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The staff at Danville National Cemetery has been cut in half and that's leading to delays in burying some veterans.
Peter Young oversees the cemetery for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He says one of the four workers recently retired and another resigned.
They aren't being replaced and that is limiting burials to one a day. That's usually enough but some weeks it isn't.
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A-mi-tha-ba. A-mi-tha-ba. A-mi-tha-ba.
The Buddhist faithful repeated the sacred name like a fast-clicking metronome.
The two dozen Chinese-Canadians at Gold Buddha monastery in East Vancouver were gathering in the middle of the work day to chant the name of the most well-known of what they believe is an infinite number of celestial Buddhas: "Amithaba."
The nuns and lay people are among those who gather daily to recite "Amithaba" to the rapid beat of a drum, because they believe it is the quickest way to gain entry after they die to the blissful realm known as the "Pure Land."
That is why their path is known as Pure Land Buddhism.
Pure Land Buddhism, according to specialists, is the major school of Buddhism practised in Metro Vancouver, mostly by people with roots in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. Globally, Pure Land is also arguably the largest arm of Buddhism, accounting for roughly 200 million of the Eastern religion's 500 million adherents.
In Japan, the social and economic clout of the biggest Pure Land denomination, known as Jodo Shinshu, has been compared to that of the giant Sony and Toyota corporations.
But, in Metro Vancouver and throughout the West, Pure Land is not what most people think about when they hear about Buddhism.
That's because, as some scholars are increasingly emphasizing, there are two broad and distinct streams of Buddhism now being practised in North America.
One stream of Buddhism in North America, represented by Gold Buddha monastery and the Pure Land school, tends to fly below the radar of mainstream Canadian media culture.
It is often called "ethnic Buddhism." It's practised mostly by Asian immigrants, most of whom cannot speak English. They generally meet in large, extravagant-looking temples throughout the city.
Pure Land stands in sharp contrast to Westernized Buddhism, to which many non-Asians have in recent decades been drawn. It focuses almost entirely on meditation as a technique to calm the mind.
Westernized Buddhism is now followed by tens of thousands who blend "mindfulness" meditation with the teachings of psychotherapists, like California's Jack Kornfeld and Jon Kabat-Zinn.
This Western Buddhism is also associated with two immensely popular monks — Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama — who were born in Asia, but who have over past decades become highly adapted to the socially liberal, secularized ways of Europe and North America.
Most Asian immigrants follow a more traditional Buddhist drummer.
These "ethnic Buddhists" have a more supernatural bent. They are much more likely to bow reverentially before sacred Buddha statues in faithful prayer for good health and fortune.
They are more likely to yearn, after they die, to escape this Earth-bound world of karmic "suffering" through rebirth into an otherworldly realm, the Pure Land.
These two loose Buddhist streams — of Pure Land Buddhism and Westernized Buddhism — are not necessarily antagonistic. But they have little to do with each other, either as communities or as spiritual world views.
Paul Crowe, a Simon Fraser University professor and specialist in Chinese religions, says many Buddhists with no Asian heritage often misunderstand Pure Land practice "and even dismiss it as superficial."
As they sidestep Buddhist teachings about karma and rebirth, most Western Buddhists tend to highlight meditation as "true Buddhist practice," says Crowe, director of SFU's David Lam Centre.
"This divide can create two solitudes, and is unfortunate."
In other words, Buddhism is a house divided in North America.
In that way it's much like Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It has evolved and fragmented since being founded by Siddhartha Gautama in sixth-century B.C.
Here is how the two main streams of Buddhism contrast in Metro Vancouver, where roughly 100,000 people have told the Canadian Census they are Buddhists.
"We want, at the end of our lifetime, to go to the Pure Land," says Heng Jung, a shaved-headed lead nun at Gold Buddha monastery at 248 East 11th Ave. in Vancouver.
The Malaysian-born ethnic Chinese woman says the people who chant "Amithaba" while kneeling and bowing are doing so because they yearn to help themselves — and deceased loves ones — to "cross over" from this pain-filled world to the celestial Pure Land.
Scholars believe Pure Land Buddhism came into existence in the 2nd-century AD as a path for lay people. As Jung, 44, says, Pure Land Buddhism is for non-monks — for those who are not spiritual "geniuses," able to reach enlightenment on their own.
Pure Land Buddhists believe they can be spiritually transported into a perfect celestial existence, she says, "just by reciting Amithaba."
As long as Pure Land practitioners chant with sincerity and behave morally, Jung says followers can free themselves from the negative karma they have built up in this and past lives.
Jung believes Pure Land is more challenging than meditation alone.
"Mostly the Western person is interested in meditation. But reciting Amithaba is more work than meditation. You must have faith. You must have belief. And you must recite it yourself. You earn the blessing."
The Oxford Dictionary of Buddhism says Pure Land is by far the largest form of the main Buddhist branch known as Mayahana, which has about 350 million adherents.
Accepting that "Buddha" is the title of any enlightened person, the Dictionary of Buddhism says, Pure Land followers believe anyone who repeats the name of the Buddha known as Amithaba "could come into the Pure Land without first becoming pure and enlightened themselves."
However, the dictionary warns the key ideas of Pure Land, known as "the easy way" to eternal salvation because it relies on an "other" power, offend some kinds of Buddhists.
Many Buddhists reject the belief that a literal Pure Land realm exists outside the practitioners' own mind.
Despite criticism, Pure Land appears to be the dominant mode of Buddhist expression in Metro, including for many seniors, says Crowe, a contributor to the book, Asian Religions in B.C. (UBC Press).
Pure Land is taught, typically in Mandarin or Cantonese, at the largest Buddhist temples in Metro Vancouver — including the Tung Lin Kok Yuen temple on East Broadway; the Ling Yen Mountain temple on No. 5 Road in Richmond and the International Buddhist Society temple on Steveston Highway.
Jung says Gold Buddha Monastery, located in an ordinary-looking four-storey building in East Vancouver, is one of the few Metro Vancouver Pure Land temples where English is routinely spoken.
Gold Buddha is one of 23 large Dharma Realm Buddhist Association centres around the world; mostly on the west Coast of North America, as well as in Taiwan, Malaysia and China.
Gold Buddha monastery, which opened in Vancouver in 1984, permanently houses 15 nuns, both ethnic Chinese and Caucasian. It offers chanting rituals throughout the week in its large sanctuary, which features five eye-catching gold Buddha statues.
With a big smile, Jung, who has managed the monastery for more than a decade, says she has nothing at all against North Americans who mainly follow Buddhism for its meditation practices.
"A lot of people have a lot of pressure. They're too much running around. So it's a way to calm down and have good energy."
But Jung says meditation is easy compared to Gold Buddha monastery's emphasis on hours of chanting, on strict vegetarianism (excluding also onions and garlic) and on adhering to a set of virtues.
"Meditation is no work. You just sit," said the nun.
During Gold Buddha rituals, followers are urged to free themselves of all greed, self-aggrandizement, deceit and the desire to find fault in others.
Pure Land Buddhists, says Jung, teach that everyone needs to "clean up the (negative) karma from their previous lives" so that they can be reborn in the celestial Pure Land.
Asked whether Caucasian converts to Westernized Buddhism tend to ignore the religion's ancient teachings about how to avoid accruing bad karma, Jung says: "I'm not saying they're not interested in karma. They just don't understand it."
Brian Ruhe, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and now a popular teacher of Buddhism in B.C., is more blunt about the approach most Western converts take to the religion.
Many predominantly Caucasian Buddhist groups in Metro and the rest of North America, says Ruhe, "teach really good meditation," combined with "transpersonal" psychology.
"But it tends to be an American brand of Buddhism that's being marketed. And it's somewhat innocuous. Traditionally, meditation makes up just one third of Buddhism."
The two concepts of rebirth and karma are just as important to Buddhism as meditation, says Ruhe, who follows Theravadan Buddhism, the world's second largest branch of Buddhism.
Western Caucasian Buddhists, he says, often don't talk about "anything beyond this life, because they don't want to offend people. However, without karma or rebirth, it's not Buddhism."
The author of A Short Walk on an Ancient Path has been teaching for 15 years in B.C., maintains a website at www.theravada.ca and attends Birken Buddhist Forest Monastery near Kamloops.
Over the years, Ruhe has grown concerned that Western Buddhists, following vipassana and other forms of meditation, don't put enough emphasis on the tradition's stress on virtue.
For instance, Ruhe was present when noted Seattle Insight Meditation Society teacher Rodney Smith came to Vancouver.
When asked about practising virtue to avoid creating negative karma, Rue said Smith told his large contemplative audience: "'I don't discuss karma. It just makes people feel guilty. And there's enough guilt already in the world.'"
Vancouver physicist Pierre Zakarauskas, who sometimes teaches at the B.C. Insight Meditation Society, is one of those Western Buddhists who is skeptical about so-called ethnic Buddhism.
An adherent of "scientific materialism," Quebec-raised Zakarauskas is a friend of Ruhe. But they disagree on many Buddhist topics.
In the 1980s, Zakarauskas said, he was turned off Buddhism by its teaching about rebirth, also known as reincarnation.
But, many years later, Zakarauskas was drawn to Buddhism when he heard the Dalai Lama claim that Buddhism would still be valuable even if rebirth were unable to be proved.
Being an atheist, Zakarauskas does not support the Buddhist tradition's paranormal claims about humans having memories of previous incarnations, or past lives.
As a result, Zakarauskas calls himself "a Buddhist with an asterisk."
Zakarauskas has contributed to research projects at the University of B.C., which show meditation has beneficial effects on the brain's sensory cortex, no matter what kind is practised.
The 53-year-old researcher/businessman says "there's quite a range" of beliefs among the predominantly Caucasian Buddhists (roughly two out of three of whom are female) who show up at a host of meditation retreats in Metro.
Some of those who follow popular Western Buddhist teachers, such as Kornfield, are convinced of the reality of karma and rebirth, Zakarauskas says.
But many more are not.
For his part, Ruhe believes Western Buddhists are much like early Protestants. They have felt it necessary to break away from Roman Catholicism "and basically start new churches."
There is nothing inherently bad, Ruhe says, about creating new schools of a religion. But people curious about Buddhism should know it exists in dramatically different and even contradictory forms.
Interfaith dialogue is often necessary to bring out the surprising differences and similarities among religious paths, Rue says.
Even though not an adherent of Pure Land, Rue respects Chinese friends who "worship Amithaba kind of like a god.
"It's a bit like traditional Christianity, which says there is salvation in Jesus if you have faith in him."
There are many other parallels between Pure Land Buddhism and Biblical religions.
Liberal Christians, such as American theologian Jay McDaniel, founder of www.jesusjazzbuddhism.org, point out that Pure Land Buddhists revere Amithaba as a divine reality, akin to the one embraced by Jesus.
"Pure Land Buddhists speak of a heavenly Amithaba – who receives and listens to prayer, and who is filled with love," says McDaniel.
"I believe that what Christians mean by 'God' is similar to what Pure Land Buddhists mean by Amithaba."
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- "And the Mountains Echoed" is Khaled Hosseini's first new book in six years
- "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" have sold more than 38 million copies
- Afghanistan provides inspiration and backdrop for Hosseini's novels
- Writer says he yearns to take his son and daughter to Afghanistan
Being a father has had an unexpected result for best-selling author Khaled Hosseini -- it's boosted his fan base.
Hosseini explains with a laugh that his 12-year-old son posted a gushing review of his latest book, "And the Mountains Echoed," on Goodreads.
His son is at an age when many children experience what Hosseini calls an awakening into adulthood: They start to realize their parents are flawed.
While there is no inkling of that sentiment in his son's review, Hosseini remembers that moment in his own life. Coming of age is a common theme in his books.
"And the Mountains Echoed" tells the story of two loving siblings ripped apart by their family's hardship. That rupture affects generations in a story that stretches across continents, and through decades.
Afghanistan provides the inspiration and backdrop for "And the Mountains Echoed" as well as Hosseini's previous novels, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns." His books have sold more than 38 million copies around the world.
The author credits his children with making him a powerful writer. Hosseini says when he became a parent, he could empathize with the agonizing decisions his characters face in his novels.
"There is no question that it has transformed and informed my way of writing," he says.
Hosseini yearns to take his son, Haris, and his daughter, Farah, 10, to Afghanistan. "That would be my dream," he says.
Hosseini lived in Kabul until he was 11. Since then, the 48-year-old author has traveled to his native country as a goodwill envoy for the U.N. Refugee Agency.
He has not yet taken his children to Afghanistan because he says he worries about their safety. But he plans to bring them to Kabul one day: "I would love to go back with them and show them around the city, show them where I was raised, where I went to school, so they can see for themselves this place that I keep writing about," he says.
In addition to writing, Hosseini dedicates his time to providing shelter for returning refugee families through the Khaled Hosseini Foundation, which funds learning centers for women and helps to protect children involved in the rug-making industry.
"I see the mission of my foundation to reach out and help people who are exactly like the characters in my books," he says.
His travels to Afghanistan not only inform his philanthropic efforts -- they also shape his writing. But he says he doesn't intend to travel there to find material for his books.
"Nevertheless, it seeps into my consciousness," he says. "And when I sit down to write stories what I've seen in Afghanistan does inform me."
He remembers meeting a pair of sisters in the fall of 2009. They lived in an isolated village, about an hour outside Kabul. The older sister, who was about 6 years old, treated her little sister like a daughter. "They were strikingly beautiful and extremely sweet-natured," he says. "And they were clinging to each other."
As he left, he gave the older sister an apple. She quickly turned around and gave it to her little sister. "It touched me deeply, and I was very moved by seeing that," he says.
That bond between those two sisters became the inspiration for the young siblings at the heart of "And the Mountains Echoed."
Children are often the protagonists in Hosseini's books.
He says he is fascinated with the time when a young person has one foot in childhood and another in adulthood: "That age of 12 or so, when the foundations of the world as the child has thus far known it are beginning to crack, and the world is revealing itself to be more nuanced, more complicated, more messy, more troubling (than they imagined)."
He says he is fascinated with the time when a young person has one foot in childhood and another in adulthood: "That age of 12 or so, when the foundations of the world as the child has thus far known it are beginning to crack, and the world is revealing itself to be more nuanced, more complicated, more messy, more troubling (than they imagined)."
Many of his characters go through this metamorphosis. He draws on his childhood to make that journey compelling.
"All of us grow up with these kind of archetypal notions of our parents and of the people we admire," he says. "And as we grow older, we recognize them to be more fallible than we thought."
He recalls his relationship with his father changing when he was a young man. "Of course, I grew up thinking my Dad was the strongest man in the world. He was the smartest man in the world," he says of his father, who died in December 2009.
"He was very, very, very dear to me," Hosseini says. "But I do remember getting older and beginning to disagree with my Dad, on important issues: politics and other things."
Hosseini and his family came to the United States as asylum seekers. He considers himself lucky. On World Refugee Day last week, he helped to spread awareness about the more than 40 million people who are displaced.
"Refugees are people, just like us, just like anybody else. They're not just statistics," he says. "We can all contribute to those essential programs that bring resources and services to some of the world's most vulnerable people."
Hosseini's work reinforces his message. For many readers, "And the Mountains Echoed" will lend faces and emotions to refugees who live in danger of being overlooked.


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They make up the Thompson School of Applied Science's culinary Dream Team. Taking the field of culinary competition by storm, five of the oven hot UNH chefs-in-training brought home the bronze in an unprecedented win at the New Hampshire State American Culinary Federation (ACF) Competition this spring.
And they're only freshmen.
Charlie Caramihalis, professor of culinary arts and nutrition, is excited about the talent he's seen among this group of students who make up the Culinary Team. "We couldn't be prouder, but it's not about us. It's about the students," says Caramihalis.
Students Elaina D'Orto, Ken Flesher, Jack Goldberg, Travis Patno, and Anthony Valentine combined their strengths in culinary and cooking techniques, as well as sanitation practices, by competing against other college teams to attract the attention of a panel of austere judges. Withstanding the heat of the kitchen under the glare of such watchful eyes, the freshman filleted and sautéed . . . but they didn't flinch. "These judges are tough," says Caramihalis. "I've competed myself – they don't sugar coat anything. It's nerve-wracking."
It's not about intimidation, however; it's about gaining experience under pressure. "There are a lot of competitions in the culinary arts world," says Caramihalis. "It's how chefs grow and it's also a way of promoting the business. There's even a culinary Olympic team." According to the ACF Professional Culinary Competition Manual, the primary goals of a culinary competition are "to continually raise the standards of culinary excellence and professionalism" by nurturing individual creativity; showcasing a chef's skills, techniques, and styles; and offering certification points with the organization.
"The students put about 140 hours into practicing for this competition. Once they had the skills down, we moved to practicing the menu they had to prepare which was taken from Escoffier's cookbook," says team adviser Chef Len Martin, referring to the legendary chef who was a leader in the development of modern French cuisine.
Martin, who was not allowed to be with the students during the competition in accordance with the federation's rules, first glimpsed the plated food as it was presented to the judges. When Martin saw the julienned carrots, duchess potatoes, and poached forcemeat accompanying the stuffed breast of chicken, he was impressed. "I thought they did really well. All the time that they put into practicing was reflected in the food on the plates," says Martin. "It was very intense for the students. They had to dedicate their time, and then at the end, when they saw how well they did, they were flying high."
Jack Goldberg '13 was charged with leading the Culinary Team to create the main course of the competition. "It was chicken breast stuffed with ox tongue, topped with a suprême sauce," says Goldberg of the roux reduced with crème fraîche. "This was particularly challenging because we had to break down the classical recipe into manageable terms." Even as the team felt overwhelmed by the gamut of rules in the unfamiliar territory of culinary competition, they rose to the challenge. Said Goldberg, "We really worked hard, came together as a team, overcame challenges, had some fun, and pulled it off."
"To have the guts to compete and then go out there and win is huge," says Caramihalis who has stewarded thousands of students through his courses in the culinary arts – in subjects such as American regional cuisine, quantity food production, catering and garde manger, and more – for nearly three decades. With that kind of experience he knows a talented student when he meets one and he is honored to impart his knowledge as a chef, restaurant owner, and professor who has a passion for culinary arts in the genes.
As a youth, Caramihalis began pitching bait with his fisherman father before sunrise. "We'd sell our catch to the Cape Neddick Lobster Pound. They were looking for someone to work at night and I wanted the job. I'd work all day and then go to the restaurant and work the grill. I fell in love with it right away. Caramihalis understands that students who come to the Thompson School's Culinary Arts and Nutrition program are here for the love of the craft, too, and that shaped his vision for the program he helped transform from its roots as the Restaurant Management program nearly four years ago.
"The great thing for us is that it's virtually unheard of for a culinary team to win a medal the first time they compete. They won based on their ability to perform what they're taught here." One of the team members is non-traditional student Elaina D'Orto '13, who is finally pursuing her long-held dream to become a chef after a career in the military. The Thompson School's hands-on approach to learning by doing during regular and off-peak hours allows students of all walks of life to gain ample practical experience at the two onsite restaurants that are open to the public – 180 Blue and Stacey's Express – in addition to classroom lectures.
Beginning next fall, incoming freshmen will be given a junior membership in the Piscataqua Chapter of the American Culinary Federation and the opportunity to broaden their newfound skills through culinary competition. "Competing helps build a stronger program and gives students more practice," says Caramihalis about the curriculum designed to build students' résumés and give them an advantage over the competition in a tough job market. "You need to change with the field. It's all about trying to make sure you're giving the kids the best education."
For students who qualify to become Certified Cooks, the breadth of the Culinary Arts and Nutrition program – enhanced by competitions and hands-on internships at local establishments and institutions – provides the strong foundation in which to develop their natural talent and passion for the craft.
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COLSA Insight, Newsletter of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture
Written by Victoria Forester Courtland, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture


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I had to double-check the title of a painting Monday while finishing my assessment of About Light at the Durango Arts Center. That gave me the opportunity to re-examine the exhibit in silence and semi-darkness as the Barbara Conrad Gallery forfeits Monday hours to stay open on Saturdays.
Having attended Fridays opening with the crowd and hullabaloo that surround such events,
I was a bit ambivalent about the three-artist show. The works of complementary painters Cynthia DeBolt and Caroline Reeves Johnson and the ceramics and pottery of Ann Friedman Durango artists all made for a very nice show. Nothing too exciting, but nice.
In this case, however, even two is a crowd. During my brief but solo return to the gallery, I found the whole environment incredibly peaceful. If theres one recommendation I can make, and make no mistake that this simple yet beautiful display comes highly recommended, its that it should be seen in the same quiet and solitude as I had. Im not saying you should break in and enter the Arts Center after hours in fact, Ill go so far as to say dont do that but choose your time wisely and make it a meditative visit.
For example, if todays election results, for whatever reason, give your blood pressure a spike, an hour or so in the gallery is a fine way to just ... calm ... down.
The painting styles of Johnson and DeBolt, whose work can be seen year-round at Sorrel Sky Gallery, are similar. Both are clearly influenced by the work of the German-American painter Wolf Kahn, and both are former students of his as well.
The landscapes at first have pastoral simplicity about them but on further inspection theyre much more sophisticated than that. The subdued colors add to the overall soothing effect.
The ceramicist Friedman is a St. Louis native who made her way to Durango via San Francisco and Silverton. The DAC show marks her return to professional art after a 10-year hiatus and her skills dont seem to have suffered from the time off.
Ironically, this simple show provides a high-tech first for the Arts Center. Each painting or piece is accompanied by a QR code that allows smartphone users to see the image and title or the entire exhibition. The codes were provided by Todd Bartz and Josh Tischer of the Durango Tech Group, a loose affiliation of really smart people in town who do things like make QR codes and mobile web sites for fun. Bartz did the tech work for About Light on a pro bono basis.
Member John Skowlund attended Fridays opening and showed what the technology can do for future exhibits. A quick scan of the right QR code and the entire exhibit, with photos and titles of each piece, scrolled by on Skowlunds phone, perfectly sized for the small screen.
This really creates an extension of the exhibit, obviously, but I think its really a piece of technology that can help attract a younger crowd to these kinds of events, Skowlund said.


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Salvation Army provides food and shelter in county
Vail, CO Colorado
Vail Valley Salvation Army, established in 1983, is an emergency help organization. It provides immediate assistance for immediate needs and works with the client to develop a plan for future self-sufficiency. The group's needs have increased dramatically in the past five years in this challenging economy. It partners with Eagle County Health and Human Services to assist clients that they cannot assist. It helps people keep a roof over their heads, heat in their homes and food in their stomachs, which supports their continued employment and, therefore, helps the local economy. Providing these basics also provides a safety net that contributes to health and the social well-being of residents of Eagle County.
The nonprofit provides emergency shelters for road closures and temporary housing for people in emergency situations. It is a partner in a community plan for pandemic preparedness. The group has a canteen, a commercial kitchen on a four-wheel-drive vehicle that can provide 200 meals per hour to emergency responders (utilized several times since its arrival). It provides durable medical equipment, such as wheelchairs, shower seats, toilet seat risers, walkers, crutches, etc., at no charge for people who require accommodations. It also coordinate holiday projects, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas food baskets and the Adopt-a-Family Program.
The numbers of households coming to the Salvation Army for assistance has increased dramatically, from 1,068 households in 2008 to 5,394 households in 2011. In 2008, there were 357 visits to its food pantries. In 2011, there were 5,410 food pantry visits. The majority of clients are Eagle River Valley residents. It also serves stranded motorists, transients and people who live in Leadville and work in the Eagle River Valley. It serves individuals of all ages. Most of its clients are low-income but may have been quite successful prior to the recession. The group also assists anyone in an emergency situation.
We are proud of the fact that our entire caseload, as well as our other projects and programs, including Adopt-a-Family, Food Baskets, Durable Medical Equipment Loan Program, the canteen and shelters, are all handled with just two full-time staff and everyone else is a volunteer. We have had space donated for our offices and pantries by Trinity Church for more than 20 years. In May 2011, Traer Creek donated a new, larger space for us, and the only increase in operating costs was utilities. We believe that we give a lot of "bang for the buck," as our donations go to provide direct services.
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Book of Saints – Martyrs of England
MARTYRS OF ENGLAND (Blessed) (May 4) (16th century) By these are meant not all who in various ages have laid down their lives for Christ in England, but only the holy men and women put to death for professing the Catholic Religion, the Faith of their Fathers, in the persecution consequent on the so-called Reformation between the years 1535 and 1681. They are about six hundred in number. Of these, fifty-four were beatified by Pope Leo XIII on December 9, 1886, and nine others on May 15, 1895. It is a festival in their honour which is in England kept annually on May 4, and a brief notice of each one will be found in the present volume. Prominent among them are Blessed John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Blessed Thomas More, the Martyrs of the London Charterhouse, etc. The cases of 253 others of these Servants of God are now being officially enquired into in Rome, and pending the investigation they are styled "Venerable," a prima facie case having been already made out. It is proved that they all suffered death at the hands of the public executioner, after having been in the majority of cases put to the torture. But in not a few instances, proofs have still to be brought that they suffered on account of their religion, and not merely on charges, true or false, of treason or other crimes. There still remain 284 sufferers of whose claim to be regarded as Martyrs the Church has not as yet taken cognisance.
- Monks of Ramsgate. "Martyrs of England". , 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 28 January 2013. Web. 24 November 2020. <>


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One of the four people wounded in a Houston shooting that also killed two victims was a former contestant on "America's Next Top Model" and the sister of one of the men who died.
Court records identified 32-year-old Brandy Rusher as one of the wounded. She appeared on the reality TV show in 2005. Authorities identified one of two men killed as Rusher's brother, Gary Rusher.
A GoFundMe campaign set up by relatives says Brandy Rusher remains hospitalized in critical condition. Family members declined comment Thursday.
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Investigators say two groups of people argued Sunday night at an apartment complex, leading to gunshots.
Two brothers were arrested and remained jailed Thursday. Jeremy Jones was charged with capital murder of multiple persons. Harvey Jones was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.


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KILLEEN, Texas — Fort Hood.
The name has been seared in the nation's collective memory since a soldier went on a deadly shooting spree here in 2009.
On Wednesday, it happened again.
Specialist Ivan Lopez went from one building at the sprawling Texas military base to a second, firing a .45-caliber handgun, killing three people and wounding 16 more.
The 34-year-old Iraq vet then put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, ending his life.
Authorities say they have not ruled out terrorism, but they were downplaying the possibility.
"There are initial reports there may have been an argument in one of the unit areas," Lt. Gen Mark Milley, the post's commanding general, told reporters late Wednesday.
Officers picked up Lopez's wife at their apartment near the base in Killeen, and she was cooperating with law enforcement, an FBI official told CNN.
The man, whom a neighbor said often gave her a friendly wave, was apparently plagued by multiple mental health issues.
Emotional torment
He had arrived at the base in February, moving with his wife and their daughter into an apartment a little more than a week before the shooting.
They appeared to be a normal couple, said neighbor Xanderia Morris. "They would smile whenever they'd see someone," she said.
But behind Lopez's smile lay a history of depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders, according to Milley, and he was receiving treatment and medication.
He had served for four months in Iraq in 2011. And while Army records don't show him as having been wounded there, Lopez himself reported that he had suffered a traumatic brain injury, Milley said.
He was undergoing diagnosis procedures for post-traumatic stress disorder.
"He was not diagnosed, as of today, with PTSD," Milley said.
Arriving at the diagnosis common among war veterans can take time.
He used his own weapon
Lopez had been part of the National Guard in Puerto Rico, but he had left the Guard to join the U.S. Army, National Guard spokeswoman Ruth Diaz said Thursday. He carried out the killings with his own gun — a .45-caliber Smith and Wesson semiautomatic pistol he bought after arriving in Killeen.
By taking it onto the base, he was breaking the rules.
"If you have weapons and you're on base, it's supposed to be registered on base," Milley said. "This weapon was not registered on base."
In addition, people are not allowed to walk around with guns on a military base. They are required to store them in an armory.
Sequence of events
Around 4 p.m., Lopez walked into a building at the base and opened fire. He then got into a car, fired from the vehicle, got out of the car, walked into another building and fired again.
Over 15 to 20 minutes, he killed three and wounded 16 — all of them army personnel, Milley said.
Three of the wounded were in critical condition early Thursday.
Authorities did not say whether Lopez knew his victims.
The shootings took place in the medical brigade and the transportation battalion buildings. Lopez was assigned to the 13th sustainment command, which deals with logistics.
The base, which has more than 45,000 soldiers and nearly 9,000 civilian employees, went on lockdown.
People were told to shelter in place.
As sirens blared, Pvt. Dehlan Kay stayed in his barracks and talked on a phone. "I'm doing good," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I'm just a little nervous on what's happening."
The all-clear wouldn't go out for another six hours.
The revelation
At the Lopez apartment, the shooter's wife was watching the news.
She came out crying, worried about her husband, from whom she had not heard all afternoon. But she had no idea that he was the shooter, said Morris, the neighbor.
"I'm just worried, I'm just worried," Lopez's wife told her.
"I tried to console her and comfort her, let her know everything was OK," Morris said.
It was not. When a local TV station identified the gunman as Lopez, the wife became "hysterical," Morris said.
It took law enforcement about 15 minutes to respond to the gunfire, Milley said.
The shooting spree ended when a female officer confronted Lopez in a parking lot; he reached under his jacket for his pistol, put it to his head and fired.
The casualties
Nine of the wounded were taken to Scott & White Memorial Hospital in nearby Temple, where three were in critical condition and six were in serious condition, with the possibility of being upgraded later in the day to fair, said Dr. Matthew Davis.
"It's been a busy evening," the surgeon said early Thursday.
Two of the most seriously wounded were operated on overnight and will require further surgery, he told CNN. "The next 24 hours are really critical," he said.
Though some of the wounds were superficial, others involved vital structures — the neck, the chest, the abdomen, he said. Though most of the wounded will heal, "we clearly are going to have some physical scars and emotional scars going forward," he said. He predicted that the actions of a man who himself may have had PTSD probably will be responsible for others experiencing it.
"We'll have to work with some of our long-term professionals who help to work with PTSD," he said.
The last mass shooter
In squeezing off his final shot, Lopez's actions differed from those of Fort Hood's last mass shooter.
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan survived after killing 13 people and wounding another 32 on November 5, 2009.
Months later, the former military psychiatrist told a court that he was on a terrorist mission.
During a hearing in June, he said that he fired at soldiers preparing to deploy to Afghanistan to protect leading members of the Taliban.
Hasan was convicted of 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder, and a military jury recommended last August that he be put to death.
Not again
"My reaction was not 'not again here,' " Milley said in response to reporters' questions. "My reaction was to immediately make sure we had a read on the casualties. Immediately secure the site. Immediately look for one or more shooters."
But others saw the link.
"That was so similar, it just tore up my heartstrings," Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler told CNN's "New Day" on Thursday.
Zeigler, who is still recovering from four bullet wounds to the head and body from the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, expressed surprise. "It's just hard to believe that these people that you serve with, who are your brothers in arms, would turn against you," he said. "And it's just incredible that at home, someone in the environment of a military base would decide to do this."
But security procedures will never suffice to deter someone bent on committing such an act, he said. "It takes somebody brave enough to report these people in order for it to be prevented."
"As a community, it's like you've been kicked in the gut. It can't be happening again," said Killeen Mayor Dan Corbin.
No community should have to experience such violence once, let alone twice, said John Cornyn, a U.S. senator from Texas.
"We're heartbroken something like this might have happened again," said President Obama, who was briefed by defense and FBI leaders by phone while traveling on Air Force One.
Fort Hood has been resilient before, Gov. Rick Perry said.


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October 7, 2011
We are the 99%! Watch Medea Benjamin's invitation to you to join Freedom Plaza in DC or your local Occupy action:
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Dear CODEPINKer,
Change is in the air. Doesn't it feel amazing?
We are thrilled and inspired beyond words by the upswell of people taking to the street around the country to demand social and economic justice. CODEPINK has had a non-stop presence at Occupy Wall Street from the very beginning - back when Occupy Wall Street was just a bunch of people doing yoga and street theater on Wall Street! We will continue to camp out with joy, in the cold and rain, to make the needs of the people known.
Now CODEPINK is also part of the newly formed Occupy K Street in DC. We've been planning for months to march in our nation's capitol to mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, which is today, and couldn't be more excited by the convergence with the spontaneous and growing Occupy Together movement.
Check out this beautiful aerial photo (top right) we orchestrated that represents the 99% of Americans who want our leaders to focus on human needs, not corporate greed. We will continue to push Obama from Freedom Plaza (and Wall St. and town squares around the country) to bring our war dollars home where they are desperately needed.
What can you do?
Occupy locally! Find an occupy action in your area through Occupy Together website. Don't forget to wear your pink!
Support Occupy Wall Street! It is COLD outside, and we need your support. Donate here to send sleeping bags, scarves, gloves and umbrellas to our intrepid campers for justice. We have received wonderful care packages from CODEPINK San Francisco (check out the mailing address!) and other generous supporters-V Day's Eve Ensler even stopped by with bags of supplies!
Sign our petition in solidarity
We've told you our stories, and shared our photos, send us yours!
With cold hands but hearts burning with hope and possibility, Alli, C.J., Farida, Gayle, Janet, Jodie, Juliana, Kristen, Lisa, Nancy, Medea, Melanie, Rae, Rosie, Sanaa, Sharon, and Tighe
PS While Peace Prize winner Obama continues to wage wars in Afghanistan and beyond, today three women won the Nobel Peace Prize - true peacemakers. Join us for the next five Tuesday nights, starting October 11, to hear their stories and those of many more women activists on PBS's Women War & Peace.
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. The name CODEPINK satirized the Bush Administration's color-coded, fear-mongering "security" alert system that has since been phased out. CODEPINK is a lively call for the people of the world to "wage peace." More...


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Lost Planet 3 happens in space. More specifically, future space. And it'll have the star-faring ships and unlimited-ammo pistols that make sense in a sci-fi series. But the threequel will also let you blast a centuries-old bolt-action rifle at those nasty Akrid. What's up with that?
Even, if you account for the fact that LP3 happens way back in the timeline of Capcom's futuristic shooter series, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have a weapon John Marston might've used against bears. But there it is, in the hands of LP3 protagonist Jim as he ventures onto the icy plains of planet E.D.N. III. Turns out that the rifle's a family heirloom, passed down for generations and stands as a signifier for the frontier vibe that dev studio Spark Unlimited wants to impart to this new game.
This is a different E.D.N. III, one less explored than in LP1 & LP2 and humanity's just beginning to find out what else is living on the frozen planet. The developers from Spark at the E3 demo made it seem like Jim's bolt-action rifle had been a weapon that had helped his forebears lay claims to stakes of land in the old American West. And now, Jim was getting his chance to do the same on E.D.N. III.
Fittingly, there's also a bit of gold rush mentality to LP3. The planet's stores of thermal energy are a valuable energy source that also serves as the in-game economy. As described before, Jim's a different sort of hero, just a regular guy scrapping for a living in the outer reaches of colonized space and he'll need credits to upgrade his weapons. You'll stumble on thermal pockets during LP3 exploration sequences and can harvest them by planting posts into the ground. The longer that a thermal post stays in the ground, the greater the amount of energy you can collect gets. But, Akrid will be drawn by the heat and will swarm all over your post over time, laying explosive eggs and creating a zone that you'll need to clear out if you want to collect that precious resource.
The bang-shk-clank of the bolt-action rifle's shoot/reload sequence makes for a distinctly different sound effect when placed in LP3's eerily quiet environs. When waves of Akrid are attacking form multiple angles, each reload sounds like desperation. Capcom and Spark say that the game is "not horror" and "not survival" but that they're trying for a more atmospheric experience than in previous games. That's where the new dynamic weather system will help. While some of the snowstorms that Jim trudges through will be scripted to happen at specific points in the story, others will happen at random.
Lost Planet 3, like more and more of Capcom's games, comes from the co-mingling of Japanese and Western sensibilities and that heirloom rifle is just a small sign of the kind of details that wouldn't otherwise be in the game. If Spark manages to create a sense of frontier spirit in this newest game, Lost Planet 3 could give the series a hot dose of what it's needed most: personality.


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In the single largest multi-state consumer protection-based pharmaceutical settlement, Arizona's Attorney General, along with 36 other Attorneys General reached a record $181 million dollar settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. arising from alleged improper marketing of the antipsychotic drugs Risperdal and Invega (Risperdal). Arizona's share of the settlement is $6,094,396.00.
Risperdal is an atypical anti-psychotic drug approved for certain types of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and irritability associated with autism. It is approved for adults with schizophrenia and as a combination therapy for adults with short-term acute manic/mixed episodes of Bipolar Disorder. Risperdal is approved for children and adolescents for irritability associated with autism; schizophrenia in adolescents, ages 13-17; and short term treatment of manic/mixed episodes of Bipolar Disorder, ages 10-17
The complaint alleges that Janssen engaged in deceptive practices when it marketed Risperdal to physicians for uses unapproved by the Food and Drug Administration ("off-label uses"); failed to adequately disclose the drug's potential adverse side effects to physicians; and withheld negative information contained in scientific studies concerning the safety and efficacy of Risperdal from physicians.
The complaint alleges that Janssen unlawfully marketed Risperdal for geriatric populations by targeting nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, depression, sleep disorders and anxiety. The complaint also alleges Janssen targeted the pediatric population for many uses, including ADD (attention deficit disorder); ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; conduct disorder and mood disorders.
Finally, the complaint alleges that Janssen promoted Risperdal for depression, anxiety; sleep disorders; anger management; PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder); mood enhancement and mood stabilization in adults and children.
Arizona was joined by Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the District of Columbia in the settlement.
Federal law prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers from marketing their products for off-label uses; a physician, however, is allowed to prescribe drugs for off-label uses. Janssen must change not only how it markets Risperdal but also must stop the alleged false, misleading and deceptive promotion of the drug. Janssen is prohibited from selling drugs for "off-label" uses that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved. Among other matters, Janssen is now prohibited from:
•Allowing sales representatives to promote Risperdal to physicians who are unlikely to prescribe Risperdal for an FDA-approved use;
•Providing financial incentives to sales representatives to reward off–label marketing;
•Providing samples of Risperdal to physicians whose clinical practice does not deal with the uses set out in footnote 1; and
•Compensating physicians for attending Janssen promotional activities.
Approximately $4,000,000 of the settlement will be awarded for research or programs to provide alternatives to the use of atypical antipsychotics for managing the effects of Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia in elder long-term care facilities; for managing childhood and adolescent developmental and learning disorders; and/or for education and outreach programs directed at treatments for mental illness and/or for mental disorders. The balance will be deposited into the consumer fraud revolving fund as attorney's fees and costs and to support the prosecution of similar cases.
The settlement is in the form of a consent judgment and must be approved by the Court.


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Want to come along?
Off we go then for a jolly journey by rail, on the stunning Severn Valley Railway.
Into the booking hall...
...Mr HenHouse takes charge of buying our rail tickets for the journey.
The Munchkin and I rest in the coolness of the waiting room at Bewdley station. He's looking a bit pensive, perhaps worrying about evacuation?
Mr HenHouse takes it all in his stride...
The station is a hive of activity on this beautiful Summer's day, lots of families deciding to have a day out by rail, surely the best way to travel.
There are poignant goodbyes for some...
The Munchkin, though is excited and can't wait to get on the steam train.
We are lucky enough to find ourselves most comfortably seated in a compartment coach, beautifully fitted out, fairly recently, probably around 1935.
The boys busy themselves with their reading.
I am happy to admire the view, the fields flying by, adorned with magnificent red poppies dancing in the breeze.
The Muchkin does get quite excited at the sight of the safari park.
We decide to hop off and take in the delights at the picturesque country station at Arley.
It proves difficult to tear the Munchkin away from the little garden railway!
We are pleasantly entertained by a wonderful singer.
Many times, the Munchkin and I are asked by passers by if they may take our photo!
Because the nearby church has been bombed, there is a wedding taking place at the station today.
The Munchkin ponders that if he is going to be evacuated, he wouldn't mind it being here!
It is very hot outside so we wait for the next train in the waiting room.
And here she comes!
Off then to Bridgnorth where we enjoy the mellifluous tones of the wonderful Lola Lamour.
Back on the train, I keep up with the latest trends and think about tackling this month's knitting pattern...
Popping off at Hampton Loade station, the Munchkin is entranced by the working model railway in the garden.
We tear him away and make our way to the end of the line at Kidderminster. The Munchkin has his Identity Card stamped by the officer.
We show him the air raid warden's shelter...
..and he looks inside the Andersen shelter where he might end up spending a night or two.
Folks are bustling round the station, dressed in their Sunday best.
I fancy visiting the Black Market shop but I can see there is a bobby nearby.
Phew, he's moved on, maybe I'll pick up some new nylons. Shhhh!
It's a lovely day so the washing is getting a good airing, strung above the dig for victory garden. That's the privy there at the end!
The living room in the nearby cottage at 2, Railway Cuttings, is looking very spick and span.
In the kitchen , the lady is hard at work making tea.
All her essential groceries are to hand in her pretty green kitchen cupboard.
The Munchkin has disappeared outside the station and can be found admiring this caravan which has just been built in 1941.
I catch them up and am rather taken by the interior. Maybe one day...?
A tad weary, after a wonderful time, it's time for home again and the Munchkin is hopeful that he's going to be travelling in one of these beauties...
...but in these times of hardship, I'm afraid it's more likely to be on this!
It turns out I couldn't resist a few purchases at the Black Market Shop. Don't tell, will you?
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Our Research Robot Monkeys have been working day and night lately so it seems. Just last night they stumbled upon horrid information which concerns us—here is a disturbing quote made by a "so-called" Baptist pastor:
There is a tendency in most of our churches to accept almost any "decision" as a real conversion, without even asking a basic question or two from the person who makes such a "decision." They are instantly baptized with no questions asked. This method has filled our churches with unconverted people by the millions.
As a direct result of the failure of "decisionism," a new interest in Calvinism has arisen. Calvinism is the fastest growing movement today among Baptists and other evangelicals. But while the new Calvinism theoretically explains the reason for the failure of "decisionism," at least so far, it has not cured "decisionism." Why? Because modern Calvinism has only explained conversion theoretically. It has not adequately applied the doctrines of total depravity and grace. Therefore, almost anyone who mentally agrees with its basic doctrines is quickly proclaimed converted and taken into the church without actually going through the experience of conversion outlined by Spurgeon in the quotation I just gave. As a result modern Calvinism explains the errors of "decisionism," but does not cure them. In fact, the mere assent to, and belief in, the doctrines of Calvinism have become little more than a new form of "decisionism," in a subtler form. The man who makes a "decision" to believe the doctrines is proclaimed saved! If he can explain the Calvinistic "doctrines of grace" he is accepted into the church with no questions asked about his own experience of conversion. Thus, thousands learn to explain the meaning of TULIP, and are, upon the ability to explain these doctrines, pronounced converted and taken into the churches. Therefore modern Calvinism has in no instance been connected in any way with true revival and is, in fact, little better than the average solid "decisionist" churches.
Notice that I am not speaking either for or against the doctrines they teach. I am simply saying that belief in doctrines, even true doctrines, is a mental form of "decisionism." When you "decide" to believe the doctrines you are considered saved. This, in my view, is the weakness and error of modern Calvinism. Why? Because conversion is far more than a simple mental agreement with a list of doctrines, even true doctrines. Thus, modern Calvinism has tended to produce nothing adequate to actually cure the error of "decisionism" that has weakened our churches and filled them with so many lost souls. In fact, most of the modern Calvinists I have spoken with are still unconverted themselves. For the most part they are resting in what the older Calvinists of centuries past would call a "false hope" – the false hope that belief in correct doctrine is the equivalent of true conversion. But "doctrinal belief" is not true conversion. If the modern Calvinistic movement realizes that, and applies their doctrines, they might very well see many real conversions, and perhaps even true revival. But they must discover again the old methods of evangelism and preach "the old truths" to the unconverted Calvinists in their own congregations, or else, in spite of their doctrinal belief in Calvinism, I fear that many modern Calvinists will go into "the fire that never shall be quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:43-44).
You see there—he just called our Pure Doctrines "Grace-hating Man-loving Man-exalting Semi-Pelagian Heresy" by saying that:
the doctrines of Calvinism have become little more than a new form of "decisionism," in a subtler form. The man who makes a "decision" to believe the doctrines is proclaimed saved! If he can explain the Calvinistic "doctrines of grace" he is accepted into the church with no questions asked about his own experience of conversion. Thus, thousands learn to explain the meaning of TULIP, and are, upon the ability to explain these doctrines, pronounced converted and taken into the churches.
As we all know Decisionism is nothing but "Grace-hating Man-loving Man-exalting Semi-Pelagian Heresy" aka Free-Willing Arminianism and as we also know Pure Doctrines always produce True Converts. Spurgeon would have a heart-attack if he were alive today to witness such a "Downgrade" against Pure Doctrines. We also know that Calvinism and Decisionism are oxymorons as Calvinism aka the Doctrines of Grace aka the Pure and True Gospel of God's Grace has nothing to do with exercising Free Will to make a decision about anything as God has already made all decisions from the foundation of the world by an unchangeable Absolute Decree. Arminians attack God's Absolute Sovereignty which is evil in and of itself but it is even more evil to attack the Absolute Sovereignty of our Pure Doctines. Sharin' Whiplash's evil twin Witless Sharon upon hearing Dr. R. L. Hymers, Jr.'s teachings against our Sound Doctrines responded with this attack:
One of my all-time heroes of the faith. What a great man, and greatly used of God. Thank You, Lord, for Your servant, Dr. R. L. Hymers, Jr, without whom we would be still struggling in the darkness of Romanist Genevan Papist Calvinism, that man-exalting heresy.
Clearly this proves how heretical Baptists truly are even Reformed Baptists as Reformed and Baptist are oxymorons since Baptists were never Truly Reformed to begin with. We ask you this Discernmentalists—did you make a decision by exercise of Free Will to become a Calvinist or be a disciple of the Pure Doctrines of Grace and if so we would like to know when and at what time? Also did you freely choose to be Calvinist either by reading TULIP into the Bible apart from a prior reading of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion or hearsay from others or by making a "decision" to believe the Pure Doctrines of Grace after hearing a Calvinistic sermon preached? See how errant Dr. R. L. Hymers, Jr.'s teachings against our Sound Doctrines are—We Know because we told you so.
P. S. On a serious note we recommend these excellent resources on Calvin and Calvinism: The Many Faces of John Calvin, The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition , http://www.pcusa.org/today/index.htm, Elected to What ?!, How Meeting Real Christians from Different Traditions Makes a Real Difference and What is 'Oasis'?.
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Did you get to see Mark Ballas and Derek Hough on Disney's "Shake It Up" Sunday night? It was cool show. If you missed it and special thanks to our Princess Heidi you can view their segment below. Heidi has made some awesome screencaps of the show at Pure Derek Hough as well. Be sure to check them all out when you can! They're beautiful!!


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The military band played the first few bars of God Save the Queen.
Last year Prince William was made an honorary colonel of the regiment and wore his Irish guards uniform to the royal wedding. St. James' Palace said today would mark the beginning of a long-standing relationship between Duchess Kate and the Irish guards.
The event was a little too overwhelming for one soldier who passed out during the parade. The papers reported it was a reaction to seeing Kate :) Perhaps not the legitimate reason but an amusing headline all the same.
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We had all hoped Kate would wear green to mark the occasion and she didn't disappoint. Wearing a dark green coat dress by New Zealand born designer Emilia Wickstead. We see Kate's coatdress below from the 2010/2011 collection. (With thanks to Rene) Yet again we see Kate choosing a full skirt and emulating the fashion of the 40's/50's.
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Kate wore the Betty Boop hat by Lock and Co. It is available in an array of colours for £245. As you can see Kate opted for brown.
The Duchess wore her favourite Kiki McDonough green amethyst 18ct gold and diamond earrings. An ideal choice for the day. Below we look at the citrine version.
As expected Kate wore the shamrock brooch previously worn by the Queen Mother and Princess Anne during engagements with the regiment. Kate wore it last year for a military engagement.
Kate's brown suede shoes are yet to be ID'd.
What did you think of Kate's look today?
Finally I was amused to see one Kate fan got a very special treat this morning! (With thanks to @Royal_Corgi)
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