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In Anderson's article, Van Til's Serious Trinitarian Theology he says,
"8. It is somewhat ironic then that Clark has been dubbed "America's Augustine", since it was Van Til, and not Clark, who in fact championed an Augustinian understanding of the Trinity. (This observation is not original to me; a similar point was made by Greg Welty back in June 2000 on the Van Til list.) Clark cannot even find companionship with the Cappadocians, who, although often wrongly claimed as social trinitarians, clearly affirmed the doctrine of divine simplicity and the numerical unity of the Godhead."
The first statement is true that Clark's view of the Trinity was not Augustinian; a point which my Scripturalist friends still have yet to admit. However, when he says, "Clark cannot even find companionship with the Cappadocians, who, although often wrongly claimed as social trinitarians, clearly affirmed the doctrine of divine simplicity", he is mistaken. First, the Eastern view is Social. In the ecumenical dialogue The Trinity: East/West Dialogue (Studies in Philosophy and Religion) http://www.amazon.com/Trinity-Dialogue-Studies-Philosophy-Religion/dp/9048164753, the Eastern view is clearly recognized as a social view. On page 23 the contrast is made in clear terms, "In recent years, may resourceful thinkers have brought a new clarity to the issues surrounding the doctrine of the Trinity. TWO INCOMPATIBLE FAMILIES OF TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE HAVE BEEN CLEARLY DISTINGUISHED: SOCIAL TRINTARIANISM AND LATIN TRINITARIANISM (Roman and Van Tillian-DS)." I have said it before and I'll say it again, Scripturalism is Eastern Triadology. Next, Anderson implies that the Eastern Fathers had the same idea of Simplicity as Augustine and the Scholastics. This is so ignorant I'm begrudging even typing this out because the man seriously doesn't even deserve to have access to this information being in the position he is in. Jaroslav Pelikan who wrote the preface to John Meyendorf's biography of Gregory Palamas, says in his preface to the book,
"The striking description of Palamite thought as 'a personal existentialism, applying the concept of divine 'simplicity' not to the essence but to the personal Divine Being which is revealed both in essence and in free acts-or energies-of God…and thinking of God Himself in existential terms, while holding to His absolute transcendence,' suggests another source: the recognition among all Christian groups of the neglected 'existential' dimension in Christian thought. That recognition has come by various channels. For many in my generation, it was Soren Kierkegaard who first awakened this awareness; for me personally, because of my family roots Fydor Dostoevsky, whom I studied before ever hearing of Kierkegaard , performed this service;" (Gregory Palamas, ed. John Meyendorf, Gregory Palamas The Triads, (New York*Ramsey*Toronto: Paulist Press., 1983), xii, xiii)
Farrell in Free Choice also mentions that simplicity is an energy. The essence and energies distinction is rejected in the West. David Bradshaw in his The Concept of the Divine Energies says,
"The same would seem to be true of wisdom, being, power, life, love, holiness, beauty, virtue, immortality, eternity, infinity, and simplicity, all of which the Cappadocians (or other Fathers after them) list among the divine energies." (pg. 14)
Moreover, the fact that simplicity was not understood the same way in the Eastern Fathers can be seen in Athanasius.
The following is from Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.) Discourse 3.64-66
"64. Therefore if the works subsist 'by will and favour,' and the whole creature is made 'at God's good pleasure,' and Paul was called to be an Apostle 'by the will of God,' and our calling has come about 'by His good pleasure and will,' and all things have come into being through the Word, He is external to the things which have come to be by will, but rather is Himself the Living Counsel of the Father, by which all these things have come to be; by which David also gives thanks in the seventy-second Psalm. 'Thou hast holden me by my right hand; Thou shalt guide me with Thy Counsel.' How then can the Word, being the Counsel and Good Pleasure of the Father, come into being Himself 'by good pleasure and will,' like every one else? unless, as I said before, in their madness they repeat that He has come into being through Himself, or through some other . Who then is it through whom He has come to be? let them fashion another Word; and let them name another Christ, rivalling the doctrine of Valentinus ; for Scripture it is not. And though they fashion another, yet assuredly he too comes into being through some one; and so, while we are thus reckoning up and investigating the succession of them, the many-headed heresy of the Atheists is discovered to issue in polytheism and madness unlimited; in the which, wishing the Son to be a creature and from nothing, they imply the same thing in other words by pretending the words will and pleasure, which rightly belong to things originate and creatures. Is it not irreligious then to impute the characteristics of things originate to the Framer of all? and is it not blasphemous to say that will was in the Father before the Word? for if will precedes in the Father, the Son's words are not true, 'I in the Father;' or even if He is in the Father, yet He will hold but a second place, and it became Him not to say 'I in the Father,' since will was before Him, in which all things were brought into being and He Himself subsisted, as you hold. For though He excel in glory, He is not the less one of the things which by will come into being. And, as we have said before, if it be so, how is He Lord and they servants ? but He is Lord of all, because He is one with the Father's Lordship; and the creation is all in bondage, since it is external to the Oneness of the Father, and, whereas it once was not, was brought to be.
65. Moreover, if they say that the Son is by will, they should say also that He came to be by understanding; for I consider understanding and will to be the same. For what a man counsels, about that also he has understanding; and what he has in understanding, that also he counsels. Certainly the Saviour Himself has made them correspond, as being cognate, when He says, 'Counsel is mine and security; mine is understanding, and mine strength .' For as strength and security are the same (for they mean one attribute), so we may say that Understanding and Counsel are the same, which is the Lord. But these irreligious men are unwilling that the Son should be Word and Living Counsel; but they fable that there is with God , as if a habit , coming and going , after the manner of men, understanding, counsel, wisdom; and they leave nothing undone, and they put forward the 'Thought' and 'Will' of Valentinus, so that they may but separate the Son from the Father, and may call Him a creature instead of the proper Word of the Father. To them then must be said what was said to Simon Magus; 'the irreligion of Valentinus perish with you ;' and let every one rather trust to Solomon, who says, that the Word is Wisdom and Understanding. For he says, 'The Lord by Wisdom founded the earth, by Understanding He established the heavens.' And as here by Understanding, so in the Psalms, 'By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made.' And as by the Word the heavens, so 'He hath done whatsoever pleased Him.' And as the Apostle writes to Thessalonians, 'the will of God is in Christ Jesus .' The Son of God then, He is the 'Word' and the 'Wisdom;' He the 'Understanding' and the Living 'Counsel;' and in Him is the 'Good Pleasure of the Father;' He is 'Truth' and 'Light' and 'Power' of the Father. But if the Will of God is Wisdom and Understanding, and the Son is Wisdom, he who says that the Son is 'by will,' says virtually that Wisdom has come into being in wisdom, and the Son is made in a son, and the Word created through the Word which is incompatible with God and is opposed to His Scriptures. For the Apostle proclaims the Son to be the own Radiance and Expression, not of the Father's will , but of His Essence Itself, saying, 'Who being the Radiance of His glory and the Expression of His Subsistence .' But if, as we have said before, the Father's Essence and Subsistence be not from will, neither, as is very plain, is what is proper to the Father's Subsistence from will; for such as, and so as, that Blessed Subsistence, must also be the proper Offspring from It. And accordingly the Father Himself said not, 'This is the Son originated at My will,' nor 'the Son whom I have by My favour,' but simply 'My Son,' and more than that, 'in whom I am well pleased;' meaning by this, This is the Son by nature; and 'in Him is lodged My will about what pleases Me.'
66. Since then the Son is by nature and not by will, is He without the pleasure of the Father and not with the Father's will? No, verily; but the Son is with the pleasure of the Father, and, as He says Himself, 'The Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things.' For as not 'from will' did He begin to be good, nor yet is good without will and pleasure (for what He is, that also is His pleasure), so also that the Son should be, though it came not 'from will,' yet it is not without His pleasure or against His purpose. For as His own Subsistence is by His pleasure, so also the Son, being proper to His Essence, is not without His pleasure. Be then the Son the object of the Father's pleasure and love; and thus let every one religiously account of the pleasure and the not-unwillingness of God. For by that good pleasure wherewith the Son is the object of the Father's pleasure, is the Father the object of the Son's love, pleasure, and honour; and one is the good pleasure which is from Father in Son, so that here too we may contemplate the Son in the Father and the Father in the Son. Let no one then, with Valentinus, introduce a precedent will; nor let any one, by this pretence of 'counsel,' intrude between the Only Father and the Only Word; for it were madness to place will and consideration between them. For it is one thing to say, 'Of will He came to be,' and another, that the Father has love and good pleasure towards His Son who is His own by nature. For to say, 'Of will He came to be,' in the first place implies that once He was not; and next it implies an inclination two ways, as has been said, so that one might suppose that the Father could even not will the Son. But to say of the Son, 'He might not have been,' is an irreligious presumption reaching even to the Essence of the Father, as if what is His own might not have been. For it is the same as saying, 'The Father might not have been good.' And as the Father is always good by nature, so He is always generative by nature; and to say, 'The Father's good pleasure is the Son,' and 'The Word's good pleasure is the Father,' implies, not a precedent will, but genuineness of nature, and propriety and likeness of Essence. For as in the case of the radiance and light one might say, that there is no will preceding radiance in the light, but it is its natural offspring, at the pleasure of the light which begat it, not by will and consideration, but in nature and truth, so also in the instance of the Father and the Son, one might rightly say, that the Father has love and good pleasure towards the Son, and the Son has love and good pleasure towards the Father." http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xxi.ii.iv.viii.html
Yet can Western Scholasticism affirm Athanasius' fundamental Orthodoxy distinguishing the nature from the will?
Thomas Aquinas said in Summa Contra Gentiles,
"Moreover, since every agent acts so far as it is in act, God, Who is pure act, must act through His essence. Willing, however, is a certain operation of God. Therefore God must be endowed with will through his essence. Therefore His will is His essence…From this it appears that God's will is not other than His essence." I:73:4 and I, pp. 243, 242- From Free Choice in Maximus the Confessor by Joseph P Farrell.
No. The doctrine of absolute divine simplicity eliminates the possibility of distinguishing the will from the nature. Will the Scholastics admit it?
Here is the entire Chapter in full from Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles I.73.
"Chapter 73
[1] From this it appears that God's will is not other than His essence.
[2] It belongs to God to be endowed with will in so far as He is intelligent, as has been shown. But God has understanding by His essence, as was proved above. So, therefore, does He have will. God's will, therefore, is His very essence.
[3] Again, as to understand is the perfection of the one understanding, so to will is the perfection of the one willing; for both are actions remaining in the agent and not going out (as does heat) to some receiving subject. But the understanding of God is His being, as was proved above. For, since the divine being is in itself most perfect, it admits of no superadded perfection, as was proved above. The divine willing also is, therefore, His being; and hence the will of God is His essence.
[4] Moreover, since every agent acts in so far as it is in act, God, Who is pure act, must act through His essence. Willing, however, is a certain operation of God. Therefore, God must be endowed with will through His essence. Therefore, His will is His essence.
[5] Furthermore, if will were something added to the divine substance, since the divine substance is something complete in being it would follow that will would be added to it as an accident to a subject, that the divine substance would be related to it as potency to act, and that there would be composition in God. All this was refuted above. Hence, it is not possible that the divine will be something added to the divine substance."
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Fun features?
If Nikon brought out a body with a full frame sensor and a few more MP than my D90 for around 1000GBP and sod the fun features I might be tempted to upgrade. As it is, all the recent new models seem to be aimed at new buyers, not one of them has anything that would compel an existing user to upgrade. I avoid DX lenses just for the day when I can afford such a body. I live in hope that the rumoured D800 comes in well below the prices that are being put around.
As for the D5100, yes. it seems to be nice camera but I won't be rushing out to buy one. Oh, the trash button is in a rather exposed place.
Avoiding small-sensor lenses is daft
Though I'm a Canon user rather than Nikon, I've used several EF-S lenses and still own a 10-22 which for many years was one of the best rectilinear ltra-wide angle lenses on the market. It is currently worth about 400 quid more than I paid for it.
The higher quality EF-S lenses (the 17-55 springs to mind) are pretty good, but the people who demanded 'full fram or nothing!' would get something like a 17-40L instead which was bigger, heavier, much more expensive, slower and non-stabilised. But hey, one day you'll get a full frame, right?
Until you do, feel free to artificially limit your gear. Me, I'll be taking nice photos with my 'inferior' gear.
Re: Avoiding small-sensor lenses is daft
I think you've mis-read my post. I'm not avoiding DX lenses because of a quality issue I'm opting for full frame lenses so that when I do upgrade I won't have to buy the same lenses again, bad choice of word.
Keep Calm. Don't Worry
Your wishes for a FF Body could be satisfied very soon. Nikon have a big announcement on the 24th of the month.
Checkout www.nikonrumors.com.
Remember that all the Pro Lenses and FX bodies were made in Sensai. That was pretty badly hit by the Tsuami a few months ago.
Nikon have moved a lot of the equipment needed to make this stuff to Malaysia (where the DX kit is made).
I have a D700 that I'm looking to replace with a D800 around Christmas time.
Mind you, the D700 is a really great camera. Walking around the West End at night and shooting street scenes at 6400iso with no flash is great fun.
There will be plenty of secondhand D700's for sale if the predicted D800 is released very soon. That might be a better for you costwise.
Paris coz she likes being full in the frame.
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I have to ask...
What on Earth is going on in sample shot #5? My first thought was that someone had missed an NSFW tag from this article. Or have I just revealed too much about the way my mind works?
D5000 vs D5100
As an owner of a D5000 (with the buttons down the left), I question the location of the delete button the the D5100! sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
The [i] button you use to switch to edit-mode to change your shooting settings has now migrated to top-centerish - in reach of the thumb??
Changing shooting settings on a camera this big is usually a two-handed affair. In fact, its faster to have the [i] on the left... it frees up your right thumb to work the D-pad and wheel to change the settings...
I fail to see how having a side-hinged LCD is "much more useful for video recording"? Why? because it _looks_ more like a handy-cam's side-mounted LCD?
Having seen some pics taken on the D5100 with the selective colour filter... it looks amazing. That is one feature I wish I had on the D5000 :)
Beefing up the LCD was also a good choice by Nikon.


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Sunday but he'll certainly play against Newcastle. I think that's a perfect game for him to start back. Then we have the game against Tottenham next Saturday and he possibly could be involved in that, but it depends how he does on Wednesday.
"It'll be his first full 90 minutes after 10 months out so it'll be a big night for him. He's handling the conditions at the moment and he looks fine as we saw the other night. It's a matter of hoping the condition stays dormant. He's handling his diet well and doing all the right things so hopefully he gets that break he needs."
Fletcher was given a standing ovation from a delighted Old Trafford crowd after he replaced Paul Scholes in the 79th minute against the Turkish champions, making his long-awaited first-team return following a break from football after he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
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Call center agents work at inbound and outbound call centers where their major responsibility is to answer for the queries and concerns of clients. Call center agents need top be extremely well versed in their work as the company's reputation depends largely on their ability to provide a positive impression.
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Look at the following example of Call Center Agent cover letter which will provide you with a basic idea how a call center agent will depict his skills in doing this job in a cover letter.
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Mr. Neil Dixon
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Dear Mr. Dixon:
I recognize MBS as a leading service provider that handles accounts of all the major companies in Alabama. I would like to be associated with your project by offering my services for the position of a Call Center Agent, as advertised in The Daily Ads. As an enthusiastic individual with excellent self motivation skills and the ability to focus on customer, I am confident that I can make a significant contribution to your organization.
Previously, I worked in a similar capacity at Freezone Internet where my responsibilities included managing both inbound and outbound calls. I possess a solid background in taking incoming calls and providing information to customers in the minimum of time. Moreover, I have the ability to assure quality in each call as I understand the value of time for both the customers and the company.
Possessing an inborn ability to work in a fast-paced and result-oriented environment, I have the knowledge of up-selling the company's products and services to existing customers and soliciting business from new customers through sales calls. Since I am bilingual in Spanish and English, I can work with more customers effectively.
I am looking forward to meeting you to discuss my ideas for which I will call you next week to ask for an interview. I may be contacted at (020) 777-7777 if you need any more information that my resume does not hold. Thank you for considering my application.
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The Western United States Region of the Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America held its regional Irish dancing championships in Anaheim, California November 18-20, 2011. Twenty adjudicators from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States judged dozens of competitions for solo competitors and teams. More than 2,000 dancers, teachers and Irish dancing fans from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming flocked to the Hilton Anaheim. Many families made a vacation of the trip, with its proximity to Walt Disney World.
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Book reviews from The Free Lance-Star.
Torn apart by desire
Mystery and Intrigue Keep "Home" Afloat
By Nicholas Addison Thomas
For The Free Lance–Star
FEW stories make you forget about your favorite reads, and fewer still pack a punch through prose. Celebrated author Deborah Levy accomplishes that and more in "Swimming Home," a poetic book that highlights the far-reaching effects of desire.
The plot opens with a naked woman floating in the pool of a French villa, her hair spider-webbed out in the water, her fingernails the color of fresh-cut grass. Her name is Kitty Finch, a peculiar young lady with an affinity for botany and poetry, a combo that catches the attention of Joe, a womanizing poet who's visiting Nice with his wife. It doesn't take long before Joe and others become Kitty-consumed. As the young woman becomes a fixture in the villa, she begins to serve as a mirror of sorts for the folk vacationing there, their motives peeling away like sunburned skin. What's ultimately revealed is a community of lost and lovelorn people, all of whom seek happiness in any form possible.
It's easy to understand why "Swimming Home" was a finalist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. It's Richard Branson-rich in detail, driven by deliciously complex characters and tugs at the societal strings that bind us all in thought-provoking fashion. And it reads like a summer breeze—light and whimsical in style, steady and lifting in tone. From the very beginning, you're treated to a free-flowing story that's equal parts poetic and powerful. If it's literary elegance you dig, "Swimming Home" is your buried treasure.
Nicholas Addison Thomas is a freelance writer in Fredericksburg.
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(Bloomsbury, $14, 176 pp.)
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We've sent five Global Changemakers to represent young people worldwide at the World Economic Forum in Davos. On Day four, Raquel Silva blogs about the big IdeasLab presentation that she and her fellow Changemakers gave.
Today was the day. I could not believe how fast the week went. I can still remember the first e-mail we got telling us we were selected out of the 60 incredible Global Changemakers that had attended to the Global Youth Summit in London last November.
It took many drafts until we got to the final version of the IdeasLab, a five-minute presentation, with 15 slides. It was quite a short amount of time to put all your ideas, passion and will to change the world.
Fluela Congress Centre was the place, 9 a.m. was the time, and Anjali, Daniel, Mai, Raquel and Trevor were the names. It was the opportunity of a lifetime: sharing our ideas and getting feedback from experts at the World Economic Forum! Wooow!
The room was cold; we wanted people to come – so much to see. My hands naturally get cold when I'm nervous and the weather was not helping much either. We went through the warmup, played games, made voice exercises and stretched. We had a couple of things in mind: it was supposed to be fun and even if nobody showed up, the whole effort had been worth it. Speaking at Davos about the dreams that keep us going was more than enough, it was amazing! Then people started coming and the session started.
Sir Vernon Ellis introduced the Global Changemakers network and then the moderator gave the floor to Dan. That was when the butterflies went crazy in my stomach! The thing was actually happening!
Dan put all his energy into his presentation and I thought to myself: I have to go there and do my best, no matter what happened.
So I went and presented the Youth Empowerment Summit, a project by the React & Change Organization, the first youth-led initiative in Latin America aimed to promote gender equality through youth involvement. I had great comments on it and got great support, just like the other Davos Teens.
We learned so much from the people attending our IdeasLab and we are definitely going back home with many great questions to answer.
What I felt after the presentation? A mix of feelings.
It was if I had this suitcase of memories of the drafts I have written since early December, the research I have made, the preparation we had in Zurich before coming to Davos. It was a mix of joy, relief and sadness, because the speech I was working on for the last couple of days had been delivered.
However, I felt that my mission was completed and from there a new path was about to begin, in which I was supposed to make the dream turn into reality.
I am so excited and I believe that this day will be in my memory forever.
Raquel began working in her local community at age nine. For the last decade, she has been involved in various volunteer efforts, from dance and teaching English to helping underprivileged children and collecting, separating and selling recycled materials to raise funds for community projects.
She has served as a Brazilian youth ambassador in the United States since 2008, and in 2009 she was the only Brazilian delegate in the Women2Women America Conference. Raquel believes in the power of great ideas, curiosity and opportunities.
She is enrolled at the Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, where she is studying international relations, and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, where she is studying government. Raquel is fascinated by different cultures, which is why she has learned how to say "butterfly" in more than 20 languages.
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Hi, my name is Daniel, I'm form Brazil. I think it very amazing! I have faith tath I will be a Global Changemakers too. God bless all.


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From the Illustrated Dublin Journal, No. 7, October 19, 1861
THE castle of Tully is situated on the southwestern shore of the lower lake of Lough Erne, county Fermanagh. Amongst the English and Scotch settlers "planted" in this county, the most largely endowed with the confiscated estates of the Irish was Sir John Humes, or Hume, the founder of the castle the ruins of which, as they appeared some years since, form the subject of our illustration. The property of Sir John, consisting of nearly five thousand acres, remained in the possession of his male descendants till the demise of Sir Gustavus Hume, in 1731, who dying without surviving male issue, it passed into the possession of the Loftus family.
The castle was for some time the chief residence of the Hume family, but on the breaking out of the Civil War of 1641, it became the refuge of many of the English and Scotch settlers of the county, who were besieged in it by the Irish forces, under the command of Rory, brother of Lord Maguire. The garrison having surrendered on a promise of quarter for their lives, and safe conduct to either Monea (illustrated in our third number) or Enniskillen, is said to have been inhumanly massacred, and the castle pillaged and burned. It does not appear to have been re-edified after this. In its general character, as shown in its ruins, it seems to have been a keep, or castle, turreted at the angles, and surrounded by a bawn or outer wall. Pynnar, writing of it in 1618, describes it as a bawne of lime and stone, an hundred feet square, fourteen feet high, having four flankers for the defence. There is also a fair strong castle, fifty feet long, and twenty-one feet broad. He hath made a village near unto the bawne, in which is dwelling twenty-four families."
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As a child, I spent some of my best summer days getting lost in the trails and wading in the waters of Philadelphia's Wissahickon Creek. We always knew it was a special day if my aunt took us to the swimming hole known as Devil's Pool, or occasonally, Devil's Hole. While there are plenty of places within the park where you can wade and cool off, Devil's Pool is definitely the best.
The Wissahickon Gorge and park is a forest-like area in the northwest part of Philadelphia, and runs alongside the communities of Roxborough, Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy, Germantown and East Falls. It's part of the Fairmount Park system, which with 9,200 acres of parkspace is one of the largest urban park systems in the world.
The thick layers of leaves provide a great shade from the hot sun, and the high grasses, ferns, mossy rocks and trees help keep it breezy when hot asphalt surrounds you and radiates heat everywhere else in the city. I never did any official temperature comparison readings but could swear it feels ten degrees cooler inside the park.
Devil's Pool, a questionably-legal spot in the Wissahickon valley, where the water is waist high and higher, is one of Philadelphia's best-kept secrets among the locals for beating the heat. The pool is formed where the Cresheim Creek runs down through Mount Airy and Germantown and spills into the Wissahickon Creek. Some people say that local Native Americans, the Lenape, used these waters and areas as a spiritual gathering area, that it's haunted, or that it's a churning pool where good spirits captured evil ones in the never-ending battle.
Hiking to Devil's Pool can be exhilarating, especially when approaching from the Kitchen's Lane area and walking over the Fingerspan bridge, down the stone staircase, past the Livezey House and its small waterfall formerly used as a mill, and descending through the rocky terrain right nearby. The other common (and shorter) approach starts at Valley Green.
As a location, it's a scenic spot which is beautiful all year round, and located along some of the more challenging trails on the Northwest side of the park. It's also one of the most dangerous parts of the park if you don't use caution when enjoying it. Whichever way you choose to approach Devil's Pool will involve walking on sometimes slippery surfaces – distances of 15-30 minutes from the closest park access points. It's definitely not handicap-accessible. Yet the distance and rugged terrain do not deter those who are serious about enjoying its bounty. I've seen parades of visitors walking by, each bringing something for their party. Coolers of food and drink, bags of charcoal, and barbeques were all carefully carried through rocky terrain for a day spent grilling and chilling by the water. Technically these items are illegal back in the woods, and if you got caught by park rangers, they would issue a heavy fine. But that doesn't stop the determined recreationists who are just thankful their loads on the return trip will be much lighter.
In the warm months of late Spring through early Fall, the main attraction to Devil's Pool is the swimming (although a small group of exceptionally rabid fans dip in these waters year-round). The deepest parts of the swimming hole run 4-7 feet deep during a good season with average rainfall. There are also shallower areas of the pool where younger and shorter folks can also enjoy the refreshing waters of the Wissahickon Creek. The scene sometimes conjures up videos of "Just say no to Peer Pressure," and those who are either more adventurous or less cautious/intelligent (depending on how you see things) line up to jump off rocky abuts and into the center of the pool. Then they shake themselves off, race around and up the carved rock steps and do it over again. Although jumping feet first is usually a relatively injury-free venture, this is an incredibly stupid place to try any fancy diving or high jumps. Parkgoers have been injured and paralyzed by diving head-first into water which is not deep enough to handle such acts. In addition, sharp and jaggedy rocks surround and line the bottom of the otherwise calm and serene waters of the pool. (Shoes are generally recommended for first-time swimmers here.) To add insult to injury, the remoteness of this area really makes it difficult to get an injured person out and to a doctor or hospital to receive proper treatment.
Sometimes the waters in the Wissahickon Creek and Devil's Pool are not safe for swimming, due to high levels of bacteria or pollutants collecting in the contibuting creeks and streams. Be sure to always bathe or shower when you get home, and do not drink or swallow the water.
Despite all the warnings, Devil's Pool is really a unique and wonderful place that should be experienced by visitors to the Wissahickon gorge. If you are in Philadelphia on a hot day, and need to escape to somewhere cool and refreshing, Devil's Pool is a great spot to hike off to and sneak a soak. But be careful and use caution when enjoying the waters. Please respect the park and take your trash out with you… this can be one of the most beautiful sections of the Wissahickon Creek Park, and can also be one of the dirtiest and hardest to maintain.
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Devils Pool is a wonderful wooded area with years of history and a beautiful area to have a family picnic, However in recent months I have uncovered trash being throw around, used condoms, beer cans and left over cases of beer, dirty disposible diapers, pizza boxes, and people bathing with soap. This is an overall disrespect of the area. Swimming and fires are illegal and Fairmount Park has regulations for the safety not only of people who enjoy the park but regulations for the park itself. Swimming in Devils Pool is a health issue, the waters are highly polluted. Enforcement is neccesary to protect not just the people but our beautiful park. Signs are posted for the safety of all who use the park, please take time and read the park regulations that are posted. This way we can preserve the area so all can enjoy the historical setting.
Melody Moser said on October 7, 2009
I've lived near Philadelphia most of my life, and have never heard of the Devil's Pool. Very interesting!
Robert Fitzsimmons said on October 6, 2009
I love these little local secrets There is a similar place in Kuching in Malaysia I went with a load of locals too, great fun!


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In the face of possible lawsuit, the Sedona City Council delayed voting on a new ordinance that would make it illegal to advertise short-term rentals in the city.
The council unanimously agreed Tuesday, Nov. 13, to put off further consideration of the new law in favor of a second opinion from outside legal counsel.
The move was prompted by a letter from a Florida lawyer to City Attorney Mike Goimarac arguing both the existing ban on short-term rentals and the proposed ban on short-term rental advertising are unconstitutional.
The council directed Goimarac to hire outside legal counsel to review the matter.
Richard G. Rumrell, lead attorney for the St. Augustine, Fla., law firm of Rumrell, Costabel, Warrington & Brock, wrote to Goimarac, suggesting a lawsuit could be forthcoming.
Rumrell wrote, "We are writing this letter to obtain an opportunity, before expensive and protracted litigation, to ... assist Sedona in avoiding substantial damages to pre-existing real property, contract and constitutionally afforded rights of our clients."
Rumrell said Wednesday, Nov. 14, that unless his clients' property rights are protected from the effects of the short-term rental ordinance, a lawsuit could be necessary.
"The purpose of the letter we wrote was for the city to defer taking action on the proposed legislation and to cease from enforcing the unconstitutional provisions already enacted," Rumrell said.
Rumrell said his firm is fighting short-term rental bans in the Florida towns of St. Augustine, Venice and Key West, all considered resort towns like Sedona.
Doug Fitzpatrick, a Sedona lawyer with offices in the Village of Oak Creek, appeared at the council meeting Tuesday and will assist Rumrell's firm as local counsel.
Rumrell declined to identify his clients in Sedona for fear they could be "targeted."
Goimarac, Sedona's city attorney for the past 12 years, called Rumrell's letter, "saber rattling."
"I think the City Council made it clear last night that we continue to stand by our existing ordinance," Goimarac said. The city will continue to enforce the ban on rentals of less than 30 days and will make every effort to educate residents about the law, Goimarac said.
The city of Sedona's Land Development Code states that renting single-family, mobile, multi-family or manufactured homes "for periods less than 30 consecutive days is prohibited."
Renting for less than 30 days is a Class 1 misdemeanor and carries a maximum fine of $2,500 and up to six months in jail.
About a dozen residents spoke against the proposed ordinance at the council meeting Tuesday, according to City Manager Eric Levitt.
"The mere fact that we didn't pass the ordinance prohibiting advertising should not be taken as some sort of signal that the city is slackening on its enforcement efforts," Goimarac said.
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Well, now. It turns out that Kathy has had a website for months now. Silly Kathy — you thought you could hide indefinitely, eh? Your clever subterfuge is no match for the power of my referer logs!
Ah, referer logs1. What's a "referer", you ask? Well, according to the W3C, the Referer is "an optional header field allows the client to specify, for the server's benefit, the address ( URI ) of the document (or element within the document) from which the URI in the request was obtained…" Hey, you! Wake up and pay attention! Where was I? Oh, yes. In short, the referer tells you where your website visitors are coming from. It's not foolproof, but it works some of the time.
The really neat thing about referer logs is that search engines nowadays list your search terms in the URL or the results page itself. For example, if you search on Google for "Effective Head Noogie Techniques", the URL:
represents the results. This means that if you go to the top listing for that particular search (which happens to be "The School of Physical Violence Course Curriculum") the webmaster of that site will see that Google URL in his or her referer logs, and will therefore be able to deduce that you arrived at the site by searching on "Effective Head Noogie Techniques".
Okay, everybody clear on this?
Good. Because I'd like to share some of the more… interesting searches that have brought visitors to this site in the last month.
The male equivalent of "mistress". Several web denizens were just as flummoxed as I was in coming up with a gender-neutral term for this. I'm sorry to say that neither I nor M'ris could come up with anything better than "gigolo" or "paramour".
Where did Vinnie from 'Sarah and Vinnie' go? Honestly, people, I don't know where Vinnie went. I couldn't really follow that radio show for much longer than ten or fifteen minutes at a time anyway (although that beats my Howard Stern record by at least a factor of three). My friend Mike told me that Vinnie had a nervous breakdown and they had to throw him off the show. I don't know if that's true, but it certainly makes sense. Vinnie never struck me as particularly stable, even by morning-radio-DJ standards.
Harvey Pitt's religious status. There were a surprisingly large number of searches of the form, "Harvey Pitt Jew" or "harvey pitt is he a jew", etc. I'm not sure why so many people want to know the answer to this question, nor do I know why the queries are not in the form, "Is Harvey Pitt Jewish?", which would be the non-Aryan Nations way of asking the question. Frankly, it's all a bit disturbing. Let's move on.
EverQuest character hacks. It's been a long time since I've played EverQuest. Even when I did play, I didn't know of any character hacks. And even if I had, I certainly wouldn't have wanted them used or spread around. So bugger off, you wannabe EQ hax0rs! I like you even less than the Harvey Pitt-searching people.
Petra, Petra, Petra. A few months ago, I wrote an innocent little blurb about former Playboy Playmate Petra Verkaik, and how she took young Toby Hocking to his high school prom. Well, now I get around ten searches for Ms. Verkaik a month, even though there are thousands of sites that reference her, and mine is buried somewhere in the middle of the pack2. Now, some people might accuse me of purposefully seeding my site with racy words, as a cheap trick to get some extra traffic. To those people, I say: what kind of boob do you think I am? The naked truth is that those sorts of accusations make me really hot under the collar. Let me be perfectly clear: there are no nude photos of Petra Verkaik on this site whatsoever. Good, that's settled now.
Dada Engine and OS X. Well, I do know something about the Dada Engine… although I compiled and ran it on Linux, not OS X. If you have new Dada Engine scripts, I'd love to see 'em!
Importing Outlook PST files. I actually did manage to successfully convert all my Windows Outlook Express .mbx files to standard .mbox format, and once you've done that, it's fairly straightforward to move them to Apple Mail. Unfortunately the first part is not easy, and there's also a lot of misinformation on this process out there on the Internet. I should probably write it all down someday… if I can still remember how I did it. As for Outlook .pst files… that's a tough one. There's a SourceForge PST to MBOX converter out there, but I haven't tried compiling and running it.
Burn Rate, the Game. Great game. Go buy it.
"photogenic wife" 'Fraid I don't have one at the moment. Sorry.
"Postmodern Marketing +professors" Errrr…
"tricks on getting pregnant" Ummmm…
I think it's time to quit while I'm ahead.
1. Some of you might be wondering, "Shouldn't 'referrer' have another 'r' in there? Well, that's the difference between you and the titanic intellects that are responsible for our Internet standards. You know how to spell.
2. The only logical conclusion is that there is a large community of web surfers out there that is spending a considerable amount of time looking for porn! Yes, I was shocked too.


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NTSB Identification:
Incident occurred Wednesday, September 13, 2006 in Calgary, Canada
Aircraft: Cessna 560, registration:
Injuries: 2 Uninjured.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. The foreign authority was the source of this information.
On September 13, 2006, a Cessna 560 Citation, registered in Canada as C-GTGO, experienced an undercowl fire in the right engine, a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW535A, while the airplane was descending through 17,000 feet near Calgary, Canada. The pilots reported hearing a loud noise and seeing a flash of light from the right side of the airplane that was followed by a right engine fire warning. The pilot reduced the power to idle and then shut the engine down. The pilot declared an emergency and made a single engine landing without further incident. Examination of the airplane after landing revealed the right engine's upper and lower cowls were missing and there was considerable damage to the vertical stabilizer and right hand horizontal stabilizer.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. This report is for information purposes only and contains information that was released by or obtained from the Government of Canada. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
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Center for Information Technology Services
Blackboard Steering Committee
Minutes for 6/14/2001
Attendees: Brent Nickles, Tom Connolly, Brook Botvin, Kay Kazinski, Marian Jackson, Russ Russo, Barbara Zirkin, MJ Tooey, Alexa Mayo
Blackboard Agenda
• Next Blackboard meeting is July 12th from 9:30-11:30 in the Richmond Conference Room
• Blackboard Inc. Relationship Update: Brent Nickles
What is it?
- This committee is made up of Blackboard administrators in the University of Maryland System. The goal is to create a relationship with Blackboard Inc., and help in training of the administrators, and discuss product development and needs with the technical staff of Blackboard
- The committee made this trip to Blackboard in the beginning of June and spoke with numerous persons in charge of technical support, and product development. Hopefully, the group can continue these meetings and create a strong support group within the University of Maryland System.
• Blackboard V5.5 is here, what is new? Plans and concerns with the upgrade and what time frame works best: Brent
- The document containing the highlights of the new version was sent to email@example.com
- Our current plan is to test the upgrade in a non-production environment. The servers have not been ordered and depending on shipping time, we may or may not be able to do this in a timely fashion. The schools will start classes on or around 8/20/2001. More to come at the next blackboard meeting.
• Training from Blackboard: Brent
- Last meeting Kent passed out "Blackboard Training Services" which contains the courses offered through Blackboard Inc. The committee will determine the need for these courses.
- Alexa Mayo and the HSHSL has put in for a grant to teach blackboard to faculty/staff/students. Included in this grant is an upgrade to the server and advanced training for blackboard. More to come at the next meeting!
• Help via Blackboard Technical Support: Brent
- Some of you have asked if you can call blackboard technical support directly. I passed on the 1-888 number but was unsure what our contract stated. Well, our contract states that "only" the blackboard administrator can get support. However, Barbara Zirkin has had success in calling this number directly and they resolved the problem in a timely manner! If we can keep this 1-888 within the point persons at the schools, this shouldn't be a problem….but if you do need to call, please inform bbsupport of the issue.
• CE Committee: Brent
- We need to schedule a kickoff meeting to discuss Continuing Education.
• Sending problems to email@example.com is important! Brent
- People are starting to get into the habit of sending emails to email@example.com or email@example.com with blackboard issues. Bbsupport was set up as a distribution list and is sent to the CCITI team in case someone is not available to address the problem.
Questions to/from the users:
1. Internal Server Errors Update:
Many people were experiencing Internal Server Errors in May. I worked with Blackboard technical support and they had me change a configuration setting. Since this change, I have not seen any Internal errors.
2. Virtual Classroom Update
Again I worked with BB Technical support and we changed a configuration setting. This was a problem and resolved some of the issues with entering the VC. SON has still reported errors when using the VC, but this is a separate issue. I will continue to work with SON to resolve these problems.
3. Input of UMB academic calendars into Blackboard (Nola Stair)
Nola was unable to attend, we will discuss at the next meeting.
4. How is the remote mailbox being utilized (Nola)
Nola was unable to attend, we will discuss at the next meeting.


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Disney's Innovative Tech Makes Its Theme Parks More Fun
Those "imagineers" at Disney World know waiting in line too long can spoil your fun. That's why they've created ingenious ways to cut down on wait times at Disney's enormously popular theme park. According to The New York Times, Disney has combined high technology with imagination to track visitors and keep them constantly entertained.


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Each year the National Association of REALTORS® conducts a tracking study of consumer attitudes and awareness regarding the association and its communications programs. The research objectives are to measure:
- The public's attitudes, beliefs, and opinions about REALTORS® and homeownership
- Awareness of the current year's advertising campaign
NAR's 2013 advertising campaign aimed to drive awareness of current real estate market conditions and educate buyers and sellers about the opportunities available to them in today's market. The ads were designed to promote homeownership and the value REALTORS® bring to the real estate transaction.
Telephone interviews were conducted among 1,500 qualified adults selected at random between September 23 and October 8, 2013.
Qualified respondents reflected the campaign's target audience. Respondents were men or women between the ages of 25-54 who were responsible for decisions regarding real estate transactions for the household, and who had either:
- Bought or sold a home in the past 12 months, or
- Were thinking about buying or selling a home within the next 12 months
As in past years, data collection controls were established to ensure consistent and reliable data:
- No more than 55 percent of respondents were female.
- A parallel random-digit phone survey was used to identify a representative demographic mix of qualifying households (age and income).
Summary of Key Findings
The 2013 consumer survey results reveal that the Consumer Advertising Campaign is having a strong effect and a positive impact on the public's perception of and attitudes toward homeownership and the value of owning real estate. NAR's advertising has also been effective in persuading consumers of the value of using a REALTOR®.
Some key findings:
- 84 percent of consumers surveyed said that NAR's advertising made them feel more positive about homeownership.
- 84 percent also said NAR's advertising made them feel more confident about the housing market or buying or selling a home.
- 88 percent of respondents believe now is a good time to buy a home.
- 79 percent said NAR's ads made them feel better informed – up from 69 percent in 2012.
- 93 percent agreed a REALTOR® is well informed about housing conditions and a good source on how to prepare a home for sale.
- 91 percent of respondents said a REALTOR® can more effectively promote the sale of homes than sellers can on their own.
- 92 percent believe a REALTOR® can help find a house that is right for you.
- 77 percent said NAR's advertising encouraged them to find a REALTOR® when ready to buy or sell a home.


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Sep 28th 2010 By Chelsea Kate Isaacs
'Dear Steve Jobs' -- An Open Letter From the Girl You Dissed
Dear Mr. Jobs,
The last time we spoke, I was on the train coming home from school, typing away on my Blackberry to you. It was the end of the week, a Thursday night, and I was very, very nervous.
School had just started a week before, and my first journalism assignment was due: an article about the new iPad program on campus at Long Island University, where I'm a journalism student. It's a program that lets students buy iPads at a discount for use in the classroom. I wanted to write about how my college's agreement with your company might impact our academics.
In order to get a credible statement for my article, I called Apple's media relations department, but no one picked up. I called again and left messages day after day, but did not receive a response. My deadline was fast approaching. I tried desperately to find other Apple employees to speak to, but couldn't get in touch with anyone who could answer my questions.
Good journalists never want to give up before they get the story, the truth, the answers their readers want and need to hear. So, even though I was becoming tired of calling, not to mention frustrated, I decided to give it one last shot.
I Googled your email address, and contacted you personally.
Mr. Jobs (I'm going to call you Steve from now on, if you don't mind. I mean, we're practically pen pals by now), I told you in my first email, as you will recall, that I am very fond of Apple products, especially the iPod.
I am actually a music fanatic. And by the way, to all those bloggers out there who have called me a "spoiled brat" and my actions "typical of my problematic generation," I have no clue what's on the radio, TV or what's going on with my generation. Actually, there's a generational gap between me and my generation. So, next time you criticize a complete stranger, maybe you should take a step back and wonder why you feel so compelled to spew hatred at a person you know nothing about. I think it's a problem you may need to explore deeply, because having a hardened heart can't be an easy way to live your life.
Moving along.
Steve, I admit that I was frustrated and upset that your media relations team did not respond once to my urgent voicemails, but as a journalist, I completely understand that no one is obligated to give me answers, and I might go home empty-handed sometimes.
With that aside, I know that you, being the CEO of Apple, can't possibly have too much time available to respond to requests; I didn't expect you to make any for me. But I did feel that there was an aspect of your company that needed some fine-tuning, so I decided to file a complaint with you directly about your unresponsive media relations team.
What's the big deal? People file complaints every day. We're consumers, we buy products, and we're essentially responsible for a company's existence in the first place. Therefore, we deserve to complain when we are dissatisfied -- and be treated with courtesy and professionalism when we do.
After composing my endlessly long email, I didn't think you'd EVER respond, not in a million years! But, to my shock, your name popped up in my inbox just shortly after ... and I was absolutely delighted to see it!
Honestly, my first thought was, This has got to be a joke. Steve Jobs can't possibly have the time to respond to me! I was incredibly flattered, and I just stared with admiration at your name in my inbox for a few moments. I couldn't even open the letter itself, I was so excited.
And then I did. And my face just dropped.
"Our goals do not include helping you to get a good grade. Sorry."
Come on, Steve, are you kidding me? I never asked you to help me get a good grade, which is exactly what I wrote back to you. Where in my letter did I ask you to help me to get a good grade? Please, point it out to me. In reality, my main question was, "Why is your media relations team so unresponsive?"
Steve, I'm a nice girl. I really am. I play fair. I wanted to like Apple, and I didn't want to tarnish my image of you, whom I've always considered to be a brilliant mind. But, how am I supposed to do that when you answer me sarcastically and rudely, with no regard for common courtesy OR the fact that no matter how you interpreted my emails, you are speaking with a customer and a journalist ASKING FOR YOUR HELP.
After one or two more back-and-forth emails, you decided to sever our correspondence entirely.
"Please leave us alone," you wrote.
You got it, Steve. That's just what I did.
But I felt compelled to write this, because here's what I thought when you sent me that reply: You should never speak to a customer that way. If you're a high-profile CEO, either ignore my request and give it to someone else who can handle it, or answer my request -- anyone's request -- in a professional manner.
Even if a customer says something absolutely horrific, like cursing you out or harassing you, you shouldn't get involved on a personal level, initiating a battle with the person that involves jabbing back at them as if you're on the same playing field. That's the crux of the issue: You're the CEO, she is the customer. You're NOT on the same playing field. You must handle customer inquiries in a businesslike way. The way you handle your customers is a reflection of how you handle your employees and manage your company overall.
In the end, the primary reason I reached out to you was to let you know that Apple's media relations department failed to respond to media inquiries. As I said, I didn't think you'd get back to me, but I did hope in the back of my mind that someone would see my email, and maybe alert the media relations team of their unresponsiveness, so future journalists could possibly benefit from it.
I thought that the way you reacted was unjust, and with so many customers internationally who buy and cherish your products, I thought it would be unfair to let this slide. I wanted to let other people know that this is the way you treat customers, just as a precaution.
Your email address is public: email@example.com. There are even Web sites dedicated to publishing your email exchanges with customers. Now, our exchange is one of them.
I hope you don't despise me. I just had to do the right thing.
Your friend/enemy/frenemy,
Chelsea Kate Isaacs
P.S. Dinner tonight? Email is the fastest way to reach me, as you know. I love my Blackberry.
Chelsea Kate Isaacs is a journalism major at Long Island University, where she will graduate this spring. She loves journalism because it incorporates her three favorites things: storytelling, adventure and people. Chelsea blogs for The Huffington Post. She can also be reached via Facebook.
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Tuesday 28 September
By Peter
He didn't initiate a battle with you, he responded. He doesn't have the time to tend to every request, and you proceeded to harass him. You're self entitled. This is how companies work, being a journalist doesn't give you the right to demand response or respect or anything. I would have acted exactly as Steve Jobs did.
Should've switched majors if this is too difficult for you.
Thursday 30 September
By Jane
I can't understand how you claim the man doesn't have time to answer an email. Steve Jobs is rich and probably pisses away more money on a whim than most of society can make in an year, he can take a few minutes out of his day to correct some issues with his company. The people who do not have all the time in the world are the college students and people who work 9 to 5 jobs everyday and sometimes having to pull endless doubles to make ends meet. This girl's emails do not sound like the whining of a spoiled and entitled brat, they sound like the complaints of a fed up consumer. Steve Jobs should have shown some courtesy and concern with responding to her email; the true strength of an individual with such success is the ability to be gracious and show humility when it is needed, and as consumers of his many products we should not accept anything less.
Wednesday 29 September
By Butters
Well, it's a good thing you're not the CEO of any company. Apparently, you agree with Mr. Jobs' approach in being rude to the customer. They'll keep coming back for more.
Wednesday 29 September
By Roberto
Sounds to me as though she's doing everything imaginable to get the story which is not difficult. As a journalist myself, there is nothing better than the pursuit of a good story and it should be noted that journalists are here to serve the people. the intentions and angle of an article depend on the situations that it took to get to the article itself. So, the next time you suggest someone change majors because of the level of difficulty that exists within it, try to remember not everyone likes to just coast by, easily getting a paycheck without any thought behind what it is they actually want to do. And if you do do something you love and haven't found it difficult in the past, then I guess you aren't really good at it, at all.
Tuesday 28 September
By Brenda
Journalists are a pain in the ass for Steve.
You think he would help an aspiring journalist with her assignment in any way??
Tuesday 28 September
By G
Dear Chelsea,
Although it was probably in Jobs' best interests not to respond to you, period, the fact of the matter is their PR department has endless large media organizations to grant interviews and provide comments. So it's no surprise that a college student with a paper due is pretty low on their list of priorities. Your letter complete with your outrageous sense of entitlement because you own an iPod does nothing to help your cause. You lose.
Tuesday 05 October
By S.
Who says that he has to answer in a certain way? There's no rule for that.... He didn't owe you shit so get over it. And believe me, what he said could have been much much less "business like".
Tuesday 28 September
By Macfan9000
I'm with jobs on this one. Yes, he could have had someone designated to her specific questions, but look at the type of company he runs. I cannot imagine any CEO of this massive of a corporation take time out of their very busy schedule to focus on the single solitary grade of one individual.
Friday 01 October
By gerg
Steve Jobs may be in the right, but why be rude? Why not be professional, at least at first, and simply site the lack of time to respond properly, and thank her for her interest? Why not save the rudeness for when someone persists after the polite refusals?
Tuesday 28 September
By Cynthia
Sad, sad girl. Keep on milking your 20 minutes of fame, this is all you'll get.
Tuesday 28 September
By PhillyFlavor
Please stop referring to yourself as a journalist. You are a student of journalism. Those of us in the profession who understand the not-so-nuanced difference between dogged determination for truth and inflated entitlement stemming from an unfortunate and unfounded sense of self importance would greatly appreciate it if you could refrain from standing on our shoulders to make wholly unrealistic demands in the future. Thanks.
Thursday 30 September
By quicknight
Chelsea Kate Isaacs is a journalism major at Long Island University, where she will graduate this spring. She loves journalism because it incorporates her three favorites things: storytelling, adventure and people. Chelsea blogs for The Huffington Post. She can also be reached via Facebook.
@ phillyflavor: Point of interest. Does blogging for the Huffington Post not qualify Ms. Chelsea as a journalist?
Friday 01 October
By Adam Sanders
No. Blogging for the Huffington Post does not make you a journalist
Tuesday 28 September
By A
I fail to see how Chelsea comes off as entitled. As a "student of journalism" she was proving her determination, something seasoned professionals would know that she will need in the future if she wants to succeed. It's not as if Chelsea sent hundreds of ranting emails to Jobs before he responded rudely. She sent just one, and she herself said she never expected a reply. Does not sound too self important to me.
"Next time you criticize a complete stranger, maybe you should take a step back and wonder why you feel so compelled to spew hatred at a person you know nothing about."
Tuesday 28 September
By Alicia
I don't think Chelsea was at all out of line. She is a customer and therefore, as a businessman, he should have the smarts to treat her with respect. Furthermore, her email was very polite (I've read it) and really just did inform him that his media relations department was slow. There is nothing wrong with that. Again, as a businessman, he should be aware of how every aspect of his company is working. The way he replied was uncalled for, unprofessional and impolite. No businessman, journalist or professional of any sort I know would ever respond to a customer or colleague in that way and if they did, they would be fired or shunned by their business associates. He could have been just as short (even more so) without the air of a self-righteous, unprofessional prick. I've never been a fan of Apple products because I find their employees to be dismissive and entirely unhelpful and if I wanted to be treated as inferior, I would hang out with the jocks that treated me like a POS in high school. Apparently they just learn that attitude from their CEO. I don't think Chelsea should have responded, expecting a nicer answer, because obviously Steve Jobs is an @$$hat, but she's also student and therefore, naive. In her shoes, I would've chucked my Apple products next time they all (inevitably) malfunctioned (as they tend to do often and at a high expense for repairs) and either gone without (I've never owned a mp3 player and I'm 20) or bought from a competitor.
Tuesday 28 September
By brittany
This comment is pathetic. "Oooh look at me, I'm a PAYING CUSTOMER, now kiss my feet!" You said you're 20, so you've been out of high school for 2-3 years and you *still* have a complex about "jocks who treated you like a POS" so in turn, you probably act like an annoying little twit towards people in customer service, who you think are beneath you. Then when they don't kiss your ass, you get all huffy, say they're "rude" and "dismissive" and then you don't buy their products. Ooh, you sure showed them.
Thursday 30 September
By Bill
This woman wrote the story she wanted to write. She got her fifteen minutes. Now let us all click the magic button and put her in the past.
Tuesday 05 October
By Sally G
Just a little biased, are we? I am also, in the opposite directionI have never had an Apple product that wasnt the highest quality (and I my father and I bought our first Apple IIc in 1982). I have found Apple employees, both at the local retail store and on the phone to be helpful and courteous.
That said, I also know Steve Jobs reputation as egocentric and curt. I am somewhat surprised that he didnt simply forward Chelseas message to someone in the company, but that he would dismiss her quickly is no surprise at all. Of the two Steves who started Apple (with less-heralded help in the business/finance area), Steve Wozniak seems to me the more personable and well-rounded, more likely to be willing to take the time to respond to such a random E-mail (of course, he left the firm long ago, before Steve Jobs departure and return). I highly recommend Wozs book, iWozreally interesting look at his early days, as Apple got started, and some interesting info on what he has been doing since.
Tuesday 28 September
By kclarke5
I think she makes a good point. As CEO of a company (any company) you should want every customer to have a positive experience. Steve should have asked someone in the media department to reply to her, or ignored her email completely. A brush-off email is inappropriate and unprofessional. If someone in the media dept had sent that they would have been fired.
Some of these comments seem to imply the author's 15-minutes of fame have gone to her head and she has an inflated ego. I would argue the same of Mr. Jobs in this scenario.
This doesn't change my feeling of the company or mac products (love 'em!), but it does show a disconnect between the supplier and the consumer.
Tuesday 28 September
By TLP
You're articulate and have great determination... Seems as though some of the so-called professional journalists putting you down have simply lost their fire and excitement for their job. Hope the same doesn't happen to you. All the best to you in your new career!
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Internships are a great way to…
… try out in the "real" world what you've learned in the classroom
An internship may be paid or unpaid, and can involve anything from working a limited number of hours while taking classes to full-time work over the summer or while taking time off from school. Types of placements range from formal internships (such as the field experience listings offered by the Campus Career Network) to informal, non-traditional internships (such as working with an activist group or student business).
Because STPEC is concerned with praxis (the intersection of theory and practice), STPEC majors are required to complete a three credit graded internship. Students are also welcome and encouraged to do additional internships as electives; indeed, we offer an elective internship placement doing peer advising and consensus decision-making in the STPEC office.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS is part of all STPEC internships and is particularly emphasized in graded internships. Students analyze their experiences and observations and their larger implications in the world. Following are examples of the types of questions you could explore:
1) How are labor relations structured at your placement site? To what extent are they exploitative (i.e. how much control do workers have over the appropriation of the products of their labor)? To what extent does the presence or absence of exploitation impact the way people feel about working there? Do you feel that the organization's use of your labor was exploitative?
You don't have to confine yourself to these questions – let these ideas be a jumping-off point. We want you to take liberties and ask big questions, even if you can't fully answer them. Think about what issues are relevant to your internship and come up with your own list of topics.
Here's a partial list of Internships which are currently available or which STPEC students have done in the past.
All STPEC majors are required to complete a graded internship worth three or more credits (at least 100 hours of work). You must receive a grade of C or better for your internship to fulfill the requirement. Three important things to note:
1) Grades for STPEC 498Y are based on the your written analysis of your experience and observations, including an analysis of issues of race, class, and gender. We therefore strongly recommend that you complete some upper level STPEC courses before registering for STPEC 498Y, so that you have a theoretical framework to use as the basis of your analysis.
2) The responsibility for finding a placement lies with you. STPEC Internship Advisor is available to assist you, but you must do the footwork. Researching and applying for internships can be time consuming. Do not wait until the beginning of your last semester to start this process!
3) You must have the Internship Advisor's prior approval for your placement. Some special cases:
a) Split placements (e.g. 60 hours in one placement, 40 hours in another) are not allowed.
Occasionally we grant approval for an internship completed in the past or through another department or faculty member, provided that it meets STPEC's standards (120+ hours, 3+ credits, 10+ page written analysis, grade of C or better). If your written work is not sufficient, you may still be able to use the course to fulfill the requirement by doing some additional writing.
We invite STPEC students to become more deeply involved in the daily operations of the STPEC Office by participating in the STPEC Office Internship.
Office interns serve as peer advisors for current and prospective STPEC majors, contribute to administrative work and participate in staff meetings where they develop facilitation and consensus decision-making skills. They may also carry out projects of their own design. We will provide all the training you need.
Along with the paid office staff, STPEC office interns function collectively as the day-to-day governing body of STPEC, making consensus-based decisions about current issues and the future direction of the Program. This makes the internship in part an experiment in maintaining an alternative organizational structure within the broader hierarchy of the University.
The office internship is mandatory pass/fail, so it cannot be used to fulfill the STPEC internship requirement. You will receive 2 credits and do an average 6 hours per week of work (including staff meeting). For more information, pick up a copy of the syllabus in the STPEC office.The Nuts & Bolts of STPEC Internships
The STPEC Internship Advisor is Katherine Mallory. She can be reached at 413-545-0043 or email@example.com. She serves as faculty sponsor for the STPEC Internship Requirement (STPEC 498Y) and the STPEC Office Internship (STPEC 298Y, section 4). She is also available to help students identify and set up internships. All placements for the STPEC Internship Requirement must have Katherine's prior approval.
STPEC students may count up to 18 internship credits (3 required credits plus 15 elective credits) toward the 120 credits required for graduation. STPEC offers three course numbers for internships:
STPEC 298Y – Pass/Fail Elective Internship – 1 to 15 credits
We offer an internship placement in the STPEC office, for which we use STPEC 298Y, section 4.
Students receive one credit for every approximately 35 hours of work completed. The more credits you take, the longer your writing assignments will be. In addition, the writing assignments for graded internships are generally longer and more focused on analysis than those for pass/fail internships. You can sometimes reduce the amount of writing you have to do by splitting the credits for a single placement between two course numbers. For example, if you do 400 hours of work, you may want to receive 3 credits through STPEC 498Y (graded) and 7 credits through STPEC 298Y (pass/fail). For more guidance on academic requirements vis-à-vis credits, talk with your faculty sponsor.
If you want to do the elective internship in the STPEC office, all you have to do to register is talk to Deborah. For any other internship you must do the following:
1. Find an internship placement. If you want to fulfill the STPEC requirement, run your ideas by the STPEC Internship Advisor first to make sure that your placement will be approved.
2. If you are doing an elective internship, find a faculty sponsor. If you are doing the STPEC internship requirement, your faculty sponsor is the STPEC Internship Advisor.
3. Complete the STPEC Internship Contract & Registration Form. Discuss your academic agreement with your faculty sponsor and obtain her/his signature. Submit the completed form to the STPEC Internship Advisor for approval. If you need a credit overload, get it approved by the Dean's office (across the hall from STPEC) before turning in the form. If the add -drop period is over you must also complete two late add forms (available from the Dean's office).
4. Make sure the course appears on your schedule with the correct number of credits. Make corrections, if needed, before the last day of classes