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By RACHAEL OSBORNE
---- — KEESEVILLE — The Keeseville Good Shepherd Church of the Nazarene began with a dream and a prayer.
And this weekend, it will celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Formally organized on Oct. 24, 1982, the church was a vision of members of the Plattsburgh Church of the Nazarene under the direction of the Rev. Robert Wanner.
"Some of their church members … became part of this church to help start this church," said the Rev. Richard Reese, who has pastored the Keeseville congregation with his wife, Deborah, for the past three years. "That church was instrumental in starting this church."
In the beginning, families from the Keeseville area met in homes throughout the community, and in June 1982, the Rev. Ernest F. Machia was appointed the church's first pastor. The first service was held July 18 of that year at the Keeseville Civic Center's library, a space members rented for $55 a month.
Under the leadership of the Rev. Geoff DeFranca, in 1988, the church embarked on its first building plan on property previously donated to the Upstate New York District by William R. LaFlure. Congregants began to clear the property at 124 Hill St. in June 1991, and a formal groundbreaking ceremony was held Aug. 18 of that year.
In December 1991, the church was holding services in the new building, and by 1993, the mortgage was paid in full.
"Everything's paid off," Mr. Reese said. "We're debt free. That's unusual for a church our age."
And so, this weekend, the pastor said, "we're asking everybody that's been here to come back and just celebrate with us."
The Rev. Patrick Fleming and the Rev. David Drake, both former pastors, and their families are among those who will be in attendance.
The celebration kicks off at 6 p.m. Saturday with "pizza, pictures and memories" in the church fellowship hall," Mrs. Reese said.
At 9:30 a.m. Sunday, several small-group discipleship activities will be available, including a reunion Sunday-school class for adults, and coffee and conversation among the young adults and youth. In addition, children are invited to participate in the Daffodil Project, where they will plant 30 daffodil bulbs for all to enjoy in the spring.
Fleming will give a message on "Building a Strong Foundation" during the Sunday worship service at 10:30 a.m.
"Rev. Fleming is going to speak, and Rev. Drake and his wife (Anna) and another couple are going to sing, along with other people for the service," Mrs. Reese said.
Also on Sunday's agenda is opening the time capsule from 1982 — although there is one small problem.
"We can't find it," said Carl Kokes, head trustee of the church.
"We've been told it's 3 feet from this window or 2 feet from that window," he said, gesturing to the window in the pastor's office.
"And we've dug holes, and we can't find the darn thing," he laughed. "The elusive capsule; we're still going to hunt for it."
"If anybody ... that was here then knows where it is, I wish they'd show up and tell us," Mr. Reese added. "Nobody here seems to remember."
Nor do they know what's inside.
"If we ever find it, we're gonna bury it and put a plaque there that says: 'Here it is,'" the pastor joked.
A special dinner and time of fellowship will follow the church service.
"Everyone will be invited to stay and just have a good time of camaraderie," Kokes said.
Mr. Reese said he's most looking forward to celebrating with the people who get to come back and reminisce.
"We just want to celebrate that the church has been here 30 years and (has been) serving the Lord 30 years in this community, this area, so we thank the Lord for that," he said.
Current ministries include a monthly service at Keeseville Country Garden, hosting the annual Festival of Trees for the community, vacation Bible school, participation in an area ecumenical choir and discipleship groups.
"For a church of relative short length of being in existence, it has done some amazing things," Kokes said.
The congregation of about 40 also looks eagerly to the future, Mr. Reese added.
"We're trying to set a goal for the future to carry on, to try to bring people to know Christ and to share in the community (and) be a community church," he said. "To be a community church where people can come and feel comfortable to worship the Lord together."
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WHAT: "Looking Back, Reaching Forward, Building on a Strong Foundation," 30th anniversary celebration.
WHERE: Keeseville Good Shepherd Church of the Nazarene, 124 Hill St., Keeseville.
WHEN: Pizza, pictures and memories from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Small-group discipleship at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, worship service at 10:30 a.m. (nursery will be provided) and dinner to follow.
CONTACT: For more information, call 834-9408.

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ECU couldn't deliver C-USA's first blow to the BCS last week, but colleagues Rice and Florida Atlantic did. They gave C-USA its first two wins this season against BCS teams.
Granted, it's tough to make too much out of FAU's victory against South Florida. What in the name of Skip Holtz has happened to the Bulls? It wasn't that long ago that they were No. 2 in the country. Has any program fallen further faster?
USF, which fired Holtz after a 3-9 season, is 0-3 under first-year coach Willie Taggart and ranks 122nd nationally in scoring. It opened the season with a 53-21 loss to I-AA McNeese State.
Kansas football obviously isn't Kansas basketball, but C-USA will gladly take Rice's 23-14 victory, too. That result wasn't all that surprising given the Jayhawks have lost 29 of their past 34 games.
During the Big 12 media day, Kansas coach Charlie Weis eloquently described last season's 1-11 finish as "a pile of crap." A few weeks later, Weis amended his description. "How else are you going to describe it?" he asked reporters. "You want me to give it a cleaner way? It wasn't very good. OK, I could have said that."
Holtz, now at Louisiana Tech, has a chance to pile on Weis on Saturday. That figures to be C-USA's best chance for a third win this week, though Marshall could push Virginia Tech in what amounts to a border battle and Tulane travels to struggling ACC-newcomer Syracuse (2-1).
FIU visits No. 7 Louisville, which is a long way to go to face a Heisman candidate (QB Teddy Bridgewater) who grew up not far from FIU's campus.
North Texas is at No. 9 Georgia, which has earned a bit of a breather after opening against Clemson and South Carolina.
The Pirates, off this week, will re-enter the fray next week with a showdown at UNC.
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By Cary Brunswick
The Daily Star
---- — So what does the 1960s game show "What's My Line" got to do with the Bloomsday festivities occurring in Dublin, Ireland, this week? Surprisingly, there is a link.
Put another way, what did "What's My Line'' panelist Bennett Cerf have to do with "stately, plump Buck Mulligan," who opens the novel "Ulysses,'' which is the instigation for Dubliners and others doing their crawls around the book's noted neighborhoods.
Well, Bennett Cerf, some may recall, was anything but stately and plump. He was bespectacled and geeky, with a corny sense of humor. But he also was a founder and editor at Random House, the book publisher, and knew just about everybody involved in New York City's arts and letters scene from the 1930s to the '60s.
I guess that's how he got to be on "What's My Line," which is the role for which most folks remember him. Many probably figured that was his only job.
But we really don't care that much about Buck Mulligan. It was the characters Leopold and Molly Bloom who got "Ulysses" into trouble and made Cerf a champion for anti-censorship in 1933, 80 years ago.
The James Joyce novel was first published in serial form from 1918 to 1922 by The Little Review in New York, until the editors, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, were charged with obscenity by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. The charges were upheld at trial in 1923.
When the first complete-book copies of "Ulysses," published in Paris, were sent to New York in 1922, postal officials seized and burned 500 copies. I guess that's one way to suppress vice.
At that time, Bennett Cerf was working his way up the ladder at the Boni & Liveright publishing firm and became well aware of all the attention "Ulysses" was attracting. He and a partner bought the Modern Library imprint from their firm in 1925, and after sitting around a room piled with books in 1927 trying to decide which to publish, decided to pick some randomly.
Hence, Random House was born.
Meanwhile, as illegal as booze, copies of "Ulysses" were circulating bootleg-style until 1932, when Random House decided to import the book and publish it with a press-run of 10,000 copies. Cerf knew there would be trouble, but he also realized publicity sells books.
The problem was that, while the influence of the Society for the Suppression of Vice had tailed off, Congress in 1930 approved a section of the Tariff Act that forbade the importation of any book that is obscene. Customs officials seized the book before it ever reached Ransom House.
So, thanks to Cerf, the novel ended up back in court with the case "United States v. One Book called Ulysses." Both parties agreed to a non-jury trial, which would be decided by Judge John M. Woolsey.
In "Ulysses," Joyce is credited with a new literary genre that presents not only what his characters did on June 16, 1904, but also what they were thinking. The book was considered obscene primarily because of the thoughts of Leopold and Molly Bloom, whose private sentiments, whether arising in an outhouse or on the street, sometimes were sexual.
Can you imagine if our thoughts on any particular day were put down in book form? Obscenity might be the least of our transgressions.
Fortunately, Judge Woolsey understood the nature of Joyce's "stream-of-consciousness" endeavor, and concluded that the author's intent was not pornographic and the book not obscene because of his "sincerity and his honest effort to show exactly how the minds of his characters operate."
The judge's decision in favor of Random House was considered "a major event in the history of the struggle for free expression," as stated by Cerf's lawyer in the case, Morris Ernst.
Cerf wrote later in his autobiography that "Ulysses was a great best seller, partly because, I think it was one of those books that are considered smart to own and which many people buy but don't read. Perhaps many did read the last part to see the dirty words; in 1934 that sort of thing was shocking to the general public."
To this day, the novel is celebrated in Dublin with a week of activities leading up to June 16, which in Ireland is called Bloomsday.
After the court case, Cerf went on to write books primarily of insider gossip and humor. In his 1944 book, "Try and Stop Me," he recounts a visit to the U.S. by the man, still stately and plump, who as a student was the model for the Buck Mulligan character.
Oliver St. John Goharty told Cerf he had met Joyce in 1903, "when Lady Gregory, patron saint of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, ran out of 'geniuses' and advertised for more of same. She was dismayed at the poverty-stricken flood of applicants and fled."
Cary Brunswick, of Oneonta, is a freelance writer and editor. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect those of The Daily Star and its editorial board.


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2013 Brings Change to the University of Louisiana System with Eight Board Appointments and a New System President
Members to Take Oath of Office at Jan. 11 Meeting
BATON ROUGE - While many people celebrated the coming of 2013 with toasts and fireworks, the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31 ushered in significant changes for the University of Louisiana System. Seven of the 16-member Board of Supervisors' terms expired, an eighth member resigned, and Sandra Woodley officially became the new UL System President. Just three days later Governor Bobby Jindal announced the reappointment of three members and appointment of five new members to the Board.
"The New Year is all about new beginnings, so I believe the timing is appropriate. My first days on the job have certainly been exciting," said President Woodley. "I look forward to working with our new and returning Board Members to ensure 2013 is a great year for the UL System and its nine universities."
"We are thankful for the swift, decisive action of Governor Jindal in making appointments to the Board. Combining new appointments with reappointments will allow for a good mix of experienced membership and new ideas and energy," said Board Chair Wayne Parker.
The three Board reappointments are Jimmie "Beau" Martin of Cut Off, Jimmy Long, Sr., of Natchitoches, and Winfred Sibille of Sunset. Martin was reappointed to represent the 3rd Congressional District. The owner of B & J Martin, Inc., he has been on the Board since 2011. Long was reappointed to represent the 4th Congressional District. A former state representative, he has been on the Board since 2001. Sibille was reappointed to the Board but was switched from the 7th Congressional District to an at-large position. A retired educator, he has been on the Board since 1995.
The five new Board appointments are as follows:
Plans are for all eight Board Members to take the Oath of Office next Friday, Jan. 11 at a meeting in Baton Rouge.
WHAT: Meeting of the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System
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WHERE: Auditorium, Room 100, Claiborne Building, 1201 N. Third Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
A meeting agenda and more information about the Board can be found at www.ulsystem.edu.
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By Max Jones
TERRE HAUTE — You don't have to wander far to find people who remember vividly when downtown Terre Haute was the place to be during the Christmas shopping season. With all the major retailers anchored on or near Wabash Avenue and surrounded by street after street of specialty shops, it was a sight to behold.
Those days vanished several decades ago. The big box stores relocated in shopping malls near interstate highways on the outskirts of American cities.
But it's just not the same.
Perhaps that's why small retailers, businesses and other interests in today's downtowns keep trying to recapture that slice of Americana. A small group of folks in downtown Terre Haute did some brainstorming about that this past year, and they think they're on to something special. I think they're right.
Miracle on Seventh Street will be unveiled Friday evening, and it promises to light up downtown Terre Haute in spectacular fashion. What makes this effort to rekindle that holiday spirit is that it seizes on the artistic theme that is beginning to define the district in diverse and colorful ways.
The Arts Corridor — the segment of Seventh Street between Poplar Street and the campus of Indiana State University — is slowly but surely becoming ahaven for professional and aspiring artists. That development, encouraged by downtown leaders, is advancing nicely.
The small group of brainstormers embraced that theme, and the seeds of the Miracle on Seventh Street began to grow. Led by Brian Whisenhunt of Swope Art Gallery, Boo Lloyd of Crossroads Café, longtime Crossroads employee Libby Waters, and businessman Terry Hogan of SmithBarney, the festival began to take shape. Visitors will be in for a treat.
Businesses and galleries along Seventh and Wabash have enthusiastically jumped aboard, as have entities such as the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce.
The plan calls for Seventh Street to be closed between Wabash and Ohio late Friday afternoon and evening. Two large tents will be the centerpiece for the event, erected to hold almost 30 artists and craftspeople who will display and sell their work from 5 to 10 p.m.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have a personal interest in this portion of the event. My daughter, Chelsea, who will receive her degree this spring from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University-Bloomington, will be among the artists in the tents. She specializes in making jewelry and will offer her creations to visitors Friday evening. She'll be joined by Waters, a photographer, and a diverse group of artisans. You'll even be able to buy your Christmas tree there from the Optimist Club.
Outside the tents, area businesses and galleries will be open. Christmas music will waft through the night air, thanks to the participation of the city's church choirs.
I've experienced other downtown festivals in the past, and some have done very well. There is something about this one, however, that has the potential to be truly magical. Like the old days, the entire downtown district seems to be seizing the spirit. When that happens, anything is possible.
This is going to be great fun.
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Sarpy County Sheriff's Department Lt. Russ Zeeb retired Friday on his 60th birthday after 39 years on the job.
He said he's happy to wrap up his career safely and hopes that along the way he helped a lot of people.
"I got a letter in the mail the other day from a mother. I covered her son's suicide in 1983 and she apparently read the article in the newspaper and sent me the nicest letter that, you know, when you look back 30 years that someone remembers and knows that you were there for them and I made the notification for her that her son was gone, that makes you feel good 30 years later."
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Easy and fun way to support local nonprofit, Cheerful Givers, by eating chicken
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Place in Eagan, MN on Wednesday, Feb. 27 between 4-10 pm. Mention Cheerful Givers and the nonprofit will receive 10 percent of food sales.
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As much as it pains me to say as a Red Sox fan, Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano has been straight awesome this season. The latest example came Thursday night against the Orioles, as Cano had two home runs among his three hits and raised his batting average to an AL-high .407.
"We couldn't get him out, and the way he's hitting right now, no one in the American League is getting him out," Orioles manager Dave Trembley told the Associated Press.
Cano's move to the fifth spot in the New York order, behind Alex Rodriguez, has really paid off. The way he's going right now, it wouldn't be a surprise to see him compete for the AL batting title.
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Low Stools, High Art
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An American Makeover for a Classic Chair
Hans Wegner chairs are covered in Paul Smith fabric to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Danish designer's birth.
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A Danish company has reissued Hans Wegner's 1955 Swivel desk chair.
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Design Contest Seeks Just the Right Chair for Battery Park
The Battery Conservancy will pay for prototypes of the five finalists, and the sitting public next spring will help select the winner.
November 18, 2013, Monday
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November 7, 2013, Thursday
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Shaping the Future, in the Kitchen and Beyond
"Designing Modern Women 1890-1990," at the Museum of Modern Art, examines how women helped shape future ways of living and served as muses to modernity.
November 1, 2013, Friday
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90 Seconds With Pogue: Steelcase Gesture
The Times's David Pogue tests out Steelcase's Gesture, a chair that adapts to multiple positions.
Shopping for Armchairs
For Neal Beckstedt, an interior designer, the right armchair can give personality to a room.
A Spate of Designer Look-Alikes
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Claire Pijoulat and Odile Hainaut, who are the founders of WantedDesign, a design show and event program that ran concurrently with the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair, went shopping around the Flatiron district to look at bistro chairs for sale.
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Point Park commemorates the 1863 battles for Chattanooga. Point Park Visitor Center houses the James Walker Painting, "Battle of Lookout Mountain."
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How to Wean Your Children Off Your Expense Account
Teach your kids financial independence with these techniques.
Teaching your children to be financially independent is no easy feat. A lot of baby boomers have had to learn this the hard way. More than half of boomers say they have allowed their adult children to move back home, rent-free, according to a recent survey by Ameriprise Financial. What's more, the vast majority (93 percent) say they have provided some form of support to their adult children, like helping them pay for college tuition or a car.
"I think having your kids financially dependent on you is one of the biggest issues I see today with investors, and baby boomers in particular," says Laura Scharr-Bykowsky, a certified financial planner with Ascend Financial Planning in Columbia, S.C. "They are sacrificing so much of their retirement for their children. They don't want to say no to their kids. And they want to be their kids' friends."
"Part of our job, as parents, is to teach our children fiscal responsibility," says Kimberly Foss, a personal finance expert and founder of Empyrion Wealth Management in Roseville, Calif. "You have to teach them the basics of finance." To do that, Foss suggests starting with a website like Mint.com, where you can teach your kids to track their spending. "It takes all the guesswork out of budgeting," Foss says. The site enables you to manage your budget with easy-to-use personal finance tools and calculators. There are also kid-friendly websites, like the new presidential financial literacy page for kids, moneyasyougrow.org.
Once your kids have figured out budgeting (assuming they have finished college and are living on their own), experts suggest you slowly wean them off your expense account. Granted, a number of parents stop paying for their children's expenses once they've finished college, especially since many parents struggle with their own expenses and retirement prospects. But if parents can afford to help their children financially at the start, experts say, it'll be better in the long run. "When students graduate from college and enter the real world, they're hit with a load of expenses—rent, deposit, utilities, student loan, medical insurance, car insurance, cell phone. Those are an awful lot when you've been completely dependent on mom and dad alone, and then you go to, 'Oh my gosh, I've got all these bills,'" Foss says. That's why she recommends easing your child into their financial responsibilities rather than overwhelming them with all of their expenses right away.
Foss suggests that parents take 12 to 24 months to get their children on their own two feet financially, starting by removing support for smaller expenses first. For example, you could tell them that for the first six months, you'll pay for their cell phone plan, but after that, it's up to them. Then do the same for their car insurance, but Foss advises you allow them 12 months before they take over payments. Finally, you may want to tackle the largest financial strain for your child, which will likely be student loans. Foss recommends that you help them pay the loans for the first 18 months. "This way, you're easing them into the real world, and it makes it a much easier transition. Plus, it makes them feel successful and makes them want to stay on their budget," Foss says. "Better to do that then have them move back in with you at 25 and stay with you until they're 40." However, not every parent will be able to take on this financial responsibility.
You'll also want to get your children into the habit of saving money. Encourage them to save 20 percent of their paycheck each month, Foss says. "Take the lesson that we teach people in real life, which is a 50, 30, 20 program: setting aside 50 percent for needs, 30 percent for wants, and 20 percent of your budget for savings," Foss says.
Another key concept worth explaining to your children is the idea of trade-offs. "You don't want them to think money is this unlimited, free-flowing thing," Scharr-Bykowsky says. This could be as simple as teaching your child to trade dinners out for meals at home.


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Year Three: 2010 - 2011
Year Three began on October 1, 2010. The goals were:
- Increase number of full and part-time first-year students accessing connected services from 0 to 1,771 through unified onsite and online advising and communication system by 9/30/11.
- Increase number of Connected College Gateway courses using integrative learning from 16 to 26 through the incorporation of integrative learning methods, academic supports, and critical thinking outcomes 9/30/11.
- The ten courses being redesigned are BIO 121 Fundamentals of Biological Science I, BUS 111 Business and Financial Mathematics, CHM 090 Introduction to Chemistry, HST 113 United States to 1877, MTH 119 Fundamental Statistics, PHL 101 Introduction to Philosophy, SPA 101 Elementary Spanish, ECN 111 Principles of Economics – Macro, CSS 101 College Success Seminar: The Meaning of Work, and ESL English as a Second Language.
After three years, Bristol Community College (BCC) continues to realize the benefits of the Title III-A Grant. The college is well on its way to implementing the goals of the grant. In years one and two, the annual objectives were met or exceeded. Again, in year three, the objectives have been exceeded.
Both professional staff and faculty advisers as well as students are using DegreeWorks to develop individual learning plans, a unified plan is emerging for advising, and more than 26 courses have been redesigned with resources available to all faculty through a set of Tool Kits.
The Activity One objective was to increase the number of full and part-time first-year students accessing connected services from 0 to 1771 through unified online advising and communication system, as of September 30, 2011, 2895 learning plans were active in DegreeWorks.
And while the Activity Two objective, to increase the number of Connected College Gateway courses using integrative learning from 16-26 through the incorporation of integrative learning methods, academic support, and critical thinking outcomes was met, the college's Lash Center for Teaching and Learning replicated the course redesign model to transform 13 other college courses.
None of this would have been possible with extensive professional development including summer institutes, as well as enhancing existing Supplemental Instruction, Learning Communities and other support services. By doing so, the fiscal stability of the college has been improved and provided the support which will help increase our self-sufficiency. More than 123 full-time and adjunct faculty members have participated in professional development activities during the 2010-2011 grant year.
This year, the Title III Connected College team has begun presenting at regional and national conferences in Year Three, with plans to expand in the last two years of the grant. This sharing of our experiences and best practices will contribute to the higher education resources of the Nation. Reactions to the presentations have been positive as evidenced by several colleagues who participated in the sessions and have commented on the value of the presentations to their work at their institutions.
As the grant narrative states, "The Connected College will solidly bond students to higher education by providing a unified, learner-centered support system that integrates assessment, orientation, planning, advising, and information services, empowering students to build a customized learning plan. It will also enable students to overcome academic barriers through faculty-led restructuring of Gateway courses to adopt integrative educational methods and learning scaffolds that are associated with improved learning outcomes." (p.17)
These examples provide evidence that Title III have had a positive impact on Bristol Community College's capacity to contribute to fulfilling the goals of the legislation. As BCC moves into the implementation and concluding years of the grant, the academic quality, institutional management and fiscal stability have been increased and strengthened.