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I'm in the woods of NH on a sunny hill top amid quiet with my Uncle, Aunt and Grandma. They all are disabled in one way or another and have banded together to take care of each other so they don't have to be in resting homes for as long as possible. My grandma is 95 and deaf. My aunt is 58 and retarded. My uncle has been in a wheelchair since he was 17 and is now 66. Grandma had the house and some money. Aunt Cathy cleans, bakes, knits with grandma and takes her to the bathroom and bed. Uncle keeps the books, runs the house, meditates and composes music. He cooks three good meals a day, makes the drinks at 5pm, and gets the movies on Netflicks. The moral this new year for me, being around them, is to stick together and support each other. Keep those addresses of good friends as we move about in life. Try and live closeby. Don't be afraid to ask for help. And save some money for retirement.
Category Archives: Travel Reports
First Week in NYC
Good. Really very good. NYC to me is like 1000 small town main streets with no trees between them. Friendly, safe in the East Village anyway. Reasonable market economy for food and such. People ask you for directions just like a small town too. School is great, very professional and supportive. I met the original Village People cowboy on a public access game show and he was cool. Eric W. took me to Cirque du Soleil for free since his wife couldn't make it. Got back stage and met the director and some staff. It's like a not-so-small army with a school, kitchen, doctors, etc. That basically overwhelmed me on the beautiful people watching front. As a friend told me, you've got to literally dodge the beautiful poeple in the streets of NYC.
Pics from trip
I've safe and sound in the Bay Area and very happy to be back. The trip across the US was great in part due to having a rideshare with a very solid and healthy kid named Jonathan who had just graduated from Hampshire College. It was his first Burning Man. Burning Man was really amazing and better then 2000 by a long shot. I was part of a very organized camp of 70 folks who put on a well known event. We had showers, fresh healthy meals and lots of work. I also volunteered for the Black Rock Gazette and got two stories printed. I'm in San Francisco now and loving it. The city seems uncrowded and healthier then when I left in 1997. I'm loving the humidity and trees after the desert for a week.
Monadnock Mountain Climb Report
Grand Monadnock Mountain
The bald rocky top of Monadnock Mountain has been flitting in and out of my field of view since I arrived in Keene, NH. It's about 3000 ft. and has an unusually bear rocky top which should by all rights be covered in trees. I was curious about that but in the often typical understated manner of New Englanders, I'd only ever heard snipits of info around town such as, "good climb" and that it had "a pretty good view, depending on the weatha." I didn't know it was in contention for the most climbed mountain in the world with 125,000 people going up each year. Seems that bare rocky top is very attractive and a perfectly challenging day hike.
So I climbed it last Sunday and took some pictures (it was a harrowing solo assent due to buddies being called into work.) I took the less popular Marlboro Trail which is about 2 miles long and took about two hours up. At times it's quite steep, but no need for ropes and kids to stout grandparents were on the trail. It was a hot and overcast day with thunder boomers milling about the state watering things.
Arriving at the balded top was like entering a bit of a party. Lots of people milling about, including a ranger who was fielding questions, the most popular being "will it rain?"
"Storms are down south," was all he said (It started pouring right as I reached my car on the way down and it was then that I realized he hadn't said it wasn't going to rain.) Talking to the ranger more revealed that Monadnock is quiet the little mountain!
First of all there's not trees at the top because it seems that back in the late 1800s the wolves and bears who lived up messed with the wrong local farmers. The farmers got angry lit the entire top of the mountain on fire and just cleared it to the rocks. It's coming back slowly they say.
It also happens to be generally considered the second most climbed mountain the world after Mt. Fuji. Or the first if you want to debate some folks on technicalities. The ranger said some folks out in "Califonia' would say Mt. Whitney was, "but they'd be wrong."
And the name Monadnock, an old Abnacki Indian name has been revitalized by the mountain and kept in the English lexicon (Definition) to mean any lone mountain rising above a plain.
4th of July in New Boston, New Hampshire, NH
Happy Fourth
I just came back from my first 4th of July in the small NH town where my Grandmother lives. I was always busy during summers and never visited her in the summer until now. Surreal? Yes. Real? Also yes.
Just a gaggle of white families a breedin' in the country. Horses, working canons, bells by Paul Revere, lawn mower tractor pullin'. The best moment was when we were eating BBQ chicken in a mess hall and started talking to a young couple with a 1 year old. The mother had a "Martha's Vineyard" shirt on. My grandmother saw it and said,
"I was there as a kid during a flu outbreak for months while it passed here in town. We were neighbors with the Indian tribe out there and our family station wagon was the first real car they had ever scene!" We figured that was about 1918 she was 7 or so.
Is it true? We'll never know. My uncle Binny (short for Winfield in these here parts) was the keynote speaker at the tiny fairgrounds, as his grandfather was once before. Of course time changes things as my uncle is a composer, Buddhist, and paraplegic and my great grandfather was a gun collecting shoe salesman. Bin did a great re-telling of the constituional convention, focusing on New Hampshire's role. They were 9 weeks late because the state treasury had no money and nobody wanted to pay for them to go.
Bin's best line, "nothing's changed much here, we still don't like paying anything to the government. Maybe our motto should be "Live free, or die trying."
It's changing fast for everyone else too. Houses 200K and up. Locals being priced out. Commuting yuppies coming upstate to spawn. Same in Kennebunkport, ME. Folks I know are moving out of town and renting their 3bd/2ba houses by the week for $1600 and they're two miles from the beach in rough woods.
Road Report: Driving, Cross Country in the United States.
Road Report. Cross Country
Comfort Inn. Pittsburg, PA.
Sun. Dec. 14th, 2003.
(Rough draft, brushed up draft on blog in a few days)
Just got into the hotel room (the first with Net access) after belting back a few drinks with a fella I met at the bar down the street from my roadside hotel off the 79 in Pittsburg PA. Lets call him Joe. Talking to Joe left me feeling like a career politician might feel if kidnapped from their bubble and placed in a working class bar in some random town. It was a stunningly educational, occasionally frightening, and ultimately hopeful, conversation. Skip to the end of this post if you want to read about that.
It feels strange to type after 5 days away from the computer…very strange, but its coming back quick. It does not feel strange to sit though; I've been sitting for 12 hours a day in my little car for the past 5 days. I've been on the road now since Wednesday when I left sunny San Diego headed for New Hampshire. I drive during the day, taking lots of short breaks.
A note about truckers before I go any further down this road. What a crazy ass numbing job truckin' must be! But they keep America humming and they are your best friends on long trips, if you are observant you learn the language of the road, and it's all trucker-eze. If trucks are going slow, go slow. If they are going fast, go fast, because they know where the cops are and the coming road conditions and weather. Follow tucks around cities, not through them. Be suspicious of highways with few trucks. Stop at rest areas where there are a lot of trucks and take a short nap like they do to keep your eyes sharp. Don't tailgate them ever, and don't pass them on curves if you can help it. Never pass slowly, lounging in their blind spot. And always, always, always give them the right of way. If you do this, they will take care of you on desolate desert freeways, dark snowy tree lined highways. If was the president I'd fund trucker yoga classes though, because judging from my back and kidneys, life on the road is brutal to the body, and after 12 hours of driving, the last thing you want to do is work out.
I headed out on the 15 North to the 40 West, passing through the song, "Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino," except in reverse. I pushed hard to get to my mother's house in Santa Fe, driving 970 miles in one day. It's sort of a blur of gas stations since I had to get a roof rack and load it up, thus taking the gas mileage in my '95 Subaru Impreza 5 door station wagon down to about 20MPG. It's a very sure footed AWD car though, especially loaded down and with the bigger engine. Highly recommended machine.
Before I left I bought a video and still cameras, justifying it because I'm going to be teaching media literacy at a school. I've decided to take a little video every 100 miles and make a 15 minute short – should be interesting.
Thursday I left at 2pm and headed down to the 40. There was a storm coming across the country that I was trying to stay ahead of, but I slept late and had a good breakfast with my mother and visited with my stepfather and then my aunt and uncle came down and they all had to help me unload and repack my car. That was comical, each one making sure I had food, water, maps, etc., as if it was my first drive after getting my license. Driving away I regretted teasing them, especially my mother, for being so caring. One should not scorn love, even if it is totally ridiculous. I called from the road and said as much and felt better.
After a beautiful secondary road to the boring but excellent rt. 40 the storm caught me. A couple of hours outside of Amarillo Texas the bridges started freezing in the rain. I went by 12 accidents, one of which happened in front me. An SUV just started drifting on a bridge, slammed into one guard rail, then all the way over to the other one and stopped. I pulled over and getting out of the car couldn't even stand on the side of the road 'cause it was solid black ice. He was fine and the cops arrived in minutes, probably called by truckers.
The next morning it was still raining when I work up in the little Travelodge and hit the road by 8:30am, a little late due to the time change escaping my attention. The weather channel and I conferred and I stayed on the 40 to keep it raining instead of snowing. I really, really, wanted to go north because I live the scenery and being raised in Maine I get irrationally nervous in formerly confederate states. It didn't help that one of my books on tape was Don't Know Much About
American History. I listened to that in the mornings, and the Iliad in the afternoons when I was spacey. I followed the rain all day.
By Ft. Smith Arkansas I stopped again. The next morning it had snowed a couple of inches, just like Amarillo. After Little Rock I consulted the weather gods, called a friend who got on the weather.com, plotted, planned and strategized. I could go north, letting the storm continue East at about 50mph, then follow it into the North East where it was heading to dump all kinds of snow. This would keep me on the North side of the Appalachians. Or I could continue in the warm south along the 40 to the ocean. But the storm was forecast to ice up the 40 around Appalachian pass, but if I could make it to the 95 and run up the Eastern seaboard behind it. The problem with that was the big city traffic and of course I wanted to go north. I finally decided to make a dash North at Memphis up the 55 to the 57, to the 64 North. It worked and although it rained and snowed lightly most of the way, the roads were mostly good. In Evansville Illinois I stopped for the night after a harrowing last hour driving in snow at night. By this time the truck stops were filling with bad coffee and piles of fried everything as their main fair.
The 64 was a serene country highway that I took to the 71 and up on to Cincinnati. Still snowing lightly, but with good roads, I called another friend for a weather.com consultation. We elected to stay south of the Great lakes, but north of the mountains, which meant the 70 through Columbus to Pittsburg where I am now. I'll make NH tomorrow, weather willing.
So back to Joe.
Joe is 32, single, with a 14-year-old daughter he loves to death. I'm going to relay his story and thoughts, as they were very illuminating to me. I am not endorsing his opinions mind you.
Joe pays his child support willingly and is devoted to his daughter completely. He thinks he'll not get married due to his parents' savage divorce that left them both poor and angry. He's a carpenter in a big union and is training to build bridge molds in Pittsburg. He's from a small town in Pennsylvania where he owns 35acres he bought with his own money so he could someday build a house on give to his daughter when he dies, "She could sell it, live in it, I don't care, just so she's got somethin'" he told me. She wants to be an Ocean oceanographer and he totally supports her. He has interesting times going to football games where she cheerleads, because sometimes her school plays his old school where he played football. He was in the military for a few years and worked in factories.
Joe's political thoughts were surprisingly shaded grays.
We established that there is a triad of top priorities for him.
1. Family values.
He's dismayed at the condition of families and that schools are having to parent, "The world's changing and we're not keeping up with how to keep strong family values." He's sort of pro life because abortions will happen anyway so they might as well be safe. He worked since he was 12, he was "disciplined" which he was adamant was never "abuse" and he was troubled that we've forgotten that there is a difference. He got in fights outside of school, but never one's that were really really serious and they helped him vent, which is missing now, he said. His high school coach smacked him around when he was out of line. He is pro-Bush due to his family values. We didn't get into gay parenting, but he said, "Hey, I judge on character. Some gay guy hits on me and I'll kill him, but otherwise I don't care. Same with blacks and others. Live and let live, judge on actions." I told him I lived in a gay area and went to gay bars with girls sometimes to dance and got hit on, "Oh, well that's different, it's their turf." We agreed that their you have to expect to get hit on at a gay bar. He said he had no inherent problems with different folks and we agreed that assholes come in all flavors. He supports women working and would love to stay at home with his daughter if he found a rich one to marry, not that he's going to get married again. But he's also confused about how to keep good family values and raise kids well in this new world.
2. Economy. He was anti-Bush due to Bush's position on union wages and overtime. He was very proud that his union president had refused a meeting at Bush's ranch on these grounds. Unions may have problems with some dead wood, but they were needed and he was a union man. We talked about how he's in the middle of family values and unions, democrat and republican. About how we need health care and good jobs. About how he wants a politicians to talk plainly and come from poor backgrounds so they can relate to common folks.
3. Guns
We have to be able to keep our guns so nobody can attack our country. This was not negotiable. Violence in our country was more due to lack of education, money, opportunities, culture, and then guns. We talked about Iraq. He wanted us out, saying the war games he played while in the military were bad enough, the real thing must be horrible. We agreed it was a rats nest, but Joe was mystified why we didn't bomb the piss out of the busses of terrorists we saw coming into the country from other countries.
We talked about slavery. He had great grandfather, or some such old relative, who told him that when he and his family were hungry in the winter because their farm was not producing enough food or money, the slaves were eating on the plantations because they were kept healthy for work. He said, hushed, that it wasn't all beatings and abuse. His opinion was that slaves were given freedom to fast to let everybody adjust in a healthy way. We agreed we were left with a terrible legacy of bad social psychology, being a country founded on freedom but having had slaves. We also agreed that the American Indian thing was a big mess and wished some politician would tackle that problem.
And we talked about truckers and the silent rules of the road. On this we were in perfect agreement. We parted and wished each other well crusin' safely on the coattails of the kings of the road.
Weather Entertainment
"Weather Entertainment"
7th Ave. and Lincoln Place, Brooklyn NYC, Dec. 2nd 2003.
Caleb John Clark.
Foreboding gray clouds rolled over the sun outside the Brooklyn NY cafe I was sitting in. It was too cold to rain, even at 11am. A chill ran through me as I remembered last night's walks on Manhattan streets, my windbreaker failing to break much wind. These clouds were not to be relished, my San Diego baked mind told me. More of a bracing attitude might be in order, a hunkering down as it were. Then, if snow flurries were to appear, I'd think about shovel and snow tire condition.
Someone behind me in the cafe suddenly screamed, "Snow!" at the next table. I watched as a gaggle of happy college women ran out from the cafe into the street to see fresh flurries coming down. "Lets sing Christmas carols!" one shouted. I was shocked and amazed. Had I forgotten the joy of the changing seasons? Of the first snows? It seems I had.
I thought back to how I felt when I recently prairie dog emerged from a deep train tunnel into Grand Central Station that weekend. Walking into the building my eyes were dragged up to the famous round ceiling where a Christmas laser light show was being projected. Holiday icons and cute ditties sprang around the old star constellations as happy music played. A feeling of sappy holiday joy overcame me. It was really impossible to stop. New York City for the holidays! I thought. Bundled families walking down streets with lit wreaths on old light polls. Hoards of people with shopping bags on the subway. Warm coffee in cops hands as they help tourists find stores with gleaming windows full of the treasures of the entire world. What a gas!
Someone bumped into me and I realized that I was standing still in a seething mass of humanity. I found a wall to lean against to gather my wits and watch the show. Every sort of person one could imagine walked by me all at once. Some with travel bags, begging bags, dark bags under pale eyes, shopping bags from stores with famous names, bags of food, visible personal baggage, bums with layers and layers of baggy clothes, bags of food, kids with happy bags of toys. And people looked differently then in warming weather. Perhaps it's that here your fashion and grooming has to survive coats, good shoes, and winter hats. This makes it hard to have complex hair things going on, or precise outfits. People tend to have short hair that can fall into place after a wool hat, or long hair pulled back. There are a lot of thick black and gray wool Navy coats, scarves, and thin black leather gloves to help with the 30-50 degree drop in temperature between inside and outside.
Someone walked into the cafe behind me singing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow," bringing me back to the here and now. Turning, I could see snow melted into water droplets on the shoulders of their wool coat. Looking out the cafe window at the college women reveling in the light snow, I remembered why I have no bad memories of the weather while growing up in Maine. I was young and it was fun. Older now, I still felt their excitement about the little snow flakes wafting down. The flakes were signs that the next act in North East weather variety show was coming. These flurries were a slow transitional dissolve from the cold-frosty-rainy-gray-with-some-really-spectacular-days, changing to all-water-is-frozen-with-some-really-bright-sunny-days. "Oh, it's snowing a lot!" someone else said. "I feel like taking off my coat and running outside." Another voice chimed in with a laugh, "I feel like going to Hawaii." Suddenly the snow picked up, followed by the wind.
Looking outside, the flurries had stopped and sun could be seen cresting over a thick low cloud for a few minutes. Then the flurries returned and the sunlight was blotted out as winter literally bored down on fall. It got darker. The women left for class. A snow squall ripped snowflakes one-way on the street, and the opposite way three stories up. Red brick backgrounds showed off the bigger and bigger snowflakes. Flurries no more, parked cars started developing white roofs and white racing stripes along their door tops. The flakes disappeared slower when they hit the cooling sidewalks. It looked mean now, dangerous to anyone unprepared.
"How are you?" someone said as a person entered the cafe behind me.
"Snowy and you?"
"I'm thrilled that it's snowing."
"Really, go outside for minute," they answered stoically.
Then the wind mellowed and the snow fell in a nicer, calmer manner. It was brighter. A kid ran by smiling in only a long sleeve shirt. Two old people hobbled by in black wool over coats with snow on their shoulders. Snow highlighted the top edge of leafless trees on the street and covered the top of awnings. People sitting at the cafe's window bar sipped hot drinks and stared at the show. A person next to me made a cell call, "Hi, I just wanted to tell you that it's snowing," they said and hung up. Sheets of snow appeared up high and across the street, just like your read about. They look like sheets being shaken out really, because they move like a flock of birds all turning at the same time, sometimes actually going up and sideways. Closer to the cafe window, flakes fall slower for a minute, when whip by. Vines on buildings become white lines. A round window on a van went by with a crescent moon of snow in it.
In sunny San Diego it's easy to forget that weather can be excellent entertainment and that not all weather besides sunny and 70 is depressing. Frozen water falling through cold gray skies can in fact be uplifting and dramatic. If these fine folks can survive through February I thought, and then navigate the mud and wet of the winter thaw, they'll live to frolic in the spring and summer sun.
Looking up I saw that they snow storm had let up a little and things had brightened. Then flurries were all that was left, back were we started. Then sunlight started pushing through the thin part of clouds, and pushed all the clouds away. I walked to the subway amid wet sidewalks and snow on piles of leaves thinking that I'd just seen a movie trailer of the coming show.
San Diego Fire Pics
All OK here in Hillcrest, but this is one serious fire situation in San Diego. Here's some pics I took
NM, NH, NYC Trip Pictures
Just got back from a trip back east during beautiful September. Here's the pics
Esalen drumming
I'm back from a week of natural living and African drumming and dancing at Esalen.com. Now the work search begines in earnest.


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Sucampo Announces Approval of a Supplemental Application for Updates to AMITIZA (lubiprostone) Pregnancy Labeling |
Changes Related to Risk-Benefit Profile in Pregnancy and Nursing Mothers, and Update to Mechanism of Action Section Company Also Announces Extension of sNDA Priority Review for AMITIZA Submission Seeking Approval for Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation
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A recent study suggests that one of the contributing factors to abdominal pain in IBS may be increased intestinal permeability induced by disruption of the tight junctions. It has been previously established that activation of the ClC-2 chloride channel specifically, but not CFTR chloride channel, mediates reduction in intestinal permeability. Lubiprostone is the only product approved for use in IBS-C which includes a mechanism of action for reducing intestinal permeability. For further information please see the complete Prescribing Information and visit www.amitiza.com. About AMITIZA (lubiprostone) for Chronic Idiopathic Constipation (CIC) and Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation (IBS-C) AMITIZA is a chloride channel activator indicated for the treatment of CIC (24 mcg twice daily) in adults and for IBS-C (8 mcg twice daily) in women 18 years of age and older. Important Safety Information AMITIZA (lubiprostone) is contraindicated in patients with known or suspected mechanical gastrointestinal obstruction. Patients with symptoms suggestive of mechanical gastrointestinal obstruction should be thoroughly evaluated by the treating healthcare provider to confirm the absence of such an obstruction prior to initiating AMITIZA treatment. Patients taking AMITIZA may experience nausea. If this occurs, concomitant administration of food with AMITIZA may reduce symptoms of nausea. Patients who experience severe nausea should inform their healthcare provider. AMITIZA should not be prescribed to patients that have severe diarrhea. Patients should be aware of the possible occurrence of diarrhea during treatment and inform their healthcare provider if the diarrhea becomes severe. Patients taking AMITIZA may experience dyspnea within an hour of first dose. This symptom generally resolves within three hours, but may recur with repeat dosing. Patients who experience dyspnea should inform their healthcare provider. Some patients have discontinued therapy because of dyspnea. In clinical trials of AMITIZA (24 mcg twice daily vs placebo; N=1113 vs N=316, respectively) in patients with Chronic Idiopathic Constipation (CIC), the most common adverse reactions (incidence > 4%) were nausea (29% vs 3%), diarrhea (12% vs <1%), headache (11% vs 5%), abdominal pain (8% vs 3%), abdominal distension (6% vs 2%), and flatulence (6% vs 2%). In clinical trials of AMITIZA (8 mcg twice daily vs placebo; N=1011 vs N=435, respectively) in patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation (IBS-C), the most common adverse reactions (incidence > 4%) were nausea (8% vs 4%), diarrhea (7% vs 4%), and abdominal pain (5% vs 5%). The safety of AMITIZA in pregnancy has not been evaluated in humans. Based on animal data, AMITIZA may cause fetal harm. AMITIZA should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus. Caution should be exercised when AMITIZA is administered to a nursing woman. Advise nursing women to monitor infants for diarrhea. Reduce the dosage in CIC patients with moderate and severe hepatic impairment. Reduce the dosage in IBS-C patients with severe hepatic impairment. For further information please see the complete Prescribing Information and visit www.amitiza.com.
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Traversing the roads at night can be dangerous, but it's particularly dangerous for bike enthusiasts who ride their self-propelled motors on the streets, making the usage of LED bike lights a common prerequisite for bike users.
The Japan-based company of DOPPELGANGER has created a convenient and stylish way for bikers to roam the streets at night with its LED hand gloves. Normally, bikers would either have a flickering light at the back of their bikes to notify car drivers of their presence, or use hand signals to tell them about their impending direction. With the light-infused hand gloves, bikers will no longer have to worry about those issues.
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1 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. | 1 Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. |
2 And they watched him, to see whether he would heal him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. | 2 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. |
3 And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come here." | 3 Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stand up in front of everyone." |
4 And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. | 4 Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent. |
5 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. | 5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. |
6 The Pharisees went out, and immediately held counsel with the Hero'di-ans against him, how to destroy him. | 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. |
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; also from Judea | 7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. |
8 and Jerusalem and Idume'a and from beyond the Jordan and from about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him. | 8 When they heard all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. |
9 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him; | 9 Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. |
10 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. | 10 For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. |
11 And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." | 11 Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." |
12 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known. | 12 But he gave them strict orders not to tell who he was. |
13 And he went up on the mountain, and called to him those whom he desired; and they came to him. | 13 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. |
14 And he appointed twelve, to be with him, and to be sent out to preach | 14 He appointed twelve--designating them apostles--that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach |
15 and have authority to cast out demons: | 15 and to have authority to drive out demons. |
16 Simon whom he surnamed Peter; | 16 These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); |
17 James the son of Zeb'edee and John the brother of James, whom he surnamed Bo-aner'ges, that is, sons of thunder; | 17 James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder); |
18 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, | 18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot |
19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Then he went home; | 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. |
20 and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. | 20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. |
21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for people were saying, "He is beside himself." | 21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind." |
22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Be-el'zebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out the demons." | 22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebub ! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons." |
23 And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? | 23 So Jesus called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan? |
24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. | 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. |
25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. | 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. |
26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. | 26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come. |
27 But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may plunder his house. | 27 In fact, no one can enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can rob his house. |
28 "Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; | 28 I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. |
29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" -- | 29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin." |
30 for they had said, "He has an unclean spirit." | 30 He said this because they were saying, "He has an evil spirit." |
31 And his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him. | 31 Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. |
32 And a crowd was sitting about him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you." | 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." |
33 And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" | 33 "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. |
34 And looking around on those who sat about him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! | 34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! |
35 Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother." | 35 Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother." |
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I thought this blog had an interesting article on Zillow http://www.mbconfidential.com/ |
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- Posted by mrscarrots111 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 13, 13 at 16:39
Good article...still think the Zestimate on my home is wrong... |
- Posted by LuAnn_in_PA (My Page) on Tue, Aug 13, 13 at 21:35
I KNOW the estimate is wrong on my house. |
- Posted by Geoffrey_B (My Page) on Wed, Aug 14, 13 at 13:32
As a software developer: Zillow is nothing more than a data mining application. The results are no better than the quality of the databases that the Zillow algorithm scans. I would guess it scans public property tax records, and maybe the MLS. As you know, the appraised value of a home - for tax purposes - is not an accurate measure of what the home is worth. As we say in the software industry: GIGO - garbage in - garbage out. All of these 'free' internet sites are nothing more than a method to generate ad revenue. |
- Posted by Gyr_Falcon (My Page) on Wed, Aug 14, 13 at 15:05
It depends upon how you use the information on Zillow, IMO. I actually find it to be useful and quick resource for information in many ways, with the estimate range for individual houses being just a tiny part of the whole picture for a neighborhood. In my area, it is the market that is off rocker, not zillow. A house I know of was purchased for $655,000 in 2005-6. It forclosed to lender this spring, with $590,000 owed. Some painting was done, new carpet was installed, and it went back on the market three weeks later for $720,000. It immediately sold for a little over the list price. This is not a fancy house! Frankly, I think it isn't worth $560,000; at the market bottom two years ago, it it would have maybe gone for $520,000. Or, when we sell, it will be for one heck of a return on investment! :) |
I also think it's useful for relative values--I do think it tracks the ups and downs of our local market pretty well, for instance, even if the actual values are off. But their algorithm works better in some areas than others. In our state, for instance, assessed values for property taxes are locked in at the purchase price with some very small increases allowed; they can go down if the market dips, but they can't go up if it rises, and Zillow is not good at accounting for this. (Our house and the house next door are literally identical, for instance, and the only "data" difference is the last sold price/date and, as a result, the tax assessment, both of which are factors in the Zillow algorithm. So Zillow often has them $100K apart in value, though right now I think it's down to a mere $30K...and no, these aren't million-dollar homes by a long shot, so that's a pretty substantial chunk of the value! ;) Our neighborhood is a mix of condos and single-family homes, and Zillow mixes these for comps here. I can always tell if our value drops that there will be 2-3 condos listed in the "recent similar sales" section, and if it goes up dramatically, it's usually because several single-family homes sold in quick succession and bumped some condo sales off the comps list. Their system also uses a mile radius, and in a city, neighborhoods can change pretty dramatically positively or negatively in the space of even a half mile. (And to that end, Zillow also includes comps within a mile of us that are in a different, much costlier city, which is also bizarre--seems like it shouldn't be hard to write an algorithm that limits the pool to like properties within city limits.) I suspect Zestimates are most accurate in neighborhoods where properties are assessed annually, the housing stock is pretty uniform, and adjacent cities/neighborhoods have similar amenities and values. I'm curious to see how the experiment in the OP turns out, though! |
This post was edited by artemis78 on Wed, Aug 14, 13 at 17:25
- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Thu, Aug 15, 13 at 12:37
We used Zillow to locate the vacation house. Yes, it's a data-scraping site, but it scrapes some useful information. |
I just looked at zillow for my subdivision and wow is it off. We are listed as worth quite a bit below our assessed tax value (hmmm I wonder if the tax assessor will accept zillow numbers and drop our assessment!?), and 2 bathrooms less than what we have in the house (the 5 bathrooms were here when the house was built 40 years ago). The next door neighbors are listed for even less than we are according to zillow, and the house next door sold earlier this year for over $50K more than their zillow "worth" (not a million dollar subdivision). I tend to ignore zillow... the data just isn't very good/current in my area. |
Because the homes in my area are not all the same... we have quite a hodge-podge of sizes of track homes mixed with custom the zestimates are wayyy off on them. They have my assessment lower than my neighbors, yet I have more square footage and a bigger lot. The home across the street definitely has the wrong Zestimate and to make matters worse they even have the address wrong! So I wouldn't trust the Zestimate of zillow at all. |
- Posted by Violet.West (My Page) on Fri, Aug 16, 13 at 16:21
It has its uses. As a home buyer, it was very helpful. I found the house I bought by searching on Zillow, so I don't think you can't say it's nothing but advertising. The "zestimate" is garbage, though, as is the "make me move" feature. |
This post was edited by Violet.West on Fri, Aug 16, 13 at 16:22
Listings for my state are very close because our sale prices are public. It's nice to see the whole sale history on our 14yo home. Only problem is that we can't know how much of that sale price was given back to the new buyers in concessions. |
I haven't read all the above posts.... Here is my take on Zillow: I suspect that the Zestimate is much more accurate in regions where there are a lot of similar houses, lots of traffic, lots of sales. I live in a rural area in which in the best of times has three single family homes sell in a month. Many months, not even one single family home sells. And, the properties are really all over the place in terms of age, condition, and lot size. My house is on the market right now and I think it is very telling that all realtors we talked to had to go back 8+ months to find even one property which was somewhat like ours, and even then the "comp" was very different. Of course that means the CMA is far less accurate than it would be somewhere else. In my area, I have no idea what the Zestimate is based on. One might assume it would be based almost entirely on assessed value, due to lack of much other information, but instead it seems to have no relation to assessed value. Our Zestimate right now is over $30K under assessed value, up from $50K under a few months ago. (This is a house only assessed for about $200K.) Meanwhile other houses within a 1 mile radius which are assessed for less have Zestimates tens of thousands higher. It's not like Zillow knows the details of condition, finishes, etc., so it's not using details like that to alter the Zestimate in those cases. If you are looking for relative values, I'd used an assessor's database. I used to use Zillow for historical listing information until I put my own house on the market and realized that, other than sales, Zillow only reflects changes made on Zillow... and not all changes are made on Zillow. You cannot assume that "listing removed" or lack of "listing removed," or price reductions, or lack of price reductions, or pending sales, or lack of pending sales, are accurate. And you can't even assume sale prices are accurate and they don't indicate things like sales to relatives which are below market value, construction loans, refinances which sometimes show up as sales, etc.. In short, the details of the sales are not included. Zillow can show that a house sold, say, 5 years ago, when in reality the current owner has been there 20 years and never sold it. And that's not even including outright incorrect information where details for one property ends up in the profile of another. I used to think I was savvy in putting zero stock in the "Zestimate," but using Zillow as a reliable tool for seeing listing history and price changes... until I realized that in my area, it's actually just totally useless. |
I used Zillow for both selling and buying. Their zestimate is wrong but gives you an idea what houses are selling for in the area. It also shows past sell prices and what a person paid for the house in the past. When we put our house on the market, the zestimate was off by about $100,00. But, we lived in our house for 40 years and none of the changes were reflected in their zestimate. For instance, new roof, new pool, fencing, updated baths, updated kitchen, addition of a sunroom. The website does have a section where a seller can update their information and will get a different zestimate which would be closer to the price of the house. I found it more helpful than Trulia and easier to navigate while we were house shopping. Jane |
- Posted by Violet.West (My Page) on Thu, Aug 29, 13 at 22:43
the Zillow (and Trulia) phone app is also great when you are driving around researching neighborhoods and see a "for sale" sign. |
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Swedish opens free specialty clinic for low-income patients
Instead of private examination rooms, the uninsured and underinsured patients in need of specialty care in Seattle got gurneys and curtains.
"If a patient had something to say that was very confidential, everybody knew it," says Dr. Rayburn Lewis, who helped start what would become the Mother Joseph Clinic in 2002. The clinic has since provided low-income people an opportunity for specialty treatment like orthopedics, dermatology and podiatry that are beyond the scope of a general practitioner.
Now, the Mother Joseph Clinic has moved out of its basement in Cherry Hill to combine with the Glaser Surgical Clinic in a new space in Swedish Medical Center on First Hill. As Dr. Lewis puts it, the Specialty Clinic treats a low-income person as "an equal patient."
Greg Lewis experienced this treatment first hand after he hurt his leg playing basketball at Judkins Park. Greg, who is recovering from alcohol and crack cocaine habits, was arrested a year ago along with 11 others to protest the Port of Seattle's eviction of Nickelsville, where he lived. But in order to get back on his feet, Greg will need his legs.
Greg went two weeks after getting hurt before he finally got a call telling him to get ready for surgery. "That two weeks seemed like forever," he says. After his experience, Greg was eager to praise the Specialty Clinic staff. "The people are really phenomenal," he says. "They go out of the way to help you."
But the patient experience is not the only improvement the Specialty Clinic brings. It is also easier for primary care physicians to refer patients to specialty services. The four-year-old nonprofit organization King County Project Access (KCPA) handles the referral process.
"We kind of help glue the family practitioner and the appropriate specialty," says Sallie Neillie, Executive Director of KCPA. She said the new clinic makes the referral process more consistent among the different specialty services. It is also more visible now, which has made it easier for physicians to volunteer their time and expertise. Much of the work in the clinics is performed by volunteers.
Aside from the social justice aspect of providing specialty treatment to low-income people, the new clinic makes financial sense for Swedish. It costs less to treat someone while that person can be an outpatient than it does to wait until the problem gets worse and the patient must spend time in the ER, says Jay Fathi, medical director of primary care outreach and community health for Swedish.
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Let's take a look at three of the Dark Horse November 2014 Solicitations.
The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 4 HC
216 pages, $49.99, collects Vault of Horror #30–#35
This is the sixth volume of Dark Horse's EC Archives since they picked up the series from GC Press LLC. So far I've been impressed and it looks like the entire horror line will get reprinted now that there is some money behind the effort. It will be interesting to see if Dark Horse will go back and reprint the first 15 volumes from Gemstone and GC in their own style. One thing is for certain, the EC Archive are on a better schedule then the previous publishers as we are getting a new volume every other month. When this volume is released, there will be 21 volumes, which is nearly halfway to a complete set.
Eerie Archives Volume 18 HC
256 pages, $49.99, collects Eerie #86-#89
As with the EC Archives, Dark Horse is determined to keep publishing the Eerie (and Creepy) Archive Editions on a regular schedule. Eerie ran until issue #139, so they are over halfway to the end. Think it's too late to get on the bandwagon and collect these? Nope, there are are in print.
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 18 TP
560 pages, $19.99, collects Marvel's The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #181–#190
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I am looking for someone who can compare their experience with CoC to other LCGs and how they rank this game on learning curve, playability and fun factor.
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Human Capital News Roundup: Lead exposure from soil, breast cancer mortality, climate change, and more.
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples:
Asthmapolis, founded and directed by RWJF Health & Society Scholars alumnus David Van Sickle, PhD, MA, has secured a $5 million investment that will be used to expand operations and further enhance its product, the Milwaukee Business Journal and Journal-Sentinel report. The company has engineered a GPS-enabled asthma inhaler called the Spiroscout, which sends a signal with the time and location to a remote server every time a patient uses it, allowing patients and providers to track and analyze the onset of asthma symptoms. Read more about Asthmapolis here and here.
Health & Society Scholar Sammy Zahran, PhD, is co-author of a study that finds that children in Detroit are being exposed to lead from an overlooked source: contaminated soil. Zahran and his team examined seasonal fluctuations in children's blood lead levels and found that levels were highest in the summertime, when contaminated soil turns into airborne dust. The researchers were able to rule out exposure to lead-based paint as the main source of the contamination, NPR's Shots Blog reports, because blood lead levels were lower in the winter, when children are more likely to be indoors.
A study from the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, which is directed by RWJF Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research recipient Edward W. Maibach, PhD, MPH, finds a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents think action should be taken to address climate change, United Press International reports. The New York Times Dot Earth Blog also reported on the findings.
CNBC spoke to RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research alumnus John Friedman, PhD, about a study he co-authored that finds the most effective, and cost-effective, way for a government to promote savings is through automatic saving plans. "We're finding that if you want to increase savings, you have to use passive policies, not active which rely on you going out and doing something," Friedman said.
RWJF Physician Faculty Scholars alumnus Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, was interviewed by Scientific American about simple measures hospitals can take to prevent infections from a new strain of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) that is growing more dangerous and resistant to drugs.
Medpage Today [free registration] and Medical XPress report on a presentation by Health & Society Scholars alumna Candyce Kroenke, ScD, MPH, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research about why black women have a higher risk of dying from breast cancer than white women. "It's still a mystery," Kroenke told Medpage Today, but her research rules out differences by race in the genetic subtype of the disease as an explanation.
In the latest edition of his monthly column on the PBS NewsHour website, Investigator Award recipient Howard Markel, MD, PhD, FAAP, writes about the pediatrician and child psychiatrist who first documented the dangers of even the lowest forms of lead exposure.
"Technically the Secretary [of Health and Human Services] under the law has the right to make the decision," Daniel Carpenter, PhD, told the New York Times about a judge's ruling that makes the most common "morning-after" pill available over the counter for all ages. "But there is other long-established law that says the decision is supposed to be based on the safety and efficacy of the drug." Carpenter is an Investigator Award recipient and an alumnus of the Scholars in Health Policy Research program.
The Los Angeles Times cites research by Harold Pollack, PhD, MPP, that finds the percentage of low-income children on Supplemental Security Income has remained fairly stable since welfare reform was implemented in 1996. Pollack is an alumnus of the Scholars in Health Policy Research program and a recipient of an Investigator Award.
Jane Kirschling, RN, DNS, FAAN, an RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows alumna and president of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, spoke to INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine about her new role as dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
The Association for Psychological Science featured two Health & Society Scholars in its April 2013 issue of The Observer: Courtney Cogburn, PhD, and Thomas Fuller-Rowell, PhD.
RWJF/U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Clinical Scholars alumnus Jeffrey Kullgren, MD, MPH, continues to receive media coverage for a study he led that finds group-based employer incentives may produce more weight loss than individual rewards. Reuters reports on the findings.
Investigator Award recipient and RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program alumnus Peter Ubel, MD, recently published two columns: one in Forbes about consumers' understanding of health exchanges, and one in The Atlantic about price transparency and health care costs. Read a post Ubel wrote for the RWJF Human Capital Blog about health insurance and the individual mandate.
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8 Sermons: Hallowed be Thy Name: Eight Sermons on the Names of God
"I Am Who I Am"
Exodus 3:13-15
by John Piper
Contained in the name Yahweh is the first and most important truth about God: he exists.
I Will Be Gracious to Whom I Will Be Gracious
Exodus 33:12-19
by John Piper
When I choose God, it is because he has first chosen me. My will is not sovereign and self-determining. God's is.
My Name Is God Almighty
Exodus 5:22 - 6:8
by John Piper
The omnipotence of God means reverence, recompense, and refuge, for his covenant people.
The Lord, a God Merciful and Gracious
Exodus 34:1-10
by John Piper
God's self-sufficiency and sovereign freedom are the very sources from which his mighty mercy overflows.
I Am Alpha and Omega
Revelation 21:1-8
by John Piper
At the end of every road is God. You will meet him as light and life or as fire and torment.
The Lofty One Whose Name Is Holy
Isaiah 57:14-21
by John Piper
The lofty One whose name is Holy dwells with crushed and humble saints.
The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous
Exodus 34:10-16
by John Piper
God responds with terrible wrath against those whose hearts should belong to him but go after other things.
Hallowed Be Thy Name: In All the Earth
Missions Week
Matthew 6:5-15
by John Piper
In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches that the first priority in praying is to ask that our heavenly Father's name be hallowed.


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Audiences have been admiring Colleen Atwood's costumes for decades — from Johnny Depp's forlorn, goth barber in 1990's Edward Scissorhands all the way up to Depp's unhinged Mad Hatter in 2010's Alice in Wonderland. But it's another thing altogether to get an up-close-and-personal look at her work, which I did a few weeks ago at a special private gallery showing of Atwood's costumes for Snow White and the Huntsman. Beyond all the precise detail work built into every one of Charlize Theron's outlandishly sinister dresses as the Evil Queen, what most impressed me was how each costume played an integral role in the storytelling of the film. (It's no wonder Atwood's won three Oscars for her costume designs, and earned six more nominations besides.)
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Lissa Sue Phelps Ryan passed away at home Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in Levittown. She went on to marry Howard Phelps and they had a son, Stephen. Howard passed away tragically not long after Stephen was born and the two of them moved to Bensalem.
After many years as a single mother she remarried and spent her remaining years in Doylestown. Lissa loved animals of all kinds and her best four-legged friends were Chief, Kiki, Zues, Chance and Samantha. She loved to crochet and used the fruits of her labor to start a non-profit called Scarves for Seniors. Lissa was most proud to be a registered nurse and had worked as such for more than 20 years. Most of her career was spent with the American Red Cross. Being a life long learner she went back to school and received a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary and Special Education in 2003 and then moved to teaching in the public school system for a year. Nursing was her love and she returned to it and also back to school to receive a Master of Science in Nursing in 2011. She then combined those fields of study and became a nurse educator.
Lissa was a kind and loving person and will be truly missed by those who knew her best.
She is survived by her beloved husband, Gary Ryan; her loving son, Stephen Phelps; and her loving sister, Meryle Foley and her husband, John. She also is survived by her nieces and nephews, Patrick (his wife, Krista), Jaymi, Raechel (her husband, Joe), and Shawn; and her great-niece, Lilah.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend her viewing from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 10, at the Wade Funeral Home, 1002 Radcliffe Street, Bristol Borough. All are also invited to attend her graveside service at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, at Newtown Cemetery, Newtown Wade Funeral Home
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The Definitive Post on Hypocrisy
So, it seems the Chester County Democrats along with Chester County peace Movement (CCPM) are sensing defeat in the air and have launched a video smear campaign against a Republican candidate running for school board and a local pro American group called the American Sheepdogs. Is there any irony left in the fact that Democrats are attacking America?
Despite a recent exposure of a vicious backdoor smear campaign, in which Democrat committeemen and a representative of the Democrat WCASB candidates conspired to subvert campaign finance rules for a negative literature drop on the Republican candidates; they still press on with a negative campaign. You can view their latest attempt HERE. The video was crafted by John Grant, an avowed socialist and chavez groupie. The candidate highlighted in the video is Sean Carpenter, a well respected member of the West Chester community and devoted dad. One thing that you cannot deny in this video is the fact Sean is very photogenic, in fact, he is quite the hottie! It is refreshing to watch a video of citizens expressing their constitutional right to free speech AND celebrating America at the same time. Not sure that is the intention of this video, but it is what it is.
The video is introduced to readers by Karen Porter, a socialist and director of the CCPM (aka Chester County Prison Movement), she had these peaceful words to say about the School Board race:
For two years, we have put up with the most hateful group of bullies every Saturday – and now one of them wants to take over OUR school board (running on a slate of like minds).
Bullies, said the crone. Perhaps she should look in the mirror. Documenting the Sheepdog rally for two years, I've collected a vast amount of video. I've selected 3 video exposing who the bullies really are in West Chester.
When Peace Thugs Attack – Members of the CCPM engage in a shoving match:
Peaceful hypocrites on display in West Chester:
A violent attack on a conservative blogger by a member of the CCPM:
Truth is the best disinfectant.
What about those Sheepdogs that Karen labels as thugs? Let me tell you the story of Rich Davis and the American Sheepdogs:
If the Democrat WCASB candidates rely on the likes of Karen Porter and the CCPM to spread their message, one should question the message they are projecting: hate, lies and intimidation. Why would the Dem candidates align themselves with Karen Porter and her group? Is it because they have no solutions to offer the voters in West Chester other than hate, lies and intimidation? Whether it is flyer's distributed by volunteers of the Dem candidates alleging Sean is a white supremacist, endorsing teabagging, back door negative literature drops or a smear video; it is painfully clear the Dem candidates have no real solutions for the voters this election cycle, just smears.
West Chester deserves better than that . It is time for a change to better – Vote For Great Schools this November 3rd.
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Also known as Purple Boneset, Trumpet Weed, Joe Pye Weed, Gravel Root and Kidney Root, Queen of the Meadow is a clumping woodland plant that produces long, tapered leaves and large flower heads of mauve-colored blossoms.
The herb is traditionally used to make tinctures and liquid extracts.
Scientific Name: Eupatorium Purpureum Origin: Europe
Common Names: Gravel root, Joe pye weed, Trumpet weed, Gravel weed, Purple flowered boneset, Tall boneset, Kidneyroot, Purpur-wasserdost
Part used: Herb
Properties: Diuretic, Antilithic, Astringent, Diaphoretic, Stimulant, Tonic, and Aromatic.
Compounds: Volatile oil, Fat, Wax, Yellow resin (eupatorine), Albuminoids, Lignin, Glucose, Calcium oxalate.
Background: The name Joe Pye weed is for a Native American man of the North East who used and applied the herb for its diaphoretic properties.
Description: This herbaceous, perennial, has horizontal, woody caudex, with many long, dark-brown fibers, from which sprout one or more solid, glabrous, green, sometimes purplish stems, 5 or 6 feet in height, with a purple band at the joints, about an inch broad. Leaves are to 6 in., oblong-ovate or lanceolate, pointed, feather-veined, coarsely serrate, slightly scabrous, with a soft pubescence beneath along the mid-vein and veinlets, thin, soft, on petioles 1 in.long, and from 8-12 in. long, 4 in. wide. Flowers are tubular, purple or pink-purple, to whitish, with multiple florets included in an 8-leaved calyx. Heads are in lax, dense, compound cylindrical corymbs, 4 to 5 together in the form of whorl. It grows in swamps and other low places, in dry woods and meadows.
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Hurricane Earl Itinerary Changes: Caribbean Cruises
(4:30 p.m. EDT) -- Hurricane Earl, the Category Three storm that pounded the Eastern and Southern Caribbean earlier this week, sparked a number of itinerary changes for cruises, in the region. (Note: Follow the link for a full update on
Hurricane Earl
Norwegian Cruise Line
Norwegian Sky
will now spend Thursday, September 2, at sea instead of calling at Great Stirrup Cay, the line's private island. An NCL spokesperson offered an explanation: "We anchor there, and the weather conditions will be too rough for the tenders to operate." The line is extending today's call in Nassau to an overnight.
NCL has changed the itinerary for
Norwegian Epic
, which left from Miami Saturday. The ship will now call in Cozumel and Roatan in place of St. Maarten and St. Thomas. Epic's call in Nassau on Friday has been extended.
Because of the adverse weather,
Norwegian Jewel
did not stop at Great Stirrup Cay on Tuesday and instead docked in Nassau a day early. The ship stayed in Nassau overnight.
Carnival Cruise Lines
Carnival Cruise Lines
changed the itinerary for
Carnival Dream
, which departed from Port Canaveral on Saturday. Instead of sailing an Eastern Caribbean cruise with stops in Nassau, St. Thomas and St. Maarten, the ship is sailing a Western Caribbean route to Cozumel, Belize, Roatan and Costa Maya.
Carnival Pride
, which left from Baltimore Sunday, will no longer visit Grand Turk today (Wednesday) as originally planned. The itinerary will now include Port Canaveral (Wednesday), Nassau (Thursday) and Freeport (Friday).
Carnival Victory
is sailing a revised itinerary. The ship has canceled its call in St. Maarten and changed the order of some of its ports. Victory's new itinerary sequence is St. Lucia, Barbados, Dominica, St. Kitt's and St. Thomas. The ship will return to San Juan on Sunday as originally scheduled.
Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean
Oasis of the Seas
was unable to make its scheduled port calls in St. Thomas on Tuesday and St. Maarten on Wednesday. Instead, the ship made an extended visit to Nassau on Sunday, spent Monday and Tuesday at sea, called on Costa Maya Wednesday and will visit Cozumel on Thursday. It will then spend Friday at sea as it returns to Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, as scheduled.
Freedom of the Seas
, which left Port Canaveral on August 29, will be unable to make its scheduled port calls to St. Thomas today and St. Maarten on Thursday. The ship called on CocoCay, Bahamas on Monday, as scheduled, spent Tuesday at sea, and will call in Grand Cayman on Wednesday. On Thursday, Freedom will visit Cozumel. The ship will then spend Friday and Saturday at sea as it returns to Port Canaveral on Sunday as scheduled.
Monarch of the Seas
, which departed from Port Canaveral on Monday, was unable to call on CocoCay, Bahamas on Tuesday. The ship will now sail directly to Nassau were it will stay until midnight tonight. The ship will spend Thursday at sea as it returns to Port Canaveral on Friday, as scheduled.
Majesty of the Seas
, which departed from Miami on Monday, extended its port call in Key West, Florida on Tuesday until early Wednesday morning. It will spend the remainder of Wednesday at sea and call on Nassau on Thursday, September 2. The ship will return to Miami on Friday as scheduled.
Enchantment of the Seas
, which left Baltimore last Thursday, called on San Juan on Sunday. On Monday, it visited Samana, Dominican Republic instead of St. Thomas as originally scheduled. It stopped in Labadee on Tuesday and spends Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at sea as it returns to Baltimore on Saturday.
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This is just a quick update from our tour of the Eagle Ford Shale. I'll have a more complete report with lots of photos up later.
This is Toby Frederick holding a jug of his water that the Texas Railroad Commission said was fine. I have a jar of it to carry with me so you can have a sniff.
Here are some links to some of the media coverage:
- Bloomberg coverage of Laredo town hall. I love Laredo! The part I saw was beautiful with interesting adobe buildings. More on that later…
- Blog coverage of Laredo town hall HERE and HERE
- There was an article in the Laredo Morning Times but it requires a subscription.
- KAVU TV Channel 25 coverage before the tour.
- Victoria Advocate coverage of the meeting in Cuero. BTW, Cuero is a beautiful small town with a vibrant downtown area and a stunning courthouse. More about that later…
- KAVU TV coverage after the meeting in Cuero.
- Blog coverage of Cuero meeting at Texas is gonna be toast
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It was raining on Wednesday. I had visitors that popped in for a couple of hours, and so in the afternoon I decided to get the quilt blocks done for the block of the month club. It's called True Lover's Knot this month and is really pretty, well at least I thought so.
I have to say though, when I Googled True Lover's Knot quilt block I couldn't find an exact match to this quilt block, so I have a feeling it may have another name? Let me know the quilters out there.
There are still another three months to go for the block of the month club. I should have nine made now.
I loved how this guy was sitting feeding the pigeons in front of city hall.
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There are seven games going down tonight, just a couple of which might knock your grey tube socks off. You sure do love your grey tube socks, which is weird because they show how sweaty you are, instantly. That's pretty gross, man. Just switch to white or black and people will be a lot friendlier to your feet. Your call though.
Nonetheless, here's some games you should watch.
Chicago Bulls at Houston Rockets
I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to read Joakim Noah saying "I never knew that I could have a redneck as a best friend," about Brad Miller. That's like Santa Claus saying how him and the Easter Bunny like to eat bagels together. Or something that makes more sense that is equally awesome.
Los Angeles Lakers at Milwaukee Bucks
When Pau Gasol and Andrew Bogut get together, it's like a battle to see who can use their off hand for hook shots more often. The winner, as always, is fundamentals. Stretch those arms, kids.
Atlanta Hawks at Indiana Pacers
I was lucky enough to have lunch with Andrew Unterberger yesterday. He's the guy traveling all around North America, seeing basketball games. He's seeing the Pacers more than any other team on his trip, which we both agreed isn't bad because at least they can score points. So, consider that when you're making your viewing choices.
Toronto Raptors at Washington Wizards
No, John Wall isn't playing tonight, and Reggie Evans might be a scratch as well. Nonetheless, neither of these teams can play defense and both have some guys who can score. Not to mention, Gilbert Arenas is getting his first start of the season, which has the potential for some hilarity.
Philadelphia 76ers at Cleveland Cavaliers
At the very least, both of these teams are going to play hard. Futhermore, they're both wearing kind of retro uniforms. Even further furthermore, employ guards who have the last name Williams. Twinsies!


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