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By Matthew L. Skinner
Charity doesn't leave us unchanged, which is just one reason why it's hard to make ourselves do it.
To be more specific: when we extend generosity and justice to others, it alters our relationship to them. Especially when those "others" are foreign to us. Hospitality has ways of making the people who receive it come inside and stick around, whether we really want them to or not.
We see this on display in Luke 4:22-30, which tells the second half of a story about Jesus' statements to a group assembled in his hometown synagogue, in Nazareth.
By Barbara K Lundblad
This is a memorable week: on Monday the inauguration of President Obama on the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., and on Tuesday the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court. Some people will celebrate all three with thanksgiving. Others will find nothing to celebrate – especially the decision of January 22, 1973 that struck down state laws banning abortion.
The 40-Year Impact of Roe v. Wade on the United States
The Supreme Court handed down abortion's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade 40 years ago, sparking decades of political, cultural and religious divisions. In a 7–2 vote, the Supreme Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy. About 60 percent of Americans say they would not like to see the Supreme Court completely overturn Roe v. Wade, compared to about 30 percent who would like to see the ruling overturned, according to a recent poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
By Reverend Dr. Alvin O'Neal Jackson
"Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now." John 2:10
Occupy the Dream
Spurred on by the Occupy Wall Street movement, African-American leaders have banded together to forge the Occupy the Dream movement to highlight the widening gap between the rich and poor. Economic injustice was a focus of Dr. Martin Luther King's activism near the end of his life. Fifty years later, African-Americans and other minority groups are still disproportionately impoverished, says Dr. Benjamin Chavis Jr.
By David A. Sánchez, Ph.D.
It is an odd juxtaposition, December 21, 2012 and January 21, 2013. The former date representing the "so-called" Mayan apocalypse where the usual suspects prepared for the end of the world – many of whom were Christians awaiting the second coming of Christ – and the latter date, which is the day President Barack Obama will be inaugurated for his second term.
In my estimation, this odd twenty-first century connection reflects the event known as the baptism of Jesus as described in Luke 3:15-17 and 21-22. Initially we see that there is an expectation elicited by the preaching prowess of John the Baptist. The unnamed "men" wonder in their hearts if "whether perhaps he was the Christ" (Luke 3:15 RSV). John, then goes on to describe what he understands to be Christ-like qualities when he proclaims, "[One] who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am unworthy to untie" (Luke 3:16).
Then, interestingly, God speaks. Now I have been studying the Bible as both a graduate student and academic for the last two decades and I can tell you this is a rare occurrence in the New Testament. I know that many are inclined to call the Bible the Word of God but the fact of the matter is, God says very little cover to cover. Therefore, I for one am going to have a good listen when God does utter a phrase or two in Scripture. So as the climatic baptism of Jesus occurs "and the Holy Spirit descend[s] upon him in bodily form," (Luke 3:22) a voice from heaven tenderly proclaims: "Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased," (Luke 3:22) a touching paternal moment that requires no fanfare. This is my son.
How is that for a splash of cold water in your face at the messianic parade? From the lofty messianic expectations of John the Baptist and the throngs we get a flesh and blood son. For an incarnation Christian like myself, I could not think of a better Godly response. What I take from this baptismal encounter is God saying that our exalted, post-resurrection expectations need to first be tempered with the hard, cold reality of God taking on flesh. God became one of us. This is also a wonderful corrective to our creedal proclamations that hastily move Jesus from the "born of a virgin" statement to "crucified under Pontius Pilate, suffered death and was buried." A creedal response no doubt influenced by the overtly kerygmatic Christianity of Saint Paul.
We may wonder though, what about the earthly Jesus who showed compassion to the sick, taught the Sermon on the Mount, had a tantrum on the Temple Mount, wept, trembled, and cried to his Father on the cross? What about that Jesus, the incarnate one? Furthermore, what does that have to do with the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 21, 2013?
I would suggest that like the baptismal section of Luke, we too expect messianic grandeur from our political leaders but get, as God so tenderly proclaimed, sons. Unfortunately, each president has been viewed (depending on which side of the aisle your loyalties fall) as a messianic corrective to the president that preceded him. Recent history will demonstrate that Carter was perceived as the corrective to Nixon and Ford, Reagan corrected Carter, and so forth. In the twenty first century George W. Bush was the elixir for Clinton who was then replaced by our latest political messiah and current President, Barack Obama. The point that I am trying to make is that part of our national consciousness is an embedded sense of presidential evolution that unconsciously infers that the next commander-in-chief must be more worthy, more righteous, more patriotic, and more American. But the fact of the matter is that we get sons, fully incarnate with strengths and weaknesses who need other imperfect elected officials – on both sides – to assist them in the governing the most complex nation in the world.
We don't need messiahs; we need sons and daughters with all of their strengths and flaws to collectively and effectively govern our nation. The price of messianic voyeurism and expectation is too great and unrealistic. It also forces us into a narrow determinative box on just who is qualified to hold that messianic mantle. Can a Mormon (Mitt Romney), a Jew (Joseph Lieberman), or a Catholic (John F. Kennedy) fill that messianic role? What about a woman? What about a gay person? And what are we to make of a potential candidate conversant in Black liberation theology as was the case in 2008 with Barack Obama's ecclesial association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright?
So as President Obama prepares to take the presidential oath of office again, I foreground and take the label of beloved son, husband, father, elected official, and human being – to heart. Wishing him well is to wish our nation well, and the same holds true when the balance of power shifts in the future. Maybe once we get over our presidential messianic expectations and learn to live the frailty of the human condition, we can begin to embrace that which we hold in common. Wanting something unique and grand, God gave us a son; a son fully divine and fully human, messianic in God's way, not ours.
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By Lisa Nichols Hickman
In As I Lay Dying, the main character Anse appears self-absorbed when at his wife's death he says, "God's will be done. . . . Now I can get them teeth." His character will certainly not be remembered for altruism. But Anse will be remembered for the physical effects of poverty: feet marred by labor, a spine permanently bent, skin unable to sweat from sunstroke suffered tending the fields, and a mouth without teeth.
Sumter Faith Clinic: "The Lord Led Us"
In October 2011, nurse practitioners Mary Wysochansky and Anna Stinchcum founded and opened the Sumter Faith Clinic — a free clinic to treat the uninsured and underinsured in Americus, Ga., a community Wysochansky says has been particularly hard-hit by the economy.
By Jacob D. Myers
Few narratives in the Hebrew Bible are more foreign to us than this week's lectionary.We do not give away our children. In a society determined by socio-economic forces utterly beyond the control of individual citizens (e.g., globalization) we do our best to prepare ourselves for the inevitability of change. But what happens when we lose our footing?
Contemporary life changes too fast for habits and routines to have any chance to settle into a pattern. Western individuals must navigate their way through the fears and anxieties that are endemic to such an existence. Such is the pace of change, that effective life-strategies today may be obsolete tomorrow. We will do everything in our power to hold back the floods that threaten to wash away that which we hold dear—especially our children.
ByMathew Skinner
Sometimes, the worse the tragedy, the more abhorrent the theology it elicits.
Still numb from the overwhelming evil perpetrated against helpless children and schoolteachers last Friday, now we have to read idiocy from James Dobson and others who declare the senseless carnage a sign of God's judgment against America. His words are disgraceful. I find them exploitative and unchristian.
Certain Christians seem compelled to speak for God in disorienting moments like these, and the results are frequently terrible. The rest of the church has a responsibility to get angry and repudiate the statements.
In times like these, I find myself wanting to disavow anyone's attempts to speak on God's behalf.
By Carolyn J. Sharp
Recently I had the unsettling experience of receiving unsolicited financial advice from John the Baptist. Not directly, of course— his counsel was mediated through an ancient codex, the Gospel of Luke. Written in the latter part of the first century, this text has been lovingly interpreted by monks, artists, preachers, musicians, and biblical scholars from past eras to today. Luke is a rich source of traditions about Jesus of Nazareth, and given the Gospel's clear links to the stirring stories in the Acts of the Apostles, the ancient theologian is rightly considered to have been a brilliant historiographer of early Christian traditions. But it must be conceded that, wise as the ancient author doubtless was, his gospel is not normally consulted for financial planning.
Faith on the Record – The Fiscal Cliff
Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners, and Elizabeth Tenety, a religion editor at The Washington Post, discuss the Fiscal Cliff. The video is featured in the ON Scripture The Bible article, "On the Fiscal Cliff with John the Baptist: Luke 3:7-18."
By Nyasha Junior
Who was Abraham Lincoln? You may get different answers depending on whom you ask. He is known as the Great Emancipator. He was a self-taught rural Kentuckyian. He was a husband and father. Also, he was a pragmatic politician. The new film, Lincoln, seeks to address this question by focusing on the political struggles for the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the last few months before Lincoln's death.
ON Scripture: Who Is the Messenger?
Nyasha Junior, assistant professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Howard University School of Divinity, discusses the Biblical text Malachi 3:1-4, featured in the ON Scripture The Bible article, "Who Was He? Malachi 3:1-4."
By Amy Erickson
Jeremiah's promise of a future restoration for Israel and Judah centers on the image of a righteous branch. This image, while somewhat strange to our culture, carries along with it a rich and varied tradition, deeply rooted in the world and literature of the Old Testament. The tree of life in the Garden of Eden links trees with ideas of abundance, fertility, and renewal.
The Old Testament also uses arboreal imagery to talk about leaders, especially kings. In the famous passage from Isaiah 11:1, the king in the line of David is a "shoot" and "branch." In this way, blessings from God reminiscent of Eden are delivered by way of a royal figure.


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Without railroads and mines, what would the American West be? Less populous, less prosperous, less polluted. And the town of Durango might not be anything at all.
Durango, sporty and historic, stands 6,520 feet above sea level among the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, its downtown streets skirted by the Animas River. Look past the runners, rock climbers, kayakers and fly-fishers, past the rampant Subaru wagons, the snowboarders of winter and the second-home-owners of summer, and you'll notice the narrow-gauge rail tracks alongside the river, leading into the mountains.
This is the route that brought the town to life in the 1880s. Built by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway in an 11-month blitz of blasting and trestle construction, this track for decades carried gold and silver from the mines outside Silverton (45 miles upriver), following a path that clings to cliffs and squeezes through narrow canyons.
Then, after mining began to fade in the late 20th century, the train began its second life, carrying Hollywood film crews and tourists. Nowadays, it carries hundreds of tourists daily — including L.A. Times photographer Mark Boster and me in late May — and no ore at all.
The last major Silverton mine closed in 1991, and the old Durango smelter and mill, which processed uranium from the 1940s through the '60s, have also shut down. Durango (population: about 17,000) has evolved into the sort of town that fuels city people's semi-rural daydreams.
In the grand old Strater Hotel (built in 1887), just above the Diamond Belle Saloon, you can rent Room 222, where author Louis L'Amour spent many an August in the 1960s and '70s, writing his western novels and listening to the ragtime piano player downstairs. (But I'd rather sleep in Room 327— lots of exposed bricks and woodwork.)
On the seven-mile Animas River Trail (no motors allowed), the supply of runners and cyclists seems endless, many of them students at Durango's Fort Lewis College.
At Mountain Bike Specialists on Main Avenue and 9th Street, you can pick up that SRAM 11-speed rear derailleur you've been pining for. Elsewhere along Main, if a storefront doesn't house a brew pub, field-to-fork restaurant or art gallery, it's probably a real estate office.
In fact, if you've been to Wyoming, you might say Durango is getting Jackson Hole-ier by the day.
As in Jackson, someone, or some plaque, is bound to remind you of the many saloons, whorehouses, feuds and shootouts the city once sustained. One day in 1906, for instance, the county sheriff and the Durango town marshal shot each other in a dispute over who should control local gambling. (The sheriff died. The marshal, Jesse Stansel, moved to Texas.)
And one day in 1922, after an argument involving Prohibition, the Durango Democrat's top editor, Rod Day, shot to death the Durango Herald's city editor, William L. Wood.
The big conflicts on the Herald's front page during my visit were a little different. In one, Durango and Anchorage were competing to be named the "Best Town in America" by readers of Outside magazine (only to be eliminated by Provo, Utah, and Duluth, Minn.).
In another, hundreds of cyclists were preparing for the 43rd Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, a Memorial Day ritual in which cyclists race the train to Silverton, only to have a snowstorm shorten the route. In a normal year, mountain bike salesman Jeremy Thompson told me, "The fast riders always beat the train. The fastest guys do the race in about 2 hours and 20 minutes."
The train? Its standard one-way journey to Silverton takes 3 1/2 glorious hours.
Whether or not you recognize the trackside scenery from the dramatic 19th century photographs of William Henry Jackson or old movies such as "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956), odds are good you'll sigh at the sound of the train whistle, gawk at the coal-burning, steam-belching machinery and then squint into the distance like Clint Eastwood, the better to see the black locomotive chug around a distant curve.
On my ride, I shared one of the train's open gondola cars with a man from Texas making his 15th trip; his son, a college freshman making his 10th trip; a German couple who wore all sorts of Harley-Davidson insignia and spoke no English; a tall Frenchman whose red sweater kept sneaking into the corners of my photos; and a professorial man from altitude-challenged Holland, who gave voice (in English) to what everyone should have been thinking.
"What an amazing landscape!" he said.
We glided alongside the river, passed stands of aspens, inched over high and low bridges, all the while climbing until we were 400 feet above the river and snowy peaks dominated the skyline. At Tank Creek, we paused while the engineer blasted steam from the locomotive. By the time we reached tiny, touristy Silverton (population 628), we'd nearly drained our camera batteries and gained almost 2,800 feet of elevation.
About Silverton: It's a town out of time, surrounded by snowy peaks and dominated by Old West storefronts painted in rainbow colors. In the Train Store, railroad souvenirs. In the Storyteller Indian Store, jewelry. In the Eagle's Nest, leatherwork.
I got to spend only three hours there (and came this close to buying a $39 leather wallet with an inset buffalo nickel), but I can understand why some locals are eager to see mining rise again. Without it, just about everything depends on the whims of tourists.
I had arranged to take a bus back to Durango (it's faster than the train). But my thoughts kept drifting back to the Baker's Bridge area, on the river about 14 miles above Durango.
Why? Upstream, the U.S. Geological Survey has found old mines leaking a stew of chemicals into the Animas, reducing fish and bug populations, and the Animas River Stakeholders Group has acknowledged elevated zinc concentrations at Baker's Bridge. Yet from the tracks, it still looks perfect.
The water roars and hisses far below. The tall trees huddle 'round, backed by snowy mountains. Local kids dare each other to leap into a swimming hole nearby.
You've probably glimpsed this spot in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969). This is the cliff where the posse seems to have the outlaws cornered, the moment when Sundance confesses he can't swim and Butch tells him the fall will probably kill him anyway. Then the two make their death-defying leap.
The West of old, the West of movie myth and the imperfect West we now live in — sometimes, they're three different places. And sometimes they all come together in a moment on a train.
60 million years ago
Rocky Mountains begin to rise at the close of the Mesozoic era. In southern Colorado, the San Juan Range becomes steep and rich in minerals.
The first signs of human habitation appear in the Mesa Verde area, about 40 miles west of the valley where Durango, Colo., will eventually grow. Archaeologists label these people Anasazi, though the National Park Service now prefers to call them Ancestral Puebloan.
The Ancestral Puebloan people farm, gather, hunt and build hundreds of cliff dwellings. Then amid signs of drought and dwindling resources, they walk away, migrating south to lands that will become New Mexico and Arizona.
Colorado wins statehood.
Town of Durango is founded by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, headed by Gen. William Jackson Palmer.
The D&RGR begins building a 45-mile Durango-Silverton line, laying narrow-gauge tracks that allow for sharper curves than standard tracks. Besides blasting tons of rock to make room for tracks on mountainside ledges, construction crews build 32 bridges.
Hauling gold, silver and other precious metals from high-country mines, the train begins operating between Durango, about 6,500 feet above sea level, and Silverton, 9,305 feet.
The railroad hires photographer William Henry Jackson to shoot promotional pictures of the train and scenery along the Animas River. In a move that will be copied by millions of travelers, he also makes a trip to shoot the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde.
Mesa Verde becomes the country's 10th national park.
The Silverton line, long known for its scenery, begins carrying tourists — 3,444 for the year.
"A Ticket to Tomahawk," featuring a bit part by an unknown Marilyn Monroe, is among the first of dozens of Hollywood films to shoot along the route. Later come "Around the World in 80 Days," "How the West Was Won" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
With the mining industry fading, the railroad, now known as the Denver & Rio Grande Western, seeks permission to stop service to Silverton. The feds say no.
The D&RGW finally finds a buyer for the line, now known as the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Citrus grower and train enthusiast Charles E. Bradshaw takes over for $2.2 million.
A massive roundhouse fire makes headlines across the country, but the six operable locomotives survive.
Silverton's last major mine closes.
The Animas River Stakeholders Group forms to begin work with federal agencies to reduce toxic waste left by mining companies. (As of early 2014, however, four "orphan" mines continue to leak iron, zinc, cadmium, copper and other toxins into the upper Animas River.)
Durango-Silverton passenger traffic reaches about 200,000 yearly (where it remains). The line is taken over by American Heritage Railways, which also operates the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
The Missionary Ridge Fire consumes more than 72,000 acres north of Durango, killing one firefighter, destroying 56 homes and leaving burn patterns still visible on the slopes of the Animas Valley.
Silverton Mountain, a skiing and snowboarding resort, opens outside of town. Once dependent on mining, Silverton now counts heavily on rail fans and extreme skiers.
Sources: "America's Railroad: The Official Guidebook" by Robert T. Royem; National Park Service, www.nps.gov; Durango Area Tourism Office, www.durango.org; Durango Mountain Resort, durangomountainresort.com; Silverton Mountain, silvertonmountain.com; Environmental Protection Agency, 1.usa.gov/1hSshoG.
A river runs through Colorado guide's daily hustle
Play hard, work hard, repeat. This is Charlie Fox's life.
"We call it the Durango hustle," he says, steering a raft down the Animas River one May morning.
This, by the way, was work. From May through September, Fox is on the water daily as a river guide for Outlaw Tours, angling to get his customers soaked but not submerged at Smelter Rapid.
"I just can't imagine living in a city without a river," he tells me later.
The same goes for doing the same job year-round. In winter, he teaches snowboarding and helps paraplegics learn to use wheelchair skis.
This perpetual scramble is a way of life for thousands of young people in gorgeous, pricey, outdoorsy towns across the West. They love sports and nature so much — and value indoor work so little — that they craft their lives to maximize time outside.
If you're one of their customers on a bike ride, a raft trip, a kayak expedition or a challenging hike, it's natural to daydream about a life so in tune with the natural world. But if you're one of these hustlers, life isn't so simple.
While visitors tuck into premium steaks at the Ore House in downtown Durango, the river runners are more likely to be at Tacos Nayarit on Main and 25th, where you can get three tongue tacos for $6.50. And Fox, at 37, has been doing this longer than most.
He grew up about 200 miles southeast in Los Alamos, N.M., and came to Durango in 1997, planning to study at Fort Lewis College. He never finished — he calculates he's two units short of a political science degree. But there's a roof overhead, and in the warmer months, he does a lot of two-hour and half-day trips on the Lower Animas (where the city recently resculpted the water's path near the Class 3 or 4 Smelter Rapid to make for better river-running). When he can, he gets to the Piedra River (where there's usually Class 4 water) or the Upper Animas (often Class 5).
But raft and snowboard work covers only so much of the year. In between, Fox does landscaping, works as a bouncer and washes windows. For three years, he worked behind the counter of a liquor store, but he's dropped that in favor of a bartending gig in an upscale club at the Durango Mountain Resort.
It's a good thing he's single, Fox concedes, because the old guide's joke is true:
Q: What's the difference between a large pizza and a river runner?
A: A large pizza can feed a family of four.
If you get him off the river for a conversation, Fox seems like a man on the brink of a big change. "I'm a dinosaur," he says. Completing those last two college units "is something I think about every year. Maybe this year."
But then the moment passes and the river begins to regain its grip. "In some capacity, I'll always do it," Fox says. "It's fun. You meet people.
"And a bad day on the river beats a good day in a shoe store, I can tell you that."
At Mesa Verde National Park, step back into ancient Pueblo times
It's a 90-minute drive from Durango, Colo., to Mesa Verde National Park. Do it — especially if it's summer, when you'll have a chance to climb among the park's cliff dwellings.
After all, you probably won't be in this thinly populated western Colorado neighborhood again soon. This remote location is why, even in busy July, the park tops out at about 3,000 travelers a day — about one-eighth the traffic seen at the Grand Canyon.
But Mesa Verde's main attractions — more than 600 cliff dwellings, many dating to the 13th century — are a sight that won't leave you any time soon. In fact, you may be too busy feeling like Indiana Jones to hear the ranger tell you that this was the first U.S. national park (1906) devoted to cultural history — something made by mankind — rather than natural history.
Then again, if you're afraid of heights or tight spaces, some spots will be downright alarming.
The park is full of ruins, trails and austere scenery, including the Long House and Step House on Wetherill Mesa, as well as Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum, which tells how the Ancestral Puebloans (also known as Anasazi) lived and farmed on mesa tops for hundreds of years before moving to the cliff dwellings below, then moving on to New Mexico and Arizona in about 1300.
If you're fairly fit and untroubled by heights, I recommend the Cliff Palace and Balcony House tours, which are led by rangers in warmer months. To reach those cliff dwellings, you drive 21 miles from the northern entrance to the center of the park, crossing stark territory (7,000 to 8,500 feet above sea level) whose pinyon and juniper forests have been repeatedly scarred by fire. Between 1996 and 2003, five fires, all sparked by lightning, together burned more than half the park's 52,000 acres.
Just about the time you start wondering why you came so far to see such a bleak scene, you'll arrive at the heart of Mesa Verde, leave your car in a lot and step down from the top of the mesa into the late 1200s.
Cliff Palace is the park's largest cliff dwelling, with 150 rooms and 23 kivas (rooms used for religious rituals). It's thought to have housed about 100 Ancestral Puebloans.. The structures are made of sandstone blocks, mortar, plaster and wood beams.
Though the quarter-mile path includes more than 100 stair steps, four ladders of 8 to 10 feet each and plenty of steep drops without railings, it's less physically demanding than some others. If you're not up to the tour, go to the outcropping of rock where groups meet before descending, and you'll find a breathtaking view of Cliff Palace under the lip of a sandstone ridge.
Balcony House is a wonder too: Forty rooms hanging above Soda Canyon. To walk among the ruins, you'll need to descend a 100-foot staircase, ascend a 32-foot ladder, crawl through a 12-foot-long tunnel that's about 18 inches wide, then climb on about 60 feet of ladders and steep steps that are carved into the rock face of a cliff.
There are no height or age restrictions for tours, but the National Park Service discourages adults with heart or respiratory problems and says "children must be capable of walking the extent of the trails, climbing ladders, and negotiating steps independently."


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This boy, Jordan Rice, died to save his brother
This town, Grantham, was devastated yesterday. There are believed to be around 30 cars under the bridge, many with people in them.
This man was trying to reach his invalid mother in Brisbane.
The RSPCA put out a call for people to come and take dogs to look after them.
Floodwaters in Qld capital Brisbane are expected to peak in about two hours time.
For a hint as to how big this thing is, here it is overlaid on the USA:
A Red Cross official told AAP the baby girl was delivered healthy at 6.09am (AEST) after a three hour labour.
The baby has not been named yet, but she won't be called Yasi.
Earlier in the morning Cairns councillor Linda Cooper told AAP Akiko Pruss went into labour at the evacuation centre at Redlynch State College at 2.45am (AEST).
'Today's actually her due date,' she said
Ms Pruss and her husband Christian, live in Cairns, and the baby will be their second child.
An English midwife, called Carol, who is celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary on holidays here, delivered the baby girl.
There have been "multiple fatalities" after a shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch this afternoon.
The death toll from the earthquake that struck on Tuesday, at 12:54pm (local time) currently stands at 98, but likely to double as USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) move from rescue to recovery. Of the four dead whose names have been formally released so far, two are infants.
The human toll is horrific, but so is the damage to the landscape.
The Christchurch cathedral (Anglican/Episcopal), from which everything in the city radiates, has lost it's spire
The Provincial Council buildings were one of my favorite, but is now just a crumble of bricks:
The Catholic Cathedral did not escape either.
The town cemetery has become appointment-viewing.
Obama will address the nation Sunday night around 11 p.m. EDT. It is being reported that he was killed by a U.S. bomb a week ago, his body is in U.S. custody, and they held the news to confirm via DNA testing.
Fortune has confirmed that Microsoft (MSFT) has agreed to buy the voice-over-Internet company for $8.5 billion, including the assumption of debt. Expect a formal announcement within the next hour....
Skype will become a new business unit within Microsoft, to be run by current Skype CEO Tony Bates. He will report directly to Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer.
Anything to get Blagojevich and his hairpiece off the front page.
With a homer to left field against Tampa Bay, New York Yankees captain Jeter becomes the 28th player in major league baseball history -- and first Yankee in franchise history -- to reach the 3,000-hit plateau.


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A Q&A with AAEEBL President Trent Batson
Higher education leaders are investing in strategies and technologies that can help make the college experience more relevant for a diverse population of students in today's challenging economic and rapidly changing global/societal environment. But it doesn't stop there. CT asked Trent Batson, President of AAEEBL (The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning) what will allow students to make sense of their own education, connect it with their priorities beyond the classroom, and finally put learners in charge of their own learning.
Mary Grush: Will the current and increasing focus by higher education leadership on areas like personalization, learning outcomes, learning analytics, and new degree pathways make the college experience more relevant for students, and put learners more "in charge" of their own learning?
Trent Batson: You mention personalization. That's a broad and longer-term trend — one that may be difficult to define at this point in time, especially given differing priorities in various countries. One of the things personalization refers to (at least in part) is students becoming more active in their own learning. Of course that's a good goal. But again, this is still a developing trend…
An article examining "personalization" I noticed recently showed students using intelligent tutors in problem-based learning. Clearly, the researchers involved understood that when students are given a chance to do problem solving — not just memorizing "answers" — they do improve. However, in the end, the students were evaluated with multiple-choice tests — not really a true measure of the understanding or application of their learning.
Grush: And not really a big step towards putting learners in charge of their own learning?
Batson: No.
Grush: What about the impact of learning analytics and learning outcomes? How are they poised to make learning more relevant for the learner?
Batson: Many institutions are thinking very intelligently about learning analytics, and about tracking learning outcomes, and about seeing that each course is tied in to some overall learning goal, in the program, or in the major, or in the overall college experience.
The move to create learning outcomes arises from a general atmosphere of accountability and, presumably, from a need to make the curriculum coherent across courses and programs. Along with this, higher education is responding also to the general call for it to produce graduates with 21st century skills and habits of mind.
The AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes — https://www.aacu.org/leap/vision.cfm — describe intellectual and personal qualities that would seem to predict success in life. But the ongoing question of relevance for the learner becomes, will the move to create greater and greater coherence in the curriculum, aligned with learning outcomes appropriate to this century, mean that learning will improve and college graduates will experience greater success in finding work? And then succeed in that work?
Grush: If colleges and universities do better in creating coherence — the kind you just talked about — will that make education more relevant for the learner?
Batson: I would look at that question very carefully. First I would ask, even with learning outcomes and the attempt to create greater coherence, is higher education simply doing more of what it has always done — and that is no longer working — namely, creating pre-digested knowledge? Faculty in higher education have generally done most of the learning work. Now, with the move to learning outcomes, are they simply doing more of the learning work? Actually, I think so.
Then who really should be doing the work of creating coherence? This means creating coherence not just within a single course but across a college career. And, it means coherence not just from formal learning but all learning.
Grush: From that last point, it sounds like only the student is in the position to create such coherence.
Batson: Bingo! This is not to say that students should be on their own — it only means that faculty ask questions, not provide answers; faculty present problems, not solutions; and faculty ask students to create coherence in a course or course of study.
There is a lot of right thinking in colleges and universities today, in terms of wanting students to have a clearer picture of structures in place — students can, for instance, look at learning outcomes themselves, and then they can at least possibly make better choices about their own learning pathways, in line with their own priorities.
But giving the job of creating coherence to students goes far beyond that.
Grush: I know you're not suggesting that colleges and universities abandon work on personalization, new learning pathways, learning outcomes, analytics, and other efforts to make education more relevant for the learner. Still, how can higher education hand the job of creating coherence to students?
Batson: One way that, increasingly, we know works, is to provide a mechanism, an instrument to assist students in creating coherence from course to course, from experience to experience, and from year to year. The electronic portfolio is that instrument. Saving, archiving, and curating evidence of work over time and producing Web sites that integrate evidence of disparate learning experiences over time is a true work of creating coherence. This is reflective and integrative thinking, the hallmark of good ePortfolio practice.
The most important quality to learn today — especially for younger college students who will eventually change jobs on average every three years — is learning how to learn. This is a time that demands that learners be active in their own learning, that they own their own learning, that they be responsible for their own learning, and that they be at stake for their own learning. ePortfolios are owned by the student, and stay with the student. They are the tools that will help students tell the story of their learning, reflect on relevance over time, and create coherence. Then, learners will truly be in charge of their own learning.
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• The Schedule
Friday, October 26, 2012 at 7 p.m.
No. 25 UC Santa Barbara (9-3-3) vs. Stanford (6-7-1)
at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium
All-time record vs. Cardinal: 5-11-2
Last meeting: T, 2-2 (20T) (Aug. 31, 2007)
Gameday Central: Video • Audio • Live Stats • Chat
Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 2 p.m.
No. 25 UC Santa Barbara (9-3-3, 3-3-1) vs. UC Davis (7-5-4, 5-2)
at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium
All-time record vs. Aggies: 16-5-4
Last meeting: L, 1-0 (Oct. 13, 2012)
Gameday Central: Video • Audio • Live Stats • Chat
• Celebrating The Seniors
This weekend UC Santa Barbara will host its final pair of regular season home contests on Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. The Gauchos will face non-conference foe Stanford on Friday evening before hosting Big West opponent UC Davis on Sunday afternoon. UCSB will honor its eight seniors prior to Friday night's game against the Cardinal.
• Watch or Listen Live
Both of this weekend's matches will be broadcast live on KZSB AM 1290, the Santa Barbara News-Press radio station. The Voice of the Gauchos, Gerry Fall, will be on hand to call all of the action. The broadcast will also be streamed live on UCSBgauchos.com along with a live video stream and an interactive chat open to fans.
• For The Record
After remaining undefeated through the first 11 matches of the season, the Gauchos have faced some adversity as of late, dropping three of their last four matches - all by a one-goal margin. UCSB is now 9-3-3 on the season and 3-3-1 in Big West contests.
• How The Big West Was Won
UCSB has three more conference games on its slate and the results will make or break its chance to advance to its fifth consecutive Big West Tournament. The Gauchos are currently fourth in the league's North Division with 10 points. They trail UC Davis (15 points), Cal Poly (13 points) and Sacramento State (13 points), respectively. The top-two teams in each division will vie for the Big West Championship.
• Pulse on the Polls
Due to its recent struggles, UCSB has fallen in each of the national polls this week. The Gauchos are ranked 18th by TopDrawerSoccer.com (previously No. 15), 19th by College Soccer News (No. 13), 23rd by Soccer Times (No. 19) and 25th by the NSCAA (No. 16). For the first time this year, UCSB has dropped out of Soccer America's weekly Top-25. The Gauchos have remained the No. 5 team in the NSCAA's Far West Region rankings for consecutive weeks.
• Nationwide Leaders
Everybody knows that Gauchos know how to throw a party, so it is no wonder that UCSB has hosted the top-three crowds so far this season. Last Friday's attendance during the match against Cal Poly of 13,467 is the best in the NCAA this year and ranks as the fourth-highest in Harder Stadium history, the fourth best in NCAA regular season history at an on-campus venue and seventh overall for NCAA regular season attendance. The crowds against UC Irvine (7,822) and UCLA (7, 542) rank second and third, respectively, this season. Friday's match against Cal Poly marked the first time the Gauchos have lost in front of a home crowd of 10,000 or more. The Gauchos are currently averaging 6,153 fans per game, which is on-pace to break their previous NCAA record of 5,873 fans on average, set during the 2010 campaign.
• Relying on Ryan
Senior Nic Ryan scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season on Friday against Cal Poly. The midfielder leads UCSB in total points (17) and game-winning goals (4). In Big West play, he leads the team in goals (5), game-winners (2), shots (20), shots on-goal (9) and points (10), accounting for nearly half of the Gauchos' 22 points in league play. He ranks 35th nationally in total goals and third in the Big West.
• Taking Shots
UCSB posted a season-high 23 shots in last Tuesday's victory over Sacramento State and then topped that number against Cal Poly on Friday with 24. The Gauchos lead the Big West with their 17.4 shots per game average.
• Getting Defensive
Goalkeeper Austin Mansker posted a career-best six saves in the match against Cal Poly. The freshman currently ranks 26th nationally with his .777 goals against average, which is tops in the Big West. His five shutouts are also tied for first among conference goalkeepers. Mansker is on-pace to make UCSB's all-time top-10 for single season GAA, currently ranking sixth. The Gauchos have allowed the fewest goals – 13 – among Big West teams and if they don't concede anymore this season, they could set a school record. One more goal against would tie the 2004 and 1978 teams' record.
• Vom Steeg Nears 200
In his 14th year leading the Gauchos, head coach Tim Vom Steeg is the winningest coach in Big West history. Vom Steeg has posted a 195-75-30 record at the helm of UCSB and a 174-58-29 record since the program rejoined the Big West in 2001. Vom Steeg is also the winningest coach in UCSB men's soccer history and has turned the Gauchos into an annual national title contender. The 2004 and 2006 NSCAA National Coach of the Year, Vom Steeg guided the Gauchos to the NCAA title in 2006 and the championship game in 2004. He has guided UCSB to five Big West titles in the past 10 years and 10 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament. He won Big West Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2004, 2005 and 2010 and has produced 17 All-Americans.
• Zero Waste Weekend
In collaboration with several campus organizations, UCSB will be hosting its first "Zero Waste Weekend" at this Friday and Sunday's men's soccer games. No landfill items will be allowed into Harder Stadium during the games and all trash from the events will either be compostable or recyclable. The weekend is part of the campus' ongoing sustainability efforts.
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Ground-based Image of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4395
This photograph of the nearest Seyfert galaxy, NGC 4395, was taken with the Palomar 200-inch telescope. NGC 4395 is the least luminous and nearest Seyfert galaxy known, located eight million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).
A Seyfert galaxy is a class of nearby galaxy that has an extremely bright central region that often obscure the much dimmer stars in the surrounding disk. The nucleus gives off prodigious amounts of energy largely in the form of high-energy x-rays and gamma rays.
Spectroscopic observations made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) further support the theory that this galaxy and other active galaxies are fueled by a massive black hole at the center.
Most astronomers believe that the only object capable of producing such tremendous amounts of energy in a relatively small galactic core is a black hole. The HST results rule out vigorous star formation as the alternative explanation for the power source at the heart of Seyferts.
HST did not detect any absorption lines that would he produced by stars in the nucleus, therefore stellar processes are not responsible for light emitted by the nucleus. HST data also show that the galaxy's center is no more than two light-years across - less than half the distance from our Sun to the nearest star.
The findings are reported in the June 20, 1993 issue of The Astrophysical Journal by Filippenko, graduate student Luis C. Ho, and California Institute of Technology astronomer Wallace L.W. Sargent.
Photo Credit: Allan Sandage, Carnegie Institution


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The Reaper's Den
This Reaper's Den is going to be setup as an indoor sports facility for numerous sports. There will be two fields, batting cages, weight rooms, and party rooms that will enable a variety of sports activities and celebrations. There will be sports (such as baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, dodge ball, futsal, and whiffle ball) and lessons for younger children, as well as early teens. In addition to the competitive aspect of the facility, parties of all types are a main selling point and these individual sports will be provide the parties main function (i.e baseball parties, dodgeball parties, whiffleball parties, etc).
The facility will be a family oriented sports facility, so the Reaper motif cannot be used in a dark or macabre style. There needs to be a balance in the design between family friendly but also incorporating a little bit of the Reaper motif in the design. The site should be open to people of all ages, but not too child oriented with an overload of colors. This company has a versatile set of services (lessons , games, or competition for all ages and skill levels), so we'd like that versatility to be shown in the design.
In addition to what is listed in the "page details," for references, the owner liked two sites. First, http://www.doombuggies.com/. He liked the purple color scheme of this website because of "The Reaper" in the name of his business, however this color scheme is a little too dark (both with the blacks, and the Halloween-esque buttons) for his business however. The Second Site is, http://mvpsportsunlimited.com/index.html The owner liked the content of this site and how the majority of the information was easily accessible, but the site is far too generic and we need the design to be much more professional looking. The logo provided could be included next to or with the navigational bar, but we are open to different placements of the logo if the design calls for it. It should still be featured prominently on the website in some fashion, wherever it may be placed.
The page we are designing is for the home page. Below is what we expect for the navigation bar as well as the content we will need to place on the page.
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Links to a Party Specials.
Link to a Field Rental Specials.
Link to Batting Cage Specials.
We want to emphasize the fact that Reaper's Den has field rentals and lessons with the staff.
Need an area for a block of Text: The Reaper was a nickname acquired by Bo Vicendese in his college playing days. Soon after college, he founded the Baltimore Bat Company. The company made professional quality maple and ash baseball bats for professional and college players. Their flagship bat was the "Reaper." The "Reaper" garnished major league approval and was used by several pro players.
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]The more I watch the news the more I think our government and society are going down the toliet.
First notable news of the week.
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is convicted of money laundering, and conspiracy of illegally influencing Texas elections. That is the basic summary of the story. Mr. DeLay has of course said these allegations are false and he is being targeted by his political opponents. Which is plausible, but there is some preferential treatment here too I think. He gets sentenced, yet he has a $10,000 bail, which was paid. Now in 6 months, if his appeal doesn't go through, he goes to prison. Of course, I think that if he never held the second highest position in the US government, he would probably have had to wait that 6 months in a prison like everyone else would have to. Three years is a slap on the wrist, particularly for an allegation this serious. All together he was facing a life sentence but that was reduced to three years and ten years probation. This effectively destroys his political career whether he is found not guilty during his appeal or not. The story was that he was convicted "in the most Democratic county in the most Republican state." I feel that that sentence damages the word "democratic" because the word democratic is also used to describe the type of government we have and they are using it as if it's a negative.
The second piece of news…A mentally unstable guy named Jared in Arizona killed some students, a teacher, a 9-year old girl, a judge, then a Congresswoman. You know what is blamed for this? Not the fact he is a very disturbed individual, but instead it's the propaganda that the Tea Party ideals are involved because of who he shot. Looking at this guy's YouTube page, I don't see the connection with the Tea Party propaganda. Just looking at this guys YouTube page kinda made me question my own sanity for a minute. Not everything is a conspiracy. The Oklahoma City bombing wasn't some CIA Black Op mission. It was a disturbed man who murdered innocent people including children. It was a tragedy. Much like this story, there isn't much to it. Probably a voice in this guy's head told him to do it. He just does not seem to be mentally stable and fully functioning. His YouTube videos, including the one that burns an American flag, are filled with fragmented sentences that contradict each other regularly. As much as I would like for the Tea Party propaganda to have influenced his actions, that is simply not the case. This blog isn't part of the media, so we like to tell the truth whenever possible. The truth is most likely that this guy is a schizophrenic, with multiple mental health issues. I am waiting to hear the propaganda, much like with the last school shooting, that blames the fact that he smoked pot and listened to rock and roll music. The fact is anyone that would shoot 18 people, killing 6 of them, is mentally disturbed. He deserves to spend life in a state mental institution, which is nothing more than a prison with doctors, fancy drugs, and padded cells. We can start analyzing his life but I don't understand where someone can get Tea Party propaganda being a cause, especially when he had no conservative leanings according to people that knew him. Ultimately, I feel sorry for the family because they are going to be dragged into a media circus who will be looking for some angle to get readers and viewers. The truth will never sell nearly as much as the propaganda will. The truth is this guy was mentally unstable, and has probably been mentally unstable for a good portion of his life. So the case is solved here. Whack-job has trouble dealing with life, has more problems than he can handle, gets a gun, and goes off the deep end, taking as many poor souls with him as he can. This guy is proud of what he did, the story on his mug shot says it all. Could there have been something someone could have done? Yes, the Baker Act laws allow anyone to have someone sent in for psychological evaluation if they feel the person is a danger to themselves or other people. Listening to his college classmates, if the school wasn't going to do anything, one or more of them could have went to their local sheriff's office and filed a report if they were sincerely afraid for their safety or even for his. If so many people truly were afraid of him, why didn't anyone speak up? This tragedy could have been avoided, but it wasn't. I suggest everyone listen to the interviews regarding this incident. Make up your own minds. Think about what you would do if you came in contact with someone for MONTHS ON END and continuously feared for your safety when in contact with him. Would you tell someone?
The only story out of these two that I will be watching closely is the one about the crazy guy that shot 18 people. Six people died with one of them being a 9-year old girl. I personally think he should get the death penalty for killing six people, especially due to the pride written all over his face in his mug shot. I'd like for him to get the death penalty, but I'd settle for him being in gen pop to be passed around for the rest of his life…
Obama made a touching speech today January 13th, 2011…I'm sorry but Obama is a good leader, especially since he urges us not to blame politics for this.


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Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) will visit the Family Health Center (North), 117 W Paterson St, on Friday, August 22, 10:00-11:00 a.m. to see the Ready to Read early childhood literacy program in action and read to children.
Ready to Read encourages parents to read aloud to their children, beginning at birth. By sharing the joy of reading, parents help prepare their children to learn to read. Ready to Read gives books to newborns, prescribes reading with gift books at medical offices and human services agencies, and sends volunteers into the community to read aloud in clinic waiting rooms, shelters, and Head Start classrooms. Kalamazoo Public Library leads this community collaboration of more than 30 organizations.
Ready to Read reaches parents, children and the community with several programs. Through Books for Babies, Bronson and Borgess hospitals give each newborn a storybook, encourage their parents to read aloud to their babies with a list of baby-friendly books. Rx Reading pediatricians, nurses, social workers, educators, and other professionals prescribe reading and give young children books at 36 medical offices and human services agencies, including the WIC program and Loaves & Fishes' food pantries. Volunteer Readers model book sharing and read aloud to children in clinic waiting rooms, family shelters, Head Start and PEEP classrooms. Volunteers read for two hours a week; training and books are provided.
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Drawing Animated Cartoons for the Movies (Oct, 1924)
Drawing Animated Cartoons for the Movies
MAKING laugh-creating animated cartoons for the movie screen in which grotesque clowns, misshapen animals, and caricatured people with funny faces and funnier habits go through their pen-and-ink performances requires not only skilled drawing by artists who "cast" the parts but careful work by the camera operator as well, to insure each scene its proper sequence on the reel. Unlike the studios where the dramatic plays are acted out, the animated cartoon is made up on an ordinary drawing board amid the familiar implements of the ink craftsman. And at times the creator of the characters is called upon to take
part in the play, performing with a group of the queer figures that seem to be balancing on pencils or bobbing about on top of a desk or table. When such human characters are combined in an animated cartoon with "sketched" characters, the exposures are made in two sections. The first is generally made up of the scenes and action of the human players with one – half of the film masked to prevent it from registering, leaving it free to include the inked figures in the second exposure. In the average cartoon picture, about 700 to 800 feet of film are required, and the artist is called upon to draw from 2,500 to 3,000 sketches. The only opportunity he has to save labor and time in the preparation of a picture is in instances where the same scenery or settings are used continuously for long periods of action. Then by transferring the background to trans parent surfaces, it can be used repeatedly, the position of the figures alone necessitating continual redrawing. With this method, the background is centered over each figure sketch as the camera takes the picture, guides on the sketch sheets holding the transparent piece in exact position to insure the appearance of fixture on the reel. Sometimes, a pen-and-ink character is depicted as running or walking, and then only the legs and arms need to be redrawn for each stage of the action, the body generally being kept in the one pose. For instance, where a figure is drawn to appear as though moving past a hut, the hut is drawn only once on, transparent material but the character must have every motion repeated until the entire movement is carried out. This means that there will be not less than sixteen sketches for every foot of film, each one an individual drawing posed in sequence with the preceding picture, for when these strips are finally thrown upon the screen they must perform the movement smoothly without any fluctuating or "bouncing" from the direct line on which the first one started. Scenarios for animated cartoons are not written as are those of ordinary features, but instead are drawn in series of from forty to sixty sketches roughly done by the cartoonist to illustrate only the principal action of the characters. They are arranged for a straight camera "shot" taken in the ordinary way, using human actors and animals for a complete cartoon picture, or a combination of both. When real actors are employed they go through their entire parts playing with imaginary characters which are absent from the first reeling, but which are later filled in at positions left blank to accommodate them. All action is timed with absolute accuracy, almost every turn of the camera crank being counted and recorded and the distances of the machine from its subjects measured closely. Then, without moving the camera from its original position, the cartoon "actors" are introduced and "put through their parts." Instead of shooting the cartooned figures while they are in a vertical pose in front of the lens, the camera is placed above the drawings and the lens is directed at the sheets as they are passed one by one over a strong light in the top of the table. Each sketch requires a separate exposure. For this purpose specially constructed machines are necessary. The camera action is controlled by a pedal and worked in perfect unity with the speed at which the cartoonist places his sequential pictures in position for photographing. To prevent the lines of the background from showing through the outline of the figure posed against it, a corresponding space is blocked out of the setting to permit the character to appear each time in a different place without coming in contact with the lines of other objects. Often, to illustrate a figure running a considerable distance, the scenery is placed on a long strip of paper and the figures continually drawn for each movement as it is passed before the camera. This gives the effect of having the camera follow the movement of the character as it speeds along its way.
Some animated-cartoon actors are depicted performing their queer tricks amid the surroundings or interiors of ordinary houses or offices, annoying by their antics human players who seem to be actually registering their actions at the same time the "cardboard" stars are going through their parts. By the simple process of taking the entire picture without the "inked" figures and afterward inserting them on the drawing board when the film has been enlarged, the missing characters can be easily shown in the final film, as vividly as though they had actually been present in the first staging of the play.


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It's not just about curbing our spending in a recession. It's also boasting about our savvy shopping "savings."
In the last week, a friend ripped off her heavy coat to twirl in her velvet wrap dress and boast that it was reduced from $149 to $9.70 at the Talbots Outlet in Park Ridge. A guy I sat next to in a meeting said, "Like my sweater? Seven dollars at Target!"
But why should I have all the fun of savoring the money these frugal folks saved? To spread the wealth, or lack of it, I stopped random people and had them share their favorite steals. Here goes.
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Jane Pratt, 48, retired mother of three (with John Clarke, 52), visiting from Holmes Beach, Fla.
Tell me about your favorite bargain. "He bought this hat for $80 to wear in his Mercedes convertible. It was the cheapest one they could find at Nordstrom, but it wasn't on sale. He'd been looking for one for a while."
That's not exactly a steal. Have you got some great buys to boast about? "I bought this purse (on her shoulder) for me and one for my sister. It was $175, and I got it for $40 at Beau Rivage, the casino in Biloxi. We're heading to the Billy Goat for lunch, where we always eat when we come to Chicago, and then we're heading for the airport. And I saw snow for the fourth time in my life!"
Glad someone is excited about the snow.
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Kyena Butler, 34, law firm case assistant, mother of three, of the Southeast Side
What's in her bag? A $298 black leather Kenneth Cole purse that she got for 50 percent off. She's a Kenneth Cole fanatic (even her glasses are Kenneth Cole). "I love their handbags. I shop there a lot, so they gave me a half-off coupon."
Lessons learned: If you're a faithful shopper at one store, ask for frequent buyer coupons and discounts.
Other recent savings to brag about? "MAC cosmetics just had 25 percent off, online."
How else does she save? She and her spouse work different shifts so they don't need to pay for day care for their 9-month-old; shop at Aldi for grocery basics; take public transportation, not cabs; bring a bag lunch to work; pay yearly Catholic school tuition upfront for a discount.
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Timothy Leon Rogers, 20, looking for a job, of Hyde Park
His bargain finds? "I haven't been shopping at all this year. A lot of window shopping for a gift list for my birthday. When I have money [I buy] Nike Dunks and any jeans by True Religion or Rock & Republic. They were on sale at Nordstrom. I know what's out there!"
Favorite shopping spots? "Target for anything. Nordstrom and Bloomies. Zara."
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Erica Vukelich, 31, does marketing for a real estate firm, expecting her first baby May 18, of Wrigleyville
Any bargains in those (Nordstrom and Macy's) bags? "No, I'm just returning one gift and exchanging boots for a different size. But I did just order a bunch of maternity stuff online at gap.com. I spent about $350 -- but it was 35 percent off regularly priced clothes and 15 percent off stuff that was already reduced. I'll probably return about $150 of it."
Will that be your entire maternity wardrobe? "Well, with that order I got about five pairs of pants -- they have tall maternity, which I need -- and two sweaters and two shirts. But I've also borrowed a lot of stuff."
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Lenore Wineberg, 69, professor of early childhood education at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, of Wilmette
Tell me about your savings! "My favorite bargain is a sweater at Carson's, a maroon sweater. It was $7.98. The original price was $40 or $50."
And what brought you out to the mall today? "I just got a federal grant, so I wanted to treat myself [with lunch at] Joe's [Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab] and buying my funky watch. It was $104.90, reduced from about $125 at Nordstrom."
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Niki Turke, 48, registered nurse, mother of adult sons ages 29 and 26 (with her husband Kuldip, peering out from the parka), of Munster, Ind.
Did you score any good Nordstrom buys today? "I like Ralph Lauren, so I got one jacket, one sweater and two pants at 40 percent off. We don't have a Nordstrom in Indiana. And two Armani lipsticks. They weren't on sale."
And what about bargains for your sons? (Laughing) "They can buy their own!"


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Wallow-Drunk. — "I think 'right' and 'wrong' are either zombie or capture algorithms when not tied narrowly to a system's persistence optimization", says some fellow [1], who, I would guess, believes he is being scientific or rational: it is always the image such men are after, however far it may drift from reality; and I would say that this man has ended up much closer to modern performance-art.
It is amazing to think that it has taken only a few hundred years from relative calm to this kind of madness. Lately I have had in mind the role of romanticism: the intoxication with feelings, the beautiful-soulism, the individualism which bids a man to fancy that he can define reason and truth in line with his passions, and the irrationalism which has made a fatal pact with the image of reason, science, and progress. [2] But the roots of the madness go very deep, seen in the mechanical philosophy of the seventeenth century, seen in the nominalism of the late middle-ages, and then we look at Old Greece, and there it is again: some kind of intoxication, some desire for formlessness, some humanity-denying animality. It was such that Plato saw and set out to fight.
Things are not repeated in quite the same way, but it seems that man, when he reaches a rank whereat his humanity is starkly reflected back at him, may, if wisdom has not reached the same rank, conceive a desire to sink into beasthood, as if the sight of what it is to be specifically human frightens him with its calling and responsibility. For that calling is the good life, the rational life, the examined life, and the responsibility is always to it, far away from a life of moral indolence and devil-may-care free-spiritedness. But what a ghastly thing to the man who wishes to cut loose in a spree of thrills and feelings! Better to be a wallowing swine than a striving man — or so the pig-philosophers teach. [3]
By this desire for sinking, however, I do not mean the longing for a simpler life. On the contrary: therein one can be fully human. Oddly it seems that man can use all the sophistication of his rational nature to try and thwart that very nature. In our advanced technology and in our complex, long-accumulated systems of thought, we are far better able to bestialise ourselves than were the Old Greeks.
[1] Hopefully Anonymous, comment of 16th December 2010, to TGGP, "Barack Obama as Rockefeller Republican?", Entitled to an Opinion (weblog), 2nd December 2010. (Transhumanists, in denying their human nature, that is, in refusing to understand themselves as essentially rational animals, or as anything spiritual, but rather in mistaking themselves to be mechanically-determined, algorithmic genebots, or somesuch, are slipping from the human towards the merely animal, whilst pathetically dreaming of reaching the godly.)
[2] See Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919). Therein: "Man is in danger of being deprived of every last scrap and vestige of his humanity by this working together of romanticism and science. For man becomes human only in so far as he exercises moral choice." p.262.
[3] For vain protestation against the accusation of pig-philosophy, see J.S. Mill, Utilitarianism (London: Parker, Son, & Bourn, 1863), above all, pp.11-14.


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