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I love ramen. The kind from a restaurant, I mean, not the instant college-food kind
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So here's the problem. While I'm completely capable of handling a bowl in a way
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and other customers, a couple of times when eating with friends they've made little
comments. "That's an interesting way to do it." "Is that how your mom taught you."
With a vague air of snide that makes me stop and laugh off whatever I was about to
I think my friends have seen Tampopo which I understand has ramen lessons in
it but I don't know because I haven't seen it.
Rather than explain how I eat it and have you all laugh at me too, I'll just ask.
I'm sitting with a bowl filled with porky goodness, noodles, maybe an egg, and
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North Newington is a village and civil parish in northern Oxfordshire, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Banbury.
North Newington was a township in the ancient parish of Broughton until 1866 when it was made a civil parish. It remains part of the Church of England parish of St Mary the Virgin, Broughton with North Newington. The parish church is in the grounds of Broughton Castle, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of North Newington.
North Newington's most notable historic building is Park Farm, whose main house includes buttresses and other features from the 14th or 15th century. Park Farm has also a circular dovecote that was built in the 17th century.
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Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, volume 9, chapter on Broughton includes references to North Newington.


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Patrons flip through songbooks on a typical Saturday night at the Main Street Café in Homestead, eager to sing along with house band the Pathfinders. Packed with couples and friends sitting around small square tables, the large, airy room is warmed by votive candles, familiar greetings, and the strum of guitar strings. Owner Laurie Oudin, who bought the Forties structure with partner Steve Damsky four years ago at a low post-Hurricane Andrew rate, takes the mike to encourage requests. "Blowin' in the Wind!'" someone screams. Lighters blaze and the room fills with song.
This beat-the-band-meets-karaoke session is one of many innovations Oudin, a former Shakespearean actor, has devised to foster the spirit of the open exchange she misses since moving to South Florida. "In New York I would spend hours going from café to café to café," she recalls. "I would have great conversations without even knowing people's names." But here she has not found a place to casually meet and mingle. Along with easy conversation, the owners of the Main Street Café hope to provide a place for the simple melodies and guitar sing-alongs that Oudin grew up with in Connecticut and New York.
Every Thursday night Oudin schedules a big folk gig. Last week it was New England songwriting sensation Ellis Paul. Tonight features the Latin-flavored folk of Venezuelan-born Oregonian, Irene Farrera. A twenty-year resident of Eugene, Farrera's principal connection to her homeland is her music. "My intention is to bring out some of the best work of Venezuelan composers and musicians," Farrera tells New Times by phone, "and to contribute my own voice."
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Farrera's first three CDs have paid homage to Latin America generally, including Trinidadian steel drums as well as lyrics both Portuguese and Spanish. Farrera says her new CD, Serenata, scheduled for release in March, fuses specifically Venezuelan traditions with her own fine-tuned folk style. Never without her cuatro, the classic Venezuelan guitar, Farrera also adds bongos and maracas to the syncopated 6/8 rhythms. Electro-acoustical guitar and violin fill out the sound.
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Although folk is the tried-and-true vehicle for musical protest, don't expect any topical songs about current Venezuelan populist president Hugo Chavez. "I don't pay too much attention to the news," Farrera admits. "But in many ways I identify with Chavez, because there is so much disparity [in Venezuela] that there ends up being a lack of compassion and human dignity among the people there."
Since coming to the United States as an architecture student two decades ago, Farrera has focused on making and sharing acoustic music here. She has attained some prominence in folk's nationwide network of "listening rooms," noncommercial spaces where folk fans gather. Oudin learned about Farrera through these fringe connections when she went looking to diversify the talent she booked.
"Homestead is surrounded by diversity, which is very enriching," says Oudin. "There is a language barrier, but hopefully with more [artists] like Irene Farrera, who sing in Spanish and English, this will begin to break down."


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Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated is moving its regional distribution center in Wilmington to the Leland Industrial Park by the end of the year, the Brunswick County Economic Development Commission (EDC) has announced.
The company has agreed to purchase the 80,000-square-foot former MarKraft building in the industrial park and invest more than $2 million in the project, EDC director Jim Bradshaw said.
Detectives with the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office have arrested a suspect for second-degree rape and kidnapping.
Brunswick County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Sgt. April Stanley said Milton Perry Lewis, 26, of 1366 Glen Road, Supply, was arrested Monday, July 12.
Lewis was charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sexual offense and kidnapping for an incident that occurred Friday, July 9.
Lewis was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center, where he remains under a $100,000 secured bond.
A house on Ocean Isle Beach caught fire last week after it was hit by lightning.
According to chief Bobby Yoho of the Ocean Isle Beach Fire Department, lightning hit a house on Egret Court in the Island Park area Thursday, July 8, and caused fire to shoot out of an electrical socket.
Renters were home at the time lightning struck, but Yoho said all got out OK and there were no injuries.
It's happening again. Every time a new generation of 20-somethings enters the working world, the stereotyping and generalizing hits the media full force.
A quick Internet search reveals that people in their 20s (also known as "millennials" or "Generation Y") are now being labeled as being born with a sense of entitlement, doted on by parents who told them they were "special" and given roomfuls of trophies just for participating. Numerous articles have been published about how to deal with them in the workplace.
SUPPLY—A Supply woman was killed Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle wreck on Mount Pisgah Road in Supply.
Renishia Nicole Jenrette, 21, of 886 Makatoka Road, Supply, died Saturday afternoon after her car flipped several times and she was ejected, N.C. State Highway Patrol 1st Sgt. A. E. Morris said.
LELAND—The Post 68 Junior American Legion Baseball team beat West Bladen 4-2 Friday night in completing a three-game playoff sweep that advanced Leland to the state tournament.
Winning pitcher T.J. Faircloth gave up three hits and one earned run in four-plus innings. He walked three and struck out one.
Reliever Dylan Reed pitched no-hit, shutout baseball in the final three innings. He walked two and struck out two.
Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson will present "Weave Through Time" this Saturday.
Visitors can learn about conservation techniques for historic textiles and bring in their own if they have questions or need advice on how to preserve them.
Ben Tart, who has been reproducing historic clothing and flags since the 1980s, will give two presentations on dying textiles at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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For many recent college graduates, finding a job is becoming more difficult than ever imagined. Many students who walk across that stage are filled with hope and anticipation of going out into the world and "making it," only to be shot down at every turn.
The question on our minds: "Why can't I find a job?"
Diane Belair (Prestwick) shot a 75 and won the Club 25 Tournament June 22 at Crow Creek. Barb Cleghorn (Whispering Pines) was second and Dale Calhoon (Brick Landing) third. Heidi Cherry (Myrtle Beach National) and Barb Guhl (Pine Valley) tied for fourth. Candace Cochrane (Sandpiper), Judy Nicoletti (Sandpiper), and Marie Strickler (Carolina Shores) tied for sixth.
The 2010 Ocean Ridge MGA member-guest tourney was played June 26-27 on Tiger's Eye Golf Course. Thirty-eight two-man teams participated in the event, which included 14 teams of father-son or father-son-in-law.
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Ava and Richie Sambora went shopping together in Calabasas, Calif. on Monday (September 3). While dad carried the shopping bag the 14-year-old walked along holding her phone.
The Bon Jovi guitarist has a new solo album coming out called Aftermath of the Lowdown.
The songs are based on his personal life – opening up on issues when he went to rehab in 2011 and his divorce from Heather Locklear.
Sambora told the LA Times, "When I fell off that cliff, I realized who I was, unrelated to the band (Bon Jovi). I'd started to clean up five years ago, but I slipped, and made those amends. I'm lucky I wasn't a guy who lost his family or relationships. I had cleaned up my act about 85 percent five years ago. But I was naive. I just wanted to drink as a stress reliever, and I slipped again."
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The Honda LCR rider revealed all had been going to plan until he modified the engine map to alter the amount of engine braking into the corners.
"First of all we must check the data to understand what happened," he said. "I got a very good start from eighth place, but it was pretty tough out there because of the wet and slippery surface.
"I could lap with a good pace and constant speed but after some laps I had to change the map because we had too much engine brake.
"Since that moment something changed and the engine was pushing me in the corner entries and I did not know what was going on.
"After that I was back to the standard engine brake but it was too much in those difficult conditions and started to be slower.
"In the heavy rain I was more careful, but suddenly when I lost the rear and crashed out. I do not think it was completely my fault and I feel sorry for me and the team."
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17HMR and 22 Accuracy
I keep hearing about how accurate the 17HMR is compared to a .22lr or even a .22 mag, and I keep wondering why is it so much more accurate? Are the 17HMR bullets just loaded more consistently for accuracy? Are the guns in that caliber built better for accuracy? Is the bullet more accurate because it has a shoulder? Or is it a combination of everything?
For some reason this is just driving me nuts. So are there any thoughts on why this new little bullet is so much more accurate than the venerable .22?:confused:
As far as I am concerned there is no comparison between the accuracy of the 22 LR and 22 mag compared to the 17HMR that is far superior in most all areas. 2500 Feet Per Second which means FLAT. Unbelievably accurate with 1/4 to 1/2 inch groups at 100 yards. and more devastating on small varmints. Do not get me wrong the 22s certainly have their place and more economical to shoot. And a box of 50 ea. 17HMR Rounds will run from $11.00-12.00 a box.
But I am just impressed with it's performance. The Savage Rifles and the Marlin Rifles are a couple of the most accurate. I personally have a Marlin 917V with a Rifle Basix Trigger in it. And it shoots under a 1/2 moa group at 100 yards and I have shot groundhogs consistently at 150 yards as well as other small varmints.
The 17 rimfires are shooting a real rifle bullet not a chunk of lead shaped like a bullet. The 22 mag can be very accurate as it is also a true bullet design but not in the class of the 17. More on the order of a pistol bullet. There is a new bullet for the 22mag of the same design as the 17. I have not tried them yet but have heard of some good accuracy reports. A lot depends on the individual rifle. I dont know if the traditional twist for the 22mag is optimal for the new bullets. Some of the 22mag rifles had tube feeds so bullet design was safety inspired. I believe a 22mag designed around the new bullets would be comparable to the 17hmr in accuracy and almost 2x the bullet weight. That would give it a big advantage on larger varmints. I am thinking of getting a 22 Hornet which I can load.
Depends on the range to some extent.
Look at how the LR bullet is made- a heel seated bullet (case is crimped onto a smaller bit at the very rear of the bullet) the HMR uses what looks like a miniature version of a 30-06 bullet. It comes out of the barrel in better shape. And is consistent in shape from shot to shot.
Most 22 LR is dropping back to subsonic speed by 100 yards. As that happens, the bow shock wave moving back on the bullet makes it yaw slightly. The HMR is still supersonic well past 100 yards.
All other things being equal, a bull barrel 22 barrel has less metal than a 17- outer diameters about the same, hole in middle of a .17 is smaller. Slightly stiffer barrel results.
Bullet is not only a LOT faster, it spins faster. Rate of twist for most .22 LR is about 1 in 16. HMR is 1 in 9.
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About four hundred Jewish jurists from all parts of Germany were present at a conference held here convoked by the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith for the purpose of considering the position of the Jews of Germany under the laws of the country.
Doctor Julius Brodnitz, president of the Central Union, said that the conference was not a demonstration in the interests of a catchword or slogan, but was intended only for the serious consideration of the work before the Central Union and the promotion of the principle of equal justice within the German Republic. The conference did not have the purpose of segregating Jewish jurists from their non-Jewish colleagues, he said.
Dr. Jacques Stern, who read a paper on Nationalist Law and State Philosophy, said that any attempt to introduce Nationalist ideas in Law and State, which would result in depriving the German Jews of their rights, would not be justified historically or philosophically. It would throw Germany back for centuries, would isolate her from the rest of the nations and make it impossible for her to regain her old position.
Dr. Erich Eyck read a paper on the attitude of the judicial system towards Jews and Judaism, in which he quoted case after case where Jews had been discriminated against in a way that was not in keeping with the traditions of German law. He did not want to generalize or to suggest that the cases he quoted typified German law administration as such, but they had to think of these cases and to stand on guard demanding impartial justice, not only for the sake of the German Jews, but for the sake of the German fatherland as a whole.
Dr. Bruno Weil, dealing with the political trials of recent years in Germany, said that these had since the Revolution become a more frequent part of the political life of the country. The German Jews had the right and it was their duty to fight for equal rights in law and in fact with all non-Jewish Germans.


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Jeremy Guthrie shut down the Yankees for seven innings, perhaps driving up his price in a trade, and Baltimore got homers from Mark Reynolds and Derrek Lee in a 4-2 victory last night in New York.
Kevin Gregg held on in a shaky ninth, striking out Brett Gardner with runners at the corners to end it. Gardner slammed his bat twice to the ground, smashing it into pieces.
Reynolds and Lee each drove in two runs, lending some rare offensive support to the major league leader in losses. Guthrie (5-14) allowed just four hits, including Mark Teixeira's solo homer, and walked three in one of his best outings during a frustrating season.
A durable starter considered a prime trade candidate before tomorrow's non-waiver trade deadline, Guthrie handcuffed New York's dangerous lineup by consistently keeping the ball down. He got 12 outs on grounders and four of his five strikeouts came in his last two innings.
The righthander outpitched A.J. Burnett (8-9) for his first win in four career starts at Yankee Stadium.
Tigers 12, Angels 2 - Carlos Guillen's two-run triple highlighted a four-run sixth inning and host Detroit routed Los Angeles.
Guillen and Victor Martinez finished with four RBIs, while Ramon Santiago added three hits.
Rick Porcello (11-6) allowed two runs and five hits in eight innings, striking out six.
Mets 8, Nationals 5 - Jose Reyes drove in two runs, and visiting New York made Chien-Ming Wang's return to the big leagues a short one.
Wang (0-1) couldn't help Washington in his first major league appearance two years to the day after he had shoulder surgery. The righthander gave up six runs on eight hits in four innings.
Rays 8, Mariners 0 - Jeff Niemann (5-4) allowed three hits and struck out a career-high 11 in 6 2/3 innings, and visiting Tampa Bay supported him with an eight-run second inning.
Mariners starter Erik Bedard (4-7), just off the disabled list with a knee injury and the subject of trade rumors, showed the effects of his 32-day layoff.
Braves 5, Marlins 0 - Dan Uggla hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the seventh inning, Brandon Beachy combined with two relievers on a three-hitter, and host Atlanta ended Florida's five-game winning streak.
Uggla extended his hitting streak to 20 games and leads Atlanta with 19 homers. He entered July with a .176 batting average but is up to .206 after going 1 for 4 against Florida.
Cardinals 9, Cubs 2 - Albert Pujols got his 2,000th hit and Edwin Jackson pitched seven innings in his debut to help St. Louis hammer visiting Chicago.
Royals 12, Indians 0 - Jeff Francis pitched eight sharp innings, Melky Cabrera hit a grand slam, and visiting Kansas City pounded Cleveland.
Phillies 10, Pirates 3 - Chase Utley fell a double shy of the cycle, Roy Halladay tossed one-hit ball over seven shutout innings, and host Philadelphia toppled Pittsburgh.
Brewers 4, Astros 0 - Randy Wolf pitched seven scoreless innings against a punchless Houston lineup to lead host Milwaukee to its fourth straight victory.
Reds 4, Giants 3 - Edgar Renteria singled in the bottom of the 13th inning to give the host Cincinnati the win over San Francisco.
Blue Jays 3, Rangers 2 - J.P. Arencibia hit a three-run homer and Brett Cecil beat All-Star Alexi Ogando for the second straight start as host Toronto edged Texas.
Twins 9, Athletics 5 - Francisco Liriano rebounded from his worst start of the season to go seven innings and Michael Cuddyer hit his team-leading 16th homer to lift visiting Minnesota.
Rockies 3, Padres 2 - Jason Hammel (6-10) pitched into the seventh, Troy Tulowitzki had two hits, and Colorado scored three times in the second to win at Petco Park.
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Senate Executive Committee Agenda
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
2:30 to 5 p.m. Room 205 College Hall
1. Approval of Minutes (1 Minute).
2. Chair's Report (5 Minutes).
3. Past Chair's Report on Academic Planning and Budget and Capital Council (2 Minutes).
4. Patent Policy Update (30 Minutes).
Guests: Andy Binns, chair, Patent Policy Committee; Mitch Marcus, former chair, Faculty Senate and convener of the Patent Policy Committee; Interim Provost Peter Conn.
Note: This policy was reviewed and approved by SEC in May 2004. The Deans and General Counsel subsequently made a few additional modifications. Therefore, it is coming back to SEC for approval.
5. Brief discussion with Interim Provost Peter Conn (10 Minutes).
6. Association of Emeritus Faculty (10 Minutes).
7. SEC Members and Nominations for Senate Nominating Committee, Faculty Senate Committee on Committees and University Council Committee on Committees (20 Minutes).
8. 2004-05 Faculty Senate Committee Charges (30 Minutes).
9. Other New Business (5 Minutes).
10. Adjournment to Reception for Amy Gutmann.
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Hello, still not clear, so if I purchase option #1 is just for the photo shots? and option #2 to buy pictures? I can't not buy both options? or are both for the photo shots, it kind says the samething the only difference is the second you view more pictures? thanks
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Janet, For the $19 you have 2 options- Option 1 includes your session, makeup, hair etc..and you also receive the 5x7 framed image and the low resolution matching image etc. Option 2 is for those who prefer to choose what they want. It is an open credit for $100 valid toward your session fee and portrait purchase. For example, if you choose option 2, an individual session fee with hair and makeup is $39.95 ..then the balance of the $100 ($100-$39.95 = $60.05) goes toward your portrait purchase. It is totally up to you. The offer is limited to 1/person. So you would not be able to use 2 offers. I hope that helps. Have a great time!
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Immune system boosters – one of the biggest scams around
It's a good thing that all the so-called immune system booster products don't work. You wouldn't want them to.
That's right. I just said that there are no effective immune system booster products. I know that the Internet is awash in products claiming to enhance the immune system, but there's simply no scientific evidence that they work.
But, contrary to what you might think, that's a good thing! Of course it's not a good thing from the consumer's economic point of view. All the millions that people spend on these products does nothing more than fill the coffers of the unscrupulous companies peddling them (how these people even sleep at night is beyond me!).
It is, however, a good thing they don't work from a health perspective. With few exceptions, you wouldn't want your immune system to be boosted. Far more commonly, you'd want your immune system dampened down. So who would want their immune system boosted? Someone with HIV/AIDS might. Look at the name: acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Because immune deficiency was so rare before HIV, a new disease name had to be coined. In AIDS, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus causes parts of the immune system to stop working. And the results, without treatment, can be devastating.
Fortunately, the vast majority of people don't have HIV/AIDS and, because of that, they don't need immune system enhancement. And the people who do have HIV/AIDS can attest to just how hard it is to enhance their immune systems (in fact, the only way is by eliminating the virus with antiviral therapy). If any of these so-called immune system boosters really worked, they'd immediately be used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS (but they don't and therefore aren't).
So let's look at the flip side. Let's look at illnesses cause by immune system over-activity. The list here is, unfortunately, huge. How many people do you know who suffer from allergies or asthma? For these people, things in the environment that most people abide without incident cause their immune system to overreact leaving them suffering miserably.
Then we have all the inflammatory diseases: inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's and ulcerative colitis), inflammatory arthritis (rheumatoid for example), and inflammatory skin disease (psoriasis for one). By definition, inflammatory diseases are caused by an overactive immune system. Sometimes these are known as autoimmune disorders because the immune system, instead of reacting to foreign material, is reacting to the body's own tissues. The list of autoimmune diseases is already quite long and, every day, new research is showing that more and more illnesses are actually immune-mediated. Just take a quick look at these lists of known and suspected autoimmune diseases.
I mentioned above that if anything, you'd probably want your immune system dampened down. That's because the treatment for the problems noted above is to try to ratchet down the over active immune system. Nearly all these disorders respond beautifully to treatment with the anti-inflammatory drugs called steroids (that's corticosteroids, not the anabolic steroids abused by athletes). Unfortunately, however, steroids have all kinds of side effects that severely limit their use (otherwise, we'd probably all be taking them).
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This is a reply to the writer of the Tuesday letter "Firearms do not make us safer":
I will admit that not all guns go into the right hands. This is not only proved by the slayings of the two Metro Police officers and other citizens recently, but also by the thousands of criminals who have continued to break the law by using them to rob, rape, assault and kill innocent people. This is illustrated all the time in the media. But what doesn't get the same "air time" is the crimes that have been prevented by law-abiding people who own and use guns legally and responsibly.
Not everyone should have a gun. I refer back to the criminal elements I mentioned earlier as proof. However, those are the people who disregard the present gun laws. Do you actually think another law will stop these people from using a gun in the commission of their crimes? The only ones ultimately affected are those who follow the law, and they could be more vulnerable to these crimes.
No, owning a legal gun will not prevent all crimes from happening. The heroic gentleman who died attempting to help the slain officers attests to that. But how many lives are saved and crimes are stopped by people such as him that we never hear about?
It is sad that our society has deteriorated to where the law-abiding citizenry has to consider armed self-defense when the police can't be there at the time of the crime. But you can't throw out the baby with the bathwater.


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An anonymous reader writes: Years of research has gone into products that are hydrophobic — they resist getting wet. But nature solved this problem long ago, and it's ubiquitous outside our buildings and homes. You've probably seen it yourself, after a light rain: water collects in round droplets on many leaves from trees and plants, refusing to spread out evenly across the surface. This article explains why that happens using super slow-mo cameras and an electron microscope. "[T]he water isn't really sitting on the surface. A superhydrophobic surface is a little like a bed of nails. The nails touch the water, but there are gaps in between them. So there's fewer points of contact, which means the surface can't tug on the water as much, and so the drop stays round. ... [After looking at a leaf in the electron microscope,] we saw this field of tiny wax needles, each needle just a few microns in length! The water drops are suspended on these ultra-microscopic wax needles, and that keeps it from wetting the surface."


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Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer was born on this day in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. The story of Mrs. Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) should be central to any study of U.S. history. Hamer and thousands more Mississippians took one of the boldest moves ever in U.S. history to fight for a democratic process in national elections.Read more »
Teaching Activity. By Julian Hipkins III, Deborah Menkart, Sara Evers, and Jenice View.
Role play on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) that introduces students to a vital example of small "d" democracy in action. For grades 7+.
Teaching Activity. Essay by Howard Zinn and lesson by Bill Bigelow. 17 pages.
Students research and share stories about unsung heroes in U.S. history.
Teaching Guide and Website. Edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, and Jenice L. View. 2004. 576 pages.
Provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement, with a focus on education, economics, labor, youth, women, and culture.
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At the 1964 Democratic National convention, former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party made a dramatic challenge to the all-white delegation. Their actions rocked the political landscape.
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The people's history of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
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A detailed, grassroots description of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
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A Qatari (that's a country — a lawless land that flouts the U after Q rule) media company has announced plans for a $150 million English-language film about the Muslim prophet Muhammad. There's just one small problem: it's forbidden by the religion to show depictions of him.
Alnoor Holdings has hired the cleric Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi as their lead theological consultant for the film.
He is admired by many moderate Muslims and was recently described by the government's senior counter-terrorism official as "one of the most articulate critics of al-Qaeda in the Islamic world".
He is also a highly controversial figure who was refused entry to Britain last year because of his views. He has reportedly condoned the Holocaust [that's novel. usually they deny it. "Oh no, I don't doubt that it happened, I just had no problem with it. Seems like good governing."] , supported the stoning of homosexuals and praised suicide bombers in Iraq, not to mention telling an interviewer that he considered Shia Islam a heretical branch of the faith.
According to the Gulf Times newspaper he told journalists in Doha that the film was a response to "the crusader-styled distortion of Islam [that] continues to influence [the] world population today." [TimesOnline]
So how will they do a biopic on a guy they can't show? Believe it or not, it's been done before. How'd that go, you ask? Um… not well.
(On The Message aka Mohammad: Messenger of God a 1976 film about Mohammed starring Anthony Quinn)
In the film, though, the Prophet was represented by gentle organ music and, in scenes where he was present, by subjective camerawork that depicted the action from his point of view. The mistaken belief that Quinn was portraying Muhammad himself sparked riots in the US in which two people died.[BBC]
When the film was scheduled to premiere in the U.S., another Muslim extremist group staged a siege against the Washington D.C. chapter of the B'nai B'rith under the mistaken belief that Anthony Quinn played Mohammed in the film, threatening to blow up the building and its inhabitants unless the film's opening was canceled. [NYTimes]
Charming people. I'm not saying don't kill anyone, just… hire a fact checker first. I think a good title for this movie would be Mohammad: Don't Kill the Messenger.


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DirecTV currently owns the rights to the NFL Sunday package, paying $1 billion a year for the contract. The exclusive deal that DirecTV has with the NFL will come to an end at the close of the 2014 NFL season. On August 2, AdWeek claimed DirecTV CEO Michael White told investors during DirecTV's second quarter earnings call that he believed a renewal with the NFL would be reached before the current contract expires, "I continue to be optimistic that we're great partners together and that Sunday Ticket will stay with us for the long haul."
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The expected April re-election to the presidency of Sudan of an indicted war criminal, Omar al-Bashir, does not sit well with the world's pro-democracy campaigners. Sudan has not had a meaningful election since 1986 elections in 2000 were boycotted by the vast majority of the country, according to the U.N. Commission of Human Rights and so holding one is seen as a rare sign of reform from Bashir's military regime. That's until you remember that an election is meant to be about freedom and not endorsing the rule of an autocrat whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) has charged with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But democracy's champions particularly the U.S. government, the busiest and most heavyweight supporter of the coming vote in Sudan may be feeling a little more at ease this week after the main rebel group in the war-torn province of Darfur agreed a cease-fire with the government.
The details of the deal still have to be hammered out at ongoing peace talks in Doha, Qatar. But on state television, Bashir outlined the broad brushstrokes, announcing that in return for peace he would cancel death sentences hanging over 100 captured fighters from the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and free a third of them. "Today ... we heal the war in Darfur," Bashir said. A JEM spokesman, speaking to al-Jazeera, said Bashir's government sought a cease-fire so as to ensure a peaceful vote in western Sudan.
This is welcome vindication for those, particularly Barack Obama and his special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, who view the promotion of elections as a cornerstone of Western foreign policy. The belief that liberty and equality "are chiefly to be found in democracy," as Aristotle wrote, is thousands of years old. But Western faith in the ballot box can sometimes seem blind and naive. Elections in Iraq, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe have been accompanied by deadly violence. In 2006, an election in the Palestinian territories brought to power the Islamist militants of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organization in the U.S.
In Sudan, however, the coming election seems to be doing what it is meant to focusing one of the world's most repressive regimes on trying to produce at least the appearance of a credible process, and so inspiring progress on a whole range of issues. Few people will risk their lives to vote and a low turnout, particularly one due to insecurity, would reflect badly on Bashir. So suddenly, after seven years of fighting that killed tens of thousands and made refugees of 2.5 million, because of an election in Sudan there could soon be peace in Darfur.
In Sudan's other great unresolved conflict between Khartoum and the south of the country another kind of election, a referendum, on whether to secede from the north, is due next year. The north and the south have fought two wars in the last half-century that have killed 2 million people, and an overwhelming majority of southerners are expected to opt for their own independent state. The approaching reality of that separation seems to have persuaded Sudan to accept what previously provoked them into war. Last month, Bashir announced that if the south did vote to go its own way, he wouldn't stand in its way. The referendum is also concentrating minds on both sides on resolving the issues at the heart of their long conflict. A process is under way to demarcate the border. And on the explosive question of how to divvy up the vast oil fields that straddle that frontline, the south's minister for presidential affairs, Luca Biong Deng, told the Financial Times this month that his government would continue to split oil revenues 50/50 with the north even after independence.
Elections can't fix everything, of course. No one expects Bashir to quietly accept an unfavorable result, for instance, something that is a small but rising possibility with the entrance of some heavyweight rivals in the presidential race. There are concerns about how confusing the vote will be in the south, voters will be asked to cast 12 separate votes for various national and regional institutions and the competence of the election officials. And a poll alone can hardly turn the south into a fully functioning nation. After decades of war and chronic underdevelopment, David Gressly, the U.N.'s regional coordinator for southern Sudan, reckons that it will take billions more dollars in aid and another "10 to 15 to 20 years" of international assistance to get the place on its feet. But after more than half a century of suffering in Sudan, the approach of two votes is achieving far more than sanctions, peacekeepers, the ICC or George Clooney. That's a boost for democracy in a continent that could sorely use some more.


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Linda & Richard Eyre: Why gender matters
donn layton, UTMay 10, 2014 2:25 p.m.
RE: Gmlewis,I testify that in the eternities we will be sons and daughters of God, manifesting a gender identity through eternity.
…. the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also Spiritual bodies. 1 Cor 15:42-44(NLT)
God [is] spirit. ( *pneuma ο theos). There is '*no article' in the Greek text before the word spirit, and that emphasizes the quality or essence of the word. Furthermore, the word spirit occurs first in the sentence for emphasis. The literal idea would be something like, "Absolutely spirit in His essence is God." (John 4:24). God(The Father)= spirit.
E.g..J S, Lectures on Faith(5:2), Q. What is the Father? A. He is a personage of glory and of power.. What is the son? First, he is a personage of tabernacle.
K Mchenry, ILMay 10, 2014 1:44 p.m.
They are not chosing a different gender. I find it odd in an article that points out how important it is that there are in fact different genders that this isn't accepted. We are not a boy or girl cause we like blue or pink. Or because of the parts we were born with. It is not different than any other potential physical problems present at birth. Only when you are born in the wrong body you can't tell someone until you are old enough to talk. They can physically see an extra finger or heart problem at birth. How is that different than other parts?
Could you convince yourself you are the gender opposite your parts? Of course not. Your head knows which gender you are. Further could you live in the wrong parts and then marry the person opposite of those parts knowing what churches tend to think about that? You would in your heart be in a same sex relationship.
Stormwalker Cleveland , OHMay 9, 2014 11:05 a.m.
@wilsclanmom: "If God can fix all the other things that can go wrong with bodies, He can fix the things that go awry with gender expression."
Two realities. First, God dies not fix those problems. The are fixed by doctors using medical science.
And, second, when someone is born with a problem, we look to medical science to diagnose and treat it. In the case of Gender Identity Disorder the treatment can include hormones and surgery.
koseighty The Shire, UTMay 9, 2014 10:34 a.m.
@wilsclanmom who said:
"There are things that malfunction or are disordered in every physically based system of the body, and gender is one of those things. If God can fix all the other things that can go wrong with bodies, He can fix the things that go awry with gender expression."
And here we come to the truly insidious part of this worldview -- that people who are different than you are broken and must be "fixed." In the original editorial, the implication is that women who don't want traditional roles of wife and mother are wrong, broken and must be fixed. They are less than people like the authors who know and follow God's word (and we all KNOW my God is the one truest god and your's isn't).
People say "We love our LGBT friends and neighbors" and then work to deny LGBT rights. "Families are the foundation of society" and then work to deny the formation of families for those they consider broken and in need of Devine fixing.
gmlewis Houston, TXMay 9, 2014 10:32 a.m.
@RanchHand - I really thought that Donn's remark about everyone being male in the resurrection was intended to be a joke.
D&C 76:22-24 "And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, that we give of him: That he lives! For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father - That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God."
I testify that in the eternities we will be sons and daughters of God, manifesting a gender identity through eternity.
Tiago Seattle, WAMay 9, 2014 10:06 a.m.
Hi wilsclanmom,
You're right, gender aberrations don't nullify the point of the article or disprove God. They do highlight a need for nuance, empathy, and compassion in these discussion.
I'm taking a bit of storage on the DesNews server with my comments in case someone who reads this is hurting because they don't conform. Faith and repentance change our hearts, but usually won't take away blindness, autism, SSA, or transgender feelings. Successful people accept their reality and deal with it.
I see people who I love hurt because we like to "stay on point" and talk about absolutes in a way that makes anyone who is different (and we all are different in some ways) feel like we are, fundamentally broken and wrong. Most LGBT people end up outside the church and sometimes even excluded from their families. It doesn't have to be like that. Christ left the 99 to go after the one.
When the people asked Jesus who sinned to make a man blind from birth, Jesus answered "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
RanchHand Huntsville, UTMay 9, 2014 8:33 a.m.
What was truly "sad" was living a lie for the first 30+ years of my life. I haven't "turned my back on the true teachings of life", I've embraced the "true teachings of life" (i.e., self awareness and acceptance).
According to donn's post from the Bible above, we're all going to be "ressurrected as male" per the Bible; in which case, if there IS marriage in heaven it'll ALL BE SSM!!! (So much for "traditional"...)
gmlewis Houston, TXMay 9, 2014 7:24 a.m.
@RanchHand - I keep talking about the characteristics of a resurrected body, and you respond with comments about marriage in heaven. That's a different topic.
When Mary looked upon the Savior following His resurrection, she didn't ask Him why He didn't look like a man. None of the apostles were perplexed when He appeared to them.
Luke 24:39 "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."
3 Nephi 11:8-10 "And it came to pass, as they understood they cast their eyes up again towards heaven; and behold, they saw a Man descending out of heaven; and he was clothed in a white robe; and he came down and stood in the midst of them; ... Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world."
wilsclanmom Alexandria, VAMay 9, 2014 1:17 a.m.
To all those pointing out gender aberrations as if they somehow nullified the Eyre's point, they do not. Vision anomalies, blindness and babies born with cancer of the eye don't tell us anything about the optimal functioning of the eye. They are two different subjects. And the fact that people are born with malfunctions of their optic nerves or eyes, doesn't mean there is no God, or that He didn't design a perfect system for sight.
This is a fallen world, and that means things can and do go wrong with every part of it.
There are things that malfunction or are disordered in every physically based system of the body, and gender is one of those things. If God can fix all the other things that can go wrong with bodies, He can fix the things that go awry with gender expression.
The fact that you know someone or of someone carrying the heavy load of a gender issue, has really nothing to say to the main point of the Eyre's article. I echo @atrulson's sentiments. Stay on point folks.
SuziQ Springville, UTMay 8, 2014 9:30 p.m.
I agree with atrulson. The women's liberation that started in the early 70's was about women being more like men, in hopes of feeling more equal. It wasn't about being the best woman you could be. It wasn't about embracing whatever you were and being treated equally. It was just about getting rid of the female role of mother and mother in favor or embracing the (then) male role of provider. It defined success by your career and salary, not your home and family. It emphasized personal fulfillment over everything else. The question is are all the women who have careers feeling fulfilled? Maybe equality is more simple. Maybe it is just being treated as if you are valuable simply because you are a human. In all our crying for equality, does it ever occur to anyone that it starts with each one of us and that no one else's opinion of us ought to make us feel less than who we are? That means we each need to be civil in the face of differing views and firm in standing in what we believe in.
@Charles not from utah, 00May 8, 2014 4:12 p.m.
Ranch it will be boring for you and your partner. It's sad that you chose to turn your back on the true teachings of life. We all have to live with our consequences.
Donn people will be married in the afterlife.
Karen, truth is hard to take sometimes, keyboard or not. Stating facts is not dismissing pain or issues associated with it. Are you not a parent who has ever corrected a child? It's amazing that people like you make those silly comments. No one said what you claim. Strawwoman argument.
RanchHand Huntsville, UTMay 8, 2014 2:27 p.m.
The afterlife is going to be very, very boring.
Who are we going to believe, Jesus, from the Bible, or Alma from the BOM? Hmmm.
gmlewis Houston, TXMay 8, 2014 2:19 p.m.
Alma 40:23 "The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame."
Spirit bodies have gender, mortal bodies have gender, and resurrected bodies have gender. The skeletons of resurrected women will be feminine, and the resurrected bodies of men will be masculine.
It really isn't that complicated.
donn layton, UTMay 8, 2014 12:20 p.m.
RE: RanchHand, Which leads one to conclude that we're all going to be male in the afterlife. So much for "gender differences" to celebrate. Context,
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.(MT 22:30)
Marriage is an earthly relationship, and can have no place in a spiritual condition. All that is of the earth, all that is carnal and gross, all human passions, all that is connected with sin and corruption, shall pass away. The risen life is no mere reproduction of the present, but a regeneration, new life added to the old, with new powers, acting under new laws, ranged in a new community. On earth men are mortal, and marriage is necessary to perpetuate the race; no such necessity obtains in the other life, where men are immortal.
Karen R. Houston, TXMay 8, 2014 10:34 a.m.
@ 1.96 SDs
Responding to Tiago's question: Is the benefit of teaching strict gender norms worth the pain that it causes to the people who naturally don't fit those norms?
"Yes! Is this not in the same vein as feeling pain sometimes when the gospel is preached and we realize we need to repent?"
It's incredibly easy to dismiss another's pain as unimportant, isn't it? A few strokes of the keyboard and DONE!
@ RanchHand
Your response to donn made me laugh out loud.
RanchHand Huntsville, UTMay 8, 2014 10:19 a.m.
donn says:
"Jesus replied, "Marriage is for people here on earth, but when those who are counted worthy of being raised from the dead get to heaven, they do not marry. And they never die again; in these respects they are like angels, and are sons of God, for they are raised up in new life from the dead. Luke 20:34-36(TLB)"
Which leads one to conclude that we're all going to be male in the afterlife. So much for "gender differences" to celebrate. :)
@1.96 Standard Deviations;
I don't recall the Proclamation EVER being called "church doctrine". It is the opinion of those LDS leaders who wrote it and in a few years, possibly a generation, it'll be denounced similarly to Brigham's opinions (and other leader's) were recently denounced.
RanchHand Huntsville, UTMay 8, 2014 10:04 a.m.
Vive la discrimination, eh?
1.96 Standard Deviations OREM, UTMay 8, 2014 7:52 a.m.
"Is the benefit of teaching strict gender norms worth the pain that it causes to the people who naturally don't fit those norms?"
Yes! Is this not in the same vein as feeling pain sometimes when the gospel is preached and we realize we need to repent? The proclamation to the world on the family, which includes teachings on gender, is church doctrine. It needs to be taught and it is up to us to give heed to the word of God.
If this teaching on gender causes pain to someone who doesn't naturally fit those expectations, he/she needs to "put off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord" (Mosiah 3:19) and have confidence "the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them" (1 Nephi 3:7).
donn layton, UTMay 8, 2014 7:31 a.m.
RE: Gmlewis ,It will be relevant to our existence after death in the Spirit World and after the Final Judgement, for all eternity.
Jesus replied, "Marriage is for people here on earth, but when those who are counted worthy of being raised from the dead get to heaven, they do not marry. And they never die again; in these respects they are like angels, and are sons of God, for they are raised up in new life from the dead. Luke 20:34-36(TLB)
atrulson cohoes, NYMay 8, 2014 6:30 a.m.
To all those addressing the reality and concern of transgendered people. This article is focused on the 99% of people who identify themselves with their physical gender.
As for the 0.3% of transgendered people out there, I see no reason they couldn't support the message here, which is that if women feel marginalized, then the approach should not be to become more like the other men, but to promote the importance, beauty and strengths of women as the are.
koseighty The Shire, UTMay 8, 2014 3:56 a.m.
How beautiful the world would be if it would just conform to MY simple, easy worldview.
Every home would have a mother, a father, 2.3 children, one dog and one cat. Every father would be a Ward Cleaver, every mother a June. Every boy would be captain of his football team and every girl, head cheerleader.
The simple view tells us that God would never make someone gay or who identifies as a gender other than the one SO obvious to ME. But the reality is that the world is much more complicated than that. There are more chromosome groupings than just XX and XY. There are more combinations of hormones and brain chemicals than mentioned in 8th grade health class.
Sadly, we have a history of treating people outside the norm really, really badly. Also sadly, the message of this editorial is not "We all deserve kindness and respect" but instead it tells us "Conform so I won't have to keep treating you really, really badly."
panamadesnews Lindon, UTMay 8, 2014 1:55 a.m.
Patriot: I believe the Eyer's meant when they said "worthy goal of complete equality with men", complete eqaulity in the things that men and women can be equal in, such as same pay for the same work position, equal in job opportunities, equal in receiving grades in a class - there are many ways they can be equal, but still maintain their feminity, and their place in the world as righteous, beautiful daughters of our heavenly father.
Karen R. Houston, TXMay 7, 2014 8:42 p.m.
"We love feminism when it is defined and devoted to the true celebration of womanhood..."
There's that word again: true. "True patriots." "True Christians." And now "true celebrations of womanhood."
In other words, "I know the one right definition/religion/viewpoint."
True presumption.
Stormwalker Cleveland , OHMay 7, 2014 8:22 p.m.
@Let it Go!
That is a religious document and may serve for the followers of your religion.
It does not address a myriad of very real medical conditions that can and do blur the lines of gender for many people.
Modern technology is being used to study the brain functions of homosexuals, heterosexuals and transgender individuals of both genders. While that research is new, it is already showing patterns that seem to confirm what people have long claimed experientially: brain function is different in some significant ways, and gay men and transgender women often have patterns that resemble those of natal women; lesbians and transmen often resemble natal men.
I work as a patient advocate, and know several doctors who are on the cutting edge of research. Much of the population is clearly male or female, however there is a significant "gray area" where such distinctions are harder to make.
I hope you might take some time to do research, so you can have some understanding of these people who are often reviled or bullied, adding significant pain to an already hard path.
Stormwalker Cleveland , OHMay 7, 2014 8:07 p.m.
I hope your cousin's family is relying on the advice of competent medical providers to deal with the situation, and then explaining to the non-medical religious people how it is and how it will be.
Several people in my life are transgender, both MtoF and FtoM. That connecting has led me to work as an advocate in medical settings for trans individuals and to teach classes to medical personnel about caring for transgender patients.
Thank you for taking the time to watch that video. Trans people are rejected by both sides, making a painful situation even worse. Education and understanding can help so much.
I also recommend an older documentary called "Southern Comfort" about the death of a transman named Robert Eades from uterine cancer. There is also a book called "Transmen and FTMs" that details reports of Female to Male people through history.
My experience is that we have a social concept of gender that is based on assumptions about biology. The actual expression of gender is varied and only conforms to the stereotypes in some cases.
Tiago Seattle, WAMay 7, 2014 3:49 p.m.
@1.96 Standard Deviations
You can find the video on YouTube if you search for "LDSwalkwithyou" It is called the "The Allgood/Moore Family.
The young man who transitioned female to male is active LDS attending a YSA ward where leaders include him and make him feel welcome. His extended family and friends have all rallied around him now, but he went through a lot of pain in middle and high school to get to the point he is at now.
Is the benefit of teaching strict gender norms worth the pain that it causes to the people who naturally don't fit those norms? Can we teach the truth about gender without excluding, and maybe even while celebrating people who are different?
I got really emotional watching the video as I realized how little I understood or had ever tried to understand transgender issues. His life has been complicated and it is tough to rationalize with strict gender norms, but when I hear him tell his story, I see God working in his life and recognize that he is loved by God and is my brother.
1.96 Standard Deviations OREM, UTMay 7, 2014 1:41 p.m.
"Do the prophets tell her to marry a man because she looks female? Or a woman because she is genetically male?"
If your cousin is LDS, the local church leader (stake president) can refer to the office of the first presidency for counsel. There is not a blanket LDS policy for every anomaly that occurs regarding gender. It gets reviewed on an individual basis.
Please don't be offended by my use of the term anomaly. The reason for this term is because of AIS' rarity. It is estimated that complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) affects 2 to 5 individuals per 100,000 people who are genetically male. If the U.S has 150 million genetically male individuals, there would be up to an estimated 3,000-7,500 individuals with complete AIS the U.S.
patriot Cedar Hills, UTMay 7, 2014 12:57 p.m.
"We love feminism when it is defined and devoted to the true celebration of womanhood and to the worthy goal of complete equality with men"
Is this the same feminism that we saw on display at Gen Conf that demanded the Priesthood? Also the feminism I have seen over the years promotes abortion, hates marriage and children and encourages women to focus on themselves and their careers. This is 100% opposite from what the Savior taught in the New Testament.
I think the Eyre's are a bit confused.
rad3 SLC, UTMay 7, 2014 12:48 p.m.
@Let it Go!
So what of my cousin who has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome? She was born with XY chromosomes but her body does not respond at all to testosterone, and thus developed to be a mature and beautiful female. Do the prophets tell her to marry a man because she looks female? Or a woman because she is genetically male? Gender is more complex than genitals or chromosomes. It is not as simple as the authors of this document would have you want to believe.
I think they missed the mark and ended up humiliating and causing psychological grief to a whole class of already harassed and misunderstood individuals.
1.96 Standard Deviations OREM, UTMay 7, 2014 12:46 p.m.
"I recently watched a video [...] where an active Mormon who transitioned from female to male in high school [...]."
Mentioning "active" Mormon and changing genders perked my ears up. I was unable to find the video you mention.
Keep in mind general church policy is church members who change genders are very likely to receive church discipline. This can potentially result in excommunication. Local leaders can refer to the office of the first presidency for an individual's particular situation.
On a related matter, those who are not church members, but have changed genders, can still possibly be baptized into the church. The mission president has to get involved for the baptismal interview and review the case individually.
Those who have changed genders, either before or after being baptized into the church, cannot receive a temple recommend or receive the priesthood. These policies are consistent with the church's teachings on the importance of gender in all stages of life -- pre-mortality, mortality, post-mortality -- and family responsibilities.
Let it Go! Omaha, NEMay 7, 2014 12:24 p.m.
"WE, THE FIRST PRESIDENCY, and the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator" plan for the eternal destiny of His children.
ALL HUMAN BEINGS, male and female, are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose...
...WE WARN that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God. Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets.
WE CALL UPON responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society." (The Family: A Proclamation to the World)
I stand with what the prophets had spoken concerning gender. How about you?
rad3 SLC, UTMay 7, 2014 12:18 p.m.
I'm still not convinced that it is helpful (much less necessary) to assign particular attributes to specific genders. Differences are wonderful. And I will agree, softly, that men can have similar qualities that are different from those of women. A lot of this can be attributed to the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen. But labeling those qualities as strictly male or female doesn't really benefit anyone, but rather has great potential to do harm to an individual that does not exhibit those specific qualities. You cannot tell me that even still strong, forthright women are often not constantly denigrated unfairly in society. This is not an LGBTQ issue. There are many straight men who demonstrate "classically" feminine qualities and vise versa. But putting a societal implication that a person is somehow less desirable or important in society simply because they do not express a particular set of norms tied to their gender is damaging, especially to developing adolescents. Remove the "feminine" and "masculine" titles and just call them qualities and celebrate the strengths and differences of those qualities.
Spangs Salt Lake City, UTMay 7, 2014 11:55 a.m.
This is an excellent article, and I agree with everything the Eyres say for the most part. In fact, in a different context, this would be an excellent manifesto for those that are 'different,' namely gays, lesbians and those with gender identity issues. We should celebrate their differences and fight for equality when it comes to how they live their lives.
gee-en Salt Lake City, UTMay 7, 2014 11:38 a.m.
Great article, thank you Eyres! Once again, something so basic had been twisted by modern society...something so wonderful as gender differences has been vilified to make it seem wrong and bad.
Irony Guy Bountiful, UtahMay 7, 2014 10:54 a.m.
So what do the Eyres propose to do with people like my good friend, a little boy I grew up with, who played the violin, liked to dance and read fairy tales and play with dolls, and who had no interest whatsoever in girls? His male anatomy just didn't connect with his individuality. Of course, he was mercilessly tormented by all the "real men" in our school class (his nickname was "Pansy"). What, pray tell, will it mean for him to get "ironed out" in the next life? Will it mean that he will automatically become a "real man" and love football and girls?
Tiago Seattle, WAMay 7, 2014 10:43 a.m.
I appreciate many of the ideas in this article. There is value is celebrating differences rather than trying to make everything the same.
Those who are gay do not believe that gender is irrelevant. People who are gay only fall in love with people of one gender and not the other, so there is a definite distinction of gender. Gender matters to gay people as a much as to straight people, the difference is the nature of their romantic attractions.
Many, but not all, gay people experience some gender non-conformity, meaning their behavior or gender expression does not conform to dominant gender norms of male and female. Just as it is important to celebrate macro differences between genders, I think it is also valuable to appreciate and celebrate the micro differences between individuals within a gender.
I recently watched a video on the ldswalkwithyou youtube channel where an active Mormon who transitioned from female to male in high school and his family tell their story. It helped me have a bit of empathy for that situation. I definitely recommend anyone who doesn't know much about transgender issues to look that up and try to understand a bit more.
gmlewis Houston, TXMay 7, 2014 10:30 a.m.
I appreciated the author's clarification that there are two representations of feminism, and that the problem with the second representation is that it promotes making gender irrelevant. Gender is as relevant during this mortal stage of our eternal existence as it was in our pre-mortal existance. It will be relevant to our existence after death in the Spirit World and after the Final Judgement, for all eternity.
1.96 Standard Deviations OREM, UTMay 7, 2014 9:37 a.m.
Good article. It is sad we have to state the obvious sometimes. To see how far things have fallen regarding gender, here are a few examples in recent news:
- India's supreme court recently ruled to recognize transgender people as third gender
- Germany recently changed its law to allow a third gender option for parents filling out birth certificates
- Though not directly gender related, a Florida judge recently approved that a baby girl will list three people as parents on her birth certificate -- a married lesbian couple and a gay man
So, what a world we live in! Birth certificates with 3 or more genders and 3 or more parents. What other nonsense is coming in the future?
The scripture in Mormon 6:19 comes to mind, "O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers, ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that ye could have fallen!"
dr.bridell mclean, VAMay 7, 2014 7:57 a.m.
I agree with and appreciate the line:
"We love feminism when it is defined and devoted to the true celebration of womanhood and to the worthy goal of complete equality with men. "
That is what feminism should be about, not the blurring of the roles of men and of women!


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Bringing a new life into the world should universally be an occasion for joy, but for women and children in the poorest parts of the world it carries a great danger. Every day, 800 women die from pregnancy related causes1, 99% of them in the developing world, which crystallizes one glaring fact – whether a mother survives pregnancy and childbirth is almost entirely a matter of economics and geography. If she was born in Pakistan, she would be 56 times more likely to lose her life from maternal causes than if she were born in France2. A woman from Kenya would be 95 times more likely to die than a woman in Canada due to a pregnancy. Both of us Baby Hero founders had complications in the births of our children requiring medical intervention, and we are acutely aware that but for a roll of the dice that led us to a comfortable existence in an industrialized nation, we might not have fared so well. This is true of our treasured children as well. 98% of the 3 million worldwide infant deaths occur in developing countries. 1 million of those babies die on their first day of life, 80% of them in just 2 regions of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.3
The one bright light amongst these devastating statistics is that most maternal and infant deaths are entirely preventable through low-cost, simple interventions. In fact, 2 million newborn lives could be saved a year by applying these inexpensive solutions universally, a heartening prospect.
With this goal in mind, Baby Hero has partnered with Grand Challenges Canada winner, Dr. Shaun Morris, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Morris has pioneered an easy to distribute and use Neonatal Survival Kit for rural areas with little access to medical care, aiming to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the regions it is used by 30-40%. The Kit will initially be distributed in Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab, Pakistan. With an infant mortality rate between 5%-10% and one of the highest maternal mortality rates in South Asia, this part of the world is one of the most dangerous in which to be born or to give birth.
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An example by Maria Sagun.
In collaboration with the Samaritans, photographer Hege Sæbjørnsen (herself a Samaritans volunteer) is organising the Affluenza Exhibition.
The aim of this project is to, "inspire debate and awareness about the destructive impact of consumer values on the emotional wellbeing of society." Through the medium of art.
The exhibition will take place between 16th – 27th of March 2009 and currently there is a call for artists, so if you are any kind of visual or performing artist and think that you would find it a satisfactory challenge, here is the brief and requirements:
* Painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
* Placing a high value on money, possessions, appearances (physical and social) and fame, a failure to distinguish between what we need and what we want.
Consider that the excessive wealth seeking in consumerist nations lead to the unhappiness of its citizens and higher rates of emotional and mental distress.
The work
The exhibition is submission based with a solid panel of high profile judges including author and psychologist Oliver James, Jonathan Barnbrook (Barnbrook Design) and Michael Czerwinski (Design Museum) who will assess the work and decide on the final entries.
We encourage performance, sound pieces, sculpture, photography and broad based visual arts. Entrants are invited to submit a proposal for work to be completed or existing work.
We will need
* A brief biography/CV
* Artist statement
* Samples of work: CD or digital pdf is preferred, but we will accept up to 10 images, 35 mm slides. (Please include a self-addressed envelope if you need the work returned.)
* Proposal including dimensions and technical specifications
Submit your entry by 30th January 2009 for the chance to be included in the exhibition. To submit work contact Hege Sæbjørnsen on 07734944685 or e-mail
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The Lott Home at Sank Park was ablaze with color from blooming roses and other plants late Tuesday morning in Oroville. Amid the flora and fauna, two work trainees, including Richard Broadway (pictured at top), pruned wisteria covering the entry to the park and a city employee readied the inside for an upcoming wedding. The Oroville Parks and Trees Department maintains the property, said employee Amanda Wilkes. She was inside cleaning a rental kitchen at the back of the home that is used for large events, such as weddings. For information about using the property for events, call the city at 538-2401.
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by Rixfarmgirl
Discussion topic #6
Baby Meghan needed a serious operation. James was broke and desperate.
James and Martha Smith's six-week-old baby Meghan need a serious operation. She would require extensive surgery to repair a hole in her heart which was not closing on its own. James had a bank account with a minus balance. The hospital wanted $1000 just to admit Meghan. The doctor said that Meghan would not live another week without the surgery. James was as desperate as a Grizzly caught in a bear-trapped.
Question 2: {/b} I have always had and understanding of the two words. However, being able to apply them is not always easy. I think that I sometimes use concreteness without being conscious of it. I hope that I will be more aware. At least at the editing step, I will make an effort to just look for abstractness that needs clarification.
Question 3: {/b} I don't think I use very many metaphor or similes. I think I try to show descriptively without comparisons or instead of telling with a single word. The clichés I use and I know I should not. So, I will be searching my work for these little devils when the term has ended and will be trying to create my own clichés.
I have a place in my Writer's Notebook where I write down expressions I find in out and about that I especially like. Some examples are:
As bald as an elbow;
shovel myself out of debt;
your Ken can kiss my Barbie;
His face even has muscles;
living in the tyranny of the moment;
pockets of intelligence;
she was on the cute side of pretty;
the door yawned open;
I shoveled myself out of bed.


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Nov. 4, 2010
Vanderbilt football players John Cole and John Stokes have been named to the CoSIDA/ESPN Academic All-District IV first team, it was announced by the Academic All-America Committee Tuesday afternoon.
Cole has played in seven games for the Commodores this season and is third on the team with 329 total yards and second on the team with 216 receiving yards. He has also returned 13 punts for 114 yards. The Somerset, Ky. native holds a 3.63 GPA while majoring in Human and Organizational development. Cole was a member of the SEC Honor Roll in 2009.
Stokes, a senior from Memphis, has played in 44 games since arriving on campus. Currently in the midst of his best season, he ranks third on the team with 35 solo tackles and 55 total tackles, including four for loss.
Stokes has maintained a 3.80 GPA while majoring in Health, Medicine and Society. He will begin medical school at Vanderbilt in the fall of 2011. This is the third consecutive year that Stokes has been recognized at the district level for his academic achievements.
ESPN The Magazine and CoSIDA will announce its Academic All-American Team on Nov. 23.


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by Peter Bergstrom
July 16, 2009
On Friday, July 3, I did my usual twice-monthly volunteer water quality sampling at four sites on the Magothy River near where I live. I started doing this in 1991 through a program run by Anne Arundel County to get a better understanding of Bay water quality, and I've kept doing it ever since. The county program was discontinued, but I've continued sampling with the Magothy River Association, which has other volunteers who also do water monitoring.
This monitoring trip was different from recent ones because my four-year-old granddaughter came with me. This was only the second time she'd seen any part of the Chesapeake up close (she lives in Vermont and usually visits us at Christmas). Thus, I was thinking about how she was reacting to it. It's been a long time since my own kids helped me with monitoring (my youngest child is 26).
We started our sampling at the end of the Bayberry pier, on the south shore on the lower part of the river's mainstem, where all seemed to be well. Several people were catching juvenile spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) pretty regularly, and my granddaughter was fascinated by watching them. The reason they were able to catch these bottom-dwelling fish at that location was apparent when we measured the dissolved oxygen (DO): it was over 8 mg/l on both the surface and bottom, plenty of oxygen for fish. The bottom DO here has not fallen below 5 mg/l (the EPA and state standard for fish habitat) since I started sampling at Bayberry in April.
The fish & DO story was different at the three other Magothy sites I sample, and the news was not good.
At the first two these sites, Ulmstead in the mouth of Forked Creek and in my own neighborhood (Stewarts Landing) on Old Man Creek, the bottom DO was less than 1 mg/l at both sites, but that's fairly common in the summer. There were no weird colors or smells, and people were fishing or crabbing in shallow water nearby, although not in water as deep as where I sample.
However, in upper Cattail Creek in Berrywood, the water was a weird milky green and there was a musky smell, so I knew before I lowered the meter that the DO would be bad. The color and the smell are both signs of an algae bloom that died and is decomposing. The surface DO was only 0.7 mg/l, the second lowest surface DO reading I've ever made, and the bottom DO was definitely anoxic with 0.00 mg/l, the lowest DO meter reading I've ever seen. My granddaughter can't quite read numbers yet, but she knows zero when she sees it. It made me sad to show her how dead the creek was. Amazingly there were no signs of any dead fish; I think the fish usually avoid the whole upper creek when it's such a dead zone. I've never seen anyone fishing or crabbing nearby. A week after I sampled there, Cattail Creek had a health advisory against swimming posted by the county health department for high bacteria levels, so that creek has multiple problems.
The water quality in these creeks was not always this dismal. Both Cattail and Old Man creeks were much healthier in 2004 and 2005, when dark false mussels covered almost all of the hard surfaces over a variety of depths in both creeks. By pure luck, when I chose my sampling sites in 1991 I picked two sites that would have some of the densest mussels 13 years later, so I have been able to document the water quality improvements that followed their filtration. Water clarity (measured by Secchi depth) and bottom dissolved oxygen showed dramatic improvements in both creeks in those years, and underwater bay grass (SAV) acreage in the Magothy went up in both 2004 and 2005. Volunteer divers and kayakers organized by Dick Carey of the Magothy River Association estimated the number of mussels and the volume of the creek. From that research they estimated that, in 2004, the mussels could filter the water in Cattail Creek every two days, while it took them 15 days in 2005. (Watch an eight-minute video about the mussels and the 2004 surveys.) Imagine how healthy the Bay would be if oysters were filtering its water every two days, or even every 15 days.
People who remember the mussels from 2004 keep asking me how we can get them back, along with improved water quality. I don't have an easy answer. Memories of the mussels do give me hope that improvement is possible. I just wish the mussels and the good water quality were still here to show my granddaughter, instead of zeroes on the DO meter.


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Josh Helmuth delivers your sports fix!
Leading things off is the death of Junior Seau. Arguably the greatest linebacker of all-time and greatest defensive player of the 90's, Seau was found dead last Wednesday inside of his Oceanside, California home with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. The San Diego County medical examiner ruled the death a suicide just one day later. Seau's family is considering to allow forensic pathologists to examine his brain to see if there are signs of CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a neurological disorder that leads to dementia and may stem from repeated head injuries. In other words, they'll try to determine if Seau's suicide can be linked to the possibly hundreds of concussions he suffered during his 20 year NFL career. The former Charger will be a sure bet first ballot Hall-of-Famer in 2014.
'I'll Have Another' wasn't just the most common phrase spoken on Cinco De Mayo this past Saturday, but was also the name of the winning horsy at the Kentucky Derby. 'I'll Have Another' is a chestnut colt that was ridden by a rookie jockey and is the first out of post number 19 to win the Derby in it's 138 year history. He beat highly favorited Bodemeister by one-and-a-half lengths.
We are one step closer to having a college football playoff. Granted it will only be 4 teams, but hey, it's better than what we have now, right? Maybe. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said a four team model is being considered that would give preference to conference champions ranked in the top six. Meaning, instead of just giving the best 4 teams the playoff spots, a number 6 ranked team that wins the Big East could get the nod over a number two ranked team from the SEC. For example, Alabama, who won the national championship this past January ranked number 2 in the country after defeating LSU – who was number 1 and won the SEC ahead of the Crimson Tide. In the new model, it would be likely that Alabama wouldn't have had the shot at the national title game. Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman said that 'no system is going to be perfect' and that ' he doesn't think it's possible to pick the two best teams in the country to play. In football that just doesn't work.' he said. Ya, why pick the two best teams to play for the championship? That's wouldn't be just at all.
Now it's time for the speed round, starting with all baseball stuff!
The Angels' Jered Weaver threw the second no-hitter of the season last week against the Twins. Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is out for the season with a torn ACL after falling awkwardly in the outfield while shagging fly balls in a pre-game warmup in Kansas City last week. Cole Hamels admitted to hitting 19 year-old rookie Bryce Harper on purpose after plunking him in the back with a fastball. And Albert Pujols finalllyyyy hit his first home run as an Angel on Sunday in his team's 4-3 win over the Blue Jays. And to finish things off, Brad Keselowski won at Talladega, and the super hot Los Angeles Kings swept the St. Louis Blues to reach the Western Conference finals, as an eight seed.
That's all she wrote folks, well, he wrote. I wrote this. You know what I mean. Thanks for watching. I hope to see you here again next Monday, to get your Sports Fix.


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Kim said he expected Xbox 360 to enjoy "just as big of a year" as it did in 2007.
Speaking to Next-Gen, Kim commented:
"I think the platform is just as strong, if not stronger [than last year]. That's hard to say, because we had incredible titles last year with BioShock, Halo 3, Mass Effect and Call of Duty 4. … Especially when you look at Halo 3, which was a phenomenal industry event, it's easy to look back and go 'you can't possibly be as strong.'
"But if you look at the initial success of Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360, that's been super, and we have exclusive [DLC] content coming too. Gears of War 2 is going to be huge, Fable 2 is going to be huge.
"So I don't know. I believe that we're going to have just as big of a year in terms of content on Xbox 360. Maybe we don't have a particular exclusive that's as big as Halo 3, but I do think that Gears 2 and Fable 2 will be really big hits."