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After the first week of classes on campus, MIT students are placed in a two-week observation in a classroom in the Puget Sound region. Following the two-week observation, students return to campus for reflection and discussion about their experience. Following this experience, MIT students are placed in pairs in partnership schools for a peer coaching field experience in which they observe and teach three separate weeks throughout the quarter.
During the second quarter of the program, MIT students begin to participate in their student teaching setting while attending classes on campus. Integrating the teaching internship with on-campus classes allows the prospective teacher to integrate theory and practice. MIT students are placed in teaching internships located within a 30-mile radius of campus. Prior to being assigned to a classroom, students are interviewed by the cooperating teacher. The teaching internship continues into the third quarter of the program. Additionally, MIT students participate in service learning at school sites and in a focused field experience in a middle school setting. Approximately 50% of the MIT program occurs in field settings.
MIT students are assigned to observe and participate in an elementary, middle, or high school for seven or eight days. Observations are guided by a set of questions designed to lead the MIT student in reflection on instructional decisions based on the nature of the school, the community, the individual classroom, and the students in the classroom.
This field placement provides the opportunity for a range of experiences in a middle school. Students observe and participate in middle school classrooms for two full days. An MIT graduate at each school coordinates field experiences, orients MIT students to the middle school and conducts a seminar. Reflection in the field is guided by research and information on best practices provided in an on-campus seminar.
Pairs of MIT students are assigned to a cooperating teacher and have opportunities for participation in instruction supported by peer coaching. Three separate weeks of full-time field experience are supported by classroom preparation and reflection in the elements of instruction in week one, classroom management in week two, and teaching diverse learners in the final week. MIT students teach lessons during each week and receive both formal and informal feedback from the cooperating teacher.
The teaching internship extends across two blocks of the MIT program. During Block II, MIT students are in the classroom with the cooperating teacher one day a week for focused observations. During Block III, MIT students are in the classroom full time for twelve to fourteen weeks and gradually assume full-time teaching responsibilities. The cooperating teacher and university supervisor formally observe teacher interns using the “Performance Based Pedagogy Assessment of Teacher Candidates.” Students are expected to successfully meet the demands of the classroom and the competencies required by the program and for certification by the State of Washington.
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San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 2009
When Congress resumes work after Labor Day, the members must act swiftly to pass the Affordable Health Choices Act. Contrary to the misleading attacks, this uniquely American plan represents our best hope for expanding access to affordable coverage. Why? Because the House bill upholds the twin principles of shared risk and shared responsibility. As the legislation moves forward, any changes made should not abandon these two crucial ideals.
Shared risk means distributing the cost of health care services across large numbers of participants - including people of various ages and health conditions. In today's market, individuals are denied coverage based on pre-existing conditions, how old they are or where they live. If everyone is insured and private insurers are barred from weeding out the sick, risk can be spread more evenly, so no one is denied coverage or priced out of the market.
Under the reform bill, a health insurance "exchange" will offer individuals and small businesses a variety of private plans and the information they need to select the best fit for their family. (Larger firms may be allowed to join later.) The exchange will also offer a public plan option, which is present in all the bills passed out of committees in the House and Senate but remains a major subject of debate, is essential for keeping costs down.
A Medicare-like public plan, offered as a choice to those in the exchange, will lower administrative costs and bring competition into markets where there are few health plans to choose from. A public plan option will not drive private insurers out of business: It will keep them honest.
The second ingredient of successful reform is shared responsibility. This means that employers and individuals should be expected to contribute to the cost of their coverage once affordable options are available. The federal government must offer subsidies through the exchange to low- and moderate-income families so insurance is affordable.
Employer responsibility is equally vital. Requiring larger employers to either provide coverage or contribute to the exchange helps fund health reform and ensures that reform will not undermine employment-based insurance. Otherwise, firms may be tempted to drop their coverage and shift costs to the public.
An employer requirement will also help level the competitive playing field. When employers do not provide coverage, the cost -estimated at between 5 and 10 percent of health premiums - is shifted to employers who do. Will an employer requirement hurt small businesses and cost jobs? Mom-and-pop businesses are exempt from the requirement and, in fact, will receive subsidies to help buy coverage. A recent UC Berkeley study of San Francisco's employer health insurance requirement found no evidence it reduced the number of jobs.
Reform will remove a major obstacle to entrepreneurship. Individuals will be able to choose jobs on the basis of which use their skills best, rather than on the availability of health benefits. And firms providing coverage will benefit from slower increases in health premiums. The reforms proposed by the Affordable Health Choices Act represent a win for the nation's health and for the health of our economy. Congress should make them a reality.
Jacob Hacker is a political science professor at Yale University and author of "The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Security and the Decline of the American Dream." Ken Jacobs is the chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.
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Public Military Academies: Prep Schools? Or Blatant Recruitment Pools?
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Matthew Hartman had every intention of enlisting in the Army directly after his graduation in two years. But it was Col. Sterling Stokes and his military staff who convinced Hartman that college, not the battlefield, was a better option. At least for now.
"They persuaded me that there is always time to serve my country and that maybe I would be able to serve even better if I went to college first," Hartman, 16, says.
The Richmond, Va., native is a junior at the Franklin Military Academy in Richmond, where Stokes is principal. He earned the highest score on the 2008 National Chemistry Olympiad in his school, and is the type of student college admissions counselors would like to see among their applicants.
But for Cadet Hartman, the military seemed like a natural progression.
Academies like Franklin Military are part of the country's rapidly expanding Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) program. The academies are exclusively JROTC and the Department of Defense helps fund them -- part of a growing trend to introduce military schools into the public school system in primarily poor urban areas where many school systems are struggling, if not failing.
These academies aren't boot camps for delinquents. There is no compulsory military service upon graduation. And they're not the realization of the Bush administration's machinations. In fact, administrators insist the academies are college prep schools.
But for many, the evidence isn't so clear. Critics like Darlene Graminga, of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker pacifist organization, suggest that cases like Hartman's are few and far between, and that the military academies are a veiled attempt to recruit American youth.
Graminga, program director of the group's Truth in Recruiting Program, says, "I hardly doubt that it's a coincidence that these schools are prospering at a time of war."
Despite such concerns, public military academies are wildly popular among many parents and students.
Chicago -- with more academies than any other city -- can't build them fast enough. Chicago's sixth academy will open this fall. In all, the city has one-third of the country's academies.
Each year, the Chicago Public Schools accepts only about 10 percent of academy applicants. For the 2007-2008 school year, approximately 7,500 students applied for 700 openings in the freshman class.
Military academies are part of the JROTC program that began in 1916. Former Secretary of State and retired Gen. Colin Powell is credited with advancing JROTC in its current form, in part by influencing then-President George H.W. Bush in 1992 to more than double the size of the program, from 1,500 JROTC programs to 3,500.
In his book, My American Journey , Powell wrote: "Inner-city kids, many from broken homes, found stability and role models in Junior ROTC. They got a taste of discipline, the work ethic, and they experienced pride of membership in something healthier than a gang. … Junior ROTC is a social bargain."
In Virginia, the Richmond School Board and its Superintendent Richard Hunter conceptualized Franklin Military Academy -- the country's first secondary military academy -- on the heels of the Vietnam War in the late '70s. It opened its doors to 130 freshmen in the fall of 1980.
The following year, academies opened in St. Louis and Sandy Hook, N.J. After a 16-year gap, the Kenosha Military Academy in Wisconsin was built in 1998. Since then, the academies have grown at a rate of one to two a year.
"Students have to make the choice on their own to be here," says Stokes, Franklin's principal.
Once a student makes that first step, the application process is rigorous, including an interview and a written commitment from the parents, as well as the student.
"We're aiming at kids who aren't in trouble but who aren't fully realizing their potential, either," says Ozzie Wright, principal of the Philadelphia Military Academy. "We often see kids who have all the makings of being good students, but have very unstable home lives because of economics and family structures. We can make a difference in these students' lives."
Elaine Macon-Johnson, who is in her fourth year at Franklin, teaches technology and business. She had arrived at the academy unwillingly, as part of a job reassignment, doubting whether public military academies should even exist. After a few years at Franklin, she says she became a convert.
"All I have to do is teach now," Macon-Johnson says. "Before, I would have to spend so much time as disciplinarian." These days, she says, "I don't have behavior problems. And on the rare occasion that something does happen, it's somebody else's job to take care of, not mine."
Many academy teachers, most of whom don't have military backgrounds, say they feel the same way. Walking down the hallway in between classes, military instructor Sgt. Gary McCray says, "Look at this. When you were in school, did you ever see it so calm?" referring to the students quietly moving from one class to another, conversing. "Everybody is so relaxed," McCray says.
Roberto Rodriguez, a first-year Marine Military Academy cadet, says, "I like that we could become leaders and we know every student. No bullies, none of that, so it's real cool."
Students attending the military academies are required to take one four-year military-related course. The JROTC curriculum includes military history, military protocol, civics and physical fitness. Students often participate in drill team, color guard and extracurricular activities, such as rock climbing and traveling. Some schools arrange an international trip each year for a limited number of students, and nearly all the academies send a large number of students to the Army-Navy football game each year. For the many students who have never been out of state -- even out of their city -- this is an appealing perk.
As part of the 1916 National Defense Act, JROTC was created to prepare American youth to fight in World War I, if needed. And JROTC falls under the recruitment section of the Pentagon's budget.
Principals are quick to say that they are not asked to boost the numbers of graduating students who enlist. Stokes says, "It's not like we have been given [an enlistment] quota here."
But in February 2000, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen told the House Armed Services Committee that JROTC is "one of the best recruiting devices we could have." And Powell wrote in My American Journey , "Liberal school administrators and teachers claimed that we were trying to 'militarize' education. Yes, I'll admit, the armed forces might get a youngster more inclined to enlist as a result of Junior ROTC. But society got a far greater payoff."
In a difficult period for military recruiters, the Pentagon is expected to spend $20.5 billion in 2009 on recruiting, some of which will be distributed to JROTC. Pauline Lipman, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told PBS in December 2007, "It would be really naive to think that the military would, in fact, be expanding these schools and these programs and pouring millions of dollars into the schools at a time when they actually are having a recruitment crisis, if the schools were not about recruiting students."
The Army has tried to accommodate its recruitment woes by reducing its annual recruitment goal, raising the maximum enlistment age from 35 to 42, lowering mental aptitude standards, and welcoming in the overweight, the physically injured and formerly convicted.
Military statistics over the last two decades indicate that 30 percent to 55 percent of JROTC students eventually enlist. The military academies, however, maintain that their enlistment rates after graduation ranges between 4 percent and 10 percent.
"If the Defense Department is looking to us for recruitment, then they are making a bad investment," says Wright, the principal at Philadelphia Military Academy.
But the numbers are inconclusive, if not misleading. The academies collect their data through exit interviews with graduating students. If a student goes directly into the military upon graduation -- and the student has made that decision at the time of filling out the questionnaire -- he or she would be part of that 4 percent-to-10 percent pool. However, if he or she doesn't directly enlist and instead, for example, goes to college on a ROTC scholarship, then the academies, like other public high schools, don't have the mechanisms in place to track the student after graduation.
Hugh Price, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, once advocated using the military's discipline to help at-risk youth. As vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1988 until 1994, he helped conceive and launch the quasi-military program for school dropouts that came to be known as the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program.
Price says he now thinks that schools have better options than a military presence. He wants to demilitarize public education and wonders whether the government can "find a way to make the attributes of the military model generic? Can it be done without the military? We need to find a way to help the struggling youth of America without funding from the military."
Under the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act, any school that receives federal funding must allow access to military recruiters. One of the military instructors at Franklin boasts that the school had a good relationship with the area recruiters. "Oh yeah," he says, "We see them all the time."
The academies often bill themselves as college prep schools. And looking at the schools and the learning environments, it appears they are making a difference in the students' lives. Arne Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools system, boasts that the city's military academies have a 94 percent graduation rate versus the district average of 84 percent.
But Oskar Castro, national coordinator of the AFSC's Youth & Militarism program, isn't convinced.
"Where is the evidence?" he asks. "So many of these schools are so new, and they claim that it's too early to tell [whether a school is successful], so why are we still building them if we don't know?"
And the AFSC's Graminga argues that the academies don't produce better results than other schools that are part of the small charter school programs, currently en vogue among public school leaders in large, urban environments.
"We have seen small schools projects be successful and the successes that are related to the military academies are in line with that," she says. "But there doesn't seem to be anything inherent to the military academies that leads us to say, 'Now, they've got the answer!' "
If Graminga is right, that might explain the success at Franklin Military, which has less than 500 students and an exceptionally low 15 to 1, student-teacher ratio.
Powell and others argue that the military has historically given opportunities to those who have limited options. But making that argument also acknowledges that the military uses the academies as a recruiting tool. And given the academies' demographics and the destruction of the GI Bill, which once provided funding for a college education, one can reasonably ask whether the Department of Defense is truly concerned with sending poor black and Latino kids to college.
In Richmond, Franklin Military consistently accommodates a 95 percent African-American student body in a city that, according to the 2006 census, has a population of which 20 percent exist below the poverty line and 54 percent are African-American.
Academy administrators maintain that these are the realities of urban America. Philadelphia Military's Wright says, "The wealthier families in cities have the advantage of sending their children to private schools and a certain portion will go to the better public schools. But in cities, we know we are facing a particular demographic."
The military, he adds, has a "history of providing opportunities" to underprivileged sectors of society.
If interest by school districts in military-sponsored education is any indication, we can expect to see a tremendous growth in the number of academies. What is less clear is whether the military academies would be considered successful if the public school systems in these urban areas were doing an adequate job.
"If the military branches are formally involved as sponsors, operators and funders," says Price, "it is naive to expect them to resist the temptation to [use] these programs as a recruitment pipeline. If anything, given global conditions, the pressure on them to do so probably will intensify instead of subside."
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My brother and schoolmate John Lussier of Hope in Exile sent out a few tweets today that were incredibly on target as social commentary and I had to share his words and some thoughts on them. He wrote,
"We've made voting a sacred act. It is our 'responsibility' and those who do vote somehow gain their 'dignity' from it."
"'Get up and vote!' Has been turned into an altar call at the Church of the Public Square. Who are you gonna live for?"
Lussier responded to someone asking if he thought voting was in fact a sacred act. He responded saying, "I don't think so. It has been made to be something we have to do, because we have divinized the State and its solutions."
In many ways I agree whole-heartedly with my friend. We have far too often convinced ourselves to look at the State and her methods as divine, even if we won't admit it. Too often we feel the authorities and their legislation will save us (or others). When we have such high views of the State and those who make it up we turn President's into Saviours and votes into worship. With such a perspective we can see why we must bless the world with democracy and defend it with great violence (and we will feel more than justified for both). This is nationalism at it's highest point.
This is also idolatry.
Plain and simple. Voting is not a responsibility but rather a right (which means you are free to vote or not vote and neither decision makes you more or less a citizen or appreciator of the nation). We are not made more valuable based upon who we vote for or even upon the decision to vote. Don't be fooled into thinking that you owe anyone your vote. Not soldiers, not neighbors, not politicians, not America, not God; no one.
The State, the Kingdom of God, the President, the Christ, the voting booth, the Church. All have a place in this creation but not all save. That's what matters. All our acts are significant, and in some senses, sacred. However, don't be led astray and begin to think that voting is like the Eucharist or baptism. It is not an ordinance and it is not demanded of us.
Christ saves us. His solutions are the ones we put our trust in. When we trust in the divinity of Christ the King and cling to his kingdom then our views of voting being a sacred duty are shattered. We won't follow the sacred acts of national worship because we will have exchanged them for the liturgy found through Christ and his Body.
As I've said in other articles, voting isn't bad. If a person feels divinely pressed to vote they they ought to listen to their conscience and do so. Whatever we do must be for the glory of God and it should look like Jesus Christ. The water gets muddy in this part of the discussion but the point of this specific discussion is simply to remind ourselves that our worship doesn't belong to the state but to God. The state, the president, the legislation; none of these can ever save us. Christ has already saved us and we must respond accordingly, giving him all our worship and allegiance. As singer/songwriter Derek Webb sings, "There is a day that’s been inaugurated but has not yet come, that we can proclaim by showing that there’s a better way."
So during this election season, do not forget that, as Christians, you already belong to a kingdom and it's king. Don't let foreign (aka earthly) nations and politicians distract you too much. Don't think you owe them anything but your allegiance to Christ, because you don't. The State needs your loyalty to Jesus far more than your vote, even if she doesn't know it.
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Idle 3D printers are the bane of the creative class. That’s why MakeXYZ.com is so important. It is a service that helps you find 3D printers near you and request print jobs. Like the remote batch jobs of yore, you can simply contact a MakeXYZ maker and they’ll print off your item.
Programmers Chad Masso and Nathan Tone opened up the site to orders this year and it’s already well-populated with printers awaiting their instructions. The Austin-based site is already profitable.
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“We have signed up 550 printers in 1.5 months. We don’t disclose revenue or order volume data,” said Tone. “Printing locally turns out to be a sweet deal. In comparison to 3D printing service bureaus, customers going through MakeXYZ get their 3D models for half the cost in a third of the time. And you get to meet the person who made your model… in our opinion, community beats anonymous factories.”
Print jobs are priced based on square centimeter and many jobs cost about $15. Prices start at about 25 cents per cm³ but those with a better run rate can ask for more. The company takes a 5 percent cut on top of the printer’s price. It’s clearly an excellent way to take up the slack in the 3D-printing world, especially considering the price of the initial investment in Makerbots and other devices.
Tone said he created the product when he wanted to make a light-switch cover with a hook attached. “I didn’t have a 3D printer, so I shipped the CAD file to a printing-service bureau in NY. It was expensive and took over a month to arrive. Which was frustrating, in that when you’re making something you want to have it in your hands – to admire, iterate, etc. And since I’m sure that there’s gotta be one person in my building with a Makerbot.”
“Printing locally does just that – by keeping it in the community and halving the cost and turnaround time of making something awesome,” Tone said.
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Counselling is a therapy that aims to develop supportive, trusting, non-judgemental and safe environment between you and your counsellor in which you can explore yourself, issues and concerns as deeply as you wish.
The aim of counselling is not for the counsellor to tell you what to do or to give advice but to help you come to your own understanding about yourself and your life, in order that you can then make your own decisions and choices.
The surgery offers you the opportunity to have weekly, fifty minute sessions with your counsellor. In your first session you and your counsellor will discuss your needs. Usually up to eight sessions can be offered.
We operate a waiting list - if you would like your name put onto the list please contact reception.
We are planning to run a parenting group at The Surgery very soon. All parents are welcome and if you think you might be interested then please contact us. No particular skills are needed, but we recognise that you as a parent know best the kind of relationship you have with your child and will bring that unique knowledge with you.
The aim is to look at some of the challenges parents face and to explore how you can become more effective in dealing with those challenges. It is also about celebrating the relationship you have with your child. The group will explore personal strengths and encourage confidence while presenting an opportunity for discussion and support between group members.
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Jim Marshall, the “father of loud” whose signature line of amplifiers became all but synonymous with power and presence in rock and roll, died on Thursday in hospice care. He was 88.Marshall had cancer and endured a series of strokes, including several that were severe, his son, Terry Marshall, said. “My wife and I were with him when he passed away,” his son said. ”He got cancer toward the end of last year, and had surgery for that, and it came back. He was in a terrible state the last five or six weeks. He’s in a much better place now.” Marshall was born in 1923 in West London, and underwent a difficult childhood in which he suffered from tubercular bones. Working as an electrical engineer during World War II, he later began playing drums and eventually became a teacher, with pupils including future Jimi Hendrix Experience sticksman Mitch Mitchell. Marshall opened a drum shop in the Hanwell area of London in 1960, and at the request of customer Pete Townshend, soon began offering guitar equipment as well. Joined by engineer-musician Ken Braun and engineering apprentice Dudley Craven, Marshall began experimenting with his first homemade amplifiers, using the Fender Bassman as a model while increasing the sound’s roughness and bombast. His first satisfactory prototype was dubbed the Marshall JTM 45, which he sold out of his shop. Marshall expanded the shop to increase production in 1963, then opened a small factory in 1964, producing around 20 amplifiers per week. He then signed a worldwide distribution deal with Rose-Morris in 1965. With the Who, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton becoming some of the young company’s most devoted clients, and spreading the word abroad as the British Invasion took off, the company continued to grow. Marshall worked closely with many of his more famous customers, creating Clapton’s signature “Bluesbreaker” amp and training Hendrix’s road crew on proper care and maintenance of the equipment. In fact, it was through working with Townshend that Marshall originated the “Marshall stack” setup — with an amp head balanced atop two speaker cabinets — which became an iconic presence on rock stages for decades thereafter, often pushed to extreme lengths by hard rock and metal bands who would assemble walls of Marshall equipment behind them. In its early days, Sunset Strip metallers Motley Crue even took to lining up empty Marshall cabinets as onstage props. In 2003, Marshall was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his successful export of British-made goods and his various charitable deeds. He is survived by two children, two stepchildren and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — He walks the streets of his neighborhood like a prophet, a healer and a friend. Juan Romagoza is a touchstone of compassion in Washington's impoverished Latino community.
"I work for the poor because I am poor," he says. "My family is poor."
He is also a survivor of the civil war in his native El Salvador in the early 1980s.
He was an aspiring surgeon when the military kidnapped and tortured him for treating poor farm workers. His wife, a medical student, was murdered.
"They hung me, and they shot my left arm and they cut my finger in the right hand, too," says Romagoza.
They maimed him to ensure that Romagoza could never operate again. He found refuge in Washington, where Dr. Peter Shields hired him to run a free clinic one night a week.
"He is clearly compassionate," says Shields, who works at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. "He's clearly someone who is there first to help, and the first to find people to help."
Twenty years later, Romagoza can still be found at La Clínica Del Pueblo, now a full-service operation in a new building, making sure patients like breast cancer survivor Paula Vasquez get good, free medical care.
"First, it helped me by opening the door to relieve my pain," she says.
"He really understands what being a wounded healer is," says Sharon Baskerville with the D.C. Primary Care Association. "That drives him. He feels the pain acutely, so he'll never stop."
He is most comfortable among the powerless, working to make access to health care a basic human right.
"It is not a luxury," says Romagoza. "[It] is not depending on how much you have in your bag. It's part of your dignity, human dignity."
Help for those who cannot help themselves, from one who's suffered so much.
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The fact that two of the major players in the tech industry are doing battle through the courts is hardly a surprise. What is interesting about this particular battle is that Google has made a motion that will keep the proceedings of the court battle largely private. While most companies are looking for these kinds of provisions, Google (News - Alert) wanting to keep details of its Motorola (News - Alert) Mobility software private has raised a few eyebrows because the company has had problems with privacy issues for years.
Some legal experts are concerned in general with just how much privacy these court battles are now getting. The district court judge, who is overseeing this particular case, has already granted several requests from both sides to block quite a few of the pre-trial legal briefs from the public eye. While some believe that as the trial moves along, there will be less withheld, some also think that entire sections of the final ruling could be blacked out or redacted altogether.
Image via Shutterstock
One prominent law professor, Dennis Crouch says that keeping this kind of information secret basically “infringes on the basic American legal principle that court should be public.” Crouch added that being able to keep these pre-trial motions a secret allows companies to feel as though they can use a costly resource that is largely paid for by the taxpayers as a way to solve their disputes. Crouch says that seemingly shaming a company by making it clear that information they may not want widely known will go public if the issue goes to trial has led to plenty of settlements that save taxpayers thousands of dollars.
For their part, the tech companies argue that most of what they want kept secret is proprietary technology and letting it get out to the general public would cost the company billions in lost revenue. There are precedents for keeping certain types of information secret, but in general the people who are advocating keeping information private must indicate why going public would be directly harmful.
Edited by Brooke Neuman
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It was almost four years ago when we decided it was time to launch our online video blog, NewTeeVee. At the time, I wondered to myself how I could best understand the ongoing broadband-based video revolution in a way that would give me a window into the future – so I decided to do what was unthinkable at the time: I called Comcast and asked them to turn off my cable TV. And remember, these were the glory days of The Sopranos and Weeds, so it was a major sacrifice.
Nevertheless, my broadband sources were telling me that bandwidth-to-the-home was on an upswing and was seeking a killer app — and that video was most likely it. Large media companies were demonizing devices like Slingbox and bemoaning YouTube. These were signs that the big shift was about to happen. So just like that, I became one of the earliest cord cutters.
My cord-cutting adventure was helped along by a handful of services, which emerged as early players in the world of web video:
- MLB.com and Willow.tv took care of my need to watch live baseball and cricket respectively.
- Hulu, which despite my own personal skepticism became my best friend when I was recovering from my sickness.
- Netflix, which brought streaming (and DVD rentals) into my life.
- iTunes Video Store, which allowed me to purchase new television shows when I wanted.
This wasn’t a perfect solution, but it had one big upside – it freed me from the old school notion of television and allowed me to embrace the idea of “video” instead (read my essay — “There’s no new media. It’s all new consumption”.) In 2009, I compared Netflix to the iPod of broadband. When talking about the future of video, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings (speaking at our 2008 NTV Live conference) said:
We want to watch what we want, when we want, where we want, and discover the content how we want.
His comments made perfect sense to me – just as mobile phones freed me up from thinking about communications as a static activity and turned calling and texting into part of my daily life, ever-present broadband (wireless or wired) would eventually make video part of my daily media consumption.
Two years later, Netflix is one of the major drivers for folks to sign-up for broadband services. Some folks claim that at its peak, Netflix streaming videos account for about a fifth of the traffic flowing through North American broadband networks. According to Cisco Systems’ estimates, video now accounts for about 26 percent of total traffic on the Internet (and that’s not including P2P.)
In other words, my quixotic adventure is slowly becoming mainstream. According to NewTeeVee estimates, about 500,000 folks cut their basic cable subscription in the third quarter of 2010 alone. Are they all cord cutters? Not sure, but there are many who are. It is common for me to run into folks who tell me that they get their video-fix from Hulu, iTunes, Netflix and a handful of other services.
Whether it is the onslaught of new services (HuluPlus), Netflix embedded in televisions and DVD players, briskly selling $99 AppleTV or growing interest in Roku and Boxee, these days cord cutters are a whole new demographic. Like me, they are foregoing their cable or satellite television subscriptions, and instead opting for broadband-delivered video, which they consume on their own terms, on devices of their own choosing and at a time of their convenience. Last month, NewTeeVee launched a new GigaOM TV video show, called — what else — Cord Cutters (You can follow the show via @cordcutters on Twitter and watch the two episodes we have released thus far).
In a few days, we are going to host our NewTeeVee Live conference, and cord cutting is one of the major themes. To me, it is clear as day that we are at the cusp of another major shift in the world of online video. If the first phase of online video was about user-generated content and enthusiasm for new, fresh voices, the future looks to reinvent the past and old TV. (If you would like to join us at the conference, click here to get those tickets. And also check out the schedule.)
Related GigaOm Pro Content (subscription required):
- Three Reasons Hulu Plus is No Threat to Netflix
- Three Reasons Over-The-Top TV Apps Will Beat Big-Cable
- ESPN Leads the Way Over the Top, But Will Others Follow?
- How Online Video Is Shaping the Next Round of Retrans Fights
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When you want to make a change in your life, especially a big one, you’ll typically meet resistance along the way. An effective strategy for rendering such resistance powerless is the strategy of overwhelming force. This is a military strategy of course, but we can co-opt it for our own personal development as well. Instead of merely dipping your toes into the change you’d like to make, you dive into it headfirst. Instead of undercommitting resources, you overcommit.
Too often when people attempt a big change, they undercommit their personal resources. Instead of a quick victory, they end up with a quagmire akin to Viet Nam, where they have to keep putting in more and more energy just to maintain the status quo.
For example, suppose you want to lose 50 pounds. You make some moderate dietary and exercise changes. For a while they work well, and you lose the first 10 pounds. But then you get stuck at 40 pounds overweight. You keep maintaining the same diet and exercise levels, but because you’ve undercommitted your resources, your total long-term effort is much greater than it needs to be. Exercising while 40 pounds overweight, month after month, perhaps even year after year, is very hard and takes a tremendous effort and discipline to maintain, especially when your results are minimal. Simply going through your daily routine with that much weight on you will make your life much harder than necessary. My daughter weighs about 45 pounds, and to carry her around for any length of time would be very difficult. I couldn’t even imagine going for a 5-mile run with her on my back. So even though the strategy of overwhelming force requires a greater up-front investment, in the long run it can save you a great deal of time and energy.
Think of all the personal resources you can use to apply overwhelming force to one of your goals — your intelligence, intuition, skills, talents, time, money, family, relationships, reputation, assets, environment, etc. If you find that you’re stuck in a stalemate vs. the resistance working against you (whether internal or external), then perhaps it’s time to apply to the strategy of overwhelming force and just get the job done. Bring enough of these additional resources online until you reach the point where you not only feel you’ll overcome all resistance — you feel certain you’ll squash it.
Ask yourself, “What would it take for me not only to achieve this goal but to absolutely dominate it?” What would you consider overkill? Imagine your goal as if you’re planning a battle that you MUST win, regardless of the cost. Write down what you think it would take to be certain of success.
If you think you have an effective kill strategy for your goal, but it isn’t working too well, perhaps you’ve underestimated the resistance. Don’t feel bad if you find yourself in this situation — great military leaders have been punished by this mistake as well. Accept that your kill strategy may in fact be underkill, and what you think of as overkill may be just what you need.
Once you see your overwhelming force strategy written down on paper, you may be thinking, “Wow… this would work, but it would take a lot of work to get it going.” The goal may be more “expensive” than you first realized, and some sacrifice may be required. So this is when you have to decide whether the goal is actually worth doing. Is it worth the price to you, or is it truly too expensive and not worth the effort?
Once you figure out what it will really cost to achieve your goal, you can then decide whether you’re willing to pay that price or not. Often we fail to achieve goals quickly because deep down we feel the price is too high, but we don’t want to accept that. So we try to cheat by undercommitting resources, hoping the goal can be achieved with far less effort. In a handful of situations, we get lucky and achieve the goal more cheaply. But in most situations, we waste tremendous time and energy pursuing goals that never get achieved.
Imagine what your life would be like if you could achieve most of your goals on the first try because you applied overwhelming force. Your first diet took you quickly to your goal weight. Your first attempt to quit smoking lead you to become a permanent nonsmoker. Your first attempt to find a fantastic job succeeded. No rework, retesting, repeating, recommitting, revamping, re-anything. Applying the strategy of overwhelming force can even be fun too, such as when you have the goal of getting pregnant.
You might recognize that this is another application of the principle of facing reality as explained in the previous podcast.
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Every summer, the Department of Environmental Conservation runs camps for kids.
Within the past two weeks, two guys I know attended these camps in the Adirondacks.
Dominick Hopper is 13 and lives outside of Laurens. He was sponsored by the Otsego County Federation of Sportsmen and attended the camp at Lake Colby just outside of Saranac Lake. When I spoke to him the other night, he said it was one of the best experiences of his life. In fact, when his parents went to pick him up, he didn't want to go home.
Lake Colby is open for youths ages 11-13 and is loaded with activities to make their stay fun and full of adventure. Dominick loved the kayaking on the lake and impressed the staff and other kids with his fishing abilities.
Most nights were spent sitting around the campfire, telling stories and singing songs. But one memorable night was hiking back into the woods and camping out. When you get out away from everything, it's amazing how different the world really is. It was a great experience to camp out where bears and bobcats may wander by.
Besides regular activities and conservation-education programs, the campers participated in a variety of optional activities. Some kids chose archery, but Dominick learned fly tying and took up fly fishing. This is an activity that will stick with him for the rest of his life.
One thing about going to camp is meeting new kids. Dom made many new friends and plans on staying in touch with them. He said he would love to go back again and eventually become a camp counselor.
The other DEC camper this summer was my grandson Justin Sparaco. Justin is 15 and was sponsored by the Dave Brandt Chapter of Trout Unlimited. He attended the Pack Forest Camp in the southern Adirondacks north of Warrensburg.
The Pack Forest Camp is open to older campers, ages 14-17. They have a chance to explore forestry, aquatic biology, wildlife management and other environmental issues.
During the week, Justin had a lot of fun. Besides environmental discussions with forest rangers and environmental officers, there were a lot of great activities.
Justin shot guns at the target range and completed his bow hunter safety course.
One day, his group hiked to the top of Fifth Peak. He was fascinated to learn about orienteering and bushwhacking off the trails to get back to camp. Another fun activity was kayaking and canoeing several miles up the Hudson River and back.
Of course, there were many recreational games during the day and in the cover of darkness. And what would camp be without a campout and smores around a campfire at night?
Both boys had a wonderful time. If you or your son or daughter is interested in the DEC camp program next summer, stop by the conservation exhibit at the county fair and get all the details. The county federations of sportsmen and other sporting groups sponsor campers each year and pick up the tab, so why not get in on the fun?
The Ponderosa's annual 500-yard rifle shoot will start at noon July 29 on South Hill Rd. out of Worcester (699 County Highway 39). Check out your skill at long-range shooting and enjoy the refreshments. For more information, call Chuck at River Valley at 607-432-8180.
Rick Brockway writes a weekly outdoors column for The Daily Star. Email him at email@example.com.
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As I See It: Policeware
Published: August 9, 2007
by Victor Rozek
Is it just me or is the Federal Bureau of Investigation running out of clever names for its clever software? I mean, first we had Carnivore, which conjures up something toothy and predatory; then we had Magic Lantern, which evokes mystical, Harry Potteresque powers; and now we have CIPAV, which sounds like, well, like it was written by IBM.
CIPAV is short for Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier, and we might never have heard of it if it wasn't for the foolish antics of Josh Glazebrook. Glazebrook was a troubled student at Timberline High School near Olympia, Washington. Through some combination of boredom and malice, he thought it would be entertaining to threaten to blow up his high school. But although Glazebrook was apparently bright enough to engineer unidentifiable computerized bomb threats, he was not bright enough to understand that not everyone would be amused. Eager to share the digitized menace on his MySpace account--the not so subtly named timberlinebombinfo--he asked over 30 of his fellow students to link to it. That's when one of the children's parents notified the county sheriff.
The sheriff found that Glazebrook's threats weren't simply generic. As posted by political and technology writer Declan McCullagh at CNET News.com , Glazebrook was also "sending a series of taunting messages from Google Gmail accounts." Curiously, although the threats were very specific, they showed a poor grasp of elemental math: "There are 4 bombs planted throughout Timberline High School," Glazebrook warned. "One in the math hall, library hall, and one portable. The bombs will go off in 5 minute intervals at 9:15 am." Well, perhaps there were only 3 bombs.
Regardless, not having a great deal of experience with computer-based terror threats, the sheriff called in the FBI. The first thing the FBI did was to procure account logs from Google and MySpace. What it found gave credence to Glazebrook's cleverness and systems savvy. "Both pointed to the Internet Protocol address of 184.108.40.206," McCullagh reports, "which turned out to be a compromised computer in Italy."
That's when the FBI did something almost unthinkable in today's scofflaw environment: It requested a court order allowing them to unleash CIPAV--in this administration, a rare demonstrable act of respect for the rule of law, for which the agency should be applauded. That's how we came to know a little bit about the program--from the supporting affidavit the FBI provided the court. In it, according to McCullagh, the agency concludes "that using a CIPAV on the target MySpace 'Timberlinebombinfo' account may assist the FBI to determine the identities of the individual(s) using the activating computer."
The program, according to the agency, would be installed "through an electronic messaging program from an account controlled by the FBI." Then it would report back Internet Protocol address, Ethernet MAC address, "other variables, and certain registry-type information." Those other variables included, but were probably not limited to, the operating system type and serial number, the logged-in user name, and the Web URL to which the computer was previously connected.
But exactly how the program works and its full capabilities were kept confidential, for obvious reasons. Thus, questions remained: how does CIPAV actually get onto a target computer? How does it bypass security measures? Does it target flaws in specific operating systems? Can it also capture keystrokes? Are security software providers granting the FBI back-door entry? As the story broke, these and other unknowns appeared to be the chief concerns of the greater IT community.
The analysis by Kevin Poulsen, former blackhat hacker and currently senior editor at Wired, is typical of the concern. Poulsen hypothesizes: "It's possible that the FBI used social engineering to trick Glazebrook into downloading and executing the malicious code by hand--but given the teen's hacker proclivities, it seems unlikely he'd fall for a ruse like that. More likely the FBI used a software vulnerability, either a published one that Glazebrook hadn't patched against, or one that only the FBI knows. MySpace has an internal instant messaging system, and a Web-based stored messaging system. (Contrary to one report, MySpace doesn't offer e-mail, so we can rule out an executable attachment.) Since there's no evidence the CIPAV was crafted specifically to target MySpace, my money is on a browser or plug-in hole, activated through the Web-based stored messaging system, which allows one MySpace user to send a message to another's inbox. The message can include HTML and embedded image tags."
Discovering how such a program works is both useful and a fascinating challenge for the technically minded, yet the technical aspects of CIPAV are only a fragment of the greater story. And it is, perhaps, the signature story of our time: In an era of maleficent governance, unbridled technology, and ever-present threat, how do we find the balance between preserving personal freedom and ensuring security?
Given the penchant of all governments toward secrecy, how can we even begin to guess what spying technology is available to be deployed against us. There are dozens of organizations, both military and civilian, whose missions are to gather intelligence of one sort or another. They are sustained by billions of dollars budgeted expressly for that purpose, plus an unknown number of black-budget dollars that support classified programs with little or no outside oversight. Even if such a program were disclosed and challenged in court, and even if the court ordered it disbanded, what proof would there possibly be of compliance? Who would be allowed entry to the proverbial secret, undisclosed locations and be given access to classified computer technology in order to verify that a ruling had been enforced.
If the FBI was willing to follow legal procedures in order to install CIPAV on Glazebrook's computer (and thereby tip its hand), there's a good chance that CIPAV is not that important a piece of the agency's snooping puzzle.
With something as vast and unregulated as the Internet, very few of us have guaranteed control of what may be transmitted to our computers once we connect to the digital universe. Defending against hackers is far from foolproof; successfully defending against government intrusion is unlikely even for sophisticated computer users. The issue comes down to trust because verification is all but impossible. Can any government, swollen with power and self importance, be trusted to champion the Bill of Rights and act in the best interests of the nation? Without a greater degree of transparency, the question may be unanswerable. We are rarely privy to the methods or the times when covert surveillance works to our advantage--the times when serious threats are foiled and criminals are apprehended. But nor are we aware of the full range of abuses.
Few, if any, institutions that amass enormous power will voluntarily choose not to exercise it. And those who traffic in secrets tend to believe everyone else has them too. Imagine what the vengeful, suspicious, and reportedly deviant J. Edgar Hoover would have done if he had today's technology at his disposal.
Checks and balances are the genius of the American system but, ultimately, for the system to work it requires its members to have greater allegiance to the Constitution and the rule of law than to the accumulation and exercise of power.
Mercifully, the Timberline bomb threat turned out to be a hoax. For his creative exertions, Josh Glazebrook was sentenced to 90 days in juvenile detention. As for the FBI, we now know a little more about its surveillance capabilities.
But for those of us who have respect and regard for a society based on checks and balances, and who passionately believe in the sanctity of individual rights, perhaps the most important and overlooked part of this story is not that the FBI has a new generation of spyware, or that a potentially deadly threat was thwarted, but that a powerful and secretive agency weighed in on the side of the Constitution and sought the sanction of the courts before taking action.
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By Nathan Jones
What is this Rapture of the Church all about?
On Saturday, November 19, 2011, I was interviewed by host August Rosado of the BlogTalkRadio show Signs of the Times. August is a Bible prophecy teacher and preacher and founder of a ministry called Today in Bible Prophecy. He has and continues to be a personable guest on our television program Christ in Prophecy. He and I discussed the various aspects of the Rapture of the Church.
The Rapture of the Church
August Rosado: Everybody wants to know what the Rapture is. How can we know when it will happen? I know Jesus said that no man knows the day and no man knows the hour, but this question seems to be on the lips of everybody I run into in the Church today. Even in the secular arena people want to know just what is the Rapture. What is this Rapture of the Church all about? Can we know when it will happen?
Nathan Jones: Well, sadly, the Rapture has gotten a lot of attention as of late, and not for positive reasons. Harold Camping made two predictions this year in 2011 that Jesus would come back, with the latest being October 21st. Obviously, of course, the Lord did not come back and the world did not end. But, it got the secular world talking about this word "Rapture." Sometimes the secular world is more interested in what the Rapture is than the Church.
You know you can't find the world "Rapture" in the Bible, just like you can't find the word "Bible" in the Bible, or you can't find the word "Trinity" in the Bible. And yet, 1 Thessalonians 4:17 has the word "Rapture" in it. I'll read the verse, "After that we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will be with the Lord forever."
Those words "caught up" is in the Greek harpazo. When the Bible was translated into Latin for the 1,100 years that we had the Latin Vulgate harpazo was retranslated as rapio. In the English version we use "caught up," but in the Latin thos words would be rapio or anglicized rapture. So, I could say "that great snatching away," or "the great catching up," or "the great taking out." But, it's easier just to say Rapture based on the Latin rapio.
The verses on the Rapture you can find in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:51-58, and John 14 makes reference to it as well. So, there are a lot of verses in the Bible that talk about the Rapture of the Church. There are also verses about Jesus' Second Coming like Zechariah 14:1-21, Matthew 24:29-31, Mark 13:24-37, and Luke 21:25-27. They also speak about Jesus' return, though at a later time.
The Rapture of the Church is about when Jesus will come in the clouds. He will call up all those who have trusted Him as Savior. First, those who have died in Christ since the Church was founded at Pentecost up to then will be resurrected first, then those believers in Christ who are still alive. The event will happen in the blink of an eye. Just like the snap of your fingers, it will happen so fast.
We are told we will hear the archangel call out something, though we don't know what. Maybe he says, "Come up here!" Or, "It's time!" Or, "The Lord is waiting for you."
We will then be transformed out of our physical bodies and into our new glorified bodies. We will be resurrected and we will all meet the Lord in the air.
After that, the remaining world left behind will experience seven years of Tribulation, plus if there is an intermediate time before the Tribulation begins, that will befall the earth. That Tribulation time period will be a different era, a different dispensation.
The Rapture of the Church is about the Lord coming for all those who believed in Him for the last 2,000 plus years, to take them to Heaven before He pours His wrath out onto the world for its continued sin and rebellion against Him.
Signs of the Rapture?
August Rosado: People sometimes ask if anything has to be fulfilled in order for the Rapture of the Church to take place. I'm reminded of what the Pharisees and Sadducees wanted in Matthew 16 when they were looking for a sign from Jesus. Jesus responded by saying, "This adulterous and sinful generation looks after a sign, but no sign will be given to them except the sign of the prophet Jonah." Many say today that something has to be fulfilled in order for the Rapture to take place. Is that true?
Nathan Jones: No, the Rapture of the Church is a signless event.
Now, we can know that there are signs of the times that point to the Lord's soon return, so we know we are getting closer to the time. But, Jesus said in Matthew 24:42 and 44, "Therefore keep watch because you do not know what day your Lord will come. So you also must be ready because the Son of man will come in an hour when you do not expect Him." We know that the Lord will come and take His Church, but we don't know when. As a matter of fact, Jesus in Matthew 24:36 said, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." There are other verses like Titus 2:13 and 1 John 2:28 and so forth that confirms that nobody knows when the Rapture of the Church will occur, and so therefore nothing has to proceed it for the Rapture to happen.
In the next part of this Interview by August, we'll contrast the Rapture with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
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Welcome Team Oceania
Summary of North West - Oceania relationship London 2012
Oceania Olympic visit - London 2012
Tuesday, 5th Feb 2013 marked a milestone in the history of ONOC, as representatives from the regional sporting organisation and the World Health Organisation (WHO) eventually came to the table to discuss possible partnerships, at the regional level. This was made possible following recent meetings between NCD Coordinator, Dr. Temo Waqanivalu and Margaret Eastgate who is currently writing a concept paper focussing again on addressing physical inactivity, as part of the Oceania Sport for Development Program - which has linkages to the birth of the Olympic Movement. So, is it a case of deja vu?
It is said that it was back in the late 1800s that de Coubertin [was] worried that youth in his native France were turning away from physical activity. Today, we see the same problem in the gorwing rate of youth obesity through the world.
As a result also of physical inactivity, across all age groups, the Pacific is facing a crisis - a Non-Communicable Disease crisis!
The alarming rise of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the Pacific, the high morbidity rates associated with NCDs, besides the social, economic and environmental impact on already fast depleting national resources, the timing is apt to consolidate efforts and strengthen partnerships. That is the intended outcome - to translate the global MOU signed between WHO and the IOC to the regional level.
During yesterday's consultations, ONOC and WHO shared information around the mechanics of each organization, it's members, partners and stakeholders; the scope of work cut out based on commonalities in mandates; the opportunities stemming from the diverse networks; funding sources and the mobilization of resources and the opprotunities available for joint activities. A tangible outcome was the presentation and consultation of the draft MOU. The intention is to formalize this partnership for presentation at the upcoming ONOC Executive Board Meeting and subsequently, the ONOC General Assembly in April 2013.
The WHO Team comprised Dr. Temo Waqanivalu, Dr. Colin Andrew Bell, Peter Hoejskov, Saula Volavola with the ONOC Team led by President, Dr. Robin Mitchell, Dennis Miller, Sainimili Talatoka and Margaret Eastgate. The advice and contributions made during this consultative process is sincerely appreciated.
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There are so many bike owners here. Thought you might find this of interest.
The normal bike market is pretty straightforward — supplier, middleman and buyer. The market for stolen bikes has the same roles, but different players. Here's a quick look at how it works.
The Economics Of Stealing Bikes : Planet Money : NPR
By the way, some more bikes were stolen out of a backyard the other day. This time, Fitler Square area.
Thief Type 1: "Your standard drug addict."
For a heroin addict, Ruzzal says, a "front wheel is one hit, rear wheel is two hits, and a leather seat is three to four hits."
Thief Type 2: The professional
This is the guy who "comes around in a van with an angle grinder and he steals a bike by walking up to the bike wearing a bicycle helmet and a messenger bag and he actually looks like he owns the bike."
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Posts Tagged ‘kids sports’
Burning up the mommy blogs and parenting sites is a Wall Street Journal piece by Amy Chua called “Why Chinese mothers are superior.” I had to admit they were, at least by the description she gives, because the night before I read the piece my 11-year-old daughter had a sleepover.
A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it’s like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I’ve done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:
• attend a sleepover
• have a playdate
• be in a school play
• complain about not being in a school play
• watch TV or play computer games
• choose their own extracurricular activities
• get any grade less than an A
• not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama
• play any instrument other than the piano or violin
• not play the piano or violin.
I think you could sub “baseball” or “volleyball” for “piano” and “violin,” and make whatever substitutions are necessary to turn a Chinese mother into a sports parent — or any parent so obsessive about their child’s success that they are strict beyond belief, lest anything take anyone’s eyes off the prize.
I think you can also find justification given by the intense sport parent in this passage from Chua’s piece:
What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you’re good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up. But if done properly, the Chinese strategy produces a virtuous circle. Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Once a child starts to excel at something—whether it’s math, piano, pitching or ballet—he or she gets praise, admiration and satisfaction. This builds confidence and makes the once not-fun activity fun. This in turn makes it easier for the parent to get the child to work even more.
On some level, she probably is right. A child usually is not going to play piano for hours a day, or hit the batting cage for hours a day, or do whatever for hours a day that does not involve some level of enjoyment — unless they’ve done it for so long, and they’ve gotten so good at it, that they respond to the praise they’re getting for doing it so well.
Alas, being the “Chinese mother” is a tricky strategy. For every Ichiro Suzuki that seems to respond well and thrive to the parental-obsessive treatment, there is an Andre Agassi who does well but resents his father, or a Todd Marinovich who advances to the highest level and falls apart, or skads of others kids we never hear of who just burn out. And I’m not talking just sports. Unfortunately, as a parent, we never know whether we’ve pushed too hard or not enough until it’s too late to undo the damage — and the guilt you might feel as a result.
Chua details a confrontation she had with her 7-year-old daughter over trouble she had playing a certain piece on a piano, a fight that escalated into screaming fits (by the daughter) and threats of eternal punishment and withholding water until she learned to play the piece (by the mother). At one point, when Chua’s husband (who is not Chinese) tries to step in, she responds:
“Oh no, not this,” I said, rolling my eyes. “Everyone is special in their special own way,” I mimicked sarcastically. “Even losers are special in their own special way. Well don’t worry, you don’t have to lift a finger. I’m willing to put in as long as it takes, and I’m happy to be the one hated. And you can be the one they adore because you make them pancakes and take them to Yankees games.”
I’m amazed he can take them to Yankees games. He must sneak them out.
Anyway, the 7-year-old learns to play the piece, she’s joyful she can, she loves her mother, dumb-ass dad admits she’s right, and all is well.
There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids’ true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it’s a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what’s best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.
Unlike many who have commented on Chua’s piece, the fault I find is not in her individual parenting methods. They’re her kids, and that’s her business. I don’t doubt that she loves her kids and wants the best for them — and I don’t doubt that either from sports parents who also might seem overbearing on first, second, third and fourth looks.
But I do find fault with this either-or at the end of her piece. To me, good parenting combines the best of both the “Western” and “Chinese” scenarios she lays out. You can encourage your kids to pursue their passions while also reminding them that many others are pursuing the same passion, and showing them what they have to do to make their passion into a viable future, thus providing a nuturing environment AND giving them work habits and inner confidence no one can ever take away.
Now, I need to step away to have my kids turn off their video games and go to bed.
For a lot of us in the parenting way, one of our New Year’s resolutions — inspired by a few weeks off from getting kids up in the morning for school — is to “take back” our lives, much like the Tea Party wants to “take back” America. We Tea Party Parents want to hearken back to a simpler time, before schedules, before burning the candle at both ends. Basically, before we had children. Like the Tea Party itself, we Tea Party Parents probably aren’t going to be successful at turning back the clock (or cutting spending, either), but, hey, no sense not trying to talk a good game!
On the site Lifetimemoms.com, run by the Lifetime cable network (during the Christmas season, is the site called Fa-La-La-La-Lifetimemoms.com?), Dawn Sandomeno of Partybluprintsblog takes time off from posts like “Rae’s Ultimate Eggplant Sandwich!” (if yours is better, you’d better put two fucking exclamation points on it) to describe herself as a Lifetime woman in peril, although the culprit is her kids’ sports schedule, rather than a fiendish man who seemed OK at the start but turned out to be danger.
This post stars Joanna Kerns. Or maybe Judith Light.
What’s crazy is that the problem is also what’s good for my kids: Youth Sports. For me, it’s three boys who play ice hockey, but it could be baseball, soccer, dance, lacrosse, or any other activity these days. Youth sports have gone off the deep end and to what end, I’m not sure. Mind you, I’m not against them, quite the opposite – I love that my boys are physically fit because of sports, have learned team play, and are developing great leadership and time management skills. However, there are no boundaries anymore. I was actually at an ice rink for a game on Easter Sunday and missed Thanksgiving with my family so we could play in a tournament in another city. Each youth sport is now a 9 – 12 month commitment and it’s not just time, it‘s money, lots of money! Practices, lessons, games, clinics, camps, it turns out to be 7 days a week – God rested on Sunday, why can’t I?
So, I will need to be strong and committed to this challenge, the pressure can be strong from organizations and clubs, not to mention my own kids. I want and need this change to happen. I’m determined to succeed and I truly hope to take some time back by being brave and saying no to the extras. I want to show my children that family time is important.
That’s all well and good, but a Tea Party Parent is going to fail cutting a few extras like, say, education. But you’re not going to reduce your family deficit by cutting a few extras here and there. The only solution is a radical one — eliminate activities altogether.
After all, it’s not like the sports organizations are going to say, “Oh, you want more family time? Please, take all the time you need!” It’s more like, “Oh, you want your kid home? I’ll tell you what: he can leave the team and BE HOME ALL THE FUCKING TIME!” So you have to decide as a parent, what do you want to do?
The rule in my family is that if you, as a child, love the activity — as in, we don’t have to drag your ass there, or tell you to practice — you can do it to your heart’s content. If you only kind of like it, then it’s on the bubble. I’ve got four kids. My wife and I don’t have the time or energy to schlep them around to stuff they only kind of like, whether or not our rationale is wanting to spend more time with them.
So Dawn Sandomeno should ask her kids whether they love playing hockey. If they do, then she IS getting her family time. If not, then she can cut off the sport like a Tea Party candidate wants to cut off spending on everything but the military.
Here is an example on what gets built, and what doesn’t, in our not-officially-in-a-recession economy.
In the fast-growing Indianapolis suburb of Westfield, Ind., there was a proposed $1 billion, 1,400-acre project that was going to include mostly new housing and stores, but would also have 150 acres set aside for youth sports fields, a new Y, and a minor-league baseball stadium. Because of the lousy real estate market, the housing-and-stores part of the development has been cut by two-thirds.
Meanwhile, the athletics portion of the project has broken off, and its size has doubled — to 300 acres, or as the Indianapolis Business Journal points out, the size of the Kings Island amusement park.
I’ve written about it here before (and before that), and I’ll write about it again, because cities keep doing it: using youth sports as an economic development tool. And why not? At most, your huge complex can host scads of tournaments, which means scads of out-of-town teams, which means scads of parents and kids spending money at your hotels and restaurants. At worst, if the out-of-towners don’t show up, you can justify the cost of the project (and Westfield’s was estimated, when it was half the current size, at around $60 million) by pointing out that, unlike building a new NFL stadium, the community gets to use it.
Even in the throes of the recession, parents in unemployment-scarred towns such as Elkhart, Ind., ponied up to put their kids in sports. As one parent told me in 2009, he will cut any other expense, because “if you save $5, it’s $5 you can spend on your child.” With such a loyal spending base to work with, it’s no wonder even little towns like Edwardsburg, Mich. (population 1,200), have huge sports complexes in the planning or construction stages.
After all, you don’t want to have your hometown newspaper write about all the tournaments (and money) you lost because you didn’t keep up with the Basketball Joneses. (Often, the local coverage of proposed complexes sounds a lot like the fawning articles that beat the drums for taxpayer-funded pro stadiums. Sample headline: “New sports complex offers cities financial home run.”) Again, so what if the promised multimillion-dollar impact from youth tournaments doesn’t happen? At least your kids have a nice place to play, right?
Westfield, population 27,000, is much more ambitious than most cities building youth sports complexes. Instead of just saying, we’re building a complex, Westfield and its mayor, Andy Cook (no relation to your humble blogger) have declared they are building “The Family Sports Capital of America.”
Why so grandiose? Westfield, located in Indiana’s Hamilton County, one of the fastest-growing in the nation, is trying to grab more of the executives who have been more apt to settle in other suburbs, particularly Carmel, located immediately to Westfield’s south. Carmel (hometown of your humble blogger) itself has stood out nationally because of its grand schemes, such as its embrace of roundabouts, its snagging of Michael Feinstein and his Great American Songbook, and its getting Kendra Wilkinson to film her reality show there. A few years back, the U.S. Census Bureau renamed the Indianapolis metropolitan area the Indianapolis-Carmel metro. One of Westfield’s few claims to fame was being the home of a serial killer.
Carmel has always been bigger, richer and more important than Westfield, and damnit, if the town was going to be known for being more than Carmel’s leftovers, it needed to do something grand. Hence, “The Family Sports Capital of America.” (Giving yourself a grandiose nickname is a tradition among Hoosiers. See Michael Jackson, “King of Pop.”)
With ground yet to be broken, we’re a long way from finding out whether Westfield can pop a big civic boner in the face of its rival, which I just realized is a highly inappropriate metaphor in a piece about a place kids play. But we are hardly a long way away from cities of any size determining that putting money into shiny, new youth sports complexes is maybe not such a good idea after all. As long as parents are willing to spend their last $5 on their kids and their sports, there is going to be a market for the facilities. The only question might be is if some other town is going to try to beat Westfield to the “Family Sports Capital of America” punch.
(Actually, Blaine, Minn., already did.)
The opening story of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch’s big, gimme-a-Pulitzer-Prize series on youth sports is headlined, “Children may be vulnerable in $5 billion youth-sports industry.” May?
All you have to do is spend a little time with this here blog to see how youth sports victimizes kids with molestation, hazing, injury, balls thrown violently to the head and complicated relationships with parents that will keep them in therapy for years. All in the name of getting one of those extremely elusive college scholarships and an even more extremely elusive pro career, all while holding up the sagging economy through recession-proof activities.
Or you could read the Dispatch’s series, a well-reported look pretty much along the same lines, except that the newspaper’s writers aren’t allowed to type “fuck.” Well, they can type it, but it probably won’t get past the fucking copy desk. Fuckers.
To me, the most interesting part of the series is the poll of more than 1,000 central Ohio youths about various aspects of their youth sports experience. For example:
– 315 said they started youth sports at age 5 or younger. Another 445 said they started between ages 6 and 9. I’m going to guess of those 445, they were a lot closer to 6 than 9.
As I typed that previous sentence, this song popped into my head. Kids, let your freak flag fly!
– For the most part, kids appear to play non-school sports because they want to, with many reporting no pressure to play because of a dream of scholarships or making the high school varsity. Only 50 said they got a lot of pressure from parents, while 799 said there was little or none. However, change the question from “parents” to “father,” and I suspect the responses change somewhat.
– 571 said their coaches were fun and improved their game. Only 60 said their coach only wanted to win, or yelled a lot. Is Central Ohio the repository of all the best youth coaches? Really?
– Another 571 (the same kids?) said their parents were supportive or enjoyable at their sporting events. Another 271 said parents were embarrassing or put too much pressure on them. Apparently there are parents, given the low rate of pressure to play, who are all nice and home, but become raging lunatics once the whistle blows.
Actually, the poll, unless the children are suffering some sort of travel team Stockholm Syndrome, seems to reveal that even as we absorb all these stories about the nuttiness of youth sports, in most cases everyone — especially the kids themselves — are keeping their wits and perspective about them. If that’s the case, what I am going to write about? You mean kids really only may be vulnerable? Fuck.
GQ, as part of an Internet-wide movement to create lists and slideshows for cheap page-count padding, recently posted an item called “Eight Stupidest Things Sports Fans Love to Say.” You know, stuff like “he plays the game the right way,” which is also on the list of Eight Stupidest Things Larry Brown Loves to Say.
So that got me thinking, fresh off a break from my 11-year-old daughter’s travel softball before we get to my 7-year-old son’s and 4-year-old daughter’s soccer leagues, about the eight stupidest things youth sports parents and coaches love to say. Given I’m coming off softball, this might be a bit heavy in that direction. I’ve got six items here. Feel free to suggest your own nuggets of numbnutsness for Nos. 7 and 8.
1. “Be a hitter!”
I can’t think of a time someone — a parent or coach — HASN’T yelled this after some poor kid had the temerity to take strike one. I can only imagine how hoarse Wade Boggs’ managers would have gotten had they yelled this every time he took strike one, which was every time he went up to bat.
“Be a hitter!” is dumb on many levels. First, even kids who are scared to take the bat off their shoulder are intellectually familiar with the concept that their mere presence in the batter’s box means that they are, in fact, a hitter. “Be a hitter? I thought I was supposed to be a fielder here!” Second, a kid who is not predisposed to hitting is not suddenly transformed into Ted Williams with the sage advice of “Be a hitter!” In fact, you usually can feel a player’s body tighten after that moment. Third, a kid who takes a pitch at a youth league level is no dummy. Often, a pitcher isn’t going to get the ball over the plate three out of six times, even with an extended strike zone. “Be a hitter” then becomes a command to get kids to swing at terrible pitches, thus teaching bad habits on pitch selection.
If you want your kid to “Be a hitter!” every time the ball is pitched, take him or her to a batting cage.
2. “Two strikes. Only one more!”
This phrase — or its batter corollary, “Two strikes, protect the plate!” — are yelled clearly because of the failure of the American education system. After all, why would even teenagers have this phrase screamed in their direction unless they did not know the number after two was three?
“You will get five strikes…” “Three strikes.”
3. “He’s going to get a scholarship!”
I could have called this blog “Your Kid’s Not Playing in College.” The holy grail (notwithstanding the above Monty Python clip) for many parents, particularly those whose children play sports with no mass audience, is for those tens of thousands of dollars and/or hours to pay off in a scholarship, which they realize only when their child gets to college sports (if their child is lucky, given a scholarship rate of 1% or less for any high school athlete) is year-to-year, and doesn’t come close to paying full freight. Hey, the volleyball team doesn’t make any money, you know?
Still, parents have programmed themselves early into thinking that the scholarship is the easily reachable pot of gold at the end of the athletic rainbow. My wife was out to dinner a while back with a few acquaintances, and she brought up bringing my then 6-year-old youngest son to his bowling league. Almost in unison, those acquaintances shot back, “Ooh, I bet he could get a scholarship for that!” Well, maybe he can. But the kid was still bowling with bumpers, for Pete Weber’s sake.
4. “Have fun!” or “Everybody have fun out there!” or “Hope you all had fun!”
When my wife tells me, “It’ll be fun,” that’s my signal that whatever she’s talking about is sure to be the opposite of fun. “We’re going out with our Bible-thumping neighbors to a creationist theme park. It’ll be fun!” Why does she make a point of telling me it’ll be fun? If it’s fun, won’t it be fun without me having to be cajoled into believing it’s fun? Of course, she knows this, which is why she’s trying to convince me (and her, perhaps) that “it’ll be fun!”
I know we’re supposed to encourage children to have fun in sports, but we do keep score, parents lose their shit on the sidelines, coaches are critiquing kids’ every move, and the umpire doesn’t care that the batter swung through your catcher’s mitt and your fingers are throbbing with pain — damnit, that’s catcher’s interference (the last one actually happened to my 11-year-old daughter this summer). No wonder coaches have to make a point of saying, “It’ll be fun!”
5. “Sports is good for them. It keeps them moving, so they don’t play video games.”
That is a paraphrase of a common reason parents sign up their children for sports when they would clearly rather be, well, playing video games. It’s not fun (“It’ll be fun!”) for anyone — not for the parents dragging the kid out to practice, not the coach who has to deal with a player who does not want to be there, not for any teammate trying to take a sport halfway seriously. And, of course, not for the kid. If you want your child to move and not spend so much time on video games (the only reason I can figure why they’re singled out is because the parents don’t get gaming, or they’ve heard other parents say it), there are other options, ones that are more practical. For instance, have your kid sweep the driveway.
6. “[Fill in unhinged argument with official/umpire/referee]“
Here is my personal code of conduct for parents and coaches when dealing with officials:
Rule 1: The quality of officiating is commensurate with the skill level of the athletes involved. Ergo, your child’s bitty basketball game will not have the same professional refereeing of an NBA game. (Plus, in youth leagues calls often are made differently so the game can be sped up, or to give players more leeway to learn.)
Rule 2: It is OK to react negatively and quickly — such as an eye roll, grunt or “ah, fuck” — to an official’s call. Not every call, but one that seems fairly crucial.
Rule 3: It is OK for the coach to ask for a clarification from the referee as to why a certain call was made — as long as that clarification is requested respectfully. (Not, “Can you please tell me what the fuck you could have possibly seen, you stupid shit?”)
Rule 4: Once the matter is settled, shut up. And if you don’t shut up, the ump, even if it’s a 15-year-old girl, can tell you to shut up.
Rule 5: If you spend the ride home with your child blaming the officials for the loss or anything bad that happened, your child will grow up to be Rasheed Wallace. Except, more than likely, without the money and the NBA career. In other words, all of the whining, and none of the benefits.
Does anyone want to nominate the final two?
I’m typing this entry from my mother’s patio in Carmel, Ind., suburb of Indianapolis, site of the recently completed NCAA men’s basketball Final Four, where the little hometown school crashed the party and nearly made me wonder whether I was too cynical in titling this blog “Your Kid’s Not Going Pro.”
After all, the conceit behind this blog is that no matter how much money or time you spend training your young athlete, the chances of your child going pro — or even getting a college scholarship — are almost nil. There is always someone, somewhere you don’t know that leaps higher, runs faster and hits harder. No amount of coaching or training can ever completely make up for that. Sports is a fun activity, and it’s good for kids. If you want to spend a lot of money on a travel team, have it at. But don’t expect your child to be a star.
And then came Butlermania.
If you didn’t hear, Butler is from the Horizon League, which is to major college basketball as Double-A baseball is to the National League. Even though Butler has been a perennial NCAA team over the last decade (including two previous appearances in the round of 16), it still was an amazing story that a 4,000-student college with a basketball team whose budget could fit into a Duke player’s duffel bag was now facing those same Blue Devils in the final.
And as a native of Indianapolis who has seen many games in Butler’s storied Hinkle Fieldhouse (hey, did you hear “Hoosiers” was filmed there?), I got sucked up in the excitement, especially after coming down with my family Sunday, midway through Final Four weekend.
I took my 12-year-old son, my 10-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son downtown Monday to soak in the excitement themselves. We drove by Monument Circle just as the second Butler rally of the weekend, attracting another gaggle of thousands, was breaking up. We made our way to the Indiana Convention Center, north of tournament site Lucas Oil Stadium, to go down to Bracket Town.
Bracket Town is a relatively inexpensive ($10 for adults, $6 for kids and seniors) experience where you can do all sorts of basketball-related activities, from pop-a-shot to 3-point contests to skill challenges to just plain shooting around to games of knockout. There also were activities related to other NCAA sports — lacrosse shooting, football drills, a home run derby (with a plastic ball and bat), computer-aided rifle and golf (though not together), hockey puck shooting, and fencing. My 10-year-0ld daughter will forever lord it over my 12-year-old son that she beat him in fencing (with plastic swords). My 7-year-old, already feeling like a little brother after his big brother crushed him in air hockey, didn’t stick around to shake hands after a 9-year-old girl beat him in fencing.
Of course, Bracket Town was thick was people wearing Butler shirts, something you didn’t see much even around Indianapolis before this NCAA run. After all, it is a small school, with a small alumni base, easily pushed aside by Indiana, Purdue and even Ball State. Just hearing Butler fans in a cheer competition, at an NCAA final, was bizarre, despite the school’s past glimpses of success.
On top of that, Bracket Town encourages you to dream big for your kids. I couldn’t help but think, as my 12-year-old was nailing the lacrosse drills — a sport he’s never played — that maybe this would be the sport for him (and that this, following a dabbling at hockey, makes me wonder why he can’t like such expensive activities.) Watching my daughter’s footwork and aggressiveness during fencing, on top of the early success she’s had as an athlete, made me wonder if she’s going to someday write her ticket to college through sports. Watching my 7-year-old’s competitive fire made me think he’s got the guts to go far in his chosen sports of baseball and bowling, though I should talk about him about maybe, next time, shaking the girl’s hand.
Back on the streets of Indianapolis, the Butlermania only built as the game drew closer. More fans in Butler T-shirts swarmed downtown (as did a fair number of fans in West Virginia T-shirts, despite its Final Four loss to Duke — those fans must have had nonrefundable hotel rooms). In a great American mashup, a man in a Sikh headdress wore a T-shirt highlighting hometown pride and the direct 6-mile route from campus to Lucas Oil Stadium: “The Road to the Final Four Goes Down Capitol Avenue!”
Everything was Butler. On the way back to Carmel, we drove through the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood to check out Butler’s campus, including its Clowes Hall, where in 1987 I saw the Psychedelic Furs (featuring Richard and Tim Butler). On the way to the bar where my wife and I watched the final game, we passed by Butler Toyota.
The final game itself was a testament to how good Butler really was, and how tough it played. A few times it looked like Duke — much taller, bigger, faster and moneyed — was ready to run away, but Butler always pulled the Blue Devils back. Butler, and particularly star player Gordon Hayward, did not shoot well. Yet they defended well, worked hard on the offensive boards, and had players step up out of nowhere to keep Butler in the game. Players such as Avery Jukes, with a name that could put him in the backfield with Tonsillitis Johnson and Artis Toothis in the great Dan Jenkins novel “Life Its Ownself.”
Speaking of cultural references, maybe Butler, as it cut a five-point lead to one in the final two minutes, could be the real-life “Hoosiers.” Maybe I was wrong about Your Kid’s Not Going Pro. Maybe it is true that with determination, heart and the smarts to take advantage of any lucky breaks you get, your kid could go pro. Or at least college. And not only play at a higher level, but also succeed wildly. When Butler called timeout with 13 seconds left, down one, how many people do you think broke out references to Butler running the picket fence? To Brad Stevens saying he would use Gordon Hayward as a decoy? To the players shiftly uncomfortably until Hayward stared Stevens in the eye to say, “I’ll hit it”? All 70,000 in attendance? Most of the millions watching?
Hayward did get the ball — twice in the last three seconds, it turns out — and couldn’t hit either time. The movie Butler starred in wasn’t “Hoosiers.” It was “Rocky.” Butler was an underestimated foe who seemingly came out of nowhere to take the champ’s best shot, give back as good as it got, yet not quite have enough talent to overcome a superior foe.
The Mid-Majority, the world’s greatest college basketball blog, has a saying for the mid-major Cinderellas of the NCAA men’s tournament: “It always ends in a loss.” It’s not a cynical statement about smaller programs. It’s the reality. Rocky can’t come right out of the meat locker to knock out Apollo Creed.
And even if he did — even if Butler won — would that have fundamentally changed things? Would every mid-major be able to fight toe-to-toe with the Dukes of the world? Probably not. Butler, like Gonzaga, is a program that has found a way to transcend its relatively low status on the NCAA totem pole to be successful year-in and year-out. The other members of Butler’s Horizon League are not going to replicate this anytime soon.
These were some of thoughts running through my disappointed head as the crowd cleared out of my bar after game time as if someone had just released anthrax.
So in the end, Butler does not make me rethink my assumptions behind “Your Kid’s Not Going Pro.” As a matter of fact, it only strengthens them. If you want to spend a lot of money, time and energy on your child’s sports, then that’s great. I will continue to do so with my four children. But unless your child grows to 6-foot-11, or runs a 4.2 40, or has a 97 mph fastball, it’s a long, hard road — and it might be even if your child HAS these attributes.
That’s why it’s important to make sure you enjoy your child’s sporting experience, and not make it the focus of your social life, or your family’s future mansion-dwelling potential. Because it always ends in a loss.
The founders of Houston-based SelectStat.com, an online youth statistics database, have in mind as customers the sort of people who want to build up their kid’s resume so they have a better chance of being selected by travel teams or otherwise get better opportunities at each level, kind of like all those services that promise to make highlight videos of your kid for the benefit of college recruiters.
“I look at this as a child’s athletic resume,” co-founder Phil Jones told the Houston Business Journal. “If child moves out of state, it can travel with them. It’s good for the coach and good for the kid.”
Or, co-founder, Sean Ulrey, your $19.99 could go for making an online “baby book” for your child’s sporting career.
While I’m sure the co-founders/sports parents are on to something — there’s no doubt there’s money to be made from both those bases — I think Jones and Ulrey are missing a very key demographic: fantasy sports.
There are a million ways to play fantasy baseball, football, basketball, even golf and NASCAR. But why not get a database together and create a fantasy youth sports league? Have you SEEN the money these fantasy nerds drop? Magazine subscriptions, Internet inside information sites, flights and hotels to fantasy conventions — these folks are more shameless than youth sports parents at spending big bucks for useless activity.
And the thing is, parents will stop being interested in SelectStat when their kids stop playing sports. But fantasy nerds are forever.
Sheesh, even Bloomberg, which presumably exists to cover Wall Street, knows where the real money is.
I just finished reading the paperback version of “Game On,” by ESPN writer Tom Farrey. I have a sense of relief, in that Farrey, through extensive reporting, confirms many of the biases I had about American youth sports when I started this blog in December 2008, after the hardcover release of Farrey’s book. Namely:
1. That there is too much of an early emphasis on competition, instead of learning — and even more important — enjoying a game.
2. That there is a youth sports-industrial complex that runs from the youth leagues to the colleges and professional leagues they stock that send the message to worried parents that if you don’t pay big in time and money, your child will never even sniff sporting success past, oh, age 6.
3. That this youth sports-industrial complex has created a youth sports world that rapidly tosses aside any family who doesn’t have the means to participate, or has a child who blooms late physically or don’t specialize in a sport by the time the first baby tooth is lost.
4. That the craziness — the yelling at refs, the coaching from the sidelines, the incredible money spent, the amount of time devoted — you see from youth sports parents often is a reasoned, conservative, expected, fostered result of points No. 1, 2, and 3, because parents, trying to do their job in advocating for the best interests of their children, have to resort to extreme means if they want their children to match even the limited athletic success they might have had in their generation.
5. That this system, for the most part, satisfies no one — it leaves millions of kids tossed aside with no options for even casual physical activity or team play, it squeezes out otherwise talented kids who can’t pay the cost of admission, and it doesn’t even guarantee the creation of a deep bench of elite-level athletes.
Farrey, backed by ESPN’s relatively deep pockets, was able to travel the globe to unlock the story of how American youth sports got to where they are. (While I tweaked columnist Rick Reilly for calling out USA Today — and not his own employer — for ESPN’s own kiddie-pornish promotion of youth sports, the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader has given Farrey and other reporters the resources to do some great investigative work in this world and otherwise. That’s part of the yin-yang of being a big sports journalism organization and an even bigger sports promoter.)
My favorite part about Farrey’s book isn’t a specific part. It’s his whole approach. Farrey, like many of us who trade in this space, has his personal reasons for his interest in youth sports. Namely, the persons you’ve spawned who play them. (I have four personal reasons; Farrey has three.) But Farrey doesn’t make the book about him and his worry for his children. Instead, by reporting out the history and evolution (or de-evolution) of youth sports, Farrey makes “Game On” about the future of the country, not the future of his kids, or just kids in general.
Farrey ends with some of his own ideas of reforming youth sports, but I’ll get into those at a later date. I’ll bring them up later, when I finish a post I’m planning about why school sports is destined to die.
The beauty of having children is that they can lecture you like you’re a dumbass. Like how my 12-year-old son the other night, for his science class, had to interview numerous people about whether their habits were Earth-friendly, as if I needed someone who sucks power through a garden hose with his Xbox giving me an implied guilt trip because I have the temerity to drive my car a whopping four miles a day, round-trip, to get to my mass-transit train that takes me to work so I can afford to pay his electric bill.
Another 12-year-old boy, Miller Donnelly of Sudbury, Ont., has taken child harangues to the older generation to a new level, or should I say the 266,000-odd YouTube viewers (and counting) have done so with “The Magic Hockey Helmet,” which got a recent push from young Miller’s interview with ParentDish. “The Magic Hockey Helmet” is Donnelly, when he was 9, talking in full Canadian accent about how aboot the time he puts on a hawkey helmet, he magically turns into a 20-year-old (minus-6.67 Celsius), with people screaming and cursing at him.
Listen, kid, I know full well how to act at a game without your cute little spiel. By the way, I must say, if you’re playing like a 20-year-old, it’s probably because you handle the puck like a major junior with multiple undiagnosed concussions! Holy fucking shit, kid! You’re like a convenience store — no checks! JUST PASS THE PUCK ALREADY, ASSHOLE! MOUNT RUSHMORE CALLED — THEY SAID THEY NEED YOU TO GIVE BACK THE FUCKING STONE YOU CALL YOUR HANDS!!!!!!
I mean, really, where do these kids get off telling adults how to behave?
“Junior high Paterno” is the nom de guerre the Tacoma (Wash.) News Tribune affixed to one Barry Crust, who is in his last year coaching middle school sports at Hudtloff Middle School in Lakewood, Wash. That’s not because Crust has coke bottle bottoms on his glasses, wears white socks with any shoes, and found late-career success by loosening his recruiting standards to include more criminals. It’s because Crust is old.
Crust started at Lakewood in 1967 and never went anywhere else, beginning his career one year after Paterno took the head job for Penn State’s football team and never went anywhere else. As the News Tribune itself noted, all Paterno had to do was coach football. By the newspaper’s calculation, Crust has coached the equivalent of 117 seasons — a “baseball coach for 42 years, a wrestling coach for 31 years, a football coach for 26 years, a fastpitch coach for 14 years. Factor in a couple of years of basketball and one each for track and volleyball … .” Crust retired as a physical education teacher in 1997, but he’ll finish his 118th and final season in the spring of 2010 when he coach’s Hudtloff’s baseball team.
The News Tribune asked Crust how kids and sports have changed over 42 years, naturally. Crust’s answers are not what you’d call, well, crusty:
– Girls aren’t just stuck in intramurals anymore, something Crust thought was “silly” and “unfair.”
– Other than being bigger and faster, and having different hairstyles, kids haven’t really changed much over the years.
– The biggest change has been the decline of the all-around athlete.
Crust fears the concept of the all-around athlete has been compromised by a youth-sports culture that demands specialized talents.
“We’ll have an after-school baseball practice from 3:15 to 5,” he said, “and then the kids are picked up for their next practice, which goes until 7. What that means is I’m not their only coach, so I’ve got to be flexible.
“Take bunting. If you don’t know how to bunt, I’ll show you. But if you’ve learned a different technique from somebody else, I don’t want to waste our time trying to undo everything.”
Interestingly, Crust credits spreading himself coaching over multiple sports as a reason why he lasted so long.
Not that Crust bemoans the relative brevity of any junior high sports season. To the contrary, he believes the schedule – two weeks of practice, five weeks of games, everything wrapped up in two months – kept him fresh during the three decades he spent as full-time P.E. instructor and busy-bodied coach.
It sounds like Crust kept some perspective about youth sports and his role in them. No wonder he appears to be retiring happy, and on his own terms.
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Some excerpts from "How Harper won the recession":
"International finances remain wobbly.
Governments around the edge of Europe, in countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece, are in danger of defaulting on their debts. Questions are being raised even about Britain's debt load.
Spooked European governments are being pressured to cut back on the very spending that has kept these nations from collapsing into depression....
...However, in Canada, all of this seems very far away. In Toronto, housing prices remain hot. Interest rates are at rock bottom. Inflation is low. Unemployment, while high, remains below the levels experienced in the recessions of the '80s and '90s.
Unemployment is America's number one topic. Here in Canada, pundits fret not about joblessness but the federal deficit.
The Harper Conservatives have used all of this to shift public discussion into what they hope will be more optimistic channels.
That story, sketched out in Wednesday's Throne Speech, is that the bad times are effectively over and that the country can now set its sights on a brighter future – one in which, under the leadership of a far-sighted Harper government, Canadians will be able to replicate the achievements of their Olympic athletes and create a brand new tomorrow.....
....None of this means that Harper is necessarily fated to win the next election. Much can happen between now and then.
What it does mean though is that, barring a second economic crisis, he will not be blamed for this recession. He may even be credited for any recovery.
And that is a very big plus."
Read the entire article at the Star, and wish Thomas luck. He might need it.
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In the last few years, Zambia has experienced economic success as evidenced by its progression from a low to middle income country. This has in turn resulted in an increase in business activity in various sectors of the economy. There has also been significant growth in the Zambian project finance market, which has largely been focused on the mining sector. However, other sectors such as hydro-power and infrastructure have recently begun to attract project financing, particularly following the enactment of the Public-Private Partnership Act (the 'PPP Act'), which seeks to attract private sector investment for infrastructure development. Project financing has been the most common way through which PPPs have been formed, under the Public-Private Partnership Unit within the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, which has been tasked to implement the policy goals set out under the PPP Act.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
Christians should be the world's best environmentalists, but we need to begin with the right assumptions which are based on a right theology.Don't forget good science David!
Christian environmentalism cannot be reduced to sloganeering. David points to the DDT disaster as an example of the slogan outweighing the facts. Climate change is another good one. The climate is changing, how much, the effects, and the casues are highly debatable. This raises enormous questions about what consitutes good stewardship of creation.
You see, stewardship is the key, further stewardship to what ends. Trying to end the proported anthropic casues of climate change would result in changing the entire economy of humanity, while coping with climate change would preserve that economy. Both paths will cause some human suffereing, one more than the other. Like DDT, the banning of which ended some human suffering, but created much more, what constitutes good stewardship is far from straightforward. The same is true for so many questions. The realtively low volume and mass, though very high toxicity, of waste from nuclear energy production vs. the enormous amounts, though lower toxicity, of waste from other forms of electrical production is one example. The same sorts of questions apply to the amounts and toxicity of waste from the production of electrical vehicles vs. standard vehicles when compared to the emission from the operations of both.
The point is it is never enough to simply say that we have to be good stewards of the planet. We have to put in the hard work of figuring out what that actually means.
That is why we are a church of many people, differently abled and gifted. In cases like those cited above, there is little the church can do other than its mission, create good Christians that are in positions to make the determinations about what is the best path. It is not incumbent upon the church to develop the expertise these decisions require, rather the church is to make the people that gain the exerptise. Those people when informed with the word of God and the values that that inculcates will then be able to determine what is the best stewardship.
Sloganeering is about institutions and feeling better. But it is a far cry from good stewardship.
Related Tags: environment, DDT, climate change, stewardship, church, Christian, Jollyblogger
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How to achieve your goals
- By Jamie Dunn -
- Oct 11, 2012
We've all got goals, but how do we make sure we achieve them? Today's guest blog investigates...
There has been lots of scientific research done towards the benefits of something called 'Goal Setting'. Here's a stat that might make you think - you are 80% more likely to achieve your goals if you share them with people.
The reason I bring this up is simple. How many people have their goals written down? Do you see your goals everyday? I get young people I work with to write their goals down and ensure that they are constantly seeing them and acting on them. I use something I made called a 'Goal Setting Contract' the young people write down their goals, say when they are going to achieve them by and then sign and date it. I then keep in contact with them to see the progress they have made.
What three things are you going to have achieved by this exact date in 2013? Write three goals down, make a commitment and promise to yourself and then sign and date it and ensure you see them daily. I have my goals saved on my wallpaper of my phone, my home screen on my laptop and on the wall in my bedroom.
So what do you want to achieve?
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Hello,It appeared that the main point of this video was "whichever side had the best "evidence" and the best "arguments" is the winner". Everybody wants “our” facts/evidences to counter “theirs.” What they really don’t understand, however, is that it’s not a matter of “their evidence vs. ours.” All evidence is actually interpreted, and all scientists actually have the same observations—the same data—available to them. Christians and non-Christians all have the same evidence! The difference is in the way we all interpret the facts. And why do we interpret facts differently? Because we start with different presuppositions; these are things that are assumed to be true without being able to prove them. These then become the basis for other conclusions. All reasoning is based on presuppositions (also called axioms). This becomes especially relevant when dealing with past events. Evolutionists have certain beliefs about the past/present that they presuppose, e.g., no God (or at least none who performed acts of special creation); so they build a different way of thinking to interpret the evidence of the present.For Christians, The Bible is the starting point to interpreting everything around them. So really, it is absurd to use science to "prove" the Bible right. Instead, true observational science is consistent with what the Bible says. (http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n3/science-or-the-bible) Thus, when Christians and non-Christians argue about the evidence, in reality they are arguing about their interpretations based on their presuppositions.Read more at:What’s the best “proof” of creation?http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/wow/best-proof-of-creationOn his comment about "there is no chance that the designer is good, given the pervasive evil in the world", he is forgetting that God's creation has evil because we humans brought evil into the world. The great news is that God loved us so much that he took our punishment for us for rebelling against him. He wants us to live with him in eternal paradise, all we have to do is accept his forgiveness by admitting that you have done wrong is the sight of the Lord, then believing that Jesus is your savior. Now that is an amazing God. Every other false religion is the world requires you to earn your redemption by doing "enough" good works. The one and only god, the Triune God has it set up so that we do not have to earn our salvation. He knows that we could not live up to his standards (ultimate perfection) because we are born human (read: sinful). Read more at:Death and Suffering Questions and Answershttp://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/death_suffering.aspIn fact, there is evidence that he is perfectly good. It is called the Bible. He created a perfect world for us, and gives us the standard of what what is good because he is the creator. Also remember, that the law is designed for humans. God is above the law because he created everything. For example, when a Dad sets a bed time for his child, the rule is just for the child, and does not apply to the dad.Going from that, that is why God came to earth as a man, because then he could be under the law to fulfill it in our stead because we could not.When he brings up the problem of evil, you have to know that Adam and Eve did have free will and they were capable of obeying God's commandment of not eating from the tree. Basically, he told Adam and Eve that they can live like he had created them, or they can choose to turn away from him and live like they want to. We all know what they chose. After they had sinned (rebelled from God, chose to live like they want) nobody after them could obey God's commandments because they were inherently sinful. As a result of that horrible day and horrible outcome, God did make an ultimate good come from the ultimate evil, that is he sent is son, Jesus (100% God and 100% Man), to take our place for us. Again, all we need to do is accept the forgiveness that God has earned for us by believing that Jesus is your savior. Here is a list of articles that deal with God and the problem of evil:God Questions and Answershttp://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/God.aspPlease read the answers in genesis articles before you start knocking down straw men.Thanks!
BTW, I forgot to mention one point about free will. Would you like it if God constantly interfered with your free will every time you were about to break one of his laws. He would interfere many times each day. Do you really want to be a robot?Here is another article dealing with free will:http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/feedback/2005/0506.asp
I have a problem with the way Witmer sets up this discussion. There can be no evidence for atheism. It's sad, but true. One could always postulate a set of gods who created our universe (or multiverse) with the intention of making it look uncreated. Occam's Razor suggests we should ignore such theories where they make no useful predictions, but Occam's Razor doesn't always lead to the correct solution.Science cannot weigh in on any supernatural theory that does not make empirical claims. Science can only test supernatural claims where the proposed phenomena overlap with the natural world (faith healing, near death experiences, effectiveness of prayer, etc). Atheism (as a lack of supernatural theory) makes no such testable claims. All we can do is disprove the never-ending list of specific claims made by supernaturalists (where we can force them to make specific claims).Larry, you might want to reconsider this claim that "all reasoning is based on presuppositions." Religion and science tackle their assumptions in completely different ways. Good science vigorously tests the inferences that have previously been drawn from the data. Outstanding science throws those inferences out the window. Can you say the same ting about good faith and outstanding faith? Is an outstanding Baptist one who demonstrates convincingly that Paul was not divinely inspired?The developments of relativity, quantum mechanics, and the big bang theory were viewed as revolutionary precisely because they demonstrated previous assumptions were false. Can you name any instance in the history of your religion where previous thinking was universally rejected as false because of new evidence?
Larry, I've already written about Adam & Eve, and the problem of free will. I'll let others comment on the other things you wrote about. But just remember that most of the things we write about are just too brief to show you we do not attack straw men. It would require reading my book in many cases, which is getting favorable reviews.
Larry,All reasoning is based on presuppositions (also called axioms).Not all axioms are presuppositions, some are indeed objectively true (mathematics is full of these). Christians typically propose one of two axioms in their arguments for the existence of god:1) God exists2) The bible is the inspired word of GodIt would be impossible for a skeptic to take one of these two positions as axiomatic and have any meaningful investigation into the believer's argument. Likewise it is impossible for the believer to evaluate the skeptic's evidence against the existence of god while holding as true one of the two axioms. It is only when we say, "I don't know" that we can make a real inquiry into the veracity of the claim.From the available evidence, however, the skeptic often concludes that there is not as much evidence for the existence of the god of the bible as there is against the existence of that god. These arguments are typically made on philosophical grounds although other evidence (such as the errancy of the bible) may be included.On his comment about "there is no chance that the designer is good, given the pervasive evil in the world", he is forgetting that God's creation has evil because we humans brought evil into the world.Are you really taking credit for that which God has claimed to have done himself? If we are to take Isaiah 45:7 as the inerrant word of God spoken through the prophet it would certainly seem that way. Of course many christians will explain away this verse as God merely saying he's given us "free will" to do evil. Or they will claim that it was a mistranslation and that shalom and ra' don't really mean peace and evil but instead more like prosperity and calamity. It's like Evil Light: tastes great, less killing.Now what I want to know is why God put that tree in the garden in the first place.
All this talk of our presuppositions.Most of us skeptics here started out from christian presuppositions. I myself started from the presupposition, instilled in me during early childhood, that God exists and the bible is his word and that the story of creation in Genesis is historical fact.But when a person is willing to examine their presuppositions objectively those presuppositions can be rejected because they simply don't work for a variety of reasons (examples: they are contrary to observable evidence, they are internally inconsistent, they involve moral views which are incompatible with simple decency, and a variety of other ways those presuppositions fail to measure up).Not all presuppositions are created equal. One has the responsibility to ask "what, if anything, should one assume as axiomatic and why"?
Larry:Let's see how many of your misstatements I can correct before the cats call me away from the computer to give them breakfast.Other people have dealt with the question of 'presuppositions' enough to pass on that. But your statement that Evolutionists presuppose no God is a little absurd, given the fact that many 'evolutionists' are believers and Christians, and that probably the majority of Christians, even in the US accept evolution -- in Europe the percentage is at least 90%."Theistic evolution" simply holds that evolution was the mechanism by which their god produced his creation. (I've pointed out in another comment -- on the '5 big rocks' thread -- that creationists are, in fact, insulting their god by portraying him as an incredibly incompetent designer.)You say 'true observational science is consistent with the Bible.' But the Bible was written at a time when the world was seen as the center of a very small Universe and displays this. I also point out the comment about rabbits 'chewing their cud' as a small but telling scientific mistake. (I have been pointing out that, were the Bible actually to have been 'the word of God' one of the best ways of demonstrating this would have been for it to include a few simple unambiguous statements going beyond the known science of the day. It does not.It is hardly absurd to use science to test the Bible. To use a common quote 'God is the author of both the Book of Revealed Truth and the Book of Scientific Truth, and cannot contradict himself in the two books.'Again, I'll leve the 'problem of error' to others, because the statements you make have been discussed elsewhere so totally that my contribution would be a waste of space. You do Exemplify the type of commenter that John refers to -- quoting a major Christian thinker -- when he says that 'someone who is not kept up at night by the problem of error doesn't understand the problem.'If God created a 'perfect world for us' -- disregarding such minor things (not blamable on man) as cancer, tsunamis, earthquakes, along with minor problems directly blamable on God (were he the 'special creator') as sinus problems, flat feet, digestive problems and appendicitis -- why did he, as you claim, create such a contradictory, errant, and frequently absurd book as the Bible. Why did he require a Paul to get the message of Jesus straight? Why did he have to include concepts from Zoroastrianism in Christianity because he 'forgot' to include them in the OT? Why does he include four different contradictory accounts of the 'Trial of Jesus' -- none of which could possibly be true from what we know of the Sanhedrin or of the character of Pilate? Why does he include in the Pentateuch four different sources, each of which have a different conception of god, all of which contradict each other?To continue, why does he first tell the story of 'smoting' someone for not agreeing to a Levirate marriage, then later lessen the requirement and give a ritual to excuse someone, and by pre-New Testament times have abandoned the practice entirely?Why does he include the absurdity of Matthew's 'march of the Dead' onto Jerusalem that has no confirmation from any other source, even within the Bible itself?Cat feeding time. More to come.
Larry:Just a few more.If Jesus was 'God's only son,' why does the opening of Job refer -- in all translations including the KJV and Darby's -- to the (plural) 'Sons of God'? (The NIV translates it as 'angels,' but even it includes a footnote that the Hebrew reads 'Sons of God.')If God condemned all humanity because of Adam and Eve's purported sin, why does the Bible, elsewhere, condemn imputing the Sins of parents onto their children?If the words of the Bible are infallible, and the words of Jeremiah are part of the Bible, and Jeremiah refers to the Pentateuch as a 'scribe-produced lie,' how do you resolve the paradox. (This is why King Josiah needed to get a 'third-rate prophetess' named Huldah to 'testify' to the Pentateuch rather than using the much greater Jeremiah who was 'right at hand')Your turn...
prup, do you have a verse reference for the Jeremiah bit?
Evolutionists have certain beliefs about the past/present that they presuppose, e.g., no God (or at least none who performed acts of special creation); so they build a different way of thinking to interpret the evidence of the present.All science must presuppose natural causes, it is true. As was previously pointed out, science cannot determine if the world was uncreated, or created to look uncreated.However, science can (and has) disproven all of the Answers in Genesis pap. Any time religion makes a claim about the natural world being thus and so, science can and does weigh in. So, when you say the world is 6,000 years old, you are simply wrong. You can say that this means science infringes upon your faith, to which I reply: tough. If you want to believe that faeries exist, fine. But if you want to believe that lions don't exist, then don't safari in Africa, because reality is under no obligation to defer to your superstition.
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|<< Psalm 49 >>|
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Hear this, all you nations, and obey, all inhabitants of the Earth.
2Children of Earth and the children of men together, the rich and the poor,
3My mouth will speak wisdom and the meditation of my heart is intelligence.
4I shall turn my ears to parables and I shall speak my riddles with the harp.
5I will not fear in the evil days; the evil of my enemies surrounds me:
6All who trust upon their power and are boasting in the abundance of their riches.
7A brother does not save, and a man does not give God his redemption.
8The salvation of their souls is precious; it labors for eternity,
9That you shall live for the eternity of eternities and you shall not see destruction.
10When you shall see the wise who die together with fools, and feeble minds who are perishing, and leave their possessions to others,
11Their graves are their houses for eternity, and their dwelling for a generation of generations, and they read the names in the ground.
12A man is not sustained in his honor, but ends up an animal, and resembles one.
13This their way is a subversion to their souls, and in the end they will feed like sheep with their mouths.
14They will be given up to Sheol and death will feed on them, and the upright will rule over them in the morning, and Sheol will consume their form and they shall be cast out from their glory.
15God will redeem my soul and he will raise me up from the hand of Sheol.
16Do not fear when a man is made rich and the honor of his house increases.
17Because he will not take anything in his death, neither does his glory descend after him.
18Because he blesses his soul in his life, he will acknowledge you when you bless him.
19And you will bring him to the generation of his fathers; he will not see light until eternity.
20A man who is in his honor is not sustained, but ends up an animal and resembles one.
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One thing I’m noticing in reporting on the birth-control coverage debate is the idea that there’s a culture war “truce” (to use the phrase coined by Mitch Daniels in 2010) currently ongoing, and that a debate about reproductive freedoms enters the national stage out of nowhere and/or out of cynical posturing.
Tell this chart about a so-called culture war “truce”:
What caused this? Sarah Kliff interviewed Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, the country’s oldest antiabortion organization:
Sarah Kliff: There seems to be pretty widespread agreement that a lot changed on abortion rights and restrictions in 2011, with states passing a record number of laws on this issue. How did this happen?
Charmaine Yoest: The most obvious thing was the 2010 election. While the headlines were all about the changing command in the House of Representatives, what we were seeing was a tidal wave of new pro-life legislators in state houses. When we saw this big wave come in, we were ready to grab the ball and run with it. Last year, 28 laws that we were involved with passed. It was breathtaking.
SK: What kind of abortion restrictions saw the most success last year?
CY: There are probably two big ones. The first one, which isn’t that surprising, was a lot of interest in making sure that the new health care law didn’t cover abortion, and addressing insurance coverage….
It’s interesting that Yoest emphasizes Obamacare, as the Guttmacher Institute, which produced the above graphic, notes that the restrictions are far wider than narrow insurance issues. Bans, waiting periods, ultrasounds, prohibiting telemedicine and suffocating clinical regulations all play a very prominent role alongside insurance coverage.
Which is to say that the new Tea Party and far-right state legislators – the ones who were supposed to be all libertarian and focused on the budget while dismantling unions under a culture war truce – also initiated a wave of abortion restrictions beyond anything in recent records.
It should not surprise us if this very active project in the states goes national in the 2012 elections.
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Q: Most of us do a lot of driving around an area commonly known as the Lehigh Valley. But what exactly is the Lehigh Valley? What would be the definition of that term?
— Don Stravino, Whitehall Township
Q: How did Allentown acquire the moniker, Queen City?
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— Ken Poppe, Simsbury, Ct.
A: The view through different windshields seems to affect motorists' views of this question, Don.
For employees of the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, the answer is a simple one. The commission, formerly known as the Joint Planning Commission of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, was created by the two counties to conduct and administer planning studies and advise municipalities within the two counties on planning, zoning, transportation, environmental and related issues.
It's a pretty straight road for those folks, according to Chief Transportation Planner Joe Gurinko: "For us, the Lehigh Valley consists of Lehigh and Northampton counties," he said. The original name — a tractor-trailer load, to be sure — was consolidated in 1997 after 36 years to reflect regional unity, or at least the hope for it.
For others, Lehigh Valley is less precisely defined, and not necessarily, or not wholly, established by precise geographic boundaries.
"That's a fascinating question," said Allentown Symphony Association Executive Director Sheila Evans, a native of Lincoln, Neb. who arrived here four years ago. "I don't think it's a geographic boundary" that chiefly defines the Valley, she said, while allowing that mapping a course to a precise answer is not easy.
The association board recently changed the name of the former Allentown Symphony Hall to Miller Symphony Hall in tribute to the Miller family, which once owned this newspaper and has contributed generously to the association through the years. The board earlier had approved Lehigh Valley Performing Arts Center, but had second thoughts for several reasons, Evans said. Among them was that retaining no part of the original name might be confusing, but there was also concern that other institutions gained little by switching to Lehigh Valley.
Association board member Percy Dougherty, a retired Kutztown University geography professor, was among the skeptics. Though he generally supports the concept of regionalism for consolidating redundant government agencies and services, he felt it wouldn't be a good fit for renaming Symphony Hall. "You get to a point where you start to diminish the value of the core cities by going with Lehigh Valley," Dougherty said.
It's also relatively ineffective, he said. Despite more than 25 years' worth of efforts to sell the Lehigh Valley name, few people outside the region would recognize it, he said, pointing out that Wilkes-Barre/Scranton is known as the Wyoming Valley — something I didn't know, or had forgotten. Few residents traveling outside the region describe their home as Lehigh Valley; Allentown is more widely known by far.
It's certainly true that many other organizations and businesses use Lehigh Valley as a first-gear branding or marketing moniker. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Airport became Lehigh Valley International in 1994, amid considerable controversy. The airline industry, and not a few older-model residents, continue to call it A-B-E to this day. Considering the disagreement that surrounded the change, which passed by a 7-5 tally, it's unclear how much or how little the switch has affected the airport's fortunes. The ebbs and flows of the national economy, and market forces within the airline industry, seem to do most of the flight planning in that regard.
The Allentown-Lehigh County Chamber of Commerce became the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce in 2001, mostly as an inducement for the various chambers in the region to consolidate after years of discussion about the benefits of joining forces. Today the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber boasts members in the Phillipsburg area, suggesting that parts of Jersey might be considered Lehigh Valley territory — or greater Lehigh Valley, whatever that really means. Lehigh Valley in this sense seems far more a marketing term than a place or location.
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawloski initially wanted the city's minor-league sports franchises to be dubbed Allentown IronPigs and Allentown Phantoms, respectively. That's understandable; he's the mayor. But he quickly signed on as a cheerleader for Lehigh Valley in both cases. As with music lovers attending concerts at Symphony Hall, sports fans come from all parts of the — well, the Lehigh Valley, however it's defined.
The name for the Lehigh River derives from a Lenni Lenape Indian word, but Dougherty said he doesn't consider today's Lehigh Valley as being defined by the valley of the river. However Lehigh Valley first was described, it's tricky to define today.
I happened to see Mike Stershic, president of Discover Lehigh Valley, the region's tourism promotion agency, at the Allentown Farmer's Market, and asked him for a quick definition. "Depends who you ask," he said with a laugh.
The federal government defines our region in expansive fashion, as the Census Bureau's Metropolitan Statistical Area comprises Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, as well as Phillipsburg and the rest of Warren County, N.J. But the feds don't call it Lehigh Valley; like the airlines, it's still A-B-E, or, officially, "Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area."
I think we'll have to settle on the view that Lehigh Valley can be different things to different people, Don. As Evans of the Symphony Association observed, "It's an area perhaps in search of a definition."
What's the view through your windshield, fellow warriors? Let me know, and I'll return to this twisting road in the future.
It's a short-cut route by comparison to the answer to your question, Ken, though the origin is not entirely clear. Morning Call archives indicate that in 1905, 1906 or 1907 — all three years are cited in different accounts — the Allentown Chamber of Commerce held a contest to create a nickname for the city. Queen City won the crown, and amazingly, it has stuck, at least to some degree.
Writing about the Queen City moniker some years ago, Lehigh Valley historian Frank Whelan observed that back in the early 1900s, "It probably sounded like a catchy name." Today, not so much.
Anybody want to chat about Allentown's designation as an "All-America City"?
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This week, my 14yr old daughter, with the help of our good friend from Ukraine (who is a video-making-master) put together some video interviews for a project she's doing at school. I think the assignment was to make a presentation about a controversial topic, and share an opinion.
Lia is sharing about LIFE. In a culture where already-born children being mowed down with gunfire stirs a grief that is palpable but the millions of not-yet-birthed children who die silent deaths in back rooms of abortion clinics are too often validated and sometimes even celebrated by those who want to make their death about someone else's "rights," there are still voices saying that LIFE is precious.
I sat quietly, blinking back tears on Tuesday, hearing stories from two local women who offered to come alongside Lia and share their stories about abortion and adoption and life and pain and hope.
These are women who know the secret to courage.
They do what most of us will not: they dare to be vulnerable.
They tell their stories.
Shame loses its power when truth is given words.
Lia heard from a woman who will now forever be a friend, because she let us into her story. She spoke of abortions she had and the wounds her heart sustained as a teenager, and instead of tucking that into a dark, shame-filled corner, she shines a bright beam of truth on it and holds it up for us to see, and she uses her truth as power. She hopes her pain can be formed into a tool that carves away the lies we believe in this fix-it-quick culture.
She wants women to know that abortion hurts girls' hearts.
She wants to see girls have real choices. She doesn't believe that choosing between college-if-you-have-an abortion or welfare-dependency-and-barely-scraping-by-if-you-keep-the-baby is a real choice. She believes there are bigger "boo-boos" on the hearts of girls, and abortion is at best a tiny bandaid, not a solution. She knows that living after an abortion feels like having a life that is a rocket crashing high-speed into the ground. She knows suffering silently inside is no way to live.
She wants women to have hearts that are whole, not aching and all patched-up.
Then, Lia met with another friend. She spoke to the one reason that seems to be popping up every time young people (or not-so-young-people) talk about abortion, as the one loophole that "MUST be ok all the time, right?" - rape.
This friend was raped. And instead of being a victim of a crime and then on top of it all, a victim of a society that sometimes vilifies women who are victims of sex crimes, she chose to be an example of strength. She did what many would not have expected or ever dared to do: she carried that baby to term, gave birth to that little girl, and she chose a family to adopt her. She refused to be a victim twice. A man hurt her once, but she didn't let that be a reason to suffer the pain of abortion. She took a situation that is horrible, and she made something precious come from it.
She wrote the ending to her story. And she lives without regret.
These women are powerful.
They are strong, because they refuse to live with their hearts behind walls.
They model courage in ways that make me want to be braver.
They dare to tell their stories without any guarantee of how those stories will be received, because they've become resilient to shame. They know it shrinks in the light.
They are willing to make their own hearts vulnerable, because they care so much about the hearts of other women being whole.
(I'd like to say a humble thank-you to our friends who shared with Lia, to Kanishko for the wonderful video work, and to Shepherd's Godparent Home as well as First Step Pregnancy Resource Center for your contribution to the project.)
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Lifting the veil on conflict, culture and politics
from Photographers Blog:
By Erik de Castro
Ten years ago I was part of the three-member Reuters multimedia team that went to Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. We covered the pursuit for Osama Bin Laden and his Taliban followers, who were believed to be holed up in the caves of the Tora Bora mountains, by US military special forces fighting alongside the Afghan Mujaheedin. Nobody from the press saw Osama. Instead about a dozen Taliban captured from the caves were presented to the media in Tora Bora.
As we passed the Afghan border on the road to Jalalabad following a long journey from Islamabad, Pakistan, I remember the precautions our security adviser told us: If ever we are stopped by armed men along the way, stay calm and just hand over our U.S. dollars. Weeks earlier, two Reuters colleagues (a TV cameraman and a photographer) and two other European journalists traveling with a convoy of media vehicles were killed by bandits on the same road.
Ten years after 9/11, I was back in Jalalabad as an embedded photojournalist with the U.S. military forces. I was attached to Task Force Bronco covering eastern Afghanistan. During the first week of my embed with different units, I joined the soldiers as they met with Afghan police officers and local government leaders, patrolling for hours, day and night searches for arms caches, and looking for members of the Taliban.
During patrols, local residents would smile at and greet the soldiers. Children swarmed them asking for pens, candies and one dollar bills.
from Russell Boyce:
As the anniversary of the 9/11 attack coincided with Eid celebrations, Florida based Pastor Terry Jones announced that he would burn the Koran as a protest to plans to site a Muslim cultural centre near Ground Zero , stoking tensions in Asia. Add into the mix millions in Pakistan suffering from lack of water, food and shelter after floods, a parliament election in Afghanistan and a U. S. -led military campaign against the Taliban around Kandahar - photographers in the region had lots of raw material to work with.
Raheb's picture of relief and joy caught in the harsh light of a direct flash seems to explode in a release of tension as news spreads that Pastor Jones had cancelled his plans to burn the Koran. It has to be said that ironically earlier in the day in Pakistan US flags were burned in protest against the planned protest.
from The Great Debate:
Of the many posters held aloft in angry demonstrations about plans for an Islamic cultural centre and mosque in New York, one in particular is worth noting: "All I ever need to know about Islam, I learned on 9/11."
As an example of wilful ignorance, it's in a class by itself. It passes judgment, in just 12 words, about a sprawling universe of 1.3 billion adherents of Islam (in 57 countries around the world) who come from different cultures, speak a wide variety of languages, follow different customs, hold different nationalities and believe in different interpretations of their faith, just like Christians or Jews. Suicidal murderers are a destructive but tiny minority.
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Recently I talked about being "lured by the dark side" of technology with library information specialists in New York (see Chris Harris’ blog mention). I was actually referring to the division between technology coaches and library information specialists.
In some districts this is blurred because the LIS is the tech coach. In others there is a strained antagonistic relationship between two groups vying for the power and control of internet/technology resources. In still others the LIS works hand in hand with the tech coach. I don’t know about you, but I choose the third option.
I do love technology and how it can help our students. The reason I haven’t gone over to the dark side is that I love watching the daily impact we have using technology with students more than sharing this with teachers. I am happiest when I can actually do both and work with teachers in my building and throughout districts on practical skills, but I refuse to give up my relationship with students and their immediate learning.
I happily choose to celebrate the tech coaches of the world including this new tech coach who is blogging about her experiences at http://instructionaltechnology.edublogs.org I need to remember to send more notes of new technologies and instructional approaches to these tech coaches. They need to hear from us as to what we really need. Check out her article on CAPTIVATE! Cool!
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Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (EDT)
Take your personal experiences and turn them into an entertaining, engaging, and funny performance!
In this workshop, you will learn the basic elements of storytelling and solo performance. This workshop will help you get more comfortable being yourself as you share stories about yourself. Through verbal and written exercises we'll work on point of view, character, stage presence, confidence, and finding the truth in the tale. Please bring a pen and notebook to class as well as any ideas of stories you'd like to turn into a performance piece.
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256 U.S. 51
41 S.Ct. 439
65 L.Ed. 825
NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO.
Argued Oct. 7, 1920.
Decided April 11, 1921.
[Syllabus from pages 51-52 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Nebeker, for the United States.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 52-58 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a suit by the United States to cancel a patent issued to the railway company for 5,681.76 acres of land in Montana, the asserted ground for such relief being that the land officers issued the patent through inadvertence and mistake. The company prevailed in the District Court and in the Circuit Court of Appeals, 264 Fed. 898, and the United States brought the case here.
The lands in question are within the indemnity limits of the land grant made to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company by the Act of July 2, 1864, c. 217, 13 Stat. 365, as modified and supplemented by the joint resolution of May 31, 1870, 16 Stat. 378, and were selected and patented as indemnity for lands lost within the place limits. The rights and obligations of the original railroad company arising out of the grant have long since passed to the present railway company and there is no need here for distinguishing one company from the other.
The grant was made for the declared purpose of 'aiding in the construction' of a proposed line of railroad from Lake Superior to Puget Sound and Portland, Or., and 'to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war and public stores' over such line. It was expressed in present terms—'there be, and hereby is, granted'—and was of 'every alternate section of public land, not mineral designated by odd numbers' within prescribed place limits on each side of the line excepting such sections or parts of sections as should be found to have been otherwise disposed of, appropriated or claimed, or occupied by homestead settlers, or pre-empted, prior to the definite location of the line. Nelson v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 188 U. S. 108, 23 Sup. Ct. 302, 47 L. Ed. 406. As indemnity for any lands so excepted, as also for any excluded as mineral, other lands were to be 'selected by said company,' under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, from unoccupied, unappropriated, nonmineral lands in odd-numbered sections within prescribed indemnity limits. The line of the road was to be definitely located by filing a map or maps thereof in the General Land Office, and the road when constructed was to be 'subject to the use of the United States, for postal, military, naval, and all government service, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such government transportation.' As each consecutive 25 miles of road was constructed and made ready for the service contemplated, the same was to be examined by commissioners selected by the President, and, if they reported that the same was completed in all respects as required, patents were to be issued to the company for the lands opposite to and coterminous with the completed section. The president was to cause the lands along 'the entire line' to be surveyed for 40 miles in width on both sides 'after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as shall be required by the construction of said road'; the granted sections within the pace limits were to be withheld from sale, entry and pre-emption, except as against pre-emption and homestead occupants whose settlement preceded the definite location of the line; all lands within the indemnity limits were to be and remain subject to the operation of the pre-emption and homestead laws, save as the odd-numbered sections should be taken out of the operation of those laws by indemnity selections made to supply losses within the place limits (Hewitt v. Schultz, 180 U. S. 139, 147-149, 155, 156, 21 Sup. Ct. 309, 45 L. Ed. 463; Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt, 219 U. S. 380, 387, 388, 31 Sup. Ct. 300, 55 L. Ed. 258); and the price of the even-numbered sections retained by the United States in the place limits was to be increased to double the usual minimum. If the company accepted the terms on which the grant was made, it was required to signify its acceptance in writing under its corporate seal within two years.
The company duly accepted the terms of the grant, filed appropriate maps of the general route, afterwards definitely located the line in the mode prescribed, and constructed and completed the road from Ashland, Wis., on Lake Superior, to Tacoma, Wash., on Puget Sound, and thence to Portland, Or., its full length being more than 2,000 miles. The definite location was completed in 1884 and the construction in 1887. The road as completed was examined and favorably reported by the commissioners and accepted by the President. Reports of Commissioner of Railroads—for 1885, p. 22; 1886, p. 36; 1887, p. 24; 1888, p. 24; Doherty v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 177 U. S. 421, 20 Sup. Ct. 677, 44 L. Ed. 830; United States v. Northern Pacific R. R. Co., 95 Fed. 864, 37 C. C. A. 290; Id., 177 U. S. 435, 20 Sup. Ct. 706, 44 L. Ed. 836; United States v. Northern Pacific R. R. Co., 193 U. S. 1, 24 Sup. Ct. 330, 48 L. Ed. 593.
The losses to the grant in the place limits through other disposals, homestead settlements and the like prior to the definite location of the line, and through the exclusion of lands found to be mineral, amounted to several million acres. To supply these losses it was necessary to resort to the indemnity limits, as was contemplated and provided in the granting act and resolution. In the asserted exercise of this right the company selected the lands in question. The particular losses on account of which the selection was made were such as to support it, the selection was made in conformity with the directions given by the Secretary of the Interior, and the lands selected were subject to selection unless rendered otherwise by a temporary executive withdrawal made about a year before. The local land officers accepted and approved the selection list and in transmitting it to the General Land Office called attention to the withdrawal. But when the Commissioner and the Secretary approved the selection and caused the patent to issue they overlooked the withdrawal and so did not consider or pass on its bearing on the company's right to select the lands. Five years later the matter was called to their attention and they caused this suit to be brought.
The lands in question were not surveyed in the field until near 1905 and the plat of survey was not filed in the local land office until April 5, 1905. This indemnity selection was made later in the same day. On several occasions prior to 1904 the company had endeavored to select lands in the indemnity limits while they were as yet unsurveyed, or before the plat of the survey was filed in the local land office; but the Secretary of the Interior had refused to consider such selections and had directed that none be received until after the land was surveyed and the plat filed. Thus this selection was made as soon as was admissible under the Secretary's directions. The temporary executive withdrawal of the lands was made January 29, 1904, before they were surveyed, and was intended to prevent the acquisition of any claim to them pending an inquiry into the desirability of adding them, along with other lands, to an existing forest reserve. On March 7, 1906, they were added to the reserve by an executive proclamation.
In its defense to the suit the company takes the position that the temporary withdrawal did not affect its right to select the lands and therefore that the United States was not prejudiced by the fact that the Commissioner and the Secretary overlooked the withdrawal when the selection was approved and the patent issued. In support of this position the company points to the stipulation on which the case was heard in the District Court wherein following a reference to the Act of March 3, 1887, c. 376, 24 Stat. 556 (Comp. St. §§ 4895-4900), directing the Secretary 'to immediately adjust' this and other railroad land grants, and to a special report of the Commissioner, made in 1906, purporting to show that the adjustment of this grant pursuant to that act had progressed to a point where it was disclosed there was a net deficiency in the grant of 4,092,472.09 acres—it is said:
'The plaintiff admits that when the withdrawal order of January 29, 1904, was issued, the lands patented to the defendant or its predecessor in interest within the primary and all indemnity limits, plus all other lands within the primary or place limits, not patented, but which passed under the grant, and also all odd-numbered sections in all indemnity limits which the defendant was entitled to select under the regulations of the Land Department did not equal the sum total of all the odd-numbered sections lying within the primary or place limits of the grant, and this condition still obtains; but the plaintiff does not admit that the correct measure of the grant is the aggregate area of all odd-numbered sections within the primary or place limits, or that any definite quantity of land was granted and guaranteed to the defendant by any of the acts of Congress making grants of land to the defendant or its predecessor or predecessors in interest.'
And in further support of its position the company contends that where, through preemption and homestead entries or other disposals, the available lands in the indemnity limits have been so far diminished that those remaining are all needed to supply losses in the place limits the government is not at liberty to reserve the remaining lands, or any of them, for its own uses and thereby to cut off the company's right to claim them as indemnity, because, as against the government, they thenceforth are appropriated to the fulfillment of its obligation under the grant, and because the company has a vested right in the fulfillment of that obligation which all departments of the government are bound to respect. On the other hand, counsel for the government insist (a) that no right to lands in the indemnity limits attaches, either generally or specifically, until they are selected by the company; (b) that up to that time the government is free to reserve them for its own purposes and thereby to cut off the right of selection; and (c) that this is so even where the losses in the place limits exceed the available lands in the indemnity limits, and although the company's purpose to claim the latter be asserted at the earliest opportunity. The question thus presented has an important bearing on the further administration and adjustment of this grant, and perhaps of others, and counsel on both sides have dealt with it accordingly. In its present form the question is new, but the principles which must control its solution are well settled.
The purpose of the granting act and resolution was to bring about the construction and operation of a line of railroad extending from Lake Superior to Puget Sound and Portland through what then consisted of great stretches of homeless prairies, trackless forests and unexplored mountains, and thus to facilitate the development of that region, promote commerce, and establish a convenient highway for the transportation of mails, troops, munitions and public stores to and from the Pacific Coast, with all the resultant advantages to the government and the public. To that end the act and resolution embodied a proposal to the company to the effect that if it would undertake and perform that vast work it should receive in return the lands comprehended in the grant. The company accepted the proposal and at enormous cost constructed the road and put the same in operation; and the road was accepted by the President. Thus the proposal was converted into a contract, as to which the company by performing its part became entitled to performance by the government. Burke v. Southern Pacific R. R. Co., 234 U. S. 669, 679, 680, 34 Sup. Ct. 907, 58 L. Ed. 1527. The provision relating to indemnity lands was as much a part of the grant and contract as the one relating to land in place (Payne v. Central Pacific Ry. Co., 255 U. S. 228, 41 Sup. Ct. 314, 65 L. Ed. ——); and it is apparent from the granting act and resolution that 'it was the purpose of Congress in making the grant to confer a substantial right to land within the indemnity limits in lieu of lands lost within the place limits' (Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt, 219 U. S. 380, 387, 31 Sup. Ct. 300, 303, 55 L. Ed. 258). Such rights are within the protection of the due process of law clause of the Constitution. Sinking Fund Cases, 99 U. S. 700, 718, 25 L. Ed. 496.
When the grant was made by the act and resolution it was thought that the indemnity limits as therein defined contained lands largely in excess of what would be required to supply losses within the place limits, and hence the provision in section 6 under which, as construed by the land officers and this court, all lands in the indemnity limits were to be and remain subject to the operation of the pre-emption and homestead laws, save as the odd-numbered sections should be taken out of their operation by indemnity selections. Under that provision, however, the lands available for indemnity were diminished much more rapidly than was expected; but as the provision was one of the terms of the grant the company must submit to whatever of disadvantage results from it. This the company frankly recognizes, for in its brief it says:
'It was a part of our contract that, until selected, lands within the indemnity belt should be open to settlement under the homestead and pre-emption laws.'
'The question here is not whether in the face of the deficiency the settler [before selection] may acquire rights superior to ours, for we concede that he may.'
But that provision gives no warrant for thinking that, after the company has earned the right to receive the lands comprehended in the grant, the government is free to reserve or appropriate to its own uses lands in the indemnity limits which are required to supply losses in the place limits. We say 'required' because we perceive no reason to doubt that lands in the indemnity limits may be so reserved or appropriated where what remains is sufficient to satisfy all the losses.
While it often has been said that under such a grant no right attaches to any specific land within the indemnity limits until it is selected, an examination of the cases will show that this general rule never has been applied as between the government and the grantee where the lands available for indemnity were not sufficient for the purpose. Its only application has been where either the rights of settlers were involved, or the lands available for indemnity exceeded the losses, thereby making it essential that there be a selection and identification of the particular lands sought to be taken. This distinctions is illustrated in St. Paul and Pacific R. R. Co. v. Northern Pacific R. R. Co., 139 U. S. 1, 11 Sup. Ct. 389, 35 L. Ed. 77. The question there presented was whether there was any need for a selection where no right of a settler was involved and the lands available for indemnity were not sufficient to supply the losses. By reason of this insufficiency it was ruled that the lands in the indemnity limits necessarily were appropriated to satisfy the losses and that no selection was required. The court said (139 U. S. 19, 11 Sup. Ct. 395, 35 L. Ed. 77):
'As to the objection that no evidence was produced of any selection by the Secretary of the Interior from the indemnity lands to make up for the deficiencies found in the lands within the place limits, it is sufficient to observe that all the lands within the indemnity limits only made up in part for these deficiencies. There was, therefore, no occasion for the exercise of the judgment of the Secretary in selecting from them, for they were all appropriated.'
That ruling related to the right to indemnity lands under this grant, and so is particularly in point; but it is well to observe that what was said about an existing deficiency related, as appears No. 139 U. S. on pages 8 and 9 of the opinion (11 Sup. Ct. 391, 35 L. Ed. 77), to the portion of the grant in Minnesota and not to other portions. This exception to the general rule that a selection is essential has been recognized by this court in other cases. United States v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry Co., 141 U. S. 358, 376, 12 Sup. Ct. 13, 35 L. Ed. 766; United States v. Colton Marble & Lime Co., 146 U. S. 615, 616, 13 Sup. Ct. 163, 36 L. Ed. 1104; Southern Pacific R. R. Co. v. Bell, 183 U. S. 675, 682, 22 Sup. Ct. 232, 46 L. Ed. 383.
One of the regulations of the Land Department requires that indemnity selections be accompanied by a specification—tract for tract—of the losses on account of which they are made. But that department holds that this regulation does not apply where the losses exceed the lands which may be taken as indemnity. Thus in Hastings & Dakota Ry. Co., 19 Land Dec. 30, it was said by Secretary Smith:
'The object in establishing the rule was to prevent the possibility of one basis of loss being used for more than one selection. As this grant is known to be deficient over 800,000 acres, * * * the danger of a duplication of the losses does not exist; and the reason of the rule ceasing, the rule itself does not operate.'
And a similar ruling is found in Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Wagner, 25 Land Dec. 458, 460, and other cases.
Giving effect to all that bears on the subject, we are of opinion that after the company earned the right to receive what was intended by the grant it was not admissible for the government to reserve or appropriate to its own uses lands in the indemnity limits required to supply losses in the place limits. Of course, if it could take part of the lands required for that purpose, it could take all and thereby wholly defeat the provision for indemnity. But it cannot do either. The 'substantial right' conferred by that provision (Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt, supra) cannot be thus cut down or extinguished (Sinking Fund Cases, supra).
A more difficult question—to which only slight attention is given in the briefs—is whether it sufficiently appears from this record that the grant was deficient at the time of the temporary withdrawal; that is, that the lands available as indemnity were not then sufficient to supply the losses. The question is one the determination of which rests primarily with the Land Department. The stipulation on which the case was heard does not show that the department has determined the question, nor that it has refused to do so, but only that the question was not considered when this patent was issued, the withdrawal being then inadvertently overlooked. In these circumstances, to entitled either party to have the question determined in this suit the facts shown should make its right solution quite plain, for the decision might conclude both parties for all time—as respects other lands as well as those in suit. Southern Pacific R. R. Co. v. United States, 168 U. S. 1, 48, 18 Sup. Ct. 18, 42 L. Ed. 355. Of course, the company is entitled to have the question considered and decided somewhere, and, if the deficiency be established, is entitled to have the selection of these lands sustained. A third of a century already has elapsed since the company earned the right to receive what was intended by the grant.
Two matters stated in the stipulation are relied upon as showing a deficiency. One is that in 1906 the Commissioner reported to the Secretary that the adjustment of the grant had progressed to a point where it was disclosed that there was a net deficiency of 4,092,472.09 acres. By the act of March 3, 1887, supra, the supervision of the adjustment was specially devolved on the Secretary, and yet the stipulation does not show that he approved the Commissioner's report or in any way recognized it as correct. We think the report, in the absence of any confirmatory action by the Secretary, cannot be taken as sufficiently establishing that a deficiency existed. The other statement is that at the time of the temporary withdrawal all the lands theretofore received by the company plus all that it was possible for it to receive thereafter, whether as place lands or indemnity lands, did not equal 'the sum total of all the odd-numbered sections lying within the primary or place limits,' and that condition still obtains. But the statement also says that the government 'does not admit that the correct measure of the grant is the aggregate area of all odd-numbered sections within the primary or place limits.' What was meant by this qualification is not otherwise disclosed; nor is it explained in the briefs. The aggregate of the odd-numbered sections within the place limits is the correct measure of the grant, unless (a) part of the grant included only a moiety of those sections,1 or (b) the route of this road and that of another with a prior land grant were found to be upon the same general line, in which event a stated deduction was to be made from the amount of land granted to this company.2 There would be no right to indemnity as respects the moiety not included, nor as respects the lands required to be deducted. Either of those conditions, if existing, would affect the measure of the grant and would have to be considered in determining whether there was a deficiency. The stipulation does not show the presence or the absence of either condition, and the matter is not one of which courts take judicial notice. Therefore the actual situation, whatever it may have been, should have been shown. As this was not done, neither party is entitled to have the question whether there was a deficiency determined upon the present record.
Turning to the published decisions of the Land Department, we find that in Hessey v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co., 43 Land Dec. 302, the Secretary distinctly declared that the grant was so far deficient that many losses within the place limits must remain unsatisfied, and therefore that compliance with a provision that indemnity selections be made from lands nearest the line of the road was no longer required. But as that finding apparently related to the situation existing December 9, 1909, it cannot be taken as showing that there was a deficiency almost six years before, when the temporary withdrawal now in question was made. The situation may have changed materially in the meantime, for doubtless large numbers of homestead entries were being made within the indemnity limits every year.
We conclude that the decrees below must be reversed and the suit remanded to the District Court with directions (a) to accord the parties a reasonable opportunity, on a further hearing, to supplement and perfect the showing made in the present record, if either or both are so disposed; (b) if the parties avail themselves of that opportunity, to proceed to an adjudication of the suit upon the record as thus supplemented; and (c) if the parties do not avail themselves of that opportunity, to enter a decree canceling the patent without prejudice to the right of the company to have the question of the asserted deficiency in the grant determined by the Land Department and to have the present selection sustained and given full effect, if the grant was deficient when the temporary withdrawal was made.
Southern Pacific R. R. Co. v. United States, 183 U. S. 519, 525, 22 Sup. Ct. 154, 46 L. Ed. 307; Sioux City & St. Paul R. R. Co. v. United States, 159 U. S. 349, 364, 365, 16 Sup. Ct. 17, 40 L. Ed. 583. And see United States v. Northern Pacific R. R. Co., 193 U. S. 1, 24 Sup. Ct. 330, 48 L. Ed. 593.
Section 3 of the granting act contains the following: 'Provided, that if said route shall be found upon the line of any other railroad route to aid in the construction of which lands have been heretofore granted by the United States, as far as the routes are upon the same general line, the amount of land heretofore granted shall be deducted from
the amount granted by this act.'
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There are 3 main routes for businesses to have a graduate or student placement:
- Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
- GO Wales
- Academic Schools
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
KTP’s involve the forming of a partnership between your organisation and Cardiff University, enabling you to access skills and expertise to help your company develop. KTP’s provide resources and expertise to organisations that wish to innovate, expand or improve their performance.
The partnership also involves one or more recently qualified persons (Associates) to facilitate this transfer of skills and expertise. The Associate works full-time within your organisation on a project central to your needs and is jointly supervised by company personnel and a senior academic.
An award-winning Cardiff KTP saw University expertise improve the productivity and sustainability of Ford Motor Company's engine plant in Bridgend. This collaboration won the Business Innovation Prize for 2013.
Cardiff University KTP
The GO Wales programme offers businesses the opportunity to employ someone with a degree (or studying for a degree) to complete a project while working for their company for around ten weeks.
Placements are primarily aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and can be a ten week Work Placement or a shorter Work Taster.
By taking part in the scheme, the employer receives:
- A choice of high quality students and graduates
- People with specific knowledge and skills that can add value to your business
- A 6-10 week project completed
- Up to £950 towards salary costs
- A chance to see if the company can benefit permanently from graduate skills
A-Z of Academic Schools
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Cold weather has pests seeking shelterFargo-Moorhead (WDAY TV) - Our cold weather also means that critters may be trying to get some place warm, like your house.
By: WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY
Fargo-Moorhead (WDAY TV) - Our cold weather also means that critters may be trying to get some place warm, like your house.
Make sure the area around pipes and cables going into to your house are sealed up. Cracks around the foundation could also allow rodents a way in.
Pest control experts say your garage is the most likely place for animals to get in.
Larry Thompson – Johnson Pest Control: “You want to make sure the seal down here is all the way across otherwise it takes about the tip of your little finger for a mouse head to sneak in and come right into your house.”
Thompson says the most common intruders around here are voles.
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Dec 6, 2011 The following is an excerpt from the introductory comments at the Solar in New York event.
For the future success of solar energy, it’s vital that all of us, regardless of our political colors, make sure that solar is apolitical. I can hear the snickering already; what about Solyndra?
Let me assure you that there will be more Solyndras, just as there will be more Deepwater Horizons. There is, in fact, a platform even farther out in the Gulf of Mexico called Blind Faith and also owned by BP. The difference between Solyndra and Deepwater Horizon is 20 billion dollars.
Solar energy is too vital for it to become the domain of party line politics.
Let me explain why briefly.
We need to wake up to the power of solar energy.
We are about 93 million miles away from the sun but even from 93 million miles out, the Sun is so powerful it showers us with 9,000 times the energy we use.
It is virtually inexhaustible and available everywhere. We can extract its energy directly, so we don’t need fire or water to use it.
The process is so benign that each of us can have a solar-energy power station on our roofs, and the EPA will not have to hold environmental-impact hearings.
I believe that Solar is at the beginning of its invention cycle—sort of like where the PC was in the early 80s, just before it took off.
At the time, I bought my first PC. Co-workers and IT heads were saying, “What you going to do with that toy.” Well, I built a company of over 100 employees with that toy.
Back then, every new chip was so dazzling it made front page news. Those chips don’t hold a candle to what’s in your Smartphone today; let alone what’s in your computer.
The same kind of thing is starting to happen now with solar panels.
Some quick examples. The most advanced solar cells now on the market have an energy conversion ratio of 20%, well above the market average of 12 to 18%. Sharp Corporation has achieved 36% in experimental units. Last April, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory produced a solar cell with an efficiency level approaching 50%.
Note how the technology advances are accelerating now that solar energy is finally gaining traction.
We are at the technology breakout point.
The PC changed many industries and created many jobs and even new industries. So too will Solar.
Solar is a powerful job creator. Each megawatt of solar creates 10 installation jobs and 20 technology and management jobs.
We can’t let what happened to the climate change debate happen to Solar.
That’s why we must be careful not to politicize the process of getting solar energy accepted.
Solar is America’s, and indeed our planet’s, next big tech transformation.
Ran Kohn is Executive Director of Cleantech Corridor
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When I was studying in the USA it seemed that every bar had Angostura bitters on its shelves. I realized that to Americans this tiny bottle was seen as a cocktail ingredient. How so very different from here in Trinidad where Angostura bitters is a staple in every kitchen, and is used to flavour everything from soups, to roasts, to ice cream! Growing up a few drops of Angostura in a glass of warm water was used to rectify everything from nausea to upset stomachs. Was there anything that this little brown bottle couldn’t do?
Today the ‘House of Angostura’ is a local culinary landmark and has branched out to make rum, sodas, soy sauce and more. At the National Museum you can see how the original bitters bottle and labels (and health claims) changed through the years, and the Angostura factory complex is open to tours. But what exactly is Angostura bitters?
According to the official Angostura bitters website:
“Distilled in Trinidad, using the secret recipe from 1824, and the same natural blend of herbs and spices, Angostura aromatic bitters is versatile beyond belief. It has retained its original formulation, one of the few remaining true trade secrets, an international brand that over the centuries has continued to flavour the world. Read the label, which is itself perfect.It will give you an insight to the product, with suggestions from savoury sauces to cakes,through crispy vegetables, meats and cocktails.”
Sounds good to me! So next time you are in a supermarket and you see this little bottle realize that there is much more to it than cocktails. Try some, you won’t regret it!
Random Factoid: Nelsen’s Hall on Washington Island, Wisconsin, USA is the largest purveyor of Angostura Bitters in the world!
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By STU WOO, MATTHEW FUTTERMAN and SARA GERMANO
The International Olympic Committee has dropped wrestling from the 2020 Summer Games, a surprising decision that has bewildered athletes and fans of the longtime Olympic sport.
The IOC said Tuesday that its executive board recommended excluding wrestling from its list of core sports. Wrestling still has a chance to return to the Games in 2020 via a complicated process: The IOC later this year will choose one of eight shortlisted sports—wrestling, baseball/softball, climbing, karate, roller sports, squash, wakeboarding and a Chinese martial art called wushu—to add to the 2020 program.
The move to drop wrestling, which has been in every modern Olympics since the inaugural 1896 Athens Games except 1900, reflects the IOC's attempts to innovate to lure younger fans. In recent years the Olympics had added emerging sports such as beach volleyball and BMX cycling.
Olympic wrestling has been threatened for the past decade. In 2002, the IOC commissioned a review of Olympic sports that said wrestling had a "lack of global popularity" as well as "relatively low broadcast and press coverage." The problem stemmed from the public's confusion between wrestling's two disciplines: Greco-Roman, which forbids holds below the waist, and freestyle, which allows them. The report recommended dropping one of the disciplines from the 2008 Beijing Games, which didn't happen.
The Tuesday announcement that the IOC was dropping wrestling entirely stunned Rulon Gardner, the American who pulled off a famous Olympic upset at the 2000 Sydney Games, when he beat Russian legend Aleksandr Karelin to win Greco-Roman gold.
"I heard rumors that they might drop one style of wrestling, but we had no idea they'd say, 'Here's the death penalty,'" Gardner said. He said he didn't understand the economics of the decision. "What does it cost them, a few extra dollars for people in the Olympic Village?" he said, referring to the athletes' dormitories.
In London last summer, 29 countries won medals in men's and women's wrestling. The sport also produced one of the most enduring images of the Olympics, when American gold medalist Jordan Burroughs and Iranian silver medalist Sadegh Goudarzi embraced each other on the podium.
Christophe Dubi, director of sport for the IOC, said the vote was part of a process that began in 2001 after Dr. Jacques Rogge took over as president of the organization and said he wanted to limit the size, cost and complexity of the Games. The IOC then decided it would limit the Games to 28 sports, and roughly 10,500 athletes and about 300 events.
To keep the Olympics fresh, however, the IOC decided it would have 25 core sports and three spots for new or revived competitions. In 2009, golf and rugby were approved for the 2016 and 2020. For the final slot, the IOC decided that one of its 26 existing sports would have to compete against the new applicant sports.
"The idea overall is to renew the program and to keep it relevant and appealing to new audiences," said Mark Adams, chief spokesman for the IOC.
Dubi said the task now for wrestling is to figure out how to improve its presentation so that it can feel fresh. "Wrestling has to look at everything they do and say, 'That's how we will change,'" said Dubi, who had to call FILA, the international wrestling federation, with the unwelcome news of the vote Tuesday afternoon.
Dubi cited changes that archery and fencing have made to make their competitions more appealing and viable in the modern Olympics. Archery changed its scoring so competitions often come down to a final arrow. Fencing now stages matches under a spotlight. Modern pentathlon has compressed its competition to a single day.
"They have to roll up the sleeves and figure out how they can improve," Dubi said. "They have to say how they make it exciting."
Now it is up to wrestling's international federation to persuade the IOC to add the sport to the 2020 Summer Games instead of the other seven sports. The IOC plans to hear presentations about the eight sports in May and to make a decision at a September meeting.
U.S.A. Wrestling executive director Rich Bender called himself "surprised and disappointed" in a statement, adding:
"Wrestling is one of the sports of the original Greek Olympic Games and in the first modern Olympic Games. It is one of the most diverse sports in the world, with nearly 200 nations from all continents participating in wrestling."
U.S. Olympic committee chief executive Scott Blackmun added: "We knew that today would be a tough day for American athletes competing in whatever sport was identified by the IOC Executive Board. Given the history and tradition of wrestling, and its popularity and universality, we were surprised when the decision was announced. It is important to remember that today's action is a recommendation, and we hope that there will be a meaningful opportunity to discuss the important role that wrestling plays in the sports landscape both in the United States and around the world."
The news did not sit well in other countries partial to wrestling, either.
"I am very angry about this news," Russian Wrestling Federation president Mikhail Mamiashvili said in an interview with a Russian sports agency posted on the federation's website on Tuesday.
Mamiashvili said he had implored FILA to "take the necessary steps" to remove the issue from discussion. He also struck out at FILA president Raphael Martinetti, saying questions must be raised about his competence at an upcoming FILA meeting in Thailand. "He is required to keep abreast of such matters. It's entirely within his remit," Mamiashvili said.
(FILA representatives did not return requests for comment. The organization issued a statement calling its executives "greatly astonished" by the IOC's move. The organization will meet this month in Thailand to discuss how to address the issue with the IOC executive board.)
In another interview posted on the federation's website, Buvaisar Saitiev, a three-time Russian gold medal winner, said it would be a shame if the Olympics excluded wrestling. Saitiev said he could understand if officials wanted to change rules, reduce the number of wrestling medals awarded or even pare the number of weight classes, but he said expelling the sport altogether is "completely wrong."
Saitiev also noted that wrestling is a particular strong suit for Russia at the Olympics. "In this regard, the Olympic prospects for wrestling will largely depend on how effectively Russia gets across its position," he said.—Paul Sonne and Rachel Bachman contributed to this article.
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Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is located in the heart of Southern California. The vast metropolitan area in which LLUMC is located is commonly known as The Inland Empire, and is considered the crossroads of Southern California. Mountains, beaches, deserts, large cities, and small towns are all found in this unique, ideal location. Temperatures rarely dip below 60 degrees Fahrenheit on winter days. Summers are hot and dry with temperatures ranging from 80 to 100 degrees.
World famous beaches such as Malibu, Laguna Niguel, and Newport Beach are only 45 to 90 minutes to the west. Opportunities for superb swimming, surfing, sun-bathing, and sailing allows residents to enjoy the prototypical Southern California lifestyle during their time off.
Mountain getaways are a short 30 to 45 minutes away and offer excellent climbing, hiking, and fishing throughout the spring, summer, and fall. Water-skiing and sailing are also options at nearby Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear Lake, and Lake Perris. Those interested in mountain biking have miles of challenging trails within five minutes of the Medical Center as well as easy access to the San Bernardino Mountain Range. Winters in the Inland Empire are clear and cool with spectacular views of snow-covered Mt. Baldy, Mt. San Bernardino, Mt. San Gorgonio, and Mt. San Jacinto. The winter snowfall covers the surrounding mountains, and residents routinely head to the slopes for some well deserved skiing or snowboarding at the local resorts.
People who enjoy the desert environment have only a short trip east to reach the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree National Park. Offering austere landscapes as well as rare plants and animals the surrounding ecosystem is a unique terrain worth exploring. Those who enjoy the desert environment without the potentially austere conditions enjoy visiting the numerous golf courses and spas found throughout Palm Springs, a 60 minute drive from Loma Linda.
For those who like to stay closer to home there are numerous activities and attractions. The town of Redlands, adjacent to Loma Linda, turns its Main Street into an outdoor market once a week. The Redlands Bowl provides a free concert series with world-class musical, dance, and dramatic performances each season. Traditionally members of the audience bring blankets to sit on and a light dinner to enjoy before the bowl performances begin. Sixty minutes to the west is downtown Los Angeles with its top-quality restaurants, world renowned museums, opera, theater, and other cultural opportunities. Disneyland is only a 45 minute drive from Loma Linda.
LLUMC is located in a quiet suburban neighborhood. Typically, the medicine residents in the program live in attractive, family-oriented, and relatively crime-free neighborhoods in or around Loma Linda. Housing costs in the area are among the lowest in Southern California and some residents choose the option of buying a home.
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The Office of the Executive Secretariat (OES) manages the correspondence, documents, and records of the Secretary of Agriculture. OES is a valuable resource not just for the Secretary and immediate staff, but for the whole Department.
As part of Departmental Management, we ensure that all USDA officials are included in the process of drafting documents for the Secretary through a managed system of reviews and clearances. This includes reviewing incoming letters, emails, and faxes from the public, members of Congress, Governors, other Federal officials, and everyone else who writes the Secretary. We then work together with other agencies to respond in an appropriate and timely manner.
Additionally, we ensure that Federal Register notices, memorandums, reports, and all other documents prepared for the Secretary are fully vetted and prepared correctly for him to review and sign. Keeping other officials informed of these documents improves the Secretary's ability to review sound and thought-out recommendations before making final decisions.
Lastly, OES collects and maintains the official records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture. These records are a valuable resource and serve as the historical evidence of the Department's organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and operations.
OES is led by our Acting Director Bobbi Jeanquart and Deputy Director David Aten.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unveiled the country's newest fighter jet, which officials claim can evade radar.
Ahmadinejad said at a Saturday ceremony broadcast on state TV that Qaher-313, or Dominant-313, showed Iran's will to "capture peaks."
Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi says Qaher is "fully indigenous," designed and built by Iranian aerospace experts.
Photos released by the official IRNA news agency shows Qaher as a single-seat jet, described as a fighter-bomber that can combat both other aircraft and ground targets.
Iran unveiled what it said was its first domestically manufactured fighter jet, called Azarakhsh or Lightning, in 2007. Saeqeh, or Thunder, was a follow up aircraft derived from Azarakhsh.
Tehran has repeatedly claimed advances in military technologies in recent years but its claims cannot be independently verified.
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Atlanta- based chicken sandwich quick-service food chain, Chick-Fil-A, has pledged to cease its financial support to anti-gay groups and organizations yet reinforces their pledge to equal treatment of gay employees and customers.
CEO Dan Cathy's statement about his support for "the biblical definition of the
family unit" ignited an uproar by gay marriage activists in August. Later
investigation revealed groups such as Focus on the Family and the National
Organization for Marriage received millions of dollars worth of donations from
the Cathy family between 2003 and 2009.
"The WinShape Foundations is now taking a much closer look at the organizations it considers helping," said Senior Director of Real Estate in a signed letter addressed to Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno. "And in that process will remain true to its stated philosophy of not supporting organizations with political agendas."
WinShape is a
non-profit organization created by Cathy and his family.
According to The Civil Rights Agenda (TCRA), Chick-Fil-A has also released a memo to all their franchisees and stakeholders in a documented titled "Chick-Fil-A: Who We Are." The memo stated that as a company, they will "treat every person with honor, dignity and respect-regardless of their beliefs, race, creed, sexual orientation and gender."
TCRA's executive director, Anthony Martinez, applauds the company for taking the steps they have taken. However, TCRA's policy advisor, Rick Garcia, is still concerned about discrimination at the corporate level.
"It is one thing for a company to say they respect everyone they serve and employ, it is quite another for them to put that into their policies and demand that all employees adhere to that behavior," said Garcia. "As we have heard from gay employees that work for Chick-fil-A, there is a culture of discrimination within the company and we would like to ensure that employees can speak out and call attention to those practices without fear of reprisal. It takes time to change the culture of any institution and steps like a corporate policy ensure that progress is made."
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Burning in the county is off, but lighting fireworks is still on.
The Tom Green County Commissioners Court approved instating a burn ban Tuesday after receiving information that indicators such as dry vegetation, low humidity, high heat and other conditions in the county posed a wildfire threat.
Tom Green County Judge Mike Brown said the ban, which lasts 90 days unless commissioners rescind the ban before that time or reinstate it after that time, comes at a paradoxical time.
"It's the best time to burn and the worst time to burn," he said, meaning that conditions favor burning but residents need to take considerable precautions to keep their prescribed burns under control, he said.
The ban largely prohibits people living in the county from burning trash.
Only prescribed burns, such as for agriculture or firefighting training, are allowed.
Use of gas stoves and propane grills is allowed — as are fireworks, an important consideration with the Independence Day holiday next week.
Precinct 4 Commissioner Yantis Green said the county, if it were deemed necessary, would have had to ban fireworks such as bottle rockets and sky rockets before June 15, but at that time the indicators didn't merit the ban.
The judge could still ban the use and sale of all fireworks for 60 hours in a disaster declaration, as the county did around the time of last year's massive wildfires. Under Texas law, the governor's office would need to sign off on extending the fireworks ban, Brown said.
Fire Marshal's Office Inspector Thomas Truett said personal fireworks aren't permitted inside city limits; only those under a permit for public display are allowed. There is a permanent restriction against burning outdoors except for cooking fires, he said. Last year, the city underwent a state of emergency during the summer fires and even outdoor fires were banned, he said.
Violating the county ban is a class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500.
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Photograph of "Goodnight," the father of the buffalo herd at City Park. He came
Goodnight ranch in Texas four years ago. The herd now consists of six bulls and ei
ows. Of the latter five came from the F lathead reservation. The rest of the buffaloes, with the exception of "Goodnight," were born in City Park.
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Facebook has announced intentions to acquire Face.com, a company out of Israel that the social networking giant has been working with for about two years to help identify and tag people in photos.
The acquisition speaks to Facebook’s insistence on even more photo sharing on its site, which has long been part of the company’s mission statement directed at a more “open” world. This also supplies a fresh round of privacy concerns, of course, as the website’s encroachment into the lives of users (and non-users) becomes overbearing.
“Today, facial recognition for Facebook is about photographs. But future uses of this technology could absolutely extend to recognizing people in the real world,” said Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps. “Facebook is becoming a search engine for people. It’s building a catalogue of humans, and today that’s a two dimensional experience. Tomorrow it will take place in the physical world.”
Suggesting that Facebook is constructing a “catalogue of humans” is chilling but accurate, as the entire purpose of the “free” social networking site from a business standpoint is to sell its products. Its products, incidentally, are its users.
Facebook has not yet specified how it’ll be using Face.com’s technology and employee base into its operations, but it’s not much of a stretch to suggest it’ll be more of the same. The tech from Face.com has been available on Facebook for its users since 2010, so it’s not really “new” in that sense and probably won’t alter much by way of the day-to-day Facebook experience for the short-term.
Facebook knows the value of a tagged photo, though, and Face.com’s technology helps with that. A tagged photo is seen by more people and can therefore advertise the user to more people, generating more “information” and keeping users returning to the site to see who’s been tagged in what and what for.
The area that the acquisition of Face.com will benefit Facebook most is in the mobile arena, where tagging photos and uploading them is still somewhat of a laborious function. It’s expected that more technology will aid in streamlining the experience for mobile users, helping Facebook achieve more users from a variety of platforms and generating more vital site hits along the way. Throw some more advertising in the mix and Facebook gets to crack open another juicy revenue stream through its mobile users.
Another avenue that could be opened through what Face.com brings to the table is that of advertising. Along with tagging people, the software can be used to tag things (read: brands). In 2011, Facebook gave market-friendly users the option of tagging brands in their photographs. In other words, if someone was drinking a Pepsi in a particular photo, that person could tag the Pepsi as a Pepsi and help the cola giant advertise its product by way of an implied endorsement (word-of-mouth advertising) in the tagged photo.
There are some positive uses for Face.com’s technology, but the privacy implications are pretty significant as well. People in tagged photos who don’t necessarily want to be located or associated in a particular photograph can be exposed to public viewing without their permission. They can eventually “untag” themselves, but in many cases any potential damage could’ve already been done.
Scrutiny from privacy advocates and politicians has already fallen on Facebook’s plate over facial recognition. We can probably expect more of the same here, with the social networking giant’s latest acquisition once again solidifying its presence in the lives of its countless users.
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A strong majority of Americans support the Obama administration’s requirement that health insurance plans cover the cost of contraceptives for religiously affiliated employers, according to a new survey Wednesday.
Sixty-five percent of registered voters said that they supported the Obama administration’s birth control mandate, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.
The Obama administration’s decision has sparked a backlash from religious groups that oppose the use of contraception.
The original rule mandated that employers provide health insurance plans that include coverage for birth control, with an exemption for religious employers but not for religiously affiliated institutions like Catholic colleges or hospitals.
Americans agreed with this rule, according to the survey — 59 percent of registered voters said that religiously affiliated employers should cover the cost of birth control in their employee health care plans.
However, the Health and Human Services Department has since backtracked somewhat, issuing an altered rule that puts the onus on health insurance providers to pay for the cost of birth control. The Conference of Catholic Bishops and other religious leaders continue to oppose the concept.
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Passenger Rail Returns to WNC
Norfolk Southern engines and passenger cars
On Wednesday, September 8, 2010 two passenger rail cars with 140 riders departed from Asheville for Marion, North Carolina. This rare event was an initiative of Operation Lifesaver, a nationwidenon-profit public information organization dedicated to promoting train safety and ending collisions, deaths and injuries at places where roadways cross train tracks, and on railroad rights-of-way.
View of switchbacks going down to Old Fort
This educational opportunity was also a chance to experience passenger rail. The Western North Carolina rail corridor, which runs from Asheville to Salisbury, is scheduled by the North Carolina Department of Transportation to return passenger rail. This has been a goal of Amtrak and the NCDOT Rail Division and would bolster economic development in WNC. However, the state’s economy and budget have prevented the quick return of the service.
Passengers riding in style
The excitement of the passengers could be felt as the train pulled out of Biltmore Village and began to make its way toward Black Mountain. Rail can be described as a romantic and nostalgic way to travel. It offers a unique and different perspective of North Carolina as the cars snaked down the switchbacks from Black Mountain to Old Fort. Riders were treated to views of wooded mountains free of the traffic of I-40.
Pulling into station at Old Fort
Many individuals in Western North Carolina have been working to expedite the return of passenger rail. The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce is a member of the Western North Carolina Passenger Rail Corridor, which is composed of members along the Asheville to Salisbury corridor that meet quarterly to bring passenger rail back to WNC. The group has presented to the North Carolina General Assembly and remains in contact with the NCDOT Rail Division to make sure the corridor remains top of mind.
Boarding the train in Marion
Norfolk Southern partnered with Operation Lifesaver and provided two diesel engines, two passenger cars, and a research car. The ridership included elected officials from across North Carolina, community leaders, law enforcement officials, and individuals that could help spread the word about train safety.
Rep. Ray Rapp talks about trains in Marion
An Operation Lifesaver volunteer said that the most important thing to remember is that trains can appear at any time. This is not only applicable for safety reasons as you traverse tracks on foot and in automobiles but also applies to passenger rail. The Chamber and many in the community are working hard to have this great mode of transportation return to our part of the state, and the passenger trains could appear at any moment.
Beautiful view via rail
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BREAKING NEWS & VIEWS
Social Media Traffic Explodes, Up 82%
Monday, January 25, 2010
Nielsen’s latest figures, global consumers spent over five and a half hours on social networks in December, up 82% from the same time last year. A year ago, most users were spending a little over three hours a day on social sites, a group that includes networks like Facebook, blogs, and the Twitter micro-blog service. Social media is now the most popular activity online. Gaming and instant messaging are the next most popular categories.
Not surprising, Facebook emerged as the leading destination in the category, with 209.8 million unique users, or a staggering 67% of the world Internet population. The social site kept most users for nearly six hours during the month. Twitter continues to grow at a faster pace than any other social destination, with 579% more unique (18.1 million) in December 2009 than in the same month in 2008. Nevertheless, there is still reason to suspect that Twitter has peaked, in that traffic to the site actually declined 5% in the last month of 2009. Both Classmates and LinkedIn showed incremental declines year-over-year.
In the U.S. the time spent at social media sites has been even more pronounced. Total time spent at network and blog sites has increased 210% in the last year, Nielsen says. The average person is spending 143% more time on these sites than they did a year ago at six hours and nine minutes. The U.S. is second only to Australia in time spent on social media.
Putting it into the perspective of overall Web traffic, it seems that content publishers indeed have some cause for concern in this shift. Using Nielsen data, the Online Publishers Association’s running Internet Activity Index finds that the share of overall Web time spent on content has been in decline consistently over the past year. In November 2008, 44.5% of online time was spent at content destinations, compared to 9.7% at community sites like Facebook. In November 2009, however, the share of time spent on content had declined sharply to 37%, with community spiking to 24%. This is an impressive and undeniable shift in user mindshare that no publisher can ignore. It underscores the importance of media brands learning the language of social media and having an active presence in the social networking places users are now treating like their Internet portals.
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The expression, "He could sell ice to an Eskimo," acknowledges that certain people are born salespeople.
For most small-business owners, however, the selling process is anything but easy. In fact, when it comes to pitching their product or service, many entrepreneurs struggle with any number of issues, including lack of confidence in themselves or their product, fear of failure and fear of closing the deal. The good news: Experts say these fears can be overcome with the proper attitude, training and practice.
Related: How to Adopt a Sales Mindset
Here are five of the most common fears about selling and how they can be conquered.
Fear No. 1: You will make a negative first impression. We all know how important a first impression is, and the fear that you will not make a good one can be intense. It may even make you avoid meeting ideal prospects.
How to overcome it: Show credibility through your appearance and nonverbal behavior, says Larina Kase, author of Clients, Clients and More Clients: Create an Endless Stream of New Business with the Power of Psychology (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Research shows that people are attracted to others who dress like them, she says, adding, "If your audience is school-aged girls, you may wear hot pink or purple, or if your audience is conservative business suit types, you may wear a suit with a bright shirt or tie, something that also shows your personal style." Focus on nonverbal behaviors like smiling (though not a "perma-smile"), eye contact and open posture, and be sure not to fidget and play with keys or other objects.
Related: How to Enter a Room
Fear No. 2: You will be rejected. Experienced salespeople know they aren't going to be successful 100 percent of the time, but newcomers may regard failure as the end of the world. Joe Stewart, owner and general manager of Danco Transmission in Fairfield, Ohio, remembers attempting his first sale at age 21. "I almost turned white with fear from what might happen if they said that awful two-letter word we all despise as salespeople, 'No,'" he recalls.
How to overcome it: Professionals not only know rejection happens, they look forward to it, says Peter Shallard, a Sydney, Australia-based business psychology expert and blogger. Understanding the reasons behind a rejection can help you refine your product and presentation. Stewart, now 43, reflects on that first experience, saying, "For me, the only way to beat that fear was to confront it. The more I did it the better I became at it, and less fear was the result."
Fear No. 3: You'll come across as pushy. We've all had at least one negative experience with a salesperson who kept pushing and pressuring and wouldn't let us leave or hang up the phone. Many business owners worry they'll make prospects feel that way.
How to overcome it: Kase suggests focusing more on having a conversation with someone than simply selling. Learn the prospect's needs and ask yourself if what you're offering is of real value to that person. When you care about your prospective customer and develop a sense of trust, you're more likely to make the sale. "My first customer let me know that at first they felt uncomfortable due to the horror stories they had heard about other auto repair places," Danco's Stewart says. "But that quickly subsided after speaking with me because I made them feel as though they were family."
Fear No. 4: You won't deliver. Even when you do get a yes, you may fear you won't be able to fulfill all of the person's expectations. You may even suffer from the "Impostor Syndrome," which means you're starting to question the value of your own products.
How to overcome it: Kase suggests gathering feedback from customers and taking note of all the ways you have delivered. That approach helped Christine Buffaloe, who started Serenity Virtual Assistant Services, an online business management service, in 2005, and feared people would think she wasn't worth what she was charging. Buffaloe says she gained confidence from reading the testimonials on her own website. "Continuously look for ways to improve your services so you are sure you're providing optimal value," she adds, "and you will always be confident in your abilities."
Fear No. 5: You don't know if you're doing it right. Going into sales without any training can be terrifying. How do you know you're using the right tactics and offering people what they need?
How to overcome it: Debra Condren, president and CEO of Manhattan Business Coaching and author of Ambition is Not A Dirty Word (Broadway, 2008), recommends learning sales techniques by attending a training program. When Tanner Shepard co-founded Austin, Texas-based Ranch Road Creative Solutions, a marketing services provider, in 2005, he was thrust into a sales role and gained confidence only after an intensive weekly sales course. "I had to challenge myself out of my comfort zone," he says.
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Vice Premier Haim Ramon has proposed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and other senior officials, a broad West Bank withdrawal as part of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday.
Ramon met with the leaders in an effort to put together a joint Israeli-Palestinian declaration of principles that will be presented in November at a US-sponsored Mideast peace conference.
Ramon is offering the Palestinians an Israeli withdrawal from nearly all of the West Bank, including the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, as part of a final peace deal.
According to the report, the border between Israel and the future Palestinian state will roughly follow the route of the separation fence leaving major Israeli settlement blocs and between 3 and 8 percent of the West Bank in Israel's hands.
This means that Ariel and Maale Adumin will stay within Israeli area, while settlements like Karnei Shomron, Beit El, Ofra, the haredi town of Tel Zion and many other communities will be evacuated and their territory handed over to the Palestinians.
In return, Israel will cede the same amount of land inside Israel to the Palestinians to make up for the annexed territory - possibly including a land corridor between the West Bank and Gaza, long a central Palestinian demand.
The agreement will also require both sides to immediately implement stage A of the Middle East road map: The Palestinian will disarm all armed groups in their territory, while Israel will withdraw its forces from the Palestinian towns and evacuate all illegal outposts.
Regarding Jerusalem, the proposed plan adopts Clinton's outline in the 2001 peace talks: East Jerusalem will be divided among the two states and holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City will be under the control of the various religions and no national flags will be flown.
In his talks with the Palestinians, Ramon pledged that immediately after the agreement is signed, Israel would hand over to the Palestinians three east Jerusalem neighborhoods, as goodwill gesture.
Palestinians who became refugees when Israel was founded in 1948 will not be allowed into Israel, but only into the Palestinian state, and an international fund will be set up
to pay for their rehabilitation.
Tzahi Moshe, a spokesman for Ramon, would not comment on the report. Palestinian Information Minister Riad Malki denied that Ramon had met with Fayyad or with any other Palestinian government officials.
Shimon Shiffer and AP contributed to the report
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Combatting the Environmental Protection Agency’s flurry of new regulations on coal and other energy resources has become a campaign platform for Republicans in key battleground states. GOP contenders in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are directing their focus to the Obama administration’s anti-coal policies, while blaming their Democratic rivals for bolstering the EPA’s intrusive regulatory efforts.
Representative Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) recently launched a pro-coal campaign positioning 150 billboards in six different swing states aimed to underscore President Obama’s purported opposition to the coal industry. “Too many lawmakers in Washington have ignored President Barack Obama’s War on Coal,” Griffith said this week. “The Count on Coal campaign is important to Virginians because it is educating the public that coal is not just about mining jobs, it’s about creating all types of jobs, supplying affordable electricity for families [and] businesses and doing it in a reliable, trusted way.”
“Coal is a blessing,” Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, who’s challenging Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown for the Ohio Senate seat, recently told a crowd of supporters. “There are some who are trying to convince the country that coal is a liability.... It’s not a Democratic or Republican issue. It’s an economic issue.”
At a campaign rally late last month, Mandel said 80 percent of Ohioan homes are powered by coal, and that the state’s prodigious history in manufacturing is largely attributed to its “great history of providing affordable energy." "As a Marine veteran, I know that what these guys are doing underground contributes to national security — not just the economy,” Mandel added. “America is safest when we are producing energy here.”
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“It’s a special day for us to show Americans we are celebrating, we are united,” said Ahmed Albedairy, 35, of Dearborn, who came to the U.S. from Iraq in 1996 and was one of about 20 people outside City Hall very early today. He said it was important to celebrate the “death of the evil Osama bin Laden” in “the center of Dearborn.”
Dearborn is home to one of the nation’s largest Arab and Muslim communities. Roughly one-third of the 100,000 residents trace their roots to the Middle East.
At the Arabica Cafi, the big screen TVs that normally show sport were all turned to news channels.
Leila Hussein, a 24-year-old waitress at the cafi, says she learned of the extraordinary development from a customer who asked if he could turn the TVs to a cable news network. About a dozen people inside the restaurant watched as President Barack Obama said the leader of the al-Qaida network had been killed in a U.S. military-led operation.
“It’s good he’s out of the world,” said Hussein, who was in middle school in Dearborn on Sept. 11, 2001.
Cafi manager Mohamed Kobeissi said it’s finally justice for the Sept. 11 victims. The 54-year-old lifelong Dearborn resident said he feels safer — as a Muslim and as an American — because the mastermind behind the attacks is gone.
“We felt we got relief by him getting killed. Thank God, finally, it’s a done job,” he said. “I think by seeing him out of our life gives us comfort. At least no big harm will come to the Muslim community in the U.S. from him or people like him.”
In Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan, small groups of students celebrated bin Laden’s death by waving American flags and singing patriotic songs, AnnArbor.com and The Michigan Daily reported. A bottle of champagne was sprayed, and cars drove through Ann Arbor with passengers chanting “U.S.A.”
Bin Laden’s death drew quick reaction from Michigan members of the U.S. House and Senate. U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said bin Laden’s death “closes a key chapter in the war on terror” but noted that the U.S. will continue to fight terrorism.
“We have brought to justice a terrorist with the blood of thousands of Americans on his hands, and brought justice to the families of his victims,” Rogers said in a statement released early Monday.
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., thanked those involved in the mission.
“Our country is united in gratitude to the brave men and women of our intelligence and counter terrorism community and our troops for their sacrifices in keeping us safe from terror,” Stabenow said in a statement.
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Whoever is visiting Valais should take the opportunity and travel without a car. There is too much to discover and experience rather than just concentrating on the road. Public transportation is well developed in such a way that almost any spot in Valais can be reached. Whether by bus, train or cable car, the transport itself is already a tourist highlight. Moreover, nostalgia and tourist history can be purely experienced on the historical lines.
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First Graduate Certificate in Holocaust Studies Awarded
Oct. 22, 2008
The UT Dallas Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies in the School of Arts & Humanities awarded its first graduate certificate in Holocaust Studies earlier this year. Melvin Macklin received the specialized certificate in conjunction with his doctoral degree in humanities studies and literature.
Macklin, currently an assistant professor of English in the School of Arts & Humanities at Ferrum College, a four-year liberal arts institution located in Ferrum, Va., uses his knowledge of the Holocaust to help his students explore some of the darkest themes in world history.
“In my English classes, for example, students often write on the theme of man’s inhumanity to man and the terror one human being can inflict on another,” said Macklin. “The Holocaust, I believe, is the greatest example of horror ever perpetrated by mankind; as such, students are able to focus on precise situations and events from this historical tragic era to better grasp such fundamental perplexing questions.”
The certificate in holocaust studies is offered to master’s and doctoral students in the School of Arts & Humanities (A&H). Graduates of this 15-credit hour certificate will have a critical understanding of the Holocaust as well as modern Jewish culture, the history of anti-Semitism, and the major contemporary philosophical, aesthetic and analytical responses to this major event.
“Under the guidance of [Program Director] Dr. Ozsvath, the insights I gained about that horrendous event literally changed my world-view on life and the nature of human existence,” said Macklin. “Because Holocaust studies opened my ‘blind eyes,’ I now have more patience and tend to be less judgmental. I look at one’s underlying motivations for his actions before responding or making any kind of pronouncement.”
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This article was published in The 30 Second Wine Advisor on Friday, Mar. 5, 2010 and can be found at http://www.wineloverspage.com/wineadvisor2/tswa20100305.php.
Quake shakes Chile's wineries
If there is any one blessing in a natural disaster the scope of the recent 8.8-magnitude earthquake just off the coast of Chile, it's that a remarkably small number of people - fewer than 1,000, it is hoped - died in the mammoth temblor, particularly when compared with the giant but smaller (7.0) quake that had devastated Haiti in January, where the toll was an estimated 230,000.
By all accounts, Chile was spared a greater toll by a concentrated effort to build and enforce strong earthquake-resistant building codes since the 9.5-magnitude Valdivia 'quake there in 1960, which at the time was rated as the greatest earthquake ever recorded.
With gratitude that lives were spared, Chile nevertheless faces a massive economic impact from the 'quake. Its wine industry alone, a major player in the national economy - it ranks 10th in the world in overall production - may be heavily hit.
Chile's telecommunications were so heavily hit, AP said, that days after the event, investors in the vineyards "that carpet the hardest-hit areas couldn't reach winery employees by phone or Internet to discuss the upcoming harvest."
"You have to get grapes from the vineyards to the winery, and I don't know the condition of the roads around the winery," reported Mark Osmun, spokesman for California's Jackson Family Wines, which owns Vina Calina winery in the devastated Talca region about 65 miles from the epicenter."
AP continued, "the quake has already forced tens of thousands into unemployment with no end in sight in the nation's south-southwest area ... It also translates into higher wine production costs for an industry already hurt by the declining value of the U.S. dollar."
Vina Concha y Toro, one of Chile's largest wine producers and exporters, sent this analysis of the quake's impact to wine writers this week. I thought you might find it interesting:
"As it has been communicated through the international press, in the early hours of February 27th, Chile suffered an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale that impacted most of the country followed by a tsunami that hit our Pacific coast. The central area of Chile is the most affected in terms of the damage caused. ...
"The area with the largest impact is the heartland of wine production. Our company, as well as the rest of the industry, have been heavily impacted by this catastrophe.
"With the information to which we have access at this moment, there are fortunately no personal tragedies amongst our employees and their families. However we have already been able to assess serious damage to some of our main wineries which are located in the worst affected areas. This includes important loss in wine and production capacity. A more detailed assessment of the exact magnitude of these damages is currently being completed.
"Faced with this event of force majeure, Vina Concha y Toro has had to temporarily suspend all of its logistic and production operations for at least one week. All our efforts are dedicated with regard to assessing the scope of this unprecedented event and resuming normal operations as soon as possible.
"We are sincerely grateful to all our customers and friends for their messages of solidarity and concern. We trust to have your understanding for the challenges that this event will cause in terms of future operations and we are certain that with your support and with the human capacity and strength of Concha y Toro we will overcome these difficult circumstances."
In a salute to Chile's beleaguered wine industry, we sampled a Concha y Toro Carmenere with dinner, raising a glass in the direction of not merely the vineyards but all the suffering Chilean people. My tasting notes are below.
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Today's Tasting Report
Concha y Toro 2008 "Casillero del Diablo" Rapel Valley Carmenere Reserve ($9.99)
Inky dark purple, shades to clear garnet at the edge. Oak shows itself as a hint of strong black coffee on the nose, but it's nicely kept in proportion by a dance of mixed berry fruit. Cherry-berry flavors are more apparent on the palate, well structured with mouth-watering acidity and lots of dry tannins showing as astringency on the palate in the long berrylike finish. Its 13.5% alcohol level seems rational for a hefty red in this age of rising alcohol content. U.S. importer: Excelsior Wine & Spirits (Banfi Vintners), Old Brookville, N.Y. (Dec. 14, 2009 and March 4, 2010)
FOOD MATCH: Good on one occasion with chicken pot pie, on another with local Barr Farm natural beef burgers with a touch of Southwestern spice.
VALUE: Hard to beat for 10 bucks, although my local price is actually at the high end of its range in the U.S., where you'll find it in many markets for $7 or $8.
WEB LINK: Here's a link to the winery's Website. It's published in English and Spanish; choose "Enter" for the English pages.
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What Can I Recycle?
Through advances in recycling technology, you have more options than ever. And it's a good thing because we need to conserve as much of our resources as possible. In this section, you'll learn about which materials you can and can't put in your bin.
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Extra Extra : January 2009
"A Hearst Newspapers investigation has found dozens of cases over the past 20 years of local Boy Scout councils logging or selling prime woodlands to big timber interests, developers or others, turning quick money and often doing so instead of seeking ways to preserve such lands." Since 1990, scouting councils have logged over 34,000 acres, and at least 26 Boy Scout Councils have logged near protected habitats.
Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post obtained memos from the Interior Department suggesting officials may have ignored the environmental risks of a plan to reduce water flow through the Grand Canyon at night when there is low demand for hydroelectric power. The department proceeded with the plan despite warnings that it would harm endangered species of fish living in the canyon.
An investigation by Jake Bernstein and A.C. Thompson of ProPublica explores how small community banks around the country are failing after years of profiting off commercial real estate and development loans. Silver State Bank of Nevada was closed by the FDIC in September. "The bank made its biggest bets not on home mortgages, but on loans to developers across Nevada and Arizona. Its demise highlights an aspect of the financial crisis that's been overshadowed by the crash of Wall Street and its megabanks: how small banks are suffering from a wave of defaults on construction and development loans ... Read more ...
According to a report in the Houston Chronicle, lobbyists spent more than $12 million in the last four years wining and dining Texas lawmakers and other state workers, including trips to pricey resorts across the country. Using lobby disclosure data, reporter Matt Stiles found that state senators and representatives had accepted at least $3.5 million in meals, travel, gifts and entertainment. Lobbyists spent another $3.8 million on the members' staffs. The story also reported that lawmakers have structured the rules so that most of their contacts with lobbyists are not reported.
In a two-part series, Raquel Rutledge of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found a trail of phony businesses and child-care providers who were tapping into taxpayer subsidies for child care in Wisconsin. Rutledge reviewed thousands of pages of documents, and also obtained records from whistle-blowers that the county and state refused to release. Her findings revealed that it was easy take advantage of the system. With access to just a limited number of cases, Rutledge identified about $750,000 in suspicious subsidies.
Less than a week after Washington state's Bank of Clark County failed, The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) used public records and inside sources to uncover the decisions that sent this financial institution into what one insider called the bank's "death spiral." Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. documents, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council documents and county land records bolster an explanation of what set this bank apart from its healthier peers.
Willamette Week, the alt-weekly based in Portland, Ore., broke a story about Portland Mayor Sam Adams. After 16 months of reporting, Willamette Week compiled evidence that Adams had lied in 2007 about having sex with an 18-year-old legislative intern. In an interview last week, Adams again denied having sex with the young man but as WW prepared its story for publication on Monday, Adams confessed to the reporter Nigel Jaquiss.
Supporters from Barack Obama's home state held a celebration this week that was paid for, in part, by the same lobbying firms the president-elect banned from donating to his campaign and inaugural committee, Bloomberg's Jonathan D. Salant and Kate Andersen report. Seven firms that earned a total of at least $30 million in lobbying fees last year gave as much as $50,000 apiece for the Illinois gala. At least 28 state societies -- nonprofit groups that sponsor the balls -- have held pre-inaugural balls and events in Washington. Many relied on money from corporations and lobbyists to help make ... Read more ...
In an interview with The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, the official overseeing U.S. military commissions confirmed that treatment of a Guantanamo Bay detainee qualified as torture. "The public record of the Guantánamo interrogation of the detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, has long included what officials labeled abusive techniques, including exposure to extreme temperatures and isolation, but the Pentagon has resisted acknowledging that his treatment rose to the level of torture."
an FDA official overruled agency scientists and approved the sale of an imaging device for breast cancer after receiving a phone call from a Connecticut congressman. The legislator’s call and its effect on what is supposed to be a science-based approval process is only one of many of accusations in documents obtained by The New York Times regarding disputes within the Food and Drug Administration's office of device evaluation. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/policy/13fda.html?ref=todayspaper
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What is the trick to solve these ?
1. cos (2pi/7) + cos (4pi/7) + cos (6pi/7) = ?
2. sin (pi/10) * sin (13pi/10) = ?
I believe there has to be a simple trick to solve these, but am unable to figure that so far : ( .
Any clue ?
Looks like you should plug it into a calculator from here. Most of the co-efficients of aren't obvious ones such as , and only one of them is top-heavy ( ), which can be simplified to , which again is not a very obvious one. There's no algebraic tricks as far as I can see.
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World AIDS Day
November 29, 2012
Rev. Candace McKibben
It was in the early 1990s that I read a statement that made a difference in my ministry. I cannot recall the precise statement, but the gist of the comment was this: After the federal government, the institution that helps those with HIV and AIDS the most is the church. I was shocked. Based on the churches I knew at the time, persons infected with the virus were in trouble. I could not think of a single church that had a ministry to those living with the dreaded disease. I‘m sure there were churches on this cutting edge, but certainly not many.
I decided it was important to find ways to personally support those living and dying with the disease and a way to raise the awareness and compassion of those in the churches I served. Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church, where I was on staff in the early nineties, was one of the original churches involved in a program of Big Bend Cares (a local agency that supports those with HIV and AIDS) called the Canopy Connection. This group of churches, and later other faith communities, wanted to communicate to those infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS that people of faith care about you and want to support you. Faith leaders offered counseling to those who might need spiritual encouragement. Congregations sponsored fellowship meals once a month. And annually the group organized a World AIDS Day service on December 1 that rotated among various houses of worship. Through the years the Canopy Connection has faltered. A handful of stalwart ministers in the community still seek to recognize World AIDS Day with some sort of service of hope. Last year it was held on the steps of the Old Capitol on a cold evening made warmer by the hopes of those gathered that we might one day conquer the disease.
An early experience I had through the Canopy Connection was that of baptizing a person with HIV and AIDS in my home swimming pool. He had felt so ostracized by his own faith community, that he felt unable to ask his pastor to do this for him. He had been praying about it for some time when he spoke with a counselor at Big Bend Cares who then called me. In the context of worship, with words particularly chosen to affirm his faith expression and acknowledge his acceptance of God’s love for him, I had the sacred privilege of baptizing him. It remains one of the most meaningful baptisms I have ever conducted.
Another experience was with a woman who had as much courage as I have ever witnessed. She was frail and sick but strong in spirit. She had great compassion for those who were suffering and as ill as she was would do what she could to make their lives less miserable. She was feisty and determined to do things her way and she taught me so much about perseverance and hope.
HIV/AIDS is still with us and I pray for a renewed commitment for myself and others in this community and around the world, to care.
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Closing Statement by
H.E. MR. HARRI HOLKERI
President of the General Assembly
At the conclusion
of the General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS
27 June 2001
An historic special session of the General Assembly has come to an end.
Three days ago, we gathered here in New York to unite in a massive global commitment to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic, responding to a global crisis of unprecedented scale. Despite the overwhelming statistics I highlighted on Monday, and the human suffering they represent, there is hope. Speakers in the plenary and in the round tables emphasized that we have clearly reached a turning point - either we will reach out to those who need this hope most, or we will be held responsible for not acting when we have the chance.
This special session is also historic in the sense that it takes place only six months after the General Assembly decided to convene the session to mount an urgent response to this global crisis. An enormous amount of work has been put in by all of us to make this happen.
During these three days Member States, intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, civil society and private sector partners came together in round table discussions, panels, workshops and countless meetings in corridors and cafes to share experiences, make new contacts and explore potential collaboration in mounting an expanded response to the epidemic. This special session gave ample evidence of how the United Nations can benefit from working with partners in civil society and the private sector.
The Declaration of Commitment just adopted by Member States is the first global "battle plan" against AIDS. It contains concrete targets for all of us to implement. It also contains mechanisms to follow-up - how those targets are to be reached. The beauty and significance of this Declaration of Commitment is in its pragmatic and straight- forward approach.
By adopting the Declaration, the world has made a commitment to scale up efforts with specific targets and time frames in all critical areas including prevention, care, treatment and support. The Declaration is a call for leadership and commitment at all levels in all countries; it is a framework for broad partnerships, and a tool for specific strategies, involving communities, young people and people living with HIV/AIDS, to turn the tide of the epidemic.
The Declaration is also a global call for the resources that we so urgently need. In this regard, the establishment of a global fund has been welcomed, and a number of countries have announced pledges both to the fund and to the fight against AIDS.
In closing, I should like to extend, once again, my special thanks to the two facilitators, Ambassador Wensley of Australia and Ambassador Ka of Senegal. Their commitment and non-yielding determination, matched by the tireless efforts of all of you, and your resolve to find a solution to difficult and sensitive issues, brought us to a positive conclusion of this special session. Let me also express my appreciation to the chairmen of the round tables.
I should also like to thank the secretariats, General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services, the UNAIDS team for all their hard work, and every other department in this house who worked countless hours to make this special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS indeed very special.
Let me finish by saying
that we worked hard, but in fact, the real work only starts now - with new determination
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About this time every year, I suffer a mini nervous breakdown in the baking aisle of Wal Mart.
It goes something like this: Upon discovering that the only instant pie filling left on the shelves is banana-flavored, I launch into a profanity-laced tirade against JELL-O franchise, followed by a stifled sob into my shopping list, followed by a public declaration of outrage regarding the inequitable burden of being a woman during the holidays.
There’s just too much to buy, too much to cook, and too much football to miss while trying to get it all done, I tell the little old lady sifting through spices. Why are the stores packed with women and not men? Why must women be in charge of all the holiday preparations? Whatever happened to women’s liberation?
After the breakdown, I call my mother and suggest that we ditch Thanksgiving dinner altogether, order a pizza, and donate the difference to the local food bank.
“That’s obscene,” she says. (She actually uses the word “obscene.”) “If you want to donate, go right ahead. But we’re doing Thanksgiving with all the trimmings whether you want to or not, just like we do every year.”
Just like we do every year.
And so, just like every year, I dig out the recipes from generations past and get to work.
There are recipes from my maternal grandmother, who grew up in rural Appalachia in the wake of the Depression. The daughter of a farmer, she learned to cook on a wood-burning stove. Thanksgiving guests included uncles who worked in the nearby coal mines, grandfathers who remembered fighting for the Confederacy, and aunts who were honest-to-goodness relatives of the American hero Daniel Boone. The first in her family to go to college, she became a gifted schoolteacher. For years, Grandma’s inheritance was withheld by her brother, who claimed that land traditionally went to the male heirs alone. Grandma got herself a good lawyer, and in October was liberated from years of sexism to claim a little hill in North Carolina as her own.
There are recipes from my paternal grandmother, an excellent cook, who liked to serve lamb and duck on weeknights. Born of Lithuanian immigrants, she rejected her Catholic background and converted to Protestantism, writing a letter to the Pope explaining why. She overcame alcoholism and alienation from her family to become an important member of her church and community. Strong-willed and smart, she held her own in political debates with my grandfather. She passed away on Thanksgiving Day a few years ago. There are wind chimes hanging from the trees around her grave.
Of course, most of the recipes are from my mother, whose handwriting on the gravy-stained note cards sets my mind at ease. Mom grew up Independent Baptist, and as a girl, was forbidden from dancing and going to movies and marching for civil rights. As a kid, she spent Saturday mornings scrubbing toilets and ironing clothes. Determined to break the cycle of legalism, Mom ran a home filled with compassion and grace, with very few chores, no forced church attendance, and special concern for the least of these. She and my father honeymooned in Mexico, rode donkeys through the Grand Canyon, and shot photos of grizzlies in Yellowstone. They were in the stands during the great Thanksgiving Day Dallas Cowboys game of 1976, when backup quarterback Clint Longley threw the game-winning 50-yarder to Drew Pearson. When they got home from the game, they found that their turkey (and most of their kitchen cabinets) had caught fire while they were away. Mom says it was totally worth it.
And so, just like every year, I take a pause from my rant about women’s liberation to remember the women who came before me—women who probably cried in grocery stores, swore at meat thermometers, and struggled through shopping lists, all to preserve our seemingly insignificant traditions surrounding gravy recipes and turkey garnishes. It’s the only time of year when I feel a strong, palpable connection to all of them at the same time.
Perhaps this is why I keep going, even after the annual breakdown. Perhaps it’s why I insist on making strawberry salad every year, even though I know Dan secretly doesn’t care for it. Perhaps it’s why women all over the country keep cooking and cleaning and hosting and shopping and sharing and giving, on top of all the additional opportunities and responsibilities we take on every day.
We don’t want to forget how far we’ve come in liberating ourselves in the important things.
Ladies, how do you cope with all the holiday preparations? What traditions do you strive to preserve? I actually get a lot of help from Dan, so I can't complain...well, I can...but I probably shouldn't. :-)
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Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs Ebook
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In the never-ending battle to keep costs in check, U.S. manufacturers are looking inward — not outward — to achieve margin growth, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by the Hackett Group, suggests that manufacturers are becoming less reliant on offshoring and outsourcing as a cost-reduction strategy.
Instead, companies are focusing on internal cost-reduction opportunities such as productivity improvements, strategic sourcing and supply chain optimization.
"Over the past few years, major companies have outsourced the large majority of the activities that can be managed by third parties, to take advantage of low-cost locations," said Dave Sievers, a principal and the practice leader of the Hackett Group's Strategy and Operations Practice.
"But in many cases, the labor-cost gap is shrinking, making onshore and nearshore manufacturing much more attractive."
Coinciding with this trend, stabilizing GDP growth in major economies around the world has reduced sales-forecast uncertainty, enabling manufacturers "to plan supply requirements and manufacturing capacity with far greater confidence," according to the study.
"At the same time, new opportunities for cost reduction are emerging, including internal optimization, materials cost cuts and reduced energy prices," Sievers added. "For 2013, companies are clearly focusing on building the skills and infrastructure they need to take advantage of these trending opportunity areas."
'Aggressive' Cost-Reduction Goals
The Hackett Group study found that U.S. manufacturers are targeting a 1.5 percent reduction in cost of goods sold to drive margin growth in 2013.
The business-advisory firm called that target "aggressive."
The firm asserted that "a significant portion" of the cost savings will come from a 1.7 percent reduction in internal manufacturing costs targeted by U.S. companies this year.
Meanwhile, manufacturers will continue to take advantage of lower energy prices and stable aggregate demand, as they target a 2 percent reduction in logistics costs and a 1.7 percent drop in warehousing costs this year.
"With demand really beginning to stabilize in 2012, companies began to optimize their existing distribution networks, reducing overhead and operating costs," said Len Prokopets, associate principal for the Hackett Group's Strategy and Operations Practice. "We expect this to be a significant trend going into 2013."
Manufacturers also will continue to "lock in savings" from favorable commodity prices, the Hackett Group said.
Offshoring Tide Turning?
The Hackett Group said its new study corroborates previous research indicating that U.S. manufacturers might have exhausted the cost savings they can achieve from offshoring and outsourcing to so-called low-cost countries such as China.
"Last year, the Hackett Group issued research showing that the tide has begun to turn on the flow of manufacturing jobs from the U.S. to China and other low-cost countries," the firm said in a news release.
"The research found that some companies are already reshoring a portion of their manufacturing capacity, and this trend is expected to reach a crucial tipping point by 2015, as the total landed cost gap between the two nations continues to shrink, driven in part by rising wage inflation in China and continued productivity improvements in the U.S."
Internal productivity improvements are expected to account for nearly 50 percent of manufacturers' overall cost reductions, according to the Hackett Group study.
"The Hackett Group found that while companies aggressively used outsourced manufacturing to reduce costs through 2011, starting in 2012 companies shifted away from this strategy, and expect to be much less reliant on outsourcing for savings in 2013 as well," the firm said.
Manufacturers also are turning their attention to their supply chains, the Hackett Group found.
Manufacturers plan to ramp up investment in their supply chains by nearly 3 percent this year, with much of that spending targeting IT, skills and training to improve processes, and developing joint capabilities and products.
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Washington Post has published an article today “India’s “Silent” Prime Minister becomes a Tragic Figure” for American Audience has caused immense embarrassment to PM Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister Office and Congress Party but why? Is it really something different from Indian media assessment of PM Manohan Singh. It is exactly same as Indian Media portray PM Manmohan Singh and the general perception Indian Public about him. I am sorry to say as an Indian but he is indeed a point of joke in India.
Simon Denyer India Beureau Chief of Washington Post has written the story and the story certainly jolted the Chairs of Congress.
The article is a critical satire on PM Manmohan Singh, Political functioning and corruption happening in India. The article is in no way a scoop in journalistic terms but certainly it is great news for Washington Post audience in US. The article is of two page and on first page Simon Denyer has written nothing extraordinary about PM Manmohan Singh.
There is so much furor about the article in media and follow up of the author of the article Simon Denyer. Simon Denyer is working as India Beureau Chief of Washington Post. The furor which has been created by media is not on the issue of PM Manmohan Singh point but what he has written in the later part of the article.
If we dissect the first part of the article, it is about the achievement of the Pm Manmohan Singh and how history will remeber him as Fallen angel. Two imminent person has been quoted in the first part of article Ramachandran Guha a Political Historian and Sanjay Baru Singh’s media adviser in his first term.
In article Mamohan Singh famous shayari is also quoted in English. Honesty, Humbleness, Softness, Shyness and the respect of PM Manmohan Singh has been the point which Congress is using as a Primary defense of all the allegation. Indian Media and specially opposition is saying this since last three years. Recently PM was attributed as an UNDERACHIEVER by TIMES magazine.
The last part of article in which Simon Denyer is explaining the status of PM Manmohan Singh in Congress, Gandhi Family and the functioning of congress. There are some lines in the article which reflects the dark truth every one in India but no one says it. The later part of the second part explains how PM Manmohan Singh has been downsized in his stature by his own party so that path for Rahul Gandhi as a PM without any hindrance. A powerful word Cult ( Which is many times used in negative sense) has been used in reference of the relationship between Congress Party and Gandhi family. The center of Power in Congress has been defined which is Sonia Gandhi. A particular line say’s
“Sonia’s word was destined to remain law”
The article went on to explain that why Manmohan Singh the Small stature was chosen for the big chair. Simon Denyer is right because in explaining PM Manmohan Singh destiny as a PM. He was chosen just because of Loyalty so that Gandhi Family can rule this country indirectly.
Simon Denyer is right because India has lost a great leader and PM because of Gandhi family Pranab Mukherjee. He was sidelined by giving him a post of president to go down in Indian history with Pride.
The explosive part is the last part of the article. Simon Denyer has wrote the unsaid truth and this is the reason it is explosive.
On Twitter Manmohan Singh, MMS, Washington Post and WaPo is trending since morning. On Twitter the mood of Indians is nothing against Washington Post because they know all the truth. Nothing to explain.
Manmohan Singh, MMS hashtag
Madhu Kishwar has not tweeted in reference of The Washigton Post article but her views certainly represent the view of free intelligentsia.
There was a confusion created by a Indian Hindi channel that The Washington Post has apologized for the article which was not true.
Simon Denyer is also busy on answering lots of Tweet because of the article he has written.
Indian media hypocrisy is again exposed as they are playing the innocent role by asking that what is in the article for which The Washington Post should be apologetic. None of them are or will say that there is anything explosive in the article. Simon Denyer is an scathing attack on the Nepotism, Dynasty based Politics and lack of leadership in the Congress. Indeed how Indian media can say this.
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Two years ago a bill, which would have banned possession of 30-round magazines like those used to kill 20 children and six women in the Sandy Hook Elementary School, was introduced in the Connecticut General Assembly. It never came to a vote.
Now there are attempts to remedy that on many levels. Connecticut's U.S. senators are co-sponsoring strict gun legislation in Congress that includes a ban on large-capacity magazines and they have already been banned in New York. In addition, Senate President Donald Williams has told us that after the Newtown horror Connecticut should feel obligated to take a leadership role in dealing with these weapons capable of mass murder.
In 2011, Connecticut's failed Senate Bill 1094 would have made it a felony to own ammunition magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. It was introduced soon after a nine-year-old girl and five adults were murdered and Congresswoman Gaby Giffords was seriously wounded at a Tucson, Ariz. mall. The killer used a Glock 19 with a 33-round magazine.
Adam Lanza's weapon in the Sandy Hook killings, except for the handgun he used on himself, was a Bushmaster AR-15 with magazines containing 30 bullets, according to Lt, Paul Vance, the Connecticut State Police spokesman. The guns were owned by Lanza's mother - his first victim.
There is, of course, no way to know if Nancy Lanza would have turned in her magazines 90 days after passage of SB 1094, as the bill would have required. Had she obeyed the new law, there would have been no large capacity magazines in the Lanza home for more than the entire year leading up to the Newtown murders.
But the bill never got out of the Judiciary Committee and its failure is a testament to the power of Connecticut sportsmen's organizations and the National Rifle Association, which had sneered in a newsletter that SB 1094 was nothing more than "a bill in search of a problem."
"No correlation exists between the size or arbitrary capacity of a detachable magazine and violent crime," was the incredible NRA claim just weeks after the capacity of the magazine had made it so easy to kill six people and wound 18 so quickly in Tucson.
With the NRA's encouragement, thousands of gun owners, manufacturers and dealers sent letters and e-mails to lawmakers. Dozens submitted written testimony to the Judiciary Committee, including the chief executives of gunmakers Smith and Wesson of Springfield, Mass. and Sturm Ruger and Co. of Southbury, who said jobs would be lost if the bill passed.
Robert Crook of the Hartford-based Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen boasted to Bloomberg News he sent an e-mail to more than 1,800 of his members, telling them if the bill passed, it would "ban your magazines and turn your guns into paper weights."
The gun crowd packed a Judiciary Committee public hearing with hundreds of advocates. Testimony by this "public" was overwhelmingly against the bill during a marathon session that went on for 12 hours. SB 1094 didn't have a chance.
But that was before Newtown. The federal legislation will still be difficult to pass but after Newtown it has the best chance in decades and our senators and others deserve our thanks for raising it.
And we see similar legislation being passed in the coming weeks by a more courageous and, perhaps, a more conscience-stricken Connecticut legislature.
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Canadian company Magma Energy Corp. has signed an agreement with Geysir Green Energy ehf (GGE) to purchase all of GGE's stake in Iceland geothermal company HS Orka hf, increasing Magma's stake to 98.53%.
HS Orka currently produces 175 megawatts (MW) of geothermal power and 150 MW of thermal energy for district heating, and has near-term expansion plans that would increase its power production to 405 MW by 2015.
The transaction will increase Magma's geothermal power production to 186 MW, its geothermal reserves to 193 MW and its indicated and inferred geothermal resources to 1,161 MW. The remaining 1.5% stake in HS Orka is held by four Icelandic municipalities.
"I am really pleased with this landmark acquisition, which brings Magma such long term core assets as large scale low cost geothermal power production, enormous in-ground geothermal resources that will enable additional future production growth, and a wonderful team of Icelandic geothermal experts who can help us grow both in Iceland and internationally," said Ross Beaty, Magma's chairman and CEO.
The agreement provides that Magma's wholly owned subsidiary will purchase GGE's remaining interest in HS Orka for US $84.5 million and by assuming a bond issued by GGE with a face value of $36 million.
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[Updated at 5:20 p.m.] U.S. Geological Survey has revised the earthquake's preliminary magnitude to 5.0. The USGS initially assigned it a preliminary magnitude of 5.5.
[Updated at 2:55 p.m.] There has been no major damage reported so far from an earthquake that hit Canada today, the city of Toronto said in a press release.
"In our initial assessment, there has been no major damage to City infrastructure. Further investigations are taking place to confirm," the statement said. "The Toronto Transit Commission and Transportation Services have reported that there has been no damage to their infrastructure or interruptions to service.
"The City’s Emergency Operations Centre is up and running in preparation for the G20 so the City is uniquely prepared to respond to the event. We will continue to monitor the situation and will report as necessary."
[Updated at 2:42 p.m.] Barre Campbell, a spokesman for the city of Ottawa, tells CNN that there are no reports of major damage in downtown Ottawa.Campbell said he witnessed self-evacuations of downtown buildings, but that people appear to be headed back into work buildings now.
[Updated at 2:32 p.m.] An operator at the Ottawa Hospital said she felt the quake for about 30 seconds.
Sgt. Marc LaPorte, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told CNN that it was a "slight tremor" and there "doesn't appear to be any damage reported to date yet."
CBC also spoke with Kathleen Sullivan who was working on the eighth floor of an office in downtown Toronto when the quake hit.
"It was very peculiar because we could actually see the plants on our window shelf shaking," she told the CBC. "By the time we gathered in the hall and figured out it wasn't our imagination, it stopped. But it was easily a minute of things shaking.
[Updatd at 2:16 p.m.] The quake struck at 1:41 p.m. near the borders of Ontario and Quebec provinces, the USGS said.
It was about 12 miles deep.
[Updated at 2:15 p.m.] CNN affiliate WDIV in Detroit, Michigan is reporting tremors were felt in the metro area of Detroit.
Other tremors have reportedly been felt in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Cleveland, Ohio.
CNN affiliate WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut reported that some residents in Connecticut felt shaking. CNN affiliate WMUR in Manchester, New Hampshire reported that residents in New Hampshire also felt the tremors.
[Posted at 2:10 p.m.] An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 struck Wednesday in southern Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Wednesday.
This story is developing. We'll bring you the latest information as we get it.
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November 26, 2012
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream of a nation in which people are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. For almost fifty years, countless people have tried to make that noble dream a reality. Unfortunately, a disturbing number of ethically challenged people have dishonored that dream by distorting its principles to further their personal agendas. These distortions are commonly perpetuated by a practice known as “playing the race card”.
Rather than dealing with the true issues at hand, people who play the race card seek to trump all the other figurative cards in the deck of human relations. And so it was, at the November 12, 2012 meeting of the Snellville City Council, when Kelly Kautz played the race card in an apparent attempt to label other council members as racists. Although neither race nor ethnicity had ever been mentioned before in connection with a nomination, Kautz specified the race of only two of her 11 nominations that evening; she identified both nominees as African-American.
Her comments have left citizens and other Council members scratching their respective heads, wondering what prompted her inappropriate comments. It appears to me that the comments were just part of a procedural ambush, planned to discredit other Council members while attempting to position herself as a champion of diversity.
Kautz was already aware that one candidate would not be approved because he had failed to submit an application. Prior to his race being known or announced, Kautz stated that she was proceeding with his nomination in spite of objections about the nominee’s failure to submit an application. The matter could have been easily resolved by simply withdrawing the nomination and resubmitting it after the appropriate application had been filed. But that procedure wouldn’t have fit Kautz’s apparent ambush plan.
The second nominee that Kautz identified as being African-American does not live in the city and works in Atlanta. The position for which he was nominated is the city’s representative on the Evermore Community Improvement District’s board of directors. Questions about the applicant’s suitability for the position had absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the fact that he has absolutely no stake in the city. Further, from conversations with the applicant, it appeared that his primary reason for applying was to form a business alliance amongst the companies along the Highway 78 corridor. An overwhelming majority of those businesses are outside the city limits.
But announcing a nominee’s race was only one part of what appears to be Kautz’s plan for the evening. As specified in the city’s Code of Ordinances, a motion must be made and seconded before a vote on a nomination is taken. (For at least the last 12 years, that’s the way it has always been done in Snellville.) Kautz attempted to circumvent that procedure, citing Roberts Rules of Order. However, the City Attorney advised her that the Code of Ordinance takes precedence and that a motion and a second are required.
That begs the question as to why Kautz attempted to change procedures. In my opinion, it has to do with trying to force a vote that could later be marketed as racially motivated. Instead, neither nomination came to a vote because there was no second to the original motions. That outcome doesn’t work particularly well when someone is trying to paint a picture of racism.
All forms of racism and ethnic prejudice are repugnant. And in my opinion, the most offensive type is wherein one person’s race is used by another as a platform for self-promoting political posturing.
Snellville’s population is indeed diverse, and as such, members of the city’s boards, committees and commissions should be as diverse as the citizen population they serve. However, the best way to achieve that is to first aggressively solicit applications. To assure that the best interests of all our citizens are served, applicants should be nominated based on their qualifications and willingness to serve. And when the time comes, I can assure you that all applicants will be confirmed based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
My apologies to anyone who finds the term “African-American” objectionable or offensive. It is used herein to preserve the accuracy of the comments made by Kautz during the Council meeting.
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SNELLVILLE A "new concept" RaceTrac service station and convenience store is coming to the city of Snellville and will be located on 2.21 acres at the southwest corner of Oak Road and Highway 124. The high tech, 5,928 square-feet store, will be only the eighth such RaceTrac in
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It’s that time of year again. The trees are budding, the flowers blooming, and the sun shining. If you’re anything like me, you probably want to be outside enjoying the beauty of spring. This past weekend we enjoyed the fun of Springfest, and as time moves on, we find ourselves getting more and more antsy for summer.
BUT… if you’re anything like me, you’re also very aware of the fact that summer is not yet here. Something big and ominous lies between you and freedom. That’s right. It’s crunch time! You’re probably scrambling to write that final paper, put together that notebook, or get your group together to work on your group project. Oh, and let’s not forget the final unit test to complete this week before moving on to EXAMS.
To say the least, you may be feeling a little stressed right about now. So what are you going to do about it? Below are some tips from http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_management_relief_coping.htm on how to manage stress, both during crunch time and throughout life.
#1. Avoid unnecessary stress
Learn how to say no.
We all have our limitations. It’s ok to say no to things that we don’t have time for or simply can’t do. It’s not a sign of failure. It’s the simple truth
Make a list of what you need to do and prioritize it. Distinguish between what you need to do and what you want to do. Focus on the most important things. If you have time later, go back and do the other things.
#2. Alter the Situation
Manage your time: Plan ahead and don’t overextend yourself
#3. Adapt to the Stressor
Try to be more positive in the way you look at things
Look at the big picture. Often things that we freak out about in the moment aren’t that big of a deal in the long run. Keep things in perspective.
Adjust your standards if necessary. Perfectionism can be a major cause of stress. Learn to let the little things go.
#4. Accept what you cannot change
Some things are just out of our control. It’s ok to let go and move on
#5. Make time for fun and relaxation
Set aside time for relaxation
Do something you enjoy every day
Keep your sense of humor
#6. Adopt a healthy lifestyle
Exercise regularly. Physical activity dramatically reduces the physical effects of stress
Eat a healthy diet. Balanced, nutritious meals help our bodies and brains function at their optimum level
Reduce caffeine and sugar. I know these are tempting, especially during finals, but although they cause a “high”, they often leave your body with a crash in mood and energy. Caffeine and sugar also inhibit good sleep.
Avoid alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs
Get plenty of sleep. Fatigue increases stress
Have a blessed, relaxed Easter Break and come back ready for a stress-free (or at least stress-reduced) finals week!
By Audrey Wolcott
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Itís time for Coasters to start filling shoeboxes so children in need around the world arenít forgotten this Christmas.
Samaritanís Purse Canada is once again asking people to spend a small portion of their Christmas budget to purchase basic school supplies, hygiene items and a toy or two for a needy child through Operation Christmas Child.
Givers place their items inside a shoebox, and for $7 each, Operation Christmas Child ships the boxes to one of dozens of destinations around the world. In places plagued by war, disease and poverty, children wait for the gifts that will bring them joy and, in many cases, allow them to go to school.
Last year the Sunshine Coast managed to ship 941 filled shoeboxes through Operation Christmas Child. Local organizer Martha Schroth received a moving letter from one boy explaining how the gift brought tears to his eyes.
The eleven-year-old boy from Serbia named Nebojsa wrote, ďSince I was born this is the best gift I have ever received.Ē
He was especially moved by the gift of school supplies.
ďHis mother explained that the children in his school made fun of him because he didnít have school supplies during math class and he got an F because he told the teacher he forgot his supplies. The truth was that his family didnít have the money to buy them,Ē Nebojsaís pastor told Schroth. ďHe held the supplies in his arms for a long time, with tears in his eyes.Ē
Since Operation Christmas Child started in 1993, the effort has delivered more than 94-million shoeboxes to children like Nebojsa. This year Samaritanís Purse wants to top the 100-million mark.
ďTo reach that goal, we are asking Canadians from coast to coast to pack shoe boxes during the next few weeks,Ē said Fred Weiss, executive director of Samaritanís Purse Canada. ďTogether, we can use the power of a simple gift to touch the hearts of children and improve their lives.Ē
Operation Christmas Child allows givers to choose what age and gender of child they want to pack a shoebox for and then guidelines are given to ensure kids get a variety of fun and useful things.
The person packing the shoebox is free to give what they like within those guidelines, but certain items are prohibited and could result in a shoebox not reaching a child. Due to customs regulations, do not include toothpaste, food or any chewy, crumbly or soft candy, liquids or items that could leak, melt, freeze or break, playing cards, toy knives or guns or anything that could scare or harm a child.
Empty shoeboxes can be picked up at a number of churches on the Coast as well as from Gibsons Building Supplies in Gibsons and Sechelt, IGA Marketplace in Gibsons and Curves in Gibsons.
Full boxes must be returned by Nov. 10 to Calvary Baptist Church at 711 Park Rd. in Gibsons to ensure they reach their destination by Christmas.
Givers can purchase a plastic shoebox to use instead of the cardboard ones provided, but Schroth notes it must be good quality.
Samaritanís Purse Canada also offers an on-line way to give. Through www.samaritanspurse.ca you can virtually pack a box, complete with a hand-picked gift, for around $40.
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Egypt opposition: Election will add to tensions
CAIRO – Egypt's president set parliamentary elections to begin in April – a decision that an opposition leader denounced Friday as "a recipe for disaster" because of the ongoing political turmoil in the country.
About 15,000 people took to the streets in the Suez Canal city of Port Said to demonstrate against President Mohammed Morsi, hanging effigies of him in the main square. Residents have been on a general strike for six days, demanding punishment for what they considered a heavy-handed police crackdown during unrest in the city.
Morsi scheduled the staggered, four-stage voting process to begin April 27 and end in June. The newly elected parliament would convene on July 6, according to a decree issued late Thursday night.
He hopes the election will end the political turmoil that has beset Egypt for the past two years, since the ouster of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. The upheaval has scared away foreign investors and dried up tourism, both crucial foreign currency earners that helped the government pay for subsidized goods needed by the poor for survival.
But Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads one of the main opposition groups, the National Salvation Front, wrote on his Twitter account Friday that Morsi's "decision to go for parliamentary elections amidst severe societal polarization and eroding state authority is a recipe for disaster."
The NSF accuses Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood supporters of monopolizing power and reneging on campaign promises to set up an inclusive government that introduces far-reaching reforms.
The opposition has called for amending articles in a new constitution that passed in a nationwide referendum. It also demands the resignation of the current technocrat Cabinet appointed by Morsi that includes eight Brotherhood ministers and other Islamists.
Morsi took over as president in June 2012 with the help of some opposition groups and Islamists who voted against his rival, a former Mubarak-era prime minister. Morsi's popularity has since eroded due to power-grabbing decrees temporarily issued last year that allowed his supporters to rush the constitution to a nationwide vote before a high court packed with Mubarak appointees could disband the process.
The vote took place during massive street protests against Morsi and the Islamist-led body that drafted the charter. It passed by 64 percent of votes amid low turnout and a boycott by thousands of overseeing judges.
On the second anniversary of the Jan. 25 uprising, anger spilled out onto the streets and violence again engulfed the nation. About 70 people died in a wave of protests, clashes and riots in the past four weeks, and more than half were killed in Port Said alone.
Factory workers, activists and laborers in Port Said have held street rallies that brought the city on the northern tip of the Suez Canal to a halt, although shipping in the international waterway has not been affected.
Port Said commentator Sayid Azab said the city opposes Morsi's timetable for the parliamentary vote.
"Everyone is rejecting the elections and asking how they can take place in the absence of stability," he said.
Civil disobedience in Port Said has stopped work at the foreign-run Suez Canal Container Terminal. Managing director Klaus Hol Laursan said 2,000 workers have been unable to reach the terminal for four days due to protesters blocking the street, and the army has been unable to help.
"We are, as a business, not part of the conflict. We are bystanders hurt by circumstances," he told The Associated Press. "In order to be able to attract business, we need stable productivity so we can help Egypt grow and recover its economy."
The political unrest has hit Egypt's foreign currency reserves, which have fallen below a critical level to less than $14 billion. The country is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a nearly $5 billion loan that would shore up confidence again in the country's economy and free up other loan requests. Insiders say talks have been prolonged because of Morsi's reluctance to implement unpopular austerity measures ahead of elections.
Abdullah Shehata, an economic expert with the Brotherhood, declined comment on when austerity measures could be implemented, but said the elections will help the country's ailing economy.
"The elections will be positive because it will be the final institution to fall into place after the presidency and the constitution," he said. "The coming parliament will be elected by the people and will help build confidence in Egypt again. "
In Cairo, the opposition party led by former Mubarak rival Ayman Nour said its offices were torched and stormed by masked gunmen Friday. Speaking to the state-run Ahram Arabic website, the group said the men stole documents and videotapes before setting it ablaze.
The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party was undeterred by criticism of Morsi's election announcement. The party's deputy, Essam el-Erian, was quoted on the group's Facebook page as saying that he hopes the upcoming parliament will be "diverse" and include Islamists, liberals and leftists. He also warned against a boycott.
"Everyone understands the importance of this stage and that the absence of their voice is a big mistake and will mean a lengthy absence from parliament, its parties and its politics during this stage of building Egypt," he said.
The group has already been setting the stage for elections through outreach programs, including helping the poor receive subsidized bread that is often hard to find.
The Brotherhood and more conservative Salafis have grassroots support, partly through vast networks of charities that help the poor.
Competition among the various Islamist parties is expected to be fierce, particularly after signs of a rift between the Salafi Al-Nour and the Brotherhood began surfacing in recent weeks, including a public spat over credit for who organized a reconciliation meeting with liberal opposition figures.
The opposition says it does not want a repeat of the voting scenario in 2011, when parliamentary elections began as protesters were battling security forces to demand a timetable for presidential balloting and the end of military rule. More than 40 people were killed in those clashes, and many independent and liberal candidates withdrew from the race in protest.
The Brotherhood won nearly half the seats in what was the nation's first free election. The more conservative Salafis came in second, while secular and liberal groups trailed significantly. That parliament was disbanded on June 14, 2012, after the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that a third of the chamber's members were elected illegally.
El-Erian said he expects Islamists to again win about 75 percent of the seats.
The staggered election will likely result in ballot fatigue for Egyptian voters who have already stood in line multiple times in the past two years for legislative and presidential elections that included runoffs, as well as two nationwide referendums.
According to Thursday's decree, Egypt's 27 provinces will be divided into four groups that will vote separately over two days in a period ending on June 27. This process is supposed to give the more than 50 million voters enough time to participate.
The first phase of the election takes place amid Palm Sunday and Easter for Egypt's minority Coptic Christians who tend to travel during the holidays and have consistently voted against the Muslim Brotherhood.
In addition, the country's highest court ruled this week that at least 10 articles in the election law were unconstitutional, and sent them to the upper house of parliament for amendment, including what it called the "arbitrary" drawing of districts that critics say favored the Brotherhood.
The founder of the opposition April 6 movement said if the election law is not agreed upon, they will not support participation in elections.
"The election laws have not been agreed upon and this is an essential problem," Ahmed Maher told the AP.
The unrest has swept over other provinces too, with diesel shortages in Alexandria and Assiut, as well as strikes in Mahalla.
Port Said protester Mohammed Manae signaled that a parliamentary election could mean more violence.
"We not only object to these elections, we will not let them happen," Manae said.
El Deeb reported from Port Said, Egypt. Mosaad el-Gohary in Port Said contributed to this story.
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Wired News: NSA Bill Performs a Patriot Act:
A bill radically redefining and expanding the government's ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday, and may be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week.
By a 10-8 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act (.pdf), which was co-written by committee's chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) in concert with the White House.
Specter's bill concedes the government's right to wiretap Americans without warrants, and allows the U.S. Attorney General to authorize, on his own, dragnet surveillance of Americans so long as the stated purpose of the surveillance is to monitor suspected terrorists or spies.
Lisa Graves, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, called the bill "stunning."
"The administration has taken their illegal conduct in wiretapping Americans without court orders, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Constitution, and used it as springboard to not only get FISA changed to allow the Terrorist Surveillance Program, but to actually, going forward, not give protections to Americans' privacy rights," Graves said.
Jim Dempsey, the policy director for the more moderate Center for Democracy and Technology, described the bill's passage out of committee as "light years or miles beyond the Patriot Act."
"What started out as Sen. Specter wanting to rein in the president's program has turned on its head and is now not just a legislative ratification of the program, but an expansion of warrantless wiretapping of Americans," Dempsey said. "It would allow the NSA to turn its vacuum cleaners on even domestic phone calls and e-mails of citizens.
"They do all of this in Alice in Wonderland fashion by defining all kinds of categories of surveillance to be not surveillance," said Dempsey.
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The display of a social media icon such as a Facebook “Like” button or a Twitter symbol on a shopping website increases the likelihood that consumers will buy some products, and reduces the likelihood that they will buy others.
Google's browser was hacked within only five minutes as part of an annual security contest, thanks to a team of French hackers and a Russian student.
The British Retail Consortium's (BRC's) Multichannel Retailing conference taking place today (Thursday) is a timely reminder to the Government to keep the pressure on Europe over the creation of a true single European online retail market.
Moda in Pelle, a leading UK shoe and accessories retailer, has signed to use ChannelAdvisor’s Managed Marketplaces solution to increase sales on eBay and Amazon.
Mamas & Papas has announced plans to develop its ecommerce offering to increase the number of goods it sells using parcel delivery services and enhance its web presence.
The popularity of shopping through mobile devices is continuing to grow at remarkable speed, with sales through mobile devices penetrating the 5% barrier of total e-retail sales for the first time, according to new research.
The monthly BC/KPMG sales monitor reveals that UK retail sales values were down 0.3% on a like-for-like basis from February 2011, when sales had fallen 0.4%. On a total basis, sales were up 2.3%, against a 1.1% increase in February 2011.
Facebook is letting companies place ads on its mobile version for the first time, and to advertise on the log out screen, flowing the launch of its new ‘Premium’ service.
Research from property advisor CBRE found that many European consumers chose to do their Christmas shopping over the internet in 2011, despite retail sales remaining fairly flat throughout this period overall
Annual statistics released by the Information Commissioner's Office show there has been a 58% increase in data protection breaches by companies in the private sector
2.6% of visits to e-retail sites were through mobile in 2010; this surged to 8.2% in 2011
Payment Services Provider collaborates with MagTek to develop mobile Smart Phone and Tablet POS solutions.
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It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but
it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good
play needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes;
and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.
What a case am I in, then, that am neither a good epilogue nor
cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not
furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg will not become me: my
way is to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge
you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of
this play as please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love
you bear to women;--as I perceive by your simpering, none of you
hates them,--that between you and the women the play may please.
If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that
pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied
not; and, I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces,
or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy,
bid me farewell.
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Advice to Aspirants
by Swami Sivananda
Vanity, arrogance, self-assertive nature and Rajasic violence are great obstacles in the spiritual path. They take various forms. It is very difficult for the aspirant to detect them. The Guru only can detect them and show efficient methods to eradicate them. The aspirant vainly imagines that he is advanced in the spiritual path. He resents when these defects are pointed out by others. He never admits his defects. Such an aspirant cannot make any spiritual progress.
The aspirant claims that he is a superior Sadhaka with psychic powers and great knowledge of Yoga. He thinks that he is free from defects and that he is a perfect Yogi. He poses as a Yogi with realisation. He says that he can influence others and has a large number of disciples, devotees, and admirers. Such an aspirant cannot make an iota of spiritual progress. He is more egoistic and proud than ordinary householders.
Lower nature persists and resists. It refuses to get itself sublimated and transformed.
If the aspirant is not willing to regenerate his lower nature, he will not be benefited even if he remains for several years with his Guru.
Disobedience and indiscipline are great obstacles in spiritual path. Self-assertion stands in the way of obedience. The ego can be annihilated only by obedience, humility and service. The aspirant has his own ideas, whims, fancies and impulses. He is unwilling to accept any order or discipline, presented by his Guru. He has his own ways. He promises to be obedient and observe discipline, but the actions done or the course followed is the very opposite of his profession or promise.
He finds faults in his Guru and even superimposes defects in him. This is height of his folly. How can he improve in the spiritual path?
He who is not straightforward cannot profit by the Guru's help.
An aspirant who conceals facts, who utters falsehood, who is hypocritical cannot hope for the descent of divine light. He does things to keep up his position, to get his own way or indulges in his own habit. He clouds his own understanding and conscience.
It is impossible to correct an aspirant who has the dangerous habit of constant Self-justification. He is ready to bring any kind of clumsy argument to justify himself, to keep up his position and prestige.
If an aspirant continues out of Self-esteem and Self-will or Tamasic inertia to shut his eyes or harden his heart against the Divine Light, so long as he does that, no one can help him.
The entire being must agree for the divine change. There must be integral surrender. Then alone the light will descend. Then alone the Guru can help the aspirant.
An aspirant who is obstinate, Self-assertive or aggressive and Self-willed has his own ways of thinking and acting. He will not pay any heed to the advice of his Guru. He gets stuck up in the Self-created mind. He cannot rise up in the ladder of Yoga.
If an aspirant who is arrogant, vain, untruthful and violent says, that he is meditating for two hours nicely, he is a hypocrite, he is a deluded soul. No meditation is possible in one who has such evil traits. Do not believe this deluded man.
Obey your teacher. Follow his instructions implicitly. Be truthful. Be calm. Be serene. Be humble. Be devoted. Be disciplined. You will attain Self-realisation now and here. May Lord bless you all, O sincere seekers after Truth.
Svetasvatara Upanishad says: "He who has supreme devotion to God, and has intense devotion to the Guru as he has to God, unto him are the truths of the Upanishads revealed."
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December 8, 2009, 03:18PM PT in Fit Life |
Why would I start getting shin splints 6 months after I began running?
Shin splints can be caused by several things, but one common cause is tightness or weakness in the muscles on the front side of your lower leg (along your shin). Try some daily stretching and basic strengthening these muscles for the next 2-3 weeks and see if there is any improvement. I would also taper down your running volume during this time to allow some improvements to occur.
Stretching these muscles is simple: remove your shoes then kneel with your toes pointing away from your body. Slowly lean backward until your feel the stretch in the shin area. Hold this stretch for 30 seconds, relax and repeat the stretch 2-4 times. Perform this stretch 1-2 times a day for the next 2-3 weeks. I would also suggest performing this stretch before each run.
To strengthen these muscles anchor some elastic tubing to a fixed object and sit on the floor, facing the tubing with your legs extended. Wrap the tubing around your foot and once secure, slowly perform some repetitions, flexing your ankle, pulling your toes towards your body. Perform 1-2 sets of 8-12 repetitions per foot, alternating the exercise between your feet to allow for muscle recovery.
Other techniques to relieve the discomfort of shin splints include cold down stretching of these muscle and 10-15 minutes of icing the shin areas after your run and post-exercise stretching. If these techniques don’t result in any improvement, I would encourage you to speak to your doctor or a podiatrist (foot specialist) who could complete an evaluation of your running shoes and running mechanics and make some professional recommendations.
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Muhammad Yunus earned the nickname "banker to the poor" by giving tiny cash loans -- often the equivalent of a few dollars -- to the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh. That simple idea grew into an international movement
so vibrant that Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Peace. Yunus earned a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1969. He taught at Middle Tennessee State University before returning to Bangladesh in 1972 to teach economics
at Chittagong University. According to a now-famous story, his first loan was given to a group of very poor women from the village of Jobra in 1974; the amount was the equivalent of $27. Two years later, in 1976, Yunus founded the Grameen
Bank to make such loans on a wider scale, mostly to people with no collateral who would not be served by typical banks. The notion became known as microcredit, and as it spread to other countries it gave thousands of people the opportunity
to pull themselves out of abject poverty. Yunus and Grameen were jointly given the Nobel Prize in 2006. By that time the bank had helped more than six million borrowers, the vast majority of them women. In awarding the prize, the Nobel
Committee stated: "Lasting peace can not be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. Microcredit is one such means."
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Activists call for urgent talks with communists
Ongoing rights violations make negotiations imperative
- D'Jay Lazaro, Manila
- December 13, 2012
Peace advocates today called on the government and communist rebels to return to the negotiating table to end what they described as the "worsening plight of our countrymen."
Pilgrims for Peace said “escalating human rights violations” and a “continuing climate of impunity” has compelled them to voice their "concerns and calls" louder.
“After more than 20 months, the two sides have not met even once for formal talks,” said Bishop Deogracias Iniguez, co-chairperson of the group.
Formal peace talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front resumed in February 2011 following a hiatus of more than six years.
“Our hopes ran high that our people’s quest for a just and lasting peace was once again on track,” said Sister Arnold Maria Noel of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit.
The talks, mediated by Norway, failed because of disagreement over the implementation of earlier agreements, such as the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees, signed in 1998.
“Compliance with agreements is the key for formal peace talks to resume and to continue in earnest,” Sister Noel said.
The two sides have agreed that the stalled talks can resume as soon as one of at least three jailed rebel “consultants” is released.
Bishop Iniguez said such a release would certainly have a strong "positive impact as a goodwill and confidence-building measure."
In a statement, Pilgrims for Peace said it is “deeply concerned” that if talks do not resume ordinary people will “continue to grovel in poverty” even while a privileged few enjoy the benefits of what the government says is “high economic growth” this year.
“Our hope and belief is that the peace negotiations would bring about social and economic reforms that would in turn greatly reduce if not eradicate the violations of civil, social, economic and cultural rights,” the group said.
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One of the goals of the Newman University Strategic Plan is to establish partnerships with organizations and businesses that will benefit existing students, help make the university more accessible to prospective students, and create programs that meet the needs of both.
Partnerships are especially important in today’s increasingly complex and interconnected world. They enhance the well-being of the university and our students in many ways. By increasing our involvement with members of the community, partnerships can make Newman stronger. They also make it possible for the university to offer new programs for students, and discover new opportunities for growth and success.
From making agreements with public schools and colleges to help students better prepare for careers, to joining forces with area dioceses and health care providers to create academic programs that benefit their employees and the broader community, partnerships just make good sense. A look at a few current partnerships shows why.
Over the past two years, Newman has developed partnerships with area community colleges to help prepare students in two-year institutions who want to finish a four-year degree at Newman. The partnerships center on articulation agreements, which help students transfer more hours and eliminate duplicating classes by identifying the specific courses in two-year schools that will be accepted as equivalent to Newman courses.
Newman currently has articulation agreements with 10 community colleges. Based on the agreement and the major, students can transfer from 62 to 74 credit hours to Newman.
“Enrollment at community colleges is growing faster than any other type of higher education institution, mostly because of cost,” said Newman Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael Austin, Ph.D. “Students go to a two-year college to get an associate’s degree then transfer to a four-year to finish. We can’t ignore this. It’s best to partner with community colleges to make it easier and more attractive for their students to come to Newman. And, the community colleges want to work with us.”
Public school initiatives
In a partnership with the Wichita Public Schools that will begin next fall, Newman and the school system will offer scholarships to qualifying high school students in the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program who are interested in pursuing careers in education.
AVID is a national program designed primarily for minority and least-served students who are “in the middle” scholastically. Students are enrolled in Honors and AP courses and provided the academic and social support to help them succeed. Under the “AVID Future Teacher Scholarship Program,” AVID students will receive a $3,000 scholarship per year from Newman University, and some will receive an additional $1,650 scholarship per year from the school system, to earn their teaching degrees at Newman. In turn, students will help in the AVID tutoring program for 60 hours per academic year, and those who receive a school district scholarship will agree to teach one year in the district for each year they receive tuition assistance.
Newman Dean of Admissions John Clayton said Newman and the AVID programs in public schools have worked together over the past year to help students expand their awareness of private higher education. He has already seen a positive response to the future teacher program – as of mid-March, six students had been interviewed for acceptance into the program.
Partnerships with Wichita Diocese help future teachers
A partnership with the Catholic Diocese of Wichita and the Catholic schools system has resulted in several programs to benefit college and high school students.
The diocese and Newman jointly cover two-thirds of the tuition for students in the master of education building leadership program who are employed by a diocese school, while the diocese pays full tuition for diocese school employees in the ESL endorsement program. The diocese also helped Newman’s new graduate theology program off to a strong start last fall by awarding 30 full scholarships from the diocese’s St. Maria De Mattias Endowment.
The Newman School of Education also recently collaborated with the diocese’s Catholic school system to create the Tom Seiler Teacher Academy at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School. The program is named for a 1976 Newman graduate and popular Bishop Carroll physics teacher who died in 1997 of cystic fibrosis. It is designed to help senior students explore teaching as a vocation while they receive a college credit.
Each week, students visit Catholic grade school classrooms to observe different teachers at work and help with various tasks, including tutoring students. Academy students also do research projects, build a portfolio and attend an education course at Newman.
School of Education Director Steven E Dunn, Ed.D. said the semester-long program was launched this fall and currently has eight students who have a strong interest in education as a career.
He added that based on the success of the program, the School of Education is looking at expanding it to other schools in Wichita next year.
St. Gianna Academy
The Tom Seiler Academy was modeled after another collaborative effort that included Newman, the Catholic school system and Via Christi Health – the St. Gianna Catholic Healthcare Academy. This program, founded in 2002, offers qualifying seniors from Bishop Carroll and Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School an in-depth look at all types of health care careers.
In the program, students spend half of each school day at a hospital, working on the medical floors or completing projects and studying in a computer classroom. Students are introduced to 15 clinical areas including the lab, pharmacy, surgery and the ER, and are partnered with doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals, who work as mentors as students observe actual medical procedures during daily operations.
Students earn high school and college credit during the program, and are eligible for scholarships from Newman and Via Christi if they pursue a health care career. The health academy was the first hospital-based high school program of its type in the nation, and accepts only 25 students each year. A total of 294 students have graduated from the program since its inception.
In addition to helping students determine their career interests, the program helps Via Christi Health attract graduates to meet the growing demand for skilled health care professionals. A survey of academy students before and after the spring 2004 semester showed students’ interest in pursuing a health care career increased from 60 percent to 96 percent – with 78 percent planning to work at Via Christi. The percentage of students who planned to attend Newman University also increased.
Many academy graduates have earned their degrees at Newman and now work at Via Christi in respiratory therapy, radiologic technology, patient care, the pharmacy and other areas. One is Sofia Jaramillo, a first-generation college graduate who received the 2008 St. Catherine of Siena New to Nursing Award from Via Christi Health.
Jaramillo, who was in the first St. Gianna Academy class, earned a nursing degree at Newman in December 2006. She is now a registered nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Via Christi Hospital, 929 N. St. Francis, and is pursuing a master’s degree to become a nurse practitioner.
Jaramillo said she always had an interest in medicine, but wasn’t sure what field she wanted to pursue. Gaining a realistic look at health care while in high school helped her decide on a nursing career and focus her efforts in college, she said.
Her experience at St. Gianna also helped open doors professionally. She was hired by Via Christi immediately after high school as a unit clerk in the MICU, and soon moved up to other positions as she completed her degree.
Jaramillo said she likes most every aspect of her job as a nurse, and that her training through St. Gianna and Newman provided her with a good perspective on her job.
“At Newman we were taught to look at patients differently,” she said. “People can get very involved in the tasks of nursing. At Newman, it’s about the person. We were taught, it’s not just the patient in Room 20, it’s the whole person.”
Via Christi Health assists in new RN-to-BSN program
Over the past year, Via Christi Health and the Newman School of Nursing and Allied Health have worked together to develop an innovative new RN-to-BSN program. The program, designed for registered nurses with an associate’s degree to earn a bachelor’s degree, will begin in the fall 2010 semester.
The new program will be delivered almost completely online, with just a few instances where students may be on campus or at a health care agency for clinical experiences. Students will do coursework via modules, which include taped lectures, video presentations, discussion boards, Web-based group interactions and other media-rich features using technology developed for the master’s in theology programs (see Fall 2009 Challenge). This format allows students to do coursework at a convenient time, completing the program as they continue to work. It also makes it possible for RNs who live in rural areas where a four-year program is not available to earn a BSN degree.
To help develop the curriculum for the new program, Via Christi Health “loaned” the services of Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Carol O’Mara, DNP to Newman for 16 hours a week. O’Mara has been a clinical instructor in several nursing programs, and currently works in the Emergency Departments at the two Via Christi Hospitals in Wichita.
“I think this can be a big win-win,” said Director of the School of Nursing and Allied Health Bernadette Fetterolf, Ph.D. “Via Christi has a number of associate degree prepared RNs, so this could be a good way for them to develop more highly skilled employees, and we get the benefit of Via Christi’s expertise in developing this program.”
“Via Christi is very supportive of RNs continuing their education and completing the BSN degree,” said O’Mara, who will also teach when the program begins this fall. “We highly encourage it, so they can gain in their knowledge and go on to higher levels in their career.”
Fetterolf said the program will be offered at a reduced tuition as one of Newman’s Career Advantage Programs. In addition, the RN-to-BSN curriculum is especially geared to practicing RNs. The courses are designed to incorporate the interests and needs of nurses in practice and to allow them some flexibility in meeting their own profession goals.
Fetterolf noted that Newman and Via Christi have collaborated for many years. The Newman nursing program grew out of the diploma awarding School of Nursing at St. Francis Hospital, now part of Via Christi Health. Via Christi also provides a wide variety of clinical sites for Newman students.
“Via Christi has always been a good partner,” Fetterolf said. “We are both Catholic institutions, so we have common bonds and common values. This program will continue that partnership, and should draw many professional, career adult students to Newman.”
“I’ve seen a lot of employee interest,” she said. “People in my department maybe hadn’t considered getting a BSN before, but now they can see it’s very possible.”
It didn’t take Newman University senior Brian Alvarez long to react to news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti this past January. Within two days of the disaster, he began organizing a food drive, which soon included a fundraising event, which in turn generated additional efforts by others on the Newman campus.
Ultimately, the events captured the attention of local media, and drew contributions from hundreds of Newman students, parents and alumni to help support relief efforts in Haiti by Catholic Relief Services and the International Red Cross.
“I was watching World News Tonight, and I was captivated by the images of devastation and the numbers of dead and all that were wounded,” Alvarez said. “I just felt like I needed to help out in some way.”
Alvarez spoke with his girlfriend, who suggested a food drive. With the help of fellow students and Newman administrators Alvarez soon created a project he dubbed “Help 4 Haiti Charity Week.” For the project, held during the first week of the spring 2010 semester, Alvarez asked everyone in the Newman community to bring non-perishable food items or water to collection boxes in the Gorges Atrium.
Alvarez, who is president of the student athletic booster club Superfans and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), then worked with Athletics Director Vic Trilli to turn the annual “Blue Out in Fugate” into part of the food drive and fundraiser. For the Blue Out, everyone attending the Jan. 30 women’s and men’s basketball games in Fugate Gymnasium was admitted free for wearing a blue shirt and donating two or more canned food items. The event also featured SAAC and Superfan members providing face-painting and Newman bracelets before the games, and drawings and other activities for prizes, including iPods and flat-screen T.Vs.
The campaign attracted the attention of several local radio stations, which spread the word in the week leading up to the Blue Out. The Wichita Eagle also did a short article on the food drive and a follow-up story on the results. In addition, KAKE TV Channel 10 and KWCH TV Channel 12 came to Fugate during the Blue Out and interviewed Alvarez for stories.
Alvarez said the Blue Out drew more than 1,000 people, the largest turn-out for basketball games of the season.
“Everyone that came to the game brought cans – that’s where the majority of our food contributions came from,” he said. “Parents brought their kids and everyone had a great time.”
Others at Newman joined in with other ideas to raise money, including student Ashley Myers, also a SAAC member, who organized “Charity Night for Haiti.” The event, a social and dance, drew about 160 people who paid $15, or $10 with a student ID from any school, to enjoy food, beverages, and a dance complete with a professional DJ.
In all, the food drive, Blue Out and dance resulted in 1,900 items of non-perishable food and $2,258 for Catholic Relief Services and the International Red Cross. A “jeans day” where Newman employees who made a donation could wear denim, raised another $730, bringing the total Newman contribution to almost $3,000. In addition, The Adorers of the Blood of Christ urged anyone wishing to make a monetary gift to go online to Catholic Relief Services (www.crs.org/Haiti) or www.whitehouse.gov, which had a direct link to the International Red Cross.
Alvarez had many words of thanks for fellow students and Superfan and SAAC members who volunteered their time to help. He also gave a special thank you to Linda Fields, administrative assistant to the dean of admissions and Superfans staff advisor. Fields helped organize the events and coordinated the shipment of items to Haiti by Numana, an international hunger relief organization based in El Dorado, Kan.
Alvarez added that the timing of the earthquake — a week before students returned to campus for the beginning of the spring 2010 semester — made the project especially challenging. Still, he had faith in the idea, and the people of Newman.
“I knew it would be hard, but in the Newman community people are always willing to help,” he said. “The results were awesome given the short time we had to organize and advertise everything, but even if we got only one can of food it would have been deemed a success by me. It showed that we’re a community of people who want to help. That’s what distinguishes Newman from other schools, and it indicates why I came to Newman.”
Two longtime benefactors of Newman University and the Adorers of the Blood of Christ were honored Feb. 27 with the university’s highest honor, the Cardinal Newman Medal.
John E. and Marilyn K. (Gorges) Dugan were awarded the medal during this year’s Cardinal Newman Banquet and Awards Ceremony, the capstone to the annual Cardinal Newman Week celebration. The Dugans were selected for their appreciation of the spirit and ideals of John Henry Cardinal Newman and the instrumental role they have played in the growth and development of the university.
The Dugan family’s long association with Newman and the ASC began in 1888, when John’s great grandparents Ellen and Henry Dugan donated the land where the university stands today to the Diocese of Wichita, which sold it a few years later to the ASC. John attended Saint John’s Boys School in the 1940s and helped his father deliver milk to the Sisters from the family dairy farm. Marilyn is associated with Newman and the ASC through two cousins who were Adorers, Sister Evelyn Gorges and her sibling Sister Sylvia Gorges, former president of Sacred Heart College.
The Dugans received an honorary doctorate of law from Newman in 1996 in recognition of their support for Catholic education. They made substantial gifts to campaigns for Eck Hall and the De Mattias Fine Arts Center-O’Shaughnessy Hall complex. The Dugan Library and Campus Center was named in recognition of their $2 million gift, while the Dugan-Gorges Conference Center, named in honor of the couple’s parents, was constructed thanks to an additional gift.
Two of the Dugans’ 10 children and two daughters-in law have graduated from Newman, and two grandchildren are current students. Their son Mark has served on the Board of Trustees and their son Glenn is currently on the Board.
The first trip will be for a group of up to 30 people, who will travel to England Sept. 15-21 during Pope Benedict XVI’s scheduled visit to England. The group will use London as a home base and travel to Birmingham, the beatification site, on the day of the ceremony. A second trip designed for a larger group is planned for spring 2011. It will be a 10-day pilgrimage to Birmingham and other sites in England and Ireland that were significant in Cardinal Newman’s life, led by Newman Chaplain Fr. Joseph Tatro.“This is a wonderful time for Newman University,” said Director of Mission Effectiveness Charlotte Rohrbach, ASC, who is helping plan the trips. “Our institution will become more recognized because of the association with Cardinal Newman. And, the trips are just a wonderful opportunity to see some of the places where he lived and worked.” For questions or to reserve a place for either trip, contact Sister Charlotte at 316-942-4291, ext. 2167 or firstname.lastname@example.org, or Ann Edwards at 316-942-4291, ext. 2422 or email@example.com.
Fr. Rouch is a respected Newman scholar, whose doctoral dissertation addressed the relationship of Christian dogma and spirituality in Newman’s writings.
In his lecture Fr. Rouch spoke of the parallels between the cultural dynamics of Newman’s time and the present day, Newman’s personal life and experiences, and the influence his search for truth can have on the efforts of modern people — particularly university students and faculty — to be spiritual, religious, and Catholic.
Fr. Rouch is vice-rector and associate director of seminarians at St. Mark Seminary and the vicar for education in the Diocese of Erie, Penn. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Gannon University in Erie, a master of divinity degree from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Md., a master’s degree in Christian spirituality from Creighton University, and has received both a licentiate and doctorate in spiritual theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas, commonly known as the Angelicum, in Rome.
Herm Bachrodt and Betty Adams, ASC A ’61, ’66 will each receive a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa during the Spring 2010 Commencement ceremony May 15. The university bestows the honorary degrees upon notable members of the Newman community based on exemplary dedication to one of the university’s four Core Values: Catholic Identity, Culture of Service, Academic Excellence, and Global Perspective.
Bachrodt was selected for his service and professional and philanthropic support of Catholic education and athletics. He came to Sacred Heart College in 1967 at the request of President Sylvia Gorges, ASC to launch the men’s basketball program. Bachrodt served as Sacred Heart’s first basketball coach and first athletics director, during which time the men’s basketball team earned a berth in the NAIA National Tournament. He previously served as head basketball coach and athletics director at Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School, and head basketball coach at St. Mary’s High School in Wichita. He has been a generous benefactor, and in recognition of his gifts Kapaun Mt. Carmel will name its new athletic facility the Coach Herm and Jackie Bachrodt Athletic Complex.
Sister Betty Adams epitomizes the concept of global perspective for the work she has done for Newman and the ASC international community. A graduate of Sacred Heart Academy and Sacred Heart College, Sister Betty was a music teacher and became head of the Music Department at Newman. In the 1980s the ASC called upon her to be province secretary in Wichita, then to teach English in Italy, and learn Italian. Sister Betty, who already knew German, soon realized she was gifted at language and simultaneous translation. She has since mastered Spanish and speaks Croatian. Following a return to Newman as international student coordinator and part-time music teacher, she now serves as translator for the congregation abroad, traveling extensively to facilitate written and verbal communications in a variety of situations.
The Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies at Newman University has built a solid foundation since being re-established in 2009. The institute, which is designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue related to Catholic thought and practice, launched its inaugural year of programming with a theme of “Reconciling Differences.”The program began with a March lecture to more than 100 people by Robert Schreiter, C.PP.S., who has mediated conflicts all over the world. In the fall semester, the institute hosted a reading of Exiles by author Ron Hansen, whose award-winning books include Atticus, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction.
In January, the institute presented a panel discussion called “Reconciliation and the Death Penalty: What Is the Way Forward?” which included the Catholic Church’s stance on the issue of capital punishment, and the perspectives of two panelists who have lost family members to murder yet oppose the death penalty. In April, the institute hosted a lecture by Paula Huston, author of Forgiveness: Following Jesus into Radical Loving, and a breakfast panel series on health care reform.
“Looking ahead, we plan to bring even higher profile speakers to Newman, support individuals or organizations that further our mission of dialogue and inquiry, work to build greater name recognition, and forge partnerships with community agencies and leaders,” said Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gerber Institute Director Jamey Findling, Ph.D. “The Gerber Institute is very well positioned to emerge as a significant site for both scholarly and public discourse. We just need to keep the momentum going.”For more information about the Gerber Institute, call 316-942-4291, ext. 2798 or visit www.gerberinstitute.org.
Anyone who has gone to school has witnessed, perpetrated or been the victim of it. It can be blatant, such as one student hitting or threatening harm to another, or subtle, such as a teacher manipulating a student to change his or her behavior. In some respects, it has become so common in the classroom that people hardly notice it when it occurs.
Yet the matter in question, bullying, has far-reaching consequences for many students, and can make the difference between a positive view of education that leads to success in school and in life, and a negative experience that leads to low self-esteem, underachievement and lifelong problems that affect not only the individual, but society as a whole.
Linda Rhone, Ed.D. wants to change that – and with the help of a $25,000 Recognition Grant from the Kansas Health Foundation, she is taking an important step in that direction.
Rhone, an assistant professor of education at Newman University, has formed a team comprised of educators from Newman and administrators and 5th-grade teachers from the Wichita Public Schools called the Wichita Teacher Inquiry Group (WTIG), A Newman University and U.S.D. 259 Collaborative. Beginning in January, WTIG launched a 16-month-long program entitled the “Lessening Bullying through Cultural Competence and Transformative Teaching and Learning Project.” Rhone said the project is designed to build teachers’ cultural awareness and skills to help ensure they are not perpetuating bullying behavior, but working to lessen it.
“It is widely known that well over 50 percent of our public school teachers are white and middle class,” Rhone said. “Yet our classrooms are full of students who are non-white and poor. If teachers do not understand the impact of race, ethnicity, and poverty on learning, and transform their teaching behaviors beyond surface changes such as celebrations of food and clothing, this could cause them to push children who are different racially, ethnically, socioeconomically, linguistically and otherwise to ‘fit’ into the kind of narrow definitions that have long defined intelligence in our schools. This is not just another anti-bullying program. It is specifically designed to look closely at how we as teachers can ensure that we are not perpetuating bullying through our teaching and learning practices.”
Rhone and others on the WTIG team will work with six 5th-grade teachers from different elementary schools in the Wichita district for one full academic year. The group will use readings and other activities and resources to examine school structures, ideological beliefs and teaching practices that could perpetuate bullying. Rhone said she chose 5th graders for the project because evidence shows bullying is most extensive in middle school.
Teacher participants will receive graduate workshop credit, a stipend for their yearlong commitment, books, articles, and subscriptions to professional journals that will be used through the course of the project, as well as classroom coaching from Rhone and other Newman faculty. “Every person involved in this project will examine his or her teaching behaviors, including me,” Rhone said. “This work is not about the other as much as it is about us all.”
The WTIG team includes Rhone, Newman School of Education Director Steven E Dunn, Ed.D., Newman Professor of Education Don Hufford, Ph.D., Executive Director of the U.S.D. 259 Office of Equity Kim Johnson Burkhalter, and U.S.D. 259 Parent Coordinator Jackie Lugrand. Also on the team are Joseph Dunn, a social studies teacher at Marshall Middle School who will facilitate a session with teacher participants, and Administrative Assistants Karen Whitmore and Joyce Rhone Scott.
Beginning in April and running throughout the program, the WTIG team, participating Wichita teachers, and teachers and other interested parties across the nation can track the inquiry group’s progress and communicate with each other through a Web site and blog, at http://wtig.newmanu.edu.
The project is rooted in the work of the late Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, who developed teaching techniques during the 1970s designed to help illiterate adults acquire the critical thinking skills they needed to connect and cope with their social, historical, and political environment. Freire found that teachers who validated the cultural backgrounds and present realities of their students were able to have authentic relationships with them, leading to better learning outcomes. Freire also advocated what he termed transformative teaching and learning, which seeks to engage learners, provide meaningful experiences beyond textbooks and the classroom, and empower students to act on the injustices in their lives.
The WTIG group will use works written by Freire, as well as educators Antonia Darder, bell hooks, and Hufford, in the course. Freire’s work Pedagogy of the Oppressed will also be read by Newman faculty. Hufford will then lead a discussion on the book for faculty members and the Committee for Transforming Teaching and Learning at Newman.
Rhone said the project will use real-life examples of social justice to help students develop the skills to address bullying in their lives through nonviolent and productive measures. She added that combining the concepts of social justice, cultural competence and transformative teaching and learning can help teachers create classroom environments that model an appropriate use of power, inclusion, mutual respect and critical thinking – all of which lessen bullying behavior.
“Teachers must teach students an appropriate use of power, and be willing to examine the use of power in the larger school context and in their classrooms,” she said. “Schools are hierarchal in nature. That structure constitutes a kind of bullying of children and teachers through the ranking and sorting regimes, which are unfair and discriminatory against certain groups of students. But we as educators can create different classroom and whole-school climates.”
Rhone has an extensive background in this field. A native of Wichita, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Wichita State University, a master’s degree from California State University-Los Angeles, and a doctorate from West Virginia University, where her dissertation, “School Bullying: A Freirean Perspective,” used Friere’s theory to examine bullying and ways to lessen it. She has worked as a teacher in Missouri, California, Wyoming, and West Virginia using Friere’s ideas, and has spent 18 years in higher education as a researcher and educator. She has published works on Freire in education journals, and book reviews for Multicultural Review, a leading journal in multicultural education and social justice. She has also conducted one extensive study on the impact of Freire’s work on select American educators, and led several anti-bullying workshops prior to joining the faculty at Newman in fall 2008. At Newman, she has led two anti-bulling workshops. She said the positive feedback from both workshops led her to apply for funding to work with a team in this yearlong inquiry.
Rhone said she joined with the Wichita Public Schools on the WTIG project because of her knowledge of and respect for Burkhalter, who played a key role in the development of a program launched in fall 2006 called “A Journey Toward Cultural Proficiency.” The program is designed to help Wichita Public School teachers increase awareness of cultural differences and learn skills that can be applied to their teaching styles to make all students in the increasingly diverse population feel comfortable, accepted and competent.
“The Wichita Public Schools is excited to have this opportunity to enter into a partnership with Newman University in the joint research project,” Burkhalter said. “This partnership will enhance the district’s work with cultural proficiency as teachers have the opportunity to delve deeper into the exploration of cultural proficiency and assess their personal cultural values and how they respond and react to students in their classroom.”
“I knew Kim had laid the groundwork for cultural proficiency, and I hope this project will add to that,” Rhone said. “We want to help people truly understand the perspectives of students from cultures that are different from their own.”
After selecting six teachers in March, teacher participants will begin studying program materials and take classes and workshops at Newman in April. Following a four-day workshop in the summer, the program will begin in classrooms in September 2010 and run until March 2011. During this time Rhone will visit classrooms for observation and coaching, and participating teachers will take part in monthly “Cultural Circles,” which explore topics related to the program such as the importance of teachers creating a “spirit of community” in the classroom, and how teachers can incorporate cultural relevance and social action in their own lessons while still achieving required school system standards.
The inquiry group will include parents in an effort to help them examine their parenting styles and consider using styles consistent with teaching children an appropriate use of power, respect for authority, and development of their own voice and critical thinking. Rhone said she will seek parents who represent the various ethnic and racial groups of children who are educated in the district to assist with this cultural circle.
“Most of us can remember that sick feeling of having to face a bully or of engaging in bullying because we were too afraid to stand up to the bullies,” said Steve Dunn, who has extensive experience working with parents in schools and will lead the parents cultural circle. “Today, many adults readily share how much they hated middle school or high school, and the main reason is typically that they were bullied. That is why increasing cultural proficiency can help. It seems obvious that when school life is positive and the learning environment is supportive and students feel cared about, that students’ academic performance will improve as a result.”
At the end of the inquiry group in April 2011, participating teachers will make a presentation of their yearlong experience for both the Newman University and Wichita Public Schools learning communities. Teachers will present the results of WTIG’s research and its implications for schools and teachers, and air a video they created showing how they used social justice concepts, cultural competence and transformative learning practices in their classrooms. Some teacher participants will also present the project at the Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed National Conference, a conference rooted in the work of Freire and Augusto Boal, in June 2011.
“We are in hopes that this project will bring Newman and U.S.D. 259 together as partners in developing culturally competent and transformative teachers who are prepared to help all children reach their full potential,” Rhone said. “In the end, the assessments drawn from this project are expected to help teachers, students, parents, and all others associated with this work to become healthy physically, mentally, and socially.”
“This project will help us all better understand how Freire – as an educator, philosopher, and activist for social justice – provides a model for rethinking why we teach, and how we should connect a liberating process to our pedagogy,” Hufford added.For more information contact Rhone at 316-942-4291, ext. 2193.
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Do you tweet? What about reading blogs and using Facebook? If not, you may be missing out on ways to stay connected to Newman.
As new methods of digital communication and social media emerge, Newman University is using these tools to better communicate with prospective and current students, alumni, and the general community.
Through the Admissions Facebook page, prospective students can learn about the university, while Newman’s main Facebook page, which has hundreds of “fans,” features frequent updates and links to information, events, photos, and more. You can also follow Newman on Twitter, a Web site that allows users to post very short updates. Newman’s Twitter page updates often with information about the university, the Wichita area, and other items of interest.
Several members of the Newman community also maintain a blog — a Web log or online journal. NU blogs include messages from President Noreen M. Carrocci, Ph.D., computer tips from the Newman webmaster, and thoughts on life at the university from several student ambassadors. Newman also has a channel on the Web site YouTube, which features videos that range from school events to discussion panels to residence hall tours — and more.
Director of Communications Kelly Snedden said the university wants to use these tools even more effectively in the future. “With social media, it’s all about the conversation and interactions with your audience,” she said. “We’re working now to expand access to additional staff and faculty to help keep all of these tools alive and vibrant.”
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City Crews Picking up Storm Debris
(Little Rock – January 11, 2013)
Storm debris from the Christmas Day Winter Event is being collected by Public Works crews six days a week in every ward. More than 1,700 tons of debris has been collected and brought to the Little Rock Landfill, where it will be turned into mulch.
Initially the City had asked residents to use the 311 system to report debris in order to help crews find the most concentrated areas of fallen trees, etc. Now those crews are being directed to conduct a systematic cleanup of the City. Citizens may still report storm debris via 311 and their request will be included in a continuously evolving list. However, its important to note that every street will eventually have its storm debris picked up, whether a 311 call has been made or not.
“The City of Little Rock expects to have a FEMA declaration signed any day now,” said City Manager Bruce Moore. “This will allow the City to hire independent contractors - through a bid process – to pick up storm debris as well. With many more feet on the ground, the speed of the clean up process will increase noticeably. I would like to personally thank all of the residents of Little Rock for their patience during this difficult time for our community.”
Public Works Operations crews remove storm debris piles from both sides of the street once cleanup begins on that street. If the storm debris at any address has objects which are too heavy to be removed by that particular crew, they will put that address on a schedule for a piece of large equipment to return at a later date to complete the cleanup.
Solid Waste crews are picking up trash and normal yard waste contained in bags or personal cans, These Solid Waste crews are also coordinating with Operations crews to assist in storm debris pick up.
Public Works also has two crews patching potholes and two more crews operating street sweepers.
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Below we have listed some of our customers most frequently asked questions, however you may contact us directly if none of your questions are provided below.
Lawn Care FAQ
How soon after a treatment can we mow the lawn?
It is best to wait 24 hours after our treatments before mowing. The primary reason is to allow our weed control materials to be absorbed and translocated throughout the weed plant before a mower cuts off the treated weed leaf.
Should I water the lawn after your treatment?
We leave watering instructions at your door after every treatment. In most cases, you should wait at least 2 hours after a treatment before watering. This is primarily to allow weed control materials to be absorbed by the weed leaves and not washed off. After 2 hours, it is always beneficial to water in the fertilizer to get it down to the root systems. Even without watering, the fertilizer will work its way into the soil with help from natural dew moisture and any rainfall.
Why can’t I wait longer between mowings, reducing time spent on lawn care?
It may come as a surprise that mowing the lawn is about more than just keeping your lawn’s height under control. If done properly, mowing stimulates the grass of your lawn to lushness and better health, just as pinching a garden plant can improve its appearance. Proper mowing technique is an important aspect of overall lawn care.
Is there a right and a wrong time for lawnmowing?
Yes. Lawnmowing should not be done when the grass is wet (under which conditions disease can be introduced, plus you incur the risk of slipping and getting injured). Also, lawnmowing in the evening puts less stress on the lawn than lawnmowing when the sun is pounding down in the afternoon.
Are bug lights effective against Mosquito’s?
Ultraviolet bug lights, or ‘zappers’ are relatively ineffective against mosquitoes, who seek light colors, heat and carbon dioxide, none or which is emitted by zappers. In addition, zappers kill indiscriminately, eliminating insects that are beneficial, as well as those who may feed on mosquitoes.
How soon after an application can I enter the sprayed area?
It’s safe to reenter a treated area as soon as the treatment is completed.
Can mosquitoes cause and spread disease?
Yes. Mosquitoes are the most formidable transmitters of disease in the animal kingdom. Several of the most severe diseases (human and other) spread by mosquitoes include malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever, dog heartworm, human elephantiasis, and West Nile virus.
Do mosquitoes transmit AIDS?
No. The AIDS virus cannot survive or multiply in mosquitoes. It is digested along with the contents of the blood meal.
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Maria Montessori as you know was the first woman physician in Italy. In what became her life-work, she accepted children who had been cast off by the public education system at the time and worked what were considered "miracles" when, in reality, all she did was listen, follow, prepare an environment, and mentor.
Of note was her continual examination and refinement of methods. Here was true Science, one that did not rest upon a proclamation that the "answer" has been found.
Contrast to the culture (I can speak of the US) today, where (particularly) medication is seen as not only a solution but a necessary one for issues that you raise. Medicine generally rests its case, as does the one-size-fits-all system of education. If you don't fit (most don't) then you're a failure. If you don't take the pill, you will not succeed. It seems pathetic that we must be in some form medicated to function in this society, and I do not restrict the term to pills in a bottle.
In many ways that last remark is, I think, strikingly telling, for America is a world leader in the intake of antidepressants (alone) and an emerging environmental phenomenon is one concerned with water supply pollution by these excreted drugs.
It may be useful to consider some of the issues Thom Hartmann (author and radio host) has posited regarding AD(H)D. A striking point he makes is that the emergence of this phenomena has been gradually oncoming since the transition from an agrarian to an industrial (and now) and then to a technological society (and we might also consider the environmental and emotional pollution thereof). In each step of this transition we see the cubicles becoming smaller, the flourescent lighting brighter, and the lines which we are told indicate "good" and "bad" behaviour becoming more firm and unwavering. Yet, none of us are wired quite the same and, given the pace of transition, our biological evolution has not quite adapted. Hence the fallout.
So the question on medicating may come down to one of deciding who is really in need of it. My view is that our media-saturated and highly controlled culture is the sick child in the room and the most wonderfully curative and most merciful act of healing that could be brought to bear would be to render every TV set as non-functional. That would be a good start.
So here's an idea. Try, in your own home, to reduce/eliminate the barrage of media, and then watch what happens.
Second, I suggest some physical activity that will help discharge some of the energy.
Third, find more open and expansive spaces in which to be. You may see a remarkable shift, to a more "grounded" state, in a different environment.
All human beings wish to be successful. Coming up against your personal limitations repeatedly can cause one to give up. Mindfulness of the developmental stages and sensitive periods in your own child might also help as you consider a detour around the obstacles until the time (if ever) is right to face them.
Just my few thoughts...
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A legal battle between Montgomery County and a local church is back on after an appeals court revived the case.
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a land dispute between the county and megachurch Bethel World Outreach Ministries will go to trial. The church sued the county in 2008, saying the county was intentionally blocking the church from building a new site in Gaithersburg.
The appeals court is partially reversing the ruling of a district court judge from 2011 that backed the county's decision.
The argument stems from a land purchase the church based in downtown Silver Spring made in 2004 to build a new church. The county denied the church's request to build after it passed a law banning construction of religious facilities on land zoned for agriculture. The church said it was being discriminated against based on the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, which gives religious institutions a way to avoid burdensome zoning law restrictions on their property use. It also said the county was interfering with its right to worship.
Court of Appeals Judge Diana G. Motz wrote that while the county didn't discriminate against Bethel based on religion, it did interfere with the church's ability to worship, as current facilities were over capacity.
Attorney Roman Storzer, who represents the church, said when the organization purchased the property, it was zoned to allow a church. After the purchase was made, however, the county passed a law prohibiting worship on those grounds. Storzer said now a jury will decide the fate of the new campus planned for Brink Road.
"They're bursting at the seams," Storzer said of the church in Silver Spring. "They don't have enough room to engage the number of people who attend. The church should be able to build its place of worship and finally have a home."
County Attorney Marc Hansen said he couldn't comment on pending litigation but said his office is reviewing the opinion and will consult with County Executive Ike Leggett and the County Council on how to move forward.
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|President Bush declared a major disaster for
Kentucky on Friday, making federal funding available for some of the state's recovery
efforts from last month's severe winter storm.
The president ordered federal public
assistance funding for 51 counties and individual assistance in 15 counties.
"I'm very pleased the president has approved this well deserved federal aid for
the citizens of the commonwealth," Gov. Paul Patton said in a release.
Individual assistance goes to residents and business owners whose homes or property
were damaged in the storm. Meanwhile, public assistance is earmarked to help pay for the
cost of damaged roads, buildings and utilities and also to help pay for removing the
debris, according to the release.
Patton wrote the president earlier this month asking for a declaration that would make
the state eligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency money.
Most of the state was hit February 15 with snow and ice that caused state highways and
interstates to close. The storm left more than 175,000 customers without power. Some
residents without electricity or heat were forced into shelters and as the storm continued
Fifty-five of the state's 120 counties declared emergencies following the storm. In his
letter to the president, Patton estimated the damages would cost more than $40 million.
Additional counties could be added to the list after further damage surveys are
completed. However, all counties can apply for federal help through the Hazard Mitigation
|People who suffered losses in the named
counties (which include Lewis, Carter and Greenup) can apply for help by calling
1-800-621-3362. People who are hearing or speech impaired may call 1-800-462-7585.
Information is also available on the Internet at www.fema.gov.
Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to
cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business
owners recover from the effects of the disaster.
The US Small Business Administration will also be available to cover residential and
business losses not covered by insurance.
Lewis County has also been approved to conduct a sign-up for the Emergency Conservation
Program due to the storm. Eligible practices include debris removal from farmland and
building or repairing fence due to damage from the ice storm.
Producers should have some idea of the extent to the damage when completing an
application. Producers must file an application before starting any debris removal or
repairs in order to be eligible for cost-share assistance.
For more information about the Emergency Conservation Program, call the FSA office at
606-796-3866. Sign-up for this program ends on April 11.
See our storm photo collection at
Ice Storm 2003.
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Welcoming a new child can be one of the most exciting moments in your life. It can also be the most stressful if you're not prepared.
"Right now, I don't feel prepared, but everything always falls into place when it's time," said Cassie Handt, who is expecting her second child in September 2007.
After you find out that you're pregnant, it seems there is so much for you to do before the baby arrives. You may want to read books on pregnancy, birthing and parenting, prepare a space for the new baby and begin to baby-proof your home.
Take your time
"The most important thing you can do is realize that you've got nine whole months to get up to speed on everything pertaining to parenting," said Katina Z. Jones, author of "The Everything Get Ready For Baby Book, 2nd Edition," to be released in fall 2007."Besides the things you learn on your own or in prenatal class, you'll have lots of support in the form of solicited -- and unsolicited -- advice," she said.
"I read books during my first pregnancy – 'What to Expect When Your Expecting' -- and a lot of magazines," said Handt.
"For advice, I always turn to dear old mom, she always knows everything," she said.
Jones said that preparation includes savoring the calm.
"Outside of the regular doctor's appointments and general preparations for baby's impending birth, the most important thing you can both do before baby arrives is relax and enjoy some special time together," said Jones. "After all, once the baby is here, time alone will be a luxury."
What gear do you need?
Figuring out what you need can be absolutely mind-boggling. From kitchen tools -- bottle washers, nipple cleaners and more -- to baby's bedroom and household safety supplies, the list can seem never-ending.
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by Bjorn Watland
On a crisp November evening at the University of Minnesota, a surprisingly large crowd gathered in a basement auditorium to hear from Sunsara Taylor, an unapologetic Revolutionary Communist and militant atheist. Hearing the views of a communist isn't as shocking as it may be in other arenas of the public; however, it isn't often that a communist will admit that they're also an atheist. Taylor is not ashamed of either her Revolutionary Communism, or her atheism, as she presented Bob Avakian's book, Away With All Gods.
Taylor's presentation began with a description of the horrors that await readers of the bible. "I wouldn't give this book to young children to read," Taylor said. She called the bible, "the most blood-thirsty book," mentioning specifics such as the practice of stoning women who were not virgins on their wedding night; God commanding soldiers to kill children, men, and women who have known a man, but to leave the virgins for themselves; and the series of plagues sent by God.
Taylor claimed that the New and Old Testaments can not be separated from each other, as some more progressive Christians try to do. Jesus is often separated from the horrors of the Old Testament, however, by what basis would you consider Jesus to the divine without fulfillment of the prophecies found within the Old Testament? "Jesus is not someone you would want to follow or should follow," Taylor exclaimed. "He didn't end slavery; instead he taught how slaves should be obedient to their masters. He didn't stop patriarchy. He continued to preach that disease and illness are caused by sin."
Nominations for the Minnesota Atheists board of directors will occur at our January 18, 2009 meeting at the Roseville Library and elections will be held at our February 15, 2009 meeting. Nominations will open and close at the January 18 meeting. We will publish and mail candidates' statements prior to the February 15 meeting elections.
There are nine positions to fill, elected in the following order: President, Associate President, Chair, Associate Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, and three Directors-at-Large. Our bylaws provide that anyone who runs for one position and loses may run again for any other position that has not yet been elected.
Some incumbents will be running for reelection but there will also be some vacant seats. All terms are for one year. Now is your chance to step forward and help guide Minnesota Atheists!
Candidates for all but the three director-at-large positions must have been members of Minnesota Atheists for at least one year as of the time they assume office, March 1, 2009. Candidates for the three director-at-large positions must have members for six months.
You must be nominated by another Minnesota Atheists member. You cannot nominate yourself. You need not be present to be nominated. (If you wish to nominate someone not at the January 18 meeting, please check beforehand to make sure that person is willing to serve if elected.)
Nominees should send candidate's statements (up to 150 words) to the MNA newsletter editors firstname.lastname@example.org by January 24, 2009. We would also like to have a jpg headshot of each candidate.
For more information, contact the editorial staff at email@example.com.
by August Berkshire
For many years, Minnesota Atheists has published a combined November-December newsletter. This is because the main thing that happens in December is our winter solstice party, which we advertise in the November-December newsletter and often with a special separate mailing in December, as we did this year.
Furthermore, the production of a newsletter takes dozens of hours that our volunteers often find hard to offer amidst the many parties and family gatherings that occur in December.
Finally, we try to save the organization (our members) money where we can.
However, at the suggestion of Bjorn and Jeannette Watland, we decided to try an experiment that would cost us nothing and would provide those of us who desire it with our monthly installment of local atheist news and comment. We decided to publish a December e-newsletter.
There are some atheist groups that have totally abandoned paper newsletters (if they ever had them in the first place). Call me old-fashioned, and some of you young whippersnappers under age 30 will, but I still like holding and reading a paper newsletter in my hands, rather than squinting at a computer screen.
Besides, it's easy to forget to read one e-mail out of the hundred I get each day. In contrast, I get about ten pieces of snail mail a day, half of which I quickly and easily toss into recycling. This makes it easy to spot my buff-colored Minnesota Atheists newsletter and set it aside for later reading in my commodious reading room.
But, I realize that the internet is the future that is upon us. Resistance is futile. So, enjoy this "bonus" issue of our newsletter. And rest assured that anything of great importance to our members - such as the announcement of our annual elections - will be repeated in the January 2009 paper newsletter.
August Berkshire is the President of Minnesota Atheists and the Vice President of Atheist Alliance International.
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Is there a generational, workforce clash in the making? Recently, MTV conducted a "No Collar Workers" study of Generation Y, also known as Millennials (born between 1981-2000). And the study's results may make some older workers' hair stand on end. For example: 92 percent of those surveyed feel their company is lucky to have them. And 76 percent of Millennials think their boss could learn a lot from them. Based on these results, it might be easy for readers to interpret younger workers' attitudes as egotistical and self-important.
Is this a recipe for conflict in the workplace? It could be. A recent Time article reports there are approximately 80 million Millennials, between 44 and 50 million Generation Xers (those born between 1965 and 1980), and 76 million baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964). Also, "Approximately 10,000 millennials turn 21 every day in America, and by the year 2025, three out of every four workers globally will be Gen Y."
So, can we all get along at work? Charles Purdy, senior editor for Monster Worldwide has studied intergenerational conflicts and thinks it's possible to leverage Gen Y workers' attitudes for positive results. He suggests the following to careerists who are working with the youngest members of the workforce:
1. Create a transparent work environment. Purdy explains, "Information builds trust, community, and a shared feeling of purpose." Retaining these workers requires engaging them. "Gen Y feels engaged when they know why. When appropriate, make data available for all employees to see. When people know the score, they feel trusted."
Purdy quotes Brad Karsh, president of the workplace training company JB Training Solutions, when he says: "Millennials have been taught to ask 'Why?' So we will give them an assignment that maybe isn't the most glamorous assignment in the world. We'll say, 'Go pull numbers for the spreadsheet,' and they will say, 'Why?' Now older generations, when they hear that,they think, 'How dare you? I am your boss. Because I said so.' The reason Millennials are asking that is they legitimately want to know 'Why?'"
2. Turn away from a time clock evaluation calendar and take the focus off of hierarchical structures. Instead, create a motivating environment where performance is related to concrete goals and projects. Purdy notes, "Millennials don't go about their work in ways that are intended to get them to the next rung of the corporate ladder or win them favor with their bosses. They prefer to get involved in projects and initiatives that fascinate them, that they consider worthwhile, and that they see as useful to the world at large."
3. Recognize star performers publicly, and tie their great performance to the success of the organization. Publicly reward junior team members who are doing a great job. But Purdy warns, "Do not make the rookie mistake of creating false reasons for praise."
4. Teach them. Younger employees are very motivated by education. While their eagerness for success and opinions can be viewed negatively, Purdy suggests, "Consider that Millennials often act out of ignorance and not out of arrogance."
5. Ask frequent questions and wear authority lightly. Engage younger workers by asking for their ideas. For example, this generation tends to be very tech savvy. Tap into those skills.
6. Invite interaction with members at all levels of the organizations. Purdy says, "Younger employees are often shyer than their older counterparts, so invite interaction not just with yourself, but with others throughout the company ? For this generation, life comes before work, and work is intertwined with life. Gen Y has an ingrained lack of confidence in organizational stability, so they are less loyal to employers." Keeping them connected to individuals and providing potential mentors will enhance relationships and work products.
7. Offer opportunities for Gen Y workers to start making decisions immediately. However, do so with some limitations. To prevent younger workers from being overwhelmed by responsibility, Purdy explains, "It's a good idea to assign projects broken into multiple steps or deliverables."
8. Give them some attention. Purdy says, "Millennials are highly social, with large, interconnected 'tribes' that they're loyal to. Tapping into their craving for interaction will help them feel engaged in the company's goals."
9. Emphasize long-term rewards, and set an example. Millennials as a group have a tendency to be philanthropic: They care about the world and want to work to make it a better place. Companies can leverage this to their advantage and create workplaces and cultures to appeal to their employees and customers.
10. Use social media as a way to sell your company as an awesome place to work. Instead of over-regulating online activities, Purdy suggests organizations use Millennials' energy for online activity to the company's advantage. He says, "Create corporate blogs that cover your company's activities and culture. Encourage employees to get involved in your social-media activities to promote the company's goals. Be sure to keep it genuine."
Miriam Salpeter is a job search and social media consultant, career coach, author, speaker, resume writer, and owner of Keppie Careers. She is author of Social Networking for Career Success.
Miriam teaches job seekers and entrepreneurs how to incorporate social media tools along with traditional strategies to empower their success.
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UK dairy producers discuss mega-merger
UK milk producer cooperative Milk Link announced on May 22nd that it is considering a merger with Scandinavian-based dairy giant cooperative Arla Foods amba. The combined milk pool of the 1,600 members of Milk Link and existing Arla Foods UK milk intake would give the new grouping control of about a quarter of the UK’s current milk output.
The decision will be put to a members’ vote on June 26. Milk Link members already face cuts of around 1.5 pence per litre on their milk, in the wake of 2 pence per litre contract price cuts announced recently by Robert Wiseman and Arla Foods UK. The Scandinavian side of the partnership has its origins in the Danish cooperative MD Foods, which set up a Leeds-based business in 1990 to develop retail dairy brands like Lurpak butter, Cravendale milk and Castello cheese. throughout the 1990s, MD Foods acquired production capacity, notably in liquid milk filling from the Coop and Lord Rayleigh, before acquiring the Express Dairy business in 2003.
By 2007, Arla Foods UK had bought back the 49% shareholding that was traded publicly on the UK stock exchange, becoming a subsidiary of the Arla Foods amba cooperative. The extent to which the Milk Link membership shares its vision with a Scandinavian dairy giant will be shown on June 26.
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Youth Today: Evaluation: Risk Or Responsibility?
By Karen Pittman, October 2004
The July/August issue of Youth Today featured not one, but two lengthy stories on evaluation. The first, sharing the front page with a horrific story of fatal neglect within a juvenile justice facility, detailed the fallout after a recent evaluation of the Court Appointed Special Advocate program (CASA). The second, a less controversial report on the results of a multifaceted evaluation of YouthBuild, ran inside.
I applaud the editors of Youth Today for devoting so much space to this important topic. I fear, however, that as is often the case in mainstream news, the messages in the front page article overshadowed the messages in the second.
The YouthBuild article reported evaluation methodologies, caveats and findings in a readable straightforward format. The main takeaway: Evaluations provide systematic answers that anecdotes simply cannot, as well as information that can help improve programs.
The CASA article, on the other hand, reinforced every program director’s worst fear: exposure. The main takeaway in this story was not only implied by the facts, but actually articulated by the reporter, who suggested the field note “the risks groups take when complying with mounting demands from funders to prove what they do works.”
I disagree. This is not the lesson I want the field to absorb.
The story said that glowing consumer satisfaction surveys emboldened CASA executives to commission a more rigorous control-group evaluation. CASA executives, according to reporter Barbara White Stack, assumed this move was “without risk.”
The more rigorous evaluation, however, not only challenged the effectiveness of the court volunteers’ services, but suggested that they spend little time on cases, particularly those of black children, and are associated with more removals from the home and fewer efforts to reunite children with parents or relatives.
The evaluation methodology admittedly had some weaknesses. The findings raised important questions. So far, according to the article, findings confirmed the suspicions of CASA critics and were discounted as evaluation flukes by CASA executives.
The moral of this story is not to avoid evaluation, but to start early. Don’t wait, as CASA did, until there is so much at stake the results have to be good.
YouthBuild and CASA are large national programs that receive significant public dollars and make significant claims about their impact. Rigorous external evaluation should be a given for them. (That there should be equally “given” ways to fund these evaluations could likely be the topic of another column.) The high visibility of these kinds of programs raises the stakes higher, which is reason to be cautious, not complicit.
The youth field, however, is made up mostly of programs no one has heard of. And local communities, even if they are blessed with YouthBuilds, CASAs, YMCAs and the like, still have the right to ask if the affiliates in their neighborhoods are delivering what the national studies show.
It is time to stop portraying evaluation as a risk and embrace it as a responsibility. This is true for the large nationals as well as for local networks. Consider the story of YouthNet of Greater Kansas City, a coalition of youth-serving organizations including such national affiliates as Camp Fire USA and locally-based groups such as Visible Horizons, which serves Native American Youth. After five years of careful work building relationships, defining standards and improving capacity, YouthNet has reinvented itself as a transparent, results-driven network. According to its new vision:
“[A]gencies collaborating with YouthNet will set themselves apart from other local youth serving organizations because of their willingness to share individual agency assessment data with local stake holders.”
Participating agencies agree to integrate the shared standards into their programs, share quality assessment ratings with relevant stakeholders (including funders and parents) and commit executive time to participate in the network. YouthNet agrees to coordinate technical assistance, training and capacity-building.
All 18 organizations that joined YouthNet’s slow transformation process voluntarily signed collaboration agreements. Why? A sense of responsibility, as articulated in the rationale statement:
“The release of assessment results of out of school time programs [is a] very important next step in the evolution of the youth development sector overall and in Kansas City... Only by taking this leap will money continue to flow to the youth serving sector and only then can there be any hope of increased investment.”
I spoke with YouthNet President Deborah Craig shortly after the 18th organization signed the agreement. Instead of expressing anxiety about the road ahead, Craig appeared to be ecstatic about what had transpired and proud that all of the YouthNet members had chosen to make this public commitment.
Is this type of action risky? Yes. But these organizations are banking on the fact that the distinction of being responsible rather than reluctant monitors of quality will help them leverage the additional investment dollars needed to sustain and expand accountable, quality-driven programs. YouthNet will accept new members in 2007. I’m betting that 18 new organizations will apply.
White Stack, B. (2004, July/August). “An Evaluation of Volunteers Courts Controversy.” Youth Today. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from www.youthtoday.org/youthtoday/July_Aug04/
YouthBuild USA Web site. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from www.youthbuild.org.
National Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children Web site. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from www.nationalcasa.org.
YouthNet of Greater Kansas City Web site. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from www.kcyouthnet.org.
Visible Horizons Web site. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from www.visiblehorizons.org.
Harvard Family Research Project. (2004, Spring). The Evaluation Exchange: Evaluating Out-of-School Time Program Quality. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue25/index.html.
Harvard Family Research Project’s Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Database. Retrieved October 5, 2004, from www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/
Issue by Issue: Program Quality, a Web-based resource available from the Forum for Youth Investment at www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/issues/quality.htm.
Pittman, K. (2004, October). "Evaluation: Risk Or Responsibility?."
Karen Pittman is executive director of the Forum for Youth Investment.
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The back lines are bare.
The line judge positions, typically filled by junior varsity players, have been vacated and two-person officiating teams are making the calls from the center of the court.
The LVC has made it a league policy to no longer use athletes as line judges, which is a common practice across various volleyball age levels.
If line judges are desired, another pair of trained officials will have to be paid -- no more sweatshirt-clad teenagers calling balls in and out.
The policy change makes sense. For people who don't frequent volleyball games, the idea of having an opposing team's player making a ruling seems nonsensical.
Easton coach Jeff Corpora said he is "100 percent" for the switch, noting that JV players who serve as judges are put in a tough position.
"At times they're at the mercy of the speed of the game," he said. "There were times where they would miss a call and they would feel the wrath of the opposing fans or of our own fans and it's not fair to them."
Imagine a freshman football player posted in the end zone telling the referee whether a receiver got a foot inbounds -- doesn't pass the smell test.
"I completely understand not wanting to put children in possibly tough situations, where coaches, players and fans may disagree with a call they make," Liberty coach Missy Lynn said. "I also feel our referees are doing the best they can at making the right calls on the line."Personally, I've been a line judge before and I can recall feeling a little bit of stress ... and that was during my little sister's middle school games. Change the setting to a hotly contested LVC matchup? Forget about it.
"In no other sport that I know of do we put student-athletes in the position to be officials," Corpora said. "They're being paid, they're trained officials so it's their game ... To not have a student-athlete have to feel that pressure is fine."
Lynn would like to see officials have some sort of assistance on the lines -- perhaps an adult since students aren't being used -- because there are benefits from watching the game from the line judge's vantage point.
"Refs have a difficult job and I feel the extra help is needed, especially in really tight, competitive matches," she said. "Line judges are responsible for more than watching the lines: they have the best view of the antennae and any small touches off of a block. Some calls have been and will continue to be missed, but as it stands, coaches have to be patient and understand the refs are doing the best they can under the circumstances."
In the end, officiating will never be perfect. A few calls will always be missed.
But at least the LVC is moving forward with a common-sense policy in place -- a policy that has the people in striped shirts making the calls.
Beca's senior star
The two-time Express-Times first-teamer missed most of her sophomore season due to injury and was sidelined again during last year's postseason.
The past hiccups seem to have emboldened Hess for her senior campaign.
"She has this determination about her this year that she did not have towards the end of last year," Bethlehem Catholic coach Paul Abi-Daher said. "She's very determined and I think it's because it's her senior year -- her last chance to do something for Beca, for her team and for herself. It's that determination that's coming out and it's spilling over into the entire squad, which is very nice to see."
Hess had a team-high 134 kills through the Golden Hawks' first 10 contests. While she's still battling tendonitis in both of her knees, the LVC first-team All-Star seems to be hitting the ball harder than ever and says her work during the club season with Court Authority Volleyball Academy has primed her for the fall.
"We've done a lot of hard weight lifting and training in club," said Hess, who is looking at Shepherd University, St. Francis (Pa.) and DeSales as college options. "It's been constant year-round, it's been building up for high school season."
With Hess feeling healthy and motivated, the LVC East Division leaders will be the favorite in the District 11 Class AA tournament.
Red Rovers win
The game results haven't been positive for Easton as the Red Rovers have dealt with inexperience after graduating six seniors from last season's squad.
However, Easton did break into the win column on Tuesday night, recovering from a slow start to beat Dieruff 7-25, 25-23, 26-24, 25-12 in Allentown.
Felicia Hawn and Kennedy Lewis led the effort with eight kills apiece. Courtney Horace had 15 digs and Nicole Vilanova tallied 28 assists.
Easton coach Jeff Corpora said his team has been competitive, but the effort just hasn't been translating into victories yet.
"It's a mental thing, getting past point 20," he said. "And we've had to deal with our share of injuries this year."
Still, the coach says a 1-10 record hasn't created an atmosphere of negativity.
"To the kids' credit, the dynamics are outstanding," Corpora said. "They're a great group to coach."
The hope for the Rovers is that the struggles will lead to development that will benefit the team, which has a heavy underclassmen presence, down the road.
"It's not showing up in the win column but in the grand scheme of things it'll work out alright," Corpora said.
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By Melissa Pasanen, "Creamy Winter Comfort,"January/February 2013
On cold winter nights on a Colorado ranch, Grandmother Maud bustled around her warm woodstove simmering up rib-sticking meals like hearty winter vegetable chowder for a table full of family and ranch hands. Standing over the steaming pot, she would taste the sweet carrots and rutabaga and then pour in a generous pint of fresh cream. It’s a scene that her grandson, renowned chef John Ash, remembers vividly. He would savor spoonfuls of the comforting soup, full of tender vegetables with a touch of smoky bacon. “It was so rich and creamy, it would warm me up all the way through,” he says. “It still takes me back to childhood.”
Cream has the power to transform something pedestrian into something extraordinary. This was a lesson reinforced for Ash when he traveled around Europe in his twenties. He took cooking classes in London and Paris and worked in the restaurant of a small family-run inn in Burgundy, France. There he learned that cream stirred into a bowl of garden peas or a sauce for a simple chicken breast or fish fillet added velvety texture and delicate sweetness that is hard to duplicate. Cream, unfortunately, also brought less-desirable things like calories and saturated fat.
“Most of us love rich, creamy sauces, but the butter and cream can be of concern,” Ash acknowledges. Over the years, as Ash’s eponymous Sonoma County restaurant gathered praise, he published cookbooks and began teaching, and his repertoire expanded beyond traditional French cuisine to include global influences and healthier cooking methods. “As I learned more about good nutrition, I was faced with the dilemma of how to cook in a healthier way without sacrificing flavor and texture,” he says. “I started a lifelong search for ingredients and techniques to ‘enrich’ dishes without piling on fat and calories.”
A prime example is his innovative low-fat creamless sauce, which he uses to replace the cream, butter or egg yolks often used to thicken and enrich recipes. Among the substitutions Ash tried, nothing delivered the ideal lush, creamy texture until he came up with an inspired twist on a French master sauce called soubise. Starting with a base of sautéed onions, Ash’s simple technique leverages the starch of cooked rice to provide a surprising richness without any dairy. A touch of bright acidity from dry white wine rounds out the onion’s sweetness. The sauce is made with pantry basics and then it becomes a pantry basic itself. “I make a big batch to keep on hand to use in soups, sauces or wherever cream is called for,” Ash says. While the sauce has its own appealing flavor, it is also remarkably flexible. “It’s a blank canvas. You can flavor it in a million different ways.”
Ash deploys his versatile low-fat sauce to create comforting creamy dishes like crusty baked macaroni and cheese, elegant “creamed” mushroom toasts and a company-worthy—but weeknight-quick—roasted red pepper sauce to dress up chicken or fish. His “Cream Sauce without the Cream” even works beautifully in an Italian-inspired tonnato sauce that you can toss with pasta or serve as a dip for crunchy vegetables. Try it as a base for chicken potpie or swirl it into soups like the satisfying bacon-flecked winter vegetable chowder adapted from Grandmother Maud’s recipe. Even hungry ranch hands won’t miss the cream.
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Company History 1949 - 1958
The David Brown Era
1947 saw the dawn of the 'David Brown Era' as the business was acquired by the English industrialist. With verve and energy the business expanded, with the next few years seeing the purchase of the Lagonda marque and the relocation of production to Hanworth Park, Feltham, Middlesex. The DB2 model entered production in the same year, quickly followed by 2nd & 3rd in class success at Le Mans in 1951.
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By BRAD KELLAR
On second thought, the signal light at a busy local intersection won’t be changed after all.
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Greenville Area Engineer Tammy Sims said there was a significant public response to a decision announced last week to switch the signal located on FM 1570/Jack Finney Boulevard at Air Park to flash mode.
“We had a lot of people contact our office,” Sims said.
Instead of the standard red, yellow and green designations in either direction, the signal light was to be switched to a flashing yellow for FM 1570 traffic and flashing red for traffic on Air Park.
“We decided not to put it on flashing mode at this time,” Sims said.
According to the TxDOT announcement, a recent traffic study was requested by the City of Greenville and indicated the signal at this intersection no longer met the required warrants. The traffic at the location was to be monitored to determine whether or not to remove the signal altogether.
That also has changed.
“We are not going to remove it,” Sims said. “We’re going to leave it in place.”
Current tenants of the Air Park, which is overseen by the Greenville Economic Development Corporation, include McKesson, OmniSYS, and Texas Book Company.
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EAST LIVERPOOL - Much like scripture referring to loaves and fishes, Friends in Service Helping, better known as FISH, provides more and more food every year, even though the number of those in need continues to increase.
From 10 a.m. until noon five days each week, those who find their grocery dollar isn't stretching as far as it once did can stop in at the food pantry located near the corner of Jackson and Fourth streets and leave with enough to keep their families fed, at least for awhile.
Although it has been around longer than most volunteers can remember, the food pantry has been operating at its current location the past 15 years, according to Bob Bloor, one of 35-40 volunteers who work at the site.
Volunteers (from left) Jerry Duncan, Vince Gulutz, Tom Gulutz, Bob Bloor and Earl Fitzgerald start placing cases of food onto dollies so it can be placed in the FISH food pantry near the corner of Jackson and Fourth streets in East Liverpool. Also helping that day was John Wise. Nearly 550 households benefited from the pantry in November, and volunteers said the number of those partaking of the free food has been rising over the past year. (Photo by Jo Ann Bobby-Gilbert)
On a recent warm day, a handful of those volunteers unloaded a large commercial truck, taking case after case of non-perishable foods into the house that serves as the food pantry.
"Once a month, we get 34 cases of each item," Bloor said, explaining that, normally, the volunteers drive twice a month to the Second Harvest Food Bank in Youngstown to purchase food but in December, it had to be delivered since the Mahoning County site was under renovation.
What they can't get from Second Harvest, the group purchases from local stores.
"We buy a lot at Aldi's every other Saturday. Walmart donates everything and we take what they give us, a lot of bread and meat," Bloor said, noting they pick up from Walmart every Saturday.
Money for purchasing the food comes strictly from donations from individuals and churches, with some also provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Recipients of the food need only to bring their identification with a driver's license preferred but not mandatory and proof of residency to the food pantry to register based on the size of their family. Unlike many other agencies, federal income guidelines are not enforced.
"We take their word on their income," Bloor said.
When FISH first started, volunteers found out what families needed, went and purchased those items and then delivered them to the individual homes, according to Bloor.
But, today, the need has increased drastically, making the central distribution site necessary.
"It's jumped quite a bit in the last six to 12 months," Bloor said, as he surveyed the mounds of canned goods, cereal boxes, breadstuffs and other food stacked around the house.
In November, 549 households 2,038 individual were served from the pantry, most from East Liverpool, Calcutta and Wellsville.
"We're about the only one that stays open five days a week," Bloor pointed out. "We do a lot of good."
He said volunteers are primarily older, as evidenced by the men unloading the truck, although no one could tell by watching them.
At 94, John Wise was briskly hauling cases of food into the pantry, assisted by 83-year-old Earl Fitzgerald and the "youngster" of the group, Jerry Duncan, at 66.
"We all work together. It's a good group of guys," Bloor said.
As with most such groups, donations are always welcome and appreciated, both food and cash. Anyone interested can stop in the food pantry and drop off donations.
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South Adams Trails working out bumps in the road
Roger Kottlowski, project engineer for the South Adams Trails project, told those attending the organization's annual meeting on Thursday that he believes that discussion is being productive with residents along the projected trail who have had concerns about its passage close to their property.
Kottlowski said that there had been discussion with Amish north of the Wabash River. Officials described to them fencing and landscaping designed to break the perception that strangers were passing in their backyard. He noted that signage of instruction would also be a central issue along the way.
"I listened to tapes of the public hearing that was held a few months ago and comments from the community," said Kottlowski. "There were many positive comments but there were also some concerns. We met with some of the Amish families last night and things went pretty well."
Another phase that could slow beginning construction somewhat is that of land acquisition, Kottlowski told those present. As a result, he projected that ground breaking will probably take place in mid-winter, 2013 and begin next spring. Kottlowski said that the cost of the project will be elevated some because of a large amount of wooden railing that will be utilized between the river and Berne.
Kottlowski said that officials learned in April that the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) had a brief opening to apply for grant money. As a result, county commissioners sanctioned applying for an additional $300,000 in grant money from transportation enhancement funds to assist with the project.
Bonnie Money, engineer for the covered bridge, reported that the historical structure is well on its way to being reconstructed. Money said that one of the most exciting of things that happened in dismantling the bridge was discovery of board match marks from the original construction. She noted that construction workers are doing the same thing as they re-assemble the bridge in case a future generation might want to do repairs on the bridge.
Money noted that trusses were reset on May 8. Steps currently in operation include bracing floor beams in the lower level, installing upper level bracing, the roof, and then finally painting the structure at completion.
In 2014, $717,000 will be available through INDOT to reconstruct the Bunge Bridge that had been donated by the City of Decatur to the trails project. In order to save money in bridge reconstruction, said engineer Alan Hamersly, officials may refrain from painting the bridge until further funding is available.
"Painting may not get done until there is additional funding available," said Hamersly. "Most of these old iron structures are pretty sturdy, even if they aren't painted. That might be an area where we can save some money initially and still get the bridge up."
Officers elected for the next year include Gary Habegger, president; Randy Lehman, vice president; Gregg Sprunger, treasurer; and Pam Krause, secretary.
Mike Kuepper, president of the Nickel Plate Trail in the Peru area served as guest speaker, told those present that his area constructed a 38-mile trail based on rail land available in Howard, Miami and Fulton counties in north central Indiana.
Kuepper said that initially, at a meeting in Peru High School in December of 1999, eight individuals favored the project and over 200 attended that were opposed to it. Slowly, said Kuepper, people started to understand and get on board for the project. Finally, when the first leg of the trail was completed, many of those who were initially opposed began to utilize the trail and support it.
"Once it opened it was amazing how many people came out," Kuepper said. "People drove in from other counties just to use the trails. One of the commissioners who had been opposed said to me, 'everywhere I go people are talking about the trail.' That first piece is your selling point.
"Be creative how you look around and utilize things that give harmony to your trail," Kuepper said. "Listen to your consultants. It's amazing how much funding is coming into the communities along the trail now. The number of people that we are bringing to their businesses, we're making them happy."
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Your gift to help a hardworking entrepreneur will double in impact thanks to a generous World Vision partner.
Diribe is from Ethiopia. She needs a loan of $125 to expand her small restaurant business.
Diribe, a mother of four children, is in a good position to change her life style. She has good rapport with her customers. “The local people like my business...I want to move it forward to earn more income,” she said. Diribe faces a serious financial shortage. “If I get money I can run this business properly."
A World Vision micro loan will help Diribe put the money into expanding her restaurant. In the future, she dreams of having a cafeteria that can help her get more income and create jobs for her community.
The added income will allow her basic living conditions to improve.
Retail is a quick and scalable way to begin earning a profit. Many entrepreneurs begin with stalls at markets or even at home and need a loan to expand or increase their inventory. Others may be ready to open a small store. Goods purchased from loan funds range from clothing, grocery or sundry items to jewelry, candy, perfume or health and beauty supplies. Loans in the commerce sector account for around 33% of our loans.
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Thank you for partnering with World Vision Micro to provide Diribe Regasa with a small loan for her food and services business. Diribe used her loan of $125 to expand her small restaurant business. She continues to make weekly payments of $2 on time.
With the profits she has earned from her growing business, Diribe is able to purchase food for the family, buy supplies in bulk and purchase equipment.
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Board of trustees selects 21 projects for funding in 2010, with 18 open for competitive bidding
The Water Research Foundation, a non-profit foundation devoted to drinking water research, announced a 2010 research budget of $6.25 million. These funds, representing fees from the foundation’s subscribers and Congressional funding, will be leveraged with in-kind support and partnerships to a total research value of $15 million.
Approximately one-third of the funding will go toward three targeted areas: climate change, distribution system water quality and endocrine-disrupting compounds/pharmaceuticals and personal care products. The foundation will devote $600,000 in funding to its Unsolicited Research Program, a program that promotes basic and fundamental research on original concepts and novel techniques. The foundation also approved $665,000 for projects within its Tailored Collaboration Program, under which utility subscribers can gain matching grants for research ideas.
The foundation’s board of trustees announced the budget and selected 18 projects for competitive funding at its Jan. 15, 2010, meeting. Three additional projects will be conducted with international partners.
“We appreciate our subscribers’ support in these difficult economic times,” said Robert Renner, the foundation’s executive director. “For our part, we are seeking to do more with less by leveraging their funds more than 140% to build a robust research budget, and honing in on the most crucial topics for further study.”
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Book Description: Several international mass claims programmes have recently been established to process individual claims arising from armed conflicts. These entities possess specific institutional and structural features allowing for an effective and efficient resolution of claims. Moreover, violation of international law protecting property during war gives rise to inter-State and individual reparation, mostly partial, for which monetary compensation is more frequent than return of property. These programmes have also developed specific procedures to handle the administration of evidence and new techniques to decide all of the claims within a reasonable period of time. This 2-volume set reviews modern-day mass claims practice. Volume I shows how new mass claims programmes have built upon traditional dispute resolution mechanisms, and also examines the substantive law rules protecting property rights. Volume II focuses on the administration of evidence and the techniques developed to decide mass claims, including the use of statistical sampling.
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When Palestine requests nonmember state status at the U.N. in November, I ask that the United States boldly offers its approval and support.
The Palestinian people have languished under the harsh reality of occupation for many decades. After countless rounds of negotiations and agreements, no peaceful two-state resolution has been reached. Many longtime observers of the conflict question if the peace process even exists today. Indeed, in the eyes of many, it is dead.
Instead of further hindering the peace process, recognizing Palestine as a nonmember state could revitalize peace negotiations by sending the signal that the status quo no longer is acceptable.
If this conflict is ever to be solved, visionary leaders who are willing to look beyond the stagnant reality must emerge.
Douglas A. Field
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Princeton's Global Health Initiative had a transformative effect on Yolisa Nalule, a molecular biology major and member of the class of 2010 who received a certificate in global health and health policy. In this video feature she talks about her "Aha! moment" while taking Professor Joćo Biehl's medical anthropology course -- part of the global health curriculum -- where she realized she wanted to work to advance global health policy.
Video stills courtesy of Susan Fou
Video feature: Princeton's involvement in global health
Posted July 14, 2011; 12:00 p.m.
Through its Global Health Initiative, Princeton strives to educate students who will become leaders in the fields of health and health care, with a focus on the policy dimensions of global health. In this short video, faculty members describe Princeton's interdisciplinary approach to global health and health policy, and undergraduate students speak about their research in countries around the world.
Play the "Global Health at Princeton" video (Photo by Denise Applewhite)
"It really does bridge science into social science into public policy in a way that very few other institutions can do, and if you really want to get a handle on these issues, you need to have all of that together -- the subject matter demands it," said Christina Paxson, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. "This multidisciplinary focus is not just nice but essential. ... We can launch students into careers where they can make a difference doing something that's really, really important."
The video was produced as part of a series showcasing Princeton life and academics as part of "Aspire: A Plan for Princeton," which is the University's current $1.75 billion fundraising campaign.
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