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The best day of your life? May 6, 2014Posted by philangelus in pensive.
Tags: animal shelter, cats
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Five years ago, I dashed home between errands to find that after ten days of failure, we'd trapped the cat.
I had almost exactly ten minutes to spare in my schedule, so I burned rubber to get the cat and the cage back to the animal shelter. She was bleeding from her paws from trying to claw her way out of the bars, and she kept yowling. I snapped the above picture because I didn't know if she'd test positive for feline AIDS or FeLV and they'd put her to sleep before I ever saw her again. She howled in rage and terror the whole way there.
When the cat shelter volunteer unloaded her from the car, she said, "This was the best day of your life, the day you walked into that cage."
Before I left I looked at the cat — bleeding, trembling, maybe about to be euhanized — and I couldn't agree. She was fine outside, fine until she'd gotten injured. She'd survived for six months in a wildlife-filled, relatively car-free Swamp. She came when I fed her but wasn't so hungry she'd walk into the cage for ten days.
Later we found out she'd been shot by a beebee gun, twice. Her leg was permanently wrecked. And from her behavior we deduced her previous owner was either neglectful or outright abusive.
Last week, while puttering around my bedroom, I heard a rhythmic, "tik-tik-tik-tik…"
The cat was sitting on the bed, looking at me lazily. I wasn't interacting with her at all, and yet she was purring.
Our previous cats were happy with us. I have no doubt about that, although Hazel would have burnt at the stake before admitting it, and yet none of them ever sat there just purring. Purring because their human was in the room, purring because there was warm sunlight and a soft bed and a bowl full of food and a cuddly brain-damaged cat companion and no one to hurt them.
So was it really the best day of her life? At the time I said no. For six months after, while the cat slunk around depressed, I'd have said no. But now I wonder.
I looked at the devastating things in my own life, those plunge-points of tragedy where the ripples spread out and changed everything that happened afterward. I can't say those are the best days of my life, those days where I did the equivalent of ripping out my own claws trying to escape the cage that had suddenly trapped me. I can see where they formed me, but you're never going to get me to say they were good. Emily's death created a lot of good (in the world, in me) for example, but I will never, never say her death was good.
Yet maybe the cat awakens in the night sometimes from a nightmare of a suddenly-slamming cage and steel bars, panicked, and would never think of that as a good thing. Maybe she likes where she is now but doesn't connect it to the horrible stuff that came before. So I don't know: maybe we never recognize the best days of our lives.
A little kindness, at least September 5, 2013Posted by philangelus in family, pensive.
Tags: cat
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As a warning, there is dead wildlife at the end of this post. If that's a trigger for you, please stop reading here.
On Tuesday nights, I come home late with one of the Kiddos while my Patient Husband runs the household and gets dinner on the table. Last Tuesday, as I pulled into the driveway, two Kiddos stood at the curb, waving me in. That's good. They're playing outside. Usually there are too many mosquitos outside at dusk.
As I pulled into the garage, though, I noticed my Patient Husband standing at the back of the house, waving at something, and my first thought was to look for smoke. The Kiddos were clearly waiting for the Fire Department. Except there was no smoke, and he hadn't urged me not to pull into the garage, so I quipped, "I wonder if he set fire to the cast iron pan" (something I nearly did last week.)
And, yeah. No. I wish there had been a fire.
Last week, I'd looked out the back window to see a brown and black spotted tabby sunning himself in front of our shed. I'm used to specific Swamp Cats, but I'd never seen this one, so I called over the Kiddos. I opened the window and talked to him, but when the Kiddos went out on the porch, he slunk off into the Swamp.
Later he went back out there, sunning himself again, and I again opened the window and chatted him up. Again he slunk away. But this time, I remembered we had a very old box of unused cat food in a closet. Back from before Hazel needed prescription food — so for all I knew, the box was full of bugs and no food. I brought it out onto the deck, and to my surprise, it looked fine, so I went down to the shed with a handful.
I don't feed outdoor cats. I just don't. Hunting cats survive just fine in the Swamp, and we can't take in another cat right now. I don't know why I fed this one.
The food disappeared within an hour, so I went down with more. That also went away. I didn't see if the cat ate it or if any of the million other Swamp creatures.
I didn't see him again. The box on the deck was pushed around overnight, but I didn't see him again until Tuesday night.
My Patient Husband had sent the kids onto the deck to shuck the CSA corn, and Kiddo2 looked down to see the cat. For the next half hour, my Patient Husband was on the phone trying to find someone who would come out and euthanize the cat. The vet said animal control; animal control needed to be called through the police. The police paged her, and she left her dinner to come, getting to our house just after I arrived home to find my husband doing whatever he could to keep the poor thing comfortable. But the cat died sometime after I arrived and before she did.
The Animal Control woman called it coyote-work. She said she'd never seen an animal that badly damaged make it that far.
And I realized: he came to us. He struggled all the way back to us because people are comfort. People talk nicely to you, and people give you food. He needed help. So he came back to the deck where he knew we'd talked to him and where he knew we'd left a box of food, only then he couldn't get up the steps.
My Patient Husband said, "I guess that's what happens when you feed a stray cat."
I don't know why I fed him. Maybe because God knew the cat needed a little kindness. A fully-grown cat suddenly appearing in a place where people dump unwanted cats. A cat who didn't know how to survive in the wild. A cat with only a handful of days to live. There was no way I could have caught him, nothing else I could have done for him. Someone told me, "You showed him a little kindness, at least," but it's still so awful.
You're in Paradise. Take the Advil. August 24, 2013Posted by philangelus in pensive, religion.
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Just yesterday, someone was telling me about a trip she'd taken with her elderly mother. It sounded like a fantastic trip, the kind you take once in a lifetime — and given her mother's age, that's likely to be the case. And I think she had a good time, but every so often she'd talk about how her mother made it difficult to enjoy themselves on the trip by being, in general, a difficult person.
In addition to the other she-created-these difficulties, the mother has difficulty walking due to joint inflammation. Her doctor has apparently told her she can take Advil for this, and when she takes it, it helps. But on the trip, she refused to take the Advil, and this meant they couldn't walk around everywhere they'd have liked to go, and they couldn't move quickly, and they couldn't take a bus because it was too high for her to step up onto the bus.
In the middle of telling us this, the daughter exclaimed, as if at her mother, "You're in Paradise! Take the Advil!"
That keeps coming back to me today, and I began to wonder: are we really in Paradise? And when aren't we taking our Advil?
Because it's stubbornness on the part of this woman's mother. Having met the mother, I'll say there probably isn't what you or I would consider a "reason" not to be taking it. For example, if Advil caused her stomach cramps, we'd be sympathetic. But no, she doesn't like to take Advil. Why? Because she doesn't like to take it.
When we get into Heaven, is it maybe not Heaven for us so much if we refuse to accept the things God gives us? Since I assume we retain our free will even after choosing God in eternity, is it possible to shuffle around Heaven clinging to our emotional baggage from Earth? How about us still here on Earth? When God gives us a Giant Clue, how often do we refuse to accept it, just from stubbornness? Or even, if we're blunt with ourselves, how often does God give us a gift and we refuse to take it? A real gift, like the urge to let go of a grudge we're holding, only we cling nice and tight. Why? Because we're holding a grudge, that's why.
Is there that same desperation in God's voice? "You could be in Paradise! Take the graces!"
We've been given so much, literally everything we have. We didn't give ourselves life, or this world, or the choice of being born into a culture where we'd get educated enough to read about Paradise and Advil. These all came to us without us meriting it, so really, we're in a kind of Paradise. What's our Advil?
Little injuries August 14, 2013Posted by philangelus in pensive.
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While biking a few weeks ago, I ran over a caterpillar.
It was one of those "you can't help it" things. By the time I saw the caterpillar, I was on top of it. I tried swerving, and then I went back to look for it, just in case, but I couldn't find it. So either I didn't squash him or else I did and "the body was never recovered."
I biked home sad because I killed a butterfly. Not intentionally, but still. Butterflies are beautiful, and now there's a little less beauty in the world.
I've been aware lately of the little injuries in the world, the small wounds that harm individuals at most, but are caused from carelessness, thoughtlessness, freak mistakes, and the like.
For example, early in July while I was at the playground, my son was playing with his friends when a grandmother came with her grandson, who had a sand bucket and three digging tools. She set them out on the ground, but the little boy didn't want to play with them. My son and his friends played with them instead, and when I told them to leave the toys for the little one, the grandmother said no, it was fine.
A lot of older kids came to the playground too, but everyone was doing just fine. When it was time for us to go, I went back to find the sand tools for the little boy, and I could only find two. The grandmother and I looked around, but the third one had vanished. Had one of the kids buried it? Or one of the older kids taken it? We never found it, and the grandmother said, "It's fine. He'll never know."
She's probably right: the little kid never showed any interest in the digging toys, but it's still a little injury in the way the world should have been.
I'm not sure I have a point here, and I know I'm not living up to the blog's promise of satire. Sorry. But if the work of God is, as Father Walter Ciszek writes in He Leadeth Me, to do whatever work is in front of us, then part of that work is to heal life's little injuries. Only sometimes we can't, and I'm not sure if the best response is to pause and grieve them, or if it's to be like the little boy's grandmother and just acknowledge them, shrug, and move on.
Guest Post by Ken Rolph: "I wish I still had a typewriter." April 5, 2013Posted by philangelus in geekery, pensive.
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If you frequent the comment box, you're familiar with Ken Rolph, our resident Australian (actually, he's residing in Australia and we all gather wherever via the magic of the internet.) He posted this to a forum we both belong to, and I asked permission to post it here, which he granted. I think all of us can relate to the tech-woes.
I have just effectively had a quarter of the year trashed by big companies and their technology. Early in January I got my MacBook Pro upgraded 2 system jumps, and there are still things I can't do. The helpful Apple Centre geniuses mentioned that this machine would be declared "vintage", by which they meant "buy something new or go away".
My ISP was bought by a large telecom and shut down. We naturally had to move to something else, so on 15 January we signed with a new, large telecom for phone and internet. They would supply a cable modem, wonderfully fast and fully featured. We didn't have a cable, or even a pipe, so we had to go through all that. A technician finally put a cable into our study, leaping from the skirting board to the desk in an elegant arc that would be easy to trip over. He turned the modem on and went on his way with a cheerful, "Just start up your browser. It's all automatic."
Which was partly true. The modem took control of our portal and tried to access the registration page. Then came back an error message that said we couldn't register at that time, and to try again tomorrow. In cheerful innocence I believed it at first.
For the next 45 days our browser would do nothing else but go around this loop. We called for help and went through another loop. The person on the end of the phone (in the Philippines or India) could not solve the problem. They would pass it on to an activation team, and someone would call me back the next day. They never did. No one could or would explain what the problem was. At the end a technician admitted that there was a problem with the new software that was trapping thousands of new users in this loop.
Unwired was to shut down on 28 February, so we were getting a little desperate. On 22 February, out of the blue, our local federal member of parliament rang up. She was a student of Jan's and wanted her help in a local project. There's a federal election coming up and this makes political parties a bit ready to connect with local voters.
We mentioned our problem with the telecom. The MP said to drop photocopies of our dealings down to the electorate office on Monday morning. Which we did. That afternoon the phone began to ring with apologetic telecom technicians, activation team leaders, official apologisers. We had 6 returned phone calls over the next two days. On 28 February, at midday, a technician turned up (not at the appointed time, of course) with a new user name and password scrawled in texta on a piece of cardboard. He did something to the modem and we were away and registered in an instant.
The next couple of weeks were spent updating our online presence. This creeps up on you over the years. I had a two-page list of places where my email address was used in a meaningful way. It took a long time to update because of all those passwords. The most security conscious financial institution kept me going for an afternoon. Log in and add a new password. Wait for an email telling me that I've added a new email and need to confirm it. Change the new email to be the primary one. Wait for an email . . . Delete the old email. Wait for an email . . .
Last week we sat down to calmly survey the damage and look for the way ahead. Exactly 3 months ago we had a home network linking seamlessly 4 computers and 2 printers. Relatives and friends could come with their laptops, phones, pads and I could just add their MAC number to our access list and all would work slowly but reliably. Now nothing worked with anything else. So I pulled it all apart and put the cables in a drawer and started again. One cable modem wirelessly to one Mac, with a colour printer plugged directly to it. The rest of the stuff didn't fit into the picture at all. So we thought we would get some new technology. Jan bought an iPad mini. I got out an iPod which I had acquired some time ago and never been able to use because of software incompatibilities. Now it worked. We set up Jan with her own personal email address. Up till now she had to use the school one or mine. Of course the incoming/outgoing mail settings were different from the leaflet that came with our new modem, but I was able to read the account the technician had set up on my machine.
Then, in the snail mail, we got a threatening letter from our new telecom wanting to cut off our service because we hadn't paid any of our accounts. What accounts? It seems that although the technical department could not give us internet access for 45 days, the billing department efficiently sent our January and February bills to an email address we never had and are never likely to have. I got that sorted out.
On Friday afternoon I got a call from a bubbly voice henchperson of our telecom. She said they had noticed that I just changed my email address and wondered if everything was okay and working properly. I gave her a sardonic account of the past three months. She didn't seem the slightest bit disturbed. Either she was used to hearing the story, or she hadn't yet done the official grovelling apologiser course. Inevitably we got to the date of birth question. She said I sounded younger than that and that my attitude to technology reminded her of her dad. She said it might be a generational difference. She said we was twenty . . . well, you know what I'm going to say. The driving force underlying all art and commerce of Western Civilisation — the energetic 23-year-old woman. I ended up agreeing that the new service was all fabulous. Later I thought about not being like someone's dad and 1967 — a great year for music.
Saturday. I got some Beach Boys music for the iPod and went into the garden. The darn device locked itself on CoverFlow and wouldn't shift. So I couldn't change the volume. So I couldn't hear above the noise of the lawnmower. Jan called for help with her new iPad, which had gone to a blank blue screen and wouldn't shift. I said, "I've had it with technology. I'm going to read a book." So I went and sat of the teak seat under the shade of the melaleuca tree in the back garden. Later Jan bought me a cup of tea, and very unkindly pointed out that there was a contradiction between escaping technology and reading a Kindle DX. I said that's not technology. That works.
My new definition of technology. Offers you heaven: leaves you in hell. You can't get it to a stable point where you can just use it for work and play. Someone has to keep moving the bits. It's like a carpenter having to spend all their time fitting new handles to a hammer head and never getting to use it to hit a nail. I said to myself, I wish I still had a typewriter.
Sunday the grandkids came and I was thoroughly escaping technology. In the garage I found some old boxes we hadn't got around to in our pre-retirement cleanup. I pulled out a vinyl LP of Also Sprach Zarathustra, which was #1 on the hit parade around the time when the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey was showing. I asked #1 grandson what it was. He replied with all the confidence of his 4 years that it was a DVD. I hear that cheap turntables are available again.
Also in the box were the last few audio cassettes we still have. One was a large wraparound plastic pack containing 6 cassettes of the Beach Boys; the Capitol Years. I started listening to it in the afternoon. It reminded me a earlier times when I thought things were possible. There used to be a booklet with it. I wondered if I could find a copy still around. After all, we have this wonderful internet stuff which contains all human knowledge. So I googled. I couldn't find the booklet. I couldn't find any mention at all the cassette version. A Wikipedia page mentioned a 6 LP and a 4 CD set. Frequently I find that information on the internet is inaccurate, misleading or simply missing. Of course it only contains what people put there.
Over supper Jan and I considered what to do. Then we remembered that we are old and rich, so we said, right, we'll just buy new stuff. After she went to bed I sat holding the Beach Boys cassettes and thinking about the inadequacies of the internet and its many betrayals. It only contains what people put there. But wait, I'm a people! So I signed up to be a Wikipedia contributor and made my first addition.
This morning I sat pondering what to do with the old technology. Then I realised that I do have a typewriter. There is a functioning Macintosh and a functioning laser printer, which work together. All my problems had been with connectivity. I could still write and print out things for editing. And I can cable the two Macs together and pass stuff via the drop boxes.
One day, perhaps, I can get back to a point where I can use all this technology to do actual work.
Ken Rolph
Blacktown Australia
I wanna be her when I grow up January 22, 2013Posted by philangelus in pensive.
Tags: blindness, elderly, resiliency
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Sorry I posted such a sad story yesterday. Let me tell you a less-sad story so maybe you'll keep coming back.
This woman's name I don't remember, but my dispatcher said I'd be bringing her to "the meeting of the blind," something I later learned was a monthly occurrence.
I ended up at a trailer park on the border of Angeltown and Nowhere At All, with excellent directions. I loved when they gave me directions better than "There's a tree on the corner — you'll turn a few blocks before that." Try to imagine life in the days before Google Maps could get you anywhere — actually, imagine Apple Maps after it's belted half a bottle of bourbon. Anyhow, this woman gave me quaint landmarks like street names, and directions like "left" and "right" instead of "it's around there somewhere." I pulled into her driveway behind a Monstrously Old Brown Car.
She told me her story as we drove: her husband had died a couple of years ago, and afterward, she had gone blind.
She did exactly what anyone would do in that situation, of course. She organized a city-wide support group for blind senior citizens.
That was how this woman spent her days now: on the phone organizing support group meetings and telephone-counseling the elderly who were losing their vision. Right. She was living on her own even though I believe she had family in the area who wanted her to live with them. She apologized for getting a ride from me, but her son had to work. She told me how stubborn the city hall folks were about providing more elderly transportation services and how they kept limiting public transportation. I could tell City Hall would be her next target.
Two huge losses in a few years, and yet she was so upbeat.
When I brought her back home, she pointed to the Monstrously Old Brown Vehicle. "That's my car." And then she added, "I can't bear to sell it. That would be admitting I'm never going to drive again."
Blind. Never driving again. Good call. Just don't admit it, and you'll be fine. And she was.
I understand that kind of spirit doesn't come out of nowhere. She'd cultivated her resiliency over a lifetime, somehow, day by day. But you know what? When I grow up, I wanna be like her.
The ghost of her memory January 21, 2013Posted by philangelus in pensive.
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"I'll be your driver today, Mrs. Penn," I said when she answered the door, this tiny white-haired woman with a nasty dog at her heels.
She grinned and said, "It's Miss, not Missus, and you can call me Shirlee."
She'd grown up with an unusually-spelled name back in the days when you just didn't do that. (I've changed it, by the way — a google search on her real name turns up her, and only her.) Over time, as I drove her to various appointments, I learned more about her life, how she'd been born in that same house where I'd picked her up, how she'd never married — and bits and pieces I found myself fitting together even when she herself didn't. Relentlessly cheerful, she never spoke badly of her family, and I didn't yet know the word "toxic." I knew she was alone, but I also knew she had family in the area. I met her sister once, a bitter woman who showed up only because a doctor wanted a family member there.
Shirlee annoyed me sometimes, and I didn't let it show. She didn't get why I wanted to stick to a schedule, or why she shouldn't spend twenty minutes in the house after saying "I'll be one minute — I just need to get my purse." She liked that I brought a baby with me to her appointments. At some point, I believe her nephew moved in with her, into that crumbling house crammed with a lifetime of junk and darkness.
I don't know why I'm thinking of her. The ghost of her memory came to me while I was knitting another shawl.
It would have been Christmas 1999 that I bought her a gift. It wasn't much — a pretty sachet and some scented soaps, and then I wasn't sure how to get it to her. But of course, God looks out for fools, drunks, the United States of America, and me: the dispatcher called a week before Christmas with a same-day appointment, so I tucked the gift in the back seat. After her appointment, Shirlee asked me to stop at Walgreens, and I figured she wanted to get a prescription. No, she spent an interminable forever wandering the aisles and then bought a gianormous teddy bear for one of her nieces or nephews. Irritated, I still helped her back to the car with a smile and an assurance that no, I really had nothing else to do today.
When we got to her house, she gave Kiddo 1 the teddy bear. He hugged it, and I thanked her and said she hadn't had to do it, and then I reached into the back and handed over her gift and card.
She said, "Oh, you didn't have to — " and then stopped. It was wrapped. There was a card. Her eyes widened. "You didn't know I was going to give him that!" And in that moment, she realized I'd actually bought a gift for her, planned it out and meant to do it.
And she started to cry.
I felt like garbage afterward, that maybe this lonely woman got one Christmas gift that year, and it was a lousy sachet and some soap. Wendy told me, "At least she got something," and my Patient Husband said, "You can't make up for a lifetime of unkindness." But I never expected her to cry.
I just felt so helpless.
Some time later, it might have been my last trip driving her when she asked if we could go visit her old school house, so we wandered down this rural road I'd never been, in a backwoods between two thriving towns; widing alongside a lake, she told me about how cold it used to be to walk a couple miles to a one-room schoolhouse, told me about woodstoves and other students. And then after we found the spot her school used to stand, I dropped her off at home, and I don't think I ever saw her again.
I did go to her wake. Her nasty sister glared at me, like how dare someone come to the wake because they liked Shirlee. As my Patient Husband said, you can't make up for a lifetime of unkindness.
I don't think I'll ever be able to get rid of that teddy bear.
The way things open and close January 1, 2013Posted by philangelus in family, pensive.
Tags: cats, death, pets
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She arrived in our house after we'd been married a few months, part mistake and part fate the way good things always are.
We had seen teeny-tiny kittens in the pet store, so I went to the animal shelter to ask if there were any laws about selling kittens too young to be separated from their mother. The shelter folks said no, but I looked at the cats. She was there, newly turned in after someone found her wandering around a parking lot in downtown Ithaca. Out of the cage, she stood on my Patient Husband's shoulder just like our goofy kitten did, so I put our name on a list, and a week later they called.
The two cats got along great, but that was seventeen years ago. Our family has transformed from me and my Patient Husband living in a terrarium with two kittens…to seven angels, four kids, and up to as many as eight cats for six teeth-clenching weeks one summer. Stormy died two years ago. Last year we acquired the brain-damaged kitten (because every household needs a furry beast that will never grow up, a furry beast that finds twist-ties wherever they hide and plays with them on your bed in the middle of the night.)
She hadn't been doing well, and the vet said there were two separate problems. She lost weight, and in the last week, she looked skeletal. She still was in good spirits, but she couldn't jump on the bed any longer. Whenever I went into the bathroom, she'd follow because that was her domain, and she'd look at me expectantly as if waiting for something good, but she didn't want food. Or cold water. Or her treat. Nor even to sit on the toilet lid, her kitty-throne.
On Sunday night, Kiddo2 and I sat up with her, petting her, brushing her, talking about her. She purred, and in the morning she was still with us. She spent the day in her basket by the window, then moved to her spot under the bed, and sitting underneath where I was reading, she died.
God answered our prayers: her death was peaceful and quiet, and the ground wasn't so frozen we couldn't dig a grave. I carried her basket outside, and we laid her in the ground wrapped in her blanket. Stormy's ashes had been waiting for two years in a locked box in a plastic bag sealed with a twist-tie, and we sprinkled them over her now.
Back inside, I set the basket in its place in front of the window. So much for the physical realities of death. I sat in bed to knit and feel miserable.
Orion, our brain-damaged kitten, went to the basket and sniffed around it, then pounced. His head came up out of the basket, and in his mouth he had a twist-tie: the twist-tie that had been on the bag of Stormy's ashes. And he began to bat it around.
I guess there's a lesson somewhere in there if you care to find it, that death and life are intermingled in ways we don't truly understand — pain and play, youth and age, endings and beginnings. But I didn't have the energy to find them. Instead I just watched the kitten play with a twist-tie, unaware of the way things open and the way things close.
I wouldn't have gone back either November 22, 2012Posted by philangelus in pensive, religion.
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I have a question: Did Jesus like people to follow the rules?
Jesus said that not one jot of the law would pass away, and he certainly followed the rules himself (see the bit about paying the Temple tax) but there were times he didn't (picking heads of grain on the Sabbath). But what about breaking the rules he'd set out?
I'm a little flamboyant with the phrase 'breaking the rules' though, so I'll just cut to the chase. Luke 16 shows us ten lepers who ask Jesus to heal them. Jesus doesn't say he's going to do it; he just tells them to go show themselves to the priests (which sounds a lot like "fill these stone jars with water" and "bring it to the steward" because at no point does he say "and then a miracle occurs.") And they go.
If you're unfamiliar with the story, on the way there, they notice they're healed, and one of them turns back to go tell Jesus thank you. Jesus says, "Weren't all ten made whole?" and asks why only the foreigner (a Samaritan) came back to thank him.
All my life, when I've heard that story, I've resolved to be more thankful. And the last time, I realized, that's not the point at all.
The point was, nine of them followed the rules and did exactly what Jesus told them to do. The one who didn't was the one raised outside the Jewish system, the Samaritan, who probably didn't care so much for the rules of Jewish society as much as he cared, "Sweet! I'm healthy again!"
We don't know that the other nine weren't going to track back and find Jesus to thank him after they did what he said to do. But I can tell you right now that if it were me that happened to, that I would go and do everything Jesus had told me to do. And yes, a large part of that would be for fear that he'd take away the good thing if I didn't complete the task he'd set me. (And no, he didn't. God doesn't take the gifts away if you're insufficiently thankful.) But also because, well, when God tells you to do something — you do it.
I've read about Lot's wife, turned into a pillar of salt for turning back to look at a burning Sodom. Would I want to be turned back into a leper? No. Therefore, if Jesus said, "Go show yourself to the priests," there I would have been, showing myself to the priests. And then I'd go over to Burdick Chocolates to pick up a little thank you gift for Jesus to show him just how happy I was.
So what did Jesus expect, I wonder? Didn't he want people to do what he said?
Kind of a scratch-your-head moment for your friendly neighborhood rules-conscious Philangelus.


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I love that Angelina Jolie wore a British designer on the red carpet for the "Salt" London Premiere in Leicester Square tonight.
The actress looked beautiful in her Amanda Wakeley Fall 2010 dress and I'm really diggin' those bangs.
Her long shimmering embellished dress with a silk shoulder strap was worn without the contrasting silk waistband.
I really wish Angelina had worn the waistband to give her dress more shape.
The pink thin waistband she's used doesn't make the same impact as it does on the runway.
Although I think she should've executed this look much better, I'm grateful that this isn't a head-to-toe black look.
Nude patent Ferragamo peep-toe pumps complete the look.
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Credit: Elle.com, Bauer Griffin & Getty
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The investigation began on Oct. 2 and continued through Nov. 6. Three containers were seized just one day before their scheduled departure; three more containers had already departed but were ordered to return to the shipping basin, according to CBP's Lee Harty. The contraband was coming from a mining facility in Hayden, Arizona, where authorities became aware of a problem on Sept. 27, according to CBP officials.
``U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport not only prevent the importation of dangerous products into the country, but also have an important role in stopping stolen cargo from being exported out of the port,'' said Todd C. Owen, CBP Director of Field Operations in Los Angeles. "These seizures demonstrate the effectiveness of CBP's cargo security activities, and of the strong partnership with local, state and federal law enforcement partners,'' he said.
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It was plain to see that Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner have forged a strong friendship, as the two horsed around at the Breaking Dawn Part 2 red carpet after party in L.A. on Monday evening. Things weren't always this way. There was a day when a slight bit of animosity channeled between the vampire and the werewolf's (a.k.a. Edward Cullen and Jacob Black) veins, and it was all over Kristen Stewart.
According to a report from Hollywood Life, things seem great between the two now and at Monday's red carpet premiere of Breaking Dawn Part 2 and the party that followed, it was clear the guys were having fun and enjoying each other's company.
"Rob was smoking his fake cigarettes all night, and he was talking with Kristen Stewart and other people in the VIP area, including Taylor Lautner," a source says.
Rob quit smoking several weeks back but is rather hooked on his electronic cigarettes instead.
Rob and Taylor hung out in the VIP section at the party for most of the evening and seemed to truly enjoy their time spent together. You can check out a great shot of Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner at the Breaking Dawn Part 2 red carpet premiere after party by clicking on the Hollywood Life link above.
Do you think Rob and Taylor's friendship will continue now that everything Twilight is quickly fading away?
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Imagine, for a moment, that your cellphone provider is Cingular and your closest friend has only a landline provided by Qwest. Currently, because of common carrier regulation, each telephone provider must treat incoming calls as though both phones were on the same network, even if they aren't. This neutrality was mandated by Congress because telephone networks were (and still are, at least for the time being) considered infrastructure.
Proposals currently being promoted inside the beltway by telecos and cable firms such as AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner (also the nation's largest media company) and Verizon are laying the groundwork for dismantling this network neutrality for internet service. In the long run, this means dismantling network neutrality for telephone service as well. The writing is on the wall: phone calls will continue to migrate to internet protocol and delivery.
Latest DevelopmentsThe House Committee on Energy and Commerce is debating draft legislation (pdf), the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. Network neutrality is being debated as part of this larger measure, which would amend the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The Senate schedule lags the House.
The prime sponsor in the House is Committee Chair Joe Barton (R-TX). Co-sponsors include Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee Chair; Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS) Commerce Committee Vice-Chair; and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL). Rush received a $1 million "charitable" gift from teleco SBC/AT&T, an outspoken opponent of network neutrality.
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The distributed nature of the Internet means that content -- whether it is e-mail, instant messages, VoIP "phone" calls, music or video -- is broken into small packages of zeros-and-ones. These small packets make their way individually to their destination -- travelling over whichever network is the least traffiked that millisecond. No toll roads and often more than one route.
This could change if network discrimination becomes the law of the land.
That's why an unusually broad coalition -- which includes organizations from both sides of the aisle (The American Library Association, Gun Owners of America, and Parents Television Council, for example) as well as leading technologists (Vint Cerf, Lawrence Lessig, Craig (Craig's List) Newmark) -- has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the issue and press Congress to preserve net neutrality.
StakeAccording to proponents of network neutrality, what is at stake is the freedom to access whatever online information (content) strikes your fancy, using whatever device you wish. Rather than focusing on their responsibility to maximize network performance, telecos and cable companies want to control access to content, either by charging additional service fees or by prioritizing some content over other content.
The threat is not hypothetical: technology exists that facilitates packet discrimination and companies have used it. For example:
- In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked DSL customers from using rival Web-based phone service Vonage. The FCC intervened and fined the firm $15,000 in 2005. ALso in 2004, a Missouri VoIP provider appealed to the FCC to prohibit broadband providers from blocking packets from competing firms. The firm, Nuvio, said a block can be programmed in five minutes or less.
- In 2005, a Canadian teleco -- Telus -- blocked its customers from visiting a pro-union website during a labor dispute. Telus just happened to be the company "at the heart of the dispute."
- In 2006, Time Warner blocked AOL customers from receiving e-mail that referenced dearaol.com, a campaign opposing AOL's proposed multi-tier e-mail delivery system (network discrimination).


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Cal Poly plays host to the 7th annual Matthew Myers Memorial Scholarship 5k at 8 a.m. Saturday.
The event raises money for scholarships. The endowment plans to give at least 10 awards, bringing the total since the run started to 48, according to Cal Poly Pomona's website.
Matt's Run honors Myers, a Cal Poly Pomona communications student who died in 2005 when a car struck him on campus. His family, parents Kevin and Chris and sister Jenna, partnered with the university to sponsor an event designed to give back to the community. Myers loved to run, so his family thought a scholarship 5K would be a great way to celebrate his life.
"Our son was an average student," Kevin said in a Polycentric article. "Getting an education wasn't the only thing in his life. He gave his time considerably. He volunteered at church and for youth activities, helped the elderly and had a job. Matt had to work hard just to get a B, but being a well-rounded person was just as important to him."
To read more of the story, click here.
Runners and walkers of all ages can participate in the event. Early registration is $20 for students and $35 for adults and children. Registration the day of the event is an additional $5 and t-shirts are not promised.
Check-in starts at 6:30 a.m. and the race begins at 8 a.m. near the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center.
For more information and to register, visit mattsrun.csupomona.edu.


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The principal of Lied Middle School in Las Vegas was placed on home assignment after the second lewdness-related arrest involving a teacher there.
A spokesperson with Clark County School District confirmed the assignment for Principal Kimberly Bass-Davis pending an investigation.
The move follows the separate arrests involving teachers at Lied.
Las Vegas Metro police said the school's one-time boys' basketball coach and U.S. history teacher, Michael Barclay, 44, was booked into Clark County Detention Center Wednesday.
He was charged on counts of attempted lewdness with a child under the age of 14 and attempted statutory sexual seduction.
In August, Metro arrested the school's girls' basketball coach, Alphonso Washington, 47, on allegations of open and gross lewdness.
Stay tuned to FOX5 for the latest on this developing story.
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Many political analysts around the state count Sen. Tony Strickland of Moorpark among the Republican incumbents whose careers will be imperiled if the 2012 elections are conducted under the maps certified this week by the Citizens Redistricting Commission.
There is particular concern among Republicans about the Senate maps, which most analysts believe would give Democrats a legitimate shot at attaining a two-thirds majority in the upper house, an advantage that would essentially render GOP senators irrelevant. Republican analyst Tony Quinn, in a recent blog post at Fox & Hounds Daily, writes that the new maps spell doom for Strickland: "The seat of Ventura County Republican Sen. Tony Strickland was moved far into Los Angeles County where he cannot win."
Immediately after the commission certified the maps, the Senate Republican Caucus announced it will back a referendum to try to overturn the new Senate maps. Strickland told me that he supports the effort and will contribute money to help make the referendum happen. But he insisted he was doing so for the team -- specifically, to try to rescue colleage Sam Blakeslee of San Luis Obispo, who was placed in such a Democratic-dominated district that he indicated he won't even try to seek re-election.
As for the map's impact on him, Strickland was upbeat. "I'm happy with the district I have," he said. "I get to keep my base in eastern Ventura County."


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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours, 40 minutes
Yield: 6 Servings
- 2 lbs (1 kg) beef tripe
- 1 calf's or pig's foot, cut in half
- 4 oz (60 ml)white vinegar
- 2 medium yellow or white onions
- 1 head garlic
- 2 bay leaves
- 6-10 black peppercorns
- 6 oz (150 gr) Serrano ham
- 8 oz (225 gr) Spanish chorizo sausage
- 8 oz (225 gr) Spanish morcilla (blood) sausage
- 1 Tbsp Spanish paprika
- 1 can (16 oz) garbanzo beans (optional)
Shopping Tip: When purchasing a calf's or pig's foot, make sure it is cut in half. The local butcher can cut it in seconds with his sharp tools.
Clean the tripe under cold running water. Set in a bowl of cold water and vinegar for a few minutes, then rinse thoroughly. Cut into pieces approximately 3-inches square.
Coarsely chop 1 onion. Peel all garlic cloves.
In a large heavy bottom frying pan or pot, place tripe and calf's/pig's foot. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Allow to boil for 1 minute. Pour off all water and froth or scum that formed.
Add water to cover tripe in same pan. Put chopped onion and all but 3 peeled cloves of garlic, bay leaves and peppercorns in pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat. Simmer for 3 hours.
Finely chop the remaining garlic and the onion. Cut the Serrano ham into small squares. Slice the chorizo sausage into rounds. Sauté onion, garlic, ham and chorizo in olive oil for 5 minutes, or until onions are translucent. Remove from heat and stir in the paprika. Add the mixture to the tripe. Cut the morcilla into rounds and place in the pot. If using garbanzo beans, add them now and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
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Tuesday, Jan. 22
- At 5:36 p.m., a Puritan Road caller reported to police that a motor vehicle was parked in his driveway. The owner was located and he moved the vehicle.
- At 6:05 p.m., a person was using someone else's handicap placard to park in a handicap space at Marshalls. The person was cited and the placard seized.
- At 7:31 p.m., a Humphrey Street caller reported an Internet scam.
Wednesday, Jan. 23
- At 7:55 a.m., a Deer Cove caller reported someone had used the caller's debit card without authorization.
- At 8:37 a.m., a Puritan Road caller reported someone had used the caller's debit card without authorization.
- At 11 a.m., police received a report that students were in a parked car behind the Gulf Station on Essex Street smoking marijuana.
- At 1:46 p.m., an Essex Street caller said someone had stolen package packages from the front porch.
- At 2:02 p.m., a Nichols Street caller reported that a man in a green jacket had rang the doorbell and tried the front door and left on foot toward Windsor Avenue.
- At 7:49 p.m., a Minerva Street man was unresponsive and transported to Salem Hospital.
- At 8:52 p.m., police recieved a report that fraudelent charges were made.
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Three men were arrested Friday night at Theatair X during a sting operation conducted by the Clarksville Police Department.
The sting was designed by police after receiving complaints of illegal behavior taking place at the adult superstore, police reported.
Clarksville Police Maj. Darrell Rayborn said a female and two male officers worked undercover to complete the operation, which began about 10:30 p.m. He said while the female officer was in the business, she was approached several times for sex by men who wanted to have intercourse in the business.
Rayborn said it was more beneficial for the investigation to find suspects who were willing to go to another location on the pretense of patronizing a prostitute.
The female officer and one of the male officers, who was acting as her boyfriend, then went to the exterior of the property to find people willing to travel to a different location for sex. The undercover officers found two men who agreed to travel to nearby Crest Motel on U.S. 31.
Bill Leon Bohall, 52, of Vallonia, and Jeffery Scott Grooms, 44, of Louisville, were each charged with patronizing a prostitute, a class A misdemeanor, late Friday night. Both men were arrested about an hour apart at Crest Motel.
The third undercover officer entered one of Theatair X's theaters, Rayborn said. While in the theater, the officer observed two men engaging in sexual intercourse. One of the men, later identified as Kristopher Druen, 31, of New Albany, was charged with public indecency, a class A misdemeanor.
The officer in the theater used text messaging to notify a team of officers conducting surveillance around the business of the illegal sexual encounter taking place, Rayborn said. The second man found having sex is an unidentified male, who was not arrested. Rayborn said the man escaped arrest as the officer in the theater was unable to get a sufficient description of the man.
Rayborn said the operation was a success and similar operations will follow.
"We plan on making more visits to the business," Rayborn said, adding that the department will shift its focus to criminal activity taking place inside the business, instead of conducting prostitution stings.
He said the officers are responding to the concerns of citizens of and will continue to do so.
"We are looking into the what is going on and doing our best to confront the problem," Rayborn said.


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KARACHI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The Karachi Cotton Association on Monday fixed the official spot rate or base price, for Grade 3 cotton at 5,894 rupees per maund (40 kg). The Grade 3 cotton has a staple length of 1-1/16" (inches) and micronaire value between 3.8 to 4.9 NCL (no control limits) which represents fine to coarse classes of cotton varieties. In the kerb market the key crop varieties traded in the range of 4,500 to 5,600 rupees per maund. Following are the grade and staple margins for the period Jan 16 to 31: GRADE STAPLE LENGTH 31/32" 1" 1-1/32" 1-1/16" 1-3/32" 1-1/8" Super n/a +107 +214 +429 +536 +643 1 -107 0 +107 +322 +429 +536 2 n/a -214 0 +214 +322 +429 3 -429 -322 -214 BASE +214 +322 4 -1018 -911 -804 -589 -375 n/a n/a -1179 -1072 -965 -750 n/a n/a (Compiled by Karachi Newsroom)
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Brookstone falls to FPD in first round of playoffs
By JOSHUA FULLER
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In front of a capacity crowd at Brookstone, it took only two plays for First Presbyterian to make the crowd uneasy for the rest of the night as the Vikings bounced Brookstone 49-33 in the first round of the GHSA Class A private-school playoffs Friday night.
Entering as the fourth seed, the Cougars were looking to advance past the second round for the second time in school history but that mission was cut short by the 13th-seed First Presbyterian.
"This was just an outstanding season for our seniors and all of our players," said first-year coach Brad Deham. "Our seniors ac
complished almost every goal that we set but we just came up short."
"You can't spot any team 28 points and expected to win, but we did our best to bounce back. I told our defense at halftime to just to make stops because I knew our offense would do the job to get us back in the game."
After winning the toss and selecting to receive, the Vikings made a statement on the opening drive. On the second play from scrimmage, a jet sweep pass by wide receiver Michael Yopp surprised the entire Brookstone defense as the freshman found Scott McCormick wide open for a 61-yard touchdown pass.
Brookstone came out and picked up a first down on the following drive before having to punt.
On the punt, Jam Morris broke through the line and blocked it to set the Vikings up with the ball on the Cougar 43 yard line.
First Presbyterian would then use a seven-play drive to go up 14-0. The big play of the drive was a seven-yard gain by quarterback Brooks Stroud on a fourth-and-3 play that kept the possession alive for the Vikings. Later on, Darron Moore dash into the end zone on a 12-yard touchdown run.
Things continued to get worse for the Cougars. On the following kickoff, First Presbyterian pooched the ball to about the 35-yard line to Miller Page, who couldn't corral the ball giving it right back to the Vikings with great field position. Four plays later, it was 21-0 for the Vikings as Moore recorded his second touchdown of the first quarter.
Brookstone would have its first sustainable drive on the following possession, but an interception thrown by quarterback Duncan Fletcher ended the drive on the Viking 18-yard line.
The Vikings went up 28-0 after a 13-play drive that covered 72 yards. During the drive, First Presbyterian kept the ball on the ground on all 13 plays. Moore had 31 yards on the drive while Stroud had 30.
From there, the Cougars fought back scoring two touchdowns in the final six minutes of the half. Madison McCluskey was the star of both drives as he had a 53-yard run for a touchdown and caught a 20-yard pass from Fletcher.
Coming out of the break down 35-14, Brookstone scored two touchdowns in the third quarter to get within eight of First Presbyterian, 35-27.
Friday at Brookstone
First Presbyterian 21 14 0 14--49
Brookstone 0 14 13 6--33
First Quarter
FPD: Michael Yopp 61-yard pass to Scott McCormick (Albright kick); 11:18
FPD: Darron Moore 12-yard run (Albright kick); 5:52
FPD: Moore 3-yard run (Albright kick); 3:55
Second Quarter
FPD: Reggie Gantt 4-yard run (Albright kick); 6:09
B: Madison McCluskey 53-yard run (Page kick); 5:27
FPD: Moore 6-yard run (Albright kick); 1:33
B: Duncan Fletcher 20-yard pass to McCluskey for (Page kick); 0:35
Third Quarter
B: Fletcher 27-yard pass to Tim Kennedy for 27-yard pass (kick failed); 10:26
B: Fletcher 1-yard pass to McCluskey(Page kick); 1:00
Fourth Quarter
FPD: Moore 40-yard run (Albright kick); 9:17
B: Fletcher to McCluskey 6-yard pass (kick failed); 7:10
First Presbyterian: Brooks Stroud 10-yard run (Albright kick); 1:11
Records: Brookstone 8-3, First Presbyterian 7-4. Next: First Presbyterian at Calvary Day/Landmark Christian (Class A-Private State Playoffs second round on November 30)


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Two were injured when a sedan and SUV collided at Jericho Turnpike and Jackson Avenue Wednesday morning. This is the second accident at a Jericho Turnpike intersection in one day, after
At 9:58 a.m. Wednesday morning, and Nassau County Police responded to the accident involving a red BMW SUV and a silver sedan. Two of the people involved in the accident were transported to local hospitals.
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Age : 54
Place of residence : Racine
Attended college : Yes
College : Carthage College
Degree : Bachelor's degree in liberal arts and religious studies
Year of graduation : 1993
Grad school
University : No
Degree : NA
Year of graduation : NA
Military service
Has served in the military: Unknown
Rank : NA
Employment Information
Job titles held : Factory worker and line lead at Warren Industries in Sturtevant
Political Information
Party affiliation : Libertarian
Running for a: Federal office
Running for position: Congress
Chamber/district: 1st District
Incumbent: No
Previous elective offices : None
Unsuccessful bids for elective offices: Ran for Wisconsin State Assembly in 2002, 2004, 2008.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/KeithDeschlerCampaignForSavingAmerica
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SYDNEY, Australia, October 31. IAN Thorpe, one of Australia's greatest swimmers, is touring his home country this week to promote his new autobiography, in which he publicly talks about dealing with depression, thoughts of suicide and alcohol abuse.
In the book, titled This Is Me, Thorpe writes that he started suffering from bouts of depression in his mid-teens, around the time he started becoming an international sensation in the pool.
"And at the time, I didn't know that it was depression and it wasn't until a little bit later that I actually went to seek some help," Thorpe told Australian media this week. "I didn't actually have the words to put around what I was feeling, and I think a lot of young people struggle with that."
Instead of using prescription medication to handle the thoughts of depression and suicide, Thorpe writes that red wine became his medicine of choice, particularly between 2002 and 2004. Through the ordeal, Thorpe managed to become one of history's best middle distance swimmers with Olympic gold medals in 2000 and 2004 and world records in the 200 and 400 freestyles. He retired shortly before the 2008 Olympics in the midst of rumors of doping, rumors that were quickly debunked.
Thorpe made a return to the sport in 2011 with a goal of qualifying for the 2012 Australian Olympic team, but failed to make it out of the semifinal rounds in the 100 and 200 freestyles. Now 30, Thorpe is still training in Switzerland with aspirations of competing at the 2013 world championships.
During his Australian media tour, questions of Thorpe's sexuality also were raised. Thorpe, as he as always done, quickly shot them down saying "The thing I find hurtful about it is people are questioning my integrity and what I say... that this is something that I would be embarrassed about, or I would hide. ... The only part of it I find frustrating is that people think I'm lying."
Thorpe's autobiography is available online through various retailers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1.7 million toy workshop and tool sets from toy-maker Little Tikes are being recalled because of choking concerns.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the play tool sets have over sized, plastic toy nails that might cause young children to choke.
The recall is an expansion of a 2009 recall of about 1.6 million workshop sets and trucks with the same toy nails. The new recall involves an additional 11 models.
Little Tikes of Hudson, Ohio, has reported two additional incidents in which children choked when the toy nail became lodged in their throat. Both children made a full recovery. The incidents occurred before the 2009 recall.
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According to capgeek.com; the Tampa Bay Lightning have 22.8 Million in cap space for the 2011-2012, with the expectancy of the cap limit being raised a few million.
This leaves JM Steve Yzerman with a lot of options, and a lot of problems. Tampa currently has 8 Unrestricted Free Agents (UFA) and 4 Restricted Free Agents (RFA). Now, we have all heard the recent rumors of Brad Richards returning to Tampa! However, its hard to realistically believe this is a possibility.
One can dream though. Can't they?
Right now Tampa has to resign superstar Steven Stamkos, sign two goalies, and fill in alot of blank spaces, but we do have the upside of an owner willing to spent the cap limit. Thank you Mr. Vinik.
Here's the Lightning Roster and when they sit.
UFA List
Marc-Andre Bergeron
RFA List
Steven Stamkos
Players Signed
Honestly I would have expected Steven Stamkos to resign by now, and every time I hear a Stamkos rumor involving Toronto I want to puke. Steve Yzerman is as smart as they come, and I can only assume that Stamkos will be signed to a long-term deal around 8M per year, with a cap hit in the 7M range. This would leave Tampa with approximately 15 Million (without the cap raise) to fill in some serious holes.
Teddy Purcell had a breakout season reaching the 50 point mark and he was stellar in the playoffs, can Tampa afford to keep him around? Sean Bergenheim had a heroic playoff run, Eric Brewer was a shot-blocking machine. Do we resign Gagne after he found some long needed chemistry with vinny? Do we resign Roloson for one more year after his playoff heroics? Even Mike Smith was solid in his last few games of the season, AND the rare playoff appearance.
The Lightning surprised us all this year. Anyone who said they would be in Game 7 of the Conference Finals can shake their head, even I was expecting a early exit. Half the players had never even seen the playoffs before...
Lets assume the following;
* Adam Hall resigns for a team friendly 1 Million 2-year deal.
* Dwayne Roloson resigned for one more year at 2 million.
* Teddy Purcell gets a multi-year contract at 3.5 Million
* Bergenheim resigns for approximately 2 Million
* Randy Jones resigned for another year at 1 Million
* MA Bergeron, Gagne, Brewer, Smith walk away from the team.
Now thats a lof of IF's, the numbers will vary and some players do not get signed and others will.
This leaves Tampa with approximately 6-7 Million in cap space to sign Brad Richards. But wait. We would only have 1 goalie signed, 5 defenceman signed, and 11 forwards.
Brad Richards would be willing to take a home town discount, but even if he signs for lets say 5 Million, we have 1-2 Million to sign a backup goalie, 2 defenceman and another forward. That can not work, can it?
I know we have promising prospects and we all (well, most of us) expect Cedrick Desjardins to crack the Lightning roster next season, so some of these holes can and will be filled. But it would put too much stress on our team and our future if we were to resign Brad Richards. I for one am letting go of a dream for the better of our team. I do not want to turn into Chicago and have to trade our assets for virtually nothing.
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The Emmys got off to a fun start at 5 p.m. local time with organizers getting six of the comedy categories out of the way at the outset. But first: the requisite intro, which is sure to mortify Bruce Springsteen's stoic fans.
5:05 p.m. Jimmy Fallon does Bruce Springsteen in a Glee-style version of "Born to Run." He grabs Jane Lynch's breasts, as she sings "Strap your hands across my engines." A few minutes later, he ditches the Boss-style blue jeans and white-T for a tuxedo, and gets in the first Conan joke, asking "what can possibly go wrong?" when he relates how NBC asked him to host a late-night show. Camera pans to O'Brien, whose late version of "The Tonight Show" is nominated for best variety, music or comedy series.
5:12 p.m. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY: ERIC STONESTREET (MODERN FAMILY). Tears are streaming down the cheeks of his on-screen partner and fellow nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Stonestreet takes the stage to deliver a heartfelt paean to the entertainment industry in general and his co-workers specifically. "All I wanted to be was clown in the circus when I was a kid growing up," says the portly actor, who only plays gay on the screen.
5:21 p.m. BEST WRITING, COMEDY "MODERN FAMILY." Two-for-two for TV's hottest comedy, as co-creators STEVEN LEVITAN and CHRISTOPHER LLOYD take the prize for writing the pilot. Star Ed O'Neill's mouth is open in wonderment.
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino together again … So?
Hollywood heavyweights Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunited on the red carpet in New York Wednesday night for the premiere of their new crime thriller "Righteous Kill" — their first film together since making 1995′s "Heat."
The movie also stars Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, and Donnie Walhberg, whose album with reunited boy band New Kids On The Block debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 charts this week. Likewise, De Niro and Pacino will hope to turn in a good number at weekend box offices.


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Every Saint Has a Past, Every Sinner Has a Future By Rev. Bernard "Skip" Keels, M. Div. Mother's Day - May 13, 2001. Distributed by the Coalition for Jubilee Clemency (CJC), this Mother's Day sermon discusses the forgiveness and restoration of mothers serving long sentences behind bars for low-level, nonviolent offenses. Rev. Keels is Senior Pastor at the United Methodist Church in Newark, DE, and a member of the steering committee for the CJC.
Year 2000 Letter to President Clinton Campaign Final Report and Recommendations for Action March 24, 2001. A report of the Coalition for Jubilee Clemency (CJC), detailing the success of the CJC campaign in encouraging President Clinton to grant clemency to low-level, nonviolent drug offenders. A hard copy is available by contacting CJC at email@example.com
Pardon Me, Please By CJPF president Eric E. Sterling. Chicago Tribune, December 20, 2000. The op-ed called on President Clinton to grant clemency to low-level Federal drug offenders. A similar op-ed was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune, on December 28, 2000.
Racially Disproportionate Outcomes in Processing Drug Cases By Eric E. Sterling. Washington, DC: Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. Updated April 15, 1999. An 8-page report describing the disproportionate impact of drug prosecutions on African-Americans and other racial minorities. Reports the data on the increasing and gross racial disparity at every stage in the processing of drug cases – from arrest to incarceration.
Disparity in Crack, Powder Cocaine Sentences By Eric E. Sterling. Chicago Tribune. August 4, 1997. This op-ed describes how the grossly disproportionate prosecution of African-Americans in federal crack cocaine cases is a consequence of mismanagement by the U.S. Department of Justice of federal prosecutors who overwhelmingly pursue low-level crack cases. The article describes how the disparity is less the product of the well-known statutory 100-to-1 crack/powder cocaine sentencing triggers.
Execution Would Make Timothy McVeigh a Martyr By CJPF Police Policy Fellow Nicholas Pastore. USA Today, June 11, 1997. This letter to the editor argues that lifelong imprisonment may be a more apt punishment for the man convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing, and warns that his execution could lead to more extremist violence done in his name.


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Restaurant Week 2007
Announced for January 8-14: http://www.washington.org/restaurantwk/
I'm returning to Zola for lunch, which was fantastic last year given a full menu selection of three courses. I snagged dinner reservations at IndeBleu, which I can't afford under normal circumstances, and Oceanaire (ditto), but I've read mixed reviews for both places during RW. Anyone have positive or negative feedback to report?
Has anyone been to RW at Zengo, Kaz, Cafe Atlantico for lunch, or any other sushi place, like Sushi-Ko or Sake Club?
I had Inde on Tuesday. It was delish. Was a limited menu, but they were all good. The chicken stuffed with goat cheese was nice and simple. My friend had the salmon with this green mint sauce that was tasty. My fav was the shrimp samosoas! The best! Desert was only so-so, I had the marshmellow ice cream. It was clever, but nothing exciting. We just had a glass of wine, so the bill was not too bad. It such a neat space I always enjoy the chance to eat there.


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As a student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), Kiira Benzing '07 found herself calling on her Lafayette education in a way she couldn't have imagined.
During her senior year at Lafayette, Andy Smith, assistant professor of English and chair of the American studies program, introduced her to a film called Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio. "It has stuck with me ever since," says Kiira, who has had roles on TV and in film. "My teacher in London asked me to portray the light of the city. I blurted out, 'Oh, like Koyaanisqatsi!' and my professor said, 'Exactly, you're the first student to ever make that comparison!'"
Kiira's love for the theater began when she was a first-year student at Lafayette. She double majored in French and a self-designed major in performance studies. She founded the student group Five Actors in Search of A Director and graduated summa cum laude.
"I did everything from main stage production to black box theater," she recalls. "It was always a great experience. Professor Michael O'Neill, Professor Suzanne Westfall, and Chris Hutchinson '91 were all great and encouraging."
She also took her passion overseas and studied abroad her junior year, spending the first semester in Paris and the second in Russia.
After graduation, Kiira went to Cambridge, Mass., to continue her training at the Moscow Art Theatre Summer Academy. "My favorite play at Lafayette was a Chekov play, so I wanted to continue to study Russian theater," she says She then went to London to study at LAMDA.
After graduating from LAMDA, Kiira began working on her own film in New York City. "I had been dreaming about this piece for a while," she says. "I started working on a grant for it while I was in London. The timing was just right and it all fell into place."


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St Catherine Fort Bermuda
Located at the northern tip of St George and overlooking the ocean, St Catherine fort stands between the St Catherine Beach on one side and Achilles Bay on the other side. One of the most impressive forts in the island, St. Catherine fort has many historic exhibits, artifacts, and a well preserved interior. Surrounded by a dry moat and accessed by a drawbridge, the fort has a large number of tunnels, towers, redoubts and ramparts. In 1609, Sir George Somers's ship Sea Venture was wrecked on a reef near this area. The crew came ashore where the St. Catherine fort now stands. They started the first settlement in Bermuda.
In 1612 Bermudas first governor, Richard Moore, arrived in Bermuda from England. Moore built a wooden fort here to defend Bermuda mainly from Spanish attacks. The original St Catherine fort in Bermuda was built around 1614, but it was renovated at least five times. In fact, work continued until late in the 19th century. Today this stone built St Catherine fort houses a museum and is one of Bermudas most impressive structures. You can see a collection of antique weapons. In the old artillery store there is a gallery of dioramas depicting Bermudas history.
St Catherine fort Bermuda
The St Catherine fort was defended by 5 canons, each weighing 18 tons. The shells they fired weighed 400 pounds and were capable of penetrating even thick iron plates. As you stroll through the magazine, you can see numerous pistols, swords, muskets and even 10" Rifle Muzzle Loaders on the gun floor. Replicas of the British Crown Jewels are also on display. There is an audio-visual presentation done here featuring various other forts of St George.
The Children can have a thrilling experience in one of the lower chambers. They can listen to the spooky chanting of 'George the Ghost' during Halloween light show in the chamber, believed to be haunted. An exorcism was held at the fort in the 1970s. Incidentally, St Catherine fort's main terrace overlooking the reefs below has been the setting for several theatrical displays. The most notable was by Hollywoods Charlton Heston in a 1950s production of Macbeth.
Cannons at St Catherine Fort
You can plan your lunch or dinner in The Beach House at Blackbeard's, a restaurant next to the fort. If you do take your food there, do not miss the wonderful sunset views over the Achilles Bay from the terrace of this restaurant.
Admission Fee
$7 for adults, $3 for children. Advance booking not required.
75% of the fort area is wheelchair accessible.
Open Hours
The fort is open 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily (closed on December 25, 26 and January 1).
Location and Contacts
15 Coot Pond Road, St. Catherines Point, St. George, Bermuda.
Phone: Call 441/297-1920 for further information.
St Catherine Fort is located north of St George's town and is not on a major bus route. If you like you can walk from Kings Square. While the walk towards the fort is uphill and may be a little challenging, the walk back to the town is downhill and easy. You can also take a Minibus service. The mini buses depart from Kings Square. They depart all times of the day. Average ticket $4 per person. You can call the Mini bus services for more information. Phone: 441/297-8199. Buses between Hamilton City and St. George's: #1, 3, 10 and 11. From dockyard, you can take a ferry to Hamilton and then one of these buses to Kings Square. Visit Tourist Map to see the location.
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The Farm Credit Act (Act) grants associations the power to exercise "all such incidental powers as may be necessary or expedient to carry on the business of the association." See Sections 2.2(20) and 2.12(20) of the Act (12 U.S.C. §§ 2073(20) and 2093(20)). The FCA has long held that activities that promote an association and earn it the goodwill of farmers are incidental to its express powers to make loans and enter into contracts. A prior OGC opinion concluded that a Farm Credit System institution is usually exercising its incidental powers when it buys a de minimus and passive interest in entities that serve agriculture. See OGC Opinion dated April 29, 1999 (Summary No. 99-08). The association in this case will purchase only a small amount of preferred stock, which will represent a de minimus percentage of the cooperative's equity. Furthermore, the association will have only a passive ownership interest in the pasta cooperative because preferred stock does not convey effective control or meaningful governance rights in a cooperative. These factors indicate that the association is exercising its incidental powers to promote its expertise in and commitment to financing agriculture rather than seeking a return on an investment or engaging in an entrepreneurial activity.
This opinion is fact specific and, therefore, it does not create a precedent for this association or any other Farm Credit System institution to acquire an interest in another non-Farm Credit System entity. Similarly, this opinion does not authorize any Farm Credit System institution, including this association, to purchase additional amounts of preferred stock in this cooperative.
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Program Active: October 4, 2013
Projected Contribution: $3 million
Total Contributions: $2.7 million
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