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It's always a beautiful day when an arts community can welcome a new face. ArtHouse 429, a combination gallery/artist workshop, opens this week in the Northwood Village business district in West Palm Beach. With sculptor William Halliday at the helm, ArtHouse 429 promises to be a nurturing environment for all artists.
The layout of ArtHouse 429 aims to accommodate all forms of contemporary art. Previously a storefront, the location offers 2,000 square feet of interior space, a sculpture garden and a second-floor landing for installations as well as receptions. Halliday's artist studio also connects to the space.
ArtHouse 429 is committed to presenting the work of nationally recognized artists as well as local up and comers. The inaugural exhibition, which opens on January 17 and runs through February 16, features a selection of artists that reflects this goal. Big names include renowned painter Robert Zakanitch, who has shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, L.A.-based multimedia artist Cameron Gray and Moscow impressionist Sergey Fedotov. Floridian-based artists, including photographer Cheryl Maeder and sculptor John Martini, who works out of a converted theatre in Key West, will also present.
Following the inaugural exhibition, ArtHouse 429 curator and collage artist Bruce Helander will mount an exhibition. As a curator, Helander has organized shows for art world heavy weights such as Robert Rauschenberg, Dale Chihuly and James Rosenquist. As an artist, he's exhibited in more than 50 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Helander has also been named a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, and has written extensive art criticism for The Huffington Post. For a sneak peek of Helander's work, pick up a copy of the February Palm Beach Illustrated when it hits newsstands on January 20.
Halliday chose the Northwood Village business district because he believes it to be a revitalized locale with the energy and spirit necessary to foster artistic growth. Between the sprawling and versatile space, a commitment to nurturing artists and the guidance of business veterans, ArtHouse 429 is sure to blossom in West Palm Beach.
To learn more about ArtHouse 429, visit arthouse429.com.


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This might sound like an English lesson, but will you pleeeease help me with this word I don't understand, which is from the book 'Blackbird' ??
You know when Jimmy Mac tries to shoot Paul, there's a sentence which goes :
'Peering into the darkened room, he saw the former teenage heart throb and his Shetlandish wife sleeping soundly.....'
What does he mean by 'Shetlandish' wife ?? It is about Linda, isn't it ?? I just don't understand !!

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Biesemeyer bounces back
A little more than a month ago, things were looking bleak for U.S. alpine skier Tommy Biesemeyer.
On Dec. 29, the ski racer from Keene was blazing down the hill at the World Cup in Bormio, Italy when he had a nasty crash that threatened to derail his season.
When the dust settled, he had severe bruising on his back and a tear to his adductor muscle in the groin area.
Biesemeyer, who turned 24 on Jan. 30, said that left him with a big decision. Should he opt for surgery, or roll the dice and try to rehab with the chance of getting back on the hill this season?
Biesemeyer chose the latter, deciding to stay in Innsbruck, Austria and work through the pain. The way it looks now, he made the right choice.
He said the recovery has been extremely fast, and he appears all the way back after his strong finish today in the FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in Schladming, Austria. He took 13th place in the super-G, his strongest event.
"I went with that route because I didn't want to end the season," Biesemeyer told the Enterprise from Austria on Friday. "I'm one month out from the injury, and I'm finally feeling good again. I'm starting to play games. I can play soccer. I can cut. I can jump, and I don't have to cater to it. My goal was to get better for the Kitzbuehel super-G (in Austria), and I was able to get in the starting gates at Kitzbuehel."
Unfortunately, Biesemeyer finished that Jan. 25 race in Kitzbuehel with a DNF, but just getting back on the World Cup circuit was a step in the right direction.
"For about two weeks after the injury, I was in quite a bit of pain and sort of had like this feeling of doubt," he said. "(I had this) feeling of doubt that I wasn't going to be able to get better on time. So you sort of start looking at your clock and you know, time is of the essence when it's race season, and everyday you're hoping to get better."
Because of that quick recovery, Biesemeyer has been able resume a season that started off with promise. Prior to the injury, Biesemeyer had three top 30 finishes in the super-G. He took 29th in Lake Louise, Alberta on Nov. 25, 18th in Beaver Creek, Colo. on Dec. 1 and 27th in Val Gardena-Groden, Italy on Dec. 14.
Since coming back from the injury, he has been in seven races overall prior to today, with only the race in Kitzbuehel being at the World Cup level. The others were lower-level events, including three on the European Cup circuit. He didn't have any outstanding finishes leading up to the World Championships, but he felt like he was improving, he said.
"I've been doing a lot of video analysis and focusing on my skiing and just trying to find my touch," he said. "I think I'm definitely getting more comfortable. I think I'm at a point now where I'm fully comfortable and just searching for speed."
Biesemeyer is hoping that speed comes in the final stretch of the season, including the next two weeks in his first-ever world championship races. It's an exciting time to be a ski racer because of the atmosphere there.
"There's going to be a lot of people there," Biesemeyer said last week. "Skiing is the culture here. It's the prime event and they definitely cater to that, the venue, so it's going to be great. We were training with the Austrians on the race hill about three weeks ago and they had the whole stadium set up and the venue holds 30,000 people, and the (tickets) were sold out the minute they went on sale."
Biesemeyer said the super-G was one of three he was slated to participate in during the World Championships, which started Tuesday with the women's super-G and ends on Feb. 17. The others are the super combined on Monday and the giant slalom, which has qualifiers on Thursday, Feb. 14 and races the next day.
Biesemeyer said that like most other skiers he's shooting for a medal or even a top 10 finish in the races. But even if that doesn't happen, he seems genuinely excited just to be there.
"Ski racing in Austria is huge and to be able to have Austria hosting the World Championships is going to be an opportunity of a lifetime," he said.


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Gaitor, Smith Placed on Injured Reserve; Season's Over
Entering training camp, cornerback Anthony Gaitor had a tough road to try to make the Bucs's 53-man roster this season. On Monday, he doesn't have to worry about it for another year. Gaitor suffered a torn ACL in his knee, was placed on injured reserve and will miss the rest of the season. Tampa Bay also placed running back Michael Smith (torn ligament — foot) on IR. The club also waived former USF receiver Carlton Mitchell, defensive end Ernest Owusu,… Read More »


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About the Author: Wenchi Yu serves in the Office of Global Women's Issues.
In a time of ongoing economic uncertainty, one thing is sure: entrepreneurs and small businesses represent critical sources of economic growth and innovation, and women have the opportunity to lead the way.
This week, around 250 policymakers and businesswomen from across 21 economies in the Asia Pacific region are gathering in Gifu, Japan to unleash the power of women entrepreneurs. Under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and on the margins of the APEC Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Ministerial Meeting, the United States and Japan will co-host the APEC Women's Entrepreneurship Summit on October 1, 2010.
The day will include keynote sessions on topics such as "Engendering Entrepreneurship in the Asia Pacific Region" and "Public-Private Partnerships to Close the Gender Gap for Economic Growth." But the emphasis of the Summit is not on speeches and panels but on practical skill-building and the sharing of best practices for policymakers and women entrepreneurs from Australia to Vietnam. Break-out sessions that focus on increasing women's access to economic opportunities will include how to leverage technology to lower costs, how to reach new markets, and how to access capital.
A recently published UN report notes that Asia-Pacific economies are losing an estimated USD 42-46 billion annually due to the lack of women in the workforce. A 2005 Goldman Sachs report found that Japan could lift its trend growth GDP from 1.2 percent to 1.5 percent by bringing more women into the workforce. This APEC Women's Entrepreneurship Summit is an opportunity to develop the untapped potential of women to contribute to civic and economic life.
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PUT the women who have come 'afore us in the spotlight. let us hear the story....
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My country had to readjust and give more balance to the Gender issue. The brain drain is a real issue, they way out would be to be able to match those overseas emoluments. The Government will keep on investing on the Education but the Society at large has to take care of salaries.. Lol, Gbu J-L K
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Small besiness may be epocmakeing for economic innovation.
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Dr. Juliette Bell pauses for a moment of silence during groundbreaking ceremonies on 9-11
PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Sept. 11, 2013) – The east side of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus is about to be transformed by construction of a new classroom building.
University and civic leaders were joined at a ceremonial groundbreaking today by architects and the contractors about to start building a 166,000 square-foot structure for aviation science, computer science and engineering instruction.
"In the new building that will rise behind me," President Juliette B. Bell said, "future airline pilots, air traffic controllers, engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and others will be trained as the next generation of leaders in their fields."
When completed in 24 months, the new building will be university's largest. That distinction currently is held by the Student Services Center with 155,000 square feet.
"I can't wait to move into our new building," said Kayla Press, a mathematics education major.
To make room for the three-story engineering building, a structure used for poultry science instruction off College Backbone Road will be demolished.
Today's ceremony under a cloudless sky was held on the 12th anniversary of the horrific suicide attacks mounted by Islamic terrorists, which Bell noted in her remarks.
"As we remember the lives of those we lost, we also celebrate the heroism of the first responders and the lives that gained new meaning and found new purpose that day to make our nation stronger," Bell said.
Maryland's legislature earlier this year approved an allocation of $22.7 million from the sale of revenue bonds to be the first installment toward the $91.5 million project. It will be the first classroom building built on the UMES campus since 2003.
Tanner Hall, an early 1960s-era building where aviation science currently is headquartered, has 3,800 "net assignable square feet" of space on one floor. Engineering and computer science students and faculty currently occupy the two-story Kiah Hall, a building that opened in 1953 as a public secondary school.
William Wrobel, director of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, said the space agency has big plans for expanding its programs in Virginia and is excited about UMES' new building and the engineering program's recent accreditation.
"We need your engineering students to be part of that exciting future," Wrobel said.
Over the past 10 years, the university built its food science classroom building and a physical plant on the eastern edge of the campus, which for generations was home to field research and hands-on agriculture training.
A 17-acre field adjacent to the campus water tower became the site two years ago for 7,800 solar-energy collection panels that help UMES reduce its electric bills. The new classroom building will be fitted with an eco-friendly geo-thermal heating and cooling system.
In addition to classrooms, labs and faculty offices, the new building will feature conference rooms, a library, media production facilities, a lounge and central computing services. The dean of graduate studies and the dean of business and technology school also will have offices there.
"We expect this building will be the first of many opportunities to highlight what is best about the people and programs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore," Bell said.
A groundbreaking ceremony signals the start of construction on UMES' new $91.5 million classroom building.
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derekjdavis wrote:So can anybody ACTUALLY tell me how you can go to soundcheck instead of just "ben franklin"?!
vintage61lefty wrote:SF was great!derekjdavis wrote:So can anybody ACTUALLY tell me how you can go to soundcheck instead of just "ben franklin"?!
great sarcastic comment ....you PAY $$$$$$$$ for either >Hot Sound Package , or Front Row Package (not available at all venues)
this is the link..for MACCA VIP ..
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lindaling wrote:I tried to buy a VIP pkg bt couldn't find any for sale on tickermaster or pm.com. Maybe they were all sold out. I went to the SF show and next week I'm going to Kanas City for the weekend just to see Paul perform. Is there a chance I might get in to the sound-check if I show up at the stadium at 3? Also, another question [ ok may sound like I'm a stalker but I'm actually very boring mother of 3 kids) I'd love to find out what hotel he is staying at so that I might accidentally bump into him! Any way to know?
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Testbed and Methods
We are going to investigate the gaming performance of our Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB graphics card using the following universal testbed:
- Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition processor (3.33 GHz, 6.4 GT/s QPI);
- Scythe SCKTN-3000 Katana 3 CPU cooler;
- Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme mainboard (Intel X58 Express chipset);
- Corsair XMS3-12800C9 (3 x 2 GB, 1333 MHz, 9-9-9-24, 2T);
- Samsung Spinpoint F1 HDD (1 TB, 32 MB buffer, SATA II);
- Ultra X4 850 W Modular power supply;
- Dell 3007WFP monitor (30", 2560x1600 @ 60 Hz max display resolution);
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
- Nvidia GeForce 258.96 RC for Nvidia GeForce;
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 for ATI Radeon HD.
The ATI Catalyst and Nvidia GeForce graphics card drivers were configured in the following way:
ATI Catalyst:
- Smoothvision HD: Anti-Aliasing: Use application settings/Box Filter
- Catalyst A.I.: Standard
- Mipmap Detail Level: High Quality
- Wait for vertical refresh: Always Off
- AAMode: Quality
- Other settings: default
Nvidia GeForce:
- Texture filtering – Quality: High quality
- Vertical sync: Force off
- Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On
- Antialiasing - Transparency: Multisampling
- CUDA – GPUs: All
- Set PhysX configuration: Auto-select
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Other settings: default
Below is the list of games and test applications we used during this test session:
First-Person 3D Shooters
- Aliens vs. Predator (188.8.131.52, Benchmark)
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (22.214.171.124, Fraps)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1.0.182, Fraps)
- Crysis Warhead (18.104.22.1681, Benchmark)
- Far Cry 2 (1.03, Benchmark)
- Metro 2033 (22.214.171.124, Fraps)
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1.6.02, Fraps)
Third-Person 3D Shooters
- Just Cause 2 (18.104.22.168, Benchmark)
- Resident Evil 5 (220.127.116.11, Benchmark)
- Mass Effect 2 (1.01, Fraps)
- Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (1.1, Benchmark)
- Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (1.03, Benchmark)
- BattleForge (1.2, Benchmark)
- World in Conflict: Soviet Assault (22.214.171.124, Benchmark)
Semi-synthetic and synthetic Benchmarks
- Futuremark 3DMark Vantage (18.104.22.168)
- Final Fantasy XIV Official Benchmark (220.127.116.11, Fraps)
- Unigine Heaven benchmark (2.0)
We selected the highest possible level of detail in each game using standard tools provided by the game itself from the gaming menu. The games configuration files weren't modified in any way, because the ordinary user doesn't have to know how to do it. We updated our test modes and ran our tests in the following resolutions: 1600x900, 1920x1080 and 2560x1600. Unless stated otherwise, everywhere, where it was possible we added MSAA 4x antialiasing to the standard anisotropic filtering 16x. We enabled antialiasing from the game's menu. If this was not possible, we forced them using the appropriate driver settings of ATI Catalyst and Nvidia GeForce drivers.
Besides GeForce GTX 460, we have also tested the following solutions:
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 465
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 470
- ATI Radeon HD 5830
- ATI Radeon HD 5850
- ATI Radeon HD 5870
Performance was measured with the games' own tools and the original demos were recorded if possible. We measured not only the average speed, but also the minimum speed of the cards where possible. Otherwise, the performance was measured manually with Fraps utility version 3.1.2. In the latter case we ran the test three times and took the average of the three for the performance charts.


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Utah is leading the way in digital learning, writes Matthew Ladner on Jay P. Greene's Blog. A new state law based on Digital Learning Now's Ten Elements of Quality Online Learning "funds success rather than just seat time, has no participation caps and allows multiple public and private providers." The program starts for public high school students but then adds home-school and private school students.
Tom Vander Ark's predicted "radical choice" at the lesson level,
We'll soon have adaptive content libraries and smart recommendation engines that string together a unique playlist for every student every day. These smart platforms will consider learning level, interests, and best learning modality (i.e.,motivational profile and learning style to optimize understanding and persistence).
Smart learning platforms will be used by some students that learn at home, by some students that connect through hybrid schools with a day or two on site, and by most students through blended schools that mix online learning with on site support systems.
West Virginia's state board of education has adopted the Digital Learning Now recommendations, writes Vander Ark on EdReformer.
Florida's legislature passed a bill requiring high school students to take at least one online course. The law also ends the Florida Virtual School's monopoly on online classes.


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Fred became the Lead Pastor of Clairmont Hills Baptist Church in September 2004. Although life in the 21st century is complex, Fred believes the purpose of life can be summed in a simple way, using the answer Jesus gave when asked which was the greatest of all the commandments: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' " Pastor Fred says, "As a pastor, the primary calling in my life is helping people live out their purpose. My passion is teaching God's word in a manner that is both understandable and relevant. Primary emphases in my ministry are compassion and encouragement. I like to see myself as a 'player-coach' who walks among others in the church and not above them."
Dr. Jim Haskell serves as the SEND Atlanta Missionary for the North American Mission Board.
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A janitor suspected of murdering his wife and abducting an 8-year-old girl killed himself in a Washington park and the search for the girl is continuing, police said yesterday.
The body of Kahlil Tatum, 51, was found in Kenilworth Park on Monday and had been there "for at least 36 hours," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. She did not say how Tatum had committed suicide.
Authorities have been searching for Tatum and the girl he was suspected of kidnapping, Relisha Rudd, since discovering the body of Tatum's murdered wife, Andrea Denise Tatum, in a suburban Maryland motel room on March 20.
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Ultimate Direction AK Race Vest (Gear of the Year 2013)
Trail Runner Gear of the Year: Best Men's Hydration Pack | $90 | www.ultimatedirection.com
This one snagged our Editors' Choice in our March 2013 Trail Tested column, in which we reviewed a swath of hydration packs.
Perhaps the best feature of this innovative hydration unit designed by elite mountain ultrarunner Anton Krupicka is Cuben Fiber (CTF3), an ultra-light, tear-resistant fabric that doesn't stretch. Despite a full-pack weight, CTF3 holds its shape, seemingly dissipating weight and making the vest feel nearly empty. Plus, the unit has plenty of pockets—slip-in, zippered and Velcro—for extra gear and fuel.


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From the National Geographic book Journeys of a Lifetime
La Route Verte, Canada
The newly completed Route Verte (Green Route) crosses the province of Quebec from east to west, running for more than 2,485 miles (4,000 kilometers) along carefully selected rights-of-way and rural roads. Well signed, it's easy to follow and includes directions to interesting sites. The terrain and vistas vary immensely, from calm stretches along the St. Lawrence River to mountain views in the Laurentides.
Underground Railroad Bicycle Route, U.S.A./Canada
The Adventure Cycling Association developed this route from Mobile, Alabama, to Owen Sound, Ontario, to honor the bravery of slaves trying to reach freedom and those who helped them. There are five segments, adding up to a total distance of 2,057 miles (3,310 kilometers). Sites along the way highlight the route's history, from former slave markets to museums dedicated to African-American history.www.adv-cycling.org
Ruta Austral, Chile
Mostly surfaced with graded but unpaved gravel, the route runs for more than 810 miles (1,300 kilometers) from Puerto Montt in central Chile, south through Caleta Yungay to Villa O'Higgins in northern Patagonia, with numerous ferryboat transfers along the way. You pass through wild and beautiful landscapes, including Queulat and Cerro Castillo national parks. Large stretches of native forest and enormous ferns surround Puyuhuapi Hot Springs, near Queulat.www.gochile.cl
Munda Biddi Trail, Western Australia
In the Noongar Aboriginal language, Munda Biddi means "path through the forest." This cycling trail runs through miles of "jarrah forest"—from the local name for eucalyptus trees. The 206-mile (332-kilometer) section from Mundaring to Collie opened in July 2004, and two extensions will take it to Albany. You may encounter forest natives like western brush wallaby, western gray kangaroos, and brushtail possum.www.mundabiddi.org.au
Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
If bikes and beaches mix well for you, Vietnam combines them on this 746-mile (1,200-kilometer) route between the country's two biggest cities, taking you along vast stretches of sandy coastline. But it's no picnic, as road surfaces vary considerably and there are many natural obstacles like the Hai Van Pass, the historical division point between North and South Vietnam.
Gran Fondo Campagnolo, Italy
This mass-participation ride through the Dolomites around Feltre honors Tulio Campagnolo, who invented the modern gear-shifting system, the derailleur. It takes place each year in mid-June, soon after the mountain roads are cleared of snow. You climb more than 13,780 feet (4,200 meters) along the 130-mile (209-kilometer) course, which tops four summits.
Luchon to Bayonne, France
The Tour de France crossed high mountain passes for the first time in 1910. On Stage 10, the most difficult that year, the winner took 14 hours to cycle the 202 miles (325 kilometers) from the mountain spa town of Luchon to the finish at Bayonne, crossing four major passes, all unpaved at the time. Tracing the route is simple—follow the roads that climb the same passes: the Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet, and Aubisque.
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Route du Comte Jean, Belgium/France
Belgium is known for its Vlaanderen Fietsroute (Flemish Cycle Route) along country roads and paths, many closed to vehicular traffic. The Route du Comte Jean (named for a 14th-century Flemish general) takes in 137 miles (220 kilometers) of the network, from Bruges into northern France. There are no mountains, but coastal winds present a challenge.www.visitbelgium.com
Land's End to John O'Groats, Britain
Depending on your route choices, the distance can be 900 miles (1,450 kilometers) or more. Prevailing winds are more likely to be with you going north to south. Even if you take the long way in a relaxed fashion, you should have no problem beating the first official End-to-End record: 65 days, done in 1885 on a highwheeler.www.ctc.org.uk
Cape Argus Pick 'n Pay Cycle Tour, South Africa
At 68 miles (109 kilometers), the Cape Argus ride isn't the world's longest open-ride race, but with some 35,000 participants, it may be the biggest. The course does a loop of the Cape Peninsula with constant ups and downs. If you're just happy to finish, you'll enjoy the many coastal sections and the portions through Table Mountain National Park.www.cycletour.co.za
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Twenty years ago 1993
John A. Nowak, vice president of the Historical Society of Dunkirk, was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for the Dunkirk Historical Museum's cooperation with the New York State Newspaper Project. The certificate cited the museum's help in "preserving the history of New York State." Mr. Nowak, a charter member of the Historical Society, is a retired OBSERVER composing room foreman, working 30 years for the newspaper.
Thirty years ago – 1983
The Dunkirk Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously approved a special permit that will allow the Dunkirk First Ward Falcon Club to carry out a $175,000 expansion program. The club will add a 15 foot by 62 foot addition onto the west side of the club's existing building at 341 Lake Shore Drive East. The addition will be used to expand the club's kitchen facilities. The plans also call for a new 44-car parking lot at the rear of the new building. However, plans for a bowling alley have been tabled by the 2,200-member club.
Forty years ago – 1973
Dunkirk and Fredonia firemen battled for four hours before extinguishing a fire which destroyed the studios and general offices of WBUZ Radio.
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Skip to comments.Top Ten Reasons Obama Won't Release His Birth Certificate
Posted on 06/09/2008 5:44:28 PM PDT by inkling
Here's an odd Obama controversy I hadn't yet heard about. Apparently, the Lamb of Chicago has not released his Hawaii birth certificate despite several media requests. Jim Geraghty thinks it would end several persistent rumors concerning his birth.
Although Geraghty makes some good points, Exurban League's research interns have uncovered several reasons Obama is keeping it under wraps.
Top Ten Reasons Obama Won't Release His Birth Certificate
10. Despite the claims of his supporters, it was not technically a virgin birth.
9. Full name is Ayatollah Mubarack Hussein Obama-Khomeni bin Laden.
8. Actual birth date would reveal he's a Virgo, and those people are %#&*@! CRAZY.
7. Accidentally shredded it while going through his Rezko mortgage records.
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He is a citizen of Kenya?
Sounds familliar!
Re # 8.
We Vigoians, Virginians, whatever you want to call us: yes, weez %&U%$&*&&^^ CRAZY!
Wouldn't that be something if true....
If it's because he's a bastard, that's no big deal: Billyblytheclinton is a bastard, and it didn't stop him.
Scumbags like Obama always got something to hide.
He's probably got "Muhammed" as one of his middle names.
Might not be too far from the truth.
I like number 9.
There are a lot of interesting possibilities. It is posible his mother was legally married to his father because he was already married, so his last name should be Dunham. Maybe he doesn't want people to know his first name is really Barry and he adopted a Muslim name later.
Parents listed as islamic fundamentalist.
You would think at the very least documents such as his birth certificate would be required to be available for the public to see.
As far as being a bastard... it looks like that's become the standard for the Dems when they choose a candidate.
aren't county courthouse records public??
You certainly have to produce one to be able to volunteer to lay your life down for your nation in the military.
At the least, a Commander-in-Chief should have to share THAT.
So THAT'S my problem!!! I never knew!!
Shouldn't that be an easy thing to get a hold of? Here all you need is your name, date of birth, and the $$ for the copy.
Wow, could this be true?
"Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. Natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between "December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986? . Presidential office requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents"
Don't know if I can post all of it but it is interesting reading.
Do we know, unequivically, that he IS an American citizen. . .Or. . . is he even younger than the already 'youngest' candidate. . .
According to the article linked to this article here:
"Reporters have asked for it and been denied, and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public."
See my post 20.
And did he sign up for Selective Service?
Why is this coming. . .soooo late? Interesting. . .(Hillary getting this stuff out?)
More likely, the birth certificate lists his religion as Muslim!
No, it's not mandatory to have a birth certificate. However, birth records are public records, and any researcher can search the registers.
Otherwise; we will have more Candidates from Hawaii...with Mexican accents, coming up the Demrat ranks.
That's a good question. How can he be sworn in if congress don't know that is actually eligible?
But I venture that its probably a trap. He holds it off in the hopes that the GOP makes a big deal out of it and then when he releases it its all OK. I can't imagine that his party would let him get this far without assurance.
The only way to avoid the trap is to let Bob Barr do the muckraking on behalf of the Libertarian party, possibly attempt to have his name stripped from ballots in several of the 50 states on the grounds that he has not proven his eligibility. Hey, maybe he's really only 29 years old?
I would; but think they are tired of hearing suggestion from me. . .so will give it a rest; though, not for long, of course.
Doesn't being born in the US make you Natural Born?
George Soros can accomplish the seeimingly impossible. Perhaps he has. . .
Yeah perhaps there is another way to obtain it - the Selective Service should have a copy, as should the State Department (I presume he has an American passport in which case he needed to prove his citizenship).
There should be at least 3 places to find it.
And if Mr "I don't hold my hand over my heart when saying the pledge allegiance" did not sign up for selective service, it should be a scandal.
But again I gotta think that the party elders vetted him better than this.
He's not a Virgo.
He's a Vertigo...
About Vital Records Vital records (birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates) for events that occurred in Hawaii are received and preserved by the Office of Health Status Monitoring, a unit of the Department of Health. In Hawaii, access to vital records is restricted by statute (HRS §338-18). Certified copies of these records may be issued to authorized individuals and used for such diverse purposes as school entry, passports, Social Security participation, drivers licenses, employment, sports participation, survivors benefits, proof of property rights, and other needs.
He's so pretty, he was born a she.
Original birthplace scratched out and "Bethlehem" written in in crayon.
Well, since we don't care if you're a citizen to vote, this just follows.
"Natural born" meaning in the constitution cannot be changed by passing a law.
He won't release; then his campaign should be suspended.
If he was born prior to Hawaii becoming a state, was Hawaii a territory?
If so, his Mother was a citizen but not for five years after turning 16, she was 18 at his birth. And since his father was foreign and she was in a territory if that is was Hawaii was, he would be naturalized unlike McCain who had both parents as citizens even tho he was born in the Canal Zone.
I wonder, if those prior to statehood who were born in Hawaii were considered natural born or naturaized and were they naturalized en masse.
It might be that he feel between the cracks because his Mom was only 18.
Does anyone know if Hawaii was considered a territory and the date of statehood,,I will go google.
Statehood for Hawaii 1959
Naw, we Virgos aren't crazy.....just a heckuva smarter than anyone else! We're so misunderstood. ;)
OK I didn't realize that other states birth records weren't public records.
Oops.... I meant "lot smarter". I guess I'm just a bad example, hehe! :)
Obama born in 61, after staehood so unless he is really tthree years older, he is a citizen I do believe according to the article posted upthread.
Of course no one really knows when he was born, because he won't provide his birth cert.
Does anyone know if Mc Cain released his?
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Skip to comments.Conspiracy theory professor says Sandy Hook shooting may not have happened
Posted on 01/08/2013 9:51:11 AM PST by Nachum
Outrageous claims made by a professor who specializes in conspiracy theories are set to provoke grieving family by saying that the Sandy Hook massacre may not have happened at all.
James Tracy, a tenured history professor at Florida Atlantic University, wrote a lengthy post on his personal blog saying that the shooting that left 20 children and six teachers dead may not have happened the way that it is widely believed, if it happened at all.
Backed solely by the erroneous early reports filed during the midst of the horrendous incident, Mr Tracy 's claim is preying on the confusion of the tragic day.
'While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place -- at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described,' he has said.
The 47-year-old professor bases his outrageous claims largely on the flurry of conflicting media reports that were made as news of the shooting was released throughout the day on December 14.
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Incompetence of the media is not a conspiracy, it is business as normal.
News media telling you how to think about things.
(They are supposed to tell you what other people say and do and just leave it at that. They deny their bias, but it's pretty darn blatant.)
I consider Emilie Parker to be a 21st century version of Schrodinger's Cat — is she alive? is she dead? The answer has to be: it depends.
Why is his age relevant to this story?
I don't know why anybody should be surprised that rumors fly while such events are in progress and immediately afterward, and that a very great many of them turn out to be inaccurate.
I believe in a slightly different context it's called "the fog of war."
In the MSM it's made much worse by a desperate need to have something to report, and even more to be the first to report it. Any outlet that acted responsibly and reported that they really didn't know yet would immediately lose its audience to one that was reporting something, even if it later turned out to be wrong.
He is well respected on infowars..
Meaning he is a nut case truther. Please make sure everyone knows this.
in 9/11 Truth, Inner Consciousness and the Public Mind
he opines
"With opinion polls indicating at least half of the public distrusting the official account of September 11th, the foremost basis for the war on terror "
which is farcical.
I blame the media and its rush to be the first to report the news. If it wasn't for all the erroneous reporting, we wouldn't have all these whacked conspiracy theories.
Not to worry. As soon as they have the complete story lined up the way they "need" it to line up they'll give us the "real"story. (Slight cough of B*** S***! in to hand.) The msm, as usual, boned this whole thing up from the git-go. The old "I had my hand raised first" syndrome. In the end, everybody gets a trophy. Maybe even a pull-it-sir prize or two.
Molon labe.
He should have included pix of those children 'murdered' and were also at the "memorial" with obama.
I am sure the parents of the now buried children would differ.
Yes it is a fake.. normally he uses his middle finger in domestic photos.
Prolly went to an uber-liberal college/university. If he was older maybe the school he went to hadn't gone liberal yet.
We saw bloody students, shattered glass, sheet covered bodies, etc. at Columbine. Here at Sandy Hook we see nothing. Why is that?
His nuttyness aside, his age is relevant to this because he is most certainly a white man. Specifying his age puts him in that oh-so-hated category of "The Barrack" in this country that have begun their tirade that "Old White Men" are this country's new N word and a bunch of dinosaurs, who when they die off, will allow the Barack to realize their utopian version of Eden - except without the religion part.
Misinformation, no transparency, no official police reports.
Complete ad hominem.
You disagree with him about 9/11 and therefore he is wrong about everything under the sun.
The Board of Trustees of FAU should be meeting right now, determining how they hired an idiot and terminating his contract right then and there.
Conspiracy theorists have a form of mental illness. I have a friend who was a large trader at the CBOT. A few years ago he was worth millions, married to a knockout woman, 3 great kids and a brownstone in a tony section of Chicago.
About 3 years ago we were having dinner and he tells me 9/11 was a set up and it was to fund a trillion dollar war on terror. I knew right then he'd lost it. He started trading on these theories and soon lost everything.
Usually a respected trader with a good track record can get some sort of backing except he'd been telling folks about his theories and no one was willing to back him.
Fast Forward...He's now living in a studio apartment bagging groceries his wife has left him.
I just saw him recently and he comes out and say's Sandy Hook was a set up by Holder to take away our guns.
The guy crying over his daughter a few minutes after laughing and joking around and then getting into character leaves little doubt (although there is some doubt, admittedly) that he was an actor.
The name "Sandy" seems a little too convenient to me, after Hurricane Sandy. It looks like a marketing ploy to me.
There doesn't seem to be much information on the shooter. None of his neighbors it would appear even knew he existed, according to some MSM reports.
It follows a pattern of the crazed devil-worshiping gunman (Arizona, Colorado) shooting up a crowd with a fully automatic weapon, that seems a bit too consistent to be coincidental.
And qui bono? It comes at a suspiciously good time for the Obama administration.
False flag?
I don't know. I would say that at this point don't believe anything you hear from MSM about this (or anything else for that matter).
Did you know that during the Kennedy Administration there was a plan developed ,signed by the Joint Chiefs, to terrorize America and blame it on the Cubans. One part of it involved planes.
Operation Northwoods.
That doesn't mean that 9/11 didn't happen or that it wasn't the Muslims.
But it does mean there is a basis for distrust of the government and what they are capable of doing to us.
Operation MK Ultra should have clued you in to the depths of depravity that can be authorized.
It is quite possible that Jones is a disinformation specialist. Sort of like Sorcha Faal whom many believe is a CIA disinformation specialist.
"[T]here is a growing awareness that the media coverage of the massacre of 26 children and adults [IS] intended primarily for public consumption to further larger political ends."
Without his outrageous claim his statement of fact never had a chance of ever appearing in any newspaper; with the outrageous claim.. behold! that fact has appeared in one of the tens of thousands of MSM articles. The newspaper employee slipped up. It won't happen again.
Because if he were 94 his rant might be more understandable
This is no more outrageous than the coverup of what really happened that is ongoing now and certainly no more outrageous than the knee-jerk reaction that what happened in Sandy Hook means that all guns are bad and all guns must be confiscated.
Outrageous claims? The libs have a lock on those.
This is the crux of the problem, the more the media practices intentional malpractice in the process of pushing a pointed liberal agenda the much more respected the conspiracy kooks will be among the populace....
Complete ad hominem
yes in this case I am attacking the man. The man likes to make things up that are not true. Note I posted a quote by him that shows this.
Yes I knew all that.
Note that it did not happen and that northwoods was a one of thousnads of plans/ideas the are created that were rejected.
Curtis LeMay wanted to first stike the soviets too.. now we did not do that even though there were plans for it.
What is your point, that northwoods was a crazy idea that was rejected ? that would support the idea that CRAZY ideas tend to be rejected!
If it walks like a duck...
I'm not saying that we shouldn't worry about the government's desire to disarm people. I'm saying those who are convinced this event was government-led for that purpose are loony.
"-—normally he uses his middle finger in domestic photos"
I really think I did see, in the same article, a 2nd pix of obama using his special salute - went back to find and could not.
I was being fed information from a SHES parent when this was going on.
I wanted to believe that that there were only minor injuries and that there were only a few fatalities (as first reported).
I was being told things were much worse.
The news reports were wrong. They may have been given bad information intentionally to prevent panic and allow for parents to be contacted, but they were wrong.
How about MK Ultra? Was that crazy idea rejected?
"Over the weekend, I spoke with a friend whose co-worker is an aunt of one of the victims."
Is that from a SNL skit? Seriously- it made me laugh.
Glad you found it funny. I don't. And I'm sure the families of the victims wouldn't find it funny either.
Here is some conspiracy evidence that I think has been overlooked by most everyone including the tenured professor.
The evidence I cite involves those therapy dogs that were sent to Newtown to comfort the grieving "actor-parents". I contend that they were actually fake comfort dogs because real comfort dogs would be able to tell that the "actor parents" were just faking their grief and would not have licked their faces. Just sayin'.
Oh. Well, I don't think there were any victims, so I thought you were kidding.
Consider the source, consider that it isn't welcome on FR.
Consider the implications if it is accurate...
Consider the source
Thanks. Considering no one talked about it until after the shooting occurred, I consider the reputation of the source as deserved.
Makes perfect sense to me. United Way planned the attacks.
Or, possibly, somebody fiddled with the image.
Or, there was a glitch that caused the date to come up inaccurately.
Which of the three would Occam's Razor say is least likely?
Oh, I know, they are all alive, but have been confined to special camps to train as Obama's special militia.
Or maybe they were all taken away and replaced with shot up mannequins.
The dry cleaner must have shrunk your tin foil hat. You need a new one. This hat is cutting off circulation to your brain.
Here we go, the nutty living in denial folks at it.
Consider the source, consider that it isn't welcome on FR.
Consider the implications if it is accurate...
Of course, the most logical and most likely answer is that United Way, from their HQ down to this local office in Connecticut, is engaged in a massive conspiracy, probably took part in the "shootings" themselves, and it probably all has to do with The War on Christmas(tm). Or something like that. I'm still working on that part.
Is it not the only explanation at this point?!?!
(Really, this was exactly the type of kookery I referenced in my first post).
I disagree with you.
Did you miss the point that the Joint Chiefs signed off on Operation Northwoods.
It wasn't too crazy for the JOINT CHIEFS.
Do you know why the public knows about MK Ultra?
It's because Richard Helms didn't get all of the documents destroyed.
Back then, people like you would have said "Oh, it's just those conspiracy nuts again"
You don't know if there has ever been an offshoot to Operation Northwoods...just like you almost didn't know about MK Ultra.
Btw, here is a KEY point.
Kennedy didn't say the plan was too crazy.
He said he was not contemplating military force at the time according to Lansdale's memo.
I am not one of those that believe Bush was behind 9/11
HOWEVER, I am one of those that fully believe that our government is capable of just about anything.
Have you ever watched the show Spooks ? Called MI5 in the US. I watched it on Netflix.
It is pretty negative about the US..but also government officials in general.
Maybe it is all over the top.
BUT..I don't doubt some of it happens to some extent.
I wonder what the significance, if any, of the term "Sandy" is. My gut tells me it's some sort of marketing slogan for something.
Also, the Arizona, Colorado and Connecticut shooters all share a MK Ultra profile. Were they MK Ultra? I wish that I could dismiss the notion out of hand, but there's too much there to ignore.
I suppose you also believe Arlen Specters Magic Bullet Theory?
One of the main victims of that shooting didn't even believe it!
One of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time - launched by Arlen Specter.
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O'Brien, Darcy 1939–
O'Brien is an American critic and novelist. A Way of Life, Like Any Other is his first novel. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-24, rev. ed.)
Anthony Thwaite
'A Way of Life, Like Any Other' is broadly in the line of 'The Catcher in the Rye': American teenager (in the 1950s here) negotiating parents, other adults, girls, with moods shifting from wonder to indifference, from hot innocence to blasé cynicism. Like Salinger, Darcy O'Brien does this with a humour which doesn't preclude seriousness; unlike Salinger, he stands back and looks at the boy from an unjudging but amused distance.
The success of the book, though, lies not so much in the boy, Salty, but in the portrayal of his parents: father a pathetic remnant of a once-famous Hollywood cowboy star, mother a self-dramatising hysteric, who would be a monster if it weren't for her extravagant ludicrousness.
Mr O'Brien's language is elegantly facetious, distancing through dandifying. Occasionally the references passed me by…. But this is a confident, entertaining, funny first novel, with a stylishness that could lead to something more. (p. 29)
Anthony Thwaite, in The London Observer (reprinted by permission of The Observer Limited), August 21, 1977.
John Lahr
Darcy O'Brien's first novel [A Way of Life, Like Any Other] … is a story of growing up in Hollywood among the famous and the faded. As his title implies, Mr O'Brien treats the fools and the fatuity of Hollywood in a matter of fact, throwaway manner. The result is to turn a potential feast into a famine….
Each chapter is a set-piece of self-deception played out against legendary locales which Mr O'Brien conspicuously refrains from describing.
Only the daffy affluence of Beverly Hills comes alive….
The narrator is supposed to grow up in the course of the novel which ends with him at eighteen about to go to college. But the narrative tone is uneven, breaking the fictional convention by jumping ahead of the character in sophistication and losing the dramatic irony. The twelve-year-old narrator, observing his mother's face puffed from drink, describes it as "reticulated with frantic capillaries". Still, the book is an honourable enough first effort….
John Lahr, "High Living," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1977; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), October 21, 1977, p. 1249.
["A Way of Life, Like Any Other" is an] eccentric, cynical, and sometimes exceedingly funny first novel about the coming of age of the son of two aging, divorced Hollywood has-beens…. The story … conveys a great deal of feeling beneath a deceptively deadpan surface. The book has its oddities—such as a bewildering scene in which the boy and his father pay a long afternoon visit to the director John Ford, and a tendency to snatch the reader away from the characters just when they seem most interesting—but it is certainly the most literate "Hollywood novel" to have appeared in years. (p. 110)
The New Yorker (© 1978 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.), February 6, 1978.
Nora Johnson
["A Way of Life, Like Any Other"] probably isn't any worse than anywhere else, though the scenery along the way is more surrealistic….
Mr. O'Brien can be very funny, deft and fast and Perelman-like…. The first half of the book is farcical, but the tone changes somewhat unsettlingly to something more serious when Salty [the narrator] goes to live with his father. The primal tale of the son pulling away from the mother to identify with the father is not comedy's arena, and the old fraud of a father is drawn with sympathy….
But when mother turns up again to start another new life, Salty insults her …; and when a boiling plum pudding explodes in her face … one gets the feeling that Mr. O'Brien blew it up on purpose. Though this mother is right out of Arthur Kopit or Bruce Jay Friedman, previously we have been made to laugh at her awfulness, her daffy Auntie Mame chatter; now Mr. O'Brien's anger boils over where it doesn't belong….
Atmosphere is evoked by the appearance of some real personalities—Frank Sinatra and John Ford (that obligatory tenant of film folklore)—and both are uncharacteristically pleasant…. In spite of a certain lack of dramatic pull, "A Way of Life, Like Any Other" is a funny and interesting book.
Nora Johnson, "Live from Hollywood," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1978 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), April 9, 1978, p. 14.


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Many public access points are not secured, and the traffic they carry is not encrypted. This puts your sensitive communications and transactions at risk. Because your connection is being transmitted "in the clear," malicious users can use sniffing tools, "shoulder surfing," or other methods to obtain information including passwords, bank account numbers, unauthorized computer access, and credit card numbers quite easily.
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Edmonton NLL's Last Unbeaten with 9-8 Win over Stealth
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The Edmonton Rush (4-0) are now the lone undefeated team in the NLL after an impressive second half for the 9-8 comeback road win over the Vancouver Stealth (2-3) at Langley Events Centre on Saturday night.
"I think that's the nature of NLL games, there are always runs," said Rush assistant coach Jeff McComb. "You have to stay positive. Even though they started really well, I thought we were getting chances. [Stealth goalie] Tyler Richards played awesome in net tonight. In the second half, things really turned around for us."
Mark Matthews led the way for the Rush registering five points (2+3) and was named the first star of the game as Edmonton handed Vancouver their first home loss of the season after a 2-0 start at the LEC.
The Rush scored the first goal of the game but it was all Stealth for the rest of the opening half. Lewis Ratcliff and Rhys Duch both scored two goals apiece and Tyler Richards stopped 25 of 26 shots including a highlight reel save to end the first half. The Stealth held a 7-2 lead at halftime.
"We had good preparation and had an idea of how to attack their defense," said Stealth head coach Chris Hall. "We did a great job in the first half, 'T-Rich' was great, and our defense was solid, but in the second half, the offense stopped doing what was so successful in the first half."
Duch's first goal of the game was also his 200th career NLL regular season goal as the NLL's leading goalscorer from a year ago continues to find the back of the net.
Vancouver had all the momentum going into the second half but Edmonton stormed back in the second half by outscoring the home team by a score of 7-1 which included seven-straight goals.
The Stealth got a goal from Rhys Duch late to pull within one but were unable to get the tying marker with possession of the ball in the final seconds.
The Rush will next face the two-time defending NLL champion Rochester Knighthawks (3-1) at home at Rexall Place on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 9 p.m. ET.
Meanwhile, the Stealth head out on the road for back-to-back games as they visit the Toronto Rock on Friday, Jan. 31 which can be seen live on TSN2 in Canada and on ESPN3 in the U.S. The next night, they travel to take on the Philadelphia Wings to complete the East weekend road swing.
Vancouver returns home to Langley Events Centre on Saturday, Feb. 8 when they take on the Colorado Mammoth (2-5) for a rematch of their overtime win in Week 4 as the teams meet for the third time this year.
Three Stars of the Game as selected by the media:
1) Mark
2) Rhys Duch
3) Cliff Smith
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On February 15, 2012, Abdulkarim Soroush, a visiting professor at The University of Chicago, delivered a thoughtful and enlightening talk about revival and reform in Islam. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar writes in The New York Times, "Soroush has been described as a Muslim Luther, but unlike the Protestant reformer, he is no literalist about holy books." Robin Wright, a journalist who writes frequently about the Middle East, also describes him as "the Martin Luther of Islam," however she acknowledges that Soroush himself prefers to avoid comparison with Luther.
In the beginning of his talk, Dr. Soroush argued that Islam has not undergone a reformation similar to that of Protestantism. This contention is certainly debatable since a number of Muslim reformers cited the need to reform Islam as Christianity was reformed. Even Muhammad Iqbal, one of the Muslim reformers whose projects were discussed by Dr. Soroush, identified Protestant elements in Islamic reform: "We are today passing through a period similar to that of the Protestant revolution in Europe, and the lesson which the rise and outcome of Luther's movement teaches should not be lost on us."
Many scholars discuss how the idea of "Muslim Luther" or "Islamic Protestantism" emerges in the discourses of Muslim reformers, especially the Shi'i circle. Charles Kurzman and Michaelle Browers explore the historical usage of the Islamic-Protestant reformation analogy. Sukidi specifically traces the traveling idea of Islamic Protestantism to what he calls "Iranian Luthers," namely, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Ali Shari'ati and Hashem Aghajari. This characterization is, of course, not without problems. Muslim reformers might follow patterns of religious reform similar to those of Christian reformers, yet they certainly found their own ways of dealing with their tradition. However, the analogy is not invalid, given that these Muslim reformers themselves expressed their admiration for Luther and other Christian reformers. Afghani, for instance, strongly believed that Islam needs a Luther and he might have seen himself as that Luther.
The Egyptian Muhammad Abduh's admiration for Protestant reformation is often overlooked by scholars. Undoubtedly, 'Abduh is the most influential Sunni scholar whose ideas of Islamic reform reached far beyond the theological divide and the Arab world. In his magnum opus, Risalat al-tawhid, 'Abduh argues that Christian reformation included "elements by no means unlike Islam." It would surprise no one that 'Abduh was so impressed by the way Christian reformers strove to break the entail of obscurantism, curb the authority of religious leaders, and keep them from exceeding the precept of religion. "They discovered," 'Abduh writes, "that liberty of thought and breadth of knowledge were means to faith and not its foe."
It is worthwhile that, unlike other Muslim reformers, 'Abduh brings the discussion deeper into theological issues. "The reforming groups in the West," he says, "brought their doctrines to a point closely in line with the dogma of Islam, with the exception of belief in the prophetic mission of Muhammad. Their religion was in all but name the religion of Muhammad; it differed only in the form of worship, not in the meaning or anything else."
Perhaps, it was his disciple, Rashid Rida, who pushed this idea further to argue that belief in the prophethood of Muhammad is not a sine qua non for salvation. Commenting on Qur'an 2:62, he rejects the idea that this verse implicitly stipulates belief in Muhammad. In his own words: "there is no problem for not stipulating belief in the Prophet because the verse deals with God's treatment of each people and community who believe in a Prophet and a revelation particular to them. Their salvation (fawzuha) is certain whether they were Muslims, Jews, Christians, or Sabeans. God declares that salvation lies not in religious allegiance (al-jinsiyya al-diniyya) but in true belief which has control over self and in good deed."
Elsewhere, Rida emphasizes the need to combine "religious renewal and earthly renewal, the same way Europe has done with religious reformation and modernization." Rida's attitude toward other religions is more complex than is sometimes supposed and is beyond the scope of this article.
It is interesting that Muslim reformers like 'Abduh and Rida have no qualms dealing with the theological aspects of the nature of Christian reformation. While some Muslims might truly believe that Islam faces challenges similar to those faced by Christianity in Europe, 'Abduh simply asserts that "Many scholars in Western countries confess that Islam has been the greatest of their mentors in attaining their present position." Christian reformation is not alien to Muslim reformers, but one may still wonder why Muslim reformers envision their projects in light of Protestant reformation.
Mun'im Sirry is a PhD candidate in Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is currently a Martin Marty Center Junior Fellow and a Harper Dissertation Fellow. His dissertation is entitled Reformist Muslim Approaches to the Polemics of the Qur'an against Other Religions.
This essay is reprinted with permission of Sightings from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.


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In terms of health care, how well are we really doing in Detroit? Along with three of the city's biggest stakeholders, Marygrove President David Fike has been invited to participate in a panel discussion October 19 at the Children's Hospital of Michigan Auditorium in Detroit. The program is just one of a new, ongoing speaker series that the Michigan Colleges Foundation (MCF) is sponsoring throughout the state. Dr. Fike is joined by President and CEO of Detroit Medical Center, Michael Duggan and President and CEO of Hudson-Webber Foundation, David Egner. Mary Kramer, Publisher of Crain's Detroit Business, will moderate.
Read more: Marygrove President Checks Pulse of Detroit Health Care Economy
Assistant Professor Nicole Parker, who teaches art at Marygrove, will be one of the featured artists in an exhibition at Oakland Community College.
The juried exhibition, entitled "From Our Perspectives," runs Sept. 16 – Oct. 8 at OCC's Orchard Ridge Campus' Smith Theatre Gallery. Exhibit hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Over 350 works of art were entered from women artists nationwide. The juried exhibition hosts 37 artists with 41 pieces in a variety of media including acrylic, oil, textile and fiber, photography, ink drawing, metal, and various mixed media.
Read more: Marygrove Professor to be Featured in National Women's Art Exhibition
Forget any visions of a guy walking about in a toga, sandals and flowing gray hair. He's clean cut and very approachable, but you'd better have your mind ready for an unusual journey. Patterson is interested in argumentation theory, and his work in this area brings him in collaboration with philosophers around the globe.
Read more: DEEP THOUGHTS: A discussion with Marygrove Professor Steve Patterson
In support of this Urban Leadership Vision and in specific response to pressing local and global issues involving environmental sustainability and earth care, Marygrove has embarked on a project to host Nomkhubulwane (Nom-koo-bull-WAH-nee, Zulu for Mother Earth), an elephant sculpture created by South African sculptor Andries Botha. This life-size sculpture, made of galvanized steel and recycled truck tires, is traveling around the world to raise awareness about how people can creatively address issues caused by the expanding human ecological footprint. Nomkhubulwane is one of 17 elephants on display globally by the Human Elephant Foundation (www.humanelephant.org).
The project represents a commitment by the College to environmental sustainability while providing a new and exciting on-campus activity for Marygrove's athletes, the campus community and the surrounding neighborhood.
24, 4 PM vs. Grace College: Pebble Creek Park in Southfield
31, 4 PM @ Walsh University
4, 11:30 AM vs. Iowa Wesleyan College—2010 Crimson Wave Invite, Calumet College of St. Joseph's (Schererville, IN)
5, @ TBA—2010 Crimson WaveInvite, Calumet College of St. Joseph's (Schererville, IN)
13, 4 PM vs. Rochester College--Inaugural Game—Marygrove soccer field
21, 4 PM vs. Taylor University
23, 4 PM vs. Olivet College
25, 12:30 PM @ Siena Heights University
5, 4 PM vs. Defiance College
7, @ Rochester College
12, 4 PM vs. Cornerstone University
14, 4 PM @ University of Detroit-Mercy
20, 7 PM @ Adrian College
27, 4 PM @ Madonna University
30, @ Concordia University
4, @ TBA — USCAA National Championship, Nov. 4-6 (Burlington, VT)
29, @ TBA — NAIA National Championship, Nov. 29 – Dec. 4, Jack Allen Complex (Decatur, AL)
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4, 2 PM @ Calumet College of St. Joseph—2010 Crimson Wave Invite - Calumet College of St. Joseph (Schererville, IN)
5, vs. TBA—2010 Crimson Wave Invite - Calumet College of St.Joseph (Schererville, IN)
11, 1 PM @ Olivet College
15, 4 PM vs. St. Francis
18, 2 PM vs. Concordia University
20, 4 PM vs. Holy Cross College
22, 4 PM @ Bluffton College
25 3 PM @ Siena Heights University
6, 4 PM vs. Defiance College
9, 1 PM vs. Ohio Christian University
11, 4 PM vs. Grace Bible College
18, @ Concordia University
20, 4 PM @ Rochester College
27, 4 PM vs. Rochester College
4, @ TBA—USCAA National Championship, Nov. 4-6 (Burlington, VT)
29, @ TBA—NAIA National Championship, Nov. 29 - Dec. 4, Fresno Pacific University (Fresno, CA)
"In Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology, Donald C. Rizzo (Marygrove College) presents an outstanding primer that covers all the basic elements of the discipline in clear and impactive terms - a book notable not only for what it says, but how it says it." -- John Aiello Editor and Publisher, The Electric Review
Don Rizzo, a Marygrove Biology professor for 36 years, recently published the third edition of his book "Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology" (published by Del Mar Cengage). The book is accompanied by a study guide as well as a CD for instructors.
Read more: Marygrove Biology Professor pens latest edition of book
As part of Marygrove's larger focus on urban leadership, the College has formed what is known as the Marygrove Urban Agenda initiative (MUA). MUA was developed to help local high school students develop leadership skills to find ways they can have a positive impact on the communities where they live and go to school.
With help from a grant from Campus Compact and program leader Marygrove professor Tal Levy, fifty students from Mumford and Cody high schools came to Marygrove to discuss the concept of peer mediation as a way to find solutions to the problems of learning in their schools—specifically violence.
As these students are trained in peer mediation, they learn practical ways they can take control and manage difficult and/or violent situations. These "peer mediators," then discuss the ideas with other students to advance the concept.
Levy's inspiration for the MUA evolved from a Wayne State University Urban Agenda (UA) program. The original UA program was created by his mentor and friend, the late Otto Feinstein, a political scientist and activist for social justice from Wayne State University, Levy's alma mater. The UA program was originally an exercise in political and civic literacy—it called for enhancing students' understanding of the political process by participating in political gatherings with students from other colleges and universities.
Read more: Marygrove students become urban leaders by mentoring area high school students
Beta Upsilon, Marygrove's chapter of the national science and mathematics honor society Sigma Zeta, will be hosting an induction ceremony for new members on Saturday, June 12 at 10:00 a.m. Marygrove formed the Beta Upsilon chapter in April 2009.
In the year since it was formed, Beta Upsilon students have accomplished much and Marygrove professors Dr. Don Rizzo and Dr. Mary Lynam, co-advisors for Beta Upsilon, are proud. "We're excited," said Rizzo. "Four of our students (Jay Biernat, Carla Sims, Lloyd Weishap and Semaj Wilson) presented their senior seminar research projects at the Sigma Zeta National Convention this past March at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky, which is quite an honor."
Read more: Sigma Zeta has stellar first year, inducts new members
Grand Ledge High School teacher Matinga Ragatz, a 2000 Master in the Art of Teaching student from Marygrove College, was named Michigan's 2010 Teacher of the Year. Read more.


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I caught an article on my Yahoo Fantasy page, and thought it would make for good discussion now, since we're pretty much done with our draft.
Brandon Funston wrote an article about the certain guys that we all fall in love with in drafts, and seem to find ourselves drafting them somewhere in our draft just because we have to have him.
Without all the extra commentary, here are the picks that the writer chose as his "favorites."
CATCHER - Joe Mauer (MIN)
FIRST - Aubrey Huff (TB)
SECOND - Rickie Weeks (MIL)
THIRD - Jorge Cantu (TB)
SHORT - Nomar Garciaparra (St. John Bosco)
OUTFIELD - Curtis Granderson (DET)
STARTER - Ervin Santana (LAA)
CLOSER - Chris Reitsma (ATL)
Interesting picks. Here are a couple of the guys that seem to find their way on to my roster whenever possible:
CARL CRAWFORD (TB) - Love this guy. Took him fourth in a draft this year, but I've managed to get him later in other drafts these past few years as well. Doesn't hurt that the Tampa offense has the ability to be damn good. Former OC Riot member.
RYAN ZIMMERMAN (WAS) - Always seems to be out there late, and most of the discussion around him centered on his ability to hit, but not for power. Well, he put two out on CC just recently, and has, I believe, 7 on the spring. One of my favorite sleepers, and I own him on the three teams I have.
CHAD TRACY (ARI) - Going to get 1B/3B soon, and is going to be a masher this year. He's a kid that could break out big, and I'm pissed I don't have him here. A former OC Riot member.
KENJI JOHJIMA (SEA) - Hey, he hit 32 HRs a season for a few seasons, and shouldn't have a tough time at least hitting .280 and putting out 20 HRs. Not too shabby. RBI totals might not be high, but he'll play all the time.


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UPDATE: More what to watch for in 2011Friday, December 17th, 2010
Hawker Beechcraft CEO Bill Boisture has reconfirmed to employees that a decision will be made by the "end of the first quarter" (by March) on whether to substantially move the company to Louisiana, or remain in Wichita. His comments came at a mid-December employee meeting and were reported in the Wichita Eagle. Employees voted earlier this year to reject a package that included a pay cut but kept the company in Wichita. UPDATE Dec. 20: The state's Department of Commerce came up with $40 million–much of it training money–and as a result Hawker Beechcraft will stay in Wichita for many years with at least 4,000 workers. Sorry, Louisiana.