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A native of New Jersey, pediatrician Dr. Robert Smith is returning to the Northeast after 21 years spent as a U.S. Army doctor in Texas, Germany and Afghanistan.
Dr. Smith has joined Gifford Medical Center's Randolph pediatric practice, bringing his decades of experience, commitment to continuity of care and warm sense of humor to Vermont families.
A graduate of Drew University in Madison, N.J., Dr. Smith went on to earn his master's degree from the University of Vermont and then his doctor of osteopathic medicine from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine. His pediatric internship and residency were at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.
Joining the Army helped provide scholarship money for Dr. Smith, then a young husband and father, to attend medical school and also allowed him to serve his country while seeing some of the world. He started his career in Texas and then moved to Germany in 1998, serving the majority of his career there as the head of pediatrics departments, primary care offices and health clinics at various U.S. military bases.
His most recent position was as chief of the Department of Pediatrics at the U.S. Army MEDDAC (Medical Department Activity) in Heidelberg, Germany and as a pediatric consultant to Europe Regional Medical Command.
From 2010-2011, he was in Kandahar, serving as a brigade surgeon. It was actually during down time in Afghanistan that Dr. Smith shopped for and bought his current home in Vermont.
He had maintained residency in Vermont since first going to college here in the 1980s and hoped to return upon his military retirement. That came just this month. He left Germany on July 1 and started at Gifford a week later on July 8.
"It's a friendly hospital. It's a great area," says Dr. Smith with excitement over being able to practice medicine in a small community where he can build relationships with his young patients and their families.
Dr. Smith describes his style as warm and trusting. "The best compliment I've ever had is a child who said 'Mommy, this guy is funny.'"
That humor leads to children being comfortable receiving care.
Dr. Smith provides care to children from birth through adolescents. Of special interest is ADHD, asthma, infectious disease and sports medicine or sports injuries, he notes.
Dr. Smith is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a fellow with the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the American Osteopathic Association. He has garnered many awards throughout his career, including the Bronze Star Medal in 2011, an Order of Military Medical Merit in 2004, the American Academy of Pediatrics' Young Outstanding Uniformed Staff Pediatrician Award in 2002, multiple Meritorious Service Medals, the Army Commendation Medal, three Army Achievement Medals and much more.
Dr. Smith lives in Fayston. He and wife Rosemarie have four children, two daughters who are married, a third in nursing school and a 10-year-old son. In his free time, Dr. Smith enjoys the outdoors, including downhill skiing, gardening, camping and hiking.
He is now accepting new patients. Call him at Gifford pediatrics at (802) 728-2420.


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ST. LOUIS -- Edith Eileen Parsons, 86, formerly of Sikeston, died at 2:15 p.m. April 23, 2007, at National Health Care in St. Louis.
Born Aug. 9, 1920, in Newton County, Ark., to the late C.A. and Ada Adella Young Ewing, she was a housewife, homemaker and member of the First Baptist Church in Blodgett.
On March 11, 1939, in Lamar, Ark., she married John Wesley Parsons who preceded her in death on Dec. 23, 1993.
One brother and one sister also preceded her in death.
Survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, Delbert and Wanda Parsons of Bertrand; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Velma Stewart of Bertrand, Doris and Ed Rushing of St. Charles and Jane and Michael Fewless of Aransas Pass, Texas; and 10 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and one great-
Visitation is scheduled from 5-8 p.m. Friday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston where services will conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday. The Rev. Glenn Cantrell, pastor of the Sikeston Community Church, will officiate.
Burial will follow in the New Morley Cemetery.

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Chu May Join Rare Ranks of Nobel-Winning Cabinet Secretaries
Brad Haynes reports on the transition.
If Steven Chu is confirmed as Barack Obama's Energy Secretary, the Berkeley physicist would be going from the thin ranks of Nobel laureates to the even rarer air of Nobel-winning Cabinet secretaries.
An early advocate for scientific solutions to climate change, Chu is currently the director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which focuses on renewable energy research. While at Stanford in 1997, he was one of three scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing methods of cooling and trapping atoms with lasers.
At least one other Nobel prize winner has served in a president's Cabinet, as Henry Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his work on a cease fire in Vietnam while he was Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor. Months before, Kissinger also became Secretary of State, where he served until 1977.
Three other Secretaries of State won the Peace Prize after leaving office, including Cordell Hull, who won the award in 1945 for his work on the founding of the United Nations under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson won the Peace Prize while in office, and former President Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002 for his decades of diplomacy and human-rights work since leaving office. More recently, former Vice President Al Gore shared the Peace Prize last year for raising awareness of climate change.
While Chu's prize in science sets him apart, he has plenty of peers eager to do what they can for Obama. In October, 76 Nobel laureates in science endorsed the Democratic nominee, excoriating the Bush administration's perceived disdain for science.
Of course, along with Chu's distinguished curriculum vitae comes a record of strong scientific arguments, including a position that may not gibe with President-elect Obama's advocacy of corn-based ethanol. In making the case for grass and waste-based biofuels at a meeting of state agriculture departments in North Dakota this fall, Chu knocked corn ethanol for its up-front energy costs and competition with food supply.


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If the Road Runs Out is actually a reworking of Iowa native Tom Wurth's self-titled 2006 debut, with songs added, dropped and shuffled around to produce what is an allover stronger and more focused collection. Among the new tracks is "Almost Died Today," an autobiographical ballad that addresses Tom's history of having endured three near-fatal car crashes since his teenage years. It's a fine song, but Tom actually shines brightest on more up-tempo tunes like "Bread on the Table" and "Good Ground"—songs that also happen to address serious issues, albeit in a less direct fashion.
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Slow reading
|It has been suggested that this article be merged into Slow movement (culture). (Discuss) Proposed since August 2015.
Slow reading is the intentional reduction in the speed of reading, carried out to increase comprehension or pleasure. The concept appears to have originated in the study of philosophy and literature as a technique to more fully comprehend and appreciate a complex text. More recently, there has been increased interest in slow reading as result of the slow movement and its focus on decelerating the pace of modern life.[citation needed]
Related terms[edit]
The use of slow reading in literary criticism is sometimes referred to as close reading. Of less common usage is the term, "deep reading" (Birkerts, 1994). Slow reading is contrasted with speed reading which involves techniques to increase the rate of reading without adversely affecting comprehension, and contrasted with skimming which employs visual page cues to increase reading speed.[citation needed]
Philosophy and literature[edit]
The earliest reference to slow reading appears to be in Nietzsche's (1887) preface to Daybreak: "It is not for nothing that one has been a philologist, perhaps one is a philologist still, that is to say, a teacher of slow reading."[1]
Birkerts (1994) stated "Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book." His statement speaks to the idea that slow reading is not merely about slowing down, but about controlling the pace of reading. Slow readers may speed up at times, and then slow down for the more difficult or pleasurable portions of a text.
The importance of personal control over the speed of reading is echoed by Pullman (2004) who argued that slow reading is needed to reinforce democracy in America. Part of its democratic nature is that the manner of reading is not determined by someone else: "we can skim, or we can read it slowly". A similar view was stated by Postman (1985) who noted the character of the ordinary citizen of the 19th century, a mind that could listen for hours on end to political orations clearly shaped by a culture favouring text. Postman warns that reading books is important for developing rational thinking and political astuteness.
Lindsay Waters, Executive Editor for the Humanities at Harvard University Press, declared a worldwide reading crisis resulting from our global push toward productivity. He asserts that young children are learning to read faster, skipping phonetics and diagramming sentences, and concludes that these children will not grow up to read Milton. He foresees the end of graduate English literature programs. "There is something similar between a reading method that focuses primarily on the bottom-line meaning of a story in a novel and the economic emphasis on the bottom line that makes automobile manufacturers speed up assembly lines." He advised re-introducing time into reading: "The mighty imperative is to speed everything up, but there might be some advantage in slowing things down. People are trying slow eating. Why not slow reading?" (2007).
Slow movement[edit]
Carl Honoré wrote the best-selling book about the slow movement, In Praise of Slowness. Honoré's interest in the slow movement began one day in an airport when he saw a book called The One-Minute Bedtime Story. At first it struck him as brilliant — the cure to his nightly tug-of-war with his son's demands for more stories — then the absurdity of his fast lifestyle called him to his senses. The slow movement acknowledges that "speed has helped to remake our world in ways that are wonderful and liberating" (2004) but our obsession with speed has turned into an addiction. "When you accelerate things that should not be accelerated, when you forget how to slow down, there is a price to pay." Slow reading is recommended as one of several practices to decelerate from the fast pace of modern life. Jennings (2005) also discussed the book.
Slow reading from this perspective is somewhat different from its tradition in philosophy and literature. As a practice for achieving balance, slow reading often involves reading light material at a relaxed pace for pleasure, and not just complex materials read slowly for insight. Also, the slow movement has a strong theme of locality. Most notably, the slow food movement encourages buying local foods. With slow reading, this idea takes the form of encouraging local authors, micro-publishing of materials of local interest, and community building around local libraries and reading events.
The Slow Book Movement was officially founded in Lebanon Springs, NY, in November, 2009, by novelist I. Alexander Olchowski. In the midst of becoming a nonprofit entity, this movement aims to actively promote the act of slowing down to read books. In addition to the Founding Director, Mr. Olchowski, The Slow Book Movement's Assistant Director is Amanda Giracca. [2]
A number of research studies exist on the problematic aspects of involuntary slow reading. For example, Wimmer (1996) found that a slow reading rate in children indicates a lack of fluency and is a predictor of dyslexia. A few studies demonstrate the positive value of voluntary slow reading, the type of reading defined in this entry. Nell (1988) showed that there is substantial rate variability during natural reading, with most-liked pages being read significantly slower. Sherry Jr. and Schouten (2002) suggested that close reading could have commercial application as a research method for the use of poetry in marketing. Contrary to the claims of advocates of speed-reading, there is evidence that subvocalization has no observable negative effect on the reading process, and may in fact aid comprehension (Carver, 1990).
There is a fair body of literature in the area of bibliotherapy, a practice involving the selection of materials for therapeutic purposes. The process often involves emotional identification with reading material, and thoughtful discussion with a professional; as such it is a type of slow reading.
The increasing ubiquity of high-availability, 'always on' instant communication technologies, such as texting and social media like Facebook and Twitter, may be contributing to the decline of slow reading (Casey, 2011).
- Miedema, John (2009). Slow Reading. Los Angeles, CA: Litwin Books.
- Newkirk, Thomas (2011). The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books.
- Sire, James (1978). How to Read Slowly. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
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- ^ "Man ist nicht umsonst Philologe gewesen, man ist es vielleicht noch, das will sagen, ein Lehrer des langsamen Lesens: — endlich schreibt man auch langsam." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Morgenröte: Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile (1881)
- ^ Slow Book Movement official website.
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- Birkerts, Sven. (1994). The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Boston: Faber and Faber. Selected passages, Open Book Systems
- Carver, Ronald, P. (1990). Reading Rate: A Review of Research and Theory. San Diego: Academic Press.
- Casey, Laura (January 5, 2011). Is deep reading in trouble?Contra Costa Times.
- Honoré, Carl (2004). In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Changing the Cult of Speed. Vintage Canada. About the book In Praise Of Slow, Carl Honoré
- Jennings, Lane (2005). Slow Is Beautiful: Living as If Life Really Mattered. Futurist, 39(2) (Mar/Apr 2005): p. 12-13.
- Nell, V. (1988). The Psychology of Reading for Pleasure: Needs and Gratifications. Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter, 1988), pp. 6-50.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (1887). Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality. 2nd Edition.
- Postman, Neil (1985). Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. NY: Penguin.
- Pullman, P. (2004). The War on Words. Guardian Review, November 6, 2004. On-line
- Sherry, John F, Jr. and Schouten John W. (2002). A Role for Poetry in Consumer Research. Journal of Consumer Research, 29(2), 218-234.
- Waters, Lindsay (2007), Time for Reading, Chronicle of Higher Education, 53(23). On-line (subscription required)
- Wimmer, Heinz (1996). The Early Manifestation of Developmental Dyslexia: Evidence from German children. Reading and Writing, 8(2).


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Stony Brook to join CAA Football in 2013
A new era of Stony Brook Football in the premier FCS conference to begin in 2013.
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The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Source: H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is.
Source: Autobiographical Notes
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
Source: Paul A. Schilpp (ed.) Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist, Evanston, 1949.
One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
Source: Letter to Max Born, December 4, 1926
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
There is a theory of societal evolution that goes like this: Barbarians invent a new culture. A middle class emerges to manage and help perpetuate the culture. An aristocracy eventually develops out of the middle class and devotes their energies to making things comfortable for themselves. Finally, a new set of barbarians smash everything apart and destroy the status quo so that the process must start all over again.
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Happy Bankers Sound a Cautious Note
DAVOS — Were it not for the icy sidewalks, bankers in Davos would be doing victory laps.
In 2011 and 2012, the World Economic Forum´s annual meeting was the stage for lugubrious recitations of Europe's financial ills among the global elite. This year, though, the annual Alpine jaunt glowed a rosier hue.
The euro is still intact, huge amount of monetary stimulus by the European Central Bank and other authorities have allayed the markets' fears of sovereign defaults, and banks look a lot healthier and better capitalized than in the recent past.
"The actions by the various European actors have convinced the market that the whole idea of a euro break-up is not on the agenda anymore," said a visibly relieved top European banker.
Other Davos veterans concurred, pointing out that the ECB's actions had taken catastrophic risks such as a default by Spain or Italy or the collapse of a big bank off the table. Investors' animal spirit, they reasoned, will do the rest, luring more and more fund managers to assets such as Spanish bonds and Italian bank shares they wouldn't have touched with a ten-foot pole a few months ago.
"The tail risks are gone and there is a lot less pessimism around," said a senior U.S. banker.
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This week Jacques Nacer, secretary general of the club and head of Corsica's chamber of commerce, became the 17th person shot dead in Corsica this year in a troubling spate of high-profile murders.
Nacer had been on the board since replacing Antoine Nivaggioni, who himself was killed in October 2010.
Last month Antoine Sollacaro, a lawyer who was also close to Ajaccio, was shot dead at a petrol station.
Orsoni is a former leader of the Corsican independence movement and survived an attempted murder in 2008. He is under investigation in relation to a killing in 2009.
Speaking to Le Parisien newspaper, Orsoni said he felt "condemned to death by rumours" and declared himself a "priority target".
He said: "Of course I'm scared. I have a family, children, a 78-year-old mother who trembles every day when she reads the papers.
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In past summers, Pikes Peak Writers presented the literary version of American Idol, complete with celebrity judges and fabulous prizes.
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By Barb Dyess
Were you one of the 19 contestants who chose to stand up with knocking knees before an audience and read aloud from your written work for two whole minutesand then endure comments given by three professionals in the writing business? If so, kudos to you!
Our judges, Trai Cartwright, Ange Tysdal, and Carolyn Sobczak, offered their impressions with big-hearted and upbeat doses of skill, intelligence, and insight. All three judges reported later that they were very pleased with the quality of work seen at Icon. And now I want to know: what about the firewood? The internal life of men is always interesting… Multi-Dimensional is going to be everywhere in the next few years. I mean, it is going to be hot. Cannibalism is hard to sell. People dont like to read about eating other people, but personally I love it! Easily-read sentences mean the writing is good.
Emcee Jodi Anderson offered her usual quirky charm, and M.B. Partlows cowbell kept the contestants on schedule. The range of material covered multiple genres; the range of the writers was even more diverse. An added bonus was that about one-third of the readersseveral of whom won prizes for their jaw-dropping talentwere younger writers. Jumping right into the story/action gives you a ton of leeway; to go forward in thought, to go back in remembering. Its mimetic for me. Transcendence is memoir, which also needs a story conceit. Your descriptions are kind of Virginia Woolf-y
Lynde Iozzo, an English teacher and first-time contestant, was thrilled to get comments live and in-person since she lives in a remote locale and has limited access to critiquing. Dylan Thompson thought the judges were a little too nice, and wanted to hear more of what was wrong with his work. A happy Anita Romero said it was an incredible difference from her Icon feedback of four years ago. You write physicality very well! Dystopian worlds fascinate me Intriguing logline loved your Voice pacing is just right. I dont mind a slow build, if the voice intrigues me and the writing is good. While the judges conferred, departing PPW President Ron Heimbecher was honored for his many contributions to the organization.
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Go to all of the restaurants in your area. Ask the manager if they have someone to sharpen their knives. You can offer to sharpen a couple of them for free so they can see what you can do for them. I charge restaurants $3 per knife. Try to set up a sharpening schedule with your customers, once each month, every 2 weeks or every week. Schedule 1 day of the week at a time. when you think you have all that you can do in 1 day, start scheduling another day of the week. Try not to book restaurants for Friday, Saturday or Sunday. These are the days when most big events are scheduled.
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The gospel of Mark shares a story where Jesus interacts with a man who has asked him to heal his son "if he can". When Jesus challenges him on his faith the man anguishes "I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief". (Mark 9:24) This tension describes a crisis to which I think many of us can relate. There may be times in our life in which we are overcome with the mystery and poignancy of life, beauty and love and whole heartedly commit ourselves to the community and system of faith where we encounter celebration of this mystery. But, there are other times when we wonder, as in the children's fable, "is the emperor wearing any clothes?"
My own crisis of belief plays out in several contexts. When religious and scientific communities frame their explanations in ways that demand skepticism towards the other I think we experience a lose-lose double-bind. When faith communities define rules of inclusion and exclusion and allocate privileges based on those rules, compassion is compromised. Finally, I am skeptical that "belief" makes me a better person than my neighbor. I am fairly good at cognitive dissonance. I engaged these concerns as interesting theoretical and theological discussion for most of my life while being careful not to compromise my self-identity as an insider. But as many of those whom I care about no longer chose to "play the game," my exploration became more pragmatic, urgent and personal.
In The Case for God, Karen Armstrong warns us that religion fails in two ways. When faith becomes assent to a particular set of propositions, absolutely knowable, then religion becomes particularized, rooted in a given culture and context, reduced to an idol, and too brittle to morph with the progress of history, culture and generations. Idols break. On the other hand, when religious ideas are abstracted, made too theoretical and philosophical, become mythologies, they fail to engage us. We do not invest.
As I have been struggling with a way to think and speak about gospel in a way that engages us here in our 21st century I am very aware of the problem that Dr. Armstrong describes. If the gospel is for the select few, to whom true knowledge has been revealed, it becomes an incredible idolatry, a game board on which a few play out a shared fiction, irrelevant for most of the world. On this game board, like in a movie, we can suspend disbelief for a while, even for a lifetime. On the other hand, if the gospel (incarnation, suffering, redemption, and spirit) becomes just a set of metaphors for attempting to invest meaning in a set of biochemical processes, then why bother. We can share a few moments of wistfulness, how beautiful, how poignant, how self-soothing, but then back to the rat race on whose backs we are just fleas. Paul says it well. "And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; … If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied." 1 Corinthians 15:17-19.
So, what is the gospel I seek? I am inspired by the idea that the human enterprise is the overcoming of suffering, evil and dealth to fully express love, life and beauty. I hope/believe that this human enterprise is both response to and empowered in the gospel. I hope/believe that the dimensions of the Jesus story: incarnation, suffering, resurrection, and spirit are powerful explanations of the embeddedness of gospel in this universe. But, I suspect that I think way too small about all of this. The New Testament writers often talk about gospel as "already, not yet" – a gospel that was real in the past, is becoming real in every moment today, and an anticipated realization of the eschaton – the horizon of the future. A sense of the space/time scale of the universe tells us that we have barely begun our knowing of gospel.
Jesus said "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it." Matthew 13:44-46.
I want to hunt gospel (beauty, love, life) with all of you along roads, worlds, and futures unknown. You in?
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Good stuff! I'm in. The shift from Creed to Credo (or better Credemus, "we trust"), from faith to hope, from Christ to Spirit of Christ – all needed.
[...] 8, 2012 By peteenns Leave a CommentOver at GospelFutures, Peter Kress is on a hunt for the Gospel.Which raises the natural question, "What the heck are you talking about?"Kress explains [...]
I think I'm in. This reminds me of Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, Martyr. Unamuno begins with I Cor. 15:19, and much of the story is a depiction of Mark 9:24. If your not familiar with it you may find in it a fellow traveler of sorts.
I know I'm a bit late with this but I would appreciate some feedback regarding the following comment you made:
"If the gospel is for the select few, to whom true knowledge has been revealed, it becomes an incredible idolatry, a game board on which a few play out a shared fiction, irrelevant for most of the world."
I take issue with the above because you seem to believe that God supernaturally regenerating the elect by the power of the Holy Spirit is little more than "fiction". Can you please shed some light on this?
Also, doesn't the Bible teach that the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing? Therefore, is it really all that surprising that the unbelieving world regards Christianity as irrelevant?
Here is my take. I am interested if this makes sense to you.
The fundamental assumption in the Gospelmemes series is that the Gospel, partlially described incarnation, suffering, redemption, union with Crhist represents the fundamental essential event of the universe. This event is singular, but fully made present by the spirit in every moment, molecule and heart in the universe. I have made analogy between this reality/presence and gravity — it is a universal and pervasive reality.
When people use a narrower interpretation of gospel, as something that is mediated through preaching and assent, only found in the church, even, only found in scripture, I believe this is a kind of idolatry — a replacing of the gospel event with a narrower rule bound interpretation of the reality.
I will be discussing regeneration more in depth in a future post, but let me preview here.
1. regeneration is an expression of our union with Christ in his resurrection.
2. resurrection is experienced as an already/not yet.
3. Our theological description of the holy spirit's work of regeneration is aspirational, it is an anticipation of the new humanity that we already live today in union with Christ.
4. In the moment there is no change of substance in our humanness linked to the idea of regeneration.
5. There is a subjective reality that we express as "conversion" and link to "regeneration" and memorialize in the sacraments. This subjective reality is an outworking of faith and belief and linked to the visible church. The actual working of the spirit in the human heart is more inscrutable to us. Every human heart (whether self-identifying as Christian or not) is constantly engaged in both receiving and rejecting grace. We only expect this "tension" to resolve in the eschaton — past our current horizon of knowledge/experience.
6. Conclusion. We should live as if the gospel is at work in every life around us even our own.
The cross is foolishness to all of us in our unbelieving and a miracle to all of us as the Spirit works grace into our living and thought.
Thanks for your thoughts Peter.
I more or less agree with your post, however, I find the following statement somewhat problematic:
"When people use a narrower interpretation of gospel, as something that is mediated through preaching and assent, only found in the church, even, only found in scripture, I believe this is a kind of idolatry — a replacing of the gospel event with a narrower rule bound interpretation of the reality."
I think our interpretation of the gospel simply needs to be Biblical. If that entails a seeming "narrow-ness", well, God ordained it and we would do well to follow his ways, no?
Although, that is surely not to say that the gospel is merely intellectual assent – that's not Biblical. Indeed, the gospel rightly proclaimed, understood and applied by the Holy Spirit to the believer imparts new life, transformation, God-oriented desires, etc. Sanctification thus takes root and begins the life-long process of increasing transformation into the likeness of Christ.
Finally, I agree that we all experience doubts and unbelief, however, I do not think that this is a consistent-theme or norm for the born-again believer.
Thanks, Peter!
Peter, I keep coming up against the limits of knowledge, and the apparent ineffability of the divine. It appears that you are writing with the all-too-common assumption, based on the toil you take in figuring out the importance of the divine in our lives and how it manifests in ways that we can logically discern, that there is some sort of accurate "conclusion" just over the horizon, that we live in a world in which the divine is detectable, and that it conforms to our human sense of logic, morality and common sense. That may all be true, but I cannot see the difference between the theological assumptions that allow one to come to those conclusions and the triumph of a forced sort of willful hope, functioning in the absence of evidence as a basis for faith.
It seems to me that, although we must assume that, if the Spirit exists at all, it exists independently of our belief in it, it is still true that our concept of the Spirit must be rooted in the reality we know. After all, we are limited by our senses, unless there is some undetectable way of knowing that we are unable to define and, therefore, unable to discuss. Perhaps I am too limited in my scope, but it seems to the that, if the Spirit deigns to inform us of Its nature, then we must be able to see that nature in what comes to us in our daily lives. After all, God has no apparent reason to be mysterious, to remain ineffable. Applying human logic (our only tool), what purpose would that achieve?
The only "conclusion" that I can imagine our finite brains are capable of reaching is, in fact, no conclusion at all. It is the acceptance of our existence in a void of knowledge, totally dependent on the will of a God whose true nature we are unable even to imagine. If there is any knowledge we enjoy of the divine, it is not a knowledge recognizable to us as such. In my opinion, if we know the Spirit at all, it is very likely totally and completely known to us, with no secrets withheld, and in a way that is so entwined in our lives and so fully seen by us in our every moment, that we fail to realize that every aspect of our existence is imbued with Its essence, mistaking it instead for the mundane.


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6. At the gate, turn around and proceed up the steep, steep paved road on the left (W Ridge Drive).
7. After topping the hill and descending, take a left at the T intersection (approx. .5 miles) and proceed to climb, following the signs to Rattlesnake TrailHead
8. Once going past the tennis courts, proceed to the right, ignoring the sign saying "trails" and instead follow the sign for "Ballfield"
9. Proceed along the left edge of the ballfields until you get to the very back and find a sign pointing you left saying "Rattlesnake" This is a little more rideable than the other entrance.
10. This is where some of the toughest climbing begins.
11. Continue climbing, following signs to the Rattlesnake Summit. Do not turn off of the trail. Signage is pretty decent up to the summit.
12. At the top, you'll come to a campground with a sign pointing left for rattlesnake and a sign pointing you back to the convention center the way you came. The ride continues to the RIGHT, but if you'd like, take a break and climb up the short climb to the summit and enjoy the view.
13. Continuing on the ride, you'll come to an intersection pointing right to the Royal Gorge Lookout and left to Montreat. Proceed right.
14. At mile 8, you'll encounter the Rodododendron trail on your right. Proceed left for the ride.
15. Mile 8.25 - at the fork, keep left
16. Mile 9.1 - you'll encounter the trailer hitch gate, go around the gate. Shortly after the gate, you'll come to the toll road, keep going to the right.
17. Mile 10.1 - You'll encounter another fork, keep right
18. Mile 11.2 - keep left of the intersection and straight on the toll road. Do NOT take the downhill option far left.
19. Mile 12.3 - you'll come upon a sharp left bend in the road. Look carefully as straight ahead is the Royal Gorge lookout. Pause here and enjoy the view down the short access trail.
20. Mile 13 - at the fork, keep right
21. Mile 14.5 - at the fork, keep left
22. Mile 15.8 - you'll come upon the camper trailer and van. This is where you'll descend down Heartbreak just before the camper. BE CAREFUL, the first .25 mile is pretty sketchy
23. Mile 16.7 at intersection, keep right
24. Mile 21.4 Keep right and it is suggested to walk the rocky section.
25. Shortly after the rocky section, keep left and cross the creek.
26. Shortly after creek crossing, you'll cross the railroad tracks.
27. Keep to the left on the road until you hit pavement.
28. At paved road, take a left. Stay on paved road, keeping left, for 2.8 miles which will dead end into old US 70 near the Park where you should have parked. This adds a nice cooldown to the ride.
History & BackgroundThe Mt. Mitchell Railroad and Logging Company was started in 1914 when a route for a narrow gauge switchback railroad started about one mile east of Black Mountain and ran to about 3/4 mile from the top of Mt. Mitchell, where Camp Alice was built for the loggers to live. The purpose of this railroad was to log balsam trees for building airplanes in support of World War I. The balsam logs were brought from Mt. Mitchell to a sawmill located just beyond what is now the entrance to the Old Toll Road. The railroad was at times used as a tourist attraction but its primary purpose was logging. The logging operation prospered until the end of the war and it was no longer profitable. The railroad was converted to a toll motor road. The motor road became one of the biggest tourist attractions in the area. It was not unusual for 150 cars a day to make the trip. It was a one way road, up by 11 AM and down by 4 PM.
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High school confusical: help me, Twitter! Here are some #TipsForYear7s
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- September 04, 2013
WITH a Syrian conflict becoming increasingly global and a looming federal election, Australians are finding ways to lighten the mood a little. On Twitter tonight, it's hashtag "#TipsForYear7s" that is really taking off.
Going to high school (for most Australian states, it's Year 7) can be a particularly awkward and daunting time for kids. Let's face it, they're going to need all the help they can get. Today's generation have Twitter to turn to for advice, so they should be ok, right? How wrong they could be.
Here are the Top 8 tweets offering the best and worst advice for those entering high school for the first time:
#TipsForYear7s Make sure you have a bag like this pic.twitter.com/a3AvKvlKaz— Joooeee (@JoesTwittor) September 3, 2013
#tipsforyear7s learn your mums signature for when your planner has to be signed— ♡ hannah ♡ (@avonswow) September 4, 2013
#tipsforyear7s Bunsen Burners are for burning everything in sight except what you are supposed to be burning— Charlie Virgo (@CharVirgo_) September 4, 2013
#tipsforyear7s no one likes you until you are about year 9— Liam (@no_wherefast) September 4, 2013
#tipsforyear7s don't ask year 10 or 11s to show you to your class unless you want to be taken on the long route around the school— bieber (@RAWRitbrooklyn) September 3, 2013
#TipsForYear7s this will be your hardest decision until year 10 pic.twitter.com/3NUQdplNOA— Kimberley (@kimberrrrrrley) September 3, 2013
#TipsForYear7s high school musical is real, everyone breaks into song at lunch time so get practising, you don't want to look stupid do you?— ☯ CarisLeigh ☯ (@CarisLeighh) September 3, 2013
#tipsforyear7s stay mates with the ugly girls cos it could pay off by the time your in year 11— Morning Glory (@Callum_M_Smith) September 3, 2013
Join in the fun on Twitter at #TipsForYear7s
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Oh The Memories Posted at 8:13 PM September 04, 2013
Ha! The seniors are STILL taking juniors the long way. lol. It was happening when I was at high school in the 80s. They would also give you wrong directions too.
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PARKERSBURG - Women from around the area will be coming together in praise to God during the 12th annual Women of Purpose conference being held from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Oct. 5 at Blennerhassett School.
Doors open at 8 a.m. for the faith-based event for women.
"We typically have 500-600 attendees and have room for 800 so there's opportunity for growth," said organizer Kay Grose.
This year's theme is "Rescued."
"You'll hear Gospel-saturated Biblical teaching from new voices and familiar friends," Grose said. "Women will leave fully aware of their rescued state in Christ.
"They are being encouraged to live a rescued life."
Participants will have the opportunity to get connected to a missionary in Honduras and hear compelling stories of all that is being done for God's glory in that impoverished land, organizers said.
Speakers throughout the event include Cody Parman, lead pastor of The Journey Church; John Miller, a retired school teacher from Belpre; and Linda Grubbs of Louisville, Ohio, a teacher who has taught high school chemistry/physics, Christian preschool, Bible classes for women and children, Bible Bowl teams and she homeschooled her two sons.
The featured musical vocalists will be Katelyn Readm who will be sharing her new release "You, My Rescuer" at this conference, and Talia Markum Will, who will be singing "I Stay Amazed" and "Hosanna."
The conference has regularly appealed to women of all ages, Grose said.
"We have found this event spans generations," she said. "We have had women in their teens to women in their 70s.
"Age is not a determining factor."
Tickets are $15 and include a box lunch.
Tickets are available at Burger King locations in Parkersburg, Vienna, Ripley and New Martinsville in West Virginia as well as Marietta, Cambridge, Athens and Nelsonville in Ohio. Tickets are also available at Crown Florals, Family Christian Store, Occasions Florist and Gifts, Jarrell Insurance and Financial and Subway Restaurants on Garfield Avenue and DuPont Road as well as Tuppers Plains and Albany, Ohio.
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Tesla No Joyride for Short Sellers
Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has taken short sellers for quite a ride.
In six months the company has gone from being on the verge of a liquidity crisis to reporting its first ever quarterly profit, prompting a sharp move higher for the stock. A favorable review in Consumer Reports last week also helped boost investor sentiment.
The stock surged 57% from May 8 through yesterday's close amid abnormally high trading volume, a crushing blow to investors who had been betting on the stock price to fall.
"I feel like every single person I know has tried to short it and given up on it," Scott Redler, chief strategic officer of T3 Trading Group in New York, said in a chat with MoneyBeat. He disclosed he started shorting Tesla earlier Tuesday when the stock price was around $94.
Short sellers borrow shares to sell them with the hopes of buying them back cheaper at a later date, aiming to profit from a price decline. In a rising market, short sellers can find themselves having to scramble for shares, which can push the price even higher and create a "short squeeze."
Trading names like Tesla isn't for the faint of heart, Redler said. "Betting against stocks like these in the middle of an intense short squeeze can blow up your trading account and put you out of business," he said. "Tactically, it's worth a look for the active professional trader, not for the average guy at home."
The chart below shows how the short squeeze has impacted Tesla's stock price.
While plenty of short sellers appear to have been pushed out of their positions recently, a large number of investors are still betting against the stock.
The percentage of Tesla shares on loan—a proxy for short-selling activity—stands at about 27% of the stock's free float, data from securities-financing tracker Markit show. While that's down from 36.1% in late April, it's still a high figure compared to an average stock.
"Demand to borrow is high, and it's very expensive," said Markit director Alex Brog. "Clearly there remains a body of short sellers who remain skeptical about this stock and believe it to be overvalued."
For T3 Group's Redler, he said he would close his short position if the stock went above Tuesday's high of $97.12. If it turns into a profitable trade, he would look to close it once the stock price fell to the mid $70s.
Shares wavered between small gains and losses on Tuesday and recently traded at $87.05.
Redler described his move as a short-term trade that isn't necessarily reflective of his longterm views of the company.
"Ultimately, it will be a better buy than a short, but I'm trying to create some cash flow in a very overbought situation," he said. "The last three or four days have been your classic short squeeze.
"It hasn't made much conventional sense lately," he said. "It's basically gone parabolic, which is why I think it could be due for a rest."


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Tuskegee Airmen finally receive due with memorial
PROUD MOMENT—Airman Dr. Harry Lanauze stands proudly with wife, Helen, and daughter, Karlyn Coward, after viewing the list of names on the roll of honor. (Courier Photos/J.L. Martello) by Genea L. WebbFor New Pittsburgh CourierJames A. Cotten sees the three and a half years he served as a Tuskegee Airmen as the best time of his life. "During that time I learned to contribute to the betterment of the United States," said Cotten who, according to his wife, Oteria, was drafted into the service when he turned 18. On the recommendation of then-president Franklin Roosevelt, an all Black flight training program was created at the Tuskegee Institute and the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama. The airmen belonged to the 332nd Fighter Group's 99th, 100th, 301st and 302nd Fighter Squadrons and took part in more than 15,500 sorties in Europe, North Africa and Sicily. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. "We were just doing what we were told to do," said airmen Harold Slater, who grew up in the Hill District. "That's what helped us get through the ordeal (of segregation and mistreatment) we paid our dues but we were able to help keep America safe."


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GRAND PRAIRIE - Nostalgia wields redemptive power.
It was very telling that during the entire two-hour concert performance by the Monkees Friday night at Verizon Theatre the video screen above the stage played clips of the group's famed late '60s television show, commercials for Kool Aid and Rice Crispies, outtakes from the series, vintage musical performances and scenes from the trippy 1968 film Head. Even while present-day Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork, backed by a seven-piece band, performed song after song those images provided a strong connection to the past.
The tour, dubbed "A Midsummer's Night With the Monkees," follows the well-received short trek Nesmith, Dolenz and Tork did last November and December. That was the first time the Dallas-raised Nesmith had performed onstage with the Monkees since 1997. It of course had a bittersweet edge since fourth Monkee Davy Jones died in February 2012. The 24-date jaunt started July 15 in Port Chester, New York and runs through Aug. 18 in Portland, Oregon.
The gist of the gig was to conjure up warm memories of an era gone by, of carefree youth, and of effervescent pop music. But Nesmith, Dolenz and Tork were in charge. Particular attention was paid to 1967′s Headquarters, the first album to showcase substantive songwriting and musicianship from the actual band members as opposed to outside professional tunesmiths and session players. So once again, 47 years later, the Monkees are still trying to prove they weren't merely puppets plucked to star in a TV comedy series with music.
Nesmith handled most of the vocals on the seven Headquarters tracks. He was particularly effective during "You Told Me," "Sunny Girlfriend" and "You Just May Be the One." It is these songs, not to mention Tork's turn on "Early Morning Blues and Greens" and Dolenz's campy rendition of "Randy Scouse Git" complete with timpani drum and poncho, that took the Monkees on a psychedelic trip. A year later came Head, the acclaimed soundtrack album to the head-spinning flick that would forever change the perception of the Monkees. It was great to hear Dolenz on the ethereal "Porpoise Song," which was recently used in an episode of Mad Men, and Nesmith on "Clear Sky."
But naturally the crowd reaction was strongest for the big hits. "Last Train to Clarksville" opened the performance, while "I'm a Believer" and "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" came early in the set. Much later "Daydream Believer" was a mixed bag. That song featured Jones on lead vocals, so Dolenz told us that there was much discussion as to how it was going to be done onstage. They decided to use the audience. Dolenz brought up a 10-year-old girl to sing the tune with him. Before long he called on the crowd for repeated takes on the chorus.
Nothing wrong with that per se, it just proved to be a bit anticlimactic on such a huge song. But again, this is all about nostalgia. The Monkees are older now, the voices certainly sturdy enough but not as strong. We need to all feel a part of the glory days. We need to imagine that Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork are ageless, timeless. That redemptive power packs a wallop.


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Romance can be sweet or sassy with several new books!
First, for the sweet, a story of two mail order brides promised to the same man comes in Maggie Brendan's "Twice Promised."
Gretta and Cora are as different as can be. But both's circumstances have led them to accept the offer to be a mail order bride to a storekeeper out in the wilds of Colorado. But little do they know it will not be Jess Gifford meeting them at the train station, but his brother, Zach! Zach put in the ad to get his brother a wife, despite his reluctance. His plan is to see which one his brother falls for as the two women work at his store, and send the other back home or wherever else she wants to go. With no other options, the two women agree. They never counted on becoming friends, and Zach never counted on falling for one of them himself!
This is a fun story of romance, faith and second chances.
"Twice Promised" is published by Revell. It is $14.99 and 332 pages long.
Serena B. Miller tells the story of a young woman who weds a farmer to help him keep his children in "A Promise to Love."
Ingrid is tired of the abuse heaped on her by her spoiled employer. When a handsome farmer witnesses it and actually steps in to help, Ingrid is grateful. When she learns the farmer is being put to an inquest into the death of his wife, she finds herself agreeing to marry him so he can keep custody of his passel of daughters from their grandparents' determination to take them. Ingrid soon bonds with her new family and comes to love her husband. But can she hope he will ever love her back, as he is still in love with the memory of his troubled wife?
A warm story of one young woman's courage, this is sweet romance that is about family and forgiveness.
"A Promise to Love" is published by Revell. It is $14.99 and 352 pages long.
For a spicer read, check out "The Trouble with Cowboys" by Melissa Cutler.
After competing in a cooking reality show, chef Amy is ready to retire home and lick her wounds and try to open her own restaurant. Played by a "cowboy" cook, Amy vows never to trust anyone with a cowboy hat and winning smile again. That is until she meets Kellan. The owner of a local ranch, Kellan charms Amy right off her feet, but Amy doesn't want a relationship with him since she's been hurt before. And yet she can't break free of him either. But when she discovers a secret about Kellan, things change between them? Is Kellan just like the other cowboys Amy has loved and lost? Or is he the one who is meant to stay?
This is a hot romance that will heat you up on cool fall nights.
Amy and Kellan's chemistry is undeniable and will make the pages sizzle!
"The Trouble with Cowboys" is published by Kensington. It is $6.99 and is 320 pages long.
Rosalind Lauer returns to her Seasons of Lancaster series and the King family in "A Simple Autumn."
Two of the King brothers look for romance in this new book in the popular Amish series. Jonah has always loved Annie Stoltzfus, but her eyes have only been for Adam, his older brother. Now that Adam has married, Jonah hopes Annie's attentions will turn to him, but is too shy to speak up. Can he ever find his nerve to claim his love?
Meanwhile, Gabe is going through rumspringa, a time in the young people's lives where they turn outside the community to experience the outside world to make sure their life is what they really want. While Gabe is having fun doing that, he is still courting the schoolteacher Emma Lapp. Emma is choosing the Amish way, and wants to be with Gabe, but it seems as if he is pulling farther and farther away and into the outside world. Will their love stand a chance?
This is a sweet, simple series that will warm your heart with characters who charm.
"A Simple Autumn is published by Ballantine Books. It is $15 and 377 pages long.
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View the original article at: http://www.countryweekly.com/news/keith-urban-falls-idol-contestant-literally
One American Idol contestant's audtion literally knocked Keith Urban out of his judge's seat in the episode that aired Thursday (Jan. 31).
Zoanette Johnson, 19, said she had a bet with her family that if President Obama won reelection, she would sing the national anthem for her audition.
Zoanette belted it out, and when she hit the land of the free high note—around the 2:23 mark in the YouTube video of the audition [1]—Keith dropped right out of his chair.
Keith wasn't the only judge blown away. "I am obsessed with you!" judge Nicki Minaj said. "Me too!" Zoanette replied, cracking up the judges.
All four judges voted for Zoanette to advance.
Show host Ryan Seacrest apparently liked Keith's spill, tweeting [2], "can someone make a gif of @keithurban falling out of his chair from #idol tonight."
Perhaps we can oblige.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QaxF0brB3U
[2] https://twitter.com/RyanSeacrest/status/297209648413556736
[3] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/chris-young-fans-katie-couric-wants-you
[4] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/randy-travis-sentenced-drunk-driving-case


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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:37 pm
Post subject: pregnancy after c-section??
Ok so i am not on the pill yet because i am waiting for next af. I have been tracking ov and avoiding sex around that time.
I started getting ewcm a week ago and we went bk home to stay at my mums last weekend and i had lots of twinges and the ewcm stopped. I didnt have any ov sticks but assumed i had ovulated because the twinges. I thought it was strange i didnt get my intense ov pains i usually get but guessed maybe it happened in the night.
Me and oh did the deed last night and i woke up to really intense ov pains the early hours of this morning!!
I am concerned because i only had a c-section 3 months ago!! If i did fall.pg would i put myself and my potenti unborn child in danger?
After all the years we have been ttc and the 7 times i have been pg (4 mc and 2 chemical pgs) i have only ever caught when i bd whilst actually ovulating and i as i bd a few hours before i dont think it will happen but i know there is still a chance! Xx
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The risk is obviously rupturing the scar. My friend has given birth to her second baby after getting caught pregnant so quickly after a section. She had an emergencey the first time round due to making no progress then was ready for a natural the second time round but as her little boy had passed a bug onto her they didn't want to risk leaving her in labour so emergencey sectioned her a second time round. They monitor you more regular during pregnancy to ensure your internal scar doesn't rupture and same for whilst being in labour. They do say to leave it 3 years after a section for the best chance of having a vbac afterwards but other than that you should be fine xx
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Thanks hun. I had section for the same reason.
It just scares me if i am.plus i dont want two this close together - because i dont want to much attention taken away from my son. I was also desperate for a vbac next time. I really really dont want another section.
If i am then i will cherish this baby as mych as my son. Just scared i guess.
Also my lp for my last two cycles has only been 2 days so i know my hormones must still be all over the place xx


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West Virginia's GO State Road Bonds Series 2001 Rated 'AA-'; Outlook Stable Jun 01
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NEW YORK (Standard & Poor's CreditWire) June 21, 2001Standard & Poor's today assigned its double-'A'-minus rating to West Virginia's $110 million GO state road bonds series 2001 due June 1, 2021. The bonds are scheduled to sell June 26, 2001. The outlook is stable. In addition, Standard & Poor's affirmed its double-'A'-minus rating and underlying rating (SPUR) on the state's outstanding GO debt. The rating reflects: -- Sound financial management, including consistently balanced general fund budgets and sufficient financial reserves to meet likely contingencies; -- A moderate debt burden; and -- Steady progress reducing unfunded accrued trust fund liabilities. Offsetting rating factors include the state's below-average per capita wealth and income levels and a cyclical economic base lacking deep diversity....
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Inset: MEN'S STEAM ROOM The men's version mirrors the women's, with one wall of wave-pattern tiling, but the colors are distinctly male: ocean-like hues that match the color scheme of the men's locker room.
THE DETAILS The original design called for each wall to have a wave pattern of tiles running across the room, but the custom tile pattern, painstakingly arranged by Italian artisans and sent across the Atlantic, became extremely costly. The designers decided that having just one wall of wave would stand out visually and save money.
Kastl envisioned soft, unusual lighting in the steam room. These twinkle lights, arranged in a random night sky pattern, were created by poking hundreds of fiber optics through a sheetrock ceiling and then cutting the strands off flush to the ceiling. Builders then tiled around the fiber optics. "It's a pretty cost-effective way to do interesting lighting," says the designer, explaining that with fiber optics there is only one light source; it sits hidden in the locker room. "We can change the color of the light and even have the light move in a pattern from one side of the room to the other. It's romantic and surprising."
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