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TURNING FROM the question of style to the question of form, we can take at least one idea with us. Hardy was, as I have said, anti-formalist in his aesthetic; he insisted that "in a Work of art it is the accident which charms, not the intention; that we only like and admire" ( Early Life, p. 251), and he consistently Subordinated technique to thought in his own critical judgments. In discussing Hardy's style I suggested that this anti-formalist bias might be regarded as an aspect of Hardy's sense of his radical isolation from the intellectual and poetic tradition: if the traditional beliefs are dead, then the artistic process becomes a continual starting over. If this is true of Hardy's style, we might expect that it would also be true of the poetic forms he used--they should be personal and eccentric in something like the same way.
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Posted on 02/23/2013 6:26:24 AM PST by Kaslin
The pope has renounced the papal throne. Long live the progressive pope! Such are the rallying cries from establishment voices wanting to see the Catholic Church loosen up now that Pope Benedict XVI has decided to step down. But maybe people should listen to the Church's actual views.
Mary Hasson from the Ethics and Public Policy Center has been doing some unique work looking into what Catholic women know and want from their Church. It's scandalous and yet not entirely surprising that she found only 13 percent of Catholic women who occasionally attend Mass accept Church teaching on contraception.
It's not a shock given that the average Catholic Mass goer is not exactly being taught the theology and even practicality of the Catholic teaching on sexual morality. Catholics all too often see Church teaching as a litany of "No"s when, in fact, it is all about "Yes." Yes to human dignity and happiness. Yes to the respect for one another that comes from truly believing you are made in the image and likeness of God.
"On the one hand, the number is small, no question," Hasson acknowledges. "That 13 percent includes not only weekly churchgoers but also women who attend less regularly, perhaps a few times a year. However, if we look only at women who attend Mass weekly, the percentage accepting the Church's teaching on contraception goes up, doubling (to 27 percent) among young women ages 18-34. That's a sign of hope -- in spite of decades of dissenting theologians, silence from the parish pulpit and distorted cultural messages about sex, these women have heard the Church's teaching and embraced it. These women form a solid core of faithful Catholics who can attest to the personal benefits of following the Church's teaching on sexuality and family planning."
And despite the current conversation about women, contraception and religious liberty that's overtaken the government's federal health-care push, the media coverage has been such that most Americans still don't quite know what all the fuss is about. Some Catholic women have a similar relationship to Church teachings on contraception: 37 percent, in Hasson's findings, were unsure about the specifics.
"The 37 percent seems to confirm the stories that abound of Catholic women who went to Mass every week for years and to confession regularly, but never heard that contraception is wrong. Similarly, how many Catholics have gone through (extensive marriage prep in the Church) by never heard word one about the Church's teaching on sexuality or family planning," she said. "Or perhaps (they) heard some general teachings, and then, with a wink, were told to follow their consciences, with no further guidance about forming their consciences."
A cover story in glossy New York magazine recently dared to question the good of the birth-control pill based on the damage it had wrought on women's lives and bodies. The one institution that proposes a radically different way might just have something to offer the world -- if it only taught it and lived it.
Pope Benedict has been a teacher, first and foremost, reintroducing a proposal that Christ himself offered. Men and women living in service for love of God are good to have around. Enough with the campaign for less Catholicism in the Catholic Church. How about a welcome mat for a good and faithful shepherd who, with confidence and humility, speaks with clarity about the teachings of the Catholic Church, "proposing the good news of Jesus Christ to a disenchanted world," as George Weigel puts it in his book "Evangelical Catholicism."
The disenchanted are everywhere, even in the pews. And they want to be fed, they want to be engaged, they want to be transformed. They don't want more of the same misery omnipresent in the secular world. The world doesn't need a Gospel of misery but of hope. The Church has it, and we should expect the next pope to teach on, infused with a generous and contagious spirit of engagement.
Elephant? What elephant? I see no elephant in this room.
Since the pope is quitting because the clergy has been taken over by homosexuals I don't see how a progressive pope will make a difference. They're already in the forefront of the progressive movement.
Is anyone inside Islam calling for reform?
Is the media calling for reform of Islam?
Every element and aspect of life ... modern life ... is pressured to change, reform and re-new ... except the sand monkey muzzies.
Yo PEOPLE ... how frikkin' blind ARE you ??!!??
Each person is responsible to God for relationship with Christ, matters not what your particular organized religion says to you.
It`s your responsibility to make sure you have asked Jesus into your life, to turn from sins, and to ask Jesus forgiveness if/when we do sin.
If a particular Church tells you at some point that it`s OK to start aborting God`s unborn children etc, that is not going to give you a pass because the hierarchy said it was OK
Speaking as someone who has left organized religion, but has a daily personal walk with Jesus, I can only encourage others to do the same.
There is no gray areas, when it comes to social issues, under no circumstances can we approve of taking any unborn child's life, Jesus and the Bible covered all this, homosexuality is a abomination etc
Giving mere mortals improper titles such as Reverend,Your eminence, The Holy Father etc etc
There is only 1 Holy Father and that is The Lord Jesus Christ
Wouldn't the correct terminology be that he "resigned" the papal throne?
Wouldn't the correct terminology be "was pushed from it after it came out that he personally covered up decades of child abuse when he was the man responsible for investigating those crimes and then used the insider knowledge he had of the criminals to blackmail them into election him pope"
I have been in such a quandry over whether the Catholic Church = the Vatican. That is, should I consider all the failings of the Pope and the Vatican as a reason to reject the Catholic church due to its imperfect leadership? Similarly, I come to the same question about my country: America = America's Govt. All the failings, improprieties and illegalities perpetrated by my Govt. means my country sucks, too??? What do we do to bring it back to where it's supposed to be? Walk away like you did because there is no way to change the Church from within? Walk away from my country because of the same reason?
When you have Catholics openly voting for pro abortion politicians/presidents etc, Catholics etc openly saying they support gay marriage abortion etc
When you have other so called Christian denominations, marrying homosexuals, ordaining Homosexuals etc
We have to choose at some point, are you with The Lord or not, people will have to ask themselves these questions, especially when they start to talk of moderation because of the times we live in etc.
There are many many Christian Churches, non denominational,many Pentecostal Churches the list is long, one does not have to continue with Churches that are not 150% Bible based.
If you walk in to a truly Christian Church,you will find ZERO pro choice members, you will find ZERO members that support any type of anti Christian non Biblical views.
You will find zero members that would even consider to vote Democrat
People will need to shake the dust off their boots and say...I AM WITH THE LORD JESUS
The selection for the next Pope will be the same as a political party picking a leader, no different
Compare with a CEO who had lost sight in one eye, hearing in one ear, had his clothes altered multiple times because he had lost so much weight.
Please get the facts before you slander the Pope and the Catholic Church. He is ill.
The Reason Benedict Resigned [Catholic Caucus]
At B16's Window, A Big "Thank You"... While Behind the Walls, The "Showcase" Begins
Prayers for Our Holy Father Benedict XVI and the Papal Conclave
Pope still extremely Catholic (A look at how media cover Catholicism [and the Pope])
Conclave to silence at least nine tweeting cardinals
Pope Benedict's resignation and the mystery of the missing encyclical
Benedict, Dawkins, and the Fullness of Reason
Benedict XVI: Vatican II as I saw it
Benedicts renunciation and the wolves within the church
The Left Lobbies for a Liberal Successor to Benedict (and here is why)
Pope Benedict's Future Residence
SCOTT HAHN: Pope Benedict had a profound effect on this former Presbyterian minister
Is the Next Pope the One From John Boscos Dream? (Patrick Madrid offers an intriguing twist)
"Re-Elect Pope Benedict" - Eight more years!
Who can be elected pope?
The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI: A commentary by Fr. Barron
More details on papal resignation, conclave (Vatican Press Office)
Church doesn't bend, but endures
Who Will Take Up the Keys of Peter (This is a MUST READ!)
Conclave & The Media: The Silly Season
Cardinal Bertone's Farewell Address to the Holy Father
"Thank You Let Us Return to Prayer": For the Last Time, The Pope Leaves the Altar
"Today, We Begin A New Journey" Liturgically Speaking, B16's Last Word
Vatican releases schedule for Pope's final days
Benedict XVI: Reasons Revolutionary
Some Interesting Tidbits From Todays Vatican press conference
Pope Decided to Resign After Cuba Trip, Vatican Advisor Says
Pope Says He's Resigning for the 'Good of Church'
Watch for the Anti-Catholics To Weigh in on the Papal Succession
The challenge Pope Benedict has left for his successorand for ordinary Catholics
Historian Notes Precedents for Papal Resignation
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Pope Benedicts Resignation and St. Corbinians Bear
Pope Benedict XVIs Musical Legacy
Benedict announces resignation and lightning strikes
DHS's curiosity piqued over Pope Benedict XVI's retirement and Catholic Prophecy
Prayers for Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict's Devotion to Saint Celestine Signaled His Resignation from the Papacy
Cardinal Sodano to Pope Benedict: We have heard you with a sense of loss and almost disbelief
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Report: Brother Says Pope Was Considering Resignation for Months
Some Notes About the Upcoming Conclave
An Evangelical Looks at Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedicts Resignation in Historical Context
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Pope Benedict XVI:a papal timeline
"I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome" [Full Text]
Pope Benedict's Address on Resignation of the See of Rome
The actual terminology in the letter in one of those links is required.
You are confusing impeccability with infallibility. Popes are humans and can sin — they are not impeccable.
But when they decree a dogma/or the magesterium does in matters of faith and morals — the decisions are always guided by the Holy Spiriit and become infalliable.
Infallible Infallibility
Docility (on Catholic dogma and infallibility)
Beginning Catholic: Infallibility: Keeping the Faith [Ecumenical]
Papal Infallibility [Ecumenical]
Peter & Succession (Understanding the Church Today)
Pope: may all Christians recognize true meaning of Peters primacy
Pope St. Leo the Great and the Petrine Primacy
The Epiphany of the Roman Primacy
THE PRIMACY OF THE SUCCESSOR OF PETER IN THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH [Ratzinger]
"If you walk in to a truly Christian Church,you will find ZERO pro choice members, you will find ZERO members that support any type of anti Christian non Biblical views"
I would add - and No one would have voted for Obama in that church - agree with you 100% on the above statement and everything else you wrote. If you want to go somewhere where liberal points of view prevail, be a Unitarian or an Episcopalian- they don't believe in anything — this is War and that's how we need to look at it -For both Christianity and our country.
The word 'zero' is like the word 'never'. It makes you a liar because it makes that statement unbelievable.
We are all sinners. Repenet and believe in the Gospel.
A liar, huh - that's a bit harsh, don't you think. The more I read your words, it sounds like you either misunderstood me or I am sure misunderstanding you.
The original commenter was talking about what a Bible-believing church would look like - there would be no one there in support of Abortion and they wouldn't be cherry-picking the Bible for what works today and what should be scrapped. Such churches used to be the norm.
Peace be with you.
He is in fact quitting because of the report he received on the homosexual takeover of the priesthood. Anything else you hear is a smokescreen.
Good grief!! Didn't you read any of those links I posted about Pope Benedict XVI?
Or do you just hate Catholics and the Catholic Church?
Or do you have some insider information here? Care to share it?
Pope Benedict is ill. I suspect that he may die within six months. Then what will you say?
Repent and believe in the Gospel.
May I suggest that you read Why We Love The Church by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck?
There is only 1 Holy Father and that is The Lord Jesus Christ
I think that you mean that God the Father is the Holy Father. Jesus Christ is his only begotten Son.
I will say that he's an old man and everyone dies eventually. As for the rot in the priesthood, here you go.
Revelation 18:4 "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
Revelation 18:4 "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
Amen, Brother/Sister!
Very good! Also a number of other Scriptures could also apply.
I know some Churches in Canada, walked away from real estate to stand for the truth, perhaps United Church, might have been Anglican, was over the whole homosexuality thing
In fact this poster claims ALL organized religions are wrong and that even venerating a simple Cross is pagan. Given that this is the point of view from which he views the world, why should anyone pay attention to his odd, often incomplete and often misread cut-n-pastes?
Some quotes and links as CB now tries to say he didn't say what he said:
Let the pagans have it. God doesnt smile down on people who celebrate Easter.
All of the Lent and Easter abomination is pagan and God clearly condemned it in scripture.
I could give you a number of Scriptures, many that show that Jesus is in fact God the Father, but not sure if it would be of any benefit to debate...Semantics even
John Chapter 1 from vs 1 for starters...In the beginning was the Word (Notice the caps on Word) and the Word was with God and the Word was God
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us...Jesus is the Word
Jesus said...those who have seen me have seen the Father, I and my father are one
In old and new Testament , Jesus is referred to as the prince of peace, the everlasting Father , King of Kings, The Great I Am etc etc
Yes I believe in John 3:16. For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life...basically the Gospel in the nutshell
When I posted...that there was only One Holy Father and that is The Lord Jesus Christ...I could have just as easily said there is only 1 Holy Father and that is The Lord God
But anyway was just doing my evening quiet time as I hit the bed, so I skipped to find the Scripture I was thinking of, I could have chosen one of many, but here is the main one I was thinking of
From Isaiah 9 vs 6 , He was speaking of Jesus
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful,Counselor,Mighty God,Everlasting Father,Prince of Peace
Time for bed :)
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Correct terminology is neither "renounced" or "resigned", but abdicated.
If the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is "semantics," then I'm not sure what the core beliefs of Christian doctrine are, in your estimation. What you're describing here sounds a lot like Sabellianism, also called Modalism and Patripassianism--a heresy condemned by the vast majority of Christianity since it appeared in the second or third century.
If Jesus, the Son of God, is God the Father, then why does Paul so often greet his audience in the Pauline Epistles with "Grace and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ"?
John Chapter 1 from vs 1 for starters...In the beginning was the Word (Notice the caps on Word) and the Word was with God and the Word was God
The capitalization of the word "Logos" is not present in the original Greek. You are correct though, that Jesus is the Word, and that the Word was with God, and the Word was God from the beginning. That does not mean that God the Son is God the Father.
As for Isaiah 9:6, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the passage makes the note that in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Tanakh), Jesus is the "Father of the world to come."
"He is the everlasting Father, or the Father of eternity; he is God, one with the Father, who is from everlasting to everlasting. He is the author of everlasting life and happiness to them, and so is the Father of a blessed eternity to them. He is the Father of the world to come (so the Septuagint reads it), the father of the gospel-state, which is put in subjection to him, not to the angels, Heb. 2:5 . He was, from eternity, Father of the great work of redemption: his heart was upon it; it was the product of his wisdom as the counsellor, of his love as the everlasting Father."
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Getting The Most From RAW
A valuable tool for the digital photographer, RAW must be treated with respect to maximize its benefits
Digital offers so many new choices that it can be confusing at times. Remember what it was like when we first started photographing—our choices were befuddling then, too. We had no idea of what an ƒ-stop was or why we should choose a particular ƒ-stop and shutter speed combination. And what about depth of field versus selective focus?
Digital capture is similar—new things to learn that, once mastered, will be taken for granted. Sometimes, the choices aren't perfectly clear, like RAW and JPEG. Let's explore why RAW can be an important choice for many photographers, with ideas on getting the most from it.
I've covered JPEG and internal processing in cameras in the past because I felt there were many photographers who would be better suited shooting that way, yet the tech folks pushed RAW without consideration of how a photographer liked to work. Well-meaning experts often promote one approach to digital, but some photographers uncomfortable with that way lose some of their enthusiasm for our medium. If you get the results you want and need from high-quality JPEG, then keep doing it.
RAW is an extremely important tool for the digital photographer, however. There are three reasons why photographers should use it, I believe: they like processing images; they find limitations, causing them problems when shooting JPEG; and they need the increased flexibility RAW offers. RAW shouldn't be an automatic format to use because another photographer says so—that can lead to frustration in the time spent at the computer and when working with the RAW converter.
Once you decide to work with RAW, it's essential to understand that RAW requires a certain workflow to maximize its benefits. Many photographers now shoot RAW + JPEG so they get the best of both formats—a great way to go (especially since memory cards now offer a lot of megabytes with less cost). You gain the increased flexibility of RAW when you need it and the ability to work quickly with JPEG files when that's appropriate.
To use RAW to its best advantage, let's cover some basics. It certainly isn't a magic bullet that transforms any kind of exposure or lighting condition into a great shot. RAW is a type of image file with minimal change to the data coming from the sensor. It isn't unprocessed data as you may have read—the sensor creates analog information that must be processed into digital data. This is accomplished with the A/D converter and is a complex engineering challenge that, luckily, camera manufacturers have mastered for us.
A RAW file holds more tonal and color information than JPEG and offers a great deal of flexibility in how you can work the tones and color in an image. With RAW, you can frequently extract tones and details from the brightest and darkest areas of an image that have no detail in a JPEG file. In addition, image tonal qualities can be maintained throughout a greater range of adjustments done in RAW.
RAW allows you to enlarge digital images to a larger size with higher quality when done in the RAW converter than if you enlarge them later in Photoshop or using most other enlarging software. This can be remarkable, allowing superb-quality prints from even small digital files.There have been many misconceptions about RAW, however. One of the most common and unfortunate myths we hear is that RAW is so adaptable that you don't have to be as concerned about exposure or color since you can fix it in RAW.
The problem with such thinking is that it shortchanges RAW, creates more work to do in the computer (which can be frustrating) and can give you less than the best tonalities and color. Consider a couple of things: RAW comes from a sensor that has a finite range from black to white —if your exposure is outside of that range, nothing can bring it back, not even RAW; and RAW comes from a digital translation of analog information given by the sensor—GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) is definitely appropriate here. RAW does its best when it has good files from the start.
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Complexity and the dysfunctions of central government
One of the most interesting psychological aspects of Whitehall is that their inability to fix their own lifts in no way dents their confidence in advocating that they manage some incredibly complicated process. If one says, 'given we've failed to fix the bloody lift in four years, maybe we should leave X alone', they tend to look either mystified or as if you have made a particularly bad taste joke.
Dominic Cummings, a former special advisor writes a cutting dissection on the issues of complexity in modern politics and the increasing dysfunction of the executive branch via Bond movies, the First World War, political screwups and some unfixable lifts.
Dominic Cummings, a former special advisor writes a cutting dissection on the issues of complexity in modern politics and the increasing dysfunction of the executive branch via Bond movies, the First World War, political screwups and some unfixable lifts.
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Norbert Wiener: The Eccentric Genius Whose Time May Have Finally Come (Again) - "The most direct reason for Wiener's fall to relative obscurity was the breakthrough of a young mathematician and engineer named Claude Shannon." [more inside]
John Baez on the maths of connecting everyone (and everything) on earth
Network Theory Overview - "The idea: nature and the world of human technology are full of networks! People like to draw diagrams of networks. Mathematical physicists know that in principle these diagrams can be understood using category theory. But why should physicists have all the fun? This is the century of understanding living systems and adapting to life on a finite planet. Math isn't the main thing we need, but it's got to be part of the solution... so one thing we should do is develop a unified and powerful theory of networks." (via ;)
use value vs. exchange value
The Failure of Judges and the Rise of Regulators
The Control Revolution And Its Discontents - "the long process of algorithmisation over the last 150 years has also, wherever possible, replaced implicit rules/contracts and principal-agent relationships with explicit processes and rules."
George Soros on the Way Forward
Soros lectures
You can slog through the video, but I preferred the transcripts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 [more inside]
You can slog through the video, but I preferred the transcripts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 [more inside]
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Too Complex To Exist? [1] Paul Kedrosky has been pondering complex social systems and why they sometimes fail. Apparently it has something to do with "normalization of deviance," "tight coupling" [2] and "slack." [3]
(laws of human stupidity)
Why systems fail - Review of the book: Systemantics; how systems work... and especially how they fail by John Gall. New York, Pocket Books, 1978. {via} [more inside]
systems theory Donella Meadow's
Dancing with Systems: What to do when systems resist change. Is an excerpt from the late Systems Theorist and Enviromentalist Donella Meadow's unfinished last book. There is beautiful information here. If you are confused and wondering about some of the ideas that has infused the world-wide peace, enviromental, social justice and anti-globalization movements (That is of course Globalization as defined by the Washington Consensus policies) you would be very hard pressed to find a better place to start. Here are points in the essay. Listen to the wisdom of the system. Expose your mental models to the open air. Stay humble. Stay a learner. Honor and protect information. Locate responsibility in the system. Make feedback policies for feedback systems. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable. Go for the good of the whole. Expand time horizons. Expand thought horizons. Expand the boundary of caring. Celebrate complexity. Hold fast to the goal of goodness.
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A pair of Johnson County high school seniors were selected as two of the state's best students based on their accomplishments in the classroom and community.
Center Grove senior Jack Zhang and Franklin senior Madi Kareta were two of 36 students selected as Regional Academic All-Stars as part of a program of the Indiana Association of School Principals.
Zhang was one of two students to receive a $500 scholarship from Indiana University. Every accredited public and private school in the state was eligible to nominate a student.
Students were nominated based on several factors, including their SAT or ACT scores, and their grade-point average. The courses each student has taken, their academic accomplishments, their extracurricular activities and community service also were considered in the nomination process.
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I sold out about a week ago when some were crying about earnings. Good we are NOT in tech,
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You are so right……I am trying to cherish every moment each day!!
Ahhhh, a good reminder for a monday morning!
Amen, Sister!
So true, trying hard to "ignore the mess"…eeek. 🙂
I so needed to read this post this morning. Thank you Lisa.
Thank you for reminding me about the simple things in each day ~ I'm feeding my body and mind today with your words
Your blog is amazing. It is one of the highlights of my day to check your latest post. It is beautiful, calming and always moves me. It moves me to enjoy life's simple pleasures, to hug my kids, to make the most of everyday, to reflect on how God has blessed us beyond measure. Lisa, you make me smile everyday… thank-you!
after i just finished walking the dogs, stripping the bed, cleaning the inside and outside of hubby's truck, vacuuming the first level, doing some spot cleaning, and am looking around me seeing MORE to do, this is a GOOD WORD. the last line is true, and we so often forget it.
I am stopping by from Angie's Blog..i already love you from comments about your self…and I have only read the latest post! I agree with you totally, time flies and then all those precious moments will be gone…Enjoy them while they are here! Stop by and say hi if you get a chance…Shi~
ok, I had to stop by again…to say I love all your jewery! Love it! 🙂
thank you for this beautiful reminder of what's important in life.
Beautiful post Lisa. Your words always inspire me. 🙂
thanks for another simple, but perspective-changing post!
Thank you for the beautiful reminder, Lisa!
I came across your blog today after seeing your jewelery in Ok magazine. I absolutely love your jewelery and your blog. In fact I am kind of obsessed now. It is 3am and I have just gone back through your blog reading all your old posts. I love your photos, your creativity and your great attention to detail. You have inspired me in so many different ways when I have not felt inspired in such a long, long time! I thank you for pointing out all of the beautiful things around us with your optimistic outlook on life. You are everything I wanted to be when I "grew up"!
Thanks again and looking forward to coming back to this new found gem often!
such wonderful words to live by… thanks for the reminder!
A friend of mine gave me a link to your site and I must say I am glad she did. Your jewelry and photos are absolutely beautiful. Your words are inspiring to say the least. I will be visiting often!
All very true! I always enjoy your blog although I rarely comment. Love your jewelry too…I'll be ordering something soon for my mom. 🙂
This reminds me of a quite from Family Circus 1994
Yesterday is the past, tomarrow is the furture, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.


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Am in need of a compact travel tripod - am looking at the following
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Let's explore some ways to make gorgeous gathers! Always pretty, ruffles look terrific whether gathered into a seam such as a skirt or apron; sleeves, pockets, bags, etc., or applied as ruffled embellishments at necklines, across a pillow, quilt, bag, shirt - here, there and everywhere! Course Instructor: Deonn Stott @ Quiltscapes Course Supplies: *1 Fat Quarter, cut into four or five 9" x 7" rectangles, and four or five 4-1/2" x 3" rectangles. *Thread, dental floss, Clover Fuse & Gather tape (optional), double needle (never mind). Here's how I learned to gather: The "Two-Strand" technique. Used in garments mostly ... ...read more


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Snipe bids welcome! Go to and open an account today. Increase your chances of winning this auction !Thank you for looking and bidding! This auction is for an original Lionel # 700E NEW YORK CENTRAL HUDSON CLASS J1e STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. Original engine Circa 1938. A REAL BEAUTY !!! A GORGEOUS, RARELY SEEN EARLY EXAMPLE! WOW !!! This is Lionel's best ever ! Made in 1938 ( serial # 011168) this was produced in limited numbers. This engine was designed by William Kiefer the BRILLIANT locomotive designer for the New York Central . Emphasis on the word BRILLIANT ! Wish I could have been around to see one of these beautiful machines run from Harmon NY to Chicago. The New York Central never saved one of it's 275 HUDSON class locomotives---a pure historical BLUNDER ! However, we can thank The Lionel Corporation and it's sucessors for creating MILLIONS of toy and scale model HUDSONS over the years. THANKS JOSH ! Awesome, all original parts, shell paint and graphics. No cracks or repairs anywhere including the shell. C-7ish piece!!! No touchups anywhere. Some run time. It runs great! All functions OK, lights, whistle. Engine and tender motors need to be services before placing this loco into service!!! Condition notes----this is the second 700E that I have had in my possesion. It is rare to find one that the wheels spin freely and the reciprocating parts do not bind! This one runs smoothly as is !!! The frame appears straight. Wheels are not cupped and do not foul on any running gear or frame parts. The whistle worked but it needs cleaned and lubed. Boiler does not appear to be stretched more than thousandths of an inch. The shell has not been broken or repaired anywhere!!! Finish--- this engine has the original paint and graphics. c-7ish. Pint as shown in the pictures--some chips, scuffs rubs etc. Original ruber stamped graphics on the engine and tender. I believe ther is a postwar whistle and bell mounted on the engine. The bell looks to be nickel plated---real 700e bells were chrome plated. Same on the whistle--brassy appearance. Boilerfront---I do believe it is original but the grabrail stanchions look replaced. The wire for the grabrail looks to be FUGAZY (see the ends--not cut clean). The jewe;s are probably replacements but they look fine. There is a postwar eccentric rod on the engineman's side--see pics. Also the timing of the eccentric crank on the fireman's side needs to be changed---all done with the turn of a screw and a resetting of the crank. I can do that before I ship her. Not sure if the eccentrics are original either. 700E eccentrics have a tendency of swelling up and cannot be removed from the center driver unless they are cut off! These rotated freely. Other than that I believe the rest of the engine is original. The drawbar link pin that holds the engine and tender together has a chain that should be attached to the engine--I can attach before shipment. All drivers are tight. The tender is set up for RAILCHIEF cars---has the drawbar for it attached. Looks like someone changed the roller on the tender (looks new). Some replacement screws ont he underside of the tender chassis. Original Lionel tender shell and IT IS NOT WARPED AT ALL!!! A MIRACLE!!! The wire form the tender is frayed as shown, Please ask questions. Some paint defects on thetender shell near the coal pile as shown. Overall the engine looks great !!! Good luck to you if you bid on this original Lionel Train item. Please feel free to ask any questions about this item. Shipping will be USPS Priority Mail OR UPS $24.99 domestic shipping only which includes insurance and tracking . Thanks! Sincerely, paper…train LIONEL SMITHSONIAN SCALE HUDSON 6-18027 TRAIN RARE KOHS From a good ebay friend!!! .................................. Am...


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cards and prints were ordered yesterday!
springs has been pulling one me to come out and play....but i've been diligently working on the second phase of the book...getting... Read more
march 23
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this project is almost over.
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Police say Flores fled the scene but was caught a short time later and he was charged with injury to a child.
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Huawei S7 tablet upgraded with capacitive touch screen spotted in the wild
The Huawei S7 Android tablet initially caught our eye when it made its debut at the Mobile World Congress in February and stepped further into
StreakDroid 1.5 custom ROM for Dell Streak includes Gingerbread goodies
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Updated Android Market available for HTC EVO before official rollout
Over the next two weeks, Google will be pushing out an update to Android Market (version 2.2.6) that overhauls its user interface and includes a
HTC EVO Shift 4G turns EVO 4G into bigger and better-looking brother
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OtterBox HTC EVO Defender Series Case winners!
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Dell Streak now selling for $99.99 (with contract) from Best Buy
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Dell says Froyo update "hopefully" coming to AT&T-locked Streak next month
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NBA Finals: LeBron James is playing great basketball, and appears miserable while doing it.
LeBron James says he's having fun. Says he's enjoying himself.
Sure doesn't look like it.
LeBron is doing his ultimate Superman impersonation. Faster than a speeding bullet (though not Russell Westbrook). More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
And in serious need of counseling, or at least a weekend trip to his Fortress of Solitude.
As LeBron continues his chase of that elusive championship, with Game 2 of the NBA Finals in downtown OKC on Thursday night, my only question for LeBron is this.
Where's the joy?
Where's the on-court bowling ball fun and the posing for fake pictures and the chalk shower he gave anyone sitting at the scorer's table? Where's the guy with a bounce in his step even when the clock wasn't moving?
LeBron is playing basketball like the burden of the Free World rests on his shoulders. Responsibility run amok.
He says otherwise. "I think I have a lot of fun with the game," LeBron said. "This year in particular, I have a lot of fun or I've had a lot of fun with the game. I got back to what drove me to the game and what made me fall in love with the game."
Yeah, he's a barrel of laughs. When the whole danged world is having a good time with Westbrook's goofy wardrobe, including Russ himself, LeBron stoically proclaimed that no, Westbrook did not set the fashion trend of lensless eyewear. LeBron disputed Westbrook's assertions with all the seriousness of C-SPAN.
LeBron's game is at an all-time high. He had a routine Game 1 – 30 points, nine rebounds, four assists.
Routine only compared to that Game 6 in Boston, where LeBron had 45 points, 15 rebounds, five assists and only seven missed shots. Which might not even have been his best game of these playoffs, considering he had 40 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists in a crucial Game 4 win over Indiana.
Truth is, LeBron never has played better. And never looked more miserable doing it.
He jumped ship in Cleveland in an admission he needed more help and landed on a superstar cruise ship in Miami only to discover that he needs more help.
The Thunder appears to have the better team in these Finals. Seemed that way going into the series, seemed that way coming out of Game 1.
This is Cleveland South (Beach). The Heat will go as far as LeBron can take it, and LeBron is taking the Heat about as far as one player can go.
He's got a beat-up Dwyane Wade and a beat-up Chris Bosh, and while I suppose that's better than Mo Williams and Anderson Varejao, that's not what LeBron had in mind.
LeBron needs Wade to be the Wade of yesteryear. The Wade of the 2006 Finals, and Wade wistfully talked Wednesday of how that's not going to happen. Not even South Beach can tame Father Time.
While LeBron looks at least the equal of the wondrous Kevin Durant, Wade does not look the equal of Westbrook, and suddenly the talent edge even at the top isn't Miami's. Who would have thought that fate would befall Miami so quickly when the Heatles formed two summers ago?
Wade has admitted he has passed the reins to LeBron. This is LeBron's team, and any talk otherwise – which has been rampant since they teamed up – now seems silly.
"Sometimes I go to him and tell him I need one of those games from him, I need one of those performances from him because he still has it," LeBron said of Wade. "He knows he still has it, too, but every player needs a little kick every now and then, no matter how time tested they are."
For a variety of reasons, LeBron went from carefree superstar to arch-villain. A plot right out of DC Comics if ever there was one.
LeBron didn't seem to mind, because it paired him with his buddy Wade and it put him on what everyone thought was an unbeatable team.
Turns out the Mavs were experienced and hot a year ago and the Thunder is hot and young this year, and suddenly those multiple championships LeBron talked about – "not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven…" – have been reduced to a singular goal. Can Miami win one?
"We live in a different world probably than most teams," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra understated.
And so LeBron plays brilliant basketball with the albatross of expectation around his neck and the awesome weight of responsibility on his shoulders, and while he's a better player than ever, he's doing it carrying a mighty burden.
LeBron has everything he wanted. Be careful what you wish for.
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Mechanical problems closed the southbound lanes of the Interstate 5 Bridge Tuesday night, blocking the freeway for hours. An official with the Oregon Department of Transportation said Tuesday night that he expects the bridge will be open before Wednesday's morning commute.
Both spans of the bridge lifted for river traffic at 8:16 p.m., but the southbound span failed to come back down completely. ODOT workers determined that a roller broke, agency spokesman Don Hamilton said.
The rollers help guide the lift span up and down.
The bridge malfunction caused traffic to back up on southbound I-5 past Mill Plain Boulevard. Washington State Patrol directed southbound traffic to Interstate 205.
"This is one of the issues you deal with, with a bridge this old," Hamilton said. The weather is making repairs more difficult, he added.
"It's a nasty cold night and they're working in high winds," Hamilton said.
In the coming weeks, the southbound bridge will have to be raised and lowered more slowly until the problem is completely fixed, Hamilton said.
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The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is responsible for providing physical security and law enforcement services to about 9,000 General Services Administration (GSA) facilities. To accomplish its mission of protecting GSA facilities, FPS currently has an annual budget of about $1 billion, about 1,100 employees, and 15,000 contract guards located throughout the country. GAO was asked to provide information and analysis on challenges FPS faces including ensuring that it has sufficient staffing and funding resources to protect GSA facilities and the over one million federal employees as well as members of the public that work in and visit them each year. GAO discusses (1) FPS's operational challenges and actions it has taken to address them, (2) funding challenges, and (3) how FPS measures the effectiveness of its efforts to protect GSA facilities. This testimony is based on our recently issued report (GAO-08-683) to this Subcommittee.
FPS faces several operational challenges that hamper its ability to accomplish its mission and the actions it has taken may not fully resolve these challenges. FPS's staff has decreased by about 20 percent from fiscal years 2004 through 2007. FPS has also decreased or eliminated law enforcement services such as proactive patrol in many FPS locations. Moreover, FPS has not resolved longstanding challenges, such as improving the oversight of its contract guard program, maintaining security countermeasures, and ensuring the quality and timeliness of building security assessments (BSA). For example, one regional supervisor stated that while reviewing a BSA for an address he personally visited he realized that the inspector completing the BSA had falsified the information because the inspector referred to a large building when the actual site was a vacant plot of land owned by GSA. To address some of these operational challenges, FPS is currently changing to an inspector based workforce, which seeks to eliminate the police officer position and rely primarily on FPS inspectors for both law enforcement and physical security activities. FPS is also hiring an additional 150 inspectors. However, these actions may not fully resolve the challenges FPS faces, in part because the approach does not emphasize law enforcement responsibilities. Until recently, the security fees FPS charged to agencies have not been sufficient to cover its costs and the actions it has taken to address the shortfalls have had adverse implications. For example, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transferred emergency supplemental funding to FPS. FPS restricted hiring and limited training and overtime. According to FPS officials, these measures have had a negative effect on staff morale and are partially responsible for FPS's high attrition rates. FPS was authorized to increase the basic security fee four times since it transferred to DHS in 2003, currently charging tenant agencies 62 cents per square foot for basic security services. Because of these actions, FPS's collections in fiscal year 2007 were sufficient to cover costs, and FPS projects that collections will also cover costs in fiscal year 2008. However, FPS's primary means of funding its operations--the basic security fee--does not account for the risk faced by buildings, the level of service provided, or the cost of providing services, raising questions about equity. Stakeholders also expressed concern about whether FPS has an accurate understanding of its security costs. FPS has developed output measures, but lacks outcome measures to assess the effectiveness of its efforts to protect federal facilities. Its output measures include determining whether security countermeasures have been deployed and are fully operational. However, FPS does not have measures to evaluate its efforts to protect federal facilities that could provide FPS with broader information on program outcomes and results. FPS also lacks a reliable data management system for accurately tracking performance measures. Without such a system, it is difficult for FPS to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of its efforts, allocate its limited resources, or make informed risk management decisions.
May 26, 2016
Immigration Detention:Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen DHS Management of Short-Term Holding FacilitiesGAO-16-514: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016.
May 24, 2016
Border Security:DHS Surveillance Technology Unmanned Aerial Systems and Other AssetsGAO-16-671T: Published: May 24, 2016. Publicly Released: May 24, 2016.
May 17, 2016
Critical Infrastructure Protection:Federal Efforts to Address Electromagnetic RisksGAO-16-641T: Published: May 17, 2016. Publicly Released: May 17, 2016.
Apr 25, 2016
Critical Infrastructure Protection:Federal Agencies Have Taken Actions to Address Electromagnetic Risks, but Opportunities Exist to Further Assess Risks and Strengthen CollaborationGAO-16-243: Published: Mar 24, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 25, 2016.
Apr 19, 2016
High-Containment Laboratories:Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Policies and Stronger Oversight Mechanisms Needed to Improve SafetyGAO-16-305: Published: Mar 21, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 19, 2016.
Apr 15, 2016
Quadrennial Homeland Security Review:Improved Risk Analysis and Stakeholder Consultations Could Enhance Future ReviewsGAO-16-371: Published: Apr 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 15, 2016.
Apr 14, 2016
Biodefense:The Nation Faces Multiple Challenges in Building and Maintaining Biodefense and BiosurveillanceGAO-16-547T: Published: Apr 14, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 14, 2016.
Apr 12, 2016
Federal Emergency Management Agency:Progress and Continuing Challenges in National Preparedness EffortsGAO-16-560T: Published: Apr 12, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 12, 2016.
Terrorism Risk Insurance:Comparison of Selected Programs in the United States and Foreign CountriesGAO-16-316: Published: Apr 12, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 12, 2016.
Mar 31, 2016
Homeland Security Acquisitions:DHS Has Strengthened Management, but Execution and Affordability Concerns EndureGAO-16-338SP: Published: Mar 31, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 31, 2016.
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Every year, since 1950, our organization has hosted "Astro-Assembly", a convention of amateur and professional astronomers from the New England area, held at Seagrave Memorial Observatory, in N. Scituate, RI. This year, Astro-Assembly will be held on Friday night, October 4th and all day Saturday, October 5, 2013.
Our Friday evening program of talks consists of a variety of topics, ranging from astro-photography, personal observatories, telescope making, astronomical history, and amateur astronomical research projects.
We are looking for speakers interested in providing a short talk (10 to 20 mins) for our Friday evening program. If anyone in your organization is interested in presenting a short talk, please contact me with a title and description of the talk, the length of the presentation, and also your audio/visual needs.
Our Saturday program of speakers, exhibits, solar observing, and an astrophotography competition runs all day, followed by an evening banquet and featured speaker, Dr. Mario Motta.
Our oldest telescope is an 8.25" Alvan Clark refractor, built in 1878, fully restored and complete with a weight driven drive. The club also owns several other telescopes, a 12" f8 Newtonian, circa 1925, as well as 12" and 16" Meade Cassegrains, mounted in roll-off roof observatories.
We hope that you will attend this year's AstroAssembly. Come and enjoy a wonderful fall day with the camaraderie of your fellow astronomers. Many of our guests have been attending AstroAssembly for decades!
This year's program and registration form can be downloaded from http://www.theskyscr...troassembly2013
AstroAssembly 2013 North Scituate, RI
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We Made it to Jalopnik This Morning
Not sure who else is a fellow Jalop reader, but they post up a few old MotorWeek clips a week as a comic homage to the show and past cars. Well this morning we made it. Some interesting comments from true car guys...some who still don't know the car ever exsisted, to guys who can't believe how much of a bad-ass sleeper the car is.
Here's the link to the page which has the old Motorweek clip.
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Why is it I can never view their site cleanly. It's all mumle jumbled with text over text.
I looked at it on my phone. There are just as many clueless people in those comments too. "They should've just put 'insert LSx engine here' in it!", "I saw one in green", another wants one in blue!
Yea dooshhammer, they didn't put an LSx in it, because they were marketing an $80k - $90k car towards doctors, lawyers, and others with money, who also consider higher dollar MB's, BMW's, Jags, and other similar cars with butter smooth, silky engines, and want "refinement" in their engines, not a "hot-rod" camming, dry sump, Corvette engine under the hood!
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but but but.....AMERICA! haha, yeah - there's a lot of people on that site (and in general) who totally don't understand it. "why not drop the 427 in there? That's got moar powah"
There's a few who understand it was about making a Cadillac and doing it right. And doing it right doesn't always mean making the biggest numbers.
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A Northstar is American too!
I love the LSx motor as much as anyone, I've had 5 of them... It's just not the right engine for the car.
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Meet the Team
Jason Koffler – Managing Director
Jason Koffler knows the power protection industry inside out. He started out at North West-based power manufacturer and reseller Galatrek in 1991 and soon established himself as a motivated and enthusiastic team player, leader and power sales professional. He went on to fulfil strategic and high-profile sales and marketing roles within some of the industry's leading providers, including: EATON Corporation and MGE UPS Systems. During 2009 he worked for the Global Integration team of Eaton, incorporating the single phase distribution business unit into Eaton, following the purchase of APC by Schneider Electric.
Koffler is also a skilled marketer in the power sector, achieving an MBA and post-graduate diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), he is also an Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has a BA Honours degree in Three-Dimensional design from the University of Wales.
Martin Pearce – Sales Director
Martin joined the company in September 2015 and is based at our Thame HQ, responsible for all matters relating to Sales and Marketing Management. Martin has over 30 years experience in Critical Power Supplies and Standby Power with an exceptionally high technical and commercial skill set.
Maria Bassett – Finance Director
Maria joined the company in November 2012 and is based at our Thame HQ, responsible for all matters relating to day to day sales invoicing and purchase ledger, debt collection. She is used to working in fast passed entrepreneurial companies and lives locally in Thame.
James Bird – Sales Engineer UK & Export
James joined the company in May 2013 and works from our Thame HQ, responsible for internal sales and new clients. Previously James worked in the financial sector and holds a gliders pilot license.
Neil Gallimore – Sales Engineer UK UPS & Generators
Neil joined the company in July 2015 and works from our Thame HQ, responsible for Critical Power and Standby Power Applications. Previously Neil worked in the Standby Power industry and has over years of generator experience.
Sarah Stone – Client Support
Sarah joined the company in January 2013 and is based at our Thame HQ, responsible for all matters relating to day to day Client Support. She is used to working with Clients from a range of industries and delivery first class Client Support.
Jonathan Blake – Installation Engineer
Jonathan joined the company in April 2014 and is based in Thame, responsible for all matters relating to day to day installations and DC work.
Martin Steves – Service Engineer
Martin joined the company in April 2014 and is based in Thame, responsible for all matters relating to UPS and generator servicing work.
Fernando Orlando – Marketing and Marcoms
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Our local PBS Station is holding another fund raiser this week.
They're airing a Dylan special. Oh the memories. I want to go back
and do it all again, not different (though I should) just again.
Our local PBS Station is holding another fund raiser this week.
They're airing a Dylan special. Oh the memories. I want to go back
and do it all again, not different (though I should) just again.
Yeah, I've had that thought a time or two.
Now I just tell myself to try to make each year one that I would like to experience again.
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour
There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
I can't remember.........if I'd like to relive my past.............or not.
I wouldn't go back again unless I could put in less time in cars and more on a bike -- and I spent several of them years in a town* where the hills and the winters could get pretty gnarly.
If we live long enough, a lot of us will probably look back on THIS year as one we'd be glad to go back to...
(*Ithaca, NY to be precise)
PBS just wants your money, and they'll play on your sentiments to that end. I've caved once, about 10 years ago. Now when I send money it's not during fundraising -- I want them to know that their techniques don't work on everyone.
When my feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says, "Oh, *****, she's awake!"
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Color me sentimental but I would love to go back and spend even one day with my four daughters when they were 8, 6, 4 & 2. I suspect a lot of parents would want to do the same.
As to the here and now, I would love to take a year off of work and enjoy life while my health is good. Then I could go back to work refreshed and put in some productive years before retirement. Like many others, I have some nagging health issues that will likely be of greater concern by the time I hit 60+. I sure wish this was an easier thing to pull off.
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour
There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
I'd do it again in a heartbeat. What a ride so far. Not easy or pain free, but interesting for certain.
It's all downhill from here. Except the parts that are uphill.
I remember during the period that the Dylan documentary covers, our family was staying at a motel in Oceanside, CA, near the Pendelton Marine Base. A bunch of Marines were in the motel one night, raising hell. Much to my surprise, my father didn't get upset. He said, "Those guys are probably shipping out to Vietnam. Let 'em have their fun."
Later that night, one of them jumped off the top of the motel, killing himself. The next day we learned those Marines were shipping out that afternoon, and the guy was so terrified he decided to end it right then and there. It would have been his second tour of duty in S.E. Asia.
I love Dylan's music, but I wouldn't want to go back to that period again. All I could think about on the drive home from that "vacation" was how few years there were left before I came of draft age, and why should I bother to take school or anything else seriously?
That experience really colored my outlook on life. I never had a career path, even though I was a straight A student and never got in a lick of trouble. I just couldn't bear to think too far ahead...and that attitude stuck with me my entire life.
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If I could just do the good parts and not even remember the bad I would love to do it again but even at this distance the pain of the bad is too much. No thanks.
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If you can't remember your past, it was probably a good one!
I'd go back. I'd go forward. I'd go sideways. I'd go across the universe in my yellow submarine. Being, baby, being, that's what it's all about. Now, I'll hop on my green-blue-electric yellow paisly pony and ride captain ride.
"Light it up, Popo." --Levi Leipheimer
...to the islands,
where the shrimp boats tie up to the pilins'
gimme oysters and beer, everyday of the year
And I'll feel fine, I'll feel fine...
I wanna be there
wanna go down and lie beside the sea there,
With a tin cup for a chalice, fill it up with good red wine,
And I'll be chewing on a honeysuckle vine...
I'd only go back if I could take my current brain with me. Go back unconsciously and start over -- no way!
David Green, Naperville, IL USA "The older I get, the better I used to be" --Lee Trevino
I don't want to go anywhere unconscious.
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour
There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
go buy a Dylan anthology and listen/reminiscence, but just remember that even Dylan has moved on.
Do a Jimi experience while you are at it. Joplin beerfest?
81 AustroDaimler Olympian/81 Mondia Super/82 Holdsworth Special/85 EM Corsa Extra/86 DeRosa Professional/99 Pinarello/99 Calfee/03 Macalu/04 Tallerico + tandem/mtn/beach cruiser
Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery
I wish someone would come
And push back the clock for me
All the young men with their young women looking so good
Well, I'd trade places with any of them
In a minute, if I could
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We are only allowed to see through the past darkly.
Oh wait, you can still see them today. Never mind.
The more you ride your bike, the less your ass will hurt.
I have had a happy life and have lost several wonderful people, so yes, I'd love to go back and visit my past--as long as I could avoid the heartbreaks and my own crimes and misdemeanors. I'd love to see my two sons as little boys again. And all the friends and family. What a wonderful thought! Thank you for bring ing it up.
Though there might be some stock I'd like to purchase, I think I'd as soon stay where I am.
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Looking back, lots of good times, quite a few bad times, many mistakes, but I am in a good place now, maybe better than i should be considering some of the mistakes.
"What a long, strange trip its been"


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This type of injury is easily diagnosed using clinical examination. X-rays are usually done to ensure that there is no fracture of the ribs, and an MRI can be used to determine that there is no cartilage damage and also to positively ID the sprain and its exact severity.
Treatment for the injury is simple. Since a strain is a mild muscular injury, it is treated with rest, ice, anti-inflammatories, and gentle stretching exercises. Most importantly, the athlete must try to limit the movement of the torso, because each bend or stretch can further tear or limit the healing of the ribcage muscles.
Stretching exercises that are done daily can help to avoid this type of injury, but nothing can be done to truly prevent it. The best stretches for this muscle group are side-bending exercises and side bending with rotation. These are the exercises most often done by kids by spreading the legs, spreading the arms like a scarecrow, and turning one way and the other from the waist. The other is done by bending forward during these exercises.
For a full recovery, athletes usually need about six weeks. Hundley came off the DL after less than four weeks, missing 24 games, and appears to be recovering nicely. He may play with some protective taping wrapped around the ribcage, which serves as more of a mental reminder than an actual protector.
Hundley should be as healthy and able as he was before the injury. But, there is, as in the case of most sprains, a slightly increased risk of him reinjuring the ribs at some point this season. Because he throws righthanded, he will lose some power and accuracy on his throws to second, and he will probably feel a little bit of pain because the motion of lifting his arm and then quickly pulling it down taxes the ribcage muscles.