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Regarding the Jan. 14 newspaper story about the Portales woman accused of killing her son because he had "the devil" in him:
The story reported the suspect checked out books on Wicca from the library.
This statement from District Attorney Matt Chandler flew in my face:
"We believe the way some of the child abuse resulting in death happened can be related to stuff that's in those books."
I don't know Chandler, but he is obviously an insensitive, ignorant man about Wicca.
First off, Wiccans don't even believe in the devil, so I can assure you he won't find that in any of Gavin and Yvonne Frost's books. Second, he needs to know that such a clearly bigoted statement can do harm to the more than 410,000-plus Wiccans and Neopagans in the U.S.
It is a pity the child died in such a horrible manner, but the devil isn't a Wiccan power. It is a Christian one.
Wiccans value their children highly. They do not abuse them; that would go clearly against the Wiccan rede.
Peaceful Wiccans and pagans daily have to deal with religious persecution.
There's no reason to use a child's death to target any religious group.
Shame on Matt Chandler.
And fair reporting would have definitely included the fact that Wiccans clearly do not worship any devil or Satan.
Kristi Gilleland
Rome, Ga.
U.S. can't blame Iraqis for troubles it started
It amazes me every time I hear President Bush or Condoleezza Rice state that the American people are losing patience with the Iraqi government or that the American government will not wait patiently for the Iraqis to establish peace within their borders.
We seem to expect that the Iraqi government should have a quick fix to a huge problem created by the American government. It was the American government that chose to enter Iraq, depose their dictator whom the American government had supported originally, bring down their system of government, and destroy their country and leave them in a state of violent chaos.
It was the American government that decided the Iraqi people should have elections and who should run for office.
Now, with Iraq in a horrible state of unrest, the president wishes to escalate the conflict, a tactic used by Richard Nixon in Vietnam that failed only to be followed by a U.S. withdrawal after many casualties on both sides. We are about to do the same in Iraq.
But there is one huge difference between Iraq and Vietnam. The conflict in Vietnam was in progress when the U.S. chose to get involved. The mess in Iraq was created by the U.S. government.
And now the easy out will be to blame the powerless Iraqi government and its people for our colossal failure. What logic!
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About a week and a half ago, I was treated for thrush but the peds doctor wouldn't for the baby because he didnt have white spots in his mouth. We were doing better but now I'm back to being in that unbelievable pain and the baby has a couple small spots on his tongue. I took one diflucan pill that was I think 150 mg and the doctor told me to use betadine and monastat also. I had already purchased the Gentian Violet and used it on both the baby and myself.
I've called both doctors back to see what else they can give us, but in the meantime what can I do to treat this myself? I'm in so much pain that I think I'm going to use my pump for the rest of the day and hopefully by tonight the Gentian Violet (which I started again this afternoon) will have helped enough that I can bf him by tonight.

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Same thing here. Got my period when my EBF'd twins were 6 months old and notice a big supply drop every month for about three days or so. Such a drag...
Same thing here. Got my period when my EBF'd twins were 6 months old and notice a big supply drop every month for about three days or so. Such a drag...
Me too. DD is 18 months and ever since she was 5 montsh old every month I start to freak out because my milk is cut by more then half. I panic!!!, THen a few days later, it comes back up. I HATE MY PERIOD!!!
I just started back on my period when my son was 9 months old, slowly, then now regularly it seems. I also notice a significant drop in my supply, an above poster mentioned that it seemed like milk was there but doesn't want to let down? I experience this where my DS will nurse and nurse and no let down occurs. I notice that after a few days, it will return. He is almost 12 months now, and he just nurses more frequently during these days. He is almost 24 pounds, and 30.5 inches long, so I am not worried about his weight. I am counting on the whole supply and demand theory? I also make sure I am drinking plenty of fluids..
My dd is 15m and I still have no period. Can anyone relate?
My periods returned when my DS was about 9 or 10 months old. I did not notice a marked drop in supply each month, but did have a gradual drop in supply after that time that did not rebound back . I think I may also have not been drinking enough fluids. I was able to increase my supply by making sure to drink my full 8 glasses of water each day and taking fenugreek (I took three capsules, 3x/day). I noticed a big difference within just a couple days with the fenugreek and increased fluids.


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Has it ever struck you as incongruous that food in hospitals is often bland, highly processed, and not usually appealing, tasty, or nutritious? In a recent L.A. Times article [2], Elena Conis writes that the "days of bland chicken, reconstituted potatoes, frozen peas, and a side of syrupy, canned peaches appear to be coming to a close at a growing number of hospitals across the U.S."
She goes on to describe strides that hospitals are making by serving their patients fresh, organic, and local produce alongside meats and dairy foods that are hormone- and antibiotic-free, as well as minimally processed. This is very important not only for patients and their families, but also for the millions of employees that work in healthcare facilities. Serving healthy food is part of what I consider an optimal healing environment [3]!
Food as medicine [4] is a topic that we discuss on this website, and it is a topic that requires us to really take a system view. Our food isn't the same as it was 20 years ago. Nutrients in the soil have been depleted, so consequently, food grown in that soil has fewer nutrients. Chemicals are increasingly used in raising both plants and animals, particularly on huge industrial farms that specialize in a few products.
It is easy to fall into the pattern of eating fast, convenient, prepared food, especially in our often frenetic lives. But we are not nurturing ourselves by doing so. Our Standard American Diet (characterized by high intakes of red meat, high-sugar desserts and beverages, high fat, and refined grains) lacks many nutrients and relies heavily on processed foods that include artificial color, additives, flavorings, and chemically-altered fats and sweeteners. Our fast foods also remove us from the pleasures of creating and savoring a wonderful meal, and our fast pace often prevents us from connecting over a healthy meal. We tend to eat for convenience and speed, not health and pleasure.
So, there are many reasons why we might want to pay attention to what we eat. We especially need to pay attention when we are sick so we can help our bodies get the nutrients necessary for healing.
What are you serving in your homes, healthcare organizations, and workplaces?
If you are interested in learning more about this topic, click on the links below:
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[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/mary-jo-kreitzer-rn-phd
[2] http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-nutrition27-2009apr27,0,655548.story
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/healing-environment
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/food-medicine
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/create-healthy-lifestyle/diet-nutrition
[6] http://takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/navigate-healthcare-system/how-can-i-ensure-healthy-hospitalization
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/healing-environment/what-happening-healthcare-settings-today


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Topics of Interest cattle, Global Warming
Published on July 10, 2010
Section Fitness/Diet, Green Report / Media
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We've all heard the meat is murder argument, and chances are if it hasn't inspired you to become a fourth level vegan yet it probably never will. There is another argument for vegetarianism that may have a bigger impact on peoples choice in cuisine. Cutting down, or completely stopping on eating meat can reduce your carbon footprint more than giving up your car.
There are many factors that contribute to global warming. The biggest are waste production, electricity and transport. Next on the list is food production. We all try to turn our lights off and walk when we can, but have you ever considered how your diet is effecting the planet, let alone your hair?
A Study in New Scientist magazine reported that the production of one kilogram of beef produced as much greenhouse gasses as three hours of driving. The greenhouse gas emission of animals was calculated by considering the production and transportation of grain, as well as the methane emissions from animals. Continue Reading / See Additional Photos


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Graham Harrell heard the boos.
"Oh, yeah," the Green Bay Packers backup quarterback said. "You always hear those. But that's part of the game."
There were boos for embattled kicker Mason Crosby after the annual Family Night Scrimmage, when Crosby made just 2 of 6 field-goal attempts in a practice-ending head-to-head competition with challenger Giorgio Tavecchio and the team gave away his No. 2 jersey as part of a fan appreciation promotion.
And it happened to Harrell toward the end of his tour of duty in Friday night's 17-0 preseason-opening loss to the Arizona Cardinals, in which Harrell completed just 12 of 19 for 76 yards with two sacks, an interception, and a 49.5 rating. He also lost a fumble on one of the sacks, by John Abraham, and was at fault on the other, by Tyrann Mathieu, when he missed the pre-snap protection adjustment and then couldn't high-step away from the diving Honey Badger on the 12-yard loss.
That got some of the Lambeau Field-record crowd of 73,738 in a foul mood, and his coach wasn't all that happy with him, either.
"Graham has to play better. And it's tough," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Saturday, after breaking down the Packers' first scoreless exhibition game since a 9-0, rain-shortened loss to Kansas City in the 2003 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game.
"Playing quarterback in the preseason, it's never clean, and it's been like that as long as I've been in this league. You're going to have things go wrong. You're going to have guys run the route too deep and your guy who doesn't get off the press and they run into each other. Then you have to go on to the next receiver. It's those types of things – where you have to play through odd looks, play through situations that someone gets beat and throw the ball away, things like that."
"It's a challenge for any of those guys that get in there at that time because you've got some guys playing in their first NFL game, you've got some guys playing right tackle that haven't even practiced there. That's the way the preseason goes. For quarterbacks particularly, you have to play above that."
In the intrasquad scrimmage, Harrell had done just that, leading a collection of backups to 10 points and unofficially completing 9 of 12 passes for 88 yards and a touchdown. And in the two practices after the team brought Vince Young in for a tryout on Monday, Harrell had thoroughly outplayed both third-stringer B.J. Coleman and Young, the 2006 No. 3 overall pick, NFL Rookie of the Year, and two-time Pro Bowler who was out of football last year.
In fact, Coleman, a seventh-round pick last year who spent the entire season on the practice squad, has been disappointing throughout camp despite the potential the coaches see in him. Young, meanwhile, looked lost in his first two practices after signing a one-year, minimum-salary deal on Monday, and Harrell responded to Young's arrival with perhaps his best two practices of camp.
"Competition is only going to make you better, it's only going to make you fight and scratch and claw to keep your position," quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo said. "Graham probably doesn't get as much respect as he deserves, but you know what? He's got the edge right now, and I think he's competing for his job."
While Harrell probably wouldn't have sewn up the job with a better performance against the Cardinals, he could have put greater distance between him and his challengers. Instead, even though Young only had time to learn a sliver of the playbook (he completed one pass for 7 yards and ran twice for 12 yards) and Coleman continued his summer-long struggles (2 for 7, 15 yards), Harrell may have come back to the pack a bit.
That said, Harrell's night wasn't as bad as it appeared statistically. He came into the game after starter Aaron Rodgers exited following his one series, and Harrell played more series (six) and more snaps (35) than Young (two series, 12 snaps) and Coleman (two series, eight snaps) combined. On each of Harrell's first three series, the offense converted at least one first down and ventured into Arizona territory. But his first series ended in the interception, as his intended receiver, Jeremy Ross, ran into Cardinals cornerback Jerraud Powers, allowing Patrick Peterson to pick off the pass. Harrell's mistake wasn't necessarily the throw, but the decision not to come off Ross and go elsewhere with the ball. On the next play, Arizona quarterback Carson Palmer threw a 38-yard touchdown to wide receiver Andre Roberts.
On Harrell's next series, the Packers drove to the Arizona 39-yard line, where they faced third-and-6. Harrell dropped back and had no time before John Abraham had beaten starting right tackle Marshall Newhouse, sacking Harrell and causing the fumble that Sam Acho recovered. That turnover led to Arizona's other touchdown, and while the sack wasn't Harrell's fault, he has to make sure the ball is secure.
Harrell's final mistake came on his final series. On second-and-10 from the Green Bay 34, Matthieu blitzed up the middle. Coming untouched, Matthieu dove at Harrell's feet and got just enough of him to trip him up for a 12-yard loss. Harrell then threw off-target to Tyrone Walker on third-and-22, forcing a punt.
"There were a few plays I'd definitely like to have back – the pick, and then the one sack (by Matthieu) was on me. But we moved the ball a ton. We just couldn't finish a drive," Harrell said. "As an offense, we've got to move the ball better. Especially in the first half, we did actually move the ball at times, but we just couldn't convert when we needed to."
Harrell hasn't had especially stellar preseasons with the Packers.
In 2010, he was 16 of 31 (51.6 percent) for 166 yards with no touchdowns, interceptions, or sacks for a 67.4 passer rating. In 2011, he completed 33 of 57 passes (57.9 percent) for 287 yards with two touchdowns, one interception, and five sacks for a 75.7 rating, although he did lead a come-from-behind last-second victory at Indianapolis that year. Last year, he finished exhibition play having completed 45 of 78 passes (57.7 percent) for 484 yards with three touchdowns, two interceptions, and five sacks for a 78.1 rating. But those numbers are misleading because he was downright horrendous in the first three preseason games (32 of 63, 261 yards, one TD, two INTs, 53.7 rating) before being literally perfect (13 of 15 passes for 223 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, perfect 158.3 rating) in the preseason finale against Kansas City.
But now that he is in his fourth season in Green Bay and has had two full offseasons with the team – he signed late in the 2010 offseason and saw the 2011 offseason wiped out by the lockout – Harrell's biggest advantage over Young and Coleman, besides being the incumbent, could be his mastery of the playbook.
"He really dedicated himself this spring to making sure he had all the answers in the meeting room. That's the first step to really understanding how to play on the field – making sure there aren't any doubts in the meeting room and you're answering the questions in the right way," Rodgers said. "Graham's done a really good job of that. I think his play has been very consistent. I think he's in a very similar spot to what (former Packers backup) Matt Flynn was at in Year 4 – you can see the natural progression where mentally you're figuring it out and the physical part starts to take over. I think he's done a good job."
Until Young's arrival, the Packers coaches were splitting the backup quarterback snaps evenly between Coleman and Harrell, and Coleman actually went into the scrimmage before Harrell did. McCarthy wouldn't say Saturday how snaps will be divided in practice this week or in the team's next preseason game, at St. Louis Aug. 17.
"Our job is to execute whenever we're called upon and do our job whenever they put us out there. I think that's what we all try to do," Harrell said. "This being my fourth year, I feel as comfortable and confident as I've ever felt. That just comes with reps, and I've got the most I've ever had obviously to this point, so I feel good about the way things have been going."
"My job and what I try to do is go out there and try to take care of my business every time and execute every time my number is called. That's our job – whoever's job it is. When they tell you to get in there, you have to do your job. As a quarterback, you have to put the offense in a position to be successful, take care of the football and execute. And that's what I try to do every time I'm in."
And the boo-birds?
"They paid to come," Harrell said with a chuckle. "They can do what they want, I guess."


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Eating at Zehnder's or Bavarian Inn vs. Drinking a Michigan beer at Founders Brewery
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Mr. Paulk was born Jan. 13, 1919, in Annona to Charles Cleveland and Winnie Davis Willis Paulk. He served in the United States Army during World War II and was retired from Celanese where he was employed for 37 years in the Paraform Unit. He was a member of Retama Park Baptist Church in Kingsville where he was a deacon.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Kathleen Paulk in 1975; second wife, Virginia Dooley Paulk in 2012; a daughter, Joyce Aguilar; and sons by the second marriage, Hugh and Larry Dooley.
Survivors include three daughters, Sherryl (Leon) Stolz and Martha (Tom) Franklin, both of Victoria, and Wanda (George) Gillett of Beeville; a son, Carroll "Bud" (Barbara) Paulk of Raleigh, N.C.; daughters-in-law, Della Dooley of Oklahoma City and Jacqui Dooley of Bentonville, Ark.; grandchildren, Sarah Lawson, Angela Dunkle, Clifford, Wendy and Annalisa Franklin, Kathy Redding, Teri White, Gary Gillett, Howard Arrington, Michael Paulk, Darryl Paulk, Robert Aguilar, Jaa Aguilar, Johna Hamilton, Cary Dooley, Christopher Dooley, Leslie Firth, Kim Biggers and Bill Dooley; 30 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
A memorial service was held Thursday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m. at the Rosewood Funeral Chapels in Victoria with Rev. Les Cole, Rev. Gary Clements and nephew Ike Paulk officiating.
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Things were looking so good for Pluto a couple of weeks ago.
Scientists meeting in the Czech Republic voted to admit three more heavenly bodies to the family of "planets" orbiting our sun. This pragmatic Planet Definition Committee only submits proposals deemed likely to win approval from two-thirds of the 3,000-member International Astronomic Union, so it appeared Pluto was about to gain some seniority in the Milky Way's most exclusive club.
Of course, the absent-minded professors and eccentric scientists of the IAC proved to have minds of their own, and Pluto has been demoted instead.
It had a pretty good run among us Earthlings for an icy, gaseous ball 2.66 billion miles away. Discovered in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., it was "born" at the right time to be immortalized in the name of Mickey Mouse's dog, then as the main ingredient of most nuclear weapons (plutonium).
Appropriately, it's now being labeled a "dwarf planet." We're guessing the provisional names for any additional moons would be along the lines of Sleepy or Grumpy — which makes the idea of a planet Xena seem much more palatable.
Now that Pluto has been plucked off the elementary-school ceiling mobile, you'd think people would be happy, or at least indifferent.
But many aren't. As 10-year-old William Smith told a reporter in Mesa, Ariz., "I think all the scientists, after 76 years that they've been studying Pluto and they've been voting to say it's a planet, I feel like everybody is kind of depressed now," he said.
But why do we care, when so many of us are guilty of feeling, from time to time, like the universe revolves around us? Even "rational" scientists waved stuffed Disney animals around to show their support.
For one thing, Pluto is our solar system's lovable oddball, floating in its unpredictable path beyond giant gasbags like Jupiter and Saturn, in a unique domestic partnership with its megamoon Charon — which would have finally been recognized as Pluto's equal under the more liberal committee recommendation.
Pluto's demotion was also momentous, "real" news, but not as distressing as the war in Iraq or as debasing as our fling with JonBenet Ramsey's creepy pseudo-slayer.
Instead, it's reigniting our curiosity about the heavens, forcing us to stop and see if we can remember just where Mars and Neptune fit into the scheme of things.
And so our crazy cousin Pluto will remain useful. As Patricia Tombaugh, the widow of the man who discovered Pluto, recalled: "Clyde finally said before he died: 'It's there. Whatever it is. It is there.' "


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Roasted Pork Loin with Fig & Walnut Glaze
Recipe Summary
Fig & Walnut Savory Balsamic acts as a wonderful glaze in this simple pork recipe.
Recipe Servings: 6 portions
Recipe Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Recipe Cook Time: 40 minutes
3 lbs boneless Pork Loin
½ cup Lucini® Fig & Walnut Savory Balsamic
2 tbsp honey
Salt and black pepper
Pre-heat oven to 425°. Season the pork with salt and pepper. Place on a sheet pan and roast in the oven 15 minutes. Meanwhile, mix the dressing and honey. After 15 minutes, lower the heat to 300° and begin to baste the pork about every 10 minutes. Cook about 20-25 minutes or until the pork reaches an internal temperature of 140°. Remove from oven and allow to rest 5 minutes before slicing.
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Syria's Problems Cross Border Into Lebanoan
By Kelly McEvers • May 29, 2012
Originally published on May 29, 2012 5:18 am
Recent sectarian violence has claimed the lives of more than a dozen people in Lebanon. The fighting was sparked by the conflict in neighboring Syria. Analysts fear that without uniform leadership in Lebanon, and a workable solution to stop the violence in Syria, a regional sectarian war is in the offing.


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This festival is celebrated between 25 November and 5 December, and captures the undying elegance and splendours of ancient city Awadh, now known as Lucknow. Colourful processions, traditional dramas, Kathak dances in the style of the famous Lucknow Gharana, Sarangi and sitar recitals along with ghazals, qawalis and thumri create a festive atmosphere. Exciting events such as ekka races, kite flying, cock fighting and other traditional village games recreate an atmosphere of bygone Nawabi days. Cuisine and craft festivals are organised.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -You've got to hand it to Larry Fink, one of just a few men on Wall Street-- Blackstone Group (BX) 's Steve Schwarzman is another who comes to mind--who can legitimately claim to have outdone Napoleon in leveraging an inferiority complex into a global empire.
BlackRock, Inc. (BLK) 's CEO and Chairman may have built the world's largest money manager from scratch in 20 years, but that was just his first act. During the past four years, his BlackRock Solutions unit has landed plum assignments from governments includes the U.S., Ireland and Greece as they attempt to work their way through economic crises worse than they've seen in several decades.
|BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink
Now, as Fink and BlackRock prepare to report first quarter earnings Wednesday, they are slowly moving in on the turf of Goldman Sachs (GS) JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Citigroup(C) in trying to rewrite the rules of the securities industry.
While BlackRock shares have handily outperformed the giant investment banks during the past one five and 10-year periods, Fink still longs for the spotlight afforded to those institutions. That is likely one of the reasons BlackRock is reporting its first quarter earnings this week, alongside those companies, as opposed to, say, April 26, when giant-but-boring money managers Franklin Resources (BEN) and Federated Investors (FII) are scheduled to give their reports.
"People always asked me what do I care about the most for our company, and that's an easy answer; it's respect," Fink told Bloomberg earlier this month .
Fink has been trying to win back respect on Wall Street ever since, as head of First Boston's mortgage-backed securities business, his department lost $100 million, leading to "one of the more spectacular and humiliating 'flameouts,'" in Wall Street history, according to a Vanity Fair profile published two years ago.
Fink was effectively sidelined, according to the article, and left the company two years later with a spokesman telling The Wall Street Journal that Fink "did not have the option of staying in his current job."
"It was very painful," Fink told the magazine. "I was not treated as a partner or with the dignity that I expected."
Fink is now bent on remaking Wall Street. He has assembled a capital markets team that deals directly with companies looking to raise money, rather than waiting to hear from investment banks about what is on offer, according to Institutional Investor Magazine .
The bank has also been working since at least 2009 on a global trading platform that will allow its clients and other money managers to trade with each other, rather than going through securities firms.
Many questions remain about how successful Fink will be in remaking Wall Street according to his rules. Indeed, BlackRock realizes it would be too much of a gamble to go after the big banks head to head, so it still claims at this point it is merely filling in a few gaps.


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When our testers first laced up the PureGrit, they weren't quite sure this shoe was up for trail duty. First of all, let's be honest: it's not all that rugged looking. And when you're just walking around, the platform is a bit squishy. So was this a swing and miss from Brooks?
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The gusseted tongue is another trail-specific feature to debris from sneaking into your shoe. It's part of a flexible upper with few overlays. Testers enjoyed the locked-in feeling of the heel and the way the upper moved with your foot when you wanted it to while keeping you securely anchored to the mid/outsole.
The outsole material isn't as grippy as we'd like in wet conditions, particularly wet grass or wood. Overall, the grip is impressive for the lug depth, and the shoe is quite runnable on the road too. The PureGrit is a good choice for the runner whose regular outings cover surfaces of both the paved and unpaved variety.
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Many of us have been volunteering for the city's annual spring clean for the last two or three years and many of us find that most of the citizens (not all) discard appliances, furniture and other bulky items, are the same people every year who take no pride in our city. Other citizens who call the volunteers during the city's annual cleaning are elderly or disabled individuals on a fixed income. What happens to those residents on fixed incomes with an additional increase in garbage pickup?
Michael Reeves from Republic Services states that most communities charge around $4 a month for the collection of two large items. Our question to the city council: "Did you go out for bids or did you do a comparison from other communities to acquire the information stated by Republic Services?
The bulk pickup a month is $2.95 per customer; the brush pickup is another $6.45 a month per customer. So what happens to the money the residents are already paying to pick up the brush once a month?
If both options are approved by the city council for pickup of bulk and brush for $9.40 per month per customer, and the customers who live in apartments will not have the benefit of the services since apartment complexes already use Republic dumpsters, what happens to their tax money? And if money is generated by apartment customers and not being used, why is Republic Services charging additional fees to pick up debris on vacant lots?
Is everyone in or around Beeville that uses city water going to be charged this additional tax?
Why doesn't Republic Services offer to hire our city employees who are already picking up brush and doing an outstanding job?
Where is the brush and bulk trash going to be disposed? In Beeville or the Republic Services laydown yard?
The contract proposed by Republic Services is for five years; after five years, how much will this proposal increase in price since everything is going up, such as wages, fuel and new equipment?
How much more will our taxes go up? Many businesses here in Beeville would like the opportunity to have a chance to see some other proposals on this issue and to have a say on this matter. Many of us know for a fact that there are other companies just as competitive or more reasonable in prices. When Michael Reeves came to show the pictures of the bulk items around our community, was Republic Services' concern about the well-being of our city or the stockholders for Republic Services?
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Skip to comments.Material Girl Wimps Out Nixes Muslim Bridal Dress for New Video Its Too Dangerous
Posted on 10/08/2012 8:16:16 AM PDT by george76
Madonna didnt think twice about mocking the Catholic Church in her concerts and video.
She thought it was a courageous statement.
But the Material Girl wimped out and nixed her Muslim bridal dress for her latest video. Its too dangerous.
Madonna has decided against wearing a Muslim bridal dress in her new music video over fears for her safety.
when they mentioned that her actions could put her life at risk she decided to ditch it from her video and certainly wont be wearing it on stage
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
It is easy to be edgy and mock the mainstream if the mainstream peaceful...
Madonna = A conveinient "safe zone" liberal.
How the H-E-double hockey sticks is that a Muslim bridal dress?
Read the comments at the end of the piece..it'll make you smile..
Thus, the material girl acknowledges she is not "challenging the mores of society", rather, she merely tries to shock and offend for the material benefits and publicity such notoriety brings.
Madonna is a coward.She doesn't mind slandering Christianity or Judaism but she doesn't have the guts to do it to Islam.Just Gutless.
Actions speak louder than words, which one is it skankarella?
What ever happened to suffering for one's art?
To paraphrase Stalin: "How many suicide bombers does the pope have?"
I think that this is indeed an insight into the liberal minds and explains by CAIRE and other Muslim groups can get away with so much. Liberals are hypocrites and will only push conservatives who have strong moral values against retaliation.
Typical liberal asswad.
Mocks the faith of those that would not harm her
Will not mock the so called religion of islam for which she would face harm.
What strength of character!
It's easy to abuse a target that won't fight back. :-)
I like that. skankarella.
Puts her right there w/barbarella that other no talent lib.
Why would the muslims care they are a religion of peace. They wouldn't kill anyone. /sarc
I can't stand Madonna, but, the fact that she's afraid, as well as many others, proves that what islamists/radicals are practicing every day, is terrorism. (whether they're actually blowing people up or not)
She stinks of sadness and desperation.
"Same reason that PETA protests little old ladies wearing fur coats instead of Hell's Angels wearing leather.."
Or gay activists going after sweet, little old ladies going to church instead of blacks and Hispanics who overwhelmingly voted against gay marriage
That, and poor personal hygiene..
Best line of the morning.
I'd fault her for the Catholic-bashing, but not for her rational fear of Islamofreaks. So long as she's honest about it and says:
"I will not make fun of the burka because I fear for my & my family's physical welfare,"
...and DOES NOT say:
"Diversity, tolerance, religion of peace, blah, blah, blah..."
This could be the first smart thing Madonna has done.
Couldn't she get her candidate for President to make it all good with the Muslims?
Christians die for their faith.
Muslims kill for their faith.
That she doesn't see and rail against the dichotomy is not necessarily an eye opener...
She should just shut up and sing or go away!
What is a muslim bridal dress?....A burlap sack?
A goat harness
sounds kinda islamo-phobic.
She fears for her physical safety, yet she has let her spiritual safety i.e. her soul become so corrupt and hell-bound. I suppose to a liberal that makes sense.
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GAME TIME DECISIONS: Kurt Thomas (Left Elbow Bursitis), Ray Allen (Sprained Ankle)
OUT Vladimir Radmonivic Anfernee Hardaway
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GAME TIME DECISIONS: Kurt Thomas (Left Elbow Bursitis), Ray Allen (Sprained Ankle)
OUT Vladimir Radmonivic Anfernee Hardaway
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well atleast Seattle will be without one of their 3-point threats, Radmanovic another one of those guys in contention for sixth man, even though we know it will go to Ben Gordon
I am really glad that Radmonivic is out. Allen may be out to. Vladimir is one of those guys that would kill the Knicks because of the matchup he presents.
"One Team, One New York"
Vlad does create mismatches but its hard to call Vlad vs Tim Thomas a mismatch, they're both 6-10, with good range, but Tim is far, far more athletic
No, Tim is slower than Vladimir. Tim doesn't play defense as well.
They wouldn't be on each other anyway. Vladimir would be guarded by someone like Malik or Kurt, IMO.
"One Team, One New York"
Tim guarded Vladimir in the last game, when we played Seattle, and Tim wrecked him, plus Tim Thomas has improved even more since them, no way he is slower than him, but it would still be a good matchup
I know, Tim Thomas would do fine against Vladimir, I am just saying he is one of those players, just like TT who creates difficult matchups.
"One Team, One New York"
[quote="Brian_Coleman_21"] im Thomas would do fine against Vladimir.[/qoute]Originally Posted by Brian_Coleman_21
pick a side....i know it would be a good matchup.
I changed my opinion. In the beggining I thought that Radmonivic was taller then TT. Then I realized than Tim could play with him. I have the right to change my mind,bro.
"One Team, One New York"
Never two without three: Crawford, another pass to himself to the blackboard? I'd like him to do it again, and drain 5 threes also...
Wow, I would love him to do it also but I doubt he will. And besides, this game is on the road so it wouldn't be as intense.Originally Posted by Mousquetaire2
"One Team, One New York"
how is ray allen game time decision for tommorow when hes playing today
yea and lewis got injured which helps.
"They might want to hold me out because we play again within 24 hours," Lewis said about his chances for starting against the New York Knicks in Seattle Friday night.
Peter the Russian...back like cooked crack
hey hey hey smoke weed every day
Ok thanks for the update.Originally Posted by pyotrveliky
pbjb-I made this thread yesterday and he was a game-time decision for last-nights game so I wasn't sure if he was playing.
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The arrival of April and May marks the start of nature's spring concert with spring peepers and American toads singing near wetlands. Not to be outdone by the amphibians, many warblers and other passerines arrive to contribute to this concert. The melodic call of the wood thrush heralds its arrival from wintering grounds in Central America; this singer is shy and hard to spot, but its song is very distinct as it seeks a mate for the upcoming breeding season.
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JazzSet in October
October 3, 2011. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: Alternate Routes, Ben Williams, danilo perez, Green Mill, Jazz Alive, JazzSet, Kennedy Center Jazz, kenny werner, Masters, njpac, Poncho Sanchez, Randy Weston, roy hargrove, Toots Thielemans, village vanguard, Von Freeman, Yotam Silberstein
JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater is celebrating ten years with Dee Dee as host, and nearing our 20th anniversary on the air with live music every week. You have two chances to catch this week's show on WBGO Jazz 88 - Sundays at 6pm, Wednesdays at 6:30. Miss a show? Listen on demand. We're in Surround Sound. Here's our early fall line-up:
THIS WED, OCT 5, HEAR 2012 NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman, born October 3, 1923
We knew Freeman was born and stayed in Chicago, but until earlier this year, everyone including the man himself thought his birth year was 1922. Howard Reich of The Chicago Tribune suspected it was 1923, and writes here about how he corrected Von Freeman history. On this JazzSet from New Year's Eve, 2010, at the Green Mill, he dukes it out in a mock battle with fellow tenor Ed Petersen .
SUN, OCT 9, AND WED, OCT 12, DISCOVER Ben Williams & Sound Effect and the Yotam Silberstein Quartet .. two new talents from the KC Jazz Club
Williams from the DC area won the Thelonious Monk International Bass Competition; now he leads a fresh-sounding quintet with Marcus Strickland on sax and Christian Sands on piano, to name just two. Guitarist Yotam from Tel Aviv made a great first impression on Kennedy Center audiences in the sold-out Ella! concert (as broadcast on JazzSet), and in Yotam's quartet you'll hear his boyhood friend from Israel, Roy Assaf on piano.
SUN, OCT 16, AND WED, OCT 19, NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston & African Rhythms
For pianist Weston, jazz is not a genre. It's home, celebrated in music from the opening "African Rhythms" to his long-time theme, "Love, the Mystery Of."SUN, OCT 23, AND WED, OCT 26, Danilo Perez AND Poncho Sanchez, Back to Back
Danilo from Panama plays emotional, colorful, storytelling music from his album Providencia. Poncho from southern California and his long-running Latin jazz band (two dozen albums, one a year) party with the Newark audience, including some of his own family.
SUN, OCT 30, AND WED, NOV 2, NEA Jazz Master Toots Thielemans and Kenny Werner at the Kennedy Center - broadcast premiere of a concert from March, 2010
Toots holds the harmonica to his lips, the mic to his harmonica, and the music seems to come straight from his heart, with Guggenheim Fellow Kenny Werner on piano. The music comes from Belgium, the US and Brazil.
SUN, NOV 4, AND WED, NOV 7, The Second Set: Trumpeter Roy Hargrove Quintet at the Village Vanguard
The first set aired Live from the Village Vanguard on WBGO and NPR Music. Here's the second set - all music, not a word from the stage. At the end, the audience claps for three minutes straight for Justin Robinson, alto; Sullivan Fortner, piano; Ameen Saleem, bass; Montez Coleman, drums; and Roy Hargrove. The sweetest tone in town.
JazzSet: Swiss Movement Revisited at the Kennedy Center
November 14, 2008. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: blues, Compared to What, Javon Jackson, jazz, Jazz Alive, Kennedy Center Jazz, Les McCann, soul, Swiss Movement
On November 10 at the KC Jazz Club, JazzSet recorded the "Swiss Movement Revisited" show, featuring Javon Jackson on tenor and special guest Les McCann, singing at the keyboard. The title comes from the 1969 Les McCann Trio live-at-Montreux LP with Eddie Harris on sax. Swiss Movement captured a primal-screamin moment at the end of the 60s, with the sly & infectious anthem that asks the question, "Tryin' to make it Real, Compared to What?"
Mark Schramm was our onsite producer for "Swiss Movement Revisited," and Mark reports.
"Javon has put together a crack band to play this music. They've been together for a year now and it shows. The arrangements are tight but the band plays loose and with tremendous energy. After "Where Is the Love?" (think Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway), Javon brings on Les, who uses a motorized cart to get around. In Les's first blues - earthy, soulful, funny, intense - every note has meaning. There's a quality of directness of expression with Les that is very moving in person.
"They played Eddie Harris' 'Cold Duck Time' (click to listen to the tune with a guitar solo by David Gilmore) from Swiss Movement, then an uptempo Javon original, then quieted down for an "Amazing Grace" duet with Les and Javon. Javon backed him perfectly. There was a lady sitting next to me at the back of the room and she had tears coming down her face at the end of that song. She wasn't the only one.
"An excellent 'Freedom Jazz Dance' followed (yet another great Eddie Harris tune), and then came the set closer, 'Compared to What.' This is Les's signature tune, and he sings that song (an anti-war anthem, let's not forget) with all the passion of the original. The driving rhythm got people up out of their seats, dancing in the back of the room. I don't think I've ever seen that at the Jazz Club!
"Between sets and after the show, Javon signed CDs out front of the club. His new one, Once Upon a Melody (Palmetto), is excellent by the way. Almost every person who bought one asked, 'Do you have a CD with you and Les?' And the answer was no. I can't tell you how many people came up and THANKED us for being there recording the concert."
"Swiss Movement Revisited" airs on JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater the first Sunday in February, launching 26 weeks of JazzSet in Surround Sound, thanks to underwriting from Neural Audio. Let us fire up all six of your speakers!
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Senior-care units going up in South Boulder
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Patience Holdings LLC recently closed on the sale of the five-acre site of the former Army Reserve Training Center to 4640 Table Mesa LLC for $3.25 million. Patience, a local entity led by Four Star Realty co-founder Peter Stainton, remains a partner in the new ownership along with Denver-based MorningStar Senior Living LLC and Haselden Construction LLC.
MorningStar will operate the new facility, dubbed MorningStar of Boulder. The company already operates or has under development 20 senior-living facilities in six states. MorningStar chief financial and development officer Matt Turner said Thursday that completion of the $25 million project should take about 12 months, with opening anticipated for May 2015.
The 76,000-square-foot facility will include 46 assisted-living suites and 44 memory-care suites dedicated to those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Onsite services will include a full-time chef, bistro, massage therapy room, exercise and therapy area, theater, libraries and walking paths.
Turner said the facility will have approximately 30 full-time employees and 40 part-timers. Denver-based Haselden will build MorningStar of Boulder.
"There hasn't been a similar product built that delivers similar quality or care in Boulder for over a dozen years," Turner said.
The project has been a few years in the making.
After initially showing interest in 4640 Table Mesa in the early 2000s, Patience Holdings acquired the property from the Army in 2009 in a swap that included Patience constructing a new building for the Army at Fort Carson.
Stainton and Patience submitted three different concept plans to the city for the site and even had site review approval for a residential development that included a mix of single-family homes, duplexes and town homes. But that approval also came during the lows of the recession.
Stainton began discussing a new direction for the site with MorningStar about three years ago and eventually oversaw another successful site review to accommodate the new plans.
"We think it's going to be a really nice asset in the city of Boulder and filling a need that we see in the city," Stainton said.
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In the first quarter, the Cats scored 28 unanswered points in under 10 minutes of playing time. The first score was on a 1-yard run by Draigon Silvas who carried the ball 6 times for 63 yards on the night.
The Refugio defense garnered the next touchdown on a fumble recovery and return for 26 yards to make the score 14-0. The next two scores came off the arm of quarterback Travis Quintanilla. Quintanilla tossed the first to Chase Whetsel for a 4-yard touchdown then found Marcus Thompson on a 49-yard TD pass.
In the second period, the Cats went into overdrive with Quintanilla in the driver's seat. The Bobcat quarterback threw his first touchdown pass of the second quarter to Tyler Castellano on a 20-yard hookup.
Whetsel would score next on a 51-yard scamper to the end zone to make the score 42-0.
Quintanilla then found Marcus Thompson again for a 33-yard touchdown reception. Silvas scored his second TD of the game with a 38-yard rumble to make the score 56-0 going into halftime.
The starters would score two more times before letting their backups take over, the first coming off another tight spiral from Quintanilla to Dana Franklin and threw one touchdown pass to Cameron Loveday just before the end of the quarter from 10-yards out to make it a 77-0 game.
The final period was scoreless but not without fantastic plays from Tevin Nash, Jim LaFond, and Alex Coronado.
Devon LaFrance had an outstanding game defensively with 4 tackles and a great deal of disruption to the Longhorn offense.
The Bobcats now look to this Friday night in Jack Sportsman Bobcat Stadium against the undefeated Banquete Bulldogs.
This contest will decide the district championship and who gets a bye week for the first round of the playoffs.
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200 artifacts recovered from ship than sank nearly 300 years ago
A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Public Museum explores 18th-century piracy with more than 200 artifacts recovered from the ocean floor.
The museum is hosting the exhibit, "Real Pirates," which tells the stories of four crew members of the pirate ship Whydah. It sank off the Cape Cod coast nearly 300 years ago, killing the famous Captain "Black Sam" Bellamy and all but two of its 146 crew members.
The Whydah was located in 1984 and underwater explorer Barry Clifford is still finding treasures.
The exhibit features cannons, muskets, pistols, cutlasses and swords, a treasure chest filled with coins last touched by pirates and Whydah's bell. The exhibit also has a replica of the ship visitors can board.
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Based on the best-selling novel The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant, the movie is a gangster film.
Sort of.
Instead of real gangsters, we have the three Bondurant brothers, who just want to sell their moonshine in peace in their small Virginia town during Prohibition.
The Bondurant brothers are played with zeal by Shia LaBeouf as Jack, Tom Hardy as Forrest and Jason Clarke as Howard.
All seems well at first. The brothers are moving their moonshine all over the state, even giving the local law enforcement a special deal, because everyone knows everyone in this town and they just want to be left to their whiskey-drinking ways.
But when Guy Pearce's corrupt Special Deputy Charlie Rakes shows up and attempts to weasel in on their profits, things escalate quickly.
All the local bootleggers agree to give him a share of their earnings, leaving only the brothers on the other side of the crooked law.
This movie really is Hardy's movie. Shia LaBeouf gets top billing in this feature, but when the second-billed Hardy shows up on screen and flexes his muscle, he's clearly the one the crowd begins to cheer for.
He loves his brothers. He loves his peace and quiet. But he doesn't like being cheated and bullied. And he definitely doesn't like anyone messing with his family.
He plays the eldest brother with a sort of dumb gentleman's charm, grunting and growling his way through the film, inciting laughter most of the time.
Jessica Chastain plays Hardy's love interest as well as the boys' mother figure, and she's been doing some really great work, too, evident in any picture she shows up in, from "The Help" and "Tree of Life" to "Take Shelter."
She's a force to be reckoned with and a perfect female match for Hardy.
LeBeouf basically plays the character he always plays, a young sort of goofy everyman who just wants to prove he's more than just the little brother and that he has ambitions all his own.
He has plans to move their moonshining business over state lines and, by hooking up with Gary Oldman's gangster Floyd Banner, he manages to do just that.
But it's when Pearce shows up as the twisted, morally-corrupt deputy that things really get interesting.
If Pearce's portrayal of Rakes is real and based on the actual man, then he might have just been the devil himself.
He's an odd man, his mind steeped in violence and power, and he'll stop at nothing to get the brothers to fall in line.
He's always nicely dressed and always wears gloves to ensure he never gets his hands dirty. Figuratively and literally.
But he's mean and vicious, and if you look in to his eyes, you can tell he's had a history of doing some very evil and despicable deeds.
The movie is very violent and doesn't shy away from putting it all on screen and making it feel as real as possible.
Tommy guns blast away; throats get sawed into; people get mangled; the fights are ruthless.
But it never really feels gratuitous. It feels natural for the time and shows just how really lawless the times were.
Every actor is good in this, especially Pearce and Hardy, who really allow the tension to flow when they're on screen together.
It's a shame Hardy and Oldman don't share any scenes together on screen in this or their other feature this year, "The Dark Knight Rises."
Nick Cave, who wrote one of the best westerns in the last few years, "The Proposition," which also features Pearce, is spot on here. He breathes life into the characters, and you feel for each one and hope they all live through the final reel.
John Hillcoat, who directed "The Proposition" as well as the critically praised "The Road" is surely an up-and-coming film director. After directing several music videos over the '80s and '90s, he seems to be hitting his stride.
He captures all the dirt and grit of the times and lets it linger on the screen, never really rushing passed the eloquent scenes of people just living during The Depression.
The cinematography is amazing. The small flames that light up the Virginian mountainsides at night as the bootleggers brew their whiskey is breathtaking.
The town seems real and lived-in. Tons of small details show just how small-town life must have been like, and nothing is glitzy or glamorous. It's muddy, dirty and grungy.
Prohibition didn't last long, but this movie should.
It showcases a time in history that was brutal and savage, yet made us who we are today by fighting for what we believed in.
"Lawless" is playing at Rio 6 Cinemas, 806 E. Houston St.
Paul Gonzales is the entertainment writer at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 116, or at email@example.com.


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So with regan losing the 78 ride
Does Regan move over to finch?
Does regan lose the game of musical rides next year?
Saw an episode of American guns that showed Regan uprooted & moved to Colorado to be closer to the team. Sounds like he was thinking it was gonna be a long term thing. That sucks for him. (& his family)
Quality drivers without a ride next year.
Kurt Busch
Brian Vickers
Regan Smith (not even sure he is gonna finish the season in the #78)


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JOHNSBURG – A Johnsburg High School teacher was one of 16 teachers in the Chicago area recognized as a "Hero in the Classroom."
Rick Bailey was nominated by his students and colleagues for the award, which is sponsored by Symetra Financial Corporation, Gallagher Benefit Services and the Chicago Bears. He teaches history, sociology and current events.
"Whenever you see Mr. B, he is running on full throttle, giving everything he has," Jessica Bertulis, a former student, wrote in her nomination.
Bailey was recognized at a surprise ceremony last week. He will also receive a $1,000 donation for classroom books and supplies as well as tickets to the Sept. 15 Bears game against the Minnesota Vikings where he will also be recognized.
Winners of the award are selected based on their ability "to make a real difference in students' lives; to go above and beyond in their day-to-day responsibilities; and to help students build life skills," according to a news release.
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Whenever I asked my mother how to spell a word, she would invariably tell me to look it up — a strategy that instilled in me a lifelong love of language.
I also owe a debt to Mad Libs. "What's an adjective?" I demanded whenever my sisters and I played the fill-in-the-blanks word game, which required familiarity with the parts of speech. I had a firm grasp of nouns and verbs, but adjectives were still beyond me.
My eldest sister couldn't be bothered with explaining, or maybe my mind boggled at a word that modifies a noun. In any event, she'd simply say, "Just name a color." And so a suitor's letter to his paramour's father would begin, "I am in love with your GREEN daughter," and close with "I promise to make her PURPLE ."
But Mad Libs never had players come up with prepositions, which perhaps explains the sorry state in which we find them today. I first noticed it in the corporate world, where my boss would say things like, "Let's gather employee feedback around diversity."
"Whatever happened to about?" I grumbled to myself. But the plague quickly spread, and using "around" instead of "about" became endemic throughout the company.
A promotion to editor further heightened my sensitivity. The hapless writers in my bailiwick constantly struggled with prepositions — although perhaps "were blissfully ignorant" would be a more accurate description, since "struggling" implies consciousness of one's predicament. (It's not just corporate hacks who don't know when to use which preposition. Every day, I encounter errors in such reputable news outlets as NPR and The New York Times—even The River Reporter.)
I also exhorted my writing team to use short Anglo-Saxon words instead of Latinate ones ending in -tion. Such words tend to be polysyllabic — a fact I first registered, if unconsciously, in fourth grade. We were supposed to go home and ask our parents to teach us 10 new words ending in -ation. Naturally, by the time my parents got home from work, I'd long since forgotten the assignment.
The next day, when our teacher asked us to write down the new words we'd learned, my initial response was panic. Then I pondered and came up with 10 words that had the requisite ending — utterly mortified that Mrs. Haycock would think I hadn't already known the word "transportation."
Now I wonder what my parents would have come up with if I'd remembered to ask. Would they have played it straight, or would they have had fun with the assignment? I'm sure my father, who loved to hold forth at the dinner table, would have taught me communication — and then, in a flash of insight, might have described what he was doing as pontification.
Ever one to enjoy playful banter with the opposite sex, would he have taught me flirtation or titillation? No doubt my mother would have supplied aggravation.
Other word endings have provided me with countless hours of entertainment. I am on an endless quest for trios of homophones — words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. It all began with the talk my husband gives to potential tai chi students.
"The chi in 'tai chi' is not the same as the chi meaning 'energy' or 'life force'," he intones. "It's like where, wear and ware."
We learned about where and wear in Mrs. Haycock's class. But nobody actually says ware; we always use it in the plural. So for years I've been on the lookout for better examples of three-word homophones — a harmless and engaging occupation that has deepened my respect for our rich crazy quilt of a language.
One of my best early finds was rain, rein and reign. That was soon followed by pour, poor and pore (my mother always cringed whenever she came across pouring over a book). This approach relies heavily on dumb luck: you have to just happen to notice that we have three words that are spelled differently, but pronounced the same way.
Over time, my technique became more systematic. Now, when a word catches my attention, I mentally run through the alphabet to find all the different ways its ending can be pronounced.
Take -ough. Right at the very beginning of the alphabet, it is sounded three different ways: bough, cough and dough. Amazing, right? Continuing on, you find rough and through — five different sounds from one four-letter combo.
Next you mine each pronunciation for homophones: bough, bow [v.]; dough, doe; rough, ruff; through, threw; and tough, tuff. Alas, no trios, but the exploration is fascinating in and of itself. It also sheds light on why my employer's former CFO used to talk about a truff in the business cycle — and why my husband insists on calling the town that is home to Vassar puff-KEEP-see.
But a more haphazard approach can also yield gems. One of my all-time favorite finds is peek, peak and pique (and recently I was in quite a pique when I read a book set in the Rockies that confused the first two). Another copyediting error highlighted a homophone pair that let me locate a trio. My jaw dropped when I spotted idol, idle and idyll.
Pity the poor adults who learn English as a second language. How can they possibly hope to master all the inconsistent spellings and pronunciations our language throws at them? It was hard enough for me, a native speaker, when we were studying homophones. I asked how you could tell whether the speaker meant where or wear.
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Driving lessonsSeptember 11,2013When I saw my son sitting there behind the wheel, swells of strange, unsettling feelings rose up within my body. At age 15 years, eight months, nearly 6 feet tall and broader than I, he continues to see the world as a giant sand box where reality can become anything you imagine. In our efforts to create a worryless boy, we feared that parental demon, irresponsibility. Its good enough is his enviable smiling response to demands of excellence.
There was something in his assurance as he started the car that drowned all tenderness and made me feel like a butcher wielding a cleaver with this virginal driver. I was anticipating pride, not this urge to set this lad straight. He backed out the driveway as I vainly searched for a script to this rite of passage, finding instead a flow of adrenaline that seemed to be ending on my eardrums and anxious tongue.
Tell this boy what the world of driving is all about I heard the beast in my breast advise. I clamped my seat belt on and felt some force hurl me out the door of an airplane. As I started to free fall I shouted to the pilot as he shifted to drive. Put your seat belt on. Dont you know you can go through the window.
Its on, Dad. Besides Ive got a bag over here.
Bag? What bag?
The SRS, he answered in his most respectful tone.
Bags, bags. Put your belt on and keep it on. Dont talk when youre driving. You cant trust bags. There are no substitutes for alertness and attention.
Put your signal on. Now. Right now. Check that seat belt. Check the emergency brake. Look left. Back. Forward. Adjust the mirrors. Now, not later. Now.
You turned too sharp there. Didnt you? Yes. Watch that.
He said nothing as he drove on, aware of my hawk-eyed observing. The silence offered time to prepare my lecture. Words vied for expression.
Defense is the name of this game. You are strictly a one-way player in this game of driving. You drive defensively or you crash. See that car up there? Youre too close. He could stop suddenly. Or have a blowout, or ....
Whats a blowout, Dad?
See that. Youre driving and you dont know what a blowout is. A blow out is a tire that blows up, and out, I mean.
Safety tires dont blow out anymore, Dad.
See, what I mean. Who says? Youre too close to that guy, slow down.
OK, Dad, he said calmly.
His calm response to my badgering speech spread across the seat. Why isnt he nervous? I studied him. As he drove on, I realized he knew what to do. He was competent, careful. He had finished the drivers ed course. What had I expected? A flash of envy appeared. How did an anxious guy like me produce this unanxious boy? Get nervous, son. Youre learning to drive, I thought. Primitive societies abandoned their young boys on the top of mountains or in the deep forest from which they would return men, matured by fear, the mother of ingenuity and courage.
Eskimo men take their sons on a threatening fishing trip, others go to the river, jungle, swamp where masculinity is tested in deeds, feats of strength, survival against the elements.
I had taken my son to the driveway behind our new Volvo where he was teaching me a new brand of paternal fear. To this terror was added an $870 increase in car insurance, more for boys because they get in more accidents than girls. An article in the mornings paper offered that 57 percent of 1,000 teens polled reported they had driven under the influence of alcohol and 78 percent reported they had ridden with a drunken driver. For these terrors my compensation will be freedom from taxiing to his assorted adolescent assignations such as mall, music, barber, games, school, friends and recently, females.
We were at the school parking lot now where he will practice parallel parking. I try not to think about my lousy record at this urban sport, a slightly under 50 percent success rate; rarely have I hit it on the first try. Early on I declared myself victim of spacial and gross motor dyslexia to counteract repeated failures at parallel parking. Id drive double digit blocks for two spaces.
Now here I am in the role of instructor. As troubled fathers do in tough situations, I assumed a take-charge, authoritative stance, barking orders that come more from desperation than knowledge.
Get real close to the car along side. Cut it to the right sharp now ... right about ... about here, but not too ... the other way. Slow now. All right. Youre in. Now start over.
After three of these I was sweating. Hitherto proud of my articulation, I realized I could not come up with the correct words to describe parallel parking and found myself groping, even for the basics, such as atta boy, now, good, far enough to describe angles and lengths.
My son remained stoically tolerant of my hindrances, rescuing me from this, one of my worst parental moments with the humble words: I need some practice. I sat on the grass and watched him manipulate the car, convinced that poor parallel parking skills are hereditary.
He looked small behind the wheel, isolated in the seat. I recalled the many fine feeling moments he and I had shared on a common seat. A bright white x-ray waiting room bench where we fearfully waited for the diagnosed word on a growth on his knee, the locked-in seat of the Green Monster where he, at age 8 and I, at age 40 were taking our virginal roller coaster ride. When it was over my white-faced terror matched my knuckles and contrasted his red-faced excitement. Lets go again he had said.
I had sat on that car seat so sharing his sadness on the day he had gotten cut from the seventh-grade team that I could not speak. And we had laughed on that seat together, and been happy, and quiet, and bored, and neutral, too. Our seat time was over now. And I realized why my head ached and what the beast inside was feeling. An image from the past persisted.
We were behind a wheel, he on my lap. Together we pulled the wheel, floored it as we vied for open space. Opening up now we take one car at a good clip when another car hits us broadside. Both cars bounced back. In the moment I saw terror on my sons face then, looking at me he saw me laugh, then scream with boyish glee. Lets catch that guy, I said.
We steered our bumper car wildly as we pumped our bodies to get moving faster. We smashed often, collided, careened off walls, laughing and shouting with a wild abandon reserved to that peculiar loosening spirit that bumper cars bring. We ran, hand-in-hand from exit to ticket line three times.
Could a dozen years have passed since that day? I see the boyish face, full of excitement and eagerness that I vicariously swallow. And I understood my harsh manner at this moment. Jumping up I open the car door and shout. Cut it sharper, you might hit that car. These arent bumper cars you know. I slam the door, grateful for the cantankerousness that drowns bumper cars and the end of boyhood.
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Tomorrow, Americans celebrate Paczki Day (aka "Fat Tuesday"), where many will indulge in the traditional polish pastry. In Michigan – and Hamtramck specifically – the celebration is especially vibrant. In fact, Hamtramck says they are the "home of the original Pączki – everything else is just a jelly donut!"
To learn more about paczki (pronounced pooonch-key), our friends at the Polish Art Center in Hamtramck shared some fun facts with us.
- In Poland, paczki are eaten especially on Fat Thursday (the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday). This year it was February 7th.
- Polish Americans celebrate Paczki Day on Fat Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday). This year it is tomorrow, February 12th.
- Hamtramckans start celebrating on Saturday between the two with a Countdown to Paczki Day Festival. This year's celebrations began this past weekend.
- Traditionally, the reason for making paczki was to use up all the lard, sugar, eggs and fruit in the house, because they were forbidden to be consumed due to Catholic fasting practices during Lent.
- Paczki have been known in Poland at least since the Middle Ages. During the reign of August III, under the influence of French cooks who came to Poland, paczki dough was improved, so that paczki became lighter, spongier, and more resilient.
- Paczki are usually covered with powdered sugar, icing or bits of dried orange zest. A small amount of grain alcohol (traditionally, Spiritus) is added to the dough before cooking; as it evaporates, it prevents the absorption of oil deep into the dough.
To learn about the Polish Art Center in Hamtramck, visit michigan.org.
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Apple posted a photo of the visionary with "Steve Jobs 1955-2011" under his image.
Jobs was 56.
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Here's what the stars wrote:
Jon Favreau: "We lost a man of true vision today. Condolences to the whole Apple family."
Damon Lindelof: "Steve Jobs. On behalf of every dreamer sitting in his or her garage who is crazy enough to try to change the world, you will be missed."
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Mindy Kaling: "Hard not to think how much Steve Jobs could've done with more years. So sad. You're the best, Steve."
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The Food Festival, held at Congregation Rodeph Shalom, is a day for Philadelphia area foodies, rabbis, restaurateurs, chefs, farmers, educators, vegans, and omnivores to come together to explore the interplay of food, sustainability, Jewish traditions, and contemporary life.
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Believe it or not, I felt the Sun beaming down on me more than a few times this last week of February. And where there is sun, soon there is bound to be shades. But what should you know about sunglasses before you wear a pair to announce the coming of Springtime?
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The Filibuster
I asked a similar question in the hypothetical earlier this season but now that some aspects of the postseason have sorted themselves out, I have to ask again. What makes you more sad, the Cubs winning the NL Central or the Cards not making the playoffs?
— Allen
For all of you who picture me sitting in the alcove of my apartment drowning in the proverbial sea of my own tears because the Cardinals will be home this post-season while the Cubs journey on, you're probably not too far off from reality. Of course, the half empty bottle of Jack, the lonely cavern of my heart and the clear and present danger of having one Sarah Palin next in line to the highest office in the land most certainly have more to do with my wallowing than the current state of baseball.
As I have said here before, the Cubs were supposed to win the Central and be one of the best teams in baseball this year. So why, Mr. Krause, should I be so surprised to actually see this come true? We're both highly educated, extremely learned, dashingly handsome young men, so cut me a little slack here.
Verily, the true river of tears has yet to flow. In fact, it is on standby until the final outcome of the AL Central battle. If my neighborhood Sox find a way to wiggle back in there, then all will be well again and I will have much to look forward to.
If the menacing Twins manage to squeak in (which would realistically only extend their inevitable fate of just not being good enough) then I will go ahead and cry… right along side Mr. Krause, who again, finds himself rooting for the worst team money can buy.
Crying is nothing new to baseball fans. The likes of Bill Buckner, Bartman and Don Denkinger — among myriad others — have long tortured the hearts and souls of those most loyal.
And no one will cry harder (or longer) than Mets fans if the the second team of New York blows it — yet again — at the very last minute. Stay tuned… or, just keep your ears open for the hisses and boos from the Met faithful. That ricketty old stadium may come tumbling down sooner — and in a more creative way — than we all think.
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The Met's wind up missing the playoffs again… which I just laugh at, though I know many Mets fans are crying about right now. It's tough from the start for them, having to step out of the Yankee shadow and all, but it must be even tougher right now when, for the second year in a row, they blow a lead in September. At least I, and other Yankee fans, knew the Yanks weren't going to make it like a month ago.
The one thing I wooould of cried about would be if Mussina hadn't gotten his first 20th win season. The poor guy keeps coming close and only this year does he finally reach it. If he had missed it by one win again my heart would've broken for him.
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How can you say that there are more important things than baseball, such as Sarah Palin? The World Series ends on October 30 at the latest, so that gives us a couple of days to worry about politics until the election. The country and the world can wait until the baseball season is over.
I just wonder what your theory would be on how the Mets keep pulling this off–and keep losing to the Marlins? It's ridiculous. And yes, the Twins' inevitable fate will come if they should squeak by, but they're fun to watch and we'll get to see if the Rays are for real.
Well, folks, I think this one speaks for itself. There are a lot of bad things in life, but none could be worse than being a Mets fan THIS year in my opinion.


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~ Toribio Mogrovejo, of noble birth, educated at the finest schools, law professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain; who became a tireless missionary, baptizing nearly 500,000 as Archbishop of Lima, including St. Rose of Lima, St. Francis Solano, and St. Martin of Porres. Canonized in 1726.