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A Snow Hill man forms band after realizing harmonious voices.
MAURY � Forming a band isn�t just a matter of finding a variety of singers and musicians and putting them together. The way they harmonize together just has to click.
At least that�s what Brian Stark has concluded.
After the death of a friend, Stark, 44, was one of a group helping that friend�s wife remodel her house. One of them, Ray Lota of Raleigh, was playing guitar. They sang a song together.
�We sang �If you could only see� by Tonic,� he said. �� We looked at each other and said, �This sounds pretty good.� �
That realization led to hours of practice and an opportunity to play regularly at a gig in Snow Hill.
�We found out we had similar musical tastes,� Stark said, �and our voices singing together matched very well.�
There was open mic night that weekend at the former Cheryl�s Place and they started with a list of songs that has grown into a large book.
They were a hit and were asked to come back. They had that magic when they sang together, where they �hit that groove,� knowing where the music would take them, he said.
To come up with a band name, they posted a request for suggestions on Facebook. A friend, Jim Gianolis of Boston, Mass., came up with the name StarkRayvenMad � encompassing both their names in it.
Stark was so excited about the name, he bought business cards and T-shirts with the name stamped on them.
Ray had a friend, Art Jeavons of Kitty Hawk, who wanted to play guitar with the two of them. He didn�t make it to their practice session, but showed up at Cheryl�s, looked briefly at the song list and casually said he could do that.
�I thought to myself, �That�s kind of cocky,� � Stark said. �He started playing and I almost fell out of my chair because he�s just so good. � He�s not just a guy that�s plays in his living room, like I do.�
They planned to play 40 songs for three hours the next weekend.
�And we ended up playing from 6 o�clock until, like, one in the morning,� Stark said, �virtually every song that we knew.�
When Cheryl�s closed Dec. 21, their professional appearances ended, temporarily. Stark said Cheryl�s may be reopening in another venue, and he�s been asked to bring in musicians.
StarkRayvenMad plans to return, as well as search out other venues, but possibly with a new guitarist. Stark, once intimidated by the instrument, has been practicing his acoustic guitar with its dark hole in the center looking to him like an eye.
�Where I sit,� he said with a whimsical smile, �I can see the eye looking at me, telling me �How dare you buy me and not play me.� �
Stark also plays percussion, having started with drums in high school. He was lead vocalist in a band that played at school dances and parties in New Hampshire.
�I was the only one with guts to sing in front of people,� he said.
Growing up, his family traveled quite a bit. Walstonburg was home to him and his parents, Mary and the late Daniel Stark.
Stark said singing and playing music is what he loves to do.
�To me, there�s no better feeling than the synchronicity that you get when three people are singing and playing,� he said. �It�s like a dream to me.�
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Plant breeding is everywhere in the civilized world, providing new cultivars (cultivated varieties) of useful crops for commercial growers, subsistence farmers, and home gardeners. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization, and plant breeding is the foundation of agriculture. Plant breeders work with field crops (grains, legumes, forages, roots, and fiber), forest crops (lumber, paper, and veneer), horticultural crops (vegetables, fruits, flowers, ornamentals, and turf), and with crops producing medicines or providing environmental remediation. Plant breeders are involved in the collection of germplasm (seeds and other propagules of land races, local cultivars, undeveloped populations, and wild relatives) around the world, especially from centers of diversity for useful crops. They preserve, evaluate, and distribute the germplasm to those interested in working with the crop. Plant breeders develop new cultivars having higher yield, earlier maturity, better adaptation, improved quality, and higher resistance to diseases, insects, and environmental stresses. Along with other agricultural researchers and extensionists, plant breeders have provided the world's population with plentiful food, improved health and nutrition, and beautiful landscapes.
The global plant breeding website is now the main site for the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee. The Plant Breeding CC (SCC 080) will be a forum for leadership regarding issues, problems and opportunities of long-term strategic importance to the contribution of plant breeding to national goals. The address for the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee is:
The global plant breeding website was organized to provide information and support for plant breeders in all parts of the world, working on all crop plants, in public service and private industry. The short address for this site is http://globalplantbreeding.ncsu.edu/
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The strength of the cardiovascular training program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is in the wealth and diversity of clinical material encountered during training.
The spectrum of diseases encountered, ranging from the uncomplicated presentation of a patient entering the system via the emergency room to the complicated patient transferred for a tertiary care intervention, provides a proper and unique balance in a trainee's exposure to cardiac conditions.
The high volume of clinical material per trainee encountered in the clinical and laboratory rotations ensures that the trainee is exposed to an extremely broad range of common and uncommon disease entities. The presence of ancillary staff (nurse practitioners and physician assistants) ensures that service obligations per trainee is not excessive, despite high volume. The high ratio of attending physicians to cardiovascular fellows provides for strong supervision and individual attention, allowing fellows to develop a high degree of expertise in cardiovascular medicine and a technical proficiency in the various cardiovascular procedures.
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The Cardiovascular Fellowship Training Program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is an ACGME-accredited program that is three years in duration. It is designed to provide the trainee with comprehensive subspecialty training through direct exposure, formal instruction, and broad clinical experience necessary to acquiring knowledge and skills in the management of adult cardiovascular diseases in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
There is a core group of seven cardiovascular fellowship trainees, as well as a number of dedicated specialty fellows in interventional cardiology and electrophysiology. The rotation schedule is designed to allow for a balanced exposure to the various facets of cardiovascular disease specialties.
The bulk of the training is at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington. Fellows rotate for a one-month elective during the second year to gain focused experience in management of adults with congenital heart disease. A one-month elective in cardiac transplantation is offered during the third year of training.
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Lord Darzi, who seems to be rather rarely graced with his new title by doctors, wants a more personal NHS. When Mrs Grumble was a GP she shared the on call with her partner and one other GP. Patients could telephone at any time of the day or night for all of the 168 hours there are in a week and one of the three doctors (in the week one of two) would be available. And telephone they did. Often Mrs Grumble would go out into the heart of Brixton to deal with the multitude of problems that were thrown at her. With two young children and a husband doing alternate nights (plus of course all the days and half the weekends) in an ITU it was tough. It was too tough. When she could Mrs Grumble found a less demanding job. It's no wonder GPs don't want to go back to that sort of commitment. But at that time British general practice was the envy of the world. GPs took pride in knowing their patients and being available for them out of hours. But gradually the phone calls from the public at the dead of night saying "I want the doctor out" went up and up. It was never going to last. GPs with high ideals struggled to keep it going. The final death knell was the government's new contract which destroyed the last remnants of this highly personal service. Where else in the world could you have expected your very own doctor to get out of bed to deal to your every need for nothing - or even for money? Yes, it had to end. And now the noble lord wants a more personal service. Something that has already, albeit with some justification, been thrown away by, not doctors, but the government. And how is the new lord going to bring back a personal service? He's going to do this with polyclinics. What could be more impersonal than that? Is this another new initiative that just hasn't been properly thought through? Or is this, as many think, a back door to privatisation? Cock-up or conspiracy? In the NHS it's usually the former. Dr Grumble fears yet another ill-thought-out reform.
Ara Darzi plans to deliver "the kind of personalised care we all expect". But his proposals to develop 150 polyclinics in London are completely at odds with this vision. Enormous, distant health centres with vast numbers of staff and doctors are the antithesis of personalised care. It is inevitable that these plans will increasingly remove the right for patients to consult their own GP at a local and convenient surgery. Recently, Warrington primary care trust's plans to replace all GP surgeries in the town with six polyclinics proved massively unpopular and were shelved as a result of patient protest. While there is a national need for further improvement and investment in practice premises, the surgeon-minister's plans are spectacularly misjudged. Dr Martin Breach


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The intemperate attack on Heather Mac Donald for her LA Times and City Journal articles on the campus rape crisis myth continues unabated. Typical characterizations of Heather MacDonald and/or her writings have been stupid, disgusting and "asshole". Now the dankprofessor has become the subject of this tirade. Such is indicated in the following posting from the Astraea's Scales blog.
The disgusting editorial by Heather Mac Donald in the LA Times has been making the rounds and is being used by rape apologists already. All the more reason to write the LA Times and tell them how irresponsible it was to give a rape apologist so much space in a major newspaper.
Some examples (not linking, you can see for yourself and challenge them if you're braver than I):
Asshole Michael of 2blowhards.com uses it to justify his anti-feminism in a January 26th post:
It's funny, isn't it, the way some people claim that Political Correctness (or Sexual Correctness) never existed, isn't it? Of course it did. I'm reminded of the way some people, when thinking back to (or remembering) '70s-style feminism, say, "Oh, it wasn't so bad." Sure it was.
And super asshole dankprofessor at dankprofessor.wordpress.com twists it around to a rather creepy personal issue in a Feburary 25th post:
Ignoring of women's own interpretations of their experience sounds quite familiar to the dankprofessor. Such is familiar since in the feminist framework regarding student professor sexual relationships, the student is never able to consent since the feminist axiom is that differential power precludes consent. In this framework students are never asked if they consented. Their interpretations are of no import unless they reflect a feminist orthodoxy. Female students who protest that they did consent are simply ignored.
The campus rape myth and the predator professor/female student myth come from the same source – anti-sexual campus feminists.
This is exactly why giving legitimacy to people like Heather Mac Donald – who works for a conservative think tank and has no previous experience with sexual assault or rape issues – is so dangerous. It reinforces widespread misconceptions about rape and gives rape apologists ammunition.
So such is the manner in which too many campus feminists deal with their critics, name-calling and degradation. No place for reasoned debate here.
What the dankprofessor finds ironic is that the writer of this post has an attitudinal framework which is similar to the psychological framework of many rapists. Rapists attempt to psychologically degrade their victims. If such degradation is successful, the rapist ends up creating victims in their own image- victims who feel angry, hurt, powerless, guilty*, fearful and vengeful. Such is often called passing the sting.
It is no easy task to transcend this vicious cycle of degradation. If victims are to get beyond their victimage, such is more likely to occur in a situation of empathy, and empowerment, not one characterized by anger and hostility.
Another rapist dynamic is impersonality and dehumanization. For rapists, their victims are faceless; they use their victims for their own psychological gratifications; any personal knowledge of the victims is irrelevant. A victim is just another asshole. And for the writer of this Astraea's Scales blog, there is no need to know the dankprofessor; I am faceless, just another asshole; just another rape enabler.
I suggest that the writer of the Scales blog consider the possibility that her rhetoric is a rhetoric of rape.
*I want to make it clear that I am not indicating that rape victims have anything to feel guilty about. Survivor guilt is a common feeling of survivors of violence- whether the survivors be rape survivors, Holocaust survivors, military combat survivors, et. al.
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Q. How are amounts distributed from a health savings account ("HSA") taxed?
A distribution from an HSA used exclusively to pay qualified medical expenses of an account holder is not includable in gross income. In contrast, any distribution from an HSA that is not used exclusively to pay qualified medical expenses of an account holder must be included in the account holder's gross income.
In addition, any distribution that is includable in income because it was not used to pay qualified medical expenses also is subject to a penalty tax. The penalty tax is 10 percent of includable income for a distribution from an HSA. For distributions made after December 31, 2010, the additional tax on nonqualified distributions from HSAs is increased to 20 percent of includable income.
Includable distributions received after an HSA holder becomes disabled within the meaning of IRC Section 72(m)(7), dies, or reaches the age of Medicare eligibility are not subject to the penalty tax.
Qualified medical expenses are amounts paid by the account holder for medical carefor the individual, his or her spouse, and any dependent to the extent that expenses are not compensated by insurance or otherwise. For tax years beginning after December 31, 2010, medicines constituting qualified medical expenses will be limited to doctor-prescribed drugs and insulin. Consequently, over-the counter medicines will no longer be qualified expenses unless prescribed by a doctor after 2010.
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Wine Cake with Macerated Strawberries
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- Start to finish:2 hr (includes cooling)
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Concord-grape winea traditional part of the Passover feastgives this delightful spongecake a fruity, almost floral note.
For cake
- 1/2 cup matzo cake meal
- 1/2 cup potato starch
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup medium-dry Concord-grape wine
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 6 large eggs, separated, at room temperature for 30 minutes
- 1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated fresh lemon zest (see Tips)
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
For strawberries
- 2 lb strawberries (2 qt.), trimmed and quartered (6 cups)
- 1/4 cup medium-dry Concord-grape wine
- 4 teaspoons granulated sugar
Special equipment:a 10-inch tube pan (4 1/2 inches deep) with removable bottom
Make cake:
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F.
Whisk together matzo cake meal, potato starch, and salt in a bowl. Stir together wine and lemon juice in another bowl or a glass measure.
Beat yolks in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until smooth, then add zest. Add 1 cup sugar gradually, beating, and beat until mixture is very thick and pale, 2 to 3 minutes.
With mixer at low speed, add half of matzo cake meal mixture to yolks, then all of wine mixture. Add remaining matzo meal mixture, mixing until just combined.
Beat whites with a pinch of salt in another bowl with cleaned beaters at medium speed until they hold soft peaks. Add remaining 1/4 cup sugar a little at a time, beating, and beat until whites just hold stiff peaks. Fold one fourth of whites into yolk mixture to lighten, then fold in remaining whites gently but thoroughly.
Pour batter into ungreased tube pan and rap pan firmly three times on work surface to eliminate any large air bubbles.
Bake spongecake until top is golden and springs back when it is pressed gently, 35 to 40 minutes. Immediately turn pan upside down on a rack and cool completely, about 1 hour. Run a knife around inner and outer edges of cake to loosen, then remove from pan.
Macerate strawberries:
While cake cools, gently stir together strawberries, wine, and sugar until sugar is dissolved, then let stand at least 30 minutes.
Dust cake with Passover confectioners sugar and serve with strawberries.
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- Cake can be made 1 day ahead, cooled and removed from pan, then kept, covered with foil, at room temperature.
- If you can't find matzo cake meal, finely grind regular matzo meal in a blender or coffee/spice grinder.
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"Surfing the net is the ultimate postmodern experience."
This post is the beginning of a series of posts in which I will work through The Postmodern God. This is an assembly of essays on the relationship between postmodernism and theology. What I appreciate about this volume, what sets it apart, is that it is a combination of anthology and commentary. It is a collection of writings from major postmodern thinkers, with extended introductions and commentaries. These introductions reflect on the possible relationship between postmodern theory and theology.
It is no easy task to discuss the relationship of postmodernism to theology. To start with, it requires understanding "postmodernism." From my experience most of the popular Christian literature and discussion on postmodernism either miss the nuance of various postmodern theorists, at best, or at worst they simply assume general popular stereotypes about "postmodernism."
Graham Ward edited this volume, and he writes an extended introduction. He immediately stimulates the reader with one sentence, to open his essay and to open the book: "Surfing the net is the ultimate postmodern experience."
We will take another post or two to expand some of Graham Ward's thoughts, but I want to focus on this connection between internet technology and the postmodern experience. How does the internet change our way of being? How does online connectivity define us in this postmodern time period?
"Cyberspace is undefined spatiality, like the contours of a perfume, and you are an adventurer, a navigator in unchartered waters, discovering the hero inside yourself. You act anonymously, simply as the unnamed, unidentifiable viewpoint of so many interactive network games, and where an identity is needed, you can construct one."
Our experience of cyberspace is the experience of a postmodern world, and Ward's essay is now nearly 15 years old. Instant connectivity is now available 24-7. With cell phones and internet plans, we can remain constantly connected. Our old notions of time and space are being re-written. Our idea of "reality" is being reconstructed.
To suggest that the "postmodern" is lived out through the experience of the internet and virtual connectivity is to suggest that the questions and issues of postmodernity are not a passing fad, but that they are being lived out through the developing technology. Theoretical discussions of the postmodern, then, are living themselves out through our every experience of text-messaging, Facebooking, emailing, online shopping, internet porn, and blogging, to name a few.
"The drug of the ever new, instant access to a vast sea of endless desire which circulates globally; browsing through hours without commitment on any theme imaginable; dwelling voyeuristically in one location until the pull of other possibilities reasserts the essentially nomadic lifestyle of the net-surfer: these are the characteristic experiences of living in cyberspace."
While all of this remains true of the internet experience, what has evolved since Ward's essay is that technology has also funneled many toward more "localized" or "familiar" online destinations. What I mean by this is social networking, like Facebook. With Facebook, one uses internet technology to connect with many friends and family that one knows "in person." I have interacted with my Auntie Carol in person, but Auntie Carol lives on a small farm in the middle of Oklahoma, a place I seldom travel to. Through Facebook, Auntie Carol and I can dialog, check on each other's status, send messages, or chat on instant messenger.
The same idea applies to cell phones and text-messaging. We can send little bytes of text back and forth. A few words, a few sentences at a time. We stay connected in a virtual way.
Although technology is keeping us connect with real, human people, what is still true is that we are living in a virtual world. We are still living "the essentially nomadic lifestyle of the net-surfer." Our reality is now a combination of "real" and "virtual." Our relationships are both physical and electronic. Our identities are now organic as well as computerized constructions.
"In this land of fantasy and ceaseless journeying, this experience of tasting, sampling, and passing on, truth, knowledge, and facts are all only dots of light on a screen, evanescent, consumable."
Some thinkers, scientists, and philosophers even speculate that we will reach a point at which our minds and consciousness will be downloaded into a mechanized body that will last forever. This is no longer purely the realm of science fiction novels, but is being discussed as a real possibility, given the exponential rate at which technology is expanding.
What are the consequences of living in such a world?
Hybrids are all the rage these days, in the automobile world. We live in a sort of hybrid world: we are both embodied and organic, but we are also virtual and omnipresent. We log in, and when we are online, we can travel anywhere, everywhere. Time stands still.
What are the ramifications of living as a hybrid?
Over the course of our lives, how many millions and billions of web pages will we browse? How many different virtual locations will we visit? How many virtual beings will we friend?
"Surfing the net is the ultimate postmodern experience."


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(CNN) -- Office 365, Microsoft's set of business tools that includes an online-only option, opened up for a public round of beta testing on Tuesday.
The office suite includes Exchange, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Lync Server, among other web-based productivity tools.
In conjunction with the beta release, Windows opened the Office 365 Marketplace, an online store where customers can add apps and services from Microsoft and partner companies to their accounts.
The major shift Microsoft is pushing with this round of its widely used office tools is the ability to use them via cloud computing. The most basic version of the new Office 365, as it stands, would be completely web-based, with no desktop tools required.
That service would cost $6 a month for each user.
By making the tools available remotely, Microsoft would let users access the suite from any device that's enabled to do so. (And what office doesn't want to make it easer to take your work home with you, right?).
Cloud-based computing like this has been a major push for Microsoft in recent months.
"We are betting big on the cloud with our most successful product, and we are investing heavily both in the product engineering side and the physical infrastructure side," Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, said last year when the company first unveiled a Web-based version of its Office software.
Office 365 was opened for closed, or invitation-only, testing last fall. Microsoft says more than 100,000 organizations signed on to put it through its paces.
Parties interested in the Office 365 beta can apply to join the beta test on Microsoft's site.


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Somerville is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1842 and was previously called Charlestown. It can be found in Middlesex county and is a part of the Southern registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at City Hall, 93 Highland Ave., Somerville 02143. On the attached map, Somerville is shown as 38 in Middlesex county.
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Lecturer in Wildlife and Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
The charismatic koala is a species beloved by many. But how is human-induced climate change reshaping its world?
Dr. Desley Whisson first began working with koalas in 2004 when she was a wildlife officer with the South Australian government on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. In addition to koalas, Desley is also fascinated by the alpine region and its wildlife and has a number of research projects underway in Victoria's high country. Desley is originally from Brisbane, Queensland but has spent much of her working life overseas, conducting research on a diversity of wildlife species in Mexico and the U.S.
Dr. Whisson is particularly interested in how to manage overabundant animals- which, in a recent fielding season, certainly describes the koala population in Cape Otway. She described the effects at one site, where "Sadly, we are now at around 22 koalas per hectare. It appears that many of them are youngsters that have just been weaned. Those ones seem to be having a difficult time finding a place in the already crowded trees. During the week, we came across some that were very weak, and others that were turning to humans for comfort. The little female I moved off Manna Gum Drive twice pulled at my heartstrings. It is frustrating to observe this population increase and not to be able to do anything about it. Culling to reduce the population is out of the question (banned at the Commonwealth level), translocation has its own negatives in terms of animal welfare, sterilization will not work quickly, and habitat works are also long-term options."
"It was five o'clock in the morning and I was standing thigh-deep in a swamp holding a native rat, and I realized that there was something unique in the experience and that was what I wanted to pursue."
Earthwatch researcher Dr. Whisson leads an expedition to Victoria, Australia, to investigate how habitat change impacts the iconic koalas of the region.
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As a long-haired teen growing up in the 1960s, Jim McCullough had little clue what he wanted to do with his life, but two things did stir him: He hated the way some people in Laurel, his hometown, looked down on his African-American friends, and he loved using the wood lathe in shop class.
He has traded the hippie locks for a grandfather's trim goatee. He long ago gained renown in the region as a master furniture craftsman, at times for his work on pieces used by government officials from presidents to attorneys general. And he recently finished a job that joined his early passions.
McCullough, 59, just spent seven weeks restoring a desk once used by Thurgood Marshall, the Baltimore native who famously grew up to become the first African-American Supreme Court justice and a giant in the civil rights movement.
The 1930s piece, a 48-by-84-inch behemoth of mahogany, maple, walnut and poplar, now resides in Marshall's onetime office at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, where it has become the workspace of Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the solicitor general of the United States.
"Before Jim came and got that desk, it was a wreck," says Myriam Skelly, the Justice Department space management specialist who hired him for the job. "When he delivered it, I was stunned at how beautiful it is. He's an artist, and that's one of his finer works."
In a career marked by work on historically notable pieces, this one had special meaning for McCullough, a Beltsville resident whose four-man company, McCullough Furniture Services, is based in Laurel.
He says it was interesting to get close to a figure who did as much as anyone to end legal segregation in the United States.
"Even when I was growing up, African-Americans had to use 'colored' drinking fountains," he says, taking a break in the cluttered, 2,000-square-foot warehouse he uses a mile or two from where he grew up. "That drove me crazy. And there were a lot of slurs. It wasn't all that long ago."
Chat long enough with McCullough, and you'll be struck by the passion underlying his quiet delivery. He'll give a thorough tour of his ongoing projects in his shop — the antique steamer trunk that bears decals from Ellis Island, the Victrola whose wood cabinet needs refinishing, the scuffed-up chair he's fixing for retired Adm. Michael G. Mullen, the onetime chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a longtime client.
He'll pull out his smartphone and flash hundreds of images of past jobs, including a 1930s radio whose walnut cabinet he helped restore and some damaged molding he replicated in plastic.
But he's just as interested in the more mundane stuff, like the fire- or water-damaged cabinets he's returning to usable shape, often treating them with a $1,000 ozone generator that removes the nastiest of odors.
"I love working on historic pieces," says McCullough. "But I get just as much pleasure when a moving company tears apart 20 offices and I [refurbish] the furniture. To me, everyone's an important customer."
McCullough has always been at odds with what didn't seem right. He remembers getting into fights as a young man, defending friends against racial slurs — and his father supporting the position, even when it got him into trouble.
"At the time there seemed to be the good people and the bad ones, and it wasn't hard to tell them apart," he says.
He was also a crusader in his work. In 1972, he was hired to drive a furniture truck, but as he looked around his employer's warehouses, he saw remaindered furniture he believed could be restored. He showed a knack for sprucing up damaged tables, chairs and desks, and his company sold them for modest profits.
He spent the next 13 years teaching himself how to patch gouges, join tongues and grooves, realign wood veneer and even re-create lost skeleton keys — an art he says dates back to the 1600s and is still relevant today.
"We can't live without modern technology, but we don't dispense with the old-world ways," he says.
Over the years, as he worked for a succession of local companies, McCullough built a reputation as a man who took care with historic pieces and had the patience, expertise and fondness for the past needed to restore them to their former glory.
He has touched up doors at the Commerce Department, refurbished paneling in the Dolley Madison House, rehabbed a massive desk once used by Oden Bowie, Maryland's 34th governor and the man for whom Bowie, Md., is named, and built an upright desk for former U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a piece still in the office of Gonzales' eventual successor, Eric H. Holder Jr..
McCullough rarely met those who would use the pieces, and he tells of being "whisked in and out" of their offices so he could do the work, but he did have one brush with living history. After finishing repairs to some furniture at the White House, then-President George W. Bush asked to meet McCullough and his crew.
"He spoke to all the Hispanic guys in Spanish, and when he came to me, he said something like, 'You did a hell of a job.' It was kind of cool," McCullough says.
So was working on the Marshall desk, which one of Skelly's staffers found covered in cobwebs in a Justice Department storage area a few months ago.
How it ended up there, Skelly says, she has no idea, but it was so banged up that she figures no one guessed it once belonged to the great jurist, who served as U.S. solicitor general for two years before ascending to the Supreme Court in 1967.
During that period, Marshall won 14 of the 19 cases he argued for the government, likely fashioning many of his written arguments on the desk's top, a layer of mahogany veneer strips aligned in a sort of resonating "V" pattern atop a slab of poplar.
He also seems to have beaten it up with use, leaving gouges in the top, gashes in the wooden fluting surrounding the knee well, dents in the drawer fronts and plenty of unsightly sun bleaching on the four-inch strip of walnut that forms the perimeter of the top.
McCullough's four-man company, which includes his sons Brian and Tim, brought the desk back to the Laurel workshop, where the boss carried out most of the fine restoration work. He filled in the gashes, re-covering them with mahogany strips aligned to the existing grain; removed and replaced damaged fluting, using razor blades and sandpaper to match the original, and spent five days with an artist's paintbrush creating a faux grain pattern around the bleached outer edges.
He also popped open an old lock, replacing it with a more user-friendly one, and found a notepad with Marshall's crest and a bag of hard candy inside.
He and his sons then added a three-inch riser so Verrilli, a rangy man, could fit comfortably below it.
The work took about 40 hours altogether, McCullough says. The bill: about $2,400.
The government sees it as a great investment — the new user included.
"Jim McCullough has done a terrific public service in restoring and preserving this important historical artifact," Verrilli wrote in an email to The Baltimore Sun. "Because of his fine craftsmanship, I am now able to do my work every day sitting at the same desk the great Thurgood Marshall once occupied. What an inspiring privilege that is."
McCullough feels the work gave him a personal glimpse of the legal icon, a man said to have suffered few fools gladly as he helped secure the promise of equality for a wider range of Americans.
For one thing, the only part of the desk the craftsman found in mint condition was the part that faced Marshall's guests.
"Either he had no visitors, or they were scared to get too close," McCullough says with a laugh.
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Sunday, Dec. 2
Choral music Columbia Pro Cantare Chorus will sing the Christmas portion and selections from parts II and III of Handel's "Messiah" at 7:30 p.m. at the Jim Rouse Theatre, Wilde Lake High School, 5460 Trumpeter Road in Columbia. Tickets are $25, $22 for seniors and students. To order tickets and for more information, call 410-799-9321 or 301-854-0107 or go to procantare.org.
Chamber music Sundays At Three presents the Chagall Trio Plus One at 3 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 6800 Oakland Mills Road in Columbia. The program consists of music by Gabriel Faure and Theodore Dubois. Tickets are $15; free for those 17 and younger with an adult. Information: 443-288-3179 or sundaysatthree.org.
Gift fair First Presbyterian Church of Howard County holds its annual Alternative Gift Fair and Sale from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 9325 Presbyterian Circle. Information: 410-730-3545.
'Walk to Bethlehem' Glen Mar United Methodist Church holds this annual event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the church, 4701 New Cut Road in Ellicott City. The walk is led by guides, and attendees will journey through outdoor settings where actors will portray the events leading to and immediately after the birth of Jesus. For more information, call 410-465-4995, ext. 204 or go to glenmarumc.org.
Friday, Dec. 7
Holiday event Howard County Center for the Arts holds its annual Open House and Holiday Sale from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at 8510 High Ridge Road in Ellicott City. Local artists and groups will sell handcrafted items, paintings, photographs, wearables, ceramics, jewelry, greeting cards, sculptures and more. Information: 410-313-2787 or hocoarts.org.
Business breakfast The county Chamber of Commerce holds its Economic Forecast Breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Sheraton Columbia Town Center, 10207 Wincopin Circle. Economist Anirban Basu will lead a discussion of the economic factors that will affect businesses in the coming year. Tickets are $60; $45 for members. To register and more information, call 410-730-4111 or go to howardchamber.com.
Saturday, Dec. 8
Dance performance The Kinetics Dance Theatre's Junior, Senior, and Apprentice Companies present the "Jingle Bell Rock" holiday show at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Slayton House, 10400 Cross Fox Lane in Columbia. The dance concert features performances of dances to holiday favorites. Tickets are $7 in advance; $10 at the door. Information: 410-480-1686.
Parade The second annual "Ol' Fashioned Christmas Horse Parade" kicks off at 11 a.m. on Main Street in Lisbon. Hundreds of decorated horses, mules, wagons, carriages and stagecoaches will fill the streets in this family event. After the parade, there will be pony rides and a "Ham and Fried Chicken Dinner" in the Lisbon Volunteer Fire Department Hall to benefit food banks and the fire department. Cost of dinner is $14 per person. Information: lisbonhorseparade.com.
Music Matters Showcase Bucky Duster and David Hale perform from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Anna's Coffee Roastery, 8827 Centre Park Drive, Suite D in Columbia. Information: 443-546-4131.
Bazaar The Orthodox Church of St. Matthew holds its annual Christmas Bazaar beginning at 10:30 a.m. at 7271 Eden Brook Drive in Columbia. There will be shopping, crafts, gift baskets, live music and more. Information: 410-381-2284.
Lecture on Civil War Author Dan Toomey will deliver a lecture titled, "Old Men in Blue and Gray, Maryland's Civil War Heroes," at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 at Howard County Library's Miller branch, 9421 Frederick Road in Ellicott City. For reservations and more information, call 410-313-1950.
Magic show The Columbia Conjurors' annual "Tommy Ivey Close-Up Magic Show" will be held at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at Christ Episcopal Church, 6800 Oakland Mills Road in Columbia. Admission is free. Information: 410-381-9365.
Christmas party The county Chamber of Commerce hosts a Jingle Mingle Holiday Networking Party from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 13 at Historic Savage Mill, 8600 Foundry St. in Savage. Celebrate the holiday season with an evening of food, drinks, entertainment, shopping and fun. Cost is $80; $70 for members. To register and more information, call 410-730-4111 or go to howardchamber.com.
Lecture Former Israeli ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen will deliver a lecture, "Israel and the Arab World: A View from the Frontline," at 8 p.m. Dec. 14 at Beth Shalom Congregation, 8070 Harriet Tubman Lane in Columbia. Information: 410-531-5115.
Holiday concert The St. Louis Church Concert Series presents "Christmas at St. Louis" at 4 p.m. Dec. 16 at 12500 Clarksville Pike in Clarksville. Admission is free. Information: 410-531-6040 or stlouisparish.org.
Networking The county Chamber of Commerce hosts a Business After Business Networking event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at Bob's BMW Motorcycles, 10720 Guilford Road in Jessup. Cost is $30; $15 for members. To register and for more information, call 410-730-4111 or go to howardchamber.com.
Reunion The Cardinal Gibbons High School class of 1973 will hold its 40th reunion April 20 at Reflections Banquet Hall, 8015 Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena. Information: 410-382-6919 or email email@example.com.
Announcements for the datebook may be sent by mail to The Baltimore Sun in Howard County, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore 21278; by email to firstname.lastname@example.com; or by fax to 410-332-6455.


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Monday, April 30, 2012
Hanami in Inokashira koen video!
Miss you already hanami!
Here's a little video I made of a hanami picnic in Inokashira koen (and a bike ride along Kandagawa). I hope you'll enjoy.
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soooo beautiful! i can't wait to go someday. and the swan boats = super kawaii!ReplyDelete
Its a beautiful place...too bad i can't find any place like this for picnics in my country :(ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you posted this. This was my local park when I lived in Japan. Many happy Hanami days were spent there. Thanks for the lovely reminder.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 3, 2012 at 9:00 PM
It was also my park, many years ago. Thank you!ReplyDelete
I loved it - thanks!ReplyDelete
May i know the title of song?
Such a lovely sight & weather.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 8:03 AM
I love your blog. It makes me miss Japan. I lived there for 2 years and moved just as you arrived. I'm actually half Japanese. My mom is from Kichijoji. I remember this lake, my cousin told me that it's cursed, that couples who enter brake up....that's for posting --debReplyDelete
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I don't usually reblog posts from other blogs, but this one really touched me today. Bryan Lowe has written a great many encouraging and helpful posts, this is but one. I always appreciate his perspective as one who struggles himself with bipolar disorder and some anxiety issues as well. He shares today from what he knows of another great writer who shared from what he knew of the spiritual and emotional battle many face.
Martin's Depression
The hymn A Mighty FortressIs Our God gloriously celebrates God's power. It was penned by the great 16th-century reformer Martin Luther, who believed God's power could help believers overcome great difficulties — even depression. Given his pastoral heart, he sought to bring spiritual counsel to struggling souls. His compassion for those souls shines in numerous places, including his sermons, lectures, Bible commentaries and 'table talks'. In addition, he devoted many letters to counseling troubled folk.
Luther's writings reveal his knowledge of various emotional difficulties. For example, in August 1536 he interceded for a woman named Mrs. Kreuzbinder, whom he deemed insane. He described her as being "accustomed to rage" and sometimes angrily chasing her neighbor with a spear.
In addition, Luther's wife, Kate, struggled with pervasive and persistent worry indicative of generalized anxiety disorder. Prince Joachim of Anhalt, to whom Luther often wrote, exhibited signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder…
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Mondo Guerra creates a dress in honor of World AIDS Day
Mondo Guerra's breakthrough moment as a fashion designer came when he created a textile while a contestant on "Project Runway."
The process of producing that fabric – a graphic pattern featuring plus symbols — not only ended up helping him win one of many design challenges on the popular reality television show, but it also aided him in coming to grips with some big challenges in his life.
Guerra, 34, has been HIV positive for 12 years but hadn't told his family until he announced it on the show. The admission was life-changing for him personally and is changing the lives of others as well.
The Denver-born designer has become something of an AIDS activist, getting involved in education campaigns, visiting AIDS conferences and also speaking on college campuses and to young people around the country.
Guerra's latest collaboration, I Design, is with the pharmaceutical company Merck. The aim is to help empower people living with HIV/AIDS to work with their doctors in taking a "tailored" approach to their HIV treatment plans. Having open and meaningful discussions with doctors about their daily lives is a key for those with HIV, because everyone's experience is different, Guerra says.


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A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of walking into a Catholic church and shooting his father-in-law in the back of the head during Mass.
Charles Richard Jennings Jr., 35, was captured Sunday afternoon in nearby Box Elder County after fleeing in a stolen pickup truck, investigators said.
Witnesses say they heard one gunshot during the 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday at Saint James the Just Catholic Church in Ogden, and that parishioners immediately hit the floor.
The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical but stable condition. His name wasn't immediately released.
Police said the victim was deliberately targeted by the gunman and it wasn't a random act of violence.
"We don't know the motive," Ogden police Lt. Danielle Croyle told The Salt Lake Tribune. "It is a domestic violence-related incident."
Parishioner Rebecca Ory Hernandez said the congregation was told by a priest that the suspect and his wife had been involved in domestic disputes.
Hernandez was sitting close to the victim when the shooting occurred, she said.
"The guy walked up to his father-in-law and shot him point blank in the head," Hernandez told Ogden's Standard-Examiner. "Then I ran over to the victim and pulled my scarf off and put it around his head.
"He was pretty calm. There was so much blood … People were in shock and some people were passing out. We have some military guys in our parish and they ran out after the guy," she added.
Parishioner Leon Bedford said the victim was sitting in a back pew with his wife when their daughter and son-in-law walked in holding hands as the congregation started saying a prayer.
"Oh, it's obvious it was well planned out," Bedford told the Standard-Examiner. "They came into the church hand in hand, and he walked right up to (the victim) and pulled that trigger. We just hope and pray that he makes it."
Jennings is accused of stealing the truck at gunpoint from a nearby resident after fleeing the church. He was booked on charges of attempted aggravated criminal homicide and aggravated robbery.
Further details about the shooting will not be released until a news conference Monday morning at McKay-Dee Hospital, officials said.
A family spokesperson and a police representative will be on hand to discuss the case and status of the victim, hospital spokesman Chris Dallin said.


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Blind Alley is proud to be recognized as one of the select Certified Hunter Douglas Motorization Specialists in the Seattle area. Our automation solutions work with every Hunter Douglas motorized application and integrate with home automation systems.
To achieve this exclusive designation, Blind Alley completed a comprehensive program in hard-wired motorization that certifies us to sell Hunter Douglas hard-wired motorized products on an exclusive basis and ensures that we are committed to project excellence with the highest standards.
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Our first priority is customer satisfaction. To provide a positive buying experience, we offer full service from your first shopping visit, through final installation and beyond with our Lifetime Installation Warranty.
To start, we have a comfortable showroom full of displays and product sampling, Our friendly, expert staff is available to answer your questions and offer guidance in your window covering decisions. In addition, or if you prefer shopping in the comfort of your own home, we have a full staff of professional decorators. They will bring samples to your home, measure your windows, offer expert advice and give you an estimate. At no cost or obligation to you.
So that you can feel confident about your purchase, we carefully select top quality products manufactured by companies with excellent customer service records. Our Service Department ensures that your order is placed with accuracy and completed in a timely manner, as well as coordinating the installation appointment with you. Our installers are company employees (not subcontractors) experienced and friendly, and their work is guaranteed for as long as you own your window treatment.
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The Blind Alley was opened March 31st, 1984 in Bellevue, Washington by Gene & Kurt Evers. Locally owned and operated, and unlike franchises, such as Budget Blinds, which "trains" new franchise owners in weeks, our owners have extensive experience in the custom window covering trade dating back to 1967 in Bellevue.
Our employees go through a year of in-store training before they begin in-home decorating or installing for our customers. They also have extensive experience in custom window coverings:
50% of our staff have been with us 20 or more years.
6% of our staff have been with us 10-20 years.
17% of our staff have been with us 5-10 years.
28% of our staff have been with us less than 5 years.
The Blind Alley was an offshoot of Group II Associates, founded in 1981, also by Gene & Kurt Evers. Group II Associates specializes in large commercial projects and the opening of The Blind Alley was a response to requests for a residential version of Group II Associates.
The complete staff of The Blind Alley, averaging over 16 years each with our Company!
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Hunter Douglas, the nation's leading manufacturer of custom window fashions, held its first-ever International Alliance Conference at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The conference ran from July 25 to 27, 2007 and Kurt & Claudia Evers, owners of The Blind Alley of Bellevue, Washington were among the more than 4,000 attendees.
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Zion Mennonite Church (Etna Green, Indiana, USA)
Zion Mennonite Church was founded in 2008 in Etna Green, Indiana. The church joined the Biblical Mennonite Alliance in July 2009.
In 2015 the leading minister was Tom Gearin. The congregational membership was 30.
Biblical Mennonite Alliance. "BMA Congregational Directory with Pastors." August 2015.
Biblical Mennonite Alliance. "Directory of BMA Congregations." Web. 15 May 2012. http://www.biblicalmennonite.com/congregations.html.
Hershberger, Brenda. Anabaptist (Mennonite) Directory 2012-13. Harrisonburg, VA: The Sword and Trumpet, 2012: 42.
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Address: 8978 W 750 N, Etna Green, IN 46524
Phone: 574-377-2266
Website: http://www.zionmennonitechurch.org/
Denominational Affiliation: Biblical Mennonite Alliance
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Moving to Vail in July of 1972, I originally worked in the condominium and hotel industry. I was also a ski instructor for Vail Resorts for 16 winter seasons on Vail Mountain. A sojourn for 2 winters (Vail summers), in 1976 and 1977, to Bariloche, Argentina, to teach skiing, added to my wealth of skiing experiences and provided a good knowledge of the Spanish language, at the time. Although no longer "on the hill" teaching, I continue to maintain friendships and numerous clients, from my many years in the ski industry.
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The Literacy Project is an organization I have done volunteer work for in the past and it is my favorite local program to support. Other community volunteer contributions extend to my primary residence in the Sandstone area of Vail where I have served on the Board of Directors of our condominium association. In Arrowhead, the western gateway to Beaver Creek Mountain, located in Edwards, CO, I have served, in the past, as President of our Board of Directors, where I own rental property in the Aspenwood Lodge.
Creating new friendships, finding the "perfect" mountain retreat for Buyers and obtaining just the "right" buyer for sellers, make my career in real estate all worthwhile. Sharing a wonderful resort lifestyle with families, from all walks of life and many different geographic locations, make it a privilege to provide exceptional customer service that I consider a top priority in my real estate career.
In line with this philosophy, I was honored to receive my company's prestigious Customer Service Award in 2008 and the Humanitarian Award in 2014. These are testimonies to the first-class consideration I give to all the many customers I work with, here in the Vail area. Most important of all, I consider it an honor to be in this profession, each and every day. I invite you to explore some "Ideas For Mountain Living" with me. I know you will find it to be an enjoyable, enriching experience.
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For Jeff Houston, the Chevy Camaro is the ultimate muscle car; and while he loves the ever-popular '69 model year, the second-generation cars are quickly catching up. So far, he's owned a few '70-73 Camaros, but he ran across a deal at the Turkey Run in Daytona Beach, Florida, that he couldn't pass up. Jeff dragged the car back to his Duluth, Georgia, residence. With the car up and running, he started picking away at the details. It didn't quite meet his approval for a cool muscle car, so he made a few changes and hit the road.
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A startling message is popping up on computers everywhere claiming to be from the FBI saying your computer is locked and you're under investigation.
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Since 1872, the University of California, Berkeley has been collecting works by European artists, building a collection that includes many rare and exceptional works distinguished by artistic innovation, emotional and psychological depth, and technical virtuosity. Consisting mostly of gifts from professors, alumni, and other supporters, the collection continues to evolve, representing artistic influences and connections among many European countries, from the fourteenth century to the dawn of the modern era.
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