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Protoplasm and House-Cleaning.
I AM roused to make solemn reflections this morning on life and progress, to ask whether the advances we make, and the heights we attain, add sufficiently to our happiness and contentment. Do not discourage me in the outset by saying that mere satisfaction and pleasure are low aims, though Mr. Froude has an eloquent and convincing passage on this subject, in his Essay on the Book of Job.
But, after all, we do look somewhat for happiness, -- we do measure the success or failure of men's lives, more or less by this standard. We will not yield wholly to the idea that a man, however great his spiritual and metaphysical achievements and capabilities, is to be envied, if he gives us no outward evidence of being victorious. For we anticipate a material success and a visible happiness.
I make no effort to be scientific. I shall not try to give an accurate definition of Protoplasm. Never mind whether it is a substance with definite physical and chemical properties of the highest importance, as regards our vital organization, or only a word representing a set of ideas, or a group of radically different substances, or one of the 'words, words, words!' as Hamlet said to Polonius. I think you will not mind the non-settlement of this question, and I should not wish to blind you by leading you too suddenly from darkness to the blinding daylight. But I consider the second part of my subject a fine type of the height of progress to which we have attained, and I merely make the suggestion of Protoplasm by way of reminding you of the wide distance between the two points, of departure and attainment.
Spring cleaning is truly the reign of an idea to which every other interest and occupation must bow. What attention is paid to any demand of society on the day when the parlor carpets are to be shaken? It is reckoned almost useless to attempt writing the history of one's own age while one is sure to be influenced by some of its conflicting prejudices, and so incapacitated from seeing the whole ground. It is hard, even after centuries have gone by, to be impartial, and avoid the danger of being one-sided. And some of the best histories have been written by men who were foreigners to the country of which they wrote. And I claim to be heard with respect in this matter, for the spring cleaning of my house is over with, and I did not help.
Some one says that it is a grand triumph of mind over matter; surely it is heroic, this being willing to undergo, at stated periods, an operation which makes us uncomfortable. You may mention the martyrs of old, who were hanged and stoned and drowned; but that was only for once!
I was driving to-day, and met a cheerful company of gypsies. I had left the room where my favorite corner is, in a state of chaos that was wholly undesirable. My attention had been called to a stack of my books, and other possessions, waiting for me to carry them away to some less convenient place than my desk or chair, and I fled to the highways. Those lucky gypsies! They live in wagons without springs; they are unenviable in some other particulars; but their years go smoothly round, their housekeeping is uniform, and unbroken by any such catastrophes as are ever looming up before us. There was a woman seated upon a pile of hay and dirty looking bundles, and smoking a long clay pipe; there were two dear little dogs sound asleep at her feet, and a child leaned over the side of the wagon, dragging a forlorn shaker bonnet by its only string. The lord of the wagon-hold was taking gentle exercise by the side of the lazy horse, and some older children ran ahead to a farmhouse with a pail and a basket. That woman had no cellar and no closets; her carpet of green grass sprinkled with dandelions has not needed taking up.
Is there no chance that we are in a transition stage as regards the outward requisites of our home life? The love and interest we have for each other -- the sentimental and moral part of it is in a much more hopeful state, but it cannot be possible that our housekeeping is perfected when twice a year such annoyances are inevitably ours. The idea of cleanliness reigns over us, but may we not be certain that sometime all these things will cease to be associated with discomfort?[.] It is not the ideal setting one's house in order, to have one's possessions put away in inconvenient places where they cannot be found without a loss of time and temper. But each of us has some peculiar grievance of this kind, and it would lead us, if more were said, to meditate with interest upon the ancient pastoral life.
Follow any brook far enough and it leads you to the sea; and here I am thinking of the disadvantages of our position; the general disadvantages, not those of the present state of housekeeping alone. We so much more readily accept the good old things that were established by our predecessors, than the new. And who can help feeling we are somewhat defrauded, when he thinks of the greater advantages which will belong to the day of those who will live after us, for which our day is the starting point?[.] For in all times and acts there is both a beginning and an ending; there is a completion, and the germ of something afterwards to be completed. We are seeing the protoplasms that are to develop more and more through the years to come. How do we know that we are not fighting as blindly and unreasonably against progress as our ancestors did? The world learns so slowly, and men are so unwilling to follow their leaders. The advances that are no longer new things to us, to which we have been familiar from our childhood, and which unless we stop to think seem always to have existed, were by no means made easily.
Look at the history of the practice of medicine. It seems to have met with the most benighted opposition to its most important improvements. There was poor Lady Mary Wortley Montague, who introduced small-pox innoculation into England from Turkey. Lord Wharncliffe says in his life of her: 'Lady Mary protested that during the four or five years succeeding her arrival at home, she seldom passed a day without regretting her patriotic undertaking. The clamors raised against the practice, and against her were beyond belief. The faculty all rose in arms to a man, foretelling failure and disastrous consequences; the clergy descanted from their pulpits on the impiety of taking events out of the hands of Providence. And the common people were taught to look upon her us an unnatural mother who had risked the lives of her own children.' The doctors have even fought each other most bitterly; often refusing to believe in, and deriding the discoveries which afterwards come to be considered landmarks of the profession. Moliere who used to be called the terror of the Parisian apothecaries makes one of his dramatis personae say to another. 'Call in a doctor, and if you do not like his physic, I'll soon find you another who will condemn it.'
We suffer, no doubt, in all connections from being in an age of transition; but affer all, we have the consolation of being sure that we are better off than our ancestors were, and this comparison has served to flatter the pride and increase the consequence of the generations that have preceded us. It may be humilating to acknowledge that we in our day are capable only of originating the merely protoplastic ideas, the first formations of the successes and improvements of the future.
But because all science and art, all culture, has not culminated in our ages; because we cannot do what we wish to do, is all we have attained and do know to pass for nothing? [.] The Hospital is not finished, though it is long past its protoplastic stage, when it was only a suggestion in acknowledgment of the great need in our State. Who ignores what has been done for it so far? Who forgets what its president's share of the work has been, or the trustees', the generosity of its donors, the interest shown in its welfare and success by rich and poor? When the hospital is finished and doing its grand service; when the only workmen within its walls are its doctors and nurses, who will not be glad; but is not the fact of its being in progress one that gives us satisfaction now?
So do not let us quarrel with the unalterable, and even if our most cherished work and plan should prove in the ages to come merely a first hint and foreshadowing, let us be glad of the light that is shining for us. The insufficiency; the need of something better; the awkwardness of the means we use to accomplish our ends; all these tower up grandly when contrasted with the machinery of life a hundred years ago. And so, letting alone the question whether our present position will seem by and by to have been high or low in the scale of ascent, we will remember that every step is necessary, everything is worth while, and be satisfied.
"Protoplasm and House-Cleaning" originally appeared in The Tonic (Portland, ME, June 17, 1873, p. 3). The Tonic, edited by Mary S. Deering, published from June 7 through June 19 of 1873 as a daily newspaper of the Maine General Hospital Fair in Portland, Maine. The text appears here courtesy of the collections of the Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME.
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Mr. Froude ... Essay on the Book of Job: English author, James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) is remembered in part for his work on Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). His "Essay on Job" was published in book form in 1854. Probably Jewett refers to the passage visible in this Google Book preview.
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Hamlet said to Polonius: See William Shakespeare, Hamlet, II, ii.
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shaker bonnet: Shakers are known for the simplicity and plainness of their designs. Founded in England in the eighteenth century, "the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also known as the Millennial Church, or the Alethians, came to be called Shakers because of the trembling induced in them by their religious fervor." Under the leadership of Mother Ann Lee the sometimes persecuted Shakers set up communal villages in the United States, beginning in 1776. (Source: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia).
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Lady Mary Wortley Montague ... small-pox innoculation .... Lord Wharncliffe: Lady Mary Wortley Pierrepont Montagu (1689-1762) was an English letter writer and poet. Her husband, Edward Montagu , served as ambassador to Turkey, 1716-1718; there Lady Mary wrote a famous set of letters. She also observed and introduced into England the Turkish practice of inoculating against smallpox. (Source: Encarta Encyclopedia) Her Letters and Works, 3 Volumes, edited by her great-grandson, Lord Wharncliffe, appeared in 1837.
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Providence: God as active in the material world.
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Moliere ... 'Call in a doctor, and if you do not like his physic, I'll soon find you another who will condemn it': Born Jean Baptiste Poquelin, Molière (1622-1673) was a French comic dramatist, remembered best perhaps for his play, Tartuffe (1664). He also wrote The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1739) and The Imaginary Invalid (1673). Almost certainly, Jewett's quotation is from: Fallacies of the Faculty (1861) by Samuel Dickson, Lecture 1, p. 4. She reproduces the passage almost exactly. See Google Books. Another very similar passage appears in "Of Experience," by the French essayist, Montaigne (1533-1592): "If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat such-and-such a food, don't worry: I'll find you another who will not agree with him" (The Complete Works of Montaigne: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters, essay 13, part III. Stanford UP p. 833).
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Hospital is not finished: Maine General Hospital (now the Maine Medical Center) was founded in the early 1870s. This essay and Jewett's other contributions for The Tonic were part of a fund-raising fair to complete construction of the original hospital. That building now houses the hospital archives.
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Tina Wasserman says this challah freezes well for months if wrapped properly: Place a cooled loaf in a resealable plastic food storage freezer bag. Seal it most of the way, insert a drinking straw, suck out the remaining air from the bag and quickly close it, to prevent ice crystals from forming on the bread.
Servings: 2 large round loaves or 3 small round loaves
- 7 to 7 1/2 cups bread flour, such as King Arthur or Gold Medal Better for Bread
- 2 packages (about 2 tablespoons) rapid rise yeast
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 2 sticks (8 ounces) pareve margarine or unsalted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon yellow food coloring
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup raisins (optional)
- 1 large egg, slightly beaten
- 1 tablespoon water
In the large bowl of a stand mixer, combine 6 1/2 cups of the flour and the yeast, mixing well.
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, heat the water, margarine or butter, food coloring, sugar, poppy seeds and salt until the mixture registers--0 degrees on a candy thermometer. (Liquid should feel uncomfortably hot to your finger but not hot enough to burn you.)
With the mixer on low speed, add the warm liquid mixture to the flour-yeast mixture. As the liquid is being incorporated, add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Gradually add the remaining flour only until a fairly firm dough is formed. This process should take about 7 minutes whether you are using the dough hook on your mixer or are kneading it by hand on a lightly floured work surface. Add the raisins, if desired, after most of the kneading is done, to keep the raisins from breaking down and flavoring the dough. The dough will be satiny smooth and should not stick to a lightly floured fingertip.
Set the oven to 400 degrees but turn it off after 1 minute; the oven should be at about 120 degrees at that point.
Lightly grease a bowl with vegetable oil and turn the dough in the bowl to coat all sides. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the warmed oven until doubled in size, about 30 to 45 minutes.
Punch down the dough and divide in half or thirds. Shape each portion into 1 large rope and coil the dough around itself to make a round of dough that looks like a turban. Make sure to pinch the end of the dough under to prevent uncoiling during baking. Place the formed loaves on baking sheets that are lightly greased or lined with parchment paper. Allow to rise about 25 minutes, or until they are light and have doubled in size.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, mix the egg and the water. Brush the tops of the loaves with the egg-water wash and bake for 25 to 35 minutes depending on the size of the loaves. When the breads are done, they will be golden brown and have a hollow sound when tapped.
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Recipe adapted from Tina Wasserman, food columnist for Reform Judaism magazine, an experienced cooking instructor and occasional contributor to the Food section.
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I speak several languages and am very comfortable with cultural diversity/unity of humanity, and I can explain medical jargon in terms that my patients understand. I enjoy the role of being my patients' healthcare "quarterback", and I don't like to lose.
Physician Profile
- Undergraduate
- Santa Clara University
- Santa Clara, CA
- Bachelor of Science, Chemistry 1981
- Medical School
- University of Southern California School of Medicine
- Los Angles, CA
- Doctorate of Medicine 1986
- Internship
- Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
- San Jose, CA
- 1986-1987
- Residency
- Stanford University Medical Center
- San Jose, CA
- Family Practice Residency 1988-1990
- Co-Chief Resident, Family Practice Residency 1990
Hospital Affiliations
- Good Samaritan Hospital
Professional Affiliations and Appointments
- President, Rai Research Associates, Los Gatos, CA 2009-present
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University & USC 1993-present
- Department Chair, Family Practice Division, San Jose Medical Group, Good Samaritan Medical Group, San Jose, CA 1992-2000
- Volunteer Physician, Beas Eye Camp, Punjab India 1990
- Member, Santa Clara County Medical Association
Research Experience
- Served as Principal Investigator on the following trials:
- Peniciclovir vs. Placeblo study of the effect of early treatment on the development of oral herpes labialis 1997
- Valtrex 500 BID vs. Placebo as a three-day treatment course for recurrent genital herpes in immunocompetent patients 1997
- Herpes Vaccine study in healthy adult HSV seronegative subjects 1997
- Lobucavir in Genital Herpes treatment 1998
- ISAAC for Social Phobia with Paroxetine 1999
- IMPACT for Migraine Headaches with Imitrex 1999
- Valtrex vs. Placebo for HSV 1 1999
- Jupiter Trial for primary coronary artery disease prevention 2003-2008
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Only a few other components could be the cause. Verify you have a good shore power supply. Some converters plug into an outlet, make sure no GFIS are tripped. Some converters are part of the 12 volt fuse box and breaker panel, manually reset every breaker and test all the 12 volt fuses. Another component to look for is an auto breaker, these are normally located with in 18" of the battery and look like a small silver or gold box, verify that power is on both sides of that auto breaker.
Most fleetwoods do stick the converter under the fridge and are difficult to access. If everything else looks good I would suspect that converter needs to be replaced or at least have a shop check it out, it should take about 1/2 hour of labor time.
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By eliminating route redundancies and emphasizing ridership, the city thinks it can get a better trip at the same price.
In a city where nine in ten drive to work, the answer could reshape the future.
Questioning the numbers behind the new ridership "record."
California is on its way, and the Midwest, the Northeast Corridor, and Texas all have plans of their own.
A Houston nonprofit wants to test the theory that a fully armed neighborhood is a safer one.
It's been an eventful year for cartography.
The Lone Star State continues to dominate when it comes to new home construction.
A 16-city tour of America, from an Amtrak seat.
America's metro areas generate 80 percent of the country's GDP. But so far, that economic reality has not generated a proportional amount of political clout.
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I wish that journalism schools would offer, either in Journalism I or in an advanced course, some education in journalistic use of numbers, including the practice of offering estimates as simple factual reporting of exact numbers.
For example, we read time after time of unemployment percentages moving up or down by some precise percentage. Rarely if ever is there an explanation of how such unbelievably precise figures are arrived at.
Another example: Repeated references to the percentage of people living below the poverty level, rarely accompanied by an explanation of how the poverty level is determined or any explanation of how the percentages of people living below that level are determined. They are, of course, simply unexplained estimates.
Then there is the matter of reporting poll results, which usually start out with some such generalization as saying, "A majority of Americans believe…" No poll can determine the percentage of Americans who believe anything.
Frequently well down in the story, the writer reports that the conclusions about what all Americans think is based on a survey of a relative handful of Americans—perhaps 1,500 or so—supposedly selected in a way that their answers will reasonably closely reflect the responses if all Americans (or all Americans of voting age, in most cases) had been polled.
Even conceding that polling experts may be right—that a miniscule sample can reasonably closely reflect the feelings of scores of millions of Americans if they had been asked the same question—why don't responsible journalists report something like this: "Fifty-seven percent of the 1,850 Americans questioned in a recent poll responded that…"
More Honesty, Please, In Reporting Polls
Also important in honest reporting of polls would be the number of persons who declined to be polled. Some observers believe that a large percentage of turndowns raises some question as to the results of the poll. And there should be some recognition of the fact that, increasingly, some Americans depend on their cellular 'phone and aren't available to answer calls at numbers taken from a telephone directory.
Some recent examples of other misuse—is abuse a more appropriate word?—of numbers in so-called "news" stories:
The front page headline in USA Today read: "Hospital care fatal for some patients." The lead paragraph read: "An estimated 15,000 Medicare patients die each month in part because of care they receive in the hospital, says a government study released today."
The third paragraph said that the study focused on exactly 424 Medicare patients discharged from hospitals in one month, October, 2008.
Let's see now: How can 424 patients "discharged" from hospitals in a given month be used as the basis for a conclusion that 15,000 Medicare patients die every month because of poor hospital care?
Researchers Didn't Find What AP Reported
Then there was the Associated Press story from London which started thus: "Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, a new report says."
As the basis for the report, the Associated Press said, "researchers analyzed data from 2004 for 192 countries. They found 40% of children and more than 30% of nonsmoking men and women regularly breathe in secondhand smoke."
The researchers, of course, found no such thing. There's no way that they could have conducted research which would show, accurately and without question, the percentage of people who are exposed to secondhand smoke.
Consider a story which appeared under a headline which read: "Omaha not as healthy as many other metro areas." The story said that federal data (no details supplied) and local analysts (not explained) indicated that the Omaha area ranked 142nd out of 182 areas according to the 2010 Live Well Omaha Health Summit described as a group of 45 health-related organizations.
Readers were expected to believe that researchers had somehow come up with reliable findings (not described as estimates) such as these: "Close to two-thirds of Douglas County residents are overweight. And only about 30% engage in 20 minutes or more of vigorous activity three or more times a week."
Some conclusions as to the need for many Douglas County residents to lose weight or to exercise more might well be justified and useful advice, but the case for such action is, as I see it, not helped by offering unexplained figures as though they were precisely determined facts.
As might have been expected, good health news wasn't reported until the final two paragraphs of the story:
The number per 100,000 population of heart disease deaths in Douglas County dropped to 143.8 last year from 179.5 deaths in 2005. The number per 100,000 population of colorectal cancer deaths in Douglas County dropped to 15.1 last year from 18.8 in 2005.
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Is Bush 'Divisive,' Obama Not Divisive?
A final report—for today—on the use or misuse of polls:
A McClatchy Newspapers national news report was guilty, as I see it, of putting a misleading spin on a story involving a poll, this time a Gallup poll.
The McClatchy report finished a story about former President George W. Bush's book promotion tour with these words:
"Bush remains a divisive figure two years after leaving office—though he's not so deeply unpopular.
"A Gallup poll this summer found 45% of Americans had a favorable opinion of him while 51% had a unfavorable opinion. Two years earlier, 39% had a favorable opinion and 61% had an unfavorable opinion of him."
So, in the opinion of McClatchy editors, with an unfavorable-opinion rating of 51%, Bush "remains a divisive figure." What is the former president "dividing"?
An October New York Times/CBS poll showed that President Obama's approval rating "remains below 50%"? Among registered voters, it was 43%.
I think it's a safe bet that the McClutchy editors wouldn't put a "divisive figure" label on President Obama even though his approval rating "remains below 50%" among all those polled and 43% among registered voters.
Advice to pollsters and journalists:
Just give us the numbers, please. Readers will make their own interpretation.
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So We Won't Be Playing Missouri
And Colorado Any Longer? Good Riddance
Again this week, I can't resist commenting on the college football scene and the Nebraska Cornhuskers' place in it.
Conceding possible prejudice as a dedicated Husker fan since I saw my first game in Memorial Stadium 77 years ago, how can the supposedly carefully-calculated BCS team rankings place Missouri at No. 12 one place ahead of Nebraska.
We beat Missouri decisively and have, as do the Tigers, a 10-2 season record. We didn't lose a game in the Big 12 North Division and the Huskers, not Missouri, will be representing that division in the Big 12 championship playoff game in Dallas Saturday.
I would speculate that Missouri gets special consideration because one of their 10 victories was over Oklahoma, which was No. 1 in the BCS rankings at the time.
Whatever, it will be Nebraska, not Missouri, playing for the Big 12 championship against Oklahoma in Dallas come Saturday.
Best post-game quote following Nebraska's 45-17 dismantling of Colorado last Friday came, I believe, from NU head coach Bo Pelini after Husker Rex Burkhead's performance running for one touchdown and passing for two others: "They ought to put his picture next to football player in the dictionary."
A final thought (for today): No matter how this season comes out—I hope, of course, that we finish with two more wins—we will have the satisfaction of having decisively defeated Missouri and Colorado, the two teams with the most abusive fans in the Big 12 conference. And we won't be required to play them any more.
Good riddance of those two rivalries.
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I Wish The UNO Hockey Team Well
But Do They Need All That Coverage?
Most surprising headline in recent memory:
"Time to recognize Blais, Mav Hockey."
The headline appeared over a sports commentator's column which appeared November 18. Would it be possible that the columnist has not been aware of the wall-to-wall coverage of the Maverick hockey team since Dean Blais became head coach in 2009?
I had no reason to keep track of the number of times readers were told that Blais won two national championships while coaching hockey at the University of North Dakota, but that fact must be among the most often repeated in the history of local sports coverage.
On the eve of the start of the Mavericks' 2009 hockey season, Coach Blais and newly-hired assistant coach Mike Hastings and two unidentified hockey players were featured in a color photo that took up nearly the entire front page of a four-page special section. An inside page was devoted to the Mavericks and their schedule and pictures and a brief biography of each of 25 squad members, plus pictures and brief biographical sketches of Coach Blais and his two assistants.
Twenty-five squad members? Isn't it true that you can have only a maximum of six players on the ice at any given time, and this includes a goalie who may play the entire game?
One of the inside pages was devoted to pictures and biographical sketches of 26 Omaha Lancers squad members.
In the total of 52 squad members on the two teams, there was one player identified as being from Nebraska—an Omahan on the Lancers roster.
Two Teams Make Us 'Amateur Hockey Capital'?
On the back page of the section there was a column about the Lancers' return to Omaha from a Council Bluffs arena. The column indicated that people in the hockey world call Omaha the "amateur hockey capital" of the U.S. There was no indication of how the columnist knew this.
During the Mavs first season under Coach Blais the Mavericks continued to get extensive (would "massive" be too strong a word?) coverage.
Then, between seasons, at end of June, when presumably a good many Omahans would not be that interested in massive coverage of Maverick hockey, there was another page-dominating story illustrated with action pictures of each of four members of the 2010 Maverick recruiting class.
If the outstanding prospects in the annual recruiting class of the Nebraska Cornhuskers—who, I believe, have at least as large and rabid a following as the UNO Mavericks—are depicted in such front-page big color action photographs, I must have missed that day's edition.
Win or lose, at home or away, the Mavs continue to get detailed front-page-sports-section play for each two-game series. Even when the Mavs had a late-November weekend off, they got front-page coverage with a story and a color picture six days before their next game.
I think hockey can be an exciting sport, and I wish the Mavs well. But I don't think their cause is helped by story after story with seemingly endless detail—coverage which seems to me to be of great interest only to a relatively small hardcore of Mav followers who enjoy watching hockey and drinking beer in the Qwest Arena.
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The 'Sports Babe' Speaks Again
As her friends and acquaintances and readers of this column know, my roommate has a remarkable store of information about sports teams and those who play on those teams.
The most recent evidence: We were watching a Green Bay Packers/Minnesota Vikings game on television one evening when a Packer returned a kickoff to near midfield. Marian's comment: "That was Percy Harvin. He's a marvelous wide receiver. He played with Tim Tebow at Florida.
"He has terrible migraine headaches. They had to take him to the hospital from the practice field."
The expert, whom some of us affectionately call "The Sports Babe," had spoken once again.
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The Mille Lacs County Board of Commissioners conducted the following business at its Sept. 17 meeting. This report was written by Joel Stottrup.
Hardrives bituminous bid
The board approved the bid from Hardrives Inc., Waite Park, of $46,262 to provide bituminous patching. It was the low bid of three submitted bids. The other two bids were Tri-city Paving, Little Falls, for $48,890, and Knife River Corp–North Central, Sauk Rapids, for $49,823. The county Public Works Department requested the patching on the approach of County Road 124 with Highway 23 and also County Road 22 east of U.S. Highway 169.
Issuance of building, septic permits
The board approved issuing the building and septic permits requested by Wayne Eli. Land Services Director Michele McPherson explained in a memo to the board that permit applications won't be considered for approval if there are delinquent property taxes, special assessments, penalties, interest or fees due on the parcel to which the application relates.
McPherson noted that the taxes on the Eli property are "not in such a delinquent state as to qualify for a stipulation, order or confession of judgment at this time." She noted that Eli has indicated a payment plan to bring his taxes current in his request for a building and septic permit.
Eli had been issued an "after the fact" interim use permit to place a second dwelling on a parcel and was now seeking a building and septic permit to bring a mobile home into compliance with the ordinance requirements. McPherson noted that the septic in place "is an imminent public health threat and needs upgrading."
The three owners of the property, including Wayne Eli, signed a letter dated Sept. 9 that in part states the three intend to pay at least $225 per month until all back taxes are brought up to date, and "whenever able, pay additional amounts towards back taxes."
Budget meeting
The board set a meeting for 6 p.m. Dec. 3 for the public to give input on the county's proposed budget and property tax levy for 2014. It will be part of the board's regular meeting in the Historic Courthouse. Board members have already declared they intend to not increase the 2014 levy over the current one.
Cash balances
Items under the consent agenda that the board approved include a report on 2013 cash balances in August this year. It shows a general fund balance of $7.5 million, road and bridge fund of $3.6 million, community veteran services fund of $4.18 million and capital projects fund of $1.9 million.
Modification of job duties
The board approved a modification of the listed job duties for the 911 communications specialist to reflect that the position no longer requires working with the inmates in the county jail. The position still involves "dealing with emergency situations requiring multitasking while under pressure to perform in a timely manner." It also "requires dealing with emotionally upset people, mainly via telephone with frequent interruptions," and requires the specialist to "talk frequently and listen continuously" and work varying shifts including days, nights, weekends and holidays.
Positions eliminated, one added
The board approved recommendations by the management team in the county's Community and Veterans Services Department to eliminate the following positions: case aide (vacant), child support enforcement aide (vacant) and WIC coordinator position, effective upon the incumbent's departure. The board also approved the addition of a social worker position to work in child protection and addition of a child support officer position. The above position changes will result in cost savings.
Town hall meeting
The board set a biannual town hall meeting for 7 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Wahkon City Hall.
Lean-management training
The board approved lean-management training for county Administrator Roxy Traxler. The two days of training will take place in Minneapolis and will cost $1,600.
Revised credit card policy
The board approved revising the county's credit card policy. The final draft of the policy authorizes two credit card accounts. The county administrator is responsible for one and the fiscal supervisor in the Community and Veterans Services Department is responsible for the other. Each account has a credit limit "established in an amount sufficient for typical usage, but not to exceed $10,000."
Tar kettles
The kettles that the county public works has been using to melt the filler material for pavement cracks have been rendered "useless" because the Minnesota Department of Transportation has changed the type of filler being used, according to Public Works Assistant Engineer Jay Munson. As a result, the Public Works supervisor has negotiated with MnDOT to "gift" two diesel fire kettles to Public Works that will melt the new material. The County Board accepted the gift of the two new tar kettles.
Accepts grant
The board accepted a $10,000 county veterans service office operational enhancement grant. The purpose of the grant is to provide outreach to the county's veterans and a variety of other veterans services, including helping reintegrate combat veterans into society and reduce homelessness among veterans.
Jail report review
The board received the county jail report for August. The county boarded inmates during that time from the counties of Benton, Stearns and St. Louis and from the Department of Corrections' release violators and privately paid, helping bring in revenue to date in 2013 of $359,945. The county also received nearly $14,397 in booking fees, close to $340 in miscellaneous recovered fees and nearly $13,042 in pay-to-stay fees for a grand revenue total to date of $387,723. The daily jail population in August varied between 75 and 99 inmates.
Drug task force
Sheriff Brent Lindgren sought and received the board's authorization to end the county's participation in the North Central Drug Task Force joints powers agreement. Lindgren indicated that the other members in the agreement – the counties of Kanabec and Aitkin, and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Police Department – are also terminating their membership, thus ending the task force.


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The incident occurred at approximately 1:40 p.m. A male suspect, armed with a weapon and concealing his identity, entered a business in the 1600 block of Regent Avenue and demanded money.
The employee, a 62-year-old man, denied the request and the suspect jumped in his car and fled the scene.
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Jose Reyes hit a two-out RBI single in the 10th inning Tuesday night, and the Miami Marlins overcame an awful ninth inning to snap the Atlanta Braves' four-game winning streak with a 4-3 victory. Atlanta lost to Miami for only the fourth time in 14 meetings. The series will wrap up Wednesday night at 7:00 PM.


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The 34-year-old, formerly of Colorado Rapids, is friends with Livi player-manager Paul Lambert from their Scotland international days.
"He said he is going to come so we can have a look at him in training and I still expect that," said Lambert.
"But he had one or two things to sort out at his end before coming over."
Dunfermline Athletic and Falkirk have rejected a reported interest in signing Spencer as he seeks a return to Scottish football.
The striker, previously of Rangers, Chelsea, QPR and Everton, left Motherwell for Colorado four years ago.
He intends setting up a coaching school in the USA but is seeking to extend his playing career back in Scotland in the meantime.
Livingston could make an offer should Spencer impress while at Almondvale.
But Falkirk player-manager John Hughes told BBC Sport: "He is a player that I admire, but my player budget is spent and I am happy with the strikers I have."
Dunfermline missed out on bringing Stevie Crawford back to East End Park this week, the Scotland striker opting to move to Aberdeen from Dundee United.
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It's a shame, but the logo on this sweet concept design don't imply that a real product is at hand. Named "Soundshelf," the mockup is by Witek Stefeniak and Anielka Zdanowicz of Poland:
Why the traditional speaker has to be put away in the corner of the room or hidden in the wall? Speaker could be displaied, and the aditional function could be imparted. The object becomes the item of furniture by a simple arrengement of dvd and books. Two suggestion of shape give the possibility to arrange the interior in the modern style and to achieve a good quality of home video amplification.
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The recent outbreak of mass criminality can have surprised only the wilfully blind.
Who could miss this, other than either the wilfully blind or the patently disengenuous?
Grotius, on examining the Dutch translation, found the translator often wilfully deviating from the true sense of the original.
Then, for the first time as far as we know, the Maid wilfully disobeyed her Voices.
Now, the Princess, it is most distressing to state, had wilfully avoided Mr. Chase since early that morning.
But to abstract argument, and to political truth, she is wilfully blind.
Eventually the Town Hall was taken, after a most desperate resistance, and ten minutes later wilfully set fire to and burned.
They had been dragged open to-night, and he could not wilfully close them again.
Thou hast knowingly and wilfully abetted, not one but many poisoners, and the stake is the fitting doom for thee and them.
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AMHERST, MA - Ranked 25th in the nation according to the latest D3Hoops.com national poll, the defending NESCAC and Little Three champion Amherst College men's basketball team opens its season Tuesday night at 7 p.m. against visiting non-league foe Mass. College. The Jeffs are looking for their ninth consecutive postseason appearance and a possible third straight NCAA Tournament berth.
Amherst entered the 2000-01 season with a new pot of gold at the end of its postseason rainbow. After years of relying on an at-large bid as its only means of securing a slot in the NCAA Tournament, the NESCAC finally made the transition to a full playing conference, with an automatic bid awarded to the winner of a seven-team postseason championship tournament after a rigorous nine-game league slate.
With that in mind, the Jeffs attacked their most difficult schedule in recent memory - including a slew of tough non-conference matchups against regional powers Babson College, Brandeis University, Worcester State and Clark University - and finished in a four-way tie for first place in the final NESCAC regular season standings. With a 6-3 conference mark, Amherst secured the number-four seed in the NESCAC Tournament and swept Williams, Colby and Trinity Colleges, claiming the conference's first-ever postseason championship and earning a trip to its second consecutive NCAA Tournament.
The Jeffs rode a seven-game winning streak into their first-round NCAA matchup against visiting St. John Fischer College and easily dispatched the Cardinals, 89-76, equaling a school record with their 22nd win of the season. The victory set up an eagerly anticipated rematch with Clark, which downed Amherst in triple-overtime earlier in the season in what was the longest and highest-scoring game in school history, despite a career-high 39 points from senior guard Brian Daoust. Unfortunately, history was destined to repeat itself as the host Cougars used outstanding defensive intensity and bench-play to mount a 16-2 run in the last 10 minutes to advance to the NCAA "Sweet-16" for the first time in over a decade.
Nevertheless, the Jeffs finished their season with a stellar 22-6 overall record, including a first-ever three-game sweep over archrival Williams and a second consecutive outright Little III Championship. Meanwhile, Daoust was a First-Team All-NESCAC and Second-Team ECAC All-Region selection and capped a stellar four-year career by winning the 2001 Bob Cousy Award as the best player in New England under 6-feet tall irrespective of Division. Sophomore forward Steve Zieja joined Daoust as a Second-Team All-NESCAC selection, while Head Coach Dave Hixon was a near-unanimous choice for NESCAC Coach of the Year honors. Senior tri-captains Daoust, Erik Kelly and Abe Sexson graduated as one of the winningest classes in school history, with a 77-26 four-year record, including two trips to the ECAC semifinals, a pair of NCAA Tournament berths and a 7-2 career record against Williams.
Despite losing to graduation one of the best players in school history in Brian Daoust and a pair of valuable floor leaders in Erik Kelly and Abe Sexson, Amherst returns with the bulk of its roster intact and a third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament in its sights.
Newly elected tri-captain Steve Zieja, a Second-Team All-NESCAC selection as a sophomore, will anchor a stacked frontcourt after pouring in a team-high 17.8 points per game during a breakout 2000-01 season. A 6'5" power forward, Zieja finished fourth in the NESCAC in rebounding (8.6 rpg) and sixth in free throw percentage (.787%). He fell just two points shy of becoming only the fifth player in Amherst history to score 500 points in a season. 6'8" junior center Pat Fitzsimons joins Zieja in the paint after finishing second in the NESCAC in blocked shots (2.1 bpg) and third in rebounding (9.3 rpg) to go along with a hearty 10.2 point scoring average as a sophomore. Senior captains Paul Williams and Pat Taverna were key reserves during last season's NCAA Tournament run and will provide added experience at forward, as will 6'4" sophomore Tim Jones, who played in 15 games as a rookie.
The Jeffs' backcourt will be equally formidable, with junior Ryan Faulkner - who led the NESCAC with 5.9 assists per game last season - returning at point guard along with explosive sophomore floor generals Adam Harper and John Donovan. A disruptive defensive presence, Harper posted a team-high 59 steals in just 18.2 minutes per game last season, while Donovan was a skilled playmaker and slick passer in limited action off the bench. On the perimeter, sophomore sharpshooter John Kloepfer should provide valuable scoring punch off the bench.
Head Coach Dave Hixon's troops will also get a boost from a trio of high-profile newcomers - point guard Ray Corrigan from Queens, NY, shooting guard Brian Preston from New Hyde Park, NY and 6'7" forward Andrew Schiel from Abbington, PA.
Amherst opens its NESCAC slate on Friday, January 18, at Williams. As usual, the Jeffs will face a slew of tough non-conference foes, highlighted by a December 4 matchup at Clark University and a trio of high-profile tournaments - the Ken Wright '52 Memorial Amherst Invitational (Nov. 30 - Dec. 1) featuring Vassar College, Rivier College and Stevens Tech, the Pioneer Valley Invitational (Dec. 7-8) featuring Western New England, Westfield State and Springfield College and the Bahama House Classic (Jan. 1-2) at Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Florida.


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Dear all:
FYI, on Mathematica 220.127.116.11 (Linux x86-64), the following gives plot markers
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ListPlot[Transpose@Table[{1, 2, 3}, {x, 1, 10}],
PlotMarkers -> {Automatic, 12}, Joined -> True]
On Mathematica 18.104.22.168 (Mac OS X), the plot markers are properly centered.
I will use this as a workaround for now.
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Detroit • Ignition switch problems that have plagued General Motors and Chrysler have now turned up in the motorcycle business.
Harley-Davidson is recalling more than 4,500 FXDL Dyna Low Rider bikes worldwide because engine vibration can turn the switches from "on" to "accessory."
The recall covers motorcycles from the 2014 ½ model year, including more than 3,300 in the U.S. If the motorcycles have been modified to rev higher than 5,600 RPMs, an engine mount bracket can vibrate excessively, causing the problem.
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Publication Acceptance Date: 11/15/2002
Publication Date: 12/1/2002
Citation: Zimba, P.V., Mischke, C.C. 2002. Zooplankton Nutritional Value: Nursery Pond Fertilization Effects. NWAC (National Warmwater Aquaculture Center) Aquaculture Newsletter. 5(2):8-9,12. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Little information is available on the utilization of natural productivity (i.e., zooplankton) by catfish fry. Although fry and fingerlings survive on prepared diets, many nutrients acquired by fry in ponds are most likely derived from natural food consumption. Experiments were conducted to answer the following questions: 1)What is the nutritional value of zooplankton, and 2)Is zooplankton nutritional value affected by fertilization? Samples of zooplankton from each pond were analyzed for proximate nutrients, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, and vitamins. Fertilized and non-fertilized pond zooplankton were similar in nutritional value; only two fatty acids (C16:0 and C20:4 n-6) were significantly (P<0.05) different between fertilized and non-fertilized ponds. The zooplankton in this study met or exceeded all nutritional requirements of catfish fry; fertilization of these ponds did not affect zooplankton nutritional value with the exception of pantothenic acid and vitamin B6, which were below the catfish fingerling requirement in zooplankton from non-fertilized ponds. If fertilization practices maintain large numbers of zooplankton, all fry nutritional requirements should be met through the natural biota. Additionally, it may be beneficial to offer zooplankton to fry while still in the hatchery.


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Sello Maake ka Ncube (Othello) and Sir Anthony Sher (Iago) will appear in the Royal Shakespeare Company, part of director Michael Boyd's first season.
"There's an expectation, I'm scared but I'm excited by it," said Ncube.
Sir Anthony grew up in South Africa and has performed opposite Ncube before in Titus Andronicus in Johannesburg.
Ncube told BBC Radio 4's Today programme his dream was to play Othello in his native country.
"I would love to do that and I wonder what people's reactions would be when they look at it compared to when they were looking at it during apartheid," he said.
Sir Anthony believes Othello, about a plot to destroy the love between a black man and a white woman, is still an important play.
"I think Othello is as relevant now in a multi-racial society as it was then in a segregated one."
He said his experience of growing up as a white child in South Africa had influenced his performance.
"At the same time as you were learning that two plus two makes four, you were learning that black people were an inferior form of life - that allows me to play the racism in a very profound way that is just second nature to the character," he said.
He feels there is still more to do with the play elsewhere.
"You could set it now in the new South Africa where a black man has this position of power and is resented for it by white people who still believe in the old system.
"When I go back to South Africa now I'm shocked at how little has changed on some levels."
Michael Boyd said he wanted to increase opportunities for experiment when he became artistic director of the RSC last year.
"The aim is to put that spirit of experimentation and enquiry back at the heart of the RSC," he said.


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Sale of Second Street properties raises questionsabout future development
Here's my piece from today's paper about the sale of the Bell Tower Inn, the Alpine Inn plus four other properties on Second Street Southwest.
While the details about the new owners and their intentions are sparce, I'd say one strong possibilty is that a local developer with a handful of local investors put together a deal.
We know Rochester Attorney Dan Berndt is representing the owners, since he filed the incorporation of Second Street Parking LLC.
I've heard from unofficial sources that a hotel is most likely the project in the works, but the company name suggests the possibility of some sort of parking gambit, maybe building extra and selling those spaces.
Of course, that speculation could be way off. We'll just have to see what happens.
A cluster of southwest Rochester properties, including the Bell Tower Inn and the Alpine Inn, sold for $2.72 million earlier this month.
That spurs the question of what the new owner — Second Street Parking LLC — has planned for one of the city's highest profile blocks, across the street from Saint Marys Hospital.
It's unclear who's behind the Rochester company or what the plan is for the older buildings that have long been identified as a prime spot for new development.
The recently formed Second Street Parking bought the parcels that cover half of the block of Second Street between 12th and 13th avenues on July 9. The deeds were officially transferred on July 17.
This is the same group of buildings that were up for foreclosure last month, until the Boundary Waters Bank canceled the sheriff's auction. The company that bought them was incorporated only a few days before the auction was canceled, according to Minnesota Secretary of State's records.
Listing Rochester attorney Dan Berndt's office at the downtown Dunlap & Seeger Law Firm as its registered office, Second Street Parking filed for incorporation on June 6. Berndt was unavailable Monday to discuss the company or the project. No other names were part of the public filing.
Many speculate that the old hotels, the A & A Guest House and the handful of older houses will be demolished to make way for a new development.
While the company's name implies that parking is at least part of what is coming for the area, people connected to the project say they expect a new hotel.
Prior to the sheriff's auction being canceled, the land was described as "a prime hotel development site" in a real estate listing by Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Leines Hotel Advisors. The land was priced at $4.3 million in the sale brochure.
Developers are interested in building more hotels in Rochester due to growing population and the steady stream of visitors to Mayo Clinic.
A Holiday Inn Express & Suites opened last month a few blocks west of the Bell Tower properties, and the nearby Blondell Hotel was upgraded and re-branded as The Brentwood on 2nd. In addition, a La Quinta Inn & Suite is slated to be built in the Shoppes on Maine area in south Rochester.
Prior to the Boundary Water Bank assigning a receiver to take control of the properties, Mike Gillespie of Urbandale, Iowa, owned and managed the buildings.
He bought them in 2006 and 2007 to sell to a client who had plans to build a new commercial project there. The recession then caused the expected buyer to back out and Gillespie was stuck with properties that he had not expected to own for long.
The Bell Tower alone, which was built in 1910, cost him $2.2 million in October 2007.


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The University of Saskatchewan was established in 1907 to serve the province and all of its people. The best way to serve Saskatchewan today, given the increasingly linked world, is to lead in globally significant areas that are of importance to our province. In agriculture, for example, a poor harvest in Saskatchewan has repercussions in countries around the world that rely on us for food. Keeping in mind these complex relationships, the U of S developed signature areas in which the university and province together are uniquely positioned to address critically important national and global issues.
As the reputation of our university and the province grows around the world, we cannot lose sight of our mandate within the borders of Saskatchewan. We still take our historical role as the University for the Province seriously and we make great effort to ensure education is accessible to all people in all corners of Saskatchewan.
Fundamentally, we all want the same things: health, happiness and prosperity. And study after study suggests that educational attainment is key to meeting those goals. One area where we must do better is in meeting the educational needs of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people of Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan has one of the highest populations of Aboriginal people in Canada, and as the founding university in the province, it is appropriate that we have the highest proportion of Aboriginal learners in Canada as well. We are committed to identifying and meeting the unique post-secondary education needs of Aboriginal people and communities.
The number of Aboriginal learners entering our school system—at all levels—is increasing and is expected to continue doing so. To achieve the highest level of success in their academic pursuits, these learners must be able to recognize themselves and their cultures in the curriculum, the places they study, the learning methods they see, and the instructors who guide their learning.
In this issue of the Green & White, you will be introduced to some of the people and initiatives at the U of S to illustrate our commitment to Aboriginal communities. These are more than simply projects at a university; together they create a vision of what post-secondary education should be and will be in our province.
We recognize the province's diversity as well as the important role that culture plays in education. It is our hope that through our work, the U of S will help all people of Saskatchewan achieve their goals. We will lead in the area of Aboriginal learning and discovery not just because it is significant to our province, but because it is also important to communities throughout Canada and the world. This is how the University of Saskatchewan is fulfilling its historical mandate and earning its place among the eminent universities of North America.
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Looking for parents of Wilhelmina Folk born probably 1844 in Raab - today Gyor in Hungary. She was married to Ferdinand Knobloch born probably 1833 in Iglau, Moravia - today Jihlava Czech Republic. Both died in Osijek, Croatia. All of their male descendants (Robert and Rudolf) left Croatia for Germany after 1945.
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PUBLISHED: 19:36 EST, 15 August 2013 | UPDATED: 19:36 EST, 15 August 2013
A lesbian teacher challenging her firing by a Roman Catholic school in Ohio - after 19 years with the school - will not get her job back as part of a settlement reached with the Diocese of Columbus.
The attorneys for Carla Hale and the diocese on Thursday announced that as part of the agreement, she will receive 'acknowledgement' for her years of service at Bishop Watterson High School. Both parties declined to give details of the settlement.
Hale, 57, was given her marching orders in March, just days after her late mother's obituary in February detailed Ms Hale's relationship with a woman named Julie.
Saddened: Carla Hale, 57, worked at Bishop Watterson for 19 years but after her mother's obituary revealed her relationship with a woman named Jule, the school fired her for 'violating its moral codes'
When a parent of one of the students noticed the announcement and complained to the school authorities, Ms Hale was promptly dismissed on the grounds that she had 'violated the school's 'moral policy.'
Holding back tears, Ms Hale told NBC: 'Bishop Watterson is an amazing place to be. The staff, the environment...'
After such a long career at the school, she couldn't believe her ears when she was shown the obituary and told that her relationship didn't adhere to the school's Diocesan policy.
'I was totally shocked,' Hale told OpposingViews.com. 'I mean, I think it was just one of those where everything was drained out of me.'
Ms Hale, who admitted to always having kept her personal life private at work, was sent a letter detailing the Diocesan regulations.
Happier times: Ms Hale (top row, right) who kept her personal life private taught physical education for 19 years and called Watterson 'an amazing place to be'
Institution: A letter from the school (pictured) informed Ms Hale that staff at Watterson were expected to be 'examples of moral behavior and professionalism'
'In keeping with the moral values advanced by the teachings of Christ, the tenets of the Catholic Church, and the policies and regulations of the diocese and school, Catholic school personnel are expected to be examples of moral behavior and professionalism,' it reads.
The letter went on to say that: 'Your written spousal relationship violates the moral laws of the Catholic Church, this an COACE Agreement Article 20.3. As a result, your contract with Bishop Watterson High School is terminated effective Thursday March 28, 2013.'
In a cursory offer of compensation, Ms Hale has been offered letters of recommendation and an opportunity to retain her medical insurance for up to a year.
Pointing to the moral codes cited in the letter, Ms Hale noted: 'There probably honestly wouldn't be a lot of teachers working there then because if you go there then the church doesn't promote divorce, living with a heterosexual partner out of marriage, birth control...
Astonishment: Ms Hale and her attorneys are considering whether to sue the city of Columbus for the infringement of rights that are protected by a municipal ordinance passed in 2008
'If we really want to open up that door ... where do you start and finish if you're talking about immoral behavior within the Catholic Church?'
Though the firing took place at the end of March, a spotlight has been shone on the story thanks to a petition launched by students of the teacher on Change.org in her defense.
Signed by over 15,000 people so far, it asks that the diocese of Columbus 'reinstate faculty member Carla Hale and apologize for discriminating against her on the basis of sexuality.'
'I'm in awe of them,' Ms Hale gushed of her students. 'The continued support from the alums and the phone calls and emails that I'm receiving are just nothing but love and support.'


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The days of videogaming being a niche hobby, a bedroom pastime for teenage boys and bearded men, are long gone. Games are a multibillion dollar industry now, and the biggest titles are far more than just products on a shelf – they're brands, entertainment properties that are marketed as heavily as the latest Hollywood blockbuster.
No longer the embarrassing younger cousin of the other visual media, games are an art form in their own right (even if those in the "know" are still loathe to admit it), telling challenging stories and creating new interactive paradigms. And yet the biggest show on the videogame calendar remains an anachronistic throwback, dominated by uncomfortable images of half naked women, and a headline roster of games that shows little of the diversity and intelligence that games can do so well.
E3 is supposed to be the big showcase for the videogame industry – essentially its equivalent of the suave and celebrity-draped Cannes movie festival – where the best games of the coming months are given their premieres, where console manufacturers and game developers square off against each other, battling for our attention with big reveals and exciting new intellectual properties.
In reality, from the outside at least, E3 is starting to look like something else entirely – an immovable throwback to a time when gaming needed to scream at the top of its voice for anyone to take any notice.
Look at Microsoft's press conference for example. This was a presentation dominated by things other than games, by exercise programs, televisual entertainment and deals with various sports companies to create content for the console. The games on show were the safe choices, the big franchises that everyone already knows, loves, and shells out forty quid for once a year.
It's not a surprise. The term games console is pretty much a redundant one now, with devices like the Xbox 360 and PS3 becoming entertainment hubs, focusing on delivering a variety of content directly into your living room. This is how business works, focus then expansion, but it leaves gamers with an event that, for the most part, isn't really for us anymore, and gives the mainstream media an impression of gaming's culture that's wide of the mark.
To use a pretty awful term, "hardcore gamers", as some people seem to think, aren't in danger of being left behind – in spite of the shift in focus, there were still plenty of titles to get excited about – but E3 is in danger of presenting the world with an image of gaming that does it no good whatsoever.
It's not difficult to dig up an exciting, innovative, fresh looking game that's coming up in the next few months, it's not difficult to find erudite developers who are willing to talk about the games that they're creating, and it's not difficult to staff a booth with fully clothed people who have a passion and an understanding for the product they're going to be promoting.
E3 is stuck in a rut, locked in the past whilst the glorious future of interactive entertainment is already happening around it. We should be disappointed with the show's output, the values it promotes and the image of gaming it gives to the rest of the world, not just because it shows an industry that's out of touch with its consumers, but because the message it sends is so obviously wrong.
The days of the shy, stuttering videogame industry are consigned to history, but what E3 presents isn't the confident, mature industry that's slowly replacing it, but a brash, ignorant, "in your face" teen with attitude.
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Like Kelley, Gatt, and Crowe, the trajectory of Cheryl Jackson's life has been shifted by Oprah's influence.
If Tiger were under the influence of these drugs, his driving would certainly be compromised.
But these observers don't all have the influence of some Washington pundits, whose skepticism was deep-seated.
The studies also looked at the influence of anti-overweight bias in policymaking.
Their influence in the last three years has been pretty enormous.
Again, the influence of English ideas has affected their public worship.
The influence of Self-love operating to the social and public Good, v.266.
She's said it several times while under the influence of the sedatives she's had.
Pen and Jane were not finding the farmers' wives easy to influence.
The influence of Gracchus over the popular mind was lessened.
late 14c., an astrological term, "streaming ethereal power from the stars acting upon character or destiny of men," from Old French influence "emanation from the stars that acts upon one's character and destiny" (13c.), also "a flow of water," from Medieval Latin influentia "a flowing in" (also used in the astrological sense), from Latin influentem (nominative influens), present participle of influere "to flow into," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Meaning "exercise of personal power by human beings" is from mid-15c.; meaning "exertion of unseen influence by persons" is from 1580s (a sense already in Medieval Latin, e.g. Aquinas). Under the influence "drunk" first attested 1866.
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