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The Tragedy of Phyllis Pinnock
My father Patrick �Pat� Halling was born in Australia�in Rowella in the beautiful Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania on the 28th of August 1924�but largely raised in Sydney, the son of an Englishwoman, Phyllis Mary Pinnock, who I always knew as Mary, and a Dane by the name of Carl Halling.
Mary had been born into a middle � or upper middle � class family sometime towards the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century, possibly in the Dulwich area of South East London, and according to my father's account, her first true love David was a scion of the Wilson Line of Hull which had developed into the largest privately owned shipping firm in the world in the early part of the century. Tragically, he perished during the First World War like so many young men immortalised in all too many cruelly beautiful poems. She subsequently married an officer in the British army, the aforesaid Peter Robinson, and they had two children, Peter Bevan, who went on to become a successful cellist, and Suzanne, known as Dinny.
When her children were little more than infants, she elected to join her husband - who was presumably no longer in the army - as a tea planter in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, and it was on that breathtakingly beautiful island, in a tough and typically isolated environment that she met the two men, tea planters like herself, who were destined to become her second and third husbands. They were my namesake Carl Halling, a Danish devotee of Eastern mysticism and fluent Sanskrit speaker, and a quiet British engineer called Christopher Evans.
While still in Ceylon, she became pregnant with her third child, and soon after having done so, she mysteriously took off with Carl to Tasmania, where the child was born Patrick Clancy Halling, to be raised as Carl�s son�but in the great city of Sydney - rather than the Tasmanian backwoods - where they lived in a predominantly Irish Catholic neighbourhood.
It was in Sydney that Carl contracted the multiple sclerosis that would ultimately kill him, after which according to family accounts, Mary made a living variously as a journalist - writing for the Sydney Telegraph - and teacher, even running her own primary school for a time, but it was hard for her. One blessing was that all three of her children were exceptionally gifted musically, Patrick as a violinist, Peter as a cellist and Suzanne as a pianist, but of all of them Pat was the only borderline prodigy. At just eight years old, he won a scholarship to the Sydney Conservatory of Music, soloing for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra a year later. However, he reserved his true passion for the water, this love of the sea and ships and specifically sailing being a legacy from Mary, who spent much of her adult life by the sea.
Soon after Carl�s death on the eve of the second world war, Mary and her family set off for Denmark, Carl having wished to be buried in his native country, and then to London where Pat studied both at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of the great Austrian violinist Max Rostal. He joined the London Philharmonic 0rchestra while still a teenager during the Blitz on London during which he served in the Sea Cadets as a signaller, seeing action as such on the hospital ships of the Thames River Emergency Service, which, formed in 1938, lasted for three years, using converted Thames pleasure steamers as floating ambulances or first aid stations.
With Mary and her three children back in London, evidently some kind of reconciliation took place between herself and her family, which included financial aid. Given that her father had been what is known as a gentleman, meaning that he was independently wealthy, it�s probable that she�d been born into that part of the upper middle class known as the lower gentry. However, by abandoning her first husband for another man it may be that she irrevocably cut herself off from that hallowed social class.
In this one respect, she was somewhat akin to the mother of �Kind Hearts and Coronets� anti-hero Louis Mazzini, who suffers ostracism at the hands of her aristocratic family for the social crime of marrying an Italian opera singer, which is to say out of her social caste. Following the untimely death of her husband, she enters a state of deep mourning for the decision that wrecked her life, and after her own early death, passes her pathological preoccupation with social position onto her only child, who goes on to effectuate a terrible revenge on the class that rejected her.
Needless to say, nothing anywhere near as dramatic or violent as the fate of the Mazzinis of the pitch black Ealing comedy afflicted my own family, and my father went on to become - not a psychopath - but a successful professional musician and family man. However, as I say, the comparison can to some degree be made, and my own father occasionally spoke of a supposed distant connection to aristocracy to me when I was a young man. On at least one occasion, he did so as a means of boosting my morale by convincing me that my destiny was that of a scholar and athlete, one born for great things if you will.
A further comparison can be made to the mother of the great American Method actor Montgomery Clift, whose extraordinary physical beauty and magnetism constitute the very quintessence of the ideal of the aristocratic WASP Prince. Although born into a fairly humble middle class family, Clift was a scion of the southern aristocracy according to his mother Ethel �Sunny� Clift. She herself had reason to believe she was the illegitimate daughter of Woodbury Blair, son of one-time Lincoln Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Monty and his twin sister and elder brother Brooks were duly raised as if to the manor born, and educated in French, German and Italian.
Like Sunny Clift with her three children, Phyllis Mary Pinnock instilled it into my father that he was descended from a lost branch of an aristocratic family. I never fully believed her story until one day in the 1980s, while my family was being paid a visit by Mary�s younger sister Joan and her husband Eric, I surreptitiously placed a cassette tape recorder close to her chair during lunch or dinner, knowing that one or other of my parents would quiz her as to the veracity of Mary�s tales of the longstanding mystery of Ormonde.
If my memory serves me aright, among the truths she revealed about our family that day was that Joan and Mary�s paternal great grandfather had been a coachman by trade and been left an enormous sum of money by a grateful employer, extraordinary act of philanthropy which introduced money into the family for the first time. Another was that her maternal grandmother�s maiden name had been Butler, which allegedly links the family to the Butlers of Ormond, a dynasty of Anglo-Norman nobles named after the Earldom they went on to rule in Munster, Ireland, although Walter was the name by which they were first known. Detailed historical background on the Butler dynasty follows in part two.
The Mystery of Ormonde
The Butler saga begins in earnest with the Norman Invasions of Ireland, which took place in 1169 on the orders of Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, one of five kingdoms of pre-Norman Ireland.
Having established this fact, it behooves me to ask the question...who precisely were these Normans who went on to create one of the most powerful monarchies in Europe and whose territorial conquests would ultimately include � in addition to Ireland - England, Scotland, Wales, Southern Italy and the island of Sicily? Largely Nordic, they are in fact believed to have been of mixed Viking, Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock, a mixture which evidently produced an instinct towards elitism and dominance.
The Norman conquest of England had occurred - famously - in 1066 AD with William the Conqueror�s success at the Battle of Hastings, which resulted in Norman control of England, and the introduction into the country of the Norman aristocracy, whereby the Normans replaced the Anglo-Saxons as the ruling class of England and became part of a single French-speaking culture with lands on both sides of the channel. It also changed the English language and her culture forever while producing a sporadic but fierce rivalry with France, who became her bitterest enemy, remaining so for centuries.
In his 1842 poem "Lady Clara Vere de Vere", Alfred Lord Tennyson makes the valid point that "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." This of course inspired the film "Kind Hearts and Coronets" which I mentioned earlier with regard to my own family. What the poem was alluding to was the specifically Norman nature of the English aristocracy. Back to the Emerald Isle�
By the fateful year of 1169, Ireland - a land once given over to the ancient Celtic faith of Druidry and the worship of the Sidhe or Faery Folk - was profoundly Christian, despite a remnant of paganism. Nonetheless, an invasion had already been authorised by the first � and only - English Pope Adrian IV in 1155, decision which occasioned centuries of English dominance and Irish misery.
MacMurrough had been forced into exile in 1166 by a coalition of forces led by the High King of Ireland Rory O'Connor, and had fled�allegedly to Bristol first...and then to France. There are various accounts of what happened next, but it�s certain he asked Henry II, first English King of the Norman House of Plantagenet, for help in regaining his kingdom. Henry offered his support, after which MacMurrough began recruiting allies in Wales, Richard de Clare, the man known as Strongbow, foremost among them. Poor Ireland was thence earmarked for invasion from England.
In 1167, he returned to Ireland with a small army of mercenaries, but it wasn�t until 1169 that a full-scale invasion by the Anglo-Normans and their Welsh and Flemish allies - and led by Strongbow - got under way. Contemporary accounts apparently refer to the invaders as English, although they have also been described as Anglo-Norman, Cambro-Norman and Anglo-French.
The Flemish contingent was culled largely from those Flemings who�d arrived in Britain with William I, and had been settled in Wales by Henry I, to be perceived by the hostile Welsh as English. Also believed to have taken part in the invasion was one Theobald Walter, patriarch of the Butlers of Ormond.
Two years afterwards, Henry II set foot in Ireland, the first English King to do so, and so High Kingship was brought to an end, to be replaced by over 750 years of English rule. Henry was an ancestor of future generations of Butlers, and a grandson of William the Conqueror, which may provide a kinship with the mysterious Merovingian dynasty of Frankish Kings.
When Henry's son with Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the future King John of England Prince John arrived in Ireland in 1185, he was accompanied by Theobald Walter, and as his father had been Butler of England, he was appointed Butler of Ireland and given a portion of land in eastern Munster that would become known as Ormond. Hence the name, the Butlers of Ormond.
Theobald wed Maud le Vavasour around 1200, and they had one son, Theobald le Botiller, 2cnd Baron Butler (1200-1230), whose son with Joan du Marais married Margery de Burgh, a descendant of both Dermot McMurrough and the legendary Brian Boru, thereby bringing royal Gaelic blood into the Butler bloodline. One of their grand-children James Butler was appointed Earl of Ormond in 1328. He�d been born to yet another Theobald and the beautiful Eleanor de Bohun, grand-daughter of Edward I of the House of Plantagenet�also known as the Angevins from their origins in Anjou, France. Dubbed The Hammer of the Scots, he was the Anglo-Norman monarch who'd had Scottish landowner Sir William Wallace executed in 1305 for having led a resistance during the Wars of Scottish independence.
The Earldom of Ormond was created for Theobald's grandson, James Butler, son of Sir Edmund and Lady Joan Fitzgerald in 1328. Through their issue all subsequent Earls of Ormonde were descended. The 7th Earl, Thomas Butler was the great-grandfather of Anne and Mary Boleyn. On his death, Piers Roe Butler became the 8th Earl, but as the King wanted the Earldom of Ormond for Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne and Mary, Piers resigned his claim in 1528. Ten years later, it was restored to him, heralding the title's third creation. By this time, England had become a Protestant nation, and the Anglican faith established in Ireland as the state religion, despite the fact that the vast majority of the people were Catholic.
Years of vicious feuding between Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond - known as the Black Earl - and his own mother's family the Fitzgeralds, culminated in a victory for the Butlers in 1565 at the Battle of Afane. which helped provoke the Desmond Rebellions of 1569-73 and 1579-83, the second of which was bolstered by hundreds of Papal troops. Defeated by the Elizabethan Armies and their Irish allies - Court favourites the Butlers predominant among them - they were succeeded by the first English Plantations carried out in a devastated Munster.
Of the Supposed Superiority of Nobility
In 1609 the first Ulster Plantation came into being in the wake of the Nine Years War which was largely fought in Ulster, the island's most Gaelic region, between Ulster chieftains and their Catholic allies, including in 1601-1602, 6000 Spanish soldiers sent by Phillip II, and the Protestant Elizabethan government. The routing of the Ulster Earls and their allies led to the famous Flight of the Earls to Europe, the end of the Gaelic Clan system, and the colonization of Ulster by English and Scottish Protestants.
As for the Earldom of Ormond, the fifth Earl of its third creation James Butler was placed in command of English government forces based in Dublin following The Irish Rebellion of 1641, which was an uprising by the Old English Catholic gentry who had become more Irish than the Irish themselves. Most of the country was taken by the Catholic rebels, whose leader was the Duke's own cousin Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, and in time it evolved into a conflict between the native Irish and the newly arrived Protestant settlers from Britain which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Protestants, the precise number being a matter of much debate.
A year later, with the English Civil War (1641-1651) under way, Ormonde, who was a Royalist sympathizer, despatched an estimated 4000 troops to England to fight for King Charles I of the Scottish House of Stuart against the English Calvinist Roundheads under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, and was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Royal Appointment in 1643.
By 1649, Ireland had become a stronghold of support for the King with Ormonde in overall charge of the Royalist forces and Irish Confederation of native Gaels and Old English Catholics, all of which had the effect of attracting the attention of Cromwell and his New Model Army. Ormonde attempted to thwart the English Puritan invaders by holding a line of fortified towns across the country, but their leader defeated them one after the other, beginning in 1649 with the Siege of Drogheda.
In the summer of 1650, following a long series of humiliating defeats for the Irish, Ormonde, having been deserted by Protestants and Catholics alike, was urged to leave the country by the Catholic clergy, which he promptly did, seeking refuge in Paris with the exiled Charles II. On the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy in 1660, James Butler was showered with honours by the new King of England, Scotland and Ireland and was made Duke of Ormonde in the peerage of Ireland in the spring of '61.
Eight year later, he fell from favour as a result, allegedly, of courtly intrigue on the part of Royal favourite James Villiers, the 2cnd Duke of Buckingham. In 1671, an attempt was made on his life by an Irish adventurer named Thomas Blood, but Ormonde escaped, convinced that Buckingham had put him up to it, but nothing was ever proven. In 1682, he became Duke of Ormonde in the peerage of England, dying four years later in Dorset, and soon after his death, a poem was published which celebrated his great nobility of character, an essential decency that was never compromised.
One of his sons, the 2cnd Duke of Ormonde, commanded a regiment at the Battle of the Boyne under William of Orange, and took part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. His son was the third and final Duke of Ormonde. The Earldom, however, lasted until the end of the 20th Century, becoming dormant in October 1997 with the death of James Butler the 7th Marquess of Ormonde, who had two daughters, but no sons. It may be that I�m a distant relative of theirs�and if so, then I'm also related to many perhaps even all of the most blue-blooded families not just in Europe but the entire world.
In the end though, while the Bible upholds the authority of parents and the instruments of the state as a means of controlling Man's innate depravity, while appealing to his hierarchical instincts and deep-seated desire for order and structure, all hierarchies erected by Man in order that one section of society might feel superior to another, whether on the basis of class, race, skin colour or some other false Man-made distinction, are antichrist, because all human beings are created equal in the sight of God. The tragic fact is that those who might consider themselves to be natural-born aristocrats by virtue of nobility of birth or enormous wealth, or physical beauty or intellectual or artistic ability are - or so it has been asserted - less likely to turn to Christ than those who come from backgrounds of brokenness or poverty. So much for the supposed superiority of nobility. History simply doesn't attest to it.
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"A terrific accomplishment by our women's team to earn another top-five national finish academically," said Lipscomb track and field coach Bill Taylor. "It's fun to remain in the top group in the nation academically while rising to the top athletically. We continue to lead the Atlantic Sun as well, which is a great honor."
Texas (Indoor) and Oklahoma (Outdoor) were the national Teams of the Year; Texas carried a 3.28 team GPA, while the Sooners had a 3.03, both well behind the marks set by Lipscomb.
Overall, Princeton carried the highest GPA among Division I women's squads, with a 3.68 GPA. Lipscomb tied with Wofford and Loyola-Maryland for the nation's fifth-best GPA, behind Princeton, Iona (3.57), Santa Clara (3.56) and St. John's (3.52).
The Lady Bisons had the best team GPA of the four other Atlantic Sun squads who made the list, eclipsing the marks of ETSU (3.27), Jacksonville (3.26) and Kennesaw State (3.18).
As a whole, the Lipscomb track and field program joined very elite company as one of only eight schools in the nation to have both the men and women's teams put up 3.35 GPA's or better. The other schools to earn that distinction were Duke, Harvard, Rice, Santa Clara, Stanford, Tennessee Chattanooga and Yale.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Lipscomb men's soccer head coach Charles Morrow has announced the dates of the 2014 College ID soccer camps. The dates of the one-day camps are Jan. 11 and Feb. 1.
These specialized camps are designed for male athletes that aspire to play at the collegiate level. The Lipscomb Winter ID camp will test players abilities and skills against the best in the region, under the supervision of current college coaches and former professional players.
Cost for the camp is $125. While there are two separate dates, space for the camps is limited.
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I think that these may be wild cherry blossoms. They grow on a spindly, scrubby tree, about 15-20 feet tall, on a dry hillside in the fence row. The blossoms look very similar to wild plum, but I don't think it's a plum bush/tree because it's so much taller than they usually grow. If the little tree ever has fruit, the birds apparently get it before I notice it.
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It might snow here tomorrow! Nice pic.
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Hi, John. I heard that my hometown in Nebraska got about 8 inches of wet snow, and even here in Kentucky, we had a possibility of snow flurries last night.
- Larry said...
I'll hazard a guess that these are blossoms of one of the several wild plum species which grow in the midlands. I usually think of wild cherry as a May bloomer. But then you live farther south than I do, so I may be wrong. Check the fruits later this year!
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Young children playing at a caravan site where a seven-year-old boy was knocked down and killed by a car may be vital witnesses to what happened.
Police appealed to their parents to make contact as a teenager arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving remained in custody.
A 16-year-old boy was allegedly driving the BMW car involved in the accident at Shirenewton caravan site, east of Cardiff, South Wales.
He was arrested soon after the incident at 3pm on Saturday and is still being questioned by South Wales Police.
The seven-year-old boy, who has not been named, is from the caravan site and was "apparently in collision with a red BMW 3rd series estate", police said.
He died from injuries sustained in the accident after being taken to hospital. Specially trained police officers are with his family.
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A police spokeswoman has now revealed that children playing at the time of the accident may be key witnesses to the tragedy.
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The housing market completed 2012 with such strong momentum, it might be easy for some to forget that the market bottomed only slightly more than a year ago, in October 2011.
U.S. home values ended 2012 up 5.9 percent over the end of 2011, marking four consecutive quarters of national home value appreciation. The Zillow® Home Value Index (ZHVI) rose to $157,400 in the fourth quarter, up 2.5 percent over the third quarter, according to the fourth quarter Zillow Real Estate Market Reports.
The 5.9 percent annual appreciation rate far exceeded yearly rates of appreciation typically associated with healthy markets and represents the largest annual gain since August 2006, near the peak of the housing bubble. Historically, housing markets can expect annual home value appreciation of roughly 3 percent on average, according to Zillow research. Looking ahead, the Zillow Home Value Forecast shows home values increasing by 3.3 percent in 2013, a yearly appreciation rate more in line with historic norms.
In many areas, the past few years have been quite the roller coaster. In the Phoenix metro, for example, home values peaked in the first quarter of 2006 at $282,600. They bottomed in the third quarter of 2011 at $123,900. From peak to trough, a period of roughly five years, home values in the Phoenix area fell by a staggering 56.2 percent. But over the past year, home values in the Phoenix metro shot up by 22.5 percent — and are expected to rise another 8.5 percent in 2013. Several other metros, including Las Vegas and Miami, experienced similar rides over the past few years.
"It's important to be cautious moving forward, even as we celebrate the undeniably positive end to 2012, and be careful that consumers don't grow to expect such high appreciation as the norm," said Zillow Chief Economist Dr. Stan Humphries. "Buying a home should be a long-term decision, and these swings between a deep housing recession and higher-than-normal appreciation rates can give consumers whiplash and cause some to lose sight of that."
This is why the anticipated moderation in home value increases in 2013 is actually a positive sign for the market. Yes, we expect home value appreciation to slow this year, which may lead some to speculate the market is cooling off and headed back down. But they will still rise, and at a historically solid rate. Rising home values can be expected to pull more borrowers struggling with negative equity — so-called "underwater" borrowers, or those who owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth — back above water.
As more homeowners are freed from negative equity as a result of rising values, and are given the option of listing their homes and shopping for new ones, current inventory shortages should ease. A deeper pool of available homes for sale will entice more overall buyers into the market, and a wider breadth of home styles and price levels available for sale will help bring in other types of buyers besides bargain-hunters and investors.
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Chelsea captain John Terry has warned his teammates they need to buck up their ideas soon or face the prospect of finishing outside the top four again.
The Stamford Bridge star said last season's experience of finishing sixth should be ramming home the importance of avoiding extra fixtures like the replay they face following the disappointing 2-2 draw with Brentford in the FA Cup.
It means a replay at Stamford Bridge will be required to see who will face Middlesbrough in the fifth round.
"Champions League football is a must next season," said Terry.
"We need to liven up a bit and realise the importance to the fans and the club.
"We saw last season, going to the Champions League final, suffering with all the extra games and stuff like that, we ended up finishing sixth in the League."
Terry was making his return to the starting line-up after a lengthy injury lay-off and was happy to be back in a Chelsea shirt.
However, the former England captain was frustrated at the Blues not being able to see off minnows Brentford and admitted the Bees showed greater desire than the European champions.
Despite the disappointment of a poor result, Terry felt his side would have no trouble in brushing aside the League One outfit in the replay.
"Even though it's great to be back personally, on a team performance we should be winning the game and now we've made it difficult for ourselves with a replay again," added the 32-year-old.
"We have another game we could do without but we should beat them at Stamford Bridge. I was disappointed because we didn't fight and they wanted it more."
The replay is set to take place on February 17, which is the weekend of the other fifth-round ties and will mean further fixture congestion for the team.
Chelsea are currently third in the Premier League, 11 points behind leaders Manchester United and face a trip to Reading on Wednesday night in their next fixture.


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WASHINGTON — Mulling over the beliefs of Christians, atheists, Bahais and even devil worshipers, Supreme Court justices appeared confounded Wednesday by how to fashion guidelines for prayer at public meetings in an era of rapidly increasing religious diversity in America.
The justices have struggled for decades to come up with a coherent set of rules for prayers conducted at government forums. Past decisions have allowed public bodies, including Congress, state legislatures and city councils, to open their meetings with prayers, but the justices have also ruled that public officials may not take actions that appear to endorse a specific set of religious beliefs.
In Wednesday's oral arguments, the justices considered a dispute over the primarily Christian prayers recited before meetings of the Town Board in Greece, N.Y, near Rochester. Two residents, Susan Galloway, who is Jewish, and Linda Stephens, an atheist, said that being required to sit through Christian prayers in order to attend the meetings violated their 1st Amendment rights to religious freedom. Their lawyer asked the court to require the town to use prayers that did not specifically endorse Christian beliefs or include direct references to Jesus Christ.
But the justices, perhaps mindful of the storm created by their ban on prayers in public schools in the 1960s, appeared wary of having government regulate what a minister can say, even at a public meeting.
"I think it's hard because the court lays down these rules and everybody thinks that the court is being hostile to religion and people get unhappy and angry and agitated in various kinds of ways," Justice
Douglas Laycock, the lawyer for the two women, asked the court to compel the town's officials to establish guidelines to require ministers invited to their meetings to use prayers that are nonsectarian and do not call for the participation of the public.
Thomas G. Hungar, the lawyer for the town, asserted that Greece's prayers were in line with those in the country's historical tradition, something the court had cited in Marsh vs. Chambers, a 1983 decision approving prayers recited before the state Legislature in Nebraska.
Although Laycock argued that Greece's prayers coerced people who had business before the town to participate, Hungar said the audience was free to ignore them. Hungar's position was backed by a lawyer for the Obama administration.
"What troubles me about this case," Kagan said, "is that here a citizen is going to a local community board … and is immediately being asked, being forced to identify whether she believes in the things that most of the people in the room believe in, and it strikes me that this might be inconsistent with this understanding that when we relate to our government, we all do so as Americans, and not as Jews and not as Christians and not as nonbelievers."
"There is a serious religious interest on the other side of this thing that people who have religious beliefs ought to be able to invoke the deity when they are acting as citizens … and it seems to me that when they do that, so long as all groups are allowed to be in, it seems to me an imposition upon them to stifle the manner in which they invoke their deity."
He said he was "very concerned" that establishing guidelines for prayers as Laycock was advocating would "involve the state very heavily in the censorship and approval of prayers." But he also expressed concern about Hungar's historical approach, even though that was the basis for the court ruling in the Nebraska case 30 years ago.
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LINCOLN, Neb. – Kyle Kubat and two relievers combined to pitch a no-hitter in Nebraska's 3-0 win over Arkansas on Tuesday.
Kubat pitched five innings in his first appearance of the season after battling shoulder soreness. He retired 13 of the first 14 batters he faced, walking one and hitting a batter with a pitch before Tyler Niederklein came on in the sixth. Niederklein retired seven straight batters before issuing a walk with one out in the eighth. Dylan Vogt relieved and got the last five outs against an Arkansas team ranked as high as No. 10 in the major polls.
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Hello everyone. The APBT is such a great breed. Very versatile and with talents many specialized breeds envy. The following links show my dog "Drago" in some of his obedience trials as well as a Personal Protection demo we did for a seminar in colleague's dog training facility. Notice just how happy, willing and fast the dog works in both the obedience and agility as well as the bitework. For the PP demo we mixed in exercises from pp as well as French Ring.
This demo encompasses the essence of my training philosophy. Which is to have a dog that wants to do the work as opposed to a dog that has to do it "or else"!. Any fool can take a dog and pummel him into doing stuff. The true art is in training a dog that eagerly does the work and enjoys every second of it. I also put Drago's CDX competitions and one of my last competition dog, Lasko. Enjoy!
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Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 42
the US does have a program where if someone invest at min a million dollars or created 5 jobs they can gain permanent residency for them and their family.
|2013-02-20, 18:46
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Nobody in my family had any issues except for my dad, who during the citizenship interview it was discovered that there was a clerical error on his original permanent residency application. You'd think that it'd be easy enough to correct it and move on, but the INS officer decided to seize on that for some reason and almost completely derailed everything. She put my dad's case back in for another "background" check, except she didn't actually put in the request for the check, intentionally putting my dad's case in an administrative abyss where the INS said they're waiting on the FBI check, and FBI says they've never received the request.
Years went by with efforts by lawyers, and even letters from a US senator all in vain, my dad was contemplating having to start all over - giving up and re-apply for permanent residency and then citizenship again, when that ***** at the INS apparently moved or quit or whatever, and a new case officer took over my dad's case. My dad swore in as a citizen a few months after that.
Moral of the story is, excuse me if I don't display too much sympathy towards illegals who think citizenship should be handed out to them automatically, back taxes or not, especially when the process for the legal immigrants are still fk'd up.
|2013-02-20, 18:52
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: 42° 10' N (Latitude) 87° 33' W (Longitude)
Age: 39
Here's a sample of the GOP view at a state level:
If y'own a yacht, y'can afford the sales tax on the fuel. Deal with it. Stuff like this makes it very clear as to who the GOP represents. The part of representation in favor of the religious -- that's just a smoke screen, in order to get away with these kinds of things.
Many know that. But many do not.
|2013-02-20, 19:20
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Besides, since illegals pay into the system without getting anything out of it, they actually help. Unless they are being paid under the table, they have money withheld like we do. Except they never file taxes to get their withheld money back, because they are afraid of being caught.
America was built on immigration, and it amuses me to see O'Reilly (an Irishman) whine about immigrants, when once upon a time, people whined about lazy good-for-nothing Irish immigrants. Unless one are a Native American, one has no right to complain about people coming here illegally.
|2013-02-20, 19:23
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|2013-02-20, 19:32
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
I don't get it. Are you saying it is RIGHT that INS officer screwed your dad over? Because you are actually justifying what you went through as NORMAL. Why are you angry at people too poor to use the normal channels when it is the INS that screwed you? Who are you mad at?
|2013-02-20, 19:48
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One other thing to keep in mind here, is how companies are conspiring to screw American workers. As long as we allow them to do this to us, we'll have problems with immigrants, legal or otherwise. Watch this video, and pay close attention to what the guy says, starting at 1:35:
"Our goal is clearly NOT to find a qualified and interested US worker..." - Lawrence M Lebowitz, BP of Marketing, Cohen & Grigsby
Worried about illegal immigrants coming across the border? You shouldn't be. Your "jerb" is more threatened by corporations wanting to replace you with a cheap substitute that they can bring into the country, and threaten them with no benefits and lousy hours, and they must cooperate or get sent home.
|2013-02-20, 20:37
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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|2013-02-20, 20:53
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I'm not anti-immigrants, far from it. But I also happen to believe that laws should be respected, and that it's asinine to prioritize law-breakers over those who actually followed the law.
|2013-02-20, 21:25
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You may not agree, but I do try to be consistent with my beliefs.
|2013-02-20, 21:40
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Location: Tennessee
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|2013-02-20, 22:35
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Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
According to some even the "Native American" are not native, having supposedly displaced yet another race that was here before them sometime over 10,000 years ago.
The issue it the legality of immigrants in the United States. Legal immigrants are fine. The illegals are the ones there are issues with at present.
In the past there were problems with pretty much all immigrants (legal or otherwise) due to racism and other -isms. If you were a foreigner, that was enough to cause a problem in the 1800s and early 1900s. Even if you brought lots of money (than you'd get good treatment, but people would either try to swindle you, steal from you, or just be envious of you and your foreign money).
You would be only slightly better off if you spoke English. Best without an accent, than you would mostly blend in in some of the larger cities. But segrigation was a thing then. You had the areas the Irish lived. Where the Italians lived. The Germans, the Russians, and even the Jews would be segrigated farther. Out West the laws were past against Chinese and Japanese immigrants, though the Japanese immigrants got only slightly better treatmet by law due to the Emperor making a stink about it. And all the while there were always Mexicans in the Southwest. Logically since that land had been taken from Mexico in 1848, though with only about 1% of Mexico's population living in all that territory. The rotational labor force from Mexico was kind of a given and even legal for the 1940s due to the war.
The worry people in the West have is that they (generally the White generally up until recently the majority population) will be overrun by Hispanics without the need for another war. (La Raza doesn't help their paranoia one bit).
|2013-02-21, 08:29
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Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
As to funding faculties (hospitals), I wasn't aware of taxes going into hospitals. It doesn't really matter if they do, because the trend is clear: it's not unusual for hospitals to have to close down, and in many cases the monetary losses incurred through the emergency department are to blame. Again I'll state that this isn't purely the fault of illegal immigrants, but they are a contributing factor.
We have a variety of assistance programs designed specifically for funding with medical issues. People often think about Medicare, but Medicaid is a program for those in poverty. Medical care is expensive no matter who you are, though. The poor have a hard time because of their lack of financial resources, but the system isn't running against them.
|2013-02-21, 12:28
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Join Date: Mar 2006
On immigration, science, and H1B:
|2013-02-21, 13:08
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Senior Member
There's nothing good about stealing from productive, law-abiding people, many of who work very hard to have what they have and don't deserve to have it taken away from them just because of the existence of poverty. And to basically encourage such theft is the heights of irresponsibility, and can lead to major societal problems down the road if a lot of people follow you up on your encouragement.
So, given what you wrote here, do you think that the laws should be changed so that the US government gives all the basic necessities of life to each and every American citizen? And presumably, that said American citizenship should also be given to each and every person who wants it?
Logically-speaking, that's the only ways laws could be changed to prevent poor people in America from ever feeling it's necessary to steal. Also logically-speaking, you do realize what that will do to America's already burgeoning national debt right?
I sympathize with a poor person who steals to feed oneself and/or one's family, but that's not behavior that should be encouraged. It's a last resort that should be generally discouraged, with every legal avenue thoroughly exhausted before its even considered.
|2013-02-21, 13:21
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
I truly believe that crime is the last resort for anybody. And the government's job is to make sure no one ever has to be forced into that position.
We are not saying it is okay to steal, or break laws in general. But if people are really that desperate, that means it needs to resolve not by prosecution, but by giving people more choices.
If one break rules because there was no other way, then giving harsher punishments would make no difference. As two people in this thread pointed out, the legal means of citizenship is borderline unjust. And that's even though their families could afford the lawyers. Current laws are simply not practical. Why immigration reform? Because what the United States needs is no longer met by the written laws. Thus, the laws need to reflect reality, not the other way around.
|2013-02-21, 13:32
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Senior Member
Keep in mind that when the poor man steals, it's usually not from the rich, because the rich tend to have their holdings very well-secured. No, it's Joe and Jane Average that feels the pinch when a poor man steals. And Joe and Jane Average are exactly who needs to be persuaded if you want to change the laws.
When Joe and Jane Average get stolen from, they're likely to just want more "tough on crime" laws, and/or for the thief to be deported (if applicable/possible).
|2013-02-21, 13:40
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 37
I would dare say most crimes are committed by career criminals, people who do it because they want to, not because they had to. My post only concerns the small percentage who did things out of desperation.
|2013-02-21, 13:44
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The point of an emergency department is to save lives, regardless of that person's value to society. The main reason it costs so much is that people are getting hurt, of which I would be considering ways to promote public safety over anything else.
As for providing emergency care, I'm just going to say that they will make you jump through all kinds of hoops and paperwork to get it if you're not immediately dying. Yes, I've seen people in the emergency ward get up and leave because they were made to wait for hours while absolutely no one gave a damn.
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""As you may know, recently Novell made the decision to reduce the workforce in their organization in the wake of our current economic outlook which is affecting everyone globally in all sectors of life," they wrote, "Unfortunately, this has also impacted some members of the openSUSE Community who were employed by Novell when, earlier this week, they were laid off." Exact details are unknown, but round and about 100 employees of the total of 4200 Novell employees have been laid off.
It is no known how many of those 100 were part of the openSUSE team, but Blesser and Yunashko reiterated that Novel is committed to openSUSE and its development. They also lashed out at Novell critics. "While we cannot speak for Novell and the reasons behind its decisions, we do take offence[at] those outside our community who have decided to exploit the hardship of our fellow community members in these trying times for their own personal gain in their misguided rants against the Project and misinterpreted portrayals to the general public."
The economy is affecting many companies, so I agree with them that laying off openSUSE people has little to do with Novell's commitment to the project. Sadly, people had to be fired, and some of them happened to be openSUSE engineers. Let's hope they have no trouble finding a new job.


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Yeah, all the men look very attractive. But I hope that won't be the only good point of the film. Hope that it has nice storyline with nice acting too.
Well I can safely say my gay marriage looked almost nothing like that.
I am british so it was all grannies in hats and men in ill fitting suits.
In that first picture I'd imagine under all the body make-up is a big rash from all the waxing.
As for the movie, I'll see it, and hope it will be good. Independents are hit or miss, but I try to see as many of the gay ones as possible to support the filmakers.
Queerty, I've been a reader for years, and I have two words for you:
I never get more than 2 or 3 pictures into these posts because it's such a pain in the ass to wait for the page to reload each time. With thumbnail galleries, I could choose which pics to blow up.
I'm confused, is it a movie or a Corbin Fisher porno? Because from this pic, the only selling point seems to be hot guys striking sexy poses
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from the pic's I get it's softcore..
Most gay men today I have seen are around 30 to 70 age range Movies and television always fictionalize Life styles I wish sometimes the truth be out there. Yes It is Hot seeing good young men however are they good actors and storyline or plot.
No. 4, bravo. Another pet peeve is a lack of captions on ALL the galleries. How long can it take to type a sentence or two for each photo, and put the galleries into a common slideshow format rather than requiring an entire page reload for every photo?
Regardless, the content at Queerty is great!
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All In The Family... Another Trip Down Memory Lane... Life in The Nebraska Sandhills...
As I've mentioned many a time on this blog, I grew up in the Nebraska Sandhills on a cattle ranch.
Cattle eat grass. In the summer, they eat live grass and in the winter, they eat dried grass, also known as hay. Thus on the ranch, we worked hard every summer to make enough hay to feed the cattle for the next winter.
We usually had some extra hired help during the summer to help with haying. Most summers, we had a couple of hired men who lived with us as members of our family. They ate three meals a day with us and slept in one of the upstairs rooms.
One of our hired men who came back year after year was my Grandma Nora's cousin, Andrew "Pete" Fisher. Pete was probably in his 60's during the years I remember him best. He drove an old blackish pickup truck with running boards that looked a lot like the 1939 Chevy pickup truck on this RECCC page.
Pete's clothing was as old fashioned as his vehicle was. He always wore bib overalls (which we called "farmer overalls" back then) and a long-sleeved chambray workshirt. He also wore a type of underwear known as a union suit and he changed once a week. We knew this intimate detail about him because my mother did his laundry.
After supper every night as daylight dwindled to twilight, Pete would sit in his pickup and smoke. If my sister and I would go and talk to him, he'd give us a piece of hoarhound candy. He had a group of cardboard girls swinging on strings from the rear-view mirror and the passenger visor. They were very curvaceous but they were wearing all their clothing.
One reason Pete worked for my dad every summer was that Pete was pretty good at raking hay. He knew how to run a dump rake and make long, straight windrows of hay. When we little girls came to the hayfield to visit, he'd drive by waving both hands at us as a joke.
I didn't realize then that Pete was somewhat mentally retarded and my parents made a place for him in our home every summer partly to help him out. Years later, I found out that my dad kept Pete's tractor just for him to rake with because other tractors confused him.
Pete drove to town every other Saturday night during the summer. I think he probably went to town on paydays. I don't know where he went or what he did, but he always got dressed up in his newest overalls before he left and he always came back before dark on Sunday night.
My Grandma Nora and my Great-Aunt Goldie watched over Pete a lot and they always had him helping them with something when he wasn't working for my dad. I think he worked sometimes for some of Goldie's sons also.
Looking back at all this now, I think that my family just accepted Pete for who he was. He could barely read or write, but he did some other things well enough. He worked hard doing real jobs and he lived a useful, meaningful life.
I don't think that the group homes and sheltered workshops of modern times would have given Pete any better life than his family did half a century ago. But I'm also sure that there were people with mental handicaps in that time who were not as fortunate in having a helpful family.
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While a victory -- or even a draw -- against Sporting Kansas City would have given the Crew some control in its playoff destiny, Saturday's 1-0 loss leaves the Black & Gold to scoreboard watch over the final three weeks of the season.
Ike Opara's 17th-minute tally gave Sporting the early advantage and the eventual winner as the Crew was unable to break one of MLS top defenses for an equalizer. The Black & Gold were able to muster just one shot on target on the evening.
"We fought hard, it's just unfortunate because we defended really well," forward Dominic Oduro said after the match. "We just couldn't find the penetration. We had chances, we should've put them on frame."
The effort was there for the entire 90 minutes for the Black & Gold, but at the end of the evening, the Crew tipped its cap to a class Sporting side.
"I told the guys just now as we wrapped it up, I can't fault anybody for any kind of lack of effort," Interim Head Coach Brian Bliss said in his post-match press conference. "It was just good defense of Kansas City and us having a lack of ability to execute a play in the final third."
Added midfielder Tony Tchani: "I just feel like Kansas City was prepared. They prepared well for tonight based on the last game against FC Dallas. They came prepared. It's not like there was something missing. We gave everything we had.
"It was just a tough game."
Now the Black & Gold will be watching next week's Eastern Conference matchups closely as it prepares for its next match on October 19 at the New England Revolution.
"The results of the other games with other teams, hopefully something can happen," Tchani said. "If something happens, we're going to be more motivated to go to New England and win these two games."
The Crew will take the next two weeks to find the same magic it found last month to earn a 4-1-0 record in September. Perhaps simplicity may be the answer for the Black & Gold.
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(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced its decision to add areas of Hicksville, New Cassel, Westbury, Hempstead and Salisbury in Nassau County, New York to the Superfund National Priorities List of the country's most hazardous waste sites. Ground water throughout these areas is contaminated with harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The Magothy aquifer, Nassau County's primary source of drinking water, has been impacted by the contamination. Residents of the affected towns are currently receiving drinking water that is being treated to remove the VOCs. EPA proposed to add the site to the Superfund list in March 2011 and received and considered public comments on its proposal before making its final decision.
VOCs are often used as ingredients in paint, solvents, aerosol sprays, cleaners, disinfectants, automotive products and dry cleaning fluids. Repeated and direct exposure to VOCs can cause serious health effects including damage to the liver, kidneys and central nervous system.
"Residents of Long Island rely on ground water as their source of drinking water, making it imperative that Long Island's drinking water is protected from contamination," said EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "By placing the site on the Superfund list, EPA can continue its investigation of the widespread ground water contamination in this area of Long Island, find the sources of the contamination and over time clean it up."
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation had been examining a number of the contaminated areas of ground water individually. New York State ultimately determined that the contamination would be better addressed as one large site and in December 2010, referred the site to EPA for inclusion on the Superfund list. EPA conducted an initial investigation of the site in consultation with NYSDEC.
A variety of past industrial and commercial activities in the area are believed to have caused the ground water contamination, although investigations by NYSDEC and EPA have yet to identify all of the specific sources contaminating the wells. NYSDEC investigated 17 facilities in the New Cassel industrial area between Frost St. in New Cassel and Swalm Ave. in North Hempstead. The DEC and some of the entities in the New Cassel industrial area that are potentially responsible for the contamination have already installed systems to remove contaminants from the ground water at and near some of the sites. The New Cassel industrial area is north of the two contaminated Bowling Green wells in Hempstead.
Ground water testing by EPA in 2010 confirmed the presence of elevated levels of VOCs in 11 public water supply wells, six in Hicksville, four in Hempstead and one on Westbury. The impacted towns have installed treatment systems that remove VOCs from the contaminated ground water before it goes into the water distribution systems by aerating the water or adding chemicals to it. The towns monitor water quality regularly. To view a map of these wells, go to https://www.epa.gov/region2/kml/hicksville-new-cassel.kmz. (Please note that you must have Google Earth installed on your computer to view the map. To download Google Earth, visit http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html).
With all Superfund sites, EPA does an extensive search to identify and locate the parties potentially responsible for the contamination and require them to pay for or perform the cleanup work. The majority of Superfund cleanups are performed by or paid for by polluters, not tax dollars. Superfund money is used for EPA oversight costs and when no responsible party can be identified.
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Fair News Archive \ Fair - Spring 2013
Common Ground Country Fair
September 20, 21 & 22, 2013
(always the third weekend after Labor Day)
Buy the 2013 Common Ground Country Fair Poster
2013 Common Ground Country Fair Poster Unveiled
MOFGA Accepting Applications for Exhibitors and Presenters
Make an Impact on Common Ground, Become an Area Coordinator
Start Planning for the Fair
Summer Fair Assistant
Buy the 2013 Common Ground Country Fair Poster
This year's Fair poster is available for $10 (plus $3 postage). Order online at www.mofga.org or by calling the MOFGA office at 207-568-4142.
2013 Common Ground Country Fair Poster Unveiled
An image of team of oxen in head yokes, designed by Dixmont artist Grace Keown, was chosen for the 2013 Common Ground Country Fair poster. The poster was unveiled at MOFGA's annual meeting during the Maine Agricultural Trades Show in Augusta.
Each year, MOFGA invites Maine residents and MOFGA members (regardless of residence) to submit a design for our Common Ground Country Fair poster. The selected design is featured on the Fair poster, website, T-shirt and promotional literature. Plus, the artist is featured in this newspaper and in a press release on the poster contest and selected design. In addition to these benefits, the winning artist receives $1,000. For complete guidelines, including technical specifications, eligibility requirements and timeline, please visit the Poster link on the Fair page at www.mofga.org or contact the MOFGA office at email@example.com or 207-568-4142.
MOFGA Accepting Applications for Exhibitor and Presenters for the 2013 Fair
Would you like to be a vendor, exhibitor or demonstrator at the 2013 Common Ground Country Fair? Do you know of a presenter, artisan or Maine enterprise that would be a good fit for Common Ground? The application process for vendors, exhibitors and speakers for the 2013 Fair is underway.
If you are interested in participating in the Fair as a vendor, exhibitor, demonstrator or speaker, but unsure of which area at the Fair is appropriate for you, call us for help or review the area descriptions and guidelines posted on the Fair pages of our website.
Make an Impact on Common Ground, Become an Area Coordinator
The Fair Planning Team is actively seeking Common Ground enthusiasts to join the ranks of volunteers who coordinate the Fair. We are looking for volunteers interested in working with established teams to co-coordinate an area as well as volunteers interested in taking on new roles or filling vacancies in existing areas.
If you have any interest in getting involved with the planning and management of the Fair, many parts of the Fair could use your help. If you would like to take a leadership role in any element of MOFGA's annual celebration, please contact Jim Ahearne or April Boucher in the MOFGA office at firstname.lastname@example.com or 207-568-4142.
Start Planning for the Fair
Here are some things you can do now to start planning for the 2013 Common Ground Country Fair:
Volunteer as an area coordinator to help manage a part of the Fair that you care a lot about.
Create a design for the 2014 Common Ground Country Fair poster design contest. Details are posted on the Fair Poster page at www.mofga.org.
Order seeds and start plants for your garden. Results could be entered in the Exhibition Hall displays or offered to the Common Kitchen to help feed volunteers during the Fair. If you do grow a row for the kitchen, please let Bill Whitman know at firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks!
Work with your local schools and teachers to plan a student field trip to Common Ground. It's never too early to ask, especially because the Fair comes right after the start of the school year. All student groups get into the Fair free on Friday, and we offer partial reimbursements for school group travel expenses.
Organize a community bus trip to Common Ground. It's a terrific way to help conserve resources while getting preferred parking near the Rose Gate!
Tune your bicycle and body to bicycle, partway or all the way, to the Fair. Each year nearly 600 cyclists pedal to the Fair. Valet bicycle parking is provided courtesy of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
Summer Fair Assistant
To help us with the seasonal wave of administrative work on the Fair, we hire a part-time seasonal assistant in the MOFGA office. The ideal candidate is available from early May through early October, is experienced working on events and with volunteers, and has a deep enthusiasm for the work of MOFGA, especially the Common Ground Country Fair. The successful candidate also possesses a high level of computer literacy, including proficiency with Macs, cloud-based software such as GoogleDocs, and experience working with a database, spreadsheets and web content management systems. If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about this position, please contact Fair director Jim Ahearne at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Don't get it twisted, PSaMP isn't going to bring you awesome interviews every few days. The past week just happened to be really good if you're a Pittsburgh sports fan. First, Torina Henley stopped by, then Don from Mondesi's House gave some of his time. Now, Inside the Athletes Studio brings you the 3rd installment in the series.
Who would've thought that the hottest topic in Pittsburgh sports at the end of June would be the Pirates? Its not because of their play, despite winning 2 of their last 3. The Buccos have been making news because of a proposed walk-out, which has finally caught the eye of the organization. Fans for Change is a grassroots campaign that is hoping to use a protest to voice displeasure with decisions made by the Pirates organization.
Leading the way is Andy Chomos, CEO of Caracal, Inc., which works with Silicon Carbide. Silicon Carbide (SiC) is a wide bandgap semiconductor with the potential to dramatically improve energy efficiency in a wide range of industries, including lighting, power electronics, and telecommunications. He has spent much of his recent time spreading the word about Fans for Change, and the walk-out of the June 30th home game against the Nationals.
PSaMP is happy to bring you, the reader, an exclusive interview with Andy Chomos, who has been all over the local sports scene in the last few weeks. Andy has way more important fish to fry, between his work at Caracal and Fans for Change, so PSaMP is proud to give you access into the mind of the the one and only Andy Chomos.
Are you a lifelong Pirate fan? If so, what's your fondest Pirate memory?
I am 43 years old and have been a Pirate FAN since age 6. Many great memories! Steve Blass leaping into the air after the '71 series win. Clemente throwing out a runner going to third from DEEP right field. Dave Parker gunning out a runner trying to tag up from 3rd in an All Star Game. Rennie Stennant going 7 for 7 batting. Or even more simple memories, as a young child listening to Bob Price and Nellie King on my small transistor radio, listening intently on each pitch while pulling out the baseball card of the particular Pirate that was involved in the play.
How did Fans for Change come about? Was it planned for some time, or was it spur of the moment?
FANS FOR CHANGE came about via the "perfect storm." The Pirates had just had a disappointing series with the Yankees, and then drafted the 5th best pitcher in the draft with the 4th pick overall. The failure to draft the highest caliber player available gave me the realization that this Ownership and Management team does not place a priority on fielding a championship caliber team.
Why now? Is this something that can't wait any longer?
The State of PA is in a budget crisis. Programs like Big Brothers/Big Sisters (of which I volunteer for), work force development programs are all facing budget cuts. Additionally, the State was debating raising our Sales Taxes. Then I came across the Forbes article that listed the Pirates as the 3rd most profitable team in baseball and the sweetheart stadium lease deal, and I thought these guys committed to fielding a winning team when they got over $240 million in a taxpayer-financed stadium.
Last year, Orioles fans had a walk-out of their own. This season, they're still below .500, and their manager has been canned. Can Fans for Change get real results?
The Pirates are just starting to get a sense of the level of FAN frustration. This movement has awakened the passion of the Baseball Purists. A smart business person pays attention to his customers. Our goal is to have the Pirates take TANGIBLE measures to improve the quality of the team and DISCLOSE those measures before Ticket sales start for the 2008 season. Next year, we demand a better product before we are willing to cut a check.
How do you feel about the Pirates blacking out all mentions of the walk-out during the game? Will that minimize the effect of the protest?
Personally, I feel the blacking out is a tactical error by the Pirates. An on-line Post-Gazette Survey with over 12,000 respondents indicates 75% of the FANS will walk off for the 4th inning. The customers are speaking. You don't ignore or BLACK OUT your customers. I am also confident that the other local media outlets are savy enough and have the resources to get the footage they need.
Since the Pirates organization is blacking out the protest, it means they know about it. Is that the first step towards change?
Raising FAN awareness about some of these economics has been a BIG first step. So many fans that I've spoken to simply gave the Pirates a pass for losing because they assumed the team was still losing money.
What's something fans don't already know about the walk-out?
Our surprise guest speaker from the 1971 team.
What's the support been like? Any negative reactions?
Very strong support as evidenced by the Post-Gazette poll.
Best case scenario for Saturday's game is…?
35,000 empty seats and having a foul ball clank around with no one chasing it.
Anything else you want to tell fans? Or any other information for those wishing to attend?
Wear GREEN shirts as a sign of solidarity. This is THEIR TIME TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF. Don't be passive, take a stand for change. The legacy of this once-proud franchise deserves better!
– Andy Chomos, CEO Caracal, Inc.


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What should I wear on a plane?
Now that we are all officially grown-ups, it is almost required for us to travel in style. Here is a standby airplane outfit that will ensure you look pulled together, feel first class, and maybe even get you an upgrade.
The perfect travel pant is something you probably already own: a mid-rise all-black skinny jean with some much needed stretch. You will want a pair that will look clean and flattering, but can withstand awkward seated positions and potential layover napping.
Layer on thin white or gray tanks and tees that are fitted and on the longer side. These pieces will give you a little extra warmth in cold terminals and, if stuck on a hot tarmac, are also wearable on their own.
Next, you'll want to throw on a soft-as-a-blanket sweater that looks cool and has a relaxed cut. A crew or v-neck softie should be the next layer that feels chic and luxurious and is super cozy. While a taupe, black, or camel option is a no-brainer, we suggest you try a printed version to add a touch of personality. A color-blocked, plaid, or conversational print can be still jetsetter cool.
Pack your supersized coat in your luggage and wear your smaller, but still warm cape jacket for travel. A flannel or wool version in black or navy gives you the ease of having your arms free, but the with some additional warmth and big, accessible pockets. It can also double as an on-the-spot-pillow.
When it comes to shoes, don't bother with belts, buckles or ties. Instead, wear a boot that can be easily pulled on and off to help get you through security and naptime in a snap. A cropped flat boot or cowboy number gives you an effortless vibe and can withstand unforeseen weather upon arrival.
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Miele Little Giant Stackable Washer and Dryer
With a convention center filled with some of the finest in home furnishings, prefabricated homes and decorative items, you'd think we'd walk away lusting after a pricey sectional, a limited edition lamp or a luxurious kitchen (all things we did note). But it was something practically mundane in nature that had our lottery hopes surging; a compact washer and dryer pair from Miele, the Little Giant.
Built in the 1930's, our apartment wasn't designed with laundry machines in mind, so it has always been our hopes to one day to wash our clothes in the comforts of our own home, instead of lugging huge bales of soiled clothing to and fro from the laundromat. With that in mind, it shouldn't come as a surprise we were drawn to the allure of these beautiful compact machines displayed at the Dwell on Design show floor, their brushed metal exterior only hinting at the plethora of features our favourite German appliance maker had packed within.
Designed specifically for small space dwellers who've got a closet, storage room or any modest sized spare space, the Miele Little Giant washer and dryers was described by Miele representative, Skyler Stevenson, as the "ultimate" washing machine for those "looking and requiring the best". Who are we to argue after we learned these compact machines can blast soiled white fabrics back pristine with nary a drop of bleach, thanks to the washer's ability to produce water temps in excess of 200 degrees. At that temperature with a 526 G's rotatation, oils, dirt and residues are melted away from the surface in and inbetween from the weave of white fabrics.
We were asked to peer inside the machine to admire the Honeycomb Drum design, a detail that reputedly creates a washing environment that protects the longevity and wear of clothing, with less water needed to wash and a faster cycle time. The industrial looks aren't just window dressing; the Little Giant is rated for 25,000 operating hours for 16 years of operation, so we weren't exactly surprised to hear about the $4,000 price tag per washer (the dryer can be had for $3099).
Other features shown by our polished Miele rep (he had his presentation DOWN, with well synchronized movements to his descriptions) were the easy to reach lint filter, 13 pre-installed wash programs (further custom modes can be programmed by user), a residue-combating autoclean system, and a variable water flow sensor which helps the washer use as little water as needed (Energy Star rated).
As one can imagine, this machine isn't really designed for a modest income blogger like ourselves. The Miele marketing material even makes it clear these machines work well in commercial settings like a "bed & breakfast", "hair salon", and....uh..."dairy farm". All we know is if we come into some serious money, or a dairy farm, the Miele Little Giant washing machine and dryer is right there with Lakers season tickets on our short list of lottery spending fever items.


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Randy Tuten, a fan of the Steve Miller Band, thought of this concert as a cruise through musical history and gave the poster a dream-like quality. The ship sailed gently into the sunset, and a mermaid bade it both a fond farewell and safe return, expressing the musical reverie of the New Year's Eve concert with Steve Miller and guitarist Joe Satriani. This Bill Graham Presents poster image was the first that Tuten designed after Bill's death.
Our pins commemorate legendary live rock, jazz and blues concerts from the Fillmore, Fillmore East and Winterland.
About Randy Tuten
Randy Tuten is the only poster artist whose work spans five decades of design for The Fillmore. The 23 year-old San Francisco native was hired by Bill Graham in January, 1969, and their mutual taste for traditional, readable design style led to a long-lasting work relationship. Although influenced by the compositions of "Fillmore Five" artists Mouse, Kelley and Griffin, Tuten avoided "... Heavy meaning in my posters." Tuten's style reflected his skill as a draftsman, and his designs evolved into an eclectic mix of graphic imagery, lettering and photographs.


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"Prisoners" is either the most exceptional piece of conventional filmmaking in Hollywood or the most conventional piece of exceptional filmmaking.
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Grand Theft Auto IV Walkthrough
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Back at the taxi office, Roman has been left all alone to answer the phones and his own personal phone line. It appears he wants to get his enterprise started with Niko as his partner. Regardless, things are a little bit chaotic at the office, and Roman can't pull himself away from his desk job to pick up one of his customers. Just like last time, you're expected to go pick up someone, this time named Little Jacob. Jacob is a toker, says Roman, so we need to watch after this guy.
Jacob is located where Chive Street runs into Oneida Avenue. Don't worry about those details if you're using a GPS, though, since the GPS will get you there just fine. It's located extremely close to the taxi office, so this shouldn't be a trip of more than half a minute, tops. He'll be waiting near a grand entrance to one of the borough's major parks, Outlook Park, so Jacob's location should be easy enough to decipher.
As easy as it is to decipher Jacob's location, deciphering what it is he's saying is another issue entirely. Thankfully, the game will not only show you where to take him with your GPS, but it will also tell you what he's saying as long as you have the subtitle option on. So as you drive, listen to what he says. The conversation is... interesting, to say the least. Jacob wants to head to a location of Dillon Street, and again, that's not too far off, so getting there should be easy enough for you, especially now that you're well-acclimated to the game.
You may have noticed during your incomprehensible conversation with Jacob that he offered you a pistol to arm yourself with, since he needs a point man as he meets up with some guys to do some shady dealings. So when you arrive, Jacob asks you to go to a spot located on your map that can be accessed by getting out of the car. Once out of the car, head to the spot as seen on the HUD, and then arm yourself with the pistol and crouch down, as the game suggests. Doing so will allow you to not be seen by Jacob's associates.
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Going to the Moon: Science Fiction v. Science History
Unit Objective
This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman's series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical and literary significance. Through a step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.Overview
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Davey Barr of Canada competes during the qualifications of the men's ski cross event at Cypress Mountain during the Vancouver Winter Olympics, north of Vancouver on February 21, 2010. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU
CYPRESS -- You had to look closely, but among the multitude of signs, posters, banners and flags littered throughout the grandstands at Cypress for the men's ski cross on Sunday, one stood out among the rest. It wasn't overly flashy and its design was fairly basic - just a couple of red maple leafs at the top and bottom of the glossy white bristol board, the words 'Go DAVEY Go' in between.
It was nothing like the bed sheet between two broom handles that a group of Czech fans were hoisting throughout the extremely entertaining event. That thing must have had 10 different colours, along with intricate drawings of racers Tomas Kraus and Zdenek Safar and the words Czech Punks 4 Gold – whatever that means.
What made the other sign so special was the people who were waving it. And the fact they got the chance to do so.
You see, if you'd have told Don and Sue Barr that you'd dreamed that two of their son's teammates would injure themselves in training and be unable to compete – giving Davey, the ski cross team's second alternate, a place in the sport's Olympic debut – the Whistler natives would have told you to lay off the strong cheese at night. But that's exactly how things played out this weekend after Dave Duncan broke his clavicle on Friday and his replacement, Brady Leman, aggravated a shin injury one day later.
To top it all off, Davey Barr goes and crosses the line in sixth place on Sunday, a feat made all the more impressive given the 32-year-old had only three practice runs on the course. Barr was the second-best Canadian, finishing two spots behind gold-medal favourite Chris Del Bosco who placed a disappointing fourth.
"Forget about how it was for him, think about us," said Don Barr, his tongue planted firmly in his cheek. "All I got was a message on my machine saying 'I'm in' and we really haven't spoken since."
Good thing the Barrs never got rid of their tickets, purchased well in advance of the naming of Canada's ski cross team late last month. Up until this winter, it seemed like a lock that Davey would make the three-man unit, after placing third at a test event here and taking a bronze medal at the 2009 world championships.
Then, of course, Barr went and had his worst season ever and found himself the backup to the backup coming into the Vancouver Winter Games.
Will wonders never cease.
"It's unbelievable – I've been thinking about this for years now, since they made the Olympic announcement," said Davey Barr, who has recorded more than 30 top-10 results since 2002, but none this season. "I was always planning on being in this race. I mean, I didn't plan on taking the route I took to enter into the race and I hope the best for Duncan and Brady ... I'm just fortunate to be here. The fact that it's at home, on home turf, I guess it was just meant to be."
Unfinished business, his mom called it. Eight years of hard work, heart break, dedication and determination all rolled into one.
"I don't think of it so much as Davey at the Olympics as much as the journey he's taken to get here," said Sue Barr, as she carefully rolled up her handmade sign, now ragged and worn. "That's what makes this so exciting for us. Of course we're glad he's at the Games, but it's not for us or me. Being an Olympian is exciting more for him. I feel more for the parents of Davey's teammates that couldn't race and as a result gave him his shot. In an instant their dream was taken away.
"In a way, it's easy for us. We were down when Davey didn't get named to the team, but now we're up. Those kids and the parents were up and now they're down."
Which may well be the case. But as the Barr family showed on Sunday, anyone's time can come.


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Attorneys for Dominique Strauss-Kahn denied reports he had agreed to settle the civil case with the hotel maid who accused him of sexually assaulting her last year for $6 million.
"The parties have discussed a resolution but there has been no settlement," according to a statement from William Taylor III and Amit Mehta. "Strauss-Kahn will continue to defend the charges if no resolution can be reached."
News of a possible settlement was first reported by the New York Times and was later carried by Reuters.
Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, will appear before a judge in New York next week, the Times reported. The newspaper said the amount of money involved in the agreement could not be determined.
The scandal that erupted after Diallo's allegations scuttled Strauss-Kahn's plans to run for president of his native France and forced him to resign from the IMF days after he was arrested and charged with attempted rape, among other crimes.
But the criminal prosecution fell apart after doubts emerged concerning Diallo's credibility as a witness. The Manhattan district attorney's office formally moved to dismiss the indictment in August 2011, and a judge dropped the charges.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Bronx Supreme Court in New York just weeks before the criminal charges were dropped, accused Strauss-Kahn of a "brutal" assault and sought unspecified damages. But Strauss-Kahn has maintained that the sexual encounter was consensual.
Strauss-Kahn filed his own countersuit against the maid earlier this year, claiming Diallo's accusations destroyed his career and harmed his reputation.
Diallo alleged Strauss-Kahn forced her to perform oral sex on May 14, 2011, in his luxury suite at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan.
Strauss-Kahn's legal troubles have persisted since his return to France, where authorities have investigated his possible involvement in a prostitution ring that included sex parties he attended in France and in Washington, D.C.
In recent months, he has attempted a political comeback on the international speaking circuit.
Strauss-Kahn and his wife, journalist Anne Sinclair, have separated.