot building, my contention is, he's got to pay taxes on it."
Paul Proulx, a Town of Wilson resident who recently sold his last piece of property in Niagara Falls, feels that decision for Presti to come to Wilson is up to Presti.
"I see no problem with him moving here," said Proulx, who has owned Tropic Cove pet stores on Military Road and Pine Avenue in Niagara Falls. "The kids love going to see his animals. You see them standing around the building looking in."
The windows were a bit steamed and soiled on Tuesday. The property around the building was clean. Inside, there were caged birds in the front and chimps a back little deeper, peering out, perhaps looking for attention. There's a chain-link fence inside for the bigger primates.
Neighbors don't go inside the building.
"I don't want them to move," Bowers said. "It's a pleasure to have them across the street. They don't make noise, the kids on the street make more noise than they do. You can barely here them. In the summer, when the door is open, you can't smell anything. They're quiet, they're clean. What more can you ask of a neighbor?"
Presti will bring the monkeys outside and let neighbors take pictures. Charlie the Karate Chimp and Kiko are celebrities who have appeared on television, advertisements and movies.
"The man is quality. He's into it," said Proulx, who was interviewed at the Wilson House. "He does it right. He gives them the right foods, medical care. Clean. I have nothing to bad to say about the man and I've been in the industry 25 years. He takes very good care of his animals."
Proulx added, "There's nobody in that neighborhood who dislikes him or disrespects him, or thinks that his facility is not good for the community. He's a very nice gentleman. He deserves any break he can get."
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Hundreds of U.S. Postal Service mailboxes built and are being built weekly, which are completely surrounded by brick, concrete, cement, stone or iron, are all illegal (aren't they?) and very dangerous. They are being built on government property inches away from the road and less than 25 feet from the center of the road.
Where did that five years go? Time to renew my driver's license. At least I did remember this time.
Here we go again, folks. A couple days ago, President Barack Obama spoke to an Al Sharpton audience spewing more lies that the GOP is trying to stop people from voting by requiring them to show an ID. Lie, lie, lie.
It is my hope that some new blood on the Lula City Council will bring an end to silly regulations like the one requiring a resident to pay a fee and to get the city's approval in order to have a yard sale on his own property. I know that part of the fee is refundable if the yard-saler cleans up his property to an inspector's satisfaction after the sale.
There is hardly a day that goes by when Democrats fail to use the term "racism" in some sort of capacity regarding conservatives. It is the current buzz word that they hope will keep them relevant in upcoming elections since they have very little else to hang their hat on: the train wreck of Obamacare, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner, endless executive actions without congressional approval, and the list goes on.
As Georgia patriots and members of Patriots for America, we are reaching out to all Georgians about the event "Operation American Spring" that is scheduled to begin in Washington on May 16.
I am a gun owner with a concealed carry permit, and I think if more people had guns and were licensed to carry, we might have a safer city or community. My reason of thinking is if you possess such a permit, then you are less likely to commit a crime because you have paid the money for it and have no record or serious or violent crimes against you. We are basically law-abiding, gun-carrying people who are exercising our Second Amendment rights.
On behalf of the State Bar of Georgia, I wish to congratulate E. Wycliffe "Wyc" Orr Sr. of Orr & Brown LLP in Gainesville on receiving the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Give me the sprawl. I love it. Hopefully, Hall County municipal fathers will attempt to get sprawl (according to the Hall County sprawl index published in The Times on April 12) down to 50 from its current 103.3.
During the airing of an interview by Bill O'Reilly on Fox News on Thursday, Col. David Hunt mentioned arming the "leadership" when O'Reilly quickly blew off the suggestion. O'Reilly then continued on with leading questions about the tragedy and promoting his own agenda.
In his Thursday response to Jerry Callahan concerning right-to-carry laws, Michael Parker presented a comparison of Atlanta and Chicago while decrying the availability of guns. I would like to counter his argument with a comparison, albeit brief, of Chicago and Houston.
Jerry Callahan, in his March 27 letter to The Times, mentions the work of John R. Lott as the final word in guns and crime. Lott's empirical work, on face value, was good. Many social scientists would agree that it stimulated others to examine the subject of right-to-carry laws and any relationship with crime.
In her article, "Can we always tell 'bad guys?'" Joan King makes a number of assertions that are put forward as fact, when they are anything but.
We should be so ever grateful for our public officials and legislative representatives because of their intelligence, caring about citizens' health and safety, and giving us more freedoms than we have ever had before.
Noted American author and raconteur Mark Twain was fond of saying that there were three types of lies, the worst of the three being statistics. It seems clear that this "worst" category would apply to the recent article headed "Merging UNG saved 1.1 percent of budget" according to a Times lead story (March 16).
A lot of thought and planning went into the Affordable Care Act, and every group, including insurance companies, business groups, Republicans and Democrats, were all consulted to incorporate their suggestions.
Looks like Hall County needs more money, so they send a helicopter over to see how many poor people they can rake over the fire with the illegal "storage of junk" law. That law was only made to rob the poor people. It is illegal according to the Constitution, but our commissioners don't care. We need to stand up and tell them to get rid of that law unless you love being robbed.
Recently, my 12-year-old grandson asked me why I didn't like President Barack Obama. I attempted, in vain, to explain in terms a 12-year-old could understand my objection to the liberal-progressive left.
Your Sunday editorial recommending a reboot of the ACA was thoughtful but misguided. As the editorial pointed out, the main resistance to the ACA is that no Republicans supported it. But that's what happens in a democracy. It's like saying that the Social Security Act of 1934 should be repealed because no Republicans supported it (which is a historical fact).
Thank you, Paige Mellinger, for your letter to the editor "Support your library and the good it does a community" appearing Thursday in The Times.
After reading The Times' article regarding Tommy Lee Waldrip and the hideous crime he committed against the young Dawsonville man, Keith Evans, 23 years ago, I am still in disbelief of our so-called "justice" system.
Another budget year and another disappointment for our library system and its patrons. Our county officials' spending on website redesign and an energy study, with unused results, instead of providing funding needed to take county agencies off of furlough toes the line of malfeasance, a word I learned from a children's picture book that I read at my library ("Olivia and the Fairy Princesses" by Ian Falconer).
I spent 60 years in newspapering in Anderson, S.C., Athens and The Atlanta Times, and 50 years in radio and television throughout the South. I write this to salute Gainesville and its vast medical community as nationally prominent in heart research. I owe my life to cardiologists there and couldn't dare name them all, but one, Dr. Jeffrey Marshall, has not only been a great doctor but a great mentor to let me pursue my career after suffering mightily.
I retired from coaching after 15 seasons in the NFL. I started off coaching five seasons as a high school coach in New Mexico and in Fremont, Calif. The Hall County football teams are extremely well coached. I often stand just outside the fence watching our incredibly competent coaches work. Hall County is a perfect place for a retired coach to live if he wants high-quality football every Friday night during the high school football season.
Here we go again, folks. Cormac J. Carney, a U.S. district judge, ruled California's death penalty unconstitutional. He called the death penalty an "empty promise that violates the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment." This was brought on by a death row inmate.
I vaguely remember when voting Republican meant you were virtually assured of candidates who supported policies that promoted limited government and lower taxation. Obviously, this is no longer the case.
In response to Joan King's column of July 1: I'm tired of reading and responding to her ill- and misinformed rants about nuclear power, and specifically, Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle nuclear units Nos. 3 and 4, now under construction.
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By Wanda Billbe
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MOORE — Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and with all the rush of getting the last pie baked, the turkey thawed and the last-minute shopping completed, there's one thing that will make all the difference in your holiday season: A thanksgiving pause.
It doesn't have to be long, just a moment or two. Of course, if you have 30 minutes, that would be sublime. The length isn't as important as taking the time to stop your world and take a minute to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for everything He has done for you.
Some may feel nothing great happened during the past year, but one quick reality check will show there are plenty of reasons for which to be thankful.
Are you and your family members alive and well? Do you have a car? A job? Food on the table? Warm clothes to wear? Do you have four-footed critters that will thrill at the smells of Thanksgiving cooking and wait at your feet for just one tiny little taste as you carve your turkey?
For me, I'm so thankful for my husband, my son, my sisters and brother, family and friends, the gift of prayer and the gift of those who pray for me when I need extra help. It is an immeasurable blessing not taken lightly, and I'm thankful beyond words.
When I stepped outside yesterday the scent of autumn was in the air, dried leaves and crisp air. It jogged a memory of childhood days of jumping in mounds of leaves in the cool Wisconsin weather — carefree, full-filled days when everyone was still alive and well and family gatherings were so huge we had to seat two people per chair. Our dining room table sat 12 – so that meant 24 people often sat round our table during the holidays. Fantastic memories. Another reason to be thankful.
Of course we know most of the men are thankful for the great football games as well as good food. I think it pleases God that the men are thankful for these gifts, too.
So much to be thankful for; such grateful hearts.
May your Thanksgiving be filled with gratitude for all God has done for you and for the family and friends still able to celebrate this holiday with you, whether near or far. Thanks to iPads, iPhones, and Facetime, families can be together around the globe in just a few seconds. Another great reason to give thanks.
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December 14 through December 28 | 6:00-10:00pm Annual Winterhaven Festival of Lights
Community Food Bank to Benefit From the 64th Annual Winterhaven Festival of Lights December 14 through December 28, 2013
Tucson: The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona will again benefit from the 64th Annual Winterhaven Festival of Lights to be held from December 14 through December 28, 2013. Visitors to the Festival may walk through the neighborhood from 6:00 to 10:00 PM each night.
This year the drive through nights will be December 17th, 27th and 28th.
Visitors will enjoy the colorful home decorations, lights and majestic trees in the Winterhaven neighborhood. While many people walk the streets of Winterhaven, visitors may also enjoy haywagon rides, and heated trolley rides through the neighborhood.
Last year the Winterhaven Festival of Lights collected 33,905 pounds of food and $20,753 for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona. Winterhaven residents hope to top that total in 2013.
There is no entrance fee for the Festival, but attendees are asked to bring canned food or make a monetary donation to the Food Bank. Most needed items are cereal, canned meats, canned vegetables, canned fruit, canned soups and canned tomato products. Also, a reminder that for every $1 donated to the Food Bank it can distribute four meals.
For more information about the Winterhaven Festival of Lights, call (520) 327-0111 or log onto www.winterhavenfestival.org


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DSL and Cable Speed - Bottom LineCable modem Internet services on average promise higher levels of bandwidth than DSL Internet services, and this bandwidth roughly translates to raw speed. However, while cable Internet will theoretically run faster than DSL, several technical and business reasons can reduce or even eliminate this advantage.
DSL vs Cable Raw Speed - Advantage CableIn terms of theoretical peak performance, cable modem runs faster than DSL. Cable technology supports approximately 30 Mbps of bandwidth, whereas most forms of DSL cannot reach 10 Mbps.
One type of DSL technology, VDSL, can match cable's performance, also supporting 30 Mbps. However, Internet service providers generally do not offer VDSL, but rather the cheaper and slower ADSL or SDSL services.
DSL vs Cable - Real-World SpeedIn practice, cable's speed advantage over DSL is much less than the theoretical numbers suggest. Why?
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The Creative Director has become a Procreator & in September Don & his wife Rachel will have a baby! So this is our new "special" and Monthly Specials are suspended from August until further notice.
Each year, during August or September, the Creative Director, DON MURCHISON & his wife Rachel, host the annual JUNGLE CHALET ART & CRAFT EXHIBITION, at their home, the Jungle Chalet, in Sydney. Past exhibitions have featured Don's glass art - leadlight windows & mirrors, and 'Watergarden Installations. Be fascinated by hygromorphomatics ~ the artistic harvesting of rainwater, to create artificial streams & waterfalls, with real sound dynamics of moving water...See an exciting selection of talented local & often an international guest artist, with paintings, sculpture, pottery, jewellery. This year is the 13th annual Jungle Chalet Art Exhibition and is an event in the Lane Cove Cameraygal Festival. Tour groups are welcome & bookings can also be made for visits during the year, to Don Murchison's Watergarden. Visitors are amazed that a rainforest wonderland can exist just 10 minutes from Sydney's CBD! The visit can include tea / coffee & nibbles, or lunch by prior arrangement. Sculpture, outdoor Water-art Installations, leadlights & other artworks can be seen & commissioned.
The Enchanted Night Garden will be open on Saturdays 17th & 24th August from 5.30 pm - 9 pm.
'Comedy Specialists' are the 'laughter doctors' who specialise in stress release! In the crazy world we live in, the only way to remain completely sane, is to book an act by those whom some regard as 'over the edge!' Make sense? Its simple ~ Laughter is the only medicine!... The best & only way to remain completely healthy!......So if your partner has left you, your sleeping pills no longer work, you missed winning Lotto by one number, its your colleague's birthday & she's one day older than she was yesterday, you're invited to a Conference but then find that you're expected to deliver a mesmerising speech, or you're retiring but they won't let you out the door before you deliver a speech....There is an answer to your prayers - "COMEDY SPECIALISTS!"..... A laugh a day will keep the doctor & psychiatrist away!!! ... If you aren't convinced, book our Mad Psychiatrist or a 'Fake Psychic' to 'predict' your colleague / friend's future in an outrageous way!...or a hilarious afterdinner Speech
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If you want to take a break from all the political stuff, the hate stuff and the attack ads and the county political stuff—and I think we could all use a break—have a look at the upper left-hand gallery at the Knoxville Museum of Art. It's called Higher Ground, sort of an episodic history of art in the Knoxville area, and the KMA's first permanent exhibit.
Not that it won't change; most of these works are in private hands, and the owners will likely want them back after a while. So it's kind of an evolving exhibit. Have a look at it soon.
I walked over last week. On a bright August afternoon on the Clinch Avenue viaduct, where shadows fall sharp and unambiguous, and silhouettes of children dance in the fountains, you can feel like a figure in a modernist painting.
Knoxville is not famous for visual art; most of the artists represented in the exhibit were on their way somewhere else. Some were hardly here at all but exhibited at one of the three major expositions held at Chilhowee Park from 1910 to 1913, an important time in American art history. There's a Robert Henri and a Childe Hassam, here for that reason.
Knoxville bred one noted impressionist, Catherine Wiley, who grew up in a house still standing on Laurel Avenue, two blocks from the museum. A couple of Wiley pieces here are nice ones I've seen before. Her mentor, Lloyd Branson, the successful journeyman portrait artist who worked 9-5 in his studio on Gay Street, but now and then could turn out some real art, is here, both his portrait of maverick Republican Horace Maynard and his best-known painting, the 1910 almost-impressionist study in sunlight and sinew known by several titles but here called "Hauling Marble."
Wiley and Branson's other contemporary pals, like Adelia Lutz, are represented here, and there's an odd 1923 oceanfront landscape by Hugh Tyler, who was then better known than his nephew, writer James Agee.
Those are artists you'd expect in any survey of Knoxville art. It may be too easy to tell the history of Knoxville art by touching three handy bases: the turn-of-the-century Nicholson Art League, which included Branson, Wiley, Tyler, Lutz, and others. Then the Delaney brothers, Beauford and Joseph; the exhibit highlights a great huge urban landscape by Joseph and an incandescent self-portrait by Beauford. Then the Knoxville 7, the 1950s group of UT academics like Buck Ewing and Carl Sublett who challenged Knoxville's conservative tastes with hardcore modernism. The most specifically Knoxvillian canvas from that era is Robert Birdwell's "View of the City (Gay St.)" from 1962, a chaotic collage of fragmented light.
But a few here don't fit that pattern, and caught me off guard. The earliest is from 1861, a big classic oil on canvas called "Belle Isle," by Scottish-born James Cameron; it's a depiction in oil of what was, before landowners blocked it from public gaze, one of Knoxville's best-known attractions, the actual view at Lyons View.
Ansel Adams, the photographer known almost entirely for his stark western landscapes, spent some time in the Smokies, circa 1948. Who knew? I didn't. Adams said he found our mountains "devilish hard to photograph." Maybe it's hard to back up far enough to get the sort of sweeping vistas he found in Utah. Only three Adams exposures of the Smokies are known to exist, and two of them are hanging on a wall right here, a shot including Mount LeConte, and a misty scene in a forest.
Charles Rain's work was new to me. His 1940s paintings like "Eclipse" and "The Magic Hand" look like sinister fantasy or just Daliesque surrealism, but some describe his work with a phrase I'm more used to seeing in connection with South American literature: "magic realism." The plaque says he was born in Knoxville but raised mainly in Nebraska—but library files indicate that his father, a prominent Knoxville physician, remained in Knoxville well into the artist's adulthood.
The one that slapped me in the face, though, is Charles Griffin Farr. A once-well-known California modernist who grew up in Knoxville and attended Central High, he was a painter of the stark realism school, something like Edward Hopper, especially in his 1950 canvas, "Cocktail Hour," of a woman in an urban apartment drinking alone. It turns out Farr's also called a "magic realist," to account for his tinge or the surreal—a coincidence, considering Rain and Farr probably didn't cross paths here. Except for the fact that that phrase is attached, their work's not much alike.
One piece I'd never even heard of before is called "Street in Knoxville," dated 1947: a scene of several pedestrians, all black in a sunlit but vaguely menacing downtown street. A sailor lurks in the foreground, out of sight of the others. The scene is a modest block of two-story commercial buildings, with an angular intersection and a double-steepled church in the background: I didn't recognize it, but there's one specific clue, a sign for Bell Laundry. I looked it up. No such business existed in 1947 Knoxville, which for a moment confirmed my suspicion that the whole scene was made up, an artist's prerogative.
But Farr's dates were 1908 to 1997. In the '40s, he lived in New York, Europe, California. He would have remembered Knoxville at a much earlier time. So I checked farther back. And in his youth, I found it. Bell Laundry was a small cleaning chain that thrived here from 1906 to 1928. Its logo in old ads is identical to the logo Farr used in the painting. If it's a real scene, I can't tell where it is; maybe a now-demolished stretch of Asylum Avenue.
The KMA is free through the end of the year, an experiment of which I approve. I'm no expert, but purely for narrative value, it's as interesting as a big-city gallery, and an intriguing way to kill a hot summer afternoon.
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Quarterback Jake Delhomme and the Panthers made a habit of coming from behind during the regular season, and it appeared they might be on their way again when the first-year starter connected with wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad on an 85-yard go-ahead touchdown pass with just under seven minutes left, and again when he connected with Ricky Proehl on a 12-yard game-tying strike with just over one minute remaining in the game. But John Kasay's ensuing kickoff rolled out of bounds and the ball was spotted all the way out at the 40-yard line, setting up the Patriots game winning drive.
Despite two missed field goals by Vinatieri, the majority of the first half was little more than a battle for field position. With just over three minutes left in the first half, the game remained scoreless and the Panthers were held to minus-7 yards of total offense while quarterback Delhomme completed just one of his first nine passes for one yard.
But when the Patriots broke the ice on a five-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady to wide receiver Deion Branch, they touched off an offensive explosion that netted a combined 24 points before the teams entered the locker room for the intermission.
After being harassed for much of the first quarter-and-a-half, Delhomme made the first mistake of the day when he coughed up the football on a sack by the Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel. Defensive end Richard Seymour recovered the ball at the Panthers 19-yard line, setting up the Pats' first score.
Carolina shifted to a hurry-up offense after the ensuing kickoff, and Delhomme seemed to find a rhythm as he capped off a 90-yard drive with a beautiful 39-yard pass that he dropped over the shoulder of wide receiver Steve Smith as he crossed the goal line.
The Patriots took over on offense with just over one minute remaining in the half, and three plays into their drive Brady connected with Branch again for a key 52-yard gain that helped set up a five-yard touchdown pass to David Givens. With 18 seconds on the clock, the Pats led 14-10.
Trying to run out the clock, New England decided to squib the kickoff, but it was picked up quickly by Panthers wide receiver Kris Mangum, who returned it to near midfield.
Carolina seemed content to run out the clock, and on their first play, they ran a draw to running back Steven Davis, who took it 21 yards to the Patriots 32-yard line where they quickly called a timeout.
Kicker John Kasay came in and connected on a 50-yard field goal attempt to cap off a wild three minutes and make the score heading into halftime, 14-10 in favor of the Pats.
Both teams found more success on offense in the second half, but the third quarter played out similar to the first quarter, as neither team could put any points on the board.
New England, benefiting from the terrific field position they enjoyed most of the game, finished the third quarter with a solid drive that started at their own 44-yard line. Two plays into the fourth quarter, running back Antowain Smith carried the ball in from two yards out.
Down 11 points with most of the fourth quarter remaining, Delhomme caught fire, going 3-for-5 for 53 yards before DeShaun Foster ripped off a 33-yard touchdown run that put the Panthers right back in the game. But in a decision that head coach John Fox might live to regret, Carolina attempted to cut the lead to three points, but the two-point conversion attempt failed.
New England answered with a long drive of their own, but on a third-and-goal from the Panthers nine, Brady was intercepted by Reggie Howard in the end zone. Three plays later, Delhomme connected with Muhammad on the 85-yarder that gave them their only lead of the game. Again they failed to convert the two-point attempt.
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Here's an update about an oil spill that occurred Monday at a Medford fuel company near Somerville's Powderhouse Square.
The following information comes from a Tuesday letter from the City of Medford's Office of Energy and Environment to the Mystic River Watershed Association. The association posted the letter on its website Thursday.
1.) THE BASICS: A tanker truck parked at Erickson Fuel Company, 600 Boston Ave., Medford, spilled 1,449 gallons of diesel fuel winter blend Sunday into Monday, Jan. 6. Diesel fuel winter blend is cut with Kerosene to keep the fuel liquid enough to pump.
2.) HOW DID IT HAPPEN?: It's believed that a flange at the bottom of the truck's tank froze before Sunday and then thawed out Sunday, causing the release of fuel.
3.) RESPONSE: The spilled fuel impacted Erickson's truck yard and the city's storm drainage system, which connects to the Mystic River. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), the Medford Fire Department, Department of Public Works and Office of Energy and Environment all responded to the scene, as well as a MassDEP "spill trailer" from the Chelsea Fire Department. Erickson also hired Ambrose Environmental and ENPRO Services for the cleanup.
4.) DAMAGE: Fuel flowed through the storm drains toward the Mystic River, which was frozen all the way to the Amelia Earhart dam. Dam personnel have not reported any odors at the dam, which is a good sign, according to the city. Pumping at the dam was ceased and will not resume until the all-clear is given by ENPRO. MassDEP believes that most of the fuel stayed in the city's drainage system and can be collected through ENPRO's efforts, which includes three vacuum trucks. Saint Clement School, which is across Boston Avenue from Erickson, was not affected in any way by the spill, according to the city.
5.) CLEAN-UP EFFORTS: ENPRO's cleanup efforts, which are being monitored by MassDEP and the city, were delayed somewhat by this week's cold weather. The cleanup, including flushing of the storm-water lines, was expected to last at least through this weekend.6.) COST: Erickson has accepted full responsibility for the spill and are paying directly for ENPRO's services and all disposable products used, according to the city. MassDEP Emergency Services are part of the Department of Environmental Protection's operating budget.