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Dunwoody grew up the daughter of a career Army officer and lived in Germany and Belgium growing up.
First woman to command a battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division in 1992.
First female general officer in 2000.
First woman to command the Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee, Virginia in 2004.
First female soldier to achieve three-star rank since Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, the former Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence.
First woman in U.S. military history to achieve the rank of four-star General
General Dunwoody has commanded at every level, including the 226th Maintenance Company at Fort Sill, OK; the 5th QM Detachment (ABN) in Kaiserslautern, Germany; the 407th Supply and Service Battalion/ 782d Main Support Battalion (MSB) at Fort Bragg, NC; the 10th Division Support Command (DISCOM) at Fort Drum, NY; the 1st Corps Support Command at Fort Bragg, NC; the Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC)/Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) in Alexandria, VA; and the Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) at Fort Lee, VA. She most recently served as Deputy Commanding General, AMC.
Other Honors:
1998 Recipient of the Military Distinguished Order of Saint Martin (Army Quartermaster Corps) 2001 Distinguished Alumna for Cortland State SUNY 2002 Inducted as a Distinguished Member of the Quartermaster Regiment 2004 Recipient of the National Defense Transportation Association's DoD Distinguished Service Award 2007 Recipient of Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW) Distinguished Service Award 2008 First female four-star general in the United States Armed Services 2012 Inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame 2012 Recipient Ancient Order of Saint Martin (Army Quartermaster Corps)


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I Spy: A Word Scavenger Hunt
In this selection from Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Janet Allen presents a great instructional activity to make words come alive for students, encouraging them to see how vocabulary relates to real-world context.
What Is the I Spy Activity?
I Spy is an activity designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply and discover applications of target vocabulary words in real-life contexts. In most cases, students see lists of vocabulary words in the context of their textbooks or other teaching resources. This activity is based on the belief that middle and high school students should have "deeper explorations with language" (Beck, McKeown, and Kucan 2002) and that children remember more information when they relate words to known information (Stahl 1999; Craik and Tulving 1975). Relating the new to the known in the study of vocabulary can be finding examples and nonexamples, applying the word to known contexts, and making personal connections to the word. I Spy fosters all these activities as students go on scavenger hunts to find examples of the words they have studied in contexts other than their texts.
How Does I Spy Work?
I Spy works the same way any scavenger hunt works. In scavenger hunts, participants usually receive a list of items and must find those items somewhere. I Spy is a word scavenger hunt; students are given a list of words and must find examples of the word somewhere. In the example provided here, the social studies teacher and her students are studying the Revolutionary War. In the middle of the unit, students go on a scavenger hunt to find examples of the unit vocabulary words: revolution, traitor, infiltrate, declaration, and independence.
- Create a list of words that are specific to the text or unit of study.
- Give students the list of words and explain that they are looking for examples of the word and not the actual word. It is a bonus if they find the actual word but you really want them to discover the word in action.
- Students work in groups and document where they discovered the word.
- If possible, they bring an artifact to show the word in a new context. For example, if they find a newspaper article about a revolution, students cut the article out and bring that as an artifact. If they find a photograph of a revolution, they bring the photograph (or a copy) as an artifact.
- Individually, students write what connection the target word in a new context has to what they are studying in the unit on the American Revolution.
- If you have a word wall, artifacts can be displayed under each of the target words as a visual reminder of the word, its meanings, and its applications.
When and Why Would I Use This Activity?
The first reason you might want to use this activity is that students find it enjoyable. In addition, it is an ideal way to see if students have developed an in-depth understanding of the word and its attributes. Students often memorize definitions for words from a content textbook but actually do not see these words as living words. They see the word only in relation to the chapter or unit of study. This activity brings the words to life for students, one that would be characterized as a "beyond the classroom" activity by Beck, McKeown, and Kucan (2002).
Our example is from a social studies classroom, but the activity could be used in any content area. In math, students might be looking for examples of words such as intersection, graph, line, solution, application, and variables in their study of linear equations and functions. In health, students might go on a scavenger hunt for words such as pyramid, malnutrition, deficiency, nutrients, balanced, and vitamins in their study of eating habits. Regardless of which words are chosen for each content area, the goals remain consistent: students transfer their knowledge of content-specific words to a larger context and then make connections between the context they discovered and the unit of study in which they have been involved.
Research/Origins/Further Reading
Beck, I. L., M. G. McKeown, and L. Kucan. 2002. Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction. New York: Guilford Press.
Craik, F. I. M., and E. Tulving. 1975. "Depth of Processing and the Retention of Words in Episodic Memory." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 104: 268?94.
Stahl, S. A. 1999. Vocabulary Development: From Research to Practice. Newton Upper Falls, MA: Brookline Books.
From Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary by Janet Allen. Copyright © 2007. Reproduced with permission of Stenhouse Publishers.

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I have a quick question. I have a 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 server with 24GB of RAM and is used as a VMWare Workstation 7.1 host. I would like to use an in-memory drive for the VM Memory location, which I setup as the following:
tmpfs /mnt/vmware tmpfs defaults,size=100% 0 0
That all works. Next I want to allocate 16GB of RAM to the VM, I know its a lot but we do a lot of processing that needs a lot of RAM.
After the VM is started and I run df -h, I get the following for that drive:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted On
tmpfs 24G 11G 14G 44% /mnt/vmware
Why is it that the Available (14GB) size does not equal the Size (24GB) of the drive? And why wouldn't the whole 16GB get allocated to the memory space, which is what i set in the vmware guest .vmx file? Is there a limit to the space that can be allocated to a tmpfs file system?
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Beaver Creek is a modern day wonder, three villages that in the 1980s seemingly sprung up out of nowhere. No silver mining history here. A modern day boom town built around real estate, snow, and mountain recreations like skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, and golf. Like everything here, your money-saving holiday rental is likely to revolve around Beaver Creek Mountain. Though Aspen and Vail are nearby, Beaver Creek seems a quiet family-friendly retreat away from the main mass of party animals.
Beaver Creek Resort, which opened in 1980, calls itself "the most environmentally sensitive ski resort ever built in North America." You will have to judge the truth or hyperbole of that for yourself. But no denying that a Beaver Creek holiday rental home, condo, apartment, or townhouse is one of the better money-saving values in the area. Beaver Creek Village provides heated walkways and escalators to get you between the shops and restaurants in winter comfort. Evenings, ice skate in the village rink. With only 17 lifts and 149 runs, Beaver Creek Mountain's 1,815 acres of skiing are relatively intimate. Consider being there for Birds of Prey World Cup Race Week's Men's Downhill, GS Races, and Slalom.
Beaver Creek and its aspen groves can be explored via mountain bike, horse, 4x4 vehicle, or even hot-air balloon. Fly fishing, rafting, hiking, tennis, and other outdoor pursuits are also available if the spirit moves you. Or tee off into the steep, narrow canyon fairways of the Beaver Creek Golf Course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. Red Sky Golf Club's Tom Fazio and Greg Norman courses alternate daily availability between club members and guests. Kids will enjoy the children's museum and the Hike-ology programme of wildlife, botany, and history trails. Time your visit for the rodeo or the TransRockies multi-day long distance run.
The SaddleRidge restaurant, built by a global financial services firm at the height of the 1987 boom, is now part steakhouse serving up buffalo prime rib and venison along with chipotle butters and honeys. Now part of the Vail Resort portfolio, the SaddleRidge holds treasures of the American West such as cast-iron Colorado railroad turntable wheels doubling as chandeliers, Edward S. Curtis photographs, and Buffalo Bill and Native American artifacts.
Transport the family 3 miles west of Beaver Creek to the old ranching town of Edwards for an evening or Sunday matinee play at the Riverwalk Theatre. Like your Beaver Creek family holiday rental, the Community Circle Players productions in Edwards will save you money. Also a good family value is a concert, Broadway or dance show at Beaver Creek's horseshoe-shaped Vilar Performing Arts Centre.
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"all art is either spiritual or decorative"
personally, i love these kinds of absolute, polarizing statements. i love it when people actually take a position. that creates opportunity for discussion. then again, i think that the more one argues (and by argue, i mean "to make clear"; implying a process of reasoning), the more truth emerges. those kinds of statements position and place us, and force us to examine [exactly] where we stand on an issue, or what we think or believe about certain ideas. and what we don't.
naturally, i am interested in many of the concepts and tensions raised by this statement: ideas around art, faith and spirituality; the sublime; notions of Truth and Beauty; the fear of kitsch and use of the colloquial and commonplace; audiences and community; art's use and function; the connecting between creativity and spirituality. i think this statement circles around many of these ideas, and hints at the tension between communicating something and the way in which we do that, without saying one is more important than the other (though we might disagree). the more i think through this statement, the more i think it is touching on something quite substantially important regarding the content and purpose of art. do you agree with the above statement? why or why not?


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In a great New York Times piece titled 'Dying for Discovery', Richard Conniff recounts several stories of naturalists, ecologists and conservation biologists killed while pursuing their passion for discovery. But just how many field biologists have died while working to understand life's secrets? This is an interesting question, and begs the further question, are they adequately memorialized?Gary Polis (1946-2000) desert ecologist, drown with four other biologists during a storm in the Sea of Cortez.
In an attempt to tell the stories of the fallen naturalists, Conniff hosts an interactive list, called the Wall of the Dead, which lists all biologists killed in the field and that he has a record of. People are able to add names, and I've visited this list several times over the past month and it has grown substantially. I've known a few field biologists that have died -and added one to the list, and know several that survived near-death experiences, and this list is a great and important monument to their memories.


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Five Principles for Islam's Future
"Islam means peace", they exclaim. "Islam condemns terrorism", they insist. "The vast majority of Muslims reject violence", they wail. Even before 11 September 2001, Muslim leaderships in Britain and elsewhere went to great pains to demarcate the line between mainstream Islam and militant interpretations of the faith. After it, their protestations became even more emphatic.
They are right, insofar as the routine association between Islam and terrorism is often expressed in simplistic and loaded terms. But the tired mantra of denial also evades a real problem within Muslim communities, one that has sharpened and deepened since 9/11: the way that an increasing number of Muslims are turning to the rhetoric and religious justification of literalist, jihadi scholars.
The reasons for this shift are evident enough: the continued occupation of "Muslim lands" like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine, the presence of authoritarian regimes propped up by the west, and the feeling that modernity has left Muslims behind. The "war on terror" is indeed being fought on a new, complex battleground, the hearts and minds of the world's Muslims.
But our response should be not a retreat to dogma, far less an intellectual flirtation with violence, but an acceptance of this dangerous new territory as a challenge to articulate afresh the real message and relevance of our faith.
History through the lens of victimhood
Dyab Abou Jahjah approaches the "war on terror" from another direction, by emphasising the litany of oppressions, past and present, the Arab (mostly Muslim) world has endured. In the process, he seeks to force the reader to view history through the lens of victimhood.
He sees this multitude of oppressions – economic, political, and social – fuelling the anger of the increasingly young Arab (and Muslim) street, anger that affects countries with vibrant, expressive Muslim minorities as well as majority Muslim nations.
The trouble is that Abou Jahjah (and other commentators of his ilk) adopts a decidedly postmodern moral relativism. He says he is against terrorist killing of civilians, but won't criticise those under imperial attack who choose such means. "Preserving the moral ground", Abou Jahjah suggests, "is the least of their concerns in a dirty war." Fight fire with fire then, and let the flames go where the wind takes them.
This is a mistake.
No doubt, Abou Jahjah's arguments make sense on an emotive level. After all, the passionate empathy for fellow Muslims – the umma – runs high amongst an increasingly globalised Muslim youth. We must understand what makes a young man from Bradford feel so passionately about Gaza. Individual identities are shaped by global realities.
But this kind of rhetoric is also dangerous. The more we move away from moral and ethical benchmarks of behaviour, the more we open ourselves up to violent militancy and terrorism. Our approach to terrorism and oppression must be based on an accurate reading of the mood on the street and reassertion of the fundamental theological and moral principles of Islam that have been part of its religious expression since the time of the Prophet.
So what can we offer Muslim youth, those under occupation and those feeling increasingly angry and frustrated by what they see as a global war on Islam? Here are five principles of action.
1. Be open to discussion
The classical Islamic sciences and ethical discourse must be revived. The development of Islamic jurisprudence, theology, law and spirituality is characterised by a spirit of moderation and the need to find the "middle way". Without a reassertion of religious values that stress discourse over violence, and civility over zeal, there will be nothing to moderate the passions running high on the Arab street.
As Fuad Nahdi points out, contemporary political Islam offers a religion to die for; classical Islam offers a religion to live for. Without the latter the great achievements of Muslim civilisation (so celebrated and extolled by Islamists) would not have been possible.
The earliest known pictures of the sacred mosque in Mecca show four mihrabs (prayer niches), pointing towards the Ka'aba. These represent the four major schools of Sunni legal thought all of which were respected and taught in the shade of Islam's holiest shrine. For the most part, a peaceful pluralism underscored by scholarship and discourse existed in Mecca, which was one of the centres of debate. This spirit is now almost entirely missing from popular Muslim discourse.
We now have a "protestant" Islam that is almost entirely divorced from our rich interpretive past. Traditional Islam, first whittled away at by the colonial powers and later so-called reformers, has now been outbid by Wahhabi Islam that takes as its starting-point a literal, static interpretation of the sacred texts. It is a movement that tore down the four mihrabs (prayer niches) in Mecca. During the last four decades, funded by petrodollars and mass-produced literature, it has hijacked much of the popular theological debates within Islam, particularly in the west and the Arab world.
Civil society has always been a strong element of Muslim societies and there has always existed a place for bitter argument and a multitude of contested views. These were not threatening to the umma unless they became a source of violence, injustice and social anarchy.
2. Promote spirituality
Revive a sense of morality. The whole problem with Bin Ladenism and its related perversions is that while they use the language of Islam and appeal to community, they neglect its moral and ethical tenets. Emotion and outrage is no basis for a solution to the current malaise.
We need to reassess the man who is at the heart of Muslim belief. Political Islam has made the Prophet Muhammad out to be a warrior-statesman. He was this, but he was more. His mission was to uplift the character of people through teaching worship, good conduct and humility before God.
According to the teachings of the Prophet, we must pursue the moral high-ground even in the face of an aggressor who is not moral. He is declared in the Qur'an to be a "mercy to all the worlds" and rahmah (mercy) is his emblematic quality. He was motivated by a profound and intimate love for God, humanity and his community. He was a peacemaker and a diplomat – generous and compassionate.
For the Prophet, the ends never justified the means. But, you won't hear much mercy these days from Islamists. Their call to action may have Islamic language attached to it, but it is thoroughly expedient and secular. If we allow this trend to continue, we make a mockery of religion and ultimately make Islam temporal. Lacking universality and relegated to emotive language devoid of a moral and ethical system, Islam loses its place as a genuine guiding force in people's lives.
Islamic spirituality, or Sufism, has always been an integral part of Muslim religious life. Sufi saints, shaykhs and orders provided a methodological approach to knowing God based on the recitation of litanies, the instruction to develop piety and righteous character, to humble the ego and to devote service to society. Even today Sufism, with its expression of shared Islamic values and focusing of the individual's attention on a higher purpose, could be a dramatic counterforce to militant political Islam.
This is not an attempt to neuter Islam. To the contrary, Sufis were, for example, at the forefront of many anti-colonial struggles (Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi in Algeria, Omar Mukhtar in Libya, Shamil al-Daghestani in the Caucasus). But their approach placed principle and restraint ahead of political or military gain.
A revival of spiritual practice and organisation will in turn revive an internal moral debate on how to resist occupation.
3. Resist the wrong kind of "support"
Do not hand the future of Islam and Muslims over to the likes of the Rand Corporation. The influential United States think-tank's 2003 report, Civil Democratic Islam, suggested a way to secularise Islamic discourse by pitting "fundamentalists", "traditionalists", "modernists" and "secularists" against each other.
This kind of simplification ignores the complexity of the global Muslim experience and makes matters worse. Such western interference and "support" has exacerbated, and in some cases created, the current crises in the Muslim world.
For years, the United States either ignored or indulged her Arab allies as they pumped money into organisations that chipped away at the edifice of classical Islamic heritage and encouraged a uniform, literalist interpretation of Islam. It is the spawn of this interpretation that now calls for "holy war". The combination has ruined the fabric of Muslim civil society and made the world unsafe.
4. Divorce state and religion
Remove the ulama from state control. Majority Muslim states must stop meddling with religion. Islamic tradition calls for a healthy tension between religious scholars and the state, so that they can keep one another in check. Muslim societies must have the ulama as a dynamic vibrant force within civil society. The state needs to avoid interfering with religion and co-opting it for its own political ends.
Classical Islamic discourse cautioned the scholars of religion from getting too close to political authority, and many famous and celebrated scholars fled from service in the Sultan's court in order to preserve their integrity and independence. This is not to suggest that all ulama in such a position today are to be censured. Many scholars with formal positions within state structures are in fact remarkable voices of reason and balance, like Mufti Ali Jumu'a of Egypt.
The desire for an "Islamic state", whatever that means, must in any case be predicated by an Islamic state of heart and mind that is more concerned with mercy, justice and the development of good character, than with utopias and the mirage of a city on the hill.
5. Take pride in culture
Encourage the development of a cultural agenda for young Muslims. For years, the literalists have downplayed the importance of music, art and literature (particularly in the west where debates over whether these things are permissible or not is a favourite pastime of the religious classes).
Islamic civilisations gave birth to some of the most sophisticated cultural and artistic expressions ever. Celebrations like the mawlid – the birth of the Prophet – are essential elements of the cultural calendar of most Muslim societies and were the catalysts for repeated cultural evolution and revival.
We need to revive those musical and artistic traditions that have begun to vanish. A people without a cultural agenda, that particularises and localises religious expression, present no hope for their young people. Today there is a Chinese Islam distinct from an Anatolian Islam. Neither loses its link to the universal Islamic principles, but both have a unique cultural expression. The erosion of this kind of Islam must end.
Dyab Abou Jahjah uses the term "by any means necessary" to exclaim the right of the oppressed to retaliate. It is a statement popularised by Malcolm X, one of the great leaders of America's civil rights movement and a Muslim, who was assassinated forty years ago.
Malcolm X himself went through a profound transformation, from an advocate of black self-determination to an orthodox Sunni Muslim who connected the global struggle against colonial occupation in Africa and Southeast Asia, to the desire of black people to gain their human rights in America.
After having spent much of his life rejecting co-operation with American whites, he devoted his last days to building alliances with an incredible variety of people – Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Whites, Asians, Blacks, socialists, communists, capitalists – because he believed that Islam called on humanity to work together collectively to solve its problems. Malcolm X moved to the middle way. He was going to build alliances and act strategically to end racism, by any means necessary. Today we need those kinds of alliances more than ever.
Terrorism must be beaten, but it cannot be defeated with its own weapons – bombs, bullets, and the denial of human rights. We must not be afraid to follow the middle way, away from the extremes of literalism and, as Malcolm X would say, "house negroism". Muslims, and all the world's people, deserve better.
© Fareena Alam 2005
This article previously appeared on openDemocracy.
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LPL Financial (LPLA) said Monday that Anne Mulcahy (left), a former chairwoman and CEO of Xerox (XRX), will join its board of directors, pending stockholder approval, in May. Mulcahy will also serve on the board's audit committee.
"We're delighted to welcome Anne to our board of directors, and we look forward to having an independent director with her stature and experience strengthen our board and broaden our perspective on management and leadership," said LPL Financial Chairman and CEO Mark Casady, in a press release.
Several experts are wowed by Mulcahy's new role at LPL, which comes three months after the independent broker-dealer hired ex-Dell executive Victor Fetter as its chief information officer and made Fetter managing director of its Business Technology Services business unit.
"Anne Mulcahy brings so much to LPL's board, including technology prowess, large-company managerial experience and public company governance experience," said Chip Roame, managing partner of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, in an interview with AdvisorOne.com. "This is a great addition."
Mulcahy was CEO of Xerox from 2001 to 2009 and chairwoman of the company from 2002 to 2010. She is currently a board director of Johnson & Johnson, Target and the Washington Post Co. She is also chair of the board of trustees for Save the Children.
"I was immediately drawn to this opportunity with LPL Financial, because the company is a true industry innovator with all of the attributes necessary to continue to grow and redefine the financial services space," said Mulcahy, in a statement.
The addition of a former IT executive shows that LPL clearly knows the importance of technology in the business, says executive-search consultant Mark Elzweig.
"A board appointment like this shows that LPL is willing to do what it can to ensure that its IT capabilities are first rate," Elzweig said in an interview. "The fact that they're a public company and one of the largest players in the independent space gives them the heft to do so."
Technology is becoming a key point of differentiation in the advisor business, he notes. "There's something of an arms race going on as firms roll out their next generation offerings."
But at least one expert believes that hiring an ex-Xerox leader isn't necessarily good for LPL's IT strategy and focus.
"LPL has been committing capital to key technology positions of late but I'm not sure if a former chairman of Xerox would reflect a strong positive—when you consider that Xerox is a shell of their former self, failing to capitalize on technologies that companies like Apple profited from," said the recruiter Jon Henschen in an interview.
Still, LPL's success at adding advisors, acquiring firms and improving its IT platform has produced very powerful results of late, according to Roame, which (hopefully) Mulcahy can help the firm further capitalize on.
"The evolution of LPL is amazingly impressive," he said. "A decade ago, almost all IBDs were small-siloed private firms which lagged behind industry trends and never led much of anything. LPL has transformed itself into a multichannel, successful, leading-edge firm under the direction of Mark Casady."


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This fall, Stevie Nicks released "In Your Dreams," a personal documentary examining her life and career. Announcing the release, Ultimate Classic Rock remarked that the documentary's release is "the most exciting news for the year for Wiccan candle…enthusiasts." After all these years, the media still clings to the myth that Stevie Nicks is Pagan. In a 1998 online Yahoo interview, she was quoted as saying, "I'm not a witch. Get a life!"
Are there Pagan celebrities? Madonna, Demi Moore and others reportedly have studied the Kabbalah. Julia Roberts has openly converted to Hinduism. Although not mainstream, those spiritual paths are not necessarily Pagan. Neither Amy Ray, who loosely uses the word Pagan as a descriptive, nor Dar Williams, whose interfaith song "The Christians and the Pagans" has captured many an imagination, has openly professed to being Pagan.
When it comes down to it, there are very few entertainment celebrities who openly practice a Pagan spiritual path. There's Sully Erma, Godsmack's lead singer, and Teo Bishop, who revealed himself to be recording artist Matt Morris. Truthfully, we could probably count them on one hand. Fortunately, just this month, I had the opportunity to speak to one of these rare individuals – actor and writer, Mark Ryan.
You might know Mark better as Nasir the Saracen from the popular British Television series Robin of Sherwood. However, that's just one very small part of this his life's journey. Mark, a true Renaissance man, has been combining his theatrical and writing talents in a successful career spanning more than 30 years. He has appeared in dozens of film, theater, and television productions both in the US and UK. He's an accomplished swordsman and action director. As a writer, he has contributed to DC Comics and has produced two Tarot decks; the Greenwood Tarot and, the newly-released, Wildwood deck. Currently, he is co-hosting Combat Radio on internet-based LA Talk Radio.
The hour long talk developed into more of a in-depth conversation than a traditional interview. Mark was very open about his childhood, his spiritual journey, his career, his beliefs, and the nature of Paganism in celebrity culture. An edited version of that interview, with video sound bites, will be published here in two parts.
Part I: A Conversation with Mark Ryan, October 4, 2012
Heather: You are openly Pagan. What type of Pagan spirituality do you follow?
Mark: I describe myself as an eclectic, philosophical Pagan because I don't really know how else to describe it. I'm not a follower of any organized religion. I don't accept the structure of the main three organized religions. So, [I asked] what structure is there? And that led me to this philosophical approach – to take the pieces that make sense to me philosophically, psychologically and scientifically and apply that in my life.
I have been in many [Pagan] circles. In San Francisco, there was a Golden Dawn-type group. They've all got their rules – the way that they do it. That just didn't feel natural [to me.] It still doesn't feel natural. A human being [can say], "This is what I've been told; therefore, this is the way you must do it." I've always looked at these people and said, "Well, what about this?" I don't care whether you walk your path by looking at crystals or reading tarot cards or reading tea leaves. To me, it's all the same stuff. It's your journey and it's your path. So go do it. I respect everyone's belief systems. As long as they don't want to burn me at the stake because of mine, then I'm happy.
H: Which one came first, your Pagan journey or the entertainment career?
M: I was born in a place called Doncaster, South Yorkshire, which was part of the Brigantian Celtic culture long before the Romans arrived. South of me was Sherwood Forest, which I played in as a child. We played Robin Hood surrounded by Conisbrough Castle – the castle used in Ivanhoe. And, York was up the road, which was a major Roman capital. There's a whole history there of spiritual beliefs.
As a child, I somehow absorbed the Arthurian, Robin Hood, nature-based stuff into my psyche. It just sunk in. The imagery and iconic ideas of the Arthurian Legend and Robin Hood stayed with me as a guide and a way of looking at the world. The Lady of the Lake, the Sword and the Stone and the King – this spoke to me on a deep emotional level. The Church did not. I had questions about the Bible. I would embarrass myself in religious instruction classes by asking awkward questions for which the teachers had no answer.
H: So, when you started performing, were you formally following this alternative spiritual path?
M: No. It was a long, strange and twisted path. I grew up with a lot of tragedy in my family. But that pushes you to think, "Okay, you are going to die." How are you going to deal with death? How are you going to deal with life? That really colored my attitude to both life and achieving things in life.
After I got to London, [along] came Robin of Sherwood. [It] was such a natural fit.
H: Tell us the story behind the creation of The Greenwood Tarot.
M: The artist, Chesca Potter, [and I] were sitting around one night talking about why Robin of Sherwood had had such an impact on the magical world. We were talking about that nature of why those characters speak to people to this day. To this day! Out of that discussion came the concept of the major 22 arcana and 22 types of personality. It started almost like an experiment. Chesca wanted to know if I wanted to do a Robin of Sherwood tarot. I said, "No, we're too close to it." I thought it was too narrow a vision, to be honest.
I bought my first Tarot deck in 1979. It was the Morgan Greer or Voyager Tarot. But it didn't speak to me, because I don't understand Kabbalah. It just does not resonate with me. As I was learning about the Wheel of the Year, [Chesca and I] started to lay out these archetypes around the Wheel. That made instantaneous visual, emotional, and practical sense.
I called John Matthews. I said, "John, we just laid out the tarot arcana in this wheel on the floor. Does this make any sense to you? Does it have validity?" He said, "I wish I had done that! It actually makes total sense. I don't think anybody's done that before. There have been other [decks] that have been based on the Wheel of the Year. But the way you've done it makes instantaneous, visual sense to me."
H: Greenwood was very popular but it is now out of print, correct?
M: Yes. It is out of print. I have one copy, the original proof. I get asked if it's me selling the Greenwood Tarot online for $2-3,000 a deck. No. I don't get any money from those sales. I only have the original proof.
To Be Continued: Tomorrow, I'll pick up the conversation with Mark as he takes us from the mysteries of the Greenwood into the depths of the Wildwood and beyond!


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Acorde de Crazy Game - Indigo Girls
* These are the chords as they are written in the sheet music, although I find
it much, much easier to play this song in D (instead of E). To play in D,
just play all the chords as if they were a whole step lower (e.g., B7 becomes
A7), and capo up two frets. Of course, it doesn't sound quite right that
way, but at least it's humanly possible.
* |'s separate measures.
* If there are two chords in one measure, each chord is half the measure,
save for the 2nd-to-last measure in the chorus (the A6 and Am6 are quarters),
and the 2nd-to-last measure of the song (the B7 and B7+5 are quarters).
B7(4) B7(-9+5) | Emaj9 | E9 | F#m9/E | Fmaj7 | E | C#7+5 | F#m9 | B7 B7+5 |
| Emaj9 | Bm9/E | A6 | FM7+11 |
Crazy game, I never should have started to play; But now you couldn't tear me
| E | C#7-9+5 | F#m9 | B B+ |
away; Love is sweet, sweet baby, so good to you, and so bad; And I
| Emaj9 | Bm9/E | A6 | FM7+11 |
swear, the situation's clear before my eyes; Confusion wants to break me & it
| E | C#7-9+5 | F#m9 | B9 |
tries; I've been a little bit stronger from the start; Listen to my heart
| Amaj7 | Am6 |
'Cause if you're ever believing I'm thinking of leaving, look to the
| G#m7 | C#7 |
moon, 'cause it's a fact: she may go wandering
| F#m7 G#m7 | Amaj7 A/B |
about, but she always comes shining back, and it's true
| Amaj9 G#m7 | F#7 A6 Am6 |
I'll wait for you
| E | C#7+9+5 | F#m9 | B7 B7+5 |
You dry your tears, don't be thinking grey is here to stay
Sometimes everything's in the way
You're wanting to look at it, turn your view around, dry your eyes
Eyes like yours should carry a smile, I haven't seen them sparkle in a while
Give it one more try, dry your eyes
'Cause if you're ever believing I'm thinking of leaving
Look to the moon, 'cause it's a fact
She may go wandering about, but she always comes shining back, and it's true
I'll wait for you
| E | C#7+9+5 | Em9 B7 B7+5 | Emaj9 .


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By David Kelly
AURORA, Colo. – A new study shows that high school athletes playing at higher altitudes suffer fewer concussions than those closer to sea-level, a phenomenon attributed to physiological changes in the brain causing it to fit more tightly in the skull.
"This is the first time any research has linked altitude to sports-related concussion," said Dawn Comstock, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health and co-author of the study. "It appears that when you are at altitude there may be a little less free space in the skull so the brain can't move around as much."
The study, first-authored by David Smith, MD, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, was published recently in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine.
The researchers analyzed concussion statistics from athletes playing multiple sports in 497 high schools from across the U.S. with altitudes ranging from 7 feet to 6,903 feet with 600 feet being the median. They also examined football separately since it has the highest concussion rate of high school sports. The numbers came from the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System which is directed by Comstock.
The results showed a 31 percent decrease in concussion rates among all high school sports played at altitudes of 600 feet and above. Concussion rates for high school football players at these altitudes decreased by 30 percent.
"We did see significant differences in concussion rates with elevation changes," Comstock said. "This could mean that kids in Colorado are less likely to sustain a concussion playing sports than kids in Florida."
While reasons for these declines are unclear, the study suggests a possible explanation – as one ascends in altitude blood vessels in the brain undergo mild edema or swelling. This swelling along with other physiological changes cause the brain to fit more tightly in the skull so that it cannot move around as violently when struck. Sports-related concussions usually result from the brain colliding with the skull following a blow to the athlete.
"Vasogenic edema in the brain leads to increased extravascular water," the study says. "These two adaptations would also lead to a tighter packaging of the brain with increased blood cell content surrounding the brain."
Comstock said the next step may be to look at professional sports.
"If this study is correct, we should look to replicate our findings in the National Football League," Comstock said. "For example, if the Broncos play the Chargers in San Diego or the Dolphins in Miami they should experience more concussions than when they play here in Denver."
The incidence of concussion among high school athletes has grown tremendously. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate the annual incidence of sports-related traumatic brain injury in the U.S. at 1.6 million to 3.8 million with many more going undiagnosed. In a recent 10-year period there has been a 100 percent increase among 8 to 13-year-olds and a 200 percent increase among 14 to 19-year-olds in sports-related emergency room visits for concussion.
Comstock said sports equipment hasn't changed in decades and this study could possibly pave the way for the design of new protective equipment to reduce concussions.
Interestingly, scientists found that putting mild pressure on a rat's jugular vein increased pressure on the brain and reduced injury from concussion by 83 percent.
"There are many possibilities here," Comstock said. "But we are just beginning to understand the connections between altitude and concussion."


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Cisco, EMC partner on SAN encryption
Cisco will ship encryption in switches later this year integrated with EMC's RSA key management software. Users are curious but cautious about its impact on other services.
Cisco Systems Inc. plans storage area network (SAN)-based encryption for tape libraries and virtual tape libraries (VTLs) in the second half of 2007, with support for heterogeneous disk arrays shortly thereafter. Cisco and EMC Corp. also announced that Cisco's encryption keys will be compatible with EMC's RSA Key Manager, though Cisco also plans to offer its own key management application.
According to Doug Anderson, product manager of Cisco's data center business unit, five-to-six beta test sites are currently being qualified, with testing of the Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME) module beginning as soon as next month.
The encryption will come in two forms: as a blade for the MDS 9500 and MDS 9200 series chassis, or a switch module for new 9200 customers. Because the 9500 automatically load balances and clusters blades as they are added, adding encryption to the director would require no recabling or rewiring of the SAN, according to Cisco. Cost for adding the blade or module has not yet been determined.
Management of encryption for tape libraries and VLTs, which will be the first targets for the network-based encryption offering, will become part of Cisco Fabric Manager. "The vast majority of users looking to implement encryption are looking to implement it at rest on backup targets, particularly VTLs," Anderson said.
It will take more time for Cisco to qualify the encryption with disk arrays. The company declined to give a specific date for this availability.
In the meantime, SME will also allow users to be selective about which devices are to be encrypted, down to the LUN level when SAN array support is added, or to the tape drive and virtual tape cartridge level on backup targets, Anderson said.
Users: Interested, but a few questions before buying
"A fabric-based hardware encryption method is a necessity," wrote John Ciarlette, network engineer for Edward Hospital and Health Services, in an email to SearchStorage.com. "I questioned this very thing over a year ago when we were purchasing director-class SAN switches."
Ciarlette said fabric-based encryption appeals to him because data is encrypted before it is laid down on tape and disk, "which would help prevent data misuse." Having the encryption performed at the SAN switch fabric would be more efficient and centralized, he said, and in his view, "the management of such encryption will be practically none."
However, Cisco is being cagey when it comes to the performance impact of encryption on its networks, though it admits there will be "minimal" latency. "We're at the final engineering stages with this product and so don't know the specific numbers around that yet," Anderson said.
"My only concern may be how much latency the encrypting/decrypting process will add to the I/O stream," Ciarlette wrote. "I know it will be much less latency than a software solution, but there is still latency none the less."
Before purchasing, according to Toby Ford, chief technology office of USinternetworking Inc., a subsidiary of AT&T, "I would first need to understand the overhead encryption would place on top of Fibre Channel or iSCSI …Cisco sells notoriously underpowered equipment with regard to what is currently available. I'm skeptical in this regard and would have to validate any claims about performance overhead."
Ford added, "The cost of integrated Fibre Channel and Ethernet with encryption should be around what it would be if [I] were buying an appliance and a switch separately. I don't expect to be paying a significant premium for this integration."
According to Michael Thomas, storage architect for the Federal Reserve System, his shop, which uses Cisco directors, is currently evaluating encryption products and will be adding Cisco's to the list.
"It's appealing because you're not adding another separate appliance into the mix, which increases costs, rack space and management overhead," he said. However, Thomas said he remained concerned about how fabric-based encryption would affect replication between sites.
According to Anderson, data does not need to be decrypted and then re-encrypted for replication, but according to Thomas, "[If] data is replicated encrypted … the key management has to be shared between multiple fabrics. I would be interested in how they are doing that."
According to Cisco, the keys can be shared by either using a single Cisco key management center for both sites or by copying (export/import) to a second key management center at the remote site.
Meanwhile, not every Cisco user is interested. "I think it's a little early for us from my point of view -- storage networking is almost a completely manual process," said David Dulek, storage administration lead for Fastenal Company Purchasing, a subsidiary of Fastenal Co. "Encryption is nice for security purposes, but there could have been other innovations before it, especially around automation and virtualization."
Key management: EMC's RSA Key Manager vs. Cisco key management
According to Anderson, the addition of encryption to the 9000 series switches has been developed internally at Cisco and is not IP from EMC's RSA security subsidiary. However, Cisco's key management will be integrated via API with RSA Key Manager software, which allows for policy-based key lifecycle management and the management of keys from multiple heterogeneous key management systems.
Cisco's key management console will be part of Cisco Fabric Manager and will manage only Cisco's encryption. Key management through Cisco allows for the vaulting of keys, as well as the management of live keys, but does not offer automated policy-based scheduling like the RSA software does. Otherwise, the two key management programs have very similar capabilities, according to Anderson.
Users can manage live keys and encryption selections through either software, though key vaulting requires its own separate repository. Support for roles-based hierarchical management through Cisco's existing authentication products will also be included in SME, down to the V-SAN level.
Users can also require a quorum using smart cards to unlock the master key in the event of a total site loss. Finally, Cisco is working to get the chassis FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified for physical security.
Anderson said he did not have much more detail as to whether the key management software and encryption option will be bundled with the EMC/RSA product. "There is no information in this announcement today about our distribution agreements."
Cisco also plans integration with other key management systems beyond EMC. "As a strategy, we look forward to open management no matter how a customer chooses to manage keys," Andreson said.
Cisco does have one predecessor into the fabric-based encryption space: CipherMax Inc., formerly Maxxan, which reinvented itself with a security focus last year. "Cisco's pending announcement to offer a fabric-based encryption solution for disk and tape endorses the need for an encryption within the SAN architecture," CipherMax officials wrote to SearchStorage in an email. "CipherMax offers a complete product line that enables a company to start inexpensively with a tactical deployment and scale as their requirements increase."
"The RSA/EMC partnership is a good start," said Jon Oltsik, analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "There are a lot of bright people at RSA/EMC who understand the complexities around security and operational requirements. In this way, they are out ahead of the masses."


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A man who was texting and driving found himself you-know-what out of luck.
Michael Bruhn was reportedly wrapping up a text and finishing a phone call on Monday when he drove his rental car into a tractor hauling a trailer of liquid manure in Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Making matters even worse is the fact Bruhn was driving a Ford Mustang convertible, which means he got a nice blanket of kaka all over him.
Bruhn, 37, looked up to see the tractor right before he smacked into it.
Bruhn suffered a broken finger (very fitting for someone texting at the time of the crash). The truck driver was not injured.
The real victim here, though? The guy who in charge of washing the car.
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I friggin' love the Golden Globes. Despite the horrid red carpet coverage (more fashion, less inane questions from Seacrest and Rancic pretty please) it was a fun show to watch. If I could go to one awards show in my lifetime it would be this one (can we make that happen universe? Mmmm, thanks.) The fashion was a fab balance of AWESOME and HORRID, which is my favesies. Let's start with the straight up awesome.
Who didn't gasp when they saw Lupita Nyong'o in Ralph Lauren. I mean, she SLAYED it so hard in that dress with the simple jewels. I bet half the celebrities asked if they could just come int he back door after she walked the carpet. Amazing. And Cate Blanchett is such perfection. This dress is just amazing on her. Here's the thing, men don't "get" Cate Blanchett, Andrew doesn't think she's pretty, which makes me think I've married a severely mentally questionable person.
Leslie Mann either has amazing style or a seriously awesome stylist. I LOVED her dress, hair and makeup. Gorgeous. And Juliana Margulis was stunning- beyond chic- I loved the silhouette, pattern and her accessories and jewels. Killer.
Amy Poehler's dress is just awesome- sexy without being over the top and super modern. Loved this look. And at first I wasn't sure about Amy Adams' dress but then she turned around and I loved it. I wasn't 100% on the hair, but she really did look pretty and it's so nice to see her in color.
These two. I mean, can we just discuss how awesome they are? Smart, funny as hell, successful AND beautiful??? I think they are two of the best role models in Hollywood for women.
And I bet these two would have LOVED seeing Elizabeth Moss flip off the stupid Mani Cam on the red carpet. Can we retire that thing please? It's so stupid and make everyone's hands look like craggly claws.
OK, these two are sexy, no doubt. And both these dresses fit to a T. I'm just kinda over the whole Sofia Vergara "I'm SO sexy" thing. I want to see her in something less booby for once. And Kate Beckinsale is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood in my opinion, but I was so bummed to see she had her upper lip filled giving her that Hollywood duck bill look. :( Sads.
GAH! These two looked so killer in neutrals- Naomi Watts never, ever ages (Andrew said "Hey Sienna Miller looks good"- ummm) and that dress with the chain neckline and back detail is so chic while Laura Dern suprised me in this drop dead (and perfectly fitting) gown.
BRADLEY COOPER IS EVERYTHING IN THIS TUX. That is all.
Olivia Wilde made every bloated, achey-backed pregnant woman groan when she rolled onto the carpet looking SO flipping hot in that green sequin Gucci. I think this is the best red carpet pregnancy look I have ever seen. Stunning. (But can we retire the ombre hair in 2014?) Amber Heard pulled a page from the Jolie playbook in this slit-to-there gown but she did look like a movie star for sure.
More nude on blondes, which isn't typically my favorite (washout) but these two did it well. Margot Robbie became every guy's new favorite star and looked flawless but I was concerned about the underarm chafing from those jeweled arm holes. Yowzas. Robin Wright is just such a bad ass in House of Cards and I love this simple look on her. Did not love the hair though.
Pale champagne was done really well by Lady Mary aka Michelle Dockery (which reminds me I have a recorded Downton to watch). She always looks SO elegant and classic Hollywood. I may be the only one who did NOT like Zooey Deschanel's look. The earrings plus the flower PLUS the beaded shoes on top of the two piece Oscar was all just TOO MUCH for me. With simpler shoes and fewer accessories maybe.
I yelped a bit when I saw Kerry Washington's baby bump. So cute. She usually does no wrong in my eyes but I did not love this Balenciaga. Maybe it was because Olivia Wilde rocked her bump SO HARD, but this was kinda MEH for me.
This however, was not. (Andrew and I seriously say "Scanal" just like this to each other every time we discuss the show).
Lena Dunham get's most improved award after years of horrible looks, but this did not fit her right. She needed more room in the top for it to fall better on her. She looked so uncomfortable in this dress, but I did like the color and concept. Emma Watson rocked pants. And I wasn't crazy about them. I mean, I love the idea of pants on the red carpet (maybe these?), but this ensemble confused me. I did find out, however, that Andrew has a MAJOR crush on Hermoine. Who knew.
Do not get me wrong, Reese looks GREAT, but her dress looks a little like it was made by Lululemon. She needed some bigger earrings too with the simple hair and dress. And Hayden Penetierre somehow made Tom Ford look like a Bebe prom dress. How can you make Tom Ford look cheap? I dunno, but she managed too. That hair was horrid as well.
Julia left me scratching my head a little. At first glimpse from the shoulders up I thought she was pulling a Sharon Stone, which I loved. But then I saw it was a dress over a shirt and I was all "YUCK", especially the blingy belt. Then I was feeling like on HER it was acceptable. Her hair and makeup was killer, had the belt been black it might have worked better. It's just a little OFF, I so wish it has been just a skirt!!!!
Jennifer Lawrence is every girl's girl crush and I was so bummed to see her is this awful dress that looked like a comforter with two belts wrapped around it. And her makeup was way too much- the dark lip with the smokey eye plus a white dress was not a good look on such a pale little pixie like her!
But she did this.
And then said this. I was all "Who cares what she's wearing?? She was gonna push Taylor Swift down the stairs! YAY!" (Mental high five. I find T Swift quite grating.)
Oh Sandra. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sandra and from boobs up I liked her look, but why couldn't this dress have been one color? I really, really don't like it. I do like it better than Aubrey Plaza's purple nightmare though, if that's possible. I think I wore this to a middle school dance in the 80's (and no one asked me to dance either.)
Does anyone else not understand Kaley Cuoco's fame? This dress is AWFUL. Almost as awful as Drew's which might win the least flattering dress award.
OMG. We're getting to the really good stuff. Like Paula Patton and her dress designed by the folks at Charmin. What the hell is this? No seriously, what is this? Why would someone so pretty wear something so beyond ridiculous?? And then there's Andy Samberg's wife who wore this Gone With the Wind bizarro mauve thingy. I feel like this was a joke we weren't in on.
Whoever put Emma Stone in this needs to be slapped across the face. Just because something has a Chanel label in it does not make it awesome. This is also something I would have loved to have worn in middle school circa 1988.
And I think the worst dress has to go to Zoe Saldana in this bizarre, ugly, busy mess of a thing. Such a gorgeous woman with a killer body and of ALL THE DRESSES in the world, this was "the one". Really?!?!
What would I have worn? I'm kinda obsessed with this dress by Juan Carlos Obando right now. Modern gold jewelry and simple heels. Super frou frou? No. But neither am I.


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Manager Tim Sherwood maintains his Tottenham squad are not about to "crawl into a corner and hide" as they fight to kickstart their season.
Spurs suffered a second successive defeat when beaten 1-0 at Barclays Premier League relegation battlers Norwich on Sunday, having lost the first leg of their Europa League last-32 clash away to Dnipro earlier in the week.
Sherwood's men are now in fifth place and trail Liverpool by six points in the race for Champions League qualification.
However, with the return leg against the Ukrainians and former Spurs boss Juande Ramos on Thursday night swiftly followed by the visit of struggling Cardiff, Sherwood sees no reason why his team cannot produce the required response to set themselves up for testing fixtures against Chelsea and Arsenal.
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"We certainly need to have character now to play in front of our home fans after the disappointment of losing to a team around the bottom of the league.
"That happens, what can you do? You can't crawl into a corner and hide. You have to confront it and have a go."
Sherwood was appointed on an 18-month contract after replacing Andre Villas-Boas in December and, at 44, is one of the youngest managers in the Premier League.
However, his long-term future remains subject of some scrutiny, with Holland manager Louis van Gaal recently suggesting Tottenham were set to approach him in the summer after the World Cup.
Canaries manager Chris Hughton, who worked with Sherwood when he was in the Spurs' coaching staff, feels those were unhelpful words from a fellow professional.
"As managers in the game it's not the best policy to be mentioning potential jobs when there are already other managers in the job," Hughton told talkSPORT.
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