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Sunday, February 29, 2004
Back in the mists of time I opposed Clinton's 1994 intervention to prop up Aristide. This got me into several very unpleasant arguments. I don't clearly remember precisely what I was thinking back then, but it had something to do with respect for the sovereignty of other peoples. My thought was that it wasn't our place to step into disputes between Haitians.
I still basically agree with that, although I think a case can be made for intervention when there's evidence of mass atrocities.
By stepping in back in 1994, Clinton hoped to endorse the principle of democratic legitimacy. The idea wasn't that Aristide was our boy, but that Aristide had been duly elected. So we were supposedly there to support the democratic process and were saying to the rebels that if they wanted reform they would have to work the process.
The problem with that message is that it gets lost unless you follow it up. We didn't do anything when Aristide began consolidating his support and rigging elections. However legitimate Aristide was in 1994, that legitimacy was lost long ago. And it could be argued that part of the reason that he managed to stay in power so long is that the actions of the United States created the impression that he could count on the backing of the region's main power.


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You take pleasure in your people, O God;
you adorn the humble with victory;
but victory comes not by winning wars
or rising in rebellion and sedition.
It comes when--out of the abundance
of the heart--the mouth speaks
in love, with joy and encouragement,
refreshing other hearts in Christ.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 122; 149; 100; 63
Ezra 4:7, 11-24
Philemon 1-25
Matt. 12:33-42
Selected Verses
Ps. 149:4
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory.
he adorns the humble with victory.
Ezra 4:19
"…So I made a decree, and someone searched and discovered that [Jerusalem] has risen against kings from long ago, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it. …" [From a letter written by Artaxerxes, king of Persia]
Philemon 7, 20
I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother. …Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ.
Matt. 12:34b
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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We have excerpted the chapter "Offering Realization: In the Presence of Pagmo Drupa" from The Supreme Siddhi of Mahamudra: Teachings, Poems, and Songs of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage here.
The Drukpa Kagyu lineage is renowned among the traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism for producing some of the greatest yogis from across the Himalayas. After spending many years in mountain retreats, these meditation masters displayed miraculous signs of spiritual accomplishment that have inspired generations of Buddhist practitioners. The teachings found here are sources of inspiration for any student wishing to genuinely connect with this tradition.


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The American mobile software company Seven is establishing a product development centre in Helsinki. The company's Helsinki office currently has about 40 employees but the number is expected to double soon, according to Robin Pulkkinen, managing director of Seven in Finland.
Seven's headquarters are located in Redwood, California, but the company prefers not to centralise its product development in the United States or China. Instead, Seven chose Helsinki and Tallinn as the locations for its new product development centres.
According to Pulkkinen, there is a shortage of labour in Silicon Valley, where the cost level is also higher than in Finland. Finland currently has an excellent availability of software engineers, following Nokia's decision to reduce the size of its workforce this year.
Seven established its operation in Finland in 2005 when it acquired the Finnish company Smartner Information Systems, which specialised in developing email software for mobile devices.
Source: IT-viikko


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Last month I wrote a post on the tension that sometimes arises between mission and more formal processes, like ordination, within a denomination. This month, I would like talk about another formal structure set out in Sovereign Grace's Book of Church Order, the judicial process. Making a connection between a formal judicial process and the mission of the church might at first seem tenuous. Even in a well establish church, a formal judicial process might seem to be another case of denominational overkill, let alone its benefit and necessity for a church plant. However, my position is that a formal judicial process is vital for preserving and protecting the purity of our doctrine, elderships, and members of local churches so that we might be best positioned to carry out our mission to proclaim and display the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world around us.
Accountability and Protection
Before discussing the various ways a judicial process preserves and protects local churches, it's worth noting that the judicial process is not solely punitive. The judicial process does provide accountability when an elder is disqualified or when a team of elders drifts from key doctrinal distinctives or core tenants of the faith. However, a judicial process also serves to promote unity, bring about reconciliation, give due process to an elder who is wrongly accused, and protect local church members from misapplied church discipline. It works to redemptively hold men and women accountable for their sins while also working to protect and exonerate those who are being unjustly treated. A formal judicial process provides a fair and clearly laid out process for walking through the inevitable challenges that arise in church life.
Here are three areas where a judicial process serves the local church
Purity of Our Doctrine
Doctrinal distinctives don't change overnight. The gospel isn't lost in a generation. But distinctives and core tenants of the faith can and will be lost in our local churches if we are not vigilant to preserve and protect them. Last month I wrote about how ordination seeks to preserve and protect the doctrine of the local church by carefully examining each elder prior to ordination. As helpful as this process it, it is insufficient to assure long-term doctrinal fidelity. It is possible for an elder or a whole team of elders to, over time, shift doctrinally. In order to protect the doctrinal purity of our local churches we must a formal process in place that is able to hold elderships and local churches accountable when they drift doctrinally.
We can plant and replant churches, build relationships, serve our communities, and study our culture, but if our message is compromised due to doctrinal drift, in the end what will we have to offer those we are reaching? Even if we are sound doctrinally today, what steps are we taking to make sure that is true 25, 50, 100 years from now? Who will be there when we are tempted to drift to call us back, hold us accountable? What structure is in place to both protect and preserve the glorious truths of the gospel we are laboring to proclaim in our churches and to the world?
Purity of Our Elderships
The character and reputation of elders are what give them credibility to minister within the church, and are the measuring stick of how many outside the church view what it is to be a Christian. Few things hurt local churches and the reputation of Christ more than the disqualification of an elder. The pain of an elder failing publicly is only worsened when this failure is insufficiently addressed or addressed in a sloppy manner.
It is important to note that the mishandling of situations like this is not limited to insufficient consequences for an elder that has failed morally. It can also be the mishandling of an elder that in the end is proven innocent. Once the character and reputation of an elder are called into a question, whether guilty or innocent, his ability to lead and minister are significantly diminished, if not lost. Having a judicial process that rightly applies 1 Timothy 5:19-22 is vital to carefully examining and disciplining an elder. It is vital that charges against an elder are handled in such a way that the guilty elder is appropriately held accountable, and the innocent elder's reputation is preserved, allowing him to continue minister to those within and without the local church without a cloud of suspicion.
I must add, at this point, that relationships are not a substitute for a formal process. When things are going well, it's hard to imagine how difficult and divisive sin can be. Relationships among elders on a team and with other elders in a region are vital, and something we treasure at my local church and within our region in SGC. Sadly, the failure of an elder is often accompanied by significant relational strain among fellow elders. If relationship is your sole strategy for working through situations like these, you will find that it is insufficient to bear the weight of the conflict at hand. It is at times like these that a formal process, carried out fairly and impartially, is a gift meant, not to replace relationship but to preserve it.
Purity of Our Local Churches
The failure of elders is a public reproach upon the gospel that rightfully receives attention from the world. However, it is easy to forget that every single day we represent Christ to the world around us. If it is true that elders are a measuring stick of what it means to be a Christian, it is also true that the lives of members in our local churches are also a measuring stick. Every single day we claim Christ and live out our lives before a watching world.
If Christians live in open sin before the world they too bring reproach upon the gospel. It leads a dying world to question what hope is there in the gospel when those who profess to believe it live no differently than they do. Paul in 1 Corinthians is concerned with this exact thing. There was a man among the Corinthians who was living in open, unrepentant sin. Paul strongly admonishes the church to deal directly with this issue for the sake of the man and for the sake of gospel witness to the world. If a church fails to discipline someone who is openly and unrepentantly sinning, we as a denomination have a responsibility to hold that eldership and church responsible for their actions.
On the flip side of this, it is possible for elders to misapply church discipline.
They may, in an effort to work for the purity of the church, unfairly handle the discipline of one of their members, failing to follow a due process meant to care for this member in a redemptive manner. And frankly, due to their own sin, they may unjustly exclude someone from the church who is either innocent or who is better served through a less severe measure of discipline. Members of our churches need to know that there is recourse they can take to challenge the misapplication of church discipline. Our BCO sets out a process whereby they can contact elders outside their local church and appeal the church discipline process.
Church life is inevitably messy. Christ's church is a redeemed church, but it is also a church growing to be more and more like Christ. Sin still dwells within in us. In order for us to live in unity with one another and proclaim and display Christ to the world in a worthy manner, we must work to preserve and protect the purity of our doctrine, purity of our elderships, and purity of our local churches. In order to do this we must proactively create processes that will serve us well for the long-term as well as during moments of crisis. Doing so will more readily ensure that our mission to make and mature disciples of Jesus Christ will remain vital and strong for years to come.


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[ This post can also be found on my web page. ]
The reference that I keep handy is:
The LaTeX Companion, Second Edition by Mittelbach and Goosens
That reference, often called TLC2, is a standard one. You really can't
go wrong with it. It's dense, includes lots of examples, and is pretty
easy to use. One other book that came in handy when I started drawing
graphics in LaTeX is:
The LaTeX Graphics Companion by Goosens, Rahtz, and Mittelbach
That introduced me to things like picture environments and PSTricks. I
use PSTricks a lot now, and the book really is only meant to be an
introduction (albeit a nice one) to PSTricks as well as other competing
(and complementary) tools. Now I typically use the PSTricks
documentation on the PSTricks home page at TUG (you can google for
"PStricks" to find the web page).
A nice small reference to LaTeX is:
LaTeX: A Document Preparation System by Lamport
A very complete but also intimidating reference for TeX is:
The TeXbook by Knuth
Three other notable and popular books on TeX (that are far less
intimidating) are:
You can still get that last book in print from some sources that print
- TeX for the Impatient by Abrahams, Berry, and Hargreaves
- A Beginner's Book of TeX by Seroul and Levy
- TeX by Topic: A TeXnician's Reference by Eijkhout
out of print books (lulu.com), but I believe it has been released for free as a PDF as well. Yes, see:
for the free download link (released under GNU FDL).
[ If you really don't want to get into the nitty gritty details, I would
recommend sticking to the LaTeX references. ]
Otherwise, I've just done a lot of learning by doing. It helped to
learn about typesetting in general. A good reference for both things is
the documentation that comes with the memoir package:
That documentation link (memman.pdf) is an excellent introduction to all
- Package: http://ctan.org/pkg/memoir
- Documentation: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf
of the basic typographical elements of a book... and memoir is a nice
LaTeX package in general.
After that, see comp.text.tex (available as a Google group) which is
known simply as "CTT" to insiders...
LaTeX and TeX experts watch that group and will answer your questions
about how to do things. You can also search the group for some previous
answers to similar questions. You can also see announcements of new
versions of packages that do cool things. It's a great resource.
Finally, seeing the LaTeX 2e source (implemented in TeX) can be helpful
to understand exactly what goes on when you do things like a \section.
"source2e.pdf" is included with the LaTeX distribution. You can also
view it on-line here:
That includes all of the TeX implementations for the LaTeX macros and
gives you some idea of what goes on when you build a LaTeX document.
Off the top of my head, that's all I can think of. Just go into things
thinking that LaTeX probably *CAN* do whatever you want it to (including
solving and plotting differential equations, which pure LaTeX (as
opposed to PDFLaTeX) can do). Like a sculptor, you just have to figure
out what to chip away to get it to do it. Keep trying things until
something is qualitatively similar to what you want, and then tune
(perhaps with the help of CTT) after that. Eventually you'll come up
with better and better implementations. If you come up with something
especially novel, post it on-line. In fact, contributing to CTAN
directly is usually recommended.
Another thing that helps me is to remember that TeX is really is just a
giant machine that tokenizes, parses, and expands. It's not a
"programming language" so much as it is a text "filter" in that a single
run of LaTeX doesn't necessarily result in what you want. Keeping this
in the back of my head helps me anticipate the problems I might have
with certain approaches, and it further helps me figure out how to
approach LaTeX in order to succeed.


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Not so fast. Pitching a complete game is correlated with a low ERA (if batters were hitting you, you'd be taken out for a relief pitcher). This logic is circular: you are taking the best pitchers to prove that pitchers are great. These best pitchers are not representative of all pitchers.
Unfortunately, this statistical mistake is not uncommon in science, and a couple of recent papers have addressed this "voodoo" or "double dipping".
The Neuroskeptic just pointed out a particularly egregious case of a paper advocating double dipping as a way of getting better results from clinical drug trials. Briefly, their method is to run clinical trials at many centers, and then discount the centers that show a strong placebo effect. As the effect of any drug is measured by the amount of benefit that participants in the drug condition get over the participants in the placebo condition, centers with a strong placebo effect have a weaker drug effect.
Not all placebos are created equal, and not all types of patients respond to placebos in the same way. For example, severely depressed people have very little placebo effect in antidepressant trials, so antidepressants only have a strong effect in this population.
There have been many recent, hard-hitting criticisms of several practices of big pharma, and they have been known to cherry pick studies for publication. Although only 50% of government-funded clinical drug trials find that a particular drug works, over 85% of industry-funded studies do.


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Digging into some of my youtube favourites for this week's list. Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
I have become particularly fond of listening to this on long-ish highway drives between Montreal and Ottawa. I don't know why.
A Fine Frenzy - Sleepwalking
This is a great track, but the video is what really makes it. Stop motion scissors!
The Leisure Society - Save It For Someone Who Cares
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Our Younger Noise
We saw this band at SXSW in a near-empty bar a few hours before Moby performed a DJ Set. They were great, and they gave us stickers. Double thumbs up!
Miniature Tigers - Bullfighter Jacket
Telekenesis - Dirty Thing
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by: Dana Huffman
When I was a young woman, I spent two years living and working overseas. Wanting to make the most of my experience, I did as much traveling, sight seeing and souvenir collecting as I could. Everything was fine until I returned home to the states and was faced with my bill. A Company named VISA had kept careful records of all I owed, and when I looked at my debt, I was overwhelmed. I felt awful. I felt ashamed. For days I walked around depressed. How would I ever work off that debt with my low paying job? I didn't even have enough money to buy a car. My financial future was not bright.
One night, when I was talking with my fiancé on the phone, I told him everything. He listened quietly to the confession of my heavy heart. When I finished telling him about my situation he didn't give me a lecture. He didn't say, "I'm sure in time you'll be able to work off your debt." And he didn't say "I don't think I want a relationship with a person like you." Do you know what he said? He said, "Send me the bill."
My mouth dropped open in shock. First, I had no idea that my fiancé had such a large bank account. Second, I was stunned by the great gift he was offering me. Shouldn't "I" have had to pay for what "I" did? I was about to say, "I can't let you do that" when my fiancé spoke again. "We are going to be joined in a relationship together. We don't want to be carrying that debt around. Just send me the bill. I'll pay it."
You know what I did? I sent him the bill. And even though my husband never mentioned it again, I have never forgotten that event or the relief and freedom I felt because of it.
The cross of Jesus Christ is all about the payment of a debt. You and I walk through this life accumulating a debt of sin that we cannot possibly pay, no matter how hard we try or how long we work. We may feel overwhelmed and depressed by it all, but when we pour out our hearts to God and confess our sins to Him He says, "Send me the bill." In Jesus Christ's death on the cross that bill is "paid in full" and we enter into a life long love relationship with One who wants us to experience the awesome power of debt-free living. Jesus, your bridegroom, is waiting. Go ahead. Send Him your bill.
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Our pastor shared with the church weeks ago that his family was in the process of adopting a baby. It seems that each week he shares a few more details. It seems that the mother they are matched with was having pre-term labor last weekend and he announced on facebook today that the baby was born. I believe the mother was 33-34 weeks.
The babe is 16 inches and 3lb 12.5 oz., but not on any machines. I don't know any other details, but I am praying for this preemie and the mother whose heart is probably breaking right now.


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The other was 'Moving to Oregon' by James Townsend (2017) which was subtitled 'A bipolar journey'. In that case, the book started with what seemed to be some sort of episodic structure that might have enabled the reader to follow the story in a structured way, but the narrator quickly hijacked it and abruptly reverted to what he thought were the origins of his illness in his childhood, much in the same way that someone with a mental illness might approach the same task with their psychiatrist. It demonstrated a lack of sympathy for the reader, and a troubling lack of insight into the nature of his own illness. I gave up and put the book down.
In Llera's case, the narrative sets out with an odd little introduction from an "external regulator" of the narrative of Michaela Rose, the protagonist. This self-conscious and rather redundant technical device has been inserted by the author into the narrative because she wants it to distance the reader from the focalising mechanism of the character Michaela as she goes about her daily life with her illness, a kind of anxiety that intrudes on her thought processes at inopportune times and makes living a "normal" life difficult. The narrator uses italics from time to time to show the reader how these thoughts appear, but it's not always clear what are extraneous thoughts and if what you are reading is really what Michaela is thinking.
Her life as a dental student at a tertiary institution is complicated when she decides one day in a fit of optimism to go to work for an established dentist, who operates a secondary business as a supplier of dental implants to local dental clinics in Los Angeles. Originally, Michaela had imagined shadowing Dr Vasquez during appointments with patients to learn more about the craft of dentistry but he has an idea to use her as a salesperson. Michaela is initially teamed up with Heath, a loud and pushy salesman who has a taste for playing heavy metal music in his car. She survives a few trips with Heath but in the end the stresses of the work wear down her reserves of strength and she quits the job. In the meantime she takes up acting classes with a woman named Lexine, who she had met one day at the dentist's clinic.
She also quits seeing her psychiatrist, who had prescribed medication that Michaela found had made her aggressive. She decides to stop taking the pills and soon she decides to stop seeing the doctor. Her subsequent story makes it clear that she was acting precipitously on both counts.
The narrative chugs along contentedly if a little jumpily – you are sometimes left a little confused as to who is speaking, for example – but it really comes apart when Michaela starts flirting with men. Her coquettish behaviour bodes ill for all concerned, especially for Kenneth, a college friend Micahela helps to teach to drive a car. When Michaela starts flirting with a young man she meets when she is driving by herself to a salsa dancing class, things really start going off the rails in terms of narrative quality and the character of Michaela loses the ability to command the reader's sympathy.
Michaela's complete lack of insight into her own motivations with respect to love interests like Raphael queasily mirrors an equally devastating lack of insight into the nature of her own illness. She thinks that she can tough it out alone, like she thinks that she can get away with degrading personal relationships.
Reading about mental illness has this danger: you never know at the outset if the person writing the story has the insight required to do it justice. You soon find out though. Back in July last year, I reviewed a non-fiction book by a Californian teacher, Mark Lukach, 'My Lovely Wife', which chronicled a family's journey through mental illness when his wife started to experience psychosis. The difference between his book and the other two named in this review is that he had the necessary insight to know what was real and what was the product of the illness. Llera does not possess this insight, and I suspect that Townsend does not either.
Llera's book is also riddled with typographical errors, and would have benefited from proper proofing. There are a lot of problems like using "mirky" for "murky", "downs" for "dons", and "arms chairs" for "armchairs". I suspect that there was very little editing done on the book and that, like other aspects of her life, Llera just went it alone.


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Since the dawn of the millennium, SCarowinds has been the annual Halloween event at Carowinds park, which is carefully cut right in half by the sharp blade that is the North & South Carolina state line. As the park claims, it's "Where the SCarolinas Come Together". While not Cedar Fair's flagship haunt, SCarowinds still delivers some quality scares and entertainment that tens of thousands of regional fright seekers flock to each fall.
SCarowinds is a separately-ticketed event that runs eighteen select nights between September 15, 2017 and October 29, 2017, including every Friday, Saturday, Sunday but not including Halloween night. In its 18th year, SCarowinds features six different haunted houses, six scare zones, three shows as well as most of your favorite Carowinds attractions, including Intimidator, Afterburn, and the Golden Ticket-winning Fury 325. This year, SCarowinds is featuring a new maze called Depths of Darkness that replaces Defex which debuted in 2010.
Journey deep into the dark mind of the infamous State Line Slasher. Darkness will consume your every step as you uncover the sick secrets that lie in wait.
This is the newest maze at SCarowinds, and I must admit I was pretty excited to see what was going to replace Defex, a favorite of mine from years past. The story set us up as visitors to Blackthorne Research Facility where the State Line Slasher was supposedly taken after he was captured.
It's an interesting premise that we are "entering his mind" as we traverse through this abandoned warehouse he once used to prey on his victims. A couple performers in the queue helped to sell this even more including a cop and a news reporter who was briefing guests while they waited.
Upon entering the queue, we are greeted by a large warehouse with a very unique industrial facade attached to the front. TVs outside played news reports warning of the State Line Slasher. A nearby police car with flashing lights creates a more believable scenario as it makes you feel like you're actually there.
However when we go inside the haunt things quickly go downhill. The first couple scenes seemed to start off strong, but shortly thereafter it seemed like scene after scene was just dark, black hallways. In its defense, we are in the Depths of Darkness afterall, so maybe that is what they were going for. There were a couple notable and memorable scenes including an exterior of what appeared to be the slasher's childhood home that contained a cool projection effect. But despite those shining moments, overall it just felt like they ran out of money and were forced to create large patches of dark areas.
Some of the performers in here were clearly very into their roles, but for the majority they were very lackluster in their tactics. Throughout the maze there were several actor scares as well as prop scares that we obviously missed so that was a bit of a disappointment.
We had a required green screen photo-op prior to entering the queue line so I had assumed there would be some cool moment in the house where we would see our faces on a wall or TV, but sadly we didn't, although there was one scene where I think that could have happened, but perhaps it just wasn't working properly during our experience.
The final few scenes in the maze had some unique effects with some solid scares, so at least I can say it finished with a bang.
Is this year's crop too far gone to save? Either way, it's going to be a very Dark Harvest.
In its second year, Dark Harvest was definitely a maze I was excited to check out because I am a big fan of the scarecrow/farm haunt genre. This almost seems like a sequel to their long-running "Cornstalkers" maze, but here we are taken further into the story and into an actual barn atmosphere.
I really didn't feel like there was a plot to this story other than the scarecrows that guard over the area's cornfields grow darker and more evil as each year local construction puts a strain on the crop. Regardless, scarecrows and barns are enough to get me through the door.
The long entrance to this haunt really builds up your suspense as you pass humorous signs advertising local items for
sale like "Yeller Skwash" and "Farm Fresh Butt Nuggets". It almost seems out of place but deep down you know that somewhere up ahead, something isn't quite right.
After turning a corner, up ahead in the distance was a massive barn facade, complete with bales of hay, farm equipment, and stacks of corn left and right. Some of the lighting could have been better as there were areas where I was completely blinded by the lights, but I was able to see past that.
Entering the barn, we weave in and out of various farm vignettes including animal pens, corn storage, and even a scene with a boat and rotting catfish strung up all around. For the majority of the experience however, it seemed like turn after turn of just walls of corn as it was some sort of filler between scenes. At the end of the day, the other scenery was enough to forget about all the lulls in between.
The scares in Dark Harvest were lacking and unfortunately is the reason it brought the score down. There were moments of non-scarecrow characters that would try to drag on these awkward improv conversations with you. At first I figured it may have been a distraction from a scare but that wasn't the case.
As stated before there were several areas where you are just walking through walls and walls of dried cornstalks, but never did I encounter a scare that blended into this background. At one point there was a chainlink fence lined with corn and it suddenly tilted towards me because a scareactor either bumped into it or intentionally shook it, but that was probably the most startling event in the whole maze.
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Urgent Scare is a really fun take on the often overdone hospital and asylum haunted attraction genre. Instead of being trapped in an ordinary hospital run by a madman, we are clearly volunteering to be here so they can properly cure us of our ailments through scare tactics.
Throughout the maze this was clear as we started by being admitted by an evil nurse and ended by passing through a crematorium where those that were less fortunate ended up.
Long-time SCarowinds patrons will quickly realize that this maze has been repurposed for a number of years which originally began as an asylum. At the front I was greeted with a massive facade of the Taft Memorial hospital, but instead of entering through the front doors, I was led around the side of the building and into a rear door.
Throughout the maze, I passed through several typical rooms one would find in a hospital such as an admitting room, patient rooms, common areas, and a morgue. The scenery wasn't the best I'd seen but it still read as a hospital.
Two of the most memorable scenes included a room with many mirrors which was totally disorienting and the final scene in the crematorium which had a cool video effect in one of the ovens.
I felt like the scareactors in this maze were really on point during my trip through. High-energy and really in-character, they were really firing on all cylinders.
The mirror room, with several mannequins scattered around coupled with strobe lights really made for a very disorienting scene where the performers would seemingly come to life from nowhere.
I must admit that since this maze has been here a while I thought it would be stale, but they really proved me wrong and it turned out to be a hit from start to finish.
Think you can survive this grueling trip through the halls of E. Pat Hall High? Maybe you should just stick with homeschool.
Zombie High is such a fresh idea and I was immediately excited to see what was on the syllabus for this maze. The chance to step back in time and walk through the walls of a high school infested by zombie jocks and prom queens? Let's go!
Approaching the school I passed by an empty dilapidated school bus graffiti-ed with the words "zombie high school" down the side. The grand facade of the school greeted us with its aging brick facade and boarded windows.
Once inside, I found myself passing through several typical school rooms from the library to the science lab and even into the cafeteria where they were serving up the freshest cuts of freshmen. The most unique thing about this maze is the central locker-lined hallway that you would pass through each time you went through a couple classrooms. It provided a feeling of familiarity but at the same time left me feeling confused as to where I was.
Finally, the last scene dumped us right into the gymnasium during the middle of the school dance. The way this was set up made it seem more grand than it probably actually was. It turned out to be a great finale scene for such an interesting theme.
The school provided a means for many of the typical characters one would find in an 80's high school. However most of the scares were just standard boo scares as people would pop out behind something like the nerds behind the library books or the crazed cafeteria lady who tried to force feed you the daily slop, no doubt made from the stoners in study hall.
I was hoping to see some interesting scares with the lockers in the hallway areas but it was just some kids banging on things. There were a few drop panels which provided for some decent startles. Overall, there was nothing really groundbreaking but it didn't take away from the uniqueness of this maze.
Diseased livestock and rancid meat are the least of your worries. You'll see first-hand how they put the "Magic in the Meat."
The backstory for this maze is very unique for a slaughterhouse-type maze. The company is Red Ribbon Meats, and their gimmick is they sell meat made from the "red ribbons" of the county fairs, but of course mixed with meat from neglected citizens of society.
As guests, you are basically entering a tour of the historic meat factory, beware however, as you may end up at the wrong end of the meat grinder!
From the entrance and queue you'll find yourself walking through cattle gates until you see the glowing letters on the roof of the factory that read "RED RIBBON MEATS" until occasionally certain letters flicker off leaving "DIE" for a brief second.
Entering the factory we start in a simple butcher shop storefront and then quickly move through a freezer and into the bowels of the facility. The scenes were really well done with some great scenic paint treatments and interesting use of materials.
Nearing the end of the maze we encountered the packing area complete with sides of meat moving along a hanging conveyor then being boxed up and sent up another ramped conveyor. The kinetic motion of the scenes made for some great visual distraction as the performers would hit you with a scare.
A slaughterhouse theme is somewhat of an easy transition to create scares and this maze was no exception. There were guys coming from left and right with cleavers and cutting tools.
After we passed the butcher area where a few guys were cutting up some fresh meat at a long table, we came to the area where the captured were kept in cages, waiting their turn to become part of someone's next meal.
Further along we encountered a scene where a victim was strapped to a table and a large saw blade was inching towards them ready to split them in two. Then another butcher bursts out from the other side catching us off guard. In the finale we reached the smokehouse where the smell of burning wood was evident and we were chased out by a butcher with a chainsaw.
Determined to make the scariest movie of all time, Von Hellsburg is sending out a casting call for some new blood to make their "Silver Scream" debut. Will you make the cut? Join us in this "sinematic" tour, and see the ultimate Director's Cut!
Von Hellsburg is a director that never made it to the Hollywood elite, and we are invited to tour his soundstages to see if we are fit for his latest production. This is another interesting idea for a maze and lends itself well to many different types of scenery and ideas since we are walking "through the movies".
Again, the scenic in this maze was all over the place due in part by the fact that we visit several different "sound stages" during different phases of film production. Walking in, we encountered hanging banners with the vintage film countdown numbers on them. We immediately know that our casting call starts in 3…2…1…I thought this was a fun idea.
As we traverse through the studios, we encounter many different film genres, some with very detailed sets. From an ancient Egyptian tomb to the laboratory of a mad scientist developing the latest monster, some of them were really well done, though due to the age of this maze, you could tell they were dated.
One scene with vampires in particular was dimly lit with many candles and was one of my favorites in the house. The maze wraps with a trip through the editing rooms where stacks of equipment and film reels provide a busy backdrop.
Other than the very beginning of the maze, this one was sorely lacking in the scare department. We start out by taking a group pic in front of a green screen (like I had mentioned earlier about Depths of Darkness). However this time, once they took our photo we got a loud blast of air from behind when they snapped it. This caught us off guard and was a good little scare to get things going.
However, the further we got into the maze, it just seemed like the performers were not as into it as I'd hoped. Nothing that creative really stood out in my mind, and the "scariest" part of this maze had to be the Dracula scene that I mentioned above. There were several roaming vampires mixed in with mannequins so it was difficult to tell who was real.
It was surprising to me that there were as many scare zones as mazes, but since Carowinds isn't exactly a small park, it worked out well as things felt well spaced out but not too much so. Overall the scare zones were a bit lacking as the performers didn't seem like they were really into it. I can't say this for all of them, as there were a few that were memorable. Keep in mind that some of these scare zones have been in the park for a few years though they have moved around to different areas. Below are the 6 themed areas that I encountered as I roamed through SCarowinds:
There's an old English folklore that says ghosts only appear in places that have known either great happiness or great misery, and Fleet Street has certainly experienced both.
Enter the world of Jack the Ripper and Sweeney Todd as you walk through 19th century London. The sets in this scare zone were very impressive as we encountered several British facades as well as a scaled down version of Elizabeth Tower, the famed architectural icon that is home to Big Ben.
Characters were dressed to the nines in typical Dickens-era garb and would emerge out of the thick London fog to get scares all around. I didn't get to experience this scare zone in the dark, but even during the light of day, it was a must see.
Kids can be so mean! The playground is supposed to be a place of joy and laughter, but not this one. You can try to play nice or play dead, but neither is going to help you escape.
This playground was built on top of a toxic dump so none of the kids you will encounter here are what you might call, normal. There are small vignettes set up in and around the old County Fair section of the park where all the carnival games are, so it seems to fit pretty well thematically.
The scares and characters seemed to be lacking a little bit in here though. What I did encounter was more creepy staring and smiling than the boo scares that one would normally expect, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. They did cast smaller people in these roles so they appeared to be more kid-like which offers more believability.
A presence pulsates through the trees – a presence of spirits and mischievous creatures. If you're visiting this cemetery, you're looking for trouble. Lucky for you, you won't have to look long.
I thought I completely missed this scare zone until I looked back after I left and realized where it was. Located in the front of the park near the Skeleton Crew show, it just gets lost in the mix in my opinion. When the show is happening, there are so many people crowded around that you really can't see any of the sets or vignettes of this zone.
When there is no show, what props there are seems very awkwardly placed around the out-of-place stage rigging for the Skeleton Crew show. I think it would have been more well suited in another area of the park. This was more like "Miss" Acres.
Ladies and Gents, gather around. There's a new type of fear that's here to be found. Watch carefully and be alert, because you never know when we might go berserk.
Psycho Circus, I felt, didn't quite live up to its potential in the new County Fair area of the park that opened this year. Festive string lighting was changed out to blood red and small props and set pieces were scattered amongst the planter beds.
Some of the performers were good however. One in particular wheels around an ice cream cart, but what he is selling is far from a refreshing treat. There were also some interesting photo-ops and freakshow-like characters. Overall I feel like this zone could have used more…perhaps some very small tents to walk through with performances.
You'll soon find evil lurking around every spooky, malicious turn. Your favorite childhood characters will never be the same. No need to skip ahead, this fairy tale has a grim ending.
Scary Tales was in a very strange area in which had I not been paying attention, I would have walked right around it because it was situated in a bypass of the normal guest path. However it was flanked on both ends by tall gates and columns so once I realized that, I walked right in.
We encountered small vignettes of the most notable childrens tales from the Three Little Pigs to Red Riding Hood. One shelter housed a large sleeping troll-like creature. There was a crowd gathered around as though he would wake up, but he never did while I was there.
These are vampires, and they look thirsty – thirsty for blood. There's no sense in trying to escape. You're in the wrong place, at the worst possible time…If only there was a way out…
This zone is a few years old and has moved through different areas of the park, but this year it's in the Thrill Zone area and that is very fitting. Blood Yard has a cool junkyard vibe to it with its brightly graffitied shipping containers, chain link fences, and oil drums.
The star of this show has to be the Blood Drums. Performing on top of a series of shipping containers, these high-energy performers are creating what I like to call "scrap music" in which they take ordinary junkyard objects and play some really cool beats. It is really the heartbeat of this scare zone and if you pay too much attention to the music, there just may be some creature lurking right behind you when you least expect. Blood Yard is the best scare zone in the park by far.
I must admit that I haven't been to SCarowinds all that much in its 18 year run. This was probably my third or fourth visit but I think it was probably my favorite thus far. Being part of the Halloween attraction design business, you could say I'm a bit jaded due to seeing some pretty incredible events from Halloween Horror Nights to very impressive independent haunts.
However, seeing a big Halloween event at my local park is always a fun night out, and since I'm a Gold passholder, I will probably go back multiple times to really take it all in. At the end of the day, while SCarowinds doesn't represent the absolute best in spooky entertainment, it still delivers quality on a level that is far and above even some other large theme park events that shall not be named here. If you find yourself around Charlotte this October, be sure to go check it out!
Venue: Carowinds
Location: Charlotte, NC
Number of Haunts: 6
Dates: Select Nights September 15th – October 29, 2017
Hours: 7:00PM – 12AM or 1AM depending on the night.
Cost: As low as $36 or free with your Gold or Platinum Season Pass.


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January 26-27, 2001 Little Red Hen, Seattle,WA
Whew...Friday was a birthday blowout (almost too much fun). Saturday our buddy Lee Anderson showed up livened things up as usual.
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Judy's daughter Kim turned 21 and got the ball rolling.
Matching shirts, matching eyes and matching mouths.
This moe-lestation is indicative of Friday night.
Here's Jerry trying to act dignified (see Dec.1-2, 2000).
Ted sings a love song to Bev..."I Like My Women on the Trashy Side".
Tommy Westley's playing his famous "mystery" chord.
I hope these dancers took their dramamine.
Nice hat Prez...did it feel like you still had it on the next morning?
Ed lended us a hand Friday night.
Here's dancers gettin' down...and up!
Lee Anderson always raises the bar a little.


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This week On The Same Page has the honor of interviewing James Klingman, economic empowerment activist, renown speaker, and author. He is the author of Empowerment or Economic Enslavement, The Million Man March, Blackonomics, and Fathers and Daughters. On The Same Page will be discussing his book, Fathers and Daughters.
M.T.: What was the inspiration for you book, Fathers and Daughters?
J.K.: Simply put - my daughter, and the love I have for her. She is my first and only child. I was 49 when she was born. I have always wanted a little girl, and when she came -- even before she came, I started writing a journal that she could have in her later years. When she turned three, I gave her that journal and then decided to write the book -- again to leave something behind for her.
J.K.: I put out a call for photos from my friends. My original plan was to do a cocktail table book, in full color, with about thirty photos. I soon found that I could not afford to do it that way and opted for a few Black and white photos. I still have the other photos and may do an expanded version of Fathers and Daughters one day. All of the photos are those of friends and their daughters.
J.K.: No, I did not interview other fathers. I remembered anecdotal comments made by fathers, especially concerning what will happen when my daughter grows up. Of course, I have seen several father-daughter relationships as well. The "Giving Her Away" essay was inspired by a wedding I attended of a friend's daughter.
J.K.: My father hardly ever "let his guard down" in front of us as children. He always worked, came home, and went back the next day. He hardly ever shared in our school work or activities. He had to take care of the family and that was that. However, I know he and my sister were close, even though not physically close. There was indeed a bond between them.
Men of older generations, especially Black men were brought up to be that way. That may be why we saw (and still see) so many of our women - and men - acting the way we do. We missed out on that emotional bond that should take place between parent and child. We, as parents today, must change that. We had four boys and one girl in my family and my father, and others like him, outwardly encouraged the boys to "be men" but inwardly cherished and protected their "little girls."
J.K.: The role of a Black father for his daughter is complex but the primary roles, in my opinion, are guiding her spiritually, instilling in her
self-confidence and self-respect, and letting her know that she is very very special, so that she will never allow anyone to treat her differently and she will not accept less than what she deserves. That is not to say that we should spoil our daughters and make them think they are better than anyone else.
We should always keep our daughters grounded. The uniqueness of this role is found in the fact that only fathers can bring certain things to the party, so to speak, just as only mothers can do likewise. Of course fathers and mothers can do the same basic things, but they cannot provide the same things psychologically. That's why God set up marriage the way He did. Thus, the unique role of a father is found in the "First Kiss" essay.
J.K.: "Protecting Her" came from my thoughts around my daughters growing up and spending more time away from us - out of our sight. It also sprang from the news and what we see occurring almost on a daily basis in this country. Men - and women - doing insane things to children. What it boils down to is the fact that we cannot watch them 24/7 so we must trust in God to protect them and teach them that He will do just that.
J.K.: There have always been books on mothers and sons, fathers and sons, and even mothers and sons, but not too much is written on fathers and daughters, especially Black fathers and daughters. It is a relationship that should be treasured, nurtured, and held in high esteem in the public eye, not just in our homes. Men must not be ashamed of being perceived as something less than macho just because we really love our daughters and are unafraid to show that love in public.
Fathers hold up their sons and show everyone how strapping he is and brag about what he will be when grows up and get all into the sports thing with him. I take my daughter with me where ever I go and proudly demonstrate my pride and affection for her. This book has already inspired an outward display of love between fathers and daughters in Cincinnati.
Last year, based on this book, a "Father and Daughter Night Out" was created, which inspired many to come out and share their feelings and pride for their fathers and daughters. Some of the poems and essays were read and interpreted through dance and music, testimonials were given by fathers about their little girls (although many were adults), and everyone shared a beautiful evening. I read a couple of my favorites with my daughter by my side on stage. It was wonderful. You should try it. We are planning to do every year.
Again, I did not interview women, but several women talked to me after they read the book, some whose father had died, some whose father abandoned them, and some who never knew their father at all. They were uplifted by the book and said even though they missed out on the relationship, the book made them feel good about their the father they never knew. One lady was afraid to read the book because she and her father were on bad terms. I told her to read it and call him. She said she would.
J.K.: I had written and published two other books, so this one was not too difficult. I bought a book on self-publishing and took it from there. I used my> web site and my national newspaper column to promote the books.
J.K.: My next book is called Blackonomics and should be released in March of this year. the other two are Faces in the Crowd - One in a Million, a book on the Million Man March, and Economic Empowerment or Economic Enslavement - We have a Choice.
J.K.: My work is centered on economic empowerment for African Americans. I practice it and promote it in just about everything I do. I think it is where we need to be as a people and must do everything we can to get our people to understand that and to do what it takes to move us in that direction. That's what Blackonomics is all about. I am available to speak at conferences and other events, and I am proud to be listed in the new Success Guide Millennium as a top speaker in the country.


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In June 2015, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, the poet and literature expert gathered with Keziah Jones and Qudus Àdérémi Onikeku for an amazing show. here is what i wrote at the time.
The more I go out, the more I find people who do. Who act. Who create. What I used to consider trivial, art, seem now to be more and more powerful in my eyes. Of course music has always been obvious to me as a tool for subversion and demands.
Today, I cannot but be impressed by what I see people creating in order to exist, to be. I was blessed to assist the Cultural Encyclopaedia Experience organized in Paris by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim featuring Qudus Àdérémi-Onikeku and Keziah Jonas. Blade, poet and performer, was part of the game too.
The quality of the discussion and music impressed me. I realized how close dance tradition can be around the world. Qudus' move were nothing else than what I would call Kasékò, traditional Guianese dance. Music goes across oceans.
But as usual, I'm not totally happy. There is a reason why people call me Grumpy Davon. On a practical note, I felt overwhelmed (in a very positive way) with the content of the event. Mostly because the pace at which important information was coming was sometimes to fast. Terms, references and authors was out of reach for most people and so the educational / scholar part of it felt missing to me. This is obviously not something that should be required from the organizers and I'm a strong advocate of the "I do what I what the way I what" philosophy for any black artist. We have been told what to do way to often. I'm just sharing my frustration as a member of the audience.
The other source of frustration may be in a scenario that I have scene way too often, especially when it comes to music. Black performers, white audience. It feels awkward to me. Especially as a black audience would have gained so much from this event. "It's Paris, man, people are white" seems like an obvious answer for some. Actually not so much. Go to some afrocentric events in Paris and you'll realized what a crowd there is. This dichotomy was something that I didn't realize until I started editing the photographs. Well that's life. You'll find more photos of the event on my Facebook page : Davon Henry Photography.


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It's that time of year again: Seasonal cheer and overall merriment of the office holiday party (followed by embarrassing stories over the proverbial water cooler the next day). Unless, that is, you work in Seattle. According to a survey by the staffing firm OfficeTeam, Seattle ranks seventh for the "least fun" company holiday parties among 27 major U.S. cities. Perhaps, tellingly, the city also places ninth for the "least extravagant" workplace fetes.
The holiday news for the Emerald City isn't all bah humbug, however. Open Table unveiled its 100 best restaurants for groups for 2017 just in time for holiday gatherings and several were in the 206 area code. Making the list were Elliott's Oyster House, The Metropolitan Grill, Palisade, Purple Café and Wine Bar, Salty's on Alki Beach and SkyCity Restaurant at the Space Needle (which is closed for renovations). Spokane, Washington made the list too with Clinkerdagger.
And if you need a little help getting into the holiday spirit, bring your group to downtown Seattle to view Sheraton Seattle's annual Gingerbread Village to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. This is the 25th year for the village, and this year it is being displayed across the street from the Sheraton at City Centre. The amazing creations will get even the grouchiest Grinch smiling.


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|St Margarets Church, Waddingworth
The church is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch and stands at the centre of old Lincolnshire. There is a 13th-century cross base within the churchyard. The west gable has a headstone which dates to the 1200s, this has been reused as a date stone in the rebuild in 1807. In 1546 Lord Mayor of London was Sir Henry Hubertson who was from Waddingworth. The Village is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as Wadingurde.
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Are you craving eggs and bacon? Or a vegetarian brunch? Don't worry, we've got you covered.
Note: This article was updated by a current expert in June, 2016. The review below was done a few years past, much has changed at Toast. Check it out for yourself!
When Toast on Market opened a few years ago, it was the buzzed-about eatery. I tried to eat there several times but was thwarted by the time constraints of my own job and its incompatible midday break schedule. Needless to say I was thrilled this morning when a rare break in my busy schedule allowed for brunch at the NuLu hotspot.
The Atmosphere at Toast
The outside of the building is unremarkable. Without an address and a sharp eye, it would be easy to pass it by. Metered street parking helps to locate the restaurant, but metered parking is also a drag, especially for the gentleman that was sitting beside me and my wife who had a traffic ticket and a wheel boot waiting for him.
After a short wait, my wife and I were seated at a two-person table. The tables in the restaurant are so close together that it feels like you're sitting at a grill table at a Japanese-style bistro. The restaurant was packed at 11 a.m., and the loud atmosphere is not conducive to meaningful conversation.
The Food at Toast
The coffee at Toast on Market tasted burnt and anemic. I salvaged one cup with plenty of cream and sugar, but I went water-only after that. My wife complained to me of the same problem, so I know I wasn't being overly critical. There is a huge selection of other drinks to choose from, but most are $5 and up, almost as much as many of the meals.
Food selections range from between $6 and $13. From the time we ordered to the time our food was served, approximately 25 minutes had passed. I ordered a French toast dish called "The King." It was a brioche filled with peanut butter and banana, lightly dusted with confectionary sugar, and served with a side of syrup and hash brown casserole. Upon first bite, the dish had a medicinal flavor much like a cough syrup. And while I waited for my taste buds to become acclimated to flavors I'd never experienced in a brioche dish, the taste never improved.
The hash brown casserole was dished-out with what had to be an ice cream scoop. It was cold and tasted of nothing in particular.
My wife chose to make her own three-egg omelet with spinach and white cheddar cheese. It was served with two pieces of toast and a cup of mixed fruit: apples, oranges, and grapes. The omelet arrived bare with no accouterment on top as might have been expected if ordering an omelet anywhere else on the planet. It was a flat yellow rectangle and boring to the eye. The filling as ordered was as bland as the outside of the dish. While the cheddar family of cheeses usually brings a little punch of maturity and nuttiness of taste, this cheddar was almost provolone in nature.
The fruit cup was just a fruit cup and nothing more. These superficial observations are included to emphasize just how ho-hum the sensory experience was from eye to mouth. I tasted a bit of apple, and even it was devoid of any kind of flavor.
The Overall Experience
My expectations of Toast on Market may have been too high based on the hype the restaurant normally gets around town. I found nothing special to recommend for others and can't imagine eating there again based on my first experience. The best way to review the restaurant may be to share a final anecdotal comment. My wife told me that I had to taste her toast. She slathered the shingle in strawberry jam and handed it my way. She gave me what had to be the driest piece of bread ever served in a restaurant setting.
It was like trying to eat an oversized communion wafer without the wine chaser. The only way I could get it down was to take a slip of water and allow the bread to saturate in my mouth before swallowing. Even the toast at Toast on Market wasn't good. However, the name of the eatery does carry a stern warning: toast is the most boring breakfast food I can think of, and the same can easily be said about Toast on Market.
Note: This article was updated by a current expert in June, 2016.


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This excerpt from Paul Lawrence Dunbar's The Seedling is dedicated to Herbert Martin, a teacher who embodies the essence of poetry.
The Seedling:
"Little folks, be like the seedling,
Always do the best you can;
Every child must share life's labor
Just as well as every man.
And the sun and showers will help you
Through the lonesome, struggling hours,
Till you raise to light and beauty
Virtue's fair, unfading flowers."
Friday, 27 July 2007
The Seedling
Posted by Sarah at Friday, July 27, 2007
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- Sarah Amick said...
Meme(s) are fun. They are really just a way to get to know one another on the same topic. This one, the one Literacy Teacher tagged you for, is about teaching. Look at each of the 10 points and then answer the way you feel. Then if you can find others to tag (I didn't tag anyone because I don't know anyone left!)then you put it in their comment section. It really is a fun way for all of us to get to know one another better. I look forward to reading your teaching meme!!!!!
- 30 July 2007 at 10:32
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There will be lengthy delays for commuters this evening after a police incident on the Riverside Expressway.
The Brisbane Times reports that police were called to the Ann Street on-ramp of the expressway around 2pm today. Traffic remained closed in both directions until 3.30pm.
The Courier Mail reports that a man has been taken to hospital after an incident at the intersection of North Quay and Ann Street. No further details are known.
At the time of writing, North Quay remains closed between Herschel and Adelaide streets, with the Ann Street on-ramp also still closed.
Inbound traffic on the Pacific Motorway was being diverted along Stanley Street in South Bank, and Translink says commuters can expect hour-long delays on all CBD bus routes, with buses unable to reach the affected areas.
Follow the Brisbane Times coverage here.


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MARTHA RAYE - Truth and
Studio photos
Lt Col Maggie
Martha Raye and SF troops, South Viet Nam, 1968
(photo by Lou Gutierrez)
The OSCAR was presented to her on 14 April 1969 by Bob Hope during the
41st Academy Awards Show.
One of the three stars for Maggie on the Hollywood Walk
of fame
The most unforgivable oversight of TV is that her shows were not taped.
This is a great story about a great
woman. We were unaware of her
credentials or where she is buried.
Somehow I just can't see Brittany
Spears, Paris Hilton, or Jessica
Simpson doing what this woman (and the other USO women, including Ann
Margaret & Joey Heatherton) did for our troops in past wars. Most of the
old time entertainers were made out of a lot sterner stuff than today's
crop of activists and whiners.
The following is from an Army
aviator who takes a trip down memory lane: "It was just before
Thanksgiving '67 and we were ferrying dead and wounded from a large GRF
west of Pleiku. We had run out of body bags by noon, so the Hook (CH-47
CHINOOK) was pretty rough in the back. All of a sudden, we heard a
'take-charge' woman's voice in the rear. There was the singer and
actress, Martha Raye, with a SF (Special Forces) beret and jungle
fatigues, with subdued markings, helping the wounded into the Chinook,
and carrying the dead aboard. 'Maggie' had been visiting her SF 'heroes'
out 'west'.
We took off, short of fuel, and
headed to the USAF hospital pad at
Pleiku. As we all started unloading our sad pax's [passengers], a 'Smart
Ass' USAF Captain said to Martha.... Ms Ray, with all these dead and
wounded to process, there would not be time for your show!
To all of our surprise, she pulled
on her right collar and said '.....Captain, see this eagle? I am a full
'Bird' in the US Army Reserve,
and on this is a 'Caduceus' which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical
specialty....now, take me to your wounded.'
He said, ' Yes M 'am.... Follow me.'
Several times at the Army Field Hospital in Pleiku, she would 'cover' a
surgical shift, giving a nurse a well-deserved break.
Martha is the only woman buried in
the SF (Special Forces) cemetery at Ft Bragg.
Hand Salute! A great lady..
Entrance to the Main Post Cemetery, Fort Bragg, NC
looking across the cemetery grounds, it invokes memories
of so many other national cemeteries
marker for Martha Raye, labeled simply as "Civilian", in the Fort Bragg
Main Post Cemetery, NC.
(above photos courtesy of Lou
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Baseball Superstitions I
Baseball Superstitions
By: Austin Alexander
February 21, 2006
Anyone who has ever been around our national pastime much at all knows how quirky baseball players, its coaches and fans can often be. For over a hundred years, many of the gameâs greats have provided us with comical stories about what gets them ready or keeps them on a hot streak. On the flip-side some interesting stories have abounded of ways to end a personal or teamâs slump.
Most people are familiar with, perhaps, baseballâs oldest and most traditional superstitionâavoiding the foul line. Next time you go to a game, watch everyone. Watch them during batting practice and the pre-game. Watch them in between innings as both teams enter and exit the field. Watch a pitching coach during a mound visit. Sometimes players will even go to the extreme by getting a running start and leap over the entire basepath!
Very, very seldom will you witness someone breaking this unwritten rule of baseball. If you ever do see a baseball player or coach âbuck the systemâ, it is generally an act of rebellion against the baseball godâs!
Baseball players are no different than the fans who cheer for them. How many times have you been present during a big ballgame, whether you are participating or rooting vigorously for your favorite team? Hereâs the scenario. Your club is trailing 2-1 in the top of the 7th inning, all of the sudden you stage a rally. You push two runs across and there is still only one out! All of a sudden someone in the dugout invariably will yell, âSame spots, hurry up and get in your same spots!â Or maybe in the bleachers, the patron beside you thinks now is the time to use the restroom or grab a hot dog. Immediately, everyone wearing the same colors threaten to block the aisle, how dare he or she decide to make a move right now? It never fails, weâve all been there!
If a player is âgoing goodâ, very seldom will he want to change anything over the course of the day that has been working for him. Many a player has been known to take wake up at the same time and take the same route to the ballpark. Some keep a consistent diet during a hot streak. Some dress in the same order, maybe even with the same socks or undershirt that have kept him hot. If a new bat is hitting for you, you wonât be the first to sleep with your new-found weapon!
When a playerâs production begins to go in the tank, sometimes they resort to desperate measures. Number changes and new âintroâ songs become a quick-fix. Many ballplayers over time have blind-sided their girlfriends with âthe break-up talkâ, not because she did anything wrong but as a result of the .181 batting average heâs carrying since she came on board!
Funny, to the player, it always seems be an outside force that creates failure!
These examples are just a few of many superstitious actions ballplayers will try to pin their successes or defeats to.
In our next exploration into superstitions in baseball, weâll take a look at major league players that you know and determine the real reasons they have success and the lengths they will go to to reverse their fortunes when things go south.