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Astronaut Patrick Forrester waves at a crew member inside Discovery's cabin during one of two spacewalks he performed on a shuttle mission in 2001. Photo courtesy of NASA.
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In this 1955 photo, Mission Aviation Fellowship pilot Nate Saint shows gifts he received from Waodani Indians of Ecuador. Saint was martyred the next year. Astronaut Patrick Forrester carried a piece of Saint's Piper PA-14 airplane to the international space station in his current mission aboard space shuttle Discovery.
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HOUSTON (BP)--Astronaut Patrick Forrester, a specialist on the Discovery crew that is in orbit now, is carrying with him a piece of the battery box from martyred missionary pilot Nate Saint's Piper PA-14 airplane.
Forrester, a deacon at University Baptist Church in Houston, has been interested in the work of Mission Aviation Fellowship and wrote to them to see if they had anything he could take on the flight, which launched Aug. 29.
"Sometimes the astronauts carry small pieces of something," Forrester's pastor, Robert Creech, said. "He thought he might get a patch or a certificate or something, and he was very excited when he found out it was a part of the airplane."
Saint was among the five missionaries to Ecuador, including Jim Elliot, who were murdered on a sandbar in 1956 by a tribe of Waodani Indians. Forrester first learned about the story during a Steven Curtis Chapman concert.
"He told the story of the missionaries who had gone down and had lost their lives. That story just fascinated me, and through that I heard of the book 'Through Gates of Splendor.' That's when I really first understood about MAF," Forrester said, according to a news release from the missions organization.
This is the third space shuttle flight for Forrester, 52, a retired Army colonel and aviator who has been an astronaut since 1996. He performed spacewalks on his first two missions, in 2001 and 2007, and this time he is supervising the spacewalks from inside the shuttle.
When the 13-day mission to the international space station is complete, Forrester will return the plane part to Mission Aviation Fellowship along with a certificate confirming its presence on Discovery's flight. MAF plans to display the part and the certificate at its headquarters in Nampa, Idaho.
"Bringing attention to and renewing interest in missions would be a great result of this experience," Forrester told MAF. "My deepest intent is to honor Nate Saint, the Saint family and all missionaries around the world."
Founded in 1945, Mission Aviation Fellowship teams serve in 55 countries, transporting missionaries, medical personnel, medicines and relief supplies into remote areas. They also provide telecommunications services, such as satellite Internet access, high-frequency radios, e-mail and other wireless systems for missionaries.
Creech, who has known Forrester about 15 years, told Baptist Press the astronaut is a favorite Sunday School teacher among University Baptist's high school students.
"He's one of my heroes. He's an incredible person," Creech said. "He has a servant's heart, and when we've gone to Africa he's tried to conceal his identity. He doesn't go around being an astronaut. He's just Patrick.
"We worked with a pastors' school there, providing some training, and Patrick was one of our small group leaders and got in and loved the pastors and continued to have connections with them later and helped along the way with their kids' schooling and things like that. He's got a great heart."
Last year during a service marking the 50th anniversary of NASA at University Baptist, Forrester gave a six-minute testimony, relaying how he became interested in missions.
"It was August 2001, and I had just completed my second spacewalk on my first mission. And I looked back at earth, I took this picture as I was getting ready to come back in, and I thought to myself after all the effort and all the work it had taken to get there, 'Is this all there is? Is this all that God has planned for my life?'" Forrester said.
When he returned home, his wife Diana urged him to speak with Creech, and soon he was headed to Uganda on his first mission trip. They spent a week with about 30 pastors from across Uganda, training them and developing relationships.
At the end of the week, the International Mission Board worker there asked Forrester to tell the pastors about his work with NASA. Forrester, trying to downplay that part of his life, said he would rather not. But the missionary kept asking, and Forrester complied.
The next day, he asked one of the pastors whether he slept well that night. The man, named Joseph, said he did not. Instead, he lay awake all night looking at the sky, pondering the photographs of earth from space that he had seen in Forrester's presentation. Until then, Joseph had not known the earth was round, and he stayed awake marveling at the vastness of God.
During his testimony at University Baptist, Forrester quoted a David Crowder song with the line "My eyes are small but they have seen the beauty of enormous things."
"I had seen that with my own eyes and yet I did not see the enormity of God the way that Joseph did just by looking at those pictures," the astronaut recounted. "I thought, 'Where else am I walking around day to day and missing the enormity of God just in what He has placed before me?'"
Forrester planned to return to Uganda the following summer, but launch delays prevented him from going on the trip. Instead he was in space the week the University Baptist group went to Africa.
Joseph had given Forrester a picture of his family standing in front of their tent on his visit to Uganda, and he took it into orbit with him on that mission. Forrester had a crewmate take a picture of him holding the photograph with the earth in the distance, and he e-mailed it to the IMB worker in Uganda. The missionary printed the picture and gave it to Joseph.
"A year ago this man did not know the earth was round, and he's holding a picture of his family as it floats in space," Forrester said.
God used the experience with Joseph to show Forrester that his accomplishments as an astronaut are tools for Kingdom purposes.
"God spoke very clearly to me that day and said, 'I want you to use the things that I've given you, the person that I've made you. I'll work through those. I don't want you to look at gifts that I've given to other people, for you to want those,'" Forrester said.
Creech said Forrester and his wife, a neonatal nurse, are considering a transition to full-time missionary service.
"When I visualize what I might do after I end my career at NASA, always in the back of my mind is going into the mission field in some way," Forrester was quoted as saying in Mission Aviation Fellowship news release. "If I could go tomorrow and be a pilot with an organization like MAF, I think that's what I'd do."
Erin Roach is a staff writer for Baptist Press.
To hear audio of Patrick Forrester's testimony at University Baptist Church in Houston, go to http://www.ubcmedia.org/media/audio/PatFclip.mp3.
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Update: Statoil Earnings
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Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!
Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.
But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.
Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.
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One thing I've been grateful for over the past few months: I didn't have to pay attention to the Boston mayoral race with its gazillion candidates. Was able to focus on the new state tax package, the repeal of sections of that new state tax package, an ongoing national fiscal crisis, a possible war with Syria and the train wreck that's Obamacare.
I've never lived in an American city, so have never voted for a mayor. When my little hometown in western Pennsylvania became a city in 1992 by incorporating with the surrounding township, some people wanted my popular father to run for mayor. I might have temporarily moved home to vote for him, but like me, he didn't have a vocation for elected office, so declined to run.
Boston voters who were somehow able to sort through all the candidates chose two finalists, City Councilor John Connolly and state Rep. Marty Walsh. I don't know either one, though I fondly remember John Connolly's father, Michael, who as secretary of state oversaw petition drives, including Proposition 21/2 in 1980.
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He succumbed to rabies in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in "For Colored Girls." He was an undercover federal agent in "Sleeper Cell" and a top-notch attorney in "The Good Wife." Now, Michael Ealy returns to the spotlight in the action comedy "Common Law," premiering Friday, May 11 at 10 p.m. on USA Network.
"It's like 'Bad Boys,' 'Lethal Weapon' — that kind of thing, except we've got so many issues between us that our captain makes us go to couple's counseling," said Ealy, while in Philadelphia with Steve Harvey to promote the hit feature film, "Think Like a Man," which led the box office for two consecutive weeks.
Ealy stars as Detective Travis Marks in "Common Law," which, according to the network, is about two cops with a problem - each other. Despite their differences, Travis and his partner Wes Mitchell (Warren Kole) are incredible detectives with a seven-year track record as the best detectives in the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division. When their constant bickering begins to disrupt their partnership, their captain forces them into couples' therapy to save their "work marriage."
"Tough-as-nails" therapist Dr. Ryan (Sonya Walger) is brought in to help them understand and resolve their conflicts, and confront their demons in order to enhance their ability to work together solving crimes.
Ealy, whose low, smoky voice belies his smallish stature and gentle persona, first captivated movie-goers as "Pretty" Ricky Nash in Ice Cube's highly successful "Barbershop" series. However, he has since built his career on more dramatic roles, such as Beau Willie, the troubled war veteran in Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls."
"When I first got in the business, it was very important for me to be taken seriously," Ealy explained when I spoke to him recently at the posh Ritz Carlton. "I didn't want my looks or anything like that to kind of overshadow the talent. I worked my ass off, and people don't see — they just see the finished product. They don't know how many nights I spent on the train working on my lines coming home from a waiter's shift to get ready for this play I'm only doing on the weekends. People don't know about that.
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Within the Library of Congress you have the Hispanic Reading Room* available to you as a touchstone to enable you to find your ancestors, your culture, and your history. All within a room that exudes the atmosphere of 16th Century Spanish Colonial architecture.
Not everything starts with Don Quixote, but look at what the BBC says about our room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlLHOcMgBPQ,
Within the Library of Congress you have the Hispanic Reading Room available to you as a touchstone to enable you to find your ancestors, your culture, and your history. All within a room that exudes the atmosphere of 16th Century Spanish Colonial architecture.
We do have computers and wi-fi access which may stretch the Colonial atmosphere a bit. Add to this atmosphere the services of specialists, a ready-reference collection, and reference librarians that speak your language, know your culture, and can point out materials throughout the collections of the Library of Congress. Come and visit. Look at our reading room, our outstanding murals, and of course, ask questions. Our doors are open during the working week from 8:30-5:00.
In 1944, the Hispanic collections were dispersed throughout the Library and the Hispanic Division became a Reference and Acquisition center for the vast Iberian, Caribbean, Central and South American collections. Hence, while we buy materials for the Library, we keep tabs on where this material goes. In addition to the 3 million books in Spanish and Portuguese in the Library, we also provide help regarding materials in the indigenous languages south of the border. We even have recordings of major literary figures reading their own works so you can listen to Spanish-language poetry read by the authors themselves http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/archive.html. A few have even recorded poems in Aymara, Quechua, and Nahuatl. Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs captured the attention of the Spanish and we even have a facsimile of the Florentine Codex in our reference collection. It consists of three volumes in an illustrated bilingual text telling about the flora, fauna, customs, history of the Aztecs and their vassals. There is an English translation of the text and recently, the World Digital Library, put the Florentine Codex up online http://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/#regions=latin-america-and-the-caribbean&countries=MX. The Florentine Codex even includes an illustration of Malinche, the translator of Cortes http://www.wdl.org/en/item/10623/view/1/55/.
If you are interested in the culture and history of a particular country you may want to look at The Handbook of Latin American Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/ which will lead you to selected books and especially articles in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Library of Congress' online catalog http://catalog.loc.gov/ will lead you to the wide panoply of items available you can request in the Hispanic Reading Room or in other reading rooms.
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Queen Victoria Bibliography
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Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton hasn't played in a game since fracturing his humerus while sliding into home on April 12. He was initially given a 6-8 week timeline, and his recovery has gone very smoothly, to the point at which the end of the road has become clearly visible. As Jeff Wilson writes, Hamilton could begin a brief rehab assignment in the minors in just a few days:
Reigning league MVP Josh Hamilton could start a rehab assignment as early as Wednesday if he continues to progress in his recovery from a broke right humerus (upper arm) bone. He will have a CT scan Wednesday, and will be in the Frisco lineup that night if cleared by Dr. Keith Meister. He will serve as the designated hitter throughout his rehab stint, which will run through at least next Sunday.
If all goes well, Hamilton could return to the Rangers next week, which would be welcome news for a struggling team currently playing without all three of its regular outfielders. Nelson Cruz and Julio Borbon are also currently on the disabled list (although, like Hamilton, Cruz is about to begin a rehab assignment, and should return even sooner).


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The eighteenth free expansion for City of Heroes® introduces major new game upgrades and is the milestone for the release of the content in the City of Heroes Going Rogue™ expansion.
Tips System
The Tips System gives players a new way to find missions. During play, foes Level 20 or higher may drop notes or clues, or offer information. These Tips start new mission arcs, allowing characters to face new opponents and challenges--and perhaps even change their destiny.
One Auction House for All
Players of all alignments, whether they are Heroes, Villains, Vigilantes, or Rogues, can now use any Wentworth's Consignment House or Black Market venue.
Trading Between Alignments
Heroes and Villains can now trade Inspirations in co-op zones. Players can even mail certain items to their own characters using the global email system.
Mission Architect Additions
With the inclusion of doppelgangers, your character can now fight against himself or herself!
New Hardware Support
City of Heroes now supports Alienware AlienFX®.
Issue 18: Shades of Gray reintroduces the long-awaited Cathedral of Pain Trial. The Cathedral of Pain is the name of one of the strongholds of Ruularu the Ravager, a cosmic entity with unimaginable powers. Inside the heavily defended Cathedral of Pain, Ruularu is attempting to pierce the barrier between his realm and our reality. If he succeeds, Ruularu gains ultimate power, and our dimension will be obliterated.
Only you and your allies can stop Ruularu.
The Cathedral of Pain is one of the most challenging trials in City of Heroes. Up to 24 Level 50 characters can work together to take down the Soldiers of Ruularu, Psionic Resonators, and ultimately an aspect of Ruularu himself. You have only one hour to complete your mission.
If your group manages to stop Ruularu's insane scheme, your courage will be rewarded! You can earn Merit Rewards, or even earn a rare badge to celebrate this epic victory. But be on guard--Ruularu will return.
NCsoft and Paragon Studios are proud to announce that players will have the opportunity to walk the line between good and evil (or cross it), on August 17th, 2010 with the release of City of Heroes Going Rogue™. City of Heroes Going Rogue is the second paid expansion in the City of Heroes® franchise. For the first time in any super-powered MMORPG, the moral choices players make will affect their characters' game play experiences. Heroes can fall from grace to become Villains, while Villains can redeem themselves to become Heroes. In addition, players can now access the alternate universe of Praetoria where they can enjoy new missions, zones, costume sets, fight new villain groups, and play with new power sets including Demon Summoning, Dual Pistols, Electric Control and Kinetic Melee.
"I was proud when we launched City of Heroes® back in 2004 and even prouder when we unveiled the City of Villains®expansion in 2005, but Going Rogue is by far the best work that this team has ever done. Paragon Studios has distinguished itself as a premier studio committed to excellence with every issue and we've raised the bar on this expansion. I'm so honored to be a part of this team and I believe that our players will be absolutely amazed when they see what we've done." - Melissa Bianco, Lead Designer of City of Heroes.
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Fathers and Teen Daughters
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The most important gift a father can offer a daughter is time. The gift of time communicates acceptance and builds a girl's confidence.
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Grab a calendar. Spend time with her. If you don't already have a regular visitation day, try scheduling a weekly activity, like visiting the library, volunteering, or cooking Sunday breakfast.
Do something hands-on. Help her learn life skills such as tennis, canoeing, or mowing the lawn. Girls who have these experiences are less intimidated by competition and are more ambitious, says Ron Klinger, founder of the Center for Successful Fathering in Austin, Texas.
Feed her interests. Whether it's a gymnastics meet, a musical recital, or a math contest, a dad can support his daughter by attending her events and cheering her on, and learning to enjoy the activity. If you're divorced but on good terms with your ex, ask her to keep you informed of upcoming events if your daughter is less than comnmunicative.


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Federal Housing Administration Financial Condition
Witnesses testified on the financial health of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the government's proper role in home mortgage finance.
*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.
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- Bachus, Spencer U.S. Representative [R] Alabama
- Campbell, John U.S. Representative [R] California
- Capito, Shelley Moore U.S. Representative [R] West Virginia
- Capuano, Michael U.S. Representative [D] Massachusetts
- Garrett, Scott U.S. Representative [R] New Jersey
- Gordon, Julia Director Center for American Progress->Housing Finance and Policy
- Green, Al U.S. Representative [D] Texas
- Hensarling, Jeb U.S. Representative [R] Texas
- Maloney, Carolyn U.S. Representative [D] New York
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- Neugebauer, Randy U.S. Representative [R] Texas
- Petrou, Basil N. Managing Partner Federal Financial Analytics
- Pinto, Edward Chief Credit Officer (Former) Federal National Mortgage Association
- Royce, Edward "Ed" U.S. Representative [R] California
- Sanders, Anthony B. Distinguished Professor George Mason University->Finance
- Sherman, Brad U.S. Representative [D] California
- Velazquez, Nydia M. U.S. Representative [D] New York
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- Watt, Melvin U.S. Representative [D] North Carolina
- Westmoreland, Lynn A. U.S. Representative [R] Georgia
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Kellen Jones has transferred for the second time. The freshman inside linebacker saw some limited time with the Oklahoma Sooners last season, but was not expected to be one of the top two inside linebackers on the depth chart heading into next season. Jones, who previously arrived at Oklahoma by way of Michigan, has decided to transfer to Clemson. He won't play next season, but will have three years of eligibility remaining.
Kellen Jones has to sit this year but will take the RS year and have 3 to play.— DrB (@ShakinSouthland) April 12, 2012
Jones is following Brent Venables, his former position coach, to Clemson. The Tigers fired defensive coordinator Kevin Steele after they gave up 70 points to the West Virginia Mountaineers in the Orange Bowl and hired Venables, the linebackers coach and defensive coordinator at Oklahoma, as his replacement.
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Depart from the Port of Málaga and travel by coach to the exclusive and chic resort area of the Costa del Sol in Marbella, which is located 40-miles to the southwest. Your tour will include a visit to the town of Marbella and Puerto Banús. Walk in the old town of Marbella, which is filled with whitewashed houses and handicraft stores. You will also see the area of the main square and the town hall, still retaining the character and charm of old Spain. In contrast the "new Marbella," is an area planned and radiating out from a center of gardens and fountains.
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Spanish Colonial duplex in Miracle Mile/Longwood Highlands in Los Angeles
- bedrooms 2
- baths 1
- sleeps 6
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- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
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- community Longwood Highland
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This rental is a beautifully restored 1920's
Spanish Colonial duplex set within the Longwood Highland area of Los
Angeles. The 1500 SF 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment has large spacious
rooms, sunny bright living room and dining room, and completely
remodeled kitchen and bathroom. It was remodeled by
owner, architect Gregory Williams and decorated
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furnishings. The apartment comes equiped with wireless internet
service, cable television and washer & dryer equipment. Maid service
is available by request (additional charge)
This beautiful duplex is located in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles known as Longwood Highlands
within 10 minutes from the following LA areas; Beverly Hills, UCLA and USC universities,
shopping area, Hollywood studios, Hollywood Blvd. & Sunset Blvd.
night clubs, La Brea Ave. boutique shopping area, Downtown LA
Convention Center, Koreatown, Miracle Mile Museum Row, & The Grove
at 3rd Street Farmers Market.
The rental is also conveniently located near the major freeways
which provide access to Santa Monica Beach, Universal Studios, &
Disneyland Theme Park (both Santa Monica and Universal Studios are 15 minutes away). Enterprise Rent
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House amenities include the following:
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A short video by Dublin based photography agency Sportsfile featuring all the action and excitement from last weekend's GAA and American Football action in Croke Park.Video: Sportsfile
A patient suspected of suffering from Ebola escaped from a quarantine centre in Liberia's capital Monrovia in search of food on Monday, September 1st. He caused panic in a market before being forced into a vehicle by medical personnel. Video: Reuters
352 kitesurfers broke the Guinness World Record for the largest en masse kitesurf across one nautical mile in southern Spain on Sunday, August 31st, beating last year's record of 318 participants. Video: Reuters
Stephen Berkoff has brought his play, The Actor's Lament, to the Gaiety Theatre. Opens Sept 1st - Sept 6th. Video: Darragh Bambrick
The sun produced a flurry of flares this week says NASA, unleashing over half a dozen solar flares in one day alone. Video: NASA
People gathered at Seamus Heaney's grave beside St Mary's church in Bellaghy, Co Derry on the first anniversary of the Nobel laureate's death to pay respect with poems and private prayers. Video: Alan Betson
16 of the world's best surfers took part in the inaugural Red Bull Cape Fear in Sydney's Botany Bay on Sunday, August 31st. Video: Reuters
Malachy Clerkin speaks to hurley manufacturers Brian Dowling in Kilkenny and Jim O'Brien, Tipperary in advance of Sunday's All-Ireland Hurling Final. Video: Bryan O'Brien
Highlights of Electric Picnic 2014, where 41,000 people crammed into a field for the annual arts and music festival. Video: Niamh Guckian & Daniel O'Connor
The party is almost over in Stradbally - here's some drone footage of sunset at the Picnic.
The Mindfield spoken word arena in Electric Picnic is where you'll find an oasis of readings, political debate, performance poetry, science experiments, inspiring talks, news quizzes, public conversations and much more.
They're long, short, straggly, tidy, but all homegrown. Beards are the ultimate accessory at this year's festival.
Drone footage of the site on the third day of Electric Picnic 2014
A view from above as Hozier is welcomed home by the biggest crowd of the weekend. Video: Sky Tec Ireland
To promote the Tour de Picnic, spinning classes are being held throughout the weekend for festival goers.
Exclusive to The Irish Times - the first ever drone footage of the Electric Picnic. Video: Sky Tec Ireland
Take a trip around the trailer park of Electric picnic. Video: Daniel O'Connor
Footage of Padraig Pearse's famous oration at the graveside of O'Donovan Rossa will be shown in a new film about the revolutionary period to be launched next week.
Opened last week by Médecins Sans Frontières, a 120-bed Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia is already at full capacity. Video: Caroline Van Nespen/MSF
Western powers vow a tough response to an alleged Russian military push into Ukraine. Irish Times correspondent Daniel McLaughlin reports from Kiev.
Residents of Virginia, Cavan speak at this years' Virginia Show about how the town has coped through the resession and whether things have improved
The geographical uniqueness of Boxty has given impetus to a new campaign to give boxty protected geographic indication (PGI) status in Europe. Video: Ronan McGreevy
Patrick Freyne spent 24 hours in Temple Bar, Dublin's cobblestoned quarter of 'culture, drunkenness, oddness'. We caught up with him for a few hours on a Friday afternoon to capture a few of his encounters. Video: Kathleen Harris
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Dublin City Council's Traffic Control Centre monitors traffic and incidents in the greater Dublin area. Brendan O'Brien, Head of Technical Services speaks about the impact that schools reopening will have on traffic flow. Video : Bryan O'Brien
Waves up to about 20 feet (6 meters) high crashed along the Southern California coast on Wednesday, as heavy and potentially dangerous surf from a Pacific cyclone drew crowds of surfers and spectators to Los Angeles-area beaches. Video: Reuters
Italian military police release a video, filmed secretly, of a mafia meeting taking place in Switzerland. Video: Reuters
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SHIVELY, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police say heavy rain likely was a factor in a fatal accident in Shively.
Police responded to an accident at Cane Run Road and Richmont Road about 5:30 Wednesday afternoon.
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The driver of the Camaro was pronounced dead at the scene, but there were no other injuries.Officials closed that intersection for investigation.
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"Two main food sources for redfish are crabs and mullets," says Capt. Charlie Thomason, a redfish pro and guide from Hopedale, Louisiana. "Topwaters look like mullets. They displace the water on the surface and give off noise. Many topwaters come with built-in rattles. The sound travels through the water extremely well and attracts fish. Once a redfish locks on a topwater bait, he's coming and won't stop."
When not hounding mullets in the bays, redfish cruise weedy shorelines or sandy flats, sometimes in water so thin that their backs protrude, making topwaters a natural for tempting spot-tails. Ambush predators, redfish often burrow into weedy pockets or similar cover along marshy shorelines. Anglers routinely see reds "tailing," hanging downward with their tails jutting from the water as they forage for bottom prey.
"I target redfish in water 5 to 8 inches deep," says Capt. Dave Sutton, who guides on the flats at the southern tip of Florida. "When a redfish is tailing, it's not the time to throw him a bait because his head is stuck in the mud. Throw beyond and in front of its projected path. I like to throw about 10 feet beyond and 15 feet in front of it. Often, if you put it closer than that, it might spook. I walk the bait slowly over to the fish. When the tail goes down, twitch it a couple of times."


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Schools in California wasted a tremendous opportunity to open their campuses to a bilingual future after Proposition 227 darkened playgrounds with "English Only" ashes. Cultures were foreclosed, thus barriohoods lost their culture in the hands of conservative forces that were appealing for a mainstream culture, which could subjugate the incipient minorities (Beykont, 2000).
The impact of Proposition 227 on California affected schooling practices for language minorities and increased Latino underachievement. Kerper- Mora (2002) concluded that by excluding primary language structures, "the federal legislation would curtail the rights of parents and local school boards to determine the type of instructional program that they felt were most effective for their children" (41).
Indifferent to the vernacular voices that clamored for a linguistic recognition of their culture, Pedalino (1998) stated that the accumulated research of the past 30 years revealed an almost complete lack of justification for teaching children in their native language. She believes that neither students have a higher sense of self-esteem when they are taught in their first language, nor do they show stress if they are introduced to English from the first day of school. Can students walk into English-Only hallways using polychromic shoes?
Lareau (1987) explains that schools tend to diffuse polychromic knowledge that students bring to school. In public schools, cooperative learning, which is they for successful cognitive acquisition (Johnson, et.al. 1994) becomes a utopia, thus the three different levels: community, school, and district creates are unable to share goals that are beneficial to individuals and to all other group members. Meaningful homework is not only a force that drives students to achieve their personal goals, but also connects all the educational agents involved in an education that wants to be comprehensive and provide equal opportunities to all civic agents of our society.
Contrary to this progressive flow, Entwistle (2000) supports a conservative educational agenda. He analyzes the ideas of acculturation, cultural awareness, and cultural maintenance. Entwistle concludes that schools are not best environment for a "radical, counterhegemonic" revolution. I disagree with him: Teaching is a political act because education is everything we have. The only way to empower students is to build a sense of unity; each culture needs as a socio-cultural reference. Are there teachers within public schools who fight for this cultural harmony?
In the book, Latinos Unidos, Trueba (1999) introduces us to Mr. Villegas, a fourth grade math teacher who gives his students "the knowledge and cognitive skills that translate into high achievement" (Trueba, 1999). Mr. Villegas has created a classroom environment that is student centered; students feel welcomed and they achieve. Why is the curricula indicator important?
Trueba points out that by engaging students and teachers with different methodologies positive results are achieved. However, he specifies that these positive interactions are possible with teachers who are the same race as their students. Although, Trueba does not broach the idea; it seems that teachers who do not to share the same ethnicity as their students have similar impacts. Orellana, Ek, Hernandez (1996) suggest that from the perspective of the children, language was immensely associated with identity; identity was equated in part with national origin and national origin was marked in the color of skin, hair, and eyes. Does a teacher who is a different ethnicity, but speaks the primary language of her/his students have a greater or lesser effect on their learning? How does this equate in students' minds? Ethnic differences amongst the teachers and students should not prevent educational successes or predict educational failure. Effective education uses a communication channel where the agents, speaker and listener, are aware of each other's cultural perceptions (Delpit, 1995). According to Krashen (1985) students who have a lower affective filter are better able to acquire language; we believe that this is also true in social linguistic acculturation. If applied to acculturation we observe one of the following: denativization or nativivation. In denativization students tend to assimilate better into the host (target) culture because they adopt the ideas of the culture, along with retaining their primary culture. In nativivation students apply their prior set of values onto the host culture, and thus experience difficulties in acculturating into their new society. Student development can be compared with Andersen's (1981) theories of language acquisition, in which students who are able to adopt new concepts of language and apply them to the second language, acquire that language faster. When transferring this to acculturation, students that adopt the concepts of the host culture have a smoother process when adapting to the host culture.
Today many scholars agree that traditional, mainstream-normative, public school curricula are not adequate for minority students, nor even for anlgo students (Gordon, Piana, Keleher, 2000). Yet our public schools continue to mandate the use of curricula that ignores and pigeonholes minority students. This mainstream curriculum often perpetuates stereotypes. Habitually, within the mainstream text stereotypes are presented as normal and absolute truths; they rarely go beyond popular belief and seldom present ideas that challenge students to question their validity. Ironically in our schools, the students who constitute the minority are the majority, so why do many teachers continue using these practices?
Ladson Billings (1994) denounced those wedged teachers by requiring the development of a culturally relevant pedagogy. She proved to the skeptical that success is possible among students of diverse backgrounds. She invited transforming educators to further research on teaching techniques, which will bring equity among students. If we know that achievement is possible among immigrant students and students of diverse cultures; why are we still bombarding our pupils with reductive tests that emphasized performance goals and decontextualized knowledge? (Apple, 2003)
This mainstream cognition may be useful for an elite group of suburban students who are "served' by teachers' practices guided to perpetuate the status quo. Yet, students of color are labeled as underperformers. Does our curriculum guarantee a democratic, culturally diverse, equal education for all students?
Schools:Quietness or Dialogue
Schools in California wasted a tremendous opportunity to open their campuses to a bilingual future after Proposition 227 darkened playgrounds with "English Only" ashes. Cultures were foreclosed, thus barriohoods lost their culture in the hands of conservative forces that were appealing for a mainstream culture, which could subjugate the incipient minorities (Beykont, 2000).


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Special Issue "Spatial Data Infrastructures, Cyberinfrastructure, and e-Science for GIScience"
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2013)
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Recent developments in geospatial and related technologies are having profound impacts on the field of geographic information science. This special issue takes stock of these impacts through contributions from leading GIScientists working at this scientific-technological interface. An overriding goal of this special issue will be to bring much needed clarity to the broadly defined and rapidly evolving areas of SDI, cyberinfrastructure, and e-Science to provide focus and guidance to GIScientists who want to make use of stirring new developments in Information and Communication Technology such as high speed networks, high performance computing, and distributed collaborative environments.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Smith Implements announced they are partnering with John Deere and FFA to award college scholarships to local FFA members. This is the inaugural year of the John Deere Dealer Scholarship Program, which is administered by The National FFA Organization. The program will award up to $250,000 in local scholarships annually.
Smith Implements and John Deere are sponsoring five $2,000 scholarships through the National FFA Scholarship program. These scholarships will provide financial aid to FFA members attending two or four year colleges. Smith Implements is excited to help in developing the next generation of community leaders.
"We are thrilled to be part of this program with John Deere," said Rob Cooper, Executive Director of the National FFA Foundation. "John Deere and FFA share a commitment to provide educational opportunities for the next generation of leaders in the agriculture industry."
These scholarships are among the more than 1,500 awarded through the National FFA Organization Scholarship Program each year. Currently, more than 125 corporate sponsors generously contribute nearly $2 million to support this program. Scholarship applications are available online through February 15, 2013, at www.FFA.org/Scholarships.
John Deere is one of the largest and longest continuous sponsors of the National FFA Foundation, providing support for 70 years. The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth and career success training through agricultural education to 557,318 student members in grades seven through 12 who belong to one of 7,498 local FFA chapters throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services and is committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land - those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure. Since 1837, John Deere has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity. For more information, visit John Deere at its worldwide website at www.JohnDeere.com.
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The National FFA Organization is a national youth organization of 557,318 student members as part of 7,498 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The FFA mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. The National FFA Organization operates under a federal charter granted by the 81st United States Congress and it is an integral part of public instruction in agriculture. The U.S. Department of Education provides leadership and helps set direction for FFA as a service to state and local agricultural education programs. For more, visit the National FFA Organization online at www.FFA.org, on Facebook, Twitter and the official National FFA Organization blog.
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The National FFA Foundation builds partnerships with industry, education, government, other foundations and individuals to secure financial resources that fund FFA activities, recognize member achievements, develop student leaders and support the future of agriculture education. Governed by a 19-member board of trustees comprised of educators, business leaders, individual donors and FFA alumni, the foundation is a separately-registered nonprofit organization. Approximately 82 percent of all sponsorship funding received by the foundation supports opportunities for FFA members and agricultural education. For more, visit the National FFA Foundation at www.ffa.org/donate.
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ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials in Georgia offered free HIV testing Thursday in observance of National HIV testing day.
The state Department of Public Health teamed up with its national partner, Greater than AIDS, and health departments around the state to offer the free testing.
Georgians got free HIV tests at select Walgreens pharmacies, county health departments and other Greater than AIDS partners, and officials say free testing will be available at some locations throughout the weekend.
More than 1.1 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV, but 20% of them don't know it, health officials say. HIV testing is critical to stopping the spread of the virus.
Georgia ranks sixth in the nation for the number of AIDS cases reported through the end of 2009.
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Ahman Green and Morlon Greenwood waived.
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