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There are an endless number of formative wine experiences to provide enthusiastic wine lovers with memorable introductions to new levels of wine appreciation or knowledge. These moments, which are so easily to forget in a lifetime of serious wine drinking, should definitely be cherished in the same way we might hang onto the infant drawings of our children.
Most wine lovers don't remember their first taste of Cabernet or Merlot. These early introductions to different varietals are best forgotten anyway, coming as they often do in bottles that could charitably be called "value priced." There is one type of wine, however, whose first draughts never amount to swallows of Lethe.
Almost everyone who pays attention to wine remembers their first Sauternes.
Like so many of my early wine experiences, there wasn't anything wholly remarkable about my first experience with this white dessert wine from Bordeaux. I went out and bought some because no one else was going to buy it for me, and after reading about it, and hearing the way that some more wine savvy friends talked about it in hushed, reverent tones, I needed to see what all the fuss was about.
Sauternes is one of the wine world's more fascinating and enigmatic wines. The sub-appellation of Bordeaux for which it is named is unique in the word for its centuries long (Thomas Jefferson was an avid fan of the region's wine) production of only a single sweet white wine made from Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, and occasionally a smidgen of Muscadelle grapes. More compelling to me in my early career as a wine lover, however, was the circumstances and nature of Sauternes' production. It was the first wine I had heard of (and indeed, the first wine I ever tried) that was made from grapes afflicted with Botrytis cinerea, or Noble Rot.
The idea of a wine so difficult to make that in some years it is not even produced -- requiring the persistent and not always present successive alternation of thick mists and then sunshine in the vineyard -- continues to be a romantic draw for many wine lovers even today.
The mysterious circumstance of its production, the very small quantities produced, and the flavor of the wine itself made my own curious first taste of the wine an indelible memory, as it no doubt did for many other wine lovers.
Sauternes roughly 4200 acres (and the 1300 or so acres of its co-appellation, Barsac) are tucked into the Graves district in the southernmost part of Bordeaux. Wines made in both appellations can be sold as Sauternes, which is the typical approach taken by the modest number of producers in the region who continue to brave the difficulty of producing these wines year after year.
Among these producers there are a few that have been doing it for much longer than most. Most everyone who has heard of Sauternes has heard of Chateau d'Yquem, which is nearly synonymous with the region. Less well known, but no less ancient and prestigious is the property of Chateau Climens.
The Climens estate has been making wines in Sauternes long enough to have made dry red wines in the region at one time, an accomplishment which means that the name of the Chateau was appearing on bottles by the early 17th century. Passing through several hands as the years went by, the estate was classified as a Premier Cru in the famous 1855 Classification which codified the pecking order of the Medoc wines, and finally landed in the hands of the Lurton family in 1971, which continues to manage it today with the guiding hand of Bérénice Lurton who assumed control of the estate in 1992.
Chateau Climens makes approximately 3000 cases of wine each year (though it can sometimes be much less than that, or even none, if things are particularly bad). The estate farms approximately 60 acres of land in the Barsac appellation, planted entirely with Semillon of which the average vine age is approximately 35 years. Climens boasts the highest elevation in the region, a mere 60 feet above sea level, and excellent, well draining soils. Like other meticulous producers in the region, the estate harvests its grapes in many successive passes through the vineyard, waiting for each bunch of grapes to reach an optimal state of rot and desiccation and carefully avoiding those clusters that succumb to merely ruinous grey rot.
These delicately hand-harvested bunches are ever-so-gently pressed to yield their miniscule amount of juice, which ferments slowly with native yeasts in separate lots corresponding to different vineyard blocks. The wine is aged in French oak, of which only about 60% is new each year. This relatively low percentage of new oak is one of the distinctive features of Climens Sauternes, which along with their typically higher acidity levels than other producers make them my favorite producer in the region.
In addition to their main wine, Climens also produces a second-tier wine by the name of Cyprès de Climens.
Tasting Notes:
This wine is bright orange-gold in the glass, and when swirled wafts rich aromas of honey, Ranier cherries, and the freshness of spring rain to the nose. Words like heady and rich don't begin to describe the smell -- if it weren't such a strange oxymoron, the word intoxicating would be perfect to describe the olfactory pleasure. In the mouth the wine sings with a pure resonant flavor that is suspended between perfectly balanced sugar and acidity. It's not going too far to call this wine "liquid sex on the tongue" as it lounges in its satin nightgown for minutes and minutes on the palate with flavors of jasmine flowers and sugarcane juice, then orange blossoms, eventually migrating towards something that words aren't really good at capturing. Everyone with experience has a benchmark for what Sauternes really should taste like, and this is now mine.
Food Pairing:
With dessert wines this good, I never like to pair them with anything. They deserve to be sipped on their own. But if you had to match it with something, I'd suggest a goat cheese soufflé.
Overall Score: 10
How Much?: $110 - $180 at auction.
This wine is available for purchase on the internet.
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Cage turned in a strong performance in the April comic book adaptation of Mark Millar's "Kick-Ass." He's got another movie out in July, the Disney fantasy/adventure flick "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," in which he stars with Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina and Monica Bellucci. He'll pop up yet again later this year in "Season of the Witch," which has an unspecified 2010 release.
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Religious Freedom Amendment
on Congressional Agenda
by Conrad Goeringer
October 7, 1997
The House Constitution Subcommittee will again be taking up the controversial Religious Freedom Amendment, (H.J. Res 78), proposed by Rep. Ernest Istook, on Thursday, October 23, 1997. Legislative alerts note that no other business is before the Subcommittee which means that the measure could be "fast tracked" for a quick vote in the House of Representatives.
The proposed amendment is brief, well-crafted, and has serious consequences for the First Amendment separation of state and church in America. This version reads:
|"To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: The people's right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage or traditions on public property, including schools, shall not be infringed. The government shall not require any person to join in prayer or other religious activity, proscribe school prayers, discriminate against religion, or deny equal access to a benefit on account of religion."
Background: Cracks In The Religious Right Facade
Although mixing prayer in the affairs of government -- and, in particular, returning the prayer ritual to the public schools -- has been a major objective for modern religious right groups, that effort has enjoyed little success. Supreme Court decisions in the early 1960s (Engle v. Vitale; Murray v. Curlett; Schempp v. Abington Township School District) helped to end, in theory anyway, Bible recitation, prayer chanting and other forms of coercive religious ritual in public schools. Religious groups fought this trend, in part, by proposing so-called "voluntary prayer" amendments. Various forms of this legislation grudgingly conceded that while students should not be "forced" to participate in the prayer, or even given the "option" of leaving the classroom while the prayer was being recited, some form of religious ritual should be permitted. Courts have taken a dim view of these disingenuous proposals, though, noting that especially in the lower grades and even in high school, students who chose to not pray were subject to ostracism, marginalization and even physical violence. Atheists noted that permitting prayers from "minority faiths" or scams like the "moment of silence" -- presumably, silent meditation to a deity -- was simply a form of stealth religious ritual, and still did not address the basic problem with prayer, or the deeper constitutional issues involved.
The rise of the modern religious right -- its "second wave" form embodied in politically active groups like the Christian Coalition -- re-ignited efforts to pass some form of school prayer amendment. The CC emerged as a central force in this debate, staking out an ideological and political position different from its predecessors in the 1960s and 1970s and into the 1980s who had carried the banner for "voluntary prayer." Insisting that government had become "hostile to the people of faith" (Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson), the Coalition and its allies framed the school prayer debate in a larger context, that of so-called "religious liberty" or "religious freedom." Reed set the new clarion call for the religious right when he insisted that "People of faith have grown increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. The erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans has been abetted by a court system which stands the plain meaning of the First Amendment on its head..."
For the Coalition and other religious right activist groups, bringing back some form of school prayer required two things. First was a "linkage" to other state-church separation issues, such as display of nativity creches and other "sacred symbols" on government land (misleadingly termed "the public square.") Second was the realization that no school prayer law would likely pass constitutional muster; despite cracks in the "wall of separation," legal standards involved in the crucial Lemon v. Kurtzman case (which required a government neutrality in matters of religion) would probably strike down any legislative remedies. Only a full, constitutional amendment would suffice.
Following the 1994 elections, the Coalition was generally recognized as a major player on Capitol Hill and in Republican politics. Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists had been mobilized in increasing numbers to where that segment of the society was one of the most active voting blocks. Over 75,000 participating churches had distributed the CC's questionable "Voters Guides" (that number escalated to 125,000 in just the last election.) The Coalition also could take credit for handing control of the both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to the Republican Party for the first time in forty years. The GOP's "Contract With America" took off; and the Coalition soon crafted its own social-agenda version which it labeled, "The Contract With The American Family." It called for a wide, activist role for the state in defending "family values," including legislation against abortion rights, curtailing gay rights, and returning prayer to the schools and public square. The latter was to be achieved through what the Coalition proposed as the "Religious Equality Amendment" (REA).
Several factors, though, worked against the passage of the REA. Americans, and many Republicans inside the beltway, were enthused about the economic agenda in the "Contract With America," but less invigorated about the social programs of religious right groups. People were more receptive to tax cuts than they were to discomforting and divisive issues such as ending abortion. In addition, some religious groups could not support the original Religious Equality Amendment. A split in religious right groups soon emerged, with some organizations like the Family Research Council taking the position that REA was simply not sufficient to achieve their objective of a greater involvement of religion with government. Competing versions of the REA soon emerged.
Attempts to compromise these versions has met with limited success. Last July, a "fusion version" was introduced by House Majority Leader Dick Armey and repackaged as the Religious Freedom Amendment. It picked up the lukewarm support of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, who had supported earlier competing versions. Despite efforts to "fast track" the measure, it never cleared committee for a floor vote.
The "Best of the Worst" -- For the Record
The present version before the House Judiciary Committee enjoys more support among the different religious right groups than previous efforts managed to achieve. This version has been amended; and both supporters and critics note that the present wording is artfully constructed, deceptively simply, and stands a better chance of surviving the Capitol Hill grist mill than its predecessors. One crucial piece of phrasing speaks of denial of "equal access to a benefit." Those words would essentially legitimize government funding of religious groups and "faith based" outreaches. When combined with other provisions of the Act, the RFA would "gut" the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and reduce state-church separation to the "one-directional" function envisioned by Reed, Robertson and others whereby government would never interfere in the "practice" of religious groups, regardless of effects.
Should the RFA clear the Judiciary Committee as expected, it would still have a rough road ahead first in the House, then in the Senate. It would then have the arduous task of winding its way through the respective state legislatures for the necessary ratification. Even so, getting the Religious Freedom Amendment onto the floor of the House and Senate serves a secondary purpose, explicitly mentioned by Christian Coalition strategists. It would put incumbent Representatives and Senators "on the record" where their votes could be used in the 1998 and 2000 elections as being "for prayer" or "against religious faith."
Talking Points On RFA
The Religious Freedom Amendment is a major constitutional assault on state-church separation, the rights of those who profess a minority religious view, and the tens of millions of Americans who identify themselves as atheists or non-believers of some kind. It is not about "freedom" but the orchestrating religious ritual in government and public institutions. It is a response to a pseudo-problem based on questionable "horror stories" of alleged abuse involving religious practitioners. Ironically, while RFA supporters give lip service to notions like freedom and free expression, they support invasive legislation in other areas of life.
|RFA Would "Gut" the Establishment Clause
The act would essentially overturn decades of judicial and constitutional
protection on behalf of the separation of state and church. In particular,
the RFA targets the "Lemon" test (Lemon v. Kurtzman)
which says that government may engage in no practice the purpose of which
is not secular, may not favor one religion over another (or religion over
non-religion), and may engage in no conduct which results in the "excessive
entanglement" between state and church. In addition, decisions which
have protected children and others from invasive forms of ritualized prayer
-- Murray v. Curlett, for instance -- would be cast aside.
RFA Would Violate the Rights of Minority Religious and Non-believers Alike
Any form of prayer in the public schools or halls of government results, in practice, in violating the rights of members of minority faiths, and certainly the rights of millions of Americans who profess no religion. Shabby attempts to craft a "non-denominational" prayer which would supposedly reach the various deities of all faiths still violate the rights of atheists. Disingenuous schemes like "the moment of silence" do the same thing.
The RFA would legitimize so-called student-initiated prayer; the Act is thus "sold" to the public, presumably on the technicality that it is students, not school officials who are conducting and orchestrating the event. But courts have noted that this is simply an "end run" around state-church separation, and does not address the more basic questions of whether the prayer should take place in the first place, or whether students who choose not to pray have any better remedy under this system than they would where the prayer was led by teachers, school administrators or others. Student-led prayer in the classroom is still unconstitutional; it serves to marginalize non-participants, including atheists, and divides students. (Also, religious leaders have been known to direct youthful followers to lead prayers in schoolroom situations so as to appear spontaneous.)
In practice, religious rights -- and the rights of atheists and non-believers
-- are best protected in a political arrangement emphasizing the separation
of state and church, along with free expression and general civil liberties
for all. The Religious Freedom Amendment jeopardizes these things. Remember,
also, those promoting the RFA have a wider, anti-Civil Liberties agenda
Do Students Need to Pray?
The RFA is proposed at a time of organized cultural religious resurgence,
when mystical incantations and rituals are being peddled in a widely diverse
"belief bazaar." This comes at a time when schools, for instance,
are cutting back on science program. The rationalist world view is under
assault, from both religious fundamentalist and New Age pseudoscience hucksters.
Government endorsed or sponsored religious ritual is part of this wider
problem, and needs to be questioned and opposed. American Atheists suggests
that content-rich programs, particularly in the sciences, are needed
now, more than ever, in our public schools -- not more prayer. The schools,
in particular, can be a venue for imparting progressive and humane values
as part of a wider, Enlightenment agenda which emphasizes the positive,
creative and liberty-oriented character of science and technology.
The RFA Is Not Necessary, Even for Religious Groups
There are over 350,000 churches, mosques, temples, chapels and other places in the United States where "people of faith" may practice their religious beliefs, on their own time and at their own expense (and tax-exempt to boot!). This figure, in fact, may be low since it does not include tens of thousands of "weekend congregations" which rent facilities like hotel meeting rooms, or gather in community buildings (often for free or for a ridiculously low rent), or in members' homes. Religious persons may also pray, chant, sing and perform rituals in their houses and apartments, alone or with others.
In public schools, religious students may pray on their own time, alone or in groups. They are free to form clubs and to pray in the hallways or cafeteria. They may pray on the school bus. What they are not allowed to do and should not be "free" to do, however, is to make a public display of their religious beliefs in a controlled situation like the classroom where students are gathered as part of the "official" school day.
Such remedies as leaving the class room, which the Act would give non-participants,
are not legitimate options. If non-believers are permitted to leave
a room during a prayer ritual, why not ask that those praying leave the
room instead?
RFA is the "Wedge" of a Wider Religious Agenda Which Emphasizes Religion over Non-Religion
After gutting the Establishment Clause, proponents of the RFA will be well on their way in their efforts to create a society besotted with religiosity. We would truly be "one nation under (somebody's) 'god'"; and in such a climate, with the protections of the First Amendment seriously vitiated, what would be the fate of non-believers? the RFA ultimately emphasizes religion over non-religion. Proponents on Capitol Hill state that their legislation would protect minority faiths, and even include representatives of these beliefs -- say, Muslims or Hindus -- in the public prayer process. That may be the case, and Islamist children may indeed be leading their classes in prayer on a particular day of the week. But where is the line to be drawn? Would Scientologists be included? What about Wiccans? Satanists? And even if all of these groups are permitted "equal access" under the RFA, it is atheists and other non-believers who remain at the ultimate target. (And when have atheists or people of non-Christian faiths ever had equal or fair treatment under any Christian regime? -- Cliff Walker)
"Equal access" is not what state-church separation is
The Religious Freedom Amendment Is a "Raiding Party" on the Public Purse and the American Taxpayer
Under the "denial of a benefit" portion of the Act, religious
groups would be given equal access to public monies and appropriations.
"Faith based" groups and social outreaches would be permitted
-- which means that atheists (and everyone else) would end up footing the
bill for religion-based social programs. Already, religious groups
have reaped a fortune in the administration of social services which under
the law are required to retain the veneer of secularism. Catholic Charities,
for instance, now receives over 60 percent of its funding through direct
and indirect government grants; and it tacks on another 10 to 12 percent
for "administration" costs. The RFA would abolish those few remaining
constraints. Passage of the act would be a financial windfall for religious
groups, programs -- and hucksters operating in the "faith" business.
Win For Separation In Hawaii
by Gonrad Goeringer
October 7, 1997
In Hawaii, state-church separation activist Mitch Kahle and the Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State and Church have scored a major First Amendment victory. A press release from the group notes that Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris "has agreed to end the City's long-standing policy of religious discrimination. For years, the City and County of Honolulu has practiced religious discrimination by favoring a Christian display over all others included in and excluded from the Honolulu City Lights program."
Mr. Kahle, in letters to the Mayor, said that the practice "constituted a governmental endorsement of religion in general over non-religion and a preference for Christianity over all other religions." At issue were policies which permitted only religious groups to participate in the city-orchestrated event, and giving preferential display space to Christians. "The new rules, as currently proposed by the City," notes Kahle, "are content neutral and grant any non-profit group equal opportunity to participate."
Charlotte Officials Opt
Televised Prayer Ritual
by Jim Senyszyn (with Conrad Goeringer)
October 9, 1997
|"And thou, when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the hypocrites
are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners
of the streets, that they may be seen of men..."
"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret..."
-- Matthew 6:5-6
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Commissioners have voted to ignore the exhortation of the New Testament, and instead pray openly whenever their board meets, especially when television cameras are present. The 5 to 4 vote doubles the previous amount of prayer time, notes the Charlotte Observer newspaper, since previous policy called for public prayer only at twice-monthly formal meetings.
As noted earlier, the prayer flap is part of a larger culture-war issue food fight taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina (former home of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker and his defunct PTL group.) In August, a City Council member proposed the erection of a Ten Commandments display in the local government building complex. At the County level, Commissioners began debating the issue of prayer when board member Lloyd Scher accused his fellow solons of hypocrisy because they prayed only during the televised meetings. Republican Commissioner George Higgins then proposed that the board pray at all meetings. His measure was supported by fellow GOP'ers Tom Bush, Bill James and Joel Carter, and even Democrat Hoyle Martin. Martin told reporters earlier this week, "You can't divorce your sense of morality because you become involved in government," and added that elected officials need prayer because they were often "confronted with too many temptations" and might "succumb."
Commissioners boosting the prayer resolution are the same group dubbed "Gang of Five" last spring when they voted to slash funding to the local Arts and Sciences Council over the production of public plays with gay themes.
The new prayer policy calls for members to invoke a deity on a rotating basis. On Tuesday, Commissioner Darrel Williams -- who opposed the prayer resolution -- lead the invocation, imploring:
|"Dear Father, please help us ... focus on the real issues facing this community. Help us understand that we will not be judged by how often we pray before meetings or whether we pray a silent prayer..."
Commissioner Scher faces opposition in the next election in Mecklenburg County from Rusty Loudermilk. He told officials and the media that commissioners who did not support the prayer resolution "fail to realize you would not be able to make the decisions you have to" without prayer to the divine.
Meanwhile, American Atheist member Jim Senyszyn told commissioners that prayer should not be held in public. "We strongly object to this because it casts aspersions on our non-belief," he said, adding that "We're not preventing people from praying. What we [atheists] object to is making it a public spectacle."
Statement to Mecklenburg
County Commissioners
from Jim Senyszyn, American Atheist
October 7, 1997
Atheists consider public prayer invocations to be unconstitutional violations of the principle of separation of church and state found in the establishment clause of the first amendment in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. An issue of American Atheist magazine, August 1995, was devoted to the question of prayer.
To quote the complaint in Murray v. Curlett, the landmark case in which Bible readings and prayer recitations were found unconstitutional by the the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963:
|"[government sponsored prayer] threatens or religious liberty
by placing a premium on belief as against non-belief and subjects
our freedom of conscience to the rule of the majority."
"[it] renders sinister, alien and suspect our beliefs and ideals, promoting doubt and question on our morality, good citizenship, and good faith."
Public prayer is inextricably intertwined with the issue of the Ten Commandments display. The most notorious case ... is [that of] Judge Roy Moore, an Etowah County, Alabama jurist who begins judicial proceedings with a Baptist invocation, and has erected a hand-carved Ten Commandments plaque over his dais. He is defying court orders to "cease and desist" on the prayer as well as to remove the Decalogue. Here in Charlotte, the Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte Christian News have reported that the Ten Commandments proposal was inspired by the preaching of an evangelist, Luis Palau. According to the Observer Palau "urged his listeners to pray in public, post the commandments and proclaim that Christ is the foundation on which America is built."
How can a Christian preacher ignore Jesus Christ's own teaching to his followers to pray in private, found in Matthew 6:5-7?
We are not preventing anyone from praying. Commissioners can pray quietly at their desks, and members of the audience can pray in their seats. There are hundred of venues in Charlotte: churches, synagogues, and mosques, where people can pray in a religious setting. People can pray at home, work, or when traveling. What we object to is making it a public spectacle: forcing others to watch and listen to their praying. People who do not want to pray or do not believe in prayer should not be forced to watch or listen to it.
Just exactly who is praying, anyway, when a group is led by one person during an invocation? One person is praying and the others are spectators, along for the ride. More prayers would occur and the prayers would be more genuine if individuals had to pray on their own initiative. Similarly, church establishment during Colonial times sapped the initiative and energy of preachers by granting state sponsored monopolies and subsidies to certain churches. Only 17 percent of colonial America was churched on the eve of the Revolution. Religious adherence took off once this church establishment was dropped and it was left to the initiative of individuals to spread religion. Likewise here, more prayer and better prayer would result if government were not expected to promote it.
Faulkenberry, Roy Moore
Subject of ABC Segment
by Conrad Goeringer
October 16, 1997
This evening's installment of the ABC network program "20/20" will include segments on the notorious "prayer wars" in Alabama, including Judge Roy Moore, the Etowah County jurist who posts a copy of the Ten Commandments and opens sessions with a Baptist invocation. Also covered will be the heroic efforts of Alabama Freethought Society activist Al Faulkenberry to challenge this and other violations of state-church separation.
We hope that ABC provides the American people with a fair and informative segment on the important constitutional issues behind this case.
ABC's Coverage of
Alabama Controversy
is Tepid at Best
But Carol Faulkenberry Says,
"I'm Glad They Ran It Anyway"
by Conrad Goeringer
October 17, 1997
A segment of the "20/20" program which aired last evening (Friday, October 16) and purportedly covered the debate over prayer and other religious ritual in the Alabama courtroom of Judge Roy Moore, was less than complete. The program gave little coverage to one of the major players in this important state-church separation battle, atheist Al Faulkenberry. ABC did give considerable time, however, to Judge Moore who has attracted national support from religious groups for his posting of a hand-carved plaque of the Ten Commandments above his dais in his Etowah County courtroom, and his practice of opening judicial proceedings with a Baptist invocation. Also covered was Alabama Governor Fob James, a defender of Moore, who told ABC that he would resist any Supreme Court order to remove the Decalogue plaque, and wanted to see "a direct order" from the President of the United States to do so.
James has previously fueled passions over the issue with similarly bombastic statements, including his assertion that he would call out the Alabama national guard, state police, and even the University of Alabama football team if necessary to resist any court orders not to his liking over the religious controversy.
Al Faulkenberry and others in the Alabama Freethought Society filed suit to end Judge Moore's outrageous practices. In the ABC coverage, a brief film clip showed Mr. Faulkenberry announcing in Moore's court that he would not pray, wherein he walked out of the room. Faulkenberry was never identified as a freethinker or atheist, nor was the role of the Alabama Freethought Society mentioned. The American Civil Liberties Union received coverage, and an ACLU attorney talked about his own belief in a god; so did a Baptist church activist. But the issue of the non-believer's rights in this debate received little mention.
Carol Faulkenberry notes that ABC cameras visited their home in Gadsden, Alabama in early September, and interviewed her husband for nearly an hour. Mr. Faulkenberry discussed the importance of state-church separation, and challenged Judge Moore's often-echoed claim that the United States is a "Christian nation" founded upon religious, and specifically Christian principles. Those remarks never made it out of the video editing room.
Coverage of the prayer rally held last April on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery was also somewhat biased. The camera shots showed a sea of frenetic supporters of Judge Moore waving tablet-shaped signs and singing, but made no mention of a small but principled counter-demonstration organized by Adam Butler, a Birmingham, Alabama state-church separationist. ABC noted that over 80 percent of the state's population apparently agrees with Moore's stand on displaying religious items in his courtroom.
Carol Faulkenberry said this afternoon that she disputes those figures. "A lot of the polls which claim to show support for Moore and Fob James are done by television stations which ask viewers to call in. And we know who's likely to pick up the phone," she added, referring to fundamentalists who would support the courtroom prayer.
She also noted that in August, a rally in Gadsden which included a top Gospel Music group, where Moore received a public award, attracted only 200 persons. Nearly two-dozen protesters, however, were across the way making their statements on behalf of state-church separation in America. "We were amazed," Ms. Faulkenberry said. "If everyone's supporting Roy Moore, why aren't more people coming to these public events to show their sympathy?"
Despite the tone of the coverage, Carol Faulkenberry was upbeat about last night's program. "All in all, it was fairly good. We wanted to have more time to refute some of what Roy Moore and James were saying, but I'm just glad that the networks did this and are covering it."
Faulkenberry added, "Somebody, somewhere will see a program like that and begin thinking. Maybe they'll learn something."
Alabama Governor
Uses Public Funds
for Religious Pilgrimage
by Larry Mundinger (with Conrad Goeringer)
October 23, 1997
Alabama Governor Fob James, the elected public official who says that he will mobilize the state guard, police and even the University of Alabama football team if necessary to resist any "federal order" putting an end to prayer and Ten Commandment displays in courtrooms, is now using taxpayer funds to underwrite a two-week pilgrimage to the "Holy Land." James, a Christian fundamentalist and his superstitious wife, Bobbie, said that their trip to Israel -- ostensibly a trade mission -- was timed to coincide with the eight-day Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, which began last week. James also claimed that he wanted to inspect Israel's military industry, although he would not discuss the value of that action with the media.
Mrs. James has expressed concerns that the Governor's official mansion is "haunted," and ordered several portraits of Confederate historical figures removed. She also keeps a Christian "spiritualist" guru as a personal advisor.
One stop for the James couple was a hut or "sukka" constructed by observant Jews to commemorate the tale about the Israelite's forty year wanderings in the desert wilderness. They were the guests of Rabbi Eliot Sherman, the religious leader who was shipped to Montgomery, Alabama for James' 1995 inauguration where he blew a ram's horn used in Jewish religious ritual. Rabbi Sherman underscored the religious nature of James' publically funded excursion, telling Associated Press, "The are specifically coming at this time of the year because the non-Jewish world gets a blessing for coming to Jerusalem [during Sukkot]."
Like many Christian fundamentalists, James and his wife are obsessed with Israel and its role in religious history and prophecy. They believe that the reconstitution of the state of Israel in 1948 was a "sign" for the Second Coming of Christ, or parousia.
"Mrs. James, citing scripture that God will bless those who bless Israel, has linked Alabama's oil lease windfall during her husband's first term to the state's decision in 1981 to honor Israel's Independence Day," notes an Associated Press dispatch.
While the Governor and Mrs. James insist that their "trade mission" benefits the state and is not a taxpayer-funded religious pilgrimage, facts suggest otherwise. At a press conference in his Jerusalem hotel, James claimed, "The reason for this trip has to do with expanded trade between Alabama and not only with Israel, but this part of the world." But the official itinerary does not include any tours of neighboring Arab nations, or meetings or meetings with Arab or Palestinian representatives or trade groups, except for one encounter with the Jordanian ambassador to Israel.
Other stops are clearly religious in nature, though. They include visits to the Western Wall, the Golan Heights and the controversial Jewish settlements in the West Bank area. James is also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Parliament Speaker Daniel Tichon, and Defense Minister Yitzak Mordechai.
Atheists File Second
to Stop Bogus Sale of
Mt. Davidson Cross
by Conrad Goeringer
October 31, 1997
American Atheists is in federal court in San Francisco, today, filing a new lawsuit to enjoin the City and County of San Francisco from selling the 103-foot-high Mt. Davidson cross and surrounding plot of land to the Council of Armenian American Organizations of Northern California. This follows an action last month when the organization tried unsuccessfully to intervene in the original suit. Plaintiffs who had challenged the constitutionality of public ownership of the cross and land said they were "satisfied" that the sale of the religious monument and 0.38 acres of real estate on which it sits to the Armenian group met constitutional requirements.
But Dave Kong, California State Director for American Atheists, charged that the bogus sale which took place at a little-publicized "auction" was simply a ruse to keep the religious icon standing in the middle of a public park. Under the proposed "sale" agreement, the Mt. Davidson real estate -- a mere 0.38-acre sliver of land -- would be "private" yet open to public access. One stipulation of the transfer was that if the cross were removed, the land would then revert back to City ownership. Mr. Kong described that and other sales requirements as "ludicrous."
"Clearly, they're just trying to find a way to keep the Mt. Davidson cross in the middle of a huge public park," he said.
Down Come Hawaii's Kolekole Pass Cross
and Oregon's Skinner's Butte Cross
In March of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Mt. Davidson cross violated the No Preference Clause of the California State Constitution. The ruling also affected the Skinner's Butte cross, a 57-foot-high concrete and steel Christian monument which stood in a public park in Eugene, Oregon. There, public officials decided to comply with state-church separation and had the cross dismantled.
Two weeks ago, the fate of another cross was decided: the 37-foot-high Kolekole Pass Cross at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State and Church (HCSSC) challenged the constitutionality of the monument, and Army officials announced that they would dismantle the structure which was built in 1962 with taxpayer funds.
In San Francisco, though, public officials worked to find a loophole to keep the Mt. Davidson cross standing. The cross and 0.38 acres of land surrounding it was sold to the Armenian group for a mere $26,000; the transfer was then approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The sale was then placed on a city ballot for the November 4 election as Proposition F.
When American Atheists tried to intervene, some of the original defendants who had challenged the cross instead came out in support of the transfer. An attorney for defendants had remarked that though they had gone to court to dispute ownership of the Mt. Davidson Christian cross, her clients "had great respect for religion and for religious symbols," adding that removal of the cross was not the goal of their action. The American Atheist motion to intervene was rejected in a court hearing on December 10. Mr. Kong, in a statement today to the media, said "The motion was denied because of technicalities, and the real issues were never addressed."
American Atheists charged that the transfer was a ruse. Ellen Johnson, President of the organization, accused public officials and community groups of "trying to do by indirect means what they know they cannot do by direct means, namely, keep the Mt. Davidson cross standing" in a public park.
Today's action, filed on behalf of Mr. Kong and American Atheist member John Messina, asks for a preliminary injunction against the sale and transfer of the cross and land. It names as defendants the City and county of San Francisco; the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission; Joel Robinson, General Manager of the Recreation and Park Department; and the Armenian American Organizations of Northern California.
"Ultimately, American Atheists seeks permanent injunctive relief against any sale for the sole purpose of maintaining the Mt. Davidson cross," notes a media release about today's action.
San Diego Land Sale Ruled Not Religiously Neutral
Another cross is being challenged in San Diego. There, the City filed a Notice of Appeal on October 18, 1997 in the Federal District Court. Judge Gordon Thompson, Jr. has ruled that the sale of the property with the Mt. Soledad Christian cross to a "Memorial Association" was not religiously neutral. In December of 1991, Thompson ruled that the cross was unconstitutional.
Judge Sets Rules
on Religion in
Alabama Schools; Orders Monitor
for DeKalb County
by Kendal Weaver
The Associated Press
October 30, 1997
Montgomery, Alabama -- A federal judge today barred Alabama public schools from allowing vocal prayers or Bible devotionals on school property, but laid down guidelines for permissible religious activities, including a student's brief thanks to God at graduation.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ira DeMent also ordered that a monitor be named and training sessions be held for teachers and administrators in DeKalb County schools, where schoolhouse prayers, Bible distribution and student harassment have been alleged.
DeMent's ruling extended his previous orders striking down Alabama's 1993 school prayer law and rejecting Gov. Fob James' claim that the states, not the federal government or courts, can set their own laws on religious conduct in public places.
DeMent's ruling raised the threat of contempt proceedings against any state or public school official who violates his order.
Donald Sweeney, an attorney for school boards, said the judge's opinion gives educators across Alabama clear guidelines to follow concerning a subject that had been "confusingly complex."
"Before this opinion, some schools were following the law in good faith; others were not," Sweeney said in a statement. "... No longer will well-intending persons, political or otherwise, be able to argue to our principals or educators that `the law is not clear, or the law doesn't apply in your city or county so do what you want and what we want you to do. You won't get in trouble."'
"With Juge DeMent's order, anyone from the governor down, anyone who violates the law or encourages others to do so, will face the possibility of contempt."
DeMent's ruling bars Alabama public schools from allowing any "school rganized or officially sanctioned religious activity," including vocal prayer, Bible devotionals, distribution of religious materials and discussions of a devotional nature.
But it gives specific examples of what is permissible: use of religious texts in an academic context, such as homework or artwork or reports that are part of a course of study; and the display of religious symbols or clothing with religious messages, so long as they are in accordance with applicable "time, place and manner restrictions."
The order bars prayers, invocations or devotional messages at commencement exercises, but it allows "a brief personal expression by a student which contains religious references" during graduation ceremonies.
For example, DeMent wrote, "a student may express thanks to Deity for his or her academic success."
The order bars devotional messages or scripture readings over public address systems at schools, but it allows students to make announcements about "noncurricular religious clubs" over the public address system.
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the ruling "sends a timely reminder that America's public schools are for education, not indoctrination."
Americans United, along with the Alabama Civil Liberties Union, filed the suit on behalf of Michael Chandler, assistant principal of Valley Head High School, who said a son had been harassed and that school officials refused to follow court rulings against coercive religious activities in public schools.
"This is a very sweeping ruling," said Americans United Legal Director Steven K. Green. "The judge clearly means to remind Gov. James and DeKalb school officials that the church-state separation provisions of the U.S. Constitution apply in Alabama."
James and Republican Attorney General Bill Pryor were not immediately available to return phone calls seeking comment. Chandler also was away from his office and not immediately available for comment.
U.S. Judge Bars Prayer
at Schools
by Shelly Haskins and Yvonne White
The Huntsville Times
October 30, 1997
Montgomery -- A federal judge today barred Alabama public schools from allowing vocal prayers or Bible devotionals on school property, but laid down guidelines for permissible religious activities, including a student's brief thanks to God at graduation.
U.S. District Judge Ira DeMent's ruling extended his previous orders striking down Alabama's 1993 school prayer law and rejecting Gov. Fob James' claim that the states, not the federal government or courts, can set their own laws on religious conduct in public places.
Donald Sweeney, an attorney for Alabama school boards, said the judge's opinion gives educators across Alabama clear guidelines to follow concerning a subject that had been "confusingly complex."
Huntsville area school officials say they already bar student-led prayers at graduation, but were unsure how the ruling would affect student-led prayer services such as "See You At the Pole," where students pray at the flag pole before school, and religious club meetings that they have permitted.
"I would certainly hope that the rally around the pole and the volunteer activities that are student-initiated would not be affected by that," said Scott Erwin, the Huntsville school board vice president.
"As far as doing it in the classroom, we don't even allow like a moment of silence," he said.
Madison County officials had allowed voluntary, student-led prayer at graduation until May.
Ken Hogan, Madison County's director of secondary education, said county high schools were told not to allow even student-led prayer because DeMent's last ruling nullified Alabama's 1993 law allowing student-led prayer.
Despite the order not to allow student-led graduation prayers, Hogan said Sparkman High School students initiated a prayer at graduation anyway.
"Basically our policy has been that we allow groups to meet on campus as long as it wasn't initiated by faculty members and they did it on their own before or after school and it didn't interfere with school," Hogan said.
Doug Clark, promotions coordinator for "See You At The Pole" and director of field ministries for the National Network for Youth Ministries, said, "As far as I'm concerned, the ruling doesn't have anything to do with 'See You at The Pole.' It would be a gross violation of the students' rights of freedom of speech. It has nothing to do with religion.
"Students may gather around the flag pole and talk about anything, and the school districts or states can't restrict what they talk about or if they pray. From President Clinton on down, even those who don't like it, affirm SYATP's legality."
He said in 1995 Clinton had Education Secretary Richard Riley issue guidelines about appropriate religious activity at schools, and a broad spectrum of groups, including the ACLU, the Christian Legal Society and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, were unanimous in affirming the legality of "See You At the Pole."
He said in 1990 the Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, affirmed the equal access legislation passed by Congress in 1984 and upheld a 1990 case giving students the right to have Bible clubs on campus if other extracurricular clubs were allowed to meet.
The ruling by DeMent ordered that a monitor be named and training sessions beheld for teachers and administrators in DeKalb County schools, where schoolhouse prayers, Bible distribution and student harassment have been alleged.
DeMent's ruling raised the threat of contempt proceedings against any state or public school official who violates his order.
"Before this opinion, some schools were following the law in good faith; others were not," Sweeney, the Alabama school boards attorney, said in a statement. "... No longer will well-intending persons, political or otherwise,be able to argue to our principals or educators that the law is not clear, or the law doesn't apply in your city or county so do what you want and what we want you to do. You won't get in trouble.'"
"With Juge DeMent's order, anyone from the governor down, anyone who violates the law or encourages others to do so, will face the possibility of contempt."
DeMent's ruling bars Alabama public schools from allowing any "school organized or officially sanctioned religious activity," including vocal prayer, Bible devotionals, distribution of religious materials and discussions of a devotional nature.
But it gives specific examples of what is permissible: use of religious texts in an academic context, such as homework or artwork or reports that are part of a course of study; and the display of religious symbols or clothing with religious messages, so long as they are in accordance with applicable "time, place and manner restrictions."
The order bars prayers, invocations or devotional messages at commencement exercises, but it allows "a brief personal expression by a student which contains religious references" during graduation ceremonies.
For example, DeMent wrote, "a student may express thanks to Deity for his or her academic success."
The order bars devotional messages or scripture readings over public address systems at schools, but it allows students to make announcements about "noncurricular religious clubs" over the public address system.


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I have a question about whether I am even close to correct.
Let $\mathbb{I}$ and $\mathbb{J}$ be open intervals, and the functions $f:\mathbb{I} \to R$ and $h:\mathbb{J}\to R$ have the property that $h(\mathbb{J}) \subset \mathbb{I}$, so the composition $f\circ h :\mathbb{J} \to R$ is defined. Show that if the following conditions are true
- $x_o$ is in $\mathbb{J}$
- $h$ is continuous at $x_o$
- $h(x)\neq h(x_o)$ if $x \neq x_o$
- $f$ is differentiable at $h(x_o)$
$$\lim_{x\to x_0} \frac{f(h(x)) - f(h(x_o))}{h(x) - h(x_o)} = f'(h(x_o)).$$
Proof I found:
Let $y = h(x)$ and $y_o = h(x_0)$. Then $$\lim_{x\ \rightarrow x_o} \frac{f(h(x)) - f(h(x_o))}{h(x) - h(x_o)} = \lim_{y\ \rightarrow y_o} \frac{f(y) - f(y_o)}{y - y_o}.$$
But by continuity of $h$, as $x$ $\rightarrow$ $x_o$, $h(x)$ $\rightarrow$ $h(x_o)$ or $y$ $\rightarrow$ $y_o$. Using this fact and the differentiability of $f$, we have
$$\lim_{y\ \rightarrow y_o} \frac{f(y) - f(y_o)}{y - y_o} = f'(y_o) = f'(h(x_o)).$$
This seems vastly too simple compared to the torrent of information given in the question, but if this proof works, that brings me to my second question related to the question immediately following this one. It says "Use exercise 6 to show that if $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is differentiable at $x_o$ = 1, then..." and I will post a picture because I do not wish to retype it all with LaTeX. http://oi47.tinypic.com/2nb93zb.jpg
Basically, I struggled to understand the first question but when I finally did, the solution seemed trivial and I suspect this second question will be the same way, but I have no idea what they are asking for, nor do I see how I can use this first proof. I would greatly appreciate any insight.


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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jeddah today.
King Abdullah opened the meeting by briefing the Cabinet on his visit to Turkey and his talks with Turkish leaders, which focused on bilateral relations as well as global issues such as the situations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, Muslim minorities in Europe and the threat of terrorism. The King also briefed the Cabinet on his consultations with regional leaders regarding the crises in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
In a statement after the meeting, Minister of Culture and Information Iyad Madani said that the Cabinet stressed the strategic importance of Saudi-Turkish relations.
It also underscored that terrorism is a global threat, and that the best way to confront it is through close international cooperation based on information exchange and with an international counterterrorism center as called for by King Abdullah.
Terrorism has neither religion nor nationality, the Cabinet noted, and warned against accusing Muslims of terrorism or fascism without taking into consideration the rich history of the Islamic civilization.
The Cabinet expressed support for the Lebanese government and its approval of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for a cease-fire and an increase in UN troops in southern Lebanon. The Cabinet emphasized that the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the Palestinian territories demonstrate that the region's problems cannot be solved by military force. The countries of the region must promote unity among their various factions to avoid spreading violence, it noted.
Turning to domestic items, the Cabinet approved a number of items, including an amendment to an aviation agreement with the United Arab Emirates and a draft agreement on encouraging mutual investments with Uzbekistan.
The Cabinet also made several appointments. It re-appointed Dr Abdullah bin Ahmed Alrasheed as Deputy Chairman of the King Abdulaziz City for Sciences and Technology for four years, effective August 22, 2006. It also appointed Abdulkareem bin Mohammed Al-Malki as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Abdulaziz bin Mohammed Al-Fawaz as Cultural Attaché at the Ministry of Higher Education; and Abdullah bin Hamdan Al-Ghamdi as Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Development at the Ministry of Education.


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Two Portland Designers, One Spectacular Beach House Remodel
From Margaret Everton on July 13, 2010 in Portland
When Pamela Hill and Lois Mackenzie, designers and co-owners of three investment properties, found this 1972 Arch Cape two-bedroom ranch house, they knew they had found a home worth investing in. They were weary, however, of the bland (and horribly outdated) design style of similar vacation homes in the area, and were more than committed to going against the status quo. We are so glad they did While the location is prime, the home itself needed plenty of work: $280,000-worth to be exact. In their attempt to create a boutique-style feel, they completed an array of projects. On the list were: new floors, updated bathrooms, a newly-rebuilt kitchen and deck, replacement of windows and drywall, and a finished attic. Throughout the design process, Mackenzie pushed for more open space and an overall brightening of the existing rooms. To accomplish this, the pair tore down dividing walls that separated the living, dining and cooking areas of the home. A sturdy, concrete kitchen island and a large dining room table completed the space. They also decided to relocate the entry to the north side of the home. Finding the perfect lighting seemed to be the most challenging part, until Hill ran across bronze chandeliers at the ReBuilding Center. They sanded them down and spray painted them white, in harmony with the beach-side décor. The pair may have planned on selling their beach home after the renovations were complete, but they have yet to make the move. Instead, they decided to co-own the home, using it for pleasure more than business. This after-the-fact perk makes all of the hard work worthwhile.


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In last week's episode, Benson must deal with the consequences of the events that William Lewis did in the last episode when he played a cat and mouse game with Benson.
In this week's episode, called "Reasonable Doubt", a TV producer is accused of sexually abusing his daughter and it's hard to convince the jury that he's guilty because of the influences he has.
The story seems to mirror a certain director and a young female companion (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow) that have been in the news.
Benson and Murphy (guest star Donal Logue) go to speak to a TV producer Frank Maddox (guest star Bradley Whitford Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and tell him about his daughter, Chelsea, be sexually abused. He immediately brushes it off saying that he's going through a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife and actress Catherine Summers (Samantha Mathis American Psycho).
Rollins/Amaro talk with Barba about the video that the mother gave them with Chelsea's take on what happened on it and they are hesitant that it's not fake because mother is bitter about the end (Frank cheated on her with her sister Rose).
Murphy/Benson question Frank about his last visit with Chelsea. He kind of beats around the bush and doesn't give straight answers which makes the police wonder about him.
Benson/Amaro quickly see that the mother is a bit of hindrance as she tries and continues her explanation that Frank molested Chelsea. Benson questions Chelsea to see if she was 'pretending' like she does with Frank.
Finn discovers that the babysitter left Frank and Chelsea alone while she had a cigarette and she came back to find them coming out of the laundry room (making the police catching him in at least one lie). Rollins talks with Daniel (their son) and talks about how Frank is fixated on Chelsea and dressing up girls.
Things get interested when pictures surface on the internet from when Catherine's sister was 18 and were taken by Frank. They think that they are taken when she was younger and think that Frank has been abusing her before the 'affair' occurred.
Finn/Rollins talk with Catherine's younger sister (middle child) Mavis and learn that she was the one that set up nanny cams and caught Rose and Frank having an affair. She said Frank knew about the cams and that's why he assaulted Chelsea in the laundry room.
Rose is ok with the fact that she had to give up her relationship with Catherine so that she can be with Frank.
Benson/Murphy go after Frank again after getting some evidence against him. He doesn't look good in the end.
We see something interesting as Rollins is watching Frank/Rose declare their love for one another and bad mouth Catherine on a entertainment show. But she's not watching it alone. Lo and behold Amaro comes out wearing only a towel and watches it with her.
Who saw this coming? Almost everyone.
Catherine changes her mind and decides to press charges against Frank which begins the circus for the investigation. Things are going well until the nanny is on the stand and she changes on the stand and she claims to not remember that Frank and Chelsea came out of the laundry room.
A little convenient huh?
While talking bout the case, Murphy notices something a little off about Rollins and wonders if she has a problem with a man in power (maybe something stemming from her relationship with her father).
Benson notices that Mavis stops coming to the court and wonders if maybe she has a history with Frank. Sure enough, when she talks to her, she finds out that Frank 'noticed' her when he married Catherine. She was 12 at the time.
Mavis speaks out on a talk show host where she talks bout how he raped her and then says that she leaked the photos to try and get people to see that Frank is a monster. The interview causes Frank to flee the country with Rose claiming that Mavis and Catherine have a vendetta against him. Barba continues to go on with the court irregardless if Frank is there.
In the end, Frank is found guilty.
In the next episode, the police investigate a man who is accused of having thoughts about harming little boys but there is no evidence to prove he ever did.
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squirting videos
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18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement


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James Everett "Pete" Phillips of Harrisonburg, passed peacefully Oct. 10, 2012, at Harrisonburg Health and Rehab. He was born in Harrisonburg on March 30, 1934, the son of Everette Ernest Phillips and Pearl Courtney Phillips.
Pete is survived by three children, Ellen Phillips Thomas of Edinburg, Pete Phillips of Harrisonburg and Jennifer Carpenter of Christiansburg and enjoyed four grandchildren, Jessica Sheldon-Hess of Anchorage Alaska, Ian Hess of Edinburg, Va., Lauren Phillips of Harrisonburg and Ben Webster of Christiansburg.
On Aug. 2, 1952, he married Jane Carolyn Sandy, who preceded him in passing on Jan. 11, 2001.
Pete was a career mechanic, beginning at Rockingham Motor Co., working over 30 years at Truck and Equipment and Smith's Transfer, retiring from Truck Thermo-King. He was an avid woodworker and gardener. Pete was a member of the West Rockingham Ruritan Club and Mount Clinton United Methodist Church.
Family and friends are welcome Saturday morning, Oct. 13, from 9 to 11 a.m. to pay respects and sign the guest register at the Kyger Funeral Home in Harrisonburg.
The family respectfully asks in lieu of flowers, that memorial contributions be made to the Harrisonburg Rescue Squad, 1700 Reservoir St., Harrisonburg, VA 22801.
Online condolences may be shared with his family at www.kygers.com.


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I love it, I think I will add more now. No sign of BAC going -
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According to the Canadian Press on Monday, Edmonton will be bidding for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The Games are significant because they will be a major preparation event for many high performance Canadian athletes leading up to the 2024 Olympic Games and if the 2022 Commonwealth Games are in Canada, do not be surprised if many high performance Canadian athletes will decide to continue to compete after the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Edmonton has hosted the Commonwealth Games before--in 1978, and their major football stadium is named Commonwealth Stadium. The stadium also hosted the 2001 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championship and will host many games at the 2015 Women's World Cup of Soccer.
Edmonton is up against Durban, South Africa. The Commonwealth Games has never been on the African continent before. The host site will be decided in Auckland, New Zealand in September, 2015.
Canada has hosted the Commonwealth Games four times before--in 1930 in Hamilton, in 1954 in Vancouver, 1978 in Edmonton and in 1994 in Victoria.
The 2014 Commonwealth Games are in Glasgow, Scotland and the 2018 Commonwealth Games are in Gold Coast, Australia.


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HTC Evo 4G LTE officially arriving at Sprint on May 18
Sprint has finally confirmed the release date of its HTC Evo 4G LTE, which is available for pre-orders since May 7. The handset will be out on May 18 (as previously rumored), costing $199.99 with a new 2-yr contract agreement.
Introduced as the third LTE smartphone on Sprint, the new Evo comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Sense 4 UI, a 4.7-inch HD display, Beats Audio, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8MP rear camera with HTC ImageSense, 1.3MP front-facing camera, and a 2,000 mAh battery. The handset also features HD voice capabilities. However, since Sprint will only deploy "HD Voice networks in the future as part of its Network Vision upgrades", this feature won't be available on the Evo 4G LTE from day one.
If you want to be among the first to have an HTC Evo 4G LTE, you can pre-order yours here at Sprint. Or you can go to Wirefly, which asks only $149.99 for the device.
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|The Legend Lives
|Written by Ernie Schwiebert
By Ernie Schwiebert
It's not every day that you get to publish the work of a fly-fishing legend. And Ernie Schwiebert is legendary.
In the 1950s, Schwiebert coined the phrase "matching the hatch," and used it as the title for his first book. Matching the Hatch (1955) not only enriched the angling vocabulary, but also ushered in the era of carefully applying entomology to fly fishing. Schwiebert forever changed the way we view our sport, the way we fish, and the flies we tie.
No fishing library is complete without Schwiebert's two-volume set, Trout (1978). How do I begin to describe this monumental treatise? At more than 1,800 pages, Trout touches on everything related to catching these remarkable fish: history, lore, biology, tackle, and flies.
Perhaps, in a small way, Ernie Schwiebert ushered in another era in fly fishing: the age of the modern angler-poet. His writing and storytelling are that good. The only difference is that where some of today's authors catch their first trout and seem to have the need to tell us all about it, Ernie was a bona fide fly fisherman who could draw on several decades' worth of experience. (We are especially proud of the fact that he was one of this magazine's first contributors in the 1970s.)
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But he had caught enough fish on such imitations in the narrow defile of the South Platte near Deckers, in the early season, and in other watersheds of the Front Range like the Big Thompson, Saint Vrain, and Cache la Poudre to know that these nymphs were important in these watersheds of Colorado.
Some of their popular success was attributed to their lead fuse wire, which fished these nymphs deeper than conventionally dressed patterns, but in size 10 with a 3X long shank they were a workable imitation of Taeniopteryx occidentalis. And dressed in sizes 4 and 8, with hook shanks 3X long, they imitated the Pteronarcys princeps nymphs plentiful in the South Platte.
My imitation is adapted from those early stonefly patterns tied and sold in Poor's little shop at Littleton, between the center of Denver and the Deckers Canyon water on the South Platte, which still offers fishing despite its proximity to more than a million people. Such western tailwaters are open to fishing throughout the year, which has introduced Colorado anglers to midwinter hatches they never encountered before because the trout season was always closed. Anglers familiar with the tailwaters below Grand Lake, on such private ranches as Sheriff's and Chimney Rock, have fished Pteronarcys imitations throughout the winter with great success. Other popular tailwater fisheries in Colorado include the Eleven Mile Canyon on the South Platte, the Blue near Breckinridge, the famous Frying Pan at Basalt, the pretty Taylor above Gunnison, the Gunnison itself below the Black Canyon near Delta, the San Miguel below Telluride, and the sagebrush and piñon reaches of the Dolores near Cortez. Edison Engle knows these southwestern rivers, including the Rio de las Animas Perdidas, which once surrendered the record Colorado brown trout at Durango. Most fishermen simply call it the Animas, unaware of its Spanish heritage, andof the venerable meaning of its historic colonial name.
"We're lost souls all right," Poor once observed. "And that's what the full name of the Animas means—but the Dolores was once the Rio de Nuestra Madre de los Dolores, and all the fishing widows around here believe Our Lady of the Sorrows has got the fishing around Cortez and Durango about right."
Poor and I had a memorable encounter with these large Pteronarcys nymphs. We were on the headwaters of the South Platte near Hartsel, on the McDannald Ranch in southeastern corner of South Park, when Poor introduced me to his weighted stonefly nymphs, and I happily added a dozen to my sheepskin fly book. The flies were flat-bodied and heavily weighted, and I bounced one in my palm, a bit surprised at its heft.
Our party included Martin Bovey, Michael Owen, Peter Van Gytenbeek, Leigh Perkins, Philip Wright, Donald Zahner, and Charles Meyers, the popular new fishing columnist for The Denver Post—a group providing plenty of good talk and colorful storytelling on that spring weekend. Such men would all become much better known in fly-fishing circles in the years to come. There was fresh snow on the Mosquito Range, which shelters the Pleistocene bottoms of South Park, between the old mining camp at Fairplay and Trout Creek Pass, and they were still storing water at Antero. The impoundment at Spinney still lay in the future. Morning sun glittered on the immense riffled length of the Eleven Mile impoundment downstream, although spring storms obscured the snowfields at the summit of Pike's Peak.
I had fished Eleven Mile in the years that I was involved with design and construction of the United States Air Force Academy, and had first crossed South Park with my parents, bound for a family-owned ranch near Malta. But on this visit to Hartsel, I had just been a speaker at a banquet held by Trout Unlimited at the venerable Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, and Bovey was retiring as its second national president. Owen had succeeded Bovey, with TU headquarters moving to Denver, and Van Gytenbeek would lead TU in the future. Wright still lived in Aspen, where he owned the Aspen Country Store, and was a national director of TU. He would later pull up stakes for Montana and start his Compleat Angler on the Big Hole at Wise River. Perkins had recently purchased the C. F. Orvis company of Vermont from Clark "Duckie" Corkran and his financial partner, Bert Akrell. Zahner still lived in Saint Louis, laying out a fledgling magazine called Fly Fisherman on the kitchen table, although he would subsequently move its operations to Vermont. Myers still writes for The Denver Post, but largely about skiing and ski resorts and exotic travel. The venerable railroad hotel at Hartsel is still there.
Wright and I fished together the first morning, where the little South Platte winds through cordgrass bottoms toward Eleven Mile. There was a migration of spawning rainbows from Eleven Mile that spring. Good fish were holding in the shallow riffles between pools, and many were already shaping their redds. We saw a few Baetisflies emerging, from time to time, but the big rainbows had largely ignored them.
Some winter stoneflies were also hatching, but I saw only a single splashy rise, as a large rainbow attempted to capture one of the fluttering adults. Clearly the fish were seeing good numbers of nymphs because several took our flies with a surprising aggressiveness. The pattern that proved most effective was Poor's generic stonefly nymph, dressed in a size 10 with a 3X long shank. We caught and released a dozen handsome rainbows between fifteen and twenty inches. It was a good morning's work, and we were satisfied as we broke for lunch.
Several others had experienced good fishing too, and we were not the only anglers late for lunch, according to the cook's schedule. But somebody suggested the little hotel at Hartsel, and we were off in a small three-car caravan, trailing rooster tails of chalky talcum, until we reached the main gate. The highway led straight west through the immense hay fields and meadows, along the roadbed of the abandoned Colorado & Midland. Its old right-of-way led toward the only settlement in the middle of South Park.
I wondered about what the country must have been like when free trappers like Ceran Saint-Vrain, Christopher Carson, and William Bent first explored the lushness of its grassy Eden. Elk, buffalo, and antelope had shared the unfenced riches, and their plenty sustained a population of grizzlies and wolves. The immense alpine basin was once a volcanic caldera, before its fumaroles and fissures were drowned in the postglacial melt of its vast Pleistocene shallows, but there were echoes of volcanism.
Hartsel is sheltered from its unceasing winds in a cluster of theatrical batholiths and outcroppings that rise from the emptiness of the South Park, and high winds are not uncommon in its treeless amphitheater. Scattered ponderosas were also found in such sheltered places. The South Platte wound through a narrow S-shaped defile in these curious formations. The forgotten roadbed of the Colorado & Midland Railroad, which once reached almost straight across the South Park toward Trout Creek Pass, maintained a water stop and small train-crew hotel at Hartsel. Its service connected Colorado Springs with Buena Vista, before climbing north toward the rich silver strikes at Leadville and Aspen.
James Hagerman was a man who had bold dreams for the unpretentious water stop on the South Platte, where he had located a small hotel to feed his passengers and to house his train crews and maintenance workers. Hagerman envisioned a great gingerbread hotel beside the hot springs, with a glorious view back toward Pike's Peak. But when the railroad ceased its operations shortly after the First World War, Hagerman's dream of a major hot springs resort died too, and his little hotel at Hartsel was shuttered and closed. It later became a house of ill repute for the cowpunchers of the South Park.
It is still the only saloon for more than fifty miles in any direction, and the proprietor was more than willing to make us lunch in the middle of the afternoon. Nobody planned to fish until evening. One of the patrons at the hotel bar, an old cowboy, became quite curious about us out-of-towners, and that eventually set off the bartender.
"You boys been fishing?" the cowboy asked.
I was not part of the exchange, as I sat quietly nursing a beer, but Zahner and Wright volunteered me. They badgered me for shaking my head and refusing the bartender's challenge. It was a bright afternoon with no wind, and any fish facing the current was probably looking directly into its increasing glare. I had just eaten lunch, with two bottles of beer and an enormous serving of fried potatoes, and was contemplating a nap. But the talk soon became a clamor, and there was no backing down.
Zahner later described the challenge in the anthology Anglish Spoken Here, which recounts the events that followed with hyperbole and poetic brio. The crowd that followed me to the bridge was described as a hundred onlookers, when there were only five or six. I rigged my tackle with the caveat that no one had ever caught a big trout in a chalk stream like the upper South Platte under such unlikely conditions. Zahner pictured the trout as a seven-pounder in this outrageous tale, which added a literary thumb to the scale, and he reported that the fish was rising. He added another fairy tale about dressing an imitation while lying in the grass beside the bend where the brute had staked its claim. The only truth in his account was the fact that I stalked the fish on my knees before I was in casting range, but the fly was one of Poor's big nymphs.
I knew there could be only one cast, in the smooth currents of that glassy bend, where the tangled jam of bleached logs filled the emerald depths of the bend. The whole thing seemed like a snipe hunt. Who knew if the big trout actually existed? Arnold Gingrich once observed that the best fishing is always found in books and saloons, and such stories were three-o'clock-in-the-morning myths.
But I tested the length of the cast over the grassy promontory, keeping the traveling line well away from the pool, and moved into casting position. The primary current eddied deep into the logs, and there were no more credible excuses.
The audience stood watching at the bridge, about a hundred feet upstream, but there was a large sagebrush hillock behind them so they were not silhouetted against the afternoon sky.
I studied the pool a bit more, and decided to end the entire charade. The weighted nymph would arrive with a noticeable plop, and I decided to place it upstream, mending as it settled into a patient drift along the logs.
The tactics worked and the nymph dropped on target. I rolled two or three subtle mends, watching the tip of the line, as the drift worked into the shelving throat of the pool. It seemed obvious that a trophy trout might have the entire bend to itself, and would hold and feed there. Nothing yet. I was worried that the fly might hang up on some shadowy snag, and when the line bellied tight, I was sure the worst had happened. The nymph seemed like it was fouled in the deadfall, and there was a sense of being hopelessly hung up, until the unseen snag appeared to move upstream.
"Snagged?" somebody yelled.
The fish inexplicably moved farther upstream, away from its threatening deadfalls, and its struggles near the shelving throat of the pool erupted in a heavy splash. I had my first glimpse of the fish. It was a brown trout and it was large.
"You're not going to believe this," I yelled over my shoulder, "but I'm into the fish!" "You're joking," Meyers shouted. "No, I'm not."
The crowd on the bridge erupted like a platoon on liberty. They swarmed down from the highway, and came whooping and yelling over the fence. Zahner tore his good twill trousers. The fish soon surrendered much of its initial strength in mindless splashings above the pool, and when it finally attempted to reach its sanctuary under the logs, I was able to check its efforts. It had sensed the arrival of an audience, and seemed to get a second wind that spelled trouble. I waved the crowd off, and stayed on my knees, hoping to wear the fish down before it finally saw me. Patient lateral pressure held the big trout away from the drowned tree, and I finally worked it back into open water, where it bulldogged deep and shook its head. But its wild strength was nearly spent.
I slipped carefully into the smooth tail shallows, and unhooked the net lanyard from the collar ring behind my neck. I wetted the net meshes until they popped and blossomed. Meyers was taking pictures now, but the fish surrendered after one more half-hearted run, and it slipped into the meshes of the net. Its head was pinioned deep in the crown of the landing net, and its spotted tail waved with fatigue, well above the wooden net frame.
"Get a tape measure and a scale!" Zahner yelled out.
The tape measure confirmed our estimates. We weighed both net and fish without taking it from the meshes, and then I lowered the big trout gently in the quiet shallows, facing its head into the current. Its eyes were still rolled down, well away from the light, and its big gill covers were working steadily. Zahner weighed the net without the fish, and confirmed its weight at slightly better than five pounds. Its strength was returning, with no trace of unsteadiness, and it finally bolted off with an impressive splash.
"Great story," Meyers said, rewinding the film. "What were the odds on pulling this gambit off?"
Both black and bitter-chocolate imitations may prove necessary in the imitation of the Pteronarcella nymphs, depending on their palette of color in a particular stream. My longtime friend Randall Kaufmann, of Oregon, dresses a simple and effective Pteronarcella imitation in both colors that he has christened the Simulator. I have preferred a more specific dressing through the years.
The western species called Calineuria californica is handsome and important, and measures as much as 38 millimeters in length. Its large nymphs are the most common and abundant of their kind in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest, and their zoogeography also includes most of the Rocky Mountains. These stoneflies may commence hatching in late April, in the coastal streams of northern California. Hatches occur sporadically until midsummer, but most are found toward the last weeks of June.


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