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December 7, 2011
White Christmas Dreams......
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- pink*cherub*moon said...
Hi Janet! This all looks spectacular! So pretty and festive and white and bright and clean! Wow! I love all the pictures, the little vignettes, the creative use of decorative items - everything! Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas! xoxo, Leena
- December 7, 2011 at 11:28 PM
- Debbie @ ribbonwoodcottage.blogspot.com said...
Absolutely lovely in every way! Love the white decor for the Holidays...so peaceful, serene and elegant.
- December 7, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Jennelise said...
Absolutely gorgeous! The more photos the better - your home is just magical :) Thankyou for sharing!
- December 7, 2011 at 11:39 PM
- Createology said...
Ethereal, dreamy, beautiful. JINGLE BELL JOYS...
- December 7, 2011 at 11:49 PM
- Rose Petal Hollow said...
Just beautiful........ you can never have too many photos!
- December 8, 2011 at 12:41 AM
- Shannon@FoxHollowCottage said...
I don't have any words pretty enough for your decor...
- December 8, 2011 at 2:36 AM
- Shabby chic Sandy said...
I would have enjoyed more pictures! Your decorating is simply lovely and I love everything about it. I love your dining chairs--I am always looking for some like that. It looks like a winter wonderland...thanks for sharing!
- December 8, 2011 at 2:41 AM
- Cinner said...
Janet everything is so beautiful, wishing you a wonderful Christmas and may all your dreams come true. hugs.
- December 8, 2011 at 2:48 AM
- nelly said...
Преказно красив дом!Вдъхновяваща декорация!
- December 8, 2011 at 3:34 AM
- C'est Moi, Julie Marie said...
Your home is just beautifully stunning dear Janet... Happy Holidays to you too my friend... xoxo Julie Marie
- December 8, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- stefanie said...
sooooooooo beautiful!!!
- December 8, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- andrea said...
Pure white bliss! andrea@townandprairie
- December 8, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- Debbie @ ribbonwoodcottage.blogspot.com said...
OH Janet I had to reply again....sorry...I wanted to tell you I adore that dining room picture with the little ruffled placemat...talk about swooning...my heart did a swoon! Hahaha....I have not seen ruffled placemats and I'm a placemat person! The turquoise blue chandelier is swoonworthy too!
- December 8, 2011 at 9:02 PM
- DEB said...
Ohhhh Janet!!! Soooo dreamy gorgeous!!! Just like I knew it would be! Stunning...I LOVE all the pics..& its never tooo many sweets!!I adore your home & style..
always have...always will:)
May you & your family have a blessed & Merry Christmas!
Deb:) xoxo
- December 8, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Fishtail Cottage said...
Coming over from the linky party at French Country Cottage to say hello! I had to scroll through your photo's ever so slowly to catch all of your gorgeous details! xoox tracie
- December 8, 2011 at 11:51 PM
- Chari at Happy To Design said...
Hi Janet...
I think this is the first time that I have visited your delightful blog, my friend! Wowzer...I am just blown away! Your Christmas living room is truly breathtaking! It's as though a piece of heaven came down and lit upon this pretty room! I love everything about it! Sooo very pretty and truly romantic! Christmas is FABULOUS at your place! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Warmest Christmas Wishes,
- December 9, 2011 at 4:37 AM
- The Corson Cottage said...
Hi Janet! I'm new to your blog stopping over from French Country Cottage, glad I did! Your home is beautiful! There is so much holiday happiness to take in I just keep lookin over and over. I would LOVE for you to share this at our {Home for the Holidays} link party at The Corson Cottage ~ Carrie
- December 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Niesz Vintage Home said...
Oh Janet, your home is gorgeous!
The silver accents are just lovely. :-)
- December 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- Roberta said...
Hey Janet,
Your home looks lusciously inviting and spectacular!! Love it all my friend!
- December 9, 2011 at 1:38 PM
- Inspired by you said...
Absolutely lovely!! I'm so glad I found your blog! Very inspirational.
- December 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM
- Deborah said...
Gorgeousness..every inch of it!!!
Love what you've created Janet!
Deborah xo
- December 10, 2011 at 1:28 AM
- Amy Kinser said...
First time visitor. This is pure beauty.
- December 11, 2011 at 4:45 PM
- Bring Pretty Back said...
Oh Janet - Everything is so beautiful.
Thank you for sharing
a pretty day! .
- December 11, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Burlap Luxe said...
Such beauty to love, winter whites and a peaceful holiday to you.
- December 12, 2011 at 2:01 AM
- Bristol said...
Beautiful~ Love the white...i so wish I did not have two muddy dogs that jump all over my furniture!
- December 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- www.MaisonStGermain.com said...
I'm speechless! GORGEOUS!!!!!!
~Debra xxx
Capers of the vintage vixens
- December 12, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- Courtney ~ French Country Cottage said...
Hi Janet!! :) Just letting you know I shared this GORGEOUS post at Feathered Nest Friday this week! Thanks for linking up! :) Hugs, Courtney
- December 15, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- Amy @MaisonDecor said...
Very french winter wonderland Janet! Loved visiting your home, and you take such nice pictures too!
- December 15, 2011 at 6:01 PM
- Susan said...
Ohhhh...just gorgeous, serene, heavenly! I wish that I could decorate our living area like yours (if only hubby would allow that much white). Sigh....it is beautiful and peaceful throughout. Thanks so much for sharing.
- Susan
- December 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM
- Lore said...
bellissimo il tuo blog ^^
- December 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- A Cozy Cottage in the City said...
This is my first time to your site via Heather @Post Road Vintage, and I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! Your style and decor is amazing! So happy to have found you! :) Now happily following along and can't wait to browse through your old posts! Hugs & Happy Holidays to you!
- December 18, 2011 at 8:36 PM
- Linda Carole Bloom said...
I love all of your beautiful white Christmas decorating, so peaceful, yet festive!
- December 19, 2011 at 1:46 AM
- Theresa said...
I am visiting from Post Road Vintage. your style is stunning. I love all of the details. Simply beautiful!
Merry Christmas!
- December 19, 2011 at 9:48 AM


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The comprehensive poll of Congress finds that only a small fraction of the 533 lawmakers - 22 senators and 22 House members - are willing to say they will support the use of force in response to the reported use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. Far more overall - 19 senators and 130 House members - say they will oppose a resolution that would authorize military strikes.
The largest group of lawmakers remains undecided, including a majority of the Senate and the House. That could create an opportunity for the president to persuade them in a string of six interviews with TV network anchors Monday and a televised address to the nation Tuesday. The Senate could vote as early as Wednesday.
"We cannot turn a blind eye to images like the ones we've seen out of Syria," President Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday. "Failing to respond to this outrageous attack would increase the risk that chemical weapons could be used again; that they would fall into the hands of terrorists who might use them against us, and it would send a horrible signal to other nations that there would be no consequences for their use of these weapons. All of which would pose a serious threat to our national security."
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•Republicans who have made a decision overwhelmingly oppose Obama, by nearly 8-1. Sixteen Republicans support action; 121 oppose it.
•In a majority of states, not a single member of Congress has gone on record endorsing the president's request for authorization of a military strike. That includes a dozen states that Obama carried in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections: Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
"I think it's an uphill slog from here," House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., one of the handful of Republicans who supports the president, said on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday. He said the White House has "done an awful job" in explaining the reason for a strike and added, "It's a confusing mess."
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he was horrified by images of the chemical weapons attacks in Syria but warned that the strikes could destabilize the country or even increase the odds that opposition forces obtain chemical weapons. "I don't think we're going to do anything to Assad," he said of the Syrian leader.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said he has heard overwhelming opposition from his constituents. "And keep in mind, my district voted 77% for the president," he said on CBS. "I think the president has work to do, but I think he can possibly get the votes. But he's got to come before the Congress and the nation."
On this issue, President Obama hasn't been able to count on the classic partisan divide that has defined the capital's politics through his tenure. Some liberal Democrats have aligned with Republican libertarians to oppose a military strike. Some GOP hawks who typically oppose him (including Arizona Sen. John McCain, whom President Obama beat for the White House in 2008) argue for action.
"This is truly a momentous occasion in which the outcome is up for grabs," says Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. He notes the "high-wire act" for President Obama as he returned Friday from his European trip. "The urgency you saw with the president hustling back to the States, the national address he'll give - all that is a signal of the urgency and perhaps the growing sense of foreboding in the White House."
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When the King of the South has you at the top of his feature list upon release, you're definitely doing something right. Future was already buzzing after the success of street smash "Tony Montana" in 2011 (it was enough for Drake to hop on a remix), but "Magic," with a notable feature from T.I., took things further into the stratosphere. The Epic Records star's Pluto's third single, "Turn On the Lights," a ballad that further exemplifies just what it means to make "astronaut music," has been his biggest yet, topping the Billboard Heatseekers chart.
It may have taken years of watching his cousin Rico Wade and the Dungeon Family craft music before he discovered just what he wanted to sound like, but Future's momentum has only continued to build since this man from Pluto arrived on the mainstream Hip Hop radar late last year. Expect more from this ATL native by the end of 2012, as he will be dropping new single "Neva End," featuring Kelly Rowland, as a prelude to his debut re-release, set to be called Pluto 3-D.
HipHopDX spoke with Future by phone while on the road, and he caught us up on the status of two upcoming projects (mixtape Super Future / Fire Marshall Future and retail follow-up Future Hendrix), explained how he approaches writing for other artists compared to penning his own music and noted that he hopes his success eventually leads to VMA and Grammy awards.
Future Looks At Pluto, Pluto Hendrix & Pluto 3-D
HipHopDX: I had just heard that you're getting ready to push a new single from Pluto. What were you planning on going with?
Future: We're gonna do "Neva End," the record with Kelly Rowland. We're gonna repackage Pluto, put a couple new songs on it and name it Pluto 3-D. We plan on releasing it Thanksgiving week.
DX: What's the status with Super Future and Fire Marshall Future then? Are they getting pushed back, because I know you guys were aiming for that to originally drop some time in October.
Future: Yup.
DX: Any idea on a pushed release or does it depend on what happens with Pluto 3-D?
Future: It all depends on what happens with Pluto 3-D.
DX: I know after Super Future and Fire Marshall Future, you're planning on releasing Future Hendrix, your follow-up to Pluto. What's the latest on that project? Is there anything you're stylistically tying into Jimi Hendrix or did he just served as an inspiration for the album?
Future: It was a little of both. With Jimi Hendrix, he was a dude that was just different with what he did, and with the music that I make, I feel like I'm different [as well]. It was just another way of saying I'm different, just adding the Hendrix.
DX: Where is that album going compared to where Pluto took listeners? Is it taking that sound further? Is it a drastic departure.
Future: I call it "astronaut music" because it's timeless music. I feel like I'm very melodic. It's passionate. It's music on Pluto, whereas Future Hendrix is more soulful music, music from the soul.
DX: Speaking on the melody part of it, for those who have heard and really consumed Pluto, they know the music is very melodically rich, and you had mentioned before that your cousin Rico Wade had really instilled that in you. Do the tracks really start with the melody for you when you're in the studio?
Future: I just go in the booth and do whatever I feel, however it start out. There's no particular way to go and make a record. Go and do what you feel.
DX: So it's just a matter of staying open and listening to what comes out in that moment, of not being afraid to let it come out?
Future: Yeah. Exactly.
Future Confirms Kanye West Collaboration
DX: In another interview, you had alluded to recently collaborating with Kanye West and Diplo. How did those sessions pan out? Can we look forward to seeing those tracks appearing on Future Hendrix or possibly even on Pluto 3-D?
Future: The Diplo [track] might be coming out next year on Future Hendrix. The same with Kanye [West's track]. It's something I'm gonna work on for Future Hendrix or either work on his album or any project that he's working on, so you never know where it'll take you. You just gotta make sure you make hit records and be prepared for wherever they go to. You just want to be prepared for success.
DX: I know you had mentioned wanting to be around innovators, people who are really pushing the envelope. Was it really inspirational working with those guys considering their track record?
Future: It's always innovative working with anybody who passionate about what they do. Those guys are very passionate and always looking for new ways to create and be original and just perfect the craft and all the way around just bringing a hit record to the table for the Hip Hop community. What you gotta when it's like that is make sure you go in and you be prepared to work hard.
DX: I wanted to get into your single "Magic," featuring T.I. It was actually the first track Tip hopped on after being released. What was it about "Magic" that made it his first feature after he was free?
Future: "Magic" was the hottest record when he first got out. "Magic" was the hottest record on the street. It was going on the charts and he just wanted to be a part of something great. Great people like to be a part of greatness.
DX: With you sitting in on sessions with your Cousin Rico Wade and the whole Dungeon Family, how long did it take sitting in and soaking that in before you felt you had a real grasp on what you wanted to sound like?
Future: About six years.
DX: At what moment did you know it was time to really push as Future and break out as your own artist?
Future: When I dropped my first mixtape, the 1000 mixtape. After that one, I decided I [wasn't] gonna just drop one and never drop one ever again. [I decided] I'm just gonna drop one every three months. You gotta get the people's ear, know what I mean? Keep it coming consistent.
DX: Speaking on being ready when your moment comes, in addition to being in the studio for a long time with your cousin Rico, you'd also said in interviews that you really sat in on label negotiations with other artists before you were taking your own meetings. What did you learn in those meetings that allowed you to sign a contract that you felt was in your best interests when you got one yourself?
Future: To just wait it out for the best opportunity. You gotta be patient, just let the lawyers work and not settle for nothing. You just gotta go in and know what you want and demand what you want. If they don't give you what you want, you just keep grinding. Whatever you expect to get from it, you can find someone who's willing to give it to you, so you gotta be patient and wait for it, so when you go in there, just keep your eyes open and your ears listening and just make sure whatever it is, you see it and make [sure] it makes sense.
DX: Speaking on you being a writer in addition to being an artist, it's been known for a while that you wrote YC's "Racks." With that said, have you still been writing songs for other artists or has your energy shifted to solely working on your own stuff?
Future: Most definitely. I [write] for different artists, most defintely. Rap and R&B.
DX: What's the main difference you feel between that and focusing on your work as a solo artist? How do you tackle those two differently?
Future: It's just a different approach for it. As a writer and an artist, you make sure that, while you promote yourself, you get a chance to promote your writing and just your sound, period. Sometimes it be about that sound and you get [the chance to get] your sound out there. I want to make the radio sound like Future. Whether I'm doing a record or someone else [is] doing the record, you gonna be able to tell my sound and identify with me. It's just another way to get your music heard without me actually having been on the track.
DX: I wanted to revisit a moment on your Pluto Vlog, when you said "I had to dumb my music down to get the listener's ear but now I know where I can come back and take them. I can always come back and take them somewhere because I got they ear now." With that said, where do you plan to take the listener now that there's a real sizable audience that's aware of your name and what you do?
Future: I'm gonna keep giving them more and more substance and just give somebody life-changing words. When they're listening to [the music], I know certain things they go through in they life and I want to be able to feel like when they hear me, they feel like I'm going through it with them and they not going through it alone. [I want to] find records that I'm gonna put out that touch the people at the bottom or at the top, or just the Average Joe, you know? I'm trying to connect to they hearts and they minds and actually help them to deal and get on to the next thing. Behind every rap, there's a message to connect with the fans.
DX: You've said you're getting closer to the level of success and achievements that you want to reach but that you're not totally there yet. What kind of levels to you really hope to achieve before you feel like you'll be truly satisfied and that you've really perfected your craft?
Future: VMA awards. Grammys. Man, just #1 record after #1 record. Have an artist with a number one record – I want to be a part of that.
DX: So for you, you're not just looking at this as an artist. You'd really like to get to a position where you can line up artists and really continue as an exec? That's in the long-term plan?
Future: Yeah, I want to help develop an artist from the beginning and watch them grow and see how far they can go. A Pop artist, whether it's a female Pop artist or male, or a female rapper or a dude rapper. It don't matter. I just want to see the music grow and see the artist grow.
Future's Craziest "Same Damn Time" Moments
DX: As the master of doing things at the same damn time, what's the craziest combination of two things that you've done at the same damn time?
Future: The craziest thing I've ever done at the same damn time . . . I can't really say. You can just be on the phone and eating at the same damn time. You could be on the phone and in the booth at the same damn time. Rapping and texting at the same damn time – there are so many things I do at the same damn time.


text: By Pastor Vince CarrigSports Writer Reserve power forward Alex Harms riddled the Plainsmen for 10 points in a 14-0 run that wrestled a 46-31 St. Pat's Irish win from Perkins County Friday night in Grant. Harms led all scorers with 16 points and seemingly scored at will after the North Platte team took a 7-2 lead only to have the Plainsmen rally to close to within 9-8. The 6-foot-2 junior Harms put away two offensive rebounds and found himself wide open during the run. He also demonstrated that he could spin from the block and nail short jumpers as well. The St. Pat's Irish interior defense frustrated Plainsmen lane drivers, surrendering just six foul shots in a game that referees Mike Namuth, Dave McCarville and Andy Hurt kept moving with few whistles. Four of the top six players in the Plainsmen rotation scored two points or fewer in the game. When Harms did not trouble Perkins County, Irish starting center Mark Maywood moved adeptly in the lane and created his own shots to post eight points, also blocking several shots and making daylight disappear quickly on offense. A virtually even game if one subtracts the Irish's early 14-0 rampage. Quinton Hite and Caleb Breazeale spun in two three pointers apiece, with guard Elliot Carlson counting one for the Plainsmen as well. Hite scored 10 and Carlson eight points for Perkins County. Both scored impressive high-speed layups, with Hite squeezing a low one under a defender and Carlson spinning in the air for an "up-and-under." Elusive point guard Sean Keenan gave the Plainsmen a break, scoring only seven points and missing more three pointers than the one he hit. The Plainsmen kept power forward Joseph Clinch under wraps, allowing him just seven markers. Clinch and Keenan erupted for 20 and 10 respectively against 7-3 Cozad Saturday night.St. Pats 46, PC 31St. Pat's 17 10 9 10–46Perkins Co. 7 6 10 8–31 Scoring leaders–Perkins County: Hite 2FG (2[x2])–10; Carlson 2 (1) 1/2FT–8; Breazeale (2)–6; North Platte–St. Pat's: Harms 8–16; Mayfield 4–8; Keenan 2 (1)–7; Clinch 3 0/2–6


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It does its job. Fits fine. Comfortable enough. I'm sure it will protect my head just as well as a more expensive helmet. But the goggle clip is open at the bottom leaving the goggle strap to slide down. This is incredibly annoying.
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Here's a picture of the Goggle Gasket I was talking about. It fills the gap between your goggles and helmet - no more cold forehead; no more sunburned forehead!
Cool features,very adjustable, size UP
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
This helmet is what I need. I really like how adjustable the helmet is. I have the 2011 model, so I'm not sure how the airband fit system works, but I'm sure it's great. One of my favorite features is a supplied "goggle gasket." This is a piece of windproof material you can add to the front of the helmet to act as a layer between the top of your goggles an helmet. Say goodbye to a cold forehead and the awkward sunburn on your forehead!
This helmet is also pretty warm and ventilated well. You get 4 adjustable vents - they're pretty small and make a minor difference, but they're still nice to have.
Also, the helmet holds goggles in place pretty well.
Oh, you can also buy things to make the earpieces pump out music. I haven't used it, but it's a cool concept.
IMPORTANT: Size UP. According to the current size chart, I should be an XS, but S fits me best. I have a 54cm head and S fits perfectly.
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I just measured my son's head, it's approximately 22.5', which according to the size charts provided should fit him. However, the M size helmet I ordered for him is too tight. We'll see how the L fits. Other than that it seems like a nice helmet. Maybe I'll upgrade my recommendation when we see how the L size works out.
Nice helmet, like it so much, very comfortable, light, tech.
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Last week, John Howard, a former prime minister of Australia, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times describing how he got gun control passed in his country after a shooting rampage — with a divided government. He wrote, "I did it and Obama can, too."
Even in Australia, a country founded by convicts, they don't shoot each other down in the streets.
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|Atkins provides link to massive earthquake in Haiti
|Written by Chris Lee
Many if not most people have heard about the massive earthquake that leveled much of Haiti Jan. 12. People and organizations from all over have come together to give what they can to help the people of Haiti.
In Holyoke, there is a different twist. Leon Atkins traveled to Haiti nearly 13 years ago in 1997. He was there to help a couple who started a hospital in Deschapelles nearly 50 miles from Port-au-Prince, or a four-hour van ride, according to Atkins.
Atkins was glad to hear the hospital wasn't hurt by the earthquake but was swamped with people in need in the waking moments after the earthquake.
Atkins spent nearly two weeks in Haiti in 1997 at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer (HAS).
Jim Carlson, a veterinarian from Julesburg, had been down to Haiti before to help train a native veterinarian. He felt the need to go back to Haiti in 1997 and asked Atkins to go along, as well as Carlson's son, Matt Brasby of Haxtun, Gilbert and Toby Anderson of Paoli and one other person.
HAS came to be because of Albert Schweitzer. He won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his field work in beginning a hospital in Lambrene, Gabon where he advocated the ethical concept "Reverence for Life," taking on the responsibility of bringing health to an impoverished area in Africa.
William Larimer Mellon, a rancher from Arizona, saw an article in 1947 in Life Magazine about Schweitzer titled "The Greatest Man in the World." After reading the article, Mellon began what would turn into a lifelong correspondence with Schweitzer. Two months later, at the age of 38, with no college degree, Mellon decided to become a doctor and open a hospital in an area with the most need, as suggested by Schweitzer.
His wife, Gwen, followed suit and enrolled as a lab technician student. During summer school vacations, they searched for a destitute corner of the Americas where they could open a hospital.
They traveled to Haiti and came across an abandoned Standard Fruit Company complex in the desperate Artibonite Valley and their fate was settled. The hospital opened June 26, 1956 and was named Hopital Albert Schweitzer.
The hospital administers to an area of 300,000 people with no other access to health care. People frequently walk 10 hours or more to get to the hospital and many die along the way. AIDS, tuberculosis, starvation and infant malnutrition are daily affairs of the hospital.
Atkins said he helped with Mellon's cattle, painted barns, repaired gates while others worked on a chicken house. He also said they made a garden for tuberculosis patients who were released from the hospital. He said they found those patients, when released, almost always had to come back to the hospital.
Atkins said Gwen was still alive when he was there (she died in 2000) and she was an amazing lady. One of his favorite moments was eating lunch with her and the others from his group. He said it is just unbelievable what the Mellons did for the area. He said seeing the compassion she had for the Haitian people and her wisdom were extraordinary.
"They've worked so hard all those years and yet that same passion and love for these people still just showed through her," he said. "It boggled my mind what a difference two people had made."
Gwen would sit outside in front of the hospital every day at her desk under the shade of a wide tree and attend to the long line of patients.
HAS is run primarily from donations. The Haitians that work at the hospital are paid, but numerous volunteers from around the world come and offer their time, according to Atkins.
Atkins said the area where they were was one of the greener areas of Haiti. Flying over the Dominican Republic he could see miles of vegetation, but when they got over Haiti, the vegetation had been stripped.
Atkins recalls the experience and culture
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Over half the population lives on less than $1 a day. "It's bad enough with how life was, but with that kind of disaster, it's hard to imagine," Atkins said thinking about the earthquake.
Atkins questioned the crime when he was asked to go to Haiti and was told the people and the government appreciate and respect what the hospital is doing so much they don't bother them. "The government wants that hospital there," Atkins said. "They've done so much good not only fixing people up but helping the entire quality of life."
Something interesting Atkins remembered while thumbing through his photos was the maid at the Mellons' home, where he stayed. He said she hand washed all of their clothing for them and they were spotless when she was finished with them.
He couldn't recall exactly what he ate while he was there but simply said, "we had an amazing cook."
He also recalled the sound of drums at night, which he was told were drums of Haitians practicing voodoo worship. The drums would sound every night except Tuesday night.
When asked if there was one moment that touched him the most or if he had a most memorable moment, Atkins responded, "the whole thing."
With the hospital running primarily off donations, Atkins encourages those who are interested to look into helping the hospital in any way they can.
Money can be sent by mail to:
Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
P.O. Box 81046
Pittsburgh, PA 15217


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My back sunroom has a portable air conditioner in it. It�s the kind you plug into a window and can roll from room to room. We bought it to supplement central air conditioning because it gets a little warm back there sometimes and, besides, the portable A/C is nice to have whenever there�s a lengthy power outage and we have to use the generator.
So I was a little upset the other day when I went into the sunroom and it smelled like something was burning back there. It was an odd fragrance, very, very strange, and had strong smell of burnt caramel, something I might associate with a possible electrical fire. I called my spouse, who was out of town, and asked him about it. He told me to unplug the A/C and leave it off.
I did as he said. A few hours later my daughter came over and walked back that room. She came into the kitchen and said, �Phew. It smells like burned maple syrup in the sunroom.�
I told her I was worried that the air conditioning unit was overheated or something. It had felt hot to me and I thought there could possibly be a short. I went back there and the odor seemed even stronger than it had when I first unplugged it.
At about midnight, before I turned in for the night, I returned to check on the smell. It was even stronger than before, even though I had shut down the air conditioner, even unplugging it. I wondered if one of the overhead ceiling fans could be causing it. Despite the fact that it was extremely late and I knew my spouse had gone to bed early because he had a big day the next morning, I called him anyway.
Can�t be too careful when the house is in danger of burning down.
I told him that the smell was even worse and asked if it could be the fans. He was groggy and probably wondered what the heck I meant when I said, �burnt maple syrup� but he told me to go ahead and turn off the fans. As I reached to do so, my eye fell on the new scented plug-in I�d put in the outlet in the middle of the room near a litter box, to help keep the box�s odor under control. I got down and sniffed the air around it. It smelled suspiciously like a stack of pancakes covered with burned maple syrup: The name of the scent?
Pumpkin Spice. I told my husband to go back to sleep and reassured him that his house wasn�t burning down. He just had a wife that is too stupid to live.
He still does. Poor man.
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Thanks, Kam and Fram -- I just ordered some similar ones!
Liz - That's awesome that DD is up to 16 lbs! My DS is small but not tiny and I don't think he was much more than 17 or so at 8 months, so she's moving on up! The trying-to-crawl phase can be funny, if frustrating. My DS somehow thought doing a downward facing dog kind of pose would help him move for about 2 weeks when he was learning. We thought it was funny, though he didn't so much :-).
Med - That's awful, but good that you have perspective that it's still a good place. I start work early, so DH always does dropoff, and he recently told me that he almost always feels crappy afterwards, even if DS isn't clingy and fussy. Probably doesn't help that DH works from home so he has to come home to all of DS's toys but no little guy there!
Luv - That story just made my heart melt -- ahhh! So cute! What an awesome big sister. Now stop it -- you're going to make me want to have another one :-).
Speaking of having second kids, those of you who have: how did you decide (or DID you really actively decide) when to have #2? DH and I agreed that we'll most likely "pull the goalie" again around my 33rd b-day in December, when DS will be 22 mos. It took us about 4 mos. to get pg with DS, so if all goes well, we'd have another around when DS is 3. It feels like a good age gap to me, and both DH and I kind of already want another, but I'm already worrying over daycare stuff. Having 2 kids in daycare would basically negate my salary, but I wouldn't want to pull DS out entirely just as he's getting close to school age. I know it'll all work out somehow if #2 is in the cards for us, but I'm just curious how it went for you all...


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The silver age of freethought
Religion | The devastating results of the "golden age of freethought" have made today's defenders of atheism, like Christopher Hitchens, grumpy
"The silver age of freethought" Continued...
NEW YORK CITY-Atheistic books are selling ("Backward, atheists", June 30), but so are debates between atheists and Christians. Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, debated last month-before packed houses in Washington and New York-Oxford professor Alister McGrath and author Dinesh D'Souza (What's So Great About Christianity). But none of this is new in American history: Hitchens' best-known predecessor, Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) sold out auditoriums throughout the last quarter of the 19th century, in what became known as "the golden age of freethought."
"Freethought" included atheism, agnosticism, and some left-wing political -isms as well, and had the backing of publications such as the Boston Investigator, the (New York) Truth Seeker, the (Kentucky) Blue Grass Blade, and the (Texas) Iconoclast. Ingersoll, a colonel in the Civil War and the attorney general of Illinois until he became the golden mouth of atheistic rhetoric, was blunt at times but generally a cheerful warrior who preferred beckoning to ranting. "I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality," he declared as he traded ideas with listeners.
This silver age is different. In his King's College debate with D'Souza (tkc.edu/debate), Hitchens went for the jugular right from the start: "Christianity is masochistic, as well as partly sadistic. It attacks us in our deepest integrity. It says that you and I wouldn't know a right action, wouldn't be able to derive it or a right thought without the permission of a celestial dictatorship that guards us while we sleep, that can convict us of thought crime, that supervises our every waking moment, that is in fact the origin of totalitarianism, and that will continue to judge us and persecute us and supervise us even after we were dead."
D'Souza argued the opposite, declaring that Christianity undermined dictators and brought into the world "the idea of individual dissent, the notion of personal dignity, the idea of equality, the idea of compassion as a social virtue. . . . If you look at the world of Athens, which is to say Greece and pre-Christian Rome, you discover civilizations where women were treated very badly, where human life didn't count for a whole lot. The Spartans notoriously would leave the feeble child on the hillside to see if it was still alive in the morning. The great philosophers of Greece and Rome viewed these incidents with equanimity-it is only from Christianity that these things that had been uncontroversial for a long time become controversial for the first time."
Hitchens blasted away at how those who give thanks to God are "condemned to live in this posture of gratitude, permanent gratitude, to an unalterable dictatorship in whose installation we had no say. Some of us refuse this on moral grounds, as well as on the grounds that the story is a fairy tale, made up by fallible and opportunistic human beings. Christianity offers something horrible-vicarious redemption. You are told that by applauding a human sacrifice, a particularly cruel and revolting one, that took place before you were born to fulfill a prophecy in which you had no say, that it condemns you either to punishment in sin if you don't accept it, or if you do accept it offers you the chance that your own sins can be forgiven you."
D'Souza said from the start that he would not enter into a theological debate: "We have from the atheists' side a belligerent attack on theism and specifically on Christianity. I want to try to answer this attack by using the same tools of reason and skepticism and science and evidence that is the banner under which the atheists march. In no way, this evening, will I rely on Scripture or any kind of theology to make my points. I'm going to focus entirely on reason and evidence."
The result was an asymmetric debate. Hitchens blasted away: "Christianity requires of you compulsory love, as well as compulsory fear. You have to simultaneously love someone, you're commanded to love them and be frightened of them at the same time. This is no way to teach morals. Second, you're told not that you might get a second chance but that all your debts can be paid. [Payment by another] should be rejected by anyone with any self-respect. So the vicarious redemption by human sacrifice is an immoral preachment with very immoral implications, as is compulsory love coupled with compulsory fear."
D'Souza did not explain substitutionary atonement but looked at the positives of Christian culture and compared negatives with the enormities of atheistic practice: "At the Salem Witch Trials 18 people died. The Spanish Inquisition over 300 years killed 2,000 people. Try to compare that to the crimes inflicted by atheist regimes not 500, not 1,000 years ago, but within our lifetime. If you look only at the big three-Stalin's Russia, Mao's China, Nazi Germany-you have within the space of five decades over 100 million casualties. So, atheism, not religion is responsible for the mass murders of history."
This was all a reversal from the golden age of freethought, which of course took place before brief periods of freethought in Russia and Germany became preludes to the worst tragedies the world had ever seen. Ingersoll's speeches emphasized history and science; theists countered him with revelation. He exuded optimism; his critics spoke of man's depravity and urged caution. In the King's College debate, though, D'Souza seemed cheerful throughout and Hitchens sarcastically grumpy.
Temperament aside, Ingersoll of the golden age had two advantages over silver age Hitchens. First, Ingersoll was fighting for secularistic liberty within an America where church and state were still interwoven. He took potshots at blasphemy laws: "An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment." The naked public squares of today do not afford Hitchens such easy targets.
Second, the golden age of freethought had the golden glow of peace and broadening intelligence that 20th-century war, genocide, and mass culture dispelled. Ingersoll orated about Science with a godlike capital S, declaring that when "the day of Science dawned," not only riches but "the development of mind [followed]. There is more of value in the brain of an average man of today -of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four hundred years ago." Many today no longer carry such disparagement of past wisdom and hubris concerning the present.
In the Q&A section of the Hitchens-D'Souza debate, a King's College student from Tonga stood up and said that before Christianity came to his part of the world, people in southern Pacific islands were eating each other. He asked Hitchens, "If you had arrived there first, what would you have offered us in place of Christianity?" Hitchens did not answer the question but expostulated against God because people were in misery for millennia before missionaries arrived.
Ingersoll answered such questions differently. He argued that belief in what the Bible declared was a blip on the way to the greater revelations of the late 1800s: "This century will be called Darwin's century. . . . Write the name of Charles Darwin on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that name has come more light to the world than from all of those. His doctrine of evolution, his doctrine of the survival of the fittest, his doctrine of the origin of species, has removed in every thinking mind the last vestige of orthodox Christianity."
Hitchens defends Darwin's doctrine of the survival of the fittest, of course, but in the 21st century, with our knowledge of how many have died because their neighbors declared them unfit, it's hard to do so with such exuberance.
Dictator vs. liberator
By Zoe Sandvig
Hitchens at Georgetown University last month debated Alister McGrath, Oxford professor of historical theology and author of Christianity's Dangerous Idea. Hitchens declared that Christ's atonement for sins was an immoral act, God is a sinister dictator, Christian repentance is masochistic, humans are little more than quasi-chimpanzees, and Christianity is similar to Marxism and Nazism.
McGrath politely attempted to counter Hitchens' attacks on Christianity one by one, finally asserting that God is not a "celestial dictator" but a "celestial liberator." McGrath's Oxford reserve, pitted against Hitchens' well-rehearsed vitriol, did not induce a standing ovation from the sell-out Georgetown crowd, but he did raise thought-provoking questions, including: "In a world where reason and science do not deliver what we once thought they did, on what can we base our lives if we are to know that we are truly living for the good, the beautiful, and the true life?"


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Unleashing the Power in DataStage 8.5 Issue #4: Scalable and Intuitive XML
Pictured to the right is the "Schema Library Manager" (please click on the pic to see it - the blog emulation doesn't scale well). In 8.5 the xsd files are imported into the repository in their native format. This ensures that the metadata is preserved entirely. The UI has been enhanced to show the tree structure and extended attributes and factes for each node of the hierarchy. Users may build multiple "libraries" in order to group related xsd's into the most logical buckets. The Schema Library Manager is accessible from both the main Designer menu as well as from within the Assembly Editor (discussed below) in order to present an integrated method to move from metadata import into job design.
Engine Runtime Component Like the user interface, the engine component has been built specifically for processing hierarchical data. Rather than relying on open source parsing technology which has historically had scalability issues, IBM has engineered a highly performant engine component for this solution. Some of the distinguising features of this runtime are:
- Streaming – Support for any document size without specific memory requirements
- Parallelism – Multi-threaded - Employ multiple threads in a single stage – Partitioning - DataStage partition parallelism can be used to run multiple instance of the stage on multiple cpus/hosts – Document partitioning - Partition parallelism for a single large document
- Optimized – Compile Time optimization to remove unnecessary processing and data. – Runtime Scratch disk optimizations
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Talks about how the ozone layer in the stratosphere is formed and the impacts humans have on it.
Students use data to create graphs comparing the ozone levels in various US cities, analyze and evaluate trends, and determine how humans have affected air quality and what steps can be done to preserve air quality. Lesson includes vocabulary, background information, activity, online resources and extension.
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Stratosphere.
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Discover the flashes of light and anti-matter that happen above thunderstorms and are best studied from the International Space Station.
Learn how the radiation exposure received by airline pilots over their career can lead to illness and how researchers are hoping to minimize their exposure.
Students will compare plane contrails to clouds and look at their potential impact on Earth's weather.
Using the Canadian high school students' Lego Man experiment as a case study, students explore weather balloons,observe the grand size of the layers of the atmosphere and space, and are challenged to construct their own scale model depicting the distances between these landmarks.
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I would like my new bike to be as up to date as possible ....
AFAIK other than the one piece oil filer top assembly and a new air filter cover plastic thing there isn't a nickles worth of difference between an '09 an '11
If it's a 2009, check to see if it had the 3rd gear fix and if so, who did it. Is this Vince's?The new G-5s will have the C-5 tail light and valve covers. The 2009's up to a certain point, had nice boxy valve covers but an ugly brick for a tail light at a stupid angle to boot. I'll PM pictures of mine with modified tail light but the valve covers.The newer one will also have the C-5 right side style engine cover. B-5 maybe?
The new UCE engine in 2009 and up was designed with a good sprag.Again, 09 vs 11 might boil down to paint color preference.
I happen to like my boxy, stupid-angle tail light The oil filter cap, however, has got to go. Cause of much heartbreak and cursing.
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(Undated) -- The Iowa Caucus is one week away and the candidates are making a last push effort trying to court votes. One person who has been courted by each of the candidates and still has not offered an endorsement is that of Iowa Congressman Steve King. Earlier in the year, King had said he hoped that he would come out and show his support for a candidate, but he still hasn't made a decision. The question now is will he offer his endorsement to a candidate with only one week remaining?
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Texas Congressman Ron Paul has scheduled a stop in LeMars for Friday at 1:00 p.m. at the LeMars Convention Center and Texas Governor Rick Perry will be in Sioux City nex Monday at 12:30 p.m. at the Stoney Creek Inn.
(Remsen) -- The Remsen Fire Department were called to fight a grass fire on Monday morning. The fire was located along County Road C-16. The Remsen Fire Department was able to control that fire within a few minutes.
(Orange City) -- Two people were arrested on Christmas Eve afternoon by the Sioux County Sheriff's office for drug violations following a traffic stop. The incident occured on Highway 75, just south of Sioux Center. Arrested were 21 year old Amber Wichers of Sioux Center. She was wanted for a Plymouth County arrest warrant. She was later charged with an OWI for the second offense, which is an aggravated misdemeanor and possession of marijuana, a serious misdemeanor.
Also arrested was 20 year old Randy Kirsch of South Sioux City Nebraska. He was a passenger in the car and was arrested for furnishing a controlled substance into a detention facility, a class D felony, possession of marijuana, a serious misdemeanor and possession of drug paraphernalia, a simple misdemeanor.
(Orange City) -- On Christmas Day at about 11:00 a.m. the Sioux County Sheriff's office arrested 21 year old Erica Olivarez-Gomez of Sioux Center for introducing a controlled substance to a detention facility, a class D felony. Olivarez-Gomez had been arrested earlier in the day by a Sioux Center Police Officer pursuant to an arrest warrant. Upon further investigation by the sheriff's office, a controlled substance was found among Olivarez-Gomez' posessions.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - The operator of the Argosy riverboat casino in Sioux City has backed out of a deal to keep a land-based version of the casino in Sioux City though January 2013.
Officials with Missouri River Historical Development, the nonprofit group that holds the casino's license, announced the deal with Argosy owner Penn National Gaming Inc. fell through late
Friday. A spokesman for Penn National confirmed the development.
The two sides had earlier announced they had reached a six-month extension of their agreement, which expires in July.
It was believed the agreement was an effort to continue negotiations with Penn for a land-based casino.
Penn National spokesman Eric Schippers says the company is hopeful they can still reach a long-term deal with Missouri River Historical Development.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Gov. Terry Branstad says he's opposed to enacting a user fee to help spruce up the state's parks and would rather rely on the Iowa State Parks Foundation to generate
donations for park maintenance.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Roger Lande says Iowans have told him they would be willing to pay such a fee to improve state parks.
Lande raised the possibility of reinstating a user fee during budget talks with Branstad.
DNR funding has declined since 2008 and with it the number of seasonal workers hired to maintain parks.
Public complaints resulted in more money for maintenance and the number of seasonal workers should nearly double from 80 in 2011 to 150 for the year that ends June 30.
(Des Moines) -- Its the time of year when some people get bogged down with the blues, or what may actually be seasonal affective disorder or SAD. About five-percent of Iowans are hit with symptoms like low energy, no attention span and grouchiness during the winter. Dr. Kelly Fairbanks, a clinical psychologist says the Christmas season is not responsible for your feeling like a Grinch.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Pat Quinn says he's going to issue an executive order later this week to eliminate or consolidate 75 state boards and commissions that are redundant.
He made the announcement Wednesday during his annual budget address. He says the elimination will increase efficiency.
Quinn did not detail which the boards and commissions would be eliminated. His spokeswoman later said the list of the 75 would come when Quinn issues the order.
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Tallahassee, FL- We now know more information about a reported break-in and burglary at a local funeral home.
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Thomasville, GA- It's that time of year again! The Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign has begun.
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A magical Christmas display, complete with white and colored lights, snowmen and deer, can be seen at 805 S. Bowman. Jeff and Olga Sullivan, first place winners of this year's lighting contest, created this classy display that can be best described as a winter wonderland. December snowfall enhances the effect of the vibrant holiday scene.
Sponsored by the City of Holyoke, Holyoke Chamber of Commerce and The Holyoke Enterprise, the annual contest is a chance for community members to show off their creative displays and view the dazzling lights scattered around town. A new contest format this year eliminated entry forms and made any lighting display in Holyoke or within a 1/2-mile radius eligible for first, second or third place honors.
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