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When I saw the post on Buds and Bells about another swap I knew I couldn't resist joining this one too.
The photos on the post of those too cute mug cosies really got me in!
When I left my comment to clarify whether the swap was for a post out, Alex replied that it was originally intended for a swap within her local crafting group, but that she would be happy to organise an interstate one too, and voila! Here it is.
The button on the right will take you through to all the details and where you can sign up. Have fun and thanks Alex.


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This paper describes a numerical technique for analyzing the viscous unsteady flow around oscillating ship hulls. The technique is based on a general Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) capability, and is intended to generate viscous roll moment data for the incorporation of real-flow effects into potential flow ship motions programs. The approach utilizes the finite analytic technique for discretizing the unsteady RANS equations, and a variety of advanced turbulence models for closure. The calculations presented herein focus on viscous and vortical effects without free-surface, and utilize k-epsilon turbulence modeling. Series variations are presented to study the effects of frequency, amplitude, Reynolds number, and the presence of bilge keels. Moment component breakdown studies are performed in each case to isolate the effects of viscosity, vorticity, and potential flow pressures.
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Safety on siteon 23rd September 2011 at
For trained professionals, safety in the workplace is a constant consideration. For rookies and DIY folk like myself, it's a very expensive after thought.
Nearly a year after I moved back into my house after some rather heavy and strenuous renovations, I'm still going through the steps of rehabbing my broken body. While sore is a word used by my two year old daughter whenever she sees a scab or bruise on somebody else, the parts of my body that are sore are spreading and geting more painful.
Its not easy to pin point exactly when I injured myself, but the fact is over the past six months I've seen Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Osteopaths, Naturopaths, Exercise Physiologists and tried to attend as many self medicating yoga classes as my body will handle. And why is this? Well, there are a few reasons really:
- I never warmed up or stretched before I started work on site each day
- I'm not used to manual labour
- I'm not on the right side of 30 or used to hauling huge amounts of weight while balancing in precarious positions
- And, I was in such a hurry to work on my house, that I didn't do any exercise the whole time there was any work going on at our site – body building (maintenance) they call it
So how do the pros maintain a safety at work attitude? Well for one, it's their livelihood, so maintaining their body – essentially their most expensive tool – is of utmost importance. Secondly, manual labour is intense, so there really is no need to try to do everything in one day. Thirdly, and despite what I think, there are energy efficient ways of doing things all the way down to lifting a slab in the back yard.
Having learned the hard way, I'd like to share a few tips with anyone about to undertake some heavy or labour intensive wok at home.
- Always wear safety protection – that means gloves, protective eye and ear wear, steel toe capped boots and sturdy work clothing
- Before you agree to help out on site, think about exactly what you're agreeing to and the amount of people you'll need to get the job done in a timely, efficient and safe manner
- If you're undertaking heavy manual labour do some warm up exercises or stretches – you wouldn't walk into the gym and start bench pressing 80 kilos without building up to it, so don't try to move that 80 kilo rock without doing the same sort of warm up
- Don't rush or work when you're tired because this is when errors occur and safety is compromised
- Use the correct tools for the job
- Call JustScrewIT to help you with the job


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Smile for a Lifetime Bruner Orthodontics Chapter is a charitable non-profit organization that provides free orthodontic treatment to kids and teens who cannot afford it. In 2015, Dr. Bruner founded the Smile for a Lifetime Bruner Orthodontics Chapter as a way to give back to the community and help underserved children in the greater Redmond area.
Our mission is to create self-confidence, inspire hope, and change the lives of children in our community in a dramatic way. The gift of a smile can do all this and more for a deserving, underserved individual who, in turn, can use this gift to better themselves and our community. Our goal is to provide 12 kids with life-changing, orthodintic scholarships each year!
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Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009)
A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the dance, defying societys taboos. At the dance Kamar is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee. Sparks fly between Kamar and Kais, creating more than a passionate, emotional dance for the both of them. Matters become even more complicated when Zaid's sentence is extended. Kamar's life is thrown into turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais, and caught in the midst of her desire to dance and breaking the family and society taboos of the prisoner's wife's role while life under occupation rages on.
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Space Engineers is a realistic sandbox game focused on engineering, constructing, and maintaining space machinery. Players build space ships and space stations for different tasks (civil and military), pilot ships, and perform asteroid mining. All objects can be assembled, disassembled, damaged, and destroyed.
Space Engineers concentrates on construction, but can also be played as a tactical shooter. Players will be encouraged to use creativity and engineering to build war machines and fortifications rather than engaging in single player direct combat.


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Honda Snow Blower HS928TA
The Honda snow blower model is feature rich with many options that consumer and commercial operators will appreciate. This is model – HS928TA
This particular model is a pull start and does not include an electric start option. However Honda has introduced a decompression mode for an easy start every time when you pull on the starter chord.
Otherwise the specifications and features are pretty much the same as the TAS model previously reviewed on this web site. Major features include a powerful engine and hydrostatic transmission which provides a variable speed to match all kinds of situations including icy conditions, heavy snow and transport. The treads will provide excellent traction on icy situations as well. This model also comes with a 3 year warranty for consumer and commercial users.
We have not used this particular machine and invite readers who have to provide their comments. You can also refer to the features list later in this post about the Honda snow blower model HS928TA.
Honda Snow Blower HS928TA – Specifications:
- Engine Honda GX270
- Displacement 270cc
- Starting System Recoil
- Fuel capacity 1.32 gal
- Drive Mechanism Hydrostatic, Infinitely variable
- Clutch type Hydrostatic
- Wheel / Track Track
- Stages 2
- Chute Turning Radius 210º
- Clearing Width 28″
- Clearing Height 20.1″
- Discharge Distance 49 ft.
- Tons per Hour (max) 50
- Dimensions (L x W x H) 57.7″ x 28.5″ x 44.3″
- Dry Weight 243.0 lbs
- Engine Honda GX270
- Displacement 270cc
- Drive Mechanism Hydrostatic, Infinitely variable
- Clutch type Hydrostatic
- Residential Warranty 3 years
- Commercial Warranty 3 years
- Powerful, easy to start Honda engine
- Track drive offers the best traction available
- Adjust the auger for unbeatable clearing ability.
- Self propelled, infinitely variable speed control hydrostatic drive train.
- Clear up to 50 tons per hour
- Reversible two position skid shoes for long life
- Easy to adjust snow deflection
- Remote control chute adjusts up to 210 degrees of rotation and 70 degrees of elevation.
- Convenient control levers
- A single lever accurately adjusts ground speed without affecting auger rotation speed.
- Individual throttle and choke controls
- Ice breaking serrated auger
- Easily replaceable shear bolts.
- Designed to prevent icing -icing guard is built into the engine.
- Quieter operation-muffler deflector reduces noise levels.
- Exceptional throwing distance
- 28″ clearing width, 20″ clearing height
- Standard work light
- Easy to use interlocking drive/auger control
- "Glove friendly" fuel cap
- Automatic decompression for easy starting
- Metal auger housing
Description of the Honda Snow Blower HS928TA
You may want to review the full feature list for this snow blower above, however we wanted to mention that this snow blower features one handed controls allowing the operator to steer the machine, while adjusting various items with the other hand including chute rotation, direction and ground speed. Note that ground speed adjustments do not change the auger speed or throwing capabilities.
This is another really great snow blower with many features that operators will appreciate. The only issue we can see which may not bother many operators is the lack of an electric starter. The writer has an electric starter on a his own machine, a different model and manufacturer and we might have used the electric starter a dozen times over the past 10 years.
For information about delivery methods for your snow blower, accessories that you can purchase, safety rules to follow, proper operation and maintenance information, go to our page General Snow Blower Information, to read more about these topics.
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Anybody have Spanish has a first or second language?
I would really like to learn Spanish as my second language... my fiances family all speaks it and would love to be able to communicate better with them.
Started by Jessica on 06/20/2010 in Mothers With Bilingual Husbands
Last update on 09/15/2012 by Kate


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I recently discovered how simple it is to make our own lip balm and shortly after that I also discovered that Emma thinks it is the best thing ever!! This sort of project can be a little intimidating to do with children (because of the hot melted wax and all!) but with careful supervision it is a great opportunity to show children how resourceful they can be.
equal parts of beeswax, cocoa butter and coconut oil (we used 2 tbs of each) and 1/4 tsp of pumpkin spice.
I have a designated pot that is made to melt wax. You can use any small stainless pot, but be sure to mark it "for crafting only!"
Emma measured out all of the ingredients (another great opportunity to work on measurements) and added them all to our pot. She helped me to stir over a low heat until everything was melted and combined together.
While the wax settled, Emma used some plain mailing labels to customize her lip balm. She absolutely loved this part. She, of course, became a fancy-lip-balm-store-shop-owner and set-up a little processing line.


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Whilst trolling on Instagram when I was living it up in LA, back in September of this year I came across Arsenic TV's Instagram. Scrolling through looking at all the images and thinking to my self that I haven't really ever done a photoshoot like this before. 5 minutes later off I was heading out down North Fairfax ave to go and get something to eat and not really thinking much of it!
Now back in Perth and back to reality, some how the idea popped back into my head! The concept was easy, the location could really be anywhere but I liked the idea of a house and somewhere with natural light, i'm sucker for natural light. I decided to hit up Claire who has done modelling and knows a few girls who do that kind of style so we caught up for coffee talk about my travels, life and then finally the shoot. Her friend Iesha was there as well. After talking for a few hours, Claire said she was happy to be one of the models and Iesha seemed to be just as keen. Now I needed a location! Claire had just moved house, stunning wooden floor boards and so much natural light! she said she was happy for us to shoot there!
Of course this being the first time I had really had done this type of shoot I was a little nervous but I think between the three of us. Claire on hair and make up, two stunning models, a few tequilas we rocked a pretty cool shoot. This is what we came up with!
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Photography / Billie + Peaches
Hair and Make up / CR Creative
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Microsoft Corp. will retain the right to include any commercially used modifications made by licensees of its Windows CE source code in future versions of that operating system, company officials said Wednesday night.
As first reported by eWEEK, Craig Mundie, chief technology officer for advanced strategies and policy at Microsoft, announced Wednesday evening that Microsoft will, for the first time, give OEMs, vendors and systems integrators full access to Windows CEs source code as well as the rights to modify and ship the code commercially in CE-based devices.
Known as the Windows CE Shared Source Premium Licensing Program or CEP, the initiative builds on the existing Windows CE Shared Source Licensing Program, which allows developers, researchers, students and other interested parties to use the code for any noncommercial purpose.
It also further expands Microsofts Shared Source Initiative, which was first reported by eWEEK in March 2001
Further reading
While CEP licensees will have to pay Microsoft a royalty for every copy of the code that they ship, Mundie made it clear that any modifications they make to the Windows CE source code that are included in a shipping product will have to be sublicensed back to Microsoft, which will not be liable for any ongoing royalty payments for this technology, even if it is included in future Windows CE operating systems.
"As they make the decision [to make changes to the Windows CE source code that is included in a shipping product] and as these changes will be for mutual benefit, we will do the work to do the incorporation and downstream marketing and support, but there will be no recurring royalty that goes back to them," Mundie said.
If customers do not want to license back to Microsoft the enhancements and changes they make to their products and work, "they can do this work on a developable basis and integrate it with Windows CE. They just cant do it as a modification to the code weve given them," he said.


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Authorities say the fight at 9:15 Monday morning involved six students, two of whom were victims.
One of the students bit a school security guard as he tried to break up the fight.
That 16-year-old girl was arrested on assault and harassment charges.
Another 17-year-old girl was also arrested on harassment charges.
Both of them are from Spring Valley, New York.
Two 15-year-olds did not face charges because of their ages, but they were turned over to their parents.
Shortly after the fight, police said Yolanda E. Louis, 20, from Spring Valley, New York, entered the Ramapo High School building in regards to this fight. Authorities said she is not a student, and had no permission to be on the school property.
When she refused to leave, the principal asked police to intervene. She allegedly pushed and shoved the arresting officer, and began flailing her arms in attempt to prohibit the officers from handcuffing her. Louis was arrested for Criminal Trespass and Resisting Arrest, both misdemeanors. She was released on $100 bail.
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This post is for all my "Networked Blog" Readers.
I read this blog post today about using a third party to post your blog posts onto Facebook and Twitter and I have decided to no longer use Networked Blogs because my posts are getting hidden because of it. So, for the 24 readers that are following me via Networked Blog...please take a moment and follow me on Google Friend Connect because I will be deleting my account with Networked Blog.


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Justin Squirewell
I am from Columbia, South Carolina. I am currently a candidate for a B.A. in Art with a minor in Humanities degree at Winthrop University. I transferred to Winthrop from the Art Institute of Charlotte, North Carolina. I am interested in philosophy, spirituality, mythology and iconography. My interests vastly influence my work. After graduation, I wish to obtain an assistant position with a fashion photographer while establishing my foundation in the art community.
Artist Statement:
"All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end" (Neil Gaiman, American Gods). I wished to utilize visual perception to explore the human form via body painting and dramatic lighting. I wished to engage my viewers with a body of work depicting models as in various colors and patterns of body paint.
I was inspired to photograph the human form with body painting to replicate the anthropomorphic depictions associated with various deities in Egyptian mythology. I am connected to this body of work because of the passion I have for mythology and the creative expression resulting from my unique perception on ancient mythos. I have found that the unique physical features of the subjects greatly influenced the end results of the images. Great importance is put into the model and their use of body painting and dramatic lighting. My work has a performative quality from the use of the body painting. The body painting gives my work a personal intimacy. The exploration and application of colo gives y work additional layers of interest. When photographing different subjects, different features and personalities of the subjects produce varying and interesting photographs. Each image is rendered to a greater or lesser degree by the persona of the model subject. While working with my models through the body painting process I began to discern the individual characteristics and physical feature which gives each image its own uniqueness.


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Well this was one of those days for me.
As soon as I opened my eyes I turned my head and hit it against my night stand with that motion knocking my glasses and phone on the floor. Ouch.
But I was excited to get up and start the day. Phil and I haven't gone out together in a while and we made plans to go out and have breakfast follwed by a visit to a museum. I got ready and even curled my hair when I saw that it started raining outside...grrrrr the humidity!!! noo!!! but I thought "oh well!" I grabbed the umbrella and left.
So after meeting phil we both realized that we didn't actually agree on were we where going to have breakfast so like 30 minutes of navigating through the rain we finally found a place and ate.
Now we had to hurry up and get to the museum before they close so running out into the rain we where almost there when I slipped and twisted my ankle. It hurt like oh my god ouch 50 times the F - bomb kind of hurt, I saw all the stars in the universe along with jesus, mary and Spock! ya.
when I slipped I dug my fingers into phil for dear life and was cussing up a storm, but well can you blame me? So I couldn't walk much further I managed to waddle to the nearest cafe house and wait for my bro in law to come pick us up. I'm glad I took these pics before I left.
So now I have a wonderfully swollen ankle and the pain is still lingering. Doctors say it should be ok in two weeks time. What the hell do I do for two weeks? someone get me a hoverboard and a bedazzler! stat! I will bedazzle that puppy and get the show on the road!
Hope you guys are all injury free!
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Question:Is there or is there not direct evidence that what is today known as "Mt. Ararat" was at one time underwater? If not, is it possible that there was rapid mountain-building in the *wake* of the Flood, such that some of the resulting mountains would not themselves have been submerged…?
Thanks, Andy
Answer:The Bible does not mention a "mount" Ararat in the singular sense, but the "mountains" of Ararat. And the "mountains of Ararat" are equivalent to the "mountains of Armenia" according to some scholars of ancient Hebrew. And if the term is not equivalent to all the mountains of Armenia, it is still equivalent to a very wide area:
"Genesis says that the Ark landed on the 'mountains of Ararat,' where 'Ararat' is not a single mountain but a region [2 Kings 19:37, Isa 37:38, Jer. 51:27]. That region, known in Assyrian records as Urartu, is, roughly, bounded on the west by the Euphrates River, on the south by the western Taurus Mountains (northern Iraq), somewhat east of Lake Urmia, and north to include the plain of the Araxes River. 'The mountains of Ararat' implies not a single peak, but a mountainous region within this area, such as the Qardu region (northern Kurdistan) west of Lake Urmia. Early reports of the ark place it on several different mountains, including some in the Qardu region. 'Mt. Ararat' is not mentioned as a landing site until the 11th or 12th century." [references given further below]
I do not know the precise geology of Mt. Ararat. But I was able to dig up plenty of information to help answer your question by using the search terms: geology Mt. Ararat volcano*. I plugged those search terms into the handy smaller number of google search sites that are arranged together. Afterwards I went back and search all of the web using the above search terms, just to check for any relevant statements I had missed. Here is what I googled up, quite a lot actually:
John Morris (an officer and a "full professor of geology" at the Institute for Creation Research) believes humans and dinosaurs once coexisted, and that dragons were in fact dinosaurs. During a debate on the television show, "AM Indiana," Morris stated that "Alexander the Great has a very sober history of an encounter with a dragon, and most of the historians of the day list dragons as if they were real." Unfortunately for Morris, no writings of Alexander have survived. The historians Plutarch and Arrian quote from alleged letters of Alexander, but the letters do not tell of any meeting with a dragon.
Morris was then asked for details about the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks which, in his book "The Ark on Ararat", he had (falsely) claimed had been found near the top of Mt. Ararat, and were proof that this volcanic peak had once been under water. To his opponent's great astonishment, Morris denied that he had ever written such a thing: "I have never said that those fossils were on top of Mt. Ararat. Those fossils are IN SIGHT OF Mt. Ararat." I reported that in 1969 a glaciologist claimed he found a fossil layer about the 14,000-foot level. The fossil layers that I'VE studied are some ten miles away."
Morris's denial was false. On pages 10 and 11 of "The Ark on Ararat" — written by Morris and the preacher Tim LaHaye, and issued in 1976 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. — we find:
"A great deal of evidence exists indicating that not only was Mt. Ararat once covered by water, but it even erupted while submerged under great depths of water. In common with many mountains around the world, Mt. Ararat exhibits fossil-bearing strata. Sedimentary rock (by definition laid down by flood [sic] waters) containing the fossilized remains of ocean creatures has been found as high as the snow line, approximately a 14,000-foot elevation. Furthermore, on the exposed northeastern face, layers of lava are intermingled with layers of sediments."
When confronted with the passage, Morris replied that the discovery was the work of the creationist Clifford Burdick and had been described in the "Creation Research Society Quarterly." According to Morris, Burdick:
"Conducted a rather extensive geologic survey over the space of several summers. He not only has written that he discovered fossil-bearing strata, on the west flank of Mt. Ararat, but he has told me so personally…
The discovery was included not only in Burdick's CRSQ articles, but also in the official report by the Archaeological Research Foundation to the Turkish Government, resulting from their expeditions in the 1960's. However, no where in Burdick's article: "Ararat — the Mother of Mountains," (which appeared in the "Creation Research Society Quarterly," June, 1967
Did the author claim that there were fossiliferous, sedimentary layers on Mt. Ararat. He simply gave a list of fossils found in 1845 by one H. Abich, in sedimentary rocks that were at least ten miles from Ararat.
Same Story As Above, But Told By The Person Who Debated John Morris
I can mention an incident that arose early in 1989, while debating John Morris, the Noah's Ark "expert." We were on the Dick Wolfsie show, "AM Indiana," on Channel 13 in Indianapolis. For one fast-paced hour, we argued furiously over the question, Did Noah's flood ever occur? Very early in the show I asked Morris for details about the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks which, in his book The Ark On Ararat, he had claimed existed on Mt. Ararat. [1] I noted that more than a year earlier I had written to John for details, but my letter had never been answered. "Just what kind of sedimentary rocks were these on the top of Mt. Ararat," I asked, "and what fossils were in them?"
At first, accepting my premise that such a claim was to be found in his book, he simply gave the vague answer, "The fossils were shells." When asked to be more specific, he replied, "Dated as Cretaceous sorts of things, supposedly on the order of a hundred million years or so old. Now, I don't buy the date, but that's the normal conventional date for it." Without a doubt, at this stage in the debate Morris knew that in his book he had published the claim that fossiliferous rocks could be found on Mt. Ararat.
Less than a minute later, however, Morris made the startling assertion that he had never claimed there were fossils on Mt. Ararat:
In this subject, I have never said that those fossils were on top of Mt. Ararat. Those fossils are in sight of Mt. Ararat…I reported that in 1969 a glaciologist claimed he found a fossil layer about the 14,000-foot level. The fossil layers that I've studied are some ten miles away. In point of fact, although Morris had mentioned sedimentary rocks in the vicinity of Mt. Ararat (hence the partial agreement in my last line), he had made no mention of any glaciologist, and he had written that fossiliferous rocks were to be found on the volcano. If he had not made so absurd a claim, I would not have written to him the year before!
On pages 10 and 11 of The Ark on Ararat, a book co-authored with Tim F. LaHaye, we find the following claim:
A great deal of evidence exists indicating that not only was Mt. Ararat once covered by water, but it even erupted while submerged under great depths of water. In common with many mountains around the world, Mt. Ararat exhibits fossil-bearing strata. Sedimentary rock (by definition laid down by flood waters) containing the fossilized remains of ocean creatures has been found as high as the snow line, approximately a 14,000-foot elevation. Furthermore, on the exposed northeastern face, layers of lava are intermingled with layers of sediments. [2]
Readers will note that although LaHaye and Morris do not know how to define 'sedimentary rock' correctly, they do claim that such is to be found on Mt. Ararat! Nowhere in the vicinity of the passage quoted above is there any mention of a glaciologist or the year 1969, nor is there any hint that the claim of fossiliferous rocks on Ararat is in any way discordant with the views of the authors. The annoying part of all this is the fact that Morris' denial of his fossiliferous rock claim was part of an attempt to show that it was I who was dishonest - that I was misrepresenting creationist claims and arguments:
Frank, let me say that if you're going to be critiquing my book, or if you're going to be critiquing the Bible, which I do believe, what you need to do is handle that [sic] data honestly. Now what you just have said is not what I wrote in that book!
The final result of this attempt to make me look like a liar was a report in the April, 1989, issue of Acts and Facts, a propaganda organ of the San Diego-based Institute for Creation Research (ICR). In that scrupulously subjective journal it was reported that Morris was able to provide answers to all his [Zindler's] substantive charges, while exposing his use of unfair caricatures and "strawmen arguments."
One of the "strawman arguments" of which I was guilty was, without doubt, my correct claim that Morris had written about fossils on Ararat! After the debate, I photocopied pages 10 and 11 of Ark on Ararat and sent them to Morris, to let him know that I had seen through his denials during the debate - even if no one else would ever know that what he had said on television was untrue. A short time later, Morris sent me a letter in reply. By then, he seemed to have forgotten just what it was that had been in dispute: whether or not he had ever written that there were fossiliferous rocks on Mt. Ararat. Instead, he tacitly admitted that such a claim was in his book, but tried to get off the hook by attributing the "discovery" to a fellow creationist, Clifford Burdick:
You will notice that in this whole section I am summarizing, in particular, the work of Dr. Burdick, who conducted a rather extensive geologic survey over the space of several summers. He not only has written that he discovered fossil-bearing strata, on the west flank of Mt. Ararat, but he has told me so personally, as have Dr. Lawrence Hewitt and Eryl Cummings…
As you should well know, it is most proper for one scientist to quote from or refer to the work of others, refuting it or challenging it only when there is clear evidence of a mistake. I have no such clear evidence, and knowing most of the men referred to above, I am inclined to believe their evaluation…
Again, the question was not who claimed to have found the rocks, but rather, did Morris' book claim that there were sedimentary rocks on Mt. Ararat? Although most people would simply chalk up this episode as but one more instance of a creationist lying through his teeth on television, Morris' behavior probably is better explained as the result of disordered processes of moral and logical reasoning. Since he knew - even though no one else could know it - that Burdick was the original author of the sedimentary rock claim, Morris apparently felt he could deny having claimed it himself: his published claim was really Clifford Burdick's claim!
[1] Mt. Ararat is a dormant volcano, composed entirely of igneous rocks.
If it could be shown that it had sedimentary rocks on top of it, it could be argued that the volcano had once been under water - Noah's flood, even!
[2] Tim F. LaHaye and John D. Morris, The Ark on Ararat, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1976), pp. 10-11.
The entire transcript of the discussion between YEC John Morris and Frank Zindler, along with notes.
The Geology Of Mt. Ararat
[The mountain which today is known by some as "Mount Ararat," is] an extinct volcanic massif.[110] [In fact it is] a type of volcano called a stratovolcano, like Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Vesuvius. A stratovolcano is built by a series of eruptions of ash, cinders, and lava into a layer-cake structure, usually over a period of at least several hundred thousand years. A typical eruption starts with fine-grained ash, grades into coarse pyroclastic flow deposits, and ends with a lava flow. Mount Ararat has been found by geological means to have begun erupting about two million years ago.[111]
A stratovolcano cannot form underwater, because the water quenches the normal ash flow and forms distinctive lava formations called pillow lava. Pillow lava forms when water rapidly chills the outside of a lava flow, forming pillow-like segments. If an incipient volcano, which would have formed a stratovolcano on land, erupts underwater, it forms a structure quite different from that which would have formed on land. It forms a large pile of pillow-lava, like those formed at mid-ocean ridges, and no ash or pyroclastic deposits.[112] Mount Ararat's structure shows it formed on land.
Interestingly, pillow lava has been found on Mount Ararat, but only in small patches. It can form when lava erupts underneath a glacier, or flows into a lake on the mountain. In Iceland, large mountains of pillow lava formed underneath the glaciers of the last ice age, and can be seen today. [The young-earth creationist] article's writer gives credence to the claim that Noah's ark may rest on Mount Ararat. In doing so he is forced to admit that Mount Ararat formed before or during the Flood — otherwise the ark could not come to rest upon it. But the geology of the mountain shows it did not form underwater. Therefore it must have existed before the Flood. But this contradicts the [young-earth creationist] claim that the Flood was not more than 9000 feet deep [113], since Ararat is nearly 17,000 feet high. If the Flood was deeper than can be accounted for by all the water on earth today, we are back to the question, Where did the extra water go? The writer is unaware of these difficulties.
Given that one cannot logically believe two contradictory things at one time, what is the [YEC] position on these questions? Was the Flood deep enough to cover Mount Ararat at 17,000 feet, or do [YECs] believe that Noah's ark rests on the mountain?
[110] The New Encyclopedia Britannica, Micropedia, Vol. 1, p. 518, 1991.
[111] John Warwick Montgomery, The Quest For Noah's Ark, p. 227, Bethany Fellowship, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1972. A fairly reasonable account of many searches on Mount Ararat for Noah's ark. Uncritically accepts much hearsay evidence, and omits evidence contrary to the author's belief that the ark is on Ararat.
[112] Fred M. Bullard, Volcanoes in History, in Theory, in Eruption, pp. 248-249, University of Texas Press, 1962.
[113] 1993 International Creation Conference in Beaverton, Oregon …I asked Parker [an ICR creationist] what he thought about last week's program about Noah's Ark on CBS television. He said he hadn't seen it. I asked what the relationship of the ICR was to that program, and he said essentially that they were independent. I asked him about a couple of anomalies in the CBS program. It had claimed that Noah's Flood was about 9000 feet deep, which Parker agreed with. I pointed out that this implied that all mountains, including Ararat, must have been less than 9000 feet high, while the Ark had been claimed to have been at around 12-13,000 feet on Mount Ararat. He had no answer for that, except that there were many different people responsible for the program's content. Then I pointed out that the Flood geology scenario says that land and ocean bottoms must have been at equal depths during the Flood, which he agreed to, but that this created a problem with the Hawaiian Island - Emperor Seamount chain — in particular the big island of Hawaii, which is 30,000 feet high from the base and would therefore stick 21,000 feet above the Flood water. We concluded from this that the Hawaiian chain must have formed after Noah's Flood. I then asked him if he really thought it possible that Hawaii formed after the Flood, seeing as how the rest of the islands are deeply eroded and become more so the farther west you go, and in fact dive under the surface to become seamounts. He saw no problem in any of this, saying that it was quite possible for large mountains like Hawaii to form in well under 4000 years.
The Jehovah's Witnesses seem to be in agreement with Parker of ICR above, that the Flood waters were less than 8000-9000 feet deep:
The writer of the Watchtower [A Jehovah's Witness publication] article "The Unforgettable Flood" seems to have forgotten about the shallow depth of the Flood, less than 8000 feet, implied in prior Watchtower publications. On page 3 he says:
Five months after the Deluge began, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, situated in present-day eastern Turkey…. Since the 19th century, there have been numerous attempts to find the ark on the mountains of Ararat. These mountains have two prominent peaks, one 16,950 feet high and the other 12,840 feet.
Ararat Report #32, May 1993 [Published by Christian Information Ministries, 2050 N. Collins, Suite 100, Richardson, TX 75080, 972-690-1975 [email protected] ]
Figment or fact? The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark World Premier Showing: CBS Network February 20, 1993. Produced by Sun International Pictures. 1993. Executive Producer: Charles Sellier, Jr. Chief Researcher: Dave Balsiger Host: Darren McGavin
…To make a solid case for Mt. Ararat as the final resting place of Noah's Ark, it seems to us that it would be absolutely essential to have some proof that it was once submerged. The makers of the documentary apparently shared this concern. The evidence given however, is far from conclusive. An unidentified person is shown exhibiting a huge chunk of sea salt.12 The narrator then intones that large deposits of sea salt have been found on the mountain as well as pillow lava. If both are true it would seem like an air-tight case. The facts, however, are different than presented. To our knowledge, no sea salt has been found on the mountain, and the purported pillow lava is at best, debatable. Geologists who have seen it are doubtful, but do admit that it could be. One then has to ask: are these rocks the result of the extrusion of lava into water or snow? We think it is unlikely, since there are no other unassailable arguments that the mountain was ever under water. For instance, there are neither water formed sediments or fossiliforous rocks on the mountain that we are aware of.13 Those who are searching for the Ark on Ararat need to explain this glaring deficiency. When we broach this problem with Ark hunters, the general reaction is: "How can you be so skeptical when we have all these eyewitness accounts?"
12.This footage is from the earlier movie and must be Dr. Clifford Burdick. In Burdick's geological report of 1967 of the Ararat area he mentions a large deposit of sea salt discovered about 50 miles away (see "Ararat: The Mother of Mountains." in Creation Research Society Journal, 1967, pp. 9,10.
13. Morris, in his book, The Ark on Ararat, (p.11) reports that fossils and sedimentation are found on Ararat. We are unaware of the documentation for this claim. There is sedimentation on Ararat, but it is the result of vulcanism and not hydraulic action.
There seems to be almost a total lack of evidence this mountain [Mt. Ararat] was ever under water… [Creationist] and early Ark searcher, Clifford Burdick, claimed to have found pillow lava on the mountain as well as sedimentation. Neither claim can be substantiated. The sedimentation he found was instead laid down by volcanic action and not by water.
"[I collected] a bit of andesite from volcanic Mt. Ararat, so I can hurl it at any fundy who claims that the lavas of the mount are pillow basalts (andesite is not basalt and only submarine basalt forms pillow structures.)"
— Marty Leipzig
"There is absolutely no concrete evidence to show that this mountain was once submerged. If it was, one should be able to find large amounts of sea salts, pillow lava, water-formed sediments, and/or fossiliforous rocks. Only pillow lava is reported to be on the mountain. However, geologists have not performed an exhaustive study of these formations, and many experts claim that it is not pillow lava at all."
A Christian who believes in Noah's ark admits: "Mt. Ararat (so named in AD 1105) shows no evidence of ever being under water— no marine fossils, no pillow lava, no flood-produced sedimentation."
What Would We Expect To Find If The World Had Flooded?
— Igneous (volcanic) rocks, if they existed at all in flood sediments, would all be in the form of pillow lava, which are extruded underwater. There could be no segregation of igneous rock types. Basalt would be the only igneous rock type because all activity would have been extrusive. There would be a complete absence of volcanic layers within the strata.
In reality, there are very clearly defined volcanic layers, from which radiometric dates are obtained. How can we observe layers of volcanic rock within the strata if there was a Flood at at the time? The lava would have mushroomed up into what is known as "pillow lava", like we see on the ocean floor today. So how can we have flat layers of volcanic rock, compressed between other layers, occuring during an "ultramassive flood"?
Another Christian who believes in Noah's ark admits: "The Bible does not even specify a particular mountain. Having studied Mt. Ararat and the surrounding area, one of intense geologic and volcanic turmoil, I have concluded that a wooden structure such as the Ark would not be likely to survive if it had landed there."
"Massive volcanic outpourings have resurfaced large portions of Kurdistan in the north and Northeast. The greater and lesser Ararat peaks, as well as Mt. Nimrod (or Nimrut Dâgh) on the shores of Lake Vân, are three prominent results of this active geology."
Geological, agricultural and biological diversity of Armenia
The Republic of Armenia is situated in the southern part of the Caucasus between watersheds of middle streams of the Araks and Kura Rivers. The territory of the Republic is 29,800 sq. kilometers. It occupies the southern part of a vast highland area known as Armenian Upland, which is located within the Alpine-Himalayan mountain system. The average elevation of the Armenian Upland is 1,800 meters above sea level. Ancient geographers called the Armenian Upland the "Mountain Island" or the "Roof of Asia Minor." In the structure of mountain ridges extinct volcanoes play an essential role. Their activity left its mark on Armenian nature. In the Armenian Upland eruptions of volcanoes have occurred relatively recently, before eyewitnesses. The last eruption of the Nemrud volcano on the eastern shore of Lake Van (Eastern Anatolia) was in 1441. Biblical Mount Ararat dominates the Armenian Upland. It is isolated from the ridges and plateaus and rises above the surrounding plains for more than 4 kilometers. The massif consists of two extinct volcanoes - Great Ararat (Masis), having a height of 5,165 meters, and Little Ararat (Sis), at 3925 meters. Their peaks are located at a distance of 10 kilometers from each other. Ararat is amazingly beautiful. It has attracted travelers since ancient times.
Armenia is one of those rare countries that, though small in territory, is notable for its complexity and rich diversity of its geological structures. In a small area one can observe various signs of active geological processes ever taking place on the earth and continuing today. These include strongly transformed metamorphic rocks of the Pre-Cambrian basement and nearly "fresh" lava flows of recent volcanoes; thick layers sedimentary, volcanogenic-sedimentary and volcanogenic deposits of sea, deep- sea- rift, lacustrine - continental basins, and products of magmatic activity, including volcanic activity from the Middle Paleozoic up to the Quaternary Age; the results of the complicated tectonic processes that took place in the remote geological past, and signs of the contemporary tectonics. To the above series one can add numerous ore and nonferrous deposits, sweet, thermal and mineral springs, as well as rare mineral associations and interesting results of contemporary abrasion and erosion processes.
Source: geocities.com/sutlik/agr.htm
A third of [all the] sporadic [volcanic] activity [in the world] extends from Armenia in eastern Turkey eastward through the Central Volcanic Belt of Iran (Boccaletti et al., 1977). This region is located mainly within a zone of intense lithospheric crushing where the Arabian Plate is moving northeast against the Eurasian Plate (see Plate T-39). On the west and east sides of the point of convergence near Lake Van are two other plates, the Anatolian and the Iranian, which are considered microplates by some tectonicists. The Anatolian Plate is being squeezed westward along the North and East Anatolian transcurrent faults. Likewise, the Iranian Plate is being pushed to the southeast along similar faults that pass through the Elburz Mountains north of Tehran and through the suture (Main Recent Fault) of the Zagros Crush Zone. Some of this deformation began in Late Cretaceous/ Paleocene times, intensified in the Miocene/Pliocene, and continues unabated.
Lambert et al. (1974) studied the tectonic, petrologic, and geochemical setting of the region that encloses Mt. Ararat, a large stratocone (more than 35 km wide at ground base) near the corner at which Turkey, Iran, and Soviet Armenia meet. Here, in the aforementioned crush zone (considered a discrete microplate —the Van plate—by Dewey et al. (1973)), crustal shortening along a northeast line gives rise to a northwest tensional line of fractures that control volcanic emplacement. This group includes Nemrud at the west end of Lake Van, Suphan, Tendurek, and Ararat itself at the northeast end. The crush zone sits astride the intersection between east- west tectonic trends in Turkey and the northwest-southeast Zagros structures (Plate T-42). Dewey et al. (1973) and other investigators postulate consumption of the Arabian Plate along a subduction zone under the Van microplate. Lambert et al. (1974) and McKenzie (1972) point to the absence of intermediate to deep earthquakes as evidence against subduction today.
Highest of the northeast line of volcanoes is Ararat (Altinli, 1964). As seen (looking southward) from the ground (Figure V-17.1), Greater Ararat (right) at 5156 m towers above Little Ararat (3903 m) some 12 km to the east. Both peaks are evident in the thematic mapper subscene that constitutes Plate V-17. This unusual color rendition results from a combination of bands 1 (blue), 4 (green), and 7 (red). This effectively separates clouds above Greater Ararat from an ice cap (in blue), both of which appear white in visible wavelength images. Much of the lava and ash deposits along the slopes appears as a purplish-brown (as does some derivative Quaternary slope debris). Some of the younger basalts to the northeast take on a purplish-blue hue. Bright red markings superficially resemble fresh lava flows but are brush fire burn scars (bright in band 7). Older tuffs exposed in the Cehenna Gorge cut into the north flank are not recognizable, being largely in shadow, but still older volcanics to the west are rendered yellow-brown. The darker orange-brown along the upper slopes of Ararat results from the color mix related to bright returns from vegetation (forests) for band 4 and rock and vegetation for band 7. Especially distinctive in the image are lava channels and gutters; adventive cones and possibly domes may also be present on the slopes. Dissected volcanic terrain gives way to a plains along the Rizdan River to the north and to Devonian/Permian sedimentary rocks in mountains to the southeast.
Ararat is typical of the calc-alkaline volcanism that led to the expulsion of dacites and andesites in the region. Younger out-pourings consist of alkali basalts. Related volcanism extends eastward into northern Iran, culminating in the dormant Damavand (5671 m) volcano near Tehran. Another large stratovolcano, Sahand (3710 m) south of Tabriz, is prominent in the Landsat image shown as Figure V-17.2; a smaller volcanic structure, Shaki (2189 m), extends as a peninsula into Lake Urmia. Both show extensive slope erosion, forming barrancos or gorges that help to emphasize the pronounced radial drainage. This pattern is especially brought out in the SIR-A radar image of Sahand seen in Figure V-17.3. Landsat TM 50209-07140, September 9, 1984.
Source: daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
Descending From Mount Ararat
According to some creationists, Mt. Ararat in Turkey is the same "mountains of Ararat" mentioned in Genesis. If this is the case, one cannot help but be impressed by the agility of the ark's inhabitants. Mt. Ararat is actually a large volcanoe, extending over 5km above sea level.
Even experienced human climbers have found the trek difficult and dangerous. At this elevation, most animals would have found breathing difficult. Those that could breath would find getting down off of the mountain without breaking a leg even more difficult.
"It would have taken a special miracle to get Noah and his family down from such dizzy mountain heights where the cold would have been extreme." (Ramm, Bernard.L. [Christian], The Christian View of Science and Scripture, 1955, p.162)
"Unfortunately, this still is not enough time for sloths to travel. Sloths shiver at 80 degrees F and to travel from Ararat to South America would require much shivering." (Glenn R. Morton, Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:39:36 -0500, American Scientific Affiliation archives on the web — The ASA is primarily an old-earth or theistic evolutionist organization though YEC Christians are also invited to join.)
Index to Creationist Claims
Claim CH501: We can expect to find Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat.
Source: LaHaye, Tim and John Morris, 1976. The Ark on Ararat, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Inc. and Creation Life Publishers.
Response: Mt. Ararat (known locally as Agri Dagi) is very likely the wrong place to look. Genesis says only that the Ark landed on the mountains of Ararat, where Ararat is not a single mountain but a region [2 Kings 19:37, Isa 37:38, Jer. 51:27]. That region, known in Assyrian records as Urartu, is, roughly, bounded on the west by the Euphrates River, on the south by the western Taurus Mountains (northern Iraq), somewhat east of Lake Urmia, and north to include the plain of the Araxes River. "The mountains of Ararat" implies not a single peak, but a mountainous region within this area, such as the Qardu region (northern Kurdistan) west of Lake Urmia. Early reports of the ark place it on several different mountains, including some in the Qardu region. Mt. Ararat is not mentioned as a landing site until the 11th or 12th century. [Bailey 1989, 61-82]
No wooden structure, including the Ark, should be expected to survive intact after 4500 years. The weather on Ararat is harsh and changeable; it would have destroyed the Ark if it were exposed. Some people claim that the Ark could have survived in a glacier, protected by the covering ice, but this also is unlikely. First, the ice would have crushed the Ark.
Second, glaciers flow, carrying along whatever is inside them. Different parts often flow at different rates, which would deform the Ark. And the Ark started on the ground, so it would have been eroded as the glacier dragged it over the rocks.
Bailey, 1989, see below.
Further Reading: Bailey, Lloyd, 1989. Noah: The Person and the Story in History and Tradition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
For answers regarding Specific Ark "Sightings"
Most creationists accept a medieval Armenian tradition which identifies the ark's landing place (Mount Ararat) with the volcano Agri Dag in eastern Turkey. They recount alleged sightings there of remnants of the ark by everyone from local peasants to Russian aviators. The ICR and other creationist groups have mounted repeated expeditions to find the ark. On one of these expeditions, ex-astronaut James Irwin nearly died in an accidental fall; on another, ICR's John Morris was struck by lightning.
However, no one has ever presented authenticated photographs, fragments, or other hard evidence of the ark found on Agri Dag or elsewhere.
Dr. Howard M. Teeple, author of The Noah's Ark Nonsense, documented the movement in time and place of the earliest known "Flood" stories in the ancient Near East. He noted the story's first appearance and compared its geographical location to later appearances. He concluded that the earliest known "Flood" story was discovered on clay tablets uncovered by archaeologists in Sumer/Babylon. Its next recorded appearance was found on clay tablets north of Sumer/Babylon. Afterwards a version of the tale appeared east, then south, and continued east till a version eventually appeared in ancient Greece. He added that each culture/civilization adapted the "Flood" story to suit themselves by changing the names of the people involved and which mountain the "boat" allegedly "landed on." So the "Flood" story appears to have traveled like any story might be expected to have traveled, along trade routes in the ancient world. It originated in Sumer/Babylon (by the river Euphrates known for its floods) and only later reached the Hebrews (rather than being a story whose real truth was revealed solely to Moses in comparison to which every other culture only had cloudy memories).
Catastrophic flooding occurs in most areas of the world. However, if [flood] stories are gathered from around the world, one may be struck far more by the divergences than by their similarities. It is important that such collections have been gathered without regard for their support for a single universal flood. It would be easy to rule out those that sound dissimilar and then to be amazed at how similar the remainder are!
Although flood stories from around the world vary widely in their content, those from Syro-Palestine and Mesopotamia (the so-called lands of the Bible) are strikingly similar. While it is difficult, if not impossible, to believe that flood stories gathered from around the world descended from a single source (or describe a single event), the reverse may indeed be the case in the Ancient Near East. It is, after all, an area given to regular and catastrophic flooding, for which adequate archaeological and geological evidence has come to light. Furthermore, it is an area through which the story of "the flood" could easily spread: it is geographically
small and well defined (the so-called fertile crescent), its inhabitants spoke closely related Semitic languages, there was occasional political unity of the whole (under Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians), and commerce was widespread throughout at all periods.
— Lloyd R. Bailey, Noah: The Person and the Story in History and Tradition
Statement by a Christian who is also an Old-Earth Geologist
Can anyone explain to me why creationists are not willing to listen to the clear arguments? Jack Haas' project is absolutely essential but will have an uphill struggle against invincible ignorance and pejorative definitions like "evolutionary geology." I became a Christian a month before graduating in geology at Oxford University in 1968 through the IVF. If I had been confronted by Creationism I would have rejected the claims of Christ.
— Michael Roberts, 1/6/01 3:09 AM, M.B. Roberts
Statements from young-earth creationists at the website, "Answers in Genesis"
"We have never stated that any site, whether on the mountain [of Ararat] or off it, contains the remnants of the Ark [of Noah], nor have John Morris or ICR."
In November 2001, Answers in Genesis published an article on its website entitled, Arguments we think creationists should NOT use which… covered a substantial number of widely-used arguments opposing evolution. It was meant to inform Christians why we felt these arguments were either factually incorrect, or were very dubious and unsafe, even counterproductive, to use… Some people became upset, expressing their dismay through phone calls, emails and the like… I had people complain to me at conferences. One man said: 'Evolutionists have so much evidence; if you people at AiG keep destroying some of the greatest evidence we've had, there'll be none left for creationists. You're helping the evolutionists win!'…
Many people… think that to oppose evolution or disprove an old earth, one has to come up with totally different or unique 'evidence.' I think this is a major reason why a number of Christians are drawn to what I call 'flaky evidence' in the hope that this will counteract evolution. For instance, such things as: A supposed boat-like structure in the Ararat region as evidence of Noah's Ark.
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I thought we had great fans until reading this. Seriously.
Grant has been coach for what, 30-some hours and some of you are already calling for his head? Welcome our guy back home and wish him well.
In the words of Charlie Brown, good grief!
Can we get this right, they said TWO years of coaching in the NBA is like five college seasons.
I'll show you the math:
1 NBA season = 82 games
82 x 2 = 164 games for two NBA seasons
1 college season = 30(+) games
30(+) x 5 = 150(+) games for five college seasons
2 NBA seasons of 164 games approximately = 5 college seasons of 150(+) games.
There seems to be some naysayers that wouldn't be happy no matter who we hired unless it was their guy. They need to be ignored because they don't seem to want to listen to logic. Pick at Grant all you want, it makes more sense to pick at Indiana's choice for coach. Although he has had reasonable success, the last two seasons showed that his teams wilted down the stretch and lost to 10 seeds in the tournament. How could they have hired that guy?
But there aren't many viable coaches out there who could honestly say that they wouldn't look elsewhere 5 years down the road if they achieved the level of success archie has. Not unless the landscape of hoops changed somehow and/or we somehow got into a better conference.
Hope Anthony makes it back to Dayton in time for the press conference!
Thunder Beat Reporter just tweeted:
Thunder assistant Anthony Grant wasn't on the bench tonight, but watched the game in a back room. Getting intro'd at Dayton Saturday.
What is killing me is the question of Ostrum. I wish someone in the media would get an answer from him or Grant on whether there's a chance he stays. They are old friends. Is that enough? Does he want to be Associate Head Coach at UD? Will he have that position offered to him at IU? Or does Ostrum want to try to be a head coach somewhere? Inquiring minds want to know. Keeping him would take this from a great hire to an amazing hire.
Regarding the search, I read that they were only interested in people who saw UD as a destination job. And i'm sorry, but there are very few people outside of those who have gone to dayton or played for dayton who would ever view that as the last stop. Any decent younger coach will want to come here, make a mark and then test the waters in a bigger pond. That's just the way college hoops is now.
It's great that AG has the resume and is a the point in his life where he may be happy to make this his last stop on the coaching train if he's successful.
But there aren't many viable coaches out there who could honestly say that they wouldn't look elsewhere 5 years down the road if they achieved the level of success archie has. Not unless the landscape of hoops changed somehow and/or we somehow got into a better conference.
Wasn't that the real challenge of this search though? Finding someone who really wants to be here, not with an eye towards resume-building?
We have gone that route four straight times with mixed results... Let's see what someone who really does want to be here can do. I'm very optimistic.
Six years ago we would've fallen all over ourselves for this hire. I think there are too many questions around what happened at Alabama to mark that as a Grant failure. He was a runaway success at VCU... which is exactly the sort of program we are, only better. Looking forward to it.
I'm just saying that if finding someone who sees this as a destination job is your main criteria, then there weren't many candidates to consider. There was one. Grant was the only guy out there with a reason to view Dayton as a place he'd never want to leave, and had the resume to be considered a strong head coach. So it wasn't technically a search that happened. It was a single phone call.
Archie is a Vee Sanford floater and Jordan Sibert SAM missile from still being the Dayton coach right now and fans wondering if he has the exact same NCAA yips as Gregory and Purnell. The margins in this game are razor thin. I dont think even our own recent success calls for drinking anyone's bath water. The way fans talk, we just lost Mike Krzyzewski to Army and replaced him with Bruiser Flint. Archie got us back to where we should have been to begin with. And many thanks for it. But lets pump the brakes a bit and not forget ourselves either.
I haven't seen a link that UD is streaming live the AG press conference. That kind of surprises me. I would have thought they would stream it since it's not open to the public. I know they will have a clip afterwords online. Wonder if Chris R is going?
Maybe my memory is fuzzy but a few years back I seem to recall a large chunk of UDPride posters wanting Anthony Grant to be the coach. I'm very happy with the hire.
Color me cautiously optimistic. My concern is his being away from HS pipelines...of course that can be quickly remedied with the right assistants that do have those pipelines Didn't AG say Dayton was his dream job, if so sounds like a destination job to me. At 50 and successful here he could be the next Mark Few.
I think I said this farther up in this thread, but being away 2 years is not as big of a deal that everyone seems to be making it. Many of the kids that are going to be seniors next year would have been freshman when he was recruiting last, so he would have some data on these kids. Also, most HS and AAU coaches are still at the same schools and teams they were at 2 years ago. As you said, a good assistant would help, but it's not like he was gone 10+ years from college recruiting.
Archie's time spent schmoozing whales,boosters and public appearances/obligations are going to quadruple. Neil and Dr. Spina left Archie alone for the most part in this respect.
From a recruits perspective it could be a big deal, either for or against. Obviously having connections in the NBA is a positive when talking to recruits. But also some recruits have to have in the back of their minds....how long will he stay before another NBA gig opens up.
Personally believe he wants to retire here, thats the optimist side of me, but also didn't think AM would take the high pressure Indiana job.
I am much more optimistic AG will be more successful here than AM will be at IU, but we will have to wait and see how each develops into their new position.
Of course we all know that surrounding oneself with the right people (assistants, players etc) can make the difference in ones success at a particular program. AG at VCU/Alabama; AM only has one past performance to gauge on.
A big part of the question will be the admins, fans and boosters. AG has it better here than AM will have at IU in my opinion.
The article also states "that the roster will be bad next season and to give AG three years to straighten things out".
As I said in another thread, I don't blame AG for this, I blame Archie and the administration for not having any kind of succession plan in place, and mostly the administration. Don't know if they believed they could just keep throwing money at AM and he'd continue to stay or what. I also know they are fairly hands off, but it's to the detriment of the school and basketball program if you don't have that in place. You can't afford to have 2 - 3 bad years every 6 years, or like Sisyphus, doomed to always be rolling the rock up the hill for eternity.
The other solution is the hire the right coach if you go outside the staff, not sure we did that
Dayton now has at least 2 scholarships open, probably 3, maybe 4. Svoboda told me he's still considering Dayton but hasn't heard from Dayton
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I'm truly astonished at how nervous this board gets at times. AG has hired one assistant (admittedly not a lead recruiter) and, ..
I'm truly astonished at how nervous this board gets at times. AG has hired one assistant (admittedly not a lead recruiter) and, I'm guessing, has a second on board that just hasn't been made official as yet (Kuwik). The DDN says Kuwik has been working hard since Miller left, in part to impress AG, no doubt, but also to maintain a level of continuity with returning players and the various recruiting pipelines. At worst, our new coach is on a schedule (staff, recruits) not far off of Archie's when he was hired here.
What little upheaval we've seen was to be expected -- the loss of two (maybe three) Archie recruits and one transfer. He got two recruits to recommit, which is two more than I expected.
Barring more transfers, I think we'll be quite competitive next year. A frontcourt of Josh, Xerious and Kostas will match up well with anyone in the A10. And I've gotta believe AG will get us a talented PG (or two) to ease any concerns there. I'll go so far as to say a top four A10 finish is very doable, and that will have us in the tourney conversation.
Yes, I know we have a new coaching staff, a new system and lots of inexperience, but I'm just not that worried. I don't blame some folks for being jittery, but a little patience will go a long way toward calming nerves. This is a basketball PROGRAM, not a race. As AG said, he wants to dominate the league. I'm willing to take him at his word until there's a reason not to ...
he's can't recruit since he's in an administrative position
He can't go off campus to recruit. He can make calls and host the recruits when they are on campus.
Well, one little problem you failed to mention, we also lost Scooch, Kyle, Kendall and Cooke.
Just want to recap...
We have the following players confirmed.
D Davis
Jordan Davis
Jordan Pierce
So we have 7 confirmed players and as far as this board knows have not gone after any grad transfers. Can someone please politely tell me what in the absolute hell is going on? I am completely and utterly lost. I have zero clue what any of you are talking about when you are "staying positive."
OSU Flyer just keeps posting how these grad transfers are narrowing down their choices or have committed entirely (thank you btw OSU Flyer). Poor guy just has to report on awful news all day long.
I am truly astonished at anyone who would concede that all 5 of our 4017 recruits will bolt for the door even before the door is opened.
Some have narrowed down their list. Many more are still seeking their release each day. There is not a shortage of good transfers and grad transfers available right now.
And then there's the elephant in the room that is very concerning. Who in their right mind would predict that Josh Cunningham, who would have to give up a year of eligibility after sitting one year and being injured most of the next, would still not be sure about staying committed? I would've thought he'd be the first one to confirm his commitment. The fact he hasn't is really disturbing anyway you slice it.
the board is narrowing every day and these guys are setting up visits. The later Dayton jumps the harder it gets to build relationships and set up visits. Looking on Twitter the pool is thinning for the impact guys.
Who says he hasn't committed to staying? The "list" on this site is devoid of any direct knowledge from inside the program.
There are still plenty of good players asking for their release every day. Maybe not the elite players, but we were not going to get them anyway. But there are 700 players that are going to transfer this offseason. Players like MiKyle McIntosh who would be great here, hasn't officially announced he is transferring, but will be soon. Plenty of guys that test the NBA waters and decide to stay in college will look to transfer. Nobody should be worried yet about securing transfers.
I missed this. Can you post a link? Thanks.
Some are simply not able to look big picture at the future. Others, like yourself, can look thousands of years into the future.
From the DDN: "In the meantime he said he has zeroed in on a few other guys - transfers (junior college or graduate) - who can 'play immediately.' He's especially interested in perimeter players..." I guess those who are saying he hasn't reached out to anybody are wrong.
Hopefully we're in the Big East by then...
Who would you have hired and why would he be better than AG
Dayton was #68 in the RPI this morning. UCSB was #69. Our SOS #3, theirs #212.
UCSB lost to 4-9 #233 Cal Poly on Thursday which is even worse than #220 UMass. Fire Pasternack.
UCSB is about to be 12-3 with their only losses to Pitt, USC, and Texas A&M. They didnt beat a D1 team until December 27 last year and won 6 games all year. Joe Pasternack is an absolute WIZARD.
Big West: UC Santa Barbara. I thought the Gauchos would be good. I didnt expect them to be THIS good in year one of the Joe Pasternack era. Leland King has been a revelation.
Check back in about an hour for another block of conference picks!
Former Arizona assistant Joe Pasternack is doing a nice job at UC Santa Barbara. Gauchos are 8-2 overall. Visit USC on Sunday night in Los Angeles.
Biggest takeaway from the gym today...Joe Pasternack is going to have it rolling at Santa Barbara shortly. Sekou Toure & Amadou Sow are high majors headed to the Big West. Won't be fair.
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I'm missing something? Who is this Paternack guy and why do we care about him or Santa Barbara?
Duquesne now 12-4 under Dambrot. 10-22 last year. Picked 14th in A-10 this year. 3 - 0 in conference so far.
#213 in the RPI with an SOS of 335.
Because the search for a new coach on this message board is in full swing right now.
So he is like Roy Harper, I get it.
Better than BG. Not as good as AM.
Interesting prediction. from March .
AG lacks a player that can create his own shot. Mckinley was going to be that guy but he isn't here.
AG lacks senior leadership on his team.
...LOL at the amount of people on this site that minimize the fact that 4 starters are lost from a year ago, not to mention injuries, etc...they're dealing with a new system and a bunch of new and young players..
I agree with Spud.
My ranking: Archie 1, OP 2, AG 3, BG 4.
Anyone who is putting AG in any coaching ranking after 15 games is a fool and a blowhard. I sure hope you haven't already converted your 401Ks to Bit Coins.
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- 2 zucchini
- 2 yellow summer squash
- 2 handfuls cherry tomato
- 1/2-1 Cup cooked sweet corn
- 2/3-1 Cup dry quinoa
- Cooking oil of choice
- Teeny Tiny Spice of choice
- Salt to taste
- Optional: lemon juice
1. Start by cleaning the veggies and chopping the squash and zucchini into bite sized pieces.
2. Add zucchini and squash into a hot skillet with oil of choice, sprinkle with salt, and begin to cook, sprinkling with spice of choice, 1 to 2 teaspoons to start with, then add additional as needed.
3. Add quinoa plus double the amount of water (1 Cup quinoa = 2 Cups water) into a small pan and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer when boiling and cover, check every little bit until water is gone and fluff with a fork.
4. Prepare corn according to instructions(frozen, canned, or fresh) drain, and set aside.
5. Add quinoa and cooked veggies to a large bowl. Toss with a drizzle of oil, a squeeze of lemon juice, and then taste. Add salt or additional ingredients as desired.
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Western Province ran riot at City Park in Crawford on Saturday as they thrashed the Golden Lions 58-34 (half-time 27-20) in an entertaining Vodacom Cup quarterfinal.
Fullback Kurt Coleman scored a delightful hat-trick of tries as WP turned on the charm after the interval.
The Lions were nevertheless competitive in the first half. They found themselves down 0-10 quite quickly, but pounced on a handling error by WP and hooker Francois du Toit scored a try to get them back into it.
In fact, the visitors even led midway through the first half, with flyhalf Guy Cronjé converting winger JP Esterhuizen's try to make it 17-15.
But WP soon hit back through a well-worked try for flanker Tyrone Holmes after fullback Kurt Coleman had broken the line. Flyhalf Demetri Catrakilis converted and WP were back in the lead.
It was one they built on with another impressive try shortly before half-time as flanker Rohan Kitshoff finished.
Province took a cavalier approach to the game in spite of the stakes being a place in the semifinals.
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Coleman was rather ironically playing out of position as he is usually a flyhalf. However, WP have a shortage of fullbacks and need to accommodate Catrakilis's impressive boot.
While Catrakilis was not on song with the boot on Saturday, WP's nine tries meant he was hardly required to be.
The home side's efforts up front should also be lauded. They used the driving maul particularly well and also had a dominant scrum.
DHL Western Province - Tries: Hilton Lobberts, Quinn Roux, Tyrone Holmes, Rohan Kitshoff (2), Nic Fenton-Wells, Kurt Coleman (3). Conversions: Demitri Catrakilis (5). Penalty: Catrakilis.
Golden Lions - Tries: Francois du Toit, JR Esterhuizen, Robert de Bruyn, Garth April. Conversions: Guy Cronjé (4). Penalties: Cronjé (2).


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1. Go with an empty stomach. Caribbean cuisine can be summed up in a word – delicious. The flavours are incredible, and the portion sizes very generous. Some must sample dishes include curry goat, pumpkin beef soup, and of course, the spicy jerk chicken.
2. Be prepared to dance with strange beautiful women. This is one event where it pays to leave your inhibitions at home. Beautiful sexy women are available in abundance, and various genres of West Indian music will be playing in various sections. With the Red Stripe freely flowing, gorgeous women who would not normally give you a second glance may oblige you.
3. If you find yourself pressed body to body with some hot babe, take our advice and 'wine.' No, not head to the off license. 'Wining' is the quintessential Caribbean dance move, involving circular movement of the waist and pelvis in tandem to the rhythm. Its like sex, set to music, while you're both clothed. Just don't embarrass yourself by erupting before she invites you back to hers.
4. Walk with a minimum of possessions. This is just a bit of common sense advice. They'll be over a million people meandering through the streets, and not all of them are there to join the festivities. Keep cash to a minimum, and only carry the minimum of essentials.
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1. McMansions will be McEmpty. Large house sales will suffer from being on the market a long time. Folks are leaning towards more cozy, low-maintenance digs. Mile high windows,super ceilings, and sprawling lawns hold less appeal in 2015. Tiny house sales are on the rise!
2. Humpty Dumpty Needs a Wall. Open concept living is in for an adjustment. I think we may see some walls going up and/or partitions installed around kitchens--or at least the prep space. Let's face it, folks don't like seeing a messy kitchen. Open kitchens create stress.
|Eric Davis - HGTV
3. Dining Rooms are Dinosaurs. Talk about your oxymoron, people are spending more time in their homes entertaining, but not around the dining room table. Check out Craigslist and you will notice a zillion beautiful dining room sets offered for a steal. Boomers are downsizing and millenniums are turning dining rooms into home offices or playrooms.
5. "Uber Think" Applies to Buying and Selling. We are all familiar with the start-up car service Uber. I predict that the Uber mentality is going to penetrate the real estate market. I think 2015 may mean more buyers and sellers taking the cheapest route. Realtor fees may be thwarted by more FSBO's (For Sale by Owner) or sellers using discount firms. Legitimate stagers will be back-burnered for DIY stagers. Ouch!


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A woman ahead of her time. Her husband was a man ahead of his too.
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A woman ahead of her time. Her husband was a man ahead of his too.
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- Valerie-Jael said...
Thanks for showing the photos and telling more about Eleanor Roosevelt, really a great lady, and so glad her lovely home has been preserved for posterity. You have had a great vacation, seen and done a lot, and had fun - that's great. Love the pages in your summer journal. Have a fun day, hugs, Valerie
- August 18, 2016 at 10:31 AM
- Gibby Frogett said...
Hi Erika... for some reason, probably because of the shapes, I thought of the Olympics when I saw your first piece of art - but I think its pretty cool!
Your second pages are totally different - I really love this style.
I thought yesterdays FDR was fascinating but your post today about Eleanor Roosevelt has left me wanting to know more about her now. Lovely photos and thoroughly enjoyed reading about this amazing lady.
Gill xx
- August 18, 2016 at 11:50 AM
- Divers and Sundry said...
She was an inspiration. I should say _is_ an inspiration. I'm glad this piece of history has been saved.
- August 18, 2016 at 12:58 PM
- Meggymay said...
Lovely photos and thank you for telling us a little of the history of the houses. Eleanor's house looks so homely . Your journal pages are fantastic and its good to read that you have enjoyed the summer break.
Yvonne x
- August 18, 2016 at 4:50 PM
- sheila 77 said...
Hello Erika,
I enjoyed this history lesson too as I know very little of your country's history. Great to read and see the photos too.
Holidays at home can be quite special, and it's good to see how much you are enjoying it through your blog and journal.
I went back up to choose a favourite day from your pages but decided I like them all.
- August 18, 2016 at 5:05 PM
- Jeannette said...
your summer pages are wonderful,and thank you for the history of eleanor roosevelt,she was a beautiful lady.
have a nice day.
hugs jenny
- August 18, 2016 at 8:10 PM
- Jeanie said...
First of all, I adore Eleanor and all she did so I loved this post. (Eleanor and Franklin is sitting on my bookstack). But I especially love this home. It looks like something I could live in and be very comfortable. Not at all pretentious. Lovely post.
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All these years, and you would not play it for me.
Sometimes, you would reach for it,
rest it across your thighs, and strum, haphazardly,
a few incomplete chords.
Why won't you play? I wondered, afraid to ask,
but wishing for it as much as I longed to hear
you speak in your mother tongue.
(You were washing the dishes,
and looking out the window-
Say something for me?
And, gently, you spoke words
that swooped lazily across the sky
caught low in my backyard.
I asked what you had said,
and you told me you had made a poem
about the playful sweep of a brown bird
from walnut tree to roof.)
One time, you plucked carefully,
with the gentlest of moth feet,
and you sang a lullaby.
But, oh! so quickly, it was over,
and all that was left behind
was uncertainty,
the way that you can hear a windchime
in the distance, and stop, in silence,
to wait, unsure, for the sound to repeat itself.
I don't know why you decided,
after so long,
to lift the timber torso onto your lap
and start to play,
with your big, calloused hands-
the big-knuckled, square hands of a
hardworking man.
Your square fingertips fumbled the strings
and you bent your silver-fox head forward
and started to whistle- breathily-
the tune of a sad and haunting song.
And then you started to sing.
And then it was one song after the other,
and, soon, I sang along with you,
and, after all these years, it was a communion,
it was the blameless coming together
we had never expected to have.
I didn't want it to stop.
It was like when you find a white wallaby
grazing in your backyard by the sea, on an island,
in the dark, and you stand, frozen,
your bare feet on buffalo grass already icy with frost,
and you hold your breath,
not wanting to startle the creature-
alert, and white as a bowl of milk in the night,
and poised, ready to halt, to look in your direction
and spring away, barely ruffling the leaf litter
like one of those fleeting things
that you know may never happen again,
but that remain in your memory,
glowing and milk-white.


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alchemy—a formula thought to be able to turn base metals into gold or silver. The search for such a formula was certainly a part of the 17th century in all levels of society.
Madame Catherine Voisin was burned alive at the stake for being a witch, but it was possibly Gold Fever that killed her.
Denis Poculot, Sieur de Blessis (sometimes spelled Belsize), is reputed to have been her lover. Whatever their relationship, there was a certainly a significant affiliation between them. He foolishly made the claim to have succeeded in making lead into gold, and was thus more or less held prisoner in the château de Fontenay-en-Brie by the bankrupt Roger de Pardaillan, Marquis de Termes, in an attempt to get Blessis to reveal his secret. (Or, at the least, produce counterfeit money.)
It's likely that La Voisin, who believed in alchemy, invested in Blessis's work. Indignant over his capture, she went to Saint-German-en-Laye to try to put a plea before the King for Blessis's release—and thus began her downfall. (Her mentally unstable daughter claimed she intended to poison the King there.) A few days later, March 12 of 1679, Voisin was arrested coming out of her neighbourhood church after mass.
As to his prisoner, Denis Poculot, Sieur de Blessis, it appears that he was sent to the galleys. He was known for a trick in which mirrors were manipulated in such a way that whoever looked at them died.
And all for the love of gold.
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