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The following is an email from a Grower in Queensland who would like to share their comments:
This may help you when posed with some questions from the Public:
At markets and displays I often find that I am faced by members of the public who state categorically that one cannot cook with olive oil as it breaks down at a low temperature and produces toxic by-products. I imagine that many of you are also faced with the same comments.
The smoke point of any oil is a clear indication of the temperature at which the oil starts to break down. The actual smoke point of EVOO varies widely dependant upon the document one reads but a good average point is 210'C. The following smoke points may be of interest:
Unrefined peanut oil 160'C
Butter 175'C
Macadamia oil 200'C
Refined peanut oil 230'C
Extra Light Olive Oil 240'C
Safflower oil 265'C
Avocado oil 270'C
When an oil, of any type, breaks down having reached its smoke point the by-products are cyclic benzene compounds, these are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). I have discussed this in correspondence with Rod Mailer. Turning to Wikipedia, PAHs have a bad name as being carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic, however, there appears to be different levels of their toxicity but nevertheless we don't want to get involved in their production! Once olive oil, like all oils, reaches its smoke point then there is the probability that toxic compounds will be produced.
When frying the best results occur when the food is placed into the hot oil and the natural sugars caramelize and proteins denature into a thin shell which protects the food from soaking up the oil. The outside is crisp and the interior is just cooked. Turning to the cooking pages on the internet and following up on the temperatures likely to be reached in normal cooking I find that deep frying of chips is carried out with the oil at about 190'C – well below the smoke point of EVOO. BBQ temperatures over an open fire are also well below that but BBQs Galore indicate that with the gas fired BBQs the temperatures could be much higher, up to 280'C. It seems that using a wok is another of the most dangerous means of cooking with normal temperatures around 280'C and I have seen many different oils go past their smoke point when used in a wok.
I have found a research paper on the internet published in the Journal of the National (USA) Cancer Institute which suggests the high incidence of lung cancer in Chinese women may be connected with using high temperature woks whilst cooking in enclosed spaces.
I guess that when faced with comments such as I have mentioned we can agree that for all normal household cooking purposes EVOO poses no health threat but if one wants to cook on a gas BBQ or use a wok then all lipids are in the danger zone and none should be used in enclosed spaces as the highest quoted smoke point which I have found is 270'C for avocado oil. This also means that the fats in a normal steak will have broken down to produce PAHs! I have heard it said that some of the fast food chains offering char grilled steaks have been taken to task for just this reason.
EVOO is more stable than many of the other oils because it is high in mono-unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants whilst being low in the unstable polyunsaturates and the lower the level of FFA the higher the smoke point.


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There's an old adage that says, "A quitter never wins!" Dr. David Tornberg, deputy assistant secretary of defense for clinical and program policy, says, "For smokers and smokeless tobacco users, the real winners are those who make the often difficult and life-altering commitment to quit." As a critical quality of life issue, the Department of Defense encourages all who smoke or use smokeless tobacco products to take the first step to a healthier life by participating in the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 20, 2003.
In the United States, smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and disease. An estimated 425,000 people die every year from smoking- and tobacco-related illnesses. These illnesses cost more than $50 billion annually to treat. Time lost from work or disability adds an additional $47 billon in indirect costs for the nation. For active duty members, smoking and tobacco use hurts military readiness. Eliminating cigarettes and other harmful tobacco products keeps people at their personal best and fit to fight.
The Great American Smokeout is a nationally recognized event to raise personal awareness regarding the hazards of smoking and tobacco use. It offers participants support and educational tools to live a healthier and tobacco-free life by successfully kicking the life-altering habit. Since 1964, reviews by the U.S. Surgeon General have highlighted numerous research findings proving that smoking is highly connected to cancer of the mouth, voice box (larynx), bladder, kidney, pancreas, lungs as well as other heart and respiratory illnesses. Unfortunately, many people, especially teenagers, believe smokeless tobacco is a safe alternative to smoking. Smokeless tobacco has been clearly linked to cancer of the mouth and pharynx, leukoplakia (white sores in the mouth that can lead to cancer), gum recession (peeling back of gums), bone loss around the teeth, abrasion of teeth and bad breath.
Smoking is not only harmful for the people who smoke, but is harmful to non-smokers from exposure to second-hand smoke exhaled from a smoker or from a burning cigarette. For women and children there are unique risks. A pregnant woman who smokes or is exposed to second-hand smoke is more likely to have a miscarriage or a low birth-weight baby. Second-hand smoke also has been linked to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Babies and children raised in homes where smoking occurs are likely to have more ear infections, colds and suffer from bronchitis and other respiratory problems.
The good news is it's never too late to quit. Within 24-hours of quitting, your body begins a series of healthful changes. Regardless of age, people who quit can live longer and healthier lives. But quitting isn't easy. The absence of nicotine in the body may temporarily cause depression, anger, irritability or other withdrawal symptoms. The decision to quit requires determination and a life-long commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
The Great American Smokeout is a great time to quit -- if even for just one day. According to Tornberg, "The Military Health System encourages and supports everyone to make a personal commitment to a healthier and tobacco-free life." Tobacco cessation and other behavioral support programs are available at many military treatment facilities and in local communities. If military healthcare beneficiaries use tobacco, they can talk to their military or civilian primary care provider to learn more about its harmful effects, and the cessation and treatment programs available to help them kick tobacco to improve their health and those around them. For all who quit, the rewards will bring a lifetime of better health.
Additional smoking cessation information is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco. Information on the Great American Smokeout and other tobacco cessation and treatment programs can be found on the American Cancer Society Web site at: http://www.cancer.org/.

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When the workers knew their place [1]
Crisp and chilling interviews with 1930s British fascists
Crisp and chilling interviews with 1930s British fascists
by Rachel Cooke [2] Published
In the interests of modernity, I was going to write this week about 4Radio. This is Channel 4's online radio station, and its bosses have high hopes for it - ridiculously high, if you ask me. On the one hand, they believe it will attract precious young listeners. On the other hand, they hope it will, in the long run, go after some of radio's sacred cows, such as Radio 4's Today. Channel 4's head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, thinks Today's world-view is that of a "middle-aged man from Bournemouth with a strong interest in birdwatching, whose wife wears cashmere twinsets and is active in the bowling club". She is planning a young (and non-birdwatching) pretender.
I logged on to 4Radio, only to log off, 20 minutes or so later, tomato-red with frustration. The station doesn't yet have a wavelength, so, to listen, you have to download the shows. Download a podcast of an hour-long radio programme from the iTunes Music Store, and it will take you less than a minute; download a half-hour show from 4Radio, and you'll be sitting at your computer for at least ten minutes. At the end of all this, I was able to hear something called Big Brother Round-Up, which was just lots of shouting punctuated by the Geordie whose voice we know from the telly. Gaaargh! Life is just too short, don't you think?
So I listened instead to Archive Hour - Potteries Fascists (24 June, 8pm, Radio 4). I've said before that Archive Hour is among the very best shows Radio 4 has to offer, but this was spellbinding. Its subject was the rise and fall of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts in Stoke and its surrounding towns. In the 1930s, Mosley was the most celebrated Staffordshire man since Josiah Wedgwood - "he was the goods", as one local man put it. This, combined with the terrible unemployment in the area, helped his New Party to achieve a singular popularity in the Potteries; only in London did it do better.
It was fascinating to be reminded, via old BBC interviews, of how deferential the working man once was to the toff politician. David Cameron works hard to play down his Old Etonian background but, back in the day, voters required their leaders to be posh. Norman, a former Blackshirt who recalled how, during the Depression, his family of three had survived on a single egg at tea, spoke admiringly of Mosley's "straight back", and used the expression "ruling class" as a statement of fact rather than a justification for class war. The programme reinforced the notion that the roots of extremism lie in poverty and desperation; all these men needed to set them on the road to fascism was someone canny enough to exploit their misery.
But the main reason why the programme made for required listening was that it contained an interview recorded with Mosley in 1975, when he was almost 80 - one never before broadcast on national radio. This was amazing. Although it was horrifying listening to him slickly deny all the charges of anti-Semitism (a weasel denial that was later demolished by Bernard Levin), there was no denying his cleverness as a speaker, and you got a keen sense of his charisma and (periodic) charm. Most astonishingly of all, he sounded exactly like a rabble-rousing MP of today (I'd better not say who). Deference may be long gone, but the cadences of the small-town demagogue remain irresistibly the same.
Pick of the week
Looking for Middle England
Saturdays, 10.30am, Radio 4
Ian Hislop tries to find out if such a place exists. Outside the pages of the Daily Mail, that is.
Opera on 3
1 July, 6.55pm, Radio 3
A rare treat – Tosca, live from the Royal Opera House, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel.
Don't miss . . .
Angus McBean: portraits
McBean, one of Britain's most influential photographers, was a fully paid-up bohemian. At 25, he grew a lavish beard symbolising, he said, both his commitment to his art and "the fact that I no longer wish to be a wage earner". Despite this ambition, he worked steadily for the next 40 years, photographing everyone from Audrey Hepburn to the Beatles and "Spike Milligan's head in a glass jar". Among the highlights are his surreal "self-portrait" Christmas cards, featuring a range of increasingly bizarre props.
"Angus McBean: portraits" is at the National Portrait Gallery, London WC2, until 22 October (020 7306 0055; www.npg.org.uk [3])


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Mount Vernon Nazarene University
Withdrawal from the University may affect the student's eligibility for future financial aid. Once a student has completed the withdrawal process the portion of student charges eligible to be refunded is based on a ratio of the number of days remaining in the term to the total number of days in the term. The withdrawal date is considered to be the earliest of [1] the last day of class attendance, [2] the last day of documented academically-related activity, or [3] the date the student began the withdrawal process. A pro-rated refund is made if the student has not attended class beyond the 60% point of the term. After that, no refund is made.
The refund policy applies to tuition. Course fees are only refundable through the first ten business days of the semester for fall and spring and through the third business day for the January term. Any course expenses already expended are not included in the refund. Health insurance remains in effect through the end of the semester in which the withdrawal takes place.
Housing deposits, housing refunds, and meal plan refunds will be handled as follows:
Return of Title IV Funds
If a student receives financial aid funds from any aid program and subsequently withdraws from the University before 60% of the term has elapsed, then a percentage of those funds must be returned to the appropriate federal, state, and/or institutional program(s). The portion returned is a ratio of the number of days remaining in the term to the total number of days in the term. The student who remains enrolled and attends class through the 60% point in the term is eligible to retain 100% of federal grant and loan funds. The return of state and university funds follows a similar schedule.
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PIRSA:08090035 ( Flash Presentation , Windows Presentation , Windows Video File , MP3 , PDF) Which Format?
Science as an ethical community
Speaker(s): Lee Smolin
Abstract: I develop the idea that science works because scientists form communities defined by a set of ethical principles which, even if imperfectly applied, tend to lead to progress in our understanding of nature. While these communities have long been international, the combination of the internet with cheap airfare and easy migration of educated people makes scientists into 'global souls', in Pico Iyer's phrase. This opens up new opportunities and also new challenges for the thriving of scientific communities.
Date: 10/09/2008 - 3:30 pm
Collection: Science in the 21st Century - 2008
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Lindsay Lohan Says Her Brakes Failed in Car Crash
What's the real story on the car crash Lindsay Lohan was involved in on Friday? The details are getting increasingly murky, as new reports have Lindsay claiming that the brakes on her rented Porsche failed, causing Friday's accident.
TMZ reports that while Lindsay's first explanation for the incident was that the 18-wheeler truck that her car hit cut her off, forcing her to slam into the back of the truck, but now she's telling friends that she slammed on the brakes but they didn't stop the car in time. Worse still? Lindsay says that she was told that the car's brakes had been replaced two days earlier.
But despite the back-and-forth over the cause of the incident, Lindsay says that she "feels lucky to be alive." After all these mishaps? We agree — she is lucky to be alive!
Source: TMZ
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Aliases for MAS1 Gene
Aliases for MAS1 Gene
External Ids for MAS1 Gene
- Entrez Gene: 4142
- Ensembl: ENSG00000130368
- UniProtKB: P04201
Summaries for MAS1 Gene
This gene encodes a class I seven-transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptor. The encoded protein is a receptor for angiotensin-(1-7) and preferentially couples to the Gq protein, activating the phospholipase C signaling pathway. The encoded protein may play a role in multiple processes including hypotension, smooth muscle relaxation and cardioprotection by mediating the effects of angiotensin-(1-7). [provided by RefSeq, May 2012]
GeneCards Summary for MAS1 Gene
MAS1 (MAS1 Proto-Oncogene, G Protein-Coupled Receptor) is a Protein Coding gene. Among its related pathways are Peptide ligand-binding receptors and Peptide ligand-binding receptors. GO annotations related to this gene include G-protein coupled receptor activity and peptide hormone binding. An important paralog of this gene is MRGPRX4.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for MAS1 Gene
Receptor for angiotensin 1-7 (By similarity). Acts specifically as a functional antagonist of AGTR1 (angiotensin-2 type 1 receptor), although it up-regulates AGTR1 receptor levels. Positive regulation of AGTR1 levels occurs through activation of the G-proteins GNA11 and GNAQ, and stimulation of the protein kinase C signaling cascade. The antagonist effect on AGTR1 function is probably due to AGTR1 being physically altered by MAS1.


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Section 49 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. §948a, provides that it shall be unlawful for an employer or its agent to discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee who has either claimed or attempted to claim compensation under the Act from the employer, or who has testified or is about to testify in a proceeding under the Act. If it is demonstrated that the employer did in fact discriminate against the employee on this basis, the employer shall be liable for a penalty payable to the Special Fund. The 1984 amended version of Section 49 increases the penalty for a violation to a sum not less than $1,000 and not greater than $5,000. The 1984 amended version also states that the section does not apply to the discharge or refusal to employ a person who has been adjudicated to have filed a fraudulent claim. The amended Section 49 was effective on the date of enactment of the Act, September 28, 1984.
The statute further provides that any employee so discriminated against must be given his job back and compensated for lost wages, provided that he remains qualified to perform his job duties. It also states that the employer, and not its carrier, is liable for penalties and payments under this section, and any provision in an insurance policy which would relieve the employer from such liability is void.
The regulations accompanying Section 49 are at 20 C.F.R. §§702.271-274. It contains provisions mirroring those in the statute and specifically provides for informal proceedings before the district director followed by formal proceedings before an administrative law judge where the parties are unable to agree. In this regard, Section 702.273 states that the OALJ is responsible for determinations on all disputed issues connected with a discrimination complaint, including the amount of penalty to be assessed.
Thus, notwithstanding the statutory reference to the deputy commissioner's determination of the amount of the penalty, the Board has held that administrative law judges have authority to assess the statutory penalty against a discriminatory employer. Monta v. Navy Exchange Service Command, 39 BRBS 104 (2005); Winburn v. Jeffboat, Inc., 9 BRBS 363 (1978) (Miller, dissenting). See 20 C.F.R. §702.273. See also Curling v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 8 BRBS 770 (1978). Regarding the provision that the employer must reinstate the employee and compensate him for any wages lost due to this discrimination, if the employee is qualified to perform the duties of the employment, the Board has held that determination of the amount of back pay due claimant is a necessary part of a finding of discrimination but may be made by a deputy commissioner after a final decision of the case. Dill v. Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 6 BRBS 738 (1977).
Section 49 only applies where the discharge of the employee is motivated by a claim under the Longshore Act. Buchanan v. Boh Bros. Constr. Co., Inc., 741 F.2d 750 (5th Cir. 1984) (claimant had no cause of action under Section 49 where his current employer discharged him due to a claim brought under the Jones Act against a former employer even though claimant was currently engaged in work under the Longshore Act).
Proof of a Section 49 violation involves a two-step process. Claimant must first prove a discriminatory act by employer. The essence of discrimination is in treating like individuals (or groups) differently. See Mueller Brass Co. v. N.L.R.B., 544 F.2d 815 (5th Cir. 1977). In cases arising under Section 49, the burden of proving a discriminatory act is on the claimant. Claimant also must show that the discriminatory act was motivated by a discriminatory animus or intent. Geddes v. Benefits Review Board, 735 F.2d 1412, 16 BRBS 88(CRT) (D.C. Cir. 1984), rev'g Geddes v. Washington Metro. Area Transit Auth., 15 BRBS 296 (1983); Gondolfi v. Mid-Gulf Stevedores, Inc., 11 BRBS 295 (1979), aff'd, 621 F.2d 695, 12 BRBS 394 (5th Cir. 1980).
Once claimant has met his burden, a rebuttable presumption arises that the employer was motivated at least in part by claimant's filing of his claim. The burden then shifts to employer to prove that it was not motivated, even in part, by claimant's exercising his rights under the Act. Geddes, 735 F.2d 412, 16 BRBS 88(CRT); Tibbs v. Washington Metro. Area Transit Auth., 17 BRBS 92 (1985), aff'd mem., 784 F.2d 1132 (D.C. Cir. 1986).
The Board has refused to consider the issue of a Section 49 violation where it was not raised first before the administrative law judge. Swain v. Bath Iron Works Corp., 14 BRBS 657 (1982). Furthermore, the Board has refused to consider any claim of discrimination alleged to have occurred after the administrative law judge's decision since this issue was not first raised and decided by an administrative law judge. Swain, 14 BRBS at 660. The administrative law judge may not raise Section 49 for the first time in his Decision and Order. The administrative law judge's authority to raise a new issue pursuant to 20 C.F.R. §702.366(b) expires once a compensation order is issued. Bukovac v. Vince Steel Erection Co., Inc., 17 BRBS 122 (1985).
Employer does not violate Section 49 by discharging claimant for any reason other than for filing a compensation claim. Tibbs, 17 BRBS 92 (Board reversed the administrative law judge's finding that employer violated Section 49 by not reinstating claimant once he presented medical substantiation that his absences from work were due to a work-related injury and he was able to return to work, holding employer's decision to fire and not reinstate claimant was fully justified by his overall record of absenteeism); Miller v. Prolerized New England Co., 14 BRBS 811 (1981) (Miller, dissenting), aff'd on other grounds, 691 F.2d 45, 15 BRBS 23(CRT) (1st Cir. 1982) (any animus of employer toward claimant was due to claimant's union activities, not his filing a claim).
Section 49 has been violated if the discharge was even partially motivated by animus against a claimant who files a compensation claim. Machado v. National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., 9 BRBS 803 (1978); Winburn, 9 BRBS 363; Dill, 6 BRBS 738. It makes no difference that the discharge may have been motivated by other factors as well. Machado, 9 BRBS 803; Winburn, 9 BRBS 363. Because proof of discriminatory animus is seldom neat or obvious, the administrative law judge must carefully examine the circumstances surrounding the discharge to determine whether the employer's reason for firing the employee is the actual motive or a mere pretext. Further, proof of animus may be inferred from the circumstances. Wallace v. C & P Telephone Co., 11 BRBS 826 (1980); Martin v. General Dynamics Corp., 9 BRBS 836 (1978); Curling, 8 BRBS 770. The manner in which the claimant is treated in relation to the employer's customary employment practices is also a factor to be considered in Section 49 adjudication. Wallace, 11 BRBS 826; Machado, 9 BRBS 803; Winburn, 9 BRBS 363; Curling, 8 BRBS 770.
Applying these principles in Machado, 9 BRBS 803, the Board affirmed a finding that no violation occurred where claimant was absent from work without medical authorization in violation of the contract and his termination followed established rules and procedures. In contrast, in Winburn, 9 BRBS 363, the Board stated that the administrative law judge could rationally infer that employer's stated reason for firing claimant was a pretext where employer did not follow established procedures in terminating claimant and other circumstances supported the administrative law judge's inference that the firing was due to the compensation claim. See also Dill, 6 BRBS 738 (Section 49 violation affirmed where administrative law judge found that reasons given by supervisor for termination were unlikely to lead to this result and that the supervisor was annoyed by claimant's concerns about his physical discomfort and did not want to be bothered by his complaints).
Where the motive for discharge is a matter of controversy, the administrative law judge must weigh the credibility of conflicting witnesses. In Williams v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 14 BRBS 300 (1981) (Miller, dissenting), the claimant was discharged for falsifying a medical record in anticipation of a compensation claim. The administrative law judge considered this a per se violation of Section 49 and did not consider employer's evidence. The Board remanded for the administrative law judge to consider the credibility of all witnesses since employer's motive may have been the general policy of discharging anyone who falsified company records.
Section 49 is not limited to discharges and may include discriminatory treatment of compensation employees under a collective bargaining agreement. Dickens v. Tidewater Stevedoring Corp., 12 BRBS 703 (1980), aff'd, 656 F.2d 74, 13 BRBS 629 (4th Cir. 1981). In Dickens, however, the Board determined that the collective bargaining agreement did not discriminate against compensation employees.
The administrative law judge does not have the authority under Section 49 to determine whether or not an employee was dismissed for justifiable cause under the terms of an employment contract or collective bargaining agreement. See, e.g., Machado, 9 BRBS 803; Winburn, 9 BRBS 363; Dill, 6 BRBS 738. The only issue before the judge is the existence of discriminatory animus for filing a compensation claim.
To establish a violation of Section 49, claimant must establish that employer committed a discriminatory act motivated by discriminatory animus or intent. The Board held that claimant's being medically unable to work did not reflect discrimination when he was not rehired for that reason. Nooner v. National Steel & Shipbuilding Corp., 19 BRBS 43 (1986) (note that in stating the general legal standard under Section 49, this case incorrectly states that claimant must establish that employer committed a discriminatory act which was motivated by discriminatory animus or intent due to the filing of a compensation claim against employer; as stated above, claimant must only show that employer committed a discriminatory act motivated by discriminatory animus, at which point the burden shifts to employer to show the act was not motivated in part by the filing of a compensation claim against employer).
In a case where employees were ordinarily discharged only for contractual violations, another employee with high blood pressure was allowed to continue working, and claimant's physicians released him for his usual work and he performed it satisfactorily, the Board held that the administrative law judge could find it discriminatory to fire him, as the record implied that the true motive was employer's chagrin at having to employ someone with whom it just settled a claim for permanent total disability. An administrative law judge may assess a higher fine, pursuant to amended Section 49, for a violation which occurred before the effective date of the 1984 Amendments. Powell v. Nacirema Operating Co., Inc., 19 BRBS 124 (1986) (note that the statement of the general legal standard here contains the same error as in Nooner).
Where the administrative law judge did not provide a rationale for determining that employer's reassignment of claimant to a new job in the same facility constituted a "discharge," and where he did not address evidence of record suggesting that claimant may not have suffered an earnings loss as a result of the reassignment, the Board remanded the case for a determination on whether employer's action was a discriminatory act under Section 49. The Board instructed the administrative law judge to calculate the amount of lost earnings, if any, on remand, as this calculation must be made in order to determine whether employer committed a discriminatory act. Rayner v. Maritime Terminals, Inc., 19 BRBS 213 (1987).
The Board affirmed the administrative law judge's conclusion on remand that employer's removal of claimant's name from the crane-rotation list constituted a Section 49 violation. The administrative law judge rationally determined that employer's alleged concerns with safety and health were pretextual. The Board also held that the administrative law judge properly credited GAI payments and holiday and vacation pay received by claimant against employer's back-pay liability under Section 49. These payments are not "collateral sources" of income for which employer does not receive credit toward its back-pay liability. Rayner v. Maritime Terminals, Inc., 22 BRBS 5 (1988).
The Board affirmed the administrative law judge's denial of a Section 49 claim, as the administrative law judge rationally credited testimony that claimant would have been rehired had he demonstrated his medical fitness and completed a driving test. The Board reasoned that since the administrative law judge's implicit finding of no "discriminatory act" was proper, the administrative law judge did not err in failing to require employer to demonstrate that its actions toward claimant were unrelated to claimant's having filed a compensation claim. Geddes v. Washington Metro. Area Transit Auth., 19 BRBS 261 (1987), aff'd sub nom. Geddes v. Director, OWCP, 851 F.2d 440, 21 BRBS 103(CRT) (D.C. Cir. 1988).
The D.C. Circuit affirmed the Board's decision to uphold the denial of a Section 49 claim, reasoning that the existence of a discriminatory act was not established. The court noted that the administrative law judge's finding of no discriminatory act was not inconsistent with the administrative law judge's earlier finding that employer intended to induce claimant to not return to its employ, in that claimant never attempted to resume his job with employer, thus rendering employer's intentions irrelevant. Geddes v. Director, OWCP, 851 F.2d 440, 21 BRBS 103(CRT) (D.C. Cir. 1988).
The Board reversed the administrative law judge's determination that employer's "five-day call-in" rule, under which certain absent employees could be terminated if they failed to "call in" to work every five days, discriminated against longshore claimants as a class, and that its application in this case thus constituted a Section 49 violation. The Board reasoned that, because employer's termination of claimant's job was based on the existence of this established rule rather than on "retaliation or punitive motive," no Section 49 violation had occurred, but indicated that employer's decision to implement the rule in the situation presented by this case was somewhat harsh. Holliman v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 20 BRBS 114 (1987), aff'd, 852 F.2d 759, 21 BRBS 124(CRT) (4th Cir. 1988).
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the Board's decision that employer did not violate Section 49 where the "five-day call-in" rule was inflexibly applied to all employees, and enforced against persons absent due to both personal or occupational injuries. Thus, there was no evidence of discriminatory animus or intent. Holliman v. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., 852 F.2d 759, 21 BRBS 124(CRT) (4th Cir. 1988).
The Board affirmed the administrative law judge's determination that employer's concededly standard practice of seeking "voluntary-quit" agreements from employees obtaining settlements of their longshore claims reflected the "discriminatory intent" necessary to establish a Section 49 violation. The Board noted that whether or not claimant had in fact orally consented to relinquish his job as a condition of his settlement, the very fact that employer attempted to procure such consent supported the administrative law judge's finding of discriminatory intent. Nance v. Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp., 20 BRBS 109 (1987), aff'd, 858 F.2d 182, 21 BRBS 166(CRT) (4th Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 492 U.S. 911 (1989).
Affirming the Board's determination, the Fourth Circuit held that the administrative law judge, in deciding the Section 49 claim, properly excluded evidence showing that claimant had orally agreed to resign from his job as part of a Section 8(i) settlement, and properly found that employer's stated desire to induce claimant to resign established discriminatory intent within the meaning of Section 49. Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp. v. Nance, 858 F.2d 182, 21 BRBS 166(CRT) (4th Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 492 U.S. 911 (1989).
Although employer allegedly discharged claimant for falsifying information on his pre-employment application, the Board held that the administrative law judge's failure to consider the fact that employer discharged claimant only a few weeks after he filed his workers' compensation claim, possibly in violation of Section 49, violated the APA, and required remand. Jaros v. National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., 21 BRBS 26 (1988).
The administrative law judge properly found that employer's policy of discharging employees for material falsifications on their employment applications did not violate Section 49 and that the evidence failed to establish that the termination claimant's employment was motivated by the requisite animus or ill will to constitute a violation of Section 49. Leon v. Todd Shipyards Corp., 21 BRBS 190 (1988).
The Board affirmed the administrative law judge's finding that Section 49 was not violated where claimant was discharged for intentionally falsifying company documents. The administrative law judge found that the company policy was invariable and claimant failed to establish that he was treated differently than other employees who failed to disclose prior injuries on employment applications. Brooks v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 26 BRBS 1 (1992), aff'd sub nom. Brooks v. Director, OWCP, 2 F.3d 64, 27 BRBS 100(CRT) (4th Cir. 1993).
The Board reversed the administrative law judge's finding that employer violated Section 49. It held that where all employees who falsify company records were terminated and where claimant's termination for falsifying company records followed the routine procedure for such a violation, employer had not discriminated against claimant. Additionally, the Board concluded that employer had not discriminated against claimants as a class merely because claimants were the only employees subjected to the subpoena power of the Act, as employer had a legitimate need to investigate issues affecting the applicability of Section 8(f). Therefore, the Board held that the administrative law judge erred in inferring discriminatory animus from employer's investigation of claimant's medical history in this case. Hunt v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 28 BRBS 364 (1994), aff'd mem., 61 F.3d 900 (4th Cir. 1995).
Although the administrative law judge found that employer's disciplinary hearing was not impartial, the Board affirmed the administrative law judge's finding that employer did not violate Section 49 when it terminated claimant since claimant was treated no differently than other employees subject to disciplinary hearings. Manship v. Norfolk & Western Ry. Co., 30 BRBS 175 (1996).
The Fifth Circuit held that employer did not discriminate against claimant under Section 49 of the Act by terminating claimant after his industrial injury. The court noted that the record supported the administrative law judge's finding that claimant was terminated because he failed to medically document his absences from work. Ledet v. Phillips Petroleum Co., 163 F.3d 901, 32 BRBS 212(CRT) (5th Cir. 1999)
The Board held that the administrative law judge erred in dismissing the issue of Section 49 discrimination from the case in a summary decision where he did not address the contested issues of fact relevant to employer's motivation for terminating claimant and where the administrative law judge did not go through the prescribed analysis and apply the proper legal standards involved in consideration of the Section 49 issue. Moreover, the administrative law judge erred in finding the Section 49 claim barred by giving collateral estoppel effect to the district court's judgment in claimant's ADA suit. Dunn v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 33 BRBS 204 (1999).
The Board affirmed the administrative law judge's finding that claimant was discharged due to her claim for compensation in violation of Section 49 of the Act as the administrative law judge properly examined the totality of the circumstances regarding the discharge. The administrative law judge found that employer discharged claimant for "pretextual reasons," and that employer had not established that it was not motivated, even in part, by claimant's exercise of her rights under the Act. Claimant was fired for receiving an authorized employee discount. The Board affirmed the administrative law judge's finding that claimant should be reinstated to her former position in view of employer's violation of Section 49, until claimant's ability to work could be assessed after she reached maximum medical improvement following surgery. The Board agreed with the Director's interpretation that, in view of the silence of the Act and regulations, this method insures the availability of reinstatement as a remedy, which otherwise would be unavailable to disabled claimants who are not immediately able to return to work. As the Board affirmed the administrative law judge's finding that claimant was discharged in violation of Section 49, the Board remanded the case to the administrative law judge, rather than the district director as urged by the Director, for assessment of a monetary penalty pursuant to Section 49 of the Act and its implementing regulation, 20 C.F.R. §702.273. Monta v. Navy Exchange Service Command, 39 BRBS 104 (2005).
Section 49, in conjunction with Section 702.271(d), provides for recovery of "loss of wages arising out of discrimination" only if claimant is qualified to return to his former employment. In this case, the administrative law judge found claimant could not perform his former work as a marine superintendent as of the date of injury. The Board therefore reversed the administrative law judge's order that employer pay claimant contractual short-term disability benefits in addition to his compensation under the Act, since the payment of the short-term disability benefits in this case were premised on allowing claimant a recovery for lost wages, a remedy which is unavailable to him under the plain language of Section 49. In a footnote, the Board stated that in light of its holding, it need not address whether the administrative law judge had the authority to order employer to pay the claimant the short-term disability benefits provided by his employment contract under any provision of the Act, or whether such benefits are a substitute for lost wages. G.M. [Meeker] v. P & O Ports Louisiana, Inc., 43 BRBS 68 (2009).
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Step 3: Gather Tools
I used a Jigsaw to shape the "boot" (you'll see what i mean in the next step. Plus a cordless drill, skillsaw, and a bunch of drywall screws.
Step 4: Make the "boot"
Step 5: Build frame up and attach top
That's all there is to it! Here are a couple videos of me trying it out ;)
A few words of warning: after my experiences with my homemade ski/sled, I would stay away from public sledding runs. The speed is wicked fast, steering takes practice and the chance of adding to the 33,000 sledding accidents per year (in the US) is high. Find some backcountry trails, check for hidden rocks and ruts, put on a helmet and then let 'er rip.
Here is a brief video clip of me (sans helmet, regrettably) introducing my sled on skis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQ1R4Ed1pU
Thanks for your comment! I checked out your video, and it looks great. I think i'll consider adding a cross-piece in the front of my platform as well. Does that help to steer it? Also yours is wider, so I'm sure more stable. Thanks again!
As for the cross-piece, it allows me to hold on. However, it doesn't help with steering. In fact, it locks the skis in parallel which assures a straight, fast ride. To turn, I put my right foot in the snow behind the sled for a right turn and use my left foot for a left turn. This, of course, means that I need to ride it lying on my stomach to steer properly.
The width does make the Wonder Luge stable, but stability also comes from it's overall weight: 27 pounds.
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Logging In and Out
E-Reserves System
To access the electronic reserves system, click the link above and log in with your NetID and your NetID Password.
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If you have any issues with the e-reserves service that are not resolved by this guide, please call us at 244-3773 during normal business hours.
Seeing Courses
When you first log into the e-reserves system, you will not see your courses.
Course information is updated every four hours (at 2, 6, & 10).
Upcoming courses that have e-reserves become visible to enrolled students one week before the course starts.
If you add a course to your schedule, the e-reserves will not be visible until the following day.
If you are not seeing current courses that you know have e-reserves, and today was not the first time you logged into this system, please call us at 244-3773 during normal business hours.
Accessing Your E-Reserves
Starting a few hours after your initial log in, you will see a list of your current courses when you log in:
Click anywhere in a line to view a list of the reserves for that course:
Click on individual items to view the information about that item:
Click on "View this item" to access the content.
Working with a List: Sorting, Tags, and Hot List
In the Reserve Items list, you can re-sort by any column by selecting from the "Sort By" drop-down menu or by clicking on the column heading. For example, if you are working from an alphabetical bibliography, you would select "Author." If you would like to sort by the titles of individual document, instead of the main title, select "Article Title" from the "Sort By" drop-down menu.
Also, if you or your instructor have added tags to individual items, you can click on a tag at any point to see all items with that tag. Instructors may use tags to organize the content by topic (e.g.: Brazil) and/or time (week3).
At the bottom of the Reserve Items list you will see a pair of buttons that allow you to add or remove items from your Hot List:
Your Hot List includes all items you have added to your Hot List--no matter what course.
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What is SIPX?
Sometimes, you will click on an item in your e-reserves list and it will take you to the SIPX website and ask you to log in. Don't worry, this is a legitimate resource to log into. The Library uses SIPX for e-reserves that we need to pay permissions for.
Items through SIPX will have a line referencing this information, which is highlighed in the image below:
All fees associated with the service are paid for by the University Library, and any data collected is only reported in the aggregate, no specific student information is shared without specific consent.
Creating your SIPX account
You will have to create a very simple account (consisting of only a login, name, and university email account) validating that you are a U of I student, faculty, or employee. You will receive a single email from the system to verify the email account.
- Click on: https://service.sipx.com/ (opens in a new tab).
- Click the "Sign up" link.
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- Your name
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- Log into your e-reserves as usual and pick a reading.
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- If it shows a big red bar, click on the "Sign in" link just below the red bar and log in (using your email and the password you chose).
- You should now be seing a big green bar...click that to get the reading.
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LOS ANGELES – OCTOBER 2: the Washington Huskies the USC Trojans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on October 2, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Washington won 32-31. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
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Arts Council presents Shakespeare 450th birthday performance
Rutherford County Arts Council will present the Globe Repertory Company production of The Shakespeare Sampler on Wednesday, April 23 at 10 a.m. in the Foundation Performing Arts Center on the campus of Isothermal Community College in Spindale.
The program will present songs and scenes from 15 of Shakespeare's most famous plays. The program is in celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, which falls on the performance date.
Admission is $15 general admission, $10 for students. There will be a special discount for Rutherford County students: admission will be $5; school chaperones are free. Box seats are available at $25.
The show is part of a new classics series which will be followed by Medieval Bible Plays in May and The Cyclops, a Greek comedy, in October.
For tickets, visit the Foundation box office or call 828-286-9990. For general questions call 828-245-4000.


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Gingerbread Spice Mix
Gingerbread spices are endlessly customizable. This version balances warm, spicy flavors against cool, citrus-y ones, and has a cool finish of cardamom, anise, and black pepper. Unless you have a very good source for ground ginger, you're best grinding your own from whole dried versions. A microplane makes a quick job of them. More


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Paula Broadwell says she's returning to her faith
CHARLOTTE — The reservist whose affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus led to his resignation says she's made mistakes in her past, but is trying to look forward with her family.
News 14 Carolina reports (http://bit.ly/101B6gU ) Paula Broadwell attended the annual YMCA prayer breakfast in Charlotte and said the message hit home. Broadwell said the breakfast focused on redemption and slowing down in life and finding purpose.
Broadwell said she grew up in a strong, faith-based family and has decided to return to those roots for strength, as well as serving the community.
Petraeus resigned in November 2012 after acknowledging the extramarital affair, which was exposed after Broadwell emailed Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, allegedly warning Kelley to stay away from Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.


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Vanguard of change: New biography pays tribute to Henry Frye
"Henry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice"
By Howard E. Covington, Jr. (McFarland and Company, $29.95)
The recent attempts to change qualifications for voting in North Carolina do not come as a shock to Henry Frye.
Although he was a 1953 graduate of North Carolina A&T State University and had served as an officer in the Air Force, Frye was turned down in his first attempt to register to vote.
Frye went to his hometown of Ellerbe, 73 miles south of Greensboro, to register as the first person in his family to do so. (Very few black residents of Ellerbe and Rockingham County were on the voter rolls.)
But he was shocked when he was told he would have to pass a rigorous exam by the registration clerk. The exam would consist of questions about the Constitution and to name a certain number of signers of the Declaration of Independence. He didn't try to answer and said he didn't believe it was required. The clerk pointed to a book on the counter as the authority citing a 1900 amendment to the state constitution.
Frye then left but, thinking there must be some kind of a mistake, he returned only to be told that indeed he could not register since he had failed the literacy test. Even though he appealed and was registered a week later, he never forgot the incident.
Years later when he was elected to the North Carolina Senate, Frye shepherded a bill through the legislature setting a referendum to repeal the constitutional amendment that established the literacy test for voting. The voters rejected the amendment, but six weeks later the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that literacy tests, including those in North Carolina, were unconstitutional.
Frye, now 81 years old, was among the vanguard of courageous changers of the status quo in civil rights.
As Greensboro author Howard E. Covington, Jr. tells us, Frye won election in 1968 as the first African-American to serve in the North Carolina House of Representatives in the 20th century and he racked up many more firsts for those among his race capped by his appointment to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1983 and his elevation to chief justice in August 1999.
Covington's book is much more than a single-focused biography. Through exhaustive research that readers of his other books have come to expect from him, Covington gives helpful background on all the many issues where Frye's leadership made a magnificent difference for all citizens of North Carolina.
Marion A. Ellis is a Durham-based author who has written several books and is currently helping former Gov. Beverly Perdue write her life story.


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As the United States Playdowns open this weekend, with coverage on CurlingZone.com as well as USACurl.org, a little controversy is coming out of Green Bay's Midwest South Regional as two entries have dropped out late, resulting in multiple efforts to rework the schedule.
David Brown of Madison, Wisconsin and Josh Bahr of Bemidji, Minnesota dropped out in the last two days and the event is still awaiting a reworked final schedule as play begins in less than 24 hours on Thursday at 2pm Central time.
The result of this has lead people to call for sanctions and this is not unheard of within the game. In Ontario playdowns, a late dropout prior to the event without cause could lead to up to a two-year suspension from play, and maybe it's time for this to be instituted here as the whole field now awaits changes that could drastically alter the draw.
The other issue is that berths are awarded on a floating basis across the country, with the calculations being done based on the strength of field at each event, and changes to fields could drastically affect all events. Sources say this wont affect things this season, but it may result in issues in the future.
To follow the results, check out the direct links to the East Regional, Midwest North Regional, Midwest South Regional and West Regional. Three Men's teams have direct berths to the United States Curling Nationals in Philadephia, with 5 more joining them after this weekend. Tyler George and Craig Brown received berths through the Order of Merit and Pete Fenson advanced due their selection to represent the USA in the Brazil Challenge.
Some Quick Hitters:
Bill Baker, Chair of the 117th Toronto Curling Association Goldline Men's Bonspiel is preparing for the big task of organizing the annual January event, with 283 teams entered this year and games spread out across the Greater Toronto Area. Game begin on Saturday, January 7th with the finals on Saturday Jan 14, which will be televised on Rogers Cable.
Prince George curlers proud of their Silver Medal accomplishment at the BC Juniors, coaching award.
Ottawa rinks win openers at the Pepsi Juniors Provincial Championships in Russell, Ontario.
Newfoundland/Labrador Junior Provincials playdowns are underway at Bally Haly in St. John's
An expanded Detroit International Bonspiel drawing teams from across the United States and Ontario, begins this weekend.


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Mel Brooks - Timeline: 2000 Years of Mel Brooks
The life and times of Mel Brooks: The 2000 Year Old Man.
The life and times of Mel Brooks: The 2000 Year Old Man.
In this lesson plan, students study images of women in movies and television, contrasting the ideal of physical beauty with the risks an actress takes to be funny.
In this lesson, students will use Guided Reading techniques to learn about Capa's style and to discover the techniques that made him a great photographer.
This American Master's series lesson uses Capote's autobiographical short story, "A Christmas Memory", to teach a lesson on characterization in writing.
In this lesson, students will watch the Lon Chaney episode of American Masters, read chapters from three original books on which Chaney's films were based, and use a reading strategy called Reader's Theater to adapt each chapter into a script.
Much has changed since Walter Cronkite signed off in 1981. In order to examine how news reporting has evolved in the 21st century, students will explore the state and purpose of media today, research the history of the media and learn how to write using the journalistic style.
In this lesson, students will trace James Brown's rise from "Little Junior" in Depression-era Augusta, Georgia, to the "Minister of the New Super Heavy Funk" and create a collage that captures his impact on American music.
In this lesson plan, students get a chance to observe movement by creating a "movement journal", and then they experiment with what they have observed to create a unique "movement vocabulary."
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A Complete Concert Including: Max and Moritz, In Church, Minuet, Fughetta, and March. Composed by Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Jean-francois Dandrieu (1682-1738), Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), and Anna Magdalena Bach. Arranged by Bob Cerulli. Masterworks; String Orchestra. Belwin String Orchestra Beginning Level. Classical Period, Russian, Baroque and Classical. Conductor's score and set of performance parts. 144 pages. Published by Belwin Music (AP.24989).
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Garmin Edge Touring Plus GPS cycle have useful.
All Detail -> Garmin Sport -> Garmin Edge Touring Plus GPS cycle have useful.
Description : Garmin Edge Touring Plus GPS cycle have useful.
The Edge 510 does all that and more, adding support for heart rate and cadence (how quickly you're pedalling) sensors that provide useful stats for training, but at more than double the cost. The Edge 810 goes one step further and offers turn-by-turn directions on the move - a powerful feature that can be a godsend if you live in a large city.
And route finding is where the Touring Plus really comes into its own. It works like a sat nav in a car, but with maps tailored for cycling (it comes loaded with the Garmin Cycle Map microSD card covering the UK and Europe).
Menus let you specify whether you want to stay on roads or use cycle paths (or off-road trails for mountain biking), it can display cycling points of interest, and there are the usual navigate to a point and return home options.
You can upload routes from your computer, manually or through Garmin's software, and once complete, ride data can be downloaded and used on Strava and the like. If you don't have a specific destination in mind but just want to ride a certain distance, you can use RoundTrip routing: get yourself a GPS fix, plug in roughly how far you want to ride, and the Touring Plus will suggest three different routes to choose from. The ability to set waypoints and move them around is also useful.
The physical unit of the Touring Plus is the same as the Edge 810; same dimensions, same screen size (3.6 x 5.5cm) and definition. The 160 x 240 pixel screen offers enough detail and colour to give a decent enough display to be usable while riding. In order to save the battery, the screen darkens between junctions, but brightens as you approach, and there are audible notifications to alert you too. As with other Garmin unis, you can adjust which data is on display to suit your preference.
Garmin's range of GPS bike computers is so big that it's difficult to decide which one suits you best until you've tried them all. Luckily, we have: the Edge 200 tracks where you've been and how fast you were going, it's the cheapest model and will get you up and running on fitness-tracking sites like Strava. Unless you're training seriously or want sat-nav directions
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Development Tools
Dropbox is a free cloud service that allows you to sync your photos, documents, and videos across different computer platforms and devices. Once saved to the Dropbox, the files can be accessed on any of your computers, smartphone, or via the Dropbox website. The following are handouts to help you get started with Dropbox:
Prezi is a cloud based presentation software for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas. It opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides by allowing users to zoom in and out of their presentation and navigate through a 2.5D space. The following are handouts to help you get started with Prezi:
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.
CutePDF allows you to create PDF files from any printable document, save PDF forms using Adobe Acrobat Reader, make PDF booklets, impose, and rearrange pages and much more.
Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform software program for recording and editing sounds. It is a great tool for recording and editing audio content for online delivery.
TeacherTube is an educator and student friendly site for sharing the best content including educational videos, documents, audio and photos for your classroom, staff, and campus.
GoogleDocs is a free web-based office suite offered as part of the Google Drive service. It allows users to create, share, and collaborate on the web with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.


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Below is the poem entitled The Sunny Side Of Life which was written by poet
Ellison. Please feel free to comment on this poem. However, please remember, PoetrySoup is a place of encouragement and growth.
Read Poems by
Jack Ellison
Always look on the sunny side
The sunny side of life
It's where you'll forever find me
Life's just one big slice
A slice of joy and happiness
Waiting for you to call
Doesn't even require a passport
It's there to welcome all
A thousand times more enjoyable
Than stumbling round in a funk
Your step will have a much livelier gait
You'll smile a whole big bunch
All are capable, my very good friends
Matter of mind over matter
If you think positive and grin each day
Happy genes will get much fatter
Now it's very well known knowledge
Happy genes can go a long way
To extending your days here on earth
And be a much happier stay!
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Bellmon's Legacy Lives On
Former governor's legacy preserved at OSU Library
October 7, 2009
Story by Marissa Chavez, OSU Library Communications Intern
For Immediate Release
STILLWATER -Former governor, senator and Oklahoma State University alumnus Henry Bellmon made a lasting impression in Oklahoma and at OSU. Now the OSU Library is ensuring his legacy is preserved.
"He was more than a Republican politician, governor, and U.S. senator," said David Peters, coordinator of special collections. "He was an Oklahoma statesman."
The Bellmon documents are one of many resources documenting his legacy. This collection, of 600 record boxes, documents his two terms as Oklahoma governor, 1962-1966 and 1987-1991; his time in the United States Senate, 1968-1980; and four decades of personal and political activity.
"The Bellmon Papers were one of the first and most significant collections of political history the OSU Library received," Peters said. "It is a remarkable collection."
Bellmon took a lot of heat for certain decisions that he made, such as his vote to ratify the Panama Canal Treaty and his work in passing the landmark education legislation in Oklahoma, Peters said.
The Library's Oral History Department also highlighted Bellmon, as part of O-STATE Stories. President Hargis conducted two interviews with Bellmon before his death. The transcript of these interviews can be found at, www.library.okstate.edu/oralhistory.
Every Wednesday, the Oral History Department airs its "Then and Now" series on KOSU at 9:17 a.m. and 4:44 p.m. Over the next weeks, the series will feature segments of the Bellmon interview. Previous KOSU audio clips and transcripts are also available at the oral history website.
For more information on Bellmon's collection, contact Special Collections, 405-744-6311.
Oklahoma State University is a modern land-grant system that cuts across disciplines to better prepare students for a new world. Oklahoma's only university with a statewide presence, OSU improves the lives of people in Oklahoma, the nation, and the world through integrated, high-quality teaching, research and outreach. OSU has more than 32,000 students across its five-campus system and nearly 21,000 on its Stillwater campus; with students from all 50 states and about 110 nations. Established in 1890, OSU has graduated more than 200,000 students who have made a lasting impact on Oklahoma and the world. CREATE - INNOVATE - EDUCATE - GO STATE!
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Our DistrictSituated in the midst of a rich mountain landscape, surrounded by numerous provincial and national parks, Rocky Mountain School District strives to "Care deeply, act wisely and find joy in every day."
In our Quest for Quality, we are committed to developing responsible learners, competent professionalism, integrity and respect. Through collaboration and communication and with a commitment to quality results, we take an enthusiastic, innovative and entrepreneurial approach to education.
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Our ZonesOur district is divided into three zones along the length of the Columbia Valley in South East British Columbia, Canada. SD6 includes Golden in the North, centrally located Windermere and Kimberley in the South. We cover a diverse cultural and geographical area in a beautiful part of the world we are proud to call home. School Distict 6 is served by Canadian Rockies International Airport as well as smaller airports throughout the valley. Road access is via Highway 3 & 95a in the South, 93 at Radium and Highway 1 & 95 in the North.
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Orlando certainly came out of the weekend a much-changed team, with the additions of three major offensive weapons -- Gilbert Arenas, Jason Richardson and Hedo Turkoglu -- in separate trades with Phoenix and Washington. The pair of moves could potentially shake things up at the top of the Eastern Conference, as the Magic now possess the talent to better keep pace with the Celtics and Heat. What the Magic don't have, though, is the time to figure out exactly how it will work.
"Obviously, it is going to be a challenge, it being right in the middle of things where we're not in a break where we get a lot of practice time," coach Stan Van Gundy said. "Those guys will probably play two games before they even have a practice with us. So as far as working them in, it's going to be on the fly."
As we've seen in Miami, putting a handful of star players together and hoping they can learn to work together without much practice time is not without some peril. It doesn't help that the Magic are beginning their toughest week of the schedule -- after taking on Atlanta on Monday, they have home games against San Antonio, Dallas and Boston, three teams with the best road records in the league (28-5 on the road combined).
The Magic will be an interesting team to watch over the rest of the season. But they've lost seven of their last eight games, and they're down to No. 10 in the poll. With the way their schedule shapes up, they could still be slumping coming out of the week.
Here are this week's rankings, with last week's listed in parenthesis.
1. Celtics (1). Nate Robinson has done a nice job in place of the injured PG Rajon Rondo. With SF Paul Pierce playing point-forward, Robinson is averaging 16.3 points and 4.8 assists as a starter.
2. Spurs (3). They were able to survive some close calls last week to keep their winning streak going. They won by two points, by one point, and had another win in overtime.
3. Mavericks (2). Triple digits seem to get the job done for the Mavs this season. They're 14-0 in games in which they've scored over 100 points.
4. Heat (4). Over the Heat's 12-game winning streak (which the Mavs ended Monday), SF LeBron James averaged 26.1 points, 7.4 rebounds and 6.3 assists, while shooting 51.6 percent from the field (44.4 percent on 3s).
5. Lakers (7). C Andrew Bynum is rounding into form. On Sunday in Toronto, he scored 16 points and had seven rebounds in about 18 minutes.
6. Thunder (5). With C Nenad Krstic nursing a sore back, F/C Nick Collison has picked up his production. He followed a 12-point game with 19 points on Sunday.
7. Bulls (6). They're trying to get by with Taj Gibson, Omer Asik and Kurt Thomas at center in place of Joakim Noah. But that's not a long-term solution.
8. Jazz (11). This has been a breakthrough year for SF C.J. Miles, who is a key cog off the Utah bench. In his last six games, Miles has averaged 16.5 points and has helped the team in crunch time.
9. Nuggets (12). The transition game has been lacking. The Nuggets had just two fast break points in the loss to the Spurs last week, and had just eight in a three-game span.
10. Magic (8). Last year, PF Brandon Bass was complaining about a lack of minutes. This year, he's starting and was deemed off limits in trade talks last week.
11. Hawks (10). The Hawks had been struggling without SG Joe Johnson, and his early return from elbow surgery is welcomed.
12. Hornets (13). They're just 5-11 in their last 16 games, and you have to wonder how long it will be before the PG Chris Paul trade rumors start up again.
13. Knicks (9). It was supposed to be a stretch of schedule in which the Knicks could prove their worth. But they started with three straight losses, including one to the lowly Cavaliers.
14. Blazers (14). With Cs Greg Oden, Joel Przybilla and Marcus Camby out, plus SG Brandon Roy and Nicolas Batum, this is looking a lot like a lost season in Portland.
15. Suns (16). With SG Vince Carter now in the fold, the Suns will soon have a starting lineup that includes three players (SF Grant Hill, PG Steve Nash) who are 33 or older.
16. Rockets (19). Now that C Yao Ming has been ruled out for the season, the Rockets can focus on what they have -- and they're playing better because of it.
17. Grizzlies (17). C Marc Gasol posted a double-double 28 times in 69 games (40.6 percent) last year. This year, he's done it just four times in his first 27 games (14.8 percent).
18. Sixers (21). With eight wins in their last 11 games, Philadelphia's eight-game road trip doesn't look quite as daunting as it would have a couple of weeks ago.
19. Pacers (15). Coach Jim O'Brien says he would like to get SF Danny Granger to step into a bigger leadership role, but that hasn't been a strength for Granger.
20. Bucks (18). They followed up a tough win over the Mavericks on the road with a heartbreaker in San Antonio, then blew a 12-point lead to the Jazz at home.
21. Raptors (20). The Raptors haven't gotten much out of SF Peja Stojakovic, who may wind up needing knee surgery. But there are no plans for a buyout.
22. Warriors (22). G/F Reggie Williams has played well in place of G Stephen Curry, but the Warriors are still hopeful that Curry can return on Tuesday.
23. Bobcats (23). SF Gerald Wallace is dealing with an ankle sprain, and will likely miss more time this week.
24. Clippers (27). Owner Donald Sterling has been heckling players. Uh, yeah, that should help the Clippers in free agency next summer.
25. Pistons (24). The Pistons have had trouble finishing games and have been pushed around all too often in the fourth quarter. But they turned the tables in a nice win over the Hornets on Sunday.
26. Nets (30). Still no major blockbuster trade for a certain star forward. But new G Sasha Vujacic started his Nets career with 7-for-20 shooting in two games.
27. Cavaliers (25). Coach Byron Scott has been tinkering with the lineup, and it finally paid off with 109 points in a win over the Knicks on Saturday.
28. Timberwolves (26). What a week for PF Kevin Love, who averaged 24.5 points and 16.0 rebounds in four games. Unfortunately, they were all losses.
29. Kings (28). The Kings allowed a franchise-record comeback of 23 points to the Hornets last week, another sign this team is playing with little energy or effort.
30. Wizards (29). New SF Rashard Lewis might not quite be the player he was a couple of years ago in Orlando, but his ability to space the floor should help PG John Wall.


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Just sitting here wondering what the term "ALIEN" means- from out-of-space or just alien to other so-called normal humans beings - just wondering about the language we use-
Not sympathy for the alleged perpretator - of all alleged perptrators I have least sympathy for are those who abuse children, and beat or rape women- they really are "aliens"- in weak moments I feel like when we are ABSOLUTELY SURE of their guilt - why waste taxpayers money - one in the back of the head-.......... however "illegal immigrants" are just that "illegal immigrants" not aliens.
Hats off to Derrick Kellog and the Minutemen- it has taken some time and the jury is still out but we are happy for what we have seen thus far - good luck and best wishes Derrick
Halloween, the bank employees did not hit the alarm because they understood that the protesters were making a SYMBOLIC STATEMENT; as are thousands around the country. What amazed me is that many commentators do not seem to understand the history of this country and how change come about. Power concedes nothing without a struggle, and whether you agree or disagree with the tactics employes by the protesters - one thing for sure we are talking about it. And so are we talking about the campus police at UC Davis, who made the choice to pepper spray students point blant who were epeacefully assemblied; causing no harm or threat to anyone. Would you feel better if the Amherst protesters were pepper sprayed and hauled off to jail? All protesters are not dirty-commies, or unwashed- as a matter of fact I would guess they are highly intelligent and understand full well their issue is not with the tellers and employees at the banks -- the same way that the early 1960 "sit-ins" in North Carolina were not directed at the soda jerks or short order cooks - but rather to draw national attention to the issue of segregation, and discrimination. So when you think about people who lay it on the line for a cause be careful not to judge because someday you may feel passionately about something and be willing to protest and even go to jail for = until that time come try to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
Sorry Nick- Manny won the fight- Marquez was a gusty fighter No fix- no B...S... no conspiracy just a close decision- why not leave it there????
The Reverend Swan allowed his critics to make their voices heard on his radio program this morning- I remain puzzled as to where the hate is coming from, and yes it is just plain hate. In every major city and every state in America the NAACP has a spokesperson to speak out on behalh of those who are unable to speak for themselves - when no one else will. In bibical history the prophets spoke out - modern day clergy men and women HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO CALL FOR TRANSPARENCY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND THE COURTS-WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE LEAVE THE MAN ALONE AND ALLOW HIM TO DO HIS JOB. Social justice organizations such as the NAACP has the mandate to call into question the actions of law enforcement to insure that justice is served. Not white, justice, not Black justice, not Latino, Asian, or Native American justice, but American Justice- all public servants must be fully accountable - Reverend Swan is doing his job - he has been in the trenches, he is courageous in the face of all the hate and racism represented on these pages-AMEN
WOW is all I can say -WOW to all the spewing of hate toward Reverend Swan because he called for an independent review of a shooting which caused the deatrh of an 18 year on. Reverend Swan has not accused Officer Benoit or the police of anything, so why the hate and name calling. Apparently hate and racism and "right wing" extremism is alive and well in Springfield. Those of you who keep saying Tahiem was trying to run down officer Benoit know only what was reported by the Police Department - Sargeant Delaney's job is to spin the incident in a manner most favorable to the police officers - that's his job. Reverend Swan's job is to ensure that there is transparency in he way the incident is handled - on behalf of the Goffe family who obviously is in a great deal of pain, the community as a whole, even those of you who go out of your way to critize him. No one has accused Officer Benoit of anything so why the Hate--------------we all need to know what actually happened - and all the hate speeches and smack talking will not change that. Police have statutory authority to enforce the law, the manner in which this is done is a matter of DISCRETION AND HOW IT IS USED - no other entity in government other than law enforcement has the discretion over life and death decisions. This is an awesome responsibility, with statutory authority comes statutory obligations - the obligation to enforce the law based on established policies and procedures, and GOOD JUDGEMENT AND DISCRETION. Until the Police Department conduct its internal investigation, and the results subsequently reviewed by the district Attorney- we do not know the extent proper procedure was used in the shooting. In the past there have been questions about CIVILIAN police oversight, in years past Springfield had a 5-person civilian police commission with statutory authority to hire, fire, and discipline police officers. Currently Police Chief Fitchett is the Police Commissioner with the power to hire, fire, and discipline police officers. Every time an officer fires his/her gun it automatically triggers an internal investigation - police officers and the police union understand and accept this as a standard procedure - so when the President of the Springfield Branch Chapter of the NAACP calls for an independent review it is because there is an inherent conflict of interest when an entity investigates itself, this is why many in the community, Black, Latinos, and White has called for the reinstatement of the civilian review board (police commission) with real powers which the current civilian review board does not have - they are advisory in nature. So please if you do not fully understand how it all works and the history of police-community relations in Springfield and the country as a whole take some time to do some research- otherwise all the chatter and the smack talking serve only to make things worse and is really disrespectful of the Goffe family, Officer Benoit, and the good and decent men and women of the Springfield Police Department - they understand that Reverend Swan and the Executive Committee of the NAACP is just doing their jobs. Just for the record the NAACP's mission is not social services or youth development, for one-hundred and two years they have fought for EQUITY OF TREATMENT UNDER -THE - LAW IN THIS COUNTRY AND NOT JUST FOR BLACK PEOPLE, all Americans, even Rerverend Swan's critics have benifitted from the work of the NAACP over the years. The 1964 Civil Rights act promulgated by the NAACP and other civil rights organizations both Black and White is for the protection of all americans, not just Black people. Thank you for listening, please, lets have a little civility in Springfield, and allow people to do their jobs.
It seem to me most commentators are missing the Reverend Swan's point, he is doing what he was elected to do, no police department should investigate itself, moreover whether the races of the alleged car thiefs were black or white an independent review is needed when deadly force is used. Reverend Swan is not jumping to conclusions his critics are. It is clear to most people that probably 98% of our officers are fine public servants, history has informed us however that "dealy force " need to be looked at in the most stringent manner
Springfield needs a proven leader in urban education - issues in urban education are more challenging than in surburban school systems- We need someone who had demonstrated the ability to inspire and motivate principals,m teachers,m parents, and most of all students- the tone and tenor of a "culture of excellence" must be demonstrated at the top.
God bless Connor Reynolds, his family, friends, and loved ones, God forgive Eric Denson (if he did this horrible thing- I was not there, most of the "hot air specialists" on this page also were not there, God bless Eric Denson's family, friends, and loves ones. God bless the City of Springfield with all its warts and small minds- and yes-in the eyes of the courts (for the record) the lives of young white boys are more valuable than young black boys - if you have a problem with this - do the research- meanwhile please allow Connor to rest in peace and allow Eric's legal process - whatever it may be under our laws take it's course- enought said..............................
The editorial writers got it right on this one, take note of the similarities between the states who passed these outrageous voter ID laws-they all have recently elected Tea Party backed Republican governors, most of the states were won by President Obama with razor-thin margins, and most used just plain outright lies as rationale for the regressive laws - in reality there is not - and has not been any evidence of appreciably fraudulent voting in any of these states. For those who wonder why some of us are outraged by these laws and see the requirements for picture ID's as a simple precaution, please pause for a moment and consider how many elderly and disabled are home bound, do not drive or have picture ID's. Moreover what does reducing the time for early, and absentee voting, have to do with the claim of fraudulent voting. The question is- why now? Who will be most affected by these laws? Why does it matter? For the answer, take a survey of what is happening across the country, beyond voter suppression there is a move to re-segregate students in Wake County North Carolina and elswhere, in 2010, for the first time in decades, both the N.C. Senate and the House of Representative were taken over by Republicans with the help of $ millions from the Koch Brothers and other arch-conservative millionaires and billionaires. Right wing $millions have even reached down to local school boards, as in Wake County, N.C. Why am I concerned?, right wing billionaires, talk show hosts, pundits, elected officials, the current pretenders to the throne, and Republican presidental candidates are misleading their followers, and lying about the issues impacting this country. They have shamelessly co-oped low-information voters with "non-issue" issues such voter id's, social issues, and ridicious non-issues such as Shareel Law, and the President Birth Certificate, think for a moment about the time the media gave to such nonsense, we are going back in time. Several days ago the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth passed away at age 89, he was one of the "Big Three" of the Civil Rights Movement along with The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and The Reverend Ralph David Abernathy. Mr. Shuttlesworth's life was given to secure the rights of Black people and other disinfranshised people to vote - he was jailed over 25 times, beaten, brutalized, and suffered all manner of indignities, just to secure the rights people to vote. The right to vote was earned in lives and blood, how dare cheap politicans suppress the votes of minorities, elderly, and the poor and infirmed all in their grand scheme to take back the White House from a Black Man- it is actually that simple.


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Iniesta signed the new deal on Monday which will keep him at the Nou Camp until June 2018, with the contract set to automatically renew from 2017/18 provided he has played in a certain number of matches the season prior.
The 29-year-old's previous deal had been due to expire in 2015, and if he stays until the end of the new arrangement he will be 34 and have spent 22 years at the Catalan club.
Iniesta spoke of his intentions for the future following Sunday's 5-2 win over Getafe.
"It will be a good day, it's possible for me to retire at Barca," Iniesta told fcbarcelona.com.
"I hope to stay healthy and help the team win titles at the end of the season.
"We're confident. Next year we have to follow the same path and get to April and May in a position to fight for all the titles."
Pedro scored a hat-trick in the space of eight minutes as Barcelona came from two goals down to beat Getafe and return to the top of the Primera Division in time for Christmas.
A much-changed Barca side, without the suspended Neymar plus the injured trio of Xavi, Lionel Messi and goalkeeper Victor Valdes, conceded twice in the opening quarter of an hour, Sergio Escudero breaking the deadlock and then Lisandro Lopez scoring a header.
But Pedro's stunning burst of scoring was followed by a volley and a penalty from Cesc Fabregas in the second half - with Pedro getting an assist and then winning the spot-kick to crown a brilliant individual performance.
Jordi Alba was another of the stand-out players in the match and set up Pedro for one of the forward's three goals.
The 24-year-old admitted a lack in concentration was Barca's downfall early in the match.
"We conceded two goals because we were relaxed, but the team reacted and we ended up playing a good game," Alba said.
"In general we played a good game. We're happy that we ended the year as league leaders, we got an important victory."


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Camp offers teens a look at medical careers
EVANSVILLE - Max Scheu has always had an interest in the medical field. "I want to help people, heal them and make the world better," the 14-year-old said.
He said he wants to be either a psychiatrist or a specialized doctor working with nerves, the brain or the heart.
Scheu is getting a first-hand look at his possible career this week at St. Mary's Medical Center's HCAMPS.
HCAMPS — the HealthCare Academy for Middle School Pupil's Success — provides students an opportunity to learn about the medical field through a weeklong program for 7th grade students interested in health careers.
The weeklong program is offered to students from Vanderburgh, Warrick, Gibson and Posey counties. The program is in its third year, and St. Mary's works in cooperation with the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. and the Evansville Catholic Diocese.
Twenty-seven students from local counties were accepted into HCAMPS and 25 are participating this week.
Margaret Moutseous, St. Mary's library manager, planned most of the week.
"We wanted to catch the kids early so they can make educated guesses about what they want to do and begin to career plan," she said. "To choose a profession they'll love."
Emily Gross, 13, said she decided to participate to do just that. "I wanted to find out more about the different health fields you can do," she said.
Students will be treating "patients" in a simulation lab and have hands-on experiences in the emergency department, newborn intensive care unit and the respiratory therapy department. They'll also will take part in medical-related exercises such as dissecting a cow's heart. Moutseous said she hopes the students have fun while learning.
"We hope it's a magical week sharing the best of our people with the kids," she said.
HCAMPS is designed to provide students an opportunity to learn about the health care industry and the academic requirements for those fields.
The aim of the program is to help students learn what it's like to be in a health care profession and Moutseous said she hopes that is what they are learning.
AJ Brougham, 13, said he thinks HCAMPS will help him find a career in the health field that is suitable for him. He said he's tossed around the idea of being a heart surgeon.
He said he enjoyed visiting the NICU the most because he liked seeing the doctors and nurses work with the babies.
"I was in the NICU when I was a baby so it was cool to see what they did with me when I was younger," he said.
Included in the program are tours of local universities and health screenings. The program will conclude Friday with student presentations about what they have learned throughout the week and a luncheon for students and their families.
Moutseous believes the program opens a whole new world for the students. "I think they (students) become empowered; by the end of the week their voices are much stronger when they say, 'I want to be a doctor or a NICU nurse.'"
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Buying a stock may be risky at some point. But for those who want to earn a regular income without too much stress, this is something worth trying.
When you say buying or investing in a stock, you're actually buying or investing in a company. If the company is making good profits, then investing in it is a good idea. However if, you invested in a company that's not earning then most probably you're just wasting your money.
So, are you ready to start your investment lessons? Read along and discover how you can earn regular income from stock investing via dividends.
Spend less than you earn
In most kinds of investments, it is a golden rule to spend way less than you earn. You have to learn how to pay yourself first. Investment returns don't come in a bundle nor at a fast pace. This comes slowly and gradually.
When talking about stock investing, you would want your return to come substantially. After a couple of years, this return will take its course and will come to you regularly each year.
Maintain an emergency fund
Before deciding the amount you'll invest, you should first determine how much you need to keep as an emergency fund. This amount should be enough to support you in case the going gets tough.
You should also ensure that the money will be kept safe instead of keeping it in a treasure box.
Go for stocks that pay dividends
In order to earn a regular income, you should not invest in any kind of stocks. It is a must to ensure that you're investing in a stock that pays a good dividend. To do this, you should first check on the AT&T for example, the share of AT&T is 24.83 and that its dividend is 0.40.
These figures mean that every three months, you will earn $0.40 for each AT&T share that you have. If you have bought 1,000 AT&T shares that would be around $25,000, you will earn $400 every three months from the AT&T.
Nevertheless, these figures are not forever. It will still change which means your earnings will also grow. In most cases, the increase of figures happens annually.
Choose your stocks carefully
A stock with the highest dividend doesn't mean it is the right stock for you. It's best to go for companies who have a reputable background when it comes to paying dividends and a company whose dividend payments keep on growing.
Be meticulous when choosing a company and ensure that it will be able to meet all your expectations. It's wise to educate yourself first and conduct a background check on every potential company.
Although most people think that investing is a risk, many still believe that it's a brilliant way to have a regular income. With this, you don't actually have to care about the stock price; your main concern should be the dividend which is truly less stressful. With a good dose of knowledge and these handy tips, surely you won't go wrong with stock investing.


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Earlham is a crossroads college. We are a meeting place for differing religious beliefs and practices that is constituted by four overlapping communities:
Students come to the Office of Religious Life for support in differing ways: some come seeking a deeper connection with their faith traditions, others seek to explore alternative spiritual paths; and still others need assistance discerning the inner foundations of their outward commitments.
The Office of Religious Life supports and encourages students by providing guidance in contemplative inquiry, opportunities for dialogue, sponsoring celebratory communal events, and supporting a host of opportunities which enable students to put their most cherished beliefs into daily practice.
Chris Stedman, Executive Director and Coordinator of Humanist Life for the Yale Humanist Community and the author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious, will be the speaker at the January 28, 2015, Convocation.
Related Links
Religious Life at Earlham College
A Model of Religious Life
Religious Life Groups
Newlin Center for Quaker Thought and Practice
Local Places of Worship
Religion and Academics
Quaker Studies
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Let's explore the 8 looks together! Use this figure and other photos to guide yourselves!
Step 2: Look 1
Step 3: Look 2
Step 4: Look 3
Step 5: Look 4
2. Bring the top ends of the shawl to the centre of your chest and cross them
3. Twist the ends
4. Tie a knot and secure by tucking it in
Step 6: Look 5
Step 7: Look 6
2. Hold on to the 2 ends in front of you
3. Tie the 2 ends together at your back
4. This is how it looks behind
Yay, I got a shawl for Christmas and I have never ever had something like this before so your post here is fantastic. Really cool ideas, thanks.
Well, I definitely know what I'm wearing tomorrow. :D
sadly, a year has passed since i knitted this shawl and i don't really like it as much anymore. :(


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Giuliana Rancic Shows Off Her Million Dollar Ring And Her Biggest Fan (Photos)
Giuliana Rancic was one of the best dressed ladies of the night at Sunday's Emmy Awards, and she has a million reasons why she should be happy today: the reality television star wore a million-dollar ring by Forever Mark while on the red carpet and let me tell you, that thing was absolutely stunning!
Giuliana shared a few close-up photos of the ring plus some behind-the-scenes pictures of what went on backstage at the Emmys. She also shared a few pics of her biggest fan watching her work the camera while at home and you'll never guess who he is. Ok, maybe you will but you'll have to see the pics to know who I'm talking about!
Check out our photos from Giuliana's Instagram account below and let us know what you think!
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The million-dollar rock Giuliana wore on the red carpet during the Emmys.
Rock 2 of 13
Now that is what you call a ROCK!
Seeing Double 3 of 13
Giuliana rocked two different dresses for the night.
Blue 4 of 13
Wow! I simply love the color of her dress.
Radiant 5 of 13
Giuliana looks so radiant, doesn't she?
Baby Duke 6 of 13
Baby Duke stayed at home to watch his mama work on the red carpet.
Manicam 7 of 13
How cool is the manicam?
Gorgeous 8 of 13
Lookin' fly, Miss G.
Make-Up 9 of 13
According to Giuliana, it takes a village before she gets ready for her big night.
Flowers 10 of 13
Sometimes you just have to stop and smell the fresh flowers...
Co-Workers 11 of 13
Wouldn't be great if everyone had great co-workers like Giuliana?
Shoes 12 of 13
Doesn't Giuliana have the best shoes or what?
Future QB 13 of 13
Duke is a future QB!
Photos via Instagram
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