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|*March 1 - 7
|Discipleship Under Pressure
Read for This Week's Study:
|1 Kings 18; Matt. 26:56; Luke 9:51-56; John 6:1-15, 12:1-6, 18:1-11, 21:15-19.
Memory Text:
|"If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the flooding of the Jordan?" (Jeremiah 12:5, NKJV).
|Ever hear of Murphy's law? It is
considered by some to be one of the fundamental laws of nature, as pervasive
as gravity and electromagnetism. Stated briefly, it reads: Whatever can go
wrong will go wrong.
We have all had moments, even days (or longer), that seem to follow Murphy's law. Sometimes our experiences as disciples seem to follow it, as well. No doubt, we have the promises of God that should help us not to get discouraged, but how easy it is sometimes, even with the promises, to be tempted to give up in despair. Of course, no matter what, we never should.
This week we will look at some disciples and see what we can learn from their bad days.
This Week at a Glance:
|What warning should we take away from the disciples' bid for political power? What lessons does Judas have for us? What was behind James' and John's willingness to destroy those who rejected Jesus? What can we take away from Peter's rashness and repentance? Why, after having seen so much, did all the disciples forsake Jesus in the hour of His great need?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, March 8.
|March 2
The Power Model
Religious faith can be a very powerful tool, either for good or for evil. The same kind of drive that motivates someone to "lose his life" (Matt. 16:25) for Christ's sake can, in other circumstances, drive others to blow themselves up in the name of God. After all, if you believe that God is calling you to do something, who is going to let any kind of earthly or worldly considerations stand in your way? That is why, for instance, some governments seek to quell religion among the people, because they do not want people having allegiance to a higher authority, and you cannot get any higher than the Divine. On the other hand, governments are not immune from seeking to co-opt the incredible power of religion, and using it to their own advantage. The disciple of Christ has to be aware of the various dangers involved with abusing the power of religion.
Read John 6:1-15. What lesson can we learn from this about how the disciple of Christ should view political power?
Though, of course, Jesus' purpose on earth was not to become an earthly king, it is clear that garnering earthly political power should not be equated with doing the work of discipleship. That God can put people in power, or that He can use people in power, is one thing; it is another to somehow view the amassing of political power in the name of God as the work of God, the work of discipleship. Nothing in the New Testament presents this power model of the gospel. Unfortunately, even His closest disciples missed this important point: "The disciples unite with the multitude in declaring the throne of David the rightful inheritance of their Master. It is the modesty of Christ, they say, that causes Him to refuse such honor. . . . They eagerly arrange to carry out their purpose."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 378. Building on the eager expectation and enthusiasm of the multitude, they forcefully attempted to take Jesus and make Him king over the nation (John 6:14, 15). This was discipleship their way. In reaction to this move, Jesus dismissed the multitude, sent the disciples to cross the lake, and went into the mountains alone to pray.
|What are ways, even on a more personal level, that we can abuse religion and co-opt it for our own selfish ends?
|March 3
The Greed Model
Someone once said, "If you want to get rich, start a religion." How unfortunate, but there is a lot of truth to that cynical statement. After all, when dealing with religious faith, we are dealing with some of the most important aspects of human existence. We are dealing with the meaning of life, with the hope of eternity, with the belief that we are forgiven by God for our sins. However much Jesus Himself, by model and example, lived a life of self-denial and poverty, however much He warned us against getting caught up in the things of this world, church history is replete with examples of those who have used the power of religion and religious ideas to gain wealth for themselves, often at the expense of the poor.
Read John 12:1-6 and then answer the following questions:
1. What symbolism is found in the act of Mary? In other words, in what ways does it represent the attitudes of the true disciple of Christ? See also Matt. 13:46, Phil. 3:8.
2. What does this story tell us about the importance of the motives of our actions?
3. The texts say that Lazarus, the resurrected Lazarus, was at the table with them. Why does that fact make Judas' actions even more repugnant, more indicative of how blinded he was by his own sin?
It is with good reason that Paul made the famous statement he did in 1 Timothy 6:10. Judas eventually lost his soul over his love of money. From the start, it seems, he was looking out only for number one; he himself, and the desire to gain things for himself, was woven all through his own discipleship. Of course, the other disciples were not totally selfless either, but with Judas it got the best of him.
|How can you be sure that greedy motives are not poisoning your role as a disciple of Christ? More so, if you detect some impure motives, how can you be purged of them?
|March 4
The Thunder Model
There were at least two pairs of brothers among Jesus' twelve disciples. At their call, Jesus surnamed the pair of James and John Boanerges, or "sons of thunder" (Mark 3:17). Some commentators believe that Jesus gave them this name because of their vehement temperament and fiery temper. Therefore, we have chosen to call their approach to discipleship the thunder model.
Read Luke 9:51-56. Look at the reaction of the disciples to the rejection of Jesus. As you read this, try to put yourself in the place of these disciples. What reasons would they have for reacting as they did? In other words, what things did they hear Jesus say, or what other Old Testament examples might they have drawn from, that could have caused them to react as they did? See, for example, Gen. 6, 7; Matt. 8:12; 13:42; Mark 6:11.
A number of problems exist with the reaction of the disciples. There is here zeal for the Lord, which is good, which all disciples should have. But misdirected zeal, even in a good cause, can produce more harm than good. For instance, James and John used the story of Elijah as their model. The only problem is that they misused it. Elijah brought fire down from heaven to consume sacrifices (1 Kings 18), not recalcitrant people (he had them slain another way).
Even worse, of course, was their harsh and judgmental attitude toward sinners. The work of every disciple of Christ should be that of seeking ways to bring sinners to the foot of the Cross, to show them the incredible mercy and grace of God, who in Himself bore the punishment of their sins. Thus, no matter how sinful their lives have been, through Jesus they can have full pardon, full forgiveness, and a new life in Him. That is our work as disciples; we can leave the judging to the Lord.
|How judgmental are you toward those whom you deem wayward and wrong? How do we show these people the grace and mercy of God, while at the same time not giving the impression that we condone or approve of their lives and/or beliefs?
|March 5
The Repentant-Peter Model
Peter is known as that impetuous disciple who always had something to say on everything. Luke 22:33, 34 says he was so sure of himself and his discipleship that he promised to go with Jesus even to prison and death. Of course, not long after, he had to retract those words (Matt. 26:69-75).
Read John 18:1-11. What does this tell us about the personality and character of Peter, especially in light of Matthew 26:69-75?
We all know about Peter's failure. It exists as a powerful lesson to all disciples of Christ. We cannot work for the Lord in our own power. How crucial it is that we day by day surrender ourselves to Jesus. He is the Vine, we are the branches; without Him we can do nothing, especially not be faithful disciples. Again, zeal for the Lord and His cause is wonderful, but it must be done under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Read John 21:15-19. What does this teach us about what Jesus can do for those of His disciples who, repenting of their mistakes, do not give up on Christ?
"Here is given a lesson for all Christ's followers. The gospel makes no compromise with evil. It cannot excuse sin. Secret sins are to be confessed in secret to God; but, for open sin, open confession is required. . . . By giving proof of repentance, the disciple, so far as lies in His power, is to remove this reproach. . . . Three times Peter had openly denied his Lord, and three times Jesus drew from him the assurance of his love and loyalty, pressing home that pointed question, like a barbed arrow to his wounded heart. Before the assembled disciples Jesus revealed the depth of Peter's repentance, and showed how thoroughly humbled was the once boasting disciple."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, pp. 811, 812.
Notice what Jesus said to Peter in John 21:18, 19. Jesus basically, was telling Peter that in the end, Peter would end up dying for the Lord he so fervently loved. Peter's words, in the end, came true, but only after he had learned some hard lessons about discipleship.
|Have you made boastful promises, only to fail time and again, from fulfilling them? What can you take away from the story of Peter that can help you not to give up?
|March 6
The Flight Model
"Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled" (Matt. 26:56).
The disciples spent three and a half years with Jesus. They had privileges that very few in the world ever had. They saw things few humans ever did. After all, among the world's billions, how many ever saw Jesus in the flesh? More so, how many ever interacted day after day with Him while He was here in the flesh? These disciples were among the most privileged humans ever to have lived.
Of course, that was part of the problemthey were humans, fallen humans, and thus no matter what the Lord did for them, the lessons were not easily learned.
Skim through a Gospel, any Gospel. What were the amazing things that Jesus said and did in the sight of His disciples? How much incredible proof did He give them concerning who He was? After going over those incidents, look at the text for today. What fearful message, even warning, can we draw from this for ourselves?
Knowing He would be leaving them, Jesus prepared the disciples for His departure, but they did not listen. Knowing what would happen in Jerusalem, He prepared them for His passion, but they did not listen. They arrived in Jerusalem totally unprepared.
During Jesus' ministry, the disciples seemed to look at what He did rather than to listen to what He said. His deeds confirmed their Messianic hopes, and that pleased them very much. At the Transfiguration the Heavenly voice called them to listen to Jesus, yet they did not benefit from His instructions about the Passion.
Following the Passover meal, Jesus tried to show His followers what lay ahead, but they would not listen. In the Garden, He tried to get them to pray to gain strength, but they slept.
Meditate on all that Jesus has done for you: the promises, the hope, the gifts given you, the changes made in your life, the evidences for your faith, all through Christ. How can we, by clinging to these things, avoid the mistakes of the disciples?
|March 7
Further Study:
|Read The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, pp. 208-211, 465, 466,
524-529, 595-597, 635, 636, 775, 776, 962, 963, 2020, 2021; Ellen G. White,
The Desire of Ages, pp. 364-380,
437, 438,
809-817; The Acts of the Apostles,
pp. 539-543.
"The love of money in the heart of Judas was growing with the exercise of his shrewd abilities. His practical financiering ability, if exercised and enlightened and moulded by the Holy Spirit, would have been of great service to the little church, and by the sanctification of his spirit he would have had a clear insight, a correct discernment to appreciate heavenly things. But worldly policy plans were constantly cherished by Judas. There was no outbreaking sin on his part, but his sharp scheming, the selfish, parsimonious spirit that took possession of him, finally led him to sell his Lord for a small sum of money."Ellen G. White, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1101.
"Judas was with Christ through the entire period of the Saviour's public ministry. He had all that Christ could give him. . . . Had he sought to be a blessing, instead of a questioning, criticizing, selfish man, the Lord would have used him to advance His kingdom. But Judas was a speculator. He thought that he could manage the finances of the church, and by his sharpness in business get gain. He was divided in heart. He loved the praise of the world. He refused to give up the world for Christ. He never committed his eternal interests to Christ. . . . Judas was a religious fraud."Ellen G. White, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1101, 1102.
Discussion Questions:
| If disciples are followers, are those who follow their
own ideas and programs still disciples? Dwell on that question and your answer.
What other models of discipleship under pressure can you think of, and what lessons can we learn from them?
While we can find in Peter someone who jumped ahead too fast, only to stumble and fall, what are the dangers of being too cautious? In what ways can we go too far the other way? Think about this and bring some thoughts to class. As you do, think about your local church as a whole. Is your church too ready to jump ahead of the Lord, or does it tend to be too timid to follow the leading of the Lord? What can you do, as a class, to help your church strike the right balance?
|I N S I D E Story
|Death in the Night
by JAMES APPEL
A cool east wind chilled my tired body. Sarah and I prayed then crawled into bed to sleep. The chirping of thousands of African insects lulled me to sleep.
A soft tap, tapping on the door pulled me awake. "Doctor?" David's voice stirred my consciousness.
"Yes," I replied groggily.
"One of the patients has died. The family has arrived with their ox cart to take the body to their village for burial. But I can't open the combination lock on the gate."
I became aware of the wails and shrieks of mourning as I pulled aside the mosquito net and grabbed my flashlight.
"I'm coming," I mumbled as I searched for my clothes. I pushed open the metal door, slipped on my flip flops, and followed David toward the hospital.
"Aaaahh! Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh! Aye yi yi yi yi yi yi!" The nightmarish sounds wafted across the campus as we approached the gate. I dialed the combination and tugged the lock open. David opened the gate, and two shadowy forms slipped silently past us. Outside a group of women, one with a baby strapped to her back, danced the dance of death, their arms flailing the air. Others sat in a tight bunch accompanying the dancers with chants, wails, and moans of death. A man beat his breast as an agonizing yell tore from his throat. Dogs barked at the nighttime disturbance.
Anger, pity, and sorrow welled up within me. These same people had let their relative lie sick for a week before bringing him to the hospital. They couldn't afford to pay $20 for his treatment; yet now they will spend hundreds of dollars to feed relatives and friends who will come for his funeral. People will gather and "weep" to prove their sorrow and to be sure that his spirit doesn't come back to haunt them.
I am sick of the fear of death, the spirits, and the hauntings that these people endure. It breaks my heart to see the ignorance that holds them captive. I know the One who has promised to "free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death" (Heb. 2:15).
But fighting against so much superstition and fear and tradition seems so overwhelming.
The two men reappear pulling the ox cart past us. We replace the lock, then I walk back home as the sounds of the funeral procession fade into the dark African night.
"Lord Jesus," I pray, "what can I do to show them Your way? How can I teach them to trust You with their lives-and their death?"
JAMES APPEL is a missionary doctor serving Bere. Chad.
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Climate change deniers hope that the current scientific consensus is a fad that will pass in time. They hope to obstruct action long enough for the scientific consensus to change.
Scientists, on the other hand, point out that every passing year adds more evidence that the planet is warming and the consequences will be catastrophic. They point to warnings made in the 1960s by scientists who probably wore bell bottom trousers. The scientists no longer wear bell bottoms, but their science has stood the test of time and become more robust.
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What do forward-looking fashionistas see in this situation?
- NASA says "Bright is the New Black" in this report about roof tops in New York city.
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- Going Green is the new black according to research by Paul Griffin of UC Davis and Yuan Sun of UC Berkeley, titled Going Green: Market Reaction to CSR Newswire Releases.
Companies that voluntarily issue press releases disclosing their carbon emission information see their stock prices rise significantly in the following days.
- The National Wildlife Federation observes that species that depend on camouflage to blend in with snow in the winter face unique threats from climate change. Are they fashion victims or climate change victims?
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Sri Lankan craftsmanship has a long and vibrant history, and a visit to any museum will turn up objects testifying to the skill of the island's earlier artisans, who have for centuries been producing exquisitely manufactured objects in a wide variety of media, ranging from lacework and ola-leaf manuscripts to carvings in ivory and wood and elaborate metalwork and batiks.
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Unfortunately, despite these fine traditions, much modern Sri Lankan craftsmanship has largely degenerated into the mass production of a few stereotypical items, and shopping is something of a disappointment compared to nearby countries such as India or Thailand. The decline in creativity is exemplified by the nationwide chain of government-run Laksala shops, whose outlets are stuffed to the gills with a predictable assortment of clumsily painted wooden elephants, kolam masks, ugly batiks and other tourist tat. It's not all bad news, however, and there are still a few worthwhile exceptions, especially in Colombo, which is also the best place to buy everything else Sri Lanka has to offer, from books to tea and discount clothing.
All larger shops have fixed, marked prices, although if you're making a major purchase or buying several items, a polite request for a "special price" or "small discount" might knock a few rupees off, especially for gems or jewellery. The smaller and more informal the outlet, the more scope for bargaining there's likely to be – if you're, say, buying a sarong from an itinerant hawker on the beach, you can haggle to your heart's content.
Finally, there are a couple of things you shouldn't buy. Remember that buying coral or shells (or any other marine product) contributes directly to the destruction of the island's fragile ocean environment; it's also illegal, and you're likely to end up paying a heavy fine if you try to take coral out of the country. Note that it's also illegal to export antiques (classified as anything over fifty years old) without a licence (see Handicrafts).
The superb website w craftrevival.org (follow the Sri Lanka link under "Crafts") has copious information on all the island's traditional arts and crafts.
The most characteristic – and clichéd – Sri Lankan souvenirs are brightly painted masks, originally designed to be worn during kolam dances or exorcism ceremonies (see Low-country dancing) and now found for sale wherever there are tourists (though the sheer quantity churned out means that many are of indifferent quality and sloppily painted). Masks vary in size from the tiny to the huge; the vast majority depict either the pop-eyed Gara Yaka or the bird demon Gurulu Raksha, though if you hunt around you may find other designs. Some masks are artificially but attractively aged to resemble antiques – a lot easier on the eye than the lurid colours in which most are painted. The centre of mask production is Ambalangoda, where there are a number of large shops selling a wide range of designs, some of heirloom quality.
Second in popularity are elephant carvings. These range from small wooden creatures painted with bright polka-dot patterns to the elegant stone carvings sold at places like Paradise Road in Colombo. Batiks (an art introduced by the Dutch from Indonesia) are also widespread. Designs are often stereotypical (the Sigiriya Damsels and naff beach scenes are ubiquitous), though a few places produce more unusual and interesting work.
A number of other traditional crafts struggle on with a little help from the tourist trade. Metalwork has long been produced in the Kandy area, and intricately embossed metal objects such as dishes, trays, candlesticks and other objects can be found in all the island's handicraft emporia, though they're rather fussy for most foreign tastes. Leatherwork can also be good, and you'll find a range of hats, bags, boots and footrests (the shops at Pinnewala Elephant Orphanage have a particularly good selection). Lacquerware, a speciality of the Matale area, can also sometimes be found, along with Kandyan-style drums and, occasionally, carrom boards. Wooden models of tuktuks and other vehicles are another local speciality and make good souvenirs or children's toys. They're most commonly found in Negombo, but are also increasingly available in Colombo and elsewhere on the island.
Finally, if you've a day in Colombo, it's well worth seeking out the modern handicrafts found at a few Colombo boutiques, such as Paradise Road, The Gallery Café or, especially, Barefoot, whose range of vibrantly coloured fabrics have become synonymous with modern Sri Lankan style.
Religious items
Wood or stone Buddha carvings of varying standards are common. For something a bit more unusual, the brightly coloured posters or strip-pictures of Buddhist and Hindu deities which adorn tuktuks and buses across Sri Lanka are sold by pavement hawkers and stationers' shops everywhere and make a cheap and characterful souvenir, while a visit to Kataragama or a trawl along St Anthony's Mawatha in Colombo will uncover an entertaining assortment of other religious kitsch, from bleeding Catholic saints to illuminated Ganesh clocks.
Tea and spices
Most top-quality Ceylon tea is exported, but there's still plenty on sale that is likely to satisfy all but the most dedicated tea-fancier. The main local brand is the Dilmah (w dilmahtea.com), though look out too for the Tea Tang range (w teatang.com), comprising a first-rate selection of speciality teas, ranging from standard Sri Lankan blends through to some rare connoisseur varieties. Alternatively, for a real taste of Sri Lanka, look for unblended ("single estate") high-grown teas – a far cry from the heavily blended and homogenized teabags that pass muster in Europe and the US. You'll also find a wide range of flavoured teas made with a huge variety of ingredients, including standard offerings like lemon, orange, mint and vanilla, as well as the more unusual banana, rum, kiwi fruit or pineapple.
The best (and cheapest) place to buy tea is in a local supermarket; Cargills supermarkets islandwide usually have a good selection, including unblended single-estate teas. The specialist Mlesna tea shop chain has branches in Colombo, Kandy, Bandarawela and at the airport, although they concentrate on more touristy offerings including boxed tea sets, flavoured teas and the like.
Sri Lanka's spice gardens, mostly concentrated around Kandy and Matale, pull in loads of visitors on organized tours and sell packets of spices, often at outrageously inflated prices. You'll find identical stuff in local shops and supermarkets at a fraction of the price.
Gems and jewellery
Sri Lanka has been famous for its precious stones since antiquity, and gems and jewellery remain important to the national economy even today. This is nowhere more obvious than at the gem-mining centre of Ratnapura, where locally excavated uncut gems are traded daily on the streets. All foreign visitors to the town will be offered stones to buy, but unless you're an expert gemologist there's a strong chance that you'll end up with an expensive piece of coloured glass. Another variant on this scam is that you will be persuaded to buy gems at a special "cheap" price, with assurances that you will be able to resell them back home for several times the price you paid for them. Again, unless you're an expert, steer well clear of these deals.
Ratnapura apart, you'll find gem and jewellery shops all over the island – the major concentrations are in Negombo, Galle and Colombo. These include large chains, such as Zam Gems or Sifani, and smaller local outfits. If you are going to buy, it's worth doing some homework before you arrive so you can compare prices with those back home. You can get gems tested for authenticity in Colombo (see Department stores and shopping malls).
For silver and, especially, gold jewellery, try Sea Street in Colombo's Pettah district, which is lined with shops. These see few tourists, so prices are reasonable, although the flouncy designs on offer aren't to everyone's taste.
Clothes and books
Sri Lanka is a bit of a disappointment when it comes to clothes, and doesn't boast the gorgeous fabrics and nimble-fingered tailors of, say, India and Thailand. Having said that, the island is a major garment-manufacturing centre for overseas companies, and there are lots of good-quality Western-style clothes knocking around at bargain prices. In Colombo, places to try include the fancy Odel department store (see Clothes) or the more downmarket House of Fashions and Cotton Collection. Colourful but flimsy beachwear is flogged by shops and hawkers at all the major west-coast resorts – it's cheap and cheerful, but don't expect it to last much longer than your holiday. Most Sri Lankan women now dress Western-style in skirts and blouses, but you can still find a few shops in Colombo and elsewhere selling beautiful saris and shalwar kameez (pyjama suits) – these shops are usually easily spotted due to their enormous picture windows stuffed with colourfully costumed mannequins.
Books are relatively cheap: new paperbacks are about two-thirds of European and North American prices, and there are also lots of colourful coffee-table books and weird and wonderful works on Sri Lankan history, culture and religion that you won't find outside the island. The Vijitha Yapa bookshop has branches islandwide, and there are a number of other good bookshops in Colombo – Barefoot's is the best.
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JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – A great white shark is being tracked off the coast of Jacksonville Beach late Monday night, and the Police Department is urging people to stay out of the water until the shark leaves the area.
Jacksonville Beach police said they received information about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday from the OCEARCH ocean research group regarding a 16-foot shark was only 200 yards off the beach.
The shark weighed 3,456 pounds when it was tagged on Sept. 17 off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. She was given the name Mary Lee and is currently tracked and monitored via GPS by the research group.
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"No one had ever figured out how you catch a 5,000 pound shark, give someone 15 minutes with it and let it go alive and, we've really finally pioneered that method," said Chris Fisher with Ocearch.
Both sharks they've tagged came to Florida. When Mary Lee entered the surf zone at Jacksonville Beach, the research group notified local police of the shark's presence. There were no swimmers in the area at the time of the report.
At midday Tuesday, the shark have moved about 15 miles offshore ... good news to surfers along Jacksonville's beaches on Tuesday.
"It's not the only great white that's swimming out there. It just happens to be one that we're tracking," said fisherman Jack Ashley.
The group also advised police that a second great white named Genie, which was tagged off of Cape Cod, was moving about 40-60 miles off the coast of Jacksonville.
University of North Florida research biologists are studying the great whites track as part of a new shark research program on campus.
"It's a large collaborative, multi-agency effort between UNF and researchers in Massachusetts," said Mike McCallister. "It's a pretty unique opportunity for UNF and unique for Florida."
Their goal is to help people understand more about sharks since more than 73 million sharks are killed each year.
"The coolest thing is everyone can follow them in real time with the PhDs because we make all that information public," Fisher said.
For any tracking information regarding the sharks, go to OCEARCH's website or Facebook page. For more information on sharks or to report a great white shark sighting, click here.
Due to the size of the shark and the potential dangers, police recommended that beachgoers stay out of the water until the shark leaves the area.
"I'd still go in the water -- my choice -- but I'm pretty sure my parents aren't go in the water," one young surfer told Channel 4's Hailey Winslow.


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At the end of almost a decade spent in teaching hospitals and clinics, most (we hope all) physicians have honed their clinical acumen by focusing on the care of the patient who is right in front of them. Perhaps this is as it should be: as patients, we don't want our doctors (or nurses or social workers) distracted by "outside" considerations such as the suffering or concerns of other patients not there in the exam room or, heaven forfend, by abstractions such as the extra-personal social forces that place people in harm's way. We want the doctor focused on us, by bringing expertise and attention to our specific "illness episode" and even to our minor aches and pains. That's what we want: laser-like focus, to use another term from the medical profession, on our own "chief complaint."
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Kirk Nieuwenhuis went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBI as the New York Mets defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks, 9-0, in the middle contest of a three-game set.
Nieuwenhuis was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas prior to the game to replace outfielder Juan Lagares on the active roster.
The Mets placed Lagares on the 15-day disabled list with a pulled right hamstring. New York was also without right fielder Curtis Granderson, who is considered day-to-day after running into the fence, injuring his rib and forearm in Monday's win.
Eric Young collected three hits with two RBI and two runs scored and Andrew Brown also knocked in two RBI starting in place of Granderson.
New York starter Jenrry Mejia (2-0) went five innings and allowed just two hits with three strikeouts and two walks to earn the win. Mejia was cruising through the Diamondbacks order, but was taken out of the game after five scoreless frames because of a blister on his throwing hand.
Gonzalez Germen pitched three scoreless innings in relief and Kyle Farnsworth pitched a perfect ninth as Mets pitching held the Diamondbacks to just three hits. New York has won three of its last four.
Bronson Arroyo (1-1) was roughed up for nine runs on 10 hits over 3 1/3 innings for Arizona, which has lost five straight. His ERA rocketed up to 9.95 over three starts this season.
New York opened the game with three straight hits to load the bases. Lucas Duda then grounded into a force out that scored Young.
Brown followed with a deep sacrifice fly to center that plated Daniel Murphy. Nieuwenhuis knocked in Duda with a single up the middle in his first at-bat of the season.
The Mets tacked on a crooked number in the top of the fourth when Nieuwenhuis crushed a two-run homer to right which increased the cushion to 5-0.
Arroyo then walked Travis d'Arnaud before Omar Quintanilla doubled to center. Mejia followed with a weak fly to left for the first out of the inning, then Young and Murphy each hit singles to make it an 8-0 game. Young knocked in two with his hit and scored all the way from first when Murphy's basehit was misplayed by A.J. Pollock in center.
Arroyo was chased shortly thereafter and Randall Delgado came on in relief, immediately loading the bases by hitting Duda. Brown grounded into a force out that plated Murphy and the Mets led 9-0 after 3 1/2 frames.
Gerardo Parra walked to lead off the home half of the fourth which was the first baserunner for Arizona. Paul Goldschmidt then ripped a single down the third-base line two batters later for the Diamondbacks' first hit of the night. Parra and Goldschmidt, however, were stranded on base as the fourth came to a close.


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Dolly Parton wants to take an unlikely fan home.
"Dolly" the dog was abandoned after the country music legend's performance at the Glastonbury festival last month.
The lurcher, which has fluffy white hair, was seemingly left behind after the 150,000 revelers decamped the site in the southwest of England.
Parton has pledged to adopt the dog if its owners don't come forward soon. Animal shelter workers named the dog in the singer's honor.
Dolly is being treated for an ear infection at the Happy Landings animal shelter, which is near the festival site and is appealing for donations.
The shelter says in a statement that Dolly — the dog, that is — is a "sweet-natured older lady" and that it is waiting for her owner to come forward.
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If untreated it develops necrosis of the soft tissues and gangrene of the lower limbs.
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Event Celebrates Partnership with Bita Daryabari,
Newly Appointed International Arts Ambassador
Live Auction and Performances by
Christina Perri, America & Surprise Guests
Actress Jane Lynch ("Glee") is hosting the "Save the Arts" Fundraiser for Adopt the Arts, a Los Angeles-based charity co-founded by musician Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver) and activist Abby Berman to preserve arts programs in U.S. public schools. The Cocktail Party and Live Auction celebrates the organization's partnership with renowned philanthropist Bita Daryabari (founder and executive director, Pars Equality Center) as the newly appointed International Arts Ambassador to Adopt the Arts, and also features special performances by Christina Perri ("Jar of Hearts"), America ("Horse with No Name") and other surprise guests. The event will take place on Thursday, November 8, 2012, at The Peninsula Hotel (9882 South Santa Monica Boulevard) in Beverly Hills at 7:00 p.m.
According to Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), 50% of the children in the district are not receiving arts education. As in many school districts around the country, LAUSD has been slowly eroding its commitment to arts education, reducing the budget incrementally. The district also estimates that 80% of its student body is living at or below the poverty line, which means the vast majority of these elementary school children will not have access to the arts outside of school either.
Due to our state budget crisis, there are less and less arts classes (ie. visual art, instrumental or vocal music, dance, and theater) being offered throughout the district's 535 elementary schools. All scientific studies show that an education rich in the arts enhances academic performance, improves school culture, mitigates truancy and tardiness, and is instrumental in fully developing the young mind.
Adopt the Arts co-founder Abby Berman says, "Adopt the Arts was born out of the frustration for my own children losing education in the arts. When the system is failing, we have to take action. With influential people like my co-founder Matt Sorum adopting schools, we can preserve this valuable component to childhood development, which is also known to boost test scores. Because Federal and State funding is falling short, the responsibility is upon us as concerned parents and citizens to ensure that we are raising a new generation of healthy and fully developed individuals."
Funds raised from this event will buy art units for LAUSD schools. Just $12,000.00 will purchase a semester of art (one day per week) for an entire school.
Adopt the Arts Chair and Co-founder Matt Sorum adds, "We intend to start in our own backyard here in LA, and we will continue to adopt schools across the nation. We believe that art is a universal language that unites us all, regardless of our backgrounds. For this reason, we are appointing arts advocate Bita Daryabari as our International Arts Ambassador. We will be working closely with her to develop programs that bring a multicultural and world view to these invaluable arts programs."
Newly appointed International Arts Ambassador Bita Daryabari says, "Arts are the ultimate source of educating our minds and healing our souls—bringing cultures together and showing our children the shared heritage of our humanity. In my philanthropy work, the arts, children, and dispelling stereotypes are closest to my heart, and in my role as International Arts Ambassador for Adopt the Arts, I hope to help further the urgent cause of maintaining and improving art education for our children, and thus, help create a more tolerant world."
The Host Committee for the event includes: Matt Sorum (Chair), Abby Berman, Adrianne Zarnegin, Deborah Anderson, Wendy Thorlakson, Samantha Nugent, Maurice Pilosof and Johnathon Schaech.
The Advisory Board includes: Slash, John Stamos, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Stevens, Juliette Lewis, Danny Masterson, Shepard Fairey, Adrian Young and Gina Gershon.
Partners for the event includeThe Peninsula Hotel and Bolthouse Productions.
The event is benefitting the funding for arts programs in LAUSD elementary schools. Adopt the Arts aims to raise $1,000,000.00 in 2013.
Tickets for the event are $250.00 and can be purchased at http://adoptthearts.org/peninsula.
About Adopt the Arts
Founded in 2010, Adopt the Arts Foundation brings together well-known artists, public figures, and the general public to save the arts in America's public schools. Co-founders Abby Berman and Matt Sorum believe that it is morally and ethically incumbent upon the public-at-large to foster the creativity, dreams, hopes, and imaginations of our children. Adopt the Arts is dedicated to improving the academic performance of every child through the gift of making art and music available to public school students. In 2011, Adopt the Arts chose Rosewood Avenue Elementary (West Hollywood, CA) as its pilot school, working directly with the principal and the booster club to ensure that the students receive exposure to all the arts disciplines, including music, dance, theater, and visual arts. Adopt the Arts is supplementing the salary of the music teacher and has outfitted a music room with donated keyboards, guitars, and drums. With the help of the arts education branch of LAUSD, Adopt the Arts is identifying the most underserved schools in the district as it prepares for it's next series of adoptions. In September 2012, Adopt the Arts donated 1,000 musical instruments (ie. drum kits, keyboards, guitars, bass guitars) to LAUSD elementary schools. Each school site is available to be "adopted" by anyone that wants to help—whether a business, a working artist, celebrity or public figure—to underscore the importance of community involvement. (adoptthearts.org)
About Bita Daryabari
In less than a decade, arts advocate and philanthropist Bita Daryabari has emerged as one of the most beloved and cherished leaders of the Iranian-American community. From the beginning of her professional life, her work has been accompanied by her avid interest in the world of literature, poetry, paintings and sculpture. She created the Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters at Stanford University, where The Annual Bita Prize in Literature has become the most coveted prize in the realm of Persian letters. In 2010, she founded Pars Equality Center—the only non-profit providing social and legal services to Iranian emigrants, refugees and asylum seekers—in the Bay Area where she is also the Executive Director. Her Unique Zan Foundation is dedicated to supporting the education of women all over Asia—from building orphanages for Afghan children to schools in the Middle East. Honors include Golden Gate University's Alumni of the Year Award (2008); PAAIA Philanthropist of the Year Award (2010); United Nations Appreciation Award for Outstanding Leadership, Commitment and Support of the UN and Achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals(2011);and Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2012). Bita Daryabari's multi-faceted philanthropy is founded on her simple idea that creativity is the only way to alleviate suffering and ennoble our minds and better comprehend the human condition.


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Kismet Man Arrested After Trying To Detain Man In Bail Bond Incident
KSCB News - November 21, 2012 1:25 pm
Amarillo police have arrested a Kansas man who fired a Taser at another man and handcuffed him while trying to take him into custody in a bail bond incident.
Donald Ray Adams, 65, of Kismet, Kan., was arrested and booked into Potter County jail on a charge of assault with bodily injury, police said.
Officers arrived at the 3800 block of Amarillo Boulevard around 8:30 p.m. Saturday on a report that a man with a stun gun was trying to drag another man into a vehicle, police said.
Witnesses said two men had been fighting in the parking lot of the Cowboy Motel, 3619 E. Amarillo Blvd., police said.
While officers were interviewing the witnesses, a gray Ford pickup followed by a white Dodge Neon drove by, police said. The driver of the Neon, a 32-year-old Amarillo man, honked and pointed at the pickup, and officers stopped the pickup in the 800 block of North Hill Street, police said.
Adams told officers he was a bondsman from Kansas and was trying to take a man into custody for failure to appear on a municipal charge of public intoxication in Kansas, police said.
The driver of the Neon told officers he and a friend were walking across the motel parking lot when Adams approached them, fired a Taser at his friend, sprayed him with what the witness described as pepper spray and told the victim to get on the ground, police said.
Officers later recovered a Taser and pepper spray from the pickup, police said.
Adams then handcuffed the victim and tried to put leg restraints on him, police said.
Another witness arrived at the scene while Adams was trying to put on the leg restraints, struck him with a broom and told Adams to leave the man alone or he would call police, police said.
Officers found the victim in the 1200 block of North Hill Street still in handcuffs and had Taser probes embedded in his right bicep, police said.
The victim was a 30-year-old Amarillo man and not the man Adams had been seeking, police said. The victim also declined medical attention beyond first aid and removal of the Taser probes at the scene, police said.
Jail officials said Adams posted $5,000 bond Sunday.


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London Broncos chairman David Hughes believes his team will finally fulfil its potential in 2013 and the appointment of returning head coach Tony Rea is the reason why.
Rea replaced Rob Powell mid-way through last season on an interim basis but has since made the move permanent.
"It's a demanding scenario under this regime," said Hughes.
"There is a determined feel and momentum about the place. Everyone is pumped up and Tony's pleased with how the individuals have taken to pre-season training. I feel this is the year we finally fulfil our potential."
Rea added: "We've got to work really hard to move in the right direction and we are. We want to see the hunger in our performance. We live and breathe consistency."


text: Janet Yellen could become the first woman chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. It's not much of a step up from her current position as vice chairman, but a huge leap for women in finance. Yellen has many admirers with her clarity of thought and use of facts to argue her case. In this New York Times article, a portrait of a new leader who has helped mold the current Fed policies, emerges. See Possible Fed Successor has many Admirers and Foes.


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An unknown number of would-be hen adopters inadvertently became good-willed criminals Saturday and risked running afoul of the law.
Folks across the region flocked to Grant Family Farms for the second day of an adoption drive aimed at saving the bankrupt farm's throng of thousands of chickens from slaughter.
But an address that ran in an area newspaper said the Hen Again adoption drive was happening along West County Road 72. It was actually about a mile across the farm at 12155 North County Road 15.
Hen Again volunteers took to social media to try to correct the paper's error but still found a "hornet's nest" of people battling for birds.
"They saw a bunch of chickens, so they started taking them," said Teresa Redmond-Ott, who heads the Hen Again adoption program. "There were carloads of people just taking chickens."
When people learned of the mistake, most happily returned the birds, she said, adding that people really just wanted to help. She urged anyone who may have grabbed the wrong birds to return them Sunday morning at the third day of the adoption drive, beginning at 9 a.m.
"It was somebody else's hens, but they were in Andy (Grant)'s buses," she said. "I know people are good, and I'm pretty sure people will return them."
The ransacked school buses are used as mobile chicken coops for some of the farm's birds, which are moved across the 2,000-acre farm to range freely.
The buses — painted by community-supported-agriculture members — are known for their bright colors and peaceful messages.
After the morning madness, pens were quickly vacant with more than 420 hens officially — and legally — adopted out. Redmond-Ott said the actual number was likely closer to 500, bringing the total two-day adoption drive to about 1,000 hens.
About 200 egg-layers will be available Sunday, she said. Grant Family Farms was a leader in the community-supported-agriculture movement and one of the larger programs in the nation. It filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Dec. 28.
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DALLAS (AP) – The view from two helipads atop the new 17-story Parkland Memorial Hospital provides a dizzying panorama of Dallas' burgeoning medical district and a downtown that looks like an architect's model off in the distance.
Officials at the new Parkland have earned their bragging rights for undertaking "the largest hospital construction project in America." When it opens in May 2015, it will be considerably larger than the old 730-bed Parkland hospital, boasting 862 beds, 2.5 million square feet and a price tag of $1.3 billion. Also on Harry Hines Boulevard, a second new teaching hospital is opening late next year, the $800 million William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. At 460 beds, it will be dwarfed by Parkland, but it will be much larger than the 300-bed St. Paul University Hospital that it is replacing.
With health care in flux, executives planning the Dallas hospitals say they've had to guess how many beds they'll need for a growing, aging population and the future doctors they'll train over the next three to five decades. In both cases, they guessed bigger. So have officials in Galveston, where the University of Texas Medical Branch is expanding its capacity with a new teaching hospital to complement the current John Sealy Hospital.
But in Austin, Seton Healthcare Family officials are keeping it small.
Their new teaching hospital will be significantly smaller than the others under construction in Texas and close to the size of the hospital it's replacing. They see a future in which their hospitals are used less as more care gets delivered in clinics and physician offices. The new doctors it trains will work inside and outside the hospital as Seton works with the public Central Health hospital district to coordinate services to patients. A goal is to keep patients healthier and steer them to less-costly outpatient services.
The new $295 million hospital is projected to have 220 beds versus 224 beds at the current teaching hospital, University Medical Center Brackenridge. In addition to being the main training ground for a new UT-Austin medical school opening in 2016, it will continue UMC Brackenridge's tradition of being the community's main safety net hospital.
UMC Brackenridge, the oldest public hospital in Texas, will close when the new hospital opens, under Seton ownership.
But it won't be the only place doctors are trained. Two other Seton hospitals — its flagship medical center on West 38th Street and Dell Children's Medical Center — will be key sites, adding 600 existing beds to the mix, said Greg Hartman, Seton's chief of external affairs. Not every bed will be used, but Dell Children's already is a major teaching hospital for pediatricians, Hartman said.
"Part of it is rethinking how we distribute care in our community," he told the Austin American-Statesman. "There's not just one safety net site" or just one place for training doctors and doing research.
Austin's new hospital will be among the smaller teaching hospitals nationally, said Dr. Joanne Conroy, chief health care officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges. The average size of a major teaching hospital is 600 beds, she said.
But hospital use is going down nationally, said UT System Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Kenneth Shine, who believes the new Parkland is much too big. And Seton officials said they expect to significantly curb hospital admissions as the federal health care law penalizes those that readmit certain patients within 30 days.
Changes in insurance also are a factor. More employers are shifting a larger share of health care costs to their employees, and that is causing patients to be less likely to seek hospital services, Seton spokeswoman Adrienne Lallo said.
In a decade, "we are thinking we will drive down inpatient admissions by 40 percent," said Charles Barnett, Seton's executive board chairman.
Hospital officials in Dallas said they don't know whether Austin's planned hospital is too small or just the right size.
"With health care reform, nobody's got a handle on what's going to happen," said Lou Saksen, senior vice president for the new Parkland construction.
Size depends on mission, he said. As the primary safety net hospital in Dallas, demand from the needy is growing dramatically at Parkland, Saksen said.
Parkland also is the highest-level trauma center and takes burn patients from the region; Austin's burn patients will continue going to San Antonio. With its long tradition of providing trauma care, Parkland also takes patients from out of state and is on standby for a visiting president. Built in 1954, it tended to President John F. Kennedy's wounds in 1963.
"The rhetoric around health care reform is `everyone is going to be an outpatient,"' Saksen said. "But we're getting older, and more people will be on Medicare. We don't see demand going down for that."
Dallas is the nation's ninth largest city and had 1.2 million residents in 2012. Though Austin climbed to No. 11, with 842,592 residents — many fewer than Dallas — it was fifth in population growth in 2012.
UT Southwestern medical students and residents train at two university-owned hospitals, St. Paul and Zale Lipshy University Hospital, as well as at Parkland Memorial and Children's Medical Center of Dallas. After the Clements hospital opens, St. Paul eventually will be torn down.
Dr. John Warner, CEO of UT Southwestern hospitals, said that while he believes a bigger university hospital is needed, he understands the new health care model Seton wants to achieve. "I think if I were in Austin, I would be doing what they're doing," he said.
Flexibility, including the ability to add or subtract beds, is being built into the DNA of the two Dallas hospitals, Warner and Saksen said. UMC Brackenridge is similar; it can add beds if needed, said Peter Rieck, Seton's vice president of facilities and support services.
UMC Brackenridge has 533,514 square feet, while the new hospital will have 480,000, Lallo said.
"It's all about how you use the space," Shine said. "The role of this hospital is to be part of a diversified, integrated health care delivery system for a population of patients who will get increasing amounts of care on an ambulatory (outpatient) basis. That's why the size of this hospital makes sense."
UMC Brackenridge, built in phases over two decades and completed in 1984, is outdated, officials said. The replacement hospital will be owned by Seton, which is in the early stages of figuring out how it will look and function.
Hartman said the new hospital, to be located north across 15th Street from UMC Brackenridge's parking garage, will have slightly larger rooms for patients, but it won't have space eaten up by administration and other purposes that don't require "the expensive real estate" of a hospital.
Officials already know the hospital will have a new medical-psychiatric unit but will drive some services to other Seton locations. For example, the new hospital is expected to have fewer patients with heart, lung and cancer conditions but more with digestive, brain and bone and joint ailments. Cancer and maternity patients will go to Seton Medical Center Austin, under preliminary plans.
But many other details aren't known yet. Seton officials announced June 18 that Dallas-based architectural firm HKS will design the hospital and that a more careful look at the cost had bumped up the construction costs by $45 million, to $295 million.
They said the hospital will focus on "patient-centered care," a buzz phrase in Dallas, where officials said they cast a wide net early on to consult with everyone from doctors to patients.
"Get patients involved in the design," Warner advised. "We made lots of U-turns along the way. We would have what we thought was a really great idea, and the patients would say, `That's not what we want."'
Seton is on a tight time frame and is going to seek feedback mainly from doctors and other medical personnel, President and CEO Jes·s Garza said. Officials received patient and family feedback from three other hospitals Seton opened in recent years and will draw on that as well as patient satisfaction surveys, Rieck said.
Patient rooms at the new Dallas hospitals have room for family members, in addition to flat-screen TVs equipped with cameras to make Skyping with loved ones possible, as well as for off-campus medical consultations.
Nurses will chart on computers in a patient's room and just outside the door. Window blinds on rooms will enable staff to look in on patients without waking them. The rooms will feature natural light and views, a concept that promotes faster healing.
Austin's new hospital also will take advantage of views and light, like Dell Children's, which opened in 2007, Hartman said. Rooms could be oriented to look out toward the Capitol or Waller Creek, he said.
Also, like Dell Children's, the new hospital will feature walls of artwork.
A big expense that hospitals and other health care providers are grappling with is a conversion to electronic records. The two new Dallas hospitals will be essentially paperless. "You won't find a chart rack in the building," Warner said of the Clements University Hospital.
Austin's hospital won't be paperless initially, Seton officials said, but UT's Shine said he expects that to be the goal.
Tranquility is another goal, Hartman said. Noise is the No. 1 complaint hospitals receive from patients on satisfaction surveys, and low scores on those surveys can result in lower hospital payments.
Both hospitals in Dallas were designed to separate patients from noisy trash, linen and food carts. Parkland has the greatest amount of separation with one corridor for patients and families and a separate one for staff. "You won't have dirty trash carts or dirty linen running around," Saksen said.
Seton officials are looking into the separation concept "without breaking the piggy bank," Rieck said. They believe their new hospital will rival any in the nation.
"The whole will be truly greater than sum of the parts," Barnett said.
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[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 227 (Monday, November 28, 2005)] [Notices] [Page 71322] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 05-23340] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; Notice of Closed Meeting Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of the following meeting. The meeting will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C, as amended. The grant applications and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the grant applications, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Name of Committee: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Special Emphasis Panel, Program Project Applications. Date: November 22, 2005. Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications. Place: Double Tree Rockville, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. Contact Person: Eric H. Brown, PhD, Scientific Review Administrator, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, 6704 Democracy Blvd, Suite 824, Bethesda, MD 20892. (301) 594-4955. email@example.com. This notice is being published less than 15 days prior to the meeting due to the timing limitations imposed by the review and funding cycle. (Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.846, Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) Dated: November 18, 2005. Anna Snouffer, Acting Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy. [FR Doc. 05-23340 Filed 11-25-05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4140-01-M


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Chancellor's Statement
The University of Illinois at Springfield is committed to excellence in a learning environment enriched by diverse experiences, culture and perspectives. Dedication to diversity is part of the fabric of the university and integral to its vision of becoming one of the best small public liberal arts universities in the region, if not the nation.
UIS is an AEO employer with a strong institutional commitment to recruitment and retention of a diverse and inclusive campus community.
Our Human Rights Policy ensures access, diversity and inclusion for our students and our employees and serves as the foundation for greater understanding, tolerance and respect for every individual.
We challenge our students to examine automatic assumptions and reactions, to question stereotypes, and to reach beyond themselves and across barriers for greater knowledge and acceptance of others. In doing so, we are preparing them to be socially responsible citizens and to succeed in a multicultural world.
At the University of Illinois at Springfield, the attainment of diversity is the responsibility of every person and the path toward greater civility. It comes from all of us and challenges all of us. We all benefit from its rewards as we work together to maintain a campus environment that invites and nurtures positive personal and professional growth.
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You know you get thirsty from all that yoga you do, so why not rehydrate with a nice frosty beer?
That's what the über yoga clothing store Lululemon wants you to do anyway.
According to the apparel giant's Instagram account, the beer will come to the Seawheeze Half Marathon, which is apparently something that happens in Vancouver.
They're calling it the 'Curiosity Lager' and, according to the New York Daily News want it to be seen as a craft beer.
Canadian yoga retailer Lululemon has teamed up with Vancouver's Stanley Park Brewing to launch a limited-edition craft beer called Curiosity Lager, made with chinook and lemon drop hops for a "crisp, cold beer."
The limited edition beer — only 88,000 cans will be produced — will be served at the 2015 SeaWheeze Sunset Festival and Half Marathon in August in Vancouver and line liquor store shelves across Canada later this month.
Drunk yoga is something most of us are familiar with.
We may refer to it as something different.
But Lululemon probably just wants to standardize the whole thing.
This whole thing seems just like something to get dudes more interested in yoga, like when they unveiled their "Anti Ball-Crushing" Pants, which "gives you and the family jewels room to breathe."
Luckily for you, there's cheap, probably better, beer all around us!


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I made a post about creating and using Oracle's DBFS. One thing I've done is just dropping the user which was the owner of a database filesystem (drop user cascade), with the intention to get rid of the database filesystem.
During the creation of a filesystem with the same name as I've used with the previous (dropped) user, I got this error message:
....much more other messages....
create stmt: begin dbms_dbfs_sfs.createFilesystem(store_name => 'FS_FS1',
tbl_name => 'T_FS1', tbl_tbs => 'dbfs', lob_tbs => 'dbfs', do_partition => true,
partition_key => 1, do_compress => false, compression => '', do_dedup => false,
do_encrypt => false); end;
ERROR: -64007 msg: ORA-64007: invalid store specified
ORA-06512: at
"SYS.DBMS_DBFS_SFS_ADMIN", line 473
ORA-00001: unique constraint
(SYS.SYS_C003185) violated
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-64007: invalid store specified
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_DBFS_SFS_ADMIN", line 473
ORA-00001: unique constraint (SYS.SYS_C003185) violated
ORA-06512: at line 63
SQL> show errors;
No errors.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> drop procedure fsCreate;
Procedure dropped.
SQL> undefine ts_name
SQL> undefine fs_name
SQL> undefine fs_compress
SQL> undefine fs_dedup
SQL> undefine fs_encrypt
SQL> undefine fs_partition
SQL> exit;
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 184.108.40.206.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP, Data Mining
and Real Application Testing options
This means the name specified as filesystem name (fs1 here). Is already present in the data dictionary.
How to solve this?
The best way is to drop the database filesystem with the script 'dbfs_drop_filesystem' in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin.
If the harm is already done:
1) Check if the filesystem you want to create not just exists. Do this by searching for a table with the name of the filesystem, prefixed with 'T_', so for 'fs1′: T_FS1; as DBA:
SQL> select owner, table_name from dba_tables where table_name like 'T_FS1';
2) Get the table identifier from DBFS_SFS$_TAB:
SQL> select tabid from sys.dbfs_sfs$_tab where table_name = 'T_FS1';
3) Drop records belonging to filesystem FS1 in the data dictionary:
SQL> delete from sys.dbfs_sfs$_vol where tabid = 57;
SQL> delete from sys.dbfs_sfs$_tab where tabid = 57;
SQL> commit;
4) Now the 'old' information of filesystem 'fs1′ is removed. Now it's possible to create a filesystem with the name 'fs1′ again.


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Former county exec to head Maryland DOT
O'Malley names Jim Smith to top Transportation Department position
Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday named former Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith as the state's new transportation secretary while touting the state's new $90 million project.
The announcement was made at the site of the state's new project to widen Interstate 695 from U.S. Route 40 to Frederick Road to help alleviate traffic congestion. O'Malley said the project will also create nearly 1,200 jobs.
"As an outstanding former county executive, (Smith) understands the connections between transportation and jobs, and I am confident that his leadership will help us build the 21st century transportation network that will spur economic development and turn our investments into real projects that make a real difference for all Marylanders," the governor said.
"I like serving the public and working on public policy. I am committed to working with elected officials, fellow cabinet secretaries and with all the counties and municipalities across Maryland to turn this state's vision of our future transportation network into a reality that creates good family-supporting jobs and quality of life for all Marylanders," Smith said in a statement.
That state is also working to build a new bridge that will replace the Frederick Road Bridge over the Beltway, helping to accommodate the widening of I-695. That work is expected to be completed by the fall or early next year.
"We're also going to be able to give moms and dads more time at work and at home rather than more time spent in bumper-to-bumper traffic," O'Malley said.
Scheduled to begin in the spring of 2015, the project will widen the Beltway's Outer Loop for a 1-mile stretch from Route 40 south to the Frederick Road exit where it'll meet up with the rest of the Beltway that's already four lanes. Work is already underway to replace the Frederick Road Bridge, a project that makes the Beltway widening possible.
"Before the Beltway first opened in 1962, it could take you approximately an hour and a half to go from this community in Catonsville to reach the community of Essex, and now, with the construction on the Beltway some days, it still takes an hour and a half," Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said.
The expansion is one of the first projects to be funded by the controversial gas tax hike state lawmakers passed this year.
"No one else is going to do these sorts of things for us. They are things we choose to do ourselves because these are the things that create jobs and expand opportunity here in our state," O'Malley said.