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Al-doped zinc oxide films deposited by simultaneous rf and dc excitation of a magnetron plasma: Relationships between plasma parameters and structural and electrical film properties83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366798View Description Hide Description
A new technique of the simultaneous excitation of a magnetron sputteringdischarge by rf and dc was used for the deposition of undoped ZnO- and Al-doped ZnO (ZnO:Al) films. By this technique, it was possible to change the ion-to-neutral ratio on the substrates during the film growth by more than a factor of ten, which was revealed by plasma monitor and Langmuir probe measurements. While for a pure dcdischarge the ions impinging onto a floating substrate have energies of about the rf discharge is characterized by Ar-ion energies of about 35 eV. Furthermore, the ion current density for the rf excitation is higher by a factor of about five, which is caused by the higher plasma density in front of the substrate. This leads to a much higher ion-to-neutral ratio on the growing film in the case of the rf discharge, which strongly influences the structural and electrical properties of the ZnO(:Al) films. The rf-grown films exhibit about the three times lower specific resistances due to lower mechanical stress, leading to higher charge carrier concentrations and mobilities. Undoped ZnOfilms exhibited the largest compressive stress values up to 2.8 GPa. The aluminium-doped films have a better (001) texture and larger grains which can be attributed to the beneficial role of Al as a surfactant. The better crystalline film quality of the ZnO:Al films is the reason for the much lower compressive stress of in these layers.
Morphology and microstructure of tensile-strained SiGe(001) thin epitaxial films83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366799View Description Hide Description
Tensile-strained alloys are deposited on Ge(001) by molecular beam epitaxy. The morphology and microstructure of as-deposited (6.5–130 nm thick deposited at 325–500 C) and annealed (2 min at 625 or 700 C) epitaxialfilms are studied by in situ scanning tunneling microscopy, ex situ atomic force microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. 6.5 nm thick filmsdeposited at 325 and C are atomically flat with low densities of partial dislocations; stress relaxation of 6.5 nm thick films is limited by dislocation blocking. The surface morphology of thicker films grown at 410 C is strongly influenced by the interactions of stacking faults and surface steps. Annealing of 13 nm thick films at C produces a severe roughening with the formation of a regular pattern of 50 nm deep surface pits bounded by {113} facets.
Improvement of the stability under illumination of a-Si:H films elaborated by ion-beam-assisted evaporation using a hydrogen–argon plasma83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366800View Description Hide Description
Hydrogenated amorphous siliconfilms were deposited by ion-beam-assisted evaporation using a hydrogen–argon plasma. The influence of the substrate temperature was studied. Light induced photoconductivity decay measurements showed that high stability materials can be obtained under well defined conditions. By combined infrared spectrometry and thermal desorption spectrometry experiments, it was demonstrated that microstructure has a great influence on the stability against light induced defects.
Investigation of silicon oxide films prepared by room-temperature ion plating83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366801View Description Hide Description
To develop excellent silicon oxide film using low temperature method, ion plating (IP) oxide is investigated. Physicochemical characterizations of the IP oxide are studied using ellipsometry,Fourier transforminfrared spectrometry, and -etch rate measurement. The IP oxide is a high-density dielectric with strained bonds. Electrical characterizations are also analyzed using capacitance–voltage and current–voltage techniques through metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors. The IP oxide has a low leakage current, a high breakdown field, and low interface state density. In addition, IP oxide annealed in ambient is also studied. After high-temperature annealing, the characteristics of IP oxide become comparable to those of thermal oxide. The novel oxide film is successfully applied as a gate insulator to low-temperature processed polysilicon thin-film transistors.
Relationship between plasma parameters and film microstructure in radio frequency magnetron sputter deposition of barium strontium titanate83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366802View Description Hide Description
Radio frequency magnetron sputteredthin films have been deposited on silicon and substrates. The analysis of plasma discharge has been carried out using the Langmuir probe technique. Both the pressure and power have been found to influence the ion density and self-bias of the target. Introduction of oxygen into the discharge effectively decreases the ion density. The structural and electrical properties have been investigated using x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy of depositedfilms and capacitance–voltage, conductance–voltage, and current density–electric field characteristics of fabricated capacitors. The growth and orientation of the films have been found to depend upon the type of substrates and deposition temperatures. The 〈100〉 texture in the film is promoted at a pressure 0.25 Torr with a moderately high value of ion density and low ion bombardment energy. Filmsdeposited on substrate have shown higher dielectric constant (191) and lower leakage current density ( at 100 kV/cm) compared to that on silicon.
Stoichiometry of the diamond/silicon interface and its influence on the silicon content of diamond films83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366803View Description Hide Description
Thin films of diamond were grown by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition at growth pressures of 10, 20, 40, and 60 Torr keeping the substrate temperature constant at 975 °C. Increase in the growth pressure reduced the size of the plasma ball resulting in an increase in the microwave power density (MPD). The films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, micro-Raman, and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. A systematic variation was observed in surface morphology and quality of the films. The intensity of the peak at 1.68 eV in the PL spectra of the films, which is assigned to Si impurities was also observed to increase consistently with the MPD. The stoichiometry of the diamond/silicon interface was studied by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and found to be a sensitive function of the MPD. XPS results showed the formation of nonstoichiometric SiC along with other carbon phases in the initial stages of the growth. A correlation was observed between the composition of the interface and the intensity of the 1.68 eV peak. The above results are explained in terms of the increase in the impingement flux density of atomic hydrogen with the MPD.
Dynamic response times of electrorheological fluids in steady shear83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366804View Description Hide Description
Transient responses of electrorheological fluids to square-wave electric fields in steady shear are investigated by computational simulation method. The structure responses of the fluids to the field with high frequency are found to be very similar to that to the field with very low frequency or the sudden applied direct current field. The stress rise processes are also similar in both cases and can be described by an exponential expression. The characteristic time τ of the stress response is found to decrease with the increase of the shear rate and the area fraction of the particles The relation between them can be roughly expressed as The simulation results are compared with experimental measurements. The aggregation kinetics of the particles in steady shear is also discussed according to these results.
Electrical harmonic generation from notched narrow metal lines83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366805View Description Hide Description
A model for electrical harmonic generation in metalthin films has been developed based on the solution to the thermal diffusion equation using a Green's function method and a number of simple assumptions. The validity of the model is demonstrated by measurements of the amplitude of the second and third harmonic signals using uniform aluminum lines on sapphire. By introducing damage in the form of narrow notches of prescribed size into the aluminum lines, we have been able to calibrate, and compare, the notch sensitivities of the dc resistance and the second and third harmonic signals. Predictions based on a simple approximate treatment of the notches yields good agreement with damage sensitivity of both the resistance and harmonic signals. It was found that the second and the third harmonic signals are equally sensitive to damage in the aluminum lines. Furthermore, the harmonic signals are considerably more sensitive to the presence of damage than is the dc resistance. Also, the effect of a number of distinct damage sites in a line is shown to be a linear superposition of each for both the harmonic signals and the resistance.
Static space charge in evaporated ZnS:Mn alternating-current thin-film electroluminescent devices83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366806View Description Hide Description
The operation of alternating-current thin-film electroluminescent (ACTFEL) devices may be strongly affected by the presence of dynamic or static positive space charge within the phosphor layer during device operation. Dynamic space charge is a positive charge in the phosphor layer which is periodically created and annihilated during each period of the applied voltage waveform. In contrast, static space charge is a positive space charge in the phosphor layer whose charge state does not change appreciably during steady-state operation of the ACTFEL device. The static space charge density of evaporated ZnS:Mn ACTFEL devices is estimated to be from measured trends in the phosphor clamping field as a function of phosphor thickness. This static space charge density estimate implies a cathode clamping field of 2.2 MV/cm and a clamping interface trap depth of 1.5 eV. Furthermore, from transferred charge trends as a function of the phosphor thickness it is concluded that the static space charge in evaporated ZnS:Mn ACTFEL devices arises from metastable hole trapping in the phosphor.
Surface photovoltage spectroscopy of an InGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum well laser structure83(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.366807View Description Hide Description
An InGaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum well graded-index-of-refraction separate-confinement hetero-structure laser has been analyzed using surface photovoltage spectroscopy (SPS) in a contactless, nondestructive way at room temperature. Numerical simulation of the resulting spectrum made it possible to extract growth parameters, such as the InGaAs well width, the well and cladding compositions, as well as important electro-optic structure data of this device, including the lasing wavelength and built-in electric field. The results highlight the power of SPS in obtaining performance parameters of actual laser devices, containing two-dimensional structures, in a contactless, nondestructive way.


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There is some doubt about the testing itself, which is for the antibodies to the AIDS virus. Researchers have found some people who are infected with the virus but do not produce antibodies, but it is not known how commonly this occurs. A new test has been developed to detect the virus itself, but it is not yet in wide use.
Q. What about the testing done on the millions of donors to blood banks and of military recruits?
A. Because the blood banks stringently discourage drug abusers, homosexuals and bisexuals and others at risk for AIDS from donating blood, the resulting donors are not a true cross section.
For military applicants, again the sample may not be truly representative. Applicants often are from poor neighborhoods where drug use is high. On the other hand, since drug abuse and homosexual acts are banned in the military, the people most likely to be infected may avoid enlisting.
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American Family CEO uses technology to stay connected
On Twitter, his nickname is AmFamJack, and you'll often see Jack Salzwedel tweeting congratulations to an insurance agent, commenting on the Wisconsin Badgers football game, retweeting someone's words of wisdom or linking to a report on a current economic or social issue.
Salzwedel, a DeForest native who became chairman and chief executive of American Family Mutual Insurance Group a year ago, said communicating with employees and others through social media is just "part of my job" in today's business world.
"There's a lot of engagement that happens between the workforce and the executives, and you get a pretty good pulse of what's going on in your organization," said Salzwedel, one of a new generation of top bosses at big companies who regularly post on Twitter
But as the overseer of the largest insurer of homes and autos in Wisconsin - a company that has plans to expand beyond its current 19 coverage states - Salzwedel has many concerns besides what he'll say in his next tweet.
Among them: violent weather patterns that last year prompted a record $1.2 billion in claims for the company, technology improvements for the business, where the company is investing, and maintaining a strong workforce.
Like many companies, American Family has felt the effects of the slow economy, with customers looking to economize on their policies. Over the past four years, the company has reduced its workforce by about 10%, mainly through attrition but also with some job cuts. It remains one of Dane County's biggest employers with about 3,700 workers.
In September, Madison-based American Family announced it was acquiring two insurers: Permanent General, which sells auto policies to high-risk drivers, and Lumbermens Casualty Insurance Co., a dormant company that still is licensed to sell insurance in many states beyond American Family's current market territory.
Salzwedel talked recently about the business. Here is an edited version of that discussion.
Q. It seems like the weather has been particularly harsh or extreme in the past few years, and hard on insurers as a result. Is that an accurate perception, and how would you gauge how bad it's been?
A. I would say if you look at it globally or if you look at it even in the U.S., you'll see some increase in weather events over the last 10 to 15 years. But particularly in the Midwest there's been a huge increase in the number of severe storms. So it's tornadoes. Obviously Joplin (Mo.) is the one that everybody points to. But there are many other tornadoes that have happened over the past few years. There's also these severe straight-line wind/hail events that maybe don't make the news as much, but are very devastating from a loss standpoint. It's straight-line wind that's going 100, 110, 120 miles per hour and then it's this jagged hail that gets thrown right in the mix of it and causes a lot of issues with roofing, with siding, with automobiles. There's certainly been a marked increase in those types of events.
We employ models that look at weather events and trends and things like that, and I don't think anybody is ready to say that it's global warming or anything like that. But I think there's certainly a realization that in the last 15 years, we're seeing a difference in terms of weather activity - the severity of it and the location of it. There's a lot of work being done right now to try and understand that and model it going into the future.
Q.Do you think laws on distracted driving are tough enough, or are you seeing growth in auto accidents caused by texting drivers?
A. There are distractions that are major causes of crashes, and texting while driving is a big problem and a big challenge for us. But in some ways that has replaced some of the other distractions that we had five or 10 years ago. I think the data that I've seen on texting, it is a problem, an issue that needs to be addressed. But I don't want the concentration on texting while driving to take anything away from other distractions that happen in the car as well, (such as) falling asleep. These are all as bad and need to be tackled with distracted driving laws.
Q.How is Wisconsin as a place to have a national headquarters for a company like yours?
A. I think Wisconsin is a tremendous place to have a national headquarters. First of all, the people you can draw from are typically folks that have Midwestern values. They work hard, they have very strong values, they understand customer satisfaction and the need to drive that as an organization.
You've got great universities, whether it's the University of Wisconsin here in Madison, whether it's Marquette, UWM. You've got great universities around here to be able to draw some really smart people from. I just think it's an ideal place to do business. I really do.
Q.You acquired a company that insures high-risk drivers. Does that pose additional risk for the company, or do higher premiums for those drivers cover it?
A. The way we look at it is it will help spread our risk a little more. They bring in a number of states where we don't currently operate. So they bring in California, they bring in Texas, they bring in Florida, they bring in New York. These are very high premium states. A lot of people live in those states, and they sell nonstandard auto (policies) in those states. So actually we believe it's a geographic spreading of our risk outside of the traditional Midwest exposure that we have.
Q. Are there states you are eager to get into and others you probably never would - hurricane states and that type of thing?
A. Lumbermens will give us the flexibility to be able to look at the total U.S. market and be able to pick and choose which states we want to go into.
We do have plans long term to move our brand into additional states, and right now as part of this Lumbermens deal, we've been assessing where the best opportunity is for American Family to move. So we're in the middle of kind of working through that right now. We didn't buy that company just to have it sit on the shelf. We plan to use those licenses in the future.
Q.Is the company as lean as it needs to be at this point, or do you think there will be more job reductions coming down the pike?
A. I can think there may be times when, over the next few years, that we may be overstaffed in certain areas. But I think there's probably going to be, as we look at Lumbermens and as we look at Permanent General, there might be situations where we're going to need to add. So it would be hard to say exactly.
Q.American Family has done some investing in start-up companies, mainly in Wisconsin. Is that new?
A. It's a commitment to something we started a couple of years ago called the Innovation Center here at American Family.
What we are about is looking at specific start-ups and evaluating whether we think that they could provide an advantage for us in terms of technological improvement, or something where we see the market is going, and then very thoughtfully putting money in those start-ups.
Q. You are one of the executives out there who tweets quite a bit. I think people always wonder, 'Is that really him or is that the PR department?' Also, what is the reaction from peers and customers and others to your tweets?
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Culling Data for Your Case
By George Bellas and Elizabeth Fogerty – November 4, 2010
Not so long ago, most litigators did not know what the term "e-discovery" meant, let alone how or why to cull data. But times have changed. Even the most technophobic attorneys are coming to terms with the fact that e-discovery is a reality of practicing law in the twenty-first century.
The days of sorting through boxes for relevant, responsive documents are fading. More than 93 percent of information now manifests itself as electronically stored information (ESI), and the average business person produces 2.5 GB of ESI annually (most of which is automatically stored). Companies are realizing employees will say just about anything over email, which makes email a treasure trove of discoverable and often embarrassing evidence. All of this ESI must be organized electronically so that it can be reviewed and coded in that format. Astronomical amounts of information are created each year and almost all of it is at least "potentially relevant" for discovery purposes. The advantage to this electronic storage is that with a few mouse clicks one can sort though a large amount of documents with incredible speed and precision using basic sort and filter technology.
The sheer volume of data causes two main difficulties for practitioners - cost and time. Processing potentially relevant data can be extremely expensive. During the recent economic downturn, this ultimately translated into clients being financially unable to pursue or defend meritorious litigation. Moreover, many court-mandated deadlines rarely appreciate or take into account the enormity of the task of complying with e-discovery deadlines. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure now require discussion of issues relating to the exchange of ESI in the Rule 16 Conference, and that Rule 26 Scheduling Orders include provisions for the exchange of ESI. As such, issues relating to the exchange of ESI are now one of the first battles in any litigation.
Litigators need to understand the root of the ESI problem. The two major contributors to the problem are:
- the sheer amount of data collected by the clients and handed over to the counsel;
- the amount of time lawyers and staff expend reviewing irrelevant documents.
Even if the cost to process all the data is manageable, the cost of reviewing it is generally not. The only solution to this is to reduce the amount of non-related data returned. While culling the data to decrease costs sounds appealing, potentially fatal sanctions abound for not choosing defensible, court-sanctioned culling methods. Litigators must tread lightly.
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Within the discovery cycle, data can be culled at multiple stages. In a traditional model, all data collected are turned over to a service provider to remove duplicates and cull the data by date- and time-range parameters and then processed. Next, all of this data is reviewed by an attorney-which is not cheap. Because of the volume of data, this method is making litigation too costly. We need to find more efficient and economically feasible alternatives.
One option is to reduce how much data is actually collected. While this method may seem the most obvious and effective approach, it is riddled with such risks as sanctions and dismissal of pleadings. Typically, the client turns the initial culling over to its IT department, which is usually unfamiliar with the serious consequences of omitting potentially relevant data.
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A better option to decrease the data set prior to processing is to use a tool that can sort the data by date range, custodians, and file type prior to processing. There are software applications that can assist in the process. Using such software, practitioners can filter the data interactively. This is similar to applying connector and jurisdiction filters in electronic legal research. It permits practitioners to safely exclude data while providing the metrics that explain to the court why the exclusions were made. This saves time and money by excluding data prior to incurring any processing costs.
The most effective stage for culling data is the initial search stage. Traditional tools process all the data and then reduce the data set by 40–50 percent by applying custodian, date ranges, and de-duplication technology. Unfortunately, that still leaves a great deal of data to review, and it remains cost- and time-prohibitive. New technology is available to safely cull data at rates of 80–90 percent. Clearwell will cull data by the traditional methods but also by a number of other criteria that includes domain, keywords, discussion threads, and sender/recipient name. By reducing your data sets to 10–20 percent of the original collection, less time and financial resources are required for reviewing potentially relevant data. This allows smaller firms to handle these matters for their clients—and it is more economical for all clients, regardless of firm size (and allows for a more focused review).
Intelligent de-duplication is applied across the entire data set rather than simply at an individual custodian level. This means that an email that was sent to every employee in a 2,500-employee company can be reviewed once for relevance rather than 2,500 times. Domain searching technology removes irrelevant data by applying a list of domains that will not contain relevant data but that is likely to greatly increase data volumes (e.g., all emails from retail stores, newsletters, and newspaper and magazine subscriptions delivered electronically). Discussion-thread technology links all related messages that capture an entire discussion together including all replies, carbon copies, blind carbon copies, and forwards. This cuts review time dramatically because reviewers can quickly and accurately identify everyone involved and determine who knew what and when, thus saving time and money and preventing errors that occur when more than one reviewer is involved in the coding process.
Near duplication software is also available. This technology can be applied to scanned documents during the processing stage and can be customized to the percentage to which you are comfortable. For example, you can set the threshold at 90 percent so that all the documents that are 90 percent similar to another document will be grouped together and can be easily coded. These tools also save time in the review stage and have an added advantage of preventing errors. When determining which software to use, it is important to ensure that the tool offers both "opt-in" and "opt-out" techniques. Opt-in technology ensures the exclusion of irrelevant documents. Examples are date-range filters, file-type filters, and privileged and domain culling. Opt-in technology sorts through data to ensure that only relevant data are included for review. Examples of opt-out technology include keyword, custodian, and wild-card and stem culling.
This new technology offers clear metrics that can be presented in court to track what was culled and why, offering a cost-effective, defensible approach for all practitioners. It shows the court that reasonable and best efforts were used to implement an appropriate search and collection methodology.
George Bellas is a partner in the firm of Bellas & Wachowski located in suburban Chicago. Elizabeth Fogerty is an e-discovery consultant at C2Legal in Chicago.


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Wisconsin bill seeks to protect trash collectors
Fine proposed if motorists don't slow down
Madison - As he worked his garbage route in Stoughton, Mark Friend often feared for his safety, worried about cars that would zip past without slowing down - and in some cases, he said, even speed up.
"I was close to getting clipped by cars almost every day," Friend said. This January, his luck ran out when a car rammed into him as he deposited trash, pinning Friend against his truck and forcing the eventual amputation of his leg. He spent more than two months in a hospital, undergoing some 20 surgeries.
A Wisconsin state lawmaker has a proposal to make life safer for sanitation workers like Friend. State Rep. John Jagler, a Republican from Watertown, would add them to the list of people - such as highway workers - whose presence calls for doubling traffic fines or forfeitures for motorists who drive recklessly.
Friend, 36, of Ixonia, actually approached Jagler at a campaign appearance last summer to raise the issue of safety for workers like him. Jagler said he promised to introduce something. Then, in January, came Friend's accident.
"My heart sank when I heard about the crash," Jagler said. "My spine was shivering."
The National Solid Wastes Management Association said four to eight collection workers are killed by cars each year while on the job. The group started a national safety awareness campaign in 2004 after an Ohio waste collector was killed by a car and another was severely hurt in a separate crash.
Nearly all states have laws that require drivers to give way or slow down for parked police, fire or emergency vehicles with flashing lights. But only Michigan extends that to garbage trucks when they have such flashing lights.
Besides the Wisconsin proposal, Alabama is considering legislation that would require drivers to move over for garbage trucks when they are stopped, as they do for police and emergency vehicles.
Jagler said other lawmakers have been supportive of his proposal and he hopes to introduce it in early April.
Gov. Scott Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, said the governor will comment on the proposal once it passes the Legislature.


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National Council of Churches
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, usually identified as the National Council of Churches (NCC), is an ecumenical partnership of 38 Christian faith groups in the United States. Its member denominations, churches, conventions, and archdioceses include Mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African American, Evangelical, and historic peace churches. Together, they encompass more than 100,000 local congregations and 40 million adherents.[1] It began as the Federal Council of Churches in 1908, and expanded through merger with several other ecumenical organizations to become the National Council of Churches in 1950.[2]
The NCC's influence reached its peak in the 1950s, largely because of its commitment to ecumenism, and to the popularity of a wide variety of collaborative programs and ministries undertaken by its member churches, including the humanitarian movement, Church World Service.
The NCC's strong position against the Vietnam War in the 1960s alienated many laity, leading to a decline in influence among pro-war members of some of its member bodies.[3]
The Council's 38 member denominations, churches, conventions, and archdioceses include Mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African American, Evangelical, Josephite, and historic peace churches.[4] Individual adherents of more than 50 Christian faith groups actively participate in NCC study groups, commissions and ministries. Some of these participants belong to Christian faith groups, including the Roman Catholics, fundamentalists, Southern Baptists, and Missouri Synod Lutherans, that are not officially a part of the Council's membership.[3]
All NCC member organizations subscribe to the NCC's statement of faith, which forms the preamble to the NCC's charter: "The National Council of Churches is a community of Christian communions, which, in response to the gospel as revealed in the Scriptures, confess Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word of God, as Savior and Lord. These communions covenant with one another to manifest ever more fully the unity of the Church. Relying upon the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, the communions come together as the Council in common mission, serving in all creation to the glory of God." [5]
Social and political advocacy[edit]
According to Gill (2011), the NCC's position against the Vietnam War became increasingly strident in the 1960s and 1970s, and alienated the laity.[3] As in the Mainline churches, the senior officials and the laity had diverging positions on public policy.[6] At one point conservative media falsely reported NCC had channeled money to Communist groups in Vietnam and left-wing groups in Central America, provoking an outcry. Even the NCC's defenders admitted it had been "opaque" and "tone-deaf to their constituents."[7]
Although often accused of being a left-wing organization, the NCC never attracted support from the New Left. The result of being caught in the national polarization between left and right in a variety of controversies has been a long-lasting challenge to its influence.[3]
The member churches have engaged on issues of public policy and moral values, including the adoption of the "Social Creed of the Churches" in 1908, a document addressing the moral and ethical issues facing society, updated by the NCC General Assembly in 2007.[8]
The Council has supported minimum wage laws,[9] environmentalist policies, and affirmative action,[10] and played a significant role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.[11]
Since the late 1960s the NCC has taken positions sympathetic towards Palestinian land rights.[12]
NCC partners with dozens of other faith-based groups, such as Bread for the World, Habitat for Humanity, and Children's Defense Fund, to press for broad policy initiatives that address poverty issues.[13] The Council helped launch the Let Justice Roll grassroots anti-poverty campaign that has been successful in raising the minimum wage in more than 20 states since 2005.[14]
In July 2005, the Antiochian Orthodox Church suspended its participation in the NCC because, according to an assistant to the denomination's senior cleric, "the NCC...seems to have taken a turn toward political positioning." [15]
Publishing and research[edit]
The NCC fostered the multi-denominational research effort that produced the Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and holds the copyright to both translations.[16]
The NCC sponsors the research program on which the Uniform Sunday School Lesson Series is based. The series began in 1872 under the auspices of the National Sunday School Convention.[17]
The NCC also published until 2012 the annual Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, since 1916 a widely used reference work on trends, statistics and programmatic information on religious organizations in North America. Future editions of the Yearbook will be published by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB).[18]
Theological and ecumenical dialogue[edit]
The NCC Faith and Order Commission is an ongoing, scholarly, ecumenical dialogue among North American Christian theologians and church historians, including Evangelical, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and African-American scholars.[citation needed] In 2007, the Commission celebrated its fiftieth anniversary.[19]
The NCC is a founding member of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, a partnership established in 1980 to provide religious television programming for the local affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS.[20] The current IBC members include a variety of Jewish, Muslim, Protestant and Catholic organizations.[20]
The Council was the original anchor tenant in the 19-story Interchurch Center built in 1952 adjacent to Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary and The Riverside Church in New York City. It vacated these premises in 2013 when it consolidated its offices in the building long used by its public-policy staff at 110 Maryland Avenue, N.E., on Capitol Hill in Washington DC.[21]
See also[edit]
- ^ Lindner, edited by Eileen W. (2012). Yearbook of American & Canadian churches 2012 (Eightieth issue. ed.). Nashville: Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-1-4267-4666-6.
- ^ "Civil Rights Greensboro: National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA". Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
- ^ a b c d Jill K. Gill (2011). Embattled Ecumenism: The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the Trials of the Protestant Left. Northern Illinois University Press.
- ^ "National Council of Churches: Membership List". Retrieved 2014-03-05.
- ^ "About the National Council of Churches".
- ^ Jason S. Lantzer (2012). Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America's Majority Faith. NYU Press. p. 57.
- ^ Diane Winston (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media. Oxford University Press. pp. 189–90.
- ^ "The Social Creed of 1908 Updated for 21st Century". Pubtheo.com.
- ^ "Faith and community leaders urge Congress to raise minimum wage to $7.25 an hour". NCC News. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
- ^ NCC General Assembly (1997). "Resolution on Continued Support For Affirmative Action".
- ^ Findlay, Jr., James F. (1993). Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970. Oxford University Press Inc, USA. ISBN 0-19-507967-1.
- ^ James Q. Wilson (2010). American Politics, Then & Now: And Other Essays. AEI Press. pp. 126–27.
- ^ "NCC's Partners in Ministry". National Council of Churches. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ "Morality of the Minimum". The Nation magazine. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
- ^ "NCC Speaks Out About Withdrawal of Orthodox Church". Christianpost.com. 2005-09-30. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
- ^ "The Bible and Christian Life".
- ^ "Historic Uniform Series Now Meets 21st Century Needs". Retrieved 2007-04-22.
- ^ "Yearbook Transition".
- ^ "Celebrating 50 Years of Faith and Order". Retrieved 2007-05-09.
- ^ a b "About Interfaith Broadcasting Commission: History". Interfaith Broadcasting Commission. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ Markoe, Lauren (February 13, 2013). "Cash-strapped National Council of Churches to move to D.C.". Religion News Service. Retrieved 2013-09-20.


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They talked openly about what bullying is and why some people are teased. Students also addressed the subject of cyberbullying and how to stand up to bullies
The school says it's already seeing positive results.
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Next year the school district plans to provide the workshops for all students.
The school is also starting an anti-bullying advisory board including students, faculty and parents.
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Citrus Chambers Mahabaleshwar, Mahabaleshwar
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- Pune (PNQ-Lohegaon) 157-min drive; 79.3 miles/127.6 km
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There has been a flurry of moves in the 2011 NFL free agency as expected.
While the past 48 hours have seem like an NFL version of March Madness, people in Philadelphia are already grumbling that Andy Reid will once again not do anything in free agency and assume the Eagles are good enough to make a Super Bowl run with what they have.
I don't think it will be as bad as that for Eagles fans, but don't expect the sexy moves that you see other teams making.
Here are five moves that you should expect Andy Reid and the Eagles to make.