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A Seismic Shift
No one saw the tsunami coming. After Title IX became law in 1972, a wave of girls began to pour onto athletic fields. Between the school seasons of 1971–72 and 2010–11, the number of girls engaged in high school sports jumped by 947 percent; today two in five high school girls are active in organized sports.
Participation in college athletics skyrocketed, too. There are now nearly 10 times as many female players in intercollegiate sports as there were in 1972, and since 1998 the number of women's teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has grown by 46 percent. A larger meaning of that change: In the space of a few decades, what was once almost an entirely male ticket to the best colleges has become a human one.
Girls who were newly able to pursue athletic endeavors learned valuable skills on the field that were useful for advancing in a man's world. "Sports teach the need for collaboration and risk taking. Players, if they lose, learn to get up and try again," says Susan R. Madsen, PhD, a professor of management at Utah Valley University in Orem. In her studies of successful female academics and government officials, "the women said that athletics had been critical to developing their leadership competencies."
While no one claims that Title IX was completely responsible for all the amazing educational and occupational attainments of American women in the past 40 years, Wharton School economist and professor Betsey Stevenson, PhD, has pinpointed some contributions of the law: "My research has shown that Title IX was responsible for up to 40 percent of the rise of 25- to 34-year-old women in the labor force between 1980 and 2000. For this cohort of women, Title IX also explains 20 percent of the increase in the length of their education, 15 percent of their growth in traditionally male occupations and all of their additional participation in sports-related jobs during that time." What's more, she says, playing high school sports "seems to have led to around a 5 percent increase in wages for these women."
Because it helped create these enormous social and career opportunities for American women, University of Minnesota sport sociologist Mary Jo Kane, PhD, calls Title IX "one of the most successful pieces of civil rights legislation ever."
—Melinda Dodd
Birth of a Notion
In the 1960s, Gwendolyn Mink was elected president of her school class, but the teacher made her give up the title because she felt that a girl should be only vice president. A few years later, Gwendolyn was denied admission to Stanford because, she says she was told, the university had filled its quota of women. As it happened, Gwendolyn's mother was U.S. Representative Patsy Mink, an Asian American who was the first woman of color elected to Congress, and she drew on these incidents of bias against her child when she coauthored Title IX. "For my mother, what she'd gone through had been bad enough, but it was even worse to see the next generation of women endure the same kind of discrimination all over again," Gwendolyn recalls.
Title IX, as originally conceived, was focused on education in general, not specifically on athletic programs. But after the law passed, the NCAA and the male athletic establishment lobbied to win an exemption for intercollegiate athletic departments. "From the moment of Title IX's passage, my mother was fully engaged in the struggle to make sure that athletics weren't carved out as some kind of huge exception," Gwendolyn says. "She knew that exceptions would swallow the rule."
The NCAA's early move to gut Title IX failed, as did several later attempts. A month after Patsy Mink's death in 2002, Congress renamed the still-intact law the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. Gwendolyn, now 60 years old, has continued her mother's fight against discrimination. After getting a PhD from Cornell, she went on to become a prominent policy expert and professor and a lifelong activist for the rights of women and minority-group members.
—Judy Jones
The Pioneer: Billie Jean King
Tennis legend Billie Jean King has won 39 grand slam titles. In 1974 she cofounded World TeamTennis, the coed professional tennis league. She also founded the Women's Sports Foundation, an advocacy group that she calls "Title IX's guardian angel" because with her help it has fought off attempts to neutralize the law. But what many people remember best is a 29-year-old King triumphing over former men's tennis champ Bobby Riggs, then 55, in 1973's televised Battle of the Sexes match in Houston. Riggs felt that men were so superior to women athletically that his age would not be a handicap. Wrong! Below, King recalls the event.
Bobby had been proposing the match to me for a few years, but I kept turning him down. I was too busy starting women's professional tennis. So he asked a lot of other people, and finally top-rated player Margaret Court said yes. When she lost, I no longer had a choice. But I knew that with me playing, it would be a very different match.
First of all, unlike Margaret, who is Australian, I understood American culture well enough to know this wasn't going to be any walk-out-on-the-court-and-play-tennis match; it was going to be a circus, and I was prepared for it. Second, I was the leader of the change, of turning tennis into a sport that would be fair not only for men but also for women. I knew I had to win. I was very clear that this was making history.
The timing couldn't have been better. It was at the height of the women's movement. We'd just had Roe v. Wade. We were in our third year of women's professional tennis [the Virginia Slims Series began in 1970].
The response to a woman winning the match was crazy. You could not believe how emotional people got. One guy was so pissed that he took his television and threw it out the window of his home. Most men were great about my victory, though. The thing is, men respect skill, especially in sports. I still get men coming up to me all the time, saying how the match changed their lives. President Obama told me it influenced the way he's raising his daughters. That was huge.
If you watch a World TeamTennis match, in which both men and women may play, you'll see what I want for our sport, what I want for the world. I really want a level playing field and men and women working together. We're all in this together; we're on this earth together. Diversity equals strength.
—As told to J.J.
The Superstar: Lisa Leslie
Basketball icon Lisa Leslie is a three-time most valuable player in the WNBA and a four-time gold medalist in the Olympics. The six-foot-five athlete, who was the first woman to dunk in a televised pro game, has also worked as a TV broadcaster. She is currently co-owner of the team she once played for, the Los Angeles Sparks. Here's her story.
I was born two weeks after Title IX passed. I joke that I'm a Title IX baby, because it always seemed as though the legislation was written especially for me and girls like me. Organized sports weren't offered at my elementary school, so the first time I picked up a basketball, I was 12 years old and in seventh grade. I also did volleyball and softball and ran track. I could hardly believe I got to go to school and play.
I did not grow up with a notion of what women were supposed to do as opposed to what men were supposed to do. My mom was a single parent who held jobs that weren't considered particularly feminine—like driving an 18-wheeler truck and working as a mail carrier—but she always wore lipstick and had her nails polished. That's why I grew up feeling I could do it all.
Becoming a co-owner of the L.A. Sparks seemed like a natural move for me. From day one as a pro basketball player, I was in on more than my share of business meetings, sitting elbow to elbow with management and bringing in corporate sponsors. Now I can do that right in my community. I'm looking forward to getting our sponsors and our old ticket holders more involved with the team again, because we lost a lot of them when I retired from playing. I'm the mother of two children, so this feels like a great fit for my career right now. I'm up to the challenge.
—As told to J.J.
The Communicator: Janet Champ
In 1996, Janet Champ cocreated the famous TV commercial "If You Let Me Play," part of Nike's campaign to market to women. Still widely available on the Internet (for example, on YouTube), this touching advertisement shows young girls listing the positive effects of participating in sports. Champ is now an Oregon-based freelance writer.
Nike came to our ad agency, Wieden + Kennedy, in Oregon, and asked for a spot that spoke to the phenomenon behind Title IX and what it meant to a generation of young people. They gave us reams of information—boxes and boxes of statistics—and my art director and I waded through all of it. We came up with a lot of scripts and boards, and every week, sometimes twice a week, we showed new ideas. After one of our meetings, the Nike ad manager took me aside and said, "I don't know, this feels like it's not coming from your heart. It doesn't feel like you're really passionate about it."
We felt stymied until, all of a sudden, the "if you let me play" idea just popped up. It came out of my experience as a stepmother and an aunt. I knew that lots of young girls—like my nieces and stepdaughters—didn't have softball, volleyball or soccer programs in their schools because the money just wasn't there. Even though Title IX had passed and was a wonderful amendment, it wasn't always being implemented. Spending so much time around 10-year-old girls, I saw that many parents, especially mothers, didn't understand that their daughters really did want to play.
So we did the boards and took them in for an emergency meeting the very next day. I knew it was right because I got choked up while I was presenting our proposal, and then half the room started to cry. Everyone clapped and said, "This is it!"
But once we filmed the ad and people saw the rough cut, it became very controversial. Suddenly you had a little seven- or eight-year-old girl in front of you saying, "If you let me play sports, I'll be more likely to leave a man who beats me." The ad was much more powerful than we had anticipated. Certain people at Nike had strongly cautioned Wieden + Kennedy against "feminizing" the brand. Now some of the men felt we had crossed the line from self-empowerment to a type of feminism they didn't want to be involved with. They also worried that we'd gone from selling shoes to selling self-esteem, because we never talked about shoes or clothes in the ad.
Luckily the agency heads, Dan Wieden and David Kennedy, stood behind us completely. In the end Nike wentfor it, we put it on as is, and the response was amazing. The company setup a special department to handle the e-mails. I got calls and handwritten letters from parents, and 12-year-old girls sent me stuffed animals. For every angry letter, we got nine or 10 saying "Bravo!" And people continue to write—these days on blogs—about being affected by that ad.
—As told to J.J.
My Daughter, Myself: What a Difference a Law Makes
I can still see Miss B., trim in her maroon pleated wool skirt and neatly pressed button-down shirt, her gray hair permed into an immovable helmet. It's 1974, and who can blame her for scowling at us? She was faced with a group of teenage girls who would much rather be drinking black coffee and smoking Marlboros at the diner than attending her gym class. When Miss B. managed to make us run a lap, we—literally—dragged our feet. We did anything to avoid breaking a sweat; it simply was not done. Title IX had recently passed, but I don't know if we'd even heard of it.
Ironically, we grew up surrounded by demonstrations and had no trouble labeling ourselves feminists; we were quick to throw around terms like chauvinist pig. But we were too young and self-centered to connect the dots, to appreciate the generation just ahead of us who had fought for Title IX or Roe v. Wade. In just a few more years, we stopped taking these changes for granted when we entered the workforce and came face to face with the many roadblocks that still lay ahead.
More than 35 years after Miss B.'s phys ed classes ended, I am once more sitting on the sidelines of a high school gym—but now I'm watching my teenage daughter, Sasha, play JV volleyball. She isn't a natural athlete, but she loves being part of a team. While Title IX wasn't passed soon enough to really affect my adolescent years, it is an unspoken chord running through hers. Today even the most athletically challenged girls join a sport; it is a fundamental part of their school experience. When I tell Sasha how cool it is that she sees participating in athletics as a given, she replies, "It's not cool, Mom. It's just normal."
Perhaps every generation takes the previous generation's victories for granted. But today, when so many of the issues we thought were settled—contraception, choice, women's place in the workforce—are coming under attack again, none of us have that luxury. I hope the lessons Sasha and her friends are learning on the playing fields will serve them well as they pick up the mantle. Which I firmly believe they will do. I recently ranted to Sasha in an e-mail about the current war on women, and she wrote back, within seconds, "Girl power!!!" She typed it while on the elliptical trainer.
—Emily Listfield
The Ripple Effect
Title IX affected the country in many ways that were never anticipated. For instance, post–Title IX studies have shown that pursuing athletic endeavors during the school years raises self-esteem, increases life satisfaction, fights depression and enhances feelings of confidence and competence. What's more, female athletes are more likely than nonathletes to avoid drugs, abstain from smoking and graduate from college. They also wait longer to have sex.
Benefits continue well after female players receive their diplomas. As adults, they tend to have healthier hearts, stronger immune systems, more resilient bones, less obesity, a lower risk for breast and other cancers and less chance of becoming diabetic than women who sat on the sidelines as teens. Ten years after college, they are also less likely to be depressed. Let's hear it for the law of unintended ¬consequences! —M.D.
Illustrations: Quickhoney. Statistics sources: U.S. Department of Education 2011 Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act
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What was the reason that the Me'or Einayim by Azariah deRossi's was considered problematic and what is its Historical development and signifigance of this book Basicly what was all the fuss about?
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DeRossi takes a series of statements from the Gemara (generally Aggadic, i.e. non-Halachic ones) and applied the scientific and/or historic knowledge of his time to them; some of the statements worked, and some of them didn't. And some Gemaras "just didn't make sense."
(Now hundreds of years earlier, R' Sharira Gaon of Pumbedisa had already said that the rabbis of the Talmud weren't doctors, and were just recording the medicine of their day.)
Maharal argues strongly that there was incredible wisdom in all portions of the Talmud; many of the confusing Aggadic statements were intended as allegory, or had a hidden meaning; or occasionally, described something in terms of the common science of the day to make a spiritual point; not necessarily that Chazal agreed with that science (let's say for instance Sun going around the Earth), but it made the point to the audience in the year 500. (while not quite the same, if you look at some rabbi's sermons today about "Torah is how you recharge your batteries" or the like, that sermon would look funny 500 years ago, and will probably look funny 500 years from now.)
So Meor Einayim is a somewhat dangerous book -- "here's a bunch of places where the Gemara makes no sense", but it seems that generally the rabbinic response was as follows: The Talmud contains incredible wisdom, and people can miss that if they only read these snippets. Even for these snippets, we can and should find deeper meaning. Rather than ban Meor Einayim, it was strongly refuted ideologically by other works (such as Maharal, where he explained the deeper meaning of one statement after another; if not for DeRossi's challenge, would we have these explanations now?), and/or occasionally limited to those with more maturity and Talmudic background. If you've seen 5000 undeniably wise statements of Chazal and then you come across 20 statements that are difficult, you try to understand the 20. If you've never heard of Chazal before and just read the 20, people can get the wrong idea.


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ZF-5875: Add convenience methods: head, delete, post, put
As an example, this is how I could implement delete(), put() and post():
public function delete()
return $this->request();
public function post($data = null)
return $this->makePostPutRequest(Zend_Http_Client::POST, $data);
public function put($data = null)
return $this->makePostPutRequest(Zend_Http_Client::PUT, $data);
protected function makePostPutRequest($method, $data = null)
if ($method == Zend_Http_Client::PUT) {
} else {
if ($data !== null) {
return $this->request();
If you give me some feedback, I could do other things as well and commit these things if you want to.
Changed component from none to Zend_Http_Client
Hi Till, For post(), you might want to include the encoding type as a parameter, because that's rather important.
Also, if you're going to do this, why not include the other request types?
Finally, request() allows you to specify a method as an argument. By using that, you avoid duplicating code.
(Conversely, request('post') isn't that much more difficult than post(), so I'm not sure whether this improvement justifies the additional bloat...)
You could implement these methods as concrete methods that support IDE autocompletion, or you could forego that, reduce bloat, and increase flexibility (in edge cases, like a native PHP WebDAV implementation) by implementing it with __call().
I don't understand why this took so long and is looked on as bloat. It doesn't make code slower if you don't use it.
In summary, this is yet another issue that took way to long to go anywhere. I've since moved on and use my own client, implementing put(), post(), get(), delete() and head().
Thanks, mucho. =)
ZF2.0 is going toward removing the magic and favoring explicit behavior for a number of good reasons.
+1 that if this is implemented then they should be concrete methods and not magic methods.
This has indeed taken very, very long. I am currently investigating Zend_Http_Client in the 1.11 version looking to improve the sending of PUT and DELETE data, which is currently impossible. There is an issue filed about that. Adding convenience methods (real methods) would be nice.
On the other hand, there are more urgent problems, such as regression, errors failing unit tests... I am tempted to assign this to me, but my main goal at present is to fix Zend_Rest_Client, that can't send data along with a PUT or DELETE request. So I 'll just watch this. By the way, improvements should now be targeted at version 2.0.
I think Zend_Http_Client has been dead for a long time. I'm not sure how the client library will look like in ZF2, but I wouldn't wait for it.
Unless you have code already, I suggest you link into Guzzle or Buzz.


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The Watermelon Extravaganza was held on National Watermelon Day! To seamlessly set the tone, Elisabeth Poore with EDesigns used fabulous watermelon stationary and a printables set from Chickabug. From the invitations to party picks, banners, and food tags I loved how every labeled detail maintained the party's theme with a customized touch.
Complementing the printable décor were precious handmade details like an adorable fabric triangle bunting which hung at the entryway and chevron table runners. Every party needs a focal point or what I like to call a "WOW Factor," and I couldn't have been happier with the personal banner and over-the-top pinwheel backdrop by Peckled. Also from Peckled we rented a vintage white dresser which stood directly in front of the pinwheel display! We had a large space to deck out and everything looked fabulous when put together!
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text: Inductees: Carlos Santana (guitar, vocals; born July 20, 1947), Jose Chepito Areas (timbales; born July 25, 1946), David Brown (bass; Feb. 15, 1947 - September 4, 2000), Mike Carabello (congas; born November 18,1947), Gregg Rolie (keyboards, lead vocals; born June 17, 1947), Michael Shrieve (drums; born July 6, 1949) Guitarist Carlos Santana is one of rock's true virtuosos and guiding lights. Since 1966, he has led the group that bears his surname, selling over 30 million albums and performing before 13 million people. Though numerous musicians have passed through Santana's ranks, the continuing presence of Carlos Santana at the helm ...full bio


text: Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) Hey, guys. I don't get much time to post here, but when I do, I like to make an impact. So today we're going to discuss a very passionate topic with me: Microsoft and all its failures. Microsoft has always been so-so, but now they're way below average. I've been right about these guys as soon as Vista was announced, and now I'm so confident in my beliefs, I'm sharing them with you.I never even bothered researching or installing Vista because as soon as I heard Microsoft rewrote most of the code, I knew it was a disaster waiting to happen. And then it came. People learned what I knew. Microsoft felt the hurt. Why do you think they ditched Vista so quickly and moved on to Windows 7? Simple: because they knew Vista was a loser and they'd lose a huge chunk of their customers if they kept with it.I knew ever since 2004 that Windows XP was the best OS in the world and absolutely knew it was going to last this long. And as much as Microsoft doesn't want to hear it, Windows XP will live forever, at least in this house. Can't reveal secrets, but I've gone to great pains to guarantee that. As soon as the Xbox 360 was released in 2005, I knew Microsoft would lose billions trying to mitigate - they never actually fixed - all the problems. See, the console was rushed to stores, uses cheaper parts, and just wasn't tested or designed well at all. That's why it freezes and red rings all the time. I even wrote one of my Microsoft contacts a highly technical letter explaining exactly what's wrong with the Xbox 360. His response was thank you for this info. And of course, he never put it into practice. One fact is Microsoft tried to save a few pennies and designed their own CPU for the 360, but of course it overheated and then they ran back to AMD and Intel. I could've told them that. LOL Windows 7 is nothing more than XP on eye-candy (Aero Glass UI) with a few super lame new features. Yeah, as if I'm paying a penny for that when my custom XP looks just as good. So if you aren't seeing the Microsoft pattern, let me make it clear. Ever since Bill Gates left and Vista came, Microsoft has been going downhill. Vista SUCKS. The Xbox 360 SUCKS. The new Windows logo looks like a 5 year old made it, and, you guessed it, SUCKS. Windows 8 will be even worse than Vista. It'll be the death of Microsoft. Old school computer guys like me HATE it. It's so ugly looking and weird to use. Seriously, who with half a brain uses a computer on a tablet or wants to touch the screen and get fingerprints on it, and then have to clean it all the time? Stupid! Keyboard and mouse for life. Just read the laundry list of options and features Windows 8 removed right here in the Windows 8 forum. If you thought Vista or 7 was light, 8 is a bulimic. Just confirmed everything I knew as soon as I heard Windows 8 is coming not even three years after Windows 7. Basically, 8 is a bad scientific experiment aimed at mobile computer users. Oh, and just so you know, Microsoft is a computer Nazi now. I also knew this was coming when so many people were staying with XP. Basically, XP users, Microsoft is deleting many non-security downloads. You'll get your precious but pretty useless security updates until April 2014, but after that no more XP anything from Microsoft. Expect a new Windows OS every 1 to 2 years moving forward and expect pressured, forced upgrades. Why do you think the last version of Office won't work in Windows 8? So you're forced to purchase a newer version. I'm so sick and tired of this mediocre money machine. And it's about to die. The truth is WE DON'T NEED MICROSOFT LIKE WE USED TO. There's always Linux. Third parties ALWAYS do anything Microsoft does 1000% better. When you think Microsoft, you think okay quality, terrible support, incompetent ownership, and extremely lazy employees.Let's take a look at classic Microsoft in detail...Every Windows OS is way behind the times in features, innovation, compatibility, and user friendliness. You always need a third party to get stuff done. Ninety-eight percent of the value of the Windows OS comes from third parties.The Service Packs are a complete joke. A service pack is supposed to be an exciting time for an OS owner and be jam-packed with improved, new, and useful features, all updates to date, and extend format compatibility to date. But oh no, not Microsoft. A Windows Service Pack is a trinket with 3-4 super lame new features and maybe some updates. I would gladly pay $30 a year for unlimited new XP Service Packs that actually innovated the best OS.Microsoft can't keep up with technology. All they have are outrageous ideas that are unstable and sound cool on paper. Here's just a few reasons why Microsoft is awful:Windows XP comes with NT Backup to back up system state and files, but guess what - even in 2001 when DVDs were popular, the native program doesn't support backing up to DVD, only tape and some other useless storage options. LOL Are you kidding me? This should've been added to Service Pack 1. Or even better, it should've been designed right from the start. Or best, it should've never been designed and Microsoft should've known it needed to include a great drive-image program with the OS, especially for somebody who preaches the importance of backing up your data every chance they get. LOLWindows Media Player 11 doesn't natively support MPEG-4. You can hack it, but you shouldn't have to. Again, something that should've been added to Service Pack 3.Service Pack 2 was so-so, but hardly anything got done there, too. Just another wasted opportunity in Redmond, Washington. Windows comes with a stripped down movie maker called Windows Movie Maker. The good news is you can make your own transitions, effects, titles, and credits (if you know XML), and add to the very little Microsoft gives you, making this thing awesome. I have, like, 3,000 total transitions, titles, effects, and credits. I just wish such an awesome thing didn't crash so much. The stock version with no add-ons. Microsoft didn't even test it right. And how are newer versions for Vista and 7 of Movie Maker even more bare-bones than my 2.1 version? So stupid.MS Paint is TOO simple. It can't even rotate an image in arbitrary values. I'm not asking for Photoshop features, but this is ridiculously bad. I could go on forever about what Microsoft does wrong, so I'll leave it there. Microsoft is so unprofessional and disorganized, it's pathetic. They don't even know their own product. Microsoft could've gave XP users IE9, but they want to force upgrades, so they didn't. Same goes for SATA support in XP. Microsoft is almost dead. They're just not smart enough to stay alive in the tech world much longer. And this new iron-fist ruling is going to crumble their castle. Just watch as my bold predictions become reality, again. All we want is XP for life. It's all we'll ever need. It does it all. And again, I would happily pay $10 once a year for an awesome Service Pack that actually felt new and modern. As it stands, I feel Microsoft is extremely lazy and unqualified to be in the computer industry, and I will not purchase another Microsoft product as long as I live.Oh, and M$, you might want to fix your completely broken download-validation process. I see a lot of unhappy users all over the Web.When will they learn? How about never. People do NOT want to spend 10 years learning a new worse OS. People do NOT want to scavenger hunt the whole Web for answers on how to do this or that with their OS - that you're supposed to teach them in the manual. 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Historic Columbia will run another session of its summer camp program in July. The camp will focus on U.S., Presidents and will run from Jul;y 7-11.
Travel through time at Historic Columbia's Presidential Summer Camp. Experience Columbia's presidential history through crafts, games and activities. From George Washington's visit in 1791 to modern presidents and candidates, campers will connect South Carolina's capital city to the national capital and get to know our commanders-in-chief by exploring the Woodrow Wilson Family Home and discovering presidential personalities and interests, such as Woodrow Wilson's love of baseball and role-playing as a British admiral.
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ZF-10114: Undefined index: HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
The line
$locale = new Zend_Locale();
triggers a PHP notice: Undefined index: HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE in Zend/Locale.php on line 430 when the script runs from the CLI mode.
To expand on this report a little: Zend_Locale::getBrowser() is run every time the class is instantiated, even if a locale is manually passed into the class. In the past, this has not caused any issues because the function just returned an empty array when it wasn't able to detect the locale by "getenv('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE')"
However, a recent change (r. 22529) added support for the $_SERVER variable "HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" as well. The actual bug is that it assumes this $_SERVER variable is always set, when, in fact, it is not usually set by non-browser clients like cURL unless the developer has set it explicitly. In theory, we just need to make sure the index exists:
$httplanguages = getenv('HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE');
if (empty($httplanguages) && isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])) {
$httplanguages = $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'];
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2008: Perez gave opposing team fits with her speed on the outside during the season. She started 17 games and played in all 19. She finished the season with three points after scoring one goal in the season finale against Hawai`i and assisting another in a 2-2 tie with Robert Morris. She was selected to the Governor's Cup All-Tournament Team and was voted Player of the Match twice by her teammates.
2007: Perez saw action in nine games for Idaho and fired off one shot on goal.
2006: Perez saw regular time as a midfielder, playing in 17 games and starting 12. She earned one assist as she served up a goal by Nicole McAllister in a 2-1 loss at Eastern Washington. She also managed six shots during the season.
High School/Club: Perez spent five years as a member of the 3-Rivers Club Team. She also was invited to play with the Washington State ODP team in 2003 and was a first team All-conference selection as a senior at Pasco High School. She also earned first team All-Area honors during her senior season and is the all-time record holder for assists at PHS.
Personal: She is the daughter of John and Julie Perez. She has one brother, Justin. She is majoring in Early Childhood Development and Education.
Quoting Showler: "Ashley got better and better last season. She has a fantastic pace and when she plays with confidence she is a threat to any team. She is quick and tricky and is fun to watch with the ball at her feet."


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Derrick Jabar Gaffney (twitter: @JabarGaffney)
Position: WR
Height: 6-1 Weight: 205 lbs.
Born: December 1, 1980 in Jacksonville, FL
High School: William M. Raines
College: Florida (school history) (Gaffney college stats)
Drafted by the Houston Texans in the 2nd round (33rd overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 42 (2088th overall since 1950)
Relatives: Son of Derrick Gaffney and Cousin of Lito Sheppard
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Miami Dolphins extend contracts of punter, long snapper
The Miami Dolphins have locked up two-thirds of their specialists with contract extensions that run through 2012 at least.
Pro Bowl kicker Dan Carpenter is still working on his rookie contract, which expires after 2010, but punter Brandon Fields is now signed through 2012 and long snapper John Denney is signed through 2013, according to the NFL Players Association's online database.
Fields, entering his fourth season out of Michigan State, will see his salary climb from $598,000 in 2010 to $726,000 in 2011 and $864,000 in 2012. He is coming off a strong season in which his 46.3-yard gross punting average tied John Kidd's 1996 mark for longest in team history.
Fields also had a net punting average of 39.8 yards, which surpassed the previous team record set by Donnie Jones in 2005.
The Dolphins ranked eighth in the NFL in net punting average, yet Fields has said improved hang time is his main goal next season. However, the Dolphins did not draft or sign a punter to compete with Fields this offseason.
"It's always good not having somebody breathing down your neck," Fields said recently. "But at the same time, I still have a job to do, just like everybody else. If I don't do my job, they'll bring in somebody else. It gives me confidence, but at the same time I know it's time to get back to work, same as usual."
Denney, meanwhile, is entering his sixth season as the Dolphins' long snapper. The Brigham Young product beat out Ed Perry for the job in 2005 and has developed into a consistent force at a thankless position.
Denney, who is 6 feet 5 and 255 pounds, made three tackles in punt coverage in last year's opening game in Atlanta. He finished the year with seven special teams tackles,tied with rookie safety Chris Clemons for 10th on the team.
Denney will earn $635,000 in 2010, then see that figure climb to $700,000, $835,000 and $860,000 the next three seasons. Denney will be 35 when his new extension ends.
These extensions come to light on the heels of Thursday's news that inside linebacker Tim Dobbins had signed a two-year contract extension, through 2012, that includes more than $3 million in guaranteed money. Dobbins will earn salaries of $1.276 million, $1.7 million and $1.9 million the next three seasons, according to the union's Web site.


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- 1 package (10 ounces) pretzel rods
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- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons butterscotch chips
- 2/3 cup milk chocolate toffee bits
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- With a sharp knife, cut pretzel rods in half; set aside. In a large saucepan over low heat, melt caramels with milk. In a large shallow bowl, combine the chips, toffee bits and walnuts.
- Pour caramel mixture into a 2-cup glass measuring cup. Dip the cut end of each pretzel piece two-thirds of the way into caramel mixture (reheat in microwave if mixture becomes too thick for dipping). Allow excess caramel to drip off, then roll pretzels in the chip mixture. Place on waxed paper until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 4-1/2 dozen.
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Robert Rodriguez hosts fundraiser for President Obama
Director ROBERT RODRIGUEZ hosted a star-studded fundraising party for President BARACK OBAMA at his home in Austin, Texas on Wednesday night.
The Sin City filmmaker was joined by the stars of his upcoming sequel A Dame To Kill For, Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson, plus his frequent collaborator Danny Trejo and pop singer Demi Lovato.
The guests paid $32,000 for a ticket to the event, with proceeds going to Obama's political party, the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Obama gave a speech while the guests dined in a poolside marquee.
Lovato showed her excitement on Twitter.com, writing, "Dinner w/ (with) @BarackObama tonight at @Rodriguez's castle (sic) tonight... No big deal..."
The creator of political TV drama Scandal, Shonda Rimes, and the show's star Kerry Washington will host a similar event for Obama in Los Angeles on 23 July.


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Miami Dolphins: Why the hate for Brian Hartline?
Brian Hartline doesn't get the respect he deserves.
I know why, and YOU know why. The difference between the two of us is I'm not afraid to say it.
Hartline, the Miami Dolphins' starting receiver, is a victim of racial profiling. Trust me, as a black man (with dreads) living in America I know racial profiling when I see it.
Hartline's a white athlete playing a skill position that's dominated by people with darker skin. That's the reason I suspect many believe he's an inferior athlete.
That's the reason most Dolphins fans don't respect the FACT Hartline has led the Dolphins receivers in yards per reception two of his three seasons.
I suspect his appearance is one of the reasons Hartline, a former Ohio State standout, is consistently disrespected by his own fan base, despite being one of the team's steadiest players the past three seasons.
I've watched Hartline closely, and critically for three seasons. During that time I've been won over by his intelligence, and solid route running. I've also concluded he's a solid starter. One that has some upside to do more.
I've pointed out Hartline's numbers in his first three seasons are superior to those of Jordy Nelson, hinting that Hartline could have a similar breakout season to the one Nelson produced in Green Bay's offense. But few Dolphins fan believe me.
Why? Is it because they haven't seen him maximize his opportunities as the team's No. 3 receiver?
While Hartline didn't get a lot of opportunities the past three seasons – for various reasons -this video proves when his number was called on he usually got open, is quarterback friendly, delivered the catch, and on occasion made a big play.
Yet, most Dolphins fans can't envision him catching 60 passes for 918 yards (that's what he'd produce with his 15.3 yards per catch career average), serving as a viable weapon in Joe Philbin's west coast offense.
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"It's this wanting that seems to drive food addiction," says Gearhardt. In a recent study, she used functional MRI scans (which measure blood flow in the brain) to demonstrate that when food addicts see images of chocolate milk shakes, they have a lot more activity in the brain regions associated with dopamine release than nonaddicts do. "When food addicts get food cues, they likely experience a big dopamine burst in their brains, and that encourages them to want the food more than nonaddicts do," she says. "Seeing a McDonald's, for instance, would prompt them to go in even if they'd been thinking about eating healthfully and staying on track just five minutes earlier." And as we all know, these kinds of cues abound in the United States. "Our environment is filled with readily available, inexpensive, high-calorie, irresistible foods," notes Joe Frascella, PhD, director of the division of clinical neuroscience and behavioral research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Food-addiction researchers have been studying a particular brain receptor, called the D2 receptor, that responds to dopamine. Our brains are constantly making D2 receptors, but overeating or overconsuming alcohol or drugs interferes with the maturation process of these receptors. As a result, people who are obese or addicted to alcohol or drugs have fewer functioning D2 receptors. And these low levels can lead to all kinds of compulsive behavior, including eating, that are intended to punch up the reward system in the brain.
Kenny's team at Scripps did an experiment in which it lowered rats' working D2-receptor levels, then fed them rich food. As soon as the rodents had a taste, they began eating compulsively. More important, they wouldn't stop—even when threatened. (The researchers had trained the animals to associate a flashing light with a foot shock.) "When the control animals saw the light, they stopped eating because they anticipated danger," explains Kenny. "But the rats with fewer functioning D2 receptors were so motivated to eat, they ignored the possible negative consequences." Kenny likens this behavior to that of a crack addict who's lighting up while the police are banging on the door. "Getting your fix is so important, you can't stop, and that seems to be the case with these animals with less D2 receptors, even before they became obese," he says.
Inability to stop is what sets food addicts apart from people who simply enjoy eating and have the love handles and belly pooch to show for it. Food addicts generally don't savor their food; they devour it. Even when it's not particularly tasty. Even when they feel full. Still, their personal chemistry prompts them to continue to eat. Compared with those less hooked on food, addicts show far less activity in the lateral orbital frontal cortex, the brain region that tells you when to stop eating. "With food addicts, their brakes don't work, so they lose control of their consumption," says Gearhardt.
Here's where your genes come in: Research says the people most at risk for food addiction are those who already have lower levels of working D2 receptors because there's some kind of compulsion in their family background. Booze, drugs, sex, porn, shopping, gambling—it doesn't matter what; the reward circuitry responds the same way. However, your family is only part of the story. "Even without a genetic head start, if you ultimately keep eating highly palatable food, you're at greater risk of becoming a compulsive eater," warns Kenny. In other words, your eating behavior can lead to addiction-creating changes in your receptors.
Kicking Your Addiction
Go to any kind of 12-step meeting, and you'll hear the same mantra: Don't pick it up. Don't touch the booze, the crack, the cards, the cupcakes. Because as any reputable program will tell you, the only way to break an addiction is abstinence. Break the addiction, and your number of fully functioning D2 receptors will increase. But when the addiction is to food, you can't go cold turkey, because, um, you still need to eat.


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THOMASVILLE | Virginia Proctor White Dorsett, 91, died Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, at Pine Ridge Health & Rehabilitation Center.
A funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the J.C. Green & Sons Chapel. Interment will follow in Floral Garden Memorial Park in High Point.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service from noon-1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and other times at the home of her son, Harold, on Bell Drive.
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This is a cutaway of the turbopump for the first stage rocket engine of the Vanguard launch vehicle. The Vanguard was the first American rocket specifically designed to launch a satellite. The first stage General Electric engine, designated X-405, produced 27,000 pounds of thrust for 142 seconds. The propellants in the X-405 were furnished to the double shell type thrust chamber by this geared turbopump powered by the decomposition products 90% hydrogen peroxide.
The rocket malfunctioned during its first launch attempt but on March 17, 1958, it successfully placed Vanguard 1 into orbit, the second U.S. satellite (a modified U.S. Army Jupiter-C had launched Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958). There were other Vanguard failures but the Vanguard vehicle successfully placed Vanguard II into orbit on February 17, 1959.
The Wright-Malta Corporation donated this turbopump to the Smithsonian Institution in 1976.
Gift of Malta Test Station, Balston Spa, NY
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- Manufacturer
- General Electric Company
- Type
- PROPULSION-Rocket Engines
- Materials
- Stainless steel and aluminum
- Dimensions
- Overall: 1ft 10in. x 1ft 3in. x 1ft 7in. (55.88 x 38.1 x 48.26cm); weight, 75 lbs


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by Alan Lee
Many of the staff breathes a sigh of relief with the approach of the rainy season, as the northern hemisphere winter is low tourist season in the jungles of Madre-de-Dios. Lodges are half empty, and guides get more than just a few hours break between the changes of groups. Yet, surprisingly, the rainy season is one of the best times of year to enjoy many aspects of the Peruvian rainforest. Why?
Researchers on the Macaw Project look forward to the macaw nesting season, when nests are climbed, and when visitors would be able to see first hand wild scarlet macaw and red-and-green macaws' chicks as they are weighed and measured, checked for parasites, and then hauled back to their nests. The clay lick is one of the most amazing spectacles in the avian world, and at the Tambopata Research Centre there is no better time to be observing the antics of up to 200 large macaws as they feed from the exposed bank of clay.
There is no better time to observe the many different species of frogs as they emerge in their hundreds to mate, breed and find ephemeral pools in which to place their eggs and tadpoles. Many of the frog-eating snakes have learnt that this is a time of plenty and encounters with non-venomous serpents are more common at night at this time of year as they search for hoppy denizens gone astray. Admittedly, insects too are at their peak. Not just mosquitoes, but a range of colourful butterflies, tiger-beetles and fungus beetles are also commonly encountered.
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In 2014, the Arizona softball team, led by Mike Candrea in his 29th year as head coach, will look to its depth and experience to get it back to Oklahoma City and the Women's College World Series.
Junior First Baseman/Outfielder Hallie Wilson was named to the 50-player USA Softball Player of the Year Watch List
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UA student-athletes are recognized for their outstanding academic effort.
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Arizona closes its fall schedule with its annual Alumni Game this Sunday
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For the third consecutive game, the Cats' bats drove in at least 10 runs helping the Wildcats earn their third win of the Fall Round Robin
Arizona pitchers shut out both Eastern Arizona College and Fort Lewis as the Cats' bats rallied for a combined 25 runs to defeat EAC, 15-0, and Fort Lewis, 10-0.


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Course Description HT 402 Fall 2010:
This course is an overview of the Reformed Tradition, with special attention to the PC(USA) Book of Confessions as a document of the Church. This class will read and engage documents and topics from the broad Reformed traditions, and each student will develop and present a personal statement of faith. The class will include some online resources for theological reflection and use in congregational ministries. The class will include broad reading, as well as lectures, discussion, and small group interaction. Students will be evaluated on the level of preparation and engagement with fellow students, texts, and topics. This is a participatory class that asks all of us to read, reflect, and discuss topics in Reformed theology -- in its historical forms, and in some of its contemporary forms. We live in a world with many competing world views and theological traditions. In this class we ask a series of important questions (especially for those preparing for ordination): What is the Reformed tradition? How do you relate to the Reformed tradition, and how will your standing within this tradition form/inform your ministry? How do you make use of the resources of the Reformed tradition to inform and challenge and explain your deepest commitments and affirmations?
This course encourages participants to identify resources for contemporary theological reflection in the rich resources of the diverse and demanding Reformed tradition. While one goal is to identify and reinforce Reformed distinctives in historical and contemporary theology, another goal is to challenge parochial views that fail to recognize the breadth of the Reformed tradition. This class will pursue close readings of confessions and contemporary texts from the Reformed tradition, in pursuit of a growing and constructive engagement with the Reformed tradition. The approach of the course is integrative, engaging both the theology and the history of Reformed tradition. Our intent is to provide opportunities for theological reflection useful in the ongoing preparation for ministry, including the PCUSA ordination examinations.
A central component of this class is engagement with the documents of the PC(USA) Book of Confessions, with a goal to encourage you to develop informed discussion of topics by drawing upon the confessions and key secondary sources. You will be assessed on your ability to engage in a conversation with the confessions and the secondary sources of the course.
Expected Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
1. Active attendance at class sessions that exhibits a close reading of the assigned texts and a readiness to bring your reading and reflection into the continuing work of this class.
2. Creative and critical participation in class projects, small group work, and class discussion. This includes an empathic and constructive engagement with the texts and the other members of the class.
3. Timely completion of all assignments, exhibiting proper use of sources, and pursuing standards of academic excellence.
4. Constructive response to the comments and feedback to your work – especially in the written assignments relating to the Book of Confessions. Your writing should show some changes over the course of the semester, as you respond/incorporate comments and feedback responses to your work.
1. Class presence, preparation and participation, with special emphasis on informed discussion of the readings and constructive (generous, empathic, and critical) engagement with fellow students and teachers. You are expected to seek ways to appropriately participate in every part of every week of this class. This is a participatory class, not a class for spectators!
2. A critical book review (five pages double-spaced) due at the beginning of class on November 19 summarizing and assessing one of the books on the "optional readings" list. Since this is a text-rich class, we ask each person take one of the reserve books and prepare a critical assessment essay, to be posted to the web site. You may be called upon to make a brief presentation on your text for the class.
3. A personal statement of faith as an example of, or in engagement with, Reformed theology due November 12. In addition to preparing and presenting this statement in a small group setting, you will also read and constructively comment on the statements of other members of a small group. Copies of your statement should be provided to the small group and these may also be posted on the class website. Discussion of the statements will be November 19.
4. A weekly quiz given at the beginning of class (so be on time!) on topics and texts relating to the PC(USA) Book of Confessions. There will also be an in class test on the PCUSA Book of Confessions on November 5.
5. Two page (double spaced) assessment/essay on each of the Confessions in the PC(USA) Book of Confessions. Each essay is due the week that readings on that confession are listed. Come to class ready to discuss the content of the confessional documents. In each paper address three things: historical context and contemporary relevance to you in ministry (1/3), key theological issues/themes (2/3). You will need to summarize each of the confessions for your own purposes, but that important task is not the focus of these essays – instead you will be assessed on your theological engagement with the confession – recognizing the historical and theological "voice" of each confession, aware of the content and sometimes contentious insights of the particular confession. These essays will be a rich resource for all the members of the class, with some posted on the class website.
6. A written examination in response to these questions, based on materials in this class and your continuing engagement with these matters:
What is Reformed tradition? How is the Reformed tradition distinguished (from) among the broadly Reformation traditions? Which of its distinctive gifts are most needed today, and why? How are Scripture and the confessions part of your theological self-understanding and self-expression? How would others recognize you to be part of the Reformed tradition?
This will be an in class exam administered December 10 with a maximum writing time of three hours.
Evaluation of Assignments:
#1-4 taken together account for 40%
#5 accounts for 30% and
#6 accounts for 30%
Class Schedule and Timetable of Assignments:
Week 1: Confessing our faith: reading contemporary culture
The nature of confessions and confessionalism
What is Reformed tradition?
Week 2: Confessions and the Faith
PART TWO: A Broadening Tradition
Week 3: Reformations!
Week 4: Teaching the faith
Week 5: The nature of the Church
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: The emergence of Protestant Orthodoxy
Week 8: Resistance as faithful witness
Week 9: Reconciliation as faithful witness
Week 10: Word, Sacrament, order and freedom
PART THREE: Confessing the Faith Today
Week 11: (en)gendering the question of sin
Week 12: Contemporary topics
Week 13: Thanksgiving break
Week 14: Contemporary topics
Week 15: Exam Week
Week 1: September 3
Approaching the topics, introducing the course.
Tradition and traditions in your work as a theologian.
Tradition as impediment and resource.
What is Reformed tradition?
Aspects of the Reformed tradition: a case study
Week 2: September 10
Confessions as expressions of faith, and confessions as documents of the Church
The catholic roots of the Reformed tradition
-Weeks, L. "A Brief Look at the 'Reformed'" The Institute for Reformed Theology Bulletin 5, no. 1 (Fall 2005). Also published in The Encyclopedia of Christianity vo. 4 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). At:
http://www.reformedtheology.org/SiteFiles/Fall2005/Essay_Reformed.html [3]
-"The Confessional Nature of the Church" Selected Theological Statements, (pp. 89-110) or at:http://www.pcusa.org/oga/publications/boc.pdf [4]
-Small, Joseph, "The Church's Conversation with the Confessions," in Small, Conversations with the Confessions
-Van Dyk, Leanne, "A Conversation with the Ecumenical Creeds," in Small, Conversations with the Confessions
- Nicene Creed
- Apostles Creed
- Relevant sections in Rogers
- Dowey, pp. 159-172
PART TWO: A Broadening Tradition
Week 3: September 17
Reformed Tradition: Catholic, Evangelical, and Reformed
The shared revolt of the 16th Century: the European Reformations
The emergence of a distinctively Reformed theological tradition
-Scots Confession
-Rogers (relevant sections)
-Dowey , pp. 173-186
-McKim "Scots Confession"
-Thompson, J. L., "A Conversation with the Reformation Confessions," in Small, Conversations with the Creeds, pp. 33-50.
-Zachman, R.C., "The Generosity of God: The Witness of the Reformed Tradition," The Bulletin of the Insitute for Reformed Theology 6, no. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 1, 2-5. at:
http://www.reformedtheology.org/SiteFiles/Spring2006/Essay_GenerosityofGod.html [5]
Week 4: September 24
Teaching the Faith: catechism as an aspect of the teaching office of the Church
-Heidelberg Catechism
-Rogers (relevant sections)
-Dowey, pp. 187-200
-McKim "Heidelberg Catechism"
Week 5: October 1
Consolidation in the Reformation traditions: Church, Scripture, Tradition
-Second Helvetic Confession
-Dowey pp.201-213.
-Rogers (relevant sections)
-Pauw, A.P., "The Graced Infirmity of the Church," in A.P. Pauw and S. Jones, Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 189-203.
-Leith, J.L. "The Church and the Means of Grace" in Basic Christian Doctrine, pp. 234-261.
-Sorge, S. "Why the Church?" in Small, Conversations with the Creeds, pp. 151-169.
Week 6: October 8 Reading Week
Week 7: October 15
From Reformation to Protestant Orthodoxy
Westminster Confession of Faith and Smaller Catechism
-Burgess, John P., "A Conversation with the Westminster Standards," in Small, Conversations with the Creeds, pp. 51-68.
-Leith, J.L. "The Prevenience of Grace," in Basic Christian Doctrine, pp. 220-233.
-Ernst-Habib, M. "'chosen By Grace' Reconsidering the Doctrine of Predestination," in Pauw, A.P., and S.Jones, Feminist and Womanist Readings in Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 75-94.
Week 8: October 22
Resistance as a Reformed value
-Barmen Declaration
-Kairos Document
-McKim "Covenant," "Kairos Document"
--Kulp, K.A., "Always Reforming, Always Resisting," in A.P. Pauw and S. Jones, Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 152-168.
-Dowey on Barmen
Suggested: -Wilmore, Black and Presbyterian
-Boesak, Black and Reformed
See also the Confession of Belhar (September 1986) at:
http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/confession/belhar.pdf [6]
Week 9: October 29
Reconciliation as a Reformed value
-Confession of 1967
-Wilkinson, J., "The Making of the Confession of 1967," Church and Society, Volume 92, No. 5.
-Dowey, pp. 27-157
Given its combination of themes of resistence and reconciliation, see also the Confession of Belhar for this week, too, at:
http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/confession/belhar.pdf [6]
Week 10: November 5
Brief Statement of Faith, and
Issues of worship as expressions of the Reformed tradition
Word, Sacrament, Order, and Freedom
-Brief Statement of Faith
-"Presbyterian Understanding and Use of Holy Scripture," Selected Theological Statements, (pp. 463-486).
-Scripture, tradition, and sexuality
-McKim, "Scripture," "Authority"
Suggested: Rogers, Reading the Bible and the Confessions: the Presbyterian Way.
Readings: Sacrament
-McKim, "Church," "Baptism," "Lord's Supper," "Sacraments"
Readings: Order
-McKim "The Priesthood of Believers," "Ministry," "Ordination,"
Readings: Freedom
"The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit" PCUS (1971) at:
http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/issues/holyspirit.pdf [7]
NOTE: An exam on the PCUSA Book of Confessions will be given today.
PART THREE: Confessing the Faith Today
Week 11: November 12
(en)gendering questions of human identity, agency, and theological anthropology
-Niebuhr,R. Nature and Destiny of Man vol. 1, pp. 178-240.
-Hess, C. L.Caretakers of Our Common Household, Introduction and chapter one "Giving Ourselves Away"
-Fulkerson, Mary McClintock, "The Imago Dei and a Reformed Logic for -Feminist/Womanist Critique," in Pauw, A.P., and Serene Jones, Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics, pp. 95-106.
-McKim "Sin"
NOTE: Your Statement of Faith is due today and will be discussed next week in small groups.
Week 12: November 19
Presentation of some of the critical book reviews.
Discussion in of Statements of Faith in small groups.
Week 13 November 26 Thanksgiving Week
Week 14 December 3
Presentation of some of the critical book reviews.
Discussion of topics chosen by the class.
Week 15 December 10
Final exam is administered today in our classroom 1:00 – 4:00.
Required Texts:
PCUSA, Office of Theology and Worship, Hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. At: http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/christology/hopeinlord.htm [9]
Supplementary Reading:
The following are at the JKM Library.
Johnson, S. A Time to Embrace.
[BX 8969.5 .T6 1999b]
[1] http://mccormick.edu/instructor/case-winters-anna
[2] http://mccormick.edu/instructor/sawyer-ken
[3] http://www.reformedtheology.org/SiteFiles/Fall2005/Essay_Reformed.html
[4] http://www.pcusa.org/oga/publications/boc.pdf
[5] http://www.reformedtheology.org/SiteFiles/Spring2006/Essay_GenerosityofGod.html
[6] http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/confession/belhar.pdf
[7] http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/issues/holyspirit.pdf
[8] http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/issues/crucified.htm
[9] http://www.pcusa.org/theologyandworship/christology/hopeinlord.htm
[10] http://www.pcusa.org/
[11] http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/SAKairos.html


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In ZF 1.10.0, errors were suppressed but in 1.10.1 they are not.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011 4:30 – 6pm
This was a special Black History Month Teachers Rock exploring the legacy of African-American music and musicians on film. Participating educators discussed key films (screened in their entirety throughout the month) as well as Rock Hall educational models and content approaches. With subjects and performances ranging from the birth of the blues to the dawn of hip-hop, these films reveal a story often neglected or even ignored. Teachers learned how to bring this meaningful history into your own classroom.
In celebration of Black History Month, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum presented a special film series, "Double Exposure: African American Music on Film," which highlighted the central role of African Americans in the history of rock and roll. Selected films covered a wide range of musical styles, from the gospel roots of rock to hip hop, and featured legendary performers, including Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees such as Bessie Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Curtis Mayfield, The Staples Singers, Run-D.M.C., Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, and Isaac Hayes. The films also reflected historical and cultural changes in African-American culture during the rock and roll era. The screenings included special introduction and discussion by scholars, filmmakers, and Rock Hall Education staff. All films were screened in the Rock Hall's state-of-the-art Foster Theater and were FREE with a reservation.


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Higher Education Sustainability Initative for Rio+20
中文 / ChineseOn the occasion of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012, the leaders of the international academic community are called upon to commit to the development of sustainable practices for Higher Education Institutions. They are invited to sign on to the Declaration below. With the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the international community committed to making every effort to ensure sustainable development for the benefit of present and future generations. The aim of the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges. Since Higher Education Institutions educate and train decision makers, they play a key role in building more sustainable societies and creating new paradigms. As educational institutions, they have the mission to promote development through both research and teaching, disseminating new knowledge and insight to their students and building their capabilities. Given the objectives of Rio+20, Higher Education Institutions have a special responsibility to provide leadership on education for sustainable development. Education for sustainable development aims at enabling everyone to acquire the values, competencies, skills and knowledge necessary to contribute to building a more sustainable society. This implies revising teaching content to respond to global and local challenges. It should also promote teaching methods that enable students to acquire skills such as interdisciplinary thinking, integrated planning, understanding complexity, cooperating with others in decision-making processes, and participating in local, national and global processes towards sustainable development.
Quick links
- Click here to Download Declaration and sign it (PDF)
- Click here to complete the required application form and upload the signed Declaration
- Click here to view list of endorsing organizations
- Click here to view the list of universities that have signed the Declaration
- Click here to view a list of resources that can assist universities in their sustainability efforts
DECLARATION"As Chancellors, Presidents, Rectors, Deans and Leaders of Higher Education Institutions and related organizations, we acknowledge the responsibility that we bear in the international pursuit of sustainable development. On the occasion of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from 20-22 June 2012, we agree to support the following actions:
- Teach sustainable development concepts, ensuring that they form a part of the core curriculum across all disciplines so that future higher education graduates develop skills necessary to enter sustainable development workforces and have an explicit understanding of how to achieve a society that values people, the planet and profits in a manner that respects the finite resource boundaries of the earth. Higher Education Institutions are also encouraged to provide sustainability training to professionals and practitioners;
- Encourage research on sustainable development issues, to improve scientific understanding through exchanges of scientific and technological knowledge, enhancing the development, adaptation, diffusion and transfer of knowledge, including new and innovative technologies.
- Green our campuses by: i) reducing the environmental footprint through energy, water and material resource efficiencies in our buildings and facilities; ii) adopting sustainable procurement practices in our supply chains and catering services; iii) providing sustainable mobility options for students and faculty; iv) adopting effective programmes for waste minimization, recycling and reuse, and v) encouraging more sustainable lifestyles.
- Support sustainability efforts in the communities in which we reside, working with local authorities and civil society to foster more liveable, resource-efficient communities that are socially inclusive and have small environmental footprints.
- Engage with and share results through international frameworks, such as the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, led by UNESCO, the UN University system, the UN Academic Impact, the Global Compact, the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Management Education initiative and the UN Environment Programme?s Environmental Education and Training initiatives, in order to exchange knowledge and experiences and to report regularly on progress and challenges."
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This initiative is endorsed by many national and international organizations, international networks and students? organizations.
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