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Intended as a tool for fitness professionals with a wide variety of backgrounds, the ACE Total Gym Introductory Course offers insight into using a Total Gym incline bodyweight trainer to create fun, efficient and effective workouts for clients. The course provides a basic understanding of how Total Gym challenges proprioception and core stabilizers by incorporating three-dimensional movement and full range of motion in nearly every exercise. Upon completion, participants will have the ability to execute movement progressions and regressions, from isolation to integration, in all of Total Gym incline trainer body positions. Curriculum will also cover incorporating the ACE Integrated Fitness Training® model to develop Total Gym workouts that appropriately challenge clients with varied fitness levels and goals.
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#1 of 6 which was most of the material was in a 100+ pg manual like PDF. Would have been better to actually be a video to demonstrate the concepts in the TG manual like PDF.
Also, as usual there should be some way to access the correct answers for ones I got wrong, for it to be a true learning experience.
Besides the manual being very informative the videos were not helpful. They were only the intro of the course and didn't show any exercises. It seemed as if there should have been more than 6 videos for this course so maybe I missed some videos when I took it. The only video it even showed the machine was how to set-up and tear down.
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I hated the videos and the reading was much too long. I won't use this knowledge at all in the field. I wish I would have chosen any of the other trainings.
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I purchased this course using my e-creds'. I thought it was going to be a course on training clients in a gym setting. How confusing! What a waste of my time and money.
ACE RESPONSE: Thank you Andrew for your feedback, an ACE staff member will contact you soon.
Had some trouble with watching videos but overall informative..
It was an informative course however it would be great for ACE to come up with a CEC course geared to each specific machine so that it can be more specific to each users needs.
This is a great introduction and review for professional who use the total gym. I thought the quiz could have been written better.
Hello I wanted to know how I can access this course and what would be the price in my country (argentina)? - You can purchase this course through your account. Just click the "Add to cart" button. Price is in $US. Thanks
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So in theory, a supermarket shopper with health issues debating between several cereal brands could tap an augmented-reality app to pull up product information and "compare this product versus three others," Fry says.
And AR apps will likely move beyond the supermarket aisle: There are whispers that Walmart (WMT) and Best Buy (BBY) will soon be launching augmented-reality apps.
These apps are one way retailers are fighting showrooming, when shoppers use brick-and-mortar stores as showrooms to check out potential purchases, only to buy later from online merchants at a lower price, Fry says.
"Information is value. Consumers aren't just buying on the basis of the lowest-possible price, he says. "Augmented reality apps will allow [retailers] to make a showroom that Amazon [for example,] will have difficulty duplicating."
Fry says augmented reality-apps offer a more sophisticated evolution what retailers have been attempting with QR codes, the black-and-white matrix bar codes that have been popping up on everything from product displays to store windows.
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"The general idea behind this capability is that it would allow a cardholder of one [retail store] brand to send a virtual 'gift card' via a mobile device to another cardholder of the same brand," Gamble says. "The gift could be redeemed in-store via the recipient cardholder's mobile device. Women's specialty retailers will likely be among the first to launch this sort of tool."
While the jury is still out on how tablet computers will ultimately figure into the shopping experience, retailers are already starting to capitalize on tablets' advantage over smartphones, most notably, their larger screen size.
Retailers are now leveraging tablets to help consumers do more than simply make purchases; the goal now is to help people solve more complex shopping problems like how to redecorate a room or piece together a wardrobe. The right tool for those project-sized tasks: Magalogs, hybrid magazine/catalog mobile sites that offer how-to advice and rich content, Fry says. "It's about providing better context to make it easier for shoppers to purchase from these retailers," he says. The consumers can conceivably use retailers' mobile magalogs to walk them through a project in a store. They'll use their tablets to "give me ideas and tell me how to execute a project," Fry says.
Cosmetics chain Sephora, for one, announced this week the test roll out of iPads to 20 stores, where they will give shoppers another way to navigate the retailer's thousands of products and interact with the menu of services offered by its Beauty Studio.
Sephora just updated its online and mobile sites. Now, each product on Sephora.com is tagged and indexed with 25 different characteristics, from data like target age group, to specific ingredients, formulations, fragrance, price and more, in a bid to offer shoppers a targeted, personalized shopping experience.
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"The QR code makes the application process very quick and convenient for the customer and, upon approval, almost immediately specifies their buying power -- their credit limit -- so they can immediately take advantage of the benefits of instant discounts and rewards that typically come with the initial card purchase," he says.
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Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids. In this significant talk at TEDxChange, she makes the case for the world to re-examine an issue she intends to lend her voice to for the next decade.
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GrooveBoston is Back for RIC Homecoming, Oct. 3
From left, Marcia Diaz '13; Kaitlyn Burke; Gary Penfield, vice president of Student Affairs; Andrew Augustus; Kyla Pecchia '13; and Thomas Lima.
Deploy a neopsychedelic profusion of laser lights, add raw electronic dance music, pour unmitigated sweat, stir up sheer excess energy and you'll have a GrooveBoston live show. On Oct. 3 the party comes to RIC, as part of its Homecoming activities. The event is co-sponsored by Student Community Government, Inc.; RIC Programming; 90.7 WXIN; The Anchor; and the Resident Student Association.
Senior Jordan Day is one of the organizers of this year's event. She also helped arrange last year's GrooveBoston concert. She said, "Normally we have a hard time getting students to come to large-scale events on campus, but last year we pulled in almost 900 people." The large turnout was the impetus to bring the group back, she said.
"If you've never been to a GrooveBoston concert, it's like nothing you've ever experienced before," she said. "The amps are so powerful you can feel the bass in your chest. You don't just hear the music; you feel it. The DJs are also two of the coolest guys I've ever met. The whole experience is, well . . . insane."
Today, live shows are less about how the music is created and more about how it is consumed, said GrooveBoston's promoters. "We build into each concert audio, lighting, staging and special effects to create the signature GrooveBoston experience."
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Catering to college crowds, GrooveBoston tours campuses across the East Coast. Party animals describe the experience as "mad," "insane" and "epic." This year's concert promises to be no less epic. It will be held in the Recreation Center, with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. and the show starting at 8:00 p.m. Tickets will be on sale until they run out at the Welcome and Information Center in the Student Union. Concertgoers must have a RIC ID to purchase tickets.


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You're cruising the travel-booking sites, giddy about booking your upcoming vacation. The photo of the waterfront room you just found looks so inviting: The balcony, the beach, the palm trees…and the price is as amazing. But too often, travelers arrive to find the room they booked is nothing like what was depicted in those alluring photos. Unfortunately for the hotel guest, however, the room is close enough to what was advertised to thwart any recourse.
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The problem with outsized claims made by hotels and resorts is that we WANT to believe them. We love thinking that with our travel-booking savvy, we swooped in and nabbed a fantastic deal on a tropical vacation just seconds before some other would-be vacationer prized it out of our sun-starved hands. As a travel writer, I've had plenty of experiences with rosy depictions of shabby, inconvenient or downright dodgy lodgings and heard about many more from colleagues and friends.
Here are a few of the top claims that draw vacationers to a hotel, and how they may mislead you:
1) "Waterfront" – Many travelers are willing to pay extra for an oceanfront room, and hotels know it. But unless your reservations explicitly states that your room will have a view of the EXACT body of water you're expecting to see, be aware that the "water" in question could be the retention pond next to the hotel's Dumpster. It's not always this egregious, but misunderstandings can still disappoint: Many a visitor to Cocoa Beach has booked a waterfront hotel expecting to wake up at the beach, only to find their hotel on the west side of the island overlooking the Banana River. (Lovely for boating and wildlife-watching, but swimming, not so much.)
Also keep in mind that while the pictures of waterfront rooms might feature balconies, your room isn't guaranteed to have one unless the reservation specifically says so. Otherwise, your waterfront view might only be visible by sticking your head out the bathroom window.
2) "Free shuttle" – This one is especially relevant for theme park vacations, where parking at the attraction is both cumbersome and expensive and a free shuttle from your hotel can really make your trip more convenient. However, not all free shuttles are created equal. Take Orlando for example: Budget hotels abound, and a free shuttle to Disney, Universal or Sea World may be the deciding factor in which hotel you choose to book. When you arrive, however you discover that the shuttle departs for the park just once, at 8 o'clock in the morning, and returns only at 9 p.m. Your two year old twins will not be amused.
How to avoid this mess? Before you book, call the hotel directly (not the 800 number of the reservation line but the local number that rings at the hotel desk) and ask how often the shuttle runs, what is the shuttle's capacity/how many shuttles does the resort have, and when it begins and ends operation. You'll also want to know if guests can/need to reserve a spot on the shuttle in advance. DON'T rely on the hotel web site for accurate information. During slow times, schedules may change and the sites are often not up to date. Check recent TripAdvisor reviews for on-the-scene information.
For hotels offering airport shuttles, ask if the shuttle operates on a set schedule or on demand, and if your flight is particularly early or late, if they'll be able to accommodate you. A free shuttle loses its luster when it strands you at the airport for 3 hours, or worse, causes you to miss your flight.
3) "Walking distance to…" – As the great Steven Wright pointed out, anywhere is walking distance if you've got the time. There are no industry standards for how far a reasonable person will walk before determining that they've been had.
4) "Free Wi-Fi" – Yes, if they advertise it, the hotel will most likely have it, but what you don't know is WHERE they'll have it. The most ridiculous example I've experienced goes like this: I arrive at the very swanky hotel to discover that the "free" Wi-Fi requires a password and credit card. I ask at the desk why this is so. The clerk says that "free" Wi-Fi is only available in the lobby. I return to the lobby with my laptop and discover the same password/credit card scenario. Ask the clerk once again. Oh, she says–you have to pay for it, but then you come up to the desk and tell us that you were using it in the lobby, and we take it off your bill when you check out. Riiiiiight.
Other hotels only offer Wi-Fi in certain rooms. Ask before you book, or check TripAdvisor reviews, which can fill you in on the truth.
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Redford picks up award at 29th Santa Barbara International Film Fest
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Robert Redford has been acting for half a century and he is still going strong.
The actor, producer and Academy Award winning director for "Ordinary People" has a new movie out called "All is Lost" in which he hardly said a word.
He also plays a good guy in the upcoming "Captain America:the Winter Soldier."
Redford is considered the godfather of film festivals. He launched the Sundance Film Festival in Utah in the 1970s using some of his earnings. He named it after his role in the 1969 film"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
His impact on American cinema earned him the American Rivera award at the 29th Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
On stage at the Arlington with film critic Leonard Maltin, Redford said he was shy about recognition and felt weird looking back at a montage of his work.
Redford, who was born in Santa Monica, signed plenty of autographs and said he used the surf in the area and visit Ojai.
He loves movies but said he doesn't have much time to see them, he is too busy making them.Slideshow: SBIFF: Robert Redford, Received American Riviera Award


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Blaser Swisslube uses its technology center in Switzerland to conduct tests that mimic the real-world work its customers perform. Here's an example of an optimized drilling process.
Establishing a more effective overall process reduce drilling time of a 0.31-inch-diameter, 7.8-inch-deep hole in tempered steel from 3 minutes to 10 seconds.
Blaser Swisslube uses its recently expanded 3,200 square-foot technology center in Switzerland to develop and test its metalworking fluids through challenging machining operations similar to those performed by its customers. The four-year-old technology center features a turn-mill, two five-axis machining centers and a five-axis tool-grinding machine. The company collaborates with customers, universities and trade associations on various machining projects to develop optimized processes through careful consideration of elements including machining parameters, tooling and fluid and fluid delivery.
A recent project conducted with the Technische Hochschule technical university in Aachen is a good example of the type of work that's performed there. The goal was to reduce the machining time required to drill a deep hole in tempered steel with a diameter of 0.31 inch and depth of 7.8 inches. This operation had previously taken three minutes using conventional cutting oil.
The 42CrMo4 + QT steel (having a tensile strength of 1,000 MPa/145 psi) was machined on the company's Mazak Variaxis 500. First, a Kennametal tool was used to drill pilot holes measuring 8-mm in diameter to a depth of 16 mm. This was followed by a 10-second non-pecking drilling operation using a Titex tool to the final depth of 7.8 inches. Cutting speed and feed for this operation were 394 feet per minute and 0.001 inch per revolution, respectively.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Announces $30 Million for Second Round of Promise Neighborhoods Grants to Be Awarded This Year
On April 27, 2011, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced $30 million in funding for a second round of Promise Neighborhoods grantsboth planning and implementation grants. During his announcement, Duncan stated: "It's vital that we continue this important work and provide more of our disadvantaged communities with resources that combat poverty and provide a high-quality education and essential social services for our children and families who need them the most."
The Department of Education plans to announce the application process in the coming weeks. The grants will be available to eligible applicantsnon-profits, institutions of higher education and Indian tribes. The deadline will be 60 days from the date the application is released, and grantees will be selected by no later than Dec. 31. This second round of Promise Neighborhoods funding was made available through the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011, passed by Congress on April 14.
The Promise Neighborhoods program was launched by the Department in April 2010 as the first federal initiative to place education at the center of comprehensive efforts to fight poverty in urban and rural areas. The program is part of the White House Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative, a cross-agency effort that includes the White House Domestic Policy Council and the U.S. departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, and Treasury. In 2010, the Department awarded $10 million to 21 applicants for one-year planning grants for cradle-to-career services designed to improve educational outcomes for students in distressed neighborhoods across the United States.
For more information on the Promise Neighborhoods grants and proposed priorities, please visit the March 2011 Federal Register Notice. Interested entities may also wish to review Proposed Implementation Grant Priority 8: Family Engagement in Learning Through Adult Educationa priority for applicants with plans that are coordinated with adult education providers serving neighborhood residents, such as those funded through the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act.
OVAE Welcomes Annie Blackledge
OVAE is delighted to welcome Annie Blackledge on a one-year assignment through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program. In her new role she will facilitate cooperation among OVAE, other federal agencies, and non-federal entities to ensure program policy and initiatives are informed by the best and most promising practicesthat is, those designed to improve educational outcomes for vulnerable children and youth, and to increase access to education programs, services, and resources.
Prior to joining OVAE, Blackledge served as an education advisor with Casey Family Programs and was employed by the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) as the Dropout Prevention, Intervention, and Re-engagement Program Supervisor. In this position, she was responsible for development and oversight of dropout-related grant programs, the staffing of a state-level legislative workgroup, and representing OSPI as its foster care liaison.
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Teaching American History Project: "Learn It! Live It! Love It!, Stratford, Oklahoma
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The National Center for Education Statistics releases its 2005 Condition of Education report; the Office of Indian Education announces winners of its student art competition; Secretary Spellings describes proposed Teacher Incentive Fund; Assistant Deputy Secretary Rees participates in the CATO Institute policy forum on NCLB; English and Spanish overviews of school choice available on the U.S. Department of Education's webpage; Oklahoma state curriculum includes online Constitution-related materials; GPO offers Constitution and Declaration of Independence booklet; EdSource report finds positive results for California's charter schools; Reading Is Fundamental offers students incentives to read over the summer; report from the National Center for Education Information shows large enrollments in alternative routes to teacher certification programs; and Ball State University's School of Music and Biomechanics Lab creates new DVD.
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Florida history teachers participate in an immersion program through a Teaching American History grant; plus information about charter schools, closing the achievement gap, and teacher quality.
Three Ls and Five Es Lead Oklahoma Teachers Down the Long Trail of American History
Outside their classroom windows, history teachers in Oklahoma see the past. There is the shadow of Spanish explorer Coronado searching for the "Lost City of Gold." There are cowboys tending their cattle ranches and riding bucking broncos at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. There is Fort Sill where Apache leader Geronimo is buried, and this is where Black soldiers first fought during the Civil War alongside white Union ranks at the Battle of Honey Springs.
The Choctaw Indian tribe named this land "okka" for people and "humma" for red. With the help of the Teaching American History: Learn It! Live It! Love It! project, teachers and students in Stratford Public Schools and three other Oklahoma school districts are learning to better understand and appreciate the people and history that lived on the plains near them through partnerships with museums, state parks, historic sites, and history scholars.
The Learn It! Live It! Love It!, or the L³ project, is a consortium that began in 2002 with four rural school districts: Allen Public Schools, Konawa Public Schools, Latta Public Schools, and Stratford Public Schools (the lead agency) in partnership with local museums and East Central University (ECU) in Ada, Oklahoma. The project was born out of a need to increase teachers' understanding of American history and to decrease the degree to which rural teachers experience professional isolation. Throughout the four school districts, only 13 people teach American history. To alleviate their isolation, the L³ project ties these teachers to each other and to high-quality professional development to increase the networking opportunities, pedagogical skills, and content knowledge of traditional American history.
The scope of the project extends beyond the small cluster of American history teachers in the consortium, however. The L³ Teaching American History project has had a major impact on the way teacher education is conducted at East Central University. Dr. Scott Barton, Chair of ECU's Department of History and Political Science, notes, "The project has created a long-term strategy for professional development that includes pre-service teachers and veteran teachers and valuable classroom experience. Because of the interactions facilitated through this learning community, we have re-examined and modified both pre-service education and our approach to professional development. " The university is planning on using this model to develop teacher professional development in other disciplines.
What does the professional development in the L³ project look like? The model framework includes: using primary sources to impart verisimilitude and enrich content knowledge; applying research-based practices; networking with scholars, master teachers, and professional colleagues; site visits; internships outside the classroom; and making use of community resources.
The L³ participants teach fifth, eighth, and tenth grade. These are the three grade levels when students take the state standardized tests for history. East Central University faculty members from various disciplines, including economics, history, and political science, provide professional development for the project and work with teachers to leverage local, regional, and state resources to improve history instruction and help students achieve high academic standards. Visiting professors from such schools as New York University broaden the teachers' history content exposure even further.
Teachers participate in professional development colloquia and institutes for 14 to 19 days throughout the academic year. L³ participants learn how to teach using research-based practices for history instruction from ECU faculty. For example, teachers are introduced to an approach called "the Five Es," which consists of engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation. Teachers learn that these five Es, or phases of instruction, allow students to link personal experiences with new concepts, to make connections between key events in history and the present, and to be thoroughly prepared for their state history tests.
During their professional development, teachers also discover how to align local curricula with Oklahoma state standards. For example, students in the eighth grade study the causes and results of the American Revolution, documents of the early Federal Period (such as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), and America's westward expansion. The westward movement is highlighted in high school as well, where students follow the Cherokees' journey across the Missouri and Arkansas wilderness, now called "The Trail of Tears." Other topics include the Civil War and America's Industrial Revolution, which are part of Oklahoma's core curriculum for U.S. history at the high school level.
To add to their knowledge of these and other topics, and to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of traditional American history,L³ teachers visit sites where history occurred. Required summer sessions include visits around southeastern Oklahoma and surrounding regions that have shaped the history of the state and the nation as a whole. In 2004, participants traveled to Colorado and explored Bent's Old Fort National Historic site, which was home to the original fort built in 1833 as a trading area for Plains Indians and trappers and was the only major permanent white settlement on the Sante Fe Trail between Missouri and the Mexican settlements. Teachers also studied at nine museums, including the Koshare Indian Museum and Kiva (a partially underground room traditionally used for religious ceremonies) and the Southeastern Colorado Heritage Center.
L³ extends its support for teachers' professional growth through internships at partnering museums such as the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Chickasaw Nation Museum, and the Seminole Nation Museum. During their internships, L³ teachers research primary source materials and other resources that inform their instruction in the classroom. Teachers work with museum curators and assist with projects including the development of permanent collections, artifact storage, and exhibit construction. For example, teachers might study the personal papers of Te Ata, a Chickasaw storyteller. Others might learn about the history of the original Chickasaw Council House in Tishomingo. This historic building dates back to the mid-1850s and is now home to the country's largest collection of Chickasaw artifacts. After becoming expert in the history of the Chickasaw and the Council House, L³ teacher interns might then lead exploratory sessions around the site. For their work, teachers receive stipends from the L³ project.
During the school year, L³ participants work with master teachers each week. Master teachers observe lessons, teach model lessons, and offer feedback on how well participants implement the information presented in colloquia and institutes. Master teachers provide participants with resources and encourage them to use the Center for the Advancement of American History Instruction at ECU, which provides access to primary source documents in kits organized by historical time period. The "Constitution and New Government Kit" contains photographs of James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, the White House, and the Capitol Building, and a portrait of John Jay. The packet also includes reproductions of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Monroe Doctrine, and an original plan for Washington, DC. The "Colonial Williamsburg:Hands-on History" kits of 18th century artifacts contain items such as a "soldier's haversack," the mess kit that every soldier was issued to carry in the field, which includes a drinking cup, food, and other items, such as playing cards. In addition to the history kits, participants have access to videos, multimedia CDs, and texts dedicated to history content and pedagogy.
L³ staff and master teachers conduct panel interviews and use a rubric to rate participants' use of primary sources, their incorporation of the five Es into their lessons, and their satisfaction with the project. Overall, the results have been positive, with participants reporting that the project has helped them make content engaging, interactive, and relevant for all students.
Student outcomes on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test (OCCT) also have been encouraging. Students' scores on this test are divided into four categories: Advanced, Satisfactory, Limited Knowledge, and Unsatisfactory. Students scoring at the "Satisfactory" level or higher, whom L³ teachers taught, increased from 61.7 percent in 2003 to 67 percent in 2004. The number of students who scored in the "Advanced" range also increased from 3.10 percent to 18.65 percent.
In addition to the L³ program for the consortium teachers, in 2004 the project provided two colloquia for 55 pre-service American history teachers, and master teachers provided one-day workshops for 60 teachers in seven districts outside the L³ consortium. Also, project staff and participating teachers have presented at state, regional, and national meetings, including the OII Teaching American History Project Directors' meeting, the National Council for History Education, and the Southwestern Social Science Association.
American history is one of the core content areas in No Child Left Behind , and the American History: Learn It! Live It! Love It! project is funded through a grant awarded to the Stratford Public School district from the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History program in the Office of Innovation and Improvement.
Resources: Note: The featured program is innovative and interesting; however, it does not yet have evidence of effectiveness from a rigorous evaluation and may not be replicable under differing conditions.
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From the U.S. Department of Education
The National Center for Education Statistics released the 2005 Condition of Education , which contains indicators on teacher quality, private education, choice, and charter schools, among other education topics. (June 1)
The Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education has announced the winners of the "Our Goal, Our Path, Our People" Student Art Competition. The competition was open to American Indian and Alaskan Native students in kindergarten through twelfth grade and aimed at the importance of pursuing an education for Native students. (June 1)
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings describes the Teacher Incentive Fund in an audio news clip. President Bush's 2006 budget proposes the Teacher Incentive Fund, which is designed to more closely align teacher compensation systems with better teaching and higher student achievement. The fund would help boost the teaching profession by offering teachers a career ladder, enabling them to gain greater responsibility and more pay. (April 27)
From the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII)
Assistant Deputy Secretary Nina S. Rees was a panelist at the CATO Institute policy forum on "The Future of the No Child Left Behind Act," which was aired on C-SPAN. (May 31)
An overview of school choice under No Child Left Behind is now available on the U.S. Department of Education's website in both English and Spanish PDF, (31KB). (June 1)
American History
Constitution Day (September 17) is listed under the United States History and Civics and Government sections of the curriculum on the Oklahoma State Department of Education website. The website links to the National Archives Digital Classroom, which offers "Observing Constitution Day" as a resource. (June 1)
One resource to help prepare for Constitution Day is the Government Printing Office, which offers booklets with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence for $2.75. In addition to the text of these documents, the publication contains an index to the Constitution and its amendments and a chronology of historic dates. (June 1)
Charter Schools
According to a new report from EdSource California's charter schools are 33 percent more likely to meet their academic goals than traditional public schools. Charter middle schools yielded positive results with 81 percent meeting the goals set by the state for student improvement, as compared to 54 percent for traditional schools. (June 6)
OII-funded Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) invites children "to make summer reading a sweet treat" by offering interactive literacy ideas and resources to encourage children to read during their summer break from school. RIF also has a reading challenge contest where kids aged five through 15 can track the number of hours they spend reading throughout the month of July in order to be eligible for special incentives. (June 1)
Teacher Quality
A new report by the National Center for Education Information shows that nearly one-third of newly certified teachers who entered the classroom for the first time this year did not graduate from education colleges but were certified through alternative routes. As of this year, 47 states and the District of Columbia offer at least one type of alternative route to teacher certification. (June 6)
Technology/Arts Education
Ball State University's School of Music and its Biomechanics Lab have created " Art of the Bow," a DVD that captures the bowing technique of bassist Francois Rabbath. Multiple camera angles and viewing options capture the subtle motions of Rabbath's fingers, hands, and arms in 3-D. (June 1)
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American History
Polk (FL) history teachers will participate in an immersion program, "Teaching American History with Florida Flavor," at historical sites and landmarks around the state during the second week of June. Teachers will use the knowledge and skills gained from the program to incorporate elements of Florida history into their lessons, linking state history to broader events affecting the nation. Polk schools were among six school districts in Florida that recently received Teaching American History grants from OII. [More-Newszap Florida] (June 1)
Recently, historian Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, spoke with history teachers from the Stratford Public Schools (CT) about freedom. The lecture was part of the district's three-year Teaching American History grant. Monthly visits by historians and summer institutes that focus on improving teachers' pedagogical skills are all part of the federal grant. [More-ZWire] (June 2)
Charter Schools
Officials from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) are looking for proposals from groups interested in creating 10 to 15 new schools next year under Mayor Richard Daley's education reform plan, Renaissance 2010. The schools can take the form of charter, contract, or district-run institutions. The number of schools to open in 2006 under the initiative will depend on the quality of the proposals. Applications are due on August 19, 2005 and final recommendations will be submitted to the Board of Education in November. [More-Chicago Tribune]
Closing the Achievement Gap
Spurred by No Child Left Behind, educators across the nation are putting great effort into improving the achievement of minority students. In Boston, black and Hispanic students are seeing tutors for help in math. In Minnesota, American Indian students work on grammar and algebra. Releasing scores by students' race and ethnic group has made educators work harder to narrow the achievement gap. [More-New York Times] (May 27) [free registration]
Minnesota lawmakers have reached a consensus on replacing the eighth and tenth-grade Basic Skills Tests with the more rigorous Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), which will be given in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades. The new exams will test students on a broader range of skills, balancing easier questions and more challenging questions. These comprehensive assessments already are given to students in grades three through seven and are used to determine the performance of schools and school districts. [More-Duluth News Tribune] (May 31)
A new report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Policy Information Center details the Characteristics of Minority Students Who Excel on the SAT and in the Classroom. The report urges schools and communities to make sure that minority students have access to rigorous high school curricula and that students take full advantage of all learning opportunities. (June 6)
Teacher Quality
In an effort to boost teacher quality and prepare students for employment in the technology industry, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently announced a new program that aims to quadruple the number of newly credentialed math and science teachers coming out of the state's public universities by 2010. The "California Teach" program would provide teacher candidates with paid internships, place teacher candidates in the classroom beginning in their freshman year, and allow them to earn a bachelor's degree and prepare for certification in four years. [More-The Los Angeles Times] (June 1) [free registration]
An ambitious plan to produce thousands of new teachers through community colleges, and ease a potential teacher shortage, is developing in Florida. Education Commissioner John Winn recently gave 24 of the state's 28 community colleges a tentative approval to begin "educator preparation institutes." The institutes will function like teacher boot camps that will train college graduates to become public school teachers in one year. The first set of institutes is slated to open in the fall and their graduating classes will begin teaching next year. [More-St. Petersburg Times] (June 1)
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I am new to the information security field, and would like to go into penetration testing. At this time, I have a Masters in Computer Science and a graduate certificate in Information Security and Privacy from UNC Charlotte.
I was doing research and I came across eLearnSecurity class on pentesting. (At this time I would have to do the student version and work my way up to the pro version), and found the content interesting, and was really impressed with the price along with being able to have lifelong access to the material.
Then I came to this site, and noticed that people were writing about C|EH. After going to their site, I found their information to be impressive as well. The only drawback is the price... $2K (I want to do the self-paced class since I will work full-time). I also read reviews where people said this cert was too easy, and that employers did not really value this cert. So I am nervous about spending 2K on a class that may or may not be beneficial.
I know some people may say, "Why are they so concerned with price?" It's because I will pay for this out of my own pocket. I can sleep easy at night over $700, but it would be a little harder over 2K.
At this point, I was more inline to do the C|EH because it seemed more suitable for a beginner (which is what I will be, since I have not done any pentesting before) and it seems to cover a lot of ground.
Are there websites that compare C|EH and the pentesting of eLearnSecurity? Or is this comparing apples to oranges?
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Not your Irish grandmother's stew, this version was inspired by flavors from the south of France: figs, green olives and herbes de Provence. To shorten the cooking time, we use ground lamb.
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Short and Sweet Gents: This is from an e-mail....I am posting it here because I think it is important. Having received "Psychological Treatment" during my service, this kind of thing COULD mean that I might lose my rights....Just Wrong IMHO.
Exposed: Obama's Ploy to Disarm VeteransDear Fellow Americans:
Obama's Deputized Doctors to Label Veterans
Mentally Unfit to Own a Gun
http://cf.wta011.com/images/2559/molonlabe.jpgOur veterans put it all on the line to protect our Constitution but if President Obama and his gun-grabbing allies get their way, they will be among the first to see their Constitutional rights limited.
It sounds too insulting and ridiculous to be true. But the danger is very real.
In fact, thanks to executive actions that are already in effect, more than 150,000 veterans have had their names added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (or NICS, as it's commonly called).
Did these veterans brandish a weapon at someone? Did they commit a gun-related crime? Were they seen in some public forum swearing violent intent?
No, these are patriots who, for some reason or another, had to have their finances handled by someone else as they sought help after serving our nation. The Veteran's Administration and the higher-ups who determine Administrative rules decided that this was enough to strip veterans of their God-given rights to self protection.
Trusted to DEFEND our Country and our Liberty abroadNow, the President is ushering in a new era of information sharing between federal agencies and directing Eric Holder to re-evaluate who he determines to be "mentally defective" and what information needs to be shared with NICS to block those people.
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This opens the door to and virtually guarantees a wider definition of who is unfit to own a gun as declared by Barack Obama and his cronies.
It's a little-known fact that about 30% of returning soldiers are diagnosed with PTSD. These brave men and women, mentally scarred from their service to our country, deserve nothing less than our unwavering support.
Instead, they are now in the crosshairs of the gun control lobby. With the VA's existing massive information sharing with NICS, we already have a precedent for large-scale revocation of veteran's rights. All it takes is for one of Eric Holder's decrees to include PTSD, and suddenly one of the most passionate, patriotic segments of Americans will be labeled a danger to society.
Ask yourself: Do you really think that Obama crony-in-chief Eric Holder cares more about protecting the rights of our veterans than he does the Democrats' ideological efforts?
Neither do we.
Trusted to DEFEND our Country and our Liberty abroadSince the people in the U.S. government who are supposed to support our brave men and women at arms are clearly apathetic, it's up to the rest of the American people to stand up for them instead.
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Our veterans have risked life and limb for existing and future generations of Americans. The last thing they need is an environment of fear and distrust back at home.
If the gun control liberals get their way, how many veterans do you think will avoid treatment for their PTSD instead of potentially having their rights taken away?
And, if we let this pass, how long will it be until that loose definition of "mentally sound as determined by Barack Obama and Eric Holder" increasingly includes more and more patriotic Americans?
Trusted to DEFEND our Country and our Liberty abroadIf you look at actual gun crime statistics and the proposals by the Administration not to mention how the NICS system currently blocks out millions of people who show no danger of committing violent crime, it seems like they care less about blocking violent criminals and more about widespread disarmament.
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Every time they add some new criteria or decide that they need to "share more information" with NICS, hundreds of thousands more Americans get lumped in. This sneaky tactic has no place when it comes to our Constitutional rights. And, when it means they're effectively shadow-banning (I had never heard this term before- suggest "prohibiting" or "restricting" our veterans from purchasing guns, it's downright shameful.
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Strasbourg, 23.09.2010 - A delegation of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) visited Cyprus from 13 to 17 September 2010 as the first step for the preparation of a monitoring report. During its visit, ECRI´s delegation gathered information on the implementation of the recommendations it made to the authorities in its 2006 report and discussed new issues that have emerged since.
The delegation held meetings in Nicosia and Limassol with representatives of all relevant ministries, public officials, human rights NGOs and minority groups.
Following this visit, ECRI will adopt a report in which it will make a fresh set of recommendations on measures to be taken by the authorities to address racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance in the country. Among these, three will be revisited in two years' time as part of an interim follow-up procedure.
In its 2006 report, ECRI found that the lack of a comprehensive immigration and integration policy made migrants, especially domestic workers, particularly vulnerable to human rights violations, exploitation and discrimination. Asylum seekers were also found to experience serious difficulties in exercising their rights and ECRI was concerned by the extensive use of detention in immigration and asylum procedures.
In the same report, ECRI expressed unease about the conduct of law enforcement officials and allegations of ill treatment. Manifestations of prejudice and discrimination affecting the Turkish Cypriot community, including persons of Roma origin, still needed to be addressed and ECRI highlighted the need for education to reflect the needs of an increasingly culturally and ethnically diverse society.
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Bucolic Límnos is a sizeable agricultural and military island that has become positively trendy of late: there are upscale souvenir shops, old village houses restored by mainlanders as seasonal retreats and music bars during summer at nearly every beach. For all that, the island's remoteness and peculiar ferry schedules protected it until the mid-1990s from most aspects of the holiday trade, and conventional tourism was late in coming because hoteliers lived primarily off the visiting relatives of the numerous soldiers stationed here. Most summer visitors are still Greek, particularly from Thessaloníki, though some Brits and other Europeans now arrive by charter flights.
The island has often been the focus of disputes between the Greek and Turkish governments, with frequent posturing over invaded airspace, although the détente of recent years has seen such incidences cease. As a result, Límnos's garrison of 25,000 soldiers – at the nadir of Greco-Turkish relations during the 1970s and 1980s – is now down to about 6000, and set to fall further if, as expected, the remaining bases close.
The bays of Bourniá and Moúdhros, the latter one of the largest natural harbours in the Aegean, divide Límnos almost in two. The west of the island is dramatically hilly, with abundant basalt put to good use as street cobbles and house masonry. The east is low-lying and speckled with seasonal salt marshes where it's not occupied by cattle, combine harvesters and vast corn fields. There are numerous sandy beaches around the coast – mostly gently shelving – and it's easy to find a stretch to yourself.
Like most volcanic islands, Límnos produces excellent wine – good dry white, rosé and retsina – plus ouzo. The Limnians proudly tout an abundance of natural food products, including thyme honey and sheep's cheese, and indeed the population is almost self-sufficient in foodstuffs.
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Honor your Father and your Mother
Stale images of God aren't working for today's seekers, says feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J. New ones are emerging from the experiences of all God's people-male and female.
When you whispered a prayer this morning while sipping your coffee and eating your toast, to whom exactly did you pray? An old man with a beard somewhere beyond the clouds? Sophia, otherwise known as Holy Wisdom? The Holy Spirit? Jesus?
Elizabeth Johnson wants to know. In her new book, Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God [1] (Continuum, 2007), she examines how Christians the world over have experienced the presence of God in new ways since the last half of the 20th century. Theologians agree, she says, that we're in a "golden age of discovery."
Even before her groundbreaking 1992 book, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse [2] (Crossroad), Johnson has been fascinated by how believers view God. "This might sound a little archaic," she told Fordham Online [3], "but I take my cue from Thomas Aquinas-the study of God and all things in the light of God. That articulates for me what theology is about."
A sister in the Congregation of St. Joseph who hails from Brooklyn, Johnson has been president of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society. Winner of the U.S. Catholic Award in 1994, she served as a member of the national Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue, a consultant to the Catholic bishops' Committee on Women in Church and Society, a theologian on the Vatican-sponsored dialogue between science and religion, and on the Vatican-sponsored study of Christ and the world religions.
We're hearing a lot from atheists today who want to persuade us that God doesn't exist. What do you as a theologian think about that?
Atheists are rejecting the old images of God that don't really work that well even for Christians anymore. Just who is the God in whom Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion [4] (Houghton Mifflin), doesn't believe? I found a great quote from a review of his book, in which the reviewer said that Dawkins envisions God "if not exactly with a white beard, then at least as some kind of chap, however supersized." This is not the Christian God.
Also a lot of the atheists writing today are scientists who just want to clear the deck of God so they can do their science. They're primarily opposed to the fundamentalist approach.
You've said that Christians today have many "stale, worn-out images of God that no longer satisfy." What are they?
We might be a bit beyond Michelangelo's image from the Sistine Chapel of the old man with the beard, but nevertheless, God is too often still a "chap." It's just assumed that God is this single individual with more power than anyone else, who intervenes now and then to get certain things done, and whom you need to satisfy on a number of levels. Again, this isn't the God of Christian revelation. When you hear talk radio or people in the press talking about God, this is the God they're talking about. This image is so unworthy of us.
My daily bread is teaching college students and graduate students, and I find among them that this image just doesn't work. Especially as they rebel against their parents, which one tends to do at that stage, it's even less attractive to have the super-parent idea of God. Both in this and other countries, I see a terrific hunger for a mature faith, but that's not being fed by much of the preaching that people hear, most of which also uses this stale idea of God.
Where did this image come from?
In the Middle Ages, or even at the time of the Reformation in the 16th century, ideas about God were drawn mainly from scripture and sacramental practice and from people's spirituality. Once the Enlightenment started in the 17th century, as Western philosophers began to throw off authority and to sort out ideas on their own, theologians adapted that method as well. They began to reason toward the fact of God's existence on the basis of natural phenomena, and they came up with the idea of a superior being at the apex of the pyramid of being. We call it the God of theism.
What is forgotten in this image is that this God became incarnate, that God is everywhere present in the Spirit, that God is filled with compassion. It became a much more distant God, while at the same time ironically not distant enough because God became just a more powerful player than we are.
This theistic God is also in competition with the world. It's a zero-sum game: more of God, less of me; more of God, less of the natural world; more of God, less of my own freedom. That is an aberration from the Christian understanding of God, which is that God set the world up in its own integrity and gives us our freedom. The more we have of God, the freer we are. All of this got lost after the Enlightenment.
Before the Enlightenment, were biblical images more alive in the church?
I don't want to paint any age as the golden era, including our own, although I think we're in a renaissance right now. If you look at the Middle Ages, you see God spoken of as "the fountain fullness overflowing." Richard of St. Victor speaks of the deep relationality that is at the heart of God.
Theologians in the Middle Ages wrote tomes on these ideas. We didn't have anyone doing that during the Enlightenment, with the exception of Cardinal John Henry Newman in England, but he went back and read the Fathers of the church, which caused the whole God question to open up for him again.
The Enlightenment didn't touch the East in the same way. Even today if you read Christian Orthodox theologians, you get a much different sense of the fullness of God's trinitarian life, inviting the world into communion. It's so different from this monarchical, solitary ruler God that we have, the God about whom we ask questions like, "Why is God letting this illness happen to me? What did I do that's wrong?"
What is attractive about this idea of God?
This all-powerful God can bless you or curse you; therefore you better please him to get the blessing and not the curse. That's a pattern of relationship that people have with their parents. It's familiar. It brings a certain measure of security. Also many people don't know any other God. They haven't been exposed to any other understandings.
There are some exceptions: You see some wonderful renewed parishes, for example, where people are living a more biblical approach to God. And this image of God is not widespread in the Hispanic community, where people have the sense of God walking with them. Their home altars and other expressions of their popular religion all indicate the closeness of God, a whole different sort of relationship.
Hispanic theologians today say that their community did not go through the Enlightenment. Conquistadors brought with them to the Americas late medieval Catholicism, which blended with indigenous religion. While Europe went through the Enlightenment, the believers in the Americas did not.
But in general I think the image of the theistic God is very widespread in our country. You hear it in sermons. And it's not just me saying this: The U.S. bishops have said that preaching in our country is in a very bad way in terms of the Catholic tradition. The late German theologian Karl Rahner, S.J. was saying the same thing back in the 1950s and '60s. He said that the words of the preacher fall powerlessly from the pulpit "like birds frozen to death and falling from a winter sky." I sit and listen to some sermons and I think, "Come on, think of all the wonderful things you could say with this text."
How does one's theology of God affect one's everyday life and faith?
If you're a believing person, you draw your deepest values from that. How you make moral decisions and vocational decisions, how you treat other people-it all flows from how you see God working.
None of the newer theologies of God are innocent in terms of politics. Every one of the ideas I explore in my book has political implications. They are concerned with power and who uses it and the powerless and how they are affected. So if you let any one of those theologies get into your understanding, you're going to vote differently, you're going to volunteer differently, you're going to use your money differently. Theology, I think, can be very powerful as a tool. It's my conviction that we all have a theology, so how it shapes your life depends on what it is.
What are some of the theologies of God that you've been investigating?
They include images from feminist theology, from Latin America and from Latinos in the United States, as well as the God who emerges from encounters with religious pluralism. Also God as envisioned in Europe after the Holocaust, God as seen through the African American experience, and several others.
Each of the new images of God I studied has biblical grounding, each refers in some way to the Trinity, each of them is oriented in some way to religious practice. All of them support the idea that God is deeply involved, deeply concerned with what happens in the world. If you love God, then your heart needs to be conformed and configured to God's heart. You have to feel that way toward the world as well. There will certainly be differences of opinion about how to do that.
You mentioned the Trinity. This solo God of the Enlightenment doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Trinity.
The Trinity has been just about lost forever in the West. Cardinal Walter Kasper, who heads the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in the Vatican, says the Holy Spirit is the Cinderella of theology in the West, in the kitchen doing all the work while the other two get to go to the ball.
The view of God in classical theism also does not see God through the lens of Jesus Christ, which is basic to the Christian understanding of God. Therefore it leaves out everything that is beautiful and attractive and that makes people want to be Christian. Jesus and his life, death, and Resurrection just don't factor in.
The new theologies from Africa and Latin America, on the other hand, are examples of a new kind of trinitarian theology. They don't let Christ and the Spirit drop away. They're rooted in an understanding of God related to the world. These understandings are so basic to Christian faith and tradition, I call them a gift to all the rest of us.
You frequently use the term "the living God." What does that mean?
It's a term found all through the Bible. I love it. The living God is always ahead of us, always surprising, always calling us to come ahead. Wherever "the living God" is used, it indicates a life of fullness, of flowing water, new reality, new justice, new peace. The different theologies I studied use different words for it: getting back to the God of the Bible, the God of Jesus Christ, the God of life.
These new theologies of God start with human experience. What's the significance of that?
When I was writing She Who Is, it dawned on me that our original approach to God, where God first reaches us, is through our experience-and that's the Spirit. The Spirit is present in nature, in our human interactions, in the depths of our own soul, at the end of our reaching out in love.
Take the Catholics of Latin America. Where did they get the idea of God as liberator? They didn't just say one day, "Let's have a new idea of God." It started in the struggle for justice, for a well that had clean water so babies wouldn't die before their first birthday. In that work, and in their prayer and reflection over that work, people said, "This is what God wants us to do." Then when they read the Book of Exodus, they read it with new eyes because of their new experience.
In every single one of these theologies, it is experience that opens the door, that leads the way in. Then theologians come along and think about it, but they couldn't do that without the experience of the Christian people first. We believe, as St. Anselm said a thousand years ago, that theology is faith seeking understanding. You have the church-the community-and theologians reflect on what the community's faith means. The experience is there as a primary source.
What is revelation then?
In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, revelation became highly intellectualized. It came down to doctrine: We knew certain truths, certain beliefs. You're a Christian if you believe this. I would say Vatican II's Dei Verbum, The Constitution on Divine Revelation, changed all that. Its opening sentence says, "In his goodness and wisdom God chose to reveal himself and to make known to us the hidden purpose of his will." In the gift of God's own self comes understanding something of who God is, so revelation becomes much more experiential right from the start. That experience is then articulated in words and finally it is written down. We call it revelation.
I always regret that word, revelation. It sounds like an object, but it's a relational dynamic that has brought to birth wisdom in the Christian community about God and fidelity in the way people live.
What we are called to believe is actually a mystery, God's own giving self. Rahner uses the image of the horizon: You see it, but you never get there. You can't control it or comprehend it, because then it wouldn't be God.
How can different images of God all work together and still be Catholic?
There can be many theologies among people who still believe in one Creed.
Theology is simply an articulation of what faith means in this time and place for this people, so that will change over time. The Creed is a point of unity. We come together over the heart of the confession of faith and the reception of the Eucharist that unites the community.
Isn't there the potential for so many different theologies to get out of control?
Yes, but whose control, exactly? Certain theologians who wrote in every one of these theologies have been criticized by Rome. This approach can be threatening to a hierarchical power structure, because it says that truth also resides among the baptized, that those who are filled with the Spirit have a wisdom.
I don't mean to knock the institutional church. Rahner wrote that the church has its charisms and its offices, and that often there's tension between the two. Theology is a charism, and the office is often in tension with that. The good function of the church office is unity; it keeps everybody from losing the heart and soul of what we believe, from falling into fads and trends and that sort of thing. I would never not want to have a central authority that functions as a uniting factor.
Let's talk about "God acting womanish," as you call it. Where does this theology stand today?
There are major images of God in a female form in scripture and in our mystical tradition especially. Maternity is the main one, but the wisdom texts about Sophia are another. Some theologians make the case, too, that the Spirit has a female name in Hebrew and acts in feminine ways.
Then come the questions of why aren't we using those images of God in our liturgies, why aren't we teaching young people that this is an approach to God that can be used as well? The three major words for God are still Father, King, and Lord in Christian hymns, prayer, and liturgy. What that sets up unconsciously, whether you want it to or not, is the assumption that men have more in common with divinity than women do. Those three particular images also are very patriarchal because they refer not just to a male but to a ruling male, somebody who is dominating or being father in a patriarchal sense. Now that isn't, of course, what scripture means or what Jesus meant when he called God Abba.
If you combine Father, Lord, and King with the God of theism, then you've got a problem. That's one of those static ideas that does not feed the souls of a lot of people, men as well as women.
It's very simple. Women are no longer relating to men in their lives as lord and king, and father no longer has that sense of control and domination that it had in a previous era. Women are no longer relating to their own fathers that way, let alone marrying men who act as fathers that way. Look at the partnership concept in marriage. Fathering is much more nurturing than it used to be.
There's little that women then can bring into a relationship with God who is going to be their lord and king or their father. It goes blank, and not only that, but women are very uncomfortable with it. It's not just neutral, it's negative. Women think, "I don't want a dominating man: Go away until you grow up and learn how to treat me like a human being." When that comes into the religious life of women, it becomes the heart of this crisis. You can have all the dictums in the world, but the old images just don't work anymore.
What does it mean that we call God by male terms?
I have this sentence that I quote over and over again: The symbol of God functions. The male symbol of God functions to privilege a certain way of male rule in the world and to undercut women's spiritual power, women's own sense of themselves as made in the image of God.
We women have to abstract ourselves from our bodies to see ourselves in the image of God if God is always depicted as male. It has serious ramifications for spirituality and for the identity of believers and for the community.
Why is there so much resistance to using feminine images of God?
I think the rejection of the inclusive language lectionary, which the U.S. bishops applied for in 1992 and which was rejected by the Vatican, was a clear recognition that once you start making room for even nonsexist language about humanity, let alone feminine images of God, there's a fear that women will want to move in socially and politically, and then you've got a challenge to church structure as we know it. I think there's a great deal of fear of women's power.
Can you imagine a church that took female images of God to heart?
Let me say, I think women and men are equal in sin and grace. I don't think women are going to be the salvation of the church or of this country. I think we can all get on power trips. I'm convinced of it, maybe because I've been in a women's religious community, and I have six sisters. I am disabused of this romantic notion of women's greatness as compared to men.
At this moment in history, women have figured out what's wrong with the current pattern and how their experiences have led to different ways of relating, organizing, and running things. Given the chance, they would bring that pattern into the church and let it play off and see what develops.
How do you imagine God when you pray?
Writing She Who Is was a deeply spiritual experience for me. By the time I had finished, I had migrated out of the patriarchal church and the patriarchal notion of God. I have never been able to pray that way again. The notion of God as the one who embraces us, in whom we live and move and have our being, is so much more my sense of God than the grand old man in the sky. Even when I'm at liturgy and I hear male language in prayers, I experience it differently.
You don't revert back?
I had a very good friend who died five years ago of a brain hemorrhage, and I was the health care proxy for him. During the days in the hospital when he was unconscious and we faced a decision about removing the breathing tube, I was absolutely conscious of Sophia embracing him and me in this crisis. He was moving toward death, and I was guarding his death like a lion against the doctors who wanted to do a million procedures.
That to me was the moment I realized I could never go back. In a moment of crisis, you often revert to your childhood image of God. What I reverted to was this cosmic sense of the Spirit of God in even our dying, summoning us, walking with us.


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Discussion in 'Artwork Zone' started by LaTunaNostra, Aug 2, 2004.
Hey Ditka, atleast feign interest!
Rogers that cheater!
Much better.
Ditka doesn't appear too pleased at how well Parcells says Levitra is working for him.
Absolutely GREAT pictures!! They put you right on the field and in the middle of the action. Makes you wanna throw a block or or dive for the pass or sumpthin'.
My compliments to the photog and a great telephoto lens.
Keep 'em comin' girl, don't stop now, you're way ahead.
Actually, that's legal as long as you are locked up like that, but you can't do that from the side or go past the front of the torso.
Eh, you beat me to it. I was gonna go with "So, Mike, Levitra really helps you THAT much?".
Righto BZ. It happens on every play.
Atta boy Rogers
Reshard Lee and Julius Jones. Lee looks like a brick-house
Hilarious Jacs. Where do you find all these smiley faces?
Rogers looks pissed as hell. It'll be good to have someone with fire on the line.
Their is a difference between it being legal and it not being called.
No the rules allow that to happen.
Over the years it went from forearms with closed fists, to pushing with the hands, to locking up on the front of the torso.
It is not holding to be engaged and pushing. Engaged and pulling IS holding. Engaging from the side or back is holding. Engaging past the front of the torso is holding.
What Rogers is doing in that photo is legal BY RULE.
I hate to critique your photo skills again, but how is he pushing when the jersey is being stretched so much?
He is extending his arms up and out keeping the defensive player away. It's the same motion you push used on a blocking sled.
From the NFL Rulebook
They allow an open hand punch but no where does it say they are allowed to grab the jersey.
He looks like Hulk Hogan
Are you an official?
The last line is the KEY, if it restricts movement. It's a term called advantage/disadvantage. What Rogers is doing fits within the rules, the grabbing of the jersey is incidental UNLESS it goes beyond the frame or restricts the defenders movement.