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The Incarnation and Orthodoxy - John Charmley - 26-10-2006
One of the great ineffable mysteries of the faith is the Incarnation. It is, therefore, perhaps unsurprising that the different attempts to understand it have led to misunderstandings - in the end, of course, we cannot understand it. If our human understanding could comprehend the mind of God, then whatever it thought it was understanding could not, I take it, be the mind of God, which is, by definition, beyond understanding.
That being said, am I correct in thinking that the Oriental Orthodox understanding of the Incarnation is entirely Cyrilline in its teaching? By that, I mean that it sees the enfleshed Word as being completely human and completely divine, being of one nature after the union?
The Antiochenes of the fifth century mistakenly took St. Cyril's 'One nature of the Incarnate Word' for a form of Appolinarianism, and the Chalcedonians seem to have picked this up as a handy stick with which to beat those who would not accept their views. What puzzles me is how the Chalcedonians managed to accept the Three Chapters by Antiochenes as Orthodox for nearly a hundred years, then, at their fifth council, denounce them as heretical, all without casting doubt on their own definitions of either their own Orthodoxy, or their own definition of Ecumenical.
I suppose my questions are, therefore, two fold:
- is there an identity between St. Cyril and the OO Christology?
- why were the Chalcedonians able to get away with accepting an heretical set of Chapters at Chalcedon and then dropping them at Constantinople?
In Christ,
- mourad - 11-12-2007
This reply is simply to "bump" this thread up the list of currently active threads in the hope that someone will post their two coppers' worth or that Mr. Charmley will post his current take on the issue.
- admin - 11-12-2007
Hi Mourad
I think that the issue of the virtual reception of the Three Chapters by the Roman and North-African Church is important, not least because it does give some justification for the rejection of Chalcedon. Indeed one of the anathemas against that council was related to that very issue.
I'd be interested to understand better the position which these writers and indeed the whole Theodorean tradition held in the Antoichean See until Constantinople II. It is hard to believe that there was strong support for Theodore until the death of St Cyril and then suddenly it disappeared.
I do believe that there is a complete identity between the Christology of St Cyril and St Severus, or rather that St Severus develops the Christology of St Cyril where required but is completely rooted in that of his master. One only has to read any of St Severus' theological works to see that he depends entirely on St Cyril, indeed I grow increasingly aware that St Cyril was a Severan and vice-versa, and that it is rather difficult to make him a Chalcedonian.
I am not entirely convinced that all modern OO Christology is Cyrilline, in that I am not sure that there is not a popular explanation of our Christology which seems to me to try to be too Chalcedonian. I grow increasingly to believe that the Chalcedonian position is defective, and that even though it was corrected to a great extent by Constantinople II, nevertheless modern 'hard-liners' seem to me to be more Chalcedonian than Chalcedo-Constantinopilitan, and therefore seem to veer close to Nestorian positions.
On the other hand I personally deprecate taking too narrow a view on matters which are beyond comprehension. But I do also think that we need to appreciate our own tradition much more and be much firmer in professing the teaching of our fathers, even while also being conscious of the need to communicate it fully rather than simply using slogans.
Saint Severus says (in partial paraphrase) ...
Quote:We must flee all superfluous ideas, and follow the inspired scriptures, the chosen men, guardians of the Law, who were teachers of the mysteries of the Holy Church, not only in their doctrine, but also in their terminology which expressed their doctrine. What they say is true, and what they did not say is false. He acknowledges his weakness. In all circumstances of my life I have been concerned to regulate my spirit according to their terminology and their ideas, and to conform my language to it, to resort to it in my language and my writings each time the circumstances require it, and not to recognise them as fathers on the one hand, while elevating ourselves against their declarations on the other hand, which are the expression of authentic doctrines. For it was not they who spoke, according to the truthful word of our Saviour, but the Spirit of their Father who spoke in them.
Of course merely repeating things in parrot fashion can actually communicate error, but I do think we need to be more rooted ourselves in our Fathers.
Thinking of the Three Chapters again. I think that their reception in the West and North Africa, and their popularity in Antioch, shows that there is a real and different tendency in Christology. Whether or not in any situation it goes beyond the bounds of what can be considered Orthodox and Christian is a matter for the Church, but I do always consider it dangerous. To speak of a duality in Christ seems always to lead to dividing Christ, even unwittingly.
Certainly as a Protestant I understood and was taught either that Christ was a man and His 'Divinity' was 'out there' somewhere. Or that he was only a man and had given up His Divinity. I struggled because even then I wanted to describe Christ as man filled with the fulness of the Godhead, rather like the elven Queen Galadriel in Lord of the Rings who is so much more than is merely visible.
Saint Severus is very clear. If the manhood does 'this' and the Divinity does 'that' then there is only a relative relation between them. They are two 'things' united only externally, however closely. But if it is the Word of God who acts both Divinely and humanly this is a different description. In the one we see a humanity which is appropriated and used BY the Word, in the Cyrilline and Severan description we see that the humanity IS the Word.
How many of us have experienced the truth that when you push a certain type of Byzantine you find a Nestorian? This is surely because the Theodorean principle of two hypostases is still present in Chalcedonianism. Such that some, in correspondence with me, have even unknowingly rejected passages from their own Fifth Council because they considered them heretical.
The reason that the West and North Africa went into schism after the Fifth Council was because they understood clearly that to accept the Fifth was to criticise the Fourth. Indeed some parts of the West remained in schism over this issue until 700 AD. And Metropolitans and Popes were willing to be put in prison rather than accept the condemnation of these writings and persons. There is a new book out on the Three Chapters controversy which I want to get, but I have not seen an EO address the issue of Chalcedonian acceptance indeed an EO priest I raised the issue with dismissed it forthwith.
But Chalcedon is clear 'We have read the letter of Ibas and it is Orthodox', as is Constantinople, 'When it was read immediately its impiety was manifest to all.'
There is much to be said on this subject and I hope I can write something substantial in 2008.
As ever
Christology - John Charmley - 11-12-2007
Dear Peter,
I am grateful to Mourad for exhuming this one!
It would be wonderful if you could find the time to write something more substantial on this - although I would say that what you have written thus far is very substantial and enlightening.
My own views, as I understand these things better within the Church (and it might be noted that my initial post was when I was still exiting Anglicanism) is that our rejection of Chalcedon was largely founded upon its approval of Theodoret and others who were clearly Nestorian in their tendencies; the later condemnation of Theodoret and the other was a belated act of justice, and if it had occurred in 451 I doubt there would have been a split. By the time of the Constantinople Council too much blood had been split and too many fixed positions had been taken up.
I suspect that the condemnation of St. Disoscoros has in some ways muddied the water, because many books still repeat the calumny that his doctrine was condemned; nothing of the sort happened. What is puzzling is why he did not come to the Council when summoned, and I wonder what the answer to that is?
When you write:
Quote:I am not entirely convinced that all modern OO Christology is Cyrilline, in that I am not sure that there is not a popular explanation of our Christology which seems to me to try to be too Chalcedonian. I grow increasingly to believe that the Chalcedonian position is defective, and that even though it was corrected to a great extent by Constantinople II, nevertheless modern 'hard-liners' seem to me to be more Chalcedonian than Chalcedon-Constantinopilitan, and therefore seem to veer close to Nestorian positions.I have some sense of what you mean from our discussions elsewhere, but I suspect it might be helpful if you could elaborate a little - not in the cause of divisiveness (of which no one who knows you could harbour any suspicion) but in the cause of furthering our knowledge of the Oriental Orthodox Tradition.
In Christ,
- admin - 11-12-2007
Dear John
Yes you are right that I do not mean to be divisive at all, and I was struck after posting with Rick's post. But I guess that dealing with theological difference in a loving way is just the other side of dealing with the desire for unity in an honest way?
I have been reading materials over the last couple of weeks as I have been preparing new volumes for publication. These are informing my thoughts. The first text is Bar Salibi - Against the Melchites. This is a remarkable work since it addresses a Syrian who is being drawn by the glamour of Imperial Chalcedonianism. Bar Salibi expresses the distinctives of our Oriental Orthodox position, and I think that this is an important document that all thinking Oriental Orthodox who deal with the Eastern Orthodox should study.
I think his basic premise is one we should ponder. It seems to me that it is essentially that we are not trying to be 'accepted' by the Eastern Orthodox, even while we would wish to explain our theology in a manner that is comprehensible. Rather we should be comfortable that there is value in our own Tradition which we can and should justifiably consider entirely and authentically Orthodox.
This is one aspect of my sense that some modern OO do not have a Cyrilline Christology. I sense that some look at Byzantine ritual and hymnology with envy. Or at the present theological tradition of the Eastern Orthodox and find themselves feeling daunted. Or even at comparative numbers, or the numbers of books in English about the EO compared with the OO. And then when it comes to theology the EO position seems all sewn up, the Romans accept it, the Russians accept it, the Greeks accept it, 'who are we to make a fuss?'.
Bar Salibi writes ten chapters. They are all matters of controversy, and usually they are matters over which OO are harangued by EO. They are:
i. The making of the Sign of the Cross
ii. Also on the Sign of the Cross
iii. On the two natures
iv. The liturgical excesses of the Greeks
v. Tones and Melodies unprofitable
vi. Byzantine pride in great buildings
vii. Are the Greeks the head of all Christians?
viii. Are we few and humble?
ix. On the Sign of the Cross again
x. On the Trisagion
Now this is not simply a list of polemics. I find Bar Salibi much more sophisticated than that. He is not so much wishing to condemn the Byzantines as to ask his correspondent why he is so keen to run off and join the Greeks.
And this is a text which has encouraged me to ask myself why I do not find myself entirely satisfied with the theological and spiritual foundation laid down by our Fathers in our OO tradition, and I do not mean this in an exclusivist sense, indeed I was writing a short article for someone today and referred to Saint Seraphim of Sarov. But I do mean that it is impossible to do ecumenism in a proper manner if we are asking ourselves at the beginning why we dare exist as a community and communion.
I suppose I mean that I am becoming convinced that I can participate best in a proper ecumenism if I am truly a disciple of Saint Cyril and Saint Severus and our other Fathers first, without fanaticism, and then engage in a sympathetic consideration of the Eastern Orthodox positions second.
This is where I would want to wonder whether there is not a sense among some OO that all the answers are to be found in the Eastern Orthodox tradition and that what is required is for us to show that we are Eastern Orthodox enough. I no longer feel that I want to play that game. I want to understand and be able to participate in our own tradition as far as possible, and then consider how to promote unity and manage difference with others and especially the Eastern Orthodox.
Theologically I think that this translates into a too simple understanding of our Christology which makes us say the same thing with different words. I am not convinced that is or especially was the case. If the bishops at Chalcedon could read the Letter of Ibas and declare him Orthodox then it must, surely it must, say something about the substance of their Orthodoxy?
Putting this sense into very plain English. I think I am in the position where I am convinced that our OO communion is Orthodox and I am
seeking to understand if the EO communion is also Orthodox, and where there might be difficulty. I am no longer where I was 15 years ago, where I wanted to show that I was Orthodox like the Eastern Orthodox. Now I want to be Orthodox like Saint Cyril and Saint Severus, and God must, to a very great extent, work out the issues between OO and EO Himself.
The second volume I am reading and presently preparing for publication is a work by an Armenian Archbishop. It is most interesting indeed and I have learned a lot of history. But the Archbishop describes the position of the Armenian Church as being one where there is dogma, especially relating to the Trinity and to Christ, and which is found in the Three Ecumenical Councils, but beyond that doctrine is considered as being the output of various theological schools and not being identical with dogma. Therefore the Armenian Church wishes to be liberal to the extent that there is a conservative and wholly Orthodox preservation of dogma but a much greater sense of discretion and humility in elevating one particular doctrinal explanation of the incomprehensible above any other.
There is much to consider in this volume, but I have been struck by the position taken by the Archbishop and described as being the essential position of the Armenian Church, which has made it liable to proselytism, but which it has not been willing to abandon for a more narrow exclusivism.
This has made me think deeply. How do I balance the theological narrowness of Bar Salibi (and I don't mean he is personally narrow minded), with the theological liberality of Archbishop Malaghia Ormanian?
I think that I have needed to develop an understanding over the years that there is a distinction between people and the theological systems they adopt. It may well be perfectly appropriate for me to consider a theological system against that of Saint Cyril and Saint Severus and consider various defects and deficiencies, but it is not appropriate in this present age to define a person simply by their theology.
And I am sensing that I need a humility to understand that even if the teaching of Saint Cyril were completely identified with some absolute theological truth that would not mean that I myself necessarily understood the teaching of Saint Cyril perfectly and was thereby able to judge all other theologies. Indeed it is clear that I do not perfectly understand the theology of Saint Cyril and Saint Severus, and more than that I do not perfectly understand the theology of any Eastern Orthodox theologian, so who am I do act as if I could ever make any absolute theological statement.
So what am I saying? I think I am saying that members of the OO should seek to be much more the disciples of our Fathers and should begin by rooting ourselves in our own tradition. Personally I beleive that the strength of our Christology lies in the expression of unity of being without confusion which we profess. I do think we must be careful and cautious in simply identifying our Christology with that of Chalcedon.
Secondly I think that we should take a more positive stance in regard to the controversial matters. Why should we not be asking difficult questions about Chalcedon? Why do we not all know by heart the anathemas which were raised by our Syrian and Coptic Fathers against Chalcedon, not because we wish to use them in a polemical manner, but because they are witnesses to the issues which Chalcedon created and brought into focus. Why are we always acting as if the OO communion must answer all the questions? I am very interested in the issue of the Three Chapters and have started to gather some reading materials around that topic. There is no need for any such questioning to be in a polemical spirit. Indeed my main concern is to show that the OO position was justified and reasonable, and that there are questions that the EO should answer, rather than that Chalcedon necesitates division.
Thirdly, I agree entirely that Constantinople was a substantial move towards a position of mutual agreement, but I think that we need to do more as OO to understand what Constantinople II did which made the position more acceptable, and what it was in Chalcedon that was unacceptable. This is necessary I believe because there are those in the EO who take a Chalcedonian position rather than a Chalcedo-Constantinopolitan one. It is the presence of unreconstructed Chalcedonianism which it seems to me is a major obstacle to reconciliation. But are we really clear what the issues are with Chalcedon?
I don't think that any of this needs to inform how we deal with people as people. There are positions but people are not positions. Surely it must be possible to be entirely generous towards those with whom we disagree? And how far do we disagree? Does this not require that we know where we are starting from, so that we can then engage with others who are starting from a different position?
So I wonder if I am becoming more 'hard-line' in one sense, while also becoming more 'liberal' in another? More committed to understanding our tradition while also more willing to acknowledge that holding a particular theological position barely describes a persons relationship with Christ.
I wrote today to somone....
As the Holy Spirit is one, so the life we live as Christians is one. There can be no division among those who are living according to the ?breath of life?. In Christ there is no Greek nor Jew, no Coptic nor English. Even while we recognise that there are differences in culture these are not allowed to divide, because division among and between Christians is not of the one Spirit. We are not made one because we do the same things, or have the same liturgical language and customs, but we are one because we have One Life.
And I think this is the place where I stand at the moment. I think the theological differences are important because they are to do with spiritual health, but the Holy Spirit is one, and I need to work out what the theological differences mean in the light of the unity of life in the Spirit.
A quick note about St Dioscorus. I think that he knew that the small group of bishops who had called him to appear before them was not a true council, it was a kangaroo court and had no authority over him. It had been determined by the Romans before the council that Dioscorus would be condemned. He knew this. Indeed there is a very interesting collection of visions and prophecies which point to there being a real sense among the Alexandrians before the council that this was a place where courage and principle would be required. Since Chalcedon is not considered an ecumenical council its actions are not ecumenical. It is said that Dioscorus was prevented by illness and by Imperial troops from attending, but I don't think he considered that the gathering had any moral or spiritual authority.
In later decades most of the bishops who had signed up to Ephesus 449, then signed up to Chalcedon, then rejected Chalcedon and then accepted it and then rejected it before accepting it again. Yet our Fathers willingly gave themselves over to persecution, exile and martyrdom for these matters of principle.
Must close now, but this is a very interesting thread and I look forward to your thoughts and comments.
Oriental Orthodox - John Charmley - 12-12-2007
Dear Peter,
If there were an 'unworthy' emoticon I would begin this post with it!
This is a most interesting post and makes me eager to know more. I have been very conscious in dealing with some EOs of their view that I was in some way trying either to defend a 'position' or to persuade them that I was really 'Eastern'; neither has ever been my intention, but I understand something about that process now which I had not articulated properly; it may be I can't quite do it now, either, but I'll have a go.
As an historian I am used to looking at documents and analysing them, and to dealing with polemical arguments, and one of the things that has always struck me is the problem outlined in my first post above, which is how the Chalcedonians managed to justify to themselves their acceptance of heretical teaching at Chalcedon and then their change of mind at Constantinople; the standard EO explanation appears to be 'it was just an attempt by the emperor to bring the monophysites back'. OK, but what about the Christology of Theodoret and Ibas?
Paul Clayton's new book, The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus (Oxford, 2007) shows beyond doubt that his Christology was one in which there were two subjects, and that he taught that there were two subjects ion the Incarnation - the Word and a distinct human person. This St. Cyril had seen and condemned; this St. Dioscoros saw and condemned; this Chalcedon neither saw nor condemned; that makes a difference to how one regards Chalcedon.
It may be fair to say that later the Chalcedonians saw the error of their ways, but the notion of a two-subject Christology endures to this day in many quarters.
The notion of the Oriental Orthodox tradition needed more explaining to itself is one that Fr. Gregory has touched upon in different ways, and your work in making translations and texts available is so important here. Attracted by Kirk's comments about Bar-Hebraeus I have attempted to get hold of some of his texts, but Gorgias Press seems the only place, and their prices are prohibitive; thank YOU and the BOC for the OOL!
When you write:
Quote:I would want to wonder whether there is not a sense among some OO that all the answers are to be found in the Eastern Orthodox tradition and that what is required is for us to show that we are Eastern Orthodox enoughyou touch on an important point. My own theological reading has perhaps always been slightly odd. As one who when younger was much taken with Newman and the Oxford Movement, I have tended to follow his advice and read the Fathers; but I have not found much modern theological speculation to my taste and have read little of it. I am sure there is much in it, but I find that even after thirty years there are so many of the Fathers I have not read - and so much of what I have read I have half forgotten.
I don't see a problem here between being firmly grounded in one's own tradition and ecumenism; in many ways the latter might be easier if one had the former. But it does come back to the need for a language in which to express what we hold in common that does not end up being syncretic.
We shall, I am sure return to this - but I wanted to post a quick thank you for such a thought-provoking post - and to express the hope that others will join in.
In Christ,
- admin - 13-12-2007
Hi John
As things come together a little in my mind I am wondering if we should not (and I don't think we do) view our own OO Gospel as competing with others, such that we need to combat and discredit others, and win arguments with the weapons of polemics.
Rather I am thinking that if we do believe that our Fathers have described the true Gospel to us then this is something we should earnestly make our own by living it and understanding it and being able to share it as far as we are able.
I don't even mean in an intellectual sense, in fact I definitely don't mean that.
Last night I had a long telephone conversation with a Coptic friend in Canada, and it was a blessing to be able to discuss our theology. But it seems to me that it must not be an intellectual exercise but something which changes us. We were talking about the Cyrilline expression 'One of the Holy Trinity was crucified' and were comparing this with a more Nestorian view which would separate God from all suffering. And this led us to the position where we weakly and feebly comprehended that it was God, our God, the Creator of the Universe, who allowed His own creation to beat Him, spit on Him, and drive nails through His hands. And in the blink of an eye He could have caused the entire universe to be as if it had never existed, but instead, because of His love for us, He suffered this humiliation and truly bore the pain.
Now if our theology actually changes us and has spiritual meaning for us, then it becomes something to share with generosity. We wish others to understand what we have received and to receive themselves the blessings that have been granted to us. Our theology becomes a spiritual gift and not merely an intellectual position.
I am wondering if it is the case that unity in Christ is experienced wherever this true Gospel is received with joy and gratitude, to the measure that it is received. Is it not the case that 'deep calls to deep'? I mean that if all that is true is of Christ then a godly Methodist will find something in our Gospel which moves them. Likewise a godly Baptist, a godly Roman Catholic, and this receiving with joy is a true union in the Holy Spirit.
Those who wish to always find fault and a reason for exclusivity have already judged themselves. And this is not to say that questions should not be asked and boundaries drawn. But surely we should be able to say, for instance,
'It is important for us to proclaim that one of the Holy Trinity suffered on the Cross. It was our God who died because He loved us so much, and not some other person. And of course we don't mean that the Godhead died or suffered, indeed how could the unknowable Divinity be nailed to anything, but we are moved with gratitude and wonder when we consider that God so loved the world that He sent His own Son, not as a Mighty King, but as a Suffering Servant, and it was our Creator who allowed His own Creation to nail Him to the cross'.
What I am trying to suggest poorly is that if our theology is presented as spirituality then it is not merely a matter of words and arguments, but it becomes something that all true lovers of God can rejoice in, and which allows us to discover a unity with all true lovers of God.
There are those who love arguments and we are warned to avoid them, and I think that perhaps I should have taken more notice of that Pauline injunction in the past.
I truly think that if we come to know our own OO tradition more, and LIVE OUT what we learn as GOSPEL, as GOOD NEWS, then we are half-way to being better able to lovingly and generously communicate our Faith and find unity with others.
If there is not a love for the Gospel in our hearts and in those with whom we dialogue then no amount of words will ever suffice to bring about unity. If we are living the Gospel then we will really understand why theology matters, and of course this is why a true theologian is one who prays.
We must learn more, and live more, so that we can give more. And those who have hearts ready to receive, even in part what we live and give are already in a union with us.
I think that the Fathers understood that theology was a matter of spirituality, but I am only just realising that.
Spirituality - John Charmley - 13-12-2007
Dear Peter,
Again, we are in your debt; reading this alongside the 'Generous Orthodoxy' thread is an inspiring experience.
We do not apprehend the Almighty by our intellect; but we do not perceive Him without it, either; were that so why would He have given it to us?
If we proceed from the position that we are made in His image, but that that image is marred by the effects of sin, then can we assert that a right use of the gifts He has given to us requires all we have to be put at His service? What is His service?
We see, movingly as you have described it, how His love operated in this fallen world; the Light shone in the darkness and the darkness saw it not; the Lord of Salvation came among us and we crucified Him. But 'we' also followed Him, made ourselves obedient to Him, and followed His word even unto death. Humankind on both sides of salvation. He called us to Him, and nothing about His story on this earth makes us think that is easy.
He did not expound intellectually, although He left much for our intellects to comprehend. The Church began to define orthodoxy in response to heresy, just as it had to end up defining a canon of scripture for the same reason. He called us to repentance and amendment of life. We know in our hearts we are sick and broken, He will never despise a broken and a contrite heart.
But that route, in the modern world, as in the past, could equally lead us to a gospel of Arianism or an emotionalism that expresses itself in 'tongues' and cries of 'are you saved, brother?'
Is this not where the Church comes to us, if we will but come to her? Lost and broken, we feel a stirring of the Spirit and a longing for Him; but our candle is feeble and our road map faulty, even as the road gives way beneath our feet. How can we know the True Way except in the True Light?
That union between heart and intellect, united in Him, as we discover, through the Church and the Christian life, how we walk in His way, is what we are called to - in theosis. In His light we see the Light of the World.
It is, literally, awesome, that the Son of God hung and suffered there for me. Yet, even as He was there in agony, He reviled no one and offered forgiveness to the sinner next to Him; and yet it is so hard for us to even imitate that. But that, of course, is why we need Him - and the Church.
There is more to say, but for now, enough.
In Christ,
- admin - 13-12-2007
Thank you John for a very illuminating post.
I am thinking, as a result of your post, that there is a balance in all these things.
So there is a right use of emotion, a right use of the intellect, and a right use of the spirit, and I wonder if these are often inverted in our experience? So that we become emotional or intellectual in our faith rather than being spiritual, and using the intellect and emotion under the guidance and control of the spirit for spiritual ends?


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Dr. Stewart Van Horn went to Ethiopia on his first trip to a developing country to teach doctors how to perform a cataract surgery.
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Dr. Stewart Van Horn of Loretto performs an eye operation at the University of Gondar in?Ethiopia.
Dr. Van Horn performed cataract surgery on this Ethiopian patient, who was blind in his other eye from small pox he had as a child.
An ophthalmologist with Laurel Eye Clinic, which has an office and surgery center in Duncansville, he returned with new insight of his own.
"For me, it was really an eye-opening experience, because even though I've heard that Africa is poor and the people certainly don't have the lifestyle that we have, I don't think anything can really prepare one for it until you actually see it," he said.
Van Horn of Loretto and his wife, Dr. Sarah Schroeder, an Altoona OBGYN, and their children - Kate, 16, and Nora, 12, went on the trip.
The couple also have three other children, Max, 14; Dane, 9; and Maeve, 6.
A member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, Van Horn went as part of the society and part of the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization working to eradicate preventable and cureable blindness, according to its website at www.cureblindness.org.
"They're just starting to work together, and I understand that I'm the first ASCRS surgeon who worked with the Himalayan Cataract Project," he said.
After a 15-hour flight, Van Horn and his family touched down in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The next day, they traveled to the northern part of the country, to a town called Gondar, with a population of about 200,000 people, he said.
Van Horn trained doctors for about 10 days on performing phacoemulsification - one of two ways to perform cataract surgery, and the more expensive method most often used in the developed world - at the University of Gondar hospital. He performed about 15 to 20 surgeries himself while doctors watched as part of the learning process.
They then went to the Robert Sinskey Eye Institute in Addis Ababa for several days on behalf of ASCRS, he said, where they treated adult patients.
The doctors there had some experience with the surgery, he said.
Van Horn had heard Ethiopia has about 40 eye surgeons for its population of about 85 million people. Comparatively, Altoona and surrounding areas alone have about 15 surgeons who come to the area, he said.
Not much government money in Ethiopia is directed toward cataracts, but goes instead to the infectious diseases of HIV and tuberculosis, information he heard second-hand.
The doctors seemed grateful for the instruction because many do not have the money to come to the United States to learn unless an organization sponsors them.
"It's tough to learn something," he said, noting that while he had a support group among others learning alongside him during his residency, these doctors really don't have that.
"But they seemed very, very grateful for somebody who is coming over there to actually show them how to use the stuff and to get them up and running."
Van Horn felt good about helping and hopes to go again. What prompted his decision to go in the first place was his desire to do mission work.
Van Horn got to experience first-hand what the doctors there are up against with unsanitary and unpredictable working conditions.
He said the power would often go off in the operating room, and at one point, he noticed a diesel generator brought out in the patient waiting room for the failing power caused a haze of fumes.
People live in mud huts and corrugated metal shanties, he said.
Schroeder ended up helping in the university hospital's OBGYN clinic, instructing the doctors on a couple of donated machines that no one had taught them how to use.
Van Horn also wanted his children to gain perspective on "what goes on in the world."
Kate, an 11th-grade student at Shadyside Academy, Pittsburgh, set up a computer donated to the University of Gondar from the Himalayan Cataract Project. Goats, donkeys and cows freely roamed the streets in Gondar, she said.
The experience "really made me think about what I have here and made me appreciate what it's like here," she said.
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"You won't be happy till you're dancing on my grave! All you motherfuckers dancing on my grave!"
There is perhaps nothing at this moment in music so viscerally gratifying as shrieking along to the chorus of "Pine Ridge," the title track on The Pullmen's new EP. From the frontlines of So Cal's relentlessly hip cultural landscape, where discarded dreams drain to the ocean, comes this plaintive wail, and right on time for the band and its rabid fans.
It may be a stretch to compare a Pullmen show at Bombay Bar in 2013 to a Springsteen date at the Stone Pony in 1975, but to be among the dozens of fans crowded around frontman Shane Cohn for a sweat and spit baptism, bottles (or cans) raised high, singing along to any of the band's accidental anthems, is to tap the main artery of rock and roll, to give a shit about nothing else but this moment, to be unburdened. And if The Pullmen fans have anything in common with early Springsteen fans, it's the need to be free Americans, to get wasted in a bar, to sync their heartbeats with a bass drum, to leave the day, or the entire past, behind them for just one night.
The Pullmen formed in 2010 when Cohn and guitarist H.S. Strong, who played together previously in the punk outfit Shim Come Quick, decided to learn some Hank Williams songs. One thing led to another and they found themselves writing hard riffs with a traditional country flavor, a sound that would later be dubbed "Western thrash." They recruited Hotels and Highways drummer Erin "Syd" Sidney (Cohn's brother-in-law) and bassist Matt Kash (Missing 23rd).
The urgency and recklessness of Cohn, Kash and Strong's punk roots grounded by Sidney's tasteful, East Coast singer-songwriter sensibility, creates just the right tension to bring their gritty, masculine sound to a shine. And while at full gallop the music can work the audience into a frenzy, it's the literary narrative of The Pullmen's lyrics that fans can ultimately connect with, the unpredictability of a crazed and vulnerable lovesick antihero — as opposed to Springsteen's working-class heroes of a bygone era — that they're rooting for.
Three years have passed since the band was christened by a tipsy Iraq War vet who overheard them rehearsing. In that time, it's released two records — The Western Score full-length and the Pine Ridge EP — landed a fortuitous sponsorship with Sanuk footwear, appeared with Pennywise, Old Man Markley, Riverboat Gamblers, Jason Cruz and Howl, toured the East Coast with Donavon Frankenreiter and handed a free T-shirt to a fan who exposed her third nipple. It was pierced.
On Friday, Nov. 22, The Pullmen will celebrate the release of Pine Ridge with a performance of the EP streamed live from Sanuk HQ at noon and a show at Bombay later in the evening. Shane Cohn, who recently returned from a coast-to-coast solo acoustic tour in a food truck, spent a few minutes with VCReporter to discuss the record and the rigors of semi-rock stardom.
VCReporter: What's your favorite Bruce Springsteen song?
Shane Cohn: "Atlantic City." It's rugged, romantic and slightly desperate.
What has changed since your first release?
We're just better now. That's a simple thing to say, but it really does translate to everything we do, whether it's recording, playing live or songwriting.
What's the songwriting process like?
Oh, it's terrifying. You've got to be thick-skinned to bring a song idea to this group. The band is like a pack of hungry wolves just waiting to shred apart someone's song ideas. But basically, somebody drops an idea into the pit — a riff, chord changes, a melody, lyrics — and we have a go at it.
Is there an ongoing narrative to your music that includes a sort of main character, and how has it evolved?
There was in The Western Score, and while it wasn't intentional with Pine Ridge, the character is there and his journey continues. The Western Score collection was about this outsider riding into this western town and falling in love with this lady and things begin to go horribly wrong, albeit mostly by his own devices. The stuff this guy gets into is pretty nuts, actually. But it's a passionately flawed character and you can't help but root for him. The Pine Ridge songs take the listener on another ride, but it goes deeper this time and more introspective.
How were you received on the East Coast?
Sold-out shows with 300 to 400 people for nearly two weeks. We got a taste of the glory. That changed everything for us. We understand what we're capable of now and want more. I can't speak for the rest of the guys, but I haven't been the same since. We saw places we would probably never go to in our lifetime — The Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod and so on. We were skipping across the Atlantic Ocean on ferries to get to gigs, and when we went there, we played rock 'n' roll shows to packed venues where people partied and danced their asses off. We played one venue two nights in a row and people came back the second night singing the lyrics to our songs. It was unreal. How do you go back to closets and appointments after something like that?
You have a solid and loyal fan base. Why is that and how do you keep them satisfied?
Our drummer is really handsome.
What's next for The Pullmen?
We want to do a full-length next and we're crushing out new songs, probably a handful already. We want to take this show to Europe. To paraphrase a line from a great movie, we are the gatekeepers of our own destiny and we will have our glory in the hot sun.
Pine Ridge: track by track
On this, The Pullmen's follow-up to the debut full-length The Western Score, we see the band honing its voice and experimenting with nuance — a decision that pays off nicely, most notably on the band's very first ballad. The desired effect, brought to fruition through Sidney's production prowess, was "a sort of three-dimensional reality of what it's like to see us live," explained Cohn. "For instance, it sounds like a whole bunch of guitars onstage when there are only two, so let's capture that feeling." The band's development is also evident in its lyrics, which anyone who's ever attempted to write a song knows is a beast of an accomplishment. The cover art is an original painting by artist Mike Stilkey.
Tie Me Down
A rollicking number with a sing along chorus and signature Pullmen melody, shows our antihero —"the matador, the raging bull, your every hope and fear"— taking no prisoners as he declares, "I'm not giving up!" The band's first attempt at punk-style backing vocals for full barn-burning crowd-pleasing effect. The man in black would surely smile.
Pine Ridge
Another wild ride on the mechanical bull, this time with a message to all naysayers, whoever they may be. Remarkably satisfying to sing along with, the title track features more backup chanting and some sweet honky-tonk piano, another experiment that pays off in spades.
Neon Sins
A song that plays right into the hands of the ladies. Less is more on The Pullmen's only ballad, a testament to the beauty of simplicity, the power of holding back. Once again, the production choices on this record shine bright without ever being self-conscious. A stunner of a song that gently draws — probably unintentionally — on the spirit of certain moments from U2's The Joshua Tree with a little Love is Hell-era Ryan Adams to rough it up.
Raymond Carver
The hardest, punkest track on the EP is equal parts love letter and hate mail to the City of Angels, the city everyone loves to loathe. Leaves you wanting more, which should be every record's ultimate goal.
The Pullmen will perform the songs from Pine Ridge on Friday, Nov. 22 at noon live from Sanuk HQ. Log on to www.sanuk.com/live to watch. The Pullmen will play on Friday, Nov. 22, 10 p.m. at Bombay Bar. To learn more or purchase music, visit www.thepullmen.com.


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Members of the Philadelphia Film Society packed into Ritz East yesterday evening to get a sneak preview of SAVAGES, the latest film from director Oliver Stone. This film will not be released to the public until later this week, but already seems to be stirring much attraction. There was not an empty seat in the theatre, and this film provoked the crowd to laugh, cover their eyes, and gasp all at the same time.


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Are Buffalo police and prosecutors doing a worse job than a year ago?
Have teddy bears, flowers and prayer vigils lost their potency?
Are Buffalo's community groups more ineffectual?
It's worth asking only because a year ago at this time, when the city was celebrating a dramatic drop in homicides, all of the above were credited.
But with murders up by 39 percent – to 50 – in 2012, it's obvious that creating more joint police strike forces, praying harder and holding more street corner news conferences are not the answer.
All can help, and no one argues against law enforcement's effort to rescue neighborhoods that deserve help.
But such efforts are mere fingers in the dike if hopelessness breeds others ready to step into the vacuum that good police work creates.
What can work? In a word: jobs.
Arlee Daniels, a former gang member who now mediates gang disputes and steers members into training, said that a lot of the murders result when convicts get out of prison, can't find work and then try to reassert themselves on the street.
More prison training programs that offer certification in plumbing, electrical work and other trades would help ex-cons make a living and curb such conflicts, said Daniels, Stop the Violence Coalition program coordinator.
The notion that young people don't want to work is "just an excuse" for doing little to help them, Daniels said.
"I talk to them all the time," he said. "A great many of them do want to work."
"In order for them to put down what they're doing, we have to have a mechanism in place to put something in its place. And it's jobs," agreed the Rev. Charles Walker of Mount Hope Community Church on Broadway.
Walker hung out on the streets as a youth before becoming a mentor with various organizations, only to then get snared in a drug conspiracy case he still insists led to a wrongful conviction. After doing time, he returned to his anti-violence work and recently hosted one of the aforementioned vigils, complete with a balloon release.
But he knows that it takes more than symbolism. He wants business and government to cooperate in offering subsidized jobs to get young men off the streets until they've acquired the skills to earn market wages.
"They really want to work," Walker said. But they're not going to give up $500 a week selling weed to make $100 a week, he said. You have to show them a better way to support themselves.
That means we need a multi-agency task force focused on jobs, not just on crime, and vigils outside job-development agencies instead of murder sites.
Antoine Thompson, new executive director of the Buffalo Employment and Training Center, is on target. The former state senator wants to use center dollars to subsidize wages, start monthly job-placement meetings with employers and hold job fairs in neighborhoods. But it will take more than one agency. And, no doubt, such investment in young men who failed to get much out of the public schools we already invest in will rankle some people.
But what's the alternative? We can put them to work, or spend $30,000 a year to put them in prison.
Either way, the answer is jobs. Keep doing only what we did in 2012, and police and prosecutors will have a job. Ministers and activists will have a job.
And undertakers will have a job.
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SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 introduces new map integration. The new map features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services that make it easy to visualize spatial data. In this presentation i demo how to use the map wizard to create 2 layes of sales data visuaization on USA map gallary.
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Before they disappear under the receding wave of time, here are some impressions of the recent elections. In the course of the campaign, some people complained they were boring but the present writer didn't find that to be the case.
In happier times . . . or maybe not: Gerry Adams (left) and Christy Burke
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The whole "non-comedogenic" myth got its beginnings from a 1979 study published in the British Journal of Dermatology. This study examined the potential of various ingredients (cocoa and shea butters, lanolin and waxes, for example) to clog pores and lead to the formation of comedones—hence the term "comedogenic".
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A really tiny amount of an ingredient, even mineral oil, in your moisturizer, blush, foundation, or concealer is not going to cause or exacerbate a breakout. By the way, the researcher largely credited for developing the concept of comedogenic, Albert Kligman, said as much in his 1972 study, "Acne Cosmetica":
"It is not necessary to exclude constituents which might be comedogenic in a pure state. The concentration of such substances is exceedingly important. To exile such materials as lanolin, petroleum hydrocarbons, fatty alcohols, and vegetable oils from cosmetics would be irrational. What is ultimately important is the comedogenicity of the finished product (Source: Archives of Dermatology, 1972)."
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I came across such an extended historical topic while conducting a preliminary research project on the early years of Swansboro, North Carolina. I was reviewing a reel of microfilm that I had obtained many years ago from the National Archives in Washington, DC, that dealt with War of 1812 documents. While looking for material associated with southeastern Onslow County and more specifically Swansboro (Swannsborough during that time) that related to the War of 1812, a personal letter written by an American prisoner of war caught my attention.
The first thing about this document that pulled my attention away from my Swansboro research was the length of the letter. The correspondence was not less than twenty pages in length, written in long hand, and in the first person. The letter, in essence, was one man's personal account of being a prisoner of war in England in the years 1812 & 13.
What intrigued me most was that this individual was not a military person fighting for his country but rather, only a passenger on a vessel from France to the United States. During the War of 1812 nearly any vessel, and her passengers, on the High Seas were subject to capture. This was the case for this man who had been released, prior to boarding the American bound vessel, from being a prisoner in a French prison for a similar turn of events.
The following is an excerpt James Doolittle's account of his capture:
"On the 12th March 1813 I sailed from L'Orient, passenger on board the Brig Ducornau, of and for New York, Henry Davis Master. On the 14th we were captured after a chase of eight hours, by his Britannic Majesty's Sloop of War Pheasant, John Palmer, Esquire Commander and carried to Plymouth. Captain Palmer & his officers treated us all with the greatest possible politeness, attention & humanity. We arrived to Plymouth on the 16th, but did not disembark until the 20th. When we landed, Captain Palmer consented that Captain Davis, his mate and myself should remain in the town a few more days until Captain Davis should go through the necessary formalities of making protest &c. before we delivered ourselves up at Mill prison. This is an indulgence which rests with the Commanders of ships of war on their own responsibilities and is generally, thou not always granted to masters, mates, supercargoes & passengers.
On the 27th we delivered ourselves up to Captain Pellowe at Mill prison as a preliminary to being paroled. Here it may be well to observe that not a person can be paroled, or permitted to proceed to Ashburton without passing one or more nights in Mill prison, & when they depart are compelled to take a place in the stage at their own expense."
Mr. Doolittle's letter goes on to discuss various aspects of his captivity. He writes in great detail on prisoner treatment, manipulation of policy, and his obvious discontent of being labeled a "Prisoner of War" when in fact he was only a civilian passenger on a vessel. Under routine procedures of the day, he, as many others who were in the same predicament, would have been treated with common respect and set free at the earliest opportunity.
Here is part of what Mr. Doolittle reported in regards to his situation on a prison ship (floating prison).
"After rummaging our trunks to satisfy themselves, as they said, that we had no tools, the officers ordered us below; we were shewn to the lower gun deck, where a new and unpleasant scene presented itself. There were on board at this time about 500 prisoners, 300 of whom were on this deck. They had been already counted down for the night & their hammocks being slung, it was not without difficulty that a person could move at all. Here were all ages & colors place indiscriminately together & so thick that they might be said to be literally "stowed in bulk." Every second port has been nailed down & caulked in. The others are secured by gratings composed of iron bars, an inch square, crossing each other at right angles at intervals of 4 inches. These would suppose would be sufficient to secure the prisoners, especially the Americans, who I hope & believe, love their own country too well to wish to desert in so inhospitable as one as Great Britain. Whether their precautions arose from a fear of the prisoners escaping, or from a refinement in barbarity, in which the English will yield the palm to no nation on earth that I know of. I know not but certain it is, that this security content them for every evening at night fall, they shut the ports over these gratings leaving only seven small air ports 7 inches on each side, (which in their turn, were half obscured by the gratings over them) for the admission of air, & these being near the upper deck in the horizontal plane of the hammocks, a circulation of air on this deck was rendered impossible..."
So goes the story of an American War of 1812 Prisoner of War, not of a combatant but, a civilian caught up in an international crisis. Who, in our modern society, knows of this one alienated prisoner? What ever happened to him? He is but one of an endless list of people and events within our bonded histories that were pushed aside, misplaced, or forgotten.
Captain Otway Burns, a War of 1812 Privateer who hailed from Swansboro and New Bern, North Carolina faced similar faintness from the general public. The book I wrote on his life,Captain Otway Burns And His Ship Snap Dragon, explores this nearly forgotten man's exciting and adventurous life.
Think for a few minutes about things that you can recall about the "old days." What part of the local and American segment of history do you remember that is not reflected upon in today's society. Local history is part of American heritage. When you come across information dealing with our local history try to pass that knowledge on to your family, friends, and fellow neighbor. You may find that they have a piece of that same history that can be shared with others.
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One office in Ohio developed a system to quickly identify applicants for non-profit status. As you might know, solutions, organizations cannot obtain non-profit status if their primary mission is political activism. Groups, both from the right and the left, whose names indicated a political agenda, received additional scrutiny. All groups which applied were permitted to operate as an interim non-profit and no Tea Party group was denied non-profit status.
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Really, solutions? I'm providing you with FACTS not RW Media Machine lies and misinformation. Issa cannot create a scandal out of nothing and if you had been paying attention to his committee hearings, you would know that what I posted is absolutely true.
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I refer you to the HuffPo**** article, dated 5/13/13, "IRS Non-profit Groups" for an excellent historical perspective on the issue. You will also find clarifications of non-profit status and why political groups receive specific attention. I personally do not believe that ANY political group on either side should be tax-exempt.
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Solutions.....don't caste your pearls before swine. You waste your energy on those who CHOOSE to be stupid. A 'child' can understand logic, but don't waste time on adult liberals.
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I'm going to give you some help, TruthSeeker. You clearly don't understand so many of the issues being discussed in this forum. Google this:
Exemption requirements: 501(c)(3) organizations
It is so obvious to me and others that you know absolutely nothing and rely on the boring and repetitive babble of the right wing. You cannot possibly be taken seriously.
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DNC is finished. ANd it's driving the lefty moonbats kwazy.
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Dems just looking for their brains.
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Tajh Boyd is the best quarterback Clemson has ever had, partly because fellow senior Connor Shaw is the best quarterback South Carolina has ever had.
But even icons feel the wrath.
If Shaw gets off to a sluggish start Saturday night against No. 6 Clemson in Columbia, some fans of the favored No. 10 Gamecocks will demand backup quarterback Dylan Thompson, star of South Carolina's 2012 win at Death Valley.
The Clemson debate cuts through generations of orange memorabilia displayed on man cave walls.
The record-breaking Boyd?
Reliable Rodney Williams?
Gamecocks-killer Charlie Whitehurst?
National champion Homer Jordan?
NFL first-round pick Steve Fuller?
What about wily Woodrow Dantzler?
"If Tajh Boyd never takes another snap here, he's done as much for this program and this university as anyone," offensive coordinator Chad Morris said of the consummate ambassador/quarterback. "I will stand toe-to-toe with anybody on that."
With a win Saturday night, Boyd probably seals his supreme status. Except for three or four Sassafras Mountain hermits, everyone in the Palmetto State knows the Gamecocks have won four straight games in the Braggin' Rights series. Boyd started the last two of those games, and didn't play well.
"I know that's one thing that (Boyd) hasn't done, and he knows that," Morris said. "Make no mistake, that's what he wants to do. But it comes down to us not making mistakes and executing. It comes down to two great quarterbacks going after each other."
The case for Shaw
Shaw is 1-0 against Clemson as a starter, one of the reasons why 'The Best Quarterback' question is easier to answer at South Carolina. Almost robotically effective, Shaw is 25-5 (.833) as a starter — and that doesn't include his game-winning relief appearance in the Gamecocks' double-overtime victory at Missouri last month.
He is the winningest quarterback in school history.
He is a man of few words, but owns a "Beast Mode" T-shirt he donned immediately after the 2011 win over Clemson.
Shaw gets the edge over Todd Ellis, 24-16-3 (.593) from 1986-89. Ellis, the Gamecocks' radio play-by-play voice, was a personable leader who had to face Clemson during the Danny Ford era.
The rest of the competition:
Garry Harper, 20-12-1 (.621) from 1978-80
Stephen Garcia, 20-14 (.588) from 2008-2011
Steve Taneyhill, 20-19-1 (.513) from 1992-95
But Shaw has taken most of the snaps throughout three of the best seven seasons in Gamecock history (2011, 2012 and 2013, with a tip of the cap to 1969, 1984, 1987 and 2010).
"He deserves to maybe be known as the best one here, just because of the won-loss record," South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier said, "but obviously he plays with a good team around him and so forth."
That makes it tougher for Boyd.
Williams, Whitehurst, Jordan, Fuller and Dantzler didn't have to go up against Shaw (and Steve Spurrier). More pertinently, South Carolina had seven players on defense picked over the seven rounds of the last two NFL drafts, a school record.
Boyd is 31-7 as a Clemson starter.
Williams was 32-10-2 as a starter from 1985-88. That includes three Florida bowl wins and a 1-1-1 record against South Carolina (and Todd Ellis).
Whitehurst was 25-15 from 2002-2005, and famously 4-0 against South Carolina.
Jordan was 22-6-1 from 1979-82, and the quarterback on Clemson's 1981 national championship team.
Fuller was 21-11-3 from 1975-78, a rebuilding phase capped by a Gator Bowl victory over Ohio State.
Boyd, asterisk or not
Boyd led Clemson to the 2011 ACC championship, its first since 1991. He has 10 wins against teams ranked in the Top 25, four against top-10 teams.
Mind-boggling: Boyd has an ACC-leading 102 career touchdown passes, more than twice as many as Clemson runner-up (Whitehurst, 49).
An 0-3 record as a starter within a five-game losing streak against the Gamecocks will attach itself to Boyd's legacy like mustard-based sauce on Carolina barbecue.
But know that Williams doesn't rank in the top 10 in any major Clemson career passing category.
South Carolina was a collective 23-24 with one bowl appearance during the Whitehurst years.
Jordan had to go against George Rogers, South Carolina's Heisman Trophy winner. But the Gamecocks fired two head coaches during his tenure as a Clemson quarterback (Jim Carlen, Richard Bell).
Tajh Boyd, asterisk or not, has had to deal with a Gamecocks head ball coach likely to have a Williams-Brice Stadium statue erected in his honor, and with Connor Shaw.
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Deals with planned housing development on city's east end
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SALEM — City council approved a resolution to support the NRP Group's application to attempt to secure state tax credits to build a planned housing development on the east end, but by a 5-2 vote....
Good for them, it makes no sense not to do this.
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Something else to think about is: successful young professionals in our area, usually don't rent. They buy their homes.
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What is "young profession" type housing? I thought the liberals had laws passed that prohibited any kind of rental discrimination. So for someone to say they are building "young professional" type housing they are twisting their words. What they are building may very well be housing that young professionals may want to rent but that does not mean they will be occupying them. Salem can't fill up all the empty buildings we have now. How are we going to fill up all these new ones. And where are all these young professionals suppose to come from??
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Good Job Council! Did any of you supporters take a ride and see some of this company's other developments that were sold to residents as " young professional" type housing? You think Salem is getting bad now, wait till this place opens its doors.
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MILLERSTOWN - Elizabeth E. "Betty" Miller, 83, of Millerstown, died at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at the Stonebridge Health and Rehabilitation Center, Duncannon.
Born on Oct. 14, 1929, in Fayette Township, Juniata County, she was a daughter of the late North S. and Myrtle (Strawser) Shelley. On Nov. 8, 1950, she married her husband, Clarence J. "Jake" Miller, with whom she shared nearly 45 years of marriage before he preceded her in death on Sept. 2, 1995.
She is survived by: one daughter, Deborah M. Davidson and husband, Andy, of Millerstown; two brothers, Robert Shelly and wife, Barbara, of Thompsontown, and Ray Shelley, of McAlisterville; a sister-in-law, Beatrice Wilson, of the Locust Grove Retirement Village, Mifflin; one granddaughter, Carla Wright and husband, Loren, of Millerstown; and she leaves behind one great-granddaughter, Cassie Wright.
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One sister, Lois Sausser, and two brothers, William Shelley and Nevin Shelley, preceded her in death.
Betty was a member of the McAlisterville United Methodist Church, attended St. John Barner's Lutheran Church, Liverpool, and she was a volunteer for the Juniata Meals on Wheels.
Mrs. Miller retired as a seamstress and had worked at the McAlisterville Shirt Factory, Lyons Fashions and L. Shellenberger and Sons.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at the Brown Funeral Homes, Inc., 111 Westfall St., McAlisterville, with the Revs. Edward D'Agostino and Peter H. Kuebler officiating. Interment will follow in the Hillside Cemetery, McAlisterville.
Viewing will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, at the funeral home.
For those that wish, memorial contributions may be made in Mrs. Miller's memory to the McAlisterville United Methodist Church, c/o Nancy Helwig, 179 Musser Road, McAlisterville, PA 17049.
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The newlywed, 25, received many words of congratulations on her marriage to Ryan Reynolds, and was even toasted to, according to a set source, who says that while filming a scene, the cast raised a glass to Lively with faux Champagne – which was actually ginger ale.
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Charles Darwin returns home, Gandhi is born, "Peanuts" is published for the first time, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black justice on the Supreme Court, and the Beltway sniper attacks begin, all on this day.
1950: The comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz is first published in nine newspapers. The first strip is four panels long and shows Charlie Brown walking by two other young children, Shermy and Patty. Shermy lauds Charlie Brown as he walks by, but then tells Patty how he hates him in the final panel.


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The National Merit Scholarship Corp. has announced the names of about 800 outstanding black American high school seniors who have won Achievement Scholarship awards through the National Achievement Scholarship Program.
These awards, totaling more than $2 million, are financed by grants from 34 corporate organizations and professional associations and by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.
The Achievement Scholar designees include 700 recipients of National Achievement $2,500 Scholarships. All students who advanced to the finalist level in the 2013 competition were considered for these single-payment scholarships, which were awarded on a regional representation basis in proportion to the population of black Americans in each geographic region.
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found mechanisms that are vital to interactions between
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use of a fusion power plant could cut exhaust completely because the
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energy than a nuclear
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study was led by Chase Taylor, a doctoral student, Bryan Heim, a
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quote: You can respect the men and women fighting without supporting the actual war itself yknow.
quote: Now why are you still staying in Iraq and Afgahnistan? Iraq isn't going to have WMD's now for a long long time, and the taliban where at their weakest after the invasion. Last report i heard, they are as strong now as they where pre-invasion, having taken over half of pakistan where you can't get them (and they've probably been all along).
quote: So what then? Invade Pakistan? They *do* have nukes. This probably won't be a problem since india's dieing to get rid of pakistan anyway, but what then? Iran's likely to harbor the taliban then just to spite the US for invading pakistan, if they don't try and attack US forces directly. Invade Iran then?
quote: How about you just retreat the armies and let the CIA do what it always does? It's their mess anyway since they trained the taliban to fight the russians.


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Consumers in the Buffalo Niagara region are feeling a little more willing to spend.
A new survey by researchers at Siena College found that local consumers were more willing to spend on major purchases during the spring than they were during the winter. In fact, their willingness to spend during the spring was at the second-highest level for any quarter since the Great Recession began almost six years ago.
The increase in consumer confidence mirrored an increased feeling of optimism among consumers both nationally and statewide as unemployment has declined.
In the Buffalo Niagara region, consumer confidence improved by almost 5 percent during the second quarter, erasing most of a first-quarter decline and extending a slow recovery in sentiment levels that began during the summer of 2010, according to the Siena Research Institute, which conducts a quarterly survey of consumer confidence in New York's major cities.
Consumer sentiment levels during the spring were about 1 percent stronger than they were a year ago, although the number of consumers expressing pessimism about their spending plans still outnumbers those who are feeling optimistic.
Confidence levels, however, still are 46 percent better than they were at the depths of the recession more than four years ago.
And consumers locally remain cautious, with a significant number of those surveyed saying the feel less upbeat about the future than they feel about their current situation.
"Consumers remain skeptical about the future," said Douglas Lonnstrom, the founding director of the Siena Research Institute.
Confidence levels in the Buffalo Niagara region are 10 percent lower than the national levels, and they are 4 percent below the statewide rate, Siena said.
The survey of 400 consumers measures their willingness to spend on a wide range of items, from vehicles and furniture to computers and home improvements.
Consumers across New York shared the more upbeat mood of Buffalo Niagara consumers. Confidence levels strengthened in each of the nine major cities included in the Siena survey, except for New York City. The improvement in consumer sentiment in the Buffalo Niagara region was the sixth strongest among the nine metro areas included in the survey.
Among upstate cities, sentiment levels improved the most in Utica and Syracuse, and they rose the least in Binghamton and the Mid-Hudson Valley region, the survey found.
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