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I Got Married
Posted 25 August 2009 - 04:55 PM
In the interest of promoting the benevolent universe premise, I would like to announce that last Saturday, August the 22d, I had the pleasure of at long last getting married. The name of my new wife is Thi Cuc Tran. Thi is from Vietnam. She has been living here in Sweden for 2 years. Thi and I met via a dating service on the Internet in the beginning of May this year. We immediately began dating, and things went fast.
All the guests at the wedding thought that it was beautiful. The sun was shining, and it was neither too hot nor too cold. The wedding took place in a church whose construction began back in the 13th century. The church is small but beautiful. I am myself an atheist, but Thi is Christian, and she wanted to get married in a church. About 35 persons attended the wedding, about 10 friends, relatives and workmates of mine, and about 25 friends of Thi.
Thi is 49 years old. I am 55. So during the 1960s, Thi grew up in poverty in Vietnam, just outside of what was then called Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), while I at the same time grew up in affluent suburbs of New York City in America. So it is a peculiar twist of fate that Thi and I should meet about 40 years later in Sweden, and fall in love.
I have been living alone all of my adult life, and Thi was unmarried until about 5 years ago. Thi´s first marriage did not work out, and she was divorced from her first husband a year ago. I am overjoyed to be married after all these years. Thi is also glad that she found someone to marry, despite the fact that she is not young anymore.
Thi intends to live with me here in Sweden. We hope to share the rest of our lives together. Thi had not heard of Objectivism before she met me, but she is curious, and she has told me that she will try to read Atlas Shrugged (Thi can read English).
Posted 25 August 2009 - 05:10 PM
Posted 25 August 2009 - 10:25 PM
Be not afraid of us;
Souls of Atlantismen
Come here to stay.
Posted 25 August 2009 - 10:34 PM
Posted 25 August 2009 - 11:50 PM
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Betsy's Law #1 - Reality is the winning side.
Betsy's Law #2 - In the long run you get the kind of friends -- and the kind of enemies -- you deserve.
Posted 26 August 2009 - 12:37 AM
"It is my eyes which see,
and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.
It is my ears which hear,
and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world.
It is my mind which thinks,
and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth."
"Life, if well spent, is long." - Leonardo
(Avatar shows the Milky Way and our place in it.)
Posted 26 August 2009 - 01:31 AM
Ha ha ha. Ditto!
Congratulations. Live long and prosper...
Fantasy is not a form of cognition. -- Leonard Peikoff, Expanded 2nd ed. of Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, p. 116
Posted 26 August 2009 - 03:17 AM
Posted 26 August 2009 - 04:08 AM
Fine Thi Cuc Tran
Hath wed her man,
His woman hath wed Henrik;
Now may they scan
No better plan
But lifelong Joy---to bind it!
Posted 26 August 2009 - 06:15 AM
Posted 26 August 2009 - 08:57 AM
Posted 28 August 2009 - 05:29 PM
The fact that you have found someone to share your life with gives me hope that I will find someone to share mine with me. How selfish of me !!
(Oh, by the way--Congratulations!!)
Posted 29 August 2009 - 08:07 AM
Thank you for all the congratulations. The universe *is* "benevolent", at least it feels that way to me now!
Posted 16 October 2009 - 01:20 AM
Betsy's Law #1 - Reality is the winning side.
Betsy's Law #2 - In the long run you get the kind of friends -- and the kind of enemies -- you deserve.
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Posted 17 October 2009 - 12:23 PM
You look a good couple in those pictures. Nicely done.
Thank you for the encouragement!
Posted 17 October 2009 - 12:24 PM
Your wife looks beautiful in these photos; congratulations Henrik! Keep on enjoying your newfound happiness in life
Thank you for the encouragement!
Posted 15 December 2009 - 07:32 PM
Posted 19 December 2009 - 09:56 AM
Sorry so late here - conratulations Henrik. I wish the best for you and your lovely wife.
Thank you, Abaco. My wife, Thi, and I are going to fly to Vietnam on January 6th. I am going to get to know Thi´s relatives in the Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon) area. Thi has several sisters there, who are eager to meet me. Thi is in contact with them almost every day, by email (the Internet is a wonderful invention!). Thi´s relatives have told Thi that I look like an old man (Thi has sent them photos). Thi has replied to them that I do not look *that* old in the flesh.
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"And I know what the team can achieve over the next few weeks to take a strong car to in China.
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Rev. Henry Gerecke served as an Army Chaplain during World War II. He was assigned to the war trials of Nuremberg. He served with the condemned prisoners, providing them with Christian counsel, up until their deaths. On July 1, 1950 the Rev. Gerecke became Assistant Pastor of St. John and also Lutheran Chaplain at Menard Correctional Center and Chester Mental Health Center. Pastor Gerecke died in 1961. On August 1, 2010 the Gerecke Memorial Cross was dedicated and lit for the first time.


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Back in 2010, when then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen outlined to Congress his unsolicited personal beliefs to be the moral guidepost for military service, a number of people believed such unprecedented personal commentary from a senior officer to be embarking on a very dangerous and slippery slope toward the crafting of a military in which an increasingly leftist ideology would be the only acceptable belief system those serving in uniform. I was among those who saw such perils in Mullen's self-indulgent and unprofessional edict.
It was no coincidence, of course. The Armed Forces is the one major societal institution in America that is not in fall-behind, genuflecting obedience to the Secular-Progressive Far Left. Our education system, secondary and higher, is overwhelmingly liberal. The news media, too. Hollywood, ditto. The Federal Government outside the military is a land of political, social, sexual, and racial favoritism for the constituents of Obama's electoral base.
Which brings us to the absolute inevitability of the case of Master Sergeant Nathan Sommers, United States Army.
"It seems like with the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell – that the Christians have been the ones who've had to go underground and in the closet – for fear of retaliation and reprisals," Sommers told Fox News. "Christians feel like they can't be forthright with their faith. They have to hide."
Ret. Navy Commander John Bennett Wells is representing the master sergeant. He said there is no doubt in his mind that the U.S. military is discriminating against Christians – and specifically his client.
"There's no question about it," Wells told Fox News. "Because he is religious, because he feels that homosexual conduct is wrong for religious reasons, he is basically being persecuted."
What books he reads, non-obscene bumper stickers on privately-owned vehicles, these have been issues in which guidance is clear, but the Army seems determined to highly discourage his freedom to believe and legally express those beliefs.
The types of stickers on your car were creating an atmosphere detrimental to morale and were creating unnecessary workplace tension," the officer wrote in an Army document obtained by Fox News.
"He's allowed to have those bumper stickers on his car," he said. "The DoD regulation allows it. There was nothing obscene about it."
I am betting that Said Named Officer will not be counseled for his poor judgment and lack of professional knowledge regarding the issue surrounding his counseling of a senior SNCO. Doubtless because that Officer was following his instructions to pressure Master Sergeant Sommers, despite the fact that what Sommers was doing was perfectly legal. Here, in a nutshell, is the first milepost from Mullen's unprofessional and unconscionable actions, and his "vote with your feet" line:
"Ironically, the liberals are preaching tolerance," he said. "They are saying, 'We can tolerate you.' But if you have a certain belief that doesn't align with what the military wants you to believe – particularly religious beliefs – you're no longer welcome in the U.S. military."
When we are told that repeal of DADT has gone "smoothly" and without issue, we don't hear about people like Master Sergeant Sommers, or the other incidents that are the fallout from the religious intolerance that has festered in the US Military.
Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty said stories like this are becoming commonplace in the military post-repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
"These stories are the ones that have not been told – about some of the more subtle ramifications of the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy," he said.
One service member received a severe reprimand for expressing his faith's religious position about homosexuality in a personal religious blog.
A chaplain was relieved of his command over a military chapel because he could not allow same-sex weddings to take place in the chapel.
And a chaplain who asked senior military officers whether religious liberty would be protected in the wake of the repeal of the law against open homosexual behavior in the military was told to "get in line" or resign.
Crews said they are sharing these stories to let other service members know there is a place to get help. He said Chaplain Alliance publishes a religious liberty palm card – explaining constitutionally protected liberties to service members.
"If you believe your religious liberties have been violated, here's what you can do," he said. "We will see that you get the help that you need."
For its part, the Army issued a statement of its own:
"The Soldier is not, and never has been, "facing retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading books written by conservative authors like Mark Levin and David Limbaugh, and serving Chick-fil-A sandwiches at his promotion party," the spokesperson added.
Gotcha. And Benghazi was the result of riots over a video, the IRS didn't target political opponents, Barack Obama believes in the Second Amendment, Holder knew nothing of Fast and Furious, NSA is not listening to our phone calls, the EPA isn't squeezing conservative businesses, male-on-male sexual assault reporting hasn't risen 300% since 2007, Obamacare will reduce premiums, and the Stimulus created 2 million jobs.
Wondering who's religious liberties have been assiduously observed and protected by the US Military? Nidal Hassan's.


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In Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo operates on a level of dread and alienation so deep and unrelenting it's a challenge to one's own seriousness. Dispensing almost altogether with the metaphysical lyricism and hieratic gleanings that grace novels such as The Names, White Noise, Underworld or The Body Artist, Cosmopolis is a kind of return to the punk corrosion of his '70s novels, books such as Great Jones Street, Running Dog or Players, where gaunt men hunch in small rooms, paranoia runs in the prose like bad blood, and the Void is daily bread.
When DeLillo ended Underworld, his pained meditation on the maelstrom of the American century, with a one-word prayer—"Peace"—then two years later followed up with the palpable spiritual yearnings of The Body Artist, I thought he had turned some kind of corner. He was in his 60s now, had been wrestling for so long with the quicksilver shifts of American reality—its headlong hurl into the new-world technofuture; its cathecting of its spiritual impulses onto the worlds of getting, spending and mass media; its stupefying imagination for violence—that his turn toward a more open and generous spiritual reflection seemed earned, a working free from the dark night of the soul that seems the final reward to the lucky few American writers who survive the via negativa (I'm thinking Eliot, Merwin, Bellow, perhaps Pynchon).
But Cosmopolis is a plunge right back into a darkness so fierce and plagued that it's as if DeLillo—who had begun the novel long before Sept. 11—had picked up on those pre-disaster terrorist cell-phone murmurings that the FBI had apparently missed and re-seeded his imagination with their menace and horror.
* * *Cosmopolis takes place in New York on a single day in April 2000, largely on a single street, 47th Street, as a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager named Eric Packer slices across Manhattan in his limousine. Packer has a 48-room apartment he bought for $104 million; a Russian strategic nuclear bomber (no longer flyable) he bought for $31 million just for kicks; a penchant for abstract art, spare poetry, big meals ("he wanted to eat all the time, talk to people's faces, live in meat space") and highly unusual sex with just about every woman with whom he comes into contact, one of them his wife of 22 days, Elise, who keeps showing up along 47th street in increasingly surreal contexts. (The unusual sex? Try a tryst with a female bodyguard that involves her shooting him with a stun gun. Try Packer talking another woman to orgasm—not touching her in the least—while his doctor finger-probes his prostate for cancer signs. Try sex with Elise after meeting her in a pile of 300 naked bodies gathered as extras for a film scene, the purpose for which nobody can figure out. None of these scenes is played, particularly, for laughs.)
His personal hungers for food and sex notwithstanding, Packer craves even more a world that's denuded of history—stripped of all physical residue, really. He longs to live by the "digital imperative," where "data itself was soulful and glowing, a dynamic aspect of the life process," where life gets morphed into a serenely smooth array of information waiting to be manipulated, profits streaming across the hyperreal, by hypercapitalists like himself. (Remember those impresario-like hand gestures Tom Cruise used in Minority Report to bring up or shove out of the way all those images and information in front of that amazing screen? Packer would have envied that.) Slightly out-of-date technology bugs him (ATMs, for example) as do units of language (like "Automatic Teller Machine") since "the term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory . . . unable to escape the inference of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts." Fie on all that human befuddlement. Fie on words like "fie." Give Packer the gleaming virtual future wrapped in his stretch limo, where death and destruction feel as thin as our new computer screens.
The limousine is elaborately equipped not just with surveillance machines meant to ease Packer's (totally justified, it turns out) paranoia of being pursued by weirdos, but also with supertech, voice-activated gadgetry that keeps Packer abreast of world events and second-by-second financial markets data. (The "cosmopolis" of the title may refer to New York as the world's most fecund cultural and economic center, but also to the interior of that limousine, where the most advanced technologies bring the world, in simulacral form, to a single consciousness.) It's on these TV and computer screens that Packer learns of the assassination of a Russian media mogul with whom he used to be friends ("He was glad to see the man dead in the mud"). It is on these screens that he watches live—and then replayed over and over on the Money Channel—the assassination of a high official of the IMF in North Korea ("Eric wanted them to show it again. Show it again."). It is to these screens that Packer repairs when an anti-corporate riot erupts on New York's streets, trapping his limousine next to a man who immolates himself to death in protest against a global world order that creates men like Eric Packer. ("How will we know when the global era officially ends?" one of Packer's many advisers asks him. "When stretch limousines begin to disappear from the streets of Manhattan.") It's on these screens where he learns that the yen continues to rise, though throughout the day, in a growing ecstasy of self-destruction, he will bet millions, and then perhaps billions, on it falling.
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Prayer is ray of light in self-sufficient world
The Psalm proclaims God's love and fidelity to his Covenant with his people. The experience of prayer can be a witness for those who do not share our faith.
At the General Audience on Wednesday, 5 February, the Holy Father commented on Psalm 116[117], the shortest in the Psalter. It expresses the heart of the Covenant between God and his people. This brief Psalm captures the essence of prayer as a personal encounter with God, a dialogue in which the divine mystery is revealed as covenant love (sometimes translated as mercy) and faithfulness (sometimes translated as truth). Through prayer, "all nations and peoples" are invited to praise God and to experience the joy of faith. Today's world greatly needs the witness of men and women who pray and who encourage others to pray. For in prayer, we discover God as the ultimate source of our love, while he pours out upon us the fullness of his mercy (cf. St Ephrem the Syrian, Carm. Nisib., 50). After his catechesis, the 65th in the series on the Psalms, the Holy Father greeted the pilgrims in the major European languages and gave a special greeting to young people, the sick, and newly-weds.
1. Continuing our meditation on the texts of the Liturgy of Lauds, we consider again a Psalm already presented, the shortest of all the Psalms. It is Psalm 116[117] which we have just heard, a short hymn or an aspiration that becomes a universal praise of the Lord. It proclaims what is expressed in two fundamental words: covenant love and faithfulness (cf. v. 2).
God's covenant love and faithfulness
With these terms the Psalmist describes synthetically the Covenant between God and Israel, stressing the deep, loyal and trusting relationship between the Lord and his people. We hear the echo of the words that God himself spoke on Mount Sinai when he appeared to Moses: "The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness" (Ex 34,6).
Praise of God embraces world
2. Despite its brevity and conciseness, Psalm 116[117] captures the essence of prayer, which consists in coming together and entering into lively personal conversation with God. In such an event, the mystery of the Divinity is revealed as faithfulness and love.
The Psalmist adds a special aspect of prayer: the experience of prayer should be radiated in the world and become a witness for those who do not share our faith. Indeed, it begins by expanding the horizon to embrace "all peoples" and "all nations" (cf. Ps 116[117],1), so that before the beauty and joy of faith, they too may be overcome by the desire to know, meet and praise God.
The witness of the person at prayer is like a ray of light in the darkness
3. In a technological world menaced by an eclipse of the sacred, in a society that delights in a certain self-sufficiency, the witness of the person at prayer is like a ray of light in the darkness.
Initially, it can only awaken curiosity; then it can induce the thoughtful person to wonder about the meaning of prayer, and, finally, it can give rise to the growing desire to have the experience. For this reason, prayer is never an isolated event, but tends to expand until it involves the whole world.
St Ephrem's call to unceasing praise
4. Let us now accompany Psalm 116[117] with the words of a great Father of the Eastern Church, St Ephrem the Syrian, who lived in the fourth century. In one of his Hymns on Faith, the 14th, he expresses his desire to praise God without ceasing, involving "all who understand the (divine) truth". This is his witness:
"How can my harp, O Lord, cease to praise you?
How could I teach my tongue infidelity?
Your love has given confidence to my embarrassment, but my will is still ungrateful" (strophe 9).
"It is right that man should recognize your divinity, it is right for heavenly beings to praise your humanity; the heavenly beings were astonished to see how much you emptied yourself, and those on earth to see how you were exalted" (strophe 10: L'Arpa dello Spirito [The Harp of the Spirit], Rome 1999, pp. 26-28).
Praise God's love and faithfulness
5. In another hymn (Hymns on Nisibis, 50), St Ephrem confirms his task of unceasing praise and finds the reason for it in God's love and compassion for us, just as our Psalm suggests.
"In you, Lord, may my mouth make praise come from silence. May our mouths not be lacking in praise, may our lips not be lacking in confessing; may your praise vibrate in us!" (strophe 2).
"Since it is on the Lord that the root of our faith is grafted, although he is far-removed, yet he is near in the fusion of love. May the roots of our love be fastened to him, may the full measure of his compassion be poured out upon us" (strophe 6: ibid., pp. 77.80).
L'Osservatore Romano February 12, 2003


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Charles Mungoshi Waiting for the Rain (1975)
Charles Muzuva Mungoshi was born on the 2nd. December 1947 in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
He was born in a village in the Manyene Tribal Trust Land near Chivhu, about 200 kilometres south of Harare, then Salisbury, the capital of Zimbabwe.
Charles Mungoshi is the first in a family of 8 children.
His father was the owner of a small farm.
Mungoshi spent his early childhood herding cattle on his father's farm.
Mungoshi's art lies in his ability to evoke the surroundings and portray the lives and minds of the members of extended families as they relate to each other and cope with the ever-changing world which encroaches on their rural existence.
Mungoshi has a special skill in narrating the intricacies of human perceptions, attitudes and thought processes in the microcosm of the African hut. Cf. Jane Austen's description of family life of 19th. century English gentry.
No doubt his skill at narration developed from the long winter evenings of his childhood when he would sit listening to his grandmother telling stories.
The character of Old Mandisa, Lucifer's maternal grandmother in Waiting for the Rain is based on Mungoshi's own grandmother.
Story-telling would have been a past-time for the whole village during the dry season.
Story-telling competitions were held regularly in the village and Mungoshi's grandmother was noted for her story-telling ability.
Mungoshi first went to school in 1959, at the age of 12.
He attended the Daramombe Upper Primary School.
In 1963, he moved to St. Augustine's High School at Penhalonga, near Mutare.
His English teacher, Father Daniel Pearce, encouraged his creative writing skills and his acting skills.
In 1966, his first short story "Cain's Medal" was published.
When he left school, Mungoshi found work with the Forestry Commission.
By 1969, he had moved to work as an invoice clerk at a bookshop in Salisbury.
He wrote more short stories during this time - stories which were published in Parade, a magazine aimed at an African readership with a circulation of more than 2,000.
Between 1967 and 1970, he wrote his first Shona novel, Makunun'unu maodzamwoyo (1970). Translation: Brooding Breeds Despair.
This is Mungoshi's most frequently published work.
In the years preceding Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, only 3,000 copies were printed, but since then the book has been a standard set work in schools and 42,500 copies have been printed.
The story focuses on a family in Manyene, Mungoshi's home district, and shows how a family suffers disaster as a mother attempts to marry off her daughter, Monika.
In 1972, Coming of the Dry Season was published.
This is Mungoshi's first collection of short stories in English.
The stories tell of how young urban and rural Zimbabweans (then, Black Rhodesians) grow up and become increasingly alienated from all aspects of their societies - the older generation, their home backgrounds, their work situations etc.
The young protagonists are trapped by their reflective mindsets - by their memories, become isolated psychologically and cannot find the freedom of action and decision they struccle for.
Coming of the Dry Season (1972) was published in Nairobi, Kenya.
This collectuon of short stories was banned by the Rhodesian Censorship Board in 1974.
The Board argued that the last story "The Accident" was subversive in respect of race relations.
The ban was lifted in 1978, on the eve of Zimbabwean independence.
However, the fact the Coming of the Dry Season was banned at all is indicative of how sensitive the White Rhodesian government was at the time - the early and mid-1970s.
In 1965, the White minority government of Ian Smith had declared UDI (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) from the United Kingdom and the guerrilla organisations ZAPU and ZANU were formed in Mozambique and Zambia.
ZAPU and ZANU fighters attacked the Rhodesian security forces.
For nearly a decade (1965-1975), thousands of people died and millions were displaced.
In 1980, at the Lancaster House talks in London, the White minority Rhodesian government finally consented to hold multi-racial elections supervised by the British.
Robert Mugabe of the Shona-based ZANU won a landslide victory.
In 1990, a one-party Marxist-oriented state was eventually substituted for a multi-party democracy.
Independence in 1980 brought Mungoshi to the centre of the literary stage in Zimbabwe.
Up to independence, Mungoshi had been known as the author of a banned book.
Once the colonial administration and its censors had vanished, Mungoshi took up his position as a major contributor to Zimbabwean letters.
Coming of the Dry Season was republished in 1981.
Makunun'unu maodzamwoyo (1970) became a school set work throughout Zimbabwe.
In 1982, Mungoshi moved from the Literature Bureau and became an editor for the newly-formed Zimbabwe Publishing House.
In 1985, Mungoshi became writer-in-residence at the University of Zimbabwe at Harare.
In terms of his works, independence changed his authorial attitude, his authorial stance.
White supremacy had disappeared and there was no need to criticise it, even implicitly.
Lewis Nkosi wrote in Home and Exile and Other Selections (p. 161) that during the first phase of the liberation struggle throughout Southern Africa, writers "attempt to capture in their pamphlets, poems, novels and plays, the revolutionary impulse of which they are inalienably a part."
Then, in a second phase, writers "register not only the pains and joys of national rebirth, but begin to constitute an important source of critical consciousness for the nation."
This applies to Mungoshi in part.
Between 1975 and 1989, Mungoshi's creative energies were directed chiefly at work in Shona.
From 1980 onwards, Mungoshi became an insider - on the side of the post-independence administration - not an outsider as he had been during the colonial administration.
In 1989, he published Stories from a Shona Childhood and in 1991 One day Long Ago: More Stories from a Shona Childhood.
The 1991 publication won the Noma Award for African writing in 1992.
Both publications are collections of stories for children, written at a time when Zimbabwean publishers were trying to encourage young readerships.
Recently, Mungoshi has turned to writing film-scripts and acting and directing films.
In 1993, he wrote and directed a UNESCO film Abide with Me.
Mungoshi's interst in films and film-making suggests that he is interested in new media for expressing his perceptions of Zimbabwean society.
In 1997, Walking Still, a new collection of short stories, was published.
In 1998, Mungoshi was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize (African region) for fiction.
Mungoshi now lives in Harare with his wife and 5 children.
He prefers to write in seclusion, frequently on his family's farm near Chivhu.


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Beginning Jan. 7, staff and students at all six buildings began bringing in canned items to donated to the pantry, the release states. More than 1,800 cans were collected, boxed and stored at Northern Lebanon High School in the first week.
In the second week, personal hygiene products were collected, the release states. The third week featured dry foods, including pasta, rice and cereals, and the final week focused on household supplies, such as laundry detergents and cleaners.
At the end of each week, district personnel collected and boxed the donations, the release states. The final donation pickup will be on Monday. High school students and staff will make a final pickup at all four elementary schools, leaving from the high school about 12:45 p.m. and delivering to the pantry at 48 W. Market St., Jonestown, about 1:45 p.m.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – David Stern proclaimed Saturday night what has long been assumed but never confirmed: He will recommend deputy commissioner Adam Silver to succeed him as commissioner when he retires.
"One of the things that a good CEO does -- and I try to be a good CEO -- is provide his board with a spectacular choice for his successor," Stern said during his annual All-Star news conference. "And I have done that. And that's Adam."
Stern, 69, reiterated what he said after the collective bargaining agreement saving a 66-game season after a 149-day lockout was finalized: He will not be commissioner when both sides have the opportunity to opt out of the deal in 2017. Beyond that, he placed no timetable on his departure, but said he would have the discussion with owners "very soon."
Silver has been deputy commissioner and chief operating office since 2006 after serving for more than eight years as president and COO of NBA Entertainment. He has played a key role in negotiating the league's last two broadcast rights agreements and the last four collective bargaining agreements with the National Basketball Players Association – and also created NBA China as a stand-alone entity. Silver, who also played a key role in delivering the league's public message to the media during the lockout, was asked during Stern's news conference how prepared he is for the job. He smiled and slid the microphone in front of Stern.
"He's a first-rate, top-of-the-class executive," Stern said.
Stern's recommendation of Silver would have to be approved by the league's Board of Governors.
Among the other news Stern made Saturday night:
• Negotiations in Orlando involving the league, city of Sacramento and the Maloof family on achieving a funding plan for a new arena before a March 1 deadline has "several remaining points that may or not be bridged," Stern said. The talks will continue Sunday, and Stern said the issue is coming up with additional funding necessary to pay for the project. "Life is a negotiation," he said. "… It's getting there, but it's just not there yet. And we're looking for other ways, imaginative ways, to bridge the gap."
• He confirmed that there is a leading candidate to purchase the New Orleans Hornets and that the league is "optimistic that we will make a deal" in the next "week or 10 days." There is a second group that is "in sort of second place," Stern said, "waiting to see how we do with group one." Both groups would keep the team in New Orleans, where the city is continuing to negotiate an arena lease extension upon which the ownership deal is contingent.
• Stern confirmed that he has spoken with Seattle investor Chris Hansen, who is spearheading support for an arena to attract a team and replace the Supersonics, who moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. "It sounded OK to us," Stern said of Hansen's plan. "Go for it. That's all." But Stern acknowledged that the plan would require that "we have a team that we could put there." As arena funding talks with Sacramento and the Malodors continue, one might view Stern's enthusiasm about the prospect of a return to Seattle as a leverage point in that negotiation.
• Stern alluded to increased attendance, TV ratings and sales, but didn't give specifics. National Basketball Players Association executive director Billy Hunter said earlier in the day that Stern has told him attendance and merchandise sales are up, and that Silver told him in a recent meeting that league revenues are expected to increase more than pre-lockout projections. "Everything is good," Stern said.
• Asked whether the NBA would consider aiding teams that lose superstars to free agency, such as host city Orlando is facing with Dwight Howard, Stern said, and "No. Why should we? … We have a system that has a draft that basically tells a player where he's going to play in this league when he's drafted, and a further system that has a huge advantage to the team that has him. Our players could play for seven years for a team they didn't choose. And we think that's a system, but not a prison. ... I'm sure Dwight will make a good and wise decision for him."
• Stern shot down the notion of adding expansion teams in North America (as if there aren't too many teams already). But he wouldn't rule out overseas expansion in the next 10 years, deferring the topic to silver, who said, "We'll see."
• Stern took issue when asked to evaluate his decision, when acting in his capacity as the owner of the Hornets, to disallow the trade that would've sent Chris Paul to the Lakers. "There's no superstar that gets traded in this league unless the owner says, 'Go ahead with it.' And in the case of New Orleans, the representative of the owner said, 'That's not a trade we're going to make.'" "But that representative was you?" Stern was asked. "Correct," he said. "And was that the right move to make?" "Buy a ticket and see," Stern said. "We'll see how it works out."
• Asked about reports that shoe companies are trying to steer their star clients to bigger markets – a reference to Adidas' relationship with Howard – Silver said the league does not have jurisdiction over shoe companies. "But we have looked into it, and we have been assured by the two major shoe companies in the league that the incentives they build into contracts are based on winning as opposed to market size," Silver said.
• On Jeremy Lin, the Taiwanese-American whose sudden emergence with the Knicks has spawned intense global interest, Stern said, "I just think it's the universal story of the underdog stepping forward."
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Stern anoints Silver as successor
Posted on: February 25, 2012 8:56 pm
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Tags: Adam Silver, Adidas, All-Star, All-Star Game, All-Star Weekend, Billy Hunter, Chris Paul, Clippers, David Stern, Dwight Howard, Hornets, Jeremy Lin, Kings, Knicks, Lakers, Magic, National Basketball Players Association, NBPA, Nike, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Sacramento, Seattle, SuperSonics, Thunder
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Posted on: February 27, 2012 12:24 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
Since: Mar 21, 2007
Posted on: February 26, 2012 11:53 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
Stern's only 69? I really thought he was creeping up on 85; he's been at the league's helm FOREVER.
Since: Sep 22, 2009
Posted on: February 26, 2012 6:46 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
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Posted on: February 26, 2012 5:56 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
ORLANDO, Fla. – David Stern proclaimed Saturday night what has long been assumed but never confirmed: He will recommend deputy commissioner Adam Silver to succeed him as commissioner when he retires dies.
That was what I expected to see.....
Since: Dec 20, 2008
Posted on: February 26, 2012 5:50 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
common guys, is anyone really surprised that Stern would leave the business to one of his own?
Since: Aug 21, 2006
Posted on: February 26, 2012 5:06 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
Uhhh... Jewish people are a minority John.
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Posted on: February 26, 2012 2:55 pm
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Posted on: February 26, 2012 2:46 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
....The owners should pick who THEY want, not someone who is not an owner....
Hopefully they think really hard for the next person to be commish.......They should look into someone who played the game number one since the money people who have run the league have done a very poor job......
And hopefully the NBA will have a commish who is a minority.......Since most of the NBA and the fans are minorities......
The last thing this league needs is another jew.....
Since: Feb 2, 2011
Posted on: February 26, 2012 2:06 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
Perhaps a hyena would do well. We already know a jackass coudn't....
Since: Oct 5, 2011
Posted on: February 26, 2012 1:45 pm
Stern anoints Silver as successor
Good riddance, hope this happens sooner than later. Stern is another one of these angry little men with a Napoleon sydrome. The blocked Lakers-CP3 trade was proof that he thinks he knows better than anyone else. No doubt he'll get a nice little payoff package from the owners when he does leave. Bye bye Yoda


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A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
Minnesota Law Moose--http://lawmoose.com The best site for information on Minnesota and Eighth Circuit Law. The Moose is an excellent one-stop site for links to forms, state law, opinions, legal newspapers, judges and other useful information. One of its best features in its translation service that allows documents to be translated from English to several other languages, including Spanish, and back to English.Moose also contains a link to Minnesota's legal periodicals index at the Minnesota State Law Library.
Statutes, Rules and Laws--Ramsey County can be found at http://www.naco.org/counties/counties/county.cfm?id=27123. The rest of the Minnesota counties can be found at http://www.naco.org/counties/counties/state.cfm. In fact this link will allow access to county s around the nation. The City of St. Paul's can be found at http://www.ci.saint-paul.mn.us/. Othere good sites for local s around the country can be found at http://municipals.lexisnexis.com and http://www.spl.org/selectedsites/muni.html.
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Resources for Talking with Children
About Tragedies
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Thriving Catholic Schools Profiled – Jim Graves, Catholic World Report
Mystery Marian Shrine Has More Pilgrims than Guadalupe & Lourdes – Dr. T. Marshall, CT
7 Things You Need to Know about Mercy – Marcellino D'Ambrosio PhD, Intgrtd Cthlc Life™
5th Sunday of Lent: His Love Lives and Works In and Through Us – Fr. Z's Blog
Great Idea: A Monastic Community Visits Your Parish – New Catholic, Rorate Cæli
Magnificat Mag., Liturgy of the Hours, & a Rant about Vocabulary – Jake Tawney, Rle
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Jean Dalrymple, Persuasive Dreamer Who Brought Theater to City Center, Dies at 96
By RICHARD SEVERO
Published: November 17, 1998
Jean Dalrymple, who abandoned a nascent acting career to become a successful publicist, then an even more successful manager of concert artists and finally a dynamic producer of musicals and plays for City Center and other stages, died on Sunday at her Manhattan home, across the street from City Center. She was 96.
Miss Dalrymple's stature in the New York theater world was enhanced by her uncanny ability to lure just the right actor for a particular role at a price that City Center, with its limited budget, could afford. Her skillful productions nourished and entertained audiences there from the 1940's through the 60's.
Among the center's offerings during her tenure as director of its theater and light-opera companies were plays by Shakespeare and Shaw, Sartre and Tennessee Williams, with actors like Jose Ferrer, Charles Boyer, Franchot Tone, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, Charlton Heston, Helen Hayes and Tallulah Bankhead. She also revived musicals by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Frank Loesser, Rodgers and Hart, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.
The productions were quite polished. Indeed, after an opening of one Rodgers and Hammerstein revival, Miss Dalrymple received a floral tribute from the composers with a note that said, ''We wish last night had been the Broadway opening.''
In her day, Miss Dalrymple was one of a handful of formidable female producers; the others included Cheryl Crawford and Irene Selznick. She was as tough as they were, a woman in perpetual motion, but she did not seem that way.
''Jean always had a kind of solid serenity about her,'' said Robert Whitehead, the producer. ''She had a great determination to get things done, but she was always very feminine, very pretty. She was an extraordinary person.''
Franchot Tone, an actor whose work Miss Dalrymple always admired, thought of her as ''the tenderest little lady.'' But a writer from The Cleveland Plain Dealer described as her as ''as fragile as a Fragonard painting but hep and with a sense of timing like a Garand rifle.''
In addition to luring actors, she was also able to persuade producers to give the City Center sets and costumes when their plays and musicals ended their runs. Thus, her revival of ''My Fair Lady'' featured the original costumes.
Creating a 'Temple' For Performing Arts
City Center, for which Miss Dalrymple worked so long and hard, was established on West 55th Street in 1943 by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and City Council President Newbold Morris, who wanted it to be a ''temple for the performing arts,'' offering productions for a top price of $2.
Miss Dalrymple was there at the very beginning. Her success with their dream was such that when the center turned 50 in 1993 and called itself ''a glorious home for dance, music, opera and dozens of extraordinary musicals and plays,'' there were many who thought the phrase an understatement of what Miss Dalrymple had accomplished.
Initially serving as volunteer director of public relations and as a member of its board, Miss Dalrymple remained at the middle of City Center's publicity apparatus even after she started producing and directing. At the same time, she served as personal manager to performing artists like Leopold Stokowski, Mary Martin, Jose Iturbi, Andre Kostalanetz, Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons.
Jean Dalrymple was born on Sept. 2, 1902, in Morristown, N.J., to George and Elizabeth Collins Dalrymple. There was no shortage of money in her family; her grandfather, an officer in the Civil War, had founded a coal and lumber business that sustained the family very well.
When she was 9, she finished a short story, ''The Spinning Top,'' and sold it to a Newark newspaper for $1. Encouraged by this success, she wrote more stories for a Philadelphia paper, receiving $5 for each one. But even in those days, she thought of writing as secondary to her goal of becoming a stage director.
After completing her secondary education, Miss Dalrymple moved to New York, studied secretarial skills at a business school and got a stenographer's job on Wall Street when she was only 16. She even made a respectable sum in the market before the crash of 1929. The crash propelled her out of Wall Street and into vaudeville. She created an act with her beau Dan Jarrett and worked with James Cagney and Cary Grant on the Keith-Orpheum circuit.
During this period, she tried her hand at playwriting; ''Salt Water,'' written with Mr. Jarrett, was produced by John Golden. She was hired by Golden as an understudy, casting director, play doctor and press agent, and her skill in handling the press so impressed him that he encouraged her to work at it full time.
It also impressed Ward Morehouse, the drama critic for The New York Sun, so much so that in 1932 he proposed marriage. It was not a successful union, but in the five years they were together, they collaborated on a screenplay, ''It Happened in New York,'' which was made into a movie by Universal Pictures.
Miss Dalrymple was married in 1951 to Maj. Gen. Philip de Witt Ginder, who died in 1968. No immediate family members survive. The funeral will be held on Thursday at 1:30 P.M. at the West Point chapel.


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Greenville County Council unnecessarily injected even more politics into an already politically charged issue in the way it chose to handle a proposal to identify infrastructure needs in Greenville County and pay for them through a countywide sales tax of up to 1 percent.
Generally speaking, the idea of using a limited-duration local sales tax is a good way to fund road needs throughout the county, as long as those projects are fairly identified and everyone in the county gets equal benefit from the tax dollars that are spent on the projects. The changes to the resolution that was unanimously passed last week make that prospect less likely, though still possible if County Council acts deliberately and responsibly.
The original proposal that was before County Council would have appointed a commission to draft a list of infrastructure projects, determine the cost of those projects and recommend a sales tax increase of up to 1 percent to pay for them. Council then would have had the opportunity to either accept or reject the committee's recommendations and, if accepted, forward the list of projects and the tax proposal to the voters in the form of a referendum.
That version passed 8-4 on first reading, but generated intense opposition from Greenville County's anti-tax crowd. It was billed by some as the largest tax increase in the county's history. The hysteria whipped up by some who conveniently ignored that County Council was creating a commission rather than passing a tax increase presumably frightened some members of County Council.
The end result is a resolution that is much less than perfect, though it still could have us on the road, so to speak, to a referendum late next year.
Council still appointed a commission that will consist of 18 members. Each County Council member will appoint a commission representative, and each of the six municipalities in the county will appoint a member. That commission, with citizen input, then will come up with a list of proposed projects that it will forward to County Council.
This is where politics comes in. The commission's authority was diluted because, rather than voting up or down on the list, County Council now will have the ability to cut and paste to create a list that a majority of members find palatable. One can only guess at the inequities that could be present when they finish. Especially vulnerable could be the municipalities in the county that lack strong representation on County Council. While the 18-member commission, with a third of its members coming from the municipalities, might have been able to protect the incorporated areas' interests, putting the list to council could turn into a free-for-all with the entire measure being held hostage to the whims of only a few County Council members.
The final version also strips away any language of a sales tax or a referendum. Yes, County Council still can draft and consider an ordinance that would create the tax via a referendum, presumably in November 2014. However, with County Council's intentions less clear at the outset, it is difficult to tell how much support such an ordinance will get when the time comes. The anti-tax sentiment in some parts of the county is not going away.
There is no doubt Greenville County's infrastructure needs to be improved. Help from the state is unlikely, even though the resolution does state that if legislators or the state Infrastructure Bank designate at least $50 million for capital projects in the county by July 31 this effort would be abandoned. Fact is, the county would not be trying this if not for the state Legislature's continuing inaction on providing enough funding for infrastructure improvements. A recent estimate by a state task force suggested it would take $29 billion over $20 years to accomplish even that modest task.
What is disappointing about this entire effort is the loud clamoring from those in the county who oppose any tax no matter the purpose. This would be a tax for a defined purpose, passed for a strictly limited time and renewable only by another vote of the electorate. There is nothing controversial here.
To characterize this proposal as the largest tax increase in county history is disingenuous at best. Yes, it would generate a significant amount of revenue - $65 million per year, by the county's estimates. But that would not come solely from county residents. A significant amount of the county's sales tax revenue is generated from people who are visiting Greenville County. And in eight years, the tax would go away, unless voters specifically approved an extension.
State residents have rightly demanded that politics be taken out of statewide decisions on how to spend infrastructure money. By loudly objecting to this idea, a small but vocal group of people in the county have made the local effort more political, and have put in jeopardy one strong hope that Greenville County had to bring its infrastructure up to a more acceptable standard.


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The Tennessee Department of Childrens Services has replaced the director of the call center where case workers have struggled to answer phone calls reporting child abuse and neglect.
DCS spokesman Brandon Gee said Thursday that Central Intake call center Director Jeanene Waldrum will move to the DCS main office. In her place, the interim call center director will be Dimple Dudley, who began working with the state as a social worker in 1976.
Weve been considering making a change for some time, Gee said. This was a mutual thing. (Waldrum) had inquired about transferring.
Monday, The Tennessean reported an increase in unanswered calls and high staff turnover at the center, along with the departments recent efforts to find ways to be more responsive.
Gee said the director change was already being considered.
Waldrum, a DCS employee for nearly 20 years, will become a program coordinator for case file reviews and will perform background checks. She will not be in a supervisory role. Gee said her $60,000 salary probably would be reduced.
Dudley will oversee the call center and its 70 employees while the nonprofit Annie E. Casey Foundation reviews operations there. The foundation has been reviewing the call center at no cost to the state. As part of that work, a new set of job qualifications for the director position will be created.
The Casey Foundation is at the call center this week and will deliver recommendations in the coming months.
The review team also was expanded this week, when DCS Commissioner Kate ODay asked Customer Focused Government, a state government efficiency work group, to join the analysis.
In the past two years, the DCS Central Intake call center hasnt answered its phones as quickly as it used to, prompting as many as 25 percent of callers to hang up.
DCS already has made some changes, including adding more case managers to the call center. An updated phone system will be installed this month.
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About a year ago we decided it was time to look at our organically grown network infrastructure. Due to mergers and acquisitions it had put on some weight around the middle. Operating a network predominantly build around the Cisco portfolio, and hence pretty much unfamiliar with what else was available in the world of networking, we set out
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In the past few months, I've been talking among my Juniper colleagues, customers and partners about what's taking place in the service provider industry. We often reflect on the belief that this industry is in the midst of a dramatic period of change. Many service providers are not only adding new services to their portfolio and new regional or national footprints to their customer bases, but are transforming their business models to thrive and grow profitably in a challenging market environment. Read more...
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Mansfield Summit grad Micah Awe gets shot at middle linebacker in Red Raiders' new 3-4 defense
Perhaps generously listed as 6-feet tall, rising true sophomore Micah Awe does not look like a prototypical middle linebacker.
Looks aren't everything though. While the sophomore loved Texas Tech during the recruiting process, Awe seemed irked he only received one scholarship offer back in high school while head hunting as a versatile linebacker at Mansfield's Summit High School.
Awe played outside linebacker alongside rising senior Terrance Bullitt last season, but new defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt has opted to move the 6-foot, 210-pounder back to middle linebacker.
"I know people (think) I'm going to be small and all that, but I don't really care," Awe told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal's Don Williams. "I think I'll do better than most people expect, by the grace of God."
Former head coach Tommy Tuberville said Awe was one of the smartest guys on the team. He's majoring in petroleum engineering which is one of Texas Tech's elite programs on a national level.
That being said, Awe is a guy who can cope with perceived physical limitations in the Big 12.
"I don't think (weight) is an issue, but coach wants me to be 220," Awe told Williams. "I'll try my best to get there, but if I don't, there's a lot of people I can compare to that's small. I met (former Texas Tech receiver) Danny Amendola yesterday. He's shorter than I am. He's in the NFL making millions."
According to Williams, Awe will supplement two-year starter Blake Dees and Zach Winbush at middle linebacker and should see playing time within the rotation.
Awe played in all 13 Texas Tech games last season and recorded 13 tackles between time on kickoff and on defense.


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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Dorian Green had 17 points as each of Colorado State's starters scored in double figures in a 74-63 victory against Fresno State on Saturday night.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Malik Story scored 24 points, Deonte Burton added 22 and Nevada cashed in from the free-throw line in Saturday night's 68-61 victory over Fresno State.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Tyler Johnson scored 18 points, Tanner Giddings added 10 off the bench and Fresno State held Wyoming to 24 percent shooting in a 49-36 victory Wednesday night.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Jamaal Franklin scored 20 points, including a highlight reel dunk, and had 18 rebounds to help No.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Tyler Johnson had 25 points and eight rebounds Sunday and Fresno State beat Sonoma State 89-64 to snap a four-game losing streak.


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Indonesia to make green cars tax-free
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Indonesia is set to make green cars "tax free," in a move to boost widespread adoption and deployment of these vehicles across the country.
According to a Jakarta Post report, the Finance Ministry is about to issue tax incentives for green cars manufacturers with the unanimous support of the House of Representatives.
"There's no reason to reject this idea," said Emir Moeis, chairman of House Commission XI overseeing finance, during a meeting with key officials from the Finance Ministry and Industry Ministry in Jakarta on Monday.
Under the new tax scheme, cars that will meet the requirements of low-cost green cars will receive a zero percent tax rate, which means manufacturers are free from the obligation to pay the product's tax which currently ranges between 10 to 20 percent.
Criteria for a low-cost green car would include an engine capacity of less than 1,200 cc, a minimum fuel consumption of 20 kilometers per liter and an affordable price, said the government.
Bambang Brodjonegoro, head of the Finance Ministry's fiscal agency, said potential losses from the tax cutback could reach 760 billion Rupees ($79 million). While this is a large sum of money, he said such losses would be compensated by the 12.5 percent of increase in investment in the automotive industry and additional employment in the sector, accelerating Indonesia's economic growth by about 0.2 to 0.3 percent.
The new incentive program for green cars is part of the Indonesia's efforts to reduce its fuel consumption over the coming years. It will be introduced within the next 30 days. – EcoSeed Staff