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Moving average convergence divergence (MACD) is a trend-following momentum indicator that illustrates the relationship between two moving averages. MACD is calculated by subtracting the 26-day exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-day EMA. A "signal line", the 9-day EMA of the MACD, can then be plotted on top of the MACD, acting as a trigger for buy and sell signals. There are three methods used to interpret the MACD. The first is "Crossovers". When the MACD falls below the signal line, it is bearish, indicating that it might be time to sell. When the MACD shoots above the signal line, the indicator is bullish, indicating that the price of the commodity is probably going to experience upward momentum. The second method is "Divergence", meaning that when the price of the security diverges from the MACD, it signals the end of the current trend. Lastly, there is the "Dramatic Rise". When the MACD experiences a dramatic rise, the signal indicates overbought status and will probably soon return to more normal levels.
The 9-day difference between a short-term and long-term moving average. A value above 0 indicates a bullish signal while a value below 0 interprets as a bearish signal. Bio-Techne Cp (TECH)'s 9-Day MACD is 3.54 and its 14-Day MACD is 3.2. It's 20-Day MACD is 4.69, 50-Day MACD is 11.77 and, finally, it's 100-Day MACD is 27.97.
The Open is the start of trading on a securities exchange. The open indicates the start of an official business day for an exchange, meaning that transactions may begin for the day. The different exchanges have different opening times. Bio-Techne Cp (TECH) opened at $200.16. Bio-Techne Cp (TECH)'s high, highest trade price for the day, was $203.38. Bio-Techne Cp (TECH)'s lowest trade price for the day was $200.12. Bio-Techne Cp (TECH)'s last trade price was $201.89.
Change is the difference between the current price and the previous day's settlement price. Change is the basis for describing and measuring data over a specific period of time. A negative change indicates declining performance while a positive change indicates an improved performance. Interpretation change can be left to the analyst. The formula for finding change is by subtracting the previous time period from the most recent time period. If a company trades at $20 at the end of the first quarter and $40 at the end of the second quarter, the change $40 minus $20, or $20. Here we find the change to be positive, but by how much? The price went up from $20 to $40, so it doubled. In this example, the company's stock price grew 100% in the first quarter. Investors like change. Change allows investors to make a profit. In volatile markets, there are many opportunities for investors to make up for losses. Prices are based on the change in price of assets. Value is based on changing prices. "Calls" make a bet that the price of the asset will increase, while "puts" bet that the price of the asset will go decrease. More volatility means that there is more likely a chance for investors to make a profit. Bio-Techne Cp (TECH)'s share price changed $1.69, a percentage of +0.84%%.
Volume is the number of shares traded specific period of time. Every buyer has a seller, and each transaction adds to the total count of the volume. When a buyer and a seller agree on a transaction at a certain price, it is considered to be one transaction. For example, if only ten transactions occur in a trading day, the volume for the day is ten. Volume is used to measure the relative worth of a market move. When the markets make a strong price movement, the strength of that movement depends on the volume over that period. The higher the volume means the more significant the move. Volume levels give clues about where to find the best entry and exit points. Bio-Techne Cp (TECH) experienced a volume of 409800.
Volume is an important measure of strength for traders and technical analysts because volume is the number of contracts traded. The market needs to produce a buyer and a seller for any trade to occur. The market price is when buyers and sellers meet. When buyers and sellers become very active at a certain price, this means that there is high volume. Bar charts are used to quickly determine the level of volume and identify trends in volume.
Barchart Opinions show investors what a variety of popular trading systems are suggesting. These Opinions take up to 2 years' worth of historical data and runs the prices through thirteen technical indicators. After each calculation, a buy, sell or hold value for each study is assigned, depending on where the price is in reference to the interpretation of the study. Today's opinion, the overall signal based on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of all 13 studies, for Bio-Techne Cp (TECH) is 88% Buy.
Disclaimer: Nothing contained in this publication is intended to constitute legal, tax, securities, or investment advice, nor an opinion regarding the appropriateness of any investment, nor a solicitation of any type. The general information contained in this publication should not be acted upon without obtaining specific legal, tax, and investment advice from a licensed professional.


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Ashley Nicole Manning of Kinston and Joseph Franklin Andrews of Trenton were united in marriage at 5 p.m. April 27, 2013, at First Baptist Church in Wallace.
Ashley Nicole Manning of Kinston and Joseph Franklin Andrews of Trenton were united in marriage at 5 p.m. April 27, 2013, at First Baptist Church in Wallace. The Rev. Richard Thomas Vernon of Kinston performed the ceremony.
Escorted by her father and step-father, the bride is the daughter of Leslie Smith Jones of Kinston, Dexter Wayne Manning of Newport and Marty Leon Jones of Kinston. She is the granddaughter of Robert Wayne Manning of Atlantic Beach, Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas Bryant of Kinston, the late Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Adams Smith Jr. and the late Dean Shirley Manning, all of whom lived Kinston.
A graduate of North Lenoir High School and N.C. State University, she is employed by the Lenoir County Department of Social Services as a foster care and adoption social worker.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Franklin Andrews of Trenton. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Junious Rathie Stroud, also of Trenton, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Floyd Andrews, who lived in Trenton.
A graduate of Jones Senior High School and UNC Wilmington, he is employed by ProAg as a crop insurance adjuster.
Following a wedding trip to Jamaica, the couple resides in Trenton.
The bride wore a wedding gown originally worn by her aunt more than 40 years ago. The gown made of candlelight Cluny lace over taffeta, featured an empire waist and a portrait neckline. The A-line gown was enhanced by adding scalloped beaded ivory trim and a modified keyhole back customized for the bride. She is the fifth person in her family to wed in this heirloom gown.
She wore her aunt�s original veil of candlelight illusion that was bordered in lace to match the gown. The floor-length veil had been refashioned and accented with matching scalloped beaded trim along the lace border.
She carried a prayer book that her maternal grandmother carried on her wedding day in 1944. It was held in a lace pocket handmade by her mother. The bride also wore a layered pearl necklace that belonged to her paternal grandmother. She carried a bouquet of cream colored roses and hydrangea.
Ashley Andrews Heath of Kinston, sister of the groom, was matron of honor.
Bridesmaids were Stacie Hill Davenport of Dover; Ashley Winborne Deaver of Grifton; Virginia Pollock Moody of Kinston; Laura Helen Murray of Hillsborough; Traci Anne Pearce of Winston Salem; and Kelly McCarn Pearson of Beulaville.
Flower girls were Tyler Kate Adams of Beulaville; Jenna Ann Deaver of Grifton; and the groom�s niece, Mallory Grace Heath of Kinston.
The groom�s father served as his son�s best man.
Groomsmen were Jason Stroud Andrews, brother of the groom; Elvin James Lee III and George David Norris, all of Trenton; Matthew Reid Davenport of Dover; Christopher Lloyd Foscue and Ashley Cameron Mills, both of Kinston.
Ushers were Patrick O�Neal Heath of Kinston, Douglas Wade Lee of Trenton and Kenneth Robert Scott II of Greenville.
Page boys were the bride�s cousins, Kyle Fisher Kelley, Adam Thomas Minyard and Jackson Herman Minyard II, all of Kinston.
Jane Harper Vernon of Kinston served as musician and vocalist. Wedding directors were Lois Sykes Hall and LuAnn MacMillan Rivenbark, both of Wallace. Register and program attendants were Erika Brooke Jones, Katie Keith Mills and Lindsay King Weaver, all of Kinston.
Following the ceremony, a reception was held at River Landing Country Club in Wallace, hosted by the bride�s mother.
In July, an engagement party was held at Quaker Neck County Club in Trenton, hosted by the bridal party and Chase and Gina Mackey.
In November, a country cocktail party was hosted by Jan and Lisa King and family at the King home in Kinston. Also in November, a Christmas bridal shower was hosted by Ashley Deaver and Wanda White at the Deaver home in Grifton.
In February, a bridal shower was given by the women of Southwood Memorial Christian Church at the church in Kinston.
In March, a bridal shower was given by Bea Harriett and Terry Chadwick at Cypress Creek United Methodist Church in Trenton.
On April 6, a surprise �Last Fling before the Ring� cookout was given by Angela Ives, Heather Sutton and Patti Jones at the Ives home.
On April 7, dinner and a wedding shower for the couple was held at Cypress Creek United Methodist Church, hosted by David and Bonnie Andrews.
On April 26, a bridesmaids� luncheon was given at The Country Squire in Kenansville by Billie Stroud, Gloria Hill, Vicki Jones, Kristi Jones, Bonnie Foy and Theresa Sowers, aunts of the bride and groom; Ashley Heath; and Leslie Jones.
Also on the eve of the wedding, the parents of the groom hosted a rehearsal dinner at The Duplin Winery in Rose Hill.
On April 27, a wedding day lunch was provided for the bridal party by Diana Tyndall, Elaine Holloman and Doranne Whitehead, aunts of the bride.

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Commentary: It all starts with 26 acts
Thursday, Mae Suramek grabbed a cup of coffee at Berea Coffee & Tea and left an extra $4 to pay for the next customer's order.
It was another of her random acts of kindness in honor of the 26 adults and children gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14.
"When the shootings in Newtown happened, I was devastated," said Suramek, executive director of the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center, where my daughter also works. "I have only been at the rape crisis center for six months. I haven't learned how to deal with the trauma."
As the mother of a 5-year-old son in kindergarten, Suramek said she has empathy for the parents of the 20 first-graders who died.
"Then I saw the Ann Curry thing and it resonated with me," she said.
NBC News correspondent Ann Curry, one of a slew of journalists covering the tragedy, had wondered on her blog what she could do in the aftermath of the tragedy to address such recurring national sufferings.
She recalled the smiles she had brought to the faces of mothers in Darfur in 2007 when she simply took Polaroid photos of the mothers and their children, a gift they had never seen before.
"Imagine if everyone could commit to doing one act of kindness for every one of those children killed in Newtown," she tweeted. It was re-tweeted and then upgraded to 26 acts of kindness, for the children and educators killed at the school.
Some suggested the mother of the shooter and the shooter himself be added, bringing the number to 28. The number of acts was left up to each individual, though the movement has became known as the 26 Acts of Kindness on Facebook and trending on Twitter with hashtag #26acts.
As part of their kindness, Suramek and her husband used Christmas money to help three families. They also bought a gas card for their favorite server at a local Mexican restaurant so he could visit his family in Florida. They bought a box of chocolate for the third-shift security crew at Berea College and lunch for a co-worker. And then on Thursday she paid for a stranger's coffee.
Adam Walker, owner of Berea Coffee & Tea, said that act of kindness generated a long succession of kindnesses, with customer after customer paying for others.
"It lasted for about two hours," Walker said.
Suramek isn't the only one being kind. Local attorney Mark Rucker has been committed to performing acts of kindness on Wednesdays for a while now and even has set up a Facebook page encouraging others to do the same.
After the Newtown shooting, Rucker said a friend suggested they perform kindnesses for those killed so Rucker then created "26 Days of Random Acts of Kindness in Memory of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Victims," a Google calendar that lists each school victim on a separate day.
"I skipped Christmas Eve and Christmas, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day," he said, adding that attention would be directed toward family and fun on those days. "I wanted each victim to have one day in which people focus on them."
Why'd he do it?
"I have been very fortunate," Rucker said. "I have two wonderful parents and I was brought up with certain ideals about how to treat people. My feeling is you need to be serving others instead of serving yourself."
Being kind to people encourages them to be kind to others, he said. "Once you do that you see others take the initiative to pay it forward."
Father Jim Sichko of St. Mark Roman Catholic Church in Richmond has been doing random acts of kindness for years. The tragedy in Newtown, though, led him to increase his efforts.
He bought 26 scratch-off lottery tickets and placed them in different locations throughout Fayette Mall, he said. He has left encouraging thoughts on the windshields of cars. And he spent time with a nursing home resident he didn't know.
"It is sad in this day and age that it takes a tragedy to awaken this," Sichko said. "I was brought up that this is what you do any time. That is what we need to be asking ourselves: why aren't we doing this regularly?"
The problem is not that we aren't a generous people, he said.
"It is that whole receiving thing," Sichko said. "We are not open to receiving and sometimes we're so suspicious."
Suramek agrees.
"People freak out when you try to take their grocery carts back for them," she said.
Acts of kindness can be uncomfortable for the giver and the receiver, Sichko said.
"I say, in order to love and in order to reach out, we have to risk. We have to get out of our comfort zones. It is not easy, but once you do, it frees you up."
Suramek plans to be more observant of those around her and to allow herself to be led when God presents her with an opportunity. That is what Sichko calls allowing the divine to overpower our human frailties.
When we master that, random acts of kindness will become more routine.
Merlene Davis: firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @reportmerle. Blog: merlenedavis.bloginky.com


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According to documents filed by his defense team, it appears that there are indeed more accusers than the 10 involved in the pending criminal action against Jerry Sandusky.
In a motion filed this Thursday, Joe Amendola has requested that the judge "mandate more disclosure of investigative materials" and, specifically, require the attorney general's office to comply with requests for further information dated April 16 ("for information on 'uncharged conduct evidence'") and April 23 (for information regarding "all individuals identified as Accusers 11 through 17 as well as 18 through an unknown number.").
These requests are based on information obtained from the attorney general's office throughout the disclosure process.
"This in all likelihood means that there are other people who have come forward who have accused him of improper sexual conduct," said Wes Oliver, a Widener Law School professor who specializes in criminal law.
Asked about the eight supposed accusers, Sandusky defense lawyer Karl Rominger indicated the basis for the requests grew from previous material disclosed to the defense by the attorney general's office.
As the Associated Press notes, there are any number of strategic reasons why these potential additional accusers were not included in the criminal case, ranging from credibility issues to concerns of inundating the jury and creating a piling-on effect. Whatever reason for keeping them out, the recent filings merely confirm what we've all felt from the beginning: if these allegations are true, the ten involved in the criminal case are just the tip of the iceberg.


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A petition challenging EPA's recent changes to the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2) was denied in full this week. The petition, brought by the National Petrochemical Refiners Association (NPRA) and the American Petroleum Institute (API), was rejected by Judge Rogers, U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
NPRA and API challenged the establishment of certain retroactive renewable fuel volume requirements under EPA's final RFS2 rule, as well as EPA's compliance with deadlines established by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007).
EISA 2007 required EPA to set volume requirements for the use of specific categories of renewable fuels for each year by November 30 of the previous year. EPA, however, did not issue the final RFS2 rule or the volume obligations for 2010 until March 26, the NPRA argued.
"Setting requirements to blend certain biofuels for the previous year is a legally questionable retroactive action," said Patrick Kelly, senior policy advisor, API.
The RFS was adopted by Congress as part of EISA. Growth Energy's CEO Tom Buis said the two most important words in the act are "independence" and security." He added, "We intervened because we believe that EPA's decision regarding the mandated volume of domestic renewable fuels furthers the intent of Congress."
Manning Feraci, vice president, Federal Affairs, National Biodiesel Board, said "This wholly validates the U.S. biodiesel industry's legal position and sends a clear, unambiguous signal to the marketplace that the common-sense renewable goals established in the RFS2 program will be met."
The EPA finalized mandated volumes for 2011:
Cellulosic biofuel: 6.6 billion gallons
Biomass-based biodiesel: 800 million gallons
Advanced biofuel: 1.35 billion gallons
Renewable fuel: 13.95 billion gallons
These volumes are the minimum that must be consumed in the U.S. in 2011. EPA reports that "insofar as excess volumes of cellulosic biofuel or biomass-based diesel are consumed, they will count towards the advanced biofuel and total renewable fuel volume requirements."


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For this week's edition of What We Drank, our contributors share some of their favorite libations from the Thanksgiving weekend. As per usual, it's a diverse grouping of delicious sips.
From Julia Burke: Leonard Oakes Estate 2008 Frontenac and Heart & Hands Wine Company 2006 Pinot Noir
My actual Thanksgiving meal could be charitably described as "underwhelming". Grandma insisted on our first-ever restaurant Thanksgiving, and the place we chose lost points quickly in my book for having no New York wine (or any really interesting wine), mediocre food, and -- unforgivably -- no cranberry sauce.
My immediate family being one to make lemonade out of lemons, we had our own Thanksgiving as soon as we got home: I whipped out the local wine, my sister and I made some grilled cheese sandwiches, and we all proceeded to get drunk together and watch Home Alone.
Representing the Finger Lakes I chose a 2006 Heart & Hands Pinot Noir. Raspberry/cherry notes and incredibly subtle oak -- a rarity in FL pinot, in my experience -- made this a delightful lighter-bodied red for those intimidated by the Frontenac.
Watching my family sipping and enjoying the efforts of winemakers I've actually met, I was thankful to live in a state with a dynamic wine industry, and the lousy meal was long forgotten.
From Evan Dawson: Bois de Boursan 2003 Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee des Felix
This wine reached in all directions and pulled in everything it could find, weaving it all together seamlessly. "Long" wouldn't begin to describe it; it's not quite the War and Peace of wine, but close. I have even discovered an online retailer offering bottles for half price as it tries to move inventory - ding a ling ding. Happy Thanksgiving indeed.
From Jason Feulner: Saranac 1888 Root Beer
Just a plain old root beer?!?! Not at all.
I live for this stuff. Every
time my wife and I are at the grocery store, I beg for a six-pack like
a little kid.
Saranac is a line of beer and soft drinks made by the Matt Brewing Company, located in Utica, NY. The company traces its history back to 1888 and was known for a long time as the maker of Utica Club beer. The Saranac line is appreciated among beer drinkers, and the various styles range from okay to pretty darn good.
I have tried all kinds of craft root beers from all over the place, and I have never found one that is as good as Saranac. It has a creamy resonance, a distinct root beer taste, and just a hint of cane sugar backed by vanilla. Some bars in Syracuse have this root beer on tap -- talk about responsible drinking!
Normally, give me wine or beer or just plain water. I don't love soda. This Saranac root beer is my exception.
From Lenn Thompson: Red Newt Wine Cellars 2006 Riesling Reserve
There were a great many wines opened, tasted and consumed during the four days we spent in western PA visiting my family for the Thanksgiving holidays. We had everything from Hudson Valley Frontenac to Chilean Carmenere to Touraine Gamay to Long Island Gewurztraminer to several Finger Lakes rieslings -- this 2006 reserve from Red New Wine Cellars standing out from the crowd.
It didn't quite make it to the Thanksgiving table, though. We did a bulk of the wine drinking leading up to the meal, sitting in the living room, nibbling on cheese and bread, laughing as our two year-old entertained the family.
This one stood out because of the minerally vein of acidity that ran from start to finish. That acid cut through the richness of the cheese magically and refreshed the palate with each sip.
Plus, drinking a wine from Red Newt reminded my aunt and her husband of the trip they took to the Finger Lakes a few years ago after they got married -- because they went there and enjoyed it quite a bit. They also enjoyed telling me about a restaurant not far from there that they adored but couldn't remember the name of -- even though they ate there twice during their visit. "It was a woman's name I think," my aunt said.
"You mean Suzanne Fine Regional Cuisine?" I responded, followed by a broad smile crossing her face.
Yes, she meant Suzanne and I have to agree, it's a fine fine restaurant. I was thankful that something as simple as a wine I pulled from my cellar could conjure up great memories for my family.
From Tom Mansell: Mazza Vineyards NV Niagara
When you're traveling for Thanksgiving, sometimes you have to roll with whatever your host has on hand.
In this case, I stayed at my cousin's house one night and was treated to some Thanksgiving leftovers: turkey and filling (which is distinct from stuffing and generally much more delicious).
I was not equipped with any wine of my own at the moment,
so I checked out the fridge. My cousin apologized for not having any
"real" wine (speaking of the Arbor Mist), but I zeroed in on the
screwcapped bottle on the door.
This bottle of Lake Erie Niagara from PA had been in the fridge for who-knows-how long, but I gave it a shot anyway. And you know what? It was ice cold and really delicious. Yes, it was grapey, but also very fruity in general, with some mixed berries. Nice acidity and palpable sweetness was really refreshing after a long day of traveling. Low alcohol helped that, as well.
But the coolest thing about this bottle was what came out as I poured the last glass (see picture). A rock-candy-like formation that could only be some kind of super tartrate crystal. I guess all that time in the fridge was ideal for growing this huge crystal. It was like finding a worm at the bottom of a bottle of mezcal. No, I didn't eat it, but I did take a picture of it. This was my most memorable thanksgiving wine experience.
Some consumers might have been turned off by such a thing, but as you may know, I find these kinds of things incredibly cool.
From Bryan Calandrelli: Guba/Cal Selections Trockenbeerenauslese 2008
Dessert wines stole the show at my Thanksgiving dinner as I chose a local vidal ice wine and this TBA made by a friend of mine at a local winery.
The grapes for this botrytis-blessed wine were all hand sorted, grape by grape, from a late riesling harvest conducted by me and my friend.
This 187ml bottle was just one of four I took home from the whopping 2½-gallon carboy of TBA made. At least ten hours went into sorting the grapes and countless other hours went into fermenting and finishing this wine for bottling.
In the tiny glass, the wine showed an impressive gold color with concentrated aromas of apricot and peach. On the palate it had super rich body and balanced acidity.
Poured side by side with the ice wine, the TBA showed more complexity and sweetness. It didn't need the raspberry tart I paired it with, as it was dessert enough by itself.


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Do you want to play this evening, june 14th ? Or else , if you are playing with someone, today or any other day, can i join ?
--thx, leela.
Hello Carissa,
I play the part of Mr. Mom during the day, but after 6:30 PM and up until 8 PM works best for me. I see you're in my neck of the woods. What courts do you usually play on? I have access codes to the couple courts near my house, but there's usually a wait. Fairly new to this particular area of Austin.
Have a good one,
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This is my official entry to Inspirational Insights 1st Blogversary Contest.
I have been neglecting this blog for quite some time now. I know there's no room for me to make excuses because I am able to update my main blog, Just About Anything, on an almost daily basis. And while prayer is an essential part of my routine, I just can't bring myself to write down what my heart is saying. And so instead of waiting for the right moment to arrive, I have decided to make a few changes in this blog. The blog title is still the same but you will find that the tag line has changed.
Most bumper stickers are PVC constructed stickers. They are almost always meant to be stuck to the bumpers of vehicles so that other people can see them. You can find bumper stickers that contain all kinds of messages; there is literally no message beyond the scope of a bumper sticker.
Bumper stickers may be used for commercial purposes, where businesses pay you money to put their stickers on your car. These arrangements are quite common nowadays, and there are companies that offer to find a business whose ad conforms to your choice. This is a good way to advertise, and public transport vehicles in many countries have been displaying this sort of advertising for decades. Only recently has the idea of using privately owned cars for this kind of advertising become popular. It is a good way to promote a business, and it is a good way to make some cash without doing anything but buying a car and driving it.
Bumper stickers are also often used for religious purposes. You've probably seen those old cars that are decorated with bumper stickers promoting either an apocalypse or another impending religious event. More commonly, drivers might put one or two well articulated religious stickers on their cars. If the reading is made interesting, long traffic jams become bearable for the driver in the vehicle behind you. It's a way to do some promotion of your particular religious beliefs on the go.
Custom sticker printing can be used to produce some of these bumper stickers. For example, political campaigners will ask you to promote their candidates by placing their bumper stickers on your vehicle. Drivers who support the contender may be happy to put a bumper sticker or two on their car, turning their vehicle into a mobile campaign tool for their favorite candidate.
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Well, what can I say? The roundup is super short, and that is a disappointment but I don't think you will be disappointed by the recipes that I am about to share. The challenge this month was to submit a recipe inspired by another blogger. I think perhaps us cooks get overwhelmed with the amount of recipes we bookmark from cookbooks, fellow bloggers and the net. Personally, I have trouble figuring out a meal plan sometimes because of all the choices and ideas I cook up when I can't sleep. Thanks to Janet and Johanna for submitting their mouthwatering creations.
Let's start with Janet of The Taste Space who serves up this divine Thai Sweet Potato and Kabocha Squash Stew that was inspired by Joanne Eats Well With Others. Roasted squash and sweet potato comes together with onion, garlic, red curry paste, coconut milk, white beans, peas, soy sauce and a bit of sweetener. I can't wait to try this one as I adore Thai flavors. Certainly a balanced bowl of bliss.
Johanna of Green Gourmet Giraffe is up next with this lovely and nourishing Curried Red Lentil and Apricot Soup. This recipe is inspired by Janet of The Taste Space. Onion, a good amount of garlic, ginger, curry powder, sieved tomatoes, red lentils, apricots, coconut milk and coriander all come together here in this soup that would just be perfect anytime of year or day. Delicious.
As it turns out, I was also inspired by one of Janet's recipes that I had bookmarked for a while and just had to try and I surely am glad I did. I made a Sweet Potato and Hummus Soup that I spiced up. Why I hadn't thought to add hummus to a soup before is a mystery, but it was one fine comforting soup. Spicy sweet potato hummus is included in a soup with onions, carrots, almond milk, tomato, some curry powder, cayenne and lime. I was rather sparing with the spices that went into the soup because my hummus had a good kick to it.
Jacqueline will be hosting the December edition of No Croutons Required. Check back at the beginning of the month for the theme.
No Croutons Required - Inspiration from other bloggers
Posted by Lisa Turner on Friday, November 22, 2013
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3 comments:
- Padmajha PJ said...
OMG,I am late! I was just going to post a dish for this event..
Anyway, nice set of soups :)
- November 23, 2013 at 3:51 AM
- janet @ the taste space said...
Definitely an orange month, too! All soups look fabulous!!
Too bad we didn't have more entries, I thought it was a great theme. :)
- November 24, 2013 at 8:11 AM
- Johanna GGG said...
I found this one of the easier themes for NCR but perhaps not everyone else makes as many soups as I do and bookmarks far far too many soups (and salads) - please to be part of the short and sweet team :-)
- November 26, 2013 at 7:05 AM
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Soybean futures posted 5 to 5 1/2 cent gains on Wednesday, after US/China trade talks concluded. Soymeal futures were up $1.40/ton, with soy oil 14 points higher. Following the 3-day meeting between US and China, a US trade representative stated one of the focuses was China's pledge to buy a "substantial amount" of US goods. That is a follow up from earlier talks, with still few details on what, when, and how much will be purchased. With the government shutdown still ongoing, Export Sales data will not be released on Thursday morning. AgRural cut their Brazil production estimate by 4.5 MMT from November to 116.9 MMT. CONAB will be out with their updated estimates tomorrow morning.
Jan 19 Soybeans closed at $9.11 1/2, up 5 1/4 cents,
Mar 19 Soybeans closed at $9.24, up 5 1/2 cents,
May 19 Soybeans closed at $9.37 1/4, up 5 1/2 cents,
Aug 19 Soybeans closed at $9.53 1/2, up 5 1/4 cents,
Jan 19 Soybean Meal closed at $319.00, up $1.40,
Jan 19 Soybean Oil closed at $28.32, up $0.14
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Historia vol.55 n.2 Durban Nov. 2010
The place of whites in the struggle against apartheid
Randolph Vigne
David Everatt, The Origins of Non-Racialism. White Opposition to Apartheid in the 1950s
Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2009
273 pp
This study of the central battleground of white extra-parliamentary politics in the 1950s is the product of heroically thorough research. Trudging through those acres of correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, periodicals and ephemera was presumably required for David Everatt's Oxford DPhil dissertation awarded in 1990, entitled "The Politics of Non-Racialism: White Opposition to Apartheid, 1945-60". It would be interesting to compare the dissertation with the book under review published more than 25 years after the research was done. Curiously, 'The Politics of Non-Racialism' is not among Everatt's six publications in the book's bibliography. The title of the book offers us the "origins" of non-racialism, and fails to define the term or to reveal its origin. The title of the dissertation similarly begs the question.
Dr Everatt begins with the statement that "among the most consistent themes in the discourse of liberation in South Africa was a commitment to non-racialism". He expresses regret for "the failure to define non-racialism" but claims that "the 1996 constitution defined it as a democratic state where the rights of every citizen are equally protected by law" and proceeds to wonder, inconclusively, whether there is "no more to it than that, nothing to do with the actions or moral base of individuals".
Some hundred thousand words later we are told that "while non-racialism was finally adopted by the ANC in exile [at its Morogoro conference in 1969], multiracialism continued to guide the form of legal organizations opposing apartheid within South Africa until 1990". He ends with the sad fact that the failure to resolve adequately the 1950s dispute about the form racial co-operation should take between the African nationalist, liberal and communist camps "lives with us all in South Africa today".
The origin of the term non-racialism? After a hammering of Margaret Ballinger, who served her country well, and other would-be upholders of the Cape liberal tradition which had also served the country, or part of it, well until its post-Union decline and post-1948 irrelevance, the Liberal Party of the late 1950s is treated with respect. It is not credited with introducing the concept of "non-racialism" into 1950s political discourse in South Africa. Liberals used the term to denote the state it was working for, one in which, as was proclaimed in many speeches, "a man's race is his own business and no one else's". Or as a great Cape Town Liberal of the day, Joe Nkatlo, would begin his rousing speeches on the Grand Parade: "We are all the children of one God!" In both cases, pace the very different mores of today.
Everatt quotes Patrick Duncan in a Contact editorial of 16 May 1959:
Non-racialism and multiracialism are two very different things. The non-racialist sees each human being as first and foremost a human; less important facts about him are education, his race, etc. But the multi-racialist, like the out-and-out racialist, sees each human being first and foremost as a member of a racial bloc.
Yet Everatt quotes "Treason Trialist" in the Congress Alliance monthly, Counter Attack (May 1959), with his three inserts of [sic] to indicate where "non-racial" should replace "multiracial", worth repeating for their content:
Every Congress leader of today would be willing - and even eager - to belong to and join a multi-racial [sic] Congress. But political success in the fight against race domination is not to be won by the leaders alone. For success leaders need the masses. Are the masses ready for a multi-racial [sic] Congress? Would the tribal people of Sekhukhuneland or the dock labourers of Durban feel that a multi-racial [sic] body was "their" organization as they today feel about the ANC?
Three years later the Liberals were still promoting non-racialism. Peter Brown, the party chairman, wrote in The New African, June 1962, (not quoted by Everatt) of the weakness and disunity of those opposing apartheid and the Afrikaner Nationalist government, then carrying all before it. He prescribed hard work, effective organization and a third characteristic of the Nationalists when their prospects were as bleak 20 years before. This was "an inspiring ideal". The opponents of apartheid already had such an ideal: "the vision of a non-racial society in which the potentialities of every individual will be realized - a much better one than the narrow urge to survival and assertion which drives the Nationalists on". The time had come to capitalize on that non-racial ideal and it was the Liberals' mission to bring it about.
As Everatt sees it, we don't know what non-racialism means but we do know that South Africa is without it. The Oxford English Dictionary, in a very recent supplement, gives the word, after an English political reference of 1909, two respectable South African origins: in the Non-Racial Franchise Association, set up by two good Cape liberals, Sir James Rose-Innes and H.M. Burton, to fight, unavailingly, for the Cape's common roll franchise; and in 1971 the Rand Daily Mail leader writer: "We stand for non-racial not multiracial cricket and... believe in selection on merit, irrespective of colour."
The dispute concerning non-racialism that is the central thesis of his book is about "the place of the whites in the struggle against apartheid" and, for the most part, Everatt tells his story well. He will lose many readers, as he did me, with the tortuous arguments about "colonialism of a special type" and its forerunner "internal colonialism" indulged in by the Communist Party of South Africa and its post-1950 successor, the South African Communist Party, within the "ideological and strategic context" of the race versus class debates of 1950-54. The latter, he says, has been under-researched. More to look forward to by those who would take pleasure in studying medieval angelology.
The narrative takes us from the elitist ANC of 1943 and its African Claims in South Africa response to the Atlantic Charter; the 1946 gold miners' strike, "bloodily broken"; the ANC-SAIC alliance of the 1947 "Doctors' Pact", reaffirmed after the African attacks on Indians in Durban left 123 dead in 1949; to the rising power of the ANC Youth League, founded in 1944. The "racially exclusive nationalism" of many Youth Leaguers would "bedevil the Congress Alliance through the 1950s" and led to the forming of the Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. The phenomenon of the purist non-racial ideology of the PAC in its brief life under Sobukwe is not referred to, nor are the convoluted arguments of the multiracialist, Trotskyist Unity Movement which, in large numbers, dominated Coloured politics in the Western Cape. They may have been - and were - a negative force but "tiny" (Everatt's epithet), they were not. They figure, revealingly, in Leo Kuper's remarkable study of the Defiance Campaign of 1952, Passive Resistance in South Africa (Faber, London, 1956) which Everatt lists but does not quote.
Everatt does not concede that the Defiance Campaign of 1952 failed in that it had no impact on the "unjust laws" it challenged - they simply got worse. It succeeded, politically, in his view, "in making the ANC something akin to what the youth leaguers wanted - popular, militant, and the driving (and leading) force in opposition to apartheid". "Something akin" is right. The sad truth is that the Congress Alliance, for all the heroism and sacrifice of many of its members, maintained its record of failure until it was briefly eclipsed by the PAC's Positive Action Campaign in 1960, banned by B.J. Vorster, disappearing from the scene in South Africa until the triumphant emergence of the surrogate United Democratic Front in 1983.
The rise of the Liberal Party in the late 1950s, the reconstitution of the CPSA, renamed SACP, the agonizing within the Congress of Democrats (SACOD as he unfamiliarly terms it, from 1953) at its unwelcome multiracialist situation within the Congress Alliance, the Congress of the People, which produced the Freedom Charter and triggered the four-plus-year Treason Trial - these are all well trodden ground. It can be said of Everatt's treatment of them that he shows a strong bias towards the Congress of Democrats and works hard to uphold the character of the Freedom Charter as the ANC's acceptance of non-racialism, in principle though not in practice, for another fourteen years.
He makes much of the ringing declaration: "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white..." A truly non-racialist statement would surely have omitted the words "both black and white". Indeed were they not the chief objection of the Africanists, whose term 'Charterists' for those who accepted the Freedom Charter was one of contumely, since they implied rights to the land by whites as a racial, or what would now be termed an ethnic, group?
Of more value to the student of this critical period in our history is his insider view of the SACP, the COD and of their relationship with their senior partner in the Alliance, the ANC. He gives us insights into the deep and lasting regret of COD members into their separate, racially defined status and their refusal of membership of the ANC; of their record of cock-up rather than conspiracy (Everatt's terms) and the very disparate character of their enrolment. Like the CPSA before them, they were not
a collection of single-minded Stalinists never deviating from the party line, or (its own image) a dedicated and disciplined cadre [but] heterogeneous, incorporating various strands of thought and... involved in various forms of struggle including parliamentary elections, trade unionism and Congress politics.
The creation of the whites-only COD in 1953 was a disappointment to the former CPSA members and was seen
by many outside the Congress movement (and quite a few within it) to be a mechanism of control engineered by communists after the CPSA disbanded in 1950, giving white communists undue (and certainly unrepresentative) influence in the Alliance.
He fails to come to grips, however, with the reasons for the deep suspicion and distrust of these formerly overt communists, other than with passing references to the almost universal anti-communism among white South Africans and many blacks as "blinkered and hysterical" or "Cold War phobia". To all of these, communists were indeed seen as "single-minded Stalinists", Soviet agents in a nuclear war that might ignite (the Cuban missile crisis was a reality) and reduce the survivors, if any, to life under a tyranny that held a million in Gulags and reduced the people of its eastern European satellites to helotry in a police state. To many of their enemies in the freedom movement communists were dedicated to "socialist struggle" rather than "national liberation", though Everatt claims that COD leaders, most of whom accepted that "colonialism of a special type" required their support for "the struggle for national liberation".
This conclusion is a crude summary of some 30 pages of closely argued exegesis. What is omitted entirely is any awareness of the suspicions intensified by the secrecy of the former CPSA members in their new COD organization. The Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 criminalized membership of the SACP, which succeeded the quite unprepared CPSA after three years delay. Their extra-parliamentary rivals, even the Liberals, in the fight against the Nats quite properly shielded them from prosecution - and themselves from libel actions. Did not Sam Kahn, former CPSA MP, win damages from the Time-Life Corporation for a reference to him as a communist? Yet Kahn's words in announcing to parliament were:
Communism will outlive the Nationalist Party. Democracy will be triumphant when members of this Government are manuring the fields of history. Millions in South Africa will echo my words: "Long Live Communism".
His use of the word "democracy" would have been derided by Liberals, who were wont to define the Soviet electoral system as "one man, one vote, one candidate". To Everatt his words were "prophetic".
Kahn contested his listing as a communist and was defended by Donald Molteno, a leading Liberal in the Ballinger camp. The liberal most respected by Everatt, however, was Leo Marquard, who, in 1959,
provided the most complete early statement of internal colonialism... the clearest statement of CST, lacking the jargon and intra-left jabs other versions would carry and reminding us that the roots of the notion of internal colonialism went back into history...
Lack of recognition of historical roots is another failing of The Origins of Non-Racialism, perhaps most marked in Everatt's view that white communists' "unqualified support for black freedom predated and outstripped that of white liberals". During the 1922 strike and "red revolt", Eddie Roux recalled, "the 'Marxist Socialists' refurbished an old May Day banner so that its slogan read, ironically enough: 'Workers of the World fight and unite for a White South Africa!'".
Yet thirteen years before that, two white liberals, François Stephanus Malan and Sir Walter Stanford, were opposing every colour bar clause in the draft South Africa Act at the National Convention, and fighting to preserve the non-racial, albeit qualified, Cape franchise, introduced in 1853 by William Porter.
Everatt takes us through the relationship of the Liberal Party to the planning of the Congress of the People and repeats the myth of its early withdrawal. Your reviewer's arguments in the Sunday Independent, 10 January 2010, can only be summarized here:
The Liberals participated in the preparations for the CoP from the start until early 1955, then heard no more and assumed that the grandiose plan of canvassing the whole country, forming branches everywhere and triumphal marches had died a death.
Six days before Kliptown, they were asked to send their delegation to agree to "a Freedom Charter in which, though co-sponsors, they had had no hand". Despite the willingness of the Transvaal division to put up with this, "the national executive in Cape Town said no, and the left have attacked the Liberals over this ever since".
In sum, David Everatt has done valuable work in contributing mightily to assembling and recording the materials (and conducting interviews with some of the players) needed for an examination of this key period in the history of the liberation of the African people and the other victims of apartheid. What is needed now is a study without partisanship, and without animus - displayed not least to other authors in this field. Of Gail Gerhart, to give but one instance, "condescension drips from her pen".
A fresh study might offer hope that non-racialism will one day be compatible with the "equality under African leadership" promoted by the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. "Post-apartheid experience to date", he tells us, suggests that they are incompatible.


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Karen Russell's debut novel, "Swamplandia!" was one of the most-acclaimed books of 2011. NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the New York Times ranked it high on their year-end lists. HBO optioned it for a forthcoming series. The Pulitzer Prize Board named it a finalist in the fiction category. Stephen King, no stranger to success, raved that the book, an inventively written odyssey set deep in the Everglades, is "as terrifying as 'Deliverance.' "
"And still," Russell says. "And still."
And still, Russell is worried. About how "Vampires in the Lemon Grove," her new story collection, will be received by her fans and critics. About how she'll respond to their reaction to the book. About the very act of worrying itself.
"It's just, like, the worst fear," the Miami-born Russell says from her current home in Philadelphia, where she moved last year to teach writing at Bryn Mawr College. "It's just been embarrassing to realize how raw and nervous I am all over again. I really believed I was all right: 'The novel has inoculated me, and now I can be brave, and I don't have to be afraid about reviews, because I know that you just can't please everybody.' But it turns out there's still some demented part of myself that's like, 'What if you could write something that pleased everybody?' It's so embarrassing how resilient the anxieties are."
As real as those tremors may feel to Russell, though she laughs much of the time she's describing them, readers of "Vampires in the Lemon Grove," along with those who devoured "Swamplandia!" and her 2006 collection, "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," may have a difficult time understanding her fear. Like Russell's previous work, "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" presents a writer with a seemingly infinite imagination and a tremendous appreciation for the possibilities of language, particularly its ability to extract beauty from the darkest places and situations.
But anyone expecting Russell to pull on her snake boots and tramp back into the muck of the Everglades to deposit imperiled children among the reptiles, or to venture up and down the peninsula leaving a trail of Sunshine State fantasies that would make the work of Carl Hiaasen look like abject realism, will be disappointed. The word "Florida" appears only once in "Vampires in the Lemon Grove," and then only in passing in the final story.
Only a fool, however, would read Karen Russell seeking to be comforted by predictability. Her originality is relentless, and if these new stories share a common theme — which the author describes as "the horror of having this hope that is inflexible, that can't adapt to new circumstances" — they each convey it from a starkly different angle. In the title story, a centuries-old, married vampire who sucks lemons instead of necks commits a devastating act of infidelity. In "The New Veterans," a lonely massage therapist treats a soldier suffering from PTSD by rearranging the battlefield scene tattooed on his back. Young Japanese women are transformed by the government into human silkworms in "Reeling for the Empire," the book's most-unsettling story, and in "The Barn at the End of Our Term," President Rutherford B. Hayes wakes up to find himself in the body of a horse, sharing a stable and an afterlife with several of his fellow commanders-in-chief. (Russell explains the genesis of this amusing, heartbreaking story here.)
If, at first blush, the stories in "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" appear to be more eerie, their magic a few shades darker, than those in her previous books, Russell says the effect is unintentional, stemming from the same place that created the terrifying events in the latter half of "Swamplandia!" and spurred the feral acts of violence in "St. Lucy's."
"I think it's a trajectory that must be built deep inside me that wants to keep rising like blood to a cut," she says, "where there's a situation of intense optimism, and then, there's just a hope that outlasts any chance of its fulfillment. Sometimes, I think that the stories are not wholly dark. That hopefully, there's some comic element, too, just to leaven the thing.
"[This is what] fiction has always been for me," Russell adds. "It gives you a relatively safe place to consider, to hold a mirror up to some of the worst parts of our nature, and the myths that can become lethal if you have an uncritical faith in them. It's a way to really look at the blind spots that I think we're all living in probably all of the time."
Russell says she wrote half of the book's eight stories before she completed "Swamplandia!" and the other half last year, during a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. There, she decided "to catch my breath and get some new writing done" as her debut novel was making her a literary star back home. "My time was all kind of cut up for over a year there after the publication of ['Swamplandia!']. Somehow, the collection felt more like the right scale of things to take on," she recalls, noting that, while in Germany, she also took a break from working on her second novel, which is set in the Dust Bowl era.
For now, though, Russell is steeling herself for the public's reaction to "Vampires in the Lemon Grove," all the while giggling through her discomfort and poking fun at her own anxiety. (The book's early reviews, including two last week in the Times, have been uniformly positive.) Russell laughs when she imagines a reader viewing the book's title as an indication that she's bounded into Stephenie Meyer territory, spinning jejune tales of hormonal, undead teenagers.
"It just had to be that," Russell says of "Vampires in the Lemon Grove." "Metaphorically, that's just the right title. I wish I could put a little sticker on there and be like, 'This title is intended humorously. Not to worry: There are no sexy vampires, no monster erotica in the lemon grove.' I told my sister that I'm going to title my next story collection something like 'Sea Horses and Hats,' just to see how dumb I can make them, titles I can't say without blushing myself."
Karen Russell will appear 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., in Coral Gables. Admission is free. Call 305-442-4408 or go to BooksAndBooks.com.


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The majority of the Pagan movement, whether they realize it or not, tend to support a neo-romanticist philosophy. Romanticism is "a movement in literature, philosophy, and art which developed in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th cc. Starting from the ideas and attitudes of Rousseau in France and from the Sturm und Drang movement in Germany, it held that classicism, dominant since 16th c., denied expression to [hu]man's emotional nature and overlooked [her/]his profound inner forces. Romanticism is above all an exaltation of individual values and aspirations above those of society. […] Through its concern with the hidden forces in man, Romanticism exerted a profound influence on modern thought, and opened the way e.g. to psychoanalysis" (from New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language).
Neo-romanticism, of course, means "new Romanticist" and follows in the footsteps of its predecessor. Neo-romanticists often focus on self, self expression, individuality, self enrichment, imagination, rebellion against the establishment, and love/worship of nature. In addition, they adopt philosophies from such thinkers as Freud, Jung, James G. Frazer, and Joseph Campbell. Often theories, or ideas based upon those theories, are considered truisms to the majority Pagans.
I see this neo-romanticism is a natural reaction when people are fleeing the religion of their birth—usually Christianity, and sometimes Judaism—often a dogmatic monotheism. As refugees of one of these monotheistic religions, people have a natural desire to rebel against authority, to embrace nature since their previous religions may have shunned it, and to see deities as archetypes or facets of one overarching divine force. Instead of submitting to church authority, for the first time a Pagan has the opportunity to free expression and deciding what is spiritual to her or him.
Tigris: Historic-rooted Religions (Reconstructionists, Revivalists, Polytheists)
Reconstruction, revivalism, and polytheism often focus on deities and community and/or kinship, and their religious structure and beliefs have their foundations in history. People who practice a historic-rooted religion tend to see religion less as personal development or therapy for the individual, and more as being in the service of the deities and the community. Individual historic-rooted religions rely on historians and scholars prominent in their fields, instead of upon broad theories that envelop several disparate cultures in an effort to see similarities. They often challenge or simply do not accept the theories built upon Jung, Freud, Campbell, and Frazer. Because historic-rooted religions do not accept theories of romanticism as truisms, they often find themselves at odds with the majority Pagans over many seemingly separate issues, most of which actually find their basis in these two divergent approaches to religion.
Because historic-rooted religions tend to be methodical in their approach, and because they rely on historic precedent, these religions have structure, hierarchy, ethics and values. These structures may allow for personal experience and inspiration, but they are not as wide-open as the less-structured neo-romantic Paganism. Because majority Pagans often seek refuge from organized religions that have become dogmatic, some of them may see in the organization of historic-rooted religions a dogma or structure that they sought to abandon.
Silt along the Rivers
Majority Pagans and the historic-rooted religionists find themselves at odds because they often talk past one another, not realizing the deeper basis of their differences. Conflict comes from a misunderstanding of the core philosophy of the historic-rooted religions, a glossing over difference in search of common themes and similarities, a reframing of what is only superficial similarity, or a reframing of elements in terms of romanticized truisms. Some adherents of historic-rooted religions feel their religions, deities, holy days, and beliefs are press into ill-fitting neo-romantic categories when they converse with majority Pagans. Though several historic-rooted religionists make great efforts to educate majority Pagans about the historic-rooted religions, the effort is gargantuan and is impeded by this lack of understanding of the different core philosophies. This effort is like digging in sand only to find the dent you make is filled in behind you. This fundamental miscommunication is leading to the divergence of historic-based religions from the Pagan movement.
Although from an emic (insider's) approach, many Pagans want their movement to encompass different religions and believe that it does, from an etic (outsider's) view this isn't happening: "Although there are overriding similarities among Neo-Pagans, there are also distinctions and differences within the religion." p. xvi of the preface from Voices from the Pagan Census by Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach, and Leigh S. Shaffer, 2003. Note "religion" singular, not "religions" plural—the implication is that from an etic view, Paganism is one religion instead of several individual religions with different core philosophies. We can argue what Paganism "should" be ideally, and we can argue how the definitions of "pagan" should be more encompassing, but this isn't de facto what's going on at a core philosophical level.
Ebb and Flow
Although the Pagan movement and the historic-rooted religions seem to be diverging from one another, like the Euphrates and the Tigris, they flow parallel to one another, supporting one another and the landscape around them. Eventually both movements will grow an understanding and appreciation for one another, but perhaps a little distance between one another will aid in that process. And maybe, one day when the historic-rooted religions grow and develop, and when Paganism can open itself up to religions with different core philosophies, the two can meet on equal terms and flow together.
Photo Credits: Photo by Matthew Glennon, public domain, 2007


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Some of the high councilor's responsibilities related to the Aaronic Priesthood include:
Oversight of the Aaronic Priesthood
15.3 Under the direction of the stake presidency, high councilors help oversee the work of the Church in the stake.
Coordination with Stake Young Men Presidency
15.3.1 The stake presidency assigns high councilors to work with the stake auxiliaries. When a member of the stake presidency meets with a stake auxiliary presidency, the assigned high councilor attends this meeting. High councilors also attend the stake auxiliary leadership meetings for the auxiliaries to which they are assigned.
15.3.2 High councilors with assignments relating to the Aaronic Priesthood may meet as an Aaronic Priesthood committee.
Leadership Training
15.3.1 High councilors also attend the stake auxiliary leadership meetings for the auxiliaries to which they are assigned.
18.3.3 The stake presidency convenes a stake priesthood leadership meeting in connection with each stake conference. The presidency also convenes one other stake priesthood leadership meeting during the year, for a total of three such meetings annually. The purposes of these meetings are to teach priesthood leaders their duties, increase their abilities, and strengthen their faith.
In these groups, the stake presidency may provide instruction or invite high councilors, the stake Young Men presidency, and others to assist.
Preparation of Young Men
8.2 Aaronic Priesthood leaders assist parents in helping their sons prepare for priesthood ordinations, the temple endowment, full-time missionary service, temple marriage, and fatherhood.
Activities and Scouting
18.3.9 The stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee meets as needed to plan stake-sponsored combined activities for young men and young women. Youth should be included as much as possible in planning and carrying out activities such as youth conferences, dances, devotionals, and multistake events.
15.3.2 The stake presidency may assign high councilors with assignments relating to the Aaronic Priesthood and Primary to meet as an Aaronic Priesthood committee to discuss Scouting-related matters.


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The St. Johns Farmers Market will open for the season this Saturday, June 8th.
The market runs from 8:00 am to noon on Saturday's and is located on Maple Street (west side of the Clinton County Courthouse).
The Spray Park is open for the 2019 season!
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The St. Johns City Commission recently passed a moratorium on Recreational Marihuana facilities & businesses. Please click below for details on the moratorium:
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The city does require city residents to use mint green city trash bags for trash disposal. The mint green bags can be purchased at several locations: Mint green trash bag purchase locations Trash pickup takes place on Wednesday's or Friday's, please see map for pickup schedule. Your mint green bags must be curbside by 7:00 AM on pickup day, do not place the mint green bags in your brown/yellow recycle cart, the cart is for loose recyclable items only.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Welcome to Dominique and his Flying House Cats!
best cat show on earth!
Portrait of Dominique with Sara, Piggy and Sharky.
(photo by Tim Rees)
Official home site for Dominique LeFort and his incredible trained house cats, Oscar and Cossette, Sharky, Sara, Chopin, George and Mandarine. The world renowned entertainer, animal trainer and cat trainer known as Dominique the Catman performs regularly at Westin Pier for Sunset Celebration adjacent to Mallory Sqare in Key West, Florida. This incredibly talented performer is admired by everyone from children to senior citizens and has acquired a huge following who adore his show. No trip to Key West would be complete without experiencing his act.
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Piggy, Spot, Mars and Sharky
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People who walk or have to use wheelchairs to visit CarolinaEast Hospital should find it easier to get there in the future.
People who walk or have to use wheelchairs to visit CarolinaEast Hospital should find it easier to get there in the future.
New Bern aldermen approved an agreement with the N.C. Department of Transportation Tuesday night for construction of sidewalks on Neuse Boulevard leading to the hospital.
Mike Epperson, city manager, said the city has been working with DOT to provide the sidewalk access along Neuse Boulevard from the existing sidewalk at Chattawka Lane to Hospital Drive on the hospital campus. The plan includes new wheelchair curb ramps that meet the American with Disabilities Act, he said.
The ADA ramps will be between Chattawka Lane and Gaston Boulevard, according to city staff reports.
The improvements will establish safe pedestrian access to the hospital campus for residents living in Duffyfield, Five Points, and other areas of downtown New Bern.
The project�s estimated cost is $70,975. DOT has agreed to fund 70 percent of the project or $49,700. The remaining 30 percent, $21,275, is the city�s match which would come out of the public works budget, Epperson said.
Alderman Victor Taylor said he has received several calls from people pleased with the proposed sidewalks.
It has been a safety hazard for years,� Taylor said.
People walking to the hospital or pushing baby carriages, using wheelchairs or bicycles have to use what sidewalks are available now and are forced into the street where the sidewalks end, he said.
�This is an excellent project,� he said.
Alderman Bernard White agreed with Taylor but he was also concerned the city was bypassing other areas of the city that need sidewalks as well.
�After we finish this we need to go to other areas,� White said.
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Westport's Melissa Joan Hart films Christmas movie in area
A Westport actress is bringing Christmas to the area early this year.
Or at least the illusion of the wintertime holiday, as a film crew this week transformed a stretch of Noyes Road in Fairfield for scenes in a Christmas-themed movie.
For several days, the short street that runs between North Benson and Barlow roads near the Fairfield University campus has been closed to traffic for all but the road's residents to accommodate shooting scenes for the television movie.
Although a spokesman for the movie production company refused to comment on the filming, neighbors said they've been told the movie features actress Melissa Joan Hart, who has a home in Westport and is known for roles in the television series, "Clarissa Explains It All" and "Sabrina the Teen Witch," as well as former Bridgeport resident John Ratzenberger, best known for his role as Cliff on the TV comedy "Cheers," and Scott Grimes, featured on the series "ER" and other television programs.
Nicole Kane, a Noyes Road resident whose driveway serves as background in some of the filming, said the production company, Hart Filled Christmas Inc., was listed on the rental agreement the Kanes got for use of their driveway.
She said she was told the movie is being made for Lifetime TV. The film company is listed online with a Westport address of Squire Lane, with Melissa Hart-Wilkerson as the registered agent.
It was not clear whether additional scenes for the movie would be filmed in the actress's hometown or other communities in Fairfield County.
On Wednesday, Kane's lawn was covered with Christmas "snow," as was the house across the street where filming was taking place. At least three houses on the street are being used for the movie shoot. One house has been used as a set for the film, one for the cast's makeup and wardrobe and another to provide space for equipment trucks to be parked in the driveway, according to Kane. The homes' owners are away on vacation, she said.
Kane said she never completed the driveway rental form for her property because the production company eventually decided not to use the Kanes' driveway for truck parking, since it would be in the background of the shots.
Even though managers for the film crew on site also refused to comment Wednesday, a group of young men from area communities was resting at one of the homes between work assignments. The film company had also hired an independent security company to help block off the area.
The film's location scout had told Kane the company chose Noyes Road for scenes in the movie after driving around the area. The scout liked the color of the main house -- yellow -- and the fact that an addition was built onto it, she said.
"No one asked us about a permit to close the street," Kane said. "It's been a little disruptive, but it's fine. It's fun to watch."


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