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Duke Energy shareholders will gather Thursday for an annual meeting framed by investors critical of Duke's response to a Feb. 2 coal ash spill into the Dan River.
State Treasurer Janet Cowell's office said Wednesday it will vote to oust one director, and urged Duke's board to seek an outside probe of the "corporate decisions that led to the Dan River spill."
Cowell, who oversees the $80 billion pension plan for state and local government employees, became at least the third of Duke's institutional investors to urge new blood on its 15-member board.
Advocacy groups say up to 400 protesters will demonstrate outside the Church Street meeting, with dozens who own shares or hold proxy votes expected to enter it. Charlotte has declared the meeting an "extraordinary event," which increases security precautions.
Cowell joined institutional investors calling for an investigation of Duke's management decisions leading up to the spill.
"Although Duke Energy is being evaluated today by various federal and state government bodies, none of those organizations will be focused on ways to improve corporate governance or management practices," her office wrote Duke. "Independent internal investigations have unique aspects that can help teach companies how to better run their business."
Cowell's office said it will vote against the reelection of director Carlos Saladrigas, saying the regulatory policy committee he serves on needs more expertise in environmental cleanup management.
Saladrigas, a human resources and healthcare executive in Florida, is the only committee member who had served for more than a month before the Feb. 2 spill.
Pension funds in California and New York City have also urged shareholders to dump Saladrigas and three other directors who serve on the committee. The funds together own 3.9 million Duke shares.
"We are concerned that the board isn't looking hard enough at the issues that matter for risk oversight – the environmental and regulatory policies and practices and internal controls – while the company seems incurious about whether the composition of the board itself makes sense," New York City comptroller Scott Stringer said in a statement Wednesday.
Nineteen institutional investors organized by the Nathan Cummings Foundation of New York have also asked Duke's board to investigate management decisions.
CEO Lynn Good, in a April 21 letter to shareholders, said Duke takes those concerns seriously but urged that all directors be reelected. Good will preside over the annual meeting for the first time as chief executive.
In a presentation to Glass Lewis, a firm that advises institutional investors on proxy votes, Duke declared that "this matter has our full attention. The entire board, including the committee, is focused on getting this right."
Glass Lewis recommended that investors withhold votes for Saladrigas. It added that an independent investigation of the spill would "greatly reassure shareholders."
A similar firm, Institutional Shareholder Services, recommended that all directors be reelected.
Both advised shareholders to vote for fuller disclosure of Duke's political contributions, a question raised by the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Gov. Pat McCrory was a longtime Duke executive and his administration has been accused by environmental advocates of regulating Duke too softly.
Duke has reported that it spent $15 million through March in responding to the spill. The company told a legislative commission last week that closing its 33 North Carolina ash ponds would cost up to $10 billion.
In a response to institutional investors last month, outgoing regulatory and policy committee chairman Philip Sharp defended the board's oversight of management.
"If, at any time, we believe the company's shareholders would be better served by the board or committee initiating an independent investigation, separate from the thorough reviews already underway by the company and various state and federal regulators, we will not hesitate to do so," Sharp wrote.
Feedback on response
Dan Fogel, a strategic management expert at Wake Forest University, said Duke was smart to quickly apologize and take responsibility for the spill.
The company named an internal task force to review what happened and hired independent engineers to assess its ash operations. Their report is to be finished by May 31.
But Fogel said Duke missed a chance to tout its in-house expertise and publicize clear timelines for action.
"The way they've handled their external communications hasn't been great," he said. "I think they've got a better story to tell than they have told."
Environmental and clean-energy advocates, meanwhile, have used the ash spill to ratchet up their pressure on Duke.
More than 70 clergy members from Western North Carolina have signed a letter asking Duke to phase out its Asheville coal-fired power plant in favor of cleaner alternatives.
"This letter has been in process well before the Dan River spill," said the Rev. Steve Runholt of Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church in Swannanoa, who will deliver the letter Thursday. "It gave it increased impetus for sure."
The Sierra Club launched an ad campaign Wednesday on television and cable stations in Charlotte and Asheville. The 30-second spots, featuring images of the Dan River spill, urge Duke to clean up its ash basins and move "beyond coal."
Ken Kneidel, a retired Charlotte Latin science teacher, will be among the throng outside the Duke building Thursday morning.
"My mood is more optimistic because the Dan River thing has really damaged their image, and that's opened the window to push for bigger issues, which is to move away from fossil fuels," he said.
As Duke is pressed to invest more in renewable energy, Kneidel said, "this makes me feel like all that's a little more likely."
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|Contribution of Islamic Thought to Modern Economics: Introduction
Misbah Oreibi
This book contains papers presented at the Conference on the Contribution of Islamic Thought to Modern Economics held in Cairo, Egypt, on 25-28 Muharram, 1409 A.H.16-9 September, 1988 A.C. sponsored by Salih Kamil Center for Islamic Commercial Research and Studies at al Azhar University and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.Islamic economics is not entirely a new subject; it has been developed as an integral part of the wider subject of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), and is as old as the Islamic way of life. Fiqh al muamalat branch of Islamic jurisprudence covered different aspects of economic activities such as market organization, sale contracts, financial dealings, types of company structures in production and consumer protection. Gradually, international trade became an important economic sector that required tariff estimation and collection, organized transport facilities and trained personnel.
The economic life of the early Muslim community grew in complexity with the expansion of Islam into most parts of the world and international trade played an important role in this expansion. In the process of Islamic expansion new peoples accepted Islam and new territories and countries became part of the caliphate (khilafah).
Muslims encountered new and complex methods of production, new technology, and a wider range of products and crops. The free exchange of goods and the free movement of people within the Muslim state enhanced the well-being of its citizens, increased its financial resources thereby allowing it to extend welfare services to all its citizens, irrespective of their belief, race, or background. Even when the unity of the caliphate was no longer sustainable, the free exchange of goods and capital and the free movement of people continued to be the rule rather than the exception.
Islamic scholars studied economic exchange in the light of the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah, and established basic principles for the protection of consumers, workers, merchants, and financiers. Ijtihad (opinion) was used to develop further a1 mu'amalat for smoother economic exchange whenever that was needed. For example, the salam sale contract (a contract allowing full payment in advance) was introduced to meet the special needs of agricultural producers. However, the development of Islamic economics like all other intellectual activities came to a halt with the disintegration of the khilafah and the decline of Islamic civilization. The rising powers of the European nation states, who occupied the Muslim lands, imposed their own social and economic systems. The newly imposed way of life was buttressed by secular education. Islamic education was confined to traditional madaris (religious schools), depriving the Muslim community of its most valuable and dynamic support to revitalize itself.
Islamic awakening needed a new economic doctrine, efficient and morally superior to the secular economic doctrines dominating the modem world. A few Muslim economists championed the reintroduction of Islamic economic doctrine. They held conferences, seminars and workshops. They published papers and books that attracted the attention of economists, students and learned circles in the Muslim world as well as in Western countries.
This conference is part of the intense on going efforts to reintroduce Islamic economics on more fm theoretical grounds. Parallel to this theoretical effort, some Muslim businessmen put into practice the concept of Islamic banking, creating interest-free banks. Inspite of the difficulties engendered by the international financial system, and the rather negative attitude of governments in the Muslim world, Islamic banking proved to be successful. The venture of interest-free banking has confirmed moral principles as a base for successful financial intermediation. Demand for the services of interest-free banking has expanded in the last decade. Islamic banks are now handling over 80 billion US dollars.
Muslim economists who studied modern economics and mastered the tools of economic analysis, turned to researching Islamic economics not only to prove the feasibility of an interest-free economic system, but also to prove its fundamental moral and spiritual superiority. At the center of the economic model, Islam replaces the selfish and greedy individual with the individual shaped by strong moral and spiritual values. A Muslim, as an economic agent, is not the classic economic man-an agent of greed and selfishness.
Although, in a Muslim society, greedy and selfish individuals do exist, they are the exception rather than the norm.
The papers included in this volume are part of the ongoing effort to reintroduce Islamic economics using modem analytical tools. The first two papers are concerned with teaching Islamic economic programs. The first one by Iqbal and the second one by Khan discuss in detail the existing Islamic economic programs and introduce new ideas and concepts to improve on its teaching and research.
Iqbal compares different existing curricula for teaching Islamic economics in four well-known Islamic educational institutions. He carefully considers the objectives of teaching Islamic economics, highlighting the balance in the existing programs between the traditional shari'ah contents with those of modem economics. Detailed information on the existing programs is presented in an appendix, where comparison can easily be made.
Khan's paper covers extensive ground and points in the direction of further research. His handling of the microeconomics program for the undergraduate level is complete and profound. Microeconomics lies at the center of economic analysis. We are now considering the micro-foundations of macroeconomics. A well designed program of microeconomics is vital to any teaching program. Khan's methodology, prerequisites, coverage, and duration of Islamic economics courses, digs deeply into the epistemological foundations of Islamic economics, discussing the concept of ownership in Islam, the theory of demand, work and leisure, and intertemporal choices. In each of these basic topics, he explores new grounds and points to new directions for further research. He goes into detailed discussions of the theories of production, distribution, costs, and the fm in a comprehensive teaching program of Islamic economics that he suggests for undergraduates in an Islamic university.
The third paper, by Chapra, is centered around economic development strategy. He explores the differences between what he calls the imported development strategy and the Islamic development strategy. Imported strategies have been tried in Muslim countries and have failed to achieve serious economic progress, whether they were capitalist or socialist. The spectacular failures of the imported strategies were due to the fact that they were not in harmony with the system of values and the spiritual aspirations of Muslim societies. The value system of western development strategies is in conflict with the value reference of Islamic countries, so the institutional setup erected by the colonial powers in the Muslim countries represent a superstructure not related to the values and morality of Islam. Despite intensive government efforts and foreign aid, development efforts simply have been in vain.
As an alternative, Chapra develops an Islamic development strategy based on the maqasid (objectives) of the shari'ah. Equity and efficiency are the focus of the Islamic development strategy. While efficiency is at the core of the secular capitalist economic system that dominates the international arena, it has all but neglected equity. The socialist system, on the other hand, has stressed equity but has failed to realize it and at the same time has lost track of efficiency.
The Islamic development strategy embraces the two concepts of equity and efficiency as vital components. Economic policies are needed to achieve equity and efficiency in the Islamic development strategy as required by the shari'ah. Special attention should be directed to encourage small enterprises, financial intermediation, the human factor, and the reduction of wealth concentration. The role of government is emphasized and governments are urged to take the necessary steps to restructure the Muslim countries' economics to ascertain a positive outcome from the development strategy.
Chapra's paper is a serious contribution to development economics from an Islamic perspective, and will constitute an indispensable reading for the students of economic development.
The fourth paper, by Mirakhor and Zaidi, is critical to the development of Islamic economics. Economic policies and, in particular, monetary policies have been controversial. It has been said that in an Islamic economic system there is no way to assure the success of economic policies, fiscal or monetary, in the absence of the rate of interest. The question is how to counter economic instability and promote growth where the interest rate is no longer at the disposal of the government and the central bank?
The inability of the government to set rate of return in the PLS system does not exclude the effectiveness of monetary policy in an open economy. This is the basic thrust of the analysis of the Mirakhor and Zaidi paper. They affirm using the supply of credit and money, in general, to successfully implement the required monetary policies to stabilize the economy and promote its growth. The model presents a valuable advance in the development of theoretical analysis in Islamic economics.
It is proved that a banking system free of interest, and using mudarabah (partnership between one who has capital and one who has expertise) and musharakah joint venture, partnership in which the participants contribute both capital and expertise), can be the basis of a monetary policy that fixes the rate of return on capital and enhances saving and investment.
Included in this volume are extensive discussions and comments by economists whose interest in Islamic economics is well known, and who make valuable contributions to the debate.
Finally, there is an extensive bibliography of references and published materials on development in the Islamic perspective by M4yiddin Atiyah that makes this volume a necessary companion for students and researchers in the subject. We hope that this book will also be used by students and teachers in Islamic universities, and by students and teachers in secular centers of education as a reference to raise the awareness of the emergence of the new paradigm.
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Dr. William R. "Doc" Ruff, 83, Montello, a former Stevens Point resident and veterinarian and the father of a Stevens Point woman, died after a battle with cancer Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at The Residences on Forest Lane in Montello.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 9, at the Buffalo Community Bible Church, 4090 14th Road, Montello), with Pastor Ron Larson officiating. A private family inurnment will take place at a later date.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 9, until the service.
Memorials are preferred to The Residences on Forest Lane, 253 Forest Lane, Montello, WI 53949.
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Dr. Ruff was born Feb. 21, 1930, a son of the late William R. and Lela (Williams) Ruff. He grew up in Stevens Point and graduated from P.J. Jacobs High School in 1947.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State College in 1954 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Michigan State University in 1956.
He was married to Gwen Simonds 62 years ago.
He began private veterinary practice in Stevens Point and continued in Markesan where he specialized in large animal practice until 1985 when he accepted a position as district veterinarian for the state of Wisconsin.
He was involved with the 4-H, county fairs, the state fair and supported those entering veterinary practice. He formally retired in 1997 but continued to offer service and advice to farmers and pet owners for many years.
In later years, he was involved in showing buckskin quarter horses and raising a small herd of beef cattle.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Jennifer (Daniel) Lowenberg, Verona, Jacquelyn (John) Wetzel, Waunakee, William R. (Nancy) Ruff IV, Sturgeon Bay, and Pamela (Kevin) Lake, Stevens Point; one sister, Lucretia Nyberg, Bloomington, Minn.; and nine grandchildren.
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- 200g baby courgettes, halved
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- 25g butter
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- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
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- Heat oven to 240C/220C fan/gas 9. Toss the baby courgettes with half the oil in a roasting tin and roast for 10 mins, until the courgettes are starting to colour.
- Reduce oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Heat the remaining oil and butter in your largest frying pan and soften the onions and garlic gently. Add the grated courgettes, and turn up the heat. Cook until softened. Stir in the orzo and wine, if using, for a minute, then turn off the heat and stir in the stock, most of the Parmesan and some seasoning.
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The campaign to rebuild North York's "Jewish City" just got a $20-million shot in the arm from a familiar source.
The donation from Toronto philanthropists Murray and Marvelle Koffler will cover half the cost of building the new Koffler Centre for the Arts at Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West. Mr. Koffler helped build the original building in the late 1970s. It also bore his name.
"Toronto has once again been enriched by the generosity and vision of the Koffler family," fundraiser Frederic A. Waks said in a release. "This lead gift is an incredible launch for a fundraising campaign that will continue to contribute to the cultural landscape of our city."
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In 2004, the UJA finished work on the new Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre and the nearby Wolfond Centre for the University of Toronto chapter of Hillel. In 2007, the group competed the first phase of its development in Vaughan, which is home to the world's fastest-growing Jewish community outside of Israel.
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"The Koffler family has long been associated with artistic excellence in this country, and we are thrilled that the Koffler Centre of the Arts will enter a new era celebrating a global artistic perspective in an incredible new facility," said Lori Starr, executive director of the centre.
Mr. Koffler is a Toronto-born pharmacist-turned-philanthropist, founder of Shoppers Drug Mart and co-founder of the Four Seasons hotel chain. His name already adorns at least six buildings in the city.
Like all of the new buildings, the Koffler Centre for the Arts will be open to Jews and non-Jews alike.
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We begin the infamous Inca Trail Trek. A local guide will lead this expedition and there will be cooks and porters to carry the main equipment, leaving you with just a small daypack. Nights will be spent in two person tents in designated campsites along the route. A relatively easy 13km walk today will get you limbered up for the highest pass at Warmiwanusca (4200m) which we reach before lunch time tomorrow. After the pass it is all downhill as the trail winds its way along ancient Inca stairs. On the third day of the trek we pass the ruins of Runkurakay, Sayacmarca and Phuyupatamarca, walking approximately 15 kilometres in seven hours and spending the night in Winay-Wayna.
Early this morning we walk the final leg to the Lost City of Machu Picchu and greet daybreak over the famous 'Sun Gate'. Enjoy free time to explore Machu Picchu on your own or opt to climb up Huayna Picchu (Young Mountain) and reward yourself with spectacular views over the entire site. Once a completely self-contained city, Machu Picchu was surrounded by agricultural terraces with enoughcrops to feed the entire population and natural springs provided the city's water. Later in the day you will have the chance to soak your tired muscles in the hot springs at Aguas Calientes before returning to Cuzco by train.
We will transfer you to the airport for the flight to Fos do Iguacu (Flight Not Included). On arrival we will transfer you to the hotel.
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The next 2 days are free or why not add on one of our optional excursions: 1. Half Day City tour, which takes in Bairro Orintal, Praca da Se, Higianopolis, Paulista Avenue, Governor's Palace, Ibirapuera Park and the Oscar Niemeyer buildings. 2. Embu das Artes, a natural beauty of a XVIII century village (mud/clay) preserves among other cities in São Paulo. The old village that used to belong to Caiapós, Guaranis used by pioneers as shelter and then develop by Jesuits and Farmers, now days it is a city with many people from different parts
Today you'll be taken to the bus station for your journey to the party capital of the world - Rio de Janeiro. Upon arriving to lively Rio de Janeiro you'll soon find there is plenty to see and do.
The Sugar Loaf is a worldwide symbol of Rio de Janeiro. This visit is taken in two stages - The first one called "Morro da Urca" is 220 meters high, this mountain which is located in front of the famous "Sugar Loaf" and offers a beautiful panoramic view of the Guanabara`s Bay when going up Sugar Loaf by cable car. Second stage the "Sugar Loaf" itself 395 meters high above the sea level - offering an incomparable panoramic view of Rio's skyline from one side. You will visit the main Rio de Janeiro touristic point that is The Christ the Redeemer Statue (one of the Seven Wonders of the New World ).
The next 2 days are free or you can opt to join one of our optional excursions: 1. Petropolis Imperial, one hour from Rio de Janeiro. Imperial Museum, which served as the summer residence of the imperial family during the 19th century. During our tour we will visit the Crystal Palace and the São Pedro de Alcantara Neolithic Cathedral. 2. Buzios wiht schooner cruise & Lunch, a short 2 ½ hour trip. Schooner Tour through 12 beaches and three islands with stops for diving and plenty of time to enjoy the clear waters of Buzios: Armação, Ossos, Azeda, Azedinha, João Fernandes, J. Fernandinho, Branca Island, Feia Island, Tartaruga, Tartaruguinha, Virgens, Amores, Canto, Caboclo Island.
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We Can Escape This Jobless RecoveryPosted at 1:56 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 18 Lately, I've been hearing a lot about how housing can't save the economy, that it isn't big enough, that it can't do that much to move the needle. I hear the same thing about the oil and gas business, that no matter how much we find it doesn't put a lot of people to work and the trade off, the increased use of fossil fuels, makes it so it's not worth supporting. Let's see. How can I be diplomatic about these pessimistic judgments? How about this? They are all lies, lies that are keeping the federal government from helping the cause instead of hindering it. First, housing punches above its weight. We know from the retailers and the homebuilders and the bankers we talk to that one dollar toward the purchase of a house can produce an additional $6 in spending to fix it up, make it bigger or gussy it up inside. That's why it needs to be supported and encouraged, because it can produce so many jobs. Instead the government's made it very difficult to get a mortgage, which has kept housing from breaking out to levels anywhere near where it used to be.
But what did Richard Smith, CEO of Realogy (RLGY), the largest realtor in the country, say about the government's role in promoting the ability of people to get mortgages? He said that "the only thing holding lending back is the extraordinarily difficult underwriting standards." That's because the feds have still not finalized the rules for banking under Dodd-Frank. The government has simply not spelled out the definition of who is qualified to get a residential mortgage. Without that definition banks are reluctant to give a mortgage to anyone except those who don't need one. Right now the FICO score for Realogy's book of business is extraordinarily and punitively high 760. I don't know anyone who can qualify at that level. That's wrong and it is truly stymieing the economy.
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Gifts is a collaborative program between school classrooms, indigenous artists and tradition keepers, and community to engage in project-based learning. Gifts engenders authentic interaction between artists and students through story sharing and interdisciplinary learning, using art as a lens to explore understandings of homelands, cultural and ecological awareness, and reciprocity through stewardship of knowledge and natural resources.
Selected classrooms have the academic year to research, develop, collaborate, and execute place-based community projects that develop cultural and ecological literacy through creative engagement with place. Project work has explored indigenous languages, oral history collection, murals, music, mosaics, digital storytelling, film making, basketry techniques, ceramic clay/mask making, storytelling, printmaking, and theatre/dance. Program funding provides direct support for class projects, Native American artist residencies and performances, online educational resources, teacher and artist program orientation, and direct artist and teacher support. Students engage in a variety of artistic processes while demonstrating key learning objectives (tied to state requirements), visit sites of cultural significance along the Columbia River (including Confluence art sites), and create/curate a permanent public response as a gesture of reciprocity- "gifting" their knowledge to future generations.
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Confluence is pleased to be working with the following schools and artists:
Dufur School (Dufur, OR) - As part of a two-year NEA "Our Town" project, artist Toma Villa has installed two student-created murals in the community space at Dufur School depicting life at Celilo Falls and life in the Dufur Valley as a way to recognize the diverse backgrounds of students and to celebrate their cultural stories.
Wishram School (Wishram, WA) - A program participant for three years, Wishram School is creating tile mosaics representing the culture, history and ecology of the region. Inspiration for the mosaics came from artist Brigette Scott, who shared her ancestral stories of Celilo Falls and taught weaving, and Jefferson Greene who performed with the N'Chi Wanapum Canoe Family Dancers and engaged students in storytelling and creating "story circles".
Wy'East Middle School (Odell, OR) - As part of a two-year Honor Humanities elective, Wy'East students work with artists Jefferson Greene, Patsy Whitefoot, and Toma Villa to gain an understanding of their own culture, native cultures (both past and present), tribal and personal sovereignty, and then create symbols that represents their individual culture then captured on a school mural.
Corbett Middle School (Corbett, OR) - Artists Pat Courtney Gold (master Klickitat basket weaver) and artist Toma Villa Art integrated concepts of healthy ecosystems with monotype printmaking for 180 students in an Arts Enrichment class. An art show and sale will take place at the end of the year.
The Dalles Wahtonka High School (The Dalles, OR) - A third year participant, students of Native American and Pacific Island ancestry explore their own cultural stories, history, and artifacts. Students create dances, journals, and digital storytelling to document and share their exploration. Native American Tradition Keepers Brigette Scott and Jefferson Greene as well as community members lead class discussions and field trips.
Dallesport School (Dallesport, WA) & Lyle Middle School (Lyle, WA) - A collaborative project, school classs are celebrating the long Native American history in the area with artists Ed Edmo, Jefferson Greene, and Lillian Pitt to lead storytelling, sharing cultural beliefs, and creating spirit masks. In recognition of the continued Native American presence in the community, 200 students will participate in an "Art For The Sky" image depicting a local native legend.
Mosier Community School (Mosier, OR) - 50 fourth and fifth grade students consider Celilo Falls in the 1700's and the ecological, economic, and cultural impact of The Dalles Dam for the region and First People. Cultural anthropologist and artist Brigette Scott led field trips to Celilo Park and Columbia Hills State Park, followed by beaded wall-hanging project. Artist and flutist Foster Kalama shared his music and family history as great-great grandson to prominent chiefs of the region.
Sunnyside Environmental School (Portland, OR)- 220 students visited Celilo Park to meet with Tradition Keeper Jefferson Greene to learn about Columbia River Indians as part of their "Year of the River" focus on indigenous history and salmon economy and the influence of industry on the river. A woven mural of symbolic words will permanently capture what they've learned.
Walt Morey Middle School (Troutdale, OR)- 70 art class students explore the history and cultural significance of the Sandy River on people, the land, and animals. Storyteller Ed Edmo shared traditional stories and muralist Toma Villa worked with students on creating personal petroglyph-like images/ symbols that were burned into wood "cookies" and installed as a wall hanging.
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The hillsides of the Columbia River Gorge are in full spring greening and Gifts from Our Ancestors is doing its fair share of creative 'greening' in schools. While winter is the traditional season for Gifts Native American artists and Tradition Keepers to share their stories, culture, and history as First Peoples of the river, spring is the time to give artistic expression to all that has been learned..... more >
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Coming up on Focus: Remembering Roger Ebert, Blue Waters and The Ordinary Acrobat
Coming up next week on Focus, we're remembering Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, screenwriter and journalist Roger Ebert, talking about super computers and learning about how the circus is very serious business in other parts of the world. Find out more and our conversation!
Monday April 15 – Blue Waters
Do you have questions about Blue Waters, what it does or if the cost of the computer is worth it? We want to hear from you this hour!
If a person, multiplying two numbers together once every second, tried to do as many multiplications as the new UIUC's super computer Blue Waters can do in a second, it would take them about 300 million years. This hour on Focus we'll talk about the technology and the problems Blue Waters is trying to solve.
Tuesday, April 16 – Friendship with Cambodia and Accessing Education after the Arab Spring
This hour on Focus, we'll talk about sex trafficking and tourism in Cambodia and how one woman originally from Urbana is working to help keep girls with their families and out of brothels in South East Asia. Then, we'll learn about Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl who was shot on her way home from school for advocating that all children should be able to attend school.
Wednesday, April 17 – The Ordinary Acrobat
Do you have fond memories of the circus? We want to hear them! Join our conversation on Focus' Facebook page and enter to win a copy of the book!
What images first come to mind when you hear the word "circus." According to author Duncan Wall, the ring master in a red jacket and riding boots is becoming a thing of the past. This hour on Focus, we talk with Wall about his new book "The Ordinary Acrobat" and learn about the movement to empower circus as an art form.
Thursday, April 18 – Remembering Roger Ebert
Do you have fond memories of Roger Ebert? Did he or his work impact your life? We want to hear your rememberances of him this hour on Focus.
Roger Ebert's 15th Annual Film Festival opens next week in Champaign at the historic Virginia Theatre for the first time without Roger. This hour on Focus, guest host Jeff Bossert talks with colleagues and members of the C-U community who knew him as we remember his mark on the cinema, our culture and our community.
Friday, April 19 – Personal Finance
We welcome your personal finance questions this hour on Focus!
This hour on Focus, guest host Kimberlie Kranich talks with Kevin Waspi, a certified financial advisor and lecturer at the UIUC College of Business. We welcome your questions for Kevin whether you are just starting out and looking for advice on investing, thinking about buying a home or sending your children to college.


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Hey all
I was just wondering about mindfulness and the five skandhas/aggregates - if one is supposed to rid themselves of the 'self,' which includes the last of the aggregates - consciousness, why is it, then, that we are supposed to be mindful of ourselves? Surely that is one of the things we must rid ourselves of?
I know mindfulness is extremely important - I try to practise it all the time, but I was reading up about mindfulness and how to be more so, and realised that it could be related to the five skandhas...
Anyway, thank you for any help! I'm sorry that I always ask the silliest questions!!


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'Brown bag' and 'citizen' too offensive for use in Seattleon August 1, 2013 @ 10:10 am (Updated: 1:57 pm - 8/1/13 )
KIRO Radio's Dori Monson couldn't figure out why these words were being targeted so he asked the man that drafted the memo to the city's PIO's for an explanation.
Elliott Bronstein, with the Office for Civil Rights, began by addressing the offensiveness of "brown bag."
"For a lot of particularly African American community members, the phrase brown bag does bring up associations with the past when a brown bag was actually used, I understand, to determine if people's skin color was light enough to allow admission to an event or to come into a party that was being held in a private home."
Dori, who considers himself a pretty historically and culturally aware person, said he's never heard of this practice or association and wonders how many others have.
Bronstein also hadn't heard of it until recently, but as a white man, he said there are likely a lot of aspects to African American culture he wasn't aware of growing up.
Next, Bronstein had to clue Dori into why "citizen" should be avoided.
"A lot of people who live in Seattle aren't citizens, but they are residents," said Bronstein. "They are legal residents of the United States and they are residents of Seattle. They pay taxes and if we use a term like citizens in common use, then it doesn't include a lot of folks."
While there may have been complaints about the phrasing, Dori thinks they likely came from people who are too easily offended, and questions the city trying to accommodate all the concerns of this small percentage of people.
"I just think that this obsession with sanitizing our language for the easily offended is a silly pursuit," said Dori. "This comes closely on the heels of a law that was just implemented, I believe this last weekend, where we're changing manhole covers to person-hole covers and we can't call a fireman a fireman anymore. There just seems to be this steady trend in our region for doing this to language."
But Bronstein pointed out language is always changing and it's part of the city's job to keep up with the realities of a very diverse city.
"We change our language constantly. The very words and phrases you're using to talk to me now is not the way either of us would have spoken when we were in our 20's back in the 1970's," said Bronstein. "I would say in a community as large as ours in Seattle, we're talking about a community of African American, white, Latino, and Asian people who all have a stake in using language that doesn't bug other people."
Even after the explanation, to Dori - and he thinks the majority of other people - a brown bag remained just a brown bag.
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While life in the Armed Forces offers many benefits, it can also be quite challenging for a couple. Relationships can face major stressors like overseas deployment, long work hours, and trauma resulting from battle. Sometimes these difficulties can push a couple's relationship to the point where they feel divorce is the only answer.
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This is, admittedly, a bit of a curveball. Miranda Lambert is very much a product of pop-country's starmaking machinery — a pretty blonde woman singing sparkling, glossily produced songs in an industry full of people who match that exact same description. She got her break when she came in third on the reality show Nashville Star, and the one time I saw her live was when she opened for Toby Keith at a New Jersey arena a few years ago. For plenty of the people reading this paragraph, all those things will immediately mark out Lambert as some form of The Enemy. But one thing that many stripes of music fans persistently fail to acknowledge is that Nashville's assembly line is extremely good at what it does. If you turn on country radio at any time, you're going to hear the work of complete professionals, songs immaculately written and beautifully performed, with plainspoken story-song lyrics that people relate to because, at their best, they're absolutely and unapologetically moving, the same way a nakedly manipulative Hollywood film can be moving. And for the past five years or so, Miranda Lambert has been, quite possibly, the best thing to come out of that particular business.
Lambert's first two major-label albums, Kerosene and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, are basically perfect. Lambert's elastic twang works just fine for lovestruck power-ballads, but it's way better on fire-eyed whoop-your-ass revenge-songs, and those dominate the first two albums. "Gunpowder & Lead," the opening track on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, might be the best place to start, since it's the one about Lambert waiting for an abusive man to come home so that Lambert can blast his head off with a shotgun. It's also an excellent example of Nashville craft: A slicked-up, fast-chugging Southern-rockabilly burner with the sort of chorus that refuses to leave your head for days on end. Revolution, Lambert's last album, came in the midst of Lambert's public romance with lanky country-pop wiseacre Blake Shelton, and it was a bit heavier on gushy ballads than I would've liked, though it's still a rock-solid piece of work. And just a few months ago, Lambert's side-project Pistol Annies released an album called Hell On Heels, with a title track that shows off just how nasty Nashville nihilism can get.
Four The Record is Lambert's most stylistically wide-ranging album yet, and it piles layer on layer. It's her first since she and Shelton got married, but even "Dear Diamond," the expected soft-focus wedding song, carries stinging implications that Lambert's been out cheating — and Lambert wrote the song herself, so she's the one who put it there. The tender ballads, like the album-closing one-two of "Nobody's Fool" and "Oklahoma Sky," are perfectly lovely; another, "Look At Miss Ohio," is a committed cover of Gillian Welch's minor alt-country classic. "Fine Tune," is tipsy blues-rock, and the single "Baggage Claim" has an amazing Southern-soul organ solo right in between a couple of soaring choruses. But the fast-chugging spitfire-rage bangers, the sorts of songs that Lambert built her rep on, are the real highlights. And there are some diamond-hard snarlers on here: "Fastest Girl In Town" and "Mama's Broken Heart" in particular. Those are the ones that linger like a slap to the face. Give them a chance.
Four The Record is out today on RCA Nashville. Please note: Florence And The Machine's Ceremonials, also out today, is a dope album, but we've already written about that one at length.
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Interesting, bold choice for Album of the Week. I unapologetically love the first 2 Miranda Lambert records. The third one left me cold enough that I'd been planning to give this one a pass, but now I'm intrigued
haha good one guys
I await the inevitable Album of the Week: Lana Del Rey.
Wal-Mart country rOOLZ So HARd!!
Yowza. Stereogum delivers the one-two punch of not knowing their M83 from their Neon Indian and bumping sub-Bon-Jovi so-called-country soft rock. What is going on today? Is it April 1st already?
Does April 1st last several months? The writing has been appalling for the last several months. The new writers just really don't think about music in the same way as our previous cast.
using one that was used on me a while back: so did you (two) actually listen to the music? i couldn't tell past all that snark.
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you like butt secks..
says the guy with the wham! profile pic.
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The profile pic is humorous broski, something your serious ass wouldn't understand…
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Best piece of writing on the whole page.
hey. hey! c'mon guys. let's keep it clean. cool your jets, everyone. c'mon now.
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I tried. I listened to 30 seconds of the first track posted here, then knew exactly what I was in for and turned it off.
Let's all re-read the first paragraph starting with the sentence "But one thing that many stripes of music fans persistently fail to acknowledge.."
Brave choice, Stereogum. Kudos.
Barfy music. Would you really listen to this Stereogum? Really? I doubt it.
This Kmart country sucks and the writer is about as musically educated as a sack of cold shit.
"ain't this ain't it"
aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!!! I just read an article on the onion and I bet you wrote it/got your truck stoled
Agreed. This choice is disappointing.
really excited about this! four the record is great!
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#2 is El Scorcho
Buzzmedia, what's the going rate for album of the week? I'm A&R for some pretty bad bands.
What the hell is wrong with all you people? Music is music at the end of the day.
This could very well be the best album ever recorded, but it doesn't really belong on this website.
For what it's worth I think Drake sucks far worse than Miranda Lambert.
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I can almost agree with that, I would maybe like him if he wasn't a part of Young Money, and if he marketed himself as just an R&B singer, cus as a rapper he sucks..
let's just agree to disagree.
see you at the CMA's
i think you're the only one melting down.
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"Massive music machinery" is–in no way–the issue here.
You don't see comment sections with the same reaction to him because his music is generally pretty enjoyable.
Don't make this something it's not.
Fuck it – lets continue driving down this odd road: Speaking of quality assembly line music, can we all please start talking about the new Nickelback album and how they are hit machines?
Made it a whole 1minute and 14 seconds! I feel like I'm 9 and my mom just picked me up from school.
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Holy Shit y'all are such hipsters….lmao. Get over your skinny jeans and get a god damn grip. Miranda Lambert is a rational choice.
It's more hipster to act like you like this decision to review this album that no one here really will ever listen too. Liking every type of music doesn't make you worldly it makes you a lying douchebag.
you guys are losers for arguing if this is appropriate or not and I'm an even bigger fucking loser for reading it. and we're all closer to death. THANKS A BUNDLE GUYS.
The only wal-mart country song I"ve heard that I was like "that's a pretty good song" is when I was like 6 and heard Tim Mcgraw's "Stars Go Blue." Then I later found out it's a Ryan Adams song, so that explains that.. I know, 'Cool story bro'.
I think we can all agree "Achy Breaky Heart" is just about the pinnacle of western music, so let's just leave it at that
I hate all of you.
So, Brian Wilson's lost masterpiece "Smile" is FINALLY given proper release this week, to the delight of many-a music nerd's ears… An album many have been waiting their entire lives to hear, by one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time… and… Miranda fucking Lambert is the album of the week? You're high off your ass if you think this is the best album of ANY week. Imagine that Hemingway had a long lost masterpiece which had never been published and were finally to see the light of day and the NYTimes Book Review pushed it to the back page in favor of the new Twilight novel. Get why people are upset? People don't come to Stereogum to read about Miranda Lambert. It doesn't matter if it's great or if it's shit. Country is a genre that Stereogum readers simply are not interested in. Please… your "about" page says that you're "…the leading online community for INDEPENDENT and ALTERNATIVE music news".
^^^ That's where I'll read about my favorite "Country music stars".
What ARE you about?
Way to alienate your devoted readers Stereogum. Sounds like a great move.
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