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In 2008 Duke Aiona, GOP Candidate For HI Governor, Claimed Membership In Group That Burns Native Artifacts
In an extended interview with KITV reporter Daryl Huff, for a May 4, 2010 KITV feature story, Aiona stated flatly, "I am not a member of Transformation Hawaii [a chapter of the ITN], I am not a member of the International Transformation Network."
But Duke Aiona had enthusiastically endorsed Ed Silvoso at an International Transformation Network Hawaii conference held only six months prior, in November 2009. And video from a July 2008 prayer rally in Hilo, Hawaii shows the Lt. Governor telling an audience, "I'm a part of a prayer evangelization program called Transformation Hawaii."
One of Ed Silvoso's closest colleagues and most regular ITN conference faculty members has been Cindy Jacobs. During a worship service that evangelist Cindy Jacobs held on October 7, 2008, at Ed Silvoso's 18th International Institute on Nation Transformation, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Jacobs called on [video link] assembled local area pastors at the conference,
"Pastors, sanctify your people! You go and you tell 'em, if you have any idols in their homes we're gonna to burn 'em! If you have any witchcraft items in your homes, you bring 'em Sunday and we're gonna burn 'em! We're not gonna have witchcraft in this church!"As Cindy Jacobs wrote in her book Deliver Us from Evil (Regal Books, from Gospel Light, 2001),
"There are certain occult items were are not to possess. If we own any of the following objects we need to get rid of them. If the object was at any time worshiped as a god or used in the worship of a false god, then we should burn it or otherwise destroy it.
It is not unusual for tourists to bring home keepsakes from faraway lands that have demonic attachments or are idols. What we often do not realize is that these objects can curse us. For instance, many people purchase African masks that have been used in worship ceremonies. Others buy native art such as Kachina dolls, statues of Hindu gods and statues of Buddha. Back home, havoc starts to reign in the form of sickness, tragedy, depression of marriage break-ups. Usually the person does not know why these things have happened." (Deliver Us from Evil, pp. 223-224)
Jacobs went on to describe an alleged, contemporary religiously-motivated destruction of native art in the U.S. state of Hawaii:
"Pastor Jim Marocco... planted a church on the island of Maui. He had people bring and burn occult items, specifically objects that were worshiped as part of their native religions. After the objects were destroyed, his church experienced great growth." (Deliver Us from Evil, page 225)
Cindy Jacobs then proceeds to give an account extremely similar to that offered, below, from C. Peter Wagner, on a mass-burning of allegedly "occult" items that Jacobs, Wagner, and Ed Silvoso helped orchestrate in 1990 in the Argentine city of Resistencia. As Peter Wagner wrote in his book Hard-Core Idolatry - Facing the Facts,
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Doris was preparing to travel to Argentina with Cindy Jacobs for the climactic evangelistic campaign. As she was reading scripture the morning she was to leave, the Holy Spirit told her that in Resistencia they must burn the idols, like the magicians did in Ephesus. Ed Silvoso, Cindy Jacob and the Resistencia pastors agreed. So the evening before the evangelistic crusade, all the city's believers came together for prayer. The leaders explained how important it would be to do spiritual housecleaning in their homes before they came to the meeting. They began mentioning the kinds of material things that might be bringing honor to the spirits of darkness; pictures, statues, Catholic saints, Books of Mormon, pictures of former lovers, pornographic material, fetishes, drugs, Ouija boards, zodiac charms, good luck symbols, crystals for healing, amulets, talismans, tarot cards, witch dolls, voodoo items, love potions, books of magic, totem poles, certain pieces of jewelry, objects of Freemasonry, horoscopes gargoyles, native art, foreign souvenirs, and what have you.
The believers agreed to obey God and to cleanse their homes, even if it meant giving up what might have been expensive items. They were to wrap each item in newspaper to protect privacy, and then cast the objects into a 55-gallon drum set before the platform the following night. The drum was heaped to overflowing! They poured gasoline on it and set it on fire." - C. Peter Wagner, Hard-Core Idolatry - Facing the Facts, 1999, Wagner Institute of Practical Ministry
As I describe in my Talk To Action story, New Apostolic Reformation Leaders Burn Native Art, Jacobs and Silvoso are part of an entire movement within charismatic Christianity that seeks to destroy opposing religions and native cultures perceived to be in the way of their evangelizing agenda.
Aiona's extensive involvement with the ITN and Transformation Hawaii traces back at least six years. As reported [1, 2] at the time by Hawaii media, in December 8, 2004, at a Hawaii public school, Aiona led a Transformation Hawaii religious ceremony, broadcast across Hawaii's islands, in which Aiona dedicated Hawaii and its schools to Jesus. But whose Jesus?
As religious studies scholar Kathleen Sands wrote in an April 7, 2010 op-ed, members of Ed Silvoso's (and Duke Aiona's, it would seem) movement target,
"not only gangs and drugs, but also Hindus and Buddhists, Jehovah's Witnesses, gays, practitioners of new age spiritualities -- in short, anyone who opposes their Christian theocracy.
So if you care about the Constitution, Aiona's involvement with Transformation Hawai`i and the ITN is not "attractive" at all. Both the federal and Hawai`i Constitutions prohibit any "law respecting the establishment of religion." That means, at the very least, that our governments may not endorse one particular religious viewpoint over others."
The movement Ed Silvoso is helping to lead considers Mormonism to be a "false religion" and ITN CEO Silvoso claims that only born-again, charismatic Catholics go to heaven. The latter distinction is quite notable given that Duke Aiona himself is Catholic.
As Ed Silvoso wrote in his 2007 book Transformation - Change the Marketplace and You Change the World (Regal, from Gospel Light, 2007), on page 62,
"Of all the nations in Latin America with sizable born-again population, Guatemala is at the very top. It is estimated that between 47 percent and 52 percent of the people are evangelicals-and when born-again Catholics are added to the numbers, the percentage can easily reach 75 percent. This means that three out of four Guatemalans are saved."
The implication is that Guatemalan Catholics who are not born-again are not saved, damned to hell that is.
Besides the December, 8, 2004 dedication, Lt. Governor Aiona is reported to also have dedicated Hawaii to Jesus at a February 2005 ITN conference in Hawaii which laid the groundwork for a May kickoff event to launch Transformation Hawaii. Starring in a promotional video for the May 19-21, 2005 Transformation Hawaii launch event, identified in the video as Hawaii's Lt. Governor, Aiona touted the upcoming May event and stated, "A movement is happening, a movement is going, and we all need to be a part of it."
Aiona was one of several prominent Hawaii politicians to attend the May 2005 International Transformation Network conference at the Neal Blaisdell Center near Honolulu, including Democrats such as Honolulu mayor Mufi Hannemann, Honolulu city council member Gary Okino, and Hawaii state senator Norman Sakamoto.
At the capstone event of the 3-day conference, Ed Silvoso and other ITN leaders "commissioned" several thousand attendees as "marketplace ministers" to bring their charismatic version of Christianity to every sector of Hawaiian society, including government, business, media, and education.
Later in 2005, as shown in the official ITN promotional brochure [link: PDF file] for the event, during the summer of 2005 Duke Aiona was a featured speaker and official ITN faculty member at Ed Silvoso's San Fransisco-area ITN event "Light the Bay II." Another featured speaker at the Light the Bay II event, according to the September 2005 newsletter of International Transformation Network West Coast Director Ted Hahs was Julius Oyet who, along with Martin Ssempa, is one of the most active instigators of anti-gay hatred in Uganda, where a bill before Uganda's legislature threatens to mandate the imprisonment or execution of much of Uganda's homosexual population.
Julius Oyet and the International Transformation Network
ITN connections to Julius Oyet aren't limited to a single event however. International Transformation Network team member Os Hillman (listed as faculty along with Aiona at the Light the Bay II conference) states that he met and befriended Julius Oyet in late 2005 at one of Ed Silvoso's conferences, and in 2006 Hillman traveled, together with another ITN faculty member, Pat Francis, to Uganda to join Julius Oyet in an evangelistic "crusade" in Uganda's Gulu province.
At the event, according to Hillman [ PDF file ], Julius Oyet "called for people to lay down their witchcraft tools and condoms. These things were thrown onto the stage. This was an amazing spectacle." It was probably not an isolated incident. According to one report [ PDF file ] in early 2004 Oyet held a revival "crusade" in Northern Uganda at which the evangelist "called on all attendants to forward their rosary beads together with condoms they carried in their pockets, to be burnt off since they belong to the same category of deviation from the way of God."
As I detailed in my 20-minute mini-documentary Transforming Uganda (cited in Congressional testimony before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in January 2010), Ed Silvoso's International Transformation Network is working with Uganda's Born Again Faith Federation, for which Julius Oyet serves as Vice President and apostolic overseer. The Born Again Faith Federation represents about four million Ugandan evangelical Christians, over ten percent of the country's population.
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Schools at risk of receiving a low rating increased the math scores for all students, notes Education Gadfly.
Students at these schools were later likelier to accumulate more math credits and graduate from high school. On top of that, they were more liable to attend college and earn more at age 25. In particular, students who had previously failed an eighth-grade exam ended up around 14 percent more likely to attend college and 12 percent more likely to get a degree.
Accountability policies had no impact at schools that weren't in danger of a low rating.
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What if 90% of the peer-reviewed clinical research, the holy grail of the conventional medical system, is exaggerated, or worse, completely false?
A seismic shift is occurring in the field of evidence-based medicine that a rare few are aware of, but which will (and likely already does) affect everyone, as the standard of medical care today largely follows from this model.
The very life's blood of 'evidence-based' medicine -- peer-reviewed and published clinical research results – which legitimizes the entire infrastructure and superstructure upon which conventional medical knowledge and practice is erected, has been revealed as mostly and patently false.
Case in point: in a 2005 essay, "Why Most Published Research Findings are False," and which is the most downloaded document of all time on PLoS, the Public Library of Medicine's peer-reviewed, open access journal, John P. A Ioannidis explains in detail how "It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false." And that "for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias."
The Atlantic published a piece on Ioannidis' work, back in 2010, titled "Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science," well worth reading, and which opened with "Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors - to a striking extent - still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice?"
Ioannidis' work revealed that about half of the most highly regarded research findings within "evidence-based" medicine are either wrong, or significantly exaggerated:
[Ioannidis] zoomed in on 49 of the most highly regarded research findings in medicine over the previous 13 years, as judged by the science community's two standard measures: the papers had appeared in the journals most widely cited in research articles, and the 49 articles themselves were the most widely cited articles in these journals.
...Of the 49 articles, 45 claimed to have uncovered effective interventions. Thirty-four of these claims had been retested, and 14 of these, or 41 percent, had been convincingly shown to be wrong or significantly exaggerated. If between a third and a half of the most acclaimed research in medicine was proving untrustworthy, the scope and impact of the problem were undeniable. That article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Time magazine wrote about Ioannidis' findings the same year with a piece titled "A Researcher's Claim: 90% of Medical Research is Wrong" -- the title of which speaks resoundingly for itself.
Keep in mind that the 'gold standard' of the multi-trillion dollar conventional, 'evidence-based' medical model is the very research that Ioannidis now says is mostly false. This model, which apparently thrives despite, or even because of, its falsity, largely determines what drugs are used, what surgical procedures employed, or conversely, what treatments can not be used, e.g. vitamins, spices, etc in disease prevention or treatment. It also shields those who practice this dominant and only truly legally-sanctioned form of medicine against the potential calamity of moral, criminal, and financial liabilities it is responsible for– that is, as long as the truth continues to remain buried.
How many folks, for instance, are aware that the Cochrane Database Review on preventing influenza in healthy children with flu vaccines shows that the evidence proving their safety and effectiveness in children under two (the population most susceptible to vaccine-induced injuries) is conspicuously lacking? Why would anyone question the rationality of vaccinating infants and young children against influenza when the CDC and FDA presents it as unequivocally safe and effective? As the review states:
It was surprising to find only one study of inactivated vaccine in children under two years, given current recommendations to vaccinate healthy children from six months of age in the USA, Canada, parts of Europe and Australia. If immunization in children is to be recommended as a public health policy, large-scale studies assessing important outcomes, and directly comparing vaccine types are urgently required.
Or, among the the tens of millions of Americans taking statin drugs for the primary or secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, who among them realize that there are well over 300 adverse health effects documented in the scientific literature itself associated with the use of this chemical class of medications, including the weakening and damaging of the heart muscle?
Sadly, examples like these may be the rule and not the exception.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM), of course, is founded upon an epistemological power structure arranged hierarchally like a pyramid. The 'quality of evidence' determines whether or not something can be said to be true. On the lowest tier, the 'base' of this pyramid, is the Anecdote, considered worthless, encompassing many folk medical systems employing food and plant medicines and still used by the majority of the word as their primary care system, followed by: Cell Studies > Animal Studies > Human Studies > Clinical Trials > Meta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews of Clinical Trials.
This model assumes, in the characteristically Napoleonic style, that what it does not officially confirm as being true, is not true. Herbs and vitamins, for instance, are almost never considered to be "evidence-based" and credible because they have not run the gauntlet of prerequisite clinical trials required for them to be verified as therapeutic within this model. The fact that our bodies, for instance, require vitamin C in order to be alive, is not evidence enough to support the concept that it may be valuable to take it supplementally at doses beyond the recommended daily value (which may keep you only a few milligrams above starvation/deficiency values).


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Fox is moving Rise of the Apes, a reimagined "origin story" for its fabled Planet of the Apes series, from its previously scheduled November release date. It now has a summer release of August 5th of this year.
I'm interested to see how they handle this remake/reboot. I hope they handle it better than the Tim Burton "Planet of the Apes" remake. It was heartless and the first nail in the coffin Tim Burton's career took (but that's a whole different article in itself).


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Happy New Year, lovies! I spent the past few days in my pajamas so putting on real clothes this morning was a chore. Sadly, vacation doesn't last forever so here I am, back at it.
You probably saw a few holiday pictures on Facebook and Twitter, but here's a look at what's been going on in my Drunk on Discounts world for the past few weeks.
A few weeks ago, my friend Nina and I took a tour of the White House and got to see it all decorated for Christmas. We snapped this pic by one of the many trees. I should point out that we're both wearing flats in that picture. She really is that much shorter than me🙂
R has been experimenting with brewing beer lately so I wanted to get him something useful and thoughtful. I bought a 2-liter growler from Northern Brewer and made it unique by etching the glass to say "rust brew."
Our view from the couch was so pretty with the twinkling tree lights and bear rug coasters that we got for Christmas.
I never made gingerbread houses as a kid but for the second year in a row, I got together with some girlfriends to build, admire, and eat them. It turns out that cotton candy from a bag makes for a great snowman, but it melts down in minutes so Frosty quickly became a blob.
That's me and my brother "Griffining" during the Redskins/Cowboys game this past Sunday. Nobody got engaged this time but my beloved 'Skins won again, clinching the NFC East Division title for the first time since 1999.
R and I hosted a NYE pajama party for a couple of our friends. We drank champagne, played Cards Against Humanity and Telestrations, and did a lot of singing and dancing. Everyone spent the night like a good hostess, I even made waffles on New Year's Day.
I'll have more to say about NYE later this week, including a few recipes and how we sent out invitations. Until then, have fun trying to re-focus at work!


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Backyard Bird Nest Survival in Cities and Country
January 1, 2010 by Gregory Gough
The conversion of forests to cities has hurt the populations of many kinds of birds. There are, however, a few species that appear to thrive in urban areas but little study has been devoted to the factors that affect their populations.
Researchers from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center monitored the nests of 5 common backyard birds: American Robin, Mockingbird, Cardinal, Gray Catbird, and House Wren.
The study area included rural, residential, and urban areas in the Washington, D.C. region. The data was collected by citizen scientists as part of the Neighborhood Nestwatch program and by scientists.
Surprisingly, the nests fared better in urban areas, sites with fewer trees and more roads, buildings, and sidewalks. This was most true in fairly large areas, about 1000 meters around the nest.
So why would urban nests do better than nests in the country or the suburbs? It likely has to do with the predator community.
To examine the predator community, fake nests were put out and monitored. They each contained 2 quail eggs and a clay-like egg that would show tooth or beak marks, depending on what tried to eat it.
The marks on the eggs showed that in urban areas, the nest predators are mostly other birds, such as jays and crows. In more rural areas, additional predators included squirrels, chipmunks, and mice. The lack of mammalian predators in urban areas seems to make nests safer.
But just because city nests are safer does not mean that urban birds have it easy. In the related articles below you can find out about the reduced amount of food in urban areas and the increased amount of contaminants.
One additional point to acknowledge is the contribution of citizen scientists monitoring nests in their own yards. Their data was compared to that of the scientists and it was found to be just as valid.
This article summarizes the information in this scientific paper:
Ryder, Thomas, Reitsma, Robert, Evans, Brian and Marra, Peter P. 2010. Quantifying avian nest survival along an urbanization gradient using citizen- and scientist-generated data. Ecological Applications, 20(2): 419-426.


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Nvidia's response to AMD's recent advances is quite a success. Based on the GK104 processor with the new Kepler architecture, the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card has proved to be somewhat faster than the AMD Radeon HD 7970 across all the tests. It is also considerably quieter, more energy-efficient, smaller and lighter. The GeForce GTX 680 supports new and efficient antialiasing methods, FXAA and TXAA, which are going to be discussed in our upcoming reviews, and Adaptive V-Sync for smoother gaming. Finishing all this off is the availability of all popular video interfaces and support for multi-monitor configurations.
Most importantly, the recommended price of the new card is set at $499, which is $50 cheaper than the recommended price of the AMD Radeon HD 7970. Things are not as hopeless for AMD as they seem, though. The AMD Radeon HD 7970 has been around for three months, so it is already available in lots of custom versions with original cooling systems and pre-overclocked frequencies. Nvidia-based solutions of this kind have not yet even been announced.
So, the only thing we are certain of is that the GeForce GTX 680 is going to increase competition in the top-end market sector and is likely to cause a reduction in prices. It means we, end-users, are on the winning side regardless of who's on top in the GPU makers' race.
- Nvidia's GeForce 300.99 driver doesn't look stable as yet. We could observe image tearing in Metro 2033, occasional image defects in Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3, and long test loading times in 3DMark Vantage. Hopefully, driver updates will solve these and other bugs and will also push the graphics card's performance even higher up.
- When we replaced the default GPU thermal interface with Arctic MX-4, we saw the GPU temperature drop by 4°C at peak load. The top speed of the fan decreased by 120 RPM in the automatic regulation mode at that.
- Our testbed with GeForce GTX 680 would occasionally not start up at all, emitting two long beeps. This must be some partial incompatibility with the Intel Siler DX79SI mainboard or a defect of our sample of the GeForce GTX 680 card.
- When checking out the overclocking potential of the card, we found a strong correlation between its stability and cooling. For example, if the GPU temperature was not higher than 70°C (at 85% fan speed), the card's GPU could be overclocked by 15-20 MHz more.


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Kylie Jenner Gets Sophisticated While Big Sis Kendall Sizzles In The March Issue Of Marie Claire Mexico
Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars Kendall and Kylie Jenner have landed a spot on the cover of the March 2014 issue of Marie Claire Mexico magazine.
Kendall, an aspiring model, discussed her blossoming career, telling the magazine, "[I] always enjoyed watching and looking at high fashion models and supermodels. I always wanted to be them. Even as a kid, I remember always looking at my mom's magazines. I would look up to them and I thought they were so beautiful and they seemed very elegant and cool. It's just something I really wanted to be."
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Jets QB Greg McElroy Wishes Sparano Best"I have a lot of respect for Tony Sparano," McElroy said. McElroy also supported fired offensive coordinator Tony Sparano, even though his one start with Sparano calling the plays resulted in 11 sacks and a concussion. I think he's a tremendous man," McEl… (more)Source: thejetsblog.com
McElroy: Pay no attention to the circus behind the curtainA year ago, third-string quarterback Greg McElroy unloaded on his own team, talking about "extremely selfish individuals" and a "really corrupt mindset within the locker room." To hear how much things changed, you'd think the Jets were still inSource: profootballtalk.com


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LOS ANGELES — Nigel Lythgoe and the DanceOn network on YouTube plan to launch two new online shows later this year: Dance School Diaries and Every Single Step.
DanceOn — which recently spotlighted dance-centric campaigns featuring Michael Jackson's latest album and Jamba Juice, a California restaurant chain — has sponsored or created more than 400 channels that boast 9.5 million subscribers and more than 2 billion page views.
The company emphasizes creating an online dance community, with YouTube as its catalyst.
"It's not the same with other artists, like
comedians, who might really engage better on Twitter because it's all about the written word," said DanceOn CEO Amanda Taylor.
"With dancers, it's all about the moving and the visuals, so there's no better way to communicate with your audience than through video," she said.
"Technology has changed the way we evolve as artists."
Taylor and Lythgoe, the producer, judge and creator of the Fox TV series So You Think You Can Dance, talked recently about technology's influence on dance.
Q: How do the two new shows work?
Lythgoe: In Dance School Diaries, we're following four to five kids as they prepare to enter the biggest ballet competition in the world, which is the Youth America Grand Prix at the Lincoln Center in New York.
These kids come from all over the world to New York, where they are seen by representatives from ballet companies from all over the world. The Dresden Ballet, the Royal Ballet in England and all of the major ballet companies here take a look at them.
Taylor: The stakes are really incredibly high for them in terms of launching their professional careers. Some of these kids, it's their last year to be able to participate — it's sort of this and a professional dance career or finding another track in some cases.
We asked the kids, "Did you apply to college as a backup plan?" but a lot of them had to stay so focused in their careers as dancers that they don't have a Plan B.
Lythgoe: It's a really short career as well. The ballet companies are now transitioning them out of the companies earlier, so they've got to find other work.
Every Single Step is a choreography competition where we'll take up-and-coming choreographers . . . They can be asked to choreograph a product for a commercial. They could be asked to work with a group, or they might even be asked to go to an old-folks home and stage that.
At the end of it, we hope to have choreographers that can do it on So You Think You Can Dance.
Q: Why go into the online world?
Lythgoe: It's no different than anything else I do. I'm a creator. I try to create programs that are entertaining, that people want to watch, that are generally family-oriented.
I believe trying to bring families together to watch this type of entertaining program is really important.
It's the one area where families can come together and all enjoy the same show, which obviously I did with (American) Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. For me, it's just another platform.
Taylor: And we're reaching a global audience instantly. When you think of how widespread So You Think You Can Dance is — it's in so many territories now, over 35, I think — we'll be able to reach those countries instantly.


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April 10, 2014
By Pastor Brian Lee
Shades Crest Baptist Church, Bluff Park
If you own an iPhone and are looking for an alarm clock to use, there's an app for that. Actually there are more than 6,000 apps for that. They range from the "Alarm Clock HD" that enables you to read your Facebook posts in the morning to the "Wake and Shake Alarm Clock" that requires you to shake your phone furiously to shut off the noise.
So when it comes to alarm clock options to help us get going in the morning, there are plenty of them. Sometimes, however, that's just not enough. We need something more. As one person put it, "I've got a clock that tells me when to get up. I just need one that tells me why."
Perhaps you can relate with that. Outwardly you seem to have a great life going. You've got a decent job, a nice family and good friends. It ought to be enough, but it isn't. Somewhere deep inside there's a longing for something more, but you just can't seem to put your finger on what that something more is.
Have you ever considered that maybe what you're missing is a connection with God? That's what a man named Augustine discovered more than 1,500 years ago. After giving himself to everything his world had to offer, he came to realize that what he needed most was a relationship with God through Christ.
He would later write, "You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in You."
If you feel that restlessness inside and have never opened your life to God, then you are missing the very foundation on which life is built. Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" (John 10:10). That's what God wants for everyone.
You can experience that life by trusting Christ to forgive your sins and allowing Him to be the leader of your life.
So if you're looking for a real reason to get going in the morning, I have good news. There's a God for that.


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The NHL offseason is highlighted with the several moves that come around with free agency.
Teams throw money at players and occasionally pull off some big trades in order to give their team the best chance at winning the Stanley Cup.
Some of the moves the teams make cause the entire nation of hockey fans to stand up and take notice.
Others make fans shrug their shoulders or have even less of a reaction. Here are the six most overrated moves of the summer.


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The last straw in a friendship that is waning
It may take time to realize a friendship that is waning isn't really viable—and then one last straw brings clarity and insight.
Hi Irene,
I think I have a friendship that is waning. I met her at a support group about a year ago for people who want to improve their communication, etc. Oddly, we are not communicating. She had extended herself to me, initially.
It seems that whenever we have gotten together, it's been on her terms, and it seems to be getting a little worse. For example, she is extremely picky about what to eat. It seems that the fact that I have food allergies terrifies her, and she tries to regulate what I eat, to my great embarrassment. Having to eat with her has become a chore.
Also, making plans is an ordeal. The last time we tried to get together, she suggested a movie and then changed her mind. She asked that I pick out another one. I did, and she didn't like it. She will review movies to see if they are her taste and pick accordingly, rather than tending to go with the flow. It was very frustrating.
The last time I called her, just to talk and say hello, I got a text the following day saying that she did get my message, but couldn't talk, and would get back to me in a week. (?)
The likely scenario is that she will call, and want to get together again, on her terms, at a very specific time and day. It's becoming a last straw since the phone call. Also, she never wants to get together with my other friends as a group. I have to constantly rearrange my times to see her separately. Frankly, it doesn't match my schedule and it's too hard to make special accommodations to see her. I don't want to do it and feel like we have no rapport or anything in common. I almost feel like it's interfering with my befriending others because I have to arrange my schedule special for her and make cancellations. This is difficult. Any thoughts?
Signed, Nicole
Hi Nicole,
It sounds like the woman you met is extremely controlling, to the point that she wants to make all the decisions in your friendship including what you eat, when you meet, what you do, and with whom. This is unreasonable.
You made a valiant effort to make a new friend. But it sounds like you are at a juncture where it is time to give up. It's just too hard to make plans and communicate with this woman. Moreover, you've decided that you have little in common and haven't been able to establish rapport.
Frankly, I can't see why you would want to continue the friendship. My advice would be to let go and tell her that you prefer getting together with your friends as a group next time she wants to get together again as a twosome. I understand that you want to improve your communication skills but communication always has to be a two-way street.
Hope this helps.
Best, Irene
Category: HANDLING BREAKUPS, Signs a friendship is going sour
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It is really hard when the dynamics of a friendship aren't even or change over time.
I've had a good girlfriend for almost 20 years. The first 10 years we were good friends, and hung out as couples with our husbands and spent time just us girls too. Over time, they had children and we did not. Since the kids were born 7 years ago, we haven't had one single activity that is adult-only. he children are so over-indulged that it is impossible to connect as adult friends and finish a conversation. I like being an Auntie to the kids, but I thought I was a friend to the mom too.
Our get togethers have shrunken into phone calls which she always initiates when she "has a minute" and regales me with how the brilliant the kids are, and how busy she is … and then has to run and hangs up. Needless to say I cannot get a word in edgewise. This is what happens when you let someone control the friendship.
Trying to tactfully bring up this was a waste of time. Now she's mad at me and says I'm not there for her. That's all I have been for the past 7 years. She's too busy being a "Stepford-Mom" to be a friend at all to me and I suspect to anyone else. Perhaps she resents the fact that I'm free to travel and do the things she has always said she wanted to do and the only way she can deal with it is to not hear about my life at all anymore. (That's my husband's theory for what it's worth)
It is sad that this friendship is probably over, but it takes two willing participants to make a friendship. If all she wants is someone to talk at and not really communicate with … I no longer accept that role.
What a nightmare! It sounds like she hasn't gotten enough out of the support group, and that she's got other underlying personality issues. You can't have a healthy relationship unless both people in the relationship are reasonably healthy.
This isn't your fault. Having a relationship with a control freak isn't very satisfying, is it?
Great advice, Irene! I've been in Nicole's shoes before. Even though I knew I needed to let go, it's difficult. Some times you need someone to give it to you straight, like Irene, in order to follow through 🙂
Does not sound like fun. Long-term friendships can be a lot of work, but shorter-term should be easier. Move on.
I've been on both sides of this issue. A year isn't a very long time, in terms of deep friendship. It's possible that this person has decided she's not fully "into" this new friendship, and perhaps isn't quite sure how to back away gracefully. I've had this happen — a colleague or an acquaintance will reach out to me, and I will get together with them a few times to see how it goes, but soon learn that it's not a relationship I want to continue. It's hard, because you don't want to hurt people, but then again, there's only so much time in a day — and you want to have enough time for the relationships that really do matter to you.


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November 2, 2011
The Pilot Records Improvement Act (PRIA) was enacted primarily as a result of certain airline accidents attributable to pilot error. The accident investigations found that although the pilot or pilots had a history of poor performance, their backgrounds were not investigated by the current employers. While many of the PRIA requirements apply only to commercial air carriers, there are implications for operators conducting flights under Part 91 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs). Under PRIA, a commercial air carrier cannot allow a pilot to conduct flights until it obtains and reviews the last 5 years of the pilot's background and safety records.
Due to several high profile accidents involving Part 121 air carriers, various amendments to PRIA were signed into law during 2010. Specifically, the FAA is now required to create a pilot records database (PRD) that will contain a variety of records, including information submitted by employers. Once the PRD is in place, air carriers will use the database to perform background checks on pilots during the hiring process.
PRIA Requirements for Part 91 Operators
Since Part 91 operators do not meet the definition of an air carrier, they are not required to request PRIA records when hiring a pilot. However, certain records must be retained by Part 91 operators in case they receive a records request from an air carrier.
Within 30 days after receiving a PRIA request, the operator must provide records pertaining to:
- training, qualification, proficiency, or professional competency of the pilot;
- any disciplinary action that was not subsequently overturned;
- any release from employment or resignation, termination, or disqualification with respect to employment; and
- any FAA-mandated alcohol and drug testing program results.
In many cases, a Part 91 operator may not have any records on the pilot that would be pertinent to the PRIA request. In these situations, a simple letter to the requestor stating that no records are available satisfies the regulatory requirements.
PRIA Requirements for Part 135 Operators
Operators that fly either full-time or part-time under FAR Part 135 are required to gather specific past records of a new pilot within 90 days of hiring the person. The new Part 135 employer must request and receive records from anyone who has employed the applicant as a pilot during the past five years. This request must include a signed written consent of the pilot applicant. The consent immunizes the former employer from any Federal, state, or local lawsuits brought by the pilot, unless the information provided is intentionally false.
PRIA Resources
The FAA website provides access to all pertinent PRIA resources, including:
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I was just watching Invictus last night and started wondering if Nelson Mandela is pro- or anti-vuvuzela. The shit was pretty annoying and if he's in pro- them, I wonder if he could've made it through his 27 years in prison if they were being blown in his ear the entire time. Yeah, so that's the kind of stupid stuff that goes through my head when I'm not thinking about sex.
The only reason I've even decided to share is that my Babe of the Week, the insanely sexy Victoria's Secret Super Model Candice Swanepoel, hails from some weird sounding place down in South Africa. Candice pretty much stole the show in tonight's VS Fashion Show as far as I'm concerned, so I had to put her up on the site after taking care of some business first.


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Late-inning comebacks used to be a common occurrence in Philadelphia. The contending teams of the past would often pull off amazing come-from behind victories that got fans pumped. With the 2014 Phillies far from contention, there hasn't been much to cheer about; however, a few games this week have given fans a small taste of what that late-inning energy used to be like. The Phillies pulled off another late-inning comeback in Sunday's 7-6 win over the New York Mets. The Phillies trailed 6-1 at one point, but were able to come up with some magic.
In the 7th inning, Chase Utley tripled to bring home a run and make the game 6-5. Utley had a tremendous game, finishing a double shy of a cycle. He homered in the first inning.
In the 9th inning, the Mets brought in Jenrry Mejia to close. Marlon Byrd came in to pinch hit with a runner on. He came through in the clutch, driving home Cody Asche. After Byrd stole second and the Mets intentionally walked Utley, Ryan Howard was due up. Howard has had a rough season, including a period where he was benched. Howard has been better as of late, and he came up big here. He singled down the line, bringing home Byrd. The walk-off gave the Phillies a 7-6 win.
Kendrick Struggles
Kendrick lasted five innings. He surrended 10 hits and six runs, five earned. He walked three and struck out one. He surrended home runs to Lucas Duda and Travis D'Arnaud.
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I feel that momentum going yeeah, we're back in it for the wc especially now we got Jerome Williams starting!! This was all part of amaros plan I finally get it. Whoooo world series here we coooome
Beyond – You are more than welcome to join Lefty, Andrew and myself for the parade. However, I must warn you…. Lefty may need to be carried due to that bum leg of his…
Now we're talking! 2018 here we come.
What a great week of games. Sure the team is flawed and nowhere close to as good as 06-11. But for those that aren't diehards like me, IMO you gave up too early. The team played some very entertaining comeback baseball this week.
No, I don't work for the team or this blog. Just saying it was a fun week.
I agree Lefty. Twice this week I was happy to shout for joy when Howard cane through. Lost in the endless array of sabermetric data we toss around these parts, is the sheer joy of a game winning single to right.
You know, you touch on a very intersting point. One that I have been thinking about a great deal this season. I, too, consider myself a diehard fan. I think years of paying for the $5 Yellow seats in the 700 level can attest to that.
Baseball has always been my favorite sport and the Phils my team. But, I have a true LOVE/HATE relationship with them. It is almost difficult to explain rationally in my mind. Yes, even in this disaster of a season I am still thrilled when they pull one out the way they've done so this week. Yet at the same time, I am exasperated by what I see to be imbecility in the way the organization is run. Which, of course, infuriates me.
I wonder if some PHD can study this contradiction?
How about this as an example: I attend church with a very high placed Phillies executive who I avoid at all costs simply to save the embarrassment of accosting him about the team. Yet, while in Montreal this summer I went to see Olympic Stadium. Standing behind what was home plate, I YOU TUBED Andy Musser's call of Schmidt's homer in 1980. "He buried it, he buried it!" I had tears in my eyes! Is that just too weird?
That homer in 1980 is one of the highest of highlights in my lifetime. I got choked up just reading your comment. That cold gray October afternoon/evening with the three hour rain delay, and then all the errors, and base running blunders. As extra innings approached it seemed it was a game that was destined to be lost by one of the two teams, not won. But then Schmitty came through in biggest of big spots. I like Musser's call and Harry on the TV side who said "long drive, watch that baby"! Then he said -something like- Schmidt breaks Eddie Mathews all time single season home run record for third baseman with number 48-
Wow what a memory.
We're all frustrated now, especially after seeing them play so well for a few years.
So, is it weird you had tears? For most people?, yeah probably, but not at all to me.
It was a great week to see a team that cared and played as teammates. Even the bench players are involved. It's good to see this out of a team that appeared to have given up.
Oh too bad Tomas Perez was not in the crowd today with pie in hand.
Some times you just need to sit back and enjoy the game for what it is.
Has been fun, even Friday night as the Phils mounted a comeback that did fall short..
The Phils are on their way to finalizing the Met series with a 3 of 4 drop summary, B9, don 5-2. Not that games are played in Casino Park, but they were dogs today, and have 18 games left this month now, all but a good guess of 3 in which they will go in as dogs. It's a brutal schedule, strikingly similar to the mid June to ASB when they staved off a scheduled trip to 0 under at the break by kicking off with 5 W's in a row.
They finish at the Mets, but in the meantime, it's all .500 or better, including AL opposition, which, historically, goes about as well as Lefty O 'Fool's personality. Hope that's insulting enough.for his ego driven self appointed board cop role in life. Cards, Giants, A's and M's. We'll see what's behind the surface level effort that matches up with the dog days of August no matter who you lay, or where you rank in the standings. Hamels and maybe a home game or 2 might find 'em favored, but other than that, it's the challenge of Dog City straight on through to the other side.
Scratch most of this if they come back from 3 down, tying run in the hole, an out away from another L.
The one thing I really enjoyed about Sunday's game was not having to see the Mejia chicken dance. That is really embarrassing to watch, I bet his own teamates cringe.


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Growing broccoli sprouts may be one of the most cost-effective ways to improve your diet. Cutting, chewing, or chopping raw broccoli or broccoli sprouts releases sulforaphane, which may help boost the detoxification enzyme systems in our liver. Broccoli sprouts seem to be both anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic, and are more effective than broccoli supplements. Too much broccoli sprout intake—likely up to four cups a day—may cause DNA damage.
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Fledgling Study Abroad Program Offers Worlds of Experience
By Irene H. Yoon (Intern, U.S. Department of Education, FIPSE)
Washington, DC, USA; October 16, 2002
Imagine that you are a new undergraduate student at a large research university. You are wide-eyed to the world of the campus. Then, at orientation, you are presented with a rare opportunity to learn Chinese, study for a year in China, perhaps eventually take courses taught in Mandarin, and, even more impressive, to conduct new research with several other students and faculty members at your school and at a school in China. Finally, your collaborative research possibly would be significant enough to be published and presented at national conferences.
Gretchen Kalonji, the director of a program called UW Worldwide (UWWW) whose largest program links the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle to Sichuan University (SU) in Chengdu, China, really offers such a program. Kalonji is almost casual when talking about the chance that some of her undergraduate students might publish the findings of their research. When asked about the academic accomplishments of her students, she says, I expect that when the third-year students return from their year in Chengdu, some of them will have results they can publish, give talks about at conferences, things like that. Her enthusiasm increases when describing the more personal impact on her students. She speaks about the deep experiences that students gain from learning a new language, traveling abroad, working on an interdisciplinary research team that is international, and working on practical problems, all at once.
The University of Washington Worldwide
Working to resolve practical problems is at the heart of the students research. Environmental and social changes resulting from industrial development are very similar in Washington State and Sichuan Province, from the effects of hydroelectric plants on streams, to the effects of industrial waste on rainfall, forests, and biodiversity. The internationalized curriculum of UWWW is the product of collaboration between UW faculty and SU faculty, who come from several academic fields and therefore unite varying perspectives on shared regional issues. The selected themes for UW Worldwide reflect the environmentally influenced needs in Washington State and Sichuan Province: water, biodiversity, anthropology/archaeology, forestry, and eco-materials. The student-and-faculty research teams tackle relevant, real-life problems within these chosen thematic fields. For example, the first water team, entering its third year in the project, has been developing new waste-water management methodologies, while the first anthropology team at Sichuan University made a CD-ROM of the funeral ceremonies of the Chuan minority in Sichuan.
There are five pairs of student-faculty teams. Five teams in Seattle cooperate with five partner teams in Chengdu. Each team is composed of students from different major fields and faculty from different but relevant academic fields. The interdisciplinary team works at its home school, researches its home regions experience of an identified problem, and shares data and findings with its partner team via e-mail and video conferencing. Then, after two years of research at home, the teams switch turf; the five US teams go to China, and the Chinese teams come to the States. By the time the UW students and SU students switch places, they have already done two years of work, and that will be their primary focus in China, Kalonji notes. While exchanged, the teams continue to communicate and share data, and also spend the summers together before and after the year of exchange one summer in Chengdu and one in Seattle thus completing a full year abroad and an additional summer at home working on the project.
Worldwide Students
The students must take a regular course load at UW and while they are abroad in addition to working on their UW Worldwide projects. After two years of Chinese language classes geared toward the needs of the project, Kalonji predicts that by their second semester in Chengdu, after the first semester of exposure to the Sichuan dialect, some of the students will probably be taking their courses engineering, for example in Chinese. Kalonji further explains the importance of the experience for students: Its the only program that I know of where an engineering major can have a year of active research and go abroad . Part of what is exciting for the students is that they have the potential of resolving important problems in Washington State and in China and still major in what interests them. The advantage of being able to have both UW Worldwide and a normal academic life also can present a challenge. Kalonji points out that the UWWW students have to make sure this project does not take over their whole lives, and must juggle fulfilling some very structured major requirements while participating in UWWW.
UWWW is not a restrictive program for its students: The students are very active in guiding us, Kalonji says. They give Kalonji advice about the programs curriculum, suggest program structure, and choose which of the project groups they join. Students choose their project groups after short introductions to each, and change groups later if they change their minds. Some students become involved in more than one project. UWWW students are more actively engaged with the project and curriculum because they have a certain amount of flexibility within the program, and work on research areas to which they were not merely assigned; they are more devoted because they have ownership of their work. Kalonji comments, Luckily, the groups have been equal in number based on the students requests and natural interests, and we havent had to place students in groups that they didnt choose.
UW Worldwide allows for those natural interests because it is not designed or advertised as just for engineering or scientific majors. Kalonji says that there is a wide range of interests among the community of UW Worldwide students. Some major in fine art or pursue music and literature. The students apply to the UW Worldwide program for differing reasons; but all the students who are selected share the benefits of close personal and professional relationships with several faculty members, of independent, exciting, and new research, of close communities of students on campus and in China, and of acquisition of a new language and culture. With each year and each new step of the program, the experiences that the students encounter contribute to their growth as scholars, researchers, analysts, communicators, and writers. Their deep and growing knowledge about Chinese language, history, and culture, paired with their growing confidence as researchers and their interdisciplinary understanding through the varied and broad curriculum, are quite remarkable for first-year students, Kalonji says.
Across the Pacific Ocean, at Sichuan University, the projects faculty has separate protocols for accepting student applications, but the curriculum and research projects are parallel to those at UW because they are collaboratively designed with Kalonji and UW faculty. The SU faculty members also come from different professional fields, and bring their own interdisciplinary perspective in addition to their experience and understanding of Sichuan Province. SU is very active in their part of the planning. They take this project very seriously, Kalonji says about her partners. They bend over backwards to design things for this project. For example, SU will be able to accommodate the UW students in China with courses and activities in English and, for more advanced Chinese speakers, in Chinese. While project staff members occasionally fly to China or vice versa, the main communication and planning is done through e-mail. This hasnt deterred the faculty, though. After years of planning and coordination with SU faculty, the two faculty teams have overcome linguistic and geographic distance. Kalonji laughs when she says, Yes, weve become very close with them by this stage.
Behind-the-Scenes Interest
Non-academic partners of the project include the Washington State China Relations Council and the Washington State Office of Trade and Economic Development, as well as several local small-to-medium environmental technology companies, which Kalonji estimates as numbering around six hundred in Washington State. The sister state-province relationship between Washington State and Sichuan Province was established in 1982, but it hadnt been very active in recent years. The project has helped revitalize that relationship. The Office of Trade and Economic development is very supportive of our project because it increases interactions with China and with Sichuan, specifically. In fact, independent of our project before our project even started the Office of Trade and Economic Development cited China as the states third-largest trading partner, and as the fastest growing. It also named environmental technology as the sector of the states economy with the most potential for growth, Kalonji narrates, describing the backdrop for UW Worldwides state government and non-profit relationships. The support from state, business, and non-profit organizations provides a glimpse of the potential impact and scope of the students research, because the partners seek to consider, in Kalonjis words, whether we can link our research with these innovative local environmental tech companies.
UW Worldwide is lucky also to have the support of the universitys administration; the UW higher administration has dedicated significant resources to the project, shows interest, and does not interfere with Kalonji and her colleagues in the design of the project. The president of the University of Washington also traveled to Chengdu to observe the Chinese branch of the project. The show of support bodes well for the longevity and impact of the UW Worldwide project.
Kalonji hopes to see the interdisciplinary UW Worldwide project extend throughout the university, but this is inevitably a slow endeavor. The process has begun, as faculty members from several departments are involved in creating the curriculum and advising the students in UW Worldwide; they have started the formation of interdepartmental relationships among faculty. Kalonji and her colleagues also work with other departments in order to fit UW Worldwide into a schedule full of major requirements for some students, leading to more working relationships.
At a large research university like UW, faculty often work on their own projects and do not venture outside their departmental enclave. The research undertaken by UWWW students, however, requires more than just materials engineers or environmental scientists. Kalonji hopes to publicize the project this year and eventually draw from the depth of resources available if involving more of the thousands of faculty at UW. Were a research university. Faculty here are very committed to their research, and this project offers them an opportunity that is interesting, stimulating, and rewarding, upon which to distill their research interests, says Kalonji.
The Question of the Future
The UW Worldwide project includes several international collaborations other than the one with SU. All UWWW projects aim to improve the Universitys international opportunities for students both on campus and abroad. If you imagine what the Sichuan program will look like in a few years, after its had time to become sustained, then there will a continuous presence at any time of 25+ visiting students on each campus, Kalonji explains. At any given time, there will be 25 freshmen, 25 sophomores, and 25 seniors from the UWWW Sichuan project on campus, in addition to 25 SU juniors from China. At the same time, 25 UW juniors will be in China with the 75 SU students in the program. The permanent Chinese population at UW will be supplemented by other groups of international students, on campus through other UWWW international exchange programs that are currently in development. Increasingly, the presence of these cohorts of exchange students will redefine the meaning of international campus.
Kalonji stresses that other UWWW projects are not necessarily as intensive as the Sichuan collaboration. The other UWWW pilot projects underway involve a number of other partners in a variety of disciplines. Kalonji insists, I think it is important that the activity be authentic to the character of the discipline. For example, the Sichuan project focuses on science, technology, etc., so we use research as the activity. A project through UWs English and history departments, for example, lasts only a semester, but uses interviewing, investigation, and writing in order to focus on writing biographical works. That collaboration takes place through only one course. Other joint projects at UW are underway in Asmara, Eritrea; Sendai and Tokyo, Japan; Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Beijing, China; and San Andres, Argentina. The quality that all the UWWW programs share with the Sichuan project is collaborative work across national boundaries on projects that are designed to be authentic to the characters of relevant disciplines, which Kalonji says is the key to attracting and holding faculty, who can pursue their work through the program, improve their professional development, and support the international experiences and curricula of students and of themselves.
Of course, the UW-SU project is still young. This needs to be continued for a considerable amount of time in order to be evaluated for effectiveness, and to see what the long-term effects will be, Kalonji states. However, due to the design of the program, with its many partnerships, and due to the support it has won, the project promises to be sustainable. Kalonji cites what she hopes are early signs of success: As a consequence of [being funded by] the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), weve received more funding and awards, like the National Science Foundation (NSF) Distinguished Teaching Scholar, and a grant from the new NSF Partnerships for Innovation Program. The partnerships were communities brought together for the FIPSE project. [Funding from] FIPSE was a catalyst for other awards.
In a more immediate timeframe, the UW Worldwide Sichuan project continues to offer new experiences to its students. The first group of third-year students just spent a summer together in Chengdu and then switched countries for the academic year. In China, they are always experiencing something new and marvelous and exciting, Kalonji says. The UW students in Sichuan have already, before the start of the academic year, embarked on a retreat with the SU students following the Min River from Chengdu to its source in the Tibetan plateau and investigated a variety of environmental issues. The Chinese students also have plans to explore the newness of the Seattle region and of Washington State. This year, one of the Chinese groups is going to make a documentary about Washington State in Chinese and for Chinese people, Kalonji says.
The UW Worldwide project provides a model for institutional exchange that includes in-depth research experience that serves state and regional environmental and technological needs. Students, idealistic and energetic, are able to add their efforts to cooperate on international teams to help with internationally important problems, as well as pursue their individual curricula. Furthermore, the program design models a way to reach significant results through four years of research and exchange, rather than to offer simply a smattering of semester-long courses during a trip abroad. The four years that students spend with UWWW Sichuan are formative, academically and personally, and result in a deep exchange of language, culture, academe, and significant research that is beneficial to Washington State, to Sichuan Province, and to the individual students themselves.


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Tips for Upcoming Retirees
Staff, Library, or Faculty
If you have a yearly parking permit, ask Payroll to send you the form Authorization To Cease Payroll Deduction, Full-time Faculty and Staff Permits. Various short-term permits are described on the Parking web site, and available from there or the Business Office.
In order to ensure that you will continue to receive mail that has normally been sent to you at your WLU address, you should send a change-of-address to all of your correspondents. The university is not obligated to handle mail indefinitely after retirement.
You can ask your property insurer if you'll be eligible for a retiree or senior discount, and your car insurer about a reduced premium for not driving to work.
Within a month before retirement, you must make consequential decisions on your pension and RRSP accumulations. Human Resources answers basic questions individually and may offer group information sessions, but you might also seek advice from a qualified outside professional (For many, a basic decision is whether to leave the pension where it is, managed by WLU, or to withdraw it and self-manage it. Get objective, professional, likely paid-for advice, because no-charge advisors might recommend withdrawing the funds hoping you'll turn the management over to them.).
On your retirement day you'll lose your office and phone extn, but can get free alternatives. For a "virtual vmail" phone extn (accessible from home), contact Carl Langford, who will list you in the phone directory as a retiree. And you may retain your email account.
If you can "demonstrate sustained contributions in teaching, research or administration during [at least ten years of service to WLU] ...," you can apply for the Emeritus designation within six months after retirement. Complete details are on the page Professor Emeritus Status for Retired Faculty from the office of the Academic VP. There is also information about "Professor Emeritus Status" posted on the Laurier website.
If you have a personal research grant funded by your stipend for administrative service or overload teaching, spend it within one year after retirement (or lose it).
If you have books/journals/documents that may benefit the library, the Collections Manager can determine if they qualify for donation acceptance and a tax receipt.
You maintain the same entitlement to use the athletic complex and the library as before.
Be of good cheer; our experience is that of all of life's transitions, retirement is the easiestonce you get past emptying your office!
We look forward to your joining us, on the last Friday of the month (except around holiday times), in R271, 3:00 to 5:00-ish, to hear an interesting speaker and to maintain our collegiality.
Membership in the Association is free (you'll get a basic newsletter), but we ask for a nominal contribution to cover some of our operational expenses: $90 for life, $25 for three years, or $10 for one year.
Those who contribute receive other newsletters and an invitation to the WLU President's seasonal dinner for retirees.


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Artist Chris Jordan captures immensity of modern woes
By Current State • Nov 20, 2013
Tonight, the MSU Department of Geography welcomes acclaimed artist and cultural activist Chris Jordan to the Pasant Theatre at Wharton Center. Jordan turns numbers into powerful art.
His current project is called "Running the Numbers: an American Self Portrait." Jordan talked with Current State about why data and statistics are the starting point for his work.


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UV Protection
Sails are made entirely of synthetic hydrocarbon polymers, and suffer, like all other plastics, from "weathering". And since we use our products outside, then this weathering is a real and present problem - and it's getting worse, and quickly.
We take this challenge very seriously, and are constantly looking for ways to reduce the UV degradation of our sails. In partnership with our suppliers we have some of the best chemical UV inhibitors in all our sails, and EPEX carries the highest amount of these blockers as can be used.
We are constantly improving the UV resistance of our sails. But still it is a good idea to consider these helpful tips to prevent damages.
Always use covers when mooring
We developed a range of products which are very comfortable to handle, i.e. Furlcover, ZipPack.
Furling headsails are usually equipped with UV-Protection
Make sure you furl your sail right. The UV cover has to be on the outside.
Take down your sails to avoid UV impact
Boiling heat and flapping sails are harmful for sails - and the sailor's mind.


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Just landed: NEW collections and restocks of Masura, ILNP, Dance Legend, Bow Polish, F.U.N Lacquer and Painted Polish
Femme Fatale Total Recall collection and restock have arrived!
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Coats suggested: 2
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SEATTLE -- Larry's Markets here recently opened its first live video rental department in a new 65,000-square-foot Lobuck$ Food & Drug format store. The new section, introduced July 12, carries 1,800 tapes in 200 square feet, said Gayle Cloud, spokesperson. It is located in the front of the store near the service counter, a tobacco center and a business section that offers fax and copy service. Video rental is another convenience for the store's customers, Cloud said. "Video was ...
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Bowie State Holds Memorial for Dominique Frazier
WI Web Staff Report | 9/21/2011, 2:28 p.m.
Bowie State University will host a memorial Wednesday night (Sept. 21) in honor of Dominique Frazier, the freshman student who was stabbed to death in her campus dormitory last week.
The service will be held in Room 102 of the Center for Learning and Technoly.
"Bowie State administration, faculty, staff and students offer deepest condolences to the family of the victim Dominique T. Frazier, 18, from Washington, D.C.," officials said in a statement. "This kind of senseless violence is difficult to understand."
Alexis Simpson, 19, has been accused of the stabbing which occurred after the two women argued about music playing from an iPod.


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