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Explore with Noah Justice DVD Pack with Study Guides: Episodes 1-6, Awesome Science Series
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Traveling is even better when you discover the evidence of biblical history and truth along the way. Hosted by 14-year-old homeschooler Noah Justice, his fresh approach to science and the Bible will get children more excited about the truth with each episode of Awesome Science. 30 minutes on DVD. Kids & Teens. 6 DVDs.
Six study guides that accompany each DVD are also included. A variety of follow-up activities to the DVD are provided, including word-bank sentence-completions, discussion questions, bonus activities, true/false, and other exercises. Some brief content reminders are also included. 30-40 pages each, magazine style bindings.
This set includes: 6 DVDs and 6 Study Guides.
Awesome Science Episode 1: Explore the Grand Canyon covers how the Grand Canyon was cut in just days, not millions of years; how its massive layers show evidence of being laid down in less than a year; and how the Biblical record can be trusted as Earth's history book.
Awesome Science Episode 2: Explore Yellowstone teaches that the Geologic Column is best explained by the Global Flood, and explains that Super Volcanoes were used to shape the Earth after the Flood, and well as how petrified forests in Yellowstone were formed in just a few years.
Awesome Science Episode 3: Explore Meteor Crater and Petrified Forest will discuss the wonders of two of Arizona's most famous geologic sites.
Awesome Science Episode 4: Explore Yosemite and Zion National Parks with Noah Justice will take children and teens to two of the most beautiful national parks in the country. Viewers will learn why the valley is evidence of erosion from a global flood; why only one major ice age may have occurred; and how Zion's layers, arches, and hanging valleys formed.
Awesome Science Episode 5: Explore Mount St. Helens with Noah Justice will take children and teens to the scene of one of the largest landslides and volcanic eruptions in America. This episode will teach viewers why observable events help us understand the catastrophic Great Flood; the impact of rapid erosion, coal formation, and quick biologic recovery; and how canyons, stratified layers, and petrified forests formed quickly.
Awesome Science Episode 6: Explore John Day Fossil Beds with Noah Justice will take children and teens on a God-glorifying trip out west. Exploring how extensive erosion revealed layers of ash, sediment, and fossils at Oregon's John Day Fossil Beds, children will discover why no dinosaurs are found there, the history of the geological formations, and an explanation of why a catastrophic event explains the landscape.
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Postmodernism and the Deconstruction of America's Epic Mythos
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history
of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of History
History is a strong myth, perhaps . . . the last great myth. It is a myth that once
subtended the possibility of an 'objective' enchainment of events and causes and
the possibility of a narrative enchainment of discourse.
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
I suppose that since the first cities were constructed some five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, and humans began scanning the skies and finding divine relationships between the "heavenly" kingdom above, and the earthly kingdom below, when priests and kings were joined in a symbiotic quest for power, that the beginnings of cultural hegemony probably took root in that distant, ancient time, the origins of mythological power structures that have been in eternally in play, and which today still resonate from Constantine, to Augustine, to Luther and Calvin, to Columbus, Cortez, de Las Casas, and that created mythical dreamtime is one that the West, in particular America, still trumpets as the Christian destiny, of God's historical plan for all of humankind, the church possessing and sole arbiter of all epistemological, teleological, ontological, moral, ethical, and psychological knowledge, Manifest Destiny and Divine Right of Kings alive and well in a Postmodern 21st century.
That mythical origin was almost certainly political, as power and politics are interrelated twins, a type of mythopoetic Romulus and Remus gazing down on the world vista from the seven hills of Rome and finding the two great streams of thought and power in the Western world, one of classical Greece and Rome, of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, the other Augustine and Constantine, The Aeneid and the Bible, uneasy bedfellows that together have constructed the most dominant and powerful patriarchal and ethnocentric mythology that would make even a super alien intelligence nod in admiration for such a hubris. The most powerful object involved in the construction of that mythos, the one motif that all Christianity has in common, is the Bible. From that perceived sacred book, woven like a tangled web over centuries of mythical construction, emerged the Christian world view of a linear time, the Alpha and Omega, of God working in history to fulfill his divine dictates and Christianize the entire globe so that God's kingdom will finally be at hand on a grateful and welcoming planet. America has vigorously pursued this grand epic with a global scheme of righteousness, mission, and manifest destiny. However, something has happened to stem this historic tide, and that event is postmodern multiculturalism. A litany of world voices that have been suppressed for centuries are echoing among us, and within those diverse tongues are found many people who are not mesmerized with the mythic Christian mission, who are not enamored by the history of Western colonization, by its use of power, force, coercion, by its disrupting of indigenous cultures in favor of its own, and contained within this veritable World Tower of Babel is the clearly recognizable fact that the world is full of a multitude of cultures and voices, and contained within those cultures are other epic myths, other epistemological ways of knowing, so that one branch of revealed knowledge can no longer, logically, claim supreme divine authority over all the rest. The Grand Narrative epic myth of Christianity faces grave challenges in the 21st century, and an examination of analytical discourse in regard to the West's Grand Narrative, does provide a needed deconstruction of the locus of power, authority, and discourse contained in its epic work, the Bible.
The majority of the individuals that are heir to the Grand Narrative tradition are immersed in their own cultural mythos and really believe that the only agency that matters is their own, the only cultural worldview that has any import is the Christian. Most of them do not know their own history, or what history they do know has been written from the Christian perspective. They have no idea that both modernity and the postmodern world that they now inhabit has severely called into question many of the precepts of such an ethnocentric perspective, and that other critical modes of discourse, especially postmodernism, have emerged that view the Christian Grand Narrative from a vantage point of deconstructing the story. For example, in an examination of early Christian "explorers," such as Columbus, the old story that "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety two," and "discovered" America and began the process of bringing civilization to the savagery of the Rousseauian natives, is really just constructed history that masks the real intent of Eurocentric imperialism. Foucault would say that such an assertion illustrates that "[d]iscourse constructs, defines and produces the objects of knowledge in an intelligible way while at the same time excluding other ways of reasoning as unintelligible" (Barker 18).
The beginning of the American myth can be found in Columbus' own words: "Sir, As I know that you will be pleased at the great victory with which Our Lord has crowned my voyage I found very many islands filled with people innumerable and of them all I have taken possession for their highnesses" (11-12). This passage is taken from a letter sent by Columbus to Luis de Santangel, a court official who had helped secure financing for Columbus' voyage. Two things are striking: the first, of course, is the reference to the fortune that a preferential God has placed upon the European invader, justification of which is found in the Bible, and the second is the idea of ownership, early capitalistic exploitation of a land and a people that are inferior, and Foucault would see this structure as indicative of a " discourse [that] regulates not only what can be said under determinate social and cultural conditions but also who can speak, when and where [of] the historical investigation of power and the production of subjects through that power" (Barker 18). To further reinforce this point, later on Columbus writes, "I sent two men inland to learn if there were a king or great cities. They traveled three days' journey and found an infinity of small hamlets and people without number, but nothing of importance" (italics mine) (12). The European view of these indigenous peoples relegated them from initial contact to the status of Other, inferior, and of no value at all except for whatever they could be used for, as a means of capital and production in a Marxist sense. The idea of Other is reminiscent of Edward Said's Orientalism, and though Said was not writing about the Native American experience, the postcolonial critique applies, in my opinion, to the marginal groups under discussion because Said argued that the Orient " signifies a system of representations framed by political forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and Western empire. The Orient exists for the West, and is constructed by and in relation to the West. It is a mirror image of what is inferior and alien ("Other") to the West" (qtd. in Sered). The Other, in this sense, are Native Americans who were exploited as capital in the Colonial expansion of the West.
The number of estimated "Others" killed either directly or indirectly by the Eurocentric incursion is staggering:
Columbus' programs reduced Taino numbers from as many as 8 million at the outset of his regime to about 3 million in 1496. Perhaps 100,000 were left by the time the governor departed. His policies, however, remained, with the result that by 1514 the Spanish census of the island showed barely 22,000 Indians remaining alive. In 1542, only 200 were recorded. Thereafter, they were considered extinct, as were Indians throughout the Caribbean Basin, an aggregate population which totaled more than 15 million at the point of first contact with the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, as Columbus was known. (Churchill)
In another letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, in 1503 from Jamaica Columbus writes: "The lands which here obey Your Highnesses are more extensive and richer than all other Christian lands. After I, by the divine will, had placed them under your royal and exalted lordship " (14). These "voyages" were in fact business trips, the "Enterprise of the Indies," and these journeys were legitimized by the authority of the King and Queen acting under the divine precepts of God, but in reality it can be argued that they were anything "godly" at all. Certainly Dr. John Henrik Clarke in his Christopher Columbus & the Afrikan Holocaust dissents for he writes:
On 12 October, the Columbus anniversary is a celebration of mass murder, slavery and conquest .... he was an adventurer, an opportunist and a willful murderer and a liar and that what he set in motion was the basis of Western capitalism and the exploitation of both Africans and indigenous Americans who had committed no crimes against European people and did not know of European intention to conquer and enslave them. Columbus was a thief, an invader, an organizer of rape of Indian women, a slave trader, a reactionary religious fanatic and the personal director of a campaign of mass murder of defenseless people. (Qtd. in Nantambu)
This is hardly the view that most Americans hold of Columbus. They see him
as a hero, an adventurer who "discovered" the New World and brought
Christianity and enlightenment to the savages that he found there, and indeed
Columbus himself thought that this was his divine mission. His name even
means "light bearer." However, this metaphor is deconstructed
when one examines Columbus' true motives and actions toward Native Americans.
Ward Churchill, a distinguished scholar of American Indian Studies certainly
published a controversial view in 1990 when he wrote, "celebrating
Columbus and the European conquest of the Western Hemisphere that he set
off is greatly analogous to celebrating the glories of Nazism and Heinrich
Himmler" (Deconstructing the Columbus Myth). It is also noteworthy
to relate that according to Andrea Smith, "Europe at the time of Columbus's
misadventures was
a completely dysfunctional system wracked with violence,
mass poverty, disease, and war. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed
in the Inquisition, and their confiscated property was used to fund Columbus's
voyages" (Not an Indian Tradition).
Bartolome De Las Casas, early modern Europe's most eloquent apologist for Native American rights, was himself involved in the exploitation of Native Americans before he realized the inhumanity of treatment suffered at the hands of the Spaniards. In his journal "The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies," he reports that Spanish slave masters brought to the islands of Hispaniola and San Juan more than two million Native Americans and put them to work at hard labor in the mines where many of them perished. So thorough was the devastation of the Indies that he reports: " it is a great sorrow and heartbreak to see this coastal land which was so flourishing now a depopulated desert" (17). He details many other atrocities directly related to the Christian "mission." The superior ethnocentric view that the Spanish held themselves in is readily apparent at the beginning of Las Casas' account when he writes, "This was the first land in the New World to be destroyed and depopulated by the Christians, and here they began their subjection of the women and children, taking them away from the Indians to use them and ill use them." His account is brutal: rapes, murders, mutilations, and tortures. The sheer inhumanity to others is beyond the scope of "civilized" "Christian" behavior:
The Christians attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house. They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or spill out his entrails .They took infants from their mothers' breasts pitching them headfirst against the crags roaring with laughter saying "Boil there you offspring of the devil!" (16)
Andrea Smith provides some illuminating points in reference to these atrocities,
most especially in regard to the rapes of Native American women by the imperialist
colonizers. She writes that Native American women were considered "dirty,"
and in patriarchal logic only a "pure" body can be violated (Not
an Indian Tradition). In relationship to the sustaining mythos of the Bible
that provides ideological "justification" for such incredible
evil, Gramsci's work illuminates the homogeneity of ideology in that "
is understood in terms of ideas, meanings and practices which, while they
purport to be universal truths, are maps of meaning that sustain powerful
social groups" (qtd. in Barker 80). This is exactly what is at work
in these examples, the power of an ideological mythos carried to an extreme
as illustrated by Las Casas': "They made some low wide gallows on which
the hanged victim's feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims
in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles"
I could continue to provide many more examples from the diaries and journals of the early "explorers," but the ones provided are sufficient enough as background material to critically examine the Bible's dictates, using the mythological tools provided by Barthes, and the deconstruction approach gleaned from Foucault and Derrida, as a source of Western epic myth that justifies imperial and colonial expansion and ethnocentric oppression. Let us begin by deconstructing many of the formative principles the good book contains.
If a group of individuals is asked the question, "What is the Bible," or "what does the word Bible mean," various responses will come forth: the unerring word of God, the only book in the world that matters, God's law put down for all time for all people, a book dictated by God to Moses or King James. The enculturation process that began at birth is fully psychologically developed in adulthood so that most individuals cannot logically discuss the Bible. What most do not know is that the Bible is a collection or library of many small books that was actually written over a period of more than a thousand years. The word actually means "little books," and is derived from the Greek biblion, the term itself descended from Byblos which means papyrus or book, and Byblos was the ancient Phoenician city where the papyrus plant was harvested and writing material produced.
Bible believers also either do not know or do not care that the cosmology described in the Old Testament is the cosmology of the ancient world, a cultural paradigm that has long been disproven. For the ancient Hebrews the world was a flat little disc a couple of thousand square miles in size, suspended in space not moving, with all the heavenly bodies circling the planet. The sun was thought to literally engage in battle each evening with the great dragon darkness when it sank into the west, the genesis of the cosmic war between dark and light that is a central archetypal pattern even today of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The individuals that created this mythological world conception knew nothing about modern science, modern geography, modern psychology, modern anything. Their world was one constructed upon, as Foucault might say, a discourse where power and knowledge are joined together, but this particular type of power discourse has been wrong from its inception. It is in the peculiar discourse of the borrowed books of the Old Testament, blended together with the late addition of the New Testament that a Christian epic discourse was created whose power resonates down to this day. And yet that epic center rests upon a mythological epistemology that many followers take as literal, a mythos to be spread over the world, adroitly and charmingly, much like Hannibal Lecter's suave and charming personality that mesmerizes his victims right before he consumes them.
The Bible was really created when Constantine made Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire. From that historic moment of the Edict of Milan in 313 and formally established by the Council of Nicea in 325, an earthly king and heavenly priests united together to lay claim to the legacy of God's great plan for humanity, and began formulating the discourse that would shape cannon, doctrine, and culture for centuries to come. The history of Christianity began in the hallowed halls of power and prestige granted by the greatest of all world empires.
This powerful discourse is no where more apparent than in the proselytizing character of Christianity when it carries its mythical message of salvation to other cultures. For another culture to accept Christianity it must give up its own history and culture and embrace a mythological epic that is not its own, to perhaps have its own collective memory completely erased in favor of the new "mind cleansing." As Burton Mack writes,
To be confronted with having two histories, the history of one's own people and the Christian epic from the Bible, requires astonishing mental gymnastics. Think of knowing the history of your own country, people, and ancestral traditions, only to be addressed as a child of Abraham, an heir to the history of Israel, instructed by Moses, judged by the prophets, redeemed by the Christ, and enlightened by the apostles. (294)
Like wise, Kathryn Shanley has pointed out that " the attempt to destroy a people's history and language figures centrally in destroying or subduing that people, in replacing one worldview with another" (The Indians America Loves). The worldview that was replaced was the Native American pantheistic conception with the West's monotheistic and patriarchal ethos. Such an endeavor is immersed in racism and religious intolerance, in cultural destruction.
How is such a feat accomplished? How does one culture sacrifice its own mythology for a foreign one? There is no one answer to this, but an approach entails examining how Christianity employs the Bible. Two fundamental tools are exegesis and hermenutics. In exegesis, of course, the meaning of the text is brought out or interpreted, and in hermenutics one must discover the meaning and message of the text as it applies to today (Mack 296). In such a way is a Foucaultian discourse of power established when it is wedded with Barthes' ideas about creating myth, especially myth as drama, and the process also establishes a pattern of hegemony, whereby the priests are granted power and prestige by followers.
All of the previously mentioned attributes are absolutely necessary in order for the system to emerge as a smoothly functioning cultural machine, the Grandest Epic Ever Told where, according to Mack the Bible functions as the great cosmic roadmap for its hegemonic paradigm by describing the major functions of the text:
The first is that the Bible functions as epic for the American dream of creating "creating one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." They create cultural foundations and are dangerous to dislodge. The second is that the Bible is the myth and ritual text for Christianity. Sacred texts of a dominant religion are always taboo and never to be questioned .[T]he third reason is that the Bible functions as an oracle in popular parlance and practice. (296-297)
Within that text and the epic story that it trumpets we find the play of binary opposites, ones that Derrida would deconstruct as providing any type of "stable" meaning. These binaries are: the old, and the new, judgment and grace, law and gospel, constraint and freedom, ignorance and enlightenment, exclusivity and inclusivity, the former ones included in the Old Testament Covenant, the latter oppositions found in the New Testament Covenant. A sense of "Other" is found embedded here just as the sense of Other was carried into any number of countries during colonial expansionism. For Derrida, these binaries are deconstructed from the position of any authentic conceptual hierarchy, and have no meaning outside of the constructed hegemonic value given them by members of a particular cultural group (Barker 18). Of course, anyone found outside these values is swimming in a vale of darkness and is in need of enlightenment and Christian transformation. But that assertion raises many crucial problems: the Christian mission cannot continue to destroy others in order to "save" them, whether that destruction is physically literal, or whether it is the demonization of other deities, of homosexuality, women, feminists, opposing political points of view, etc.
This epic is wearing thin in the postmodern 21st century, for there is no one source of knowledge or discourse. A cultural studies approach certainly can deconstruct the underlying mythos and call into question that Christianity is the single mode of authentic religious or epistemological discourse in existence. There are many voices, many ways of knowing, and though the Bible is a work of genius in creative fiction, that narrative can no longer sustain its world view, for its myth belongs to another time and place, another culture, and as the 21st century wears on it may find itself a stranger in a strange land.
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"We're here to celebrate the life of Eliot Battle, not to mourn his passing," said Jim Ritter, retired Columbia Public Schools superintendent and a close friend, speaking for many.
Battle, 88, died June 11 after a car accident near his home. An educator, father and friend, he was known for his positive attitude, passion for people and crusade for equality.
He served as an educator in Columbia for more than 40 years and left a lasting legacy in the community. A pioneer during the era of civil rights, he became the first black faculty member at Hickman High School in 1960 and helped end segregation in the district.
A line of eulogizers
Before the service, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity's Beta Zeta Lambda chapter remembered Battle with a ritual for deceased fraternity brothers. He was a member of the fraternity for 60 years.
Then, from a pulpit surrounded by flowers, 11 of Battle's friends and family members shared their memories of his compassion and dedication to family, colleagues and education.
His oldest daughter, Donna Pierce, spoke first among immediate family members, describing her father and his wife, Muriel, who died in 2003. Friday would have been their 63rd wedding anniversary.
"Having them as parents was even better than you can imagine," Pierce said. "Dad had so many chapters of his life."
She touched on her father's upbringing in Mobile, Ala., and his move to Poplar Bluff, where he and Muriel began their work in education. They came to Columbia in 1956, and Pierce thanked all the families who stood up for her parents and helped them when the city's schools were still segregated along racial lines.
Pierce remembered how her father asked her and her siblings to memorize the eight cardinal virtues of George Washington Carver, one of his role models. She said the values encouraged a life of humility, honesty, bravery and equality.
Her father's favorite quotation was also by Carver, which exemplified how he lived, Pierce said.
She cited the passage: "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life, you will have been all of these."
Muriel "Jeanne" Battle Browder and Eliot Battle Jr. both noted their father's love and respect for family and community.
"For all the accomplishments and honors my parents received, they're the most proud of the four of us," Browder said about her family.
As she recounted stories, her sense of humor made the congregation erupt with laughter.
"I had 56 incredible years with my dad," she said. "No, I am not going to start lying about my age today, but the first three years at Hickman, he wasn't that incredible."
The mood shifted when Eliot Battle Jr. somberly talked about his respect for his father and gratitude for the community he loved.
"I think you, Columbia, deserve a thank you in sincere appreciation for your 50-plus years of supporting not only my father, but my family," he said.
A father himself, he urged others to raise the bar and follow his own father's example. At one point, he encouraged the congregation to stand and applaud all fathers, and members of the audience sprang to their feet with a standing ovation that lasted nearly a minute.
Family members and others who knew Battle recalled that he used the word "super" every time someone asked how he was — thus a nickname, "Superman."
Eliot Battle Jr. ended his tribute by acknowledging the difficulty of losing a loved one.
"If you want to know how we're doing, we're grieving, we're sad," he said. "But as you all know, as my father would say — 'we're super.' "
The community loses a legend
After the service, members of the community offered their own reflections.
Shelley Sigholtz said she has had lifelong ties to Missouri United Methodist Church and began attending services regularly after moving back to Columbia eight years ago. She said she saw Battle at church every Sunday.
"It's a huge loss to the community, but his legacy will live on forever," Sigholtz said.
Paula Roper, an MU librarian, often saw Battle around the city. Although she was not close to him, she remembered that he always dressed impeccably and was appreciated by his colleagues and students.
"I never heard anyone say anything bad about Eliot Battle," Roper said.
The Battle family asked Columbia to fill the hole left by their father's death as generous and gracious servants of the community.
"It's up to all of us to be a little more super," said Charles Thomas Jr., Battle's grandson.
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2. Gracie Gold - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU78A1ezsJA (Second highest FS score at Nationals after Sasha Cohen in 2006!)
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Wow, wow, wow. That was UGLY!
In the end, Wagner "defended" her title, but she hardly did so in convincing fashion. I have a hard time saying she was gifted the win, though- because you have to consider the SP as well. Wagner did what she had to do, while Gold had a fall AND a singled axel. in fact, some people were even saying Gold's SP score was generous...
The more accurate thing to say is that Wagner backed into the win - or got TREMENDOUSLY lucky that the two skaters that could have easily passed her also failed to seize the moment. Only Gold did - but then, she was 13 points back in the short, and at the end of the day it was just a WEE BIT too much ground to cover.
Found Mirai's LP (complete with misspelled name): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HeFWQROmYA
If the USFSA wants to take other things into consideration, that's fine. I frankly think other things SHOULD be taken into consideration. But at least be honest about your process. Take the Russians for example they judged Russian Nationals fairly and put Menshov above Kovtun. And then said look we think Kovtun is a better shot at Europeans... He's our future, and really (other than Plush maybe is their best shot at a top 10 finish) (I'm sure names are being spelled wrong)They took criticism for it, but given Kovtun placed the highest of the Russian men at Europeans, with a top 5 finish, I think they are right. (Short and Long term)
My concern with Wagner too, is this is the second disasterous free she's had (straight). And Gold has been hit or miss all season, so giving her such PCS over a Gao... Although I do think Gold has the most potential of the US girls, so I get that they are also thinking long term.
The US system is ridiculous right now because its not even really very honest.
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Caroline just doesn't have the skating skills or technique to compete at the high level. Her PCS have not matured, and she is still skating extremely slowly, even if not quite as slow as a couple of years ago. Add to that the fact that she's lost some of her flexibility, which was her strength, and she's lost grace as she's grown. And add to that the fact that jumps aren't her strong point either, so is it any surprise she comes so low down?
As for the rest, I prefer Mirai to Ashley, but Mirai's performance deserved those scores. It's annoying to read people say "Skater X fell once and came 99743th whereas Skater Y fell three times and won." It doesn't work like that. Perhaps it's time for a skating version of the tennis "Hawkeye", so audiences can be shown underrotations. Or better commentators pointing them out.
Ashley was touted as brave and pretty darn good at GPF now that same event for her is considered a disaster? Come on people if we want to see the judges show consistency shouldnt we also?
But my point is that she was praised all the way up to last night about that LP. Now it's being used against her by some to say the last two showings were subpar. IMO only nationals was subpar for her.
Were those the same people who were praising her about being brave though? I've observed that a lot of the posters who praise skaters and the turn around and criticize them aren't the same ones as those who post try to positive comments amidst their shortcomings. It often seems that way because the slather on the negativity. I'm not saying this happens all the time, but I do feel like it happens enough to make others frustrated.
I honestly don't know how I feel about the ladies' event here. Everything seems all over the place to me.
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ments to the airport sponsors from concessionaires and other service providers. The FAA does
not provide a separate breakout for retail excluding duty free.
The contribution from nonaeronautical revenues varies widely among airports and depends
on a number of factors, including the following:
• Availability of land for commercial or other nonaeronautical uses
• Distance from the major population centers and availability of alternate forms of ground
transportation, which can affect demand for automobile parking and rental cars
• Passenger demographics, which can affect spending
• Numbers of international passengers, which can produce duty free and higher overall retail
• Time spent in the terminals by passengers (also referred to as dwell time), which can also affect
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Overview of Airport Concession Programs 9
Source: Jacobs Consultancy, Inc., 2008, Table 8, p. 51. Data are for 2008 as reported by individual airports on FAA CATS
Report 127 (FAA n.d.).
Figure 2-3. Nonaeronautical revenues as a percentage of total revenues for selected
airports and airport systems—FY2008.
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Source: San Francisco Airport Commission.
Figure 2-9. Spa concession at San Francisco
International Airport.
flight physical examinations, treat work-related injuries on behalf of airport employers, admin-
ister drug screening tests, administer flu shots and vaccinations, and provide other services.
• Pay telephones. Demand for pay telephone services has declined dramatically with the popu-
larity of cell phones, but are still a necessary service for many passengers.
• Postal services, including the sale of postage, express mail, mailboxes, mail drops, and other
postal services. At larger airports, a service center may be staffed by the U.S. Postal Service.
• Shoeshine stands.
• Wi-Fi, which was first offered on a pay basis, but is now offered by many airport operators
through sponsorships or as a free service.
The availability of these services will depend upon such factors as the layout of the terminal
building, numbers of passengers, and availability of suitable locations. Airports with efficient
layouts and concentrated passenger flows are best able to offer a broad range of services. Clus-
tering services together can make them easier for passengers to find.
2.3 Attributes of Successful Concession Programs
The profile of airport concessions has increased steadily over the years. Passenger surveys show
that concessions, which are used by more than half of all passengers, are an important factor
in evaluating the overall passenger experience of the airport. The highest-rated airports in the
United States and around the world all have highly regarded concession programs.
The 2009 ACI World Airport Service Quality passenger survey, a voluntary, fee-based pro-
gram administered by ACI, which involves surveys of passengers around the world, ranked Seoul
Incheon International, Singapore Changi, Hong Kong International, Beijing Capital Interna-
tional, and Ghandi Hyderabad International airports as the best airports worldwide (Airports
Council International 2010). All of these airports have well-regarded concession programs.
In North America, the airports serving Austin, Halifax, Ottawa, Jacksonville, and Portland,
Maine were ranked as the best airports in terms of their well-regarded concession programs. The
ACI-World 2009 Airport Service Quality Index award winners are shown on Table 2-1 (Airports
Council International 2010).
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Overview of Airport Concession Programs 17
Table 2-1. ACI World 2009 airport service quality index
award winners.
1. Incheon (ICN)
2. Singapore (SIN)
3. Hong Kong (HKG)
4. Beijing (PEK)
5. Hyderabad (HYD)
Fewer than 5 million passengers 5 – 15 million passengers
1. Halifax (YHZ) 1. Hyderabad (HYD)
2. Ottawa (YOW) 2. Austin (AUS)
3. Portland (PWM) 3. Cancun (CUN)
4. Guayaquil (GYE) 4. Nagoya (NGO)
5. Jackson (JAN) 5. Jacksonville (JAX)
15 – 25 million passengers 25 – 40 million passengers
1. Baltimore/Washington (BWI) 1. Incheon (ICN)
2. Taipei (TPE) 2. Singapore (SIN)
3. Shenzhen (SZX) 3. Tokyo Narita (NRT)
4. New Delhi (DEL) 4. Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
5. Salt Lake City (SLC) 5. Shanghai Pudong (PVG)
Over 40 million passengers
1. Hong Kong (HKG)
2. Beijing (PEK)
3. Denver (DEN)
4. Dallas Fort Worth (DFW)
5. Houston George Bush (IAH)
Source: Airports Council International 2010.
Successful concession programs share a number of key attributes.
• Aesthetics. Successful concession programs are characterized by concession units that are con-
temporary in design, visually interesting, built with durable high-quality materials, and invit-
ing to potential customers, and that complement the terminal building and surroundings.
• Capacity. The ability to meet customer demand during seasonal and daily peaks affects
customer service and revenues. The peak demand characteristics of airports vary and must
be taken into account in planning the concession program.
• Customer service. Most purchases are discretionary. Passengers do not travel to the airport
to shop or eat. Providing helpful customer service is important to maximizing sales and
encouraging multiple purchases.
• Revenue production. Revenue production is a principal objective of any concession program.
However, airports with successful concession programs have demonstrated that revenue pro-
duction is not an end in itself; rather, it is the result of successfully incorporating multiple
attributes into the concession program and providing passengers with an array of concession
choices that meets their needs.
• Sense of place. Successful concession programs often reflect the unique attributes of their city
and region, offering passengers from other places a brief look into the local community and
culture. Whether it is barbecue in Memphis, Cuban food in Miami, seafood in Seattle, or
beignets in New Orleans, concession programs benefit by offering local favorites. Bringing in
successful local food and retail concepts and incorporating local materials and design aesthet-
ics can also help create a sense of place that differentiates the airport from others.
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Overview of Airport Concession Programs 19
and attract a broader range of concession concepts to their airports. To effect this change,
the operators of larger airports are awarding multiple concession agreements and using more
direct leasing to improve their concession mixes and attract high-quality specialist tenants.
• Branding. For passengers, travel involves a series of decisions and risks, and brands are a way
of minimizing the risk of a poor decision while in the airport. Passengers have indicated a strong
preference for the proven and familiar. Brands can also provide a proven, built-in quality con-
trol system with external monitoring that reduces the airport operator's risk of substandard
operations. For example, brands with off-airport locations can be used as a benchmark for
ensuring that prices are consistent with the pricing policy at the airport.
• Kiosks, retail merchandise units (RMUs), and wall-huggers. With airport concession space
often constrained by the needs of airlines, many airport operators are incorporating RMUs or
kiosks in their concession programs as a means to increase revenues, expand the concession
offering, and provide services in underserved areas of the terminal. For example, at Hartsfield-
Jackson Atlanta International Airport, retail and food and beverage RMUs have been installed
on concourses where passenger demand exceeds the supply of concession space. Wall hug-
gers, a form of RMU that takes minimal floor space and stands against an available wall, are
also effective in space-constrained airports.
• Less time pre-security. Online check-in and self-service check-in terminals have decreased
the time passengers spend in pre-security areas, allowing them to proceed directly to the secu-
rity checkpoint.
• Increased security checkpoint processing times. Although automation is reducing the time
passengers spend at ticket counters, they are spending more time in security queues undergo-
ing more stringent security inspections. TSA security checkpoint procedures have increased
passenger processing times and lengthened queues, which has, in turn, reduced demand
for pre-security concessions and increased demand for post-security concessions. Stress and
anxiety related to security inspection also reduces spending, as illustrated conceptually in
Figure 2-10.
Source: LeighFisher.
Figure 2-10. Passenger stress and willingness to spend.
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• Volatility in passenger demand. Until the attacks of September 11, 2001, there were few exam-
ples of "systemic shocks" that could broadly affect airline passenger demand. Previous events,
including air traffic controller strikes and airline bankruptcy filings, did not compare to the
sudden downturns caused by security concerns following the attacks of September 11, 2001, or
the decrease in demand resulting from the "great recession" of 2008–2010. (The 2002–2003
severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS] epidemic also caused sharp declines in passenger
travel, mostly to or within Asia.) The heightened sensitivity to systemic declines in passenger
demand has caused concessionaires and airport operators to consider the financial effects of a
decline in traffic and the effect of such a decline on the obligation to pay minimum guarantees.
While long-term passenger demand is expected to grow, the concern over a sudden traffic
decline is being factored into decisions by concessionaires, particularly where the length of term
is short and there is less time for a recovery.
• Changes in the airline industry. LCCs claimed a 27% share of domestic passenger traffic in
2009 and in 2010 provided more than 29% of available domestic seats. Much of this share is
taken from the established network, or legacy, carriers, and the remainder is new traffic stim-
ulated by new service and lower fares. Other changes in the airline industry include the rapid
growth in LCC traffic at secondary airports serving major cities, a decrease in the share of
connecting traffic flowing through major hubs, and a shift to LCCs in price-sensitive leisure
markets. Airline bankruptcies and consolidations through mergers (AirTran Airways and
Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, US Airways and America West
Airlines, Continental and United Airlines) have resulted in some significant shifts in traffic,
particularly at connecting hub airports.
• Integration of concession areas with holdrooms. Some new airport terminals are blurring
the line between airline-leased holdrooms and concession areas with good effect, making it
easier for passengers to use concessions without losing sight of their departure gates. The
JetBlue Airways terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York includes
devices for remote ordering of food and beverages along with holdrooms with tables and
counters so that passengers can eat close to their departure gates. At San Francisco Interna-
tional Airport (see Figure 2-11), in its redevelopment of Terminal 2, food and beverage con-
cessions are located closer to departure gates, and alternative types of seating (including
benches, tables, and chairs) and traditional airport seating are mixed to allow passengers to
enjoy their food and beverage purchases closer to their departure gates.
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Source: San Francisco Airport Commission 2009, p. 20.
Figure 2-11. Example of concessions integrated with holdrooms.


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To Win:
India 5/4
Draw 5/4
Australia 5/1
It was business as usual for the Indian side in the second test, as they dismantled the Australians to emerge an innings and 135 run victors. The entire test was a blueprint for the way the Indians go about constructing a victory on the subcontinent against sides unfamiliar with the slow conditions. Australia elected to bat and were quickly in trouble as Bhuvneshwar Kumar made use of the early conditions to eliminate the Australian top order. From this moment on it was all about the spinners, as Harbhajan, Ashwin and Jadeja picked up the remaining scalps, bar one. Clarke's unconventional first innings declaration sent the Indian openers in for a tricky three overs, which they survived.
After the dismissal of Sehwag, Vijay and Pujara put on 370 for the second wicket. Their secret? Patience. They played straight, put away the bad balls and when scoring became tough, cherished their wickets. Vijay's 167 was topped only by another double century from Pujara, who has become a veritable run-machine. All out for 503, with a lead of 267, it was another Ravi Ashwin masterclass five-for that put the game to bed. Australia were hopeless against his flight and guile on a traditionally dusty track, with extremely poor shot selection. It's difficult to take many negatives from the Indian performance but the selectors - prone to axing established members of the squad of late - have reached the end of their tether with Virender Sehwag, who has been overlooked for the remainder of the series. Without a replacement named, it seems Shikhar Dhawan will slot into the opening batsman role. With a tour of South Africa looming, if Sehwag does not manage to regain his position in the team, it will mean a baptism of fire for the inexperienced Dhawan.
If one was to approach me with a question regarding the problems in the Australian camp, I'd ask how much time they had on their hands. It seems I could go on forever. Let's start with the news making the headlines. Due to a failure to submit their homework on time, four players have been axed from the third test. Coach Mickey Arthur and his staff requested players submit reports of how they as individuals, and a team, could improve. Watson, Pattinson, Khawaja and Johnson failed to comply and have therefore been suspended. There has been much talk regarding it being the coach's job to identify these problems, which I tend to agree with. However, I don't believe Arthur was asking for it to slot into his future schedule. He needed the team to be introspective and take accountability for their actions. You know, think for themselves for a change. They were given a reasonable time frame to reflect and gather their thoughts. How hard could it really be? If you don't have anything constructive, make it up. All the coaching staff and captain required was a thought process. In essence I agree with the measures taken to ensure a culture and work ethic among the squad, but whether it was wise to implement in the middle of test series that all and sundry knew they would surely lose with the squad at their disposal, is another question entirely. Would it not have been more prudent to follow the shame and embarrassment of what is sure to be a resounding series loss with an intensive training camp, or constructive team-building exercise where the same issues could be discussed at length, and in a group dynamic? For crying out loud, they have until June before their next bout of competitive cricket starts, bar the IPL. Australian players have always been late to join their franchises. Cricket Australia could have cracked the whip when it came to participation in that circus and focussed on the issues that are now conspiring to create a divide within the camp. Morale, despite what players may mention to the media, must be at an all-time low.
It gets worse. Matthew Wade is carrying an ankle injury and Brad Haddin is being made to fly out as cover. After the widespread punishment, if Wade fails to recover, Australia are left with twelve players to choose from. With the outside prospect of pace on offer in Mohali, Australia now are left with only two frontline quicks. It seems unlikely Dhoni will allow any semblance of pace and bounce to factor into the groundsman's plans, but Australia can't seem to produce a spinner able to utilise the turning wickets to his advantage. It's a sorry state of affairs for Australian cricket right now, with tension and ego exacerbating the already tricky prospect of navigating the side through a transitional phase.
There has been talk of the wicket at Mohali being the liveliest in India and the best chance for the Australian pace bowlers to have some effect. While there may be some truth in this, Mohali is still phenomenal for batting and 50% of the tests played here have ended in draws. India haven't lost a test here since the very first, in 1994 against a strong West Indian side, and I don't see them slipping up against a weakened Australia. There seems to be little predicted in the way of rain.
BEST: Top Indian 1st Innings Batsman, Murali Vijay 9/2
It's tough to bet against Pujara at this point in time, but with both batsmen in great form and Vijay offering the better price, I've settled on the Indian opener. He'll be in a new partnership with Dhawan and will be forced to play the role of the mentor to the debutant. Expect big things from Vijay.
VERDICT: India 5/4
On home turf, the Indians are simply too strong for this Australian side. The plan to move Michael Clarke up the order may provide some stability as he is the only player who looks at all comfortable out in the middle, but no one else seems able to counteract the Indian spinners. It will take a gigantic effort as well as a defiance of the nature of Australian cricketers to win this one. The Australian batsmen just don't have the natural patience or style to be successful here.
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Mini rose apple tarts
What you need (makes about 12 mini tarts):
4 rose pink colored baking apples — I used Honeycrisp
2 Tbsp dark brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tsp butter
Juice of a 2 lemons
A pinch of salt
Pie crust dough, ready or homemade (my homemade recipe is here)
Cupcake tray, round cookie cutters, slightly bigger than the cupcake cavity.
Peel, core and dice two apples. Combine it with brown sugar, cinnamon, water and pinch of salt in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and add a tsp of butter. Cool it down a bit and puree it to a smooth paste. Mix in half the lemon juice and set aside.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Roll out the homemade pie dough to about 1/4-inch thickness on a flour dusted surface. Measure the cupcake cavity in the cupcake tray. Use a round cookie cutter that is 1/2-inch bigger than that. Cut out circles and press them into the cavities to form pie cups that resemble tart shells. Use a form and poke the dough to give it a few dots. Refrigerate it until your little roses are ready, about 30 minutes.
Now, on to making the rose petals. Cut the remaining 2 apples in half. Core out the seeds. Use a vegetable peeler and make thin slices of the apple, trying to keep a piece of the skin on the edge. Soak the apples in a medium bowl of cold water mixed with the lemon juice to prevent browning. Bring it to a boil until the apple slices are soft but not soggy. Place the apple slices in a row with the edges touching each other. Roll them into a cone to resemble a rosebud. When the rose is large enough to fit into your mini pies, place them into it. Do this until all the 12 cavities have roses in them. Pour or brush it with a spoon of apple butter that you had made earlier.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until the apples are slightly browned and soft and the crust is golden brown. Serve warm or cool, with some whipped cream or ice cream on the side. Enjoy!
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