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Programs pursued as a means of improving the urban environment and achieving certain social and economic objectives. Evidence of urban planning can be found in the ruins of ancient cities, including orderly street systems and conduits for water and sewage. During the Renaissance, European city areas were consciously planned to achieve circulation of the populace and provide fortification against invasion. Such concepts were exported to the New World, where William Penn, in founding the city of Philadelphia, developed the standard gridiron plan—the laying out of streets and plots of land adaptable to rapid change in land use. Modern urban planning and redevelopment arose in response to the disorder and squalor of the slums created by the Industrial Revolution. The urban planner best known for his transformation of Paris was Georges-Eugène Haussmann. City planners imposed regulatory laws establishing standards for housing, sanitation, water supply, sewage, and public health conditions, and introduced parks and playgrounds into congested city neighbourhoods. In the 20th century, zoning—the regulation of building activity according to use and location—came to be a key tool for city planners. Seealso Pierre-Charles L'Enfant.
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Any set of climatic conditions that prevails in a large metropolitan area and that differs from the climate of its rural surroundings. Urban climates are distinguished from those of less built-up areas by differences of air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and amount of precipitation. These differences are attributable in large part to the altering of the natural terrain through the construction of artificial structures and surfaces. For example, tall buildings, paved streets, and parking lots affect wind flow, precipitation runoff, and the local energy balance.
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(born 1318, Naples—died Oct. 15, 1389, Rome) Pope (1378–89). Archbishop of Acerenza (1363) and Bari (1377), he became papal chancellor for Gregory XI, whom he was chosen to succeed. This election of an Italian appeased the Romans, who wanted to end the French-dominated Avignon papacy, but his harsh reforms soon angered the French cardinals, prompting them to elect the antipope Clement VII, beginning the Western Schism (1378). Europe was divided in its loyalties, and Urban warred with Naples when its queen backed Clement. Strife over the schism reduced the Papal States to anarchy, and Urban's death may have been from poisoning.
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(born circa 1035, Châtillon-sur-Marne, or Lagery, or Lagny, Champagne, France—died July 29, 1099, Rome) Pope (1088–99). The prior of a Cluniac monastery, he was made cardinal by Pope Gregory VII, whose reforms he furthered. Elected pope in 1088, Urban secured his authority against the antipope Clement III and strengthened the role of the papacy in the reform movement. He called for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont (1095) in response to the appeal of Alexius I Comnenus, promoted the union of the Eastern and Western churches, and supported the Christian reconquest of Spain from the Moors.
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Given Name: Williams
Born: Canberra, , Australia, in 1972
School: Did not attend college.
Primary Position: Pitcher
Batted: Right Threw: Left
Major League Games: 116
Primary Team: Los Angeles Dodgers
Played For
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Final major league game: 9/28/2002
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Invite students to create their own analogies. Choose a different one to write on the board each day, using a blank line in place of a key word in the analogy. Challenge students to try to complete the analogy with an appropriate word. Discuss their answers.
Use this resource on your interactive whiteboard.
- Model to the whole class how to think about new words. Have students come up to the board and share their ideas using the digital ink. Then create an analogy together. A printed copy can then be used for independent work. Share analogies after students have finished.
- Use Analogy Generator as a morning activity. Display the organizer on the Interactive Whiteboard with a new word(s) from a read aloud or from a content area topic that they are studying, then have the students fill in as they prepare for the day in the morning. Discuss their new analogies before beginning your day.
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Sealed Linear Encoders
The new absolute LC 115 and LC 415 sealed linear encoders from HEIDENHAIN (Schaumburg, IL) are now available for use on machines with measuring lengths up to 4,240 millimeters. Features include:
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- A safety-related purely-serial Endat 2.2 (up to 16 MHz) encoder version.
- A functional-safety encoder versions, available for the EnDat 2.2 interface and in the near future DRIVE-CLiQ interface.
- A resolution with an accuracy grade of 3 µm was increased from 5 nm to 1 nm, compared to past LC xx3 series.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Eric Joyce, the MP who got arrested after fighting in a House of Commons bar earlier this year, is on Channel 4 news later.
Apparently he wasn't quite certain that his political career was dead, and so went on just to make sure.
He told the programme: "I think there's room for a bit of consensual low level violence. If a couple of guys want to have a fight outside a pub and no-one gets terribly injured then I really don't think that's a matter for the police to get involved.
"People are allowed to have consensual sado-masochistic sex and that's allowed and it seems to me that broadly it fits into the same bracket."
Talking about the fight that saw him headbut four MPs in the Strangers bar, he said: "The whole thing happened because I'd been drinking and I got quite fighty. In the past, I have been of a fairly physical nature; never related to alcohol, just keen to pile in."
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Point guard Steve Nash gets high-fives from a contingent of Phoenix fans after the Suns eliminated the Trail Blazers 99-90 during Game 6 of their first-round series in Portland, Ore. Nash and the third-seeded Suns will face the seventh-seeded San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals beginning Monday in Phoenix.
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Portland Trail Blazers center Marcus Camby emphatically dunks the ball over the Suns' Jarron Collins in Phoenix. The play was a rare highlight for the Blazers as the Suns ran away 107-88 to take a 3-2 series lead.
Trail Blazers forward Brandon Roy takes a charge from the Phoenix Suns' Leandro Barbosa during Game 4 in Portland, Ore. Roy made a surprise return to action just eight days after arthroscopic knee surgery to provide a motivational lift as the Trail Blazers triumped 96-87 to even the series at 2-2.
Phoenix Suns guard Jason Richardson dives into the crowd to save the ball during the first half of Game 3 in Portland. Richardson scored a playoff career-high 42 points and the Suns dominated from the start in a 108-89 victory over the Trail Blazers on Thursday night that gave them a 2-1 series lead.
Suns center Channing Frye fouls Trail Blazers guard Rudy Fernandez during the second half in Phoenix. The Suns won 119-90.
Suns guard Jason Richardson, left, and Portland Trail Blazers guard Jerryd Bayless battle for a loose ball in the first half. Richardson led his team in scoring with 29 points.
The Portland Trail Blazers' Andre Miller is trapped by the Suns' Amar'e Stoudemire, Grant Hill and Jarron Collins during Game 2 at US Airways Center in Phoenix. The Suns won 119-90 to tie the series at one game apiece.
Celtics guard Tony Allen dunks the ball during the final moments of overtime against the Trail Blazers in Boston. The Celtics sent Portland packing with a 98-95 win.
The Trail Blazers' Andre Miller crashes into a member of a television crew after chasing down a loose ball out of bounds during the second half of an NBA tilt against the 76ers. Miller scored 24 points in Portland's 98-90 victory.
Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy shoots over Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash during the second half of their NBA game in Portland, Ore. Roy had a career-high 52 points as the Trail Blazers beat the Suns 124-119.
An official breaks up an altercation between three members of the Trail Blazers' starting five and Lakers forward Lamar Odom after Portland guard Brandon Roy received a hard foul near the end of the third quarter. Odom was charged with a technical foul, as the Blazers would go on to snap their five-game losing streak with a 112-103 home win.
The Trail Blazers' Joel Przybilla, right, and the SuperSonics' Nick Collison reach out for a rebound during the second half of their Western Conference tilt in Portland, Ore. Przybilla pulled down 16 boards as the Blazers won their 11th straight game 89-79.
Kings guard Kevin Martin beats Trail Blazers defender Ime Udoka (5) to the rack during first-period play in Sacramento. The Western Carolina product netted 22 points and six rebounds, but that wouldn't be enough as he was upstaged by rookie counterpart Brandon Roy, who forced overtime with a 15-foot, fallaway jumper as time expired. Roy and the Blazers pulled a 110-105 win out of the extra session.
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A workshop was conducted June 28-30, 1994 at the USGS National
Center in Reston, VA by representatives of the MRLC
(Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics) consortium for the
purpose of learning and evaluating SPECTRUM image analysis
software relative to joint goals of consortium programs. The
software is reasonably user-friendly, and permits satellite image
data (notably Thematic Mapper) to be approached in an
interpretive mode for land-use/land-cover mapping without the
necessity of painstaking feature delineations. Suggestions were
developed for mapping strategy, a few inconveniences were noted,
and recommendations made for possible future enhancements.
SPECTRUM implements an unsupervised classification approach to
multi-spectral image data. Unsupervised classification involves
first "clustering" the image data to capture the major
image information and then assigning clusters to categories of
interest for mapping. The SPECTRUM version of the unsupervised
approach was developed by Patrick M. Kelly and James M. White in
the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computer Research Group. The
orginal context of development was defense intelligence. The
clustering mechanism uses a nearest-neighbor algorithm giving
results similar to the k-means program in the SAS statistical
package, but utilizes several innovative strategies to improve
speed and accommodate large data sets. A simple user's
perspective for MRLC is that SPECTRUM provides a
computer-assisted mode of "photointerpreting" satellite
image data that is rapid, highly interactive, and does not
require extensive prior experience in remote sensing. As is
typical of more conventional photointerpretation, however, the
quality of the final map improves with the analyst's knowledge of
the landscape being mapped and with amount of ancillary
information available.
A particular advantage of the system relative to clustering is
that many more clusters are generated than typical for other
versions of unsupervised analysis, thus capturing more of the
scene information. This multiplicity of clusters is called
"hyper-clustering," and enables reasonable reproduction
of the scene from just the cluster information alone. Therefore,
hyper-clustering also constitutes a method of image data
compression. Another substantial advantage for MRLC users is that
EROS Data Center will precluster the scene and provide this
information in the manner of an additional image band. Thus, MRLC
users need not be bothered with the clustering phase at all and
can get right to the business of assigning clusters to desired
map categories with the SPECTRUM software.
Mapping Scenario
One begins by loading the cluster image and associated cluster
information into memory of a UNIX workstation computer. The next
order of business is to select three "image bands" for
display on the screen. In fact, the resulting display is an
approximation of the original image as rendered through the
spectral band means for the several clusters. Analysts with
photointerpretation experience will probably choose either a band
combination that gives a "color-infrared" view or a
"conventional color" view. Each has advantages for
interpreting particular types of landscape features. Various
"indexes" such as greenness, brightness, wetness, and
so on can also be displayed if the analyst is familiar their
formulation as ratios or linear combinations of spectral bands.
The desired map legend is next entered as a set of category
labels for landscape features of interest (e.g., land-cover
classes). Along with specifying a category label, one chooses a
color to appear on the screen for "pixels" which will
be placed in that category. The actual process of assigning
clusters to map categories then begins. A "zoom" window
is opened, and a representative sector of the image is moved into
the zoom window with the mouse- driven cursor. As the cursor is
moved around in the zoom window, the number of the cluster in
that pixel location is displayed. One chooses a pixel location
for which the map category is known from ancillary information,
"ground truth," or general "lay of the land"
as seen in the image display. Double clicking the location brings
up a window for assigning the particular cluster number to a map
category. All other pixels belonging to the same cluster then
appear in the designated category color thoughout the rest of the
image. Clusters can be transferred from one map category to
another if desired. For those with digital image analysis
experience, this latter process is very much like "training
set" selection in supervised analysis.
If one is interested only in a very general categorization
(perhaps water, forest, agriculture, and other), the assignment
can probably be accomplished without recourse to ancillary
information according to the appearance of the landscape in the
image. If one is interested in a more detailed categorization
(perhaps vegetation community types), it becomes necessary to
adopt the traditional photointerpreter's approach to convergence
of evidence using ancillary information (topo maps, soils maps,
airphotos, etc.). This involves a special "highlight"
category in which each cluster is temporarily placed by itself so
that the distribution of its member pixels over the landscape can
be viewed readily. The cluster can then be examined in terms of
elevation, aspect, soils, and so on, in order to determine its
characteristics relative to criteria for map categories. Although
more time-consuming, it may be appropriate to run a text editor
as a separate process in a window so that the characterization
for each cluster can be documented in the course of
interpretation. A bit of counsel based on photointerpretation
experience is that careful assignment is generally more than
repaid by avoidance of frustration in correcting errors later.
We would advise that you carry a typical quarter- scene (TM)
through the entire process, including verification, before
proceeding with the rest of your imagery. This will alert you to
the likely pitfalls for the remainder of work, give you a good
sense of expected accuracy, and perhaps reveal some category
confusion that simply cannot be resolved in this particular mode
of mapping. In the latter case, you should plan on refining your
draft map by subsequent exploitation of other sources of
Multi-Temporal Mapping
Phenology is very important in separating land- use/land-cover
and vegetation classes on the basis of spectral information. The
scene with which we experimented in the workshop was clustered as
a composite of two images, one from early summer (June) and the
other from fall (late in October). This is a particularly
advantageous combination relative to phenology, and the composite
clustering is much better than having the same two scenes
clustered separately.
The composite gives rise to a large number of clusters, several
of which are likely to represent the same map category. It is
much easier, however, to assign several clusters to the same map
category than to face the prospect of lack of separability
between categories. A given forest type may be in different
stages of fall color change as a result of elevation differences,
giving several clusters for the same category. However, such
changes also permit detecting conifers in mixture with hardwoods
and induce crop differences associated with senescence or
harvest. More ancillary information may be needed to account for
phenological distinctions between clusters, but the distinctions
at least become possible. Dual dates also allow working under
clouds as long as the clouds do not coincide in both images.
Working with a multi-date composite will require the interpreter
to alternate views of the image. It will be necessary to switch
back and forth between early-season infrared and late-season
infrared, perhaps along with conventional color for one or both
dates. Multiple dates also increase the importance of learning
expected spectral signatures, which are levels of differing
reflectance between bands and dates for particular types of
features. SPECTRUM makes available a signature profile (plot of
band means) when an instance of a cluster number is pending
category assignment.
Multi-date composites will complicate the prospect of
preclustering at the EROS data center. EROS may find it
logistically impractical to precluster in different combinations
of years and dates. This will serve as motivation for user sites
to undertake their own clustering.
Provision for Refinement
It would be unrealistic to expect that the foregoing SPECTRUM
scenarios will adequately address all map categories for all
thematic contexts. Thus, it is only prudent to anticipate
possible need for further refinement after you have done your
best in SPECTRUM. SPECTRUM itself does not currently embody
substantial capabilities for on- screen map editing outside the
cluster environment. There are several paths by which the results
of SPECTRUM work can be carried into other software systems that
are better geared to editing operations. Unfortunately, the
transport utilities are also not currently part of SPECTRUM per
se. You are referred to remote sensing personnel at EROS Data
Center for determining the most expedient import/export
capability relative to your favorite GIS.
Making Spectrum More Commodious for Interpreters
SPECTRUM developers have apparently done little in the way of
multi-temporal interpretation themselves, else they would have
made it unnecessary to keep repeating some of the interpretive
operations. The most obvious instance involves switching of image
views. It is presently necessary to associate a spectral band
with each color plane of the computer display each time you want
a different view. When you have once set up a view in this
manner, it should be possible to "save" the view under
some name so that it can be reselected easily when it is needed
again. We strongly urge that such a capability be added to
SPECTRUM in its next version.
Equally annoying is the need to specify a numeric level of color
for each plane in assigning a color to a category. Susan Benjamin
currently has a sheet of paper that associates color levels with
color names. We wholeheartedly encourage the incorporation of
name-based color selection as an option in SPECTRUM. However, the
capability to specify colors by numeric level should also be
We also view as practical necessity the ability to "quick
save" and retrieve the status of category assignments along
with cluster means by cluster and band number to/from an ASCII
file. This would not only allow interruption/resumption of
worksessions and going-back to prior stages, but also local
programming of bridgework to statistical packages.
Procurement and Platforms
SPECTRUM was developed to run in the Khoros software environment
on UNIX workstation computers. It is possible to obtain Khoros
with SPECTRUM by anonymous FTP through the Internet. If interest
lies solely in SPECTRUM, however, one should seek a stand-alone
version from EROS Data Center.
It must also be noted that all UNIX workstations are not created
equal relative to SPECTRUM. SPECTRUM saw its first intensive use
on Data General platforms at the workshop. While individually and
collectively instructive, the workshop was not thematically
productive due to frequent lock-up of the DGs during SPECTRUM
sessions. Such problems have not occurred on Sun workstations.
Version 2.0 of SPECTRUM is due for release in September and will
have been tested on DGs.
Wish List for Sophisticated Analysts
We would like to:
a) Have current cluster enter scatter plot last so that
color/position is not obscured by plotting of other clusters;
b) Have optional scatter plots on principal component axes;
c) Examine the spectral heterogeneity of individual clusters
(standard deviations to go with means);
d) Retain the seed for a cluster and examine its relation to the
ultimate cluster mean;
e) Examine the spectral heterogeneity of clusters assigned to a
thematic category;
f) Explore the prospective addition of clusters to a thematic
class on the basis of spectral similarity;
g) Create supercategories of categories for spectral comparison;
h) Explore the intercluster spectral structure though
higher-dimensional displays and/or collapsing dendrogram;
i) Create spatial partitions of a spectral cluster for separate
labeling by polygonal enclosure with cursor;
j) Have capability for explicit seeding of clusters, including
cluster means from other scenes that may not actually exist as a
pixel in present scene;
k) Restrict Monte Carlo sampling with an exclusionary binary
mask, i.e. cluster for multiple strata;
l) Display multiple spectral reflectance curves, ie. display
curves for deciduous forest types to compare æcharacteristic'
spectral signatures;
m) Save a library of spectral reflectance curves;
n) Build a menu of æstandard' indices or formulas, i.e.
greenness, wetness, brightness, etc. so the user doesn't have to
type them in.
Workshop Participants:
Wayne Myers, Penn State University
Gail Thelin, USGS-WRD NAWQA
Susan Benjamin, NMD NASA-AMES Research Center
Ann Raspberry, Maryland, DNR
Joy Hood, EROS Data Center
Paul Etzler, EMSL, Las Vegas, NV
Jim Majure, Iowa State University
John Brakebill, USGS-WRD Potomac NAWQA
Pat Green, EPA-EMAP Forest, RTP, NC
John Findley, USGS-NMD, Reston, VA


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- 8.00 tablespoon(s) (1 stick) unsalted butter, plus more for pan
- 1.50 cup(s) all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for pan
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) baking soda
- 1.00 cup(s) sugar
- 3.00 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup(s) low-fat buttermilk
- 1.00 cup(s) fresh strawberries, hulled and finely chopped
- 1.00 tablespoon(s) seedless raspberry jam
- 3.00 pint(s) vanilla ice cream, softened
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour an 8-inch round cake pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until incorporated; mix in vanilla. With mixer on low speed, alternately add flour mixture in three parts and buttermilk in two, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix just until smooth (do not overmix).
- Pour batter into prepared pan; smooth top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Cool 15 minutes in pan; turn cake out onto a rack, and let cool completely. Using a long serrated knife, halve cake horizontally.
- While cake is cooling, combine strawberries and jam in a medium bowl.
- Line sides of a 9-inch springform pan with a strip of waxed paper; wrap outside of pan with plastic wrap. Center bottom half of cake in pan, cut side up.
- Spread 1 1/2 pints ice cream over top and down around sides. Spread strawberry mixture on ice cream, leaving a 1-inch border. Set top half of cake over it.
- Spread remaining ice cream over top and down around sides of cake. Tap cake on counter to help ice cream settle. Smooth top, and freeze until firm, at least 6 hours or, covered, up to 2 weeks. To serve, remove plastic from pan, unmold cake, and peel off waxed paper. Let cake rest at room temperature for 15 minutes before slicing.
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Posts Tagged Bungie AerospaceCrimson: Steam Pirates ReviewiPad Only App - Designed for the iPadTake the high seas in this Caribbean treat! Read The Full Review » It was only a few months ago that we announced that Bungie, makers of the Halo franchise, were entering the iOS market. Under the name of Bungie Aerospace, it wasn't all too clear exactly what games to expect of the developer. That is until now. It turns out that Bungie Aerospace is the label given to a project by Bungie that's set out to help small independent developers launch their mobile and social games. The first title undertaken through this concept is going to be that of Crimson: Steam Pirates. Developed by HareBrained Schemes, Crimson: Steam Pirates has some great pedigree behind it with some of its team having contributed to the likes of MechWarrior, Shadowrun and Crimson Skies and numerous other titles. Crimson: Steam Pirates is going to be a turn-based strategy game that promises a mix of strategy and action as players must anticipate and counter their enemies' moves. As an iPad exclusive, Crimson: Steam Pirates offers the first chapter of the game for free and include 8 missions (or voyages, to keep the nautical theme) in all, as well as two 'pass-and-play' multiplayer scenarios. Plenty of depth should be on offer with over a dozen types of ships, subs and airships promised. There'll also be 20 crew members with unique special abilities, that will hopefully mix things up nicely. Something else to be excited about: there'll be Bungie.net integration offering leaderboards and what we hope will be a plethora of statistics to compare with friends. Those who have played Halo online recently will know what we're talking about. Bungie knows how to do online statistics wonderfully well. For the lucky souls attending PAX Prime, Crimson: Steam Pirates will be available to play at the event. For everyone else, it's not long to wait with the game set for release on September 1st on the iPad only. When it comes to companies with a huge amount of influence in the game design space, it is hard to argue that Bungie isn't among the frontrunners. Having successfully birthed both the Marathon and Halo franchises, they also draw one of the largest fan followings in the entire industry. After recently breaking ties from the Microsoft fold and signing a ten year contract with Activision to create a groundbreaking new game universe, it was assumed that they would be setting their sights on creating a new console franchise. While this assumption may still be true, it seems like they may also have more ambitious, and dare we say portable plans. Using the moniker of Bungie Aerospace, the name of Bungie's business entity post-Microsoft, recently filed a trademark for the name "Crimson." As bland as the name may seem, this may be pointing towards the company finally making strides into the iOS space. The official filing description reads as follows: Though I would hate to be the one to jump to conclusions too early, the wording above seems pretty definitive in stating Bungie's intentions to at least breach the portable gaming front in some way, shape, or form. It is hard to say whether this might be in the form of a full game, stat monitoring, or even a pre-release ARG, but one thing is for sure, this should be exciting news to all iOS gamers. Lets just hope that they can continue their hot streak of amazing game worlds, because I can't wait to see what they have up their sleeves next! [ via Game Informer ] |


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Amazon has announced that Walmart will begin selling 3G Kindles and the ad-subsidized Kindle with Special Offers starting this week. No mention of the Wi-Fi only models that aren't subsidized, however.
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by Karen Ostergren in Reader Tips & Comments, May 29, 2010Cookout season kicks off this holiday weekend, and with ideas from our readers, we're ready to get started. Plus, we've included the latest feedback on our yogurt taste test, including a savory yogurt-based dip — perfect for nibbling while you get your grill on.
We celebrated National Burger Day on Friday with some better-for-you burgers:
"My new favorite is buffalo burgers! Very lean and gives me that "beefy" flavor I crave." –Linda
"Add chopped sun-dried tomatoes to your meat before cooking — yummy and nutritious!" –Diane
From Taste Test: Nonfat Vanilla Yogurt:
"I eat the 0% fat Greek yogurt with a squeeze of honey. I have never enjoyed yogurt or honey so much! It's pricey, so I spent $20.00 and bought a yogurt maker, and now make low-fat yogurt and dips (I add a minced clove of garlic, some dill, freshly ground pepper and a scant sprinkle of salt). My next move is to make fat-free yogurt. Have only made 1% and 2% thus far." –Denise
"When I get home with fresh fruit, I put it in the blender then freeze in ice cube trays and put in baggies. When I want a smoothie, I add several different ones with plain nonfat Greek yogurt back in the blender. Add a little almond milk to thin if necessary. –Miriam
What better way to cap off a summer celebration than with a bowl of seasonalstrawberries?
"I like strawberries sliced and drizzled with very aged balsamic and fresh cracked black pepper, or quartered with a dollop of plain yogurt or low-fat sour cream and a sprinkle of brown sugar (ala Romanov style). –Linda
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Albany (New York) Via Media
Striving for Inclusion and Tolerance in
the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, ECUSA
18 Trinity Place, Plattsburgh, New York 12901
1229 Baker Avenue, Schenectady, New York 12309
August 30, 2004
The Reverend Canon Gregory Cameron
Commission Secretary
Lambeth Commission
Lambeth Palace, England
Dear Most Reverend Sir and Members of the Commission:
The Episcopal Church USA is under attack by a determined minority of conservative Episcopalians.
Some parishes have lost members and money, and some of our dioceses are torn by dissention and
strife. Critics trumpet this disarray as proof that Bishop Gene Robinson's consecration
is wrong and sinful. Closer to the truth, the ecclesiastical damage is the result of a
tactically brilliant ecclesiastical warfare, waged in the name of Christ, by those
dissidents intent on victory. Our church is wounded.
The attempt to rally the worldwide Anglican Communion to change, discipline or replace the Episcopal Church is a violation of the Reformation principles by which we were founded. It is a dangerous affront to the Anglican ethic which respects individual conscience. To give Primates authority to meet and make decisions or pronouncements to or for the rest of the Communion is without precedent in Anglicanism. It is against the Reformation practice of allowing individual provinces to make administrative, ethical and ecclesiastical decisions for themselves. Some are forgetting the whole purpose of the founding of the Church of England by Henry VIII and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. England was freed from the authority (and the tyranny) of the Pope and the College of Cardinals. Whether or not the Church of England always made good decisions, their choices were their own.
The interpretation of Biblical sexual ethics is the moral responsibility of individual Anglicans, who gather in parishes and dioceses to live out faithful Christian lives. Provinces make canonical provision for respecting the moral conscience of individual dioceses and parishes within the culture of each independent province. Difference and nuance are expected; new innovations are adopted slowly. Church ethical innovations in divorce, gay marriage or gay ordination share process similarities with the Reformation struggle for clerical marriage, so that, for example, the innovative Archbishop Thomas Cranmer married Bishop Osiander's niece in Holland before the practice was allowed in his own "province". The sixteenth century English Church claimed authority over divorce laws within the borders of the Church of England, irrespective of pronouncements from Rome, and that right of Provincial decision remains today in each of our provinces.
Therefore, the commission should not make any recommendations that subvert the power of individual provinces to interpret scripture and make moral decisions for their common life. The primates as a group have no constitutional authority in the life of the Anglican Communion beyond the authority each individual primate has in his own province. The Anglican Communion already allows individual provinces to craft canons respecting marriage, divorce, as well as moral behavior expected of candidates for ordination. Conservative dissidents who break communion with those with whom they disagree on these issues, function less like Anglicans and more like the Roman Catholic Church we separated from almost five hundred years ago. The church must not capitulate to threats of ecclesiastical violence.
The questions of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
We would now like to specifically answer some of the 2004 Lambeth
Commission's Key Questions , from the Archbishop of Canterbury, from the point
of view of the Albany Via Media movement within the Diocese of
Albany[1] in the United States of America.
Question 1. What are (a) the legal and (b) the theological implications flowing from ECUSA decision to appoint a priest in a committed same sex relationship as one of its bishops? (See LC 1998 Res. I.10)
The erroneous assumption of the first question demonstrates the canonical diversity of various Provinces. No diocesan bishop is "appointed" in the American system. Bishops are elected, and such elections are not easily overturned in a diocese in the American Republic, nor will the American church be intimidated by threats against its elective system.
Legally, in the American Province, the decision regarding moral fitness for ordination is left up to the individual diocese. Dioceses differ as to their interpretation of the requirement that candidates live "sober, honest and godly lives." Theologically, this variety of interpretation is seen as a gift of spiritual diversity when discerning the mind of Christ; Paul noted that we only "see through a glass darkly" in this life. We believe that new ethical interpretations must be allowed to proceed in course without threat of ecclesiastical violence, sanction or excommunication from the rest of the communion. A diversity of practice is preferred over the threat of oppression by the church, such as the violence against translator William Tyndale, or Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, or the sanctions against the scientist Galileo.
Question 3. What are the canonical understandings of (a) communion, (b) impaired communion and (c) broken communion? (What is autonomy and how is it related to communion?)
There is no legal means to impair communion within the Anglican Communion, except when a Province chooses to impair its own communion with Canterbury or chooses to impair its relationship with another province. Such impairment would be relational, not legal. Such brokenness violates Paul's vision of the Body of Christ (we cannot exclude others from the Body, nor remove ourselves from it) and Jesus' Johannine metaphor of all of us remaining attached to the Vine of Christ. Basically, we're stuck with each other even when we do not agree.
Question 4. How (do and) may provinces relate to one another in situations where the ecclesiastical authorities of one province feel unable to maintain the fullness of communion with another part of the Anglican Communion?
In the Anglican Communion, a province or diocese that is convinced that another province has erred should express its dissatisfaction, concern and the reasons thereto. It is the work of the official meetings and groups of the Anglican Communion, such as the Lambeth meeting of Bishops and the meetings of the Anglican Consultative Council to provide such a forum.
If a province or some of its ecclesiastical authorities believe they must impair communion with another province or diocese, then the Anglican Communion has no mechanism to prevent this. At that point, their relationship with the affected province exists only by virtue of both province's relationship with Canterbury, and not directly with each other. If the Anglican Communion or the Archbishop of Canterbury had a means to force communion or force ethical compliance, it would no longer be the Anglican Communion but an Anglican Papacy.
Furthermore, in the current matter too much authority and voice have been given Provincial Primates in their individual protestations against actions of the American Episcopal Church. The very fact that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth Commission will be reporting to the Primates, as though they [the Primates] had authority, is a concession to threats of schism and an affront to existing decision-making structures in the Anglican Communion. The strategy of ECUSA dissidents to use the Primates as a new power structure within the Anglican Communion is an innovation that violates the very ethos of our founding.
In the English Reformation the church in England freed itself from the tyranny of Papal authority. King Henry VIII was glad to insist that England – and the English church -- must have the right of self-governance, free from meddling by Spanish and Italian Princes and Prelates. We wonder how Thomas Cranmer, King Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury would view this scenario: Anglican bishops from the West Indies, Africa and the Southern Cone, claiming the right to overturn marriage innovations in the English Church. We find it no improvement to replace the tyranny of the 16th century Pontiff with the presumption of the 21st century Primates.
Question 5. What practical solutions might there be to maintain the highest degree of communion that may be possible, in the circumstances resulting from these two decisions, within the individual churches involved? (eg [alternative] episcopal oversight when full communion is threatened).
Alternate Episcopal Oversight can only be allowed when it is managed by and agreed to within the province affected, between the bishops concerned. There may be a limited role for Lambeth to facilitate alternate Episcopal Oversight using Episcopal resources within the province, with the consent of that Province. Canterbury must not put itself in the position of subverting the authority of a province with its own member congregations.
Question 7. Under (a) what circumstances, (b) what conditions, and (c) by what means, might it be appropriate for the Archbishop of Canterbury to exercise an extraordinary ministry of pastoral oversight, support and reconciliation with regard to the internal affairs of a province to maintain communion between Canterbury and that province? (see LC 1998, Res. IV.13)
Since the Archbishop is already in communion with the Provinces and their elected authorities, there is no circumstance, condition or means by which the Archbishop could exercise oversight in a province that does not seek his help. There is no legal authority structure for a Canterbury role as judge or arbiter between a province's dissenters and its authority, except as noted in (5) above. Dissenters within a province should be directed by Canterbury to dissent within the canonical structures of the province.
Question 8. Under (a) what circumstances, (b) what conditions, and (c) by what means, might it be appropriate for the Archbishop of Canterbury to exercise an extraordinary ministry of pastoral oversight, support and reconciliation with regard to the internal affairs of a province to maintain communion between that province and the rest of the Anglican Communion? (see LC Res. IV.13)
This question seems to assume that a Primate of the rest of the Anglican Communion has the authority to declare his entire province "out of communion" with another province. We do not accept the notion that any single bishop has this power in Anglicanism.
There is no circumstance, condition or means by which the Archbishop of Canterbury would need to exercise oversight to force communion between Provinces. Provincial members are such by heritage and its members remain such by choice. Those Anglicans who wish to force conformity by violence or threat of schism or by intervention in the matters of another province – such as Uganda's recent incursions into the Los Angeles diocese, are betraying the values of our Anglican foundations in the sixteenth century. Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer lost his life in the pursuit of theological freedom of conscience, and no illusion of communion should be forced at the expense of provincial conscience. An artificial unity that sacrifices provincial autonomy is a new tyranny. Conservative dissidents in the American Episcopal Church believe they have the support of the current Archbishop of Canterbury in their dissent. We hope that he will use the power of his office to encourage dissenters to work within the power structures of their own provinces.
We, the undersigned members of Albany Via Media, thank the commission for the opportunity to present our opinions in this matter.
The Very Rev. Dr. John T. Sorensen, Trinity Church, Plattsburgh, and
The Rev. Dr. James Brooks McDonald, St. Stephen's, Schenectady, Co-Presidents, Albany Via Media (New York). The Rev. Charles W. Sheerin Jr, Albany, NY; The Rev. Christopher Smith, St. Ann's, Amsterdam; Jack Luscombe, Esq. and Hallett Luscombe, Sheila Rowland, Trinity Plattsburgh; The Rev. George Easter, Lyon Mountain, NY; Gay Gamage, St. Stephen's, Schuylerville; Robert Dodd, PhD, James Rice, PhD, Saranac Lake, NY;
Claire and George Stahler, St. James, Lake George, NY; Keith St. John, Esq., the Rev. Dr. David McSwain, St. George's, Schenectady; The Rev. Judson Pealer, St. Eustace, Lake Placid.
No one is spared the threatening rhetoric of the bellicose right, whose plan to win or destroy extends to the whole of the Anglican Communion. To quote Bishop Duncan of Pittsburgh, convener of the Network of Anglican Communion Parishes and Dioceses (What Would Intervention Look Like?), speaking to the Plano rally in October 8, 2003, and hoping to intimidate Archbishop Williams before the 2003 Primates meeting: "The Archbishop of Canterbury would become little more than the titular head of a moribund and declining British, American and Australian sect. The dynamic Anglicanism of Africa, Asia and Latin America would realign with a "first among equals" whose see might have a movable name, including places like Lagos or Nassau or Singapore or Buenos Aires. I believe that Archbishop Rowan Williams understands precisely this reality, and that "muddling through" this time will not be good enough. The last English empire is his to loose."
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I have seen some questions similar to this, but I am on an opposite page - I like my Den bigger. I am a teacher and am used to a lot of children to teach, but the committee chair seems to think that he has the better plan. He moved children from my Den (at that point their were 9 boys), without even telling me. While one child was his son, I felt like I had at least the right to know, versus reading it in the leader's minutes (I couldn't make the meeting that night because my son was ill). I have a child that is in my son's class (along with another child from my Den) who signed up thinking he was going to be in the same Den with his friends and came to me very upset that he was in a Den with children from the other school. My understanding of moving the kids out of my Den was to keep the schools together, yet now this one child is with a group of kids he doesn't even know. So, any thoughts? Any Committee chairs out there want to share their wisdom on what exactly is the Committee chair's responsibilities in this? I will add that no parent, to my knowledge, has expressed any dissatisfaction in my work, and I hear many complements on the job I do. When I did speak to the Chair today, he said that he won't let any Den get above 7 boys, even if that means a boy gets put in a group of children from a different school (oh, I should add that we are a Pack of 4 schools, with about 60 boys in our pack). I feel that if everyone is happy, then let it be. If a parent wants to have their child in a specific Den, shouldn't that be their choice, as long as the leader is okay with it? Okay - help me out here. We have been involved in Cub Scouts for 3 years now (my older son is a Webelo 1 now), but this is the end of my first year as a leader (my younger son just became a Wolf from a Tiger). I am frustrated because I feel that the Leaders and the Chair should work as a team, not feel like we are his "employees".
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My son's den currently has 10 boys. At the beginning of the year 10 was too many. They tend to get rambuncous and loud when they are all together. We finally realized stations of 3 or 4 worked great. We started out with just one leader then added an assistant and a den chief.
I guess the CC ultimately can make the call to break up a den, but I can't believe he or she would do that without discussing with the DL or having major complaints to back such a quick change.
You all recognized that it was a problem (that it was too loud and rambuncous). There has not been a problem at this point (we meet 2x a month since September). I would have thought that if the leader and the parents don't have an issue, no one else should either. As the saying goes "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The answers to most of your questions are in the Cub Scout Leaders' Guide. The recommended ideal den size is 6-8. The Pack Committee (and CC) runs the business side of the Pack, while the CM and Den Leaders execute the program, supported by the committee. I once was CM of a Pack of 150 boys...12 dens plus 4 Webelos dens. At that point, we split the Pack and formed a new one. The idea being to form new dens and Packs, rather than keep feeding the dens to the point of Leader burnout. As a teacher, you may be trained and able to handle 30 boys, but most DLs are not. Sounds like the CC is just trying to follow the program, but maybe his communication could be improved.
It is not about dissatisfaction with you (this is not supposed to be "work"). It is about BSA policies.
BSA states that dens should be between 6-8 boys. They feel that dens this size are big enough to be able to play a game, do a skit or work on a project, but still small enough to enable all of the boys to build a close relationship with each other and their leaders, and also have opportunities for leadership. It is supposed to be a small, intimate, fun group, not a classroom.
As a Den leader, one of your responsibilities is to support the policies of the BSA.
Yes, den leaders, the CM, the CC and the all of the rest of the Pack leadership are supposed to work together. Yes, some Packs do not mind if they have larger dens. However, one of the responsibilities of the Committee Chair is to recognize the need for more dens and to see that new dens are formed as needed.
With a new Wolf den, in a large Pack which pulls from 4 schools, your CC is probably anticipating recruiting a bunch of new Wolves in the Fall. The Tiger and Wolf dens are usually the ones that receive the biggest portion of new recruits.
Yes, it would have been nice if the CC would have given you a heads up about the decision that was reached at the Committee meeting you were unable to attend. However you were given a copy of the minutes so that you were not left in the dark. Also, you should have had your Assistant Den Leader, or one of the other den parents, attend the meeting in your stead to represent your den. That way you would have had someone to offer up your den's side of things.
How does the other Wolf den leader feel about the grouping? Hopefully, more boys will register from the other school and the dens can get reshuffled closer to school lines in the Fall. Until then, don't show the boys that you are upset. Have a positive attitude and have fun with your den!
A max of nine boys is allowed. If a tenth boy wants to join, then the den needs to be split in to two dens. Policy set by National.
If you have multiple elementary schools, then ideally, you group them that way if possible - the kids will know one another better. But that is a matter of convenience, not a policy.
Kids should not be yanked out of a den they had been in all year, unless that was a major problem between kids within the den that could not be resolved. The only other reason is the meeting time does not work for them in that den but the other den's schedule fits in better, but that is usually something you should hear from the parent before a change occurs.
If there too to be in a single den that want to be together, have a joint den meeting or outing once a month to visit a museum, play scout games, build and fly kits, etc. This way they will see their friends at the pack meeting and at one mega-den meeting a month.
Vigil-Hiker - can you point me to the National policy that states that at 10 the den must be split?
I have read in thousands of places that dens SHOULD be 6-8 boys but never have seen a MUST/SHALL about the 10 number.
I just finished up my first year as a Tiger leader (without an Assistant) with 12 boys. These boys were all in one den and while it was loud at times I found that the boys respected my requests for attention and were pretty good 6-7 year olds.
I have worried about what happens when we add more boys in the Fall... have had the conversations with the parents about splitting the den. No one wants to split.. they liked how the last year went. I have, however, gained an assistant for the upcoming year.
Guess I am playing by ear on how big it gets.... probably will stay as one den up to 13.. and at 14 really have to consider a split with my new assistant taking the "new" den.
One of the reasons that the guideline is 6-8 boys (I've never heard of this as "must split at x # of boys" either - rather as a guideline) is that when you go much bigger, each boy gets less personal interaction. Sometimes group settings really are more convenient for the adults, but that's not how the program is designed and adult convenience should come second to what the boys get from the program.
I will also add that as the boys get older, it actually becomes more difficult to have a very large den. As Tigers, adult participation is mandatory so if you have 15 kids, you also have 15 adults to lend a hand. As wolves, lots of parents continue to stick around. As bears, you actually want to begin the long process of peeling the parents off a bit, and by the time you hit webelos, the den leader - not the parents - is supposed to be the primary adult that the boys go to. Additionally with older boys, fewer parents are likely to stay at the den meetings even if they want to; they have other kids in younger dens who need them more, multiple kids to drive around, whatever, and it just doesn't happen as much that you have a support crew of adults in the room with you. I know a lot of den leaders who start with this idea that 10-15 works just great until they hit those older grades, but by then it is even harder to split the den because "they've been together since they were Tigers!"
I'd agree with others that the CC might have communicated this better with you, but it does sound like he was just trying to follow the guidelines here. Go talk with him about it; you may both come away with a renewed appreciation for each other's positions.
>>However you were given a copy of the minutes so that you were not left in the dark. Also, you should have had your Assistant Den Leader, or one of the other den parents, attend the meeting in your stead to represent your den. That way you would have had someone to offer up your den's side of things.
A max of nine boys is allowed. If a tenth boy wants to join, then the den needs to be split in to two dens. Policy set by National.
Please post the reference for that policy, Id like to read more about it.
I do agree with Barry. The committee chair blundered badly, however noble the intention. Wondering though where the two boys removed from the den of 9 went? If a second den had only 2 or 3 boys it makes sense to try to boost the size of that den. Moving boys around involves both den leaders, the Cubmaster, the parents, and the boys. The CC should be the facilitator, not the dictator. Training would help.
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In all my military leadership training, we discussed much about personal leadership at the first line level: 5-7 is right span. Above 9 you start seeing a new layer of leadership.
An Army squad is 11: Squad leader, two fire team leaders, and 4 folk in each fire team.
The ninth boy can be handled with Assistant Den Leaders and Den Chiefs, although they are designed to help keep the 8 manageable. The tenth boy is the point where you consider adding a den. That's my experience.
First, let me clarify. This was not a decision that was made through the committee - the CC made the "executive decision", as was told to me by other leaders that attending the meeting. Yes, I was offended, not because I felt that what he did was wrong - I think the boys should be kept with their friends - but that this was not communicated to me. It was just done. I have worked as a volunteer and as a teacher for most of my life, and I understand that volunteers need to be supported and felt like they are part of the process. This CC has continually caused hard feeling because we do feel like we are his subordinates. He does not have a CM because the CM has flaked - my understanding that he had too much personal business to deal with - and made it that each DL had to be take a turn being the CM. We have been told repeatedly that a CM is just a glorified MC, but has no authority. Only the CC has authority, and he can make decisions as he chooses. He even threatened to cancel our Pinewood derby because "If I don't like how it's going, I can cancel it anytime I want". This was despite the people who were working really hard behind the scenes.
Also, I do have an assistant DL, who is phenomenal. I "teach" and she keeps all the records. It works smoothly. Even she has said that we could easily take up to 10 boys because of how smoothly she and I work together. I did discuss this with the CC, who said that it is his decision at any time to move kids, and that while the other dens only had 5-6 boys, he could balance them out.
Again, I don't mind that he moved the boys with their school/friends, just wait until the year was over AND have the basic courtesy to let the DL know, rather than hearing it 2nd hand in the minutes. Basic, common courtesy here. Isn't that part of being a scout - respect? Right now, I have 2 boys that are friends of my son's who have joined, but are put with other schools. I talked to the CC about this yesterday, and was frustrated that now these parents might pull out because they don't know or trust the other leaders. I have a big Den because I have recruited myself. The kids at school know me as the "boy Scout Mom". Parents come and ask me questions, not even ones in my Den. I am the one out there promoting the positives of a program that is really not popular in this area. I have gone to my Leader training, as well as being a trained teacher. I am not going to have burn out - if that was the case, I would have burned out my own profession a long time ago. I think the other adults in the Pack are not unaware of what I do for a living either. The other large Den in my pack has 11 boys - WEBELOS - and the CC has said that they are so big, they don't get to do anything - IE; no flag ceremonies, no skits, no songs. Again, it's like we are being punished for being good at what we do and having parents know it. I am not "tooting my own horn" - I wouldn't stay a teacher if I didn't enjoy my job. It is the same with scouting - I love what it does for my boys, I love the values it is giving them and if I didn't love that, I wouldn't be here. The parents know that, and that is why I have crossed over all but one child in my original 12 - the one didn't cross over because he moved to another state. As my assistant DL stated - if she can request her son be on a specific baseball/soccer/basketball team because of the coach, shouldn't we have some control of that with Cub Scouts?
I'd have a long cup of coffee with the CC. Let him/her know how you feel ... and why.
After that, if you feel your time/talent/treasure is not put to best use in this Pack, thanks to other Scouters, you have the option to look for a new Pack to serve. If you choose that option, do the COR the courtesy of an exit interview.
We are volunteers, after all...
If you find out afterward, I would like to know what feedback your CC gives you...(This message has been edited by John-in-KC)
The idea of going to another Pack doesn't work here - you are with the pack that your child's school or church belong to, or you aren't in scouts. It's not like Boy Scouts where there are many Troops. There is a Mom and leader with this group that moved during the year and is being asked to move to the Pack where her son will be going to school, even though she is currently a Den Leader.
I am involved in other volunteer organizations here - I know there are egos and politics. I also know that I am ultimately in it for my sons. I just really hope this Pack doesn't crash and burn because of someone who doesn't realize the the work he is doing is not just his to do.
Oh, and our COR is just on paper. No one even knew who it was.
Hi. I am the CM for the pack my son is. I have never felt like a MC. Actuully the CC gives me a lot of responiblity but would never think of doing anything if I did not have the total backing fron the CC and comittee. The CC and committee are responsible to make sure the pack is running on the business side. The CM makes sure the dens are given the oppurnity to advance. My son is going to be a Webelos 1 in a couple of days and I noticed that the 12 bears was to much and with the complete backing from the cc and commitee I let the parents and the leaders know that we will be spliting the den into 2. For a few differnet reasons 1) it is to big; 2) the badges that we will be working on are more intense and we will be having to do more field trips. We have 2 schools feeding into our den but we did not split them by schools we split them by personaility. It was by who can work toghter. It is all about commuication.
another thing i have a boy that his parents came to me to ask if he could join but he lives in another city close by. I welcomed the whole family. It is not my decision who joins. If the boy wants to be in scouts i am not going to turn them away. If the parents want to drive more power to them, He has been with us for 3 months now and he has never missed a meeting or a field trip.
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