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What's up, everyone? How is your day going? I hope you enjoy my eighth random post. 🙂
Random Topic #1: The Alligator
We have an alligator in our pond, guys:
(Sorry about the photo quality, he's quite hard to capture on camera.) This alligator is only a baby right now, and he's actually kind of cute. Unfortunately, alligators are carnivores, and we have goats, and yeah. I think you can see where this is going. So we're going to relocate him to a goat-free area soon. 😛
If you could name him, what name would you choose?
Random Topic #2: Eye Photography
I decided to try taking pictures of some of my family member's eyes. Here is the result:
Most everyone in my family has blue eyes, but my dad has green eyes.
My mom…
My sister (and partner in crime.) 😉
My brother… (my eyes are about this color, but a little darker.)
My baby brother, Ezra. ❤
Finally Lila, who has amazingly big and blue eyes. Aren't they pretty?
Yes, I have a lot of siblings. 😄
Random Topic #3: Name Troubles
As you hopefully know, my name is Clara. BUT FOR SOME REASON, THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE SEEMS TO ENJOY CALLING ME CLAIRE. *composes self* *takes a deep breath* Someone calls me "Claire" pretty much every time I leave the house. I understand that "Clara" and "Claire" sound very similar, but what really drives me crazy is when I write my name (C-L-A-R-A) and someone reads it out loud as "Claire". We were in a sandwich shop the other day, and the way it works is you write your name down and then they read it out loud when your order is ready. Last time we went there, they yelled out "Claire", so this time I wrote my name as "ClarA" with an enormous "A" at the end. THEY STILL CALLED ME CLAIRE. *sigh* I give up. I'm doomed to a life of Claire.
Do people often mispronounce/misspell your name?
Random Topic #4: School Music
I don't know about you guys, but I really love listening to something while I'm doing school. Though some music and soundtracks are distracting, I've found 2 really cool sites that have some great stuff to listen to while you're doing schoolwork.
This site is amazing. Some of you may recognize the name Adam Young from the band Owl City. Well, that same guy composed a bunch of instrumental music that's inspired by different important events throughout history. It's all really unique and amazing, and I highly recommend listening to it! Some that I recommend listening to are Corduroy Road and Omaha Beach.
#2: Ambient Mixer
This site doesn't have music – it has audio tracks. It's kinda hard to explain, so imagine this: You plug in your headphones, click a few buttons, and suddenly you're surrounded by the sounds of the Hogwarts Gryffindor common room. The crackling fire, the quiet conversations of students, the rustling of parchment, the winter wind outside the castle. All of these sounds fill your ears, even though you're sitting in your own quiet bedroom. That's what this site does. Here's a link to my favorite audio track they have, Studying at Hogwarts. There are soundtracks for all of the Hogwarts common rooms, plus hundreds more, from thunderstorms to purring cats. Listening to these while working on school is beyond amazing. 🙂
Do you enjoy listening to something while you work?
Random Topic #5: Google or Bing?
It's about time someone polled the general blogosphere on this extremely important subject:
*whispers* Google is best! Vote Google!
Random Topic #6: Art Attempts
I recently discovered that I really love to draw, even if I'm not very good. It's relaxing and fun. 😀 Here are some of my recent creations:
I draw a bible verse each week in church. I've picked a few of my favorites to show you guys:
I especially like the last one. 🙂 Now for some random sketches and such:
A pair of sunglasses….
These are the lyrics from a really pretty song called Truce by Twenty One Pilots.
A pack of gum. XD
A Sharpie…
More song lyrics! This one is Something Beautiful by NEEDTOBREATHE.
This is an unfinished sketch I did on our last road trip.
I've been trying for a while now to draw a somewhat realistic face. Man, it's hard. This is the closest I've gotten so far, but I'm going to keep trying. 😀
Finally, I have an eye I drew using Allison's tutorial. This took me quite a while, and it got a bit smudged, but overall I think it turned out pretty well. 🙂
*runs away screaming as the really good artists gaze disapprovingly at my amateur work*
Do you like to draw? Do you have any tips/suggestions for me? I'd love to hear them!
Random Topic #7: New Profile Picture
I decided my old profile picture was a little outdated, so I took a new one. Here it is:
Thanks to my mom for taking it for me. 😉 Do you like it? If someone told me 2 years ago that I would sit in the middle of the road while reading a book for the sake of a photograph, I wouldn't have believed them. 😄
Random Topic #8: Poetry
Okay, guys. I mentioned in my Summer Goals post that I've been writing a lot of poetry lately, and I asked if y'all would like to read some of it. A lot of people said yes, so here goes.
s m i l e
I see you in the grocery store
standing alone in the aisle
your deep frown is reflected
in the scuffed and dirty tile
the cashier cracks a funny joke
as the groceries unpile
you chuckle –
it's a rusty sound.
I can see
you haven't practiced in a while
as I watch
I mentally remind myself
never to forget
how to smile
So…. yeah, that's one of my poems. I see so many people who look so sad and lonely, as if they haven't smiled or laughed in a long time. This poem is kinda about the fact that it's okay to be sad, but it's important not to forget how to smile. Would you like to read some more poetry in another post? 🙂
That's it for today! You may have noticed that I asked you guys a good bit of questions in this post. I'd love if you would answer them in the comments. 😀
What was your favorite random topic?


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The accommodations, meals, nursing care and concern, crafts, entertainment and everything else included, have made my mother independent again and in control of her own life.
Whispering Knoll is like a five star hotel.
At Whispering Knoll, the atmosphere is lovely and the staff is helpful, caring and friendly.
The staff is always upbeat, responsive and caring.
The food is very good, with a good variety of selections. I would recommend Whispering Knoll to anyone.
It's a positive and friendly environment. The activities offered to the residents are varied.
Its close proximity to JFK Hospital and Rehabilitation Center is an important factor for selecting Whispering Knoll for my mother's respite visits.
The facility is clean inside and out and taken care of by an excellent maintenance department.
My mother gets to socialize, eat balanced meals, have people look out for her medically, and has very few worries with her living environment.
The entire staff and directors do an incredible job of creating a warm, caring and enriching environment for not only my mother, but our entire family.
Dad has his own efficiency apartment, which lets him have his privacy when he wants it, but offers so much in the way of socialization.
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Since each firearm manufacturer has their own proprietary mounting rail design, each ring model must be machined to exacting tolerances for proper fit and function. Because of this, the Warne Tikka Rings are able to fit right onto the receiver's dovetail with no need for a mounting base.
The Tikka Quick Detach Rings sport the unique Warne indexable lever system which allows the user to remove the optics from the rifle then reattach it without the loss of zero, as well as allowing the location of the lever to be indexed once the rings are affixed to the bases. After the levers are tightened, simply pull out on the lever, turn it to the desired location then let it snap into place. These rings also feature a redesigned recoil pin to provide a stronger bearing surface for higher recoiling rifles.
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Another tantalizing tidbit has emerged from last month's leaked IE11 build: the possibility that the next version of Internet Explorer could support Google's SPDY technology for faster browser-server communications.
It's not working yet, but SPDY "is being implemented," said Rafael Rivera of the Within Windows blog. Paul Thurrot of WinSuperSite also said SPDY is coming.
The SPDY support is at the operating system level, meaning that other software besides just IE11 could take advantage of it, Rivera said.
Microsoft declined to comment on the matter.
Google has rounded up several allies to standardize SPDY technology, which streamlines the HTTP technology governing how browsers request Web pages and how Web servers deliver them. But despite broadening support, including in Firefox and Amazon's Silk browser, Microsoft preferred its alternative approach called HTTP Speed+Mobility.
But change is in the air. Microsoft's IE team is, if not as fast-moving as those at Google and Mozilla, getting nimbler about its decisions. It's embraced a slew of newer Web standards with IE9 and now IE10, and seems likely to reverse its opposition to WebGL, a standard that eases hardware-acelerated graphics on the Web.
HTML expert Francois Remy detected non-working interfaces for WebGL, but Rivera went a step farther, getting some WebGL features to work on the IE11 build.
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Have you ever wondered why you have to be 16 to get your driver's license or 18 to vote or 21 to legally drink alcohol?
It's partly because your brain is not ready to take on these responsibilities, since your brain is not fully developed when you're a teen.
Your brain's in training
During the teen years, essential parts of the brain are still forming—like the prefrontal cortex, which allows people to weigh the pros and cons of situations instead of acting on impulse. This is one reason why teens are generally more likely to take risks than adults.
For example, with alcohol, teens may be less able to judge when to stop drinking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tells us that each year, more than 4,600 alcohol-related deaths occur among those less than 21 years old—and even one is too many.
Drugs = brain drain
Research shows that alcohol and other drugs change the brain's structure and how it works in the short and long term. In the short term, drugs affect your brain's judgment and decision-making abilities, while long-term use causes brain changes that can set people up for addiction and other problems.
The brains of people who become addicted get altered so that drugs are now their top priority—and they will compulsively seek and use drugs even though doing so brings devastating consequences for their lives and for those who care about them.
Do yourself a favor and use your brain to make smart choices, reach your goals, and achieve your full potential in life.
Want to learn more? Check out the blog posts "Cocaine and the Teen Brain" and "Addiction is a Disease."
Thank you for this comment.
Most people couldn´t imagine how dangerous drugs are for children.
4600 alcohol- related deaths are definitly too much.
Best regards from germany
Do yourself a favor and use your brain to make smart choices, reach your goals, and *achieve your full potential in life.*
We all have achieved our full potential what we need is achieving our goals.
great job, say no to drugs
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Drivig age should probably be raised a year or two. Too many traffic deaths wih young teens.
I think teens AND adults need to be made more aware that the reason for the drinking age being 21 is that the brain and body are not fully developed until that age. It's not a punishment.
I think teens AND adults need to be made more aware that the reason for the drinking age being 21 is that the brain and body are not fully developed until that age. It's not a punishment.
I think everyone needs to understand how drugs destroy potential for a great life.
i dont think maryjane is that bad if theres anyone out there that can help me with my addiction
Please call 1-800-662-HELP or visit SAMHSA's Treatment Facility Locator at https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ to find treatment near you. Or, if you just want to talk with someone, call the SAMHSA crisis line at 1-800-273-TALK.
i have an adiiction
Yes, i think everyone should say "NO DRUGS".Thanks for post.
if you need help with an addiction go to proffenals they will make sure you get "back on track"
The horde doesn't need alchohol
i think people that say NO are vary vary smart
i hate alcohol and i agrey with the girl above
i think people who say no to drugs are smart and your right there are to many alcohol related deaths
to meny alcoholic parents very hard to see exspechilly with kid
People say taking drugs is no big deal but it is. Since we are only teens our brains are still developing. So since drugs kill brain cells and we are still gaining brain cells your stopping your brain from creating new brain cells. Thats why we see so many kids dropping out of schools because they are no longer gaining knowledge but losing it. Most kids who take drugs get introduced to them by parents or friends who do drugs. We should say no to drugs.
NIce, short post. Teen drug abuse is a tragic reality. The effects can be disastrous and many don't recover from the damage that is caused. I got clean and sober with the help of a sober living called New life House. [commercial link deleted, per guidelines]


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Censorship remains alive and well for the residents of Sun City. The TV Broadcast Crew and Committee may no longer broadcast the residents addressing the Board of Directors after the Boards' business portion of the quarterly meetings. Broadcast was advised by the Communications Director that one of the Resident Board Members suggested and/or asked, and the remaining Board members agreed, that this portion of the meeting shall no longer be shown on Sun City TV. Residents who are unable to attend the meetings will not know first hand or be informed of issues or concerns that other residents bring publicly before the Board that may affect their life style or in the operations of Sun City. The words or efforts of waiting for open communication has taken a step backwards.
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This article helps you troubleshoot Bluetooth issues on your LG Optimus G.
You may have Bluetooth® issues if your LG Optimus G™ is unable to:
These steps help identify and resolve the underlying cause. After completing each step, test to see if the issue is fixed. If not, continue to the next step.
Does the device you're pairing with support the same Bluetooth protocols as your LG Optimus G?
Refer to the Bluetooth device's user manual for compatibility.
Your LG Optimus G is compatible with Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, AVRCP, FTP, HFP, HID, HSP, MAP, OPP, PAN, PBAP, and SPP.
If the manual doesn't list any of these protocols, your LG Optimus G is unable to connect to that Bluetooth device.
Is Bluetooth enabled on both devices?
Bluetooth may be turned off on either the LG Optimus G or the other Bluetooth device. Be sure Bluetooth is enabled on both devices.
Is the Bluetooth device in range?
The Bluetooth communication range for most devices, including your LG Optimus G, is about 30 feet. Be sure your devices are in range.
Perform a soft reset.
A soft reset deletes any temporary files that may be causing the issue.
Remove the pairing and re-pair the Bluetooth device.
Removing the pairing, restarting your LG Optimus G, and then re-pairing the Bluetooth device refreshes and updates your connection.
Note: To optimize device performance, be sure your LG Optimus G is running the most recent device software. Check for software updates.
If you're still having issues, try the Sprint Community pages.


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The following items are located in Lynnwood and up for grabs :
- Basket roof rack for Mk1 Rabbit/Jetta/Scirocco sold
- Passenger side headlight bezel, Mk1 Jetta gone
- Corrado big spline steering wheel, works on Mk2 Jetta/Golf '89up $60.
- Zender wing Mk2 Scirocco, sold
- Pair of front seat belts, 4 door Rabbit, gone.
- Taillights for Mk1 Scirocco $150.
I prefer not to ship anything, local pickup!


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Recently i started to optimize my company's website. With a little help of market samurai.
One of the adjustments was a www redirect to the prefered domain. We currently rank on #8 for our desired keyword with the domain without the www. If I add a custom url (our domain with www), we see a difference in stats BLP (backlinks to the page) {it's the website on top}
Can anyone tell me how i could merge this so we might even rank better for our keyword?
What I did so far:
3 weeks ago set the www.duo.be as prefered domain in GWT and put a 301 redirect in place so the duo.be gets redirected to www.duo.be Both domains are in GWT and both with www.duo.be as preferred domain.
Tho I see no change.
Can anyone help me out, because i'm clueless.
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I started to write it but then couldn't think about how to deal with the slashes.
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Major/Minor: Psychology, Sociology
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Program Assistant/Annual Step and Dance Competition: Office of Multicultural Affairs
Hometown? Washington D.C.
Favorite Movie? Coach Carter
Favorite Color? Rainbow
Favorite Artist? Mary Mary
Favorite Quotation? "Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that comes from our creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized." -Mike Ditka


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On this gray autumn day, birds fly by my office window, noisily calling to each other as they prepare to head south for the winter. I consider joining them and leaving behind the writing, the editing, the deadlines, the invoices, the e-mails, the phone calls, the questions, the budgeting for 2009. Sometimes, escaping to a sunnier place that promises a carefree existence is tempting. But I know those promises are just lies. No place is free of the stress and the day-to-day issues of work and living.
My stress, like yours, has been compounded by the uncertainty of the economy and the credit crisis. As I write this, Congress still hasn't decided what to do about the situation, and the market is falling.
So I turned to Rick Caro, president of Management Vision and one of our advisory board members, for his thoughts about how this situation could affect the industry. He'll be moderating a panel session, "Fitness Business at a Crossroad: How to Hold on in Today's Economy and Prosper in the Future," at this month's Club Industry show. So, who better to ask?
According to Caro, members will undoubtedly face tough economic choices, including which expenses are necessary and which are discretionary. Club membership will be discretionary for some. Some club owners are already seeing fewer prospects. As that scenario spreads to more clubs, it could lead to fewer new members. That means club owners will need to get more revenue from existing members by promoting ancillary programs. However, getting this extra cash from members could prove more difficult, too. As a result, more club owners might cut costs to offset any revenue flatness or decline, so they can at least hold their bottom lines.
People who are new to the industry and do not have a track record in it will find it more difficult to get loans and financing for their clubs, Caro says, as lending institutions come under greater scrutiny and implement more stringent lending criteria. Club owners who want to expand or remodel might find it more difficult to get loans, or they might not get the same great terms on their loans that they received in the past. Some club owners might put off capital expenditures and use their money for working capital instead. In addition, club owners who want to leave the business may not be able to get the ideal purchase price for their clubs.
However, it's not all doom and gloom. Now might be an ideal time for people who have adequate resources to seek better locations for their clubs at lower prices. As some businesses pull out of retail space due to the economy, real estate developers may be more willing to offer better deals just to get someone new to fill the vacant space. Owners with capital also might be able to buy struggling clubs in hopes that once the economy turns around, the clubs will prove profitable again.
So, it comes down to what kind of club owner you've been during the past several years. Are you someone who has reached beyond your means, not setting aside capital for the downturn that always comes after the peak? Or did you put some money aside that will help you weather this storm and actually take advantage of it?
If you didn't plan far enough ahead, those birds flying south might start looking good to you, too. But don't join them just yet. On our blog and in next month's issue, we'll share some of the ideas that the panelists at this month's show offer for getting through this economic downturn.


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"Prose & Cons" an original 1950's-style radio play
- Thursday, October 10, 2013 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm
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MSU's School of Film and Photo presents "Prose & Cons," an original 1950's-style radio play written by Ryan Cassavaugh, free of charge at the Black Box Theater, Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 10th, 11th and 12th, at 7:30pm.
Offered as part of MSU's "Year of Engaged Leadership," this comedic look at October's topic of "empathy" features SFP faculty Stephanie Campbell and Cara Wilder, SFP student Gabrielle Herron, and Ryan Cassavaugh. Playwright-actor Cassavaugh is best known for creating a popular summer series of live radio plays at Verge Theater, and brings sound effects cohorts Marya Cline and Wren Goodman from Verge to enhance the production. Presented by the College of Arts and Architecture as a collaboration of the Schools of Film and Photography and Music, "Prose & Cons" features additional sound effects, music and engineering by School of Music and Music Tech students Jordan Arnold, Dave Robins, Jori Apedaile and Chad Basaites.
This hour-long production is open to the public on a first come-first seated basis.
Please call 580-0374 for more information.
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But, while I was getting tattooed, the subject of KB training came up (of course!), and I realized, as I was talking about it, how eccentric the kettlebell is! It's hardcore.......it doesn't appeal to everyone. I think it takes a certain kind of person to look at it and "get it" (the KB), much less recognize that just because not everyone is doing it (in fact that's a bonus!) doesn't mean it's not a valid form of training. It's bad ass, and it kicks ass!
I've always considered myself an artistic, funky, creative type of person ( OK, and a little extreme!) that loves being "different" and I'll admit a little bit of an attention seeker! (I am a Leo after all!) I don't really give a care what anyone else thinks of me, or what I do, I live my life for myself. The fact that tattoos are permanent makes them more exciting to me, and another way of expressing my ability to commit to something I believe in...... in fact my very first tattoo was rosebuds and a heart (so "80's") with Mark's name, after knowing him only about 6 weeks (we were already engaged at that point!).
So, if anyone has ever had any doubts about my belief that the kettlebell has truly been a miracle in my life, this tattoo is a symbol of my appreciation. And it also represents the excitement and commitment to teaching, sharing, and leading by example, how it can be for others interested in changing their bodies, their health, and possibly their lives.
I'm not posting this for anyones approval or negative opinion, although if you have one (a negative opnion) I hope you have the balls to comment directly to me, via this venue, or shut the hell up!
Life is great. Live it.


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|The statue of Mary inside the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help
This was originally posted on October 13, 2011. As before I feel that it is a fitting tribute to end this week of remembrance on a positive note.
As promised I'm ending my posts on this historic tragedy on a miraculous note. I'm not speaking figuratively. I'm not saying "It's a miracle my husband's ancestors survived". I'm grateful that they survived, and it could be viewed as miraculous, but I'm talking church acknowledged miracle! This miracle didn't happen in the town of Peshtigo. It was across the bay in a town called Robinsonville that was also under attack by the series of fires collectively known as the "Great Peshtigo Fire"....and it's the sort of story that makes you believe in miracles if you didn't already. A little history...
Adele Brise (also spelled Brice) was a young Belgian immigrant who came to America with her family and settled in Wisconsin. She had originally wanted to stay behind in her native Belgium and join a convent with some other girls, but after talking with her priest, he advised her to do what any good priest would...to follow her parents wishes and go to America with them. He told her that if she was meant for a religious order that she would no doubt find one in the United States. So instead of a convent Adele found herself in a heavily wooded area of Wisconsin.
|Mary as Adele described
The second time was that Sunday as she walked to church. Her sister walked with her and in the exact same place, Adele saw the lady before her in the distance. She stopped, again afraid. Her sister could not see the woman. Eventually she disappeared and they continued to church. After Mass Adele spoke with her priest about what she saw. The priest told her that the spirit would not hurt her, but to ask in God's name what she wanted.
On the way home from mass that day, Sunday, October 9th, 1859, Adele again saw the apparition before her. The people with her stopped as she knelt and asked the apparition , "In God's name, who are you, and what do you want of me?" The response that Adele got was that the apparition was the "Queen of Heaven" and she commanded that Adele teach the children their catechism, how to make the sign of the Cross, and how to receive the Sacraments.
On that spot Adele's father (Lambert Brice) built a ten by twelve foot structure to mark the spot of the visions. Not everyone believed in what Adele saw, but that did not deter her. Over the years, as people began to make pilgrimages to the spot and as Adele began to fulfill the promise she made to teach the children, the structure grew and the land that held the school and chapel was consecrated. The Chapel became known as "Our Lady of Good Help."
Twelve years later, almost to the day Adele spoke to the apparition of Mary, the fires erupted. This is the account of what happened that night as printed in the book "The Chapel: Our Lady of Good Help" (Sister M. Dominica, O.S.F, 1955):
|Stained glass windows in the Shrine
After weeks of fear and suspense, the hour struck and the great forest rocked and tossed simultaneously. In one awful instant, before expectation could give way to horror, the black-curtained sky burst forth into great clouds of fire. The day had been prophetically [sic] still; smoke and gases filled the air. An ominous dread gripped the minds and hearts of every living creature, even the wild beasts of the forests mingled with men as both fled in terror before a great consuming roaring fire circling all within its fiery grasp. At first the roaring blaze thundered like great cataracts among the tree-tops, but as it gained momentum, it sounded like the distant roar of the sea giving place to thunderous fury mingled with a tornado of fire.
A survivor wrote that if one could imagine the worst snow storm he ever witnessed, and each flake a coal or spark of fire driven before a terrifying wind, he would have an idea of the atmosphere at the time the fire struck. Hundreds of families were driven from their homes, many being overtaken by the rain of fire.
|Adele Brise's photo at the Shrine
The wide spreading track of ruin covered the greater part of the peninsula from Green Bay to Lake Michigan, and from the neighborhood of Green Bay on the south to 'Death's Door' on the north. In the town of Green Bay, the fire entered at the southeast corner and swept on the wings of the wind to the north east. It extended into parts of Outagamie, Kewaunee, Door, and Brown counties. The towns of Humboldt, Green Bay, New Franken, Casco, Brussels, Rosiere, Lincoln, Robinsonville and many others were scathed with a whirlwind of flame which devoured the woods, leaped across clearings, and lopped everything inflammable in its path. The area burned was not less than fifty miles in length and twenty average miles wide. The burning belt widened as it advance. Nothing could be done to stop its forward march, and the Chapel of Our Lady of Good Help lay in its path.
The crucial hour had come, the hurricane of fire broke in all its fury. Adele and her companions were faced with a momentous decision. They were determined not to abandon Mary's shrine, and their faith in Mary's protection never faltered. The children, the Sisters, and the farmers with their families, drove their livestock before them and raced in the direction of Mary's sanctuary. They were now encircled by a raging inferno with no means of escape. Looking back, they saw their buildings literally swallowed by the fiery monster. By this time the surrounding territory was one vast sea of fire. Awe-stricken, they thronged the Chapel grounds. Already the Chapel was filled with terror-stricken people beseeching the Mother of God to spare them, many wailing aloud in their fright. Filled with confidence, they entered the Chapel, reverently raised the statue of Mary, and kneeling bore it in procession around their beloved sanctuary. When wind and fire exposed them to suffocation, they turned in another direction, and continued to hope and pray, saying the rosary.
|Statues of children kneeling on the grounds of the Shrine
After hours of horror and suspense, the heavens sent relief in the form of a downpour. The fervent prayers to the Mother of God were heard. The fire was extinguished, but dawn revealed the ravages wrought by the conflagration. Everything about them was destroyed; miles of desolation everywhere. But the Convent, school, Chapel, and the five acres of land consecrated to the Virgin Mary shone like an emerald isle in a sea of ashes. The raging fire licked the outside palings and left charred scars as mementos. Tongues of fire had reached the Chapel fence, and threatened destruction to all within its confines - the fire had not entered the Chapel grounds."
A fire so fierce that it destroyed most everything in its path did not destroy Our Lady of Good Help. It was 151 years after the apparition of Mary to Adele, 139 years after the miracle at Our Lady of Good Help occurred that the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged the visions of Adele Brise. On December 8th, 2010 Bishop David Ricken of the Diocese of Green Bay announced, "I declare with moral certainty and in accord with the norms of the Church that the events, apparitions and locutions given to Adele Brise in October 1859 do exhibit the substance of supernatural character, and I do hereby approve these apparitions as worthy of belief (although not obligatory) by the Christian faithful."
|Candles lit by visitors inside the Shrine
That declaration made Our Lady of Good Help the first and only approved Marian apparition/shrine in the United States. You can read more about the Churches declaration and the Shrine, by going to the Diocese's website here.
Within 2 weeks of the announcement my family and I were back in Green Bay visiting for the Holidays. It is hard to convey the feeling of knowing that this happened so close to where my in-laws were. The first Marian Shrine in our backyard. I took my boys and my mother-in-law and we visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help. I didn't know what to expect. The grounds were pretty, but looked like any other church. The crypt where the statue of Mary is located, and the site of the original vision, is in the basement. The Church built on top of it. It is small, but I thought it beautiful. I lit a candle to my father-in-law who had passed away earlier in the year, and to my cousin who was killed by her husband earlier in the year. I finally lit a candle in honor of all my family's ancestors and prayed for awhile.
|Crutches left behind
Our Lady of Good Help was being visited by newspapermen from the New York Times the day that we visited. They asked my mother-in-law if she believed. Without hesitating, she replied that she did. A bit ridiculous if you thought about it. Why would you visit if you didn't? We weren't offended though. We were glad that it was being reported on. Glad to see that after so many years and so many people thinking Adele Brise was lying or demented that the Church acknowledged what she always knew to be true.
With everything that happened during the Great Peshtigo Fire, how could I or anyone not view what happened on that spot as anything other than miraculous!
|The cemetery at the Shrine


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Málaga hardly featured in Picasso's adult life, but the city has still done its utmost to call attention to its claim to its most famous artist.
The city's Picasso museum, the Museo Picasso Málaga, is at the heart of this effort. It has an impressive permanent collection, mostly bequeathed by relatives of the artist. Since late June, the museum has also been showing, for the first time, two temporary exhibitions.
Picasso's birthplace and family home, at the corner of Plaza de la Merced, was turned into an art museum in 1998, with temporary exhibitions that include a collection of Picasso's ceramics until the end of the year. In terms of original family memorabilia, however, the house has little to offer aside from some embroidered bedsheets and christening clothing worn by the Picasso children.
At times, Málaga appears to be overstretching its Picasso connection. A vacant movie theater on Plaza de la Merced is still draped in a giant advertisement that was put up five years ago for the 125th anniversary of Picasso's birth, under the slogan "Málaga, his best canvas." The advertisement has since lost some of its color and relevance.
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"What should be questioned is not the work of my father-in-law but the opportunistic political usage that is made of it during a polemic election time," she said.
The exhibition opened shortly after Spain's governing Socialist party suffered a heavy defeat in municipal and regional elections and ahead of a general election expected sometime before March. The museum's director and local culture officials rejected her accusation, insisting that their intention was to highlight an interesting aspect of Picasso's work rather than gain any political mileage from the artist.
The exhibition that triggered Ms. Ruiz-Picasso's outburst focuses less on Pablo Picasso than on the broader anti-Fascist movement that Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian poet, dubbed "the Army of Art" — an artistic crusade against the rise of Fascism during the 1930s. On display, for instance, is "He will gas the world with his words," a 1933 photo montage by John Heartfield, showing Adolf Hitler in a Nazi uniform but with angel wings.
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Oliviero explained the thinking behind the selection of Feinstein, one of the names most familiar to area sports fans, in terms of the time period in which his show will air.
"When we looked at that 9 to noon, that hour of the day, and we try to program to the hour of the day, we saw an opportunity for a very intelligent type of sports conversation show," he said.
"And John is very intelligent, takes a very straight-edged approach to sports talk, has a great Rolodex of guests. Plus, he doesn't shy away from tough topics. So, we think that time period is perfect for the style that John brings to the radio."
No time period is as important as morning drive [the segment before 9 to noon], and no one does sports talk better than ESPN's "Mike and Mike" show in the morning.
Last month when the folks running CBS Radio took "Mike and Mike" off 1300 AM in preparation for Wednesday's launch, I heard from quite a few "Mike and Mike" fans who were not happy.
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"Right now, 'Mike and Mike' is the standard bearer for syndicated morning sports talk shows," he said. "They have done a phenomenal job. It's an excellent program. So of course, people are going to say, 'Oh, you're doing a nationally syndicated sports show in morning drive, I will now therefore compare you to Mike and Mike.' We knew that was going to happen, so one of the things we tried to do is offer something different."
We'll see starting Wednesday. Let me know what you think after listening.
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Todd & Tim in Philadelphia: Reprise of a 2-Man Team (6/23/12)
Our plans for Saturday, June 23, 2012 changed several times leading up to the day of the game. After several years of just me and Tim going to games together, Kellan had been to the last 11 in a row with us. I was thinking it would be good for Tim to get some one-on-one time and do an old school Tim-and-Dad game. We were going to go to see the Rockies and Phillies mid-week and then bring Kellan with us again to this weekend game. Then Tim got sick. The mid-week game was out and I thought I would just take Kellan to the weekend game. Then Tim gave his germs to Kellan and started feeling better, although he still had the remnants of a rash that went along with his sickness. So the final plan was to just take Tim to the weekend game while Kellan stayed home with mommy and rested up and recovered.
So that is what we did.
It was interleague play and the Phillies were hosting the Rays in an afternoon game set to start at 4:05 p.m. We headed down in time for the gates to open.
We were probably 15-20 people back in one of three lines at the LF gate, but somehow when we stepped down into the LF seats, we were literally the first fans in the OF. It was pretty strange. Probably 45 people beat us into the stadium, but I had no clue where they'd all gone.
We ran down to the first row and did two things. First, I asked Juan Pierre if he could toss a baseball to Tim when he eventually got one. He said yes. And he tossed the very next ball he got to us…although, for some reason, he threw it to me instead of Tim.
Second, we got Tim's picture wearing a Justin Bieber shirt during BP:
He is doing a little "heart" shape with his hands. Apparently, Justin Bieber does that. Although, I should note that I only know that from watching Jimmy Fallon's hilarious parody of Bieber. Big thanks to Dan Sauvageau in Denver. He got Tim this shirt for the myGameBalls.com photo scavenger hunt while we were in Denver. But there was no BP the day he gave it to Tim so we didn't get the picture. I have carried this shirt to every game since that day and always forgotten to get the picture. To stop that trend, Tim put the Bieber shirt on at home before leaving for this game so we wouldn't forget again. We covered up that shirt within minutes of getting the picture.
Big thanks, Dan!
No knock on Kellan, I love going to games with that little guy. But, wow, it is so much easier to do BP (and the entire game) with just me and Tim. For starters, I don't have to carry Tim at all.
After getting the baseball from Juan Pierre and getting the Bieber picture, we headed out to RCF. I wanted to see if Michael Stutes was around – frankly, I don't even know if he is still on the Phils rosters. I didn't see him. Most of the Phils pitchers were still running in RF.
Eventually, Joe Blanton broke off from the pack and walked along the warning track retrieving baseballs that had been hit out there while no one was there to shag them. There were 2-3 baseballs on the track directly below us.
Blanton grabbed the first and tossed it to a Phillies fan to our right. Then he grabbed the second ball and threw it in to the bucket. But the third ball? He tossed that one up to Tim…
…and Tim gloved it with no problems.
Thanks, Joe!
It was time to find some shade.
We headed to the back of section 140 where some shade was reaching the seats.
At our last game at Citizens Bank Park, we headed over to section 140 and an usher (who I am told is named Bernie) gave Tim a baseball. Well, as we were a full section away from section 140, I could already tell that the exact same thing was going to happen at this game.
And, sure enough, it did:
Thanks, Bernie!
So, I just got a new camera because my last camera was *almost* destroyed on the GFS Baseball Roadtrip. Our new camera has a "sweeping" panorama feature. Here is my first use of the new panorama feature:
Not too shabby.
So we had three baseballs already and tons of time left during BP. Tim wanted to stay in the shade and I didn't have Kellan to hold or try to keep him safe. So I decided to put on Tim's 10 inch glove…
…and try to catch a homerun on the fly (something I have never done at Citizens Bank Park) while Tim sat in the shade at the back of the section taking pictures:
Tim LOVES taking pictures. I gave him my old camera to use since I had the new one. And he snap, snap, snapped pictures…until he finished the job of sending that camera to the junk heap.
I stood in the aisle next to Tim (sitting in the second seat) and ran around trying to catch a homerun. But nothing came anywhere near us.
When the rest of the stadium opened to the public, we headed over to the pizza wedge:
Nothing came near us during the rest of Phillies BP.
While not much was going on, Tim noticed this camera:
I wondered if it was an MLB Network ballpark cam.
I noticed something interesting when the Phils cleared the field, three of the Phillies pitchers walked into the tunnel in the RF foul corner instead of walking to the dugout:
The transition from Phillies BP to Rays BP was odd. The Rays were still stretching by the dugout when the Phils headed to the clubhouse. They just kept stretching and stretching. There was a lot of dead time before the Rays really started hitting.
Before the Rays started hitting in earnest, a sole batter started hitting. It was Rays starting pitcher, James Shields…
…and one of his hits rolled to a stop directly below Tim (and directly below the "399" sign on the wall). There were zero people in the OF shagging baseballs. I had a feeling that we would end up getting that baseball once the Rays took to the field.
And we did. Eventually, Hideki Matsui's interpreter, Roger Kahlon (thanks to Josh Leuke identifying Kahlon for me on Twitter), walked out into RF and tossed a few baseballs back to the bucket. He didn't see the baseball all the way out by the dugout. But I waved at him and pointed and the baseball and Tim. That did the trick. He turned and walked toward us…
…and tossed the baseball up to Tim. Again, Tim made a nice catch.
Thanks, Roger!
After getting that baseball from Kahlon, we decided to resume the picture taking and homerun-catch-attempting. We moved over to section 103. Tim sat in the shade toward the back of the section and I stood in the aisle a couple seats down from Tim.
I had one near perfect chance to catch a homerun. It landed about 15 feet from where I was standing when it was hit. All I had to do was move down the stairs about 5 rows. It was hit right to the aisle. But…
…this guy with no glove standing in the aisle completely boxed me out as I tried to walk past him. He didn't realize he was doing it. The ball was hit to the RF side of the aisle. He moved to that side right as I was trying to pass him. He literally pushed me right into the row and made it so I couldn't pass. He made no effort to walk down a few rows to make the catch. While I was trapped in the row, another fan ran over and caught the ball on the fly.
That was my chance. I didn't come anyway near another homerun.
Toward the end of BP, we went over to the bullpen again. Tim and I both noticed this plaque on the wall in the Phillies bullpen:
I've never notice that before. Right after BP ended, Phillies bullpen catcher Jesus Tiamo grabbed a baseball out of his equipment bag and tossed it up to Tim. But he tossed it too high and I had to catch it, in Kellan's tiny glove. This is what the scene looked like:
As you can see, we also did a little sub-amateur birding in the bullpen.
Thanks, Jesus!
After Tim took a few more pictures, we headed for the upper deck to do some stadium exploring. The first thing we noticed, right upon exiting the field level seats, is that the speed pitch from past seasons…
…is gone and a Chickie's and Pete's is no in the location of the old speed pitch area. Chickie's and Pete's used to be in the concourse above the RF end of the bullpens. This Chickie's and Pete's was not here at the first game we went to this season (neither was the speed pitch). It's too bad. That speed pitch was pretty cool.
Our original post-BP plan involved getting some pizza and heading to the upper deck above the "pizza wedge." But then Tim asked if we could pull the old switcheroo – one of his favorite moves of the season – where we get ice cream first and dinner second. So, we just walked around for the time being.
We headed up to the second deck and got two panoramas from section 206. The first was using my camera's sweep panorama function…
…and the second was an old-fashioned stitched panorama:
I like them both, but I prefer the old-fashioned method.
We ended up taking a long, round-about path to our favorite ice cream spot. We traversed the upper-deck from the RF foul pole to third base. Along the way, we ran into the Liberty Pig:
We found the other Phanatic pig (shown out of sequence) down by the kids' play area during the game.
We ended up taking a flight of stairs down to the field level to find Tim's ice cream. At the top of the stairway, we stopped to get this panoramic photo of (what I have always considered to be) the main entrance to Citizens Bank Park:
While heading down the stairs, we stopped off at the Hall of Fame suite level. The guys guarding the door let us pop inside to get Tim's picture with the wall of baseballs:
That wall of baseball runs almost all the way from foul pole to foul pole on the Hall of Fame suite level. It is a whole lot of baseballs!!!
When we reached the field level, we grabbed Tim's ice cream helmet, exchanged some tickets to a future game, and then walked to our seats for the start of the game.
Along the way, we stopped to get Tim's picture with a card board cut out of the Phillie Phanatic:
The top of the first was just about ending when we got to our seats in section 104. When the Rays took the field in the bottom of the first, Hideki Matsui was stationed almost directly in front of us:
Unfortunately, our seats were in direct sunlight. I was fine with it, but Tim was not a fan. He crouched down on the floor beneath our seats to eat his ice cream helmet:
While I watched Hunter Pence at the plate and Juan Pierre swiping second…
…, I knew we had to find somewhere else to sit. Our seats were awesome. But they just wouldn't work for Tim.
I quickly spotted some seats that would work in the upper deck:
After Tim finished his ice cream, we ditched RF.
On our way to the upper deck, we stopped by the kids' play area. While we were there, the Rays scored 3 runs on a Ben Zobrist single, Jose Lobaton walk, Jeff Keppinger 2RBI double, Elliot Johnson walk, and James Shields RBI groundout.
After the play area, we headed up the escalator…
…stood in front of some mist-blowing fans in the second deck, and then headed up to the upper deck.
While walking over to section 427, I noticed that the pub in the upper deck has an incredibly apt pun-laden name…
…the High & Inside Pub.
While we were en route to our new seats, Jimmy Rollins hit a 2-run homerun to bring the score to 3-2 Rays. We couldn't see the homerun from where we were walking, but we could hear the crowd going crazy for J-Roll.
We ended up sitting in the back row of section 427, right under one of the light stands:
If we moved over a bit to see around the light stand, it looked sort of like this:
Directly behind us, there was a chain linked fence that looks out over the main entrance to Citizens Bank Park:
It was pretty nice and relaxing up there in the shady upper-deck. We kicked back and ate our pizza dinner. Here was my beverage-eyes view of the game during our dinner:
The upper deck is often times a good spot for action shots. In the bottom of the fourth, I captured Jimmy Rollins hitting a single to RF and then taking second on the throw to 3B:
Juan Pierre followed J-Roll and I captured him hitting the 17th homerun of his 13-year career:
It was a 3-run jobber that gave the Phils a 5-3 lead.
We were having a great time in the upper deck. I took a couple self-portraits to capture the moment, but they didn't turn out too good. Here is the best of them:
And here is a random shot of BJ Upton at bat:
Tim was using my old camera to take a bunch of ballpark photos. At one point, he turned around and started shooting photos outside the stadium…
…we saw a cute father-son scene going down out front by the Michael Jack Schmidt statue. Pretty cool scene. The funniest part was that this father-son combo were leaving the game in the fourth inning! But they were obviously have a great time together, so it was pretty cool to spy on their good time for a few seconds.
I got another cool action sequence of James Shields pitching:
So we were having a great time in the upper deck. The shady seats were really great. But we couldn't stay put for too long. At one point, I noticed that the shadow of the upper-deck was reaching across the field from LF all the way behind home plate.
We stood up and tried to see if we could find ourselves in the shadows on the field. But we couldn't.
Then I realized how we could find ourselves in the shadows. We had to go to the far end of the upper deck out by the LF foul pole.
As we approached the last section, we could already see our shadows out in LF:
Then we got one of my favorite pictures we have ever got at a MLB stadium:
Check out Tim's shadow on the LF foul pole. My shadow is in the LF grass just to the right of the shadow of the foul pole.
The view down by the foul pole is pretty good too. Here is what it looked like while J-Roll grounded out to end the sixth inning:
Before heading back down to the field level, I snapped a picture of Tim with Center City Philadelphia in the background:
And then we headed down the switch-back ramp to the field level. From the ramp, we stopped and took two panoramas using my new cameras *sweep* function, this one…
…and this one:
After running down the first two parts of the ramp, we stopped on the 200-level and took the big escalator back down to the field level:
We hung out and watched the action from the SRO area for a bit. We saw Matsui fly out to LF to end the top of the 7th:
The kids' play area closes at the end of the 7th inning. So quickly headed over there so Tim could play for about 5 minutes. And then headed back to the SRO area behind the 3B side. We wanted to make an attempt at getting an umpire baseball. It was going to be near impossible because the seats were still packed behind the 3B dugout and, of course, we weren't even down there.
In the top of the ninth, we ended up finding some nice seats in about the 7th row. It looked sort of like this as Jonathan Papelbon pitched to BJ Upton:
After retiring Upton, Papelbon gave up a single to Matsui:
Papelbon had not blown a single save opportunity this season…until this game that is. Starting with a 2-run lead, Papelbon twice had the Rays down to their final strike. The crowd was on their collective feet. We were inching down toward the third row where there was a decently clear path to the umpires' tunnel. And twice Papelbon gave up RBI singles instead of recording the final out of the game.
The save was blown. And we were heading to the bottom of the ninth.
The bottom of the ninth did not last long. Jim Thome…
…pinch hit to lead off the inning. And he hit a walk off homerun to end it.
I hate when closers blow a save and are then awarded the win minutes later when his team picks him up. Well, that's what happened with Papelbon. He vulture the win from his teammate, Raul Valdez.
I should note that Thome's homerun was a historic blast. It was his 609th homerun, bringing him into a tie with Sammy Sosa at seventh on the all-time career homerun list. Let's hope Thome passes Sosa, but doesn't climb any higher on the list (next would be the undisputedly better than Thome, Ken Griffey, Jr.).
But that's not the sum total of the historic value of the Thome blast. It was also his 13 career walk-off homerun, breaking a tie with Mickey Mantle and making Thome the undisputed all-time career leader in walk-off homeruns. (Note: Like Griff, Mickey Mantle was also undisputedly better than Jim Thome).
Anyway, we got into pretty decent position for an umpire baseball, decent for a non-Diamond Club attendee at Citizens Bank Park. But Jim Joyce tossed all of his extra baseballs into the Diamond Club.
But we didn't leave empty handed. As the Rays relieves and bullpen staff made their way into the dugout, Rays bullpen catcher Scott Cursi tossed Tim our final baseball of the day.
Thanks, Scott!
By the way, in an interesting side note: we have been to two Rays games this season. The Rays lost both of them on walk-off homeruns in the bottom of the 9th. And Scott Cursi tossed us a ball as he entered the dugout both times.
So, thanks again, Scott!
Before we headed out, we had two different ushers take pictures of us:
It was a great reprise our 2-man team for this game. Kellan will be back with us for our next game. But I think I'll definitely do at least one more *just Tim and Dad* game this season. We're a great 2-man team!
2012 C&S Fan Stats
|13/11 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|17/16 Teams – Tim – Mariners, Rockies, Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Athletics, Orioles, Nationals, Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Twins, Cubs, Cardinals, Royals, Red Sox, Rays, Pirates; Kellan – Mariners, Rockies, Marlins, Nationals, Athletics, Orioles, Mets, Diamondbacks, Blue Jays, Twins, Cubs, Cardinals, Royals, Red Sox, Rays, Pirates
|20 Ice Cream Helmet(s) – Phillies 2, Orioles 1, Mets 2, Twins 2, Cardinals 3, Royals 2, Rockies 3, Red Sox 2, Pirates 3
|75 Baseballs – Mariners 9, Marlins 4, Mets 8, Nationals 1, Phillies 5, Umpires 6, Orioles 6, Athletics 1, Diamondbacks 4, Blue Jays 1, Twins 1, Cubs 7, Cardinals 1, Royals 6, Red Sox 6, Rays 6, Pirates 3
|11 Commemorative Baseball(s) – Marlins Park, Mets 50th Anniversary 2, Camden Yards 3, Dodger Stadium 4, Fenway Park 1
|10/9 Stadiums – Tim – Citizens Bank Park, Nationals Park, Camden Yards, Citi Field, Target Field, Busch Stadium, Kauffman Stadium, Coors Field, Fenway Park, PNC Park; Kellan – Nationals Park, Camden Yards, Citi Field, Target Field, Busch Stadium, Kauffman Stadium, Coors Field, Fenway Park, PNC Park1/1 Mascots Photos – Tim – Sluggerrr; Kellan – Fredbird
|2/1 Player Photos – Tim – Ricky Bones, Willie Bloomquist; Kellan – Willie Bloomquist
|2 Batting Gloves – Ronnie Deck
|5 Autographs – Willie Bloomquist 2, Tim Byrdak, Brian Roberts, Munenori Kawasaki


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As part of the 2014 SCORP update, CPW surveyed close to 400 city and local park and recreation departments, open space departments, and other districts and agencies that oversee local recreation. CPW asked these agencies to weigh in and respond to key questions to help better understand and quantify key local and regional issues. A total of 174 responses were received during the online survey period.
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Results from the survey shed light on some of the public's outdoor recreation habits and desires for future outdoor recreation investments in Colorado. They also highlight the importance of outdoor recreation to Coloradans, where and how often we participate in outdoor recreation activities, preferences for services and types of outdoor recreation facilities, as well as preferences for future investment and development.
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Translation: "Make my day, cocksucker."
22 thoughts on "Chapter 5: Lit, page 41."
*rubs brow* Dinah, let the man talk.
Or better yet, let Numbers do the talking. I think we're in for an epic reveal here! The whores already don't believe Barney. Will they believe a prole?
Better yet, was Numbers a former whore herself? That would be epically convincing!
Reclamation of Templar. Arizona is able to legally claim ownership of the building because they have "established continuous, hostile and notorious use of the property" otherwise known to the locals as a brothel- a place where prostitutes work. Although Mr. John may not have anything personal against hookers, his organization is intentionally targeting brothels because it is their place of business. Unless they are automatically given a place in the movement, they will be out of work with no prospects. Even then, would they actually want to live like a Reclaimer?
Out of work? They're not going in and ousting the whores, they're working in abandoned buildings. You saw the state of the Circassian, don't think anyone but the unlicensed has been working there for years.
The damage was attributed to a fire and shoddy workmanship. No info on how long it was unoccupied
EJ set the fire, after Rec had already moved in. The shoddy workmanship comes from the '60s.
No, noooo, "continuous, hostile, and notorious" relates to Rec's use of the property, not the former tenants. It's a specific legal phrase used to establish squatter's rights. In that, they must prove that they've been there a while, the owners didn't give them permission, and everyone knew they were in there. That allows them to make the claim that the previous owners didn't care much what happens to their property, since they didn't try to evict them sooner, and the squatters can make better use of it.
Yeah.. seriously, Dinah ain't helping. Has she not heard of 'public relations'? Or perhaps 'lynch mobs', one of the things lawyering has not, generally, been able to do much about.
Indeed, with every panel I find Dinah exponentially less useful/likable.
Less useful, yes. Less likeable? No way, at least not for me. She's doing the wrong thing, of course, but she's still insanely awesome.
This just keeps getting more and more epic.
Dinah… you need to shut up and let Mr. John tell the whores that he's not after them at all. There is a time and place for lawyering up, this is not it.
On the other hand, the whores don't seem very keen on listening to what Barney has to say. They've decided he hates them and aren't going to change their minds all of a sudden.
Most of the times, you just can't talk people into changing their minds. Especially angry people.
PR's pretty much wasted on a mob. Terror and armed police have a pretty storied history of keeping mobs in line, though… and whores.
…Using whores on other whores? By Chimera's Caffeination! Ivan, I think you are on to something here. Perhaps it could even be profitable to advertise the setting upon of the whores, as "whore on whore action", hmmm?
Wait, wait – I don't thnk he's saying what you think he's saying…
But I also think I like your interpretation better!
Shhhhhhhh!! I think I know that you know that he thinks what I'm, uh, wait. You know what I mean. There's no fun in miscommunication if you point it out.
To defeat the prostitute, you must become the prostitute
No, this is not the time and place to be trying to appease a mob. They are too worked up to listen. I'm with Dinah. This is an unpredictable mob, even if he goes in with the best of intentions, someone is going to take his words and twist them around in this situation. Someone is going to try to start something.
At no point has Dinah said anything about the sex worker's right to work or even their place or business, this has all be about them trespassing and making threats on their property. All she's done is informed them of their right to be here and the risks they're taking by trying to start something.
I understand what John wants to tell the whores, but they have more to lose then to gain in trying to talk them down at this point. If this was only a group of three angry people, this would be a different story, but this is a mob. Keep your distance and record everything.
Though I have to admit, she could do better with a less aggressive way of telling them.
I think Dinah is starting to lose the high ground in this scenario. She was doing well a few pages ago, but she's taken a turn for the worse, image-wise, since then. If you can only be in the right on one level, the worst you can choose is the technical level. If she intends to try and sell this scene to the general public, she may want to let Barney speak before her side of the argument starts to look like nothing but legalese. And I agree, she'd serve the cause better if she didn't come across as cold and acknowledged the legitimacy of her counterpart's concern.
Ooookayyyy. I used to like Dinah. Now I don't. She's an ass and needs a giant slap from Barney so he can defuse the situation.


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GREENS communications spokesman Scott Ludlam has urged a privacy tort, saying that if it were carefully drafted it would not endanger freedom of speech.
Senator Ludlam said that, in the context of the debate about the radio prank that tragically backfired, such a tort would protect someone from having medical information improperly sought while they were in hospital, which was a ''particularly egregious breach of privacy''.
He said he had been impressed by the argument that if Parliament did not legislate, the courts would continue to define privacy by their judgments, which might eventually have the effect of eroding the implied right of free speech.
A tort would give people the right to sue for invasion of privacy. The issue went well beyond just the debate about journalists' pursuit of free speech versus the public's right to privacy, he said.
The Law Reform Commission has recommended a privacy tort and the government is considering it, in the context of its media policy, which has now been postponed until next year.
Senator Ludlam said that if there was a tort of privacy ''you can legislate protections for freedom of speech and publication and protect the right of journalists to do their work''.
Asked whether this would prevent a radio station making a call to someone and putting it to air without their permission, he said people would ''second-guess some of this kind of stuff''.
''I think the idea of an action like this is that it would be used relatively infrequently, and that would actually prevent some of the dumber behaviour from occurring in the first place.''
It was possible that ''we can actually learn'' from the recent prank tragedy. ''Put something, fairly carefully crafted, to Parliament to preserve free speech, but also to legally embed people's rights to privacy,'' he said.
A privacy law would not trespass on, for example, journalists knocking on the door of a corrupt official, trying to get something on tape, he told Sky News.
He said that at the moment there was no Australian jurisdiction under which a person could sue somebody for a really damaging or outrageous breach of privacy.


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A gateway helps an Air Force center put its diverse arrays under one roof
FOR YEARS, RALPH MILES managed storage for the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment with a mix of direct-attached storage (DAS) and storage-area network (SAN) systems.
But when it came time to unify the storage networks and prepare for future growth, Miles chose network-attached storage. NAS offered scalability for future growth and allowed Miles to use the old DAS and SAN storage arrays as part of the new NAS network via a gateway from OnStor.
Headquartered in Brooks City-Base, Texas, outside San Antonio, the 740- employee Air Force center specializes in building amenities, such as commissaries, and cleaning up military bases after they have been decommissioned.
It works with contractors and environmental engineers from across the country who collaborate with one another and store their files online. The agency also submits a lot of reports to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Over the years, the center had collected a number of seemingly incompatible storage systems. In 1994, as network administrator, Miles was asked to provide a way for employees to back up their personal computer files.
So he set up a series of DAS servers that offered each user as much as 2G of storage.
But using a DAS approach proved to be cumbersome. Every time a server needed to be upgraded, Miles had to physically move the disks, along with the SCSI controller, to the new server. It was the only way to save the data.
"I needed the data to be external to the server," Miles said.
He stuck with DAS but put the hard drives in external enclosures and increased the capacity per user to 6G. He arranged the disks in a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) format and built a 60G cabinet of 10 drives each.
That approach liberated the storage from the individual servers, though the storage space could not be reallocated across servers.
By 1998, the agency had outgrown that technology and took the next step, spending $75,000 on a three-shelf, 1.5T SAN array from Legato (now owned by EMC), which should have provided more than enough space. The array had Fibre Channel drives and switches.
Miles said he liked the reliability and flexibility of a SAN but soon realized the benefits came at a price — specifically, the cost of maintenance and upgrades.
"I couldn't afford it," he said. Moreover, users didn't need the ultra-fast retrieval and write times the SAN offered.
So when the time came to upgrade, Miles went back to DAS. The agency bought a 6T DAS unit from a local supplier that cost only $24,000. The unit was so much cheaper than a SAN in part because it used Serial Advanced Technology Attachment drives, which were slower but less expensive than Fibre Channel.
"My users couldn't tell the difference between Fibre Channel" and Serial ATA, Miles said.
The approach worked well until Miles got the order to expand the storage pool once again to provide space for disaster recovery. That effort involved backing up desktop PCs and servers at all the center's locations.
Miles at first tried to expand the existing DAS, but he ran into problems. By that time, he had 22T of data on three trays of DAS storage.
Using the Microsoft Windows NT File System (NTFS), which could only allocate 2.2T per partition, Miles divided the partitions for the disaster recovery work into three 1.6T increments. But he soon ran into a problem — namely, Checkdisk.
The Checkdisk routine tests each sector of a hard drive to verify that the drive is still good.
"Ever try to run Checkdisk on a 1.6T partition?" Miles asked.
It took about a week to check each partition and three weeks to test all three.
"That was three weeks my disaster recovery system was down," he said.
During one run of Checkdisk, the center missed three weeks of incremental backups, which did not please its executives.
"It was painful to report to the chief financial officer that his prized disaster recovery system was not in play," Miles said. "I could not afford to go through that again, so I will not use NTFS schema for my terabyte-sized storage."
At that point, he talked to his local reseller, and they agreed that a new storage system was necessary and that it should not be based on NTFS.
SAN wouldn't work, not only because it is expensive but also because it is block-based, which was not optimal for saving user files. SAN is good for large applications that can manage their own storage space.
On the other hand, DAS storage is file-based, which generally makes it well suited to users who need a place to store files. But DAS wouldn't work well for the Air Force center because it would require too many servers, and data recovery would be difficult if a file server went down.
Center officials decided to buy four 12T NAS storage arrays from OnStor. Each of the company's Pantera storage units has 16 750G hot-swappable Serial ATA RAID drives. And the NAS setup meant officials could easily add more storage.
The center also invested in a Bobcat 2240 gateway from OnStor that could handle the NAS traffic and the Fibre Channel SAN traffic on the back end. The gateway allowed the agency to manage its existing SAN and DAS units as components of the NAS system.
"When clients write to the Bobcat gateway, they are reading and writing files," said Narayan Venkat, vice president of marketing at OnStor. "But behind the gateway, the gateway can write blocks to block storage."
With that approach, the center can continue using the SAN and DAS units until they are phased out. And rather than treating them as isolated pools of storage that must be managed separately, officials can add the units into the center's overall storage configuration.
"You derive a lot of economies of scale by consolidating storage," Venkat said.
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This is a follow up to Chris's post about the American Anthropological Association and Open Access.
The subject of open access publishing gets a fair amount of press around here at Savage Minds. For good reason, in my opinion, because the publishing regime that we currently have needs a little…rethinking. Going "open access" is, of course, one possible option. But what is this open access thing really all about? If we're going to consider OA, it's probably a good idea to look deeper into the issues involved. It's definitely not some magical thing that will just happen overnight. It will take work, planning, and cooperation among lots of people. Anyway, here are some sources to look into regarding anthropology and open access:*
First, check out Peter Suber's overview of OA for starters. Learn it. Live it. Know it.
Next, Wikipedia (fittingly) has a pretty nice overview of what OA is all about, including some of the debates about financing, etc. The OA page is here.
Also, check out the three interviews I did with Jason Baird Jackson about Open Access and anthropology a while back. Jason is a wealth of information when it comes to all things OA (have a look at his site too). The first of the OA interviews with Jason is here.
Financing is one issue that comes up a lot, and rightfully so. For a few ideas, have a look at Kim and Mike Fortun's "thought experiment" about Liberating Cultural Anthropology.
More good stuff: the OA archives link here at Savage Minds. You don't have to go far to start reading about OA.
Finally, I'm adding this simply because I can't help myself:
*If you have other OA sources and links, please feel free to post them in the comments section.