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- Date submitted: 31 Oct 2011
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Full SubmissionInterfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization Introduction: Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization (ICEC) is a consortium of religious and secular organizations offering an ethical framework for the RIO+20 Compilation Document expressing renewed reverence for the Earth and each other. We live at a critical moment, with devastating economic inequities and environmental changes that threaten our collective humanity and future. Unless our values and actions are in line with the common good and mutual responsibility for future generations we cannot thrive. We recommend an ethical framework to guide our actions: to encourage actions that focus on the common good for all, on clean air and water and food for all. Deep listening can help us develop empathy and compassion, to connect with our universal humanity, to hear the Earth and all of nature, reminding us of the joy of being alive and awake with vitality in line with the creative force. Life is about being more, not having more. May this understanding give us strength for our collective work. We offer moral guidance from many sources here in brief form following the Rio+20 guidelines for contributions; our website www.ic4ec.org offers an appendix with full citations. AN EARTH ETHIC Ethics offers a lens through which to evaluate the actions of international bodies, governments, corporations and individuals. Sustainability must be about the sacredness of all life, of timeless principles of gratitude, humility, and compassion, of the truth of human interconnectedness, and commitment to justice and equality. We will have to deepen conversations and negotiations to honor this and bring fruit from it. This is the work of an earth ethic. It is in the enlightened self interest of all - in economic, social, and spiritual terms - to develop our commitment to ethical relations with Earth. Our consortium of religious and secular leaders affirms that the environment is sacred and that humans are part of the earth�s living ecosystem. We humans call each other to our universal responsibility and moral obligation to stand in solidarity, justice and equity, and offer acts of service. Collectively we insist on eradicating poverty, ensuring universal education and gender equality, and restoring our relationship to the earth. Our Expectation of the General Content of the RIO+20 Document a. - we need an outcome document that can inspire and galvanize action, acknowledging: � the youth of the world are an immense resource, voicing ethical guidelines and calling us to intergenerational equity. � the importance of the spiritual dimension of sustainability-that after basic needs are met, life is about being more, not having more, as put forth in The Earth Charter Preamble. � the need for fundamental changes in values, institutions, and ways of living. Earth Charter Principle 7.f. urges us to Adopt lifestyles that emphasize the quality of life and material sufficiency in a finite world." b. Principles to be followed - we affirm the following principled approaches: � Justice - Reduce disparities between rich and poor, and achieve social and economic justice, within a sustainable use and fair share of the world�s resources while leaving sufficient essential space for wildlife and wilderness. � The Right to Development - Human development in harmony with the environment is fundamental to the achievement of sustainable development, so that individuals and societies are empowered to achieve positive social and environmental outcomes including access to healthcare, education and sustainable livelihoods. � Information, participation and accountability - All citizens have a right of access to information concerning the environment, as well as the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes. To ensure that environmental issues are handled with the participation of all concerned citizens, institutions at all levels (national and international) must be democratic and accountable, and make use of tools that enable civil society to hold them to account. In this regard, the access to justice by citizens for redress and remedy in environmental matters is a cornerstone of enhancing accountability. � Just Transition - There will be costs in making the transition to a low carbon, green economy in the pursuit of sustainable development. Some States and actors are better able to bear those costs than others and are more resilient to transitional changes. In the process of change, the most vulnerable must be supported and protected � developing countries must have access to appropriate financial and technical assistance, citizens and communities must also have access to new skills and jobs. c. Examples of Sustainable Development: � We know that immense changes can be made, as the Green Belt Movement proves, with actions based in a spirit of service, love, gratitude, and respect for the earth�s resources, towards development that honors the earth and effectively intervenes in poverty. � Indigenous peoples around the world continue to call for the right relationship to Mother Earth as a living being, with inherent rights. � The Earth Charter calls us all to take on the mantle of global citizens, in full responsibility and solidarity, to end poverty and inequality. Its example of participatory democracy through a worldwide conversation sets a new standard for Inclusion that can be enhanced through communications technology. d. Cooperation: � Religious leaders can insist on being part of the solutions. In Africa, religious leaders are already offering a joint statement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and committing to action on all levels, taking on responsibility while they demand it from decision makers. They offer renewed moral vision and call for economic and political systems based on ecological principles. Specific Elements: Stated Objectives of the Conference: a. To secure political commitment for sustainable development: We recommend the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goal focused on Sustainable Production and Consumption as articulated in the Bonn Declaration (442- 463), in particular calling "on nations and populations engaged in wasteful over consumption to reduce their impacts and help increase the consumption of vital goods and services for impoverished nations and peoples, so they also can enjoy reasonably high standards of living that provide equitable access to health care, decent work opportunities and education." b. To establish a green economy: � Many, including the Mary Robinson Foundation�s Climate Justice initiative, are standing for equitable stewardship, human rights, the rights of the most vulnerable, gender equality and education as the means to a true �green economy." � Climate Ethics calls us to reduce carbon pollution as a moral obligation, to protect against suffering and degradation, to preserve justice and equity and insist now on stopping the worst violations of human rights caused by environmental degradation. � The Earth Charter principle 7.d. insists we "Internalize the full environmental and social costs of goods and services into the selling price." � The Bonn Declaration recognizes �that the market and institutional failures take the form of prices that do not reflect their true environmental and social costs, underinvestment in natural, human, built and social capital, harmful and perverse subsidies, restricted access to information about production technologies and their impacts, lack of democratic economic governance, increasing unemployment and inadequate indicators of progress. (212-215) � The Bonn Declaration calls "for replacement of the current inefficient, unsustainable and inequitable economic, monetary, financial and commercial models with policies that advance rather than detract from sustainable development goals and that build rather than deplete the stocks of natural, human, built and social capital on which human well-being ultimately depends. We propose that where the current economy aids inequity, destruction and greed, it should be replaced by an economy that cares for the human-earth community.(166-170) � We recommend the creation of an economic bottom line based on strong sustainability and adoption of alternative economic indicators to GDP as genuine indicators of progress which include social and environmental costs. This is a moral imperative, to measure in an integrated and holistic way such that the reality of the interconnections of environmental, justice, and development issues are seen together, with externalities included. c. To develop an institutional framework for sustainable development: Priorities for strengthening and integrating pillars at multiple levels. � Establishment of Ombudspersons for Future Generations at global, national and local levels as called for in the Bonn Declaration calls �for the, who will advocate for sustainable development as envisaged and defined by the Brundtland Commission: to enhance the well-being and prospects of present and future generations to meet their needs, and to serve as an auditor at the heart of governments and deal with citizens complaints. (283-286) � Responsibility to future generations by changing the discount rate, adopting the precautionary principle and establishing Ombudspersons for Future Generations at global, national and local levels. � Strengthening of UNEP so that it may serve as a stronger international force for the respect and care for the environment and protection of our common good and common future. The market economy does not adequately protect common goods such as fresh water, health soil and clean air, so we must institutionalize the preservation of these common goods and protection of Earth's vitality, diversity, beauty and sacredness. In conclusion, we strongly recommend that an ethical framework be integrated into the content of the Compilation Document. There are other organizations calling for ethical standards; we support their recommendations. Thank you for considering our recommendations. For more information on ICEC, our leadership, membership, and initiatives, please visit www.ic4ec.org.


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Last summer my father died in a nursing home adjacent to Central Expressway, the road that, some 57 years ago, he, my mother, my two sisters, and I took to Dallas for the first time, strangers in a strange land. Like thousands of others, we were East Coast expatriates, Jews in a city of gentiles. We were filled with hope and fear. As our leader, my father exuded the most hope and the most fear. He had come here to reinvent himself in a place ripe for reinvention.
For the next six decades—from age 38 to his death at 95—my dad was a born-again Dallasite, not to be confused with a born-again Christian. His atheism would evolve into what he called "secular humanism." Yet even he would not deny that this thoroughly Christian metropolis we adopted as our own caused us to redefine ourselves in ways that were unexpected. You could say that my father simply adjusted or adapted to Dallas, but those words are too weak. His makeover was more than superficial; it was profound. Looking back, it's clear that just as this ambitious city was searching for a new identity in the '50s and '60s, so was my ambitious father. Looking back, I also see that in many ways both the city and my father succeeded. But in just as many ways they also failed. The distance between that success and failure, like the distance between heaven and earth, can be measured only in uncertainty and pain—the two feelings that have overwhelmed me since my father's death.
"Of course you have to struggle in the aftermath of his demise," a friend told me shortly after my father's memorial service. "His legacy is all about struggle. You can call it a noble struggle, but it's struggle all the same."
When my father left the East Coast, his goal was to stop struggling. He was part of a band of traveling salesmen, many of them Jewish, who came to Texas selling clothing of one kind or another. My father sold men's hats. When the home office in New York gave him the choice of territories, my mother took an exploratory trip to several cities. She chose Dallas because it seemed the absolute opposite of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she had spent her unhappy childhood in crowded tenements.
"You don't see any garbage on the street," she said.
"Neither do you see any people on the street," my father added.
"That's good, Milton," she said. "That makes me feel safe."
Milton Ritz was born in 1916 in Newark, New Jersey, where neither his father nor mother made him feel safe. They were Yiddish-speaking, Yiddish-reading refugees who had fled the Cossacks. They never completely adapted to the language and lifestyle of 20th-century America. They saw the Russian Revolution as a kind of Jewish liberation. They became lifelong Leninists and, later, apologists for Stalin. As a teen, my father rebelled against what he considered his parents' narrow-minded provincialism. Like many young intellectuals in the '30s, his hero was Leon Trotsky, an imposing intellectual who saw the revolution in worldwide terms.
By working in the mailroom of a hat factory on lower Broadway, where he met my mother, Pearl, a seamstress, he saved enough money to attend night college for a few terms but never earned a degree. He dreamt of becoming a philosopher. He read voraciously, loved music, and haunted New York's great art museums. His most consuming passion, though, was ideas. His joy was to explore them, critique them, refute them, and, in rare cases, embrace them. He was an iconoclast and a natural-born critic. His close friends, several of whom became famous writers and public figures, were certain that he, too, would enjoy a brilliant career in the liberal arts. That never happened.
His generation relished verbal warfare, and, as a combatant, my dad was formidable. When I was a young boy, I felt his love and concern for me. But I also experienced him as an intellectual bully. He needed to be more than right; he needed to humiliate his opponent, even if the opponent was a child.
The more frustrating his work life, the more important it became for him to win all arguments in his personal life. The first glimmer of light came when his former boss at the factory suggested he had the verbal skills to sell hats rather than pack them. At the time, he was a truck driver delivering pretzels and potato chips to restaurants and bars. He accepted this new position, which put him on the road that eventually led to Dallas. The road was rough, though, because the business was dying. Men's hats, staples in the '30s and '40s, began losing their market in the less formal '50s.
Though my mother was drawn to Dallas, my father was reluctant.
"Pearl," he said, "the hat business is better in Los Angeles."
"Los Angeles is crowded," Mom replied. "Dallas has space. It's roomier. It's comfortable. I want us to be comfortable."
Despite our moving into a comfortable home in a comfortable neighborhood, our first years were decidedly uncomfortable. Our house, near Northwest Highway and Midway Road, cost $15,000, the price of a 5-year-old three-bedroom dwelling in 1956. Though the majority of the Jewish population lived in more affluent Preston Hollow, where their kids attended Hillcrest High, I went to Thomas Jefferson, where Jews were far fewer.
Aside from one or two friends with backgrounds similar to his own, Dad was isolated. He was also afraid that his steadily declining income could not support our modest lifestyle. With three children at home, my mother nonetheless decided to go to work. She found a job on the night shift assembly line at Texas Instruments.
With my dad on the road and my mom working nights, I sought comfort in music, especially the jazz and rhythm and blues I discovered in far South Dallas. I rode three buses some 15 miles. With the waiting and transferring, the trip took nearly two hours. It was worth it. The center of action was the American Woodman Hall on the corner of Oakland and Carpenter. The cavernous space, with a capacity of 300, once held a fraternal organization. Tony Davis, a local promoter who worked for Schepps liquor distributorship and published In Sepia, a local newspaper serving the black community, had partnered with Billy Burke, a sales executive for American Tobacco Company, and rented the hall for Sunday jazz sessions that began in the late afternoon.
Admission was a dollar. You sat at one of the dozens of long tables covered with white paper tablecloths. It had the feeling of a nighttime picnic. It was smoky and crowded and irresistibly upbeat. The patrons were almost exclusively black, an after-church congregation of serious party people dressed to kill—men in super-sharp suits of lime green and banana yellow, women in form-fitting maxi skirts and miniskirts and earrings dangling with hoops and beads and exotic stones. You brought your own bottles of booze and bought setups of buckets of ice and soft drinks. A basket of chicken and fries cost 75 cents.
The music was a mix of the Miles Davis-informed modern jazz and soul-heavy sounds of Ray Charles. The house band was the Red Tops, and some of the players, including David "Fathead" Newman and James Clay, already had national reputations. The music was good enough to please my critical father, whom I convinced to accompany me one wintry Sunday afternoon. He was fascinated by the place and said he felt at home. He approached master of ceremonies Tony Davis—a grizzly bear of a man who wore a black patch over one eye—to compliment him on his green felt fedora.
"I think you'd like a new stingy-brim model that just came out," Dad said.
During the next break in the music, the two men walked to the parking lot, where Dad opened the sample case that he carried in the trunk of his car. Tony wound up buying a half-dozen hats.
When I went to visit black churches, where the seeds of my conversion were first sown, my father did not accompany me, but he had no objection. He saw it as culturally uplifting. He wanted detailed reports about what I had heard and seen. He sensed that I was seeking some kind of truth. A jazz fan himself, he saw the complex relationship between secular and sacred music. He respected that mystery and urged me to explore the phenomenon with what he called "passionate scrutiny." By encouraging me, he changed my life and allowed me to understand the core methodology—improvisation—that would guide me as a writer.
My father's fear about money and the lack thereof also informed my career. I knew then what I still know now, that I have to make money. To assuage that fear, art must marry commerce. My parents' marriage was weakened by my father's inability to make good money. My mother, always willing to work, insisted that Dad find a way to increase his earnings. So when the hat business bottomed out, he got a job managing a Levine's, a low-end retail store on Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. I worked there myself on weekends, taking inventory and sweeping up.
The hours were grueling and the chores demanding. In those days, Jefferson Avenue was strictly working-class white. There wasn't a hint of the hipness that characterizes Oak Cliff today. House painters came in to shop for denim bib overalls. Farmers parked their pickups in front of the store and bought thigh-high boots on sale for $3.99. This was not Dad's milieu. It was tough for me to watch the Levine's regional supervisor publicly castigate him for not pushing the sales force harder. When Dad talked back, I knew his Levine's days were numbered. He was desperately unhappy. The only cheerful moment came on an otherwise listless Thursday night when Tony Davis walked in. Surprised and delighted to see Dad, he bought the most expensive suit in the store—$69.99 with a free second pair of pants.
The big break came—again, at my mother's urging—when my father switched tracks entirely. The high moment of his reinvention was his decision to study economics and become a stockbroker. For a former Trotskyite, this might appear a difficult choice, but not for my father. By then he had long disabused himself of Marxism. He had been deconstructing that philosophy for years and had concluded, even before his decision to embrace the market, that it was bankrupt. For eight months he studied diligently and easily passed all certification tests. In the early '60s, at a time when my older sister, Esther, and I were at UT Austin and my younger sister, Elizabeth, was finishing high school, Dad changed careers.
His enthusiasm for his new—and first—profession was intense. He found work at a downtown brokerage firm and went at it with a vengeance. I was impressed with his accomplishment, especially since economics has always baffled me. Establishing his expertise as a financial advisor, he fought his nagging insecurities by half-jokingly referring to himself as "the smartest man in the world." Just as every little boy wants to believe that his daddy is Superman, I wanted to believe that this new persona he created for himself—the account executive—was authentic. In many ways it was. But in other ways it was not.
Because my dad had preached the importance of critical acumen in all areas, I couldn't help but apply that principle to him. I studied his sales techniques and concluded that, although he seemed to have mastered complex economic matters, he had major limitations. I was not surprised that in the course of his 25-year career he did only moderately well. At a time when many of his colleagues became wealthy, wealth eluded him. He earned little more than a middle-class income and at times barely that. When he and my mother fought, which was often, she would ask the question that I believe haunted him until the end of his life. "If you're so smart, Milton," she'd say, "why aren't you making more money?"
The answer had to do with his style and the imperfect nature of his reinvention. My father was amiable. He was also charismatic. He bristled with energy and had his own distinct charm. He was gregarious and curious about people. He expressed interest in their stories and was sympathetic with their problems. He also believed in his own vision of the world. These are the qualities of a great salesman, and yet, by large measure, he missed that mark. The reason was obvious: in selling others, he was also attempting to sell himself. Because his self-doubts cut so deep, that process was exhausting. As a result, he overexplained and oversold.
At the same time, he had clients who liked him, respected him, and financially benefitted from his expertise. Certain people took to his lectures on the nuanced behavior of the stock market. Certain people appreciated his mental showmanship.
In the '60s he made enough to buy a new house farther up Midway Road, in what was considered Far North Dallas, on Forest Lane. That $55,000 four-bedroom home was the pinnacle of his success. In the '70s, though, when my father entered middle age, business stalled. The dream of big money never materialized.
"The problem with your father," my mother explained, "is that he doesn't know how to close. Most people don't want all that information. He winds up talking to himself or boring the hell out of his clients. Sure, he's brilliant, but brilliant isn't the point. Closing is."
My mother, a strong and streetwise lady with tremendous insight into people, was a master closer. When my dad's income lagged, as it often did, she took up the slack. She found a job selling women's clothing at the Orchid Shop on Oak Lawn, a high-end boutique frequented by fashionable call girls. Later she worked for Sears, where she sold custom drapes. She drove a van filled with samples everywhere from McKinney to South Oak Cliff and, in any given month, earned more than my father. I liked to watch my mother sell. She scrutinized the customer with calm detachment. She asked direct questions. Mainly, though, she listened. Her mantra was, "You sell by listening, not talking." Her suggestions were minimal and understated. Her ego was never in play. Her focus was on closing one sale and moving to the next. Unlike Dad, she was not there to prove anything, only to score.
In the '80s, Milton Ritz became a Reagan-voting neoconservative. He persevered. He avoided financial catastrophes and, with Mom's strong help, began to save some money. In the course of his lifetime, he was able to move himself and his family from working class to middle class. I came to admire that achievement. I came to appreciate how his conservative approach—"The point of investment is not to gamble money but to protect money"—finally afforded him the comfort that he and my mom had long sought. Their money fears, excited by the Depression that they had experienced as children, were finally assuaged.
"Do you know what it means to be rich?" asked my father, who had modest tastes.
"Being able to buy what you want. That's why I consider myself rich."
When Mom died in 1991, Dad retired. He was 75. His resources and robust health allowed him to live independently. Until the final two years of his life, he remained in the unpretentious duplex that he and my mother had bought a few miles north of NorthPark. In the last two decades of his life, we became exceedingly close.
"Old men ought to be explorers," T.S. Eliot wrote in "East Coker." "Here and there does not matter/We must be still and still moving/Into another intensity."There was enormous intensity to my father's final years. In his 70s and for most of his 80s, free of the need to make money, he returned to philosophy. He joined a philosopher's forum, a group of professors from the local universities. He loved taking them on, arguing the merits and demerits of pragmatism, structuralism, and phenomenology. When he delivered a paper on Arthur Koestler, the anti-Soviet literary intellectual, it was a proud moment, his bar mitzvah and college graduation rolled into one.
He also joined book clubs, choosing only those that read the classics. He reread Joyce's Ulysses—a novel I could not get through the first time I tried—Dostoevsky, Proust, and Faulkner. He devoured the Greek tragedies. His appetite grew for jazz and especially classical music. He developed a keen interest in the early modernists—Bartók, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich. He listened to his records at ear-splitting volume as he mock-conducted in the exuberant style of Leonard Bernstein.
Most moving of all, though, was his concern for his children and grandchildren. During a tough transition time in the life of my sister Elizabeth, he opened his heart and home to her and her children. He did so without complaint. And even though he himself rejected my sister's new-found Christianity, he understood its pivotal role in her life. He supported her spirit. He became a car-pool grandfather, driving his granddaughter Julia back and forth to Hillcrest High. He gave up much of his own hard-earned comfort to accommodate his progeny. He practiced sacrificial love.
In 2004, Dad was 88 when I invited him to my baptism at a black church in Los Angeles.
"That's ridiculous!" he cried. "Why in your right mind would you do something like that?"
"It's not in my mind to do it," I said. "It's in my heart. But I'll understand if you don't come."
"Don't come! Are you crazy? I wouldn't miss it for the world."
He was there like a bear. He dominated the reception with his heavy-handed views on theology, but I didn't care. It was enough for me to overhear his answer to a question from my minster.
"Given your background, Mr. Ritz," she asked, "was it difficult for you to sit through today's service?"
"Not at all," he answered. "I had to show my son unconditional love."
When Dad turned 90, I decided to give him a 10-day trip to New York, just the two of us. He'd never flown first class. This was my big chance to treat him. When we got on the plane, he wanted to know the price of the tickets. I wouldn't tell him.
"It's a gift," I said. "You're not supposed to know."
He looked around and saw empty seats in coach. "Let's go back there and sit," he said, always the child of the Depression. "You'll ask for a refund."
When I told him it was too late for refunds, he sighed, opened his copy of the latest Philip Roth novel and, while I slept, read for three hours straight.
At a luxury hotel on Lexington Avenue, we had separate rooms.
"We could share a room," he said, "and you'll save money."
"I'm not sharing a room with you. I'm indulging you."
In fact, my father was indulging me by giving me so much of his time. I wanted to show him off to my book editors. Both he and I loved hearing them say that he looked and acted 60, not 90. He regaled them with literary stories from the '30s and '40s. He talked them under the table. I could not have been prouder.
I took him to meet my agent, whose office was on lower Broadway. Looking around during our meeting, he wandered off. It seemed that he had lost his focus. I worried that something was wrong.
Finally he said, "I've been here before."
"Impossible," I said.
"You're wrong. I met your mother in this very room. This is the site of the hat factory where we worked."
Someone who overheard him happened to have a history of the building. From 1935 to 1952, Hutt & Wasserman Inc. was, in fact, housed in that very space.
Dad beamed and said, "That'll teach you to doubt me."
We went to jazz clubs and ate at the old Jewish delis on the Lower East Side. At the Museum of Modern Art, he sat before one of Monet's waterlilies for a good hour. When I finally asked him what he was thinking about, he said, "How I wish I was still in my 80s."
On my father's last trip to Los Angeles at age 91, I took him to hear jazz singer Little Jimmy Scott, whose biography I had just written. One evening in the faraway '50s, my father had driven me through the black ghetto of Newark, New Jersey, while he delivered pretzels to a bar where Jimmy was singing. That was nearly 60 years ago, but he and I never forgot that night. Now, in another lifetime and in another place, Dad and Jimmy spoke like old friends—the diminutive jazz singer and the former truck driver.
In his 90s, his body weakened but his mind was still sharp. He remained engaged in theological discussions—my sister and I failed in our nominal attempts to bring him to the beauty of Christ—and yet his heart softened as his compassion increased. Miracle of miracles, he became a better listener. When he moved to the Windsor Senior Living home on LBJ where he was loved and appreciated, he forged new friendships. His curiosity never waned. As a bona fide born-again Dallasite, he finally put aside philosophy in favor of sports. He read less and watched TV more. He followed the fortunes of the Cowboys, Rangers, and Mavs with unswerving dedication. He promised not to move to the other side of time until at least one of his teams won it all. When the Mavs came through in 2011, he claimed the victory as his own. I'd never seen him happier.
The last thing he read was an article I wrote last year for D Magazine about my indoctrination into the Dallas ad game as a young man.
"That was the first of your reinventions," he said. "The first of many."
In the end, like so many old folks, my father suffered a final fall, never to get up again. The last weeks were rough. His body, so sturdy for so long, quickly crumbled. In his room, my sisters spoke to him of rebounding, of finding a burst of healing energy that might give him another week or month or year. It wasn't meant to be.
He died in his sleep on a blistering hot night in July. I don't know why, but I couldn't weep then. It's still difficult for me to weep now. It's not difficult, however, to feel pain and confusion. I hate the feeling of not having a father. I hate that I can't get him on the phone to talk about the Cowboys game. I want to get in touch with him. I want to know where he is. I want to see him. I want to hear his voice. I want my father.
When I was a little boy, I had many fears, including fear of the dark and fear of killer monsters. When the fears became unbearable, I'd call him to my bed, where he slept beside me. I'd then silently challenge the monsters to come get me. They didn't dare. I had my dad between them and me.
Now I have only his spirit. Spirits are ephemeral. Like God, they are invisible and inaudible. In this material world, I seek to touch a garment made of spirit. I pray that his spirit touches me. I pray that my father—a good and decent man, a mensch who fought the frustrations of life and performed with a parent's sense of sacred duty—be remembered not as one who achieved but as one who struggled. As my friend pointed out, I honor him by struggling. Struggling to understand what I will never understand: the permanent fleeting nature of love and loss.
David Ritz, who began his writing career at D Magazine in the early '70s, has collaborated on biographies with everyone from Ray Charles to Don Rickles and is currently working with Joe Perry of Aerosmith. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Big Nate, a.k.a. middle schooler Nate Wright, is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the wunderkind creation of cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Nate is also the star of six novelized books to be published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on theNew York Timeschildren's best-seller list. ThisBig Nate Collectioncollects Peirce'sBig Natestrips, originally published only in newspapers.For those not familiar withBig Nate, thinkDiary of a Wimpy KidmeetsCalvin and Hobbes. Nate is a self-described genius and a sixth-grade Renaissance man equipped with only a #2 pencil and the unshakable belief that he is destined for greatness (a fortune cookie told him so). He fights a daily battle against overzealous teachers, undercooked cafeteria food, and all-around conventionality. He's the original rebel without a clue, alternately abrasive and endearing to classmates and teachers alike. Throughout Peirce'sBig Nate Collection, Nate blazes an unforgettable trail through the sixth grade at P.S. 38, earning straight As in laughs (and numerous detentions) along the way.
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Calvary Worship Center will be taking food orders from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Cash or money orders only. The pickup date for these orders will be noon to 1 p.m. April 20. May menus will be available on April 11. Orders can also be placed online at www.oneharvest.com until 11:59 p.m. on April15. For further information, please call 357-7866.
The Mt. Tabor United Church of Christ Churchmen's Fellowship is selling pine straw. Interested buyers may call the church at 249-1660 or 248-5404 to place a order. The price per bale is $4.50. Orders can be delivered. Group members will be selling at Todco Inc., 1123 Roy Lopp Road on Saturday mornings starting at 8:30 a.m.
The Friends of the Lexington Library will hold its 13th annual used book sale April 25–27 at 23 W. Second St. in the yellow house across the street from the post office. All profits from the book sale go to the library, and are used to purchase supplies, equipment, books and resources not covered in the current budget. Proceeds also go to the Lexington Library Building Fund, in the hopes that enough money can be raised to help with a library expansion in the near future. Prices range from $1 to $4 for hardcover books, 50 cents to $1 for paperback books, $1 each for videos, DVDs and audio books and 50 cents each for puzzles and games. Donations for the sale will be accepted at the sale site from 1- 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoons March 12, 19 and 26 and April 2, 9 and 16, and from 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays on March 16, and 23 and April 6, 13 and 20. No donations will be accepted March 30. Please donate any new or gently used hardcover and paperback books, audio books, DVD's, CD's, games and puzzles.
Healthy Kids Day will be celebrated from 6 to 8 p.m. April 25 at the J. Smith Young YMCA. This is a free event open to the community. Specials offered that night on Y summer camp sign up. Contact the Y at 249-2177 or visit our website www.lexingtonymca.com.
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ZF-8558: Backward incompatible change in rev 19661
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I really hope this gets fixed soon. I don't know how we're supposed to try/catch our own code if the Zend Framework now only throws Zend_Controller_Exception for everything that's thrown out of the code.
Resolved in trunk.
The same pattern is used in Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard, line 301. Can that be fixed as well? (r19833 fixed only Zend_Controller_Front)
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Fixed in r20244 in trunk.
The same thing is happening in various places in Zend_Controller_Plugin_Broker as well. :)
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The Pasadena City College softball team couldn't have asked for a better home-opening afternoon Thursday. The Lancers not only swept their non-conference doubleheader v. Bartsow, but blanked the Vikings in both ends, 8-0 in six innings in game 1, and a 7-0 shutout in game 2.
PCC received stellar pitching from starting pitchers Melissa Izumida and Cierra Newton. Izumida hurled a 2-hitter, striking out 10 batters and walking none in the opener in a 6-inning contest. The Lancers banged out 13 hits as the game ended due to the 8-run mercy rule in the bottom of the sixth on a wild pitch that plated the eighth run.
The Lancers are 3-4 overall while Barstow is still looking for its first win at 0-5.
Newton then became the first Lancer hurler in four years to twirl a complete 7-inning shutout as she allowed just four hits, walked one and struck out five to cap the doubleheader win. Newton's performance was last matched in a PCC jersey by Amber Frame on Feb. 19, 2009 when she tossed a 4-hitter in a 7-inning blanking of Chaffey College. Newton was the beneficiary of a 16-hit Lancers attack.
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In the opener, left-handed hitting and throwing catcher Jazmin Hernandez batted 4-for-4 with a booming double off the right-field fence in the second inning. In the second game, it was second baseman Audrey Serna's turn to go perfect, also a 4-for-4 hitting game (two runs scored), including a double. Serna finished the day with six hits while Hernandez totaled five.
Also in game 2, left-handed batting first baseman Natalie Ficocelli, the team's lone letterman from 2012, was 2-for-4 with a triple and two RBI. Leftfielder Ashley Shaneberger (returner from 2011), third baseman Sara Quintero, and Newton all added 2-hit efforts.
In a 6-4 loss at Antelope Valley College on Wednesday, third baseman Katelyn Thordarsen belted a grand slam in the fifth inning for the Lancers' offense. Thordarsen added a double.
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There is a kind of girl who's always liked to talk about her period: how she can't wait to get it, when she's having it, how bad her cramps are, where she buys her tampons, whether she's late, how heavy her flow is, when it's slowing down, and what it feels like when it stops altogether.
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In other words, I don't want to hear about it, okay? When did menstruation, or the lack thereof, get to be a topic for polite conversation? I guess around the time they started running ads for tampons on prime-time TV. But to me it's just, ew, gross.
But it seems to me the only thing more boring and unseemly than discussing getting your period is discussing not getting your period. What's so interesting about menopause, anyway? What is this wisdom they keep talking about, this freedom, this huge change that demands hormones—or maybe not hormones—sorry, I can't keep track.
Some of you might say my position on this issue is old, and that the modern stance is to be openly affirmational about the feminine circle of life. Well, I can get all woman-y with the best of them, girlfriend, and I get that public is the new private. But I still say keep the whole blood-in-your-cooter thing to yourself.
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President Obama has instructed federal agencies to come up with spending cuts equal to five percent of their discretionary budgets for fiscal year 2012. The 2012 fiscal year doesn't begin until October 2011. Why wait ?
Wash Post Cites 'Regime Uncertainty'
We argued in October that "regime uncertainty" was stifling the economy's ability to recover. Businesses are more reluctant to invest or hire when Washington pursues a policy agenda that could be detrimental to their bottom lines. The phrase was coined by economist Robert Higgs who observed that FDR's anti-business policies prolonged the Great Depression.


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Los Angeles: Brow Grooming
Anastasia Beverly Hills Salon
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438 N. Bedford Dr.
Damone Roberts Beverly Hills
Damone Roberts
9669 Wilshire Blvd.
For celebrities, Roberts will make house calls, but the rest of us have to wait our turn at his new salon devoted entirely to eyebrow shaping. After waxing our arches, Roberts fine-tuned their shape with his tweezers. Noting a patchy spot on one brow, he suggested Rogaine to regrow the hair: "Five percent dabbed on daily with a Q-tip," he instructed. As a temporary fix, he filled in the bare spot with a taupe gel pencil and smudged a yellow-pink highlighter beneath our brow bone to emphasize our new and improved arches. We're happy to wait for that kind of result (if we get antsy, Roberts's publicist told us he's trained two "mini-Damones" who are easier to book).
Faith Valentine for Beauty
Faith Valentine
22467 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu
When we learned that many of Valentine's clients are so devoted to her that they drive 40 minutes from their winter homes in the hills, we gassed up the car and hit the highway. Her cottage-like spa resembles a life-size dollhouse—there wasn't a surface left untouched by hearts or flowers. But we quickly learned that Valentine's girlish decor (and name—it's real) belied a sophisticated aesthetician with 25 years of experience. After a brief discussion, she prepped our brows with powder, then waxed, plucked, and trimmed them into sleek, classic arches. Our summer and winter homes may, regrettably, be one and the same, but our brows make us look like we vacation in the Colony.
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Robert Bolaños
9666 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills
Bolaños may be the man behind Sarah Michelle Gellar's brows, but don't ask him to copy them—or any other celebrity's arches. "You shouldn't follow celebrities because they're so often overplucked and filled in with too much powder and pencil," Bolaños scolded when we happened to mention another actress. "Brows should be classic." After waxing, tweezing, plucking, and trimming ours, he dabbed our pink skin with calming azulene oil and brushed the hairs into place with clear Lola Brow Gel. Regardless of what Bolaños said, we thought the final result made us look like a movie star.
Joan Whitney
The only things brow groomer Whitney believes in trimming are rosebushes. "Cutting brows creates an unnatural look," she explains. Instead, she prefers electrolysis, eliminating hair follicles at the root using an electrically charged needle. The procedure is neither painless (though she does apply anesthetic cream) nor inexpensive (12 monthly treatments may be required for lasting results). But for some women, the promise of permanently perfect arches is worth it. Since the definition of a fashionable brow is ever-changing, Whitney will create only what she says is a timeless look.
Kate Somerville Skin Health Experts
Stevi Christine
8428 Melrose Pl.
Kristie Streicher Beauty Bar
Kristie Streicher
8327 Melrose Ave.
Mirror Mirror Beauty Studio
Tonya Crooks
8217 Beverly Blvd.
Michelle Beverly Hills
Michelle O'Neill
9666 Brighton Way
Senna Cosmetics
Eugenia Weston
367 N. Camden Dr., Beverly Hills
"Brows R Us." Eyebrow shaping, tinting, and lightening. Hey, wait: One to two months for Weston; no wait for staff. Nitty gritty: After brushing our long eyebrows up and snipping the ends so they'd appear fuller, Weston tweezed strays and applied taupe powder. She taught us how to get the red out of our eyelids, chin, and nose with her yellow-toned Candlelight Spot Stick. When she was finished, she took a Polaroid (for us to use as a cheat sheet later). What you see: The lobby of a 1920s vaudeville theater. What you hear: Boy George and Verdi. Pampering quotient: High, comfy leather chairs, and a well-stocked bathroom. Intimacy issues: The four makeup stations are staggered so that it's just you and your teacher in the mirror—no looky-looks. Famous faces: Bette Midler, Elizabeth Berkley, and Lisa Marie Presley.


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The Hotel Alimandi Vaticano 21 ensuite bedrooms and 3 luxury suites are spacious, light and airy. The neighbourhood is exclusive and less frenzied than many other parts of town but sound-proofed windows provide an added bonus! Stylishly furnished in classic Liberty style throughout, the rooms are equipped with all modern comforts, from the well stocked mini-bar to the high speed internet connection.
The city's most celebrated sights and monuments such as the Pantheon, Colosseum and Spanish Steps are easily reached by metro from the Cipro-Musei Vaticani station just a 5 minute walk from the hotel, or by one of the many buses serving the area.
A short evening stroll will take you to St Peter's Square with its cinematic backdrop of the most famous church in the world, Michelangelo's dome resplendent in the rays of the setting sun.
Situated in the very heart of Rome, just outside the Vatican walls and facing the entrance to the fabulous Vatican Museums, the hotel's stunning Liberty décor is only one feature of the Alimandi family's refined style.


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Allan Cook
Professor Cook on why UIS is special
Meet Allan Cook
Associate Professor,
Teacher Education
- B.S. Elementary Education: Eastern Illinois University
- M.S. Education (Reading): Eastern Illinois University
- Ed.D. Teacher Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- I was born in central Illinois, and am the first member of my family to attend college. I've wanted to be a teacher ever since I was in fourth grade, so that dream's about fifty years old now. I've taught at about every grade level in public and private schools, and even taught music for about four years. Working with prospective teachers has definitely been the best experience, though.
Interesting Facts:
- I serve as director of the CEHS Council on Professional Education
- I am President-Elect of the Illinois Association of Colleges of Teacher Education
- I am the Co-Chair of the UIS Safe Zone program.
Learning philosophy:
- Learning is a two-way street. As instructors we are not the ultimate authority, the "dispenser of knowledge". While I have a wealth of experience to draw upon, I believe I also learn a great deal from my students. The majority of my students are not the traditional 18 or 19 year olds, but individuals who've gone out into the world and experienced life. Many have families; some have had other careers, and all of them bring a wealth of experience as well. As the instructor it is my function to serve as a facilitator who structures activities that allow them to draw upon the expertise and knowledge they already possess and make connections with any new information I may provide.
Research interests:
- Social Justice, especially issues relative to gay and lesbian students, and children of gay and lesbian parents in the classroom and creating Safe School Environments (anti-bullying)
Major project underway:
- I'm planning to replicate a study I conducted twenty years ago regarding attitudes and beliefs concerning men in early childhood and elementary education. It should be interesting to see if there have been any changes.
Listen to Professor Cook on what makes UIS special:
Advice to prospective students:
- Take advantage of all the opportunities UIS has to offer you, smaller classes, instructors who know your name, and student life to name a few. Get to know your advisor; never be afraid to ask them about what you don't understand or need help with, they are your strongest ally. And always, always, schedule some "ME" time in your day, to relax, reflect and recharge. Your time at UIS may be the best time of your life.
Best thing about UIS:
- The people, students, staff, faculty, and administrators. The pride in UIS always shines through.


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DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife has designated Nov. 2 as a deer hunting day for youth hunters 10 to 15 and non-ambulatory disabled hunters on both public and private lands statewide.
Youth hunters must be accompanied by a licensed or exempt adult hunter age 21 or older. Youth hunters age 13 to 15 must have completed a hunter education course, possess a certification card and purchase a Delaware junior hunting license.
Licenses can be purchased from the Fish and Wildlife licensing desk at DNREC's main office in Dover, from license dealers throughout the state, or online.
For more information: (302) 739-9912 or visit dnrec.delaware.gov/fw/Services/Pages/Lic-Perm-Reg.aspx.
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Members of the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight are scheduled to conduct demolitions training Tuesday, April 16 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on base.
As a result of this training, some residents may hear more noise than usual coming from the base's training range and may experience possible ground shaking. It is important to note that the noise from the range may travel farther during overcast weather conditions.
Contact the Dover AFB Public Affairs Office at (302) 677-3372 or email@example.com if you have any questions or concerns.
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Accent Inns is thrilled to have Jody Paterson as one of our guests bloggers. Jody's skills are a writer are only surpassed by her heartfelt outreach to our community.
Now from Jody:
Project Connect is a nice day for people who don't get too many of them. And for the team of organizers who put the event on every year, it's a heartening example of the power of community to pull things together.
The annual event for the street community is sponsored by the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness . It's being held Oct. 13 at Our Place drop-in, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. We're expecting close to 700 people to attend the service fair, which helps people living homeless and in extreme poverty connect to services and support by bringing together 30 or more vital services into the same room that day. (more…)


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Hammers hurt by lack of depth in draw
Published: Friday, July 25, 2014 at 11:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 25, 2014 at 11:06 p.m.
The game had ended and the Wilmington Hammerheads FC players sat stretching along the far sideline of Legion Stadium.
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Nobody said much. The players were tired and somewhat frustrated after playing their third game in eight days. But with another game Saturday night, the Hammers couldn't call it a night without getting in a cool down before hopping on a bus to Charlotte.
The Hammers, with only 17 players in uniform, faded in the second half Friday and couldn't score a goal, settling for a 0-0 draw with Arizona United SC. It was Wilmington's eighth tie in 16 games this season.
"It's a point," Hammerheads coach David Irving said. "We're disappointed, but as you can see we're a little short on the ground. Tomorrow we'll have just 17. Is it what we wanted? No. We didn't lose, but we didn't play as well as we wanted to."
Thursday's releases of Michael Calderon and Mickael Oliveira left the Hammers (6-2-8, 26 points) shorthanded.
Sunny Jane and Manu Aparicio are on national team duty for their respective countries. Jordan Hamilton has not returned from a midweek recall from Toronto FC and Yahaya Musa sat out with a suspension for yellow card accumulation.
With only 17 players, the Hammers looked for a goal early and had a few chances.
A header by Ashani Fairclough went wide in the 10th minute, and Sammy Ochoa had a shot from 10 yards saved later in the first half. The Hammers had the majority of chances in the first half but could not connect on any of them.
"I think we came out of the gate sharp," forward Cody Arnoux said.
"I thought we had a good week of training. We did well in the first half. I thought we defended well."
Arizona (6-9-5, 21 points) was also playing in the first of consecutive contests, causing the play to slow for both teams in the second half.
Hammerheads goalkeeper Quillan Roberts saved the team from a likely defeat in the 51st minute when he made a 1-on-1 save against Arizona's Long Tan.
After a foul, the Hammers tried a quick free kick from the attacking third, but it deflected off an Arizona player and ricocheted to midfield, where Tan was alone with no Hammerheads defender back.
He raced toward Roberts, who deflected a shot away to keep the match scoreless.
"It's tough. It's a little too easy," Arizona coach Michael Dellorusso said. "That's what I told him. When you've got 60 yards of space between you and the keeper, a lot of thoughts go through your mind."
The Hammers tired as the match ended and had only a few late chances. The best came on a lobbed pass to Brian Ackley, who slid in the penalty box and kicked the ball wide of goal.
It will have to be a quick rebound for the Hammers, who play at Charlotte at 7 tonight.
"The squad's a little smaller now, and it's crunch time," Arnoux said. "It's a little unfortunate, but that's how it goes sometimes and we gotta get on with it."
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David Kahn has a huge boner for PG's. His team desperately needs a slashing, athletic wing player and some shooters to space the floor for Jefferson and Love. Yet he continues to chase PG's. I don't get it.
just got one thing to say about the wolves although they do look retarded and like they dunno what they're doing with all the pgs, give em props for making all the moves the knicks should've made :
trading for the no.5 pick
signing sessions
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By Alice Kenny
Nearly three weeks after Sandy left the New York area, victims are still struggling to rebuild their lives. On Saturday, November 17th, Timothy Cardinal Dolan and Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director of Catholic Charities New York, visited disaster recovery sites and Holy Rosary Parish on Staten Island to continue assessing ongoing needs and providing help to individuals and families.
Mount Manresa, a temporary housing facility for Sandy victims, is currently housing 30 families who lost their homes. At FEMA's NYC Restoration Center on Hylan Boulevard, Catholic Charities workers are staffing the case management service at the center.
Catholic Charities, in conjunction with parishes and communities, will continue assisting Sandy victims with everything from the basics like food and clothing to long-term services such as counseling and legal assistance.
"We know that it will take time for people to be able to put all of the pieces of their lives back together, but the Church – our parishes, Catholic Charities, the Al Smith Foundation, and so many dedicated volunteers – will be there with them every step of the way," Cardinal Dolan said. "I am particularly grateful to those who contributed to our Sandy relief fund, because that will enable us to provide direct assistance to those who need it most right now."
The Sandy Relief Fund, which has so far raised close to $1 million for relief efforts, is being distributed to the parishes so pastors can put the money directly into immediate services the nearly 1000 families and individuals need.
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Bloomberg Businessweek just rated Moscow as the best place to raise children in Idaho. Find out why.
Phone: 208-885-6111
Toll-free: 88-88-UIDAHO
Fax: 208-885-9119
Student Union Building
875 Perimeter Drive MS 4264
Moscow, ID 83844-4264
Phone: 208-334-2999
Fax: 208-364-4035
322 E. Front Street
Boise, ID 83702
Phone: 208-667-2588
Toll-free: 888-208-2268
Fax: 208-664-1272
1031 N. Academic Way,
Suite 242
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
Phone: 208-282-7900
Fax: 208-282-7929
1776 Science Center Drive, Suite 306
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
Phone: (208) 777-4700
Toll free: (888) 660-8477
Fax: (208) 777-4702
721 Lochsa Street
Post Falls, ID 83854
The University of Idaho is surrounded by the rolling Palouse hills, an area so beautiful it was featured in National Geographic magazine. Just minutes away from the forests, rivers and lakes of northern Idaho, Moscow is home to more than 24,000 residents and a wide range of student-minded businesses, such as you would only find in a university town. In fact, Men's Journal named this "hip little city" one of the nation's five best places to live among college towns.
Art galleries, movie theaters, coffee shops and restaurants line the streets. In addition to popular drive-thrus, Moscow offers a huge co-op with organic and natural foods, Northwest-style pubs, as well as locally owned Italian, French, Mexican and Chinese eateries.
We're ranked in the top 30 in the nation as a "great university to hit the books and backcountry" by Outside magazine. Living and learning in Moscow will put you just minutes from opportunities for skiing, snowboarding, whitewater rafting, biking, climbing, camping and more.
The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, which received the 2007 National Medal of Arts, brings some of the world's best jazz artists, along with 20,000 visitors each year. The Moscow ARTWALK, Fresh Aire Concert Series and Third Street Gallery are just another few examples of why Moscow is recognized for its dedication to the arts.
Situated between Moscow Mountain and the rolling hills of the Palouse, Moscow's natural surroundings provide an international hub for environmental, ecological and agricultural research.
Students in the College of Natural Resources and College of Science, among others, regularly get out and explore the natural world beyond the classroom through field trips.
The Renaissance Fair, a downtown Moscow favorite, celebrates the arrival of spring with artists, crafters, live music and international foods. Each year, members of the Moscow community come together at the Latah County Fair. The city's nearly two dozen parks provide space to enjoy the outdoors within a small-town setting.
Learn more about everything that's waiting for you in Moscow by scheduling your visit to the University of Idaho.


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At Baptist we believe hernia repair should include immediate access to medical care, pain management, and quick treatment for a fast recovery. Hernias can range from uncomfortable to excruciating, so our hernia treatment specialists offer same-day appointments to get you in, get you better and get you back to your life.
To contact us or Find a Hernia Specialist Click here.
The Baptist Hernia Center focuses solely on hernia treatment, including hiatal hernia, inguinal and umbilical hernia and ventral hernia.
Hernia treatments are outpatient procedures that are extremely low-risk and well tolerated by people of all ages. Because we have a dedicated hernia center, Baptist hernia specialists in San Antonio are focused on the latest technology and techniques to ensure recovery happens quickly and completely.
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A hernia is an opening or weakness in the muscular structure of the wall of the abdomen. This defect causes a bulging of the abdominal wall. A hernia can worsen when abdominal pressure increases through activities such as lifting or coughing.
Imagine a barrel with a hole in its side and a balloon that is blown up inside the barrel. Part of the inflated balloon would bulge out through the hole. The balloon going through the hole is like the tissues of the abdomen bulging through a hernia.
Serious complications from a hernia result from tissue becoming trapped in the hernia, a process called incarceration. Trapped or incarcerated tissues may have their blood supply cut off, leading to damage or death of the tissue. Ignoring a hernia can affect your ability to function and cause intestinal obstruction, which can lead to major surgery.
Types of hernia
The most common types of hernia are:
A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach pushes up into the chest through a small opening in the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the abdomen from the chest.
Most small hiatal hernias are relatively harmless, and you may not even know you have one unless your doctor discovers it while examining you for another condition.
A large hiatal hernia, on the other hand, may allow food and acid to back up into the esophagus. This can result in heartburn and/or chest pain. Large hiatal hernias sometimes need surgical repair that can often be done laparoscopically. Learn more about hiatal hernias.
An inguinal hernia is a bulge that occurs in your groin region, the area between the lower part of your abdomen and your thigh. Inguinal hernias occur because of a weakening of the muscles in the lower abdomen. Inguinal hernias are fairly common, affecting millions of Americans a year. Causes include obesity, pregnancy, heavy lifting and straining to pass stool. Learn more about inguinal hernias.
Landon Wellford, M.D, a 53-year-old father who suffered an inguinal hernia, says hernia treatment at Baptist is easy and a lot less painful than he thought it would be.
"When I got the hernia, I was weightlifting with my son. I'm like 'Move over; I'll show you how it's done!'" Landon laughs. "And then 'Oh my' – I felt the hernia pop."
Landon went to Mike Albrecht, M.D., at the Baptist Hernia Center to have his hernia fixed. "I'm a cardiologist, so I know where to go for the best," says Landon. He credits advanced surgical technology and pain therapy for an easy recovery.
"The entire post-op course I took three Tylenol and that was it!" says Landon. "It was a good decision."
Hernia treatment is specific to the type of hernia you have. While some may be treated with medication or may just need to be monitored, many require outpatient surgery. To learn more about hernia treatment, read about the different types of hernia:
Hernia repair may cause postoperative pain, so our hernia surgeons use a leading-edge pain-relief system for continuous delivery of local anesthetic directly into a surgery site. This method can lead to quicker mobility and a faster recovery. Your doctor will discuss your pain management options with you to ensure maximum safety and comfort.


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Contest-Winning Blueberry Quick Bread RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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This sweet bread recipe has won a blue ribbon at our state fair, perhaps because the crushed pineapple and coconut give it a mild but delicious twist. It makes two loaves, so you can freeze one for a future treat. —Lois Everest, Goshen, Indiana
- 2/3 cup butter, softened
- 1-1/4 cups sugar blend
- 2 eggs
- 4 egg whites
- 1-1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3-3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup fat-free milk
- 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1 cup canned unsweetened crushed pineapple, drained
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- 1/2 cup flaked coconut
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar blend until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, egg whites and lemon juice. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Fold in the blueberries, pineapple, pecans and coconut.
- Transfer to two 8x4-in. loaf pans coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Yield: 2 loaves (12 slices each).
Editor's Note: This recipe was tested with Splenda sugar blend. If using frozen blueberries, do not thaw before adding to batter.
Originally published as Blueberry Quick Bread in Light & Tasty June/July 2006, p47
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Reviewed Sep. 19, 2010
"all we could taste was the flour, will not make this again"
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"For information about Splenda Sugar Blend and substituting with granulated sugar, there is information and an equivalency chart at: www.splenda.com/products/sugar-blend"
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"This bread is absolutely delicious! I'll definitely make it again and again. :)"
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"What's a sugar blend? I have never heard this term before."
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"Can I use regular sugar? If so, how much?THANKS! sje"