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When the White House announced plans to bar federal contractors from considering sexual orientation or gender identity when hiring, Christian leaders mobilized.
Dozens of leaders at colleges, relief and development organizations, publishing houses (including CT's parent company), and megachurches signed letters urging President Obama to include explicit protections for religious organizations. Without such exemptions, one letter warned, the move—intended to circumvent Congress's long-standing impasse over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)—"will come at an unreasonable cost to the common good, national unity, and religious freedom." The letters made national news, with signer Gordon College president Michael Lindsay becoming a particular focus for criticism in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
Obama signed the executive order in late July, and it included no such exemptions. (The U.S. Senate passed an ENDA bill that explicitly exempts religious organizations, but it has languished in the House.)
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The second weekend of January -- after a December ice storm, several snows, and freezing temperatures had covered the ground with a thick layer of solid ice -- the temperature shot up into the 40s and 50s. That mild weekend, our family traded the Brrrrr of winter for another kind of burr.
It started when the electric dog fence went down. We share this "fence" – really just a wire run through the woods – with our neighbors; both of our dogs roam freely within its confines, and the control box is located in the neighbors' garage. When these neighbors informed us that there was a break in the wire somewhere, we knew it wouldn't be a quick fix since the wire was buried under about an inch of ice.
If the temperatures were warmer, the days longer, the walking conditions less treacherous, and I didn't have four young children, I could just walk our dog, Gracie, several times a day. Since that's not always possible, we have a 40-foot dog tie-out tethered to a pipe in our yard, which allows Gracie some roaming freedom but prevents her from killing the UPS man. This tie-out was the one thing we forgot to bring inside before winter set in. Like the electric fence, it was buried under ice so thick that numerous pots of boiling water, me with a crowbar, and my husband with a sledgehammer couldn't dislodge it.
So, we faked it. We strapped on Gracie's shock collar and let her out each morning, praying that she wouldn't notice that the fence was down. It worked…until it didn't.
I discovered that the jig was up while driving home from preschool drop-off on Friday morning. Up ahead I spotted a neighbor, Heidi, walking her dog. A familiar-looking dog trotted beside them, off leash…off leash, because that dog was Gracie! I pulled up alongside, stopped our minivan, and tried to entice Gracie to hop in. Here's what she heard: "Gracie, stop frolicking with this puppy, and jump into this huge, noisy moving thing that makes you vomit." Not surprisingly, she didn't buy it. Heidi tried to help by jogging her dog back inside, at which point Gracie took one look at me and ran off into the woods.
There was nothing to do but wait and hope she'd find her way home. When she scratched at our porch door an hour later, her ears were covered with burrs.
Burrs -- seeds or dry fruits that have hooks or teeth, allowing them to stick to fur or clothing -- have two purposes: they repel some herbivores, and they're the means of seed dispersal for burr-bearing plants. They're also familiar local annoyances to anyone with kids or pets.
That particular day, Gracie was doing the reproduction legwork for a common burdock plant (genus Arctium). Burdock is a biennial found throughout North America; it can grow to be six feet tall and has large heart-shaped leaves and purple flowers that bloom from June through October. These flowers sit atop a prickly ball about 0.5 inches in diameter, and it's these prickly balls that become the "burr" of burdock when the plant goes to seed. Each ball is composed of about 40 hooked barbs so tenacious that they were supposedly the inspiration for Velcro.
It was annoying to pick burdock barbs off of Gracie's ears. It was even more annoying when she broke through the fence the next day (that's right; we didn't learn and neither did she) and returned covered in the burrs of the Hackelia virginiana plant, commonly known as "beggar's lice." These burrs are tiny – about half a centimeter long – and vaguely tear-shaped. Despite their name, they're more reminiscent of deer ticks than lice, and almost as difficult to extract from a curly-haired dog. I'm still finding them on Gracie.
After two consecutive days of Gracie's burr run-ins, the thawing temperatures melted the ice enough for our neighbors to locate and repair the break in the dog fence. It was Sunday, and we assumed it would be a day of rest from runaway dogs and assorted burrs.
Sunday afternoon, my daughters went to a friend's house to play. Because of the warmer weather, the children – eight in all – ended up outside. Also running around outside: a flock of chickens, which my two-year-old delighted in terrorizing. "Chickens! Stand STILL!" she ordered while chasing them around the coop.
As she emerged from the far side of the coop, I noticed what looked like a decorative flower clip attached to her hair. Since I didn't remember putting anything in her hair, I took a closer look. What appeared to be large, puffy petals were in fact a massive clump of burdock burrs stuck to the side of my daughter's head.
Turns out it's a lot harder to pick burrs from a two-year-old than from a dog. A more patient mother might have used spray-on conditioner, olive oil, peanut butter – all remedies suggested to me by more patient mothers after the fact. I plucked out burr barbs for roughly 30 seconds before giving up and grabbing my hair-cutting shears.
It was a prickly, sticky weekend. I don't know why our family experienced three burr encounters in three days; perhaps it's proof of the old adage that bad news always comes in threes. But now electric current again runs through the dog fence, my two-year-old sports a new pixie haircut, snow and colder temperatures have returned, and all's right with the world.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, four young daughters, one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.

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Stanley Kubrick's Dramatic Photos of 1940s New York City
As we previously mentioned, before he became famous for directing films like A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, and Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick was a poor kid from the Bronx who worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. (He was their youngest staff photographer on record.) Kubrick's striking black and white images of 1940s New York City — which were often shot on the sly, his camera concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it — hint at the dark beauty and psychological drama of his later creative output. Now, VandM is making 25 select prints from the nearly 10,000 photos that he took as a young man available for purchase for the first time. Click through to preview some of his early work, and head here to buy a limited-edition print, with the majority of the proceeds going to the Museum of the City of New York.
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With his late-night hangs with hip-hoppers, Justin Bieber might not be acting like a guy who's ready to settle down. Don't be fooled.
The 19-year-old previously revealed he wants to be a young husband and father, but it all might go down way sooner than even Beliebers have dared to dream!
"I can't wait to have a beautiful wife and little kids running around," Biebs says in the new issue of In Touch. (We'll wait for you to get up off the floor before proceeding ... ready? OK.)
Justin's love of kids is well documented, from hanging out with his much-younger siblings to visiting a record-breaking number of child patients for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. But romantically, he hasn't been seriously linked with anyone since his recent split with Selena Gomez. And he's been having fun both playing the field and playing the romantic.
"I'm not going to lie. It's fun to be young, fall in love and be in love," he tells the magazine. "My mom taught me how to treat a woman right, so I enjoy taking a girl out and doing nice things for her. Everyone deserves to feel like they are the most special person in the world."
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Court papers say the former graduate student accused in the Colorado movie theater shooting was being treated by a psychiatrist at the university where he studied.
The revelation was disclosed Friday in a defense motion. The motion sought to discover the source of leaks to some media outlets that a package that James Holmes sent the psychiatrist contained a notebook with descriptions of an attack.
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What a glorious film! The cinematography is superb! You see actual models of the planes of the day in 1914, beautiful costuming authentic for the period, fantastic automobiles of the era. The film is funny in so many ways and the actors are first-class. The animosity displayed between the nations vying for the race and its prize would be the same today. National pride has not changed! This is such a delightful film. Not to be missed!
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This is a wonderful '60s-era British romp in the spirit of some more familiar contemporary American offerings such as The Great Race or It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World. It features great British humo(u)r, both subtle and overt, plenty of eye candy for the aviation buff, and classic performances from Terry Thomas as the devious cad, Gert Frobe as the imperious German officer, and Benny Hill as the fire warden, among many others. Don't miss it!
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A ruptured gas line that caught fire and sent flames 50-feet into the air Tuesday morning in McKinney has been snuffed out, but not before injuring two people and damaging several vehicles.
The gas line explosion was first reported at about 8:45 a.m. at a digging site near state highways 121 and 5 east of US 75 in Collin County. While flying to the scene, Chopper 5 videographer Ames Meyer said the flames were visible from about 15 miles away.
According to the McKinney Fire Department, a 6-person Atmos Energy crew was working in the area when they ruptured a 6-inch gas line with a backhoe.
Nearby witnesses described hearing the gas and the explosion that followed afterward.
"There was a big hiss and we were running around trying to figure out what the hiss was and it was only about maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then, 'Kaboom,' we saw it across the street," said Chris Bean, who works at the nearby Golf Club at McKinney. "My first reaction was,'Thank God I don't have to fix that. ' Then the reality hit ... you could see the flames and there was no black smoke, just this huge ball of fire. I saw one of the crew members run across the street and he was pretty shaken up ... they just started running."
There have been conflicting reports about the number and severity of those injured, but Atmos officials now say only two people were treated for injuries, one for anxiety.
"We are very lucky. They [the crew] were all immediately accounted for. This is in the McKinney city limits but it is in a fairly remote area so there were no homes impacted," said Stacie Durham, McKinney Fire Department.
Several vehicles, including digging equipment, were destroyed by the fire.
The fire caused a power outage in the area and the nearby Medical Center of McKinney operated on generator power for a short time until power was restored to the hospital. The hospital is located about a block to the southwest of the fire.
At about 9:45 a.m., the supply to the gas line was shut down and the fire slowly went out as the residual gas burned off.
Tuesday afternoon, Atmos crews were going door to door to restore natural gas service to approximately 650 customers affected by the explosion.
"We apologize to our customers for this inconvenience and we want to assure them we are working hard to restore service," said Jennifer Ryan, Atmos Energy spokesperson. "All customers who return home tonight and do not have natural gas service need to call the Atmos Energy Customer Service Center at 1-888-286-6700."
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Police busted a 1,000-strong block party near the OSU campus over the weekend, and these three young gentlemen — from left to right, Michael Shivak, 21, Matthew Coleman, 19, and Brian Witt, 21 — were arrested on charges of a felony assault on a police officer. No idea how Shivak came out so clean.
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Welcome to Part 3 in the "Binders Can Organized Your Life Series." It's the Child Edition - Girl/Boy Scouts, Catechism/Sunday School and School Information.
If you missed Part 1, you can click on the first link below to take you there and to see why I'm doing this series and how I store my binders. The second link will take you to Part 2.
Part 1 ~ Manual & Warranties, Holiday Ideas, Decorating Ideas & My Recipes
Part 2 ~ Crafts, Gifts & Tips and Christmas Planner.
There are 2 more weeks of binders and here is the schedule for the next 2 Wednesdays:
Part 4 ~ Home Management Binder
Part 5 ~ Financial Budget Binder
If you have kids, you know they bring enough paper home to wallpaper the whole house. . . on a weekly basis! Seriously, it can just pile up if you don't take control.
I created binders for each activity that my daughter participates in. However, as I was taking this picture, I realized there wasn't very much inside these binders. Each activity certainly doesn't warrant having a binder of it's own. So with that being said, this week I am going to downsize it all into one binder with tab dividers. I've been needing to make a binder for her gymnastics anyway, so now I can just consolidate all of Allison's activities into one binder.
What do I keep in these? I keep anything that has to do with that activity. Phone lists, schedules, copies of forms filled out, etc. If you have more than one child, make a binder for each one. It will definitely cut down on all that paper clutter!
This binder has saved my life! Well. Not really. BUT it has kept me organized with all the goings on of school stuff. I have made one of these binders every year since Allison started school. I will tell you that I touch this binder every day! It is my most frequently used binder. I don't keep them every year because as you'll see, it's not necessary to keep all of what I put in there. I just keep reusing the binder every year. A little note here is that I use a 2" binder for this one. I use to use a 1" but as she has moved along in school, there seems to be more that comes home.
This is the cover. I have Allison's name, the name of the school, the grade, the teacher and so on. You could probably leave it plain but I like to pretty things up. :)
Where do I put all of the work papers and tests that Allison bring home?
Ooooh, you are asking about the 876 papers that come home in ONE DAY?
Well. Do you see that basket in the picture above?
Yes, that's the one. The pretty one.
It houses all of my active files that I use frequently. That's a whole other post but a couple of folders in that basket are for Allison's work papers and tests. I look at them when they come home and then place them in the files. At the end of the quarter, I go through them and decide what I want to keep and then the keepers get put into my file box that I keep in my Command Center. If you can throw them out, more power to you. I'm a little more emotionally attached to anything my daughter completes. I find that if I wait and have a whole stack, I become more detached to them. However, I would recommend not throwing out the tests until after the grading period. Everyone makes mistakes and a teacher can make one recording your child's grade. You want to make sure you have the back-up to support any incorrect grade.
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Harold Ray Martin Ancestors
My father Harold Ray Martin was was born 3/31/24 (Peoria, Ill) the son of Arthur R & Stella Blakley Martin. His grandmother was Mrs. Effie Eggers, Hampshire, Ill, and had a twin brother Gerald J. Martin. He was found dead of a gunshot wound in the head 9/6/64 (Metamora, Ill).
I've traced the Martin family back & ran conflicting information on the offspring of Captain Christopher John Martin born in 1560, in Billerica, Essex,England. This is especially true of a son John Martin, b. 1598 Braintree, Essex, England. D. 02 May 1694 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey. Spouse: Suzan Hemertin. I've added a query giving details of this conflicting information. Basically I see 3 possible mothers, plus references that he actually died in 1607. I'd appreciate help in resolving the conflicts.


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Submariners' 'bio-duck' is probably a whale
Acoustic tags suggest Antarctic minke is source of mysterious sounds
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It quacks like a duck, sort of. But the mystery creature of the Antarctic is more likely a whale.
Submariners in the 1960s recorded strings of quick heartbeatlike pulses and nicknamed the unknown source a "bio-duck." Whatever it is sounds off mostly in winter and spring in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica and the waters off Western Australia.
The sound is "way too loud for a fish," says marine biologist Denise Risch of Integrated Statistics in Falmouth, Mass. Listeners have proposed sources from military hardware to marine mammals such as minke whales.
Very little is known about these whales' vocalizations; researchers have identified only a few of the various minke species' sounds, including a "boing" and what's called a "Star Wars" vocalization. In 2013, researchers for the first time placed acoustic tags on the Antarctic minke (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). Tags from two whales recorded some


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Below is a list of recent HopeCollege graduates who have been awarded graduation honors for outstanding academic accomplishment during their four years of study.
Summa Cum Laude honors are awarded to graduates who achieved a minimum cumulative 3.9 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
Magna Cum Laude honors are awarded to graduates who achieved a minimum 3.7 grade point average on a 4.00 scale.
Cum Laude honors are awarded to graduates who achieved a minimum 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
Christa Bonin, Muskegon
Anna Nieboer, Grand Rapids
Caleb Park, Traverse City
Erica Smith, Muskegon
Mary Tennant, West Olive
Kylie Topliff, Williamston
Thomas Bird, Baraboo, Wisc.
Kayla Borgman, Holland
Sarah Brown, Flint
Katelyn Brundige, Vicksburg
Nathan Bult, Jenison
Amy Clinton, Sycamore, Ill.
Ian Coburn, Grand Ledge
Rachel Diephouse, San Jose, Ca.
Catherine Ellis, Hudson
Alissa Gigler, Naperville, Ill.
Amy Lesch, Ann Arbor
Jeana Longoria, Howard City
Sarah Miller, Grand Haven
Zachary Mitchell, Stevensville
Allison Nees, DeWitt, Ia.
Jessica Ortiz, Elgin, Ill.
Lydia Post, Kalamazoo
Kevin Raley, Addison, Ill.
Amy Rollefson, Palatine, Ill.
Kaitlin Ronda, Grand Rapids
Kevin Soubly, Plymouth
Kristen Schwenk, Midland
Katelin Takemura, Bellingham, Wa.
Alissa Tassopoulos, Grosse Pointe Farms
Lindsay Tracy, Schoolcraft
Jaime Van Heest, Holland
Melanie Weimer, Holland
Kristin Benner, Plainfield, Ill.
Natalie Dalm, Richland
Bryan DeKoekkoek, Martin
Erin Eddy, Walled Lake
Elizabeth Forsythe, Vicksburg
Theresa Klepitsch, Park Ridge, Ill.
Nathan Klipp, Boston, Ma.
Emma Lucas, Boon
Brigid Maniates, Clarendon Hills, Ill.
Allison Morse, Naperville, Ill.
Andrew Nichols, Traverse City
Jennifer Rautiola, Woodbury, Minn.
Corinne Schild, Macedon, N.Y.
Elizabeth Segriff, Barrington, Ill.
John Turner, Caledonia
Lucas Whitman, Monroe
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Childhood pictures of Krystle Campbell show nothing but smiles — which is exactly how her family continues to remember the 29-year-old, whose life was stolen by the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon almost one year ago.
Her parents, Patty and Bill, shared exclusively with NECN personal stories about Krystle, from her devotion to her ailing family members in Somerville, Mass., to the heartbreaking confusion of the day she died.
Krystle's grandmother Wilma shared her own memories of her granddaughter's care, remembering the time Krystle turned down living with her friends to be closer to her. She was recently widowed at the time and recovering from colon surgery.
"And then she lived with me after I got sick," Wilma Campbell said. "She thought maybe I would need her, so she lived here with me a little over two years."
Patty and Bill saw Krystle every day until April 15, 2013, when she saw a Red Sox game with friends before heading to the marathon finish line.
"My son thought my daughter was at that Red Sox game, and we tried to call her," Patty recalled of the moments after the blasts first rocked the marathon finish line. "My son said to me, 'Mom, I have a funny feeling that Krystle is involved in this.' My son had a sixth sense."
One Error's 15 Painful Hours
When the bombs exploded, Krystle's friend Karen Rand was carrying Krystle's purse — leading first responders mistakenly to identify Karen as Krystle at the hospital.
That meant that for 15 hours, Krystle's parents thought their daughter was alive and in surgery.
"They told us that she was in surgery," Patty said. "A quarter to three that morning, they told us they got the bleeding under control, that we could go in for a brief minute. And then we're just going to leave it at that. We found out there was an error," Patty recalled, her voice faltering.
Karen had endured life-altering injuries but ultimately survived. Krystle had not.
"After thinking for 15 hours that your daughter is going through all of this stuff, but she's not, she's gone..." Bill said. "A parent should never have to bury their child, because it's the hardest thing that any parent has to go through, to lose a child. I don't care if it's a newborn or six years or 30 years or 40 years."
An Unexpected Letter From a Survivor
The Campbells have been sustained by the thoughts and prayers promised by the letters, cards and other tokens of support they've received from people around the world.
But the letter that affected them most deeply came from a woman in California who had stood right by Krystle at the marathon finish line.
Krystle was standing at the barrier with a view of the finish line, and when she overheard that the sister of the California woman behind her was about to cross the finish line, she offered her spot so she could see better, the woman wrote.
"My daughter says, 'Well, you know, our runner is not going to be here for a few more minutes, why don't you step in front of us?'" Bill explained.
"I guess my daughter went out behind her, and less than three or four seconds later, the bomb went off. And the woman from California felt like it was her fault. But it wasn't," Bill said, weeping.
"Why Is Our Daughter Gone?"
It's not easy for Patty and Bill to see Krystle's friends who have recovered from their blast injuries.
Patty recalled how she saw one of her daughter's friends at an event, and the friend asked if she were mad. "I said, 'No, God no, I'm not mad at you at all. I'm not mad at you,'" Patty said.
But Bill said he can't help but wonder: "'Why is our daughter gone and you're still here?'"
That question — a "natural human thought," Patty observes — isn't one the Campbell family will ever be able to answer. But as they try to make peace with Krystle's death, her grandmother Wilma Campbell takes comfort in the belief that Krystle is now reunited with her late grandfather.
"I said that when I first saw her in the casket, I told her, 'Okay, Papa's waiting for you, and you'll be okay,'" Wilma said.


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Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-8th District)
Total value assets: $63,007-$245,000 Earned income: None. Honoraria: None. Major assets: Congressional Federal Credit Union, $15,001-$50,000; Pepsico, $15,001-$50,000; Arent Fox Pension Plan, $15,001-$50,000; State of Maryland General Assembly Pension plan, $15,001-$50,000. Major sources of unearned income: Pepsico, $201-$1,000. Major liabilities: None. Gifts: None. Narrative: Van Hollen reports that his wife received a salary from AMIDEAST, a non-profit focused on the Middle East and North Africa, but does not report the amount. He owns several stocks, including Yum! Brands — the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell — and General Electric. He serves on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington.
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Betty Lou Taylor, 63, of Chuckey, went to her heavenly home to be with the Lord on Oct. 24, 2012, at John M. Reed Nursing Home.
Betty Lou Taylor, 63, of Chuckey, went to her heavenly home to be with the Lord on Oct. 24, 2012, at John M. Reed Nursing Home.
She is survived by her son, Larry Taylor of Oliver Springs, Tenn.; her daughter, Linda Disney of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; three grandsons, Justin and Michael Taylor of Oak Ridge, and Nathan Taylor of Oliver Springs; her mother, Edith Self of Greeneville; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Debbie and Alan Foulks of Greeneville, and Barbara Richesin of Mosheim; nieces and nephew, Tabitha, Josh and Kelly Foulks; aunts and uncle, Pauline Engle of Lebanon, Ohio, Jean Roberts of Lake Wylie, S.C., and Paul and Mary Napier of Lexington, Ky.; and special friend and companion Kenny Bowling.
She was preceded in death by her stepfather, Reese Self.
She was a member of the Women of the Moose, and attended as long as her health permitted Eastside Baptist Church.
The family received friends from 2 to 4 and 6 and 8 p.m. Thursday at Jeffers Afton Chapel, with the funeral at 8 p.m. on Thursday with Pastor David Fox officiating.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. on Friday Weems Chapel Cemetery. Family and friends will meet at 9 a.m. at Jeffers Afton Chapel to go in precession.
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The Folias Tango Quartet will perform at Hope College on Friday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The Folias Tango Quartet consists of Luke Galas, David Martin, Andrew Bergeron and Carmen Maret. Based in Grand Rapids and founded by Bergeron and Maret, Folias previously performed at Hope in the fall of 2009.
The first half of the program will consist of a flute and guitar duet by Bergeron and Maret, who compose pieces and also perform together as the Folia Flute and Guitar Duo. The second half of the performance will be the quartet featuring "The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" by tango legend Astor Piazzolla.
"Fanfare Magazine" has said of Folias that "Their compositions are tonal with a simple, direct melodic appeal--a few 'sophisticated' harmonies and lines surface, but they don't veer into atonality. They draw on tango rhythms and melodies sometimes; at other times they write with a scenic sensitivity, as when they flowingly capture the sense of being afloat on Lake Superior."
Folias the chamber group was founded by Maret and Bergeron in 2002. With more than 200 performances, Folias specializes in modern chamber music works, most of which are original compositions or those of local Michigan composers. The Folias Music site includes recordings and sheet music of Folias' original works and arrangements influenced by modern compositional techniques, tango and jazz.
Folias has performed in concert halls, clubs and for tango events across North America. Bergeron's and Maret's original compositions and arrangements have been recorded on four separate Folias CD releases which are on the Blue Griffin Recording and White Pine Music labels, and have been reviewed by "Flute Talk" magazine and "Fanfare Magazine."
° Andrew Bergeron is instructor of guitar and music theory at Grand Rapids Community College and Aquinas College. He is a founding performer and composer with the Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet, which features his new works and arrangements. Bergeron's music has been performed by the contemporary music ensemble at Michigan State University and Musique 21, and his guitar concerto "Big Bend" (2005) placed first in the Michigan State University Concert Competition. Bergeron's electronic works have been performed at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, and his tango arrangements have been performed by Folias for the Alma Symphony.
° Carmen Maret is an endorsed Pearl Flute artist and Blue Griffin Recording artist. She is the manager for Folias Music, the online store and blog for promoting new works for flute and guitar. She is the co-music director at Bethlehem Church in Grand Rapids, and the founder/director of the MAJIC (Musical Arts for Justice in the Community) Concert Series that features classical, jazz, and world music to raise money for social justice organizations throughout West Michigan.
Bergeron and Maret are also co-founders of the Grand Rapids Tango Community, where they work as musicians and dance instructors.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues.


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New Year's Eve dancing will be free this year at the Emerson House in Milford. Dining is not required for footloose revelry accompanied by the Curtones, featuring guitarist John Curtin and his vocalist wife, Vicky.
New Year's Eve dancing will be free this year at the Emerson House in Milford. Dining is not required for footloose revelry accompanied by the Curtones, featuring guitarist John Curtin and his vocalist wife, Vicky.
"If you can dance to the Rolling Stones, you can dance to the Curtones," said John Curtin.
For the occasion, Curtin said his band will play such classics as the Stones' "Start Me Up" and "Honky Tonk Women," as well as "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." But his repertoire is diverse. He said he plays 250 nights a year, including performing in the Gypsy Jazz Quintet and an Elvis Presley tribute band.
At age 10, he was inspired by Elvis Presley and his Martin guitar. He describes himself as a "solo musician with a special occasion band." This will be his 30th New Year's Eve show, and his fourth year as a dance band for the Fauch�re.
"Vicky does a great job with Etta James' 'At Last' and 'Dancing in the Streets,'" he said.
Sean Strub, co-owner of the Fauch�re, said it's been a tradition at the Hotel Fauch�re to have John and Vicki Curtin and their band perform. But usually that was in Bar Louis.
"This year we decided to make it a bigger party and open to the community without a cover charge," Strub said. "We're still in a tough economy, and people can't spend as much going out as they might have before."
Bob Grimm is going to be the bartender. "He and Hillary Needleman — who is now the Hotel Fauch�re's special events manager and is coordinating the New Year's Eve celebration — ran the Muir House for many years," Strub said.
The Muir House is now closed, but people ask about them all the time. "So having Bob as our guest bartender on New Year's Eve will be a bit of a reunion with some of the old Muir House crowd," Strub said.
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"This is probably the most grand meal of the year at the Fauch�re," Strub said.


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NEW ORLEANS -- Representatives of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will join several other governmental agencies in a Nov. 5 Baton Rouge public town hall meeting to educate and assist the public on employment issues and problems.
The EEOC will join with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights (LCHR) to discuss employment concerns at the event. People who believe they have been victims of employment discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, wages, work conditions, pregnancy or public accommodations are invited to attend.
The event will take place on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm, at the Southern University Law School, 2 Roosevelt Steptoe Drive, Room 129, A.A. Lenoir Hall, Baton Rouge.
This event is one of many being scheduled throughout the state where federal and state agencies will collaborate in their efforts to meet the citizens and discuss their employment concerns. Reaching more people through non-traditional outreach and information sharing will aid the agencies in maximizing their resources to assist workers in resolving issues before they escalate into intractable conflict. These federal and state agencies want to promote healthy workplaces through education and knowledge.
The event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. Additional information regarding this event may be obtained by contacting EEOC Outreach Program Manager Tydell N. Whitfield at 504-595-2838 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The EEOC is the federal agency which enforces anti-discrimination laws in employment. The NLRB protects the rights of employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their wages and working conditions. OSHA sets and enforces protective workplace safety and health standards. The LCHR enforces Louisiana laws that prohibit various forms of discrimination related to employment, public accommodations and banking and lending practices.
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Abstinence-only advocate defended misleading curricula with more distortions
Research ››› ››› JEREMY CLUCHEY
Dr. Joseph S. McIlhaney, Jr., president of the conservative Medical Institute for Sexual Health, attempted to defend federally funded abstinence-only sexual education programs against a report , recently issued by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), which stated that many of these programs teach false information. But McIlhaney instead provided further false information about reproductive health and distorted the results of comprehensive sexual education programs. McIlhaney's false claims came on the December 6 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, where Matthews failed to correct his guest's false assertions.
As Media Matters for America has previously noted, the December 2004 report issued by Waxman found that "over 80%" of the curricula of federally funded abstinence-only education programs "contain false, misleading or distorted information about reproductive health."
MCILHANEY FALSE CLAIM #1: NIH data shows condoms reduce risk of common STDs only "by about 50 percent of the time"
McIlhaney falsely asserted that "actual data" from National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows that condoms only reduce the risk of transmitting chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and herpes "by about 50 percent of the time." But a 2001 National Institutes of Health (NIH) study on the "Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Prevention," which contains the NIH's most recent data on condom effectiveness, offered no such statistics; the report actually found that there is "a strong probability of condom effectiveness when used correctly." While the NIH report concluded that "there was insufficient evidence from the epidemiological studies on these diseases to draw definite conclusions about the effectiveness of the latex male condom in reducing the transmission of these diseases," it noted that "condoms provide a highly effective barrier to transmission of particles of similar size to those of the smallest STD viruses."
FALSE CLAIM #2: Comprehensive sex ed programs don't lower pregnancy rates
McIlhaney claimed that no "comprehensive sex ed programs ... have actually lowered pregnancy rates." Besides teaching abstinence, comprehensive sexual education teaches students about contraception options, including condoms. In 2000, the American Medical Association endorsed "[c]omprehensive, age-appropriate sex education programs," because they "offer the best hope of stemming sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies." A report on "Health and Sexuality Education" by the progressive Center for Policy Alternatives found that comprehensive sexual education curricula have been successful in reducing pregnancy rates, noting in particular one such program "taught by a Maine community group" which "contributed to a 35 percent decline in the teen pregnancy rate over the 20 years the program has been in existence."
FALSE CLAIM #3: Report shows that teen pregnancy rates dropped because teens are choosing abstinence
McIlhaney asserted that "a report in the Journal of Adolescent Family Medicine" found that fewer teens have become pregnant "because of their choosing abstinence." While Media Matters was unable to locate a publication called the Journal of Adolescent Family Medicine, the Houston Chronicle reported on November 16, 2004, that "a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health" gave nearly half the credit for declining teen pregnancy rates to "improved contraceptive practices." The Chronicle reported: "The survey concluded that 53 percent of the decline in teen pregnancy rates can be attributed to decreased sexual activity, and 47 percent can be attributed to improved contraceptive practices."
According to a February 2004 Salon.com article, McIlhaney is "an old Bush friend" whom President Bush appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and the advisory committee to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Salon noted that McIlhaney "was reprimanded by the Texas Department of Health for spreading false information about sexually transmitted diseases and condoms' ineffectiveness" -- and also pointed out that McIlhaney's Austin, Texas-based Medical Institute for Sexual Health "has received $1.5 million in federal contracts related to abstinence education and STD research."
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Aurora Partners With Cooper Caskets & Funeral Supplies
Distribution Agreement Offers New Solutions to Funeral Homes in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
Aurora, IN – September 18, 2012 – Aurora Casket Company, the largest privately owned funeral service supplier, announced a strategic partnership with Cooper Caskets & Funeral Supplies to sell Aurora caskets to funeral homes in New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Cooper Caskets & Funeral Supplies is part of Cooper Vault Company, a leading supplier of burial products in the mid-Atlantic region for more than 32 years.
"Aurora's reputation for quality and service is well known," said Beth Cooper, Vice President at Cooper Vault Company. "We share a commitment to the funeral profession and the families that they serve, so partnering with Aurora to bring new solutions to our customers was the perfect fit."
Cooper Vault was founded in 1979 by Paul and Joanne Cooper. This family-owned firm currently has a team of more than 35 employees serving parts of five mid-Atlantic states. Jonathan Dous recently joined the team to represent the casket side of the business. Dous has more than 20 years experience in funeral service.
"The team at Cooper has successfully grown their business for more than three decades," said Tim Dugan, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Aurora. "With this new partnership and Aurora's continued sales and operations in the Northeast, we anticipate that we will be able to bring the best Aurora solutions to customers that Aurora hasn't directly served in the past. We hope to grow together for the next decades."
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Pop-punk is coming home. In many ways, the much maligned genre — that basically mixes pop songwriting sensibilities with punk energy — never really went away but it undoubtedly became a dirty word. As the biggest bands of the genre such as Green Day, Blink 182, Good Charlotte and Fallout Boy gained popularity with teen and tween audiences, appearing more in Bop than Rolling Stone, and being admired for looks more than music, the genre lost a ton of credibility. Fans grew up and characterized pop-punk as "what I used to listen to in high school." As one spin on the dial will tell you, Top 40 radio has basically abandoned rock in general, let alone pop-punk.
But music has always been cyclical, and many are calling this year's Warped Tour lineup a return to its pop-punk heyday of the aughts. After a few years of Warped being heavy on the screamo, metal, post hardcore, indie and even bands who lean a little too far on the EDM spectrum, the 2014 lineup features several bands that were at the forefront of the genre's popularity a decade ago. The following not- to-be-missed acts all represent different shades of the pop-punk umbrella, but they have one thing in common, genre aside: They've stood the test of time due to great songwriting and great live shows.
Bowling For Soup
Best-Known Songs: "1985," "Girl All the Bad Guys Want"
Biggest Record: A Hangover You Don't Deserve, 2004
Latest Record: Lunch.Drunk.Love., 2013
Despite what some would consider a silly name for a band, it's actually a play on an old Steve Martin joke, thus making the name totally awesome. Bowling For Soup could be considered one of the most underrated and underappreciated bands of the past decade. Best-known for the brilliant Top 40 hit "1985," BFS has managed to release record after record of catchy, hook-filled rock and roll for more than 20 years. As for the live show, arguably no band is more fun to watch; the in-between-song banter is second to none. There'll be a lot of bands screaming at Warped Tour but only one can make you laugh while still rocking out.
Saves the Day
Best-Known Songs: "At Your Funeral," "Freakish"
Biggest Record: Stay What You Are, 2001
Latest Record: Saves the Day, 2013
It's quite possible that Chris Conley, Saves the Day's chief songwriter and sole original member, is one of the best lyricists in rock and roll. Sound crazy? Read the lyrics to literally any song he's ever written and it's essentially poetry that works just as well without the music, and sometimes even more so. The song "Cars and Calories" could be put in a time capsule as a summary of the empty culture of materialism and TMZ celebrity worship that's crept into society. In three devastating minutes Conley tells a story that could represent an entire generation of young girls raised on reality TV. When he's on, he's as good as a lyricist can get. He's easily the Bob Dylan or Tom Waits of his genre. Best of all, the band's most recent self-titled effort, is possibly its best record yet, and was one of 2013's best records, period. A life-affirming, positive, roll–down-the-windows-and-contemplate-the-better-parts-of-the-human-experience type of record that hopefully will get the proper respect in years to come.
Less Than Jake
Best-Known Songs: "The Science of Selling Yourself Short," "History of a Boring Town"
Biggest Record: Anthem, 2003
Latest Record: See the Light, 2013
If pop-punk fell out of fashion, ska fared even worse, not leaving much hope for the survival of Less Than Jake. But through the strength of its epic and energetic shows, plus just tremendous anthemic songwriting, the band has maintained a loyal fan base. It's also probably in the running for most appearances on Warped Tour ever, seemingly on the tour ever other year, and for good reason. First-time concertgoers at Warped, a crowd whose demographic seems to get younger with every year, need to see a band like Less Than Jake to experience what a real live show should look like. No caked-in-make-up models or laptops duct-taped to folding tables in the center stage. Just grown men with guitars, horns and drums, singing and sweating and sending out an infectious energy. Musically, LTJ is a master of the epic anthem with a perfect blend of sing-along melodies and soaring horn lines. Drummer and chief lyricist Vinnie Fiorello, is a special writer who is gifted at expressing small-town angst.
Best-Known Songs: "Ocean Avenue," "Way Away"
Biggest Record: Ocean Avenue, 2003
Latest Record: Ocean Avenue Acoustic, 2013
At the 2004 Warped Tour, the band to see, and the song to hear live, was Yellowcard and its monster hit "Ocean Avenue." Complete with a back-flipping violin player, the band can lay claim to one of the biggest pop-punk hits of all time. With Yellowcard, there was enough seriousness to music and lyrics, emo if you must, that it was absolutely the right band at the right time. Yellowcard actually came to the Ventura County area from Florida in pursuit of fame and fortune in the music world and actually achieved it. Locals were able to catch the band, whose live shows were always tremendous, at all-ages venues including The Livery Theater shortly before the band became an MTV darling. After an uneven record or two and changing tastes on radio, the band took a hiatus but returned in 2011 seemingly energized and inspired with When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes, a tremendous record that reminded everyone what made Yellowcard great in first place: solid songwriting that you could relate to. To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its biggest record, Yellowcard just released an acoustic version of Ocean Avenue, but the songs are completely reimagined and offer a more mature feel. Yellowcard and Warped Tour go hand in hand. A generation of kids first saw it a decade ago on the tour and hopefully in 2014, a new generation will do the same.
Warped Tour, June 22, at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura. For more information, visit www.vanswarpedtour.com.


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Four of the five candidates running for the U.S. Senate are opposed to Obamacare.
The fifth -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey of Malden -- not only voted for it but said it was the best vote he had ever taken.
What gives? What gives is that the issue is still a dominant campaign theme even though now -- as thousands upon thousands of pages of new rules and regulations are being promulgated -- it is the law of the land.
Despite the fact that Obamacare is being implemented, the issue is still a burning one that will be debated for the rest of this special election, and will be debated again in the congressional elections of 2014.
This, at least, was one thing made clear in the first televised debate of the Senate campaign last week on Boston's WCVB-TV, Channel 5. It not only was the first debate in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by former Sen. John F. Kerry, it is also the first statewide campaign for all five candidates.
Unfortunately for the candidates, though, coverage of the debate was largely squashed by the dominating media coverage over Boston Mayor Tom Menino's decision not to run for re-election, and the same-sex marriage saga played out before the U.S. Supreme Court.
All three Republican candidates, appearing in the first half of the two-part debate, vowed to vote to repeal Obamacare if elected. The three are state Rep. Daniel Winslow, former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and political newcomer Gabriel Gomez, a former U.S. Navy Seal.
While all three Republicans handled themselves well in a gaffe-free encounter -- with no striking differences among them -- their appearance was like the preliminary bout to the main event, which was between the two Democrats.
Still, Winslow made a point when he declared of the three Republicans, "Any one of us is better than either one of them."
Also, Gomez scored a few points when he declined to take a shot at his two opponents. "I'm not here to ask questions of my fellow candidates, to try to tear them down or put them on the spot," he said. The remark was interesting in that both the Winslow and Sullivan campaigns have criticized Gomez for a letter he sent to Gov. Deval Patrick seeking appointment as the interim U.S senator in which he praised President Barack Obama.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, 57, Markey's opponent in the two-man Democratic primary, sparred with Markey over Obamacare in the second segment of the debate. Lynch, who voted against Obamacare when it was before the House, defended his vote as an example of his political independence. "Hey, I don't work for Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid," Lynch said early on.
Markey, 66, who has served in the House for 36 years, painted himself as the political heir to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and to Kerry, who combined had some 75 years of legislative experience.
He praised passage of Obamacare and said its approval was in the Democratic tradition of President Harry Truman, guaranteeing health care to millions of uninsured Americans. His vote for the plan, he said, "was the proudest vote of my career."
Lynch responded by saying the bill gave too much away to the insurance companies while imposing new taxes on the middle class. "What we did there was wrong," he said. He wants to go to the Senate, he said, not to repeal Obamacare but to "fix it."
While no serious punches were landed by either set of candidates, the debate gave the relatively unknown candidates a chance to introduce themselves to the Massachusetts electorate at large before the April 30 primary and the June 25 election.
Things did get a bit testy between Lynch and Markey when Lynch accused Markey of ignoring the needs of Massachusetts fishermen and contributing to rising cable rates, which Markey countered.
But the finest moment in the debate came when the issue of veterans was raised. Lynch, a member of the House Committee on Veteran Affairs, said he faced the closing of three veterans' hospitals in his congressional district upon his appointment to the committee a decade ago.
Since then, Lynch said, "with the help of Ed Markey," the hospitals have not only remained open, but are being expanded.
Markey, the dean of the Massachusetts delegation in Congress, returned Lynch's display of magnanimity, rarely seen in politics these days, when he turned to Lynch and responded: "I honor Steve for his work in that area."
It was a nice touch and a nice way to end the first debate.
Peter Lucas' political column appears Tuesday and Friday. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible by Michael S. Heiser
An Unfiltered Look at the Unseen World The psalmist declared that God presides over an assembly of divine beings (Psa. 82:1). Who are they? What does it mean when those beings participate in God's decisions (1 Kings 22:19–23)? Why wasn't Eve surprised when the serpent spoke to her? Why … more