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Happy almost 2011. I'm in my end-of-year get 'er done mode and taking on my annual "crazy" project. You know, the one you have absolutely no time for but which suddenly becomes so important to complete. In past years for me, it's been about organizing my closets or planning my garden and planting seedlings. Most years, when I get into it, I'm so happy to have taken it on.
Tonight, with my newly functioning camera and refurbished home office, I logged the first of several interviews I shot prior to this years' ACS conference with Brad & Meg Gregory of Black Sheep Creamery and it's beautiful! I can't wait to share an extended creamery profile soon.
The final few moments of the visit included the sheep coming in for their evening milking and I am awestruck now, as then, at the silence and serenity of it. These sixty or so animals, walking quietly, in unison. Struck by the presence of strangers wielding cameras just outside their fence, they stop, stare, regroup…before slowly gathering the courage and ease to pass on by. Nothing much bothers them and they're not in any hurry. Their muffled hooves on the soil the only sound – it was peaceful, deliberate, beautiful.
It reminds me so clearly of why I love what I do. Being connected, even for a moment, to this ancient rhythm of life, restores me…enough to begin crazy end-of-year projects like logging and producing three vignettes. Don't know that I'll get them done by New years, but I've taken the first steps…Hope you enjoy the "Strolling Ewes"


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The simplest tasks often give us the most intense headaches. You know, the ones you do on auto pilot, because you have performed them so many times that you could do it with your eyes closed. When laundry is in question, don't close your eyes. Unless you like your clothes to change color from washing to washing, that is. The fashionably disorganized people we are, we want just a bit of mess, and only occasionally, not a total, full-blown chaos.
When it comes to laundry you don't really have to break the rules of common sense, or change the habits that your mother has wisely instilled in you. It is more the interpretation of them that will give the feel of chic messiness that we are aiming at.
For example: generally, clothes tags are misleading. Everything IS machine-washable. Only, some things are not WEARABLE after that.
Temperature selection is also mainly unnecessary. The only exception is wool, but even if you mess it up and run your favorite wool sweater through the scorch-and-spin cycle you will end up with a miniature felt item, which is nice for your kids' soft toys.
Separating laundry by color usually means a lot of different containers, one for each shade, or at least darks/lights, and it also means memorizing which is for what – a lot of hassle over nothing. In most cases, luck allowing, nothing will happen if you wash them mixed. Go for it. And, if there ARE surprises, just take it as a welcome change to your wardrobe, without costs or waste of time for shopping.
Detergent: with the amount of choices we have, and the aggressive advertising, it almost feels like you are a real slob if you don't use the detergents that the wide-smiled, white-clad people in the commercials are using. I have one rule: pick the one that smells best, because in a matter of few months a newer and better one will be launched. Which makes me think that the promise of removing all possible stains in the world they are making today, will be untrue when the newer, improved formula arrives.
Socks: no matter what you do, the Sock Monster will visit you and you will have odd socks – so give up on any system that you might be trying to implement, it is not really worth the trouble. Sock Monsters have needs and feelings too. (In case you have mastered the Sock Monster fight, please share the method, because the fight is driving me crazy).
Looking through the pockets before putting the laundry into the washing machine is tedious and usually you never find anything important. The important things, those that should not be washed at all, ever, WILL end up there, somehow, whether you like it or not. I, myself, have washed cell phones several times, with 50% success: half of the time they actually worked after the process. I must add that recent models are not as "machine washable" as the old, sturdy ones used to be.
Delicate items are not as delicate as they pretend to be. No need for separate treatment. Also, if you would really like a new silk dress, and are tired of the old one, it is the best strategy: destroy and then shop for new.
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Singapore's Cybersports & Online Gaming Association a.k.a. SCOGA was founded by a group of enthusiastic gamers and leaders who wanted to make a difference in the local gaming scene, especially in promoting Cybersports, or more commonly known as eSports.
Today, our initiatives include cyber wellness and digital literacy programmes. We have worked with various government bodies, industry players, media, schools, gamers, parents and voluntary welfare organisations.
SCOGA was formally registered with the Registry of Societies on Feb 2008 and we are honoured to have the patron of Singapore National Olympic Council, Dr Yeo Ning Hong as our patron.
Our Board of Advisors:
Nicholas Aaron Khoo, Chairman and Co-founder (SCOGA)
President, Singapore Computer Society Interactive Digital Media Chapter
IT Committee, National Crime Prevention Council
Andrew Wong, Former Events Director
*SCAPE and SPH MediaboxOffice Pte Ltd
Dr Angeline Khoo, Associate Professor
Psychological Studies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.
Dr Bernard Leong, Entrepreneur
Singapore Computer Society IT Professional of the Year 2010
Former Vice President, Cambridge University Entrepreneurs
Brian Koh, Deputy Director
National University of Singapore, NUS Enterprise
Bryan Tan, Partner
Pinsent Masons
Effendy Ibrahim, Internet Safety Advocate and Consumer Business Head, Asia
Symantec Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Internet and Media Advisory Committee, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts
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Gabriel Lee, Director of Marketing
DigiPen Institute of Technology, Singapore
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Yvonne Chng, Former Staff
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In addition to being one of the best-loved books of all time, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is sure to set box-office records when it releases in theatres Christmas 2005. Distributed by Disney, directed by Andrew Adamson (director of Shrek), with special effects by the WETA Workshop (The Lord of the Rings), and backed by a $150 million dollar budget, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will draw millions of eager viewers, Christian and non-Christian alike. After viewing the movie, Christians and Lewis fans will excitedly walk away with a renewed enthusiasm for this classic installment of The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Kathy5 Stars Out Of 5By Knowing Me Here, You May Know Me Better ThereFebruary 23, 2012KathyQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for The Heart of The Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here By Finding Him There.With the upcoming movie release of the Walden Media/Walt Disney production of "Prince Caspian" I began searching for a book which would teach both literary analysis and apologetics to my junior-senior high students. After looking at several books I selected Thomas William's "The Heart of the Chroniciles of Narnia."
The book is divided into three themes: The Story of Narnia, Living Like a Narnian and The End and the Beginning, with an introduction, afterward and discussion questions. Williams explores the Chronicles of Narnia utilizing three principles:
1. Letting C.S. Lewis explain the stories himself, using references from his other writings that illuminate the meaning of the Narnian passages and confirm his thought on given concepts.
2. Confirming the many Narnian principles with biblical references.
3. Drawing on resources from other authors.
This is an excellant resource for those who want to "dig deeper" into the Chronicles of Narnia to discover the biblical meaning within the context of Lewis' celebrated stories.
Grace5 Stars Out Of 5November 12, 2008GraceThis review was written for The Heart of The Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here By Finding Him There.The Heart of Narnia was a wonderful book to read, for narnia fans all around the world. With Thomas Williams guiding you through the classic stories of Narnia and pointing out the hidden biblical signs and comparisons, it makes a great devotional with review questions in the back! I recommend it to anyone who has heard of narnia.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- A fatal accident occurred at the intersection of Olson Memorial Highway and Morgan Avenue in Minneapolis early Sunday morning.
At about 1 a.m., four vehicles were involved in a traffic accident that left two dead.
Police said that three vehicles were stopped at the traffic light when a fourth vehicle struck one of the cars from behind, creating a chain reaction.
The two-occupants in the vehicle struck first were killed. The driver of the fourth vehicle, and three occupants from the second vehicle are being treated with non-life threatening injuries at Hennepin County Medical Center.
One of the lives lost was 21-year-old Brandy Anne Banks. Some of her family members went to the scene of the accident Sunday to remember her life.
"She put a smile on everyone's face, she was always there for people that needed or help or people that were down," said her cousin Derrick Banks.
Her family said Brandy and her 20-year-old friend were likely returning from a concert at the time of the accident.
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No arrests have been made and it is unknown at this time if speed or alcohol were factors in this case.
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Climber falls and dies near Provo Canyon waterfall
Investigators need help identifying a man who died Wednesday after taking a fall in Provo Canyon.
At 8:07 p.m., Utah County sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a man who fell about 200 feet at Bridal Veil Falls. When rescuers arrived they found him at the base of the falls, according to a news release.
He appeared to have died from his injuries, the release adds.
He didn't have any identification, and in the absence of a missing person report from the area, investigators have not been able to identify him or determine where he lived. His body was taken to the state medical examiner where investigators hope he can be identified.
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First, the governor talked about it in his State of the State speech, followed by a budget proposal. Then, the president, once again, followed Massachusetts' lead and sang a similar tune in his State of the Union address.
What that means is: we should get used to the phrase "early education and care."
It's simple as ABC, really. We just need to connect the dots.
A.) Investing in human capital, primarily through education, is the best way to ensure a strong economy and equal opportunity for citizens to contribute to society.
B.) Budgets are priority statements, indicating what a town, city, state or society considers of utmost importance.
C.) In challenging economic times, it's vital to get the biggest policy bang for the taxpayer buck.
If you do the math, ABC = EEC (early education and care). And that's why locally — at least here in Barnstable — it's nice to know the head of the Cape's largest school district "gets it."
Not only does Barnstable Public Schools Superintendent Mary Czajkowski get it, early education and care has been one of her top priorities since she first walked on the job a year-and-a-half ago.
"We are having more and more children come in with more physical, emotional and behavioral needs; more children with autism," Czajkowski told me as we sat in her office Friday morning.
"Some children require occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy. And you need space for them. We don't have adequate space," she said, referring to the district's Early Learning Center next to the Centerville Elementary School.
"We are also finding many of our children are coming in without having any preschool or kindergarten experience," she said, noting how 94 percent of students at Hyannis West Elementary School are on the free or reduced lunch program and as many as 75 percent of first-graders have never had any formal preschool or kindergarten.
How can this be? Well first, preschool and kindergarten — the years in which the most vital educational building blocks get laid — are not mandatory in this state. By law, students are not required to attend school until they reach first grade age. And that's basically because, even though we like to pride ourselves on our educational institutions, we've opted to cut taxes (not enough for some) and since 2001 have cut early education spending by 25 percent, or $174 million, according to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center.
That leaves low-income families to fend for themselves, even though the average annual cost for one 4-year-old in a child care center in 2011 was $11,669. As the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center further notes, for a two-parent family with income at twice the poverty level, the average cost of preschool child care amounts to 31.5 percent of that family's entire income. Even for a family with median household income, it eats up 17.7 percent of the family budget.
Throw in the popular welfare-to-work requirements introduced in the mid-1990s (which, by the way, haven't changed poverty rates one bit) and we have a child care waiting list of more than 40,000 children statewide.
Meanwhile, when a child enters the first grade without any preschool or kindergarten in their backpack, in many cases that means the child hasn't been taught how to socialize in a school setting. Many haven't even learned the basic colors.
"That's a real challenge for first-grade teachers who also have 20 other children in the class," Czajkowski said, explaining how it sets up a scenario where, instead of having four or five years to get students to a proficient third-grade reading level, with the most disadvantaged you only get two years.
"I was so happy to see universal preschool in his budget," she said.
The governor's proposal relies on raising the state income tax from 5.25 to 6.25 percent, while lowering the state sales tax from 6.25 to 4.25 percent to help fund a proposed four-year $2.5 billion public education spending plan, which includes preschool money. Whether that will pass muster with state lawmakers, representing tax-weary citizens, remains to be seen.
Even still, Czajkowski wants to strike while the iron is lukewarm. After having studied the issue for years, including visiting school districts with high quality early education programs such as the North Andover preschool program, school officials are looking to upgrade and expand Barnstable's program by moving the run-down six-room Early Learning Center at Centerville Elementary into a 10-room modular facility to be constructed on town-owned land next door to Hyannis West.
In the school budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, Czajkowski is seeking $50,000 to pay for a site study — a prelude to request a $4 million bond to construct the new Early Learning Center.
It's a no-brainer investment that's waaaaay overdue. But that's not the problem. The challenge is convincing enough folks to take off their short-term green eyeshades and look at the bigger picture that study after study has shown. High quality early education is linked to lower incidences of students falling behind, less special education spending, higher graduation and college-going rates, reduced reliance on social support programs, better health outcomes and less interaction with the criminal justice system.
To ignore common sense and empirical evidence in the name of short-term austerity is about the dumbest thing we can do.
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If you're new to the downtown Bloomington area or haven't taken the time to explore, First Friday is an excellent way to discover everything the city has to offer.
On Friday, Bloomington will host its monthly event, First Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The event began in 2008 as a Thursday night occurrence and as more businesses began to catch on, it slowly morphed into "F1rst Fr1day."
Downtown Bloomington isn't just full of bars, there are specialty shops and businesses unique to the area.
According to Marisa Brooks; Events, Outreach and Marketing Coordinator for the city of Bloomington; First Friday provides the public with an opportunity to get to know a number of the booming businesses downtown.
"The event was originally created so that people who work or go to school during the day can visit these various businesses," Brooks said.
This month, First Friday has a back-to-school theme and is encouraging a number of locations to offer school-related sales or promotions.
For example, Crossroads, a Fair Trade shop, is offering 15 percent off of one item if students wear their school colors or show their student ID.
In fact, First Friday is the perfect event for students to explore.
"A lot of college students are familiar with the bar scene in downtown Bloomington, but if you're drinking at the bars, you don't get to see what else is down there," Brooks said.
Even Reggie the Redbird will be present. You can find him hanging out in front of the Monroe Centre.
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Should Candidates for AEA Elections Tell Us What They're Thinking?
Joshua Gans is an economist at the University of Toronto. He has appeared on this blog before and, as the author of Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting, was featured in our podcast "The Economist's Guide to Parenting." He has a long-standing interest in the economics of science as well as studies of the economics profession. He is also a long-standing member of the American Economic Association. On that last note, he has written a thoughtful essay that wonders if the candidates standing for AEA elections should be required, or at least encouraged, to be more forthcoming about what they'd stand for if elected.
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It is that time of year when the 18,000 members of the American Economic Association (AEA) receive their ballots to vote for the society's leadership. I have been voting in AEA elections for 25 years and the information provided is always the same. There is a voting sheet and then a pamphlet listing the bios of each candidate (e.g., significant publications, awards and administrative positions held) and a photo of each (see here). This is not a lot of information to go on. In my younger days, when I had little personal information on the candidates I would choose on their basis of their work, whether they are close to my field of interest (macro vs. micro, theory vs. empirical), and perhaps whether their politics matched my own.
These days I know many of the candidates both professionally and personally, and so now I factor into the equation whether I think they will be good leaders of the AEA. This may be correlated with the information in their bios but it is not a given. Very often I have found those who are less widely known in the public to have thoughtful ideas about the AEA and economics profession. That gives rise to a natural question: should we know more about AEA candidates than is presented to us formally? Read More »
"Information Wants to Be Shared"
The Australian economist Joshua Gans, who has shown up on this blog before, has published a new book called Information Wants to Be Shared. It "looks at the struggles facing information content industries — most notably, publishing (books and newspapers) — and examines the underlying economics of those industries." Gans and his publisher, HBR Press, are also running a pricing experiment:
HBR eBooks are all DRM-free but, in this case, if someone were to purchase the book (from HBR or from, say, Amazon or Apple), then they will find on the last page a coupon that they can send to a friend. The friend can then buy the book for only $0.99 directing from HBR. In other words, when you share with a friend, your friend gets a great deal. The usual price of the book is $4.99. I have outlined the rationale behind this at my blog Digitopoly. Basically, it is the sort of thing I advocate for information businesses in general.
New Blog Explores Economics of Digital World: Digitopoly
Our friend Joshua Gans, along with some colleagues, has launched a new blog devoted to the economics of digitization called digitopoly.org. Here, in a guest post, he explains the origins of the site, and what it's all about.
By Joshua Gans
Some of the most popular blogs are tech blogs (Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch) or blogs that place a tech perspective on social commentary (e.g., BoingBoing). And, as we know, economics blogs also tend to be popular. What was missing though was a blog devoted to the economics and competitive issues that arise in the digital age. What's more, thanks to the NBER's new Program on the Economics of Digitization (funded by the Sloan Foundation), there is a wealth of new research in this area. That's how we came to setup a blog devoted to digital issues from an economics perspective. Read More »
The Worst Mistake I Ever Made: An Economists' Parenting Quorum
For our latest podcast, "The Economist's Guide to Parenting," (you can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player, or read a transcript here) we turned to some of our favorite economists for advice on how to raise children. It's safe to say you won't find much of what you hear in any "expert's" guide to parenting (which was of course the point) but it was a thought-provoking exercise in applying economic principles to one of life's most perplexing and stimulating activities. As a supplement to the podcast, we thought it would be fun to convene a Freakonomics Quorum and ask some of our contributors, not for their best moment as a parent, but for their worst. The specific question we asked was:
What is the worst mistake you ever made as a parent?
Good sports that they are, they obliged with some lighthearted anecdotes of how sometimes the best intentions of rational, unemotional economists often run face-first into something called kids. Read More »
New Freakonomics Radio Podcast: "The Economist's Guide to Parenting"
Our newest Freakonomics Radio podcast is called "The Economist's Guide to Parenting." This is the second of five hour-long podcasts we'll be releasing over the coming weeks. Some of you may have heard them on public-radio stations around the country, but now all the hours are being fed into our podcast stream. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript here.)
I know what you're thinking when you read the title of this podcast. You're thinking what the **** — economists? What can economists possibly have to say about something as emotional, as nuanced, as humane, as parenting? Well, let me say this: because economists aren't necessarily emotional (or, for that matter, all that nuanced or humane), maybe they're exactly the people we need to sort this through. Maybe.
You may remember that we wrote a bit about parenting in Freakonomics; now we've put together an entire roundtable of economists to talk about a great many elements of child-rearing, with one essential question in mind: how much do parents really matter, and in what dimensions? So you'll hear about parents' effect on everything from education and culture cramming to smoking and drinking. Read More »
Australia's Rising Political Star Is an Award-Winning Economist
My good friend Andrew Leigh is the winner of the Young Economist Award, granted every two years to the best Australian-based economist under the age of forty. It's really a rather splendid achievement. And entirely well-deserved.
Andrew's career has been quite extraordinary. You see, economics was neither his first career, nor is it his current career. He began life as a star lawyer—clerking for the Aussie equivalent of the Supreme Court, and joining one of the big city firms. He then moved on to his second act as a policy advisor for the center-left politicians in both Australia and the UK, and a think tank in the U.S.
Finally, he began his third act, as an academic economist. Read More »
The Economist's Guide to Parenting
Season 1, Episode 2
Our second hour-long episode of Freakonomics Radio is called "The Economist's Guide to Parenting." (You can listen or download via the link above, or read a transcript here. This episode and four more hours will be airing on public-radio stations across the country this summer at various times, so check out your local station's website. And you can subscribe to the Freakonomics Radio podcast on iTunes or via RSS.)
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking what the **** — economists? What can economists possibly have to say about something as emotional, as nuanced, as humane, as parenting? Well, let me say this: because economists aren't necessarily emotional (or, for that matter, all that nuanced or humane), maybe they're exactly the people we need to sort this through. Maybe. Read More »
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Things Our Fathers Gave Us DUBNER: It's almost Father's Day. If you're totally out of ideas for what to get your dad this year, if you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, you might think about sending him this podcast. Today we've got stories about things our fathers gave us — one from my […] Read More »


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Quarterback Dave Ragone (Texans) and linebacker RICH SCANLON (Chiefs), both of the Berlin Thunder, were named the NFL Europe Offensive and Defensive Most Valuable Players, respectively. The pair will seek to cap their successful European stints by helping Berlin to an unprecedented fourth World Bowl championship in five years. The Amsterdam Admirals' BART ANDRUS was named Coach of the Year.
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World Bowl XIII between the Thunder and Admirals for the NFL Europe League title will be played this Saturday in Dusseldorf. FOX will broadcast the game in the United States at 12:00 p.m. (ET) with CURT MENEFEE and BRIAN BALDINGER calling the action.
"NFL Europe is a great opportunity to improve your game by actually playing in games," said Texans head coach DOM CAPERS. "Dave Ragone took full advantage of the experience and I'm sure he's going to do everything possible to help his team win a championship."
Ragone started all 10 games for Berlin, leading the team to a 7-3 record. He led NFL Europe with a 97.5 passer rating; 1,746 passing yards; a 62.9 completion percentage, and tied for the league lead with 13 touchdown passes. Ragone was also masterful at protecting the ball, throwing only two interceptions and establishing an NFL Europe record with a streak of 174 consecutive passes without an interception.
Scanlon started all 10 games at linebacker for Berlin and compiled a league-best 94 tackles, adding 3.0 sacks, five passes defensed and one forced fumble. Joining Scanlon on the all-league team is fellow Chief defender SCOTT CONNOT. The Amsterdam safety tied for third in the league with four interceptions.


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Founded in 1997, the Earth Sangha is a nonprofit public charity based in the Washington, DC area and is committed to practical environmental action as an expression of the Buddhist way of life. (Sangha is a Buddhist term for congregation or community.) We work in the spirit of Buddhist practice, but our members and volunteers come from a wide variety of religious and secular backgrounds. In the Washington area, we operate an ecological restoration program to restore native forests and meadows, stabilize streams, and control invasive alien plants. We also work with local schools on environmental education and schoolyard greening projects. All of our DC-area work is designed for public participation, as a venue for environmental education. In the Dominican Republic, we operate the Tree Bank Hispaniola, an agroforestry program designed to improve the lives of farmers along the central-northern reach of the Dominican Republic-Haiti border, and to restore the region's native forests.
In addition to environmental work, we host weekly meditation sessions in Alexandria, Virginia, along with discussions of the Dharma (the traditional Buddhist teachings). These sessions are free and open to all.


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I once thought that it was just black culture thing. That only black cultures had instilled religious fanaticism on such a broad scale from birth.
It's why its such a relief to discover that other minority atheists share similar stories of religious bullying. In college, I had a wonderful atheist friend from Iraq, who told me of similar experiences of being brainwashed with fairy tale beliefs all her life. While talking with a Chaldean gentlemen the other day, he recapped a similar experience with Catholicism growing up. The more stories I hear, the more I realize how much more difficult it is to be both a minority and an atheist. The deep seeded pain of being ostracized from the only society you know tacks on to the realization that everything your world was based on makes no sense. So why is it so fantastical in minority races?
The problem stems in how more popular religions are spread. Religions such as Christianity are weaponized and used to enslave or indoctrine races and cultures. In some cases it is violent, like slavery and in others it is propaganda, like the Norse societies.
It is during this brainwashing that the over dependence on the religion develops for a culture. A system of reward and punishment is instituted. Rewards for reading your scriptures, punishment for previous cultural behavior that conflicts with the religion. Those who excel in the religion are made new leaders of the culture, and soon the enslaved culture begins instituting the reward and punishment system as those who taught them. Eventually, the culture changes to include the brainwashing technique as apart of the new culture.
In America, many minority cultures, in one way or another, are now so intertwined with Christianity because of such brainwashing. And though the nation has moved on from many of the atrocities that brought about this brainwashing (slavery, Japanese encampments, Native American eradication), the cultures have not.
Because minorities are trained to ostracize their own if they deviate from the cultural way of thinking, it makes it that much harder for minorities to speak their mind about things. The road it takes for a minority to become an atheist is paved with not just broken friendships and family connections, but their cultural identity as well. It's why its so important that I correct people who say that race doesn't matter. Unfortunately the horrors that have brainwashed my culture beg to differ. And those horrors effect how we live our lives now. Just because the chains are gone, does not mean that the culture is still not trapped in slave mentality.
The trick is, not to look away or fantasize that the scars do not exist, but realize that those scars (slavery, lynchings, false imprisonment) happened and influenced the intolerant behaviors of many minority cultures. So the next time someone says, for any reason, that their journey was more difficult because of race or sexuality or the culture they were brought up in, do not discount their story, try to listen to what makes their story different.


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In the wake of Lou Dobbs' recent comments about immigration in the U.S., which some have interpreted as showing a softening stance, a prominent group that opposes illegal immigration has withdrawn its support for the former CNN anchor.
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) announced the decision, which includes the suspension of websites calling on Dobbs to run for President, because his words suggest he has moderated his views on the controversial issue.
"[Dobbs'] recent comments on Telemundo and his national radio show [are] inconsistent with positions of ALIPAC and the views of most American citizens," said ALIPAC representative William Gheen.
During the contentious interview, the 64-year-old journalist stressed the importance of a "rational, effective and humane "immigration policy for the U.S., but he added that "we [also] need the ability to legalize illegal immigrants on certain conditions."
Lou Dobbs gained substantial following in recent years as he began to vocally oppose illegal immigration and criticize both the Bush and the Obama administrations for not doing enough to secure America's southern border.
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If you don't like cold weather, you might want to think about taking a vacation at a more southerly location during the next few weeks. The cold weather making pattern that has evolved during the past few weeks across North America is still going strong and we don't see many signs that it will change soon.
A strong ridge across the eastern Pacific to the Gulf of Alaska appears that it has found a home and we don't see this changing very much for the remainder of December. This ridge blocks any modifying influence of the Pacific Ocean across Western Canada or the U.S. and allows for a downstream polar vortex to remain dominant across central Canada.
This is a pattern that can produce significant amounts of arctic air across North America and allow it to cycle southward through the Prairies into the U.S. It has been a few years since we have observed such a pattern and if it continues to persist into January, the low temperatures will become more and more notable due to the persistence.
Some of the latest monthly forecasts for January are now starting to change their tune from a mild scenario to a cold one for Western Canada to the north-central U.S. If these forecasts pan out, we should continue to see episodes of bitter cold arctic air well into January. Some of these air masses can contain nighttime temperatures below minus 40 C degrees for some areas.
Precipitation prospects for the Prairies with a well-established cold pattern like this tend to be on the light side for Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan with a little better chance for some light, fluffy snow at times for Alberta. Any snow would come with fast-moving clipper systems which allow for some moisture to overrun the cold air that is in place across the region.
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Oversee Safety Glasses Attendants that are handing out safety glasses during the event in the pit area. Ensure that Safety Glasses Stations are properly supplied and staffed throughout the competition. Responsible for securing the safety glasses supply and filling out all necessary paperwork.
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt believes the war between Android and Apple's iOS is just about over and his side has won. In an interview with Bloomberg, the former CEO said that the current mobile battle is similar to the computing war that took place more than 20 years ago between Microsoft and Apple. The executive notes that Google is "winning that war pretty clearly now." Schmidt's words aren't without merit; Android has seen explosive growth since its debut and controlled nearly 70% of the market this year. In fact, the operating system has been projected to dominate the smartphone market over the next four years while continuing to eat away at Apple's tablet market share. The Chairman's comparison to Microsoft of the 1990s is fairly accurate. Windows was able to conquer the operating system space because of the strong support it had from a variety of manufacturers, while Apple refused to license OS X.
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Mary E. Politz of Levittown, died on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at Lower Bucks Hospital. She was 81.
Born in Bronx, N.Y., Ms. Politz had been a resident of Levittown for 50 years.
She was the loving mother of John Hampton of Tennessee, Mary Hampton of North Carolina, Michael Hampton of Levittown, Virginia Tucker of Levittown, Elizabeth Ast of Churchville, Randolph Hampton of New Jersey and the late Robert Hampton.
She will also be sadly missed by 11 grandchildren; four great grandchildren; her sister, Elizabeth Jones of Oxford; and her nieces, Kathleen and Linda.
Family and friends are invited to call from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, at the James J. Dougherty Funeral Home, Inc., 2200 Trenton Road, Levittown, where her funeral service will be held at noon. Interment is private.
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The modern era of the circus is inseparable from several names you may have encountered.
Across Doel, traditional facades are painted with bright, modern art.
The campus experience also leads to you seeing yourself in modern terms.
You need philosophy, not the modern bull session kind but the Socratic method of "What the hell am I thinking?"
He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic.
It is modern Belgian work, executed for the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
Even the village was too human, too modern, for his early-pagan mood.
In all the Norse languages, ancient and modern, the -d is preserved.
In painting, we believe we possess a school second to none of modern art.
He was a councillor much in the sense of the modern German "Geheimrath."
c.1500, "now existing;" 1580s, "of or pertaining to present or recent times;" from Middle French moderne (15c.) and directly from Late Latin modernus "modern" (Priscian, Cassiodorus), from Latin modo "just now, in a (certain) manner," from modo (adv.) "to the measure," ablative of modus "manner, measure" (see mode (n.1)). Extended form modern-day attested from 1909.
In Shakespeare, often with a sense of "every-day, ordinary, commonplace." Slang abbreviation mod first attested 1960. Modern art is from 1807 (by contrast to ancient); modern dance first attested 1912; first record of modern jazz is from 1954. Modern conveniences first recorded 1926.
1580s, "person of the present time" (contrasted to ancient, from modern (adj.). From 1897 as "one who is up to date."


text: Top 10 Really Trippy Movies Salon's list includes a surprise appearance by Porky Pig By Sarah Whitmire, Newser Staff Posted Jul 2, 2011 2:27 PM CDT STORY COMMENTS (12) (Newser) – If the goal of movies is to provide viewers with an escape from their everyday lives, then these movies offer that, with an extra hallucinogenic slap in the face. Salon set out to find the 10 Trippiest Movies Ever Made, and Matt Zoller Seitz's collection has everything from Disney to David Lynch to Porky Pig. Samples: Porky in Wackyland (1938): Here's one part: "In a field of towering mushrooms, Porky is menaced by a huge, fanged beast who suddenly starts traipsing about like a toddler, pealing, 'La la la! La la la!," writes Seitz. The Loony Tunes short is a true "mind-effer." Fantasia (1940): Come on, dancing mushrooms? The psychedelic combo of instrumental music and choreographed animation—both dramatically horrifying and playfully silly—was probably pretty wicked for kids at the time. Yellow Submarine (1968): Another popular animation set to music, this movie follows the Fab Four on a journey to restore color to Pepperland…and that's essentially all the plot you'll find. The rest is stunning visual imagery to accompany Beatles' classics like "Eleanor Rigby" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Inland Empire (2006): This list wouldn't truly be trippy without infamous surreal director David Lynch. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi classic, "a parable of evolution and the limits of imagination," plays with the mind's concept of space, time, and human existence. After 43 years, it still lives up to its original promo, "The ultimate trip." See the other trippy classics that made the list. Mushrooms dance in the 1940 "Fantasia" to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (YouTube) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow Salon (Source Grid ») Lifestyle • Entertainment • Great Finds lists • movies CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 14% 7% 7% 5% 64% 5% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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Sastrugi, or zastrugi, are sharp irregular grooves or ridges formed on a snow surface by wind erosion, saltation of snow particles, and deposition, and found in polar and temperate snow regions. The ridges are markedly perpendicular to the prevailing winds; they are steep on the windward side, and sloping to the leeward side.[1] Smaller irregularities of this type are known as ripples (small, ~10 mm high), or wind ridges.
Larger features are especially troublesome to skiers and snowboarders. Traveling on the irregular surface of sastrugi can be very tiring, and can risk breaking equipment—ripples and waves are often undercut, the surface is hard and unforgiving with constant minor topographic changes between ridge and trough.
The words sastrugi/zastrugi are Russian-language plurals; the singular is sastruga or zastruga. The form sastruga is the German-language transliteration of the Russian word заструга (plural: заструги).[1]
A Latin-type analogical singular sastrugus is used in various writings including Robert Falcon Scott's expedition's diaries, and Ernest Shackleton's The Heart of the Antarctic.
Formation mechanism[edit]
Under the wind, free snow particles accumulate and drift similarly to barchan dunes of sand, and the resulting drifting snow shapes are also popularly referred to as barchans. Inuit of Canada call them kalutoqaniq. When winds slacken, barchans/kalutoqaniq consolidate via sublimation and recrystallization. Subsequent winds erode kalutoqaniq into sculptured forms of zastrugi. Inuit call large sculpturings kaioqlaq and the small ripples tumarinyiq. Further erosion may turn kaioqlaq back into a drifting kalutoqaniq. An intermediate stage of erosion is mapsuk, an overhanging shape. At the windward end of a ridge, the base erodes faster than above, producing a recognizable shape of anvil tip pointing upwind.[2]
Zastrugi on sea ice[edit]
Zastrugi are more likely to form on first-year sea ice as opposed to multiyear ice. First-year ice is smoother than multiyear ice that allows the wind to pass uniformly over the surface without topographic obstructions. Except for the melt season, snow is dry and light allowing it to be easily blown and create zastrugi parallel to the wind direction. It has been shown that the location of zastrugi are fixed by March and may be linked to the formation of melt ponds. Melt ponds are more likely to form in the depressions between zastrugi on first year ice.[3]
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Chapter 2 of James Rollins' novel Ice Hunt likens the sastrugi surrounding the terrain above the underwater ice station to lemon meringue; in contrast, on the trail connecting the underwater base and the aboveground Omega Drift station, traffic has worn the ice smooth.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b C. Fitzhugh Talman: The singular of "sastrugi", Monthly Weather Review 43, February 1915, p. 85–86
- ^ Wonders, William C., Canada's changing North, Mcgill Queens Univ Press, 2003 ISBN 978-0773526402 p. 40
- ^ Petrich, C., H. Eicken, C. M. Polashenski, M. Sturm, J. P. Harbeck, D. K. Perovich, and D. C. Finnegan (2012), Snow dunes: A controlling factor of melt pond distribution on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C09029, doi:10.1029/2012JC008192.
- Grey, D. M. & Male, D. H. (editors). (2004). Handbook of Snow: Principles, Processes, Management and Use. ISBN 1-932846-06-9
- Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry. (1909) The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 ISBN 978-0-7867-0684-6


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When March rolls around, people wonder if it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, or vice versa. With the weather we have been having, it is hard to tell.
Some will say the cold weather would be like a lion; others will say this "balmy" weather we have had the last few days resembles a lamb. The verdict is still undecided. You decide! Either way, March brings us a wide variety of entertainment.
You can start tonight by making your way to the LuCille Tack Center for the Arts. There you can view the imaginative art work of Kathryn Petke. Her opening reception runs from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. If you did not get a chance to eat, there are some refreshments available.
Enjoy the weekend, but remember to set your clocks ahead before you go to bed Saturday night. Yes, that's right, it is daylight saving time. It doesn't seem possible with all this snow covering the ground.
If you enjoy reading books, especially those by Wisconsin authors, you will once again want to visit the LuCille Tack Center for the Arts on March 16. Jay Gilbertson, author of the Madeline Island series, will be on hand to talk about his new book. The program starts at 2 p.m. If you are not familiar with his works, you might want to come and listen. All his books are good reads.
Guess what! There is a local election this year for the Spencer School Board and the Village Board of Trustees. There is actually a race in each area. Three people are running for two seats on the school board and four people are running for three seats on the village board. The Woman's Club is hosting a candidates' forum at 7 p.m. March 20 at the Spencer Municipal Building.
On March 22, Atlantic Steps brings one of Ireland's oldest dance forms to the LuCille Tack Center stage. Reserved seating tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance are $20.
On March 23, another entertaining event takes place in the gymnasium. The Spencer Rockets Special Olympics basketball team resumes their rivalry with the Spencer Fire Department. For more details, keep an eye open for one of my columns in the near future.
On March 25, the C.O.M.E. (Community Outreach Meal for Everyone) will be held at St. John's Lutheran Church from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Anyone is welcome.
Of course, what would March be without March Madness! Boys basketball has reached the sectional level while the girls just got underway this week. Do you have your bracketology picks ready? The NCAA tournament is just around the corner.


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It is always very nice when Shanghailanders have an opportunity to meet again, and to reminisce about the bye-gone days.
A good example was the recent visit by Monika (Bayer) White from Los Angeles to Boca Raton, Florida (3rd from left in the photo) where unknowingly of the 39th Birthday (only a guess!!!) of Ruth (Baruch) Spiegler, she found herself celebrating the occasion with other former refugees from Shanghai. The birthday party took place at Ruth and Marcel's house in Boca Raton.
Also shown in the photograph is Gary Naftaniel, cousin of Ruth, from Coral Springs, Florida, who was the lucky one to have been surrounded by four other charming ladies, shown from left to right: Heli (Marshall) Marmorosch from Ottawa, Canada; Monica White, Berta (Rosenzweig) Stein from Boca Raton; Ruth Spiegler, the "birthday child" known for her valuable and marvelous recollection of the Hongkew era; and Erica (Liebermann) Spindel, also from Boca Raton.
Those out there, spread from all corners of the world, who had a chance to view the photograph of Ruth's party; hopefully will get the idea of also sharing your happy moments with your fellow Shanghailanders on the Rickshaw Website.
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East Central AAA Elects Brother Ellsworth T. Bowser Chairman of the Board
Brother and Dr. Ellsworth T. Bowser was recently elected Chairman of the Board of the East Central AAA.
The service territory of the East Central AAA extends from Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia to South Central Ohio. It has recently merged with Cleveland and Western Kentucky with a total membership of 2.2 million.
Dr. Bowser maintains a general restorative dental practice in downtown Pittsburgh and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he is a Member of Distinction. He is a Master in the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Academy of Dental Practice Administration, the Pittsburgh Academy of Dentistry, a Fellow in the American College of Dentists and International College of Dentists. Among his many community activities, Dr. Bowser is a Past President of the Alumni council for the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, served on the University Board of Visitors for the dental school, Past President of the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh and a board member of the National Aviary. Brother Bowser is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. A member of the AAA East Central board since 1984, Dr. Bowser has served on the Executive, Ad Hoc Merger and Long Range Planning Committees and as Chairman of the Nominating Committee.
Brother Bowser and his wife have two daughters, one with whom he practices, who live in Pittsburgh and six grand children. Their son was a U.S. Marine Fighter Pilot who was killed in 1995 while on maneuvers. A stained glass window at Syria Shrine Temple was donated in his memory by the AAA. He was a member of Infinity Lodge No. 546 and the Valley of Pittsburgh, AASR.
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A relic of the times, the S.S. Badger steams from Ludington to Manitowoc, Wis., on Friday, June 30, 2000.
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WASHINGTON - As expected, the authorization for a historic coal-fired vehicle ferry to cross Lake Michigan while dumpingcoal ash expired today, leaving doubts as to what would come next for the S.S. Badger sailing out of Ludington.
Without permission from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Badger may not be able to begin its five-month-long season in May, during which it transports freight, vehicles and passengers across the lake to Manitowoc, Wis.
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I like that. Sadly, I'm a horrible liquids drinker — even when I was pregnant and nursing.
Water is definitely my problem…I've been on a coca-cola kick here lately. It's just so yummy 😉
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Local law enforcement officers were hailed during the the Fond du Lac Police Department's 17th annual awards recognition event held Oct. 24 at Marian University's Stayer Center.
Police Chief Bill Lamb recognized the years of service contributed to the police department from employees who left the ranks during the past year.
"Collectively, those individuals dedicated an incredible 114 years of service and dedication to the residents of the City of Fond du Lac," Lamb said. "From administrative support to the second in command, whatever their role, our success as a department is a ...


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