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Cuomo's gun law will do little to prevent further violence
We needed thoughtful debate in the wake of the Newtown and Webster tragedies about preventative measures to help thwart or lessen the severity of these type of incidents in the future.
Provoncha earns Liberty Bell
The county's brain trust, otherwise known as the Essex County Bar Association, packed the Deer's Head Inn on Thursday, May 1 to pay homage to a certain non-lawyer citizen in the local community: a private citizen who stimulated a deep sense of individual responsibility and civic duty.
Moriah Food Pantry needs assistance
Food, cash donations sought
Normally people come to the Moriah Food Pantry for help. Now, the tables have turned. Pantry officials are asking the public for assistance. The holidays are approaching and the Moriah Food Pantry is not prepared. Its shelves are near empty.
Schroon Lake, Moriah win hoop contests
Viking keglers fall
Schroon Lake dispatched Wells, 38-22, in Mountain and Valley Athletic Conference girls basketball action Dec. 17.
Atheistic, Muslim beliefs on TV
After reading your article in the Times of Ti, I was encouraged to also add my opinion to what is happening not only in our government but on our airways.
Ticonderoga school restores teachers
New union deals allow jobs to be reinstated
Ticonderoga Central School District voters approved a 2013-14 $18.5 million budget that cut employees and academic programs in May. Two months later, all programs and most staff have been reinstated.
The Candy Man can
Do you remember a song from the 70s called "The Candy Man?"
Fight same-sex marriage
To the Times of Ti: A number of folks in the community shared their support of the editorial
Thank you, Mr. Eastwood
Why would the U.S. president attempt to diminish and insult those responsible for our economy?
Moving forward?
Mr. Scott David Harris, in rebuttal to your article (letter to the editor) in the Times of Ti Nov. 24, I have
Appalled by gay marriage story
To the Times of Ti: Yes, I'm 61 years old. - No, I don't have my head stuck in the sand. I keep up with current events and try to have my virtual finger on the pulse of those who are concerned citizens, young and old.
Kudos for editorial
Kudos to the Valley News and Times of Ti for it's editorial exploring key issues surrounding New York's recent gun law which more accurately should be called the New York Citizen Disarmament Law.
Schroon takes ownership of cemetery
Improvements needed at Protestant Cemetery
A historic cemetery in need of assistance is now the responsibility of Schroon taxpayers. The Protestant Cemetery on Hoffman Road has formally been abandoned.
Taxes on taxes
Here we go again; the children have their hands in the cookie jar.
Blood drive set at Schroon Lake school
Senior class plans event
Schroon Lake Central School's senior class wants to leave a lasting impression. That's why the class will sponsor an American Red Cross blood drive on Monday, May 7 from noon to 6 p.m. at the school auditorium.
Two Inter-Lakes health employees honored
Essential Piece Award presented
Two Inter-Lakes Health employees were recently recognized for providing exceptional patient care.
Moriah PD's future questioned
Trustee wonders if police are necessary
Is the Moriah Police Department a good investment? That's the question Tim Garrison is asking. The town councilman has initiated a discussion on the future of the agency.
Star Trek convention may come to Ticonderoga
Plans being discussed for annual event
Star Trek fans maybe making the trip to Ticonderoga next year. James Cawley, a Star Trek enthusiast, actor and movie producer, wants to bring fellow Trekkies to his hometown.
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Chuck Landon: Reeling in my first fish
There always seemed to be something a little, well, fishy about the sport of fishing.
All the Moby Dick-sized tales of the one that got away, all the exaggerations about hooking a trophy fish but releasing it and all the claims of being the best angler this side of Quint in "Jaws."
It seemed to me that fishing was mostly talk, which is ironic considering people are supposed to be quiet while fishing.
Since I already like to talk, I never bothered with fishing.
Until, that is, a recent conversation at a local watering hole turned to fishing and I committed the grievous error of admitting I never had caught a fish in my entire sporting life.
My buddies reacted like my testosterone level immediately dropped 50 percent. They stopped just short of revoking my male membership card.
That leads to my vacation last week at Beech Fork State Park. Although I still don't understand why anyone would want to catch something called "crappie," I was determined to catch my first fish.
How hard could it be?
I found out in a hurry.
As it turns out, it's actually necessary to cast a line equipped with a bobber, sinker, hook and bait into the water before a fish can be caught.
Who knew that would be so difficult?
My first five casts didn't hit water. I hit the bank. I hit the weeds. I lost my bait in the cattails. I wrapped my line around the rod. I did everything except what I was trying to do.
It felt like I could fall out of a boat and not hit water.
Sensing my growing frustration, my friend Randy, aka "The Fish Whisperer," offered the perfect casting advice. He explained casting was like throwing a baseball. The release point was the same.
Armed with a sports analogy, suddenly casting was no problem.
Fishies beware.
Yeah, right.
The only thing I caught that afternoon was a new-found appreciation for just how challenging fishing actually is. But thanks to the unflagging support and encouragement of the lovely Deborah, not to mention her willingness to bait my hook repeatedly, I didn't give up.
So, an evening or two later I resumed my quest after some sage advice from Denny, aka "The Fishmeister," who is preparing his own fishing instructional video entitled, "The Happy Hooker."
That's when I learned that just because a fish "hit" my bait, I didn't have it hooked. I got more hits than Pete Rose in a doubleheader, but all I had to show for it was an empty hook. It seems I wasn't jerking the rod forcefully enough and those gluttonous fish were stealing me blind.
When it got so dark I couldn't see my bobber, I was ready to concede defeat again. But the lovely Deborah persevered, suggesting we bait our hooks one more time.
It was the right call.
After she quickly caught a small catfish, I finally hooked a fish. It put up a titanic struggle, but I reeled it in. Then, of course, the momentous event was captured with a photograph and I tossed Vince BlueGill back in the lake.
And, now, I'm hooked.
I won't be giving The Herald-Dispatch sports editor Rick McCann curious looks anymore when he takes vacation to go fishing. Not that I have any pretense of becoming a real angler.
Compared to Captain Ahab, I'm Captain Rehab.
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Carroll starts push for state championship with 9-0 victory
O'Shea Dumes hits homer at plate, gets win on mound
CORPUS CHRISTI - Carroll's baseball team hardly was on the ropes, but had yet to find its way in the early going of Thursday night's playoff opener.
One big swing from O'Shea Dumes changed that in a hurry.
A mammoth home run from Dumes sparked a six-run third inning as Carroll rolled to a 9-0 victory over San Antonio Stevens in a Region IV-5A bi-district playoff at Cabaniss Field.
The Tigers (25-3) will face the winner of tonight's San Marcos-San Antonio Reagan game in the area round next week.
Carroll made the most of its opportunities against Stevens (12-14).
The Tigers finished with just four hits, but took advantage of 12 walks issued by three Falcons hurlers and four errors by the visitors.
"Efficiency would be the key word there," Carroll coach Lee Yeager said. "It was pretty tight there early. They came out and were ready to play. We knew they weren't just going to give it to us. We knew it'd be a little struggle early."
Carroll took a 2-0 lead with single runs scored without the benefit of a hit in each of the first two innings.
In the first, Courtney Hawkins reached on a leadoff two-base fielding error and one out later, came in on Trey Rodriguez's sacrifice fly.
In the second, Michael Cantu drew a one-out walk. Courtesy runner Zach Alaniz then stole second, took third on an error and then scored on a two-out balk by Falcons starter Josh Valdez.
The Tigers didn't get their first hit until the third, and it was quite the clout, with Dumes crushing a two-run homer well past the left-field fence.
That jump-started a six-run frame for the Tigers, who were the beneficiary of some Falcons largesse, with Stevens issuing
five walks and committing two errors that directly led to runs.
"It definitely lightened up the moment," Dumes said of his seventh homer. "If we didn't have quality at-bats, the score wouldn't have been what it was. Everybody did their job at the plate, took pitches and didn't swing at anything bad. We all did pretty well."
Pretty good also summed up Dumes' work on the mound. He pitched four shutout innings, with arguably the most important being the first.
Falcons leadoff hitter Easton Lopez singled and made it to second with one out, but Dumes got out of the inning unscathed. He retired all 12 hitters he faced after Lopez's single.
"Scoring first is important in these (one-game playoffs) because it puts a seed of doubt in your mind if you don't score first," Yeager said. "I think (getting out of the first) helped him a little bit."
Carroll is vying to become just the second Class 5A team to make three consecutive state tournaments along with its second championship in three years. Last year's bid for a repeat ended in shocking fashion with a loss to Lubbock Coronado in the state semifinal.
The memory of that defeat, and the possible sense of finality that comes with a one-game playoffs, were plenty of motivation for the Tigers on Thursday.
"We're definitely trying to go back and redeem ourselves," said Dumes, one of six sophomore starters on the Tigers' 2010 championship team.
"We always tell each other, 'Play it like it's our last' and that's what we did. We (approach) it like it's the last time we're playing together because we're going our separate ways (afterward). This is our last time playing as brothers.
Stevens 000 000 0 – 0 2 4
Carroll 116 010 X – 9 4 0
WP — O'Shea Dumes (8-1). LP — Josh Valdez (6-5). S- Rene Pineda. 2B – C, Josh Cruz. HR – Dumes. Highlights — Carroll: Courtney Hawkins, 2 runs, RBI; Trey Rodriguez 2 RBI, Dumes 2 RBI, Zach Alaniz 2 runs.
Records – Stevens 12-14, Carroll 25-3.
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|Chapter 24: Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Śiva
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.24.17
sańgamaḥ khalu viprarṣe
śiveneha śarīriṇām
durlabho munayo dadhyur
asańgād yam abhīpsitam
sańgamaḥ — association; khalu — certainly; vipra-ṛṣe — O best of the brāhmaṇas; śivena — along with Lord Śiva; iha — in this world; śarīriṇām — those who are encaged in material bodies; durlabhaḥ — very rare; munayaḥ — great sages; dadhyuḥ — engaged themselves in meditation; asańgāt — being detached from anything else; yam — unto whom; abhīpsitam — desiring.
The great sage Vidura continued: O best of the brāhmaṇas, it is very difficult for living entities encaged within this material body to have personal contact with Lord Śiva. Even great sages who have no material attachments do not contact him, despite their always being absorbed in meditation to attain his personal contact.
Since Lord Śiva does not incarnate himself unless there is some special reason, it is very difficult for an ordinary person to contact him. However, Lord Śiva does descend on a special occasion when he is ordered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this regard, it is stated in the Padma Purāṇa that Lord Śiva appeared as a brāhmaṇa in the age of Kali to preach the Māyāvāda philosophy, which is nothing but a type of Buddhist philosophy. It is stated in Padma Purāṇa:
māyāvādam asac-chāstraḿ
pracchannaḿ bauddham ucyate
mayaiva vihitaḿ devi
kalau brāhmaṇa-mūrtinā
Lord Śiva, speaking to Pārvatī-devī, foretold that he would spread the Māyāvāda philosophy in the guise of a sannyāsī brāhmaṇa just to eradicate Buddhist philosophy. This sannyāsī was Śrīpāda Śańkarācārya. In order to overcome the effects of Buddhist philosophy and spread Vedānta philosophy, Śrīpāda Śańkarācārya had to make some compromise with the Buddhist philosophy, and as such he preached the philosophy of monism, for it was required at that time. Otherwise there was no need for his preaching Māyāvāda philosophy. At the present moment there is no need for Māyāvāda philosophy or Buddhist philosophy, and Lord Caitanya rejected both of them. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading the philosophy of Lord Caitanya and rejecting the philosophy of both classes of Māyāvādī. Strictly speaking, both Buddhist philosophy and Śańkara's philosophy are but different types of Māyāvāda dealing on the platform of material existence. Neither of these philosophies has spiritual significance. There is spiritual significance only after one accepts the philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā, which culminates in surrendering unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Generally people worship Lord Śiva for some material benefit, and although they cannot see him personally, they derive great material profit by worshiping him.
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Five former Ashe County athletes are finding success at the next level, including four on the basketball court and one on the wrestling mat.
Aaron Scott is in his junior year at Appalachian State University, and has competed in 10 matches so far this season. For his career, Scott has 10 wins and 24 losses. Currently, the junior has wrestled eight times at 149 pounds and twice at 157 pounds with one win and nine losses.
App State finishes out January with home matches against Campbell and The Citadel on Jan. 15 and Jan. 18, followed by a road match at Duke on Jan. 23. The Mountaineers return home for the annual Appalachian Open, an all-day tournament held at the Holmes Convocation Center in Boone on Saturday, Jan. 28.
The Southern Conference tournament is scheduled for March 3 in Lexington, Va.
Three former Lady Husky players are hitting their stride this season.
Chandler Christensen is in her sophomore season at Methodist University. The Monarchs are currently 6-2 on the year and 2-0 in the USA South Conference. Methodist has won six games in a row.
Last season, Christensen appeared in 21 games and started twice. She scored 17 points and grabbed 36 rebounds in her freshman campaign.
This year, Christensen has played in six of the eight games and has averaged just over 10 minutes per game on the court. Her best game so far came against Mary Baldwin College where she tallied six points and grabbed three rebounds in 13 minutes of play.
The lone senior on this list is Shelly Barker, who has started her final season at Guilford. She is one of three seniors for the Lady Quakers. This year, Barker has averaged six minutes of time on the court and has appeared in 10 of the team's 11 games. Barker's top game so far was in the season opener against Greensboro College. She scored two points, grabbed two rebounds and had two assists in 13 minutes off the bench.
Guilford is 8-3 overall and 2-1 in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.
Catawba College is where Mallary Clay is in her sophomore season. As a freshman, she played in 28 games and averaged 11 minutes a game. Her career-high of 13 points came at Carson-Newman. One of her biggest highlights of last season came in a win over Anderson when she hit two free throws with five seconds left to seal the win.
This season, Clay has appeared in all 10 games with one start. She is averaging nearly 19 minutes per contest. The sophomore is also averaging five points and three rebounds per game. In her most recent outting, Clay scored seven points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out four assists in 22 minutes.
Catawba is 5-5 overall and 1-1 in the South Atlantic Conference.
Finally, Tommy Spagnolo is a junior at Appalachian State and has appeared in eight games for the basketball team. Spagnolo played a season-high 14 minutes in a 73-72 loss at home to Duquesne on Nov. 28. The junior's best game came in the season opener against Montreat with four points and six rebounds.
App State is 4-8 overall and 0-1 in the Southern Conference.


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Tom Degan: It must be a terribly frustrating thing to be Mitt Romney these days. Were he to be elected president (and that's never gonna happen, I promise you) he would be an unerringly reliable water boy for the plutocracy.
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It is a day of unrelenting light in Southern California, a moment in the burgeoning spring that forces the sun into every crevice of one's life, whether he wants it or not. I am writing in our gazebo where diagonals of light trace criss-cross patterns on the tiled floor, and the warmth on my back […]


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Watch the following "Funny or Die" video where "Glee's" Matthew Morrison (Will) pokes fun at his nice guy, musical persona. He even gives us a look at how different the movies "Seven," "Pulp Fiction" and "American History X" might have been had he starred in them.
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Dougherty County has four public high school football teams playing within the same region and the coaches of those teams admit to being competitive with each other, but during the September 20 Kiwanis of Dougherty County program, they also shared their similarities in goals for players in both coaching and preparing for life.
Albany, Dougherty County, Monroe, and Westover high schools all compete under the Region 1AAA heading of the Georgia High School Sports Association. As part of the Dougherty County School System, their head coaches are all supervised by DCSS athletic director Johnny Seabrooks, a DoCo Kiwanian and a recent inductee into the Albany State University Sports Hall of Fame. Seabrooks introduced his four coaches to present their overviews of the 2010 season, which got underway in late August.
The program kicked off with Coach Charles Truitt of the Monroe High School Tornadoes. MHS is off to a 3-1 start in what Truitt described as "a tough region" and "a big challenge." His team, he said, are "good kids who are working hard." The team had five players returning on offense and six came back on the defensive squad.
Coach Felton Williams of the Albany High School Indians said his team is "making improvements, and every week we are seeing improvements with the kids." Albany High's record currently stands at 1-2, but Williams has hopes for improvement with nine starters who returned this year on offense and 10 coming back on the defensive line.
Coach Octavia Jones from the Westover High Patriots (with a current record of 1-3) noted there are 97 players in the Westover program and that he is seeing success and strides in improvement in weekly drills. Jones emphasized that he and his staff "stress not just better football players, but also better people," and added that he wants his players to take lessons they learn on the field into their lives for a better future.
Reporting for the Dougherty Comprehensive High School Trojans, head coach Jessie Hicks commented that a key to coaching success is "keeping involved with what's going on with the kids." DCHS is currently playing .500 ball with a 2-2 win/loss record.
The coaches were unanimous in expressing appreciation for community support, especially to the DoCo Kiwanians for providing team meals prior to home games.
The coaches of Dougherty County high school football teams – from left, Felton Williams, Albany High; Jessie Hicks, Dougherty Comprehensive High; Charles Truitt, Monroe High; and Octavia Jones, Westover High – listen to the DoCo Kiwanis program on September 20.


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So Alita was bugging me on New Year's Day to fly a kite (takoage), which clueless me had no idea was a tradition in Japan. Little did I also know, all three kids of course knew the shougatsu (new year's) song by heart that they learned in yochien (preschool), which talks of flying a takoage. So we walked out to the beach this first day of our apocalyptic year ;-) and flew a simple white kite that Mikko made back in shougako ( but never flew) and sang the song too. It was very peaceful and full of happiness, which is our wish to you.
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A mirror device (1) which can be simultaneously used for display purposes based on e.g. an LCD display (5) with a polarizing mirror (2) placed in front of it. The orientation direction of a retardation layer (31, 32) is aligned with respect to the polarization direction of the polarizing mirror to give optimal optical performance.
1. A polarizing mirror (1) for viewing purposes having a first plane (2) reflecting light of a first kind of polarization (20′) to a viewing side, the mirror passing light of a second kind of polarization (20″) and being provided with a display device (5) at its non-viewing side, which display device during use provides light of the second kind of polarization, at least one retardation layer (31,32) being provided between the display device and the polarizing mirror.
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The invention relates to a polarizing mirror for viewing purposes having a first plane reflecting light of a first kind of linear polarization to a viewing side, the mirror passing light of a second kind of linear polarization and being provided with a display device at its non-viewing side, which display device during use provides light of a second kind of linear polarization. A "mirror for viewing purposes" or "display mirror" in this application refers to a mirror, via which a person's eye (or an artificial eye like a (infra-red) camera lens) sees a reflected part of the outside world. As examples one may think of large mirrors, like bathroom mirrors, full-length mirrors in fitting rooms or even mirrored walls. Other examples are medium sized or small mirrors, like outside mirrors for trucks or dressing-table mirrors.
By "having a first plane reflecting light of a first kind of linear polarization" it is meant that a mirror plane acts as a polarizing plane. When in use, light within a certain range of a wavelength of light incident on a polarizing plane will be divided in two components one which is reflected by the polarizing plane and one of which passes through the polarizing plane. Generally most known is the division of light in two components having linearly polarized, perpendicular directions of linear polarization. In the examples of this particular application light is generally supposed to be divided in said linearly polarized, perpendicular directions of polarization, but the invention is equally applicable to light being divided in right-handed and left-handed circular polarization.
A display mirror of the kind mentioned above is described in the pending European Applications Serial number 02076069.2, filed on Mar. 18, 2002 and Serial number 02079306.3, filed on Oct. 17, 2002 (=PH NL 02.1038). The mirror function is obtained by introducing a polarizing mirror or reflective polarizer instead of a partly reflecting layer in front of a display device.
In practice it is not always possible or desirable to use displays and polarizing mirrors having their polarization directions aligned. Displays and mirrors to be combined usually have a variety of polarization directions (displays often 0, 45 or 90 degrees, mirrors often 0 or 90 degrees), which do not necessarily match. It is possible to use a larger polarizing mirror and cut out a part that matches the display in size and orientation. However, this greatly increases material cost, complicates the production process, reduces flexibility and limits the maximum size of display-mirror that can be obtained.
The invention has as its purpose to overcome said problems at least partly. According to the invention an optical film is provided between display and mirror that compensates for the difference in polarization direction. In general, this film consists of one or more retarders, e.g. half-lambda and quarter-lambda plates.
A half-lambda retarder is able to rotate the polarization direction, whereas a quarter-lambda retarder converts a circular polarization to a linear polarization and vice versa. It was found that in all cases the optical axis of the retarder should have a well-defined orientation. Conventional retarders have a retardation of a half lambda or a quarter lambda only for one wavelength (mostly 550 nm), whereas it is desired that they cover the whole visible range (400-700 nm). According to the invention (broad band) retarders are used which comprise a combination of several retarders at particular orientations.
In a preferred embodiment the display device and the polarizing mirror at its non-viewing side both comprise, a retardation layer such as a �λ foil, λ having a wavelength-value of e.g. 550�20 nm (narrow-band) or e.g. 550�255 nm (broad-band) The display can be moved freely, now and/or be rotated over any angle, with the rotation axis perpendicular to the surface of the display, between the polarizing mirror and the absorbing polarizer (within an enclosing light-shield) which is favorite in view of manufacturing tolerances.
If the absorbing polarizing layer comprises sub-layers absorbing light of the first kind of linear polarization and absorbing light of the second kind of linear polarization a very good display performance with optimum mirror performance is obtained.
In one embodiment at least one retardation layer is provided between the display device and the polarizing mirror, such as a retardation layer comprising at least one �λ foil, λ having a wavelength-value of e.g. 550�30 nm (narrow-band) or e.g. 550�255 nm (broad-band).
These and other aspects of the invention are apparent from and will be elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereinafter.
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The Figures are diagrammatic and not drawn to scale. Corresponding elements are generally denoted by the same reference numerals.
The display device 5 in this example is a liquid crystal display device having between two substrates (glass or plastic or any other suitable material) a liquid crystal material 7. Since most liquid crystal display devices are based on polarization effects the display 5 during use substantially emits polarized light. In general light from a backlight 10 is modulated by the liquid crystal display effect. Since the liquid crystal display device is based on a polarization effect the display 5 comprises a first polarizer 8 and a second polarizer (or analyzer) 9, which passes light of a certain polarization (direction).
This light of a certain polarization has the same (linear) polarization direction as the second kind of polarization (direction), so it passes the mirror (plane) 2 without any loss of light (100% transmission).
Since most liquid crystal display devices are based on modulation of linearly polarized light, linear polarizers 8, 9 are used, and the mirror 2 also is a linear polarization selective mirror e.g. a stack of dielectric layers, each layer having an optical thickness of one-quarter of a selected wavelength (or a mean value for a spectrum), while the layers have selected refractive indices or a wire-grid polarizer.
On the other hand in certain applications it may even be attractive to polarize light from e.g. an (O)LED or any other display to (linear or circular) polarized light to obtain the effect of a high contrast of displayed information with respect to reflected images in mirror applications.
In practice display devices and mirror devices are combined to a complete device, leading to the need of alignment. Moreover the polarization directions (displays often 0, 45 or 90 degrees, mirrors often 0 or 90 degrees) and not necessarily match. So one of either the mirror or the display substrate has to be rotated, leading to loss of material, especially at large area devices. A similar remark applies to the use of displays which emit non polarized light like (O)LED displays; now the polarization directions of the mirror and the extra polarizer have to be aligned.
In the embodiment of
In this example the �λ foil has its orientation direction at 45 degrees with respect to the polarization direction of the polarizing mirror 2. Using such a single half-wave foil may introduce some discoloration of the transmitted image. The latter is overcome in the embodiment of
In another embodiment the foil 31 (
The protective scope of the invention is not limited to the embodiments described. For instance, as mentioned, light from e.g. an (O)LED may be polarized or it may even be attractive to use other display effects to obtain the effect of a high contrast of displayed information with respect to reflected images in mirror applications.
More generally the embodiment of
Also more than one display can be integrated in the mirror, whereas many other applications areas can be thought of. In some applications, if a matrix form is used, with adequate driving circuitry the switching between mirror-state and display state can be done locally.
The invention resides in each and every novel characteristic feature and each and every combination of characteristic features. Reference numerals in the claims do not limit their protective scope. Use of the verb "to comprise" and its conjugations does not exclude the presence of elements other than those stated in the claims. Use of the article "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements.
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A quiet village was locked down as police hunted for a gun-toting robber.
Armed officers closed off streets, told schoolchildren to stay indoors and stormed homes in Hollingworth, Hyde, after the gunman robbed his victim and fled.
We can reveal today that a key suspect is 44-year-old William Hewitt, known as 'Billy', who lives in the Tameside village.
Police wearing body armour and gas masks and carrying machine guns dashed to the scene after a man robbed a resident at gunpoint in a house in the Market Street area.
The gunman had still not been found last night and was thought to be lying low.
It is understood officers are investigating whether a quantity of drugs was stolen during the robbery. Police said no shots were fired during the robbery.
They closed Market Street – the main road through the village – Spring Street, Water Street, Church Road and Taylor Street.
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Staff at Longdendale College were advised to keep pupils inside and parents were told to keep their children indoors as officers raided several homes.
Charlotte Redfearn, landlady of the New Inn, a pub inside the Market Street police cordon, said: "Police were just everywhere. I've never seen anything like it here before. There were about 10 police cars lined up and we saw the armed police come past. Once they closed the road the place was gridlocked.
"People were really shocked and disgusted something like this could happen here."
A statement on Longdendale College's website read: "Due to a police incident in Hollingworth village, the police have advised us that at the moment we should keep the students inside school at the end of the school day. They have assured us that we are in no danger and this is only a precaution."
The roads were reopened and children allowed out of school at around 4pm yesterday. Police had extra patrols in the area last night to reassure the community.
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan said: "Whenever we receive a report of a firearm we have to take all the appropriate steps to protect our communities from harm, which is why we took the step of closing a number of roads and asking children to remain in their schools.
"We have since lifted those restrictions and the message I want to send to those residents who are worried is that where possible they should continue to go about their daily business and we do not want people to be afraid to go out. High-visibility patrols will remain in the area and I want to assure people we will continue to work to find this man. The man we are looking for remains at large, so I would ask that people be vigilant, be aware of their surroundings and report any suspicious activity."
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Mårten Lange - Anomalies
It takes a special eye to be a really good photographer, and the ability to make a stunning photo out of something seemingly banal is an enviable talent. Mårten Lange has this touch and is showing a series of photographs entitled 'Anomalies' at
Galleri Flach-Thulin in Stockholm until 1 November and I urge you to see them close up. Mårten kindly took a few minutes out of his day to let us know what the series is all about
Hi Marten, nice show! Can you tell us what the photos are about?
'Anomalies' is about making something out of nothing. The camera changes what it observes. I want to take advantage of this effect to create an imagery that initially may seem banal but through banality reveals complexity.
It's a pity you can't see them next to each other on your site – is that one of the reasons you're having a show?
My favourite thing about photography is that it's so liquid. The photos can be seen on my website, in magazines, in my book, or on the wall. Different forms have different advantages. I like the exhibition form for its spacial qualities as well as its social function – visiting an exhibition with a friend means an opportunity for discussion. Looking in a photo book or at a website at home doesn't work the same way.
Do you have an image from the set that you're most proud of, or like the most?
I like the photo of the paper bird in the glass a lot.
Are you working on anything else at the moment?
I'm about to resume work on my Farewell Books project, and I'm in the early stages of a new photographic project.


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Story Barn Workshop
Every Thursday until Mar 1, 2013 at 6:00pm-8:00pm
39 Strickland Road, Greenwich, CT 06807
Members: $100; Nonmembers: $125
Standup comedienne Bonnie Levison will lead a storytelling workshop culminating in a Story Barn performance, entitled "Mixed Bag," at the Historical Society on February 1, 2013. Participants in the three-session workshop will learn to develop and craft their personal tales.
The first session will focus on the principles of storytelling and individual idea development; the second session will look at developing the arc of the story; the third will consist of fine tuning the story and developing its presentation. There will be an optional fourth session to prepare for the performance. Whether you want to become more relaxed speaking in front of a crowd, be the life of the party or aspire to follow in the footsteps of Jerry Seinfeld, this is a fun way to learn to spin a good yarn and hone your public speaking skills.
Workshop dates: Thursdays, January 10, 17, 24, and 31(optional), 2013. 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Workshop fee is $100 for members and $125 for nonmembers. Advance registration is required.
Story Barn performance, Mixed Bag: February 1, 2013
Admission to the Story Barn performance is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers.
Greenwich Historical Society Vanderbilt Education Center
39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob 06807
To sign up for the workshop or to reserve for the Story Barn performance visit www.greenwichhistory.org or call 203-869-6899, Ext. 10.


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I am guilty of pigging out again. I just could not resist fried chicken with Somi Tam. Som Tam is one of the specialties of Thai cuisine. It is so delicious it's hard to say "no" when it's right infront of you. Mouth-watering. That's the exact term, and I am not exaggerating!
I have really fallen in love with Thai food and I guess it's one thing that's hard to undo, especially when you are in Thailand! I am just wondering what's the secret of those skinny Thai girls? Like they eat a lot and they do not get to be fat. Hmm, life can be unfair sometimes, isn't it? LOL. I wonder if they are taking lipozene diet pill? Or is it me that needs it actually? Haha.. let's see.
I am trying my best not to eat so much nowadays, but when it comes to Som Tam with fried chicken, I just pig out. Guilty, I am!


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Academics - Major Program
Students may choose one of six basic patterns to satisfy the major requirement at Bowdoin: a departmental major, two departmental majors (a double major), a coordinate major, an interdisciplinary major, a student-designed major, or any of the preceding with a departmental minor. The requirements for completing specific majors and minors are presented in detail in the section describing the courses offered by each department. See the section on Interdisciplinary majors.
Students should have ample time to be exposed to a broad range of courses and experiences before focusing their educational interests and so do not declare their majors until the fourth semester of their college enrollment. Students are required to declare their majors before registering for courses for the junior year or applying to participate in junior- or senior-year off-campus study programs. Students declare their majors only after consultation with a major academic advisor(s). Since some departments have courses that must be passed or criteria that must be met before a student will be accepted as a major, students are encouraged to think well in advance about possible majors and to speak with faculty about their educational interests. Students may change their majors after consultation with the relevant departments, but they may not declare a new major after the first semester of the senior year. Special procedures exist for student-designed majors. These are described below.
Departmental and Program Majors
Departmental and program majors are offered in the following areas:
Africana Studies German
Anthropology Government and Legal Studies
Art History History
Asian Studies Latin American Studies
Biochemistry Mathematics
Biology Music
Chemistry Neuroscience
Classical Archaeology Philosophy
Classical Studies Physics
Classics Psychology
Computer Science Religion
Earth and Oceanographic Science Romance Languages
Economics Russian
English Sociology
French Spanish
Gender and Women's Studies Visual Arts
A student may choose to satisfy the requirements of one department or program (single major) or to satisfy all of the requirements set by two departments or programs (double major). A student who chooses a double major may drop one major at any time.
Coordinate Major
The coordinate major encourages specialization in an area of learning within the framework of a recognized academic discipline. The coordinate major is offered only in relation to the Environmental Studies Program. For a specific description of this major, see pages 143-144.
Interdisciplinary Major
Interdisciplinary majors are designed to tie together the offerings and major requirements of two separate departments by focusing on a theme that integrates the two areas. Such majors usually fulfill most or all of the requirements of two separate departments and usually entail a special project to achieve a synthesis of the disciplines involved.
Anticipating that many students will be interested in certain patterns of interdisciplinary studies, several departments have specified standard requirements for interdisciplinary majors. These are:
Art History and Archaeology
Art History and Visual Arts
Chemical Physics
Computer Science and Mathematics
English and Theater
Eurasian and East European Studies
Mathematics and Economics
Mathematics and Education
For complete descriptions of these interdisciplinary majors, see pages 220–224. A student may not select an interdisciplinary major after the junior year.
Student-Designed Major
Some students may wish to pursue a major program that does not fit the pattern of a departmental major, a coordinate major, or an interdisciplinary major. In such cases, a student may work with two faculty members to develop a major program that demonstrates significant strength in at least two departments. Such strength is to be shown in both the number and pattern of courses involved. A synthesizing project is required. Guidelines for the development of student-designed majors are available from the Office of the Registrar. Student-designed majors require the approval of the Curriculum Implementation Committee. Students must submit their proposals to the Curriculum Implementation Committee by December 1 of their sophomore year.
The Minor
Most departments and programs offer one or more minor programs consisting of no fewer than four courses and no more than seven courses, including all prerequisites. A minor program must be planned with and approved by both the student's major and minor departments no later than the end of the first semester of the senior year. A minor may be dropped at any time.
The following departments and programs offer a minor:
Africana Studies
Anthropology Gay and Lesbian Studies*
Art (Art History or Visual Arts) Gender and Women's Studies
Asian Studies (Asian Studies, Chinese, German
or Japanese) Government and Legal Studies
Biology History
Chemistry Latin American Studies
Cinema Studies* Mathematics
Classics (Archaeology, Classical Studies, Music
Classics, Greek, or Latin) Philosophy
Computer Science Physics
Dance* Psychology
Earth and Oceanographic Science Religion
Economics (Economics or Romance Languages
Economics and Finance) (French, Italian, or Spanish)
Education* (Education Studies Russian
or Teaching) Sociology
English Theater*
Environmental Studies
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Car thieves put brick through window as new mum feeds baby
Posted: February 27, 2013|
AN ALMIGHTY smash, the screech of tyres and a baby crying – the sounds heard by a petrified new mum as thieves drove off in the family car while she fed her nine-week-old daughter just metres away.
Brazen criminals paid no notice to the fact that Kirsty Glasson, 26, was in the next room – with the lights on – when they smashed the front door window with a brick, reached in to take the keys out of the keyhole and drove off in the family's Vauxhall Astra.
She had been feeding daughter Olivia – born just nine weeks ago – at 4.30am on Sunday at her home in Peterhouse Road, Grimsby, where she lives with fiance, lorry-driver Chris Westerman, 37 – who was asleep upstairs.
Kirsty said: "The brick could have killed Olivia if it had come through the front room window.
"I was absolutely petrified, totally numb with fear – I couldn't even speak."
Humberside Police are now investigating the incident and have warned residents to keep keys hidden – or the next address they target could be yours.
A spokesman said: "Keep your house and car keys somewhere safe and discrete or criminals may decide to take a chance."
Chris said he jumped out of bed immediately when he heard what he said sounded like a bomb going off downstairs – and his first thoughts were of his partner and daughter.
"You can't imagine what was going through my head when I heard that sound and realised they were downstairs," he said.
Mr Westerman ran to the landing shouting Kirsty's name and she just replied "the car, the car" – so he ran back to his room to get some clothes and shoes on as the floor was covered in broken glass.
By the time he was clothed and got to the door, he could hear the tyres screeching outside as the thieves drove off.
Since the incident, Kirsty has not felt safe in her home and will no longer tend to her daughter downstairs after dark – and the family has had to change the locks in case the criminals return to the house. Hardworking Chris feels he can no longer take jobs with overnight stop-offs – which are common in his line of work – while his fiancee and daughter are at the house.
The couple came forward with their story to warn others to keep keys hidden and to ask the public to look out for their daughter's buggy frame, which was in the car.
It was a silver Bebetto frame with a black bag in the bottom containing a raincover. It has black wheels, which are bigger at the back.
Chris said: "We have been leaving our keys in the door for years and never thought it would be a problem – but we won't be doing it any more.
"The car was insured and can be replaced but it had Olivia's buggy in it – it cost about £600 and we've bought all the parts."
Information to Humberside Police on 101, quoting log number 147 of February 24, 2013.


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If you have a degree you should get a refund on your tution you certainly have poor grammar and violent tendicies plus your living in the past not now.Oh and your an IDIOT!!!!
Just means his butt stays in jail and is tried again in a few months.More time to disprove any "gunshots" and also get a more sane jury.
If what you say is true than why is Edwin Edwards in jail and Dollar Bill still on the loose
The link you posted is a Malcom-x speech from 40-50 years ago.Like most AA's who claim racism you feel some sort of entitlement or your owed based on the PAST not what is current or now.All of us are born naked and crying after that its our choices that get us where we are now."Uncle Tom" is a phrase out of the civil war/slavery era its been over for almost 150 yrs.Dude move on get a life in the here and now THE PRESENT!!!!
Also to all REMEMBER - Respect is like a paycheck no one gives it to you ,you earn IT!!!
You are an absolute expert on idiots.Your quote"Her and Cao along with Jefferson are the two dunbest looking people in New Orleans" give back your GED you cant count to three,and your REALLY are a racist IDIOT!!!!!!!
If you bring a gun to the ice cream shop its pretty clear your not planning to buy milkshakes!!!!!
Frist - Newlnormand it is far better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove any doubt.
Second - Even being stabbed in the stomach the same place you were shot wouldnt change the wounds on the exit in the back not to mention GSR at the point of impact as they were struggling for the gun so thats point blank range.I am no ballistics expert but I think being shot that close with a .38 would do some major internal damage and the exit wound would also leave some major wounds and most likely be fatal.
Nothanks on the cell #,I likely can not afford your services.But Mr. Wells from another story says he charges only 200.00 for a Monicia Lewensky.
His skin color doesn't matter,his M.O. does and he needs to be caught.Some females dont report rape for many reasons ,dont want a boyfriend or husband to know,do want others to know, dont want all the red tape privacy invaision with an investigation.Some think about it and change thier mind latter and report it,thus some time elapses before a report.
Its sugar with an a. I hope this was a mock and your really not that stupid or you would have to pay for all your "suger" cause aint no babymama want a dumbass.
Dont think we'll hear from the "ministers" on this one,they maybe clinets of Mr. Wells thus conflict of intrest.
The death penalty is to final for this guy.I hope he gets a fate worse than death waking up everyday for the rest of his life wishing he was dead.Giving sexaul "favors" to Leroy and Big Bubba till he's a 100.
You guys only see his skin color not the whole story.He pleaded to a misdemeanor that involved consent from a gril between 13 & 16 not rape.READ THE WHOLE STORY not just his race.If you judge someone based on his or hers race YOU!!! are a racist.
Yes what is good for the Mayor is good for the council,EXCEPT the mayor hasn't produced any info.No E-mails and a blank calander.No information yet we have three years on the council.Not only is C Ray inept but also a LIAR!!!!
Also I never lied om app. told them the truth and gave them my insurance company info. and phone # and they did verify what they sent.
I had insurance and thr road home sent me 69,000 . I put it in my house and used the rest to pay it off.Now its fixed and paid off thank GOD.
The devil is red not white.Crime in our city is mostly black not red or white.Own up, quit blamming other people.Black people are born naked and crying just like white people after that its choices we make that take us where we are.The way our life turns out is no ones fault but our own.OWN UP!!!!!!!
If one promotes the actions of a liar or crook than that one becomes a liar or crook.To circumvent proper procedure to obtain information is in fact criminal.Should those E-mails contain private info on you or your family members you might feel otherwise.Suppose you filed a complaint about people next door or a suspected drug dealer around your house and that info came out,because proper channels were not followed.Yours or someone elses life could be in danger.Dont stand up for wrong doing or racism or else you become it.
Where are the ministers? Why are they not asking why only one race was singled out? Do they not care about ALL of God's children,or only the darker ones?Where is Rev. Al or Rev. Jessie asking why members of one race are being "victimized" by members of another race.Racism goes both ways in order to fix it you must acknowledge it exists.Which month is white history month?


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I assumed the changes would be minor, like more dust coming from every disenchantment, but the MMO-Champion forums has compiled a list that surprises me quite a bit. It actually is a pretty sweeping change, reducing the material costs of a whole load of enchantments. Dust isn't the only thing targeted, they use less materials across the board.
In some cases, the material costs are halved, or more than halved. It's definitely not a small little change to Enchanting, waiting until the patch to enchant your gear will save you hundreds of gold. If you want to play it safe or are just curious, MMO-Champion has the full list for your perusal.


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Irving K. Zola Center for Persons with Disabilities at Brigham House
The Irving K. Zola Center for Persons with Disabilities at Brigham House is a drop-in community center for persons with disabilities. The center is named for Irving Kenneth Zola, a resident of Newton, MA, who was an internationally known sociologist and advocate who specialized in disability studies and medical sociology.
This center provides a welcoming environment for persons with disabilities to
- congregate
- socialize
- interact
- participate in the community
The facilities include:
- five computers with Internet access
- large screen TV, DVD and CD players
- pool table
- sewing machines
- a meeting room
The center is located in the Brigham Community House, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation, located at 20 Hartford Street, Newton Highlands, MA 02461. Space is available for rental to various groups throughout the week. The building is accessible and conveniently located on the Riverside D Newton Highlands stop.


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"not even knowing what it is that they are seeking. . ."
People come in to Unitarian Universalism for many reasons, and sometimes for nothing more than basic human companionship. What one person finds within our communities may be completely different than another, and our reasons for staying are just as varied.
The Rev. Suzanne Meyer, who serves the First Unitarian Church of St. Louis, Missouri, shares wisdom from an unexpected source in this sermon from 2003:
We Are All About Saving Souls
by the Rev. Suzanne Meyer
They say confession is good for the soul, and since I am talking about souls this morning, I'll make a confession. Those cheap, paperback murder mystery novels are my guilty pleasure. I buy and read tons of them and know the names of all the authors. So one day when I was prowling around Border's bookstore in the religion section, scanning the shelves in search of sermon fodder, I noticed a new book by a familiar author, a woman who calls herself Nevada Barr. She is the author of one series of those paperback mysteries to which I am addicted. What was that book doing over here in the religion section? I just assumed that another customer who shares my book browsing and buying habits had picked the book up in the mystery section, had walked over to peruse the religion section, and had absent-mindedly set the book down and forgotten it. So I picked up what I thought was another one of those murder mysteries with the intention of glancing at it and either buying it or returning it to its proper shelf.
The title of the book was Seeking Enlightenment . . . Hat by Hat. Odd title for a mystery, I thought. I turned to the table of contents, and much to my surprise, I discovered it had not been misshelved, after all. In fact, it is a book about the author's search for spirituality. Oh, dear, I thought, not another one of those "I've found it" books. A mystery writer finds God, gets saved, turns her life around, becomes an evangelist . . . Nevada Barr, you disappointment me!
I'll make another confession while I am in a confessing mood: those "I've seen the light and found 'The Way' books" bore me to tears. Okay, so I am cynical. Okay, so I am skeptical. I'm a bit jaded and a tad weary of those "I was lost and now I'm saved and now you can be saved too in ten quick and easy steps" titles. In fact, the fastest way to send me running in the opposite direction is to tell me that you have found the secret of the ages, the key to enlightenment, a shortcut to happiness, success, health, wealth and self-esteem, and that you are just dying to share it with me. There is just something about zealots and true believers that puts me off in a big way. And, if there is one thing I don't believe in, it is the overnight conversion, the quick fix, and the one true way. Authentic spirituality is a discipline that takes hard work, and time, plus a large measure of humility. There are no quick fixes to be had.
So, book in hand, as I walked over to the cash register I decided I would just discreetly slip the little volume onto the bargain book table. I would let someone else have the pleasure of reading about how Ms. Barr got saved, or got enlightened, or got sober, in however many quick and easy steps. But then, on impulse, I flipped through the book once more, and something caught my attention. I quickly deduced that Nevada Barr is so cynical, skeptical, jaded and put off by organized religion that she makes me look, by contrast, like Little Mary Sunshine. Well now, here's something different.
I did buy and read Nevada Barr's book Seeking Enlightenment . . . Hat by Hat: A Skeptic's Path to Religion (Berkley Books, 2003). While her book is not likely to make it to the New York Times Bestseller List, it served to remind me of something that I am always in danger of forgetting: why churches like this one exist. What are we doing here? What is our business? The answer is simple: we are in the business of saving souls. You heard me right: what we are about is saving souls.
Those of us who have had any brush with evangelical religion in our lives are apt to have an instantaneous negative reaction to that assertion. Soul-saving? Our business? No way! Not us!
I don't blame you, because, as one who has had a brush or two with evangelical religion, I likewise automatically flinch when I hear that phrase. And, make no mistake about it, I make no claim that we are in the business of rescuing men and women from some afterlife spent in a literal place of torment called hell. I don't believe in such a literal place of torment, populated for all eternity by devils, demons, and the tortured souls of the dead. In fact, I don't make any claim to know what happens to us after the death of the body, or whether there is or is not something beyond this life.
But I do know that there are many kinds of private hells in which living men and women dwell every day. These are small personal hells of meaninglessness, banality, and loneliness. Hells of shame, hells of guilt, hells of loss, hells of failure. There are as many kinds of these small hells as there are people who live in them. And from some of those hells, we, as a church, can and do provide a kind of salvation, a release, or, at the very least, a respite. We are in the business of saving souls from those kinds of small, individual hells of despair and disappointment that drive people into exile and isolation, separated from community as well as from their own essential goodness.
I'll try to explain what I mean by sharing a few portions of Nevada Barr's story. Following the breakup of her marriage she moved from the West, where she had grown up, to Mississippi, where she immediately experienced a kind of culture shock:
In Mississippi, where I now live, people still talk about God in everyday conversation. One of the getting-to-know-you questions asked at picnics and bar-b-ques is: 'What church do you go to?'
People not only talk about God, they talk to him. And then they tell you about it. When I moved here, I was a godless heathen and proud of it. My upbringing provided no education on how to interact with the divine. My family attended no churches, read no spiritual books and, by unspoken decree, the discussion of sex, religion and politics was banned at our dinner table. Biblical terms were used exclusively for swearing. My parents not only did not go to church, they were pointedly antichurch. When the subject came up, Dad would say, 'Why go to into a dark, airless building with a bunch of hypocrites on a beautiful Sunday morning, when you could be outside in God's country?'
When Mississippians first started Jesusing and Godding right in front of me—and in broad daylight—I was most uncomfortable. It's worse in the South. Not only do people talk to God on a regular basis, but also God talks to them. When I arrived [down there], I'd managed to screw up everything around me. My marriage had gone down in flames. I was clinically depressed, haunted by nightmares, broke, and at forty-one, embarking on my third career. In my post-divorce months, between drinking too much and playing with sharp objects, I had a brief go at God. Cursing him, screaming at Him, begging—the usual one-sided conversations of the very nearly terminally selfish person—but that was as far as my connection with a higher power had evolved. (Seeking Enlightenment, 2003, adapted)
Well, that's Nevada Barr's story. She was living in her own personal hell of loneliness, depression, failure, frustration, and uncertainty. Having been brought up to believe that religion was strictly for the simple-minded and weak-willed, seeking comfort in a church was not an option that she was willing to consider. And she experienced her Mississippi neighbor's chatty familiarity with God and Jesus as just plain silly and embarrassing.
Nevada Barr was lonely, unemployed and bored out of her skull when she went out to take a walk one night. She stopped in front of a small, unremarkable-looking church located near her apartment. There were lights on inside. Curious, she tried the door; it was unlocked; she peeked in. A small group of women who were meeting there in the sanctuary saw her and invited her to come in. "It was just as churchy as hell," she writes. "I felt self-conscious, superior, intrusive, unwanted and out of place." But she did accept their invitation to step inside and even stayed for a while. The next Sunday, she got up in time to get dressed and go to church. "I had not seen the light," she says.
I had not been saved. I had no job, no friends. Church was just something to do, a reason to get dressed. I didn't come to worship. I came because I was lonely, frightened and desperately unhappy. I was invited to Wednesday Bible Study class. There was a free meal and people to eat it with. I began to go. I felt like a fake and a fraud, as if someone might leap up at any moment and denounce me as an unbeliever. But I was warm, fed, and with people. For that, I was grateful enough to hold my tongue and act civil.
Every Wednesday and Sunday I went. I listened and ate spaghetti off paper plates and wondered what I was doing there. The church seemed as good a place as any not to be alone till my life took a turn for the better. Had the Elks been meeting on the block that night and accidentally left the door ajar, I expect my life would have taken a very different direction. (Seeking Enlightenment, 2003, adapted)
What Ms. Barr found in church was not instant enlightenment or answers to all her problems. She was not born again; she did not see the light, or become convicted by her sins. She did not immediately turn her life over to her higher power. She did not surrender her doubts, or her skepticism, or discover ten easy steps for health, wealth and happiness. On Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights she just kept going back to church, not because of the preaching, not because of the ideas, or the doctrines, or the beliefs, or the hymns, or the Bible lessons. Not because she felt guilty if she missed a Sunday, not even because she found God in church. She chose that particular church for no other reason than it was close to her apartment. And on that winter night when she happened to walk by, the door was unlocked; and when she opened it, someone invited her to come in. Nevada Barr's story of how she started going to church for the first time in her life is pretty mundane. Why, then, do I bother telling it?
I tell Nevada Barr's story because her story reminds me of why I am here, of why this church exists. We can get so caught up in the details of maintaining a building, raising money, doing service projects, balancing budgets, teaching children, making sandwiches, recruiting volunteers, forming committees, solving problems, endlessly meeting and debating and discussing issues, that we can easily start to imagine that any one of these things is the main thing that we are all about as a church. We can get filled up with a sense of our own self-importance. We can get distracted by these things for a while and forget that we are in the business of saving souls. There are many people who come through our doors every Sunday who are not here because they are looking for Unitarianism, who are not here because they are looking for another place to give their time or their money, who are not here because they are in the process of rejecting any other brand of religion. They are here because they feel lost, lonely and hurting inside, even though they may appear to all the world to be just fine and dandy otherwise. They have no particular interest in God, or religion—our brand or any other brand of religion, for that matter. They just know that they've already tried everything else: alcoholism, workaholism, drugs, therapy, self-help books, self-help groups. There's nothing left for them to try and besides that, we don't charge admission—even the coffee is free.
People come in here every week, not even knowing what it is that they are seeking. You don't even have to know what it is you are looking for to feel the need to set off in search of something, something more to life. It is not the fear of dying that compels people to go looking for something more in their lives: it is the fear that they may not really be fully alive. You can have everything you want and need, and yet find little meaning in life. You need salvation.
Oh, that word "salvation." If that word makes us flinch, it is because we've allowed other people to steal the original meaning away from us. We have forgotten what salvation originally meant. "Salvation is really a state of wholeness, of health. It occurs in this lifetime when we are at peace with ourselves, united with one another, and in harmony with nature" (F. Forrester Church).
According to poet Kathleen Norris:
The Hebrew word for salvation means literally 'to make wide or to make sufficient' . . . The Oxford Companion to the Bible [says] that 'the primary meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words translated 'salvation' is non-religious.' The Hebrew words usually come from a military context, and refer to victory over evil or rescue from danger in this life. And in the gospels it is often physical healing that people seek from Jesus, relief from blindness, paralysis, leprosy. When he says to them that their faith has saved them, it is the Greek word for 'made you well' that is employed. It seems right to me that in so many instances in both the Hebrew scriptures and the gospels, salvation is described in physical terms. In terms of the here and now. (Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Riverhead Books, 1998)
Our kind of spiritual salvation, the kind of soul-saving which concerns us, is not about providing a free ticket to paradise. Heaven and hell are not places: they are ways of being, ways of feeling, ways of orienting one's soul or psyche in the world. The Hebrew word for soul is "nephesh"—which is also the word for pulse, the lifeblood, the feeling of being fully, vibrantly alive, pulsating with life. Feeling joy, feeling pain, just feeling. You might call soul the quality of one's inner life or spirit. It is the center of the self, that internal wellspring from which the meaning of our life flows. When that wellspring has dried up, when our lives have no joy, no hope, no reason for being, that is a kind of hell indeed.
I believe two things passionately. First, the soul is not a spirit or ghost or ephemeral thing. Whatever it is, pulse or psyche, it is what makes us fully alive, fully animated, and fully human. And, second, salvation is not about life after death, but about life itself, full throttle, in all of its joy and agony. There is much in the world that has the potential to deaden us, to anesthetize our spirits; so many things can make us feel emotionally and spiritually dead, dull, and brittle. Too many things can create for each one of us a private, personal hell. And the thing about those personal hells is that they are very small, tiny, really only big enough for one person. And when we dwell all by ourselves in our own private little hells, our concerns, our sympathies, our awareness of the needs of others are squeezed out, until all that matters is the self. There is no room in these small hells for anyone else, or for any concerns other than selfish ones. If the Hebrew word for salvation means to make wide or make sufficient, then it is our role as a church to help widen and deepen the lives of those who live for themselves alone.
I return to Nevada Barr's story:
Salvation? Salvation from what? . . . Since none of us knows anybody who was permanently saved from death, and anything that happens after that is pure speculation—or faith, if you like—maybe there is a more practical application of the concept of earthly salvation. Maybe the teachings of the prophets were given to save us from never having lived, from the little deaths that creep in and rob us of joy and strength and, in the end, cause us to pass our time here in a nightmare, asleep at the wheel, frittering away our precious moments of life.
When I joined a church, I never expected to be 'saved.' I was painfully aware that I needed saving, but from what I wasn't sure. From despair, I expect . . . Because I had nothing better to do and no other pathways happened to be open to me at the time, I learned to share, to be in community, to have faith—if not in [G]od, at least in some of his people, some of the time. I learned to have faith in myself. I learned gratitude, forgiveness, sacrifice, turning the other cheek—those annoying things much touted by grandmothers and nuns.
And I'll be damned if I wasn't eventually saved. Saved in the sense that I began to live my life instead of scripting it, trying to manipulate it, rewrite it, drown it, sleep through it, or abandon it altogether by attempting to live someone else's life for them . . . Even when our lives are at their most fractured, our days pushed through a tangle of fears so thick that we can scarcely draw breath, most of us know with some tiny part of our hearts that there is something else. (Seeking Enlightenment, 2003)
What in fact saved Ms. Barr's soul? Was it divine intervention? Was it something her minister said? Was it some brilliant insight from the pulpit? Was it all those Wednesday night Bible classes? Was it some kind of theology or philosophy of life that saved her? Was it something she read in a book? Was it a technique, or a trick, or a therapy? No. And here is what for me is the punch line of Nevada Barr's story, of her unlikely spiritual search. It wasn't the preaching or the theology that changed her life. It wasn't her minister. It wasn't religion. Or Bible verses. Or counseling. It was the congregation itself, an ordinary kind of place, full of ordinary people.
It is easy for me to forget that in this business of soul-saving, it is you, the congregation, that makes all the difference, not me. What saves us in the end might be called the extraordinary power and grace of ordinary people. That is love from heaven to earth come down. The holy incarnate, made flesh in the form of men and women, old and young, caring and cantankerous, imperfect, easily wounded, full of all the faults and gifts that this poor flesh is heir to. There's a miracle for you. We are saved, at last, by the love and the fellowship of people no better or worse off than we are. What liberates us from those tiny hells in which we dwell all alone is as common as a handshake, as ordinary as hearing your name spoken by another, as simple as being asked to help serve coffee.
As Nevada Barr concludes:
So I went to church. I hid among the people. I donated to the craft fairs, gave to the rummage sale, met with the women's group the first and third Wednesday of every month . . . Now after six years of faithful attendance I have finally come to know the answer to my father's question: Why go into a dark, airless building with a bunch of hypocrites on a beautiful Sunday morning, when you could be outside in God's country? Because God made us hypocrites, too . . . The mountain is for finding God in the wilderness. Church is for finding God in community: with others, through others, in spite of others. Only by finding this place of human interaction focused around the need for the spiritual was I able to recognize God in other people and so, in myself. Without community, how would I learn to share? Who would I help? How would I learn to accept help? And could I know how if I wasn't taught? To what, would I, a human being, belong to if not to a group of human beings?
With the exception of the very strong and the very neurotic, most of us feel the need to belong, to be in community. Community is God rubbing elbows and passing the tuna casserole, a place we can snuggle down with the divine.
Though I'd never have suspected it when I began this spiritual journey, God is not separate from people. Sure we are hypocrites, liars, boasters, blasphemers and cheats, but we are God's [own] hypocrites, liars, boasters, blasphemers and cheats. The spark is in each of us. When we work together . . . in the belief that we will touch God, sing together in the hope [God] hears our praises, the spark is fanned and God becomes as visible in us as He is in new snow or mornings on a mountain lake. (Seeking Enlightenment, 2003).
Source: "We Are All About Saving Souls" by the Rev. Suzanne Meyer, serving the First Unitarian Church of St. Louis, Missouri, preached September 28, 2003.Tags: comfort, community, connection, hope, lessons, salvation, Suzanne Meyer


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Dana just dropped an unbelievable story how they were thiiis close to coming to terms with Fedor on a deal to fight Brock at Cowboy Stadium
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This article mentions, like so many others I've seen, that Vettel "closed the door on Senna" leading to the 1st lap crash. This just is not the truth! Senna went down the inside and passed no less than four cars before ramming into Seb's Red Bull.
Because of the line he took his car was not decelerating into the turn. Thus, he used the side of Vettel's car as a brake.
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