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Talking Marilyn Monroe: Max Allan Collins Takes Readers Inside Of Bye Bye, Baby
For the new RT Top Pick! Bye Bye, Baby, author Max Allan Collins (who is known for writng with his wife under her name, Barbara Allan, for their "Trash 'n' Treasures" mystery series) delves deep into the conspiracy theories that surround the death of Marilyn Monroe. Learn how the author re-creates this famous starlet, with his wife's editorial aid,, for a tale that plunges PI Nate Heller into the center of the action when the icon's dead body is discovered.
I have watched with fascination, interest and bemusement over much of my lifetime as that iconic sex symbol Marilyn Monroe just refuses to bid us goodbye. While many similarly iconic actors and actresses have faded into TCM-salute obscurity, Marilyn continues to amuse and titillate, to inspire and sadden. Who might have guessed that superstars like Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Tyrone Power, and Lana Turner would be left in the dust of time by Norma Jeane Baker?
Early death is part of it, of course — like Valentino, Harlow and James Dean, Marilyn had a mysterious and tragic passing that brought tragedy to an already larger than life figure — in her case, a largely comic one, which brings added poignance.
If Marilyn was a much better actress than she was ever given credit for, her comic gifts — in Billy Wilder's two classics, Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot, if nothing else — put her in a unique class. She was the rare sex symbol who made you laugh without losing her desirability. She was self-mocking without descending into self-parody, kidding her allure without losing it. And she had a vulnerability that perhaps no other film superstar, male or female, dared to display so openly.
I was fourteen when I heard the news over a car radio. I was driving on a learner's permit and it was the first time I'd ever heard tragedy come over the airwaves while behind the wheel. The news seemed unreal to me. Maybe it still does. It's like a sad novel or movie that you keep re-visiting, hoping it will turn out differently.
But my continuing interest in Marilyn probably has a lot to do with my wife. She is (and has been for decades) a lovely blonde with a resemblance to Marilyn. This is not wishful thinking or a reflection upon my admittedly less than stellar eyesight. For many years, strangers would approach Barb and comment on the resemblance. This never went to her head, although it did have an influence on her — she became interested in Marilyn and began to read voluminously about the actress, watching Marilyn's films again and again, and along the way assembling one of the greatest MM collections anywhere.
Barb began writing short stories in the late '80s and before long we started collaborating on stories and, eventually, on novels. Before we began our "Trash 'n' Treasures" cozy mystery series (mostly recently Antiques Knock-off), we did two standalone thrillers. One, Bombshell, was based around the historical meeting of Marilyn and Nikita Khrushchev. This novel took both of us beyond fannish interest in the actress into research and discussion.
True Detective, my first novel about private detective Nathan Heller, appeared in 1983 (it is about to be republished by AmazonEncore as part of an ambitious program to bring the first twelve Heller books back into print). I designed the first Heller to give me the ability to write about the traditional private eye of Hammett, Chandler and Spillane without descending into camp or pastiche. I had the idea —born out of noticing that The Maltese Falcon had been published in 1929, the year of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre — that the private eye now existed in history. That instead of having Phillip Marlowe meet an Al Capone type, Al Capone could meet a Phillip Marlowe type. True Detective explored the supposed attempted assassination of FDR that resulted in the death of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. It was an assassination eerily presaging both the John and Robert Kennedy killings.
I always knew that Nate Heller would eventually deal with the Kennedy assassination, which meant along the way dealing with Marilyn Monroe's death and the role that the Kennedys did (or did not) play in it. The Heller novels have covered the 1930s, 1940s and a bit of the '50s, but this would be the first time I explored the 1960s...an era I lived through. Also, Heller would be older, a man in his mid-fifties.
There are a couple of inherent problems with the Heller novels that I — and readers — have to surmount. First, in order to allow Nate Heller to be involved in many of the most famous unsolved mysteries of the 20th century — from the Huey Long assassination (Blood and Thunder) to Amelia Earhart's disappearance (Flying Blind), from the Lindbergh kidnapping (Stolen Away) to the Roswell Incident (Majic Man) — a reader must have a tolerance for the unlikelihood of one investigator actually being thus involved. In the storytelling game, this is called the willing suspension of disbelief. I try to have fun with it, somewhat in the manner of the Flashman novels, since I am doing a very traditional kind of historical novel — fictional hero is involved with famous real people — gene-spliced with the noir detective story.
The other problem is those famous real people. It's easy to be intimidated by them. I, frankly, have never had that problem. My approach is to treat famous people as if they were my fictional creations. Any writer worth his or her salt will give a good deal of thought to the creation of a fictional character, often creating back stories about these figures of imagination. I do the same thing, but start with research. I learn everything I can about Marilyn Monroe, for example. And then I treat her as though I had made her up.
My Marilyn is very real to me. She is funny and sexy and sad, like the real Marilyn, though I don't pretend my Marilyn is anything more than a fictional creation of mine. It was important to me, though, that this book did not begin with her death. I wanted her to be real to the reader, for the reader to feel a loss for a person, not an icon. So the first half of the book puts my Marilyn very much on stage. I hope the reader will — like Nate Heller — fall in love with her, at least a little.
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Fitness Consequences of Developmental Exposure to Xenoestrogens in the Cliff SwallowEPA Grant Number: U915733
Title: Fitness Consequences of Developmental Exposure to Xenoestrogens in the Cliff Swallow
Investigators: Gibert, Peter L.
Institution: University of California - Davis
EPA Project Officer: Edwards, Jason
Project Period: September 1, 2000 through September 1, 2003
Project Amount: $80,413
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Research Category: Fellowship - Toxicology , Academic Fellowships , Health Effects
The objective of this research project is to extend current laboratory studies on the effects of developmental endocrine disruption to an evaluation of the potential for population-level consequences in free-living songbirds exposed to common estrogenic agricultural chemicals.Approach:
Initial surveys of insect residues will establish environmentally realistic exposure levels of xenoestrogens. Analysis for estrogenic compounds, principally alkylphenol polyethoxylates and their degradation products, will be performed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Nestlings will be orally dosed with estradiol and examined histologically to determine dose response and sensitivities relative to zebra finches. Once appropriate doses and responses have been determined, swallows will be dosed and banded in the nest, then allowed to fledge along with marked controls. Return rates, reproductive success, and eggshell quality will be monitored in subsequent years to determine the fitness consequences of developmental exposure to xenoestrogens.Expected Results:
This study is expected to result in an evaluation of the exposure hazards of EDCs to a free-living population.Supplemental Keywords:
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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
posted at 9:00 am on August 23, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
I'm doing a Marriage Encounter weekend and writing this to post automatically, but I'm a little nervous; is that like leaving Tonsil Vultures in charge of your health care? I'd mail it in to Allahpundit, but the post office sounds like a bad bet these days. The good news is that we have five great picks, although if I used Obama's math it would be 0.005, which makes it hard to poll. It'll be late in the day before we head home today, but I doubt we'll burn rubber leaving, like they did at Daytona Beach when the moonshiners started NASCAR during prohibition, according to Obama's history. I'll say Shalom and just leave it at that.
Previous "winners":
- We're going to listen to other people's ideas, except that people who disagree should shut up
- Snitch Central for ObamaCare dissenters
- Rushing legislation bad in 2004, essential in 2009
- Obama opines on Gates arrest without "having all the facts"
- Obama salutes the Ghana flag
- Obama jokes about Alaska sale with Russians
- Obama uses union and DNC plants at health-care town hall
- Obama plants a question on Iran with HuffPo
- Change in Iran coming because "Obviously, after the speech I made in Cairo…"
- Flashing his soles to the camera while talking to Netanyahu
- "If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
- "We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits do not matter and waste is not our problem."
- Siccing Tim Geithner and Charlie Rangel on tax cheats
- Phony Churchill quote on torture throws Grandpa under the bus
- Torture probe flip-flop
- Obama covers up IHS while quoting Jesus
- Austrian is a language?
- Obama bows to the Saudi king
- 1908 Model T got better gas mileage than today's SUVs
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..well, being a tad hazy because of an all-night software debugging session, I opted for the moonshiners remark.
Dunno, I guess I would not have voted for Saddam Hussein were I an Iraqi either..
..but only once.
The "moonshiners racing on Daytona Beach during prohibition" comment isn't the funniest, but it does offer a glimpse of something that Obama's handlers and the MSM try very hard to hide from Americans: Obama's grasp of American history and culture is shallow and superficial.
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ABSTRACT: The aim of this work is to analize the spatial frequency of lightning over Italy and to interpret the observed features in relationship with topography and with the climatic characteristics of the area. The data used to perform this analysis are : i) cloud to ground measurem ents (CG) from 1995 to 2000 given by CESI/SIRF (Sistem a Italiano Rilevamento Fulmini); ii) total flash measurements from 1995 to 2000 obtained trough the OTD system (Optical Transient Detector) given by NASA; iii) topography measurements obtained trough the ETOPO -2 database downloaded from NOAA. Both the yearly number of positive and negative CG lightning decrease with the increasing of topographic height. The number of positive and negative CG lightning decreases with the same derivative even if it seems that only below 1000 m it is possible to reach ratios between positive over negative CG lightning higher than 1. These values are observed only in the North African area present in the ranges of our analysis , that is from longitude 5 to 11 °E and from latitude 36 to 37 °N. Future studies will confirm if this is a real effect or an observational bias. The behavior of total lightning activity (IC and CG) in relationship with CG lightning activity and with topography is studied by means of OTD data. Being OTD data retrieved trough satellites, the analysis is done making us e of the flash rate per squared kilometer and per year instead of the number of lightning. Flash rate is computed using data on a re solution of 0.5°x0.5° and keping into account the changes in the surface due to the changes in latitude and longitude. This work confirms the observation (made even by other authors) that CG lightning frequency decreases as topographic height increases. A similar trend is found in total lightning flash rate, which is essentially due to the contribution of IC lightning. These observations are explained assuming that thunderstorm activity decreases with the increasing of topographic height, mainly because of the climatic decrease of temperature and moisture with altitude. The low resolution of the data used in this study can not exclude the existence of other effects acting on a smaller scale. One of these effects is the observed discrepancy between the maxima in the total yearly flash rate and cloud to ground flash rate. At the end, the observed flash rates are used to supply an estimate of the NOX lightning production in the study area.
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ABSTRACT: In this chapter we demonstrate how lightning can be measured from space, and how thunderstorm clouds can be identified and characterized by using combinations of satellite data. This is done over the Southern Mediterranean area using concurrent measurements taken by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), the Precipitation Radar (PR), and the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) space observatory. Modeling and observational studies indicate that cloud electrification and microphysics are very closely related. Using lightning data obtained from satellites, we can extract quantitative relationships between microphysical characteristics and lightning flash rates. This is of great interest for future work: for nowcasting of thunderstorms, and for introducing lightning observations into mesoscale forecast models.
Article: On the use of lightning data and cloud electrification model simulations to constrain precipitation retrieval from passive-microwave satellite measurements[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In a related presentation in this Session (Casella et al.), we describe the main design features of the Cloud Dynamics and Radiation Database (CDRD) approach to precipitation retrieval from passive-microwave (MW) satellite measurements, and then illustrate the microphysical-radiative characteristics of a new CDRD database for the European area. In this presentation, we will discuss how lightning measurements from ground-based networks and cloud microphysics/electrification information from the one-dimensional Explicit Microphysics Thunderstorm Model (EMTM) can be used within the CDRD approach to constrain the Bayesian precipitation retrieval. Then, we will present the results of the application of this retrieval approach to a series of heavy-precipitation case studies over the Italian peninsula, that have been considered within the European FLASH project.
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ABSTRACT: The global convective diagnostic (GCD) is a bispectral (infrared and water vapor), day-night scheme for operationally mapping deep convection by means of geostationary satellite images. This article describes a test of GCD performance over tropical and subtropical waters near North America. The test consists of six cases, each involving a convective cloud complex. A seventh case treats convection over land. For each case, a map of deep convection was constructed from image pairs from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-12 (GOES-12). Case by case and for all maritime cases together, the GCD map was compared with a convective parameter derived from the radar on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a polar-orbiting satellite. In general, each GCD map showed a bloblike feature. In each case, the radar convective pixels typically fell within the GCD blob. However, (except for the land case) the GCD predicted far too many convective pixels. In the maritime cases overprediction was reduced (without correspondingly impairing other measures of performance) by lowering the nominal GCD threshold. With this adjustment in place, for the six maritime cases taken individually, the GCD tended to yield more consistent results than did a monospectral (infrared) convective scheme. With the cases combined, at the lower threshold the GCD performed somewhat better than one of the more stable versions of the infrared scheme. Comparison with lightning events (also observed by TRMM) suggests the possibility of future improvement to the GCD through the incorporation of geostationary satellite observations of lightning.
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ABSTRACT: The joint use of concurrent data from the Precipitation Radar (PR) and Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) instruments, on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, provides a unique means to investigate storm characteristics and to make assessments about the relationship between convection and electrification. We discuss some results derived from the observation of the vertical structure of precipitating clouds in the southern Mediterranean during a 5-month period. In this study, we find there is a strong, differentiable relationship between convective and stratiform systems that produce lightning.
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ABSTRACT: The aim of the study is the individuation of convective cells over the Italian peninsula with the conjunction use of geostationary satellite data (METEOSAT, MSG satellite) in the IR and WV channels and lightning data. We will use GCD (Global Convective Diagnostic) algorithm developed at Aviation Weather Centre (AWC) of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). This algorithm is based on the idea that a deep convective cloud will not have any significant moisture above it. This technique works quite well at identifying active deep convection and can be applied to all the world's geostationary satellites. However it does not always agree with lightning sensors. Low topped convection with lightning will be missed. We will extend the capabilities of GCD using lightning data. The new product will be validate over different cases in the central Italy using the C-band polarimetric radar of ISAC-CNR (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate-of the Italian National Research Council) Rome.
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ABSTRACT: Mesoscale cloud resolving models (CRM's) are often utilized to generate consistent descriptions of the microphysical structure of precipitating clouds, which are then used by physically-based algorithms for retrieving precipitation from satellite-borne microwave radiometers. However, in principle, the simulated upwelling brightness temperatures (TB's) and derived precipitation retrievals generated by means of different CRM's with different microphysical assumptions, may be significantly different even when the models simulate well the storm dynamical and rainfall characteristics. In this paper, we investigate this issue for two well-known models having different treatment of the bulk microphysics, i.e. the UW-NMS and the MM5. To this end, the models are used to simulate the same 24-26 November 2002 flood-producing storm over northern Italy. The model outputs that best reproduce the structure of the storm, as it was observed by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) onboard the EOS-Aqua satellite, have been used in order to compute the upwelling TB's. Then, these TB's have been utilized for retrieving the precipitation fields from the AMSR observations. Finally, these results are compared in order to provide an indication of the CRM-effect on precipitation retrieval.
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ABSTRACT: The key objective of the project "Use of the MSG SEVIRI channels in a combined SSM/I, TRMM and geostationary IR method for rapid updates of rainfall" is the development of algorithms for rapid-update of satellite rainfall estimations at the geostationary (GEO) scale. The new channels available with the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) radiometer in the visible (VIS), near infrared (NIR) and infrared (IR) portions of the spectrum provide new insights into the microphysical and dynamic structure of precipitating clouds thus allowing for a more precise identification of precipitation intensities. Passive microwave (PMW) radiometers on board low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites are used to determine information on the vertical cloud structure. Key features of the new method(s) are: 1.Microphysical characterization of precipitating clouds with VIS/IR sensors; 2.Creation of cloud microphysical and radiative databases from cloud model outputs and aircraft penetrations; 3.Tuning of PMW algorithms for different cloud systems (maritime, continental, convective, stratiform,...); 4.Combination of data from different algorithms and application to a rapid update cycle at the GEO scale. The project provided the background for EURAINSAT "European Satellite Rainfall Estimation and Monitoring at the Geostationary Scale", a research project co-funded by the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Programme of the European Commission within the topic "Development of generic Earth observation technologies". The project web site is accessible at http://www.isac.cnr.it/~eurainsat/. Moreover, it has represented the European framework for the launch of the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG). A brief account of the major research and organizational results will be given in the following.
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ABSTRACT: We present a key study on the Po Valley. This is one of the areas of high occurrence of hail damage together with southern France, Switzerland, southern Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Caucasus region. Due to its particular geographical situation, surrounded on three sides by high mountains, the Po Valley is an area with high humidity and rather light winds at lower atmospheric levels, which provides favorable conditions for the formation of line storms and Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS). According to the static stability criteria, the lower troposphere in the Po Valley is, on average, markedly unstable during summertime afternoon and evening hours. However, dynamical forcing, induced by synoptic or mesoscale disturbances, plays an even more important role than purely thermodynamic causes in the triggering and maintenance of thunderstorm activity in northern Italy. The night-time hailstorm of Sunday, 4 August 2002, is a good example of a synoptic disturbance combined with the polar jet stream triggering the formation of deep convective storms in northern Italy. We used the 1.5 D Thunderstorm Model Tenebrous, developed at University of Washington, to simulate the convective part of the storm and to infer microphysical cloud properties, together with the mesoscale model MM5 to represent the development of the system. Microphysics of strongly convective clouds are, for several reasons, the most difficult to reproduce in simulations and to observe directly. In such a context, lightning flash rate (from ground based lightning sensors) and cloud reflectivity (from C Band ground radar) represent means to probe the modeling results.
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ABSTRACT: Lightning flash rate can identify areas of convective rainfall when the storms are dominated by ice-phase precipitation. Modeling and observational studies indicate that cloud electrification and microphysics are very closely related and it is of great interest to understand the relationship between lightning and cloud microphysical quantities. Analyzing data from the Lightning Image Sensor (LIS) and the Precipitation Radar (PR), we show a quantitative relationship between microphysical characteristics of thunderclouds and lightning flash rate. We have performed a complete analysis of all data available over the Mediterranean during the TRMM mission and show a range of reflective profiles as a function of lightning activity for both convective and stratiform regimes as well as seasonal variations. Due to the increasing global coverage of lightning detection networks, this kind of study can used to extend the knowledge about thunderstorms and discriminate between different regimes in regions where radar measurements are readilly available.
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ABSTRACT: The use of numerical models has greatly increased our understanding of the electrical and microphysical process within electrified clouds. We use the University of Washington, 1.5-dimensional thunderstorm model to examine the effects of including a runaway electron based lightning initiation mechanism. We find that this mechanism can significantly alter the electrification history of modeled storms and produce vertical electric field profiles that are very similar to those of observed storms. To cite this article: R. Solomon et al., C. R. Physique 3 (2002) 1325–1333.
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ABSTRACT: A major flood event occurred in northern Africa (Algeria) at the beginning of Novem- ber 2001. After several months of drought, torrential rain, over 100 mm of rain fell in 6 hour, and strong winds of up to 200 km/h caused huge mudslides and floods on Sat- urday 10 November in the capital Algiers and other villages, particularly in the coastal zones, causing more than 700 deaths according to official reports. The aim of the pa- per is to show the evolution of this event as seen from a satellite point of view, and to compare it with the simulation of the event performed with the non-hydrostatical UW model developed at the University of Wisconsin (Tripoli, 1992). In such perspective we will discuss results obtained combining measurements acquired by different sen- sors to better exploit the potential of each technique. The principal satellite observing the event was the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) carry on board the sensors: PR (Precipitation Radar), TMI (TRMM Microwave Imager) and LIS (Light- ning Image Sensor). Also, the measurements acquired by the SSM/I (Special Sensor Microwave Imager) on board the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites are available. In this way the retrieved precipitation from radar and mi- crowave sensors can be related to the lightning occurrences and the microphysical cloud content.
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ABSTRACT: Satellite-borne microwave radiometers — such as the Special Sensor Microwave/ Imagers (SSM/I's) flown aboard polar satellites of the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), and the TRAM Microwave Imager (TMI) on board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) space observatory — provide precipitation measurements over regions that are not covered by ground based radars and/or gauge networks. At present, however, intetpretation of such measurements in terms of surface rainfall is only indirect for it requires a priori information on the relationships between upwelling microwave brightness temperatures and the cloud microphysical structure. This paper shows how water content profiles, estimated by ground or satellite radars within their field of view, can be used to improve the cloud-radiation databases utilized by physically-based passive microwave precipitation retrieval techniques making use of cloud model simulations to interpret the radiometric measurements. Applications of this technique to heavy-precipitation events observed during the Mesoscale Alpine Programme will be presented and discussed.
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I invite you to pray along with me this week on this special episode of The Voices My Head Podcast as I lead us through a Morning Daily Prayer Rite of the Orthodox Church. Click the picture below to follow along with the prayer.
Tag Prayer
Praying, Cursing, And Heading For Lent
Sometimes I really wish people wouldn't read their Bibles. That sounds blasphemous I know, but it's true. The Bible contains all that is essential for life and salvation, it tells us repeatedly that God is love, it gives us the narrative of our faith story, and yet there is no other book I can think of that causes more damage than the Bible. For instance, what are we to do with passages like these from the book of Psalms?
15 Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them. (Psalm 55:15)
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; (Psalm 58:6)
28 May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous. (Psalm 69:28)
9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. (Psalm 109:9)
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. (Psalm 137:9)
The Psalms have a unique place in the Bible in that they are prayers and songs prayed to God. Where other parts of the Bible are filled with messages from God to us, the Psalms are our prayers and songs of praise to Him. The Psalms were not only the hymnbook of ancient Israel, they were the main prayer book and songbook of Jesus and his disciples, the early church, and most of Christendom until fairly recently in church history. The Psalms have been teaching believers how to pray and praise God for literally thousands of years.
About a year ago I released a book called, Out of the Depths: A Songwriter's Journey Through the Psalms. In it I told readers that I just wasn't sure what to do with certain scriptures like the imprecatory (cursing) Psalms, quoted above. I've gone as far as wondering if there are some parts of the Bible that Jesus would forbid us to pray. We would never see Jesus joyfully dashing infants on rocks and I don't believe for a second that he would ever condone such unspeakable acts. Yet, here in the prayer book that we know Jesus used, we have unconscionable prayers like these.
How can the Christ who told his followers to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them have anything to do with cursing prayers like the imprecatory Psalms? Does Jesus really want us to pray for the damnation of others, to pray that innocent women and children be widowed and orphaned, wandering desperately in the street with no help to be found? How does God answer our prayers of cursing upon others? I believe He answers them with the cross.
All the hateful things that we prayed about our enemies, Jesus took upon himself on the cross. When mankind prayed for God to humiliate, starve, and destroy the enemy, God answered those prayers by coming to earth as Jesus to be humiliated, starved, and destroyed in their place. When our weapons were aimed at our enemies, Jesus turned our weapons and aimed them at himself. Jesus died from the shots we fired. Jesus was killed in answer to our prayers against others. Jesus didn't only die for our sins, Jesus died for the sins of the enemy.
Jesus on the cross is God's response to the cursing prayers we pray. All the wrath that mankind could muster was aimed at Jesus on the cross. Jesus did not bear the wrath of God on Calvary, Jesus was God on the cross bearing the wrath of man. Jesus died at the hands of devout, Bible believing, religious people. When Jesus taught us to love our enemies, he also showed us how to do it. To love an enemy, you might have to step in front of a bullet for them. When we rage against others, Jesus steps in to bear that rage because no one else has shoulders big enough to bear it.
All that being said, the imprecatory Psalms ,and many unsavory passages like them, are still in our Bible and they aren't going anywhere. What should we do with these passages as followers of Jesus?
When traumatic events happen in our lives, we often suffer from what is diagnosed at Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Veteran's Affairs requires soldiers who are victims of PTSD to write a stressor statement describing the stressful experience they had that led them to developing the disorder. This statement consists of three parts:
- Life before military service
- Life during military service (including traumatic event(s)
- Life after traumatic event(s)
Often, after traumatic life events, victims are filled with rage. They have trouble being around people and their temper gets the best of them. Victims often have trouble sustaining employment due to their condition, many times costing them their marriages, their homes and even their sanity. It is important that PTSD victims find a healthy outlet for their afflictions and that often comes in the form of therapeutic letter writing, chronicling their anger, grief, and need.
I believe that the imprecatory Psalms serve a similar function for us in our liturgy. Praying curses down on our enemies may not seem like a holy endeavor until we realize that we are praying them in all honesty to a God big enough to bear them upon Himself. When we pray for our enemies to be cursed it is an honest expression of what we feel, but God's answer to us in Jesus will always be, "no".
When God answers prayers of cursing, He does so by bearing the curse upon Himself.
Even so, we should still find the freedom to be completely honest with God in our prayers. Our God prefers an honest curse to a dishonest blessing. May God help us to see that Jesus is to answer to our prayers, even our prayers of cursing. He not only tells us how to love our enemies, He shows us. When we pray for our enemies to suffer and die, Jesus suffers and dies for them.
As we enter into this Lenten season, may God grant us courage to walk the road to the cross with Him, helping us learn what it means to truly be Christian. We will encounter scripture that makes us uneasy along the way so may Jesus be the living Word for us, showing us where we've gotten it wrong. When the crowd cries crucify, may God help us have the honesty to hear our own voices in the crowd.
A Prayer for Lent O gracious Master, infuse in our hearts the spotless light of Your Divine Wisdom and open the eyes of our mind that we may understand the teachings of Your Gospel. Instill in us also the fear of Your blessed commandments, so that having curbed all carnal desires, we may lead a spiritual life, both thinking and doing everything to please You. For You, O Christ, our God, are the enlightenment of our souls and bodies; and to You we render glory, together with Your eternal Father, and with Your all holy, life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and forever.
How Do I Pray? The Daily Examen and The Way of Ignatian Prayer
How Do I Pray?
More than 400 years ago Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits (literally meaning the society of Jesus), developed a way of praying for the purpose of helping people to find God in all things. This way of praying intentionally looks for what God is doing right now. As Christians we believe that the risen Christ is alive and active, working in His creation in every moment, drawing everything near to Himself as He Himself draws near. A wonderful way to pray is by looking for God's presence in our lives, both individually and communally. Saint Ignatius Loyola encouraged prayer-filled mindfulness by prayerfully developing a technique called the Daily Examen. The Examen is a prayerful reflection on the day's events for the purpose of detecting God's presence and discerning His direction for our lives. The following is my best attempt to adapt St. Ignatius's prayer for my own use. This is one way I am learning to pray as I follow Ignatius' 5 steps and since none of us pray in a vacuum, I thought others might find it helpful as well. These certainly aren't ideas that are original to me, they are simply my attempt to make this type of praying my own. I always pray better with a guide.
1. Become aware of God's presence.
Look back on the events of the day so far. Be aware that you are in the presence of the Father, revealed to us in Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Don't ask anything yet, just simply be aware of the Presence of God, who is with you in this very moment.
2. Review the day with gratitude.
As you review your day, be mindful both of the things that have brought you joy as well as things that have been obstacles. Take note of the delights as well as the struggles of the day. Ponder the work that you accomplished and the people with whom you interacted. What did you recieve from these people and things? What did you give to them? Pay atttention to both the small things and the large things for God is in the details. What did you eat? How did you feel? Were you cold or hot? Jesus presence is both the center of our joy as well as our stumbling block at times. Cultivate gratitude for both, that God would care enough to be present in every moment, revealing Himself in the joy and struggle, knowing that His nearness is always for our good.
3. Pay attention to your emotions.
Strive to detect the presence of the Spirit of God in the movements of our emotions. Reflect on the feelings you experienced during the day. In what did you find affirmation? What did you find challenging? What caused you Boredom? Exhilaration? Resentment? Compassion? Anger? Confidence? Have I been kind to others? Have I been open to growth? What is God saying through these feelings?
God might show you some ways that you have fallen short. Make note of these sins and faults but also look deeper to what these things might mean. Does your frustration possibly mean that you need to consider new directions in some area of your life and work? Are there people who come to mind that you may need to reach out to in some way? Are there places and habits that you need to avoid? Do your emotions indicate that a change of course is needed? God's paths will lead to wholeness so it's helpful to examine if you are recieving wholeness or brokenness from your present path?
4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it.
Ask the God to direct you to something during the day that is of particular importance to Him. It might involve positive and/or negative feelings. It may be a significant encounter with another person or people. It might be a vivid moment of peace or fulfillment. It might be something that seems insignificant at first. Look at it. Pray about it. Allow prayer to arise spontaneously from your heart. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in prayers of intercession, praise, repentance, or gratitude.
5. Look toward tomorrow.
Ask God for light to face the challenges of tomorrow. Pay attention to the feelings that surface as you survey what's lies ahead. What are you experiencing about the future? Doubt? Cheer? Worry? Joyful anticipation? Allow these feelings be transformed into prayer. Seek God's guidance. Ask him for help and understanding. Ask God to show you how to be the Christlike person that he wants you to be.
Talk to Jesus like a friend. End the Daily Examen in a conversation with Jesus. Ask Him to forgive for your sins. Ask for His protection and help. Ask for His wisdom in the questions you have and the problems you are facing. Pray in the spirit of gratitude but also in complete honesty. There is nothing you can say to Him that will make Him stop loving You. Be real with God even when it isn't pretty. God doesn't know the person you pretend to be because that person doesn't exist. Be who you are, who God made you to be. Every life, including yours, is a gift. If you examine your life carefully and prayerfully, you will see that it is filled with gifts from God.
End the Daily Examen with the prayer Jesus taught his disciples
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Holy is Your Name;
Your Kingdom come,Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Your's is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen.
Hearing > Healing
I would say that at least 90% of the prayer requests I hear from church people have to do with sickness and health. The really interesting thing about that is Jesus very rarely healed people. When Jesus did heal people it was a sign of something else, an illustration to a point that he was trying to make. Healings were living parables pointing to God, not the ancient equivalent of the latest wonder drug.
No, Jesus never promised us health. In fact he promised us just the opposite of health. What Jesus offered to his disciples was a cross, a Roman instrument of torture and death. If Jesus had our health as his primary goal then I'm sure he would've done a lot more healing, but as it has always been, there's 100% chance of death for each one of us.
The Gospels never call the miracles of Jesus miracles, they call them signs. To what signs do you think Jesus was pointing us? He certainly wasn't pointing us to the miracles themselves, as Jesus wanted disciples, not spectators at a magic show. With that being said, if our health was not Jesus main priority, then why does that seem to be all we ever pray about? What do you think Jesus would have us pray about? What are the signs to which his miracles are pointing? The answer is not far from you so think about it, better yet, pray about it.
Rick Lee James
About Rick:
Rick Lee James is a professional singer and songwriter, a speaker, author worship leader and Podcast host who has worked with the likes of Jason Gray, Andrew Peterson, Sara Groves, Michael Card, Brian Zahnd, Tripp York, Brett Mccracken, Ian Morgan Cron, Paul Baloche and many more. In 2013 Rick released his first Live album of original songs called, Basement Psalms Live. In 2014 Rick published critically applauded a companion book to Basement Psalms Live called, Out of the Depths: A Songwriter's Journey Through The Psalms. Rick has also been a contributing writer for Worship Leader Magazine, an adjunct teacher at Trevecca Nazarene University and has had a number of songs published by Lifeway Worship, including, I Lift Up My Eyes and Advent Hymn. For more information about Rick's ministry visit his web site at http://www.RickLeeJames.com
Lord, Teach Us To Pray…or…Yes, There Is A Wrong Way To Pray
Lord, Teach Us To Pray
By Rick Lee James
One of the great myths of our time is that there is no wrong way to pray. The myth is that we can just start talking about any random thing to God and that counts as prayer. Jesus taught His followers to have the faith of a child. We teach children to pray by helping them to memorize prayers. We say simple prayers like, "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep." As a child my parents began teaching my sister and I the Lord's Prayer every night before bed. In time our prayers became a part of us. We came to pray simple childlike prayers as though they were a breath. "Thank you Jesus for this food, help us to be kind and good. Amen" I would contend that this is a good first step in how we learn to pray.
Authentic prayer will properly form us as people and as children of God. The way a person prays will tell us much about thier faith, who they believe God is, and who they believe they are.
Prayer is not a self-help activity. I would contend that even in our individual, private prayer times, we never truly pray alone. Self-help is not an answer to the things human beings face because the fact is that we cannot help ourselves. We become properly formed with the help of others, and an Other specifically, who shape us, forms us, and re-form us. Sometimes this re-formation is painful but it always merciful and full of grace.
Prayer books are wonderful ways to learn how to pray and they help us to be properly formed by putting right words into our mouths. They are aids in helping us listen to the Holy Spirit rather than the Spirit of the age. The Book of Psalms is the most ancient prayer book of the people of God possess, unique in that it shows how we are to respond to God, not just how He comes to us. There are many other prayers in scripture and there are many extra-cannonical prayer books as well. The book of Common Prayer, a favorite of John Wesley, has been used by the church for centuries to teach disciples how to pray. When Jesus' disciples asked how to pray, they expected to be taught a prayer, and in fact they were given a prayer to pray. Jesus never said, just start talking and God will do the rest. No, Jesus taught us how to pray by teaching us prayers.
My encouragement to us today it to be properly formed in prayer. Study prayers in the Bible and in other Orthodox prayer books. Memorize them, recite them, read them aloud to each other until they become your prayers. Today I leave you with two of my favorite prayers from the book of Common prayer, one of John Wesley's beloved prayer books. May The Lord bless us as we are properly formed together in prayer. "Lord, teach us to pray."
From The Book of Common Prayer:
Prayer For the Unity of the Church
O God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Savior,
the Prince of Peace: Give us grace seriously to lay to heart the
great dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions; take away
all hatred and prejudice, and whatever else may hinder us
from godly union and concord; that, as there is but one Body
and one Spirit, one hope of our calling, one Lord, one Faith,
one Baptism, one God and Father of us all, so we may be all
of one heart and of one soul, united in one holy bond of truth
and peace, of faith and charity, and may with one mind and
one mouth glorify thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer For Church Musicians and Artists
O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in
heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through
art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on
earth; and grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty,
and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for
evermore; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Episode # 76: Chaplain Rich Young – Prayer
Episode #76: Chaplain Rich Young
My guest today is Chaplain Rich Young. Rich Young, originally from Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970 immediately after high school. He became a Christian while in the Marines and felt God leading him into the ministry. College and seminary followed his discharge as a Sergeant in 1974. Rich entered the Army as a Chaplain in 1981, retiring as a Colonel in 2006. Rich serves as the Executive Director of the International Association of Evangelical Chaplains. He and Sandy have been married thirty-nine years, are Ambassadors for the Alliance Defending Freedom, have two children and two grandchildren, and live in Helotes, Texas. On this week's episode Rich Young talks to us about the importance of prayer.
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Podcast #48_Rick Lee James on Prayer_Part 3 of 4
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On November 9th, 10th, and 11th Rick Lee James spoke a series of four messages on prayer at a retreat in Northwestern Ohio. The Voices In My Head Podcast will be featuring these talks in four parts, just as they were presented. Hopefully we will begin to listen together for the voice in our head that is God. Comments and questions are welcomed by Rick at email@example.com.
Voices In My Head is a Podcast dedicated to covering things like comics, movies, books, music and various other things that get stuck in the head of pop culture, but with a Theological lens. Listen to it on Podbean.com, Stitcher, The Rick Lee James Mobile App, iTunes, Reverbnation.com, and Facebook. Rick Lee James Official Web Site is www.RickLeeJames.com. To leave a voice message comment for Voices In My Head call (937) 505-0162. Get Rick's music on iTunes and at CDBaby.com. Email can be sent to email@example.com. You can also watch Rick Lee James music videos on YouTube.
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text: "intuitiveness" of EE/ME versus SE I am trying to figure out whether I possess the mental prowess to become an engineer of any sort. This spring I attempted to take a Java programming class at my community college and had to drop after the first week because I was so lost. I was previously an English student but I am bored with writing and I would love to work for a company like SpaceX one day, in what capacity i have no idea. I feel like, looking at a diagram of a circuit I can understand the signal flow on some intuitive level. Or an engine, same thing. It is somewhat clear where things start and where they go from there, at least in the beginning. But the relativistic nature of the syntax of different programming languages makes me feel completely stupid from the very start. It just feels completely impenetrable, and I worry that once I get deeper into either EE or ME I will begin to run into things that are just as unintuitive to me as programming is and then I will fail. I have never taken any engineering or physics classes, but programming already feels so just, wrong on some deep visceral level and I worry it is a sign of trouble to come. This is apparently an example of good, clean code: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/nov06/pollice/listing2.gif "leadersGames" seems to move around a whole hell of a lot depending on the line it's on. Also " wins the set " must have spaces between the parentheses and the words for some reason. God forbid you type "wins the set" and you'll get a syntax error and the whole thing will crash. I know there are very good reasons for this in the world of programming. I accept that I am woefully ignorant of the nuances of the language, honestly. But I just can't help it. This just looks like a mess to me. Why is nothing lined up? What's with the arbitrary number of spaces present/not present between characters? It offends me, almost. Okay so here's a circuit diagram: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SPwX1vYEKqg/TOw6xGknOFI/AAAAAAAACFA/HCHFbvSfuV0/s1600/700synt.jpg This looks absolutely beautiful to me. Complex, yes. May take me a minute to wrap my head around it, but there is a clear logic to it's layout, at least to my layman eyes. What is it about SE? Is it just me? Are my struggles with programming a sign of a deeper problem with my intellect? I just worry at some point, after community college as a junior or senior no matter what field of engineering I pursue eventually I'm going to hit a wall, because something will come along like programming that is just so alien and counterintuitive to the way my brain works I'm just going to pull my hair out and eat my hat.


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Help Write A Broadway Show!
The hit Broadway musical Avenue Q is having a contest to replace the song lyric which says that everything in life--including George W. Bush--is only for now. I think they should keep it; it's more relevant than ever! But they insist on finding a replacement lyric, and to get press, they've enlisted the public to give suggestions. (Check out www.avenueq.com for details.)
Says the release: "The 'Only for Now' contest invites participants to enter their suggestion for a new person (not necessarily a political figure), place, thing, event, fad, etc. to be considered as a substitute for the soon-to-be-outdated reference to George Bush in the musical's finale. The winning entry will be announced Thursday, January 15th and will be performed in AVENUE Q on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States."
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Vitamin K is an essential vitamin required for protein modification and blood clotting. Recent studies suggest that vitamin K may play a role in treating osteoporosis and Alzheimer's, and that consuming increased levels of vitamin K can help protect against cancer and heart disease. Unless you are taking medication to prevent blood clots, like Warfarin or Coumadin, there is no known risk of vitamin K toxicity, and no reason not to eat a lot of it. If you are on Warfarin (Coumadin), please check the article on low vitamin K foods for a Warfarin diet. Below is a list of foods high in vitamin K1. For more, see the extended list of vitamin K1 rich foods, and Vitamin K2 (Menaquinone-4) rich foods. The current daily value for Vitamin K is 80 micrograms (μg). Dihydrophylloquinone is an unhealthy form of Vitamin K1 found in trans-fats. Check the list of vitamin K1 (Dihydrophylloquinone) foods to avoid.
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Tires, Tricycles & 2,180 Pounds of Trashed Pulled from Neabsco Creek
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — There were a few unwanted treasures found in Neabsco Creek last weekend.
About 50 volunteers pulled 76 bags of bottles, cans, 19 tires, two tricycles, a bowling ball, and a whopping 2,180 pounds of trash from the Woodbridge tributary that leads to the Potomac River. The clean-up effort was part of the Woodbridge Potomac Communities Civic Association's annual Neabsco Creek Cleanup.
Volunteers descended upon Neabsco Creek Court in the Port Potomac neighborhood, which was used for as the center of their clean up effort.
"I started years ago by supplying my own time and bags to clean the woods where Port Potomac housing development is now," said civic association Board member Lynda Silverstrand
She later brought in the helping hands of the civic association.
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Volunteers will once again be on clean-up duty at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 26 for the Route 1 Litter Pickup. They will meet at Virginia Railway Express' Woodbridge station and begin to pick up trash along U.S. 1.
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57 FLRA No. 187
June 21, 2002
Before the Authority: Dale Cabaniss, Chairman, and
Carol Waller Pope and Tony Armendariz, Members
I. Statement of the Case
This matter is before the Authority on an exception to an award of Arbitrator Thomas L. Watkins filed by the Union under § 7122(a) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (the Statute) and part 2425 of the Authority's Regulations. The Agency filed an opposition to the Union's exception.
The Arbitrator denied a grievance alleging that the Agency failed to implement an agreement settling the grievant's equal employment opportunity (EEO) complaint. Specifically, the Arbitrator found that the grievant could not file a grievance over the Agency's alleged failure to implement that settlement agreement because she had agreed, in the settlement agreement, to pursue relief through the statutory EEO procedures. For the reasons that follow, we deny the Union's exception.
II. Background and Arbitrator's Award
Following her non-selection for a vacant position, the grievant, believing that she had been discriminated against because of her age, filed an informal complaint with an EEO counselor. She and the Agency subsequently entered into a settlement agreement resolving her complaint. As part of the settlement agreement, the grievant agreed not to pursue the issue in her complaint "under any other avenue of redress." Exceptions, Tab 9. The settlement agreement also provides:
In the event that the complainant perceives that management has failed to comply with the terms of this agreement or that this agreement is being violated in any way, complainant will notify, in writing, the Commander's Designee . . . within 30 days of the violation.
Id. Furthermore, the settlement agreement permitted the grievant to request the reinstatement of her complaint in writing if the Agency failed to carry out the terms of the settlement agreement.
On January 25, 2001, the grievant wrote the Agency's Chief EEO Counselor, stating her belief that the Agency had violated the settlement agreement. She also requested that, "we return to status quo and I am permitted to start the EEO complaint process over in order to resolve my EEO complaint." Award at 2. The Arbitrator then found that the Union filed a grievance protesting the absence of a resolution in the case and the refusal of management to hold a step one grievance meeting on February 5, 2001. Award at 3. The Agency subsequently denied the grievance, informing the grievant that because she chose to raise the matter under a statutory procedure by contacting the Agency's Chief EEO Counselor on January 25, she could not also file a grievance over the matter.
In response to the grievant's January 25 letter, the Agency's Chief EEO Counselor informed the grievant that the Agency had complied with the terms of the settlement agreement and informed her of her right to appeal the matter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). She then filed an appeal with the EEOC over the alleged breach of the settlement agreement on April 13, 2001.
After the parties could not resolve the contractual grievance in this matter, they submitted it to arbitration. The parties agreed that an employee must make a choice between the negotiated grievance procedure and the statutory processes. The Union also argued that it had the right to pursue the breach of the EEO settlement agreement in either the EEO process or the negotiated grievance procedure. In determining in which forum the employee had elected to pursue her complaint, the Arbitrator first found that the settlement agreement had ended the pre-complaint phase of the statutory EEO complaint process. He then ruled that the grievance was not arbitrable because: (1) the grievant was past the pre-complaint counseling process; (2) the grievant had agreed to pursue relief through the EEO process if she believed that the settlement agreement was violated; (3) the grievant had written to the Agency's Chief EEO Counselor on January 25 to express her belief that the settlement agreement had been violated; (4) her appeal was moving through the statutory EEO process. Award at 6. [n1] Based on this ruling, he dismissed the grievance. [ v57 p883 ]
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A. Union's Exception
The Union asserts that the award is contrary to 5 U.S.C. § 7121(d). [n2] The Union argues that the grievant filed a grievance protesting the alleged breach of the settlement agreement on January 16, 2001, prior to her initiation of the statutory appeals procedure on April 13, 2001, the date she filed an appeal with the EEOC. Because the grievance was filed before the initiation of the statutory appeals procedure, the Union contends that the grievant's proper avenue of redress for the alleged breach of the settlement agreement, under 5 U.S.C. § 7121(d), is the negotiated grievance procedure.
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The Agency maintains that the award is not contrary to law. It argues that a finding that the award is contrary to law would be inconsistent with the intent of the law and the parties' agreement to limit the options available in cases of this nature.
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The Union alleges that the award is contrary to 5 U.S.C. § 7121(d). The Authority reviews questions of law raised by an union's exceptions to an arbitrator's award de novo. See NTEU, Chapter 24, 50 FLRA 330, 332 (1995), (citing United States Customs Serv. v. FLRA, 43 F.3d 682, 686-87 (D.C. Cir. 1994)). In appl


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About Nadeem
The first Group 1 winning son of Champion sire Redoute's Choice to stand in New Zealand, Nadeem was a A$700,000 Sydney Easter Sale purchase who rewarded his owners Shadwell Stud with a Group 3 win in the Maribyrnong Plate at only his second start in November of his two-year-old year. He then put up a stunning performance to beat Miss Finland and Wonderful World in Victoria's juvenile showpiece, the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes.
Nadeem's already has an impressive 12 individual stakes winners. A multiple stakeswinner in Hong Kong, Sterling City defeated a high class field of international sprinters to land the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at the Dubai World Cup meeting in 2014.Sterling City's prizemoney currently total's over $10,500,000. Other international stakeswinners by Nadeem include the South African Group 2 winners Tajmeel, and Mujaarib, owned by Sheik Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, winner of the Gr.2 Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile. Happy Galaxy from the Hawkes Stable won the 1200m Gr.2 ATC Expressway Stakes, while the wonderfully consistent black-type mare Sharnee Rose won the Group 3 Golden Pendant & Angst Stakes having placed third in the Group 1 One Thousand Guineas and fourth in the Group.1 Australian Oaks. She retired with over Aus$500,000 in prizemoney.
Target In Sight has won twice in stakes company defeating some quality Sydney and Melbourne sprinters, while the three-year-old Spanish Bay won the Group 2 1400m Singapore Classic in 2015, a race won by the likes of Better Than Ever, Super Easy and War Affair, and then came out and ran third in the Group 1 1600m Singapore Guineas.
Nadeem's second to last crop of Australian conceived progeny are three-year-olds in the current season and the likes of the stakeswinning filly Savoureux, the undefeated Lucky Can Be and the very fast Brisbane galloper Ice Bucket look sure to build on their sires black-type record.
Nadeem's stakeswinners to runners ratio of 6.4% is outstanding and when you compare him to other leading sire sons of Redoute's Choice. Snitzel's ratio is 6.7% and stands at $88,000 and Stratum is 5.4% with a service fee of $33,000. Not bad company and incredible value considering Nadeem's 2015 service fee of $6,500 plus GST.
Nadeem's dam Candide was a dual Group 1 winner by the Champion Sire and Broodmare Sire Sound Reason, with the high class classic influences Oncidium and Agricola also featuring in her pedigree. A full sister to the multiple stakes producing mare Sound Lover, Candide's daughter Aulide is the dam of the Group 1 winner Marju Snip and the Group 2 winners Do Ra Mi and Unique Jewellery, while a grand-daughter left last season's AJC Derby placegetter Kingdoms.
• Top Colt on the 2005-06 Australasian Classification
• Son of Champion Sire and Sire of Sires Redoutes Choice
• Dam Candide, was Top Australasian 3YO Filly 87/88 & Dual G1 Winner
• A$700,000 Yearling Inglis Sydney Easter
• Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner & Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate winner
• Sire of 12 Individual Stakes Winners to 31/5/15
• Stakeswinners to Runners Ratio of 6.3%
• Progeny Proven in Australia and Internationally
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Nadeem (Redoute's Choice-Candide by Sound Reason)
With just a single duplication of Northern Dancer, Nadeem offers breeders a range of pedigree options. O'Reilly and Towkay mares replicate the highly successful Redoutes Choice/Last Tycoon cross which on its own accord has a stakeswinners to foals ratio approaching a staggering 30%. Snitzel's (Redoute's Choice) Group 1 winning son Wandjinna is from a Last Tyccon mare. Sir Tristram line mares have produced great results when bred to the Redoutes Choice sireline while Centaine line mares capitalise on the successful nick with Sound Reason.
For such a young stallion it's encouraging to see some distinct pedigree traits already developing with the Group 1 winning son of Redoute's Choice.
Remarkably eight of Nadeem's 12 individual stakeswinners hail from Never Bend line mares, including International Group 1 winning sprinter Sterling City. The key to the success of this cross looks to be duplication of the half brothers Bold Reason (sire of Sound Reason) and Never Bend.
Sterling City's dam is by a son of Never Bend's champion French stallion Riverman as is Nadeem's Group 2 winner Mujaarib, while his other South African Group 2 winner Tajmeel carries two female lines of Riverman. Nadeem's Australian group winners Happy Galaxy and Sharnee Rose are both descendants of Never Bend's Champion son Mill Reef.
New Zealand has a wealth of Never Bend blood. Mares by the likes of High Chaparral, O'Reilly, Pentire, Thorn Park, Towkay and Volksraad make ideal cohorts for breeders looking to capitalize on this proven nick with Nadeem.
As a son of Redoute's Choice, Nadeem offers breeders the opportunity to line breed to Best In Show. Nadeem's dual stakeswinning son Target In Sight is line bred to the hugely influential mare through his damsire Xaar, whose dam in turn is a daughter of Best In Show. Mares by sons of Last Tycoon such as O'Reilly and Towkay give breeders a 'double whammy', duplicating Last In Show and picking up a line of Never Bend through Mill Reef. Mares by Helmsman, Kingmaker and Thorn Park also feature Best In Show.
Sound Reason, the dam sire of Nadeem, was a sound, tough and classy sprinting son of Never Bend's half brother Bold Reason, who passed on all of those traits in becoming an outstandingly versatile stallion. His 12 group 1 winners as a broodmare stallion were achieved across a wide selection of bloodlines. He had a lot of success with the stallions Centaine and O'Reilly.
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(PLOS ONE)BOLZANO, ITALY—A bone sample taken from the natural mummy known as Ötzi, found in a melting glacier on the Austrian-Italian border by hikers 1991, was used to decode his genome. Now a team of experts from the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) and the University of Vienna analyzed the non-human DNA in the sample and identified traces of Treponema denticola, a pathogen involved in the development of periodontal disease. And, in fact, the Iceman was diagnosed with periodontitis with a computer tomography scan last year. "What is new is that we did not carry out a directed DNA analysis but rather investigated the whole spectrum of DNA to better understand which organisms are in this sample," Frank Maixner of the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman told Science Daily. The team of scientists also detected Clostridia-like bacteria in the bone sample that are thought to be in a dormant state. If they were to grow, they could cause the 5,300-year-old mummy's tissues to degrade. Continued preservation of the Iceman will require additional micro-biological monitoring.
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In his path-breaking study For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation, Robert Scribner examined the ways Luther was depicted in woodcuts and engravings during the early years of the Reformation movement.1 He showed that with slight variations the three recurring signs in all pictorial depictions of Luther were monk, doctor, and man of the Bible. To these central signs were added other signs such as a dove, which symbolized the Holy Spirit and suggested that Luther had been enlightened or inspired by God, and the nimbus of sainthood, which suggested that Luther had saintly qualities or could be considered to be like a Father of the church or both.2
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