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The Baltimore Ravens sign safety Bernard Pollard to a three-year contract extension, through 2015, although terms have not yet been released. Pollard played in all 16 games last season and had 55 tackles, 2 sacks, 3 forced fumbles and one interception. Oh yeah, he also hits like a runaway truck!

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Is it possible for people to register and retain what is said in their presence while they sleep? If it is possible, is the learning that takes place during sleep efficient enough to be of practical as well as theoretical significance? These are the questions of chief concern in this paper. To address these issues, the second section of the paper summarizes research dealing with a number of variables that may have an important influence on sleep learning. In the third section, some tentative conclusions concerning the possibility and practicality of learning during sleep are outlined.
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I know Terrell Pryor is getting alot of attention regarding the supplemental draft, but there are a couple of intriguing prosepcts that may be worth a shot in the draft. More after the jump
The first is a small college defensive lineman named Keenan Mace, he was signed by the Cowboys after the lockout, however, he was deemed to be inelegible as a UFA due to leaving school early and was forced to go in the supplemental draft. He is listed as 6' 4" and 310 lbs, and runs a 4.8 40 yard dash with 32 reps at 225 bench. Obviously playing at Linwood University he is a very raw talent and would need alot of coaching; however, he has the physical tools to be a goot DT in the scheme we are running. The following is some highlight footage, I apologize for the music.
The other prospect is UNC DE Michael McAdoo, listed at 6' 7" and 245lbs, he had not played much at UNC, however, had a bliztering spring game in 2011 getting 4 sacks and 1 int, and being named the MVP. It looked like he was set to have a breakout year this season for the Tar Heals and may have been a early round selection next year had he come out. Obviously his frame is lean and he wouldn't be able to contribute much this season, but he has the frame to add 25 to 30 lbs and be a Jason Taylor like specimen. Again, probably worth a 6th round pick in the supplemental draft.


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deLesseps Story Morrison
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|DeLesseps Story Morrison
|Morrison in 1961
|54th Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
|In office
April 4, 1946 – July 17, 1961
|Preceded by
|Robert Maestri
|Succeeded by
|Victor H. Schiro
|Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
|In office
|Personal details
January 18, 1912
New Roads
Pointe Coupee Parish
Louisiana, USA
|May 22, 1964
(aged 52)
Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
|Political party
|Corinne Waterman Morrison (1921–1959, married from 1942 until her death)
|Half-brother Jacob Haight Morrison
|deLesseps Morrison, Jr. (1944–1996)
Corinne Ann Morrison (born 1947)
Randolph Waterman "Randy" Morrison (1956–1964)
|Alma mater
|Louisiana State University
|Roman Catholic
deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr.,[1] (January 18, 1912—May 22, 1964) was an attorney and politician, the mayor of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961. He also served as an appointee of U.S. President John F. Kennedy as the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States between 1961 and 1963. New Orleans' peak population was reached during Morrison's mayoralty, when the 1960 census recorded 627,525 inhabitants, a 10 percent increase from the 1950 figures. Morrison ran three primary campaigns for the Louisiana Democratic gubernatorial nomination, but was not successful. Because Louisiana African Americans had been effectively disfranchised since the turn of the century, the Democratic primary was the only competitive election in the one-party state.
deLesseps Morrison was born in New Roads, the seat of Pointe Coupee Parish; he is the half-brother of Jacob Haight Morrison. The former mayor died in an airplane crash in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.
- 1 Early life, education, military
- 2 Law and political career
- 3 Marriage and family
- 4 World War II and after
- 5 Election as mayor
- 6 Morrison as mayor
- 7 Morrison and Louisiana politics
- 8 Declining political fortunes
- 9 Death
- 10 The Morrison family
- 11 Notes
- 12 Citations
- 13 References
Early life, education, military[edit]
Morrison was the second son of Jacob Haight Morrison, III (1875–1929), a district attorney in Pointe Coupee Parish, and the first for the former Anita Olivier, a New Orleans socialite and the DA's second wife. The boy was named after deLesseps Story, a respected New Orleans judge to whom he was related on his mother's side; the family was also related to Ferdinand de Lesseps and Sidney Story, an alderman for whom the area of Storyville was named.[2] As a boy in New Roads, Morrison once worked for an ice dealer, Alton Gaudin, father of future Louisiana state Representative Clark Gaudin of Baton Rouge. He had an older half-brother, Jacob Haight Morrison, IV, son of his father's first marriage to the former Eloise Yancy (1876–1905) of Jonesville, who died the year her son was born.
In 1932, Morrison graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. In 1934, he completed his law degree from LSU.
Law and political career[edit]
He moved to New Orleans, where he became an attorney with the National Recovery Administration, a New Deal agency. Thereafter, he became a law partner with his brother Jacob Morrison and Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr, a future Democratic U.S. Representative.
As an active Democrat, Morrison in 1939 helped to organize the People's League of Independent Voters in New Orleans. In 1940, Morrison was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 12th Ward; he became a reliable floor leader for the reform faction led by Governor Sam Houston Jones. One of his colleagues, William J. "Bill" Dodd, from Allen Parish, became a future ally and rival on occasions.
Marriage and family[edit]
In 1942, Morrison married Corinne Waterman of New Orleans. They had three children together. Their oldest son, deLesseps Story Morrison, Jr, known as "Toni", became a politician like his father and was elected as a Louisiana State Representative (1974–1980).
World War II and after[edit]
During World War II, Morrison left the state legislature to join the United States Army. He was promoted to the rank of colonel, and became chief of staff of the occupation forces stationed in the city of Bremen, Germany. He received the Bronze Star and also served in England, France, and Belgium. In 1944, both he and Bill Dodd were reelected to the legislature in absentia by their constituents.
After the war, Morrison returned to New Orleans to practice law. Continuing with the U.S. Army Reserve, he attained the rank of major general.
Election as mayor[edit]
Morrison was approached by a group of Uptown reformers in December 1945 to run for mayor in the election of 1946. The attractive and dynamic young veteran ran a campaign emphasizing the need to clean up the corruption of incumbent Mayor Robert Maestri, who had been affiliated with the Earl Long faction of Louisiana Democratic politics. Maestri's Old Regulars had dominated New Orleans for decades. Morrison pulled a major upset when he defeated Maestri in the first primary. He was among many returning World War II veterans to gain political office during that period.
Morrison as mayor[edit]
As mayor, Morrison put together a strong public relations team, which helped him cultivate an image as a dynamic reformer and of the city as a progressive one. He gained widespread praise in the national press. The journalist Iris Kelso was first assigned to the City Hall beat in 1954 and covered the Morrison administration in great detail.
Morrison marketed the city effectively, and was instrumental in creating the post-World War II image of New Orleans as a growing and progressive Sun Belt metropolis. His administration attracted significant private investment and welcomed the establishment of numerous oil industry and white-collar corporate offices in downtown New Orleans, as well as several sizable new industrial plants elsewhere. To emphasize his differences from his predecessor, whom he had characterized as dictatorial, Morrison worked to get a law passed to reduce the powers of the mayor.
He created a new city planning commission and moved to make administration more efficient by firing many of Maestri's patronage appointments (though some were replaced with Morrison's own supporters). He also downsized city operations by selling off most of the city's public markets. Most were torn down, which was regretted later as costing the city valuable community centers. He addressed a housing crisis by building veterans' housing operated by the Housing Authority of New Orleans, and engaged in more large-scale urban renewal than any other New Orleans mayor. Morrison's administration demolished low-income neighborhoods to build new or expand existing public housing projectse expropriated private property to construct the New Orleans Civic Center, the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, and several street-widening projects in the city's downtown.
One of his most popular acts was to create the New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD), which included segregated facilities for whites and blacks (all public facilities were segregated in those years). He began an extensive citywide street improvement program financed though a bond issue, and located funding sufficient to construct numerous street overpasses and underpasses, eliminating most at-grade railway crossings within the city limits. Morrison acquiesced in New Orleans Public Service's dismantling of the city's extensive streetcar network in the 1950s.
A proponent of increased international trade, Morrison lent his support to the construction of the International Trade Mart - precursor to the city's World Trade Center. He traveled extensively in Latin America to promote trade with New Orleans. He became friends with dictators Rafael Trujillo and Juan Perón. Morrison's wish to reinforce ties with Latin America was expressed in such urban renewal projects as having new central area circulators embellished with monuments to Central and South American historical figures. The widened Basin Street was outfitted with monuments to Simón Bolívar, Benito Juárez, and Francisco Morazán. The statue of Simón Bolívar was particularly prominently sited and still stands at the corner of Canal and Basin streets. A new circulator in Central City was named Simon Bolivar Avenue after the liberator.
Despite running on a platform stressing the elimination of the Old Regular machine, after his election Morrison quickly built his own political organization, the Crescent City Democratic Association. Modelled on the Old Regular system of ward and precinct captains, the CCDA began finding its supporters jobs in City Hall and in municipal construction contracts. In October 1946, Morrison broke a garbage collectors' strike by organizing volunteer scab labor to take over the duties of the strikers.
His organization's power quickly eclipsed that of the Old Regulars, and he secured easy re-elections in 1950, 1954, and 1958. Morrison pushed for a new city charter in 1954, which replaced the at-large council commission system with a legislative city council combining five district-based and two at-large members. The system of municipal government established by the 1954 charter still operates in New Orleans.
In 1954, Morrison attended the inauguration of newly elected Mayor James C. Gardner of Shreveport, who served a single four-year term. Gardner undertook similar reforms in Shreveport of the kind that Morrison had initiated in New Orleans. The two became good friends over the years; Gardner was considered more conservative than Morrison.
In 1950, Morrison was elected president of the National Municipal Association. In 1953, he won the organization's LaGuardia Award, named for former New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia.
Morrison, crime, and the NOPD[edit]
After assuming office in 1946, Morrison appointed Adair Watters superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) in an effort to eliminate corruption. But tensions developed when Watters moved to suppress gambling, prostitution, and other vice too zealously for Morrison's liking. Watters resigned in February 1949 because of Morrison's political interference with NOPD activities.
Throughout most of the 1950s, scandals continued to be revealed concerning the involvement of the NOPD in graft and vice. Not only was the NOPD accused of refusing to stop prostitution and gambling, but there was evidence of NOPD involvement in protection rackets for vice operations. In 1952, the Metropolitan Crime Commission of New Orleans was established as an independent monitor of the NOPD and the Morrison administration's approach to vice. State Police Colonel Francis Grevemberg, later a two-time gubernatorial candidate, led a series of high-profile raids on New Orleans gambling establishments that embarrassed Morrison and the NOPD for its inactivity. Eventually, retired FBI Agent Aaron M. Kohn was sent from Chicago to investigate NOPD involvement in vice. Kohn later recalled,
"After about a year, I began to realize something about the system down here. In Chicago , people were generally on one side of the fence or the other—honest or crooked. But in Louisiana , there just isn't any fence."[3]
He soon complained that Morrison was obstructing his efforts. Morrison refused to fire Joseph Schuering, the NOPD superintendent implicated in the scandals, until sustained political pressure in 1955 forced the mayor to ask for Schuering's resignation.
Morrison and race[edit]
Early in his administration, Morrison supported the construction of a suburban-style black neighborhood named Pontchartrain Park, built public housing for low-income blacks, and spent money on street and infrastructure improvements in black neighborhoods. NORD built playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreational centers for African Americans. These actions earned him the enmity of hard-line segregationists. In 1950, he oversaw the NOPD's hiring of its first black policeman since the advent of the Jim Crow era in the late 19th century. Morrison remained committed to segregation and was known to use racial slurs in private conversations. The facilities he built in black neighborhoods were segregated and received inferior funding compared to civic projects in white neighborhoods. Historian Adam Fairclough interprets Morrison's building programs for blacks as a way of "shoring up segregation" by defusing dissatisfaction with inferior facilities. Many black leaders found him sympathetic but unwilling to take more meaningful action to address their concerns. Morrison's approach to race relations increasingly fell behind the times as the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s gained momentum.
New Orleans gained national attention in the fall of 1960 as the city's school board implemented a federal integration order for its public schools. A handful of black students entered two white schools in the city's Ninth Ward, but were greeted outside with mobs of white women and youths screaming racial slurs and throwing bottles and refuse. While Morrison did not join Governor Jimmie Davis' drive to prevent integration by shutting the schools down, he did nothing to prevent the intimidating segregationist demonstrations. The NOPD passively stood by while mobs heckled parents bringing their children to school, but at the same time, police arrested civil rights activists holding lunch counter sit-ins in the city. Morrison's lack of action stemmed from his political need to avoid alienating black supporters while retaining a segregationist stance to satisfy whites. His position resulted in criticism from both sides; black New Orleanians and supporters of civil rights felt he had betrayed them, while hard-line segregationists accused him of supporting integration. Ultimately, his fence-straddling on civil rights contributed significantly to the fatigue and disenchantment with which the citizenry received his administration's actions in its final years - a sharp contrast with the comparatively ebullient 1950s. Morrison's leadership failures on civil rights did much to compromise his earlier achievements. This resulted in New Orleans being more poorly positioned socially and economically for the post-Civil Rights era than its (at that time) peer cities such as Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas.
In his 1959 gubernatorial runoff contest, Morrison proclaimed his support for segregation and noted that New Orleans was at that time the least racially mixed of the large southern cities. He boasted that he had been sued by the NAACP over his segregationist policies in the city.[4]
Morrison and Louisiana politics[edit]
Following the 1948 gubernatorial election, in which Morrison had endorsed former Governor Sam Houston Jones, the winner Earl Kemp Long convinced the legislature to enact a series of measures to punish New Orleans for its support of Morrison. Long's brother, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., had used similar tactics in his feud with then New Orleans Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley. Huey Long had the legislature pass laws which limited the city government's control over taxation, control over the police and fire departments, operation of the port, and civil service appointments. But, Earl Long's anti-Morrison constitutional amendments were defeated. Moreover, the support of the Old Regulars for Long's punitive measures further eroded the machine's support among New Orleans voters.
Morrison had a longstanding ambition to become governor of Louisiana, and he ran unsuccessfully for that office three times. Each time he ran, he was strongly opposed in the northern half of the state, which was conservative and Protestant, because of his perceived liberal views, particularly on race (though he was a declared segregationist), and his Roman Catholicism.
Election of 1956[edit]
In the election of 1956, Morrison lost to Earl Long. The acerbic Long ridiculed Morrison as a "city slicker" out of touch with residents of small towns and rural areas. Long laughed at his opponent's unusual first name deLesseps: "Ole De la Soups is the only man that can talk out of both sides of his mouth, whistle, and strut all at once."[citation needed] Trailing both Long and Morrison in the 1956 primary were Fred Preaus of Farmerville, the choice of outgoing Governor Robert Kennon; Francis Grevemberg, the former state police superintendent; and James M. McLemore, the Alexandria auction-barn owner who ran his second consecutive unsuccessful race on a strictly segregationist platform.
Election of 1960[edit]
Three LSU scholars described Morrison, as he launched his second bid for governor, accordingly:
"Morrison was different from the typical anti-Long candidate inasmuch as he had demonstrated liberal proclivities, particularly in giving support to the national Democratic Party and his attitude on labor and race relations. In many respects, Morrison seemed to represent the combination that Louisiana voters had unsuccessfully groped for over a long period of time: respectability and integrity in combination with a welfare-state programmatic outlook ... Morrison was faced with two awesome handicaps: he was from New Orleans, and he was of the Roman Catholic faith. The traditional suspicion of the 'big-city' counted against him in many areas of the state, and the predominantly Protestant north Louisiana sector has long contended that no Catholic could or should be governor of the state."[5]
In the election of 1959-1960, Morrison lost to former Governor Jimmie Davis, a singer of both popular songs and gospel hymns. He polled 414,110 votes (45.5 percent) in the runoff to Davis' 487,681 (54.1 percent). Davis was endorsed in the runoff by the third-place candidate, segregationist William Monroe Rainach of Claiborne Parish, as well as Rainach's preferred candidate for state comptroller, future U.S. Representative Joe D. Waggonner. Morrison was endorsed by the fifth-place candidate, Bill Dodd, but Dodd's showing had been insufficient to help Morrison that much. Rainach later expressed disappointment with the second Davis administration, even though he had endorsed the man.
In the primary runoff, Morrison's lieutenant governor choice, then Alexandria Mayor W. George Bowdon, Jr., lost his race to Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock of Franklin in St. Mary Parish, and a former Speaker of the Louisiana House. Other Morrison ticket candidates lost too, including George W. Shannon for Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry, Fred Columbus Dent, Sr., for register of state land, David Wallace Chennault, son of General Claire Chennault, for custodian of voting machines, Mrs. Marion Henderson of Colfax in Grant Parish for state comptroller, and R. W. "Tom" Farrar, Jr., for state attorney general.[6]
Election of 1964[edit]
In the election of 1963-1964, Morrison lost to Public Service Commissioner John Julian McKeithen from the small town of Columbia in rural Caldwell Parish. In the 1964 primary, Morrison ran with attorney Claude B. Duval, from Houma (Terrebonne Parish), who sought the office of lieutenant governor. Duval, a longtime personal friend of Morrison's, also lost, defeated by his St. Mary Parish neighbor, C.C. Aycock, who ran as an independent that year. (Although he was a Democrat, Aycock was not allied with a gubernatorial slate of candidates.) Two other Morrison-backed candidates were State Representative Jack M. Dyer of Baton Rouge for insurance commissioner and Mayor Raymond Laborde of Marksville for custodian of voting machines. Dyer lost to Dudley A. Guglielmo, and Laborde fell to the incumbent Douglas Fowler of Coushatta in Red River Parish. Laborde had argued for the abolition of the office, which was finally ended in 2004.
Declining political fortunes[edit]
By his final term as mayor, Morrison's luster had faded somewhat. Some of his ideas, such as the unsuccessful 1959 proposal for a monorail, were met with widespread opposition. He moved surprisingly slowly to construct a passenger terminal for New Orleans' international airport; for its first thirteen years of operation New Orleanians departed from a glorified barn while its regional economic rivals invested in constructing modern facilities. Morrison also failed in his efforts to keep the Pelicans baseball team in New Orleans. The energy that had characterized his early years in office seemed thoroughly dissipated. Former political allies such as City Councilman and future Lieutenant Governor James Edward "Jimmy" Fitzmorris, Jr., began to express their independence and positioned themselves for a future without Morrison.
In the aftermath of the school integration crisis, Morrison's reputation was tarnished and his political future was uncertain. He was the first of many New Orleans mayors to try to amend the 1954 city charter to allow a third consecutive term as mayor, but did not succeed. This left him without a certain political future.
Seeking a political base from which to stage another run for governor, he approached the John F. Kennedy administration and was appointed Ambassador to the Organization of American States on July 17, 1961. In a further sign of his declining political fortunes, his chosen candidate for mayor in the New Orleans election of 1962 – State Senator Adrian G. Duplantier – lost the Democratic runoff to Victor Schiro.
Four months after his final election defeat, Morrison was killed May 22, 1964, in a plane crash in Mexico.
Morrison funeral[edit]
Former Shreveport Mayor Jim Gardner, in his memoirs, recalls details of the Morrison funeral:
- "The Morrison funeral was a moving and impressive event. A motorcade formed in front of the Capitol House Hotel [in Baton Rouge] at 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 1964. There were about twenty automobiles led by the governor [John McKeithen]. I rode down with four other state representatives in Representative Spencer Todd's brand new Cadillac. Others in the car were Conway LeBleu, Joe Henry Cooper, and Steve Dupuis. It turned out that Steve lived next door to my cousin ... in Opelousas.
- "When we arrived in New Orleans we went to the new City Hall and were joined by Mayor Victor Schiro and thence to Gallier Hall, where the bodies [Morrison and son] were in state. Gallier Hall is an architecturally magnificent old building that had been the City Hall for most of Chep's tenure. It was there that I had attended one of his staff meetings in 1955.
- "The public viewing was now completed and our visit was special. The body was in the former waiting room for the mayor's office ... At the door were smartly uniformed firemen and policemen. The room itself was still adorned with large fine paintings ... The two-star flag of a major general with black streamers hung over the flag-draped coffin which was attended by a military honor guard. Chep loved things military and would have approved of the arrangements.
- "We were officially greeted by Jimmy Fitzmorris (later lieutenant governor) who was chairman of the New Orleans City Council. Jimmy, also a friend of mine, had been asked by the Morrison family to handle all of the arrangements which he did in splendid fashion. Everything seemed so right. I found it easy to visualize the excitement of the room when Chep ruled from there."
- "... The mass lasted about an hour ... A military presence was still evident as all of the pallbearers were Army officers ... Life was going on as a great and good friend departed it."
The Morrison family[edit]
Morrison married Corinne on October 3, 1942. Mrs. Morrison (born August 17, 1921) died at the age of thirty-seven on February 26, 1959, just a few months before her husband launched his second gubernatorial bid.
The Morrisons' seven-year-old son, John Randolph Waterman "Randy" Morrison (born September 24, 1956), died with his father in the 1964 plane crash.
The Morrisons' daughter Corinne Ann Morrison (born 1947) became an attorney and practiced in New Orleans.
Their older son, deLesseps Story "Toni" Morrison, Jr. (1944–1996), who like his father was elected to the state house, ran unsuccessfully for mayor in the 1977 New Orleans mayoral election. "Toni" Morrison died of lung cancer on August 21, 1996. Both Chep and Toni Morrison died at the age of fifty-two. All four Morrisons are buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
In 1995 deLesseps Morrison was inducted posthumously into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to deLesseps Morrison.
- ^ Morrison's first name is usually spelled with a lowercase d and a capital L, i.e. "deLesseps" (as in John Wilds, Charles L. Dufour, and Walter G. Cowan. Louisiana Yesterday and Today: A Historical Guide to the State. LSU Press, 1996. p. 128.) and occasionally with a space, i.e. "de Lesseps" (as in Mel Leavitt. A Short History of New Orleans. Lexikos, 1982. p. 145.). (His tombstone reads "deLESSEPS STORY MORRISON".)
- ^ New Orleans in the Forties by Mary Lou Widmer. Pelican Publishing: 2007. ISBN 158980497X pg 119
- ^ Life Magazine, September 8, 1967, page 94.
- ^ Morrison political advertisement, Minden Herald, December 31, 1959, p. 4
- ^ William C. Havard, Rudolf Heberle, and Perry H. Howard, The Louisiana Elections of 1960, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Studies, 1963, pp. 39–40
- ^ Louisiana Secretary of State, Election returns, December 5, 1959, and January 9, 1960
- Mark T. Carleton, Readings in Louisiana Politics (1975) includes a study of Morrison's three failed gubernatorial campaigns.
- "DeLesseps Story Morrison", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, publication of the Louisiana Historical Association (1988), p. 585
- Fairclough, Adam. Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915–1972. University of Georgia Press, 1995.
- Gardner, James C. Jim Gardner and Shreveport, Vol. II. Shreveport: Ritz Publications, 2006, pp. 43–44.
- Haas, Edward F. DeLesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946–60. Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
- Hathorn, Billy. "The Republican Party in Louisiana, 1920–1980", Master's thesis (1980) at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches
- "DeLesseps Story Morrison". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- http://www.cityofwinnfield.com/museum.html
- http://nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/gateway/dsm.htm
- http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2001-08-28/blake.html
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- 1964 deaths
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- National Recovery Administration
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37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
Why because love brings more souls to God than hatred speech, fire, or brimstone. Change hearts not laws, and let God's law reign supreme through salvation. No matter what the world says is right, as Christians we are accountable to God.
I am not writing this letter to accuse but rather to advance understanding. And even though I am white, I am not writing as an outsider but as a fellow evangelical, part of the same spiritual family. May I pose some candid questions?
Are you guilty, on any level, of blind allegiance to the Democratic party? And, on Election Day, did any of you compromise your convictions out of racial solidarity?
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PopUp library to open in downtown Reading on Tuesday
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A pop-up library will open in downtown Reading on Tuesday.
Computers and highly circulated library materials will be available at 645 Penn St.
The main branch of the Reading Public Library is closed for the next two to three months.
The 100-year-old library on South Fifth Street is getting a facelift that includes fresh paint, new carpet and repairs
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Inhaled air travels through the airways to the alveoli. Blood is pumped out of the heart through the pulmonary arteries to a network of capillaries that surround the alveoli. The oxygen of the inhaled air diffuses out of the alveoli into the blood while carbon dioxide in the blood moves into the alveoli to be exhaled. The oxygen-rich blood is returned to the heart through the pulmonary veins.
When COPD develops, the walls of the small airways and alveoli lose their elasticity. The airway walls thicken, closing off some of the smaller air passages and narrowing larger ones. The passageways also become plugged with mucus. Air continues to get into alveoli when the lung expands during inhalation, but it is often unable to escape during exhalation because the air passages tend to collapse during exhalation, trapping the "stale" air in the lungs. These abnormalities create two serious problems which affect gas exchange:
- Blood flow and air flow to the walls of the alveoli where gas exchange takes place are uneven or mismatched. In some alveoli there is adequate blood flow but little air, while in others there is a good supply of fresh air but not enough blood flow. When this occurs, fresh air cannot reach areas where there is good blood flow and oxygen cannot enter the bloodstream in normal quantities.
- Pushing the air through narrowed obstructed airways becomes harder and harder. This tires the respiratory muscles so that they are unable to get enough air to the alveoli. The critical step for removing carbon dioxide from the blood is adequate alveolar airflow. If airflow to the alveoli is insufficient, carbon dioxide builds up in the blood and blood oxygen diminishes. Inadequate supply of fresh air to the alveoli is called hypoventilation. Breathing oxygen can often correct the blood oxygen levels, but this does not help remove carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide accumulation becomes a severe problem, mechanical breathing machines called respirators, or ventilators, must be used.
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Last Friday Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail wrote an article about the NHL player escrow checks and other CBA details. A mildly interesting subject but that's not what caught my attention. Embedded within the article's second page resides a snippet chronicling the Sabres disappointing season. It is here that Duhatschek falls into a trap of his own making; the strawman.
For those unfamiliar, a strawman is a logical fallacy where a misrepresentation is presented and argued against because it is easier to strike down then the real thing. After a thorough run through of the discouraging season several Sabres are having, Duhatschek introduces the Rangers as a "rosterial" exemplar. Duhatschek describes the Rangers as operating "with judicious free-agent buys (Brad Richards, Marian Gaborik) supplemented by a whole lot of homegrown talent (just about everybody else on their NHL roster)".
By advertising the Rangers as a mostly home-grown team Duhatschek is, in effect, saying the Sabres are not. It takes only a look at the respective rosters to notice the shortcomings in this assertion. Only 7 players of the 21 on the Rangers' current active roster were drafted by the club; 33.3%. Three non-Ranger draft picks have seen time with the Connecticut Whale; that puts the percentage of players who have seen time with the Rangers' AHL club at 47.6. The Sabres on the other hand have an impressive 14 players of 23 on their current active roster who were drafted by the club; 60.9%. This does not even include Tyler Ennis, Brayden McNabb, or Corey Tropp who are all Sabres draft picks and have all seen time with the Sabres this year. To be fair that 60.9% also doesn't include San Jose Sharks draft pick Christian Erhoff who is currently inactive, but if it were not for the rash of injuries, undrafted Matt Ellis wouldn't be included either.
The strawman isn't the only problem with Duhatschek take. What a world of difference context makes. Just last year I doubt Duhatschek would be calling Gaborik a "judicious" signing. For the 2010/11 season Gaborik was paid $7.5M (that's also his cap-hit) for 22 goals and 48 pints; a 20-goal drop-off from his previous season's output. Let's not forget Derek Boogaard who was given a 4-year, $6.5M contract in the summer of 2010. That's not to say that the Rangers haven't committed to developing from within. Glenn Sather's renewed attention to the draft is to be commended, but if he learned its importance from anyone, it would be Darcy Regier and the Sabres and credit should be given accordingly. But why should a journalist do that? The Sabres' recent struggle is nuanced and difficult to understand, let alone explain. Characterizing the Sabres as one-dimensional free agent lovers who spent unwisely is easy.


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The Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties kicked off its Holiday Food and Fund Drive in San Carlos Wednesday, organization officials said.
"Hunger is unacceptable in this community," said Mike Klayko, food drive co-chair and CEO of Brocade.
"Even in the heart of the Silicon Valley, which prides itself on collaboration and innovation, hunger has become a serious problem in our surrounding community," San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York said.
Hunger and homelessness is particulary a large issue in the city of Gilroy, which has over 400 homeless people as of 2011, Gilroy Compassion Center board member, Jan Bernstein-Chargin wrote.
The money raised during the Second Harvest Food drive makes up about 50 percent of the food bank's revenue for the calendar year. More than 46 million pounds of food is distributed annually, with higher needs in Gilroy, Daly City and San Jose.
"We try to cater our distribution on the needs of the community," Cardenas said.
York was selected to be a co-chair by Klayko and begins a two-year term with the food bank.
"People who never thought they would need help are now turning to Second Harvest Food Bank for assistance. We are fortunate to live in a community where people work together and help each other prosper, so it's only fitting that our local corporations get involved and help those who are less fortunate," York said.
The food bank collaborates with more than 300 nonprofits to provide food at nearly 650 pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and after-school programs in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
It has set a goal of reaching $11.3 million and 1.6 million pounds of food, organizers said.
"It is unacceptable that in a wealthy community like ours, one in four people are struggling to put food on the table," Kathy Jackson, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank, said. "Second Harvest Food Bank has managed to meet the rising need for food despite the growing challenges."
The food bank provided more than 35 million meals last year and nearly 40 percent of the food was fresh produce, the food bank said.
—By Bay City News Service


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There's nothing wrong with the Seth Rogen and Barbara Streisand big screen team up The Guilt Trip that a new director, writer, musical score, director of photography, and production designer couldn't fix. It's a road trip comedy so drab, flat, and painfully predictable that the few laughs it actually has appear out of nowhere like mirages in a desert hinting that salvation might be just around the corner only to have those same hopes dashed seconds later.
Struggling organic chemist turned inventor Andrew Brewster (Rogen) has embarked on a road trip from New York to Las Vegas to try and sell his new eco-friendly cleaning product that will make or break his career. After starting off at his childhood home and following some initial rejection, Andy asks his M&M munching, frog themed knickknack collecting, motormouthed mother (Streisand) to accompany him on the journey. Both are single following his break-up and her becoming a widow at the when Andy was 8. The real motivations for the two seem to be to have him meet up with his old high school sweetheart in Tennessee and he wants to take her to the true first love (and his actual namesake) in San Francisco.
Hilarity is supposed to ensue because the two are very obviously designed as having the prototypical Jewish mother and son relationship. He just wants her to go away at times, but he also wants nothing more than for her to be happy. She's always feeding him, is incredibly naïve about the world, sabotages his plans with her own good intentions, and she can't shut up for more than five seconds at a time.
Nothing that either character says or does seems even remotely surprising for a second and the outline of their whole trip can be seen in ever stop they make. Things get awkward when the pair are forced to share hotel rooms, stop off at a strip club during a snow storm, she follows him into pitch meetings, she takes on an eating challenge at a Texas steakhouse, she becomes a slot jockey immediately upon pulling into Vegas, etc. Not one of these plot points comes remotely as a shock and the list that each item is being ticked off on might as well just be an onscreen sidebar.
Director Anne Fletcher doesn't help matters by making her film one of the ugliest and incomprehensively edited films of the year. Everything looks like some sort of strange nightmare with sets that were slapped together at the last minute to look as color draining as possible. Scenes that are supposed to have resolutions or punchlines are almost always getting cut short, which never allows either character to develop outside of their very basic, stereotypical trappings. Even the scenes that almost approach become effective are ruined by an incredibly annoying and on-the-nose musical score comprised of the most soulless acoustic guitar and gratingly inspirational string section in any film this year.
What's even worse besides setting what should have been an excellent supporting cast adrift (including Colin Hanks, Adam Scott, and Brett Cullen) with less than nothing to do except show up and look baffled at what they see, is that Rogen and Streisand – both of whom can be very funny people – aren't given anything funny to say and are forced to resort to depressing, shorthand schitck that's been seen so many times before that these jokes should be officially moved to a retirement home.
But if you'll notice, I didn't say anything bad about Rogen or Streisand because it's very apparent that both are trying their hardest to make this dreadful business work. The chemistry between the two of them feels like a natural mother and son relationship, and when the two strive to deliver Dan Fogelman's stilted dialogue with a sense of realism it's obvious that both want to make a better film than the one they're stuck in. When they aren't forced into being aggressively unfunny, they make things feel natural, and the few dramatic moments that show up are so very well done that they hint at a better version of the script and film that we sadly never get a chance to see.
Rogen does a great job dialing back all of the usual surface anger to give a sense of flustered frustration that the audience can connect with even if they don't jive with the material. Streisand goes as unglamorous as possible as a frumpy woman who hasn't given up on life since her son left the nest, but has instead gone in the exact opposite direction and tries too hard at everything. They are always on point even when the movie around them is too loose, slack, and standard to really generate any interest. It might as well just be a film about making the two of them tow an 18-wheeler cross country with their teeth.
Rated PG
Cast: Seth Rogen, Barbra Streisand
Directed by: Anne Fletcher
Top image: A scene from The Guilt Trip. Courtesy Paramount Pictures.


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Deputies said a woman hit a man with her car, then he got in with her as they led authorities on a two-town chase before crashing on Wednesday.
Chief Deputy Michael Wheeler, with the Polk County Sheriff's Office, said it all started about 8:15 a.m. when a deputy spotted a woman hit a man with a car in the parking lot of the Texaco on Main Street in Columbus.
The woman backed up then hit the man again, knocking him into a bench and fence, Wheeler said.
He said the man then got into the car and they drove off, so the deputy turned on his blue lights to try and stop them. They gave chase, fleeing from deputies, North Carolina troopers, Columbus and Tryon police, Wheeler said.
As the car headed back towards South Carolina, Wheelers said the driver lost control, flipping and crashing the car. He said both were injured and taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center by ambulance.
Wheeler said the car they were in was stolen from Greenville and they were also wanted in Spartanburg County.
Polk County deputies said they would seek multiple warrants for both suspects, identified as 29-year-old Melissa Crane and 32-year-old Bradley Cox, once they were released from Spartanburg County custody.
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EMERGENCY services were called to two accidents within an hour of each other in Peisley Street on Monday afternoon.
The first accident occurred at around 1.30pm near the Endsleigh Avenue intersection, where two vehicles collided.
The road was closed in both directions for about half an hour, but at the time of going to print police were still on the scene.
Inspector David Harvey said a female driver was taken to hospital with a broken leg, while the other driver, a man, was also taken to hospital, but details of his injuries were unclear.
The second accident occurred about 20 minutes later when a vehicle ran into the back end of a Triumph motorcycle near the corner of Peisley Street and Summer Street.
Both drivers were taken to Orange hospital for treatment, with the driver of the car released a short time later.
The motorcycle rider was admitted for non-life threatening treatment for a hip injury.


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Tax policy experts are weighing in on the fiscal cliff compromise calling it a "bad deal."
University of Virginia law professor George Yin says on a scale of 1-10, the deal is a 0.
Despite extending some Bush-era tax cuts, the Tax Policy Center estimates that 77 percent of Americans will see higher taxes beginning this month due to the expiration of the payroll tax cut.
Yin says while the immediate impact on Americans is minimal, the agreement shows lawmakers are not truly addressing the country's biggest problems, including unemployment and the deficit.
"It pretty much ensures that tax reform isn't going to happen anytime soon and I think that one of the most disappointing things is that there was not a single tough decision made in the bill," he said.
Yin was chief of staff of Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation from 2003 to 2005.


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|505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
1942 to December 1944
On 6 July 1942, at Fort Benning, Georgia, the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment was activated under the Airborne Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. On 4 February 1943, the Regiment was assigned to the 82d Airborne Division. The Regiment arrived at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 12 February 1943. During World War II, the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment participated in seven major campaigns and four regimental airborne assaults.
On 9 July 1943, the 505th made the first regimental size combat parachute attack as part of Operation Husky l. Under the capable leadership of Colonel James M. "Jumping Jim" Gavin the 505th was organized into a Regimental Combat Team which included the 3rd Battalion of the 504th. Their objective was to parachute behind enemy lines into an egg-shaped area around Gela, Sicily. With Sicily secure, the Allies continued attack on the Axis powers with landings on the Italian mainland.
A landing on mainland Italy took place in the early morning of 12 September 1943 at Salerno under General Mark Clark. On the night of 14 September 1943, Jim Gavin's 505th Parachute Infantry totaling roughly 2100 combat hardened paratroopers dropped onto the tenuous Salerno beachhead. It was an encore performance of the previous night's precise parachute jump by the 504th and no less spectacular. Within 24 hours these two units of the 82nd Airborne had jumped on short notice and shored up the faltering Salerno beachhead. Two weeks later on 29 September the 505th had probed into the outskirts of Naples thereby capturing the first major European city for the Allies. During the early months of 1944, the Division was moved to England as the allies were preparing for the assault on Western Europe.
The largest combined military operation in history, "D-Day", was to be spearheaded by the 82d and 101st Airborne Divisions. 6 June 1944, at 0300 hours, found the paratroopers of the 505th landing on the Normandy Peninsula. It was one of the first airborne units to hit the ground and liberated the first town in France, St. Mere-Eglise. The paratroopers jumped prior to the actual start of the invasion "H-Hour". Because of that tradition, of being the first into the fight, the 505th Regimental motto is "H-MINUS". For their performance in the invasions the 505th was awarded the Presidential unit citation, the unit equivalent of the Medal of Honor awarded to individual soldiers. In the words of author Clay Blair, the paratroopers emerged from Normandy with the reputation of being a pack of jackals; the toughest, most resourceful and bloodthirsty in Europe.
On 17 September 1944, as part of "Operation Market Garden", the 505th made its fourth jump at Groesbeck, Holland, the largest airborne assault in history. During that fierce combat, two lightly armed platoons, at most 80 men, were surrounded by an entire German Infantry Battalion supported by tanks. The paratroopers fought back three savage German assaults and held their ground until relieved. The 505th received a second Presidential unit citation.
The Battle of the Bulge: December 1944 - January 1945.
Later that winter the airborne troopers were thrown into the breach of the famous "Battle of the Bulge". Despite a lack of cold weather equipment once again airborne spirit, courage, and hard-nosed determination won the day as the 505th withstood the bleak winter and stopped the fanatic German attacks cold. For its valor in the seven major campaigns the 505th was awarded two Distinguished Unit Citations and three Foreign decorations: the French Forragere, Netherlands Military Order of William, and Belgium Forragere.
Created : June 04, 2001
Updated : August 15, 2005
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The mission of the Music Department at the University of the Incarnate Word is threefold: to develop skilled musicians by educating the minds, ears, and souls of our music students within the liberal arts tradition; to serve the general student population by enriching the CORE curriculum; and to enhance the musical offerings in the UIW and San Antonio communities. Music students at UIW receive comprehensive instruction in theoretical, historical and stylistic perspectives, and are provided the opportunity for training in music technology. The Music faculty themselves are active performers, composers, clinicians, and scholars who bring practical experience and insight into the classroom. Students receive ample performance opportunities through ensemble membership and studio/seminar classes. In accordance with the mission of UIW, the music department encourages the development of musicians who are committed to serving the worldwide community with their art.
Graduates with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education are teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the San Antonio area, and beyond. Teaching careers in colleges and universities are possible when combined with graduate work in music.
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C. 13 credit hours of music education courses.
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Why we have cultures of silence
I am reading Crucial Conversations–moving very slowly through it and it is excellent. They provide video links to illustrate what they are saying in the text (a bit awkward if you are reading on a kindle) and have even sent me other articles to read. I just finished their Eliminating Cultures of Silence, a position paper by Crucial Conversations and have clipped a number of sections out of it into Evernote. Following are some four reasons they suggest in this paper as to why a culture of silence may exist in your (or in my own) organization.
1. You observe a potential problem, but you figure the possible calamity isn't a sure thing. It's not like death or bankruptcy is imminent; they're just possibilities.
2. Nobody else seems concerned and you don't want to sound like an alarmist.
3. You figure even if you do speak up, nobody will actually change anything—the organization is too mired in bureaucracy.
4. Finally, it seems like a sure bet that saying something will damage your career. You would be delivering a really unpopular message ("I think you need to re-examine the launch—at the cost of fifty million dollars." "I think we need to confront the senior execs and maybe send them to jail." "I think the doctor is wrong and needs to follow my ideas."). And messengers get shot.
This inability to bring up touchy, controversial, or unpopular issues lies at the heart of every culture of silence.
Which of these is most problematic for you and your organization.
How to be a better man
Outstanding post on lessons learned about how to be a better man from the now defunct tv show Friday Night Lights. Here are the main points but read the entire well written article
- Relish the underdog role
- A man needs to come to peace with his father
- Nurture manliness
- A man seeks redemption
- Texas forever (remember your roots would be my paraphrase for those not from Texas)
- A man's closest ally is his wife
- A man needs a team
- Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose (When you have a clear conscience and play with everything you have, you can never lose)
I have been able to live everything I have believed
Great interview here with Eugene Peterson. Thanks to David Hayward
Quote above is from Peterson.
I wish I had been a better father
Here is someone on the road to redemption and I hope he makes it!
If you are a basketball fan, you will remember Dennis Rodman–his defense, his rebounding, his flamboyance! I have not followed his life after basketball but I am guessing that it has been rough–likely much of it self-inflicted. Just watched his rambling acceptance speech into the basketball hall of fame (thanks to the heads up by Jon Acuff at Stuff Christians Like) and I value his honest and hard words about his failure to be a good son, a good husband and a good father–many of these words could be my own as well. How moving to hear him describe the men in his life! I pray that God may give Dennis grace to continue to live a transformed life even as I pray that for myself.
How to Lose with Dignity
In a most unusual post, Brett and Kate McKay write about how to lose with dignity and celebrate with grace. Beginning with the gracious way the American Civil War ended between Generals Grant and Lee, ending with the victory of Churchill over Chamberlain in 1940 and with American football in between, the Mckay's come up with the following principles.
Accept responsibility for the loss.
Bow out gracefully.
Acknowledge the winner.
But a failure to acknowledge the victory of your fellow competitor shows a lack of respect for him; a man can be your rival, but you can still admire his courage and his fight, and the fact that on this day, he fought harder. Sulking away also shows a lack of discipline on your part—you are so overwhelmed with anger and grief at your loss that you cannot think of anything else but your own pity. Being able to control your feelings in that moment is the mark of strength and self-control, not to mention perspective.
And in some cases, even support the winner.
Learn from the loss and move on.
For the foodies, global nomads and life long learners
Thanks to Tyler Stanton for the link to the following videos
For the foodies in my life
For my fellow global nomads
And finally, for all of us committed to life long learning!
The new etiquette
After reading a book summary on Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, I copied a few quotes. I am not saying I agree with everything she writes (especially since I have not read her entire book) but she is touching on some tender topics. Looks to be a helpful analysis along the line of The Shallows. I have some great stories that come to mind after reading her quotes but I better refrain for the sake of my own safety and because I could incriminate myself!
- "In the new etiquette, turning away from those in front of you to answer a mobile phone or respond to a text has become close to the norm. When someone holds a phone, it can be hard to know if you have that person's attention. A parent, partner, or child glances down and is lost to another place, often without realizing that they have taken leave." (161) "
- "Texting makes promises that demand: the person will receive the message within seconds and will attend to it immediately. Texting is pressure. "Longed for is the pleasure of full attention, coveted and rare."
- The new etiquette is efficiency. People reassured at a distance. On the phone they might say too much. Things could get "out of control." A call feels like an intrusion. (190)
- We send so much and receive so much from so many, that we are 'consumed with that which we are nourished by.' (207)
- "Connectivity becomes a craving… We are stimulated by connectivity itself. We learn to require it, even as it depletes us." (227)
- The cell phones are a symbol of physical and emotional safety. This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected. The phone is comfort.
- "Technology helps us manage life stresses but generates anxieties of its own. The two are often closely linked." (243)
- As we try to reclaim our concentration, we are literally at war with ourselves. Yet, no matter how difficult, it is time to look again toward the virtues of solitude, deliberateness, and living fully in the moment." (296)
From Alone Together by Sherry Turkle. Quotes courtesy of book notes at DavidMays.org
Sex is the bait, not the hook
Trying to figure out what Chesterton meant by the following:
"In the last resort the exaggeration of sex becomes sexlessness . . . Sex is the bait and not the hook; but in that last extreme of evil the man likes the hook and not the bait . . ."
A friend suggests the following:
- The bark is louder than the bite–we talk more and act less;
- When we do act, we are not sure what to do with it–like a dog running after a bus;
- Sex is really a false sense of intimacy, we want intimacy more than sex; we think it is the end but really it is a means to the end (intimacy)
- We are screwed and screwed up, that why Jesus came to save and sanctify us.
Reminds me of Rob Bell's Sex God in which he links sex with spirituality saying we think sex is about this but it is really about that–that being God. Here is my post on that book.
I like the following quote from Gary Thomas' Pure Pleasure which I just finished,
If I find my pleasure in Starbucks alone, I am at the mercy of a company that may go out of business. If I seek my pleasure in sex alone, I make myself vulnerable to a fading, aging body—as well as to the cooperation of a partner. If my pleasure is in a business, I remain subject to the whims of my consumers. But if my life has been a single journey always pointing me to find my fulfillment in God—urging me to see each earthly pleasure as a reflection of his kindness, goodness, and love—then my ultimate pleasure has become more certain than anything this world can offer.
So what do you think?
Celebrating the history of Y'all
You can take the boy out of Texas but you can't take the Texas out of the boy.
Over our twenty-five years in a multi-cultural organization, I thought my speech patterns are not a dead give-a-way that we were from the southern U.S.
But when looking for a word to invite a group of people over to the house, nothing quite beats Y'ALL as in "Hope we see y'all on Saturday night." Or for that matter, y'all is the best when saying goodbye to a group as in "See y'all next week." At least I don't say, "howdy y'all" anymore–not that I ever did in the first place. But now I read that y'all likely originates from dear old Scotland and Ireland. Maybe that is why we get along with the Irish? So, now, I can stand tall when I say, "Y'all come back now." Y'all has quite a proud heritage.
For more, check out "The Remarkable History of Y'all" on the Dialect Blog. As they say, "One word. Two continents. Three shores. Four centuries. Five separate dialects. Wow."
Who has the most religious knowledge in America?
Americans could only answer correctly 50% of the questions on a very simple religious knowledge survey. Three main areas on the survey: knowledge of the Bible, knowledge of other religions and knowledge about role of religion in public life of America. Interesting stats
- Athiests/agnostics, mormons and those of the Jewish faith have a higher level of overall religious knowledge than do protestants
- Mormons and white evangelical protestants know more about Christianity than do other groups
- Jews and athiests/agnostics have a higher level of knowledge about other faiths and about religion in public life than do other groups
Interesting paragraph on bible reading
- Many Americans are devoted readers of Scripture: More than a third (37%) say they read the Bible or other Holy Scriptures at least once a week, not counting worship services. But Americans as a whole are much less inclined to read other books about religion. Nearly half of Americans who are affiliated with a religion (48%) say they "seldom" or "never" read books (other than Scripture) or visit websites about their own religion, and 70% say they seldom or never read books or visit websites about other religions.
Here is a link to the executive summary of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey.
Click here If you want to take a quiz representing an abbreviated form of the questions asked. I scored 87%, missed a question on public prayer being allowed in America and one other.
Providing a God oasis in a world full of pain
NOTE: Following is an update on a previous post.
Does holiness provide refuge or bring condemnation? Gary Thomas in The Beautiful Fight says, "A holy man or woman is a spiritual force, a "God oasis," in a world that needs spiritually strong people."
The world needs holy men and women because it needs people transformed by God.
Isaiah 32:2 says, "Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land." Thomas writes the following:
A holy man or woman is a spiritual force, a "God oasis," in a world that needs spiritually strong people. When the winds of turmoil hit, such people become shelters; their faith provides a covering for all. By their words and actions, by the ways they listen and use their eyes to love instead of lust, to honor instead of hate, to build up instead of tear down, holy women and men are like streams of water in the desert, affirming what God values most. When the heat of temptation threatens to tear this world apart, godly men and women become like the shadow of a great rock. These God oases carry Christ to the hurting, to the ignorant, to those in need. They will be sought out–and they will have something to say. 48
A painting for your Easter reflection
Mark Buchanan mentioned Resurrection by Piero della Francesca as his favorite painting of the resurrection.
Why storytelling is missional
Storytelling is an old form of communication. But it is not just for oral cultures. Even our written cultures connect with storytelling.
In Mark Miller's Experiential Storytelling: (Re)Discovering Narrative to Communicate God's Message, Miller is attempting to motivate and model this old communication form so that the church can reach today's postmodern generation. He writes because he believes there is much at stake for the church. Listen to Miller,
"I believe in the church. Christ died for it, and the Spirit moves it. Further, it is the primary instrument God has chosen to use on earth. If that is not a reason to be more creative in our communication, then I am at a complete loss. . .I also hope that you can be a part of creating a culture of creativity in your church that will eliminate the restraints on innovation." 75
A dream Jesus did not have
I think it is safe to say that Jesus would never have imagined much less dreamed about how his name is being marketed today!
Why go to church?
Because of the problems with the church as it currently exists, many seem to be opting out of attending today, preferring to meet with a small home group. That has its own set of problems! A Time article, cited at the Kruse Kronicle, suggests that a reason to go to church is to build relationships. And those relationships will improve your well-being.
As important as this is, there must be other reasons to go to church. Question: why do you go to church?
Update on Monday morning: I did go to church yesterday. Didn't get much out of the message but the total sum of the service–worship, prayers, people, helped me to remember that I am not alone in this faith journey and the service led me into the presence of God, who is wholly other. I needed that! So, I guess in the end, it is all about God and that is the way it should be.
Challenges for the church in song
"Fighting like the devil for the prince of peace" goes the song "Piece of Me" by David Wilcox which I just downloaded. In the song, Wilcox talks about the "body of Christ being torn limb from limb," unfortunately from within.
Here is a link to another song, called Little Fish which speaks sharply to the church's involvement in politics.
Truthfulness or truthiness?
For Stephen Colbert, truthiness not truth best describes what is happening in American politics and I suspect in the reporting of American politics. Colbert coined the word in 2005 since, what he was "driving at wasn't truth anyway, but a mere approximation of it — something truthish or truthy http://truthy.indiana.edu/, unburdened by the factual." (from Ben Zimmer's article Truthiness in the NY Times). Even though Colbert no longer feels the need to use the word truthiness, it became the 2005 Word of the Year.
Zimmer interviewed Colbert about truthiness in a subscriber only article on Virtual Thesaurus. According to Colbert:
"It's really about feelings rather than thought. That's really what the debate is about — it's like what feels right to you, as opposed to what you know is right."
And it's not even really about truth. I'm not asking people what truth is, because truth is too easily associated with fact. So I said, "Well, it's not truth. It's like truth. It's truthish. It's truthy." But I needed a noun. So I said, "It's truthiness."
You know, "truthiness" sounds wrong, because truth should be absolute — even though we all have truths and mine isn't the same as yours. "What is truth?" said Pilate. But even though we all have our own truths, they are absolute. By saying "truthiness," you're implying that what you're saying is only an "ish" of the absolute.
What I liked it about it was, it names that what I'm saying is not accurate. It names that what I'm saying is not really true. But what's really true is not important.
I think if you just look around you, I doubt that many people in American politics are acting on the facts. I think everybody on both sides is acting on the things that move them emotionally the most. And that is the most successful way to behave. By keeping fear alive, we are keeping truthiness alive at the same time. Action out of emotion is all that truthiness is about — making your decisions based upon how you feel. Right now, it seems like fear is the strongest emotion that motivates us."
Back to Zimmer's NY Times article, "Truthiness, Colbert pointed out, is in no need of restoring, since it continues to define those who appeal to raw feelings at the expense of facts. "I doubt that many people in American politics are acting on the facts," he observed ruefully. "Everybody on both sides is acting on the things that move them emotionally the most."


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I've been thinking a lot of this chatter that is all over the interwebs and sports talk radio about Peyton Manning coming to DC and I think a) its ridiculous and b) its a bad idea. But like most things, I tend to over-think and I've been doing that on this subject a lot.
First off, it could be ridiculous. Manning may have gotten clearance, but you don't have to watch Any Given Sunday to know that sports and medicine aren't always looking out for each other. But if Manning can play, why not take a shot? Signing Manning wouldn't cost them any draft picks and any money they would spend on him would be short term money and I believe they have done enough thus far in the last two drafts that it won't be a repeat of the 2000 Skins. Manning would bring leadership and experience and elite level talent. He would bring a professionalism and an example of how to be a true leader on a team that has been lacking that across the field. A lot of people think of great players going to different teams, they think of Namath as a Ram and Unitas as a Charger. But Brett Favre took the Vikings into overtime of the 2009 NFC title game and Joe Montana had playoff success with Kansas City. It can be done, great players can contribute with other teams.
The problem is signing Manning changes nothing in terms the needs of the team. They still need a quarterback of the future, they still need playmakers at wide receiver, they still need depth on the O-Line. Signing Manning just ensures that at best they will get much better play at QB as long as he doesn't get really hurt. It's a stop-gap, and that might be, in the end, why this won't work. Does Manning want to essentially be in the same place he would be in Indy if he signed with Washington? In the end, this leaves me rather indifferent if they sign Manning or not because it won't really matter one way or another. The core of this team is still weak whether Manning is signed or not. He makes things better for sure, because I can't even write R__ Gro______ name in the same post as Peyton Manning.
The temptation isn't whether to sign Peyton Manning or not. The temptation is whether we allow Peyton Manning to dominate our thoughts and focus this off season, to let it determine our success versus failure. Instead I would focus on names we don't know, offensive lineman and draft picks that will turn us into the New York Giants and New England Patriots, teams that can perennially restock their rosters because of smart management. Sign Peyton Manning, don't sign Peyton Manning . . . in the end, neither decision would define if this team because a true power in the NFC. The small choices of signing and drafting depth, speed, and talent will be what makes us a winner or not.
So what would I do?
I would keep the 6th pick and see what happens because unlike last year, this draft does have depth. I would focus like a laser on Justin Blackmon, who I think is going to be a true stud on this team. The most depressing stat of this season was the Redskins scored exactly ZERO touchdowns on yards after the catch. Its a lack of talent at both quarterback and wide receiver. Santana Moss is a great player, but he's who go with for an 10 yard crossing pattern for a first down. The last three Super Bowl winners . . . New Orleans, Green Bay, and New York . . . have proven that you don't need the dominate rusher to win, you just need a rushing attack. Evan Royster and Roy Helu are a nice tandem and I say give them a year to see what they can really do as a combination. You have Blackmon, Moss, Hankerson, and Gaffney as WRs, I think things could be interesting. What would make a compelling case for Manning being signed is that there is so much young talent on this team . . . being around a superstar like Manning could do wonders for them. Think Fred Davis . . .
The point of all this is that I hope Skins front office brass don't become Manning-obsessed to the point that they ignore what really needs to be done. Sign him or don't, just don't repeat the mistakes of the past and define success by a big name versus doing the real hard work of winning.


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UTEP Finishes Sixth at WAC Championship
UTEP took sixth place at the 2004 WAC Women's Golf Championship, which concluded on Wednesday at Underwood Golf Club (Sunrise Course) in El Paso.
The Miners edged Boise State, which finished seventh, on the tournament's final day. UTEP posted a 54-hole total of 959 (322-320-317) to the Broncos' 961 (309-332-320).
"I'm proud of the team," said UTEP coach Jere Pelletier. "They kept fighting the weather and improved their score each day. If they keep working hard like they have been, they'll be contenders in a couple of years."
Tulsa won its sixth straight league title (294-307-296-897). San Jose State was second (291-309-301-901), SMU third (312-310-300-922), Nevada fourth (298-320-313-931) and Hawaii fifth (306-323-316-945).
San Jose State's Ashley Gomes unseated Tulsa's Julie Tvede, last year's champion, as individual medalist. Gomes finished with a 216 (68-73-75-216). Tvede was second (68-76-75-219) and SMU's Laura Cross was third (74-73-73-220).
Freshman Jullianne Kim was the Miners' top finisher, tying for 14th place (77-80-78-235). Annie Mallory (82-78-78-238) and Gerina Mendoza (79-79-80-238) tied for 17th place, Valerie DeLaCruz was 31st (84-83-83-250) and Amy Young tied for 34th place (86-89-81-256).
Mallory earned second team All-WAC honors. Gomes was selected the WAC Player of the Year, Cross was Freshman of the Year and SMU's Todd Selders was WAC Coach of the Year.
"Annie had a really good career at UTEP," Pelletier said. "She improved dramatically from the time she was a freshman. She has a real future in the game if she keeps working at it."
UTEP will return every player but one (Mallory) for the 2004-05 season. This year's regular Miner lineup included a sophomore (Young) and three freshmen (DeLaCruz, Kim, Mendoza).


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A week of adventure, cobalt blue water, windy beaches, ancient architecture and warm Cokes. We rented a car and took several day trips, the first to the Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza. Although we've traveled through many parts of Mexico, this was my first trip to the Yucatan Peninsula, and my first trip to a city focused solely on tourism.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- (Marketwire) -- 07/24/12 -- The management and staff of the Charlotte Marriott SouthPark, a boutique hotel in Charlotte, recently set out to make fleece blankets to surprise the children at the Levine Children's Hospital, a pediatric hospital that was built with the goal that no child would ever have to leave Charlotte and travel for adequate healthcare.
This business hotel in Charlotte, NC works with the Children's Miracle Network during the year through the Charlotte Marriott Business Council, whose mission it is to support the local communities in which Marriott hotels do business.
According to Charlotte Marriott SouthPark general manager Kris Horacek (pictured with director of operations Joe Blewitt), the hotel employees participated for several hours to measure and cut the patterns for the blankets and then tied the pieces together. It was a simple, easy, and fun project as no actual sewing was involved. In total, over 175 blankets were delivered to the hospital.
Other hotel employees involved in the effort included James Williams, director of event planning, and Sheri Zetterberg, executive assistant.
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Questions still remain about what caused a small plane to crash into the woods last month, after the NTSB released a preliminary report.
The crash killed the only man on board the plane, 44-year-old Anthony Kelly, of Washington Township. The report indicates debris was seen coming from the plane in the moments before it hit the ground. The plane was last inspected in March 2013.
Investigators found a one mile path of debris from the crash. There is no indication at this time as to what caused the plane to malfunction. According to FAA records, Kelly had around 400 hours of flight experience on the date of the crash.
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As executive chef of A Voce Columbus, Filippo Gozzoli recreates the Italian classics of his childhood with seasonal, modern accents that complement the restaurant's sophisticated setting.
Gozzoli's culinary career began at Ceresole, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Cremona, Italy, where at just 14 years old he was exposed to the world of luxury hospitality and high-end dining. After a number of years spent in some of Cremona's top restaurants and Rome's Hotel Eden, Gozzoli traveled to Los Angeles, California in 1999 to work with renowned chef Gino Angelini at Angelini Osteria Restaurant. He relocated to London in early 2000 at Harry's Bar where Hotelier Rocco Forte, a regular there, saw Gozzoli's talent and offered him the job of executive sous chef in his Hotel de Russie in Rome.
In 2002, Gozzoli spent a year as sous chef at the world-renowned Baer Hotels in Venice Italy before joining chef Gualtiero Marchesi at his international Italian cooking school in Colorno. As a maestro chef Gozzoli taught as well as learnt team management and leadership – skills that he mastered during the next six years as executive chef of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Milan. He returned to the U.S. in 2012 when he was named executive chef of Sirio Ristorante, the Maccioni brothers' restaurant at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. At Sirio, his specialties included gnochetti with squid, eggplant parmigiana wrapped in puff pastry, and brick-pressed Cornish game hen.
Since joining A Voce in October 2013 Gozzoli has revised the restaurant's menus including the addition of an Insalate section on the lunch menu and a broader selection of Antipasti, Pasta and Secondi options on the dinner menu. Brunch, which is now served on Saturdays in addition to Sundays, has also been extended under Gozzoli to include new egg dishes and a Late Wake Up Call section with sweet breakfast dishes in line with MARC's classic meets avant garde food philosophy.


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