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"What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance?" ~ Theodore Roethke, from "In a Dark Time"
Wednesday, early evening. Thunder showers.
Tillie had two seizures today while I was out of the house. Luckily, Corey was home with her. He said that they both lasted a pretty long time. I hate it when she has seizures because there is no warning.
I had an appointment with my psychiatrist today, a med check. We talked about my recent anxiety attacks and agreed that it's probably a temporary thing based on circumstances, so she prescribed me something for the interim. I remember when I used to have anxiety attacks all of the time. I was married to my ex. Maybe that explains it, but I haven't had them in a very long time, so this backsliding is bothering me.
Anyway, I have a new television addiction: "Fashion Star" on NBC. It's pure fluff, but the music is great. There are no scenes from the workroom like "Project Runway," but there are lots of divas, which always makes for interesting watching. And Corey and I have started watching a new drama called "Awake," which features Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy from Harry Potter), who is a superb actor. The premise of the show is different, which makes it engaging to watch.
You know that my life is kind of in standstill when I'm writing about what's on television . . .
"Is it possible . . . that we have not yet seen, known, or said anything real and important? Is it possible that we have had thousands of years to look, meditate, and record, and that we have let these thousands of years slip away. Yes, it is possible." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Today is one of those days in which possibilities seem limited as opposed to endless.
I was in the elevator after my appointment, just thinking about where I am at the moment, and it occurred to me that I haven't been able to see Dr. K. for months now. I had suspended my therapy because I had to keep cancelling and rescheduling because of the vehicle situation, and I didn't think that it was fair to her to be taking up slots in her schedule that I might not be able to keep. I told her that I would call her when we finally got the truck fixed and resume my sessions at that time. Now I need to wait until I get caught up in my health insurance as we are behind a month again. So no therapy for now.
The doctor I saw today asked me how long life has been this way, and I told her three years, but actually, it's now four years. I keep forgetting that it's 2012; all of this started in 2008. Four years of ups and downs, mostly downs. Four years of an endless cycle of debt. Four years of just scraping by. Four years.
My how time flies. In four years, a person could get a degree. In four years, a baby grows from an infant to a toddler. In four years the presidency changes. So much happens in four years, and yet, nothing happens.
Forgive me. I'm quite maudlin. Perhaps I should not attempt to post, but I feel that need to write, to make these keys click or clack or whatever sound it is that a computer keyboard makes. I just had a sudden memory: the sound of 50 IBM Selectric typewriters all going madly simultaneously. That was the sound of the newsroom in the morning, in the era pre-computer. If you listened carefully, you could discern the different cadences, depending upon the user's typing ability. There were the two-fingered reporters, the one fingered reporters, the full hands reporters, so all together, it was kind of like a schizoid percussion section: rat-a-tat-a-tat very quickly, or one beat at a time.
That's a good memory.
"The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams." ~ Louise Glück
Last night I had a Great Bridge dream, that's one featuring all of my relatives on my mother's side with whom I grew up, especially my cousins. My Aunt Ronnie was still alive, and everyone was coming over for dinner, just like they used to. Except in this dream, Corey's family was also there, and his brother Steve arrived on a three-wheeler. Dinner was chaotic, and I was trying to feed a baby who kept spitting out the food. Then Aunt Ronnie took the baby from me, and fed her with no trouble. She told me that I was doing it wrong.
I also remember that before dinner, we were setting up folding chairs at a very long table, and I was carrying four chairs on each arm—like that could happen now. Once upon a time, maybe, like when I worked at Dillard's—I was kind of freakishly strong for my size, routinely picking up four-ways completely covered with clothes and moving them around the floor. Of course, that probably led to my back problems.
Speaking of once upon a time, there was something about that in another dream, but I can't quite grasp it. But I also dreamt that I was in someone's office, and they were telling me about this epic book that I should have read but hadn't. It was a book about everything, and when I opened the book, the pictures moved (on the paper). I decided (in the dream) that I would buy a copy for each of my sons.
In the past few weeks, dead relatives keep appearing in my dreams: my aunts and uncles, my m-in-law, my dad, and once, my ex-father-in-law walked in and said that he'd been asleep and was wondering what was happening. That was really weird as he has rarely appeared in any dreams throughout the years. (Aside: I almost always misspell the word weird, which in itself is weird as I have always consider myself weird.)
"It is all in the mind, you say, and has
nothing to do with happiness." ~ Mark Strand, from "So You Say"
I've begun reading the second book in the Game of Thrones series, having finally finished the first one, which was really quite good. Only one thing bothered me: the author used the phrase "game of thrones" at least five different times in the narrative. I love the phrase, but usually the titular phrase is only found once in the narrative, which helps to give it emphasis. I'm not sure why George R. R. Martin did that, seems like overkill.
But what do I know? He's published a lot more books than I have . . . but if I ever do get published, I'm going to be sure to have two middle initials—G.R.R. Martin, kind of like J. R. R. Tolkien . . .
I know that the books have been turned into a show on HBO, but we don't have HBO, so maybe if we ever get Netflix, I can watch the series. Sean Bean and Lena Headey are in it, among many other notable actors. I could probably download it, but I'm reluctant to download shows as they are much more prone to viruses. So I'm back to talking television. Geez.
I should probably stop now before I bore all of you beyond tears.
More later. Peace.
*All images are taken from the International Exhibition of Calligraphy, Moscow
Music by Peter Bradley Adams, "Full Moon Song"
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
~ Mary Oliver, from Dream Work


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Given all this, James Clarkson (seen here), who appeared at the 6th Annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas, hosted by Ryan Wood, made a good case for adding another to the list.
According to Clarkson, on November 25, 1979, a number of people saw something fiery in the night sky and more than one of them thought of it as a craft without power. I use the term craft, though some of them described an airplane-like configuration with lighted windows and fire on one side.
Mrs. Ralph Case was riding in a car driven by her husband along State Route 12 and about four miles east of Aberdeen when she saw what she said was a plane with one side on fire. She reported this to the air traffic control tower at Bowerman Airfield, also near Aberdeen, Washington at about ten minutes to eleven.
Ernest Hayes, driving along the same highway as Case said that he had seen a very bright green flash overhead. He called the county sheriff at about eleven that same night or some ten minutes after Case had reported her sighting.
Estella Krussel, who Clarkson interviewed about eight years after the event, said that she'd seen an "unknown aircraft" fly over and thought of a passenger jet because of the illuminated windows. She thought it had a cigar shape, was narrower in front than the rear and had an intense blue-white light shining from each of the windows. She was one of those who had the impression that it was out of power.
Things got stranger, according to Clarkson. He interviewed a number of witnesses who had driven out into the rough country, a crazy pattern of logging roads and paved highways. Some of them in search of the object that others had seen.
Eight years after the crash, Clarkson interviewed Gordon Graham. Graham had heard about the crash from Donald Betts, and tried to drive out to find it. He was turned away by a military checkpoint.
Clarkson quoted Graham as saying, "I saw four military weapons carriers. There were at least ten soldiers there. They have the road blocked. They told us to get out of there. They didn't say it very politely either."
Here we run into a problem and one that I should have mentioned to Clarkson. Posse Comitatus is a federal law that does not allow the use of active duty soldiers in a law enforcement function except in a very narrow range of situations. These soldiers, if active duty, had no authority to block the roads. If they were members of the National Guard on "maneuvers" in the area, they would probably have been in what is known as Title 10 or Title 32 status and would have been in violation of the law when manning these roadblocks. This means that had Graham driven on, the soldiers had no authority to stop or arrest him.
I know that National Guard soldiers, except in very limited cases, such as when called to State Active Duty can then be used for law enforcement. If these soldiers were from Georgia, as Clarkson suggests, based on his investigation and the interviews he conducted, then they couldn't be in State Active Duty and they had no authority to enforce the road block. Of course, if they are standing there with loaded weapons, you might not want to challenge that authority.
I point this out only because it suggests something about the legality of the roadblocks and it might be something to investigate. Under normal circumstances, soldiers in this sort of duty would be paired with a sworn law enforcement officer who would have the authority to arrest those who refused to obey the instructions.
Maybe this point is a little esoteric, but it seems to me that we all need to know about the limits of authority. Challenging them might not be the smartest thing to do, but then, they have no real authority to order civilians away from an area and they have no arrest powers except in limited cases such as drug enforcement and by presidential direction.
This is not to say that those reporting this are inventing their tales, only that the soldiers, whoever they were probably had no authority to stop civilians from using the public roads. If this had been an aircraft accident, then the checkpoints and access control would have belonged to law enforcement and not the military.
But I digress...
Clarkson reported that Henry Harnden was another of the local residents who said he was threatened and chased from the area by troops. Harnden was the one who suggested they were from a "special division from Georgia."
An Elma, Washington police officer, Fred Bradshaw, said that two or three days after the crash, he saw an Army "low-boy truck with a boom... [and two] deuce and half [trucks]" and a couple of jeeps. The Army certainly has the authority to use the public roads to move stuff, whatever that stuff might be, so there is no problem here.
Clarkson (at the lecture at the conference) tells us that there were a number of witnesses to the "arrival of a fiery object" on November 25, 1979. He tells us that it hit the ground and might have exploded in the Elk River Drainage Area in a fairly inaccessible location that contains mud flats, marshes or a nearby thick forest.
The official explanation of "helicopter exhaust glow," offered later, is ridiculous. Even a quick look at the descriptions by the witnesses shows this to be untrue. I've flown in a lot of helicopter formations at night and the glow from the turbine just isn't all that bright.
Clarkson never really says that the craft was extraterrestrial, though I take that as his meaning. He suggests the possibility that what fell might have been something lost by the military, specifically some sort of missile test that failed. He does note that no one lost an aircraft on that night. No reports of either a military or civilian crash and no reports of a missile gone astray.
As I say, there seem to be too many failures of alien craft. Some lists now top two hundred and a couple are closing in on 300. But still, there are some very intriguing UFO crash cases, many of which have no solid explanation... yet. This is another to add to the file. Until someone tells us what crashed, with the appropriate documentation, this is another well documented UFO crash.


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OK . . . it's time to fess up . . . you may have imagined this a successful WATER blog, but the tugster post with the highest all-time hits was . . . not a random tugs installment, not a salvage post, not a daily ship, not even a post with a respectably deep water.
No, the all-time most-frequently viewed (out of over 700 posts) bears the title "Equinox" and features a be-misted and ecstatic parrot and a be-legged dancing mermaid. Now don't get me wrong . . . I have a powerful attraction to exuberant parrots and dancers, and this stern view of she with the frizzy hair and large hybiscus blossom attracts powerful attention . . .
but this is a WATER blog. Truth be telled, I'm not unhappy. The parrot rules my roost, and someday I might even meet that mermaid or learn her name or sea. Meanwhile, in the sixth boro, where the temperatures just don't reach high upward enough to celebrate as warmer climes might allow this day, enjoy this foto for now. Or go over to Hawsepiper Pirate Paul and see what "very tasteful …pictures" he offers up. Maybe I'll put up an "Equinox Redux" post when spring arrives in less than a month.
Odds and ends: Wednesday what a shot I missed in Staten Island driving southbound on 440 near the Bayonne Bridge approach; in the northbound lane I spotted five (!) in a row USCG Defenders headed north . . . on trailers of course. What a shot .
And finally, indulge me here . . . rap does not provide the soundtrack to my life, but this weekend I stumbled onto the music of a Somali-born Canadian, birth name Kaynaan Warsame singing as K'naan, son of an immigrant who drove a New York City taxi, and scion of Somali poets and singers. So conjure up the influences coursing through such a person from a soupy geography of anarchy we now associate with piracy, and then give a listen. This may contain a kernel of truth; rogues should be recognized wherever they are. My ire was raised when a pristine lake I love in New Hampshire was once besmirched by a rogue night dumping of drums of chemical byproduct.
Meanwhile . . . one more foto here. . . a flip of a coin for parrot or dancer yields . . .
mermaid communications, of course. Laissez les bon temps roullez.


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A Little More MST3K
OK, here's my follow-up post about this weekend's appearance at the Newmark Theatre by Joel Hodgson and his partners in crime from the late, great Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV show. Under their new moniker of Cinematic Titanic, Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, and J. Elvis Weinstein will once again add some much-needed comic commentary to a pair of craptastic movies; a kung fu blaxploitation flick called East Meets Watts, and Danger on Tiki Island, a low-budget mad-scientist stinker from the Philippines.
In a geeky phone conversation with Hodgson, he told me that tickets for the two Portland shows were selling briskly. "We always seem to do well in cities known for bad weather," he noted. Makes sense. The nine months out of the year we're hunkered down with our TVs and Cheez-Its listening to the staccato of rain on the roof are the ideal time to review MST3K classics like Red Zone Cuba, The Day the Earth Froze, or Eegah!
Recalling the show's humble origins at KTMA, a small TV station in Hopkins, Minnesota, Hodgson's talent for set construction on a teensy budget came in handy (for those who don't know, MST3K takes place on a spaceship with a wisecracking robot crew). "I was a big Dr. Who fan, and I figured I could make something at least that convincing out of stuff from the Goodwill. We bought everything that wasn't clothes or sporting goods. Dish racks, Tupperware, all kinds of toys."
His appreciation for the "cheesy movies" that became MST's bread and butter (yikes, a double food metaphor!) came from his childhood in Wisconsin, the highlight of which was staying up late on Friday nights for the local monster movie program. "My world pretty much revolved around Friday night," he admits. The young Hodgson was especially enthralled by the baffling fluctuation in quality of those Friday flicks. One week it could be a black-and-white Frankenstein film from Universal Studios, and the next week it might be some hippie-vampires-meet-the-Martians corn-fest from the late '60s drive-in circuit.
Joel readily agrees with my assessment that the randomness of the films was a huge part of the experience. It's why everyone digs the "shuffle play" function on their iPods—because the next song is always beyond your control. Sadly, this is an element of corporate culture that simply doesn't exist anymore. Yes, we've got hundreds of cable channels, but do we really have more choices if Law & Order is on half of them? Like me, Joel misses the days when local programming made up a significant part of the TV schedule.
After Joel left Mystery Science Theater in 1993, he appeared as a recurring character on Judd Apatow's much-loved Freaks and Geeks, served as a "magic consultant" on Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, and built gag gadgets for The Jimmy Kimmel Show. But he couldn't resist the lure of Z-grade cinema, so he reassembled his troops last year for Cinematic Titanic. Eagle-eyed observers will notice that the robots, spaceship, and Tinker Toy sets are long gone, but the incisive patter remains intact. "Yeah, we kind of miss the 'bots and the jumpsuits sometimes," he says. "But Cinematic Titanic gives us a chance to say what's on our minds now and to show what we're like now."
And that is, a bunch of smart-aleck adults with the same élan for shredding bad movies that they've always had. "Trace Beaulieu had the best description for what we do," Hodgson says. "He said, The movies are Margaret Dumont—and we're the Marx Brothers."


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Reblogged from source https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/10/australia-gun-control-obama-america/ Australia's 1996 Gun Confiscation Didn't Work – And it Wouldn't Work in America
Within hours of the gunfire falling silent on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday, President Obama stepped up to a podium and declared that America should follow the path of our Anglosphere cousins to reduce gun violence.
"We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings," the president said. "Friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it."
"Australia" is Obama's preferred euphemism for that most cherished of gun-control ideals: mass confiscation of the citizenry's weapons.
You will notice that the president doesn't exactly spell out what following Australia's model would entail. He speaks instead of "commonsense gun-control legislation," "closing the gun-show loophole," and "universal background checks."
In the last 24 hours, New York magazine, CNN, and NBC have also sung the virtues of the Australian model.
But the Australian 1996 National Agreement on Firearms was not a benign set of commonsense gun-control rules: It was a gun-confiscation program rushed through the Australian parliament just twelve days after a 28-year-old man killed 35 people with a semi-automatic rifle in the Tasmanian city of Port Arthur. The Council of Foreign relations summarizes the Aussie measure nicely:
The National Agreement on Firearms all but prohibited automatic and semiautomatic assault rifles, stiffened licensing and ownership rules, and instituted a temporary gun buyback program that took some 650,000 assault weapons (about one-sixth of the national stock) out of public circulation. Among other things, the law also required licensees to demonstrate a "genuine need" for a particular type of gun and take a firearm safety course.
The council's laudatory section on Australian gun-control policy concludes that "many [read: gun-control activists] suggest the policy response in the wake of Port Arthur could serve as a model for the United States."
Two questions should be asked and answered: (1) Did the post–Port Arthur laws lead to a clear reduction of gun violence, and (2) What would an American version of the "Australian model" look like?
Gun-control activists claim that the Australian model directly resulted in a pronounced fall in the gun-suicide rate and the gun-homicide rate. But these claims are disputable.
In August, Vox's German Lopez wrote a piecethat included a chart attempting to show a causal relationship between the Australian gun-confiscation regime and a reduction in the Australian suicide rate. "When countries reduced access to guns, they saw a drop in the number of firearm suicides," Lopez wrote.
I noted at the time that:
While the chart does show a steady decline in gun-related suicides, the reduction occurred at the same time as an overall reduction in the Australian suicide rate. What's more, firearm-related suicides had been declining in Australia for nearly ten years before the 1996 restrictions on gun ownership.
Vox's own chart does not appear to show a causal link between gun control and a reduction in suicide rates in Australia.
Moreover, a look at other developed countries with very strict gun-control laws (such as Japan and South Korea) shows that the lack of guns does not lead to a reduced suicide rate. Unfortunately, people who want to kill themselves often find a way to do so — guns or no guns.
Did the Australian model at least reduce gun-related homicides?
That is hotly disputed.
University of Melbourne researchers Wang-Sheng Lee and Sandy Suardi concluded their 2008 report on the matter with the statement, "There is little evidence to suggest that [the Australian mandatory gun-buyback program] had any significant effects on firearm homicides."
"Although gun buybacks appear to be a logical and sensible policy that helps to placate the public's fears," the reported continued, "the evidence so far suggests that in the Australian context, the high expenditure incurred to fund the 1996 gun buyback has not translated into any tangible reductions in terms of firearm deaths."
A 2007 report, "Gun Laws and Sudden Death: Did the Australian Firearms Legislation of 1996 Make a Difference?" by Jeanine Baker and Samara McPhedran similarly concluded that the buyback program did not have a significant long-term effect on the Australian homicide rate.
The Australian gun-homicide rate had already been quite low and had been steadily falling in the 15 years prior to the Port Arthur massacre. And while the mandatory buyback program did appear to reduce the rate of accidental firearm deaths, Baker and McPhedran found that "the gun buy-back and restrictive legislative changes had no influence on firearm homicide in Australia."
Would an American version of the "Australian model" perform any better?
#related#In all likelihood it would fare worse. The Federalist's Varad Mehta set down the facts in June:
Gun confiscation is not happening in the United States any time soon. But let's suppose it did. How would it work? Australia's program netted, at the low end, 650,000 guns, and at the high end, a million. That was approximately a fifth to a third of Australian firearms. There are about as many guns in America as there are people: 310 million of both in 2009. A fifth to a third would be between 60 and 105 million guns. To achieve in America what was done in Australia, in other words, the government would have to confiscate as many as 105 million firearms.
And an American mandatory gun-confiscation program — in addition to being unconstitutional — would be extraordinarily coercive, and perhaps even violent.
There is no other way around it: The mandatory confiscation of the American citizenry's guns would involve tens of thousands of heavily armed federal agents going door-to-door to demand of millions of Americans that they surrender their guns.
That. Is. Not. Going. To. Happen.
If the president and gun-control activists want to keep saying "Australia" in response to every shooting in America, they should at least be honest about what exactly they are proposing.
—Mark Antonio Wright is an assistant editor atNational Review.


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Ogden Tour Handout #5
Right before this building we also visited the Ogden 19th Ward, which building is currently for sale, but I didn't have a handout for that building.
Washington Terrace 4th and 6th Ward Meetinghouse
Washington Terrace, UT
Built: 1959
Architect: Arthur Mueller
Ward Organized Oct 19, 1952. From 1953 to 1955 there were lots of dinners and activities held to help raise money for the building fund. Original building plans have a drawing date of 1959. In July-September 1963, work was done in the evenings and on Saturdays to prepare the grounds and chapel for dedication. Work accomplished included the painting of the Recreation hall, the addition of cloak racks in the lobby, the addition of cement walks, curbs and an outdoor patio.
Dec 8, 1963 the Bishop announced to the Priesthood that Church authorities had given approval to proceed with installation of simulated brick on the outside of the meetinghouse. Vote by the Priesthood was unanimous assent.
Feb 21, 1964 a Ward dinner was held in the Cultural hall to raise funds for the Chapel dedication. In July the Ward membership voted to get the chapel ready for dedication. Bishop presented the new Missionary Building program and the congregation sustained this method of completing the work necessary for dedication.
Mar 27, 1966 three men were approved by ward members to serve as committee in charge of beautifying the church building and grounds. In April thirty-four loads of top soil were smoothed out on the meetinghouse grounds in preparation for planting lawns, shrubs and trees. Two weeks later the landscaping and planting of the grounds was completed. In May a day was set for the dedication of the Meetinghouse – September 25th. Each Priesthood leader was urged to seek out and practice ways by which each ward member is oft reminded. The benches were removed, and the walls and ceilings of the classrooms were painted. By June the tile was replaced around the windows. Acoustical tile was added to the ceiling in the cultural hall. Bids were submitted to the General Church Offices for bricking of the meetinghouse. Each family was asked for a monetary contribution and a work assignment to be filled or payment made in lieu thereof.
In April 1967, new doors were installed at the east entrances of the meetinghouse. Plans for the new addition to the north front of the chapel were approved by the Church building committee. Several Saturday work parties were held in May at the chapel by Elders quorum. They met at 7:00am and the Relief Society served dinner at noon. July saw a Donation to the Building Fund of $150 made by the Aaronic Priesthood boys. They had earned the money in a book sale.
Throughout the summer and fall of 1967 the Ward had been occupied in the business of rebuilding the meetinghouse to get it ready for dedication at the first of the year. Much has been done and the work is continuing. The land and most of the outside work is accomplished and it begins to look as if we may be able to get it done.
During the year 1967 the ward worked hard to raise the money, and do the necessary work to get the Church house dedicated. It was a hard and sometimes disappointing job, but they still hoped to get it finished before another year.
In May 1968 a Ward supper was held to stimulate interest in the Building project. By November a Special meeting of all ward officers and teachers was held after a day of fasting. The purpose was to put effort to work on the fund raising program. During the year of 1968 there were 2509 hours of donated labor put on the project of renovation of the building by members of the 4th Ward. This work was done mostly on Saturdays with some evening work.
During August 1969 the Relief Society held a cake walk and the Elders quorum a merry-go-round and dunking machine. Earnings went to the Building program.
May 24, 1970 Dedication Service for Washington Terrace 1st and 4th Ward Chapel convened at 1:00pm in the newly renovated chapel with Elder Howard W. Hunter. 503 people were present. Bishop Robert Tucker of the 1st Ward spoke of his pleasure and satisfaction of having the building in its present beautiful condition recalling that some six years ago, Bishop Brown had compared it to an abandoned warehouse. Bishop Boyd G. Coombs of the 4th Ward said this was the happiest day of his life.
Washington Terrace 4th and 6th Ward Organ
Washington Terrace, UT
Built 1959
Architect: Arthur Mueller
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Ogden 49th Ward Chapel Ceiling
Riverdale, UT
Built 1959
Architect: Arthur Mueller
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Ogden 49th Ward Chapel Interior Detail
Riverdale, UT
Built 1959
Architect: Arthur Mueller
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text: Hey, guys! I know you all had a fantastic weekend for sure! Lately, I have been traveling a lot to explore California since my husband has to stay on East Coast. Sadly, the weather has been changing extremely crazily from warm to cold rainy days. Last week, I travelled to San Diego and saw my bestie Elyse (Faith in Style) again. I never thought that I would such find an awesome travel buddy! Luckily, we accomplished a lot of fun stuff together. I hope I can see her again in March or April. I also decided that to travel with other blogger babies to Phoenix soon. I will tell you more as soon we confirm our trip. Anyway, I had a blast with Lulu's clothing line and thought that it would be cool to create matching BFF outfits. Thanks to Lulus for sponsoring these matching sweaters that we decided to get in different colors. Since they are quite cozy, we thought that we can assemble casual outfits by wearing denim jeans, slip shoes and backpacks in case you are a travel girls like us. Let me know in the comments, where did you travel with your BFFs this year?


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Modern Scholars on Ancient Paganism
Below are brief overviews of five major works on historical Paganism by contemporary scholars. In the next post there will be five more. Each of these ten books provides a wealth of information and insight that will greatly assist anyone interested in a better understanding of what the word "Pagan" actually means, by way of understanding those who were the first to be called "Pagans". Some of these selections are more challenging than others, and they tend to become more difficult as one goes down the list.
- Religions of the Ancient World edited by Sarah Iles Johnston
- The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken
- The Morality of Happiness by Julia Annas
- Religion in the Roman Empire by James B. Rives
- Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam by Robert G. Hoyland
- Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert
- Religion in Late Roman Britain by Dorothy Watts
- Athenian Religion: A History by Robert Parker
- Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler
- Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets By Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston
1. Religions of the Ancient World edited by Sarah Iles Johnston.
|Sarah Iles Johnston
As Johnston notes in her Introduction, whereas modern westerners take it for granted that, at least in theory, we have a wide variety of religious alternatives to choose from if we are so inclined,
Only relatively recently, however, have scholars recognized the extent to which ancient peoples, as well, were exposed to a diversity of religions, both indigenous and imported -- or even, indeed, acknowledged that ancient peoples were exposed to a diversity of cultural influences of any kind. The historical reasons for this failure [until recently -- on the part of modern scholarship] are political and ideological, as well as intellectual, among which three are especially interesting, as Walter Burkert and other scholars have shown (see esp. Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution). First, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, following a long period during which scholars of the Bible and of classical antiquity had taken cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean for granted, the boundaries between academic fields were redrawn in universities, and what we now callclassics and theology strove to assert themselves as independent entities. As they did so, each one naturally stressed the grandeur and achievements of the cultures it represented -- respectively, ancient Greece and Rome, and the ancient Near East.Second, at about the same time, Romantic nationalism developed. In their desire to show that particular myths, literatures, and forms of religion could be tied to particular ancient cultures that served as models for contemporary nation-states, Romantic nationalists not only discouraged any assumption of cross-cutural influences within the ancient Mediterranean, but also brought new energy to the old quest of tracking the specific, discrete origins of each cultures practices and ideas. Finally, and also at about the same time, notions about a lost "pre-language," shared by the Greeks, Romans, Germans, and other "Aryan" peoples -- but not by the Semites -- crystallized into the proposal for the language we now cal "Indo-European."
[p. viii]
Monotheistic Robots of Doom, Part Deux
Paganism is not a European religion, Part Deux
2. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them, by Robert Louis Wilken
A modern day Christian theologian takes a startlingly honest look at how ancient Pagans viewed the new religion of Christianity and its early followers. If you read this book with the right frame of mind it is a textbook of anti-apologetics. In fact, the Japanese translation of the book has sold well primarily due to its popularity among people in Japan who are adamantly opposed to the spread of Christianity in their country (Japan has so far proven admirably resistant to the blood cult of Jebus, thank the Gods). Wilken gives surprisingly good summaries of the main criticisms leveled at the Christians by Celsus, Porphyry and Julian. Sometimes you have to filter out the predictable bullshit, though, like Wilken's idiotic claim that Christians engaged Pagans in a "dialogue" concerning their differences, when in fact the Christians were only interested in murdering their opponents and burning their writings.
Here is a very positive review from a perspective sympathetic to ancient Paganism.
And here is another positive review from a rather different perspective, published in the Christian journal Theology Today.
Another Christian review of the book, this one published by the Associated Baptist Press.
And yet another Christian review (from the jollyblogger blog).
Finally, here is a blog post on Robert Louis Wilken by the always interesting Arturo Vasquez (this is based on a talk that Wilken gave at Notre Dame in 2009 on the topic of "Reading St. Augustine in the 21st Century").
3. The Morality of Happiness by Julia Annas
My favorite go-to source on the subject of Pagan Ethics is a big, fat book with the very catchy title of The Morality of Happiness, by Julia Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.
The main point of the book, and the reason behind its catchy title, is to present to a broad, albeit intelligent and motivated, audience (without assuming much, or even any, previous study of classical philosophy) the ancient Pagan approach to ethics. This classical approach, very widely held among Pagans in the Greco-Roman world, was based on the Greek concept of eudaimonia (εὐδαιμονία), which literally means "good spirit", but which can also be translated simply as happiness. That is to say, eudaimonism refers to "happiness-based" ethics.
But is it possible to base an ethical philosophy on the simple human desire to be happy? Not only is this possible, but the greatest philosophers of the ancient Pagan world were close to unanimous in their view that this was the only proper basis for ethics. This attitude is in turn based on the (happy) assumption that human beings are naturally drawn to what is good (agathos, ἀγαθός) and beautiful (kalos, καλός). Therefore, in order to act ethically (that is, in order to live well), human beings need only act in accordance with our true nature.
The great strength of eudaimonistic ethics is that it seeks to work with human nature rather than against it. The three great difficulties of eudaimonism, however, are (1) discovering what this "true" nature of ours really is, (2) demonstrating that this nature is genuinely "good", and doing so in a way that is convincing enough so that we can be genuinely confident that acting in accordance with our true nature is the same as living well, and (3) explaining how it is that we do not already act in accordance with Nature.
Here are several relevant links:
- Review of Morality of Happiness from the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Julia Annas on "Ancient scepticism and ancient religion" (to be published in 2012, but already available online)
- Julia Annas on "Being Virtuous and Doing the Right Thing" (article from 2004)
- Platonic Ethics Old and New (1999)
- Comments on Platonic Ethics Old and New by Tim O'Keefe from 2003 (more on O'Keefe here)
- Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind (1992)
- An Introduction to Plato's Republic (1981)
4. Religion in the Roman Empire by James B. Rives
"The diversity of religion in the Roman world was not that of separate and distinct 'religions,' each with its own set of core beliefs adn principles and its particular scriptures, clergy, shrines, rituals, and customs .... on a fundamental level the various religious traditions of the empire had more similarities than differences. As a result, when people from one tradition were confronted with another, they often found much that was familiar and immediately understandable, and tended to treat what was unfamiliar simply as a local peculiarity. In short, the impression we get from the sources is that people thought not so much in terms of 'different religions,' as we might today, but simply of varying local customs with regard to the Gods."
[pp. 5-6]
A while back I wrote three posts consisting mostly of excerpts from a paper by Rives on the subject of "Christian Expansion and Christian Ideology": Part One (Exclusivity); Part Two (Homogeneity); and Part Three (Totalization).
Also, here is a review of the book at BMCR, and here is another review at the rogueclassicism blog. And below is an excerpt from a review by Ursus at the Roman Reconstructionist website UNRV.com:
Rives offers the viewer some interesting ways of looking at polytheism. He divides polytheistic reality into several layers - cult, myth, art and philosophy - and looks at each one in turn. He explores how polytheism was experienced by individuals, households, private organizations and city-states. He documents the mobility of both worshipers and deities themselves under the aegis of the Pax Romana. Rives showcases some of the off color religious options in the classical world, such as esoteric mystical sects and freelance magicians. Finally, he looks at sources of authority in the classical world and how they imposed themselves (or not, as the case may be) on society.
Rives correctly assesses that polytheism was, by and large, a social and cultural experience, rather than an individual experience. Religion was something experienced by families, tribes or city-states and was integral to daily life, not separate from it. The religious authorities in the classical world were also, by and large, the same socio-economic elite who directed civil matters (exceptions, such as the Druids with their authority stemming from mastery of arcane lore, were treated with suspicion). Religion was therefore participating in communal life, and placating those powers thought to preside over communal life. While there were cults with different presumptions, they always operated either parallel to the civic cults or on the fringes, never quite replacing civic religion. The scope and practice of religion in the classical world was therefore entirely different from what modern Westerners experience today.
Rives writes for a general audience and is a delight to read. Those with little exposure to classical religion should be able to easily follow this clearly written and highly organized work. He offers no pre-conceptions about either polytheism or monotheism and writes with complete academic objectivity, something all too often rare in religious commentary. Aiding the work is an extended bibliography, glossary, maps, illustrations and topical inserts. This work is highly recommended for those wishing to acquaint themselves with classical religion.
In monotheism the sacred is concentrated in one omnipotent and omniscient entity, whereas in polytheism it is diffused over a wide range of beings, places, objects, practices and human personnel. In reality there is both seepage in most monotheisms, with saints and shrines and the like tending to proliferate, and some telescoping on the part of many polytheisms, with one God often being preferred over the others. But the difference between the two is real and substantial.
Firstly, in pre-modern societies that had not secularised public life and relegated religion to the private domain, monotheism is by nature intolerant and intransigent. For there to be only one true God all the other must be impotent frauds, and those who worship them are not just in error, but damned, and should be fought or at the very least shunned. If you believe in many Gods however, there is no reason to be hostile to Gods not your own, nor any bar to paying them and their faithful your respects. "When you enter a village, swear by its Gods" as the old Arabian proverb goes.
Second, the words of a unique omnipotent God must needs be the absolute Truth, in the light of which its recipients should therefore regulate their lives and interpret their world. Polytheism, on the other hand, is neither so unitary nor so coherent. It is rather a variegated worldview, one capable of eliciting a rich and subtle range of meanings from a multi-faceted reality, one desirous of understanding and influencing the many and varied ways the natural world impinges upon us . . . .
[T]he sophisticated civilization of south Arabia had the most developed pantheon in Arabia with the names of over one hundred deities featuring in the surviving inscriptions, though many of these probably represent different aspects of manifestations of the same God. 'Athtar almost always occupies first place in lists and his cult was spread throughout the region. Moreover, in one text we find a worshipper thanking another God for "interceding on his behalf with 'Athtar", confirming that he enjoyed a certain primacy . . . .
The patron diety (shym) of a people was of more immediate significance in south Arabia than the remoter figure of 'Athtar. The four principle peoples had as their patrons Almaqah (Sabeans), Wadd (Minaeans), 'Amm (Qatabanians) and Sayin (Hadramites), and each people was collectively termed the "children" of their respective patron deity. The last would be characterised as the "lord" of the shrine that served as the cultic centre for his people (e.g. "Almaqah lord of Awwam", the principle temple in Marib) . . . .
In less complex societies than south Arabia the pantheon might be much smaller and the patron deity might assume a particularly prominent place. Thus the inhabitants of the fertile oasis of Dedan turned to Dhu Ghaba, "the master of the grove", for their needs and rarely to any other. The Minaean God Wadd appears in a few inscriptions, but these are presumably attributable to the Minaean colony that ran trade operations in the oasis. Then there is Kutba (or Aktab), God of writing, who is probably related to a Babylonian scribal deity, perhaps brought to northwest Arabia by the Babylonian monarch Nabonidus. But other Gods are mentioned no more than once or twice, probably invoked by travellers passing through rather than native worshippers.
The Nabataeans were similarly loyal to Dushara, "the master of the Shara", the mountain range encompassing their capital Petra, and "the God of our lord ... the king of the Nabataeans". At Petra itself the only very popular deity was al-'Uzza, "the mighty Goddess", who is celebrated both in texts and and in artistic representations. However the Nabataeans were rulers of a kingdom, and in the territories they controlled many other deities were worshipped, such as Hubal and Manat in Hijaz, and Allat in the Hawran and the Syrian desert.
Moreover, as international merchants, they were exposed to many foreign influences, and it is not therefore surprising top find that the cult of the Egyptian Goddess Isis was widespread in Nabataea . . . .
Palmyra was a special case, for it possessed a very cosmopolitan population, many members of which had brought their Gods with them, and by virtue of its location had long been exposed to a number of different cultures, which had left their mark on its religious life. Hence a great diversity of deities jostle for position in the city's epigraphic record. The best documented cult, since AD 32 at least, was that of the divine triad Bel, Yahribol and Aglibol. Bel emerged as a supreme God, while Yahribol, an ancestral deity of the oasis, and Aglibol, a deity of a north Syrian immigrant community, became his acolytes. However, Bel continued to associate with other divinities, such as the sun God Shamash and in particular his female partner Herta. We also hear of the ancient Canannite/Phoenician deity Ba'alshamin, the Arab Goddess Allat, the Mesopotamian deity Nergal and so on.
[Robert G. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs, pp. 139-142]


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Food was so simple when we were kids—we ate when we were hungry and stopped when we were full. (Ever catch your 5-year-old daughter tossing her half-eaten doughnut in the garbage because she's had enough? What a concept!)
But as we get older, we often use food in a different way: We eat when we're happy, sad, lonely, anxious and even just plain bored. Who hasn't polished off leftovers just because they were, well, there?
We all eat a little too much from time to time, but eating in response to feelings rather than hunger can harm your health, both physically and psychologically. Many of us will eat more when emotions are the driving force, yet food provides only temporary relief. Once your spoon hits the bottom of that pint of cookies 'n' cream, the feelings remain—along with a hefty serving of guilt for eating too much.
Here's how you can kick the emotional eating habit, and recognize and respect your body's real hunger cues.
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Think Before You Eat
Before you reach for that jumbo bag of chips, freeze—and ask yourself these questions (post them on your fridge as a reminder):
1. Am I really hungry? Rate your hunger on a 1–5 scale (1 = ravenous and irritable, 5 = stuffed and uncomfortable). If you're at 4 or 5, close the cabinet door. Sometimes, just pausing for a few minutes allows the urge to pass.
2. Have I had enough to drink? Often we mistake thirst for hunger. Before you reach for those chips, have a glass of water or sip a cup of tea, wait 20 minutes and reevaluate your hunger.
3. Will I truly savor this food? Think how you might feel after you eat those chips—satisfied or guilty? If you're eating out of emotion, chances are you'll feel guilty. If you do go ahead and dig into the bag, the fact that you've stopped to think about it will help you savor and eat slowly, and probably eat less. Enjoying food in moderation without judging yourself or feeling guilty is key to eating mindfully and not overeating. Photo: Alexandra Grablewski/Getty Images
Set Yourself Up For Success
Sometimes we're so busy taking care of others, we forget to take care of ourselves. You can minimize emotional eating by…
Not skipping meals. Eating every 4 to 5 hours throughout the day keeps your blood sugar levels steady and helps you feel full. In turn, you'll find you have more strength to fight off those urges.
Keeping a food journal. You hear it all the time, and for good reason: It works! Write down what you eat, noting your mood and rating your level of hunger each time. By keeping track, you stay accountable and can identify situations in which you're more prone to emotional overeating.
Exercising regularly. Even just a 15- or 20-minute walk can relieve stress and put you in a more positive mindset to make healthy choices.
Getting enough sleep. Research shows that sleep deprivation can increase hunger by decreasing levels of leptin, the hormone responsible for sending the "I'm full" signal from your stomach to your brain. You'll also be less tired and have more resolve to resist the urge to grab foods for comfort.
Staying connected—whether it's with friends, an online community or health professional. Visit our Woman's Day Slimdown site (WomansDay.com/Slimdown) for ongoing support, motivation, inspiration and tons of tips to stay on track. Check out the American Dietetic Association website and find a registered dietitian (RD) in your area at EatRight.org. And if you think that emotional eating is interfering with your life, consider seeing a therapist who specializes in treating eating disorders. A great resource for articles and eating-disorder health care professionals is EDReferral.com. Photo: Thinkstock
Have Something Else First
When you feel a binge coming on, try my "three-food interference" strategy for damage control. Before digging into the high-calorie food, first eat three (yes, three) of these healthy, low-cal options:
• 1 cup baby carrots
• 1 apple
• 1 orange
• Half a grapefruit
• 6 oz nonfat light yogurt (plain or flavored)
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes
• 1 sliced cucumber
• 1 bell pepper
• 2 cups chopped lettuce with 1 Tbsp low-cal dressing
Always have a variety of these foods on hand. Most of the time this will be enough to quash the urge—or at least fill you up a bit so you eat less of the "treat." After you've eaten three, if you still want the treats, go ahead. Photo: Shutterstock
Find A Distraction
1. Phone a friend you haven't spoken to in a while and catch up.
2. Paint your nails. No one wants to ruin a fresh manicure.
3. Listen to your favorite music. Whether it's upbeat or calming, there's bound to be something that works for you.
4. Clean your house, organize your closet or clean your purse. Anything to keep your hands busy!
5. Write it out. If you're stressed or angry, write a letter to whatever or whoever is making you feel this way. You may not send it, but at least you'll get the feeling out instead of trying to quash it with food.
6. Go for a walk around the neighborhood with your cell, iPod…or better yet, your children or spouse. Photo: Thinkstock
Joy's Bottom Line
Realize that you have the power to stop emotional eating. Recognizing the habit and what tends to set it off is a huge first step. Prepare for obstacles. Having everything in place to stop yourself (the healthy foods to eat first, questions in mind to ask yourself before you eat) will help you successfully fight the desire to binge. Wait it out. Time eases everything, including the urge to eat when you're not really hungry.


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Fantasy Baseball Hot Topics: Greinke, Liriano, Shields, Johnson, Broxton, and League
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Bloomberg Sports Anchor Rob Shaw discusses the top stories about pitchers at the trade deadline.
Zack Greinke is an Angel
There were many teams vying for Zack Greinke this week. The former Brewers ace was considered the best available arm, assuming some of the other elites won't get moved. The Angels made the most sense since they can re-sign him and had the prospects to force the Brewers' hand. The Angels did give away a young shortstop and two top pitching prospects, but in Greinke, they now have the deepest starting rotation with Jered Weaver backed up by Greinke, Dan Haren, C.J. Wilson and Ervin Santana.
In his debut, Greinke went seven strong while fanning eight and allowing just two runs to score. The Angels offense, however, did not show up with just four hits and no runs in a 2-0 loss to the Rays.
The big question is what this trade does for Greinke's fantasy value. The answer is nothing at all. He already pitched for a decent offense with the Brewers and had the advantage of opposing fellow pitchers in the National League. Now he faces a designated hitter, has to deal with the big AL offenses such as the Rangers and has to adjust to a new team and a new city mid-season. Yes, the added adrenaline of a playoff run is exciting for him, but I think he was pumped up plenty on every fifth day in Milwaukee.
Francisco Liriano Joins the White Sox
The White Sox have been eager to keep up with the Tigers and the rest of the American League this season, and since they lack the prospects needed to get someone like Zack Greinke, they will have to roll the dice on Francisco Liriano.
The 28-year-old southpaw is as talented as anyone but he has had control issues that have plagued him the last few seasons. It's interesting that he joined the White Sox, since he actually helped them in his final Twins start, surrendering seven hits and seven runs with three home runs on July 23 at Chicago.
This is an interesting trade for the entire White Sox starting rotation since they will now go to a six-man staff. This alleviates concerns for the innings for Chris Sale but could have a negative impact on the veterans. As for Liriano, the added run support will certainly be a positive though US Cellular is very much a hitter's park. His career ERA at US Cellular is 5.77 in 48.1 innings.
Still On the Trading Block
Rays SP James Shields will come at a very heavy price since the Rays still control him for a few years at a reasonable rate. He is 8-7 with a 4.52 ERA and 1.46 WHIP.
Marlins starter Josh Johnson is injury prone and inconsistent, and his velocity is down. However, the Marlins will only trade him if they can get a major talent back in return. Johnson is 6-7 with a 4.04 ERA and 1.35 WHIP this season.
The Royals would be happy to trade reliever Jonathan Broxton while his value is soaring. The Rangers seem interested, but he will no longer close if dealt. The Royals would likely turn to Greg Holland or Tim Collins. Broxton will lose his fantasy value since he will turn into a middle reliever with a contender.
The Mariners would love to get some value back from former closer Brandon League. He got hit hard on Sunday but had been pitching well. With Tom Wilhelmsen dominating as the team's closer, however, League is clearly expendable. It is unlikely that he will close for whichever team acquires him unless it's a surprise team like the Mets.
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Fantasy Baseball: MLB Debuts and The Five Players Most Likely to be Traded
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Bloomberg Sports Anchor Rob Shaw breaks down the fantasy implications of two players' MLB debuts and the potential trades of five players who are most likely to be moved.
The Big Debuts
Matt Harvey, SP, Mets
Finally some good news for Mets fans as 2010 first-round pick Matt Harvey made his debut Thursday night and it was a memorable one to say the least. Harvey set a Mets record for a debut with 11 strikeouts and did not allow a run to score in 5.1 innings.
Harvey touched 98 MPH on the radar gun and got some K's with high fastballs while also getting some weak swings by putting sliders in the dirt. Don't expect all of his starts to go this smoothly, but Harvey is a strikeout artist who should continue to rack up the K's, though it could come with some walks as well.
Starling Marte, OF, Pirates
On the first Major League pitch he saw, Starling Marte made his mark, blasting a home run. The 23-year-old outfielder is an instant upgrade for the contending Pirates. Marte has some power, as he blasted 12 home runs with 13 triples and 21 doubles at Triple-A. He lacks plate discipline, but also has some speed. I do not see Marte having too much fantasy value this year aside from what could be a hot start since the Major Leaguers lack an in-depth scouting report on him. Regardless, the future is now for the Pirates and Marte only makes the team more interesting.
Five Players Most Likely to be Moved
1) Zack Greinke, SP, Brewers
The Brewers have come out and acknowledged that they are going to trade their ace, which makes it clear that no long-term commitment could be reached with Zack Greinke. Ultimately, a trade to a contender will do fantasy managers some good, but at varied levels.
If he goes to the Rangers: The hitter's ballpark is bound to lead to some extra runs so Greinke's ERA may spike, but he will also enjoy the best run support possible. This is the trading partner that makes the most sense for everyone. Greinke owns a sensational 2.38 lifetime ERA at Rangers Ballpark.
If he goes to the Angels: Greinke should continue to post similar numbers but with a few extra wins thanks to the offensive star power of Albert Pujols, Mike Trout and Mark Trumbo. You can expect a big second half from the ace who is 44-45 in the first half of seasons and 41-31 following the All-Star break.
If he goes to the Braves: This is the best ballpark for Grienke, plus in the NL he faces opposing pitchers, which will keep his ERA lower. Greinke is 25-9 in 49 starts with a National League club.
2) Jonathan Broxton, RP, Royals
The interest in Jonathan Broxton has been limited on the trade market and it may be for a couple of reasons. First, few contenders are desperate for a closer or late reliever right now. Also, Broxton's numbers are not as good as they appear. He is not getting many strikeouts, which is a reversal of his career trend. He is also allowing 1.40 runners on base each inning, which is a recipe for destruction in late innings. The Royals are wise to put him on the block.
3) Jason Vargas, SP, Mariners
With the demands so high for front-of-the-rotation hurlers such as Greinke and James Shields, alternatives such as Jason Vargas are becoming attractive for teams. Vargas has won four straight starts and now owns a career high 11 wins this season. So when he does get traded, what does this mean to his fantasy value? The run support will increase, but his ERA will also soar. He has a 4.67 ERA on the road this season compared to 2.63 at home, which explains everything you need to know about the 29-year-old southpaw.
4) Francisco Liriano, SP, Twins
When the Twins dealt their ace Johan Santana to the Mets a few years back, they not only assumed that some of the prospects from the trade would turn into stars, but the hope was that Francisco Liriano would step up as an able replacement at the top of the rotation. Though he did enjoy some success in 2010 with 14 wins, a 3.62 ERA and a career high 202 strikeouts, the following two seasons have been disastrous.
Liriano has found himself in the bullpen and even in the minors over the last two seasons while sustaining an ERA north of 5.00 in the Majors. The positive signs this season are that the opposition is hitting just .239 against Liriano and he is fanning more than a batter per inning. On the other hand, his control is lacking, which makes him a major gamble for whoever brings him in via trade.
5) Yunel Escobar, SS, Blue Jays
After a strong 2011 season that included 11 home runs, a .290 average and .369 on-base percentage, Escobar has struggled this season. His average is down to .255, his OBP is .299 and his 19 extra-base hits have resulted in a .342 slugging percentage.
Escobar has shown some life recently with a five-game hitting streak, but there is growing concern about his character according to ESPN's Buster Olney, which may scare off some suitors. Keep in mind that Toronto is a favorable hitter's park and the Blue Jays lineup has posted a lot of runs. The 29-year-old Cuban does not make for a very good fantasy investment.
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Fantasy Baseball Top Headlines: Ichiro Suzuki, Colby Lewis, Anibal Sanchez, and Ryan Dempster
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Bloomberg Sports Anchor Rob Shaw breaks down four of the major stories in baseball right now that could impact your fantasy team.
Ichiro Suzuki Traded to the Yankees for Two Minor Leaguers
The Yankees added another legend to the fold in the form of right-fielder Ichiro Suzuki. The future Hall of Famer is in the midst of his second disappointing season, as his average dipped from .272 a year ago to .261 entering last night. He also isn't drawing many walks, which explains the .288 on-base percentage.
The Yankees are hoping a move out of Safeco will do some good for Ichiro, who is hitting .297 on the road this season. Ichiro has also been great in his career at Yankee Stadium, with a .333 batting average and a.492 slugging percentage. The move is an absolute boon for fantasy managers.
Colby Lewis Out for the Season
The Rangers are in first place this season, which has as much to say about their pitching as their hitting. One of their top hurlers is Colby Lewis, who owns nearly a 7-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. However, that ratio will not change as Lewis has been placed on the DL with an elbow injury and is lost for the season.
The loss of Lewis is a big blow, as he has been a star in the postseason with a 4-1 record and 2.34 ERA. The only good news is that Rangers fans will get a chance to see their top prospect Martin Perez again, but really, this is an injury that could force the Rangers hand to make a big deal.
Anibal Sanchez Going to Detroit
And just like that the Marlins are sellers again. Anibal Sanchez is just 28 years old, ranks among the top strikeout leaders and has really improved his control over the years. Regardless, the Marlins are not in the mood to pay him big this offseason, even though it did not stop them from acquiring Heath Bell last season.
A move to the American League is typically bad news for pitchers, but with the Tigers, Sanchez will have a lot of run support and play for a contender. Also dealt was Omar Infante, who offers some pop and speed from second base. Jacob Turner was moved to Miami but he is very much unproven, similar to a pitcher by the name of Andrew Miller, who never quite lived up to his hype despite being acquired for Miguel Cabrera from the Tigers several years ago.
Ryan Dempster Rumors
With a 2.11 ERA, Ryan Dempster is considered by many to be the best hired arm on the trading block. However, Dempster seems to enjoy Chicago and as a 10-5 player, he has the option of rejecting any trade. The Braves, meanwhile, see an opportunity to win an NL Wild Card spot and hope to acquire the veteran hurler. In the deal, Randall Delgado, who has mixed results, would be sent to Chicago. If Dempster does move to Atlanta, he is bound to do better than his current 5-4 record, while Delgado will see his value decrease even more.
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There's a reason that certain wavelengths are known as "visible" light, because those are the wavelengths that humans and most animals even remotely like us can see. But one mammal can see in ultraviolet light...and it's all because of snow.
On the light spectrum, ultraviolet fits in right between visible light and X-rays. It's invisible to the human eye, but we deal with its effects all the time - because it's in sunlight, it's a key part of what causes sunburn and other potentially damaging things to our bodies. Ultraviolet light is also what causes snow blindness, in which the eyes effectively get sunburned by the ultraviolet light reflected off of fresh snow. We'll be coming back to that in just a moment.
We know that a lot of our most distant relatives - birds, reptiles, insects, and so on - can see ultraviolet light, or at least wavelengths very close to it. But it was generally thought that mammals don't have eyes built to process those wavelengths. That's why recent research at University College London has turned up something very unexpected: reindeer rely on ultraviolet lights to see in the snowy expanses of the Arctic.
Lead researcher Glen Jeffery explains:
"We discovered that reindeer can not only see ultraviolet light but they can also make sense of the image to find food and stay safe. Humans and almost all other mammals could never do this as our lenses just don't let UV through into the eye. In conditions where there is a lot of UV – when surrounded by snow, for example – it can be damaging to our eyes. In the process of blocking UV light from reaching the retina, our cornea and lens absorb its damaging energy and can be temporarily burned. The front of the eye becomes cloudy and so we call this snow blindness. Although this is normally reversible and plays a vital role to protect our sensitive retinas from potential damage, it is very painful."
Since reindeer have to deal with Arctic snow for most of the year - which can reflect up to 90% of ultraviolet light - it makes sense that they would have developed the ability to see into the ultraviolet wavelengths. But it isn't simply a question of avoiding snow blindness. As Jeffery explains, their ultraviolet vision actually allows reindeer to see things that all other animals would miss:
"When we used cameras that could pick up UV, we noticed that there are some very important things that absorb UV light and therefore appear black, contrasting strongly with the snow. This includes urine - a sign of predators or competitors; lichens - a major food source in winter; and fur, making predators such as wolves very easy to see despite being camouflaged to other animals that can't see UV."
And, because all scientists are really mad scientists at heart, Jeffery closed with a little speculation on what everyone here is really thinking about - what's it going to take for us humans to start seeing into ultraviolet:
"The question remains as to why the reindeer's eyes don't seem to be damaged by UV. Perhaps it's not as bad for eyes as we first thought? Or maybe they have a unique way of protecting themselves, which we could learn from and perhaps develop new strategies to prevent or treat the damage the UV can cause to humans."
I'm calling it now. A superhero named Reindeer Man with the powers of ultraviolet vision will be tromping through the wastes of northern Scandinavia by 2015. Actually, that's sort of the premise of Hanna, now that I think about it.
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Why buck crowds to attend the big Edward Hopper retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston? Don't we know this artist well enough by now? When I want to commune with "Nighthawks" (1942) again, I can do so quite satisfactorily at my dentist's office, where, from a framed poster, the beaky dude and the bony dame at the wee-hours diner convey that root-canal surgery may not rate all that high on the scale of human tribulations. In fact, Hoppers in the flesh add remarkably small increments of pleasure and meaning to Hoppers in reproduction. The scale of the paintings is indifferent, in the way of graphic art. Their drawing is graceless, their colors acrid, and their brushstrokes numb. Anti-Baroque, they are the same thing when looked at up close and when seen from afar. I believe that Hopper painted with reproducibility on his mind, as a new function and fate of images in his time. This is part of what makes him modern—and persistently misunderstood, by detractors, as merely an illustrator. If "Nighthawks" is an illustration, a kick in the head is a lullaby.
A visual bard of ordinary life, Hopper imposed a thudding ordinariness on painting. The strangeness of this quality must be contemplated directly, and in quantity, for its radical character to register at full force. It is the basis of his universal accessibility. Laying the cards of his intention face up, it inspires rare trust, which steadies our minds to receive the living truths that the pictures tell. Hopper stands with two other American artists, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, whose likewise monumental styles also trashed prevailing conventions of good painting and have proved to be deathless.
The Boston show is so comprehensive a gathering of Hopper's greatest hits—each a world, created ex nihilo—that it may best be described by what little it lacks, in that regard. I miss about a half-dozen favorites, including "Pennsylvania Coal Town" (1947)—a geeky-looking guy with a rake in late-afternoon sunlight between two old town houses, seemingly glimpsed from a passing car—and "Office in a Small City" (1953): a young man at a desk in a large-windowed corner office like an abstracted control tower, seen from an impossible point of view in the air outside. Both characters appear to daydream, absenting themselves from themselves, as people by Hopper do. Those are relatively late works, from the twenty-some ever less prolific and consistent (but underrated) years before the artist's death, at the age of eighty-four, in 1967. One of the show's curators, Carol Troyen, has deëmphasized that period as well as the busy phases, before the early nineteen-twenties, of Hopper's long maturation, during which he practiced variants of Impressionism and, to support himself, worked unhappily as an illustrator. While including a great many of the watercolors, of New England places, at which he excelled—with light-struck, massy, hardly watery effects, even when they depict water—Troyen scants the revealing drawings with which he painstakingly evolved his painted compositions. This is an occasion for exploring not what Hopper was for himself but what he is for us.
There isn't a lot to know about him, anyhow. Born in Nyack, New York, the son of a drygoods merchant, Hopper studied with Robert Henri and made three sojourns to Europe. He was almost six feet five, and taciturn. In 1924, when a show of watercolors brought him his first success, he married Josephine Verstille Nivison, a disappointed painter and his lively, obstreperous partner for life. She both resented and defended him. She insisted on being the model for nearly all his paintings of women. Childless, they lived on the top floor of a town house on Washington Square and, starting in 1934, spent nearly half their time in a starkly isolated house on Cape Cod. (Hopper seems to have liked places possessed of what might be termed negative feng-shui.) The couple read voraciously, often in French, and were compulsive moviegoers. Hopper portrayed himself and Jo in "Two Comedians" (1965-66), a late painting which is not in the show, as commedia-dell'arte clowns taking a farewell bow.
A good way to grasp Hopper paintings is to sketch them—never mind if, like me, you can't draw. Just get the main shapes, including those of empty space, and how they nest together in the pictorial rectangle. Hopper bets everything on composition, which, in his work, is almost as tautly considered as in a Mondrian. (He didn't so much hold back from modernism, from which he took what he needed, as see beyond it. He objected to abstraction only as Picasso did, for its limits on emotional engagement.) Hopper's means are light and shadow, which establish the masses and the relative locations of forms. Raking light is the active element in static situations, as a stand-in for the artist, who inhabits his works everywhere and nowhere, like God. The light's authority overrules worries about clotted textures and gawky contours. A wall or an arm is exactly as it is because the light, hitting it, says so.
Hopper's is an art of illuminated outsides that bespeak important insides. He vivifies impenetrable privacies. Notice how seldom he gives houses visible or, if visible, usable-looking doors; but the windows are alive. His preoccupied people will neither confirm nor deny any fantasy they stir; their intensity of being defeats conjecture. Imputations, to them, of "loneliness" are sentimental projections by viewers who ought to look harder. They may not have lives you envy, but they live them without complaint. Another mistake that some observers make is to quibble with Hopper's crudeness, notably in his renderings of flesh and foliage. His insults to taste are even instrumental to his art, focussing attention on what matters, which is drama. Clement Greenberg got it right when he remarked that if Hopper "were a better painter, he would, most likely, not be so superior an artist."
There are Hoppers that don't work, while others, in instructive ways, work somewhat too well. I have in mind "Office at Night" (1940), in which a preposterously voluptuous secretary at a filing cabinet eyes a piece of paper on the floor as her handsome boss reads a document at his desk. The light denotes sunset. A summer wind disturbs the shade at an open window. For me, the dancing pull cord of the shade is one of the choicest details in art history, as an objective correlative, in T. S. Eliot's sense, of "memory and desire." Seen from an elevated point of view, the wonderfully articulated lines and contents of the space cant toward the window. I just wish the office were empty. What will happen between the characters touched by the melancholy and erotic breeze? I don't care. They are types from central casting in an overly explicit cinematic narrative, such as Hopper commonly subsumed to his vision.
Consider his second-most-powerful image, after "Nighthawks": "New York Movie" (1939). In a corner of an ornate theatre, a pretty usherette leans back against a wall out of sight of a screen that displays an illegible fragment of black-and-white movie, watched by two solitary people. Dimmed, reddish lights oppose a russet cast to inky shadows. Parted red curtains frame a stairway to the balcony. The usherette's reverie, if any (she may be dozing), centers our involvement. She has seen the film. Wanting to be elsewhere, she is elsewhere. Where are we? I think we are in Plato's Cave, perceiving layered dispositions of reality—those of the movie, the audience, the usherette, the theatre, and the civilization that must have theatres. I comprehend the picture's economy when I imagine something that is necessarily absent from it: noise, the clamor of a soundtrack that fills the space and assaults the usherette's unwilling ears. Life goes on? No, it roars on, indifferent to all who have temporary shares in it. We exist in the middle of a rush so constant that it resembles stillness. ♦


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Hackers breached the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's computer system last year by taking advantage of companies that used authentic financial data when they were testing the agency's corporate filing system, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service have since launched an investigation into a 2016 hack into the SEC'S EDGAR system, several of those people said.
The sources spoke anonymously because it is not a public investigation.
The SEC's EDGAR system is a crucial network used by companies to file earnings reports and other material information. Spokesmen for the FBI, the Secret Service and the SEC all declined to comment, saying they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.
The breach occurred in October 2016 and was detected that same month. The attack appeared to have been routed through a server in Eastern Europe, according to an internal government memo describing the incident, which was seen by Reuters.
There was no evidence at the time that data had been improperly retrieved, according to one source familiar with the matter, and the issue was handled internally by the SEC's Office of Information Technology.
Only after the SEC's Enforcement Division detected a pattern of suspicious trading ahead of company public disclosures did officials go back to the agency's technology staff and ask if some companies were using authentic data when they were testing the EDGAR system, one of the people said.
The person said that "not many companies" had submitted real data that is believed to have been hacked.
The test process "is for people to submit test filings to ensure that they format correctly and don't have submission errors," the person said.
"They normally use that right before they file their normal reports. They are supposed to use dummy data," the person said. "However, it is still supposed to be protected the same way in case they do something stupid. A couple companies did, and it wasn't protected properly."
SEC chair to confirm probe
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton will confirm the enforcement division's ongoing investigation when he testifies Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee, according to prepared testimony reviewed by Reuters.
He has also asked the SEC's Office of Inspector General to investigate the intrusion itself, the scope of non-public information that was stolen and how the SEC responded to the incident, which he said was properly reported to the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
The FBI's investigation, which is being led out of New Jersey, is focusing specifically on the trading activity in connection with the breach, according to several sources.
One possibility the FBI is considering is that the SEC breach was connected to a group of hackers that intercepted electronic corporate press releases in a previous case which the FBI in New Jersey helped investigate, several of the sources said.
In that case, federal prosecutors in the New York borough of Brooklyn and New Jersey, as well as the SEC, charged an alliance of stock traders and suspected computer hackers based in the United States and Ukraine.
Clayton, who was installed as chairman in May, only learned of the 2016 breach in August through the enforcement investigation. SEC Commissioners Kara Stein and Mike Piwowar, who are the only other two sitting members of the agency at the moment, also only learned of it recently.
Some SEC enforcement attorneys not involved in the matter learned about it when they read it in the newspaper, sources said.
The delay in disclosing the hack and the months-long gap between uncovering it and discovering the potential insider trading are particularly embarrassing for an agency that has pushed companies to bolster their cyber capabilities and which investigates companies for failing to disclose breaches to investors faster.
While no company has ever been charged for flawed disclosures, the SEC has previously brought charges against brokerage firms over poor cyber security practices.
The SEC has experienced other cyber incidents in recent months.
Between October 2016 and April 2017, the SEC documented a variety of various cyber security incidents, according to one source familiar with the matter.
Reuters was not immediately able to ascertain the nature of all of the incidents, though the source said several involved EDGAR.
In one other case that was not related to EDGAR, a server being set up for SEC use had not been updated to fix known vulnerabilities, one person familiar with the matter said.
The SEC detected unauthorized communications from it. The FBI watched the traffic, which was early signaling or "beaconing" rather than the export of important information, and the hole was closed. In that case, the signal from the beacon was sent to a server in Ukraine, the person added.
The SEC has been criticized for its cyber defenses. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security detected 5 "critical" vulnerabilities that needed to be fixed when it scanned a sample of the agency's computers and devices the week of Jan. 23.


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GPD: Dog bites child, breaking his arm in 3 places
A child is recuperating following surgery after he was bitten by a neighbor's dog, according to Greer police.
The police report said the 6-year-old boy got off a school bus and was walking between two neighbors' homes when the dog bit him.
The boy's mother took him to Greer Memorial Hospital emergency room. He was then transferred to Greenville Memorial Hospital for emergency surgery. Hospital staff said the boy was severely bitten and had punctures wounds to his arm and leg, and the bites had fractured his arm in three places
The officer contacted the owner of the dog on Harvey Road. She said she had no paperwork for shots or registration of the pit bull because she had bought him from a Craigslist advertiser in May and had not yet taken it to a vet.
At the officer's request, the owner took the dog to Greer City Kennel to be quarantined. (Note: Image is a file photo, not the dog in the story)
The case has been forwarded to Animal Control for further investigation.


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My last Q&A before Opening Day!
Well, it's almost over! I'm all packed as we finish up Spring Training here today and head to
Winston-Salem to face one of our Minor League teams tomorrow. Then it's on to Cleveland for Opening
Day on Friday.
Here are the last
set of your questions before the 2011 season starts …
Q: Hey, Ozzie, greetings from Maracaibo. I'd like to see you in the playoffs again. I'm a big fan of you how manage, even though the last few years you've lost some games. Is your game a Caribbean style? — Eneil G. (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
A: I can only work with what I've got. Sometimes, the pieces they give me don't fit the Caribbean style. But this year, I feel we have more better speed and there are going to be a lot of runners on base.
Q: I'm really interested in why Adam Dunn is batting third. I would think that with his high strikeout record and low batting average, that Paul Konerko would be better in that slot. Just interested to hear why you think differently. — Brian M. (Minneapolis, Minn.)
A: I think Dunn is around a .370 on-base percentage. But it was never
a choice for me between Dunn or P.K., it was a choice between Dunn and Alex Rios. I
felt more comfortable with the guys the way we have them. But anything can
change, although I hope I don't change the lineup too much.
Q: Hey, Ozzie. I see the White Sox have one roster spot left open. Have you thought about giving that to Domingo Ayala? I hear he's got unbelievable God-given talents. — Dale H. (Rockford, Ill.)
A: I would pay to have Domingo on my team, just so I
could see him dress up and make everyone laugh (haha).
Q: Who's a better person — Luis Aparicio or Dave Concepcion? — Greg M. (Managua, Nicaragua)
A: They're both good people. They treat me very well, and they're both stars and I respect them a lot.
Q: Ozzie, I'm a Venezuelan lawyer with experience in sports and I'm doing my Master's in Chicago! I want to work with the White Sox. Can you help me? — Pablo G. (La Guaira, Venezuela)
A: Well, I'd like to help you but that's not my area of expertise. Send your info to the White Sox offices and see what they say. Good luck.
Q: What do you think of Lastings Milledge? I know he was a Cubs killer in Pittsburgh. I think he is a great defensive replacement in later innings. — Robert W. (Darien, Ill.)
A: I think if Lastings stays within himself and doesn't try and do too much, he can help us — not only in late innings, but starting as well.
Q: What changes in the division's balance of power demand your greatest attention? Will Jake Peavy make it OK uninjured? How are Dunn and Gordon Beckham adjusting? — Jeffery M. (Chicago)
A: I think every
year the AL central gets better. Yes, even the Twins and Royals got better. But
that makes it more fun competing against them. I hope Peavy makes it ok–we
need him. I think Dunn will be fine and Gordo should be ok, these guys just
want season to start already.
Q: Can Lastings Milledge be an everyday player for you guys? How did it go with Manny Ramirez last year? Take care. — Guillermo R.
(Cumana, Venezuela)
A: I don't think Lastings is going to be a regular because we already have three very good outfielders. Manny and I were fine. Really, he never gave me any problems, and I have a lot of respect for him.
Q: Hey, Ozzie, will your English Bulldog be at "Dog Day." And does he bark at you in Spanish or English? (HA!) Have a great season. — Dave G. (Glenview, Ill.)
A: DH won't be "Dog Day" because he usually humps everything he sees (hahaha). He speaks both
English and Spanish.
Q: Ozzie, who will be the next three Venezuelans in the Hall of Fame if everything stays on course? Do you hear Gaita? — Jose R. (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
A: Omar Vizquel, Miguel Cabrera, and after that I don't know who has a real chance. I hear Gaita in December. But only in December (haha).
Thank you for all your questions since the website launch. They have been fun to read and
hopefully we can continue to do this once the season starts. Thank you to all the fans that came out
to Spring Training this year. We really appreciate your support.
— Ozzie


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We're changing things up for this week's Tacoma Runners Free Saturday 5k - we won't be meeting in Point Defiance (someone else is using it), but instead we're giving you the chance to run a flat out and back on the Ruston Way waterfront. We know you'll miss those hills in the park, but never fear, we'll be back there next week!
This week we'll be at the alternate course along Ruston Way. Meet us at Dickman Mill Park (see below for parking and route information).
Join us for the weekly free Tacoma Runners Saturday 5k.
Are you new to Tacoma Runners?
Register at tacomarunners.com/runners/register/ - complete your profile, print your barcode, then come out and run. All are welcome.
The route starts at the fire hydrant near the restrooms in Dickman Mill Park and continues along the waterfront sidewalk toward Point Ruston. This means you will run past a number of restaurants including Harbor Lights, the Ram, Shenanigans, Katie Downs and Duke's as you run along the sidewalk toward the turnaround point. On the way out, the route veers right along the water edge in Cummings Park, then continues down the sidewalk to the turnaround point near the narrow parallel parking strip. A volunteer will be set up at the turnaround point and then the route continues back with the only difference being that you stay on the sidewalk along the roadway through Cummings Park.
The run starts and finishes near the restrooms at Dickman Mill Park, so runners should park either in the parking lot across the street from the Harbor Lights restaurant or in the limited number of spaces near the Silver Cloud Inn.
Be sure to arrive early enough to park in the designated area and walk to the start.