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It would be easy, if one was so inclined, to stick a label on Inner Ringleader and Council candidate John Knox White. “Pro-development” and “anti-automobile” are two that come to mind.
After all, during his tenure on the Planning Board, Mr. Knox White voted to approve a host of new residential projects: Alameda Landing – Phase Two (275 housing units); the Del Monte warehouse (414 units); Marina Shores (89 units); Site A at Alameda Point (800 units); 2100 Clement Avenue (52 units); and the original plan for Encinal Terminals (589 units).
Likewise, Mr. Knox White consistently has advocated for policies intended to reduce “SOV” (single-occupancy vehicle) automobile trips and to promote usage of “alternative” means of transportation.
But the Merry-Go-Round never has seen much value in labeling a candidate instead of analyzing his views. (That’s one reason we don’t “follow” our local Twitter trolls). We think it’s far more useful to consider, in light of his track record, the actions Mr. Knox White is likely to take, should he be elected to Council, on issues relating to development and transportation. The labels cited above may have some basis in fact – but they don’t tell the whole story.
We’ll start with residential development.
Mr. Knox White’s detractors may fear that, if elected, he’ll mount a campaign to cram more housing onto the northern waterfront and Alameda Point. In fact, Mr. Knox White may not be able to accomplish that result even if he wanted to. But he very well may get the chance to please the housing advocates anyway.
All of the projects identified above already have received the approvals needed to proceed with development. So has the latest plan for the Alameda Marina, which the Planning Board okayed after Mr. Knox White left it and which Council approved in July. (Before then, Mr. Knox White had been a member of a subcommittee that worked with the developer and staff to prepare a master plan providing for 760 new housing units.)
Three additional projects – Shipways, the Alameda Landing waterfront, and the North Housing parcel – are still in the planning stages, but, according to Assistant Community Development Director Andrew Thomas, none of them will require any further approval by Council. If these projects get the green light from the Planning Board, Council will become involved only if the Board decision is appealed or called for review.
But there is one significant item for which action by the next Council will be necessary: development of the Main Street Neighborhood at Alameda Point. Last October, Council approved a “specific plan” for the area that includes new, multi-family “supportive” housing for the formerly homeless and veterans as well as new, market-rate residential units. A consortium of non-profit organizations including the Alameda Point Collaborative will develop 267 units of supportive housing, and Council has authorized issuance of an RFQ for a private developer for the rest of the property.
Under the RFQ, the private developer will be expected to construct the backbone infrastructure not only for the portion of the site where the market-rate housing will go but also for the land earmarked for supportive housing. But residential development outside the latter area will be subject to the constraint of the 1,425-unit cap imposed by the City’s no-cost-conveyance agreement with the Navy on new housing at the Point. According to the RFQ, due to the cap, the private developer will be allowed to build a maximum of 291 new units, only 260 of them available for sale or rent at full market rates. (The other 31 units must be affordable by “moderate”-income households.)
The issue thus arises: Given this limitation, will any developer be able to come up with a plan that generates sufficient funds to pay for all of the infrastructure for the entire site, cover the costs of vertical construction, and still yield a profit? And if not, what will the next Council do about it?
This is where Mr. Knox White, if elected, may seek to exert his influence. His statements as a Planning Board member hint at the direction in which he may go.
Single-family homes and townhomes produce higher profits – and thus throw off more funds available to pay for infrastructure – than condos or apartments. But while on the Planning Board Mr. Knox White made clear that he doesn’t like either of those types of housing. By the same token, “workforce” housing produces lower profits – and less available funds – than market-rate housing. But, when the Planning Board considered the Main Street Neighborhood specific plan in January 2017, Mr. Knox White opposed reducing the proposed requirement that 10 percent of the total units be dedicated to housing for the “missing middle.” (He doesn’t like the term “workforce” housing.)
So what would he do?
Two possibilities come to mind. Mr. Knox White raised one of them at the January 2017 meeting: Instead of designating the existing housing in the so-called “Historic District” – where the Big Whites and the bungalows once used by NCOs are located – for “adaptive reuse” only, the City could allow a developer to put new “workforce” housing there. That way, more market-rate units could go in the area adjacent to the supportive housing. This approach, of course, would eat up a lot of the quota remaining under the cap. Moreover, it wouldn’t earn any plaudits from the preservationists who fought hard to keep the “Historic District” largely as it is.
And then there’s the nuclear option: Either request the Navy to modify the no-cost conveyance agreement to raise the cap, or build more housing units than the agreement permits and pay (or force the developer to pay) the $50,000-per-unit penalty for each additional unit.
When former Board member Lorre Zuppan raised this idea at the January 2017 meeting, Mr. Knox White remained silent. But he has shown himself not to be wedded to the idea of housing caps. To the contrary: During the Planning Board discussion of the North Housing parcel, it was Mr. Knox White who suggested raising the 435-unit cap imposed by the current zoning ordinance. We’d bet that, were he elected to Council, he’d favor doing the same thing at Alameda Point. The result, of course, would be that more housing – maybe not the 4,396 units in the SunCal plan Mr. Knox White supported, but more than the 1,425 units to which the City agreed with the Navy – would end up being built at the Point.
Next to a related issue: traffic.
For years, Mr. Knox White has crossed swords with those who oppose new residential projects on the grounds they will create intolerable traffic jams, particularly at the tubes and bridges. At times, he has gotten downright right nasty, such as his putdown of licensed engineer Eugenie Thomson, who had criticized the City’s analysis of the traffic impact of development at the Point. “Some are quick to point out that Thomson often glosses over important facts and factors in order to reduce complex issues to overly simplistic antidevelopment slogans,” Mr. Knox White wrote in an op-ed published in the Alameda Sun. “This is just such a case. She ignores plain facts that support the very thing her instincts are telling her is wrong.”
But even Mr. Knox White acknowledges that the new developments will have a significant impact on traffic. He could hardly do otherwise, since the studies done for the developers show that those projects, collectively, will generate an additional 5,695 vehicle trips during the morning rush hour and 7,800 additional vehicle trips during the evening rush hour. Here’s the breakdown:
|Project||Additional AM trips||Additional PM trips|
|Alameda Landing waterfront||
(These numbers are taken from the Environmental Impact Reports and traffic studies for the various projects).
In response to these forecasts, Mr. Knox White regularly has argued that the traffic impacts can be “mitigated” through “transportation demand management,” whose goal is to reduce the number of automobile trips (compared to the number that the project otherwise would produce) by making public transit more attractive and driving less appealing. To that end, the TDM programs for Alameda Point and the northern-waterfront developments typically include providing free shuttle service to BART and free AC Transit passes, as well as reserving space for car and bike shares.
Mr. Knox White is a true believer in TDM. According to him, not only do the transportation “experts” vouch for the concept, but “lots of studies” prove that TDM programs are effective. (He often cites Arlington, Virginia; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and his own home town of Seattle, Washington as exemplars.) Mr. Knox White made sure that the Transportation Choices Plan adopted by Council this January endorsed TDM, and, during his tenure on the Planning Board, he scrutinized every proposed TDM plan carefully to make sure it met his standards – and urged the developer to make changes when it didn’t.
As the new residential developments already approved by Council are built and residents move in, we’ll get to see whether this faith in TDM is justified, since all of the TDM plans require an annual report showing whether the program in fact is achieving its goals.
If TDM works as well as he thinks it will, Mr. Knox White, if elected to Council, will be leading the cheering when these reports are presented. But what if it doesn’t? Based on his comments on the Planning Board, we’d expect that Mr. Knox White will argue that sterner measures are required. And the public may not like them.
One such measure that Mr. Knox White may push for is “unbundled” parking, where new residents are required to pay, in addition to the price of the unit itself, a separate amount for the privilege of getting a parking space. This is a common feature of an “ideal” TDM plan, and Mr. Knox White has argued that it is also a necessary one. According to him, “study after study has shown” that if the new residents don’t have to pay separately for a parking space, they’ll persist in using their cars. “We know,” he told the Planning Board in December 2016, “that when people have plentiful parking at their location, it doesn’t matter what the bus costs or what their options are, they’re gonna drive – right? – because we all want to go with convenience, and if driving doesn’t take that long, or it’s shorter than biking or taking a bus, and there’s no cost to it, at least on a daily basis, because we don’t externalize our costs, that’s how people are going to get there.”
Thus far, only the Alameda Point Site A and the Alameda Marina development plans require “unbundled” parking. But if the current TDM programs for the other new developments aren’t meeting their goals, Mr. Knox White may well propose adding a similar requirement for those projects as well.
Whether he would succeed is another matter. Mr. Knox White argued long and hard for unbundled parking at the Del Monte warehouse, but a neighborhood group objected that, in order to avoid having to pay separately for on-site parking, new residents would simply park on nearby streets – to the detriment of current residents. Ultimately, the Planning Board sided with the neighbors, but the next Council may be more willing to defer to Mr. Knox White’s asserted expertise.
Finally, “complete streets.”
Mr. Knox White is a bicycle enthusiast. (We admit it: so are we.) Indeed, he was a prime mover behind the Shoreline Bikeway project, in which the City spent $796,923.22 to install a cycle track and related amenities along Shoreline Drive. “This is an exciting project,” Mr. Knox White told Council. “It’s going to be a legacy, it’s going to be the project that, in 20 years, people throughout the City and people who live on Shoreline are going to say, thank goodness the City had the foresight to build this project. . . .”
Mr. Knox White summarily dismissed objections to the proposal raised by residents of nearby apartment complexes. “It’s not to say that there won’t be impacts,” he said, “[but] there are hundreds of people who will be benefiting from this as well.” As he framed it, the issue was whether the City should provide “safe access to people who want to bike and walk along the beach” – or “186 additional places for people to store their personal possessions in the public right-of-way.”
Mr. Knox White has not stopped at supporting projects like the Shoreline bikeway. Rather, he has been a strong advocate for “complete streets,” where existing thoroughfares are re-designed to reduce the number and width of vehicular traffic lanes and to add new bike and pedestrian pathways.
Thus far, the only “complete streets” proposal to make it to Council involved Central Avenue. When he spoke before Council in its favor, Mr. Knox White mixed high-minded rhetoric with implicit threats: “Tonight is about safety and people’s lives and the neighborhood for whose people this project goes through,” he said. “Your choice is safe streets and safe neighborhoods and stopping people from being hit by cars, or choosing politics. And everybody in this room is going to know which choice you made at the end of the night.”
The West Alameda Business Association objected to one aspect of the plan on the grounds that it would interfere with the operation of Webster Street businesses, but Mr. Knox White was no more charitable toward the business owners than he had been toward the Shoreline Drive residents. “Tonight your choice is very simple,” he told Council. “You can rely on the recommendation of your transportation planning staff and the professional engineers, and the well-respected transportation engineers from Kittelson . . . or you can . . . listen to a guy who owns a hotel down the street who tells you it can’t work, it’s going to be a disaster.”
Despite Mr. Knox White’s plea, Council decided to listen to the business owners. It approved the complete-streets “concept” for two segments of Central Avenue, but sent the plan for the Webster Street/Central Avenue intersection – the one that prompted the objections – back to staff for revision. According to a recent report by City transportation coordinator Gail Payne, staff “has begun the next phase of the project, which includes additional outreach for the Webster Street/Central Avenue area to determine potential alternatives for further consideration.”
And Central Avenue is not the only location where the potential re‑design of City streets is likely to come before the next Council. According to Ms. Payne, staff also is working on a “complete streets” proposal for Clement Avenue, and on changes to Otis Drive to, among other things, add “bicycle facilities” and improve “transit access.” We expect that Mr. Knox White would be a strong backer of these initiatives. And if he is elected to Council and a majority of his colleagues agree, three major arteries in Alameda will take on a configuration far different from the one they have today.
The three areas we’ve discussed today don’t constitute the universe of development and transportation issues over which Mr. Knox White will have a say if he is elected to Council. (We haven’t even mentioned the bike-pedestrian bridge over the estuary, which the Bike Walk Alameda crowd is promoting, apparently regardless of its cost.) But they give an indication of the consequences of electing someone who holds the views he has so persistently – and ardently – expressed. In deciding whether to vote for him, Alamedans shouldn’t look to labels but to likely results.
One final word. From our perspective, none of the positions taken by Mr. Knox White is outrageous. Indeed, in a sense, he is the only true “progressive” in the race, using that term in its historical context. Politicians like Woodrow Wilson and pundits like Walter Lippmann believed that elected officials should defer to experts in making policy decisions rather than cater to an ill-informed public. That seems to be Mr. Knox White’s stance as well. As he once told the Planning Board, planning decisions should be based on “what the experts think we should be doing,” not on “what people have been asking for.”
As a small-d democrat, we’re not pleased by the arrogance such a statement reveals. Too often, Mr. Knox White comes off as if he’s just come down from Mt. Sinai with two stone tablets handed directly to him by the Almighty. Nor are we particularly fond of Mr. Knox White’s proclivity for demeaning those who hold opposing views instead of just debating the merits. Not everyone who disagrees with him is an ignoramus or a troglodyte. Alamedans should realize that, if they elect the Inner Ringleader to Council, his supercilious attitude will be part of the package they’ll be getting, too.
Main Street Neighborhood: 2017-10-24 Ex. 1 to staff report to P.B. – Main Street Neighborhood Specific Plan; 2018-07-10 Ex. 2 to staff report – Draft RFQ
TDM plans: 2014-05-20 Ex. 1 to staff report re TDM plan – draft TDM plan (Alameda Point); 2014-10-27 Ex. 1 to staff report to PB – Draft Transportation Demand Management Plan (DelMonte warehouse); 2015-04-13 Ex. 1 to staff report – Marina Shores draft TDM plan (Marina Shores)
Great article. 100% agree.
What a great explanation of how thoughtful and effective John has been at moving Alameda in a positive, data driven direction.
These are great arguments in favor of a vote for John Knox-White. Thank you!
All of the candidates are imperfect — I am imperfect, too. We have five candidates for two positions, possibly three. Two of the candidates… are of questionable character. That leaves the remaining three. Perhaps being elected to public office will humble JKW. It would certainly humble me. So far, he has kept his promises as to how his campaign is funded. I may be the only person in Alameda voting for both John Knox White and Tony Daysog for city council, but what both have in common is the knowledge and commitment to solving one of Alameda’s biggest problems: Transportation. At heart, I am a pragmatist. I want to see Alameda city government work. I think that the best person to lead the city is the Frank Matarrese as he is even-tempered, smart and works well with others. We cannot afford to be at each other’s throats. We need elected leaders who will solve our problems, not create new ones.
Both John and Tony bring professional experience to the table and would force the Council to find a middle ground between two opposing camps. And Frank is the unaligned adult in the room who could make it all work.
The problem with the opinions of the experts upon whom Knox White relies, is that they are taken out of context. The opinions re: TDM etc. may well apply to cities that are NOT ISLANDS, as time will tell. But all other cities have access to transit hubs, mass transit and freeways. Both the need for cars and parking increases when a city like Alameda, has no direct access to any of these. (Getting to a freeway from the Tube in the AM now takes 20-30 minutes minimum.) Anyone who has been to Coronado, or Catalina, knows these islands do not fit into the mold that the experts have evaluated.
To design bike lanes on trucking routes such as Route 61, is simply unsafe, especially for children during school hours, and ludicrous. In the 1950s -60s Alameda planners decided only one parking space per housing unit was fine. That is why Alameda has the parking shortage that it has now, REALITY. One space is not enough for more than a 1 bedroom or studio on an island which has no major system of transit since the Key system was eliminated. Eliminating parking from new developments is insane. When I was on the Council I believed in eliminating cars entirely (except from garages) from certain areas to encourage and follow the more European model of town squares/farmers markets etc, entire blocks where cars were not allowed. Cars would go 5 mph and only to their garages. Karin Lucas also espoused this system and tried to do what she could to encourage it in areas. We both failed to garner much support as everyone seems to have at least one car to get around in and OUT OF Alameda. John Knox White was not born yet so is not familiar with the previous efforts made by councils decades ago that were put to rest by democracy.
Not born yet? I didn’t realize you and Ms. Lucas, RIP, were on the council over 50 years ago. Everything you said about our island nature and limited access to off island transportation networks is an argument FOR aggressive use of TDM strategies. If you are in a hole (too many cars), stop digging (building tons of new parking spaces).
Your last paragraph -that is the attitude of the so-called Progressives. It’s funny to me that they constantly criticize “old white males” because their attitude is just the next generation’s version of “Father knows best.”
With his strong reliance on experts, we should do well in developing a Water Demand Management Plan for the effects of climate change and sea level rise. The climate action and adaptation plan coming before the council in 2019 will require immediate action to begin paying for the adaptation infrastructure. Getting people out of their cars and onto public transit is a good idea for many reasons, but it won’t stop the water from coming.
October campaign filings are now available. Here is my summary and one stop location for reading the documents if you choose. Missed Alamedans in Charge and will get it posted soon. For some reason Tony Daysog has filed some 497 but not his second interim filing as of 10pm today.
It simply comes down to who we can trust. Can we trust Vella and Oddie? They have proven that we can’t. We vote for something, and they and other approve something different. We like our City Manager (Jill) and they do what they can to force her to do things their way. That costs the residents close to one million dollars! Did the City pay that because the City Manager was wrong? No. John is a good candidate and yes he at times, can be a bit too direct, but he is very intelligent and I think as a mix with others on the Council, he would be excellent. And BTW, Alameda simply has too many people. Instead of new housing developments, lets stop people from moving here.
For someone who is generally so data driven, it is strange that Mr Sullwold would be against Mr Knox-White. Could his politics be stronger than his intellect? Is resistance to change so powerful that it overrides information?
I agree with taking into consideration sea level rise, and Global warming. However all of the approved development plans do little if anything in this area. They focus more intense concentrations of residents on the estuary fill than on the original island. They are all on landfill, and suffer additionally from high risks of subsidence and liquefaction. The developments suffer from additional controls as their liquefaction, and fill slippage will affect Interstate Commerce, thus must be kept clear forever. As they dissipate their supporting sand/dirt it will pour into the Estuary. Taxpayers may be hit with the costs of dredging as well. One additional problem is that the Council and school board as well do not write development agreements that take into consideration holding developers accountable for the costs of their engineering failures. These failures – everyone knew Lum was on fill, will cost taxpayers 100s of millions of dollars.. Taxpayers will re-sand the beach at South Shore in perpetuity costing tens of millions of dollars every ten years or so.. Why is Knox White for any developments being approved, let alone fast tracked to add more people to these areas? I recall when they dropped a 50 foot pylon to expand building 360 at the Naval Air, in the 60’s, it dropped unaided and out of sight. 50 plus feet down. They did not have to hit it once. It will not be a surprise when all the new developments are filled with residents whose homes suffer like Venice. Taxpayers will be forced to bail them out, as the developers will be gone and their profits untraceable. John Knox White needs to choose the experts he espouses a bit more wisely. It seems the development policies of Venice are more appropriate for Alameda, then those of Seattle.
I was on the Council in 87, and Karin termed out once before I got on. So that may come to 50 years, at least for her. It seems like it to me, with the same old failed policies being resurrected with inadequate research, and ignoring the will of the people. And as Mr. Sullwold and I both were taught in law school, and later confirmed in practice, you can get an expert who will say whatever you want, you just have to look. And taking their statements out of context is a piece of cake.
Reminder that JKW supported the faulty EIR and even publicly defended it. That EIR claimed–with all the planned development—there would be exactly 1 additional car added to our traffic concerns.
Ms. Thomson’s response to John’s editorial first misstates what he said in order to declare it preposterous and then attacks the piece for saying something it didn’t say. That’s either confused or dishonest.
In her original pieces, Ms. Thomson originally called out that the EIR shows a net increase of only 1 car through the tubes in the morning during peak hour. When shown that this was because the traffic model assumes additional traffic from Alameda Point will push traffic from the tubes to the bridges, she changes course and sets up a strawman argument that no one has said.
Here’s the quote from John’s editorial: “When the project is completed, the EIR predicts that during the most congested hour of the day, the project would generate about 340 new trips through the tubes and bridges of Alameda. ” That very clearly states that there will be hundreds of new cars in a one-hour period caused by Alameda Point. That’s very much the opposite of “one-net-car.”
Ms. Thomson just got confused and unintentionally misstated the discussion.
A recap of all campaign activity in 2018.
Having reviewed the EIRs for most of the above projects,a major deception is that numbers cited herein from those EIRs were not used to compute the actual traffic increase portrayed in the engineering included in the appendices of the EIRS. Rather traffic models were used to compute the net increase. And they seem to show, for Alameda Point that there will be only one increased car trip per day for the total build out of Alameda Point. Figure that one out. How can staff provide this nonsense and our Untraffic Planner Knox White not notice it? Common sense folks tells us that something must be very wrong. Build any where between 4000 and 5000 new homes at the base and the traffic increase will only increase one car trip? The era of the Jetsons has arrived.

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Data is the new money. And just as we must protect our financial assets, so then we need to protect our digital assets as well. This includes our online privacy.
Technology is changing so rapidly it is fair to say that government cannot keep up. Thus regulations can only go so far to compel companies to treat our personal information with digital dignity. Nowhere is this more true than with mobile devices such as cellphones and tablets. Here we merrily go about paying bills, reading medical reports and shop for anything our heart desires with a nary a thought about who might be spying on our personal information, and indeed, steal it for nefarious purposes.
Security and privacy breaches are no longer a matter of “if” but a matter of when. A new, free app came out this week that will help consumers protect against potential cyber theft by allowing us to opt out of those participating advertisers who track our digital activity and then, based on our behavior, predict what ads might prompt us to purchase other products and services thanks to this “hunch.”
This customized hunch, known as interest-based advertising, is why we may be shopping online lingerie one day and then find the next time we check our Google-Plus feed it is jammed pack with skeevy ads from models with names like Tiffany and Cherie wearing very little lingerie and imploring us to take them out on a cyber-date by the minute.
When this happened to me, I shut down all my Google Plus accounts, tightened up Facebook and LinkedIn privacy controls and stewed because my cyber trail was being monitored by morons. I’m a basic vanilla swirl kind of girl so the kinky ads staining my stream were making me gag.
Thus I was one of the first to download App Choices, a free app that became available Feb. 25 from the Google Play Store and other online storefronts. Created by the industry group Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), it allows users to opt out of interest-based advertising by participating companies. With fewer data points to aggregate, the weaker your online profile becomes to potential advertisers. So if you’re researching recipes for pineapple mojitos one evening, you are less likely to find ads for Caribbean cruises spamming your morning feed.
By giving users greater transparency and control over their digital intelligence, the DAA seeks to improve the industry’s reputation without the need for another federal or state regulator to do so for it.
For more information and additional tips on free resources to protect your online privacy, do check out the nonprofit Digital Advertising Alliance and sign up for its free newsletter.


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" La Gialla" Yellow Tomato Purée - I Contadini - 250g
These are the first indigenous tomatoes to the Americas, hence the name “pomo d'oro”, due to the yellow colour. It is a very particular tomato, for its colouring, for its composition (it contains carotenoids, flavonoids and vitamin C) and for its structure: the particularly thick skin makes it possible to obtain a very dense purée!
But this tomato also hides a secret: it has no acidity, this makes this purée a real gem in the kitchen, it will allow you to create perfect combinations even with fish dishes.
Ingredient (s): yellow tomato.
ORIGIN OF THE TOMATO: ITALY.
"Born and raised in lower Salento, we spent our childhood in close contact with nature and sunny fields, where Grandfather Fiumano grew capers. We are three very different brothers but united by a great passion.
An ancient rite is that of drying the tomato became one of the most important activities in the initial phase of our journey, then flanked over the years by the cultivation of other vegetables that we manage at all stages, from seedlings to the finished product.
We are rapidly expanding our crops to the surrounding lands, which are by their nature, uncultivated and inhospitable, they are now carried on under an integrated agricultural regime. "

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August 28, 2023 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
321 Main Street | Reisterstown, MD, 21136
The Fourth Monday series at the Maryland Horse Library and Education Center welcomes Fran Burns on August 28 at 4 p.m., 321 Main Street, Reisterstown.
Fran Burns, a member of the Maryland State Fair Board of Directors, has a special connection to the state fair. Her great-grandfather, John M. Dennis, was the President of the Maryland State Fair in the 1920s and 1930s, and her family has remained active ever since. Burns has been an exhibitor, volunteer and supporter, and is founder and sponsor of the Hellen Burns Smyth Memorial Award presented each year named in memory of her late sister, who loved to exhibit and show at the fair.
Burns runs tours of the backstretch at Timonium racetrack during the fair, an activity she’s been involved with as Head Tour Guide for the annual “Sunrise at Old Hilltop” Tours during Preakness week at Pimlico. In 2022 she was the recipient of the Joe Kelly Unsung Hero Award, presented by the Board of Directors of Maryland Million Ltd. which celebrates important characteristics that are valuable, but sometimes go overlooked, in the horse industry. Burns is an advocate for off-track Thoroughbreds, Maryland racing, and Thoroughbred rescue and aftercare.
Burns will talk about the history of the Maryland State Fair and her family connections on the afternoon of August 28 starting at 4 p.m. at the Maryland Horse Library and Education Center in Reisterstown. Attendance is free.
The Maryland State Fair starts this year on August 24 and runs 13 days, Thursdays through Sundays, plus Labor Day Monday, through September 10.

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Only a few more days to go! Are you ready? I'm not....but I'm close. I get to go out today with all the other crazy shoppers and pick up a few last minute items. Oh, how I wish I'd had time earlier this week to get these things done!
Anyway, I really just wanted to share a card with you that I made using my Silhouette.
The striped paper is from Jillibean Soup (last year's holiday collection). The rest is just cardstock to match. Such an awesome card pattern from Lori Whitlock---love her Silhouette designs!
In case I do not blog again before the big day---
to all of you!

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Art is ... Pop Art Coloring Pages & Originals (18 Printables)
The two folders are :
1) a collection of 9 Pop Art Coloring Pages that I created myself to simulate the original with some differences and,
2) the respective 9 Pop Art Originals.
The Pop Artists and their Art Works are:
l. Banksy "Chose Your Weapon Keith Haring Dog"
2. Britto "Heart Kids"
3. Jim Dine "The Robe Following Her"
4-5. Haring (2) "American Flag", "Andy Mouse $ Sign"
6. Lichtenstein "Still Life with Palette"
7. Thiebaud "Four Ice Cream Cones"
8.-9. Warhol (2) "Mickey Mouse", "Mona Lisa"
I created 9 coloring pages myself, from the original art work.
I am offering the originals here in accordance of Fair Use in Education, so children can become aware of the different aspects within a drawing or painting and enhance their knowledge of Pop Art. It is hard to talk about Pop Art without seeing the actual art work.
You can also just give the students the printed Artwork page, along with a blank page for them to draw their own interpretation. I found that my art students remembered an artist's work longer, once they had colored it or drawn a sketch of it themselves. It seems to be a combination of meta-cognition and brain-hand drawing that impresses the memory.
Any questions, please contact me. Please let me know if you enjoyed this coloring project by leaving me feedback.


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Films going into production: BLOOD ON THE MOON (Atlantic). Shooting in Southern California. James Woods plays a detective in this gritty, police procedural film set in the City of Angels. Executive producers Jon Erik Lunde and Stephen A. Unger. Producers James B. Harris and Woods. Director/screenwriter Harris. Also stars Lesley Ann Warren. Release date undetermined.
BRADDOCK: MISSING IN ACTION III (Cannon). Shooting in the Philippines. Chuck Norris returns to Vietnam to rescue some Eurasian youngsters and--surprise!--discovers that one of them is his. Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Director Jack Smight. Screenwriter Golan. Also stars Roland Harrah III and Aki Aloeng. Release date undetermined.
THE INVISIBLE KID (Elysian Pictures). Shooting in L.A. A youngster dabbles in some experiments after his scientist father passes away. In doing so, he comes up with a formula that renders him invisible. Executive producers Avery Crounse and Philip Spinelli. Producer Spinelli. Director/screenwriter Crounse. Stars Karen Black, Jay Underwood, Wally Ward, Chynna Phillips and Brother Theodore. Summer release.
WORLD GONE WILD (World Gone Wild Productions). Shooting in Arizona. A futuristic actioner about a post-apocalyptic community forced to defend itself from an evil foe and his brigade of pillagers. Producer Robert L. Rosen. Director Lee Katzin. Screenwriter Jorge Zamacona. Distributor Apollo Pictures. Fall release.

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EGRP News Flash - May 3, 2012
EGRP Highlights 2011 Grantee Publications
The Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) has updated its Web site to include selected manuscripts published in 2011 that feature research funded in part by our Program.
Extramural investigators supported by EGRP were invited to nominate manuscripts published in 2011. EGRP staff made the final selections based on scientific innovation and/or potential public health impact.
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President Bush is set to win a huge victory in the controversy over warrantless wiretapping, as the House Democratic leadership agreed to telecom immunity and expanded spying powers.
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*Breaking months of acrimonious deadlock, House and Senate leaders from both parties have agreed to a bill that gives the nation's spy agencies the power to turn a wide swath of domestic communication companies into intelligence-gathering operations, and that puts an end to court challenges to telecoms such as AT&T that aided the government's secret, five-year warrantless wiretapping program.
Civil liberties proponents quickly blasted the deal.
"The proposed FISA deal is not a compromise; it is a capitulation," said Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, the only senator who voted against the Patriot Act in 2001. "The House and Senate should not be taking up this bill, which effectively guarantees immunity for telecom companies alleged to have participated in the President’s illegal program, and which fails to protect the privacy of law-abiding Americans at home."
The deal marks a huge, though belated, victory for a lame-duck White House, which fought a pitched, hyperbolic battle to expand its legal wiretapping powers after being busted targeting Americans without warrants.
Despite that desire for expanded spying powers, the president threatened to veto any bill that did not give amnesty to the telecoms that helped with program, which has been declared illegal by a secretive U.S. surveillance court.
The bill (.pdf) could be voted on as soon as Friday in the House, given its backing by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who in February organized a high-stakes showdown with the president over a substantially similar bill. The Senate would likely also quickly pass the bill, despite already vocal opposition from the ACLU, left-leaning bloggers, as well as Sens. Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont).
Under the proposal, the intelligence community will be able to issue broad orders to U.S. ISPs, phone companies and online communications services like Hotmail and Skype to turn over all communications that are reasonably believed to involve a non-American who is outside the country. The spy agencies will not have to name their targets or get prior court approval for the surveillance.
Under the longstanding rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government was free to engage in dragnet wiretapping outside the United States, but in order to tap communications inside the country, the government needed court approval and individualized warrants if an American's communications would be caught.
Additionally, the bill grants amnesty to the nation's telecoms that are being sued for allegedly breaking federal wiretapping laws by turning over billions of Americans' call records to government data-mining programs and giving the government access to internet and phone infrastructure inside the country. The bill strips the right of a federal district court to decide whether the companies violated federal laws prohibiting wiretapping without a court order.
Instead, the attorney general would need only certify to the court either that a sued company did not participate, or that the government provided some sort of written request to the companies that said that the president authorized the program and that his lawyers deemed it to be legal. That would be presented to federal district court Judge Vaughn Walker, who is overseeing the more than 40 consolidated cases against the telecoms. Walker's authority would be limited to judging whether the preponderance of the evidence is that the companies did get a written request, and if he finds that to be true -- as the Senate Intelligence Committee has already publicly stated -- he must dismiss the cases.


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Fluoxetine and concomitant centrally acting medication use during clinical trials of depression: The absence of an effect related to agitation and suicidal behavior
Article first published online: 7 DEC 1998
Copyright © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Depression and Anxiety
Volume 6, Issue 1, pages 31–39, 1997
How to Cite
Wernicke, J. F., Sayler, M. E., Koke, S. C., Pearson, D. K. and Tollefson, G. D. (1997), Fluoxetine and concomitant centrally acting medication use during clinical trials of depression: The absence of an effect related to agitation and suicidal behavior. Depress. Anxiety, 6: 31–39. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1997)6:1<31::AID-DA5>3.0.CO;2-8
- Issue published online: 7 DEC 1998
- Article first published online: 7 DEC 1998
- Manuscript Accepted: 30 JUN 1997
- Manuscript Revised: 27 MAY 1997
- Manuscript Received: 2 DEC 1996
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Concomitant use of psychoactive medications is a common practice in most clinical trials of antidepressant medications. However, the relative therapeutic impact of such use on trial results has not been the subject of much attention. We conducted a meta-analysis to determine whether concomitant use of psychoactive medications confounded the efficacy or safety results of a series of fluoxetine trials. Data were evaluated from 25 randomized, double-blind clinical trials comparing fluoxetine with placebo or a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) in 4,016 patients with major depression. We compared incidence rates of concomitant use of anxiolytics, sedatives, and antipsychotics between treatments. In addition, we compared the change in total score for the 21-Item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD21): incidence rates of any worsening, emergence, or improvement in psychomotor agitation; and incidence of suicidal acts and any worsening, emergence, or improvement in suicidal ideation between treatment groups among patients taking/not taking a sedative. Anxiolytic and antipsychotic drug use was uncommon (8.3% and 0.9% overall use, respectively) and did not substantially increase over time. Sedative drugs were used most often (29.6% overall), but only 29.8% of the fluoxetine-treated patients took one or more doses. Regarding efficacy, fluoxetine was superior to placebo in decreasing HAMD21 total scores among patients taking/not taking sedatives. Effects on safety were assessed by examining agitation and suicidal ideation. Use of sedatives did not affect the change in the HAMD agitation score; scores were similar in patients receiving fluoxetine, placebo, and TCAs. In all treatment groups, anxiolytic use tended to increase as the HAMD anxiety score increased. Fluoxetine was superior to placebo in treating suicidal ideation, and the concomitant use of sedatives did not influence this effect. Overall, concomitant use of psychotropic medications in the fluoxetine depression clinical trials was uncommon. Our meta-analysis demonstrated that the clinical efficacy and safety of fluoxetine were not confounded by the concomitant use of medications. Depression and Anxiety 6:31–39, 1997. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.


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It is one thing to realize who you are while sitting in your kitchen with a half-eaten bagel grasped loosely in one hand and the sports section of the newspaper in the other. It’s quite another to realize who you are while standing in the place where the continent is divided in half, breathing in air that is much too thin and staring at a sky that is filled with blinding light as the sun rises. It is where everything comes together: the rivers, the mountains, the country itself. And for me, it’s where I came together as a person.
Three years ago, my family and I embarked on a road trip across the western side of the
Of course, this type of vacation is always a set-up for disaster. On days where there was nothing to amuse us, we often got on each other’s cases for no reason aside from the fact that it provided some sort of distraction. We argued, we fought. I found myself feeling more homesick with each day that passed, and I spent more than a few nights crying because of it. I wanted to be home. I wanted my own bed. But more than that, I wanted familiarity. The West was a strange place to me; I had never seen anything like it before, and in some way, it was frightening after the initial wonder wore off.
But there were moments when it was all worth it. All of the strain between my family, the longing to be home, the monotony of driving in a cramped car when the only radio station to be found played nothing but John Denver – all of the stress would melt away in the face of beauty. We came across a rare herd of wild horses in the middle of the
I realized many things about myself on that trip. Most obvious was the lesson that I’m not a person who enjoys being away from home for long periods of time. However, I learned more than that: I discovered that I am a person who finds beauty in the mundane. The smallest thing can become a spiritual experience for me, whether I try to make it one or not. And this came to me as I was standing in the place that divides the continent in two, staring out at a sight that other cars hurtled by without a second glance, never knowing what they were missing.
To me, it was beautiful. I had found myself.
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Gospel – Fifth Sunday of Lent
20 Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast 21 came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
23 Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. 25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves Me must follow Me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honour whoever serves Me. 27 I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your Name.” Then a voice came from Heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”
29 The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An Angel has spoken to Him.” 30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. 31 Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”
33 He said this indicating the kind of death He would die (Jn 12:20-33).
I – Wherein Lies True Glory?
The deformations introduced into the modern mentality from the influence of Hollywood cinema, marked by the invariable “happy ending” – that imaginary rosy outcome that only happens on-screen – have heightened in recent decades, to extreme levels. This includes the tendency to detest any kind of suffering, as if suffering or sacrifice spelled the worst misfortune.
Parallel to this, a fervid desire for the enjoyment of life is generated, unscrupulously amassing possessions to gain access to a series of the most eccentric and excessive pleasures. Do not the celebrities of this world live such lives, surrounded by apparent luxury? Advanced technology, especially in the field of cutting-edge cybernetics, enfeebling conveniences, extravagant fashions, in short, a gamut of frenetic entertainment is within the reach of this class of people.
This is the contemporary fantasy: to gain a place in these ranks so as to achieve a supposedly unimaginable degree of happiness. The goal is to live a kind of fairy-tale dream, but stripped of the charms of aristocratic finery and dressed, instead, in the scrupulously torn, worn and grimy trappings of the wastelands of ugliness.
However, is this where true glory lies?
The teaching of the Divine Master
Our ancestors thought differently. The worth of each person was measured by their virtues: honour, courage, courtesy, honesty and perseverance, to name but a few. And these attributes became even more meritorious when they were supernaturalized by grace, carefully preserved from the risk of being lost through sin.
Thus, praiseworthy figures distinguished themselves by having given their lives for a higher cause, for having been capable of facing peril and of making courageous renunciations.
For Jesus, supreme model of humanity, true glory consists in the Cross, in the virile and serious acceptance of holocaust taken to the very end
Think of the honour paid to soldiers who bravely shed their blood for the good of their country, the consideration given to heads of families who led an austere existence in order to provide better conditions for their descendants, or the admiration aroused by the example of the knights of old, who stood ready, at the cost of their lives, to defend the weakest and neediest and, above all, the most sublime interests of the Holy Church.
The Gospel for this fifth Sunday of Lent sheds light on this question. For Jesus, the supreme model of humanity, true glory consists in the Cross, in the virile and serious acceptance of holocaust taken to its final consequences. Our Lord corroborated this teaching with the most explicit example given in the Passion and, accordingly, He now confronts and destroys the myths and fantasies with which the devil seeks to entrap in his sordid clutches the spirits created for a higher glory.
No, man was not born to wallow in the muddy quagmire of this world, but to conquer the sacrosanct heights of heroism. To do this, he must be willing to abandon the narrow confines of egoism and arm himself with the weapons of light in order to wage a magnificent combat.
As Dr. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira taught, “the life of the Church and the spiritual life of every believer are an incessant struggle. At times God gives His Bride days of splendid, visible and even palpable grandeur. He gives souls moments of marvellous interior or exterior consolation. But the true glory of the Church and of the faithful comes from suffering and struggle. It is an arid struggle, without sensible beauty or tangible poetry; a struggle in which one advances, at times, during the night of anonymity, in the mire of disinterest or incomprehension, under the storms and bombardment unleashed by the combined forces of the devil, the world and the flesh. But it is a struggle that fills the Angels of Heaven with admiration and draws God’s blessings.”1
That is why he crowned his words with the epigraph: “True glory can only be born of pain.” And here is the key to interpreting today’s Gospel.
II – Glory Is the Cross!
The context of the passage from St. John chosen for this Liturgy could not be more decisive and, at the same time, more critical in the life of Our Lord. In the eleventh chapter of this Gospel, He had already restored Lazarus to life, shattering the dome of silence under which the Sanhedrin sought to shroud His action. Consequently,the Jewish leaders decided to sacrifice Him for the good of the nation: “So from that day on they took counsel how to put Him to death” (Jn 11:53).
Jesus enters Jerusalem amid cheers. The provocation to the Sanhedrin could not have been more daring! The Divine Knight hastened towards His Passion
Nevertheless, “like a man of war, he stirs up his fury” (Is 42:13). After a rapid strategic retreat Jesus returns to Bethany, where Mary anoints Him a second time with precious perfume of nard. On the following Sunday He triumphantly enters Jerusalem, cheered by the crowds who line the road with palm branches.
The provocation could not have been more daring! The Divine Knight hastened towards His dolorous Passion, provoking this commentary among the Pharisees: “You see that you can do nothing; look, the world has gone after Him” (Jn 12:19).
And it was in Jerusalem, after the apotheotic entry of Our Lord on a young donkey, that some Greeks who were there for the Passover ask to see Him.
The reward for worship
20 Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast…
In all likelihood, this group of Greeks was made up of proselytes, that is, Gentiles in the process of converting to Judaism. Moved by the good intention of following the revealed religion, they had acquired the customs of the Old Covenant and decided to go up to Jerusalem for the solemnity.
Unknowingly, they would be witnesses to the most important Passover in history, the true Passover of the Lord.
This was the reward given to those who had abandoned polytheistic ignorance to embrace the religion of the living God. In going up to worship the Lord, they encountered One who was worth much more than the Temple and who was about to make His sacrifice as the High Priest of the new era, offering Himself as the Victim of propitiation for the sins of not only the Chosen People, but of all humanity.
Humility and love
21…came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
It is interesting to note the Greeks’ attitude of not seeking out the Lord directly, but through one of the Apostles. For his part, Philip, whom they asked, acted in like manner, first going to speak with Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, about the best way of conveying the request of the proselytes to the Master.
When divested of humility, love loses its flame, for pride makes man bothersome and rude.
In these verses, on the contrary, we find the harmonious combination of charity and reverential fear. The Greeks do not address the Master, but the disciple, and the latter goes to the Lord accompanied by a more qualified representative, leading to one of Jesus’ most profound and beautiful discourses, in addition to the probable encounter omitted by the Evangelist. St. Paul rightly says: “Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude” (1 Cor 13:4-5).
The hour of glory
23 Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.”
St. Augustine2 affirms that glory is clear knowledge with praise. When something good manifests itself clearly and makes those who admire exclaim enthusiastically, then there is glory.
Consequently, to say that the hour had come when the Son of Man would be glorified meant, first and foremost, that the secret of Christ’s divinity, revealed only to the disciples, would become accessible to the multitude.
It is striking that this “hour” is that of the Cross, therefore, the height of humiliation and contempt. How could divine glory be made manifest amid failure? Nevertheless, it was so. St. Matthew narrates that seeing what happened at the moment of the Lord’s death:
“When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said: ‘Truly this was the Son of God!’” (Mt 27:54).
The Greeks desired to see Jesus, but it was only after the Passion, when contemplating the funeral pomp with which the Eternal Father, through the shaking of the earth, solemnized the Death of His Son, that some pagans opened their eyes to the resplendence of the previously hidden divinity. Wonderfully and surprisingly, the bloody mystery of Golgotha became, in fact, the hour of the glory of the Incarnate Son.
Jesus is the divine seed
24 “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.”
Our Lord explains to His disciples the importance of giving their lives for God’s cause. He will do so on the Cross, and each of His followers must in turn also do so, in accordance with the plan of Providence. Death thus loses its tragic character and becomes a cause for hope, thanks to the martyrdom suffered by Christ.
Our Lord shows Himself as the seed destined to bear fruit: if He did not die, the effects of the Redemption would not be realized, and His glory would not be revealed to the nations
St. Thomas3 comments that Our Lord shows Himself to His followers as the seed destined to bear fruit: if He did not die, the effects of the Redemption would not be realized. Among these, the Angelic Doctor lists three: the remission of sins – “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God” (1 Pt 3:18); the conversion of the Gentiles – “And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself” (Jn 12:32); and the opening of the gates of Heaven, access to glory for a humanity regenerated by the power of His Blood – “Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the Blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His Flesh” (Heb 10:19-20).
Lose one’s life to preserve it?
25 “Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.”
This principle terrifies the carnal and mediocre: it is necessary to die to conserve life. In addition to being an apparent contradiction in terms, it demands the extreme sacrifice in order to gain a happy eternity. This is unsettling and irksome for those who live like brutes with their sights set on the earth. In contrast, those who aspire to the things of Heaven hear Our Lord’s maxim as a divine summons that fills them with hope and ardour.
There is a principle that terrifies the carnal and mediocre: it is necessary to die to the world and its pleasures in order to conserve eternal life and to attain Heaven
He Himself would put this teaching into practice, facing an ignominious Death to conquer the triumphant Resurrection, as St. Paul reminds us:
“Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Heb 12:1-2).
But which life is lost and which gained? Temporal life is lost, and eternal life gained. A person gives up the passing pleasure of a good reputation, comfort, security, and illicit pleasures that oppose angelic virtue to shoulder an austere life marked by struggle and persecution, which is equivalent to dying to the world while remaining in it. True life awaits those who embrace this kind of death: Heaven.
Those who, on the other hand, cling to the pleasures of a voluptuous existence will forever lose their souls in the terrible and sinister depths of hell.
There is no greater glory
26 “Whoever serves Me must follow Me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honour whoever serves Me.”
The disciples must understand service to the Master as a following. In the Gospel, to follow means to imitate, therefore each of the faithful ought to commit to following the Lord to the summit of Calvary itself, having given up everything. Whoever does this will be honoured by God, explains St. Thomas:
“The Father says, ‘those who honour Me, I will honour (1 Sm 2:31). Thus, the Father of Jesus will honour one who ministers to Jesus, not seeking his own, but the things of Jesus Christ.”4
How many people strive to make conspicuous sacrifices to garner human applause, which proves short-lived and inconsistent. Is it not much more worthwhile to exert ourselves to win the honours of the good Father in Heaven? These will fill us with untarnished happiness for all eternity! Everyone must make their choice.
Jesus’ sublime and tragic hour
27 “I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.”
Our Lord expresses His anguish to His disciples, perhaps looking for some consolation from them. His hour will be both sublime and tragic.
Sublime, because it will reveal God’s love for mankind. Suspended on the Cross and covered with wounds, Jesus will demonstrate to the human race the radical extent to which His and the Father’s charity towards sinners extends.
Yet the hour of Jesus will also be tragic, because it unfolds amid an ocean of appalling suffering. Without pain, there can be no true love in this vale of tears. Self-sacrifice taken to the ultimate limit is the only proof of a selfless and holy love.
The Cross and glory
28 “Father, glorify your Name.” Then a voice came from Heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”
Jesus’ supplication is like a battle cry. Faced with the dramatic prospect of the approaching Passion, His spirit is undominated by fear; rather, full of holy courage, He asks the Father to carry out the work of Redemption with all that it entails of bloody and humiliating. And in this, precisely in this, consists the glory of the Father. In the wounds, in the ridicule and in death, the Name of the Father will brilliantly manifest itself through the disfigured humanity of the Eternal Word.
The Father’s response is striking, because it manifests the relationship between the Three Persons of the Trinity before and after the Incarnation. The Father, begetting the Son and loving Him with eternal dilection in the Holy Spirit, glorified His Word by surrounding Him with infinite affection. Even on the Cross, in His apparent abandonment and annihilation, the Father will shower Jesus with love in the Paraclete, for His boundless self-giving and filial piety.
If we want to be loved by God, we know the way: let us ask for strength to stay the course of pain to the end, and then we will have won and conquered the unfading crown of glory.
Not everyone recognizes the Father’s voice
29 The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An Angel has spoken to Him.” 30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.”
The crowd does not clearly recognize the voice of the Father because the ears of their souls are not ready to capture the divine timbre, except in its secondary aspects.
Some hear a sound like thunder, indicating God’s imposing and threatening grandeur, which is especially expressive for those who do not live in accordance with His laws. Others perceive it to be a supernatural communication but attribute it to an Angel. Unable to sense Jesus’ divinity, they considered Him to be less than what He really was: they saw Him at best as a great prophet, never the Son of the Almighty.
Nevertheless, the Father’s voice makes itself heard by them, to save them. Let us ask for the grace to have the ears of our souls always open to the divine suggestions that are continually knocking on our door in order to guide us to the entire truth.
The Cross judges, conquers, attracts and triumphs
31 “Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”
33 He said this indicating the kind of death He would die.
Referring to the kind of death that would be His by the Father’s determination, Jesus announced the judgement of the world. What does this mean?
Being the most refulgent manifestation of love, the Cross would become the yardstick of the radicalism required of man for fulfilling the two commandments which summarize the entire Law. No longer could one love God above all things and one’s neighbour as oneself without embracing pain and suffering, with an enthusiasm similar to Jesus’ when carrying the Sacred Cross and letting Himself be nailed to it. Whoever loved the Cross would be considered righteous; whoever hated it would purchase their own condemnation.
As the most refulgent manifestation of love, the Cross would become the yardstick of the radicalism required of man for fulfilling the two commandments that sum up the entire Law
The Cross also manifests the defeat of the devil, prince of this world. On it, the Son of God humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death. With His perfect submission tinged with blood, Our Lord repaired the sin of our first parents and destroyed the empire of the ultimate impostor, satan. From then on, whoever embraced the Cross with faith and determination could never be defeated; on the contrary, he would crush and trample the infernal enemy underfoot.
Finally, the Evangelist speaks of the mesmerising beauty of the Divine Victim nailed to the Cross, with the power of drawing everyone to Himself. The attractive force of love is incalculable, and there has never been, nor is there now, nor will there ever be a love so radical, so generous, and so heroic as that of the Lamb that was slain.
Why, then, do so many people reject Him? This is the mystery of iniquity: who can comprehend sin? (cf. Ps 19:12).
Love is something serious and requires renunciation and self-giving. Not everyone is willing to pay this tribute, preferring to remain comfortably installed within the narrow confines of selfishness.
Love is something serious and requires renunciation and self-giving. Not everyone is willing to pay this tribute, preferring to remain comfortably installed within the narrow confines of selfishness. Woe to those who reject the love of the Crucified, shown to us so clearly! Woe to those who choose not to imitate Him in loving God and neighbour! It would be better had they not been born, as was said of Judas the traitor (cf. Mt 26:24). But blessed are those who love the Cross, for they will triumph with Jesus now and forever!
III – The Glory of Suffering with a Supernatural Spirit
To a large extent, our existence in this world consists of suffering. The Cross was undoubtedly a challenge of immense proportions for Jesus himself, but He faced it with the courage of the most audacious of warriors, trusting in the Father’s love. Let us imitate our Saviour.
Let us imitate our Saviour, who faced sufferings of immense proportions with the courage of the most audacious of warriors, trusting in the Father’s love
He is our model, our guide, and the path traced by God for us to reach Heaven. He is also our invincible strength and our inseparable companion. No one carries their cross alone, for Jesus becomes our Divine Cyrenian.
Let us, then, confide in His help and that of His Blessed Mother, the Coredemptrix of the human race, who with Him saved us from our sins. ◊
1 CORRÊA DE OLIVEIRA, Plinio. Ambientes, Costumes, Civilizações: A verdadeira glória só nasce da dor [Ambiences, Customs and Civilizations: True Glory Can Only Be Born of Pain]. In: Catolicismo. Campos dos Goytacazes. Year VII. N.78 (June, 1957); p.7.
2 Cf. ST. AUGUSTINE. Contra Maximinum arianorum episcopum. L.II, c.13, n.2: PL 42, 770.
3 Cf. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS. Lectura super Ioannem, c.XII, lect.4.
4 Idem, ibidem.


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Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin (10 May 1937, Moscow – 25 September 1998, Moscow) was the greatest Soviet and Russian Marxist sociologist and historian of the second half of the twentieth century.
Rogovin’s greatest work was accomplished in the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR. Beginning in 1992, he began publishing what would become a seven-volume history of the revolutionary Marxist opposition, led by Leon Trotsky, to the Stalinist degeneration of the USSR. Covering the years from 1923 to 1940, Rogovin’s Was There an Alternative? is an unsurpassed work of historical scholarship, indispensable for an understanding of the Stalinist regime and the deep-rooted socialist opposition to its betrayal of the principles and program of the October Revolution. Rogovin documented the immense popularity of Trotsky, even after his exile from the Soviet Union in 1929, and established that the principal purpose of Stalin’s bloody terror in the 1930s was the eradication of Trotsky’s political influence.
Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Rogovin had been working for many years, albeit under very difficult circumstances, on a sociological analysis of Stalinism. For much of his career, he was a scholar at the Institute of Sociology in Moscow. He entered the discipline of sociology out of a desire to find a setting in which he could study and write about the problem of social stratification in Soviet society. His research focused on inequalities in lifestyles and consumption, the social and political roots of the USSR’s problems with labor productivity, and the meaning of social justice.
Rogovin’s contributions to sociology, which were published widely in major journals and press outlets, consisted of such titles as, “Justice as a Social-Philosophical and Socio-Economic Category” (1982), “The Human Factor and the Lessons of the Past” (1984), and “On Social Benefits and Privileges” (1989). His open commitment to the defense of equality won him widespread popularity, a fact widely acknowledged in the USSR at the time and even noted by Western scholars.


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Every day reveals something new in Cannon Beach. Just ask Richard Gorsuch. Each day last year, rain or shine, the 69-year-old artist carried his easel up a coastal bluff and set about capturing on canvas the green-white Pacific waves breaking on the 235-foot-tall mound of volcanic rock that straddles the shoreline. The result: 365 different paintings of Haystack Rock.
For many, Cannon Beach, some 80 miles west of Portland, is the place for a summer sojourn. Bracketed by sea-splitting headlands and miles of wild sands, this town of 1,600 residents is a mix of upscale inns, funky motels, fine restaurants, chowder houses, and more than 20 art galleries and studios.
Homesteaded in the 1890s, Cannon Beach was first known as Elk Creek. When locals decided on a name change in 1922, they looked to a piece of flotsam that had washed ashore following the 1846 shipwreck of the U.S. Navy schooner Shark. You can see the actual cannon at the town's history center. For more local lore, take a walk over to Whale Park, where in 1806 Sacagawea and Captain William Clark of Corps of Discovery fame came to see a beached behemoth.
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However, it's the call of the sea that lures most visitors to Cannon Beach. If the curls are ripping and your wet suit is handy, you can get stoked on the gnarly surf. You can also go kayaking, horseback riding, fishing, and clamming. The kids can yelp at kelp while the grown-ups dart around the wide beach on recumbent tricycles (part preschool flashback, part La-Z-Boy) rented from Mike's Bike Shop.
Rising above all this flurry is stoic Haystack Rock. Volunteers with the Haystack Rock Awareness Program help to enlighten others about this sensitive habitat and the intertidal critters that call it home—crabs, sea anemones, nudibranchs. Also in evidence are cormorants, tufted puffins, and other shorebirds. Two miles out to sea is Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, which has been clinging to its unlikely perch since 1880.
Head to Ecola State Park, on the north shore, for dense coastal rain forest, panoramic views, and 10 miles of hiking trails. You might spot elk, peregrine falcons, or bald eagles. Come back in the spring and watch for gray whales as they go cruising by. Cannon Beach—365 paintings in 365 days, and no two are alike.
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This article was first published in May 2004. Some facts may have aged gracelessly. Please call ahead to verify information.
Local telephone numbers are area code 503. Pick up AAA's Oregon & Washington map and TourBook. For more information, contact the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce, 436-2623, www.cannonbeach.org.
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Cannon Beach History Center, 436-9301, www.cannon-beach.net/cbhs.
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Coaster Theatre Playhouse, 436-1242, www.coastertheatre.com.
DragonFire Interactive Studio, 436-1533, www.dragonfirestudio.com.
Ecola State Park, (800) 551-6949, www.oregonstateparks.org/park_188.php.
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An advertisement in a Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech) publication from the World War II era heralds Aristocrat milk as “the milk that helps build bodies and brains of college men.”
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