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The dataset generation failed
Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 112
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 112
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Home Yelp Adds More Marketing…
Yelp Adds More Marketing Tools for Small Businesses
Online/Interactive, User-Generated Content
In April, we covered Yelp’s launch of a suite of marketing tools that let small businesses manage their listings. This is essentially a back-end tool that allows any business with a Yelp listing to claim his or her profile, add basic business info, and view analytics.
Today it launched the next extension of this tool, which lets SMBs write about themselves in a more freeform and public facing way (accessible here). This takes the form of a new tab on the business profile titled “about this business.” It is adjacent to the reviews tab and provides merchant-generated information about the business. On the back end it also allows businesses to recommend other businesses.
“By allowing small-business owners to describe their business in their own words, they’re able to set expectations with consumers up front and ultimately connect with not just any customers, but the right ones,” Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman told us.
The tool basically has a two-fold purpose. It is a user-centric feature that provides more content for users of the site. In other words it adds a dimension of context for those who have come to frequent the site and trust its user-generated reviews. It also has a clear SMB-centric angle. It’s a free tool, but the thought is that it can also entice more engagement among SMBs, which in turn leads to more paid advertisers through the site’s various upsells.
Yelp has generally been on a strong push to monetize the site, given the tremendous user traction and online branding it’s been able to achieve over the past four years. This has included putting some of its recent funding in play toward direct sales expansion (including the opening of a New York office), as well as more self-serve tools like this. Expect more developments on this front.
Firefox Reaches 20% Market Share
Yellowbook Taps YouTube for Video Distribution
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No law to regulate booming industry
NEW DELHI: The surrogacy industry in India is tipped to be 2.3 billion dollars annually with nearly 20,000 such clinics operating across the country. However, there is no law to regulate them.
The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, which seeks to regulate surrogacy and in-vitro fertilization (IVF), has been pending for the last five years. Experts say only the 'non-binding' guidelines from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) regulate the running of
fertility clinics.
In the report published in international journal Bioethical Inquiry, researchers state that debates around the ethics of surrogacy are preceded by those relating to organ donation and transplantation.
"Reproductive medicine, like organ transplantation, has been debated in the context of neo-liberal capitalistic medical enterprise and complicity in the commodification of body partswith market demands
. However, unlike organ donation, which is one-time process, reproductive medicine involves the use of eggs and sperm which are regenerative," they saidd, highlighting the urgency of a law to regulate the practice.
Researchers argue that because women are capable of multiple pregnancies, this allows repeated surrogacy, thereby posing newer ethical challenges.
Dr Abha Mazumdar, head of the IVF centre at Sir Ganga Ram hospital, said most unethical practices in commercial surrogacy involves foreigners. "An agent mediating in a property deal gets 10-20% commission. But in surrogacy, agents who bring surrogates get more than 100% commission," she said. The IVF expert said foreigner couples should not be allowed to opt for commercial surrogacy in India.
The UK and some states in Australia permit only altruistic surrogacy, and surrogacy is not legalized in Scandinavian countries and other countries such as Germany and Spain. Most childless couples from these countries come to India.
Ranjana Kumari, director of Centre for Social Research, said, there is need to rein in fertility clinics fleecing patients
"Absence of a law has led to mushrooming of centres exploiting vulnerable couples and pushing poor women into surrogacy."
Sources: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/No-law-to-regulate-booming-industry/articleshow/47966298.cms
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Heather Kampf 3-Peats, Sets Event Record at Ryan Shay Mile
Rob Finnerty wins men’s Mile at 7th edition; third stop on the Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour 2014
By Jeff Hartnagle
CHARLEVOIX, Mich. – Heather Kampf again showed why she is The Queen of the Road Miles with a three-peat performance and event record 4:21.39 clocking at the 7th Ryan Shay Mile on Saturday morning, while Rob Finnerty claimed the men’s title in 3:56.98. The event was also the third stop on the Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour 2014.
Team USA Minnesota’s Kampf, 27, led the deepest field at this point-to-point road Mile as four other women were also under Kampf’s old course record (4:30.9) from 2013 with Cynthia Limo of Kenya taking second followed by Amanda Eccleston, Kristen Findley and then Shannon Osika. Limo took the field through the first half mile with Kampf staying close and using a strong finish to take her third event crown.
Post-race Kampf tweeted: “It took a 4:21 to capture a 3-peat victory at the Shay Mile! Grateful to run a great race to honor an amazing athlete.”
In the men’s race, Furman Elite’s Finnerty, 24, also finished strongly in the final stretch to pull two others under the coveted 4 minute barrier. Daniel Stockberger, a veteran of the Shay Mile, had his best performance yet in claiming second with a time of 3:58.53, and Ryan Cunningham took the last podium spot in 3:59.86. Tony Filipek led the field through the first half of the race to pick up the $250 halfway prem and to set up the field for fast times.
The Ryan Shay Mile started in the summer of 2008 to honor the memory of Ryan Shay. Ryan passed away on November 3, 2007 while competing in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in New York City. Ryan was from Central Lake, Michigan about thirty minutes south of Charlevoix. A talented runner, who through hard work and persistence, won numerous championships in high school, while in college in Notre Dame, and as a professional. Ryan was and is a role model for many young people in Northern Michigan and around the country.
7th Ryan Shay Mile
Bring Back the Mile Grand Prix Tour 2014
Charlevoix, MI, Saturday, July 26, 2014
1) Rob Finnerty (SC), 3:56.98, $1000
2) Daniel Stockberger (IN), 3:58.53, $500
3) Ryan Cunningham (PA), 3:59.86, $250
4) Tom Scott (OH), 4:05.01
5) Peter Mwololo (KEN), 4:08.39
6) Tony Filipek (MI), 4:09.48, $250#
7) Sean Smith (IL), 4:32.22
#halfway prem bonus
1) Heather Kampf (MN), 4:21.39*, $1000
2) Cynthia Limo (KEN), 4:24.61, $750#
3) Amanda Eccleston (MI), 4:25.78, $250
4) Kristen Findley (TX), 4:30.26
5) Shannon Osika (MI), 4:30.62
6) Melissa Salerno (NY), 4:32.45
7) Christy Cazzolo (WI), 4:33.97
8) Annie Wanjiru (KEN), 4:35.78
9) Danielle Tauro (MI), 4:47.68
10) Jane Njeri Kang’ara (KEN), 4:57.59
*course record (previous record, 4:30.9, Heather Kampf (MN), 2013)
#includes $250 halfway prem bonus
Visit www.venetianraces.com for more information.
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Autobiographical Sketch (December 20, 1859)
Posted on October 27, 2015 Updated on March 12, 2022
J.W. Fell, Esq.
Springfield, Dec 20, 1859
My dear Sir:
Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me. If anything is made out of it, I wish it to be modest, and not to go beyond the materials. If it were thought necessary to incorporate any thing from any of my speeches, I suppose there would be no objection. Of course it must not appear to have been written by myself. – Yours very truly
[ Enclosure:]
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say. My Mother, who died in my ninthtenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon counties, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781 or 2, when, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania. An effort to identify them with the New England family of the same name ended in nothing more definite, than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai, Solomon, Abraham, and the like.
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, litterally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond the reading, writing, and Arithmetic “readin, writin, and cipherin” to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty two. At twenty one I came to Illinois, and passed the first year in Macon County. Then I got to New-Salem ( then at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a year as a sort of Clerk in a store. then came the Black Hawk war; and I was elected a Captain of Volunteers. a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elated, ran for the Legislature the same year (1832) and was beaten – the only time I ever have been beaten by the people. The next, and three succeeding biennial elections, I was elected to the Legislature. I was not a candidate afterwards. During this Legislative period I had studied law, and removed to Springfield to make practice it. In 1846 I was once elected to the lower House of Congress. Was not a candidate for re-election. From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, practiced law more assiduously than ever before. Always a whig in politics, and generally on the whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
If any personal description of me is thought desired desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes. no other marks or brands recollected.
Was ever tone so dry? Not a word about things that vanity might like to make known, but a good deal that might speak against it. The wealth of metaphor that adorns his style, the finesse of his letters, the impetuous rhythm of his speeches – all these are lacking in this arid document, and only an expert would recognize an eminent stylist. We feel much as we should feel if a celebrated chef were to prepare large quantities of a tasteless soup in order to feed those who had heard much of his culinary skill, and wanted to know his secret.
And yet, this fragment is a masterpiece in what it says and in what it conceals. People may like to know of the grandfather who fell as a pioneer, leaving his son to be educated by the wild bears. They will be amused, too, by the joke about the “wizard.” But Lincoln is too proud to talk about his strenuous efforts to gain access to the wells of knowledge. Enough for him to say that he has picked up education here and there, from time to time, under the pressure of necessity. Not a word does he say about his work in the local legislature, about the matters he fought for in Congress. But he does not mind revealing the real acquisition of popularity with comrades and townsmen, true to him in war and campaign. Personal details? Is he to tell people the name of his favorite poet; that he does not care for drink, and is fond of telling anecdotes; that he would rather chop wood in his shirt sleeves than go to parties in a frock coat? Six feet, four inches high (“nearly”, to keep within the strict letter of the truth); a hundred and eighty pounds, coarse hair, and no birthmarks. With this splendid formula a la Don Quixote, he ends his epistle.
By Emil Ludwig,”Abraham Lincoln: And the Times that Tried His Soul” , Ludwig-205-16
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GGC Magazine
Global Ghanaian Chamber
Market Overview of Ghana
Ghana has 31 million citizens, the majority of whom are youthful, linked to the rest of the world, and fast-growing. Many Ghanaians have close ties to the United States on a personal or professional level and strongly prefer American products and technology. The third-largest market for American exports to Sub-Saharan Africa is Ghana. Ghana’s technology, financial services, education, and franchising sectors are expanding quickly in addition to its core industries of agriculture, mining, and most recently, oil and gas extraction.
The expanding infrastructure of Ghana’s ports, highways, rail, and tourism industry provides prospects for U.S. businesses. Ghana is a fantastic location for conducting business in Africa thanks to its Atlantic ports and frequent direct flights from the United States. The new African Continental Free Trade is being held here. Area Secretariat, Ghana is an excellent starting point because it is at the center of Africa’s transformational regional integration.
Accra, the capital of the nation, is a thriving metropolis with a population of about two million. Another significant population center and a bustling economic hub with nearly the same population is Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region to the north of Accra.
Currently, United and Delta both offer frequent flights to Accra from Washington, Dulles, and New York, JFK, respectively (IAD). International airport Kotoka is the entry point for travelers flying into Accra. It is advisable for business visitors to inquire with Ghanaian authorities about visitor visas and the prerequisites for obtaining visas before entry into Ghana.
Accra is home to a number of business hotels. There are several restaurants in Ghana that serve both local food and food from other countries. In addition to Uber and other well-known ridesharing services, taxis are readily available at the airport. Ghanaian Cedis can be purchased at the Kotoka International Airport, hotels, and some banks. There are many ATMs that accept foreign bank cards in Ghana’s urban areas. A few hotels in Kumasi are up to business-class international standards, although there are many inexpensive to moderately priced lodging options elsewhere.
In 2022, as the government struggles to balance its expanding deficits and debt financing commitments, the nation is going through a period of the fiscal tightening. Ghana’s chances for medium- and long-term growth remain positive, nonetheless.
With over 350 radio stations, over 120 television operators, about 250 newspapers and magazines, as well as active and expanding internet use and social media presence, Ghana has a thriving media landscape.
American businesses looking to do business in Ghana are advised to take the long view and give themselves plenty of time to get to know possible collaborators and forge connections that go beyond email and text messages. Companies from the United States who can send a representative to Ghana to meet potential partners, conduct site visits, and stroll through the busy streets will leave a good impression.
Ghana is fortunate to have a wide range of ethnic groups, each of which has its own culture and way of life. Akans (45.7%), Mole Dagbon (18.5%), Ewe (12.8%), Ga-Dangme (7.1%), Gurma (6.4%), Guan (3.2%), Grusi (2.7%), Mandi (2.0), and other (1.6%) make up the majority of the ethnic groupings. 90% of the population, which comprises less than 1% of non-Ghanaians, originates from neighboring ECOWAS nations. For more details, see the Ghanaian Census Data for 2021.
English is the principal language of education in every school and is also the language of commerce. Local languages are spoken by Ghanaians as well, and many are spoken fluently.
Ghanaians are renowned for their warmth and hospitality. They are also extremely religious, with almost 95% of them participating in formal religion. A little more than 71% of people identify as Christians, 19% as Muslims, 5% as indigenous or animist, while the remaining 5% are members of other religions or have no religious affiliation.
Although there are occasionally disputes between ethnic groups in rural areas, usually over who owns the land or who would succeed the traditional leaders, Ghana has long had peaceful political transitions after elections.
Ghana saw average yearly economic growth of around to seven percent in the three years before to the COVID-19 epidemic, making it one of the countries in the world with the quickest rate of expansion. Ghana maintained a growth rate of 0.5 percent in 2020 and recovered with a growth of 5.4 percent in 2021 despite the economic downturn brought on by the epidemic. However, the economy is heavily reliant on the export of raw materials including gold, cocoa, oil, and gas, making it susceptible to slowdowns in the global economy and falls in commodity prices. Over the following three years, GDP growth is anticipated to be higher than five percent on average.
The major contributor to Ghana’s GDP is the services sector, which in 2021 accounted for 49% of the country’s total output due to expansions in the ICT, health, and education service sectors, among others. The agricultural sector comes in second at about 21% of GDP, after the industrial sector, which accounts for 30% of GDP. About 45% of Ghana’s workforce is employed in agriculture, primarily by small landowners.
In contrast to the $828 million in imports in 2020, a year that was impacted by the global economic slump, Ghana imported $983 million worth of goods from the United States in 2021. In 2021, the last year for which complete international data was available, China (23%), the United States (9%), India (7%), and Belgium (5%), along with the United Arab Emirates (4%), Canada (3%), and the United Kingdom (3%), were the top exporters of goods to Ghana.
In 2021, Ghana exported items worth $1.7 billion to the US. The top three exports from Ghana are cocoa, gold, and oil. China, Switzerland, India, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the United Arab Emirates are Ghana’s main export destinations.
Additionally, both Ghana’s imports and exports of services have increased dramatically in recent years; in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana’s growth in service imports has been among the quickest. In 2020, Ghana purchased $12 billion worth of services from around the world and exported roughly $9 billion. Business service imports, which include computer and allied services as well as architectural/engineering, legal, accountancy, and advertising services, are the main driver of this increase. Other sectors of growth include freight services and inbound travel/tourism.
There are no exact numbers indicating what percentage of Ghana’s $12 billion in service imports comes from the United States. However, we are aware that American businesses are vitally important to Ghana’s services industry. U.S. ICT service companies are well-represented in the market. There are increasingly more Ghanaians studying in the US (an educational export for the United States). Last but not least, American companies that offer financial services, express delivery, logistics, consultancy/legal services, and businesses that supply services to Ghana’s mining and oil and gas industries all play a significant role and contribute to American services exports to Ghana.
Ref: trade.gov
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Can a ‘green Islam’ save Indonesia from climate collapse?
Calls for an environmentally conscious form of Islam are growing in Indonesia, as climate change poses enormous ecological challenges for the country. Experts say it could change society’s approach to climate efforts.
Following the publication of an alarming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Indonesia is once again at the center of the global climate debate.
As the world’s largest exporter of coal and palm oil, the country has a major impact on the global climate crisis. Yet the island state itself is increasingly affected by extreme weather events. In 2019, a severe drought led to widespread forest fires. In 2020, the country experienced massive flooding due to the heaviest rainfall in decades.
With a population of over 270 million, Indonesia faces enormous social and environmental challenges, and some experts see religion as a ray of hope. As the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, calls for an environmentally conscious Islam are growing in Indonesia.
“There is no doubt that the new Islamic environmental awareness is strengthening the entire ecological movement in Indonesia,” Fachruddin Mangunjaya, chairman of the Center for Islamic Studies at the National University in Jakarta, told DW.
A country in an environmental dilemma
Indonesia, with its more than 17,000 islands, is in a quandary. In addition to waste disposal, the two major climate sins of the country — coal-fired power and deforestation — repeatedly make the country’s headlines.
Indonesia is not only the world’s export champion for thermal coal, but also the largest producer of palm oil, which leads to the deforestation of large areas of forest every year.
Coal and palm oil form the backbone of the Indonesian economy, which cannot grow without reliable energy and the export of palm oil.
On the other hand, this economic model harms the very people it is supposed to serve: Indonesians. Greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and deforestation are having a significant impact on the health and livelihoods of the rural population.
As a result of climate change, many of Indonesia’s remote and poor provinces suffer regular droughts, exacerbating poverty in the country.
Green Islam creates hope
Islam, to which almost 87% of the population in Indonesia feels affiliated, could provide a way out of the dilemma.
“The protection of nature and the environment is one of the commandments of Islam. Therefore, the use of clean energy is also ethically and morally important for Muslims,” Indonesian anthropologist Ibnu Fikri told DW.
Together with his colleague Freek Colombijn from the Free University in Amsterdam, he has been researching the topic of “Green Islam” in Indonesia – an interaction between humans and the environment inspired by Islamic ideas and teachings.
Green Islam is also receiving more attention in politics. President Joko Widodo’s government recently engaged with Islamic leaders and communities to set a goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2060.
Holding onto that principle, last year, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry signed a partnership agreement with Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country’s largest Muslim organization, to improve environmental management and sustainable forestry.
‘Translate awareness into concrete action’
According to Fachruddin, however, that is not enough. The urgency for increased climate awareness has not yet reached the majority of the country’s rural population and clerics.
A 2020 survey by the Katadata Insight Center shows that Indonesian citizens place the highest trust in information from religious clerics.
As a result, Fachruddin’s institute in Jakarta is working specifically on building bridges between leaders in Muslim society and environmental scientists.
“It is important that Islamic clerics not only understand the religious teachings, but also their significance for climate protections, so they can translate their awareness into concrete action,” Fachruddin said.
So far, he has trained about 1,000 Islamic clerics who practice environmental protection and provide education in various villages across the country — and the number is growing.
Boarding schools as the nucleus of climate activism
Young people in particular need to be reached and made aware of environmental protection.
“We need to think more about our future so that our students can find answers to pressing environmental issues early on and get involved in their own communities,” Khatibul Umam, who runs an Islamic boarding school (Pesantren) on the island of Madura, told DW.
Islamic boarding schools are an important part of Indonesia’s education system. Umam’s boarding school alone has 11,000 students.
The school has made the combination of Islam and environmental protection one of its core tasks by supporting several environmental protection projects such as reforestation, sustainable agriculture and recycling, all of which have regional roots and are inspired by Islam.
The limits of ‘green Islam’
Although the direction is clear, Umam also knows that Islamic environmental activism in Indonesia is still at the beginning. “The main challenge we face, not only in our schools but in society in general, is to try to make people understand why these projects are significant, not only to us, but to all levels of society and the future generations,” said Umam.
Finally, as anthropologist Ibnu Fikri admits, there is no one Islam in Indonesia. “Due to compulsory religion in Indonesia, there is a huge diversity of practitioners of Islam. For some, it’s part of their daily routine. Others feel they belong less and are Muslim because they have to choose a religion.”
Pluralism creates opportunities
Therefore, it is not only Islam and environmental protection that need to be reconciled in the long-term, but also different social groups.
Many experts say that a comprehensive, whole-of-society approach is needed. Fachruddin sees Indonesia’s pluralism as a great opportunity. “We learn a lot from traditions from before Islam. Because of our democratic situation in Indonesia, we respect not only nature and the environment, but all people and their ideas.”
Ibnu Fikri also gained this impression in his fieldwork in Indonesian communities. He describes it as a “cultural environmental awareness,” an interplay of religion, traditions and local practices that encourages people to protect the environment.
Even if there is a long way to go, Islam can still provide a strong source of inspiration for many.
Edited by: Leah Carter
Sumber : https://www.dw.com/en/can-a-green-islam-save-indonesia-from-climate-collapse/a-62025251
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Iran marks the anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s message to Mikhail Gorbachev
Imam Khomeini tried to warn the Soviet president against following the destructive path of Western liberal capitalism. The pro-Western path chosen after the collapse of the USSR turned out to be catastrophic for Russia and many of neighboring ex-Soviet republics.
Sunday, January 01, 2023 11:00
Imam called on Gorbachev to study Islam earnestly
After mentioning these problems and preliminary points, let me call on you to study Islam earnestly, not because Islam and the Muslims may need you but because Islam has exalted universal values which can bring comfort and salvation to all nations and remove the basic problems of mankind, Imam Khomeini wrote in a historic letter to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Cultural Problems of the Muslim World and Their Solutions According to Imam Khomeini.
According to Imam Khomeini, the results indicated that the cultural problems of the Muslim world are rooted in spiritual dependence and self destruction against the West. The characteristics of an ideal society from Imam Khomeini are cultural independence, divine law authority, the transforming community to a divine human being, freedom of thought, and pondering Islamic awareness and awakening. To achieve such a society, he seeks a solution to the unity of the Muslim world and the severance of cultural ties with the West.
Monday, November 14, 2022 10:50
Imam Khomeini's works contain treasure of mysticism and spirituality, remain appealing for ...
Imam Khomeini's genuine and pure teachings and works would continue to guide the generations to come in coming decades.
Sunday, November 13, 2022 08:26
The Idea of Ommah in Imam Khomeini's Political Thoughts
By studying the terminology used by Imam Khomeini, it is concluded that the concept of "nation" is a marginal one, in relation with the concept of "Ommah" In fact, Imam Khomeini has not negated nationalism with the meaning of national authority in his comments, but he has negated ethnicity and clanship and their undesirable impact as the factors of separation among Islamic Ommah.
Modeling the Decision-making Method of Imam Khomeini for the Officials and Managers of the Islamic ...
In this article a model of Imam khomeini's decision making method has been used for the use of officials and managers of the Islamic republic of Iran. The purpose of which is to grow and promote the Islamic Republic. Also, Imam Khomeini's rational strategies and behavioral patterns have been examined from various perspectives.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 11:17
Disarmament, Weapons Control and Defense Diplomacy in the Views and Thoughts of Imam Khomeini.
In this article, as necessary, Imam Khomeini's defense military views and ideas will be discussed, specifically in the field of disarmament and arms control. The main purpose is to answer the basic question: "What was the goal and meaning of Imam Khomeini's approach to disarmament and arms control? The temporary answer is that Imam Khomeini was thinking about weapons of mass destruction, Disarmament, and controlling the conventional weapons of arms.
Monday, October 24, 2022 03:33
Political participation of women from Imam Khomeini’s viewpoint
Author: Fatima Kashif al-Ghatta Year of publication: 2006 University: Baqer al-Uloom Higher Educational Institute
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Zhang Keming from Yilan County, Helongjiang Province, Died of Persecution
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zhang Keming, a firm believer in Falun Dafa, suffered from brutal persecution for several years. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor in 2002 despite his poor physical condition. He was severely tortured in the Changlinzi Labor Camp. Zhang Keming passed away on March 26, 2006.
Zhang Keming was 56 years old. He used to work in a boiler factory. All three member of his family began to practice Falun Dafa in 1996. His diabetes disappeared shortly after he started practicing.
After the persecution began, Mr. Zhang's entire family was illegally arrested when they went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. They were taken back to the Public Security Bureau in Yilan County and held in the No. 2 Detention Center. The police confiscated 4,800 yuan from their pockets and tortured them. Mr. Zhang was forced to maintain the "flying the airplane" torture position for over 5 hours. (In this torture, the head is bent down until it cannot go down any further, while the hands are pulled up and held up at the highest point against the wall. The practitioner is forced to hold this position unchanged for a long time period. If a practitioner refuses to comply, he/she will be shocked with an electric baton or beaten to the point of losing consciousness. The police will then roughly wake up the practitioner and continue the torture.) They beat his bottom with a belt until it was completely bruised black and blue. Mr. Zhang and his family were held illegally for over one month. Three thousand yuan was extorted from them. After their release, policeman Cui Guodong frequently came to harass the family at their home, confiscating their Dafa books and threatening them.
Long Deqing and Han Yunjie from the Political Security Department arrested Mr. Zhang Keming and held him for 45 days in 2000 because Mr. Zhang did the Falun Dafa exercises outside. He began a hunger strike in protest and was released home after the police extorted another 3,000 yuan.
In October 2001, Policeman Zhang Huanyou arrested Mr. Zhang after a villager reported him for distributing Falun Gong truth clarification materials. He was held in a motel and handcuffed to a heating pipe in the bathroom. The police beat him brutally, dragging him around by the handcuffs. The handcuffs cut deeply into his wrists. After two days, Zhang Keming was sent to the detention center for another 15 days. To avoid being arrested, his daughter became homeless after she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in October 2001.
On December 29, 2001, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs raided Mr. Zhang's home and arrested the couple. Mr. Zhang began a hunger strike for 40 days. The police instigated the inmates to beat him up constantly. He was sentenced to 2 years in the labor camp despite his poor physical condition and he became emaciated. His wife was released when her physical condition was not fit to be in the labor camp.
Mr. Zhang was held in the Changlinzi Labor Camp for 2 years and suffered many forms of torture. He was deprived of sleep for a long period of time. The police beat him on the face and shocked him with electric batons in sensitive areas of the body. He was forced into the torture position of "Five Horses Splitting a Body" in which the four limbs are pulled in four directions until they are stretched extremely tight. He was then beaten up so much that he was in excruciating pain. Mr. Zhang developed scabies. His skin was ulcerated and infected over his entire body. He was injected with unknown drugs. In September 2002, the guards in the No. 4 Battalion in the Changlinzi Labor Camp intensified the persecution and torture in order to "transform" Dafa practitioners and to force them to sign "guarantee statements." They gloated over the rate of their "transformation."
Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yue Baoxue was tortured in the "Big Hang Up" position around the clock for 7 days. There are two forms of this torture: 1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only the toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to a metal window frame; 2) One hand of a practitioner is handcuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in opposite directions. It is extremely painful as the body is pulled apart. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Zhenfeng was tortured in the "Big Hang Up" position for 3 days. Both practitioners' hands were red and swollen, and wounds covered their bodies.
On November 9, 2003, shortly after Mr. Zhang was released from the labor camp, Zheng Jun from the Public Security Department and Policeman Liu Guochang and ten other police officers harassed Mr. Zhang and his wife three times during the night. They broke into their home and arrested the couple and held them for 15 days.
Over the six years of the persecution, officers from the police unit, the 610 Office, and the Political Legal Committee harassed Mr. Zhang countless times. They arrested his wife and daughter on numerous occasions and extracted thousands of yuan from them. The long-term torment on his mind and body took its toll, and Mr. Zhang never recovered his health. He began to experience excessive sweats and had symptoms of coughing, spitting up phlegm, and vomiting blood. He had generalized edema. Zhang Keming finally passed away on March 26, 2006. His family highly suspected that the unknown drugs that were injected into him in the labor camp played a role in his death.
Responsible Parties:
Changlinzi Labor Camp in Haerbin
610 Office in Yilan County
Public Security Bureau in Yilan County
No. 2 Detention Center in Yilan County
Dongcheng Police Station in Yilan County
Xicheng Police Station in Yilan County
Category: Deaths
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Assessment and preservation of the old Vietnamese École Française d'Extrême Orient archive in ancient ideographic Nôm script (EAP219)
Illustration from a Han Nôm book
View archives from this project (128)
This major research project is an effort to save the endangered Nôm archive at the Institute of Social Science Information (ISSI) in Hanoi, Vietnam. Nôm is the ideographic national script used in Vietnam for over 1,000 years since the country's independence from China in 939. The archive, left behind in 1954 by the École Française d'Extrême Orient, includes many documents that have deteriorated beyond repair. The project will complete a thorough inventory of the archive in international standard protocol, will post the inventory online for further classification by librarians, will digitise volumes in the most vulnerable section of the archive and post these online, and will move the most vulnerable (approximately 1200) documents to a secure, isolated, climate-controlled room in the new ISSI building.
The most vulnerable section of the ISSI Nôm archive comprises fragile village and district administrative documents including village and district records of families, land ownership, real estate and property exchanges, contacts with the royal courts, decrees by various emperors for people in the villages, maps, names of inhabitants, and so on. Since Nôm was the national script used in Vietnam for over 1,000 years, the archives have an inestimable historical value providing, together with Han-Viet records, the main written record of the history and culture of Vietnam for 10 centuries. The documents were collected and stored by the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient but, because of the history of wars and poverty over the last 125 years, the collection has never had a proper inventory and the documents themselves are being housed in areas without proper climate control or security.
The archive materials were all handwritten, sealed in colored ink (usually red), including decrees by emperors related to the villages, on dó (mulberry paper), stab bound, in different sizes. Dó paper is acid free but the documents have been rebound with whatever pieces of scrap papers were available. The covers are mostly not acid free, and many are in bad condition. Because of the poor condition of the books, scanning and Xeroxing are not an option. It is proposed instead to use the less invasive technique of high resolution digital color photography.
The materials are currently housed in a small three-storey building, occupying the second and third floors, without air conditioning, packed in tight rows of bookcases and boxes. Windows are sometimes left open for air circulation. Since Hanoi is very humid in the wet season and very dusty in the dry season, the books are subjected to damaging atmospheric conditions year round. Many of the books are without covers. Many of the documents are simply in piles on the floor. There are wormholes in many of the manuscripts.
Since 1919 there has been no systematic training of Nôm scholars and those who can read and understand Nôm today are almost extinct, following the general acceptance in Vietnam in the 1920's of the Latinised script called ch? qu?c ng?. Those Nôm scholars who do exist are not authorized to teach in colleges and universities because many of them lack university graduate degrees. Also, as a result of the wars and the requirements of modern education, there are precious few Vietnamese teaching materials for Nôm.
This project is a cooperative effort between the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society at Temple University and the ISSI in Hanoi, a research unit of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Science (VASS). The Temple Center and the ISSI have been collaborating for several years. It is hoped that this project, combining inventory and digitization, and bringing a set of documents onto a web platform, will serve as a working model for future Nôm archival work, facilitating further efforts to copy and preserve this endangered material.
EAP219/1 Sách Hán Nôm nằm ngoài đăng ký. ISSI EFEO HN unclassified inventory collection. [c 1624-c 1954]
Dr. Philip Alperson, Dr. Ngo Than Nhàn
Institute of Social Science Information (ISSI), Hanoi
21.022557, 105.853447
Locating, documenting and digitising: Preserving the endangered manuscripts of the Legacy of the Sultanate of Buton, South-Eastern Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
This project will conduct an inventory survey of around 830 Butonese manuscripts from eight private collections held in Bau-Bau, Maligano, and Kendari, and will search for other families owning manuscripts in the insular region of the former Butonese Sultanate, which is now included in the…
Preservation and Digitisation of Endangered Sundanese Manuscripts of Paseban Tri Panca Tunggal Collections, Kuningan Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia
The manuscripts that will be digitised are kept as part of the family properties of “Paseban Tri Panca Tunggal” which are inherited from Pangeran Madrais Sadewa Alibassa Kusumah Wijaya Ningrat (1832-1939). In the Dutch colonisation era, he was known as the leading figure who revitalised the…
Buddhist archive of photography in Luang Prabang, Laos - major project phase I
An EAP pilot project (EAP086) investigated the extent and conditions of an archive of Theravada Buddhist photographs now mainly preserved in one monastery of Luang Prabang/Laos, and started scanning and digitizing the material. The material found is of high scientific and documentary significance,…
A Digital Library of the Lanten Textual Heritage - Phase II
This Phase-II-project aims at continuing the preservation by means of digital processing of manuscripts of the Lanten in North Laos initiated by the EAP791 project. This project identified a larger number of manuscripts than the ones initially listed to be preserved; it also discovered seriously…
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Novi Sad is Serbia’s second largest city. The city is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina and lies on the banks of the Danube. Seen from a vantage-point in the Fruška Gora hills, Novi Sad gently and easily spreads across the Pannonian Plain, opening its doors wide to every guest. This is a Pannonian city rich in tradition and culture, where everything flourishes and everything is preserved, most of all the relaxed nature of the people. Novi Sad also has many great buildings reflecting a variety of architectural styles. Some of the most important Serbian cultural and academic institutions were located in Novi Sad and still are today: Matica Srpska, the Serbian National Theatre, Sterijino Pozorje, Novi Sad University and many others. In addition, Novi Sad can boast of being a multinational and multicultural to an extent that few others in Europe can. In this city, differences and diversity are considered advantages. Testament to this are the Újvidéki Színház (the multilingual Novi Sad Theatre), as well as departments of Novi Sad University both holding lectures in the languages of ethnic minorities and courses devoted to their study.
Novi Sad is also a city of science and art. Novi Sad University has nineteen faculties with departments specialising in many areas of science and arts. Besides the great number of young people from Novi Sad who study in their own city, the university also draws a great number of students from all over Serbia, as well as from abroad. The city also has many great museums and galleries, where there is an ever-changing variety of displays and exhibitions. Almost every week a new exhibition opens or a new collection is put on display in one of the museums. No list would be complete without mentioning the Museum of Vojvodina, the Novi Sad City Museum, the Vojvodina Museum of Contemporary Art, the Matica Srpska Gallery, the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection and the Rajko Mamuzić Gift Collection. All of these institutions guard a wealth of cultural heritage and attract a great number of both foreign visitors and locals.
Another trait of Novi Sad and its people is that they love to have a good time and party, and there are few months in the year when there is not some major event going on. Surely one of the best-known and attended is the EXIT Festival, held every July at the Petrovaradin Fortress. All of these events are popular among many visitors of the city which creates the spirit and relaxed atmosphere of Novi Sad.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that Novi Sad has a population of 400,000 and that it is one of the most promising cities in Serbia, if not the most promising, in terms of future economic development.
The three century-long tradition of this city is a matter of pride for its people, and its roots are visible wherever you go. This is one of those rare places where it is possible to live a lifestyle that is both peaceful and dynamic, a city made to suit its inhabitants. In this time of haste and modern communications, Novi Sad and its people continue to preserve their relaxed pace, the peacefulness and friendliness typical for the people living in the Pannonian Plain.
How to get to Novi Sad?
By plane: The nearest airport is Nikola Tesla International Airport near Belgrade, located some 70 kilometres to the south of Novi Sad. There are no direct bus lines, but you can get a taxi to Belgrade bus or train stations, or you can get on A1 mini bus which takes you directly to the stations. The price of the bus is 300 Dinars (about 2.5 Euros).
By bus: There are buses from Belgrade to Novi Sad almost on every 15 minutes. If you catch a direct bus (going on the highway), it takes you about 80 minutes to get to Novi Sad. The price of the bus is about 800 Dinars (7 Euros) Additionally, there are international buses that go to Novi Sad from central Europe.
By train: The railway system in Serbia is not the most reliable one. There are thirteen departures from Belgrade to Novi Sad per day. The train station in Belgrade is right next to the bus station. Additionally, there are international trains from Budapest to Novi Sad.
Taxis are quite cheap and a very popular form of transport in Novi Sad. It is best to make a phone call or hail one of the taxis that are situated on the plateau to the left of the main entrance of the Railway Station. It is a good idea to avoid taxis outside the plateau because they charge unrealistically high prices.
In most cases you will have to pay in cash, although some companies (Nacionalni taxi) take credit cards as well..
Bus service in Novi Sad
Bus/Train station – Center – University – 4, 11
Center – University – 4, 8
Center – Petrovaradin Fortress – 3, 9
Tickets can be bought on the bus from the bus driver (55 RSD).
In case you need further information, feel free to contact the Organizer.
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Dr. Zhijiang Dong, Program Director
Zhijiang.Dong@mtsu.edu
The Department of Computer Science offers the Master of Science with a major in Computer Science and a minor at the graduate level. The department also offers courses and participates in the Ph.D. in Computational Science. In addition, the department offers the Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Program allowing exceptional undergraduate students an opportunity to complete the requirements for both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees within five years by enrolling in the program during their junior year. Students interested in this program should contact the graduate program director for additional information.
Admission to the Master of Science in Computer Science program requires a satisfactory Graduate Record Examination score. Applicants with a 3.3 or higher undergraduate GPA for all computer science courses taken at MTSU (which must include at least 15 upper-division CSCI hours), are not required to submit a GRE score for admission to the graduate program.
Applicant must also meet the following requirements:
have completed CSCI 1170, 2170, 3080, 3110, 3130, and 3240 or equivalent of each course;
have completed MATH 1910 and 2050 or equivalent of each course.
submit an application with the appropriate application fee (online at www.mtsu.edu/graduate/apply.php);
submit official scores from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE);
submit official transcripts showing an acceptable GPA in previous academic work.
The Master of Science in Computer Science offers two options: the Thesis Option and the Non-Thesis Option. Students pursuing either option must meet the following requirements:
CSCI 5700
if he or she did not complete CSCI 4700 or an equivalent course as an undergraduate;
as part of their required 30 hours (Thesis option) or 36 hours (Non-Thesis option).
Curriculum: Computer Science
Candidate must complete 30 (thesis option) or 36 (non-thesis option) hours in the following curriculum:
Thesis Option (30 hours)
The Master of Science in Computer Science requires a completion of 30 hours of graduate coursework in the thesis option. Up to 3 hours in CSCI 6640 may be included in the 30 hours. Students must present an oral defense of the thesis. A minimum of 21 hours must be at the 6000 level.
Non-thesis Option (36 hours)
The Master of Science in Computer Science requires completion of 36 hours of graduate coursework in the non-thesis option. Candidates must successfully complete a comprehensive examination. Credit for CSCI 6640 may not be included in the 36 hours. A minimum of 24 hours must be at the 6000 level.
A student already holding a master’s degree from MTSU may complete a second master’s degree in Computer Science by satisfying either of the above options with a minimum of 27 semester hours. A minimum of 18 hours must be at the 6000 level.
With the approval of the Computer Science graduate faculty, a maximum of 12 semester hours of residence credit (maximum of 6 in Computer Science) may be transferred from another institution and applied to the master’s degree.
Candidate must
complete at least 24 semester hours of graduate computer science courses at MTSU;
file a degree plan with the College of Graduate Studies prior to entry into the program;
take all courses in the Computer Science Department with the following possible exceptions:
with the prior approval of the Computer Science graduate faculty, a maximum of 6 hours of cognate courses may come from departments other than Computer Science;
with the approval of the candidate’s graduate advisor, a single minor up to 12 semester hours may be included. Such a minor must also be approved by the department offering the minor.
file a Notice of Intent to Graduate form in the College of Graduate Studies within the first two weeks of the term in which candidate intends to graduate.
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Wacky Table Tennis
1st Hour Colin Brady, Mauricio Perez, David Matusz
Ping Pong Paddles
Ping Pong Ball
High Speed Camera
Black Marker
First, you have to get all the materials. Then, you have to put black marks evenly on a ping pong ball in order to see the rotation of the ball. Secondly, you must set up a high speed camera and capture the ball after it is struck. Once you have done this continue to capture the hits until you get the one you want. While doing this, duct tape the wii remote to your arm, so you can use it as an acceleramtor.
We will be testing a flat serve, a topspin serve, and a topspin forehand with the ping pong paddle and ball, testing the acceleration and speed of the wrist, hand motion. We will also calculate the speed of the ping-pong ball and it's spin, pending the camera can measure spin.
Why is Spin Important in Table Tennis?
It is probably easiest to understand how important spin is by first imagining what table tennis would be like if there was no such thing as spin. If you could not spin the ball in table tennis, what would be different?
How Hard You Can Hit
First of all, you would be limited in how hard you could hit the ball. A table tennis table is 9 feet or 2.74 meters long. A top player can hit a ball off the bat at around 175km/hour (although it will slow down a little due to air resistance).
Without boring you with all the physics, this means that the ball will drop due to gravity about one and a half to two centimeters during the time it takes to cross the table. So if the ball is hit at the same height as the top of the net, it will be physically impossible to hit the ball at this speed and still land the ball on the opponent's court - the ball will simply not drop fast enough. It gets worse as the ball gets lower, since the ball must now be hit upwards to get over the net, and then there is only gravity to pull it back down onto the table. (By the way, you could hit the ball as hard as you can virtually straight up in the air, hoping that it will come down on the other side of the table. But practically it's a pretty silly thing to do, and very hard as well - try it sometime!)
The ball could only be hit at full speed and power if the ball was high enough to draw a virtually straight line between the ball and a point on the opponent's side of the table, without the net getting in the way. This is roughly 30cm above the table if the ball is hit at the endline.
Spin is what allows players to hit a table tennis ball hard when the ball is low or below the net, but still land it on the table. By putting heavy topspin on the ball, a player is able to make the ball drop towards the table faster, so that he can hit the ball fast in an upwards direction, but have his heavy topspin pull the ball down onto the other side of the table.
Spin is why the real sport of table tennis is played so much faster and harder than the basement version - the more you can spin the ball, the harder you can hit it and still hit the table!
Variety of Strokes
Secondly, without spin you would lose the ability to curve the ball through the air, and bounce in the direction of the spin when it hits the table. Every stroke would go in a straight line in the direction that the ball is hit - much like a badminton shuttlecock.
Putting topspin on the ball causes the ball to drop faster and kick more forward when it bounces, while backspin makes the ball tend to lift against the force of gravity and slows down the forward bounce. Left sidespin and right sidespin cause the ball to curve to the left and right, and bounce towards these directions when hitting the table. Any combination of two of these spins can be used to achieve strokes that are harder for the opponent to return than a ball with no spin. If the opponent doesn't adjust for the effect of the spin on the flight of the ball and the way it bounces, he's unlikely to even hit the ball!
Spin is the reason why the modern game has much more variety of strokes than the basement version - with spin you have many more choices about what to do with the ball - hit it hard hard or soft, with topspin or backspin, or curve it left or right with sidespin.
Thirdly, without spin you would lose the ability to deceive the opponent about what spin is on the ball. Every ball would have exactly the same amount of spin - none.
In the modern game, it's possible to deceive the opponent with spin in a couple of ways. Firstly, clever players can trick the opponent about what type of spin is on the ball. This is quite difficult to do during a rally, but more achievable when serving. Secondly, it's possible to make an opponent guess wrong about the amount of spin on the ball, for example making him think the ball has light backspin, when in actual fact the ball has heavy backspin. The opponent would be likely to put the ball in the net.
Spin is the reason why the modern game is much more difficult to play, but also much more rewarding. The ability to vary the spin and deceive your opponent is crucial to success in advanced table tennis.
With topspin, the ball is rotating forward so that the top of the ball is moving in the same direction that the ball is travelling. The force exerted on the ball by its spin will be generally downwards (assuming the ball has been hit almost horizontally). This downward force works in the same direction as gravity, causing the ball to dip faster towards the table. It is the effect of topspin that allows advanced players to hit the ball with amazing power from below the net, but still land the ball on the other side of the table.
With backspin, the bottom of the ball is moving in the same direction that the ball is travelling. The force exerted on the ball by its spin will be generally upwards (again, assuming the ball has been hit almost horizontally). This upward force works in the opposite direction to gravity, causing the ball to drop more slowly. Since a table tennis ball is light and easily slowed by air, a heavy backspin stroke performed from several feet from the table will often slow down it's forward speed quite noticeably over the opponent's side of the table, then slowly fall onto the playing surface. This 'stop and drop' effect is used by defenders when playing against topspin attacks.
When sidespin is applied, the force on the ball will be parallel to the ground and towards the left or right side. The ball will drop at the same speed as a no-spin ball, but it will curve to the left or the right in the air. Sidespin can be combined with either topspin or backspin to produce a moving ball that is acted on by a combination of both forces. A ball with topspin and sidespin will drop faster and curve to the left or right, while a ball with backspin and sidespin will tend to drop slowly and curve at the same time.
Spin is applied to the ball by brushing or skimming the ball instead of making square contact. Think of a line going straight out from the bat in the direction the rubber surface is travelling. If the line goes through the center of the ball when the ball is struck, maximum speed will be given and no spin will be applied. The closer the line is to the edge of the ball, the more spin will be put on the ball, and the less speed. In practice, the line is always somewhere in between these two extremes, giving more spin and less speed the closer the line is to the edge of the ball. The diagram above illustrates the first case, where the ball is struck squarely by the rubber surface, with the direction of motion of the bat going straight through the center of the ball. No spin will be applied by this stroke, but a lot of speed will be given.
The diagram above illustrates the second extreme, where the direction of motion of the rubber surface is almost at the edge of the ball. This stroke will produce a heavy spin on the ball, but not much speed.
The diagram above shows what will happen when the direction the rubber surface is travelling is in between the center and the edge of the ball. The closer the line to the edge of the ball, more spin will be given and less speed , and the closer the line to the center of the ball, more speed will be given and less spin. This means that for the same amount of bat speed, you can generate completely different amounts of spin and speed, just by varying the way you contact the ball.
By adjusting the direction the rubber surface travels vertically or horizontally, you can also change the horizontal speed of the ball. The diagram above shows two strokes that would produce the same speed and spin on the ball. They will not appear to be the same to the opponent though.
Stroke A is a more upward stroke, and will give a return that has more upward speed and less forward speed. The opponent will see this as a slower, high topspin.
Stroke B is a more forward stroke, and will give a return that has more forward speed and less upward speed. The opponent will see this as a faster, low topspin.
Remember that both balls are equally spinny. So this means that a ball that is coming at you faster and lower is not necessarily less spinny than a ball that is coming slower and higher.
We are going to take a ping-pong ball and do a top spin serve and a flat spin serve and observe the diffierence in roation of the ball. Then we are going to hit a moving ball with a top spin forehand, and a flat forehand. We will be using the accelerrometer to observe how fast you hand moves when hitting the ball to create spin. We will compare the speed when you hit it flat, and when you hit it with spin, comparing how much spin you can put on it while still keeping it at a fast speed.
What We Found
Flat Spin Serve
This is a video of a flat spin serve.
In this tracker and graph, you can see how the ping pong ball moves when hitting a flat serve. As you can see once the ball is struck it travels in the x direction consistetntly. The graph looks almost like a prefect diagnol line. In the second graph of the flat serve it shows how the velocity of the ball stays somewhat constant through the 6.5 seconds. In the flat spin serve, the ball does not spin a whole lot.
In this graph and video, it shows an example of a flat serve. From the graphs, the ball moves downward in the y direction, but the velocity changes due to the little amount of spin on the ball. The video shows the ball spinning slightly and allows you to see the direction it is going.
This video and graph shows the ball while being hit with a flat serve again. As you can see the ball moves very consistently in the x and y directions. The ball moves downward over time in both the x and y directions. In the video you can see how the ball spins.
This graph shows the velocity of the ball in the y direction.
This graph shows the acceleration of the ball in the y direction.
This graph shows the velocity of the ball in the x direction.
This graph shows the acceleration of the ball in the x direction.
This graph shows the acceleration of Dave's wrist as he hits a top spin forehand. As you can see his wrist accelerates in the x and y direction very little while hitting the ball. As he strikes the ball AccZ is what accelerates the most. This is due to a diagnol motion while hitting the ball. In order to hit a topspin forehand, you must skim the top of the ball in order to create the spin. The acceleration in the diagnol direction is at first negative. This is because he moves his wrist back and downward in order to get enough power to hit the ball back over the net, and create topspin.
Finding Force
As we all know F=MA.
So we took the acceleration of the ball in the x and y direction and multiplied it by the mass of the ping pong ball.
We got an answer of F= .0027 times 22.75
Which gives us the force of the ball in the x direction.
It equals .061425 N
the ball in the y direction F= .027 times 24.78
which gives us the force of the ball in the y direction which equals .0066906 N
the ping pong ball is .0027Kg
In the y direction it equals 24.78
in the x direction it equals 22.75
The velocity of the ball is distance over time
the y direction velocity equals 2.533
the x direction velocity equals 3.922
The momentum equation is
p=mv
so fro y it is 2.533 times .0027
for x it s .0027 times 3.922
so the momentum of the ball in the y direction is .0068391
and the momentum of the ball in the x direction is .0105894
Topspin Serve
This video will show the ball being hit with a topspin serve.
This graph shows the velocity of the ball in the x and y direction.
This graph shows the velocity of the ball in the x direction and the acceleration of the ball in the x direction.
This graph and tracker show the velocity and the acceleration of the ball in the y direction.
This graph shows the ball's acceleration in the x direction.
This graph shows the ball's acceleration in the y direction.
This graph above shows the acceleration of Dave's wrist as he hits a topspin serve.His wrist accelerates in a sort of crazy motion because he unfortunately was moving around alot and wasn't still. That and the fact that Mauricio prematurely launched the wiimote and then turned it off late there is a little too much data in it. But as is evident he initially wound up and then hit the ping pong ball... the data collected afterwards is from his motion after before Mauricio turned off the program.
We got an answer of F= .0027 times 1.72
the ball in the y direction F= .0027 times 2.433
In the y direction it equals 2.433
in the x direction it equals 1.724
the y direction velocity equals .3314
the x direction velocity equals .4027
for the y it is 2.433 times .0027
for x it is 1.724 times .0027
The momentum of the ball in the y direction =8.9478 E -4
the momentum of the ball in the x direction =.00108729
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This video shows the ball being hit by a topspin serve.
This shows the ball's velocity in the x and y direction.
This tracker and graph shows the ball's acceleration and velocity in the x direction.
This tracker and graph shows the velocity and acceleration of the ball in the x and y direction.
The graph shows the velocity of the ball in the x direction.
The graph shows the ball's velocity in the y direction
this is annother graph of a topspin serve and shows the ball's acceleration in the x direction
This is another graph of the balls acceleration in the y direction.
This graph is from another topspin serve. It shows Dave's wrist as he hits it. It looks strange because Dave could not stand still, but it is evident where he hit it. You can see the x go up and then a green and red spike down, showing him hitting the ball.
Force of the ball in the y direction =.0027 times 1.16
which equals .003132 N
force of the ball in the x direction = .0027 times 1.179
which equals .0046413 N
in the y direction it equals 1.16
The ball weighs .0027Kg
The velocity in the y direction =1.792
the velocity in the x direction =6.195
for y it was .0027 times 1.792
for x it was .0027 times 6.195
The momentum of the ball in the y direction = .0048384
the momentum of the ball in the x direction =.0167265
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This video shows us hitting a topspin return.
The graphs show that once the ball was hit, it traveled upwards in the y and x directions. It shows the velocity of the ball in both directions.
This graph shows the ball's velocity and acceleration in the x direction.
This tracker and graph show the balls velocity and acceleration of the ball in the y direction.
This graph shows the ball's velocity in the x direction.
This graph shows the velocity of the ball in the y direction. As you can see its a pretty straight line. The velocity is indicated by using d divided by t.
This Graph shows you the acceleration of the ball in the x direction. Looking at the equation we find the acceleration to be a.
This graph shows the acceleration of the ball in the y direction. Which would be upward. By using the equation we find that a is the accelereation.
This graph shows the acceleration of Dave's wrist as he hits a topspin return. As you can see his wrist accelerates in the z and y directions. But the x direction is different because he pulls his arm back to hit the ball. While he pushes his arm upward in a diagnol motion to get spin on the ball.
The mass of the ping pong ball is .0027Kg
Acceleration = 2.154 in the y direction
and 6.719 in the x direction
F=MA
F in the y direction equals .0027 times 2.154
F in the y direction for the topspin return = .0058158
for force in the x direction we take .0027 times 6.719
so the force in the x direction equals .0181413
In the y direction v = 1.138
In the x direction v = 2.336
for y its .0027 times 1.138
for x it is.0027 times 2.336
and in the x direction = .0063072
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A Synthesis
Charles E. Curran
The Catholic tradition has always tried to explain its theology in a coherent and systematic way, but the great changes and tensions existing within Catholic moral theology today have made it difficult to develop systematic approaches to what was once called fundamental moral theology. Now a leading scholar active in this field for forty years offers a synthesis of Catholic moral theology set in the context of the broader Catholic tradition and the significant developments that have occurred since the Second Vatican Council.
Charles E. Curran's succinct, coherent account of his wide-ranging work in Catholic moral theology points out agreements, disagreements, and changes in significant aspects of the Catholic moral tradition. His systematic approach explores major topics in a logical development: the ecclesiological foundation and stance of moral theology; the person as moral subject and agent; virtues, principles and norms; conscience and decision making; and the role of the church as a teacher of morality.
Curran's work condenses and organizes a large amount of material to show that the Catholic theological tradition is in dialogue with contemporary life and thought while remaining conscious of its rich history. Of great interest to theologians for its broad synthetic scope, this book is also a thorough introduction to the Catholic moral tradition for students and interested readers, including non-Catholics.
Charles E. Curran is the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values at Southern Methodist University. He has served as president of three national societies: the American Theological Society, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Society of Christian Ethics. Curran has written or edited more than forty books, including The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States (Georgetown University Press, 1997).
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"Students who want to understand the Catholic moral tradition will find this book to be a rich resource. Curran knows the tradition in all its nuances and intricacies."—Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"This book reflects the deep sanity which is characteristic of the Catholic moral tradition at its best . . . the primary strength of [Curran's] analysis lies in its attention to the theological and ecclesial contexts for Catholic moral reflection. Those of us in the field of moral theology have not always been sufficiently attentive to the theological character of our work, and Curran offers a most welcome corrective to this tendency . . . it is not a manual for confessors, but a discursive treatise on the moral life which will be accessible to lay Catholics as well as clerics and specialists in moral theology. May Curran go on to write many more such books, and may he inspire others to follow his example."—The Tablet
"The breadth of Curran's comprehensive synthesis is striking."—New York Times Book Review
"An overview of the Catholic moral tradition and its contemporary re-evaluation and application that will prove quite useful as a basic text in foundational ethics . . . this is a solid basic text . . . it will provide the student with a firm grounding in the Catholic moral tradition in a clearly written and engaging style."—Catholic Library World
"Significant and worthwhile both because of what it accomplishes — a coherent and insightful scholarly 'tour' and synthesis of the complex landscape of contemporary Catholic moral theology — and because of who has written it — the text reflects a career's worth of astute scholarly and pastoral study and reflection on the matters it treats."—Christine Firer Hinze, associate professor of theology, Marquette University
"A superb piece of scholarship and synthesis of contemporary Catholic morality. I foresee this book being used widely as a textbook or required reading in schools of theology."—Richard M. Gula, SS, Franciscan School of Theology
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Bermuda Tourism Minister Resigns; Hits Out At Premier
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, Mar 17, (CMC) – Shawn Crockwell has launched a stinging attack on Premier Michael Dunkley, after resigning as Bermuda’s Tourism and Transport Minister.
Crockwell quit, late Wednesday, saying, he had lost confidence in the ruling One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) under Dunkley’s leadership.
He said, their lack of understanding of the Black community had resulted in the tense demonstrations and industrial activity of the past week, over the proposed Pathways to Status initiative.
Demonstrators want the immigration bill withdrawn and the protest went into a fifth day today.
Crockwell, a lawyer, who said he would stay on as a backbencher, further accused Dunkley of failing to rise above political posturing.
Dunkley said, he had accepted Crockwell’s resignation “with regret”.
The Premier added: “I am disappointed with this development, as Shawn was an effective minister who progressed the government’s agenda to restore workplace jobs and opportunity for Bermudians across the island.”
Other OBA MPs, meanwhile, pledged their support for Dunkley.
A statement from party Chairwoman, Lynne Woolridge, said: “At a meeting of One Bermuda Alliance parliamentarians yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, Minister Shawn Crockwell announced his resignation from the cabinet. I would like to thank him for his excellent work in Tourism and Transport, and value his continued participation as a Member of Parliament for the One Bermuda Alliance. It was heartening that all MPs pledged their full support for the Premier as the leader of Bermuda and the One Bermuda Alliance.”
But the Southampton West Central MP added, that he would stay with the OBA because he feared for the stability of the country if the ruling party loses numbers.
The OBA ousted the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) in the general election of 2012 but only narrowly, winning by 19 seats to 17.
“This issue is reflective of the inability of the government to listen and to appropriately gauge the temperature of the community, to understand the frustration and lack of trust that has been created.
“Time and time again, it’s not just the decisions that have been made, but the manner in which they have been made, and the inability to communicate appropriately with the Black community in particular, to bring them along and get them to understand what we have to do,” said Crockwell.
He noted, that his colleagues had also shown an “inability to put aside the political pride, listen and make the required adjustments”.
“Our community has challenges when it comes to race and political trust. With the slim majority that the OBA has, we have not done a good job in navigating some of the difficult issues. So, as a member of cabinet, if I feel that the leadership is not doing what it should be doing, if I lose confidence in its direction and methodology, then it is my responsibility to step aside.
“I have tried to lend my voice on certain issues in the room. More often than not my voice has been heard but it has not been adhered to.
“That is fine, but I felt that I could no longer serve under Premier Dunkley and the direction in which he is taking this country. I do not want to see this government or Bermuda destabilised, but this impasse that we are seeing right now, could and should have been avoided. The Premier and others couldn’t even see it coming, despite the fact that many of us did.
“When it came, it could have been resolved quickly, but it wasn’t. So we are now on the brink of civil unrest because of the management style of this government. And this is just one issue. There are many other issues that could and should have been avoided. And so for that I felt compelled to resign,” Crockwell said.
Crockwell has enjoyed a colourful political career since being elected an MP in 2007.
He defected from the now-defunct United Bermuda Party (UBP) — which ran the country from 1968 until 1998 — in 2009 to help form the shortly-lived Bermuda Democratic Alliance (BDA). The BDA merged with the remnants of the UBP to form the OBA in 2011, and was part of the OBA team that won the last election.
Crockwell was appointed to the portfolio he held until Wednesday, in the first OBA administration, but his time as a minister was not without controversy.
He, along with Mark Pettingill, the former Attorney-General and a fellow UBP defector to the BDA, became embroiled in a row surrounding the so-called Jetgate controversy that cost Craig Cannonier his job as the fledgling OBA’s first Premier in May 2014.
Crockwell and Pettingill were part of a government delegation that travelled to Washington, DC with Cannonier in March 2013, on a private jet owned by American developer, Nathan Landow.
It later emerged that Landow and a group of US business associates, in the run-up to the party’s 2012 election victory, had donated US$350,000 to an account set up by the Bermuda Political Action Club, an OBA-linked grassroots organisation.
Crockwell and Pettingill denied any wrongdoing, but Pettingill resigned his cabinet post shortly after Cannonier stepped down from the top post.
The money was aimed at mobilising voters in a grassroots campaign, although the party executive, including party Chairman, Thad Hollis, was unaware of the fund’s existence until 18 months later.
Hollis resigned his position after conducting an investigation into Jetgate.
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An Oscar Next? Argentina Won A Golden Globe And World Cup In Same Year— And Its Not The First Time
Jan 16, 2023Entertainment, Latin America, Latino, South AmericaComments Off on An Oscar Next? Argentina Won A Golden Globe And World Cup In Same Year— And Its Not The First Time
By Joseph Hammond
Argentina could win a rare triple crown in a single year. With the FIFA World Cup and Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language film already in the bag the Latin American is now waits to see if it is nominated for an Oscar as well when nominations for the 95th Oscars are annouced on January, 24th.
Argentina’s sports stars and filmmakers have already won incredible international honors in a short period. This month the dramatic film “Argentina, 1985” seized a coveted prize from the Foreign Press Association in Hollywood. The category was formerly known as Foreign Language film and has undergone other name changes through the history of the Golden Globes.
The victory may also put the film on a path to an Oscar, though the two awards have different pools of voters. While the former is journalists, the Oscars is made up of voters who are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—almost 10,000 voters. Less than 200 people voted on the Golden Globes this year.
“I want to dedicate this award to the great actor Ricardo Darín and to all those who fought for democracy in Argentina,” said director Santiago Miter in his Golden Globes acceptance speech.
“Argentina, 1985” centers on the Herculean efforts of Argentinean prosecutors, led by Darin, to convict the country’s military junta for human-rights abuses during a violent period of military rule from 1976 to 1983.
Peter Lanzani (left) and Ricardo Darín (right) star as prosecutors in “Argentina, 1985,” trying to bring military leaders responsible for crimes against humanity to justice. The film won a Golden Globe Award this year. AMAZON STUDIOS
“For the people of Argentina, after winning the World Cup, this is a great joy,” said Darin, a veteran actor in his native land.
Even more incredible, Argentina has pulled off this feat before.
At the 1986 Golden Globe Awards, the Argentina film “The Official Story (La historia oficial)” won a similar honor. That film later won the Oscar For Best Foreign Picture giving Argentina a trifecta of international accolades. “The Official Story” examines the human consequences of Argentina’s brutal dictatorship. Argentina also won the World Cup that year.
In fact, though unrelated entities — soccer and cinema — the two are often celebrated in the same year for some countries.
Director Santiago Mitre poses with the award for Best Picture-Non-English Language for “Argentina, 1985” at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 10, 2023. The filmmakers now wait to learn if the film will recieve an Oscar nominations when those nominations are announced later this month. MATT WINKELMEYER/FILM MAGIC/GETTY
One other country — Germany — has matched Argentina by twice-winning a World Cup and a Golden Globe in the same 365-day period.
The 1954, the Golden Globes recognized four international films, including Germany’s “No Way Back” (“Weg Ohne Umkehr”), a West German thriller. That same year, West Germany won its first World Cup. Germany’s “The Passenger,” about a couple charmed by a suspicious stranger, won the best foreign film award at the 1974 Golden Globes. Then Germany cruised to a second World Cup later that year.
Germany won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for “Nowhere in Africa” in 2003 about a German-Jewish family escaping the Nazis to East Africa. The film was nominated for but, did not win a Golden Globe. That year Germany won the FIFA Women’s World Cup held in the United States with a 2-1 victory over Sweden. The year prior Germany lost the 2002 FIFA Men’s World Cup final to Brazil 2-0.
Brazil has been similarly heartbroken: the film “Central Station” won two Oscars at the 1998 awards, but its men’s soccer team fell 3-0 to France in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Argentina sits at 11th in the total number of film nominations from the Motion Picture Academy. It is one of only 62 countries to receive a nomination of the 133 countries that have submitted entries.
Argentina’s first Golden Globe in the 1980s also came at a time of political turbulence in Latin American history. “No Way Back” focused on an upper-class couple who discover their adopted daughter may be the child of one of the disappeared, those murdered by the ruling military dictatorship.
The regional turmoil portrayed in such films has echoes today. The recent attempted coup in Brazil by supporters of former President Bolsinaro shows that democracy’s foundations remain shaky in some South American nations.
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First Peoples Festival blooms again in downtown Montreal
BY Joshua Janke Aug 30, 2022
Streams of culture from across the Americas united at Montreal’s First Peoples Festival August 9-18 to embrace defiance, joy and hope in a celebration of Indigenous art and sovereignty.
“We are living in a historical moment,” commented founder André Dudemaine during a rousing speech at the opening ceremony. “All of us being here tonight is tangible proof of solidarity and of progress. We are stronger when we are holding each other up.”
The event was filled with storytelling, laughter and idea sharing as people from all walks of life enjoyed a traditional menu of bear meat pastry rolls, deer meatballs, fried blueberry bannock and Labrador tea.
Mistissini’s Bedabin Coon, who volunteered to help serve food that evening, said community involvement is vital to the success of these cultural events.
“I saw what happened with the Pride Festival [parade] getting cancelled and I thought, ‘I can’t let that happen here, I can’t let them down’. I decided to volunteer…I wanted to make sure nothing goes wrong.”
Working with Coon was Véronique, an Anishinaabe woman from Rigaud, who said that volunteering for the opening ceremony was a way to express her pride in traditional Indigenous foods and culture.
“We enjoyed preparing all this food together and now everyone’s happy,” she said, noting that no spices were added to the bear meat because “the flavour speaks for itself.”
The evening flowed with conversation as organizers, filmmakers, artists and invitees populated the room with ever-changing circles of conversation and laughter.
In one circle, Mi’gmaq singer-songwriter Mack MacKenzie noted how the pandemic – and the social isolation it created – added importance to this year’s festival.
“The pandemic knocked a lot of us [artists] off track, so it feels good to finally be back,” said MacKenzie.
Best known as the frontman of alt-country band Three O’Clock Train, MacKenzie stated that his past two years in Montreal marked the longest time he has stayed in one place.
“My whole life, I have been on the move. Even as a child – I went to 11 different schools, across the Americas. Montreal is a place where I keep coming back to, it is a bit of a resting place for me.”
In the fast-paced industry of art and music, times of rest are as important as action, just as sold-out performances are made possible by the friendships and conversations that happen long before the curtains open. MacKenzie described how reuniting with a family member led him to a traditional Indigenous musical instrument he needed for his show.
“It’s a funny story, but a good lesson,” said MacKenzie. “I was searching for a deer-hoof rattle manufacturer for the longest time but had no luck finding one. Finally, I reconnected with my cousin, Don Patrick Martin, and told him of my need… only to find out that he made the instrument I was searching for!”
MacKenzie said it showed him that “everything we need is around us, we just need to connect more.”
Accompanying MacKenzie was his long-time friend and “unpaid” manager, Marc De Mouy, who he teamed up with in early 1980s.
“Mack has been around a long time, he is a battler and an even better guy,” said De Mouy. “Being his managing partner and providing economic and social support is my way of helping a good friend’s mission in a meaningful way.”
De Mouy said that it’s these “connections, conversations and compassions that lead to the biggest changes.”
The festival is built on such collaboration, both among nations and communities and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals. Like the architectural company EVOQ that has given four years of pro bono assistance to Dudemaine’s team at the Place des Festivals location. EVOQ’s Alain Fournier, who has worked alongside First Nation and Inuit communities in building projects for over 40 years, says that his Indigenous work partners showed him that it is a “revolutionary” time for Indigenous sovereignty in Canada.
“It’s evident that this new generation of Indigenous artists and activists simply won’t stand down, they won’t take no for an answer,” he declared. “It’s an exciting time and I am grateful to help out.”
This festival is about more than good memories and musical vibrations, participants agreed. It is about being assertive in expressing Indigenous resilience and resistance. And it’s fertile soil for planting Indigenous history, stories and hope in a land of solidarity.
“When we connect with our roots, we do not do it to look back at the past with nostalgia, we connect to build ourselves stronger, to grow up, and to look towards the future and ring the bell,” asserted Dudemaine. “This festival is a story about a friendship…something that started out small and then grew a lot.”
Joshua Janke lives in Montreal and is studying English Literature at Mcgill University. He is passionate about writing, social justice, and creating art.
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Indigenous groups call out Quebec’s objections to federal youth act
BY Ben Powless Oct 9, 2021
The Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL) is questioning Quebec’s decision to challenge Ottawa to prevent a new federal framework for Indigenous youth and children from coming into place.
The legislation, Bill C-92, titled An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, was passed in 2019 after decades of criticism on how the federal government treated Indigenous children and youth in care, as a response to a number of recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The changes were set to come into effect January 1, 2020. They return the right of jurisdiction over child and family services to Indigenous communities, while establishing national principles that the government claimed were meant to bring the act in line with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
However, Quebec has challenged the constitutional validity of Bill C-92, arguing in court that youth protection falls under provincial authority. They are opposing the federal government in the Court of Appeal of Quebec, alongside the AFNQL, the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission, the Makivik Corporation, the Assembly of First Nations, the Aseniwuche Winewak Nation of Canada, and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society.
“Quebec chooses to defend what it refers to as its ‘jurisdiction’ to the detriment of the capacity of the First Nations to manage their own services for their children and families. The impacts of the Indigenous residential school tragedy persist. Even the Legault government denounces them,” AFNQL Chief Ghislain Picard said in a release.
“Have the lessons of history been properly understood? We can and must pose this question to the Legault government if we want to prevent history from repeating itself. We need to be more concerned with the legacy we will leave behind.”
The AFNQL says that instead of the federal act, Indigenous groups should enforce their own laws with regards to services for Indigenous children and families. Quebec insists on imposing the Youth Protection Act, originally passed in 1984, that does not see First Nations as equal partners and only delegates them limited responsibilities. The AFNQL and other groups were in court in September to argue their side of the case.
In response to the court case, Mathieu Durocher, spokesperson for Quebec’s Ministry of Indigenous Affairs, stated, “We all agree that First Nations and Inuit must have more autonomy in the field of youth protection. The Laurent Commission also confirmed it. Ministers Ian Lafrenière and Lionel Carmant [responsible for youth protection] are committed to working with Indigenous representatives in order to find ways to give them more autonomy and control over the protection of their children.”
Durocher added that the Quebec government agrees youth protection services need to be reformed and will require legislative changes.
The Laurent Commission was a two-year commission that concluded this past May, looking into Quebec’s child welfare system that has faced decades of criticism. It concluded that Indigenous youth do not have a voice or watchdog looking out for their rights and best interests, and that Indigenous youth were taken often out of their communities, cut off from their culture, suffering a loss of identity and worsening physical, mental and spiritual health.
In 2020, a class action lawsuit was launched against Quebec by individuals who were part of Quebec’s child welfare system, alleging decades of abuse, solitary confinement and unnecessary medication – the suit is seeking $500,000 per individual.
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Skip's Teachings > Darkroom > Choosing to "Go Dark"
Choosing to "Go Dark" - Hebrews 11:23-29
Taught on Sunday, January 23, 2022 | Keywords: affliction, choices, decision, develop, discomfort, educated, education, endure, faith, glory, Go Dark, gratification, hardship, heartache, pain, pleasure, reproach, reward, responsibilities, reward, righteousness, risk, sacrifice, solace, suffer, suffering
His Status (v. 23)
His Spurning (v. 24)
His Selection (vv. 25-26)
His Secret (v. 27)
His Success (vv. 28-29)
Keywords: affliction, choices, decision, develop, discomfort, educated, education, endure, faith, glory, Go Dark, gratification, hardship, heartache, pain, pleasure, reproach, reward, responsibilities, reward, righteousness, risk, sacrifice, solace, suffer, suffering
Teaching: “Choosing to ‘Go Dark’”
Text: Hebrews 11:23-29
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” —Romans 8:18
Talk about an activity you enjoy engaging in that doesn’t always feel good (could be a type of exercise, food, recreation, etc.). Why do you enjoy it; what’s the benefit?
How have darkroom experiences afforded you opportunities to see and experience God’s grace in your own life? Has there been a turbulent time where, by God’s grace, you ended up thriving? If so, share the experience. What did you learn from walking through the trial?
Jesus invites us to follow him wholeheartedly, calling us to love people unconditionally, support them relentlessly, and do so with accountability—but it doesn’t come without cost. What difficult decision is in front of you that may bear short-term heartache, but long-term gratification?
“Choices are the hinges of destiny. We make choices, and then choices make us.” —Pastor Skip
Identify with a new family. God made us family. Neither our race, nor our class, country, politics, or surname knit us together as the family we were designed to be and bought back to become. We are God’s family, through the blood of Jesus.
Choose to experience new agony. Sometimes the best choice is hardest choice. Ask God for the vision to see eternal reward over your temporary risk. Choosing the dark room might reveal your destiny. Your choice could have immediate gratification, but long-term heartache; or short-term heartache and long-term gratification.
Make good choices today so you don’t have regrets tomorrow. Satan packages sin so nicely; he’s a master marketer. But sin is passing and temporary; it’ll leave you thirstier, emptier, drier, more hollow than before. Read John 4:1-26
Lord, thank you that you don’t waste life. You develop us in the darkest, and bleakest parts of life. And you call us to make difficult choices, and often to define our destiny. Help us to deny ourselves immediate gratification and comfort, willing to leave our idols, and ready to aim for your Kingdom. You placed us in a new family. Help us to love each other with the dignity and unity of mind and heart you called us to. Use our agony for your glory. In Jesus name.
Cross references: Exodus 1:8; Deuteronomy 34:10; Matthew 6:33; 10:37; 16:24; 19:21; Luke 14:26; Acts 7; Romans 8:18
Choosing to "Go Dark" - Hebrews 11:23-29 - Skip Heitzig
Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us for Dark Room. In this teaching series, Pastor Skip shows how God often develops his children through hardship, the dark times in life. Here's Pastor Skip.
Hebrews chapter 11, let's have a word of prayer together. Thank you, Father, that you've brought us together. Thank you for the opportunity to study your word. Thank you for the opportunity to get to know one another, to get involved in smaller groups, where we can build relationships and be vulnerable and to feel at home. We pray, Father, that the effect of today's meeting together is that our faith would increase, our knowledge of your love would be more appreciated, and our service to you, Lord, would be more pure, in Jesus's name, Amen.
Hey, question, have you ever heard of a poem extolling the virtues of pain? Yeah, I didn't think so-- ever heard a song dedicated to the benefits of suffering-- probably not, country music might be like close to that, but all that aside, ever seen a statue erected in honor of suffering. No, you haven't.
Who would ever choose to suffer? Who would ever pick that? Well, the answer might surprise you. You would. You would.
Many people do it all the time. People eat spicy, hot foods every day. They see scary movies. They have kids.
They run long distances. They go to the gym and lift weights. They get deep tissue massage. Oh, it hurts so good. That's, to some degree, choosing a path of suffering.
Dr. Diana Hill, PhD, wrote in Psychology Today, this little clip, "The more you engage in meaningful activities, the more likely you are to experience discomfort." That brings us to Moses, a man who made the choice, the choice, to go dark, to suffer, to go through a very difficult period of time, to engage in a meaningful activity, where he was likely to experience discomfort. This is a series we call Dark Room. We started it last week, and it's all about going through the negatives in life. And God developing those into positive experiences, and making you a better tool for his glory.
Last week we looked at Joseph, and we saw that Joseph went through a series of hardships from his early years, all the way throughout his life. But even though he went through some pretty dark times, God used his darkness to shine a bright light in the country that he was taken captive to, the country of Egypt, really the whole world. He was a bright light in that time.
Eventually, Joseph died, and that light dimmed. And people forgot about Joseph, so that was Genesis. The Book of Exodus opens up with the story, and Exodus chapter 1 who says, "There arose a King in Egypt who knew not Joseph."
He had forgotten about the history. He didn't care about Joseph. He didn't care about what happened with this guy who came to town and came up with this plan, and so that pharaoh, that King of Egypt, plunged the children of Israel into a period of severe darkness, oppression, even extermination.
He came up with a-- I can only call it a Nazi-like plan to find the final solution to the Jewish problem. Let's just kill them. Kill them all. Let's begin with the male babies. Every male baby born, let's just kill it.
Well, one of those babies who was born was a child named Moses, and Moses, as a baby, was growing. And it says in the Bible that his mother tried to hide him for a few months-- ever try to hide a baby-- yeah, good luck. So she took Moses, and put him in a little basket. And dabbed it with pitch, and sailed it down the Nile River.
You know the story. That little boat ended up at the shore of a bathing party, and it was the daughter of pharaoh who was bathing. And it says, the baby was crying, and she looked inside. And two things came together, a woman's heart and a baby's cry.
It was love at first sight. She says, I'm going to adopt this child, and bring this child into my home. She called for the child's mother to wean the child, and then eventually, that baby Moses would be adopted into her own household.
Well, that story is told to us in Exodus chapter 2. It is mentioned by Stephen in Acts chapter 7. But it is explained to us succinctly in the text that I have chosen-- that is Hebrews chapter 11. It is the story of a man who deliberately went into the dark room. He made that choice, and we see what God did in developing him into the greatest leader, at least the Jews, to this day, regard as their greatest leader in history.
So Hebrews chapter 11, we're going to look at the story of Moses beginning in verse 23 together. It says, "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the King's command. By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as buy dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned."
Moses lived 120 years. 120 years, Deuteronomy 34 says, he was 120 when he died. Most scholars divide Moses life up into three periods of 40 years each. So for the first 40 years, Moses was groomed and educated in the most advanced culture in the world at the time, Egypt.
The next 40 years, Moses goes dark, off-the-grid, goes to Midian, becomes a shepherd. And then finally, when he's 80 years of age, takes us to the third period of 40 years, at 80, life began for Moses at 80. At 80 years of age, he enters into successful ministry, leading the children of Israel out of darkness, the darkness of slavery. DL Moody put it this way, Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody. 40 years learning he was nobody, and then 40 years, God showing him what he can do with a nobody.
Now to understand the choice that Moses made, the choice to go dark, we need to understand who he was, what he had, and then what he refused, what he pushed away, what he got in return, and how he was able to do it. So we're going to look at the five stages of Moses life. It's Moses whole life in a nutshell.
And I want to begin with his status. I want you to know what he had. In verse 23, we are told, by faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents because they saw-- notice this, they saw he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's command. Then the next verse begins, by faith Moses, when he became of age. So verse 23 and that part of verse 24 covers the first 40 years of his life, 40 years, the Bible tells us, when he made a decision.
It mentions to us his status, and let's begin with his status, physically. It says he was a beautiful child. It's the same description in Exodus chapter 2.
That's why it's written about in Hebrews 11. In Exodus 2, it says, his parents noticed he was a beautiful child. Now that's Exodus. By the way, do you know who wrote the Book of Exodus?
Yeah, Moses wrote it. I just want you to know that. That's just fun to think about it.
He wanted to make sure that people would remember he was a beautiful child. But because the Bible mentions it twice, it is noteworthy. And probably, he was a pretty good looking guy. Acts 7, Stephen just says, he was well pleasing to the Lord.
But the Jewish historian Josephus says that Moses had outstanding physical features, and that the Egyptians would often try to catch a glimpse of him. And once they saw him, they were so amazed at how good looking he was. They stared at him, and couldn't take their eyes off of him.
Now I'm sure he's exaggerating a little bit. He never met Moses, but he wants to really extol how cool Moses was in their history. That's Josephus.
Now to me, Moses always looked like this. That's Charlton Heston in the movie The Ten Commandments. That's what I grew up thinking of Moses is like, so that's Mo.
And good looking guy, but I can take my eyes off of him. I met him, by the way, once because I was so excited. It's like, I'm going to meet Moses.
And I met him, and it was a neat experience. I was a little disappointed, but nonetheless, that's his status physically. Let's think about his status, educationally.
Now I'm piecing a few scriptures together. In Acts chapter 7, Stephen said about Moses-- Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Remember, he is raised in the royal court. He's the adopted son of the daughter of pharaoh. Being raised in that environment, he would have access to a superior education, the best in the world. Egypt was very progressive, educationally.
I don't know if you know this or not, but the Egyptians at the time of Moses already had the theory of a round Earth. They had pretty well figured out, almost, pretty accurately, the distance between the Earth and the Sun. They were pretty amazing architecturally. They were pretty amazing with chemistry. They could embalm people so that thousands of years later they still look pretty good.
So that's Moses upbringing. He probably went to a University called the Temple of the Sun. The Temple of the Sun was the best University in Egypt, and it's the modern day Harvard or Yale or Princeton or Dartmouth, a little bit higher than UNM in that status.
So going to that University, he would have learned hieroglyphics. He would have learned languages of that area. He would have probably learned-- I don't know-- advanced mummy making or how to walk like an Egyptian. I don't know what he learned, but it was pretty hefty.
And then think about his status, positionally, positionally. Again Acts chapter 7 says, Moses was mighty in words and deeds. Mighty and words and deeds-- simply meaning, he had skill in leading and communicating.
Now we don't get that. When we read the story of Moses, we see a man who is afraid to talk in public, stuttered a little bit. And we think, that guy couldn't lead much of anything.
That was Moses after the dark room. I think he lost a lot of his self-confidence. I think he was now at a place of having to just to trust in the Lord. Again, Josephus tells us, when the Ethiopians attacked Egypt, and the Ethiopians were about to destroy the Egyptians, Moses became the general of the army that led out the Egyptians to defeat the Ethiopians. So that was his status, positionally.
Then look at our texts, and you'll notice his status, financially. Look at verse 26, it talks about the treasures in Egypt. Now just imagine the wealth he had access to.
How many of you have ever seen pictures of the tomb of King Tut? Raise your hand. It took nine months to take all the things out of that tomb to find out what was in it.
That's just one pharaoh's tomb, and King Tut lived only 100 years after Moses. So it's right around that time period. If you are the adopted son in the household of pharaoh, you have access to the kind of money that people only dream about.
He could do anything he wanted, any lustful pleasure. He wanted to do it. Nobody would question. He could party hearty all day long.
Then consider his status, relationally. Look back at verse 24. It says, he refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter. According to Josephus, the pharaoh at the time had no sons, only daughters, which according to Josephus, would have placed Moses in line as the next heir of the throne of Egypt. So if that's true, you mean this guy had it all.
He had brawn. He had brains, bucks, and background. And I don't know. Maybe, he had his own private personalized license plate on his chariot, number two or something.
So that's his status. That's what he had. Let's look at his spurning, what he said no to.
He said no to all of it. Verse 24, by faith Moses, when he became of age-- we're told in scripture-- that was when he was 40 years of age. When he became of age, he refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter. The Bible says, when he got to be about 40 years of old, it came into his heart to visit his people. He knew that he was a Hebrew.
I'm sure that he was taught that as a young child by his own personal mother, and then reminded of that even in school. When he was at the Temple of the Sun, he knew that there were this group of people, the Hebrews. And any adoptive child usually comes to a point in their life where they want to discover who their parents were or why they got adopted. Moses was no different.
And so he found out. He went to visit them. And apparently, he made a choice to link up with them.
Moses made the kind of choice that Napoleon spoke about. He said, in every battle, there's a period of about 15 minutes where the leader makes the choice that will either bring his defeat or victory. It's a very crucial time period.
Moses came to that period where he had to make a choice about his future, which people he's going to associate with. So he made a choice to do the right thing, which was not the easy thing. The easiest thing for Moses to do was nothing.
I mean, I have it all. I'm the next pharaoh, perhaps. I certainly have a lot of money. I have the best education. I can do what I want.
I'm going to leave well enough alone. I like it right here. But he didn't make that choice. And choice is the hinge of destiny.
You make choices, then your choices make you. Choice is one of the greatest privileges we have. It's also one of the weightiest responsibilities we have.
Think of it. For 40 years, Moses had been Prince of Egypt. For 40 years, he enjoyed the wealth of Egypt. For 40 years, he hobnobbed with the elite and the powerful and the cultured and the educated. For 40 years, he enjoyed all the perks afforded him by the royal court.
Now he's giving it all up. He is refusing to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter. What?
What do you mean you're giving it all up? Moses, you are groomed for success. You are headed for the top.
No, I'm giving it up. I'm refusing it. I don't want it. I'm spurning it.
Why? It's an important question to ask because usually when people say no to something, it's because they want to say yes to something else. And it's usually something better, bigger, bolder, brighter.
It's a better job, a better company, or a better location. It's much better. Let's just say, you won the lottery. I'm not advocating you go buy lottery tickets. I'm just saying, let's say you win the lottery.
And I don't know. What is the lottery up to now, anybody know-- so a lot, millions of dollars. So you win the lottery, and they come to your house. And they write you a check for a bazillion dollars.
And they have the check in their hand. The cameras are there. They hand you the check.
And you look at it, go, no, I don't want it. I refuse this check. I don't want it.
You don't want it. Why? I've got something better. Really, better than this, better than the kind of money that you could do anything in the world with-- well, pray tell, what is it?
So here it is. Let's look at verse 25. Now we go from the status and the spurning to the selection.
Here's what he chose-- verse 25, choosing rather to suffer. So stop right there. I'm saying no to all the wealth and prestige and education and perks of Egypt.
And my choice-- I'm picking. I'm selecting suffering. Take me to the dark room.
Now we know what happened. Moses left Egypt, went to Midian for 40 years, off-grid. He went dark.
Midian, I know that is a word you've heard. You don't know what it means necessarily. I've only been to Midian once in my life. It's in Saudi Arabia.
In fact, it is on the Western shore of the Eastern flank of the Dead Sea-- of the Red Sea, excuse me-- and just down from the Gulf of Aqaba. And it is so desolate. It's like a whole new level of desert.
I'll put it to you in a way you can understand. It makes Rio Rancho look like the Oregon coast-- that help. Is that a little bit better? That's Midian.
That's where he goes. He goes there, and hooks up with the people of God eventually, the Israelites. But I want you to go back to the text.
Notice that Moses chooses two things. Number one, he chooses to identify with a new family. It says, by faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God.
Mom, I'm leaving home. My new people are my old people, the people of God. I'm going to go link up and link arms with them.
I'm sure it was a very difficult time, a very emotional moment. I mean she saved him out of the water. She gave him the life that he had.
And to say, I am no longer going to be your son. I have a new family now. I can only imagine that she wept. She felt angry, maybe even called Moses ungrateful.
I can just say that I didn't have this experience. But I remember when I got saved, and my parents didn't understand. And I tried to sit them down and explain to them that I have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Yeah, but we raised you in this family and with this church. And you're hanging out at that other church, and it's like you have a new family. And I said, first of all, I love you, and I love my family. And I will always honor you. But in a sense, I do have a new family.
And I felt like such a part of that new spiritual family. And I do want to say because this is connect group weekend. Make a choice to find a family.
Don't let the choice be-- I come to hear a sermon once a week. Choose a family, a group of people who will love you unconditionally, support you relentlessly, and do so with accountability. That's a family. That's a connect group.
So Moses chose to identify with a new family. And another part of his choice-- he chose to experience a new agony. He chose to experience a new agony.
He knew what he was getting into when he chose it. Choosing rather to suffer affliction and then go down to verse 26-- esteeming, a very strong word, it means to make a careful consideration. I've really thought about this, and I'm making an estimating value here. I'm esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.
Now, please, get this. It's not like suffering was forced upon Moses like it was Joseph. Joseph didn't ask for this brothers to hate him. That was forced on him. They hated him.
He didn't ask to be abducted and taken to Egypt. That was forced upon him. He didn't asked to be mistreated and accused of things he never did. That happened to him.
Moses is different in that he knew what he was getting into, and he picked it. He chose to suffer. He preferred it. He made a selection.
I mean imagine the conversation. Mom, I'm leaving home. What do you mean you're leaving home?
I'm leaving Egypt. Where are you going? I'm going with the slave people-- the Israel-- the slave people, the Israelites, that's where you came from. You don't want to go back to that. No, I'm going there.
You're making the choice to leave. Yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to go to the slave camps. I'm sure she said, honey-- calling her husband-- honey, Moses has been riding the chariot in the hot sun a little too long. He has lost it to make that choice.
But I'll say this. Anybody who has ever had to make a hard choice of sacrifice gets this. Anybody who had to make the choice of having your parents who have failing health move in with you, you understand this.
It's a hard choice. You know what you're getting into. You do it anyway.
Anybody who's made a choice to marry somebody and say the words, until death do us part-- death do us-- not debt do us part-- not feelings do us part-- not if you ever get ugly, and I get ugly, we will call it. It's till death do us part. If you make that kind of a commitment, you understand a level of this, or if you have a choice to have children, even though you've been warned they may have congenital defects, you get this. Sometimes the hardest choice happens to be the best choice.
Well, how do he do it-- says he made the choice. He said no to Egypt. He said yes to Israel. Why? How?
Here's the secret to being able to make hard choices, vision. It's what you can or cannot see that will determine if you will or will not make the hard choice. It's your vision.
Look at verse 26, esteeming the reproach of Christ, greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he-- what does it say-- looked to the reward. He saw a payoff. He saw something really, really good in making that choice, a reward.
Verse 27, by faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the King for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. It's an interesting phrase in scripture. He saw what you can't see, invisible. God's invisible. He saw him, who is invisible.
Here it is. Moses saw more than most people. Moses saw what no one else could see. Moses saw the eternal reward over the temporal risk.
So he could have chosen two things-- first choice, to bring immediate gratification but long-term heartache. That would be the choice to stay in Egypt, immediate gratification, long-term heartache, because I know I'm not where God wants me to be, or choice number two, short-term heartache, but long-term gratification. That's the choice he made.
It's going to hurt. It's painful. I'm going to suffer. I'm going to go into the dark room, but I'm looking to the reward.
I'm going to go with Israel. So Moses chose the dark room that he might have a destiny. He chose the dark room that he might have a destiny.
Now there's a way you get to see this way. There's something that enables you to get this kind of vision. It's called faith.
Hebrews 11 has that word repeated more times than ever. It's the hall of faith. We call it the hall of fame of faith, Hebrews 11-- by faith, Abraham, by faith, Sarah, by faith. And it names all these people who did stuff by faith. Faith is what ables enables you to have the vision to endure anything.
So here's what it's like. If you go into a dark room, they have, I remember, a thing called a safe light. And we showed you that in some of the video clips.
So in analog photography film-- I told you about the silver halide crystals last week, and how it's sensitive to light. The room has to be completely pitch black, dark, to load film, to get it developed. But when you do the development of the paper that makes the negative into a positive, you can operate with a safe light.
A safe light is a very dim light, a very red or amber hue. And the silver halide in the paper is not sensitive to that. So it's dim, but you can see enough to get the job done, to make the masterpiece.
So faith is the safe light. Faith lets you see just enough so that you can endure anything. Faith is the safe light that will make you endure anything.
From a worldly standpoint, Moses sacrificed everything and got nothing. I mean it was a stupid choice for him to make, from a worldly standpoint. Are you kidding? You're giving up Egypt.
You're giving up wealth. You're giving up status and power to be a slave. Are you an idiot? You're giving up everything to get nothing. But from the spiritual standpoint, he was giving up everything to get more than he had, more.
So here's the point of all that. The worst God has to offer you is better than the best the world has to offer you. Whatever the Lord lets you go through when you commit everything to him-- and it's painful, and it's suffering-- it is better in the long run, especially, but also in the short run.
It's better than the best the world has to offer. And folks, that's how people of faith operate. If you ever wonder, how can a missionary leave the United States?
I mean, that guy who's living in Honolulu, Hawaii. And he went to the deepest, darkest jungles of Africa or the deserts of Sudan. How does a person do that?
He sees more. They see more. And faith is the safe light that lets them endure anything. Jim Elliott who was a missionary, who did that, and got killed on the mission field, by the way, said this, he is no fool who gives up what he cannot to keep what he cannot lose. I'm going to give up what I can't keep anyway to gain what I can never lose.
Paul put it this way-- I consider, Romans 8:18, I consider the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us. So that's his status, his spurning, his selection. That's a secret. That's how he did it. He saw more.
What was his success? What did he get from all of that? He made the choice.
I'm going to the dark room. I know it's going to be hard. So what did God develop him into?
Here's a short answer, a masterpiece. Remember this print last week, Ansel Adams? Remember, I said that this picture of the Grand Tetons and the Snake River sold a few years ago for $988,000, almost a million bucks. And I said, that's because there was a master who worked with negatives to make something very positive.
So that's what happened to Moses. Moses was a success. Verse 28, by faith, he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood. Lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith, they pass through the Red Sea as buy dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.
Moses became, in the Jewish mind, the greatest leader in their history. God let him see the Passover. The pinnacle event that every Jew to this day looks back to every year, Passover, every year, Passover-- and Moses.
Moses saw the protection God gave the children of Israel from the 10 plagues, including the last of the 10, the death of the firstborn in Egypt. He saw all the provisions they got when they left Egypt and brought with them. He got a front row seat to that. Then when he was in the wilderness, God let him see, verse 29, the greatest miracle, the parting of the Red Sea, water actually parting, children of Israel going through on dry land, and then that water drowning the Egyptians-- got a front row seat to that.
Michael Shapiro called Moses, in his book The Jewish 100, the most influential Jew of all time. Jews call him their greatest prophet. Deuteronomy says, since Moses, there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses whom the Lord knew face to face.
Moses is mentioned in the Bible 852 times, shows up at the transfiguration of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. The New Testament refers to Moses as a type of Christ and as one who predicted the coming of Christ. All of that because he chose to go into the dark room.
That's his success, and he could see the reward. I don't think he saw all that. That was coming, but he looked and saw the reward because he chose to suffer.
The Bible often calls us to make choices. Joshua said to the children of Israel, choose this day whom you will serve. Elijah, later on with the prophets of Baal, said, choose today if you're going to serve bail or you're going to serve God.
Do you know that, in the New Testament, Jesus often called people to make very difficult choices that would define their destiny? Listen to what Jesus said, Matthew 16, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. Luke 14, if anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
To the rich young ruler, he said, sell everything you have. Give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, and follow me. To us all on the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. Moses did all of those things. Moses had denied himself, hooked up with God, slave people, chose a new family, left his status, and sought God's kingdom first.
Now as we close, I just think it's time for some of you to choose, to make good choices today, so that you don't have regrets tomorrow. So let me close on one passage. We just have a few minutes left.
I want to look at a verse, a phrase in verse 25-- choosing rather to suffer the affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin. He was in Egypt. He could have any sin he wanted. He could indulge in anything you wanted to do. But notice it says, passing pleasures. And the old authorized version says, enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
Nobody has to be convinced the sin is fun. I'd be stupid if I stood up and go, sin is horrible. Nobody likes to do it. Really, why do why does everybody do it then-- because they're not convinced that it's not fun. It's why people do it.
It is a blast to sin. It is so fun to sin for a season. It's passing.
Satan packages sin so well. He's a master marketer, but it's temporary. You drink of that well. You'll be thirstier than before.
You eat of that. You'll be hungrier than before. You take off that. You'll be emptier than before. You'll be hollower than you were before.
So this is what people usually do. They try what the world has to offer, the pleasures of sin, and they come up thirstier and hungrier and emptier. They do one of two things.
Drink more from it. Double down on their choice to drink from that well that doesn't satisfy them, and get even thirstier and hungrier and emptier and hollower. And they just chase that and chase that and chase other things, or they get a little bit of sense. And they stop, and they drink from the fountain of living waters, which can never run dry.
They take God at his word. And they go, well, that sounds like a hard choice. But I think it's the best choice. It is. It's the best choice. God wants you to choose him.
Some of you, for too long, have let God be a spoke in your wheel. You're in the center. It's your little wheel of life.
You've got your career and your family and your hobbies and your house. And you're there right in the middle. God does not want to be a spoke in that wheel. He wants to be the hub, the center. He wants you to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.
And it's the best life you could have now and forever more. If you've not made that choice, I'm going to give you an opportunity in a moment to do that. I want you to get ready to make that choice.
Some of you have just been religious. You come to church every now, and then you'll hang out with the wife because she goes to church or with the husband, or my parents do this. But you have never committed your life personally to Christ, or some of you made some decision when you were younger.
But you are not following him. You're not walking with him today. You need to come back to him, and you need to do it now. Now is the time.
Father, thank you for an opportunity to look at the life of Moses, who made a very esteemed choice, careful consideration, to say no to what the world says is the greatest thing possible-- that he might say, yes, to you and your plan, even though in the short-term it was painful and hard and dark. We're convinced that Moses is very happy today that he made that choice. And Lord, I pray that some of us who are gathered here would make that same choice to make Jesus the Lord of our life, the center of our existence, the reason we live and breathe.
And we will commit our lives to him, the one who promised that we would never thirst again, the one who promised he is the Resurrection and the life, the one who promised to give us abundant life, a sense of satisfaction and purpose and meaning in this life, no matter what we go through in the highs and the lows. And if you're gathered here today, I want to give you that opportunity. Heads are bowed. Eyes are closed.
But if you're willing to surrender your life to Christ today, I want you to raise your hand up in the air. Just raise it up for a moment. Keep it up high, so I can acknowledge you, if you don't mind.
God, bless you, you, you, right here in the front and the middle, right there in the middle. Yes, sir. Raise it up high enough just so I can see it, if you don't mind.
God, bless you, yes, on the left, and you. Who d just raise it up-- anybody else-- in the balcony, thank you for that. Thanks for holding it high.
God bless you, sir. Father, thank you for so many people that have just said yes, yes, yes to your plan, or give them eyes of faith today. Give them a heart filled with the satisfaction that they are doing the most important thing that could ever be done and getting right with eternal God, accepting the love of his son into their heart being changed, and being part of the family of God-- in Jesus's name, Amen
Let's all stand to our feet. We're going to close with a song. Those of you who raised your hand. I'm going to ask you to do something now.
I'm going to ask you to get up from where you are standing. Get up from your place. Find the nearest aisle. Come walk to the front.
Come stand up here, and in a moment I'm going to lead you in a prayer to receive Christ. Jesus called people publicly. And we believe that when a person comes publicly, it cements something in their heart.
And so you get up and come. We're going to wait for you, but come and stand right up here in the front. God, bless you.
(SINGING) You're promise still stands. Great is your faithfulness, your faithfulness. I'm still in your hands. This is my comfort, and you never failed me.
The promise still stands. Great is your faithfulness, your faithfulness. I'm still in your hands. This is comfort, and you've never failed me, yeah.
[APPLAUSE] If you're still thinking about this-- you're seeing this happening up here. You have never stepped forward yet. I want you to know that we don't do this to embarrass anyone.
We do this as you can here to celebrate with people who come forward to encourage you in this. We are saying by our applause that this is the smartest thing you could ever do, the most important decision you could ever make. Some of you know you need to be down here. You need to come. You've waited and watched this far too long in your life.
Today is the day, the Bible says, of salvation. Let it be your day. Say yes to him. If you were in the balcony, just come down the steps. We'll wait for you.
If you're in the family room, there's a door. Just come through the door. If you're outside, raise your hand up. If you're outside, raise your hand up right where you are.
(SINGING) Still in your hands. This is my comfort, and you've never failed me, yeah.
If you're watching online, or you're seeing this on the computer or on television, and you want to make this choice, you can text the word, saved, either on your phone, to 505-509-5433. You can text that on your phone, 505-509-5433, or if you're on a computer, there's a little button that says, knowgod, K-N-O-W God. Click that.
Now we have seen people this weekend make decisions for Christ. God, bless you. Look at all of you. You're such a good looking group.
Hey, I'm going to pray with you now. You ready-- if you've come forward, I want to say a prayer out loud. And I'm going to ask you to say this prayer out loud after me.
You're talking to God, so mean this from your heart as you pray to him. Say this, say, Lord, I give you my life.
Lord, I give you my life.
I know that I'm a sinner.
Please, forgive me.
I believe in Jesus.
I believe he died for me.
That he shed his blood for me.
That he rose again.
And he's coming again.
I leave my sin.
I repent my sin.
I turn to Jesus as my Savior.
I want to follow Him as my Lord.
Help me.
It's in his name I pray.
Thank you so much for joining us for this message from Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We would love to know how this message impacted you. Share your story with us.
Email mystory@calvarynm.church. And if you'd like to support this Bible teaching ministry with the financial gift, visit calvarynm.church/give.
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About a Girl
Have you ever tried living with four very messy guys? It isn’t easy is it? Well that is exactly what Amy has to do in the show About A Girl (8:30pm, on Noggin/The-N). As a freshman in college, she is forced to find a place to live. She ends up living with four guys in one dorm. About A Girl is not like the rest because of the unique storyline, how well the characters play off each other, and the humorous interactions between the characters.
Many sitcoms now have a similar storyline, average parents (or parent) trying to raise their teenage kids. Then dealing with the problems that come with having teenage kids, boy/girl drama, drugs, ect. But About a Girl is different, there is no other show like it. Yes, there is boy/girl drama, like the breakup of Amy and her boyfriend, but there are new conflicts too. In one episode there is a huge flood that destroys a girl’s fraternity dorm building at the college campus in California. Amy’s roommates, Benny (Marshall Porter), Jason (Jesse Hutch), Dude (Sandy Robson), and McRitchie (Braden Williams) quickly volunteer to help. Amy who does not like the fraternity, is upset when one the girls have to move in with her and the guys for a couple days. Each episode is unique and has surprising problems.
There is not one dull character in this outstanding show. When one character says something funny, either an insult or a sarcastic comment, it is backed up by another equally funny comment by another character. These characters play off each other extremely well and are very believable. The characters deal with problems that a “normal” college student would deal with. So it is easy to understand what they are doing. What they say sounds like something heard by a college student now.
The majority of the conversations/interactions between the characters are humorous. There are many love triangles in this show. One of them is between Amy, Jason, and Benny. Benny likes Amy, Amy likes Jason, and Jason goes with the flow and dates around. This creates many complications, and tensions in the house. There is a strange awkwardness for a while. Though it is complicated it is funny and exciting.
About a Girl is outrageously funny and entertaining, and should definitely be watched. Due to the unique storyline, how well the characters play of each other, and the humorous interactions between characters, there is never a dull moment. It needs to be given more credit. No other show can compete.
8 Simple Rules
From G's to Gents
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Siryl BRONZE, Thornton, Colorado
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1917 - A cautionary tale a message for grads
I have seen the future.
It is just like today, only different.
Oops, it changed again.
It is truly hard to imagine the kind of world today’s Wyoming High School graduates will be experiencing during their long lives after graduation.
I have given commencement talks before. This is the one that I would give if asked to speak in high schools in Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Kemmerer, Evanston, Lander, Riverton, Afton, Powell, Sheridan, Worland, Wheatland, Torrington, Casper, Newcastle, Sundance, Upton, Greybull, Basin, Pine Bluffs, Lusk, Bridger Valley, or any other city or town where my column appears. Here is that talk in written form:
Yes, their future is going to be different than any other future that has come before them.
My parents and grandparents used words like “gumption” to describe someone who worked extra hard to try to get ahead. What your generation of graduating seniors needs, to cope with what’s ahead, is gumption.
Now here are six strategies about what you should do to get ahead:
• Although working hard is a virtue, working “smart” is genius.
• Education is the key but I am not talking about advanced degrees here. I am talking about identifying a field you would like to work in and then learning everything you can about it. Best way to do this is talking with people already working in the field. Another option is volunteering to work in the fringe parts of that industry. Scanning the Internet for everything you can find out about trends in that field helps, too. You can never learn enough.
• It is not who you know or what you know that counts in getting a good career going. It is who you know AND what you know that will make all the difference. Locate and cultivate mentors.
• Responsibility, honesty, and ethics are critical. If you are loyal to those who you work with and for, you will be stunned by how far that will get you in your later careers.
• Timing is the single most important thing in getting ahead. You must stay on top of trends and always, always check which way the economic winds are blowing. You must be a man or woman of action. Jump when you need to, but look before you leap.
• Today’s young people are more idealistic. They want to save the world. They want jobs where they feel they are making a difference.
I recall my high school graduation. The overriding thought that ran through my head was “what is going to happen to me?”
This is the most exciting time to be alive. Approach these times with optimism and love for your fellow human beings (plus gumption) and you should turn out just fine.
Most folks my age cannot recall what was said during their high school graduations. But I can remember one thing from mine. More on that later.
For over 50 years, I have been writing columns called messages for graduates Almost every one of these other columns was concerned about jobs and the economy.
Instead, today, it is appropriate to go back to that message delivered to my 74 Baby Boomer classmates and me in 1964 in a stuffy gym in Elgin, Iowa.
A future senator was our speaker. He said we could change the world. Change the world?
This is a very hopeful message. So how does one change the world? Find a cure for cancer? Start a company or a charity or a movement, which will improve mankind?
Perhaps you could affect somebody’s life who will go on to do wonderful things?
Let’s go to the core. Let’s talk about ethics. I am talking about you, as the graduate, looking in the mirror and deciphering what is looking back at you.
This is a big deal. Ethics are needed more today by our graduates than ever before. My favorite definition of ethics is how you behave when no one is watching.
A wise old guy named B. T. McManus once told me: “Bill, if you always tell the truth, it is amazing how easy it is to remember what you said.” McManus founded the Bi-Rite Drug Store chain.
Over time, you learn there are absolutes in life.
Ethics. Morals. Standards. Rules. What are your guiding principles? Are graduates too young to contemplate such a concept? I doubt that.
Everyone needs a roadmap. And a roadmap defined by ethics and morals can be the best tool you can have to ensure that you enjoy a successful life.
1916 - Ah Springs, the most bi-polar month
Like most Wyomingites, spring is the season that is most confusing to me. The season is bi-polar. It cannot decide if it is winter or summer!
But when it comes to beauty is there a time of year when the state is more beautiful than in the spring?
The sparkling green of new growth of grass reflected off the canyon rocks with a few white snowdrifts here and there – that is the picture of colorful beauty.
And our mountains are so white with snow. Our Wind River Mountains, which run from the northern edge of Sweetwater County, through Sublette and Fremont Counties and end up in Park and Teton Counties were often called the “shining mountains” by the early pioneers. You could see them from a hundred miles away as the snow would glisten.
And this description also applies to the Big Horns, the Wyoming Range, the Sierra Madres, the Tetons, and others around the state.
We spotted the Winds from a long ways off during a recent trip where we were returning to Lander from out west. That long range of mountains truly glistened in the bright sun. The scene of the brilliant blue sky and the snow-packed mountains was magnificent.
Perhaps the most beautiful area during this trip was the huge box canyon known as Red Canyon about 30 miles southeast of our home. It is a bright red but with the new growth of green grass and those above-mentioned snowdrifts here and there – well, it was a sight for sore eyes. Best part of seeing it in the springtime on this trip, though, was that a dry highway passed through it. South Pass can be a bugger this time of year.
That area is also home to the vast Red Desert, which is one of the largest unfenced areas in the United States. Its basin is unique because the Continental Divide splits and goes around it and the assumption is that no water leaks out of it, headed either east to the Atlantic Ocean or west to the Pacific Ocean.
In the spring, though, the area should be called the Green Desert as it truly blooms.
Outside of Wyoming, in much of the United States, spring is a time of tilling the soil, putting out flower plants, and long walks in short sleeve shirts.
Now here, spring often offers something quite different. Wyoming’s other seasons are quite predictable. For example:
Summer features long sun-filled days, low humidity, the bluest skies in America and cool, wonderful nights. It is a time of golf and of camping. It is a time of enjoying five hours of daylight after work and birds chirping in the crispy, early-morning air.
Fall is when the famous brown and gold of Wyoming comes to light. Many visitors and newcomers are often disappointed in the over-abundance of these colors in our landscapes. Veteran Wyomingites feel just the opposite. Many people actually prefer fall as their favorite season. It is time for the annual hunting trip, which means heading to the upper country or the high prairies.
Winter is snowy with long nights, wind chill factor concerns, and closures of mountain passes and major highways. It is a time for snowmobiling, skiing, and watching football and basketball on TV. It is a time when we all bundle up and make sure we are prepared for any emergency.
But springtime in Wyoming, wow! Normally it is mud season, but not so bad so far. Our fierce winds have dried things out in the valleys.
Temperatures have soared into the 70s and it is balmy much of the time. April is actually our wettest month of the year with lots of wet, heavy snow
I heard an expression by a TV weather reporter, who kept referring to their all-time record cold weather as coming after they had had a “false” spring.
My favorite way to describe Wyoming’s four seasons is: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.
Lander’s Del McOmie shared a funny weather description that he found on the Wyoming Going Blue Facebook page. It included one really cool season called “sprinter,” which I think is now.
Meanwhile up in Jackson, where they had record this winter, a huge pile of snow is causing concern. It is the result of 12,000 dump truck loads of snow and it is gradually melting.
It has been named “what in the Sam Hill” after Sam Jewison, the public works director. He is hoping it will be melted by Memorial Day.
1915 - Wyoming full of interestng facts and figures
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Mark Twain
You could always find lots of cars and trucks around my home. I am an admitted car nut and just love vehicles of all kinds.
Perhaps out here in Wyoming it is a throwback to a time when your wealth was tied to the number of horses you had. And if wealth were connected to the number of cars you own, my friend Joe Kenney would be a multi-millionaire. I think he has ten vehicles, two motorcycles, and an airplane at last count.
I am down to an old Ford Excursion, a six-year old Lincoln and a 17-year old hail-damaged Lexus convertible. Oh yeah, we also have a 14-year old motorhome.
So here is my question for all of you: Wyoming has 579,315 people. How many cars and trucks are there? Do you think there are more vehicles than people here in Wyoming?
Our local Fremont County Commissioner Mike Jones sent me the current most updated 2018 statistics from the United States Census Bureau, which measures all these things. It has some surprising info about my own county and even more surprising data about the state of Wyoming.
If you guessed that, yes, Wyoming has more vehicles than it has people, you were right. The 579,315 people in the state own 603,717 licensed cars and trucks.
People (especially wives) repeat the old saw: “The only difference between men and boys is the cost and size of all their toys.”
Toys? Yeah, here in Wyoming, we have toys. And most of them are registered with the state government. Besides cars and trucks, we have 294,164 “other” vehicles.
More importantly, this total includes trailers, lots of trailers. Including RVs, this amounts to an astonishing total of 207,413 trailers. It also includes 26,144 motorcycles.
Snowmobiles, boats, airplanes, and ATVs are not listed in this total but obviously would add big numbers if they were.
Wyoming people drive more miles per year than folks in any other state. That average is 16,800 miles for every man, woman, and child. Amazing. No wonder my tires keep wearing out.
These miles are traveled on our 30,430 miles of highways and roads in our state. Of this total, 6,075 are federal. Did you know that the longest highway in America is US 26? Closely followed by Interstate 80, which I believe is the longest interstate highway in the country, stretching from New York City to San Francisco, closely following the route of famous US 30 Lincoln Highway. It was Honest Abe who first proposed this national road along about 1863, when he was pretty much preoccupied with the Civil War and getting the transcontinental railroad built.
In Wyoming, we like to brag about our low taxes but the state collected $686,766,223 in sales and use taxes. That is a pile of money.
Property taxes collected across the state amounted to over a billion dollars with a total of $1,344,432,107.
My columns are limited to 750 words so I have to cherry-pick items here. It would fill a whole bunch of pages to write about all of this detail.
In my business career, after starting out as a reporter and ad salesmen, I developed a love for data and numbers. This surprised everyone. To me, numbers are not just numbers – they tell big stories. I used to love the early IBM advertisements for computer systems where they pictured businesspersons pondering spreadsheets. The caption read: “Not just data but reality.” Just love that concept.
School statistics could take up an entire column. There are 48 school districts in Wyoming with one-sixth of them in Fremont County.
There are 355 schools located from one end of the state to the other. There are 7,248 teachers and 736 administrators. According to these reports, there are 6,884 other staff to help keep things going.
Total enrollment is 93,647 students. We have a graduation rate of 81.7 percent. The composite ACT score for juniors in high school was 19.5 in 2018.
Total general fund expenses for education were $1,493,600,712 for a per-student average of $17,694. This is one of the highest rates in the country. In my county of Fremont (with its eight districts), the average per student cost was an amazing $22,299.
I will wrap this up by sharing that the U. S. Government owns 46,313 square miles out the state’s total of 97,093 square miles. The Bureau of Land Management controls 27,162 square miles of this total.
It is a big place with big numbers.
1914 - The Greatest Generation
The few surviving members of the Greatest Generation from Wyoming who fought in World War II are now nearing 100 years old or even older.
A few weeks ago would have marked my dad’s 100th birthday. He died 19 years ago and was proud of his service in World War II. He has been on my mind a lot lately.
He was an Irish Catholic businessman in a little town in Northeast Iowa most of his life.
But he always said he spent 13 of the most fun years of his life here in Wyoming. He moved my mom and three youngest siblings to Lander in 1978.
My three youngest brothers, Jerry, Ron, and Don graduated from Lander Valley High School and also the University of Wyoming. Ron works in Cheyenne as executive director of the Wyoming Education Association. Although she did not go to high school here, my sister Susan Kinneman is a teacher in Fort Washakie and lives in Riverton.
Our mother will celebrate her 95th birthday in Broomfield, CO.
But back to my dad.
He was a member of the Greatest Generation that served during World War II. He served in the 363rd Engineers Co, which was charged with building camps and bases. “Seems like we always built the Officers’ Clubs first,” he used to joke.
He spent most of his time in Tehran, Iran, and I can remember marveling at a dagger and a sword he brought home along with various dishes, plates, plaques, and rugs. Many of them had “Persian Gulf Command” inscribed on them.
As a young Iowa kid he got to see a lot of the world. He sailed across the Pacific on a voyage that lasted 57 days. He visited Egypt twice and among the family heirlooms are photos of him in front of the pyramids.
Perhaps the most exciting part of the war for him, after four years, was getting out. The guys in his unit were afraid they would fight with Japan. But each day, a certain number of guys would be given their discharge slips and would head home.
Finally, he got his.
He boarded a plane and flew with stops at Cairo, Tripoli, and Casablanca before boarding a C-54 for a flight back to the states. Once in Miami, he got on trains that took him back to his home in Wadena, Iowa. He arrived there on July 6, 1945. (I might point out that I was born eight and half months later – the first real baby boomer!)
Dad described his service in WW II as, “A million dollar experience that I wouldn’t give 10 cents to experience again.”
I remember dad as a very honest person. He always emphasized that we must never lie. When I was growing up at home, he emphasized to me that I had never lied to him.
On one occasion when I was about l2, one of my brothers had pulled some stunt. I don`t remember what it was, but I remember the aftermath like it was yesterday.
Dad called me aside and firmly told me, "Bill, I know you`d never lie to me. Now, look me in the eye and tell me what you boys have been up to."
I don`t remember what I told him, but I do remember I looked him in the eye and I lied!
So what kind of man was dad? I would say he measured up pretty well if you note the unconditional love given him by his wife Betty for nearly 60 years.
Dad was an Irishman. He had freckles and always a twinkle in his eye and a great sense of humor.
In his old age, he had become the perfect grandfather figure. He could tell you exactly which of the kids or grandkids were travelling and he would monitor the weather and say prayers to get them safely where they were going.
One of my forever visions of him is seeing him asleep in his favorite chair with a little baby also asleep on his chest.
My dad was a man of high principle, lofty ambitions, and passionate political beliefs. He stressed education to his children and pushed them to achieve their highest potential. It is interesting that at the time of his death in 2000, his 11 kids had accumulated 44 years of college education – an average of four years per child.
Finally in 1978 with the Iowa economy crumbling, dad left that pretty Iowa valley and moved west to Wyoming. We were sure glad.
1913 - The murder story of Gerald and Alice Uden
Some unsolvable and heinous Wyoming murders were the topic of a cover story of People Magazine a couple of years ago. They were even the topic of a biopic TV cable program that features unsolved murders.
The murders of Riverton’s Virginia Uden and her two sons back in 1980 was a 34-year mystery that appeared to be the ultimate mystery.
Casper native Ron Franscell has written Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story, which is on sale across the state this month.
Franscell, 62, is a fantastic author. His prose is among the best I have ever read. His writings about Wyoming are just wonderful. He now lives in San Antonio, TX. Prior to that he was a national award-winning editor and publisher of the Gillette News-Record.
His books The Darkest Night and The Sourtoe Cocktail Club are two of the finest books I have read in the last twelve years. The first one is about horrific murders of two young sisters in Casper; the second is a personal memoir that tugs at the heart of any man with a son. He has written 13 books.
But back to the Udens.
I am close to this situation because Virginia was a part-time employee when we owned the Lander Journal.
Franscell has put together a mini-tour around Wyoming from April 10 to April 15. He will be signing books and in some cases, making a presentation.
One of the best bookstore owners in Wyoming, Vicki Burger from Wind City Books in Casper, has been accompanying him, handling book sales.
Franscell’s schedule had him in Casper April 10, Cheyenne April 11, Riverton and Lander April 12, back to Casper April 14, and in Douglas April 15.
Franscell seems to have had unparalleled access to Gerald and Alice and to law enforcement officials working on the case. He paints a vivid picture of how Virginia Uden and her two sons were murdered. The detail included in the book is amazing and close to home, since so much of it occurred in Wyoming.
However this mystery seemed destined to be perpetually unsolved. Then, just like that, it was solved.
And the answers to all of those one-third of a century-old questions are as horrible and grisly as anyone could have possibly imagined.
Gerald Uden was a worker at the U. S. Steel iron ore mine at Atlantic City, some 25 miles south of Lander in the Wind River Mountains. Co-worker Kim Curtis remembered him as being “scary.”
Virginia must have seen something in the guy as she was married to him for six years. Uden even adopted her two sons.
Five years ago, if you were watching TV or reading the newspaper, you knew what happened next. The story was on CNN, ABC and The New York Times among all the other state and national media outlets. The story was impossible to ignore; if you proposed to write about the Uden crimes as fiction, the story would not sell because it is so unbelievable.
Gerald Uden and his new wife Alice both worked at the iron ore mine on South Pass. As it turned out, Alice had earlier murdered her 25-year old husband and dumped his body down a mineshaft in Albany County.
Then they conspired to rid Gerald of his obligations.
An acquaintance of Alice’s, who worked with her at the mine, reported that Alice was always complaining about Gerald never having any money because he had to support Virginia and her boys. Thus, money appears to be the motive for the taking of these three lives.
On a fall day in September 1980, Gerald Uden convinced Virginia and her boys to meet him in Pavillion, Wyoming, for some target practice. He waited until Virginia and Reagan had their backs turned to him and shot them both in the back of the head. He had to chase down Richard before shooting him in the head, too
The photos of the Uden boys may still be appearing on milk cartons. There were millions of images of the Udens spread across the country over the decades.
Officers finally found Alice’s murdered husband’s body five years ago and that led them to her and Gerald, then living in Missouri.
Meanwhile, Fremont County officers never gave up trying to connect the dots. Credit also goes to a UW archeologist who, with eight students, spent some awful summer days in 2008 digging around in Uden’s old pigsty in Pavillion, looking for evidence of the Uden bodies. They were unsuccessful.
At this point, Gerald Uden, 76, has confessed as has his wife Alice, 79. Both are serving the rest of their lives in Wyoming prisons.
What happened to the bodies, which was a mystery for more than three decades, is now known. Gerald claims he put Virginia, Reagan, and Richard in barrels and sunk the bodies to the bottom of the deepest lake in Wyoming, Fremont Lake east of Pinedale.
Franscell has some theories about all this and his book is one that is impossible to put down. If you attend his book signings, you will be enlightened.
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Field Day Festival Canceled?
Post author By Jonathan
Here’s the latest from Newsday.
In a blow to Beastie Boys and Beck fans, Suffolk County has denied a mass gathering permit for a two-day rock concert in Calverton, meaning for now the event can’t go ahead.
County health officials denied the permit today after Riverhead Police Chief David Hegermiller said his force wouldn’t be able to handle the expected crowd of 50,000. On Friday, county officials informed the town they wouldn’t be able to help with extra police officers because doing so would require an agreement between the Riverhead town board and the Suffolk county legislature. This wouldn’t have been possible, since the legislature doesn’t meet until after the June 7 and 8 concert.
The Field Day Festival was to have been a showcase for the 2,900-acre former Grumman site, which the town has been hoping to sell in an effort to spur economic development. Town officials and the concert promoters weren’t immediately available for comment.
In addition, the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, an environmental group, sued Riverhead town today, charging the town didn’t do a proper environmental review before agreeing to host the concert. Environmentalists had worried that the concert coincides with the nesting season for the rare grasshopper sparrow, which lays its eggs in the fields where the concert was to have taken place.
The Field Day staff responded with this:
Field Day is still on. With out going into detail, the city will have much more serious problems not accommodating Field Day than it will accommodating Field Day. Rest assured everything possible is being done to ensure Field Day goes on exactly as planned.
(thanks to Max)
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10:30 AM EDT , Mon August 22, 2022.
Thomas Rhett to visit Canadian Tire Centre on Feb. 25
In the midst of this summer’s packed Bring the Bar to You Tour, Thomas Rhett today announces the tour will now include a Canadian extension in 2023. Featuring Jordan Davis and Kameron Marlowe as openers and will feature a stop in Ottawa at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday, Feb. 25. The tour is produced by Live Nation.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting ticketmaster.ca or canadiantirecentre.com and will be available to the general public on Friday, Aug. 26, at 10 a.m.
“It’s been an absolute blast being back out on the road this summer and we are so excited to take the tour to Canada next year,” said Thomas Rhett. “It feels like forever since we were last able to play for those fans. They always bring an insane amount of energy and we cannot wait to get up there and see them again.”
THOMAS RHETT – BRING THE BAR TO YOU TOUR CANADIAN DATES
*All dates, cities and venues below subject to change
Feb. 9 – Vancouver, Rogers Arena
Feb. 11 – Edmonton, Rogers Place
Feb. 12 – Calgary, Scotiabank Saddledome
Feb. 16 – Saskatoon, Sask., SaskTel Centre
Feb. 17 – Regina, Brandt Centre
Feb. 18 – Winnipeg, Canada Life Centre
Feb. 21 – London, Ont., Budweiser Gardens
Feb. 22 – Toronto, Scotiabank Arena
Feb. 24 – Montreal, Bell Centre
Feb. 25 – Ottawa, Canadian Tire Centre
About Thomas Rhett
Ten years after signing his record deal with Big Machine Label Group’s The Valory Music Co., arena-packing superstar Thomas Rhett – dubbed “the most reliable maker of No. 1 singles in country music” (Variety) – has 19 multi-platinum and gold-certified No. 1 hits, 12 billion streams and the longest current active streak of consecutive No. 1s in the format (Mediabase/Country Aircheck Chart). Declared “a prince in the genre” (USA Today), he has been honoured with eight ACM Awards including Entertainer of the Year, two CMA Awards, five Grammy nominations, plus trophies from the CMT Music Awards, Billboard Awards and iHeartRadio Awards, in addition to being recognized with two CMA Triple Play awards for penning three No. 1 songs within a 12-month period. The superstar’s critically acclaimed sixth studio album Where We Started is available now, with the single Half of Me, featuring Riley Green, currently climbing the charts. Inspired by family, friends and his love of the outdoors, Thomas Rhett is also the cofounder of Dos Primos Tequila and is collaborating with Chaco on an exclusive sandal line. He is currently taking the hits on the road with his Bring the Bar to Your Tour. For more information, visit ThomasRhett.com.
About Jordan Davis
A native of Shreveport, La., Jordan Davis is climbing the charts with his current single What My World Spins Around. He recently scored his fourth No. 1 with the double platinum hit Buy Dirt (feat. Luke Bryan) from his 2021 EP. Davis previously notched three consecutive No. 1 hits: platinum-certified Slow Dance In A Parking Lot, double platinum certified Singles You Up and platinum certified Take It From Me, each featured on his gold certified debut album, Home State. Awarded Best New Country Artist at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, he is a two-time nominee for ACM New Male Artist of the Year and was named Billboard’s Top New Country Artist of 2018. Davis has amassed 3.5 billion streams worldwide and appeared on Ellen, Good Morning America, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and TODAY. He has previously toured with artists including Kane Brown, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Old Dominion and more.
About Kameron Marlowe
Kannapolis, N.C. native Kameron Marlowe will release his debut album We Were Cowboys on Aug. 26 via Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville. Marlowe has been hailed as “a for-sure singer, full of expressive, throaty dips, raspy touches, soaring notes and hidden power” (MusicRow) and “the piece country music has been missing” (Everything Nash), named an “Artist to Watch” by Amazon Music, Spotify and Pandora, he has amassed more than 360 million on-demand streams and toured with Brad Paisley, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Riley Green and more. Steady Heart, Marlowe’s fastest-growing track to date, continues to gain virality on social media and reached No. 6 on SiriusXM The Highway’s Top 30 Countdown, where his current single, Giving You Up, hit No. 1. The entirely self-penned, autobiographical smash is gold certified and continues to climb the radio charts as Marlowe solidifies himself as the most exciting new artist in country music.
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The Situk River: An Alaska Steelhead Mecca
By Matt Catterson
A classic fall-run Situk River steelhead.
Let’s start with the facts. Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are anadromous rainbow trout. Like salmon, they hatch and rear in freshwater, then go to the ocean to grow and mature before returning to their natal streams to spawn. Steelhead have complex life histories: they spend varying amounts of time in freshwater and saltwater, they return to their natal streams in the fall or spring, and they can survive to spawn multiple times.
Historically, you could find steelhead in streams up and down the west coast of the North America from Southern California to the Alaska Peninsula, but these days healthy populations of wild steelhead are harder to find. Most steelhead are now found in the northern portion of their range, in the more remote areas of British Columbia and Alaska.
So those are the facts, but anyone who has been lucky enough to tangle with a wild steelhead will likely describe them differently… They are smart and elusive fish, tucked into wild and inhospitable waters. Often, just finding a steelhead is an accomplishment in and of itself. But when presented with a well-placed lure or fly, steelhead can become voracious predators, striking, then fighting with a recklessness that turns the whole experience into something approaching chaos. The remarkable strength and ferocity of well hooked steelhead, tearing line wildly off the reel with freight train runs up and down the river, is an experience that is burned into the memory of a fortunate few.
With steelhead populations spread broadly across Southeast and Southcentral Alaska, there are many places to pursue these fish in our state. However, most of these populations are very small, consisting of 200 or fewer fish, which, when combined with the remoteness of many steelhead streams and the temperamental weather of the region to make steelhead fishing in Alaska challenging at best. But if you head north out from the inside waters of Southeast Alaska, tracking the wave-battered coastline past the shoulder of Mt. Fairweather and the glacial delta of the Alsek River, you’ll notice a change in topography. The sharp relief and dense forested slopes of the Southeast Alaska archipelago transitions to the broad coastal plain of the Yakutat forelands. This 50-mile stretch of coastline is patterned with pristine old growth spruce and hemlock forests that surround veins of rivers meandering from the mountains to the sea. Among the numerous productive freshwater systems of the Yakutat forelands, the most renowned is the Situk River. Originating from two lakes (Situk Lake and Mountain Lake), the Situk flows approximately 18 miles, joining with several streams in a tidal estuary before exiting directly into the Gulf of Alaska. From its headwater lakes to the ocean, the Situk drops approximately 500 meters (nearly 1,650 feet) in elevation, creating slow meandering riffles and pools that provide excellent spawning and rearing habitat for anadromous and resident fish species. The stable, diverse, and productive aquatic habitats of the Situk watershed make it one of the most productive rivers of its size in Alaska. The Situk is home to significant populations of all five North American Pacific salmon species, Dolly Varden, rainbow trout, eulachon, also known as hooligan, and most remarkably, the largest known population of steelhead in Alaska.
The Situk offers many miles of accessible fishing locations to the angler willing to hike.
The acknowledged ecological and economic value of this fishery led to formalized assessment methods conducted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) beginning in 1988. The ADF&G weir on the lower Situk uses an underwater camera to count and sample post-spawn steelhead as they emigrate back out to sea. Over the past 10 years, an average of over 6,000 steelhead were counted at the weir, with a high count of over 15,000 occurring in 2006. The steelhead sport fishery on the Situk River is the largest in the region, on average over sixty percent of the steelhead caught in Southeast Alaska are caught on the Situk. While sport fish regulations in Southeast Alaska allow for the annual harvest of two steelhead, 36 inches or longer in length, the harvest of Situk steelhead has dropped to nearly zero in recent years as anglers have voluntarily adopted catch-and-release fishing practices.
But the Situk isn’t a great place to catch steelhead just because there are a lot of steelhead, it is also a uniquely accessible river. Daily jet service from Juneau or Anchorage makes it surprisingly easy to get to the remote coastal village of Yakutat, and several lodges and bed and breakfast operations cater specifically to steelhead anglers each spring. Once you’ve made it to Yakutat, the relatively small size of the Situk and miles of trails along the upper and lower sections of river allow it to be fished very effectively by wading anglers, especially those willing to put in some miles. For those who prefer fishing from a boat, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) maintained launch ramp at 9-Mile bridge is the starting point for a 13-mile float down the river to the lower Situk landing pull out. This full day float gives anglers access to miles and miles of premium fishable waters, including stretches difficult to reach on foot. Many anglers choose to utilize the services of local guides from lodges or independent operations, this is great way to get a crash course on Situk steelhead but is certainly not necessary to find fish.
The Situk is also an ideal destination for the DIY angler, many of whom prefer to camp near the river to maximize time on the water. The USFS tent platforms at 9-mile bridge are perfect for getting you out of the moss and under some cover, but there are numerous places for anglers on foot or floating the river to camp as the Situk falls completely within the Tongass National Forest. There are also three USFS public use cabins in the Situk River watershed, two of which are located about 2 miles downstream from 9-mile bridge, which can be accessed by boat, foot, or plane. The third cabin is on Situk Lake which is about a 3.5-mile hike from the Situk Lake trailhead, possibly longer depending on the snow conditions of the roads in early spring. These popular cabins book up well in advance of steelhead season but can provide welcomed shelter and warmth from the unforgiving weather of the spring and fall seasons in Southeast Alaska.
A fish that won’t be soon forgotten.
Having spent nearly 15 seasons on the Situk, I am most struck by the connection many anglers have developed to this river and its fish. It’s not uncommon to strike up a gravel bar conversation with someone who has been fishing the Situk for 30 years or more. It is a place where parents bring their kids and grown-ups bring their parents. These connections are fostered by the uncommon opportunities the Yakutat area and the Situk provide to all anglers. A chance to step away from the hustle of daily life, to climb into waders in the predawn darkness, to ready the boat or strategize on which section of the river to hike, and to go find a fish that you will remember forever.
The Situk and its fish provide this opportunity because complex biological systems of forest, river, and ocean come together to produce and sustain a population of steelhead that is as wild and healthy as the ecosystem around them. To protect this opportunity anglers must be stewards of the fish and of the place, we must prioritize careful conservation of the steelhead population and of the watershed that supports it. During my time on the Situk I’ve seen the effects of thousands of anglers visiting this river each year, littered trails and campsites, stream bank erosion, giant tangles of fishing line and gear in river. These impacts combine to degrade the health of the ecosystem itself, as well as the experience anglers have on the river. We must also remember that this area is the ancestral home of the local Native community and that the Situk River literally provides the food locals depend on to live.
So, when you do finally visit the Situk I hope you’ll bring feelings of respect and responsibility to match the excitement we all feel when the opportunity to catch a wild steelhead draws near. Remember to tread lightly, the gravel you’re stepping on may hold the eggs of the fish you’ll hope to catch in a few years. Remember to pack out what you pack in, to skip a few grip and grin pictures and keep ‘em wet as much as you can, to use only single hooks, and never use bait. These are a few of the easy things all visitors to the Situk can do to help ensure we can all continue to connect to this wild place and these wild fish.
Matt Catterson is the Division of Sport Fish Management Biologist for the Yakutat area. Having spent years pursuing steelhead recreationally and professionally across Northern Southeast Alaska, he is happy to chat with anyone considering a steelhead trip to the Yakutat Area or beyond.
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Headline: Romance Documentary Examines Depth of Commitment in Relationships
Love, Etc. is a particularly poignant examination of love which magically ushers the audience right into the middle of the romantic relationships of a variety of native New Yorkers. Over the course of the film, each couple faces a crisis of different sort, and watching them struggle to resolve their issues proves to be most compelling.
The documentary marks the directorial debut of Jill Andresevic who deserves high praise for earning the trust of her subjects to the point that they allowed her to capture their intimate, emotional exchanges on camera. She must also be credited for editing the film in an entertaining fashion which ratchets up the tension and keeps you guessing about the ultimate fates of the five unions.
Each couple’s tale gets its own title, beginning with “Getting Married” which revolves around the impending, elaborate wedding of Chitra and Mahendra, an Indian-American couple from Jamaica, Queens. He’s an unemployed attorney and is clearly unenthusiastic about getting hitched. By contrast, she’s a paralegal and gung ho despite being the breadwinner and having a sexist fiancé who expects her to do the housework when she arrives home in the evening.
Chitra is warned by her mother that “You can have all the money in the world, but if you don’t have a partner who loves and respects you, it means nothing.” So, it isn’t much of a surprise that they’re in crisis soon after exchanging their vows.
“Starting Over” revolves around Ethan, a single-father from Forest Hills who has custody of his two kids, ages 12 and 14. A construction worker, he freely confesses to having little confidence with women whether he meets them on the job or online.
Consequently, the woman he’s currently dating, Erica, is the mother of a friend of his son. Trouble is he’s Jewish, she’s Catholic. Furthermore, she hates his drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes which makes the liaison look doomed from the start.
“Starting a Family” is all about Scott, a gay theater director who lives in Harlem. He hears his biological clock ticking, and finds a female willing to serve as a surrogate mom. However, after the twins arrive 9 months later, he has a difficult finding a partner interest in babies until family-minded David comes along.
“First Love” examines the commitment of a couple of high school sweethearts from SoHo, Brazilian-immigrant Gabriel and straight-A student Danielle. These 18 year-olds have huge crushes on each other, and they-re dreading the prospect of separating when she leaves town for Dartmouth University while he sticks around to matriculate at a film school in Manhattan.
Finally, there’s “Lasting Love” which chronicles the enduring bond between Albert and Marion, who are still crazy about each other after 48 years of marriage. The Canarsie natives also shared a long professional career collaborating as a successful songwriting team, although today doting Albert devotes most of his time to caring for his 89 year-old wife who suffers from dementia.
“Sometimes, she doesn’t know who I am,” he concedes. “But when you love someone, the feelings get stronger as the years go by.” I guarantee that there won’t be a dry eye in the house when Marion responds by taking his hand and whispering “It was nice loving you.”
Distributor: Paladin
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Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS Chapter 947
FLORIDA COMMISSION ON OFFENDER REVIEW; CONDITIONAL RELEASE; CONTROL RELEASE; PAROLE View Entire Chapter
947.141 Violations of conditional release, control release, or conditional medical release or addiction-recovery supervision.—
(1) If a member of the commission or a duly authorized representative of the commission has reasonable grounds to believe that an offender who is on release supervision under s. 947.1405, s. 947.146, s. 947.149, or s. 944.4731 has violated the terms and conditions of the release in a material respect, such member or representative may cause a warrant to be issued for the arrest of the releasee; if the offender was found to be a sexual predator, the warrant must be issued.
(2) Upon the arrest on a felony charge of an offender who is on release supervision under s. 947.1405, s. 947.146, s. 947.149, or s. 944.4731, the offender must be detained without bond until the initial appearance of the offender at which a judicial determination of probable cause is made. If the trial court judge determines that there was no probable cause for the arrest, the offender may be released. If the trial court judge determines that there was probable cause for the arrest, such determination also constitutes reasonable grounds to believe that the offender violated the conditions of the release. Within 24 hours after the trial court judge’s finding of probable cause, the detention facility administrator or designee shall notify the commission and the department of the finding and transmit to each a facsimile copy of the probable cause affidavit or the sworn offense report upon which the trial court judge’s probable cause determination is based. The offender must continue to be detained without bond for a period not exceeding 72 hours excluding weekends and holidays after the date of the probable cause determination, pending a decision by the commission whether to issue a warrant charging the offender with violation of the conditions of release. Upon the issuance of the commission’s warrant, the offender must continue to be held in custody pending a revocation hearing held in accordance with this section.
(3) Within 45 days after notice to the Florida Commission on Offender Review of the arrest of a releasee charged with a violation of the terms and conditions of conditional release, control release, conditional medical release, or addiction-recovery supervision, the releasee must be afforded a hearing conducted by a commissioner or a duly authorized representative thereof. If the releasee elects to proceed with a hearing, the releasee must be informed orally and in writing of the following:
(a) The alleged violation with which the releasee is charged.
(b) The releasee’s right to be represented by counsel.
(c) The releasee’s right to be heard in person.
(d) The releasee’s right to secure, present, and compel the attendance of witnesses relevant to the proceeding.
(e) The releasee’s right to produce documents on the releasee’s own behalf.
(f) The releasee’s right of access to all evidence used against the releasee and to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses.
(g) The releasee’s right to waive the hearing.
(4) Within a reasonable time following the hearing, the commissioner or the commissioner’s duly authorized representative who conducted the hearing shall make findings of fact in regard to the alleged violation. A panel of no fewer than two commissioners shall enter an order determining whether the charge of violation of conditional release, control release, conditional medical release, or addiction-recovery supervision has been sustained based upon the findings of fact presented by the hearing commissioner or authorized representative. By such order, the panel may revoke conditional release, control release, conditional medical release, or addiction-recovery supervision and thereby return the releasee to prison to serve the sentence imposed, reinstate the original order granting the release, or enter such other order as it considers proper. Effective for inmates whose offenses were committed on or after July 1, 1995, the panel may order the placement of a releasee, upon a finding of violation pursuant to this subsection, into a local detention facility as a condition of supervision.
(5) Effective for inmates whose offenses were committed on or after July 1, 1995, notwithstanding the provisions of ss. 775.08, former 921.001, 921.002, 921.187, 921.188, 944.02, and 951.23, or any other law to the contrary, by such order as provided in subsection (4), the panel, upon a finding of guilt, may, as a condition of continued supervision, place the releasee in a local detention facility for a period of incarceration not to exceed 22 months. Prior to the expiration of the term of incarceration, or upon recommendation of the chief correctional officer of that county, the commission shall cause inquiry into the inmate’s release plan and custody status in the detention facility and consider whether to restore the inmate to supervision, modify the conditions of supervision, or enter an order of revocation, thereby causing the return of the inmate to prison to serve the sentence imposed. The provisions of this section do not prohibit the panel from entering such other order or conducting any investigation that it deems proper. The commission may only place a person in a local detention facility pursuant to this section if there is a contractual agreement between the chief correctional officer of that county and the Department of Corrections. The agreement must provide for a per diem reimbursement for each person placed under this section, which is payable by the Department of Corrections for the duration of the offender’s placement in the facility. This section does not limit the commission’s ability to place a person in a local detention facility for less than 1 year.
(6) Whenever a conditional release, control release, conditional medical release, or addiction-recovery supervision is revoked by a panel of no fewer than two commissioners and the releasee is ordered to be returned to prison, the releasee, by reason of the misconduct, shall be deemed to have forfeited all gain-time or commutation of time for good conduct, as provided for by law, earned up to the date of release. However, if a conditional medical release is revoked due to the improved medical or physical condition of the releasee, the releasee shall not forfeit gain-time accrued before the date of conditional medical release. This subsection does not deprive the prisoner of the right to gain-time or commutation of time for good conduct, as provided by law, from the date of return to prison.
(7) If a law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that an offender who is on release supervision under s. 947.1405, s. 947.146, s. 947.149, or s. 944.4731 has violated the terms and conditions of his or her release by committing a felony offense, the officer shall arrest the offender without a warrant, and a warrant need not be issued in the case.
History.—s. 20, ch. 88-122; s. 17, ch. 89-531; s. 20, ch. 90-337; s. 1, ch. 93-2; s. 5, ch. 93-61; s. 5, ch. 93-277; s. 1, ch. 94-121; ss. 40, 58, ch. 95-283; s. 30, ch. 97-194; s. 4, ch. 97-239; s. 15, ch. 2001-110; s. 2, ch. 2002-255; s. 49, ch. 2004-11; s. 45, ch. 2014-191.
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Robert Smithson Personal Library Wish List
There are many books that comprised Smithson's personal library; thus the Wish List represents the books that are the PLL's most wanted. This list will grow and change as Smithson books are acquired.
In accordance with the Library's acquisition policy (and due to Tatransky's detailed cataloguing) I am trying to acquire the same edition of the books if possible. I am also following Tatransky's categories in the following list:
The Elementary Structures of Kinship by Claude Levi-Strauss (Beacon, 1969)
The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of "Cargo" Cults in Melanesia by Peter Worsley
ART & AESTHETICS:
Anonyme Skulpturen: Eine Typologie technischer Bauten by Bern and Hilla Becher (Art-Press Verlag, 1970)
Arte Povera by Germano Celant (Mazzotta, 1969)
A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture by KAC Creswell (Penguin, 1958)
The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message by D. Davidson and H. Aldersmith
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach by Ernst Fischer (Penguin, 1963)
Heaven and Hell in Western Art by Robert Hughes (Stein and Day, 1968)
Frederick Law Olmstead's New York by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (Praeger, 1972)
CRITICISM:
Borges: The Labyrinth Maker by Ana Maria Barrenechea (New York University Press, 1965)
Poetry and Mathematics by Scott Buchanan (Lippincott, 1962)
Science Fiction: The Other Side of Realism; Essays on Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thomas D. Clareson, editor (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971)
The Reactionaries: A Study of Anti-Democratic Intelligensia by John Harrison (Schocken, 1967)
Leon Bloy by Rayner Heppenstall (Yale University Press, 1954)
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode (Oxford Univ Press, 1967)
Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets by Marjorie Hope Nicolson (Princeton University Press, 1966)
For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction by Alain Robbe-Grillet (Grove, 1965)
The Rise of Romance by Eugene Vinaver (Oxford University Press, 1971)
The City as Metaphor by David Weimer (Random House, 1966)
FICTION & POETRY:
The Draught by J.G. Ballard (Penguin, 1968)
The Essence of Laughter, and Other Essays, Journals and Letters by Charles Baudelaire (Meridian, 1956)
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges (Dutton, 1970)
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (Penguin, 1962)
The Image by Jean De Berg (Grove, 1966)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (Doubleday)
Selected Writings of Thomas De Quincey by Thomas De Quincey (Random House, 1937)
Notes From the Underground, Poor People, The Friend of the Family: Three Short Novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dell, 1960)
The Immoralist by Andre Gide (Vintage, 1958)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway
Winner Take Nothing by Earnest Hemingway (Scribner, 1961)
Selected Writings by Paul Valery (New Directions, 1964)
From Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
The Aeneid by Virgil (Penguin, 1956)
Candide; or, Optimism by Voltaire (Penguin, 1958)
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS & ECONOMICS:
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich (Ballantine, 1968)
The Civil War by Harry Hansen (Mentor, 1961)
The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler by Arthur Koestler (Anchor, 1960)
The Fool: His Social and Literary History by Enid Welsford (Doubleday, 1961)
The Puritan Oligarchy: The Founding of American Civilization by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (Scribner, 1947)
In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign by Leon Wolff (Ballantine, 1958)
LINGUISTICS:
The Logical Syntax of Language by Rudolf Carnap (Littlefield, Adams, 1959)
Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification by L. Wieger (Dover, 1965)
The Subconscious Language by Theodore Thass-Thienemann (Washington Square Press, 1967)
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction by J. Eric S. Thompson (University of Oklahoma Press, 1960)
The Serial Universe by J.W. Dunne (Faber & Faber, 1955)
Against Entropy by Michael Frayn (Viking, 1967)
Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger (Harper & Row, 1971)
Further Speculations by T.E. Hulme (University of Nebraska Press, 1962)
On the Nature of the Universe by Titus Lucretius Carus (Penguin, 1955)
Literature and Technology: The Alien Vision by Wylie Sypher (Random House, 1968)
Thoreau: The Major Essays by Henry David Thoreau (Dutton, 1972)
Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Anchor, 1966)
A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Univ of Chicago Press, 1970)
Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities by Mircea Eliade (Harper, 1957)
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud (Vintage, 1918)
Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung (Dell, 1964)
Hypnosis: Theory, Practice and Application by Raphael Rhodes (Citadel, 1950)
The Documents of the Vatican II by Walter Abbott, ed. (American, 1966)
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos (Doubleday Image, 1962)
The Book of the Dead: An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, Trans. E.A. Wallis Budge (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960)
The Cloud of Unknowing by G.K. Chesterton (Penguin, 1961)
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (McGraw-Hill, 1963)
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis (Image, 1955)
Zohar, the book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem, ed. (Schocken, 1968)
Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor (Dover)
A Textbook of Mineralogy, with an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy by Edward Salisbury Dana (Wiley, 1958)
The Observer's Book of Common Insects and Spiders by E.F. Linssen and L. Hugh Newman (Warne, 1960)
Islands: Their Lives, Legends, and Lore by Seon and Robert Manley (Chilton, 1970)
The History of Atlantis by Lewis Spence (University, 1968)
Perpetual Motion: Electrons and Atoms in Crystals by Alec Stewart (Anchor, 1965)
Polymorphism and Polytypism in Crystals by Ajit Ram Verma and P. Krishna (Wiley, 1966)
TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY:
The Deserted Village at Allaire by Alden Cottrell (1960)
Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide (University of California Press, 1962)
The Salton Sea: Yesterday and Today by Mildred de Stanley (Triumph)
Labels: Robert Smithson Wish List
The Second PLL Collection: Robert Smithson!
Robert Smithson Personal Library Catalogue
New Additions to Maria Mitchell Personal Library
Maria Mitchell Personal Library Catalogue
Maria Mitchell Personal Library Collection Wish List
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"Screening detects lung cancer earlier, benefits unclear"
Published: 11 Aug 2022
Category: Diagnostic Test
A scan is helping doctors to identify lung cancer earlier but it may cause needless anxiety for some, a cancer prevention specialist says.
An international clinical trial aims to determine whether giving regular CT scans to smokers and ex-smokers picks up lung cancer tumours earlier, when the disease may be more curable.
It's too soon to say that screening healthy people with spiral CT scans can actually save lives because experts don't know whether small tumours in the lung will go on to become dangerous.
"We may be able to pick them up at earlier stages," said Dr. Barnett Kramer of the National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Md. "But that is not the same as actually benefiting patients. It's certainly not proof that you'll decrease their risk of dying of lung cancer."
The original article can be found at: http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/08/11/lung-cancer050811.html
Total Score 6 of 9
Availability of Test Not Satisfactory
Novelty of Test Satisfactory
Diagnostic Options Not Satisfactory
Disease Mongering Satisfactory
Evidence Satisfactory
Quantification of Diagnostic Accuracy/Benefits Satisfactory
Costs of Testing Not Satisfactory
Harms of Testing Satisfactory
Sources of Information Satisfactory
This article aims to report on an ongoing international clinical trial about the benefits of regular CT scans to smokers and ex-smokers in early detection of lung cancer. The story does not exaggerate the benefits of the treatment, and advises the reader of the potential for false positives. These are both very good caveats in any story about the use of diagnostic testing.
At the same time, the journalist could have covered, in a more detailed fashion, the costs and availability of the treatment, type of the study, inclusion criteria, follow-up period and could have attempted to garner some independent corroboration to these findings.
Also, background information about prevalence, incidence, survival and population at risk of lung cancer need to be included.
One thing that is suspicious about this story is the anecdote related to the patient who apparently had a CT scan and the fact she believes it saved her life and can thank the test, when nothing in the story supports this kind of conclusion. Certainly, there is no problem using anecdotes in health stories, as long as they don't mislead the readers to misunderstand the effectiveness of the treatment or diagnostic test.
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