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The amendments that you will see on this year's ballot are proposed changes to the Florida Constitution.
Our state constitution – similar to the U.S Constitution – establishes rules and basic rights. It covers freedoms such as religion, speech, press, assemblage, work and bearing of arms.
There are four ways to amend Florida's constitution. Two involve regular studies by commissions convened every 10 and 20 years, respectively.
Individual citizens can amend the Constitution by getting thousands of signatures and going through an approval process. The Florida Legislature can also amend the Constitution by the vote of 3/5 of each of the House and the Senate.
It's all politics
All you need to know about this year's 11 amendments is that all of them came from the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature. None came from citizens, and none came from commissions after public meetings, diligent research, and years of study.
All involve political posturing, including an impotent slap against Obamacare (Amendment 1); special tax treatment for the elderly, veterans, and the widows of first responders (Amendments 2, 9, and 11); a tax break 'payback' to small business owners, who generally support Republican candidates (Amendment 10); an attempt to cut future government revenues so that Florida's government will eventually be "small enough to drown in a bathtub," (Amendments 3 and 4).
What else? There's an attempt to control 'unruly' Florida Supreme Court justices who won't always rule their way (Amendment 5); a move to make it easier to eventually ban abortions in Florida (Amendment 6); a bow to conservative Christians (Amendment 8); and something too minor to deal with (Amendment 12).
We'll take them in numerical order and list the specific reasons we are against them all.
Amendment 1: Florida led the legal fight of the states against Obamacare. The GOP-dominated state legislature just couldn't stand the fact that a conservative U.S. Supreme Court generally approved Obamacare. This amendment is the Florida GOP's way of giving a collective middle finger to both the U.S. Supreme Court and President Obama. It won't change a thing; Obamacare will still be the law in Florida.
Amendment 2 would give special treatment to veterans who are relatively new residents in Florida, but it will cost local governments millions of dollars of tax revenue that they could ill afford to lose.
Amendment 3 would limit the way revenue comes into the state government, limiting flexibility for future legislatures. This will be a way Republicans could hamstring future legislatures which may be dominated by Democrats, forcing them to shrink government expenditures to "stay legal" if this amendment is passed.
Amendment 4 would expand tax breaks to property owners and to first-time homebuyers, but at the cost of more than $1 billion over three years, which would result in a cut in state services including public education services. Florida cannot afford this right now.
Amendment 5 is an attempt to hijack the Florida Supreme Court, which has refused to go along with many of the Florida Legislatures' blatant and illegal attempts to cut, privatize or outsource government services and kill unions.
This is a fail safe device in case the three state Supreme Court justices targeted for defeat by the Republican Party of Florida are retained by statewide vote.
Amendment 6 will take away a woman's right to privacy given to her under the Florida Constitution if she seeks an abortion. It's much too expansive. If the issue is whether parents can prevent teenage girls from getting abortions without parental consent, then place that specific proposal on the ballot.
Amendment 8 is a deceptively named "Religious Freedom" provision that plays on emotions, and pokes a hole in the wall between church and state. It would be a recipe for disaster for small Black churches (with greedy pastors) could apply for and receive state funds, but don't have the business organization or know-how to prevent funds from being lost, squandered, or embezzled. (Any church that wants to provide services to the state of Florida can do so already by forming a separate organization.) If it passes, Christians need not get mad when Satanists, witches, and 'non- standard' religions start providing state services.
Amendment 9 involves special treatment for the survivors of first responders, another emotional issue that will reduce the tax base of cities and towns that could ill afford it.
Amendment 10: Only businesses in Florida pay personal property taxes. This is a sop for Republican legislators' campaign contributors. It will cost the state approximately $61 million over three years, and won't create one new job.
Amendment 11 is another tax cut for seniors, which would cause the state an estimated $18.5 million combined over the first two years it is implemented.
Ironically, seniors would not be exempted from any resulting cut in state services.
Amendment 12 forces students in all state schools to have representation on the State University System's Board of Governors. A minor issue. Why bother to have this in the Florida Constitution?
Information from League of Women Voters' 2012 Florida Election & Voter Guide was used in this report.
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Former boxing champ Greg Haugen fights on
Once, he was the best lightweight boxer on the planet, one of the best fighters in Washington history. Haugen's been retired for 12 years from a sport that offers no pension plan. His greatest skill — punching people in the face — doesn't count for much in the real world.
GREG HAUGEN climbs the steps to the boxing ring, and the familiar adrenaline rush kicks in.
The ropes are stretched wide, and he climbs through gracefully. He can almost picture the celebrities and the beautiful people at ringside in their $1,500 seats.
It's bright and hot inside the ring, the way it always is on fight night. He enjoys the comforting bounce of the blue canvas. It's as if the ring floor is jampacked again with managers and promoters, trainers with towels draped over their shoulders, cornermen raising jewel-studded championship belts toward the rafters.
The man in the suit grabs the microphone and calls out Haugen's name in that ring-announcer style ... "from Auburn, Washington: four-time world champion, Greg Howwww-gunnnnnn ... "
Then the cheers from the crowd of 1,600 in the showroom at the Emerald Queen Casino fade away, and reality bites. This ain't Caesars Palace, and 50-year-old Greg Haugen is no longer ready to rumble.
ONCE, HE was the best lightweight boxer on the planet. A tough, good-looking, cocky kid who grew up poor in a broken home and became a world champion and Hall of Famer, one of the best fighters in Washington history.
He's been retired for 12 years from a sport that offers no pension plan, and the money he earned has been either squandered or stolen. He hasn't had a steady paycheck since 2006 and lives at a friend's house in Puyallup. He's a high-school dropout. His greatest skill — punching people in the face — doesn't count for much in the real world.
But Haugen's still cocky.
"We haven't had a great fighter from here since me," he says, assessing the current state of local boxing.
Actually, cocky isn't really the right word. Honest is better. Brutally, profanely, honest. Ask Haugen a question, you get a straight answer. It never occurs to him to give anything else, and he expects the same in return. That's the way his mom raised him and five other kids.
He's easy enough to recognize at the Emerald Queen's Battle at the Boat 81, the most recent of the Tacoma casino's regular boxing series.
He looks older, of course — it's been nearly 25 years since he pulled off a Rocky-style upset to win the lightweight title for the first time. His hair is thinner, with flecks of gray, but he's in good shape, still looks like an athlete. A small athlete. He's 5 feet 6 and weighs about 145 pounds, same as when he retired. There's no obvious damage from 53 pro fights, hundreds of amateur bouts and years of sparring in the gym — other than that classic boxer's nose, spread flat by thousands of jabs. He moves quickly, confidently, and he's still got that same smirky grin.
And the jacket. It's black, satin, with "Haugen vs. Santana" stitched on the back. He's been wearing it since he beat Miguel Santana at the Tacoma Dome. In 1988. (Just wondering, does Bruce Springsteen wear a "Tunnel of Love Tour" T-shirt when he goes to concerts?)
Fans and old friends wave to Haugen as he makes his way to his seat, and some stop to talk about the glory days. They remember the big fights, the million-dollar paydays.
They don't ask how it felt to be laid off by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe five years ago, losing his job teaching kids how to box. Or about his 1990s divorce and bankruptcy, or the time his ex-wife tried to run him over with her car, then pulled a gun on him. Or about failed drug tests and other scandals from a sometimes-messy but always-interesting life.
Fame — aside from his hometown-hero status — is fading, and the fortune? Long gone.
"That's how life is," Haugen says. "It doesn't always go your way."
He's got some ideas about how to get back on track. He's training fighters, and he's good at it. He'd like to do color commentary on boxing telecasts. He's talking with a former gang member gone straight about teaming up to start a boxing program in Renton for at-risk kids. There's even a screenplay about his life making the rounds in Hollywood.
This much is clear: Whatever happens for Haugen will happen in boxing. Even though he can't fight anymore, and even though his sport has seen better days, overtaken by its bloodthirsty cousin, mixed martial arts. Even if he is forced to exist on the fringes of boxing, and even if the odds of real success are long.
"It's in my blood," he says.
There's no Plan B. Haugen has tried other jobs, and they're not for him.
"I've got a lot of irons in the fire," he says. "Maybe one of them will light up. The worst thing anyone can do is say no. I've heard that a lot before."
GREG HAUGEN learned how to fight when he was 5 years old. His dad, a 5-foot-6 former Marine who had the boy's head shaved every Saturday, signed him up for the Auburn Elks boxing team. He hoped the kid he nicknamed "Mutt" would figure out how to defend himself and stop all the damned whining about being picked on.
There were no organic, gluten-free fruit snacks for all the lil' winners. Poor, sweaty boys in a stinky, makeshift gym inside a service station slugged each other 'til one lost the will to do it anymore. Greg never lost his will, never took a step backward.
He still hasn't, in or out of the ring. Those fights made him tough and taught him survival skills. Good thing.
When Haugen was 10, his parents divorced; his father moved to San Diego and became a criminal defense lawyer. Haugen didn't see him for another 10 years.
"He just vanished," he says. "He never sent me any cards, nothing. Why would you do that? Didn't you even want to know what I looked like?"
Haugen fought more than 300 times as an amateur, losing about 25 fights. He quit at age 15, burned out. He dropped out of Auburn High School his junior year. "I wish I hadn't done that, but I took a job pouring concrete to help my mom out. It was a good-paying job."
In 1980, he got the itch to box again and won the bronze medal at the Olympic Trials that year in Spokane. Then he moved to Alaska with his girlfriend, Karen, to take a $12-an-hour job hanging sheet metal. He won 24 straight Tough Man contests in an Anchorage tavern, beating up oversized but out-of-shape locals with nicknames like the Yukon Crusher. He turned pro in 1982 and got out of the sheet-metal business.
On Dec. 5, 1986, Haugen won the International Boxing Federation lightweight world championship, beating a fighter who was a 4-to-1 favorite. Two days later he married Karen. They lived in Las Vegas with their two young daughters, Jasmine and Cassandra. It was good to be Greg Haugen.
Haugen leaps out of his chair with startling quickness and agility for a 50-year-old with creaky knees, screaming at heavyweight Joey Montoya during an undercard bout at the Emerald Queen.
"Right back, right back!" he yells. "Get on him! Finish him! Let your hands go! Right back! Get on him!"
Later, when Federal Way heavyweight Vincent Thompson knocks out a flabby, overmatched opponent with body shots, Haugen moans, "That's downright embarrassing." Told the losing fighter came all the way from South Carolina for the beating, Haugen says, "They could have found someone in the parking lot to do that."
Between fights, Haugen corners the show's promoter, Brian Halquist, and tells him the heavyweight Haugen is training, Jonte Willis, is better than any of the four on tonight's card. He's probably right.
Halquist has known Haugen for more than 20 years and promoted a few of his fights toward the end of his career. Haugen-trained fighters have appeared on Halquist's shows, though not as often as Haugen would like.
Halquist is close to a deal to televise his Emerald Queen fights, and Haugen and his buddy, KZOK disc jockey Gary Crow, will call the action. (Haugen, who provided commentary for Financial News Network on televised fights from the Showboat in Las Vegas during his boxing career, recently sent tapes of those performances to HBO, Showtime and ESPN. "All they can do is say no, so what the hell.")
There's a friendship between Haugen and Halquist, for sure — they've traveled together to California recently to visit girlfriends — and a level of respect. But there are issues, too. They went eight years without speaking until patching things up last June.
"He's just so genuine," Halquist says, laughing. "He's the Mutt. No matter what happens, pretty soon he's back in your house, up on the couch."
After sharing his critique of the evening's action with Halquist, Haugen returns to the edge of his seat at the Emerald Queen, watching the fighters intently. And it's driving him crazy.
"This guy doesn't even know how to throw an uppercut."
"Look at that! All his punches are wide, nothing is straight."
"These guys are beyond horrible."
He's a born trainer. There's no doubt he can teach others to fight, if they're willing to listen and learn. He has "a knack for training," Halquist says. "Every fighter Greg has worked with says he's great."
He's a boxing savant.
"I was on top once, maybe I can get back there as a trainer," Haugen says. "I'm a positive person. I've just got to stay positive."
Haugen knows from experience how difficult it is for fighters to make it in Washington. After spending the early years of his pro career in Alaska and Auburn, he loaded a Ryder truck and moved his family to Las Vegas in 1986 so he could get quality sparring and coaching.
Haugen worked out at places like Johnny Tocco's Ringside Gym, a boxing cathedral, the perfect training site, a dry sauna of a building in a scuzzy Vegas neighborhood, with tattered, yellowing fight posters covering the walls. It was like a safe house for world champions who could train in peace and quiet. It wasn't unusual to see Mike Tyson hitting the speed bag or hear Marvin Hagler banging on the heavy back door, screaming, "Warden, let me in!"
Tocco — who trained Sonny Liston — would hand the fighters worn, leather medicine balls and jump ropes and tell them to get to work or get out. That's old school.
Haugen trains fighters at a gym in the Auburn SuperMall.
He knows developing moneymaking boxers, let alone champions, won't be easy. But he'd love to help boxing become relevant here again the way it was in the 1970s, when the region produced Olympic medalists and world champions. Besides, he's not going anywhere. His family's here. And family is the one thing more important to Haugen than boxing. His mother, three sisters, two brothers, three of his four children and both of his grandsons live in the area.
Staying connected to family became a priority for Haugen 40 years ago, the day his dad split.
HAUGEN SPENT the afternoon before the Emerald Queen fights at his mom's house in Auburn. Sandy Berntsen, 71, has lived there for nearly 40 years, and it's the crazy, busy center of the Haugen universe. Special dinners, birthday parties, holidays — it all happens here. One of Haugen's younger sisters, Lisa, lives at the house. So does his 27-year-old daughter, Cassandra, her husband, Michael, and their son, Gregory, who turned 3 last month.
Haugen is the second-oldest of six kids Sandy raised in the modest but well-cared-for home, working as a bartender or waitress, sometimes three jobs at once, to do it.
They can laugh now about a mischievous, young Greg being tied to a clothesline in the yard to make sure he wouldn't run off (he did anyway, dragging the clothesline), and baby-sitters who required bribes to watch him. But it probably wasn't funny when he stole Mom's Volkswagen at age 12.
The only reason the cops stopped the car cruising down M Street is they couldn't see anyone driving it. They told Sandy they weren't going to give Greg a ticket because he hadn't actually violated any law, other than being four years shy of getting his driver's license. Besides, they told her, we know he'll catch all he needs from you.
The Haugen household was, and still is, a no-BS zone, where the truth is told, no matter what it is or how hard it is to face. It's a place where you back each other up, and everyone does their share. With six kids to take care of, Sandy didn't have time for anything else. And if you messed up, you knew it.
"With Mom, if your middle name came out of her mouth, your ass was grass," Lisa says.
Cassandra says kids wanted to come home with her to meet her famous father. That's when she realized her dad had a different kind of job. Sandy, listening to the conversation, adds, "He was good at his job!" then goes back to slicing vegetables in the kitchen sink.
Haugen is in the living room, playing with Gregory — his namesake — who doesn't appear interested in sharing his chocolate-chip cookie with grandpa. His other grandson, Jasmine's 7-year-old son, Blaine, likes to play Super Mario Bros. and eat hot dogs with "Papa."
Haugen gained custody of Jasmine, who is 30 now, Cassandra, and his son, Brady, 22, after he and Karen divorced in 1993. He has another son — 16-year-old Layne, named for late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, a friend of Haugen's — who lives with his mother in California.
"We had to be good kids. Dad taught us to be well-mannered," Cassandra says. "He's really a great dad."
Haugen says he just wants to be a better dad and grandfather than his own father, who still lives in the San Diego area. They speak once in a while.
"I wasn't raised to show love," he says. "Or even to be there."
IT'S BEEN A good day.
At lunch, enjoying a pepperoni grinder and Mr. Pibb at Athens Pizza and Pasta, a favorite Auburn hangout, Haugen got a happy surprise, a call from his girlfriend, Tammy. They met last year in Pismo Beach, Calif., where she lives. Friends and family talk about how good she has been for him, how he's changed. "Tammy motivates me to be a better guy," he says. "I haven't had a person behind me for a long time. It's nice. She's 48, I'm 50, and I want someone I can grow old with. I don't want to be alone. She doesn't, either."
As the fights wind down, Haugen is smiling, talking with fans lined up to pose for photos. Maybe it's just another night at the Emerald Queen, in boxing's minor leagues, but nobody ever asks to have their picture taken with someone who was really good at pouring concrete or hanging sheet metal. If this is as good as it gets, that's OK with Haugen. He has his family and supportive friends. He has boxing.
Two matches are left on the Saturday-night card, but Haugen is tired. He says his goodbyes, then walks, by himself, out of the showroom, through the casino and across the vast Emerald Queen parking lot. He climbs into his 1999 gold Ford Taurus and heads for home.
A very good day.
Bill Reader is The Seattle Times deputy sports editor. Benjamin Benschneider is a Pacific Northwest magazine photographer.
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… everytime I hear your name, I almost Cry. — Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys.
The one real big mover today was E*Trade, whose shares shot up 25 percent on speculation that it might get bought out by Ameritrade or Schwab. The last two weeks for this company have been as volatile as any other we can remember. It currently trades at $5.33, though earlier this year it was as high as $26.00 and it was over $10 just a couple of days ago.
If the company does disappear, it'll bring with it some fond memories. Our all-time favorite BusinessWeek article was a February 7, 2000 (!) piece called "Tricks of E*Trade". This stuff is beyond classic:
KOOKY? To manage that tricky combo, (Christos) Cotsakos has become the Mikey of Silicon Valley–he'll try most anything. To make executives move faster, he organized a day of racing Formula One cars at upward of 150 miles an hour. To create a loose atmosphere, he has employees carry around rubber chickens or wear propeller beanies (emphasis added). And to bond his team, he had his managers attend cooking school, where they had to depend on one another to whip up a gourmet dinner. "It's all about getting people excited about how they can make a difference as a person and as a team," says Cotsakos.
The next line is the creme de la creme though:
These techniques may sound kooky, but management experts say Cotsakos may be on to the company culture of the future.
Simply awesome. Beyond awesome, even.
Rubber chickens and cooking school aside, you might be surprised that we were/are really big Christos Cotsakos fans. Why? Because the easiest money we ever made (by far) was investing in E*Trade at its depths, knowing it would shoot up when he and his $100 million salary were finally pushed out.
So that old BW article was when the company was at is year 2000 peak. Now here's BW in Spring '02, when the company was at its depths:
Investors cried foul on Apr. 30 when E*Trade Group Inc. (ET) disclosed it had paid out a $77 million compensation package for Chief Executive Christos M. Cotsakos in 2001 — a year in which the financial-services company lost $242 million. When Cotsakos pledged on May 10 to return $21 million to E*Trade, the din hardly subsided. After all, his remaining $56 million compensation still topped the combined pay of the CEOs of Charles Schwab, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Merrill Lynch — all vastly larger and more profitable firms. Perhaps Cotsakos' pay package shouldn't have been that shocking, for it could well be asymptom of greater corporate-governance issues at E*Trade now coming to the fore. Start with the question of director independence: It turns out director David C. Hayden, chairman of E*Trade's compensation committee and most responsible for Cotsakos' pay package, has close business ties to the CEO. Plus, Cotsakos is a general partner at a venture-capital firm bankrolled in part by E*Trade, positioning him to personally profit from E*Trade's investments and influence. These new questions may be having an impact on E*Trade stock value. Its shares have dropped 9% in the six days since the CEO compensation disclosure, closing at $6.88 on May 15. And one of E*Trade's larger shareholders says Cotsakos' decision to return a slice of his compensation package should be the beginning of several changes. "We would hope that the corporate governance would improve. If it doesn't, we will have to reevaluate our outlook," says Brian McMahon, president of Thornburg Investment Management, which owned a 2% stake in E*Trade as of December.
Anyway — for anyone who loved to watch contrarian indicators, BW and E*Trade were a dream combo. There hasn't been much recently, but we'll be sad if the company disappears.
Tricks of E*Trade [BW]
E*Trade: CEO Pay Isn't the Only Problem [BW]


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So ... read any good books lately? I don't know if there is a thread going on ths subject but I sure couldn't find one!
I've just gotten back from strolling through Northshire's bookstore with my morning coffee ... this day I got by easy! Somehow I can never get out of a bookstore empty handed! The same held true today but I think I did pretty well for five bucks: I made off with a brand new copy of the English translation of Jurgen Dahl's classic 'The Curious Gardener'. What a score! This book contains his last three works: 'The Curious Gardener' from 1998, 'The Stinking Garden' from 1997 and 'How to Eat a Lily' from 1995. He died in October of 2001 at the age of 72 but fortunately for us his work lives on, courtesy of his wife. I am so looking forward to getting into his essays about the essence of gardens and the effect they can have on our lives ... If this book goes like others have, I will be days finishing it ... days when I will be bathed but not shaven with a cup of coffee or tea in front of me as I become totally absorbed by his writings ... see you all later ... |
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I'm currently reading Perfect Storm, that the movie was made from. Unfortunately, I've been working alot lately, and I read in bed at night. I don't seem to get but a few pages read before I start drifting off, so all the technical jargon is totally wasted on me. It's been a good book to fall asleep by. LoL Jean |
In a month, I've read two books, nothing as refined as "The Curious Gardener," but still good reading: James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" and "My Friend Leonard" (both read in approximately two days each). My motive for reading "A Million Little Pieces" was to see if it contained advice for a family member who is addicted. Although, it surfaced that not everything in this book is true, still I found it to be helpful, and recommend this one book to everyone provided you can look pass the vulgarity. "My Friend Leonard" was recently given to me as a present. |
I just finished On Beauty by Zadie Smith. It took me a while to get into it, but I enjoyed it once I did. It's a novel that combines commentaries on academia, race relations & family drama. Next on deck is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. |
I got about 1/2 way through A Million Little Pieces, and just couldn't finish. I knew it was BS when he said he went and got root canals done with no novacane. PULEEEEESSSSE No way would I take anything he wrote as "advice". I saw through it before Oprah announced it. Jean |
It has been a long time since I read a book and when I finally did, it was "A Million Little Pieces" and it happened to be fraud. I enjoyed reading it when I did, but I probably won't if I knew what I know now. |
My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult. It was such a great book. |
- Posted by timelessrogue (My Page) on Thu, Mar 16, 06 at 17:21
I was so impressed with 'The Curious Gardener' that I went back this morning and bought the several copies they had to gift to others that they will be able to enjoy it as much as I have been ... this, my friends, is an excellent read! |
I just read the South Beach Diet.. I need to, make that have to, by doctors orders, lose the "I quit smoking, so I took up munchies, hence I have gained weight" wieght.. I looked at him.. And said.. Isn't quitting ENOUGH to do in a lifetime?? He looked at me and said, "Nooooo... Not really..." It was a pretty boring read.. A real YAWNER.... |
- Posted by timelessrogue (My Page) on Fri, Mar 17, 06 at 18:36
And now I've gone and done it again! Went out to the Spiral Press for a morning latte ... the Spiral Press is located adjacent to and shares a lobby with the bookstore ... so just take a guess what it is I've done! Yep! Found another excellent book: 'Tools of the Earth: The Practice and Pleasure of Gardening' by Jeff Taylor, Columnist for This Old House Magazine. To quote the flyleaf: 'Each of the 24 chapters highlights one commonly used garden tool and explores its meaning, feel, history, and use.' And after sitting there reading it over my coffee, I can tell you truthfully that that brief synopsis is absolutely true. Another humorous but informative book that I can highly recommend. Get yourself a copy, grab a cup of coffee, find a comfortable spot to rest and have a go at laughing and learning about your garden tools ... |
My grandson bought Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke at his school. Some days, I take him home from school, and while waiting for the family to arrive, I started reading his book. Finished it yesterday and it was quite delightful! At home, I am almost done with Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, Ph.D. I have tons of gardening magazines that I haven't even opened up yet -- not enough time! |
- Posted by timelessrogue (My Page) on Mon, Mar 27, 06 at 14:13
So what a way to start a new week ... the morning's mail delivery included a couple of books that I had ordered from Amazon.com last Thursday evening (around midnight actually) ... plus one ordered the week before that had to come in from Ireland! 1) 'Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance' compiled by John and Martha Storey and written by 150 different authors, published right here in the Green Mountains of Vermont in 1999. 2) 'The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals' written by Barbara Ellis and Fern Bradley, published by Rodale Press in 1992, revised 1996 with 'the latest, safest organic controls'. 3) 'The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide' written by John Seymour, first published 1976, latest edition published 2003. And after briefly glancing through each of them, I think I've got to go brew another pot of coffee so I can dig in and do some serious reading ... well, after some chores get taken care of, that is! Oh, and there are a couple of others on the way ... can't say enough about Amazon and their service, not to mention their prices! |
I have picked up "Blink" after reading "The Tipping Point" by the same author, Malcolm Gladwell. It is about the value of the intuitive decision, the 3 second read, the subliminal response. I also recently read "Stiff" an account of what happens to human cadavers in just about all possible circumstances. A grim topic discussed with respect and humor. |
- Posted by timelessrogue (My Page) on Wed, Mar 29, 06 at 20:09
Well, the library continues to grow ... I just this afternoon recieved Carla Emery's fine reference book 'The Encyclopedia of Country Living' (the updated 9th edition) and have been browsing through it between bites of dinner. Gosh, what an excellent piece of work this is! It's obvious the love she put into it during the 32 plus years that she spent compiling and writing. As an aside, a book doesn't need to be new to be useful ... mine are because I don't have a nearby source of used books of this type. So I get the new ones from Amazon.com and offset that by donating all my unused used books to the Mark Skinner Library ... so far two decent sized boxes of them. But I also have a number of very old used (obviously!) books that I found in a trunk out in the barn. |
- Posted by sugarplum_pdx (My Page) on Thu, Mar 30, 06 at 15:06
I'm currently almost finished with "Sideways." If you liked the movie, check out the novel. Next I will either read a novel called "Joe College" (I think the author's last name is Perrotta) or "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt. |
I just started "Memoirs of an Ugly Stepsister", by Gregory MacGuire. It's a take off Cinderella. Kind of background etc. Why, how etc. So far, very good. I read his "Mirror, Mirror" about Snow White and I've had his "Wicked" about the Wicked Witch of the West from Wizard of Oz on hold at the library since November. I think I'm # 20 on the list now. Jean |
- Posted by timelessrogue (My Page) on Fri, Apr 21, 06 at 15:30
Couple of new additions to The Rogue's Library: Rachel Carson's classic 'Silent Spring', the 40th (has it really been that long?!) Anniversary Edition and Aldous Huxley's 1932 'speculative fiction' novel 'Brave New World' as well as his 1958 non-fiction work 'Brave New World Revisited' comparing the 'modern world' to what he envisioned in the original novel. Looking forward to spending some time up by the pond with a blanket, a mug of coffee and either one or both of these ... |
Border Radio -- a historical hoot from start to finish. Vintage americana beginning with the radio age -- and regulation thereof. Ditto for Royal Babylon -- everything they don't want you to know about European royalty. |
- Posted by lpinkmountain (My Page) on Mon, May 1, 06 at 21:51
Jean, e-mail me your address, I'll send you "Wicked." I bought it to read on vacation, because I couldn't ever imagine affording tickets to the Broadway show. Anyway, his writing was too dense for me, I couldn't make it through the book even after several valiant attempts. It's not that it wasn't a good book, I just don't seem to have much tolerance for intense reading anymore. Probably read myself out as a kid! I'm like Rogue, I like to read "how to" books! Rachel's my hero. There was one amazing single gal! I'm reading a college biology textbook. Can't remember the author. It's a page turner. Gotta take my teacher's certification test. Have heard good things about "1491," a book about America before Columbus. |
- Posted by lpinkmountain (My Page) on Mon, May 1, 06 at 22:10
Just realized they no longer have links to your e-mail on here. Sorry Jean. I'm kinda hesitant to post my e-mail address to the whole forum. There used to be e-mail links. |
lpink....ok, two weeks later, I finally get back here...so sorry.... Thank you so much for the offer of the book, but I got tired of waiting for it at the library, and ordered a copy off Amazon. It should be here any day. I also got an illustrated edition of The DaVinci Code, but I'm waiting to read it AFTER I see the movie. The book always fills in those gaps the movie doesn't have time to put in. One more week! Maybe I'll even find a date to go with me???!! LoL Jean |
Just finished reading Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress". Since my late husband was a cryptographer, I found it thrilling. And this morning, scanning bookshelves for something to read, I came across "Abel's Island" on the children's shelf - a darling little story of a gentlemanly little mouse blown away in a hurrican and stranded on an island for a year before making his way back home. Can't wait for granddaughter to be a couple of years older so I can read it to her (it's a little beyond age 4) Can't imagine why I had never read it before. |
Just finished The Mermaid Chair. By the same author as The Secret Life of Bees, which I thought was much better, but the landscape descriptions were great in both. I felt like I was there. Jean |
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2011 Year In Review By Brian Salisbury on December 30, 2011 | Comments (4)As we all sit here at Reject HQ, gathered around an absurdly long, but incredibly imposing, table discussing what to do with the nuclear missiles we just "creatively appropriated" from a breakaway Russian republic, it occurs to us that 2011 was a great year to be bad. For every boring, dopey, goody-good hero that popped up on the silver screen, there was a brilliant, super cool, woefully misunderstood villain doing everything he/she/it could to thwart the zero hero at every turn. So when Supreme Commander #1, better known to the world (and those pesky Avengers so they'll stop blasting our lair) as Neil Miller, issued an official order (delivered by a specially-trained, fire-breathing, gun-toting alligator who lives in the moat) to construct a supersonic death ray…that assignment went to Kate "Femme Fatale" Erbland. But then I got asked to do this list of the 20 Best Villains of 2011, a decided promotion from my usual position as sinister cocktail-fetcher and cleaner of the diabolical gutters.
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Nigel Farage MEP, the UKIP leader said,
"Leaving aside the absurd claim that the deficit will be dealt with in that time, given that it is rising even now, it is becoming increasingly obvious that both the Prime Minister and his Deputy are looking to continue the coalition past the next general election, both happier in each others company than in the parties they are supposed to lead.
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Lying With Maps Opening
Sat September 20th, 8pm at RADSTORM (6050 Almon St, upstairs)
Radstorm/Inkstorm/AnchorArchive resident, Reece Steinberg, is holding an opening of prints highlighting current and historical maps that are used to manipulate public opinion.
Come before the punk show on Saturday Sept. 20 (8pm and beyond) to take a look at the prints, get a free mini-zine about the maps the prints are based on, and eat some snacks.
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An epic journey is a one where the hero performs amazing deeds and adventures. The hero often starts this journey reluctantly facing challenges leading them away from the world they know and requiring them to leave home, hearth and family. Facing trials and temptations the hero earns a great prize and all looks well. Then facing a final choice or challenge that transforms the hero realizing their potential and eternal reward.
IT is in need of an epic journey as the road IT is on is more than well worn and rutted into a track that can easily lock out opportunities for innovation and growth. For the last 10 years or so, IT worked its way toward a dominant design where if you have seen one IT organization, chances are you have seen them all.
Its time for IT to break out of its rut, smash the mold and find new answers to new questions related to growth, innovation and digital transformation. In other words, its time for IT to take a 'road trip' but not just any road trip – an epic one – that will leave them changed and the organization forever transformed.
The good news is that the elements of an epic journey are coming 'online'. Here is what I mean:
- The value of remaining in the existing model, playing be the current rules of cost, risk, security and enablement is falling. Falling in the sense that CIO IT budgets are devalued , core expectations remain constant, and alternatives are on the rise. In an epic sense, the status quo is ripe for disruption and a crisis that requires a hero to respond. It's not quite a pestilence in the land, but definitely a building case for change.
- Our heroes, the CIOs and IT leaders have untapped potential as they have demonstrated their ability to manage IT operationally, financially, and organizationally. In fact the declining value of staying put – pointed out in the previous point – would not be possible if CIOs were incompetent or unable to lead an organization. Delivering more in an environment of tightening resources and increasing skills gaps requires a kind of silent leadership that few recognize until its gone. It is a leadership style that goes beyond 'muddling through'. It is time the heroes in waiting, become heroes in the making.
- The challenge is here. The forces of change are not only in place; they are riding through our enterprises, customers, markets and world. The consumerization, industrialization, and transformation created by lightweight technologies and what Gartner calls the 'nexus of forces' need to be reckoned with else the world as we know it will be destroyed. We can sit idly by, we can double down on the past, we can commit to last year's plan plus or minus 10% and all of that will fine are increasingly recognized as folly.
- We have reminders and examples of our future potential. We can prove that future is within us and within our heroes. Mobile applications, innovation projects, and our own internal transformation all point to the world we could have if we choose to lead in that way. Look around the shop and across the web, can you build what you see? The answer is yes, but often with caveats. We need to get up and get going to take action and leave those caveats behind. We need an epic journey.
The future of IT is not in its past. The practices, leadership traits, structures and ideas that dominated the past 40 years to IT have served us well, but our own success has changed the world and now its time for us to change as well.
We have been talking about the need to change for more than a few years. Now its time to get up, pack our bag, accept the challenge of the journey that will change the future of technology in the organization. Technology is bigger than IT and technology is the future all we have to do is be willing to recognize the past and use it as the origin for a journey that will change the enterprise as we know it.
It's true that we will not be the same after the journey, but we will be better.
Any one up for an epic road trip?
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Next month Sam Smith will compete in a handful of categories at the 2015 Grammy Awards, and thankfully he won't have to share the glory with Tom Petty if he ends up winning.
Earlier this month, the rock legend and co-writer Jeff Lynne were awarded songwriting royalties for Smith's hit "Stay With Me," given the fact that parts of the song are blatantly similar to Petty's own "Won't Back Down."
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For the past two-and-a-half decades, Pamela Anderson has been considered one of the sexiest ladies in the entertainment business, and it turns out she's not quite sure how to feel about it.
In a new interview with Parade magazine, the "Baywatch" babe confesses, "That is funny. I've never felt pretty enough to be a model. I think I've provoked feelings with how I look. But not as a beauty but as a mischievous little rascal! My mom always told me beauty comes from within. And I know that's maybe a cliché, but I do believe that. And I think that's what lasts forever."
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Showing some love to her Australian fans, Heidi Klum showed up at Myer Bourke Street Mall on Tuesday (January 27) for a very special occasion.
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On the heels of her massively successful "Elastic Heart" single, Sia is back with a brand new ditty called "Salted Wound."
Straight from the "Fifty Shades of Grey" soundtrack, the new song seems to evoke sentiments similar to the film along with a haunting ballad vibe.
She's probably the nicest singer in the universe, so it's especially troubling to learn that Taylor Swift is the victim of Twitter hackers.
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As two of the hottest posers on the planet, Kendall Jenner and Joan Smalls captivated the audience at Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015 on Tuesday (January 27).
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Things have changed quite a bit for Sam Smith since he became an international singing sensation, and the "I'm Not the Only One" crooner is featured in the Legacy Project edition of GQ magazine.
Smith noted that he loves creating beautiful songs because it's better than the alternative- "Make music so you don't have to go to therapy or rehab." As for his inspirations, Sam explained, "I'm going through a little bit of an obsession at the moment with Frank Sinatra; 2015 is a hundred years since Frank was born."
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When the question "What is your Dream Car" is asked, my mind usually hovers around an image of some super exotic, super rare, super expensive supercar. But would you ever consider a Touring car or as we call it here in the states a "wagon" as a dream car? Well here's one.
E91 M3 Touring
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-Custom Vortech Supercharger
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Some special Black Series BBS Re-Mg wheels
And of course, a dream car of mine would be boosted.
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OK so there is a WORLD OF AMAZINGNESS when it comes to resin. There are more than likely THOUSANDS of things you can put in resin to create unique one of a kind jewelry.
So what are some of your idea's to put in resin? What have you done, or what WOULD you do if you could?
My favorite idea's I've had so far are
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-make a mold that's hollow and fill it with water and such [like a portable snowglobe or something]
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okay these may not be particularly original but these are what I came up with-coins,buttons,needle/thread(don't know if that would work), paperclips and/or thumtacks(colourful ones would look best), a watch face, barbie shoes, stamps, lego, little keys that you get with diaries or spare ones from luggage padlocks, lucky stars(tutorial on here) and origami paper cranes.
egg shell, my mum found blackbirds egg shell (I think)outside and I tried to use superglue as resin and it just wouldn't dry so I had to throw the shell away and I had had it for ages!! but next time I find an egg shell I'll get some resin :) I think I'd put a flower in resin too I wonder if it would preserve it like amber and tree sap does to bugs! I haven't really looked for resin in the craft shop but I feel like making some earrings or a necklace :D
I'm still looking for somewhere to buy resin. The only place I've found it is Hobbycraft and it's really expensive for a little bottle :\.
I wanna put gummy sweets in resin, like Haribo or something. I love the red hearts with the white foam on the back, I want to make some pendants out of those.
And I really want to find a four leaf clover and put that in resin as well :)
I really don't understand HobbyCraft..I tend to craft because it's cheaper and funner then going to a shop for a card or whatever and there's all these old ladies spending looooads in there and they don't know they could get it cheaper somewhere else just because something doesn't say 'Card making thingies' doesn't mean you can't use them for that it doesn't make sense!
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Baby Artichokes with Sizzling Garlic-Lemon-Rosemary Butter
Serves: 2 to 4
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Vegetarian Corn-free Egg-free Gluten-free Peanut-free Soy-free Tree nut-free Wheat-free
Spring is a harbinger for so many happy foods and one of my very favorites is the plump and deep green artichoke! Although it appears spiny and intimidating (it is, after all, a member of the thistle family), once you have plucked away its armor and revealed its tender, striated heart, you will find it entirely endearing!
If baby artichokes aren't available (their season is short) by all means use the larger ones. See the Notes section for directions on cooking large artichokes.
- 12 baby artichokes Add to list
- Juice of 2 1/2 lemons Add to list
- 4 ounces unsalted butter Add to list
- 2 to 3 cloves garlic, smashed Add to list
- 1 teaspoon salt (I love truffle salt for this!) Add to list
- 1 or 2 sprigs of rosemary Add to list
Snap off the outer leaves of each artichoke until you are left with about a 1-inch-wide inner artichoke. (You can steam the leaves you've removed and scrape off the flesh with your teeth or just nibble on them raw.) Cut off about 1/2 inch of the spiky top, cut off the stem and trim away any ragged edges around the base. You may cut them in half or cook them whole.
To prevent the artichokes from turning brown as you prep them, rub the cut edges with lemon, or submerge them in a cold-water bath with a little lemon.
Squeeze the juice from 2 lemons into a pot of salted water. Bring the water to a rolling simmer, add the artichokes and cover the pot. Cook for 10 to 12 minutes for whole artichokes and 7 to 8 minutes for halves or until a knife tip inserted into the base of the artichokes reveals they're tender.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter until it sizzles. Add the garlic, salt and remaining lemon juice. Remove from heat. Serve the butter in heated ramekins or small butter warmers, swirled with the rosemary sprigs.
Serve the cooked artichokes piled on plates with the dipping sauce on the side.
To cook large artichokes
Snap off the discolored outer leaves by pulling backwards, away from the body, and discard them. With a sharp knife, cut off about 1 inch of the spiky top; if you would like, cut off the tips of the rest of the leaves with a pair of kitchen shears.
To prevent the artichokes from turning brown as you prep them, rub the cut edges with lemon, or submerge them in a cold-water bath with a little lemon.
Squeeze the juice from a couple of lemons into a large pot of salted water. Bring the water to a boil, add the artichokes and cover the pot. Cook for 18 to 25 minutes or until the leaves pull away very easily. You may season the water with bay leaves or other herbs.
To serve: Spread the leaves apart to reveal the inner "choke." With the tip of a spoon, scrape away the tough furry center. Serve artichokes warm, room temperature or chilled.
To eat: pull the leaves away, dip in butter, aioli or your favorite sauce, and scrape the flesh from the base with your teeth. When you have removed all of the leaves, you have reached the prized heart, which can be cut into wedges and dipped or stuffed with your favorite filling.
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Hoffa then announced the union's withdrawal from the ANWR coalition, citing the need to build a green economy that fosters the development of alternative energy sources and creates good union jobs—instead of lining the pockets of big oil tycoons.
Hoffa also said that by investing in green energy solutions, the nation will reap the benefits of curbing its dependence on oil through a revitalized economy with the creation of millions of new jobs in a rapidly growing industry.
"Our economy is in shambles. Gas is climbing to $5 a gallon. The dollar has collapsed. Inflation is on the rise. Americans are seeing their paychecks shrink. Their family health care is being slashed," Hoffa said. "Finding a long-term solution has a tremendous upside. It will be environmentally friendly and will serve as a much-needed boost to our sagging economy."
Hoffa also thanked labor's partners in the environmental movement, who are currently working to reduce emissions from port trucks. He urged the strengthening of the alliance, known as the Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports, to achieve a common goal: Good jobs and clean air.
"If we are to prosper as a nation, our future lies in a green economy," he said. "But it's up to us to help define the rules of that new green economy. A green economy means we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil. And it means creating good union jobs in America's growing industries."
The Sierra Club praised the Teamsters and Hoffa's comments.
"The Sierra Club and the environmental movement applaud your announcement and look forward to building a powerful movement together—a movement that helps workers, protects the environment, prevents global warming and rebuilds our economy with good, green jobs," said Greg Haegele, The Sierra Club's Director of Conservation. "We are proud to stand here today, as allies and friends of the Teamsters."
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Got any pictures? I'd like to see your original tamarind tree, as well as the set-up you have now. They say - at first you do it for the love; then for a few friends; and, finally, for the money... At this point, I'm merely collecting material, propagating material, and working on a few personal My sister's boyfriend and I are contemplating how to make some quick money on e-Bay, though. Josh |
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And don't forget #4, you finally realize you're spending more than you're actually making and quit. I used to do a few folk festivals to get rid of stuff that was just sitting around and some little things i'd potted up to make a few bucks on. The majority of my better things was sold to actual Bonsai people...they understood why they were more expensive than 'malsi' trees. Funny, when I was leaving and my friend and I decided to clear the field (about 800 trees) we invited 3 local Bonsai clubs to come browse and buy what they wanted. While selling about 100 well developed trees people kept asking about coming back after the 'sale' was over (the ones who bought nothing). They were agast to be told that--when the sale was over we were going to either pull them or cut them flush with the ground and have a bonfire. A few showed up the night we were having a weenie roast and a good party...there were no free or dirt cheap trees...not after putting 5+ years into what was left. Bob |
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[1130] The Diagnosis of Endometrial Carcinomas with Clear Cells by Gynecologic Pathologists: An Interobserver Variability Study
Oluwole Fadare, Vinita Parkash, William D Dupont, Geza Acs, Kristen A Atkins, Julie A Irving, Edyta C Pirog, Bradley J Quade, M Ruhul Quddus, Joseph T Rabban, Russell Vang, Jonathan L Hecht. Vanderbilt University, TN; Yale University, CT; Moffitt Cancer Center, FL; University of Virginia, VA; Royal Jubilee Hospital, BC, Canada; Cornell University, New York; Harvard University, MA; Brown University, RI; UCSF, CA; Johns Hopkins University, MD
Background: The purposes of this study are to assess the level of interobserver variability in the diagnosis of endometrial carcinomas (ca) with clear cells by gynecologic pathologists, and to describe the cases of clear cell ca that display this variability.
Design: 11 gynecologic pathologists (median experience: 10 years) from 11 institutions in the US and Canada rendered diagnoses on glass slides from 35 endometrial neoplasms in a blinded fashion and without predetermined diagnostic criteria. The cases were selected from the files of 3 institutions by 2 authors based on their having at least focal clear cells, and had previously been diagnosed as clear cell, endometrioid, serous & undifferentiated ca (CC, EC, SC & UC respectively) at those institutions.
Results: The overall study kappa coefficient (κ) was 0.46, indicative of a "moderate" level of interobserver agreement. κ statistics for CC, SC, EC, mixed CC/SC & mixed EC/CC were 0.6, 0.35, 0.58, -.02, & 0.36 respectively. "Confirmed" CC cases (diagnosed as such by ≥80% of observers; n=12; Group 1) tended to be morphologically "classic": clear cells in ≥33% of tumor (10/12), hyalinized papillae (HP, 6/12), hobnail cells (HC, 6/12), small round papillae (SP, 8/12), tubulocystic patterns (TP, 4/12). Cases diagnosed as CC by at least 1 (9%) but <80% of observers (Group 2; n=13) displayed some of the same features but less frequently: clear cells in ≥33% of tumor (6/13), HP (3/13), HC (2/13), SP (6/13), TP (0/13). The groups did not significantly differ in lesional size, mitotic index, or predominant nuclear grade. EC and mixed ca were the most common non-CC diagnoses in Group 2. 44 semi-quantified morphologic variables were analyzed in a logistic regression model, and some traditionally CC-associated features, including hyaline globules and hobnails, were not predictive of confirmed CC from the overall group of 35 cases.
Conclusions: The diagnosis and histotyping of endometrial carcinomas with clear cells, even by experienced gynecologic pathologists, is associated with a moderate level of interobserver variability. For CC, this variabilty is related to the subset of cases displaying morphologic overlap with other histotypes and/or a subtotal composite of diagnostic features.
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1 For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. | 1 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. |
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall never be shaken. | 2 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. |
3 How long will you assail a person, will you batter your victim, all of you, as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence? | 3 How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down-- this leaning wall, this tottering fence? |
4 Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. (Selah) | 4 They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. "Selah" |
5 For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him. | 5 Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. |
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. | 6 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. |
7 On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is in God. | 7 My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. |
8 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. (Selah) | 8 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. "Selah" |
9 Those of low estate are but a breath, those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath. | 9 Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. |
10 Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them. | 10 Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. |
11 Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God, | 11 One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, |
12 and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord. For you repay to all according to their work. | 12 and that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will reward each person according to what he has done. |
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Members of the band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry Group in Arlington, Virginia, in November 1865. Many today believe that black troops in the Civil War were given inferior or shoddy arms and equipment—in part because black units in World War I and World War II were inadequately equipped. Because most black regiments were raised well after the Civil War's start they received new equipment and uniforms, identical to that given to white soldiers. This included instruments for the regimental band.


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In the waning years of the Clinton administration, the Dartmouth College board of trustees created the Student Life Initiative in an effort to, well, improve student life. But, as often happens when distant bureaucracies intervene in individuals' choices, things didn't exactly go according to plan.
Here's what happened: In 1998, the college's new president, James Wright, persuaded the members of the board to adopt a new initiative to improve students' social lives. Some of the measures they implemented were, um, troublesome to fraternity members. For instance, the school limited the number of kegs students could buy and made them register them. The school also claimed veto power over off-campus housing — if students decided to live in non-college-approved housing (such as in a fraternity house that wasn't in the administration's good graces), they couldn't register for classes. Christopher Bowen, who graduated in 2002, tells National Review Online that the expansion of petty bureaucracy brought out some of his brothers' libertarian "don't tread on me" impulses, as he calls them.
For instance, one rule banned permanent bars. "For some reason that annoyed them," Bowen says. "So we just constructed a temporary bar, which was very large, it was on wheels, you could move it back and forth, but, you know, it was temporary!" Regulation averted. The administration also banned students from living in two of the fraternity houses, but innovative students managed to get around that without much trouble. Bowen says the college had a "very unsophisticated" computer system, so students would simply give the student center's address as theirs. "And the college just bought it, every time!" he says.
The keg rules, though, seemed to do the most to disabuse members of the Greek system of any romantic notions about central planning. "Eventually the leftists had to admit that that was an environmental disaster for the college," he says, "because it wasn't that kids wouldn't drink. It was that we started buying racks of 20-ounce cans. And so pretty soon we were just filling the trash cans and the dumpsters and the recycling bins, to the extent that we could find them, with all these cans, and they were causing a lot of pollution." As far as Bowen could tell, the university's anti-drinking measures did nothing to actually reduce drinking.
As college students head back to school for spring semester, most will enter largely anti-conservative atmospheres. But for many, the Greek system may offer a respite from the typical environment of academia — or at least a safe and non-judgmental place to believe in limited government and free enterprise.
The evidence isn't just anecdotal. Bowen's impressions seem to be validated by the University of Iowa study "The Conservative Corner of the Liberal Academy? New Evidence of the Effects of Fraternity and Sorority Membership on Political Orientation and Social/Political Activism." A press release from the university summarizes the study:
The UI team sampled 2,092 students who attended 17 different four-year institutions — public and private — between 2006 and 2010. From that sample, the researchers estimated the effect of being in a fraternity or sorority on political orientation and social or political activism, which was defined using an 11-item scale that included criteria such as the importance of influencing social values, involvement in community leadership and keeping up-to-date with political affairs.
Using quantitative analysis, the team discovered, that on average, fraternity and sorority members enter college with more conservative political views than their peers. And while their peers became more liberal over four years of college, Greeks remained more conservative.
The researchers added that their findings suggest campuses aren't as politically monolithic as many assume. It's an interesting phenomenon — if that's the right word — and it's reflected, to an extent, in students' spending habits. Madison Wickham is one of the founders of TotalFratMove.com, a website of dubious literary and educational value that provides content targeted at members of the Greek community. He tells National Review Online that merchandise pitched to conservatives — such as shirts that say "Mitt's the Tits" and "Back to Back World War Champs" — sells briskly, suggesting that the Greek system contains a strong contingent of young people who lean unabashedly right. Like most members of their cohort, they tend to be socially liberal. But Wickham says Greeks are more likely to have an affinity for conservatism than most young voters.
"It's become so generic and typical for college students to be liberal," he says, that the definition of "cool" has almost reversed. "It's cool to be conservative because everybody's liberal."
He says part of the reason members of the Greek system tend to be more conservative than their independent peers is that the organizations celebrate tradition and history.
Mike Cunningham, from Purdue University's class of '12, was the president of his fraternity and also of the university's College Republicans. He says he noticed that, while members of Purdue's large Greek system certainly span the ideological spectrum, they seemed more likely to identify as fiscally conservative and to gravitate toward College Republicans than did the general student population.
"Conservatives on college campuses are a silent majority," he adds, arguing that the Greek system can bring together students who otherwise wouldn't find much sympathy for their ideals.
While Greeks tend to support socially liberal causes like abortion and gay marriage, they also seem more likely to respect tradition, history, and stability. That's how Evan Burns sees it. He helped start the Odyssey, a newspaper for Greek students that reaches more than 300,000 readers on 45 campuses.


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They might as well remove anything above 21 points in arcane because theyve effectively destroyed it as a standalone tree and shown that they have no clue what to do with it.
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Sep 26th 2008 1:09PM The blood elf one is also significantly easier and shorter. To do it as an alliance it requires three instance runs. While they arent full runs GLuck finding a group that wants to do the first third of a handful of instances.
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Robotech® RPG Tactics™ and a line of dynamic game pieces is just the beginning. A successful Kickstarter for it will give us the resources to make this game line everything Robotech® fans and gamers could want. That's step one. Step two will be the launch of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ into the retail market later this year. As I stated in the last Weekly Update, a successful retail launch will give Palladium the resources to build the company and do so much more.
In between, we'll finally be releasing the many exciting role-playing game products that you have been waiting for so patiently. If things go the way we want them to, Spring and Summer will be filled with new RPG releases. Sourcebooks that will make your mouths water and inspire you to game the nights away.
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The Chesterfield County School Board last night approved the calendar for the 2013-14 school year. The adopted version of the calendar reflects feedback received from parents, employees and community members since November, when the first calendar proposal came to the School Board.
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- There are 180 student days.
- Classes begin Sept. 3, the first Tuesday after Labor Day, and end June 13.
- Nov. 5 will be parent-teacher conference day.
- Thanksgiving break is Nov. 27-29.
- Winter break is Dec. 23-Jan. 3.
- Spring break is April 14-18.
- Students will be dismissed three hours early on six days to provide teachers professional development time (Sept. 25, Oct. 30, Feb. 26 and March 26) and work time (June 12-13).