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|Ph.D., Pediatric Physical Therapy, Hahnemann University
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B.S., Physical Therapy, St. Louis University
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|Pediatrics with an emphasis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and other rheumatic diseases of childhood, childhood obesity, physical activity, exercise, and fitness in children.
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|Motor proficiency and physical function in children with and without JIA and the effects of physical conditioning in children with JIA
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Klepper S, Muir N. (2011). Reference values on the 6-minute walk test for children living in the United States. Pediatric Physical Therapy 23:32-40
Klepper S. (2008). The role of exercise in pediatric rheumatology conditions. Current opinion in Rheumatology
Klepper S. (2007). Making the case for exercise in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: What we know and where we go from here. Arthritis Care Res:57:887-890.
Klepper S. (2003). Measures of pediatric function. Arthritis Care and Research. 49:Suppl. 5-14.
Klepper S. (2003). Physical Activity and Exercise in Juvenile Arthritis: Evidence for the Benefits. Arthritis Care and Research. 49:1-9.
Klepper S. (2000). Physical management of arthritis in children. Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine for Primary Care Atlanta, GA: American College of Rheumatology. 2(2):16-28.
Krasinski D, Klepper S. (2006). Impaired Neuromuscular Development. In Cameron, M, (Ed). "Physical Rehabilitation: Evidence Based Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention" .Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Klepper S. (2007). Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. In Campbell, S., VanderLinden, D., Palisano, R. (Eds)"Physical Therapy for Children", 3rd edition. Philadelphia, PA
Effects of eight-week exercise program on motor skills, function, and pain in children with rheumatic disease. Section on Pediatrics, American Physical Therapy Association, 2001.
Exercise beliefs and habits of adolescents with rheumatic disease. New York Physical Therapy Association 2001.


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To Meridian father Tony Polizzi, it seems like just yesterday when he first brought his two-year-old son Ross to the golf course with him. Seven years later, he is still sharing memories, as he caddied for Ross who took home the gold in the State Games of Mississippi's U9 junior golf tournament.
Ross trailed Madison's Owen Abney by one stoke after Day 1 but rallied on Thursday, shooting 3-over to finish at 84 for the tournament and crush Abney by eight stokes. The gold medal was Ross' first in the State Games as he finished with a silver last year.
"He has grown a lot," Tony Polizzi said. "He hits the ball a lot further, and you can see a big difference between this year and last year. He shoots a lot better scores, and he has got a lot stronger."
Ross' interest in golf centers around his idol, Tiger Woods. He said he likes how Tiger was able to achieve success at a young age and hopes one day soon he can find that same success for himself.
"He loves Tiger Woods," Tony Polizzi said. "When Tiger's on TV, he's watching it, he keeps up with every tournament he plays in, he wears Nike stuff. Ever since he was two, he just wanted to be Tiger Woods."
The extra time with dad is also a plus for the budding golfer.
"It's fun," Ross Polizzi said. "It's just nice going out there and having a lot of fun with him."
At nine years old, this year marks the last time Ross can compete with his father on the golf course, as players 10 and up are not allowed a caddy. Though he will miss caddying for his son, Polizzi said Ross is more than ready for the next level.
"He can do it by himself now," Tony Polizzi said. "He knows his yardages and what clubs to hit. I'm just there to kind of keep his emotions in check, but he doesn't even really need me out there anymore."
The victory comes just three days before Father's Day, and Polizzi said watching his son succeed on the golf course was a nice early gift. However, Ross quickly reassured his dad that there could be more championships to come as the two will travel to Columbus on Monday for the Coca-Cola Junior Tour.
"I'll try to win another one for you there on Monday too Dad." he said.

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---- — MANKATO — The last time that LaMark Brown came to Mankato, things worked out pretty well.
Now trying to win a job with the Minnesoita Vikings, Brown is hoping some familiar surroundings boost his chances of playing professional football.
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Brown's first trip to Mankato was unlikely. After spending three seasons at Kansas State, Brown was looking for a better opportunity to finish his college career. Through connections at Kansas State, he ended up with the Mavericks, though his release wasn't granted in time to play in 2010.
After redshirting for a year, he played in 2011. He rushed 31 times for for 123 yards and four touchdowns, and made 31 receptions for 405 yards and five scores, hampered some by an ankle injury. But it was enough for him to get a chance in the NFL.
Brown was in training camp with Atlanta last summer, and after being released in the final cuts, he had short stints with Buffalo and Tampa Bay, with each organization trying to convert him to tight end.
"The biggest struggle I had was the weight and strength," he said. "They kept telling me to add weight, but they never said how much. It was a new position, new terminology ... I didn't know what to expect."
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In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers who were representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been "subjected to unlawful surveillance," the judge said that the government was liable to pay them damages. The ruling delivered a blow to the Bush administration's claims that its warrantless surveillance program, which Mr. Bush secretly authorized shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was lawful. Under the program, the National Security Agency monitored Americans' e-mail messages and phone calls without court approval, even though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, required warrants.Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal (NYT)
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39 Responses to "NSA's domestic spying was illegal, federal judge rules"
Phlip says:
If Obama doesn't like it, then how about WE spy on HIS phone calls, hmm?
straponego says:
I'm sure they are tapped, and that's why he likes it now. Why do you think all the politicians who could actually change it pull a 180 whenever it's up for a vote?
Cowicide says:
Holy fricken' shit!!!! This is incredible if this actually doesn't get struck down somehow.
Rev. Benjamin says:
When you start to get down about the justice system, it's always good to see a judge go 'you know what… fuck this, fuck you guys, this is wrong' for a change.
Phikus says:
As I understand it, this program started even before 9/11.
According to a lawsuit filed against other telecommunications companies for violating customer privacy, AT&T began preparing facilities for the NSA to monitor "phone call information and Internet traffic" seven months before 9/11.
Phikus says:
It is shameful that Mr. Obama has been part of the problem and not the solution on this.
MrsBug says:
Phikus, I have to agree with you. I was so disappointed when I heard he wasn't going to press charges against these companies.
technogeek says:
Obama's inaction on this is indeed one strike against him.
Of course that's as opposed to the previous administration repeatedly trashing due process, so at worst Obama is still a huge improvement.
sirdook says:
Obama's inaction on this is indeed one strike against him.
If only were so lucky to just have inaction from Obama on this. As others have noted, even before becoming President he voted for a bill that included telecom immunity for these illegal actions, as well as gutting the very FISA provisions that made this very wiretapping illegal. Then his Justice dept continued to recycle Bush-era secrecy claims in an attempt to prevent this very case from going forward.
Better than the other guy, no doubt, but Obama's only passing because we're grading on a curve.
Phikus says:
True. I'm not pulling the sticker off my car just yet.
Anonymous says:
Due process (when in a federal government context) is a Fifth Amendment issue. Illegal searches (like these wiretaps) are a Fourth Amendment issue. This has absolutely nothing to do with due process.
Phlip says:
The ends justify the means. If Obama started with the civil liberties problem, he would waste credit and do nothing about jobs or health care (or the wars). Tackling the biggest problems first allows the Dems to survive in office – despite a strange willingness to do Good at high political risk – long enough that civil liberties might, indeed, become the biggest problem. We can only hope!
Phikus says:
I don't know what happened to the link in my first comment, but here it is again.
Anonymous says:
Obama voted for telcom immunity.
Is that another strike? Still like that bumper sticker.
It's only one of many Bush-like policies of Obama.
The use of the state secrets privilege is another.
There are others.
TEKNA2007 says:
It is shameful that Mr. Obama has been part of the problem and not the solution on this.
Agreeing with that.
Also – what is so hard about getting a FISA warrant? Do we need to hire more judges to cut the time it takes to get one? Do we need squads of legal interns on call, sitting around playing FreeCell until the Bat Signal goes up and they swing into action?
Anonymous says:
The wars?
Obama has done nothing wrt Iraq. Nothing. He's just riding the same policy that was in place before he got into office, which is to chill out on bases until 12/31/2011 as per the SOFA.
And he escalated in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The uh "right" war.
And that's how you get a Nobel Peace Prize.
Anonymous says:
"Obama's inaction on this is indeed one strike against him."
To be honest, I sort of viewed Obama's attempts at supporting this policy as half assed anyway. Like he wasn't really trying, ya know?
Anonymous says:
Declaring that the plaintiffs had been "subjected to unlawful surveillance," the judge said that the government was liable to pay them damages.
Sooo, should every citizen in the country now be waiting for a check in their mailbox?
jackie31337 says:
Only once we win the class action lawsuit. Know anyone who has circumstantial evidence that they've been spied on?
sapere_aude says:
This is great news. Defenders of civil liberties have won a huge victory over defenders of the police state.
But for those who are criticizing the Obama administration for making the same legal arguments that the Bush administration made in these sorts of cases, have you stopped to consider the possibility that Obama and his legal advisors might be a lot more clever than you're giving them credit for being? (Remember, Obama was a constitutional law scholar before he became a politician.) We just got a formal legal ruling by a federal court that the domestic surveillance policies of the Bush administration were illegal, and the the legal arguments the Bush administration had been using to justify those policies were flawed. I suspect that the Obama administration was secretly hoping for, and counting on, getting that very ruling. The only way to completely discredit the policies and legal rationale used by the Bush administration would be to have a federal court issue an official ruling against them. Without that ruling, defenders of the Bush administration's policies could always argue that they were proper and constitutional. Future administrations might even feel justified in returning to those policies. But now we have a definitive court ruling that makes it absolutely clear that no future president can rightfully claim the legal authority to do what Bush did. (I suspect that the Obama administration is following the same basic strategy on other controversial issues, such as the Defense of Marriage Act, where the administration seems to be taking the wrong side in court.)
Maybe I'm giving Obama too much credit on this; but I think he's got some clever legal and political strategists working for him; and I have to believe that they know that the only way to drive a stake through the heart of the Bush administration's legal arguments once and for all is to have the courts rule on them.
middleclass says:
Ha ha ha! The old "the president is doing good even when he is doing evil" argument! Stop and consider that maybe G.W. Bush enacted these policies in the first place so that Obama could later pretend to support them in order to allow a federal court to find them illegal so that no president could ever use them again. Those clever bastards!
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straponego says:
Ah, the 11-dimensional chess argument. But before the election, Obama promised to filibuster retroactive immunity– then changed his mind completely and voted for it. And how do you explain his reversals on torture, indefinite detention, secret prisons, state secrets arguments, signing statements… ah, he's probably doing all that to get to Bush, of course!
sapere_aude says:
@straponego: I don't explain his "reversals" on torture, secret prisons, or signing statements, since he hasn't actually reversed his position on any of those things:
And my previous comment explained his position on the state secrets argument — he had to continue to use the Bush administration's line of reasoning in court in order to have the court strike it down.
As for indefinite detention, I can only say that the situation is not ideal; but Obama is having to play the hand he was dealt — and it's a really bad hand. The actions of the previous administration basically left Obama with two evils to choose from: indefinitely detain a few known terrorists without due process, or release release them where they'll be free to commit future acts of terrorism. Obama has the unenviable task of trying to figure out which of those two options is the lesser evil. Of course, given the fact that no other country is willing to take any of these detainees, he doesn't really seem to have much of a choice in the matter.
Anonymous says:
The actions of the previous administration basically left Obama with two evils to choose from: indefinitely detain a few known terrorists without due process, or release release them where they'll be free to commit future acts of terrorism.
Or provide them with due process? I know, it's been made very difficult, but it would be nice if he at least made an attempt to find out how it could be done, before toying with ideas like making indefinite detention legal in the US proper.
Anonymous says:
So, who goes to jail?
Anonymous says:
But will this actually stop them?
Anonymous says:
I suggest that before forming an opinion about the import of the decision, it is important to understand what the judge decided. He decided that the "state secrets" argument was not sufficient to find for the government. See the analysis provided by Professor Orin Kerr. http://volokh.com/2010/04/01/what-al-haramain-says-and-what-it-doesnt-say/
"The Obama Administration wasn't arguing that the surveillance program was lawful. As a result, the decision doesn't rule that the program was unlawful. Rather, the Obama Administration was just arguing that Judge Walker couldn't reach the merits of the case because of the state secrets privilege. After Judge Walker rejected the state secrets privilege claim, the case was over: DOJ not having argued that warrantless monitoring was lawful, Walker had no choice but to grant relief to the plaintiffs on their claim."
futbol789 says:
"Well Jim, I guess, for the moment, we can put up the Balloon Blogger Signal."
Somewhere, maybe on a highrise rooftop, with his balloon tethered to a gothic statue, Cory Doctorow has taken a pause to do a jig.
Phikus says:
Better than the other guy, no doubt, but Obama's only passing because we're grading on a curve.
Well said!
pyster says:
Best news I heave read i a long while.
The idea that this was some sorta ruse sounds like rationalization from worshipers of the Obama-God.
I voted for the asshole because I was promised change. He's just a more eloquently speaking and charming authoritarian. Meet the new boss… SAME AS THE OLD BOSS.
Brainspore says:
This is a great example of why separation of powers is so important. Judges can often make the right call on issues that elected officials would find to be political suicide.
Ugly Canuck says:
Well, Mr Bush did make some controversial appointments to the supreme Court….which will IIRC have the final say on this.
Early innings…
hidflect says:
Obama never gets his hands dirty so Eric Holder is the one to watch. He's already tried to block the case being sent to court initially. Eric's job is to protect the elite. He has not brought a single prosecution forward to date against any illegal activity from the Bush team. Recall also, under Clinton he was the one who organised the last-minute clemency for the criminal Marc Rich.
Anonymous says:
Don't drink Kerr's Kool-Aid on this one. Think it through logically… the Obama DOJ didn't even bother to present arguments for the program's legality… if it had, the judge presumably would have considered them. If Kerr was on-target here, a legitimate tactic for a pro-warrantless wiretapping administration would be to simply argue the "state secret" privilege every time, because somehow losing when that's your only argument means you "didn't really lose".
What did the judge find? That the government wronged the plaintiffs. Kerr instead suggests that the government's failure to argue one aspect of the case means that the judge's ruling is automatically downgraded to one that only means "the DOJ's case was flawed."
Does that make sense to you? Does the DOJ have the power to hamstring the judge, simply by making a shitty argument?
Orin Kerr is being disingenuous at best. In my eyes, that's giving him too much credit considering how his opinion on cases like these has "shifted".
Greenwald has more to say on this:
querent says:
heh…one more time…
he had to keep supporting it because he was against it.
double think, anyone?
WeightedCompanionCube says:
NYT did get it wrong… the program started back in 2000, didn't it? Here's a thought: If everyone and everything was being tapped, don't you think there would have been enough chatter picked up to know 9/11 was going to happen?
Maybe they aren't listening to everyone after all. Now, the lawyers and the charity involved in this case: Were they calling overseas? As I understand it, a FISA warrant should have been obtained retroactively if any party is a U.S. citizen… no argument there, that's the basis for the lawsuit. Still, if they were calling suspect foreign nationals they pretty much put themselves in the surveillance spotlight.
You calling your friend? Not so much, Anon #9.
Anonymous says:
Something that everyone seems to have missed so far: this is the same judge presiding over the Prop 8 trial. What that means exactly, I'll leave up to you to consider.
Anonymous says:
I'm of the opinion that Joe Nacchio was set up for insider trading because he was the only one in RBOC land one that said to cooperating.


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Notwithstanding the optimism fueled by internet savvy and style conscious Middle East consumer, online fashion retail is having a bumpy ride on the sand dunes of the Middle East. Kipp finds the reasons.
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Industry experts believe two things about the Middle East fashion consumer deter him/her from making a purchase online- one, that the consumer is accustomed to the mall culture which offers a plethora of brands to choose from, and two, he/she does not trust online transactions, especially while dealing with a local or regional e-retailer.
So how are online fashion retailers in this region, planning to lure the fashion consumer towards virtual shopping carts, passwords and wait lists, especially since access to the world's best brands is not a concern?
My- wardrobe.com, a global online retailer who recently entered the Middle East market believes the young and internet savvy Middle East consumer is ready for a change.
David Worby, My-wardrobe.com says, "The internet has created a dynamic environment where you can shape the way people shop, bringing each item to life through photography, editorial and inspirational features. Being able to maintain a personal approach through a knowledgeable and easy-to-reach customer service team, we can recreate key parts of the shop floor experience."
Given the fact that internet and mobile penetration is one of the highest in the Middle East, coupled by the fact that there has been a marked increase in online shoppers here in the past 5 years (primarily on flight tickets and group discount websites), global and regional fashion e-retailers are flocking to set up their virtual shops here. However, the wealthy Gulf fashion consumer is proving to be difficult to convince, mostly due to the deep set consumption pattern found in the region.
In fact, according to a regional survey by Mastercard, 43% of consumers in the UAE still do not feel secure shopping online. Some retailers even find that their walk-in customers at their stores come after browsing their website first. Instead of making the purchase on the online store of the brand, consumers decide to visit the physical store. This is a peculiar and striking behavior pattern of the Middle East fashion consumer- The 'shopping experience' for the Middle East consumer is extremely important in making the purchase decision.
Even so, online retailers seem determined to persuade the regional consumer and are willing to go the extra mile to make online shopping more comfortable for the consumer. Federica Mazza, Creative Director, LEMUDA.COM says, "People are apprehensive as they are unaware of the websites and their services and hesitant to divulge credit card information. To instill confidence in our consumers we also offer an option to pay by cash-on-delivery and have equipped our organization with all the tools in order to safeguard our customers and serve them with complete transparency."
Despite offering the cash on delivery option to consumers, Dubai based retailer Niesh Boutique says that the revenue from their online store accounts to just 10% of its entire bespoke fashion accessories business, which includes two physical stores in the city.
Mikky Jethani, founder, Niesh Boutique says, "The biggest challenge we have faced as an online store is giving people of UAE a reason to buy online. As we all know, UAE as a country has a very strong mall culture. People are always flocking to the malls to shop and entertain themselves. Having said this, people have limited time to shop since everyone is trying to balance a work and home life schedule. We as retailers want to fit into their schedule and help them obtain what they want. One of the best ways to get customers to shop with you is to provide excellent customer service. At nieshonline.com, when we receive an order or a query, we are quick to respond and offer help upon request. This has helped us create a trusting relationship and repeat customers."
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If the arguments adduced in the foregoing posts are valid, they commit us not only to a belief in the Existence of God, but to certain views as to his Nature. I do not mean to discuss or even enumerate here, as a text-book of theology would, the various Attributes of God, for fear of unduly crowding the canvas. It is enough for our present purposes to insist that the God who is postulated by a consideration of his works in Nature must be a transcendent God, an omnipotent God, and a personal God.
The very nerve of our contention is that the material world which meets us in our experience does not provide the explanation of its own existence, or of the forces which control it, or of the laws which govern it; that the explanation, consequently, must be looked for in something that is outside and beyond itself. Our thought can only be satisfied by the existence of some necessary Being, to which all this contingent existence around us, the world of creation, is secondary, and upon which it depends.
Upon which, or rather, upon whom. We must always explain the lower in terms of the higher, not the higher in terms of the lower. And the highest form of existence of which we have any experience is Spirit. Man finds himself possessed of this apparently unique privilege, that he can become the object of his own thought. He can focus his attention, not merely upon things outside himself, but upon himself the thinker, upon himself thinking. Adam must have had many strange experiences when he woke in Paradise, but none stranger than that of meeting himself. The difference between this self-consciousness and mere consciousness is as real, as vital, as the difference between consciousness itself and mere life, or the difference between life and mere existence.
This spiritual principle, this self-conscious life within man, is not accounted for (still less explained) by his needs as a mere citizen of the natural creation. It is something altogether outside the scheme of ordinary organic life; it exists for its own sake, and must therefore be regarded as a higher order of existence. It is to this higher order of existence, naturally, that he refers that highest of all possible existences which he calls by the name of God.
It has been a favorite taunt of the unbeliever, from Xenophanes down to Rupert Brooke, that if horses had conceived of theology, they would have imagined God like themselves, if fishes had invented a theology, they would have imagined God like themselves. The criticism is one of those which miss the mark so completely as to provide their own refutation. For the fact is that man is superior to horses and fishes in one point, namely, his self-consciousness, his spiritual life; and it is precisely in virtue of that spiritual quality, and of that alone, that he has dared to conceive of God as like to himself.
He conceives of God not as a Big Man, but as a Great Spirit, lacking precisely those features of inferiority which link man, in his dual nature, to the brutes. Man's soul, which in memory, in intellect, and in will stands outside of and superior to the accidents of his mortality, is the only mirror he finds in Nature of that pure Act, that tireless Energy which is God.
And if God be Spirit, then he is a personal God. For all our experience of spirit, all our evidence for its existence, rests upon the first-hand consciousness which each man has of himself, and second-hand indications which point to the existence of a similar consciousness in his neighbor. Each spirit, as it is given to us in our experience, is a lonely point of conscious existence. Matter, as we know it, may enter into various combinations and assume various forms; we do not meet with spirit, we only meet with spirits.
And the notion that God is, not a Spirit, but the totality of existing spirits and nothing more; the notion that he is Spirit and not a Spirit is pure mythology. It overlooks that individuality, that incommunicableness, which belongs to all spirits in our experience. It is not suggested, of course, that the Being who created us is subject to all the limitations which our minds may happen to associate with the word "personality". But in thinking of God as a Spirit, we cannot rule out the idea of conscious individuality; for that idea is essential to our whole conception of a spiritual nature.
We must not conceal from ourselves the fact that in so defining the Nature of God as transcendent, omnipotent, and personal, we have parted company with a great number of the more religiously affected of mankind. We have said nothing, so far, which could not be echoed by a Jew or by a Mohammedan. But we have quarreled, already, with that pantheistic conception of the Divine Being which has had such a profound influence on other religions of the East.
The vice of pantheism is that its theology takes Life, not Spirit, as its point of departure. Dichotomizing the world (wrongly) into matter and life, the pantheist assumes that the animal organism is the mirror of the universe. As, in the animal, matter finds a principle of life to organize it, so the whole sum of matter in existence must have a Life to organize it; a Life which is the summing up of all the life (vegetable or animal) which exists.
This Life is God; God is to the world what the soul (in the widest sense) is to the body. Thus, on the one hand, the pantheist theology contrives to give an explanation of existence which is no explanation at all; for the totality of our experience plus a World-Soul does not, by reason of the addition, provide any account of how or why it came into existence. And on the other hand it encumbers our thought with the concept of a God who is no God; who is, indeed, but an abstraction, as animal life divorced from matter is an abstraction; who can neither affect our destinies, nor prescribe our conduct, nor claim our worship; impotent, unmoral, and only demanding by courtesy the typographical compliment of a capital G.
So sharply is the God whom we Catholics worship — we Catholics, with the Jews and the Mohammedans — divided from the notion of deity which has syncretized, spiritualized, or superseded the many-headed monsters of the pagan East. Is the God of modern Protestantism so clearly marked off horn his Oriental counterpart? I confess that I entertain acute and growing misgivings on this point.
The tendency of Protestantism is to find its evidence of God's existence rather in some supposed Instinct or intuition than in any inference from premises grounded in experience. But such methods of proof, even granted their validity, would only warrant us in accepting the fact of his existence, without telling us anything about Iris Nature. Most men believe in God; yes, but then a very large percentage of them are pantheists of one shade or another; the common belief of mankind does not, then, proclaim the existence of a Deity who is transcendent. There is in man's nature an itch for worship, an instinct for religion; yes, but what sort of religion? Why should not Buddhism (for example) satisfy the craving?
Mystics have had direct experience of God's Presence; it behooves us, then, to trust their experience rather than our own earth-bound imaginations — yes, but which mystics? The Christian or the Buddhist mystics? Unless we are prepared to fall back on the doctrine of Descartes and Berkeley, who would make God immediately responsible for those ideas through which alone we come in contact with any outside reality, it seems to me that all "direct" proofs of God's existence yield only a blank formula, which we have no intellectual apparatus for filling in.
What kind of God, then, does Protestantism mean to propose for our worship? Our Idealist philosophers, still mournfully chewing the cud of Hegelianism, have no assurance to offer, either that God is omnipotent, or in what sense he is personal. There remains only the moral argument to distinguish Protestantism in its more adventurous forms from the cruder forms of pantheism. Doubtless it will always be held, at least in the Western Hemisphere, that the Supreme Being, however conceived, must be the summing-up of all those aspirations towards goodness which our own moral experience teaches us to indulge.
But is such a God necessarily the Judge of living and dead? Is it permissible to pray to him, in the sense of asking for favors which he can grant? Has he the Attributes of the God whom Jesus of Nazareth preached, and claimed, apparently, to reveal? Surely it is time that Protestant theologians should consider seriously the very fundamentals of their thought; and this question not least, What do we know of God's Nature; and on what basis of thought does that knowledge rest? For in this matter the ideas of their hall hearted supporters are lamentably incoherent; and such hesitation may easily lend a handle, before long, to the propaganda of Theosophy.
The doctrine of God's Omnipotence carries with it a further admission which will be of considerable importance in, the permanent possibility of miracle. If the laws of the natural creation are not an expression of God's Nature, as the pantheist would hold, but merely of his Will, it follows that he is at liberty, if he will, to suspend their action; or rather, to supersede their action by that of higher laws which have not been made known to us. It is only reasonable — would that it were as common as it is reasonable — to have a clear notion as to the possibility of miracles happening, before we come to estimate the evidence, debatable in itself as all historical evidence must be, which claims that miracles have actually occurred in history.
A century and a half ago, it would have been necessary to investigate carefully, in this connection, the philosophic system known as Deism. It was but natural that the triumphs of mechanical science in the eighteenth century should impose on men's minds the idea of mechanism; it was but natural that the Christian apologetic of the period should reflect this idea in its turn. Deism asserts strongly the first two scholastic proofs of God's existence, while neglecting the third. If we think of God merely as the First Cause and the Prime Mover, it is not necessary to think of him as influencing the course of the natural Creation here and now.
You may think of him, instead, at some moment in the infinitely remote past, fashioning a world, giving it laws, physical and biological, to guide its movements, and then turning it adrift, like a ship with its tiller lashed, to reach its inevitable and foreseen destiny. Paley's metaphor of the watch once for all wound up is, of course, the classic illustration of this Deist conception. It represents God as having made the universe, but not as guiding it from moment to moment, still less as actually holding it in being. Such a system was considerably embarrassed to find room for the possibility of miracle. To intrude miracle upon a cosmos so governed would have been to put a spoke in the wheels of the machine, with consequences fatally disturbing to the scheme of the whole.
Deism, nowadays, is cited only as a vagary of the past; it has few, if any, living supporters. It is hardly necessary, then, to remind the reader that laws do not carry themselves out; they are principles which need an executive to enforce them; and to conceive the laws of Nature as acting on their own initiative, independently of God's concurrence, is to personify those laws, if not actually to deify them. The Catholic notion of God's relation to the universe is summed up once for all in our Lord's statement that no sparrow can fall to the ground without our Heavenly Father; there can be no event, however insignificant, however apparently fortuitous, however cruel in its bearing on the individual, which does not demand, here and now, the concurrence of the Divine Power.
I do not mean that Catholic thought bases this belief on our Lord's utterance; it belongs to natural, not to revealed theology. God alone exists necessarily; our existence is contingent, depends, that is to say, from moment to moment upon an exercise of his will; he has not left the reins, he has not lashed the tiller; he works not by means of the laws, but only according to the laws, which he has laid down for himself in determining the governance of his creatures.
It will easily be seen that, once this view of the Divine economy is grasped, there can be no further talk of ruling out miracles on the ground of impossibility. It is still open to the objector to say that it would be inconsistent with our idea of' God's dignity to imagine him as interfering with his own laws; or that it would be a criticism on those laws themselves to suppose they could ever need to be suspended in favor of an individual need. Such objections we shall have to meet later; for the present, it is enough to point out that miracles, so far as their possibility is concerned, do fit into the scheme of things. Indeed, to describe God as Almighty is to admit that miracles are possible.
The difficulty, it may even be said, for our human imaginations is to understand the fall of the sparrow rather than to understand the feeding of the Five Thousand. For in the fall of the sparrow, as in the feeding of the multitude, the Divine Power is at work; only in this case the concurrence of God as the Primary Cause with those secondary "causes", which we are apt to imagine as complete in themselves, is a thing as baffling to the imagination as it is necessary to thought.
We have been considering only the first article of the Creed which Catholics and Protestants alike recognize, "I believe in God the Father Almighty." It will be seen that the outline of the Catholic system is already beginning to take shape on the canvas; it begins already to stand out in relief, not only as against the pantheistic religions of the East, never attractive to our fellow-countrymen, but against much vagueness and indecision which is to be read or to be suspected in non-Catholic works of theology.
It is not that Protestantism, in its official formularies, finds or has ever found cause of disagreement with us in such fundamental matters as these. But I shall be very much surprised if the arguments which I have adduced, and the conclusions I have inferred from them here do not cause some of my clerical critics to hold up their hands already at the intransigence, the medievalism of the thought which is here represented. The Catholic notion of God ought not to be distinct from the Protestant notion of God, but I fear that in practice a shadow of difference is already discernible between them.
If this is so, it must be attributed, first, to the departmentalism, the absence of system, which reigns among non-Catholic theologians; partly to the spirit of unauthorized adventure which makes them start out gaily in pursuit of some novel thesis; partly to the extreme incuriosity with which the average worshipper regards all details of doctrine. I wish I could think that my estimate of the situation was exaggerated, and my forebodings of the future a scruple.


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Novartis: Offsite MEP prefabrication
A 700,000-sq-ft research facility is being built for Novartis in Cambridge, Mass.
Work for Novartis has begun implementing an innovative construction technique – off site prefabrication combined with Building Information Modeling (BIM). While the steel is still going up, MEP systems are being assembled as coordinated modules at an offsite construction facility, located a short distance from the site of the new 700,000-sq-ft high-end research facility in Cambridge, Mass. The modules themselves are assembled at the offsite facility, ranging from 10 to 60 ft long. Once completed, they will contain ductwork, HVAC piping systems, plumbing piping systems, air terminal units, and conduit. Systems are able to be pressure tested and fully insulated before even leaving the facility.
The multi-trade prefabrication effort has allowed for cost savings seen by the client, compressed construction schedules, and improved safety. Large scale buildings with similar floor plans and programs create an ideal opportunity for prefabricated modules. Skanska Construction has recognized these benefits, and is implementing MEP prefabrication in construction projects all over the world. Prefabrication techniques similar to the ones being used for Novartis are becoming more and more prominent in the industry, paving the way for the future of construction.
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Seventeen of the 25 highest-paid municipal employees work for school district, including Superintendent Dr. Mary Kolek, who tops the list with total wages earned in calendar year 2012 of $218,145, according to the New Canaan Finance Department.
Police also are represented well on the list, as five of those 25 highest-earning town workers are with the department, including three of the top four.
The town invests in its high-achieving schools. In the current fiscal year, two-thirds of New Canaan's taxpayer funds go to the Board of Education—$83.3 million out of $125.6 million. The figure includes operating, capital and debt service costs (see attached PDF).
The following list includes total gross wages for municipal employees, including overtime which drives pay for first responders.
Gross Pay Name Job Title $218,145 Mary Kolek Superintendent $208,921 William Ferri Police Lieutenant $182,001 John Milligan Poilce Sergeant $181,466 Jason Ferraro Police Sergeant $177,412 Bryan Luizzi High School Principal $168,597 Darlene Planka Director of Pupil Personnel $165,350 Alexandra Potts East School Principal $165,060 James George Police Lieutenant $165,059 David Abbey Superintendent $165,050 Greg Macedo Middle School Principal $162,559 Eugene Tiani Fire Captain $158,770 Jill Correnty West School Principal $157,964 William Sneath Director of Visual & Performing Arts $157,673 Joanne Rocco South School Principal $156,967 John Egan Athletic Director $156,912 Lawrence Sullivan High School Assistant Principal $154,298 Joseph Meehan Director of Finance & Operations $153,652 Mary Ann DeFelice Special Education Coordinator $153,599 Carole Pakkala Special Education Coordinator $153,232 Lizette D'Amico K-8 World Language ELL Co. $152,412 Wendy McConaghy Middle School Assistant Principal $152,112 Frederick Pickering Police Lieutenant $151,176 Robert Miller Director of Information & Technology $150,575 Kristene Woleck East School Assistant Principal $149,700 Ari Rothman High School Assistant Principal


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Here in Santa Cruz County, we tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. When we do leave our little burgh, the impulse is to jump in the car and drive.
I broke my behavior pattern last year by pledging to take public transit to San Francisco (and back) to see an Giants baseball game. If I walked to the Metro station, my carbon footprint for the trip would be zero (well, I wouldn't be adding to the existing footprint), I smugly told myself.
The Chicago Cubs were in town and my buddy Paul from over the hill had scored tickets. He invited me to join him on Caltrain on the way to AT&T Park. He even called to inform me of the departure time (9:40 a.m.) of the train he would be boarding in Mountain View.
He further had made reservations at Momo's, a popular grill across the street from the ballpark, for lunch at 11 a.m. There would be six of us having lunch and sitting together in the left field bleachers. Game time was 12:30.
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Through a couple simple keystrokes, I learned that the Highway 17 Express bus serves as the Amtrak connector from Santa Cruz. It goes directly to the Diridon Train Station in San Jose, with a brief loop through Scotts Valley on the way.
In order to make the 9:40 a.m. train out of San Jose I needed to leave the Santa Cruz Metro Station on the 8:05 Hwy 17 Express. That calculated out to a three-hour trip one way. I would bring a magazine and leave the driving to someone else.
Save for my inflated environmental correctness, I had worrisome thoughts about the day's travel. I am a California driver. I cherish my independence. Did I have the time for six hours of bus and train transport (round trip) to see a baseball game?
Up until the final moments on the morning of game day, I tacitly reserved the right to jump in my van and drive to the San Jose train station, or even to the ballpark. That would be easier.
I was wrong.
The departure point for the Highway 17 Express at the Metro station downtown is clearly marked and easy to find. And the bus departed at 8:05 precisely. I boarded and soon was on my way up Ocean Street and onto 17.
I recalled traveling in Italy a couple of years ago, taking a bus trip to Sienna from Florence, and all that that entailed. This was easier. I knew the language, the bus station was smaller and simpler and I didn't have to wait as long.
As I remember, the first bus leaving Florence for Sienna that day was full, and we had to wait for the next one. The 17 Express had plenty of room, was comfortable and the driver was careful (no reference to Italian drivers intended).
Most of the Express riders seemed familiar with the system. Some were students going to San Jose State. There was a mother and child traveling to the airport. One rider was eager to help others, pulling a train schedule from his coat pocket and referring to it as a bookie would a racing form.
We picked up more riders in Scotts Valley and soon the bus was nearly full. I sat next to the window and opened a newspaper. Matt Cain would be pitching for the Giants, while Carlos Zambrano, with an impressive 14-9 record, would be on the mound for the surging Cubbies.
We crossed the foggy summit and before long were pulling into the Diridon Station on a sunny San Jose morning. It took about an hour to get there. I had 30 minutes to purchase my train ticket, use the restroom and find the right track for San Francisco.
An all-day Caltrain pass, or round-trip ticket to SF, costs $17.50. The trip would take about an hour and twenty minutes from San Jose.
I knew I was at the correct boarding place when I saw the folks assembled there. Black and orange ruled — Giants caps, shirts, jackets, even orange shoes. There were a few blue-and-red-clad Cubs fans as well.
This was obviously the fan train. The spirit was beginning to grip me.
Paul called me on my cell. I told him we were just leaving the Lawrence station and that I was in car #2. At Mountain View, he boarded and found me. We chilled and watched the peninsula landscape fly by.
I was intrigued by the number of well-appointed little train stations — Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City — with more fans joining us at every stop.
Being There:
The Caltrain station in San Francisco is about two blocks from AT&T Park. We walked the distance to Momo's, directly across the street from the stadium. Momo's was jumping. Fans everywhere. Fresco dining, as well as an urban-atmosphere restaurant and bar.
Our table awaited us, thanks to Paul's foresight with the reservations. We were a refreshed group. No traffic hassles, no road rage and no problem finding a place to park. We had nothing to park but ourselves. I liked that.
We found our seats beyond the left field fence just as the game started. The weather was sunshine perfect and the baseball diamond pristine. What a fine ballpark. We lathered up with sunscreen and settled in for what turned out to be a great game, for Giants fans.
Matt Cain threw a gem, six-plus innings of shutout baseball. He contributed to his 4-1 winning effort by lashing his second career homer into the bleachers in front of us.
John, our cohort from Concord, works as an usher at Giants and 49ers games.
I asked him if he had a chance to see any of the games he worked. Every play, he answered like a true fan. And, "I get paid $11 per hour."
The deal landed him a seat at the '07 MLB All-Star game, as well as World Series tickets.
One of our group offered that he'd like to get a job ushering when he retired. "I could do that," he said.
Getting Back:
The game ended shortly after 3 o'clock and we were on the train heading south by 3:30. This particular train was smothered with fan delirium. After our second stop down the peninsula, the conductor said over the PA system that he had let two Cubs fans off the train at the last stop, "sent them back the other way," he joked.
The fan train is pretty much a party. The conductor's only admonishment was to please not use foul language. "No cursing," he said. Beer was flowing.
Paul got off in Mountain View. I dozed off for a short spell and arrived at the San Jose station just before 5 p.m. I attempted to get change. You need exactly five dollars to board the Highway 17 express. The lady at the coffee counter couldn't help, neither could the woman at the ticket window.
I ran to catch the 17 Express that was nearly full and waiting. I told the driver that I had a ten-dollar bill or $3.75 in ones and coins. "I'll take it," he said. "Someone's already overpaid."
That's the spirit of the Express.
I believe I was the only person on this bus who had been to the ball game.
An hour later, at about 6 p.m., we pulled into Santa Cruz. I found myself walking away from the Metro station amid a completely foreign milieu from the one I had been among all day.
Santa Cruz is far away from the land of Giants and Cubs. I hadn't driven a single mile, but I had traveled comfortably through another world, seen the other side, and returned home relaxed and ready for the evening.
Did I mention my faint carbon footprint?
For information & scheduled times:
- Highway 17 Express: www.scmtd.com, 831-425-8600.
- Caltrain: www.caltrain.com; tel. 800-660-4287.
To get started from Capitola, take either the 69 or 66 bus from Capitola Mall to Santa Cruz Metro.


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PORT ROYAL -- Blane Heimbach of Selinsgrove scored his first-ever 410 sprint car title this year when he won the 2013 Port Royal championship last weekend. He scored five wins at track en route to the title.
"It wasn't a goal of mine at the beginnig of the year to win the track championship, it just played out that way," Heimbach said. "Early in the year we had a lot of engine issues and each week we sat down and talked about what we needed to do to get better. It's a fine line between being good and not-so good."
Heimbach is a three-time 358 sprint car track champion at Selinsgrove Speedway. He also won the 2002 combined 358/410 track title at Clinton County Speedway.
Heimbach, who is racing in this weekend's National Open at Selinsgrove, has 75 career wins which is a combined total between the 358 and 410 sprint cars.
25 BIG ONES: The 43rd annual Freedom 76er for the 358 modifieds takes place Saturday at the Grandview Speedway. The winner of the 76-lap feature earns a $25,000 payday. Among the latest entries is Billy Pauch Sr., who is looking to score his 700th career win. Pauch is a six-time winner of the event.
ADDED ATTRACTION: The 410 and 358 sprint cars will have complete programs tonight at Williams Grove. Added to the card is the rain-delayed 358 sprint car feature from Sept. 1.
LUCK OF THE IRISH: Shawn Fitzpatrick of Pottsville scored his first-ever 358 modified feature win on Sunday night at the Big Diamond Speedway. He started racing in the 358 division 10 years ago. Also on Sunday, brothers Tim (sportsman modified) and T.J. (roadrunners) earned runner-up finishes.
SCHEDULE CHANGE: Big Diamond Speedway has removed the 358 modifieds from Sunday's racing card and replaced them with the 358 late models. This was done with respect to drivers who are competing in the 76er the night before. Also on the slate are sportsman modified and roadrunners.
PUMPKIN PIE: The final Northeast dirt-track race of the season is slated for Saturday, Nov. 30, at the Accord Speedway in New York. The big block/small block modified 50-lap feature pays $5,000 to win. Also on the card will be the Sportsman modifieds and street stock/pure stock divisions.


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Elaine Blaisdell
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OAKLAND — An emergency operations center proposed at the Garrett County Airport has hit a few snags and isn't operational yet, according John Frank III, county director of emergency management.
The county roads department and public utilities have been working to get fiber optics to the center.
"This is a very important link for an emergency operations center to be able to have ... the fiber optics and the capability of interoperability with federal and state agencies," said Frank during Tuesday's commission meeting.
"It is just something I'm really, really concerned about being able to have ... because we put a lot of investment in it."
There has been some difficulty getting the fiber optics from a pole to the airport, as well as issues coordinating with the power and phone companies, according to Frank.
"The next problem, once we get it up to the building, is to tie it in and hook it up with the phone system," said Frank.
The conduit for the fiber optics is encased in concrete and a new conduit was started but not completed.
If a subcontractor is needed for the project it could cost $100,000 or more, according to Frank.
"I'm not sure where we would be able to come up with that," said Frank.
Once the fiber optics is installed, the EOC will have 22 stations with phones and Internet, according to Frank.
The center will have improved communication capabilities once the countywide broadband project is complete.
The EOC was created in the wake of Superstorm Sandy so that the county could be better prepared for emergency situations.
October marks the anniversary of the storm.
Commissioner Jim Raley indicated that he and County Administrator Monty Pagenhardt would like to be updated on the status of the fiber optics at the EOC.
"If we are running into hurdles we may have to go another route," said Raley. "From my vantage point, I want to see that project completed before the real heart of inclement weather. I think it's something critical that needs to be in place this year."
Previously, a makeshift command center at the courthouse was used.
A generator is also needed and generators have been approved for the airport and the former Dennett Road Elementary School.
Frank has applied to the Maryland Emergency Management Agency for a grant for the generators. During Superstorm Sandy some generators failed.
In other Department of Public Safety news, Frank asked for the commissions to adopt an EOC essential staff policy and to support a Mid-Atlantic Communications Partnership governance.
The staff will be comprised of 19 individuals who are essential during an emergency situation, according to Frank.
In the event of a full-scale activation, all primary and support agencies will be notified via email.
In addition to the staff being notified of all EOC activations, members are required to attend a minimum of two training sessions and/or exercise events per year.
The training sessions will be coordinated by Frank.
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Garrett County and Preston Count in West Virginia held a discussion about the possibility of placing a Garrett radio on the Gregg's Knob radio tower site in Preston County, according to Frank.
It would allow the county do away with the Thayerville tower.
"It will enable us to have better communications in the Friendsville, Sang Run Road area," said Frank. "This could potentially save us a lot of money in Garrett County."
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