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BREA – Several California Highway Patrol officers clapped as the son of one of their fallen graduated Wednesday from Brea Olinda High School.
Cameron Burt graduated as a distinguished scholar and received the John Philip Sousa Award, a national school band award given annually to one student per school.
The officers, accompanied by four Police Explorers, were there to support Burt, the son of a fellow officer killed in the line of duty almost 18 years ago.
"He would be as proud as could be," Kristin Burt Cooper said of her late husband, Don J. Burt Jr., who was killed in 1996 after being shot six times during a routine traffic stop in Fullerton. The 25-year-old rookie and father-to-be had been with the CHP only 15 months.
Hung Thanh Mai, the man convicted of Burt's murder, was arrested one week later in Houston and sentenced to death in a subsequent trial.
Cameron, 17, was born two months after his father's death and knows him only through old photos and conversations with relatives and family friends.
"The first stories I remember, I was 3 years old," Cameron said. "Every story I hear is just him being the nicest person ever, extremely funny, or just helping people."
A framed photo of the elder Burt hangs in his room. There's also a CHP badge and a videotape he viewed last year, in which he heard his father's voice for the first time.
"He sounded just like me," a visibly emotional Burt said. "It was like listening to myself."
Burt Jr.'s CHP academy and high school classmates have kept in touch with the Burt family over the years, getting together for memorial services every so often. In 2009, Cameron and his mother were invited to what would have been his dad's 20th reunion for Perris High School.
"Everyone was shocked at how much I looked like him," Cameron said.
He plans to attend Cal State Fullerton in the fall, majoring in music performance, with aspirations of playing the French horn for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
His musical talent comes from his mother, while his looks and personality are all his father's, Burt Cooper said. They both share a love for the same style of dress and comic books, right down to their favorite superhero.
"I'm really into comic books, and my favorite X-Men hero is Gambit, which was his, and I didn't even know it at the time," Burt said.
"His voice, his hair, his stature, pretty much everything from the neck down is the same," his mother said.


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Germany's win against Brazil has altered Modi's diplomatic engagements in Frankfurt too. Hence the officials, part of the powerful delegation, will also lose out on enjoying the football festival in Germany whose team is through to the finals. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had invited Modi for a first dinner meeting with an extended stopover at Berlin while going for BRICS, is now herself set to fly to Rio de Janeiro to cheer for Philip Lahm and his boys.
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The Bruins lost Craig Cunningham on waivers to Coyotes Monday, a league source confirmed to WEEI.com. The move was first reported by ESPN's Pierre LeBrun.
Cunningham, who had two goals and an assist for three points in 32 games for Boston this season, was placed on waivers Saturday as the Bruins made room on their roster for potential additions. The team had also waived him prior to the season, with the player going unclaimed.
This marks the second time this season that the Bruins have lost a forward on waivers. Matt Fraser was claimed by the Oilers after the Bruins waived him in December. Fraser has three goals in 21 games for Edmonton since being claimed.
Cunningham is a bigger loss than Fraser was. The gritty, defensively sound forward spent time on Boston's fourth line this season and appeared to be a clear favorite to center the line next season. Losing him for nothing hurts the Bruins going forward, even if it has minimal impact on this season.
The Bruins originally drafted Cunningham in the fourth round (97th overall) of the 2010 draft. He played three seasons in Providence before splitting time between Providence and Boston this season.
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Because this trade is on the verge of turning into Paul O'Neill for Roberto Kelly bad.
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And ask him what their thought process was in targeting Latos over Gio Gonzalez.
Because this trade is on the verge of turning into Paul O'Neill for Roberto Kelly bad.
I'm not going to go that far, yet, but there's no question it's been a pretty huge letdown.
It gutted the farm system of EVERY other MLB-ready prospect they had.
You know who else was this bad if not worse as young pitchers? Both Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay. I'm fairly certain they both got sent to single A ball after they'd been at the MLB level for awhile.
Baseball is weird, players (especially pitchers) can just have really awful seasons, and then end up bouncing back the next year. I do know one thing though, Mat Latos isn't truly two runs worse than he's been his whole career, despite what he's shown so far this season.
Meanwhile, Gio Gonzalez has been a pitcher who gives up Edison Volquez levels of walks. He won't continue to be this good.
Not to mention, the whole team is playing incredibly well.
Alright, I'm done arguing with the Walt-Yes-Men
Because Hoover and Joseph would both be considered more major league ready than Boxberger with the year he's having.
Last time I checked, Mesoraco was in Grandal's way. If they hapen to have an injury, they have veterans in Navarro and Miller to step in for a short stretch. I'd rather have a vet come up for a few weeks than a 24 year old rookie, if one of my regular catchers had to miss a few weeks.
Was Gonzalez offered for the same package of players?
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- Model of the Royal Navy (County) Norfolk class heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk. HMS Norfolk was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan and was commissioned in 1930 as the class leader of four ships, two of which were cancelled. In the 1930s Norfolk served with the Home Fleet and West Indies Station. During World War II, Norfolk took part in sorties in pursuit of German warships in the North Atlantic and North Sea. In late 1940, Norfolk joined the hunting groups searching for the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and German auxiliary cruisers in the South Atlantic. In December 1943, Norfolk was part of the force that tracked and destroyed the battlecruiser Scharnhorst but suffered battle damage in the engagement. Norfolk was placed in reserve in 1949 and broken up in 1950.
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Los Alamos High School made a significant leap in a national poll recently when it was revealed the school went up more than 80 spots in U.S. News and World Report's 'Best High Schools' rankings list.
In 2012, the school was ranked 638. In this year's poll, the school is at 556, advancing 82 places since last year's poll.
The poll, with help from the American Institutes for Research, analyzed three main factors in 21,035 U.S. high schools.
The first factor examined whether the school's students were performing better in reading and math than average for students in their state.
Then they factored in the school's percentage of "economically-disadvantaged" students, and whether or not they were performing at a better-than-average rate.
For schools that passed those two tests, the schools were then judged on how many "advanced placement" (college level) courses it provides, the variety of courses, how many students in the school are signing up for them and how many are getting a passing grade.
It's this factor that Superintendent of Schools Dr. Gene Schmidt said was a determining factor in the school's advancement in the rankings this year.
Northern New Mexico College will celebrate the grand opening and dedication of its newly renovated Ben Luján Library Thursday.
The public celebration kicks off at 9:45 a.m. with tours of the library and a presentation of Oliver Greer's Extraordinary Bug Exhibit. The college's Digital Media department will also be hosting Bug Movies, a workshop where visitors can star in mini films in Northern's television station studio.
The formal dedication ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a welcome by Northern President Nancy "Rusty" Barceló. The late Speaker Luján's family, including his son, Congressman Ben Ray Luján, will be present to acknowledge the support and resources that the late Speaker brought to the institution and northern New Mexico.
The renovations added 7,000 square feet to the library, doubling the size of the original facility. The space includes a new computer lab, study pods, and student meeting rooms.
Following the dedication, the college will host a luncheon in the Connie Valdez quad, just north of the Luján library.
ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) — Students at Northern New Mexico College are set to see their tuition go up 14 percent.
The Board of Regents on Monday adopted last minute changes to the school's budget that included the hike, but set aside plans to increase faculty salaries. The increase means tuition will stand at nearly $1,400 for a student taking 12 credits. Students also can expect about a $35 increase in fees.
The Albuquerque Journal reports board president Michael Branch said he couldn't justify the salary increase in light of the tuition hike.
The board also opted to keep a daycare center and a community kitchen, which were on the chopping block as cost-cutting measures. The panel did approve 2.5 percent budget cuts across all departments as it deals with cash reserves that one school executive described as "dangerously low."
President Nancy "Rusty" Barceló's vision for Northern New Mexico College is guided by both NNMC's history and her own.
In 1909, the New Mexico Territorial Legislature created the institution as the Spanish American Normal School with a primary function of training teachers for the state's Spanish-speaking population. It was one of 10 educational institutions named in the state's 1912 constitution.
"It was established through a constitutional act that said that it would serve the Spanish-speaking populations of Northern New Mexico, which makes us historically the first Spanish-serving institution in the United States that was legally mandated to serve these populations," Barceló said. "I think that's a historical fact that is important to the State of New Mexico, and I'm trying to build upon that."
The fact that 82 percent of the student population is Hispanic and 12 percent are American Indian is especially significant to Barceló.
"So I say to myself, what does that mean to us educationally? We should probably be in the vanguard of how to do multi-cultural education because of these populations."
Barceló created an Office of Equity and Diversity to accomplish that goal.
Northern New Mexico College President Nancy "Rusty" Barceló has accomplished an amazing amount in a little less than three years. But her vision for the college expands far beyond her accomplishments so far.
Barceló quickly led NNMC to fiscal recovery, completing four audits in a 10-month period while she began an academic restructuring of the institution. She added four new colleges to the existing College of Education: Professional Studies, Arts and Sciences, Nursing and Health Sciences and Community, Workforce, and Career Technical Education.
Los Alamos National Laboratory provided substantial funding toward the development of an accredited baccalaureate degree program in nursing. The engineering department is currently working on accreditation.
Many of Barceló's plans involve outreach to communities such as Los Alamos. Given how many people from Española work in Los Alamos, Barceló sees a natural connection between the two communities.
"There is this corridor, so to speak, where I think it's in the best interest of our own community that we develop these important partnerships," Barceló said.
A trio of Albuquerque La Cueva High School students – two who are siblings – took the prize in the 23rd New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge for their research project that used statistical analysis to identify and analyze topics in human language.
The team, Ari Echt-Wilson, Eli Echt-Wilson, and Justin Sanchez also won the CHECS Teamwork and Cray High Performance Computing awards for their project, "Learning and Analyzing Topics in Human Language."
Los Alamos High School freshman Cole Kendrick took second place for his computer simulation project of Saturn's ring structure. Kendrick, who won the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge's top prize in 2011 as a seventh-grade student, also received the Technical Poster Award, the Visualization prize from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and the Professional Presentation Award.
La Cueva High's Alexandra Porter received third place for her project "Simulation of Approximate Computing Applied to Numerical Methods." Porter was part of a La Cueva High team that took last year's third prize.
All the finalist teams received plaques for their school, a large banner suitable for hanging at their schools and other gifts.
Zeynep Unal, a Turkish-born special education teacher who has been employed by the Los Alamos Public Schools since 2005, is suing the district for violations of the New Mexico Human Rights Act, defamation and breach of contract.
The suit claims that Unal continues to suffer from loss of income, severe emotional distress, anxiety, humiliation, embarrassment and the violation of her federal and state statutory rights.
Los Alamos Public Schools, the Los Alamos Public Schools School Board, Aspen Elementary School principal Kathryn Vandenkieboom and superintendent Gene Schmidt are named as defendants in the case.
"I can't comment on its merits," said school board president Jim Hall. "It's inappropriate to comment on a legal matter especially involving personnel. We have to wait and see what happens and let the court process play out."
"Until our attorneys look at this and study this, I can not comment," Schmidt said.
Unal's attorney, Kate Ferlic of Santa Fe, filed the suit in district court Friday.
Schmidt said Saturday morning the school district had not been served yet but confirmed the case was filed in district court.
The Chamisa Elementary PTO is working on its annual carnival, which is open to the community and takes place this weekend.
The April 20 event is a fundraiser for a major school project as they ready for end of the year activities.
"We have brought in new games and have gotten some of the teachers to agree to going into a dunk tank," said President Trisha Conlin. "There will be food and plenty of fun."
The PTO has been working on fundraising to acquire new shade structures for the school. The hard working crew has raised enough money from fundraisers to put 3 canopies up in the upper team playground with hopes to inspire raising additional funds for another playground, in the future.
The fun fest will take place from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with a $7 admission fee that allows students to have four hours of non-stop games and play.
Parents can watch for free or contribute to the $2,000 goal by paying a $3 fee to play or take some throws at the dunk tank.
Cheetahs are currently collecting change in small boxes for teachers to see who gets to take the plunge on Saturday.
The fun doesn't just stop with games, but includes a cupcake walk, bounce houses and prizes and Chamisa hopes the whole community will support this worthwhile effort.
UNM-LA officially received permission last week from the university's Board of Regents to go ahead with its plans to ask the residents of Los Alamos to help shore up the schools ailing financial situation through a 2-mil increase in property taxes in September.
The permission came shortly after a presentation made by UNM-LA Director Cedric Page, a community support group called the Los Alamos Committee for Higher Education and support from the members of the UNM-LA Advisory Board.
A day after, members of LACHE and the UNM-LA Advisory Board met at UNM-LA to discuss what they shared with the Board of Regents Tuesday.
According to LACHE Chair Michael Wismer, declining state aid coupled with rising student enrollment played a key factor in the regents giving UNM-LA permission.
"The main message Cedric communicated was that we were in a dire situation," Wismer said. "There's been a 38 percent decline in revenue from the state over five years. Paired with the fact that there's been a 14 percent increase in enrollment shows that we cannot sustain this trend."
Wismer also shared a video that was played at the Board of Regents meeting that featured the support of County Council members.
The Los Alamos High School Topper Band had a spring break to remember.
It marched its way down Main Street in the Walt Disneyland Main Street parade in Anaheim, Calif., last Sunday.
It was an event-filled trip.
The band performied in a "Soundtrack Session" with a Disney clinician, visited Disneyland and California Adventure parks, toured parts of Los Angeles, such as the Santa Monica Pier, Science Center, Rodeo Drive and saw a professional production of "West Side Story," Topper Band Director, Zane Meek said.
Meek, who is in his fourth year here, left with the band last Saturday morning, for their first ever Disney appearance, performing "Gangnam Style," and the "Manhattan Beach March," while marching for Mickey.
"We would like to thank the community for their support and everyone for their commitment to quality music programs in the schools," Meek said.
The team needed to raise roughly $70,000 for the trip, which averages out to about $900 per student.
"We also got a lot of help from the community and all of us want to make sure that they know how much we appreciated the help," said parent Karen Mehlin.
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Spring is the time of year when new things come to life and we're reminded that our hope for warmth and restoration can, in fact, be a reality even after a cold winter.
However this is also the time of year when Conference Boards of Ministry all over our connection are meeting to evaluate candidates in the ordination process. And all of this talk about spring and new life and hope doesn't carry much weight if you've just received the hard news that you have been deferred in the ordination process.
For some, these first days of spring are tough because you're now learning to live with the sting of rejection. You feel like one who has failed in your calling to ministry. Your emotions range on a scale from anywhere between frustrated and devastated. You're trying to pick up the pieces of your shattered ego in order to find some way to faithfully serve and pastor during the rest of this Lenten season and into the glory of Easter . . . and that's a lot harder than it sounds.
I know exactly how you feel. Last year I was deferred in the ordination process. I know how much the news stings. I remember how I felt when all at once my heart started pounding and my stomach started sinking. If you were told the news in person or on the phone, it was hard to even put words together in response. If you found out by way of a written notice, you probably stared at the page and read it over and over just to make sure it was real and not some sort of trick your eyes were playing on you. As one who was where you are just a year ago, I can tell you that I know just how much this hurts.
But I'm writing not just to affirm your feelings and remind you that you're not the only one who's ever felt the brunt of this devastating news. I'm also writing to let you know that new life is, in fact, possible even when you're deferred in the ordination process.
As I prepared for my interview a few weeks ago (where I would come back and face the same committee that deferred me the year before) I realized that even though I did not want to sign up for another year in the wilderness of deferral, I would not trade the previous year for anything in the world. As I've thought on it, I realized that I learned several lessons during my year of deferral.
First, I learned the value of what it meant for pastors to be pastored by others. In the immediate aftermath of our board's decision, the members of the church I'm serving rallied around me to express their care and even their frustration over the news. Their warm words served as a balm for my wounded soul. If I knew nothing else, I knew the next year of growth would be spent with people who loved me and believed in my calling to ministry no matter what.
Secondly, I now know that seasons in the wilderness can actually be the grounds for new life to spring forth. God just has a way of speaking life into the most barren of circumstances. So I use the term "wilderness" on purpose – being deferred places you in a position to question and grow in ways you may not have imagined before. While I worked on the specific areas for my ordination work, I also experienced the grace of growing personally as I turned especially to the spiritual writings of people like Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen. I look back and see this past year not only as a year of growth professionally or vocationally, but also as a year of personal growth. And for that gift of grace, I'm very grateful.
Finally, I learned that while being deferred by the board of ministry can be devastating, life beyond deferral is possible. And by life I don't mean pretending as though this never happened or that you're perfectly okay with being deferred in your process. I mean it's possible to find new life in light of this setback. There is hope in a Risen Lord who carried scars with him. Life and ministry have a way of helping us learn to live with scars, and sometimes we even find those scars are beneficial to our sense of compassion and love for others. So please know that life after deferral is not only possible, it is at the heart of what it means to be called into ministry by a crucified and risen Savior.
As you spend the coming days and weeks healing and growing remember a few things: First, let people love you and pastor you. Merton reminds us, "We do not find the meaning of life alone – we find it with others." Let others help you heal and grow. Second, as you address the shortcomings of your ordination work, be open to the work of God in your personal life. The work of transformation in your life is even more important than your ordination work that you'll turn in next year. Let yourself be open to personal growth through grace. And third, live into the mystery of this growth knowing that you will come out on the other side a new person. Listen for those who have gone through this before you. And know that you'll be able to help those who will come after you.
Oh and one more thing…know that you're not alone. God is with you and is still calling you as part of your baptismal identity. And the Church is longing for your presence and willingness to serve even (and especially) when setbacks happen. For that mysterious hope all we can say is, "Thanks be to God."
It is the season of Lent in the Christian church. This means Christians all over Middle Georgia and around the world have begun a season of self-examination and penitence — sometimes noted as we deprive ourselves of certain pleasures in order to center our lives on God more.
Some give up the pleasures of sweets or caffeine and others go as far as giving up the pleasure of gossiping or laziness in their prayer life. Somehow, these small habits are intended to make us more Christian by the end of the Lenten season on Easter Sunday.
I don't know about you, but it might take a little more than giving up chocolate to make me a more faithful Christian.
What if instead of concentrating on small habits of depravation, we worried more about the ways we live our lives every day — the words we speak, the actions (or inactions) that consume our days, and the attitudes we carry with us?
For example, one might be led to believe that being a Christian means taking a hard stand on certain issues. One might even believe that being angry and drawing lines in the sand are the difference makers in their faith. If we could only get our stances and beliefs right, then we might be Christian.
But what if our anger, our stances and our rightness don't make us more Christian? What if, in fact, they do the very opposite?
Jean Vanier, the founder of the L'Arche Communities, writes, "Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness."
What if learning the art of tenderness has more hope of making us more Christian than any of our stances and anger ever did? What if the way we go about being Christian were just as important (if not more) than what we said we believed in?
The Apostle Paul writes that we can have all the gifts of prophecy and understand all the mysteries and truths of the universe, we can have faith that moved mountains and we can even be right and win all of the arguments on social issues of the day, but if we don't know how to love, then we are nothing at all.
And love is hard because it's patient and kind; it's not arrogant and it doesn't seek to always be right. Love is characterized by the tenderness and humility we show when we live our daily lives as witnesses to the hope of our faith.
How do we talk about the events of our day or other people with a greater sense of love? How do we interact with others — especially those with whom we do not agree — with a greater sense of love? How do we see others and ourselves through the eyes of a loving God who relentlessly calls us to be new and better versions of ourselves?
I hope these are the questions we struggle with as we go without our desserts and coffee during the coming weeks. These are tough questions that demand deep answers. These are the true questions of Lent.
Well we're a little over two weeks into the season of Lent. How many of you have snuck a cup of coffee or a piece of pie yet? Maybe you've already fallen away from your commitment to read more devotional material or more of your bible — it's tough to keep up a new practice. Maybe you've found yourself gossiping to having a glass of wine even though on Ash Wednesday you were fully convinced 40 days of depravity were no sweat.
A friend recently pointed me to John Wesley's rules for his holy club. After reading these rules, I'm convinced my Lenten disciplines are pretty much child's play. Wesley didn't institute these rules for a 40-day season. He thought we ought to live up to them every day of the year. More than your politics or your social stances, these rules as guideposts for the Christian life.
When I read them, I realize that much of what he expected and spelled out is the essence of what it means to live every minute of every day as a follower of Jesus. It's hard by design. So I hope maybe you'll be as convicted by these rules as I am. And I'm pretty sure there's still time to add a couple of these to your Lenten discipline…
1. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
2. Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
3. Do I confidentially pass on to others what has been said to me in confidence?
4. Can I be trusted?
5. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work or habits?
6. Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
7. Did the Bible live in me today?
8. Do I give the Bible time to speak to me every day?
9. Am I enjoying prayer?
10. When did I last speak to someone else of my faith?
11. Do I pray about the money I spend?
12. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
13. Do I disobey God in anything?
14. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
15. Am I defeated in any part of my life?
16. Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy or distrustful?
17. How do I spend my spare time?
18. Am I proud?
19. Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
20. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
21. Do I grumble or complain constantly?
22. Is Christ real to me?
Here's to living a holy Lent together…
"My Lord, I have no hope but in your cross. You, by your humility, and sufferings and death, have delivered me from all vain hope. You have killed the vanity of the present life in yourself, and have given me all that is eternal in rising from the dead…
Why should I want to be rich, when you were poor? Why should I desire to be famous and powerful in the eyes of men, when the sons of those who exalted the faults profits and stoned the true rejected you and nail due to the cross?…
My hope is and what the high has never seen. Therefore, let me not trust in visible rewards…
Let my trust the in your mercy, not in myself. Let my hope the in your love, not in health, for strength, or ability or human resources.
— Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude," p. 38-39
Wednesday marks another observance of Ash Wednesday and begins the season of the church year known as Lent – 40 days of denying ourselves fun things like chocolate and gossiping. It's a bit of a drag, but it's a predictable drag.
We'll begin, ready for the test of endurance. We'll hear the story of Jesus, alone in the wilderness, being tempted by Satan, and we'll say to ourselves, "If Jesus can resist temptation for 40 days on an empty stomach, surely I can forego a cup of coffee here and there." But by the time Easter arrives we're counting down the days until we can again indulge in whatever enjoyable item or practice we've gone without for what then seems more like a year than a mere 40 days.
Lent comes and goes from our lives with little, if any, evidence that it ever came at all.
Lent is fun to dabble in. We feel superior to our non-Christian friends who think denying dessert in the name of faith for 40 days isn't worth the hassle. But the truth is, we secretly agree with them, and that's why on Easter Sunday we find ourselves, year after year, eating extra dessert and another piece of chocolate, drinking an extra cup of coffee, and calling our nosiest friends to hear the juicy gossip we've missed.
What's so special about Lent anyway? Why should we even bother ourselves with a season of self-denial, especially if very little has changed by Easter Sunday?
The historical root of observing Lent is complicated. We know the practice of observing Lent began in the early church. The meaning, practice, and length of the season, however, shifted through the generations.
Irenaeus of Lyons wrote of a season of self-denial that lasted a few days in the second century. The Council of Nicea (325 CE) discussed a season of fasting observed by the church that lasted 40 days. It's unclear whether this practice was just for converts preparing for baptism on Easter Sunday or if it was for the church as a whole. Needless to say it soon became a part of the entire church's annual movement through the seasons of the church year. By the sixth century, Gregory the Great established Ash Wednesday as the beginning of the Lenten season in order to secure the 40-day time span for the season (i.e. Ash Wednesday is exactly 40 days before Easter if you don't count the Sundays).
As United Methodists, we've seen a revival of this observance during the past 50 or 60 years. Ash Wednesday is observed by more and more congregations and is a very meaningful reminder of our mortality and need for God's transforming love.
But the fact that the season of Lent has an interesting history doesn't necessarily make it special. So what is the meaning(s) behind the observance of the season?
For starters, just as Lent was a season that prepared early converts for baptism, we are offered the chance to spend a season remembering our baptism and growing more and more aware of the ways in which we need to grow more and more into the likeness of Christ. Lent is not merely a season where we watch and admire the journey Jesus makes to the cross. It's not a season where we simply remember what Jesus did for us on the cross. Lent is a season that demands we move from the place of onlooker or admirer to the place where we share in Jesus' journey for ourselves. Lent is the annual remembrance of what it means to share in Jesus' death so that we might share in his resurrection.
So when you opt to give something up for Lent, why don't you add something in its place that helps you grow in your faith? Below are a few ideas of ways you can observe this Lenten season in meaningful and (hopefully) transformative ways:
Thomas Merton reminds us that growing in holiness is essentially growing more and more human. God became flesh and lived the human experience. And as we grow in our humanness, we become more and more aware of those around us who are hurting, who are in need, and who need to know the love of God that knows no boundaries. So we become more holy as we become more human because we learn how to be embraced by and share God's love with others.
Lent is the perfect training season for such a journey toward holiness. So I hope you will spend the next 40 days aware of your own mortality and God's redemptive grace in your life. I hope you'll find moments and set aside time to be aware of God's presence in your life. And I hope you'll truly commit yourself to live a holy Lent.
I'm writing this column in the early evening on a Saturday on a day in which you would have sworn Spring had started to spring forth in Middle Georgia. It was about 62 degrees today and very sunny. So my wife, 2 year old daughter, and I decided to spend the afternoon enjoying the glory of creation at the park. Little did I know this day would serve to offer a profound lesson on the subtle ways sin is always present in our lives and just how much we're in need of God's grace.
It all started when the three of us arrived at the park and made the long walk from the parking lot to the playground. We brought along a rubber ball that is just smaller than a basketball in case my daughter grew bored with the playground and, in typical 2 year old fashion, wanted to move on to another task. We hadn't been at the park more than 5 minutes or so when a young, African-American boy — probably around 9 years old — came up to us and asked if he could play with our ball. I thought this was a bit bold on his part since we didn't know him and he didn't know us. But there he stood dressed in shabby clothes, with shoes untied, and the remnants of his snack still on his face wanting me to hand over my daughter's ball. When I said she wasn't very good at sharing, he quickly offered to play with her. I laughed, made up some excuse about why that wouldn't work, and went to return the ball to our car before he pled his case any further.
Most any parent would probably react that way. You don't want to test a territorial toddler. You don't want bigger kids playing with your toddler because they might get hurt. You don't want strange kids coming up offering to join your private family play date. But walking away from the scene I knew that wasn't the real reason I didn't hand over the ball or my daughter to play — the real reason was that I had sized that boy up as a wild, little hooligan who would probably steal or destroy my daughter's toy. And if I'm really being honest, the color of his skin and his shabby clothes didn't help his case.
The boy was attending a birthday party in the park and there were probably 10-15 other kids running around playing — much of it was a little rough for a 2 year old to be caught in the middle of. But my wife and kept a close watch on my daughter and never let her outside of an arm's length from where we were on the playground — even if it meant climbing on the equipment with her.
A little while later we climbed the big piece of playground equipment to the very top where one of its five different stations of slides were. As we reached the top, the same boy was sitting at the top of the slide as another boy he was playing with quickly went down the slide ahead of him. I smiled but my stomach tightened up a little. Would the little boy be wild and rough? Should I worry about my daughter's safety? Would he get the hint that a toddler was anxiously waiting to go down the slide after him so this wasn't a good time to linger for too long? You can imagine my reaction when the boy looked at my daughter and asked her if she wanted to go down with him. I tried to politely tell him that it was okay and she could wait her turn. Before I could get the words out of my mouth he reached for her and she climbed into his lap and the two of them were off out of my reach.
My wife was waiting at the bottom and was a little surprised to see my daughter making the turns of the slide in the arms of a strange kid who all we knew about was that he had no shame in asking to play with another kid's toy. At the bottom, he carefully got off the slide and helped my daughter off. Before he ran off he reached into his pocket and gave her a toy ring that was a party favor all the kids received. She was thrilled while her parents sheepishly smiled and thanked this oddly generous little boy.
And then it hit me — my daughter knows nothing about things like race and poverty and separate but equal divisions in our culture. All she knows is that kids are meant to be played with. Things like labels on clothing or skin colors really don't matter too much if the shared desire to play is there.
But before you think this is just an overly sentimental column on the innocence of children, there's more.
It also occurred to me that one day she would learn about things like race, poverty, brand labels, and cultural division — and much of that learning will come from watching and listening to me. Here I can't even trust an enormously kind and generous kid because the color of his skin and the clothing he's wearing lead me to believe he may not be the most deserving person of my trust.
Sadly we live in a world where things like race and poverty are seen more often as political ammunition instead of the very real signs of human brokenness that they are. Fifty years or so of progress can't erase and very real and present sin that continues to plague us — namely, that we are to fear and judge those who don't look like us. So we pretend like we don't hear the words that follow statements like, "I'm not racist but…" And we act as though we don't notice when we clutch our wallets or purses just a little tighter when someone who "looks suspect" walks by. And we pretend like it's no big deal that our blood pressure goes up a little when we hear music with loud bass or that we do a double-take when we see an interracial couple out to dinner together.
I thank God that Ash Wednesday is this week. I need to remember my own mortality because there are moments when I think I'm superior. I need to confess my sins and spend some time looking inward at the ways in which sin is still present in my life — even if it's small, quiet, and easily justifiable ways. I need to bring out of the darkness and shed light on the ways in which I am formed by the culture to fear those who look different from me so that I might have the eyes of a two year old who only sees people for who they are — beautiful creatures made in the image of God for the purposes of sharing life and play together.
Needless to say Lent may start on Wednesday, but I'm already well into the spirit of the season.
As a United Methodist pastor just three years out of seminary, it is a daunting task to go into a local church and teach people the ins and outs of what it means to be a Christian in the Wesleyan tradition. Adding to the difficulty of the task is the fact that so many people who occupy pews in our United Methodist churches come from varying backgrounds — some are raised Baptist, others have left the Catholic church, some were Baptist and then married a Presbyterian and found the United Methodist Church to be a "compromise church," others are working on their third or fourth denominational affiliation. Being a Christian these days can be complicated considering how The United Methodist Church is for so many a "big tent" tradition where folks from all sorts of backgrounds can find a home.
I am currently serving in South Georgia which means I'm serving right around the right hand side of the buckle of the Bible Belt — a setting where Calvinism in both the traditional and neo sense is very much alive, well, and prominent in religious culture. So when I was pointed toward Don Thorsen's little book, Calvin vs. Wesley: Bringing Belief in Line with Practice, I was thrilled to find a book that might help me undertake this monumental task of clarifying what it meant to be a Christian in the Wesleyan tradition.
And I was NOT disappointed.
Not only did I read this book, I taught it in a Sunday School setting. Our group was largely made up of upwardly mobile 30, 40, and early 50-somethings. On the first day we did an experiment to see how many denominational traditions were represented in our group and we found that only 4 out of 20 of us were "cradle Methodists." 80% of our group had spent time in another denomination. So that became the launching pad whereby we jumped into Thorsen's concise, yet comprehensive work.
I cannot begin to describe the thrill a pastor can feel when topics like the sovereignty and love of God are debated (Ch. 1, God: More Love Than Sovereignty). I cannot tell you how exhilarating it is to have people passionately talk about the power of grace in their lives even when they do not realize it (Ch. 4, Grace: More Prevenient than Irresistible). And then for a group to be encountered with what it means to live a life of holiness marked by the love of God and our neighbor (Ch. 6, Spirituality: More Holiness than Mortification)? Well, you get my point. Seeing the light bulbs go off as people grew in both clarity and conviction about why they are uniquely Christian in the Wesleyan tradition is an experience Methodist pastors long to experience.
Thorsen's work is accessible to both clergy and laity alike. And despite the adversarial cover and title, he is very hospitable to Calvin. At the same time he makes no bones about what makes Wesley's perspective unique and, in the end, superior. As Thorsen reminds us, "From Wesley's perspective, there should be no 'half a Christian' — that is, one who receives justification by faith but fails to go on toward sanctification by faith" (p. 82). In other words, believing the right stuff and agreeing with the right stances does not make us Christian if our lives do not reflect the holiness of God. Thorsen reminds us that Wesley's emphasis on practice and growing in grace more fully tells the story of what it means to be a Christian. The wonder of being a Christian is working out our salvation, empowered by God's grace and in union with the church made up of fellow sojourners, and lived in a spirit of humility marked by a distinct love for God and our neighbor."
In just under 150 pages, Don Thorsen writes a brilliant account of Wesleyan theology for both the new and more seasoned Christian. He deals with the matters of God, sin, grace, salvation, holiness, the Church, and how we live the beliefs we profess in remarkably clear and direct ways. It has been a book that will have a reserved spot on my bookshelf for years to come and in many ministry settings yet to come. So I strongly recommend you not only read this book yourself, but include a small group of friends in your reading as well. And that advice doesn't just come from me, I have 20 friends who would gladly agree.


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I found a place to get a home birth kit but where/how do you get the Birth Certificate Documents? Does it vary per state?
I can not stand OB doctors and the midwives I am using are more like OB's than midwives in their practice. Plus, L&D at a hospital terrifies me.
One of my main questions is How the birth certificare works when babies are born at home and how soon do you take the baby to the pediatrician?
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The birth certificates vary by state. Your state and or county should have information on their website for you. Also, Mothering.com has a long thread in the UC forum about what each state requires.
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One of my favorite things to eat at a Sichuan restaurant is liángfěn. Liángfěn is a starch jelly made from mung bean. It is a cloudy, translucent white jelly sold like tofu then cut into pieces adequate for chopsticks to […]Continue Reading →
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我非常喜欢面食,馒头面条都是我都喜欢。其中面条是我的最爱。平常经常吃煮鲜面条,有时会煮意大利面吃。这次,用了妈妈的做法做了煎茄子,与番茄一起做成酱料,浇在煮好的通心粉上,算是中西合璧吧,非常好吃!Continue Reading →
Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup
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PARIS: There will be no Belgian Grand Prix this year. Motor racing's world governing body the FIA said on Wednesday it withdrew the race from the calendar but suggested it may be included in 2007.
Dropping the race, which was scheduled for September 17 at the historic Spa-Francorchamps course, means the 2006 season will feature 18 races instead of 19. The race has been in jeopardy since local race organisers filed for bankruptcy last year, forcing the regional government to cover mounting financial losses.
Belgian officials wanted Formula One's commercial director Bernie Ecclestone to take over as race promoter. In a brief statement, the FIA made no mention of the financial troubles.
Despite talk of reinstating the race, Ecclestone has suggested he would prefer cutting the calendar to 17 or 18 races for 2007.
Spa is one of Formula One's most venerated tracks, but attendance slipped last year to 50,000, half that of a decade ago.2006 F-1 schedule: March 12: Bahrain GP, Sakhir; March 19: Malaysian GP, Kuala Lumpur; April 2: Australian GP, Melbourne; April 23: San Marino GP, Imola, Italy; May 7: European GP, Nuerburgring, Germany; May 14: Spanish GP, Barcelona; May 28: Monaco GP, Monte Carlo; June 11: British GP, Silverstone, England; June 25: Canadian GP, Montreal, Quebec; July 2: United States GP, Indianapolis, Indiana; July 16: French GP, Magny Cours; July 30: German GP, Hockenheim; Aug. 6: Hungarian GP, Budapest; Aug. 27: Turkish GP, Istanbul; Sept. 10: Italian GP, Monza; Oct. 1: Chinese GP, Shanghai; Oct. 8: Japanese GP, Suzuka; Oct. 22: Brazilian GP, Sao Paulo. AP


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Never had a problem on my previous phone, but since I moved to the S3 it only works for a few weeks at a time then has to be reinstalled. Not convenient when you're out inthr boonies.
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Wouldn't be able to know since it never works. I purchased this app nearly a year ago and since then I have not been able to use it because it doesn't work. A pop up always appears saying, "unfortunately birds of California has stopped." And yes I have tried reporting this. I'm using a Galaxy Note III, have used an HTC and Galaxy III and neither phone has it worked. If there was a no star option
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I have not been able to use this app in almost a year. It NEVER opens. It always has an error at startup. What a waste of money.
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The negative comments are well deserved. I have Galaxy Note 10.1 and crashes it as well. What exactly does it actually run on? If not my tablet then wh does your app load on my device? Audobon should be ashamed over such trash using thier good name!
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i've some experience with this bugs, too. In fact I'm owning a Latitude C840 which is the same machine like the Inspiron 8200, sharing the same mainboard, chassis, vga card, display and so on. The only differences between the models are the better support for Latitudes, the slightly changed plastic covers on the top (Palmrest and Multimedia Keys above Keyboard) and a hole at the back only present on the Latitude machines allowing it to plug in in the bigger docking stations from Dell. Dell has equipped the i8200/C840 with display panels from a variety of different manufacturers, i know at least 5 companys which delivered panels shipped as uxga ultra sharp model. One of the manufacturers, samsung shipped panels with a faulty edid rom, containing the technical specs of the display leading to the wrong detection of the maximal resolution. Other panels from sharp, au optronics, etc don't show this behaviour and are working correct, so not all i8k/c840 users see this bugs. You will also see that this bugs is also visible in any windows driver newer than 6x.xx, the same versions which were the last that worked flawlessly in linux. I don't know which kind of samity checks nvidia introduced since that time, but it's no real bug in the drivers, it's in the panel. Updates of the edid rom in the panel are not possible for mormal people, this leaves the following options to get things to work:
This make perfect sense, I must had a bad luck got the buggy samsung panel.
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1:Create a Modeline for 1600x1200 and tell the drivers to ignore any information from the edid rom. This way you can get 1600x1200 to work right, but i failed to get any smaller resolution to show up correctly, whatever i tried. Maybe really experienced people can find a working solution for more working resolutions.
Your comment gave me confidence to try it again. This time I merged monitor/modeline related part from chunchao2000's xorg.conf posted previously, with 8776, it finally works!
chunchao2000: I don't know why simply used your xorg.conf doesn't work, but your config saved me.
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The black screen when starting X11 seems to be a bug in the drivers. Just tell the drivers the output should be routed to dfp-0
I don't have good luck with 9629. With "UseDisplayDevice DFP-0", screen is messed in another way, although not totally black.
Although not perfect, but at least it works now with 8776, really appreciate all the helps!
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Paul Soltoff | November 4, 2002 | Comments
Trying to define spam is like trying to define porn -- you know it when you see it, but everyone has a different idea. Is a clear definition possible?
The first step in dealing with the spam problem is finding a definition that makes sense. It's a process already started by lawmakers, and their effort is probably the only way the final definition will ever be truly standardized.
However, so legislators don't proceed in a vacuum, I'd like to take a stab at developing a definition that is fair to everyone. If you'll send me your comments, I'll discuss them in another article and send our final definition to Congress.
To do this objectively, I suggest we start afresh by looking at how email is received, opened, and read, rather than beginning with any current industry definition. Let's start by sorting a typical day's stack of emails into actionable categories:
I could name another hundred cases in which there are more questions than answers. In doing this exercise, it became clear to me (and I hope to you) that no matter how impossible it seems, we need to find a definition that fits all these diverse situations.
Then suddenly, in the middle of my slumber the other night, the only possible definition came to me: Spam is an email message that the recipient -- and only the recipient -- deems inappropriate, unwanted, or no longer wanted for any reason.
The key words are "inappropriate," "unwanted," and "no longer wanted." Those words cover every case I can think of.
And here's another epiphany: The words used in the email message are irrelevant!
Who cares whether an email uses "blacklisted" words such as "free," "offer," and "limited time"? Individual words don't determine if a message is appropriate, unwanted, or no longer wanted -- the full content does!
To illustrate my point, here are two subject lines for home mortgages:
If you're not in the market for a mortgage, both emails are inappropriate and unwanted.
But if you are in the market for a mortgage, you may prefer one to the other. I can guarantee some people will appreciate -- and respond to -- each. That's why I say the words in the message are irrelevant. And when you have finalized your mortgage, you'll undoubtedly reclassify all mortgage emails as "no longer wanted."
If it's appropriate and wanted, it ain't spam as far as I'm concerned. Which leads me to my next profound statement: The only person who can determine if email is appropriate is the recipient. Not the ISP. Not the corporate IT director. The recipient.
That's why it's more important than ever to embrace Email Power to the People, because only the people know what's appropriate for them.
And because people often forget where they signed up for something, the key is to give them a valid, real way to unsubscribe. In the same way there are rules and regulations governing postal mail (people who mail Hustler magazines play by the same rules as those who mail Eddie Bauer catalogs), the law should enable spammers to be prosecuted as spammers for only the following reasons:
This kind of legislation, coupled with giving people power to block and filter what they wish makes all the sense in the world. Spammers who ignore unsubscribe requests and continue to abuse people will be caught and prosecuted, and legitimate emailers who respect what people want will not.
Here's that definition one more time: Spam is an email message that the recipient -- and only the recipient -- deems inappropriate, unwanted, or no longer wanted for any reason. Do you agree?
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I love to play/watch sports (football, soccer, golf, baseball, snowboarding, basketball, etc), going to movies, parks, staying at home and just hanging out with some friends, reading, etc. I also love to play poker, and I'm a triathlete.
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