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Before he even opened his mouth, most of the 1,600 people in the audience were on their feet. Hands flew together and a chorus of shouts and whoops filled the large Richmond, Kentucky, auditorium, which had reached capacity well before that warm October night's Chautauqua lecture was scheduled to start.
In three separate viewing rooms in buildings just steps away from the assembly hall at Eastern Kentucky University's Brock Auditorium, video screens had been erected to simulcast the event to the 600+ disappointed fans turned away at the door.
Who was responsible for this adoring, zealous support in a small college town in rural Kentucky? Whose most recent book did this throng of mostly young adults clutch in their hands, hoping to see his autograph scrawled upon its title page?
A great British evolutionary biologist—a man hailed for his skill at communicating science to the masses—Richard Dawkins.
While event organizers at EKU made apologies to those watching via video screen and expressed their surprise at the overwhelming turnout, I mused that it probably had less to do with Dawkins's knack at making the complexities of biology, cosmology, physics, et al. coherent to nonscientists (there are plenty of excellent science writers out there who've never drawn a 2,000-deep crowd) than his famously caustic attacks on religion, especially Christianity.
My own presence in the audience that particular evening was something of a coincidence. Just hours before Dawkins's lecture was scheduled to start, I completed two days of travel from Boston, Massachusetts, to Richmond, Kentucky. My purpose there was twofold:
1. Make the final preparations for my wedding
2. Get hitched
Yet upon arriving home and hearing that Richard Dawkins just happened to be gearing up to speak less than a mile away, my parents and I decided to take the night off from ribbon-tying and veil-making. I had a few strong, timely reasons not to miss his talk.
For one, I'd just published a long article here on God and Nature called "Clearing the MiddlePath," exploring the social, spiritual, and intellectual merits of focusing on fostering productive dialogue rather than razing the road to mutual respect and appreciation between religion and science. My article featured theologian Peter Hess, who works at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) helping Christians and other people of faith understand why evolution (and the ancient age of the earth, the possibility of alien life, etc.) can enhance instead of threaten their worldview. Likewise, Peter helps reduce the level of religious intolerance held by some scientists by showing them that most mainstream denominations try and are successful at incorporating scientific theories into their respective theologies.
Peter related that in performing his work, it's become very clear that neither the so-called "new atheists" (sometimes referred to as "evangelical atheists" for their fervor that parallels that of some evangelical Christians) nor fundamentalist Christians know nearly enough about what they're rejecting, or whom.
To illustrate, Peter described a personal meeting he had a few years ago with an atheist biologist. In the course of a conversation about a project Peter was consulting on (helping the religion department at a nearby Catholic high school organize a series of lectures and discussions on evolution, called the "Darwin Project"), the biologist—who happened to be Professor Dawkins—expressed surprise not only that the Catholic school was enthusiastically pursuing public dialogue about what many assume to be a controversial theory, but that the religious studies department was instrumental in helping to organize it. Professor Dawkins demonstrated unawareness about the openness of Christians to engage with scientific culture. Like their non-theistic neighbors, many Christians are searching, curious people who want to learn more about the universe, how it was formed, and why thinking beings exist in it.
After my article went up on God and Nature, vitriolic comments from atheist defenders surged onto the NCSE's Facebook page. Some were directed at the NCSE, accusing the organization of being "accomodationist" for having a Catholic theologian on staff. Others were ad hominem insults regarding Peter's personal beliefs and how they affect the level of his intelligence:
~[Peter is] trying to shoehorn his fantasies and delusions into reality. He's still trying to prove that all his childish beliefs work in the grown up world. Religion is fundamentally a magical world view; magic has no place in science.
~Courting the crazies and having them defend sanity is not a good call on our part. And as crazies go, give me a good, honest fundamentalist any day, at least they really BELIEVE. This guy is just another fence straddler without the courage to make up his mind.
~Truth and belief are not even close to the same thing and Peter knows this. To treat belief, not just Christian belief, with the same respect as knowledge is insane. I hate philosophy, [because] it seems like if you can't win an argument with the facts, [and] it is a last resort for credibility.
~Both [Peter] and his position are negative acts in the very positive, supposed, goal to which NCSE claims to be dedicated, and the organization seriously needs to rethink.
Some of the most hateful posts were deemed unconstructive by the site's administrator and removed. At several points throughout the 40+ comment stream, the NCSE stepped in to defend the importance of Peter's job and why such derogatory, polarizing behavior should be avoided by those struggling to illuminate modern science for the public, "The primary objective of NCSE is to defend and promote the teaching of evolution in public schools. We do this by dealing with local flareups, by speaking at local, regional, and national meetings of professional organizations, and by communicating with various communities … We find that when we approach these communities with respect and sensitivity to the beliefs they regard as important, we are more likely to be successful in our goal of defending and promoting acceptance of evolution."
More simply put, only those who give respect get respect. If we use hate speech, we should expect to receive it in kind—or at least, to have our message ignored by the people we target and/or deride. For those of us trying to advance knowledge and truth in the way Professor Dawkins does in his public communication about science, insulting someone who doesn't automatically accept the validity and importance of our own views isn't just impolite, it's illogical. It harms, rather than helps, the advancement of scientific understanding.
A month ago in Richmond, Kentucky, I traded some of the only time I had left as a single woman to attempt to understand just what it is Dawkins and his cadre of atheists have against people like Peter Hess—one of the wisest and most intelligent men I've had the pleasure of interviewing—and that most pursued of all scientific questions: why?
My second reason for attending the lecture was more personal than professional. I wanted to see how the residents of my hometown would react to what Dawkins had to say.
While the so-called halcyon days of my childhood were spent scampering through the backyards of suburban Maryland, I entered that trial of sanity and reason known as "middle school" in Kentucky. Like most middle-schoolers, I was utterly dismayed at my luck in life—dismayed by the prospect of growing up, in general, and specifically dismayed by the thought of doing it in Kentucky. For starters, at all of eleven years old, I was certain that I'd never, ever make friends in my new home. I'd also heard somewhere that Kentucky schools were ranked pretty badly, so I could say goodbye to frequent field trips and the Magnet Program for advanced learning. Finally, so far as I could tell, Kentucky wasn't full of cool stuff—just horse farms and regular farms. (I didn't know about bourbon yet).
Throughout those years, my family attended a small Episcopal church on the edge of town, where I faithfully went to Sunday services, youth group, Bible school, acolyte training, and Confirmation classes before graduating high school. Had anyone asked, I'd have reported being just as true and good a Christian as the next, since I'd never really questioned the fact. It was around that time, however, that I started taking a long, hard look down my nose at Jesus Christ, his seemingly contradictory teachings, and his followers.
My temporary departure from faith resulted in no small way from experiences I had growing up in Kentucky. In high school science class, I learned to abhor how fellow Christians attempted to dismiss themselves from lectures in modern biology with the snide declaration, "I'm not a monkey." Outside of class, I saw Christians my age standing in the middle of the mall and "witnessing" to passersby about the horrors of eternity in Hell. And it didn't take a genius to figure out that many social leaders of our school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes were also some of its most notorious partyers and drug abusers.
In the four years I was a member of FCA and Campus Life, neither supposedly interdenominational club once dedicated a meeting to exploring what Christianity means to believers of varying backgrounds, nor how to question reality while taking a "leap of faith," nor what one should and shouldn't accept as interpretations of biblical truth. All those minutes were taken up teaching what I felt was a rather scripted, vacant version of Christian evangelism.
In a short-sighted reaction to the actions of a few, I allowed those unsavory encounters to color my opinion of the whole Christian community. By the time I went off to college, I, too, was jeering at Jesus and joking that he wasn't much but a rebellious spiritual leader who could perform magic tricks.
I, too, would have adored Richard Dawkins, if I'd known about him.
Ten years, two university degrees, and one recommitment to Christianity later, I was sitting in the same auditorium where my high school band used to play end-of-year concerts, and near the spot onstage where I once sat, soloed, and counted out rests, Richard Dawkins was giving a speech called "The Magic of Reality." The audience, which I later learned included folks from every major city in Kentucky, as well as the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee, (not to mention Massachusetts), didn't hear the bold religious attack many of us were anticipating.
What we did hear was a 45-minute commercial for Dawkins's recently released book, also called The Magic of Reality. Targeted for teenagers about the same age I was when my family moved to Kentucky, the new work walks readers through several ways of thinking about difficult or misunderstood scientific topics. Dawkins's mission in writing the book, he said, was to teach young people how to think critically, not what to think.
All 12 of the book's chapters have questions for titles, like, "What is reality? What is magic?," "Who was the first person?," "When and how did everything begin?," "What is an earthquake?," and "What is a miracle?" Each of them starts out by describing myths that humans have used or still use to explain the topic at hand. Dawkins draws these from the religious traditions of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Native American and Greco-Roman mythology, among others. The chapters then explain, "What is it really?" in more rational, scientific terms.
Dawkins began both the book and his EKU lecture by dashing the idea of magic against the masthead of reality. Miracles, magic, and other supernatural beliefs are incompatible with scientific truth, he said, using the fabrication of Cinderella's carriage by her fairy godmother as an illustration of how such fanciful stories are simply contrary to nature. According to Dawkins, anything humans call a "miracle" is really just a mistake, a hallucination, or a scientific shortcoming—that is, something for which we don't yet have an explanation.
For someone to decide that a mysterious event or feeling isn't capable of being explained with existing or revolutionary science, Dawkins said, is cowardly and dishonest. "We should teach our young people to think critically," he said.
"I don't want to give the impression that science knows everything," Dawkins admitted, "far from it. Science is constantly asking new questions, constantly opening new doors, constantly searching and changing and admitting mistakes. Not even the best scientist of today knows everything. But I don't think that means we should block off all investigation by resorting to phony explanations by invoking magic or the supernatural, which don't explain anything at all."
Throughout the lecture, Dawkins illustrated the irrationality of such beliefs with an array of metaphysical stories that he claimed could be just as easily explained using logic. One of them was Portugal's "Virgin of Fatima," a Christian miracle reported in the early 20th century after a ten-year-old shepherd girl claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary on a hill. The Virgin said she would return to the site and perform a miracle on an appointed day. This caused quite a stir, and some 70,000 people gathered to observe the event, which was described in an array of colorful ways by witnesses.
Some said that the sun began to dance and twinkle in the sky. Others said that it whirled around and around. The most dramatic interpretation had the sun crashing down from the heavens toward the "horrified multitude" and just before destroying them all, the miracle kindly ceased.
"What really happened at Fatima?" asked Dawkins. He gave three possibilities:
- The sun really did come crashing down. "The first possibility," Dawkins said, "would have involved not just people in Portugal, but everybody in the daylight half of the world would have seen it and what's more, it would have been the end of the world."
- 70,000 people experienced a mass hallucination.
- The whole thing was misreported, exaggerated, or made up.
Favoring the latter explanation as being the most probable, Dawkins dismissed the others and explained that the purpose of this chapter on miracles is to encourage people to think critically and evaluate evidence, rather than just to believe what they're told. "Don't ever be lazy enough, defeatist enough, cowardly enough to say, 'There's something I don't understand. It must be supernatural—it must be a miracle," Dawkins encouraged his audience. "Say instead, 'It's a puzzle, it's strange, it's a challenge that we should rise to.' Whenever we rise by questioning the truth of the observation or by expanding our science in new and exciting directions, the proper and brave response to any such challenge is to tackle it head-on … The truth is more magical in the best and most exciting sense of the word than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic—the magic of reality."
With that, Dawkins concluded his talk.
Walking home from the lecture through Richmond's quiet, small town dusk, I kicked at early-fallen leaves and talked with my parents about what the famous scientist had and hadn't said that night. Rounding the corner into our neighborhood, my mother looked up at the clouded moon and mentioned something I'd completely missed.
"You know, Richard Dawkins may be a great academic and argue with intelligence and authority on some topics," she said, "but tonight, every time he reasoned for something by logically eliminating all other possibilities, he didn't do it logically at all. He just made assumptions about what 'reality' is, and left out all but the most extreme choices. Among the three explanations he gave for the miracle at Fatima, for instance, he didn't choose to include the option that it really happened, but in a less ridiculous way than the sun crashing down. If you believe in God or miracles, then it's just as probable that the saint appeared to the crowd in a beautiful, magnificent way—so what did he actually prove? You can't claim you've eliminated a choice you never presented."
She had a point. In the way that humble, rational people experience their faith, it doesn't threaten our collective pursuit of scientific truth, it encourages it. As my mother pointed out, Dawkins only described and deconstructed the easiest types of beliefs and believers to denounce as antiscientific.
Maybe he was just playing to the crowd. Even the Richmond Register's report on Dawkins's talk the following day commented on the overwhelmingly homogenous audience, "Most in the crowd, which often applauded and cheered Dawkins and fellow speaker Sean Faircloth, seemed thrilled to see and hear Dawkins, even if he failed to deliver any ringing denunciations of religion … no one asked a hostile question or offered any protest the evening of his appearance."
Nothing. Nada. Going into the lecture, I was pleased by the gap on the stairs where I assumed there'd be a throng of protestors and picket signs, thinking that the lack of outright antagonism from fundamentalists was an indication that real discourse was about to take place. Alas, those who'd come had either come with Dawkinsian reverence or tacit curiosity. Dawkins spent his hour illuminating scientific reality, critical thinking, and the need for judicious skepticism to an audience that already accepted the merits of each.
Standing in my family's oak-tree-studded backyard, drinking a homebrew and trying not to feel a bit rooked by the whole experience, I thought,
Surely, somewhere among the 2,000 people attending this popular EKU lecture series was a believing Christian, Jew, or Muslim who was on the fence about evolution, the ancient age of the earth, anthropogenic climate change, or some other controversial mainstream scientific theory. Someone who merely needed to hear the facts in a well-thought out, inviting way to be able to say that she could start accepting the science behind them.
Yet Dawkins's unsubtle insinuation that this believer's irrational, lazy worldview must be sacrificed at the knees of science before apprehending "the magic of reality" would probably have sent her shrugging in the opposite direction. My thoughts rounded down to a single, regretful impression: What a waste.
Because it doesn't have to be that way. Not at all. Not every brilliant scientist spends his or her off hours verbally tackling "the crazies" in defense of science as the only acceptable path to truth.
During my tenure in the graduate program in science writing at MIT, I studied with noted author and theoretical physicist Alan Lightman. Alan taught me many difficult lessons about the well-turned essay—the properly examined question whose elusive answer really is worthy of trying to write about. In his classes, Alan delved into what some professors consider unteachable territory: how to perform this work well, with literary style … (i.e., … don't overuse ellipses … or Latin abbreviations … etc., etc. …). Alan also strived to instill in his students a sense of how to write with grace and humility before your topic and your readers.
In a recent essay for Salon.com, "Does God Exist?," Alan explores a question that's probably familiar to God and Nature readers. Subtitled, "The case for reconciling the scientific with the divine—and against the anti-religion of Richard Dawkins," Alan's essay was published the day before we posted "Clearing the Middle Path." Both pieces explore what it means to successfully reconcile science with religion, and why it's important and even practical to do so.
Alan isn't a Christian, Jew, Agnostic, Buddhist, Transcendentalist or any other kind of religious believer. He doesn't have a dog in the fight, so to speak. As a scientist and atheist, Alan is not a defender of faith in God nor of religion, itself—yet he is a defender of respect for the people who practice religion and believe in something beyond what we can explain using the scientific method. Alan writes,
I believe there are things we take on faith, without physical proof and even sometimes without any methodology for proof. We cannot clearly show why the ending of a particular novel haunts us. We cannot prove under what conditions we would sacrifice our own life in order to save the life of our child. We cannot prove whether it is right or wrong to steal in order to feed our family, or even agree on a definition of "right" and "wrong."
We cannot prove the meaning of our life, or whether life has any meaning at all. For these questions, we can gather evidence and debate, but, in the end, we cannot arrive at any system of analysis akin to the way in which a physicist decides how many seconds it will take a one-foot-long pendulum to make a complete swing. These are questions for the arts and the humanities. These are also questions aligned with some of the intangible concerns of traditional religion.
Whether or not we think about it every day, our shared reality is an almost unbelievable balance of space and time, mass and matter, energy and gravity. A few faint measures nearer the sun and we'd all be up in a blaze of heat. A few tweaks in the laws of physics and the universe as we know it simply wouldn't work at all.
The magic of reality is that this dance of atoms and space in such careful balance actually exists. Obviously, it's up for debate who or what is responsible for initiating all of it, and when, and how. Somehow Earth ended up having not too much and not too little of any one thing. Maybe other planets are like that, too.
Whether or not you believe that it's all very intentional and that there's a loving God somewhere watching over it, no human consensus will actually change reality, whatever that happens to be. No matter what brand of consensus we subscribe to and would like other people to subscribe to, as well—we can't help anyone, anywhere, change anything they trust and believe while simultaneously engaged in shredding their intelligence in front of them.
If each one of us could value human dignity as much as we value our personal brand of truth, we'd not only be as wise as we are intelligent, we might also get our adversaries to see things from a different point of view. At the very least, they might consider it, which would be a giant leap in the right direction. Times seven billion.


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BAY BRIDGE -- The new Bay Bridge surpassed a herculean milestone Tuesday as engineers and contractors announced the world's longest self-anchored suspension span is officially holding its own weight.
"There is, it is fair to say, a big collective sigh of relief from all the engineers working on this project," said Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger, who leads one of the three agencies overseeing the $6.4 billion construction project.
"There was never any question the bridge would hold itself up. The question (was) whether when (construction crews) picked it up, would they do it right the first time or would they have to be tuning it again and again? That fear turned out to be unfounded."
This "tuning" was a highly orchestrated, three-month engineering and construction feat, where bridge builders strategically and simultaneously tightened -- via hydraulic jack -- the 200 vertical steel suspender ropes that connect the span's 28 massive deck sections to its fat, mile-long main cable.
Gradually burdened with steel and concrete weighing 35,200 tons, or 77.6 million pounds, the main cable sank 30 feet closer to the ground and stretched horizontally on each side another 16 feet, according to Caltrans.
Conversely, the hollow steel side-by-side orthotropic decks rose upward and no longer sit on the falsework trestles built to hold them during construction.
It's easy to calculate steel weights or measure movement, but we will never know how many nights of sleep the three-month load transfer cost the bridge contractors, engineers and state agency leaders.
It had never been done anywhere in the world at this scale.
Unlike a conventional suspension bridge, such as the iconic Golden Gate, where two cables are anchored on land at each end, the new self-anchored Bay Bridge has a single, looped cable anchored inside the bridge deck east of its 525-foot tower.
At best, a miscalculation would cost valuable time.
The current eastern span of the Bay Bridge is seismically unsafe and the state has been in a race since the Loma Prieta earthquake to finish the new span before the next Big One strikes the Bay Area.
But if it had gone terribly wrong, the decks, cables or tower could have been severely damaged or destroyed, Caltrans engineers have said.
People working on the bridge could have been injured or killed. Caltrans, MTC and the contractor, American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises, even barred recreational boats from sailing beneath the new span for several months.
With load transfer behind them, Bay Bridge spokesman Bart Ney said the focus will shift onto the relatively mundane punch-list items:
Used for the first time on a bridge anywhere in the world, the pipe hinges consist of large steel tubes that connect the segments below the roadway surface. The hinges are designed to fail first during an earthquake -- much like an electrical fuse -- and prevent damage on the more critical decks. Repairs will be faster and help return the span to service following a temblor.
"The longest mile in any marathon is the last mile," Ney said. "That's where we are today."
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Construction began: 2002
Length: The 1.6-mile state-owned span is actually two bridges sandwiched between complex elevated connector structures -- the 1.2 mile side-by-side skyway curves westward from Oakland toward Yerba Buena Island, where it links with the 2,047-foot self-anchored suspension span, the longest in the world.
More statistics: The suspension span's 2.6-foot-diameter main cable carries 35,200 tons of hollow steel decking; that's 77.6 million pounds or the equivalent of 6,467 male African elephants.
Cost: $6.42 billion, the largest public works project in California history.
Main construction contractors (partial list): American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises, Kiewit/FCI/Manson
Designers (partial list): T.Y. Lin/Moffatt Nichol Engineers, Donald MacDonald Architects
Opening date: Labor Day 2013
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Croteau said the increase in filing fees in civil cases, which will generate about $7 million annually, an increase of $1.3 million, will be used to pay the company providing the software and to maintain the system.
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A charity that was promoted by barefoot performances from North Dakota's two Division I men's basketball coaches is handing out shoes in Fargo.
Samaritan's Feet is a non-profit organization that provides new shoes for children. It was founded by a Nigerian native who attended college at Lake Region State in Devils Lake.
North Dakota State head coach Saul Phillips and University of North Dakota head coach Brian Jones helped raise money for the project by taking off their shoes when the teams played last December.
Program officials say as many as 300 pairs of shoes will be distributed Sunday afternoon during an event at the Fercho YMCA in downtown Fargo.
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Louisiana residents should be able to get lifetime concealed handgun permits, rather than have to reapply for the permits every five years, the House decided in a 64-19 vote Wednesday.
Permit holders would still have to meet education requirements every five years, but wouldn't have to submit a new application and fingerprints, under the proposal (House Bill 265) by Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Central.
Rather than pay a $125 fee every five years, the permit applicant would pay a one-time, $500 fee or a $250 fee if age 65 or older.
The bill heads next to the Senate for debate.
Here is how Houma-Thibodaux area representatives voted:
For: Truck Gisclair, D-Larose; Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville; Lenar Whitney, R-Houma; and Dee Richard, a Thibodaux independent.
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As a member of the U.S. Army, Norman Rudenick spent a lot of time walking from place to place.So, when trucks would roll in to take soldiers where they needed to go it was a treat.Rudenick is going to be treated to a ride this coming Friday night, he won't have to take one step, as he moves through the Women of Today community parade in Redwood Falls.The Women of Today named Rudenick as the parade grand marshal, and they are honoring him because of his service as a member of the U.S. military during World War II.Rudenick, who grew up in the Wabasso area, was drafted into the U.S. Army and received his basic training at Camp Wolters in Texas.There he began learning the finer points of being in the Infantry. Rudenick would train as a machine gunner.Rudenick, who began his stint in the Army in August 1942, left Redwood County on a bus headed for Fort Snelling with a number of other Redwood County residents.There he passed his physical and then was able to return home before heading south to Texas for 10 weeks.From Texas, Rudenick traveled west to California for additional training, and there he began the trek that would lead him to other locations, such as West Virginia, Alabama and New York on his way across the Atlantic Ocean.Rudenick was assigned to C Company, 137th Infantry, 35th Division. He said the division was based in Kansas, and the wagon wheel patch he has amongst his military medals represented that division.Rudenick said he traveled across the ocean and landed in England."When we were more than halfway there we were fired on," he said, adding that meant he and the other troops were forced below decks.On the shores of England Rudenick had more training before he crossed the English Channel in the second wave approaching Omaha Beach as part of the D-Day invasion.As a machine gunner and section leader, Rudenick had other men with him who helped him carry what he described as a pretty heavy machine gun, its tripod and the ammunition for the 30 caliber weapon.In addition to the machine gun, Rudenick had a carbine rifle and a pistol, and that means having to carry ammunition for those weapons, too.Rudenick and his men got to see the French countryside, but he said it was slow going as they constantly encountered German soldiers.Rudenick and his men moved into Germany and there during a skirmish he and others were separated from the rest, and soon after Rudenick was declared missing in action.Rudenick had been taken captive by the Germans November 23, 1944, which was Thanksgiving Day, and he spent time in prisoner of war camps until May 8, 1945.He recalled eating lots of rutabagas and Limburger cheese, adding when the camp he was at was freed he weighed just 99 pounds.Rudenick recalled his trip back across the Atlantic Ocean in a cattle ship."You would think they would have had something a little better for us," he said.That ship's prop went out five miles from New York and another ship had to come out and tow them to the harbor.Rudenick has a number of medals, including the Purple Heart for three injuries, he received during his service. He also received the Bronze Star.Rudenick said he is proud to have served and is glad he is being recognized by the community he has been a part as its parade grand marshal.
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Family Tree Magazine's September edition has been mailed, and it features its yearly best websites article. This year it's devoted to free websites.
You can see all the sites with click-on links by going to http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-Best-Websites-2010. The sites are broken down into catgeories on that page. Clicking a link category there will take you to a description of the those sites and, finally, a link to the site itself.
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The exact components of milk vary by species, but it contains significant amounts of saturated fat, protein and calcium. These amounts are not large in comparison to other foods rich in them, including coconuts, fish, and kale respectively, because milk is predominantly composed of water. Aquatic mammals, such as seals and whales, produce milk that is very rich in fats and other solid nutrients when compared with land mammals' milk. Most milk packs a nutritional punch and contains protein, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins A and D, LACTOSE (milk sugar) and riboflavin. On the minus side, milk's natural sodium content is quite high. Most milk sold in the United States today is PASTEURIZED, which means the microorganisms that cause diseases (such as salmonella and hepatitis) and spoilage have been destroyed by heating, then quick-cooling, the milk. Pasteurization eliminates the possibility of disease and gives milk a longer shelf life. Most commercial milk products have also been HOMOGENIZED, meaning that the milk fat globules have been broken down mechanically until they are evenly and imperceptibly distributed throughout the milk. The end result is that the CREAM does not separate from the milk and the liquid is uniformly smooth. Cow's milk is generally available in several varieties. In some countries these are: Full cream (or "whole" in US, "homo milk" in Canada & some US dairies, about 3.25% fat) Semi-skimmed ("reduced fat" or "low fat", about 1.5-1.8% fat) Skimmed (about 0.1% fat) Milk in the U.S. and Canada is sold as: Whole varieties 2% (reduced fat) 1% (low fat) <0.5% (very low fat) Skim (nearly no fat) or fat free In the United States, skim milk is also known as "fat free" milk, due to USDA regulations stating that any food with less than ½ gram of fat per serving can be labeled "fat free".


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Ethics, employment and free software
Like most people around the world, I have to work to earn a living. And again, like the vast majority of these people, often my work requires me to carry out tasks that I might otherwise find ethically problematic. As a supporter of free culture, I have often found it difficult to reconcile my own convictions on issues such as copyright and DRM with those of my employers. In my current job, this has not been a regular problem.


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Wildfire burns nearly 7 acres near Parkway
Published: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.
A spark from construction work on a home in Buncombe County Wednesday afternoon grew into a wildfire that torched 6.8 acres of land near the Blue Ridge Parkway, investigators say.
Seven crews battled flames that raced up the side of a mountain on Webb Cove Road in the Reems Creek Fire District around 2 p.m. The flames were mostly extinguished by 8:30 p.m. and crews returned Thursday morning to "mop up" the hot spots, according to District 1 Ranger David Walker of the N.C. Forest Service.
Firefighters arrived at about 2:15 p.m. The fire "spread pretty fast because it was going up the slope," Walker said. A development road in the path of the fire "slowed it down a while."
A pilot in a scout plane spotted about five homes that could be threatened by the blaze, but the fire was stopped before it reached them, he said. Firefighters used a Forest Service bulldozer to carve out containment lines.
Firefighters from departments in Swannanoa, Reems Creek, Beaverdam, Asheville, Reynolds and the Forest Service and young inmates trained in fire suppression through the N.C. Forest Service BRIDGE program battled the blaze on foot.
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Coach Jim Harbaugh didn't scold his players after the way they played against the Denver Broncos. Instead, he issued a clarion call.
"We need to make decisions on who to play," Harbaugh said after the Broncos beat the 49ers 34-0 on Sunday. "We're not going to keep experimenting. We need to tighten this down fast."
In other words, it's high time for young players to accelerate their development, nicked-up players to get healthy enough to play, backups to give way to proven veterans and coaches to settle upon the players that are going to be counted upon once the regular season starts Sept. 7.
The 49ers were off Monday. They resume practice Tuesday, with a game against the San Diego Chargers Sunday at Levi's Stadium.
Sure, the 49ers still have two exhibition games to play between now and the season opener against the Dallas Cowboys.
Projected starters don't tend to play much, if at all, in the exhibition finale. So Harbaugh and his staff get one more chance to get the front-line players meaningful playing time before the opener.
All the key offensive players got action against the Broncos, except for right guard Alex Boone and right offensive tackle Anthony Davis. Boone is holding out in hopes of getting a new contract. Davis is battling an injury.
Defensively, the 49ers played without five likely starters in linemen Justin Smith, Ray McDonald and Ian Williams, inside linebacker Patrick Willis and cornerback Tramaine Brock.
For now, it appears as if the defense is the more pressing concern for the 49ers, even though the starting offense managed only a field goal the first two games.
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick and company showed signs of rounding into form in limited action. The defense remains a work in progress.
In two games, the 49ers allowed 57 points and looked far from the dominant unit from the past three seasons.
The Baltimore Ravens marched 80 yards in 10 plays for a touchdown against the 49ers starting defense Aug. 7. The Broncos kicked a field goal and scored a touchdown on their first two drives Sunday, with most of the 49ers starting defense on the field.
Overall, Denver's Peyton Manning, Brock Osweiler and Zach Dysert completed 30 of 38 passes for 270 yards and three touchdowns for an out-of-this-world 122.6 passer rating.
Of particular concern, Manning moved the Broncos offense with ease. The 49ers looked confused at times, disjointed at others.
Cornerback Perrish Cox said not to make too much of what has happened so far.
"We're still putting it all together," Cox said. "We still got time but it's getting to the point where we need to jell. Once we get everyone on the field at the same time, you'll notice the difference."
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During the week of 22 September 2014, more than 20 UNDP Country Offices hosted events with national partners, colleagues and external experts to accelerate innovation for development. The SHIFT Week of Innovation Action is an initiative of UNDP's Innovation Facility. This Facility is designed to offer the organization and its collaborators across the globe with technical and financial support to explore and try new approaches to increasingly complex development challenges. more
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The key objective of KM in UNDP is to drive UNDP's global leadership in achieving the seven outcomes of the Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan 2014-2017 re-aligns UNDP's attention on a set of priority areas around Sustainable Development Pathways, Inclusive and Effective Democratic Governance and Resilience, to position UNDP more distinctively as a thought leader in the global development debate, and increase its impact on development results. more
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Mount Hope Elementary School in Lansing is gearing up for Walk to School Day on Oct. 2.
The walk promotes physical activity, concern for the environment, awareness of how walkable the community is, and what improvements can be made to make it easier for students to walk every day.
The walk also focuses on teaching students safe walking skills and identifying safe routes to school.
Mount Hope is one of 65 Michigan schools taking part in the state's first ever Walk to School Day.
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Tips for a Harmonious Visit to the Indoor Playground
An indoor playground is a place where both you and your child can let off some steam—provided, of course, you know what to do when conflicts flare up. To really figure out the ins and outs of indoor-playground etiquette, we first had to learn what parents have the most trouble dealing with. We began our research by gathering some frequently asked questions from parenting groups on Facebook. We asked these moms and dads for their own tips and tricks before taking their questions to two experts—one a playground owner, the other an assistant manager—and getting their opinion on what actually works. Their advice boils down to what we all learned in kindergarten, including such tried-and-true lessons as "sharing is caring" and "keep your hands to yourself." Many parents use trips to the indoor playground as gifts for kids who already have too many toys at home, so the key is encouraging children to think of it as a communal space rather than their own personal playground. Always Be Prepared Many parents shared a long list of things to bring: wipes, hand sanitizer, snacks, and treats. However, parents of multiples were a little more bare-bones in their approach. Said one mother of four, "With my first kid, I brought all that stuff. Now [all I bring is] a spray bottle of sanitizer to hose him down before getting into my car." Jessica Roubitchek, owner of Chicago's Purple Monkey Playroom (pictured in the photos), has a few more suggestions: shoes that come on and off easily, clothes that are OK to get wrecked, and an extra pair of socks. "It's always a good idea to keep a pair of your [own] socks in the diaper bag, too," she said. Roubitchek and our Facebook parents agreed that the most important thing to bring is an extra set of clothes. Even when they're potty-trained, kids can get distracted when they play. "And that's when accidents happen," Roubitchek warned. "We've had situations where we needed to lend a kid a costume to go home in." Show Your Kid How to Get the Most Out of Sharing Imagine your child slowly climbing up the ramp to a slide, allowing a long line to form behind him. It's only polite to teach your child not to dilly-dally, but it's also difficult when young ones have yet to learn empathy. Daniel Katz, the assistant manager of Chicago's Kid's Island, suggested a little bit of harmless manipulation. The trick is to show your kid how he stands to benefit from being polite. The faster he climbs up that side, after all, the faster his next turn will come up. Katz framed this in a way that might get through to your child: "Helping others is also helping yourself." Be Extra Polite Around Other Kids and Parents Dealing with conflicts between kids or parents is a sticky situation. What happens if someone's child is being too rough? What about that one little girl who's only interested in what other kids are playing with? And what if the parents aren't paying any attention to their little horror show? Many Facebook moms and dads advocated not saying anything and simply redirecting your child to a different part of the playground. When we asked Roubitchek, she suggested coming down to the other child's level and using a nonthreatening tone. "Sweetie," she advised saying to a pushy child, "you need to wait your turn. Where's your mom or dad?" Katz offered a slightly different approach: simply ask the offending child in a neutral tone, "Why are you doing that, Matthew?" Usually, parents' ears will perk up when they hear their own child's name. In any case, parents can be sensitive, so it's always best to approach a situation in a polite and nonjudgmental way. Keep Your Hands to Yourself When two kids really get into it, intervention is the best strategy for toddlers and younger children. "At this age," explained Roubitchek, "you want to avoid [it escalating to] hitting or pushing. … They need a lot of guidance, so it's OK to gently direct the way the situation should play out." Older kids, however, should probably learn how to work it out on their own. As one Facebook mom succinctly put it, "Kids need to learn how to deal with assholes. … It's really hard not to leap to your child's defense, but it's important to let kids figure these things out themselves." Of course, if you encounter a child that's too disruptive or a parent that's too hands-off, notify the staff. Part of their job, Katz said, is to stay on top of these situations. Clean Up After Your Kid During playtime, the staff is usually around to clean up the smaller messes. But if your child pulls all the costumes off the hooks or spills dolls all over the slide, you might want to help or gently nudge your child to put them back. Helping keep things neat extends to your own things, too—especially your stroller. "Not only does [folding up your stroller] make more space and less chaos," Roubitchek said, "it prevents the safety hazard of kids climbing into open strollers." Try to Relax a Little We'll let one Facebook mom sum it up: "Bring a friend and some coffee. Let your children roam. Every parent is there for the same reason: to catch a break." Photos by Stephanie Anderson, GrouponRead More


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Randolph hospital 'makes' budget, operating margin
For a 14th consecutive year, Gifford Medical Center in Randolph has completed its fiscal year "in the black" and on budget.
Gifford Administrator Joseph Woodin made the announcement to staff on Friday following a detailed auditor's review of the hospital's 2013 fiscal year finances. The fiscal year ended Oct. 31.
Specifically, the medical center achieved both its state-approved budget and operating margin. An operating margin is the money the medical center makes above expenses – usually by 2 to 3 percent – to reinvest in programs, staff and facilities.
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The Oak Ridge High School football team (7-2 overall, 6-1 District 3-AAA) returns to action tonight — Halloween Night — at home on Blankenship Field, as they face a tough competitor in visiting Anderson County High School (8-1 overall, 6-1 District 3-AAA).
In addition to this game being held on an earlier night, kickoff for this "Rivalry Thursday" game will begin at 7 p.m. and be televised on MyVLT2.
The Mavericks have been putting points up in bunches and, with a win, they would win the District outright since they defeated District leader Campbell County. Oak Ridge, on the other hand, needs a win over Anderson County and has to have Powell defeat Campbell County in order to win the District.
The Wildcats defeated Knoxville Central 24-13 last Friday at Fountain City. After relying on the offense to put up big numbers for much of the season, the Oak Ridge defense has stepped up late in the season; the Wildcats shut out Powell in the second half the week before last and they forced four turnovers on downs against Central.
"We're a young team," Oak Ridge coach Joe Gaddis said after the Central win. "Our defense is playing better now because we have nine games under our belt.
"The defense has played better against Powell and Central than they did against other teams earlier in the season. We're a little more mature now, we're a little older now, and we're a little more experienced now. I think that's the difference."
Prior to tonight's ball game, the Oak Ridge community is invited to enjoy Halloween activities at Blankenship Field. The Wildcat Football Boosters, along with the Oak Ridge Quarterback Club, the Boys Club Alumni Association and other partners will host a Trunk-or-Treat event from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the upper parking lot.
This free event will include treats, decorations, games and a Bounce House; children are encouraged to come dressed in their Halloween costume.
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Obama Continues to Reshape Staff Amid Stumbles
By Colleen McCain Nelson and Peter Nicholas
President Barack Obama continued to reshape his senior staff Friday with the announcement that Miguel Rodriguez would leave his job as legislative affairs director after less than a year in the post.
He will be replaced by Katie Beirne Fallon, a longtime aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), who came to the White House earlier this year as deputy director of communications.
The move is one of several recently announced staffing changes in the West Wing, and it comes as the president faces all-time high disapproval ratings and questions about his ability to manage. As the administration works to rebuild public confidence after the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov and jumpstart its domestic agenda, a handful of top aides are poised to join Mr. Obama's team.
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Longtime senior adviser Pete Rouse and White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler are planning to depart. Earlier this week, the administration said that John Podesta, a White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, would serve as counselor to Mr. Obama. The president also is bringing back Phil Schiliro, who previously served as legislative affairs director, for a short stint coordinating health-care policy.
And the White House has announced plans to create a permanent position overseeing HealthCare.gov, a role that Jeffrey Zients has filled since late October.
Friday's personnel move comes less than 11 months after the president tapped Mr. Rodriguez to serve as legislative affairs director. Since then, the White House has continued to hear a steady drumbeat of criticism about its outreach to Capitol Hill.
Lawmakers and aides from both parties have said that communication from the White House has been lacking and that Mr. Rodriguez hasn't been visible in this key position.
"Their operation is like Sasquatch," a senior Republican leadership aide said of the administration's outreach. "Some people swear it exists, but few if any have ever seen it."
Other Congressional aides described Mr. Rodriguez as a bit player whose role had been largely taken over by chief of staff Denis McDonough and deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors, who preceded Mr. Rodriguez in the job.
"The fact that they've had to make this change shows that there is something not right between the Hill and the White House," a Senate Democratic aide said Friday.
Hill Democrats applauded the arrival of Ms. Fallon.
"There's nobody – nobody – better suited for this job," Mr. Schumer said. "Katie has the great ability to listen and then bring people together, and will be able to convey the administration's message in strong but friendly terms to members of both parties."
Hill Democrats said that Mr. McDonough – not Mr. Rodriguez – often serves as a main conduit between the White House and Congress.
For example, after the U.S. struck a deal aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear program, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), said that she received several private briefings from Mr. McDonough.
Mr. McDonough also travels to the Hill to brief lawmakers on administration policy. One congressional aide recalls a meeting last month in the Capitol in which Democratic lawmakers gave him an earful on the failings of the healthcare.gov website.
"There was a lot of grief from members," the aide said. "McDonough was there, just taking it."
With Mr. McDonough taking on so many assignments, he's been stretched thin, people close to the White House say. Mr. Podesta's arrival could help ease the workload, though.
In a statement released Friday, the president praised Mr. Rodriguez, who has served in the Obama administration since day one. Mr. Obama also said Ms. Fallon "has the deep expertise and strong relationships required to build on the progress we've made this year and advance my top priority: creating jobs and expanding broad-based growth and opportunity for every American."


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One Dead, One Injured in Bartow Shooting
Published: Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 8:03 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 8:55 a.m.
BARTOW | An early morning encounter in an area known as a neighborhood hangout turned deadly Saturday for Tommie Devon Johnson, also known as TJ.
Johnson, 27, and Kenneth Thornton, 34, were on Britts Lane when shots were fired.
Bartow Police Department officers, responding to a report of a shooting, arrived a short time before 4 a.m.
Both Bartow residents had been shot, reportedly by two people in masks..
Johnson was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where he died, police said.
Thornton was taken to Bartow Regional Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. The hospital said he wasn't a patient there by Saturday evening.
Johnson lived at 1090 W. Forrest Drive in Bartow, according to Sgt. David Wyant,
People answering the phone at the address listed for Johnson declined to talk.
In response to an early Ledger report, however, someone posting as Latoya Andlady Crawford said "I cnt believe it just cnt make sense of my lil cuz is gone! It's a shame there no regard for human life. Whatever the situation was at the end of the day it wasn't worth taking a life that wasn't yours to take!"
Investigators said they believe there are two suspects, both of whom were wearing masks, Bay News 9 reported Saturday morning.
They hadn't established a motive or identified any suspects at that time. Wyant said later Saturday there wasn't any further information to release on the suspects.
Johnson had several previous run-ins with the Bartow Police Department, primarily for resisting an officer. Thornton has been arrested on charges of selling and possessing marijuana, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office website.
People with information about the crime can contact detectives at the Bartow Police Department, 863-534-5034. People who want to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-226-8477.
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Intimacy and Heart Disease: Talking with Your Partner
An intimate relationship is built on the ability to share feelings. This can be a problem for people who have found out that they have a heart problem. The stress and worry of your heart problem can upset this closeness, which is normal. It can even cause sexual problems that weren't there before. Ask your doctor when it is appropriate for you to resume sexual activity. Talking honestly with your partner is the first step to rebuilding intimacy. The tips below can help you get started.
Rebuilding intimacy
Talking to your partner about your feelings may be hard for you. But keeping them to yourself can make both of you feel alone. To rebuild intimacy, you both need to talk openly. This will help each of you understand and work through your feelings. It will also help reduce stress. When you talk:
Choose a time and a place when you are both relaxed.
Listen to each other. Then acknowledge each other's concerns. Remember not to interrupt or criticize.
Give each other support. This is a difficult time for both of you.
Notes to your partner
Listen to what your partner says. Try to be patient and supportive.
Talk openly about your own feelings, but don't blame them on your partner.
Remember that your feelings will pass. But it's still important to talk about them.
Know that having sex when you're both ready won't harm your partner.
When to get help
You and your partner may find it hard to talk about feelings. Or you may not be able to understand each other's feelings. That's when another person can help.
Try talking together with a doctor, nurse, or counselor. Or you might want to join a cardiac support group or talk with a friend.
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Bill Frazier is 79 years old. He sits in a relatively empty makeshift waiting room at the Ingham County Health Department on Monday for his latest vaccine.
"I'm getting the regular pneumonia shot. I didn't know how old I was getting. Time goes by fast," said Frazier.
It's been about 10 years since Frazier's last pneumonia shot, which is about average. He's in luck because there was a special adult immunization clinic on Monday at the health department. But many adults, Frazier's age and younger, don't stay current with their vaccines.
"People think when they get their immunizations as a kid that they're done," said Marcus Cheatham of the Ingham County Health Department. "They don't realize that things like Rubella, Pertussis --- you need boosters."
Chantelle Davis is one of those people. She brought in her daughter to get several shots for school but didn't see if she, herself is up to date.
"I don't feel like I need them. Well, I know I need them but I'm all up to date, I think," said Davis.
She didn't sound convincing and she wasn't convinced herself but she let it pass this time around.
It usually just takes a quick check from an online system to see if patients have all their shots. The Michigan Care System automatically knows what shots you're missing. Cheatham said more times than not, the adults will have their children checked out but will forget to check themselves.
Anne Grevstad came into the health department on Monday to get her pertussis, or whooping cough shot. She says her husband, who has asthma, is next.
"When I mention to people I'm going to get my whooping cough shot they say, 'Well, didn't you get that as a child?' And I say I think it expires after so many years."
It does expire. Many vaccines require booster shots. The Ingham County Health Department is recommending that all adults stay current with their vaccines. The critical ones on their list are: Pertussis, which has been on the rise and can be deadly to infants and young children, Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, Hepatits A and B, Pneumonia, Tetanus and Shingles. Some require boosters every 10 years.
"Contagious disease used to be the leading killer in adults and now it's not and the reason is because vaccines really work," said Cheatham.
But of course they only work if adults are willing to take them.
Vaccines are still being offered for little or no cost at the health department. For more information see the link below.


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Spoiler alert! That's what we'd call the moment your future brother-in-law Facebooks a pic of your fiancé in the process of proposing. Live-posting someone else's engagement is a bold move reserved for the truly splashy, allowing the world to see the exact moment the q was popped, and how everyone else was reacting when he got down on one knee (namely Dad turning white and Grandma catching zzz's at the table). Still, usually yields around 100 "likes!"
Floating hands—no arms, no faces—sporting cushion cut diamonds. Zoomed so close, you can almost compute the carat weight! (The Lo-Fi filter makes it shine all the brighter...) It's so common at this point we might wonder if he even got you a ring if you didn't Instagram it. But admittedly, we're not above clicking on our elementary school dance class partner who we haven't spoken to in 10 years' ring pic for a closer look at what's up.


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The construction drawings on the RI DOT website have a label that i took to mean the jetties are just temporary structures to allow the barges to offload the armor rock to be placed at the cliff bottom.
On NESURF.com:
"Dave McLaughlin, founder of Clean Ocean Access had this to say about the proposals and timeline of the project: The entire work effort is split into 27 zones, [and] the estimated duration of the project is six months. When I reviewed these plans on March 20th, I questioned the rectangles offshore [and] was told they were the access points for the barge to offload the material on the shoreline there was no talk of jetties. If the concept of a jetty was known, that issue would have surfaced 11 days ago. On the plans I saw, it called for five to ten feet of armor stone, but the CRMC permit request disclosed the information more explicitly by indicating the rock will extend to 2.43 feet below mean high tide water mark. If youve ever walked out at Ruggles at low tide (which is about -0.5 on average), to get to -2.43 feet is about 10 feet past the natural rock.
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even if the jetties are not permanent there is no way they will get all the rocks out when they go to remove them. it willl still change the bottom contour and ruin the break. on another note anyone get out at ruggles today. I didnt make it down but looked like it might have been decentt today.
Guys, quit relying on the lamestream media. You thought RIDOT was the reason why Ruggles is done? Let me introduce you to the real culprit---a piece of legislation that "slipped" through the cracks of the dilligent RI media: Tanner's Law.
Well, it all started in early August 2012 on an foggy morning in Narragansett. Tanner Broeman was having trouble sleeping in the Point Judith vacation home that his family had rented for a week. The air was salty and opressively humid. The foghorn bellowed its long and dull warning. Tanner decided to take a walk down to the lighthouse and saw something that changed his life, and the lives of Rhode Island surfers, forever. There were waves. A small front had pushed through the previous night and Tanner treated himself to a morning of wave-watching. Old surfers, young surfers, shortboarders and Stand Up Paddlebourders descended on the point, wave starved and ready to get radical. Growing up in Old Saybrook, Tanner had never seen anything like what he witnessed on that fateful August morning. He returned to the rented house and greeted his puzzled father with the words, "Dad, I think I want to be a surfer."
So after breakfast they left the house and went down to the local surf shop. Tanner scored a brand new ...Lo5t plank, Mirage (like wearing nothing) boardies, some wax, and headed down to the point. Said Tanner's father Grill Vogel-Broeman, who adopted his wife's surname, "I was a little scared when he first mentioned surfing. I remembered the types of people who engaged in that activity that I'd seen from vacationing in Rhode Island: Their cars littered with stickers, their language nearly unintelligible, their skin tanned and leathery. I was scared."
Tanner willed his way into the lineup. Failure was not an option. After breaking through the weak windswell, he made it and sat on his board admiring the lighthouse and his own determination. What followed changed surfing as we know it in the Ocean State: somebody noticed Tanner struggling to assert himself in the lineup and when a waist-high runner came through, the seasoned surfer signalled for Tanner to take the wave. In a stunning moment of courage and sticktuitiveness, Tanner paddled hard and made it to his feet. But he couldn't turn. Heading straight for a boil, Tanner lost his cool and jumped, landing straight on top of a barnacled boulder. Something felt wrong---he looked down and noticed that his new boardies had ripped from the knee to the thigh. He had also broken two fins. Disoriented and shocked, Tanner went home and hasn't been seen in Narragansett since that day.
"I just couldn't believe it, I was really stunned," said Priscilla Broeman. "How could anyone design a surfbourding area that incorporated rocks? It just seems so counterintuitive," she later opined. But Priscilla didn't stop there. She decided to stand up for her son and for the vacationers who enjoy Rhode Island for almost three months every year. "I called the State House in Providence and said that this has to stop. Surfbourding should not be done anywhere near large stones or rocks. I became and remain a strong proponent of over-sand surfing and am prepared to take my findings to any legislature that will listen," said Ms. Broeman, a Brown graduate who double majored in Progression and Green Activities who know owns an antique shop. "People don't understand how dangerous that non-over-sand surfing can be. What if Tanner's body was injured? What if his board was punctured? My imagination has been running wild ever since that August Day," continued Ms. Broeman who has been seeing a specialist for PTNOSSD(post traumatic non-over sand surfing disorder).
On March 31, Tanner's Law became a reality. After calling an emergency session, the legislature unanimously approved the bill which calls for jetty constuction at all rock-bottom surfbourding areas in Rhode Island. The bill approves a trial run of jetties to be built at Ruggles, Point Judith, and Matunuck and will extend to all secret and worthwile surfing areas at a later date. "I'm just glad because people really don't know what's best for them sometimes," said Ms. Broeman. "I think this initiative will bring some closure into our lives," added Mr. Vogel-Broeman.
As for Tanner, he's given up surfing, but every summer when he hears the foghorn he remembers his brush with danger. Said Tanner, "I can't forget about it but I can forgive. I just want everything to be back to normal."
I'm just hoping they don't plan on ruining 2nd beach at some point in the future by "replenishing" it. One of the VERY few sand bars that doesn't usually close out and has a really good wave shape. Ruggles can get good, but it needs a long period swell and is a big wave spot. 2nd is consistently good and relied on for most of the surfing in the area as can be seen by the huge crowds it gets. I'm just thankful at least their not ruining 2nd then we'd really be screwed.
That being said, I really hope people can stop this crap from happening.
Is this Tanner's law thing for real? Did I read that post right?
We here at Thunderbomb surf camp are completely against the RI DOT plans for ruggles.
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Funny. We heard the Japanese announcement for fire first. I was halfway out the door before the English translation kicked in. Sleepy as I was, I had somehow managed to grab my laptop, my glasses and my jacket...
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Issue 16 of FSM came out a few days ago. The PDF version went out as well, but... out of the window! A lot of people, including myself, cried and asked for it to come back.
I am now writing this open letter to Tony, asking him to just discard many of the requests that wanted the PDF back.
Dear Tony
I was puzzled when you announced that we won't have PDF issues anymore. Many others felt the same. Probably your editorial didn't help me and other people to realize what was under the hood.
Until you finally wrote your explanatory blog entry. You had nothing against the PDF format "per se", but:
Basically, we cannot afford (either time or money) to continue producing PDFs. This decision wasn't sudden - we kept working on the PDF versions as long as we could. However, given the circumstances, I must say that the decision is final.
At that point, I thought the thing was clear: producing PDFs requires time; putting the PDFs on the website available to download requires bandwidth; time and bandwidth require money; there wasn't enough money for the PDF to be produced.
Once upon a time I was a mathematician, but that's a pretty easy equation, isn't it?
You may have noticed from the start that FSM is different from many magazines that are around on the web. It's different also in its way of asking for your help: it doesn't need 50$/year subscribers, it needs happy readers that want to help it as much as they can: if you can give just 10$/year, do it; if you can give 100$/year, do the same. If you can contribute great articles, also consider doing that straight away.
Six days have passed. Did you get any donations? No, you said. But you got a number of other "give me back the PDFs or I'll stop reading your mag" instead.
In Italy, as you know, we have a proverb that roughly says "the worst deaf person is the one who doesn't want to listen"; you may have it in English as well, but it's not important now.
Tony, just discard them all and go right ahead. You explained the problem, you asked for help, you got nothing. You don't need baby readers that cry and beat their feet on the floor because you took their toy away... That wasn't actually their toy.
In my personal opinion, there are just two ways to bring the PDFs back. The first, as said, is receiving donations. The other would be to have people who take the source of each issue and your code, and volunteer to make the PDF. If none of these options are doable, just don't listen to the deaf men and go ahead. FSM is and will be a great magazine as long as you and the other staff keep up the good work.
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1) Figure out how much the PDF costs to produce
2) Figure out how many of those who downloaded the last one would pay for a copy, e.g. 1%.
3) Visit Fundable.org and create the appropriate group action.
4) If the fund is achieved, collect the money and produce the PDF (for all). If not, no one pays anything.
For example, let's say the PDF cost $1,000 to produce. Let's say it got downloaded by 10,000 readers. Let's say only 100 readers would be prepared to pay. That makes it $10 per reader.
You can tweak the amounts, e.g. try for 200 paying $5.
You don't have to do it per issue, but per annum - to cut transaction overheads.
If you have 800 paying $15 for a year's subscription - that could be cheaper.
My point is that perhaps if you create a collective bargain there'll be more take up than people charitably donating only to find that you're still short of funds to produce the PDFs they want.
It's a choice between a bargain (money for PDFs - or no deal) or charity (money for a warm feeling and possibly a fruitful outcome).
Would be an interesting experiment. I wasn't a PDF downloader, but I'd pledge some money in support of this, wanting to see alternate payment methods succeed.
(Which I guess makes my contribution a cross between charity and investment in free culture.) :-)
Yeah, that's a good idea
I posted on Dave Guard's thread about "passing the hat", this is basically one way to do that -- collect funds until it's possible to create a PDF.
In fact, it might be even more sensible to approach the problem as "funding each issue".
Rather than creating "issues" on a monthly basis, continue to accumulated content on the website. Then raise pledges to support an issue (provide some kind of "thermometer" graphic, for example, to give people an idea of how much is needed). Then when you raise enough cash, pay for the process of creating that issue. You could even include the payments for commissioned authors in this budget.
Then you just release an issue whenever the readership is willing to pay for it.
It's important to emphasise that no money changes hands until the delivery of the product in exchange can be assured - and that no work is commenced until there's enough money.
More info on Assurance Contracts at WikiPedia.
would anybody buy it?
A nice idea and - like most of the economical solutions to this problem I have seen - it works in theory. I'm not sure it would work in practice though because it relies on the premise that the readers who want PDF are prepared to pay for them - or at least enough of them are.
I'm not sure that given the opportunity to purchase a PDF or read a zero cost online edition whether most of those 100 people wouldn't just plumb for the latter anyway. People will say "I'll pay for it" but would enough of them - I think not and the experience of this magazine seems to confirm this. I think it's likely that most of the people who have whined on Tony's original editorial want PDFs at zero cost rather than PDFs per se. Let's be honest most people would, given the option, go for zero cost content in the first instance anyway and once they had that why would they start paying for it?
Personally I can't see the point of PDFs in this situation. All the arguments I have seen for PDF versions can be met by the existing online version and a few moments work by the person who actually wants them.
You may well be right
This is why Fundable.org is a safe bet. If there aren't enough people pledging, then no-one pays anything, and no-one wastes any time producing PDFs that there is an insufficient demand for.
I think I downloaded a PDF once - just to see what I was missing. But, I'm ready to believe that there are loads of FSM readers who'd love to print out a copy so that they can read it on their train to work each day.
Who knows?
Perhaps this is a candidate for a Poll?
How much do you want the PDFs back?
1) I would pay $40 or more for a year's subscription.
2) I would pay $20-39 for a year's subscription.
3) I would pay $10-19 for a year's subscription.
4) I would pay $5-9 for a year's subscription.
5) I wouldn't buy a subscription, but I might buy copies occasionally for $5 each
6) I'd search for copies subscribers posted elsewhere
7) FSM should be free - I'll go elsewhere if you start charging people for PDFs
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