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Your visual how-to guide for SELinux policy enforcement
Your visual how-to guide for SELinux policy enforcement
We are celebrating the SELinux 10th year anversary this year. Hard to believe it. SELinux was first introduced in Fedora Core 3 and later in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. For those who have never used SELinux, or would like an explanation...
SElinux is a labeling system. Every process has a label. Every file/directory object in the operating system has a label. Even network ports, devices, and potentially hostnames have labels assigned to them. We write rules to control the access of a process label to an a object label like a file. We call this policy. The kernel enforces the rules. Sometimes this enforcement is called Mandatory Access Control (MAC).
The owner of an object does not have discretion over the security attributes of a object. Standard Linux access control, owner/group + permission flags like rwx, is often called Discretionary Access Control (DAC). SELinux has no concept of UID or ownership of files. Everything is controlled by the labels. Meaning an SELinux system can be setup without an all powerful root process.
Note: SELinux does not let you side step DAC Controls. SELinux is a parallel enforcement model. An application has to be allowed by BOTH SELinux and DAC to do certain activities. This can lead to confusion for administrators because the process gets Permission Denied. Administrators see Permission Denied means something is wrong with DAC, not SELinux labels.
Type enforcement
Lets look a little further into the labels. The SELinux primary model or enforcement is called type enforcement. Basically this means we define the label on a process based on its type, and the label on a file system object based on its type.
Imagine a system where we define types on objects like cats and dogs. A cat and dog are process types.
*all cartoons by Máirín Duffy
We have a class of objects that they want to interact with which we call food. And I want to add types to the food, cat_food and dog_food.
As a policy writer, I would say that a dog has permission to eat dog_chow food and a cat has permission to eat cat_chow food. In SELinux we would write this rule in policy.
allow cat cat_chow:food eat;
allow dog dog_chow:food eat;
With these rules the kernel would allow the cat process to eat food labeled cat_chow and the dog to eat food labeled dog_chow.
But in an SELinux system everything is denied by default. This means that if the dog process tried to eat the cat_chow, the kernel would prevent it.
Likewise cats would not be allowed to touch dog food.
Real world
We label Apache processes as httpd_t and we label Apache content as httpd_sys_content_t and httpd_sys_content_rw_t. Imagine we have credit card data stored in a mySQL database which is labeled msyqld_data_t. If an Apache process is hacked, the hacker could get control of the httpd_t process and would be allowed to read httpd_sys_content_t files and write to httpd_sys_content_rw_t. But the hacker would not be allowed to read the credit card data (mysqld_data_t) even if the process was running as root. In this case SELinux has mitigated the break in.
MCS enforcement
Above, we typed the dog process and cat process, but what happens if you have multiple dogs processes: Fido and Spot. You want to stop Fido from eating Spot's dog_chow.
One solution would be to create lots of new types, like Fido_dog and Fido_dog_chow. But, this will quickly become unruly because all dogs have pretty much the same permissions.
To handle this we developed a new form of enforcement, which we call Multi Category Security (MCS). In MCS, we add another section of the label which we can apply to the dog process and to the dog_chow food. Now we label the dog process as dog:random1 (Fido) and dog:random2 (Spot).
We label the dog chow as dog_chow:random1 (Fido) and dog_chow:random2 (Spot).
MCS rules say that if the type enforcement rules are OK and the random MCS labels match exactly, then the access is allowed, if not it is denied.
Fido (dog:random1) trying to eat cat_chow:food is denied by type enforcement.
Fido (dog:random1) is allowed to eat dog_chow:random1.
Fido (dog:random1) denied to eat spot's (dog_chow:random2) food.
Real world
In computer systems we often have lots of processes all with the same access, but we want them separated from each other. We sometimes call this a multi-tenant environment. The best example of this is virtual machines. If I have a server running lots of virtual machines, and one of them gets hacked, I want to prevent it from attacking the other virtual machines and virtual machine images. But in a type enforcement system the KVM virtual machine is labeled svirt_t and the image is labeled svirt_image_t. We have rules that say svirt_t can read/write/delete content labeled svirt_image_t. With libvirt we implemented not only type enforcement separation, but also MCS separation. When libvirt is about to launch a virtual machine it picks out a random MCS label like s0:c1,c2, it then assigns the svirt_image_t:s0:c1,c2 label to all of the content that the virtual machine is going to need to manage. Finally, it launches the virtual machine as svirt_t:s0:c1,c2. Then, the SELinux kernel controls that svirt_t:s0:c1,c2 can not write to svirt_image_t:s0:c3,c4, even if the virtual machine is controled by a hacker and takes it over. Even if it is running as root.
We use similar separation in OpenShift. Each gear (user/app process)runs with the same SELinux type (openshift_t). Policy defines the rules controlling the access of the gear type and a unique MCS label to make sure one gear can not interact with other gears.
Watch this short video on what would happen if an Openshift gear became root.
MLS enforcement
Another form of SELinux enforcement, used much less frequently, is called Multi Level Security (MLS); it was developed back in the 60s and is used mainly in trusted operating systems like Trusted Solaris.
The main idea is to control processes based on the level of the data they will be using. A secret process can not read top secret data.
MLS is very similar to MCS, except it adds a concept of dominance to enforcement. Where MCS labels have to match exactly, one MLS label can dominate another MLS label and get access.
Instead of talking about different dogs, we now look at different breeds. We might have a Greyhound and a Chihuahua.
We might want to allow the Greyhound to eat any dog food, but a Chihuahua could choke if it tried to eat Greyhound dog food.
We want to label the Greyhound as dog:Greyhound and his dog food as dog_chow:Greyhound, and label the Chihuahua as dog:Chihuahua and his food as dog_chow:Chihuahua.
With the MLS policy, we would have the MLS Greyhound label dominate the Chihuahua label. This means dog:Greyhound is allowed to eat dog_chow:Greyhound and dog_chow:Chihuahua.
But dog:Chihuahua is not allowed to eat dog_chow:Greyhound.
Of course, dog:Greyhound and dog:Chihuahua are still prevented from eating cat_chow:Siamese by type enforcement, even if the MLS type Greyhound dominates Siamese.
Real world
I could have two Apache servers: one running as httpd_t:TopSecret and another running as httpd_t:Secret. If the Apache process httpd_t:Secret were hacked, the hacker could read httpd_sys_content_t:Secret but would be prevented from reading httpd_sys_content_t:TopSecret.
However, if the Apache server running httpd_t:TopSecret was hacked, it could read httpd_sys_content_t:Secret data as well as httpd_sys_content_t:TopSecret.
We use the MLS in military environments where a user might only be allowed to see secret data, but another user on the same system could read top secret data.
SELinux is a powerful labeling system, controlling access granted to individual processes by the kernel. The primary feature of this is type enforcement where rules define the access allowed to a process is allowed based on the labeled type of the process and the labeled type of the object. Two additional controls have been added to separate processes with the same type from each other called MCS, total separtion from each other, and MLS, allowing for process domination.
Illustrations by Máirín Duffy. Get the coloring book!
For more information on SELinux read my blog at danwalsh.livejournal.com and follow me on twitter @rhatdan.
27 Comments
Excellent article! Thank you.
Hhhhhh this article is awesome )) thank you ^^
We need more like this, are you planning for (part-2) visual guide for writing SELinux policies too ? Thanks!
nice work !!
Thanks! I love articles with pictures and easy to understand analogies.
Awesome! Do you plan on publishing more like this?
But more importantly, how do I disable it? (every customer, ever)
Maybe he can add some 3rd party share buttoms so we can share this site to the world.
This is the best introduction to SELINX.(=read as PERIOD)
Simply the best.
I would like to see a follow up article where you dive into these concepts even more. And if you could also give MAC from FreeBSD some love:-)
I guess because I'm "slow" or dense I cannot seem to grasp this concept at ALL! :o( I can get that there's two files that have different "Type" permissions...but then the TYPES have a "type" permission as well?.....Hmm.....I guess I'll just have to fork up the 2K and go to SKOOL for this one!...LOL!~
Thanks Dan and Máirín for this guide, it is awesome!
I've seen references to SELinux but never knew what it did. Now I have a fair idea.
Purina, please treat these cartoons as inadvertent free advertising, which they may be, rather than trademark infringements, which I suppose they are. As your 30+ year customer, you have my good will and that of lots of others. Don't mess it up with a letter like Canonical sent a couple weeks ago.
Dan, Thank you, this article clarify my knowledge about SELinux.
Cutesy diagrams and jargon = patronizing gobblygook. I doubt this was helpful to any real novices.
Great article. A five years old kid would understand it. Congratulations!
Great one ..!
Thanks, good article
Excellent article!
Neatly explained. Very good article....!
I had gone through many documents on this, but today after reading this i have got my many doudts clarified. Thank you for posting this article, hope to see more from you on this.
Daniel, this is an excellent guide! May I translate it to spanish and post it in my blog? (I will give you the credits of course)
As long as you give credit, you're welcome to reuse and remix this article. Most of the content on Opensource.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, giving you permission to adapt it for any purpose, even a commercial one!
Dear Santa,
Give selinux-policy for everyone's data, to limit government, and protect our privacy from evil corporate hackers, if it wouldn't be too much trouble.
Wow, it's a great article, thanks! :)
Excellent Article


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By Zach Baker
Sports Editor
The players said they didn't even recognize how special the 1972 season was at the time.
That came much later.
Before there were college football playoffs, before there was a designation between Division II and Division III, before their even was a specific national championship game, Heidelberg did something remarkable. Under coach Pete Riesen (who died in 2007), the school went 11-0 and won the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl in 1972.
Today, the Stagg Bowl is the pinnacle of Division III football, the unquestioned national championship game. It wasn't that way in 1972. There were two "regional bowls" for small colleges - The Stagg Bowl for the West and the Knute Rockne Bowl for the East.
Still, Heidelberg's 28-16 victory over Fort Valley State in Phenix City, Ala. marked the program's only postseason game. That is, until Saturday when Heidelberg hosts Wittenberg in the first round of this year's Division III playoffs.
Heidelberg coach Mike Hallett knows that the 1972 team set a standard for the program by which all teams are measured.
"You use the word 'Stagg Bowl,' and it was a little different kind of game than it is now, but it's still ... that resonates," Hallett said. "I don't know who played in the '72 Knute Rockne Bowl, because that bowl no longer existed after they went to a national playoff, but that Stagg name carried on, starting in '73 to today."
The Stagg Bowl became a national championship Bowl in '73, won, ironically, by Wittenberg.
But back in 1972, Heidelberg played in what was then a 14-team Ohio Athletic Conference, one that included Denison, Hiram, Oberlin, Wittenberg and others.
Then-Heidelberg linebacker Gary McKillip said the pieces of the 1972 team came together years earlier, with a 1970 recruiting class brought in by Jack Murphy. The 1972 Heidelberg team went 3-6, and Murphy was replaced by Riesen. It went 6-3 in '71.
"It was our junior year where we meshed very well and got things rolling," McKillip said.
Much like this year's squad, Heidelberg won a number of games with outstanding defensive efforts. The Student Princes beat Wittenberg 7-0, and Lee Tressel's Baldwin-Wallace 10-7.
"Whenever the offense didn't click, they knew the offensive would pick them up," McKillip said.
It was in the game against Wittenberg where a photo was taken that remains an iconic one for the program.
The picture, taken after a defensive stand, shows McKillip, George Freeman, Tom Coffman, Larry Risner and Bob Dierkes triumphantly charging off the field at Frost-Kalnow Stadium.
McKillip remembers the photo well.
"I have a picture of that photo I keep around," McKillip said. "I talked to George Freeman [at this year's game with John Carroll]. He's getting a Fathead of it."
Riesen's offense, at least in style, is different than the ones seen today in the OAC. While Hallett has always had strong running backs, from Kenny Sims to Jemar Lewis to Cartel Brooks, it's never run quite like that '72 team did. With Columbian graduate Bob Hunt leading the way, the Student Princes ran a school-record 533 times.
Jim Ruth was the quarterback in 1972. He had almost 2,200 yards of total offense that season.
"I don't know how successful I was, but I was only as successful as our offensive lineman were, and especially our defense," Ruth said. "We had an outstanding defense, that was probably our biggest strength.
"We played well together, we had a camaraderie," Ruth said. "I would guess we weren't the most talented of kids, but we really played well together."
Jerry McDonald, a coach for a number of sports and former athletic director at Heidelberg, was a scout team player at the time. He said a big key to the team's success was the coaching of Riesen, who never allowed his players to get too far ahead or get too comfortable.
"Pete really commanded that type of respect," McDonald said. "I will say this, there was a small amount of - you hate to say fear - but there was a little bit of, you didn't want to get on his bad side. Even though you had that little bit of fear and intimidation from him, oh, the respect for him, and what you were willing to do for him."
McKillip also praised the work of Riesen's assistant coaches in '72.
"Riesen was definitely an old school coach, hands on quite a bit," McKillip said. "If you were out of line you felt the wrath of Pete Riesen, that's for sure. He had some good assistants. The head coach is more of the motivator, the assistants do the actual coaching."
Heidelberg finished the '72 regular season undefeated, as did Ashland, and there was some question about who would go to the bowl game.
"They didn't really talk to us as a team," McKillip said. "I did know that coach [Edgar] Sherman from Muskingum, he was on the board, because Ashland also was undefeated at the time, he made the deciding vote to get us to go."
There was even a question if Heidelberg would go to the Stagg Bowl when it was selected.
Because of cost concerns, McKillip said there was doubt if the school would allow the team to fly to Alabama for the game.
But Jim Getz, the school's athletic director at the time, and a few of the players met with the faculty, and the faculty voted to let the team go to the game.
"There was a short period of time where, well, we might not be going," McDonald said. "But that didn't last very long, thanks to Jim."
McDonald remembered two major things about the preparation for the Stagg Bowl - practicing in four inches of snow, and not seeing any film of Fort Valley State.
Riesen had film of Fort Valley State, but decided not to show it to his team, afraid it might intimidate them.
Ruth said that probably was a good move.
"If we had seen them on film, we'd have been pretty discouraged," he said.
McKillip said the Student Princes finally saw their opponents in the days leading up to the game.
"We saw them," he said. "It was the biggest team we had ever seen."
It also was explosive. The Wildcats averaged more than 45 points a game in 1972.
But in the game itself, Heidelberg's defense notched a few big plays on the Wildcats, including a blocked punt that turned into a touchdown, and won, 28-16.
It was a big moment, but one the players said took a while to sink in.
"We didn't realize the magnitude of the accomplishment, or realize how special of a time it was," MacDonald said. "And it's gotten more special, and we've realized how special it was as the years went by."
At the time, McKillip said the team expected to be as good for years to come. Of course, that didn't happen.
"It's easier to get to the top than to stay there," McKillip said. "And we had some key injuries."
With this year's Heidelberg team days away from the playoffs, Ruth was asked if he had any advice for
"Only advice I'd give is for the kids to believe in one another," Ruth said. "They work really hard and have played a tough schedule. To be able to make it to the playoffs it's a tremendous honor for them.
McKillip, who lives in the Columbus area, said he's hoping to make Saturday's game.
"I think it will be one heck of a game," he said.


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- Eve92 - 02-02-2010
I'm back! I have been reading lots more about Orthodoxy and finding the true Church. These are the books I have read so far: Orthodox Way (Ware) The Way, what every protestant should know about the Orthodox Church (Clark Carlton) Evangelical is not Enough (Thomas Howard) and I have literally about 10 pages to go on Clark Carlton's The life, orthodox doctrine of salvation. I have also read some things about Catholicism (Rome Sweet Home, and Reasons to Believe by Scott Hahn). I'm trying to get to grips with the Orthodox view of salvation but I am having some problems.
The books I have read say that Orthodoxy rejects the 'legalistic' view of salvation as put forward by Protestants and Catholics, and I know that Orthodoxy say that Jesus is the Saviour. But if Jesus is the Saviour but he didn't take on our sin on the cross, then what did he save us from? Reading The Life I see that Carlton is saying that Jesus defeated death etc but how? Did he come to live a life to be an example and encouragement for us? What was he doing on the Cross? Also, I have read verses in the Bible such as 'for you know what price was paid for you' and I think even a verse describing the Christian who is seen as 'not guilty' in God's eyes because of Jesus, surely this suggests a 'legalistic' salvation? (unfortunately I can't remember the book or chapter of the verses, will try to find them and get back to you).
On the other hand, I think what Carlton says in The Life about how God doesn't change helped me make sense of Theosis. And I think Theosis makes a lot of sense as I think nearly every Christian believes that God's grace changes them in some way, and the fact that Christians believe in being spiritually 'immature' and spiritually 'mature' shows that they acknowledge growth in the faith.
Thank you so much for your prayer and advice, this forum is really important for me because otherwise I would be completely alone in my studies. It would be great to hear 'testimonies' of how others have come to the Orthodox faith, sometimes I feel really frustrated about how I am 'stuck in the middle' I'm not Protestant, not Catholic and not Orthodox and sometimes I honestly have no clue where God wants me to go. When I try to talk to my Christian friends I feel really down because we don't share the need to find Christ's true Church and I feel like a traitor that I am even doubting Evangelicalism. Some words of encouragement would be good!
I've got Clark Carlton's The Truth what every Roman Catholic should know about the Orthodox Church next in line, and 'A Tiny step away from giant faith' written by a 17 year old girl who searched for the truth and found Orthodoxy, so seems quite appropriate for me!
Thank you,
PS Marc, thanks for your reply, would be great to know more about how you discovered Orthodoxy, what drew you to Orthodoxy rather than any other way?
- Antony-Paul - 02-02-2010
Dear Eve,
I'll try to help if I can.
I am currently on my journey from Roman Catholicism to British Orthodoxy, and happy to share my thoughts.
I have been RC all my life (I'm in my 60s now!) but recent years have seen me becoming more and more unhappy with the Church that (as Father Simon put it to me) had nurtured me. I spent some time looking around seeking a way forward, even to the extent of looking outside of Christianity. I read Abba Kallistos Ware's book, and realised there was much in Orthodoxy with which I sympathised. Eventually I found Orthodoxy, both Greek and Russian who worship near me, but trawling through Google came up with the BOC. I am perhaps a little more fortunate than you, because I live close to Father Simon, and I was able to contact him easily and discuss matters.
He gave me the DVDs that he has offered you as a starting point. Because I was already Christian there was little I needed to learn from that point of view, but I have a long way to go with my knowledge of Orthodoxy. Under Father Simon's guidance I have attended Divine Liturgy and a local prayer/discussion group. I have come to feel extremely comfortable within the BOC. It is a prayerful place to be, but very loving and welcoming. (Sadly this is apparently not always the case with some other branches of Orthodoxy which are reluctant to accept you if you are not culturally the same as they are. Regrettably much the same can be said of Rome as well. However many are very welcoming, particularly our Coptic brethren.) A few months ago I was accepted as a catechumen, and will probably be Baptised into Orthodoxy in a couple of months.
It is difficult to know exactly what will give you support and encouragement, but if there is anything specific don't hesitate to quiz me on my experiences.
One thought that may help you relates to Salvation. You mention your puzzlement about the distinction between the legalistic Roman view and "whatever the BOC thinks about it" so to speak. Perhaps you would find it helpful not to see Jesus' salvation of us as 'paying for our sins'. Rather, consider that mankind has become ill through rejection of God's way. Just like if you are ill you seek a cure from your doctor, so Jesus provides us with healing. He makes us well again. Being well, we are restored to communion with God - hence salvation. I hope this is not too simplistic - I'm sure Father Simon can, and will, put it much better than I can.
With love and prayers,
- Simon - 02-02-2010
Dear Eve,
What our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ saved us from on the cross was death - and in saving us from death He saved us from sin. If you go to the Education section of this Forum you can read my Paschal Sermon in which I try to explain this.
I believe that truly a price was paid for us at Calvary, even a very great price indeed, quite literally an infinite price since the price paid was God Himself. This was the price God was prepared to pay to redeem us or buy us back from death and sin. This is what it cost God to redeem us back to Himself. The price was not paid to anyone in the legal or transaction sense - it's simply this is what it cost, this is the price God was willing to pay to redeem lost mankind.
I think Tony puts it well enough about salvation as healing. The Great Physician at great personal cost to Himself at Calavry provided for us the medicine to make us well, to save us or heal us from this fatal spiritual disease called sin, even His Body and Blood. And He founded a spiritual hospital called the Church, where we can receive this medicine.
Wherever did you manage to get hold of a copy of A Tiny Step away from greatest Faith? I thought it utterly magnificent but after giving my copy as a present to someone wasnt able to find another copy anywhere to buy.
- marc hanna - 02-02-2010
Dear Eve,
The RC mode of thought on our redemption through Christ is legalistic in a cause and effect sort of manner in that every temporal sin must be repaid in temporal form despite Heavenly forgiveness. In this case Christ paid our debt in our place by suffering and dying in instead of us because sins could not be forgiven (and thus salvation could not be attained) if there was no one to pay the price. Furthermore, this is the reasoning behind RC indulgences, where when we confess (or rather RC's confess) our sins we are forgiven in Heaven but there is still a price to pay on Earth.
As Oriental Orthodox we know that Christ forgives sins in Heaven and on Earth and that this forgiveness is all encompassing and requires no residual temporal payment - this is not to say that there are not consequences that naturally occur on Earth. From our perspective, Christ was (and is) a sacrifice for our sins, in which He bore the full weight of our sins in order to reunite us with God. Yes, He did pay our debt in our place, but not because He had to, but because He loved us so much that He desired that none should perish.
Christ conquered death, in that He was the perfect sacrifice. Where the Jews sacrificed animals for their sins, those sacrifices were unable to provide salvation but were little more than an atonement for what they had done, unable to affect their hearts and did not prevent their deaths and imprisonment in Hell. Christ was perfect and blameless, and could not be contained in Hell; and upon His death He descended into Hell and reclaimed those souls who were imprisoned, vanquished Hell's monopoly over human souls, and rightfully claimed the throne of Judgement over mankind.
Prior to recent decades Theosis was not taught in Oriental Orthodox churches, but remains integral to the Eastern Orthodox churches as part of their tradition of hesychasm, mysticism and spirituality. I know that some will disagree with me on this, so I won't push it any further. We do believe that we are transformed by Christ and through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and that participation in the sacraments and keeping God's commandments is our contribution in our own salvation.
In Christ
- Eve92 - 03-02-2010
Thank you again for all your replies, it's beginning to make sense to me though I think I still have a long way to go. I'm hoping to go to Sheffield University in September and according to their website there is an Orthodox Christian society, so maybe I will find some like minded people there. Is there a BOC in Sheffield?
Simon - I was browsing through http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ where I found an extract from 'A tiny step away from deepest faith' and thought it sounded really good, so I searched amazon and found one they have everything on there! I read half of it last night, at first I found a lot of what she was writing about quite depressing, but its really interesting and I can't put it down!
- Simon - 03-02-2010
Sheffield is I think only about twenty miles from our BOC Cusworth Church (near Doncaster) - half hour by car? I have no idea what public transport is like up there - hopefully no worse than down here!
And thank you very much for flagging up that excellent little book "A tiny step..." and now that copies are again listed as available I have ordered it. I found it wonderfully insightful and just so right for so many teenagers (and adults too for that matter) stressed out and depressed in this world.
- Eve92 - 09-02-2010
Hello again, just browsing the BOC website and have thought of a rather random question, I looked on the page with pictures of the clergy of the BOC and am wondering why every preist has a beard?? Just curious!
- Simon - 09-02-2010
Dear Eve,
There are various reasons that go back a long way in the Church for priests having beards, including:
Not spending time shaving and making themselves presentable and attractive according to the ways of the world.
As icons of the bishop who is an icon of Christ it is thought by some that priests are better physical icons of Christ if they have beards
Since priests are presbyters or elders (= old men) it makes us look older (though I will resist any comments concerning wiser!)
- Eve92 - 03-05-2010
Hello everyone,
Just wanted to know any general Orthodox views on the Bible. Is it the literal word of God to be taken very literally? Is it Godly inspired by written by humans so therefore may contain errors? Is it just one huge metaphor? I've read some things about the Bible which do not put it in a very good light, for example in two of the Gospels Jesus' heritage is given, but they both give conflicting accounts, so surely one of them is wrong and therefore there are mistakes in the Bible? And what about the Old Testament where there is a lot of killing going on??
- John Charmley - 03-05-2010
Dear Eve,
Good to have another Norfolk person here.
The first thing to say about the Orthodox view of the Bible is that it is the written part of God's revelation to us, not the whole of it. Christ did not drop off a book of instructions, He founded a Church. That Church it was which discerned, in the fourth and fifth centuries, the surviving Apostolic deposit and canonised it; that same Church also decided that the Jewish Scriptures familiar to Christ and His Blessed Apostles should be added to that canon and read with it - producing the Bible.
Christians got by without a Bible for a long time, and as long as Christ's Church exists, they know that in the Church there is best illumination for what that Book means; as St. Peter tells us, no prophecy is by private inspiration.
So, the Bible is certainly the inspired word of God, but it is not, by itself, sufficient. For example, where, in the Bible, does it state what books should be in the Bible - or even that there should be such a thing as the Bible? We know these things because of the Church, which also tells us it is God's inspired word to us.
The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a distressing and very non-orthodox split in the Western world between those who, influenced by the new German scholarship coming out of Gottingen, thought that the Bible was, at best, a beautiful metaphor, and those who reacted against it by asserting that every word was literally true. The OC has never taken either position because neither is that of the ancient Church.
In terms of the human ancestry of Christ, the Gospel writers use the oral testimony available to them, that that testimony clashed means simply that. Of course, if you think the thing was dictated by God, that would be very distressing and you could (and people have) come up with a complicated explanation). But if you accept it as a human document inspired by God, there is no problem.
Is there a lot of killing in the OT? Yes, but then there is, regrettably, a lot in history full stop. We are a fallen race and we need the redemption brought by the Lord.
You raise an interesting point which I'd be very happy to discuss further.
In Christ,
An additional point - John Charmley - 03-05-2010
Dear Eve,
I might add to this that for the Orthodox Holy Scripture is, whilst being a central part of Holy Tradition, just that - a part and not the whole. Because Christ founded a Church and because we know what is and is not Scripture through it, we lean also upon those other survivals of the early Church: the works of the Fathers (whose citations of what was and was not considered Scripture was one of the ways the Church came to know what was an was not Scripture); the ancient liturgies (and for the Orthodox the way we worship is the expression of our theology); and the decisions of the first three Councils, are all part of a seamless web.
To take one example, although the Holy Scriptures tell us that baptism was in the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and that Christ said He and the Father were one, it no where uses the word 'Trinity', neither does it tell us anything about the nature of the Holy Trinity; for that we have to look at the Nicene Creed formulated at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, and at the works of the Cappadocian Fathers, and of St. Athanasius.
From our perspective, the mistake Protestants seem to make with the Bible is to treat it as though it were the only revelation which God had made to us, when it is a revelation made plain by the Church founded by Christ. That being so, we need the Church to fully illuminate the Bible. Although Protestants often talk about how they have rejected the Pope and his infallibility, they seem often to claim for their own reading of the Bible and infallibility way beyond the limited claims made by the Papacy.
In Christ,
Re: Eve's questions - John Charmley - 03-05-2010
Eve92 Wrote:In short, here are my general questions about the Orthodox faith:
I see, looking through the thread that whilst we have engaged with some of your questions we have not, perhaps, answered the list you initially appended. They are ones I have heard from other enquirers and perhaps it would be good if we could, between us, try to deal with them. I'll do my best, if only to encourage those more knowledgeable to correct my errors or amplify anything which is correct
You ask how we are saved, positing the classic Western dichotomy of Faith and works, or faith. We are saved by Christ. Salvation is a process. We were saved when we were sealed as His by our baptism; we are being saved by wlaking in His way and by received Him into us at the Eucharistic feast; and we hope to be saved at the last through His mercy. Any one who tells you they know who is and who is not saved tells you what he cannot possibly know. God makes this decision; He alone has the wisdom, love and compassion so to do. We are saved by His mercy.
This really answers the question about predestination, although it does not address the issue of the 'elect'. To believe, as some do, that God creates certain people knowing they will be damned forever runs so contrary to the God I know that I find it difficult to comprehend. What earthly father would not do all he could to save his child? God sent Christ to be our Saviour; we can, of course, reject Him.
On prayer, we pray to God, we pray to Him through the Saints and the Blessed Mother of God (THeotokos). Let us face it, we can use all the prayers we can get, and if God's Mother will pray for me, I am always going to ask for her help.
On your fourth point, this is probably culturally conditioned. I suspect that in Egyptian Coptic homes it is similar to elsewhere in Egypt; in the UK it is likewise.
Your fifth point has, I hope, been eloquently dealt with.
On your sixth point, it is the service before the Divine Liturgy, when a good deal of incense is raised
On the seventh, Litrugy is, literally, the worship the people offer to God. In the OC it is usually an hour and a half to two hours long and divided into a number of sections which lead up to the taking of the Eucharist.
On the final point, do look at Abba Seraphim's wonderful You Tube entries on the newly designed website. He deals very well with the talks which have revealed that the misunderstandings of the past are now supported only by the long history which, alas, still divides us, despite the fact that there is so much more which unites us.
There, that is my go, now over to the others
In Christ,
- James-Antony - 03-05-2010
Dear Eve,
As part of our Enquirers' Course of DVD lectures we use in Portsmouth and along the South Coast, and also other people in the country are following this course, my priest has prepared supplementary reading to go with the lectures. This is from his supplementary reading for the second lecture in the course on the subject of the Bible.
May God guide you in your studies
What this reading should help you towards is an Orthodox appreciation of the source of our Faith: the Apostolic Deposit. This is the deposit of Faith and practice received from the Apostles and passed on or 'traditioned' (like a baton in a relay race is passed on or 'traditioned' from one to the next) even unto us today. You will find that some Orthodox writers refer to Scripture and Tradition as two sources of the Orthodox Christian Faith - but this, I believe, is an influence from Western Christianity. There is but one source of the Faith: the Apostolic Deposit, the Tradition, that which has been received. Now this, of course, includes the Bible for the Bible is quite clearly among that which has been received from those before us, even going back to the Apostles. But the Bible should not be seen as something separate from Tradition. Tradition is that which has been passed onto us, that which we have received - and this, you will agree, includes the Bible.
The books that make up the Bible also are among that which has been received - though here you may begin to notice certain differences. Orthodox include within the Old Testament books which Roman Catholics and Protestants call the Apocrypha (the former, if I understand their position, accepting them as slightly âlowerâ than the rest of the Old Testament while the latter reject them as Scripture at all). Jordan Bajisâ statement that the Orthodox accept only the same books as the evangelicals is seriously open to question. He should be cross-checked with Ware who whilst acknowledging that âmost Orthodox scholars at the present dayâ may hold an opinion similar to the Roman Catholic view that these books are in some way âlesserâ than the other Old Testament books does point out that two Eastern Orthodox councils declared them âgenuine parts of Scriptureâ. Thomas Hopko also states that these books âare considered by the Orthodox as genuine parts of the Bibleâ. Given that the Orthodox Old Testament is the Septuagint (the Greek translation as used by Jesus and the Apostles) and the Septuagint included all these books then they clearly are scripture. . The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church accepts still further books as canonical scripture - for example, Enoch. Given that the Epistle of Jude quotes from Enoch I would not find it easy to argue against them on this. Now if I held to a verbally inspired (dictated, in effect) evangelical protestant understanding of the Bible this variation might cause me greater difficulty. But given my Orthodox appreciation of the Bible within Tradition (within that which has been received from the apostles) I do not panic. The Eastern Orthodox may not count Enoch canonical scripture but they quote it and refer to it with reverence as a part of Tradition, the received source of our Faith. Now as Kallistos Ware explains within Tradition a greater emphasis is placed on some aspects than on others. The Bible may have a pre-eminence within but it is not isolated from Tradition. Even in terms of Bible books some would be seen as more important than others â the Gospels being supreme. Whereas in Protestantism there is a harsh divide between the Bible and all else that is not the Bible, in Orthodoxy it is more graded, there are degrees of emphasis and importance within Tradition.
I believe the Bible to be the written record of some who experienced God. (There have no doubt been millions and millions who have experienced God - well, ultimately, all people who have ever lived, multiplied billions, have experienced God⦠but not all have been so conscious or aware of the experience of God). Some of the Biblical writers experienced God through visions and prophecy, others through Godâs working in history, while others expressed their appreciation for God and His creation through poetry. Then there were those who experienced God when God the Son incarnate walked this earth - and their precious records we call the Gospels. Then there are the authors of the epistles - writings that also spring from the experience of Jesus⦠So these scriptures are the record of those who experienced God.
Now when I refer to these books as the writings of those who experienced God exactly what am I trying to say? Well, here, as with certain other beliefs, I think it is easier to say what I don't believe - to apply apophatic or 'negative' theology. I do not hold to the evangelicalsâ doctrine of inspiration together with their related doctrine of inerrancy. I do not hold that each and every word of the Bible tells the exact literal word for word account of what was said, for example, by Jesus (as if someone had tape recorded His teachings and was playing them back to us). Nor does it bother me that, for example, in one Gospel the colour of Jesus' robe is purple but in another Gospel it is red. If these accounts were considered as evidence in a court of law, total agreement on all details would suggest fabrication and collusion - it is precisely these differences of incidental detail that show we are dealing with real accounts by real people so that when they agree on the more important points we find them trustworthy. (The argument can be gone into at rather more depth than this but I think that will do for the moment).
Now does this mean that I can't trust the Gospels to tell me what Jesus said? This rather depends on what is being asked by the question. If the question means can I trust that the Gospels report verbatim the exact word for word teachings of Jesus then I would deny this. For example consider the Gospel According to John. The way John writes Jesus as speaking is radically different to the way the other Gospels record His speech. Furthermore the way John recounts Jesus as speaking is the same way most of the characters in John's Gospel speak and even the same way that John writes his Gospel as narrator. One example of this is John chapter 3 where it is notoriously difficult to tell whether John 3:16 is supposed to be words spoken by Jesus or words of explanation inserted by John, the author. Indeed this applies to the whole conclusion to chapter 3 with different versions ending the words of Jesus and beginning the narrative of John at varying places. But if the question about trusting the Gospels to tell me what Jesus said means whether I can trust them to accurately convey to me the teaching of Jesus, even the essential message of salvation that our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ taught, then I have no hesitation in declaring that I do indeed trust these writings, even implicitly and absolutely. As already indicated they can be shown to be trustworthy documents in human terms and according to various ways of testing the veracity or trustworthiness of such writings. Furthermore it is the belief and teaching of the Orthodox Church that they contain no errors appertaining to salvation. And this is the very same authority that gives you the Bible in the first place. The same authority that declares to you that this is the Bible, declares also to you that you may trust these writings, that you may have confidence in what they teach you for your salvation. I want to offer another illustration here. According to the Peshitta, the ancient Aramaic text, in Matthew 19:24 Jesus refers to it being more difficult for a rope to go through the eye of a needle whereas many of us are more familiar with the report that He referred to a camel through the eye of a needle. Whichever word He actually used, the accuracy and truth of the teaching remains.
But what of 2Timothy 3:16 and all scripture being inspired of God? A more literal translation of the Greek word would be that all scripture is God-breathed. Now you may well ask me just what exactly this term means - to which I would have to answer that, exactly and precisely, we don't know! But we can surely say some things about it. It surely tells us that these are not merely human writings on their own, the product of men only - but that God was involved in this process: the scriptures are God-breathed. And that they are God-breathed surely indicates the work of God the Holy Spirit, with that same word for spirit and breath. So what these men were writing was not written of men on their own apart from God but rather together with God even if we do not know the exact understanding. There is something mysterious here. Just as to an Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church has gone too far and tried to explain (by the theory of transubstantiation) the mystery of holy communion, so here the evangelicals have gone too far with their theories of inspiration and verbal inerrancy. All this is deep and mysterious to an Orthodox. We accept that this is of God as well as man - an example of synergy: God and man working together. But beyond this we are reluctant to say too much. It is yet another holy mystery before which we bow in reverent acceptance rather than seeking to over-explore or dissect scientifically. We do not offer exact, precise explanations - we are content to live with mystery.
Please do not think that we Orthodox think less of the Bible than the evangelicals - just remember how we process in Church with the Gospels, in their silver cover or case, held aloft (and think of the bejewelled silver covers of Byzantine Orthodox Gospels) and think how we venerate the Gospels, how we kiss them, how we love them...
Now another aspect of understanding the Bible as the writings of men seeking (as best as can be) to express their experience of God (as distinct from words virtually dictated by God) means that when the writings refer to God being angry or taking revenge upon a people (or whatever it may be) we can begin to appreciate that the
writer is here seeking to express the inexpressible (or, at any rate, something nearly inexpressible). Such terms as anger or hatred are as much (emotional) metaphor as references to God's right arm or to sheltering under His wings is (physical) metaphor.
Now if you then wonder how you are ever to know how to understand these writings, I would direct you to the same source from which you received these writings: the Apostolic Deposit - the Tradition. The Faith is one.
- John Charmley - 03-05-2010
Dear James-Antony,
Many thanks for posting the foregoing. [Incidentally, is it just me, but when I tried to go directly to your new post I was told there were no posts, and so had to access it by clicking on the thread and going to page 2; anyone else having this problem?]
One of the difficulties with the notion of the 'Apostolic deposit' undefined is that without some definition it could mean more than Orthodox tradition has it meaning. The document you cite rightly calls the Bible the testimony of those who have experienced God, but since many have done that, something marks the Apostolic Deposit off from the many pious writings which it is edifying for the faithful to read: 1 Clement, Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas as in some early codices, but we (unless you are in the Ethiopian Church, and then only in their greater canon) do not receive them as Scripture. Likewise the other writings of the Apostolic Fathers, which, again, may be read for spiritual benefit, but which do not contain the word of God in the same way as the Bible does.
If we understand the books as their authors did, that is as the recollections of those who had walked with Christ, and of those who had walked with them, then we get close to an answer to the question of who inspired them - God did. But He did not dictate them, neither did He guide the hands of the scribes who wrote them. He could have done either, or both, of these things had that been His purpose. He chose, instead, to found a Church and to guide it to the knowledge of the Apostolic deposit. We can only do as He said and look to the Church for its teaching.
in Christ,
- Eve92 - 04-05-2010
Hello, thank you very much for all the replies they are very interesting indeed and have given me lots to think about!
And yes John I agree with you about Evangelicals and the claims they make about interpreting the Bible. I was talking to my Christian friends today about a youth group they go to (I used to go to) they were saying how they don't feel comfortable expressing their views on spiritual issues at the youthclub if they go against traditional Evangelical teaching, this is because the leaders claim to have it all worked out and reject any view that does not fit in with theirs. There are many mini-Popes out there in the Evangelical area who claim to have a perfect interpretation of the Bible!
Here's another question, is there a particular leader of the Orthodox Church? What do the Orthodox believe Jesus is talking about when he makes Peter the 'rock' of His Church? I have heard Evangelical teaching on this, that Jesus was talking about Peter's faith being the rock of his Church. But Peter is notorious for rejecting Jesus at least three times, is this the kind of faith Jesus admires? But then again I suppose we all doubt and falter, so I don't know?!


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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Berkeley Stags softball coach Boogie Grooms has seen enough softball games over the course of his storied career to know he will win some and lose some.
In the Class AAA District VIII playoffs, it was Grooms' and his Lady Stags' turn to lose.
"She made a good pitch and it was just that girl's right time and right place to hit it out of the park," Grooms said of the three-run, two-out, two-strike homer that ended his team's season with a 4-2 loss to St. James. "I don't think given the pitch and the circumstances that girl ever hits a home run in that situation again, but this time she did and it's something she will never forget as long as she lives."
Grooms said his Lady Stags, 2013 Region 8AAA champions and number one seed going into the district playoffs, couldn't have played a better game.
"We were in position to win," he said. "We came back in the sixth and took the lead. Even after the home run we loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh but we couldn't push the runs across. It was a great softball game and a game that was our turn to lose."
Philosophic at season's end, Grooms knows it had been a special run over the last two months with the Lady Stags winning their first region championship in school history.
"These are a special bunch of young ladies who endured a lot this season and it was a true pleasure and a privilege to coach them," he said. "A tremendous amount of credit goes to my four seniors, R.J. Reid, Ashtin Kullnat, Katie Marsch and Savannah Crane for providing the leadership and maturity for what is a very young team. This team will come back stronger next year because of these four young ladies."
The Lady Stags finish the season with a 17-4 mark and return almost everybody in 2014.
"We'll be back in the thick of things next year," Grooms said. "We have both our pitchers back and they'll just be freshmen, and while it will be tough to replace our graduating seniors, we have some players ready to step in and pick up the banner where these girls left off."
For the players, it's time to put away the blue and gold and pick up the travel ball banner. The first tournament for many of these girls begins May 18.
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There have been many changes to
education in Ohio with the passing of Senate Bill 316, including the Third Grade Reading Guarantee.
The guarantee states students entering third grade in 2013-14 cannot be promoted to the next level if they score below a certain level on the Ohio Achievement Assessment.
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Mary Ann Beam, a retired teacher, works with Brooklyn Bermudes, a third-grade student.
Marcus Tucker (right), a senior at Fostoria High School, works with Manuel Calderon, a fourth-grade student.
Many schools are turning to reading intervention programs such as Project MORE. Elementary schools in Fostoria, Hopewell-Loudon, Mohawk, New Riegel and Upper Sandusky are utilizing the program that was created in Putnam County in 1999.
This program is a research-based reading intervention program, Fostoria Intermediate Elementary teacher Pam Berrier said.
According to its website, Project MORE was designed to raise expectations and performance for children with disabilities in reading, but also has proven effective for students at-risk for reading failure.
"The program offers students an opportunity to receive one-on-one support at their level," Berrier said. "They are working on increasing the words they read per minute by repeating the story, completing a graphic organizer, completing a comprehension check and vocabulary skill worksheet each week."
Project MORE began in August at Fostoria Intermediate Elementary.
"We started tutoring eight students in September and now we have 86 students each week," Berrier said. "Project MORE provides reading intervention at each student's reading level. If a student is not on grade level based on assessments, our goal is to get them in our program."
According to Berrier, the Project MORE data shows students are reading more words per minute and students are becoming more confident.
"Project MORE, along with other support, is helping out students. This program can also aide the 5-12 graders who serve as mentors. We hope that it helps students being mentored and the student doing the mentoring," she said.
Volunteers can be community members, school staff, family of the staff or students.
Volunteers must attend a training, complete their assigned paper work and pass a background check that is paid for by the school.
"The goal is that each volunteer comes in at least once a week for 30 minutes," Berrier said. "Many of our volunteers do more than that."
According to the Ohio Department of Aging, the Retired Senior Volunteer Program is partnering with Project MORE to improve childhood literacy, engage elders to support community needs and teach kids the secrets of living long and healthy lives.
"Project MORE is an evidence-based intervention that is effective, affordable, replicable and sustainable, and is producing results in 300 schools," said Amy Freeman, Project MORE director. "Independent research conducted by Bowling Green State University's Center for Evaluation Services consistently reports students with specific learning disabilities or at risk for reading failure make month-for-month reading level gains whey they are mentored in reading one-on-one, three to four times a week."
Having students read multiple times helps with increasing vocabulary, fluency and reading skills, Kelly Stahl said. Stahl is a teacher for Hopewell-Loudon Schools.
"The main goal is to keep students' reading on track and bring them up to grade level," she said.
The program does not replace regular classroom instruction, Stahl said.
Stahl said, along with the reading, the bonds between the mentors and the students is just as important.
"I believe that there is a strong community connection with Hopewell-Loudon. Students enjoy the mentors relationships and are disappointed when they do not come in," Stahl said.
The material the students use comes directly from the curriculum already in place.
"We have an obligation to see that the students get the
very best opportunities," Stahl said.
"Project MORE is an important piece of our intervention program," Berrier said. "With the new common core and other requirements of classroom teachers, providing one-on-one intervention is very difficult for most teachers. Project MORE provides that for students. It gives students the opportunity to feel successful and work with another person away from peers."
"Project MORE allows for the community to come into our building and work with our students. It is truly a rewarding program. They get to see just how wonderful our students and staff are," she added.


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Thursday, May 2, 2013
The Local Motion Party Band has had people dancing to their blend of mostly beach music for the past three years. They recently headlined the second annual Goose Creek Beach and BBQ Festival.
Guitarist and bandleader Mike Wilson said the Charleston band is looking to gain exposure and mostly plays at private parties throughout the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia.
"We're working on an album," Wilson said. "It's modern beach music originals. We're talking to a couple of labels. There's a new label being formed in Arizona. He's talking to us and a zydeco band from New Orleans.
"We've got four songs in the can for this CD. Hopefully by the end of the year we'll have it. The songs are written mostly."
Wilson said the band has a heavy Motown influence and also plays some newer material.
"We do a lot of stuff with the Summerville Shaggers Club. They're the only ones in the area that use live bands for their events. We're not strictly beach music, we extend out a bit, but that is our basis.
"There's many definitions of what beach music is nowadays, we just say dance music."
He said the band plays some originals and each member is an accomplished musician. Genine Petit is the lead vocalist.
"She's done a lot of background work in Nashville," Wilson said. She had an album with Edwin McCain on it. South Carolina people always help each other out."
She sings a rendition of "At Last" by Etta James, Wilson noted.
"Daniel Walker is the keyboard player and vocalist. He's the pup in this group, he's the youngest. His mother used to write music. He was weaned on old rock 'n' roll and soul. He writes really melodically. He studied at College of Charleston."
Greg Myers, originally from Ohio, holds down the bass guitar. Wilson said he has a good ear, is a natural musician and played in the U.S. Navy traveling band.
Our saxophone Laurin McGee is the saxophone player with a symphony background. She's originally from Charleston but went to school in Washington, D.C.
"She's a heck of a sax player. She's been with me the longest.
"Hopefully in 2014 we're supposed to go to England. Northern Soul is really similar to beach music over there. We're only talking about 10 days in the early Fall.
"I'm really proud of my band. They're all better than me. But I crack the whip. I mostly play a Fender Strat, Vox amp. In this kind of music I'm mainly a rhythm player."
Dan Stacy, of Charleston, is the drummer. Stacy played in New Orleans a long time and studied the city's various beats.
"It's difficult. He's extremely well versed in those styles. He can play a pocket shuffle like nobody's business. He lost all his instruments in Hurricane Katrina."
Wilson said John Dixon of Kirkman Broadcasting was instrumental in getting the band going. He said Dixon is a walking encyclopedia of music.
"He gave us playlists. I wanted to know what was popular. When you start up a band you're just trying to survive."
Wilson said a book by Louisiana Tech University Dr. Rick Simmons called "Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years" was helpful in hearing the stories of the real McCoys of beach music.
"We just love to play this stuff and be able to be alive and do it. It's from the heart. We recorded four songs. All are very different. It's bubblegum beach, there's a bluesy one, an odd one a funny one. We're looking forward to finishing it when that day comes."
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10 March 2014
Faversham and Mid Kent MP Hugh Robertson received a special award today, in recognition of his work to help secure last year's historic cut in beer duty in the Budget.
Jonathan Neame, chief executive of Faversham-based brewery Shepherd Neame, presented Mr Robertson with the new 'Beer Champion' award.
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08 March 2014
Delicious alternative to pasta, this dish is wheat free and vegetarian. Serve it with a rocket salad.
05 March 2014
Shepherd Neame, the Kent-based brewer and pub operator, today announces results for the 26 weeks ended 28 December 2013.
Highlights include: Turnover up 4.7% to £72.5m (2012: £69.2m)
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Perfect sharing dish, that goes very well with beer. Serve with Beer tasting shots on the side and some homemade cranberry sauce and crusty bread or toast. Try drizzling cubes of stale ciabatta with a little olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt and toast, then thread onto long kebab skewers or stripped rosemary twigs and serve with the baked cheese.
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A high school football fan looking to take in the most unlikely district championship game they could imagine might find a trip to Northern Bedford's Panther Community Stadium worthwhile on Friday night.
That's where Chestnut Ridge and Everett will square off for the District 5 Class AA championship at 7 p.m. Or is that the District 5-8 Class AA subregional championship? Because the only Class AA team from the Pittsburgh City League opted out of the playoffs, this week's winner gets a bye next week and is effectively a double champion.
Both teams are 5-5. Neither has won a district championship before. Both teams run a lot more than they pass.
One of the coaches had a great deal of success beating the team he now guides. The other coach was running a team in Oregon a couple of years ago and has nearly 100 more career losses than wins. One team started 0-3, the other 1-3.
Although Ridge and Everett are both double-A schools in Bedford County, the former rivals haven't met on the field in five years and have no common opponents other than Central.
"The fact that it's local is perhaps more relevant than the fact that it's for a district championship," said Ridge coach Max Shoemaker, who won nearly 100 games and five D5 titles in the early 1990s with the Lions' archrival, Bedford. "Winning a championship is a nice feather in your cap, but I think our kids are more excited about playing somebody local instead of halfway across the state."
Ridge has been playing games in Reading and Maryland because it is an independent after it used to be a member of the Inter-County Conference with Everett.
The Lions were a playoff team a season ago when District 5 was joined with District 6. Everett, meanwhile, hasn't sniffed the postseason since 2009, when it was bounced from the Class A playoffs in the opening round by Berlin.
In the next two years, the Warriors won three games. Things weren't looking much better this season when the Warriors lost their first three games.
However, Everett bounced back and won five of its next six before losing at District 6 Class AA juggernaut Central last week. Even in that game, the Warriors acquitted themselves nicely.
"Their coaches said we played them as tough as anybody all year," Everett coach Mark Kirk said.
Kirk himself is a story. He's been on the sidelines in one capacity or another for 35 years at schools in Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana and as far west as Oregon. His career head coaching record is 69-163-4, but the way his Warriors ended the regular season was indicative of an ability to find a way to turn things around.
"We had to evaluate the personnel a little bit. The first evaluation wasn't really good," Kirk said. "The kids have been really, really resilient. They hadn't had a lot of success in the previous two seasons, and, to drop the first three [and come back], I'm really proud of these guys.
"The great thing about this group is they really like to play football."
Of course, it doesn't hurt either that some of those guys that like to play football are absolutely huge. Among Kirk's starters on the lines are 333-pound Phil Cummings, 252-pound Chris Weist, 305-pound Justin Weist, 240-pound Hunter Valentine and 227-pound Eli Claycomb.
The prime beneficiary of all that beef up front is senior scatback Barkley Rhoat. After a modest start to the season, Rhoat is on a string of four consecutive 100-yard games and averages 9.4 yards per carry, a nice stat on a team that runs more than 75 percent of the time.
"Barkley's faster than he looks. We want to get him into space as much as we can," Kirk said.
Ridge, which came on strong after a sluggish first quarter to beat Bedford last week, 33-7, will be without one of its big guys up front, 251-pound Shane Davis, because of an injury.
"We'll be overmatched size-wise, and they have some good speed. Those are two big concerns," Shoemaker said. "We'll have to play a good defensive game. When we've fallen it's because we've given up big plays."
Shoemaker's offense has been pretty potent, too, though. The Lions average more than 240 yards per game rushing. Quarterback Beau Bosch, whose girlfriend, ironically, is from Everett, has run for 1,096 yards and 17 touchdowns, while Jacob Mock has 840 rushing yards.
"We're excited for the opportunity," Shoemaker said. "This is a bridge we need to cross to get where we want to be."


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Play food belongs in every child's toy collection—the variety of open-ended role play it inspires is so healthy for growing imaginations. That's why we were happy to find these Haba Fried Eggs—a soft fabric fried egg inside a metal shell that kids can open like a real chef! We're offering a set of two so that the fun can be shared. Dish not included.
Haba Fried Egg details: egg shell measures 2 inches; fried egg, 4.5 x 3.25 inches; yolk diameter, 1.5 inches.
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EAST PALESTINE - A school board member believes they should reconsider a ban on students using cell phones while riding buses to and from games and other events.
"Those cell phones help keep kids quiet" during long bus rides, said board member Doug Lammert.
During last week's meeting, the board was scheduled to approve an updated version of its policies when Lammert questioned the section regarding student use of personal devices, which prohibits cells phones from being turned on during school or on after-school bus trips.
Lammert indicated he has personally witnessed the value of students being able to use their cell phones on these bus trips and it does help keep them from becoming too loud. He saw another benefit when a coach instructed her team to begin calling their parents to pick them up as the bus neared the school while they were returning from a sporting event.
Superintendent George Fisk said they would remove that section from the policy for now and study if further, which is what the board opted to do. The board then approved the rest of the policy.
In other action, the board amended its contract with the union representing teachers to provide additional compensation when veteran teachers mentor more than one new teacher.
Under the current policy, teachers certified to serve as mentors for new hires are compensated at 7 percent of the base pay for teachers. Fisk said the revised policy allows them to be compensated at 3.5 percent for any additional new hires they mentor.
He said it had never been an issue until this year, but "we had a big turnover last year," leaving the district in a position of having more new teachers then mentors.
"They put in a lot of hours outside of the school day," he said the teaching mentors.
During the educational spotlight portion of the meeting, high school Principal Laura Griffiths and five students gave a brief presentation on the leadership classes featuring motivational speaker David Kohout, held every Tuesday during the lunch period.
"The whole goal is to grow leaders" as students go forth into the world, Griffith said.
The following students addressed the board about how they have benefited from the sessions: Logan Foster, Taylor Rafferty, Austin Jeffers, Grant Wagner and Emily Duncan.
Kohout offered to provide the leadership classes for free after reading about all of the changes in the school district over the past year, Fisk said.
The board also:
- Awarded its first Bulldog PRIDE (Passionate, Remarkable, Inspiring, Dedicated, Engaging) Award to elementary school aide Sherri Perkins, who recently used the Heimlich maneuver on a student choking on a candy bar. Perkins was successful in stopping the choking, and the student was fine.
- Accepted the resignations of custodian James Stanyard, who is retiring at the end of the year, and teacher Cathy Berent, retroactive to Nov. 20.
- Accepted the following donations from school organizations: $1,162 from the Soccer Boosters, to purchase new jackets; $1,236 from the PTO, to purchase elementary planners; and $640 from the Football Mothers, for new jerseys.
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Johnstown Piano RecitalPianist Henry Davis plays a half-hour recital with light lunch to follow.10/08/2013Time: 12:00 pm415 Vine St. Johnstown, PAwebsite | map
SteampunkDavid Anderson's Quintet uses the same instruments as Prokofiev's Oboe Quintet while combining elements of funk, jazz, and a little Shostakovich. Carl Nielsen's short Serenata in Vano (1914) takes a charming and humorous look at unrequited chivalry. David Bruce completed Steampunk 2010 after a friend showed him several handmade instruments inspired by the Steampunk movement. An octet of winds, brass, and strings takes listeners through an alternate history of sound, color, rhythm, and melody. 10/08/2013Time: 7:30 pmLocation: The Inn, 5601 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Lunchtime ConcertA concert featuring music from Renaissance to contemporary, performed by members of the Tuesday Musical Club's Renaissance and Baroque, Woodwind, and Vocal Divisions.� Note that this concert will not be held at St. Andrew's, due to renovations under way.10/08/2013Time: 12:30 pmLocation: Calvary Episcopal Churchwebsite
The PigeoningMeet Frank, an obsessive compulsive consumed with routines. Enter a flock of pigeons and experience The Pigeoning, a darkly comedic work that combines bunraku puppetry, music and video to examine mankind's obsession with cleanliness, safety and control. Brimming with originality and humor, The Pigeoning is an entertaining exploration of the human condition.10/09/2013 - 10/12/2013Location: 937 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
It's Dark OutsidePart of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Perth Theatre Company's "It's Dark Outside" is a heartfelt, fearless, and inventive adventure about aging, getting lost and trying not to be found. Puppetry, mask, animation and live performance are expertly intertwined in this drama inspired by research into Alzheimer's and Sundowner's Syndrome.10/09/2013 - 10/12/2013Time: 9:00 pmLocation: Pierce Studio, 805 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Music 101 - Michael RusinekPrincipal Clarinet Michael Rusinek gives an informal lecture, titled "Clarinet Colors".10/10/2013Time: 12:30 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Honeck, Dvorak and MozartRussian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva debuts at Heinz Hall in Mozart's famous Piano Concerto #21, nicknamed "Elvira Madigan" for its inclusion in the eponymous 1967 film. Dvorak's cheerful Symphony #8 was inspired by the folk music of the composer's native Bohemia.10/11/2013 - 10/13/2013Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Princess IdaThe Pittsburgh Savoyards celebrate 75 seasons with Gilbert & Sullivan's Princess Ida. A Princess and a Prince -- will there be a Wedding or a War? Join the Savoyards for this hilarious romantic battle.10/11/2013 - 10/20/201310/11 - 8:00 pm10/12 - 8:00 pm10/13 - 2:30 pm10/17 - 8:00 pm10/18 - 8:00 pm10/19 - 8:00 pm10/20 - 2:30 pmAndrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, Carnegie, PAwebsite | map
Take 6Heralded by Quincy Jones as the 'baddest vocal cats on the planet!', Take 6 celebrates their 25th anniversary with a brand new tour full of new a cappella arrangements, great storytelling and their unbeatable and unmistakable harmonies.10/11/201310/11 - 7:00 pm10/11 - 9:30 pm1815 Metropolitan St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Freya String Quartet presents Fresh VoicesThe Freya String Quartet presents new works by young, up-and-coming composers from across the world. Includes Pennsylvania premieres by Hong-Da Chin, Elizabeth Kowalski, Matthew Peterson, Chung Eun Kim, and Zachary Albrecht. FSQ is Pittsburgh's only full-time professional string quartet.10/11/2013 - 10/13/201310/11 - 8:00 pm10/13 - 2:00 pmLocation: First United Methodist Church, 5401 Centre Ave, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
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The annual Silverton fireworks show, touted as the best Fourth of July display on the Western Slope, has been canceled this year.
�It would have been the 28th year,� Gilbert Archuleta, chief of the Silverton Volunteer Fire Department, said Tuesday. �But the fire danger is too extreme.�
In banning private fireworks this year, Gov. John Hickenlooper on June 14 said municipal or professional displays are allowed with written permission from the corresponding county sheriff.
But even so, the San Juan County Sheriff�s Office and fire officials decided it was too risky, Archuleta said.
�An additional concern was the governor�s executive order that said if an approved fireworks display causes a fire, local officials should not expect state money to help fight the fire,� Archuleta said.
La Plata County Sheriff Duke Shirard said Tuesday he will sign an order today allowing entities that have professionally run fireworks programs with firemen standing by, or firefighters themselves, to have fireworks displays.
City Manager Ron LeBlanc said there�s been no decision about whether to have fireworks in Durango.
In Montezuma County, Cortez will have fireworks at Parque de Vida starting at dusk.
Bayfield administrators and Upper Pine Fire Protection District pyrotechnic experts were scheduled to meet late Tuesday to resolve the fireworks issue, Ryan Orendorff, the town�s assistant director of parks and recreation, said.
Orendorff said the town has announced on signs around town that there will be fireworks at the high school. But the decision isn�t final.
Vallecito Fireworks Coalition member Judith London said the organization wants to have fireworks but is awaiting authorization.
London, who�s been involved in the program for 12 years, said fireworks have never caused an anxious moment because they�re launched over the lake.
The town of Ignacio doesn�t sponsor firework shows.
Silverton�s fireworks show draws spectators from far and wide, even from out of state, San Juan County treasurer Bev Rich said.
She doesn�t think cancellation of the display will affect the economic impact or the influx of visitors it brings.
�This was short notice,� Rich said. �People have plans in place and already have their vacations booked.�
All other Fourth of July activities will go ahead as scheduled, she said. The parade, the International Rhubarb Festival and the water fight between local firefighters and Hermosa Cliffs firefighters are still on, Rich said.
�We�re 20 degrees cooler here than a lot of other places, and there�s no smoke,� Rich said.


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One half of the A Piece of Toast sister-blogging duo, Molly's passion for interiors, street style and photography keeps her inspired on a daily basis and fuels her love of curating content for the blog. It's quite fitting that she share with us what she is inspired by each week.
"Some fashionistas use their most gorgeous heels as display pieces when they aren't being worn (think The Coveteur). But when living in Texas, why not fill an empty nook or unused shelf with a pair of well-loved cowboy boots? Highly recommended for the ultra-contemporary spaces – there's nothing better than juxtaposition in design. So, think twice before you shove those boots in your closet. Leave them out to add a hint of charming southern flare to your abode."


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6540-Malone University Announces Information Meetings for Accelerated Degree Completion Programs in Management and Nursing: March
6540 - February 28, 2013
Malone University will have representatives on hand to explain its accelerated degree completion programs in management and nursing at several upcoming information meetings. All meetings will take place at 6 p.m. on:
- Wednesday, March 6 (MMP, and RN to BSN) in Mitchell Hall on the Malone University campus located at 2600 Cleveland Avenue N.W. in Canton
- Tuesday, March 26 (MMP only) at the Malone University Continuing Studies Center, Grand Bay Corporate Center Building 2, Suite 104, 6900 South Edgerton Road, Brecksville
- Thursday, March 14 (MMP only) at the Akron/Montrose Courtyard by Marriott, 100 Springside Drive in Fairlawn.
A counselor is available to meet with potential students for academic advising. For more information or directions to any of these locations, please call the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at 1.800.257.4723 or 330-471-8500.
The Malone Management Program (MMP) is one of the first accelerated degree completion programs of its kind with more than 25 years of assisting the adult learner attain a baccalaureate degree. US News & World Report ranks it # #33 for best online bachelor's degree program of the 190 colleges and universities ranked nationally.
Malone's bachelor of arts degree in either organizational, project, marketing, health services, or environmental management is designed for nontraditional students with a minimum of five years of work experience who have some post-high school education. The degree may be obtained as fast as 14 months. Since the program began in 1984, nearly 4000 adult students have completed their degrees; in fact, the program boasts an impressive 80 percent graduation rate.
Classes meet once a week from 6-10 p.m. for 14 months at Malone University in Canton or at the Continuing Studies Center located in Brecksville. Small class groups advance through the entire program taking one class at a time. A student also has the option of taking the Malone Management Program entirely online.
The RN to BSN program: Registered nurses with a nursing diploma or associate degree can earn their BSN degree at Malone University in 14 months, including clinicals and group projects. Classes meet one night a week. This convenient schedule allows you to keep working while you attend. You're with the same group of classmates for the duration of the program, completing one course before moving on to the next. Tuition covers books, class materials and related course fees, too!
For more information:
Contact Doug Gregory at 330-471-8643 or email at qtertbel+znybar+rqh to reserve a spot at an upcoming information meeting.
Malone University, a Christian university for the arts, sciences, and professions in the liberal arts tradition, affiliated with the Evangelical Friends Church, awards both undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 100 academic programs. Malone has been recognized by the prestigious Templeton Foundation as a leader in character development, as one of Northeast Ohio's Top Workplaces by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and is ranked among the top colleges and universities in the Midwest under the category Regional Universities according to U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2015
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Completed by the physician, PAS Agency assessor, hospital discharge planner or the nursing facility. The purpose is for the federally required PASRR screening for all individuals requesting admission to a nursing facility, to determine if the individuals might possibly have a mentally illness or a developmental/intellectual disability (DD/ID)and therefore require further assessment (Level II) to determine if they can be admitted to the facility. This form can also be used to screen residents in a nursing facility who have undergone a change in condition and may require a PASRR Level II assessment to determine if they can remain in the facility. NOTE: This form is generally known as the PASRR Level I, and is also known as the form 450B/PASRR2A, Sections IV and V, Part A.
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Used to verify attendance by rehabilitation counselors at CEU approved training conferences, workshops, seminars, and other educational programs so they may earn continuing education credits required to keep their Certified Rehabilitation Counselor certificates. CRC counselors are required to accumulate a specific number of CEU's each year in order to qualify to work as CRC counselors.
Commission on Rehabilitation Services Customer Satisfaction Survey 46098**
All individuals who have completed their VRS program are given a Customer Satisfaction Survey form to respond to questions about the quality and effectiveness of VRS services provided to them. This information is used to evaluate the way VRS services can be improved or made more effective for people with disabilities.
Commission on Rehabilitation Services - Satisfaction Survey - Large Print Version 49823**
All individuals with visual impairments who have completed their VRS service programs are given a large print Customer Satisfaction Survey form to respond to questions about the quality and effectiveness of VRS services provided to them. This information is reviewed to determine how VRS services to visually impaired individuals may be improved.
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Pre-lingual deaf individuals who have completed their VRS service program are given a Customer Satisfaction Survey form that asks questions about VRS services provided to them in a simplified language format. This information is used to evaluate the manner VRS services are provided to deaf individuals to make the VRS program more responsive to their vocational and communication needs.
DDRS Referral and Application 10057**
Used when an individual applies for services from VRS or the Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services. The VRS or the BDDS counselor obtains background information about the individual to assist in an evaluation of the individual's eligibility for services for either division. This questionnaire is given to individuals who apply for VRS services. The VRS customer fills out this form on his own.
Financial Aid Communications 41378**
Used to provide the VRS counselor with information from college financial aid office as to the amount of financial assistance VRS can provide to the student. This form is utilized each academic year by the VRS counselor for all VRS post secondary student/customers.
Confidential Report of Blindness or Visual Impairment 48126**
Employment Questionnaire 04677**
This questionnaire is given to individuals who apply for VRS services. Some individuals are still working when they apply for VRS services, so it is necessary to provide the VRS counselor with the details about his or her job in order to help determine what services may be needed to assist the individual in retaining employment or obtaining a new job. The VRS customer fills out his form on their own.
Referral for Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired 46206**
This is the referral form for BVIS services and programs.
Information Required in an Emergency 46213**
Used for blind individuals receiving services at the Bosma Center for the Blind. In case of injury or illness while at the Center, the caseworker would fill out this form so the blind individual would receive emergency medical care. This form is used to authorize the BVIS to obtain emergency medical and/or hospital services.
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Life Prolonging Procedures Declaration**
Official request form for the use of life prolonging procedures that would extend one's life
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