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The community is gone; the church remains.
It was created 135 years ago Sunday, not at Cadiz but at a few miles south at Lapara.
Its first building proved inadequate; church history says the current building was built by a Mr. Cox, no first name given. He was not listed as a church member.
Forty-three years later, in 1920, Lapara was on the decline. The congregation moved the church — lock, Bibles and building — to the up-and-coming community of Cadiz.
Today, the congregation — half the size of the original — is led by the Rev. Larry Martin, the church's 11th pastor.
An indication of those attending was measured by numerous copies of "Mature Living" magazine on a table in the church's entryway.
On Sunday, July 29, the anniversary was the main topic of conversation before the 11 a.m. service.
Being the fifth Sunday of the month, parishioners brought food for lunch after the service.
"We have received 87 RSVPs for the anniversary service," Martin announced. "We'll have to add some chairs."
The church always has been the hub of the community. In a photograph taken in the late 1930s of men in a buckboard carrying new benches for the school, the church is in the background.
Nearly 20 years later, when Kay Past and her sister decided to pose for a snapshot, they climbed on a fence beside the main road through town, Farm-to-Market 799. Behind them, the Cadiz Baptist Church.
Except for a historical marker, nothing indicates that when it was built, Brahms had just composed his second symphony, Thomas Edison had patented his latest invention, the phonograph, and the presidency was in a political turmoil: Rutherford Hayes had just taken office — not elected, but appointed, the result of the Compromise of 1877, an informal agreement that effectively ended Reconstruction in the South but whose specifics still are obscure.
"I don't have a sermon," Martin told the 15 members in the pews, "but I have a message. There's a difference."
That compromise seemed to echo across the intervening years. When he asked the congregation what, in their opinion, was the greatest problem they were facing, the first choice was political strife.
His voice competing with the steady, rhythmic whir of ceiling fans, Martin said, "We're in political strife. It's an election year, but Christ will see us through."
"Don't get into arguments over political ideas," he advised. "You won't win. I can't tell you how to vote, but to love those who don't agree with you."
Later, with the anniversary firmly in mind, he spoke of change.
"We don't look like the 1877 congregation. We don't look like them, so why should be get upset about the younger generation? You must accept them in your heart."
"I don't see a hitching post out there for the horses, either," church member Chris Freund agreed.
"We've changed, and we love it," Martin said.
A history of the church, compiled by Ervin Sparkman for the church's centennial celebration in 1977, mentioned that the original members "believed in christians (sic) living exemplary lives…and when a brother or sister erred, a committee would visit the sinner and plead with him to repent and ask forgiveness and restoration to fellowship in the church."
"If this council was unheeded, the erring one would be excluded from fellowship of the church for an act of misconduct ranging from dancing or drunkenness to adultery.
"The church," the history states, "ceased this practice many years ago."
The first minister, according to the history, was A.H. Barber. This conflicts with the Texas State Historical Association which says the first minister was Amos Barker.
Whatever the correct name, he stayed only a year.
S. Butler Kimball was the pastor when the church was moved to Cadiz.
Dr. Carroll Jones was pastor in 1949 when, thanks to a gift from the Texas Baptist Rural Church Building Fund, the structure was expanded to add Sunday school rooms, the kitchen and restrooms.
In 1960, the Texas Rural Church Achievement Program named the Cadiz church its Rural Church of the Year.
Neither organization, sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas, still exists.
The. Rev. R.C. Jeanes served the longest tenure, from 1966 to 2010, when Martin took over.
After the service, entrees and salads and iced tea and a surprising number of desserts were laid out on tables. Those waiting in line carried on the fellowship, their conversations a la carte.
"Nice to see you! Did you fall on your noggin? Again?"
"Guess what? One of my cousins is 83 and she just got married, the crazy thing."
"Happy birthday!"
"I'll be 65; I can get on Social Security."
Martin, who will be 70 in December, smiled.
"This is our strength — the family. It speaks of the relationship of the people and how we ought to act."
This Sunday, after the service, the church will celebrate its birthday with a catered lunch served under a tent outside. The meal will be accompanied by a three-man band.
"We'll sit there and talk about our memories," Martin predicted, and laughing as he watched 6-year-old Faith Leonard, the daughter of Susie Leonard, one of the youngest attending the service, studying the desserts.
"She used to take up the offering. She would just hold the plate and look at you until you gave in. Every Baptist church should have one."
Bill Clough is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Marsha Grace Gratton, 70, of Norwood
Norwood – Marsha Grace Gratton, 70, passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by the love and support of her family on May 4, 2013.
Arrangements are entrusted to the Hammill Funeral Home in Winthrop.
Marsha was born on January 29, 1943, in Buffalo, daughter of the late Elmer and Ester (Trombley) Wells.
She graduated from St. Lawrence Central School and married Kenneth Walter Cook, Sr. on November 3, 1959 at St. Lawrence Church in North Lawrence with Rev. O'Connell celebrating. Marsha moved away from the north country in 1973 to Rochester and then to Indiana in 1993.
She married Robert (Donald) Gratton in 1980 in Rochester; Mr. Gratton passed away in 1991. She returned home to Norwood, where she was active in Jaycees.
For Marsha, her family was her life, participating in the family's activities and achievements. Her grandchildren always put a smile on her face. She had great faith knowing that her Guardian Angels were watching her family and left her children and grandchildren with her fond collection of Angels. Marsha had a welcoming personality for family and friends and also welcomed new technology as she learned how to use the computer. She enjoyed games of chance, especially bingo.
Marsha is survived by her children; Melody Sweet and her husband David of Kingston, GA, Kenneth Cook and his wife Jean of Batavia, Mary McQuoid of Frankfort, KY, Jacky Cook of Lockport, Rose Jarvis and her husband Frank of Ransomville, Sue Mitchell of Massena, Samantha Michaud and her husband James of Norwood, Anthony Cook and his wife Debbie of Rochester and Raymond Cook and his wife Lyndsey of Batavia, brothers; Carl and Ida Wells of AZ, Dennis and Sally Wells of Massena, Ronald and Ann Wells of Fairport, Timothy Trombley and Charles and Alice Trombley, both of North Tonawanda; 63 grandchildren; 31 great grandchildren; many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased also by one son, John F. Cook, one brother, Wesley Wells and her step-mother, Hazel Wells, granddaughters, Theresa Cook Moore and Desirie' Cook, and one grandson, Daniel Dannan, Jr.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 2 – 4 and 6 – 8 at the Hammill Funeral Home in Winthrop. Marsha's Celebration of Life and Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday at 10 am at St. Patrick Church in Brasher Falls with Rev. Garry Giroux offering the mass. Burial will be in St. Patrick Cemetery in Brasher Falls.
Those wishing to express an act of kindness in lieu of flowers, please consider donations in Marsha's memory of the American Cancer Society, P. O. Box 7, East Syracuse, NY 13057 or Hospice and Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley, Inc., 6805 US Hwy 11, Potsdam, NY 13676.
Memories and condolences can be shared with her family at www.hammillfh.com.
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January 2, 2013 —
An agreement has been reached by the Sullivan West School Board to sell the shuttered Delaware Valley School building and campus to Emily Wu for $1.16 million. The board voted five to two to go ahead with the deal at a meeting two weeks ago.
Wu was first mentioned as a buyer back in September in a presentation by Nora Manzolillo, who said that Wu owned a private school in Queens and had made a verbal offer to buy the facility for $950,000. Wu's plans also included purchase of additional acreage adjacent to the school because she intended to build a dormitory on it.
That parcel, however, had been sold to Richard Winter several months prior to the presentation. A deal has reportedly also been reached between Wu and Winter to accommodate Wu's need.
Manzolillo, who was working with attorney John Hector, said at the time, "There is a great call for students from China to come here to be educated in the United States." Wu was working with an investor from China who visited the property. Manzolilo said, "We've seen their financials; they have the money."
The facility Wu owns in Queens is called The Windsor School, and a paragraph on its website says, "The United States has the best universities for business, science, engineering, art, and many other fields of study. There are many university places available in the United States. Every Windsor graduate has been admitted to one or more American universities."
The school did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
No contract for the deal has been signed yet, but school board officials hope to have a contract ready for signatures by next month.
Twelve-and-a-half million dollars were spent to renovate the Delaware Valley School and the Narrowsburg School in 2003. With declining enrollment, the two schools were then closed in 2005. With the district spending thousands of dollars each year to keep the schools heated and maintained, a decision was made in the fall of 2011 to drain the heating systems and shutter the two facilities.


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In a vibrant, age-friendly community, people say "YES" to life. They engage in service to the community and find access to meaningful work. Family, neighbors and friends maintain strong connections with one another and older adults have opportunities for giving and receiving practical and the kind of support that benefits us all.
In the next Imagine KC, we look at programs and activities that keep older adults engaged in our communities. We'll check out individuals who have found their "second act" through volunteering, paid employment and other activities; organizations like Shepherd Center and Jewish Family Services that have benefitted from the expertise of older adult volunteers; and strategies to connect willing seniors with meaningful involvement.


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2013 Gest Fellow Michael CohenWednesday, July 24th, 2013
Gest Fellow Michael Cohen is Assistant Professor of English at the UCLA. His project is entitled "Poetry, Abolition, and a Circle of Friends."
I spent my month as a Gest Fellow working on a project on nineteenth-century poetry, The Social Lives of Poems. In essence, this project seeks to understand how people used poems in a variety of different contexts and projects, from large-scale efforts to imagine shared histories, to political endeavors like antislavery, to more personal situations such as developing pietistic practices or maintaining relationships with others. Poems were the most popular form of literature in nineteenth-century America, and (unlike novels, sermons, and other widespread forms) a great many readers of poems also wrote them. "Writing" poems actually entails a range of different practices: recording original poetry; participating in collaborative efforts and games with others; and copying or transcribing verses from books, newspapers, and other printed sources.
At the center of my research this month was a two-volume book that combines these different forms of verse-writing. Entitled "Fragments from the unpublished writings of John Greenleaf Whittier," and "Whittier Leaves," these volumes are comprised of hand-written transcriptions of poems by the abolitionist poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The book was primarily the work of two women, Elizabeth Nicholson and Elizabeth Lloyd, who became friends with Whittier and his sister Elizabeth Hussey Whittier when they lived in Philadelphia between 1838-1840. Nicholson and Lloyd were both abolitionists and poets as well, and they formed the center of a group of friends (who were also Friends) who met regularly to socialize, talk, discuss politics and religion, and compose poetry. Sometime around 1839 they began collecting and transcribing Whittier's verses. At the time, Whittier was a well-known abolitionist author, but he was not nationally renowned, and had not yet published a book of poems under his own name. Nicholson and Lloyd collected his poems as they were published piecemeal and scattershot in northeastern newspapers over the 1830s and 1840s.
These books are the most gorgeous manuscript books I've ever seen from the nineteenth century. The labor that went in to them (careful transcription, hand-drawn illustrations, manuscript effects such as black letter font, and so on) demonstrates the sheer pleasure that these friends took in copying, quoting, and circulating poems. The work was a collaborative venture, in which Nicholson and Lloyd recruited many other friends to participate. People would send them copies of Whittier's poems, or contribute illustrations or other materials to the book. Nicholson would ask Whittier to contribute new work to "his" collection, which was not really his or by him. As the project grew, the books began to circulate among friends, who would copy from it into their own commonplace books. On occasion, Whittier requested it for his own records–it was more complete than any other volume of his work, and had poems that he himself no longer possessed! (Much of the poetry included in it did not appear in the collected writings of Whittier published in the 1890s, so to date it is arguably more complete than any other collection of his early work). Nicholson did not always know where the books were; through reading the friends' letters, I've tracked this book as far away as New Hampshire.
For me, these books help to materialize and make manifest how poems could contribute to social, historical relationships. I spent a good deal of time in the library learning about the different people who contributed to the volume, reading letters and diaries and searching for clues and connections among these different people, almost all of whom have left behind poems of their own (a cache of letters from Elizabeth Whittier to Elizabeth Nicholson was especially great in this regard). Yet, this book also shows me that people could claim ownership over poems they had not originally authored: copying and transcribing poems clearly had value for people that was productive rather than simply re-productive.
The Quaker Collection at Haverford College has a wonderfully rich collection of manuscript poetry. Some of it is by published authors, but most of it is by ordinary people who had no ambition or desire for literary fame. People wrote down poems in letters, diaries, notebooks, and commonplace books. People also used these sources to record what they were reading and, occasionally, what they thought of it. Not surprisingly, a great deal of this manuscript poetry is pietistic and develops conventions of Protestant hymnody that would have been quite familiar to most people. The poetry is conventional in a strong sense: familiar conventions (a regular rhyme and metrical pattern; standard images and forms of language, often adopted from scripture) made poetry an accessible form of expression, and helped readers develop a sense of agency and relation to their language. Composing hymns or poems of devout expression therefore helped people understand their spiritual life.
While this sort of devotional poetry is common throughout the collections, many people wrote satirical, impromptu comic verses to their friends, often about other friends or local events, scandals, and controversies. The huge collection of the Allinson family, for instance, especially the letters and papers of William James Allinson, his wife Rebecca, and brother Samuel, is rich with this sort of verse, which names names and delights in wordplay, puns, and triple (even occasionally quadruple) rhymes. The recently-acquired Potts family papers is another treasure trove of poems. Young Mary Potts, whose diaries make up the bulk of the collection, was an avid reader and diarist. Her commonplace books are full of poems, original and copied, while her diaries detail what she read, who she read with, and what she was doing (for instance, she attended the meeting of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women at Pennsylvania Hall, the day before it was burned down by a mob). Her papers reveal an enchanting record of one woman's intellectual, social, and literary life.
It was a pleasure reading through materials like Mary Potts' (she also had neat, albeit small, handwriting), and I've learned a great deal from my time at Haverford. I'd especially like to thank the wonderful staff in the Special Collections library for all their help and support: John Anderies, Diane Peterson, and Ann Upton.


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Class Year:1948
Outstanding Alumni Award Winner 1981
Tex Hoesch attended North Central College for two years before his education was interrupted by two years of service in the U.S. Army, European Theatre, during World War II. Following WWII, he returned to graduate from North Central. Hoesch was an active member of Grace United Methodist Church, YMCA, Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce, Jaycees and the Community Fund. He also played a leadership role in a program that assisted with the relocation of Vietnamese refugee families to Naperville. As a loyal North Central College alumnus, he also served as president of the Alumni Association, worked as a Naperville Community Campaign volunteer and served on North Central's Board of Trustees from 1972-81.


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Love it, what's yours? It doesn't have to be shippuden
Favorite Shippuden one:
Favorite one from the original series:
there all pretty good. my favorite are probably "Diver" and the current one
I just know Closer by Joe Inoue is the best Naruto opening song IMO.
My favorites are:
1. Blue Bird - Ikimono Gakari
2. Hotaru no Hikari - Ikimono Gakari
3. Haruka Kanata - Asian Kung Fu Generation
I also like ' You are my friend '. :y
pain arc & the current one
Sign by Flow is my favorite Naruto Shippuuden opening.
I know we are talking about openings but ending 21 was so freakin epic :D
ooh & i forgot its not the opening .. but the soundtrack for road to ninja is amazing dagebayoo !
Opening 6 sign by flow, opening 12
The opening of the pain arc was EPIC
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I know we are talking about openings but ending 21 was so freakin epic :D
Really? I loved ending 20.
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Really? I loved ending 20.
i like that one too!!! It was epic
9th op
Tacica, Newsong.
Naruto part I opening 3 and 4
Shippuden opening 9
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My First Weekend Selling Vintage at A Little Wicked Boutique!Monday, August 15th, 2011
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Women Break New Ground In Marine Infantry Training
By Tom Bowman • Oct 22, 2013
Originally published on October 22, 2013 4:53 am
Female Marines have been training for the past month at Camp Lejeune, trying to make it through infantry training. They've got a month to go, including a 12-mile hike with a heavy pack. They're the first ones ever to handle the training, part of an effort to integrate women into combat positions by 2016.


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For detailed information on federal election law, please visit the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and/or the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) websites.
On this page please find a brief description of recently enacted federal legislation that affects the administration of elections in Vermont.
Help America Vote Act of 2002
In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, the United States Congress passed election reform legislation known as the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). This law required broad changes to the way Vermont conducts its elections. Most notably HAVA mandated the creation of a statewide voter registration checklist, the acceptance of provisional ballots, and the purchase of a voting system for every polling place to allow individuals with disabilities to vote privately and independently. It also required poll worker and voter education programs. Vermont has received federal funds to assist the state and municipalities in meeting the new federal mandates. View or download the HAVA Summary.
Grants for Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities
Unfortunately, the federal government will not be extending this grant program in 2014. States have been authorized to grant out any remaining funds on a rolling basis, but no new funds will be provided. The Office of the Secretary of State has limited remaining funds available for these grants. For additional information related to these grants, please contact Linda Hall at 802-828-0586.
Voting Access for Individuals with Disabilities (VOTE) is intended to help ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to polling places and may vote privately and independently. Funding will be available to municipalities and organizations that serve individuals with disabilities.
Municipalities may apply to receive funds to ensure that their polling facility is accessible to individuals with a full range of disabilities. This may include activities such as paving parking areas, building ramps inside/outside buildings, building curb cuts, and replacing door knobs with lever handles.
The request for proposals (RFP) was issued on January 7, 2013. You can download the application, or contact Linda Hall at 802-828-0586 for a paper copy.
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
Enacted in 1986, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) protects the right of service members to vote in federal elections regardless of where they are stationed. This law requires that states and territories allow members of the U.S. Uniformed Services and Merchant Marines, and their family members; and U.S. citizens residing outside the United States to register and vote absentee in elections for federal offices.
Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act
UOCAVA was expanded significantly in 2009, when the U.S. Congress passed the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act to provide greater protections for service members, their families, and other overseas citizens. Among other provisions, the MOVE Act requires states to transmit validly-requested absentee ballots to UOCAVA voters no later than 45 days before a federal election, when the request has been received by that date, except where the state has been granted an undue hardship waiver approved by the Department of Defense for that election.
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/237015
- Title
- Compound sessile drops
- Author(s)
- Neeson, Michael J.; Tabor, Rico F.; Grieser, Franz; Dagastine, Raymond R.; Chan, Derek Y. C.
- Abstract
- Compound drops arise from the contact of three immiscible fluids and can assume various geometric forms based on the interfacial chemistry of the phases involved. Here we present a study of a new class of compound drops that is sessile on a solid surface. The possible geometries are demonstrated experimentally with appropriate fluid combinations and accounted for with a quantitative theoretical description. Although such systems are broadly controlled by relative interfacial energies, subtleties such as the van der Waals force and effects of micro-gravity, despite drop sizes being well below the capillary length, come into play in determining the equilibrium state that is achieved. The drying of a compound sessile drop was measured experimentally, and the process revealed a novel transition between different characteristic configurations of compound sessile drops. Such drops may prove to be useful as the first step towards development of functional surfaces in applications such as soft optics, photonics and surface encapsulation.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- Soft Matter, Vol. 8, no. 43 (Nov 2012), pp. 11042-11050
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 02 Physical Sciences; 03 Chemical Sciences; 09 Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Compound drops; Sessile drops
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- RSC Publishing
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- Copyright © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012.
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- The authors acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council through a Discovery Project Grant, and an Australian Postgraduate Research Award.
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More and more consumers are going online for health information. There are many advantages to using the internet: information is readily accessible, often free, may be up-to-date, and can be comprehensive and factual. On the other hand, there is a tremendous amount of content that is false, inaccurate, and misleading.
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There are several credible websites that offer guidelines for evaluating health information on the internet: One of the most highly-respected sites, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) provides the following tips that highlight important criteria to consider when evaluating health information on the web.
Web Research Checklist (Print [5])
NCCIH and the FDA encourage healthy skepticism as you seek and evaluate web-based health information. As you surf, keep asking:
To find specific scientific evidence on a topic, try PubMed [6]. PubMed provides free internet access to resources contained in Medline (an online database of health information from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health). Through PubMed, you can access 15 million article citations going back to the 1950s.
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Clovis Ray died in active duty in the Kunar Province in Afghanistan. The 34-year-old was born in San Antonio on July 6, 1977.
Clovis and his family moved to Three Rivers when he was young. They were on a fixed income and lived in government housing but that didn't give Clovis a negative outlook on life.
"We grew up together in government housing in Three Rivers, and we overcame those struggles together," said friend Jerry Herrera in an email. "His family took me in as one of their sons. Clovis was constantly encouraging me in my school work and sports, always pushing me to do my best."
When it came to sports he excelled. He and his twin brother, Eddie, played varsity football for the Bulldogs. He was remembered as a terrific teammate.
"He was a leader and a motivator, determined to be the best in every aspect of his life," Herrera said.
Others remember him fondly but not as a teammate.
"My memory of Clovis is when he and his brother, Eddie, would come into Mrs. Hedtke's second-grade classroom and read to us," said Kristin Ruschhaupt in an email. "I just remember thinking how 'cool' they were because, let's be honest, to early elementary kids in a small South Texas town, high school football players are about as cool as it gets."
After high school, both Clovis and Eddie went on the play college football at Macalester College in Minnesota. Clovis graduated with a degree in sociology and Eddie graduated with a degree in economics.
The two stayed in Minnesota after college and moved in together. Clovis took a job in banking.
When Eddie came to him and told him he was going to propose to his girlfriend, Clovis moved back to Texas.
They had been roommates their whole lives
"It's like divorce for identical twins," Eddie said in a phone call.
When they first moved apart, they spoke by phone almost daily for the first year and then the phone calls dwindled somewhat but not their closeness.
Clovis stayed with banking when he moved back to Texas, first in Houston and then in San Antonio, where he settled and married his wife, Shannon, in 2003.
Eddie said Clovis had always had an urge to serve his country. Their father, Bob Ben Ray, had served as a captain in the Army and was stationed in Korea when he met their mother. Eddie also remembers as a child volunteering with the VFW at the Poteet Strawberry Festival.
"It was in our DNA from an early age," Eddie said.
Clovis had wanted to join the service right after school but the two had also wanted to play college football together so that took precedence over military service at that time. After Sept. 11, the yearning to serve his country became stronger and after the 2008 financial crisis, he knew he had to do something more.
At 32, he was in amazing shape.
Friend Ricardo Reyna said, "He loved running." He was a marathon runner and had run more than a dozen marathons in his lifetime. Eddie said Clovis talked to Shannon to make sure he had her blessing and support.
"He loved his family first and foremost," Eddie said.
At basic training, he scored the highest on his physical training test and was given an award for it.
Clovis continued on to officer candidate school where he finished in the top three of his class. After that he did some additional training with the U.S. Army Rangers before being stationed in Hawaii.
While he was not originally supposed to be deployed until a later date, he was sent overseas just before Thanksgiving 2011 to replace a lieutenant who had been injured and had to return.
Eddie said that Clovis was stationed near the Afghan-Pakistani border in an area that was mountainous. Clovis told him they had fire fights about every third day.
Clovis was supposed to return to Hawaii with his platoon in April.
"He was a leader and a motivator, determined to be the best in every aspect of his life," Hererra said. "Clovis felt the call to serve his country, and was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. He is a true American hero, and he will never be forgotten."
To honor Clovis and what he meant to the Three Rivers Bulldogs, his high school jersey number 26 has been retired.
Clovis is survived by his wife, Shannon, and son, Dean Ray of Wahiawa, Hawaii; his parents, Dr. Bob Ben Ray Sr. and Cecilia Ray; twin brother, Eddie (Kristine) Ray of Singapore; brother, Bob Ben Ray Jr. of Three Rivers, and sister, Jennifer Ray, M.D. (Lincoln) of Denver, Colo.; paternal grandparents, Clovis and Lillian Ray of Calliham; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
Live Oak County Judge Jim Huff made a request to the governor's office and it was granted to have flags at half staff. "On behalf of the Governor and our office, let me express our sincere condolences at the loss of this courageous Texan. Your community should be proud that it produced such an honored and brave man, said Greg Davidson Executive Clerk and director of Constituent Communication Division, Office of Governor. "All state and national flags in the County of Live Oak and any adjoining political subdivisions may be lowered on Friday, March 30, 2012, to half-staff in honor of the life and military service of United States Army 2nd Lt. Clovis T. Ray."
A memorial service for Clovis will be held at the Live Oak County Coliseum on Saturday, March 31, at 10 a.m. Residents of the city are encouraged if they have flags to hang them outside this week in remembrance of a man who gave his life for our country.
Those who would like to show respect to the Ray family can pick up flags starting at 9 a.m. at either the Live Oak County Coliseum or Three Rivers City Hall and line the driveway to the coliseum or Highway 281 in front of city hall. The Ray family will be passing through town at 9:30 a.m. on the way to the memorial service.
"Freedom isn't free," friend and Three Rivers Mayor James Liska said. "Clovis gave his life for a country he believed in."
In lieu of flowers, the Clovis T. Ray Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established and donations can be made at First State Bank in Three Rivers or mailed to Attn. Mary Ruiz, P.O. Box 550, Three Rivers, TX 78071.
Eddie said the money will be given in the form of scholarships to athletes who exhibit the same spirit that Clovis did. He hopes to give out the first one in May.


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#5703 - 08/27/00 02:33 PM Re: North is up, and South is down - sez hu?
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Okay, I'll lay myself out for correction/argument/ridicule--
haven't anything better to do just now, anyway.
Max, I am going to respond as though your question is asking why our world is considered right-side-up in maps that have North America, Europe, etc., above Tasmania, NZ,
etc. (In part because I haven't a clue as to where the
labels North and South came from.)
This would seem to be a problem to which the simplest solution may be right: it makes sense to me that it is this
way because not only did the northern hemisphere produce
cultures advanced enough to explore the globe and make maps
first, it produced vaster quantities of explorers/mapmakers.
I envision centuries-ago scenes where they looked at each other and agreed that of course the lands they were familiar with were "above", in all senses, the lands filled
with either uncivilized people, or no people, or at least which did not have representatives in sufficient quantities to make their view prevail. (You-all, don't take me literally on that one.)
I also imagine that early mapmakers in say, Australia, whom I don't actually believe were hanging off the bottom of the earth (!), probably drew maps of their continent with the part we call the South Pole at the top. They just walked/rode "up" and "down" and back and forth across their continent, and became aware of the curvature of the earth
just as the explorers of the opposite hemisphere did. And, to them, the coldest part would be toward the narrower "top".
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#5705 - 08/27/00 03:18 PM Re: North is up, and South is down - sez hu?
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Perhaps I'm oversimplifying this, but maybe they just picked one direction and universalized it. Maybe it wasn't a choice of superiority, but just a capricious decision made by a famous map maker, and it caught on, just like how misused words catch on.
And in response to: New puzzle - why would the wonderfully whimsical spell-checker suggest "O'Brien" as a replacement for "NZ"?
I would say that it's because this spell checker goes to the next alphabetical word, and seeing as there are no possible words beginning with N that can come after NZ, it moves on to the first existing word that begins with O, this being O'Brien because numbers, apostrophes and other non-alphabetical characters come first.
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#5707 - 08/27/00 10:32 PM Re: North is up, and South is down - sez hu?
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okay, here are some thoughts on your north v. south puzzle:
the earth is a giant magnet and as such has the usual magnetic properties, such as magnetic poles. (the North magnetic pole is *very displaced from the geographic pole.) perhaps these magnetic poles place N/S by convention. another question to ask is in regards to the discovery of earth magnetism in relation to the cartography conventions.
I don't have any answers to these questions, it just seems that this might be something to consider....
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#5709 - 08/28/00 12:41 AM Re: North is up, and South is down - sez hu?
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Since compasses always point North, I suppose it makes sense to have that direction at the top of one's compass, at 12 o'clock, rather than at 6 o'clock.
Yes, one end of the compass needle indeed points north, but the other end points just as surely south. So why should we of the (anglicised) Antipuses be forced to have the tops of our compasses indicating a spot some 6 or 7,000 miles away beneath our feet?
sakezuki lusy
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I wonder if the answer might not have something to do with globes. When the first globes were made most, if not all, of the customers would have been in Europe. It's easier to see something when it's at the top of a globe than when it's at the bottom, especially if the globe is on a stand on the floor. At the time not much was known about the Southern hemisphere so if you put South at the top, you would have lots of embarrassing gaps at the top and all the stuff your customers are interested in down at the bottom where it's difficult to see.
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text: Are these Creatures, Spirits or a Technical Glitch? LincolnGenghis posted:10/6/2013 5:18:38 PM I was recently contacted by Larry Smith regarding some photos he had. Larry has been on PN for quite some time, most people here probably do not know him because he does not take part in the forums very often. Larry had posted an article on here a while back and also has a private website with the information on the photos. Larry had me take a look at the photos because I had a background in computer/machine/robot vision systems. To tell you the truth The first time I saw the pics I immediately thought fake before I even looked at the photos closely. I revisited the main photo again recently and looked at the thing at the pixel level and can honestly say there are no tell tale signs of any after the fact image manipulation that I can find. The one thing that can be ruled out would be a hoax or purposeful fake. Larry would not be able to pull an image off like that and if you knew Larry its just something he would not do. I guess Larry is still looking for answers on this one whatever they might be. If it's a technical glitch he would like a pretty detailed explanation on how it happened and if the things are real what are they? I have some thoughts on technical possibilities of these images but I have nowhere near the outdoor camera experience some people might have that wander through here. (my camera experience is in perfect controlled conditions, contolled lighting and flawless lenses.) And if these whatever they are might be real then what the hell could they be? Has anybody seen something like this? Has anybody else captured photos like these? I guess Larry would like any input or thoughts on this. I have attached two links below. One to Larrys article and one to his website. If there is more interest in this I can try coordinating with Larry and Post the pictures directly in this thread. I have notified Larry that this thread is here, he would be able to best answer any questions on the photos because they are his. Larrys Article Larrys Site So guess with this I will leave the floor open to Larry. He would be the person to ask specific questions of concerning the origins of the photos.daymoon posted:10/6/2013 7:22:27 PM There were a lot of interesting aspects to those pics. I think they do look like sprinklers though. But hey what do I know? It could be two alien beings mating and that is sperm spraying. Kind of like the way sponges sprinkle it.LincolnGenghis posted:10/6/2013 8:19:42 PM Well larry did say that there were at one point sprinklers going and that was one of the thoughts I had was possibly light refracting through the droplets causing the colors due to a prism type of effect splitting colors of the spectrum (like the way Rainbows form). I think he did say at one point in some of the images there was no sprinkler going though so that still could possibly mean a droplet on the lens or something doing the same thing. Outside of that I really don't have much else in the way of technical thoughts on the images. I think the camera was a mounted outdoor IR game camera but Larry would have to confirm this. Has anybody had any similar effects through any outdoor game cameras? By the same token though if the droplets were filtering out various wavelengths of the light spectrum maybe they allowed something normally invisible to be seen. Now going with that thought maybe they are interdimensional creatures from a waterless dimension that have come to make sweet love to the sprinkler. :) Ok so that Lincoln idea might be from the far end of the spectrum. But on a serious note I would like to find out from Larry if he knows anything about the history of the property? or if he has had any type of spirit activity attached to the property. Jaxerback posted:10/6/2013 9:31:36 PM It looks like a water droplet effect to me.. LincolnGenghis posted:10/7/2013 1:18:20 AM Ok these images might partially solve this thing. This one granted it is in black and white but the creature in the image was a small peice of cobweb on the lens. They are said to look like translucent veils and the distance perception of them also makes it look like they are farther away then they really are. Ok now this next one is light refracting through water drops Now this one is a water droplet that got on a camera lens with a light source behind it. And of course this one is of rain drops falling in front of a game cam. In the apparent environment at the time there certainly was the oppertunity to have one or all of these things going on. I don't know, this is my best take on the possible technical glitches that could have happened with the camera. its the best I got.daymoon posted:10/7/2013 8:56:25 AM Well, regardless of what they really are it still does not retract from the beauty of the photos and there odd effects. That rainbow looking polka dot one is absolutely beautiful and would look awesome blown up into a large picture and mounted in a black frame :)bobprin posted:10/7/2013 9:21:54 AM The motion cam we set up by the bigfoot feeder has nightflash on it. We have not gotten any pics like the ones you've shown. We did place a protective hood over it. No bigfeet yet, just two deer and what appears to be a porkypine. I vote for water refraction.LincolnGenghis posted:10/11/2013 3:14:45 AM Yeah and those pictures I put up were just posibilities for technical glitches. they don't really prove that his are technical glitches. Larry will probably drop in when he gets his login issue straightened out. He would be able to answer questions better about his photos.[email protected] posted:10/11/2013 8:47:01 AM The opportunity for all these anomalous events was definitely in existence that night as well as the previous months. The difference, I see, is that the critters were not. But befor that event, normal wildlife of the area regularly visited. That night there were 4 deer up to midnight. Then followed 1 hour of nothing, the critters showed up for approx. 2.5 hours, with nothing including deer for a week or so. I have now moved/sold out and at another location on Lake Murray. Only Deer so far.[email protected] posted:10/11/2013 8:53:01 AM That evening is recorded at my blog www.paranormalornot.com[email protected] posted:10/11/2013 8:57:02 AM The opportunity for all these anomalous events was definitely in existence that night as well as the previous months. The difference, I see, is that the critters were not. But befor that event, normal wildlife of the area regularly visited. That night there were 4 deer up to midnight. Then followed 1 hour of nothing, the critters showed up for approx. 2.5 hours, with nothing including deer for a week or so. I have now moved/sold out and at another location on Lake Murray. Only Deer so far.LincolnGenghis posted:10/11/2013 5:18:08 PM Well I guess I would be kind of curious if you know anything about the history of that Lake Murray area your in. Has there been any other kinds of strange stuff reported there in the past or present?[email protected] posted:10/14/2013 12:21:18 PM History at this location has been covered with water since the Dam was built some 60 years ago I know of nothing that would indicate a possible supernatural event. Since my own thoughts don't leave much room for the paranormal. I tend more to the scientific thought first. That's not to say I am ignorant of the spiritual. There is a small body of work recorded on the Internet. Trevor James Constable is the best soutce I have seen for scientific information regarding critters. I really would like to KNOW more. You must remember advances in photography have open even more areas of exploration if every thing is no studied with a mind set closed. LS 10/4LincolnGenghis posted:10/16/2013 12:27:16 PM So your game cam never picked up anything like that again after that night?[email protected] posted:10/17/2013 5:49:12 PM That's correct, however after a week or so and I was no longer even getting deer I became a little lackadaisical about setting the camera out regularly. I was spending fruitless time running around trying to find someone who was as interested as I that I might learn from. I saw newspaper people, numerous law enforcement agencies, DOA, photographers, game wardens, About anyone who might have come in contact with these things in the remotest way. No luck. Then even though I know less than a little about Internet use, I started fumbling around. I tried contacting a few colleges. They showed little to no interest even though totally ignorant of the entities in the pics. The consensus of opinion was either they had no idea or water anomalies or what the hell are those things? Bottom line, the more educated suggestions came down on the side of anomalous moisture caused. But, I did not give all the pics. to all of them. I had my reasons for not allowing all my pics to 1 person. Therefor some had no way of knowing I had pics with no evidence of water. I had pics with several varieties of critters in same shot. Before the critters showed up I had 4 normal deer shots. A couple of shots showed trees standing where there are no trees. Which I understand can happen. My point is that the moisture didn't cause misty, foggy, faded, blurry strange, or freakish looking entities. That's what we are use to seeing. These are critters that while you have never seen them before, you can comprehend at least in a limited way. 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[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/massage-therapy
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/healing-touch
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[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/what-are-mind-body-therapies
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term18
[9] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/stress-mastery
[10] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/navigate-healthcare-system
[11] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/creative-arts-therapies
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term24
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#171647 - 11/26/07 05:23 PM Re: So many altered words [Re: BranShea]
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Loc: R'lyeh
Pla ce bo,
Who is there, who?
Di le xi,
Dame Margery;
Fa, re, my, my,
Wherfore and why, why?
For the sowle of Philip Sparowe
That was late slayn at Carowe,
Latin placebo 'I shall please'; Latin dilexi 'I have loved, appreciated'.Quote:Skeltons originality is more evident in Phyllyp Sparowe, a poem addressed to Jane Scroupe, a young lady who was a pupil of the black nuns at Carow, and whose pet sparrow had been killed by a cat. The bird is pictured at great length and its mistresss grief described in exaggerated language. All the birds under the sky are summoned to the burial, and each one there is appointed to its special office.
[From Cambridge History of English and American Literature III.iv.7.]
Boards can be tables (as in side-board). Also of note that, in the OED1, there's an entry for bourd (sometimes borde) 'jest, jape' from French bourde. And, covered could mean hidden at the time._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#171648 - 11/26/07 05:28 PM Re: So many altered words [Re: zmjezhd]
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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Boards can be tables (as in side-board). Also of note that, in the OED1, there's an entry for bourd (sometimes borde) 'jest, jape' from French bourde. And, covered could mean hidden at the time.
so maybe the humor is all obvious, and vulgar? think Lenny Bruce?_________________________
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#171651 - 11/26/07 06:09 PM Re: So many altered words [Re: BranShea]
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Loc: Aladamnbama the most watered s...
Originally Posted By: BranSheaBy-the-by:
" Note.- The text of the poems is taken from Dyce's edition and has been left unchanged exept for some minor spelling alterations in which some letters such as j.u,and v, have been adapted to present day use. I am grateful to Miss Joan Pye for her great help in this book."
"Present day"was 1949 when this booklet was Edited by a Roland Gant in London =, but Printed and bound by Mouton and Company in Holland (of all places) The hague. They are fragments of longer and some short poems. Only 64 pages thick.
What meaneth covered 'rugs'?
Bye-the-Bye Bye?
Well! If you must ask, rugs cover bare boards in which the absence of indicates the hard times at hand in John Skeleton's poem.
So many gay swordes, (here, the meaning of "swordes" is suspect.)
So many altered wordes, (here, wordes means words but doesn't rhyme with bordes.)
And so few covered bordes. (few could afford to cover their boards with de rigueur rugs.)
--Sawe I never (that's what he had seen never before.)
In the sweet by and by: You can find an in-text discussion of the meaning of John Skeleton's use of the term "bordes" in Dyce's edition which is used as an example beneath a poem which mentioned painting ship's "bordes" with pictures of the creatures as they boarded Noe's Ark.
Edited by themilum (11/26/07 06:14 PM)
#171653 - 11/26/07 09:24 PM shulchan arukh [Re: BranShea]
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So many gay swordes,
So many altered wordes,
And so few covered bordes.
Sawe I never:
So many empty purses,
So few good horses,
And so many curses,
Sawe I never:
An interesting text. First, this poem is only attributed to Skelton, but it seems much like his other work. Second, I looked through his other poems to see how he used the word borde.Quote:Forsothe, quod she, how euer blowe the wynde
Fortune gydeth and ruleth all oure shyppe:
Whom she hateth shall ouer the see boorde shyp;
The Bowge of Courte ll.110-3.
By God, quod Heruy, and it so happen myghte;
Lete vs therfore shortley at a worde
Fynde some mene to caste hym ouer the borde.
Ibid. ll.306-8.
Wyth that came Ryotte, russhinge all at ones,
A rusty gallande, to-ragged and to-rente;
And on the borde he whyrled a payre of bones,
Quater treye dews he clatered as he went;
Now haue at all by saynte Thomas of Kente!
Ibid. ll.344-8.
But harke, my frende, one worde
In ernest or in borde:
Tell me now in this stede
Is mayster Mewtas dede
The kynges Frenshe secretary,
And hys vntrew aduersary?
Why Come Ye Nat to Courte? ll.781-6.
She sayde neuer a worde,
But rose from the borde
And called for our dame,
Elynour by name.
Elynour Rummyng ll.590-2.
He uses board in the sense of table, both for dining and gambling, and jest. He also uses it in the sense of the side of a ship, in somebody being tossed overboard. He (and John Gower) seemed to like coupling worde and borde, which in their time and English was a rhyme. Third, I wondered how the Bard might have used the word covered, and imagine my delight at finding this exchange of dialog:Quote:Lorenzo: Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid them prepare dinner.
Launcelot: That is done too, sir; only 'cover' is the word.
Lorenzo: Will you cover then, sir?
Launcelot: Not so, sir, neither; I know my duty.
Lorenzo: Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray tree, understand a plain man in his plain meaning: go to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
Launcelot: For the table, sir, it shall be served in; for the meat, sir, it shall be covered; for your coming in to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and conceits shall govern.
Merchant of Venice III.v.
Context suggests that so few covered boards means so few tables set (or prepared) for dinner. There's not much food or rides going round, but no shortage of hot air, posturing, lack of funds, and swearing._________________________
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#171658 - 11/27/07 07:16 AM Re: so many altered words [Re: zmjezhd]
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Thanks for your thinking and writing I was reading up on his life, much of which has been kept in records.
tsuwmQuote:borde is obs. thieves' cant for a shilling, says OED -- OTOH, it says "? a transf. use of bord, BOARD shield."
The Vulgar Tongue (1785)gives borde: A shilling. Half borde:sixpence, but it does not fit in the context,I think.
etaQuote:the floor would be covered (or not) with rugs, Bran
so maybe the humor is all obvious, and vulgar? think Lenny Bruce?
Although Skelton was a well esteemed scholar, tutor of the children of Henry VII and a priest he was a sharp critic,
satirical of Court life , Church corruption (Cardinal Wolsey banished him),he had a family in spite of his being a priest. He was on good foot with the vulgar. Elynour Rummynge The Ale House Wive (Ads.warning)
themilumQuote:Well! If you must ask, rugs cover bare boards in which the absence of indicates the hard times at hand in John Skeleton's poem.
Yes, these are only 3 couplets of 12. This one is clearly about the downhill quality of life and his words can have double meanings.Borde I think means table. Poor meals and drinks on the tables.There were tapistries on walls mostly.Floors, certainly of inns were covered with chaff, straw, sawdust.
zmjh(Yes, flagrant evidence)Quote:Context suggests that so few covered boards means so few tables set (or prepared) for dinner. There's not much food or rides going round, but no shortage of hot air, posturing, lack of funds, and swearing.
I too think bordes are tables.
#171659 - 11/27/07 08:22 AM Re: so many altered words [Re: BranShea]
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And borde survives today in the expression "room and board."
#171662 - 11/27/07 10:43 AM Re: so many altered words [Re: AnnaStrophic]
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and the idiom 'groaning boards" (for a table covered with platters of food (one the 'groans' under the weight of food)
and while a rug in american english is a floor covering,(or in slang, a toupe or wig, especially a poor quality one) in British english is a covering (a blanket, a table cloth, a fancy cloth draped on a piano) which, occationaly, can be used to cover the floor!_________________________
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#171668 - 11/27/07 12:30 PM Re: so many altered words [Re: of troy]
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He's got something for you too, Helen.
He describes the outfit of the Ale House Wive on a Sunday:
Her huke of Lyncole grene, It had ben hers, I wene, More then fourty yere; And so doth it apere, For the grene bare thredes Loke lyke sere wedes,Wyddered lyke hay, The woll worne away:
And yet I dare saye She thynketh herselfe gaye (Hey! gay means pretty or beautiful) Upon the holy daye, Whan she doth her aray,
And gyrdeth in her gytes Stytched and pranked with pletes;
Her kyrtel Brystow red, With clothes upon her hed That wey a sowe of led, Wrythen in wonder wyse, After Sarasyn gyse, With a whym and a wham, Knyt with a trym tram Upon her brayne pan, Lyke an Egyptian........
(I wrote it like proza so as not to use miles of space) :)interesting ; Lincoln grain or would it be green? and Bristol red? Groaning boards sounds good!
#171679 - 11/27/07 05:37 PM Re: so many altered words [Re: BranShea]
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i would guess lincoln green and bristol red.. (local plants that were common dye stuff...
a kyrtel is a form of a skirt..
I am guessing...(in parens)
With clothes upon her hed (with clothes upon her head)
That wey a sowe of led, (That were sewn with lead (the metal)
Wrythen in wonder wyse, (?(woven in/worked in)? in Wonder ways)
After Sarasyn gyse, (After the Islamic *guise)
With a whym and a wham, (with a whim and wham)
Knyt with a trym tram (Knit with Trim tram(?))
Upon her brayne pan, (Upon her brown head**)
Lyke an Egyptian. (Like an Egyptian)
or a hat, upon her head, in the islamic style, with metal woven in, to trim it, that she wore on her brown head/hair and looked exotic, like an egyptian!
*guise (like disguise) a word for a style/manner
(**pan or pot or tea kettle is often used as slang term for a head, (as in noggin!)
and yes, a groaning board is like a, um, a "rice table" --the sort of wonderful feast one could order in a dutch/indonasian restaurant years ago!_________________________
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#171684 - 11/27/07 08:01 PM Re: so many altered words [Re: of troy]
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pan or pot or tea kettle is often used as slang term for a head
Yes, in fact Latin caput, capitis, was replaced in many of the Romance languages with the Vulgar Latin testa, testae, 'pot; head'. (Though it survived in French with a slightly modified meaning: chef._________________________
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