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March 13, 2013
RSU Grad Makes List of Top New CPAs
An Rogers State University alumnus has been recognized as a 2013 Trailblazer by the Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Brandon J. Vandenameele of Claremore was one of only 20 OSCPA members selected for the Trailblazer honor. Vandenameele earned two degrees from RSU, including an associate degree in accounting in 2004 and a bachelor of science in business administration, accounting option, in 2006.
He currently works as an assurance manager with HoganTaylor LLP in Tulsa, where he has been employed for the past seven years. In addition to his professional accomplishments, he is active in the community as a member of the Stewardship Committee with his church and has also been a team member for Relay for Life of Tulsa, Route 66 CPA Run and United Way Day of Caring.
The Trailblazers program was established to recognize the innovation, professional dedication and community commitment of the OSCPA's "New CPAs," defined as members who are under 40 or have five or fewer years of CPA experience. Vandenameele and the other Trailblazers will be honored at the OSCPA's 95th Annual Members Meeting on July 14 in Tulsa.
"This is the fourth year for the OSCPA Trailblazer program and it has become one of the most popular awards we have in such a short time," said Eric J. Johnson, CPA, CGMA, who serves as president of the OSCPA and was a 2010 Trailblazer. "I think it's because it focuses on the amazing accomplishments of a group of CPAs who have pretty much just started their careers. Our Trailblazers prove that earning the CPA designation is just the starting point."
The OSCPA accepts Trailblazer nominations during the summer and fall. A panel of OSCPA members selected 20 honorees from more than 40 nominations using an anonymous application scoring system where applicants' identities were hidden. For more information, visit www.oscpa.com.


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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
T.S. Spivet is a messy, warm comedy about grief, family and imagination. It's also ironically about being seen and rarely heard.
T.S. Spivet is a messy, warm comedy about grief, family and imagination. It's also ironically about being seen and rarely heard.
A story of a genius and the guy writing a story about him.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A reprint of an article by Greg Carpenter about the Confederate Flag.
A report on the July 23rd Columbia Links fundraiser.
Scout Tafoya's series continues with a double feature of films by Peyton Reed.
An FFC looks at the gross gender politics of "Pixels."
An FFC looks at the gross gender politics of "Pixels."
An obituary for Dr. Mohamed Abdel Kader Hatem, the grandfather of FFC Wael Khairy.
The good kind of crazy; John Hughes's original "Vacation"; How Charlie Hebdo's money is dividing France; A dream undone; The wandering years.
The story of the fascinating Frontières market from the 2015 Fantasia Festival.
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
A preview of the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
Retire the Disney Death; Seven problems with "Interstellar"; Cubicles on the rise; John Oliver is outdoing "The Daily Show"; Ernie Hudson is haunted by "Ghostbusters."
How movie studios still have a hiring problem; 2013's biggest box office bombs; A.O. Scott and Streep's scenery-chewing; emojis and the autism spectrum; this was a wicked sexist year.
The National Board of Review selects "Her" as best picture; is Jennifer Lawrence the new Anne Hathaway?; Melissa Anderson considers Barbara Stanwyck; how to defend your high school musical; Afghanistan returns to the movies.
Aranofsky, Paramount spar over "Noah"; parsing "Chungking Express"; why impassioned female leaders get a bad rap; Oliver Stone, Jamie Foxx to collaborate on MLK biopic; oh, and online we're all awful.
What delights me is, those are the real actors. They must be complely sick of Dreaded Hotel Room Interviews.
Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition Part 1 from Zach Galifianakis
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This year's Outguess Ebert contest seems a little like shooting fish in a barrel. For the first time in many a year, maybe ever, I think I've guessed every one correctly.A few years ago, I came across an article about the newly identified psychological concept of Elevation. Scientists claim it is as real as love or fear. It describes a state in which we feel unreasonable joy; you know, like when you sit quiet and still and tingles run up and down your back, and you think things can never get any better.
I tried applying it to that year's Oscar nominees. Did it work any better than any other approach? You need Elevating nominees. An example of Elevation would be when the bone morphs into a space station in "2001." Did I feel Elevation in making any of my Guesses this year. That doesn't mean it was a bad year at the movies. Harvey Weinstein, accepting his achievement award from the Producers' Guild, said he thought 2012 was the best in 90 years. Maybe he felt Elevation when he gazed upon the Weinstein Company's box office figures.
Another brawl in the square Another stink in the air! Was there a witness to this? Well, let him speak to Javert! -- Javert, a character in the musical "Les Misérables"
I was an eyewitness to "Les Misérables."
After repeated exposure to that dreadful theatrical trailer-cum-featurette about how the singing is all done live on camera! -- It's live! It's Live! IT'S LIVE! -- I had no intention of seeing Tom "The King's Speech" Hooper's film version of the 1980s stage musical. But when it finally came out, some of the reviews were so bad that part of me wanted to see what the stink was all about. Still, I'm not a masochist; I don't enjoy going to movies I know I'm probably predisposed to dislike just so I can dump on them. On the other hand, there's nothing better than having your low expectations upended. I did enjoy that Susan Boyle YouTube video back in 2009, but that was all I knew about the musical. I remained curious but skeptical. And then ...
Marie writes: Kudos to fellow art buddy Siri Arnet for sharing the following; a truly unique hotel just outside Nairobi, Kenya: welcome to Giraffe Manor.
The Grand Poobah writes: "No man has a better wife than Chaz."
Marie writes: Remember Brian Dettmer and his amazing book sculptures? Behold a similar approach courtesy of my pal Siri who told me about Alexander Korzer-Robinson and his sculptural collages made from Antiquarian Books. Artist's statement:"By using pre-existing media as a starting point, certain boundaries are set by the material, which I aim to transform through my process. Thus, an encyclopedia can become a window into an alternate world, much like lived reality becomes its alternate in remembered experience. These books, having been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer tools to learn about the world, but rather a means to gain insight about oneself."
Marie writes: the ever intrepid Sandy Khan recently sent me a link to ArtDaily where I discovered "Hollywood Unseen" - a new book of photographs featuring some of Hollywood's biggest stars, to published November 16, 2012."Gathered together for the first time, Hollywood Unseen presents photographs that seemingly show the 'ordinary lives' of tinseltown's biggest stars, including Rita Hayworth, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. In reality, these "candid' images were as carefully constructed and prepared as any classic portrait or scene-still. The actors and actresses were portrayed exactly as the studios wanted them to be seen, whether in swim suits or on the golf course, as golden youth or magic stars of Hollywood."You can freely view a large selection of images from the book by visiting Getty Images Gallery: Hollywood Unseen which is exhibiting them online.
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"Gotham's time has come. Like Constantinople or Rome before it, the city has become a breeding ground for suffering and injustice. It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die. This is the most important function of the League of Shadows. It is one we've performed for centuries. Gotham... must be destroyed." -- Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe), "Batman Begins" (2005)
"Over the ages our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gotham we tried a new one: economics.... We are back to finish the job. And this time no misguided idealists will get in the way. Like your father, you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them... and stab them in the heart." -- Ra's al Ghul (Liam Neeson), "Batman Begins" (2005)
"You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these civilized people, they'll eat each other." -- The Joker (Heath Ledger), "The Dark Knight" (2008)
"Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country." -- Maximilien Robespierre, 1794
"I am Gotham's reckoning... I'm necessary evil.... Gotham is beyond saving and must be allowed to die." -- Bane (Tom Hardy), echoing his former master in "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012)
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(You've seen "The Dark Knight Rises" by now, right? Good. I'm going to discuss a few things that I would consider spoilers, albeit mild ones, and then get to some pretty big spoilers later on, before which I will offer an additional warning, just in case.)
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The villains of Christopher Nolan's "Batman" movies don't think very highly of "ordinary citizens" (now popularly referred to as "the 99 percent"), whom they tend to view as mindless savages, slaves to fear who'll claw one another and the city of Gotham to shreds at the slightest provocation. The films themselves sometimes confirm that view (Gothamites get a little panicky in "The Dark Knight" when they fear that Batman is not keeping the crime rate down) and sometimes don't (they choose not to blow themselves up in the Joker's intricately planned ferry experiment). This isn't really a theme that's developed in the movies, but like most of the political and social references, it's something that's... there.
Marie writes: club member Sandy Kahn has found some more auctions! Go here to download a free PDF copy of the catalog.
Marie writes: As some of you may know, it was Roger's 70th birthday on June 18 and while I wasn't able to give the Grand Poobah what I suspect he'd enjoy most...
Siskel & Ebert fight over a toy train (1988)
Marie writes: Not everything is what is seems...(Click images to enlarge.)
Marie writes: Recently, a fellow artist and friend sent me the following photos featuring amazing glass mosaics. She didn't know who the artists were however - and which set me off on a journey to find out! I confess, the stairs currently continue to thwart me and thus remain a mystery, but I did uncover who created the "glass bottle doorway" and was surprised to learn both its location and the inspiration behind it. (click image.)
It was like an episode from "The Twilight Zone." The Academy Award for best picture went to a silent film in black and white. The unstoppable "The Artist," which had nothing going for it but boundless joy, defeated big-budgeted competitors loaded with expensive stars because … well, because it was so darned much fun. Its victory will send Hollywood back to its think-tanks.
Marie writes: I have no words. Beyond the obvious, that is. And while I'm okay looking at photos, the video.... that was another story. I actually found myself turning away at times, the suspense too much to bear - despite knowing in advance that he's alive and well and there was nothing to worry about. The bottom of my stomach still fell out...
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"I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out." - from LIFE ITSELF
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Marie writes: Once upon a time when I was little, I spent an afternoon playing "Winne the Pooh" outside. I took my toys into the backyard and aided by a extraordinary one-of-a-kind custom-built device requiring no batteries (aka: artistic imagination) pretended that I was playing with my pals - Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too - and that there was honey nearby; the bumble bees buzzing in the flowerbeds, only too happy to participate in the illusion. And although it didn't have a door, we too had a tree - very much like the one you see and from which hung a tire. A happy memory that, and which came flooding back upon catching sight of these - the animation backgrounds from the new Winnie the Pooh; thank God I was born when I was. :-)
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He had these smiling eyes. And a self-deprecating manner which seemed to belie his very good looks ("He's so cute," my 19-year-old assistant exclaimed), about which he was fairly oblivious. Most of all, he was simply a very good guy.
Gary Winick, a many-hats-wearing filmmaker and digital pioneer, died of complications following a 2 year battle with brain cancer on February 27th, the day of the Academy Awards --- an especially sad irony for a vital man, weeks shy of 50, whose passion for film and storytelling had filled the decades of his adult life.
The private memorial service was held at the Time-Warner Center in Winick's beloved New York. Overlooking Central Park as the sun set, an invited group of 400 (some going back to childhood, some famous, many with whom he'd worked, even some he'd made sure got a decent meal when they were struggling) assembled to watch film clips, to hear and tell stories - to cry, yes, but also to laugh at so many experiences they certainly cherish now.
Marie writes: Why a picture is often worth a thousand words...Production still of Harold Lloyd in "An Eastern Westerner" (1920)

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In June of 2007, legislation was passed to establish a College of Psychotherapists and Regulated Mental Health Therapists of Ontario. In September of 2009, a Transitional Council was named to develop the policies and procedures of that college.
The Council is expected to complete its work in the next year, so that the College will become functional sometime in 2014. At that time, all who use the title "psychotherapist" in Ontario will have to be members of the new College, unless they are already members of a College that has access to the "controlled act" of psychotherapy (medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, or occupational therapy).
We understand that as a prospective TIRP student, you would want to know, first, what the new College will require for membership. We recommend that to address the question you first go to the website (link located in first sentence above). Click on The Regulations, and then on Registration Regulation, under Related Resources. You can download the Regulation in PDF file format, which consists of the regulations themselves (left-hand column) and paragraphs that give a rationale for and some explanation of each regulation (middle and right-hand columns).
In brief, the Registration Regulation (see especially section 5) requires that in order for you to become a Registered Psychotherapist, you will need:
1. to have graduated from a training program in psychotherapy that (a) includes at least 360 hours of training, and (b) has as a prerequisite an undergraduate degree,
2. to have completed 450 hours of direct client contact and at least 100 hours of supervision of those hours,
3. to have undergone specific training in the safe and effective use of self in your modality of psychotherapy,
4. to have passed a Registration Exam that tests competencies to practice psychotherapy, and
5. to have completed a jurisprudence and professional practice e-learning module.
Having understood the gist of the regulation requirements, you would then want to know: How will the TIRP program prepare me to meet those requirements?
1. (a) For many years, the TIRP 3-year training program has amounted to a total of more than 300 training hours. For the incoming class of 2013 and for subsequent years, the TIRP training program will consist of 360 training hours.
1. (b) TIRP expects its applicants to present at least an undergraduate degree or an equivalent with reference to a TIRP prior learning assessment process.
2. TIRP provides and requires 100 hours of supervision for graduation, and students can link with the TIRP low-cost referral service to accumulate at least 450 hours of direct client contact in relation to those hours of supervision.
3. As is the case in any training program in psychodynamic psychotherapy, TIRP's requirement of ongoing personal psychotherapy while in the training program is understood to be the key component in understanding and using self well and wisely in a therapeutic relationship.
4. As an experiential training program that emphasizes the integration of theory and direct, supervised practice, TIRP prepares students well for the Registration Exam that focuses on the appropriate use of entry-to-practice competencies in simulated therapy situations.
5. Professional ethics are integrated into all phases of TIRP training, and TIRP's new, enhanced curriculum includes a day-long workshop in ethics and jurisprudence for psychotherapists.
It's important to remember that as of September, 2012, the Registration Regulation as referenced above has been passed by the Transitional Council, but is still in the process of review by the Ministry of Health and Longterm Care. The legislation, with its regulations, has not yet been officially proclaimed, and until that day, TIRP faculty can only continue to pay close attention to what unfolds, remaining in communication with its students, past, present, and future.
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The Third Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music will be held this year at Moravian College and Lehigh University, October 22-25. This conference celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Single Brethren's House and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem.
A schedule of events:
October 22, Thursday afternoon: Moravian and American Music Life, 1748-1900 (papers).
October 22, 7:00 p.m., Lecture and recital of American piano music of the Civil War era.
October 22, 8:00 p.m., Concert of Moravian music, featuring the College Choir, Wind Ensemble, and student soloists.
October 23, Friday morning, panel discussion "Doing Moravian Music Research," musical training in Colonial American Moravian Schools (papers).
October 23, Friday afternoon, Women in Music in America (papers).
October 23, 7:30 p.m., pre-concert lecture on the Samuel Green organ, on loan to the College from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Musical Instrument Collection (purchased by Margaret M. Hess as a gift in memory of her father, John D. McCarty, 1993)
October 23, 8:00 p.m., lecture and recital of solo and duet piano literature performed at the Young Ladies' Seminary in the 19th century.
October 24, Saturday morning, rehearsal of music for evening concert.
October 24, Saturday afternoon (at Lehigh), "Bach in America, J. Fred. Wolle and the Bach Choir" (papers).
October 24, 8:00 p.m., concert featuring the Bach Choir of Bethlehem festival orchestra, Moravian College Choir, and conference attendees.
Sunday morning, service at Central Moravian Church.
Paul Larson, professor emeritus, and Carol Traupman-Carr, assistant professor of music, serve as co-chairs for the conference. The conference is co-sponsored by the Moravian College Music Department; Moravian Theological Seminary; Center for Moravian Studies, Lehigh University; Bach Choir of Bethlehem; Moravian Music Foundation; Moravian Museum of Bethlehem; Moravian Archives; Moravian College Music Alliance; and Central Moravian Church. A grant from the Pharo Foundation was used to prepare music for the Thursday evening performance.
For a complete list of papers, presentations, and concerts, contact the Music Department at (610) 861-1650.
The Bethlehem Conferences on Moravian Music are held biennially in late October. The next conference is planned for the year 2000, and will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Count Nicolas von Zinzendorf and the 200th anniversary of the invention of the piano.


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A Volcano's Toll On Merapi Golf Course
January 11, 2011
The eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano in Merapi last October has had a profound impact on the nearby Merapi Golf Course.
Mount Merapi erupted in October of last year.
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$100M Now Available in Invoice Factoring to Fund Rebuilding Efforts after Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy caused a tremendous amount of economic damage in the greater New York City and New Jersey coastal regions impacting homes, properties, infrastructures, buildings and businesses. Experts predict the economic toll could well be in the $30 to $50 billion range in total when considering lost wages, business closures, and power outages among a variety of other factors.
Thanks to the dedication of businesses, government agencies and everyday citizens, a bare-bones normalcy has returned to most of the region with some businesses up and running again. To help further the recovery efforts and get businesses back on track, Business Factors, Inc. is setting aside $100 million for funding of businesses & businesses in recovery related services. Construction Factoring, Transportation Factoring, and Freight Factoring are a few of the main areas Business Factors, Inc. plans to support through funding in the coming months.
Invoice Factoring: Because Rebuilding Efforts Can't Wait
These industries are in the business of rebuilding, and their help is needed as fast as they can legitimately go. When responding to a major disaster, time is of the essence. This is the primary reason business owners choose invoice factoring as a cash flow solution. Though emergency business loans, insurance claims and other sources of funding are available, none of them will get you the money you need as fast as accounts receivable factoring services.
During emergency funding situations, insurance companies and government agencies are responding to high demands for their services & additional paperwork requirements, which slow down response time. Also, they must prioritize who gets what first; if you are a small business, chances are you may have to wait.
With invoice factoring, the business model is based around expediency so you will get approved for funding within 24 hours or less. Though Construction Factoring, Transportation Factoring, and Freight Factoring will cost you about 1-4% of your total cost, this is tiny when you consider you can have the money you need to hire more workers, rent equipment, or expand your territories in days instead of waiting several weeks to months.
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With so many rebuilding efforts going on in the region, there are numerous jobs to bid on. With Construction Factoring, you can get the money for the supplies, manpower and equipment needed to bid on these various jobs.
Similarly Transportation Factoring and Freight Factoring can help those who need industry services now and they recognize they may need to pay a premium to get them. Various goods and supplies need to be shipped to the East Coast to replace what has been ruined by the storm and to assist with the cleanup, rebuilding and debris removal efforts. Not to mention those who are simply just in need of some extra cash flow to reopen their businesses.
Accounts Receivable Factoring is a fast, hassle-free way to secure financing in this post-Sandy recovery period. What could be more important than getting cities, businesses and homes up and running again?
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Tim and Sarah Gayman Discuss Growing Up in the Anti-Semitic Christian Identity Movement
SARAH: I wasn't allowed to. One of Tim's sisters substitute teaches in a local town, and maybe some of the other women do part-time work, but it is definitely frowned upon. I was not allowed to do anything, and I was bored out of my mind. They just wanted me to get pregnant and have babies constantly.
They all live like 20 miles from the nearest town and they promote home birthing. Really, you're not allowed to have children in the hospital, or at least it's really looked down upon.
At one point, they tried to force me to have a home birth. With Jared, our second child, [Dan's wife] Deloris refused to take me to the hospital. She said, "Get into the bathtub, you can have this baby at home. You can do it."
Tim came home and I just looked at him. I probably gave him a desperate look, like, "Please help me!" She finally said okay after Tim said, "Let's get her to the hospital." I almost gave birth in the van — I had Jared within 30 minutes of getting to the hospital. And they were furious with me.
IR: What about other medical emergencies?
TIM: Well, the medical profession is looked down upon because...
SARAH: ... it's Jewish.
TIM: That, and they feel like doctors don't really heal, that they just write a prescription but are not really healing people.
IR: Did these beliefs affect you directly?
SARAH: I had sick children and they refused to take me to the doctor. I finally got one of Tim's aunts to take me with Jared, when he was a baby. It turned out he had a double ear infection and the doctor was ready to hospitalize him, he was so sick.
Their idea was if you take him to the hospital then the doctor might do something bad. Like they don't believe in immunizations.
IR: Both Dan Gayman and the Church of Israel generally seem very well financed. How did they find enough money to continue growing?
TIM: My dad would roll out the red carpet for people with money. One guy named Gerry Gentry gave something like $500,000 in a matter of six years, to the church, to different things.
And there are countless others who have given. There is one man who was very faithful and would come every feast day and even between feast days. He would give about $900 a month to the church.
SARAH: There was this very elderly man from California named Harry Uridge. He'd been saving his money his whole life and getting the Watchman from Dan. He went out there right before he died. Dan does not value older people, and this man was almost completely deaf, but Dan realizes that this is a big tither.
Dan sent his brother to buy earphones for this man right away, so he could hear the sermon. Next thing I know, Harry is living there with one of Tim's uncles. He's buying tools for them, buying farm equipment for him. Then he's buying farm equipment and tools for the church.
Then he's buying land and he's putting it in some kind of trust. He's giving land to Tim's brother and Tim's parents and Tim's uncle.
Then Harry moves in with another couple, he dies and leaves all his money to the church. And so they build this big building and they call it "Harry's Ark" for about a year before they call it something else. This man was just used.
IR: In the end, both of you decided to leave. How did that occur?
SARAH: I left before Tim, and it was very, very tough. But there were things that had bothered me a lot. There was a family who came to the church who had two Native American kids who were dark-skinned. They were the most sweet, obedient, well-mannered kids. After a while, Deloris told them that they couldn't bring their children any more.
And I just agonized over that. I could not believe it. I realized that's what these people are all about. I was really having a crisis, spiritually and emotionally. It made me really examine what I believed.
Dan was saying to Tim, "Do you think she has demons? Maybe she's having a nervous breakdown or is a schizophrenic." There was no basis for it, except that I was real unhappy. But that's the way they are. What they can't control, they destroy. All women who disagree with them are insane or possessed by demons.
It was a slower process for Tim because he'd been raised in it. But after I moved out, he joined me in Springfield, where we lived in a liberal neighborhood with Jewish families. They were nice normal people, and they weren't going to sacrifice our children. Tim got to be friends with a black guy and a Jewish guy he worked with. So we both changed.
You are sometimes forced by your circumstances to realize that these other people are human beings.
IR: And how did the church react?
TIM: When somebody leaves, they just trash that person.
SARAH: A lot of people who have left the church are real intimidated and scared. I know I was. I remember thinking Tim's dad was going to hire a hit man to take care of me.
IR: Do you think now that any of those fears were realistic?
TIM: They just want to scare and harass us. They might talk like that, but they have got too much to lose — too much land, too many assets, that they would lose if they had a bunch of people with guns storming around there and the authorities came out.
They want for it all to look legitimate. But the reality is a little different. It's like, "I'm a Christian and I know who I am and I hate everybody."
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With a slate of bold and controversial budget proposals, Gov. Jerry Brown has placed a renewed focus on the state's struggling community colleges, the world's largest system of two-year schools that are often overshadowed by the University of California and Cal State systems.
The governor's recommendations are aimed at keeping community colleges affordable, keeping classes accessible and moving students faster through the system to allow them to graduate or transfer to a four-year university at higher rates. Brown's spending plan must clear the Legislature, and some college officials have vowed to oppose — or at least try to modify — some portions.
These proposals are among the most significant policy shifts in years and could reshape many campus operations.
"It's a courageous plan," said Eloy Oakley, president of Long Beach City College. "The governor is focusing on policy issues we've been talking about for many years but dancing around the margins. A lot of this has been on the table in statehouses throughout the nation, but we're addressing these issues in California in a meaningful way."


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No Electric Football This Year
This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of my most memorable Christmas. The issue that year, when I was 12, was whether I would get a new ping-pong table or an electric football game. Getting both seemed impossible because my parents, although they regularly saved for the holiday through a Christmas Club, never had much extra […] [Read More]


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Every woman blogger who is not too stupid or too full of herself to notice what is going on knows that what blogs for women do is morally indefensible. — Unknown
BlogHer. CafeMom. Feministing. At some point, someone decided creating blogs dedicated to women was a good idea. Women blogs are empowering, they said. They're a safe haven, they claimed. We need these spaces, they proclaimed.
The fact of the matter is that blogs for women do more harm than good.
TIP #1: They're limiting.
Blogs that focus solely on women's issues are one-trick ponies. They don't challenge you; they appease you. They don't ask you to think; they tell you what you want to hear. They are an island, a fantasy; they are not the real world.
Feeling disempowered? Great. There's a blog for that. They will tell you that it's not you. It's the patriarchy. Didn't get that raise, make less than your male coworkers, can't figure out how to negotiate your way into the salary you want? Don't worry. There's a blog that will explain to you this is due to male sexism, that it has nothing to do with you, that there are other sisters here who have gone through what you've gone through, and, (wo)man, do they feel you.
The idea is that this sort of sympathetic, female circle-jerk will make everyone feel better. That if women are told enough times whatever bad thing happened isn't their fault, from this they will rise from the ashes and overthrow the terrible men who are keeping them down. This is a lie.
TIP #2: They're hypocritical.
Totally mad because some photo editor at a women's magazine photoshopped a female celebrity's body into unrealistic proportions? Don't worry. Some blog for women will repost the image and explain how exposure to these images makes women feel bad about themselves. Meanwhile, they've reposted the image. You've been exposed again. The difference is … this time you know it's wrong? Bored out of your mind as a mother? Don't worry. A hundred of your fellow mommy bloggers will tell you that they're bored out of their minds, too. This is how it is. At least now you can all be bored out of our minds together. Feeling alone and want to network with other women who are alone? Don't worry. There's a blog for women where you can network with other women who are networking with other women who are networking with you.
Once upon a time, the feminist movement was about politics. It was about marching in the streets. It was about making change. It was about being a female superhero. These days, the so-called feminist movement has gone online, and it's practitioners greatest political act is writing a blog post. It's about writing 200 words on that TV show last night that really pissed you off because the way it portrays women is not right in some way you can't quite articulate. It's about talking over and over again about how there's not enough women in [FILL IN THE BLANK]. It's about reclaiming the word "slut," and then going on a SlutWalk, and then having a discussion in which you talk about how you're not a slut, but people said you were a slut, and that upset you, so you decided to call yourself a slut, because that way, well, at least you own it. The best thing that can be said about the feminist politics of blogs for women is that they are confused.
Of course, it's not just about that. For those who feel they have won the gender wars, there are entire blogs dedicated to the fine art of recipe trading, to figuring out how to decorate nurseries, to discovering new ways to wear a striped shirt. It's about easy to navigate websites with "chick," "broad," and "girls" in the title, cute little logos featuring cartoon women who can't stop smiling and lifting their arms over their heads in victory, and online communities in which Oprah's dream of a female-centric world has come true: men are a distant memory, and it's all-women, all the time.
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The U.S. Navy will christen the lead ship of the latest class of amphibious ships, San Antonio, Saturday, July 19, 2003, during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems Avondale Operations in New Orleans.
Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Michael Hagee will deliver the ceremony's principal address. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas will serve as ship's sponsor. The ceremony will be highlighted in the time-honored Navy tradition when Hutchison christens the ship by breaking a bottle of Texas sparkling wine across its bow.
The ship's prospective commanding officer, Cmdr. Jonathan M. Padfield, a native of Salt Lake City, will lead a crew of approximately 360 officers and enlisted Navy personnel. The ship is capable of embarking a landing force of approximately 700 Marines. San Antonio is 684 feet in length, has an overall beam of 105 feet, a navigational draft of 23 feet and displaces approximately 24,900 tons. Four turbo-charged diesels power the ship to sustained speeds of 22 knots.
San Antonio is the lead ship in the Navy's new 12-ship LPD 17 Class and will serve as the functional replacement of four amphibious ship classes -- LPD 4, LSD 36, LST 1179 and LKA 113 -- that have reached or are nearing the end of their service lives.
The ship will provide greatly improved warfighting capabilities including an advanced command and control suite, increased lift capacity with substantial increases in vehicle and cargo carrying capability and advanced ship survivability features. The ship supports the Marine Corps "mobility triad," the LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushion vehicle), the "Triple A-V" (AAAV - Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle) and the MV-22 (Osprey tiltrotor aircraft), making this class a critical element of tomorrow's amphibious ready groups and expeditionary strike groups.
The new design also features the latest in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with dedicated intelligence, mission planning, and command and control spaces. San Antonio's shipboard wide area network is a fiber optic shipwide large area computer network, which will support numerous operations from combat systems to ship systems to command and control nodes to an integrated training system.
This expeditionary warship class will be the most survivable amphibious vessel ever put to sea. The ship's automated combat system includes a highly capable sensor suite and weapons that provide a robust self-defense capability. San Antonio's design optimizes radar cross-section signature by streamlining topside design and incorporating reduced radar cross section signature technologies. San Antonio also features the Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor system (AEM/S) that replaces conventional masts, protecting radar and communications antennas from weather and reducing the ship's vulnerability to detection by hostile radar. The AEM/S, the defining feature of the ship's distinctive profile, is the largest composite material structure ever installed on a U.S. Navy steel ship.
Furthermore, San Antonio incorporates the latest quality of life standards for the embarked Marines and sailors, including the sit-up berth, ship services mall, a fitness center and learning resource center/electronic classroom. The ship has the flexibility to accommodate a mixed gender crew and embarked troops. Reduced operational costs and an improved capability to periodically insert advanced technology over its planned 40-year service life were also essential design objectives for LPD 17. Accordingly, the design team incorporated hundreds of suggestions and recommendations from more than 1,000 sailors and Marines in a "Design for Ownership" process to ensure that these ships will meet their needs throughout the first half of the 21st century.
Additional information about this class of ship is available on line at http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-lpd.html.


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Meeting Type: Regional Meetings / Meeting Year: 2012
Spring, 2012 Regional Meeting — Jerusalem, Israel
Exploring the Archives: Unique & Unusual Resources in Galician Research
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:30 PM
Speaker: Pamela Weisberger, GG President/Research Coordinator
AACI Glassman Family Center
37 Pierre Koenig / 2 Poalei Tzedek, Jerusalem, Israel
Sponsored by the Israel Genealogical Research Association (IGRA)
Even in this digital genealogical age, not everything is online. Learn about the exciting — and unusual – Jewish genealogical resources available in archives and libraries in Vienna, Ternopil, Lviv and Krakow.
From documents dating from the late 1700s through the interwar years, we'll cover voter and school lists, the Lviv family registration books dating back to the 18th century, 1930 Jewish taxpayer lists, Lvov (Lemberg) and Jagellonian University student records and magnate landowner files that contain items like List of Jewish Tavern Owners in 1790.
You'll view examples from the Jewish Galician holdings in the Vienna State Archives including kahal records and court cases–many with actual signatures of your ancestors—and province-wide inventories, such as listings for rabbis and cantors from every shtetl that had a Jewish congregation and Jewish schoolteachers assigned to the German-Jewish schools in 1788 – at the exact time Jews were required to adopt family surnames.
An update on the All Galicia Database and Gesher Galicia's Cadastral Maps program will also be provided along with a video tour of the Brody (Ukraine) Cemetery.
Exploring Jewish Life, Culture and Ancestry in Galicia
Sunday, June 3 (13 Sivan), 2012
Pamela Weisberger, Keynote Speaker
Israel Genealogical Society
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- Dr. Lea Haber-Gedalia, IGS chairperson [H]
- Ms. Nurit Sheps-Caspi, Lwow's Descendants Organization [H]
- Ms. Pamela Weisberger, President, Gesher Galicia [En]
Ms. Pamela Weisberger – Researching Family Roots in Galicia [En]
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- Mr. Ami Elyasaf – Researching the Town of Brody [H]
- Dr. Lea Haber-Gedalia – Jewish Galicia: History, Demography and Culture [H]
- Dr. Mordechai Yushkovski – Social and Cultural Progressions within the Jewish Family as Reflected by Migration from Shtetls to Cities and Overseas [H]
- Dr. Sergey Kravtzov – Synagogues Architecture in Lwow [En]
- Dr. Eli Brauner – Presenting the Association for the Commemoration of Lwow Jewish Heritage and Sites
Closing Remarks– Dr. Eli Brauner [H]
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This program also will be hosting the Association of Former Jewish Residents and Descendants of Lwow and the ACLS – the Association for the Commemoration of Lwow Jewish Heritage and Sites.
One of the goals of this symposium is to bring news of the efforts of the ACLS to restore and rebuild monuments of Jewish heritage in the city and to ensure that the remains of the Golden Rose Synagogue and other functioning buildings used by the Jewish residents still there are preserved for all time. They also plan to create lasting memorials on the site of the Janowska labor camp and the grounds of the former Jewish cemetery of Lwow.
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The 21-year-old attacking midfielder has failed to break into the senior side since joining in January 2012, and only managed two starts in the League Cup last season.
Eisfeld, who has played once for the Germany Under-20 side, scored Arsenal's only goal in a 1-1 tie against West Bromwich Albion, a match the Londoners won on penalties.
A regular in Terry Burton's youth team, the Borussia Dortmund academy product will look to add to his three pre-season goals during 2012 and 2013 tours of Asia.
Eisfeld has signed a two-year deal with Felix Magath's side, with the option of a further 12 months.


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The Free Myth
There seems to be a pandemic, as contagious as the flu, of misunderstanding going around. I often meet someone who is appalled that a for-profit business would charge for a particular service or product. You charge to put headlamp bulbs in? How dare you? Three out of five times this comes from someone who has already tried doing the job themselves … and failed. But she thinks someone should provide the service she couldn't do for free.
Let's talk about the bucket.
"Y'all charge for that? I ain' paying for that! Nuh-uh!"
The pale, raspy-throated Waffle House waitress believed buckets were so simple and inconsequential that charging for one was an insult. How dumb do we think she is?
In Somehwere, U.S.A. there is a little factory making little plastic, red buckets. They're not complicated things– just hardened plastic with a picture advertising the iconic business founders on them.
Let's pretend that the land on which the factory stands, the building, and even the machinery, appeared out of thin air. No one invested any money to buy the land, attained building permits, hired contractors, or bought supplies. Let's pretend– as some people actually believe – the Bucket Factory came free via the magic government fairy which makes all dreams come true.
Now that we have our spankin' free bucket-making factory we have to hire some workers to turn the lights on, ship and receive, keep up inventory, and operate the machines. Then we should probably hire one or two other guys to supervise and deal with vendors and bucket-buying customers.
The problem with hiring someone is they want money. It's not necessarily that they like money. It's just that they need money … to eat, and clothe and shelter themselves. We are no longer on the bartering system, nor has the real world gotten the Free Memo. So money is kind of crucial. This will most likely be the case until clothes, food, and shelter start growing on trees … or Jesus returns.
In order to pay the workers and the supervisors of the Bucket Factory, it is imperative that the buckets sell. As simple and inconsequential as it may seem, the bucket is the means by which the factory lives and dies by. If no one pays for the bucket, no one pays the workers. If no one pays the workers, they don't work. If they don't work, they don't make buckets. If they don't make buckets, you can't have one.
The real world works in such a way. There is nothing free. Someone is paying for every service and product being created. If it's not growing on the side of your house or coming out of the sky onto your patchy grass, it cost someone to make it.
There is no such thing as free.
If you keep insisting on "free" this and "free" that, they're going to close down the bucket factory. And when you need a bucket to save your life, it won't be there because the workers couldn't eat by working for free.
There is a difference between generosity and feeling entitled.
There is a difference between giving and being forced to give.
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Obama opens Eastern Seaboard to oil explorationBy JASON DEAREN
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In this 2009 photo provided by the New England Aquarium, a North Atlantic right whale swims with her calf in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the United States near the border between Florida and Georgia. The Obama administration is opening the Eastern Seaboard to offshore oil exploration for the first time in decades.ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla. The Obama administration is reopening the Eastern Seaboard to offshore oil and gas exploration, approving seismic surveys using sonic cannons that can pinpoint energy deposits deep beneath the ocean floor.
Fridays announcement is the first real step toward what could be a transformation in coastal states, creating thousands of jobs to support a new energy infrastructure. But it dismayed environmentalists and people who owe their livelihoods to fisheries and tourism.
The cannons create noise pollution in waters shared by whales, dolphins and turtles, sending sound waves many times louder than a jet engine reverberating through the deep every ten seconds for weeks at a time. Arguing that endangered species could be harmed was the environmental groups best hope for extending a decades-old ban against drilling off the U.S. Atlantic coast.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management acknowledged that thousands of sea creatures will be harmed even as it approved opening the outer continental shelf from Delaware to Florida to exploration. Energy companies need the data as they prepare to apply for drilling leases in 2018, when current congressional limits expire.
The bureaus decision reflects a carefully analyzed and balanced approach that will allow us to increase our understanding of potential offshore resources while protecting the human, marine, and coastal environments, acting BOEM Director Walter Cruickshank said in a statement.
Sonic cannons are already used in the western Gulf of Mexico, off Alaska and in other offshore oil operations around the world. They are towed behind boats, sending down pulses of sound that reverberate beneath the sea floor and rebound to the surface. Hydrophones capture the results, which computers translate into high resolution, three-dimensional images.
Its like a sonogram of the Earth, said Andy Radford, a petroleum engineer at the American Petroleum Institute, an oil and gas trade association in Washington DC. You cant see the oil and gas, but you can see the structures in the Earth that might hold oil and gas.
The surveys also can map marine habitats and identify solid undersea flooring for wind energy turbines. But fossil fuel mostly funds this research, and corporations keep the data secret, disclosing it only to the government.
They paid for it, so I can see why they dont want to share. These things are not cheap, said John Jaeger, a University of Florida geology professor.
Oil lobbyists say drilling for the estimated 4.72 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 37.51 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that lies beneath federal waters from Florida to Maine could generate $195 billion in investment and spending between 2017 and 2035, contributing $23.5 billion per year to the economy.
These estimates describe the total amount of energy technically recoverable from the nations outer continental shelf, but the Atlantic seabed from New Jersey through New England remains off limits for now. While some states have passed drilling bans, Virginia and the Carolinas asked for the surveys, bureau officials explained Friday.
I honestly feel we can go offshore and harvest the energy thats out there, said South Carolina state Sen Paul Campbell. I think were kind of foolish not to.
In any case, the area to be mapped is farther offshore in federal waters, beyond the reach of state law.
The sonic cannons are often fired continually for weeks or months, and multiple mapping projects may operate simultaneously. To get permits, companies will need to have whale-spotting observers onboard and do undersea acoustic tests to avoid nearby species. Certain habitats will be closed during birthing or feeding seasons.
Still, underwater microphones have picked up blasts from these sonic cannons over distances of thousands of miles, and the constant banging amplified in water by orders of magnitude will be impossible for many species to avoid.
Whales and dolphins depend on being able to hear their own much less powerful echolocation to feed, communicate and keep in touch with their family groups across hundreds of miles. Even fish and crabs navigate and communicate by sound, said Grant Gilmore, an expert on fish ecology in Vero Beach, Fla.MORE IN National / World BusinessSometimes the business impact of a brutally cold winter hangs on for quite a while. Full StoryWOODSTOCK Aaren and Paulina Macksoud had been searching for just the right property to add to... Full Story
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(WREG-TV) Tractor trailers are usually the big dogs on the road, but ice took over on Monday.
"It's almost impossible to drive," Tom Wells said.
He is driving from Texas to Chicago, but got stuck on I-40 in Arkansas.
"Well, it's gonna cancel our load obviously," Wells explained. "There's no way we'll get there on time. We are supposed to be there tomorrow morning."
Dozens of trucks were backed up for miles on the ice-covered interstate, conditions some drivers said should have been dealt with before now.
"Arkansas just needs to learn how to take care of their roads a little bit better," Tommy Bennett said.
"I must've seen about 20 cars in a ditch, semi (trucks) jack-knifing as you go down the road. I was slipping and sliding about four different times," Wells said.
It was four times too many, according to Wells, for an arctic blast known about for days.
"I can't believe the state doesn't do something about it. No salt truck or nothing out here. I haven't seen one all day. That's just unbelievable that they don't do something to a major highway like this to prepare the roads," he said. "It's just unreal."
WREG has reached out to the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department for comment but has not gotten a response.