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Top officials at several U.S. retail gas companies reveal how they are rethinking their business models and developing new approaches to serve customers in the face of supply concerns and price...
LNG: Desperately Seeking Supply
Several new LNG plants are under construction, but firm supplies remain scarce. Will empty terminals alleviate gas-price pressures?
units currently in development might face an uphill path to completion.
To the degree new coal-fired plants in America are canceled or delayed, demand for natural gas likely will increase. Rising gas demand over the next five to seven years would drive gas prices higher than previously projected, perhaps giving utilities and regulators greater impetus to secure long-term gas supplies earlier rather than later. Whether LNG suppliers can or will reciprocate with commitments for upstream capacity, is another question.
To better understand the evolving outlook for LNG and its role in the U.S. gas market, Public Utilities Fortnightly assembled a group of LNG specialists with various perspectives on the issues. They include:
• Don Felsinger, Chairman & CEO, Sempra Energy;
• Gary Sypolt, President and COO, Dominion Transmission;
• Robert Ineson, head of the North American Natural Gas Team, CERA;
• Chuck Zabriskie, Managing Director & Head of Project Finance, North America, Royal Bank of Scotland; and
• Jacob Dweck, Partner, head of LNG Practice, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan.
Fortnightly: What's the outlook for the LNG market in North America? Are enough projects going to get built to prevent supply shortages? Or will too many get built to make them cost-effective for the owners?
Chuck Zabriskie: We are heading toward more-than-adequate capacity for regasification in North America. That's good because we need more regas capacity than liquefaction capacity at all times—at least 30 to 50 percent more—to have a strong spot market. And for the health of the system you don't want to run at 100 percent all the time anyway. You want some slack for reliability.
Jacob Dweck: You have to look at it from a national and regional perspective. The U.S. Gulf Coast all the way to New York and the Midwest can be viewed as a single market. Then you have other markets, including New England, California, and to some degree, Florida.
More than enough terminals are being built in the Gulf Coast to meet demand in that market. Florida is a juicy market, and Elba Island and a couple of other projects will serve it. New England is a different story, with significant pipeline constraints. One terminal or two will be enough, and Canaport in New Brunswick seems to be moving forward. Several other proposals are chasing about 1 Bcf/day of capacity. It's a game of musical chairs, and maybe two people can sit on the chair in New England.
California is a difficult market. Sempra's facility in Baja will serve Southern California, but that's not a huge market. As long as hydropower is working you don't need the gas. The Long Beach project is dead, and other projects have an uphill battle with siting issues. Any project in the United States with firm local opposition will not get built.
Gary Sypolt: Unfortunately, most of the projects being built are far from the marketplace. We are expanding Cove Point in the market area, but most other projects will be built in the Gulf of Mexico. From our perspective that doesn't help our diversity of supply a whole lot


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Science for Nursing and Midwifery 1
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This course will introduce students to basic mathematics, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology of the human body relevant to studies in the health sciences. Through the use of relevant examples, these theoretical concepts will be applied to a clinical setting. Topics will cover a range of processes that are important to the maintenance of life and some of the medical methods used to measure and understand these. This course is particularly valuable to students wishing to study nursing or midwifery.
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3. Make accurate measurements and calculations in a nursing context.
4. Work effectively, both individually and in groups, to solve problems.
5. Communicate their scientific knowledge in both oral and written formats using conventions appropriate for the health sciences.
|1. Homeostasis
2. The Cellular basis of life
3. Levels of cellular organisation
4. Introduction to biological chemistry (atoms, molecules, biological compounds, bonding, chemical reactions)
5. Mathematics - measurement, SI units, rates and ratios
6. Concentration, osmosis and diffusion.
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8. Urinary System
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Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for 11 weeks
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A Connecticut woman is accused of trying to break into a pet store to "set the puppies free," according to police.
Anouk Govil, 23, was arrested by an officer who said he heard loud banging at the Puppies of Westport store.
The officer said he spotted the woman running away around 2:40 a.m. and caught her with a rock in her hand.
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Buddha is speaking to seekers; his listeners are all seekers of truth. They are very different from Krishna's solitary listener, Arjuna. It is essential for a master to ask his disciples, the seekers of truth not to accept anything, not to believe just because he says it. If they believe something as true, they cannot go on the quest for truth. And if Buddha cites authorities in his support he is laying a precedent for coming generations to cite him as an authority. So he steers clear of all previous authorities and says plainly, "I say to you what I have known, but don't accept it until you know it for yourselves."
But Krishna speaks to an altogether different kind of person, his listener is not a seeker of truth, he is not on an adventure to find truth. Arjuna is quite different from the disciples of Buddha. Arjuna is not seeking truth, he is confused and deluded. The situation of imminent war has overcome him with weakness and fear. So Krishna is not interested in unveiling and exposing truth to its roots - he only tells him what truth is.
Arjuna has not come to him for truth; he wants Krishna to dispel his confusion and fear. Therefore Krishna says that what he is saying has been said by many others in the past. If Arjuna happened to be a seeker, Krishna would certainly ask him to prepare himself for an encounter with truth. But Arjuna wants only to understand what reality is; he is not prepared to go in search of truth. He is not in an ashram or a monastery to learn truth from a master; he is preparing to wage war. And being confronted with the special conditions of the Mahabharata he is frightened and depressed. So Krishna, in order to dispel his despondency and bolster his morale, tells him that what he is saying has the support of many wise men of the past, that it is the eternal wisdom.
This kind of teaching has relevance and meaning for Arjuna. If Arjuna had come to him on his own with a desire to find truth, it would have been altogether different. But this is not the case. That is why Krishna explains to him the long tradition of truth so that Arjuna can grasp it properly.
There is yet another reason for Krishna's taking this approach.
If a person goes to Buddha, he goes as a disciple, as one surrendered to him. Arjuna is Krishna's friend, he is not surrendered to him. Much depends on particular situations and relationships. While Buddha's disciples accept what he says, his own wife refuses to take him at his word. When Buddha returns home after twelve years - during which time he is widely known as the Buddha, the awakened one, and people from all over have come to his feet in search of the truth he has known and proclaimed - his wife Yashodhara, on meeting him, refuses to accept him as Buddha. She takes him to be the same person who had left his home stealthily in the dead of night twelve years ago. And she resumes the argument from that very point. She is as angry as she was the following morning when she had come to know how her husband had deserted her, and she vehemently accuses Buddha of betraying her.
Buddha's wife has her own characteristics. If Buddha tells her straight off that he is now a buddha, she would say, "Don't talk nonsense, I know who you are. Nobody is a buddha." If Buddha has to communicate with his wife he will do it very differently, because she is altogether different from his devotees and other seekers. There is a sweet story related with this episode.


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Alliances and Channels are a critical element of our go-to-market plan in APAC. We have established and continue to build a strong ecosystem that spans APAC. Each partner brings unique value to our customers and a dynamic leader is needed to drive significant market share through collaboration and field success.
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, sales-oriented, and driven Channels Director to execute on our strategy and achieve incremental revenue through MongoDB Distributors, Resellers, and Technology Partners. This critical role will be responsible for contributing to the channel strategy in the region, defining and managing program execution and ensuring achievement of revenue goals.
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This is one of those details of how I did my most recent chip carving piece, a plate.
Here is the first step: getting the pattern on to the wood: there are various methods of copying that pattern.
Now to begin the actual carving. There are knives designed especially for this.
Then you keep on until the whole pattern has been carved.
Now you are ready to finish it up by adding a stain and then spraying on a polyurethane finish, and you have this:
There are other ways to do this, but this is the process I use. The most beneficial aspect of carving is first the therapeutic process of carving, and then the pleasure of giving your finished work to someone else, or have it displayed somewhere in your own place. Many relaxing hours are the effect. I studied this with Wayne Barton, a master carver who comes regularly to the Brasstown Folk School.
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Sunday, October 5, 2014
Charlie's brother, Leigh Rodenbough, died two weeks ago, on September 21, at the age of 90. A retired attorney, he went full time into his art after years of finding a moment here and there to spend time with a canvas during his law practice. His work was remarkably beautiful, showing his love for nature and his children and grandchildren. Seascapes were dominant for the former Naval officer, who spent World War II on ships. He also loved clouds, farm scenes, wooded areas, trees, rivers and skies. My favorites were the scenes from nature.
The evening of funeral visitation, his new work of art was the absolutely beautiful double rainbow visible from the the funeral home in Madison. It was stunning, and viewers were convinced Leigh was once more plying his art, this time with the canvas of the heavens. I was moved to put the experience into a poem:
"This is what all art strives for: the creation of a living permanence." John O'Donohue
The evening of funeral visitation, his new work of art was the absolutely beautiful double rainbow visible from the the funeral home in Madison. It was stunning, and viewers were convinced Leigh was once more plying his art, this time with the canvas of the heavens. I was moved to put the experience into a poem:
"This is what all art strives for: the creation of a living permanence." John O'Donohue
(for Leigh Rodenbough – 1924-2014)
sea foam, star, cloud of clear puff
or dark edges, they caught his eye
and found homes on canvas
old barns, woodlands, river scenes
on the Dan and Mayo, leafy trees,
mountain views, autumns of clear sky
boats that sail, ships that cross seas,
each trusting waves to bear their weight,
small craft lead the way, sing lake poems
shores with children shaping sand
into castles as sea water fills holes
shores with children shaping sand
into castles as sea water fills holes
a sand crab scrambles seeking safety
while shovels work their artistry
it comes to us framed, the artist's gift
to tell us the story he learned from ages
of study and the glory of light:
a rainbow that carries the love he sends
arcing over skies but touching earth
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Jesuslove in an Alien World
A recent issue of Christian Century takes a second look at the book Resident Aliens, as viewed 25 years later. The authors, Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon, were former professors of mine during my sojourn at Duke Divinity School. Commentaries by a number of current theologians, church leaders and seminary professors critique the book in light of our own time. Some find it wanting, others see its continued relevance.
The book defines resident aliens as Christians who stand apart from the common culture, in communities which consider themselves unaligned with the state but instead are the church in its broader scope: as witness against the state or society on occasion. As assessed by the authors, they were part of the counterculture. Today as I stand outside that time, I wonder how we as Christians can remain in the alien fold, when it is more likely that the world around us is alien and we have become part of the culture that surrounds us.
Our measure is Jesus. Did he represent the culture of his day or the counterculture? As I consider the matter, I realize that Jesus was actively political. He stood squarely against the injustices of the Roman rule, the discrimination against women in his society, the needs of the poor and the sick who did not have access to the health care of that time, and the society of rank, which marked the boundaries between the wealthy and the poor, as well as including the economic needs of those between those two categories. Today we label them the middle class.
To follow the teachings of Jesus calls for us to live in a world that is alien to Christian practices. We are not the aliens, we are the inhabitants of an alien society, when we try to show love to others in a way imitating Jesus' love. To remove the barriers that we cannot breach is a daunting effort. The discoveries of what I call Jesuslove among those we condemn as undeserving because of their failures defines one way we can carry that love with us to the alien world surrounding us.
We are all failures in some manner, yet so was Jesus. He failed to follow the religious laws when human need interfered. He failed to acknowledge the power of the Roman rule over his people. Yet the failures were the very factors that brought forth his love for others. He dared to include the fallen of society, and declared himself on a mission to bring the Creator's love to everyone. The result was to be punished severely for such efforts. He visited the sick and restored life to those believed to be dead. In the last chapters of his story, he overcame even his own death at the hands of an evil power. The aliens did not win then, nor will they do so ever, because what is lasting is the kind of love no one can adequately define. We do know, however, that it is most powerful in an alien world, the world we live in.
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Heavy Reading
I have now FINALLY completed two very long reads: Gabriel García Márquez' one hundred years of solitude, and Rabbi Michael Lerner's Embracing Israel/Palestine:A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East. Reading in these two very different genres at the same time provided challenges of focus for me, but also relief when one book might overwhelm me without having the other for contrast.
Márquez' long story of a family in a remote mountain (in the Andes?) in South America was difficult to follow if I tried to keep all the characters straight. Every generation had similar names, not only for the male lineage, but also for the women in the families. The founder of the family and the village, José Arcadio Buendía, and a son, Aureliano Buendía, provide names for multiple descendents through the Arcadio and Aureliano names. I gave up trying to follow these relationships and simply took delight in the many stories of war and peace, chicanery and loves and sexual activities that were detailed in this lengthy history of the beginning of a village until its destruction a century later. How Márquez kept the many characters and events straight was indeed a phenomenal achievement. In fact, his book took a Nobel Prize. Reading a few chapters at a time was the only way I could manage this voluminous creation, but it was worth the effort. The humor, the hijinks, the sorrows and tragedies all kept me reading to the end, of over 450 pages.
In contrast, Rabbi Lerner's non-fiction study (also around 450 pages) of the disturbing and frustrating relationship between Israel and Palestine, particularly since 1947, held my attention for other reasons. Lerner's Network of Spiritual Progressives and his Tikkun Community provide the basis for his current efforts to find a sure path toward healing and community between Israel and Palestine. In his study of the current situation and a broad historical view leading up to the present, I found this clear account enlightening. His strategies for healing the relationships between these two people, his detailed steps for ending the terrible conditions that exist for everyone in that land, are a light we could follow successfully if only this effort were realized.
Reading two books at the same time has become for me helpful in keeping up both with important publications and what I love so much: mysteries and the methods for solving those mysteries. My current very favorite reading has been with the Canadian author Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series set in Quebec. I would dearly love to live in Three Pines among all those delightful characters. Now on the latest of that series I am already sad that another is not waiting in line. The author recently spent time in Durham, but alas, I was not able to be there to see and hear her.
Old age is a great time to catch up on the books that were once put aside in deference to required reading for degrees, or for learning skills about writing, or some other Important Reason. Now I can read what I want, in both Kindle and real book forms.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
The Field of Childhood
In my childhood, my literary education was guided by my mother and also my imagination. The first stories I was acquainted with were those told by my mother while I sat in her lap on a summer evening on the front porch. She rocked while she told the stories. Two of them stayed with me, as I asked for them over and over again, during the warm Southern evenings accented by katydids and lightning bugs and the hum of her voice. There was Lambikins and The Little Red Hen, both of whom outwitted the bad fox every time. The Little Red Hen had scissors with her and cut her way out of the fox's bag. I forget how Lambikins escaped, but both used their ability to outwit the evil fox. I also remember feeling sorry for the fox's children, when he came home with an empty bag, and they remained hungry.
When I began to wrestle with the written word, however, my world widened forever. For my seventh Christmas, I received Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood from my grandmother. My mother and I both were captivated by the poems and also the magnificent illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Those pictures will always be in my head. (I also had a Parrish-illustrated play that I loved throughout my growing up. I don't know which of our children now has that.)
I think the tragic poems still draw me back into Field's book, as it also did with my mother. "Little Boy Blue" evokes tears even now: the story of a little boy whose toys were faithful to him and waited for his return even though he had died in childhood. Legend holds that this was about Field's son, but his death occurred a year after this poem was written. The poignant ending continues to have its power: "And they wonder, as waiting the long years through/In the dust of that little chair,/What has become of our Little Boy Blue,/Since he kissed them and put them there."
Another tragic poem is "The Little Peach." My mother and I both agreed that this was one of our favorites, despite its sorrow. Johnny Jones and his Sister Sue take bites from the green peach they knocked down from the tree. "Under the turf where the daisies grew/They planted John and his Sister Sue," were the lines that caught me, but all because of the Maxfield Parrish illustration that accompanies the poem. These two creative "fields" brought me my first fascination with books and poetry."
Tragedy is not the sole proprietor of this volume, however. There are close to 200 pages of poetry collected here. Only a few have claimed their own fame: "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," "Jest 'Fore Christmas," "The Duel" (the battle between the gingham dog and the calico cat), "Seein' Things at Night." Many others are light-hearted and fun to read out loud. I love the lyricism of "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night/Sailed off in a wooden shoe— " the rhythm captures an essence of our human need for order. In this poem, the Parrish illustration in its mystic setting provides the right mood for a sleepy child.
When I wonder how our sense of timing, our joy in particular words and phrasings, the plots of simple stories suited to childhood affect our later use of language, I find the answers in what we heard and read in our first years. Our ideas form, our manner of speaking and writing, can be traced back to what held meaning for us not only in ideas but in speech patterns and emotions. These remain with us. I am grateful for wandering in the Fields.
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
One of the best-known gospel stories has to do with Jesus' feeding of the multitudes with nothing but five loaves of bread and two fish, offered by some who were among the crowd. At the conclusion of the event, we are informed that there were leftovers: twelve baskets full of broken pieces. It was mention of the broken pieces that my attention refocused. Broken pieces. Isn't that what all of us are in this broken world?
My thoughts go to Israel, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, and well, the whole Middle East. They also go to our own country, in places like Ferguson, Missouri and other places of racial tension and anger and bloodshed. I think of Greensboro and the poor and hungry residents here. I think of the violence against women across the country, of families who are broken because of a multitude of reasons . . . we are indeed a broken world.
Sometimes we take refuge in our Face Book messages, our Twitter accounts, our organizations and places of worship, waiting for the Great Superhero to swoop into our lives and rescue us all. Sometimes we simply feel so overwhelmed that we withdraw into ourselves, our own needs, our own ideas. Sometimes instead, we let our vulnerability to the power of others, their words and their wealth, provide escape routes from the realities we live in every day. We forget our own power, as we cower under the weight of brokenness in our world. We depend on what is beyond our own strength to make everything right. The result simply becomes a life that is more broken. The pieces taunt us and we escape into whatever is available to make us ignore the pain of being broken.
I strain to recognize where the glue is that will mend our societies, our political structures, our battlefield injuries, our hatreds, our efforts to kill possibilities for change. I hope that we can lay down the guns of death, both those real and those symbolic of death. I hope we can discover how to put back together this jigsaw of pieces so that the complete picture will be one of community and progress. I know it is present somewhere in the maze of disarray and splintered society, and our call is to locate the healing and become what we once dreamed of for our lives together. Thus endeth my sermonizing for this day.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Heather Ross Miller's newest collection holds poems about her professor (or teacher, as she names him) Randall Jarrell, her birth family and her married family, and observations of what lies around her and in her mind's eye. Celestial Navigator: Writing Poems with Randall Jarrell connects teacher and student in the work of bringing poems to life, the right word with the right line, the beauty of syllables and of laughter abounding through the lives of Randall and wife Mary.
Miller's classmates at what was then Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, drew upon inspirations that flowed from this poet, forming a unique sorority of young women captivated by a master of our language. I regret not having met Jarrell, and will be posting another blog about that oversight in my life, but now I want to say bravo to Heather Ross Miller for giving this man back to us in ways we could never do: through her poetry.
She describes herself in "A Woman Things Happen To" as:
". . . I'm an old woman
who tends the fire, waving aside smoke,
and dipping out the best morsels
so the children can eat."
She introduces her mentor in "Speaking In Tongues" by this stanza:
"Dandelions ripened and flew while I drew
on the sidewalks my hopscotch, world wars,
and fierce new tongues, German, Japanese.
Then when I'd grown and gone to college,
I found a man who spoke these, wrote these,
laughed them out loud, tongues he brought
together in one place, smelting sounds
in a Spartan kind of thing, a poem,
and he said I could too."
And so she could. And so she does still. You need to read how she responds with her life-long words and poems. I've given you just a quick taste of what she learned from that Celestial Navigator.
Miller's classmates at what was then Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, drew upon inspirations that flowed from this poet, forming a unique sorority of young women captivated by a master of our language. I regret not having met Jarrell, and will be posting another blog about that oversight in my life, but now I want to say bravo to Heather Ross Miller for giving this man back to us in ways we could never do: through her poetry.
She describes herself in "A Woman Things Happen To" as:
". . . I'm an old woman
who tends the fire, waving aside smoke,
and dipping out the best morsels
so the children can eat."
She introduces her mentor in "Speaking In Tongues" by this stanza:
"Dandelions ripened and flew while I drew
on the sidewalks my hopscotch, world wars,
and fierce new tongues, German, Japanese.
Then when I'd grown and gone to college,
I found a man who spoke these, wrote these,
laughed them out loud, tongues he brought
together in one place, smelting sounds
in a Spartan kind of thing, a poem,
and he said I could too."
And so she could. And so she does still. You need to read how she responds with her life-long words and poems. I've given you just a quick taste of what she learned from that Celestial Navigator.
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I couldn't resist this one for a good laugh. Yes, it's definitely art but I am having visions of hot water scalding his feet. Is this how you turn a man off a hooker?
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Lolaine says:
j'adore !Amanda says:
I could use one of those, on occasion…especially when my husband starts in with the funny man crap…Tam says:
That is the best use of Granny squares I've ever seen!!! A Man Cozy, truly wonderful. But the real question, does HE look better that way?CrochetBlogger says:
Made me laugh! Also gives me ideas for a granny square tile floor!Brandy says:
That'll teach him to mock crochet! ROFLMAO!Liz says:
This is horrifying.
Now. Why do I want to make one?Loosie says:
sometimes men need to be keep in the dark.Mazell Stafford says:
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh? I don't know nor have I ever known a man you could get to put this thing on. It looks like half a case for a large pillow.Richmonde says:
If you liked that, you might like these sad chaps modelling beanies on Etsy: http://www.urlesque.com/2011/03/10/sad-etsy-boyfriends/
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|Alabama's opener, against Western Carolina, is all about Saban
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|Friday, 31 August 2007 05:56
The start of a new era. Step one on the Crimson Tide's hoped-for return to glory. Of course, the players are excited.
Even Western Carolina's players, who will be on the opposite sideline in Saturday's Nick-at-Night show at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
``I think it raises the level of intensity even more,'' Catamounts offensive lineman James Singletary said. ``I know I'm going to raise my level of intensity playing in front of 92,000 fans and an ex-NFL coach trying to bring Alabama back to where it once was.''
This game will be mostly a symbolic beginning in that endeavor. Whatever the score, it's hardly likely to supply much proof that 'Bama's back. It's also not the type of game Alabama's paying him $4 million a year to win or that lured him back to college ball from the NFL's Miami Dolphins.
But it's a start. For Tide fans, it's The Start with their most famous and heralded coach since Paul ``Bear'' Bryant.
Western Carolina has lost its last nine games, plays in the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly Division I-AA, and was picked to finish last in the Southern Conference. Not exactly a high-risk, high-reward proposition for the Tide.
The Catamounts lost to Florida 62-0 in their season-ender last season against another Southeastern Conference team. The only time they played here was a 52-0 loss in 2004 mostly memorable for the season-ending knee injury of 'Bama quarterback Brodie Croyle in the third quarter.
They also have the dubious distinction of twice being Saban's first opponent at a new coaching stop. His first LSU team whipped them 58-0.
``What an opportunity,'' Western Carolina coach Kent Briggs said. ``We look forward to having our program being in the limelight.''
This one's mostly about Saban filling the 92,138-seat stadium again for what should amount to another glorified scrimmage, just like in the spring game.
As tailback Terry Grant said, ``92,000 at a spring game? I'm pretty sure they're excited.''
And for the 'Bama fans who couldn't score tickets? The seemingly made-for-TV season premiere starring Saban as ``The Next Bear'' will not be televised except on pay-per-view.
Saban, for one, is more than ready for the hype to quiet down. He doesn't want his players getting too caught up in what figures to be a much more intense scene than a game with a lower-division team would typically generate in Tuscaloosa.
``It doesn't really matter who they're playing against,'' Saban said. ``To get emotional creates a lot of highs and lows in what you do. We want a certain amount of intensity. We want a certain sense of urgency.
``But we don't want to get too emotional because that could affect our performance and the consistency of our performance. We'll take a businesslike approach to this.''
If the Tide manages that, it will be a positive step. Last year's team was anything but dominant against supposedly easy marks.
The slim halftime leads against lowly Duke (14-10) and Florida International (10-3 in the last win of Mike Shula's tenure) are proof of that. Plus, Alabama fell to Mississippi State at home, which helped lead to Shula's firing.
Tide players insist they don't need Saban's icy stare or tongue-lashings to avoid such a letdown.
``He doesn't have to tell us that,'' center Antoine Caldwell said. ``That's just what we need to do, period, as a football team. We're going to make sure guys don't overlook any opponent, no matter who they are. Mississippi State came in and beat us last year.
``It doesn't matter who the team is, we're going to focus like they're the national champions. That's the way we need to do it.''
Besides, lost in the euphoria fueled by Saban's hiring is this: Alabama is coming off a 6-7 season and picked to finish fourth in the SEC West. So what if Western Carolina is 0-10 against SEC teams.
``I really don't think we're in a position to overlook anyone,'' cornerback Simeon Castille said.
Still, he can't help but smile imagining what the atmosphere will be like for Saban's first game.
``I bet you it's going to be crazy around here,' Castille said. ``I just can't wait. I'm excited.''


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Last week on Learning Space, I sat with Georgia and Nicole and talked them through the Cupcake Geology lesson that I have conducted with pre-service teachers. (Well, some eating was done as well!)
We began with the discussion of why the cupcake was concealed – chocolate frosting on the top and surrounded by a silver wrapper. I think everyone knows that the cupcake may hold something interesting, but preserving the element of surprise until the last minute really lends itself to the impact of this activity.
The foundation of this lesson is based in the principles of the Nature of Science:
When focusing on these principles, the activity can be expanded to include the data collected by several classes; each class's data will hold a piece of the puzzle. Recreating the history of the earth's continents with cupcakes could link into plate tectonics and basic geological concepts, such as stratigraphy, original horizontality, anticlines and synclines, cross-sections, and superposition.
A great idea came from a caller, who suggested using a sheet cake instead of cupcakes, and even creating communities on the surface of the sheet cake to introduce the idea of where to sample, and the difficulties in locating a viable core – For example, taking a core sample in a river would be different from taking a core sample from a grassy hill.
The Disciplinary Core Idea that most closely links to this lesson is located within the first bullet of ESS1.C History of Planet Earth and also ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and large-scale system interactions.
The most obvious crosscutting concepts that can be included in this lesson are patterns, scale, proportion, and quantity, and systems and system models. Science and engineering practices include:
There are so many options that are available within this activity, it just depends on the direction in which you want your lesson to go.
I greatly enjoyed my time on Learning Space and am looking forward to visiting again!
Editor's Note: Download the pdf version of the activity here. See this episode of Learning Space on YouTube.
UPDATE 6/18/2014: Here is a new worksheet to go along with the activity!


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US strikes IS artillery: Pentagon spokesman
Friday, August 08, 2014
WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. military aircraft Friday conducted a strike on Islamic State (IS) militant's artillery, U.S. Department of Defense spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said on his Twitter account.
"Artillery was used against Kurdish forces defending Erbil, near US personnel," Kirby added.
The U.S. President Barack Obama authorized targeted air strikes Thursday to protect American personnel in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil and support forces in Iraq as they fight to break the siege of Mount Sinjar, on which thousands of Ezidi civilians have sought refuge from Islamic State militants.
U.S. air force carried out an aid airdrop for Ezidis stranded in Mount Sanjar before Obama authorized the airstrike.
There were also reports that U.S. had also conducted airstrikes in Iraq on Thursday, but Kirby said that there had been no such action taken on Thursday.
Since last Saturday, IS has moved north where battles between the Islamist fighters and Kurdistan Regional Government forces have taken place.
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My son got him He is 14 wks and like to stay under the bed if you let him. We also have a 1yr old mini aussie who is to energetic for him he will play for a moment then hide. Runs away from you when you try to pick him up or play with him. Is this normal?
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- Principles of Fiqh » Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings » Acts of Worship » Purity » Full Ablution.
- Principles of Fiqh » Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings » Acts of Worship » Fasting » What is permitted for the fasting person.
7310: Delaying ghusl for janaabah (impurity following sexual activity) until after dawn has broken in Ramadaan
Is it permissible to delay ghusl for janaabah until after dawn has broken? Is it permissible for women to delay ghusl following the end of menstruation or post-natal bleeding until after dawn has broken?
Praise be to Allaah.
If a woman sees that she has become taahir (pure) before Fajr, then she has to fast, and it does not matter if she delays ghusl until after dawn has broken. But she should not delay it until the sun is risen. The same applies in the case of junub (impurity after sexual activity), one should not delay ghusl until after the sun has risen and in the case of men, they should hasten to do ghusl so that they can pray Fajr with the jamaa'ah (in the mosque).
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text: In a breather to NTPC, government on Monday said it will reallocate its three forfeited coal blocks by Tuesday after law ministry's approval, a step that will bolster the firm's valuation prior to its share sale. The three coal blocks — Chatti-Bariatu, Kerandari and Chatti-Bariatu (South) — would be re-allocated to NTPC by Tuesday after getting the law ministry's approval. "The whole issue of coal blocks that have to be reallocated to NTPC will be done by tomorrow (Tuesday) ... blocks will be re-allocated to NTPC post ministry of law's opinion on that matter," power minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said.


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Either way, for this child, I was already wishing for a warm heart, a curious nature, a quick wit, a thirst for adventure, and enough courage and empathy to stand up for himself/herself, as well as for others. I was already wishing for a love of books, a best friend, an independent spirit. None of these things changed when the ultrasound tech made the call.
"You're having a girl."
There was never any question. I wanted to know the sex of our child, and I wanted to know it long before that final, stressful, painful, desperate, overwhelming, emotional day of my pregnancy. It was a decision that ran much deeper than a simple "because I can", and I've wondered about it a lot in the last few weeks. Why did I care? Why did I need to know?
It's true that boys and girls are different, but it's more true that children are all different from one another. The boy/girl dichotomy is a spectrum like anything else. I've seen it. I've lived it.
The pulsing kernel at the center of my being is striped both pink and blue. My energy at different points in my life has been both masculine and feminine. I suspect this is true for most people, but the way our society structures things in terms of gender norms bullies us into selecting a side based on our biologically-determined sexual apparatus. This is the way sensitive, nurturing boys get pegged as sissies, and the way assertive, confident girls get called bossy.
That's not a view of the world I want to perpetuate. And after careful consideration, I can't imagine a single lesson which would be appropriate for me to teach this girl as I nurture her toward womanhood but would be inappropriate for me to teach to a boy on his way to being a man.
"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dorothy Ann Pancoast (nee Bercher) was born in Cicero, Illinois in November of 1923. Her mother called her Dots. Cicero was a small town, and most people knew the Berchers because Dot's Uncle Frank was the mailman. The families in Dot's neighborhood grew their own vegetables and raised chickens, geese, ducks, and goats in their backyards. As a child growing up during the Great Depression, Dot was more aware of her family's circumstances than they realized. She knew not to ask for toys or treats or store-bought clothes. So long as there was food on the table, she knew her family was okay, better off than many others.
At night, Dot would lean on the window sill and stare out at the fluttering softness of two huge maple trees in her front yard, dreaming about becoming a beautiful woman. Later she would claim she never became beautiful, but determined quickly that she would be a very interesting old lady instead. I think she accomplished both.
In January of 1949, Dot graduated with a Bachelor of Science, cum laude from the University of Illinois.
My grandmother's college degree definitely set her apart. According to this study, there were only 530,000 American women enrolled in college in 1947. Less than 15% of the girls who graduated from high school went on to university at all. Dot was a trendsetter, as it turned out. Over the next 40 years, the number of women in college increased to 7.1 million (1988). Today, women vastly outnumber men in both their pursuit of higher education and the number of degrees and graduate degrees awarded every year.
I love seeing these photos of my grandma as a young woman, leaning over her typewriter or laughing with classmates, showing off her enviable calves. These are years we have in common, and our passions of the age are shared, as well. One of my most treasured possessions is an "English Romantic Poets" textbook which belonged to Dots at U of I. Her pencil-notes in the margins are so similar to my own. (She was fascinated by the young age of Keats when he was writing his most important works. She admired Wordsworth's contribution to the canon.) Before my grandmother was a wife or mother, she was a curious, intelligent, ambitious young woman with dreams of world travel and a career.
In high school, I had a poster taped up in my bedroom that read:
You run like a girl. You hit like a girl. You throw like a girl. You serve 60 mph in their face like a girl.
Which, I think, is why I kicked so much ass.
But this is not to say I didn't understand that "like a girl" was meant to be an insult. As a child, one of my favorite movies was The Sandlot, a film about a troop of best buddies playing sandlot baseball over one amazing childhood summer. In a key scene, the sandlot players are confronted by a bike-riding crew of Little Leaguers, and the two sets of eleven-year-old males trade insults. They say some pretty sick, plausibly child-imagined stuff. But the crescendo, hollered by Ham--the heavy, freckled catcher--is, of course: "You play ball like a girl!" Someone snort-laughs.
The boys shoot one another panicked looks. As though, with this, Ham might have gone a bit too far.
It never got to me. Because I was one scrappy chick. I ran faster, hit harder, threw longer than any boy in my neighborhood. When I watched The Sandlot, I was Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, not his little sister. Not the main character, Scotty Smalls, who can't catch a baseball to save his own life. Sure, when my hormones began sparking, I developed a crush on Benny, but in my daydreams, I never sat in the bleachers to cheer him on. I was on the field, too.
You're either a feminist or you're not; and if you're not, I have no time for you. Today is too important to spend even a moment bickering about the definition of the word, or whether my desire for equal position, equal expectation, equal opportunity, equal pay, equal protection, and equal value in this world might make you and the rest of the non-feminists uncomfortable. You either believe your daughter is worth the same as your son, and can accomplish all the same things, and deserves the same size piece of the world, or you don't. And if you don't, I have no time for you. Your time is over. This is 2014, and we're sick of being statistics, sick of suffering the status quo. You think I'm exaggerating the problem? I'm not. Residual prejudice against our gender affects all women. The threat of violence affects all women. Yes all women.
Because a woman walking home alone at night knows how to carry her keys like a weapon. #yesallwomen
Because women make up more than 50% of the US population, but only 20% of the Senate and only 18% of the House. #yesallwomen
Because I minimize the time I was sexually assaulted, justifying that there was no penetration or skin-on-skin contact. #yesallwomen
Because when you hear the words doctor or lawyer or dentist or cop, you're more likely to think "he" than "she". #yesallwomen
Because a gentleman walks a lady home. This isn't untrue, just sad because it's necessary. #yesallwomen
Because Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are taught far more than Anne of Green Gables in public schools. #yesallwomen
Because microaggressions add up. #yesallwomen
My score is a 9. I put my cold feet on my husband's legs at night to warm them. I never dress for breakfast, nor do I personally put my children to bed. I can't play a musical instrument, and I've never darned a sock in my life. Silly isn't it? But in 1930, these shortcomings would have made me an unequivocal failure as a wife, at least according to Dr. George W. Crane.
Dr. Crane wanted to know what made a good wife good. He interviewed 600 husbands, asking, "What does your wife do that annoys you?" He then took the 50 most common complaints and created a quiz for couples--conceivably to help improve their marriages. Today, the list is dated to the point of hilarity. Trying to apply the quiz to my modern day marriage is a hoot.
I mean, on one hand, the seams of my hose are never crooked (merit). On the other hand, I don't wear hose (demerit). I run around bare-legged. Bare-footed, in fact, and my visible toenails are almost always some shade of red (demerit).
On one hand, I don't not like children (merit). On the other hand, I have elected not to have children, something which wasn't even contemplated by Dr. Crane, because... duh (demerit).
On one hand, I do manage to keep my house neat and tidy (merit). On the other hand, my personal definition of both neat and tidy are likely different from those of good wives in the 1930s. Ask my dust bunnies; I'm sure they'll back me up on that (demerit).
The real bummer is that neither my prowess as a conversationalist (merit), nor my willingness to let Jonathan sleep late on Sundays (merit) outweigh the ten points I lose for not taking my children to Sunday school (demerit). Shoot.
Go ahead and call me bossy. I've heard it my whole life.
"Audrey, quit bossing your brothers."
"Audrey is a bright child, but she's bossy in the classroom."
As Sheryl Sandberg has pointed out in the last few months, the word bossy is aimed almost exclusively at girls and women, and it always has a negative connotation. Where a boy shouting orders to a passel of kids on a playground is commended for his leadership skills, a girl is pulled aside and told that what she's doing is wrong.
"Nobody will want to play with you if you're too bossy."
You should have seen me. I owned the playground and everyone in it (who would listen to me, and there were certainly those who didn't). At school or at home, I was the one who invented the games, made the rules, refereed, and facilitated play. Not that any of this lingo was a part of my vocabulary at the time. It all fell under the purview of bossy, which should have been the purview of leadership, but nobody thought to vocalize that difference until more recently.
In my neighborhood, I was the sole girl among about a dozen boys, all my age and younger. And I called the shots.
"Today we're playing cops and robbers. Cops get bikes. Robbers get a ten second head start. The light pole in the little field is home base. Go!"
Bottom line: there was a T-shaped parking lot off of Joaquin Murieta Boulevard in Newark, California where, if you wanted to play a game outside, you had to play my game. So, we played. I bossed the hell out of those boys, and I'm sure it bothered them, but the games never stopped. It was endless hours of Cops-n-Robbers, Cowboys-n-Indians, football, whiffle ball, basketball, swimming, bike riding, kickball, four-square, Hide-n-Seek. We played tackle football, and it took three of them to bring me down and push my face into the turf. Even when they didn't like me, they loved me.
To those who were in a position of oversight, it was plain that, if little Audrey were added to the equation of a classroom exercise, for example, there were few other kids whose personalities would stand a chance against mine. Our fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Busselen, used to ask us to divide into groups of four and dole out responsibilities: Leader, Time Keeper, Scribe, and Presenter. I was born with a hatred of group projects, mostly because I liked doing well in school and didn't trust the other kids to do what needed to be done in order to get an A. Unfortunately for me, fifth grade isn't one giant aptitude test for sixth grade, the way we're led to believe it is at the time. Rather, fifth grade is about preparing all children with the skills they'll need to, for example, cooperate with other people for the rest of their lives. To eleven-year-old me, cooperation only seemed necessary for more subservient types. That's why I was so torn between the roles of Leader and Presenter when these group sessions arose. I wanted to run the show, but I also wanted to be the face of the group when it came time to give the report.
Here I should point out two things: 1) Bossy girls aren't dumb. We know that by snatching the most important roles for ourselves and directing the action thereafter, we're also putting the burden of responsibility for the grade on our own small shoulders, and 2) most other eleven-year-olds are happy to cede that responsibility without a fight.
It took Mrs. Busselen a few weeks of group projects to realize that I was signing up for the position of Presenter, allowing someone else to put his/her name in the Leader spot, and then I was playing the role of de facto Leader anyway. Her answer was to forbid me to do any more presenting.
Maybe it's because I'm a writer, but I love it when life looks, smells, tastes, sounds, or feels like fiction. When I stumble upon something (or someone) so perfectly proportioned, so quizzical and memorable, that it couldn't be coincidence. Or fate. Or chance. Or anything true. No. When the hair rises on the back of my neck due to the poetry of a place, a name, or even a set of meteorological elements, it's because, had I found the same stuff between the pages of a book, I would be in awe of the craft of it. The intention of a creator. At random, these perfections in an imperfect world make me look up and say thank you.
I'm not making any sense, huh? Here's an example:
Yesterday, I was doing some research. My serendipitous journey began with an essay titled The Lives of Girls and Women: The Writing of Alice Munro. This essay, originally published by The Center for Fiction had been reprinted by the VIDA blog. It caught my eye because Alice Munro won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, and while I have read and enjoyed one of her short story collections (Runaway), I'm curious to read more from and about this literary heavyweight.
The essay entertained and educated, as good essays are supposed to do. It also forced me to recalibrate my own thinking in a matter of just a few sentences:
"[Munro] is making a political point, one that's radical because it's so enormous and so unsettling. The point is that the lives of girls and women, even of those who lead narrow and constricted lives, those who wield no influence, who have a limited experience in the world, are just as significant and important as the lives of boys and men, those who take drugs, ride across the border, drift down the river or hunt whales."
This recalibration is what prompted me to look up the essay's author, Roxana Robinson. She's a successful novelist, and her most recent book, Sparta, is about a young American veteran returning from war in the Middle East. She is also the author of a Georgia O'Keefe biography. All this made me want to contact Ms. Robinson to request an interview with her for The Postmasters Podcast. Unfortunately, she didn't have any personal contact information listed on her website. What she did have was a small regiment of people set up between herself and me. A publicist, an agent, and someone who coordinates speaking events. I decided the publicist was most relevant to my goal, and that's when the magic happened.
It's so easy. Too easy.
A man sins, breaks his vows, lies, gets caught, denies it all, gets confronted, confesses, apologizes, begs for forgiveness... and we judge him. Disgusting. Unworthy of the public trust. And his wife holds his hand. Forgives. Steps with him back out of the spotlight. Helps him repair his marriage. And his image. He stands up again, calls for attention, swears he's changed, improved. Credits his wife for her deep understanding, patience, mercy, and love. Nowadays, this is enough for the public to grant him that second chance we believe everyone deserves.
Then the man sins again.
Because, as a very wise friend of mine has said, "People can change; they just can't change a whole helluva lot."
That's not the easy part, though. It's human nature, sure. This is how we fail. Over and over and at our own weakest point. We recognize the pattern. It's predictable, but no, the failing part isn't easy.
What happens next is the breeze.
Moving to Europe, I expected some downsizing. The average private vehicle size, for instance, is far more compact here than in the U.S. When we see big trucks on the road, they are a novelty. We take notice and assume a wealthy American decided he couldn't transfer to the Norwegian branch of his oil company without his trusty Dodge. Cars here are just smaller. Ditto city apartments, meal portions, playgrounds, and storage spaces of all kinds.
This last is best demonstrated by the average size of refrigerators in apartments across Oslo.
On the left, you can see our kitchen the week I moved in, back in April 2011. The poor, little guy had been retrieved from the bowels of our building's basement by our landlord. Who knows how long he'd been decommissioned before that. To say we've crammed him full of food is something of an understatement. As a car-free couple, the grocery haul must be restricted to what we can fit into a backpack and reusable bags. Even then, if both of us went to the market, we were able to bring back enough food to make that tiny fridge bulge at its aging seams. There isn't enough room to hold all (or even most!) of the beer cans Jonathan's friends bring over on game nights, either.
Plastic drawers were cracked. The door bleated in protest each time we swung it open. The freezer wouldn't close all the way without effort. The temperature inside the fridge swung wildly from just cold enough to keep the milk good to so cold I couldn't pour soda past the iceberg that had formed within the bottle.
And then last week, as we sat in the living room minding our own business, Jonathan and I heard an enormous crack! One of the glass shelves had split right down the middle. And there was almost nothing on this shelf, so we knew it wasn't our fault. Little Fridgy had simply given up.
I would have felt sentimental about the whole thing had our landlord not acted so quickly to replace it. I worried about having enough time to say goodbye... and then the new hunk showed up. Gleaming. A foot taller, inches deeper. With baskets that could accommodate frozen pizzas. With shelves in the door that could hold soda bottles... get this... standing up!
I stripped Little Fridgy of his magnets and sent him on his way. Because magnets, in my world, are the way I show love to my kitchen appliance. And it was time to magnetize the new guy. Tenderly. One bit of memory at a time.
My running shoes are neon pink.
This morning, I laced them up and stepped onto the treadmill at my gym, just as I have many mornings in the last few weeks. And I ran.
I ran toward the glossy faces of the broadcasters on CNN and the BBC as they told the story. Two bombs exploded in quick succession near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, yesterday. At least three are dead. At least 144 are injured. Critical injuries include amputated limbs. Among the fatalities is an eight-year-old boy from Dorchester.
My feet thumped and thumped and thumped on the spinning road of the treadmill. I was going nowhere. And the newsmen and newswomen repeated the little we know, and all that we don't know, over and over.
Yesterday, I was watching the live stream of the Boston Marathon as the elite runners churned through the miles between the halfway point and the finish. I was watching as Yolanda Beatriz Caballero Pérez of Columbia pulled ahead of the women's lead pack by more than thirty seconds.
A year older than me, Caballero looked strong and fluid, pumping along at a blistering pace (at Mile 12, her split was 5:26). The announcers ran through the details of Caballero's life as she ran straight toward the camera. Last year, she lost her husband of five years to a stroke. He'd been her best friend, her true love, and her running coach, taking her from a daily jogger to a marathon champion. Last year, she placed 8th at the Boston Marathon and earned a selection for the Summer 2012 Olympic Games.
After a couple more miles, I watched as Caballero was overtaken by Portugal's Ana Dulce Felix, her long, blond ponytail swishing in time with her stride.
Already, I was looking forward to my next day's workout, inspired by these incredible lady athletes who make it clear what the human body is capable of.
Once the elites had crossed the finish line, I stopped checking the Boston Marathon Twitter feed. We had a birthday to celebrate. While thousands of people continued to run from Hopkinton to Boston, I sang Happy Birthday to Jonathan and carried his angel food cake into the living room. The candles wavered. He made a wish and blew them out.
Just about then, there was blood in the streets of Boston.
President Obama has warned against jumping to conclusions, but promises that whomever is responsible, be it an individual or a group, they will feel "the full weight" of justice.
Detonated for maximum carnage, the "crude devices" placed among the crowds at the finish were timed to coincide with the moment that the most runners would be crossing the finish or arriving in the last miles. Thus, we are reminded of the evil which human beings are also capable of.
Could there be anything more sadistic than cutting off a runner at the knees?
Which black hole has Audrey fallen down today, you ask? Well, I'll be happy to share.
This video clip is one of dozens which has been posted by a Baptist preacher out of Tempe, Arizona in the last few years. This guy is a NUT JOB. Unfortunately, he's handsome (Jack from Lost, anyone?), affable, articulate, has ample proof of his personal virility (seven kids), and enjoys wearing a suit and tie. I say unfortunately because all of these things make him prime preacher material, whether or not he has any real handle on the Truth.
Today alone, I've watched him preach on the role of women (surprise, he doesn't like Feminists), gender (he thinks women shouldn't wear pants), and our President (Barack Obama is the devil... "and get the hell out of my church if you don't want to hear it!").
In the clip I've posted, Pastor Steve Anderson holds forth on the "righteous government" which at least one of the original thirteen colonies had in place back in 1639. This government did away with jolly old religiously-persecutorial England's rule of law which included a whopping 150 crimes which were punishable by death. Whew. Because killing someone who forged a check is just dotty! And then the New Haveners in the Connecticut colony instated the Hebrew rule of law which had a much more reasonable list of 11 crimes punishable by death.
You're wondering how this is better than the old British standard the colonists escaped, aren't you? Good news for check forgers: they just get time in the stocks. But the new and improved list includes the following crimes:
- Murder
- Treason
- Perjury against the life of another
- Kidnapping
- Beastiality
- Sodomy ("Which is homosexuality... being GAY!" Wait for the jazz hands. Seriously excellent.)
- Adultery
- Blasphemy in the highest degree
- Idolatry
- Witchcraft
- Rebellion against parents
Now, I'm not going to get into a debate with anyone about capital punishment. At least not here. So, why post this?
Because it frightens me and I want to call it out of the darkness by name.
Before Willa Cather died in 1947, she specifically requested that none of her personal correspondence ever be published or even quoted from. Executors of her estate have adhered to that personal request ever since. Until now. Roughly 500 of Cather's estimated 3,000 letters will be published shortly, and are set to answer long-time questions about Cather's life, including her sexuality and her literary relationships. I'm fascinated, but conflicted.
Reading the personal correspondence of writers I admire is always a treat. It's a raw look at their personalities and belief systems. It's a chance to see something closer to a first draft. Without editors or publishers or even an audience to worry about, how does Hemingway think? How does O'Connor express her emotions? To say nothing of revelations about characters and stories limited to the public by the words The End. Fans want to know whether somewhere, deep in the gray matter, their favorites live on.
But what of privacy?
This blog and the girl behind it are part of an exhibitionist culture which has only grown over the last decade, fueled by Facebook and Twitter.
Today, people take photos of their breakfasts and post them for the world to see. Eggs and bacon frying in a pan look like eggs and bacon frying in a pan. But one hit with the Instagram stick, and you've got yourself something closer to art. Breakfasts and lunches and dinners and midnight snacks clog the arteries of the internet.
Then there are my personal favorites: Status updates and photos of failed attempts at potty training.
I unfollowed my favorite professional athlete the other day because her younger son didn't make it to his potty on time, and all 126,000 followers got to see the result. We're talking number two. When I peruse my news feed, I don't want to hear about (or see!) other people's adventures with excrement. Either from their animals or their little children. Unlike.
But then again...
"It is a woman's job to write about the wild."
When I take notes at writing lectures and seminars, I have a system. There are concepts I list, gleaned from the speakers' talking points. There are snippets of dialogue, summaries of observations. If they recommend books, I drop an asterisk. If they recommend authors, I superscript the line with an A. If they say something vital to the rest of my life, as an author and a woman and a human, I make sure to write it down exactly as they spoke it, clutched between quotation marks. Underlined, if it's something I never want to forget.
This weekend, I found myself underlining lots of true quotes, and the best ones came from Pam Houston.
I have been able to admire her from afar, though. I read her books as they come out, eagerly, expectantly. When she's featured in a new interview or posts an essay somewhere, I track it down and eat it up. I follow her on both Facebook and Twitter. We've even corresponded via social media a couple of times! But at this year's AWP conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in Boston last week, I got a chance to shake her hand!
Are you Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
It's a stand which American society demands its participants take. This could have something to do with the rampant rise of ferociously conservative Christians in the Tea Party. Or it could be the natural aftermath of a still-raw wound since the strident political progress Feminists made in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Probably both. But the result is that everyone, even those technically untouched by the debate, must pick a side, and there is no secret option C.
As a Christian, I am familiar with this fight. There was a time when I gave Pro-Life speeches, debated Roe vs. Wade on the side of Wade. I manipulated statistics so they sounded as bad as possible. I played on sympathy and guilt. I used the famous photo of a doctor's finger being grabbed by the infinitesimal hand of a 21-week-old baby still in utero. Yes, I knew all the tactics cold.
I was sixteen. As far as I knew, none of my friends or acquaintances had had an abortion. The three girls I knew who got pregnant in high school all opted to have and keep their children. More than that, I knew it was a choice I'd never have to make myself. I was committed to remaining sexually abstinent until marriage. This was a decision I made before converting to Christianity. I was influenced by my parents, who instilled in me a huge amount of self-respect when I was very young. Later, when the Church was vying for its young people to make purity promises to the Lord, I was a prime candidate to preach that one from the rooftops.
It was easy to be Pro-Life.
Then life happened.
Dear Mr. President,
I voted for you.
Home. My husband and I moved to Norway from the United States for adventure, opportunity and the chance to try something new. We stay because, given our new perspective, it is difficult for us to believe that moving "home" would be in our best interest. Norway is consistently listed as one of the "happiest" and "best" places to live in the world. This is due to the country's high standard of living, access to higher education, national wealth, cleanliness, and independence. Children are healthier, better educated, and safer. We pay high taxes, but in return we receive tremendous benefits. Watching the vitriol of the last election from afar, I was ashamed. All that fighting, all those hard lines, all those promises, all that MONEY... and in return, what? I can't say Norway is a better country than the United States, but nor can I say that the U.S. is the best country in the world. And wouldn't you want to live and raise your family in the best country in the world? Please do what you can to make me want to come home.
Audrey Camp from Oslo, Norway
Four years ago, I was as idealistic as any other 25-year-old. Well, that doesn't mean much. Kids today become so jaded so quickly. Maybe I'll say it this way... Four years ago I was as idealistic as young Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, just before he ascended to the Presidency. The man wanted to bridge gaps, soothe the rancor of Washington, and accomplish lots of important stuff. In 2008, I liked his message, but I didn't vote for him. I believed he was too young and inexperienced to make headway in our white-haired White House, let alone the big, bad world of international relations. He won without my vote. And almost immediately, I was thrilled about that. Even in the face of a GOP machine intent on making him, young Barack Obama, a Democrat, fail in four years, whether or not that hurt our country, the man himself strove to meet his own ideals. Four years later, he earned my vote with guts, humility, and the overall optimism and decency of his party's platform.
I'm no longer a shiny-cheeked idealist, but neither, I'd guess, is President Obama. Yet, he seems to remain optimistic.
I write in the margins and on the blank pages of books authored by other writers. It's a habit. When I happen upon those scribblings later, it's always a treat. The following is an essay I penned on a trip to Northern Italy in 2009. All summer long I'd been following the Green Revolution in Iran. I'd seen the blood pool in the street beneath the body of Neda Agha-Soltan after she was gunned down during a protest in June. Her death scarred me. I wanted to know about the lives of other young women in Iran. To that end, I picked up Dr. Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran to read on our vacation...
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