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Sunday, September 27, 2009

All That We Let In

Text: Mark 9:38-50

There are times when reading the gospel stories that I just want to grab hold of the disciples, give them a big hug and say “thank you.” Thank you for being so human, for being so slow to catch on. Thank you for failing at following Jesus perfectly because if you – who had him physically in your midst – couldn’t manage to be a perfect follower, then I’m not going to feel so bad about my own missteps.

This morning’s gospel story is one of those times.

After seeing Jesus eat with those who were outcasts, heal people no one would want to touch let alone help, and quite frankly, call them as his followers, they haven’t quite caught on that their teacher isn’t one for exclusive circles. And yet they treat being his follower as just that –limited circle.

Having just coming off a tour of ministry with the Gentiles, the disciples and Jesus come back to Galilee where they hear tale of a man – who, by the way, is not one of them – is casting out demons. In Jesus’ name! This man – who, ahem, is not one of them – has the audacity to call on the power of Jesus. He dares to cast out demons when the disciples – Jesus’ inner circle, the cream of the crop, failed at this same task not very long ago.

When the disciples via John bring this concern to Jesus, that this man –a man who hasn’t clocked in the field time with Jesus, hasn’t listened (and been confused by) his parables nightly by the fireside, hasn’t traveled with Jesus and seen all the amazing things him can do – this man is daring to act as though he has some place, some relationship, some sort of connection with Christ and is using it to caste out demons.

And what does Jesus have to say? Nothing the disciples are going to like – don’t try and stop him, even someone offering water to a person in my name is blessed, “Whoever is not against us is for us.”

That was probably a little more inclusive than they were hoping. I can imagine one of the disciples even piping up saying, “um, Jesus, don’t you mean whoever isn’t for us is against us?” But no, Jesus is firm – have salt, goodness, in yourself and be at peace with one another.

The disciples are treating being a follower of Jesus like being a member of some club: a club that has its own logo, its own pledge, its own uniform. I remember joining a sorority in college and being told, when I asked why we had to memorize the founding members names, “you’re doing this because I did this and that’s what makes you “one of us.”

I know I’m not the only one with such an experience. I would imagine we’ve all run into groups we want to be a part of – be it social groups or perhaps the group called the bar association or certified teachers or real estate license holders – where we’ve had to prove that we’ve done the time, put in the effort, can say the oath of loyalty with the best, pass the exam even after we’ve gotten the degree, and then be considered in. There are markers to be met and handshakes to be learned.

The church has a history of making its membership something like a club. Remember a time when we used to excommunicate people for being different, or make people catechisms not as a way of teaching theology but as a test to see who was in and who was out? Or how about how when the church would bar people from membership for something like being divorced (which, by the way, some churches still do), or tell people they can’t serve because they happen to be girls (again, still happens). This is our history but my guess is if Jesus came down now to our present, he’d be able to point out a few ways we’re still excluding people, still making this a club to get into. Let’s just say I know I’m not the only one who has a “Jesus loves you but I’m his favorite” mouse pad.

But being a follower of Christ isn’t about being in a club or any one’s favorite – it’s about being a part of a family. Even if we fall into the temptation of looking down on others who we know a lot about this kind of family. This family isn’t about where you were born or who are your parents or what traditions you celebrate – this isn’t about flesh and blood, it’s about Spirit. Christ’s Spirit.

If you’ve seen my family here at Christmas time you might have noticed that two of my three foster sisters – for lack of a better term – don’t quite look like the rest of us. My sisters Neli and Nymbezi are from Zambia. The story of how they came to be a part of our family is one that confirms for me this understanding of family being above and beyond flesh and blood.

About ten years ago I went over to Zambia as part of a mission trip with my church. There, at Justo Mali Theological College, I met the Moyo family and bonded rather instantly with the several teenage sisters – including Neli and Nyembi. A year later I heard that my church would be sponsoring Neli to come over to the States for college. Families would take turns hosting her for different holidays and we’d all make sure she felt welcome and looked after.

Well, Neli happened matriculate at the school where I was a senior and so it just made sense that the first free weekend we had at school, she’d come home with me. I remember driving the four hours to get home – trying to prepare her for my quirky family. We hit it off but we were relatively close in age and had similar tastes in music and tv.

My family, of course, welcomed her with open – though potentially overwhelming arms. Everyone was so excited to meet this girl I had talked about for a year – this girl grew up in another hemisphere! I remember everyone greeting her, helping her to her room, making her feel at home – and then, I remember the conversation started. It began with all of us, my brother and sister Beth, my mom and dad, Neli and me, but it quickly turned to world economics and just as quickly became a conversation between my dad and Neli only. The rest of us escaped from the living room to the family room and waited… and waited… and after a good while someone piped up that one of us really ought to go and rescue Neli from an intense conversation with our father.

I think it was my sister who volunteered, went into the other room, and then came back laughing saying, “I think Dad’s the one who needs rescuing!”

My wonderful, quirky family had a new member – just like that. That very first night it was clear that Neli was a part of our family. Over the years, while interesting differences in experiences have come up, it’s only been made more and more clear - this young woman is a Summers-Minette, even though her last name is Moyo and we all still laugh that she’s clearly our father’s daughter. Neli never did make it to those other families for the holidays and when Nymebi came over for school, she eventually found herself part of the Summers-Minette clan too. While Nymebi and Dawn – my other foster sister – are family without a doubt, nothing was quite so powerful as that first night with Neli – where we just knew – she’s family. She just is.

That moment with Neli, that’s what I think of when I think of God’s family. We just are. It’s not about where we grew up or what languages we speak or our experiences. It’s not about our education or our income or our politics. We know this – it’s why we knit prayer shawls and deliver meals, offer rides and send cards—not because we’re all so alike but because we’re family. It’s why we ask each other for prayers, why we ask each other for help. Because we’re family – family made by God.

We travel the road of faith together, even though we may not agree on things, even when we might look at the passage being discussed in a bible study, listen to our neighbor’s understanding of said passage and wonder “are you reading what I’m reading?”

There’s this great quote attributed to Rudyard Kipling – the author who brought us the great story of Mowgli and his family the wolves, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the panther in The Jungle Book. It says, “A family shares things like dreams, hopes, possessions, memories, smiles, frowns, and gladness... A family is a clan held together with the glue of love and the cement of mutual respect. A family is shelter from the storm, a friendly port when the waves of life become too wild. No person is ever alone who is a member of a family.”

This is the church family. This is who Christ has called us to be with one another and to glorify God. We’re to serve one another as we would serve Christ – offering each other glasses of water, companionship, and grace. We’re to respect one another – even if our ways and understandings differ. We’re to be family.

I really like that quote. Of course, I edited it in my first reading. Before talking about family sharing things, Kipling says “all of us are we—and everyone else is they.” Us against the world, us against them – as tempting as it might be to see family that way, we can’t. Not the family of God. This thought – one the disciples had, one many of us have – is what Jesus is encouraging us to get rid off – chop off as it were.

Being a part of the family of Christ means that there is no “they” – no us versus them. No Presbyterians versus Baptists or old hymn lovers versus new hymn lovers. And perhaps even no Christians versus non-believers - for all people are God’s children and Christ died for the whole world. Whether or not people are a part of our community of faith, they are part of God’s family and as such are to be treated with respect and love.

Jesus asks us to worry not about those people who are doing good in his name – or good even just to those who bear his name. Not to worry whether or not they’re “like us” because the “us” includes all. Worry about your own salt, your own goodness, and be at peace with one another.

You know, maybe that Kipling quote is right after all. All of us are we—and everyone else is they. Except there is no everyone else; there’s only us. For we are all a part of God’s family. Thanks be to this generous and loving God. Amen.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

It Don't Mean A Thing

Text: Mark 8:27-38

If you’ve been watching television over the past several years, you are probably familiar with those successful Mac vs PC commercials. The ones where two actors stand in as “Mac” and “PC.” The PC—a middle aged man dressed in a suit—tries to be hip, the computer that all the cool kids want to have, and yet it can’t. The laid-back Mac—the twenty-something jeans and a t-shirt guy—doesn’t have to try to be the best computer, he just is. Because, no matter what the PC may say, the Mac just performs better (or so claim the commercials).

Not long after these commercials began airing a parody was made by a church where instead of the PC vs Mac you had a Christian vs a Christ-follower. In this parody, the Christian – the middle aged man dressed in his Sunday best – is carrying lots of books—rule books, ethics books, morality plays, and his “trusty sword” as he calls the bible—an incredible Christian bumper stickers collection, and works hard to exhibit all these outer signs and symbols of his faith. The Christ-follower, on the other hand, is in his casual jeans an a t-shirt, doesn’t worry about bumper stickers or outward marks. When the Christian asks the Christ-follower, “so, what do you do to display your Christianity,” the Christ-follower responds “nothing, I guess, I just try to follow Christ with the way I live my life.”

The first time I saw this parody was not too long after I graduated from seminary – where I got to study rule books and theology books and Hebrew and Greek so I could understand the “trusty sword” in its original languages. Let’s just say, it hit a little too close to home.

Those of us who come from “mainline” traditions like Presbyterian or Methodist, Episcopalian or Lutheran – we are reasonably comfortable with the Sunday best, the rule books, the bible study. We know when to stand up and sit down in a church service, we can recite the Apostles’ Creed, we rules and we like to follow them decently and in order.

And this parody is suggesting that those signs, those creeds, those habits – they don’t make you a follower of Christ.

It’s a little like our gospel lesson this morning.

Out of all the people – the crowds, the disciples – Peter seems to get “it.” He gets that Jesus isn’t some old prophet come back from the great beyond, he gets that this guy they’ve been following is the one – the Messiah. A bunch of other may claim to be the Messiah, but they aren’t – Jesus of Nazareth is.

Peter has clued into the Messianic secret – he understands what those demons Jesus cast out of people seemed to already know – this is the one everyone’s been waiting for. The Messiah.

What a wonderful moment of faith for Peter. He can smile and take pride that out of all of Jesus’ followers, he’s the real deal just like Jesus is – because he’s the one that makes the first confession of faith. “You are the Messiah.”

And moments later, he’s the one that gets rebuked.

We don’t know what exactly Peter rebuked Jesus for when he turned to the crowd and spoke to them of death and resurrection. Perhaps it was because the Son of Man- the Messiah – couldn’t die. That wasn’t how isn’t how things were supposed to go. Or perhaps it was because Jesus was sharing this with all. Perhaps Peter thought this Messiah was for only those in the know. After all, Jesus has just told him to keep quiet about the whole Messiah thing – why is he now speaking so openly about the Son of Man?

Whether he didn’t like what Jesus was saying or didn’t like that Jesus was letting all hear his words, Peter rebukes Jesus. And Jesus, in turn, rebukes Peter. Peter—who just moments before seemed to have “gotten” it—is rebuked in front of his fellow disciples and then hears Jesus speak to the whole crowd how to follow him.

“Deny yourself. Take up your cross. Follow me.”

Jesus doesn’t command confession – he commands action. It is one thing to say, Lord, Lord, and another to live as though Jesus is your Lord.

Jesus isn’t as concerned about the right words as he is about the right way to live. He doesn’t condemn those who call him Elijah or another prophet nor does he reward Peter who knows him as Messiah. The confessions are important but not complete. Not without the life that seeks to answer Jesus’ question. We—who will stand up and affirm our faith in Jesus Christ God’s only son, our Lord—too called not to say the right words, but to live the right way.

And we, like the crowd, like Peter, we don’t. We may say the right words but we don’t live as Jesus tells us to. Here and now, we fit right into the gospel story.

“Who do people say that I am?”

Oh, say the disciples, well, Jesus, these other people, they call you Elijah and John the Baptist, Jeremiah, or one of the other prophets. They see you as someone who has come before. An ancient prophet that has arisen. Someone they already know.

This is what the crowds confess, the crowds that will celebrate his triumphant entry into Jerusalem and then shout crucify him less than a week later.

“Who do you say that I am?”

The disciples remain quiet. All, except Peter. “You are the Messiah,” he says, “son of the living God.”

This is what Peter confesses, Peter who will soon rebuke and be rebuked by Jesus, Peter who will deny him three times.

“Who do you say that I am?”

Oh, say we. Who do we say that you are? Okay, we say you are Son of God. And Lamb of God. Oh, and Word of God. And Emmanuel, Rabbi, Beloved, Bread of Life. King of Kings and Lord of Lords and Prince of Peace. Alpha and Omega. Savior, Messiah.

This is what we say, what we confess, and yet we will walk past those who are hunger, we will keep polluting the waters and not worry that some have nothing to drink, we will have nothing to do with the stranger for they are just too different, we will think it’s a pity that some have no protection against the elements but not offer our cloak and our other garments too, we will wish all could have health care but let the difficulty of solutions distract us from actually caring for the sick, we will stay away from the prisons for we will not believe that those who have strayed can truly be rehabilitated.

We, like Peter, can confess the right thing, make the appropriate statement of faith, and then leave it to that – words and only words. We, like Peter, can turn against Jesus when he asks us to believe something we don’t want to, when he asks us to follow him where we don’t want to go, when he asks us to live and die – for him, through him, and in him.

Being a Christian, a follower of Christ, really is a lot harder than reading your bible or knowing the right words. As a friend of mine recently reminded me, wearing a cross is not the same thing is taking up the cross.

We, like the crowd, like Peter, we don’t get it. We don’t always walk the walk, we don’t always confess Christ with our lives as well as our lips.

And yet, we, like the crowd, like Peter, we keep trying. And we, like the crowd, like the disciples, like Peter, we have seen and believed that Christ forgives us and works with us and through us and yeah, in spite of us. We may deny him, may crucify him, but we come back, we want to follow him. We may stray, but we know he’ll lead us back. And he does. Jesus always has and always will bring us back and with willing and open hearts, we will follow him into some scary, and wonderful, places. And in moments that may last seconds or years, we do feed the hungry, give water to thirsty, welcome the stranger. We do build houses for those without shelter, serve at the food pantry, offer compassion and justice for those who are in need, visit and have relationship with those whom society would rather forget.

Even if we don’t quite understand who Jesus is, even if we don’t always live as Jesus commands, our Messiah does not give up on us. The proof of God’s amazing love us this: while we were sinners, Christ died for us. And it is we sinners Christ calls out to, speaking of love and forgiveness, telling us to take up our cross and follow him. And it is we sinners who long to answer, who can answer, with our lives as well as our lips: yes, Lord, yes Savior, yes Son of God, yes Messiah, yes. Amen.


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Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

The shamrock on an older shore
Sprang from a rich and sacred soil
Where saint and hero lived of yore,
And where their sons in sorrow toil.

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Happy 4th of July!

 Happy 4th of July!!

Freedom's natal day is here.
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Sleepy Hollow: Season 1, Episode 1
Michael Richardson
Quick hypothetical: a snarky blogger is assigned to watch a show about a time travelling character from a single 18th century story who is brought to the present to bring down his old ghostly enemy, who now uses modern military hardware to kill rather than those old axes, and two surprising things happen. Surprise number one: it’s not a sexy remake of Shelley’s Zastrozzi (my screenplay still has a shot!), but rather a modern update of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, something nobody was clamoring for. And surprise number 2: It’s kind of great.

In this version of the classic tale, Ichabod Crane is still a teacher. Well, not really. He’s a professor at Oxford, sent by the British to crush the American Rebellion who then turns the proverbial coat and becomes a spy for the Americans. After befriending George Washington, he encounters a hulking red coat with an iron mask on the field of battle. Impervious to gunshot, Crane takes down this colonial Bane with a swipe of his sword, rendering him headless, but not before suffering a terrible wound himself. The day is saved, we’re all done here. Until Crane wakes from a coma in a cave 200 years later.

In our present, we’re introduced to a pair of delightful local cops, Abbie Mills and Sheriff August Corbin. Called to check out a suspicious situation at a farmhouse on the edge of town, the pair meet the Headless Horseman himself, also risen from the dead after having his murder career cut short. Corbin meets the man’s broadaxe first hand, however, and faster than you can say “Guest starring Clancy Brown,” we’re down to one friend in blue.

Crane manages to ingratiate himself with Mills by providing details about her partner’s killer and the man he thought he killed so long ago, so Mills goes along with this babbling lunatic to his recent grave site, where they collect George Washington’s own bible, and piece together that this cranium-challenged individual is none other than Death, first of the four horseman of Apocalypse fame. And then things get crazy, because this is just the first 20 minutes.

There is a lot that could go wrong here. On the surface, the plot line is absolutely absurd. By the end of the first hour, we’ll hear about witch covens, demons, ghost trees, mystical eagles, and blood magic. Turns out that when Crane and H.H. fell on the field of battle, their blood mixed together, linking them forever. We hear this from Crane’s wife in the future, who took it upon herself to hide the Horseman’s head, the secret to his power. Also, she’s one of the aforementioned witches, part of a “secret order” dedicated to holding back evil, and is trapped in some kind of strange demon hellscape. Like I said, complicated.

It’s rare for a concept like this to actually result in an enjoyable product. ABC’s Once Upon a Time faltered under it’s own pretensions, while films like Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer opened to epic shrugs from audiences. The fairy tale is a form that resists updates for several reasons, but most importantly, it’s because their stories on the literal level are so silly.

Sleepy Hollow solves this problem not with ironic posturing or self-referencing, but taking the material seriously while glossing over it’s rougher bits. By the end of the episode, everybody who was skeptical at the beginning is on board with a machine-gun wielding monster and a time-travelling British spy. Amen to that, because if we spent half a season trying to convince people of these facts, this show would have no steam. It’s like we skipped the show's boring first half of the season and got to the fun part. The horseman is frighteningly rendered, at least when he’s not waving around an assault rifle like a worse-off Gomer Pyle. And the big bad, seen briefly at the end, provides some legitimate spooks, even if it looks like they just bought leftover costumes from Pan's Labyrinth.

This material is anchored by twin leading performances that are so understated that it’s a surprise they don’t fade into the background. Relative newcomer Tom Mison plays Crane as charmingly bewildered rather than a total fish out of water, and somewhat indignant about being in the modern world at all. “Where am I?” he asks. “The question isn't where, but when,” intones his interrogator, and needless to say he takes that line better than I do. There’s a bit of typical time travel humor - our modern satirists never get tired of pointing out how much we love Starbucks - but for the most part Crane is a real character with real motivation, not just an excuse for slapstick.

Opposite him is Nicole Beharie (42) as Mills, dry and sarcastic, and willing to believe anything if it helps her find her partner’s killer. The two gain the chemistry of old friends very quickly, playing off each other nicely in slower moments between action set pieces. Beharie plays the heroine well, reacting to ever-increasing craziness with a knowing stoicism, with an undercurrent of vulnerability that still avoids the cliches of female cops on television. Both performances are totally measured, never rising to the campiness of their surroundings.

But most of all, the material in the pilot works because it’s just a lot of damn fun. It’s action is well choreographed and exciting, it’s humor is evident throughout, and it’s leads are totally enjoyable (if not terribly deep yet). This isn't a generic grim-dark re-imagining of a classic tale, nor is it a brooding procedural. And when they talk about witch covens and Washington’s bible, it’s handled in that pleasing tone familiar to all genre fans - “I suppose this is ridiculous if you think about it too hard, but why the hell are you thinking about it at all?” In this case, you’d just be cheating yourself out of a good time.

Judging by the trailer for the rest of the season, it’ll be interesting to see if the show can maintain it’s balance between camp and drama. There’s some special effects that bring to mind the first season of the new Doctor Who, but that can be overlooked if it’s in service to a good story. And while the lead actors are a big strength for a procedural like this, its success really hinges on the material they're given. There are so many moving parts introduced in this pilot that it would be easy to imagine the whole series falling apart with a few minor missteps. But if those missteps are as delightfully batty as the first hour, it will still be thoroughly entertaining television.

Grade: B+

-John Cho is in the pilot, and I’m really not sure why. Does John Cho have a rabid fan-base that will watch anything he’s in? Couldn’t they have just replaced him with one of those nice One Direction boys if they were trying to draw eyes?

-The show quickly sets up the possibility that anyone could be a spy for evil, including that mean police captain who is always chewing out our heroine. Does the force’s physical exam check for goat horns?

-The Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the only theology we get here. No mentions of Satan, or anything else vaguely religious. But the Book of Revelations is a deep well of insanity to draw from, and I hope they come back to it.

-There is a sweet duel between a 250 year-old priest who looks like Clint Eastwood and has wizard powers and the Headless Horseman, and I can retire in peace after writing this sentence.

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Tuesday, 4 May 2010

I was about to buy a couple of LM35 temperature sensors and then found some LM35DZs in a box of surplus stuff I got about a year ago. These are a really easy to use component, they operate from a 5v supply and output a linear voltage at 10mV per degree C with 100 degrees giving 1 volt.

I hooked one up to the PIC voltmeter project which reads 0-5 volts as 0-1023 points and got a reading of 16 which equated to roughly 7 degrees. I'll need to spend more time on this because the room was clearly much warmer than that, but when I held the LM35 between my thumb and finger the reading rose steadily.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
  Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men!
Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in you

Oh, Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand
To be loved, as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope;
Where the is darkness, only light;
And where there's sadness, ever joy.

Make me a channel of your peace.
It is pardoning that we are pardoned
In giving to all men that we receive;
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.
- Prayer of Saint Francis

"It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! God bless us, every one!"
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Prayer of St. Francis is one of the most beautiful prayers I've ever seen and/or prayed. I had a copy of it taped to my fridge for a long time until my little boy managed to get it down and shred it.

Still, every time I see it, I am moved. What a beautiful Christmas Day post.
Thanks Dawn,

I LOVE "A Christmas Carol" and it's tale of change and redemption. It gives me hope that one day I will be the husband, father and child of God I should.

I had heard "The Prayer of St. Francis" many times but I was reminded of it this week on a public television piano instruction program, of all places. I found it especially moving this year for some reason.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014

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Homeowners are growing even more pessimistic about the potential short- and long-term values of their homes.

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Just 13 percent expect the value of their home to go up over the next year. While that shows no change from last month, it’s up just two points from the all-time low reached in July. Forty-five percent (45 percent) think their house will be worth about the same amount in one year’s time.

When it comes to the longer term, 36 percent believe their home’s value will go up during the next five years, down from 40 percent last month and just one point above the lowest level measured in over two years. This finding was over 50 percent for much of 2009 and 2010.

Twenty-four percent (24%) think housing values will decrease over the next five years, up slightly from the past two months. Thirty percent (30 percent) predict that their home’s value will be about the same in five years. Homeowners who make $20,000 or less annually are more likely than those who earn higher incomes to believe the value of their home will go down in one and five years.

The Rasmussen survey echoes a HomeGain National Home Values Survey released last week. HomeGain found that 47 percent of surveyed real estate professionals nationwide expect home values to decrease over the next six months;

HomeGain also found that real estate professionals believe 75 percent of homeowners believe their homes are worth more than the recommended agent listing price. In contrast, 68 percent of home buyers believe homes are overpriced.

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Female Cyclist Flips Donald Trump the Bird! God Bless Her!

“The president of the United States is used to being saluted, but a cyclist in Virginia put her own particular slant on the tradition on Saturday when she was overtaken by Donald Trumps motorcade.

The woman on her bike was photographed raising her middle finger when Trump`s cavalcade passed her on its way out from the Trump National Golf Club on the banks of the Potomac river, on the outskirts of Washington DC. She then repeated the gesture when she caught up with the motorcade.

The White House pool report noted drily: POTUS`s motorcade departed the Trump National Golf Club at 3.12pm, passing two pedestrians, one of whom gave a thumbs-down sign. Then it overtook a female cyclist, wearing a white top and cycling helmet, who responded by giving the middle finger.

The motorcade had to slow and the cyclist caught up, still offering the finger, before turning off in a different direction. Motorcade is now gathering speed and heading for DC.”

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There are hundreds of statues of Paul Revere on his magnificent steed, immortalizing his midnight run warning the patriots that the British were coming.

I`m an optimist and I hope that one day there will be hundreds of statues of this woman on her bicycle with her middle finger extended warning patriots that our president is a national disgrace.

This heroic woman has yet to be identified, and maybe it`s better if she isn`t, because she represents all of us who are horrified and disgusted by the short-fingered vulgarian.

This patriot on her mighty bicycle saluted Trump as his cavalcade passed her on its way out from the Trump National Golf Club. Trump spends almost every weekend at one of his golf resorts, patriots should greet him whenever he enters or leaves one of his resorts with extended middle fingers.

Flipping Trump the bird is the perfect way of demonstrating our contempt, it`s speaking in a language that he will understand, and it`s a reminder that everybody, even children, have longer fingers.

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Post-Thanksgiving Check-In

Hi, all! If you celebrated Thanksgiving this weekend, I hope you had a wonderful time. If you didn't celebrate it, I hope you had a wonderful regular old weekend. :-D

I am now back from my MANY hours on the road and am very thankful to not be in a moving vehicle. VERY thankful.

I took my camera this weekend and snapped a few fun shots. Check out my Thanksgiving 2009 album here. My absolutely favorite shot is of the Georgia state line.

And speaking of my photography, check it out: chose one of my Georgia Aquarium photos (along with others) to be featured in their Atlanta guide. How cool is that?! This link takes you directly to the "Zoos, Farms & Aquaria" page, complete with my photo showing in the Aquarium section (look for the photo credit "Photo: Robyn Allegra"). However, if you scroll over anything else it sometimes disappears or is replaced by another photo. If you miss it you can also check out the original photo at Flickr.

Alrighty, that's all for now. I must find food... Or perhaps take a nap.*

*I'll leave you with one more link, since this is a particularly link-heavy entry. One of my favorite places to waste time: Yahoo! Games - Board Games

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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

Home is the nicest word there is.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.


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Hardcore Captivity!

Hardcore Captivity, Book 3 in The Rock n Roll Paraphantasy Series, coming November 18, 2013. Be sure to catch up with book 1, Rock n Roll Promises and book 2, Heavy Metal Heartbeat. The witches are coming...Who will survive?
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Sunday, 1 January 2012

Documenting Delight - 366 Project {The Start}

I was surprised to see this face on my camera display right after I'd taken the photos of Roman enjoying some bubbles - the look of wonderment and pure joy, all from a couple of blown bubbles.

My 'Baby Bear' is no more. His face shape is changing, his language is developing and he's becoming his own person more and more each day.

I sometimes feel I shouldn't call him 'baby' anymore and I haven't called him 'Baby Bear' in ages...after all, he's a definite toddler now.

The babyhood doesn't last for long and I know toddler hood will be just as fleeting. 2012 will bring me a two year old and I am excited to share, to learn, to grow, to watch all these changes (through watery eyes, no doubt!) and to have another year of complete photos and words.

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23 October 2007

October Movie - The Lady In White

So the movie of the month - as voted by you all - is Lady In White. I have to think that we chose this film based on nostalgic feelings of when we were all in junior high and the PG-13 horror film genre didn't really exist yet. So we got REALLY pumped about the one horror film we COULD watch...Lady In White. Even back then I remember being disappointed. If we were feeling nostalgic I wish we had chosen Something Wicked This Way Comes or even Salems Lot. Anyway, here goes.
This film is based on a popular urban legend about the "White Lady" who had a daughter that was killed by a predatory suitor. Finding her daughter dead she kills herself and she haunts the lakefront to this day. So we start the film with this legend already going on. Our nerd hero, Frankie Scarlatti, gets locked in a coat closet at school by the cool kids. While there he sees the ghost of a young girl. She drops something down a grate then she is apparently murdered. We later learn that this apparition occurs every night and that the girl is carried off all the way accross town and thrown off a cliff. Why has no one else seen it before? Is everyone asleep by 10 pm? Anyway, after the ghost leaves we see a real man come in and try to retrieve the item from the grate (the furnace is about to be replaced and if the item is found there where the girl was killed this guy could get caught). The man sees Frankie and tries to kill him. Why not? What's one more murder (there had been 10 or so)? He survives and we spend the rest of the film trying to figure out who this man is. In the meantime we see the Lady in White several times but it's never scary. The director should have watched Halloween on lessons for how to freak you out with the appearance of the scary thing in your movie. Then we get a real treat when we meet the Lady's living sister who is Mona from Who's the Boss? That's the scariest part of the film hands down. We learn that the murderer is Frankie's uncle who in the end tries to kill Frankie. Of course Frankie is saved by Mona and then again by the Lady herself. Uncle Phil dies and the Lady and her daughter can now both rest forever as they blast off into space. But Mona is dead. So that's good news.
Lots of problems. First, this film feels like the Halloween version of The Christmas Story with the author (in this case the Author/Director Frank LaLoggia) narrating the film like a fond remeniscence. It doesn't work for a scary movie. You can't have a cheery, nostalgic scary movie. Then there are the Puma Man flying effects which were so funny in The Puma Man but not here. Then there's the forest which has an eternal layer of fog on the ground. I could go on but it's really upsetting me. I can't remember how many times I hit the status button to see how much time was left. If we have another one like this then I may start exercising veto powers.

So the movie category for this month is Charleton Heston films. No one can screw that up. My vote is for Omega Man.

joN. said...

i'm very pleased that you used the picture of mona in the window. i remember as kids i think we agreed that that was the scariest part of the movie, at least retroactively when we realize toward the end that mona isn't actually the lady in white, but a STILL LIVING woman who for some weird reason is at the kid's house staring at him.

speaking of the kid, what's up with that kid? he's all pumped to tell his lame stories to his classmates, but he keeps his mouth shut on other key issues. look, a black guy is gonna be executed because the town thinks this guy attacked you, kid. i know you said it was dark and you couldn't see your attacker's face, but you know it wasn't THAT dark. later on toward the end i was waiting several minutes for frankie to say something to the effect of: "mona from who's the boss saved my life, but she was knocked down by the killer and is STILL in that BURNING BUILDING 30 feet away from us." but he never did.

yeah, it would have been nice to have more supernatural or horror elements. at least more of the lady in white since that's what the movie's called and she's in it for like 30 seconds. my guess is that they wouldn't be able to maintain the consistent bluescreen quality they had (which was horrible in places) if they had more footage of her.

frank laloggia, huh? i noticed his name appeared all over this movie as if his name ought to get our attention. but pretty much this is the only movie he really did. what's up with that.

petty complaints aside, i'm glad maria went all over town to find this movie so we could watch it. it was far funner than my complaints made it out to be (perhaps in a lot of ways because of my complaints). however, i think it's too bad the video store didn't have the changeling.

Maria said...

So basically I'm a total baby when it comes to scary movies so I was pleased with this selection. I wasn't scared one bit - creeped out, yes - but not scared.

I agree a living Mona that looked that is much scarier than the actual white lady.

The super cheesy/happy music at the beginning of the film was confusing but enjoyed by all.

wlf said...

here's one vote for Ben Hur, easily the most powerful role ever played by the venerable C.H.

Swint said...

Probably won't watch it. By the way, took Linds to a Haunted House. It was a good one, but not overly scary, nevertheless, She latched onto my back like a Koala cub to her mom. We were both shocked by it. I have never seen her so paralyzed. I laughed pretty good.

So in December, are we nominating a Christmas movie for movie of the month? You should make a rule that it cannot be a movie that is on every 30 seconds on TV. (eg. A Christmas Story or Miracle on 34th Street).

joN. said...

it's impossible for me to nominate just one chuck heston movie. since you already took 'the omega man,' i'm gonna have to go with either 'beneath the planet of the apes' (above the planet of the apes was horrifying enough! what lurks below?!), 'will penny' (a movie i've never seen, but chuck said himself it's his favorite) or, dare i say it, 'the ten commandments' (every line is melodramatic biblical beauty and it's also like four hours long!). but, alas, if it must be 'soylent green' yet again, you'll find no complaints here.

Swint said...

didn't read the whole post, otherwise I would have posted on Chuck. (by the way did you see that our favorite Chuck, Mr. Norris, endorsed the mighty Huckabee). Anyway, my vote is simply for the 10 Commandments.

When I was on my mission in Canada I served in BFE near the Arctic, we couldn't go to zone or district meetings and the only missionary I saw for 5 months was my companion. We had a tv/vcr and justified the 10 commandments to avoid going insane. One P-day, I brought the tv into the bathroom and watched it while taking a bath. Two hours of sweet soaking (or is it three?).

Josh said...

Ahhh Mona, the sexiest woman in show business (and that includes you Judith Light!).

Josh said...

As for Heston films, I nominate Wayne's World 2. He was awesome in that.

Chapman Family said...

Where, I ask you, are those pictures of your baby!!!! I want pictures!


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Monday, October 15, 2012

The Power of We

A rather ungrammatical title for a post about something that really is true.

Animal welfare won't improve unless WE do something about it.

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None of us can do everything; all of us can do something.

Working together, we can achieve far more than we can individually.

The RSPCA is not perfect, but  animal lovers who are prepared to accept the need for give and take can gain a much more powerful voice for animals than as lone voices.

If you want animals to have better lives, please consider RSPCA membership. Membership adds your voice to the power of RSPCA campaigns, and it will also give you the right to vote in branch and national trustee elections.

If you have time, please consider whether you might be able to help our branch as a volunteer, or by joining the branch committee as a trustee.


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Saturday, October 19, 2013

How not to keep dogs

Fortuitously (I sincerely hope it is not a portent of more of the same!) this week's calls could have been used as case studies to illustrate what is wrong with the dog situation in this country.

  1. Request for help with the cost of "cherry eye" surgery for a young bulldog. The owner had spent £300 on surgery on one eye and couldn't afford to get the other one done. Sadly this isn't something we can afford to help with.
  2. Request to help with first aid for a young dog passing copious diarrhoea with blood. He'd been adopted from an organisation which rescues dogs from Romania by someone eligible to use our clinic, but unfortunately as he'd been vaccinated by the rescue the owner hadn't made it a priority to get him registered with us. Typically it was a Sunday when most vets charge extra and the owner couldn't afford the cost.
  3. Last, and saddest, an 8 week old puppy, bought at a car boot sale and now with probable internal injuries. After spending all her money on buying the puppy, his owner had none to pay for treatment. We covered this, but the pup is probably not going to make it.
"Fire fighting" like this is essential because these individual animals need our help, but it is only putting a patch on a broken system.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Newmarket shop re-launch!

We've now recruited a new manager to replace Lorna and our shop in Newmarket will be re-opening next week. Lynne will be at the shop most of the rest of this week, putting out the winter stock and arranging the rota for volunteers.

To help us make the launch a success we need your help with stock donations and we need more volunteers. If you live in the Newmarket area and can help, please drop by the shop.


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Thursday, April 8, 2010

These three cards are so similar that I decided to post them together! They are made with Stampin Up die cut flowers (layered) and Cuttlebug embossing folders. I am using up as much paper from my stash as I can. The last one is my favorite. These diecuts are so big, I really did not know what to do with them!
Today I got a new "Assignment" or "Project" as I like to call it. My sister and I make cards for the Foster Children in our county here in Florida. (Birthday, Christmas, Graduation, Happy Adoption) The administrators are going to have an event to get birthday gifts donated for the Foster Children. (It works like the "Christmas Angel Tree.") They would like us to make as many birthday cards as we can, to hang on their trees. Then good folks will choose a birthday card from the tree. Each card will have the foster child's name, age and desired gift on the back of the card. Folks choose the card, buy the gift and return the card and gift to the center where it is distributed to the child on their birthday. I said I would do 100 cards to start. I'll post some here. It will motivate me to get moving! I love projects like this!
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

More Showing Off!!

So, Pam was kind enough to ask for more of Rubens drawings (Thank you, Pam!).
To be honest, I would love to share this phenomenon with you.
As you might see, even if we take away the biased mothers pride, it is quite unusual for a child to draw animals like this starting before his second birthday. Or what? Am I just a foolish mother?

Well, here they come. A whole lot! I have listed his age and his own pronounced title to the drawings. He will be 4 years later this month.

1 year+11 months: "Foals." (He always insisted that they were foals, not horses.)

2 years+ 1 months: The artist doing "Foals" on our house.

2 years + 2 months: "Donkey and zebra"

2 years+2 months: "Dangerous Foal."

2 years + 4 months: "Ruben on the Horse" (Himself)

2 years + 5 months: "Rearing horse with wings"

2 years + 5 months: "Snail" and "Dog with spots"

2 years + 10 months: "Whales"

2 years + 11 months: "Elephant spraying with dust"

3 years + 5 months: "Buffalo leaving the water. No! It walks"

3 years + 11 months: "Kangaroo with young one"

Snowbear said...

Your son is an amazing artist! I just only started getting mine to draw a human head that somewhat looks like a person!

Trine Als said...

OOh my...
Your son is very gifted. I´m sure he will be a known artist in a few years.
Drawings like this is not to be seen before age 6. Is he ahead in other things?

Kristy said...

I love childrens art!Well done Ruben. My eldest Lily has always been the same.As she was our first we didn't think anything of it until a routine developmental check where they asked her to draw a simple circle and she proceeded to complete a rocketship with astronauts etc!I'll have to find some of her masterpieces!

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You should set up a Blog for your href="" >children's art< mine is a huge hit, providing a place to show off, what is normally hidden away to family friends and other bloggers and the comments can give such encouragement and delight!!

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Wow; he is definitley gifted. I can't believe it!!

Tina said...

WOW!!!! Jeg har ALDRIG set så flotte tegninger, af så ung en kunstner :) Amazing!!

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Wow, your son's art is great and as I am sure you know, ahead of the curve for his age. Great!


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Why Are We Afraid to Fail? /Fundraiser Updates

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success." -Og Mandino

Why Are We Afraid to Fail?

I know right now many of us are riding the emergencies of life. I think what separates us are those who will risk it all for a better tomorrow or those that sit back and wait for the other party to go first. I think 2009 will be a year where we need to rise up. A year where we take a step forward and we are not afraid to fail.

I look at it like this: If I train hard for 20 weeks and fall in the Boston Marathon and get hurt, I GET BACK UP! It's that simple! When I first started this program I was afraid. I looked at the average mileage of the program being around 40-42 miles a week. Which I was alright with that. Then I saw how you do two days of hard running and I was a bit nervous. Worrying not only about failing to live up to my expectations but those of others. Then it hit me. If I fall I get back up. If I get hurt, I will petition the Boston Marathon Wheel-Chair event! Either way I am finishing! I plan on running with a camera and a cell phone so people can call me at anytime and find out where I am on the race course. I still plan on finishing under 4 hours.

Today's Miles for Miracles Training

The training today is 7 miles total. 5 miles of it being tempo run. The first mile was a warm-up mile at 8 minutes. The next 5 were tempo miles run at a 7 min mile pace. Then the last one being another cool-down mile of 8 minutes. I felt alright out there. The leg is getting a bit sore from where I slipped the other day but other than that I am feeling great!

Miles For Miracles Update

As of yesterday(not updated on the website yet) we are at a total of $1317. That is great and I am happy we are almost half way there. I would love to hit this goal before the Boston Marathon then I could just concentrate on running. All proceeds are tax deductible to a 501c3 children's hospital. Special thanks to Chris Major and Majorpalooza for their continued support!

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If anyone is interested, Jodi Saurini, will soon have 50/50 raffle tickets available for Zack. For those of you that don't know about Zack he is having surgery at Boston Children's Hospital on February 4th! I wish him the best of luck and I hope we can all put him in our thoughts on that day! You can contact Jodi on facebook or at

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R.I.P. Rovers

The Bush/Cheney administration, in yet another demonstration of its contorted priorities, is cutting off funding for NASA's Mars Rovers. These two 'bots have been successfully exploring our twin planet since January 2004, producing solid science as well as stunning panoramas of the Martian sky and landscape.

It sounds like a done deal, even though the Rovers have proven their worth by exceeding their predicted three-month lifespans by more than four years. They offer real scientific value for the relatively low cost of $20 million per year. Yet Bush would rather send astronauts to Mars at an estimated cost of $230 billion over the next twenty years. Go figure. Bush has also proposed a costly base for astronauts on the moon, to be (conveniently) financed by his successors.

Launching humans into space is prohibitively expensive, especially considering the desperate and obvious needs on earth. But wandering robots on Mars and other planets are a sound and relatively small investment in basic science, and the construction (by robots) of a large array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon also seems like a solid long-term goal.

Abandoning the Rovers would be yet another unforgivable blunder. After all, Mars is the only other planet that might be capable of supporting life once our species has finally rendered the earth uninhabitable.

Be sure to sit back and spend a few minutes watching Martian clouds drift by while you still have the chance.

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PHOTO: Exploration Rover Spirit's panorama of the West Valley. It landed near the horizon in the center of this picture. (Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.)

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Lauren and Freya Mathers with their dogs, Rove and Ralph.

Freya feeds Ralph while Rove looks on

So, Lauren, tell me about your pooches.

Rove is a retriever and we have had him for five years. We called him Rove because he used to nick off as a pup with the boxer we used to have. When he was a pup we actually thought we had lost him, and we found him 3km away sitting in a front gate next to a wheelie bin, just waiting for us to find him.

Ralph is a Maremma and is five months old. We got him because we were having trouble with foxes eating the piglets. We thought he was way too cute to take down to the paddock, and he has now bonded with the kids and Rove and I am not that positive that he will make the best guard dog now.

Poor Rove looks like he is a little on the chubby side.

Yes but he has lost 20kg. He is on a very strict diet and is only allowed to eat low-calorie dog food. He started to put on weight when he stopped roving around the countryside after we had him fixed. I think he was upset so he started to binge eat.

What was he eating?

Well, we have seven chooks and we never got an egg, so we are pretty sure he was eating seven eggs a day combined with pig bones. He is funny though because we never actually saw him eat, he was always burying stuff and going back to eat it later — he is definitely a closet eater.

What’s his personality like?

He is just a beautiful dog. George can lie on his back and play with his teeth and he just lets him. He is very protective of the kids, and when Lucy was little he used to follow her around and gently herd her back to the house by pulling gently on her clothes. Ralph just loves him too and they are best buddies.

Do they fight over anything?

Just the bed. We only have one dog bed and if Rove is asleep on it and it’s tea time, he won’t get off and eat his tea because he doesn’t want Ralph to get onto the bed. The other day I took one of them to the vet — one howled all the way into town and the other howled the whole time we were away. They really are best buddies.

I just love dogs and I have always had one. They are great company and there is nothing more calming than sitting there and patting a dog. The kids love them as well and they are huge part of our family.

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A Guide to Nottinghamshire's Ferns.

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There are twenty-two species of fern recorded in Nottinghamshire since 2000, but this article is an introduction to those most easily found in Rushcliffe.

The commonest are, in approximate order of occurence:
  • Male-fern Dryopteris filix-mas
  • Broad Buckler-fern Dryopteris dilatata
  • Bracken Pteridium aquilinum
  • Hart's-tongue Fern Asplenium scolopendrium
  • Scaly Male-fern Dryopteris affinis
  • Soft Shield-fern Polystichum setiferum
  • Borrer's Male-fern Dryopteris borreri
  • Maidenhair Spleenwort Asplenium trichomanes
  • Wall Rue Asplenium ruta-muraria
  • Hard Shield-fern Polystichum aculeatum

In winter, when the scope for field botany is restricted, the ferns offer a great opportunity for field work because the commonest by far, Male Fern, dies back either entirely or nearly so, thereby making it easier to hone in on the others.

To the absolute beginner, all ferns might appear to be 'bracken' but Bracken is quite distinctive and easily separable from the others given an element of applied observation; unlike most ferns it does not grow in tufts (shuttlecock-like) but rather, it produces individual fronds rising in patches - often very large, dominant patches where nothing else grows. In winter it dies back completely. Bracken occurs here and there in woods such as Cotgrave Forest and and verges as along the A6006 west of Rempstone. In the autumn, the current year's growth dies back and by the end of winter it is brown and fallen to the floor.

Bracken 20th March 2016

The easiest to identify, by a considerable margin is Hart's-tongue Fern. It is fairly common and distinctive as well as being familiar to many naturalists without a specific interest in botany and it stays green all year round.

Hart's-tongue Fern
Hart's-tongue Fern
Perhaps the only difficulty is in recognising it as a fern at all, though a glance beneath the fronds, which are undivided will, on a fertile frond, reveal the characteristic linear sori (the spore-bearing organs – singular = sorus).

If you know of a wall that is well populated with ferns, you have a head-start in fern identification as Hart's-tongue is the commonest of three species likely to be present and the other two are also quite straightforward; Wall Rue and Maidenhair Spleenwort are by no means ubiquitous, but because there is a restricted choice, walls are a nice introduction to ferns.

Maidenhair Spleenwort
Maidenhair Spleenwort

Wall Rue and Maidenhair Spleenwort grow only on walls (or rocks) but Hart's-tongue can also be found in woodlands as well as, occasionally, in the wider Rushcliffe countryside.

There are two other wall-growing ferns; the rather rare Black Spleenwort

Black Spleenwort
Black Spleenwort

and the very rare Rustyback.

All the others with the exception of Bracken, are almost exclusively woodland plants for they need moisture and shade. Most moisture and most shade is to be found on north-facing slopes, so the woodlands that shroud the steep cliffs to the south of the River Trent between Radcliffe on Trent and Flintham, Old Wood and Windmill Hill Wood as well as some aspects of Cotgrave Forest are good places to search.

It is in such places that you will discover the three Male-ferns plus Soft Shield-fern and Broad Buckler-fern.

In winter (November to March) the only ferns (other than the 'wall' ferns; (Hart's-tongue, Wall Rue and Maidenhair Spleenwort) that look fresh and vibrant are, in approximate order of verdancy:

  • Scaly Male-fern
  • Soft Shield-fern
  • Broad Buckler-fern
  • Borrer's Male-fern

Scaly Male-fern and Soft Shield-fern in particular can be extremely obvious even as late as March as in these images taken on the same day in March 2016 as the Bracken above:

Scaly Male-fern
Scaly Male-fern 20th March 2016
Borrer's Male-fern
Borrer's Male-fern 20th March 2016
Borrer's Male-fern close-up of pinnules
Borrer's Male-fern pinnules 20th March 2016
Soft Shield-fern
Soft Shield-fern 20th March 2016
Soft Shield-fern pinnules
Soft Shield-fern pinnules 20th March 2016
Broad Buckler-fern
Broad Buckler-fern 20th March 2016

Hard Shield-fern is also found in Rushcliffe though it is the scarcest of the Dryopteris ferns. It also stays fresh and green through the winter and it is more common in the rest of Notts

Hard Shield-fern
Hard Shield-fern 23rd March 2016

Male-fern will, in winter, be seeing the current or previous season's growth dying back so it will appear flopped to the ground; some fronds still green, though generally wilting and some brown and perished. In a mild winter, the die-back will be less advanced than in a frosty one, but by March virtually all traces of Male Fern will be brown and dead.

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VUWSA Elections

Hey guys, it’s election time again and I would like to say a quick hello as the Returning Officer. Hi, I’m Andrea and I am here to give you the run down on the exciting weeks to come…

As members of VUWSA you have the right to have your say about your Students’ Association. Whether you decide to stand for one of the positions on the 2008 executive, or just vote for whom you think should get the title, you need to decide. NOW!

Nominations opened on Thursday 6th September and will be open until Wednesday 12th September. If you think you could be interested in working with students to help students, pop down to the VUWSA office and have a read of the info about the different roles. If you are already keen on your student politics and you knew months ago you wanted to have a crack at it, or another one as the case may be, fill out the nomination forms that are available at all campuses. And remember, Wednesday at 4:30 is the last time you can put your name in, so be quick. For all you people who aren’t too keen to speak up and work even harder while here at Vic, that’s OK, we have something for you to do too. VOTE! It’s your money that makes VUWSA happen, so make sure you have your say on who is representing your interests. Voting starts on the 21st September and runs for a whole week until 4:30pm of Friday the 28th September, so you have heaps of time.

We have got two simple and easy ways of voting. Firstly, we will have the polling booths running at all campuses during the week (have a look round for flyers detailing time and locations that suit you), or jump on the net and do it whenever you want over the polling week. You will all be receiving an e-mail with the ins and outs of how to vote on-line and a secret little login and password just for you! On the off chance that technology fails a little and you don’t get the voting e-mail by Tuesday 25th September, just give me a call or flick me an e-mail (details at the end) and I’ll sort it out.

As returning officer it is my responsibility to make sure the election runs as smoothly as possible and everyone gets a fair chance. I am here to make sure all nominees, voters and students have all the information they need to have a fair and constitutional election. This means that if you have any problems, questions or just wanna say, “what’s up”, I am available. I will be hanging around the Kelburn office of VUWSA most of the time, you can e-mail me at or give me a call on 04 473 8566 or 0211842735.

Well, have a great week, study hard and vote smart.

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Football: No Kaka, Robinho? No World Cup, says Pele of Brazil's hopes of winning

Pele says Neymar (second from right) has no World Cup experience, so
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RIO DE JANEIRO - Even before a football has been kicked in anticipation, Brazil's hopes of winning next month's World Cup at home have been written off - by its favourite footballing son, no less.

Pele, the Fifa Player of the Century, said Brazil national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari had made a mistake by overlooking experienced players in choosing his squad.

Veterans Kaka and Robinho, stars of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, held hopes of playing in the tournament but were not called up, along with former AC Milan forward Alexandre Pato and Ronaldinho, a member of Brazil's triumphant 2002 team.

Pele believes Kaka and Robinho would have added much-needed experience to the hosts as they seek a sixth World Cup win.

Brazil squad
Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar (Toronto FC), Jefferson (Botafogo), Victor (Atletico Mineiro)
Defenders: Dante (Bayern Munich), David Luiz (Chelsea), Henrique (Napoli), Thiago Silva (PSG), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Maicon (Roma), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Maxwell (PSG)
Midfielders: Fernandinho (Manchester City), Hernanes (Inter Milan), Luiz Gustavo (Wolfsburg), Oscar (Chelsea), Paulinho (Tottenham), Ramires (Chelsea), Willian (Chelsea)
Strikers: Bernard (Shakhtar Donetsk), Fred (Fluminense), Hulk (Zenit Saint-Petersburg), Jo (Atletico Mineiro), Neymar (Barcelona)

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This is a "rocky time" for IBM. That is the frank verdict from Virginia M. Rometty, the technology giant's chief executive.

In recent years, revenue growth at IBM has been stubbornly elusive, and new technologies like cloud computing have risen to threaten the company's traditional hardware and software businesses. Those concerns have weighed on the company's stock price, which has been stagnant since Ms. Rometty took over nearly two and a half years ago.

But in an interview at IBM's headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., Ms. Rometty said she and the company now had a clear vision for how to pursue another generation of growth.

The company, she says, has jettisoned less profitable business and made major commitments in new fields — like technology to help customers find insights in today's flood of digital data, and cloud-style computing in which processing and software is delivered remotely over the Internet. Cloud computing, she insists, can be converted to an opportunity for IBM.

"We are transforming this company for the next decade," she said, sounding a theme she plans to use on Wednesday at the company's yearly meeting with investment analysts. "That is not a one-year job, not when you're a hundred billion-dollar company."

The challenge facing Ms. Rometty, 56, is similar to those faced by previous IBM executives: figure out how to move to new business opportunities faster than the lucrative, older businesses erode.

Over the years, personal computing, the Internet and Indian services firms seemed like dire threats to the company. Each time, IBM adapted and invested, and emerged remade and reinvigorated.

"I feel very good about the direction and how we've crystallized it," she said. She later added, "We are making progress, and we just need to keep moving with speed."

Ms. Rometty characterized some problems, like the falloff in its once-booming China business and the losses in its semiconductor unit, as relatively fleeting or fixable. Less than 15 percent of IBM's revenue comes from hardware sales, but a down cycle in that business can hit hard, as it has in the last year.

One ingredient in the fix-it formula is shedding profit laggards. In January, IBM announced it was selling its division that makes industry-standard server computers to Lenovo of China for $2.3 billion.

Ms. Rometty's message to IBM's more than 400,000 employees is to embrace the future, and quickly, rather than resist it. The abrupt change in the company's approach to cloud computing recently, analysts say, is an example.

IBM, analysts say, was slow to grasp the significance of cloud computing. That technology, they note, is the most pointed threat to IBM because it has the potential to displace big parts of the company's business of selling hardware, software and services to corporations in their data centers.

For years, analysts say, the company's SmartCloud offering was a fairly typical response of an incumbent supplier to a new technology. It was treated as an extension of IBM's existing product line rather than something genuinely new.

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The student escaped when people rushed to rescue the girl.

QUETTA: A medical student has been arrested on the charge of making an attempt to rape a patient admitted to the Bolan Medial College Hospital.
According to reports, the fourth-year MBBS student administered the patient – a girl in her early twenties – an injection to make her unconscious, and tried to sexually assault her in the orthopaedic ward on Thursday night.
But the girl offered resistance and raised a hue and cry, drawing attention of other patients and their attendants.
The student escaped when people rushed to rescue the girl.
The Brewery Road police have registered a case under section 354 of the Pakistan Penal Code (rape attempt).
Meanwhile, Balochistan Health Minister Rehmat Saleh Baloch has ordered an inquiry into the incident and constituted a three-member committee to conduct the probe.
The committee -- headed by the Medical Superintendent of the hospital Dr Masood Nausherwani with the deputy medical superintendent and a resident medical officer as its members — has been directed to submit report in three days.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

1870s Park Slope: Prospect Place

A while ago we introduced the 1880 Bromley Brooklyn Atlas, which color-codes structures by building type: pink for brick, yellow for wood.

The excerpt below shows that development in the northwest Slope was well advanced by 1880. The excerpt shows 5th Avenue to the left, 6th Avenue to the right, Flatbush Avenue on the diagonal at the top, and Bergen, St. Marks, and Prospect Place from top to bottom.

1880 Bromley Brooklyn Atlas showing NW Park Slope

One notes that the entire north side of Prospect Place between 5th & 6th was built up by 1880. The view remains little changed today:

Prospect Place between 5th & 6th Avenues, north side, circa 1870s -

The map also shows the transit lines running along 5th Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, and Bergen Street; these survive in the bus routes of today.

Finally, the map shows the original location of St. Augustine's R. C. Church, at 5th Avenue and Bergen Street. St. Augustine's would depart 5th Avenue when the elevated 5th Avenue Line began operation in the late 1880s, relocating to its present home in 6th Avenue between Sterling and Park.

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