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Basketball photos: Oak Ridge in state quarterfinal game
Posted at 7:12 pm March 8, 2019
Senior Jada Guinn (24) has broken basketball records at Oak Ridge, including most points scored in a game and most points scored in a season. Guinn, a Miss Basketball finalist who has signed to play at Tennessee Tech, is pictured above shooting the basketball during a 65-49 win over Science Hill in a Class AAA girls basketball tournament quarterfinal game in Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University in Mufreesboro on Thursday, March 7, 2019. (Photo by Luther Simmons)
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats defeated Science Hill 65-49 in a quarterfinal game of the Class AAA girls basketball tournament in Murfreesboro on Thursday. Here are photos by Luther Simmons.
(Note: The girls' season ended with a 56-50 loss to Bradley Central during a semifinal game on Friday.) [Read more…]
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Lady Wildcats advance to state basketball semifinal with win over Science Hill
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats made it to the state basketball tournament for the third time in four years by beating Dobyns-Bennett 59-42 in a Class AAA sectional game at Wildcat Arena on Saturday, March 2, 2019. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was updated at 3:25 p.m.
Oak Ridge advanced to a state semifinal game on Friday with a 65-49 win over Science Hill in the Class AAA girls basketball tournament in Murfreesboro on Thursday.
The Lady Wildcats trailed in the first quarter by five points, but they went on an 11-0 run to take the lead by the end of that quarter.
The game remained relatively close until Oak Ridge went on a 14-4 run starting at about 3:30 in the third quarter and continuing through the first few minutes of the fourth quarter. The Lady Wildcats then widened their lead in the final six minutes.
The Lady Wildcats (34-2) will play Bradley Central (32-3) in a Class AAA girls semifinal game in Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University at 2:45 p.m. (3:45 p.m. Eastern) on Friday.
Bradley Central advanced by defeating Lebanon 34-26 in another quarterfinal game on Thursday. [Read more…]
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Lady Wildcats play in state basketball tournament Thursday
Posted at 9:11 am March 7, 2019
Oak Ridge will play in the girls state basketball tournament in Murfreesboro today (Thursday, March 7).
The Lady Wildcats (33-2) will play Science Hill (31-3) in a Division I Class AAA quarterfinal game at 11:30 a.m. (12:30 Eastern) in the Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University.
The other girls quarterfinal game in the BlueCross Basketball Championships on Thursday will feature Bradley Central (31-3) and Lebanon (25-10). That game will start at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. Eastern).
Two other girls quarterfinal games were played Wednesday. Riverdale (30-1) beat Arlington (27-7) 67-50 in the first game, and Houston (29-2) defeated Mt. Juliet (27-6) 58-65 in the other. Riverdale, a Murfreesboro team, has won the Class AAA state championship three years in a row. The Lady Warriors beat the Lady Wildcats 68-36 in the championship game in 2016.
This year, Oak Ridge, the Region 2 champion, made it to the state tournament for the third time in four years by beating Dobyns-Bennett, the Region 1 runner-up, 59-42 in a Class AAA sectional game at Wildcat Arena on Saturday. [Read more…]
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Oak Ridge wins Region 2 championship with Guinn's three-pointer at buzzer
Posted at 10:00 pm February 27, 2019
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won the Region 2-AAA championship with a 53-50 win over Maryville at Wildcat Arena on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, after a three-point shot at the buzzer by senior Jada Guinn. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was last updated at 6:30 a.m. Feb. 28.
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won the Region 2-AAA championship with a 53-50 win over Maryville on Wednesday after a three-point shot at the buzzer by senior Jada Guinn.
Guinn, a Miss Basketball finalist who has signed to play at Tennessee Tech, scored a game-high 21 points. She also had at least 10 rebounds.
Guinn, who was named most valuable player of the regional tournament, made two three-point shots in the final 33.9 seconds. The first one was from near the top of the key. She hit the last one-dribble shot from beyond the three-point line near the right sideline after an inbounds pass near half court following a timeout with 1.5 seconds remaining.
Jubilant fans erupted onto the floor of Wildcat Arena, cheering and jumping for joy after the dramatic finish.
Oak Ridge (32-2) will host Dobyns-Bennett (28-7), the Region 1 runner-up, at 7 p.m. Saturday at Wildcat Arena in a Class AAA sectional. The winner of that game will advance to the state tournament in Murfreesboro in March. [Read more…]
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Lady Wildcats play for Region 2 championship tonight
Posted at 2:54 pm February 27, 2019
Oak Ridge senior Jada Guinn (24) is pictured above shooting a free throw during a 81-24 win at Clinton on Friday, Jan. 24, 2019. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats will play for the Region 2-AAA championship at home tonight (Wednesday, February 27).
Oak Ridge (31-2) will play Maryville (30-2). The Lady Wildcats were the District 3 champion, and the Lady Rebels were the District 4 champion.
Oak Ridge advanced to the championship game by beating William Blount 50-29 in a Region 2 quarterfinal game on Friday and defeating Bearden 50-43 in a semifinal game on Monday.
Maryville advanced to the championship game by beating Anderson County 82-59 in a Region 2 quarterfinal game on Friday and defeating Campbell County 60-52 in a semifinal game on Monday. [Read more…]
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Lady Wildcats win fourth straight district championship
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won their fourth straight district basketball championship with a 47-40 win over Campbell County at Karns on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
KARNS—The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won their fourth straight district basketball championship with a 47-40 win over Campbell County at Karns on Tuesday.
The girls rallied from a nine-point 24-15 deficit in the second quarter to take a lead that they didn't give up at the end of the third quarter. The Lady Wildcats outscored the Lady Cougars 10-5 in the final quarter to expand their margin.
Oak Ridge senior Jada Guinn was named most valuable player of the District 3-AAA tournament, which was played at Karns High School. Guinn has been named district tournament MVP three of the past four years: 2016, 2018, and 2019.
"It feels good," Guinn said after the Tuesday night win. She said the competitive Campbell County game helped prepare Oak Ridge for the next level, which includes the Region 2-AAA tournament that starts today (Friday, February 22). [Read more…]
Filed Under: Front Page News, High School, Slider, Sports, Sports, Top Stories Tagged With: basketball, Bri Dunbar, Campbell County, David Clary, District 3-AAA tournament, district basketball championship, district tournament MVP, Farragut, Haley Comer, Jada Guinn, Lady Cougars, Lady Wildcats, Madison Brady, Oak Ridge, Paige Redman, Region 2-AAA tournament, Skylar Boshears, William Blount
Lady Wildcats win championship in Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic
Posted at 11:58 pm December 29, 2018
The Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won the championship game in the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic basketball tournament, beating Jefferson County 49-36 at Greeneville on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Note: This story was updated at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 30.
GREENEVILLE—After finishing second the past two years, the Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats won the championship game in the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic basketball tournament in Greeneville on Saturday, beating Jefferson County 49-36.
It's the sixth time Oak Ridge (15-2, 3-1 District 3-AAA) has won the title in 10 appearances in the tournament final. The Lady Wildcats have been runner-up four times, including in 2016 and 2017, when they lost to Bradley Central. Oak Ridge's last championship win in the tournament was in 2002.
The team didn't want to settle for second place again this year.
"When you want to play for championships, you want to win championships," Oak Ridge Coach Paige Redman said.
It was the second championship win for Oak Ridge in about a week. The Lady Wildcats won their division championship in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix on Saturday, December 22.
Oak Ridge senior guard Jada Guinn was named the most valuable player of both tournaments. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Front Page News, High School, Slider, Sports, Sports Tagged With: Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic, basketball, basketball tournament, Bri Dunbar, Cayla Smith, championship, Jada Guinn, Jefferson County, Kali McMahan, Khamari Mitchell-Steen, Lady Patriots, Makayla Alvey, Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats, Paige Redman, Shatyrah Copeland, Taliah Davis
After two wins at the buzzer, Lady Wildcats play for championship today
Posted at 1:12 pm December 29, 2018
Oak Ridge senior guard Jada Guinn (24) was named most valuable player at the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. She had a winning shot at the buzzer against Daniel Boone in a first-round game at the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic basketball tournament in Greenville on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. (Photo courtesy Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats Basketball/Paige Redman)
Note: This story was updated at 2 p.m.
After two wins at the buzzer this week, the Oak Ridge Lady Wildcats will play for the championship in the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic basketball tournament in Greenville today (Saturday, December 29).
It's the second championship game in a week for the girls. Oak Ridge (14-2, 3-1 District 3-AAA) won their divisional championship in the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix last Saturday.
Oak Ridge senior guard Jada Guinn was named the most valuable player of the Nike Tournament on Saturday, December 22.
She had one of the buzzer-beating shots, a layup, in the Andrew Johnson Bank Ladies Classic this week. That was in the final five seconds of a 50-48 win over Daniel Boone, an upper East Tennessee team, in a first-round game on Wednesday.
The Lady Trailblazers ended the Lady Wildcats' last season with a 62-51 Class AAA sectional win in March, and Guinn told 5StarPreps, a high school sports website, that she didn't want to lose to Daniel Boone this week. [Read more…]
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Basketball: Smith scores career-high 34 as Wildcats sweep Karns
Posted at 1:52 pm December 5, 2018
Oak Ridge senior guard Marcus Smith (2) scored a career-high 34 points during an 82-65 win over Karns at Wildcat Arena on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Oak Ridge senior guard Marcus Smith scored a career-high 34 points as the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats swept Karns at home on Tuesday.
Smith also had eight rebounds and five assists during the 82-65 win over the Beavers at Wildcat Arena.
"I was really proud of Marcus," Oak Ridge Coach Aaron Green said.
Eleven of his points were from the free throw line, where Smith was 11-of-15.
Oak Ridge senior guard JaVonte Thomas scored 18 points for the Wildcats (6-1, 3-0 District 3-AAA) and pulled down 10 rebounds. Senior guard Joe Kesterson added 10 points, with nine of those on three-point shots. Junior guard Isaiah Johnson scored eight, and sophomore forward Jeremy Miller had six points and 10 rebounds. [Read more…]
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Guinn scores 32, but Oak Ridge loses at Campbell County
Posted at 9:13 pm November 30, 2018
JACKSBORO—Oak Ridge senior guard Jada Guinn scored 32 points in a 49-48 loss at Campbell County on Friday night, a district basketball game that ended with a battle of free throws.
Guinn, who has signed to play basketball at Tennessee Tech, scored more points than the top two Lady Cougars combined. She had two-thirds of the Oak Ridge offense and made a crucial three-point shot with about 30 seconds remaining.
Campbell County was led by 6-foot-2 junior post Madison Brady, who scored 20 points. That included seven points in the close fourth quarter, when Brady was 5-of-6 from the free throw line.
Brady and Guinn each went to the free throw line three times in the final 38 seconds. Each made five of their six shots. It was another battle between the two teams that have finished in the top two spots in the district in each of the past three seasons. [Read more…]
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Basketball photos: Oak Ridge vs. Campbell County in girls' district championship
Oak Ridge pulled away from Campbell County in the second half to win its third straight district championship, 60-38, in the girls' basketball tournament at Halls on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. Oak Ridge junior Jada Guinn (24), who was named most valuable player of the tournament, led in scoring with 23 points. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
HALLS—Oak Ridge pulled away from Campbell County in the second half to win its third straight district championship in the girls' basketball tournament at Halls on Saturday. They Lady Wildcats beat the Lady Cougars 60-38.
Here are photos from the game. [Read more…]
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France to tighten virus lockdown rules on exercise, markets: PM
France is to tighten its lockdown imposed to battle the coronavirus, strictly limiting physical exercise and closing most open-air markets, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Monday.
Philippe told TF1 TV in a live interview that he would later sign a decree banning from Tuesday physical exercise such as jogging more than one kilometre (0.6 miles) from a person's place of residence and also halting open-air markets, although local authorities could request exemptions in exceptional cases.
"Many of our fellow citizens would like things to be like they were before, in normal times. But it is not going to happen tomorrow," he said, warning that the lockdown could still last "several more weeks".
France has been in lockdown for almost a week, with only essential trips outside allowed, in a bid to halt the acceleration of the virus' spread.
But government officials have been concerned by images of busy markets especially in Paris packed with shoppers and joggers pounding down some streets in certain areas, as if life was carrying on as normal.
President Emmanuel Macron is said to favour toughening up the existing rules rather than creating new harsher ones, such as a curfew or even a ban on stepping outside.
"Going out to take the children for a walk or for physical exercise must be within a distance of one kilometre maximum of your home, for one hour, and obviously alone, once a day," said Philippe.
He said while he was ordering open air markets to shut, exemptions would be allowed such as in places where the market was the main source of food.
The coronavirus has killed another 186 people in France, the health minister said on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 860.
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When considering stocks for retirement, there are two clear goals: security and income. Conservative, even defensive, strategies are needed to protect principal. And dividend stocks are preferred, particularly with the 10-year Treasury yielding just 2.2%.
The problem, particularly in a low interest-rate environment, is that it's tough to find that combination. Higher-yielding stocks offer more income, but almost always at higher risk.
Many older blue-chip stocks have growth questions or they may be facing disruption in their industries, as I pointed out in our review of 10 century-old stocks last month. Entire sectors like retail and energy are high-risk at best and uninvestable at worst.
And, of course, we're now in year nine of a mostly uninterrupted bull market, with market indices at or near all-time highs and valuations looking potentially stretched. The classic investment advice to simply buy and hold blue-chip stocks looks shakier than ever in this environment.
But those stocks still are out there — even if they might be harder to find than they've been in the past. Here are the seven best stocks for your golden years.
Prices and data are from the original InvestorPlace story published on September 18, 2017. Click on ticker-symbol links in each slide for current prices and more.
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is a rare combination.
It's obviously one of the two leaders in its industry, along with rival FedEx Corporation (FDX). It has a fantastic "moat;" it would take literally billions of dollars and likely decades to replicate the business.
And yet UPS actually is benefiting from disruption, this time in the retail space. The rise of e-commerce titans like Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) and eBay Inc (EBAY) has been a boon for UPS' shipping and logistics business.
There have been concerns that Amazon may wind up a competitor, through its own air freight business. But Amazon still represents a small portion of UPS' total revenue — less than 10%, with reports estimating a 5% figure. Furthermore, with e-commerce growing high-single-digits annually, there will be more than enough to go around. And that growth will only continue as e-commerce further penetrates international markets, which drove over 20% of UPS revenue in 2016.
There's a long-term bull case for UPS and there's little reason to see any substantial near-term disruption. But UPS stock trades right at 20 times the midpoint of 2017 adjusted earnings-per-share guidance, a reasonable multiple. Add to that a 2.8% dividend yield, and UPS is a safe, strong, long-term play.
Emerson Electric Co. (EMR) is a classic example of paying for quality. EMR isn't particularly cheap, trading at 23.5 times the midpoint of FY17 (ending September) EPS guidance, excluding the impact of a recent dilutive acquisition.
But shares of the diversified manufacturer of valves, thermostats, fluid power and other products rarely are cheap — and for good reason. Emerson has increased its dividend for an impressive 60 consecutive years, with the 61st raise likely coming before the end of the year. Revenue and earnings continue to grow, due to both organic growth and acquisitions. And the company is a leader in multiple end markets across its three reporting segments.
EMR stock probably won't be a high flyer … in fact, shares still trade below all-time highs reached in late 2013. But from a long-term standpoint, EMR has been a winner, returning almost 10% a year (including dividends) over the last quarter century. With growth likely to continue, those kinds of returns should as well.
Valuations in the food space look potentially stretched, with investors perhaps chasing "safe" stocks and trying to get yield not available in government bonds.
Yet with the Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods Market potentially pressuring suppliers, overall deflation in the industry, and private-label competition rising every year, those stocks may not be as safe as they look.
At first glance, McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC) looks like it could be one of those risky plays. MKC shares certainly are not cheap, trading at 24 times fiscal 2017 (ending November) analyst EPS estimates and approximately 16 times EBITDA. And growth hasn't been particularly torrid, with the company growing sales in the 3% range outside of acquisitions.
But McCormick looks better-positioned in the space than most.
Younger customers are buying more spices and seasonings, as opposed to the secular declines facing better-known consumer plays like The Coca-Cola Co (KO) and Hershey Co (HSY), each of which have similar valuations. The recent acquisition of French's mustard and Frank's hot sauce from Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc-ADR (RBGLY) added debt to the balance sheet, and potentially risk to the stock. But it also added growth potential, and this is exactly the kind of business that should lever up with interest rates so low.
MKC only yields 1.9%, a potential sticking point for income investors. But that dividend is growing nicely, and it should continue to do so. So should McCormick itself.
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) might seem an odd choice for this list. After all, we're still less than a decade out from the financial crisis, when BofA acquisitions Merrill Lynch and Countrywide nearly brought the bank down and wound up costing tens of billions of dollars in legal settlements.
But while the economic wisdom of Dodd-Frank and other post-crisis regulations can be debated, there's little doubt that they have de-risked the banking industry as a whole relative to pre-crisis levels. BofA's own efforts have improved its credit metrics substantially, while earnings and revenue are growing nicely.
There's a reason that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A, BRK.B) is now the largest owner of BAC stock. And remember that the Oracle of Omaha's "favorite holding period is forever." Meanwhile, BAC stock still trades just below book value and at under 14 times 2017 EPS estimates, while offering a 2% dividend yield to boot.
Should interest rates finally rise, BofA will be a major beneficiary. And with Wells Fargo & Co (WFC) awash in scandal, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS) more dependent on lumpy investment banking revenue, BAC looks like the best large-cap stock for when those rate hikes finally arrive.
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As the semiconductor sector as a whole moves toward its highest levels since the dot-com bubble, Intel Corporation (INTC) seems almost forgotten. And there are some reasons for concern.
Competition is increasing. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) has become a legitimate rival in desktop and laptop computers with its new Ryzen line. With PC sales as a whole relatively flat, AMD's share gains could lead to revenue pressure for Intel.
Growth elsewhere may be difficult as well. Nvidia Corporation (NVDA) is challenging Intel's dominance in data center chips. And Intel will face Nvidia, and a host of other hopefuls, in the automotive space after its acquisition of Mobileye NV (MBBYF).
The worst-case scenario for Intel is an outcome similar to that of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), which is seeing revenue — and profit — decline as it loses out to younger, more nimble rivals. But Intel isn't IBM yet, nor is it close to becoming it. It's coming off a second quarter where it posted record sales and raised full-year guidance.
Yet INTC is trading at 12.3 times 2017 EPS guidance, a multiple that suggests its growth is coming to an end. And Mobileye hasn't yet contributed to its results, with that deal closing last month. Valuation here seems too conservative, and it seems to imply that Intel has peaked. With so much optimism toward the space as a whole, that in turn suggests that Intel — one of the greatest tech companies of all time — simply won't be able to compete.
That's too bearish of an outlook. Even if INTC turns out to be "dead money," or close, a 3% dividend yield will provide solid income. Any additional growth, meanwhile, will only add to the stock's returns.
Utilities long have been considered among the best safe plays for income investors. Utilities generally enjoy a monopoly, or something close, along with annual price hikes approved by regulators. Power consumption usually dips modestly, if at all, in a recession.
Utility stocks generally don't appreciate all that much in price, but over time they can provide above-market returns with lower risk — a powerful combination (no pun intended).
There are a number of quality utility stocks at the moment, but one of the best stocks for your golden years is Duke Energy Corp (DUK). DUK shares dipped briefly amid fears about the impact of Hurricane Irma on its operations in south Florida. But the company appears to have dodged major damage, with power now returned to 99% of customers.
Meanwhile, Duke has exposure to growing population centers in Florida and the Carolinas. The end of a planned nuclear plant in South Carolina takes a major risk off the table, given how troublesome construction of those plants has been for fellow utilities like Southern Co. (SO). This should be a low-risk stock with reasonable growth. Yet at about 18 times forward EPS estimates and with a dividend yield just above 4%, DUK looks reasonably priced.
Shares of Medtronic plc. Ordinary shares (MDT) have pulled back about 9% from all-time highs reached in late June — that is an opportunity to nab one of the best stocks to buy for your golden years.
In this day and age, with so much uncertainty around healthcare spending and costs, the space as a whole has its own degree of political and regulatory risk. But Medtronic's portfolio is so wide-ranging, and so critical to such a range of specialties, as to ensure that it will succeed in almost any environment.
Meanwhile, MDT stock isn't particularly expensive, trading at a bit over 16 times FY18 EPS guidance. That's despite the company projecting 9-10% growth this year, a solid number. Medtronic's dividend, meanwhile, yields 2.24% — above the 10-year Treasury after a 7% hike this summer.
Again, healthcare stocks used to be considered defensive; that's not necessarily the case anymore, particularly for companies with a larger share of profits derived from the U.S. But MDT should thrive regardless, and the recent pullback leaves the stock attractively priced for the near- and long-term.


I don't tend to think of God as offensive, and I certainly don't like to think of myself as someone who is offended by God. I don't like to think of myself as repelled by God, as disgusted by God, or as finding God unpleasant. I think this is true of most people.
Here's the flip-side though: I am deeply imperfect. This is not something that will ever change. It is, in fact, constitutive of my nature as a human being. God, meanwhile, is whatever perfection happens to be. As such His ordinances can always be offensive to me. To take some particular examples, it can offend me that, whatever state of self or soul I might attain, this state could never attain to perfection. It can offend me that my successes cannot not determine my worth. It can offend me that Fred Phelps (to pick one example), God rest is his soul, is just as deserving of God's love, wrath, and mercy as I could ever hope to be (and as likely to receive it).
Now, there are certain ways that Christian traditions have of expressing all this. In the Episcopal tradition (in my experience, at least) there is a tendency to talk of God as the beggar, as the hungry, and as the oppressed. These modes of speech are good, true, and have a scriptural foundation. They should not be altered in and of themselves. All the same, it is worth noting that these descriptions all cover groups that the average Episcopalian might be in a position to help, perhaps even hope to eradicate: you can, after all, give money to the beggar; you can feed the hungry, and you hope to end hunger; you can fight oppression, and you can hope to end it. And it is worth noting that, for the most part, these are sanitised notions. The beggar of Episcopal lore is not often an unrepentant murderer; rather, they're the one who could have done perfectly well in our basic system, if only that system had certain pervasive biases exorcised.
The problem with all this is that it implicitly seeks to understand that which carries the necessary possibility for offence in as inoffensive way possible. In doing so it glosses over the realities of sin and grace, by presenting sin in so palatable a fashion that grace neither seems that important nor that offensive. The fact is, however, that grace offends us. And quite apart from the notions we tend to appeal to when reaching for a concept of the outsider, the sinner too is likely to offend Anglican sensibilities, even and especially as Anglicans are sinners themselves. To see this, instead of the tax-collector let us imagine the homophobe, the racist, the misogynist, the ugly, the greedy, the tax-dodger, the unrepentant murderer, the government torturer. Let us think of that which we cannot sanitise. Let us think of whether or not we would in fact be willing to put up with the smell of our particular modern lepers in our own churches.
The contention is this: that when Christ speaks of Himself in terms of coming to save sinners, He is absolutely not speaking of those sinners who can be thought of as inoffensive in the final analysis; he is speaking of those sinners who are rightly spoken against by the prophets for murder and oppression. Further; that when Christ speaks of feeding the hungry, He is not just speaking of feeding those who hunger for justice. Finally; that when Jesus reveals Himself as the beggar, as the unwelcome, and as the crucified, He does not just reveal Himself as the crucified beggar in Roman society: he reveals Himself as the crucified beggar in all societies. In short: the contention is that the God who reveals themself in Scripture reveals themself to be a parasite. God is revealed as offensive, as repugnant, as fundamentally unpleasant. It is the ones a society hates, any society, that Christ identifies with, no matter how moral that society might be, no matter how repugnant the hated are. And so we can always be offended by God; we can always find God repugnant, precisely insofar as we are moral beings.
Then I don't know. But other people might. My guess is that we should go out and try and find the peace of Christ in the context of the very things which we find hardest to stomach, whatever they might be. My guess is that we should do because, just as God is a beggar, so too God is a parasite.
The above is an attempt to describe the social aspect of a particular theological view. It is a theological view derived in large part from a particular kind of conceptual analysis. I'm not sure that the social aspect can be presented without this conceptual aspect (not least because they are more or less the same thing). So, I think it worth giving a brief overview of the potential conceptual underpinnings of this account of divine parasitism. I have put it second, however, because it is far more dense than the social aspect, and probably less accessible. My hope is that this might go some way to pointing to the potential for symbiotic relationship between philosophical analysis and social conscience.
First, let us veer away from a line which it is easy to take in human thought, perhaps all the more so when it comes to the above. The thought that God cannot be sanitised, and so that no notion of human purity can ever encompass holiness, might seem to be one which fits neatly with a broad idealism. Specifically, it might seem to fit with the kind of idealism which presumes to exclude nothing (c.f. John Lennon). It is the very nature of idealism to exclude that which exists, however, and to exclude it in terms of sanity. By the same token it is the nature of idealism to try and sanitise the parasite before it believes it to be worthy of love. And so if we speak the idea of God as parasite, as that which absolutely cannot be sanitised, we in fact speak against idealism.
The flip side of this, however, is not a complete non-idealism: we cannot make the step from speaking against idealism to abandoning it altogether. In making distinctions we exclude, even as we do things so basic as drawing certain comparisons between certain things (analogy can, in this sense, be an extremely dangerous tool). And if we wish to speak of a theology, we must distinguish it from others. We must distinguish it in terms of what we take to be true, valid, and good. In speaking of God as a parasite, then, we cannot hope to transcend idealism. If we presume to do this, we'll just be back at John Lennon again.
Where are we to go then? The option that seems to me to make the most sense is the one laid out (I think) by Jacques Derrida in Limited Inc.
Beginning at the relative beginning: the term 'parasite', as it is used here, is in fact derived from this book. Derrida cites and opposes J.L. Austin's exclusion of parasitical (Austin's word) examples of basic speech acts, such as promises. The idea is something like this: something is parasitical on a concept if it seeks to fall within its conceptual boundaries without meeting the ideal requirements of those boundaries. The bulk of the text can be described as Derrida's efforts to demonstrate the impossibility and inadvisability of trying to exclude the 'parasitical' from a philosophical analysis of concepts.
Now, strange (or nonsensical) as it might seem, this passage strikes me as supremely Biblical. In speaking of the inability of any human context to either create itself from nothing or close itself off from eventual change, Derrida has gestured towards a powerful implication of the Doctrines of Creation and Redemption; specifically, he has gestured to the fact that all creation is dependent upon God, and that through God all things are possible for that creation.
Derrida in fact makes this explicit in describing the significance of a (beyond oblique) reference to Descartes. He writes that 'God [is] here, qua writing, [that which] at the same time renders possible and impossible, probable and improbable, oppositions such as that of the 'normal' and the citational or the parasitical, the serious and the non-serious, the strict and the non-strict or less strict.' (83) Though the language does get a bit tricky here, the basic idea is actually not much more complicated than the idea that God's act of creation is the basis of all human possibility. In citing (a loaded term in Derrida's world) God as writing (the most loaded term in Derrida's world), Derrida points to the fact that the constant stream of differentiation and deferral observable within creation need not be thought of as negative, to be fought and halted, but can instead be understood as the continually creative movement of God in reality.
This is, in fact, a very incarnational view of God, as far from typical deism as one could get. By 'drawing the name of God into the graphematic drift' (83), Derrida seeks to recognise that, if there is a God, He does not stand aloof from a world of approximate idealisations; rather, He is active in the daily work of time and change. This is a view of God set (half-)against the idea of God as 'the ultimate guarantee of all certitude, all proof, all truth' (83); as well as being the rock on which our lives are grounded, God is here also the rock against which all our ideals shatter.
This understanding of God as the source of constant differentiation and deferral is what then leads explicitly to an understanding of God as parasite. From where we stand- often with an implicit commitment to reducing the movement of concepts to a relative stasis- that which disrupts and subverts our safest truths is a threat. We tend to seek to exclude those elements which count against our preferred self-understanding, which can manifest itself in the very real creation of leper-colonies, ghettos, and townships. We can segregate ourselves in conceptual safety, tricking ourselves into believing that we are so close to the truth that we just need to tweak a few features of our system.
It should be no surprise, then, that a disruptive God would appear to us to stand on the fringes. It should be no surprise that God can take our very own presuppositions and turn them to a new end, a process which can seem to us to suggest that His work is parasitic upon ours. It should come as no surprise that the God who makes first things last and last things first, who works with and redeems what we might take to be the worst of creation, can be revealed to all of us as a threat, as repugnant, as made manifest in the person of a body we either ignore or turn our noses away from. It should be no surprise that this God can offend us, all of us, no matter which side of which debates we might claim as our own.
To try and tie this all together: the absolute exclusion of the parasite- whether we consider ourselves 'progressive' or 'conservative'- seems to me to be the movement of an idealism which has not recognised its subjection to the disruptive movement of the Holy Spirit. It is the movement of an idealism which implicitly seeks to render the command to love one's enemy palatable, by excluding anything which could truly be counted an enemy (that which undermines the ideal) from the category of proper existence. And it is a movement which can be made both by those who stand for and against justice; by those who stand for and against love; by those who stand for and against Christ. Being right does not exclude the possibility of excluding the parasite; and so being right does not exclude the possibility of being offended and upbraided by God. So we say, along with our praises, within our statements that God is good and God is love, that God is always also a parasite; that God stands always ready to take what we have created and turn it to new ends; to disrupt what we take as normal, and transform our lives to the love of what we really want to hate.
Now: if this is true, all this remains true for anyone who holds it to be true. One cannot call God a parasite and then rest comfortable; this idea cannot be turned into an ideal without falling in on itself. This too is always open to alteration, from within and without, and the notion of a parasite can itself always fall prey to parasitism. By this point, however, the hope is that this thought need not be thought of as cause for despair; rather, it should serve to remind us that no matter what position we might occupy, whether in terms of social ethics or conceptual analysis, we must still always turn our eyes afresh to the Cross, so that we might look upon the face of the pariah whom we call God. For wherever we stand, we can always look in this direction. And for all that I believe we would do well to see Christ as parasite, and remind ourselves of the potential implications that this has for our identity as a Church, He is still God before He is anything else.
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In the Shadow of Blackbirds
Abrams, 2013 ISBN: 978-1419705304
Mary Shelley Black's father has been arrested and she has had to leave her home in Portland to take refuge with her aunt Eva in San Diego. It is the fall of 1918 and the country, indeed much of the world, in gripped by the horror of war and the misery brought about by a flu pandemic. Men, women and children are dying at a terrifying rate. Like just about everyone else, Mary Shelley is wearing a gauze mask, which may or may not protect her from the flu. At this point people are so desperate to protect themselves from the disease that they will do just about anything, including wearing necklaces of garlic and eating onions at every meal.
Soon after she arrives in San Diego, Mary Shelley's aunt takes her to have her portrait taken by Julius Embers. Julius is a spiritualist photographer and he is doing very well at the moment because so many people have lost loved ones to the war or to the flu. He takes pictures of people and in the finished portraits there are images of the customers' dead loved ones. Julius claims that these images are the spirits of the dearly departed. Julius is also the older brother of Stephen, a boy whom Mary Shelley has become very fond of. Mary Shelley and Stephen were best friends when Stephen lived in Portland, and after he moved to California the young people kept in touch by writing letters to one another. Stephen joined the army not long ago and in his last letter he told Mary Shelley that he had sent her a package.
Though Mary Shelley dislikes and distrusts Julius, she is willing to go for a sitting so that she can get her package, which her aunt says Julius has. Mary Shelley is convinced that Julius is a phony, not only because she does not believe in spiritualism, but because Stephen told her all about his brother's tricks. Mary Shelley she sits for Julius even though she knows that he may use the photograph to promote his business. When the sitting is over Mary Shelley finally gets her package, which contains a photograph that Stephen took before he left home.
When Mary Shelley and her aunt go back to get the photograph they see something in the portrait that appalls both of them. Standing next to Mary Shelley is Stephen's shadowy form. This is how Mary Shelley learns that Stephen died in battle. Mary Shelley is distraught. Her father is in prison, the boy she loved is dead and people are dying of the flu all around her. Lost in her grief she deliberately goes outside during a storm holding something metal and per her wish, she is struck by lightning. Mary Shelley dies, and then she returns to her body.
Still frail after her incredibly close encounter with death, Mary Shelley attends Stephen's funeral, which is when she hears him talking to her. For some reason, Mary Shelley can now hear and even see Stephen's spirit. What it truly appalling is that he is telling her that he is being tormented by birds, that he is suffering. Clearly Stephen died in some terrible way. Mary Shelley feels compelled to find out the truth so that Stephen can finally let go and be at peace. Doggedly Mary Shelley seeks answers. When she was younger, Mary Shelley used to take machines apart to see how they worked. Now she strips away the layers of lies until she finds out what really happened to her beloved Stephen.
In this sometimes terrifying story, the author explores the way people respond during a time of terrible loss and fear. In 1918 people were dying a disease that could not be stopped, and more people were dying in a distant war. Desperate to connect with their loved ones, people turned to spiritualism for solace and charlatans hoodwinked and took advantage of them. Mary Shelley's struggles are often painful to share, but the way in which she fights for what she thinks is right is empowering and fascinating.


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The FDA and Plan B
by Elaine Cassel
Plan B is the nickname for emergency contraception, also known as the "morning-after pill." Two years ago, the FDA Nonprescription Advisory Committee voted 24-3 that Plan B should be made available for over the counter (OTC) use, without a prescription, having found it safe. But the pill is still not available OTC.
That's especially unfortunate, of course, due to the nature of Plan B: As soon as intercourse occurs, the clock begins ticking, for soon the pill will be ineffective.
Imagine the plight of, for instance, a working mom: One night, she and her husband are having sex, but she realizes she forgot to take her birth control pill. The couple isn't able to welcome another child–they already have three — but she doesn't want to risk an abortion either, perhaps for health reasons or because her religious beliefs counsel against it.
Thanks to Plan B opponents, the next morning, she must not only handle all her job and family responsibilities, but must also find the time and money for a doctor appointment and a visit to the pharmacy–all to get a pill whose safety and efficacy are undisputed, and that actually allows women to avoid abortions.
Despite the advisory panel's advice, the FDA punted, rendering no decision on the OTC request. With this cowardly move, FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford broke his promise to the Senate that, if confirmed as FDA Commissioner, he would see that the FDA gave Plan B an "up or down vote." In September 2005, Crawfordresigned hisFDA post under a cloud of controversy surrounding his ties to drug companies. President Bush namedNational Cancer Institute Director Andrew von Eschenbach as acting FDA Commissioner (an unusual move since he wore two hats), and on March 15, Bush nominated him as FDA Commissioner. His nomination immediately raised the ire of Democrats, who felt they were double-crossed by Crawford, and who charged that von Eschenbach had done nothing to resolve the Plan B controversy.
FDA Assistant Commissioner for Women's Health Susan Wood, and Frank Davidoff, a member of the Nonprescription Advisory Committee, both left the FDA in protest over Crawford's decision.
At the request of the Senate, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigated and issued a report on the FDA's actions with regard to the OTC use of Plan B. The report noted that it was the only time in ten years that the FDA did not approve an OTC request endorsed by the advisory panel.
The reason for the decision is obvious: The FDA bowed to pressure from Republicans in Congress who argued that teenage girls might become sexually promiscuous if they knew Plan B was available.
The argument was absurd: After all, Plan B is supposed to be just what its name implies: backup contraception for the rare instances in which contraception fails. Few teenage girls are risk-averse enough to forego sex, or change their sexual frequency, simply because their first-line contraception is only 98% or 99% effective. (And girls who really are that risk-averse could double-up with a condom plus another method, such as the pill.)
Also, girls are aware that abortion is still available. So the argument must be that girls who are so religious that any risk of having to have an abortion would deter them from having sex, would suddenly throw caution to the wind, sexually, if Plan B were available. That is incredibly implausible.
But even assuming that keeping teenage girls chaste was the FDA's only goal, why was the drug not approved for OTC sale to adult women? Therein lies the truth about what the FDA is up to–it is not just withholding the contraception for teens, it is denying it to all women.
The CDC and the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Much more disturbing than the senseless refusal to approve Plan B, is the battle over what should be a no-brainer: the development and approval of a vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV) — which causes cervical cancer.
HPV is responsible for a majority of cervical cancer cases. Each year, more than 10,000 American women find out that they have invasive cervical cancer. Nearly 4,000 of them die.
Even when it is not fatal, cervical cancer may result in a hysterectomy, which destroys the woman's ability to bear children. (A radical trachelotomy may allow childbearing, but is an option for only some women.) Radiation treatment may also destroy ovarian function.
HPV transmission is essentially impossible to prevent. It is controversial whether even condom use protects against its transmission. It may, as condom use is associated with a lessened cervical cancer risk. But no one can yet confidently say that a condom is any guarantee against transmission of the cancer-causing virus.
If a girl receives the HPV vaccine before she becomes sexually active, it is almost 100% effective. Yet some oppose the vaccine based on the same argument used against Plan B, especially in its OTC form: That it would encourage sexual promiscuity. Indeed, the Bush administration has appointed someone from the fundamentalist Christian organization "Focus on the Family," to sit on the vaccine's advisory panel working with the CDC.
The opposition to the vaccine is, to put it bluntly, insane. It also puts the lie to any claim that opponents are putting motherhood, or children, or families first. Half of cervical cancer cases occur in women between the ages of 35 and 55–meaning that statistically, the overwhelming majority of patients will be mothers. Also, the virus can be transmitted from mother to infant during childbirth.
The opposition to the vaccine comes from an ugly view of women. On this view, it is better to compel women into abstinence, than to persuade them into it. If the case for abstinence is so strong, why won't the pro-abstinence movement allow women to choose it–rather than being terrified into it, by the threat of cancer, or of contraceptive failure?
This point of view is very accurately described as anti-choice. What is really is, is a struggle to force an extreme religious viewpoint about sex and contraception on all women, not just the mothers and daughters of the fundamentalist Christians.
Religious politics has overtaken the common good and common sense in many statehouses, as they legislate their moral judgments with anti-abortion laws. Now regulatory agencies designed to promote the health of all Americans are beholden to the same extremists. It's time to return the FDA to the respected position it once held– as the least partisan of the regulatory agencies, and one that took seriously its mandate to protect the health of Americans.
As for the CDC, it needs an inoculation against religious fanaticism, which has no place in its decisionmaking.
ELAINE CASSEL practices law in Virginia and the District of Columbia and teaches law and psychology. She doesn't like being lied to. Her new book The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights, is published by Lawrence Hill. She can be reached at: ecassel1@cox.net


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This cookbook provides the fileutils resource. The resource can be used to set attributes on all of the files in a directory and subdirectory. We've had years of people complaining that the directory recursive mode, which is in fact a parent operation, does not work on subdirectories and files. In this cookbook recursive refers to subdirectories and the files contained inside them.
Developed for RHEL and Solaris servers.
The fileutils resource will accept two actions. :change is used to modify ownership and permission mode bit settings. :delete is used to remove files and directories. :delete always functions in a recursive mode.
:change path Specify the starting path or file. The path must exist for anything to be done.
owner Set the owner of the files and directories to this value.
group Set the group of the files and directories to this value.
recursive Boolean. Use top down traversal from the starting path. Default is true. When recursive is false only the initial directory and contents are changed.
only_files Boolean. Only change files. Default is false.
only_directories Boolean. Only change directories. Default is false.
pattern Regex. Match to filter the basename of files and directories.
follow_symlink Boolean. Continue on past symlinks. Serious footgun capacity. Default is false.
:delete path Specify the starting path or file.
recursive Delete always functions in recursive mode.
only_files Boolean. Only delete files. Default is false.
follow_symlink Boolean. Continue on past symlinks. Serious footgun capacity!
You can use symbolic settings. Pick who and add or subtract access permissions. The code tries to mimic the chmod command.
A good example of why you would use the fileutils resource would be setting attributes on files and directories after dir and file have created things. Notice that fileutils and dir treat recursive as moving in opposite directions.
This file is used to list changes made in each version of the COOKBOOK_NAME cookbook.
fileutils does not have a valid open source license.


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Learning how to tie an extended foam body allows you to take the body of the fly past the actual hook shank. This comes in handy when tying hoppers, stone flies or any other foamy creation. Hoppers are notoriously successful in the summer for trout, and any foam fly will work great if used for panfish.
In my example I will be using a bodkin, most fly tying kits will come with one. Make sure that what ever you use is free of any burrs or rough spots that would inhibit the material from sliding off of it at the end. Before I begin to tie anything onto the bodkin I will run my fingers through my hair and use the natural oils to lubricate the bodkin. This will come in handy at the end.
Next cut a strip of foam, the wider you cut it the larger the body will be. Fold the foam in half, at this point I like to take my scissors and taper the body towards the fold with two angle cuts. I like to do this because it gives the body a more natural taper. After you choose to taper or not to taper the foam, push the foam on to the bodkin at the middle of the fold.
Do not start your thread on the bodkin, if you do when you go to slide the body off the thread will stay on the bodkin and unravel your work. So fold the foam in half and then start your thread raps close to the end of the folded section, make sure to pull tight and cinch down the foam.
After you have made several securing wraps pull the two end pieces of foam back and advance your thread forwards a few wraps.
Like the first section pinch the two sides of foam to the hook and cinch the foam with several securing wraps.
Repeat the same steps as you make your way to the end of the foam. I try to taper my foam bodies with smaller sections near the folded end and larger towards the finished end. When you create the desired amount of body sections simply whip finish on the last body section and trim your thread.
To get the body off of the bodkin I use both hands to push at one end and pull at the other and sort of inch worm the body off. This technique can also be used with two different colors of foam to give a bi-color effect to your fly as well, I tend to do a dark color on top and a lighter on bottom.
Here is an example of the extended foam body on a dozen large salmon flies. To put the foam body on the hook itself I will take the bodkin and run it through the second body segment from the whip finished side and out the end. Then I will take the hook and run the eye of the hook through the same path as the bodkin. Add a little superglue and thread wraps and you're ready to start your foam creation.


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Home » News » Antidepressants » Zoloft Craniosynostosis Lawsuit Joins MDL
Zoloft Craniosynostosis Lawsuit Joins MDL
By: Staff Writer Antidepressants
The makers of antidepressant Zoloft have been sued by a mother whose child was born with a birth defect. The woman blames the drug for causing her daughter's craniosynotosis, a condition in which the fibrous joints connecting the bony plates in the skull close prematurely, inhibiting normal brain and skull growth. The Zoloft craniosynostosis lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the venue for multidistrict litigation proceedings involving allegations of Zoloft birth defects overseen by Judge Cynthia M. Rufe (MDL no. 2342).
The plaintiff was first prescribed Zoloft in March 2010, prior to becoming pregnant. The plaintiff and her doctor were both unaware of a possible link between Zoloft and birth defects, so she continued to take it after learning of her pregnancy. In August 2011, she gave birth to her daughter at a Greensburg hospital, and was told the child had been born with craniosynostosis. In March 2012, a craniotomy was performed to correct the child's skull defects. According to the Zoloft craniosynostosis lawsuit, the child still suffers physically and emotionally, continues to have regular testing and appointments, and "has been deprived of having a normal childhood and life."
The family is seeking damages to cover medical costs and pain and suffering caused by the condition. The lawsuit claims that drug maker Pfizer should have known that their product could affect unborn children, citing animal studies that indicated a link between Zoloft and birth defects such as cleft lip and club foot.
FDA alert cited in Zoloft craniosynostosis lawsuit
Zoloft was approved by the FDA as a treatment for major depressive disorders in 1991, and was later approved for other conditions including obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, acute post traumatic stress disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and social anxiety disorder. By 2005, Zoloft had become the most prescribed antidepressant in the United States, with over 27 million prescriptions racking up $3.3 billion in sales for Pfizer.
But Zoloft and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have increasingly been associated with severe side effects ranging from suicidal thoughts to birth defects. Pfizer did not test the effect of their product on pregnant women or their unborn children and did not discourage the use of Zoloft by expectant mothers. Indeed, Pfizer actively encouraged doctors to prescribe Zoloft to women of childbearing age and marketed it directly to pregnant women.
Zoloft lawsuit cites clinical studies
According to the lawsuit, Pfizer knew of the link between Zoloft and birth defects as early as 1996. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that fetuses exposed to SSRIs late in pregnancy showed markedly higher rates of prematurity, significantly lower birth weights and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN). Another study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2002 showed similar results, and in 2009, the British Medical Journal published a study of more than 493,000 patients that showed Zoloft carried an increased risk for congenital heart defects. The first bellwether cases in the Zoloft MDL are scheduled to begin by October 2014.
Zoloft Multidistrict Litigation - http://zoloftmdl.com/index.html


We're seeing more and more people trying to move over to digital and use their phones and ipads to take notes, but whilst there is a strong desire to go paperless, most of us struggle when it comes to taking notes on devices.
Maybe it's because we type much slower than we can scribble notes, or maybe it's because we don't trust the technology completely yet, or because we worry that the device may run out of battery, or we might lose it. Maybe recordings aren't possible due to background noise, what then?
In times like these, good old stenography or brachygraphy (that's shorthand to most of us) comes to the rescue.
Long before recorders and computers were around to help us keep track, stenography was commonly used for people to take note of their innermost thoughts. Charles Darwin used it. Charles Dickens used it. There were even magazines published in shorthand.
With the invention of the typewriter, shorthand became less popular for authors, scientists and doctors to note their thoughts and musings, but as women started to enter the workforce, stenography was again popular for note taking. Soon, shorthand was associated almost exclusively with secretaries and business.
Shorthand is not hard to learn and can be adopted in just a few easy steps. However, the key is not just writing shorthand down but being able to read stenography from yourself or others.
There are two main types of stenography. The first and easiest to learn is an alphabetic system, in which the symbols are based on the alphabet, which is easy to learn and intuitive. However, the top speed for this kind of shorthand is around 120 words a minute. Examples of this are Speedwriting, Alphahand, and Keyscript.
If you really want to take notes fast, then you will have to learn a more symbolic codified system such as Gregg or Pitman. Some of the variants of this top off at over 200 words a minute. However, the work involved in learning these is far more involved.
There is some middle ground in both the Gregg and Pitman styles however, for around 160 and up to 200 words. Just remember, the faster want to be able to write, the more you will have to learn.
1) Choose your system. There are several different variations, and learning one doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to understand the others. Pick the right one for your needs.
2) Gather your resources. Assemble reference materials. Bookmark good sites. A lot of resources are out of print, so using the library and downloading e-books is a good option.
3) Practice. Remember, it is not just writing a note down that is important. Being able to read the notes back again the next day is crucial. So practice both reading and writing.
4) Make sure you keep it up. Stenography is learnable, but it is also something that is easy to forget. Luckily, practicing a little will keep things fresh without having to re-learn everything again when you need it.


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Mariano Navarro Herranz (Madrid,1952) es un escritor, crítico de arte y comisario de exposiciones español.

Trayectoria profesional
Experto en el arte de los 70 en España, años en los que la pintura fue el medio idóneo de expresión para numerosos artistas españoles durante la Transición.

Desde 2005 a 2009 ha sido Presidente del Consejo de Críticos y Comisarios de Artes Visuales, cargo en el que fue elegido nuevamente en 2017 y que desempeñó hasta la disolución del mismo.

Como escritor colaboró en varios programas de televisión española en algunos casos como guionista de los programas  "Trazos" e "Imágenes", con Paloma Chamorro; "Tiempo de papel", con Isaac Montero.

Jefe de la sección de cultura de la revista El Socialista, y Redactor Jefe de las revistas literarias Gaceta del libro y El Urogallo; y de Prólogo, Signatura, etc., dedicadas especialmente al mundo literario o al mundo profesional de la edición y de la bibliotecomanía.

Colaborador de las editoriales Espasa-Calpe y Anaya, en libros de Historia del Arte; también de las editoriales Acento, Ediciones B y otras.

Ha desempeñado su labor crítica en medios como El País, ABC, La Razón y en el suplemento El Cultural que se distribuye con el periódico El Mundo, en el que ha publicado más de 400 críticas de exposiciones. Además de colaboraciones en otros medios especializados como en "Artecontexto", "Solar", "Campo de relámpagos"

Comisario Asesor en la Feria Estampa en cuatro ediciones 2013-2016.

Miembro del colectivo ZONA I+D Cultural (Armando Montesinos, Alicia Murría, Mariano Navarro y Santiago Olmo).

Jefe de la sección de Cultura de la revista El Socialista, y redactor jefe de las revistas literarias Gaceta del Libro y El Urogallo, así como de Prólogo, Signatura, etcétera, dedicadas especialmente al mundo literario o al profesional de la edición y de la bibliotecomanía.

Comisario de la sección visual de la representación de La Iliada, hoy, dirigida por Andrea Dodorico en Caixaforum, Madrid, y el teatro María Guerrero, junio de 2010.

A su vez desarrolla otra faceta como profesor de diferentes cursos y seminarios en diversos centros como durante cuatro años (2011 a 2015)Discursos expositivos actuales' en los cursos del Instituto Europeo de Diseño.

En el año 2010 en el Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo dirigió el seminario Narraciones visuales, pintura y fotografía 1970-1985.Ha sido miembro de numerosos jurados como durante varios años jurado del Premio Altadis, España/Francia (desde 2000) y comisario del mismo en las ediciones 2001 y 2006-2007.

 Comisariado de exposiciones (selección)
Como comisario ha realizado más de cuarenta exposiciones en instituciones y museos españoles y, también, en otros países de Europa y Latinoamérica, de las que destaríamos: Carlos Alcolea, Nacho Criado, Eva Lootz, Miquel Navarro, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Santiago Serrano, Javier Utray y Valcárcel Medina (Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo), 1977; Espacios Públicos-Sueños privados (Salas de la Comunidad de Madrid), 1994; Imágenes de la abstracción. Pintura y escultura españolas 1969-1989 (Sala de las Alhajas y Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid), 1998; Andalucía y la modernidad. Del Equipo 57 a la generación de los setenta (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla); Los setenta. Una década multicolor Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander); El efecto Guerrero. José Guerrero y la pintura española de los años 70 y 80 (Fundación José Guerrero, Granada, Museo de Navarra, Pamplona), 2006; Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación "la Caixa". Specific Places. Habitable ideas (Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Varsovia, Polonia), 2007; Homenaje y memoria. Centenario Salvador Allende. Obras del Museo de la Solidaridad (Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda, Santiago de Chile), 2008; Abstracción Racional (Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela), 2011; Sin Realidad no hay Utopía (La Constitución Política del Presente) (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo), Sevilla (Yerbabuena Center for the Arts), San Francisco, USA, 2011; Lo que ha de venir ya ha llegado (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo), Sevilla; MUSAC, León, Sala Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, 2014; Exposiciones críticas. Discursos críticos en el arte español 1975-1995, en colaboración con Armando Montesinos y Santiago Olmo, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, 2017.Ha dedicado muestras monográficas, retrospectivas o antológicas a artistas españoles, portugueses y excepcionalmente de otras nacionalidades, así Virginia Lasheras, Pedro Calapez, Ignacio Tovar, José Caballero, Victoria Civera, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Carlos León, Eugenio Ampudia, Máximo Trueba, Juan Ugalde, Laura Torrado, Alfonso Albacete y Jordi Teixidor.

 Publicaciones
Es autor de aproximadamente un centenar de textos introductorios y críticos en catálogos y otras publicaciones artísticas y colaborador de las editoriales Espasa-Calpe y Anaya, en libros de Historia del Arte; también de las editoriales Acento, Ediciones B y otras.Ficciones y realidadesː Arte Español de los 2000 en la colección Patio Herreriano de ValladolidSoledad Lorenzo', Una vida con el arte, editorial Exit, 2017

Sus publicaciones están referenciadas en los siguientes catálogos comoː

Biblioteca Nacional de España

Library of Congress , VIAF

 Dialnetː

 En el nombre del arte: biografía de D.H. Kahnweiler Pierre Assouline, Mariano Navarro Herranz, Ediciones B, 1990. ISBN: 84-406-1295-8
 La medicina: hablando con Pedro Caba, Carmen García Moya, Acento Editorial, 1993. ISBN: 84-483-0011-4
 Las matemáticas: hablando con Miguel de Guzmán Acento Editorial, 1993. ISBN: 84-483-0026-2
 La educación física: hablando con Manuel Delgado Meco Acento Editorial, 1994. ISBN: 84-483-0066-1
 La luz y las sombras en la pintura española  La publicidad: hablando con Teófilo Marcos, Acento Editorial, 1995. ISBN: 84-483-0094-7
 Juan Uslé: ojos desatados, Sevilla : Empresa Pública de Gestión de Programas Culturales, 2000. ISBN: 84-8266-190-6
 Otros títulos

Construyendo un universo propio texto sobre la Colección ACB' que la Fundación Botín muestra en el edificio Villa Iris de Santander y que está formada por una selección de piezas de la colección del desaparecido Alberto Corral López-Dóriga

 En colaboración con otros autoresː -Derivas de la geometría en colaboración con José Iges y José Zunzunegui. Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza = Fundazio Museoa Jorge Oteiza / 978-84-936588-2-3-El efecto Guerreroː José Guerrero y la pintura española de los años 70 y 80'', publicado por la Diputación de Provincial de Granada en el año 2006 ISBN-10 8478074120

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Relación de artículos escritos por Mariano Navarro en el diario El PaÍS
 Mariano Navarro en 2011 en el Instituto Cervantes de Dublín
 Presentación Ex-posición Críticas en el CGAC de Santiago de Compostela en 2017

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Kelly Clarkson announces baby news the celebrity way
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Kelly Clarkson made a baby announcement via this adorable Instagram photo. Photo courtesy of Kelly Clarkson/Instagram
Burleson-born pop star Kelly Clarkson made an important baby announcement, in true 2015-era fashion: via social media — namely, a cute photo on Instagram.
Pregnant with her second child with husband Brandon Blackstock, Clarkson shared a photo of their 16-month-old daughter River Rose, with the caption: "In other news, River's gonna have a little baby brother :) #itsaboy We're so excited!"
Clarkson first revealed the pregnancy, inadvertently, in August while on stage in Los Angeles, at a stop on her "Piece By Piece" tour. "I was not planning on announcing this, but I'm totally pregnant," she said, explaining that she was so emotional, she was unable to finish a song.
Dubbed "the original American Idol" after winning the first season of American Idol in 2002, Clarkson has logged numerous of Billboard hits and has won many awards, including two Academy of Country Music awards and two Grammys. In 2015, she released her seventh album, Piece By Piece.
In September, she was ordered by her doctor to cancel the remainder of her tour, which she announced on her website.
"I am truly sorry that I have to cancel the remainder of my tour dates," she said. "I was so looking forward to sharing this tour with all my amazing fans in Canada and the UK. Unfortunately my doctor is telling me I have to stay on vocal rest, but I am working hard to get better as fast as possible."
She and Blackstock were married in 2013; she's stepmother to his two children, Savannah and Seth, from a previous relationship.
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by nonnie9999 | June 2, 2017 · 3:40 am
As the World Burns
From BUSINESS INSIDER:
World leaders have roundly criticized President Donald Trump, who announced that the US would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change on Thursday.
Hat tip to Raisinette Ilya for the poster idea!
Filed under humor, movies, parody, politics, Republicans, satire, snark, United Kingdom, United Nations, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Angela Merkel, Canada, climate change, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, France, Germany, Italy, Justin Trudeau, Paolo Gentiloni, Paris Accord, Paris Agreement, Theresa May
by nonnie9999 | March 18, 2010 · 12:01 am
Tobac-coercion
From Washington Wire blog at THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:
Sen. Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Republican who held Senate hostage over an unemployment bill earlier this month, is now causing trouble for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Bunning is blocking the confirmation of two trade nominees because, according to an aide, the USTR hasn't done enough to defend Bunning's home state against a Canadian antismoking law that "unfairly discriminates against Kentucky-grown tobacco."
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Filed under Advertising, Al Franken, Barack Obama, Chimpy, Democrats, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, humor, Mitch McConnell, parody, politics, Republicans, Senate, snark, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Big Tobacco, Canada, Canadian Cancer Society, cigarettes, economy, filibuster, Islam Siddiqui, Jeff Merkley, Jim Bunning, Kentucky, Mark Warner, Michael Punke, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, tobacco, unemployment, USTR, World Trade Organization
Northern Overexposure
From the Canadian Press:
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's weekend admission that her family once travelled to Canada to receive treatment under the public health-care system she's so often demonized prompted skepticism and ridicule Monday among her critics in the United States.
"My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse," the former Alaska governor said Saturday night during a speech in Calgary.
"Believe it or not – this was in the '60s – we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing, and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn't that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."
Filed under Alaska, Barack Obama, Democrats, humor, John McCain, movies, parody, politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, snark, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Bullwinkle, Canada, death panels, health care, Hypocrisy, socialism, socialized medicine
Let's Be Blunt. You're a Liar!
From THE PLATFORM at stltoday (Editorial):
As chairman of the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield [MO], knows a thing or two about health care. But some of what he knows just isn't true.
"I'm 59," Mr. Blunt said last week during a meeting with Post-Dispatch reporters and editors. "In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn't get it replaced."
We fact-checked that. At least 63 percent of hip replacements performed in Canada last year and two-thirds of those done in England were on patients age 65 or older. More than 1,200 in Canada were done on people older than 85.
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Tagged as British Medical Association, Canada, cancer, CBO, Charles Grassley, Congressional Budget Office, health care, Health Insurance, House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, House Subcommittee on Health, Kaiser Family Foundation, Lewin Group, Michele Bachmann, Missouri, National Health Service, National Institute for Health Care Management, NHS, Roy Blunt
From THE HUFFINGTON POST:
The contest to be the member of Congress saying the dumbest possible things about health care has just gotten ratcheted up about a thousand more notches, thanks to North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx. Foxx, if you recall, was the congressional luminary who declared the story of Matthew Shepard's murder a "hoax," right in front of Shepard's mother. She's a delight for the senses, especially the stupid ones!
Anyway, today she came up with a brand new health care reform objection when she said that the Republican health care plan — whatever that is! — would "make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans and that ensures affordable access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government."
(Video at link)
Filed under Barack Obama, Congress, Homophobia, Homosexuality, humor, movies, parody, politics, Republicans, snark, United Kingdom, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as Adolf Hitler, Alex Jones, Canada, Chairman Mao, conservatives, contraception, euthanasia, health care, Louie Gohmert, Matthew Shepard, Paul Broun, public option, Restore Our American Mustangs Act, Virginia Foxx
Is there a doctor in the House? Yeah, 14 of 'em!
From the Los Angeles Times:
WASHINGTON — In the struggle to overhaul the nation's health care system, 16 physicians have ended up in ringside seats — as members of the House and Senate.
But they have taken different lessons from their experiences in medicine, and they do not agree on what a bill should look like.
Filed under abortion, Bill Clinton, Chimpy, Congress, Congressional Black Caucus, Democrats, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, House Energy and Commerce Committee, humor, Iraq War, Jim McDermott, Joe Scarborough, Medicaid, movies, parody, politics, Republicans, Ron Paul, SCHIP, Senate, snark, Tom Coburn, United Kingdom, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as bankruptcy, Bill Cassidy, Blue Dog Democrats, Canada, Charles Boustany, Donna Christensen, free market, G.O.P. Doctors Caucus, health care, Health Savings Accounts, John Barrasso, John Fleming, John Shadegg, lobbyists, malpractice insurance, Medicare, Michael Burgess, Parker Griffith, Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey, Phil Roe, public option, single payer, socialism, stem cells, Steve Kagen, Tom Price, universal health care, Vic Snyder
by nonnie9999 | January 4, 2009 · 12:04 am
The *Untied* States of America, Part 2….Eh?
Hey comrades amigos kids! Yesterday, we explored The Republic of Texas and the new Russian Alaska circa 2010, as predicted by Igor Panarin. If you will remember, the deteriorating economy, immigration, and a lack of morality are going to swirl together and turn into a new American civil war. While we are at each others' throats, foreign powers will swoop in and take over.
Today, I thought we would examine the new Central North American Republic (let's call it CNAR), which will be part of Canada or under Canadian influence.
Just as in The Republic of Texas and the new Russian Alaska, politicians in the CNAR will try to adjust to the new reality. Let's begin with Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts. Hey, guys! Looks like you're not in Kansas anymore! Eh?
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Tagged as Canada, Igor Panarin, Illinois, John Thune, Kansas, Mike Enzi, Rod Blagojevich, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Foreign Affairs are Foreign to Princess Sarah
From The New York Times:
Her first interview, with the ABC News anchor Charles Gibson, was too hard. The second, with Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, was too soft. The third, however, did not turn out to be just right for Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
On the "CBS Evening News" on Thursday, Katie Couric asked Ms. Palin, Senator John McCain's running mate, what she meant when she cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as foreign affairs experience.
"That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land — boundary that we have with — Canada," she replied.
Ms. Couric pressed her again to explain the geographic point. "Well, it certainly does," Ms. Palin said, "because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, they're in the state that I am the executive of."
Original DVD cover.
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Tagged as Air Force, Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, Anchorage, Canada, Charlie Gibson, Cindy McCain, diplomacy, Dmitry Medvedev, Elmendorf Air Force Base, foreign policy, Henry Kissinger, Katie Couric, Mikhail Saakashvili, Robert Schlesinger, Syria, Todd Palin


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Day 76 "Mr. Willie!"
Baseball Buddha	Buddha Fans	 May 1, 2014 May 2, 2014 6 Minutes
Mr. Willie Smith
"I used to sit right down there when I was kid", motioning up the third baseline, now a picnic area, but back in the day had bleachers for black patrons that came out to see the Savannah Indians. "My daddy used to drag me to the games and been hooked ever since", Willie said. When Mr. Willie started coming to the games, it was simply "Grayson Stadium". It was newly remodeled and the south was segregated.
Now, it's known as "Historic Grayson Stadium". The stadium was built in 1926 and is the oldest working minor league ballpark in America with a capacity for 4,000 people. Originally known as Municipal Stadium, the park underwent major renovations in 1941 following a devastating hurricane in 1940. General William L. Grayson led the effort to get the $150,000 needed to rebuild the stadium. Half of the funds came from the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In recognition of Grayson's work, the stadium was renamed in his honor.
Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. Exactly six years later, the first South Atlantic League game with both Black and White players took place at Grayson Stadium on April 14, 1953. The Indians were the first team to break the color line when Al "Izzy" Israel and Junior Reedy started on Opening Day in 1953. Mr. Willie, who was there, remembers Junior Reedy saying at the time, "it brought more black folks to the stadium." A month after Opening Day, 15,363 fans packed the house on Merchants Appreciation Night to set the largest single-game crowd in Savannah history.
"My daddy wouldn't pay a dime to watch football, but would for baseball, he took to it" Willie smiled recalling his father. "He knew baseball very well. He read that paper, those statistics of all the players, used to listen to the games, too. I had no choice, he dragged me to the games". Willie motioned to the trees behind the outfield wall, "Those trees were not that big when I started coming here, not even half the size they are now". He chuckled, "I saw Hank Aaron hit a few balls into those".
When the game started, we stood and the National Anthem was sung. Willie stood and sang along. I appreciated the effort and he seemed to enjoy it. As we sat back down someone came with food for Mr. Willie. "I'm treated well here. They don't charge me for anything. When new Managers, Owners, Directors come to the Sand Gnats, they make sure to introduce themselves.", Willie stated very unassumingly. "I can't complain and they invite me to some of the team events. It's like I am a part of them". Mr. Willie Smith Jr., husband to Gloria and father to Michelle and "Willie Smith, III". Willie "the third" played in the Major Leagues signed as a free agent by the Pirates in 1986.
Mr. Willie is well known at the stadium and in Savannah. He has come to watch all the Sand Gnats games, and has come out to Historic Grayson Stadium for as long as he can remember. Currently 75 years old, he figures, "It has been at least 70 years or more." I noticed Mr. Willie when I found a seat behind home plate. As I was waiting for the game to begin, I kept seeing people wave to someone behind me. This 'person' would yell out to them. I saw some players motion his way, also, and one of the coaches. I looked back and saw this elderly black gentleman, the mascot pointed and I knew I found a story. I approached him and explained what I was doing. He laughed and told me I could write about him. Mr. Willie is used to this as he was interviewed by a local news station the night before. For him, this has been happening for years.
"It takes the wind out of the atmosphere of this place, when Willie isn't here", Jon Mercier, director of the Sand Gnats, explained to me. "He wasn't feeling well the last couple of weeks and everyone was asking, 'Where's Willie'?"
Mr. Willie told me once in a while he will go down into the dugout and talk to some of the players before the game. He likes to instruct them on how to hit the ball, but doesn't know if they take his advice. He explained that he becomes disgruntled at times with the current manager, who makes him mad, with the way he manages the game. Willie likes small ball and doesn't understand why the manager doesn't bunt more. At times the manager makes Willie look bad when his way works out. I had to laugh when Willie was yelling for a player to bunt and the batter followed his "advice". He beat out the throw to first by the pitcher. Willie kept saying, "you will beat out the throw big boy, just bunt!" He turned to me and said, "They should listen to me more." He laughed at what he said with his easy going manner.
The game was flying along and during the seventh inning stretch, Willie stood up and sang "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" like he did with the National Anthem. There was no pretenses with Willie. What you saw is what you got. "Willie comes alone to the games but someone is always sitting and talking to him", Jon Mercier stated while smiling. At this game it was me, his friend George, and another gentleman who drives 20 miles to the stadium to attend the home games.
"My Daddy was a railroad man, did the route from Savannah to Atlanta. He grew up in Cairo, Georgia, same as Jackie", Willie said without being prompted. His favorite MLB team growing up was the Brooklyn Dodgers because of Jackie Robinson. Before the South Atlantic League was integrated, "Jackie Robinson came through Savannah but he wasn't allowed to play even though he was with the Dodgers at the time.", Willie shook his head at this. I inquired why he liked to come to the games so much if it was only white ball players. He looked at me kind of puzzled and said, "They played so well. I love the game but it is not like it was then. Back then they didn't have so many errors." I inquired again about the segregation aspect. He said, "My daddy never paid attention to it, it wasn't that bad. My daddy never lived long enough to see white folks and black folks sitting together, but he did get to see Babe Ruth play here", he said with a smile. Mr. Willie wanted me to understand that there was segregation, but a lot of the times it wasn't enforced as he got older.
Throughout the game Willie was very vocal. He would interrupt our conversation to yell encouragement to the players. "Settle down pitcher, settle down big boy", or, "Put the wood on that ball." I loved it. He yelled at a few women to sit down in front. They turned around and waved with big smiles knowing Mr. Willie was playing with them. A few of the concession workers would walk through, wave and he would wave back explaining to me who they were. He lives nearby, but now drives to the games instead taking the bus, or riding his bike, like he did when he was younger. In closing, Willie remarked, "I will be here as long as they have baseball in Savannah; or, as long as the Lord lets me. I love this game". So do I Mr. Willie, so do I!
Again, as always, I wish I could do this story justice. Mr. Willie was very interesting and he had so much more to say. I am very grateful he shared part of his life story with me. It was great watching the Savannah Sand Gnats play the Delmarva Shorebirds in this truly "historic" stadium. A stadium rich with history and memories. Being able to sit, talk with and listen while watching the game with Mr. Willie, I was very happy!
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eau claire says:
hey now this story is history .one of the best blogs. keep up the great writing. from eau claire
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berniebrew says:
Great story John and if you keep this up you may be a great reporter or writer someday and you already write great yes!
Elichap says:
Such a wonderful facet of life … of the love for 'baseball'. Excellent post! Heart and soul of America's favorite summer sport. Great job, John! 😉
wiscbear says:
Definitely hitting your writing stride. Great blog post.


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Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
Kunstmuseum zur deutschen Künstlerin Käthe Kollwitz
The permanent exhibition
Käthe Kollwitz in Berlin
Retroperspective
Association of Friends and Support
At the end of May 1986, the Berlin painter and art dealer Hans Pels-Leusden, who died in April 1993, opened in a former upper-class home in the Fasanenstraße the privately directed Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin.
Four decades after the death of Käthe Kollwitz a permanent home for a major part of her complete works has been set up thanks to this generous donation in the town where Käthe Kollwitz lived and worked for more than fifty years.
The Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin is located in the former first private home built 1871 in Fasanenstraße. Destroyed during the 2nd World War, the building underwent a fundamental restauration during the nineteeneighties.
Neighboring the museum is the Literaturhaus with café. Easy direct access through a special passage way connecting the museum's garden with the garden of the café.
Professional Association of Berlin Female Artists 1867 at Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
Special exhibition from June 15, till August 4, 2019 Opening June 14, 2019 | 19 pm Contemporary Art at the Kollwitz-Museum. Although the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 (the Professional Association of Berlin Female Artists or VdBK) is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Berlin, it has no fixed exhibition space or place of business in the capital. Now for the first time the association has been invited to exhibit at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum. The cooperation with the... ( Weiterlesen )
Opening hours at Easter Holidays
You are welcome to visit the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin during the Holidays daily from 11:00 to 18:00. We're looking forward to your visit.
On the Barricades
Alfred Hrdlicka at Käthe Kollwitz Museum
Etchings, Drawings and Sculptures March 11 till June 2, 2019 The austrian sculptor, drawer and graphic artist Alfred Hrdlicka (*1928) died ten years ago in December 2009 in Vienna. For this reason the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin in collaboration with Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna) presents an exhibition with his works about the revolution. [Read more…] about On the Barricades
Robert Liebknecht – Early Work
December 1, 2018 till February 3, 2019 extended till February 24, 2019
Special Exhibition on the occasion of the Berlin Themenwinter 100 Years of Revolution – Berlin 1918/19 The end of the First World War in November 1918 led to a year of revolution, evoking civil-war like riots in Berlin. The socialists Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were murdered on the 15th January 1919. [Read more…] about Robert Liebknecht – Early Work
We wish you a peaceful Christmas, wonderful winterdays and a Happy New Year. Thanks to all of you for your support and your best wishes – we look back on an eventful, exciting year 2018. We are open during the holiday season from 11 to 6. The museum is only closed on Christmas Eve, 24th of December, and New Year's Eve, 31st of December. In 2019 we are open daily from 11 to 6.
From our poster collection: Käthe Kollwitz worldwide
During September 15 and November 4, 2018
As an artist Käthe Kollwitz created a whole lot of posters to call attention to the misery and suffering of her times. Our current temporary layoff shows posters that advertise exhibitions of Käthe Kollwitz – a small collection from the past six decades from Germany and far beyond. In addition we show a selection of national and international catalogues of exhibitions.
Fasanenstr. 24
10719 Berlin (Charlottenburg)
Email: info@kaethe-kollwitz.de
Daily 11.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Closed on December 24th and 31st
Ticket 7 Euro
Reduced 4 Euro
Under 18 years entrance free
Museum is not barrier-free.
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