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Today/yesterday has been of the best days and don't worry I am going to tell you ALL about it!
Anytime that Arkansas gets snow, EVERYONE freaks out and usually everything closes!!
My very best guy friend Chris was supposed to leave for the military yesterday,
BUT due to all of our snow his flight got cancelled and he will be here for another week! yayy!
Sadly he won't be here when Miss Kinsley is born but she will love her Uncle Chris so very much when he returns!!
So I got to spend my snow day with him yesterday and today, what a blessing it has been!
Yesterday we all just laid around and watched movies all day and cooked some yummy Million Dollar Spaghetti for dinner, I plan on blogging about that recipe here soon so everyone can enjoy the yumminess and THOUSANDS of calories it is!!
I was also SO lucky to have Amy come and guest post for me yesterday, weren't her headbands the CUTEST thing!? If you haven't checked out her blog yet, you should definately make that a priority!
Also Crafterminds was yesterday, if you haven't checked that out yet, come join us on Twitter next Monday at 3:00 pm Central Time! Its so much fun chatting with other bloggers about everything!
After the chats I always get in my "blog" mood, so I started making an inspirational notebook!!
I haven't gotten too far on it yet, but just making time to make one is nice and relaxing!
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Grave Forsaken – This Day Forth (2009)
Have you ever heard a thrash metal band sing about signs of the apocalypse, God being the only one that matters, Microsoft controlling the masses, or the need for an environmental cleansing? If not, you probably haven't listened to Grave Forsaken's This Day Forth, eight heavy songs that revolve around making the world a better place and how humans are destroying it with their greed and lustful desire for more.
Hailing from Perth, Australia, Grave Forsaken has been rocking and rolling since their formation in 2004. This Day Forth is the bands third album and the first for their new label, Soundmass. They are definitely a thrash metal band with a Megadeth influence, but traces of Suicidal Tendencies and a pinch of Manowar are apparent throughout.
This Day Forth kicks off with "No News…Ain't Good News" and the message is made clear early on: the world needs to change. The lyrics in this song (and throughout the album) speak of melting polar ice caps, environmental disaster, and political agendas, the collapse of the global economy and the absence of free will. Combined with the heavy, thrashing rhythm of crashing drums and amazing guitar work, the message is delivered like a kick in the groin.
The lyrics to the music are what really make this record stand out. Deep, meaningful prose that forces the listener think about the world and their situation in it is captured here. Themes such as selling yourself on a daily basis, giving all of your energy to the job and having none left for a personal life, as well as re-examining your relationship with the Earth and the Lord are all poignant and effective in their mission to make one think and reconsider what is being done on a daily basis.
The guitar work from Vaughan Gregory and Elias Salmela is absolutely incredible and adds depth and power to the record. Their twin guitar attack is crisp, clean, and clear, and their outstanding ability to shred the axe shines through on this album. While Vaughan's vocals leave a little to be desired, they blend well enough for this thrashing metal attack on the senses.
The title track is the best song on the record, hands down. The heavy laden guitar intro leading right into the drums kick starting the song into high gear is an immediate announcement…pay attention! The drum beats and chord changes blending with the heavy chants of "This Day Forth!" are what make this song so appealing and likable. A fist pounding, rage filled anthem if ever there was one.
While there is a lot of originality in the lyrics to the record, there isn't much in the way of the music itself. A few of the songs sound eerily similar with different lyrics and that takes away from what could have been an extremely strong album. Too many tracks have the same format with similar bass and drum beats, and the vocal range does not change much (if at all) from song to song.
The similarity to Suicidal Tendencies on "Celebrity Judge" and The Sinners Part III" sounds so close to that band, you would almost think they recorded it. Once again though, the guitar work stands out on this track and forces the ear to take notice. Cookie Monster makes an appearance at the end of the song (and again for "Death Undone") in the form of the grunt and growl vocal styles noticeable in a lot of death/doom metal bands.
"This Day Forth" is thrash metal done right, but it could have been done just a little bit better. While not an awful record by any stretch of the imagination, it's an album that would benefit from some polishing.
For more information on Grave Forsaken, check out their website at this link.
Rating: Out of 10
Track Listing:
- No News…Ain't Good News
- Mother of Harlots
- This Day Forth
- Celebrity Judge and The Sinners Part III
- Wasting Power
- Death Undone
- Holy Blood
- Affluenza
Grave Forsaken is:
Vaughan Gregory – guitar/vocals
Elias Salmela – guitar/vocals
Matt Skipworth – bass/vocals
Dave Kilgallon- drums
Tim Steadman – vocals
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Her self-supported black dance company honed the talents of Eartha Kitt and Alvin Ailey. Today, choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones continues to bring the African-American roots of modern dance to the most recognized levels of high art. Aside from earning the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the arts world's largest endowments, Jones has won the MacArthur Genius award, multiple Tony awards and a Kennedy Center Honor.Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: The new black pioneersW. E. B. Du Bois, right, was the first African-American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University. A writer and champion of civil rights (he was a co-founder of the NAACP), Du Bois was also an educator who thought the advantage of a higher education was paramount for African-Americans. Educator Geoffrey Canada carries on Du Bois' tradition as the president of Harlem Children's Zone in Manhattan. 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Bernard Hopkins becomes the latest boxer to obsess over "no homo". The former middleweight world champion lashed out against mixed martial arts and the very popular Ultimate Fighting Championships, slamming the admittedly homoerotic sport as gay "pornos" and criticizing fighters for their square cut shorts.
Hopkins says: "I don't want to watch two grown men wrestling with panties on. I'm from the hood, we don't play that. To me, I'm not buying a ticket to watch two grown men with panties on, sweating, [with] nuts in their face. That's not me. To compare that to boxing is ludicrous. It's a porno."
'Cuz of course there is nothing homoerotic about two guys stripping to their underwear, staring nose to nose, then hugging and sweating for 12 rounds. If you say so, hon.
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Loss and AIDS
AIDS has become virtually synonymous with loss. This is obviously and painfully true when we think of a specific person, or more likely, several people we have known and loved who have died from complications associated with AIDS. It is not uncommon for a person to be simultaneously mourning for several people, all who have died within a relatively short time... all from AIDS, all of them close. Attempting to mourn several people at once complicates the grieving process and results in a prolonged period of mourning where the survivor may be unable to separate their feelings towards one particular friend or loved one.
I know several families in which two gay sons both died from AIDS in less than a year. In other families one gay son has died from AIDS and another is HIV seropositive or symptomatic. Many inner-city families are experiencing multiple AlDS-related deaths, as this disease reaches two generations simultaneously, leaving the surviving family members reeling in an emotional holocaust.
This month's column is heavy, and many may find it particularly depressing. Yet one of the purposes of Newsline is to provide a forum where issues can be raised and discussed that are not receiving enough, if any, attention elsewhere. I am of the firm belief that it is useful and important to articulate concerns so that they can be demystified. No one needs to feel that he or she is the only person feeling this way, or is unusual in his or her own fears of pain.
Mortal Thoughts
Most people in contemporary America live with an illusion of their own immortality. What this means is that though intellectually each of us knows that one day we will die, there is a part of us that cannot comprehend the world continuing without us. When someone close to us, or we ourselves are diagnosed with a life threatening condition, our denial about our own death is usually confronted. Watching friends sicken and die from AIDS has had the effect on many people of forcing~them to begin to face the reality of their own mortality, especially if they have HIV or AIDS.
The impact of being so surrounded by people who are in the final phase of their lives, or who have died, can understandably result in the surviving individuals feeling very shaken, sad, depressed angry and vulnerable. This sense of f,ragility and vulnerability will be heightened if the surviving people are themselves at risk of succumbing to the same condition that killed the people they loved.
Living in the midst of this can impact upon a person in several ways. He or she can feel so overwhelmed with despair and hopelessness that they become withdrawn and give up on any hope for a meaningful quality of life. Some people become imbued with the preciousness of the gift of their life as they have it today and attempt to maximize their experiences and opportunities. Some people become so depressed that they are incapable of accomplishing the things they have decided are important. Most people have some combination of these reactions in various degrees, and different moods predominate at different points in time. But while death is an enormous loss that all people living with AIDS/HIV are facing, death is only one significant loss with which we learn to cope. The rest of this article will discuss the variety of ways that loss becomes part of the experience of living with AIDS.
Many people with AIDS/HIV begin to experience a loss of energy early in the course of their illness. Sometimes it is quite subtle, like not. being able to exercise as hard as one used to, or not being able to run up a flight of stairs or just stay awake as late. Loss of energy is only one of numerous physical losses that may be faced during the course of a prolonged illness. As people are living longer they are experiencing different kinds of physical and mental deterioration. This "premature geriatric" condition is characterized by the rapid aging of a person because of multiple AlDS-related infections, and may result in him or her feeling as if they have been robbed of their youth in months instead of over decades. This experience in itself is startling and often enrages the person who is attempting to adapt to life with AIDS.
Neuropathy or progressed K.S. may result in a person previously blessed with vitality to now require a cane or walker, or just not being able to walk as quickly as they used to before getting sick. All of the physical losses and body changes that a person living with AIDS experiences can result in a significant loss of autonomy and independence. Some people with advanced AIDS can no longer venture forth to do the simplest errands or go for a walk unless accompanied by someone else. This kind of physical debilitation understandably results in a loss of self-confidence.
It an individual is suffering from AlDS-related neurological impairment, he or she may experience short term memory loss. The humiliation and/or shame that often accompanies the person with AIDS recognizing that he or she is losing some of their mental faculties can have a devastating impact. This can include a loss of one's ability to manage one's own medications, care, or medical appointments. The feelings that accompany this loss are often a mixture of rage and frustration at feeling like an infant who needs to be taken care of. Thus many people with advanced AIDS no longer feel like autonomous adults--a significant loss all the way around.
AIDS can have an important impact upon a person due to changes in body image. If a person has lesions, or a Hickman catheter, they have daily reminders of their conditions, and may not feel attractive. It a PWA used to work out at a gym or be athletic, and a loss of appetite or a wasting condition has caused weight loss and loss of muscle mass and tone, these are other changes/losses that need to be integrated. The chemotherapy for Lymphomas or K.S. can result in loss of hair. All of these can result in the person with AIDS feeling like an old person, or at least not like the person they had grown to know over the course of their adult lite.
Going Deeper
There are few indignities directly related to loss from AIDS that are more powerful than loss of control over your own body. For many people with AIDS, bouts of incontinence can be embarrassing, humiliating and enraging. This, more than any other change in a person's body, can cause a person to feel humiliated, as if he had regressed to an earlier time when he was a child. Seizures are another way that many PWAs experience a loss of control over their bodies. I have heard more than one PWA express his or her feelings about these kinds of changes by saying that their body was no longer their friend, something that they could count on to perform in expected ways.
Most people obtain a large measure of their self-definition from their work. When AIDS results in a person no longer being able to work, a huge vacuum is created in terms of time that is left unstructured. The losses that are directly connected to loss of work include loss of income, the feeling that one is a productive member of society, and a place to go to focus energies for a large number of hours. One way of counter-acting these feelings is by volunteering at a local AIDS service organization and attempting to help other people living with AIDS, or creating new diversions or projects for yourself.
If the person with AIDS is a mother and a single head of a household, as many women with AIDS are, they may become too weak to be able to actively take care of their children. The enormity of the loss of being able to care for your children is overwhelming. This naturally contributes to a growing sense of powerlessness, helplessness and worthlessness, since many women derive an important sense of value and accomplishment from their role in life as a mother.
For people who have been rejected by their families, this abandonment is a powerful loss at a time in their life when each support is vital. Many people with AIDS may be the last surviving member of their friendship group. This is particularly difficult to live through and can contribute to the depression that raises questions such as, ~What do I have to live for?" or "Why should I continue to struggle?"
While this does not occur for everyone, many people with AIDS/HIV lose their sex drive. As Charles Barber, a PWA wrote in a recent article in NYQ: "People with AIDS/HIV have learned that, after a certain number of years of immune suppression and use of multiple medications, you don't get hard-one automatically any more." ( AIDS Apartheid," NYQ) One of the points of Charles's article was that men with AIDS or HIV have often lost the opportunity to form liaisons with other men for romance and/or sex. Many PWAs who are single have lost the hope or expectation that they may ever again have a life partner or sex again.
The Subtle Losses
How does the loss of a sense of well-being become quantified? I have heard numerous people with AIDS talk about their feelings regarding the kiss of their dreams, a specific vision of the future, or for specific goals they had been working towards. The enormity of the loss of a vision of the future encompasses everything, and can touch on all aspects of a person's self-image, identity and personhood.
While I realize that I may have painted a depressing picture, the purpose of this article is not to say that each person with AIDS should prepare him or herself to experience all of the above mentioned losses. But the reality is that every person living with AIDS must grapple with some specific losses. For many PWAs, especially those who are in support groups, the issues discussed in this article will be familiar. But not all people with AIDS/HIV know other persons living with the disease. This is especially true if you do not live in or near a large urban center where there are organized supports systems.
Coping with loss is difficult for most people, even if their physical health is flawless. It is not uncommon for people reacting to loss to be catapulted into a state of crisis where they feel emotionally disorganized and unable to cope. One of the things that occurs in conjunction with a diagnosis of AIDS or HIV seropositivity is that there are multiple losses that all occur in a relatively short period of time, resulting in the person becoming overwhelmed and/or feeling that his or her life has gone totally out of control. The multiple losses that are a hallmark of AIDS/HIV can overwhelm even the most resourceful person.
It is for precisely these reasons that AIDS service organizations and PWA self-empowerment groups have been established. No one should have to go through AIDS/HIV alone. Only by recognizing the normalcy of the painful and difficult feelings that accompany loss resulting from AIDS can a person be compassionate to him/herself and obtain all the peer support, professional assistance and support of friends and family that will enable you to live with dignity and a sense of balance during this very difficult time.
Published in the People With AIDS Coalition Newsline, Issue #75, April, 1992
©1992 Michael Shernoff


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Passover, a festival of freedom that Jews have been celebrating for thousands of years, is basically a do-it-yourself holiday. Whether it's the White House or your house, every family can create their own special Passover tradition. Edgar M. Bronfman did just that when he sat down to write The Bronfman Haggadah. Like the holiday itself, which lasts eight days, in eight easy steps you can create this special feast where we learn about the Jews' deliverance from slavery and the importance of loving the stranger.


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On June 3, 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, where she met with senior Swedish officials to discuss a range of issues, including green energy, Internet freedom, Afghanistan, and the Middle East.
Following her meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, Secretary Clinton said, "Sweden brings its diplomatic heft and its development expertise to nearly every corner of the globe. And at the Chicago Summit we were pleased to welcome Sweden as one of NATO's strongest partners, standing with us in Afghanistan as we begin the transition to full Afghan responsibility for security by 2014, as well as working for the betterment of the Afghan people into the future."
Speaking about the Middle East, Secretary Clinton said, "...We discussed the ongoing atrocities in Syria. We are joined in our condemnation of what Assad and the regime are doing to perpetuate vicious and systematic attacks, and strongly support a political transition that will give the Syrian people a better future. We have a great commitment to the Kofi Annan Plan, because the six points are the ones that have to be addressed, and we will continue to look for ways to do that. I also appreciated discussing Iran with the Foreign Minister. We share a vision for a diplomatic solution that sees Iran live up to its international commitments."
Secretary Clinton continued, "...When it comes to all of the large challenges that know no boundaries, such as climate change, or gender equality, or Internet freedom, it is true that Sweden is not just on the front lines, but leading. And I am greatly appreciative for all of that work."
In Stockholm, Secretary Clinton also joined Swedish Climate Ambassador Anna Lindstedt and Swedish Minister for the Environment Lena Ek at a Climate and Clean Air Coalition event, attended by Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. In February 2012, Sweden and the United States launched the Climate and Clean Air Coalition along with Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico and the UN Environmental Program to address short-lived climate pollutants, including methane, black carbon, and the hydrofluorocarbons. These pollutants are responsible for more than 30 percent of current global warming. Since the coalition's launch, all G-8 countries as well as Colombia, Denmark, Nigeria, Norway, the European Commission, and the World Bank have joined the initiative.
At today's event, Secretary Clinton announced that Sweden and the United States are beginning a global campaign to provide information about short-lived climate pollutants. Secretary Clinton said, "Few people actually know about the impact we could have on global warming if we aggressively target them. And fewer still know that many cost-effective solutions already exist and are just waiting to be broadly implemented. We, in fact, are going to be holding a global contest to find the best, most creative ideas for raising awareness about short-lived pollutants and the work that must be done to stop them. So I invite everyone to visit the coalition's new website for further information. The address is www.UNEP.org/CCAC."
Secretary Clinton concluded, "...We inherited a fragile, marvelous planet, and it's our duty to protect it. So we're very grateful, once again, to be working hand in hand with Sweden. We've already made progress on the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in less than four months. And we're going to continue working closely with Sweden and our other partners. And we are determined to take aggressive action in the months ahead. We can do no less."
You can view photographs of Secretary Clinton's visit to Sweden, her third stop on a seven-country trip, on the U.S. Embassy's Facebook page. The Secretary will travel to Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey June 4-7. In each of these countries, she will discuss important issues of regional security, democracy, economic development, and counterterrorism. You can follow her trip on www.state.gov.
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But with every thing I think it's going to take time for people to accept this new thinking. Hopfully this will catch on quickly and will become affordable for everyone. :)
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Making a Mightier Knockout Mouse
Making a Mightier Knockout Mouse
Somewhere in the world, there's someone working hard to build a better mouse trap.
In the meantime, a team supported with partial funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has figured out how to build a better "knockout" mouse, a key research tool for exploring the genetic factors involved in health and disease.
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England; the University of California, Davis; and Harvard University in Boston, have developed a new method for creating black 6 ES cells that produce black 6 knockout mice in a majority of cases, a strain of mice preferred by researchers because they have a similar genetic background to humans and can often mimic human health and disease. The team describes its pioneering achievement in the June 14 advanced online edition of Nature Methods.
In addition to NIH, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union funded the research. Researchers carried out the work as part of the international Knockout Mouse Project, which is partly supported by NIH. Launched in 2006, the five-year project plans to build a comprehensive and publicly available resource of knockout mutations for each of the approximately 21,000 genes in the mouse genome.
First Knockout Mice
Researchers created the first knockout mice in 1989, using genetic engineering techniques to completely disrupt, or "knock out", one or more genes in the laboratory animals. Scientists use these mice to learn what the knocked out gene normally does, as well as what happens when its function is disrupted. Knockout mice have proven valuable for studying and modeling a wide range of human conditions, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, substance abuse, anxiety and aging.
But, despite those advances, researchers faced many limitations in what they could learn from knockout mice because the strain that was easiest to genetically engineer, called the 129 strain, is not the best mouse model for studying human biology. Most researchers prefer working with a strain of mouse called C57BL/6, commonly referred to as black 6. Used widely in scientific work for decades, black 6 mice are similar genetically to humans and often mimic human health and disease. It also was the same strain used to sequence the mouse genome. However, until now, researchers' have had little success with efficiently creating black 6 knockout mice.
Producing Knockout Mice
Researchers begin the process of making knockout mice by obtaining embryonic stem (ES) cells from early-stage mouse embryos. They use ES cells because these cells can differentiate into any type of adult cell. That means if a gene is knocked out in an ES cell, the effects can be observed in any tissue in an adult mouse.
To produce knockout mice, researchers then introduce an artificial piece of DNA into the nucleus of an ES cell grown in laboratory conditions. At each end of this DNA piece are base pairs that are identical in sequence, or homologous, to the base pairs that flank the mouse gene targeted for knock out. The cell's machinery automatically recognizes the identical stretches of DNA sequence and swaps out the existing mouse gene with the artificial piece of DNA. Because the artificial DNA is inactive, the swap knocks out the function of the mouse gene.
After a targeted gene is knocked out, researchers inject the altered ES cells into early-stage mouse embryos. The embryos are then implanted into the uterus of a female mouse and allowed to develop into mouse pups. Researchers screen the pups to find those with some tissues in which a gene is knocked out, along with some normal tissues from the embryos into which the altered ES cells were injected. Researchers then crossbreed the offspring of such mice to produce lines of mice in which both copies of the gene are knocked out in all tissues - a homozygous knockout.
Historically, scientists have created knockout mice with ES cells derived from the 129 strain of mice because these animals consistently transmitted knockout genes throughout the extensive breeding process needed to create a line of homozygous knockouts. In contrast, researchers found that ES cells from the black 6 strain of mice inexplicably quit working after a few generations.
A Better Knockout Mouse
Still, the quest to create black 6 knockout mice continued because the 129 mouse strain displays behavioral and physical defects that make them less than ideal for genetic studies involving neurobiology, immunology and physiology. In the past, researchers who wanted to produce a black 6 knockout mouse had to inject ES cells from 129 mice into early-stage mouse embryos and implant the embryos into a black 6 female mouse. Because the procedure involved two strains of mice, researchers had to breed 10 generations of mice to create a line of knockout mice with a pure black 6 genetic background. The entire process could take five years and cost a great deal of money.
To find which black 6 ES cells might work best for creating knockout mice, the scientists from the Knock Out Mouse Project experimented with ES cells from two substrains of black 6 called C57BL/6N and C57Bl/6J. First, they found that the black 6N ES cells, called JM8, could be grown more easily in the lab than the black 6J ES cells. Next, they tested the resulting black 6N ES cells by injecting them into 320 early-stage mouse embryos, and then implanting the embryos into female black 6 mice.
It worked. The procedure transferred the desired genetic material to the mouse pups at least 65 percent of the time.
"It's still a bit of a mystery why ES cells from black 6N proved to work so well in creating these knockout mice, when so many others had run into so much difficulty in the past," said Colin Fletcher, Ph.D., program director of the Knockout Mouse Project at the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of NIH. "Regardless, this line of cells appears to be up to the task of creating black 6 knockout mice at the scale needed to meet the goals of the Knockout Mouse Project."
The researchers also developed a simple and innovative way to sort the mouse pups produced by their procedure. Black 6 mice carry a genetic mutation that makes their coats black. The normal version of this gene produces a reddish-brown coat, called "agouti." Researchers restored the agouti gene in the black 6N ES cells and transplanted these ES cells into early-stage embryos from mice with a black coat color. The offspring of these mice have either black or agouti fur, allowing researchers to easily distinguish the pups with knocked out genetic material (agouti) from regular pups (black).
"This technique saves a breeding step and eliminates the need to do the extensive genetic testing on the tissues of mouse pups to determine whether they had inherited the knocked out genetic material," said Dr. Fletcher. "Thanks to this achievement, we can accelerate our efforts to use knockout mice to better understand human biology and improve human health."
To request any of the ES cell lines produced by the Knock Out Mouse Project, go to The Knock Out Mouse Project Repository, or the European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Repository
To learn more about the international Knockout Mouse Project, go to The Knockout Mouse Project. To learn more about knockout mice, go to Knockout Mice.


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A new book by two members of the economics faculty at Hope College presents a case for bringing a Christian sensibility to understanding and shaping economic practice.
Dr. Victor Claar and Dr. Robin Klay are co-authors of "Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices," being published in August by InterVarsity Press.
"Economics is not primarily about money. And markets are only one sphere of public life. Indeed, a just and prosperous society depends for its success on the active engagement of citizens in all three spheres of public life: democratic governments, market-organized economies, and strong moral and cultural institutions," Claar and Klay explain.
The two authors demonstrate the need to consider economic forces precisely in order to act effectively upon Christian values. "Good intentions alone cannot address important social issues like unemployment, environmental damage and poverty," they note.
Reviewer John Pisciotta of the economics faculty at BaylorUniversity noted that the book "has lofty goals. One purpose is to explain the economic process, emphasizing the benefits of free markets and voluntary choice. The second task is Christian reflection on economic involvement from an evangelical perspective. The result enriches economic and biblical understanding."
The book's cover demonstrates one way in which the linkage between faith and economics is carried in the wallet of nearly every citizen in the nation. Its main illustration highlights a detail from the back of the dollar bill: the words "In God we trust."
The 260-page book is divided into 11 chapters covering topics including "Markets: Mechanisms for Creating Good and Exercising Christian Responsibility," "Savior or Leviathan? The Role of Government in Our Daily Lives," "Creation Care: Exercising Good Stewardship in the Garden," "International Economic Relations: Hope for the Third World," and "Going Beyond Markets: Renewing Neighborhoods, Reconciling People and Restoring Hope." An epilogue features action steps for individual readers, presenting "Nine Big Ideas from Economics That Can Help You Be a Good Steward Every Day."
Claar is an associate professor of economics whose research interests include the macroeconomic implications of behavioral economics, time series econometrics and forgiveness. His research has appeared in journals such as "Applied Economics," "Public Finance Review," and "Markets and Morality," and he has served as a referee for the "Journal of Money, Credit and Banking," the "Journal of Public Economics" and the "Review of Political Economy." Working with a Hope student he recently developed the Lakeshore Economic Index that measures West Michigan's economic health based on nine categories. He has spent the 2006-07 school year teaching and conducting research in Armenia through an award from the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Klay is a professor of economics whose primary research emphasis is on the connections between Christian faith and practice and economic theory and policy. Her publications include the 1986 book "Counting the Cost: The Economics of Christian Stewardship," as well as articles published in journals such as "The Christian Century," "Perspectives," "Faith and Economics," and "Markets and Morality." She is also interested in issues involving international trade and economic development. She spent three years teaching and doing research in Cameroon, and has developed a summer internship program through which Hope students work with civil and mission organizations in Puerto Escondido, Mexico in linking their academic and vocational interests with needs in the community.


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A Darien woman's brave cancer decision
Since learning she has terminal brain cancer, Shannon Dunleavy has been forced to make some difficult decisions.
First, the 28-year-old decided to stop treatment and live out her life at her parents' Darien home. Then she decided to forgo a traditional funeral.
"A social worker asked about a funeral and I said absolutely not," Shannon said while lying in her bed Thursday afternoon. "I think it was no surprise. It's just we're not very religious. I've only been to two funerals and I've never liked them."
Instead, Shannon and her family will throw a "Celebration of Life" gathering Saturday afternoon at the Piedmont Club in Darien. They've invited about 150 friends and relatives to share memories of her life -- while she's still alive to celebrate with them.
Shannon said she wondered how she could make the event honest, without "forcing people to dance to rap music." So there will be some of her favorite music, such as the Dave Matthews Band, speeches from her two sisters and stories from her college roommates.
She asked everyone to wear green, her favorite color. And she hopes there will be a lot of laughter.
Just three years ago, planning this party would have seemed out of the question for the outgoing young woman.
Shannon grew up in Darien, went to the University of Connecticut in Storrs, got an apartment in Stamford, worked at a financial institute in Greenwich, and was leading a normal life until April 30, 2010.
On that day, Shannon was driving home from work when she had a seizure on Interstate 95, struck the car in front of her and veered off the highway. She woke up to find police officers looking into her vehicle.
Shannon was taken to the hospital, where tests revealed brain cancer. She said the diagnosis came "out of the blue."
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments were started and she underwent a craniotomy to remove tissue from the tumor.
"They said they got 99.9 percent of it, but there was still a piece they couldn't get that was ingrained in her brain tissue," said her mother, Marilyn Dunleavy.
After all of the treatments, Shannon said she went into remission for about a year. By then, she had given up her apartment and was living back with her parents.
At that point, Shannon said she was really positive and determined to beat the cancer. She wanted to stay tough, like Patrick Swayze in the movie "Road House" and kick its butt.
But one day, Shannon started losing sensation in her left arm and her pinky. She went back to the hospital and learned the cancer had returned.
"It was all in fast-forward mode by then," she said.
Her father, Martin Dunleavy, said Shannon's left arm and leg slowly became paralyzed and she had to start using a wheelchair. "And she's left-handed," her mother added.
"It's still hard to wrap my mind around, in terms of working, not being able to drive and my life not becoming recognizable to me," Shannon said. "And I'm not recognizable to myself."
Martin said steroids made his daughter very bloated. Shannon said the treatment for cancer is "brutal," and can be worse than the disease itself.
While again receiving treatment, Shannon said the benefits weren't outweighing the costs. Between showering, eating and being treated, she didn't have the time or energy to visit with family and friends.
"I was losing the good days and I could see that was happening rapidly," she said.
So Shannon consulted with her doctor and decided to go into hospice at home after Jan. 1.
"It means you've given up treatment and you've accepted that it's terminal," Martin said.
Now, Shannon just takes medication for pain and other symptoms and receives visits from doctors, nurse's aides, social workers and other health care providers each day.
"They've become like family," Shannon said.
Dr. Steve Lo, from Stamford Hospital's Bennett Cancer Center, frequently stops by the house, even on Christmas and New Year's Eve. Marilyn calls him "an angel," while Martin calls him "our hero."
Marilyn said the cancer has expanded and, while brain cancer doesn't spread to other parts of the body, it affects the body in other ways. She said the medication wasn't having any effect; the cancer just kept developing.
Breaking down in tears at times, Shannon said deciding to stop treatment was difficult, but those trips to the hospital were becoming "long and hard to do." She said she was left searching for the "good days."
Shannon said she didn't want to let her family and friends down with the decision, especially since she fought so hard in the beginning. But she came to terms with the fact she wasn't going to beat it and wanted to be honest.
"I didn't want people to think I was quitting," she said. "My parents said it was the bravest thing."
Now, as Shannon lies in her bed downstairs in the Tokeneke Road home, she receives visits from high school and college friends. They play board games and joke around. Her mother and sister sleep in the room with her at night.
Martin said when his daughter was diagnosed with cancer it was a life changer. "It's a nightmare, an incomprehensible nightmare," he said.
Shannon said she's looking forward to the party. While some relatives might not understand, she said, "For me, I have time to say, `I'm so glad you were part of my life.' "
There will be food at the event, along with memories from her family, a slide show and closing words from Shannon. She said she'll tell bad jokes and hopes they can have fun.
"We don't have to say `bye,' we can just say `hi' and then say bye at the end," Shannon said.
Her friends have started a website -- www.giveforward.com/supportthedunleavyfamily -- and are looking for donations to offset the enormous medical bills the family has incurred.


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SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 16, 2007 – New Mexico Tech Associate Professor of Physics Richard Sonnenfeld will soon have his lightning research featured on the Pulse of the Planet's Science Diaries radio program.
Richard Sonnenfeld, who also is an atmospheric physics research scientist at New Mexico Tech, will have audio samples of his research activity aired on public radio stations throughout the nation.
Sonnenfeld conducts most of his current research into lightning at New Mexico Tech's Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research. His research focuses on fundamental questions concerning lightning, including lightning's charge, channel length, propagation speed, and radio waves.
Pulse of the Planet is a two–minute radio program that runs daily, mostly on the National Public Radio broadcasting system. It is broadcast over 300 public and commercial radio stations nationwide, and is carried internationally on occasion.
The program, according to Pulse of the Planet's website, "has been bending the ears of listeners for several years now." The goal of the program is to offer people an insight into the world of science during the scientific discovery process, and to get listeners involved before peer-reviewed articles are written and results have been determined.
Pulse of the Planet's Science Diaries has been running since December 2006 and is now airing about six times a month. Science Diaries includes audio excerpts from 25 scientists, 15 of whom are currently still active in their respective fields.
The audio diaries are previously recorded and then aired on the radio.
Through the Pulse of the Planet website, listeners can ask the scientists and others questions on online blogs. The featured individuals include professors, citizen scientists, and even some students. If one of the Science Diaries is missed, there is no need to panic since all of the diaries are archived and are readily available on the Pulse of the Planet's website to educate listeners and get people talking about science.
Pulse of the Planet's Associate Producer Lara Ratzlaff selected the scientists and material that would be aired on Science Diaries. Decisions, she said, were based on articles, scientists suggested by the National Science Foundation (NSF) — which also supplies the grant for the program — and, on people who were excited about their work and were able to translate the technical jargon used into layman terminology.
While research was an important deciding factor, Ratzlaff said ambient sound also had to be considered since the radio is the medium being employed.
"We really hope that this will be a way for people to 'see' behind the scenes and people will really understand what it is like to be a scientist," explained Ratzlaff.
Pulse of the Planet producers first heard about New Mexico Tech's Sonnenfeld and his lightning research at Langmuir Laboratory from NSF.
Ratzlaff described Sonnenfeld as "…very excited about his research, a good translator, good with the time constraints, and able to capture lots of great action."
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In his State of the City address today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg came out with a full-throated endorsement of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to make a small marijuana infraction a violation rather than a misdemeanor, which would reduce the legal consequences for a common crime.
Bloomberg also announced another significant marijuana-related change that will be implemented immediately in New York City.
Instead of being held overnight in jail, those arrested for possessing small quantities of marijuana will instead receive only a desk appearance ticket for their court date.
Here's the relevant quote from his State of the City address:
"But we know that there's more we can do to keep New Yorkers, particularly young men, from ending up with a criminal record. Commissioner Kelly and I support Governor Cuomo's proposal to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a violation, rather than a misdemeanor and we'll work to help him pass it this year. But we won't wait for that to happen.
"Right now, those arrested for possessing small amounts of marijuana are often held in custody overnight. We're changing that. Effective next month, anyone presenting an ID and clearing a warrant check will be released directly from the precinct with a desk appearance ticket to return to court. It's consistent with the law, it's the right thing to do and it will allow us to target police resources where they're needed most.


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O's blast three HRs in 11th to top Nationals
WASHINGTON -- Orioles first baseman Chris Davis was just hoping he was in Monday's lineup.
The struggling slugger -- benched on Sunday after going 0-for-8 with six strikeouts during Saturday's doubleheader -- dug in for his at-bat in the 11th inning, 0-for-4 in the game with a batting average under .200 while in the midst of his most prolonged slump since coming to Baltimore.View Full Game Coverage
WASHINGTON -- Orioles first baseman Chris Davis was just hoping he was in Monday's lineup.
The struggling slugger -- benched on Sunday after going 0-for-8 with six strikeouts during Saturday's doubleheader -- dug in for his at-bat in the 11th inning, 0-for-4 in the game with a batting average under .200 while in the midst of his most prolonged slump since coming to Baltimore.View Full Game Coverage
It took just one swing to forget all that. Davis crushed Nationals reliever Craig Stammen's full-count pitch, launching a two-run homer that helped the Orioles break out with a six-run inning to topple the Nationals, 8-2, in the series opener of the Battle of the Beltways series. Also fueled by 11th-inning homers from J.J. Hardy and Manny Machado -- who had a career-high five hits -- the Orioles put on a late show for the rowdy crowd of 35,126 at Nationals Park.
"When we stopped them the inning before, I knew the next inning I was coming up. And with Nelson [Cruz] being as hot as he is, I just kind of thought, 'This is my chance to redeem myself,'" said Davis, who watched Cruz reach on a broken-bat single before him. "I've been doing everything I can. I want to be the player I know I can be for these guys. I know it will be huge for this team if I can step up and start swinging a little bit. So it was definitely good to come through right there."
The victory, which also saw Cruz hit his Major League-leading 28th homer, puts the Orioles (49-40) a season-high nine games above .500 for the first time since Sept. 20, 2013. Fresh off a 12-inning win in Boston on Sunday, Baltimore has played 41 innings over the last three days but has shown no signs of slowing down, improving to 26-19 on the road with its latest victory.
"It was awesome," starter Chris Tillman said of watching Davis, who led the Majors with 53 home runs last season, put the O's on his back. "He deserves it. He works his butt off. He has been struggling, but as the game goes on you kind of sit there and say, 'Gosh, this guy looks so much better at the plate.' He's probably a little frustrated, but he came up with the big hit and it kind of sparked that whole 11th-inning rally. He had been grinding away, and what do you do? He put a good swing on a good pitch."
Tied at 2 in the 11th, Davis -- who was 2-for-38 since June 27 with a pair of singles entering the at-bat -- delivered his first homer since June 23. Hardy followed with a solo shot and Nick Markakis added another run with a double to chase Stammen from the game. Machado put things out of reach, taking Aaron Barrett deep into the left-field stands.
"It was a big inning for us," Machado said. "We needed that, and we needed this win."
Lefty T.J. McFarland picked up the win with two scoreless innings, capping a solid pitching performance all around from the O's. Darren O'Day, who pitched a perfect eighth inning, worked out of a sticky situation in the ninth after allowing a one-out double off the out-of-town scoreboard to Ryan Zimmerman. O'Day intentionally walked Bryce Harper and then struck out Ian Desmond and Wilson Ramos to send the game into extras.
"You figure that a right-handed sidearm pitcher, the ball sinks a lot. But he was throwing balls up in the strike zone," Nationals manager Matt Williams said of O'Day. "That's difficult to see because it comes from down here and it's a completely different angle than you're used to: up to down as opposed to down to up. So that's why he's in that spot. He's really tough on right-handed hitters."
Tillman, who matched Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg over seven innings, turned in his fifth quality outing in his last six games and gave the team a much-needed deep start.
"He was solid," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of Tillman. "First inning he was a little soft. He picked it up a lot as soon as ... it's very easy to forget the outing he gave us. He was good. He even put the ball in play twice. We were excited about that."
Tillman, who didn't allow a hit until Strasburg's one-out single in the third, held the Nats to two singles over the first five innings before Washington tied it up. At just 65 pitches to start the bottom of the sixth, Tillman surrendered a leadoff single to Denard Span, and Anthony Rendon sent a ball over the right-field fence for a two-run homer to tie the game at 2.
"It was good," Tillman said of his outing. "I felt much better. Stayed on the rubber a little bit longer mechanically and that translated into being able to throw strikes with about every pitch."
Tillman was staked to a 2-0 lead courtesy of Cruz, who eclipsed his season total from last year with a blast off Strasburg in the top of the fourth inning. That was all the O's would get off Strasburg, who allowed just four hits, three of which were to Machado, on a nine-strikeout night.
"He's one of the best in the game," Machado said of Strasburg. "You've just got to go out there and keep grinding, keep grinding it out. That definitely makes it better.
"A lot of baseball has been played. We're just going to keep grinding it, keep having fun like we're doing. Take it inning by inning and out by out, and just keep grinding it out. It's been a tough couple of days. We've got to put that behind us, like we put today behind us and come out tomorrow hard."
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli.


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Ford Motor Co wants to place its lagging Lincoln nameplate back on consumers' shopping lists with an ambitious marketing campaign that draws on its heritage and includes the upscale brand's first-ever Super Bowl spot.
The campaign blitz got under way on Monday and features a 60-second TV commercial that opens with an image of an actor playing Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. president after whom the brand is named. Ford has also renamed the brand the Lincoln Motor Co, which was its original name when Ford purchased it in 1922.
The moves are part of the second-largest U.S. automaker's latest effort to reinvent Lincoln two decades after its sales peak. Lincoln faces challenges in the increasingly competitive U.S. luxury vehicle market, starting with its musty brand image.
In 2011, Lincoln sales were just 85,643 - less than half the amount sold by Lexus, Toyota Motor Co's upscale brand.
"Nobody is waiting for the next ad message from Lincoln," Matt VanDyke, director of global Lincoln marketing, said in an interview. "We have to shout from the rooftops."
Under Chief Executive Alan Mulally, Ford pruned its stable of brands over the last six years to pay for its financial turnaround. Ford initially focused on its mainstream lineup but in the last few years began to turn its attention to Lincoln.
By 2015, Ford will launch seven new or revamped Lincolns, starting with the new MKZ sedan, which will be in dealerships by the end of this month. Mulally and Jim Farley, Ford's global marketing chief and new head of Lincoln, marked the campaign's launch in New York's Lincoln Center Plaza on Monday.
Ford is determined to show a different side to a brand that is known mostly for the discontinued Town Car. The goal is to attract younger, more progressive buyers by offering fresh designs, personalized service and glossier showrooms.
"I think we are well on our way and especially with the proof point of the first vehicle here today," Mulally said during an interview with Reuters Television Monday.
A commercial during the Super Bowl, the most heavily watched annual event on U.S. television, is designed to quickly reach a large, broad audience and highlight the brand's new direction.
"The Super Bowl is such an unusual and attractive venue for a brand that is really rebuilding itself," Farley said in an interview with Reuters Television.
Ford is aiming for the new MKZ sedan to command a more than 50 percent "conquest rate." Currently, more than 40 percent of Lincoln's current buyers come from other luxury brands. The MKZ competes with Cadillac's CTS and the Lexus ES.
Ford wants to lower the average age of Lincoln buyers to 57 from 65 years old, and raise the target average income more than 50 percent to nearly $160,000 a year.
"This is how Lincoln started. This is how we will become great again," Ford says in print advertisements that began appearing in major newspapers and online media Monday.
"We can't do this one person at a time by word of mouth," VanDyke said. "We do need to get noticed by the masses."
Lincoln is partnering with late-night talk show host and comedian Jimmy Fallon to spark interest ahead of the Super Bowl on social media networks like Twitter. Fallon has more than 7 million followers, while Ford has about 173,000.
Fallon reaches a different demographic for Lincoln, which has featured "Mad Men" actor John Slattery in its television advertisements for the last two years.
Ford's smaller rival, Chrysler Group LLC, has benefited from its iconic Super Bowl ad in 2011 that featured the tag line "Imported from Detroit." Ford decided not to advertise during the 2012 National Football League championship game.
The 2013 Super Bowl game will be broadcast by CBS Corp, which is selling 30-second ads for as much as $4 million.
But some analysts and executives are skeptical about the brand's prospects. In an interview with The Detroit News last year, General Motors Co Chief Executive Dan Akerson said Ford "might as well sprinkle holy water" over the brand.
"I'm in southern California and there's not one Lincoln around here. The reason is it's not because Lincoln doesn't make good cars, it's because people buy image here," TrueCar.com analyst Jesse Toprak said.
Over the last two years, Ford winnowed its dealership network to focus on the top 130 luxury markets and created the brand's first dedicated design studio in about 40 years.
Ford has reworked the service standards for its roughly 325 U.S. Lincoln dealers using boutique hotels as inspiration. Ford is providing perks such as "the Lincoln date night" - a dinner reward to people who test-drive a Lincoln car.
Ford is also laying the groundwork to launch the brand in China, to take advantage of a growing appetite for luxury cars in the world's largest car market.
Initially, Ford sought to set Lincoln apart from the Ford brand in its U.S. marketing strategy, not unlike the distinction between Volkswagen AG and its top-tier Audi brand.
But Ford's successful turnaround under Mulally could revive interest in the brand, executives said.
"Traditionally, in North America, you try to hide your mainstream brand, but every wealthy person in America knows what happened to Ford," Farley said in an interview in Beijing in August. He took charge of the Lincoln brand on December 1.
"That's not to say we're going to make Ford a huge part of the marketing, but we're also not going to hide it," he said.
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Last June, just before the start of the U.S. Open, the U.S Golf Assn., with great fanfare, announced the kickoff of a campaign to address slow play in its game.
The campaign, featuring TV ads with star players and actors, was called "While We're Young." It was a play on the Rodney Dangerfield character who had used that phrase to express his disgust at a golfing slowpoke in the movie "Caddyshack."
Apparently, the USGA did not intend its message for PGA Tour players.
During this week's Northern Trust Open at Riviera, which ended Sunday with Bubba Watson winning the title, the pace of play was slow.
Watson's group teed off Sunday at 10:04 a.m. and finished at 3:10 — 5 hours 6 minutes. And it moved more quickly than several others.
The final group — William McGirt, Charlie Beljan and George McNeill — teed off at 10:15 and the golfers were approaching their third shots on No. 2 — all chips from just off the green — at 11 a.m. That's more than 45 minutes to play two holes.
The rules, were they ever enforced, say that a player gets 40 seconds to hit once he gets his club and goes to his ball. On No. 11, Jason Allred, the qualifier from Pepperdine who had such a marvelous tournament, fidgeted, asked for a towel, then backed off once on his second shot before finally hitting 59 seconds into the routine.
The pros are enabled. The last time the tour penalized a player for slow play in a tour event was Glen Day in 1995.
Look for the slow-play issue to be addressed next at the Masters, in which last year, officials penalized 14-year-old Chinese player Tianlang Guan one stroke for slow play. At the Masters, European rules officials are asked to help out, and they have considerably less tolerance for the current U.S pro tour pace of play.
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McGirt, the third-round leader by two shots, who had never held a third-round lead in a PGA Tour event, finished with a two-over-par 73. McGirt, 34, was trying for his first tour win; he wound up tied for sixth and earned $216,912, more than $100,000 more than he had in his eight previous events this season.
McNeill and Beljan, the other two players in the final group with McGirt, fell back on the front nine and couldn't get close to the leaders. McNeill shot an even-par 71 to finish at 10 under and Beljan shot 73 to finish at minus eight.


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A potential bromance sputtered awkwardly. Ryan Seacrest pretended not to know the difference between a daffodil and a tulip. J.Lo and Steven Tyler respectively admitted to never having heard "The Letter" and "Bleeding Love." And Randy Jackson one-upped them by going all "durrr"-faced when confronted by the word "crustacean." (In his defense, it does contain more than two syllables.)
But who cares about such ignoble details when you've got the American Idol Season 11 Top 5 doing their darndest to one-up their own personal best performances and give us major Idol Moments in the process?
Yep, gripe all you want about the show's anemic efforts to clear new and unexpected songs. Kvetch about Randy perpetuating Simon Cowell's haggard, unfunny, "Ryan, are those high heels for you?" jokes. But you can't really say there have been more than a handful of bum notes for the last four or five weeks of competition. (Which is what made a certain front-runner's British Music performance so strikingly unfortunate this evening.)
Anyhow, I've got a full episode recap to write — look for it on Thursday right here at TVLine.com — but before I do, let me give a pithy breakdown on the evening's set list.
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Hollie Cavanagh: Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" | Quite possibly the best she's sounded all season, and undoubtedly the most command of the stage she's shown since the live rounds began.
Phillip Phillips: The Box Tops' "The Letter" | Just because you make it different doesn't mean you've made it better. I mean, I could substitute motor oil for milk, but it wouldn't make my Raisin Bran Crunch any tastier, now would it? Which isn't to compare Phillip to motor oil — his "The Letter" wasn't bad at all — I just missed that melody.
Skylar Laine: CCR's "Fortunate Son" | Girl is like a trunk full of illegal firecrackers: Dangerous and ready to explode at any second. Skylurrrrrrrvvvvve this girl!
Jessica Sanchez: Ike and Tina Turner's "Proud Mary" | I feel the urge to break out the cilice every time I find myself agreeing with Randy, but for me for you, while Jessica hit all the notes (vocally and fashion-wise), it all ended up feeling a little antiseptic. In other words, this was good, but Trenyce did it better. (Uh-huh, I went there.)
Joshua Ledet: The Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" | Similar to Jessica's performance, Joshua had the right jacket (damn, I wish I could work a look like that) and all the right notes, but the sum was not entirely equal to the parts. This was more of a walk, when it needed to be a full-fledged canter.
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Hollie Cavanagh: Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" | With a stripped-down arrangement and a glory note as big as The Rock's bicep, Hollie managed to do something Leona Lewis never quite accomplished: Making me really feel the pain and beauty of this Ryan Tedder composition.
Phillip Phillips: The Zombies' "Time of the Season" | I'm not sure what the judges were hearing, but those high notes on the chorus were to Phillip like rolls of bargain-brand paper towels on the top shelf of a supermarket to a little old lady: Highly upsetting and well out of reach.
Skylar Laine: Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" | Speaking of retail stores, take the price tag off Dusty's haunting Brit-pop classic: With tonight's pitch-perfect rendition, Skylar totally owned it.
Jessica Sanchez: Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful" | Every once in a while, an Idol vocal lives up to the ridiculous "mist and candles and special lighting" treatment. And that's exactly what Jessica did with her nuanced, moving cover of Joe Cocker's soul classic. Yeah, the glory note was one of the best we've heard in several seasons of Idol, but the rest of it was equally sublime.
Joshua Ledet: The Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" | Joshua was so tremendous, I can't even be mad at the judges for giving him his 13th standing ovation of the season. I just hope that "13" — or the hand-me-down ladyblouse from Colton Dixon — doesn't prove to be unlucky.
Phillip & Joshua: The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" | I don't know what was going on here. Kris Allen and Adam Lambert already provided a template for guy-guy affection on Idol, and this catastrophic collision did not live up to it. (Joshua's falsetto riffing almost made up for it, though.) (Also, did Ryan possibly torpedo Phillip's chances by revealing he's got a girlfriend?)
Jessica, Skylar & Hollie: Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | Even if it wasn't the stuff of "Slow Ride" legend, it still gave each of these ladies a chance to show off her impressive chops, so I can't be mad at it.
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