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Deep in the stillness of winter, go outside and listen to the silence. Stay long enough in the quiet to take a slight chill. Then take yourself inside, and give the glowing coals in the fireplace the attention they deserve.
Embers beret, with a cabled lower band you work flat, then graft. Rib the bottom edge, pick up along the top edge, then work the crown. Add leaves and cord to support a gorgeous furnace glass button. Take your own heat with you wherever you go
This pattern is available exclusively as part of the Embers Kit (including yarn, pattern and furnace glass button), from Dicentra Designs.
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Eliza Thomas's The Red Blanket
Illustrated by Joe Cepeda
Children's book review by Suzanne Edison.
Ages 5+
A caring picture book about cross-cultural adoption
When I was about 5 years old my favorite 'blankie' disappeared. I was heartbroken and though we searched for it everywhere, it was never found.
It was my greatest comfort from the crib to a big girl bed. That is why, before I visited my soon-to-be adopted baby from Latin America, I asked a friend to make a special baby blanket. I took that blanket to my baby's foster mother and gave it to my daughter at 2 weeks old.
I couldn't bring her home then but I wanted her to have something from me that might also be her comfort, something that would accompany her back to our home 5 months later.
In The Red Blanket a woman, in her mid-40's, wants to adopt a child. She pursues an adoption from China, waiting a long time for the process to come to completion. Joe Cepeda illustrates this well as we see mom's letters to adoption agencies flying from her hands through the air out the window. Waiting is a common, international adoption feature.
Finally, news arrives by mail and mom is told to come to China to get PanPan. She is ecstatic, the letter in her hand is surrounded with yellow light, she's suspended off the ground. She rushes out to buy things the baby needs including a red blanket.
But the first few days with a newly adopted child or baby from another culture are not always easy.
The baby is used to hearing a different language, used to different smells, sights and ways of being touched. Bonding isn't always instantaneous.
After leaving the orphanage with her baby, the mother in The Red Blanket discovers that PanPan is distressed. She cries and won't look at her.
Mom does everything she knows of to comfort her child. She sings lullabies, carries her, talks to her about all the things she sees there in China. She tells her who and what are waiting for her at home in America.
Perhaps to comfort herself, (and all of us adoptive mothers reading this story to our children), she tells PanPan that she too is in a new situation.
Nothing seems to soothe PanPan and then mom remembers the blanket and wraps her in it. We don't really know why, and this is the one weakness in the story, but instantly the baby stops crying. In close-up, Cepeda's thickly layered oil paintings show that mother is happy, the red blanket spills out across two pages and baby PanPan reaches out to grab mom's finger. If only it was that easy.
Maybe it was truly that way for this mother. Could I be envious? I remember well the times my daughter cried for hours, how I would sing and rock and dance with her until both of us were exhausted and she finally dropped off to sleep lying on my chest. No magic there but time.
Most of the story is told in the past tense, answering an adopted child's often asked question, "How did I come to be your child," or like the title of another well known adoption story, "Tell me again about the night I was born".
Now 9 years old, my daughter still loves this book. Her baby blanket is a dark fuchsia pink, almost like PanPan's. She too carries it with her everywhere. She sleeps with it behind her pillow at night and like PanPan's, it has been 'loved' much and is worn and repaired.
But I would never dream of taking it away from her, as I suspect my mother did. It is the one thing she has had since the first day I laid eyes and hands on her.
It is how I kept my arms around her when I couldn't be with her. And though she allows it to stay behind when she's in school, it is waiting for her when she returns. Maybe The Red Blanket, based on a true story, is as much a comfort as her blanket. She can believe there is someone else in the world like her.
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PS514 4-1-2010 Court system in the United States Litigation - Any time two or more people go to court to resolve a dispute. Adversarial system - In the US we have lawyers going against lawyers in a courtroom. They are adversaries. They are advocating the position of his or her client. Their job isn't to be objective and to weight all the facts in the whole. They have to present the best argument on behalf of their client in court. In the adversarial position, the truth will be somewhere in the middle. The correct legal outcome comes from weighing each lawyer's arguments. The problem also depends on how good your lawyer is. If you have a seasoned attorney and an attorney fresh out of law school, there might be an uneven playing field. Civil Cases - Civil cases can be anything about violation of your rights, labor issues or freedom of travel. Any sort of thing that isn't criminal in nature. The person with the complaint is the plaintiff, who is suing the defendant. In civil cases the plaintiff is seeking monetary compensation or some sort of rule/law to be changed. They want to be treated differently in some shape or form. Criminal Cases - Criminal cases are different. It is prosecutor and defendant. It is the government prosecuting a criminal. Supreme Court These terms refer to lower courts. In the SC, things get a lot more complicated. Whenever a case reaches the US SC, the names of the litigants change. Petitioner - the person who is seeking review by the US SC. If someone is asking the SC to hear a case, that means they want the case to hear the case because they are unhappy with what happened in a lower level court. Generally, the person bringing the case would have lost in the Court of appeals. Even if they receive a partial win and lost on certain issues. They can still ask the SC to hear their case. Respondent - the person who won at the lower level. They are usually satisfied with the lower court outcome. They don't want to have the case heard because they won. Occasionally, (older cases) Appellant (person appealing the case and want the lower court decision reversed) and Appellee (person who is responding to the petition) are used. US Legal System Our legal traditions are derived from Great Britain. They have a legal system based on common law. Common law - judge made law. Before legislatures were in existence, if there was any sort of dispute, people would go to court and judges would have to come up with fair ways of resolving a given case. They would have to come up with clear legal rules to help them resolve the dispute. The idea is that this judge is going to rely on the rationale of a preceding court decision to help resolve the dispute. Judges develop legal rules to help solve a series of cases and whenever a similar situation arises, they make the same rulings. Background When our country was first founded, we didn't have a national court system. The constitution wasn't drafted quite yet. The only courts were state courts and on very rare occasions we had admiralty court. It wasn't until the Constitution was adopted that in Article III we established our national court system. Article III only establishes one single court, the US Supreme Court. Everything else was left up to Congress to create by a matter of statute. Congress theoretically could pass a majority vote to get rid of all courts, Obama could sign the bill and the courts would be gone. The only constitutional role of the chief justice of the US is during impeachments. Federalism Federalism - divide governmental power between state governments and the national government. It ensures stability in power and neither would become too powerful. There are two different sets of powers reserved: Enumerated – generally referred to national government and are spelled out within the constitution. Reserved – powers that are reserved to the states. States have the ability to legislate on issues considered: Police Powers – public health, safety, welfare and morals Domestic relations – marriage, family and divorce. Each state has different requirements about who gets custody of kids, what you need to do to get married or divorced. These are all things that the federal government hasn't had the authority to legislate on so this is something reserved to the states. There is variation across the country. A good example is same sex marriage. Within each state, they have their own body of state law. They can interpret their state laws differently from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Traditionally the federal government does not have the ability to legislate in these areas. We have laboratories of democracy. Different states play around with different policy options and this diffuses other states within the union. Federal Courts We have a three tiered structure US District Courts Trial Courts that first hears a case. Guilty is not in used in civil cases, the term liable is used. Guilty of a crime is used in criminal cases. It is up to the trial courts to rule if someone is liable. They want to establish facts and evidence of case. Ultimately they want to know who is to blame. There are 94 total courts, and they have original jurisdiction. They have the ability to hear a course for the very first time. US DC has judges and one per case Courts of Appeals Everyone has the right to appeal if you are unhappy with the court's decision. You can appeal your case to the US court of appeals. They are concerned with making sure the law and procedures were fair. If you lost because of a bad unconstitutional law, the court of appeal is concerned with your case. They have appellate jurisdiction. Courts of Appeals have judges, there are 13 courts and three judges hear the cases. US Supreme Court Has both original and appellate jurisdiction. Some cases SC will hear a case for the very first time. Best example of original jurisdiction at US SC is when one state sues another state. Usually this has to do with boundary disputes, natural resources and things of that nature. A few years back NY v. NJ had a dispute over who owned a section of Ellis Island. 9 Justices sit to hear the cases. They are not judges, but JUSTICES.
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Beyond MPI's mandate
Re: It's about keeping a lid on MPI rates: Swan (Nov. 2). Andrew Swan can't understand why Conservative leader Brian Pallister would reject an MPI investment in road infrastructure out of hand. I don't know where to start in response, but road repair is not one of their mandates.
Canada's Motor Fuel Act was implemented specifically to raise funds from the users of the roads, bridges, etc. to maintain them. Research shows that between 33 and 55 per cent of the cost of fuel, depending on locale, is excise tax. There hasn't been one governing party that has put the billions collected annually wholly towards infrastructure.
Let's start here -- all motor fuel taxes strictly for infrastructure. The rest becomes moot.
Re: Apply brakes to MPI (Oct. 30). If MPI indeed "should stick to the business of providing coverage at the lowest cost possible," then it is in the best interests of ratepayers to fund infrastructure improvements. This does not mean a routine resurfacing of Henderson Highway, but targeted safety improvements such as new left-turn lanes.
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), has operated a road-improvement program since 1990. Over that time, they have invested more than $100 million in infrastructure safety improvements. The result has been a reduction in collision frequency and severity as well as a net benefit to ICBC's bottom line.
The infrastructure investments had a benefit cost ratio of 12.8 over a five-year service life. This means that for each dollar invested, $12.80 less was paid out in claims. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
MPI's current healthy financial situation affords the corporation a level of security and flexibility. It is therefore an opportune time to include physical road safety improvements as part of MPI's road safety program, to save lives and save money in the long run. With our large infrastructure deficit, this is a win-win deal for everyone.
I am cynical of the contention by MPI that spending resources, which rightly belongs to the people it insures, will reduce claims through increased road safety. It seems that this desire is motivated by the fact that this corporation is running surpluses in the hundreds of millions.
If it was in a deficit, it would no doubt be asking for substantial increase in premiums and I doubt it would be clamouring for the province to increase spending on infrastructure. The government has instituted taxes supposedly for infrastructure. Consequently, those who argue that any infrastructure expenditure by MPI represents another tax have a substantial case.
Instead of trying to find ways to spend huge surpluses, MPI should be looking at its own management to determine if it is discharging its responsibility to the people insures.
Barry Craig, Don Paetkau, Johanna Denesiuk and Cal Paul (Premium misuse, Letters, Oct. 30) are apparently unaware that we have the lowest automobile insurance rates in North America. Similarly, people are continually complaining about Manitoba Hydro, although they give us the lowest electricity rates in North America.
Maybe these people would be happier if these two services were privatized, as is MTS. At least then they would know that, as the rates keep going up and up every month, the extra revenue is going straight to the shareholders and not being wasted on wild-eyed ideas like wireless service to farmers out in the boonies.
I can well understand the need and desire to improve upon our roadways, etc., but until the motorists of this province demonstrate a willingness to improve upon their driving skills and road etiquette in general, no amount of infrastructure renewal will serve to make our streets safer.
Appalling results
Re: PM blasts guards' actions in Smith case (Oct. 30). In his response to Corrections Canada, Stephen Harper is forgetting that it was his own government that set the stage for this horrific incident, with Bill C-10.
The Tories voted against a number of amendments to C-10, including those that would have promoted humane treatment of young persons with mental illness. Instead, we continue to criminalize mental illness, with appalling results.
As a nurse, I am particularly horrified by how Ashley Smith was treated, not only by individuals but by the system.
Worth the outlay
Reading the story Oct. 30 story Desert perfect place for solar power unless you're a turtle reminds me of plans by a U.S. company to replace asphalt roads with solar panels under special, tough-textured glass.
Although more expensive than conventional materials, these modular solar panels would pay their way with solar generated power and are designed to last longer than traditional roads. Being modular, defective panels could be easily replaced as needed.
As a bonus, solar roads in snowy regions would not need to be plowed, since the panels would generate sufficient heat to melt snow falling on them.
Considering there are over 100,000 square kilometres of paved road in the U.S. alone, that would translate into a huge amount of solar power, and desert tortoises could keep their existing habitat.
Equipped to spend
Re: 'Sheriff' Struthers content to continue robbing from poor (Oct. 29), I am surprised to find Shannon Martin, and others on the right, take a sudden interest in "the poor," considering that whenever the government decrees a 25-cent-an-hour minimum wage increase, they holler bloody murder and predict economic collapse.
Of course, as Martin says, a wage increase is revenue neutral for the government. We can't stand for that, can we?
I do agree with the idea of raising the basic personal income tax exemption, but it would have to be done in a way that will not impoverish the government. With reduced funds, it would be hard for the government to maintain such tired old benefits as schools, hospitals and infrastructure, and it would be hard for individuals to provide these amenities for themselves. In these areas, the government is definitely the best equipped to spend our money.
The recommended changes to the basic personal exemption would be revenue neutral to the government if we imposed a corresponding tax increase on those individuals and companies who can best afford to pay it.
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Cliff Harris was dismissed from the Oregon football team Tuesday after violating team rules. Reports speculated those team rules included a citation for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana in Fresno, Calif., on Nov. 25, however that's not been confirmed by the university.
Still, Harris took to his Facebook page to apologize to Ducks fans for "the circumstances that got me kicked off the team."
It's been a bad year for Harris, who started the football season suspended after being ticketed for driving 118 mph with a suspended license in a car that wasn't his. On Oct. 24, he was suspended indefinitely after being cited for driving with a suspended license, without insurance and without a seat belt.
Harris finished his junior season with nine tackles and an interception, which was in stark contrast to his sophomore season that saw him break up 23 passes, average 18.8 yards per punt return and score four punt return touchdowns.
Harris' football future is uncertain. He would have another year of eligibility remaining if he decided to transfer to another FBS school and use a redshirt season to sit out per NCAA transfer eligibility rules. If he were to go to a lower division school, he'd be eligible to play in 2012.
While Harris' Facebook message is a bit cryptic, it will be interesting to see if he does, at some point, come clean about the events that led to his dismissal. At the very least he has a lot of support from Oregon fans: As of this evening, nearly 400 people liked his comment.
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Pretoria - A woman accused of kidnapping and killing a Pretoria police officer will appear in the city's Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old was to have appeared on Tuesday, but the matter was postponed until Wednesday, said Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini. The reason was not known.
The woman was arrested in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday morning.
Major Abram Tselana, 45, was last seen when he went to withdraw R23 000 from a bank in central Pretoria on December 31.
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Pirates notebook: Taillon takes next step in process
The great draft debate of 2010 began with the No. 2 overall pick. The best players available to the Pirates were Manny Machado, the top position prospect remaining in the draft, and Jameson Taillon, the top pitcher.
On Wednesday at PNC Park, Machado started at third base for the Baltimore Orioles. As a 20-year-old last season, Machado was an American League All-Star. Taillon is waking at 6:15 a.m. every day this spring to begin rehab treatments in Bradenton, Fla., after Tommy John surgery.
Wednesday marked an important day in the progress of Taillon, who if he rehabs successfully, figures to be an important part of the Pirates' pitching staff in the second half of 2015 and beyond.
"(Wednesday) is the six-week mark," Taillon said. "I start doing a bunch of shoulder care (Wednesday), which is when the true arm rehab really, really gets going."
The physical rehab is trying.
"Getting that range of motion back in your arm definitely isn't the most comfortable feeling I've ever gone through," Taillon said.
But the mental grind of rehab, being far from teammates and the competition of a regular season, is perhaps more difficult.
To ease the mental lulls of rehab, Taillon purchased a rehab pet, a Pogona lizard, commonly called a bearded dragon, which he has named Francis "TJ" Underwood, a nod to the main character from "House of Cards." Taillon also has begun working on another project: He's compiling a cookbook.
"I've put a lot of time into researching my health and diet. How to shop properly, what to buy, and what to cook with. I've already lost 8 pounds just by cleaning up my diet," Taillon said.
"People always talk about coming back stronger from Tommy John. I don't think it's just the surgery — that might have something to do with it — but I can already tell by the weight program I've been put on, and the cardio program, the arm care program I've been put on, those three things have me feeling extremely strong. You take into account that I'm cleaning up diet and that will pay a dividend in the end."
Grilli could be back Saturday
Pirates closer Jason Grilli (oblique) completed back-to-back days of simulated games Wednesday without issue. Grilli pronounced himself ready to face major league batters and pegged Saturday as a potential date to return from the disabled list.
"(Saturday) is a realistic possibility," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "The fastball velocity was of good quality."
Martin not far behind Grilli
Pirates catcher Russell Martin (hamstring) caught another bullpen, went through on-field drill work and also took batting practice Wednesday.
"He is of the opinion that he feels better than he did in coming into spring training," Hurdle said. "He's definitely getting very close. He's expressed feelings that he's good to go."
'79 Pirates take the field
The Pirates honored their 1979 team prior to Wednesday's game. This year marks the 35th anniversary of its World Series title. Twenty members of the team were honored on the field before the game, including Dave Parker, who has Parkinson's disease.
"It's a good feeling being back with these guys because the camaraderie we had then, and even today was special," Parker said.
Travis Sawchik is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @Sawchik_Trib.


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Member Review for Oasis of the Seas - March 2011: Oasis of the Seas Cruise Review by mytibt
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Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
My fiance and I have just completed our second cruise and decided to join the forum since we definitely see ourselves as being perpetual cruisers. I am looking forward to meeting many of you and exchanging ideas / experiences.
Having just returned from our voyage on RCI's Oasis, everything is still fresh in my mind, so I figured I would share some not-so-few words about the experience =)
We caught the red-eye out of LA the evening before embarkation and arrived at Ft. Lauderdale at around 10:00 am the following morning. FTL International for me, was a huge improvement over Miami International with respect to the layout, design, and crowds, but keep in mind that the last time I was in Miami was forour first cruise in '09. We caught a cab directly to the cruise terminal (expect the ride to be $15-20 and have ID in hand - there is a checkpoint before entering because the docks are adjacent to a petro plant) and got More checked in, setup within about 30 minutes. Here, compared to Miami, I found the cruise terminal experience to be just as efficient.
We wound up boarding around mid-day and found that all ship amenities, save for the guest rooms, were available and open for business. We checked out the new areas we are read about i.e. Central Park, The Boardwalk, and then headed up to the familiar Windjammer Cafe for a quick bite.
Embarkation was at 4:15 pm EST and this was where I preferred Miami over Ft. Lauderdale. The Miami departure takes the ship along a major freeway (not familiar with the area and not sure which one) whereby the people in cars wave to the ship...sometimes out of their windows, sometimes out of their sunroof, but there is definitely a cool dynamic going on.
We had an interior balcony cabin which overlooked the new Central Park area. This is similiar to a garden view at a hotel, with more exposure to noise from guests and music that I prefer. I like to be in the 'mix' or center of the action - however, if you prefer the quieter balcony space, I would recommend sticking with ocean view, which also gives you nice views of ports when embarking.
Cabin size was no different from the Freedom, although the Oasis upgraded to the nicer LCD TVs. The main complaint is with the safe, which only accomodates a Kindle, but is too small for an iPad.
I won't go into all of the different things you can do on-board since you can read the same information from RCI's website. What I will say is that Oasis is much more kid / family friendly due to the Boardwalk feature which has a multitude of activities for the kids. As an FYI, the Boardwalk (and ajacent Aqua Pool) are at the aft / rear end of the ship. This said, there is also a larger adult are, compared to the Freedom, called The Solarium. This is located on the bow end and is a great way to see port entries.
My fiance and I are adult travelers and really only used the Boardwalk to get to Johnny Rockets and the Aqua Pool. There is also a stairwell to a rear deck past the Aqua that allows you a clear view of ports when embarking (if the ship has docked back-in).
Outside of the aforementioned, Oasis also has one zip-line and a second rock climbing wall (that was closed most of the time since it was not needed). All other activities were very similar to those provided on The Freedom, though since it is wider and higher, has more space for bars i.e. On Air and booths through the Promenade.
Contary to The Freedom which at the time, featured more frequent and smaller productions, The Oasis cast (to us at least) was comprised of higher calibur actors, singers, acrobats, etc. They performed the Broadway musical, Hairspray over a three night period, in addition to a couple other aerial and water acrobat shows. The latter had the feel of Cirque de Soleil type performances. I can honestly say that Hairspray was equivalent to some of the other productions I've seen at the Pantages / Ahmanson / similar theaters in LA.
DINING and DRINKS
Windjammer Cafe - MUCH better than what was offered on the Freedom. The meat was tender in almost all cases and pasta was excellent (cooked to al dente, an except for the large shell pasta which did not have enough filling). I highly recommend the lamb and some of the Indian cuisine. We ate here for the majority of meals.
Park Cafe - Nice healthy fair. Good salads, and pretty good quesadillas. FYI, the chorizo is not really that, but more of a Hilshire Farm type deal. Nonetheless, if you prefer a guilt-freer meal, this is the place. Standard coffee and tea are free, while specialty coffees are available at a premium. There is an outdoor bar about 20 steps down. Several butterflies have been given homes aboard and will land on your food from time to time - please DO NOT kill them!
Izumi - For me, VERY hit and miss. While the gyoza, salad, and soup were delicious, the nigiri / sashimi was watered down. Also, the rolls were not created to what would be considered traditional. I would recommend against going here.
150 Park Central - A very whimisical, yet elegant decor for one of the more posh restaurants aboard. As an FYI, the menu is 6 - 8 course prie fixe and you have the option to add wine pairing at the time. You do not need to book pairings ahead of time. Wine selection was decent and the main proteins, scallops / beef were cooked perfectly to my order. This said, not all courses were mind-blowing and a few were just OK. The head chef (who is a real cool dude) comes around to meet and greet all tables.
We did not use room service / main dining nor go to Chops Grille, Giovanni's Table, or Vintages.
DEFINITELY one area where Freedom destroys and pulverizes Oasis. Personally, I make hotel gyms a part of the vacation experience and have enjoyed many domestically / abroad. However, compared to Freedom Gym which overlooks the ocean where you can see sunrises / sunsets, the Oasis Gym has been parked on a lower deck with portholes out. Replacing the gym on the Oasis, is The Solarium which I can understand will have stronger mass appeal, but for people like me, is disappointing.
I was constantly bumping into people when using free weights and could not wait to get my workout over with. Equipment wise, everything is clean and state of the art, but there is something to be said about ambience, even with workouts.
Another mentionable is the fact that the track has been moved to a lower deck. If you are used to other RCI ships where the track is on the top deck, then be aware that you will be running next to the life boats. I actually prefer this though, because there's nothing nastier than sunbathing with someone sweating on you.
Excellent as I have come to expect from the first Freedom cruise. Our cabin attendant was very friendly and somewhat of a historian of the world, which is no surprise since he has seen so much of it.
No complaints about the wait staff whatsoever.
PREFERENCE: NONE Less
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Cabin review:
- Good sized cabin - Needs larger safe
Port and Shore Excursions
SALSA, SALSA, AND MARGARITAS ============================ I should proceed this review by saying that I was really reluctant to book Salsa and Salsa for one of our cruise excursions in Cozumel. However, after a lot of coaxing from my fiancé I finally gave in and in hindsight, must admit that I probably had even more fun than she did.
As some of the reviewers have described, the excursion begins with a quick change into the chef's apron, hat, and a brief intro before segueing into the mixing of a Margie on the rocks. Afterward, everyone works in groups of two, to prep, combine, and customize a series of seven salsas. You are given chips and quesadillas to test out your concoctions. I highly recommend volunteering when offered as it only adds to the experience and fun. Finally, they day is concluded with instruction on the basic Salsa dance steps and a dance-off.
Our activity coordinators or "dancing chefs" as they are known (Pamela and Amanda) were awesome, funny, and high energy. They accommodated our group of about 30 people, giving personal attention to all while keeping things moving. I learned during the tour, that they have worked with groups as large as a hundred participants. Especially neat, was their ability to turn table strangers into "friends" - an extension, no doubt, of their personalities. Equally friendly and efficient was the wait staff who made sure our glasses were always full and ingredients replenished.
I highly recommend this event if you have the time - you won't be disappointed.
"Artisans" were overly aggressive and all sold the same thing, booth to booth. What was particularly disturbing was the fact that while one salesperson was speaking to you, another would be trying to pull you to their booth.
If you are 'forced' to port in Labadee, check out Dragon's Breath for some majestic views. The point gets its name from the waves that cause 'hissing' through rock crevasses.
While in Jamaica, we participated in two excursions:
DUNN'S RIVER FALLS ================== The Falls in itself is beautiful and set upon a lush and green backdrop of tropical trees and foliage and thus, the three stars for my review is for the excursion and not the natural beauty that is Dunn's River.
The climb is basically an easy ascent up a "stair of rocks" as i refer to it. I realize that easy is a relative term, but really, the only aspect which made it challenging was the fact that the rocks are wet. Between the slow moving human chain, a pre-determined path, and the fact that large foot holes are filled in by sandbags, safety is not a major concern. Personally, I would have liked to have had the option of choosing among different paths up of varying difficulty to make the excursion more enjoyable.
Contrary to some of the reviews, you do not need water shoes. In fact, I found that my breathable Adidas running shoes (sockless) offered more traction. The water shoes are there more for those who do not want to get their sneakers wet. In fact, I saw a couple people climbing in Crocs, which I personally wouldn't recommend.
Finally, our guides were friendly and accommodating. They carried a few of my fellow climbers' cameras, keeping them dry, and taking photos at designated scenic points on their behalf. All in all, the day was fine, just not great - I would definitely return to the Falls, but more so as a photog than a climber.
DOLPHIN ENCOUNTER ================= We were a bit apprehensive prior to booking this excursion, with regard to the conditions in which the dolphins are kept. However, after reading a number of positive reviews, we decided to book and were happy to find that these reviews were in fact, quite accurate. Firstly, the dolphins are kept in a large lagoon type area with ample space to swim and play. More importantly though, in speaking with the handlers / trainers, I learned that they are very knowledgeable and seemed to truly care for the animals.
We did the full swim experience which included the dorsal pull, kiss, and swim by. The water time was about 30 minutes and there is a photographer / videographer filming throughout. DVDs and image CDs are available for purchase afterward and they take all major credit cards. We paid $109.00 for the DVD and the all photos.
Following the excursion and lunch, we returned to the pool to find all of the dolphins (5 of them) playing together, which was nice to see since they deserved a break as well. Budget about 2-3 hours for the outing and have a great time.
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Opposite Field Power
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This season, there are 17 players who are 26 or younger who have hit at least 10 home runs. Of those home runs, it's not surprising a majority of them have gone to the hitter's pull field. There are a couple of hitters though, who have flashed the occasional power to the opposite field. Studies have shown roughly a quarter of all home runs fly to the hitter's opposite field (and center field) with the remaining three-fourths going to the pull field. Young players who own opposite field power are legit. Those are the ones to keep an eye on going forward. Here are three I've been watching:
Drew Stubbs - 10 HR (1 inside the park), 4 to the opposite field
With 10 home runs in the season's first two and a half months, Stubbs is on pace to match his total output of 22 long balls from last season. The difference between this year and last however, is the right-handed hitting Stubbs is now hitting for more power to the opposite field. Of his 10 home runs on the season, nine of them left the park (his last home run on June 17 was an inside the park number.) Of those nine that have sailed over the fence, four of them - or 45 percent - have gone to the opposite field.
From ESPN Home Run Tracker (aka HitTracker), here are the landing spots of Stubbs's home runs. The plot in center field is the one that stayed in the park.
Stubbs showed some signs of this opposite field power last summer, but not at a rate like this. In 2010, five of his 22 home runs went to the opposite field.
Stubbs is on pace to again bash 22 home runs. What's interesting about this is that he's doing it while hitting fewer fly balls as a percentage of balls in play.
Holding Stubbs back from becoming an elite fantasy player is his contact rate. He's putting the bat on the ball in only 73 percent of his swings when league average is roughly 80 percent. He's only putting about a quarter of the pitches he sees for strikes into play, which is again below the league average of 30 percent. These rates are all within Stubbs's career norms. That means even with a robust .354 BABIP, his overall average remains low at .261. Fortunately, Stubbs may be one of those hitters who will always post a lofty batting average on balls in play.
Not only is the average not going up any time soon for Stubbs, we have to hold our collective breath that he doesn't go on a streak where he hits a bunch of balls directly at fielders who can turn them into outs. If that happens, his average will drop faster than Pets.com stock.
Because Stubbs isn't a bona fide "power hitter," there will be lean stretches. In fact, he's just coming off of one where he failed to leave the yard in 105 plate appearances from May 13 to June 4. During that stretch, he managed just six doubles and a .306 slugging percentage. Since then, he's hit three home runs (one of those was the inside the park number) and posted a .456 slugging. Much better.
While Stubbs isn't a prototypical power hitter, his opposite field numbers show the power he owns is very real. If he can nudge his fly ball rate into the upper 30 percent range, he shouldn't have any trouble maintaining his current home run rate. That would give him somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 home runs for the season, and I'd probably even take the over on that number. Stubbs won't finish the season as a 30-30 hitter, but he'll be knocking on that door.
Andrew McCutchen - 10 HR, 3 to the opposite field
The right-handed hitting McCutchen hit a career-high 16 home runs for the Pirates last year, so he's already over 60 percent of the way to matching that total with more than half the season remaining. One thing to note about his home run total last season, though, was that all were hit to his pull field. This season, he's adjusted his swing and has begun to generate some power to right.
Unlike Stubbs, McCutchen has never had difficulty making contact on a consistent basis. He puts 29 percent of his total strikes into play (which is right around league average) and owns an 81 percent contact rate. That means he hasn't been as dependent upon BABIP. For the season, McCutchen has a .319 BABIP, which is perfectly aligned with his career rate of .318.
In fact, consistency has been McCutchen's calling card almost from the beginning. Check his slash line through his first three seasons.
Nothing spectacular… Just steady improvement, for the most part, from year to year.
This year though, he's rediscovered his power stroke. After smacking 47 extra base hits with a .185 ISO in 493 plate appearances as a rookie, he regressed to 56 extra base hits in 653 plate appearances in his sophomore season, dropping his ISO to .163. This season, he has 27 extra base hits in 311 plate appearances, enough to push his ISO back to .185–where it was his rookie season. With McCutchen, it's about the modest gains.
One area where he's really taken a leap forward is in his home run per fly ball rate. In each of his two previous seasons, he parked on 8.8 percent. This season, McCutchen owns an 11.8 percent HR/FB rate. Normally, a blip in HR/FB rate isn't worth mentioning. In this case, with the emergence of opposite field pop, this is now a situation worth monitoring.
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Alex Avila - 9 HR, 4 to the opposite field
Since Stubbs technically has nine over-the-wall home runs, I figured I could expand the search a bit.
Avila flashed promise during a late season call-up in 2009 when he bashed five home runs in just 72 plate appearances. Last year, he struggled to find that stroke as he managed only seven long balls in 333 plate appearances. Not surprising, his ISO lost 200 points from his first to second season. Of course, it's easy to discount his opening salvo against big league pitching as a small sample size aberration.
This year, however, Avila has shown that maybe there was something to that small-sample outburst as he's collected an extra base hit in just over 11 percent of all plate appearances, nudging his ISO to .235. Plus, as HitTracker shows, he's distributing his home runs equally among the bleacher creatures.
Last season, he posted just a 35 percent fly ball rate with a nine percent HR/FB. This year, he's hitting more balls in the air (43 percent fly ball rate), and he's boosted his HR/FB to just north of 13 percent. Maybe his offensive surge isn't all that surprising, given that of his seven home runs he hit last year, four were to the opposite field. He just needed to get the ball in the air more.
In the American League, catchers are hitting a collective .235/.304/.375. Avila is hitting .305/.375/.540, making him one of the top performers at his position. I think, given the demands of the full season behind the plate and with the emergence of his opposite field power, we're looking at a candidate to set up shop in the neighborhood of 20 home runs for the next several seasons.
Craig Brown is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Warren Ridge Yarnall, 84, formerly of Kennett Square, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, at his home in Section, Ala., with his wife and two daughters at his side.
Warren was born Feb. 7, 1926, in West Grove, the youngest child of William Martin and Miriam Ridge Yarnall of Chester County.
He lived and worked his entire life in Kennett Square until his retirement. He moved to Section, Ala., in 2001, a small town on Sand Mountain in Jackson County, overlooking the Tennessee River.
Warren was attending the Kennett Consolidated High School (class of 1944) when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy for the duration of World War II. He was an air crewman trained as an aviation radioman second class and naval air gunner for the PB4Y1 bomber.
During his life he worked as a contractor, township assessor, electrician and in the mushroom industry.
He was active in the Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees) through the late 1950s and 1960s, serving as vice president and then president in 1961. He was the first area Jaycee to receive the "Key Man Award" for outstanding work.
He was also a member of the Lions Club and a life member of the Kennett Grange #19.
Warren is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years, Teckla Blocksom Yarnall; his daughters, Karen Y. Pannell (husband Terry J. Sauerbrey) and Teckla D. Logan, both of Section, Ala.; his sons, Warren Jr. of Arizona, David A. (wife Connie) of Avondale, William M. (wife Karen) of Oxford, Howard B. (wife Rosalind) of Cochranville and Richard C. (wife Piper) of Lawrenceville, Ga.; 18 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and his sister, Margaret Y. Martinez of Wilmington, Del.
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Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden all were active in the practice, each trying to make one of the 12 spots on the roster that will be brought to London for the Olympics. There are 15 total players in the pool for Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski to select from, and the Thunder trio hopes to get the chance to compete for their country by proving their mettle on the court this week.
"We tried to get our legs into it," Harden said. "I think all the guys are trying to get their legs back and get into a groove and get on the same page. It's fun."
While Durant talked about using this time to get back into his basketball form after the brief respite between the NBA Finals and now, Harden said that he wants to use this time to continue to get better as a player and Westbrook said he hopes to learn and find ways to help his team win, no matter what the role.
"It feels good, especially for me to be able to run up and down a little bit," Westbrook said. "It's a great opportunity for us and it's a blessing. I'm just trying to learn. These guys won an Olympic gold medal before in Athens so I'm just trying to learn and get better."
With Thunder Head Coach Scott Brooks in attendance, all three players made an impact on the floor as they took on Select Team members like Kyrie Irving, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Gordon Hayward and DeJuan Blair. Seconds after the scrimmage started, Harden made a steal at the top of the key and slammed it home which earned a standing cheer from National Team member Tyson Chandler.
Later, Harden was seen talking strategy with Rudy Gay and taking some advice from LeBron James. Simply having that collection of talent and basketball knowledge in one spot was a thrill for Harden.
"It's fun, you're playing with the best guys in the world, just competing against them," Harden said. "Obviously I go against Kevin and Russell every single day in practice, but now you have LeBron (James) and Carmelo (Anthony) and Chris Paul and a different variety of guys that are great. It's definitely been an exciting experience for me."
No quarter was given on either side during the scrimmages, as Irving wrapped up Kobe Bryant to prevent a fast break opportunity, players dove on the floor and Blake Griffin took a charge. Westbrook was seemingly all over the court as well, getting out in transition on back-to-back plays for layups, then setting up a nice run of play for Durant, who knocked down consecutive buckets before getting a "hockey assist" on a post feed to Griffin who found Carmelo Anthony for a layup.
The most exciting part of the Team USA experience, however, is the fact that he gets to share it with Westbrook and Harden.
"Just being here with USA basketball is an unbelievable honor," Durant said. "I'm just glad I got this opportunity... Those are my teammates and my brothers. To have them out here going through this whole experience with me is a blessing. So I'm looking forward to the next day."
While Durant and Westbrook have international basketball experience from their playing days in the World Championships in 2010, this is Harden's first time working with the National team. The ever-so-slightly older duo of Durant and Westbrook helped Krzyzewski's squad bring home the gold medal in Turkey two summers ago, and each have confidence that the 22-year old Harden will work as hard as possible to presumably join them on the final 12-man squad.
"He knows what he has to do, he's a basketball player and he's a smart basketball player," Durant said.
After tomorrow's practice, Team USA will hold a press conference at the Wynn Hotel to announce which 12 players from the pool of Durant, Westbrook, Harden, James, Anthony, Paul, Chandler, Bryant, Gay, Griffin, Anthony Davis, Andre Iguodala, Kevin Love, Eric Gordon and Deron Williams will be on the team moving forward. Regardless of whether all three of the Thunder players will be joining the team in London, getting to experience this together as teammates and friends means a ton to the trio.
"These are my guys," Harden said. "I'm with them every single day and now being with them and with the other best players in the world, it's definitely a dream come true. Hopefully I can make the team and enjoy that experience with them."


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During October, I start finding drawings of jack-o-lanterns, haunted houses, bat attacks and grotesque witches all over the house, which my kids draw in anticipation of Halloween. Some of these spooky scenes are quite elaborate, and we hang them up to do double-duty as Halloween decorations. Therefore, when I saw that we had recently added the new Ralph Masiello's Halloween Drawing Book to our collection at the library, I put it on hold right away so our family could check it out.
Many people find one of the most enjoyable aspects of Halloween to be the myriad creatures associated with it. Legendary villains such as Dracula, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein, and zombies of all stripes emerge on or about October 31st in the forms of costumes, films, and books. America's tendency to associate such creatures with Halloween is so embedded in our culture that we frequently forget that most of these creatures—or at least the versions of them we best remember—are relatively recent creations that are often less than two centuries old. This series explores the origins and evolution of Halloween's and Hollywood's best-loved ghouls and beasts.
October brings a month chock-full of Halloween events for all ages. Whether you are looking for a costume parade or chill-inducing stories, the library has you covered!
You want to make Halloween sweet and spooky fun for your family. But you're too clever (and too strapped for time and cash) to make a plan that will haunt your wallet and your sanity. You need Better Homes and Gardens' Halloween: 101 Frightfully Fun Ideas.
Get the creepy crawlies with R. L. Stine. He's a master of conjuring things that go bump in the dark—and lurk in dark waters. In The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, Sarah has found a way to get even with her mean bunkmates, but she's the one who's in for a shock. Think you're beyond all that? So did Courtney. She tells everybody how brave she is, and Eddie is tired of it. He knows there's one thing she is afraid of. The monsters at Muddy Creek. Too bad for Eddie that Courtney is right again in You Can't Scare Me.
Welcome to R.L. Stine's world. It's easy to make friends here. But they're usually the wrong kind of friends.
"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider
to the fly;
"'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did
The way into my parlor is up a winding stair,
And I have many curious things to show when you
are there."
--Mary Howitt's classic poem, The Spider and the Fly
From this spider's dread invitation to the silly fly to J.R.R. Tolkien's mammoth spider-being Shelob, these eight-legged wonders have developed a nasty reputation. But spiders are a part of nature and have many fine qualities.
A young girl and her cat enter a dark, old, ramshackle house. Ghosts are waiting for her there. As she opens the door they all fly out. This is where the fun begins in Kazuno Kohara's Ghosts in the House!
Did you know that Halloween is one of the world's oldest holidays? It has gone through many changes but was originally a Celtic festival called Samhain (pronounced sow-in), marking the end of harvest and the beginning of the new year (November 1st). The druids believed that ghosts and spirits roamed the earth at this time, and they lit bonfires as protection.
First Test (Book One of the Protector of the Small series) by Tamora Pierce
No Girls! Go Home! You Won't Last!
As Kel surveyed the damage done to her room-- mattresses, sheets, and blankets strewn everywhere, desk drawers dumped out onto the floor, wall hangings sliced with a glaive, and that message scrawled so plainly on the plaster walls, she knew the battle to be accepted as page was just beginning.


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I'm late in posting this blog post, and all I have to say in my defense is it was the distractions that done it! 🙂
Last night was Australian Olympic snowboarder Torah Bright's appearance in the half-pipe finals, and I'm afraid to say I got so caught up in the whole thing, I forgot to post. It's fun watching the Winter Olympics because everything seems so amazing. The jumps are spectacular, the speed is amazing, the skill incredible. Not that you don't get these things in athletics, but winter sports have that magical, I-can-fly thing going for them. I also love the figure skating, and watched a really cute and technically amazing routine by the German competitors done to The Pink Panther, with the woman in a pink skin suit and the man dressed as a French policeman. Just such a lot of fun. More fun that the track / field / swimming Olympics, I think. It appeals to the whimsical in me.
I'm also a little distracted because I'll be taking part in a panel discussion at the Fremantle City Library tomorrow for their Library Lovers Day, and I needed to do some preparation for that. I don't often get to meet readers and I love doing so, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow immensely. If anyone reading this lives in Perth or Fremantle, in Western Australia, you can sign up for the event here (it's free, they just need to know how many people are coming).
So, am I the only one distracted by the Winter Olympics? (The Tour de France can do it to me, too!) Or do you have something else that comes around once in a while that sucks you in, to the detriment of other things?
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Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Report of Stonewall Jackson on the Battle of Cedar Mountain
On August 9, 1862, Stonewall Jackson, spearheading General Lee's offensive against General John Pope's hastily assembled Army of Virginia. At Cedar Mountain in Culpepper County Virginia he attack his old Valley adversary General Nathaniel Banks, known affectionately by Confederates as Commissary Banks due to the fact that forces under his command usually were whipped and Confederates then feasted on the captured supplies of his defeated forces. Banks commanded 8,000 men and Jackson had 16,000. Banks and his men, surprisingly, put up a good fight and Jackson's victory was hard fought. Here is Jackson's report which he submitted on April 4, 1863, paperwork tacking a back seat to all the fighting which occurred between Cedar Mountain and April 4, 1863: Continue reading
Rebel Yell
I have been listening lately as I drive about to an audio book, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by SC Gwynne. I purchased the audio book with a bit of diffidence since I have been studying Jackson for a half century now, and I thought I had little to learn about him, either as a man or as a general. I was wrong. In brilliantly written prose Gwynne has given me a better understanding of the evolution of Jackson throughout his life as both a human being and a soldier. Jackson in many ways was an odd duck. Often harsh and unyielding in matters of either military discipline or violations of his strict beliefs of right and wrong, Jackson was unfailingly kind and sweet in his personal relations with almost all the people he encountered in this Vale of Tears.
Most of us can act very differently under different circumstances, but Jackson was almost a different person depending upon how a person encountered him. As a general he could be a martinet who would refuse a subordinate during the Valley Campaign time to go to the bedside of his dying children, explaining that the needs of the service must always come first. However, he could then surrender his bed to a subordinate officer he did not like when he learned that the man was unwell. He shot men out of hand for desertion following swift military trials, and he could weep like a child upon learning of the death of a child he had known from Scarlet Fever. Suggesting at the beginning of the War that the Confederacy should raise the Black Flag and take no prisoners of invaders from the North, during the War he allowed Union surgeons to continue treating captured Union wounded and then freed them to return to their own lines. Ostensibly a man fighting to help the South preserve slavery, he founded a Sunday school for blacks in the teeth of resistance in his home town and taught blacks to read in violation of Virginia state law. A grim religious warrior who would have been at home in the ranks of Cromwell's Ironsides during the English Civil War, he became a good friend of General Jeb Stuart, the embodiment of the Cavalier legend of the South. Complex has always been a word that pops into my mind when I think of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, and Gwynne holds up to the readers all of these contradictory facets of Jackson and manages the considerable feat of making his readers see the whole man behind them. Continue reading
Stonewall Jim
In 1852 a cadet challenged Professor Thomas Jonathan Jackson to a duel. A brilliant student, the cadet had been expelled from the Virginia Military Institute due to charges brought against him by Professor Jackson alleging classroom disobedience. Enraged the cadet challenged him to a duel and threatened that if Jackson would not fight him in a duel he would seek him out and kill him. Jackson was not going to fight a duel with a cadet and considered taking out a restraining order. However, the former cadet, James Alexander Walker, eventually calmed down and went on with his life. He studied law at the University of Virginia and began practicing law. He married and he and his wife would eventually have six children. Then the war came.
Enlisting in the Confederate army as a captain, he quickly was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and then Colonel of the 13th Virginia. The 13th Virginia served in the Valley Campaign under now General Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Jackson admired the courage and discipline of the cadet that had been dismissed from VMI due to his charges, which Walker regarded Jackson as a military genius and the ideal commander. On his deathbed, Jackson recommended that Walker be promoted to general and given command of his old unit, the elite Stonewall Brigade.
Called Stonewall Jim by his troops, Walker led the brigade from Gettysburg to Spotsylvania where he was severely wounded. Late in the war he commanded a division in the Second Corps.
After the war he had an illustrious career at both the bar and in politics. He served in the Virginia legislature as a Democrat, eventually being elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. In 1893 he switched to the Republican party and served two terms in Congress, being defeated in a hotly contested election for a third term. At a deposition over the election results, he was shot and wounded. Nothing dismayed, he ran against his opponent again and lost again in 1900. He died in 1901. Continue reading
May 10, 1863: Let Us Pass Over the River and Rest Under the Shade of the Trees
"I have but to show him my design, and I know that if it can be done it will be done. Straight as the needle to the pole he advances to the execution of my purpose."
Robert E. Lee on Stonewall Jackson
Of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, nicknamed Stonewall by General Barnard Bee at the battle of Bull Run, it was said he lived by the New Testament and fought by the Old. Certainly throughout his life he was a convinced Christian. As a young man he would attend services of various Christian denominations. In Mexico, during his service in the Mexican War, he attended mass, although sadly he did not convert to Catholicism. Instead he eventually became a Presbyterian. His Bible was his constant companion, and he would often speak of God and theological matters in private conversation.
Jackson in his professional life was a soldier. Just before the Civil War he was a professor of natural and experimental philosophy (science) and artillery instruction at the Virginia Military Institute. As a teacher he made a good soldier. His lectures were rather dry. If his students seemed to fail to grasp a lecture, he would repeat it the next day, word for word.
His home life was a mixture of sorrow and joy. His first wife died in childbirth along with their still-born son, a tragedy that would have crushed many a man less iron-willed than Jackson. His second marriage, like his first, was happy, but heartache also haunted it. A daughter died shortly after birth in 1858. A second daughter was born in 1862, Julia, shortly before Jackson's own death in 1863. His wife would spend a widowhood of 52 years, dedicated to raising their daughter, cherishing the memory of her husband, and helping destitute Confederate veterans. For her good works she became known as the Widow of the Confederacy. Their daughter Julia would marry and have children before her early death of typhoid fever at age 26. Her two children had several children and there are many living descendants of Jackson.
He and his second wife established and taught a Sunday school for black slaves. At the time it was against the law in Virginia to teach slaves to read, but apparently that is precisely what Jackson and his wife did. One of the last letters he ever posted was his regular contribution he mailed off throughout the war for the financial support of the Sunday school for slaves he and his wife had founded. Continue reading
Stonewall Jackson's Way
"And Thou knowest O Lord, when Thou didst decide that the Confederacy should not succeed, Thou hadst first to remove thy servant, Stonewall Jackson."
Father D. Hubert, Chaplain, Hay's Louisiana Brigade, upon the dedication of the statue of Stonewall Jackson on May 10, 1881 in New Orleans
Something for the weekend. After the 150th anniversary of Chancellorsville only Stonewall Jackson's Way, sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford, seems appropriate. The song is a fitting evocation of the man, who, if he had not been mortally wounded at Chancellorsville, might well have with Lee brought about a war ending victory for the Confederacy at Gettysburg. I fully agree with Father Hubert that the death of General Jackson was probably a necessary factor in the defeat of the Confederacy. As a military team he and Lee were able to accomplish military miracles and with his death the Confederacy could still rely upon the endless courage of their ragged warriors and the brilliance of Lee, but the age of military miracles in the Civil War ended with the passing of Jackson.
The song was taken from a poem found on the body of a dead Confederate sergeant after the First Battle of Winchester, May 25, 1862: Continue reading
May 2, 1863: Jackson Flanks Hooker
When the blue-coated
Unprepared ranks of Howard saw that storm,
Heralded by wild rabbits and frightened deer,
Burst on them yelling, out of the whispering woods,
They could not face it. Some men died where they stood,
The storm passed over the rest. It was Jackson's storm,
It was his old trick of war, for the last time played.
He must have known it. He loosed it and drove it on,
Hearing the long yell shake like an Indian cry
Through the dense black oaks, the clumps of second-growth pine,
And the red flags reel ahead through the underbrush.
Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body
The plan having been made for the flank attack against Hooker, it remained for Jackson to execute it. For a very long day he and his corps marched along the front of Hooker's massive army's front and into the rear of the right of his army. Numerous reports came to Hooker from Union units reporting movement by a large number of Confederates to their front. Hooker, now firmly ensconced in the pleasant land of wishful thinking, chose to interpret these reports as evidence that Lee was retreating. Hooker had his army sit idle that day, the day when he could have crushed Lee with overwhelming numbers.
Lee described Jackson's march in his official report of the battle on September 21, 1863: Continue reading
May 1, 1863: Lee and Jackson Plan a Military Masterpiece
On the evening of May 1, 1863, General Robert E. Lee knew several facts about the military situation confronting him:
1. His army was between two forces, Hooker with approximately 70,000 men at Chancellorsville and Sedgwick south of Fredericksburg with approximately 40,000 men. Confronting Sedgwick he had Early with about 11,000 men and confronting Hooker Lee had around 40,000 men.
2. If Sedgwick and Hooker attacked aggressively Lee's army could be destroyed between them.
3. Neither Sedgwick nor Hooker had demonstrated much appetite for attack. Hooker had launched a brief attack the morning of May 1, but had quickly called it off, Hooker being content to defend against Lee.
4. Lee now had the initiative, ceded to him miraculously by the man who commanded a combined force more than twice the size of Lee's.
5. What to do with the initiative was the question. How could Lee overcome such a grave disparity in numbers? Continue reading
Jackson's Black Sunday School
One of the more interesting tidbits about Thomas Jonathan Jackson, universally known as Stonewall, is that he and his wife established a Sunday School for free and slave blacks in Lexington, Virginia. The school taught free blacks and slaves to read although this was against Virginia law.
Jackson's personal views on slavery are probably best summed up by this statement from his wife:
I have heard him say that he would prefer to see the negroes free, but he believed that the Bible taught that slavery was sanctioned by the Creator Himself, who maketh all men to differ, and instituted laws for the bond and free. He therefore accepted slavery, as it existed in the South, not as a thing desirable in itself, but as allowed by Providence for ends which it was not his business to determine.
Jackson continued to financially support the Sunday School during the War, and one his last pieces of correspondence prior to his fatal wounding contained his regular contribution. Here is a letter Jackson wrote on June 7, 1858 describing the operation of the school to Lyle Davis, a Professor at Washington College and a member of the same Presbyterian Church in Lexington that Jackson attended: Continue reading
May 8, 1862: Battle of McDowell
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.
General Thomas J. Jackson
True genius is a rarity on this planet, and it is amazing when it suddenly appears. Humans who display it often do so unexpectedly. So it was with Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson, nicknamed Stonewall, after the decisive role played by his forces at the battle of First Manassas (First Bull Run) in 1861. The name probably seemed appropriate to the few observers at the time who had followed his career. Jackson had a reputation as an unimaginative, albeit valiant, soldier. As a Professor of Natural Philosophy, Optics and Artillery Tactics (!) at VMI prior to the War he had a reputation as a deadly dull instructor who would repeat his lectures word for word if his students failed to grasp the lesson that he was teaching. He once spent a night in an office at VMI because his superior told him to wait for him, and then forgot about his appointment with Jackson. Other than his part in the victory at First Manassas, Jackson had distinguished himself mostly by being an almost fanatically strict disciplinarian. If genius were needed in the War, Jackson would not have been the man even those who admired him would turn to. Yes, the nickname Stonewall suited this stolid soldier.
It took the Valley Campaign of 1862,where he outmarched and outfought numerous Union armies, each larger than the force he led, for Jackson to astonish North and South with the fact that behind this dull facade lurked one of the Great Captains of History.
Jackson opened the Campaign on March 23, 1862 with an attack on part of General Nathaniel Bank's Union forces in the Shenandoah at Kernstown. Outnumbered almost three to one, Jackson suffered a tactical defeat but a strategic victory. This attack by a Confederate force so far north in the Valley and so close to Washington caused Lincoln to take a division from the Army of the Potomac and send it to the Shenandoah, to cancel any plans to reinforce the Army of the Potomac with troops from the Shenandoah and to order that McDowell's corps would stay close to Washington during the ensuing Peninsula Campaign, rather than advancing overland towards Richmond to help McClellan on the Virginia Peninsula. Few defeats have been so beneficial as First Kernstown (there was a second battle of Kernstown during the 1864 Valley Campaign) was for the Confederacy.
The Valley Campaign now entered a long quiet period during which Jackson's command skirmished with the various Union forces beginning to mass against his army. On May 7, 1862 Jackson saw an opportunity on the southwestern fringe of the Valley as Fremont's men under General Robert Milroy, consisting of three regiments, were in an exposed position south of McDowell. Milroy on Shenandoah Mountain escaped an attempted encirclement by Jackson and withdrew to McDowell. There he was joined at 10:00 AM on May 8th, by Brigadier General Robert Schenck and his command that had arrived with after a forced march from Franklin, West Virginia. Schenck being senior took command of the combined force of approximately 6500 opposing Jackson's army of 6000. Fighting continued until dark with the Union force, which had been on attack most of the day, withdrawing in good order. Casualties were fairly light: 259 for the Union (34 killed, 220 wounded, 5 missing), and for the Confederates 420 (116 killed, 300 wounded, 4 missing). It could be argued that tactically the battle was a draw, but in the following week the Union force retreated back to Franklin with Jackson pursuing all the way, returning to the Valley on May 15, 1862. This turned what was a tactical draw into a strategic victory. More posts on the Valley Campaign during this May and June. Here is Jackson's report on the battle of McDowell: Continue reading
Stonewall Jackson's Way
Something for the weekend. Stonewall Jackson's Way, sung by the endlessly talented Bobby Horton who has waged a one man crusade to bring Civil War music to modern audiences.
Of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, nicknamed Stonewall by General Barnard Bee at the battle of Bull Run, it was said he lived by the New Testament and fought by the Old. Certainly throughout his life he was a convinced Christian. As a young man he would attend services of various Christian denominations. In Mexico, during his service in the Mexican War, he attended mass, although sadly he did not convert to Catholicism. Instead he eventually became a Presbyterian. His Bible was his constant companion, and he would often speak of God and theological matters in private conversation.
Jackson in his professional life was a soldier. Just before the Civil War he was a professor of natural and experimental philosophy (science) and artillery instruction at the Virginia Military Institute. As a teacher he made a good soldier. His lectures were rather dry. If his students seemed to fail to grasp a lecture, he would repeat it the next day, word for word.
His home life was a mixture of sorrow and joy. His first wife died in childbirth along with their still-born son, a tragedy that would have crushed many a man less iron-willed than Jackson. His second marriage, like his first, was happy, but heartache also haunted it. A daughter died shortly after birth in 1858. A second daughter was born in 1862, shortly before Jackson's own death in 1863.
He and his second wife established and taught a Sunday school for black slaves. At the time it was against the law in Virginia to teach slaves to read, but apparently that is precisely what Jackson and his wife did. One of the last letters he ever posted was his regular contribution he mailed off throughout the war for the financial support of the Sunday school for slaves he and his wife had founded. Continue reading


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Dancescapes II: capturing the poetic baring of the soul through motion – within the splendor of nature.
Nearly one hundred color and black-and-white dance photographs shot throughout 2007, this collection was captured on the coastlines, rivers and mountaintops within the state and national parks – and urban oases – of Georgia and Florida.
We hope you enjoy it.
About the Photographer: Atlanta photographer and photo-editor, Scott Nilsson trained and performed with Ann Brodie's Columbia City Ballet and numerous other companies from Atlanta to Indianapolis and New York. He attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with academic honors from the Indiana University School of Music.
About the Dancer: Kristy Nilsson received honors in dance and academics at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and University of Oklahoma. She performed with Charleston Ballet Theatre and Atlanta Ballet. Kristy has taught thousands of students, from "Baby Ballerinas" through pre-professional dancers, and her choreography has been honored with awards, tours and repeat performances; Kristy has choreographed more than one hundred concert works that have been performed by 26 companies in 11 states and Canada, including 5 works on the professional company, The Georgia Ballet.
Scott and Kristy are happily married and love living in Atlanta. They spend as much of their "off" time as possible in creative pursuits - choreographing, writing, hiking to waterfalls...
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Do you really know how much you need to retire? A lot of people like to throw out random numbers without really doing the math. One million dollars is a nice round number that often gets brought up for retirement. Unfortunately, $3 million is the new $1 million thanks to inflation in rent, property prices, tuition, automobiles, and food.
Even if you come up with a retirement number, chances are high that your number will change due to unanticipated life events. Maybe you'll become unemployed for a year and draw down most of your savings. Or maybe you'll find an amazing new job with a 50% pay raise. Maybe you'll end up having triplets due to the latest $20,000 IVF procedure when you were hoping for just one baby. Who knows? Life has a great way of keeping us on our toes.
What we need is an interactive retirement calculator that is dynamic, has multiple adjustable variables, and also incorporates real data. Let's first have a look at some current retirement concerns by the public at large.


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Director Zack Snyder slapped a photo of "the new Tactical Batsuit" onto his Twitter feed yesterday. In my opinion it looks like a weird hybrid of the Batman v Superman Batsuit and the suit worn by Christian Bale in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, with a hint of the Keaton Batsuit in the cowl area.
And then there there are the goggles.
Those look a bit goofy, but we don't know the context for those yet. Maybe Justice League takes place in a future where big dumb goggles are actually cool as Hell! It wouldn't be the silliest thing the DC Extended Universe had thrown at us so far.
io9 posted a lightened version of the photo, revealing some similarities to Night Owl's costume from Snyder's own Watchmen adaptation:
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Wallabies five-eighth Quade Cooper is set to miss next month's Test series against France after suffering a serious shoulder injury as the Melbourne Rebels beat Queensland 30-27 on Saturday night.
The Rebels controversially clinched their first Super Rugby win over the Reds in their four-season history with a late penalty reversal that saw Ed O'Donoghue red-carded for eye-gouging in Brisbane.
Television match official Steve Lescinski overruled referee Steve Walsh's penalty when he detected O'Donoghue's hands on the eyes of Rebels skipper Scott Higginbotham. Jason Woodward duly kicked the three-pointer to break the deadlock, much to the chagrin of Reds captain James Horwill who claimed O'Donoghue was reacting to a headbutt in his scuffle with Higginbotham.
''In the end, once again we were robbed by a stupid refereeing decision,'' a fuming Horwill told Fox Sports.
It was the Reds' sixth straight loss, their worst streak since 2008, and fourth on the trot at their former Suncorp Stadium fortress.
But rubbing salt into deep wounds in the spiteful yet entertaining affair was the injury to their star playmaker.
Cooper is facing a month on the sidelines after being diagnosed with a grade three AC separation from a jolting hit on his left shoulder just after setting up an early try to Mike Harris. With Test coach Ewen McKenzie to name his 32-man squad on Thursday, the timing couldn't be worse for Cooper, who was likely to start in the first Test on June 7.
The 50-Test five-eighth was on the field for just eight minutes before landing heavily on his shoulder in a heavy tackle by Rebels pair Laurie Weeks and Tom Kingston. Although Higginbotham admitted it was disappointing for the result decided in the manner it was, the Rebels deserved victory.
With half-back Luke Burgess a two-try hero before suffering a leg injury, they were more clinical in attack and appeared to have the match parcelled up in the second half. It was Cooper's No.10 replacement, Ben Lucas, who put the Reds back into the contest at 24-24 with a 67th-minute try.
Both sides then traded penalty goals before the Higginbotham-O'Donoghue scuffle, which Walsh let go until Rebels flanker Sean McMahon was penalised for being the third man in.
The Rebels produced the try of the match in the first half when a Cadeyrn Neville turnover on Lucas was the spark for a scintillating 60-metre counter-attack, which finished with Woodward sending Kingston over out wide.
Reds coach Richard Graham had further cause to rue more terrible defence on the half-hour mark when Burgess brushed off four tackle attempts to score.