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MOORE — Going house to house Monday searching the rubble for tornado survivors, Michael Bond found postal worker Rick Jones — already dead.
'I just don't know how to feel. It's just something I had to do'
So, for the next four hours, the Federal Aviation Administration worker helped the stranger the only way he could.
Bond stayed there — to fulfill a promise to the victim's sister.
"I gave her my word that I wasn't going to leave him until they officially came over and they picked up his body," he said Thursday.
"I just don't know how to feel. I just don't know how to feel. It's just something I had to do," he explained between sobs.
Bond is new to the danger of Oklahoma storms. He is working temporarily in Oklahoma though he may move here. But he lived in New York during the terrorist attack there a dozen years ago.
Watching the devastation around the Warren Theatre on TV, he knew he had to help.
"There was nothing there. I shop and I do my … routines of everyday life in that area. I just couldn't sit back and just watch. Being from New York City and going through 9/11, I just felt like I had to do something. It's just a part of me, I guess."
He got in his car and took back streets from Norman to get close.
"I ran through a … flat area and got right into the neighborhood. House is on fire. You smell gas. I've never witnessed anything like that but … there was no feeling. There was no emotion. It was just like: Who could I help?
"I just joined a band of people. … And we were just pulling out animals, and just whatever we could do. We went from house to house."
Jones, 54, worked evenings processing mail in Oklahoma City and lived alone in Moore.
He was found curled up, the frame of the blown apart house on top of him, a Bible at his knees.
His sister, Lisa Buffalo, 52, had been trying to reach him. She knew that the hard-hit Plaza Towers Elementary School was near his house at 834 SW 14.
Bond called Jones' mother in Tulsa after finding her phone number in a book and told her about her son but got disconnected. Buffalo called him back.
"I begged him to stay with my brother until he could be picked up," she said.
She headed from Tulsa to Moore but couldn't get into the suburb. "This man kept calling me and telling me everything that was going on and promised me he wouldn't leave Rick. … He's just the greatest guy and I love him and I don't even know him," she said.
While he waited, Bond, 31, said he tried to gather up Jones' belongings for the family. He said he came to feel like he knew Jones.
"For all I know, this man could have had different politics and beliefs than me," Bond said. "He's not even like me for who I am or my skin color. But at the end of the day, we're human beings. I just couldn't sit back."
While Long died alone, others Monday died next to their closest loved ones.
'He was my best friend'
One victim, Hemant Bhonde, 65, had been married nearly four decades to his wife, Jerrie Bhonde.
"He'll find me again, after this life," Jerrie Bhonde said Thursday, her body and face covered in cuts, scrapes and vividly colored bruises. "He always told me that."
From a hospital bed at Integris Southwest Medical Center, Jerrie Bhonde recounted the couple's final, terrifying moments together.
She expressed no sorrow as she talked about the moment her husband escaped her grasp and literally disappeared into the sky above their modest home in Moore.
They had huddled in a bathroom, with only blankets to shield them.
"I don't grieve over my husband because he was a loving man," she said. "He did the best he could on Earth. He always told me, 'When I go, don't grieve. You know we've accomplished everything we're going to accomplish in life.'"
Her husband, a retired GM worker who moved to the United States from India decades ago, had fallen ill in recent years. A severe case of osteoporosis left him in need of home care, which Jerrie Bhonde gladly provided.
"I never minded ... I wanted to do more for him," she said. "He was just a guy I loved. He was my best friend."
The couple lived across the street from Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were crushed to death.
"My husband, being ill, he loved to sit by the window and watch the children play at the school," she said.
"We knew a lot of the kids and they would come by our house. It's where my daughter went to school."
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Nov. 06, 2013 @ 12:20 AM
Food Pantry at West Point Baptist Church, Union Road, Rutherford. Call 287-0165 for appointment to pick up food.
Luminaries will be turned on nightly during the month of December at Long Branch Road Baptist Church. $10.00 each - In Memory Of or In Honor Of. Must be preordered & prepaid by Sunday, Nov. 24. 828-429-4479.
The Epicenter Church After School Program for 5-12th grades. Homework assistance, tutoring, after school pick up, video games, basketball, volleyball, wifi, concessions, movies and fitness programs, charm classes and much more available! Cost affordable. 131 Countryside Dr, Forest City. 828-305-1387.
New By-Laws: As of October 6, 2013, Faith Baptist Church, 149 West Main Extension, Forest City has new by-laws. If you wish to continue being a member, you need to come back to church and have regular attendance.
Anyone needing a ride to Forest City Four Square Church, call 657-5839 or 289-3514 or 248-1635
Green Hill Baptist Church stocks a clothes closet and food pantry for anyone in need of assistance. Call 828-287-2170 or 828-980-5213.
Friday, November 8
Ole Time Country Fair at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant Church Road in Forest City. Friday from 4- 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 to 6 p.m. Free rides and games.
Saturday, November 9
Fall Bazaar: Missionary Wesleyan Church Social Hall, 811 Doggett Road, Forest City; 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. Come and shop for great Christmas Gifts. For info 245-4219 or 287-3687.
Spindale UMW annual Fall Fixin's Sale will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. To order vegetable soup call 828-286-2281 or 828-286-2800 before Nov. 3. Cost is $6 per quart concentrated and freezes well. Also baked goods, cookie walk and crafts available.
Church Bazaar at Mountain Creek, Baptist Church, 710 Mountain Creek Road, Rutherfordton, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Full breakfast, lunch, bake sale, canned soups, yard sale, quilt drawing at 2 p.m.
A Christmas Bazaar at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 1024 W. Main St. Forest City from 7 am to 2 pm. Crafts, baked goods, frozen entrees, once treasured items, silent auction and raffle. Breakfast and lunch will be available.
Fall Festival from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Gilkey Church of God, Rock Springs Road in Rutherfordton. Breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m.; yard sale from 8 a.m. until; games and inflatables for kids from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; vendors; lunch from 11 to 4; corn hole tournament from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Harvest Sale at Big Springs Baptist Church, 534 Big Springs Church Road in Ellenboro (in Hollis Community) from 10 a.m. until. Breakfast at 7 a.m.; BBQ lunch at 11 a.m.; raffles. Auction includes furniture, electronics, craft items, baked goods, canned goods and more.
Country Ham Supper at Cane Creek Clubhouse, Hwy. 64; sponsored by Cane Creek Baptist Church from 4 to 8 p.m. Adults $9, age 6-12 $6, under 6 free.
Yard Sale/Breakfast at Temple of Jesus Church, Lake Lure from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Proceeds for the church.
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Legal Definition and Related Resources of Enactment
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- Legal Definition and Related Resources of Enactment
Meaning of Enactment
The process of bringing a statute into law.
Synonyms of Enactment
- act
- bill
- charter
- codification
- decree
- dictate
- edict
- establishment
- fiat
- law
- legislation
- lex
- measure
- ordinance
- plebiscitum
- regulation
- rule
- ruling
- sandio
- statute
- statutory lawforeign phrases: Leges suum ligent latorem
- Laws should bind their own proposer
- Jus constituíoportet in his quae ut plurimum accidunt non quae ex inopi nato
- Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which occur most frequently
- and not to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence
- Leges figendi et refigendi consuetudo estpericulosissima
- The practice of making and remaking the laws is a most dangerous one
- Quod populus postremum jussit
- id jus ratum esto
- What the people have last enacted
- let that be the settled law
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Do the Jews Have a Future?
Over the past 50 years, the Jewish world has experienced a number of unprecedented and momentous changes which have transformed its structure, its internal composition, and its future prospects.
First and foremost, of course, has been the creation of an independent sovereign state in the ancient Jewish homeland, reconstituted for the first time in nearly 2,000 years. At the same time, the far-flung and extremely diverse Jewish Diaspora has enjoyed, in its Western branches, a sustained period of affluence, empowerment, influence, and social acceptance rare in the scarred annals of Jewish history.
Tremendous shifts of population have also taken place, with far-reaching consequences. In 1939, although the largest single Jewish community in the world already resided in the United States, the core of world Jewry (9.5 million or 57 percent) still lived in Europe. Most of these Jews were concentrated in the eastern half of the continent (Poland, the USSR, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, etc.); their communities would soon be dealt the most devastating blow by Hitler's premeditated, cold-blooded effort to annihilate the Jewish people. By contrast, the British-mandated territory of Palestine held no more than 3 percent of the world Jewish population.
The Nazi terror that descended on Europe between 1939 and 1945 reduced the world Jewish population by almost six million, or one-third of its total numbers. Ever since that time, Europe has ceased to be the center of Jewish life and culture. Western Europe, it is true, has been less affected than Central Europe. Thus, there are over a million Jews in the European Union today, mainly concentrated in France, where the community has actually increased in size and vitality since 1945, and in Great Britain (where the opposite is the case). As for the East, estimates for European Russia fluctuate wildly between a low of 400,000 and a high of 1.5 million, and there is still a substantial Jewish community in Ukraine and a smaller one in Hungary (between 80,000 and 100,000 people).
But in general the global Jewish map has been much simplified. Today it is essentially split in a bipolar fashion between North America, mainly the U.S., and Israel (where nearly twice as many Jews reside as on the whole European continent). Outside these areas, and outside the centers of Western Europe and the former Soviet Union, the Jewish Diasporas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania are mostly either static or dwindling, peripheral to the mainstream of contemporary Jewish history. (Still, it is worth noting that the Jewish communities of Brazil and Australia have increased in size, and now rank with Argentina, Canada, and South Africa.)
As the Israeli demographer Sergio Delia Pergola points out, Jews today are concentrated in a smaller number of countries and constitute an even smaller part of an exploding world population (0.25 percent) than in 1939. On the other hand, DellaPergola also observes, they have largely become a middle-class people, inhabiting the core areas of the world's economic and political systems. To a much greater degree than in 1939, they are generally to be found in advanced-industrial countries that have high per-capita incomes, health standards, literacy rates, and cultural achievements. No less importantly, they can reap the fruits of full civic liberties and a democratic way of life.
All these positive benefits apply as well to Israel, despite the state of siege in which the country has had to live and the difficulties engendered by the absorption of less favored communities who often arrive penniless—whether from Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or Ethiopia. Israel, as a developed country with some military and diplomatic influence in the world, also provides a shield of security for Jews worldwide that manifestly did not exist before the Holocaust. When the case of Israel is added to the case of American Jewry, with its extraordinary economic and cultural influence and its intense involvement in the decision-making process of the world's most powerful country, then the contrast with the Jewish condition in 1945 becomes forceful indeed.
Jews, in short, are no longer a people of homeless refugees, beggars vainly importuning the world's conscience, or passive objects of international charity. They are, especially in Israel and the United States, independent actors in the historical dramas of the postwar world, and their influence on the events of our time has been far from negligible. This dramatic recovery from the nadir of the Holocaust and its devastation—even today, world Jewry is still three million short of its numbers in 1939—is a stunning achievement and a genuine triumph over adversity.
The existence of Israel has clearly served in the past 45 years as a catalyst of Jewish identification and an undeniable core of Jewish cohesion and continuity. In an increasingly centrifugal world, it is the main centripetal force working for Jewish unity. This is so not only because of the security and freedom which it symbolizes, but also because it has developed a self-sustaining economy, culture, and a collective identity of a new kind.
As the old Diaspora languages (Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, etc.) inevitably wither, replaced by English as the dominant tongue of the worldwide Diaspora, the modernized Hebrew of Israel has become the main guardian of a distinctive, autonomous Jewish culture. Moreover, Israel alone contains 40 percent of the school-age Jewish population of the world, and about two-thirds of those enrolled in Jewish schools. Clearly, in the future, it will play the key role in maintaining and transmitting Jewish ethnic and religious identity. This greatly strengthens its claims to be considered the core of Jewish peoplehood, especially when its situation is contrasted with that of the fissiparous, acculturated Jewries of the Western Diaspora.
Nowhere is the distinction between Israel and the Diaspora clearer than in the area of intermarriage, the single most powerful centrifugal force in world Jewry today. Seventy years ago, in the United States, the intermarriage rate was below 5 percent; by 1970 it had leaped to 32 percent, and in 1990 it stood at an all-time high of 57 percent. By way of contrast, in pre-Holocaust Poland (then the largest Jewish community of Europe) intermarriage was still below 1 percent and in nearly half of world Jewry it did not exceed 5 percent before 1939. Only in highly assimilated Jewish communities like Germany, Austria, Italy, Holland, or Australia did it remotely approach what it has commonly become in the contemporary Diaspora. And today, the American pattern is duplicated in France, Britain, Hungary, Italy, the ex-USSR, and elsewhere.
Great Britain is a good illustration of the trend. Between 1960 and 1990, the intermarriage rate rose almost tenfold. When one adds the high Jewish divorce rate (30 percent, close to general British levels), it is clear that the British Jewish family is beginning to fail. Thus, a highly educated, successful, and upwardly mobile Jewish community has found its numbers depleted by one-third over the course of 30 years.
The problem is not exclusively British or American, but part of a general pattern in open societies. It is the downside of the affluence, the range of opportunity, the social mobility, and the cultural integration which postwar modernity has offered to the Jews. In pre-1939 Europe and America, low intermarriage rates reflected a very different set of circumstances: societies which still discriminated against or even persecuted Jews; a more cohesive way of life internally; the greater influence of Orthodoxy; and a deeper knowledge of Jewish history and culture.
In contemporary society, except for the enclaves of Orthodoxy, these factors no longer operate. Jewish distinctiveness has diminished, while assimilation has increased; and there is far less opposition among either Jews or non-Jews to intermarriage. So it is that economic and political freedom, tolerance, pluralism, and social acceptance threaten to accomplish by peaceful, tranquil, and gradual means what Nazi barbarism could not complete in the terror of the Holocaust: the disappearance of the Jewish people.
This is surely the greatest paradox of the postwar Diaspora. Never has it enjoyed such optimal conditions, and never has it seemed, in the longer term, more like an endangered species. Its continuity and distinctiveness as an ethnic group are seriously in doubt. This internal hemorrhaging of both body and spirit raises fundamental questions about the raison d'être of Diaspora Jewry. Can a people which miraculously recovered from the black hole of the Holocaust, which survived two millennia of exile, expulsions, pogroms, and genocide, be reconciling itself to fading quietly from the scene? And if not, how are the continuity and survival of the Jewish people to be assured in conditions of freedom and affluence? These are "Jewish questions," more perplexing and difficult in some ways than the shadow of anti-Semitism that has accompanied the Jews through their long march in exile.
At first glance, traditional and Orthodox Jews stand secure in splendid isolation amid the confusing signals of modernity. Though decimated in the Holocaust, they have disproved all the predictions of their demise. The most extreme among them, the ultra-Orthodox, are the fastest-growing segment in contemporary Jewry. With their rabbis and yeshivas, their arranged marriages and extremely high birth rates, these communities have not only recovered, they are flourishing. In Israel (where they number about 350,000), they have made their influence felt in public life, eclipsing the traditional religious parties despite their reluctance to recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state. In the Diaspora, where their numerical strength is similar, they have had a growing impact on mainstream Orthodox institutions.
True, Jewish fundamentalism involves such a thorough rejection of secular modernity that it is difficult to imagine its achieving a long-term impact on contemporary Jewry. But as a symptom, it points to a general malaise.
The name of the malaise is secularism. The majority of contemporary Jews, whether in Israel or in the Diaspora, remain and are likely to remain secularists. But they are secularists who now know that the Jewish identity of their children and grandchildren can no longer be taken for granted. Nor, despite the existence of a Jewish state, can they assume the collective survival of a unified Jewish people.
Israel offers the model of a cohesive Jewish ethnicity; it is a bulwark against the forces of Diaspora assimilation and a haven of safety in times of persecution. In Israel, there is no problem of intermarriage or of a low Jewish birth rate, no crisis of Jewish education as such, and no dilemma in transmitting Jewish values to the next generation. But Israel is also a distinctive national entity with its own dynamics, interests, and mental horizons, often very different from those of the Diaspora. Moreover, despite the strength of the existing ties between the two communities, Israel is founded on a Zionist outlook which ultimately denies the viability of the Diaspora. In the Zionist perception, the Diaspora is a transitory condition, and a secure existence is possible only through a return to the sources of Jewish life, to the land of one's ancestors, and above all to the Hebrew language.
This is where the difference strikes deepest. For although Diaspora Jews cannot compete with Zionism's territorial rootedness, they, too, have begun to put down roots of their own in the postwar world—especially in the enlightened, emancipated, secular West. In the new multicultural, multiethnic mosaic of our Western democracies, Jews no longer appear quite so distinctive. Other ethnic minorities currently bear the brunt of racism, xenophobia, and intolerance, while Jews often seem like insiders or even well-integrated parts of the Gentile establishment. Jewish "otherness" is still there, but it is less offensive to the Gentile eye, and since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism has been significantly muted. All this would seem to render the classic Zionist case against the Diaspora less and less credible on purely political grounds.
Still, things are not so simple.
Take anti-Semitism. While lacking the lethal vitality of the Nazi paradigm, it has nevertheless been a tenacious presence on the international postwar scene. It acquired a new lease on life through the cold war and the emergence of Israel, especially in the Soviet bloc and the Arab-Muslim world. In the form of anti-Zionism, it proved to be one of the most persistent weapons in the hands of those seeking to delegitimize and put an end to the existence of an independent Jewish state in the Middle East. In Communist-controlled countries it was exploited for domestic and foreign-policy purposes alike. And in conjunction with rising Arab nationalism and an aggressive, militant Muslim fundamentalism, it seriously infected the Arab world.
In the Middle East, one effect of the rise of Arab anti-Semitism was to accelerate the departure of long-established Jewish communities from their Arab and Muslim host societies. The bulk of this "Oriental" or "Sephardi" Jewry ended up in Israel, thereby paradoxically fortifying the Jewish state, helping to ensure its viability—and strengthening the case for Zionism.
Another paradoxical result of this extraordinary migration was the revival of Sephardi Jewry itself, today the majority segment in Israeli society. Despite a period of initial deprivation, and despite the discrimination they encountered at various levels in a society that had been fashioned by Ashkenazi settlers from Eastern Europe, the Sephardim have now come into their own. Zionism, originally a European solution to Europe's "Jewish Question," has thus acted as the modernizing vehicle for the ascent of non-Europeans and for their encounter with the West within a Jewish national framework.
Many Sephardim were, and remain, deeply distrustful of Arab intentions, and generally more traditionalist in outlook—two factors that helped to fuel the previously dormant nationalist reflexes of Israel in the late 1970's and 1980's. This pattern may change with time, and it is even conceivable that the Sephardim may yet help to ease Israel's integration into the Middle East as an accepted and equal partner in the development of the region.
But that, of course, depends on the prospects for a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Such a settlement would remove one of the darkest shadows over postwar Jewish existence—the physical danger to an Israel surrounded by bellicose enemies bent on its destruction. Whether or not this danger is beginning to ebb, however, it remains the fact that what has successfully kept it at bay for the past 45 years is the military determination and prowess of Israel.
By transforming the image of the Jew into that of an efficient warrior heroically defending his homeland, Zionism also gave new confidence, backbone, and pride to the Jewish Diaspora. The Six-Day War of 1967 was the great benchmark here, mobilizing the Jewish world first in anguished fear and then in a resurgence of ethnic pride. For communities like Soviet Jewry (termed "the Jews of Silence" by Elie Wiesel only a year earlier), the Israeli triumph in June 1967 provided a new lease on life and the courage to fight oppression. The struggle for Soviet Jewry—one of the great causes of the postwar Jewish world—helped to salvage a community which had been cut off for decades from its brothers and sisters by Communist totalitarianism. The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel and the West was one of the first breaches in the Communist fortress, and for two decades it served to unify the Jewish world in a common fight for freedom, dignity, and national identity.
The end of the cold war and the demise of Communism—which reinforced the exodus from the former Soviet Union—have once again underscored the elemental necessity of the Jewish state as a Noah's ark in a world where Jews may at any time find themselves victimized. Indeed, the basic Zionist case has been vindicated repeatedly over the past century, whenever economic, political, and international crises have threatened Jewish existence and exposed Jewish vulnerability.
Even from the perspective of the late 20th-century West, this is a reality that only the most self-deluded utopians can afford to dismiss. The Western world, despite its underlying prosperity and stability, is beset by high unemployment, recession, racial problems, and uncertainty about the future. In Europe, ethnic conflicts are rampant and have already produced a genocidal war in ex-Yugoslavia. Fascism and neo-Nazism are on the rise, and semi-respectable neopopulist parties spouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans are increasing their vote across Europe.
Beyond the borders of Europe, there stands the enigma of the former Soviet Union: despite the new freedoms and opportunities there, it would be foolhardy to vouch for the prospects of Russian Jewry. The future of Boris Yeltsin and his "democratic" revolution appears extremely shaky, faced as it is with a brown-red opposition of real strength. Anti-Semitism has played an important political role in cementing this anti-Yeltsin opposition, and also in the rise of a popular neofascist movement whose chances increase as Russia's economic Chernobyl spreads.
The politics of survival, then, will continue to be relevant in the Jewish world of the future and to act as a cementing force across the fissures, the divisions, and the centrifugal trends that will continue to afflict it. But survival is also only the beginning. With or without a stable peace in the Middle East, with or without open conflict elsewhere, the issues of Jewish education, the Jewish family, and the continuity of the Jewish people will assume a greater centrality—they will have to, if the forces of decomposition and disarray are to be confronted and checked.


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Irene Messo Baskette, 89, Cary, NC, passed away peacefully after a brief illness on Saturday, October 5, 2013.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Lee Lawrence; her father, Frank Messo; and her husband, James Baskette.
She is survived by her daughter, Elly Tomlinson, of Cary, NC; her granddaughters, Khristi Tomlinson, of Cary, NC, and Julie Newman, of Concord, NC; her grandsons-in-law, Warren Lewis and Gary Newman; and her great-grandchildren, Chase Newman, Ben Lewis and Becca Lewis. She was also survived by two brothers, Richard Messo, of Gig Harbor, Washington, and Don Messo, of Tacoma, Washington; and several nieces and nephews.
Irene was born and grew up in Tacoma, WA, then moved to Limestone, TN, where she lived for 40 years. After the death of her husband, she returned to Tacoma where she resided until 3 years ago when she moved to Cary, NC, to be near her daughter and grandchildren.
Graveside services will be held Saturday, October 12, at Fairview Cemetery in Jonesborough, TN, at 11 a.m. with a reception immediately following.
The family will receive visitors at 105 Aisling Ct., Cary, NC, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, October 13.
Her family would like to extend their warmest thanks to the staff of Western Wake Hospital 2 East and Hospice of Wake County for the wonderful care they provided.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Wake County, Inc., 250 Hospice Circle, Raleigh, NC 27607.
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Like a nomad trespassing border's edge,
I rip moonlight's seeds apart ; drain the pulp
of my creamed bosoms, shapeless—
meandering along tracks of notes and interludes
so orange, strangely orange
in near Autumn's fuming light. And as the hollow
of a world dilutes unfinished refrains
through dances untamed,
my lips turn midnight into a wayward trance.
I was so close to the language of myself,
this navel unbuttoned and numb
by aimless wanderings still, still...
I took absence of me.
Somehow, the husk of November slowly unwraps
my flesh incandescent, as if to burn the oil,
incense—maybe sandalwood—just
to give a name to lapses of unravelled
trails. The delicacy of soil nourishes my thighs,
anchored once more
unto the swell of awakening. I stayed away
a tad long in some vacant space
without food for womb only transients like me
could bear…a lull perhaps that compels
a mouth to feed on the nectar of life's 'now',
ploughing my arms back to seeds' core
where my inner place resides.
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As The New American reported in early June, the ACLU and the New York-based homosexual group Lambda Legal are representing the couples, who are suing Cook County Clerk David Orr for refusing to grant them marriage licenses. Orr, who was simply obeying the law, has actually said he hopes the lawsuit is successful so he can begin granting licenses to homosexual couples. "The time is long past due for the State of Illinois to allow County Clerks to issue marriage licenses to couples who want to make that commitment," he said in a statement.
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Major Examination Documents
Senior history majors must submit the following four documents related to oral and written exams:
1. The "Statement of Coursework and Exams" will provide the advisor's name, a list of classes taken and planned, indication of the field for the written portion of the major exam, the title of the oral exam, and the signatures of the advisor and the faculty responsible for the written and oral examinations.
2. The "Oral Examination Proposal" will provide a 100- to 200- word description of a topic for the exam. The topic shall present a question or issue to be examined across two geographic areas, specifying the time periods and areas involved. The paragraph may suggest why you are interested in the topic or what you expect to find. The proposal must be signed by the two professors, one for each of the geographic areas studied, who will conduct the oral examination. The "Oral Examination Proposal" must be appended to the "Statement of Coursework and Exams" and is due at 2:00pm on Friday, October 17, 2014. The final paper in History 401 will explore the topic for orals; instructions will be provided in class.
3. The "Initial Outline of the Oral Presentation and Bibliography" should reflect your preliminary research. At this point, you must have completed enough research to have an idea of what material will be covered in the presentation. The outline is not to exceed one page, with one-inch margins and a legible typeface no smaller than 12 points, i.e., the outline is a guide to the presentation, not a narrative to be used by the student. The bibliography should indicate the relevant materials that you have identified. This may include materials assigned in classes you have taken or additional research. This document must be signed by both professors. The outline and bibliography are due the at 2:00pm on Friday, February 6. 2015.
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"By reauthorizing support for the Export-Import Bank," Obama said at the signing ceremony, "we're helping thousands of businesses sell more of their products and services overseas and, in the process, we're helping them create jobs here at home. And we're doing that at no extra cost to the taxpayer."
Ex-Im may not be costing taxpayers extra today; but there is no guarantee that such will always be the case.
The bank provides loans and loan guarantees to foreign governments or companies for the purchase of products and services from U.S. companies. These loans, by the way, are handed out by the Ex-Im Bank because the private sector has decided they're too risky, while politicians and bureaucrats have no such qualms about tossing around other people's money with abandon.
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Mr. Allan F. Bryant, age 87, Plantation, Florida, formerly of Jonesborough, passed away Saturday, February 18, 2012, in Florida.
Mr. Bryant was born in Marshall, Texas, and son of the late James Edward & Mollie Stovall Bryant. In addition to his parents, Mr. Bryant was also preceded in death by a stepson, Dwain Jones; and a brother and a sister.
He was a member of McCarty United Methodist Church.
Mr. Bryant retired from Union Pacific Railroad after 42 years of service.
Survivors include his wife, Sarah Collins Bryant, Plantation, Florida; one son, Glenn Bryant, Tyler, Texas; step-daughters, Eva Mathes, Plantation, FL, Donna Leavitt (Charles), Cape May, New Jersey, Judy Vititoe (Ray), Jonesborough, and Brenda Hogan (David), Tyler, Texas; 13 step-grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home with Rev. Garland James officiating.
The family will receive friends following the service.
Condolences may be sent to the Bryant family online at www.dillow-taylor.com.
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3. The nail polish I got her. 4. Cake and ice cream!
Saturday I was supposed to go to a party but opted instead to go up and keep Kristi company since she's still hooked to her oxygen tank and all of her other friends had gone to Haunted Houses. It was awesome to hang out with her and her kiddos, especially that sweet little baby. They make me happy.
Sunday we had our CFPU Howl-O-Ween post-mortem to discuss how the event went and what we can do better. I still need to do a recap of that with some photos. We went to Cafe Trio in SLC, and it was delicious. I had Challah French Toast with Lemon ricotta, toasted almonds, and blackberry syrup. I also had the house cider with a little whiskey (way too early to drink whiskey-FYI!) and it was delicious! Good food and drinks make me happy!
- That I'm finally growing up, and being okay with it. More to come on this...
- Wine. Wine makes me very happy.
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A former star Texas A&M lineman has been paroled from prison after serving half of his sentence.
In June 2009, Yemi Babalola was convicted on two counts of aggravated robbery. On one count, he was sentenced to five years in prison, but days ago, he was paroled.
On the second count, Babalola received a ten-year prison sentence, which was reduced to five years probation along with 180 days in jail as a condition. He awaits a mandate to determine when that probation begins and when the jail time will be served, according to the 361st District Court.
Babalola and a former teammate were charged in the November 2007 crime. Residents testified that the two broke into their College Station apartment, held them at gunpoint and stole items from their residence, all part of a drug deal.
In an article on FoxSports.com (linked on the left), Babalola discussed his time behind bars.
"One situation doesn't define your whole life and define your character," Babalola said. "My dad says he's proud of me. I know he means it. He says he's proud of me. But I'm in prison. How can you truly be proud of me? When my dad says he's proud of me, I want to feel like he has a reason to be proud of me. Right now his son's in prison -- his son who was a star at Texas A&M University, who could do all these things with his life. And he's in prison."
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Sokol Blosser Dundee Hills Pinot Noir 2008
Pinot Noir from Willamette Valley, Oregon
Winemaker's Notes
Our 2008 Dundee Hills Pinot Noir is truly an expression of this classic vintage. Complex and layered, with black cherry, berry, and earthy minerality, it has concentration and depth without being heavy. There's wonderful structure and texture, with soft, supple tannins and acidity for aging. With proper cellaring, everything is in place for this wine to develop and age beautifully for the next ten to fifteen years.
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Wine Spectator - "Light and fragrant, this is polished in texture, with a tight structure lighting a fire under the plum, spice and savory flavors, lingering easily on the refined finish. Best from 2012 through 2018."
The Wine Advocate - "The 2008 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills offers up a lovely nose of cedar, Asian spices, incense, cherry, and raspberry. Savory on the palate and packed with fruit, this tasty effort has enough structure to evolve for 1-2 years but can be enjoyed now and over the next 6 years."
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When Bill Blosser and Susan Sokol Blosser planted their first vines in 1971, they needed all of their youthful self-confidence, energy and determination to make their way because there was no wine industry in Oregon. Today, with over 400 wineries and more than 19,000 acres of vineyards, Oregon wines are available throughout the world. Sokol Blosser has survived, grown and prospered as a family-owned and run operation, and they are proud to have been part of developing and shaping Oregon's now prominent wine industry.
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Named for the river that runs through the valley from Portland to Eugene, Willamette Valley is home to some of the best Pinot Noir vineyards in the Northwest. While along the same north/south line as Seattle, the Willamette Valley is protected from Pacific rains by the Coast Range on the western border and the Cascade Ranges to the east. Though sunshine is typically plentiful, rainfall can occasionally be tricky, and the wines here vary vintage to vintage. Within the Willamette Valley are are number of sub-regions, including McMinnville, Dundee and Yamhill.
Notable FactsThe valley is known for its Pinots – Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris. With a climate similar to Burgundy – in rainfall, sunlight hours and other climate factors – Pinot Noir has flourished here. Pinot Noir in Oregon produces wines that are fruit forward, yet complex, some with good agebility.
Other than Pinot Noir, many wineries grow Pinot Gris and Chardonnay. Pinot Gris from Oregon is delightful in its texture and food friendliness. Chardonnay in the valley adapts well to the cool climate and produces lean, elegant wines.
About OregonOregon has long been an agricultural state, producing everything from hazelnuts to cattle. The Willamette Valley in particular is a fertile basin for all sorts of produce. Not quite pegged as a wine state, in 1965, a UC Davis graduate named David Lett decided that the Willamette's climate mirrored that of Burgundy in France. With that in mind, he decided to plant some Pinot Noir clones to see how they did. And a good gamble it was. The Willamette is now one of the only regions in the world to focus solely on Pinot Noir as its red variety. Also known for Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. The southern part of Oregon has been slower in delving into the world wine market, but has been making excellent strides with their Rhone style varietals, like Syrah and Grenache. There are also coastal regions producing promising wines.
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It's a super thin body isn't it? Flat tummy, tiny thighs — this star has gotten a lot of flack for her weight recently. Find out who it is under the jump!
It's LeAnn Rimes! She tweeted these pics of her with fiance Eddie Cibrian in the background, writing, "First sun!!!!! SPRING!!!" Unfortunately, the first photograph has done nothing to dispel talk that LeAnn is scarily thin. She sang the National Anthem at an NCAA championship game Monday night and looked all skin and bones (see pics below), which has prompted all the talk. We're going to leave it up to you, though. Do you think LeAnn's looking unhealthy in these photos?
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Fresh Finds For Winter
West Elm has come out with some gorgeous items recently, so I thought I would share my favourites.
For the mid-century lovers, this great bedroom collection features a 3-drawer dresser, 6-drawer dresser, side tables and bed frame.
Working perfectly with the mid-century bed is this Organic Seedling Duvet Cover & Shams. The colour and print are perfect for a bedroom as they're both calming, something that is important for a sleeping space.
If you're looking for a touch of yellow to brighten up your living room, I would suggest adding this Bazaar Dhurrie to your rotating rug collection. This rug could be the starting point for a new colour scheme, or just one more colourful item in an already colourful space.
A light fixture can really add a lot of style to a room and pull it all together. These Bentwood Pendants from West Elm caught my eye the moment I saw them. They come in four different shapes and sizes and could work in any space, modern or traditional.
If you're feeling the winter blues, make a small change in the bathroom with this Sarah Campbell Garden Path Shower Curtain — it will add a bit of fun and colour to your bathroom, and it might help you think about the warm spring weather that is on its way!
I hope some of my ideas have helped to inspire some winter decorating!
See Sally Armstrong's Colourful Finds For Winter to get more ideas.
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1a. Mid-Century 3-Drawer Dresser, West Elm
1b. Mid-Century Bed Frame, West Elm
2. Organic Seedling Duvet Cover & Shams, West Elm
3. Bazaar Dhurrie, West Elm
4. Bentwood Pendants, West Elm
5. Sarah Campbell Garden Path Shower Curtain, West Elm
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* Thorn successfully using Fone Bone as a weapon. Arguably doubles as a Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
* When Phoney learns the hard way that the Valley runs on the barter system: "Smiley, why did you keep giving me beer? You know I don't carry ''dairy products!''"
** Made even funnier when you see that he had been asked for ''eggs''!
* The revelation of just what The Hooded One's omen to go after Phoney was. [[SarcasmMode It was very, very, VERY subtle]]:
-->[[spoiler: '''PHONCIBLE P. BONE WILL GET YOU'''[[note]]Here, the marquee is missing the rest of the message that says, "'''...R VOTE!'''"[[/note]]]]
** And Fone Bone's reaction.
-->'''Fone Bone:''' As soon as we save him from this sacrifice, let's '''kill''' him!
** And before that, Phoney's reaction:
-->'''Phoney:''' You chased me all over Kingdom Come because of '''that?!''' [--O boy.--] Fone Bone is gonna be cranky when he finds out about this.
* Smiley is the living embodiment of this trope. Especially in one particular chapter added to certain compilations in which he and Lucius fix Grandma Ben's roof.
* Bartleby gets one in the 4th book (The Dragonslayer), when Smiley offers him a sandwich. Cue a friggin massive toothy maw biting onto the sandwich, with Smiley still holding onto it. And then Smiley tells him to sit. And he does. With Smiley's hand "still" in his mouth.
* EVERYTHING involving the [[ThoseTwoGuys Two Stupid Rat Creatures]], but especially during their temporary truce with Fone Bone & Smiley Bone in the 5th book. Eventually, the chaotic events lead to this gem:
-->'''Rat Creature #1:''' This is insane!
-->'''Rat Creature #2:''' [[YoureInsane It's stupid!]]
-->'''Smiley Bone:''' [[DumbassHasAPoint HEY! Nothing we've done so far has been]] '''[[DumbassHasAPoint un-stupid,]]''' [[DumbassHasAPoint and we're still]] '''[[DumbassHasAPoint alive,]]''' [[DumbassHasAPoint aren't we?!]]
-->'''Rat Creature #1:''' [[LampshadeHanging I can't really argue with that, but I feel like I should.]]
-->'''Smiley Bone:''' '''Carry on, Fone Bone! Make a stupid decision!'''
* The quiches. ''Dear Lord,'' the '''quiches.'''
* Possibly one of the most hilarious moments in the entire series is when Phoney Bone wakes up at Old Man's Cave with Jonathan & Gran'ma Ben, along with almost everything immediately following it. It goes roughly like this:
-->'''Phoney Bone, [[ItMakesSenseInContext who is desperately holding onto Jonathan's collar with a smiling Gran'ma Ben next to him]]:''' Jon, ''please'' tell me Gran'ma Ben isn't Queen of the Valley! ''PLEASE--''
-->'''Gran'ma Ben, cheerfully:''' I command you to take a walk with me.
-->'''Phoney Bone, quietly:''' [--Oh, I'm beggin' ya, man...--]
-->'''Jonathan Oaks, nervously:''' Um, sorry. She's the Queen.
-->'''Phoney Bone, miserably:''' [[OhCrap GAH.....]] [[GenreSavvy My life is gonna suck, isn't it?]]
* Phoney gets a five-page sequence in the third issue which are pretty much one Crowning Moment Of Funny after the other, starting with his famous "God, I pity me" speech, and then in rapid succession his first meetings with the Red Dragon, Ted the Bug and Gran'ma Ben.
* Every time the words "Stupid, stupid rat creatures" are uttered.
** The first time in particular is special. Says Fone Bone, "Those rat creatures would have to be pretty stupid to follow me out on this frail, little branch." One frame later... well the RunningGag is born.
* Ted the Bug "helping" Smiley to pull Fone Bone out of the hole he's stuck in.
* The entirety of the Great Cow Race...especially when the Rat Creatures collide with the racing cows and come out of the woods with them. Not to mention flying past Gran'ma Ben when she wins the race.
* Gran'ma Ben telling Fone and Phoney to get some chickens prepared for dinner...
-->'''Gran'ma Ben:''' I want you boys to catch yourselves four chickens! When Smiley's got that water nice an' hot, dip th' birds in it! I want every one of them feathers gone, so soak 'em good! I better be smellin' wet feathers back here! Poo! There's a smell you don't forget too quick!
-->'''Fone Bone:''' Ohmygosh. We're gonna boil 'em alive?!
-->'''Gran'ma Ben:''' Of course not, dear. You're gonna cut their heads off first.
-->'''Phoney:''' With what?
-->'''Gran'ma Ben:''' With th' hatchet.
-->'''Phoney:''' Uh... Are they gonna... y'know... Run around the yard? Squirtin' blood an' stuff?
-->'''Gran'ma Ben:''' What's th' matter? Ain't you boys ever chopped th' head off a chicken before?
-->'''Phoney, Fone Bone:''' Uh... uh...
-->'''Gran'ma Ben:''' Oh, fer heaven's sakes! If ya can't handle a little flappin' around, just grab th' chicken by th' neck an' give her a good crank over your head -- that'll kill her first!
-->'''Phoney, Fone Bone:''' *JawDrop, look like they'll be sick, then faint.*
-->'''Gran'ma Ben:''' *grabbing a hatchet and marching out of panel* Hmmf. City boys!
* On their way back to the Barrelhaven, Phoney, Smiley, and Lucius are attacked by Rat Creatures. Smiley saves them- taking them over a cliff, where the land in a [[SoftWater pond]]. Just as their getting their bearings, it starts raining.
-->'''Lucius:''' [[WeirdnessMagnet Is everything I do with you boys]] [[LampshadeHanging gonna be like this?]]
-->'''Smiley:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Like what?]]
* [[OhCrap The look]] on Phoney's face when he realizes that Lucius has outwitted him at the Cow Race.
* One time, Fone Bone asks the Rat Creatures on which word rhymes with "toes" while writing a love poem. One of them asks, "Potatoes?" HilarityEnsues:
-->'''Fone Bone:''' ''[reading] Upon your feet''\\
''You have ten toes;''\\
''They look just like''\\
''[[PainfulRhyme Po-ta-toes]]!''\\
''[turns around, gets an OhCrap look]'' Whoops!\\
'''Rat Creature:''' Hello, small mammal.
* The ending to the Cow Race. As they approach the finish line, the Bone Cousins have led a swarm of Rat Creatures into the race, causing a huge stampede of cows and Rats. And then Gran'ma Ben just pushes herself out in front to reach the finish, shouting, "I won!" She then watches silently as the stampede passes by her. Once everything quiets down, she declares, "Hot dignity dog! That was the best darn Cow Race ever!"


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Friday, October 31, 2008
Election Day: A Special Opportunity
This account of early voting incident was sent to me by a friend. I ask all of you who are eligible voters (and your friends and relatives who are eligible voters): what will you be able to tell your grandchildren about your decision on election day? I'll take "Mike the Race Car Fan" over "Joe the Plumber" any day.
Upon arriving at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati to vote early today I happened upon some friends of my mother's - three small, elderly Jewish women. They were quite upset as they were being refused admitance to the polling location due to their Obama T-Shirts, hats and buttons. Apparently you cannot wear Obama/McCain gear into polling locations here in Ohio .... They were practically on the verge of tears.
After a minute or two of this a huge man (6'5", 300 lbs easy) wearing a Dale Earnhardt jacket and Bengals cap left the voting line, came up to us and introduced himself as Mike. He told us he had overheard our conversation and asked if the ladies would like to borrow his jacket to put over their t-shirts so they could go in and vote. The ladies quickly agreed. As long as I live I will never forget the image of these 80-plus-year-old Jewish ladies walking into the polling location wearing a huge Dale Earnhardt racing jacket that came over their hands and down to their knees!
Mike patiently waited for each woman to cast their vote, accepted their many thanks and then got back in line (I saved him a place while he was helping out the ladies). When Mike got back in line I asked him if he was an Obama supporter. He said that he was not, but that he couldn't stand to see those ladies so upset. I thanked him for being a gentleman in a time of bitter partisanship and wished him well.
After I voted I walked out to the street to find my mother's friends surrounding our new friend Mike - they were laughing and having a great time. I joined them and soon learned that Mike had changed his mind in the polling booth and ended up voting for Obama. When I asked him why he changed his mind at the last minute, he explained that while he was waiting for his jacket he got into a conversation with one of the ladies who had explained how the Jewish community, and she, had worked side by side with the black community during the civil rights movements of the '60s, and that this vote was the culmination of those personal and community efforts so many years ago. That this election for her was more than just a vote ... but a chance at history.
Mike looked at me and said, "Obama's going to win, and I didn't want to tell my grandchildren some day that I had an opportunity to vote for the first black president, but I missed my chance at history and voted for the other guy."
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The Independent: A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him
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