Michael Datcher: Dr. Michael Datcher did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, his Masters at UCLA and his Ph.D at the UC Riverside in English Literature. He is the author the East St. Louis historical novel AMERICUS and the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller RAISING FENCES—a TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB Book of the Month pick. The film rights were originally optioned by actor Will Smith's Overbrook Productions, who hired Datcher to write the screenplay. He is co-editor of TOUGH LOVE: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur. Datcher's play SILENCE was commissioned by and premiered at the Getty Museum. He is co-host of the weekly public affairs news magazine BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE on 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles. His writing is widely anthologized, including appearances in the volumes What Makes A Man (Penguin), Brown Sugar 3(Simon Schuster), Soulfires (Penguin), Testimony (Beacon Press), Another City (City Lights), and Body and Soul (Crown), among others. He has curated and/or presented his work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and other art institutions. Datcher is the former Executive Director of The World Stage, a literary and jazz education and performance nonprofit in Los Angeles' Crenshaw District. He is Editor of THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction. Datcher is on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University's English Department.
Yun-Sook Navarre: Born in Seoul, Yun-Sook Navarre is an Associate Clinical Social Worker at the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team working towards licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her work has been published and performed throughout Korea and the US by the Korean Quarterly, Social Work Perspectives, Korean Overseas Foundation, SEEDS Sisters of Color, Watermelon Sushi, International Examinator and the Korea Times. This spring she was a featured poet at Tuesday Night Cafe. Film and radio credits include Color Blind, Vincent Who?, Adopted, Made in Korea, LA 18, and KPFK. She has been a panelist, moderator, speaker & facilitator for the LAUSD, Detroit Public Schools, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Pomona College, LAPD, Alhambra Public Schools, San Francisco City College, Welfare Research & Evaluation Conference, Lutheran Social Services, Global Overseas Adoptees' Link (G.O.A.'L.), Korean American Adoptive Family Network, Korean Center Inc, APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit, UCLA and USC.
Lynne Thompson: Winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize in 2016 and an IndividualArtist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles for 2015-16, poet Lynne Thompson is the author of Start With a Small Guitar and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Ecotone, Prairie Schooner, African American Review, Crab Creek Review, Poetry, as well as the anthology Nasty Women Poets, An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Thompson is Reviews and Essays Editor of the literary journal, Spillway.


The Mom: Informed: Sleep Training: Does it work?
I see it all the time, mom's on the edge because baby wakes up frequently at night. Then, comes the inevitable advice, "Put him in his own bed in his own room and let him cry." Let's discuss that shall we? Ok sure, your kid is now screaming in another room all alone...what is your first instinct? Could it be to run and pick up your baby and comfort it? If it is, why do you feel this is such a bad thing to do? Why fight nature? Babies can't talk, their only form of communication is crying. Babies can't understand time and what is "normal" for us adults. Babies ARE very dependent creatures...they rely on someone to help them, to feed them, to hug them, to do everything for them. Why deny them of all that just because it is nighttime?
Now let's discuss if this does in fact work. Well, I see it all the time on other pages..."My son was doing well with (insert crazy training for sleep here) and then he stopped, he is 11 months and has been waking up every hour." Ok, so maybe instead of FORCING this sleep onto them, why not figure out what it is your child is needing, what may be happening?
I, as an adult, do NOT always sleep for 8 straight hours without waking. I wake up when I need to pee, I wake up when I need to roll over, I wake up when I hear things, I wake up after a dream, I wake up just because and I wake up if I am too hot or too cold. Now I want you to read that again, think on it for a second. Think long and hard about how you sleep every night. Do you always go right to bed and pass out hard and sleep 8 straight hours non-stop every night? I highly doubt it. Do you experience episodes of awakening? Pretty sure you do. Now, your baby has a tiny tummy, an inherent need of someone to do everything for it, a tiny bladder, acute hearing, no experience with house noises or much else...it cannot talk and communicate any need, fear or want to you except through cries. So, I ask, why do you expect this little one to sleep like a rock all night long almost from birth? Not saying it doesn't happen, but, why expect it to happen as though it is a definite set in stone thing? It is far from it.
Also, studies show that mommies who breastfeed get better sleep than their formula feeding counterparts. Although, at first, your little one will stay attached to the breast non-stop for maybe even the first 2 weeks. No need to panic though, it definitely does even out and become better.
Very good point. I also like to ask that mom, "how do you sleep when your husband isn't home?" Most often it's not very well. We aren't designed to sleep like rocks every night. How would we survive as a species?
Sorry, but this is a ridiculous post... Sleep training does not "force" your baby to stay asleep all night. It teaches your baby to soothe themselves back to sleep if they do wake - the same way adults can after waking for all the reasons you mentioned. Do some research PLEASE. Posts like this irritate me as they give out incorrect information to moms looking for serious answers.
P.S. I just sleep-trained my 6 month old. He cried for a total of 1 hour and 20 minutes over a 3 night period - combined. He now sleeps for a 12 hour stretch (wakes inbetween, but goes right back to sleep). He's a lot happier in the day now that he gets a full nights sleep. There is nothing cruel about giving your baby the gift of sleep. For all mom's considering it - check out this site http://www.facebook.com/SleepStore - there are thousands of moms with great success stories and they're all dying to help you!
Actually, there is NO reason for a BABY to need to soothe themselves back to sleep alone. There is a reason they wake and it's your job to figure it out. NOT to teach them to self soothe so you can get your precious sleep and they have no parenting at night. My son was never FORCED to learn to sleep on his own...he slept all night from 3 months old. Maybe if you felt like parenting at night wasn't a burden, then, your baby would have slept all night sooner. To most of us here, your post is utterly ridiculous. Why don't YOU do the research and see for yourself. Not to mention that posts like yours are equally as irritating to me.
All of your initial examples can be proven scientifically. We KNOW that some children that are victims of sexual abuse will suffer tremendously from this later in life, or that some kids being bullied at school will develop depressions. There is plenty of evidence for this. However, no evidence whatsoever indicate that SOME children who are left to cry it out "will suffer intellectually, emotionally and socially." No evidence at all suggest that ANY children who are left to cry it out "will suffer intellectually, emotionally and socially." This is only your opinion and it is not based on any facts. You have the right to think, believe, hope or guess whatever you like, but don't pretend that you know something that you don't.
I could as well say that "SOME children who are NOT left to cry it out turn out ok and others will never develop into happy and independent individuals."
Bottom line, for some babies, controlled crying may work well and help to develop healthy and necessary sleeping habits. As a matter of fact, by NOT developing healthy and necessary sleeping habits, one could certainly harm a child intellectually, emotionally and socially. Plenty of evidence show that our sleeping habits affect our mental and physical health (that's why sleep deprivation so popular in Guantanamo Bay…).
LOL...why are you adamant that your kid is fine? How old is your kid? Did you co-sleep? Did you nurse or bottle feed? There are many factors in why and how kids do best at night. CIO HAS been proved to cause brain changes and damage in babies. My son is now 15y/o, he has always been a good sleeper. No,m I wasn't lucky, he slept by my side from birth and I parented him at night. When he did ever wake up after 3 months old, I still parented. I fed him or rocked him or talked to him. I didn't train him to not need me, that was a milestone he acquired the ability to do all on his own. It isn't a skill to be taught. Kids aren't supposed to to be able to sleep without needing someone to feed or comfort until their bodies are physically able to and that may be 1 week old or 2 years old.
The deal is...I do NOT believe in "Training" a child younger than one year to not need me at night. No matter how little he sleeps. That in my mind is cruel and harmful. I don't care who asks, I will have the same advice. If they aren't sleeping sometimes after one year old, then and only then, I might consider another method. However, you can't seem to take that as gospel from me. I really don't care how you feel about it. This is MY page, so of course it will contain parenting tips I feel are best. I mean really, if this was your page, you could post every article on sleep training there was including a step by step how-to. BTW, there is NO WAY on this Earth I would EVER sleep train a 2 month old. My son didn't sleep all night at 2 months and I kindly got up every 30 minutes with him. In fact, for the first month, I nursed him 2 hours straight every 30 minutes, so I know about sleep deprivation. I still did sleep train. I also want to point out, I explain in the "about" section of this blog that we are all about attachment and natural parenting...that should imply expressly that I will NOT discuss sleep training. If you prefer that, go to the "Babywise" or "Save Our Sleep" or any of the other site for training KNOWN to harm babies. Did you even know that the AAP issued a statement against the use of "Babywise" and are against CIO? Because those are damaging to babies.
Ok - well now you've just gone and discredited yourself completely. Please send me a link that indicates AAP is against CIO? (Babywise was critised for it's stance on feeding small babies on a schedule - not for sleep issues). In fact, they did a study on CIO to see the long term effects on babies. Here is it: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/122/3/e621.full NO NOTED EFFECTS. And they support the National Sleep Foundation which advocates assisting children to sleep independently from 3 months of age! You said babies don't need to soothe themselves back to sleep?? Please, read here: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/sleep-topics/children-and-sleep - a wonderful article explaining all about "self-soothing". (Approved by the AAP.) The AAP have also linked babies' frequent night wakings to everything from postpartum depression in moms to future obesity and behavior problems in kids. In fact, your blog contradicts a lot of what the AAP says, so please don't use them to support your opinion! They are against co-sleeping (SIDS) and are ultimately against breastfeeding to sleep too.
As a mum to a sleep trained boy who strts his CAHMS assessment in a couple of weeks. NO, it does not work. He was my only child I did it with, and now, at the age of 8 he's my worst sleeper. The child who was breastfed, coslept and worn, at the age of 3 is my best sleeper.
You say it doesn't damage children. It does, I have proof of it sitting right beside me.
OMG! are you serious? whoever you are speaking "facts" here? do you belive in God? giving a birth to a baby its a greatest gift from God, he took care of everything already without your studies, without your "civilization" researches! no need to go that deep and complicated, just look at you cat or any other Gods creator, they didt forget about their instincts, they dont use brain to raise their babies, they coo-sleep, they breastfeed on demand, they stay attached to their babies till they are ready grown and independent to survive alone..how do they know that this is the best for their kids? from where they take knowledge? from their heart, cuz heart given to us from God to help us stay connected to him to survive as a species..


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Just a few months after Michael Bay signed on to direct the Benghazi thriller 13 Hours, The Office star John Krasinski is in talks to join the cast. The actor will play one of the lead roles as a Navy SEAL in this thriller based on the true story of a 2012 attack on a U.S. Special Mission Compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya. Other actors such as Walton Goggins (Justified) and Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) recently read for roles in the film, but Variety's sources said Michael Bay was blown away by John Krasinski's reading.
The plot is based on Mitchell Zuckoff's book Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, which details the attack and the six members of a security team who fought to defend the compound. The attack claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher J. Stevens and a foreign service worker, with two contract workers also killed in a second attack at a nearby CIA facility. The project is said to be much smaller in stature than director Michael Bay's Transformers franchise, with the size and scope of 13 Hours being compared to the filmmaker's 2013 true story adaptation Pain & Gain.
Chuck Hogan (The Town, The Strain) wrote the adapted screenplay, with Erwin Stoff producing through his 3 Arts Entertainment company. No production schedule was given at this time. John Krasinski will next be seen in the Untitled Cameron Crowe Project, which is set for release this May. He most recently provided his voice for animated movies such as The Wind Rises and Monsters University.


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The ten or so papers the reader will find on this website were never meant for publication but for seminars between 1988 and 1996. These seminars took place at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and in the London Circle of the European School of Psychoanalysis. In fact, Inever wrote a paper for publication. The writing was done merely to guide me through a seminar. They were rewritten but at a time when many more of Lacan's Seminars had been published by Editions du Seuil. I couldn't resist making modifications in the original papers. I still recognise the original paper in the rewriting. I am aware the reader won't be able to do that.
The papers I am publishing in this very modern way, the internet way, do not represent the present state of teaching in the School or the past state between 1988 and 1996. I was a member of the European School of Psychoanalysis from 1992 to 2002. The latter School became a latent organisation replaced by the New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of which I have been a member since 2002. This is not an official website of the School, and the papers only reveal my own relation to the teaching of Lacan. They are being published because enough people have requested me to do so over a number of years, and I have neglected to undertake it till now.
I am reminded that some people think, maybe many, as follows: '. . . Marxism and Freudianism are Judeo-Christian heresies, offering heretical versions of the doctrines of the Fall and Salvation and of the Pauline Two Natures of the human.' [1] The original tradition is the Judeo-Christian one which is structured by the Oedipus. This structure makes Freudianism a little weak. By weak I mean that by transmitting the Father's message through the Oedipus it banishes the heterogeneous elements from the field of the Other. Some people see that as a strength. I am not sure how it affects Marxism.
Heresy presupposes that meaning is unstable. Orthodoxy maintains its power by stabilising meaning. The points at which meaning is stabilised Lacan called points de capition, translated by Russell Grigg as quilting points. They are points in the signifying chain at which a signifier manages to pin a meaning. Given the tradition which is being transmitted, this meaning is phallic. An original heresy destabilises meaning, and orthodoxy then seeks to restabilise it. Heresy eventually becomes the new orthodoxy. Heretics are rereaders differing about meaning on the inside of faith, and tend to be fundamentalist. [2]
The first collection of papers appearing on this website represents the period of Lacan's 'return to Freud' which we can read as 'return to the Oedipus'. Jung is aligning himself with the Father in his Preface to the German translation of Ulysses where he declares the novel to be an example of the schizophrenic mind. Joyce was able to understand Jung's position: 'People want to put me out of the church to which I don't belong. I have nothing to do with psychoanalysis.' [3] Jung could not use the One signifier to arrange all of Joyce's signifiers. Like the famous goal post the quilting points had been moved causing structural changes. I assume that the Preface was never published. Any practice built on the Judeo-Christian tradition lends itself to a universalising tendency by which I mean a movement that brooks no heterogeneous elements. Joyce does not have to be put out of the Church. That is, he was always outside the Oedipus. The effect of the evacuation of heterogeneous elements is segregation. Jung must have experienced it himself. But then Jung went on to build another Church, whilst Joyce wrote Finnegans Wake. Joyce was a heretic. The common measure between Freud and Jung is that neither of them is a heretic. The One signifier emerges at the end of Moses and Monotheism with the murder of God. This murder allows the Father to triumph in the work of Freud.
In a paper called by Lacan 'Lituraterre' there is no need to send Joyce to consult Freud or Jung. The mental structure of Joyce is the best outcome one can expect from an analysis at its end. [4] Lacan, late in life, towards the end of his career, had to face a choice: Freud or Joyce. In 'Lituraterre' he chose Joyce. In the literature of Joyce there is a rature of the Father. He is erased, and Joyce is looking for him. Lacan calls this rature foreclosure which cuts our links with ancient bonds. A particular subject has a duty to become a heretic, according to Lacan, who says of himself that he is a heretic like Joyce. [5] Cunningham too thinks that heretic reading and heretic writing- of all kinds, sacred or secular- are not only inevitable, but are to be tolerated as important, even essential, to the business of reading texts, sacred or not. [6]
There is a good way and a bad way to heresy, says Lacan. The good way bodes us to recognize the nature of the sinthome. The Church in Rome also thinks that there is a good way and a bad one, according to Valentine Cunningham. The bad way is called formal heresy based on an act of bad faith: one falls into heresy out of pride, desire for power and money, doing it willingly and consciously. [7] This style of heretic is a non-dupe. In material heresy the subject falls into heresy accidentally due to erroneous judgement, to imperfect understanding of dogmas, let's say of quilting points. The subject becomes a heretic by an error, by a mistake, by naivety. To become a dupe of the sinthome is a material heresy. I think the Church considers material heresy bad but not as bad as the formal kind.
About the present collection of papers I have to ask myself the question whether the seeds of heresy have been planted if not the heresy itself. The subject has a duty to become a heretic. It can't be based on drive alone, for drive is meaningless. Heresy comes about in the field of meaning. The speaking being's faire y savoir entertains itself with three rings of string plus the sinthome.
Richard Klein, Finsbury Park, London
Richard Klein is a practising analyst living and working in London. The following papers issue from clinical experience, textual labour and his characteristic commitment to the transmission of psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation.
[1] Figures of Heresy, edited by Andrew Dix and Jonathan Taylor, 'Introduction: The Necessity of Heresy' (by Valentine Cunningham), Sussex Academic Press, 2006, p. 12.
[2] Ibid., pp. 3,4.
[3] Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, Oxford University Press, revised edition, 1982, p. 628.
[4] Lacan, 'Lituraterre' (1971), Autres écrits, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2001, p. 11.
[5] Lacan, Le Séminaire, livre XXIII, Le sinthome (1975-6), Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2005, p. 15.
[6] Cunningham, op. cit., p. 2.
[7] Ibid., p. 2.
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Rugby: Hong Kong 7's Finals
USA knocked out in the quarterfinals, but now ranked #7 in the World Series Table, ahead of Scotland, France, Wales & lots of others. Table is at the end of the video.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
UK (socialized medicine) cancer survival rates lag the rest of Europe - and well behind the USA
Periodically I see articles (or they're sent to me by a good friend of mine in the UK) extolling the great glories of the UK NHS (National Health Service). They are frequently from the left wing Guardian (UK) newspaper. Well, last week the Guardian ran this article -
UK cancer survival rates trail 10 years behind other European countries
A revealing article.
So I went to the massive international study this was based on, which you can find here in the British Journal The Lancet -
Global surveillance of cancer survival 1995–2009: analysis of individual data for 25 676 887 patients from 279 population-based registries in 67 countries (CONCORD-2)
With two minutes of digging I found the following chart, with data on ten different cancers (but not lymphoma) and survival rates in all the countries.
5-year age-standardised net survival for adults (aged 15–99 years) diagnosed with one of ten common malignant diseases and children (aged 0–14 years) with ALL, by continent, country, and calendar period of diagnosis
To keep this post short, here is a comparison from the above chart of the five year survival rate % for the UK and the USA (pre-Obamacare) and three other countires for three different cancers.
In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked France and Italy #'s one and two for their healthcare systems.
Breast Prostate Leukemia
USA 89 97 52
UK 81 83 47
Happily the survival rate for childhood leukemia is 88-89% in all five countries.
The moral of the story: for all the moaning about the X million number of people in the US who don't have health insurance, actual healthCARE is pretty darn good. Maybe we need to be careful about messing with the system.
Croton Landing and a pretty big fish!
So Brigid and i were out for a quick walk at Croton Landing Sunday evening, and a bit before 7pm came across some fisher guys.
Brigid on the right.
Looking quite saintly
And then I wised up and put the sun behind me
There it is - we think they said it was a Bass. I have no idea.
Proud catch! Easily a foot and a half. probably eaten already ...
Croton landing - great place for a Sunday walk.
Monday, March 30, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Costa Rica has been 100% renewable energy so far this year
Nice! This from the Telegraph (UK). Let's hope it keeps raining.
Costa Rica has only used renewable energy this year Central American nation, once described as the greenest on the planet, thrives on rain and volcanoes
The Central American country, which has long boasted of its green credentials on energy policy, was able to achieve the milestone thanks to heavy rain in the first three months of the year.
Around four-fifths of its electricity supply comes from hydro-electric power, which was boosted by rainfall at four major dams.
Costa Rica is one of the most developed countries in Latin America, ranking above Italy and several other European Union countries in the annual prosperity rankings put out by the Legatum Institute, a think-tank.
Its environmental record may not be easily copied by other nations - its tropical climate with high rainfall, mountainous interior, and relatively low population of 4.8 million people give it an advantage in terms of renewable energy.
More than ten per cent of its electricity in some years is generated by geothermal projects operating from its string of active volcanoes. It also has wind, biomass and solar energy plants.
Tapping volcanic heat! How cool is that!
Additionally, it has a low heavy industrial base, with its economy relying on tourism, agriculture - particularly bananas and coffee - and an Intel microprocessor plant.
Last year, all but six per cent of its energy was generated renewably.
That figure should come down further when a new geothermal project, commissioned last year by the government at a cost of $958 million, comes on stream.
"It's good news that more geothermal will be coming on board, as there are obvious downsides of being too reliant on hydro-power, especially run-of-the-river systems, which can be hindered by seasonal changes in water flow," Jake Richardson, an analyst at Clean Technica, told Science Alert.
Back in the late 70's when I was living in Jamaica, I had an opportunity to visit Costa Rica, but went to Panama and then to Guatemala (where my brother Jim was in the Peace Corp) instead.
Eric Clapton - 70 today!
Eric Clapton.
Here he is in 2008. Look closely - he's wearing Granny glasses ... Age gets us all.
Rugby: Hong Kong 7's - USA doing well!
Brigid and I were at the Hong Kong 7's in 1990. A great event.
Results from the second day.
Sunday, March 29, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Modern Day Feast of the Annunciation - lovely art
Ha! the Feast of the Annunciation was last week. I enjoyed this from the Friars of the Renewal. The last four renditions are - China - Africa - Japan - Central America
What if the Annunciation was to happen in our own times? What would it look like?
Ok, here's Japan - hit the link for the rest.
900 calorie cocktail; what the world needs
So a cocktail and then have dessert - you've used up your daily calorie ration ...
Anyway, it's only 890.
Saturday, March 28, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Fr. Barron: "Heroic Priesthood" commercial
I don't know. I love Fr. Barron but not at all keen on this commercial.
"This aired during the March 2015 ACC Basketball Tournament."
The Greenwich Village fire on Thursday
UPDATE: Two people missing; not good.
Probable gas leak, What a mess. Amazing no one killed.
This picture and video are from the Telegraph (UK).
Rugby: 6 Nations Tournament wrap up - good article
For the rugby aficionado.
Interesting that the writer, who is English, starts by criticizing the whining (surprise!) of some of the English players.
Record number of points on the last day showed teams can play with the handbrake off, but was it circumstance or a concerted effort to be more fluid?
Some England players showed their frustration at missing out on the Six Nations title for a fourth successive season, a period when their cumulative record is as good as Wales' and much better than Ireland's – the two countries who have won the championship since the last World Cup – by accusing Italy and Scotland of not fronting up on the final weekend.
England were not complaining last year after a comfortable 20-0 victory at Murrayfield, one that would have been greater but for the worm-infested surface that made it heavy-going underfoot, nor did they accuse Italy of capitulating on the final day in 2014 having enjoyed a 41-point romp in Rome, although the margin was not enough to require Ireland to do more than win in Paris later in the day to finish top.
Friday, March 27, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
An actual amusing insurance commercial
United Healthcare is a USA company, but the commercial is already viral to the point where it was sent to me by Brigid's niece June, in Australia.
WSJ editorial: "The Bergdahl Desertion"
UPDATE: The NY Times editorialized this morning that Bergdahl should not face desertion charges. No Need to Prosecute Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
As the Journal reminds us of what was given up, to get him back, and what the Administration said at the time.
Here's the last line of the editorial:
"Sgt. Bergdahl will now face a court martial, but we already know that the White House is guilty of deserting its obligations to U.S. security."
Rugby: 6 Nations, Italy vs. Wales
This was the first game played this past weekend.
Thursday, March 26, 2015 | Permalink | Comments (0)
ABC: Yemen is still Obama model for fighting extremists
Unbelievable. "Astounding" as the ABC guy says.
Reminds me of the Iraqi Information Minister - remember him? It's embarrassing to listen to the Administration Press Secretary.
The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) 20th anniversary
Pope John Paul II (Saint John Paul!) encyclical spells it out ... worth reading even just the first few paragraphs
The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae)
1. THE GOSPEL OF LIFE is at the heart of Jesus' message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as "good news" to the people of every age and culture.
The Church knows that this Gospel of life, which she has received from her Lord,1 has a profound and persuasive echo in the heart of every person—believer and non-believer alike—because it marvellously fulfils all the heart's expectations while infinitely surpassing them. Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties, every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can, by the light of reason and the hidden action of grace, come to recognize in the natural law written in the heart (cf. Rom 2:14-15) the sacred value of human life from its very beginning until its end, and can affirm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree. Upon the recognition of this right, every human community and the political community itself are founded.
The Church, faithfully contemplating the mystery of the Redemption, acknowledges this value with ever new wonder.3 She feels called to proclaim to the people of all times this "Gospel", the source of invincible hope and true joy for every period of history. The Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel of the dignity of the person and the Gospel of life are a single and indivisible Gospel.
The above is excerpted from the introduction. The first chapter is a profound meditation on the story of Cain and Abel.
Here is the complete layout of the encyclical:
CHAPTER I - THE VOICE OF YOUR BROTHER'S BLOOD CRIES TO ME FROM THE GROUND
CHAPTER II - I CAME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE
CHAPTER III - YOU SHALL NOT KILL
CHAPTER IV - YOU DID IT TO ME
I've read the encyclical several times, although not in the last ten years or so. Must go back and re-read it.
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Avalanche rescue! Frantic and great stuff
This was mentioned on PBS last night. The video was posted on youtube by the rescued skier on March 5th.
The skiers are Australian and it's a helmet cam. https://youtu.be/XTli5YkoXog
Here's the text that's posted below the video on youtube - and which is below.
It is important to learn from the mistakes of others as well as yourself. I have uploaded this video to act as a learning tool to demonstrate what ill preparedness looks like in an avalanche rescue situation. As the buried skier, I am incredibly lucky to be alive. A full write up of the incident is available here: http://avalanchesurvival.tumblr.comThis video documents an avalanche accident that occurred in the Swiss Alps on the 30/01/2015.
The accident happened within the resort boundary on a slope not known for slides. Please be careful and never take safety for granted. Decision making is paramount whenever off piste and always carry a beacon, probe and shovel. Most importantly get educated. Stay safe.
Footage courtesy of Daniel O'Sullivan.
WSJ: Cruz and Obama similarities
Here's my take - Obama is the worst President in my lifetime, and Cruz - despite my agreement with many of his positions - would also be a poor President. Not my cup of tea.
Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday:
The Cruz Candidacy. Ideology aside, the Republican is similar in many ways to Obama.
Can a smart, articulate, 40-something first term Senator trained in constitutional law, who disdains his colleagues and lacks executive experience, make the leap to the White House? President Obama proved it was possible in 2008, and now Ted Cruz will try to show that a Republican can do it too after announcing his campaign for the White House on Monday.
Neither man will like this comparison, and their world views are as divergent as any two men in politics. Yet Messrs. Obama and Cruz are strikingly similar in their pedigrees and political style. They were raised middle-class but made their way to the Ivy League and beyond by dint of talent.
They became lawyers but mainly as a launching pad to politics. The President was a state senator, Mr. Cruz the Texas solicitor general. Mr. Cruz is a better debater, and Mr. Obama a better speech-maker, but both are better talkers than listeners. Above all, they are political solo-artists in an age that rewards entrepreneurial candidates. They saw the Senate as a stepping-stone to the White House rather than a place to contribute or get something done.
Mr. Obama ran as the true-believing antiwar liberal to win his party's nomination. Mr. Cruz plans to run as the only true-believing, courageous conservative in the GOP field. Like Mr. Obama, he will run as much against Washington and his own party "establishment" as against the other party.
Mr. Cruz is right that Mitt Romney in particular failed to motivate enough conservatives. But he is probably wrong to think that conservatives alone, especially white conservatives, can elect the next President. As GOP pollster Whit Ayres recently wrote in these pages, if the GOP nominee in 2016 carries the same share of the white and minority vote as George W. Bush won in 2004, he would lose, and handily. The next nominee must broaden the GOP's electoral appeal.
This is not a counsel to walk away from conservative ideas. It does mean a candidate must offer an optimistic, inclusive vision and reform agenda that look beyond the Obama years. This also means appealing to voters who believe the GOP isn't welcoming to minorities or the working class. Mr. Cruz's hard-edged message against immigration may play in the GOP primaries, as Mr. Romney's did, but it is a dream come true for Hillary Clinton.
The other question concerns the ability to govern as President. If a Republican does win in 2016, he will probably have a GOP majority in Congress and an historic opportunity to press conservative reforms. But Obama-style politics has not been a happy experience.
The President treated Republicans with the contempt he holds them in, and so he failed to bring along any of their votes. Had he worked across the aisle, like Ronald Reagan did, his reforms would have a better chance to endure than they do now. Mr. Cruz will have to convince GOP voters that he is not another self-centered governing rookie who thinks he doesn't need to work with Members of Congress, however much he despises them.
35th Anniversary: Assassination of Archbishop Romero
Soon to be beatified.
Rugby: England vs. France, 6 Nations Championship
Amazing game - 12 tries, but not enough points for England to win the championship.
Mouse in house 5 through 9; captured and released
Back when we captured the second and third mice, my friend Hallie sent an email saying "See one mouse. Count ten."
Guess she was right.
Brigid has taken a week long hiatus from putting out the trap, so the last one we captured and sent to the Hudson River mouse vacation home was on March 16th. Here are mice 5 to 9.
March 3rd - backside view -
March 5th - portrait quality
March 8th - speed merchant - he rocketed off!
March 11th - the only picture I didn't take - was off trying to make a living so Joe went with Brigid. Instead of unceremoniously shaking them out of the trap, Brigid decided to try luring this one out. All the other pictures were blurred -
Lastly, March 16th - three shots. Do you detect a pattern? Backside all. The last one was a lucky shot; he was racing away ...
No more food luring - just a dumping
And he's off!
If you're wondering how long it takes to put up a post like this - 21 minutes. Most of the time sorting through the pictures.
Poll: Mrs. Clinton way ahead in NY State poll
The Quinnippiac poll -
... Clinton gets 51% of Democrat Primary voters and beats all Republicans by 20 percentage points or more.
My guy for Prez (John Kasich) and his apology to police officer
Yesterday I posted this Here's my guy for President - as if anyone cares with my choice being the Ohio Governor, John Kasich. My friend Dennis (Lt., PAPD, retired) left a comment on why he presumably would oppose Kasich; an intemperate remark(s) in 2011 about a police officer who gave him a traffic ticket. He even provided a link to the youtube vid of Kasich.
Well Kasich did subsequently meet with the officer and apologized.
Kasich Apologizes to Traffic Cop for Calling Him an 'Idiot'
"Today Gov. Kasich met with Officer [Robert] Barrett and apologized and that apology was graciously accepted," Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said in a statement to FoxNews.com. It was a friendly meeting during which the governor reiterated his support for law enforcement officers and for the dangerous and important work they do."
The apology came after public unions seized on the insult as ammunition in their fight against a bill to strip them of their collective bargaining rights.
Critics distributed a video of Kasich at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in January describing a 2008 stop along a state highway in which he was cited for passing too close to an emergency vehicle.
Barrett, told Kasich he'd face an arrest warrant if he didn't show up in court.
"He's an idiot," Kasich said. "You just can't act that way."
Kasich apologized to Barrett in a private meeting on Thursday. Jim Gilbert, head of the Fraternal Order of Police, told the Columbus Dispatch that Barrett requested the meeting after Kasich tried to contact him by phone Wednesday night.
But critics of Kasich, including the Ohio Democratic Party and Fraternal Order of Police, say the insult disrespects union workers and proves he doesn't care about safety officers.
"I never thought I'd see the day when a governor of this great state would call a police officer an 'idiot' for simply doing his job," Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said in a statement. "Even worse, he wants to eliminate the right of law enforcement workers to collectively bargain to provide a better life for their families."
As mentioned in the article from the NY Times I linked to yesterday, Kasich won re-election last year with 64% of the vote, so I would bet lots of police officers and government workers did forgive and vote for him.
Rugby: Ireland vs. Scotland, 6 Nations championship
Since Ireland, England, and Wales were all 3-1 going into the weekend, and all three won their games, the championship came down to points differential.
Farandaville: lots of stuff this past weekend
Will have to do a few posts on all the goings-on. The last thing I did was have a quick walk toward Croton Landing Sunday evening.
Took a few pictures of the sunset.
Brigid liked this one:
Didn't like this one:
Gave this an OK - see the Sleeping Indian?
Al Gore on climate-change deniers
Sent to me by my friend Maria. He's out to get me.
Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to 'Punish Climate-Change Deniers' and 'Put a Price on Carbon'
For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the climate crisis. The former vice president focused on the need to "punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting 'accepted science,'" said the Chicago Tribune.
Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in fossil fuels and towards companies investing in renewable energy. "We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends," Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. "And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics."
He called on the tech-minded SXSW crowd, which is dominated by Millenials, to harness technology to launch a grassroots movement to tackle climate change and call out climate deniers. "We have this denial industry cranked up constantly," Gore said. "In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now Mother Nature is weighing in."
The former Veep even gave a nod to Pope Francis during his talk, showing a slide of the pontiff and saying "How about this Pope?" Pope Francis celebrated his two-year anniversary as Pope on Friday, riding a wave of popularity "that has reinvigorated the Catholic Church in ways not seen since the days of St. John Paul II," said the Chicago Tribune. Gore said he was looking forward to the Pope's highly anticipated encyclical on the environment which is due to be released in June or July. "I'm not a Catholic," Gore said, "but I could be persuaded to become one."
Well maybe he'll adopt Pope Francis' positions protecting pro-born babies. a preferential option for the poor, all that other good Catholic stuff?
ESPN host Stephen Smith: Why Blacks should vote Republican
I'm posting this just to irritate some of my white liberal friends. ... But he is 1,000% correct.
Iran says "Death to America" - negotiations are farcical
We are kidding ourselves.
Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei called for "Death to America" on Saturday, a day after President Barack Obama appealed to Iran to seize a "historic opportunity" for a nuclear deal and a better future, and as US Secretary of State John Kerry claimed substantial progress toward an accord.
Khamenei told a crowd in Tehran that Iran would not capitulate to Western demands. When the crowd started shouting, "Death to America," the ayatollah responded: "Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is the bad guy.
Harper's Mag, 1958: "The Coming Ice Age"
Al Gore where were you to straighten them out?
worth reading.
At the time of the Harper's article, scientists were saying Arctic ice coverage had shrank 12 percent from the previous 15 years and the ice was 40 percent thinner. Friedan wrote that a "layman might surmise that if this trend continues the Arctic Ocean will be open and the Ice Age begin in another twenty years."
Conan: The new Apple pocketwatch
Finally, something funny from Conan O'Brien.
Here's my guy for President - as if anyone cares
John Kasich. Of course I don't belong to a political party so couldn't vote for him in a primary anyway.
NYT: Kasich Looks to Republican Primaries, 'Ohio Story' in Hand
18% of deaths in Belgium: physician-assisted suicide/euthansia
When you read the article, it's easy to speculate that many of these deaths were, suicide.
A study out of Flanders, published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 18% of patients deaths come either from lethal injection/assisted suicide or from being put into a deep coma and left to die.
So how many of those people "put into a deep coma and left to die" were actually straightout euthanasia? We can't tell.
"Recent Trends in Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Practices in Belgium," reports that 6.3% of Flanders' deaths involved "physician-assisted death." This term was defined as lethal injection at the request of the patient ("euthanasia"), assisted suicide, and "death without explicit request."
But there is more: A full 12% die from "full continuous deep sedation until death." Palliative sedation is not the same thing,meaning most of this involves "terminal sedation," putting in a coma and denied food and fluids until death, a form of beneath-the-surface euthanasia.(For more details on this issue, hit this link.)
Al Sharpton and his taxes
Fair and balanced. Sharpton, the President's go-to guy for the Black community.
Camille Paglia raves against Hillary Clinton
Paglia, the atheist, leftist, talented writer. She describes herself as "a dissident feminist."
Rugby: England vs. Scotland, 6 Nations Tournament
Played at Twickenham.
Rarity: Catholic politician guided by his faith
Nice article in the NY Times yesterday about Jeb Bush and his conversion to Catholicism.
Jeb Bush, 20 Years After Conversion, Is Guided by His Catholic Faith
Twenty years after Mr. Bush converted to Catholicism, the religion of his wife, following a difficult and unsuccessful political campaign that had put a strain on his marriage, his faith has become a central element of the way he shapes his life and frames his views on public policy. And now, as he explores a bid for the presidency, his religion has become a focal point of early appeals to evangelical activists, who are particularly important in a Republican primary that is often dominated by religious voters,
Many of his priorities during his two terms as governor of Florida aligned with those of the Catholic Church — including his extraordinary, and unsuccessful, effort to force a hospital to keep Terri Schiavo on life support, as well as less well-known, and also unsuccessful, efforts to appoint a guardian for the fetus of a developmentally disabled rape victim and to prevent a 13-year-old girl from having an abortion. He even, during his first year in office in 1999, signed a law creating a "Choose Life" license plate.
He differed from his church, significantly and openly, over capital punishment; the state executed 21 prisoners on his watch, the most under any Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. But he has won praise from Catholic officials for his welcoming tone toward immigrants and his relatively centrist positions on education — two issues in which he is at odds with the right wing of his party.
"As a public leader, one's faith should guide you," Mr. Bush said in Italy in 2009, explaining his attitude about the relationship between religion and politics ...
"In the United States, many people think you need to keep your faith, put it in a security box, if you're an elected official — put it in a safety deposit box until you finish your service as a public servant and then you can go get it back," he added. "I never felt that was appropriate."
"You hear people say, 'I don't want to impose my faith,' " Mr. Bush told the newspaper The Florida Catholic days after leaving office in 2007. "Well, it's not an imposition of faith. It's who you are."
The son and brother of Protestant presidents, Mr. Bush, if elected, would be the nation's second Catholic president. Sometimes, he carries a rosary in his pocket and fingers its beads at moments of crisis. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and has retweeted Pope Francis. He was part of the American delegation to the installation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, and during his travels in the United States he sometimes attends Mass in local churches.
British: The "Eve of Battle Speech", March 19, 2003
I came across this exactly two months ago and decided it was worth posting.
Eve-of-battle speech
As Lieutenant Colonel (Commanding Officer) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army, Collins gave a rousing eve-of-battle speech to his troops in Kuwait on Wednesday 19 March 2003. The speech was extemporised, and was recorded in shorthand by a single journalist, Sarah Oliver. No recording or film of the speech exists, Collins told the BBC.[12]
Speech excerpt
" We go to Iraq to liberate not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country. We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Show respect for them.
There are some who are alive at this moment who will not be alive shortly. Those who do not wish to go on that journey, we will not send. As for the others I expect you to rock their world. Wipe them out if that is what they choose. But if you are ferocious in battle remember to be magnanimous in victory.
Iraq is steeped in history. It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Tread lightly there. You will see things that no man could pay to see and you will have to go a long way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the Iraqis. You will be embarrassed by their hospitality even though they have nothing. Don't treat them as refugees for they are in their own country. Their children will be poor, in years to come they will know that the light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.
If there are casualties of war then remember that when they woke up and got dressed in the morning they did not plan to die this day. Allow them dignity in death. Bury them properly and mark their graves.
It is my foremost intention to bring every single one of you out alive but there may be people among us who will not see the end of this campaign. We will put them in their sleeping bags and send them back. There will be no time for sorrow.
The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction. There are many regional commanders who have stains on their souls and they are stoking the fires of hell for Saddam. He and his forces will be destroyed by this coalition for what they have done. As they die they will know their deeds have brought them to this place. Show them no pity.
It is a big step to take another human life. It is not to be done lightly. I know of men who have taken life needlessly in other conflicts, I can assure you they live with the Mark of Cain upon them. If someone surrenders to you then remember they have that right in international law and ensure that one day they go home to their family.
The ones who wish to fight, well, we aim to please.
If you harm the regiment or its history by over-enthusiasm in killing or in cowardice, know it is your family who will suffer. You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest for your deeds will follow you down through history. We will bring shame on neither our uniform or our nation.
[Regarding the use by Saddam of chemical or biological weapons] It is not a question of if, it's a question of when. We know he has already devolved the decision to lower commanders, and that means he has already taken the decision himself. If we survive the first strike we will survive the attack.
As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there.
Our business now is north.[13]
The "Mark of Cain" line from the speech inspired the title of the 2007 Film4 Productions drama The Mark of Cain. In the film a commanding officer makes a speech based on Collins' to his men.[14]
The last episode of the 2008 television series 10 Days to War features a version of the speech performed by Kenneth Branagh as Collins.[15]
In the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Tim Collins's inspirational speech is quoted when the player is killed in the campaign.
He set up the Peace Support College in Sarajevo before becoming DACOS Training at HQ Land Command until his retirement.
Do compression garments help athletic performance?
A short video - no evidence either way.
Short vid on students obsessing over elite college entry
Frank Bruni, whose NYT column I normally find a waste, makes many good points here.
5 facts about Yogi Berra
The last one is amazing. And I'm sure you could come up with 50 facts about Yogi Berra.
How to make a Guinness cocktail
In fact three, using Guinness stout (true nectar of the Gods!).
Rugby: Ireland vs. Wales, 6 Nations Championship
Played in Cardiff. Another huge defensive battle.
My hiking buddy Jeanne Marie's fashion statement
Hike of the month is this Saturday & organized by Jeanne Marie - going to George's Island Park in Montrose - won't be too strenuous (Anyone interested, email me).
Anyway I have detected a fashion statement that JM likes to make on both winter and summer hikes. Can you spot it?
Here's the always cool, calm, collected, Jeanne Marie, on February's Hike of the Month, in the Hudson Gateway Park.
Now here she is awhile ago, as we climbed Bull Hill (also called Taurus Mountain) north of Cold Spring, during the summer.
And here, this past January, going up Turkey Mountain.
So what's the deal? Is it something JM only does on climbs named for animals? Or is it an intricate temperature regulation system? I dunno.
The strange recent calendar
From Ray.
We are going from Friday the Thirteenth, to Pi Day (3/14), to the Ides of March (3/15), to (John)3:16, to St. Patrick's Day (3/17).
And St. Patrick's Day is worldwide
EWTN with Pastor Rick Warren interview
Talking about Lent and assisted suicide.
Obama out to sink Mrs. Clinton?
That's the gist of this article from the NY Post.
Obama adviser behind leak of Hillary Clinton's email scandal
It's the vast left-wing conspiracy.
Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me.
But she did so through people outside the administration, so the story couldn't be traced to her or the White House.
In addition, at Jarrett's behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary's conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation.
Six separate probes into Hillary's performance have been going on at the State Department. I'm told that the e-mail scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president — and that there's more to come.
The column goes on ... Who knows? Who cares?
And then there's this - Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi investigating committee, concedes that there is reason for the continuing inquiry.
Maybe they are out to get her?
What a thousand lb. squat looks like.
15 seconds. I'm impressed. I guess it's an ad for his leg wraps? Five guys ready if he misses the lift.
Waste of $$$: New US stealth bomber.
This new plane will - on the low cost estimate - be $550 million each. Of course the real cost will be much higher. This is an absurd waste of money. We already have plenty of ability to blow people up.
Jeanne Robertson - ... The funny Administrative ...
A little slow to start ... but a real nice yarn ...
Vid of the toddler rescued in Utah
Upside down in a vehicle in a creek for 14 hours.


There's more evidence that just ignoring your eccentric boss' bad ideas is the best way to deal with them.
On Saturday morning, Taylor dropped what he innocently described as a "silly Google Maps origin story" in a Twitter thread. It included the tale of how one popular feature was almost called... Bird Mode?!
Apparently, back in 2005, there was what Taylor described as a "geeky holy war" occurring on the Google Maps team.
Google Maps was set to include the feature that we now know as "Satellite" view — the one that displays an aerial, real-world view of the map area. The problem was that the images that comprised that view weren't actually captured by satellites. Instead, they were products of aerial photography (airplanes that fly over land capturing images).
At the same time, the Google execs were apparently using their executive meetings to run kooky experiments relating to management and decision making (clearly, every employee's dream). They had come up with a method where items would be under discussion for the duration of a huge countdown clock — like a shot clock in basketball. The idea that ended the discussion before the buzzer would be the final word.
One of the decisions that became subject to the Buzzer Method™ was what to name "aerial" or "satellite" view. No one could agree, and — much to the engineers' frustration — execs were throwing around product names willy nilly.
Finally, Taylor believes Google co-founder Sergey Brin spoke up — proposing "Bird Mode."
And just like that, the buzzer buzzed. Decision, apparently, made.
Taylor and his team were flummoxed. He wrote that, whether employees were on team "Satellite" or team "Aerial photography," everyone agreed that "Bird Mode" was a terrible name — and that the decision had been made "in the most insane way possible."
So what was team Google Maps to do? They went with the tried and true method of just ignoring the advice of the higher ups. And banking on the concept that bosses were probably so busy and removed from the day-to-day that they wouldn't notice.
So Taylor just named the feature "Satellite" anyway. And it's thankfully been that way ever since — even if it is a lie, a damn lie, about where those map photos come from. Bless 🙌.


On Christmas in 2005, entrepreneur Mansour Akram Ojjeh and his wife, Kathy, had an idea. The holiday present to their four children would be different this year; Lana, Lia, Sara, and Sultan, would receive a donation to engage in philanthropy. The original project, which was intended for four years, lasted more than a decade. During that time, the Ojjeh siblings travelled around the globe doing hands-on work to help with projects that address economic development, education, and shelter and care amongst others.
Today, the Ojjeh siblings have circled back together once again to form a start-up that will guide others who want to follow in their philanthropic path. Tharawat Magazine had the opportunity to sit down with Lana Ojjeh Lette, the eldest of the four siblings, and discuss her family's philanthropic journey and the personal transformation that resulted from it.
The Ojjeh siblings while planning their philanthropic projects.
How did your philanthropic journey begin?
It was Christmas 2005; we were sitting around the table, the six of us. Our parents said they had this idea for a Christmas gift and it was going be a bit different and we were going to have to be open-minded about it. They told us that they had put aside some money for us to spend on philanthropic endeavours over the course of the following four years. They wanted us to learn how to give to those in need, to work together and to grow more conscious of the world outside the very privileged one we live in. Growing up in Geneva, you realise that you live amongst a small group of very, very fortunate people. So this was a way for my parents to make sure that we stay aware of the world around us. They also wanted to instil in us a good sense of communication. Working together like this would be a way to forge a close-knit group of siblings.
That must have been a daunting challenge for you to face at such a young age. How did you go about taking those first steps?
We had no idea how or where to start. Thankfully our parents had thought of that, and Wise Philanthropy Advisors supported us. They were hired to guide us through the daunting task at hand, but also to help us remain anonymous, as this was one of the requirements our parents had established. We sat with them and had an initial brainstorming session where we established what were our individual and shared interests. What were some of the areas we would like to invest in to get started? Our father had left us a legacy project involving local government an hour and a half outside of Geneva where some people had fallen through the social safety net, so to speak. It was a really good starting point: Firstly, we realised you don't have to go across the globe to find people who are in need and who could benefit from a helping hand, and secondly, it let us meet people and actually live our commitment, rather than reading about it in a report some time later. This took us into the first year, and after a while, we were all confident enough that we wanted to take on something a little bit bigger, a little bit more substantial over a longer period.
What was the first project you identified on your own?
The first international project we took on was in Brazil where we supported an organisation called the Children at Risk Foundation. The founder, an unbelievably charismatic man from Norway named Gregory, had set up cultural centres for kids, to give them structure during after-school hours, and to protect them from the violent societies they live in. That was our first field visit to an international project, and it left a mark to say the least. It was a very impressive visit over a couple of days, and from there, our enthusiasm and commitment snowballed. We each started to run with philanthropic projects that we were bringing to the table. Our mom came with us on most of the trips we took going forward, while our dad was always excited to hear full reports and was very encouraging throughout. He never thought it would take up such a big part of our lives.
On a personal level, when you look at your siblings, what do you feel has been the biggest surprise since you've started working with them on these projects?
When we started, I was 21, and my brother was 14, and a 14-year-old boy doesn't usually take on this kind of thing. We realised a little while into what we were doing that the level of discipline, communication and professionalism that is required in order to keep these projects running, and to be accountable to all the organisations, is huge. Even though we're siblings and we can text each other and call each other and say, 'I'm tired or I have this or that going on, let's do the call later', we had to learn quickly that we had to find a way to make it work because we had stakeholders. We had people relying on us.
People always ask me, 'Do you think there's a right age to engage in philanthropy? Do you think there such a thing as needing to understand the world, especially from a professional context before engaging in this kind of thing'? More and more, my answer is actually that I believe it's the opposite. I believe today that the philanthropic work we did together, shaped us for the professional world. It brought us together and made us much stronger as individuals because of the level of discipline that was involved at that relatively young age.
Visit to a school working with an organisation in Tanzania.
Was everyone in agreement that you would extend your efforts beyond the original four-year window?
Over the course of four years, we had become deeply involved in these projects, and some of them needed just an extra little bit of cash or just an extra little push in the timeline. Our parents were really enthused. They could see what great things it was doing for all involved, so they agreed to prolong the commitment for another four years. The extension kept going, and going, and rolled out over 10 ½ years until all of our projects were finally closed. Over those 10 years, you can imagine I went from being 21 to over 30. I had just finished my Bachelors degree when we started, so I travelled, I did a Masters degree, and did another university course. I was working for three years in the meantime. I got married, I had my first baby… For my sisters and my brother, it was the same thing. Lia eventually went onto get her Masters in teaching; Sara got her Masters in grant-making and fundraising and is now running her own consulting business independently. My brother went into finance, but we always knew he would, and it's a great asset to us too! So for all of us, working together in philanthropy shaped who we became. This has been my sector since I finished my studies, and the same thing for Sara. It changed us completely, and that goes for all of us.


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Les Obélisques et colonnes de Naples sont des structures monumentales dans le centre historique de la ville. Ils sont environ trente.

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Obélisques

Obélisque de San Gennaro
Obélisque de San Domenico
Obélisque du Gesù Nuovo
Obélisque de Portosalvo
Obélisque méridien de Naples
Obélisque de Materdei
Les neuf obélisques de Place Giuseppe de Vittorio
Obélisque de place Mercato
Obélisque de Villa Royale (o municipal)
Obélisque de place Scipione Ammirato
Obélisque de Salvator Rosa

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Colonne aux martyrs napolitains
Colonne brisée
Colonnes du temple des dioscures
Colonne de l'Immacolata
Colonne de place Saint Louis
Colonne du Fante

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edinburghnapiernews November 29, 2017 Politics
SNP accused of 'moaning in the Commons' as deputies step in for PMQs
by Peter Urpeth
Photo Above: Palace of Westminster © Mike Gimelfarb on Wikipedia
Damian Green, deputising for Theresa May at PMQs, has accused the SNP of ''moaning in the House of Commons."
In reply to a question by the SNP's Mhairi Black MP on the pension rights of women over 60 – and what the Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP referred to as "the falsehood that the Scottish Government can somehow fix the problem", the First Secretary of State said:
"I hope she agrees with me that as the population ages we need to move up the pension age. But as usual, the SNP should stop simply moaning in the Commons.
"The Scottish government does have the capacity to top-up these payments, and the SNP should go back to their own government in Holyrood, and if they want to do something about this they should do it, and get on with the day job of running Scotland."
Earlier Damian Green took questions from Labour's Emily Thornberry, deputising for the absent Jeremy Corbyn, who focused on a string of questions on the numbers of nurses and doctors currently working in the NHS.
In a series of lacklustre and fumbled replies on both sides, Thornberry and Green traded numbers on current levels of NHS staffing as opposed to 17 years ago, when John Prescott asked similar questions in the House.
At one stage in the exchange, Thornberry confused the "NHS winter crisis" with "winter fuel payments", raising the biggest jeer from Tory benches in an otherwise subdued PMQs.
#PMQs @EmilyThornberry – standing in for Jeremy Corbyn – is pushing for answers from @DamianGreen – taking Theresa May's place – on cuts to the NHS and winter fuel allowance. pic.twitter.com/0Bzo02qMtz
— EdinburghNapierNews (@NapierNewsDay) 29 November 2017
The weekly session had started with congratulations to the newly engaged royals, and to the RAF celebrating its 100th anniversary today.
The SNP's Tommy Sheppard MP – the party's spokesperson on the House of Lords, asked Damian Green when the government was going to reform the Lords, a chamber he described as being in "a 15 year crisis of credibility, and begging for reform."
Green replied stating that the government was looking at reforms but doubted that Tommy Sheppard's views represented those of the members of the Lords.
The SNP's Patrick Grady, the MP for Glasgow North, also asked a question, highlighting the issue of the recent removal by the EU of UK cities from consideration as future European City's of Culture , and asked if "the sun was setting on Empire 2.0?"
#PMQs pic.twitter.com/WyG4Vz4qCA
Damian Green replied acknowledging the role of culture in economic development and promised to continue to put pressure on the EU to permit the UK cities that had already submitted bids to be allowed to stay in the process.
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Saughton Park Glasshouse due to Re-open in January


Ladies looking to update their wardrobes were not disappointed when the top styles for spring and summer, along with a range of timeless fashion staples, were on display at the hugely successful fashion show in Freemount last Friday night.
The effervescent Celia Holman Lee was MC for the evening and during the interval and after the Show the model, stylist and television presenter enjoyed chatting to various groups of women attending the event.
Local lady Kay Fehin proved she has an eye for style when she scooped the Best Dressed Lady prize. Kay paired a purple dress with a yellow coat showcasing a look that trendsetters predict will be a winning combination for this year's style conscious woman.
Meanwhile, local retailers had their spring/ summer ranges shown off beautifully by models from the Celia Holman Lee Agency while the trade stands around the hall displayed ranges of accessories and products to compliment the fabulous clothes.
Funds generated through the fashion show will support two local projects including the development of a Youth Centre. This involves renovating an area in the centre, which will be a dedicated, safe and secure space for young people to meet and participate in activities.
The second project involves the resurfacing of the community car park which serves the community centre, school, playschool, playground, GAA grounds, after schools club, walkway, multi-sports area and Heritage Centre.


In a world increasingly occupied by noiseless hybrids and diesels of bland design, the roads and circuits of Europe are threatening to become a duller experience every day. However, not all of the continent has succumbed. Somewhere in Brittany, one small village holds out against the might which is the 21st century stranglehold on the motor car.
Yes, it's easy to see the parallels between the unnamed fictional Armorican village from which Gaulic comic book hero Asterix hails and today's very real Lohéac, a modest village a few dozen miles south of Rennes. Lohéac would be just like any other village in Brittany, except for the fact that it has named itself the Village de l'Automobile.
Solely responsible for the honourable epithat is the 17th century Manoir de la Cour Neuve, a typical Brittany manor almost literally hidden away in the woods surrounding the village. The difference is that this manor probably boasts the world's largest in-house garage. No-one would expect a museum of this magnitude in a place located as far away from everything else as this but yet there it is: over ten huge halls stretching to 14,000 square metres of exhibition space, harbouring over 400 of the finest and rarest vehicles you could imagine, including 18 Formula 1 cars. The manor garden is somewhat unusual as well, with its full-scale tarmac and rallycross circuits. (The rallycross track actually preceded the museum.) Back inside, the cars are surrounded by countless historic posters, badges and advertisement hoardings of the automobile and motor racing kind. The huge collection of toy models is breathtaking as well. It's hard to believe that a mere two decades ago the Manoir de l'Automobile, which it is now called, was just a farm, its buildings stuffed with live animals instead of stationary vehicles.
The Manoir is the brainchild of Michel Hommell, editor of well-known French motoring magazines such as Auto Passion and Échappement, and proud father of four children and a car of his own design, the Berlinette Échappement. When Hommell sought a place to house his ever-growing car collection, which he started when he was 18 years of age, he found it at Lohéac, the village where he had already introduced the art of rallycross. With the help of the locals Hommell transformed the manor into a startling museum devoted to some of the most beautiful (or interesting) cars in the world.
Top: The museum's F1 section shows France's rich past as a Grand Prix constructor.
The main attraction for any fan of Grand Prix racing must be the space designed as a temple to Formula 1. With its 18 cars, Lohéac houses one of the world's largest F1 collections. A 1997 Alesi/Berger Benetton-Renault B197 forms the centerpiece, along with two protagonists of the turbo era of the eighties, Piquet's Lotus-Honda 100T and the Prost/Rosberg McLaren-TAG MP4/2C. There's another McLaren in the shape of the flawed 1980 M29, and a 1981 Osella FA1B but the majority of the cars hails from France: four Ligiers, three AGSs, two Larrousse/Lola cars, a Prost and a Matra. That only makes you realise what a powerful Grand Prix nation France used to be, whereas today the country doesn't have a race, doesn't have a constructor (if you discount Renault because of being based in England) and doesn't even have one F1 driver. Surrounding the cars are a large collection of Ligier, Renault, AGS and Matra tidbits and some of the best known portraits of all World Champions to date.
One other F1 car is in the Ferrari pavillion, the prancing horse's ex-Tambay/Arnoux 126C3 from 1983. There, it is surrounded by a mouth-watering range of Ferrari road cars and an even more impressive amount of Ferrari models, both racers and road machines. The final ride of the man Tambay replaced at Ferrari is found around the corner, the awe-inspiring Colibri off-shore powerboat that killed Didier Pironi off the Isle of Wight. It is surrounded by the second Italian marque that Hommell was passionate about, Lamborghini. The bright red Miura in the collection sets off rather nicely against the raw might of the Colibri.
Left: Didier Pironi's Colibri provides dramatic backdrop to striking Miura.
Le Mans and rallying get their deserved attention as well. The ex-Brundle Silk Cut Jaguar XJR11 and the Courage 'Vaillante' form centre-stage in the Le Mans section, along with the Manoir-sponsored Bugatti EB110 that raced at the Sarthe in 1994. One year later Hommell entered an Aston Martin DB7 DM, also on display at the Manoir. Audi's quattro S1 rally car, the Peugeot 205 T16 Evo 2 and Lancia's 037 and Delta S4 Integrale are the crowd-pullers in a rally section that frees up space as well for a failed project like the Citroën BX 14 TC Evo. All are surrounded by France's glorious past as a car manufacturer, represented by great long-lost marques such as Alpine, Panhard, Matra, DB, Talbot, Delage and Delahaye and of course Bugatti, all the way down to the cradle – from De Dion-Bouton to Salmson. In another section, the manor presents the full history of the two French manufacturers that still remain – Renault and Peugeot/Citroën.
A climb to the first floor leads to a overwhelming number of cars that didn't fit to a theme. They are all there, side-by-side, from Facel Vega to Maserati, Porsche to De Tomaso, Simca to Austin, Trabant to Abarth. The top floor also includes a diorama presentation of the various kinds of craftsmanship that were common in the pre-automobile era. The horse-drawn carriages surrounding the displays show how their coach types – 'berline', 'break', 'coupé', 'cabriolet', 'phaeton', 'jardinière' – influenced the resulting French car design, their names still in common use to this very day.
Top: The museum's scale model collection boasts separate displays for the most famous marques.
If there one criticism we could make it's that there is too much to see at once. In most of the rooms – with the exception of the Formula 1 hall – the cars are parked almost on top of each other, taking away the opportunity to walk around them and admire them from a distance.
Still, you would be hard pressed to find a collection that is as rich as that of the Manoir de l'Automobile, perhaps with the exception of the Schlumpf Collection in Mulhouse. It takes a while to get there for almost anyone not hailing from Brittany itself but if you are in the area anyway it would be foolish not to take a detour. The Manoir is simply stunning.


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Buoyancy-Based Power Generation - Full Disclosure
Author Topic: Buoyancy-Based Power Generation - Full Disclosure (Read 38999 times)
sm0ky2
Sm0ky2's Technological Comporium:
Chapter 2: Energy Generation
Section A: Generators
Generator 44: Buoyancy Controlled Generator (BCG)
Notice of Disclosure: Aug. 17, 2010
This device and all of its uses are hereby disclosed freely, and open-source to the general public, all areas of commerce and industry, as well as for governmental, private, and institutional use. This open-source technology can be used free and without restriction, with no patents, or proprietorship of any kind, explicit, implicit or otherwise.
Disclosure of this device, its construction, its function, and its components is hereby fully disclosed, no information is to be withheld by its inventor.
The Buoyancy Controlled Generator (BCG):
[(device overview) What is the BCG?]
The BCG is a buoyant-based power generation system. A controlled-displacement-bouyancy is implemented to cause motive force in the direction of generation. In this system, power is generated during two of a three-stage cycle. Two types of generation take place;
1) buoyant-generation, 2) gravitational generation
Buoyant Generation: This is power generated by the buoyant force, or upward force caused by buoyancy. ( UP side of the cycle)
Gravitational Generation: This is power generated by the gravitational force. (DOWN side of the cycle)
The 3rd stage of the cycle is the Reload-Stage. where mobile units are reloaded into the buoyancy chamber.
There is also a 'transition' at the top end of the cycle, where the mobile units transition from buoyant to gravitational motivation.
In a cyclic nature, mobile units are transitioned up and down to facilitate power generation.
How does the BCG work?
The Buoyancy Controlled Generator operates using Buoyancy Units (B-Units), which are modified to ride on a pre-destined track.
The B-unit, its working principal, and its construction are outlined in the next post.
Re: Buoyancy-Based Power Generation - Full Disclosure
The B-Unit is a paid of concave "saucers", with the ability to flatten out, or bow-upwards in the shape of a 'bowl'.
this motion is controlled by a hydraulic cylinder in the center of the unit. Displacement, caused by the transformation of the saucers, causes the B-Unit to become buoyant in a fluid or Air.
When the hydraulic cylinder actuates, the B-Unit expands, increasing its displacement within the fluid or gas/Air.
When the unit contracts, it decreases its displacement.
This increase & decrease of mass-displacement is designed in such a way that the unit and all associated mass, becomes buoyant and non-buoyant, respectively.
Drawing 1a:
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The BCG consists of two tanks of water: Primary and Secondary.
The Primary tank is where Buoyant-Power-Generation takes place.
The Secondary tank is for the recovery, and reloading of the modified B-units.
The B-Units are modified and/or attached to a housing, allowing them to ride along a track. This track forms a circular path through the verticle-length of the primary and secondary tanks, and through the air-space between the tops of the two tanks.
Drawing 1b:
BTanks1.JPG (21.24 kB, 504x547 - viewed 4775 times.)
Situated along the track, are four main components.
A) Buoyant Generator: This generator is actuated by the buoyant force (upwards) imparted upon the B-Units. This side of the track is refered to as the 'Long Stroke' - in which the B-Units move slowly, but with more torque, than the 'Short Stroke'.
B) Gravitational Generator: This generator is actuated by the gravitational (downwards) acceleration imparted upon the B-Units from gravity. This side of the track is refered to as the 'Short Stroke' - in which the B-Units drop quickly through the gravitational field.
C) Robotic Arms: These are used to transport the B-Units during the Loading, Re-Loading, and Transition stages of the cycle.
D) Unit Reloader: When the system is in the Re-Load Stage, the Reloader stores the supply of B-Units to be used for power generation. Units are transfered from the Recovery Tank, into the Unit Reloader. The Loader Arm takes the units, one at a time and moves them into position to begin the cycle.
Drawing 1c
BTankParts1.JPG (24.14 kB, 504x547 - viewed 5777 times.)
The cycle begins with the Loader Arm - positioning Buoyancy Unit at the start point of the Long Stroke
The control unit sends a wireless signal to the transciever inside the B-Unit. this does two things, one it checks the B-status.
This is the buoyancy of the unit, relative to a "zero-B", or 0 force state. (weightlessness)
The control unit then instructs the B-Unit how to adjust its buoyancy to begin the Long Stroke.
B-unit rises, generating power along its path to the top of the Primary Tank. Where the Transition Arm moves the B-Unit to the Short-Loader at the starting point of the Short Stroke.
The Short-Loader Arm positions the B-Unit at the drop-point, and the control unit sends the command for the B-Unit to set the buoyancy chamber to minimum displacement.
B-Unit falls, generating power along its path to the Recovery Tank.
Drawing 2a
RoboticArms.JPG (36.13 kB, 504x579 - viewed 4486 times.)
Recovery and Reloading:
Recovery takes place when the B-Unit reaches the bottom of the Short Stroke. The B-Unit touches down into the water in the Secondary Tank. When all B-Units have completed their cycle, and have been recovered, the system goes into Reload Mode.
Reloading:
When the control unit recieves the recovery response from all actibe B-Units, it begins the reloading process.
The robotic arm at the top (Transition Arm) releases the top portion of the track, and raises up about 3 inches.
At the same time, another arm at the recovery point, disengages the track and lifts the Short Side of the track 3 inches, in synch with the Transition Arm.
The Tank-Doors then close. Tank doors are positioned at the top of the water-line on both tanks, and seal completely air-tight.
The door at the bottom, connecting the two tanks is then slowly opened. This creates a pressure equilibrium between the two tanks, and B-units can then be safely transfered into the Reloader.
The lower track extends slightly, connecting the track into the Reloader.
Once reloading is complete, the track disconnects, the lower door closes, the Tank Doors slowly open, and the track is lowered and reconnected. Then the system is ready to begin another cycle.
Drawings 2b, and 2c
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Reloader.JPG (14.01 kB, 504x221 - viewed 3303 times.)
That pretty much sums up the description of the generator.
Although specific components, or materials used to build this generator may have current or future patents, with respect to their particular industry, the technology behind this device is completely unpatented, and has been in use for hundreds of years.
So, give a 6-gun salute to the Hindenburg and hand your child a helium baloon. This is Sm0ky2 with a "Hail Mary" pass to the Free Energy community. Touchdown, with 3 months left in the 2nd quarter.
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broli
You sure have put some work behind it.
But wouldn't it take energy to expand the floaters under water.
FreeEnergy
...and how would you keep the water from leaking down into the small water container? the water would drain from the big water container.
spinn_MP
But wouldn't it take energy to expand the floaters under water?
Yep, I'm wondering what SmOky2 smokes these days, too...
This concept is over-complicated, and absolutely non-working, at least as a "FE" device...
But it's still nice to see someone dedicating such a marvelous idea to humanity. :-)
Useful info for the inventor:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/themes/buoyant.htm
elite_member
Quote from: spinn_MP on August 17, 2010, 09:50:34 PM
If you have something critical to say then say it. Don't relegate the criticism to the clown Simanek. @sm0ky2's device is problematic but not because of your sorry input.
Quote from: Omnibus on August 17, 2010, 10:15:13 PM
Piss off, OmniBot! Go play with that "OU" "SMOT" of yours...
Go away, troll.
From all the lectures you've have been given for free from all the people, that's the only phrase you can remember? "GO AWAY, TROLL?"
Btw, "Omnibus" is a synonim for "Troll", check the google...
Hear it again -- go away mean little twerp.


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'Door kick' TikTok trend could be mistaken for home invasion, California police say
Helena Wegner
A popular TikTok trend that started in college dorm rooms has spread across U.S. neighborhoods.
And residents aren't happy about it.
The "door kick" challenge — or the "heartbeat" challenge — involves someone kicking or pounding on a door to Kesha's 2012 "Die Young" song before running off.
In some videos, the door is kicked so hard by the prankster that it opens.
For some homeowners, the prank could be mistaken for a home invasion, the Petaluma Police Department in California said in a Facebook post on Nov. 30.
The challenge could turn deadly if the owner defended their home with violence, police said.
A child in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested in November and accused of doing the door kick challenge on multiple homes in one neighborhood, WAFB reported.
One of the neighbors said her husband was at home recovering from open-heart surgery when the child kicked their door, the news outlet reported.
A pastor's front door was damaged in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, by a person doing the challenge at his home, WHTM-TV reported.
"My initial reaction was anger and frustration, but since then, it has been about our community and our neighbors here in the city and wondering if someone else has experienced this or other kinds of property damage that come with pranks," the Rev. Craig Gommer told the news outlet.
Taking part in the TikTok challenge can be dangerous and could result in legal repercussions, which include facing trespassing, property damage, vandalism, or breaking and entering charges, police said.
Target's gay pride nutcracker goes viral on TikTok — but good luck finding one
Bald eagle swoops down to snatch shark from Florida angler's line, TikTok video shows
Spicy chip challenge leads Georgia middle school to call Poison Control, principal says
Caris LeVert scored 22 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter, Malcolm Brogdon added 19 and the Indiana Pacers increased the pressure on Lakers coach Frank Vogel with a 111-104 victory over Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Domantas Sabonis had 20 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists as the Pacers snapped their four-game losing streak with just their second victory in 12 games.
Government says gene editing can develop climate crisis resistant crops while critics fear it is another step towards GM
Researchers say teaching materials play down harms and shift responsibility on to young people
Leveraging IBM's key management capabilities, Metaco's Seamus Donoghue said there are a number of similar deals in the pipeline.


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A question of control
Surprise, surprise. The White House will clamp a tight lid on Gen. David H. Patraeus when he reports on whether or not the surge worked in Iraq. The Bush administration wants to limit what Patraeus to a "private briefing" on the Hill and then the White House will release the "official report" for public consumption. Deja vu all over again?
Surprise, surprise. The White House will clamp a tight lid on Gen. David H. Patraeus when he reports on whether or not the surge worked in Iraq.
The Bush administration wants to limit what Patraeus to a "private briefing" on the Hill and then the White House will release the "official report" for public consumption.
Deja vu all over again?
An Early Clash Over Iraq Report – Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next month of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker to a private congressional briefing, suggesting instead that the Bush administration's progress… [Washington Post Political News]


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Cary, NC – Michael Edwards and Ron Barbee remember the rivalry between two ladies in their families, one from the Edwards family and the other from the Barbee family.
My great grandfather was James A. Edwards. James married Myrtle Victoria Upchurch Edwards. She was a big lady, big personality and big physically. James was a very successful tobacco farmer back in the hay-day of tobacco farming. If you were a good farmer, you could make a lot of money raising tobacco back then, so you would build a big, wood-framed Victorian house.
There were a lot of Victorian farmhouses built in Wake County between 1880 to 1930. James built a real nice Victorian house on Davis Drive for he and his wife in 1909 or 1910. James had a sister Lilla who married Luther Barbee. Luther bought the farm across the street from James on Davis Drive, which had a very little house on the land.
Over the years there developed a strong rivalry between James' sister and his wife. The story goes that when James and Myrtle built their big Victorian farmhouse, then Lilla and Luther Barbee added onto their little house, turning it into a big Victorian across the street from the Edwards. Then the two couples had competing, big, two-story Victorian houses that for a time, continued to grow to be the biggest ones on Davis Drive.
They all went to Morrisville Baptist Church. When James and Myrtle arrived at church on Sunday, Myrtle would waltz down one side aisle wearing a big fur or a big hat. Not to be outdone, the next week Lilla would strut down the other side aisle wearing an even bigger hat or a bigger fur. The family legend is that they were always very competitive with each other, trying to see who could out-build and out-dress who. The rivalry became the talk of the town.
The James Edwards house was built or renovated around 1912. When Luther Barbee married Lilla Edwards, Luther was living near today's Research Triangle Park, but Lilla wanted to be close to the home where she grew up, so he bought the farm across the road from the Edwards on Davis Drive.
There was a small, two-room old house there at the time. In the winter of 1914-15, they tore the front off the old house, put a Victorian front on it and began an addition because Lilla's sister-in-law, Myrtle Edwards, had a new Victorian house across the street. Eventually the two ladies each had a very nice Victorian home facing each other across Davis Drive.
The stories about that rivalry between the two women have been passed down through both the Edwards and the Barbee families over the years.
Story by Peggy Van Scoyoc. Much of Cary's Heritage is taken from her book, "Just a Horse-Stopping Place, an Oral History of Cary, North Carolina," published in August, 2006. The book is a collection of oral history interviews conducted between local citizens and Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel. The rest comes from later oral history interviews with local citizens. Photo courtesy of Preston Retreat.