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Andre D. (Erdman) Martin-Sams passed away Tuesday, September 2, 2014 after her extended fight with Alzheimer's. Andre was born April 20, 1934, to parents, Carlton F. and Nina I. Erdman, who preceded her in death.
Andre is survived by her loving husband of 30 years, Robert F. Sams. She is also survived by her sister, Carol R. (Popo) Erdman; daughters, Diana (Len) Smeltzer and Denise (Ken Bushong) Martin; grandchildren, Donald R. (Jessica) Kiser, Gabriela M. Smeltzer, and Richard C. Smeltzer; grandson, Robert F. Mann Sams (Kendra); great-grandson, Ryder Z. Kiser; stepchildren, Robert F. (Rose) Sams, Jr., Anthony W. Sams, Phenecia M. Curry and Wanda F. Sams; many other grandchildren and great-grandchildren and special friends, Joyce H. Thompson and Rose Ann DiNapoli.
Andre retired from the University of Akron. She was proud of her education, which included a Masters in English and Bachelors of Library Science, and was also a Paralegal. She was a great contributor of the Humane Society and a member of the Copley Historical Society for many years.
The family will have a private family memorial service. Cremation has already taken place.
Donations may be made to Hospice of Visiting Nurse, 3358 Ridgewood Road, Akron, OH 44333 or the Humane Society of Greater Akron, 7996 Darrow Road, Twinsburg, OH 44087.
Adams Mason Funeral Home and Crematory, 330-535-9186


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NCAA Women's Rowing Championships
Day 1 -- Friday, May 26, 2006
Lake Mercer, West Windsor, N.J.
Eleanor McElvaine
Washington Head Coach
On the varsity eight's win in the repachage:
"That was real important. We needed to have a really solid, full 2,000 under our belts. They had a great first 1,000 this morning. To be able to pull away from the pack like that and to even get out to a full length at the finish was a huge victory for them. We'll throw our hat in the ring in the semifinal, but I'm just really happy that they showed good improvement throughout the day today."
On the big move at 750 meters
"There are a couple moves on the course that we take. Obviously on that one they really did a great job, not only getting some speed, but then continuing to build on it. That's the trick."
On the legacy of success in women's rowing at Washington:
"At Washington, it's a huge burden to not be first. It's part of our legacy and it's a hard thing that these kids have to deal with. But, they've got to realize that they are winners being here and they can race with the best of them. So, we'll give it our best shot in the next couple days."
On racing twice within a five-hour span:
"It's really hard. We train the kids physically to be able to handle it, but it's tough mentally to get yourself up. Especially when there's part of the first race you don't feel good about, then you have to come back and put it together a few hours later. This was not very much time, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It's pretty tough to do that twice."
On the second varsity and varsity four:
"I think we got some jitters out. We've got a lot of young kids and they were kind of nervous. They're excited to come back tomorrow now that they have that one out of the way. It's bit. You have to get those first jitters out of the way. We're ready to go for tomorrow."
Eva Anderson
Varsity Eight Coxswain
"I thought it was really great. We went in with a really professional look at it. We weren't going to be affected by anybody else. That's what we wanted to do and we executed it. The first 500 we were down on a couple of crews. We knew that wasn't going to affect us. We were neck-and-neck with Wisconsin for second place. We kept our cool and just took a little bit and by 1250 we had everyone. Then Notre Dame started to come back and Stanford was fighting for it. We took a really big move at 750 to get some seats on people. We called that to get out of there and make it known that we wanted to win. It's really tough to have two races that close together, not only on people's bodies because you are pretty tired, but also mentally it's really tough to overcome. You can take two routes. You can think about it and complain about it or you can just do it. We decided we were just going to do it. It's good because we had a good race. It's not just that we won, but that we had a good race. The first race today, it wasn't our best. That's really disappointing when we don't do our best."
Megan Kalmoe
Varsity Eight No. 4 Seat
"It was great. We just came back into the rep totally focused. After our race in the heat this morning we kind of let it go after the first 1,000. So we were really committed to having a full race and starting a new race at the second 1,000 on this one. We did a really good job of dealing with the weather. We were at home in the rain while everybody else was freaking out at the starting line trying to get their handles all dried off. We were right at home and really comfortable. It was a really fun race. We were on our game the whole way down. We were all definitely feeling the pressure coming into the race. But, we're all mature enough not to put our heads down, but to go to work and deal with what we had to do. We were confident going in that we were going to really take what we learned from this morning and put it into this race."
Alysha Koorji
Second Varsity Coxswain
"The first 500 went really well. We executed exactly what we wanted in the race plan and everything Just after the 500 and on down, we just got a little heavy. For the next race we just have to remember not to slow down. We came together fairly quickly. We're just working on continuing to unify through the water, all eight legs pushing together. We have a lot of potential and we're just really exited to be here to show it. We're going to do it every opportunity that we get."
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Varsity Four Stroke
"Our race was really solid. We started a little slow at the beginning, but we held off Brown. They were just able to walk through us. We had a good race and now we're just going to have to pull through tomorrow in the rep. I went as a spare last year, but this was my first real NCAA race. It's a lot more intense than other races because we are the top 12 schools in thee nation, so you've got a lot to prove here It's just like any other big race, you've got to come and perform and show your stuff. You stick to your race plan and you try and execute it the best you can. We're all really new in the boat and we're all really young. So, there is a lot of experience in other boats. We just needed to get the first race done with and under our belts. It's really important to get past that first race because there are a lot of nervous jitters. You just have to get that through. Once you go down the racecourse and you get a feel for it and you see how the other crews race, then you know what you have to do in the final."


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One name omitted from the list, and not surprisingly, was Texas Congressman Ron Paul. The former obstetrician/gynecologist from Lake Jackson, Texas is often treated with derision by the power elite in the G.O.P. and their media lap dogs. Why?
First, Ron Paul regularly chastises the Republican status quo for its hypocrisy. While paying lip service to limited, constitutional government, Republicans, by and large ignore the federal government's burgeoning deficit and out-of-control federal spending, until the opposition party comes into power. And for this reason, they despise being rebuked, especially by a member of their own party.
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Positive Atheism Forum
'Tis The Season
What Does X-Mas Mean?
Carey Sherrill
Send Us Your Views Any Time Of The Year
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: 'Tis the season...
Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:36 PM
Dear Mr. Walker,
After reading of Jane's predicament, I am encouraged to ask for your and the forum readers' insights.
I am an atheist in the sense of holding a positive belief that there is no god. More than that, I believe religion in its many varied forms is the most despicable thing humanity has ever done to itself.
This time of year is always uncomfortable for me. I resent Christmas. What began as a celebration of Jesus, melded with various other religious and secular traditions. At some point it also fused itself like a cancer to the world's economy. Businesses (including the one for whom my wife works) depend on the traditional gift buying for significant portions of their yearly revenue. If there were suddenly no Christmas it would be a disaster. Yet I am uneasy participating in what is at its base a religious holiday. Friends and family seem to enjoy the season and expect me to as well. How can I separate the religion from what has become a consumer tradition?
I will greatly appreciate any insights you may have.
From: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: 'Tis the season...
Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 7:32 PM
I will throw this out to the list for response, as I suspect that the responses will be varied and, for the most part, insightful.
First, I would disagree that it began as a celebration of Jesus, but rather as a festival to -- (are you ready for this?) -- bolster the economy! As such, the Solstice is, to me, a purely secular festival. Now, this doesn't mean that I celebrate Christmas (or Solstice), but this has more to do with my personal quirks and tastes than it does about religion.
True, I abhor having to listen to Christian evangelism in the form of hymns broadcast over the PA at the grocery store, while on hold because "your call is important to us," and even in the rain shelters of our government's transit system. And true, each entity gets a complain from me if the music is any more hard-core than "Frosty the Snowman" or "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire." But last year I got even by purchasing a karaoke CD called "Twisted Holiday" (SoundChoice 8557 -- Karaoke Wholesale in Phoenix will ship a single CD anywhere in the U.S. for $4.00 -- 888-900-3472). This karaoke CD contains my all-time favorite, Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol." I can still remember all the words from when I was a kid, when, in graphic arts class, printed the words onto a card with a picture of a cactus and sent it out to all the relatives. That was the last card I sent until a few years ago when I found the now-famous
"I don't exist" Santa that has since graced our front page.
That's what Christmas has always meant to me!
Seriously, it doesn't take much looking to find out where I come from with the winter season and celebrations. Where are YOU coming from? Let us know how you cope or if you don't or if it's just another day or if you let it all hang out like nothing's wrong.
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
Five years of service to
people with no reason to believe
To: Positive Atheism Magazine <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 23:00:39 -0600
Dear Mr. Walker,
Thanks for the quick reply. I look forward to hearing how other atheists (of all flavors) cope with Christmas. In your reply you assert Christmas began "as a festival to -- (are you ready for this?) -- bolster the economy!" Calling the season "Solstice" and insulating it in a blanket of secularity is a creative way of easing the discomfort (one I hadn't thought of), but I'd like a little more information. The sum of my knowledge about the origins of Christmas comes from a couple books, an encyclopedia that's actually printed on paper, and an A&E program I half remember watching. As I currently understand it, December 25th was chosen by the church in a sort of late-night-network-war way to draw people away from some other pagan festival on the same day...
"Since the time of the Roman Emperor Aurelian (270-275) the empire had celebrated the feast of the sun god (Sol Invictus -- the Unconquered
Sun) at what they thought was the winter solstice. December 25 was observed as 'the birthday of the sun.' Because the sun god was identified with Mithra, a very popular god at the time, pagan celebrations occurred throughout the empire."
I looked it up. Anyway, I still find it difficult to secularize a holiday season that starts with "Christ" and ends with "mas"s. Any additional references you can provide to buttress the economic origins perspective will be greatly appreciated.
Urban Forest Craftsmen
From: Art Haykin
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:17 PM
Except for the truly devout and pious, all nine of them, Xmas has a become a grotesque joke, a commercial imperative, and a boon for the kids. I wish people a "Merry Christmas" with about as much conviction as I put in "Have a nice day." a homily I've come to detest. It's mostly automatic, and is little more than a bromide, like "Nice weather we're havin' " or "How are you?"
This small talk is called "stroking," and we all do it. I simply do not feel conflicted, and I use expressions like "God help us" or "God only knows" or "Thank God" all the time. They're just words.
In Orange County, CA, exterior home lighting competitions are of Guiness proportions, with 1000s upon 1000s of lights being commonplace, or more is better! This, and nativity scenes that would make C.B. deMille envious. Tourist flock to witness this ego driven madness.
Like the 4th, and other observances, the original meaning is utterly lost on most, "Christians" especially. Puck said it best "What fools these mortals be."
From: "ma pickle"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:07 PM
I'm working Christmas. Can you say time and a half for working a Monday? I celebrate the Winter Solstice - and I don't consider it a secular holiday but the good old Pagan festival it is. Was hoping to have the day off but am going back to Boston the week before Christmas to visit my family, my Mom has advance cancer, will be my second trip back this fall/winter, but will get up early and greet the sun with lit candles (since a bonfire might upset the neighbors).
From: "LC Whittle"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: What does it mean?
Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 5:50 AM
Dear Carey,
Christmas is a winter break. It's a pause. You don't have to enjoy it any less if you despise the commercial trapping. If you do, simply don't participate. Don't buy anything. By all means, have a decent meal. Sit around in your pajamas and read a good book. If that's all you do for Christmas, that's fine.
No one can make you celebrate a christian holiday, a muslim holiday, a jewish holiday. But it is a holiday taken by the majority of people around us. Just take the day and make it your own, and ignore all the idiotic hoopla leading up to it. You can do that for presidential elections, you can do it for yule.
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
Ariel, from The Tempest, William Shakespeare The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton (1608-1674) [Paradise Lost]
From: "Larry"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: xmas
Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 8:59 AM
Xmas is a fun time for me, even as an atheist. The religious part of it (which is really not much) I ignore and I enjoy the rest of it. How many atheists refuse to take off the religious holidays? How many refuse the xmas bonus at work? None I bet. What is not to like about the lights and color, the good food etc. Xmas does not require anyone to actually do anything of a religious nature so what is the problem?
From: "James Call"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 9:57 AM
Christmas has long been one of my favorite holidays. Well, that always sort of sidled back and forth between Halloween and Xmas, but the reason was always the same--it's the parties! Generally the best parties are at Xmas. Sometimes Halloween edges out because of the costume thing and maybe especially because of the mask thing. But I think more people party more around Xmas than any other time of the year. There is more drunkenness, more singing, and more office sex. Jolly tis the season, indeed! This tradition is apparently an ancient one. This is off the tip of my head but I believe that Dec. 25 was Zeus day for the Romans, their biggest celebration of the year and occasion for a huge bacchanalian, Dionysian romp. In fact, the Christians probably arbitrarily chose that date for their big one so they wouldn't miss the party. This winter solstice event was probably an ancient one when the Romans picked it up.
I must say I have long taken a sniggering enjoyment out of the fact that many of the accouterments of Xmas have a more recent pagan origin. In fact, Celtic animism has survived probably no more apparent in our culture than in the Xmas tree, holly, and mistletoe. And mistletoe! How much office sex has that one engendered!?
The potlatch aspects of obligated gift giving are disturbing. Isn't insane that many businesses depend their economic health and viability on the useless, never-to-be-employed gifts that people by their friends as Xmas? I think if you have to buy gifts they should be restricted to your own children and to someone you are having sex with.
Where is Christ in all of this? Don't ask me.
James Call
From: "Joanna Hannigan-Gaither"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 10:25 AM
As always, how delightful and inciteful you are! Bravo! I'm writing my check and shall get it in the mail this week--so I can enjoy a hard copy of your zine!
As a child, I physically suffered pains to my posterior for "spoiling the fun for others" regarding the truth about this dubious end of year holiday. Being a history buff, I did my homework and traced the celebration back to its pagan roots, and delighted in pointing this out to others.
It's never made sense to me to pile all of ones good wishes and joy into a few weeks or days in December. I celebrate being alive, enjoy and inbibe all year round. I also refuse to use the term Christmas, which means, I believe "Cristes maesse, or Christ's mass." Years ago, Andy Rooney wrote a biting editorial, which was published in TV Guide (12/7/91). His points included: "there's too much childlike faith that carried into the real world ... the sooner one gives up the idea that he/she can get something for nothing and learn to make it on his/her own, the better off he/she will be. The Santa Claus fable is why we always hope for the best instead of working to make the best happen." I agree with Andy -- don't wish -- do.
More of us need to be more verbal and unaccepting of this holiday as anything more than a reason or excuse to celebrate life in general. I'll be in Barbados from 12/20 to end of year, and while I'm very generous to those I work for and with, I don't exchange cards or gifts. And like Scrooge, I do not go around with the words Merry Christmas on my lips.
I fondly recall Tom Lehrer's poem, and add another favorite by Calvin Trillin, which points out the absurdity of the season
Christmas Far Away From Here:
The shopping starts, and every store's a zoo
I'm frantic too, I haven't a clue
Of what to get for mom, who's got no hobby,
Or why Aunt Emily, who's shaped like a kobasi
Wants latex pants, or where I'll find
A tie my loudmouthed Uncle Mack won't mind.
A shopper's told it's vital he/she prevail:
Next year's prosperity depends on holiday sales
Can't stop to talk, I say, No time. Can't halt
Economy could fail, and it would be my fault...
So I'd like to spend next Christmas in Qutar,
Or someplace far that others won't find handy,
Qutar will do, although it's hot and sandy.
I need to get to someplace obscure and far,
Yes--I'd like to spend next holiday in Qutar.
I know things can't go on the way they are--
So I hope I spend next Christmas in Qutar.
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: Coping with Christmas --
Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 12:51 PM
I personally don't observe any holidays but I don't see why atheists cannot "hijack" Christmas/Yule from those who hijacked it from the pagans. Instead of it being a day to celebrate religious convictions we can observe the holiday as a day of recognition of people's belief in non-existent beings or patently absurd ideas. We could keep Santa Claus as our icon/mascot (or perhaps put bigfoot in a santa hat) and come up with our own carols and stories ("The twelve days of Roswell" or "Deck the halls -- then deck Pat Robertson" -- you get the idea).
Tony Castleberry
From: "Chad Robb"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season --
Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 1:50 PM
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter don't give me any reason to feel excluded. I am reminded that they were originally Pagan holidays and of the things they originally stood for. Thanksgiving has nothing NOTHING to do with Pilgrims. It is a bit disgusting to see child-like Puritans and cute little Indians (now very rare -- probably became non-PC) when what it was originally about was celebrating the life of those who have lived and were alive because people would definitely be gone by next spring. Winter was no fun. Thus Yule, or Winter Solstice, or Christmas. Another celebration of life in the midst of Death toll. And Easter. When the cold is over, YAY! One of my two children lived! or My Grandfather is still alive! Thus everything is being born and blooming. Second chances and a longer gift of life.
As long as you look at it from the point of view that they are milestones of survival, they become quaint. Our life-spans no longer require a year-by-year hullabaloo. Even so, it's good to be alive.
|We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been standing in my place but who will never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara -- more, the atoms in the universe. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Donne, greater scientists than Newton, greater composers than Beethoven. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I that are privileged to be here, privileged with eyes to see where we are and brains to wonder why.
There is an appetite for wonder, and isn't true science well qualified to feed it?
It's often said that people 'need' something more in their lives than just the material world. There is a gap that must be filled. People need to feel a sense of purpose. Well, not a BAD purpose would be to find out what is already here, in the material world, before concluding that you need something more. How much more do you want? Just study what is, and you'll find that it already is far more uplifting than anything you could imagine needing.
You don't have to be a scientist -- you don't have to play the bunsen burner -- in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.
-- Richard Dawkins
Play along.
"It's not a crime to give into pleasure"
-- Frank-N-Furter
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
-- Chad Bryan Robb
From: "E. Ingrid Anderson"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:57 PM
There is another way to look at the "Christmas" holiday. In many places, particularly in the northern parts of the world, it is so dark this time of the year. Having celebrations, esp. those involving lights and candles, helps alleviate depression and gives people something to look forward to in the bleak times of winter. It has probably even been life-saving at times. Focusing on family and friends instead of either religion or commercialism can make the holiday season meaningful. Or maybe do some volunteer work, helping a neighbor, visiting people in a nursing home, prison, etc. People, whether atheists, religious, or whatever really need to simplify their celebrations. The commercial frenzy is disgusting, and putting a guilt trip on people who don't buy-buy-buy by saying they're hurting the economy is ridiculous.
E. Ingrid Anderson
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season --
Date: Sunday, December 03, 2000 10:56 PM
First off, I have to say the lyrics to that song is brilliant. I think I'll have to hunt down an mp3 of that.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand -- I don't really give an sitt about Chri$tma$. Yes, I'm an atheist, and perhaps some part of me should be offended (perhaps it is), but the whole holiday thing just doesn't interest me AT ALL, whether it be participating or criticizing, so I just go on about my business and do what I have/want to do. But, this can cause conflict with family/friends, though. That's the tough part -- for some reason, whenever I tell someone I don't want ANYTHING for Chri$tma$, they get offended, and try to get me stuff anyway. <shrug>
I guess they just don't understand the idea of someone not wanting to participate in such a popular holiday.
Alexander Harris
From: "Gijsbers V.A."
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: RE: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 1:54 AM
He! Another Tom Lehrer fan! I didn't know they even existed!
Visit me: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~gijsbers
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
George Bernard Shaw
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
Cardinal Bellarmine, during the trial of Galileo in 1615.
From: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
To: "Gijsbers V.A."
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:57 AM
I still got my original 10-inch of his first album -- tinny sound and all. The 12-inch they came out with later sucks. There is a two-CD set of those recordings with several songs orchestrated. Now, there's a box out, but I was so busy fawning over the Jimi Hendrix box that I forgot to see what's on it.
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
Five years of service to
people with no reason to believe
From: "Christian Ambrose"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season...
Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:33 AM
I haven't celebrated Christmas since I was 10 years old. I quit believing in Santa Claus when I was about 6. The tales about him were too fantastic. My family doesn't make a big deal about holidays. My atheism is very recent but my attitude towards Christmas is still the same, just for different reasons. So, in a nutshell, Christmas will always be a day for sleeping in and maybe hanging out with family and friends. I just typically stay away from stores as it gets closer to the holidays as I don't like getting ran over. I admire the beautiful decorations as though I'm looking at works of art; I've even helped a Catholic friend look for decorations for his dorm. I enjoy the egg nog and really good fudge. Basically, I just don't actually celebrate the holidays but instead, like I said earlier, have that time for sleeping in and enjoying my loved ones.
BTW, cute song.
Yours in reason,
Christian L. Ambrose
From: "Bob Webster"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 7:11 AM
I love everything about X-mas that everyone else seems to hate! I enjoy the blatant commercialism and shopping for presents. It's the greatest people-watching time of the year, with so many frantic shoppers running around like acephelous chickens trying to find this or that on their list and forgetting everything about what they claim it's all for. I like to wander the malls, soaking up the atmosphere: The merchants rubbing their hands in delight, the parents trying to keep their kids in check while maxing out all of their credit, the kids going ape about presents and Santa. Must come from being a religious atheist; probably warped my mind or something.
The real fun is getting together with my family and having a purely secular get-together over dinner and presents. We seem to be closer at this time than any other. I feel it's harkening back to the true spirit of the season: Partying, celebrating the return of the sun and life, and looking forward to another year. I'm sure that, if it wasn't for the Christian hijacking of this most human of holidays, most atheists would enjoy it as much as anyone else.
Robert Webster
"We've got a date with Destiny, and it looks like she's ordered the lobster."
-- The Shoveler (Mystery Men)
From: "Bill Garrett"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Friday, December 22, 2000 6:26 AM
Xmas (and I do mean Xmas; let's take the Christ out of Christmas) is still a fun time for me. I enjoy the giving and getting, and the eating, and the festive atmosphere. I've learned not to let the religious undertones bother me, and just have a good time. I may even go to church this year, as part of my child's education. I want him to know what the rest of the culture is doing, even if he decides not to accept it when he's older. We live in the deep South, so I guess during the prayer I will celebrate the feeling of being a Martian castaway on a strange planet, which is a feeling I do keep all the year. <grin>
I wouldn't join a movement to eliminate Xmas, mainly because I don't wish to be assassinated. But also because it's possible to forget the so-called origins and enjoy it for what it is today -- a big party with a little lip service to old traditions. A time when atheists and theists can enjoy the one (unacknowledged) thing we have in common -- the love of a good time.
So come on, revel with me in some mild hypocrisy. Celbrate the animistic origins of mistletoe, and Wotan, the bringer of good things and progenitor of Santa Claus, and what genius the early church showed in co-opting the biggest festival of pagan antiquity. And most of all, enjoy the giddy feeling of being lost in a cosmic fun house. But do have a merry Xmas.
Bill G
From: "briangrace"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Friday, December 22, 2000 11:05 AM
I am an atheist as well, and totally agree with you. I am a musician, and every time the holidays roll around I get to make all kinds of extra money playing stupid X-Mas gigs. It gives me a feeling of wonderous joy every time I know that these Christmas "whores" are willing to give some of their money to me. Thank god for Christmas. Hallelujah.
Brian Grace
music web page: www.mp3.com/briangrace
From: "LC Whittle"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: An atheist's holiday
Date: Friday, December 22, 2000 6:03 AM
Cliff, concerning your question about what other atheists do for this holiday.
Check out straightdope.com and search on christmas for a good, sometimes tongue-in-cheek history of christmas.
I consider the pagan beginnings. I think people need a winter holiday. Call it a solstice break. Call it winter break. Call it hanuka (sp!), christmas, kwanza, anything you want, but it comes down to this: it's a break.
It's an excuse to decorate, to exchange gifts, to eat too much, to drink too much, to do nothing, to travel, to stay at home with a good book. Forget the maccabees, forget jesus. As a society I don't think we have enough holidays.
I celebrate christmas anyway I damn well please, and it pleases me to string colored lights and buy gifts for people I love.
Jesus is not the reason for the season. He just got co-opted because the pagan holiday Saturnalia was so popular, it threatened the early christians. So they adopted it.
As I have adopted it. It's my hedonist winter holiday.
Thank you,
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Edison
From: "Eric Rogers"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: What the Christmas Story really means
Date: Sunday, December 17, 2000 2:01 PM
This time of year we are bombarded with Christians telling us about the "true" meaning of Christmas by rehashing the birth of Jesus myth over and over until it becomes as tiring as the scene from it's a Wonderful Life where Jimmy Stewart is running down the street yelling to everyone. Sure it makes a nice story. A god-man comes from the heavens to redeem humanity.
What could be more peace inducing than a message of divine salvation, especially when it's delivered to people who have been taught to believe that they are a wicked and adulterous generation of vipers? But Christians seem to never to comprehend what they are actually saying. In a nut shell, here is the true meaning of the Biblical Christmas story:
The supreme creator of the entire universe looks across billions of light years and finds one small galaxy. In the corner of that galaxy he finds a rather mediocre solar system. One of millions within that galaxy. He looks to one of the smaller planets in that solar system and finds hundreds of thousands of species of living organisms, but he picks just one of those species to concern himself with. Then he decides to create a bizarre little game with them. He creates a place of everlasting torment and tells them to obey him or they will suffer for eternity. Although he is the supreme creator he can't seem to control this one species very well so he changes the rules a little bit and decides to mate with one of their females so that 33 years later, a mere blink in cosmic time, the poor chap can endure a brutal death. He does all this just to try and convince the rest of the species that he really is a good and loving god.
I think it's time to find a new Christmas story.
Eric Rogers
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: QUESTION: 'Tis the season ...
Date: Saturday, December 16, 2000 12:53 PM
I love the "holiday season!" I like people! I like the music, the lights, the decorations, the parties and etc.
I send out over 150 "holiday cards" to friends and acquaintances all over the country. I decorate to the max both my home and my boat and have won decorating contests for both. Although I don't particularly like to cook, I often prepare sit down dinners for as many as 14 people for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although I am not a Jew, I also have a Menorah and light the Hanukkah candles as I have some Jewish friends.
Whether we like it or not, we are still living in a Judeo-Christian country. Rather than keep protesting and fighting it, I love to party and I just "join them" in their "show." It would not make any difference to me if we celebrated "Bedrock Days" or the "Pokemon" season.
For me the holiday season is not a "religious" thing. It is a commercial thing to boost up the economy and keep the "Hallmark" stores in business! I don't mind that except I am getting tired of all the gift buying-giving and receiving a bunch of "crap" that I am running out of room to store it.
In the past couple of years I turned over a new leaf and started hand making all my "holiday cards" out of the ones I have received before. I am no longer buying and wrapping 60 gifts every year. We have the "Goodwill Gift Giveaway." Except for the small children in the family we all give each other things that we no longer need or want that someone else might have a use for. With two income families dominating our society today, most everything we really want, we buy for ourselves when we want it! We don't wait all year until Christmas to get something we really want badly or really need. So at Christmas time all we get is a bunch of stuff we didn't need or want anyway.
Let's face it! Except for a very small portion of the so called "Christians," Christmas is commercial more than anything else. Let's just PARTY!
From: "Richard Dobbs"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:58:18 -0800
In response to the person upset about the commercialization of Christmas.
First I'd like to point out that, that was it's intention when it was created. You don't think Dec. 25th was the actual day (or even close) to the day Jesus was born do you?
The way I get through the aggrevating and obnoxious peagan holiday is by remembering that it has become a celebration of a person who did in fact change the world. Even if you don't believe in God or that Jesus was the son of God, Jesus still inspired millions of people who might not have had anything else in life to live for.
So what the heck, enjoy the mass depression, the yelling obsenities in traffic, the standing in long lines muttering under your breath how you hate lines, enjoy the "christians" overindulging in food and alcohol, and know that the true spirit of Christmas is the birth of someone just like you and I (exept he was more vocal and persuasive).
So, merry x-mas to all, and if you see them, tell Santa and God I said hello. Happy hunting.
To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Saturday, December 30, 2000 1:41 AM
this email is coming from an observer who is not an atheist, rather, is a deist who does not find your emails to be very "positive" but full of disrespect, resentment, and just bad feelings towards Christians who are recognizing the birth of their lord and savior.
first, it seems as though the general secular public, not the Christian religion, has commercialized Christmas.
second, using the argument that the Christian religion is in the wrong does not justify your actions of blatant intolerance of those with views different from your own. i'm not asking that you accept the views of others, but one cannot expect others to respect one's views if the respect isn't mutual.
just a thought.
From: "Richard Dobbs"
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:58:18 -0800
In response to the person upset about the commercialization of Christmas.
First I'd like to point out that, that was it's intention when it was created. You don't think Dec. 25th was the actual day (or even close) to the day Jesus was born do you?
The way I get through the aggrevating and obnoxious peagan holiday is by remembering that it has become a celebration of a person who did in fact change the world. Even if you don't believe in God or that Jesus was the son of God, Jesus still inspired millions of people who might not have had anything else in life to live for.
So what the heck, enjoy the mass depression, the yelling obsenities in traffic, the standing in long lines muttering under your breath how you hate lines, enjoy the "christians" overindulging in food and alcohol, and know that the true spirit of Christmas is the birth of someone just like you and I (exept he was more vocal and persuasive)
So, merry x-mas to all, and if you see them, tell Santa and God I said hello. Happy hunting.
From: D
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 10:23:57 -0500
I celebrate Christmas as a day roughly coincident with an early recognition of a massivly important scientific achievment in observational astronomy.
Men fear death as children fear the dark.
From: "Larry Edwards"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: 'Tis the Season
Date: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 1:01 AM
Dear Mr. Walker,
After reading Carey's concern over the "Christmas" season a few thoughts came to mind.
The first was that Christmas was a political move by St. Augstine, a Roman ruler. He used the invention as a way to bring the citizens of Rome together and to help his leverage in the Senate.
The second is that the celebration was condemned by the Puritans and was thus illegal.
As for the economical aspect of this season, people have always complained that it is too commercial. If people can make money at something they will.
My kids like the toys and no one is comeing to make me go to church so that I could have "everlasting eternal life" so, hey, what's the big deal?
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: FORUM_What_Does_X-Mas_Mean_9359
Date: Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:50 AM
Dear people (I don't know who I'm writing to).
You mentioned atheists of all flavors so I thought I'd write. I'm 16 and am the only one that I know that doesn't believe in god. My parents are extremely strong Catholics by the way. About Christmas, I believe that there is so much going wrong in the world that we don't know about that could affect us, but doesn't. So what you don't know can't hurt you. So what if the economy stays moving because of Christmas, that seems like a pretty good thing to me. What happens if the economy isn't helped out by Christmas? I don't understand the tree though.
I like Christmas because I have something to look forward to. Gifts!!, but that's pretty much the only thing. My girlfriend is the one that got me all the phat gifts. My parents took all my gifts back because I refused to go to Christmas Mass. I told them I had no reason to. They said it was a family tradition, I told them going to church didn't sound like much of a family tradition so I didn't go. I am one that doesn't really like to take part in too many events that don't make any sense. Well there's my two cents.
Hymay Esgalante von Gouldenburg
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In Boxing News: Rahman-Toney on HBO Saturday night heating up
David Avila, TSS's man on the west coast, visits the campus of the University of James Toney. Inside Hollywood's Wild Card Gym, Toney bellows out commands: "Shut up and watch.� School is definitely in session.
Lem Satterfield at the Baltimore Sun gives us a sympathetic portrait of Baltimore native Hasim Rahman. He looks at Rock's turbulent career with the aid of hindsight and without rose-colored glasses, and tells us that Bob Arum joins Rahman's fight. "Hasim Rahman is eminently promotable,� said Top Rank's CEO. "And if he does his part, he ain't walking down any street without people knowing who he is. He has a great personality. He can be a major sports star, and I believe he will.� Rahman reportedly stands to make $1.5 million against Toney, which has led to a "rebirth in his enthusiasm and the downsizing of his entourage.� "My whole team has had a makeover,� Rahman said. "Let's be honest,� countered Freddie Roach in The Las Vegas Review Journal. "He's looked good one fight in his life. He knocked out Lennox Lewis. What has he done since? Who has he beaten? He's lost to all of them.� Ron Borges of the Boston Globe reports that James Toney is not only swelling from food, he weighed 251 last week, he is also swelling with confidence. "I know how to fight. If you're bigger and badder than me, let me see. Prove it to me. Fight me. I beat Evander Holyfield, right? Knocked him out. Now, a year earlier, he was beating up Hasim Rahman. Everybody in the Baltimore area knows I'm a real fighter and they know Rahman ain't.� Rick Folstad, our fight guy down on mainland Cuba, calls for a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T for James "Lights Out� Toney. "He's like the schoolyard bully who struts around the playground puffing out his chest and bragging about how bad he is,� writes Folstad. "You figure he's all talk until he fattens your lip.� At 5-foot-9 Toney's kinda short for a heavyweight, but Mike Tyson was a short guy too, and he did okay. "I love beating bigger heavyweights up,� Toney confessed. "I feel like I'm walking through a buffet� … The Times Herald-Record reports that Lou Savarese will unretire and begin his third comeback Saturday on the undercard of a Shannon Briggs show in Fort Smith, Ark. Savarese was great playing the heavy in "The Sopranos.� He should stick with that. "Obviously I'm not doing it for the money,�' Savarese said – his purse is $2,500 – "It's hard for people to be inside myself.� Truer words were never spoken … The London Free Press, in honor of Dave Kindred's recently-released "Sound and Fury� (Simon & Schuster, $37), revisits the curious relationship between Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell. The men had shared objectives – Cosell was Boswell to Ali's Johnson – but they were as different as night and day: white/black, Jew/Muslim, ugly/handsome, toupee/hair. Cosell could be an impressive journalist, but he was an easy man to dislike. "I have tried to like Howard,� wrote legendary New York sports columnist Red Smith. "I have failed.�
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Three Dawgs Named to Soccer's Top 100 Upperclassmen
An updated list of TopDrawerSoccer.com's Top 100 Upperclassmen was announced Wednesday, and three Huskies have been named to the list. The rankings include all seniors, juniors, and sophomores across the country.
For the women's soccer team, senior midfielder Kate Deines is 30th. For the men's, senior forward Brent Richards is 11th and sophomore goalkeeper Spencer Richey is 100th. Deines (34th) and Richards (29th) were named to the website's preseason Top 100 rankings in early August.
Two-time team captain Deines has started all 16 games so far, tallying in two goals and an assist for a total of five points as a midfielder. Throughout her UW career, Deines has started in every game for the Huskies with 21 career goals. Deines also played in the U-23 National Team this summer.
Richards was recently named GoHuskies.com Student-Athlete of the Week and Soccer America's Team of the Week. After scoring his season-high 10th goal of the year this past weekend, he leads the team in goals (10) and points (23) and is second in assists (3).
In goal, Richey has posted seven shutouts with a 10-3-2 overall record this season. Richey has played in every minute (1415:23) in all 15 games, recording 51 saves and allowing just 13 goals. Richey is only one of five goalkeepers on the Top 100 list.
Full list for women's Top 100: http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-national-top-100/women/2011
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PBS' "Pioneers of Television" returns Tuesday, Jan 18 at 8:00 PM with "Science Fiction" the season two premiere episode. Returning for another nostalgic look back at early television is the PBS series "Pioneers of Television" which will spotlight the genres of science fiction, Westerns, crime dramas and local kids' TV. On tonight's premiere episode, viewers will learn about classic science fiction as they take a look back at Gene Roddenberry and "Star Trek", Rod Serling and "The Twilight Zone" and Irwin Allen and "Lost in Space." The show includes remarks from William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols from "Star Trek"; Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright and Marta Kristen from "Lost in Space." Dozens of actors, writers and producers from the early days of television were interviewed for the series and the four new episodes are narrated by Kelsey Grammer and air Tuesdays, January 18-February 8, 8/7c on PBS. "Pioneers of Television" Season Two will focus on TV Western pioneers, including Fess Parker (Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett), James Garner, Linda Evans, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Conrad and James Arness. Airs: 1/25/2011. Crime Dramas Pioneers including Jack Webb ("Dragnet"), Desi Arnaz ("The Untouchables"), Bruce Geller ("Mannix" and "Mission: Impossible"), Bill Cosby, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, James Garner and Stephen J. Cannell. Airs: 2/1/2011.
Local Kids TV shows, which will look back lovingly at "Romper Room," "Bozo the Clown," and "Sesame Street." Airs: Tues, Feb 8 (check local listings). An encore presentation of three episodes from the first season which explore the early years of sitcoms, late night and variety shows, will air Tuesdays, February 15-March 1, 2011, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET on PBS. Season One genres include Late Night - The late-night escapades of Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson enter primetime in this episode about the formative years of late-night television. Airs: 2/15/2011. Sitcoms - Rediscover television comedy classics, as this episode focuses on five key sitcoms: "I Love Lucy," "The Honeymooners," "Make Room for Daddy," "The Andy Griffith Show" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Airs: 2/22/2011. Variety - From Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" and Milton Berle's "Texaco Star Theater" to "The Carol Burnett Show," "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and "Laugh-in," among others, this episode celebrates the variety show. Airs: 3/1/2011.


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Spotlight on an office – Utrecht
By Maria Sandu on Jun 26, 2012
This time in our monthly topic, we have our spotlight on the brand new Oracle office in Utrecht, the Netherlands. About 35km south-east of Schiphol Airport and centrally located in the Netherlands, Oracle moved into the Facet building in March 2011. Facet is much more than an office building, it creates a work environment that relates to the 'No Limits' philosophy Oracle has in the Netherlands.
"No Limits" means the building belongs to everyone. You choose the best place to work, based on the activities of that moment. To point this out, we currently have 1050 people working for Oracle Netherlands, and 623 workplaces. There is virtually no limit to where you can sit in our shiny new offices; we no longer have 'zoning', where departments own specific areas in the building, Even the Managing Director of Oracle Netherlands, does not have an office and he chooses a different working place every day. So make sure you are prepared when he is sitting next to you one day!
If nobody has a fixed workplace, then you would think that finding a colleague could be tricky. Oracle uses CU ('SeeYou') which makes all of us easier to locate. Upon entering the building you receive a text stating where the greatest concentration of your buddies is sitting. Our internal messaging service also proves to be very valuable tool in finding your colleagues.
The heart of our building is the great RestOrant, with a very busy coffee bar. It offers an informal place for people to meet and is busy all day, not just at lunch time! The O-Bar in the atrium on the ground floor is also a very popular place to meet and drink tea or coffee and gives a breathtaking introduction to the office to any of our first time visitors. For a few minutes of relaxation during the working day, there are table tennis facilities and a Wii room on every floor!
So if you are interested in joining Oracle in this Netherlands or anywhere else in EMEA, please have a look at http://campus.oracle.com for all of our latest vacancies and internships.


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The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady Chapter 7 Summary
- As interested as Isabel is in English society, she has seen very little of it. Mrs. Touchett has few contacts in the neighborhood, and Mr. Touchett and Ralph are accustomed to keeping to themselves. Lord Warburton is the lone exception.
- Mrs. Touchett is too funny – she doesn't visit anyone in the neighborhood herself, but she does love it when people visit her and leave their calling cards.
- Isabel asks her aunt what her national identity is. She claims that her point of view is distinctly American, but Mrs. Touchett's is neither American nor English. Mrs. Touchett responds that her point of view is personal and not assigned to a nation. Isabel sees the sense in this.
- Isabel aligns herself so much as an American that Ralph jokingly draws a picture of her as Columbia (a symbol of America represented as a beautiful woman – for you film buffs out there, she's the logo of Columbia Pictures) wrapped up in the American flag.
- Isabel doubts that Ralph really cares about anything, since he jokes so much and criticizes most things. Ralph says that he cares about her alone.
- It turns out that he's not completely joking about this. Ralph has worried ever since Mr. Touchett's gout has gotten worse. He cannot bear the thought of living without his father, and has been paranoid ever since. Isabel's presence, however, is a bright spot in his life.
- Ralph has decided, however, that he doesn't have the hots for Isabel. He just thinks she's fascinating and enjoys spending time with her. He compares her arrival to the surprise delivery of a precious Titian painting in the mail.
- Ralph is Isabel's tour guide, especially since neither of his parents take on the role (Mr. Touchett can't, Mrs. Touchett won't). They go by horse and boat through the local countryside, with Isabel taking the reins, literally and figuratively, on their adventures.
- One day, upon their return, they find Lord Warburton chatting with Mrs. Touchett in the garden.
- Isabel had decided, upon first meeting Lord Warburton, that she liked him. Who wouldn't? He's a generally great guy, as far as all of us can tell.
- Lord Warburton stays overnight at Gardencourt for a couple of days, clearly lured in by Isabel's company.
- One night, Ralph, Isabel, Lord Warburton and Mrs. Touchett are in the drawing room. Mrs. Touchett gets up to retire for the night and expects Isabel to follow her.
- Isabel says she would rather not, since she's having such fun with the guys. Mrs. Touchett puts on a martyr act and says she'll stay up too, if she must. Isabel, confused, doesn't get what her aunt means by all of this. They have a little spat – Mrs. Touchett reminds Isabel that she's not in Albany anymore. Isabel gives in and says she'll go to bed.
- Mrs. Touchett explains to Isabel that, in England, proper ladies are not supposed to stay up at night alone with men. This is news to Isabel, and she asks that her aunt always tell her of different social standards she might not know about.
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Mash-up pastries and expensive handbags, together at last, for charity.
The famed pastry chef will appear personally with what we hope is a very large batch of Cronuts on Saturday, March 1 at Barneys at the Grove. The promotion, which benefits Heart of Los Angeles, a nonprofit that organizes after-school activities, will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., or until the Cronuts run out. We're going to guess that's happening on the sooner side of things. [Dominique Ansel/Twitter, Earlier]


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By 1913, the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture had 125 boys and girls enrolled in 4-H. The initial objective of the clubs was to influence the farm and home practices of their parents. Extension staff outlined project work. In 1917 the first full-time boys' and girls' 4-H club agent was hired in Sheridan County to work with the 74 rural schools in the county. By 1919 there were 96 clubs across Wyoming with an enrollment of 1,562 members growing to more than 3,000 youth in the 1930's. Work was being carried out in eight project areas including corn, potato, home gardening, canning, poultry, pig, sheep and sewing.
The University of Wyoming 4-H Youth Development Program continues to fulfill its mission of: "4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential, working and learning in partnership with caring adults". County 4-H educators partner with 2,579 adult volunteer leaders to provide opportunities for youth to reach their full potential through UW 4-H. As 4-H grows, the types of projects change to reflect new youth interests and support programming in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; healthy living; and citizenship. Today, there are 621 4-H clubs where almost 7,000 youth enroll in more than 50 4-H projects. Members are learning how to build rockets, gluten free cooking, and developing skills to be a global citizen. Projects with the highest number of youth enrolled include shooting sports (1,842), swine (1,722), horse (1,371), photography (1,307), and sheep (1,269). While the majority of youth enroll in the 4-H club program, many youth also participate in camping, afterschool 4-H programs, and school enrichment.
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Bruins Kick Off Indoor Track and Field Season
Track and field opens the 2012-2013 indoor track and field season Friday at the Hoosier Open.
UCLA Track and Field Coaching Staff Announced for 2012-13
Impressive new staff added by Director of Track and Field Mike Maynard.
Forest Braden enters his fourth year with the Bruins where he coaches the long distance runners. Prior to coming to Westwood, he spent the 2008 season as a volunteer assistant with Gonzaga University where he worked closely with standout distance coach Pat Tyson in recruiting and facilitating training sessions.
In 2012, Braden worked with a strong group of distance runners. Redshirt freshman Dustin Fay ran an indoor school record of 13:49 in the 5000m to qualify for the NCAA National Indoor Championship. He also qualified for the NCAA Preliminary Round outdoors. Junior Katja Goldring ran the second fastest 10,000m in school history with a time of 34:41.82 and placed 14th in the Preliminary Round of the NCAA Championships. Freshman Kelsey Smith ran a new personal record (16:41) to qualify for the Preliminary round of the NCAAs in the 5000m. For the first time, redshirt senior Kent Morikawa ran the steeplechase, placing fifth at the Pac-12 Championships and qualifying for the NCAA Preliminary round. Freshman Merissa Kado is tenth all-time at UCLA in the steeplechase after running a time of 10:58.48. Freshman Lane Werley ran one of the top junior times in the country in the 5000m (13:56). At the USATF Junior Championships, the Bruins were represented by Kado in the steeplechase, Nathaniel Cushing-Murray in the 10k and Werley, Annie Mooney and Bronte Golick in the 5000m. Werley and Cushing-Murray both finished fourth to lead the Bruin squad at the meet.
In 2011, the Bruins had two sub-9-minute steeplechasers in Jake Matthews (8:57.55) and David McDonald (8:59.30) as both scored at Pac-10s. The long distance runners thrived under Braden's leadership in his first season at UCLA as Dylan Knight led the way in the steeplechase. Knight ran a lifetime-best of 8:43.68 to move to fifth all-time in UCLA history, competed at the NCAA Outdoor meet and was the Pac-10 runner-up in the event. Spencer Knight (8:57.95) and David McDonald (9:10.80) also ran lifetime-best marks in the steeple. Marco Anzures moved to fifth all-time in the 10,000m (29:00.21) and also ran a lifetime-best of 14:07.69 in the 5000m. Alex Crabill was a provisional qualifier for the indoor meet in the 3000m (8:03.07) and also ran the No. 6 marathon time in UCLA history (2:20.38).
Prior to his coaching stint at Gonzaga, Braden was a three-time All-American runner for coach Mike Maynard at Boise State from 2002-2007, earning accolades in indoor and outdoor track as well as cross country. He also won seven Western Athletic Conference titles as a Bronco.
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Feb. 28, 2004
Seattle, WA - At the 2004 MPSF Indoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by Washington at Dempsey Indoor Stadium, the Bruins won their third consecutive MPSF title scoring 127 points. Cal was the runner-up with 108 points, followed by third-place Stanford (82.5 points). Rounding out the Top-Five were Arizona (fourth, 77.5) and Oregon (fifth, 66.5).
Three Bruins defended their 2003 individual titles. Craig Everhart won the 400m in a provisional time of 46.85. Nick Thornton won the 800m in a provisional 1:49.61. And, senior Dan Ames defended his shot put and weight throw titles. In the shot put, he threw a NCAA automatic mark of 64-3 (19.58m). And, in the weight throw, he threw 69-0.50 (21.04).
Also victorious was UCLA's 4x400m relay. Competing for the first time this season, the squad of Everhart, Thornton, Mario Bassani and Denye Versher won in a facility record 3:09.07 (provisional). The previous record of 3:09.35 was set by Arizona State last year.
This Saturday, March 6, UCLA will compete at the Last Chance Meet in Seattle. The Bruins will also kick off the 2004 outdoor season, hosting Cal Poly-SLO, Cal State LA and Fullerton at Drake Stadium.