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Hailed by Harold Bloom as "America's greatest living poet," John Ashbery has won every major American literary award for his poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A beloved and gifted artist, Ashbery takes his place beside Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, and Hart Crane in the canon of great American poets. With Quick Question, a new collection of poems published in time for his 85th birthday, John Ashbery proves that his creative power has only grown stronger with age.
For over 50 years John Ashbery has been one of America's most innovative and influential poets. Like Yeats and Milosz, Ashbery is that rare poet whose work continues to improve as he ages. Now at 85, he writes with the boldness and vision of a poet half his age. Honed by experience and inexhaustibly creative, these never before published poems certify that Ashbery's artistic flame has continued to burn late into his life.
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- Imprint: Ecco
- On Sale: 12/04/2012
- Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 8.5 in (h) x 0.57 in (d)
- Pages: 128
- List Price: 24.99 USD
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Authorities arrested a man in connection with a shooting that left another man dead in Forsyth County on Sunday.
Forsyth County sheriff's deputies said they were called at 1:31 a.m. to a fight in the 9400 block of Weigh Station Road on Rural Hall.
Responding deputies found Kim Nolan Duggins, 41, in the driveway of the home with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was pronounced dead on the scene, deputies said.
Following an investigation, deputies arrested Christopher Wayne Goins, 42, on one count of voluntary manslaughter.
Goins was taken to the Forsyth County Detention Center on a $350,000 bond.
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Hallelujah! The fall theater season is shaping up to be so divine that the eagerly awaited return of the "The Book of Mormon" almost didn't make the cut for this top five list.
Broadway buffs have much to thanks the gods for. From Diane Paulus' controversial revival of the Gershwin classic "Porgy & Bess" to the out-of-town tryouts of "One Night with Janis Joplin" and "Beautiful: The Carole King musical," hot tickets abound for musical theater mavens. In the case of "Joplin" and "Beautiful," the Bay Area also gets the bragging rights of seeing hot new musicals before they head to the Great White Way.
Devotees of the straight play, meanwhile, will doubtless be enchanted by the impish fairy tale charmer "Peter and the Starcatcher" and Christopher Durang's acclaimed fantasia on Chekhovian themes "Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike." Cirque du Soleil addicts will also delight that Paulus' high-flying "Amaluna" will be swinging into San Francisco (and San Jose next year).
Keep in mind that some plays will sell out in a blink (read: "Book of Mormon"), so the time to make plans is now. Here's a cheatsheet on five of the most heavenly shows this fall (plus a bonus pick):
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi cross country team will host its only home meet of the season this weekend at the 12th annual Islander Splash at West Guth Park. The college race will begin Friday night with the women's 5k at 6:20 p.m. and the men's 8k will follow at 6:45 p.m. The Islanders will also be hosting high school and junior high races on Saturday as part of the Splash starting at 8:20 a.m.
"We've got the largest team we have ever had on both the men's and the women's sides, so I'm trying a little experiment," head coach Shawn Flanagan said. "The kids that have been running a little bit down the totem pole and have been finishing sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, I'm pulling out the top five. I'm giving them the opportunity to say, 'the chance for glory is on our back,' so if we are going to win we are going to need those people to come through."
Live Results: Results for both the college race and the middle school/high school races can be found at: http://flashresults.com/flashtexas/2011/IslanderSplash11/ and after the races at www.goislanders.com.
Meet Info: All Islander Splash info can be found at: http://www.flashresults.com/flashtexas/?SPSID=60120&SPID=6601&DB_OEM_ID=14100
In the Running: The Islanders will compete against a total of eight teams. Both teams will race against Division II foes Angelo State and Texas A&M – Kingsville from the Lone Star Conference along with Texas-Pan American from the Great West. The women will also compete against St. Mary's from the WCC and Texas Southern from the SWAC. Rounding out the field for the women is Rice University, who is ranked one spot ahead of the Islanders in the South Central Regional Rankings at No. 6. Last weekend at the Rice Invitational, the Islanders finished second to Rice by four points. Others in the field for the men are Prairie View A&M from the SWAC and Division II Concordia University from the American Southwest Conference.
Defending the Crown: Last season, both teams swept the Islander Splash and Patrick Kimeli finished as the top individual runner in the men's 8k race with a time of 25:26. Julia Sambu finished as the top Islanders runner in second place in the women's 5k with a time of 17:48.
Women's 5k: After taking second place last weekend at the Rice Invite, four points behind Rice, the Islanders will look for the underclassmen to step up to help them defend the crown. The Islanders will see some fresh faces on the course.
"On the women's side, we have four seniors that are going to be gone next year, so next year this group of girls that will be running are going to be who we are counting on," Flanagan said. "We will get a little idea what they look like having more pressure without the seniors carrying them."
Freshmen Jasmine Boutte, Vanessa Galindo, Shelby Polasek and Jennifer Ramirez along with sophomores Cecy Gonzalez and Julia Wohlschlagel are slated to run for the Islanders. Juniors BreAnna Briggs, Melissa Jones and Shelby Nichols will also compete. Last year at the Splash, Briggs crossed the line in seventh place with a time of 18:23, Gonzalez finished in 14th place with a time of 18:56, Jones placed 16th with a time of 19:02 and Nichols finished 28th with a time of 19:51. At the Rice Invite, the freshmen hung tough with the upperclassmen. Polasek finished 27th, Galindo crossed the line in 31st place and Boutte rounded out the field for the Islanders with a time of 15:38.
Men's 8k: The men also finished in the runner-up spot at the Rice Invite and will also turn to the freshmen and sophomores to defend their title.
"On the guy's side, we don't really lose much next year, but same deal, we are giving them a chance without Patrick (Kimeli), Jeremy (Juarez) and Jason (Garcia) and some of the other upperclassmen," Flanagan said. "The underclassmen have a chance to see if they can shine getting out of everybody else's shadows."
Freshmen Phillipp Baar, Angel Banda, Paul Hansel, Christoph Hintz and Brandon Lacy are expected to run for the Islanders along with sophomore Justin Adame. Last year at the Splash, Adame finished 11th with a time of 27:02. At the Rice Invite, Banda was the second Islander to cross the line behind Kimeli, finishing 14th with a time of 17:22. Adame finished 17th and Hintz was the next freshman to finish in 41st place, followed by Lacy and Baar, who recorded 45th and 49th places, respectively.
Middle School/High School Race: On Saturday, the high schools and middle schools from around the area will compete. There are a total of 951 girls and 948 boys competing in the high school and middle school races.
"The middle school race is a huge race," Flanagan said. "We usually get about 300 people or so in each race. We get some of the large school varsity teams and a lot of the state ranked teams will be competing head-to-head."
Middle School/High School Schedule:
8:20 a.m. 7th Grade Girls-1.4 miles
8:35 a.m. 7th Grade Boys-1.4 miles
8:50 a.m. 8th Grade Girls-1.4 miles
9:05 a.m. 8th Grade Boys-1.4 miles
9:20 a.m. 9th Grade Girls & Boys-2 miles
9:40 a.m. 4 & 5A Varsity Girls-2miles
10:00 a.m. 4 & 5A Varsity Boys-3 miles
10:30 a.m. JV-All Divisions-Girls-2 miles
10:50 a.m. JV-All Divisions-Boys-3 miles
11:20 a.m. 1, 2 & 3A Girls-2 miles
11:40 a.m. 1, 2 & 3A Boys-3 miles
Awards: The top three teams in the varsity and junior varsity divisions and the top 10 individuals in all divisions will receive awards.
T-shirts: There will be Islander Splash t-shirts available at the meet for $10.
Leader of the Pack: This week, Kimeli was named the SLC Male Cross Country Athlete of the Week for his performance at the Rice Invite. The junior finished as the top individual runner in the men's race against nine other schools. It was Kimeli's second SLC weekly honor in his career.
Stepping Up: Senior Danielle Higgins received honorable mention accolades this week from the SLC for her fourth-place finish at the Rice Invite. Higgins led the Islanders in her first 4k of her collegiate career with a personal best of 14:18 while helping the women's team to a runner-up finish.
Islanders in the Rankings: In the latest USTFCCCA South Central regional rankings the Islanders women's team maintained its spot at No. 7 regionally and is sitting in the top spot in the Southland Conference after a strong second-place finish at the Rice Invite. The men's team moved up four spots in the South Central poll after finishing in the runner-up spot in front of three higher ranked teams at the Rice Invite. The men currently sit behind No. 4 Lamar and No. 5 UTSA in the Southland and are ahead of Stephen F. Austin and McNeese State.
Islanders Head Coach Shawn Flanagan enters his 11th season as the head coach of the Islanders cross country team and 31st season as a Division I coach. Flanagan started the cross country program in 2000. He has won three Southland women's titles, four Independent women's titles and three Independent men's titles. Altogether, Flanagan holds 29 Conference titles as head coach, including the 19 conference titles he won at UTSA. He also sealed three conference titles as an assistant coach at the University of Texas, totaling 32 Conference Championships to his name.
Last Season: The men finished fifth at the Southland while the women posted a second-place finish. Kimeli advanced to the NCAA championships and finished in the top half.
Challenging Field: This season the Islanders will face a challenging schedule. After the Islander Splash, the Islanders will head back on the road for their final two regular season events, the University of Texas Rogue Runners Invite and the annual Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival. The final three meets will feature the Islanders at the Southland Conference Championships, the NCAA Regional and the NCAA Nationals.
Up Next: The Islanders will travel to Austin, Texas to compete in the University of Texas Rogue Runners Invite on Fri., Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m.
Keep up with the Islanders: For the latest information, follow Islanders Cross Country on Twitter (@IslandersTFXC) and Facebook (Texas A&M Corpus Christi Track & Field/Cross Country).


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Moric Blaufrankisch Burgenland 2011, 750 mlfrom Moric (View all)
Now firmly established as the leader in the stylistic re-fashioning of Blaufränkisch, following a model more Burgundian than Bordelaise, Moric has with the 2011er produced a wine that reflects the bounty of the vintage, its generosity and excellent ripeness, but still retains a level of elegance that is very compelling. There were more parcels picked to make this wine, so in addition to it being exceptionally fine, there is for the first time almost enough of it. As usual no new wood, no small wood. Very bright cherry fruit, finely woven tannins and a piquant acidity, long and elegant.
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Moric Estate Video Series
In a series of interviews conducted in 2009, Roland Velich sheds light on the his vision for Blaufränkisch from Burgenland, the origins of his project, his winemaking and grape growing philosophy and many other aspects of Moric.
The Moric Estate
"I believe the world of wine is so fed up with uniform wines, produced with the goal of achieving a maximum of points in a tasting and not with the motivation of creating from the raw materials that are at disposal, namely soil, climate and varietal, a product that is singular, because of the fact that it can only grow in this one place.
Multi-layered, expressive, maybe even mysterious but certainly delicate, those are the attributes that have allowed wine to exhilarate men for centuries.
An ancient cultural artifact, that under the influence of capitalism with all its facets runs the risk of deteriorating to a mere industrial product. Fast money creates fast wines and there it is the fast wine to go with our fast food.
No friend of wine really wants this and even the so called wine industry won't want it anymore once they realize how they have shot themselves in the foot." Roland Velich
David Schildknecht, the Austrian specialist for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, describes Roland Velich and his Moric wines this way: "Roland Velich is no longer working with his brother Heinz at the family estate in Apetlon, but is pursuing his own dream, working with old vines in the heart of Blaufrankisch country Mittelburgenland, specifically Lutzmannsburg and Neckenmarkt.
(Only his winery is located in Grosshoflein.)
His are wines in a style you will not encounter anywhere else in Austria: Blaufrankisch vinified as if it were Grand Cru Burgundy, and from hillsides (including terraces) and pre-clonal vines the like of which you will not find being cultivated in most of Mittelburgenland. One sip is an Oz experience (and I dont mean Aussie, mates!). From his dreams, to his vines, to his vinification, to his retro label, Velich is in a world of his own. He calls his project Blaufrankisch Unplugged (and Moric the derivation of which I shall explain another time is pronounced like Moritz). "
Roland Velich interviewed by Christian Seiler in March of 2009
"In Search of Excellence: The Moric Project" The long story to the Moric project, by importer Stephan Schindler
Moric on Vinography.com / Alder Yarrow's fantastic review of the Moric wines.
Burgenland is made up of 4 "sub-areas" and covers 19,215 hectares, which is about 48,000 acres. The dominating geographical influence here is the Neusiedler Lake (Neusiedlersee), and the 4 subdivided areas are called Southern Burgenland (Südburgenland), Central Burgenland (Mittelburgenland), Neusiedler Lake (Neusiedlersee) and the Neusiedler Lake Highlands (Neusiedlersee-Hügelland)
From the northernmost Neusiedlersee area comes full-bodied white wines, including the countries best Chardonnays. This is also an area where great red wines are produced, including those from the "Pannobile" co-operative who age their wines in oak.
Due to the vineyards proximity to the lake and their location in the hot Pannonian climate zone, their grapes more often than not develop the "noble rot" (botrytis cinerea) which creates heady dessert wines. The region stretches along the Hungarian border, right across which Tokaji is being made.
The town of Rust, in the Neusiedler Lake Highlands, is where the famous Ruster Ausbruch dessert wine is made. This is also where storks come to roost every year, building their enormous nests on the roof of every building along the main roads. They make a clicking sound which is somewhere between a woodpecker and a jackhammer, and as you sit at the Heuriger (wine garden) drinking the afternoon away, the potential cacophony becomes something of a symphony.123
When one drives south into Mittleburgenland, the sign on the door reads: Willkommen in Blaufränkischland!
They're not one bit shy about hanging their hat on the native variety most capable of producing memorable and ageworthy red wines, bottlings frequently exhibiting great depth and class. Additionally among the 2100 hectares of vineyard, one finds Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Zweigelt planted, quite frequently appearing as welcome supporting characters in the Blaufränkisch show.
Four municipalities bring the swing to the thing: Horitschon, Deutschkreutz, Lutzmannsburg and Neckenmarkt. There are more than sixty individual growers to be found, plus a couple very fine co-ops. Sheltered by mountains and hills on three sides, the east lies open to the warm and dry winds from the Pannonian plain, which combines with the mostly rich water-retentive soils to provide ideal growing conditions.
Exceptions do apply, however, like the extremes of slate and limestone of Neckenmarkt. Here the grapes get to hang a little longer than they do up on either side of Lake Neusiedl, an added advantage in the quest for balance and depth.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – UTSA scored five runs in the top of the eighth inning to emerge with a 7-2 victory over the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi baseball team on Saturday afternoon at Chapman Field. Horacio Correa III had four hits for the Roadrunners (9-5, 1-1 Southland) in the victory.
The Islanders (8-8, 1-1) got two hits out of Jordan Lee, but just four other base knocks in the game and just one after the first inning. Tim Keller threw six solid innings in a no-decision, allowing seven hits and two runs, while Trevor Foss picked up the loss to fall to 0-2 on the season. Clint Sharp (1-2) got the win in relief for the Roadrunners.
R.J. Perucki had two hits and three RBI for UTSA, while Casey Selsor and Colby Braddock each had two-hit days. Justin Anderson allowed five hits and one walk in a no-decision for the visitors, who outhit the Islanders 12-6 in the game.
The Islanders got out to a quick start in the bottom of the first, using three hits and an error to get out to a 2-0 lead. With one down, Drew Vest and Eric Weiss delivered back-to-back singles to put runners at the corners. Stafford Brantley followed, and the junior rolled a single through the right side to make it 1-0 in favor of the home team. After Kyle Danford reached on an error, Marc Damon drove home Weiss on a sac fly to center for a 2-0 Islanders lead.
UTSA manufactured a run in the top of the fourth off Keller, as Perucki drew a two-out bases-loaded walk to plate the first run of the game for the visitors. In the top of the sixth, the Roadrunners added another run, with a bloop single by Braddock bringing home Matthew James all the way from first to knot the score 2-2.
After UTSA snuffed out several Islanders opportunities, A&M – Corpus Christi had a golden chance in the bottom of the seventh. Lee was hit by a pitch, then Santiago Ruiz drew a walk. Jeramie Marek followed by dropping down a bunt, and Roadrunners pitcher Clint Sharp tried to gun down Lee at third, but the freshman beat it out to load the bases with nobody out. Sharp rebounded, though, getting Vest on a strikeout and inducing a 4-6-3 double play from Weiss to end the inning.
The visitors grabbed the momentum from there, delivering the decisive runs to pull ahead 7-2. After Foss retired the first batter, Selsor drew a walk and James delivered a swinging-bunt single to put two on and one out. Ryan Dalton followed, and ripped a single up the middle, plating Selsor to put the Roadrunners ahead 3-2.
Foss gave way to Jacob Dorris on the mound with Braddock at the plate. Dorris induced a comebacker on the ground, but his throw to first base sailed high for an error and allowed James to score. Perucki then ripped a single past the drawn-in infield to plate two more runs, and Correa had an RBI single later in the frame to make it 7-2. Sharp slammed the door the rest of the way as the Roadrunners finished off the victory.
The two teams will conclude their series on Sunday at 1 p.m. CDT at Chapman Field. Daniel Minor is slated to have the ball for the Islanders, while Michael Kraft gets the nod for UTSA. For in-game updates, be sure to follow the Islanders on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball).


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I have been singularly impressed with Qcad and but find the "vagueness" on installation in Linux puzzling.
I spent most of last night trawling round the web/forum/site looking for guidance. Perhaps I looked in the wrong place but I did give this forum's search facility a lot of work!
I have been able to successfully install in my home folder but it would appear the preference is for folder /opt. This is in turn requires superuser powers etc, which is an area I am very vague on except that there seems to be stern messages in Ubuntu about being very careful when invoking superuser powers.
Could I suggest a specific guide to this subject would be very useful for linux novices like me.
Perhaps I ought to finish by saying this is not a complaint, just a suggestion to make qcad even better


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Note: This website is no longer being updated and is being maintained for archive purposes by the Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Please see About the Project for further details.
The Páramo de Sumapaz region comprises c. 15,000-16,000 km² south of Bogotá (Map 63). The large ecological island of páramo comprises the upper part of much of the Sumapaz massif, which is formed primarily by the south-north main ridge of the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes. The top of the watershed is between c. 4100-3800 m in elevation, and extends southward with the high points Boca Grande, Chisacá, Medio Naranja, Alto Caicedo, Andabobos, La Rabona, Torquita or Fraile, Cáqueza and Alto San Mateo to Alto de Las Oseras (3830 m), where the departments Cundinamarca, Huila and Meta meet (Guhl 1964). The calcareous summit of Cerro El Nevado de Sumapaz rises to c. 4250 m (or nearly 4300 m) some 20 km east of the main ridge.
A number of tributary rivers drain the Sumapaz massif in two major directions: (1) the Chisacá, Blanco (Oeste), Sumapaz and Cabrera flow variously westward to the Magdalena River in the adjacent lowlands at c. 300 m elevation; and (2) all in the Orinoco River drainage, the Blanco (Este) flows north-eastward to the Meta River, and the Nevado and Guape eastward to the Ariari River and the Duda to the Guayabero River, which together form the Guaviare River.
Access from the north to the highest part is only by road from Usme via Chisacá and Nazareth to Andabobos and San Juan. A number of smaller roads are present mainly in the northern part. The eastern flanks are mostly still under mature forest cover, whereas on the western flank a road penetrates along the parallel valley of the Sumapaz River. At the southern edge of the Páramo de Sumapaz is the lowest part of the Eastern Cordillera (at 1874 m); here the Neiva-Uribe road crosses the cordillera at Las Cruces.
Geologically the main part of the Sumapaz massif consists of sedimentary rocks, mostly Cretaceous sandstone of the Villeta and Guadalupe groups, Guaduas Formation (Maestrichtien). Dark calcareous rocks of Palaeozoic origin that are rich in fossil corals (e.g. Chaetetes sp.) and molluscs give rise to a sharp parallel ridge east of the main watershed - El Nevado de Sumapaz is part of that system.
Quaternary glaciations have largely defined the landscape in the Páramo de Sumapaz region (Guhl 1964; Melief 1985; Helmens 1990). In the highest parts, cirque lakes and roches moutonnées (fleecy rocks) are common. Moraines are found along wide U-shaped valleys. On valley bottoms in the area west and north of El Nevado de Sumapaz (and also elsewhere) is a sequence of glacial lakes dammed by terminal moraines.
The median annual temperature in Sumapaz Natural National Park varies from 19°C at 1500 m to 2°C at 4300 m (INDERENA 1984). The average annual precipitation also varies a great deal in the Sumapaz region. The incidence of fog is very high, reducing irradiance and plant transpiration; the fog is an important factor for páramo and montane cloud forests. Detailed weather records are only available from páramo and western-slope stations. In the páramo above 3000 m on the drier Magdalena slope is a bimodal annual rain pattern (January and February are driest) with up to 1500 mm of precipitation, which shifts in the easternmost highlands to a unimodal rain pattern with up to 3000 mm or more. Cerro El Nevado de Sumapaz has a snow mantle during October and November. At c. 1700-2000 m occurs the highest annual montane precipitation. On Amazonian foothills, annual rainfall exceeding 4000 mm has been registered (Bates 1948).
The natural vegetation of the Páramo de Sumapaz region consists basically of warm lowland forests, montane rain forests, and páramo. The altitudinal vegetation sequence and composition are quite different on the relatively dry Magdalena slope and the extremely wet Amazon slope. Rather few vegetation studies had been conducted in the Páramo de Sumapaz (e.g. Sturm and Rangel-Ch. 1985; Ernst and Seljée 1988). Most of the present vegetation data are based on Cleef (1981) and in preparation, for the páramos and the uppermost forests; an EcoAndes transect was carried out mainly in the montane forest zone (van der Hammen and dos Santos 1996).
Zonal vegetation
The wet Amazon slope includes the following forest types: (1) Wet lowland rain forest, covering adjacent lowlands and the easternmost foothills (c. 500-1000 m); (2) Wet sub-Andean or lower montane rain forest (c. 1000-2250 m) with Moraceae, Sapotaceae, Palmae, Bombacaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Meliaceae and Rubiaceae, and in the uppermost part Guttiferae, more Euphorbiaceae and Cunoniaceae; (3.1) Wet Andean or upper montane rain forest (2250-3200 m) consisting of species of Clusia and Weinmannia and Drimys granadensis with tall bamboos (Chusquea and Neurolepis); (3.2) Uppermost dwarf forest (3200-3500 m) of Diplostephium fosbergii, Myrsine dependens, Argeratina tinifolia and species of Miconia and Gynoxys and tall Neurolepis aristata bamboo.
Transitions to treeline shrub-páramo and dwarf shrub-páramo develop where conditions allow (Fosberg 1944). Pentacalia vernicosa shrubs and open low scrub of Diplostephium rupestre are limited to the Sumapaz páramo and Central Cordillera volcanoes. Gaultheria ramosissima-Aragoa perez-arbelaeziana dwarf forest has only been located and studied at 3780 m on the western slope of the Sumapaz massif. Gynoxys cf. subhirsuta dwarf forest, apparently also limited to the Sumapaz region, is common in rock shelters, where also are characteristic high-altitude patches of Erythrophyllopsis andina and Senecio niveo-aureus a remarkable reddish globular moss carpet with whitish Senecio ground rosettes.
The páramo constitutes the uppermost tropical alpine vegetation belt. Basically three types of zonal grass páramo are present: bunchgrass páramo on the drier westernmost side of the Páramo de Sumapaz, transitional bunchgrass-bamboo páramo covering most of the central area, and bamboo páramo on the easternmost fringe.
Probably the most extant zonal páramo vegetation type on the Sumapaz massif is Chusquea tessellata bamboo páramo with Eryngium humile and tall Rhynchospora ruiziana. Also usual for the Sumapaz páramo and connecting páramos surrounding the Bogotá high plain is a peaty type of Calamagrostis effusa bunchgrass páramo with Oreobolus cf. goeppingeri.
The superpáramo is well represented (100 ha) on El Nevado de Sumapaz, where under wet and foggy high-altitude conditions a special type of vegetation thrives that is different from elsewhere in the Colombian Andes (Cleef 1981). This superpáramo is fully developed from c. 4100 m upward. Some characteristic species include Loricaria complanata and Diplostephium rupestre (low scrub); Senecio summus, S. niveo-aureus, Valeriana plantaginea, Draba cuatrecasana and Lachemilla nivalis (ground rosettes); Azorella multifida (large cushions); the mosses Rhacomytrium crispulum, Rhacocarpus purpurascens and Breutelia spp.; and in the summit area, the reddish liverwort Herbertus subdentatus (Cleef 1978, 1981).
Extrazonal and azonal vegetation
The Páramo de Sumapaz constitutes the second biogeographic centre of the Eastern Cordillera, after the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy (CPD Site SA26). The vascular flora has over 200 genera and stands out by having a substantial number of endemic species, especially in the páramo zone. Endemics to the Sumapaz ecological island include Hypericum prostratum (Guttiferae) and Pernettya hirta (Ericaceae). Some of the endemics have also been recorded from páramos surrounding the Bogotá high plain. Endemic species have been reported as well in the uppermost dwarf forests and include Diplostephium fosbergii, Habracanthus cleefii and Miconia cleefii. A complete record is not available yet for the forest zone, which has been poorly explored.
The endemic species occurring in the páramos include Draba sericea and D. cuatrecasana (Brassicaceae) and Aragoa perez-arbelaeziana and A. corrugatifolia (Scrophulariaceae). A number of endemic Espeletia species (picture) occur, among which are E. summapacis, E. tapirophila, E. miradorensis and E. cabrerensis; other endemic Compositae are Laestadia pinifolia, Pentacalia reissiana and P. nitida. In the superpáramo 3 of c. 75 species (in almost 55 genera) are endemic, and about two-thirds of the species are shared with the Cocuy superpáramo farther to the north.
Among the bryophytes, some species were described from the Sumapaz massif but also might be found elsewhere, e.g. Dendrocryphaea latifolia, Riccardia metaensis, Blindia gradsteinii, Gradsteinia andicola (Oschyra 1990), Plagiochila cleefii and Daltonia fenestrellata.
Useful plants
A number of useful species occur in the region. Most of them are used as material in construction for houses, bridges and fences - particularly Polylepis quadrijuga, Aragoa perez-arbelaeziana, Escallonia myrtilloides and species of Weinmannia, Clusia and Quercus. There is apparently some commercial logging on the western slope, where forest is being converted to cattle pastures. Forests are particularly important in providing fuelwood. Both the páramo and the Andean forests contain many species for local medicinal use. A thorough ethnobotanical survey is lacking, as well as a systematic screening of species for commercial drugs.
Social and environmental values
The large number of glacial lakes and bogs constitutes an important drinking-water resource for Bogotá (Guhl 1968). The core area of El Nevado de Sumapaz contains important resources of limestone and some coal.
The northern part of the Páramo de Sumapaz up to c. 3500 m is inhabited by settlers, who live in small dwellings. People of the Pasca area (western slope) traditionally use the páramo for grazing cattle and hunting, and have small farms in the headwaters of the rivers draining the wet eastern slopes of the Páramo de Sumapaz. There are almost no prospects here for sustainable agriculture, except for a few crops such as onions, "papas criollas" (local strains of potatoes) and some other Andean tubers. Pre-Columbian archaeological sites have been studied in the páramos above Pasca (INDERENA 1984).
There are several regionally endemic animals, such as mammals and lizards. The Páramo de Sumapaz is also an important migration route for exchange of fauna between the western and eastern slopes. An unusual example from early in 1973 is a big anteater observed at c. 3800 m elevation between Andabobos and La Rabona crossing a bamboo páramo from west to east.
The chief threats to the Sumapaz region are logging activities, mainly on the western slope, and the subsequent change from forest into pasture. Degradation of such areas is commonly observed. Wood gathering for fuel is another significant threat to the uppermost forests, which only may recover at a very slow rate. Ranging cattle and burning are increasing throughout the region, which constitute also serious threats to wild vertebrates. Hunting takes place without discrimination; there is no real management. Mining is becoming more important in the region.
The water resources of lakes in the core area of El Nevado de Sumapaz will be used in the near future to supply Bogotá. The necessary infrastructure (e.g. access roads) will affect the wild glaciated scenery of Sumapaz, and attract more human disturbance. Consequently, the wild mammals and birds will be impacted, if the region is not carefully and adequately managed.
The central-northern part of the Sumapaz páramo has been a National Park since 1977. The park (1540 km²) extends from about the forest line on the western slope across the divide and onto the wet eastern slope (to 1500 m), including its wet Andean rain forests (INDERENA 1984; Castaño-Uribe 1989).
It is strongly recommended that the core area of El Nevado de Sumapaz and the adjacent watershed highlands and valley systems be established as a sanctuary, which needs special protection because most of the endemism of the páramo species is concentrated here. The wet superpáramo vegetation (c. 4000-4250 m) covering the calcareous summit of El Nevado de Sumapaz is apparently unique in the northern Andes of Colombia and Venezuela, and wet páramo vegetation overlying calcareous rock is rare in the northern Andes.
It also is strongly recommended that the mainly pristine wet forests of the eastern Sumapaz slope be protected in order to maintain complete valley systems under forest cover, which would allow for the exchange of fauna and flora elements. This might guarantee the preservation of functional communities of the threatened spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), oncilla (Felis tigrina) and mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) among others. The lakes in the core area are important for migrating water birds from both hemispheres. Significant in this respect as well is conservation of the last dry and wet forest remnants of the western slope of the Sumapaz massif. Particularly important forest communities here are high-Andean Aragoa perez-arbelaeziana dwarf forest, Escallonia-Polylepis quadrijuga forest, Weinmannia fagaroides-Hesperomeles lanuginosa forest with Polylepis quadrijuga, and Brunellia sp.-Gordonia-Clusia forest with Neurolepis aperta bamboo understorey, and downslope the last patches of the sub-Andean forest (including oak forest).
Map 63. Páramo de Sumapaz Region, Colombia (CPD Site SA27)
Bates, M. (1948). Climate and vegetation in the Villavicencio region of eastern Colombia. Geogr. Rev. 38: 555-574.
Castaño-Uribe, C. (ed.) (1989). A guide to the national natural parks system of Colombia. INDERENA, Bogotá. 198 pp.
Cleef, A.M. (1978). Characteristics of neotropical páramo vegetation and its subantarctic relations between the southern temperate zone and tropical mountains. Erdwissenschaftliche Forschung (Wiesbaden) 11: 365-390.
Cleef, A.M. (1981). The vegetation of the páramos of the Colombian Cordillera Oriental. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 321 pp.
Ernst, M.T. and Seljée, O.J. (1988). Vegetation mapping in Páramo Boca Grande (Cundinamarca, Colombia). Internal report 253. Hugo de Vries Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 70 pp.
Fosberg, F.R. (1944). El Páramo de Sumapaz, Colombia. J. New York Bot. Garden 45: 226-234.
Guhl, E. (1964). Aspectos geográficos y humanos de la región de Sumapaz en la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exactas Fís. Nat. 12: 153-161.
Guhl, E. (1968). Los páramos circundantes de la Sabana de Bogotá. Su ecología y su importancia para el régimen hidrológico de la misma. In Troll, C. (ed.), Geo-ecology of the mountainous regions of the tropical Americas. Coll. Geogr. 9, Bonn. Pp. 195-212.
Helmens, K.F. (1990). Neogene-Quaternary geology of the high plain of Bogotá, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Diss. Bot. 163. J. Cramer, Berlin. 202 pp.
INDERENA (1984). Colombia parques nacionales. Instituto Nacional de los Recursos Naturales Renovables y del Medio Ambiente (INDERENA), Bogotá. 263 pp.
Melief, A.B.M. (1985). Late Quaternary paleoecology of the Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevados (Cordillera Central) and Sumapaz (Cordillera Oriental) areas, Colombia. Ph.D. thesis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 162 pp.
Oschyra, O. (1990). Gradsteinia andicola, a remarkable aquatic moss from South America. Tropical Bryology 3: 19-28.
Sturm, H. and Rangel-Ch., J.O. (1985). Ecología de los páramos andinos: una visión preliminar integrada. Biblioteca J.J. Triana No. 9. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. 292 pp.
van der Hammen, T. and dos Santos, A.G. (eds) (1995). La Cordillera Central Colombiana: transecto Parque Los Nevados. Studies on Tropical Andean Ecosystems / Estudios de Ecosistemas Tropandinos Vol. 4 / 5. J. Cramer, Berlin. In press.
This Data Sheet was written by Dr Antoine M. Cleef (University of Amsterdam, Hugo de
Vries-Laboratorium, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
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"I am inviting you to give people back to themselves. People are returned to themselves when they are allowed to think their own highest thought about themselves, and to announcee it. You give people back to themselves whe you you announce it for them. Do not let a moment go by in which you have an opportunity to tell someoone how magnificent they are. Do not let an opporunity pass in which you may offer praise. Give people the giftt of self-esteem, and you will have given them a gift that many connot find a way to give themselves. Yet when they find themselves through their own grandest idea of who they really are, they are lost no more, for you have returned them to themselves. Once they were lost, but now they are found."
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I realized this way too late, if its stuttering why don't you just copy it? But for some reason it does not work for mkv and hd videos because it shows that the file is 95 gigs. I copied most of my videos from ps3 media server and they work without stuttering and the quality is great. Also I have 512 mb of ram but I heard that more ram makes the quality better?
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BEAUMONT, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Women's Basketball team led Lamar at the half but the Lady Cardinals' second-half play edged the Islanders 44-37 Saturday at the Montagne Center on Elementary Appreciation Night.
The Islanders (1-14, 0-4 SLC) and Lady Cardinals (11-4, 4-1 SLC) were tied with 3:30 to play in the second half but a 7-0 run by Lamar capped the scoring. Ashley Darley powered the Islanders with 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the field. Marquesha Anderson-Sparks, Trish Amboree and Brandi Huff each tallied six points apiece to lead the Islanders' bench. Huff led the Islanders' glass with seven rebounds and Jessica Jammer chipped in six.
Lamar was propelled by three players in double-figure scoring. Alice Robinson and Gia Ayers led all scorers with 12 points and Carenn Baylor added 10. Dominique Edwards tallied a game-high 12 rebounds.
Darley opened the game with the Islanders' first six points. The Corpus Christi native sank both baskets to start the game to give the Islanders a 4-0 lead. After two Lady Cardinals free throws, Darley nailed another layup to push the Islanders ahead by four. The two teams traded buckets before Lamar took their first lead of the game on a 5-0 run. However, Darley nailed a free throw and Huff hit a layup to build a three-point Islander cushion. Lamar knotted the score at 12 before Jammer chipped in a layup. Lamar added a free throw before Marquesha Anderson-Sparks triggered the first three of the game to extend the Islanders' lead to four with just under three to play in the half. Lamar pulled within two with two free throws to end the half.
The Islanders headed into the locker room with a 17-15 lead on 24 percent shooting from the field and tallied 12 of their 17 points in the paint. Darley led all scorers with eight points while Ashanti Plummer and Verne'qua Taylor led the Islanders with four rebounds apiece. Lamar grabbed the 25-24 advantage on the boards, 25-24, behind Edwards' six rebounds. Baylor led the Lady Cardinals with five points.
Lamar gained momentum out of the half on a 13-0 run to build an 11-point lead. The Islanders answered with a 5-0 run with a layup by Huff and a three by Trish Amboree. The Lady Cardinals pushed their lead to 10 with back-to-back baskets before Amboree triggered her second three of the game. After trading baskets from behind the arc, Lamar extended their lead to nine. The Islanders answered by putting together a 9-0 run to knot the score at 37. During the run, Darley added two buckets, while Huff added a layup and Anderson-Sparks chipped in three points. However, the Lady Cardinals capped the scoring with a 7-0 run.
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The Henderson County Republican Party, in conjunction with the Henderson County Republican Men's and Women's Clubs, will host a series of forums/debates for the Republican primary candidates for sheriff, register of deeds, House District 117, and the county commissioner primaries.
The first debate will be held from 7-9 p.m. April 3 at the Opportunity House on Asheville Highway in Hendersonville. This forum/debate will feature candidates for sheriff. Candidates are incumbent Sheriff Charles McDonald, Fletcher Police Chief Erik Summy and State Trooper Michael Brown. Incumbent Commissioner Mike Edney will appear at this debate due to a scheduling conflict with another April forum/debate.
The second event will occur from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, April 10 at the Opportunity House and feature candidates for register of deeds. Candidates are former county commissioner and school board member Shannon Baldwin, William King and Evona Kilpatrick. The second hour will feature a forum/debate for House District 117, featuring incumbent House Rep. Charles McGrady and challenger Ronnie Edwards.
The third event will be held at the same location from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, April 17, featuring candidates for county commissioner District 4: incumbent Tommy Thompson and Sheriff's Office Lt. Tim Griffin. District 1 will feature former Henderson County Republican Party Chairman Andrew Riddle and Albert Corn. District 3 will consist of incumbent Commissioner Larry Young and William Lapsley.
Candidates will give one-minute introductions, followed by questions solicited by the audience and presented by the moderator. All Registered Republicans eligible to vote in the primary are encouraged to attend.
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The Long, Painful Journey to My New Novel
The publication this month of my new mystery "Road to Nowhere" represents a big step in a long, often-painful journey toward reviving my career as a novelist. Six years ago, I was certain no one would ever again publish one of my books.
After publishing four novels in a mystery series featuring a private investigator and his young daughter, I found myself unable to marshal the enthusiasm to do another. I tried to write a fifth book in the series, but even I knew it was flat and formulaic, which, for whatever their shortcomings, was not the case in its predecessors. I had to stop and explore what had gone wrong.
Like many new authors, I'd focused on publication, rather than excellence, which, looking back, strikes me as a terribly modest ambition – akin to a runner being satisfied by turning up at the starting line. And having been published, I was overly impressed with myself, failing to see that the job of asking readers to share my stories required humility and not even a trace of self-satisfaction. There were technical issues too: Almost all the decisions I'd made about how to tell my stories were now limiting my growth as a writer. As a novelist, I was where, and who, I didn't want to be. Analyzing my past and considering a future, I decided to proceed as if I'd never written a novel. I had to re-invent myself by relearning the craft.
For me, the only way to learn is to do. To challenge my limited skills, I wrote a mystery for young adults that the Penguin Group published and a novelistic book about Brian Wilson and the album "Pet Sounds" (which – and I still can't believe this – was translated into Japanese by Haruki Murakami). I served as a visiting professor of creative writing at SUNY Binghamton; edited and contributed to two serial thrillers novels; and wrote, with great difficulty, countless short stories, one unlike the next. All the while, I was reading, and not only for pleasure, contemporary masters like Penelope Fitzgerald, Kent Haruf, Elmore Leonard, William Trevor and Daniel Woodrell. I read Willa Cather as if her books were tutorials.
Somewhat rebuilt, I decided to write a commercial literary novel that visited themes important to me: identity, loyalty and friendship, and the influence of family, among others. Though it occurs in the years surrounding World War II, well before I was born, and is a gangster tale, it's an autobiographical work set in a fictionalized version of Hoboken, where I was born and raised. (Yes, there's a crooner in the story.) Published last year by a division of Amazon, "Narrows Gate" continues to be well received by readers, many of whom knew nothing about the series I did a half a decade ago. My career had begun again.
Now with "Road to Nowhere," I return with a new mystery series, published by Thomas & Mercer, that utilizes the new sense of craft I'd developed during my self-imposed hiatus. The marketplace will determine whether I've learned what I needed to: how to tell a fast-paced story in a style that's my own; to create characters who emerge organically from setting and reveal themselves through action rather than contemplation; and, most of all, to write in the service of readers, with humility and self-confidence.
I wouldn't want to go through the past six years again: Breaking myself down to dust and deliberately discarding my illusions was a painful experience. But I feel as if I've come out the other side a different author, not so much resurrected as born anew.
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Hurricane Sandy broke a few links in the supply chain — the flow of inventory from manufacturer to retailer — during the most important weeks of preholiday shipping.
The superstorm's Oct. 29 landfall "probably came at the worst time possible," for the big Black Friday stock-up, said Tom Pelliccio, the vice president of sales at the Weehawken, N.J., location of MIQ Logistics, a transportation and distribution company.
Some Orange County companies have had to scramble to source inventory held up at New Jersey ports, delaying the shipment of goods to customers and losing thousands of dollars in the process. Major ports like Newark and Elizabeth were closed almost a week after the storm swept through.
Infora, a Warwick retailer and distributor, lost a container holding $100,000 in pocket-size tools for 10 days. Executives feared the merchandise — en route to one of the startup's first major clients — ended up as buried treasure.
"At one point we weren't sure if it had washed to sea or was buried in sand," said StJohn Wiles, an Infora co-owner.
Infora's logistics company, Transmodal, found the tools once its phone and Internet started working, Wiles said.
The stocking stuffers — including "The World's Smallest Bottle Opener" �— were still waiting to go through customs in New Jersey on Tuesday.
Almost two weeks after Sandy, there's still a long delay in processing shipments, Wiles said.
Backlogs will make distribution and logistics workers "extremely busy" almost until Thanksgiving, Pelliccio said.
"Every day lost in transit at the pier, it affects annual sales," he said.
Corrugated-box manufacturer President Container Group suffered financial losses post-Sandy, said vice president Larry Grossbard, who declined to quantify the economic hit.
The Bergen County, N.J., company is an important piece in countless supply chains. The corrugated boxes it makes in the Town of Wallkill are used by businesses that supply retailers, Grossbard said.
President Container had trouble shipping finished products for two days because its clients, particularly those in New Jersey, Long Island and Staten Island, were closed and unable to receive shipments. Now, many of those clients are playing catchup to meet looming Black Friday demand.
"If they don't get boxes from us, they can't ship out their product," Grossbard said.
President is now at full production capacity, dispatching 40 tractor trailers loaded with corrugated product to its customers across the Northeast every day.
Infora's container of 10,000 mini-tools is the company's first shipment to hard-won client L.L. Bean, which plans to place them at checkout lines at its stores. The tools are the impulse buys consumers pick up while they're waiting in line, Wiles said.
The delay delivering the product cost about $50,000 in lost sales. The money can't be recouped, but the loss won't sink Infora, which has about $2 million in annual sales, Wiles said. But he worries that his company's credibility with L.L. Bean is compromised.
"My worst fear, because we're a smallish company, is that they lost a little bit of faith in our ability to supply," he said, adding that he hopes the company understands the extenuating circumstances caused by Sandy.
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For those fascinated with monks bending spoons:
Yes why should Monks spend their time bending spoons? There is
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Why would they not use these incredible minds to unlock the secrets
of the universe, (like He-man.) GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.
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[quote="hugh grants hooker"]you can not block large amounts of pain unless you kill the nerve endings.period.
yo there homey, im a "westerner" too. i landscape for a living, and so i cut a lot of grass and weedwhack. when weedwhacking rocks and sticks smack your legs during the summer when its like 110 with humidity. if you get hit with a big rock and tell yourself in your mind, that dosent hurt, it dosent. but if a little rock hits me and i say that hurts it does, and vice versa. so i definitly believe the mind can block out pain, and on emotions, us americans do it all the time
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Or to put it another way, how do you know you're happy? Because you think you're happy, right? So thinking you're happy is the indicator of happiness? Maybe you should actually try to spend your life thinking you're happy, instead of being happy.
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people have ranted over the meaning of life, life is life, i mean how can you describe your soul(if we have one), how can you say that a black hole will just destroy you and not take you to some alter world, where god is picking his nose right now, NO ONE KNOWS. all you can do is sit back and watch the pendulem fly/ and watch conservative men and women curl up and wanna die/ we tell ourselves we are special/ some of us think we are saints/ but what the fuck is different its just a licence plate/
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^^^hollas at the springs.
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i used to do landscaping too man. after about 2 minutes, your legs are almost completely numb from the knee down. your not using some 'mental pain blocker'.
and as far as, thinking it hurts makes it keep hurting. nah, your just steadily remembering the initial pain.
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^^^hollas at the springs.
thanks dude thats the first time ive ever tried rapping
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I'll let you punch me in the face if you want. I will block out the pain. Of course, not entirely, but enough that I will let it happen. If you know it's coming you can block it out. I don't know how much more I can explain it. Haven't you ever let a friend pummel you before?
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how come there are people that can walk on charcoal so hot it almost looks like lava and be chill afterwards?
just citing more examples
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By Mel Sheesholtz Ph.D.
Once again a self-appointed spokesman for "God" and the leader of a politically active (and lucrative) faith-based empire has been exposed as a hypocritical fraud. Rev. Ted Haggard, former head of the National Association of Evangelicals and a well-known anti-gay moral crusader, recently joined an infamous group with several illustrious members:
– Rev. Henry J. Lyons was forced out as leader of the National Baptist Convention after his then-wife set fire to a waterfront mansion the reverend secretly owned with his mistress. He was convicted in 1999 of swindling millions of dollars from companies that wanted to do business with members of the denomination. Lyons was sentenced to five years in prison.
– Archbishop Eugene Marino, a Roman Catholic prelate from Atlanta, resigned in 1990 after a two-year affair with a woman half his age. The woman claimed Marino had performed a marriage ceremony for them in which the two exchanged rings.
– Rev. Terry Hornbuckle, founder of the Agape Christian Fellowship in Arlington, Texas, was sentenced in August 2006 to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting two female parishioners, as well as a third woman. Two of the victims said the minister had drugged them.
– Self-proclaimed prophet Pastor Leonard Ray Owens of Fort Worth, Texas, told a young woman
that a sex spirit and lesbian demon were inside her and needed to be cast out, police said. The pastor then asked her to lie on the floor and began yelling at her as if she were a demon, saying, "Loose her in the name of Jesus," according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The woman told police that Owens pulled down her pants as he called for the demons to come out. When she tried to get up, he pushed her down, the affidavit said. The pastor then began to fight with her as if she were a demon before climbing on top of her, pinning her down, and raping her, police said.
Then Owens . . . ordered her to wash her face in the name of Jesus and to read Psalm 105:15, which says to do no harm to prophets…
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According to a September 12, 2004 Los Angeles Times story, Paul Crouch, president of Trinity Broadcasting Network, paid Enoch Lonnie Ford $425,000 in 1998 in exchange for his silence about an alleged homosexual affair they'd had in 1996 at a TBN-owned cabin near Lake Arrowhead, California. As Advocate.com reported,
The world's largest Christian broadcasting network responded on Wednesday to recent news articles about its operations and once again denied a claim by a former employee that he had a gay affair with its founder. The Trinity Broadcasting Network issued a press release claiming that articles published by the Los Angeles Times over the past week failed to accurately depict the Costa Mesa-based organization in a fair light. "The newspaper's publisher has its own agenda," said TBN spokesperson Colby May. "Its reporting has been selective and subjective." [The LA Times has run over 3000 stories about Crouch and TBN.]
The strong response from the Christian TV network comes after recent stories by the Times that showed its founder, Paul Crouch and his wife, Jan Crouch, earn more than $750,000 together in salaries and have an array of luxuries at their ready, including a TBN-owned jet and 30 homes across the United States. The Orange County-based network collects more than $120 million a year from viewers in dozens of countries, and it maintains much of the money helps the needy. The network in its statement defended its financial practices and said long-term contracts and capital projects require extensive cash reserves.
TBN denied Crouch had had a homosexual affair, but confirmed the hush money paid to Ford under a "secret agreement." Why would Crouch pay hush money – under a "secret agreement" – if there were nothing to hush-up, secretly?
Crouch's denial was as believable as the ones Ted Haggard initially offered when his relationship with a male prostitute and drug use were exposed:
The Rev. Ted Haggard, who resigned as one of the nation's top evangelical leaders, admitted Friday [November 3, 2006] he had contacted male prostitute Mike Jones "for a massage" and bought drugs from him.
Haggard said he never had sex with Jones and never used the methamphetamine drug he bought.
He told reporters earlier this week that he did not know Jones, who claims to have had a three-year sex-for-money relationship with him.
Haggard, 50, resigned Thursday as leader of the National Association of Evangelicals – a group representing more than 45,000 churches and 30 million people – and he also stepped down temporarily from leadership at New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
He was one of a group of religious leaders who regularly participated in conference calls with White House aides.
Haggard told CNN affiliate KUSA-TV Friday that he received Jones' name as "a referral" from a hotel where he was staying in Denver.
He did not name the hotel. "I did call him," Haggard said. "I called him to buy some meth, but I threw it away."
"I was buying it for me but I never used it. I was tempted, I bought it, but I never used it."
"He told me about it. I went there for a massage." [link added]
Right from the start, the lies were transparent. Why would Haggard contact a prominent local male prostitute for "a massage"? If he did get Jones' name as "'a referral' from a hotel where he was staying in Denver," one has to wonder what kind of hotel Rev. Haggard had chosen to patronize, and why. Those who claim to be defending moral purity and "God's will" would surely check out business they patronized before patronizing them, wouldn't they?
That Haggard admitted buying crystal meth – a favorite snort of some gay men out for a night of unbridled SEX – but then said he "threw it away" sounds like a bad imitation of Bill Clinton's "I didn't inhale." Much more telling are the two voicemail messages from Haggard – who called himself "Art" – that Mike Jones provided Denver talk radio station KHOW.
The first cast very serious doubt on the "explanation" Haggard offered: "Hi Mike, this is Art. Hey, I was just calling to see if we could get any more. Either $100 or $200 supply" [italics added].
As Jones noted – and any drug user can confirm – "supply" means the drug being sought. Haggard's asking "if we could get any more" clearly suggests he had used meth before and that he liked it – and the sex that followed – and wanted more.
The second voicemail attests to Haggard's persistence: "Hi Mike, this is Art, I am here in Denver and sorry that I missed you. But as I said, if you want to go ahead and get the stuff, then that would be great. And I'll get it sometime next week or the week after or whenever." Clearly, another tryst with Jones was in Haggard's plans, not the singular "massage" meeting he claimed he'd had with Mr. Jones.
As Mr. Jones said, "The more denial he gives, the messier he looks." That statement was included in the November 4, 2005 CNN story titled "Church forces out Haggard for 'sexually immoral conduct'":
The Rev. Ted Haggard agreed Saturday to resign as leader of the megachurch he started in his basement more than 20 years ago after its independent investigative board said he was guilty of "sexually immoral conduct."
Finally, in a November 5, 2006 letter to his former congregation Haggard admitted a "lifelong" sexual problem. The only real "problems" that Haggard had was being untrue to himself and living a lie: "I am a deceiver and a liar," as he put it.
But the "confession" – though plaintive and self-deprecating – stopped short of openly admitting the truth, but it did expose the "ex-gay" myth yet again. Parts of Haggard's "confession" were cloaked in oblique statements such as
There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I've been warring against it all of my adult life. … The public person I was wasn't a lie; it was just incomplete. … The accusations that have been leveled against me are not all true…
"There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I've been warring against it all of my adult life"? Does that mean his homosexuality or the fact that he's been "a deceiver and a liar" of pathological proportions?
If it means his sexuality – as would seem likely – does that mean he was an active homosexual in his earlier years, and perhaps even beyond his trysts with Mr. Jones? He did say "Through the years, I've sought assistance in a variety of ways, with none of them proving to be effective in me." So much for the efficacy of "ex-gay" therapies even for the evangelically motivated.
"The public person I was wasn't a lie; it was just incomplete." Word-splitting at its evangelical best. The "public person" and the public things that public person said were not just "incomplete." He was an outright fraud and his statements were hypocritically disingenuous.
"The accusations that have been leveled against me are not all true…" Well, which ones are and which ones aren't? If you're "confessing," do it with clarity and honesty, Mr. Haggard, and then offer some proof. Credibility is not your forte.
For his part, Mike Jones was straightforward from the beginning and truly "Christian" at the end of his Advocate.com interview. Some excerpts…
When did you first meet Ted Haggard? Roughly three years ago. I never asked him how he found my number, but I guess it was from a Web site or a newspaper somewhere, because I was advertising at the time as a male escort. When I answered the phone, he indicated he was visiting from Kansas City and that his name was Art. For the first year, he called from a blocked number, then mostly from pay phones from the Colorado Springs area.
When did you first realize who he was? In the spring of 2006. I was lying on the couch, relaxing, watching the History Channel – a show on the DaVinci Code and the antichrist. All of a sudden, his face came up. They were interviewing him. It was Art. I didn't get his name, so in my mind I was thinking, I'm going to order a copy of this show, just so I can see who this guy is. To me it was a coincidence. The very next morning at 5 a.m., I was at the gym working out on the treadmill. Somebody the night before had turned the TV to the religious channel and there he was. When I got home and looked him up on the computer, I was like, "Ted Haggard…oh, crap…this guy's huge." …
When was the last time you saw him? August 7 or 8. I had seen him two or three times after I knew who he was. It was weird. I was really contemplating telling him, "Hey, I know who you are." I didn't. I never brought it up to him. And of course, he never offered. He was not emotional at all. He'd pop on over, we'd [have sex]. It was pretty bland. He was never here more than an hour. The only thing he divulged to me at one time was that he was married. He did not seem nervous to me at all.
When did drugs come into the picture? About two years ago he asked, "Hey, Mike, what do you know about meth? I don't do it personally, but I know people who do." I told him that some people think it enhances their sexual experience. He asked if I could help him get some. I located someone he could connect with. After that, he got it on his own. The last time he saw me, he was trying to get some and couldn't, which resulted in him sending me money though the mail in August, postmarked Colorado Springs. He wrote "Art" on the corner of the envelope. I just read that his middle name is Arthur. …
What are your hopes, if any, for Ted Haggard? You know, I wish him peace. …
"I wish him peace." Perhaps bible-thumping anti-gay bigots – and their fellow Republican hypocrites – might want to take note of that Christian virtue and declare peace with reality and offer it to their fellow human beings.
Haggard offered a seemingly similar statement at the end of his confession, but did so with the usual unctuous spin of moral superiority, a hallmark of evangelicals: "Please forgive my accuser…"
What's to forgive? Jones told the truth about himself and Haggard, something the "deceiver and liar" has still not completely done.
And the game goes on…
(Publisher's note: Mel has been hounded by the American Family
Association and other Evangelist Christian groups for a numbers of
months now. He has written about it 1.several 2.times 3.here at Atlantic Free Press. The hypocrisy in this case is truly tangible - but its certainly not the first time we have seen it within evangelical circles.)
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Why are christians so obsessed with other peoples sexuality..so obsessed with sex, gender and genitals…really, don't they worry about real stuff , like poverty, famine, environmental degradation, war and pestilence, the rich gettting richer and the poor getting more destitute.
Why do they get so obessed with homosexuals, claiming it is a threat to the family ..HOW? if your husband runs off with the hussy next door, how can it be the fault of gays/lesbians? How can gays/lesbians be responsible for 50% divorce rate ( incidentally highest divorce are in the bible belt ha ha ).
If your son does drug and your daughter gets laid while on booze - how is that the fault of gays/lesbians. Christians historically sought out scape-goats..they used to blame Jews, then blacks, then gypsies , then women and now since it is no longer fashionable to blame jews or blacks etc, they have to pick on vulnerable minorities like gays and lesbians.
Hitler did not kill 6 million jews in a vacuum. Centuries of marginalization and denigration and demonizing of jews as Jesus killer enable common german citizens to exercise false moral authority in killing jews. In like fashion centuries of demonizing and denigration of homosexuals embolden wicked and otherwise morally bankrupt 'straight' bigots to descrimiaate and do violence to gay and lesbian and other sexual minorities .
Furthermore picking on a scape-goat makes christians feel superior and 'saved'. Denigrating others is easier than exercising love,charity and compassion which is actually the most basic teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Sadly Christians hardly practise the most important commandemt of Jesus ie. Love God then immediately love your neighbour as yourself ( be he/she gay or staight).
It is AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS WHEN THEY IN FACT DO NOT PRACTISE THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF JESUS !!! THEY WOULD RATHER BE HYPOCRITES AND BE LIKE THE PHARASEES OF OLD DUUUH !
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Ada Wakeman said:
It is very painful to see that for more reverends and priests all this became just a job, and not an abnegation... well, we can't trust neither the church now, not only the politicians.
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With this private-cloud-as-a-service model, SBBCollege has the ability to fully customize Moodle and take advantage of features that were previously unavailable to them. The new system enables the college to mine its LMS for data and conduct anonymized analysis. It also provides security through features such as disaster recovery and data privacy.
Santa Barbara Business College is based in Ventura, CA with five campuses in the state. The college offers diplomas and degrees in business, healthcare, legal studies, and information technology.
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