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Stop Calling Them Heroes
Consider a strange aspect of our wars since October 2001: they have yet to establish a bona fide American hero, a national household name. Two were actually "nominated" early by the Bush administration — Jessica Lynch, a 19-year-old private and clerk captured by the Iraqis in the early days of the American invasion and later "rescued" by Army Rangers and Navy Seals, and Pat Tillman, the former NFL safety who volunteered for service in the Army Rangers eight months after 9/11 and died under "enemy" gunfire in Afghanistan.
Both stories were later revealed to be put-up jobs, pure Bush-era propaganda and deceit. In Lynch's case, almost every element in the instant patriotic myth about her rescue proved either phony or highly exaggerated; in Tillman's, it turned out that he had been killed by friendly fire, but — thanks to a military cover-up (that involved General Stanley McChrystal, later to become Afghan war commander) — was still given a Silver Star and a posthumous promotion. Members of his unit were even ordered by the military to lie at his funeral, and he was made into a convenient "hero" and recruitment poster boy for the Afghan War. Both were shameful episodes, involving administration manipulation and media gullibility. Since then, as TomDispatch regular and retired lieutenant colonel William Astore points out, U.S. troops as a whole have been labeled "our heroes," but individual heroes have been in vanishingly short supply.
In fact, the only specific figures who get the heroic treatment these days are our military commanders. They tend to be written about like so many demi-gods (until they fall). General McChrystal, before his ignominious nosedive, was presented in the press (with the Tillman incident all but forgotten) as a cross between a Spartan ascetic and a strategic genius (with the brain of a military Stephen Hawking). Present war commander General David Petraeus regularly receives even more fawning media treatment and seems to be worshipped in Washington these days as if he were not only "an American hero," but a genuine military god (as well as a future presidential candidate). Yet, in the way they've been treated, both of these figures seem closer to celebrities than heroes in any traditional sense.
Perhaps this catches something essential about America's unending wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and also what used to be called the Global War on Terror but now has no name. Like the drone pilots who sit at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, killing peasants and terrorists 7,000 miles away and to whom new standards of "valor" are now being applied, most Americans are remarkably detached from the wars our "all volunteer" military force (and its vast contingent of for-profit mercenary warriors) fight in distant lands. Our forces have become generically heroic, but no one cares to look too closely at the specifics of these bloody, dirty wars that will never end in victory, not close enough to end up with actual heroes. Our "heroic" troops have no real names, any more than the wars they fight, and so individual heroics are perhaps beside the point. (Check out the latest TomCast audio interview in which William Astore discusses heroism and the military by clicking here, or to download to your iPod, here.) Tom
"Our American Heroes"
Why It's Wrong to Equate Military Service with Heroism
By William J. Astore
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I loved reading accounts of American heroism from World War II. I remember being riveted by a book about the staunch Marine defenders of Wake Island and inspired by John F. Kennedy's exploits saving the sailors he commanded on PT-109. Closer to home, I had an uncle — like so many vets of that war, relatively silent on his own experiences — who had been at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, and then fought them in a brutal campaign on Guadalcanal, where he earned a Bronze Star. Such men seemed like heroes to me, so it came as something of a shock when, in 1980, I first heard Yoda's summary of war in The Empire Strikes Back. Luke Skywalker, if you remember, tells the wizened Jedi master that he seeks "a great warrior." "Wars not make one great," Yoda replies.
Okay, it was George Lucas talking, I suppose, but I was struck by the truth of that statement. Of course, my little epiphany didn't come just because of Yoda or Lucas. By my late teens, even as I was gearing up for a career in the military, I had already begun to wonder about the common ethos that linked heroism to military service and war. Certainly, military service (especially the life-and-death struggles of combat) provides an occasion for the exercise of heroism, but even then I instinctively knew that it didn't constitute heroism.
Ever since the events of 9/11, there's been an almost religious veneration of U.S. service members as "Our American Heroes" (as a well-intentioned sign puts it at my local post office). That a snappy uniform or even intense combat in far-off countries don't magically transform troops into heroes seems a simple point to make, but it's one worth making again and again, and not only to impressionable, military-worshipping teenagers.
Here, then, is what I mean by "hero": someone who behaves selflessly, usually at considerable personal risk and sacrifice, to comfort or empower others and to make the world a better place. Heroes, of course, come in all sizes, shapes, ages, and colors, most of them looking nothing like John Wayne or John Rambo or GI Joe (or Jane).
"Hero," sadly, is now used far too cavalierly. Sportscasters, for example, routinely refer to highly paid jocks who hit walk-off home runs or score game-winning touchdowns as heroes. Even though I come from a family of firefighters (and one police officer), the most heroic person I've ever known was neither a firefighter nor a cop nor a jock: She was my mother, a homemaker who raised five kids and endured without complaint the ravages of cancer in the 1970s, with its then crude chemotherapy regimen, its painful cobalt treatments, the collateral damage of loss of hair, vitality, and lucidity. In refusing to rail against her fate or to take her pain out on others, she set an example of selfless courage and heroism I'll never forget.
Hometown Heroes in Uniform
In local post offices, as well as on local city streets here in central Pennsylvania, I see many reminders that our troops are "hometown heroes." Official military photos of these young enlistees catch my eye, a few smiling, most looking into the camera with faces of grim resolve tinged with pride at having completed basic training. Once upon a time, as the military dean of students at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, I looked into such faces in the flesh, congratulating young service members for their effort and spirit.
I was proud of them then; I still am. But here's a fact I suspect our troops might be among the first to embrace: the act of joining the military does not make you a hero, nor does the act of serving in combat. Whether in the military or in civilian life, heroes are rare — indeed, all-too-rare. Heck, that's the reason we celebrate them. They're the very best of us, which means they can't be all of us.
Still, even if elevating our troops to hero status has become something of a national mania, is there really any harm done? What's wrong with praising our troops to the rafters? What's wrong with adding them to our pantheon of heroes?
The short answer is: There's a good deal wrong, and a good deal of harm done, not so much to them as to us.
To wit:
*By making our military a league of heroes, we ensure that the brutalizing aspects and effects of war will be played down. In celebrating isolated heroic feats, we often forget that war is guaranteed to degrade humanity. "War," as writer and cultural historian Louis Menand noted, "is specially terrible not because it destroys human beings, who can be destroyed in plenty of other ways, but because it turns human beings into destroyers."
When we create a legion of heroes in our minds, we blind ourselves to evidence of their destructive, sometimes atrocious, behavior. Heroes, after all, don't commit atrocities. They don't, for instance, dig bullets out of pregnant women's bodies in an attempt to cover up deadly mistakes. They don't fire on a good Samaritan and his two children as he attempts to aid a grievously wounded civilian. Such atrocities and murderous blunders, so common to war's brutal chaos, produce cognitive dissonance in the minds of many Americans who simply can't imagine their "heroes" killing innocents. How much easier it is to see the acts of violence of our troops as necessary, admirable, even noble.
*By making our military generically heroic, we act to prolong our wars. By seeing war as essentially heroic theater, we esteem it even as we excuse it. Consider, for example, Germany during World War I, a subject I've studied and written about. Now, as then, and here, as there, the notion of war as heroic theater became common. And when that happens, war's worst excesses are conveniently softened on the "home front," which only contributes to more war-making. As the historian Robert Weldon Whalen noted of those German soldiers of nearly a century ago, "The young men in field-grey were, first of all, not just soldiers, but young heroes, Junge Helden. They fought in the heroes' zone, Heldenzone, and performed heroic deeds, Heldentaten. Wounded, they shed hero's blood, Heldenblut, and if they died, they suffered a hero's death, Heldentod, and were buried in a hero's grave, Heldengrab." The overuse of helden as a modifier to ennoble German militarism during World War I may prove grating to our ears today, but honestly, is it that much different from America's own celebration of our troops as young heroes (with all the attendant rites)?
*By insisting programmatically on American military heroism, we also lay a firm foundation for potentially dangerous post-war myths, especially of the blame-mongering "stab-in-the-back" variety. After all, once you have a league of heroes, how can you assign responsibility for costly, debilitating, perhaps even lost wars to them? It's just a fact that heroes don't lose. And if they're not responsible, and their brilliant, super-competent leaders (General "King David" Petraeus springs to mind) aren't responsible — then it's only a small step to assigning blame to weak-willed civilians and so-called unpatriotic elements on the "home front," especially since we're not likely to credit our enemies for much. By definition, cravenly hiding among civilians as they do, our enemies are just about incapable of behaving heroically.
Of Young Heroes and Front Pigs
In rejecting the "heroic" label, don't think we'd be insulting our troops. Quite the opposite: we'd be making common cause with them, for most of our troops undoubtedly already reject the "hero" label, just as the young "heroes" of Germany did in 1917-18. With the typical sardonic humor of front-line soldiers, they preferred the less comforting, if far more realistically descriptive label (given their grim situation in the trenches) of "front pigs."
Whatever nationality they may be, troops at the front know the score. Even as our media and our culture seek to elevate our troops into the pantheon of demi-gods, our "front pigs" carry on, plying an ancient and brutal trade. Most simply want to survive and come home with their bodies, their minds, and their buddies intact. Part of the world's deadliest war machine, they are naturally concerned first about saving their own skins, and only secondarily worried about the lives of others. This is not beastliness. Nor is it heroism. It's simply a front pig's nature.
So, next time you talk to our soldiers, Marines, sailors, or airmen, do them (and your country) a small favor. Thank them for their service. Let them know that you appreciate them. Just don't call them heroes.
William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and TomDispatch regular, teaches History at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. He welcomes reader feedback at firstname.lastname@example.com. Check out the latest TomCast audio interview in which Astore discusses heroism and the military by clicking here, or to download to your iPod, here.
Copyright 2010 William J. Astore
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27 Responses to "Stop Calling Them Heroes"
Almost there but just couldn't let go of the noble soldier /savior myth.
Actually way too many soldiers do buy into the 'hero' stuff – not necessarily literally but all the selfless sacrifice BS that surrounds it. Let it go- they all volunteered and they all get paid …when they weighed up their job options they decided that killing for a living looked good, that is killing total strangers who have doing nothing to you , for family or country – definitley NOT HEROS!
I can think of two recent American heros off the top of my head; Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada, and Private First Class Bradley Manning. Those two have my highest respect. As to most of the others in the U.S. military today (who are often in it for their egos by the way), I cannot think of much I should thank them for.
I've said the same for years. They didn't have a gun put to their head and forced to gear up and kill strangers… or else! Those were conscious decisions, maybe even desires, to pull the trigger long before they put their name on the signature line.
The crimes US troops committed in Iraq and Afghanistan never reach the public. US society lives in a Holywood movie media style.
The 14 years old girl who had her damily killed and burned and she was raped by four soldier then burned to death.
what is their names these four AMERICAN heroes
"landser " is german for infantryman, which i was a long time ago. i was part of an army of citizen-soldiers. i cannot relate in any way to these low-rent mercenaries walking around in battledress. i ignore them so as not to be rude to them. i cannot thank them for their "service " to a corrupt war state. I do understand what living in germany during the hitler time must have been like, for it is the way we live now. then, as now, the heroes are those who resist the war state. the article above is drivel; unworthy of this website.
war is the biggest lie that we have come up with as human beings designating it as some glorious endevour with us as the good guys and dem' as the bad guys. Be a hero! Get a medal! Its all a horrible dispictable lie and spin. Anyway, i digress, we should call them 'War Prostitutes' for that is truly what they are. They VOLUNTEERED to go to a 'war' that is not a war and get bribed to become mere assasines for the gang, the home team.
Well of course nobody is going to call them mercenaries, murderers, or even dupes when that would imply complicity in their destructive acts. The nation sends them to illegal and immoral wars and those who send them must call them heroes to transfer their guilt. If they are heroic, then so is the nation tha produced them is the reasoning I guess. And one wonders why, if they are heroes, those niney-nine percent of those who are not in harm's way are not sending their children to become heroes, just like parents who want their children to become doctors,or lawyers, engineers, or professors. Teddy Roosevelt, that gas bag ,praised war and bragged of the elation he had at killing a Spanish soldier thinking war was the greatest experience until his favorite son Quentin was killed in WW I. No, real heroes are like my father who raised himself after both his parents died when he was age twelve, after which he raised four kids two all of whom became successful, a scenario that has been repeated thousands of times without mention, but Cal Ripkin who played baseball for more consecutivee games than Lou Gehrig is called the heroe.
They do it all the time with cops here at home too. They are heros just because they put on a government uniform and piece of costume jewelry called a badge. The public never questions it.
It is noteworthy that in surveys of American attitudes toward social institutions, the two that almost invariably score the highest in public respect are the military and the police. Increasingly all other institutions fall further and further behind the two armed bodies of the state in measure of social approval and trust. It's rather inevitable that this set of attitudes will sooner or later manifest in a profoundly authoritarian turn. The manufacture of 'heroes" will serve an essential function of sustaining the popular approval of such an authoritarian America.
there is nothing heroic about blindly following orders and kiling a fellow human being at the behest and/or will of a gov't. it's immoral and demonstrates weak personal character. i'd only kill to protect my own person (friends family) from harm but never because anyone "ordered" me to. a man thinks and reasons of his own accord as an individual, a soldier is nothing but a person who gives his will to the collective to better facilitate death and destruction. again, there is no heroism in this act. it is selfish, not selfless. it does not aid or improve humanity, it degrades it.
no soldier who is currently in the middle east or afghanistan is a hero. not one. they are criminals and illegal occupiers doing the will of global corporate war mongers. they are an enabling police force of brutalizers for the elite who profit from the misery and suffering of the poor and downtrodden.
a hero is a person who always stands for truth at all costs. that is and never will be any military institution or it's participants.
All u A_H should be thankfull that the enemy is not here in this country to chop ur heads off, and i wonder who will u call to protect u. Wake up u jerks and thank the troops that are over there protecting ur asses. go hide under the table.
The real heros are the one's who actually get up and try to put a stop to war….
first of all no one is over here you moron…we're over there. illegally. that's a fact that you should try wrapping your thick stupid violent skull around. read the constitution if you actually are literate you base and insipid loser. the enemy is this country resides in washington d.c…the corporate facists who send brainwashed imbeciles off to die wrapped in a flag. no one's hiding…a real man knows how to protect himself..i don't need the likes of you or any other military zombie protecting anything but the rule of law and our constitution. number of iraqis or afghan people who have ever hurt me: 0
Lets see where these "heros" loyality lies- our corrupt, traitorous government or the constitution that they along with our government (up to and including the president) were sworn to uphold
Your logic is as poor as your spelling. Mind telling me where the "weapons of mass destruction" were?
To affirm the last 10 comments: In what way can being the tool of a politician's will ever be construed as heroism by any measure? And why should these men ever even be thanked for their "service" ? As hard as it may be to swallow, it makes more sense to call to fighters of Hamas, Hizbullah, the Viet Minh and even the Afghan Mujahideen "Heroes" since they choose to face the "World's Sole Super Power" armed with the most rudimentary of modern weapons, isolated from the outside world, against incredible odds, and though they're no innocents, it certainly takes some heroism to fight when it'd be a lot easier to just give up and go back home (or what's left of it, anyway).
If "the enemy" would just come over here to chop all of "ur James'" head off, I would definitely buy "them" a beer
"The Cisco Kid had killed six men in more or less fair scrimmages, had murdered twice as many (mostly Mexicans), and had winged a larger number whom he modestly forbore to count. Therefore a woman loved him."
O. Henry
I refer to them by various names, but "heroes" damn sure ain't one of them.
Soldiers are trained killers. Killing people, women, kids, unarmed men with sophisticated weapons and missiles and fighter jets and tanks does not make you a hero. It makes you a butcher!
It's time that those who plan and carry out wars were labeled as psychopaths. It's time that countries that engage in endless wars were condemned and isolated.
"Hero" is not the problem. "Warrior" is. I especially detest "fallen warrior."
The poor grunt became a "warrior" in common parlance somewhere in there after the US invaded Iraq and committed mass murder. "Warrior" is now a completed accepted term to refer to serviceman. No one even seems to question it. "Warrior," of course, connotes empire. It signifies a permanent class whose purpose is to conduct the empire's permanent military operations.
Since the draft has been a political impossibility since it ended, the machine has bred larger and larger supplies of "warriors" through cycles of recession then "jobless recoveries."
"Heroes"! ?
There are no "heroes" in this "Long War" of brutal imperial conquest. A hero is one who dies in the defense of his country.
They are not fighting to defend our country. They are stooges of the fascist state of Israhell, big oil and the neanderthal racist scum who inhabit every corner of the power structure in this evil empire.
They run around raping, robbing, torturing and dehumanizing innocent women and children under direct orders from DC and Jerusalem.
These animals do not have an "off switch". When they return to the US their killing spree will continue in the streets and on their own families and the prisons will be full to overflow.
Many are now, and in the future, committing suicide because those who didn't drink enough of the "kool aid" realize what horrible things they have done in the service of "God and country". Since the US government has used them up: there will be no help because it is not cost effective to treat the mental illness of those the government willfully screwed up and has no further use for.
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical". — Thomas Jefferson
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it…" IMHO – BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE!
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
They are all heros in the sense that they are risking their lives each day for a cause (wheter the cause is just or not is is not really the issue).
You fat lazy bastards can sit comfortably behind your computers and run down the young people who are giving their lives in service to this country. I'd be willing to bet that over 90% of you slugs have never spent a day in service to your country.
You all don't deserve your freedom…Sadly we will all lose it beause of slime such as yourselves !
"Heroes" hey Piff! This immoral/illegal war of naked aggression is not just. That fact is what the issue is". I saw, first hand, the racist ideology behind every war this empire started while serving in Viet-Nam.
Maybe the majority of the posters here have not served in the military. I don't blame those who refuse to serve in the US military because of its immorality and sickening reputation. those in uniform are not serving nor protecting this country. They are serving the fascist cause of Aparthied Israhell.
Those "slugs" in the pentagon who run this holocaust are busy entertaining themselves with kiddie porn while they optimize and schedule the next drone attack to insure the slaughter of as many innocent women and children as possible with one missile, and then call them "terrorists" or "insurgents"
The Nuremberg witch trials after WWII proved that "I was just following orders" was not a sufficient defense to keep them from the hang mans noose. Those you refer to as "heroes" are guilty of crimes against God and man. They are also TRAITORS because they violate the US Constitution every time they rape a 14 year old girl, murder her entire family and set their savaged, INNOCENT bodies on fire. Every time they murder pregnant women and attempt to dig out the bullets with their bayonets to cover their tracks. THESE ARE DAILY HAPPENINGS. Don't even attempt to tell me they are "isolated incidents". What I describe is US foreign policy.
If YOU support those storm troopers: YOU DON'T DESERVE YOUR FREEDOM OR EVEN A "FAIR TRIAL' You and them deserve Gitmo justice with all the trimmings like water boarding, electrocution, crucifixion, and the crushing of your male childs testicles while you watch some storm trooper sodomize him at the same time. That: is what is done in my good name to the Iraqi, Palestinian, Afghani and Pakistani people in the US gulags.
Are you really proud of that?
"Heroes" There were more than 4 of THOSE "HEROES". The Iraqis got their hands on 2 of them. Their names were Tucker and Manchucka. Their mutilated bodies were found on a bridge about 2 days after they were captured. At least 2 of those animals got exactly what they deserved for what they did to that poor little girl!
Those 4 contractors that got burned and dragged in Falluja in 2004 also got what they deserved. They were "contractors" who were doing the majority of the torturing with electric drills, acid, hot steel, "surgical procedures", etc., the military was unwilling to do, at the US gulag called "Abu Ghraib" there are currently 2 storm troopers recently taken in Afghanistan. If they committed any war crimes: they will also get what they deserve.
The freedom fighters apparently have a pretty good intelligence network that has the ability to identify the criminals involved in these horrific acts condoned and ordered at the highest levels of the executive branch.
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Hi All
Me and a friend are off on a 3 month trip around Indochina and Malaysia. We fly to bangkok on the 18th March and return from Singapore on the 14th of June.
We are 23 and 22 years old, and want to get a lot out of the trip both experience wise and culturally. Budget wise we are being fairly tight and are'nt afraid of slumming it a bit.
In terms of a route, we are thinking anti-clockwise around Indochina:
- Bangkok to Siem Reap (Angkor)
- Siem Reap to Phnom Penh
- PP to HCM
- HCM to Hanoi (Nha Trang/Hoi An/Da Nang/Hue/Halong Bay)
- Hanoi to Laos (Best route in overland??? recommendations for Laos??)
- Laos back into Thailand overland
- Then South through Thailand to the South peninsula/islands (recommendations??)
- Into Malaysia
- Penang to KL
- KL to Singapore
We have no internal flights booked and are planning to do our travelling overland. Any recommendations, tips, or advice would be greatly appreciated, and any opinions on the route are more than welcome.
Thanks for your time.
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For me, photography is about adventure and pushing science and art beyond the supposed limits and norms.
I say "supposed" because the limits and norms are boundaries either imposed upon us by the rules of the craft or the constraints we dream up in our heads.
For example, the "Natural Patterns Collection" uses my technical skills as a photographer and my creative abilities as an artist to paint with light. "Leaves and Wind," depicted here is one of the photographs in the collection and one of the favorites among patrons. I love it, too. With this series, I work to capture or to create motion, through natural means such as wind or moving water, or through my own action such as panning or swiping. The goal is to express movement, reflection, texture and vivid color in photographs using an overall style similar to the Impressionist painters. Some of the photographs in "Natural Patterns" show form. Others suggest it, thereby allowing viewers to make what they wish of what they see in the images.
Concerning my photography practice overall, whether my goal is to create abstract images or to represent real scenes, I mostly work outdoors with natural light and with the elements and conditions nature provides. A photograph is the story of a singular moment ; just a little change of light, an incoming cloud, the arrival of a bee or a butterfly, changes a scene altogether. I enjoy using fog, reflection, falling snow, raindrops and shadows. I strive to convey a sense of wonder, and, when I work in the abstract, a feeling of mystery in the photographs I make.
When I work in a representational manner, I want viewers to see the many wondrous things we overlook in our busy lives. Flowers, old farms and abandoned industrial sites are subjects with which I work frequently.As I tell my students, the goal is to make the best photographs of which you are capable "in camera."
As for equipment, I practice what I preach in that I also tell my students that although the latest bells and whistles of the trade are grand, making photographs is more about seeing than it is about automation and megapixels. So, I work with the medium-format -film Holga (a real dinosaur) and with digital SLR cameras and lenses, shooting RAW format.


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Which Shade of Red Do You Like Best on Christina Hendricks?
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Last night at the premiere of Mad Men's second season, actress Christina Hendricks arrived with an even more fiery version of her typically red hair. It's not often that we see someone who has stayed true to a bold hue for the duration of her career, but Christina seems to love it. Out of the following three shades, which color red hair do you find the most flattering on Christina?
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tinacolada 7 years
Looks most natural and brings out her features!
JaimeLeah526 7 years
Fire engine red really makes her skin look fab but all colors of red look good on her.
aimeeb 7 years
I think they all look great, I adore her!
Pepper 7 years
Fire-engine red
Pepper 7 years
Fire-engine red
sepiaraven 7 years
Fire engine. May be biased since I love having bright red hair myself, but she looks lovely in that picture.
luckyEmmie 7 years
wow, she is gorgeous. while the auburn looks the most like her natural color, I think the fire engine red makes the pinky undertones of her skin just POP! Plus, if you see full-sized pics of Christina Hendricks, she has the most beautiful, woman's body, not a skinny-minnie hollywood type.
JustSomeChick 7 years
The orangey-red washes her out too much, but I love the auburn. It's very fresh and natural looking. On a side note, I love the shape of her chin.
DecemberBaby 7 years
Fire engine most def
DecemberBaby 7 years
Fire engine most def
piksie007 7 years
she looks so hot in the last picture...even though it could just be her great makeup, i had to vote for fire-engine. =)
me-n-myself 7 years
she looks fresh on fire engine red
soapbox 7 years
Fire-engine Red for sure. Orangey-Red usually looks dried out and auburn red just isn't red enough.
leeluvfashion 7 years
Fire-engine Red.
leeluvfashion 7 years
Fire-engine Red.
scully22 7 years
She's so pretty!
scully22 7 years
She's so pretty!
AllaWallaBalla 7 years
I don't care for the orangey color but the other two are great.
crazylovevbug 7 years
i love the auburn, it's beautiful on her.
Molly 7 years
She looks fabulous all three colors and is so great on that show! Can't wait for it to be back next week.
smiley13tree 7 years
The reds look really good on her. I love both far left and far right.
bealotus 7 years
lol rabidmoon..it happens! :lol:I love the fire engine red..the other ones are boring.
bealotus 7 years
lol rabidmoon..it happens! :lol: I love the fire engine red..the other ones are boring.
Milly-the-ninja 7 years
i like the fire engine red best.:)
rabidmoon 7 years
Oh wait..Duh...discount everything I said, I was looking at the red LIPSTICKS. :ROTFL: And here I thought I was awake tonight. :P And yet my answer is not so different. Like the fire-engine red the best, but the first look is also pretty. Middle one is washed out, which sucks cause I love the lipstick. (See the first comment.) /bonks forehead


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Thursday May 12, 2011Softball Eliminated by Auburn, 6-2, in First Round of 2011 SEC Tournament
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The Gator softball team couldnt overcome an Auburn Tigers team that jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of UF's opening-round game at the 2011 SEC Softball Tournament in Oxford Thursday. The seven seed and No. 23 Tigers topped the second-seeded Gators, 6-2, in the fourth meeting between the two squads this season, to advance to the semifinals of the tournament Friday as No. 3 UF moved to 47-9 this season.
Freshman Kasey Fagan (Dunnellon, Fla.) went 2-for-3 with an RBI and senior Tiffany DeFelice (Coral Springs, Fla.) cut the lead to 3-1 in the fourth on a RBI single, but three Auburn runs in the fifth gave the Tigers a five-run lead they wouldnt relinquish. Florida added a second run in the seventh after Fagan sent a single up the middle to drive in freshman Cheyenne Coyle (West Hills, Calif.), who reached after drawing a walk.
Senior Stephanie Brombacher (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) got the start for the Gators, giving up three runs, just one earned, on two hits to tally the loss (17-2). Freshman Hannah Rogers (Lake Wales, Fla.) came on for 6.0 innings, allowing just three runs on six hits. Angel Bunner picked up the win for the Tigers after 4.0 innings of work, as she gave up just one run and three Gator hits.
Senior Aja Paculba (Wildomar, Calif.) rallied for an impressive double play, snagging a lineout in the air, followed by an unassisted tag at second base in the sixth inning for two immediate outs. Florida tallied six hits on the afternoon, including a bunt single by junior Michelle Moultrie (Jacksonville, Fla.), her 17th bunt single of the season.
Florida had runners on first and second to start the game after a Brittany Schutte (Fountain Valley, Calif.) single through the right side following Moultries base hit, but the Gators couldnt punch in a run. The Gators held Auburn hitless and scoreless in the second and gave up one hit each in the third and fourth frames.
Schutte drew a leadoff walk in Floridas fourth frame and Coyle connected for a one-out single to right field, allowing DeFelice to knock and RBI single down the left-field line, plating Schutte. A double play ended the stanza, but not before UF narrowed the margin, 3-1.
Auburn rallied for three runs in the fifth, with two on a Kyndall White two-RBI double. A Lauren Guzman RBI single plated the final run of the inning as Auburn carried a 6-1 lead through a scoreless sixth for both teams to the seventh inning. Fagan sent Coyle across home with two outs and one last rally in the bottom of the seventh for the Gators, but Auburn pulled off the upset.
Florida was last eliminated in the first round of the SEC Tournament in 2006, when Tennessee topped the Gators, 6-0, as Georgia played host to the event. The Gators moved to 17-22 all-time in the SEC Tournament and are now 27-15 all-time against Auburn.
The Gators will now wait for the 2011 NCAA Selection Show in determining their seeding in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. The show will air Sunday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. on ESPNU. For all updates and information about the tournament, visit www.GatorZone.com/softball Sunday evening and Monday morning.
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Title 54 - Ports and Maritime Matters
SECTION 54-13-10. "Privately owned dock" defined.
For the purpose of this chapter, a privately owned dock is defined as any dock which is constructed on or appurtenant to property on which the person constructing the dock owns a leasehold interest in or title to or has obtained permission, express or implied, from the title owner to construct the dock.
SECTION 54-13-20. Exceptions.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to docking facilities open to the general public or to persons utilizing privately owned docking facilities in an emergency situation, or to persons having permission, express or implied, to use such facilities from the owner thereof, or to any person, association or corporation, and the agents and servants thereof, in the performance of duties arising out of the usual conduct of business or arising out of the terms of a State or Federal charter, license or franchise, and regulations thereunder.
SECTION 54-13-30. Trespassing on privately owned docks unlawful; posting of notice.
It shall be unlawful, except as provided herein, for any person to trespass upon or attach a boat or other device to any privately owned dock erected along the shores of any public or private waters within this State. Provided, however, that no person shall be convicted under this chapter unless the owner of such dock has posted a notice in a conspicuous place thereon stating that "Trespassing on this Dock is Prohibited by Law." Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
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This chapter shall not be construed to prevent or to interfere with the right of any person, governmental body, commission or agency, and the licensees and franchisees thereof, from regulating or controlling any activities on the waters and appurtenant lands under the jurisdiction of such person, governmental body, commission or agency, and the licensees and franchisees thereof. No vested property right shall accrue under this chapter to any person in derogation of the ownership or rights of any person, the public, any governmental body, commission or agency, and the licensees and franchisees thereof.


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Duck Roast
Ingredients :
Duck - 1 kg
Cinnamon - 3, 1' inch pieces
Clove - 4 no's
Pepper - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Water - 2 glass
Ghee - 2 tbs
Oil - 2 tbs
Tomatoes - 2 no
Potatoes - 1 or 2
Ladies Finger - a few
Method of Preparation :
Grind clove, cinnamon, pepper, turmeric powder and salt. Clean the duck. Marinate the duck both inside and outside with the ground masala for 1/2 an hour. Fry the duck in a pan in ghee and oil. Turn over the duck and fry till light brown. Boil water and pour it over the duck. Close the pan with a lid and cook till done. There should be enough gravy.
Fry the ladies finger and sliced potatoes in oil adding salt and a little gravy from the duck curry. Slice tomatoes breadth wise. Decorate the duck roast with the fried ladies finger, potatoes and tomatoes.


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(By "BARTLE FRERE")
Run of rocky shelves at sun- rise, with their base on ocean's bed— Homes of Coogee, homes at Bondi, and the lighthouse on South Head; For in loneliness and hard- ship—and with just a touch of pride— Has my heart been taught to whisper "You belong to Sydney-side." Toiling out beyond Cool- gardie—heart and back and spirit broke. Where the rover's star gleams redly in the desert by the soak— "But," says one mate to the other, "Brace your lip and do not fret; We will laugh on trams and 'buses—Sydney's in the same place yet. HENRY LAWSON. Coolgardie (W.A.). Sydney derives its name from Thomas Townshend Viscount Sydney, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Ministry of William Pitt, who adopted the suggestion of Captain James Cook (R.N.) and re- commended the establish- ment of a colony to New South Wales. Orders-in-Coun- cil for establishing this colony were issued in London on December 6, 1785. Sydney Cove was named by Governor Arthur Phillip (R.N.) on his arrival with the First Fleet on January 22, 1788. No proclamation naming Sydney was ever made. The Governor's des- patches were at first headed Sydney Cove, and there are records inferring that the infant town might have been called Albion. The natives named it Warrane. An ances- tor of the abovementioned Viscount Sydney introduced the Government sign of the broad arrow. On October 25, 1786, H.M.S. Sirius (540 tons), 20 guns, 160 men, lying at Dept- ford, was commissioned and the command given to Cap- tain Arthur Phillip (R.N.) for the projected expedition to found an English settle- ment in New South Wales. John Hunter was appointed second captain of the Sirius, with the rank of Port Cap- tain. The First Fleet began to rendezvous at the Mother Bank, Isle of Wight, as fol- lows: Sirius, H.M. Frigate (Captain John Hunter): Sup- ply, H.M. Armed Tender (Lieutenant Henry L. Ball); Golden Grove, store ship; Borrowdale, store ship; Fish- burn, store ship; Scar- borough, transport carrying one captain, 33 marines, 208 male convicts; Lady Pen- rhyn, transport, carrying one captain, 2 lieutenants, 3 pri- vates and 102 female con- victs; Friendship, transport, carrying one captain, 44 marines, 77 male and 20 female convicts; Charlotte, transport, carrying one cap- tain, 43 men, 88 male and 20 female convicts; Prince of Wales, transport, carying two lieutenants, 30 marines and 50 female convicts; Alexan- der, transport, carrying two lieutenants, 35 marines and 213 male convicts. Captain Arthur Phillip hoisted his flag on board the Sirius as commodore of the squadron and weighed anchor at daybreak, setting sail for New South Wales on May 13, 1789. Total number of persons who embarked in the First Fleet on Sunday, May, 13, 1787; Civil officers 10, marines, including officers 212, wives 28 and children 17, of above 45, other free persons 81, male convicts 504, female convicts 192, total 1044. The Supply, having on board Governor Phillip and Lieutenant Gidley King, sighted the coast of New South Wales on January 3, 1788, and anchored in Botany Bay on the 18th. The Sirius, with the remainder of the convoy arrived and landed 1030 persons by the 20th. Governor Phillip, accom- panied by Captain Hunter and several other officers, set out in boats for a bay north of Botany Bay, mentioned by Captain Cook and called Broken Bay. They entered a place on the way marked Port Jackson, and selected a cove about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile across the entrance, situated six miles inside this harbour, as the place for the new settlement. On January 23, 1788, the Governor named it Sydney Cove in honour of Viscount Sydney. In passing a point of land in the harbour of Port Jack- son, the Governor named it Manly Cove, in consequence of the confidence and manly behaviour of the natives there. Governor Phillip, having sufficiently explored Port Jackson and found it in all respects highly calculated to support such a settlement as he was appointed to estab- lish, returned to Botany Bay on January 24, 1788. On the following day Gov- ernor Phillip quitted Botany Bay in the Supply, and to- gether with the whole of the First Fleet, sailed into Port Jackson (January 25, 1788). The British flag was dis- played on shore in the har- bour of Port Jackson and around the flagstaff the Gov- ernor and the principal offi- cers assembled and drank the King's health and suc- cess to the new colony (Janu- ary 26, 1788). On the same day the colony of New South Wales was formally taken possession of in the name of the King of England by Governor Arthur Phillip and the British colours hoisted on Dawes Battery. On a space previously cleared, the whole colony was assembled, the military drawn up under arms, the convicts stationed apart, and around the Governor those who were appointed to hold the principal offices in the new British settlement. The royal commission establish- ing a regular form of gov- ernment on the coast of New South Wales was read by Mr. David Collins, the judge ad- vocate (February 7, 1788). By this instrument Arthur Phillip was constituted Cap- tain-General and Governor over the territory called New South Wales (thus named by Captain Cook), including all the islands adjacent thereto. The office of Lieutenant-Gov- ernor was conferred on Major Ross, of the Marines. The Imperial Acts of Parlia- ment establishing the courts of Judicature were also read and lastly the patents under the Great Seal. On September 30, 1788, the Sirius, Captain Hunter, was sent to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa (Cape- town) for supplies and on May 9, 1789, this ship return- ed with four months' provi- sions. This caused great re- joicing in the colony. Between June 6, 1789, and July 13, Governor Phillip and party explored Broken Bay and the Hawkesbury River, examined the Windsor and Richmond Bottoms and trav- ersed the country adjacent to Kurrajung Mountain, the Nepean River (named after the Secretary to the Ad- miralty) and Grose Vale
(named after the commander of the New South Wales Corps in 1789). On April 17, 1790, the Sup- ply was sent to Batavia, in Java, under Lieutenant Ball for provisions and on June 20, 1790, the store ship Justinian, from England, arrived with a timely supply of provisions for the colonists. The Gorgon (44 guns), con- roying what is termed the Second Fleet arrived in Syd- ney with 1695 male and 68 female convicts—198 died on the voyage (September 21, 1791). The Atlantic, from Cal- cutta, arrived at Sydney with a much-required cargo of rice and other provisions on June 20, 1792. After many months' privation, the infant settlement was placed on full rations in the month of July, 1792. It was not until New South Wales had been in existence as a settlement on Port Jack- ion for six months that Gov- ernor Phillip gave orders to Lieutenant Dawes, of the Royal Marines, to build a re- doubt on the east side of Sydney Cove, near the end of Benelong Point. The work was begun in July, 1788, and was finished at the beginning of 1789, when a couple of guns were placed in it with a flagstaff along- side. Three years after that earthworks were placed on the western side of the little bay and a battery planted on Dawes Point opposite. The guns were from H.M.S. Sirius and the position of the bat- tery can now be located at the southern end of the Har- bour Bridge. Mr. J. H. M. Abbott in his writings, mentions that at the beginning of 1788, the French navigator, La Perouse, had mounted a couple of guns in a stockade erected on the north side of Botany Bay for the protection of working parties engaged in building boats to replace those lost in a disastrous fight with South Sea Islanders. So the first armed citadel in Australia flew the fleur-de-lis of Old France above the parapets. The leader of the French expedition dismantled his little fort at La Perouse two months afterwards, and sail- ed away into blue immensity, never to know of the ruin and disaster that were soon to overwhelm the flag and government of his ill-fated friend and master, Louis XVI. He went out of the world of which he had been so bright an ornament mer- cifully unaware of the bloody destruction about to overtake it. There is a spot at La Per- rouse on the northern shore of the big shallow inlet of Botany Bay where Captain
James Cook (R.N.) rested for a week in the Endeavour in 1770, and the grassy hill- side slopes gently down to the waters of Frenchmen's Bay that is fairly familiar to Sydney people. For 125 years a tall column has stood there to mark the site of the encampment of some members of the expedi- tion when the little squadron of two ships, commanded by Jean Francois Galaup, Comte de La Perouse, anchored in the adjacent Botany Bay at the beginning of 1788. About 100 yards north- east of it is the tomb, en- closed by iron railings, which is the last resting place of Le Pere Receveur, chaplain and naturalist to the French, squadron, who was, as far as is known, the second white man to be buried in New South Wales. The first was Forby Sutherland, a seaman of the Endeavour, in 1770, who lies in an unknown grave at Kurnell, on the other side of Botany Bay. For many years even be- fore the monument was erected—this peaceful and beautiful locality has been a place of pilgrimage for French visitors to Sydney. The pediment of the column bears testimony to this in the numerous brass plates af- fixed to it, recording such pious visits. It was placed there about the year 1827, after a visit by the Baron de Bougainville, in command of another French expedition, which called at Sydney, in 1825, aboard the ships Taetis and Esperance. In 1829 four Norfolk Island pines were planted round the monument, and every French warship which has dropped her anchor in Sydney Har- bour has left a memento of her stay in the shape of an inscribed plate within the railed enclosure at La Per- ouse tramway terminus. This little plot of ground has a tradition that is sacred to all the fellow countrymen of the great and unfortunate navigator. At Kurnell, on the south side of Botany Bay, the land- ing of Captain James Cook (R.N.) in 1770 is com- memorated by an obelisk at which celebrations are held in the month of April in each year. Eighteen years later, on January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip, R.N., the First Governor of New South Wales and the Commander of the First Fleet establish- ed a permanent settlement in Sydney Cove (named by Cap- tain Phillip as abovemen- tioned and now more familiarly known as Circular Quay), which extended far- ther towards the centre of the city before the retaining wall along the line of the ex- isting ferry wharves was built. The first Government House was erected on the corner of Bridge and Phillip Streets
where a monument and tablet now stand. The prin- cipal Government offices were located in the vicinity and many of them are still situat- ed in the neighbourhood. In Macquarie Place Park, at the corner of Bridge Street and Macquarie Place is an anchor taken from H.M.8. Sirius, in which Governor Phillip sailed from England with the First Fleet and which was wrecked at Nor- folk Island in 1790. An obelisk, erected here in 1818, marks the starting point for the measurement of all roads of the State. The water supply of the in- fant settlement of Sydney in 1788 was obtained at the out- set from the Old Tank Stream which, rising near Hyde Park, ran through the township into the harbour near Bridge Street. The site of the first church erected in Sydney in 1793 is marked by a memorial at the intersection of Hunter and Bligh Streets. It was a struc- ture of split wattle poles cemented with clay. The oldest church still extant is St James, at the top of King Street. This was built in 1822. At the period of the orig- inal foundation by Captain Arthur Phillip (R.N.) at Syd- ney Cove, the waters washing the foreshoe reached as far as Dalley Street and a water- course, fed from swamps situated on the site of Hyde Park, and also from a spring in what is now Spring Street entered the cove at its south- west corner.
It was possible to row in a small boat along what are now Pitt and Hamilton Streets, as far as Hunter Street, passing under the bridge, built in the year 1811, from which the present Bridge Street derives its name. The creek, in the rocky bed of which a tank 15 feet deep, with a capacity of about 8000 gallons was excavated, be- ams known in 1792 as the Tank Stream, for that rea- son. It constituted the sole water supply of the town as late as June 1873, as a tun- nel, commenced in 1827 to bring water from Lachlan Swamp to near the head of King Street, was not complet- ed for 10 years. Carriers at his time and for many years subsequently filled their carts at these sources and peddled the water throughout the city. The Harbour Information Bureau of the Sydney Ferries Limited tells us of these early landmarks and in its publication compares the views of Circular Quay to- day with those of the late 19th century. Looking round the Quay now, one cannot but be struck by the changes that the last 50 years have brought about. Imagine the gigantic modern liners wiped out, together with a great part of the unbroken lines of wharf on each side. Substitute full-rigged sail- ing snips, their lofty spars and intricate rigging sil- houetted against the sky above the lower buildings of that day, lying head to stern both sides of the Quay, and in places where no wharves existed, boomed off from the rough foreshore road suffi- ciently to keep them clear of the rocks while heaving their cargoes of wool bales along 60 foot skids from shore to rail. From a few small and partly uncovered wharves at the head of the Cove, small ferries plied so inadequately that the waterman's steps in the centre still did a roaring trade, while on the Quay roadway a few horse-drawn buses and hansom cabs took the place of the present trams and motor vehicles. On the eastern point the old convict built Fort Mac- quarie was a happy substitute for the present tram depot and the unsightly sheds in front of it and careful con- sideration will probably lead us to doubt whether the so- called progress of those 50 years leaves us much for which to be thankful. A further radical change is now in progress at the Quay. Ultimately electric trains will be running across a viaduct at the southern end, with the mass of an overhead railway station shutting out the view of the buildings in the cen-tre. (To Be Continued)


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WALL: A man accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl has been wanted since Feb. 1, police said.
Martin Luis, 36, with a last known address of Sixth Avenue in Neptune, is charged with a second-degree count each of aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, Chief Robert L. Brice said in a prepared statement.
Luis is described as a Hispanic man who is 5 feet, 5 inches tall with brown eyes and short black hair. Police believe he has left the area, Brice said.
Police will not release the name or age of the girl, Brice said.
Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Luis or who thinks they can help the investigation is asked to call police at 732-449-4500, detectives at 732-449-4800 or the tips hotline at 732-280-4288, Brice said.
Anthony Panissidi
Cops investigate Wall home burglary
WALL: The midday burglary of a home in the south end of the township earlier this week is under investigation, police said.
The suspect or suspects broke into a residence on Riverside Terrace through a rear window and stole an unknown amount of jewelry while the homeowners were not there between noon and 6 p.m. Monday, Chief Robert L. Brice said in a prepared statement.
Anyone with information about suspicious activity in the area of Riverside Terrace is asked to call police at 732-449-4500, detectives at 732-449-4800 or the the tips hotline at 732-280-4288, Brice said.
Anthony Panissidi
No one hurt in Long Branch house blaze
LONG BRANCH: A fire burned in a three-story home here Wednesday night, but the occupants were able to get out safely, police said.
No one was injured in the fire, which caused minor damage to the attic area of the home, said Sgt. Fernando Sanders Thursday morning.
Firefighters, police and emergency medical service units responded at 10:30 p.m. to the burning house in the 600 block of Campbell Avenue.
The fire was extinguished before midnight, fire officials said.
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Archive for Thursday, May 6, 2004
Old greeting cards speak volumes about moms
I decided to call this column Bits and Pieces because it is often written from yellow sticky notes that are left here and there in the house and in the car. Actually, many thoughts come while I'm driving back and forth to Lawrence on the old road. If you ever see me pulled over, you will know that I have stopped to jot a thought down on whatever comes to hand -- sometimes an old bill, a bank deposit slip (I always have lots of those), or even a Kleenex.
With Mother's Day coming up next weekend, I combed through my sticky notes and found lots of thoughts about my own mother and grandmother. Combing through about 20 years of accumulated memorabilia these past few weeks, I found scores of Mother's Day cards given to me by my children from the recent past as well as those created from construction paper and crayons that date back to time eternal.
Reading each card again is like a re-run of the past. Choosing which ones to keep is a problem. Using the criteria that I would keep each card that had a handwritten message was no help. I still couldn't decide, so I dumped them all back into a large plastic storage box that will wait until the next time I feel the urge to purge or shred. Or they may wait for my children to make those decisions.
While going through these cards I found some that were not only from my children but from friends' children and my own mother and grandmother and aunts. Those really touched a nerve and a multitude of memories.
Not all of the cards were Hallmark. My Gramma Parker's cards were often those sent by religious missionaries with the hope of receiving a donation, and mom's were sometimes homemade. My aunt even wrote a message on the back of a wedding napkin.
All of these good-will wishes bring back memories of each of these women who were so important in my life and who formed and molded me until I finally found my own voice and my own way.
One sticky note recalled thoughts about my grandmother, who was truly unique for her generation. Marrying later in life, she had five children and never fit the mold of a housewife, as her interests lay out-of-doors among nature and her garden. My mother, being the oldest, said she always had to bind up the bones and wipe away the blood of her younger siblings, as Gramma always fled to the neighbors during a crisis.
Of Gramma, one of my sticky notes recorded, "She was a free spirit dedicated to nature while Granpa was a handsome, crusty, tobacco-chewing curmudgeon with a soft center much like the cherry chocolates he so loved to receive at Christmas." They were an odd couple, but somehow they endured and lived together for more than 60 years.
My mother was quite unlike my grandmother, although she too was a master gardener. Of her I found a note I had written some time back. "Mom was a complicated person... bright, intellectual, sometimes self-centered, and moody. But as complicated people often are, very interesting."
She viewed life from a different perspective than most. While rummaging through stuff in the basement recently I found a small birthday book of hers in which she had written a dedication to her own dead parents, which says more about her than about them.
In Memorial to Mom and Dad
"And yet they, who are long gone, are in us, as
predisposition, as burden upon our destiny, as
blood pulsates, and as gesture that rises up out
of the depths of time"
There is no acknowledgement of the source of this poem, but it obviously meant a great deal to her to have recorded it in the beginning of that little book in which she recorded birthdays of family and friends.
Mothers are such a big part of our life -- for good or for bad. As I like to say, "They loom large in our circle," and I find myself so often thinking, "Yes, Mom was right about that." What satisfaction that would give her to know that I finally appreciate her wisdom.
A regret I have and one I recall now as this Mother's Day approaches: One Saturday when I was a full-time working person Mom asked me to take her to lunch. By this time she was using a walker and a wheelchair but still had the energy to get out and go. I was upset because I had plans for my precious two-day weekend that did not include a leisurely lunch with my mother.
I did take her, but resentfully, and I still remember the look in her eyes that day. She did not comment, but I knew she read me very well and sensed my resentment. I can't remember what it was I wanted to do that Saturday, but I have never forgotten the look in her eyes and would give a lot to relive that day.
This Mother's Day go out of your way to acknowledge your love and concern for your mom. As my mother-in-law Gramma Laws used to say, "She's the best friend you will ever have."
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|A difference in systolic blood pressure between arms and between lower limbs is a novel risk marker for diabetic nephropathy in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
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|Recent studies have demonstrated that a difference in systolic blood pressure (SBP) between arms is associated with both vascular disease and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between a difference in SBP between arms and between lower limbs and the degree of albuminuria, which is an established marker for cardiovascular disease and diabetic nephropathy in patients with Type 2 diabetes. We measured blood pressure in the arms and lower limbs of 314 consecutive patients with Type 2 diabetes, and we calculated a difference in SBP between arms and between lower limbs. We then evaluated the relationship of the difference in SBP between arms and between lower limbs to the degree of urinary albumin excretion (UAE). The average difference in SBP between arms and between lower limbs was 3.52±3.94 and 9.66±14.1 mm Hg, respectively. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that a difference in SBP between arms (β=0.172, P=0.0239) and between lower limbs (β=0.238, P=0.0033) independently correlated with the logarithm of the UAE. Multiple logistic regression analyses showed that a difference in SBP of 10 mm Hg between arms (odds ratio 12.23 (95% CI 1.130-132.35), P<0.0393) and a difference in SBP of 15 mm Hg between lower limbs (odds ratio 4.291 (95% CI 1.403-13.123), P<0.0106) correlated with the risk of albuminuria. A difference in SBP between arms and between lower limbs, therefore, could be a novel risk marker for diabetic nephropathy in patients with Type 2 diabetes.Hypertension Research advance online publication, 17 January 2013; doi:10.1038/hr.2012.207.
|Hiroshi Okada; Michiaki Fukui; Muhei Tanaka; Shinobu Matsumoto; Yusuke Mineoka; Naoko Nakanishi; Mai Asano; Masahiro Yamazaki; Goji Hasegawa; Naoto Nakamura
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i3[1] is a lightweight, tiling window manager. Keyboard shortcuts are provided to open xterms in order to start applications from the command line. Figure 6.10a shows a screenshot of i3 running on PC-BSD® 10.00.
i3 provides a panel that on PC-BSD® will contain icons for Bluetooth Manager (if the system has a Bluetooth interface), Update Manager, Network Configuration (if your wireless card is detected), and Life Preserver.
To open an xterm, use Alt+Enter. Windows do not provide minimize/maximize or close buttons, so type exit when you are finished using an xterm. To leave the window manager and return to the login screen, type killall i3 from within an xterm.
The i3 Users Guide[2] contains the default key bindings and instructions for customizing i3.


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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - The Detroit Pistons have signed free agent forward Chris Wilcox to a multiyear contract.
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The Celtic sea slug (Onchidella celtica) has been sighted on a rocky outcrop at St. Martins Point, Guernsey. Onchidella celtica is a small oval slug with a fleshy body or mantle that is dark green to black in colour and is covered in tubercles. It is about 12mm in length and 6mm in width. When motionless, the mantle covers the head and the foot. The head is only visible when the slug is mobile.
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