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Video: Oprah Meets The Sister She Never Knew She Had
Oprah's journey never ceases to amaze me. The struggles and obstacles she has overcome to be one of the most powerful women in the world is incredible and her story just keeps on growing. Yesterday was probably one of the most touching episodes I've seen on Oprah (and she's had many). Back in November, Oprah found out that she had a sister that she had never met. Her mother had given birth to "Patricia" back in 1963 and immediately gave her up for adoption. When Patricia turned 20 years old, she decided that she wanted to meet her birth mother, however, after a few attempts at trying to find and contact her birth mother were unsuccessful, she eventually gave up. In 2007, her kids encouraged her to try once again, so she requested her adoption records and started putting the pieces together.
She found out that she had three other siblings, a sister that was 4 1/2 years old at the time she was born as well as a brother and sister (age 2 & 9 at the time of her birth) that eventually passed away. She knew she had a sister who was still alive but her hopes of finding her family came crashing down when she received a call from the adoption agency that her mother did not want to meet her. However, the same day she was rejected, she saw an interview with Oprah's mother on the news and found out that Oprah's mother had two kids that had died.
"Her mother said two of her children had passed away … I knew that two of my siblings had passed away, and I knew which two," Patricia says. Their names? Jeffrey and Patricia, also known as "Pat." "The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, because I also knew that one of my siblings and I shared the same name".
Her son Andre went online and pulled up Oprah's bio, matched up dates of when she was born and her siblings and they both realized that Oprah may be her half-sister.
How wild is that? From there, Patricia tried to contact her mother 3 more times and was rejected so she eventually went to a restaurant owned by her deceased sister Pat's daughter and once they met and finished putting the pieces together (They obtained DNA Tests that matched), her niece called Oprah and told her what was going on. Stedman and Oprah finally went to meet Pat on Thanksgiving Day (2010) and the rest is history.
Check out some of the excerpts from the show:
I think I've seen just about everything and heard every story. I thought nothing could surprise me anymore. But let me tell you, I was wrong. [It's] a bombshell family secret that left me speechless. Only a handful of people in my life know about this. With the way the media works today, there's no way the story wouldn't eventually get out, so she and her family made the decision to do this show. I wanted you to hear it from me first.
Oprah on Why She Wanted To Meet Patricia
Since I have been a person known in the public, there have been few times that I've been anywhere and not been sold out. There have been few times where you can bring anybody new into your life and not have that person in some way betray you or use you or take advantage of you.
Patricia tried and tried and tried again to get responses from my mother and other people in the family. She never once thought to go to the press. She never once thought to sell this story. … When I heard this about you, I said, Regardless if it's true or not true, I had to meet you because I wanted to meet somebody who had that kind of character.' So thank you.
**sidenote: Patricia could have gotten over a million dollars to do an interview with a tabloid but she kept her secret for years because she didn't want the truth to get out or to "hurt Oprah"
Oprah on being completely surprised at the news that she had a sister she knew nothing about
I had no idea that my mother had given up a baby in 1963. I was 9 years old at the time, living with my father in Nashville, and didn't even know my mother was pregnant … So imagine my shock just a few months ago. It was the end of October, right before Thanksgiving, [when] I found out that I have another sister living just 90 minutes away in Milwaukee. What's even more unbelievable is that she has the same name as my first sister who passed away, Patricia.
Oprah on her Mom
She is still of the same mindset of 1963 and is still carrying the shame that would have been put upon her in 1963, and therefore, she hasn't been able to release herself to fully embrace [Patricia] and embrace this miracle that has really happened in our family.
You can let that go. You can let the shame go. There are millions of people all over this country who are just like you, who have given up their children because they knew at the time that they could not provide the best for them. So, Vernita, you can let that go.
Oprah on being Betrayed by her Other Sister Pat (who is now deceased)
When I was 14 years old, I became pregnant and that was my big secret. I'd been abused since I was 9 years old, became pregnant at 14 years old, sent to live with my father. My sister, Pat, went to the tabloids and told the tabloids that story. That caused a big rift between my sister and I because she sold [me] out to the tabloids.
When I left our mother's house the other day, for the first time I realized that that was a gift to me. Pat, going to the tabloids and telling the story about my having the baby, was a gift because it released me from the shame that my mother still carries today. I thought, had she not done that, I would still be exactly where my mother is—stuck in the shame.
On the relationship Oprah now has with Patricia
As you can imagine, Patricia and I are still sorting all of this out. It's a process. She's so sweet. She would call me and say, are you all right? I know this is hard for you to process. Yes, it is. I'm still processing. So we're going to be getting to know each other in the months and days and years to come.
Patricia lived in Milwaukee with her two children (above) and had to work two jobs to provide for them.
If you missed it, you can see video snippets from this episode over at Oprah.com


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Desktop email clients communicate with the mail server by one of two protocols: IMAP or POP. Communication with the mail server may be set to encrypted (recommended) or not. POP from off campus must be set to encrypted. The encrypted communication is often referred to as "secure".
In general, we recommend secure IMAP.
Be very careful if you experiment with a POP email client. It may move all your mail from the server to the local computer. Many POP email clients have a setting to "keep all email on the server" to prevent this.
If you use gmail, it has a facility to POP your MHC email to your gmail account. See http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/network/email/gmail-pop.txt for more information.
For reasons of security and backup, for College employees whose email may contain critical College business, POP not be used. Email folders pertaining to college business should be left on the MHC server.
(The College provides technical support for Thunderbird and Webmail.)
Here are a the most important settings when you set up Thunderbird. (The wording below was taken from a Windows installation. If you are using Macintosh, the wording may be slightly different but the concepts remain the same.)
For a more detailed description of Thunderbird setup, go to the main MHC webpage and search the MHC website for "thunderbird setup".
============================================================================= Creating or modifying your Thunderbird email setup. Tools/Account settings: If necessary, "Account actions"/"Add mail account" (Make sure you are doing IMAP and not POP!) Check the following: Server settings Server name: mail.mtholyoke.edu Username: (your username, such as: sam20j) Security settings: (our recommendations) Select "SSL" Do not check "Use secure authentication" Advanced: (this is very important) IMAP server directory: mail Uncheck: Show only subscribed folders Check: Server supports ... Check: Use IDLE... Outgoing server (SMTP) settings: smtp.mtholyoke.edu Select and Edit the selection to get the dialog box: SMTP server: Username: Off campus, make sure your username is included. On campus, you may use your username. It will then ask for authentication the first message you send that session. Check "TLS, if available" or "STARTTLS" This allows you to send email through our outgoing mail server from off campus. =============================================================================


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The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
|藝術 超越想像
Motto in English
|Art – Surpassing Imagination
|Performing Arts
|Professor Adrian Walter
|No. 1 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
|Main Campus, Béthanie Campus
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|The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Chinese: 香港演藝學院) is a provider of tertiary education in Hong Kong. Located near the north coast of Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island, the main campus also functions as a venue for performances.
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, established in 1984, is one of the leading institutes of arts higher education in Asia. It provides professional education, training and research facilities in the performing arts, theatre and entertainment arts, film and television. Its educational policy reflects the cultural diversity of Hong Kong with emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions and interdisciplinary complementarity. The Academy offers academic programmes from Diploma/Foundation to Master's degree level in Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Music, Theatre and Entertainment Arts, as well as Chinese Traditional Theatre.
Every year, HKAPA enrolls about 750 students for its full-time programmes and around 770 students for the junior programmes. Furthermore, its extensive EXCEL (Extension and Continuing Education for Life) programme offers part-time personal enrichment courses and in-service professional training to nearly 8,000 students each year.
Since 1986 the academy has hosted the annual Hong Kong International Dance Conference.[1]
Academic units[edit]
The Academy offers academic programmes from Diploma/Foundation to Master's degree level in 6 Faculties:
- School of Dance
- School of Drama
- School of Film and Television
- School of Music
- School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts
- Chinese Traditional Theatre Programme
Academic staff[edit]
Academic staff includes:
- Prof Adrian Walter, Director
- Dr Anita Donaldson, Dean of Dance
- Ceri Sherlock, Dean of Drama
- Shu Kei, Dean of Film and TV
- Dr Sharon Choa, Chair of Music
- John A Williams, Dean of Theatre and Entertainment Arts
- Eleanor Wong, award-winning pianist as artist-in-residence
- Nancy Yuen, renowned soprano as Head of Vocal Studies
- Lyric Theatre, with 1,181 seats.
- Drama Theatre, with 415 seats.
- Concert Hall, with 382 seats.
- Recital Hall, with 134–202 seats
- Studio Theatre, with 120–240 seats
- Wellcome Theatre at the Béthanie Campus
The notable alumni include;
- Power Chan, a Hong Kong television and film actor
- Sunny Chan, a Hong Kong television and film actor
- Louis Cheung, a Hong Kong Cantopop recording-artist, songwriter and actor
- Cheung Tat-ming, a Hong Kong actor, comedian, director and writer
- Jim Chim, a Hong Kong actor, comedian, comedian
- Athena Chu, a Hong Kong actress and singer
- Candy Chu, a Hong Kong actress for the popular Hong Kong TVB television station
- Gem Tang Zhi-kei, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
- Katy Kung, a Hong Kong actress
- Gigi Lai, a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer
- Joey Leung, a Hong Kong actor
- Charmaine Li, an actress with Television Broadcasts Limited.
- Yan Yan Mak, award-winning Hong Kong director
- Marco Ngai, a Hong Kong actor
- Kearen Pang, a Hong Kong actress, writer
- Louisa So, a Hong Kong actress in drama and TV series
- Anthony Wong, an award-winning Hong Kong actor, screenwriter and film director
- Wong Cho-lam, a Hong Kong stage actor, stage director, television actor
- Mandy Wong, a Hong Kong television actress
- Yvonne Yung, a Hong Kong actress
- Rebecca Zhu, a Hong Kong actress
See also[edit]
- Béthanie campus, in Pok Fu Lam
- List of higher education institutions in Hong Kong
- List of buildings and structures in Hong Kong
- Education in Hong Kong
- Category:Universities in Hong Kong
- ^ Solomon, John (1995). East Meets West in Dance: Voices in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue. Routledge. p. 99. ISBN 3-7186-5593-4.
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while it is great to roast your own chicken and use leftovers for sandwiches, sometimes you just don't have time – and a few slices of breast meat from the counter can be just what you're after. Again, look for the Freedom Food logo as it means the chicken has been reared to RSPCA welfare standards whether indoors, free range or organic.
something we were sorely missing was a high welfare, British chorizo – but The Bath Pig company have come up trumps. Using their own special curing methods, and Freedom Food labelled free range pork, The Bath Pig company have come up with three flavours of chorizo ready for you to make delicious Panini, sumptuous tapas and rich, silky stews. It's available on line and in a number of Farm shops and delicatessens across the UK.
You can of course make these from scratch if you have time – they're a great way of using up leftover ingredients and we have provided recipes in the past for chicken and bacon pies, and our salmon and watercress flans. But when time is tight, a short cut to picnic heaven is undoubtedly a great pie made by someone else! And Higgidy Pies have a wonderful Freedom Food labelled chicken pie.
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Friday Fun Video: Bell Canada iClones iPhone Ad for Palm Pre
While even our friends over at PreCentral.net haven't exactly been thrilled by Palm's own, creepy Pre ads, we're not sure Bell Canada's approach -- filming an original iPhone 2G ad using the Pre as a stand in -- is any better.
As a Canadian myself, I'd like to assure the world we're really a heckuvalot more creative than this! (Right Bell?!)
Recent iPhone ad for comparison's sake, after the jump!
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Friday Fun Video: Bell Canada iClones iPhone Ad for Palm Pre
It wouldn't matter what Apple copyrighted. Parody and satire are not protected by copyright. But since they're not even attacking Apple in a humorous way to explain having a similar-stlye commercial, it simply comes off as unimaginative and pathetic, rather than intentionally done for parody.
Must not play music and shoot close up video of a guy showing off a phone. Too similar to apple. I got it. Thanks..
No, you don't "got it."
Palm's done absolutely nothing inappropriate or illegal toward Apple here. They've just made themselves look uncreative. That's the only point of this article, and my comments.
Don't go into advertising.
@mystic: That's the point..the masses don't know the Pre does all that.
@fastlane: Sorry dude, you don't get it. People want to see what the phone can do, not how creative Palm can be. This is what got Palm into trouble when they created a borg queen commercial.
When you got a wow product, you wow em. If you're selling corn, then you get creative..
"They couldve done a "Mac Guy vs. PC Guy-style commercial and poked fun at both the iPhone's non-multi-tasking AND Apple's comercials in one shot."
no they couldn't.
i mean, at some point the iphone might not be carrier exclusive in the US and Canada anymore.
bell wouldn't want to shoot itself in the foot for when that happens.
also, running anti-iphone ads has been tried before and hasn't worked.
the worst thing about this ad isn't that it "copies" apple, it is the focus on ridiculously normal features.
so people can zoom AND move around a map? ZOMG! wow that's so incredible! i mean zooming i can see but moving TOO!? .. AND IT ROTATES!? i might just faint. i can't handle the awesomeness of the rotating map that moves.
then of course, after spending half the ad talking about amazingly innovative moving maps, they blow through the physical keyboard and multitasking nature of the device with barely a mention. using the super ugly web-based twitter client in close-up.
why not use something slicker, looking, like twee? http://www.twitterpowersystems.com/twitter-clients/twee-a-another-twitte...
or a non beta app like tweed would be better: http://palm.preapplications.net/tweed-twitter-app-for-the-palm-pre
Uhh... dude... this article isn't about whether or not the commercial is good, bad, for the masses, not for the masses, or a "wowing" ad. That's YOUR argument.
The "ARTICLE" (see the one written above?) is ONLY about whether or not the commercial is original or copied from Apple. That's it! Nothing else!
Again... you don't get it.
I think Bell running an ad mocking the iPhone would burn about as many bridges with Apple as Microsoft has burned — none. But then again...??
Bell is widely expected to be carrying the iPhone as soon as their HSPA network is up and running, which could be any month now. So, I don't imagine they'll be attacking it :)
I'm so sorry for going beyond the scope of the above article.
Ok..i'll play along. It's rather obvious and implied in my comments that Palm copied Apple. Happy? I only tried to point out that Apple's commercial is hardly original itself. A guy showing off his phone as the camera zooms in on the screen.
Which led to me asking, how else would you be able to show what the Pre's touchscreen could do? But then you whined like a little girl crying I don't get it and struggled to criticize Palm for not being creative which apparently is the only thing that matters to you for some bizarre reason.


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Perfect for fans of hit TV show Game Of Thrones this image shows the oath of the Nightwatchers. The Oath taken by the Brothers of Wesstoro's Nights Watch dictates that you will give your life to guarding the wall. This poster of the oath is perfect for any fan of the smash hit TV show.


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Welcome to Gas Natural, Inc.
Gas Natural Inc. (NYSE MKT: EGAS), a holding company, distributes and sells natural gas to end-use residential, commercial and industrial customers. It distributes approximately 26 billion cubic feet of natural gas to approximately 68,000 customers through regulated utilities operating in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, North Carolina and Kentucky. The Company's other operations include natural gas production and natural gas marketing. The Company's Montana public utility was originally incorporated in 1909. In October 2014, the Company announced the sale of its subsidiary, Energy West Wyoming, Inc., as well its Wyoming pipeline assets and related real estate, equipment and contracts. The divestiture is expected to close in mid-2015.
Gas Natural's strategy for growth is to expand throughput, particularly in the Maine and North Carolina markets, while looking for acquisitions that are either adjacent to its existing utilities or in under saturated markets. The company's common stock currently trades on the NYSE MKT under the ticker symbol "EGAS."


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Welcome to Crafting Rails Applications, 2nd edition
07 May 2013, 22:26
José Valim (29 posts)
The feedback on the first edition of Crafting Rails Applications was amazing and we have updated it to work with Rails 4.
Everything from the first edition is there: you learn how to extend Rails, change its behavior, and replace whole components to bend it to your will. For the second edition, we have added a new chapter, so overall we have eight chapters to guide you to understand Rails' inner workings and prepare you to tackle complicated projects with solutions that are well-tested, modular, and easy to maintain.
All of the projects and code examples have been updated and tested to work with Rails 4. The projects also use more up-to-date workflows for creating Rails plugins and interfacing with the framework. In fact, the enginex tool built for the first edition has been merged into Rails, which is what we use now in the book. The new chapter talks exclusively about Rails 4 new features, like Live Streaming, and other details related to eager loading and thread safety.
Have fun!
08 May 2013, 17:16
Armando Flores (2 posts)
Hello Jose. I do not know if this is the right place for this question but here it is: Will there be a discount code people that purchased the first edition? Thx.
16 May 2013, 11:52
Jörg Leis (1 post)
+1 for a discount
29 May 2013, 15:11
yves dufour (11 posts)
bought it, but would appreciate discount for the next edition ( Rails 5 ?)… thanks Jose ( gosto muito do seu trabalho…)
06 Jul 2013, 14:19
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+1 for a discount
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+1 for discount
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Cahill was a standout player for the great Holy Cross teams of the late 1930s. During his sophomore season he teamed with Bill Osmanski to form one of the Crusaders' most formidable backfields of all-time. That 1937 team would go undefeated, finishing the season with a record of 8-0-2. Cahill would then lead Holy Cross to an 8-1 record during his junior year, and during his senior season (in 1939) the Crusaders went 7-2. Over the course of his three-year varsity career, he helped guide the Crusaders to an overall mark of 23-3-2.
Following his graduation in 1940, Cahill played in the College All-Star Game in which the collegians defeated the New York Giants, completing his first 11 passes in a row. He went on to play one season with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League during the 1943 season, connecting on 50 of 109 passes for 608 yards and three touchdowns in 10 games played (including two starts).


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Transcript:How to Keep Romance Alive in Your MarriageHey guys -- Jonathon Stewart here for About.com. It's a story often-told -- at the beginning, it's flowers every weekend, intimate dinners for two, sexy lingerie, and breakfast in bed. But once the courtship dust settles, it's Sports Center and takeout, sweatpants and sleeping in. But it doesn't have to be that way, and it doesn't have to take much to keep your romance alive. Check it out.
Set Romantic Dates with Your SpouseBusy schedules, taking care of kids, and falling into routines can be the death of your romantic life with your partner, if you're not careful. While things like children and work are undoubtedly important, it's essential to make time for your relationship, too. Setting date nights for just the two of you, giving yourselves a weekend to get away by yourselves, and even just taking the time to enjoy sit-down meals together at home can provide the quality time necessary to maintain a close bond.
Hugs and kisses and little affectionate touches go a long way in this department, too. Think about all the things that you loved to do during those early days, and set aside a little time for those, too. Pinochle, square dancing, skinny skiing, whatever you're into.
Surprise Your Spouse With Romantic GesturesToo often it's easy to let time go by without giving your relationship its due. Taking just a few minutes each day to let your partner know how much you care can make all the difference. Leaving sweet nothings on post-its can be a great way to bring a smile to your partner's face, and little things like doing the dishes, taking out the garbage, and making the bed -- especially when it's not your responsibility to do so anyway -- are actions that can speak louder than words. Of course, those three little magic words are something you should never forego, either. I love you.
Care for Yourself and Your MarriageKeeping your body in shape and not letting your wardrobe consist solely of old college t-shirts and sweaters from the '80s are great ways to remind your partner that you're still into your relationship. It not only shows your partner that you're still interested in attracting them, it shows that you care about yourself and that you want them to take notice of you, too.
Communicate for a Healthy MarriageBut far and away the number one thing to remember in your relationship is to communicate. If you feel like you're being neglected in favor of work, or kids, or anything else, speak up. Likewise, if you feel like your once-fiery love life has somehow fizzled out, let your partner know how you feel. Avoid being accusatory or assigning blame, and instead focus on making things the way you want them. If you approach it right, you'll pretty likely to find you're not alone.
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OAXACA, Mexico - An earthquake that struck the Oaxaca region of Mexico at 12:02 p.m. local time was revised slightly downward to magnitude 7.4, the United States Geological Society reports.
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President Obama's older daughter Malia, 13, is on vacation with a school group in Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico, according to reports from the region. A spokeswoman for First Lady Michelle Obama said Malia was "safe and never in danger."
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It's still a hot topic among landowners and gamekeepers — Albert Finney's appearance in the new Bond film, Skyfall, as a ghillie.
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Our story yesterday about James Bond's ghillie telling Daniel Craig in Skyfall "This is your father's hunting rifle" being a possible solecism has provoked huge correspondence. In Britain, we "hunt" with hounds not with rifles. However, the gun handed to Bond is not a shotgun (as we said) or a hunting rifle but a big-game rifle.
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Billie Piper and her actor husband Laurence Fox have long extolled their love of the good life at their rural Sussex home — but now it seems the hard graft of country living is catching up with them.
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Perfect Ponies Learning Center to host "Open Horse" for Veterans
Equine Assisted Therapy is helping veterans and families live better across the country; And a small equine assisted farm in the St. John Valley wants to bring that wellness to veterans here in Aroostook County. News Source 8's Angela Christoforos has the story…
They're big, they're beautiful, they're therapeutic. They're the horses at the Perfect Ponies Learning Center in Van Buren that provide wellness for Veterans in Northern Maine.
Perfect Ponies Learning Center Owner Nancy Dumond Violette said, "One vet was saying how relaxing it was just to be with the horse, grooming the horse. He told me it gave him something to look forward to each week to come back."
An Open House or " Open Horse" for Veterans and families is now being held there the third Wednesday of each month from May to July 6:00 to 7:30, and August to October from 5 to 6:30.
It gives veterans and their families a chance to come pet a horse and experience the benefits of equine therapy.
"The movement of a horse if you're sitting on one will activate parts of your brain that help you to relax, think more clearly. Just being around their size and their majesticness sometimes is all people need," said Dumond.
These naturally hyper alert animals have a way of helping people relax and problem solve, and can work wonders for a Veteran struggling with things like post traumatic stress disorder.
"For some reason it's touching their lives, whether it's learning to concentrate, focus, and plan for success, or whether to relax or learning how to work through triggers, in a way that's more positive healthy and safe," said Dumond.
Not to mention funny- some of these horses even know how to line dance! Fees are waived for veterans, and smiles at this small Equine Assisted farm are always free.
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The push for law enforcement officers to wear body cameras has gained steam since the shooting death of an unarmed teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, earlier this month, and agencies in Aiken and around the CSRA are exploring the devices.
The Aiken Department of Public Safety is currently testing several different models of body cameras that record activity from an officers perspective when activated.
The cameras, which run on rechargeable batteries, record segments of video and audio and store the segments until they can be uploaded to a computer.
The technology is available. We definitely see the benefits in using them, said Lt. Jake Mahoney.
Aiken Public Safety has had video cameras inside its patrol cars for more than 20 years, though those cameras werent widely available or used in their advent.
As times have changed, law enforcement, in general, has discovered the value for the officers having those cameras, Mahoney said. It helps the officers recall what happened during critical incidents. It also helps provide a historical record.
The cameras also can be used in the investigation of complaints residents make about officers.
We can refer to that video we use to either validate the citizen complaint or exonerate the officer, Mahoney said.
Aiken Public Safety began looking into purchasing body cameras about a year ago, and one of the agencys goals for the current fiscal year is to continue to seek and utilize current technology to include body cameras, automated license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
The Columbia Police Department is currently testing several types of body cameras, while a handful of deputies with the Lexington County Sheriffs Department traffic unit already use the cameras.
Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree recently ordered 15 cameras to be used by the agencys motorcycle patrol.
The cameras vary in size, capability, memory size and price. Some are the size of a pack of gum or a cellphone, while others look like an ink pen. They can range in price from $100 to $2,000 per device.
The particular model Aiken Public Safety is considering costs about $800, according to Mahoney, who said Public Safety is looking to outfit about 60 patrol officers with the devices.
When we go to body cameras, theres a good chance that will be the most expensive piece of equipment that the officers will carry, he said.
A spokesperson for the Aiken County Sheriffs Office said the agency doesnt use body cameras and has no plans to purchase them.
Teddy Kulmala covers crime and courts for Aiken Standard.
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Compensating contract workers involves negotiating a rate that reflects skills and experience, paying in a timely manner, and possibly offering perks such as professional development, says the founder of a company that develops training manuals. A key is not to treat 1099 workers as employees, the author advises.
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Brazil is more than just the popular future host of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. It is a very promising economy and the country of origin of many global challenger companies, such as Embraer, Marcopolo, and Natura. Economic analysts group the country with the most promising emerging markets, Russia, India and China, which together form the "BRIC countries." Is entrepreneurship responsible for part of Brazil's economic development? A look at some of the trends in entrepreneurship in Brazil suggests so, and the country's efforts to boost its culture of innovation and entrepreneurship promise to sustain its growth in the coming years.
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The February 21 lecture, "Marine Mammal Cognition: How Marine Mammals Perceive" will be presented by biological oceanography graduate student Jennifer Miksis of Narragansett.
Miksis will give an overview of the mechanisms marine mammals use to perceive signals from their environment and from each other.
A native of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Miksis received a B.A. in biology from Harvard University and an M.S. from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Under the guidance of her major professors, Dr. Percy Donaghay, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, and Dr. Jim Miller, URI Department of Ocean Engineering, her research interests include marine mammal cognition and communication. She is working on her doctoral dissertation entitled "Manatee Response to Habitat Variations and Human Activity: The Effects of Physical Environment Covariates.
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Best Buy offering to "future proof" your tech gadgets
If you purchase your iPhones or iPads from Best Buy, you may be interested in checking out their new Buy Back program. In a letter sent out to current Best Buy Reward Zone customers, they'll be announcing the new program during the Super Bowl this coming Sunday (third quarter to be exact).
It appears Best Buy will tell you exactly how much they'll give you for your gadget when you purchase it. When you are ready to trade in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (or any other gadget for that matter), you'll get a Best Buy gift card instantly for the fixed buy back amount. It's a nice little gesture to loyal customers. Here is part of the e-mail sent to customers:
Buy Back is essentially "future-proofing" your technology. You purchase the technology you want today, and we'll buy it back at a set price when you're ready to upgrade to something new. You'll know upfront what your gear will be worth, and you can conveniently redeem your Buy Back at our stores and immediately receive a Best Buy Gift Card.
It remains to be seen how much they'll offer you for certain gadgets. My guess is whatever it is, you'll still make out better selling your previous generation gadgets on eBay or Craigslist. It's still a nice option for customers who don't want to deal with the hassle of selling off old gadgets themselves.
Is this something you guys would utilize or do you think they'll offer amounts that won't really be worth it?
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CINCINNATI - Four members of the Xavier women's tennis team are headed to the Ohio Valley USTA/ITA Regional Championships beginning Friday on the Basham Courts at the Schwartz Tennis Center on Purdue University's campus.
Singles qualifying begins on Thursday with Xavier senior Kally Alkire and junior Andrea Wolf having to win twice to join the main draw. Freshman Alex Brinker and sophomore Daniella Patton automatically reached the 64-player main draw that starts Friday.
Alkire squares off against Ball State's Kristel Sanders at 12:30 p.m. and Wolf plays Claudia Escribens of Purdue at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. Brinker faces Vanderbilt's Marie Casares on Friday. Patton's opponent has yet to be determined.
Xavier's doubles partners will be Patton and Wolf and Alkire and Brinker. Patton and Wolf are in the doubles qualifying and must win twice to reach the main draw and begin with Chattanooga's Kelsey Coots and Katie Polk at 8 a.m. on Thursday.
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Winter's cold-weather leaves us sniffling, sneezing, nutrient-deprived and a bit blue, so heading for the supplement aisle in search of the perfect vitamin, supplement or medicine is a fairly common approach. One of the biggest mistakes made during the cold-weather season is running to the nearest drug store without doing your research first!
If there is one thing I took away from the recent NeoCon East Conference & Expo in Baltimore, held October 29–31, 2014, it's that workplaces are getting healthier! Joan Blumenfeld, the firm-wide Design Director for Interiors and Principle at Perkins+Will says, "It's because people recognize that healthy workplaces make people more productive. It's not revolutionary…it's evolutionary. Being conscious is half of the issue."
Our mental health is something that many of us easily take for granted. When things are going well, we don't even think about it. But about 10% of us will struggle with major depression at some point in our lives (1). In addition, situational depression based on life events (the loss of a job or loved one, etc.) is common. Many people are reluctant to try prescribed medications due to stigma, side effects or cost. Some feel they do not need to be on medication long term—that they can just tough it out.
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My marketing communications firm has been successfully advocating healthy lifestyles for nearly 30 years. Believe it or not, this was my first time at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo.The event took place in Atlanta from October 18 -21. What I can't believe myself is how the obesity issue continues to expand. We still have a lot of work to do in three main categories – 1) Portion Control 2) Snacking and 3) Sourcing.
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While many countries are increasing engagement with their diasporas, U.S. policy has chiefly focused on U.S.-based diasporas from other countries, despite its own estimated overseas population of 7.6 million. This feature explores results from a survey of more than 1,400 U.S. citizens and 140 former citizens living abroad, many of whom are critical of limited U.S. government engagement with them even as restrictive financial reporting regulations have been imposed.
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With more than 1.8 million immigrants living in the United States, the Philippines was the fourth largest country of origin in 2013. Filipino immigrants stand out from other top immigrant groups with their unique historical experience as former nationals due to U.S. annexation of the Philippines in 1899, close historic ties to the U.S. military, and prevalence in health-care professions.
Public frustration with decades of poor governance and pervasive corruption in Ukraine culminated in the EuroMaidan revolution in November 2013. Since then, violent conflict and Russia's annexation of Crimea have displaced an estimated 2 million people, both internally and internationally. This feature article explores migration ambitions among Ukrainians in the lead-up and aftermath of EuroMaidan, and the impact of war and economic crisis on traditional migration patterns.
In 2013, more than 25 million people in the United States reported limited English proficiency (LEP), an 80 percent increase since 1990. The LEP population, the majority of which is immigrant, is generally less educated and more likely to live in poverty than the English-proficient population. This Spotlight explores key indicators of the LEP population, both U.S. and foreign born, including geographic distribution, language diversity, and employment.
As legal challenges continue to impede President Obama's deferred action programs to protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation, it is becoming increasingly clear that the window of opportunity for implementation before the 2016 election is growing ever narrower. Even as advocates continue mobilizing immigrants to apply, attention is shifting to other new policies announced by the president last November.
Even as Nepal will lean more heavily on its international diaspora to help recover from devastating earthquakes that killed thousands and decimated parts of the country, the disasters have had effects on internal migration. Class and gender dynamics have long driven significant internal flows. This feature article explores migration trends in Nepal, including movement between ecological zones, growing urbanization, and the feminization of an increasingly mobile workforce.
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Whether as migrant-sending or migrant-receiving locations—or both—many countries have rich, complex international and internal migration histories. MPI's online journal, the Migration Information Source, offers profiles of more than 70 nations. Written by leading scholars, these profiles delve into countries' migration histories, demographics, policymaking, and more.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the Obama administration and immigration reform, the shift in enforcement policy, additional resources for the U.S.-Mexico border, fewer requests for H-1B visas, and more.
Immigration flows to the United States have noticeably slowed in the last year, raising fundamental questions for policymakers and analysts about the effect the economic crisis is having on inflows and return migration. MPI's Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Aaron Terrazas assess the potential impacts by examining recent data, the likely behavior of immigrants, and immigration history.
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The 102,000 Iraqi immigrants residing in the United States in 2007 accounted for just 0.3 percent of all U.S. immigrants. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the category of admission of the Iraqi-born immigrant population.
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Talking Connecticut sports with Chris Elsberry
Monthly Archive for May, 2012
Fairfield women's 2012-13 BB schedule shaping up
I spoke with Fairfield University women's basketball coach Joe Frager on Thursday as the Stags men's and women's basketball teams announced a new five-year agreement to play in the Webster Bank Arena and he told me that much of his team's 2012-13 schedule is in place. With nine non-conference games set in stone, Frager is […] [Read More]
CT Section committee should be embarrassed over scoring snafus
Embarrassing. That's the word that immediately comes to mind. The 41st Julius Boros Challenge Cup was played at the New Haven Country Club Thursday and everything about the event was first rate – except the scoring. That, the Connecticut Section PGA committee messed up royally. Yes, the CT Section pros held off the amateurs from […] [Read More]


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Oklahoma State says wide receiver Dez Bryant will remain suspended for the remainder of the football season.
School officials announced Tuesday evening they were informed of
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September 2010.
Cowboys spokesman Kevin Klintworth says the university is
appealing the decision to the NCAA Student-Athlete Reinstatement
Committee, but declined further comment.
The university announced on Oct. 7 the junior was declared
ineligible for lying to the NCAA about his relationship with former
NFL star Deion Sanders.
A top NFL prospect, Bryant caught 87 passes for 1,480 yards and
19 touchdowns last season while also scoring twice on punt returns.
This season, Bryant led the team with 17 catches for 323 yards
and four touchdowns through OSU's first three games.
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My fig trees are still producing; it's also apple time here in Virginia. Does anyone know any dessert recipes for/have any ideas about combining both? I've found many combinations of dried figs and apples, but none for fresh figs and apples. Thanks!
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The Nilson Report, a noted payments industry newsletter, reported Nov. 11 that debit cards lost purchase volume and transaction ground to credit cards in 2012.
Trend reversal occurred in 2012, according to the Nilson Report.
CHICAGO — Both the need to innovate and the possible pitfalls of doing so were on the minds of executives attending CO-OP Financial Services THINK 2013 conference last week.
CHICAGO — Too much innovation is not necessarily a good thing, says an academic who studied Lego.
A pictorial look at the opening day of THINK 13 in Chicago.
The THINK 13 conference, organized by CO-OP Financial Services, will zeroing in on how to "Disrupt Business as Usual"–to creatively disrupt an organization from within before it gets disrupted from without. As usual, this year's edition will feature a line-up of business leaders from outside the industry who will offer...


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Since 2008, the Council has presented its Shevet Achim Award to persons who have made Outstanding Contributions to Jewish-Christian Understanding.
The title comes from the Hebrew text of Psalm 133:1 —
הִנֵּה מַה-טּוֹב וּמַה-נָּעִים שֶׁבֶת אַחִים גַּם יָחַד
Hinei ma tov u'manayim shevet achim gam ya-chad
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity!
The award graphic is used with the permission of the Catholic-Jewish Conference of Milwaukee. It was designed by Florence Bern, who was inspired by the words "we must build bridges between our faiths." The design includes the two most ancient symbols in Judaism and Christianity: the seven-branched candelabrum called the menorah, and the fish (the Greek word for fish, ICHTHYS, is an acrostic for "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.") The arch between the menorah and the fish not only evokes the image of a bridge between us, but recalls the sign of the rainbow given to Noah after the flood as a sign of God's covenant and promises to all human kind.
The menorah's three branches from which the fish emerges evoke the Jewish tradition and teaching of the prophets that the world rests upon three things: justice, righteousness and deeds of loving kindness. The four flames represent the bringing of God's light throughout the world. For Christians, it also indicates that Christianity emerged from Judaism, but has neither exhausted the depths of Judaism nor superseded it. The artist explained that "the circle is not completed between Judaism and Christianity because there is yet work to be done to bring about the peace and justice of God's rule to all the world."
Leon Klenicki joined the Anti-Defamation League as director of Jewish-Catholic relations in 1973 and in 1984 became its director of interfaith affairs, a position he held until 2001. In these capacities he was an important voice of American Judaism over four decades of improving Catholic-Jewish relations after the Second Vatican Council. Rabbi Klenicki was the author and co-author of hundreds of books and papers dealing with the theological and practical aspects of improving relations between Christians and Jews. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI named him a Papal Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
A native of Argentina, Rabbi Klenicki studied philosophy and classics at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1959, he won a scholarship to study at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he completed his rabbinical studies. He received a B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati as well as a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and a rabbinical diploma at HUC-JIR in 1967.
CCJR is honored to bestow its Shevet Achim posthumously to his widow, Myra Cohen Klenicki, on the occasion of the publication of Toward the Future: Essays on Catholic-Jewish Relations in Memory of Rabbi Leon Klenicki (Stimulus Books/Paulist Press).
John T. Pawlikowski, a priest of the Servite Order, serves as Professor of Social Ethics at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where he also directs the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program in the school's Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Center. He served for six years as President of the International Council of Christians & Jews. He was also appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and reappointed for three successive terms by Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton. He currently serves on the Governor's Commission for Holocaust and Genocide in his home state of Illinois.
He is the author/editor of more than fifteen books including The Challenge of the Holocaust for Christian Theology, Christ in the Light of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue, Jesus and the Theology of Israel, Biblical and Theological Reflections on The Challenge of Peace, Justice in the Marketplace: CTU's Pastoral Commentary on the Bishops' letter on the Economy, The Ecological Challenge: Ethical, Liturgical, and Spiritual Responses, Reinterpreting Revelation and Tradition: Jews and Christians in Conversation, Good and Evil after Auschwitz, and Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust.
A. James Rudin is Senior Interreligious Advisor for the American Jewish Committee. He had previously served since 1968 as the AJC's interreligious affairs director.
He is past Chairman of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations. He has participated in meetings with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, in World Council of Churches conferences in Geneva, and is founder of the National Interreligious Task Force on Black-Jewish relations. A prolific writer, he writes weekly commentary for the Religion News Service and his articles have appeared in "Christianity Today," "The Christian Century," and "Eternity" magazines. He appears frequently on radio and television as an expert on Interreligious affairs.
His recent books include: Cushing, Spellman, O'Connor: The Surprising Story of How Three American Cardinals Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations (2011); Christians & Jews, Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future (2010); and The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us (2006).
Franklin Sherman is Founding Director of the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. He began his teaching career at the School of Religion of the University of Iowa, teaching subsequently at Mansfield College, Oxford, England, and for 23 years at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, where he served for ten years as Dean. He has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago as well as academic institutions in Switzerland, Israel, Zimbabwe, and Japan. His undergraduate degree is from Muhlenberg College and his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and served for many years as chair of its Consultative Panel on Lutheran-Jewish Relations.
Dr. Sherman is author of The Promise of Heschel, a study of the Jewish scholar Abraham Joshua Heschel, as well as numerous essays and reviews in the field of Christian-Jewish relations. He edited and provided historical introductions and annotations for the volume of Luther's Works: American Edition that contains Luther's writings on the Jews and Judaism (Vol. 47). His current project is preparing an expected two-volume collection of the most significant statements on Christian-Jewish relations issued by Christian, Jewish, and interfaith bodies around the world since World War II. The first volume was published by Paulist Press in 2011, entitled Bridges: Documents of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue: The Road to Reconciliation (1945-1985).
Judith Hershcopf Banki is director for special programs at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding in New York City.
A pioneer and veteran of Christian-Jewish relations, her work began before the Second Vatican Council when as an aide to Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum at the American Jewish Committee she coordinated pivotal studies in the presentation of Jews and other minorities in Catholic school textbooks. These studies were submitted to the Vatican and contributed to the development of its landmark declaration, Nostra Aetate. In the following decades, she has been a constant advocate for interreligious understanding in an enormous variety of programs and initiatives.
Her published and co-edited publications include: A Prophet of Our Time: An Anthology of the Writings of Rabbi Marc H. Tannenbaum (2002); Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Christian and Jewish Perspectives (2001); The Image of Jews in Christian Teaching (1986); Anti-Israel Influence in American Churches: A Background Report (1979); and Christian Responses to the Yom Kippur War: Implications for Christian-Jewish Relations (1974)
Eugene J. Fisher served for thirty years as the specialist in Catholic-Jewish relations at the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Catholic-Jewish Studies at Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, Florida.
He has published or edited some 20 books and over 250 articles in the field of Jewish-Christian relations, including: The Jewish Roots of Christian Liturgy, ed. (Paulist, 1990); Interwoven Destinies: Jews and Christians through the Ages, ed. (Paulist/Stimulus, 1992); Faith Without Prejudice: Rebuilding Christian Attitudes Toward Judaism (Crossroad, 1993); Visions of the Other: Jewish and Christian Theologians Assess the Dialogue, ed. (Paulist/Stimulus, 1994); A Prophet of Our Time: An Anthology of the Writings of Rabbi Marc H. Tannenbaum, ed. with Judith H. Banki (Fordham University Press, 2002). He also co-edited with Leon Klenicki The Saint for Shalom: How Pope John Paul II Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations (Crossroad, 2011) and edited Memoria Futuri: Catholic-Jewish Dialogue Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; Texts and Addresses of Cardinal William H. Keeler (Paulist/Stimulus, 2012).


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Nominations Period for Duke's Choice Awards (Latin America Edition) Ends Soon
Just before JavaOne 2012, it was announced that the Duke's Choice Award program is being expanded to include the Latin America; Europe / Africa / Middle East; and Asia regional JavaOne conferences. The first regional Duke's Choice Awards will be held at JavaOne Latin America. The nominations deadline is Wednsday, November 7.
The nominations page notes:
The goal of the regional awards is to celebrate Java innovation happening within specific regions and provides an opportunity to recognize winners locally. The Duke's Choice Award program is open to all members of the respective regional Java communities and nominations are accepted by anyone, including Oracle employees, for any compelling use of Java technology. The regional programs will include Java community judges from the region. In keeping with the 10 year tradition of the Duke's Choice Award program, the most important ingredient is innovation. Let's recognize and celebrate the innovation that Java delivers within specific geographic regions.
The winners will be announced at JavaOne Latin America, in São Paulo, Brazil, December 4-6.
Java.net Weblogs
Since my last blog post, Harold Carr posted a new java.net blog:
Our latest Java.net article from Manning Publications is Natural User Interaction with Drag-and-Drop by Rob Crowther, author of the Manning book Hello! HTML5 and CSS3.
Our current Java.net poll asks Would you use a cloud platform to host a new start-up today? Voting will be open until Friday, November 2.
Our latest Java.net Spotlight is Tomasz Nurkiewicz's Java features applicability:
Java language and standard library is powerful, but with great power comes great responsibility. After seeing a lot of user code misusing or abusing rare Java features on one hand and completely forgetting about basic features on the other, I decided to compose this summary. I group Java features in three categories: day to day, occasionally, and never (frameworks and libraries only). The rule...
Prior to that, we featured Heather Van Cura's Recent EC Meetings - RIM forfeits EC seat:
Materials and minutes from the JCP EC Face-to-Face Meeting, held September 2012 in Prague, are now available on the EC Meeting Summaries page. Topics included JCP.Next, a JCP 2.8 progress report, Inactive JSRs, and two Spec Lead presentations. In October 2011, new EC Standing Rules went into effect. The Rules include the following: ...
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Updated: 12/19/2012 7:10 PM KSTP.com By: Cassie Hart
Minnesota Fire Officials say the week between Christmas and New Year's Day is the most fire-prone week of the year.
Last winter during that time, 172 structure fires caused nearly $3 million in property damage and even claimed some lives.
State Fire Marshal Jerry Rosendahl attributes 70-percent of those fires to cooking, open flames and heating. "The number of fires varies from year-to-year, but the causes do not," says Rosendahl.
"The challenges remain: unattended stovetops, creosote-clogged chimneys, improper use of candles and space heaters, and people who burn wrapping paper in the fireplace, despite warnings."
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It's almost as if I have seen only two things today. I saw the rose hips barely vibrating in the breeze. And now I see the World Trade Center collapsing to the ground again and again. Life goes on outside my car window. The homeless people are making their way to the shelters downtown, not because of the terrorist attack but because they have to get to the shelters by noon or go hungry for the night. The picture of life is still before me, but the frame is broken.
Today I remember three things that struck me in Armstrong's discussion of the God of Islam. The first, which I should be embarrassed not to have known, was the considerable amount of scriptural belief and teaching that Islam shares with both Judaism and Christianity. Another eye-opener was the relatively enlightened intellectual energy of early Islam, when compared with the Judaism and Christianity of the era of Muhammad in the 7th Century.
Islam, which values intellectual exploration and doesn't pretend to know the details of God's nature, was never at odds with the Enlightenment in the way the other two were, especially Christianity.
But the big shocker for me, the one element that distinguishes Islam more than any other from the other two monotheistic religions, was Muhammad's preaching of religious tolerance. The Koran teaches that God has revealed himself in different ways to different people all over the earth and that all of these faces of God are sacred:
"Do not argue with the followers of earlier revelation otherwise than in the most kindly manner--unless it be such of them as are set on evil doing--and say, 'We believe in that which has been bestowed upon us, as well as that which has been bestowed upon you: for our God and your God is one and the same, and it is unto him that we all surrender ourselves."
Every time I leave the house, I have to consider that my world could crumble into the ground exactly the same way the world of those people in New York and Washington did today, the people on the planes that crashed, all of them: We are no safer here, no more worthy of protection or survival than they were. I don't know what will happen. At one point during the morning, I review with my son how to load the shotgun and take off the safety. He already knows. This is my bow to pragmatism. Death is not at the door, but it's down the street.
When I get home with my book, my wife has left to take flowers to the church for a memorial service. Propped against the door, waiting for me to go out on the roof and put it up, is our somewhat bedraggled American flag, gray with the dust of at least 20 Fourths of July.
I want to know something about the patriotism of the days ahead: Huge swaths of suburban Dallas are occupied by Islamic immigrants, from the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. They work hard, run businesses, pay taxes, send kids to school. They bring seriousness of purpose and the dignity of cherished traditions to our messy space station on the prairie. So does the patriotism have to mean we turn on them, make them the other, cloak them in our darkest superstitions?
Like all religions, Islam has taken turns and twists since the time of its principal prophet. People tend to warp religious beliefs in ways that suit their self-interests. I hear on National Public Radio that Arabs in Palestine are greeting the news of the bombings with joy and handing out candy to children in celebration. That doesn't mean it's true or that this is by any means the whole story, even if NPR says it is. That's an easy story to tell on this day.
But if there is someone somewhere who believes that Muhammad would have approved of this carnage, then that person has deformed the entire Koran into a collection of truly satanic verses. But that person and that mental deformity are the enemy. Not Islam.
We're at war. War exacts an awful pragmatism. It wants our freedoms and our luxuries. It wants our sons and daughters. It may want our lives. And the burden of reality is that the American way of life is worth all of those sacrifices and more.
But war doesn't have to make us small or mean. It doesn't have to turn us into bigots. We can hate evil without becoming hateful. To fight evil, we don't have to be evil.
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