It was the last day of school for my son Tito about two weeks ago so I decided to surprise his teachers with some coconut cupcakes! These were really nice (If I do say say myself) and I know you will enjoy making them (for when school resumes ;). You know I don't like complicated things, so here's an easy recipe for you to follow, it take less than 45 minutes for you to make this. There's a video recipe on my YouTube channel so click HERE to SUBSCRIBE so you get ALL my recipes and videos!
Allow butter and eggs to be at room temperature for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and prepare your cupcake papers.
In a bowl, add butter and whisk together with a whisk or electronic mixer for 1 minute (till light and fluffy).
Gradually add sugar to the butter and keep beating for another minute.
Add eggs, one at a time and beat till well combined.
Sieve flour, then add it gradually, while also adding the milk. See video on how to do this below. Add 1/2 cup of desiccated coconut.
Once the batter has been properly mixed, use a small scoop and transfer the batter to the cupcake papers, in the cupcake pan.
You can test for doneness, but inserting a toothpick, if it comes out sticky, keep baking, if it comes out clean then it is ready.
Take out the cupcakes and allow to cook for 10 minutes.
Kuku kee mi Sisi, this is luscious!!! I'm sure gonna try this biko this video is making me drool.
Well! My dear Sissie I am commenting on your recent video about baby names. Hmmm, I like the way you just threw in this video and now have us all assuming or believing you are with child. If so,Congratulations! If no.. In due time. I enjoy your videos of life in Lagos as it allows us to see life in another part of the world. Would love to hear from you.
This looks so yummy. Nice innovation!
Wow this looks really delicious Bt I usually end up with a stiff cake when I use mixer to mix in the flour is dere anything I am doing wrong? Your chocolate cake recipe is just too good I make it over nd over again thanks a lot.


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"A treasure trove of folk and indie rock, the Moonbees are starting to make a name for themselves in VA. Reminiscent of the Shins and Television, these guys make for a great night out!"
"The Moonbees are one of the most original and creative new groups we've heard in quite a while..."
"The RVA/Charlottesville band The Moonbees have a very wide range of sounds at their disposal, from psych-folk to electric blues and beyond--but all of them are awesome."
"On it's new album, the Moonbees keep traditional folk rock alive but keep it fresh and updated. Money may not grow on trees, but talent sure grows on the Moonbees."
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Lana Del Rey woos Detroit crowd with melancholy and magic
Photo by Austin Evans Eighmey
There's something beautifully macabre about a gaggle of teenage girls screaming the words "We were born to die" into a microphone, adjusting their flower crowns mid-freakout. But this is commonplace for a Lana Del Rey show. As the unofficial empress of melancholy and a pioneer of "sadcore," she has single-handedly ushered in a new era of manic pixie dream girl aesthetic — a Bond girl on quaaludes. Swoon.
Lady Lana brought her "L.A. To The Moon Tour" to Little Caesars Arena Wednesday night. Though it may have appeared to be a disappointing turn out (the floor was less than half-full due to the tightly formed crowd and the upper-bowl had been curtained off), the air was undeniably electric and there was no shortage of fangirl (and -boy) tears. We were in Lana's world now.
This world was a sleepy rendition of a California lagoon and a perpetual summer trapped in a Hollywood motel. Palm trees, beach chairs, and a faux shoreline composed of faux rocks festooned the stage. A projection of water consumed the floor and the screen behind her toggled between the moon, the sun, butterflies, and of course, lots of Lana.
The singer emerged in a silver sequined top, leather mini-skirt, and an enchanting case of Rita Hayworth bedhead, kicking off the 22-song set with "13 Beaches" from last year's Lust for Life. "Pretty When You Cry" followed, in which she laid across the stage joined by her set of faithful backup dancers. This was a theme on Wednesday night: Lightly choreographed and simplistically theatrical.
"I can't tell you what it means to be here with you tonight in one of the coolest cities in the whole world," she told the crowd. "We've been talking about this show all week."
Even the most unremarkable gesture (crouching, for example) elicited a response one might expect from a run-of-the-mill, microphone headset-wearing, Teen Beat pop star. Screaming. Guttural screaming. The set was laced with a constant flow of interruptions as fans shrieked feral declarations of Lana love — a distraction that might irk some performers was received with smiles and coy hair flips from their queen and even fueled a fit of laughter during "Ride."
Lana tapped into her inner Marilyn Monroe and crooned an even breathier version of "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to introduce "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing" where she altered some of the words to reference our current troubled leadership, threatening to break the president's Twitter and mentioning fake news. This comes as no surprise as she very famously placed a witchcraft hex on Donald Trump last year. "Is it the end of an era?" she asked. "Is it the end of America?"
"Change," "Black Beauty," and "Young and Beautiful" were turned into a seamless medley and served as an intro to what could be considered an unconventional, yet totally magical, intermission. More than half-way through her set, she took pause and sauntered to the front row, taking to the stairs in slow-motion. It is here that she spent nearly ten minutes taking photos, signing autographs, and collecting gifts from fans — never once did her pouty smile falter. There was nothing self-indulgent about this moment, surprisingly. In fact, it resonated with sincerity and gratitude.
"I hope it's OK that I took a minute to see my friends," she said arranging her gift bounty along her grotto facade — which, over the course of the show, had grown into an altar.
Lana returned to the stage and performed "Video Games" from a swing that had been suspended from the rafters, followed by an a cappella version of "Get Free," moving into "Summertime Sadness," and her closer, "Off to the Races."
Lana did what Lana does best — she brought the sunshine, but more than that, she basked in it. And we feel pretty lucky she invited us along for the ride.
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For Quiltfolk Issue 01, we crisscrossed our home state of Oregon, a wildly diverse piece of the American landscape known for its natural beauty and pioneering spirit. We hit the road with notebooks and cameras in hand, documenting the first leg of our long and glorious journey ahead.
164 pages, offset printed and perfect bound, full color on uncoated paper. Printed in the USA.
While she's best known for her popular color-wheel footstools, you won't find Sheila Snyder with her feet up. Hers is the story of a self-made business woman, armed with determination and more than a little fearlessness. She's fast becoming a well-known fixture in the quilting world, so we wanted to know how she got her start.
The moment you step into Marge Wall's shop, Country Quilts, you notice that it's not your average quilt shop. Thousands of quilts, mostly vintage, are displayed on her walls. She can tell the story of each and every one – the year it was made (some from as far back as the 1860s), the type of quilt, the reason why it's hanging in her store, and everything else a quilt connoisseur would want to know.
It's Friday evening in the hip Alberta Arts District of Portland, Oregon, and despite the steamy ninety-six-degree temperature, the streets are packed with neighbors dining alfresco and window shoppers exploring chic boutiques and local galleries. Tonight, one business is keeping its doors open later than usual and summoning customers to mix, mingle, and sew.
Walking through the doors of Sew Creative, we were immediately immersed in a world of textile art. The shop was buzzing with customers young and old — a good sign that quilting is alive and well in Ashland. The shop's black-and-white checkerboard floor provides the perfect backdrop for the thousands of bolts of fabric displayed. But Sew Creative doesn't stock just any fabric: we found hundreds of Aboriginal fabrics, along with African prints, bright batiks, and hand-dyed wool.


Frontera Audubon is bringing a Live & Learn lecture series to the mid-valley this fall and winter. Every other Tuesday there will be a presentation at 6 pm in the Visitors' Center open to the public.
Continuing our February lectures is Joe Vidales and his El Sal Del Rey Presentation.
Joe Vidales is a Weslaco native. He was a college teacher of Psychology and retired in 2010. He now volunteers at the Weslaco Museum and has become a researcher, historian, and presenter.


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https://www.milfordmirror.com/sports/high-school-sports/article/Foran-Law-track-update-13893439.php
Foran, Law track update
Published 5:01 pm EDT, Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Jordan Beck, Mike Plaskon and Alex Fisk each took home a pair of first-place finished when the Jonathan Law boys team defeated Guilford High, 100-50. Beck won the 110 high hurdles (15.8) and the 300 IM (44.4) in the season opener for coach Joe Beler's Lawmen. Plaskon was best in the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter run. Fish won the long jump and triple jump. Dean Pettway was first in the high jump. Leading the way in the field events with first-place finishes were Sheldon Gargano (shot put), Ethan Deer (pole vault) and Storm Furtado (discus). Matt Marino, Jon Vitale, Chris Wootton and Tyler McKenna-Hansen won the 4x800. First in the 4x100 were Alex Lazar, Naheim Washington, Ethan Saley and Plaskon. Earning firsts for Law at the 42nd annual Hammonasset Freshman Invitational on Saturday were Washington (100), Vaughn Owens (shot put) and the 4x100 relay team of Chris Wootton, Ethan Harrigan, Spencer Deer and Washington. Owens was second in the discus, Deep was third in the long jump, Wootton third in the 800 and Jon Contaxis fifth in the 800. Wootton, Contaxis, Harrigan and Washington were third in the 4x400 relay.
Foran girls track
Foran High dropped decisions to Amity High and Sheehan High on Thursday. Posting wins for coach Rick Raucci's Lions were Tessa Malesky in the 300 intermediate hurdles (56.93), Abigail Huebner in the high jump (4-8) and Pauline Hernandez in the 800-meter run (2:42).
Law girls track
Jonathan Law lost to Wilbur Cross (82-68) and Guilford (90-60) to open its season, but coach Linwood Schulte feels he has plenty to be proud of. "We had some outstanding performances," he said. "It began with a sweep of the pole vault by Lily Baldieri, Liz Lombardi and Holly Caldwell. Other winners against both schools were Samara Thacker, with state qualifying times in the 100 meters (13.0) and 200 meters (27.9). Shawna Winters threw a qualifying 107-9 in the discus, with the other double winner Olivia Kowalski in the javelin with a throw of 84-feet." Law also qualified the 4x800 team of Kaylee Brotherton,Alexis Voytek, Midori Hughesand Grace Wootton, along with the 4X100 of Holly Caldwell, Dominicka Michnick, Rhea Grant and Samara Thacker. Schulte also got a pleasant surprise as freshman Andiana Bruno jumped 15-2 to qualify for states in her first track meet.
Law freshmen girls track
In his nearly 40 years as the girls track and field coach at Jonathan Law, Linwood Schulte has seen his share of outstanding freshman classes come through his program. After Saturday's 42nd annual Hammonasset Freshman Invitational, it's clear his has another outstanding group in his program. Led by individual first-place finishes by Adriana Bruno and Hanna Broderick, and victories in the 4x400 and 4x800 relays the Law girls, enjoyed a solid the future-is-bright day. Bruno won the 100-meter hurdles in 20.24 seconds, took second in the long jump (14-feet-9) and was part of the second-place 400-meter relay team that also included Brooke Dillman, Julia Satterlee and Ashley Shaw. Broderick, meanwhile, won the high jump (4-4) and was third in the triple jump (28-6.5). The 4x400 relay included Alexis Voytek, Katelyn Konareski, Hannah Rascoll and Midori Hughes and won the event by more than 15 seconds in 4:46.33. The same quartet teamed together to run away from the field in the 4x800, capturing the event in 11:18.15, an amazing 36 seconds ahead of second place. Kaylee Brotherton, coming off an impressive freshman cross country season, wrapped up the top-three finishes for the Law girls, taking third in the 800 meters in 2:47.34.


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The following lots come from the great Hertfordshire house, Knebworth, home of the Lytton family since 1490. The pinnacled Gothic fantasy with its roofline of turrets, crenellation, gargoyles and cupolas actually conceals a much earlier building built by Sir Robert Lytton soon after he purchased the manor in 1490. Sir Robert built a quadrangular brick house around a courtyard and the house remained virtually unchanged until 1811 when Elizabeth Warbuton-Lytton (1773-1843) pulled down three sides of the Tudor house and encased the remaining wing in stucco with Gothic detailing. It was her son, the novelist Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who further remodelled the house after he inherited it in 1843 and employed John Crace to decorate the interior. Much of Crace's decoration was swept away in Edwardian times by Sir Edwin Lutyens who had married into the family, but his magnificent State Drawing Room survives.


A helicopter flies over the Bento Rodrigues district, covered with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst in Mariana, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2015.
The search for more than 20 people missing after a dam break buried the tiny Brazilian village of Bento Rodrigues in mining waste was suspended for the night late Saturday.
One death was confirmed and at least 24 workers and residents of several small towns were missing. Only about 600 people live in Bento Rodrigues, in Brazil's central Minas Gerais state.
A reservoir holding tons of iron ore waste burst Thursday, followed by a second dam holding water. A huge river of mud and sludge poured downhill, wiping out Bento Rodrigues and flooding other towns.
Residents of Bento Rodrigues said a deafening clap was the only hint they got that the sea of viscous, clay-red mud was about to hit.
The mine that was the source of the dam burst belongs to Samarco, which assured residents that the sludge is not toxic. Environmental officials will conduct tests, however.
Samarco said mine operators detected a tremor shortly before the dam burst, but an exact cause of the disaster is unclear.
Since Friday, hundreds of people have taken shelter in a gym in Mariana as donations of food, clothing and mattresses pour in. Many of the survivors have injuries to their feet, from fleeing their houses barefoot and trekking through the devastated terrain and then onto scorching asphalt.
The public prosecutor's office has said it may file criminal charges against Samarco, which is jointly owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale and Australia's BHP Billiton, over the facility's lack of an emergency siren.
But Samarco CEO Ricardo Vescovi said that as far as he knows Brazilian law doesn't require an emergency alarm for dam failures and that authorities had approved the company's emergency response plan.
The mayor's office in Mariana said Samarco officials assured them the mining company would pay for the damages, but did not provide details.


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Opinion What a great way to kick off the New Year, especially for those of us not exactly thrilled with the current occupant of the White House. fying weapons of mass destruction since April was quietly withdrawn last week after coming up empty. This, combined with the admission by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the United State's strongest ally in Iraq, that WMD probably won't ever be found, and a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace essentially confirming what half the country has known from Day One: the administration "systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programs." Not even the spin doctors at Fox News could make this look good for the administration. To top it off, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill confirmed another glowing aspect of this administration to go along with deception: warmongering. O'Neill stated that Bush had his sights on Iraq and Saddam immediately after his inauguration in January of 2001, not in the weeks after Sept. 11, as previously held. Last Sunday on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," O'Neill said, "From the very beginning ... It was all about finding a way to do it. [Remove Saddam] That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this.'" Animals are wonderful creatures, from the whales that live in the oceans to loyal dogs. As a person who loves animals, I'm all for the humane treatment of them. In my opinion, it's wrong to dissect frogs and fetal pigs for science class, it's wrong to take an animal from the wild and make it a house pet, and it's wrong to make fur coats out of rabbits, foxes and other such creatures for the sake of fashion. I'm not out there protesting these ideas, but to those that are, good for you. That is what the First Amendment is all about. However, I do have a problem with the way People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are protesting for their cause. Cindy Munoz Columnist During the holidays, PETA activists across the country were outside performances of The Nutcracker, handing out fliers entitled "Your Mommy Kills Animals!" to children— particularly the children whose mothers had on fur coats. As if the title were not bad enough, on the front was an illustration of a woman with a knife hacking at a rabbit with blood splattering everywhere. The following is just a sample of what children would read off the flyer: "Do you have a puppy you take for walks or play ball with? Or a kitty that likes to chase string? ... How would you feel if someone took away your kitty or puppy, stomped on their Imperative U.S. issues being undermined Bush's moon plan shouldn't he country's top priority First, it was revealed that the 400-member team that's been in Iraq looking for those mysti Co umnist Guys, I'm no rocket scientist but I highly doubt Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are hiding on the moon. Well, they found a way to do it. At the cost of more than 500 hundred— probably thousands—of Iraq and U.S. lives. But wait, there's more. The Labor Department released a report last week showing that instead of the 100,000 new jobs experts expected to be created in December, only 1,000 were actually added. The unemployment rate did drop from 5.9 to 5.7 percent but only because 300,000 people stopped looking for work, thus removing themselves from the labor pool and the Labor Department's survey. So much for the economic recovery we've been promised. But fear not, fellow Americans. Bush has a plan to fix all of these problems. We're going to the moon! Wow. I know what you're thinking. Wait, we're looking at record deficits to the tune of half a trillion dollars. This government is spending money faster than a shopaholic on Christmas Eve. How can we afford to go to the moon when we can't even afford to give hot water to our troops in Iraq? The last time anyone planned a moon voyage, 1989, NASA estimated the total cost at around $400 billion. That went over like a lead zeppelin. But why stop at the moon when you could have the whole universe? Bush's plan also includes a manned exploration of Mars, which is sure to push the whole project upwards of $ 1 trillion. That doesn't include the astronomical (no pun intended) maintenance fees a permanent moon base will require. Coincidentally, Reuters reports that "there could be more exchanges of technology between NASA and the Defense Department" during this grand endeavor. Guys, I'm no rocket scientist, but I highly doubt that Bin Laden and A1 Qaeda are hiding on the moon. If we're serious about fighting terrorism, we need to do more than change a color level every few weeks. All kidding aside, this operation sounds like a great idea, but until someone figures out how to power rockets with the massive red ink this administration is hemorrhaging, it's just not possible. In fact, it's downright harmful to throw money at the stars while neglecting priorities here on Earth. Perhaps when we had budget surpluses under Clinton, maybe. But those have gone the way of the dodo with Bush at the helm. But not now. Not when Homeland Security is nothing more than an under-funded, over-burdened administration. Not when The No Child Left Behind Act, designed to improve public education, is nothing but an under-funded mandate that leaves lots of children behind. Not when Social Security and Medicare are on the brink of complete and utter collapse for the first time in over a decade. Fly me to the moon, sure, but not when so much needs to get done here on Earth. George Atsaves is a freshman communication/political science student. E-mail comments to depauliaopinion@depaul. edu PETA pro-animal message gels gruesome Usually ethical PETA crosses a moral line with anti-fur demonstration head, and ripped their skin off their bodies?" Not exactly something you would want your small child or younger sibling to be reading. PETA's protests against making animals into fur coats are admirable, but this method was one of the worst ways [PETA] purposely exposed children to violent images ...to make them believe their mothers are killers and any animals would be in serious danger if these furwearing moms got a hold of them. to go about it. They purposely exposed children to violent images, trying to make them believe their mothers are killers and any animal (especially family pets) would be in serious danger if these fiir-wearing moms got a hold of them. Does PETA really think that this strategy will help PAGE 11 THE DEPAULIA FRIDAY, JANUARY16, 2004 Chicago culture not getting the appreciation it deserves Progress is a funny thing, especially in a place like Chicago. Many times there's a balancing act between building the new and preserving the old. In many cases that compromise has been made, whether for architecturally significant buildings or culturally significant institutions. Although, many times it has not, if we're not careful, much of what we know of as Ted Schuster Columnist Chicago could be gone. Progress doesn't necessarily mean getting rid of everything that has come before. Demon Dogs is just one of those places here in Chicago that is either in imminent danger of the wrecking ball or is already history. And what the policy makers and business movers don't understand is the importance of such places to this city. They are the lifeblood of Chicago. And I don't mean to overstate the case, but it is true. Joints like Demon Dogs are what separate Chicago from other nondescript cities, say, Toledo. Chicago is, in my unbiased opinion, still a great and unique place undoubtedly the best city in America, hands down. But the increased big-business chain store yuppification, if not slowed down, could make Chicago into a bland, unoriginal place. It's happening already. North Avenue looks like a compact version of Schaumburg with less parnking. Maxwell Street is gone. A Starbucks appears on every other corner. With the new Fullerton El station, there were plans for a Caribou Coffee. Ridiculous. I would much rather spend $3 on a meal at Demon Dogs than a small latte at Caribou Coffee. Why can't the good people at the CTA find it in their hearts to put Demon Dogs into that proposed space? It's a perfect fit. People don't come back to the neighborhood to visit the good ol' Caribou Coffee of their youth. No, they come back because they can get something here in Lincoln Park that they can't get anywhere else. DePaulia photo by Catherine Leyden Demon Dog's rightful home. Now don't get me wrong, your Starbucks and McDonald's do have their place. They're quick, easy, some are cheap, and they provide jobs in Chicago—something we dearly need. It just hurts to see establishments such as Demon Dogs go into oblivion. It's a part of the culture here in Chicago, whether you like it or not. I recently went to Andy's, a jazz/blues club on 11 E. Hubbard St., and in the crowd were people from Australia, North Africa, Sweden and the west suburbs, among others. Andy's isn't in danger of closing, but is another example of what makes Chicago a great city. People come from all over the world for Chicago institutions like those. You can't forget or simply disregard places like Demon Dogs. Or, if you are the CTA, maybe you're saying, "Sure I can." Of course you can, if you want it bad enough. And that's a shame. These are the same people that call Chicago the Second City. What a stupid tag. If in fact we do have an inferiority complex, no real Chicagoan would admit it. Hey, times change, culture changes, but that doesn't mean that you bulldoze everything that doesn't meet your current tastes. This is a city steeped in tradition, as it should be. And we should hold on to these traditions as we move on to other things. Ted Schuster is a junior communication student. E-mail comments to depauliaopinion@depaul. edu bring about the end of killing animals for fur? Did they even think that such a flyer might bring about more harm than good to a child? What PETA did is irresponsible and without conscience. The organization could have used other methods to educate little kids, or maybe they could have just focused their campaign on adults. They are so adamant about protecting the bunnies, foxes and raccoons from becoming winter wear, that it seems that they didn't stop and think what this handout would do to little kids psychologically. Or maybe the organization knew exactly what they were doing and purposely targeted children so when the nightmares and fear set in, it could be used to bring their point across. That's pretty low. It's just not right having children think that Fluffy or Fido will become mommy's next victim because she wears a fur coat. Sometimes you have to take drastic measures to express ideas, which is something PETA is known for doing. However, it crosses the line when it comes to targeting impressionable kids, especially by using graphic depictions and other such tactics. Like I said, I believe it's wrong to have animals suffer a cruel fate just for the sake of human vanity, but at the same time, I believe that people can elicit change without having to make a child suffer. Cindy Munoz is a junior communication student. E-mail comments to depauliaopinion@depaul.edu
Transcript Opinion What a great way to kick off the New Year, especially for those of us not exactly thrilled with the current occupant of the White House. fying weapons of mass destruction since April was quietly withdrawn last week after coming up empty. This, combined with the admission by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the United State's strongest ally in Iraq, that WMD probably won't ever be found, and a report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace essentially confirming what half the country has known from Day One: the administration "systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missile programs." Not even the spin doctors at Fox News could make this look good for the administration. To top it off, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill confirmed another glowing aspect of this administration to go along with deception: warmongering. O'Neill stated that Bush had his sights on Iraq and Saddam immediately after his inauguration in January of 2001, not in the weeks after Sept. 11, as previously held. Last Sunday on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," O'Neill said, "From the very beginning ... It was all about finding a way to do it. [Remove Saddam] That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this.'" Animals are wonderful creatures, from the whales that live in the oceans to loyal dogs. As a person who loves animals, I'm all for the humane treatment of them. In my opinion, it's wrong to dissect frogs and fetal pigs for science class, it's wrong to take an animal from the wild and make it a house pet, and it's wrong to make fur coats out of rabbits, foxes and other such creatures for the sake of fashion. I'm not out there protesting these ideas, but to those that are, good for you. That is what the First Amendment is all about. However, I do have a problem with the way People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are protesting for their cause. Cindy Munoz Columnist During the holidays, PETA activists across the country were outside performances of The Nutcracker, handing out fliers entitled "Your Mommy Kills Animals!" to children— particularly the children whose mothers had on fur coats. As if the title were not bad enough, on the front was an illustration of a woman with a knife hacking at a rabbit with blood splattering everywhere. The following is just a sample of what children would read off the flyer: "Do you have a puppy you take for walks or play ball with? Or a kitty that likes to chase string? ... How would you feel if someone took away your kitty or puppy, stomped on their Imperative U.S. issues being undermined Bush's moon plan shouldn't he country's top priority First, it was revealed that the 400-member team that's been in Iraq looking for those mysti Co umnist Guys, I'm no rocket scientist but I highly doubt Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are hiding on the moon. Well, they found a way to do it. At the cost of more than 500 hundred— probably thousands—of Iraq and U.S. lives. But wait, there's more. The Labor Department released a report last week showing that instead of the 100,000 new jobs experts expected to be created in December, only 1,000 were actually added. The unemployment rate did drop from 5.9 to 5.7 percent but only because 300,000 people stopped looking for work, thus removing themselves from the labor pool and the Labor Department's survey. So much for the economic recovery we've been promised. But fear not, fellow Americans. Bush has a plan to fix all of these problems. We're going to the moon! Wow. I know what you're thinking. Wait, we're looking at record deficits to the tune of half a trillion dollars. This government is spending money faster than a shopaholic on Christmas Eve. How can we afford to go to the moon when we can't even afford to give hot water to our troops in Iraq? The last time anyone planned a moon voyage, 1989, NASA estimated the total cost at around $400 billion. That went over like a lead zeppelin. But why stop at the moon when you could have the whole universe? Bush's plan also includes a manned exploration of Mars, which is sure to push the whole project upwards of $ 1 trillion. That doesn't include the astronomical (no pun intended) maintenance fees a permanent moon base will require. Coincidentally, Reuters reports that "there could be more exchanges of technology between NASA and the Defense Department" during this grand endeavor. Guys, I'm no rocket scientist, but I highly doubt that Bin Laden and A1 Qaeda are hiding on the moon. If we're serious about fighting terrorism, we need to do more than change a color level every few weeks. All kidding aside, this operation sounds like a great idea, but until someone figures out how to power rockets with the massive red ink this administration is hemorrhaging, it's just not possible. In fact, it's downright harmful to throw money at the stars while neglecting priorities here on Earth. Perhaps when we had budget surpluses under Clinton, maybe. But those have gone the way of the dodo with Bush at the helm. But not now. Not when Homeland Security is nothing more than an under-funded, over-burdened administration. Not when The No Child Left Behind Act, designed to improve public education, is nothing but an under-funded mandate that leaves lots of children behind. Not when Social Security and Medicare are on the brink of complete and utter collapse for the first time in over a decade. Fly me to the moon, sure, but not when so much needs to get done here on Earth. George Atsaves is a freshman communication/political science student. E-mail comments to depauliaopinion@depaul. edu PETA pro-animal message gels gruesome Usually ethical PETA crosses a moral line with anti-fur demonstration head, and ripped their skin off their bodies?" Not exactly something you would want your small child or younger sibling to be reading. PETA's protests against making animals into fur coats are admirable, but this method was one of the worst ways [PETA] purposely exposed children to violent images ...to make them believe their mothers are killers and any animals would be in serious danger if these furwearing moms got a hold of them. to go about it. They purposely exposed children to violent images, trying to make them believe their mothers are killers and any animal (especially family pets) would be in serious danger if these fiir-wearing moms got a hold of them. Does PETA really think that this strategy will help PAGE 11 THE DEPAULIA FRIDAY, JANUARY16, 2004 Chicago culture not getting the appreciation it deserves Progress is a funny thing, especially in a place like Chicago. Many times there's a balancing act between building the new and preserving the old. In many cases that compromise has been made, whether for architecturally significant buildings or culturally significant institutions. Although, many times it has not, if we're not careful, much of what we know of as Ted Schuster Columnist Chicago could be gone. Progress doesn't necessarily mean getting rid of everything that has come before. Demon Dogs is just one of those places here in Chicago that is either in imminent danger of the wrecking ball or is already history. And what the policy makers and business movers don't understand is the importance of such places to this city. They are the lifeblood of Chicago. And I don't mean to overstate the case, but it is true. Joints like Demon Dogs are what separate Chicago from other nondescript cities, say, Toledo. Chicago is, in my unbiased opinion, still a great and unique place undoubtedly the best city in America, hands down. But the increased big-business chain store yuppification, if not slowed down, could make Chicago into a bland, unoriginal place. It's happening already. North Avenue looks like a compact version of Schaumburg with less parnking. Maxwell Street is gone. A Starbucks appears on every other corner. With the new Fullerton El station, there were plans for a Caribou Coffee. Ridiculous. I would much rather spend $3 on a meal at Demon Dogs than a small latte at Caribou Coffee. Why can't the good people at the CTA find it in their hearts to put Demon Dogs into that proposed space? It's a perfect fit. People don't come back to the neighborhood to visit the good ol' Caribou Coffee of their youth. No, they come back because they can get something here in Lincoln Park that they can't get anywhere else. DePaulia photo by Catherine Leyden Demon Dog's rightful home. Now don't get me wrong, your Starbucks and McDonald's do have their place. They're quick, easy, some are cheap, and they provide jobs in Chicago—something we dearly need. It just hurts to see establishments such as Demon Dogs go into oblivion. It's a part of the culture here in Chicago, whether you like it or not. I recently went to Andy's, a jazz/blues club on 11 E. Hubbard St., and in the crowd were people from Australia, North Africa, Sweden and the west suburbs, among others. Andy's isn't in danger of closing, but is another example of what makes Chicago a great city. People come from all over the world for Chicago institutions like those. You can't forget or simply disregard places like Demon Dogs. Or, if you are the CTA, maybe you're saying, "Sure I can." Of course you can, if you want it bad enough. And that's a shame. These are the same people that call Chicago the Second City. What a stupid tag. If in fact we do have an inferiority complex, no real Chicagoan would admit it. Hey, times change, culture changes, but that doesn't mean that you bulldoze everything that doesn't meet your current tastes. This is a city steeped in tradition, as it should be. And we should hold on to these traditions as we move on to other things. Ted Schuster is a junior communication student. E-mail comments to depauliaopinion@depaul. edu bring about the end of killing animals for fur? Did they even think that such a flyer might bring about more harm than good to a child? What PETA did is irresponsible and without conscience. The organization could have used other methods to educate little kids, or maybe they could have just focused their campaign on adults. They are so adamant about protecting the bunnies, foxes and raccoons from becoming winter wear, that it seems that they didn't stop and think what this handout would do to little kids psychologically. Or maybe the organization knew exactly what they were doing and purposely targeted children so when the nightmares and fear set in, it could be used to bring their point across. That's pretty low. It's just not right having children think that Fluffy or Fido will become mommy's next victim because she wears a fur coat. Sometimes you have to take drastic measures to express ideas, which is something PETA is known for doing. However, it crosses the line when it comes to targeting impressionable kids, especially by using graphic depictions and other such tactics. Like I said, I believe it's wrong to have animals suffer a cruel fate just for the sake of human vanity, but at the same time, I believe that people can elicit change without having to make a child suffer. Cindy Munoz is a junior communication student. E-mail comments to depauliaopinion@depaul.edu


John stood up with much difficulty as the aircraft appeared to be out of control and in a weaving dive. Again he made his way to the astrodome and made the following description of events. "I saw through the astrodome all the starboard main plane and fuselage rear of me to be one mass of flame. My 1/C was dead, so as the navigator was carrying out jump procedure I took my off my helmet, put on my chute, and moved forward, only to lose my senses just before reaching the engineer". When John gained consciousness he lay on the ground, apparently blown from the aircraft at 20,000 feet. However he had no idea how he got down alive. Was he helped out by one of the crew, or blown out, his parachute deploying through the force of the blast? Alive he was, but he was alone, and deep behind enemy lines. On top of this he was hurting. He had broken his nose, and was bleeding from both mouth and head, which he had gashed. He was bruised and scratched all down his right side, and his spine was stiff and sore.
John didn't know it at the time but he had been the lucky one. None of the other crew had managed to escape from the stricken bomber. Eye witnesses stated that the flaming four engine bomber had approached the small village of Wasbüttal from the south west. It then made a slight turn before crashing at a shallow angle 500 meters from the township. It continued to burn through the night and intermittent explosions were heard. None of the crew survived. Wreckage and the remains of the crew were found scattered over a wide area.
Meanwhile John had heard men approaching and ran and stumbled into a small wood. He walked on for ten hours but this was northern Germany in December and "the place was frozen solid", possibly with snow on the ground. Unable to find any shelter, his back still sore, and his mouth and head still bleeding, he had had enough. At around 0600, when the opportunity arose, he gave himself up to German troops, displaying his dog tags to identify himself. He was first taken to a local doctor before being was taken to an interrogation camp at Frankfurt. He was held in solitary confinement in a small overheated cell, with no treatment to his injuries, and was fed only a slice of bread and a bowl of soup a day. He was held there for six days before he was eventually admitted to Hohemark Hospital for recuperation. Here things were a little better. He received basic care, a Red Cross overcoat, regular meals and a hospital bed with sheets, blankets, and pillows. 13 days later he was sent to a Dulag Luft for five days, where he would spend his Christmas of 1943, before incarceration at Stalag IVB at Mühlberg, 48 Km north of Dresden on 29 December.
Stan Lambert, an American prisoner of Camp IVB in his memoirs shared some of his recollections of camp life which may have mirrored John Cromie's experience. "
Very early in our stay we were processed through a shower and delousing unit common to German prisons. There bare brick and stone structures had a waiting room where we completely disrobed, leaving our boots stashed in the room, but tying our garments all in one bundle to be sent through the steam delouser. Two things were luxurious about the whole procedure. One was the hot shower where we could observe our flattening bellies but still muscular limbs, and let the warms streams of water splatter over our blue frost-bitten feet. The other was picking up our bundles of steaming clothes after shivering stark naked for half an hour in the waiting room. It was fortunate that one did not know until later how similar the procedure was to the gas chamber executions of the Jews… The first day or two in the open air of IV-B convinced me of the drabness of the place. The sun seldom shone and the sky maintained a perpetual Baltic grayness. Very little snow was on the ground. The only things on the flat horizons were the endless rows of squat barracks in most directions and a thin row of trees across a flat which lay beyond the nearest edge of the stalag. ...On the second or third day in IV-B a large number of us Americans were marched to another portion of the camp to await more processing. The Germans left much of the routine of this to some older British P.O.Ws who could have been in this stalag for a period of years. I recall an Englishman pacing slowly along in front of our group making a partially successful attempt at raising our morale. ...We were photographed and numbered, much as a convict, and issued a P.O.W tag bearing a number. This we wore like a dog tag. British prisoners gave us typhus Shots and supervised the filling out of forms".
John was assigned to a hut which he described as "Barn like overcrowded huts, little heating or light, hard bed" with "two or three small blankets and a poor mattress". Stan Lambert continues: "
My most vivid memories of our barracks were the nights in them. There was just room for all the exhausted men to lie down in the unheated building. We lay in groups of three to preserve warmth, and arranged outer garments and old German shelter halves over and under us. We were only beginning to learn from the British the fine art of improvising in a prison hut. Very soon we learned to pull our tortured feet close to us because some dysentery victim was always staggering through the darkness toward the door trampling over frost-bitten and trench-foot-afflicted feet. I believe I have known no pain greater than that suffered for ten minutes following the mauling of one's frozen feet by a stampeding, dysenteried P.O.W".
Two weeks into Johns imprisonment at the camp he would celebrate his 21st Birthday with the little they had to share. Their rations were small and of poor quality however one could cope quite well with the addition of Red Cross parcels. They would shower only every six weeks, and had two taps to every 600-700 POWs. Cooking facilities were poor and overcrowded. Recreational activities were however quite good but only due to the efforts of the prisoners. As the war wore on numbers in the camp swelled considerably and by the start of 1945 only about 1/8 to 1/4 of their Red Cross parcels actually made it into the inmate's hands. John's promotion to Warrant Officer came through on 12 May and after nearly 18 months of incarceration John and his fellow captives were liberated by the Russians on 23 April 1945.
John was to describe his treatment under the Germans as ranging from good to bad, but as Stan Lambert would later write "The amazing thing was the facade of humane treatment which the Germans partially maintained toward their captives from the West, while they systematically destroyed their own Jews and sorely neglected their Russian captives..." After repatriation home, John recuperated and was discharged from the RAAF on 13 January 1946. He died at age 51 in 1974 .
Mine-laying operation. 2 x 460 Squadron aircraft despatched.
19 squadron Lancasters (1 aborted) despatched out of a total force of 605 aircraft. 34 aircraft lost. First of seven missions flown by Cromie in W4967 "P" for Peter. This aircraft completed 54 missions and is thought to have been lost on operations with 101 Sqn.
17 squadron Lancasters (1 aborted) despatched out of a total force of 404 aircraft. 32 aircraft lost.
17 squadron Lancasters despatched out of a total force of 251 aircraft. 2 aircraft lost.
18 squadron Lancasters despatched out of a total force of 296 aircraft. 8 aircraft lost. ED664 completed 16 missions and was lost over Berlin on 24.11.43.
A force of 6 Lancasters carry out a diversionary raid to cover the main effort of 406 aircraft at Frankfurt.
20 squadron aircraft (1 aborted) despatched out of a total force of 343 aircraft. 4 aircraft lost.
18 squadron aircraft despatched out of a total force of 504 aircraft. 27 aircraft lost, many to night fighters. 460 Squadron losses- The crew of W/C R.A Norman DFC.
19 squadron Lancasters despatched out of a total force of 360 aircraft. 18 aircraft lost.
15 squadron Lancasters (1 aborted) despatched out of a total force of 313 aircraft. LM375 completed a total of 36 missions with 460 and 463 Sqn. Lost while with 463 Sqn.
The Battle of Berlin begins. 29 squadron Lancasters despatched out of a total of 440 aircraft. 9 aircraft lost. 460 Squadron losses-The crew of F/Sgt J.G Gibson. DV296 completed 16 missions. Lost over Berlin on 1.12.43.
25 squadron Lancasters (3 aborted) despatched out of a total force of 764 aircraft. 20 aircraft lost. ED370 completed 5 x 460 Sqn missions, lost over Berlin 26.11.43.
12 squadron Lancasters (3 aborted) despatched out of a total force of 458 aircraft. 40 aircraft lost. 550 Squadron losses- LM301 Shot down by flak on route to target.


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realty (n.)
1660s, "real estate, real property," from earlier meaning "a real possession" (1540s), earlier still "reality" (mid-15c.), from Old French realite, realte, from Medieval Latin realitatem (nominative realitas), from Late Latin realis "actual" (see real (adj.)). The notion behind the word is the immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of certain kinds of property, especially landed. Also compare reality.
reality (n.)
1540s, "quality of being real, objective reality," from French réalité and directly from Medieval Latin realitatem (nominative realitas), from Late Latin realis (see real (adj.)). Also compare realty, which was the older form of the word in the sense of "reality" (mid-15c.).
Meaning "real existence, what is real, the aggregate of all that is real" is from 1640s; that of "the real state (of something)" is from 1680s. Sometimes 17c.-18c. it also meant "sincerity." Reality-based is attested from 1960, in marriage counseling. Reality television is attested from 1991.
royalty (n.)
c. 1400, "office or position of a sovereign, royal power or authority," also "magnificence," from or modeled on Old French roialte (12c., Modern French royauté), from Vulgar Latin *regalitatem (nominative *regalitas), from Latin regalis "royal, kingly; of or belonging to a king, worthy of a king" (see royal (adj.)).
The meaning "royal persons collectively" is from late 15c. From the notion of prerogatives of a sovereign the sense expanded to "prerogatives or rights granted by a sovereign to an individual or corporation" (late 15c.). From that evolved more general senses, such as "payment to a landowner for use of a mine" (1839), and ultimately "payment to an author, composer, etc." for sale or use of his or her work (1857). Compare realty.
Realtor (n.)
1916, "real estate agent," American English, as though an agent noun from realty, coined by real estate agent Charles N. Chadbourn of Minneapolis, Minn., to distinguish the legitimate section of the business; popularized 1920s; patented as Realtor by the National Association of Real Estate Boards.
The 1916 Convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards (NAREB) approved the adoption of the term as the official designation of an active member of the Association. In 1920 the District Court of Hennepin County, Minnesota, decided in favor of the Realtors in a case against a telephone directory publisher that had indiscriminately used the word in listings. The court asserted that the word "had never been used in any way whatsoever until so invented" and could thus be used only by those duly licensed by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Until the Lanham Acts of 1948 changed federal patent regulations to allow protection for registered collective marks, the National Association fought and won sixteen cases on the local and state levels to protect its symbolic property. [Jeffrey M. Hornstein, "The Rise of Realtor," in "The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class," New York, 2001]
personalty (n.)
1540s, a legal term, "personal property" (in distinction from realty), from Anglo-French personaltie (late 15c.), corresponding to French personalite, from Medieval Latin personalitas (see personality).
-ality
word-forming element; see -al (1) + -ity. Originally also in reduced form -alty, especially in words from French (mayoralty, etc.), hence the occasional doublet such as fealty/fidelity, realty/reality, specialty/speciality, loyalty/legality.
specialty (n.)
c. 1300, "particular affection; special attachment or favor, partiality," from Old French especialte, more vernacular form of specialite (see speciality). Compare personalty/personality; realty/reality. From early 15c. as "unusual, or extraordinary thing; specialized branch of learning; peculiar quality, distinctive characteristic."
realm (n.)
c. 1300, reaume, "kingdom, domain under a sovereign, royal jurisdiction," from Old French reaume, later realme, variants (in part by influence of Old French reial "regal," from Latin regalis) of roiaume "kingdom."
This is possibly from a Gallo-Romance *regiminem, "formed as an accusative on Latin regimen government, rule" [Barnhart; see regimen], or from or as if from Vulgar Latin *regalimen "a kingdom," from Latin regalis [Century Dictionary, OED; see regal], or some combination of the two [Klein]. Realty and royalty tended to come out of Old French in similar forms, and roylty in Middle English also could be spelled realty. (14c., from Old French reaute, realte).
The modern spelling predominates from c. 1600. Transferred or figurative sense of "sphere of activity; area of power, influence, or operation" is from late 14c.
spirituality (n.)
late 14c., spiritualite, "the clergy," also "ecclesiastical property; things pertaining to the Church," from Anglo-French spiritualite, Old French espiritualite, and directly from Late Latin spiritualitatem (nominative spiritualitas), from Latin spiritualis (see spiritual). Meaning "quality of being spiritual" is from c. 1500; seldom-used sense of "fact or condition of being a spirit" is from 1680s. Also in early use spiritualty (late 14c.).
English is blessed with multiple variant forms of many words. But it has made scant use of them; for every pair historic/historical; realty/reality, or luxuriant/luxurious there is a spiritualty/spirituality or a specialty/speciality, with two distinct forms, two senses requiring differentiation, hundreds of years gone by, and but little progress made in in sorting them out.


Once, a species of beetle became intoxicated by the rare enzymes found in Phoenix droppings. This delicacy was impossible to reach because the Phoenix's domain was fiercely guarded by the Flower Knight and the beetles presented a threat to the natural balance the Flower Knight protects. Over countless generations, the insects evolved into the likeness of a hulking knight to avoid the Flower Knight which sees no threat from feeble humans. Clever and hungry, it savagely hunts for nourishment to fill its massive ball, which also serves as a repulsive weapon.


RK Crouch, Z Ablonczy, R Darrow, DR Knapp, DT Organisciak; Loss Of Light-dependent Rhodopsin Phosphorylation In Rats Exposed To Intense Visible Light . Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002;43(13):4542.
Abstract: : Purpose: Phosphorylation of light activated rhodopsin is critical for the deactivation of the visual transduction process. The effect of the duration of light exposure at various times in the 24 h circadian cycle on rhodopsin phosphorylation was examined. Methods: SD rats were exposed to 1/2, 4, or 8 h of continuous 1500 lux light starting at 1 a.m. or 5 p.m. ROS was isolated immediately afterward in the presence of phosphatase inhibitors and later treated with AspN enzyme for the removal of the rhodopsin C termini. The phosphorylation of the peptides was analyzed by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry coupled online to HPLC. Results: (1) Rhodopsin from rats exposed to intense visible light contains elevated levels of multiple phosphorylations. In samples exposed for 1/2 h, all the possible sites were phosphorylated. The amount of mono-, di-, and triphosphorylation was elevated and comparable, while tetra- and penta- and hexaphosphorylation was observed at only slightly above the baseline levels. (2) The amount and multiplicity of phosphorylation was reduced in the samples exposed for 4 h and further reduced after 8 h. (3) The stage of the circadian rhythm at the start of the light exposure affected phosphorylation. These effects were most pronounced after 1/2 h and diminished by 8 h. Conclusions: (1) The reduction in the amount of phosphorylation is probably due to a reduction in the rhodopsin to opsin ratio. The production and transfer of the 11-cis retinal chromophore may be rate limiting in opsin regeneration. (2) There is a pronounced difference between the activity of the kinase acting on two sets of three phosphorylation sites. The kinase may differentiate between the three serine and three threonine sites. (3) The production of the chromophore may be affected by factors dependent on the circadian rhythm.


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"It's obviously a huge tragedy because I know a lot of friends that I grew up with that went to the Tree of Life synagogue and there are a lot of people who are Jewish from the Pittsburgh area, and it's just tragic to see those things happen because just for me personally, I'm just someone who tries to accept everyone no matter what race, their background, or anything like that," Skura said before Thursday afternoon's practice.
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"So it's definitely tough to see because Pittsburgh is still close to home for me. I was born there, I grew up there for 14 years. And then hearing about the shooting in Charlotte was also tough because that high school is probably a mile or two miles down the road from my house. I train with a couple guys who play high school football there, and it's just tragic to see those things happen. Like everyone says, you don't think it's going to happen somewhere close to you or make it a personal situation, but those things do happen, and it's tough."
Skura and his family moved from Pittsburgh to Columbus, Ohio, and he said he doesn't have any family members who still live in Pittsburgh. But the Ravens' opponent on Sunday, the Steelers, sent two buses of players and staff to a joint funeral for a pair of brothers killed in the shooting at the synagogue, and coach Mike Tomlin shared his feelings during a conference call with Baltimore media Wednesday.
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"I'm still kind of in a state of shock as a member of the community," he said. "I'm sickened by what transpired. I'm saddened by it. I'm also a little bit taken aback just by maybe my kids' ability to process it. It's just unfortunate times. That's just a personal reflection. I haven't had a lot of time to get a pulse of community perspective and things of that nature."
The high school shooting in Charlotte struck a more personal chord for Skura because that is where he, his wife and soon-to-be eight-month-old daughter make their offseason home.
"I think once you have kids, you get a whole new perspective on life, and you just can't even imagine those sorts of things happening to your own child," he said. "So it definitely hits you in a different spot emotionally. I don't think it really changes anything for my wife and I as far as sending our kid to school or anything like that. It just changes your perspective, and hopefully those things — by the time that she's ready to go to school — changes have been made to make schools safer."
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Wildly Successful Youth Retreat in Mikinduri
The Rain Can't Stop Us!
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In 2 Timothy 1:8, St. Paul says that we should "bear [our] share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God." We beg for the intercession of St. Paul, that he would petition the Lord to give us the strength we need to not just endure the rainy season here in Kenya, but to enjoy it and have His praises ever on our lips.
Our little town of Mikinduri is located in the eastern foothills of Mt. Kenya where the climate is said to be "extremely mild".
When we arrived in July it was sunny and dry. Daily temperatures hovered around 90°F and at night it dipped down into the 60s. This trend continued through September and we felt like we were in heaven. Little did we know, that with October would come the rain...lots and lots of rain!
In November Mikinduri got 17 inches of rain and December has been even wetter. To put this in perspective, I read that during the rainiest part of the year Detroit gets an average of 3.5 inches in a given month.
The people here are indifferent to the rain, which I suppose makes sense since they've been living with it all of their lives.
In this photo the locals are wrapping a body that was found in the debris
after a bad storm had passed through our area.
On the news there are regular reports of flooding and landslides which have destroyed communities and taken lives.
We praise and thank God for allowing our troubles to be so minimal.
Here in the foothills the terrain is very hilly...
This is one of the roads we travel on often
to get to the prayer houses in the remote communities.
...so, when it rains the water flows down the dirt roads like water slides.
Michael loves driving through the mountains on the crazy muddy roads and thinks it's exciting when we start sliding into the ruts and ditches. He's laughing and yelping while the rest of us are praying fervently that we don't roll down the hill and crash to our death.
This time Chris led the formal part of the service by reading all
of the prayers in the Missal - IN SWAHILI...and I shared a reflection after
the gospel - IN SWAHILI....which is totally awesome!
Each weekend we switch roles. Some people at the service that
speak English told us that they could understand our Swahili perfectly.
THANK YOU JESUS!!!
Last week we traveled to an outlying village to celebrate a communion service.
When we finished we decided to go check out another village nearby that we had not yet had the chance to visit. Unbeknownst to us, the recent rains had made the route between these two communities impassable to most vehicles.
If you look really, really close you can see the blue roof of the prayer house that we were headed to.
It's on the right at the base of the hill. Although it doesn't seem so far away, there were many challenging obstacles
that required incredibly skillful driving on Chris' part to overcome.
Michael always enjoys the bumpy ride, but he was especially excited when we "got to" cross a river of sorts.
Although the rushing water wasn't very wide, it was deep because the rain had filled a shallow gulch that wound this way and that through the earth.
As we made our way through the current, we thought of St. Paul telling us that we must "bear [our] share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God."
Following are three video clips that kind of capture our drive, although the craziest moments remain only in our memories because the battery on my camera died.
Approaching Obstacle 1:
https://youtu.be/b0aZDswLqas
Crossing the River on the Way to the Prayer House
https://youtu.be/ASToh8dTu5A
Successful Navigating Through the Flooded Area:
https://youtu.be/6MZdg-XUocM
Perhaps by divine intervention, we arrived at the second prayer house just as they were doing the offertory. Normally, their Liturgy of the Word service would have ended shortly after each person put their donation into the collection box; however, we were able to continue the service and share the Holy Eucharist. The members of this community were not only suprised, but visibly elated because they receive communion so infrequently; given their remote location, the priest is unable to visit but a few times a year.
As we were headed home the sky became dark and it started raining (yet) again, which made the already terrible roads even worse. Thankfully we arrived safely and in enough time to lead the Small Christian Community meeting at St. Massimo that evening.
The non-stop rain makes travel difficult, but it also makes the tasks of day-to-day living more challenging. We walk to town (in the rain) to go to the open market where all the ladies are sitting on the side of the street selling their fruits and vegetables (in the rain)....
Thank you Jesus for allowing us to "bear [our] share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God."
Our neighbor uses her cell phone as a light, but only sparingly
because nobody knows when there will be power again
to be able to recharge the battery.
Our electricity often goes out for long periods - sometimes even days. So, after the sun goes down at 6pm we do everything by candlelight.
Another challenge is that the things in our house that we don't use daily get moldy from the high levels of humidity. After being gone for a few days we opened the cupboard where we keep our games, only to find many of them covered in black, fuzzy mold. We wiped them off with bleach water, but such a practice sure is hard on cardboard boxes.
We try to burn our trash in between storms, but it's hard to time it so perfectly. We've noticed a huge increase in the amount of trash that lays around town because others are having the same problem.
This is the view out of our front door. This is the elementary
school that is located inside of our compound.
Here are a couple of videos that attempt to show what it looks like outside of our house on any given day during this rainy season:
An Example of the Rain at Our House:
https://youtu.be/2d3ikWFEOmo
A Close-up View of the Rain
https://youtu.be/FJpzKW1asiM
The most challenging thing about the non-stop torrential rains is trying to dry our clothes. Some days, after washing our clothes, we hang them up in our little backyard to dry. Shortly thereafter it starts to rain, so we rush outside to take everything off the line. An hour later, when the rain subsides, we go back out and hang everything up again. Before they're dry, the sky opens up again, so we run outside again. There are days that we repeat this routine three, four or even five times.
Here is a photo of Anna trying to keep a good attitude after hanging the same clothes up four times. If you listen closely, you may hear her saying,
"Thank you Jesus for allowing us to 'bear [our] share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.' "
I think it's most frustrating when we're hanging the clothes up on the line for the umteenth time in a given day and before we even get the last item re-hung, the clouds move in and it starts to rain again.
There was one day in particular that I had run outside to hang, collect, re-hang and re-collect our clothes multiple times. In the early afternoon we were called away from the house for a short amount of time. I considered taking the clothes down, but the sky was blue and there weren't any clouds in sight. Plus, the clothes were still damp and the last thing I wanted was to end up with a pile of mildewy-smelling clothes that I would have to rewash....ugghhhh...image how discouraging it is to start this nonsensical process all over again!
Anyhow, as we were driving back home it began to sprinkle so Chris started driving a bit faster. As we were pulling into our compound buckets of rain began falling from the sky. I couldn't believe it! By the time we reached our house the clothes that I had worked so hard to get dry were totally drenched....uggghhh!!!
Sometimes there are so many consecutive days of rain that we have to try to dry our clothes inside the house by hanging them on chairs, buckets and cupboard doors...which isn't very effective because of the humidity....but it's the only option we have.
We've learned that the part of Kenya in which we're living has two rainy seasons: a short one which begins in October and ends in December....that's the one that we've been enjoying these last few months.... and a long one which typically begins in February and extends into June. I can see why the locals feel so indifferent; torrential rains that last for months are just a regular part of their lives. I pray for the grace we need to praise Jesus even when we're feeling challenged. I pray that we're able to embrace the words of St. Paul and joyfully "bear [our] share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God." I humbly ask for your prayers as well, that the rain doesn't stop us from loving this place in which we've been called to serve.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;

namespace DDay.iCal
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This class works similar to the CalendarPropertyCompositeList class,
    /// but works with components instead of properties.
    ///
    /// It consolidates components of a given name into a list,
    /// and allows you to work with directly against the
    /// components themselves.  This preserves the notion that our components
    /// are still stored directly within the calendar object, but gives
    /// us the flexibility to work with multiple components through a
    /// single (composite) list.
    /// </summary>
    public class CalendarComponentCompositeList<T> :
        KeyedCollection<string, ICalendarComponent>,
        IList<T>
        where T : ICalendarComponent
    {
        #region Private Fields

        ICalendarComponent m_Component;
        string m_ComponentName;

        #endregion

        #region Constructors

        public CalendarComponentCompositeList(ICalendarComponent component, string componentName)
        {
            m_Component = component;
            m_ComponentName = componentName;
        }

        #endregion

        #region IList<ICalendarComponent> Members

        public int IndexOf(T value)
        {
            int index = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < m_Component.Children.Count; i++)
            {
                if (m_Component.Children[i] is T && string.Equals(m_Component.Children[i].Name, m_ComponentName))
                {
                    index++;
                    if (object.Equals(m_ComponentName[i], value))
                        return index;
                }
            }
            return -1;
        }

        public void Insert(int index, T value)
        {
            if (IsReadOnly)
                throw new NotSupportedException();
            if (index < 0 || index >= Count)
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("index");

            if (index == 0)
                m_Component.InsertChild(0, value);
            else
            {
                int curr = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < m_Component.Children.Count; i++)
                {
                    if (m_Component.Children[i] is T && string.Equals(m_Component.Children[i].Name, m_ComponentName))
                    {
                        curr++;
                        if (curr == index)
                        {
                            m_Component.InsertChild(i + 1, value);
                            return;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        public void RemoveAt(int index)
        {
            if (IsReadOnly)
                throw new NotSupportedException();
            if (index < 0 || index >= Count)
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("index");

            int curr = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < m_Component.Children.Count; i++)
            {
                if (m_Component.Children[i] is T && string.Equals(m_Component.Children[i].Name, m_ComponentName))
                {
                    if (curr++ == index)
                    {
                        m_Component.RemoveChildAt(i);
                        return;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        public T this[int index]
        {
            get
            {
                int curr = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < m_Component.Children.Count; i++)
                {
                    if (m_Component.Children[i] is T && string.Equals(m_Component.Children[i].Name, m_ComponentName))
                    {
                        if (curr++ == index)
                            return (T)m_Component.Children[i];
                    }
                }
                return default(T);
            }
            set
            {
                int curr = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < m_Component.Children.Count; i++)
                {
                    if (m_Component.Children[i] is T && string.Equals(m_Component.Children[i].Name, m_ComponentName))
                    {
                        if (curr++ == index)
                            m_Component.Children[i] = value;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region ICollection<T> Members

        public void Add(T value)
        {
            if (IsReadOnly)
                throw new NotSupportedException();

            m_Component.AddChild(value);
        }

        public void Clear()
        {
            m_Component.ClearChildren();
        }

        public bool Contains(T value)
        {
            return IndexOf(value) >= 0;
        }

        public void CopyTo(T[] array, int arrayIndex)
        {
            if (array == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("array");
            if (arrayIndex < 0)
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("arrayIndex");
            if (arrayIndex >= array.Length)
                throw new ArgumentException("arrayIndex");

            int index = 0;
            if (array.Length >= Count)
            {
                foreach (ICalendarComponent c in m_Component.Children)
                {
                    if (c is T && string.Equals(c.Name, m_ComponentName))
                        array[arrayIndex + index++] = (T)c;
                }
            }
        }

        public int Count
        {
            get
            {
                int count = 0;
                foreach (ICalendarComponent c in m_Component.Children)
                {
                    if (c is T && string.Equals(c.Name, m_ComponentName))
                        count++;
                }
                return count;
            }
        }

        public bool IsReadOnly
        {
            get { return false; }
        }

        public bool Remove(T value)
        {
            int index = IndexOf(value);
            if (index >= 0)
            {
                RemoveAt(index);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }

        #endregion

        #region IEnumerable<T> Members

        public IEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator()
        {
            return new CalendarComponentCompositeListEnumerator<T>(m_Component, m_ComponentName);
        }

        #endregion

        #region IEnumerable Members

        System.Collections.IEnumerator System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
        {
            return new CalendarComponentCompositeListEnumerator<T>(m_Component, m_ComponentName);
        }

        #endregion

        private class CalendarComponentCompositeListEnumerator<T> :
            IEnumerator<T>
        {
            #region Private Fields

            string m_ComponentName;
            ICalendarComponent m_Component;
            IEnumerator<ICalendarObject> m_Enumerator;

            #endregion

            #region Constructors

            public CalendarComponentCompositeListEnumerator(ICalendarComponent component, string componentName)
            {
                m_Component = component;
                m_ComponentName = componentName;
            }

            #endregion

            #region IEnumerator<ICalendarComponent> Members

            public T Current
            {
                get
                {
                    if (m_Enumerator != null)
                    {
                        object obj = m_Enumerator.Current;
                        if (obj is T)
                            return (T)obj;
                    }
                    return default(T);
                }
            }

            #endregion

            #region IDisposable Members

            public void Dispose()
            {
            }

            #endregion

            #region IEnumerator Members

            object System.Collections.IEnumerator.Current
            {
                get
                {
                    return ((IEnumerator<ICalendarComponent>)this).Current;
                }
            }

            public bool MoveNext()
            {
                if (m_Enumerator == null)
                    m_Enumerator = m_Component.Children.GetEnumerator();

                while (m_Enumerator.MoveNext())
                {
                    if (m_Enumerator.Current is T)
                        return true;
                }

                return false;
            }

            public void Reset()
            {
                m_Enumerator = null;
            }

            #endregion
        }
    }
}

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Rebranding projects can crack open interesting doors and unleash spirited input. The practice may often sound like radical surgery when in fact it could be an outpatient procedure.
"Rebranding is a legitimate marketing practice," says Al Ries, the pioneer of positioning and a marketing consultant.
Brands that attempt to rebrand may want to close the door on their past. There may be shifts in consumer preference that motivate the marketing team to retool and replenish the brand, so it can follow a necessary new path. But the profitable path may be impossible to find.
"Take Kentucky Fried Chicken," says Ries. "Years ago, the company was concerned that 'fried foods' were unhealthy. So they changed the name of the chain to KFC.
The shift from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC took place in 1991. At the time, was Kentucky Fried Chicken actually boxed into a corner where significant rebranding was the only option?
"There were options and paths not chosen that may have helped the brand evolve with greater success," says Ries.
"In the long run, that name, Colonel Sanders Chicken, would erase the 'fried' idea in the minds of consumers.
"Has KFC been successful? No. In 2002, KFC revenues per unit were $883 thousand. Fifteen years later, in 2017, KFC revenues per unit were $1,067 thousand, an increase of 21%. But the inflation rate for those 15 years was 37%.
Does Rebranding Put Brand Health At Risk?
Flint McGlaughlin, CEO and managing director of MECLABS Institute, wonders how today's brands stack up against their predecessors.
"I think in many ways we have regressed. Rebranding has become an economic mainstay for agencies. For the c-suite, it is much easier to 'rebrand' than it is to fix the underlying problems of an organization.
"It is much easier to paint the house than to tear up the foundation and fix the plumbing. What's missing is the direct connection between the value proposition and the brand. If a rebranding exercise, or if a brand development strategy doesn't tightly link to the value proposition, it is likely just an expensive exercise in futility."
The value of the brand never exists exclusively within the product. It is woven into the consumer's complex collection of perceptions. This means that efforts to rebrand come with a significant challenge.


Google is getting ready to roll out a major redesign of Gmail. The new Gmail features the high-contrast, black and white design already seen in Google Docs, Google Reader and Google Calendar. Looks aren't the only thing changing in Gmail, there's also a much improved search interface, better customization features and some new hi-res images for Gmail themes.
Google showed off the revamped Gmail interface earlier this year, but the company is now giving users the ability to test it for themselves. If you'd like to try it out, just sign in to Gmail and look for a small "Switch to the new look" button in the lower right corner of your screen.
For now the new look is purely optional and you can switch right back if you don't like it, but eventually Google does plan to roll out the new version to all Gmail users.
Google's new look, which is slowly rolling out across all its products is somewhat hit or miss. The black and white color scheme and heavy use of white space sometimes feels overdone (witness the reaction to the new Google Reader design), but in Gmail it actually works quite well, eliminating some of the clutter and allowing you to focus more on your actual mail.
Part of the clutter reduction lies in some new customization features. Gmail now allows you to choose how much white space you want to see. Options range from the default, "Comfortable", which is quite heavy on the white space, to "Cozy" (roughly the same as the old look) to "Compact," which squeezes even more messages into list view. The white spacing will also automatically shift if you adjust your screen size with smaller screens getting increasingly compact views.
Another improvement in the new Gmail is a much better search interface. Gmail's powerful search features have always been a big part of its appeal, but using some of the more powerful elements required memorizing arcane terms and operators. The new Gmail surfaces most of these elements in a handy new search form.
The quick search bar remains the same (and all the old operators still appear to work if you happen to have memorized them all), but a new arrow to the right side of the search box will expand a new search form that offers to search by From, To, Subject, attachment, Date and more. It's the same search tools as before, but with a much better interface designed to help novice users discover the power of searching.
Conversations in Gmail — the features that originally set Gmail apart from the competition — have received a slight makeover. You'll now see profiles pictures for your contacts (assuming one is available) and the collapsed view offers a bit more detail than it did before. Of course that also means that conversations take up more vertical space, which can be annoying on smaller screens. Sadly, the various white space settings mentioned above have no effect on the spacing in conversation view.
While the new Gmail looks quite nice — cleaner and often easier to use than its predecessor — the bad news is that the new version can be painfully slow. I tested Gmail using both Opera and Chrome over a fast cable internet connection and routinely encountered long delays when moving from list view to conversation view, or when searching for mail. Even something as simple as loading a few icons sometimes took as long as 20 seconds. The new look isn't yet an official release, so perhaps the slow speeds are simply kinks in the transition process that Google is working out. If not, expect a mini revolt when Google flips the switch for all users.
If you'd like to see what the fuss is about, but don't want to commit to the new interface just yet, check out the video below (also note that if you do turn on the new look, at the moment you can still revert to old by click the new gear menu and selecting "revert to the old look").


Wagering age varies from state to state as states have the right to fix their betting age. In general minimal gambling age lies in between 18 yrs to 21 yrs legally in any nation of the world. With the emergence of online gambling the gaming age has turned into a major concern as anyone can easily log in to play the game by giving incorrect details of age. The gaming establishments have the same problems as people with the alcoholic beverages sectors. Much like underage alcohol drinkers you will find the underage casinos that create a regulating problem for the business, and also occasionally unique issues regarding their selves.
The wagering field which ease underage gaming and also the underage players ought to know that this challenge of underage wagering is a societal worry odds exchanges and can't be sidestepped.
How to limit gamers below gaming age?
It is foremost job of any kind of on-line gambling establishment in making all the likely attempts to restrict under age betting. The legitimate age limitation should be exhibited on the on-line gambling establishment sites and a reliable casino ought to put their best efforts to avoid anyone under that minimal age from actively playing at the website. It ought to be mentioned that some on-line casinos offers 18 years betting age yet others give chance to those more than 21 years of age. There are a few websites that are very open and eager to encourage even under age gamers to participate in free of charge online casino games which is very wrong attitude of a gaming site. Individuals will even find a few websites which definitely exhibit that kids, or those under age have no place at their on-line gambling establishment and such participants are not accepted or right to play at the site.
The online on line casino sites ought to inform you that if any kind of below age individual plays the game any how and also win may be unable to claim a real money prize in the event of a win. This may stop the under age player to a great degree from wagering online. The problem at that time becomes much more frustrating when a under age player wins and can't get the winning sum.
Previously betting was the game for the grown ups but in recent years youth wagering is becoming extremely popular because of on-line casino games. Similar to grownup betting there is certainly an element of possibility, wherever cash or even something associated with sentimental or even monetary value could be earned or lost by the participant in youth betting. Sports gambling, poker, dice, bingo, slots, internet wagering tend to be typically played by youths. Gambling is a played for fun most of the time a lot of other business like resorts, bars restaurants, night clubs etc tend to be opening casinos in their curriculum to enhance their business.
In addition to betting age it is also necessary to see exactly where online gambling is lawful if a person meets the considerations of gaming age, plays in the area in which on-line gabling is unlawful then winning the large amount can cause problems with regard to him or her. So besides gambling age you ought to also think about the area whilst playing.


I pulled over to let a car pass and then I couldn't get out. The couple from Dynjandi saw my predicament and helped push me out of my situation. The front passenger wheel was completely submerged in gravel and water and wasn't visible so I'm thankful for that Swiss and English couple for their assistance.


Dan Simpson and his wife take a walk to Welch to check on their house. There was a lot of snow on the lake and along the shoreline expecially the west and northwestern shore.. It is impossible to walk out to Welch with the snow so deep unless you have snowshoes.


There is a war being waged against a major symbol of Christianity – the cross.
In 1925, a large cross was erected in Bladensburg, Maryland to honor fallen soldiers of World War I. But now that cross is being challenged by a lawsuit from the American Humanist Association. They lost their 2014 lawsuit against it, but they are appealing the case.
Last week, there was a bipartisan effort among members of Congress to save the Bladensburg cross. They filed a friend of the court brief to support this memorial.
First Liberty Institute is instrumental in the fight to save the cross from being demolished. They have been leading the charge in fighting these kinds of cases.
Their founder and president is Kelly Shackelford, who said, "In a time when America is divided over many issues, there is one thing members of the House and Senate, both Democratic and Republican, have agreed on, along with 90% of the American public – our veterans memorials should be protected. We must always strive to honor the selfless sacrifice of our fallen heroes."
Jeremy Dys is an attorney with First Liberty, and I spoke with him about the case on my radio show recently.
Jeremy told me, "There seems to be a general allergy to religion any time any religious symbol appears in public." He noted this applies to Christian symbols in particular and stars of David.
Dys said, "What we're attempting to do in all these cases is to allow these veterans who erect these monuments to honor their comrades who have fallen in arms."
He noted, "In the case of the Bladensburg Veterans Memorial outside of Washington, DC, that was actually even erected by the mothers of these fallen soldiers from World War I."
Dys added, "When you have these moms who scraped together dimes and nickels in order to be able to erect this memorial, and you still have children and grandchildren and probably great-grandchildren now that gather around that memorial on Armistice Day, it's remarkable that someone would have the gall to try to knock down what one mother called 'the tombstone of her son that she could actually visit,' instead of the one that's listed in Flanders Field."
The American Humanist Association sued to have this cross removed because they believe it violates the separation of church and state, because the cross supposedly establishes religion.
The Constitution does not mention the "separation of church and state." Instead, the First Amendment begins, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
Historically, it was understood in America that "establishing religion" was the creation of a national church, such as the Church of England, which was "by law established." When we became a free country, this was no longer to be the case – that we would have a state church at the national level "by law established."
At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the First Amendment, even some of the individual states had state churches. That was not ideal, and they withered away of their own volition.
But to say that having a memorial cross to honor the fallen "establishes religion" distorts the founders' words.
These groups that sue against crosses in the public square attempt to jettison America from our true history.
It was the founders of this nation that systematically hired chaplains for the military and legislatures. For the first two hundred years or so of our national existence, most of their prayers were Christian ones.
The founders declared national days of thanksgiving to God. Jefferson did that on the state level, but refused to do that on the national level because he thought it was the province of the states.
Our nation's first Commander-in-Chief was, of course, George Washington. I've visited his tomb at Mount Vernon and written in stone above his sarcophagus are the words of Jesus Christ from John 11 – promising that those who believe in Him will live, even after they die. Do those words need to be sandblasted away?
Of course, ultimately the cross is controversial because it points to Jesus' voluntary sacrifice to forgive sinners who believe.
Meanwhile, if we don't defend the memorial crosses now, we could go the way of China where it is reported that the Communist government is now undertaking a systematic removal of thousands of crosses in that country, including those atop churches.
This war on the cross by anti-Christian legal groups reminds me of the movie portrayal of Count Dracula who flinches and becomes powerless at even the sight of a cross. I pray they will not succeed in their efforts to tear down these memorial crosses to honor the fallen.


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