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Dogs are for a Lifetime
Many times puppies are given as gifts on a whim, and without much thought. This happens when people walk by a pet store and see a puppy for sale and buy it for somebody else, who is equally unprepared. When purchased, and given, in this way, it is nearly always a disaster, with the puppy being neglected or given up, usually within the first year.
Bonding Issues
People tend to bond better with a dog they have chosen for themselves. When given a surprise puppy some people just do not bond with it to the same extent they would if they had selected it out of a litter, or from a shelter. The exception would be children who often bond easily to pets, but few children can "really" take care of a puppy without their parents help.
Family Issues
Pets do need to be well planned for and everyone in the household needs to be in agreement before getting a pet. If, for example, the puppy is given to a child whose parents do not agree with having a pet, the puppy will end up not being cared for by the adults and will suffer in the long run.
Wrong Selection
People often have a breed of dog they consider their favorite. For some people their favorite breed may not be compatible with their lifestyle, as such if that is the type of puppy you get for them, it could be a disaster. As well a person who buys a puppy without knowing its character type and temperament as suited to the persons lifestyle risks getting one that is a total wrong match and again, this often results in a disaster.
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It is best that people be well prepared before getting a puppy, since the first few days with a new puppy can be stressful most people do not get a puppy unless they have time off work to devote to caring for their new pet. Keeping in mind that the house needs to be puppy proofed, and that the person needs to have time to house train the pup, and you can see why they want to be "ready".
If a person does not want a puppy, or does not want one at that time, or does not want that particular puppy, in many cases you should note they are often non-returnable, or if you do return it, you seldom get your money back.
Not Fair to the Puppy
Ultimately the puppy may suffer in the end from being given as a gift. When unplanned for, not selected well, unprepared for, and so forth, it may not be properly cared for. Puppies who not cared for often become unruly, and are eventually discarded as "problem" dogs. These problem dogs have a hard time finding new homes and often end up unwantedin shelters or are euthanized as being "unadoptable".
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How to Give Somebody a Puppy!
If you really want to give somebody a puppy, never do it as a surprise. Instead be sure the person indeed wants a puppy. Have them consider some breeds that are appropriate to their lifestyle. If they want a purebred puppy attend a dog show to meet some dog breeders, agree to pay the price for the puppy and have the person get on the list with a reputable breeder for a new puppy.
If the person is not fussy about wanting a purebred (a registered pup) give them a certificate of adoption from your local animal shelter. You pay for the adoption, but they pick the puppy, or dog, of their choice.
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Bunnies and Chicks as Easter Gifts
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On September 11, 2011 at 11:50 pm
I agree with you totally, Brenda. Also, some people may be scared of them too, though they are cute.
On September 12, 2011 at 10:35 am
These are all very good reasons as to why you should never give someone a pet as a surrpise gift. Good advice.
On September 12, 2011 at 11:50 am
You have explained it so vividly on why a puppy should not be given as a gift, I shed a smile with your point Non-Returnable.
On September 12, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Thanks for your article!
On September 27, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Have to say that you should never give a pet as a gift. Ultimately these animals are not toys that can be discarded when you are fed up with them. You have a responsiblity for the life of the animal . Another article full of common sense advice.
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The occurrence is tantamount to a snowstorm hitting South Beach and is something even less believable than a Kardashian wedding.
But Steelers wide receiver Mike Wallace insists it happened, that the perennially underrated Heath Miller engaged in some jawing during a game this season.
Wallace said it took place after a defensive player got the better of Miller on one play — and let him know about it.
"Heath said, 'Well, what happened the other eight plays before that?'" Wallace said with a grin. "It was kind of weird because you never hear him say anything."
It is apropos then that Miller quietly has tied Elbie Nickel for the most catches (329) by a tight end in Steelers history, and that he is less than 10 receptions away from passing Hall of Famer Lynn Swann on the team's all-time receptions list.
Miller doesn't put up the kind of numbers that play well when it comes to making Pro Bowls on a regular basis. But the consensus among his coaches and teammates is that there isn't a better all-around tight end in the NFL.
"I think he's the best player at his position in this league," Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians said. "There's some good young ones coming up behind him, but he brings everything to the table. Smart, tough, (goes) 100 percent every play with great hands and (can) run after the catch."
The last person in the Steelers' organization that would tout Arians' assessment is Miller himself.
The seventh-year veteran is seen rather than heard — whether it's in the locker room, on the practice field and during games, for the most part anyway.
And he is the least likely Steelers player to gripe about his role even though some tight ends — see New England's Rob Gronkowski — are putting up the kind of big numbers traditionally associated with wide receivers.
"I believe this team is a good fit for me because I can do a little bit of everything so I wouldn't trade that for anything," said Miller, who has 43 catches for 508 yards and a pair of touchdowns through 13 games. "I do enjoy trying to be good at whatever they ask me to do, whether it's lining up in the backfield, on the line at tight end or the other stuff."
Miller has been doing that since the Steelers took him late in the first round of the 2005 draft.
The former University of Virginia All-American is so steady that you could set your watch by his daily routine at the Steelers' practice facility. His workmanlike approach isn't the only reason Miller has been so reliable at finding soft spots in the defense and serving as a blocker.
Miller is one of the better athletes on the Steelers, having excelled as a quarterback in high school before moving to tight end in college. He was also a standout in baseball growing up, not that Miller broadcasts any of this.
That quiet nature is one reason no other skill player with a Pro Bowl on his resume — Miller made the AFC squad in 2009 — has a lower profile than the 6-foot-5, 256-pounder.
"It doesn't really matter to me," Miller said of not getting more attention beyond Pittsburgh. "I think collectively as a group if we respect each other as teammates and the job that people do, I think that's all that really matters ultimately to our team."
Respect is something Miller commands from his teammates, and they voted him an offensive captain in 2010. Just as he has climbed the Steelers' list for all-time receptions, he has become a team leader in his own quiet and unassuming way.
"I think he's definitely the most underrated player on our team," Wallace said. "He's a great player."
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Daniel Colpi, a dad and a PTA president at Liberty Early Childhood School in Liberty Township, talks with Stacey Wood and others at a volunteer luncheon. Though Lakota Schools is the second largest school system in Southwest Ohio, he is the lone male among the district's 22 PTA school leaders. / The Enquirer/Tony Jones
The National PTA will hold its annual convention next month in Cincinnati. Open to the public but requiring prior registration, the 117th National PTA Convention is June 20-23 at the Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown. More than 1,000 attendees representing PTA�s nearly 25,000 units will attend workshops and hear speakers, including NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
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Daniel Colpi is no stranger to being the only guy in a room.
That happens a lot when you are the dad who is also a Parent Teacher Association president.
Though Colpi�s children attend Lakota Schools � the second largest school system in Southwest Ohio � he is the lone male among the district�s 20 school-parent group leaders.
Men are in leadership roles at a few other Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky school districts � Lebanon, Kings, Oak Hills and Cincinnati Public Schools.
But overwhelmingly, the region�s PTAs and its similar Parents Teachers Organizations remain as they have been since well back into the last century � female-dominated.
But more men are stepping up, local and national school officials say.
That�s good, says Colpi and other PTA dads, because men are missing out if they assume the school groups are �women-only clubs.�
�Being the only guy in the room didn�t bother me much, and besides, I�m like the prize poodle at the fair,� jokes Colpi about the attention he receives at school meetings.
�I introduce myself as �I�m Daniel Colpi, and yes I am a guy.� �
At a recent luncheon honoring volunteers � 95 percent women � at Liberty Early Childhood School in Butler County, nearly all were were chatting him up.
�Inserting male role models into the schools ... can not only help your own children but all the children in the school district,� he says. �Certainly we have great teachers here in Lakota and I don�t knock or diminish them at all, but most of them are women.�
Officials at the national PTA headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia say they don�t keep data on the number of male memberships, other than the group�s most recent stat: 22 percent of its 5 million members are men.
PTO officials also don�t track membership by gender.
Officials at both groups say an emphasis on including more men has been a larger part of their missions in recent years.
Tim Sullivan is founder of the national PTO Today in Wrentham, Mass.
�Anecdotally, we are seeing an increase in dad involvement at the leadership level,� Sullivan says.
�As PTOs and PTAs become less traditional and hidebound � for example, the mom�s club, the 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting or the 10 a.m. Wednesday meeting being the very traditional communication means � there�s been an opening for involvement from many who in the past have felt less able to lead.
�My sense is that this change has come from necessity, as it�s harder than ever to find really committed volunteers, so the doors have to be opened more widely.�
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Stacey Wood, mother of two Lakota students, says Colpi delivers much more than the novelty of gender diversity.
�He absolutely brings the male perspective and he keeps the (PTA meeting) conversations moving along. But mostly the kids love him.
�They are used to seeing us moms.�
Dave Siebert, father of two schoolchildren and president of the Lebanon Junior High PTO, says humor is essentially for softening the bumps into any gender stereotyping men might experience.
�There are going to be some situations that crop up that you are really going to have to take with a grain of salt and laugh at.
�Whether it�s an email from somebody who says �attention all PTO moms� or somebody sends a bouquet of flowers to the PTO, it�s nothing personal and you just have to have a good attitude,� Siebert says.
At Cincinnati Public Schools, the region�s largest school district, there are very few dads in charge of PTO or PTA groups.
Of the 14 elementary principals who responded to The Enquirer�s request, only one had a dad in charge, Yosef Yisrael, at the Academy of World Languages in Evanston.
It�s a problem, said CPS board member Chris Nelms, who is a big supporter of male role models in an urban district where many young boys have none.
�A lot of men don�t necessarily see themselves in an advocate role,� Nelms says.
�The PTA is traditionally maternalistally driven, so many men aren�t as apt to get involved.�
Emails sent to the 'ladies' of the PTA
Bernie Combs, a longtime member of Northern Kentucky�s Newport High School�s PTA, still chuckles when he gets emails sent to the �ladies� of the PTA.
�My advice is don�t get offended. You are a parent, too, and your voice about the children�s school is important too,� Combs says.
The school dads suggest men try out by volunteering for a couple of events to test their comfort and interest level before joining a local school PTA or PTO.
And there is a personal payoff, too, for fathers.
�You have a very narrow window of opportunity where your children are chasing you for a bit of attention,� he says.
�I think it�s very important to capitalize on that before they move on and you don�t become so cool any-
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PORTLAND, Ore. – The family of a 16-year-old Beaverton-area girl who was shot to death and left on the side of an Oregon highway said they are still struggling to understand the tragedy of her death.
"Kayla Hendrickson was a beautiful, outgoing, and nurturing young woman," her family said in a statement released on Tuesday. "She has so many friends and family that love her so much."
Hendrickson was shot to death and left along Highway 6 about 18 miles east of Tillamook Friday night, police said. A person of interest in Hendrickson's death shot and killed himself Saturday along the Northern California Coast.
Many knew Hendrickson as Kayla Blake because she used her stepfather's last name, her family said. She attended Sunset High School for a short time during the last school year, according to Beaverton School District officials. Her family said she had just received her GED last week and planned to enroll in college this spring.
"Kayla was the most girly tomboy one would have ever met. Anyone that knew her would definitely tell you she had her own unique personality. She had a free spirit, was a total country girl, and could be counted on to make you laugh and smile," her family said. "If your mood was upside down, she could help turn it right-side up in a second."
Her family set up a memorial fund through US Bank to help pay for funeral expenses.
A celebration of her life is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 26 at Sherwood High School. The family said it's open to all friends and family.
"Kayla had so many aspirations in life and cherished her friends, sisters, nieces and nephews."


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J Subst Abuse Treat 29:117-23. 2005..These data suggest that identifying individuals with DS or worse MHF after detoxification may provide opportunities for clinical intervention to reduce recurrent residential detoxification...
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Too many questions remain unanswered and more data is needed to decide the future of Ruidoso's building division, village councilors agreed Tuesday.
They took no action on a proposed memorandum of understanding for village employees to handle building inspections in a three-mile band of unincorporated areas around the municipality. Councilor Denise Dean suggested the delay based on several points of contention, including whether the costs involved will be offset by the additional revenues generated from permit fees.
She first offered a motion to postpone discussion until more information was gathered, but later withdrew the motion to avoid requiring councilors to vote at their next meeting.
The two big issues for contractors are more timely inspections than the state Construction Industries Division provides and being able to pick up permits locally, she said.
"The difference they gave me to understand, on a particular house, the permit could cost $2,500 through the village of Ruidoso. The same permit through the state would be $500. Of course, the state subsidizes, obviously, the inspection procedures for the state right now," Dean said. "Because the county hasn't approved any building codes, that's why they are coming to the village to have us do this. One thing we have to consider is that we will be legally responsible for inspections. We need to make sure we have the accountability in place to guarantee all the requirements are being met with these permits and all the inspections are being done."
She pointed out that in the past, permits issued for areas outside of the village were charged an extra 10 percent to cover inspectors' travel costs to the sites, but in negotiations with county officials that surcharge was dropped.
Based on data gathered last September, in the village Planning and Zoning Department, director Bobbye Rose, an administrative assistant and the Geographical Information System personnel are required with or without a building division, Dean said. The general fund subsidizes those positions,
"So take them out of the equation when you try to figure this budget, which means your have just three inspectors and our building permit fees," she said. "(The previous building officials and two inspectors) salaries and benefits added up to $248,864. You have to add in what supplies they use, plus the cost of vehicles and expenses. You come up with around $307,000. The building line item shows so far this year we have pulled in $220,224. If we keep the pace we're going for the next months through June, that's about another $48,000. In revenue that brings us to about $268,224. The bottom line is at this point, we are subsidizing (the building division) about $39,000. I think the (Internal Finance Committee) needs to get back together and plug in more current numbers and the salaries of the new inspectors.
"The MOU requires us to have three inspectors, building, plumbing-mechanical and electrical. We need to see what that cost is going to be to bring that third inspector back in."
The council has to decide how much the department will be subsidized for the convenience of contractors and homeowners, Dean said.
"Or if we are going to let that part go, depending on the numbers, let the state take over," she said. "Obviously, we don't want to inconvenience our contractors, but we have to look at the numbers to see what that is going to cost us. If it doesn't look like we can work out a deal with the county, we need to have the numbers to see what it would cost to keep the two inspectors we have and how we can maybe diversify some of their responsibilities, so we still would have some inspectors in the village, but not in the county."
Some county commissioners want to charge the village $25 as a county cut for handling rural addressing, culverts and flood plain certifications on permits outside the village, she said. Councilor Lynn Crawford said the demand "for a piece of the pie" bothers him. "I don't like that in the MOU, period," he said. Bryant said for now a county cut is not included.
Mayor Ray Alborn pointed out that once a MOU is approved, it only covers a six-month test period. Dean saw a problem hiring another inspector and possibly letting him go after six months. But Village Attorney Dan Bryant said the village building official covers both building and plumbing/mechanical inspections. A third inspector isn't needed. Rose countered, saying a third inspector is necessary to meet a one-day to two-day turn-around for permit approval and to cover vacations.
Either side will be able to cancel the arrangement with four months notice, Bryant said.
"We have an imperfect understanding about what percentage of business is in the county," he agreed. "There are three areas to be concerned about. What volume is inside the village, what volume is in the three mile planning and platting zone and what volume are we being asked to do outside of that by the map we have agreed to. Essentially, what we have done when we have a subdivision with part inside the three miles, the entire subdivision is gathered up," to create simpler boundaries for employees and citizens to understand.
The six-month period will give time to gather numbers and analyze them as actual experience during the busier months of April through August, he said. Each area can be considered independently.
Commissioners won't review the MOU until their March meeting, two days after the next council meeting, March 11, the attorney said. A delay won't be a problem, but he contended the six month trial is needed before councilors know for sure the impact. The economy is changing and updated numbers are needed, he said.


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Crop circles, those mysterious patterns farmers find in their fields, are the stuff legends are made of.
Some have said these elaborate etchings have been left behind by UFOs; others are quick to call them the work of highly artistic hoaxers.
Then there are those who believe crop circles are formed by unusual weather patterns, military experiments the government doesn't want to talk about -- or even stoned Australian wallabies.
Crop circles have cropped up in popular media, appearing in episodes of The X-Files, Dark Skies and in director M. Night Shyamalan's 2002 movie Signs.
Now University of Oregon physicist Richard Taylor has suggested that crop circle artists using GPS devices, lasers and microwaves are responsible for the astonishing patterns of geometric forms found in the fields.
June 30, 2009 - An elaborate formation from Milk Hill wheat field near Alton Barnes, England. The total length was 1,200 feet. (Image © Lucy Pringle)
This two-circle formation in corn (the second, smaller circle is in the distance) was investigated by the Independent Crop Circle Researchers' Association (ICCRA) on Aug. 21, 2005 in Coles County, Ill., and found to have elongated growth nodes as compared to control samples. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson)
The "Sentence of Symbols" crop formation, measuring 1,020 feet long, was found on June 12, 1999, by U.K. crop formation researcher Charles Mallett only 150 yards from where he had been outside in a sleeping bag all night in Alton Barnes, Wiltshire. Possibly most astounding about this formation is that it was located in the same field at the same time as the one in the next image. (Image © Lucy Pringle)
This "Serpent" crop formation, measuring 500 feet long, was found in the same field as the one in the previous image, on June 12, 1999 in England. No one saw or heard anything unusual overnight prior to the discovery of these formations. (Image © Lucy Pringle)
This is a photograph of a complex geometric crop circle forming in the early morning hours, which was eye-witnessed by Art Rantalla on July 4, 2003. He reported seeing this crop circle swirl and form during the passage of a severe weather front passed through Dodge County, Wisc. The formation was evaluated by members of the ICCRA and found to have elongated growth nodes, expulsion cavities in the growth nodes, and other non-hoaxable effects. The next image shows another crop formation which appeared a month later in the same county and which demonstrated the same plant abnormalities. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson)
This is a photo of another complex geometric crop circle that was discovered Aug. 8, 2003, in the same county as the previous image, also investigated by members of the ICCRA. It tested positive for growth node elongation and had expulsion cavities in the growth nodes (both unhoaxable effects). The next two images show close-ups of the plant abnormalities from these crop formations. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson)
This is a close-up of an explusion cavity (a hole blown from the inside-out) resulting from the Dodge County, Wisc., crop formations of July 4 and Aug. 8, 2003. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson)
This is a close-up of anomalous twisted seed heads resulting from the Dodge County, Wisc., crop formations of July 4 and Aug. 8, 2003. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson)
This formation in corn was reported to the ICCRA by the local sheriff's department in Montgomery County, Ohio, who first spotted it from a traffic helicopter on Aug. 24, 2004. According to members of the local fire station adjacent to the field, a severe storm went through the area during which lightning hit the station and destroyed their communications equipment. The crop circle formation was later discovered and subsequently investigated by the ICCRA, which found growth node elongation, expulsion cavities, and higher concentrations of tiny, spherical iron particulates in the soil from the area of the crop circle as compared to control samples. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Wilson)
Biophysicist W. C. Levengood in his Michigan laboratory where he has analyzed thousands of plants from crop formations in the U.S., England and other countries. He reported in the botany journal Physiologia Plantarum that "a swirling plasma vortex" has interacted with many formation plants and soils he has studied. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe)
Central twisted loop at bottom of wheat seed head found on July 29, 1999, in Avebury, Wiltshire, is the same biophysical change that happened in another wheat formation discovered on Aug. 6, 1999, in Whitefish, Montana. (See next Image). (Courtesy of W. C. Levengood)
This image from a crop formation found in Montana on Aug. 6, 1999 shows a similar twisted loop of a wheat seed head found in England on July 29, 1999 (as seen in the previous image). To cause this abnormality, biophysicist W. C. Levengood hypothesizes that spinning plasma energies hit the different fields at least three weeks before the crop formations appeared. (Courtesy of W. C. Levengood)
Investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe at the "wheat fountain" center of a Morgan's Hill, Wiltshire, England pattern reported on Aug. 4, 2002. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe)
Reporter Linda Moulton Howe collected wheat samples from this 445-foot-long formation found Aug. 8, 1993, in a field below the White Horse at Cherhill Down and Oldbury Castle a few miles west of Silbury Hill. Some wheat seeds near the formation were coated with a thin film of magnetite attracted to a magnet in biophysicist W. C. Levengood's Michigan laboratory. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe)
Investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe stands inside a 200-foot-diameter Fyfield Down wheat formation discovered July 19, 1999, in Wiltshire, England. The next image shows a diagram of what the entire crop circle looked like from the air. (Courtesy of Linda Moulton Howe)
This is a black and white diagram depicting the aerial view of the 200-foot-diameter Fyfield Down wheat formation of July 19, 1999. The previous image shows reporter Linda Moulton Howe standing inside the circle. (Courtesy of Andreas Mueller)
"Crop circle artists are not going to give up their secrets easily," Taylor wrote in the August 2011 issue of Physics World. "This summer, unknown artists will venture into the countryside close to your homes and carry out their craft, safe in the knowledge that they are continuing the legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in history."
These intricate dynamic works of art result when someone or something causes crops, like wheat, barley, corn and rye, to flatten in ways that produce amazing images, mostly discernable from the air. In many cases, they're referred to as crop formations, because they're much more than circular.
But it's not just a current phenomenon. Crop circle reports go back to the late 1800s. Part of the crop circle mythology holds that a farmer or rancher will go to sleep having noticed nothing unusual in any of his fields until the next morning where he discovers that, overnight, a stunning, often complex pattern has formed in the middle of a field.
And surprisingly, some people have claimed to see crop circles appear when no other humans were in the fields creating them.
"There have actually been about 50 documented eyewitnesses to crop circles forming, so people have seen them during the daytime -- they don't all appear at night," said Jeffrey Wilson, director of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers' Association, a small group that investigates crop circles. "In these circumstances, there had been no unusual lights or sounds, but every one of the cases had happened during the passage of a storm front or a severe weather front.
"That's generally not talked about in media, and skeptics don't buy into any of that -- they just dismiss all the eyewitness cases," Wilson told The Huffington Post.
Wilson isn't the only one who has taken issue with the common assumption that crop formations are elaborate man-made hoaxes. In fact, there is a whole group of observers that have proposed alternative theories of how the designs are made. In many cases, they aren't just challenging conventional wisdom -- they are challenging each other.
"The first time I ever walked into a crop formation in Milk Hill [England] was the summer of 1992. The wheat pattern was 360 feet long and had some kind of a residual electrostatic field still around it -- it felt like walking into jello along the edges," said Linda Moulton Howe, author of Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles and one of the key speakers at the recent Mutual UFO Network symposium in Irvine, Calif.
Howe, a multiple Emmy Award-winning producer, investigative reporter for Premiere Radio Networks and editor of the Earthfiles website, has studied worldwide crop circles since 1991 and has been inside 250 of the formations.
"When you encounter something that is not like your normal everyday walking along the street, it gets your attention and it makes you look at what's in front of you in a different way," Howe told The Huffington Post.
Her research focuses on evidence that contradicts Taylor's theory that artists are using GPS, microwaves and lasers to create crop circles.
"In 1999, there were simultaneous formations in Avebury, England and Whitefish, Mont., completely separated by oceans and continents, but they had the same biophysical change in the stems underneath the seed heads that became looped and twisted," Howe reported.
Biophysicist W. C. Levengood examined the plant cellular abnormalities and concluded, "Spinning plasma energies hit these plants probably right after flowering, but the formations were not visible until a few weeks later. That means something knows how to interact spinning plasmas with plants at different times from seed to adult growth to create the eventual patterns I have studied."
Plasma is a gaseous state of matter with positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. Glowing polar auroras are common Earth plasmas.
Levingood has analyzed thousands of crop formation plants and written a number of important scientific papers, including one for the 1994 edition of plant biology journal, Physiologia Plantarum, in which he proposed his "spinning plasma energy" idea.
"Crop formations consist of geometrically organized regions in which the plants (primarily grain crops) are flattened in a horizontal position," Levengood wrote in that article. "Plants from crop formations display anatomical alterations which cannot be accounted for by assuming the formations are hoaxes.
"The affected plants have components which suggest the involvement of rapid air movement, ionization, electric fields and transient high temperatures combined with an oxidizing atmosphere. One naturally occurring and organized force incorporating each of these features is an ion plasma vortex."
That's a slightly more elaborate explanation compared to a few guys walking around fields using wooden planks and ropes to create crop circles.
"It's time that people realize there are changes that have happened in these crops that cannot be explained in any other way except through advanced interactions with energies," Howe noted.
While most reports of crop circles emanate from England, the truth is that these odd ground formations show up in many countries.
"In the United States, we have records of over 600 reports, approximately 200 in Canada and many others in Germany, the Netherlands, across Europe and in Australia," said Wilson, who has worked in radio astronomy and physics and mapped the elements of the surface of the moon for NASA.
Wilson also acknowledges "a serious hoaxing problem" in England.
"The vast majority of the ones reported in England are definitely man-made. Any serious researcher who has gone over there and looked at them will tell you that -- I looked at seven formations carefully in 2006, and all of them were man-made."
Like Howe, Wilson disagrees with Taylor's idea about microwaves and lasers.
"It's ludicrous. All of his explanations, whether it's radiations from a magnetron pulled out of a microwave oven or lasers from the sky -- those things don't hold water. Mostly because we have evidence and photographs of crop circles from a time earlier than the history of microwaves and lasers."
Howe has produced acclaimed documentaries on science, medicine, the environment and Earth mysteries. And she's worked with many scientists, like Levengood, who have quietly examined crop circle evidence that was hard to explain.
"He was the first to establish that what was happening in the growth nodes of the crop circle plants could only occur if there was an exposure to high heat for only seconds, because if it goes any longer, the plants will scorch and we have never found black carbon on the surfaces of any of the crop formations that I've been in and studied," she said.
Wilson is undecided about what he thinks crop circles -- the non man-made ones -- will turn out to be.
"I actually think there may be more than one source cause that makes crop circles. I think there are multiple sources and a range of possibilities that are still available.
"There are natural processes that make complex geometry, so it's not unprecedented in nature. I'm not 100 percent convinced it's from an intelligent source -- it's unproven at this point."
But Howe has seen mysterious moving small lights over crops and formations in England and has worked with Italian astrophysicist Massimo Teodorani, studying mysterious plasmas in the mountains of Hessdalen, Norway.
"He said there appears to be intelligence in these plasmas, as if programmed. But what is doing the programming?"
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Doug Graham
|The Right Honourable
Sir Douglas Graham
|Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Remuera
|In office
14 July 1984 – 12 October 1996
|Preceded by
|Allan Highet
|Succeeded by
|Seat abolished
|Minister of Justice
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2 November 1990 – 1 February 1999
|Prime Minister
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12 January 1942
Auckland, New Zealand
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Sir Douglas Arthur Montrose "Doug" Graham KNZM (born 12 January 1942) is a former New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1984 to 1999, representing the National Party.
Early life and family[edit]
Graham was born in Auckland, and attended Southwell School and Auckland Grammar School. He obtained an LLB from the University of Auckland and became a lawyer, establishing his own practice in 1968. From 1973 to 1983, he lectured in legal ethics at the University of Auckland.
His great-grandfather Robert Graham was a member of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th New Zealand parliaments, from 1855 to 1868. In 2008, his brother Kennedy Graham was elected to parliament representing the Green Party.[1][2] His son, Carrick, is a public relations consultant.[3]
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Graham was elected to Parliament in the 1984 elections as MP for the Auckland electorate of Remuera, replacing the retiring member Allan Highet.
Cabinet minister[edit]
When the National Party won the 1990 elections, Graham was appointed to Cabinet, becoming Minister of Justice, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control, and Minister of Cultural Affairs. In 1991, he became Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations, perhaps his most prominent role. He was widely praised by both Pākehā and Māori for his work on numerous Treaty settlements, although opponents of the process have voiced criticisms of his policies. Later, Graham also became Attorney General and Minister for Courts. In the 1996 elections, when the Remuera seat was abolished, Graham became a list MP. He was ranked sixth on National's party list, a relatively high placing.
On 21 May 1998 Graham was appointed to the Privy Council and became the Right Honourable Douglas Graham.[4]
Life after politics[edit]
He retired from politics at the 1999 election. In the 1999 New Year Honours List Graham was made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit "for services as a Minister of the Crown and Member of Parliament".[5][6]
On 24 February 2012 he was convicted, along with fellow former Justice Minister Bill Jeffries and two other men, of breaching the Securities Act by making untrue statements to investors in his capacity as a director of Lombard Finance.[7] Justice Robert Dobson wrote, "I am satisfied that the accused genuinely believed in the accuracy and adequacy of the ... documents", but that the offences were ones of strict liability so there was no need for "any form of mental intent to distribute documents that were false or misleading".[8] Graham was sentenced to 300 hours community service and ordered to pay $100,000 in reparation. The Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal against conviction and increased his sentence to six months home detention and 200 hours community work.[9] The Supreme Court has granted Graham leave to appeal against the sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal, but refused leave to appeal against the convictions.[10] Retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Edmund Thomas described his convictions as a "grievous miscarriage of justice", saying of the crucial piece of evidence that "you would never ever convict a dog on the basis of the schedule".[11] There have also been calls for his knighthood to be revoked,[12] but Prime Minister John Key announced on 1 November 2013 that Graham would keep his knighthood.[10]
- ^ Small, Vernon (13 May 2008). "Ex-Nat's brother No 9 for Greens". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
- ^ http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/
- ^ John Drinnan (20 August 2014). "PR body to decide on Dirty Politics ethics". New Zealand Herald.
- ^ "Appointments to the Privy Council" (28 May 1998) 74 New Zealand Gazette 1613 at 1644.
- ^ "New Year Honours 1999" (22 January 1999) 5 New Zealand Gazette 139.
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Queen Rania meets with President of SOS Children's Villages
(Office of Her Majesty- Press Department- Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met today with the President of SOS Children's Villages, Mr. Siddhartha Kaul, Director of Middle East and North Africa SOS Villages, Ms. Heger Akrout Husseini, Chairperson of SOS Jordan, Ms. Reem Habayeb and National Director of SOS Jordan Ms. Lina Mola.
The meeting discussed the organization's work in Jordan and the region and how it cares for orphaned and abandoned children under the age of 14, and who are living away from their families due to different social reasons. The SOS villages also support children after the age of 14 through transferring them to other youth homes supervised by the organization itself.
Mr. Kaul thanked Her Majesty for her efforts and all the work she does to support orphans inside and outside the SOS villages.
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Events and activities are in Mountain Home, open to the public and free, unless otherwise noted:
Polish Club meeting today at St. Peter's
The Arkansas American Polish Club barbecue and picnic is set for noon today at St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church original hall.
The menu includes brisket, sausage, potato salad, beans, coleslaw, rolls and dessert. Those attending should take nonperishable food items for Mountain Home Food Basket. For information, call 499-7778.
Designing Divas to meet Tuesday
A Designing Divas meeting is set 1 p.m. Tuesday at Mruk Family Education Center on Aging at Baxter Regional Medical Center. Those attending should take a favorite scarf to learn ways to update a wardrobe. There will be door prizes. To register, call 508-3880.
Retired fishing club to meet Tuesday
The Bull Shoals Retirement Fishing Club meeting is set 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Hoevel-Barnett Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1341 hall on AR Highway 178 in Bull Shoals. Christmas party tickets will be on sale, with the last opportunity to purchase at the November meeting. Those attending should take items for Bull Shoals Food Pantry.
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So Overture has finally rolled out its own tool to eliminate "bid gaps," but the new system is really a rip-off, right? After all, there are plenty of gaps that remain!
That was certainly my initial view, but a closer look at the new feature shows this not to be so. It's absolutely true that there are real gaps between the amounts different people pay for positions, but this is a consequence of allowing auto-bidding, another feature many advertisers have wanted.
Let's talk first about the problem of bid gaps. Historically, advertisers with Overture have indicated the fixed amount they were willing to pay to be listed for a particular search term. Those who "bid" more on a term were listed above others competing for that term. However, savvy advertisers in top positions have learned that they must monitor the bids "under" them constantly, to ensure they are not overpaying for a term in case of a price drop.
For example, imagine that the top advertiser on the term "shoes" was paying $1.00 per click, to stay above the advertiser listed in position two, who is paying $0.99 per click. Now let's say that due to changes below the second advertiser, they are able to drop their bid to $0.89. The top advertiser would still continue paying $1.00 per click, or $0.10 more than necessary to stay above the second advertiser.
This situation is commonly referred to as a bid gap, and eliminating them has been a growing worry for Overture's advertisers. Indeed, the company's failure to solve the problem led to birth of several third-party "bid management" tools last year. The best of these tools automatically logged into accounts on behalf of Overture advertisers to adjust for bid gaps.
Overture finally responded to the situation first by granting certain tools "authorized" status in January, then several weeks later introduced a log-in security code to prevent advertisers using "unauthorized" tools from accessing their accounts. Last week's move saw Overture trying to address the bid gap problem with its own internal solution.
The new "Auto Bidding" feature does more than eliminate bid gaps, however. It also allows advertisers to easily increase their bids automatically to gain a better position. Such functionality has previously been reserved to those relatively few advertisers using third-party bid management tools. Using some of these tools, you could set the amount you wanted to pay, then have the tool keep logging in and adjusting your bid as required up to a set amount, to get the position you wanted.
The new system at Overture lets anyone have auto-bidding. Indeed, this is the first time Overture has separated the notion of bidding on a term from the cost you'll actually pay, which in turn is causing some confusion that its bid gap tool isn't really helpful.
Under the old system, things were easy. You set an amount as your bid, and that "bid" was the actual cost you would pay per click. In the new system unveiled last week, this option remains under the new name of "Fixed Bid." However, those making use of the new "Auto Bid" option can choose to set the maximum amount they are willing to pay -- the bid -- while the actual cost they may pay could be less than the bid amount.
Let's use an example right from the Overture FAQ page, to see how this works. Let's say we have three advertisers in total bidding on a term. Each has selected the auto bid option, so the ones choosing to pay the most are listed first. Here they are shown, just as Overture now does, with their "max bids" displayed:
Example 1 1 - $0.22 2 - $0.17 3 - $0.12
Anyone can see the obvious gaps between positions, so how can Overture say that bid gaps have been eliminated? We'll get back to this. In the meantime, the important thing to remember is that the prices shown are simply bids, not the actual cost being paid. So what is that cost? Overture won't show you, though it can be deduced.
For example, if there are only three advertisers, then the last one would only be required to pay the at least the minimum $0.05 fee required by Overture. The cost of the second one will be one cent higher than the "max bid" of the third advertiser, while the first advertiser pays one cent higher than the max bid of the second advertiser. So for the example above, here are the costs, as also illustrated on the Overture FAQ page:
Example 2 1 - $0.18 2 - $0.13 3 - $0.05
But there are still gaps! That's right, there are significant gaps in the costs being paid. For example, the second advertiser is paying $0.13. Since that's only one cent higher than the max bid of third advertiser, this is how Overture claims to have eliminated the bid gap. Nevertheless, there's a "cost gap" of eight cents. Similarly, the first advertiser is only paying one cent higher than the second advertiser's bid (so no bid gap), but there's a cost gap of nine cents.
This led me and others to wonder why Overture didn't go the extra step for advertisers and set the system to eliminate cost gaps, rather than bid gaps. After all, such a move would have change the costs paid in Example 2 to bargain rates like this:
Example 3
1 - $0.07
2 - $0.06
3 - $0.05
The answer is that Overture is trying to make more money for itself, right? No. You cannot forget that some bids also have an auto-bid mechanism working, a mechanism that many advertisers themselves have asked for and which has effectively already been in place for those advertisers using third-party tools. That auto-bid mechanism won't let the cost-ordering situation as shown in Example 3 happen.
Remember, as shown in Example 1, the third advertiser is willing to pay up to $0.12 to have the best position. Even if Overture adjusted everything as shown in Example 3, then the auto-bid feature would jump the third advertiser to the top of the list, since they could move there and still be under their max bid limit. Here's how it starts:
Example 4 1 - $0.08 (original number 3) 2 - $0.07 (original number 1) 3 - $0.06 (original number 2)
It wouldn't stop there. The original number two advertiser said they'd pay up to $0.17 per click, so they'd then jump out of the bottom position. And, the original number one person said they'd pay a maximum of $0.22 per click, so they'd jump up, as well. When all the jumps are done, you are back to:
Example 5 (same as Example 2) 1 - $0.18 2 - $0.13 3 - $0.05
As you can see, you can't eliminate "cost gaps" while also allowing auto-bidding. Interestingly, Overture itself failed to point this out when I talked with them on Friday about why they didn't move to a cost gap elimination model. It's something they should better clarify, if only to help some upset advertisers better understand what's happening and why. (For the record, Overture said that it's feedback about the new system from advertisers has been mostly positive).
While cost gaps can't be eliminated, certainly some advertisers would see no reason why Overture needs to indicate the maximum amount they are willing to pay. If the actual cost paid were shown, rather than max bid, it might prevent prices from being pushed upward.
For instance, go back to Example 2:
1 - $0.18 2 - $0.13 3 - $0.05
If everyone could see these actual prices being paid, then the advertisers "above" might more easily understand that they could adjust their "max bids" so that they could still maintain their positions while paying less. For example, the number two advertiser might realize that they could drop to $0.06. Then the top advertiser would also drop to $0.07, and the pressure to increase bids would be relieved.
Well, maybe not. Let's say the top two advertisers do make this manual adjustment, because they get the ability to easily see the actual costs paid. They go to fixed bids, while the third advertiser says on auto-bid. The line-up then becomes:
1 - $0.08 (original number 3) 2 - $0.07 (original number 1) 3 - $0.06 (original number 2)
Certainly there's a price savings. However, this will only be maintained assuming all the advertisers decide not to keep bidding against each other. But if the old number one thought being listed tops was originally worth paying $0.22 max, then they are likely to up their bid again -- and so on down the line. It's hard to know whether seeing actual costs paid would really make a difference.
I did ask Overture whether it had considered listing actual costs paid, instead of max bids, or both. The answer was that all variations had been tried, but that advertisers tested in focus groups found the alternatives to be confusing. Once the focus group people understood the concept of auto bidding and max bids, it made more sense to them to see max bids.
Another concern that some people may have is that auto-bidding will push prices up. No doubt this will happen in the short term. However, I think in the long-term, we'll see the gaps between "max bids" become smaller. When this happens, it will be easier for people to drop their max bids down in the way that old style bid costs get adjusted. This might bring prices back down.
By the way, Overture said that so far, the vast majority of people are still using old-style "fixed" bids. The company is expecting this will change over time, though it doesn't predict how quickly that will happen or what the ultimate take up will be.
A last major concern I've been hearing is the idea of hurting advertisers who try to come in and dominate a term with a $50 bid, the maximum that Overture will allow. Some advertisers have done this, realizing that they will pay far less, because Overture will discount their bid to only one cent higher than their next competitor. Then you've had some smart competitors deciding to up their max bids to $49.99, causing that $50 person to really get hit with a huge bill while the second-place person avoid such charges because what they pay is in reality only one cent higher than the third place person.
Overture is aware of "isolated" incidents where this has happened but expects it will go away. I'd agree that it should settle out over time. Advertisers should quickly learn that playing games like bidding more than they can afford can backfire with huge costs. But if this doesn't change, then hopefully Overture will step in to ensure somehow that an advertiser is not dominating a term with an absurdly high bid.
In some other news, Overture did not roll out the ability to bid for a specific position as part of the new auto-bidding tools, because though it is a demand, relatively few advertisers are requesting it. It was deemed too complicated to bring out along with the other changes.
Similarly, there's a demand by advertisers to be able to "pause" listings, put them on hold for a temporary period, then restart them when ready. This is something that could come in the future, but Overture wouldn't specify any time frame nor commit to it firmly.
Finally, it might make more sense than ever before to consider using a third-party bid management tool, ironically. This is because I suspect the makers of these tools will begin to better reverse-engineer the true costs that everyone is paying on Overture and try to deliver you both the best position and the best cost. Many of them also offer built-in ROI features, to help you better understand what you are spending.
Overture FAQ: Bidding
Q&A direct from Overture, on the new system
Overture Auto Bidding Tutorial
Pretty neat Flash-demo on how auto-bidding works. You can click on the little boxes under the tutorial, to restart a particular part. Takes about five minutes to watch.
Formerly called BidRight, BidRank has undergone some changes since I last summarized it. Here's a quick rundown. You can feed listings to Overture via XML. Bid changes can now be made up to 24 times per day, per keyword, rather than 6 times (this is true for other "authorized" Overture bid management tools, as well). It's also been suggested that using BidRank (and perhaps other authorized tools) means that your actual cost per click is shown in Overture's results, rather than the max you are willing to pay. BidRank Plus is a version with support for FindWhat, Kanoodle, Espotting, Ah-ha and Sprinks.
Another authorized bid management tool for Overture, the company acquired rival ClickPatrol.com last month. The tool features ROI tracking capabilities and recently added some support for Google Adwords.
Overture's AutoBid = Fool's Gold
WebmasterWorld.com, June 26, 2002
Reaction to the new tool, with the negatives focusing on the new gaps that have been created but not following through to understand that you can't have both cost gap reduction and auto-bidding combined.
New system allows you to hurt competition
SearchEngineForums.com, June 26, 2002
Covers issues about how high max bids could be used against you.
Letter From Australia
The Search Engine Update, June 17, 2002
Last issue, I wrote that we might see Yahoo.com carry ads from Overture's European sites despite the fact that Yahoo Europe has a partnership with Overture-rival Espotting. Now Yahoo.com has begun showing Overture UK ads to those from the UK accessing the site. Overture won't confirm that a deal has been arranged -- so it could be a test, or the press releases may simply not have been written yet.


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180-ish miles for September. I'm at 1052 for the year. Not an all-time high, but it's a healthy set of miles. I'm happy with it.
Early Monday morning Mrs. Dave called me from the church where she was dropping off T for Seminary (it's a Mormon thing - an hour of religious study before school for high school kids). Car won't start. I was just doing my morning reading, so it was no big deal to drive down for a little jump. Trouble was, there was a bigger problem. Once I disconnected the jumper cables, the van would quit again. Not good.
Fortunately, I'm a handy guy, so I make the run with the kids to school, then come back and try again. No luck. Now, I go home, get some tools, take the battery out and run it to the local O'Reilly's. Dead. I expected that, but when a car won't run after getting started, even with a dead battery, it's likely to need a new alternator as well. The alternator, you see, charges the battery AND supplies power while the car's running (for those of you who aren't up on how cars work).
No time for that, though. One of us had to work that day. After work I spend some time getting greasy and dirty. 3 hours and another $140 later, the new alternator is installed, it's dark outside and I haven't eaten since lunch or gotten my run. No bueno.
Since it was only 5 miles and since it was an easy run, and since I spent my entire afternoon and enough money for a couple of marathons on a stoopid car, I wasn't going to miss this one. I haven't had a nice evening ninja run in a long time, anyway. It would be fun.
And it was. Then I ate leftover chowder (with bacon).
Tempo Tuesday was only 6 miles since I'm in a cutback week. That's 4 miles plus the w/u and c/d. It felt like fall out there. Weatherman was forecasting almost 80, but it was only in the lo-70s and a good, stiff wind. Unlike Monday, when I felt rested and good, Tuesday I started out the w/u feeling like I should go back home. We'd gone to T's XC meet, but I was straight from work and in my work clothes, so there was no running up and down the hills, chasing runners. I should have felt ready to run. I felt ready for a nap.
Sort of nailed it anyway. 7:25, 7:31, 7:34, 7:04.
I have a new naggler that's appeared over the past couple of weeks. It's felt like a hernia, but not in exactly the right place. I had a pair of hernias repaired in 2001, so I'm familiar with both the symptoms and the location. This is up a little higher and inward. Near as I can tell from Dr. Google's diagrams, it's the front end of the right psoas muscle. It's OK after I get warmed up, but those first few hundred yards aren't very comfortable. Some of my ab workouts hurt it as well. Santiago sent me a link to some stretching/exercises that target the area, so I'm hoping I can baby it along for a few more weeks.
Four and a half, to be exact.
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it's all Greek to me!
Handyman and a speedster! 7:04....wow! Keep that naggler away. Need to be healthy for NYC.
Run on everyone.....................Steve
4 and 1/2 weeks is nothing. Soon you'll be starting your taper. Good luck with the psoas problem. I don't know if you can do anything for it but rest.
You should start a car repair business. You could take extended lunchbreaks to run!
"Naggler"...that's a new word for me. Last time I was on here "Pikermi" was the cool word. Gonna still that "naggler" thing.
Chowdah for a wiked fast runnah!
No wonder Mrs. Dave has kept you around all these years!!
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 26.2.
If only you could fix up that psoas as easily as you repaired your car.
Thinking healthy thoughts on your behalf, Dave. NYC is so much fun, you simply have to be healthy.
I can change the oil and wiper blades, but after that I don't trust myself. You're a better man than I am.
Oh, you are going to make it to the taper, Dave.
That darn psoas can be a tough B to get rid of. But you're also tough so it's met it's match. Good luck.
If you also have a super tight lower back it's also an indication of a tight or inflammed psoas.
I have a chronic problem with that, and one stretch that helps a lot is finding a chair or couch, bend my knee back, hook the top of my foot on the armrest, set my knee down on a cushion, and kind of lunge forward slowly and hold for a while. It's easy to gradually ease into a pretty good stretch session while watching tv or a movie. Just not one of those LOTR marathons, ok?
Best of luck!
bummer about that psoas... shame a handyman like you can't fix a psoas...
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Distance+Trails = True Love
Keep it up with the stretching - it is amazing what a few drills/tricks can do. You had a great month of running. Good luck as you wrap up the NYCM prep.


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A Congregational Assistant is a called worker who works within his or her own congregation assisting the congregation and its pastor in various areas of service.
There are many areas of service to which an assistant can be called. The work an assistant may do mainly depends on the needs of the congregation and the talents of the worker. Some of the areas of service that assistants have been called to include outreach and evangelism, senior ministry, youth and family ministry, adult spiritual growth, assimilation, visitation ministry, and mentoring and coordinating volunteers.
An assistant call could take the form of a volunteer position, a part-time salaried position, or a full-time salaried position. Because calling bodies may find needs for assistants of either gender, the program is open to men and women alike.
One strength of the program is that students are able to serve while they are studying, and what is learned can immediately be applied in the local setting.
The final component of the program, the only element that is not offered locally, is a 10-day CAPstone Session split between New Ulm, Minnesota and Milwaukee and Mequon, Wisconsin. Students typically participate in CAPstone after completing the other program requirements over a three or four year period.
The assistant courses do not earn credit toward any other form of synod certification except the Pastoral Studies Institute of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary.
For the two-week CAPstone Session there is a minimal fee for the courses taught, a fee for room and board, and whatever the student's transportation costs might be.
Hosting a one-day seminar requires a $300.00 fee from the host congregation and $10.00 from each participant. Congregations may work together and co-host a seminar and share the $300.00 fee.


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