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The 2011 Powering a Nation staff has spent the last 10 weeks developing a project that shows the complexities of our relationship with coal. We hope that you will see how coal powers our lives and get a sense of what that means for people on different sides of the issue.
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Love in the time of blasting
This is the scene when the stage lights, generated by coal-fired electricity, dim in New York City's neon theater district:
We are inside the home of Marie and Hovie, a young couple living in the mountain holler of Eagle Creek. With their family's 150-year-old homestead threatened by a planned strip-mining operation, Hovie, a strip-miner himself, is determined to move his pregnant wife out of the country. As the last remaining member on her family's ancestral property, Marie is torn by their agonizing fate and the dangerous health conditions in the mining area. When she speaks of her dream to raise their child—the 8th generation of her family to be born in Eagle Creek—Hovie divulges a deeply held secret.
"I'm sorry, baby, but the times have changed," he says, holding his wife by the shoulders. "We have no idea how much lead or arsenic has been in our water. What are we going to put in the baby's bottle? I'll tell you the truth. I know those coal slurry ponds leak. I built them."
It's a pivotal moment in the play, "Love in the Time of Blasting," a multimedia theater production loosely adapted from my memoir/history, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland.
After a ten-year literary odyssey to research and write an expose on the secret history of coal mining in the American heartland, the next step of taking the page to the stage was one of the hardest--and most exhilarating--acts in my literary career.
Reckoning at Eagle Creek is a family saga deeply rooted in the great American pastoral, an homage to the resiliency of my grandfather, a coal miner, and our family's centuries-old woodlands culture. After my family's 150-year-old homestead was strip-mined into oblivion in one of the most diverse forests and historic communities in the American heartland, I set out to examine the overlooked human and environmental costs of our nation's dirty energy policy over the past two centuries.
Strip-mining, as I learned in Eagle Creek, doesn't only strip the land; it strips our historical memory. As a cultural history, the book digs deep into the tangled roots of the coal industry beginning with the policies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. It chronicles the removal of Native Americans, the hidden story of legally sanctioned black slavery in the land of Lincoln, and the epic mining wars for union recognition and workplace safety. It uncovers the devastating environmental consequences of industrial strip-mining.
As I began to adapt the history pages to the stage, the characters inevitably took on their own lives. A young couple faced with the demise of their home place—their future and their past—emerged at center stage of the great tragedy of strip-mining, mountaintop removal and reckless coal-mining disasters still playing out across the coalfields in 24 states in our country today.
In the end, I realized the play, like my memoir, was ultimately a love story—love for your family, love for the land and what you have to do to hold onto and defend your love.
Such a love story transcends the confines of the page or stage, of course. The rumble of mining explosives sounds far beyond the theatre walls for me. As the coal-fired lights rise in theaters across the country, the real tragedy continues in my southern Illinois coalfields and coal mining communities in Appalachia and the West.
And this is a tragedy that must end.
Things of intrinsic worth
Wallace McRae is a third-generation rancher, with a 30,000 acre cow-calf ranch in Forsyth, Mont. He has been a part of nearly every National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. He was the first cowboy poet to be awarded the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a recipient of the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts and has served on the National Council of the Arts.
Crawling coal miner
I see that crawling coal miner everywhere.
I see him in black and white, and even pink. He's on the backs and side windows of countless cars and pickup trucks in the form of decals and bumper stickers. I see him on shirts and ball caps. I've seen him on a webpage layout for a social network.
I see him every day on my own skin, in coal-black ink over the veins of my inner right forearm. Every time I glance at my arm, every time I shower, put on makeup or brush my hair in the mirror, I see him crawling, always crawling, reminding me of my roots, of the coal that has been in my blood for generations.
He is there to treasure my dad and my brother, to honor those who have spent their lives digging coal to provide for their families and keep the lights on. He is there to memorialize the 29 wonderful and dedicated men who died at the Upper Big Branch explosion in West Virginia on April 5, 2010, a dreadful day that is etched in my mind and heart as surely as the crawling coal miner is etched on my body.
Witnessing the "subversion of democracy of West Virginia"
As a resident of the Coal River Valley in Raleigh County, West Virginia, I sat in a meeting with a handful of Appalachian Ambassadors at Congressman Nick Joe Rahall's office on July 13, 2011 in Washington, DC. It was stunning to see the 18th-term Congressman stare in silence -- his only real reply -- as Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe and Vernon Haltom described the horror and the heartbreak of living with the long-term effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. Armed with the latest Hendryx report, which cites the connection between increased chance of birth defects in newborns with living near mountaintop removal operations, these Power-Hillbillies put this latest evidence in front of a distracted Rahall and announced their demand for an immediate moratorium on mountaintop removal. Rahall had nothing to say other than trying to pass the buck, first to, Alpha Natural Resources (Massey Energy's new name), then Office of Surface Mining (OSM). What we witnessed in Representative Nick Joe Rahall's office is what Bobby Kennedy Jr calls the "subversion of democracy in the state of West Virginia," and we stared back in silence, in anticipation, as Rep. Rahall, stone dead in the eyes, the dome of the Capitol filling the large window behind him, said nothing to us West Virginians demanding to be represented.
Why should I care about electricity?
Imagine a world without electricity: no computers or cell phones to stay in touch with your workplace and no television or video games for your kids. We can't shop online, pay our bills, catch up on the news or even read a book on one of our electronic devices. Once the sun goes down, we retreat to our homes, lit by dim kerosene lamps or fireplaces. Productivity stops, and we seemingly return to the dark ages.
Electricity – produced from fossil, nuclear or renewable resources – is the backbone of a prosperous society. As electricity use increases, so does gross domestic product, a fundamental measure of economic health and prosperity. That is why developing countries such as China and India are building new power plants on a massive scale to ensure that there is sufficient electricity to continue their explosive economic growth for the foreseeable future.
Here in the United States, our economy is fueled by a mature power industry that has produced reliable and affordable electricity for generations. However, many of our existing power plants will face issues of aging, tighter limits on air and water emissions and potential new greenhouse gas controls. At the same time, we are integrating new, "smarter" elements into our electricity grid (such as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) and adding variable renewable energy resources like wind and solar into our energy mix. These actions will challenge us to maintain the reliability and affordability we have all come to depend upon to drive our economy, power our industries and support our standard of living.
Liberated energy: How distributed generation can help us
Technology has often had a liberating effect on humankind, but sometimes the social benefits seem to be greatest when the technology itself is liberated. For example, the rise of personal computers drove computing toward a more human scale, enabling millions of people to own machines of their own and freeing them from the tightly controlled confines that once required users to be fluent in a specialized programming language.
Today, we are faced with an opportunity to do the same with America's electric infrastructure. In power, the status quo is one of centralization. For example, a report by the State of California's Energy Commission found that the state provided for just 2.5 percent of its 2004 power demands with "distributed" generating assets — assets located close enough to a load that they did not require their output to be transmitted over high-voltage power lines. Under such circumstances, ordinary people have little opportunity to interact with the systems that make our electricity. This makes it hard for us to experience the satisfaction and educational benefits that come with controlling one's own electricity supply, and harder still to comprehend the sobering amounts of fossil fuel consumed and greenhouse gas pollution emitted by the facilities that power our lives.
The energy challenge: act today, shape tomorrow
My kids are either cursed or blessed. Yours too. And we need to make sure that the blessing wins out.
It is common for us to turn to our elders and older authorities to look for judgment of our actions, and therefore for guidance, as we pick through the field of choices before us. But our descendents, the future, will judge us. Through them, we can attempt to "look back" at our lives today with a fresh viewpoint to understand our current predicaments. Through them we can access a moral compass that takes into account a larger reality than our current day-to-day lives. And to them we must answer.
Energy issues often confront us as part of the daily troubles of our lives: high utility bills; reliable energy supplies and rolling blackouts; appropriate policies to help economic development and job creation; political effects of our reliance on global oil supplies. Yet we must consider more than our daily troubles to be judged worthy by our descendents.
Re-powering our nation: Where do we start?
More than 20 years ago, Al Gore and I helped organize the first-ever hearing in the Senate on the science of climate change. Twenty-two years later, we are still fighting to make people and policymakers feel the urgency of the issue.
Fortunately, we are not alone.
Today, America's leadership—in the White House and in Congress—is more willing and better positioned than ever before to take action. In fact, green legislation signed by President Obama earlier this year was the kind of bold and visionary first step necessary to ward off a climate catastrophe.
The president's package will speed up the green revolution, reordering just how we will need to power America in the near future and, in the process, create millions of green jobs to replace those lost in the current financial crisis.The climate change and energy security bill that we will present to the Senate, building on the Waxman-Markey bill, will also jumpstart our economy, protect consumers, stop the ravages of unchecked global climate change, and ensure that America—not China or India—will be the leading economic power in this century.
The resources from heaven
Normally I don't respond to questionable statements by politicians, but when Sarah Palin, in her recent article published in The Washington Post, informed her readers that "God created resources for energy right under our feet," I had a second read and a knee-jerk response. What Palin's article did was exemplify the vast amount of misinformation that is circulating. It is to those skeptics who lack the facts or don't want them that I am writing.
It is true that we have been given natural resources for our use, but never has it been stated by God or anyone else that these resources are meant to be abused or to abuse others. I find it insulting to God that we blast off the tops of God's beautiful mountains to extract coal, the dirtiest of energy sources ever provided. I find it appalling and actually wonder what Jesus would say to the idea of encouraging roads, trucks and equipment to enter in and destroy pristine areas of the Alaska wilderness seeking oil. Jesus was a healer, not one to harm anything, even the migration path of caribou. Knowing there are alternatives to these destructive means of finding energy, are those methods moral?
How should we be powering our nation?
We have two aspirations for our company and our nation that guide our planning and serve as a bridge to the low-carbon future we know is coming:
• Modernize and decarbonize our generation fleet, and
• Help make the communities we serve the most energy efficient in the world.
These aspirations are grounded in our commitment to provide our customers with affordable, reliable and clean energy, 24/7.
To achieve these aspirations, we are using a balanced approach that uses the five available fuels to generate electricity: coal, nuclear, natural gas, renewables and energy efficiency. There is no perfect fuel—each has pluses and minuses, and each one needs new technology development. But to keep energy prices affordable, our economy competitive, and to protect the environment, we must keep all five fuels in our energy mix for our nation to cross the bridge to a carbon-constrained world.
Confronting the new energy realities together
A casual drive through an established North Carolina neighborhood or down a former country highway presents not only a clear picture of the state's rapid growth, but also a vivid snapshot of the dramatic changes in our energy use over the last three decades.
Since the mid-1970s, the number of homes and businesses served by Progress Energy Carolinas has doubled, and the average household's energy consumption has increased by 46 percent. Our world has become much more aware of global climate issues and the factors that affect climate change. In the United States, we recognize the growing value of energy security, as well as fuel and technology diversity. We also know that pursuing these and other priorities will drive up energy prices in the years ahead.
These are the new energy realities that we must confront together. Policymakers, regulators and customers need to understand what's at stake and work together on a common approach.
How we should be powering our nation
My concerns about energy began when I was a young boy growing up in southern California during the 1970s. At the time, Americans were forced to pay attention to the volatility of energy supplies when an oil embargo caused shortages and price spikes.
I remember riding around with my dad, looking for the gas stations with the shortest lines. We filled up an extra gas can just in case, and we put locking caps on our gas tank to prevent fuel thieves from siphoning our gasoline in the middle of the night. Few houses on our neighborhood streets put up lights during the holiday season. Energy conservation was part of our national culture.
The conservation ethic stuck with me, even as the behaviors, lifestyles and choices of the average American went in the opposite direction during the 1980s and '90s.The prevailing attitudes seemed to say it's cool to consume and conservation is a sign of weakness. Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy speech in 2001 called for a radical increase and expansion of energy production and infrastructure in America and disregarded energy conservation as nothing more than a sign of "good personal virtue."
Why we should care about energy
Our use of energy over the past 100 years has transformed our global economy and made our lives more comfortable and productive. We have become better at extracting energy resources and more efficient in using that energy. As a general rule, we have flourished.
But we have lost sight of the basic cyclical requirements of living on a planet. Just as though we live on a spaceship, we have to be cautious in how we use and reuse our supplies. We only have one planet, and presently we are using the resources as if there is an extra planet in the closet. I looked and it's not there!
Nature is a strict and wonderful teacher, yet many of us are not listening or learning. In 1993, Paul Hawken wrote, "every day, the worldwide economy burns an amount of energy the planet required 10,000 days (27 years) to create." What are we thinking?It is imperative for our survival that we not only realize that we live on a planet, but that we start acting like we live on a planet. As with our recent economic lessons, we are quickly moving toward a potentially painful environmental lesson.
Why I care about energy
A confession: I did not always care about energy.
When I joined the environmental movement, I was passionate about wilderness and national forests. When friends told me they were working on "energy," my eyes glazed over. I imagined utility commission hearings about residential electricity rates and energy-efficiency standards… boring, I thought.
In 2005, I joined thousands of environmental leaders in San Francisco for a summit on the future of environmentalism, sponsored by the Sierra Club. There, it dawned on me that everything I cared about—forests, wildlife and biodiversity, the health of communities, and more—is linked to energy. Specifically, I realized the effects on the planet's climate of our consumption of fossil fuels—oil, coal and natural gas.
With the warming of global temperatures, coral reefs were dying, tropical diseases were migrating, scientists were warning of a sixth "Great Extinction," severe droughts were occurring in the U.S. southwest, and other parts of the world, and more.
How should we be powering our nation?
For most of the last century, our electrical grids were a symbol of progress. The inexpensive, abundant power they brought changed the way the world worked–filling homes, streets, businesses, towns and cities with energy.
But today's electrical grids reflect a time when energy was cheap, their impact on the natural environment wasn't a priority, and consumers weren't even part of the equation.
Consider what we are facing today: Cities consume 75 percent of the world's energy and emit more than 80 percent of the world's carbon dioxide; nearly 400 billion kilowatt-hours are wasted each year because of insufficient power-usage information.As a result of inefficiencies in the system, the world's creation and distribution of electric power is now incredibly wasteful. With little or no intelligence to balance loads or monitor power flows, enough electricity is lost annually to power India, Germany and Canada.
Reflections on energy and the 21st century human condition
PARIS, FRANCE – About to head home to August in Arizona, I keep mulling over the 21st century human condition: Are we out of our flipping minds?
When temperatures approach 110 degrees, you can cook a frozen pizza on a car hood in a few minutes flat, and in our new climate, 110 might soon be on the cool side.
Scripps scientists tell us there is a better-than-even chance that in a few years Lake Mead will be too low to run the Hoover Dam generators that power much of Arizona.
The Colorado River is already a pathetic trickle as it passes Yuma. Serious people in nine states have trouble believing how it can be so ridiculously oversubscribed.
Mexico, deprived of the water it needs, slips further into drug violence and crime, fed partly by simple desperation.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress has approved must-do legislation to permit the government to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars more to meet its obligations, averting a first-ever government default that had loomed as early as mid-February.
The 64-34 vote in the Senate on Thursday sends the measure to President Barack Obama, who has said he will sign it into law.
The legislation would temporarily suspend the $16.4 trillion limit on federal borrowing. Experts say that would allow the government to borrow about $450 billion to meet interest payments and obligations like Social Security benefits and government salaries.
Calculations by a Washington-based think tank, the Bipartisan Policy Center, indicate that the deadline for Congress to act again to prevent default would likely not come until August.
The Republican-controlled House passed the legislation last week.
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Eye shadows, eye liners and mascaras all enhance the natural beauty of your pretty peepers, bringing out their color and defining their shape. When you're finished with your day or evening, completely removing all traces of eye makeup products is vital to the health of your skin and eye lashes. Unfortunately, plain water and even effective facial cleansers often are not correctly formulated to eliminate all of the residue from waterproof and water-resistant makeup formulations from your skin. The Thalgo Eye Makeup Remover collection offers a solution to the problem of eye makeup that just won't quit, even when you're ready to take it off.
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Saint Benedict's, Saint John's and nearby St. Cloud State University have an agreement designed to allow cross-registration for courses on any of the three campuses by their regular full-time undergraduate students. Saint Benedict's and Saint John's students may register for courses offered in the St. Cloud State University course schedule provided they are registered for a minimum of 12 credits at Saint Benedict's and Saint John's. The request to take a course at St. Cloud State University is filed at the Registrar's Office. The TRI-COLLEGE CROSS REGISTRATION REQUEST form should be completed by the student and then approved by the student's regular academic advisor before submitting to the Registrar. The registrar will determine whether space is available and confirm registration. Registration is limited to fall and spring semesters. The exchange program is subject to change without notice or obligation. Students will be billed tuition and any fees (such as for laboratory or studio materials) at the rates prevailing at Saint Benedict's and Saint John's.
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We are expanding our network linking past, present and future. Our accomplished alums are dedicated to promoting the well-being of the School of Law. The support and enthusiasm of the School of Law's more than 7,900 alums are integral to shaping and realizing its goals and its future.
Our alums can be found in 49 states and many countries around the world as shown on our interactive alumni map. Their professional experiences and achievements are as varied and diverse as they are themselves. Some are employed in solo or small-firm practice; some teach at colleges and law schools. Others are partners in major private firms or work in public agencies. Over one hundred alums have become members of the judiciary, while still others represent the interests of major corporations, law enforcement agencies, and armed services personnel. Many of our alums are also using their legal education in business and related areas, ranging from health care to human resources. Our strong and growing network of alums is a prominent force within the School of Law. Above all, they continually prove to be a vital resource for current students and fellow alums.
As a graduate of Western New England University School of Law, you are automatically enrolled as a member of the Alumni Association. Strengthening quality connections between the School of Law and its valued alums is the goal of our Law Alumni Association and its Board of Directors.
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ARLINGTON, VA (WUSA) -- If you're looking for a New Orleans style appetizer Chef David Guas from Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery has an idea for you.
Chef Guas stopped by WUSA*9 and served up some Crawfish Tamales with Holy Hell hot sauce.
Tamale Filling
2 tablespoons Canola oil
2 tablespoons Unsalted butter
.75 cups Onions, chopped
.5 cups Bell pepper, diced
.5 cups Celery, diced
2 cloves Garlic, minced
1 pound Louisiana Crawfish tail meat
2 teaspoons Kosher salt
.5 teaspoons Cayenne
2 tablespoons Flour
In a medium sauté pan, heat oil and butter together over medium-high heat. Add onions, bell pepper, celery and garlic to the pan and stir until translucent. Add crawfish meat, and season with salt and cayenne. Continue to sauté for another five minutes. Sprinkle in flour and reduce heat to low. Continue to cook for 5 minutes until flour cooks out.
Spoon onto a baking sheet and place in refrigerator to allow filling to cool.
4 cups Instant masa
1 teaspoon Garlic powder
2.5 teaspoons Kosher salt
2.5 - 3 cups Water
Place all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, then add water slowly by hand until a ball forms. Mixture should be wet, but still able to be formed into a ball.
Holy Hell Hot Sauce
2 tablespoons Cooking oil
1 cup Onion, chopped
.25 cups Bell pepper, diced
.25 cups Celery, diced
1 clove Garlic, minced
4 to 5 each Roma tomatoes, diced
2 cloves Garlic minced
2 cups Shrimp stock
2 tablespoons Cornstarch
2 tablespoons Cold water
To taste Kosher salt
To taste Henry Family Farm's ghost pepper hot sauce
Heat oil in a medium sauté pan over medium heat. Add onions, bell pepper, celery and garlic and sauté until translucent. Add tomatoes and stock.
In a separate dish, mix the cornstarch with cold water. Stir cornstarch slurry in pan and reduce heat to medium-low. Season with salt, and as much hot sauce as you can handle! [Add sauce a few drops at a time, tasting along the way and adding more if needed.]
To assemble tamales, soak corn husks in hot water for 15 to 20 minutes, until they are pliable. Remove from water and reserve.
Take one and peel thin strips pulling down with the grain. Reserve strips.
Press half a cup of tamale mix on the open corn husk and, using your fingers, press out to 3inch by 4inch rectangles. Scoop about three tablespoons of the crawfish filling into the center and roll each side of the tamale up around the crawfish filling to enclose it.
Roll the whole thing by tucking the bottom husk in and rolling until tight. Using the reserved strips, tie off the top open part of the husk.
Place the tamales into a steamer, cover and cook for 35 to 45 minutes. Cover with hot sauce as desired.


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Selling abortion
Abortion Past | Through academia, the press, and TV, pro-abortion forces peddled their cause
During the half-century from 1860 to 1910 in which America's rate of abortion declined sharply, The New York Times regularly reported on prominent physicians who did abortions. A story in 1884, "Two Physicians in Trouble," noted that two of the "best known physicians in Providence, R.I.," were on trial for abortion. A typical story in 1886, "DOCTOR INDICTED," detailed abortion charges against a highly regarded New Haven physician, Dr. Gallagher. A similar story about a well-connected doctor noted the abortion arrest of Philadelphia physician David Otway.
The Times often contrasted the power of abortionists with the powerlessness of unborn children and the vulnerability of their mothers. After the indictment of Newark physician Herman W. Gedicke in 1880, the Times noted that "the accused is wealthy and is a member of the board of Aldermen." Gedicke paid $2,000 to bribe the jury but ended up receiving a two-year sentence for criminal abortion in a verdict the judge called "a most signal triumph of the law over power and influence." Gedicke, though, later received a pardon.
Two other typical cases: One wealthy man, married to the daughter of a former New Jersey Supreme Court judge, paid his family doctor $2,000 to perform an abortion; another wealthy man seduced the daughter of a courthouse janitor and took her to Philadelphia for an abortion. The doctors were typically leading lights in their communities, not back-alley butchers. The Springfield Republican, in an editorial titled "Child Murder in Massachusetts," attacked "child-murdering" by "respectable physicians."
Most people today, though, think of abortionists during the decades of abortion illegality in a different way. A Lexis-Nexis check of The New York Times shows "back-alley" linked to "abortion" 155 times as in, "the threat of the back-alley abortionist with a coat hanger . . . the back-alley abortion era . . . specter of a return to back-alley abortions . . . drive women-as in the pre-Roe days-to risk their lives to end pregnancies with illegal back-alley abortions."
Abortion through the 1930s was terribly dangerous for women and fatal for their children-but not because of back-alley practice. The maternal danger came because of infections that could occur at the hands of careful practitioners and, before the creation of penicillin, the absence of ways to fight them (see sidebar). But it was during the antibiotics era from the 1940s onward that the possibility of maternal death, although decreasing, became a powerful propaganda tool for those in academia and the media who greased abortion attitudes in a way that made Roe v. Wade possible.
Phase one (1952-1962) of the selling of abortion featured academic conferences hosted by the American Psychiatric Association, Planned Parenthood, and other groups. Conference papers calling for "new, more liberal laws" made a popular impact when journalists wrote about this new, new thing in magazines such as Women's Home Companion, Reader's Digest, and Time. A typical magazine article proclaimed that abortion was "rampant" in the United States and that "eminent specialists" believed the only way to stop illegal abortion was to make it legal.
By stressing conferences and publications, abortion proponents dominated academic discourse and gained a beachhead in the popular press. A Newsweek article on abortion in 1960 emphasized the ideas of Planned Parenthood head Alan Guttmacher (also vice president of the American Eugenics Society), whom the magazine glorified as "a strong-faced outspoken crusader." The January 1960 Reader's Digest excerpted Guttmacher's book, Babies By Choice or By Chance.
Such reports laid the intellectual and cultural foundation for major changes in abortion laws. Those who wanted to portray abortion laws as cruel and unconscionable now had statistics, even though they were plucked from the air. Phase one culminated with a popular CBS television show in April 1962: An episode of The Defenders titled "The Benefactor" had an abortionist as the hero of the title. Since academic analysis had "proven" that millions of young women had had no choice but to head to the back alleys, the heroic, reputable doctor-abortionist was a "benefactor" who honorably put babies to death.
Phase two, from 1962 to 1972, began with a tragedy that launched hundreds of human-interest articles. Only three months after TV's "The Benefactor," the plight of Sherri Finkbine received-in Newsweek's words-"the full glare of national attention" and "dramatically posed the abortion dilemma for all to see." Finkbine, a minor Phoenix celebrity through her hosting of the popular children's program Romper Room, was having trouble sleeping during the first trimester of her pregnancy, so she took a tranquilizer her husband had picked up the summer before while on a trip to Europe.
On July 16, 1962, after reading a newspaper story about babies born in Europe with serious birth defects because their mothers had taken tranquilizers containing thalidomide, Sherri Finkbine called her doctor and asked about those pills she had taken. The doctor checked, found she had been unwittingly taking thalidomide, and then-in Finkbine's words-"showed us pictures in a British medical journal of children born to mothers who had used the drug-horrible pictures, the arms, legs, fingers and toes. He told us, these are not odds to gamble with."
The doctor, reinterpreting the Hippocratic Oath like a bookie, offered counseling that was clearly incomplete. Medical evidence available at the time indicated that about 50 percent to 80 percent of children born to mothers taking thalidomide during their first trimester were perfectly normal; others had only minor problems; others were without full arms or legs, yet with love did well. But Finkbine's doctor pulled out pictures and urged abortion. A committee of three doctors approved the abortion under an Arizona law that allowed for it in special circumstances.
Then the story went public, and hospital administrators who feared public criticism refused to allow the abortion to occur in their facilities. Finkbine began a worldwide search for another abortion venue and eventually chose Sweden. Meanwhile, the investment in scholarly conferences and people who could make a credible case to reporters was paying off for the pro-abortion side: Every day during late July and early August reporters interviewed pro-abortion "experts" and condemned anti-abortion positions as "cruel" and "heartless," and praised "more civilized" Sweden.
During the last week of August the Gallup Poll for the first time included a question on abortion: Was Sherri Finkbine right to have had "this abortion operation"? Fifty-two percent of respondents said she had "done the right thing"; 32 percent felt she had done wrong. The majority supported a Romper Room lady who loved children and was the victim of "outdated ethics."
From 1962 through 1972 a full-court press sold abortion on both the front pages and the editorial pages of leading newspapers, at a time when those gazettes still had clout. The editorials were somber, while the news pages made abortion seem easy. By the end of the decade, with abortion legal in several states, the Omaha World-Herald was quoting "Betty" describing her abortion: "I had to stay quiet for 15 minutes. When I got up, I felt like a brand-new woman. I felt so happy." The Long Island Press quoted "Susan" telling the abortionist when the operation was over, "Oh, thank you, thank you." The reporter added, "Within the next half hour she will have some cookies and a soft drink in the recovery lounge, fill out a few forms, pay a fee of $200 and be on her way back home"-probably skipping, the article seemed to suggest.
Similarly, the Hartford Courant reported that abortion "is safe and usually without complications," and the Oregonian called abortion in Portland "a simple operation" that symbolizes "society's concern about overpopulation, pollution and survival." The San Francisco Chronicle proclaimed that "abortions can now be performed safely, efficiently, and economically," with "products of conception" quickly removed. The Chronicle told how a typical young woman "came back from the abortion smiling and saying, 'I feel fine,'" for the abortion "procedure is so simple and over so quickly that they [women having abortions] have no feelings of guilt."
Stories on abortion typically portrayed pro-abortionists as merciful and anti-abortionists as closed-minded. The Memphis Commercial Appeal, under a headline "Hand of Mercy Extends in Abortions," indicated that pro-abortionists counseling pregnant women were "answering these women's needs." The Houston Post quoted this line: "People say an aborted child might have grown up to be President. There's a better chance he would have grown up to be the one who shot the President." The article attacked anti-abortion laws "passed before women could vote, based on ideologies conceived by men."
Even when bombarded with such propaganda, Americans who had the chance to vote on abortion resisted. In 1972, although Detroit newspapers heavily supported a Michigan referendum to legalize abortion on demand through the first five months of pregnancy, 61 percent of Michigan voters said no. In North Dakota, 77 percent of voters turned down a similar referendum.
Overall, despite clever tactics, overwhelming press sentiment, and the support of powerful interests, pro-abortion forces by the end of 1972 had won unrestricted abortion in only four states, and legal abortion in hard cases-mothers' physical health, fetal deformity, and rape or incest-in 15 other states. Thirty-one states resisted any liberalization. A Gallup Poll in 1972 showed 66 percent of all Americans opposing elective abortion.
Phase three began in January, 1973, as the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade mandated abortion anywhere without restriction during the first three months of pregnancy, abortion in hospitals without restriction during the next three months, and abortion in hospitals following paperwork during the final three months. Justice Harry Blackmun's decision ostensibly refused to declare when human life began, but in practice did exactly that, because hunters do not shoot at an object in the forest if it may be a human being.
The most influential U.S. newspapers all cheered. The New York Times called the decision "a major contribution to the preservation of individual liberties . . . it wisely avoids the quicksand of attempting a judicial pronouncement on when life begins." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the decision "remarkable for its common sense" and "its humaneness." The Christian Science Monitor applauded the willingness of seven out of the nine Supremes to "stretch the application of the 14th Amendment." The Des Moines Register said the Court's decision would end "emotion-charged hearings" on abortion.
The Milwaukee Journal declared that "policemen and judges" would no longer have to be concerned with the "distractive" issue. But 36 years later, the supposed distraction continues.
Myths of the abortion lobby
By Marvin Olasky
In 1962 Lucy Freeman dedicated her book The Abortionist to the women who are "maimed, or lose their lives at the hands of the unskilled, unqualified abortionist." In 1965 The New York Times stated that anti-abortion laws condemned women "to a barbaric, primitive, underworld of crude clandestine surgery, where their lives are in danger."
The guesstimate of "a million or more" illegal abortions committed each year, most of them "back-alley abortions," dominated the abortion debate during the 1960s. Illegality purportedly caused the deaths of 5,000 women each year (CBS Reports) or 10,000 (The Association of Women Physicians).
The 5,000-10,000 figure, first published in the 1930s, was probably inaccurate even then, but the advent of antibiotics reduced the maternal death rate enormously. Robert Hall, founder of the pro-abortion Association for the Study of Abortion, acknowledged in 1965 that the number of women dying during abortions could not be more than 500. The real number may have been half that.
Pointing that out should not minimize the tragedy of dead children and troubled moms. Any abortion is psychologically and spiritually hard for all but the most hardened. Having one illegally heightened the tension. Some 250 or 500 maternal deaths is certainly terrible. Still, that is not the wholesale slaughter that the 5,000-10,000 stat suggests.
Besides, while legal abortions are clearly unsafe for unborn children, they are not entirely safe for the mothers either. Thomas Hilgers and Dennis O'Hare found in 1981 that although "maternal deaths due to criminal abortion appear to be decreasing, they have been replaced, almost one for one, by maternal deaths due to legal abortion."


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That theory, though, is no longer accurate, because reptilian creatures with tentacles have been born at the National Zoo.
Eight tentacled snakes were born on October 21, according to Zoo officials, to parents that haven't been able to spawn viable offspring in years.
The Zoo described the tentacled snakes in a press release as being "aquatic" and "ambush hunters".
"They use their tails to anchor themselves and wait underwater for their prey," the Zoo said in the press release. "They get their name from the unique tentacles that protrude from their snout and function as sensory mechanisms that allow the reptiles to pick up vibrations from fish that swim by."
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"Within a few hours of being born, the snakes were already acting like adults," said Matt Evans, Reptile Discovery Center keeper. "Instincts took over and they were hunting. We don't know much about this cryptic species, but we're already learning so much just watching them grow."
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According to Slate.com, Oscar acceptance speeches range the gamut from short and sweet (Morgan Freeman gave a 32-second thank you) to long speeches filled with all-out gushing.
The one constant during the last 12 years of speeches analyzed by Slate? God was thanked a lot – but the big man upstairs came in second to Hollywood icon Meryl Streep. Streep, 4 – God, 3.
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Joyce says, "Get a teacher, a tutor, a trainer or take a class.
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John McNeil went to a funeral home Wednesday to bid farewell to Anita McNeil, who died of breast cancer on Feb. 2. She and NAACP leaders in Georgia and North Carolina waged a campaign for John McNeil's freedom after a judge ruled he was entitled to a new trial.
While saying he was grateful for his freedom, John McNeil said he was grieving his wife's death.
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The HomerConnect User ID is your 9 digit IC ID number, and the default PIN is a randomly-generated password provided to you by the Registrar's office. When you log into HomerConnect for the first time, you will be prompted to reset your password. The Homer system will provide you with access to view your academic records and to register for classes, which will be done during summer orientation.
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Your Netpass username and password are used to access myHome, e-mail and many other systems and services at IC. This account is activated using your HomerConnect User ID provided by the Registrar's Office and the PIN which you create.
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All incoming freshman are required to take the Math Placement Exam. This exam should be completed one week prior to your coming to campus for summer orientation. In order to take the exam, your IC Netpass account must be activated. Once activated, you can then log into Sakai and click on the Math Placement Exam tab at the top of the page.
Before you start this exam you may wish to review some sample questions by clicking on the Math Placement Sample Questions document to the right. You should allow 90 minutes for this exam. Once you start you must finish within the time allowed. Make sure you have scrap paper and a calculator available and good luck!
This exam is intended to help determine the mathematics based course you should take first at Ithaca College. If you feel the results of the exam do not properly reflect your mathematical preparation, you will have the opportunity to retake the exam prior to the start of classes in the fall.
The myHome web portal is a customizable web resource that brings together online elements from Ithaca College and the rest of the Web into one centralized location. With myHome, you can access Outlook Web App (email), Sakai, Intercom, TaskStream, Library databases and other services all with a single login. You'll also have quick access to services such as HomerConnect and Parnassus, but will need to use the individual username and password particular to those websites. In addition, you can add personal information to myHome, including photos, personal e-mail accounts, news, weather, RSS feeds and more.
myHome Community is a component for social networking exclusively within the IC community. myHome Community offers many "Facebook-like" tools such as friends, discussion forums, photo albums, polls, status updates, and much more.
myHome is accessed with your Netpass username and password.
Many faculty members use the Sakai online course management system to distribute course materials, assessments, exams and learning modules for class. Use your Login to Sakai with your Netpass username and password.
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The Residential Hall computing network (ResNet) is managed by Apogee Telecom. Prior to using My-ResNet, students must set-up an Apogee account. This can be done prior to coming to campus or when you arrive in your residential hall.
Apogee offered both wired and wireless internet connections in the residence halls. If you forgot to bring a network cable to campus, you can purchase a standard 25' network cable at the Ithaca College Bookstore.
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Ithaca College has three wireless networks, accessible from various locations around campus: My-ResNet, ICAirnet and ICAirnet-Secure. The My-ResNet wireless network is available in all academic, administrative, and residential buildings. ICAirnet and ICAirnet-Secure are only available in academic and administrative buildings. DIIS manages wireless in academic and administrative areas, while Apogee manages wireless in the residence halls.
Parnassus is the Human Resources and Financial Services system for employees. If you have a job on campus, you will use Parnassus to record your time worked and view your personal employee information. Parnassus is accessed with your Netpass username, and the default password is "IC", a percent (%) sign, and the last six digits of your IC ID, together without any spaces. For example, your default password could look like IC%000000. When you log into Parnassus for the first time, you will be prompted to reset your password. Attention Internet Explorer 10 users: Compatibility View must be enabled in IE 10 in order for Parnassus to display correctly.
Personal Computer Recommendations
The Roy H. Park School of Communications highly recommends that undergraduate students have a Apple MacBook Pro laptop. There are no computer requirements for graduate students.
The School of Business encourages freshmen and transfer students to have a laptop equipped with Microsoft Office. There are no computer requirements for graduate students.
Most students (98%) bring a personal computer to campus. Some majors, like Music, tend to use Macs. Others, like Computer Science, tend to use Windows more. If your school doesn't require a computer, you'll need to decide between a laptop or desktop computer and Windows or Mac operating system. Almost any new computer from one of the leading computer manufacturers (Apple, Dell, etc.) should be more than adequate for basic student computer use on campus. It is recommended that you consult your adviser or a faculty member in your major for advice.
Computer Labs
If you choose not to bring a computer with you, there are a number of computer labs available on campus including the library as well as a 24-hour access lab in Friends 110.
It is up to you whether or not you bring a personal printer to campus. Black and white printing is currently available in the public computer labs. Each student is given a a specific allowance for each semester enrolled. Students receive a $10 allowance for the fall and spring semesters and a $5 allowance for the summer semester. During the fall and spring semesters, printing is available on a twenty-four hour basis from Sunday evening through Friday afternoon in the Library. Color printing is available in the library for an additional fee. Color printing, poster printing, laminating, binding and more services are available through the Print Shop at specific costs.
Computer Discounts
IC students are eligible for educational prices on computers from a number of computer manufacturers. Additional information is available by clicking on Educational Discount Programs to the right.
Software Recommendations
All computers must have anti-virus protection on them in order to be connected to the Ithaca College network. Beyond that, we suggest you buy software that is supported by DIIS, that way you can get help from the Service Desk or lab consultants. Specialty software that you may need for class (like FinalCut Pro) is available in specific labs on campus. If you are wondering whether to purchase software for your major, talk to your faculty adviser.
Software Discounts
A wide assortment of academic software can be purchased at educational prices from the Ithaca College Bookstore or from many retailers and mail order companies. Ithaca College now offers FREE MICROSOFT OFFICE to current IC students; in addition the IC Bookstore offers Adobe products at significant savings. Additional information is available by clicking on Adobe Software Discounts to the right. The IC Bookstore has also partnered with JourneyEd to provide exceptional discounts on Windows and Mac operating systems, Anti-Virus programs and other software. Additional information is available by clicking on JourneyEd Software Discounts to the right.
fixIT Shop
The fixIT Shop, located in Friends 110, provides convenient on-campus computer advice, support, and service to students, faculty and staff at IC. The fixIT Shop is an authorized warranty repair center for Apple computers and can perform non-warranty services on all computer brands.
Technology Learning Center
The Technology Learning Center (TLC), located in Friends 101, provides instructor-led training, online tutorials, online workshops, technical documentation, and drop-in consulting services to students, faculty, and staff at IC.
Residence Hall Telephone Service
Ithaca College provides on-campus, local, toll free and 911 telephone service to students in the residence halls on an opt-in basis. Students can request phone service when they arrive on campus by contacting the DIIS Service Desk. Actual telephone devices are not provided. Students are responsible for providing their own touch-tone telephone and plugging them in. A phone calling card will be necessary to make long distance phone calls.
TaskStream ePortfolios
Taskstream provides an easy way to create and publish a personal electronic portfolio. Starting August 2013, all new students will be enrolled in the Integrative Core Curriculum (ICC) and be required to have an electronic portfolio in Taskstream. During the Ithaca Seminar program, students will be introduced to Taskstream and the ICC Directed Response Folio (DRF).


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Dinara Safina knew something we didn't know - she was playing with pain.
After easily defeating Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 6-4 in LA, the world's top lady baller revealed she's been competing with pain in the patella of her left leg beginning at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix back in April through Wimbledon and had been taking anti-inflammatory meds along the way. The pain was so bad a times she would "see stars" every time she would bend.
Dinara explained why she never revealed the information publicly saying,
I don't like to find excuses. This is my personality. On the court, I will never call trainer if I have a headache. If I call for somebody, it must be really bad.
I can appreciate that reasoning and it could explain why she lost so badly in big matches. But why has Dinara decided to reveal this information now? Is it to "explain" some of her recent, crushing defeats at the majors and rebuff the claims she doesn't have what it takes to be a "true" No. 1?
Let's be honest, though. By her own account she wasn't dealing with this patella issue in January during the Oz Open when she couldn't serve her way out of a corner and was routed by Serena Williams in the final. But it certainly couldn't help the serving issues having her left knee, which is used to push off during serving for a righty, get wonky.
Dinara isn't a great mover and her serve, like Shrieka's, is vital and sets up the rest of her game. Without it, she's toast. However, now that the issue is resolved it'll be interesting to see how her game evolves during the US Open Series and whether her on-court issues were due more to her knee problems or to her shaky mentality.
UPDATE: Congrats to D for becoming the first lady baller to qualify for the year-end WTA Championships!
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Simon Cowell is working hard to make sure that the American version of his show, X-Factor, will be a huge success. After reports surfaced that Mariah Carey is in negotiations to be on the show, The British press has leaked that Brian Friedman is the first official signing of the show.
Brian is currently working with Simon Cowell on a number of his shows in roles created specifically for Brian. This includes the UK Version of X Factor. Brian serves as creative director and has been a judge for the show. He also has served as the crative director on America's Got Talent. Brian and Simon's work collaboration dates back to 2003, when Simon brought Brian onto the UK's Grease is the word.
Brian has an extensive portfolio of celebrity clients including: working with Britney Spears on Toxic, Slave 4 U, and multiple tours, Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Usher, Dirty Pop with *NSYNC, and The One with Prince. He has created famous routines that are recognized all over the world. He also served as a judge and choreographer on the Fox reality show, So You Think You Can Dance.
The British publication, The Mirror, reported that Brian will work backstage on the American X Factor and spoke with Brian about his new role. "It's going to be huge. I can't wait."
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MCARTHUR, Ohio – An Ohio woman is fighting to get her belongings back after a bank mistakenly attempted to repossess her home, removing its contents and selling them or throwing them away.
Katie Barnett of Vinton County says she returned home after being away for two weeks and had to crawl through the window of her own house after the key she normally used didn't work, WBNS-10TV reports. When she got inside, she found her stuff had been removed.
Barnett said she assumed she had been robbed. And that's not far from the truth.
It turns out First National Bank in Wellston, Ohio had foreclosed on her house even thought it was not her bank.
The bank, she says, sent someone to repossess the house located across the street, but broke into hers instead by mistake.
"They told me that the GPS led them to my house," Barnett tells WBNS-10TV. "My grass hadn't been mowed and they just assumed."
Barnett says she called McArthur Police about the theft of her items but nothing came out of it. The police chief announced the case was closed weeks later.
With the house's content gone, she presented the bank's president with a $18,000 estimate to replace the losses, but he refused to pay.
"He got very firm with me and said, 'We're not paying you retail here, that's just the way it is,'" Barnett said. "I did not tell them to come in my house and make me an offer. They took my stuff and I want it back."
The bank president refused an on-camera interview, but told WBNS-10TV that the bank is trying to come to terms with Barnett.
"Now, I'm just angry," Barnett said. "It wouldn't be a big dael if they would step up and say 'I'm sorry, we will replace your stuff.' Instead, I'm getting attitude from them. They're sarcastic when they talk to me. They make it sound like I'm trying to rip the bank off. All I want is my stuff back."


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Nice work, a very clean style! When you print the battlemaps, you may want to have an option not so ink-heavy on the background...
Here it is, my first attempt at a dungeon map for the guild. This is the basement of a prison. I worked on this thing for about 6 hours. I used Dunjinni, Corel X2, and Windows Paint .
I have also made a larger BMP/PNG file (BMP is 35Mb!!!!) to be used later for battle maps of the individual rooms.
Any suggestions?
Nice work, a very clean style! When you print the battlemaps, you may want to have an option not so ink-heavy on the background...
Looks good so far.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
That is a cool and clean map and should be useful to a game session.
The background texture is a little odd. Theres a lot of repeating patterns in it but its not all repeating. Its like you filled it with a repeating one and then pasted down lots of patches of rotated texture.
Heres a few tips there. You can get that texture and make a big square image of it at say 1000x1000. Get the same texture, scale it up with a nice bicubic stretch to about 130% in each dir or say 1300x1300 and get another at say 1500x1500. Now crop the two new ones to 1000x1000 again so that you have the same repeating pattern but at 3 slightly different scales. Now blend all three together and then you will have one 1000x1000 image with no repeating pattern in it.
If you then want to make that seamless then I wrote a tut about that too. Search for "seamless textures". Then flood fill with that and it will put down unlimited non repeating textures.
Its easier than it sounds. It also works better if you scale by prime numbers like 1.13 or 1.29 from the original. Actually, maybe RobA will add that into the seamless tiling script so that we have seamless non repeating textures...
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Sweet! Thanks for the info. I'll see what I can make up with your suggestions, and I'll definitely take a look at the tutorials.


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Tipoff at 7:00 - Channel 5.
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ISU MBB: Bigger than a single person, player, or coach.
Wow, 7:01 before the official thread started. I think that is a record.
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Nice crowd for Oklahoma tonight???
Seriously looks like the crowd you get from a Colorado home crowd.
Bellzisu is aka Chris Bellcock. Just so I'm not anonymous anymore.
Whenever they mention Brackins 33 point game, he plays bad.
Originally Posted by cyclonez7
Whenever they mention Brackins 33 point game, he plays bad.
They must of mentioned it every game for the last 6 games then...
i really wish Brackins would stop shooting the 3 --or atleast make a few
Atta boy, Craig. Both teams aren't exactly shooting the lights out so far.
Yay Craig!!
hat was brackins strongest post move this year
Wow we are sure sagging off of them. Finally a team where every player isn't a sharpshooter from 3.
I'm not sure if our defense is making them look bad, or both teams are just that bad.
Oklahoma fans are finally glad that Sampson is gone tonight.
Originally Posted by bellzisu
Nice crowd for Oklahoma tonight???
Seriously looks like the crowd you get from a Colorado home crowd.
No doubt. That looks terrible when a BCS school can't even fill up their front rows for a conference game. We put more fans in the stands with a foot of snow and ice on the way.
Originally Posted by cyclonedefender
hat was brackins strongest post move this year
He ruled the post against Minnesota.
That was a bad call on Jiri IMO
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue
announced his ruling in the New Orleans Saints bounty case and has vacated all
player discipline previously issued by current commissioner Roger Goodell.
Jonathan Vilma, Anthony Hargrove, Will Smith and Scott Fujita were all
suspended by Goodell in May for their roles in the bounty program from
2009-2011. Vilma had been suspended for the entire 2012 season, while Hargrove
was originally given an eight-game penalty. Smith was banned for four games
and Fujita was slapped with a three-game suspension.
The suspensions were overturned by an appeals panel in September, then re-
issued by Goodell in October. Another appeal led to Tagliabue's appointment,
and he decided to overturn the suspensions after reviewing the case.
Tagliabue, in a statement released Tuesday, affirmed the league's findings in
the investigation, the results of which were first released back in March, but
determined the Saints' organization deserved more of the blame and not the
Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended for the entire 2012 season and
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Forty Years of Jupiter Observations, 1973 - 2013
Posted 29 January 2013 - 11:24 PM
On January 8th, 2013 I set the TMB 130mm (5.1") f/9.25 refractor on an alt-mount to observe and make a sketch Jupiter. I used the Baader binocular viewer with a 1.7x corrector with magnifications of between 255x - 292x. Filters used: none, Baader Moon & Skyglow filter.
It was a partly cloudy night with a limiting magnitude of around 2.0. The seeing was variable, mostly fair but sometimes settling down to good. This made it difficult to make a completed sketch so I ended up making a rough one.
Central meridian longitudes: System I: 139.5°, System II: 191.0°.
The South Polar Region appeared gray in color, while the South Temperate Zone appeared white in color. The South Temperate Belt had a darker and wider section to it above the Great Red Spot (GRS).
The South Equatorial Belt (SEB) was red in color preceding the GRS, which was orange in color. A very large rift followed the GRS and curved up.
The Equatorial Zone appeared dusky or veiled.
The North Equatorial Belt (NEB) was red in color, but it appeared to have a more irregular outline to it than the SEB. There appeared to be rifts in the NEB. Also light blue festoons were visible along the southern edge of the NEB.
The North Tropical Zone appeared white in color, while the North Temperate Belt (NTB) was red in color. The NTB had an irregular outline.
The North Temperate Zone appeared white in color, and the North Polar Region appeared gray in color.
Callisto, Io, and Europa formed an arc along the preceding side while Ganymede was visible on the following side.
Here is a link to my Jupiter Nomenclature page that shows that shows some of the Jovian features I observed:
As I finished observing and stood up from my observing chair to stretch it dawned on me that it has been almost forty years since I made my first telescopic observation of Jupiter. My first was on August 13, 1973. At the time I was using a 60mm achromatic refractor on an alt-az mount, and tonight I was using a 130mm apo refractor on an alt-az mount. While I have owned larger aperture telescopes (20" reflector) and used them at star parties (32" reflector) I find it is easier to take notes and make sketches if I am seated at the eyepiece.
One of the biggest problems I had when I bought the 60mm achromatic refractor was lack of information. For example the local library only had a few books on astronomy, and they were for young children. They did not contain information on the constellations, deep-sky objects or how to identify the planets. So during the winter when I saw three bright stars in a row in the sky I did not know they were part of the constellation of Orion.
Also I did not know of anyone else who had an interest in astronomy, or if there was an astronomy club in area. Even if there was a club in the area there was no way for me to learn about them or get in touch with them. This is in stark contrast to today where the internet makes it much easier to learn and get in touch with others interested in hobbies such as astronomy.
So after observing the Moon and stars through the telescope I wasn't sure what to do next. Then just by chance I was flipping through a local newspaper one day and came across an almanac. It gave the times of Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise and Moonset. Also it mentioned that the bright "star" in the eastern sky following the Moon after sunset wasn't a star but rather the planet Jupiter. Also it mentioned how Jupiter had 12 moons (today it has at least 67 moons).
As it got dark I saw the bright star like object in the eastern sky following the Moon, opened the window and pointed my telescope out it to observe it. Back then I did not know that pointing a telescope out a window was not a good idea because it degrades seeing.
Still as I increased the magnification I could resolve Jupiter as a disk with three bands on it, and see the four moons nearby. The fact I could see this on a planet that was over 480 million miles away really was amazing to me.
I wanted to make a permanent record of what I saw so I picked up a piece of paper, drew a circle on it and recorded the detail. Without realizing it I had started to train my eye to see more detail. This was because each time I observed Jupiter again I made a sketch and could see more detail, even though it was the same telescope and same magnification.
Here is a collection of some of my Jupiter sketches and observing reports I have made over the years. Note it does not include numerous observing reports and sketches that I have made since 1973. Also in 1978 I purchased a C-90, and in addition to using it for observing I started to do astrophotography. This continued when I bought a C8 in 1980, and from the early to mid-1980's I did a lot of deep-sky astrophotography
http://ejamison.net/...otography.html. So from 1978 to 1985 I still observed but did not make sketches during this time.
I have sometimes wondered if my interest in astronomy would be as strong as it has been over the years if I had not read the almanac and was able to find Jupiter in the night sky. This is because not only did the almanac help me to find Jupiter it also started my interest in sketching at the eyepiece. This has helped me to see more detail over the years, and provided me with an artistic outlet. I still have that almanac as I pasted it into my first astronomy logbook.
Also being outside with a telescope under a starry sky often provides a sense of connection with nature and the cosmos. It can be a very spiritual experience.
So in a number of ways reading that almanac changed my life in a very positive manner.
Clear Skies,
Eric Jamison
Posted 30 January 2013 - 12:41 AM
Very nice narrative. The artistic outlook is an important one for most folks at this forum.
For quite some time now I have had that nomenclature page of yours in my bookmarks.
"Also being outside with a telescope under a starry sky often provides a sense of connection with nature and the cosmos. It can be a very spiritual experience." How True.
Posted 30 January 2013 - 12:48 AM
Glad to hear my nomenclature page helps.
"Also being outside with a telescope under a starry sky often provides a sense of connection with nature and the cosmos. It can be a very spiritual experience." How True.
Yes it can be...
Posted 30 January 2013 - 02:17 AM
I personally observe jupiter since many years, although only since last year I have been able to make a decent jump with the aquisition of my first refractor, and now with the TEC140 I have also started drawing the many details I can see.
I have installed winjupos on my laptop and am very familiar with the jovian nomenclature, howewer I still have not understood what System I and System II refers to. Can you point me to some specific reading?
Posted 30 January 2013 - 02:27 AM
Thank you again for sharing your work.
Posted 30 January 2013 - 04:36 AM
Posted 30 January 2013 - 08:57 AM
Posted 30 January 2013 - 10:58 AM
Wow, it's impressive all you have done. I had about the same 6" Newton with the same mount and the same 8" SCT... Fun.
Posted 31 January 2013 - 05:52 PM
Thanks for the kind words. Sounds like you have a nice set up with WinJUPOS and your TEC140. I look forward to seeing your sketches and observing reports.
What telescope did you use before?
Posted 31 January 2013 - 06:01 PM
Glad you found my Jupiter Nomenclature page helpful.
I have set them up also for Saturn:
For Mars:
For Venus:
And for Comets:
Hope this helps.
Eric Jamison
Posted 31 January 2013 - 06:10 PM
Thank you for your kind comments. I enjoy observing all celestial objects, but Jupiter and the Moon will always have special meaning for me because they were the among the first two I observed. So each time the Moon is up or the planets approach opposition again it feels like I am saying "Hi" to some old friends again.
Posted 31 January 2013 - 06:20 PM
Thanks, and yes it is interesting to see how features have changed over time. In some cases I look at a sketch I made years and realize that I recorded a feature such as the Red Spot Hollow that I did not know about when I made the sketch.
Posted 31 January 2013 - 06:24 PM
Thanks, and its interesting we had the same 6" Newton and the same 8" SCT. Sometimes I wish I had kept some of the scopes I have sold...
Posted 31 January 2013 - 08:50 PM
I appreciate your approach here.
Posted 01 February 2013 - 06:46 AM
Posted 02 February 2013 - 08:57 AM
I read with pleasure your reflections on 40 years of amateur astronomy. I fully agree with you about the impact of the Internet on what for many was a solitary pursuit. Your willingness to share the benefits of your experience through your website is a valuable resource for the astronomy community.
It was quite interesting to page through your Jupiter sketches and see the dynamic nature of The King revealed in your detailed drawings. To paraphrase Heraclitus, you can't look at the same Jupiter twice.
I think more and more people are finding that sketching not only makes them better observers but also provides an important creative outlet. In addition, it can be so absorbing that one can be totally in the moment, losing one's self in the task and gaining a greater appreciation of the beauty surrounding us when we "come back". By your example, you remind us to do just that--look around and admire what surrounds us and our telescopes.
Posted 05 February 2013 - 04:28 PM
Thanks for the kind words. When I make a sketch using color pencils I try to match the color of the planet that I see through the scope as close as I can with the pencils that I have on hand. It is not always a good match.
So when I go to the art store I look for color pencils that seem closer to what I see, for example the yellow color of Saturn's equatorial zone. However once I get them home and try them out sometimes it still isn't as close match as I would like.
So sometimes I just use drawing pencils like H, F, 2B, etc.
Posted 05 February 2013 - 04:35 PM
Thanks and glad you enjoyed the article and the sketches.
I enjoyed reading your webpage.
Posted 05 February 2013 - 05:22 PM
I have enjoyed astronomy over the years and have learned a lot from others.
So I try and help others when I can, and this is one of the reasons why I set up my astronomy webpage.


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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WUSA9) -- There was an outpouring of community support at a popular restaurant hosting a fundraiser for Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy on Sunday.
The veteran police officer was shot in the head in just nine days ago and is still recovering after getting surgery but making progress.
Officer Laboy was shot by a taxi driver during a routine traffic stop in Alexandria on Feb. 27. The suspect, 27-year-old Kashif Bashir of Woodbridge, Virginia, is in custody and has been charged with Malicious Wounding of a Law Enforcement Officer and Use of a Firearm in Commission of a Felony, police say.
Even two hours after the auction and fundraiser hundreds of residents stood in line to take part in the event.
"I think people knows that we are family people too and the overwhelming support here shows that," said Alexandria Police Officer Jason Story.


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Chargers' Scifres takes it all in stride
Despite voters punting on him for the Pro Bowl again . . .
The most consistent, least returnable punter in the NFL received so many calls of incredulity and condolence on Tuesday that his phone was dead by early evening.
The calls came from friends, teammates, relatives and other punters around the league.
Mike Scifres is used to this annual ritual. Despite having the highest net average in the NFL, fewest percentage of punts returned and most punts downed inside the 20-yard line over the past five seasons, Scifres has never been voted to the Pro Bowl.
Tuesday, he was voted a first-alternate for the third straight year and the fourth time in his career.
"It's a tragedy," Chargers special teams coach Steve Crosby said.
That description made Scifres laugh long and hard. The least affected of anyone that Scifres is again a bridesmaid is Scifres himself.
Part of his acceptance is that he respects the guy who has so often gone to Hawaii in his place and will again in February. Oakland's Shane Lechler, who has punted almost twice as often as Scifres this season, was named to his fourth Pro Bowl.
"It's one of those things when it comes to the Pro Bowl," Scifres said yesterday, repeating a reasoning he cited often to those who called on Tuesday. "Everyone has a chance. Shane's numbers were a little better, and he went."
That's a nice sentiment, and Scifres seems to mean it.
He and Lechler have developed a professional friendship over the years of kicking in the AFC West. They speak once a week on the phone, and Scifres said he'd take Lechler on his team over any punter in the league.
"It is what it is," Scifres said. "Shane is a great punter. Year in and year out he puts up great numbers. You can't complain about that. Every year you know Shane is going to have those numbers."
But Lechler may or may not have better stats than Scifres this season.
Scifres' 41.8 net average on 46 punts is a half-yard better than Lechler's average on 80 punts. Scifres has had 18 of his punts downed inside the 20, Lechler 28. Scifres has had just three touchbacks, Lechler 11. Scifres has had 21 punts returned, Lechler 39. The average return of a Scifres punt is 6.2 yards, while the average against Lechler is 9.7 yards.
Crosby means no ill will toward Lechler, but he doesn't understand how his guy keeps getting passed over.
"He's a team guy who executes a lot of different kicks that create field position," Crosby said. "What's phenomenal about what he's done is he's been able to accrue the net he has punting on short fields."
Almost a quarter of Scifres' punts were from the Chargers' 40-yard line or closer. Five were from inside the 50. That doesn't leave a lot of room. But it is Scifres' favorite kind of punt, where he can, as Crosby says, "turn his leg into a sand wedge."
Said Scifres: "The thing I take pride in is the few number of touchbacks and the punts inside the 20. Whenever you can give your defense a chance, I enjoy seeing their faces when they come on the field and seeing their excitement when the other team has to go 96 yards or 90 yards or even 80 yards."
There might be no one better in the league at landing punts inside the 10-yard line and having them spin backward, something Scifres maintains is often luck.
"I have no idea what the ball is going to do," he said. "It all depends on how it lands. When it checks up on the 2-yard line, you get excited."


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I am a new fantasy writer and while I have several chapters of my book outlined, I require something for the reader to reference. I have drawn a map in MS Paint, and would like to know if anybody would be so kind as to use their professional skills and clone my continental map into a work more worthy of publishing.
Sadly, I am still in college and don't have the resources available to pay for such a project, so I am asking if anybody would be interested in doing this free. Time is not a concern to me, as it will be a year or so before any real progress is made as far as publishing, self or otherwise.
I'm looking for a style similar to the maps that you find in the "Song of Fire and Ice" series by George R.R. Martin, in black and white.
If this book I am writing gains enough of a following on Amazon, or through a publisher, I would be more than happy to refer to said artist for any other maps that I may need in the future (including World Maps, City Maps, and other Continental Maps) and would pay for them accordingly.
I hope that somebody out there with some experience will put their faith in my abilities. If this sounds like something that would interest you, please contact me through the forum or reply to this thread.