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It's almost Remembrance Day, and I'm slightly annoyed.
Excuse me while I grab my soapbox.
The Halloween sugar rush hadn't even gotten up to full steam before I started seeing Christmas show up in the decor and on the shelves around town. What's up with that? Remembrance Day has become the forgotten holiday, the little afterthought on the commercial calendar. I mean, it's not even two weeks after the candy carnival, and there's a full six weeks to brough-ha-ha over the mid-winter festival of your choice. Can't we take a measly eleven days to focus on the lessons of history? To acknowledge the freedom we have to be over the top about pagan and religious observances? Maybe we don't like to look death and war in the face. It's not pleasant. But isn't it important?
Okay, my soapbox is back under the bed. This week, after being inundated with leftover candy and resisting the premature onslaught of tinsel, I attended the pre-Remembrance Day ceremony held at my children's school. I found myself appreciative of the respect shown there, but left wondering what I could do to more fully recognize the holiday. Don't get me wrong, I do not want to add Remembrance Day to the list of commercialism casualties. But I wish I had a pot of Papaver rhoeas in my house right now.
They're an agricultural weed in Europe, which is why they grew so readily on the graves of the dead in Flanders. Some enterprising soul could probably make a go at providing us live plants to go with our fake lapel pins, with the proceeds going to the Legion, or Unesco, or something.
There are many poppies out there, and I enjoy my Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule) in the summer. But I'm wishing for a little shot of the red ones right now to offset all the snow and help me remember Poppy Day. Maybe next year I'll be thinking ahead and time it right to do it myself, but for now, I guess I'll be content to pay my respects with a replica poppy, and all of my heart.
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Poppy day
- by April Demes
- Nov 10, 2012
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Gardening gizmos for the techy-types
- by April Demes
- Nov 1, 2012
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As promised, I've been experimenting with a bunch of gardening apps on my iPad this week. Here's the ones I tried, and what I thought of them. All available on the App Store; sorry Androidians, I can't help you, but comment if you can help each other! Click on the images to see the details and screenshots for each app.
Toolkit HD, Applied Objects, $3.99
This is a slick, easy to use little package, an everything-in-one-place tool for to-do lists, your garden diary, and plant lists. Lots of nice features, like being able to tag your diary entries so you can go back and find your notes about the last time you pruned that apple tree, and making a plant list for your particular garden or gardens (up to four separate ones) with details such as when they were planted and when they will mature/bloom. It gives advice based on your hardiness zone, but the plant lists (which I found on the limited side anyway) don't adjust to your zone. You can add custom plants with pictures, along with all their sun/water/soil/temperature info, but they aren't added to the main (search-able) plant list. The Glossary is pretty good, a little simplistic maybe, but it links to Wikipedia if you want more info. This strikes me as a great starting place for a beginning gardener who wants to be more organized, or the more advanced gardener if they're looking more for record keeping.
Eden Garden Designer, Herbaceous Software, $1.99
This is a fun little app that is very visual, whereas Toolkit is very list-oriented. You can choose an imaginary background, or load a picture of your own landscape, and then fill it with plants, rearrange the plants, look at what would be blooming at certain times of year… you can even control the amount of wind and insects! It's a great little gardening fix mid-winter or mid-city. That said, the plant lists are somewhat simplistic. There's just "hosta", no varieties or anything, and the plant choices are limited (you can buy additional groups of plants for $0.99). So as far as using this for designing, it's great for generating ideas and getting a general idea for how things might look, but it won't get you anywhere with detailed planning. Still, a fun little program.
LawnCAD, Nathan French, $4.99
This is a compact little Computer-Aided Drafting app that will likely appeal to the planners and math brains out there. I've never used a CAD program other than this, so I can't really compare it or speak about its usefulness on a professional level, but as a layman I'm loving the interface, the preciseness, and the itty-bitty power trip that comes from building and erasing entire landscapes in one swipe. Warning: you must love nit-picky details to love this app.
Grow Planner, Growing Interactive, $9.99
A little more expensive than most, this app is really a case of you get what you pay for. Provided by the well-respected Mother Earth News, this app does everything but put the seeds in the ground. You draw the size and shape of the beds you want, choose the veggies, herbs, and flowers you want to grow (right down to the variety–it's linked to all the best known seed catalogues) and it tracks how many plants should fit in that space, when they should be planted, when they should be harvested, and when the bed will be ready for succesion planting. You can choose traditional rows or square foot gardening. If you use it multiple seasons, it tracks what was where what year so you can ensure good crop rotation. Make notes, research varieties, tweak your frost dates, add custom plants. It will even email you planting reminders if you want. If you grow vegetables, you will love this app.
And now, just for fun:
Plants Vs. Zombies, PopCap, $0.99 (iPad version)
This is a ridiculously addicting game in which your garden plants defend your home from invading zombies. I know, ridiculous, right? But oh so fun.
Happy Little Farmer, GiggleUp Kids Apps and Educational Games, $1.99
This is a gorgeous little game involving planting, caring for, and harvesting crops around the farm. My kids from 3 through 8 love it, and even my twelve year old can't help watching. The motions are simple and the directions clear, and there are all kinds of cute little hidden surprises. An absolutely stellar game for little people.
Garden eye spy: Roses are red
- by Laura L. Benn
- Oct 30, 2012
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What is it about roses that inspire adoration? For me I think it has something to do with my father's prized English rose garden struggling to survive the harsh Canadian climate each year, thus making the triumphant fanfare of blossoms all the more impressive when they finally arrived. Or perhaps it is as simple as bold colour being captured within intricately grown petals. Whatever the reason, roses are my favourite floral subject to photograph.
This rose portrait was taken last weekend during a leisurely post-brunch stroll. I love the delicate folds, the soothing colour and the unexpected almost romantic pattern that lingers within this flower. Part of me is tempted to print this image to canvas and hang in my bedroom as a piece of artwork. Do you love roses as much as I do?
(Laura L. Benn is the Multi-brand Web Content Editor at TC Media. Follow her writing, photography and other creative ventures on her popular blog LLB {words + photos} or via Twitter.)
The virtual garden
- by April Demes
- Oct 26, 2012
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I have palm trees in my garden.
No, really.
I still live in Alberta, and there's snow on the ground, but my garden is full of palm trees, and there are NO WEEDS.
Okay, so the garden happens to be on my iPad, but still.
Seeing as how the ground is freezing up and I'm transitioning from real gardening to the imagining of next year, I thought I'd spend a little time in the App Store digging for some gardening gizmos.
One of the first I fiddled with was LawnCAD, a landscape drawing program ($4.99), and along with the other trees and rectangles, you can place palm trees! And pines, and bushes, of course. I'm finding it kind of finicky to work with so far, but that may be because I'm a layman; maybe it's great for professionals. Point is, I'm visualizing my house surrounded by palm trees. An innocent winter pleasure.
Next week I'll tell you more about some of the apps I've found. In the meantime, tell me about your favourite virtual gardening gadgets. What works? What doesn't?
The digging of the potatoes
- by April Demes
- Oct 19, 2012
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After plugging them into the ground in early June, my potatoes have lived without the interference of human attention. Unless you count the sprinkler blanketed over the whole garden. My mom is visiting this week and she keeps asking what she can help with (!!). So far, she's washed every dish as soon as it was dirtied and made some serious headway with the laundry. To spare her from reading the same Dora the Explorer picture book for the tenth time, I suggested we head outside and dig the last of the veggies. My youngest daughter had to get in on the action, of course. She seems way more excited about these potatoes than the ones I have put on her plate before. Think she'll start eating them now?
Garden eye spy: Morning light
- by Laura L. Benn
- Oct 16, 2012
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When is your favourite time to be in a garden? The sun-kissed afternoon? The late serene evening? I personally love the very early morning for one special reason; soft light. Everything looks more magical in those few precious hours before the world fully wakes and gives way to its inevitable hustle and bustle. A romantic quality lingers wherever the light touches.
Take this pretty blossom for example. Standing on its own off to the side of a garden path, it is probably overlooked most of the time. But in the gentle glow of morning it becomes illuminated, the centre of attention, the star of the walkway.
(Laura L. Benn is the Multi-brand Web Content Editor at TC Media. Follow her writing, photography and other creative ventures on her popular blog LLB {words + photos} or via Twitter.)
Quick frost cover-up
- by April Demes
- Oct 12, 2012
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Remember the Cubs' pumpkins?
Since helping the boys start the plants this spring, I have been gently nudging Chris to get his boys to take care of them (or take care of them himself), since it's really their project, and I've got plenty of over things I'm already not on top of.
I "suggested" he'd better cover them up one night a couple of weeks ago, as there was a good chance of frost, but stayed out of it beyond pointing him to the burlap and the extra sheets. Guess what that guy did? Instead of using the flat sheets and weighing down the corners like I would have done, he grabbed fitted sheets and snuggled them right over the plants. The elastic was just right to hold the sheet on the plant without rubbing or breaking leaves.
Genius, right?
And look what they've got to show for it:
Good night, sweet earth
- by April Demes
- Oct 3, 2012
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As I sit writing this, the first snowfall of the season sits on the lawn, and the radio is announcing a heavy snowfall warning for our area.
I'm sorry friends, it's here.
We've been having such a pleasant, warm autumn that I've just been working steadily away, weeding and mulching and digging carrots, with nary a thought of full-on winter. The last few days, however, have been a flurry of activity: Chris mowing and finishing up the drip cap on a window we just replaced, me planting bulbs and gathering forgotten tools back to the shed. It's amazing what little white cartoon crystals on the internet weather forecast will do.
Now, don't get me wrong, this will melt in a few days, and I can finish digging up the beets, not to mention that most of you are probably still veritable ages away from winter proper. Just consider me your early-warning system: time to finish up. Time to tuck in your tenders, cover up select conifers. The earth is stretching her leafy-treed arms and getting ready for bed. So enjoy some relaxed late-night conversation with your garden, talk about your plans for when it awakes. Make it some hot chocolate, and kiss it goodnight.
Good night.
Sleep tight.
Low-maintenance Monday: Creeping Japanese sedge
- by Ellen Novack
- Oct 1, 2012
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Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance', a low-growing, ornamental, variegated sedge is selected as one of the top ten low-maintenance plants by the illustrious gardeners in Gardening from a Hammock.
What makes it such a favourite?
The creeping Japanese sedge grows 20 to 30 cm and spreads between 30 to 45 cm in zones 5 to 9. It is a slow-spreading perennial with grass-like, arching stems covered with forest-green leaves trimmed in bright white or cream. It is grown for its foliage and for its ability to complement other plants.
Garden designer Kim Price of Kim Price Landscape Design Inc. likes it because it handles half sun or shade and flowers from June through July. "The variegated green and cream leaves provide interest throughout the season," she says.
The creeping Japanese sedge 'Ice Dance' is as "fresh and green in January as it is in August," says Jeff Mason who runs Mason House Gardens in Uxbridge, Ontario. "It looks like someone took a bunch of spider plants and plunked them in the ground." This sedge spreads but is not invasive. It has white, creamy variegation with a relatively fine texture.
Aldona Satterthwaite, executive director of the Toronto Botanical Garden uses it to fashion a dramatic silver and white palette in her garden. She combines 'Ice Dance' sedge, lamium 'White Nancy' and variegated Solomon's seal under an old silver-edged dogwood. She explains that the leaves of the sedge are trimmed in bright white, while the lamium has silver leaves with white flowers.
Creeping Japanese sedge is one of the star plants selected by 17 expert gardeners in Gardening from a Hammock by Ellen Novack and Dan Cooper. Gardening from a Hammock is an easy-to-use book describing how to create a fabulous, four-season garden using low-maintenance plants. It's loaded with tips and has a botanical reference guide.
R.I.P., broccoli
- by April Demes
- Sep 27, 2012
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I am in mourning.
I have been faithful with my application of Btk on all my brassicas this year, so no cabbage worms for us. I got all that stork's bill under control (okay, most of it) and put down some good mulch. When I left the veggie garden alone last week to focus on the flower gardens and a few fall projects, the broccoli was just starting a new flush of strong growth, and I was smugly dreaming of a fall reaping of lovely green heads.
When I returned to see if they were ready for cutting, this is what I found.
Those little black spots are flea beetles, for the uninitiated. They got to my fall crop before I did. Ravaged it. Inedible.
This is what I get for feeling smug. 'Pride cometh before the fall,' and all that.
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President yet to appoint five members of the tribunal
: The functioning of the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) is getting delayed as the five members are yet to be appointed by the President.
The former High Court judge K. Balakrishnan Nair has already assumed charge as Chairman and Ramaraja Premanand as Registrar of the tribunal.
The five members whose appointments are awaited are Ashok M. Cherian, P.V. Asha, High Court lawyers; S. Pradeep Kumar Naidu, former Special Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh; Mathew C. Kunnumkal, former Director General, National Institute of Rural Development; and V.R. Rajeevan, former Director General of Police.
The establishment of the tribunal was notified by the Union government under the provisions of the Administrative Tribunal Act.
The Chairman was appointed with the concurrence of the Chief Justice of India.
The members were selected by a panel after inviting applications from qualified persons.
The selection committee consisted of the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court as Chairman, Chairman of the SAT as member, Chief Secretary and Chairman of the State Public Service Commission as other members.
The committee was formed in accordance with the Administrative Tribunals (Procedure for appointment of Vice-Chairman and Members) Rules 2006.
The tribunal can be functional only after all members take charge.
The tribunal will have two principal Benches — in Thiruvananthapuram and a Bench in Kochi with filing facility.
The High Court had earlier directed that a Bench with filing facility be set up in Kochi.
The directive came on a writ petition filed by the Kerala High Court Advocates Association, even as the court rejected the challenge against establishing the headquarters of the tribunal in Thiruvananthapuram. The High Court had held that there was nothing wrong in headquartering the tribunal in Thiruvananthapuram as the decisions taken by the government secretaries in their capacities as appellate or revisional authorities were often challenged before the court.
Pending cases
When the tribunal starts functioning, pending service cases of around 10,000 in the High Court will be transferred to the tribunal.
Even when the pending cases were transferred to the tribunal, it would only be a temporary relief for the High Court because the same files would be back in the High court when orders of the tribunals are appealed against, point out legal experts.
In other words, workload reduction in the High Court would only be at the level of single judge who initially decides the service cases.
Even the High Court had pointed out that the backlog of State government employees' service cases in the High Court did not constitute even 10 per cent of the total number of cases pending in the High Court .
(As per figures, as many as 1,23,836 cases are pending in the High Court as on January31, 2011).
The High Court had pointed out that the ruling of the Supreme Court that the orders of the tribunals could be subject to judicial review by the High Court had rendered "redundant and incapable of achieving" the objective of relieving the pressure of work in the High Court by the establishment of SAT.
The assumption made by the expert committee for setting up the tribunal and the State government that the tribunal would relieve the High Court of its workload was rather absurd because every orders of the tribunal could be challenged before the High Court in terms of the Supreme Court ruling in the Chandrakumar's case, the High Court had pointed out.
The members were selected by a panel Chairman, registrar assume office

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The multi-million-copy bestseller that coined the phrase for tragic American blunders abroad.
In the episode that lends the book its title, the "ugly American" is Homer Atkins, a plain and plain-spoken man, who has been sent by the U.S. government to advise the Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan on engineering projects. When Atkins finds badly misplaced priorities and bluntly challenges the entrenched interests, he lays bare a foreign policy gone dangerously wrong.
First published in 1958, The Ugly American? became a runaway national bestseller for its slashing exposé of American arrogance, incompetence, and corruption in Southeast Asia. In linked stories and vignettes, the book uses gripping storytelling to draw a devastating picture of how the United States was losing the struggle with Communism in Asia.
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Hey for the toenail thing: two or three times a week massage in a little Vick's VapoRub on and around the nail after your shower and over a few months it will help heal them up. I have had bad nails from wearing combat boots for 20+ years and now they are clearing up and straightening out. It may take up to a year to see the nail clear all the way through...doesnt take much, just a light coating and work it into the area around the nail. Also will keep Athletes foot away.
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Lamisil works 70 % of the time- you would need to take it for 12 weeks- which will require a blood test to check your liver enzymes 2 differ times. ( the begin. of rx, one month after starting ). Any one w/ a hx of liver or kidney problems may not take the oral from.
good morning...how you feelin today? tinkerbell is a bit under the weather. she crashed as soon as we got home. had a good time. what is your schedule next wkend? if no waves maybe I can put you on some redfish and trout....when do you get back from NY? Thanks for the good med info....I have yet to experience any rash but pfox got a nasty one on his armpit(from wetsuit)...he said it was like it got infected and could not wear deoderant for a wk
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My kitchen has very little ventilation, which means I gave up cooking fish years ago. I'd like to start again, but anything on the stovetop definitely is out, as is broiling. Does anybody have suggestions for baked fish recipes that don't come out mushy, as some fish-in-tomato-sauce recipes seem to do for me?
start with very fresh fish. you can poach it, or bake it in foil for a nicer silkier texture.
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fresh fish should not smell, if it does smell it's not fresh. Cooking in parchment paper with herbs and citrus zest is a nice clean method.
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If you want to make sure the fish doesnt smell fishy, assuming that it is not spoiling in the first place, soak your fish in milk for about an hour in the fridge and rinse it before cooking.
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i can understand draining and drying it, but why rinse flavor down the sink?
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The milk absorbs the fishy flavor/smell the OP wanted to get rid of, hence the rinsing!
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I use milk to defrost frozen fish -- it makes the fish taste "fresher" then just defrosting and cooking it does. I think fresh fish shouldn't smell fishy, and if it does I wouldn't buy it.
I'm not sure the OP is talking about the fishy scent of un-fresh fish though - just the smell of fish cooking in general. And on that note, I second the fish in parchment technique. I also like fish brushed with olive oil or butter and broiled.
Wrapping in foil packets and baking sealed up is a good way to keep everything (flavors, smells) self-contained while cooking. Very flexible technique, can put lots of different veggies and sauces and things in there to meld--and no pots to clean! The "moosewood restaurant cooks at home" cookbook has a few good starting points, for making individual portion packets:
— Simply put a filet in middle of foil and layer on sliced tomato, scallions, a drizzle of oil, whatever seasonings you like (a chili pepper, citrus, onions, or whatnot)
-- Put a half cup of cooked rice in center of foil, then layer on some chopped greens, fish filets, and drizzle a sauce sade of soy, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, chili sauce, mirin, vinegar, whatever you want....
Can use all sorts of different veggies (zucchini, fennel, peppers, onions, tomatoes, etc.) and seasonings (wine and dill, chili/hot sauce, capers, tomato)
For firm white filets, their recommendation is bake 20 min at 450; that's probably about right if the ingredients are a bit cold when they go in the oven.
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This mod adds new effects to the Alien and Heat predator vision modes. Guide and method to mod the game originally posted @ AvPGalaxy.net.
Tutorial: How to Mod AvP
You may not edit, use or modify this modification without consent.
1. Copy the extracted files to "\Steam\steamapps\common\aliens vs predator\Misc".
2. Open common.lst placed in \Misc with the notepad.
3. Add a the following line at the bottom: misc\VisionPack.en
4. Save the file and close the notepad.
5. Run the game and enjoy.
Note: The extension .en of the modded files means the game has to be on English or the modification won't work. If you want to use this mod in your desired language, this
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French = .fr, Italian = .it, German = .ge
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tight and it gives my alien mask a new theme :)
cool, but i dont heard the sound of changing vision mode, is that a bug?
how does the whole color changing programming work? is there anyway you could make the alien vision look the exact same as that thermal vision? hah could be kinda cool. the only thing that would change when you switch visions is the species. anyone working on making the red vision like in the cut scene when the pred lands and the alien knocks him off?
Its perfect,i love it,but i have a problem.When i change the extension .en,the alien vision is wrong,is that a bug?because it only happens with this vision :S
My thermal vision doesn't seem to have changed..
I need help an how to mod please read!!! . I'm stuck in how to pick the input files to extract from your target Asura file ( *.asr, *.pc or *.en). For eg: Multiplayer.asr, StreamingSounds.asr, A04_Colony.pc.
i don't know how to pick a input files, i know how to Select the BMS script to use (asura.bms).
then after i selected them then were is the input files located at!!!! plzzz help avp galaxy or make a tutorial> Sen me an yahoo email. Email is firstname.lastname@example.com Thankk youu :)!!!
This is the best Thermal i've personally tried. It fits my style.
Can the uploader of the mod of anyone else who is skilled, please upload only the red thermal vision? I'm using another Alien Vision that i like, and this pack interferes with that one. So please, can someone upload only the red thermal vision mod without the alien vision?


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08 Oct 2009
This week's animated game preview at the Washington Post looks at how the Carolina Panthers, the Redskins' Sunday opponent, like to double up their tight ends and run power all over the place. The play is based on Jonathan Stewart's 28-yard run against the Falcons in Week 2.
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Dear Dave,
I recently got a new job that will increase my income by $20,000 a year. I've got $65,000 in debt, and I'm trying to pay it off, so I know I need to adjust my budget. Do you have any suggestions for a situation like this?
Dear Mitchell,
Congratulations on your increased income! The first thing I'd tell you is not to get used to any permanent luxuries while you're paying off debt. Go out and celebrate with a really nice dinner or something like that after you get your first paycheck. But don't go nuts or pick up any big, new stuff. The more you put toward debt, the faster it goes away.
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I've been doing this financial thing for a lot of years, and the one thing I've found that gets people out of debt is passion. I want you to be so passionate about getting out of debt that you don't even consider doing anything else until it's all gone. Your thought process needs to be, "Wow, I got a new job making more money. I can get out of debt even quicker!"
Again, I'm okay with you adjusting a bit that first month and having a little fun to celebrate your good fortune. But after that, I want you to turn around and attack the debt with even more intensity than before. Way to go, Mitchell!
Dear Dave,
I own a one-bedroom condo that I'm using as a rental property. The current tenant's old agreement is up soon, but she signed a new lease less than a month ago and gave me a deposit, plus the first month's rent. Just the other day, she called and wants to back out of the agreement. She said she discovered after she signed that her ex is having serious health problems, and she needs to move to help take care of their kids. What do you think I should do?
Dear Flavia,
I own a bunch of rental properties, so I know for a fact that as a landlord you run into all kinds of situations. Some are more genuine than others. I would want some proof as to what's going on, but on the surface it sounds like she's got a valid reason for wanting to cancel the agreement.
Basically, she's asking for your understanding and mercy. If it were me, and what she's said turned out to be true, I'd try to lease the place to someone else as quickly as possible, and I'd refund her the deposit plus any money it doesn't cost you in the process. In other words, if it took two weeks to find another tenant, then I'd give back the deposit and two week's rent. Of course, if she's in really bad shape—and you're on solid enough financial ground to withstand the blow—you could let her out of the agreement completely and move on to finding another tenant.
You don't want to profit from someone who's genuinely struggling. But you have to look out for yourself and, if possible, try to break even. Regardless, I wouldn't take advantage of anyone who's truly going through hard times. That's just not right.
*Dave Ramsey is America's trusted voice on money and business. He has authored four New York Times best-selling books: Financial Peace, More Than Enough, The Total Money Makeoverand EntreLeadership. His newest book, written with his daughter Rachel Cruze, is titled Smart Money Smart Kids. It will be released April 22nd. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 6 million listeners each week on more than 500 radio stations. Follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.


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Brazilian incumbent president Dilma Rousseff is facing a runoff after receiving 42 percent of the votes and failing to win the majority of votes in Sunday's election. She will be going up against centre-right candidate Aecio Neves, who received 34 percent of votes. Evangelical hopeful and former environment minister Marina Silva finished third with 21 percent.
Rousseff vowed to continue working for change, and said that voters had expressed their rejection of "the ghosts of the past, recession and unemployment."
"I clearly understood the message from the streets and from the ballot boxes. The majority of Brazilians want us to speed up the Brazil we are building," she added, according to BBC News. more >>
Once a notorious gangster, drug dealer and pimp, John Turnipseed knows what it's like to feel trapped in sin. Now a licensed minister, Turnipseed wants those struggling to make a change and to know God hears their prayers.
"I always try to tell people to look for the evidence of God because it's always there and sometimes we just ignore it. We look past it [because] it doesn't look inviting to us," he said.
In his soon-to-be-released autobiography Bloodline, Turnipseed tells how his troubled childhood led him into a life of crime and how surrendering his life to Christ led him to become a helping hand for others living hard lives. more >>
Americans are likely to use politics to assess the nation's economic condition rather than their personal financial experience, according to a recent report from a liberal polling organization.
Nearly six out of 10 African-Americans report living in a household with "moderate" to "high levels" of economic insecurity, but about 83 percent of African-Americans say they feel as though the American economy has "gotten better" or "stayed the same" in the last two years, according the Public Religion Research Institute's 2014 American Values Survey released on Tuesday.
By contrast, the survey found that only 56 percent of Caucasians feel the American economy has improved or stayed the same in the past two years despite the fact that only 36 percent of Caucasians report living a household with moderate to high economic security. more >>
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech focusing on income inequality and the objective to restore the middle class during a rally at the Iowa State Capitol organized by the Nuns on the Bus campaign group on Wednesday.
Biden, a Roman Catholic, paid tribute to the Catholic Sisters and their efforts going around the country petitioning for social justice issues, such as health care, immigration reform, and income inequality, and their mission to urge people to vote in the upcoming general elections in November.
"You've gone state to state arguing for moral, economic and social imperatives. To establish a decent living wage. Because you know there's no reason in the world why any American should work 40 hours a week and be $7,000 dollars below the poverty rate. That should not happen in America," Biden said. more >>
The overall poverty rate in the United States dropped for the first time since 2006, with Hispanics being the ethnic group that experienced the most significant change in income.
The U.S. Census Bureau's annual report released Tuesday indicated that the poverty rate among Latinos in 2013 decreased by 2.1 percentage points from the previous year. In addition, income for Hispanic households increased by 3.5 percent between 2012 and 2013 to $40,963.
The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference that represents millions of Hispanic Evangelicals, attributed the rise in income to more Latinos pursuing education. more >>
The Episcopal Church recently announced that it will providing $40,000 in grants for philanthropic purposes for the benefit of Ferguson, Missouri.
TEC's Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society will provide $30,000, while Episcopal Relief & Development will provide $10,000.
Bishop Stacy Sauls, Episcopal Church Chief Operating Officer, said in a statement released Monday the effort "addresses both immediate need and long term issues related to the cycle of poverty." more >>


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UMass Amherst Rn to BSN online program
0 Anyone have info on this program ? I was accepted for summer 2013 , wondering what course load is like.
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The course load is do-able. Lots of paper writing for the ethics in writing course, but the others are not too bad. I worked full time while in the program, and it did cut into personal time but was not unbearable. It helped me to map out the whole semester ahead of time, due dates etc.. and thoroughly explore the syllabus and grading rubrics for each class at the beginning of each semester.


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dc.contributor.advisor | Prof. G. Verhoef | en |
dc.contributor.author | Allen, John Bernard | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-24T09:02:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-05-24T09:02:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-05-24T09:02:48Z | |
dc.date.submitted | 2008-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3246 | |
dc.description | M.A. | en |
dc.description.abstract | The study of South African history has developed considerably over the last number of years to incorporate new ideas, approaches, and styles. However, the standard works on South African historiography continue to provide a reader with very little beyond a descriptive framework to allow historians to locate their work within the body of South African historical knowledge. This dissertation attempts to address this shortcoming by encouraging and advocating a more analytical approach to the field of historiography. Here, the approach taken is the same as that taken by Hayden White in writing his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. At the same time, a stronger focus is placed on the role of historical context. To demonstrate the advantages of this type of analysis, of analytical historiography over the traditional conception of historiography, I have chosen the example of South African slavery under Dutch administration, 1652 – 1795. The question that this work then attempts to answer is: How can our understanding of South African Slave Historiography be enlightened by the use of Analytical Historiography? The work is divided into two, with the first section dealing with the theoretical and methodological requirements of the work. The second deals with the Whiteian analysis of a number of works on slavery at the Cape before 1795.1 This is followed by the final analysis and conclusion. | en |
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dc.subject | Slavery | en |
dc.subject | Historians | en |
dc.subject | Historiography | en |
dc.subject | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) | en |
dc.title | Historians on slaves: an analytical historiography of Dutch slavery at the Cape, 1652-1795 | en |
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Small business enrollment for Obamacare delayed
In the latest setback for the rollout of Obamacare, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that small businesses in 36 states can't enroll their workers into health coverage through the new federally run insurance marketplaces until at least Nov. 1 – one month later than previously announced.
The delay appears to be the result of computer and information technology problems in the Small Business Health Option Program, known as SHOP, an online insurance marketplace specifically for small employers.
Employers still will be able to compare coverage options and begin the application process on Oct. 1, but they won't be able to sign up workers for coverage until November.
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CLARK – Beginning in January, the St. John the Apostle Food Pantry will operate a satellite food distribution site in conjunction with the Clark Health Department at the Clark Recreation Center.
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Dec. 6 at 6:23 p.m. – Det. Kevin Shackleton arrested Andrew Mellein, 21, at his Raritan Road home and charged him with burglary, theft and credit card fraud. Bail was set at $20,000, and Mellein was subsequently transported to the Union County Jail.
Library Hosts Children's Finance Program
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PERTH AMBOY – The city's Free Public Library will host a presentation on banking and finance for children on Tuesday, Dec. 21 from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Parents Are Urged To Think Twice About Gifting Lottery Tickets To Children
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HAMILTON — The Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, Inc. has joined forces with the New Jersey Lottery in an effort to discourage the gifting of lottery tickets to minors.
Coat Drive
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PERTH AMBOY — The Puerto Rican Association for Human Development, Inc. is collecting clean, reusable coats now through Dec. 23. Collection boxes are located at 98 First Street, 2nd Floor, Perth Amboy.
Students Help St. Mary's Parish Prepare For Christmas Drive
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SCOTCH PLAINS – Students from Union Catholic High School were excited to pitch in when a call for volunteers came in from Sister Mary Eleanor at St. Mary's Parish in Rahway.
Second Graders Travel Back To Prehistoric Era
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EDISON — On Dec. 14, the Wardlaw-Hartridge School community was treated to an eye-opening exhibit on dinosaurs during the second grade's annual dinosaur museum exhibition.
Both Men And Women Say 'I Do Most Of The Chores'
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(StatePoint) Who does most of the chores around the house? A recent survey by Cozi.com, an online calendar for busy families, found that both men and women claim to do most of the work!
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CLARK — Students in Mrs. Peitz's first grade class at Valley Road School in Clark recently enjoyed a break from their regular schoolwork to make their own gingerbread houses.


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In the Beginning
It is an honor for me to participate in these commencement exercises. As a professor, I am not unfamiliar with ceremonies such as these, having, by my own loose account, probably attended just this side of one hundred such exercises.
My own home institution of Saint Louis University offers me no less than three graduation exercises to attend within a matter of a few days: that would be a ceremony for the Graduate School, for the John Cook School of Business where I teach, and then a final round-up for the entire University community.
Though the weather is often hot or threatening rain, though the list of names can be extensive and the commencement speech, I should remind myself, too long, despite all these things or, who knows, partly because of these things, I do love these occasions.
I have received a few degrees, for which I'm grateful; I have conferred a few degrees as well, and for those students I have been pleased and proud. I have also witnessed the graduation of my own children, which stirs emotions of surprising complexity, as I am sure many or you know or are perhaps now experiencing.
But this is only the second time I have been asked to make a commencement address. The first was in 1971 when I spoke at my own high school graduation at Douglas MacArthur High School in Decatur, Illinois. I would like to tell you that I was the valedictorian, but Shauna Harvey received that honor. I would even like to tell you I was the salutatorian, but another Jim, Jim Bundy, had that designation. I was the class orator, a kind of back-handed compliment to the student who talked a lot in class.
My wife, Judy, was in attendance that night, as she is tonight. Judy, who well knows that I throw little of my paper trail away, will not be surprised when I announce that I still have that speech. Nor will Judy be surprised when I announce that I could not quite find that speech for reference here tonight. But, let the record reflect, I did not accuse her of throwing it away.
Let me observe here at the beginning of this address that we call this exercise "commencement," which of course means beginning. T.S. Eliot, the poet who had his beginning here in St. Louis writes that
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. –Four Quartets: "Little Gidding"
I imagine you graduates feel this beginning, in part, as an end, an end from which you must now begin. So the end leads to a beginning, but the line demarcating one from the other is not always clear.
My own beginning here in St. Louis had a certain ambiguity. I left the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where I was pursuing my Ph.D., without actually having completed that degree. I took my position here at Saint Louis University with the explicit and clear understanding of both my new and old university that I would need to complete my dissertation research. And so I started making a beginning without really making a proper end. There is a special academic acronym given the unfortunate souls, such as myself, who labor in this purgatorial status: ABD–all but dissertation.
The Bible tells us "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other." (Matthew 6:24) There is more that a little truth to that saying, but accommodations must sometimes be made. And so I traveled between St. Louis and Champaign many times, monitoring the progress of crops throughout southern and central Illinois for more than one agricultural season.
I often thought, "If only I didn't have this millstone of a dissertation around my neck, how much better, how much more productive as a scholar and effective as a teacher I would be." Not to mention a more loving husband and engaged father. I often thought "How much happier I will be when I finish this dissertation."
Well I did finish. To the delight of some, the amazement of others. When people ask how long it took me to do my Ph.D., I simple say, "the Regan administration" and leave it at that. Judy sent out invitations to my graduation that began "The announcement you've all been waiting for…" Commencement exercises were held the 22nd day of May in the year 1988. I attended but gave no speech.
So the end is where we start from.
Not long after that, another pivotal event appeared on my professional horizon. I came up for promotion and tenure, a critical juncture in the life a professor when the employer decides whether, as we like to say, you go "up or out."
And so once again I found myself thinking thoughts quite similar to those I entertained in my ABD years. Won't life be much better once I clear this hurdle? Will it not be better to have this increased measure of security? To remove the uncertainty, to resolve the tension?
What I am of course describing here is what one of my divinity school professors has called life on the verge. A sense or expectation that a better or richer or fuller life is just around the corner or just slightly beyond one's reach. If we can just close this chapter, the next one offers so much more. And it often seems so tantalizingly close.
There is a Biblical parallel for this found in John's Gospel. Where we are told that
There is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethzatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralyzed. One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there for a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me in the pool, when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked. (John 5:2-9)
Clearly the dramatic climax is the man's healing, but what lingers is my mind I the 38 years that this man apparently spent on the verge.
The seminary professor I previously mentioned has written about this passage in a wonderful little book called Minister on the Spot. Jim Dittes draws an interesting connection between the lame man's status and the challenge of serving in ministry. He writes:
Thirty-eight years must be close to the average length of a man's ministry. How many of those years are spent on the verge? How many of those years are spent waiting and watching, waiting for the extra help, the extra training, the extra experience, the right moment, the right circumstances which will immerse one fully in God's healing work… (p. 2)
We observe in our Gospel story that the lame man wants carried down into the pool where he believes he will find healing. It doesn't seem like a lot to ask. Just a bit of help, he's almost there, right on the verge.
Of course, that is not at all what happens. That is not how he is restored. Dittes extends and applies this to that minister on the spot, who is, I suspect, like many ministers, like many of us. He says, simply to us all:
There is no such thing as being on the verge. It only feels that way. Either be sick where you are, or else there, where you are, "Take up your pallet and walk…" Wherever you are, however you are, you are living as fully in the world, you are exercising as complete a ministry as you ever will.
Well, graduates, take note of how I have just used my old seminary professor to get a leg-up into this address. It is a deft maneuver that you may consider using at some point in the future. But let me now see if I can't bring a little more of Jim Fisher and, shall we say, his business sensibilities into the mix. I want to offer a brief meditation on why we often get "stuck," and feel ourselves living on the verge.
I take as my text, Jesus' parable of the talents. At the core of this story is a sort of economics lesson. As my friends in the economics department down the street would tell you, all economics is really about two things: choice and scarcity. And so the basic economic question is how will you allocate the resources you hold, scarce as they inevitably are?
And this takes us down another well-trod path in business and economics the age-old consideration of risk, on the one hand, versus return, on the other. It seems whenever we make decisions there is a fundamental kind of determination we make as we weigh potential risk and possible rewards.
So most of us make our decisions with a kind of split sensibility–looking with one eye at the reward we desire and with the other at the risk we can accept. But then how do we actually make decisions?
The parable of the talents offers guidance and a warning about our choices, about the talents given to us and their application in the world.
Simply put, the parable suggests that we undervalue what we have and, at the same time, overvalue what we lack. I can tell you that in my experience as a teacher the most substantial challenge I face in preparing students for the tasks and responsibilities of management is not in the transmission of knowledge and the development of skills, but in the application of that knowledge and skill, to use their talents, if you will, that they have been given.
Managers and executive are paid and frequently paid quite well because at the end of the day, they make good business decisions. They frequently make these decisions under the pressure of time, money and incomplete information.
Some can't do it. Some suffer, like the invalid at the pool of Bethzatha, unable to move quickly enough. Only it is what we in the business world call paralysis by analysis. A little more time, a little more money, a little more information, then the course of action, the right decision will be clear.
So I don't tell my students much, certainly not what to think or what to do. I have my own parables–actually we call them case studies–and I drop my students unceremoniously into the midst of a story and ask them what will you do? How will you do it? And then, simply, why?
And I must tell you it is work to get them to take a position. Most are reluctant to say what they would do. Many are uncomfortable making a decision, even a simulated one, because they are unsure, afraid they might be wrong.
And this I think is the other great truth of the parable, that the root cause of our fear–our paralysis, our willingness to remain on the verge–is the specter of failure.
We undervalue what we have and overvalue what we lack. And in a perverse way, I think, we really overvalue failure–avoiding even the risk of it on so many occasions. Like the poor servant in the parable we bury our talent deep–after all we don't really have the knack our master did for managing. Best not to risk so much when our own resources seem so meager. Why are so many of us afraid of failure?
Here at commencement, at the beginning as we look to the future with hope, with anticipation, with the expectations of accomplishment and, yes, success, let me just stop say a good word or two about failure.
First, not much of significance gets done without failure. Jim Burke, the former CEO of Johnson & Johnson is a sort of lion in the field of business ethics. He was responsible for the fortunes of Tylenol in the 1980′s when tampering with the product resulted in the death of several consumers. He is widely credited with doing the right thing in recalling the product from the store shelves and eventually producing a tamper-resistant product.
He tells an interesting story about coming up through the ranks at Johnson & Johnson as a product manager. One of his first new product introductions was a product called Chest Rub. The product failed and he was summoned to the office of the then Chairman, himself a Johnson as in Johnson & Johnson, who was known simply as the General.
Burke has observed that as he walked over to the General's office "I was convinced I was going to be fired. And I was kind of excited about it, because I thought you gave it your best shot–at least this company has the decency to have the Chairman of the Board fire you." He walked into the General's office and found him dictating memos. The General stopped and picked up a piece of paper and asked, "Are you Mr. Burke?" "Yes, I am, sir." "It says here that you were responsible for this new product. Is that right? "Yes, sir, it is." "It also says here that this product failed and cost us several $100,000s. Is that right?" "That is correct." The General extended his hand to Jim Burke and shook it saying, "Mr. Burke, I want to congratulate you for making that mistake. Make sure that you make other mistakes. But, Mr. Burke, don't make that mistake again."
The General said what he did only in part for the benefit of Burke. He told him to make other mistakes, but not that mistake knowing that he would tell that story to others and that that story would contribute to a stronger and better company. I have heard Jim Burke say with such conviction in his voice, "You can't build anything without a lot of failure. You really can't; it's just impossible."
Let's also say this about failure or the fear of failure: the associations with which we surround it, the expectations we attach to it–are typically much worse than the experience itself and its eventual aftermath.
David Myers, who teaches psychology at, appropriately enough, Hope College, observes that people think they know what will really make them happy and really make them unhappy, seeking the former and trying to dodge the latter. But his studies and research show that emotions–both positive and negative–really have a relatively short half-life. Even those difficult emotions connected with failure and loss tend to rebound quicker than we might image.
When I heard Professor Myers talk he illustrated this point with the example of promotion and tenure. It turns out studies have been made of professors over time and, you know, those who did not get tenure were not lastingly devastated, indeed, they are doing quite well emotionally, and those who did get tenure, well, they are not doing any better emotionally speaking. And lest you think I am just obsessing about things academic, these findings even extend into issues having to do with illness and disability and material prosperity. David Myers punctuated his talk with these words from the psalmist: "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning" (Ps. 30:5).
And so we undervalue what we have and overvalue what we lack. Maybe among the things we undervalue are the stories we carry around with us and within us. As you go out into ministry, as you go out to tell The Story, you must also let your own life speak. God will use it, often independent of your intention or expectation.
Over twenty-five years ago I was in seminary. I had many fine teachers, one in particular taught theology and he had a gift for clarity and a warm and sympathetic way about him. He was thoughtful and generous with students. I think it was in my second year in divinity school that the community was devastated by the news that his wife had taken her own life. As I subsequently sat in class and listened to him talk about God I often wondered about the connection between his theology and the circumstances of loss in his own life. But he never drew that connection, at least not explicitly or in my hearing.
Then about a year and a half ago, I returned to Yale Divinity School for convocation and what also served as the 25th anniversary of my own commencement. One thing in particular that drew me back was that the former professor of mine, still active, was among the featured speakers, offering a series of lectures on the theme of redemption. At the heart of these lectures, as I learned through my subsequent presence and my hearing, was the story of a family, a family whose youngest son was suddenly stricken by a serious illness, nearly dying, and then recovering, but only partially and with significant disabilities that strained to the point of breaking the family's ability to cope.
Although he told this story in the third person as if an account about some other family he once knew, I myself knew as I sat there and listened that the story was his own. It was a story of suffering and loss but also one of faith and the possibility of redemption and it penetrated me to my core.
He concluded his lecture and I had to leave the chapel immediately to catch a flight to St. Louis. I could not reach the professor before I left to tell him what his lectures had meant to me. And so I walked away with a close friend and former classmate of mine. I asked Ed, the classmate, to tell the professor how much his words had meant to me. He said he would do that but Ed also told me gently and firmly that I should write him and tell him in my own words.
And I did. Here in part is what I wrote:
Dear Professor, It was a pleasure to see you this past October, when I returned to New Haven and YDS for my 25th class reunion. So much can and does transpire in twenty-five years, but as I sat in the pew with my friends the distance in years seemed slight. Reunions seem to invite one to consider the relationship between who one is and who one used to be. Certainly I did this, frequently finding my memories colored by a sense of loss. There is, as your lecture observed, the temptation to cling to "nostalgia for something that never was." But reality can dissipate this sentiment and so the atmosphere of Marquand Chapel, the grounds of the school, and the presence of people so closely identified with YDS was finally a kind of tonic for me–a rich experience superior to any idealized recollection. But my primary purpose in writing is to tell you how much I benefited from your lectures, how grateful I am for having had the opportunity to–listen is really too passive and pale a word–experience the lectures. Your words–the compelling family story and your consideration of it–seemed so accessible and filled with significance that I was really transfixed throughout. I saw, in my own circumstances, having a son who died last year (named Sam as was the boy in your story), not so much a similarity as a connection to the story. C.S. Lewis writes in the aftermath of his wife's death how such loss shakes one "out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs." I, too, have felt this shift, if not exactly erosion, in the substantiality of what I believe or perhaps its relevance in the face of real loss. For me, your lectures embodied this experience, the suffering that attends to loss, and also offered guidance–a warning, even–as we seek to evade or otherwise dull a harsh reality.
Dear Professor,
It was a pleasure to see you this past October, when I returned to New Haven and YDS for my 25th class reunion. So much can and does transpire in twenty-five years, but as I sat in the pew with my friends the distance in years seemed slight.
Reunions seem to invite one to consider the relationship between who one is and who one used to be. Certainly I did this, frequently finding my memories colored by a sense of loss. There is, as your lecture observed, the temptation to cling to "nostalgia for something that never was." But reality can dissipate this sentiment and so the atmosphere of Marquand Chapel, the grounds of the school, and the presence of people so closely identified with YDS was finally a kind of tonic for me–a rich experience superior to any idealized recollection.
But my primary purpose in writing is to tell you how much I benefited from your lectures, how grateful I am for having had the opportunity to–listen is really too passive and pale a word–experience the lectures. Your words–the compelling family story and your consideration of it–seemed so accessible and filled with significance that I was really transfixed throughout. I saw, in my own circumstances, having a son who died last year (named Sam as was the boy in your story), not so much a similarity as a connection to the story.
C.S. Lewis writes in the aftermath of his wife's death how such loss shakes one "out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs." I, too, have felt this shift, if not exactly erosion, in the substantiality of what I believe or perhaps its relevance in the face of real loss. For me, your lectures embodied this experience, the suffering that attends to loss, and also offered guidance–a warning, even–as we seek to evade or otherwise dull a harsh reality.
I then closed with an acknowledgement of how I still felt very much like a divinity school student, "deriving his inspiration from his professors. I am grateful," I wrote, "for this connection, for the opportunity to see you again and to keep alive our former communion."
I finished this speech last night at about 6:00 pm. I hit the print button and, on a whim, went to my filing cabinet. In the very back of one drawer was a file marked "Miscellaneous" and there is was, my 1971 commencement speech. It was a carbon copy and the carbon itself was so degraded that the two pages were essentially blank. If you held it up to the light you could see the imprint of the letters. I could just make out the title; it was "Fear of Failure." That I should return to that topic here tonight perhaps shows an astonishing lack of range. But perhaps also some truth to the poet's observation that
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. –Four Quartets: "Little Gidding"
Here at commencement, let us all begin, as if for the first time.
Rise, take up your pallet and walk.


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Drawing was central to George Lambert's art - he remarked that "My one idea ... was to be a good painter. To become a good painter, I had to become a good draughtsman, so I became a good draughtsman ...". 'Light horse veteran' is a frank and moving portrayal of a respected elder that powerfully captures both the personality of the subject while revealing Lambert's sympathy for him. The Gallery has a significant collection of drawings by George Lambert, numbering fifty works in all.
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John Baily', Fifth Adelaide Festival of Arts 1968: Special exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 'George Washington Lambert', pg. 27-28, Adelaide, 1968, 32. cat.no. 81; titled 'The Light Horse Veteran'
Anne Gray, Art on view, 'George W Lambert retrospective: heroes & icons', pg. 6-15, Canberra, Winter 2007, 14 (illus.).
Sandra Jane, Art is ... making, creating and appreciating 2, Milton, 1999, 43 (illus.).
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 33 (illus.). cat.no. 18
Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 607 [Gallery No. 5], titled 'The Light Horse veteran'
John Young and Henry Gibbons, The Sydney Art School retrospective exhibition 1890-1933, Sydney, 1933. cat.no. 8, titled 'The Light Horse Veteran'
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George Lambert, 1873-1930: drawings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Feb 1993–02 May 1993
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
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