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Submitted by Greg Bass, Head Boys Coach, Sparta High School, Sparta, Illinois
Don't be desperate for a score in the final seconds even if you find yourself 94 feet from the basket. This play frees up a player for a long pass and gives your team a shot before time runs out.
The Set-Up: 1 should be your best passer and takes the ball out of bounds beneath the opposite basket. 4 starts out on the near block while 2 is on the opposite low block. 3 starts out at the top of the key and 5 is a few feet behind him.
The Action: 4 runs to the top of the key to set a screen for 3. 3 then uses the pick to get open on the near side corner. Meanwhile, 5 moves toward the wing area of the far three-point arc and sets a pick for 2. 2 uses the screen to go long.
The Finish: 1 hits 2 in stride with a long pass. Depending on how much time is left on the clock, 2 looks to take an open jumper or drive to the hoop, even if there's another defender back deep.
Submitted by David Offerle, Basketball Coach at Arlington High School, Arlington, Tennessee
This play utilizes a backdoor cut from a 1-4 set to provide the offense with a close-in shot at the basket.
The Set-Up: 1 starts out with the ball at the top of the key. Meanwhile, 3 and 2 are situated on the opposite wings just beyond the three-point arc. 4 and 5 begin on the opposite elbows of the free throw line.
The Action: 1 passes to 2 on the wing. 1 then closes the gap with 2 and receives a quick pass back. All the while, 4 springs to the ball-side corner and 3 steps to the weakside elbow. Next, 1 dribbles toward the free throw line area and 3 steps out hard before cutting backdoor.
The Finish: As 1 makes his move to the free throw line, he hits 3 with a pass after the quick step-out and then backdoor move.
Submitted by Tim Trotter, Head Boys Coach, Jonesboro High School, Jonesboro, Texas
This play is perfect for a quick and close basket with less than two seconds on the clock.
The Set-Up: 4 takes the ball out of bounds on the sideline. 2 begins on the near low block while 1 is on the far low block. 5 and 3 start out on the opposite elbows of the free throw line, with 3 being on the far elbow.
The Action: The play begins when 5 sets a down screen for 1 in the lane. Meanwhile, 2 breaks to the near corner and 3 pops out toward half court. 1 uses the pick and loops around to the three-point line near the top of the key. Then, after setting the initial screen, 5 turns to receive a lob pass.
The Finish: 4 fakes to a decoy and then lobs a pass to 5 right at the rim for a close-range basket.
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The Set-Up: In this play, the 1 player starts out with the ball on the sideline. Meanwhile, the 4 and 5 players line up on the opposite elbows of the free throw line and 2 and 3 line up on the opposite blocks below the basket.
The Action: From this set, 4 and 5 both set picks on the low blocks for 2 and 3. Then, 2 and 3 flare up to the top of key on opposite sides. The first pass goes to 2 at the top. Next, 3 sets a pick for 2 and 2 dribbles around the screen to the right side. As this is happening, 1 sprints to the far corner. 5 then sets a screen in the lane for 1, who cuts baseline and around the pick to the far corner, setting a diversion. Next, 4 sets a pick at the free throw line for 3. Using that screen, 3 cuts around and flares out beyond the three-point arc.
The Finish: Using the screen from 4, 3 flares out and takes the pass from 2 for the open three-point field goal.
The Set-Up: As 3 takes the ball out on the sideline, 5, 1, 4 and 2 are lined up in order across the free throw line. The best shooter on the floor should take the role of the 2 guard.
The Action: The play gets underway as 5 sets a pick on 1's man at the line and 1 pops out to the top of the key and has the option for the three-pointer following a pass from 3. If 1 doesn't have an open look, 3 and 5 then set a double screen for 2, who loops around and heads to the near corner after using the double picks to get open. 4 serves as a decoy on this play and simply loops around the players at the free throw line and runs to the far corner of the court.
The Finish: 1 takes the open three-pointer from the top of the key OR passes to 2 in the corner for the long jumper opened up thanks to the double screen.
The Set-Up: 3 will in-bound the ball on this play. Meanwhile, 1 starts out under the basket and 5 is at the free throw line. 2 begins on the far side wing and 4 is stationed at the top of the key.
The Action: The play gets underway when 5 sets a pick in the paint for 1, who sprints up to the top of the key. Meanwhile, 4 sets a pick for 2 on the far wing. 2 uses the pick and sprints around the defense and into the near corner.
The Finish: 2 takes the pass from 3 in the corner and has the open three-point chance. The second option is for 3 to jump right into the play and position himself for a shot just beyond the three-point arc. After 2 gets the ball in the corner, the player makes a quick touch pass back to 3 on the near wing for the long-distance chance.
The Set-Up: 1 begins with the ball on the sideline. 4 and 5 start out on opposite blocks below the hoop. 3 is in the near corner and 2 is at the top of the key.
The Action: The play gets started when 3 runs hard to the ball and cuts toward half court looking to get open. Meanwhile, 4 and 5 both set foul line screens for 2, who flares to the corner. Most likely, the double screen will force the defense to switch and that frees up 5.
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Favored by professional makeup artists, models, and celebrities for quick-change makeup jobs, Alcone Makeup Remover Cloths (from $6 for 12 to $200 for 500) are a godsend. They contain a makeup remover that dissolves even the most stubborn waterproof mascara, but are so mild that you don't even need to rinse with soap & water. Pop a couple in your purse or gym bag and always be ready for makeup mishaps - or maybe just those times when you buy some great new eye shadow on your lunch break and *have* to try it out before you go back to work.
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While HR 3625, a bill that would protect certain NASA programs from unilateral cancellation without the consent of Congress has passed the House Science Committee and is pending a vote on the House floor, arguments over the advisability of the bill continues. Space News recently published an editorial in opposition. James Hillhouse of AmericaSpace has offered a January 26, 2014 post in support of the bill.
The trouble started when the Obama administration abruptly cancelled the Constellation program at the beginning of 2010 without consulting Congress. Congress, understandably, pushed back and mandated that the Orion space craft and the Space Launch System heavy lift launcher be built over the objections of the Obama administration.
Hillhouse points out that NASA has been using bureaucratic machinations to slow walk the two projects ever since, withholding funding under the Anti Deficiency Act with the excuse that the funds would be needed to close out the Orion and the SLS if they were to be cancelled. However Congress does not seem to be disposed to end either project. Any attempt to do so by the executive branch would be met with the full fury of the legislative branch. Orion and SLS are authorized programs that cannot be cancelled by executive branch fiat, in any case.
Thus the bill is designed to reassert Congress's authority over whether or not certain government programs are allowed to continue. It represents a tug of war between the two branches that go beyond just the merits of the programs being argued about.
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We've had a Spring teaser this weekend with temperatures tenaciously moving in the plus range, and picture perfect sunny, blue skies. Now's the time to think about that warmer weather wardrobe.
Retailers are displaying the most fabulous fashion finds and interpretations of what's shown on world-wide runways, and countless magazines are quick to note what's "in" this season.
Sure, that's great and all... But was does this all mean for your closet?
The following is not only the 'best of the best' for Spring, but shows how you can actually wear the trends. Here it goes:
Sporty & Savvy - Undoubtedly, this comfortable and practical trend will be embraced by people from all walks of life. Fashionable street wear that takes you from work to the gym and out and about again? Ok, now you've got peoples' attention!
But please, this doesn't mean sloppy or baggy athletic gear. Take an anorak or hoodie (as shown in pic) and pair it with leggings or skinny jeans. You can always make it fun and feminine by adding a hot lace-up boot, ballet shoe or colourful flat. Another version of the sports look: Take a muted, soft tunic and team it with sports shorts and those creatively designed sneakers.
Note: Generally, if you're wearing something sleek and short on the bottom, the top can cover more skin and have a bit more breathing room. Roomy and comfy on top? Go sleek and streamlined on the bottom. And accessorize with 'soft & pretty' items like those bling rings, nifty necklaces, bang-on bangles and silk scarves.
Boudoir - Yep, lingerie items in sheer fabrics will hit the stores this season. Kinda/sorta like that Material Girl look. Yikes, you're thinking, "This is way on the other end of the spectrum!" Ok, maybe, but here's how to do it in a practical sense: Take a lacy tunic or cocktail dress and pair it with elegant pearls and a bright shade of lipstick.
Note: No matter what the 'experts' say, please, please ... save those see-through tops for the boudoir!
Die hard Denim - Faded denim, classic denim, chewed up and ripped up denim... it's all good. And go ahead and wear it in the great many ways you've been doing so. Ripped up, faded denim with sky high heels with a bit of blitz looks fab on a dance floor.
Or pair that denim dress with `60s inspired suede boots and wide belt to create a chic, casual outfit. If you're lovin' that loose, boy-like denim shirt with your fav jeans, try rolling up it's sleeves. Then add a sexy tunic under the shirt and add trendy accessories. Instead of trailer park, you'll look Paris runway.
OCD Clean & Minimalistic - Clean lines, muted, monotone colours and soft fabrics are the epitome of modern urban wear.
Throw on an easy-to-wear tunic in a neutral shade. But don't walk out the door just yet! Pair it with some strappy sandals or those 'shoe booties' we're seeing everywhere, add a belt and a streamlined clutch or handbag. If the tunic or dress is in a neutral tone, the shoes, belt and bracelet can be in the same colour range - but try darker, deeper hues.
Fun & Futuristic - All those trendy urban fashionistas will stop traffic with this look. It's a chance to play with kaleidescope colours and prints, metallics, plastic-type fabrics and other innovative materials.
How to pull this one off? Um, ask your friend. You know, the one who's up on all the latest trends.
Colour you beautiful - Hottest hues this season (especially for those must-have new shoes and accessories): Shocking pinks, courageous corals, sunset shades, colour me happy yellows, and deep sea blues.
The most important thing to remember though, when you're caught up in all that shopping europhia, is to dress for your body type. You may want to force feed a plate of fries to the freakishly thin girl in the dressing room next to you, but she probably wishes too sometimes, that she had some major curves!
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Zunes implies here that the USA has no business intervening against oppressive regimes - not because that would be so wicked, but rather because the world has so many of them. In fact these regimes do constitute a powerful bloc of votes at the UN - which Zunes apparently thinks we are obliged to trust for our 'collective security' because somehow the UN embodies the pinnacle of international 'law'. Another dubious aspect of this article: Zunes also tosses around epithets like 'Israel's expansionism' for whose truth he gives no evidence. Maybe in future he'll learn to desist from verbal tricks aimed at insinuating blame for world ills on a country of about the population and size of New Jersey.
The article's quoted Kerry critique of Dean isn't always apropos, but sometimes it is: coalition building - and similar tactics - indeed can be used as an excuse for limitless diversion, compromise, delay and doing nothing real. Just like Obama's formation of an Atrocities Prevention Board has served as his excuse for doing nothing practical to stop the actual atrocities in Syria or Sudan or elsewhere.
Ironically, while Zunes paints Kerry as hawkish, Kerry himself - long a naive patsy for Syria's tyrant Assad - has been an influence against US intervention there.
Sure, there IS a case against Kerry - in fact more than one kind of case. For Zunes the case is that Kerry has too gullibly swallowed lies from US presidents. For others though the case is that Kerry has too gullibly swallowed lies from smooth-talking self-serving foreign tyrants like Assad.
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The fact that she drove to the gun store, waiting for the BG check, finally purchased the firearm and then shot herself shows serious intent, IF this turns out to be a suicide and not an accidental discharge.
It is quite possible that she simply loaded the gun, attempted to put it away, and accidentally shot herself in the process.
Even highly experienced gunsmiths can kill themselves accidentally. My uncle was playing poker and drinking heavily with a group of gunsmith friends about 25 years ago, one of them picked up what he believed was an un-loaded pistol, put it to his head, and jokingly pulled the trigger. Unfortunately, the gun WAS loaded and my uncle and his other friends had to witness one of their best friends splatter his brains all over the kitchen. These guys were highly experienced gunsmiths, that did not stop one of them from having an AD.


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SHEFFIELD — Vermont State Police investigating the abduction and killing of a Sheffield grandmother more than two years ago have returned to her home to search the property.
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The aim of this project is to characterize the rheological properties of a lithospheric mantle section using a suite of naturally deformed peridotite xenoliths erupted from the dominantly Pleistocene Cima volcanic field in the tectonically active Mojave desert of California.
The compositional and rheological properties of the mantle lithosphere here are therefore critical to understanding what influences both the large-wavelength post-seismic signal, and the abrupt transition from lithospheric lid to low viscosity, low velocity asthenospheric mantle. The study will document how stress, temperature, water content, deformation mechanism, lattice preferred orientation and style of localization vary with increasing depth (down to at least 45 km and as much as 70 km) in the lithospheric mantle from which the Cima xenoliths are derived.
These natural measurements of rheological parameters will be used to a) test the applicability of experimentally derived flow laws and predictions of LPO development to mantle rocks, b) develop a naturally constrained stress profile of the upper mantle in the Mojave region and c) examine how the rheological parameters measured might influence a range of larger-scale geophysical models for the region. Some of the critical questions to be addressed include: is the mantle lithosphere beneath this region wet or dry? Does deformation in the mantle occur in narrow zones, or is it widely distributed? Is the mantle lithosphere the strongest load-bearing part of the continental lithosphere, the weakest, or perhaps somewhere in between?
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"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.
Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.
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College Hockey:Mercyhurst Tops Sacred Heart
ROCHESTER, NY — The fifth seeded Mercyhurst Lakers defeated fourth seeded Sacred Heart Pioneers, 4-1, in the Play-In game of the Atlantic Hockey Tournament at the Blue Cross Arena, in Rochester, N.Y.
"We're very excited we won a tough game," Mercyhurst coach Rick Gotkin said. "That was a close game. The score wasn't indicative of what type of game that was. Sacred Heart played us very hard. It was a battle."
The win was made possible thanks to 39 saves by Matt Lundin.
"He's the center of our universe," Gotkin said. "You don't have a chance to win championships unless you absolutely get great goaltending, We call it championship goaltending, and Matt Lundin has supplied that to us."
"He made some good saves in the first," Sacred Heart captain Alex Parent said. "He's a big guy. He comes out really far in his crease. There's not much angles to shoot at."
The game was just like Mercyhurst's season — started out slow and finished with a flourish.
"Hockey is a game of momentum," Gotkin said.
"I was really pleased with our start in the first period," Sacred Heart coach Shaun Hanna said. "We had kind of a lull in the second period. It was stop and go in the third."
Sacred Heart jumped all over Mercyhurst in the opening minutes of the game, nearly scoring numerous times including the first rush nine seconds in. Sacred Heart ended the period outshooting the Lakers, 11-4.
"It didn't seem that bad," Matt Lundin said. "The team played well. They blocked a lot of shots."
However, it was Mercyhurst who struck first eight seconds after the first penalty of the game at 6:16. Jeff Terminesi sent a soft shot from the middle of the blueline. With the puck coming in knew high, Stefan Drew went to glove it.
Matt Pierce, in front of Drew, thwarted that plan when he deflected the puck down, below the glove. That was the Lakers sixth straight game with a man-advantage tally.
"Scoring that first power-play goal got us to settle down," Gotkin said.
Sacred Heart returned the favor on their second power play. Dave Grimson's shot from the left faceoff circle was deflected in by David Jarman at 9:13.
Once again, Mercyhurst struck first in a period, taking a 2-1 lead at 1:58 of the second. Cullen Eddy on the right side was in deep and with nothing to do with the puck, he shot. Drew played it poorly, and it squeezed through.
"The defenseman tried to chip it up the boards," Eddy said. "I heard guys shouting for the puck, so I threw it at the net and saw it go in."
"He kind of chipped it by our defenseman and had a sharp angle," Drew said. "I was cheating a little bit on it. He kind of surprised me a little and threw it at my five-hole."
The Lakers thought they had a two-goal lead at 9:51 when Drew didn't quite have the puck covered. However, the whistle blew just as a Mercyhurst player swooped in and scooped the loose puck into the net.
After that non-goal, Mercyhurst started to dominate play for the first time. Drew was forced to start coming up with some big saves, and he did. This helped the shots on goal to be closer for the period which Sacred Heart still led, 10-9.
With less than a minute left in the period, Sacred Heart got another break with the puck loose in front of the crease. This was because the shot literally ripped the helmet off of Drew's head, resulting in an automatic stoppage of play.
The Lakers finally did get their two-goal lead when Ben Cottreau scored a second after their fourth power play ended at 10:14. It came after tremendous pressure by Mercyhurst during the power play, including hitting the post twice.
"Easy goal," Cottreau said. "I'll take it."
With the teams skating four aside, Chris Risi scored the prettiest goal of the night to put the game away at 17:30. Racing down the right side, when he got to the right faceoff circle, he fired a shot over the right shoulder of Drew and into the far upper corner of the net. Lundin helped cap the win by being credited with an assist on the goal.
"Lucky bounce," Lundin joked.
Sacred Heart ends their season at 16-19-3.
"Our guys learned this year how to be good," Gotkin said. "I think the guys learned a great deal from this season. The last few weeks has been tremendous."
Mercyhurst (14-18-6) will now face top seeded Army in the semifinal round at 4:00 on Saturday. The Lakers are the only conference team to sweep Army this year.
"We have a great deal of respect for Army's program," Gotkin said. "They're very deserving of the regular season championship."
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An Ohio teacher has been suspended for allegedly telling an African-American student that the country does "not need another black president."
According to a report that appeared in CBS Cleveland on Thursday, the Fairfield City Schools Board agreed on Monday to suspend 13-year Freshman School teacher, Gil Voigt, without pay.
Fairfield City Schools Board President Dan Murray called the suspension the first necessary step for termination. Voigt has 10 days to ask for a hearing before the school board or a referee.
Murray also said:
"He was talking to some students and said some things that were racially insensitive."
"We take diversity in our school district very seriously with tolerance of people who are different. We just felt this teacher had crossed the line."
Fairfield City Schools Superintendent Paul Otten told the Journal-News that the incident actually occurred earlier in the month when Voigt was addressing an African-American student who apparently had some presidential aspirations.
That is when Voigt reportedly told the African-American student: "We do not need another black president."
Now the logical, follow-up response to this kind of comment about not needing another black president would be to ask the question: What kind of president does the country need? If a black president is politically undesirable, does that mean that the political opposite, another white president, is what the country needs?
Voigt and his supporters would probably argue that they are not necessarily saying that, but when every other president from George Washington to George W. Bush has been a white male, it is certainly plausible that another white president was being suggested by Voigt.
Telling an African-American student or any student that the country does not need a president who looks like them is preposterously questionable and absolutely unprofessional.
Basically, Voigt might as well have been telling the African-American student to go back to colored water fountains or to the proverbial back of the bus. Jim Crow would be proud.
Voigt's comment sounds very much like a response to a question that radio host Rush Limbaugh asked in 2009, when he pondered: "Can this nation really have an African-American president?"
According to Limbaugh, "any criticism of an African-American president's policies or statements or misstatements is racist, and that's it!"
Although, conservatives across the board have not allowed these charges of racism to slow them down politically or rhetorically in their criticisms and sometimes outright attacks on President Obama.
And in response to Voigt's comments, maybe the African-American student should have asked if the country needs another white president based on the most recent, political debacles of the previous Bush administration, because it flies in the face of the idea that the country will automatically do better under the stewardship of a white president.


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Have you ever wondered why when children hear about the benefits of healthy food, they're less likely to eat it? Researchers say kids don't want to hear how useful any given food is, when useful actually means good for you and healthy. Trying to get kids to eat healthier? Don't tell them veggies are good for them, says a new study, "If It's Useful and You Know It, Do You Eat? Preschoolers Refrain from Instrumental Food," recently appearing online in the Journal of Consumer Research (University of Chicago Press Journals). The study is scheduled to be published in print October 2014. Authors are Michal Maimaran and Ayelet Fishbach.
At some point, most kids will hear that drinking milk helps make their bones strong or that fish is food for the brain. But do these messages foster the idea that if something is good for us, it must surely taste bad? According to the new study, when children hear about the benefits of healthy food, they're less likely to eat it.
But what if you told the child the food is healthy from the time the child was born, relentlessly, totally, and every member of the family and/or friends at the dinner table also repeated the same advice, that vegetables are healthy? On the other hand, the new research says not to tell children that vegetables are good for them. Yet that's the main plot of some children's books where the protagonist is a vegetable the kid can identify with as a hero good person, or superhero.
When children hear about the benefits of healthy food, they're less likely to eat it
"We predicted that when food is presented to children as making them strong or as a tool to achieve a goal such as learning how to read or count, they would conclude the food is not as tasty and therefore consume less of it," write authors Michal Maimaran (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) and Ayelet Fishbach (University of Chicago Booth School of Business). Some advertisements for various types of food even appear with a slogan referring to the food in the ad as tasting so good, you can't believe it's healthy. Why are people so scared of eating food that's healthy? Do they believe healthy food can't taste good?
To test this idea, the authors conducted five studies with children between the ages of three and five. In all of the studies, the children were read a picture book story about a girl who ate a snack of crackers or carrots. Depending on the experiment, the story either did or did not state the benefits of the snack (making the girl strong or helping her learn how to count). The children were then given the opportunity to eat the food featured in the story and the authors measured how much they ate. The children ate more when they did not receive any message about the foods making them strong or helping them learn how to count.
Brands marketing food items to parents and children can use these results to de-emphasize the benefits of healthy food and focus more on the positive experience of eating the food. These results also help to empower policy makers and medical institutions looking to combat childhood obesity and juvenile diabetes.
"Parents and caregivers who are struggling to get children to eat healthier may be better off simply serving the food without saying anything about it, or (if credible) emphasizing how yummy the food actually is," the authors conclude, according to the July 22, 2014 news release, "Trying to get kids to eat healthier? Don't tell them veggies are good for them." Another noteworthy work you may wish to read is, "You Eat Unhealthy Food Today by Selectively Misremembering the Unhealthy Food You Ate Yesterday."


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Darren Sharper update: California hearings delayed in ex-NFL player rape case
LOS ANGELES - Former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper has appeared in a Los Angeles court but back-to-back hearings on sexual assault allegations he faces were postponed to Aug. 8.
Sharper spoke only to answer a procedural question from the judge.
RELATED: Darren Sharper charged with sexual assault in Tempe
Wednesday's proceedings had been scheduled to set a date for a preliminary hearing of allegations that he drugged and raped two women he met at a West Hollywood nightclub.
The second hearing would have involved Sharper's extradition to Arizona, where he's alleged to have drugged three women and sexually assaulted them in Tempe in November.
He's also been investigated in Louisiana, Nevada and Florida, where authorities in May found insufficient evidence.
He has pleaded not guilty in California, and he and his lawyers have denied the allegations in the other states.


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A common complaint among Christians about the idea of human spirits, ghosts, is that when a person dies they believe that since the Bible says that we die once and then face judgment (Hebrew 9:27) and that the dead know nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5) they believe that it is impossible for a human spirit to return to the world of the living. They therefore conclude all occurrences of human spirits to be demonic spirits, or possibly angelic spirits in some cases, in disguise.
The central problem with this interpretation of scripture is that the actual assumption is not a Biblical one. The bible is already clear that even some spirits from Heaven and Hell alike come to earth. God sends his angels and even Satan appears to tempt Christ. People drawing this conclusion are assuming that humans are restricted in a way that the angels are not. Further they are deliberately twisting the interpretation of other verses that directly contradict their view point. The most prominent place this interpretation fails is the account of the Witch of Endor (I Samuel 28:3-25). In this account King Saul goes to the Witch of Endor to seek advice from the spirit of Samuel. What's important here is that the scripture states clearly that the spirit of Samuel appears. It does not say a spirit in the shape of Samuel or a spirit claiming to be Samuel it says it was Samuel. The behavior of Samuel's spirit is also completely contradictory to the idea it was a spirit. He condemns the Witch and Saul for their actions where a demon seeks to encourage sin and wickedness (John 10:10). The argument could be made that the spirit was a holy angel but why would a holy angel deceive Saul instead of just appearing as their true self? By interpreting Samuel in this verse as anything other then Samuel people are interpreting scripture to meet their own already held beliefs instead of basing their beliefs no scripture.
Endor is not the only example of human's returned to serve God's purpose either. Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus during the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3) again the bible says human souls returned to Earth when God allowed it. These two examples seem to directly conflict with the traditional interpretation that humans can never come back.
Another possibility exists. That God in his mercy allows those who have already faced judgment and been found worthy to return. Not those condemned to Hell, not even those in some kind of waiting room for Heaven but that some people are permitted by God to return for a reason. These spirits would not have special knowledge, which is why we are told the dead know nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5) but are here for some purpose either to do God's will (like with Samuel) or to work out some personal issue they need to work on to find peace. In fact the Bible says we are surrounded by a great cloud of the witnesses (Hebrews 12:1). Who are these witnesses if not those who have gone before us into Paradise? This also resolves a fundamental conflict the traditional interpretation has with one of the most common types of spiritual experience.
It is extremely common for people to describe being visited by a loved one who has passed away. Sometimes it's the feeling of their presence, or some minor physical effect like a smell or a flickering light, some times they actually see the person. These are not haunting in the sense you see in movies or on television it is a single event or a series of sporadic ones almost always occurring with in the first year or two after the person dies or when the person is under great stress. People who report these experiences usually report feelings of peace and a certainty that their loved one is all right. No prophetic acts, no displays of demonic power just an action that helps a person who is suffering find peace. Demons do not seek to bring people peace they seek death and destruction (John 10:10) they do not show up one single time to help a person in pain get on with their lives and never return. Instead of judging this as wicked because of a preconceived notion it should be judged by the standards laid out in Scripture. The Bible says that a tree can be known by its fruit (Matthew 7:16) and to test a spirit (1 John 4:1). When events like this ease pain and bring peace their fruit is good and when they honor God and renew a person's faith the spirit passes the test. This is not to say all paranormal phenomenon is God simply that the knee jerk reaction of condemning the paranormal as Satanic in origin is not a Biblical response. Study the situation, test the spirit, and look at the fruits of that experience rather then judging it based on what the viewer assumes is true.
Also none of this is to say that people should seek to reach out looking for spirits of the dead. The Bible is clear that the practice of necromancy is against God's law (Leviticus 19:31, Deuteronomy 18:11). This is dealing with the issue of a spirit that arrives on its own without being sought. Certainly one should not take a seeming paranormal event at face value the instead should test what happens both against their rational belief and as Scripture indicates.


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New Fungus Foods May Make People Sick, Says CSPI WASHINGTON - The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has told the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that a small percentage of consumers may get sick and throw up after eating a new chicken- and meat-substitute made from a fungus. Last January, the FDA allowed the manufacturer to sell the ingredient as a Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) substance, and the agency is on the brink of formally approving it as a food additive.
According to CSPI, the FDA failed to take into account one of the only scientific studies of the organism that makes up the mycoprotein ingredient in Quorn-brand foods. That study linked the consumption of Quorn foods to vomiting and diarrhea.
CSPI provided the FDA with new reports from several consumers who got sick after eating Quorn products. CSPI received those reports via their web site, www.quorncomplaints.com.
A 22-year-old Massachusetts man told CSPI he threw up several hours after eating Quorn Tendersand eight days later after eating Quorn Nuggets. One 35-year-old Maryland woman reported severe vomiting and diarrhea several hours after eating Quorn Chicken-style Tenders.
Here we have brand-new foods made with an ingredient never before eaten in the United States. Instead of undergoing careful reviews, this fungus food was waved into the American food supply with only a cursory governmental review, CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson said. But even the limited amount of research should have raised enough red flags to keep Quorn off the shelves pending further testing. This could be the FDAs worst blunder since Olestra.
Quorns labels identify mycoprotein as mushroom in origin and as an unassuming member of the mushroom familyclaims that are highly deceptive and that should not be permitted, according to CSPI. And, says Jacobson, the highly processed vat-grown fungus is hardly what the average person considers natural.
Three mycologists (fungus experts) at Pennsylvania State University and the State University of New York at Cortland told the FDA earlier this year that while the Quorn fungus (Fusarium venenatum) and common mushrooms are both fungi, calling the Quorn fungus a mushroom is like calling a rat a chicken because both are animals. Those scientists also wrote that F. Venenatum is a fungus more accurately described as a mold. Another mycologist from Cornell University said that mushrooms are as distantly related to Quorns fungus as humans are to jellyfish.
This is CSPIs second complaint to the FDA about Quorn. In February, CSPI first complained about the deceptive labeling of Quorn and the inadequate testing of the fungal product for allergenicity. In April, the Gardenburger company, which uses real mushrooms in its meat-free burgers, and the American Mushroom Institute both complained to the FDA about Quorns false labeling.
Today, CSPI also called on the managers of more than 400 grocery stores that sell Quorn products, asking them to remove the products from the shelves pending further testing and changes in the labeling.Quorn is produced by Marlow Foods, a division of pharmaceutical juggernaut AstraZeneca. Quorn has been commercially available in Britain and in other European countries since 1994.


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Planning • Environment • Real Estate
Proposed Changes:
Refuge Roads eligibility expanded to include signs, maintenance, and trail improvements.
Adds a Section 4(f) exemption for refuge road projects.
Modifies dates for IRR regulations and formula, and links tribal plan to tribal contracts and agreements.
No significant changes to Forest Highways or Parks Roads and Parkways Programs.


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New Sun Constellation System HPC Upgrades
By marchamilton on Dec 09, 2008
Of course, since not everyone needs a half petaflop supercomputer, unlike some of the other proprietary systems in the Top 10, the Sun Constellation System scales down to much lower cost supercomputers that you don't need a roomful of PhD's to design or operate. In fact, the new Sun Compute Cluster solution offers customers pre-integrated, tried and true HPC clusters based on the Sun Constellation System which can be ordered today and deployed without the cost or complexity of traditional supercomputer procurements. Check out Sun's complete HPC portfolio online, including a number of new webcasts recently published from the SC08 show last month.
Of course, Sun realizes that with today's ever more tightly squeezed budgets, not everyone can afford to upgrade the compute capacity of their supercomputer. So Sun offers you a number of cost savings ways to squeeze more out of your current cluster. For starters, you can use Sun xVM Ops Center to manage your cluster, just like TACC uses xVM Ops Center to manage Ranger. Thanks in part to Sun software like xVM Ops Center, Ranger has one of the highest uptimes and utilization rates of any of the NSF funded TeraGrid rsources (click on the resources tab to see realtime TeraGrid utilization). Of course, once you start squeezing more useful work out of your existing cluster with xVM, you will probably need to add storage. Don't worry if you can't afford to buy another expensive big box proprietary storage box, Sun's new Sun Storage 7000 unified storage systems can provide flash-accelerated open storage to any vendor's HPC cluster at a fraction of the price of what you are probably paying today.


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Saturday March 30
We arrived in Budapest this morning and started right off getting great views from the river before we even docked! (House of Parliament at the left.) We had a wonderful tour with our guide Sonja. Again, we chose an "up close" walking tour where we used public transportation instead of the Viking Bus - it was a total of 4 hours with one hour free time in the market. This was much, much better than the Vienna one. Since we were docked right by the Chain Bridge on the Pest side, we started our walk by crossing the bridge over to the Buda side of the city (right photo). The Chain Bridge was the first permanent bridge over the Danube to connect Buda and Pest. The road is suspended by iron chains, hence the name "Chain Bridge;" it was inaugurated in 1849.
We saw a few sites of interest, including the only tunnel in Budapest (opened in 1856, it runs under Buda Castle to provide a shortcut to the other side of Castle Hill) and the "zero kilometer" marker (left) - all roads in Hungary start counting from this point - and then we took the funicular (right) to the top of the hill. From there, of course we had to take pictures of the view, looking back at Pest! At the left below you'll see Barb's "tourist" picture. If you follow the Chain Bridge back across the Danube, just to the left of it is the Prestige, our ship (to the right of the bridge is a different Viking ship). If the bridge kept going, it would go right into Gresham Palace (which is now a Four Seasons Hotel). To the right of the palace (as we're looking at it) is the Ministry of the Interior; and behind it is St. Stephen's Basilica.
In the center, below, is Sandor Palace, the President's home, and to the right is the Hilton Hotel. The Buda side of the river is the "old" side and building codes insist that any new construction must be compatible with the old buildings that remain. The Hilton was built with reflective siding so what you see when you look at it are the old buildings around it - from this view, St. Matthias Church. Apparently they were able to convince the board that this was acceptable! Pretty clever.
The main attraction at the top of the hill is the Royal Palace (aka Buda Castle) that now houses the Hungarian National Library and Hungarian National Gallery, among other things. There will be a night picture of it later on but there wasn't time to do it all, so we didn't visit the palace on this trip. Also in the area is the oldest theater, opened in 1790, that has a plaque commemorating a concert there by Beethoven on May 7, 1800. Below are pictures of St. Matthias Church (left), which was closed to tourists because of Easter weekend; the Fisherman's Bastion (center); and the Trinity Monument, that commemorates the end of the plague - very similar to the one we saw in Vienna.
Of course, up on the Fisherman's Bastion we had to take more pictures! The one on the left gives you an overview of the area - you can see St. Matthias church, the monument to Saint Stephen I, also the first King of Hungary, and more of the bastion as it wrapped defensively above the river. The picture to the right was taken looking north east from the bastion, you can see Parliament across the river and, on this side, the top of the distinctive Buda Reformed Church.
We stopped briefly in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel - it's quite interesting and they are apparently tolerant of tourists using their rest rooms! We were rather taken aback at first by all of the people in kilts until we realized there was a Scots wedding being hosted there this weekend. The Hilton is actually built around the site of medieval ruins that are still being excavated. So one can sit in the very modern lobby and look out into a courtyard from antiquity (pictured at left).
We looked around the Castle District a bit more, saw some buildings of note and then took a bus back across the river to the Pest side. At Vörösmarty Square, the main activity was an Easter Market. At left below is some of the entertainment - they were quite good. In the center is a statue of beloved Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty - he is surrounded by people of all different classes as he was a "father" to them all. It was erected in 1908 and paid for entirely by donations. The very first coin raised for this project is imbedded in it. It's hard to see, so I helpfully enlarged it on the right! On the right side of the poet (as we look at the statue) is a mother who is holding a little girl. The coin is to the left of the child's head and shows up as a darker circle in the stone.
From there we walked down Vaci Utca (shown at left) - a major shopping area that is mostly pedestrian - ending up at the Great Market Hall. On the way down to the end we passed the Elizabeth Bridge (shown on the right). That's one of the newer bridges in Budapest, built in the early 1960's, and named for Elisabeth of Bavaria (aka Sisi) who was well-loved by the Austrian and Hungarian people but assassinated by an anarchist in 1898.
The Market Hall, shown at the right, was built at the end of the 19th century. We had about an hour in the market to wander around. We started at the ATM to get some HUF's (Hungarian Forints - the local currency; when we were there the exchange rate was roughly 230 HUF = $1). There is just about anything you could possibly want at this giant marketplace. On the main level, mostly food (fresh fruits and veggies, meats and seafood plus every sort of spice, herb or accompaniment you could think of); upstairs were all sorts of textiles, crafts, accessories and some "food to go" places. Each is its own little stall so it is much like an upscale flea market. I bought some paprika and goulash paste to take home; Katie bought a purple leather purse that she fell in love with. The picture at left below was taken from the second floor looking down the main aisle. In the center is one of the vegetable displays (remember the exchange rate before you gasp at the prices) and on the right a butcher shop - all right there in the marketplace!
One more market picture at the left - one of the textile stalls upstairs. As we left the market, looking west over the Danube, we could see the Liberty Statue (aka Freedom Statue), shown at the right - she is holding a palm leaf above her head. Initially erected in 1947, it was first intended to commemorate the Soviets who freed Hungary from the Nazi reign. After 1989, however, at the end of communist rule, the inscription was changed to read (translation): To the memory of all those who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary.
We then caught Tram #2, that runs along the river, to take us back to the Chain Bridge, and our ship, for lunch. I had to take a picture of the Prestige bell (left) just because. That afternoon we were both exhausted and, since we knew we had 2 more days in Budapest, we didn't go back out after lunch. We got a start on packing and I actually fell asleep for about an hour; Katie had a good time just resting in bed taking pictures of people who passed by as they walked along the river!
We had a great dinner for our last night on board (rack of lamb). I went up to the lounge and listened to the Hungarian Folk Group for a little while. They were very good but we had to finish packing and reset our clocks. Although we had already lost an hour for Daylight Savings Time in the US, in Europe the time change is the last Sunday in March so we lost another hour. Somehow that doesn't seem fair! And we had to take a walk around the ship to see all the great views outside. At left is the Chain Bridge with the Royal Palace behind it; on the right is St. Matthias Church and the Fisherman's Bastion in front of it. It's all rather fairy tale like isn't it?
Sunday, March 31
We slept until 7 this morning and didn't even hear those who had to leave at 3 AM to get their early flights out. (Our turn will come Tuesday!) Since they have a new tour coming aboard this afternoon, we had to be out of our cabins by 8:30AM so they could begin cleaning; but then we had time for breakfast and to read in the lounge until about 9:25 when the bus came to take us to Le Meridien Hotel for our last two nights. Ah, the last time we get the red carpet (at left) until our next cruise! The hotel is very elegant (see the staircase at the right above) but our rooms were not ready yet so they stored our luggage for us and we went off to explore on this rainy afternoon.
We decided that, given the weather, it would be a good day to do an inside thing, like a museum. So we set off for the Hungarian National Museum (which is walking distance). But we had only gone a block or so when we saw the Great Synagogue (picture at left) so we made the detour across the street to see the synagogue first. There were no tours this week because of Passover but we could see the various memorials that were outside. The building has miraculously existed since 1859. We walked around it, saw the arcade area with old tombstones, the Garden of Heroes (at right) where over 2000 Jews who died in 1944-45 are buried. At the end of the courtyard is the Holocaust Memorial (left below) and behind the Synagogue is Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park. The most striking feature of the park is the Memorial of the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs - more commonly known as the Tree of Life sculpture (center, below). Created by Imre Varga, it has the form of a weeping willow on which each leaf is inscribed with the names and tattoo numbers of over 400,000 Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis. Katie got a closeup of a cluster of the leaves (on the right). I was extremely moved by the little teardrops (remember it was a rainy day) at the end of each leaf.
Then we went on down Múzeum Körút to the Hungarian National Museum (pictured at left) which was interesting primarily in pointing out how totally ignorant I was about Hungarian history. There was a fairly hefty fee to take pictures inside so we decided against that. The museum was founded in 1802 and is a wonderful collection of artifacts, exhibits, photos, etc. relating to the nation's history. We saw some impressive archeological finds dating back to around the 5th century BC, a coronation mantle handed down from St. Stephen in 1031 AD, and a portable clavichord originally bought for Mozart to practice on during tours, among many other items. But it was when we got into the 20th Century that I was totally humbled. I suppose at some point I had learned about the Austro-Hungarian Empire breakup after WWI, and subsequent loss of much of Hungary to surrounding countries, but the significance of it all hadn't "stuck" until I visited the country and walked through so much of its history.
I think we got ripped off at a food stand on the way back to our hotel, but we were starving by then and saw some very yummy shiska-bobs. I thought we asked for the price of 2 of them and he quoted us 2430HUF. But then he only gave us one. It was very big and enough to share, but I think that was way more than one should have cost. However, not knowing the language is a serious disadvantage and it just didn't seem worth fussing about since it WAS very good and held our hunger at bay until dinner. So we paid a tourist penalty for our street food!
Back at the hotel we got into our room – the luggage was already brought up and ready for us. It's large and fancy; a nice bathroom with both tub and shower and a heated floor! We have a wonderful Viking Host here at the Le Meridien. His name is Andas and he was very helpful; so he made us reservations for supper tonight at Pilvax. It's a nice bistro very close to the hotel. I had "chicken supreme" which was a breast and wing with gnocchi and tomato sauce above it and pesto below it (for the red, white, green Hungarian flag) and it was wonderful - and deserved a picture. Katie had duck and it also was great. While the entrée prices were very reasonable ($10 for mine, $15 for hers) we also had dessert and 3 glasses of wine so it added up! We just need more moderation. It's probably good that we only have 2 days here on our own.
Monday April 1
We slept in this morning - had breakfast around 9:30 in the very nice breakfast room (left - and closeup of the skylight on the right) and it was 10:30 or so before we left the hotel. But the sky was blue, the sun was out and it was in the 40's. And oh my, we packed a lot into the day! We started at St. Stephen's Basilica, not sure if it would be open for tourists on Easter Monday. It was not only open (200 HUF) but they let us in during a Mass! I was glad to see that the tourists were respectful and we had the super treat of hearing the organ and choir perform the Hallelujah Chorus by Handel in addition to a couple of other pieces: hymns and a postlude. Awesome. Pictured below, left to right: front of the basilica, sanctuary and ceiling.
Then we hiked the 364 steps up the spiral staircase to the dome. Wonderful views all around but very windy - I tried to keep the pictures limited but there were so many good ones. Sigh. First, looking down the stairs about half way up; Katie's tourist picture and a view that includes the Parliament building by the river - do notice the beautiful blue sky!
The next row shows the view from the front of the basilica all the way to the Danube and across to Buda. In the enlarged view, you can see the Royal Palace on the left and St. Matthias and the Fisherman's Bastion on the right. If you follow the street through the square (which is where we were standing to take the first picture above) and keep going, the light brown patch is the river! The center picture shows you we were right up there as high as the towers! The clocks, by the way, do show the right time. Finally, after we were back down, we walked around to the back and took this picture of the other side of the basilica.
Next we walked up Andrássy Ut, a very well-known street, passing many interesting buildings on the way. Just to highlight a couple I've included the opera house (left) and some of the pictures of holocaust victims all around the front of the House of Terror museum (right). We saw many office buildings and apartment buildings with statues of such disparate folks as Mór Jókai (19th century Hungarian writer), Szondy Gyorgy (captain of Drégely Castle in 1544) and Rennaissance poet Balassi Balint. We sighted a functional public telephone booth and passed a Segway tour (left below)!
Finally we arrived at Heroes Square, the entrance to Városliget Park (pictured in center below) which was our destination for the afternoon. We started at the Fine Arts Museum (pictured at right).
We spent about 2 hours in the Fine Arts Museum - their fee for a photo pass was much more reasonable (I think it was 300HUF - less than $1.50) and so we purchased one. Since Katie had the better camera I assigned her custody of the permit. At left is the Marble Hall - as you can see, the building is a great "fine art" itself. And to the right some of the jewelry in the Classical Antiquities collection; such amazing detail and of course, all done by hand. Among my favorite paintings were a Pissarro landscape, a painting of "Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man" (Jan Breughel, the younger - photo at left) and a wonderful painting of a "Centaur at the Village Blacksmith's Shop" (Arnold Böcklin). There are many Garden of Eden paintings by both the younger and the elder Breughel - it was something of a challenge to track down which one this was since I was careless enough not to note the precise artist while we were there. I liked it in part because the emphasis was on the "Eden" - beautiful animals and landscape, and you only noticed the "fall" if you were looking for it. Way in the background, very small, you can see Eve, apparently excited about presenting Adam with an apple. When we felt overwhelmed, it was time to go back out in the sun and enjoy the park, even though there was much more to see in the museum.
Directly across the square from the Fine Arts Museum is the Palace of Art (at right), which we skipped this trip. Városliget Park is a huge city park that includes, besides several museums, a zoo, a circus, a pond and a large "castle" on an island (left). Well, the lake had been drained when we were there so it wasn't exactly an island! When we told our host in the hotel that we were setting off for Városliget today he laughed and said that would take a week! He's right. But we had to settle for a few hours. The vendors around the castle were all selling corn on the cob, big soft pretzels and mulled cider.
Vajdahunyad Castle was built around 1900 as part of the Millennial Exhibition which celebrated the 1000 years of Hungary since the Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. It was originally made of cardboard! But it proved so popular that it was rebuilt with permanent materials between 1904 and 1908. It contains replicas of buildings from different time periods and architectural style. Below, left to right, are just a few of the different styles: the entrance to the castle (looks very Disney-like, doesn't it?), a gothic section and the Romanesque Church of Jak.
The Agricultural Museum is housed in a very Baroque portion of the castle (left). At right is the main building of the Széchenyi Thermal Bath Complex. In talking with people who took the time to visit, it sounds like a giant waterpark - with a "lazy river" and many different kinds of pools - all naturally heated. They said the water comes in so hot that it actually has to be diluted by cool water to make it usable! When we go back to Budapest and have more time, I will definitely try out one of the many baths in the city!
Other views within the park include some Andean musicians - playing pipes, singing and selling CD's, a nice pond near the zoo and circus with the requisite ducks, and the Müjégpálya Pavilion (opened in 1870) that overlooks the largest ice skating rink in Europe during the winter months. In the summer, it is used primarily for recreational boating. When we were there it was between seasons and the lake had been mostly drained.
Heading back to the hotel, we decided to take the underground (the Yellow, millenium line goes right down Andrássy) to save time. When we went down in the Hosok station (the nearest one) there was some sort of problem – 2 cars were sitting there with doors open and people hanging around waiting for them to "fix" it. So we walked on down to the Kodaly station, where there was someone in a booth to sell us tickets, and took the train back to Deak Ferenc Ter which is right in front of the hotel. I recalled hearing about the Underground Museum that was supposed to be at that station. It's not perfectly obvious, however, since three lines cross at Deak Ferenc Ter - but one of the security people told us it was at the Blue Line entrance so we walked across the street and found it. It's very small but only cost 350HUF (less than $2) and we found it interesting. It follows the chronology of the construction and inauguration of the underground – English translations were provided for almost all of the displays that included models of cars and parts; many photos and some actual retired cars are on display as well (picture at left). The Budapest Underground opened in 1896 and was the first on continental Europe.
Finally, before going back to our room, I wanted to walk down the "fair" (read: flea market, souvenir booths) behind the hotel since I did not yet have any souvenir to bring home. I used to get prints wherever we went but now I'm about out of wall space so I have to find smaller items: I bought some lovely silk earrings.
As we went into the hotel, tired and ready to crash, I stopped and asked Andas, our Viking host, if the "shoe memorial" was nearby. We had heard people talking about how poignant it was and I wondered if we could stop there before going to dinner. He showed us on the map where it was (near the Parliament on the riverbank) and also eagerly showed us a route that would take us by several other things we had not seen yet. His enthusiasm was enough to get us going again! So, instead of crashing for 90 minutes, we made a quick room stop and then went back out. We easily found the shoes… the display honors those who were shot by the Arrow Cross Militiamen in 1944-45; Jews were ordered to remove their shoes then lined up along the edge of the river and shot so that their bodies fell into the river to be washed away. There are supposed to be several plaques explaining this, but we didn't see them. These are cast iron replicas of shoes, permanently mounted on the Danube bank as a remembrance. Due to construction and cleaning activities at the Parliament Building, we had to walk almost all the way up to the Margaret Bridge (see a tram crossing it in the picture above, right) to cross the street again.
Following Andas' route, we walked along the back of Parliament past the Ethnographical Museum and then Ministry of Agriculture building that hosts a memorial (round bullets in the wall - left) to Red Thursday, when the Soviets open fired on students October 25, 1956.
Next we found the little bridge with a statue of Imre Nagy (and today, Katie) standing on it. He was the prime minister during the 1956 revolution and was executed by the soviets. Next was the Ronald Reagan bronze statue erected in 2011 commemorating his role in the fall of communism, where Barb posed with him. You may notice the Parliament dome directly behind us.
Reagan stands at one end of the Liberty Square (sometimes translated as Freedom Square) that has many great buildings surrounding it, including the Stock Exchange building, the Hungarian National Bank, and the Hungarian National Television headquarters. The one that intrigued us the most had big signs up saying No Admittance and icons for "no photos" along with armed guards. We obeyed the threatening signs and didn't take a picture of it. After we got home, I learned it was the American Embassy! Also in Liberty Square is one of the last Soviet monuments. It honors the members of the Red Army who died in 1944-45 during the liberation of Budapest from the Nazi regime. The gold emblem in the center (you can see it if you enlarge the picture) is the Communist symbol: hammer and sickle. At the top is the Communist 5 pointed star. Its proximity to the Reagan statue, celebrating the liberation from communism, is rather ironic.
The timing was perfect. We finished up in St. Stephen's Square where we rested for about 15 minutes and took some more pictures of the basilica with the sun behind us. Then we went to supper just down the block at the bistro Rezkakas - "the Copper Rooster." Again Andas did well for us; it was a great place! I had goulash soup as appetizer and then braised pike-perch with spinach gnocchi and a very yummy sauce. Katie had a duck appetizer – thinly sliced on greens with apple and sesame seeds - and chicken paprikash entrée. We were both very full and very happy with our meals.
Back at the hotel we had to pack up and get ready to get up at 3 AM for a 3:45 pickup for a 6:15 AM plane. Tired but feeling good about all we got done today!
Tuesday April 2
The hotel had croissants and juice in the lobby for us at 3:30 AM; the bus got us to airport in plenty of time. Budapest airport was easy. AMS was a pain. Passport control was a short line and quick this time (unlike when we were returning from Italy). But then at the gate we had to go through not only regular security screening again (where they take away our water...) but also an interview. It was a nusiance for us, but a real obstacle for the many non-English speakers who were ticketed on the flight.
However, we got back safely to Minneapolis with no difficulties at MSP customs and no lost luggage! We went to bed about 4:30 PM local time (11:30 PM by "body" time) so of course we were awake before dawn. But that gave us an opportunity to watch the lovely sunrise from Katie's 10th floor condo. I arrived back home in Iowa around 1:30 PM. It took me 3 or 4 days to get my body back on US time, but it was a wonderful trip and I'd love to do it again!
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The Iron Lady 2011
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British Prime Minister (from 1979 - 1990) Margaret Thatcher biopic with the great Meryl Streep (in an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning performance) playing the titular Iron Lady. Tells Thatcher's story via flashback, including the lead-up to Britain's controversial involvement in the Falklands War in 1982. Jim Broadbent plays her husband Dennis. More
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Business Trips
Going on a business trip with colleagues can often seem to re-draw the automatic lines of office etiquette - you're suddenly in a situation where you're sleeping with your workmates (hopefully, just by snoozing next to them on the aeroplane), breakfasting with them, sometimes even sunbathing with them around the pool of the hotel.
But don't be fooled by the enforced intimacy of the trip into believing that work hierarchies aren't still in place - just because you've seen your boss in all their flabby glory around the pool, draped over an umbrella-ed cocktail, shouldn't alter your behaviour or respect towards them.
The safest course is often to avoid any hint of a compromising situation, right from the beginning of the trip so travel to and from the trip separately from your colleagues if possible.
Once there, if you feel claustrophobic by the round-the-clock proximity to your workmates, playing the exercise card (especially swimming where it's hard to be sociable while ploughing up and down the pool) is a blameless time-out option. Above all, be tolerant of whatever situation you find yourself in - whether in a strip club in Frankfurt or a karaoke bar in Tokyo.
If you are on a solo business trip, don't be afraid to dine alone in the hotel restaurant - but always look purposeful, absorbed and unself-conscious about your solitude. A book is a crucial accessory. Don't be tempted to hide away and get room service - do you really want to sleep in the same room as you ate your dinner in?