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NASHVILLE (BP) -- You've heard it suggested the United States is simply Europe on a 50 year delay. Supposedly most churches will be museums before our grandchildren reach adulthood.
Though new numbers from Pew Research released this month point to a decline in American Protestants, no serious scholar believes Christianity in America is on a trajectory of extinction. And, as a Ph.D. researcher and practicing evangelical Christian, I say to those who've read recent reports and come to that conclusion, "Not so fast."
You see, many in the U.S. who identify as Christian do so only superficially. These cultural Christians use the term but do not practice the faith. Now it seems many of them are giving up the Christian label, and those cultural or nominal Christians are becoming "nones," people with no religious label.
Christian nominalism is nothing new. As soon as any belief system is broadly held, people are motivated to adopt it, even with a low level of connection. Yet, much of the change in our religious identification is in nominal Christians no longer using the term and, instead, not identifying with any religion.
In other words, the nominals are becoming the nones.
I've seen this in my own family. Growing up in an Irish Catholic community outside New York City, the Catholic Church was the church we didn't go to. Today, I am an evangelical Christian, and I attend church like one, but most of my extended family do not attend church, and don't bother to call themselves Catholics any longer. The nominals became the nones.
Furthermore, the cultural value of identifying as a Christian is decreasing. When that happens, those whose connection to Christianity was more an identifying mark than a deeply held belief find they don't need that identity anymore. The label does not matter.
When considering why someone does or does not label themselves a Christian, we see three broad ways people identify as Christian.
On a survey, cultural Christians mark "Christian" rather than another world religion, because they know they are not Hindu, Jewish, etc., or because their family always has.
Churchgoing Christians identify as such, because they occasionally attend worship services.
On the other hand, conversion Christians claim to have had a faith experience in which they were transformed, resulting in a deeply held belief.
The recent growth in nones, I believe, comes primarily from cultural and churchgoing Christians no longer using a religious identification.
The obvious question is why the decline at all and what does the future hold? Some may say this sounds exactly like what has happened in Europe. Well, yes and no.
Europe's religious decline happened for different reasons than what we are seeing here -- bloody religious wars and a church/state alliance led to mandated religions which led to distaste and rejection of religion. That's not the case in the United States, and I don't think we will go that path.
Yet, there is movement in religious identification that should cause us to consider three ramifications.
First, Christians continue to lose what some have called a home-field advantage. Christianity is no longer the first choice of many seeking spiritual meaning, and identifying as Christian is not necessary to be an accepted part of society.
Second, the squishy middle is collapsing. It makes less sense to be a cultural Christian today. Better to be spiritual than religious, unless your religion matters to you, as it does to devout Roman Catholics, Protestants and many others.
Third, Christianity is not collapsing, but it is being clarified. If you cut through the recent hype, and look to studies such as the General Social Survey, you'll find the United States is filled with vibrant Believers.
The survey shows the evangelical movement has remained generally steady from 1972 to 2010 (and, contrary to what you might have heard, the data include young adults), that church attendance has declined among mainline Protestants, and that the nones have increased. But Christianity has not collapsed.
Other examples of resiliency abound.
Each year, Gallup asks Americans whether they consider themselves a born-again or evangelical Christian. Since 1992, the percentage has fluctuated from a low of 36 percent in 1993 to a high of 47 percent in 1998. The 2011 yearly aggregate is 42 percent, very similar to the percentages over the past eight years.
So, Christianity has hardly been replaced by the nones.
If not extinction, what then does the future look like? I believe if trends continue the future will look more like the present-day Pacific Northwest. There, we find a majority of the population is spiritual but not religious, yet vibrant churches and devout Christians abound.
For example, in the Foursquare Church (a mid-size Pentecostal denomination), the Northwest District oversees 150 churches. Fifteen years ago, 66 of those churches did not exist. Those 66 churches alone report 40,000 new believers. Similar examples of such vibrant growth, there and elsewhere, demonstrate the point.
So, in an increasingly secular environment we have vibrant congregations. That's the future.
It's true that many mainline church buildings in America, like their European counterparts, have converted into shops, concert halls and museums. But I find it telling that churches like Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Ky., are buying back former cathedrals and filling them anew with vibrant young congregations.
Even in the shadow of the decline of cultural and nominal religion, the future of vibrant Christianity in America is all around us. The future of Christianity in America is not extinction but clarification that a devout faith is what will last.
Christianity in America isn't dying, cultural Christianity is. I am glad to see it go.
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The decade started with the national spotlight on Philadelphia as George W. Bush accepted the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention. A year later, he was thrown into the greatest crisis of his term when terrorists attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.
One hijacked plane, United Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pa., after passengers revolted against their captors. Bush later tapped Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as the first U.S. secretary of homeland security.
Western Pennsylvania again riveted the nation's attention in 2002 as rescuers frantically worked to save nine men trapped in the flooded Quecreek coal mine. After 77 hours, all were hoisted to safety.
The cameras returned to focus on the most private of communities in 2006 after a disturbed milk-truck driver burst into an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines and shot 10 girls, five fatally. Charles Carl Roberts IV then killed himself.
A year earlier, a courtroom in Harrisburg hosted one of the biggest clashes between faith and evolution since the Scopes Monkey Trial decades earlier.
This time, evolution won. A federal judge barred the Dover public schools from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise.
And in a still-unfolding scandal in Luzerne County, two judges were charged in a cash-for-kids scam in which authorities say they took kickbacks to place teens in juvenile facilities.
The state's economy was forever changed in 2004 after the Legislature approved slot-machine casinos. The first opened near Wilkes-Barre two years later; lawmakers are now considering adding table games.
Gov. Ed Rendell and a 2005 legislative pay-raise debacle shaped politics in Pennsylvania like nothing else during the decade.
Rendell became the first Philadelphian to win the governorship in 88 years in a campaign in which he shattered state fundraising records. Two years later, the Legislature's clandestine vote to fatten their salaries became the catalyst for the ouster of two dozen incumbents and an ongoing corruption probe that has resulted in the arrests of 25 people connected to the House of Representatives.
Pennsylvanians supported the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, in 2008. The commonwealth went Democratic in all three presidential elections this decade, possibly ending its "swing state" status.
Thousands of Pennsylvania troops shipped off to Iraq and Afghanistan in the "war against terror" and al-Qaida. Longtime Democratic Rep. John Murtha, a Vietnam veteran from Johnstown, made waves by calling for soldiers to come home from Iraq in 2005.
In 2006, Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta led a crackdown on illegal immigrants and those who house and employ them. The town's ordinances were later struck down, but Barletta is now making his third bid for Congress.
Pittsburgh hosted the Group of 20 international economic summit in 2009, highlighting its rebound from a struggling former steel city to an incubator for "green" businesses.
York Mayor Charlie Robertson and eight other white men were charged in 2001 in the fatal shooting of a black woman during city race riots in 1969. Two men were convicted; Robertson was acquitted. Today, York has its first black mayor.
Philadelphia prosecutors got a long-awaited victory in 2002. Former hippie guru Ira Einhorn had spent nearly 17 years on the lam in Europe after his girlfriend's body was discovered in a trunk in the couple's apartment. Found in France and extradited to the U.S., Einhorn is now serving a life sentence.
Suspected multiple-murderer Hugo Selenski was acquitted of two killings but still faces trial in two others. Authorities found between five and 12 sets of human remains found on Selenski's property outside Wilkes-Barre in 2003.
Authorities have spent years trying untangle a bank robbery plot in Erie that ended with a pizza deliveryman being killed by a bomb locked around his neck. So far, one man has pleaded guilty and the alleged mastermind, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, awaits trial.
Philadelphia-based Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, is poised to become a huge player in the entertainment industry as it announced plans this month to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal. That would give Comcast control of the TV network, an array of cable channels and a major movie studio.
Contrast that with Coudersport-based Adelphia. Once the nation's fifth-biggest cable company, Adelphia collapsed into bankruptcy in 2002 after prosecutors accused its founding family of using it as their personal piggy bank. Founder John Rigas and son Timothy are now serving prison sentences.
Erie got good news in 2007 after an anonymous benefactor donated $100 million to 46 nonprofit groups in the city.
But the future remains unclear for two major newspapers in Philadelphia. The owner of the Inquirer and Daily News filed for bankruptcy protection last February.
In entertainment news, reality proved more compelling than reality TV for Jon and Kate Gosselin, the stars of " Jon & Kate Plus 8." Their imploding marriage drew more cameras than the TLC show about their eight children - twins and sextuplets - filmed at their home in Wernersville.
Scranton became a Mecca for fans of the quirky NBC hit comedy "The Office." Home to the fictional Dunder Mifflin paper company, the city drew thousands of pilgrims to the inaugural "Office Convention" in 2007.
And a judge ruled in a years-long battle that the Barnes Foundation could move its multibillion-dollar art collection to downtown Philadelphia from suburban Lower Merion.
Philadelphia mother Luzaida Cuevas thought her days-old infant died in a fire in 1997. But in 2004, she was reunited with her daughter, Delimar Vera, who had been kidnapped and raised by another woman in New Jersey.
Tanya Kach resurfaced in 2006 after a 10-year disappearance. She ran away at 14 to live in McKeesport with Thomas Hose, then a 37-year-old security guard at her school; she says he kept her against her will. Kach eventually revealed her situation to a local deli owner.
Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar mysteriously disappeared in 2005, nine months before he was to retire. Though his car and laptop have been found, Gricar remains missing.
An FBI bug was discovered in Philadelphia Mayor John Street's office in 2003. Street was never charged, but prosecutors later earned a string of City Hall corruption convictions.
And a man behind bars for 14 years in suburban Philadelphia in a divorce dispute was released. H. Beatty Chadwick, accused of hiding $2.5 million from his ex-wife, was jailed for not disclosing its whereabouts. Chadwick maintains he lost the money in bad investments.
The state witnessed a string of mass killings.
Richard Baumhammers and Ronald Taylor killed several people in a pair of unrelated race-based shooting sprees two months apart in suburban Pittsburgh in 2000.
A gang of masked men fatally shot seven people and wounded three in a Lex Street drug house in Philadelphia because someone burned out the clutch on one man's car.
Jesse Wise killed six relatives and hid their bodies in the basement of the home he shared with them in Leola. He offered no explanation when he was sentenced to life in prison in 2007.
Charles Cullen, a nurse who gave lethal injections to 29 patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey over several years, was also sentenced to life in prison.
George Sodini, a troubled misogynist, opened fire on an aerobics class at a suburban Pittsburgh health club earlier this year. He killed three women and wounded nine others before committing suicide.
The Philadelphia area lost a trio of luminaries this year.
Painter Andrew Wyeth, 91, died at home in Chadds Ford. His melancholy work focused on the people and landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine in works such as "Christina's World."
Philanthropist Leonore Annenberg, also 91, was an arts patron and the widow of billionaire publisher Walter Annenberg. Her giving spanned the nation but was felt especially in Philadelphia at the orchestra, art museum and University of Pennsylvania.
And baseball announcer Harry Kalas, 73, collapsed in the broadcast booth before a Phillies game against the Washington Nationals. The broadcaster known for his signature "Outta here!" home run calls had been the team's voice since 1971.
In Pittsburgh, Fred Rogers - known to millions of children as "Mister Rogers" - died of stomach cancer in 2003. And colorful Steelers announcer Myron Cope, 79, died in 2008.
Pittsburgh lost its mayor in 2006 when Bob O'Connor died of brain cancer. His death led to City Council President Luke Ravenstahl, then 26, becoming the youngest mayor of a major U.S. city. Ravenstahl was elected in his own right in 2007.
The state's first female lieutenant governor, Catherine Baker Knoll, died of complications from cancer in 2008. She had also served two terms as state treasurer.
Then there was Barbaro. After Philly-area horse Smarty Jones came within a length of winning the Triple Crown in 2004, Barbaro took up the challenge. He won the 2006 Kentucky Derby by 6-1/2 lengths, but broke down in the Preakness.
The nation rallied behind the bay colt as he underwent months of treatment for his catastrophic leg injury in suburban Philadelphia. But it was all too much. Barbaro was euthanized in 2007.
On the gridiron, the Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl twice this decade, while the Penguins brought home the Stanley Cup earlier this year.
Philadelphia finally broke its 25-year championship drought when the Phillies won the World Series in 2008.
And Joe Paterno rebounded from a broken leg - suffered after one of his own players ran into him - to continue his now 44-year football coaching career at Penn State.


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semantic sugestions for a column/row layout
Hey every one, I need some advice on creating the markup for a page I am working on. Right now I think I have a case of div-itus going on and I am at a loss for how to make this better.
Here is a fiddle of what I have:
Or if you prefer this is what it needs to look like:
Address 12345 Street Name | VIEW MAP BUTTON | City, ST 12345 Contact Us email@example.com | E-MAIL US BUTTON | _____________________________________________ <-border under contact info
Here is my current mark-up:

 Store Name <address> 123 Street Name
 City, ST 12345 </address>

 view map

 Contact Us
 email@example.com

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.column_wrapper { padding: 0.9em 0em; border-bottom: 0.12em solid #000; } .item_row:first-child, .column_wrapper:first-child{ padding-top:0em; } .item_row { overflow:hidden; clear:both; padding-top: 0.9em; } .column_one, .column_two { width:50%; } .column_one { float:left; } .column_wrapper .column_two { float:right; } .title { color:#7a1820; font-weight:bold; } body { font: 13px/1.231 sans-serif; } .small_button { display:block; float:right; width:30%; padding: .5em 0em; background-color:#7a1820; color:#fff; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:center; }
Oct 20, 2011, 14:16 #2
Here's my take. And these are the changes I made:
- I rearranged the divs for the columns and the rows. It's a little cleaner now, in my opinion.
- Instead of putting the headers in spans, I put them in actual headers (I used
 just because; the actual element you'd use depends on context).
- I also got rid of the <address> element because <address> is only for the document's maintainer's contact information.
- Instead of giving each row a padding-top, and then getting rid of the padding-top of the first row, I gave each row a padding-bottom.
- Elements that are floated are automatically given display: block, so I got rid of that rule from .small_button
- The zoom: 1 rule is just a bugfix for IE6
A downside is that just about every single element in there has a class...I'm the web overlord for Graphic Business Systems
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Thank you much! I like that I can shave off a div. Don't know why I did not think about getting rid of those. I did not know if using a header tag was considered semantically acceptable because it was not the header for an article so that is why I did not use it.
did not know about the address thing, I read somewhere that android phones can detect the address block and use it to map a location so that is the only reason I used it, but if I was using it wrong then that probably is not the case. I will have to look into that address mapping thing and see if there is some micoformat that people use


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Bob Shearer�s Commencement speech inspires graduates
Lake Erie College graduates were influenced by the words of Robert J. Shearer and his "CHIP's for Success" speech he gave on Sunday, May 9, 2010. Shearer is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Shearer's Foods, Inc., the manufacturer and distributor of Shearer's award winning snacks. The actual speech is stated below.
"I would like to thank President Victor, distinguished faculty, honored guests, and of course, this wonderful group of graduates, for affording me the opportunity to speak here today.
Four years ago, I began my journey with Lake Erie College about the same time as many of you – myself, as a member of the Board of Trustees, and you as freshmen in college. It is safe to say that over the past four years, we have all changed and grown on a number of levels and have been inspired by this College's culture. The changes on all accounts are memorable. In particular, it is your accomplishment today that is the most noteworthy.
And I might add, that the difference between you and me as we stand here today – your degree is an earned one and mine is an honorary one.
I recently had a friend share with me that "yesterday is today…and tomorrow is today…and today is…NOW."
At first this sounded illogical, but as I thought about it, the fact is, ALL we have is TODAY, this VERY moment.
To be in the present is a major challenge for so many of us. For example, at this moment, some of you might be thinking about how tired you are, maybe a little too much celebrating last night. Some might be thinking about packing up and moving on. Others are thinking about their futures, maybe some their past experiences. Some of you are thinking about your new jobs, and others are still thinking about looking for that right job.
I invite you to be in this moment.
I would like each of you to close your eyes, take a breath and think about this snapshot in time. Look closely at this picture and your place in it. It portrays a significant achievement. You are here celebrating with family, friends, faculty and colleagues. Everyone is so proud of you.
And in this "moment" there is an anticipation to watch you cross this stage in your cap and gown and formally accept this degree of candidacy. In a heartbeat, this image will be different.
Now open your eyes.
Tomorrow morning you will wake up. The cameras and parties will be gone, your loved ones will be returning home and you will be alone thinking, "What is my plan to be successful? What life skills do I have to compete in this global 21st century where my future job may not even be created yet?"
Daniel Pink, a famous American author and writer, and a past speechwriter for Vice President, Al Gore, wrote, "The future belongs to a very different kind of a person with a very different kind of mind, "right brain" qualities – inventiveness, empathy and meaning."
These dispositions predominate the "information age," where all of our focus has been on knowledgeable workers. The FUTURE wants creators, thinkers and doers.
I'm here standing before you today because of my charming personality and obvious good looks. Not really, I was just seeing if you were listening.
I am here to share insights about four 21st century life skills I believe are important to succeed and bring personal fulfillment: four life skills, four people and four stories.
I helped grow Shearer's Foods from a one truck, single product venture, into a multi-product, award-winning company. Having gained valuable insights from my decades of experience, it is believed that I learned some important lessons along the way. And in thinking about these lessons learned, and the college graduates I have hired throughout the years, the ones who made it and succeeded in my business were also the ones who lived by these life lessons.
To help you remember – think of it in a couple of ways. I came up with an acronym to remember the four life lessons. The first acronym that came to my mind was CHIP, a term I know very well.
Secondly, I thought that these life lessons are really "Tips for Success," so I renamed them "CHIP's for Success."
So, what does CHIP's for Success mean?
1. C stands for Creating Oneself
2. H stands for Having Heart
3. I stands for Introducing Your Inate Gifts
4. P stands for Preparing for Failure.
I am going to begin by giving you CHIP for Success 1. C is for Creating Oneself.
I read a quote on a sign on a restaurant wall while traveling in Spain last year. The saying went something like this: "Life is not about finding oneself, but rather about creating oneself."
It made me think about the people in my life who have spent their lives waiting for something to happen to them, waiting for some magic that would make them have successful careers, guarantee them meaningful relationships or whatever it is they are waiting for.
Too many people spend their lives waiting to find themselves rather than directing their energies toward creating themselves.
I would like to give you a personal example of how I applied the principle of "creating oneself" to my own life.
Sometimes the best motivation to making a positive change in your life is by recognizing that without that change, you will not realize your fullest potential.
I had a vision of where I wanted to take my company. I wanted to transform it from a small, local manufacturer into a national or even international competitor in the snack food business. I thought that I had all of the business and operational ability to do this. But, I worried that I may be lacking some of the communication skills. I especially lacked confidence in public speaking.
I knew that to make my vision a reality I needed to be a more effective communicator to the world, in selling my vision to others to gain their confidence and support. One of my biggest supporters, my wife, also recognized this. And like all good spouses, she was not afraid to give me the encouragement I needed to complete a top-notched program in public speaking.
But it was not just about learning the techniques of effective speech-giving. It was the confidence I had in myself and my ability to better communicate the dream I had for Shearer's Foods.
I am not here to tell you that it is easy to create oneself. I am here to tell you that in order to be successful you will have to be proactive. Waiting around to be discovered for the contributions you can make to this world will only lead to disappointing outcomes. It will be your ability to target your real, not imagined, strengths that will raise your odds of potential success in all that you do.
Daniel Pink sums up this CHIP's for Success very well, "Meaning is the purpose of this journey. Give meaning to life from inside yourself and add invention and big picture thinking."
Now let's talk about CHIP for Success 2. H is for Having Heart.
I would like to share a story about a young man, Steve Surmay, who lives by the CHIP of Having Heart.
I hired Steve as a lawn maintenance person when he was a junior in high school. Whenever I would drive into the plant after Steve had mowed, I was very impressed with how perfect the lines were. It didn't matter that this high school kid was earning very little or that it was not a highly recognized position. What it reflected was a commitment to doing a job well. His heart and passion were focused on making that lawn the best groomed in the neighborhood.
Skip ahead to today. Steve is now a senior vice president in the Shearer's Company. Now mind you, he didn't become a VP by mowing in straight lines. It was his heart and passion that drove me to see something in him that was unique and special.
For 28 years now, Steve is still committed to the heart and passion for our company. He consistently goes above and beyond and has a passion for new ideas.
Opportunity after opportunity, Steve always puts forth his best effort regardless of the task at hand. He could have settled for less, but he was passionate to give more. Mediocrity was never an option – neither in mowing the lawn nor helping run our company.
So what is CHIP for Success number 3? I stands for Introducing Your Innate Gifts.
I want you to do something for me. Look at the person to your right. Now look at the person to your left.
Which one of you will be the most successful in his/her career?
Which one of you will have a more fulfilled life?
How many positions will you have within the next five years? Ten years?
What sets you apart from the person next to you?
How are your innate gifts being discovered?
It isn't the person next to you who is your biggest competitor – it is those graduates and colleagues in Asia, China, India and other countries who are competing and taking your spotlight in this global competitive market. What gifts do they have that you may also have but you have not yet discovered or introduced them to others?
I have a great example of another one of my colleagues who demonstrated his innate ability to do far more than what he probably believe possible. Scott Smith, the current president of Shearer's Foods, started his career in the finance field. His comfort zone was certainly in the areas of accounting, finance and operations areas as he moved through his career in public accounting.
But I saw more potential in Scott and I placed him in a general management role. He very ably learned the marketing, sales and human resources sides of our business and he has become one of the most well-rounded business leaders that I know. He was able to realize the full potential of his innate ability and is now helping me to run every facet of a half-billion dollar company.
Today, I ask you to break away from the status quo.
I invite you to move two degrees, two steps away from what makes you all similar. When you do that you will discover that each of you has genuinely unique attributes. Each of you has something, some innate gift. You can do better than the person sitting next to you.
But as Shakespeare reflected, "There is the rub." How do you discover that "it" factor if you've never looked for "it"?
I've come to our final CHIP for Success number 4. P is for Preparing for Failure.
Will everyone appreciate your unique gifts and qualities? Absolutely not! So, prepare yourselves for failure. Remember that failure is not an option but a given.
I think J.K. Rowling captures it best, "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default."
I'm going to share another story with you. This story is about someone you probably already know, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computers and Pixar Animation Studios.
Steve Jobs is one of the most successful business persons in the world. He started Apple Computers in his parents' garage with a friend. In ten years, Apple grew from two employees to 4,000 employees and became a $2 billion enterprise.
Steve was only 30 years old at the time when his success was at the top. Then his world turned upside down. He got fired from a company he started. He had hired someone whose vision was different but faired with the Board of Directors more. The Board chose the new guy over Steve. Steve was out of a job and became a public failure.
Yet, Steve has a message for all of us today – that he learned more from his failures than his successes. He says, "Getting fired from Apple is the best thing that could have ever happened to me." Sounds weird doesn't it, but it is true.
Think about it for a second. On a more simplistic level, do you learn more from your mistakes or successes? When your professors hand back your exams, do you look at the items you get right or the ones you get wrong? It is the mistakes and failures that catapult us to new learning, new passions and new successes.
But the key is are you prepared for failure? Because it is what we do with failure that counts.
In his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, Steve said "You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
Steve realized that the "heaviness of being successful was replaced with the lightness of being a beginner again – less sure about everything."
Let me repeat this again and listen carefully. He realized that, "the heaviness of being successful was replaced with the lightness of being a beginner again – less sure about everything."
So what does this mean? Take the opportunity to recreate yourself when you fail. So what is the rest of the story?
Steve started a company named NeXt after he left Apple. In 5 years, Apple then bought NeXt and Steve returned to Apple. Steve used the CHIP for Success number 4 of Preparing for Failure, and it worked.
Remember, I am just a regular guy, an average person, who works really hard. There is no magic involved. Although, I must admit that even in my wildest imaginings, I could never have anticipated receiving this honorary degree, so maybe there is a little magic in this world.
I wish you the courage to create yourself, have heart, introduce your innate gifts and prepare for failure. Be open to creating and recreating yourselves as you transition through all of the experiences that await you.
I've told four stories about four individuals who were successful in the CHIP's for Success. So what do you do now? You can walk away and may not remember my speech at all, or you can take back at least one CHIP for your own personal success.
Tomorrow, when you wake up in the morning (or afternoon) and think, "What is my plan to be successful and to have a fulfilling life? What CHIP's for Success do I have to compete in this global 21st century?
Steve Jobs comes back to mind…
In a spin-off of the life lesson of living each day as if it were your last, he suggests that we look in the mirror each morning and ask that if this was our last day to live, is what we are doing today how we would want to spend our last day?
If the answer comes up "no" too many times, then changing something is imperative. Living honestly and fully is not for the faint of heart. Strength of character and purpose are critical.
I hope you will think about these CHIP's for Success so you find something you love and you live it with passion.
And you can remember this acronym:
1. C is for Creating Oneself
2. H is for Having Heart
3. I is for Introducing Your Innate Gifts
4. P is for Preparing for Failure
In a few moments when you leave the reception in the Arthur S. Holden Center, outside the doorway will be another reminder to help you think about these CHIP's for Success.
I leave you with this…
It is not the words that you need to remember, it is what to do with them that counts. And as one of my competitors said once in a famous commercial, "You can't have just one."
I am very humbled that this moment, YOUR MOMENT, was shared with me.
Congratulations and thank you."


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This week, an innocent 20-year-old Wisconsin man was killed by a suspected drunk driver fleeing police. Not long after the crash, the second-guessing began -- and FOX 9 News dove into the numbers.
Yia Her, 43, had a BAC of .16 -- twice the legal limit -- and his driver's license was suspended when he ran a red light in downtown Minneapolis and slammed into side of the car driven by Brody Sotona. Now, Her is facing two felony counts of fleeing police in a motor vehicle resulting in injury or death.
Sotona was killed in the crash, and his passenger, Connor Macklin, is still in critical condition.
Her remains jailed with bail set at $500,000. If convicted, he faces a potential sentence of 14 years in prison; however, if Macklin cannot recover from his injuries, the potential sentence may double.
Yet, Sotona's family has publicly wondered whether the officer who chose to chase Her from Interstate 94 into the heart of the city isn't also partially to blame. Prosecutors don't believe so, saying the blame rests with the driver who fled.
"Bottom line, this officer didn't cause the death," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said. "Her caused the death, and that's why he's going to do big time."
It's still unknown how fast Her and the trooper were traveling, but the impact of the crash was tremendous. Sotona's car was struck broadside in the intersection of 4th Street and Central Avenue, and the vehicle was pushed half a block. Days later, debris can still be found at the scene.
A nearby surveillance camera captured footage of the Sotona's car as it careened to the curb. Before the dust even settled and before police arrived to check on the victims, a man came up to the driver's side window, using his cell phone as a flashlight to check on the condition of those inside.
Once the bystander realized how bad the crash was, he walked back to tell his friends who had been walking to the area. By the time he got back, police were at the scene and asked him to step back.
Scenes like the one that unfolded on Monday are part of the dilemma of police chases, and whether or not to pursue is a question Minnesota officers have grappled with.
Statewide, 15 percent of all police pursuits led to some kind of unintentional collision or crash last year. Out of all pursuits, the suspect is captured 80 percent of the time. Only 11 percent get away. In the other 9 percent of chases, the officer involved or the supervisor calls off the pursuit because it's simply too dangerous to continue.
During the Monday night chase, no Minnesota State Patrol supervisor was on duty. Neil Melton, with the Police Officer Standards and Training Board, said he believes the supervisor's role is "absolutely critical."
According to Melton, having a second set of ears listening to the chase over radio is essential.
"They get the sense the officer's adrenaline is up -- voice is changing … it may be time to step in because the officer gets this tunnel vision," Melton explained.
Melton says an officer can even lose sight of why they're pursuing in the first place. More than half the time, pursuits start with a simple traffic violation. Only 9 percent of chases are for drunk driving, and 8 percent are for a felony.
However, numbers can't explain away the grief, the guilt, or even the shame of the bystander even if only one man may truly be to blame in the end.
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A Gibson county man has been charged with the murder of the mother of his child.
Jason Perry is accused of shooting Jesica Tice in front of their 13-year-old son on Wednesday in the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant in Princeton.
He made his first court appearance Thursday.
On his way into the courtroom he made several statements to14 News cameras including: "She destroyed me, man," and "kept my son away from me for 13 years, and finally "he's a different man every time I see him... how disgusting."
On the way out of court, reporter Erin Meyer asked him if he had anything to say.
"She wouldn't let me see him for 13 years, I had to have my family find out if that was mine or not... I guess you can say that I love him."
She then asked "Do you hope to see your son again?
"Yes I do... I pray to God"
The coroner says the victim, Jesica Tice was shot twice at close range in the parking lot of 'Los Aztecas.'
A detective testified Perry used a shotgun that only held one shell, so he had to reload between shots.
The detective also said Perry bought shells at Walmart before the shooting after speaking with his 13-year-old son.
He had apparently had an argument with Tice of whether he should or could attend the 13 year old's graduation.
Perry is being held in the Gibson County Jail with no bond.
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Police say several men stole around $500,000 worth of Rolex watches from a store at Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta on Friday.Authorities say that five or six men used hammers to break glass cases at Mayors Jewelers, which is located on the second level of the mall. "They knew exactly which case they were going to," said Sgt. Greg Lyon. "They knew exactly which watches they were taking. Some of the watches were valued at a $100,000 a piece."Authorities said that the men then ran through the mall with the jewelry store manager chasing them. The manager said he saw them get into a white van and drive off.Will Compton was inside Lenox Square Mall with his iPhone when he heard people screaming and running."I was just on the phone and all of a sudden there was a lot of commotion. People started running all towards my way," Compton said. Police say no shots were fired, but some customers were frightened by the sound of the hammers hitting the glass.Authorities said they recovered the white van a short time later. They are searching it for evidence. Police said they have surveillance video from the robbery which clearly shows the suspects' faces. They hope to release it soon.
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an excellent book. will definitely read the rest of the series.
The Infernal Devices series is an amazing prequel- I found it better than the Mortal Instruments series. Clockwork Angel is a gripping story that will have you loving all the characters..or..almost all of them. With the handsome, witty, and mysterious Will, and beautiful, considerate and sweet Jem. and not to mention our brave and selfless heroine Tessa, you will find yourself turning page after page until late into the night!
The Clockwork Angel is only the first out of three incredibly mysterious, romantic, and action packed novels that are must reads!
You will find yourself growing more and more attached to the characters as you read Clockwork Angel and continue the series- don't pass these amazing books up! I hope you love them as much as I did!
I loved these books. Really, I started with these books 'cause my friend put them in my hands, I didn't even know there were other books... These are amazing! Will is beautiful, and same with Jem!
The only reason this book got half a star, was because of William Herondale. Otherwise, I wouldn't even recommend this book to my enemies to be quite honest.
Truly a number 1 best seller. Romantic, Mysterious, Heartfelt a book of the century. It is fabulous just fabulous
Awesome first book! It was so amazing and there is so many plot twists that you don't even know what to think
This book is absolutely amazing! The plot and story between Tessa and Will is fantastic!
seriously recommend the series
this was an amazing book! and the best part was magnus as always
In all honesty, this prequel series is better than the original Mortal Instruments. Perhaps it has to do with the Steam Punk and British aspect of it. And of course your favorite character Magnus Bane is in this one, too (duh, Warlock.)
This can be a bit repetitive but the love triangle, comedy, and family backstories (it is a prequel after all, so think of Jace, Isabel, Alec and Clary's great great great grandparents) are fun to read.
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Clockwork Angel, the prequel to the New York bestselling series The Mortal Instruments is set in gas lit streets of Victorian London. 16 year old Tessa Gray is lured by the Dark Sisters members of The Pandemonium Club a secret Downworld organization of vampires, warlocks and other demons. Tessa manages to escape with the help of Will, a magical being called a Shadowhunter, killing one of the sisters and a servant who is more robot than human. Will, along with his Shadowhunter friends belong to the London Institute are dedicated to ridding the world of demons. She is fascinated and torn between Will and his best friend James and is drawn deeper into the plot that threatens to destroy not only the Shadowhunters but the world as well. Magic is dangerous – but love is the most dangerous. Compulsive reading as Clare has the ability not only to tell a story but to create a very intriguing other world.
When sixteen year old Tessa Gray arrives by steamship in London to meet her brother, she is met instead by two creepy women from a dark, gloomy mansion. Only when they show her a letter handwritten by her brother does she agree to accompany them to their lair. Tessa becomes their prisoner. They teach her to use her unknown powers to shape shift. Unbeknowst to Tessa, she was born with powers to become anyone or anything. This quality, or gift, makes her highly valuable to the mysterious and terrible Magister. The Dark Sisters tell Tessa that they are to deliver her to this evil man, but Tessa is grabbed and spirited away by two young men who tell her they are Shadowhunters, trained warriors with special gifts who fight Downworlders like vampires and warlocks to save humans.
Tessa yearns to find her brother and fears for his life. The Shadowhunters agree to help her find him, if she will use her shapeshifting powers to help them infiltrate a vampire clan. Tessa finds herself torn--does she love the dark and brooding Shadowhunter who saved her from the Sisters? Or does she truly hate him?
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"If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel he'll expect you to declare your intentions."
"Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance."
"I have a red and blue striped waistcoat," Henry interjected, reaching for the peas.
"And if that isn't proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don't know what is."
"Will," Charlotte said sharply. "Don't speak to Henry like that. Henry—"Henry raised his head.
"Yes?" Charlotte sighed.
"That's Jessamine's plate you're spooning peas onto, not yours. Do pay attention, darling."
"I hate witchlight. It makes my complexion look absolutely green."
"It is a bit like they're your children, isn't it?" Charlotte sighed.
"Yes," she said. "Except for the part where they're required to love me, I suppose."
"It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled.
"How is this different from his being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?"
"Because," Jessamine said, as if this should be obvious, "we have to eat in the dining room."
"But you are not a lady, Jessamine—," Charlotte began.
"Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion."
"Quite," Henry said, setting the newspaper down. "The Pandemonium thingie is a top priority. Absolutely."
"Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay."
Will pointed a finger accusingly in their direction. "You're ganging up on me. Is this how it's going to be from now on? I'll be odd man out? Dear God, I'll have to befriend Jessamine."
"Jessamine can't stand you," Jem pointed out.
"Henry, then."
"Henry will set you on fire."
"It isn't against the Law to be an idiot."
"Lucky for you," Jessamine said under her breath.
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"Existing public-school teachers receive wages that are at least as high as comparably skilled workers," they explain, "while their benefits and job security exceed what they could earn in the private sector. Overall, public-school-teacher compensation exceeds private levels by approximately 52 percent, for a total of more than $120 billion annually in excessive labor costs."
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The PUSD teachers are paid at a higher end of the National percentile range.
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You will never get pay and benefit reform from a group of people who would not even freeze S & C. They not only refused to take any cuts -- they refused to stop the raises.
Pay them based on performance, let them leave if they choose. There are a hundred or more waiting to take the high paying Pleasanton jobs for every opening.
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Numbskulls, all. The Heritage Foundation... right-wing big bucks pay mucho bucks to half-wits who aren't good enough to make tenure at most decent universities. The half-wits sit around, mostly, eat good food, and occasionally produce a schlock piece of work that is immediately debunked for its bad research. In this case? Counting the salaries of priests, brothers and nuns at private schools is going to skew the numbers just a weeeeee bit. The Heritage Foundation is a joke. Then you have idiots like 'no argument' and 'teacher' (right, sure thing) lapping up the lies without hesitation, without thought. Nice there's always an audience of dunces out there, places like the Heritage Foundation will thrive.


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(Bowling Green, Ky.) -- On June 1, 2011, Kentucky State Police Post 3, Bowling Green, responded to a fatal collision on US 231 in Butler County, Kentucky. According to Trooper Jeremy Smith, Unit 1 a 2000 Mercury Cougar driven by Everardo Valenzuela (47) of Morgantown, Kentucky was traveling southbound on US 231. He then crossed into the Northbound lane into the path of Unit 2, a 2011 Ford F-250 driven by Braxton Broesamle (28) of Morgantown, Kentucky.
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DALLAS — The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board approved a new plan Tuesday night to lure more cities into its rail and bus system by effectively allowing trial runs of public transportation.
Outside cities can now start small — perhaps buying one bus route — with the understanding and hope they'll eventually try to fully buy into the DART system.
"It is a very historical event," said Walt Humann, considered the "father of DART" for leading the charge to mass transit almost 30 years ago.
He sat in the audience to watch the board's decision. "It makes possible bringing in other cities into transit agencies after a long hiatus," Humann said.
DART is currently focusing its efforts on Arlington, clearly a prize for the transit agency. The city is home to major tourist attractions including Cowboys Stadium, Rangers Ballpark and Six Flags Over Texas. And with a population of 365,000, Arlington remains the largest city in the country without public transportation.
"If Arlington becomes a transit-supporting member, what an example this will set for the entire region," said DART Chairman John Danish. "Everyone will realize mass transit is critical for North Texas and the success of our region."
The decision marks a radical departure for DART. Since its inception in 1983, the agreement between DART and its member cities was clear: Residents in those cities would pay a portion of their sales tax to Dallas Area Rapid Transit. In return, the residents would enjoy exclusive access to public transportation.
Tuesday's move slightly loosens those strict requirements. Cities enter a pilot program with the understanding they'll eventually ask voters to devote a one-penny sales tax to DART.
"We don't provide any a la carte services to a city unless they agree beyond 24 months they have to go through the membership process," said DART board member Mark Enoch.
If voters reject funding for the agency, DART will pull out within 30 days.
"We want to do more than just date you, we want to marry you," Danish said.
In Arlington, DART is proposing a single bus route between the University of Texas at Arlington campus and the TrinityRailway Express CentrePort commuter rail station in Fort Worth. The service would start in the fall and cost Arlington at least $700,000.
Getting a full commitment to DART from Arlington could prove difficult, however. The city has already devoted all of its sales tax largely to luring entertainment complexes, like Cowboys Stadium.
But DART directors propose encouraging Arlington to begin to commit that money to mass transit once the stadium is paid off within the next 12 years.
"They're going to have to have an election to join DART," Enoch said.
Tuesday's vote is the latest shift in the agency that began in 2011, when DART changed its charter to offer bus service to non-member cities. The following year, Mesquite took up the offer and is paying DART $300,000 a year for a single bus route.
The contract moves riders between a stadium and a DART rail station in neighboring Dallas.
"Nobody's joined DART in some 20 years; you think anyone's going to run and join now?" Mesquite's assistant city manager Jerry Dittman said last year when the bus service began. "We need a regional transit system, not a country club, members-only transit system."
Letting Mesquite buy a single route ignited outrage from some of the transit agency's 13 member cities.
Over the years, they've sent DART billions of dollars to build the expansive rail and bus network that now moves 220,000 people a day over 700 square miles.
In 2011, the 13 member cities funneled $400 million in sales taxes to DART.
Some cities — like Glenn Heights — have felt shortchanged. The town of 11,000 south of Dallas is one of the smallest members of DART. Each year, it sends the transit agency nearly $350,000, yet the town has only one bus route.
City leaders have said they now wish they had spent that money on recruiting new businesses.
DART supporters say the move helps the entire region by extending public transportation to more people and getting more cars off congested highways.
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