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First of all, I didn't realize there was going to be a DVD of "all" the videos to date being released.
Having said that, I realized that for the Impossible Princess era there are so many things missing. They only put two videos on, which made me check the cd and I realized that indeed they hadn't put Cowboy Style nor Some Kind Of Bliss...both fave tracks of mine and songs I never saw the video for but I do know they exist.
Then I started to think of other songs, like for the KM94 era, I believe Time Will Pass Us By (or something rather like that) was a single..was it not? I once again would have prefered to hear and see that video rather than have "Where the Wild Roses Grow" which has got to be the worse duet in my oppinion. it does nothing for her voice at all.
I guess my point is, are there any other singles that were skipped? I find it logical that the cd can't contain so many songs, but I would expect the DVD to be able to contain ALL the videos and not just a few.
I am especially bummed out cause I purchased it for a friend thinking it had all the singles off each album, and now I realize that though they had room to add 3 more songs to the first cd...they didn't.
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Hello Millie,
Yes dogs do get ear infections. Some of them are related more to bacteria and some are yeast.
He is holding his head at a angle and shaking it because of fluid and discomfort. If he continues to shake his head too vigorously he could cause a hematoma to develop on the outside of his ear.
When there is blood that is being seen it could mean that the area has become so irritated and/or he has scratched it enough to cause bleeding. Without being able to see down in the ear I would not recommend that you put anything down in the ear.
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Ear infections can sometimes be ongoing problems and in that cause are either because of a deep seated infection that was never completely treated or it begins as a yeast infection (sometimes related to allergies) which then has secondary bacterial complications.
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Yesterday's announcement of an extra $2 billion in federal transport infrastructure spending over four years signals the sensible end of a fuel subsidy scheme designed to compensate country Australia for the GST.
The federal Transport Minister, John Anderson, insists that the Fuel Sales Grants Scheme has done its job since its introduction in July 2000, and will continue to do so until wound up in June 2006. Yet the scheme has failed, at least in terms of bang for taxpayers' 265 million bucks a year cost. Mr Anderson has now acknowledged as much by claiming the scheme's abolition will do nothing or little to push up country fuel prices, even though he speciously tries to explain away this anomaly by arguing that competition has caught up with the bush and will keep bowser prices suppressed.
A more independent assessment was offered in 2002 by the economic consultant David Trebeck, whose government-commissioned inquiry found: "It is not clear that any benefits accruing to regional Australians are proportional to the level of public expenditure." The finding should have surprised no one. Schemes that deliver taxpayer subsidies to sellers in uncompetitive markets, and then expect those subsidies (in this case, between one and two cents a litre, depending on remoteness) to be passed on to consumers, are exercises in naivety.
A dollar spent building or improving integrated road and rail access is likely to have more enduring benefit than does a questionable discount at the bowser, particularly when safety, decongestion and regional industry opportunities enter the equation. That the scheme's abolition was announced in an election year and carries some political risk is a tribute to the insistence of the Treasurer, Peter Costello, that ministers surrender some of their existing allocations so that grand visions, such as Mr Anderson's AusLink program to fix the nation's freight infrastructure can be realised. Prospects of healthy budget surpluses have been too easy a temptation for too many ministers to raid the piggy bank rather than rationalise poorly considered extant spending.
The other $1.2 billion in yesterday's announcement, however, will be "new" money, albeit in the form of an extension of the Roads to Recovery scheme, which had been due to expire in June next year. It recognises the unavoidable reality that rural local councils cannot afford the road infrastructure needed to expand local industry or to ensure standards of safety and comfort.
The changes have a sting in the tail. Councils will get $200 million a year on a fixed formula, presumably on the basis that local knowledge is better able to calculate local priorities than are city-based state bureaucrats and politicians. But Mr Anderson will exercise discretion in allocating the other $100 million a year. Either he believes he and his Canberra-based bureaucrats are better placed than local interests or there is something to Opposition criticism that he is building a pork barrel fund. The minister should promptly clarify how the latter will be avoided.
The first Fiji military coup of 1987, the first of two within five months, caught other nations of the south-west Pacific by surprise. One reason was that diplomatic and military intelligence services had taken their eyes off the ball. Another was that since Fijian independence in 1970 there had been a veneer of harmony between its indigenous population and the roughly equal number of Indians descended from indentured labourers. That harmony was torn to shreds and replaced by the reality that in Fiji the potential for political and economic conflict is always high.
Now, less than four years after the overthrow by George Speight and his indigenous Fijian nationalists of the duly elected ethnic Indian-led government of Mahendra Chaudhry, there is a renewed tension. This time it is not between the two main ethnic groups but within the ethnic Fijians. On one side is Frank Bainimarama, the military officer who imposed martial law during Speight's attempted coup in May 2000, during which Speight supporters overran parliament and held the government at gunpoint for six weeks. Commander Bainimarama's five-year contract as head of the military is due to end next month. His detractors accuse him of megalomania and say he refuses to countenance cuts to an unaffordable military budget. For his part, he accuses the Government of looking for someone more pliable who will turn a blind eye when the Government quietly abandons outstanding prosecutions of people behind the Speight coup.
Chairing the committee to decide on Commander Bainimarama's replacement is the Home Affairs Secretary, Jeremiah Waqanisau. He is a former senior army officer who was involved in the 1987 coup. Last week he and Commodore Bainimarama clashed so angrily that police were called. Such is the tension in Suva between the military and a government dependent on ultra-nationalist sympathisers that the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, and the police chief, Andrew Hughes, made televised pleas for civil calm.
Fiji's return to the precipice of tumult is disturbing. It is a reminder of how far there is to go - after the repudiation of democracy represented by the Speight coup - before arriving at a new stable system of government. The 1997 constitution, under which the Chaudhry government was elected, is a dead letter. Its replacement must not only respect the legitimate aspirations of the ethnic Indian community but also accommodate, without violent upheaval, the traditional rivalries within the indigenous Fijian clans.
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At GDC Europe today, Eric Chahi (Another World, Flashback) and Ronan Bel (Ubisoft lead programmer genius) talked about the upcoming (and promising) Project DUST.
Chahi showed a lot of video material of their engine, and how the in-game environment changing actually works. In a nutshell, Project DUST features a dynamic world where the elements of earth (in the form of rock), water and fire (in the form of lava) are used in tandem with vegetation to create any type of landscape you want. Their vision of a landscape is having rock as a foundation, with lava and water being able to flow on the surface, while soil creates a layer on top of the rock where vegetation can grow.
One of their video demonstrations showed a sort of cursor avatar (maybe a flying shaman character?) being used as a pointer manipulator device. Kind of like in Black & White, the player is able to manipulate any of the before mentioned elements to create any kind of terrain needed for the gameplay.
Everything you do reacts like you'd expect. Make a rough cone of soil and the soil will flatten out by gravity. Add water to a mountain or hill and it will flow down. Water can also erode soil. Lava acts like water, with the addition that it can cool down to form rock, by dropping water on it for instance. There was a glimpse of the button layout given, as well, with A for adding, B for removing, X for smoothing and LB and RB for decreasing and increasing an effect.
Chahi mentions how they worked from the building blocks of the elements and vegetation towards a convergence effect. For example, adding a lot of water creates a river and obstructing the body of water can either make a lake or a meandering river. Lava can also be used like water, but has the effect of burning whatever it comes into contact with. Vegetation even has various life cycles, from young to flowering to adult to death. You should even be able to create different height for the plants.
Ronan Bel (who also worked as a programmer on Assassin's Creed 2) follwed Chahi by giving a ton of technical data. If you'd like to know about 4KB address aliasing, you really should have just come to Europe! What was interesting was how the game is multithreaded by design. The rendering runs natively on the PlayStation 3's SPUs for instance, leaving 99% of the PPU available for other things like AI code.
For the devs, or aspiring devs among you, they spent two years on the iterative process where every iteration not only provided solutions but also new problems. An example of how, for instance, the building blocks of the game and the game's rules created such problems was how a randomly generated mountain of soil would have weird and ugly patterns.
"He is really crazy right now," Chahi joked about Bel, "he wants to kill you!"
Chahi went on to describe how they used the concept of mud to come up with a cheap solution. Mud is created by combining the viscosity of water with sediment (soil in water). When they adjusted only the parameters of water and soil, it allowed them to create mud to smooth things out. This concept allowed them to create a much cheaper solution than creating an expensive algorithm for smoothing from scratch.
They ended the presentation by adding some references to published scientific articles on things like Real Time Fluid Dynamics. It sounded pretty impressive tech-wise, and more importantly it looked really good. In fact, the tech talk might have some relation to Ronan Bel saying he is looking for a change on his LinkedIn profile.
Q&A had questions like "Ok that looks great, where is the game?" Chahi couldn't get into details on gameplay, but that it would be showed at gamescom later this week. More to come on that front!
Another question was if there were any plans to include weather. Upon hearing the question, Chahi glanced at Bel and said, hesitantly, "Maaaaaybe." Bel groaned, covering his eyes. Not quite a facepalm, though, so who knows!
Project DUST (working title) will come to PC, Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network in 2011.
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However, no official Federal Government representatives have agreed to meet him. Mr Howard told Chinese media he had not met the Dalai Lama in Australia since 1996 and would not see him now, despite returning from Beijing before the Buddhist leader was to leave for New Zealand.
A spokesman for Mr Downer denied the government's stance was hypocritical, saying Mr Crean's stance would be a test of his leadership.
Mr Crean had planned to meet the Dalai Lama on Monday, but accepted a last-minute invitation to East Timor's independence celebrations. Acting Opposition Leader Jenny Macklin will meet him instead.
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The Dalai Lama will visit Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney on his nine-day visit, starting this weekend, for seminars and talks.
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Dwight Mission, located on Sallisaw Creek in 1830, is the oldest school in the State of Oklahoma, although Union Mission was
established at an earlier date. Named in honor of the Rev. Timothy Dwight of Yale University, the mission has added luster
to the name by the great educational work accomplished among the Cherokee Indians.
Much modern history of Dwight Mission is contained in the pages of a small magazine called Cherokee Gospel Tidings, which was first printed on the Presbyterian Mission Press at Siloam Springs, Arkansas. The paper bore "Goingsnake, Indian
Territory" on the date line in January, 1898; and in August, 1900 it was issued from the mission near Marble, Indian Territory,
which was to be its future home.
The Rev. Frederick L. Schaub and his wife arrived at Dwight Mission in 1900, and the following eleven years of their lives
were devoted to the upbuilding of the school. Mr. Schaub was superintendent; he served as editor of the magazine, while his
devoted wife gave her time to the welfare of the Indian children.1
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Cherokee Gospel Tidings, printed in English and Cherokee, contained selections from the Bible, news items about the teachers and pupils at the school,
and many interesting illustrations which, while crude, have preserved scenes that otherwise would have been lost. Frequent
accounts are given of the other Presbyterian missions, the churches and Sunday schools of the Indian Territory. A fairly complete
file of the magazine is in the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Schaub of Muskogee, Oklahoma, has many numbers,
and the Author has had access to both files. Gospel Tidings was issued monthly by the Sabbath School and Publication Committee of Sequoyah Presbytery, for an annual subscription price
of twenty cents a year.
Accounts of the Elm Spring Mission appeared in the pages of Gospel Tidings, and in January, 1900 it was announced that the
post office of the mission was changed from Tahlequah to Welling, Indian Territory. The next issue reported that Miss C. H.
Montgomery2 of the mission had been critically ill, but the physicians gave hope of her speedy recovery. Two members, George Pritchett
and Mrs. Sallie Jumper Ratt, of the Elm Spring church, died and passed to their reward.
On the first Sunday of 1900 Rev. F. L. Schaub and Elder Thomas Still of the Sequoyah Presbytery organized a new church about
four miles west of Westville, to be known as Sequoyah Presbyterian Church. Judge Ned Foreman and Mr. Levi Willis were elected
as ruling elders, and Mr. J. B. Jones a deacon. The magazine for March, 1900 contains an article in the Creek language contributed
by Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson who devoted the best part of her life to translating the New Testament into the
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Creek language. In April the publication reported that Dwight Mission school had been closed for several weeks on account
of the measles, a disease which had been a scourge to the Indians since an early day when missionaries wrote of whole tribes
or neighborhoods being laid low by it. Miss Carrie M. Elliott3 had been given entire charge of the Elm Spring school, and Miss Montgomery had recovered so far that she planned to leave
for home the first week in April. The marriage of Miss Annie R. Miller, principal teacher at Dwight Mission, to Mr. W. R.
Orr of Durango, Colorado, was celebrated Thursday, March 15, but Mrs. Orr planned to continue her work in the school.
Frequent mention is made of A. F. Romig, the Sabbath school missionary of the Presbytery, who since his arrival the previous
August had "placed" fourteen Sabbath schools and visited in the neighborhood of 500 families.4
In May, 1900 Gospel Tidings gave a list of the churches in Sequoyah Presbytery, with the number of members; Achena, 25; Broken Arrow, 25; Claremore Mounds,
12; Eureka, 24; Elm Spring, 30; Fort Gibson, 56; Muskogee, 171; Nowata, 22; Nuyaka, 51; Oowala, 10; Park Hill, 31; Pleasant
Valley, 18; Sallisaw, 18; Tahlequah, 89; Tulsa, 111; Vinita, 69; Wewoka, 67. Churches at Wagoner, Vian, Smallwood and Davis
contributed to Home Missions. The Smallwood church had formerly been known as Barron Fork Church.
Children's Day was observed at Elm Spring on April 29, by the Sabbath School, and a large congregation enjoyed the exercises.
Three of the girls, Anna Turner, Addie Keys and Bertha Lyman, were awarded Bibles for committing to memory the Shorter Catechism.
Rev. Evans P. Robertson, the faithful English-speaking Cherokee preacher, was assigned work among the fullbloods. He was to
be associated with Rev. F. L. Schaub who had had charge of the fullblood work for the past four years. John Greece of the
Elm Spring church was the interpreter for them, assisted by others as they were needed. With this in-
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crease of workers, the churches that had services only a few times a year received preaching once a month.5
In the July, 1900 number it was stated that Dwight Mission was to be opened as a boys' boarding school. "In response to an
appeal to the Women's Board of Home Missions, they have decided to re-furnish, their valuable plant at Dwight and open it
October first to a limited number of boys who will supply their own table board. The plan of a self-supporting boarding department
has been in successful operation in Elm Spring school for a number of years, and what the Elm Spring school is to the girls,
Dwight will be to the boys. Under this, plan there is not a man in the Cherokee Nation too poor to place his boy under the
influence of a Christian boarding school. For the coming year the school will be under the supervision of Rev. F. L. Schaub,
with Miss MaBelle True, M. D., as matron, and Miss Florence Bingham, class '00 Park College, as teacher. There will be a day
school for the children of the neighborhood in connection with the boarding school."6
This issue contains also a report of the exercises held at Elm Spring on the last day of school when a number of pupils received
gold medals for perfectly reciting the Ten Commandments, Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes and the Books
of the Bible. The fortunate young people were Tiny Ratt, Annie MeLemore, Nannie Starr, Elsie Ratt, Jennie Ratt, Bertha Lyman,
Annie Ballentine, Maude Mankiller, Anna Turner, Addie Keys, Callie Fivekiller, Lou Keys, Henry Keys and James Kendrieks. Addie
Keys and Annie McLemore also received silver medals for neat and correct written work.
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From the May, 1900 issue of Twin Territories, published at Muskogee, Gospel Tidings copied an account of Dwight Mission written by Isaac B. Hitchcock: "The American Board of Boston sent out the first missionaries
to these Western Cherokees in 1820. My father was of that first company. They established the first school and preaching station
on the Illinois Bayou in what was afterwards Pope county, and about three miles from where Russellville [Arkansas] now is.
This was called Dwight. With the Cherokees they moved up into the present Indian Territory, and re-established the boarding
school at Dwight Mission on Sallisaw, about twelve miles above its mouth. For a number of years this was the only school among
the Cherokee people. Before the Cherokees moved into this Territory there were a few whites living scattered about through
the country. One so-called 'Town' was on the Sallisaw, half way between Forts Smith and Gibson, with a postoffice called 'Lovely's
Court House.' This was the only postoffice in all this country outside of the Military Posts. I was born in February 1825
at the old Dwight Mission, and was four years old when we moved in '29 . . . ."
The August and September numbers were combined, and the paper tells of the repairing of Shepherd Home7 at Dwight, and that the building would be in first-class condition for the opening of school October first. The other Presbyterian
schools were opened at Elm Spring, Welling, on September 3; Tahlequah Institute, September 10; Park Hill, September 17, and
Henry Kendall College, Muskogee, September 26. The October issue had a picture of "The New Home of The Cherokee Gospel Tidings,"
which was described as follows: ". . .To use commercial language, we now occupy over 1400 feet of floor space while at Siloam
Springs we had only 120 feet. The building is a four-room, story and a half log house, sealed inside and outside and well
arranged for our work. The rooms are occupied as, study and office, composition and press, stock room and bindery.8
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"It is quite fitting that the mission press should occupy" this historic old building which has been the home of so many missionaries.
It is one of the oldest in the Territory but its usefulness continues as it becomes the home of the Mission press of the Sequoyah
Presbytery. By the help of the Board of Home Missions and other friends of the Cherokees we have been enabled to add to our
equipment a 10x15 0. S. Gordon job press, a 22 inch Paragon paper cutter, 100 lbs of body type, several fonts of job type
and other necessary material, thus making the plant equal to most 'country' offices . . . ." In the re-furnishing of Dwight
and the moving of the office the editor extended thanks for substantial favors from the Kansas City Southern Railway, the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas and the Missouri Pacific railroads.
"Dwight Mission was formally opened October 1st, with a lecture by the Rev. E. M. Landis, of Sallisaw. Nearly forty have been
enrolled but the attendance has been very light on account of the cotton picking. The average attendance for October will
hardly reach twelve but November promises a much better record. The, boarding department is also quite small, due to cotton
picking and sickness."9
The issue for December contained a long article on the National Problem of Cherokee Affairs while No. I of Vol. 4 reported:
"After one week's vacation the Dwight school opened December 31, with a marked increase in attendance. Sixty-nine of the brightest
children in the Cherokee Nation are now enrolled. All the grades are doing good work. The average grades made in the term
examination would be a credit to any school. George Choate, Gussie Sanders, Callie Choate, Hooley Sanders, Virgie Hotchkill,
Jesse Thornton, Guy Arrington, Sherman Mullen, Jane Choate, Sallie Chucolate, Charlie Fields, May Fields, Georgia Leathers,
Carrie Ayles and Lonnie Ussery distinguished themselves and were given grades from 91 to 98."
The April edition of the magazine was all in the Sequoyah characters except the advertisements which were in English. In May
the paper announced: "We have on hand a good supply of Cherokee Testaments and can supply them at 25 cents each.
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. . . Mr. David Smallwood and family, of Saline District, have moved to Dwight Mission and Mr. Smallwood will be connected
with the Mission as interpreter, translator and Printer.10
"The wide-awake people of the 'Pilgrim's Rest' neighborhood, near Stilwell, have established a day school similar to the Presbyterian
mission schools and have installed Miss Nellie Matthews of Hanover, Indiana, as teacher . . . ." A flourishing Sabbath school
had been organized and a committee of the Presbytery visited the neighborhood with the view of organizing a Presbyterian church.
Dwight Mission closed its first year as a boys' industrial school May 31, and the teachers were proud of the successful work
accomplished and of the high grades maintained by the pupils. Jesse Thornton, Henry Hinton and Georgia Leathers made the highest
grades, an average of 96, in the final examinations. Both Elm Spring and Dwight schools were hampered during the year by illness
in the neighborhoods and in the vicinity of Elm Spring every family but one suffered from smallpox. The teachers of the two
schools departed for their homes or to attend a summer course at the Kansas State Normal, while Mr. Schaub went to Kansas
City to purchase a supply of paper for the Cherokee songbook which was to go to press about the middle of July. A first edition
of 3000 copies of 100 pages each was to be issued.11
The summer of 1901 was unusually hot and dry and seriously affected the corn. on the Mission farm where only half a crop was
made. Every effort was made to provide winter and spring
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feed on the farm and several acres of rye, some Kaffir corn, an acre or more of cane and half an acre of stock peas were planted.
Reports concerning the unfavorable location and health conditions of Dwight were circulated so persistently that the editor
gave a statement of facts in the magazine in October, in which he reported that during the school year from October 1, 1900
to June 1, 1901, thirteen persons were quartered in Shepherd Home. It was the first year in the country for five of the number
but. not one had an attack of malaria. There were only two cases of malaria and one of the patients was a boy who was "subject
to ague and chilled at Dwight as he had at one of the other schools." The other case was that of the superintendent, who suffered
an attack following heat prostration. Three or four cases of grippe constituted all of the illness during the year.
Miss Emma McBride of Park College opened a school at Pilgrim's Rest, near Stilwell on September 23, while Sabbath School Missionary
Romig and Rev. E. M. Landis conducted evangelistic meetings at Bunch. Several towns along the extension of the Frisco railroad
south of Sapulpa were making a rapid growth and Mr. Romig organized a Sunday school in Beggs, a town which had only two houses
in the early summer, but in October had more than fifty business houses and dwellings, and was still growing.
Mr. Romig held his Sunday morning service in a nearby grove, and bales of hay furnished his pulpit and seats for his congregation.
In the afternoon the Sabbath school was organized in an incompleted store building, where planks were placed across bundles
of shingles for benches and a barrel of lime served as a desk. Business men of Beggs encouraged the work by securing $22.00
for the use of the school.
The Elm Spring School opened the first Monday in September with a good attendance. Miss C. H. Montgomery had been called east
to represent the Woman's Board before the societies in New York and Pennsylvania, and Miss A. M. Stringfield, well known in
the Cherokee Nation as a mission teacher, replaced her on the teaching force.12
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A very useful gift was presented to Dwight Mission in the autumn of 1901. This was a bell to call the children to classes
and worshippers to service., The two-year-old niece of the superintendent, Ruth Blake of Parsons, Kansas, was the donor. On
Thanksgiving day that bell rang out a summons which brought the people to services, where Rev. E. M. Landis preached the sermon
on "Be ye thankful." "The chapel was appropriately decorated with baled hay, corn, turnips, sweet potatoes and two live 'possums."
School opened at Dwight Mission October 16, and thirty-three pupils were enrolled the first day and within a few weeks the
number reached 52, two more than could be accommodated. More came for admittance but it was necessary to refuse them. Fortunately
at that time a field representative of the Board visited the school, and upon her return to New York arrangements were made
to add another worker to the force for the 'winter term, so that all the pupils could be admitted who desired to attend the
school. Miss Nellie Miller of Topeka, Kansas was secured as a teacher and began her work on December 9.
The holidays were saddened for the Elm Spring community by a number of cases of pneumonia and the deaths of Aleck Clay, Nicholas
Whittington and Stephen Nofire in less than three weeks.
The February number of Gospel Tidings announced that the Ozark, Cherokee and Western Railroad was assured. The line was to run from Fayetteville, Arkansas to Tahlequah,
Indian Territory, and several large grading outfits were at work west of Westville. Elm Spring Mission was on the line of
the road, and the magazine said that the school would soon be "out of the woods."
Gospel Things reported the winter of 1902 as the most severe the section had experienced for years. The cold weather continued for ten
weeks and caused great hardships to the people and much loss of stock. Provisions were so high in price that many were almost
denied the necessities of life; while in instances man and beast suffered for the want of food. During this trying time Mr.
Schaub and Missionary Romig were both ser-
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iously ill, while Elder John Ratt of Elm Spring Church died on March 6 and was buried the next day. John Ratt was a fullblood
Cherokee and a man of fine influence among his people.
The April issue of the magazine contained a list of the Permanent Committees of Sequoyah Presbytery.
Rev. Charles W. Kerr of Tulsa, Rev. E. M. Landis, D. M. Marrs.
Rev. A. G. Evans, Rev. D. M. Allen, Rev. W. F. C. Lippert, Z. T. Walrond, D. M. Marrs.
Rev. David N. Allen, Rev. Leonidas Dobson, Robert Meigs.
Rev. F. L. Schaub, Rev. E. P. Robertson, A. Quesenbury.
Rev. E. X Landis, Rev. C. W. Kerr, Z. T. Walrond.
Rev. H. C. Williams, Rev. E. M. Landis, G. M. Hagood.
Rev. E. B. Evans, Rev. T. W. Perryman, D. M. Hodge.
Rev. T. W. Perryman, Rev. E. B. Evans, W. B. Robe.
Rev. E. B. Evans, Rev. Dorsey Fife, G. A. Brown.
Rev. H. C. Williams, Rev. F. L. Schaub, A. F. Romig.
Rev. W. F. C. Lippert, Rev. C. W. Kerr, J. M. Robe.
The May edition published a list of the churches of Sequoyah Presbytery: Achena, Broken Arrow, Claremore, Davis, Dwight, Elm
Spring, Eureka, Fort Gibson, Muskogee, Nowata, Nuyaka, Park Hill, Pleasant Valley, Sallisaw, Tahlequah, Tullahassee, Tulsa,
Vian, Vinita, Wagoner. Vacant and non-contributing churches were given as Claremore, Mounds, Girty Springs, Muldrow, Oowala,
Pheasant Hill, Checotah, Sapulpa, Sequoyah, Wewoka, Red Fork, Smallwood, Wetumka, Okmulgee.13
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In the June number the magazine copied an article from the Siloam Springs Herald: "Some of the leading papers over the country have been saying that the Cherokee Advocate, which is to be suspended soon, is the only paper in the United States, or elsewhere, for that matter, which is part printed
in the Cherokee language. They are mistaken. The Cherokee Gospel Tidings, a religious monthly . . . partly printed in the
Cherokee language. It will be quite a distinction to the Tidings to be the only paper of the kind in the world."
The Dwight Mission report to the Indian Office in Washington showed an enrollment of eighty-two pupils for the year ending
June 30. There were twenty-three Cherokee boys, fourteen Cherokee girls, twenty-four white boys and twenty-one white girls.
The closing exercises at Dwight passed off most pleasantly. The pupils were all at their best, and all present enjoyed their
songs and "Pieces." Nearly all of their parents were present with well-filled baskets, and after the exercises a big dinner
was spread under the beautiful oak trees.
The prodigious amount of printing executed on the small press at Dwight Mission is almost beyond belief when the lack of facilities
is known. In July it was stated that the first form of the Cherokee Hymn Book was on the press and that a supply would soon
be ready to fill the demand. The August number of the magazine reported that the Mission Press turned out 12,000 pages of
English and Cherokee tracts, and over 60,000 pages of the new Cherokee song book in July. Added to this the Tidings was printed and made about 8,000 more pages. The output was limited by the supply of Cherokee type, as a few pages exhausted
the case and they had to go to press, print the number of pages needed for immediate use, and distribute again for the next
pages. Cherokee type was not on the market and could not be bought as needed.
Miss Bingham, the principal teacher at Dwight, left for a vacation, afterwards taking up her work in Utah. Dr. True had been
in Chicago attending lectures at the Moody Bible Institute, and returned to Dwight in July. Miss Nellie Miller of Topeka,
Kansas, was added to the force of Dwight as primary teacher and assistant in the superintendent's office. Miss Rada Mathes,
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an experienced mission teacher from Tennessee, was appointed to replace Miss Bingham.
One of the most interesting enterprises of Dwight Mission was the trips made by the Presbyterian Gospel Wagon. The first itinerary
started Tuesday morning, August 5. "Camp Ebenezer" consisted of Miss C. H. Montgomery organist, Miss Nell Holderman soloist,
D. E. Smallwood interpreter, W. T. Morrison and A. F. Romig, Sunday school missionaries, with Rev. F. T. Schaub Evangelist
in charge. The caravan was led by a pioneer bicycle with Missionary Morrison in the saddle, followed by the loaded covered
wagon containing the outfit for the party, tent, organ, cots, bedding, stereopticon, grips and, Messrs. Romig Smallwood and
Schaub. The ladies of the party followed in a buggy.
Tuesday night the tent was pitched at Marble and a service was held illustrated with the magic lantern. Though a storm threatened,
a good audience was present. Wednesday evening a service was held in the church house at Bunch, and the party was well cared
for by Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Choate and Dr. and Mrs. Hotchkiss. Thursday they gave an evening service in the McLemore neighborhood
where the people were deeply moved by both exposition and the illustration on the sheet. Friday found the evangelists at Flint,
while Saturday evening and Sunday were spent at Pilgrim's Rest, where the party was shown every courtesy by Colonel Johnson.
Several services were conducted there and the Sunday school attended.
The tent was next pitched at Baron, where it remained two evenings; three services were held, two of them illustrated with
the stereopticon. A Sunday school was organized there and the party was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. F. Howard, Jr., Mrs. Frank
Howard, Sr., and Miss Kline. Wednesday service was conducted at the Smallwood chapel, and the following evening they camped
and held a service at Peacheater Springs. At Chance on Friday, one hundred and fifty gathered to listen to the Gospel, and
Saturday and Sunday were passed at Oil Springs where three services were conducted. The party met its first difficulties on
Monday when they were misdirected and took a log chute for a road, where the wagon had to be unloaded and the contents packed
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back up the hill in order that the wagon could be hauled back. They camped that night after a hard day's drive of five and
one-half miles from the starting place in the morning. A late service was held by some of the party at Elm Spring the next
night, while the other members had become lost and were trying to decide which was the Tahlequah and which the Welling road.
The company was disbanded the next morning after a service at Park Hill.
This tour was considered such a success that the Sabbath School Committee of the Presbytery decided to make it into an annual
affair. There was much hard work involved, and the members were weary at the end, as the wagon had to be loaded and unloaded,
the tent taken down and set up, six people were fed, four horses were cared for, and the people of the different communities
had to be invited, and then a two-hour or longer service held. The party covered nearly 175 miles, the average attendance
was 65 and the estimated number of conversions over 20.14
Dwight began its third year as a school for boys October 14, 1902, with eighteen boarders and twenty-six day pupils. The November
magazine reported the meeting of the Sequoyah Presbytery at Wewoka as one of the best in its history. The members of the Wewoka
church were fullblood Seminoles, and they came from far and near, camping about the church, and attended all of the meetings.
Dinners were served in the camp to all of the members of the Presbytery. The Second Presbyterian Church of Wewoka was organized,
and Mr. McNabb, one of the newly elected elders, was ordained.15
Dwight suffered the hardship of a change in the corps of teachers during the school term, as Miss Miller was called home on
account of illness in her family. After much difficulty the place was filled by Miss Luella W. Luthy of Parkville, Missouri.
By an act of the Cherokee National Council of 1886, Dwight received thirty acres of land which was reserved and surveyed by
the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. This necessitated
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the changing and building of fences and clearing of land during the winter of 1903.
The second chapter of "The Road to Heaven" by Miss Helen Clark had been translated into Cherokee, and it was printed in the
March issue of the paper. The Tidings office was the proud possessor of a stereotyping outfit which had long been needed and
which greatly increased the capacity of the press to furnish matter in the Indian tongue. The outfit was the gift of friends,
and Mr. W. T. Morrison of Philadelphia was instrumental in raising two-thirds of the money. He had spent the summer in the
country as a missionary, and realized the need of the printed page among the people.16
The Presbytery of Sequoyah met in Okmulgee April 16, and nearly all of the ministers were present and almost all of the churches
were represented by an elder. The Rev. James K. Thompson, pastor of the Muskogee church, was moderator, and Mr. John M. Robe,
superintendent of Nuyaka Mission, temporary clerk. The Presbytery had lost two of its ministers— the Rev. Harry C. Williams17 and the Rev. Thomas W. Perryman, a native of the Creek Nation18, whose loss was greatly felt.
The July magazine contained an account of the commencement exercises at Dwight which were of unusual interest that year because
of the graduation of Richard Baxter Sanders, known to all of his friends as Hooley, who was the first graduate of the school.
The Western Union Telegraph Company had established an office at Marble, and a telephone had been installed in the Mission
giving direct connection with Sallisaw, Marble, Bunch, Stilwell and Westville. The Frisco railroad took control of the Ozark
and Cherokee Central Company on July 1, 1903, and the Gospel Wagon was scheduled to make a second trip.
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The work at Dwight had developed to such an extent that the Board added a new matron, and Miss Nellie Long of Parsons joined
the faculty as primary teacher and office assistant. Miss Carrie M. Elliott, after a year of special study along industrial
lines for girls, returned to the Elm Spring, where she had previously taught six years.
The Gospel Wagon party of 1903 was composed of the Rev. F. L. Schaub, the Rev. W. C. F. Lippert, pastor at Claremore, Mr.
A. F. Romig, missionary, Mrs. M. C. Wade of Henry Kendall College, Miss Edna Hotchkiss and Perry Templeton, Dwight students.
The tour started on the first day of August, and leaving the wooded hills of the Cherokee country the course was westward.
Each evening as the camping place was approached the party extended invitations along the way to the meeting, and sent word
to every house within reach. The meetings were held in the open and often under the trees near a schoolhouse. A screen was
stretched between two trees and a magic lantern was used to help with the program. Usually fifty or more made up the attentive
Early every morning, except Sunday, camp was broken, and much of the day was spent on the road. The contents of tin cans furnished
the food for the party with the exception of potatoes and apples and one feast of fried chicken. Where the trail crossed the
railroad there was usually a small town where the attendance at the meetings was larger and compensated for the discomfort
of having to pitch their tents in the dusty weeds beside the road. The second Saturday a community was reached where there
was neither church nor school. An arbor had been built to shelter the Sabbath school Which Mr. Romig had started some time
before, and, there the meetings were held. Four services were held, and Sunday evening during a heavy rain thirty or more
brave souls gathered under the dripping arbor to listen to the sermon. After ten days Nuyaka Mission was reached, and it seemed
a haven of rest to the weary travelers who enjoyed the kind hospitality of their friends. After two days the party turned
their faces east on the journey home.
The third Saturday the camp was on the banks of the Arkansas at the hospitable home of Judge and Mrs. N. B. Moore
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near Haskell, where the Evangelists enjoyed unstinted hospitality and where two evening meetings were held in their dooryard
with the congregation sitting on the grass in the shade of the fine old trees. Two more meetings were held before the travelers
reached the beach of the Illinois River where it empties into the Arkansas. There, tired and happy, they enjoyed their first
campfire and talked over the events of the trip. More than two hundred pounds of tracts and papery had been distributed to
people along the journey, which had covered about two hundred miles. Good-byes were said, and the wagons arrived at Dwight
just three weeks from the time of departure.19
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Recently I met Emma Scott at the Deloitte Australian International 3 day event, held in the Adelaide parklands, November 2011. The first thing I noticed as I walked through all the horse trucks at the event was a sign inside Emma's horse truck, it said something like 'follow your dreams, and keep going until you succeed'. Emma has her sights on fulfilling her Olympic dreams of firstly being selected, and then representing Australia at the London Olympic games.
An Inspiration
'with determination and tenacity, you too can achieve your wildest dreams' ~ Emma Scott
Yes, there is something very special about young equestrian Emma Scott, she is on a mission to help inspire young kids to over come adversity and reach for their dreams.
Emma is lady from the bush who grew up in the country town of Balranald in NSW, and has been involved with the local pony club and horses from a young age.
You can always tell a country person as they have a different attitude generally speaking, mainly due to the country environment and practical experiences.
Emma also has a natural ability to talk to people and make them feel instantly at ease, and for Emma although horses are her life, it is more than riding horses and being an elite equestrian, and that is what makes her such good young role model.
Since watching Emma compete in her first ever CCI 4 star 3 day event, and yes we are talking about Olympic standard competition! This is the top level of her Equestrian sport and there are only 6 events of this standard in the world and can you believe Adelaide holds this event every year in the middle of the city's parklands. That should impress you, as it is very unique to have such horse power thundering through our city streets.
So, what place did Emma come at this event I hear you ask? Well, she came 7th over all out of 30 plus competitors including current and former Olympians. A great effort for the first time at this elite level, so congratulations to Emma. She did not go home empty handed and received a scholarship for ranking the highest out of all the first time CCI 4 star competitors.
Emma Scott's Olympic Dream
The raffle – drawn on Friday 23rd December 2011
Renowned Australian artist Jan Lawler from Balranald is donating, a beautifully framed portrait painting of your beloved horse or dog valued at $800.
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To become a sponsor for Emma and her trusty steed Mustang, or simply donate to help Emma support her Olympic dreams.
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Once the raffle is over and you still want to show your support for Emma, donations can be made directly into the Emma Scott Donations account – see details above
Emma is looking for a major sponsor to help fund her Olympic dream, so if anyone knows of any such generous people or companies – contact Jan Lawler or private message Emma Scott Eventing on facebook to discuss further.
Lets help Emma fulfil her dream of going to the London Olympic games, and help the town of Balranald who are so proud of their local equestrian sporting hero.
An Eventful Life – by Alison Duthie
To read more about Emma Scott's eventing journey, Allison Duthie has written a beautifully descriptive book published in 2012 called 'An Eventful Life', in this book you can read all about Emma's story and there are lots of pictures of Emma riding ponies and horses of all shapes and sizes. A great read indeed!
The book An eventful life is a biography about former and current Olympians, and show cases each equestrians story from childhood until present day. It includes all the highs and lows, the struggles and triumphs these dedicated equestrians experience on their way to Olympic glory. It has some great stories about eventers such as Megan Jones, Sonya Johnson, Shane Rose, Wendy Schaeffer, Stuart Tinney and Emma Scott.
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Good luck to Emma as she works towards attaining her Olympic dreams, and inspiring many people along the way.
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One if by land, two if by sea? Results of a study published this week in the journal Science show how fast animal and plant populations would need to move to keep up with recent climate change effects in the ocean and on land. The answer: at similar rates. The study was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and performed in part through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"That average rates of environmental change in the oceans and on land are similar is not such a surprise," says Henry Gholz, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.
"But averages deceive," Gholz says, "and this study shows that rates of change are at times greater in the oceans than on land--and as complex as the currents themselves."
Greenhouse gases have warmed the land by approximately one degree Celsius since 1960. That rate is roughly three times faster than the rate of ocean warming. These temperatures have forced wild populations to adapt--or to be on the move, continually relocating.
Although the oceans have experienced less warming overall, plants and animals need to move as quickly in the sea as they do on land to keep up with their preferred environments.
Surprisingly, similar movement rates are needed to out-run climate change. On land, movement of 2.7 kilometers (1.6 miles) per year is needed and in the oceans, movement of 2.2 kilometers (1.3 miles) per year is needed.
"Not a lot of marine critters have been able to keep up with that," says paper co-author John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Being stuck in a warming environment can cause reductions in the growth, reproduction and survival of ecologically and economically important ocean life such as fish, corals and sea birds."
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"With climate change we often assume that populations simply need to move poleward to escape warming, but our study shows that in the ocean, the escape routes are more complex," says ecologist Lauren Buckley of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also a co-author of the paper.
"For example, due to increased upwelling, marine life off the California coast would have to move south [rather than north] to remain in its preferred environment."
"Some of the areas where organisms would need to relocate the fastest are important biodiversity hot spots, such as the coral triangle region in southeastern Asia," says lead author Mike Burrows of the Scottish Association of Marine Science.
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Becoming An Occupational Therapy Assistant With A Disability?
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Niamh in Sligo, Ireland
64 months ago
Do you think i would be able to become an Occupational Therapy Assistant if i have a physical disability myself? My disability is in my arms i have very little movement but can function to do a lot of stuff. The only problem i have is dressing myself. Becoming a Occupational Therapy Assistant would be my dream job i feel like i have an understanding in what the client feels and needs as i am disabled myself. Just thought i'd get other peoples opinion on the idea?
I know there's a lot of different fields. I would like to work with kids, Maybe in a school for the disabled. Or going out to peoples house's helping them get aids they need at home, school or in the work place.
gmc in Spring Valley, New York
64 months ago
I always believed that the best therapists are the ones who entered the field because they themselves had or have a disability or injury. They can easily empathize with the patient and really understand them. I recommend observing at a few different OT settings to see if you think you're capable of performing the physical tasks. If you are, then great! If not, and you still want to be an OTA, I know a COTA who works in a mental health setting. She doesn't perform the physical part of the job, but works with mental health patients with social, mental, and emotional issues. Perhaps that would be a nice niche for you if you're unable to do the physical part. Good luck!
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People say I'm horrible to shop for, and that's true — most of the things I am looking for come from swap meets and junkyards, the places where mothers and wives usually don't shop. Other gearheads are equally hard to shop for, but there are gift ideas available out there for the car guy...
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I've been a frequent shopper at the supermarket since 1990 when Saratoga-based Gene's, with Don Smejdir as manager, took over the old grocery that had been at the Valley Avenue-Hopyard Road location since 1971. Earlier this year, Don retired and Gene's owners decided to pull back across the Bay, a decision that gave Mar-Val a chance to expand west with its first store in the Bay Area. Casey Rodacker, who had managed one of Mar-Val's six stores, was picked as the new Pleasanton store manager and has been commuting from his Lodi home since the April 16 closing date.
Produce, meat and fine sushi have always been a Gene's specialty and will continue to be the focus of Rodacker's store, which will continue to use the Gene's name. He's using the same wholesalers, including staying with Nor-Cal that searches for and delivers fresh produce to Gene's. All the display and refrigerated cases are new with improved lighting that makes the produce sparkle. Farmers Market no doubt has some produce that's just as fresh, but at Gene's I was able to buy the same freshness and quality with a shopping cart to pack it all in and a chance to roam the store for every thing else on my shopping list. With 25,000 square feet of floor space, about the only items missing that other markets offer are lawn chairs and a pharmacy. But with Rite Aid next door, it's a short walk to find those needs anyhow.
Rodacker says customer service is another prime focus of the store. It's part of the quality foods and super service credo that started with Rodacker's grandfather Marty Kidd, who opened the first Mar-Val grocery in 1952. It's always been a family-owned business, which sets it apart from corporate-owned supermarkets and their store-brand products. Rodacker, who earned a degree in business management in 2009 at the University of Nevada at Reno, also completed studies at the University of Southern California's prestigious Food Industry Management program, which also focused on quality foods and customer service.
Mar-Val also has long been active in the communities it serves and Rodacker will continue that effort in Pleasanton. Starting Wednesday and continuing for the next three weeks, Gene's will match up to $5,000 customer contributions to local nonprofits. For the seven-day period starting Sept. 5, customer contributions along with the store's match will go to the Discovery Shop in Pleasanton; the following week starting Sept. 12 to Shepherd's Gate in Livermore; and starting Sept. 19, to the Valley Humane Society. Customers can add their contributions to their grocery bill, which allows them to have a cash register receipt to use for charitable tax deduction purposes if they choose.
Also starting on opening day next Wednesday and continuing for the next 28 days, the new Gene's will have drawings for prizes, including trips to Hawaii, Las Vegas and Carmel, a 50-inch flat screen television set, 28 iPods and miscellaneous prizes.
Rodacker will be taking the next two days off to attend a wedding in Lodi. Not his, but his sister Courtney, who's marrying Doug Gnas Sunday before heading back to Arizona where they'll live. On Monday, Labor Day, it's back to Pleasanton and a long day's work for Casey Rodacker to get Gene's ready for the grand opening.


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The Rinker Family History
The Rinker Family HistoryUpdated September 6, 2000
We are looking for all the ancestors and descendants of William H. Rinker. He was born February 05, 1855.We are not sure where he was born, however we believe it to be either Pennsylvania or West Virginia. ........................................................................................................................................................................................He first appeared in Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania about 1878 where he married Margaret (unknown last name). Theyhad 12 children before Margaret died during child birth on August 02, 1901. After her death, he moved to Canton, Pennsylvania and remarried. William and Margaret's children were taken in and raised by members of the community in and around Hillsgrove. ..............................................................................................................................................................................................Other surnames we are in search of are Brey, Huffsmith, Quail and Kilmer. ......................................................................................................................................................................................Any information would be appreciated. I will share any information that I have.
|Gene A Rinker
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Someone to help when pets die...as published in the Rocky Mountain News Ocbober 21, 2002
Ministers reach out when time comes for a painful parting
By Rebecca Jones
When the time came for Hansa, a Denver yoga instructor, to put down her 121/2-year-old dog, Shiva, she called on some friends to ask them to remember her and Shiva in prayer.
What she got instead was an immediate pastoral visit, a circle of support to be with her and Shiva while the dog was euthanized, help with taking care of the cremation arrangements, and the promise of a memorial service whenever she's ready for that.
"What mattered to them was that I got taken care of during the time of transition," said Hansa, 51, who euthanized Shiva, a Newfoundland/Australian shepherd mix, on Aug. 28.
"When their animals are dying, people need someone to be there for them," says the Rev. S. Tucker, senior minister at the Oasis Center for Spiritual Living, an interdenominational church in Englewood that affirms all religious faiths.
That's why Tucker launched the church's Animal Kinship Ministry, to spiritually anchor pet owners going through a difficult period, and to support pets and their caregivers in prayer. Team members from the church are trained to recognize just how deep the bond between a pet and its caregiver can be, and how to hold a prayer vigil when a pet is lost, ill or in surgery. They will also be present to support the human while the pet is dying.
It's a situation that often requires trained pastoral response, Tucker says. "Friends will cry with you, but they may not be able to be strong for you," she says. "As a spiritual counselor, I try to help put some spiritual light on the subject. I'm bringing comfort in a way that doesn't get down in the dirt with people. I'm not there to climb in the hole and cry. I'm there to lift them up, help them deal with the decisions they need to make."
It's a service offered to all, regardless of whether they are members of her church, Tucker says. Non-members are asked to pay a small fee — $40 or less — to help pay expenses, she says.
"Many people out there do not have a church, and I don't know of many other churches that offer this kind of support," she says. "I know when my last dog died, I was working at a church, and even there the attitude was 'get over it, we have work to do."'
So when Hansa called, Tucker and her husband, the Rev. Lynn Tucker, immediately came to be with her.
"They had a very calming effect, just being present in the room, not intrusive in anything I was doing," says Dr. Jan Fascinelli, the veterinarian who euthanized Shiva. "They were just so supportive of what Hansa and I needed to do, and of the dog. At the end, when we were getting ready to euthanize Shiva, they said the most beautiful prayer, honoring his life and the depth of the relationship those two shared. It brought me to tears. I just felt they helped bring a lot of closure and peace to that situation. Shiva just passed so easily."
Fascinelli says she would recommend the service to anyone who is open to the spiritual.
Hansa said she appreciated having someone there who didn't try to fix the situation, but allowed her to feel the pain without minimizing her grief.
She says she'll have the Tuckers back to do a memorial service for the dog—but not just yet. "I haven't decided what that will look like yet," she said. "I may wait until spring, and use his ashes as an offering for the new."
jonesbe @RoekyMountainNews. com or (303)892-5426.
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TOP STORY > >Landfill to grow across freeway
Leader staff writers
The landfill mound on the east side of Highway 67/167, just south of I-440, will stop growing in August as Waste Management switches its Two Pine operation to the north side of I-440 to build another dump.
David Conrad, director of landfill operations at Two Pine, said construction started about two weeks ago on 10 acres of land and should be completed by Labor Day.
Weve started construction on the first landfill cell and the liner system, Conrad said.
The new dump will eventually cover most of 144 acres to the north of I-440 and rise to a height of 462 feet. The total will eventually create 239.5 acres of trash.
The waste companys plans to expand were approved April 21 despite objection from Jacksonville residents.
Were pleased to have it behind us. Weve been working on it since 1999, and its time to move forward and focus on construction and operations, Conrad said.
Well be bringing our current landfill to its final elevations by August and capping it right after that, Conrad said.
Next year, well open cell two and possibly cell three, he said. Each cell is about 10 acres.
Alderman Terry Sansing said, I figured that it was a rubber stamp and a done deal a long time ago. Holding public hearings is nothing but a formality.
He said he was not a member of the city council when it approved the expansion in 1999.
It became a done deal when the city did not fight it 10 years ago, he said. The city council unfortunately cannot do anything today because their hands were tied 10 years ago.
We have a big push going on to try to clean up Jacksonville and try to beautify Jacksonville. It doesnt make sense (to say),
Lets make everybody mow their yards, but not make everyone worry about a trash dump in our city limits.
Doug Szehner, of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, said there was no technical or legal reason to deny the permit.
With any permit application we receive, Szehner said, we are essentially limited in how we can deal with that. If an application meets the technical and legal criteria that apply, case law developed over the years says we have no option but to approve the permit.
Szehner said it takes a long time for permits to be approved. Its not unusual for landfill permits to take several years, he said. Issues that come into play include engineering, soils, topography and hydrology and even under good circumstances, it will take a long time to process these applications.


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EDITORIAL >>King panel in turmoil
Beebe said he was not going to appoint anyone else to the giant commission until the legislature next year reviews its work and finds a way to recreate it into a workable program.
The law authorizes 26 commissioners, surely the largest policy-making body in state government the commission over highways and transportation has only five members and utility regulation only three and simply winnowing that unwieldy body through attrition ought to help a little.
For at least four years, the agency has been in turmoil. A faction of the commission tried to oust its director, state Sen. Tracy Steele, whose two government hats created an irreconcilable conflict for the agency. Steele survived that attempt but resigned 18 months ago, triggering a fresh battle over his successor, who has legal problems of his own.
Lawsuits and rancor apparently have kept the agency distracted because it would be hard to pinpoint much that it has done.
Having a worthy purpose is not a suitable reason to exist without good works. Taxpayers may consider the agencys annual appropriation of $337,000 too high a price to pay for bedlam when it can be had for free.
Restructuring with a manageable commission that actually meets and acts is the least that should happen with the MLK Commission, and Beebes minimalist action may move it there.


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Phil Gasper
Department of Philosophy
Notre Dame de Namur University
Presentation at the
conference on "Terror and Justice",
1. Introduction.
US troops acting as "advisors" in the
· While states are slashing spending on education and tens of millions lack health care, the Pentagon budget is being dramatically increased and is rapidly approaching $400 billion a year.
The Bush administration has made it clear that it is
planning a major military assault on
· VP Cheney tells us that we should be prepared to be at war for the rest of our lives.
Mainstream media has been largely uncritical of these developments—indeed it has seen its main goal as acting as a cheerleader for administration policy. Stunned by the attacks of September 11, most of the population has supported, or at least accepted, the use of military force and escalating military spending. At the very least, many see it as a necessary evil.
Philosophers, however, should never accept the received wisdom without subjecting it to critical scrutiny, and there is no more urgent area for critical scrutiny than what the Bush administration claims is a "war on terrorism".
traditional framework for asking questions about the morality of military
intervention is known as just war theory. I'll begin by sketching the generally
agreed principles of that theory and then use it to assess first the war on
2. Just War Theory.
Two main areas. (a) Principles that need to be
satisfied for war to be justified—jus ad bellum. (b) Principles for the just
conduct of a war—jus in
(a) Jus ad bellum.
(i) Just cause—e.g., self-defense, responding to aggression, restoring rights unjustly denied, etc. These are examples—there is no definitive list.
(ii) Proportionality—probable good must outweigh likely evil (e.g. innocent deaths).
(iii) Last resort—if there are any courses of action other than war with a reasonable chance of achieving the same goals, they must be considered first. War should only be considered when it is clear that other means are unavailable.
(iv) Right intention—intervention should be directed to the goal set by the cause and to the eventual goal of a just peace. The war should not be used as an excuse to pursue other goals or hidden agendas.
Jus in
(i) Proportionality—minimum necessary force should be used, and force should be proporttionate to the importance of the particular objective for the cause as a whole.
(ii) Discrimination—every effort must be made to avoid attacking non-military targets and non-combatants. Not sufficient merely to avoid targeting non-combatants intentionally. States are responsible not just for the intended consequences of their actions, but for the unintended but forseeable consequences of their actions too.
the nature of modern warfare—in particular high intensity bombing
campaigns—these are stringent criteria. Let's see how the war in
3. The War on
First, was there a just cause to go to war? Three main justifications have been offered by the administration.
(a) Self-defense.
a letter to the UN Security Council, the
Article 51 provides no justification for the
British ambassador to the
any case, the
the US government calls "terrorism"—violent acts by political groups that it
disagrees with—can't be ended by militarily targeting particular groups, like
the shadowy al-Qaeda network. Terrorism is a symptom, not the underlying
problem. You can't get rid of the symptom without tackling the underlying
causes, and far from tackling those causes, the
(b) Justice.
second justification for the war is that it was necessary to bring the
perpetrators of the September 11 attacks to justice. But who was
responsible for the attacks? The immediate perpetrators died in the attacks
themselves, but the
There's no doubting that bin Laden is a nasty piece of work—and the US government should know because they helped create him, when they were busy giving billions of dollars of support to the most extreme Islamic organizations fighting against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The CIA helped bin Laden bring to
But did bin Laden mastermind the September 11 attacks or is
he just a convenient scapegoat—someone who the
In 1999, however, the New York Times reported that
In their war against bin Laden, American officials portray him as the world's most dangerous terrorist. But reporters for The New York Times and the PBS program 'Frontline,' working in cooperation, have found him to be less a commander of terrorists than an inspiration for them....
Larry Johnson, the State Department deputy counterterrorism director from 1988 to 1993, said Administration officials had "tended to make Osama bin Laden sort of a Superman in Muslim garb -- he's 10 feet tall, he's everywhere, he knows everything, he's got lots of money and he can't be challenged."
After the trial two years ago of those charged with bombing the embassies in, Frontline reported that "There was ... no direct evidence presented at trial that bin Laden himself ordered the bombings...."
As for the September 11 attacks, the
But if the
Furthermore, the Bush administration was apparently quite determined that it would not take yes for an answer. According to Australian journalist John Pilger,
... in late
September and early October, leaders of
According to reports in
The offer was that he would face an international tribunal,
which would decide whether to try him or hand him over to
Either way, he would have been out of
But who really killed the deal?
If the
One final point about justice. If
But you can't seriously talk about justice if the only
people who can get prosecuted are those that the
(c) Human rights.
The third justification for the war was that the Taliban
regime in
The Taliban were certainly extremely unpleasant, but it's worth remembering that they came to power with US support in 1996, and the Bush administration had no criticisms of their human rights' policies before last September and in fact gave the Taliban a $42 million grant less than a year ago.
It's also worth remembering that the
But have US actions really improved human rights in
As the British journalist Robert Fisk put it: "we're ready to hire one gang of terrorists—our terrorists—to rid ourselves of another gang of terrorists [the Taliban]."
Even ignoring the death and destruction caused by the war itself, the human rights situation is little improved and may even be worse. Women have not been liberated by the war, large areas of the country are once again being run by war lords who do as they please, and Sharia law remains in place. A Chicago Tribune story last month reported that "the [Kabul] jail is filled with teenage girls accused of crimes ranging from falling in love to having illicit affairs, from leaving unbending parents to running away from abusive husbands."
According to one Afghani judge, adulterers will continue to be stoned to death, "but we will use only small stones." Public executions and amputations will continue, but while "the Taliban used to hang the victim's body in public for four days ... [w]e will only hang the body for a short time."
This hardly seems sufficient justification for war.
I'll be quick on the other criteria, beginning with
proportionality. Critics of the war raised two serious objections from the
outset. First, that the war put at risk several
million people who were dependent on food aid to survive. Apart from the PR
execerise of dropping small amounts of food along with the bombs, the
Second, the nature of the
I've already talked about the fact that the
It's no secret that since the collapse of the USSR at the end of 1991, US oil companies and their friends in the State Department have been salivating at the prospect of gaining access to the huge oil and natural gas reserves in the former Soviet republics bordering the Caspian Sea and in Central Asia, which have been estimated as worth $4 trillion.
According to the Middle East Economic Digest,
Relations cooled in the late 1990s, but when the Bush
administration took office it cozied up to the regime again in the hope of
reviving the pipeline project. September 11 allowed a change in plan. A
military response was required as a demonstration of force, but as an added
benefit it could be used to replace the Taliban with a more compliant regime,
willing to give the
According to a recent report in
the New York Times, "The State Department is exploring the potential for
post-Taliban energy projects in the [Central Asian] region...." Secretary of
State Colin Powell estimates that
Meanwhile, in
Finally, with respect to the conduct of the war, what I've
said so far should be sufficient to cast doubt on whether the principles of
proportionality and discrimination have been met. In particular, the
Given the nature of the weapons being used, however, such
casualties were all too predictable. Even smart bombs miss their targets at
least 20 percent of the time, and in addition the
So I conclude that on every criterion, the war on
4. The "War on Terrorism".
If the war on
First, the
The media critic Jeff Cohen offers the following definitions of 'terrorist':
1. One who engages in acts or an act of terrorism.
2. One who leads an armed group that kills civilians as a
means of political intimidation -- unless he terrorizes Haitians while on the
CIA-payroll, as did 1990s death squad leader Emmanuel Constant, in which case
3. One who targets civilian airliners and ships -- unless he blows up a Cuban civilian airliner, killing 73 people, and fires at a Polish freighter, like Orlando Bosch, in which case he is coddled and paroled by the Bush Justice Department in 1990, and his extradition is blocked.
4. One who leads a group that engages in kidnapping and murder -- unless the victims are Hondurans attacked by CIA-backed death squad Battalion 316, in which case Battalion architect Gustavo Alvarez becomes a Pentagon consultant, while the then-ambassador to Honduras who downplayed the terror, John Negroponte, is appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations days after Sept. 11.
5. One who uses rape and murder for political purposes -- unless the victims are four U.S. church women sexually assaulted and killed in 1980 by members of El Salvador's U.S.-backed military, in which case excuses and distortions pour forth from then-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick ("these nuns were not just nuns; they were also political activists") and Secretary of State Al Haig (the nuns "may have tried to run a roadblock").
6. One who designates civilians as "soft targets" to be attacked in the cause of political transformation -- unless the targets are Nicaraguans killed by Contra guerrillas armed and directed by the U.S who, according to Human Rights Watch, "systematically engage in violent abuses…so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war."
7. One who facilitates a massacre of civilians -- unless the victims are 900 Palestinians shot and hacked to death in the Sabra and Shatila camps by Lebanese Christian militia as Israeli soldiers stood guard, in which case Israel's then-Defense Minster (now Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon remains a U.S. "War on Terrorism" ally after being censured as indirectly responsible for the massacre by an Israeli commission of inquiry.
It is hard not to conclude that the "war on terrorism" has
become little more than a convenient excuse for the Bush administration to push
through a domestic and foreign agenda which it would otherwise be unable to get
away with. At home it has meant a significant curtailment of civil liberties.
In terms of foreign policy it has permitted the
5. Alternatives.
The only way to seriously address the problem of terrorism—whether
that's terrorism committed by US enemies, by US allies, or by the
US political and economic elites ruthlessly pursue their own interests around the world often in flagrant disregard of the most elementary moral principles. In the words of a statement distributed by a group of US intellectuals recently, "Most US citizens are unaware that the effect of US power abroad has nothing to do with the 'values' celebrated at home and indeed often serves to deprive people in other countries of the opportunity to attempt to enjoy them, should they care to do so."
If we genuinely want to combat injustice and violence in the world—whether its commited by al-Qaeda or our own government—the most important goal for people in this country is to change US government policy, including its support for repressive regimes around the world, the double standards with which it frequently operates, and its willingness to use massive levels of violence to pursue its own goals. That's a daunting task, but I think it's the only way of ultimately achieving a world based on justice.
Phil Gasper
I. Mainstream media in the
A. Alternative
Common Dreams ("News and views for the progressive community")
CounterPunch (Political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair)
Democracy Now! (News and analysis from Pacifica Radio)
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (Media watchdog)
Flashpoints (Investigative news program from KPFA, 94.1 FM)
International Socialist Review (Bimonthly magazine)
In These Times (Biweekly magazine)
Robert Jensen (Journalism Professor at the
The Progressive (Monthly magazine)
Socialist Worker (Weekly newspaper)
WorkingForChange (Resources from Working Assets)
Z Magazine (Monthly magazine and extensive website)
B. International Media
Al-Ahram Weekly (
Al Jazeera (
Dawn (
Frontline (
The Guardian (
The Hindu (
The Independent (
Le Monde Diplomatique (France)
John Pilger (Australian journalist based in
II. Reading on the background to 9/11.
Raja Anwar, The Tragedy of
John K. Cooley, Unholy Wars:
Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Holt, 2000)
Michael Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict (Holt, 2001)
Jonathan Neale, "The Afghan Tragedy", International Socialism (Spring 1981),
Jonathan Neale, "The Long Torment of
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil &
Fundamentalism in
III. 9/11 Course Anthology
Here's a link to the Jeff Cohen article on defining 'terrorism' that
I quoted: http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0501-02.htm
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/Gasper.pdf. I think my
list of websites for alternative sources of news and analysis is on
my computer at school--I will send it to you as soon as I locate it.
Here are a few of other links.
(1) "Using Afghan Women to Sell
(2) "New Crusade: The
(3) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on "War":
(4) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on "Just War Theory":


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Shoestring Players Seeks Didgeridoo Player
A didgeridoo player is needed for the upcoming production of Our Country's Good by the Shoestring Players at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
The play is about the colonization of Australia in the late 1700's.
Performance dates are February 20-23. For details, contact Jimm Cox at 503-5697 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Great work Envato team!
On the user page in Google Chrome the message box is not displaying correctly:
Same here, FireFox 3, Windows Vista
and one more thing
THIS IS AWESOME ! I didn't check everything yet but as far as I saw it looks great, many useful features added. Great job!
. I'm sure some authors will get suicidal over this
msfx 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fothen msfx famous picture (picture named msfx4)lol! I never saw that before! There's got to be some type of badge for that!
LOL ! Where have you been!?
we need to bring more female members…before it's too late…
Hahah great post. I'm thinking Cracker is wasted and is spitting out some drunk "I love you man" speech on FD!
But I'm not afraid to say I think I love you too. I mean New was pretty much asking for Lance's phone number in this postOh…I crack myself up!
Something's wrong going on with male flashdeners, and it all started with DS ENVATO WORLD (with only boys in it), then msfx famous picture (picture named msfx4) , now this post sent from New to Lance….
this is WRONG !
on topic:
Congrats CrackerJack, nice post.
Does anyone think that lance is a rugged handsome man ps: i'm not gay i just like to point out good looking rugged menHaha! Thanks?
its still a worrying sign lol
If that's worrying sign how we should call famous MSFX 's picture?
OOP is definitely for the benefit of the developer more than anyone else. Unless you're developing a framework for the buyer then saying your product uses OOP is pointless as anything that can be developed with OOP can be developed with any other method. That being said OOP is all about flexibility and re-usability for the developer but many people who claim to use OOP don't take advantage of it. As for AS3 , the big deal is that you can finally use OOP effectively and fully. Sure you can develop anything in AS1 that you can develop in AS3 but it's not about what is possible to develop it's about how much time you spend developing and how flexible your applications are to change.I'm gonna start learning AS3 next year, until then I can't really have a point of view over this. Still, the whole idea was that it's not important either a project is oop or not for the buyer.
You don't really need oop for stuff that we sell here. If you ask me, I think that maybe it's better not to write classes and other stuff in your files here because buyers usually don't have a clue what classes are for, I think that they like much more how stuff works in as2, even if that's total crap if you ask me . But if you program anything more complex (like games for example..) OOP will make your life so much easier. I really like AS3 it reminds me on Java, and things are much more defined, logical and strict than in AS2 .
MSFX !!! Dude!!! That pic rules!!! I wish i could do stuff like that. Or freerunning would be cool too.
Shit I was looking at the wrong picture (no.1, didn't yet have a look at 4 because it just looked like the logo by itself lol). Man you're brave LOL You should def win. Can beleive you did that lol.