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Emclaire Financial Corp Reports 2012 Earnings; Announces Annual Meeting Date EMLENTON, Pa., Feb. 1, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emclaire Financial Corp (Nasdaq:EMCF), the parent holding company of The Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, reported consolidated net income of $3.7 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, compared to $3.8 million for the same period in 2011. The results for 2012 were impacted by an increase in the provision for loan losses, which overshadowed growth in recurring revenue and reductions in noninterest expense. The Corporation realized a return on average assets of 0.70% and a return on average common equity of 7.56% for the year ended December 31, 2012, compared to 0.78% and 8.98%, respectively, reported for 2011. Net income was $691,000 for the quarter ended December 31, 2012, compared to $1.2 million for the same period in 2011. The fourth quarter of 2012 included $567,000 in provision for loan losses compared to $100,000 for the same quarter in 2011. William C. Marsh, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and the Bank, noted, "The Board of Directors, management and I are pleased with core earnings for 2012 and the continued growth of our franchise. During this past year, despite the increase in nonperforming assets, the provision for loans losses, and the corresponding impact on earnings, we have seen increases in net interest income and core noninterest revenues and have continued our disciplined management of operating expenses. Further, we continue to maintain a sound capital base while providing a solid return to our shareholders and we are well positioned for future growth opportunities." 2012 OPERATING RESULTS OVERVIEW Net income available to common stockholders decreased $155,000, or 4.7%, to $3.2 million or $1.80 per common share in 2012, compared to $3.3 million or $1.98 per common share in 2011. The decrease primarily related to a $1.7 million increase in the provision for loan losses, which was partially offset by increases in net interest income and noninterest income of $379,000 and $1.1 million, respectively, and decreases in noninterest expense and the provision for income taxes of $108,000 and $16,000, respectively. The provision for loan losses increased $1.7 million to $2.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2012 from $420,000 in 2011. The increase resulted primarily from the deterioration of a $3.4 million commercial real estate credit relationship, which was identified as impaired based on information received regarding current cash flow considerations, weakened financial condition of the principals and guarantors, and recent appraisal information. This credit relationship was placed on nonaccrual status during the third quarter of 2012 which led to an increase in the ratio of nonperforming assets to total assets to 1.41% at December 31, 2012 from 1.19% at December 31, 2011. Despite this activity, the Corporation's asset quality metrics continue to compare favorably to national and peer averages. Net interest income increased $379,000, or 2.5%, to $15.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2012 from $15.4 million in 2011. The increase in net interest income primarily related to a decrease in interest expense of $896,000, or 15.3%, as the Corporation's cost of funds decreased 25 basis points to 1.08% in 2012 from 1.33% in 2011. Driving this improvement was a $643,000 decrease in interest paid on deposits and a $253,000 decrease in interest paid on borrowings, the latter of which related to the Corporation's repayment of $10.0 million in borrowings during 2011. During the fourth quarter of 2012, the Corporation exchanged and modified $15.0 million of the $20.0 million in outstanding Federal Home Loan Bank long-term advances, further reducing the cost of borrowed funds. The Corporation improved its non-time deposit ratio to 69.5% at December 31, 2012 from 65.1% at December 31, 2011, resulting in an overall reduction in deposit costs. Noninterest income increased $1.1 million, or 27.4%, to $4.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2012 from $3.8 million in 2011. The increase primarily related to a $775,000 increase in nonrecurring net securities gains as well as increases in customer service fees, earnings on bank owned life insurance and other income of $118,000, $61,000 and $173,000, respectively, partially offset by decreases in fees from financial services and title premiums of $54,000 and $21,000, respectively. Excluding the securities gains, recurring noninterest income increased 8.2% to $3.6 million in 2012 from $3.4 million in 2011. Noninterest expense decreased $108,000 to $13.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2012 from $14.0 million in 2011. The decrease primarily related to decreases in premises and equipment expense, intangible asset amortization, professional fees and FDIC insurance expenses of $183,000, $96,000, $34,000 and $23,000, respectively, partially offset by increases in compensation and benefits and other noninterest expenses of $56,000 and $172,000, respectively. Included in other noninterest expense for 2011 was $336,000 in prepayment penalties associated with the early retirement of a $5.0 million Federal Home Loan Bank advance. On a recurring basis, which excludes the impact of the aforementioned prepayment penalty, noninterest expense increased $228,000, or 1.7%, between the two annual periods. The provision for income taxes decreased $16,000, or 1.7%, to $934,000 for the year ended December 31, 2012 from $950,000 in 2011. This decrease primarily related to a decrease in pre-tax net income, partially offset by an increase in the effective tax rate to 20.4% for 2012 from 19.9% in 2011. FOURTH QUARTER OPERATING RESULTS OVERVIEW Net income available to common stockholders decreased $467,000, or 45.2%, to $566,000 or $0.32 per common share for the quarter ended December 31, 2012 compared to $1.0 million or $0.59 per common share for the same period last year. This decrease primarily related to increases in provision for loan losses and noninterest expense of $467,000 and $93,000, respectively, and a $159,000 decrease in net interest income. The increase in the provision for loan losses was driven by an increase in classified and criticized assets and the deterioration of certain credit relationships. Despite these trends, overall credit quality compares favorably to peer and national averages. These changes, coupled with an overall decline in asset yields, have placed pressure on the Corporation's net interest margin, which led to the aforementioned decline in net interest income in the current quarter. Partially offsetting these unfavorable variances, the provision for income taxes decreased $241,000 given lower levels of pre-tax net income while noninterest income increased $16,000 between the two quarterly periods. Excluding $103,000 in other-than temporary impairment charges and other security gains of $7,000 recorded during the fourth quarter of 2012, recurring noninterest income increased $112,000 or 13.0% to $975,000 for the current quarter from $863,000 for the same period last year. The Corporation realized an annualized return on average assets and common equity of 0.54% and 5.34%, respectively, for the three months ended December 31, 2012, compared to 0.93% and 9.13%, respectively, for the same period last year. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET & ASSET QUALITY OVERVIEW Total assets increased $17.1 million, or 3.5%, to $509.0 million at December 31, 2012 from $491.9 million at December 31, 2011. Asset growth was driven by increases in customer deposits of $16.0 million and stockholders' equity of $1.0 million, which when coupled with a $2.9 million decrease in securities and a $7.8 million decrease in cash and equivalents, funded a $21.3 million increase in net loans. Total nonperforming assets were $7.2 million, or 1.41%, of total assets at December 31, 2012 compared to $5.9 million, or 1.19%, of total assets at December 31, 2011. This $1.3 million, or 22.0%, increase in nonperforming assets was primarily due to the aforementioned $3.4 million commercial real estate relationship placed on nonaccrual status during the year, partially offset by the successful resolution and payoff of a $450,000 nonperforming residential mortgage loan and the continued management and collection efforts related to other nonperforming assets. Classified and criticized assets increased $3.6 million, or 30.5%, to $15.4 million at December 31, 2012 from $11.8 million at December 31, 2011. The increase was mostly due to the aforementioned commercial real estate relationship. Stockholders' equity increased $1.0 million, or 2.0%, to $51.7 million at December 31, 2012 from $50.7 million at December 31, 2011. The Corporation remains well capitalized and is positioned for continued growth with total stockholders' equity at 10.2% of total assets. Book value and tangible book value per common share were $23.72 and $20.93, respectively, at December 31, 2012, compared to $23.25 and $20.26, respectively, at December 31, 2011. ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING In addition to reporting earnings, the Corporation announced that the annual meeting of shareholders will be held on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. at the main office of The Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, in Emlenton, Pennsylvania. The voting record date for the purpose of determining stockholders eligible to vote on proposals presented at the annual meeting will be March 1, 2013. Emclaire Financial Corp is the parent company of The Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, an independent, nationally chartered, FDIC-insured community bank headquartered in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, operating 13 full service offices in Venango, Butler, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Jefferson and Mercer counties, Pennsylvania. The Corporation's common stock is quoted on and traded through the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "EMCF". For more information, visit the Corporation's website at "www.emclairefinancial.com". This news release may contain forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may contain words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "should", "may", "can", "will", "outlook", "project", "appears" or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to, changes in interest rates which could affect net interest margins and net interest income, the possibility that increased demand or prices for the Corporation's financial services and products may not occur, changing economic and competitive conditions, technological and regulatory developments, and other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in the Corporation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Corporation does not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect occurrences or unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statements. EMCLAIRE FINANCIAL CORP Consolidated Financial Highlights (Unaudited - Dollar amounts in thousands, except share data) CONSOLIDATED OPERATING RESULTS DATA: Three month period Year ended ended December 31, December 31, 2012 2011 2012 2011 Interest income $5,023 $5,380 $20,762 $21,279 Interest expense 1,164 1,362 4,976 5,872 Net interest income 3,859 4,018 15,786 15,407 Provision for loan losses 567 100 2,154 420 Noninterest income 879 863 4,893 3,841 Noninterest expense 3,382 3,289 13,937 14,045 Income before provision for income 789 1,492 4,588 4,783 taxes Provision for income taxes 98 339 934 950 Net income 691 1,153 3,654 3,833 Accumulated preferred stock dividends 125 120 493 517 and discount accretion Net income available to common $566 $1,033 $3,161 $3,316 stockholders Basic and diluted earnings per common $ 0.32 $ 0.59 $ 1.80 $ 1.98 share Dividends per common share $ 0.28 $ 0.16 $ 0.82 $ 0.64 Return on average assets (1) 0.54% 0.93% 0.70% 0.78% Return on average equity (1) 5.27% 9.13% 7.05% 8.44% Return on average common equity (1) 5.34% 10.23% 7.56% 8.98% Yield on average interest-earning 4.28% 4.75% 4.35% 4.74% assets Cost of average interest-bearing 1.30% 1.54% 1.36% 1.64% liabilities Cost of funds 1.02% 1.24% 1.08% 1.33% Net interest margin 3.32% 3.59% 3.34% 3.47% Efficiency ratio 65.99% 62.98% 67.41% 69.70% ____________________ (1) Returns are annualized for the three month periods ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET DATA: As of As of 12/31/2012 12/31/2011 Total assets $509,014 $491,882 Cash and equivalents 20,424 28,193 Securities 120,206 123,154 Loans, net 333,801 312,545 Deposits 432,459 416,468 Borrowed funds 20,000 20,000 Common stockholders' equity 41,725 40,730 Stockholders' equity 51,725 50,730 Book value per common share $ 23.72 $ 23.25 Tangible book value per common share $ 20.93 $ 20.26 Net loans to deposits 77.19% 75.05% Allowance for loan losses to total 1.58% 1.12% loans Nonperforming assets to total assets 1.41% 1.19% Earning assets to total assets 95.16% 95.18% Stockholders' equity to total assets 10.16% 10.31% Shares of common stock outstanding 1,759,408 1,751,908 CONTACT: William C. Marsh Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Phone: (724) 867-2018 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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What is going on with motherhood these days? It seems like everyone is talking about it and writing about it. Even blogging about it...{which is great in my opinion}...myself included of course!
However, I feel in many ways the role of mother is under greater attack.
Everyone has an opinion about how it should be done.
{so of course I have to share mine now! ha!}
To me they are fighting and pushing for the right way to mother, to help them feel better about themselves and to get support for the way they think mothering should be done.
I see it as pushing for a certain type of 'mother program' and forgetting about the 'mother people' who are actually doing the mothering.
It makes me a little frustrated.
Alright, really frustrated as I feel there is NO PERFECT WAY TO BE A MOTHER!
{insert less than perfect family and totally less than perfect mother.
everyone can dress up and look good.... it is what goes on inside
the walls of our home that tells the real story}
This type of thinking puts pressure on mothers {who I see are already trying hard to be everything, do everything and keep up with everything that motherhood brings), to try to live up to a certain unrealistic expectation and it makes them feel even more guilty than they already are.
I love this quote by M. Russell Ballard:
"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. The choice is different and unique for each mother and each family. Many are able to be "full-time mums," at least during the most formative years of their children's lives, and many others would like to be. Some may have to work part-or full-time; some may work at home; some may divide their lives into periods of home and family and work. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and...prioritises them..."
We are all unique and have different children, situations and upbringings and opinions on what is best for us and our families/children. We should be celebrating this, sharing this in a loving way and helping each other to be the best mother we can be for ourselves and for our children we are blessed to care for.
I am not saying we cannot vent our frustrations, share our struggles or babble on about those days when we can't take it any more {I sure have had plenty of those!} and everything has to be all fairyland like - motherhood is not like that at all! It is hard work, demanding and exhausting.
I just get a little fired up about people adding pressure to mothers who are already doing such a great work ~ raising cherubs to be the happiest little people they can be.
I don't know about you...but, I am starting to feel better now!
Anyway, I am currently writing a talk to present this weekend at church.
Part of the title is: Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be?
I know...........deep.
In pondering this question and looking at my life, I have done a lot of thinking about what takes up most of my time in my life ~ being a mother. It is my chosen career and this has led me to ask myself -
What really is a mother? and am I being the mother I want to be?
In exploring this question my first source of wisdom is always a dictionary.
Actually, Matt and I love them so much that when Chelsea (our oldest child) turned one we asked a grandparent to give her a large Macquarie dictionary as her birthday present to help her (and us) throughout her life. It has been great!
So this is what my research came up with:
a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth.
a person who provides the care and affection normally associated with a female parent
female parent, matriarch; mom, mommy, ma, mama, mummy; old lady, old woman;
source, origin, genesis, fountainhead, inspiration, stimulus; literary wellspring
look after, care for, take care of, nurse, protect, tend, raise, rear; pamper, coddle, cosset,
fuss over, give birth to, have, bear, produce, birth
To nurture is to care for and encourage the growth or development of someone or something.
In this case children.
It also can mean to cherish - to hope, to believe and desire to achieve something.
Mothers have a sacred role to nurture. It does not come to all of us naturally (myself included) and it takes time, practice and great patience to develop the basic skills to feel like we are making a difference.
But what a difference we can make, we can change lives and change hearts.
We can help ourselves and change our own hearts as we help raise our cherubs.
{most days I feel like my kids are raising me instead of me raising them!}
Generally though, I am happy with the way I am mothering. I know I am trying my best and trying to be fully committed to motherhood. To put my children on the top of my to-do list and to be there for them. I am really good at getting distracted and over scheduling myself though. Every so often {when I feel like I am going to collapse} I take stock and remember to cut back, to relax and to let go of all the extra activities and to plan some uninterrupted family time. For me and for them.
I still have a lot to learn and more qualities to develop which I have shared here.
Motherhood comes in many shapes and forms. I am not just talking about body shape here ladies! Relationships are complicated and plans don't always work out.
Here are a few of my thoughts for mothers ~ whatever role you are in:
To single mums ~ you are amazing. you are strong and courageous. you know much of loneliness and sorrow. you face great anxiety and worry over your role. you are doing a great work. an exhausting, demanding work. you are making great contributions toward your children. you are achieving the impossible. you have the strength within you to overcome every obstacle placed in your path. be patient. be confident. all you do is worth it. nurture yourself.
To step mums ~ you have the wonderful opportunity to share love. many of you have had this role thrust upon you and given children to love immediately. what wonderful hearts you have. keep them open and soft. be brave. be strong. listen to your children. get to know them. stand up for what you know to be right. foster healthy relationships. be kind. trust your instincts. you are a mother. you are a blessing. your heart will never be the same.
To maternal mothers ~ you have given birth and treasured your child from that moment. you have rejoiced over your children and sorrowed over them too. they have brought you happiness like no~one else could. you are influencing them in ways you cannot imagine. express love to your children. you are doing a tremendous work. they are your flesh. they are part of you. teach and train. you are appreciated. you know what is best for your family. fight for it. believe in yourself. nurture yourself. forgive yourself. you are powerful. you are successful. release yourself from guilt. have fun. be happy.
To those who do not have children (and want children) ~ your desire and heart are pure. you know much of weariness and struggle. you are acquainted with sorrow and grief. you face many difficult decisions. you are important. you are courageous. you are not alone. you have a mother heart. you are of great worth. be gentle to yourself. be kind to yourself. find worthy purposes in life. serve and uplift others. you are needed. you are loved.
please do not take offense to this quote but I love it for many reasons:
"You need not possess children to love them.
Loving is not synonymous with possessing, and possessing is not necessarily loving.
The world is filled with people to be loved, guided, taught, lifted, and inspired."
Ardeth G. Kapp
To all the mother hearts - you are just wonderful and I draw so much inspiration from you to help me be better and to keep going. I love reading about how you are mothering and caring. It touches my heart and nurtures me.
Final say ~ a mother: nurtures.

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On the return, I happen to have called, because my prior experience with Viator is that you notify the riders the night before at our hotel on the pick up times. When I called the in-country number the gentleman initially said I did not have a reservation, but once I gave him my trip code he found it. All drivers were very timely, which I appreciate. I look forward to my next trip or transport with your company.
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We don't need any more Texas sized foreign policy "Oops!", so shut your pie hole and stay in Texas. America has had its fill of Texas presidents who are all hat and no cattle.
Yeah--he sounds like George W. Bush....
Encouraging attacks on our military in Iraq, Bush actually said "'There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there,' Bush told reporters at the White House. 'My answer is bring them on. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation.'" – Reuters, July 2, 2003
And then there's Bush saying....
"I'm the commander, I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." – From Bob Woodward's Bush at War, as quoted in The Independent, November 20, 2002
We had a chance to eliminate 90% of those scum but the squirrel at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. would rather play golf than run the country. The Muslim thinks we don't know he favors them to run the world !
Hey Rick and you Anonymous, Go back to sleep because you haven't learned anything since you've been alive anyway. Texas is great. The only state that had the testis to send troops to the Mexican border to stop all those illegals coming in un invited and broke our laws.
So Mr. Perry,
You have the democratic machine's attention. Just like Cristie, a scandal has erupted on your turf. You may be innocent, but as fellow Texan LBJ once said when he lied abut his opponent, 'Let the SOB deny it!".
The DEM Machine must believe you have pretty good prospects. Otherwise they would not have wasted their time.
By this idiotic rationale, Obama must be terrifying to tea baggers. lol
obama derangement syndrome
A Felon
if Rick Perry and the rest of the tea baggers want to invade Iraq, why dont they come right out and say it? You want to escalate the attacks and put more American lives at risk? Lets hear you say it? Whats that? Silence? Tea baggers are cowards
"Rick Perry Says ISIS 'Needs to Be Eliminated Now'"
OMG actual leadership! I am sure the WH doesn't have a clue.
It was a quick shift from angry statesman to Sunday golfer.
"Bush rose before dawn for a round of golf with his father, but was 'distressed' to learn of another suicide bombing in Israel.
While on the golf course he stops to deal with reporters:
"'There are a few killers who want to stop the peace process that we have started. We must not let them,' he said, wagging his finger for emphasis, just as his cart pulled up to the first hole at the Cape Arundel Golf Club.
"The six-sentence statement complete, Bush thanked reporters, then smirked and ordered: 'Now watch [this] drive.'" – Associated Press, August 4, 2002
(Recorded from the Doug Stephan show on 8/5/02. Co-host Nancy Skinner's voice can be heard in the clip
We are not the democratic machine and Rick Perry is under indictment, with things looking badly for him.
At least he can say he had a good mug shot.That's about it.
But the prosecutor, who is a Republican, spent oodles of hours interviewing people, and your buddy Rick Perry of Texas is pretty much toast. None of it looks good.
Republicans must be afraid for Perry if they are attacking commenters not supporting the guy
Rick Perry could not be reached to discuss his dire and dismal situation, saying 'Oops."
He wanted to end the department of commerce, department of energy, and department of inspector of Texas government malfeasance in Texas.
Hey Rick...Hows them x ray glasses workn out fer ya partner? LOL Ya aint foolin nobody boy!
Rick Perry: You can't even feed the National Guard you sent to the Texas Border. How are you gonna fund eliminating ISIS? You don't have the money to round up 11 million illegals in the U.S. Have any idea how many ISIS followers there are?
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Our telephone landline is relatively expensive and we rarely use it. My wife suggested that we cancel it and just rely on cellphones.
After thinking about it I've come up with some pros and cons for our situation-
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1) Cellphone service in my area is not good, sometimes we can't get a good signal throughout out house, only on one end.
2) I put my cellphone on the table when I come home and it stays there, I can't hear it in the other end of our house.
3) Between us we would have 2 different numbers, when do I give out my number, when do I give out my wife's number?
4) How permanent is a cellphone #? I have heard that you can take your number to another carrier but I've also heard that in reality this doesn't work very well.
5) Caller ID on cellphones is worthless.
Currently we have telephone with one company, and cable TV and internet with another company. Our cable company offers digital phone, but their service is so unrelaible that I wouldn't trust them with my phone service. We are considering changing to Verizon FIOS and then we could have TV, internet and phone with the same company. This would reduce what we pay for phone.
We had a cordless phone at home for a long time, and it finally quit working. My wife had added an answering machine and a caller ID box to this, which made for a big bundle of wiring and a big appetite for batteries. When the cordless phone quit I bought a new one that had 2 handsets and integrated caller ID and answering machine. It put everything into one small unit and simplified the wiring. I noticed when shopping that BestBuy had a cordless phone system with bluetooth that would connect to your cellphone. So come home, set your cellphone next to the base unit, and then the cordless handsets work just like your normal landline.


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Used to replace 17/8" coupler that came with folding trailer. Have a 2" ball on car so I did not want to change reciver everytime I change from boat to trailer. I had to drill new mounting holes for the coupler, but that was not difficult.
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The Original Outlaw: Billy Joe Shaver Isn't Running From His Turbulent Past
It's not enough that Billy Joe Shaver sawed off parts of three fingers, broke his back, underwent a quadruple bypass, and had a steel plate put into his neck. It's not enough that he buried his wife, son, and mother in the span of a single year, or that he finished a performance after having a heart attack onstage, or that he shot a man in the face outside a bar in Waco. Now 75, he's never stopped writing songs, and he says he never will.
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Neil Young Latest 'Storytone' Set for Release November 4
What do a 62-piece orchestra, a 30-member choir, and Neil Young have in common? They're all part of Young's latest studio album, Storytone, set for release November 4.
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A majestic synagogue in San Francisco exploded into prolonged applause just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when Damien Rice, hair all shorn off again, trusty Lowden acoustic slung over his shoulder, stepped to the alter and began strumming the chords to "Eskimo Friends"—with no amplification whatsoever.
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Johnny Cash, Carter Family Focus of MIM Exhibits
Johnny Cash and the Carter family are receiving a guitar-hero's welcome this month by the Musical Instrument Museum, as the Phoenix-based art-and-history center has unveiled a pair of exhibits saluting these familial legends of country music.
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Cape Town - MPs are set to conduct oversight visits to land claims lodgement centres starting this week, Parliament said in a statement on Monday.
The visits by members of the portfolio committee on rural development and land reform were aimed at assessing government's readiness to administer claims since the re-opening of the second phase of the land claims lodgement process.
"The visit will afford members of the committee an opportunity to assess the government's implementation plans, capacity and turnaround time to administer the claims," the statement said.
The lodgement of land claims reopened on June 30 when President Jacob Zuma signed the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act into law.
It allows those who missed the December 31, 1998 deadline to bring claims until mid-2019.
MPs will start their oversight visits in Mowbray, Cape Town, on Wednesday.
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Official Washington's new conventional wisdom is that the Obama administration is weak because it won't launch military strikes against every adversary around the world. But the reality is that military force has done little to project U.S. power since World War II, writes Lawrence S. Wittner.
The Fat Cats of Fast-Food
Pay inequity has worsened across the U.S. economy, but perhaps nowhere more than in the fast-food industry where CEOs and other top executives fatten their compensation as their fast-food workers subsist on taxpayer-provided food stamps, as Michael Winship explains.
Hearing US 'Allies' Whine
Official Washington is abuzz with punditry about President Obama showing weakness around the world, with the old-reliable antidote being more Pentagon spending and more foreign military adventures. But this "debate" misses how real U.S. interests are served, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
The Iron Law of Oligarchy Returns
America likes to think of itself as a land of the Great Middle Class with a government "of, by and for the people." But that reality has changed drastically over the past several decades, as money and power have created a dominant American Oligarchy, writes Danny Schechter.
America's Mad Dash to Oligarchy
Since Ronald Reagan's "supply-side" tax cuts for the rich – followed by other giveaways like eliminating the "death tax" so billionaires can pass on their fortunes to lucky heirs – the United States has been on a mad dash to oligarchy, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note.
Will 'Too-Big-to-Fail' Banks Fail Again?
Despite Wall Street's booming recovery, Main Street continues to struggle with high unemployment and low wages, making another bust more likely. And, the "too-big-to-fail" banks may be more vulnerable than they appear, writes Danny Schechter.
The War Activists
Having evaded accountability for the Iraq War and other bloody disasters, star neocons – William Kristol and Robert Kagan – have refashioned their pro-war arguments, dressing them up in humanitarian garb, with glamorous accessories of national greatness, as David Swanson explains.
Much Bank Crime, Little Punishment
Wall Street banks made a bundle on securitized subprime mortgages until the bubble began to burst in 2007 inflicting devastating harm on average people around the world. Yet, despite government rhetoric to the contrary, the key culprits have escaped punishment, writes Danny Schechter.
FDR's Legacy of Can-Do Government
Born to a well-to-do family 132 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt would earn the hatred of America's plutocrats when – as President – he deployed the federal government to battle the Great Depression, an animosity toward FDR that the modern Right continues to this day, writes Beverly Bandler.
The Weapons of the Poor
Many on the American Right define themselves as Christians and angrily defend the religion's symbols and myths, but this Christian Right ignores a core reality about Jesus, that he spoke to and for the poor, decried the rich, and demanded social justice for all, as Rev. Howard Bess recounts.


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What was the topic??? Oh... Kodak. That again ;)
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Well, the thread is titled "The end for Kodak?"!
Are businesses and governments keeping everything on paper, or are they keeping multiple digital copies?
These arguments against digital media are getting ridiculous.
I have a lot of files in Apple ][ and Apple /// format as well as in HPFS format. And, they are all backed up on tape and on Bernoulli systems which are pseudo SCSI. None of them work with today's systems and there was no easy way to move between systems. This happens. I have friends with Heath PCs and IBM PCs and they can't read DOS disks. I have 8" disks with lots of backups.
I cannot read them and cannot exchange data between these old computers.
I have a friend with a lot of stuff on a LISA! Wow does he have problems.
Moose they use amongst other things film and of course the aformentioned magnetic tapes as well as at least five severs on 5 different earthquake zones. The files are constantly converted to archival file formats meaning images to TIF and the rest to PDF/A unfortunately film (motion pictures) doesn't currently have a worldwide digital archival standard but several that change every year. Converting a file to PDF/A reduces it to a read only file format links don't work etc... Germany, Austria and maybe the US store a lot of digital data on film. The Rosetta Stone project would be the best solution but way to expensive. The most expensive thing to preserve in an archive is digital data everything including film storage is cheap compared to digital long term preservation. A lot of digi guys and archivst have to go to specialised fleamarkets and buy 20-30 year old computers to be able to view and migrate their data. Some of they digi Archivs have to costume build adapters to use old data storage devises on their computers they also have to program emulators to be able to view the data.
But again I don't think APUG is the right place to discuss these things.
Surprise--computerized data can decay before you know it
Bloomberg Businessweek, April 20, 1998
"Up to 20% of the information carefully collected on Jet Propulsion Laboratory computers during NASA's 1976 Viking mission to Mars has been lost."
"The data lost from the Viking Mars mission, for example, was trapped on decaying digital magnetic tape, forcing NASA to call mission specialists out of retirement to help the agency reconstruct key data."
" 'Digital information lasts forever, or five years--whichever comes first,' says Jeff Rothenberg, senior computer scientist at RAND Corp."
Granted the article is dated, but I am aware of no standardized mainstream technological solution that has been implemented in the years since it was published. To the contrary, every source I read says the problem has only become worse. And the loss of the Viking data is a done deal. I don't even want to imagine what that little miscue cost taxpayers. NASA's bits are some of the most expensive--and often impossible to do over--in the world.
(And the reason this is on-topic is because real film and paper (of all kinds, see the final paragraph in the above article) are considered by many acknowledged experts to be superior to virtual digital archiving methods for many types of information. And that gives us a reason to continue to be...
All about Kodak.
Verbatim was once a Kodak subsidiary.
Verbatim was also about the only company that could make decent recordable DVDs that wouldn't go blank in six months. Yeah, I spent way too much time over on videohelp.com.
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Thus then, Theotimus, we are to behave ourselves in those inspirations which are only extraordinary in the sense that they move us to practise ordinary Christian exercises with an extraordinary fervour and perfection. But there are other inspirations which are called extraordinary, not only because they make the soul pass the bounds of ordinary actions, but also because they move it to actions contrary to the common laws, rules and customs of the most holy Church and therefore are more admirable than imitable. The holy maiden named by historians Eusebia the Stranger, left Rome, her native city, with two other maidens, and taking male attire embarked on a sea-voyage, went to Alexandria, and thence to the Isle of Cos; there, finding herself safe, she put on again her woman's dress, and again taking ship went into Caria to the town of Mylassa, whither the great Paul, who had found her in Cos and had taken her under his spiritual direction, led her, and where afterwards being made Bishop, he so holily directed her that she established a monastery and dedicated herself to serve the Church in 357the office of deaconess (as in those days it was called), with such fervour of charity that in the end she died a Saint, and by a number of miracles which God did by her relics and intercession, was recognized as such. To put on the attire belonging to the other sex, and thus disguised to expose oneself to a journey with men, does not only pass the ordinary rules of Christian modesty, but is even contrary to them. A certain young man, having given his mother a kick, touched with a lively repentance, confessed it to S. Anthony of Padua; who, to imprint the horror of his sin more deeply in his heart, said to him, amongst other things: My child, the foot which was the instrument of your wickedness would deserve to be cut off for so great a trespass; which the youth took in such good earnest, that having returned home to his mother, transported with the feeling of contrition, he cut off his foot. The words of the Saint would not have had such force, according to their ordinary meaning, unless God had added his inspiration thereunto; but it was so extraordinary an inspiration that it must rather have been considered a temptation, if the miraculous restoration of his foot, effected by the Saint's benediction, had not warranted it. S. Paul the first hermit, S. Anthony, S. Mary of Egypt, did not bury themselves in those vast wildernesses—deprived of hearing Mass, of Communion, of Confession, and deprived, young as they were, of all direction and assistance,—without a strong inspiration. The great Simeon Stylites led a life that never mortal creature would have dreamt of or undertaken without heavenly instinct and assistance. S. John, bishop, surnamed the Silent, forsaking his diocese without the knowledge of any of his clergy, passed the rest of his days in the Monastery of Laura, nor was there afterwards any news heard of him. Was not this contrary to the rule of keeping holy residence? And the great S. Paulinus, who sold himself to ransom a poor widow's son, how could he do it according to ordinary laws, since he was not his own, but, by his episcopal consecration, belonged to the Church and his people? Those virgins and married women who, being pursued for their beauty, with voluntary wounds disfigured their faces, that under the mask of a holy deformity they might preserve their chastity, did they not do a thing, apparently, forbidden?358
Now one of the best marks of the goodness of all inspirations in general, and particularly of extraordinary ones, is the peace and tranquillity of the heart that receives them: for though indeed the Holy Ghost is violent, yet his violence is gentle, sweet and peaceful. He comes as a mighty wind,393393Acts ii. 2. and as a heavenly thunder, but he does not overthrow the Apostles, he troubles them not; the fear which they had in hearing the sound was of no continuance, but was immediately followed by a sweet assurance. That is why this fire sits upon each of them, taking and causing a sacred repose; and as our Saviour is called a peaceful or pacific Solomon, so is his spouse called Sulamitess, calm and daughter of peace: and the voice, that is, the inspiration, of the bridegroom does not in any sort disquiet or trouble her, but draws her so sweetly that he makes her soul deliciously melt and, as it were, flow out into him: My soul, says she, melted when my beloved spoke:394394Cant. v. 6. and though she be warlike and martial, yet is she withal so peaceable, that amidst armies and battles she maintains the concord of an unequalled melody. What shalt thou see, saith she, in the Sulamitess but the choirs of armies?395395Cant. vii. 1. Her armies are choirs, that is, harmonies of singers; and her choirs are armies, because the weapons of the Church and of the devout soul, are only prayers, hymns, canticles and psalms. Thus it is that those servants of God who had the highest and sublimest inspirations were the most mild and peaceable men in the world, as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob: Moses is styled the meekest of men; David is lauded for his mildness. On the contrary, the evil spirit is turbulent, rough, disturbing; and those who follow infernal suggestions, taking them to be heavenly inspirations, are as a rule easily known, because they are unquiet, headstrong, haughty, ready to undertake or meddle with all affairs, men who under the cloak of zeal turn everything upside down, censure every one, chide every one, find fault with everything; they are persons who will not be directed, will not give in to any one, will bear nothing, but gratify the passions of self-love under the name of jealousy for God's honour.
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Extra Sauce: Top 5 Dishes of 2014Tuesday, December 30th, 2014
Sauce restaurant critic Michael Renner has tasted his fair share of St. Louis cuisine. All year, he shared his thoughts on New and Notable restaurants, from pizza to Southern fare to pasta. Here, he shares his top five dishes of 2014:
No. 5: Bread Basket at Juniper
Despite all the great food — the deviled eggs, that tangy pimento grilled cheese, fine fried chicken — I'm going with Juniper's bread basket because even at $9, it's a worthy indulgence when there's buttermilk biscuits, cornbread, hush puppies, popovers and fluffy angel biscuits made with lard.
No. 4: Short Rib Pappardelle at Cucino Pazzo
Perfectly al dente house-made pappardelle noodles, carrots, celery and tender, beefy short ribs braised for 16 hours in red wine all in a sauce of cipollini onions and roasted mushrooms? No wonder it's their most popular dish.
No. 3: Venison Chop at Element
Just like baseball season, it's gone but it sure was memorable. That farm-raised venison was something. Tasting richer than beef, the big, bone-in seared, savory chop lacked the gaminess of its wild cousin. Roasted root vegetables and a smoked Concord grape sauce balanced winter earthiness with subtle sweetness.
No. 2: Hamburger at Three Flags Tavern
Of course Three Flags' beef brisket was ground in-house, but it was the house-baked potato bun that didn't disintegrate and the house sauce (mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and pickle juice) that made this burger such a savory package. A close runner-up: the pan-fried chicken and the accompanying biscuit baked while the bird fries.
And my No. 1 dish of 2014 is…
Lobster Roll at Peacemaker Lobster & Crab Co.
Regardless of the style — Maine (served cold with mayo) or Connecticut (tossed with drawn butter and served warm) — what made these rolls even more notable than the chunks of fresh, tender, sweet lobster was the bun: a split-top brioche bun griddled to a buttery, toasted perfection, soft enough for fingers to gently crunch, yet substantial enough cradle all that meat.
And an honorable mention goes to the duck confit at Jax Café Chef-owner Brian Hale showed style and whimsy with a savory chipotle-cherry pancake topped with arugula, creamed corn and a confit of duck leg. A lot of competition for a limited number of taste buds produced surprisingly complementary flavors.
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The List: Canh Ga Chien at Mi LinhWednesday, April 30th, 2014
Welcome to The List, our annual homage to the people, places, dishes and drinks we love in St. Louis. Don't miss a single pick; click here to read the whole List and share your thoughts on Twitter with #thesaucelist.
Last year, I loved Mi Linh's Canh Ga Chien so much that it made my Top 5 Dishes of 2013 list. Lightly breaded with rice flour and cornstarch, deep-fried and then sauteed with butter, red pepper flakes, garlic and diced onions, these chicken wings made me wish I could eat them every day. Then there was a shake-up in the family-run restaurant, and head chef Nelson Tran – brother of owner Dee Dee Tran – was out. How are the wings now? During a return visit, the dish was overloaded with scallions and garlic, but the light and crispy coating still cracked with the first bite, the meat was still juicy, the gentle heat still warmed my lips, and the wings still glistened – as did my fingers – with butter and oil. My verdict? I'm still eating them.
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Michael Renner's Top 5 Dishes of 2013Monday, December 30th, 2013
Sauce restaurant critic Michael Renner has tasted his fair share of St. Louis cuisine. All year, he shared his thoughts on New and Notable restaurants, from vegetarian fare to barbecue to fine dining. Here, he shares his top five dishes of 2013:
No. 5: Spanish octopus at Central Table Food Hall
Even more striking than the two thick tentacles was how tender they were: braised for six hours and finished on the grill. Served with aerated fennel foam, caramelized fennel and its fresh fronds, and jiggling slabs of tomato water gelée, it's as though though the ocean washed up on your plate, complete with froth, seaweed and jellyfish.
No. 4: Roasted pork loin at Elaia
No ordinary roasting could produce the tender-smooth texture of this Berkshire pork loin when it was on the menu earlier this year. Only six hours in a CVap, or what chef-owner Ben Poremba calls his "magical oven," could yield such transcendence.
No. 3: Fried chicken at The Libertine
Chef Josh Galliano's New Orleans roots shine with this version: brined in sweet tea, soaked in spicy buttermilk, coated in cornmeal and flour, and deep-fried in lard and canola oil for a shaggy, crunchy crust laden with paprika and black pepper.
No. 2: Spring garlic soup at Niche
Tiny, airy raw garlic "marshmallows" floated to the top when hot liquid was poured over them. A steamy cloud scented with citrusy-spicy bergamot leaves, preserved lemon purée and bits of dried beets and carrots wafted from the bowl; this was not soup, it was an elixir.
And my No. 1 dish of 2013 is…
Canh Ga Chien (fried butter garlic chicken wings) at Mi Linh
Fried then sauteed, these wings are juicy and garlicky, crackling with each bite. Your fingers glisten with butter and oil; your lips warm from the gentle heat. You wish you could eat these wings every night for the rest of your life.
- Central Table Food Hall photo by Greg Rannells; The Libertine and Mi Linh photos by Jonathan Gayman
In This Issue: New and Notable – Mi LinhThursday, November 7th, 2013
How does one judge a new Vietnamese restaurant in a city touting more than 30 restaurants featuring the same cuisine? What makes a new place better than the rest when they all offer pretty much the same dishes? Is it fair to judge a restaurant by just one dish?
Maybe Dee Dee Tran and her brother Nelson Tran pondered these questions when they opened Mi Linh, their 5-month-old Vietnamese restaurant in Rock Hill (She's the general manager; he runs the kitchen.). However, with Nelson's 20-year tenure in the restaurant industry (working in kitchens from New York to Seattle) and Dee Dee's experience in running other businesses, the Trans certainly don't have to prove themselves.
But oh, how they do! And for good measure – again and again.
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In This Issue: New and Notable – PrasinoWednesday, October 9th, 2013
At Prasino, the new mini-chain restaurant in St. Charles, the employees say PRÄH-suh-no. The translation app on my phone says PRÄH-see-no. Tomato or tomahto, prasino is Greek for "green," as in "environmentally sound." The St. Charles spot is one of four locations for the 4-year-old family of restaurants self-billed as eco-friendly. It's also the chain's first foray outside of Chicagoland.
Prasino's business plan is driven by eco-friendly kitchen practices, energy and water-saving appliances, and as many locally sourced raw ingredients as possible. Your server will spend a good two minutes explaining just how environmentally conscious Prasino is, to the point that you'll look around for the Greenpeace seal of approval.
To read what reviewer Michael Renner thought of this new St. Charles restaurants, click here.
In This Issue: Richard Knapp's Quixotic DreamMonday, September 23rd, 2013
On a hot June morning, the summer sky was clear and still. Puffy clouds hung languidly on an azure background, like giant, listless parade balloons. Richard Knapp had left his shiny Mini Cooper in the driveway, favoring his dusty, dinged-up Subaru wagon to pick up his son, Oliver Knapp, and Gerald Crow. The first stop was a residential treatment center where Ollie, as his father calls him, lived. Down the street, Crow waited in his lived-in truck outside St. Francis House, a homeless shelter where he sometimes stayed.
"Hot damn, about time!" Crow exclaimed, as he snapped up from his supine position and bounded out of the truck's cab. Knapp had enlisted both men to work a patch of land 11 miles southwest of his home in Columbia, Mo. It's only 5.44 acres, a gentleman's farm of sorts, except Knapp has big plans for the all-silt Missouri River bottomland.
It was an interesting crew: two men working through their troubled pasts, each on a new path. For Knapp, hiring Ollie and Crow, who some might consider liabilities, merely exemplified his belief in the healing power of "righteous work," as he called it. "We have to get together to heal the problems," Knapp said, matter-of-factly. "I am confident in the basic goodness and intelligence of ordinary people."
In 2011, shortly after cashing in his retirement savings, Knapp bought the land and quickly fashioned it into something of a real farm. He designed and, with the help of friends and family, built a beauty of a barn, complete with a distinctive gambrel roof, a greenhouse and a cold storage room to hold grain. He bought a 1940s Ferguson tractor on Craigslist. He planted vegetables. And on 1 acre, as an experiment, he planted wheat. "I might call it Easy Digging Farm, but I don't want to give folks the wrong idea," Knapp said. "It hasn't been all that easy so far."
What hasn't been all that easy is Knapp's desire to do what is nearly impossible in Missouri: Grow organic hard red winter wheat for bread flour to mill and distribute locally.
For more about one man's struggle to grow against the grain, click here.
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In This Issue: New and Notable – The LibertineThursday, September 12th, 2013
Deadline be damned, I wanted fried chicken. Specifically, I wanted Josh Galliano's fried chicken: the deep-fried, crunchy, spicy bird that I – and seemingly half of St. Louis – devoured last year at his one-night pop-up event. This was well after Monarch (where most of us first fell under the spell of Galliano's chicken) had closed, so there was much pent-up demand and curiosity about what he was going to pull out of the skillet this time. Since then, the New Orleans transplant put on another pop-up (gumbo-themed) and designed and executed the meat MX Movies downtown.
Earlier this year, Nick and Audra Luedde tapped Galliano to head the kitchen at The Libertine, their new restaurant in downtown Clayton; and you thought all that buzz you heard was the cicada invasion. Nick is a practiced mixologist, sommelier and restaurateur, while Audra is a master chef and sommelier. A year ago the husband and wife team moved to St. Louis (Nick's hometown) from Chicago to open The Libertine.
To read more about our reviewer's thoughts on The Libertine, click here.
-Photo by Jonathan Gayman
In This Issue: New & Notable – Central Table Food HallTuesday, August 13th, 2013
Describe it as a food emporium. Label it a communal dining experience. Compare the concept to New York's The Plaza Food Hall, L.A.'s Umamicatessen or even Tokyo's Takashimaya food hall. Say it's a nightclub for foodies.
Just don't call Central Table Food Hall a food court.
Central Table is St. Louis' first experience with the national food hall explosion. Situated on the first floor of Barnes-Jewish Hospital's newly constructed Center for Outpatient Health on the corner of South Euclid Avenue and Forest Park Parkway, the hall takes up nearly a city block. It's a concept that could only work in the densely populated and mobile Central West End. While its executive chef Nick Martinkovic was imported from Brooklyn's popular farm-to-table Roberta's, the food and the rest of the talent are locally sourced. Managing this mammoth operation is Matt McGuire, recently of Brasserie but best known as the man behind the departed – and terribly missed – King Louie's. When Elliot Harris parks his Chop Shop sushi food truck for the night, he rolls maki and constructs beautiful displays of superb sushi and nigiri at Central Table.
Within this broad gastro-landscape, there is something for everyone – a statement that typically signals, "Warning: Boredom and Mediocrity Ahead." Yet, Central Table keeps things interesting.
-Photo by Elizabeth Jochum
In This Issue: New and Notable – Pan D'OliveThursday, July 11th, 2013
While Pan D'Olive, the pan-Mediterranean restaurant housed in the former Mihalis Chophouse on McCausland Avenue, is not new (It opened in November 2012.), it is notable for a few reasons. First, there's the affordability: Most entrees are in the mid-teens and no meze is over 10 bucks. And happy hour revelers can truly revel over the $3 select cocktails and house wines, $2 draft beers, $1 select small plates and half-price flatbreads. Then there is the space: sleek and stylish, with acres of dark wood, lots of subdued lighting and a spacious, multilevel layout, including the bar area with its illuminated bar top and striking mezzanine lounge.
Click here to read more of what Michael Renner thought about Pan D'Olive.
–Photo by Elizabeth Jochum
New and Notable: Sugarfire Smoke HouseWednesday, June 26th, 2013
{Baby-back pork ribs with a side of mac-n-cheese}
Housed in a modern strip mall on Olive Boulevard, just west of I-170, Sugarfire shoots for the rustic roadhouse look: dark-stained walls with inlaid squares of pressed tin, heavy plank tables and chairs, multicolored retro metal lawn chairs, and galvanized steel pendants.
But first, you have to get inside. Read the rest of Michael Renner's review of Sugarfire Smoke House here.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, JULY 27, 2009 (Zenit.org).- As professional sporting schedules are being set for the coming months, the vicar general of the Melbourne Archdiocese is affirming that football games should not be played on Good Friday.
Bishop Les Tomlinson stated this today, as reported on the archdiocesan Web page, that the Church does not want the Australian Football League games to take place on this particular Friday.
He underlined the sacredness of Good Friday for Christians, citing the message already given by Archbishop Denis Hart, the head of the archdiocese.
Bishop Tomlinson affirmed that Melbourne's Catholics, like any other people in the city, love football and are "very proud" of the "sporting culture."
However, he added that "Easter and the Easter holidays are a season of the spirit and the spiritual for Christians."
The prelate explained: "It's not just about the three o'clock ceremony. It is about the day.
"From our awakening to the end of the day, it is the day Christians remember that Jesus Christ suffered and died for us so that we might know and enjoy the love of God for all eternity."
The bishop asserted that "any proposal to play games on Good Friday fails to properly consider the spiritual needs of people in our community."
He affirmed the "exemplary and courageous leadership" shown by the league thus far, in "resisting pressures" to schedule a game on Good Friday.
Bishop Tomlinson continued, "I urge the [football league] to continue to show leadership in this matter; as it has done so effectively in other aspects of sporting culture."
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The prelate's words follow recent events that have stirred the debate about religion's place in athletics.
Last month in South Africa, after winning the FIFA Confederations Cup Final, the Brazilian soccer team was criticized for kneeling down and praying in gratitude on the field.
The team was warned not to make these expressions in the future, and the International Federation of Association Football promised to prohibit these religious acts at next year's competition.
Edio Costantini, president of the John Paul II Foundation for Sport, stated that "sports such as soccer are the fruit of the world's people because of its fans and their love of football."
"If you eliminate each form of religious expression or celebration," he added, "then I believe you deprive football of this 'fire' within the players."


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Final results from the National Lung Screening Trial show a significant reduction in lung cancer mortality with the use of annual low-dose CT screening, compared with standard chest x-rays among former heavy smokers at high risk for lung cancer.
Low-dose CT screening led to a relative reduction of 20% in the rate of death from lung cancer, according to findings released online by the New England Journal of Medicine on June 29 (doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1102873).The number needed to screen with low-dose CT to prevent one death from lung cancer was 320.
Although preliminary study results were announced in November 2010, the article by the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) research team marks the first time that the results appear in a peer-reviewed journal. Acknowledging that the earlier announcement has led to calls for lung cancer screening, the authors urge rigorous analysis of cost-effectiveness before public policy recommendations are made.
"The reduction in lung-cancer mortality must be weighed against the harms from positive screening results and overdiagnosis, as well as the costs," they wrote.
In the study, 53,454 men and women aged 55-74 years – who were current or former smokers with a smoking history of at least 30 pack-years – were recruited at 33 U.S. medical centers. A total of 26,722 participants were randomized to receive three annual screens with low-dose helical CT; 26,732 were randomized to three annual screens using chest x-ray. The two groups were virtually identical in demographics and smoking history.
In all three screening rounds, positive screening tests were substantially more common in the low-dose CT group than in the radiography group (27.3% vs. 9.2% in the first round; 27.9% vs. 6.2% in the second; and 16.8% vs. 5% in the third). All told, 39.1% of the CT group and 16% of the radiography group had at least one positive result.
The percentage of screening tests that identified a clinically significant abnormality -- other than an abnormality suspicious for lung cancer – also was more than three times as high in the low-dose CT group as in the radiography group (7.5% vs. 2.1%).
More than 90% of positive screenings in the first round of the study led to a diagnostic evaluation, though the follow-up rates were lower in the later rounds. Diagnostic evaluation most often consisted of additional imaging with invasive procedures being performed infrequently.
Across the three screenings, most of the positive results were false positives – 96.4% in the CT group and 94.5% in the radiography group. Of the total number of low-dose CT screening tests, 24.2% were classified as positive and 23.4% had false-positive results; of the total number of radiographic screening tests, 6.9% were classified as positive and 6.5% were false-positive results.
In all, 1,060 lung cancers were diagnosed in the low-dose CT group (645/100,000 person-years) vs. 941 in the radiography group (572/100,000 person-years). Of these cancers, 649 in the low-dose CT group were diagnosed after a positive screening test and 44 were diagnosed after a negative screening test. In the radiography group, 279 cancers were diagnosed after a positive screening test and 137 were diagnosed after a negative screening test.
In both groups, the remaining cases were among participants who missed screening or were diagnosed after their trial screening phase was over
Analysis of lung cancer-specific mortality showed that in the CT group 356 lung cancer deaths occurred after 144,103 person-years; in the radiography group 443 lung cancer deaths occurred after 143,368 person-years. This corresponded to 247 and 309 lung cancer deaths, respectively, per 100,000 person-years in the CT and radiography groups.
There were 1,877 and 2,000 deaths from all causes in the CT and radiography groups, respectively, "representing a significant reduction with low-dose CT screening of 6.7% ... in the rate of death from any cause," the investigators wrote. While lung cancer accounted for 24.1% of all the deaths in the trial, 60.3% of the excess deaths in the radiography group were due to lung cancer.
The authors concluded that "although some agencies and organizations are contemplating the establishment of lung-cancer screening recommendations on the basis of the findings of the NLST, the current NLST data alone are, in our opinion, insufficient to fully inform such important decisions."
They noted that "The observation that low-dose CT screening can reduce the rate of death from lung cancer has generated many questions." Among these they listed: Will populations with different risk profiles benefit from screening? Could less frequent screening programs be equally effective? Would the use of different criteria for a positive screening result translate to similar benefit? For how long should people be screened?
In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Harold C. Sox, professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute in Hanover, N. H., agreed with the investigators' reservations. In particular, the cost effectiveness of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer must be analyzed, he said: "Policy makers should wait for cost-effectiveness analyses to determine the amount of overdiagnosis in the NLST, and, perhaps identification of biologic markers of cancers that do not progress."
In addition, "it may be possible to define subgroups of smokers who are at higher or lower risk for lung cancer and tailor the screening strategy accordingly," he said. "The findings of the NLST regarding lung-cancer mortality signal the beginning of the end of one era of research on lung-cancer screening and the start of another. The focus will shift to informing the difficult patient-centered and policy decisions that are yet to come."
Dr. Sox also noted that "overdiagnosis is a problem because predicting which early-stage cancers will not progress is in an early stage of development, so that everyone with screen-detected cancer receives treatment that some do not need," he wrote in an accompanying editorial (doi: 10.1056/NEJME1103776).
All but two of the NLST study authors reported that they have no relevant financial relationships. Jonathan D. Clap reported having financial interest in Human Genome Sciences. Constantine Gatsonis, Ph.D., is a consultant for Wilex AG, Mela Sciences, and Endocyte Inc., has received speaker fees from Bayer Health and payment for education development by the Radiologic Society of North America. He also has invested in the Vanguard Health Fund. Dr. Sox had no conflicts.


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"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - GK Chesterton
The pants are fine if you have the body for it. The jacket is nice.
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about upcoming free online presentations in the education area from various people at Microsoft. (See that post and the full list here.) Well Mike Tholfsen has announced on his blog that any teacher who attends this week's seminar and fills out the end of presentation review will be getting a free copy of OneNote. OneNote is an outstanding organization tool for students and educators. If you have really checked this tool out you will want to attend Mike's Tech Talk.
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Note: Mike reports that the on demand video of his talk is now available.
Leigh Ann Sudol starts an interesting conversation about reenergizing pre-collegiate computer science at her blog with a post titled Another voice for enriching early CS education. She starts with a review of an article by Joanna Goode in the November 2008 issue of Communications of the ACM entitled "Reprogramming College Preparatory Computer Science." Joanna Goode is one of the co-authors of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing which I am reading now and finding very interesting. Goode and the team she is working with has spent a lot of time working with computer science education. Leigh Ann highlights some of the issues they have documented in her post. (you should read it.)
One of the things that Leigh Anne is particularly interested in is finding out "how can I measure what my students think is important and relevant?" Why? Because students need to understand how what they are learning is important and relevant to them. I think that anyone who has spent time in the classroom as a student or teacher understands that if students don't see value in what they are supposed to be learning that they really don't learn that much. To that end Leigh Ann is looking for ways to determine what students think. If you have ideas of what sort of questions she should be asking jump over to her blog and get involved in the comments.
I spent yesterday at a large STEM event in Denver Colorado. Something like 1,500 middle school girls were brought to the Colorado Convention center for workshops and talks about science, technology and engineering. My colleague Hilary Pike conducted several workshops while I manned the booth we had in the exhibit area. While Hilary was working with students I was talking to teachers and parents who had brought the girls to the event. The common question was what resources are there for teaching computer science concepts to middle school students? I have a short list that I shared with people but it seemed like this was something that should be blogged about as well. If nothing else maybe it will help people using Internet search engines to find useful tools.
Kinesthetic learning works well with middle school students if for no other reason that sitting still is not fun or easy for them. So the CS Unplugged materials should be very useful in this environment. I love these activities as they show the concepts without the need for computer hardware, special software or other expensive resources. And kids enjoy them. Since there is a story attached and an activity attached I think that students are more likely to remember what they are learning. As a bonus it really shows that computer science is more than just programming.
For programming a couple of popular tools come to mind. Alice and Scratch are tools that use a drag and drop building block approach to programming. These tools allow students to learn about programming without syntax getting in the way. These tools are colorful and graphical. Alice uses a 3D environment while Scratch is 2D. Scratch is somewhat lighter in weight so tends to work better on older hardware than Alice. Both have versions for both Windows and Mac.
Storytelling Alice was developed especially for middle school. It was built from Alice but is not 100% compatible. The storytelling features though have been tested as being very effective with middle school students and especially with girls. It is Windows only and doesn't have quite the same support at regular Alice but it seems pretty stable.
If you are "in to" BASIC or other traditional programming languages two resources that are available are Small Basic and a curriculum called "Code Rules" that uses Visual Basic. Small Basic is as simple to use development environment that uses a simplified version of BASIC. I wrote more about it here. Code Rules is a curriculum that was designed for high school students but its approach is very basic (no pun intended) and for some 7th and 8th graders I think it would work very well. Both are obviously Windows only as they are from Microsoft. But they're free.
There are more as well. I have heard good things about Squeak for example. And there is a simple programming language for beginners called Leopard that I don't know that much about but looks interesting. And Phrogram which used to be called Kids Programming language or KPL is being used in a lot of schools. For kids interested in games there is My Game Builder and Popfly about which I have written a lot.
Edit: In the comments I was reminded of FIRST Lego League which is a great robotics program for middle school students. It introduces a lot more than programming as they always tie the projects into other science areas.
I think that many of the tools I have written about in posts tagged first programming experience would work with middle school students. Not all of them will work in every middle school of course. But most will at least be usable by students who really want to get their feet wet.


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WAITSBURG -- A Walla Walla County sheriff's deputy pursued a stolen vehicle at speeds over 80 mph Monday.
The vehicle was observed by the deputy at a residence in the 100 block of Murphy Street. The vehicle was driven away, and traveled north on Taggert Road to Mill Race Road, then crossed U.S. Highway 12 on Gallagher Road, then sped back to Waitsburg. Drivers on Preston Avenue were forced to pull over to avoid the speeding vehicle, according to a report from the Sheriff's Office.
The deputy lost the vehicle in town. It was later found parked and unoccupied in the 300 block of west Eighth Street.
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