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We have been reluctant to offer links. But these links - in no particular order - all offer good things:
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia features several articles on the Universal Covenant, Noahism, etc., - and on what at least one writer calls "Noahidism." Wikipedia is a massive reader-written encyclopedia, larger than the Encyclopaedia Britannica and very dynamic: entries are always subject to change - depending, sometimes, on the mere caprice of some guy somewhere. Wikipedia is certainly not "the final authority," but it's usually pretty good. See, for example:
What if Moses had Facebook?, courtesy of aish.com. New, as of April 10, 2011, 6 Nissan 5771, just about a week before the great spring holiday, Pesach - Passover 5771. Fun little clip just like the Passover holiday and, in fact, Judaism in general: history raised to religion and religious truths.
http://torahanytime.com, "G-d's Reason for the Internet." Torah video lectures from more than 350 speakers - all free. More than 10,000 videos available. A rich, remarkable site
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/7LawsOfNoah/join Noahide Digest, brought to you courtesy of the same nice lady in Toronto, Mrs. Tsila K., who founded the Facebook group above. Tsila finds all sorts of interesting things - things of special interest to Noahides, including the dates and times of holidays, all sorts of cool YouTube videos, and, for instance, our Covenant Connection newsletters - and sends them via links coming to your email inbox.
http://www.torah.org A very extensive Torah-outreach site including a "Jewish Answers" feature. Our three directors, Rabbi Michael Katz, Rev. Jack Saunders, and Michael Dallen, all occasionally take visitors' and students' questions in an "Ask the Rabbi" format. Mainstream Orthodox Judaism, including the "yeshivish" and the "modern."
http://www.myspace.com/bnai_noah Our own Jack Saunders' personal MySpace site. The only place, currently, to get quite a few of our interviews, videos, and lectures. This goes back some ways, incidentally: also see Jack Saunders and Michael Dallen on Facebook. See below:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2390502958&topic=8668&ref=mf The First Covenant Foundation's very own Facebook site, with blog and maybe someday more.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16873400509&ref=ts Virtual Bnai Noah/ Noahide Community facebook group. An interface for networking - it "may work to unify and possibly build up a physical Noahide Community in your area." The founder of this group - Tsila, a nice Jewish lady in Toronto - persuaded us to put up this links page.
http://www.lamikdash.com Resources on the Har HaBayit in Jerusalem, Israel/literally, "The Mountain" (Mount Mariah) "of the House", also known as the Temple Mount - the once and future home of the Holy Temple of HaShem in Jerusalem, Solomon's and Isaiah's "House of Prayer for All Peoples"
http://www.Kcholmim.org "K'Cholmim" means, 'As dreamers'. Jewish millenial website. "When the salvation of HaShem arrives we will be as dreamers..."
http://www.theisraelproject.org The Israel Project is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and public about Israel while promoting "security, freedom and peace." Pretty solid stuff.
http://www.JewishIsrael.org The website of Manhigut Yehudit - literally, "Jewish leadership," a Hebrew political party in Israel, co-founded by Shmuel Sackett, international director, and Moshe Feiglin, chairman. Mr. Feiglin may someday become the prime minister of Israel. We believe that he and his party are much more sensible and tolerant than they generally get credit for being. We present this link to them in order to help set the record straight. Also, incidentally, we think well of their program.
http://www.mesora.org Torah - "the Tradition." An extensive, very learned "modern Orthodox" site. Some of our contributors are members and directors.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/ Arutz Sheva/"Channel Seven": a major online up-to-the-minute newspaper, or newsmagazine, based in Israel. Most of the leading media outlets in Israel are very left-wing politically, and often religiously - they routinely promote appeasing Israel's Arab enemies, appear eager to renounce the Jewish people's responsibilities and privileges as the People of Israel, and often speak ill of various tenets of Judaism. Arutz Sheva, this site, is a very welcome corrective to all that; it comes from the right. It often is right.
http://academyofshem.com/ Alan W. Cecil's site - author of The Noahide Code: a guide to the perplexed Christian. This erudite little book is packed with historical information on the origins of Christianity. Its analysis of Christianity's theology and development is interesting, and often persuasive, but most Christians will find it off-putting. We definitely like Alan's appreciation of Rainbow Covenant: "Insightful and often amusing, this is the best book available about the Seven Laws of Noah."
http://unitedisrael.org Website of United Israel World Union, a tight-knit organization originally founded by David Horowitz (1903-2002) of New York. Its chief objective, in its own words, is and has been "to represent a universal version of the Hebraic faith to the non-Jewish world, based primarily on the Hebrew Bible, as well as provide a meeting place for Jews with non-Jews."
http://www.afsi.org Americans for a Safe Israel - news from Israel and the world of Islam, culture wars and geo-politics, including a great deal of news that you probably haven't seen elsewhere, with a mostly wonderfully sane but occasionally - they have lapses - oddly neo-conservative slant. Frequently excellent, but we could do without the constant denunciations of President Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu (Israel Prime Minister). Our own Michael Dallen is a longtime member and a former member of AFSI's National Council.
http://www.tfdixie.com Torah for Dixie
http://www.outreachjudaism.org even with this name, this also addresses a Jewish audience. Judaism doesn't "reach out" to try to make non-Jews Jewish. Non-Jews who convert to Judaism are trying to do more than God asks of them. But anyone can, and everyone should, become a co-religionist of Israel - a believer in HaShem ("the Name," or God), a member of the same community of faith. http://7lawsofnoah.blogspot.com News and views from Canada
http://www. schuellerhouse.com a "Netzarim" site - you can read about the doctrine of the Netzarim - which is not a doctrine that we endorse, but we don't fret about it endlessly, either - on this site, along with a huge amount of other material. Webmaster: an old friend of ours, a thoughtful and devoted Noahide, Kenneth Guentert.
http://www.half-jewish.org (beta-gershom.org; a remarkably rich, extensive website exploring topics of particular interest to men and women coming from "partly Jewish" families.
http://malecircumcision.org/ Moses, Isaiah, and other prophets told of a time when at least some aspects of the wisdom and holiness even of the Torah's "statutes," the laws of the Torah that don't "make sense" logically - such as the laws of kosher food, say, or the law requiring the circumcision (cutting of the penile foreskin) of every Hebrew boy, one week and a day after birth - would become clear even to multitudes of non-Jews. This site, sponsored by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), major medical schools and others, discusses circumcision.
http://www.arkwoodcaskets.com/story.html a commercial site, offering "kosher" burial caskets, links to other "Green Burial Movement" sites, and general "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" information about kosher - every kosher burial is "green" and non-polluting (besides being holy, dignified, traditional, etc. - funerals and final services. The Torah teaches that burial in the earth, after death, is a sacrament, or holy act: a last act of atonement.
http://www.asknoah.org The Lubavitcher chasidim who run this site refuse to acknowledge our existence - they don't support what's not theirs - or even that of the book Rainbow Covenant. On top of that, we find their approach to the Noahide Covenant - see how their teachings support the massive idiocy of Protocols of the Elders of Zion, per our Covenant Connection newsletter - extremely embarrassing. Furthermore, we may as well say it: we also seriously dislike and oppose their emphasis on the mysticism and kabbala, the Zohar and the whole "heart-fools-the-mind" teachings of "chassidus"/the way of the "pious ones," the chasidic sectarians among the Jewish People. That is, we object to all this because it is not a legitimate field of study for Noahides - there are so many more and better things for Noahides to know about Israel and Torah.... We object to what AskNoah does in this respect and we object to all the "Noahide" groups and teachers who insist on infusing their teachings with kabbalistic mysticism. So... with AskNoah and all 'em: take the good, if you can find it; ignore the bad.
http://www.saveisrael.com/ Wonderful articles, especially those by Dr. Israel Eldad, a beautiful thinker, about what Israel means or should mean to humankind, and how Noahides should approach the Arab-Israel War and the Zionist Revolution.
http://www.shmuelkatz.com/ Shmuel Katz, 1914 - 2009, a wonderfully clear-sighted thinker, worked closely with Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and helped keep Jabotinsky's teachings alive. This site helps to keep Shmuel Katz's teachings alive, applying them to vital contemporary issues.
http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/lazer_beams/bnai_noach different Hasidic Jews - Rabbi Lazer Brody, disciple of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov - for Noahides. Be warned, however, and this goes for the chabad-influenced people mentioned above as well as all the varied groups that call themselves hasidic, or chasidic, there is no such thing as a hasidic gentile. The very concept is preposterous. Once you get past that nonsense, however, you may find some value here.
http://www.jihadwatch.org the unfolding story of Islamic jihad - Holy War [sic] - in the world.
http://www.mideastweb.org/jewreligion.htm A useful resource-page and FAQ sheet, fighting Jew Hate , or Anti-Semitism, and including info on the infamous, egregiously absurd Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
http://zionism-israel.com/jew.htm Another useful resource of the same stripe, defining what it is to be a Jew, a son or daughter of Israel, and fighting Anti-Semitism.
http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il Virtual Cinema: Israel in the world.
http://matzav.com/ "The Jewish world @ your fingertips." Orthodox Jewish site, very rich, with many links. The political commentary veers weirdly to the right when it comes to U.S. politics - what is it with these people? Are Orthodox Jewish Democrats in America a silent majority? - but this is a remarkably worthwhile site otherwise.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com World Net Daily: news. A little weird, very fringe, and very biased politically, but they're pretty sane when it comes to Israel and Islam and they often have good stuff, including new stuff, that's simply not available elsewhere.
http://www.kinder-noah.de German. By and for German-speaking Noahides
http:// www.bneinoach.at By Noahides in Austria, for German-speaking Noahides
http://torontonoahides.blogspot.com For Noahides in Toronto, Ontario. If you are in Toronto or in the Greater Toronto area, here is a contact for you
http:www.//kiva.org/ Making micro-loans to struggling small entrepreneurs in Africa and most of the rest of the Third World. It struck some of us as simply a worthwhile general charity, putting Torah principles - not that Kiva has ever been known to in-any-way acknowledge them as being Torah principles - of giving charity into action. "Offering a hand up, not a handout."
http://manishtana.net/ An American-based site that's by and for Jews of Color - that is, "Black Jews," not Jews who are Chinese or Korean, Yemenite, Japanese or East Indian, but Jews whose recent ancestors include men and women who came from sub-Saharan Africa.
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And OMG! I just realized I was so close to ODP. I was just across the street (on the side of the street as him). I could've shaken his hand and his knowledge could've been past onto me. DAMN IT TO HELL!!!
And OMG! I just realized I was so close to ODP. I was just across the street (on the side of the street as him). I could've shaken his hand and his knowledge could've been past onto me. DAMN IT TO HELL!!!
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Hunter Pence!!! Lets go hunter pence!!!!! pence!!!! pence!!!!!
Yup. sf-fanatic and lincecum=future I think.
I think ODP is going to make a mess in his tightie whities when he sees how close I was to Pence.
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we coulda met up!!!!!
ODP, i'm surprised you haven't met yourself.
<3"The Colts are as lucky as a dog with 14 bones in his bucket to have this kid." - Jon Gruden on Andrew Luck
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I realized guys why I love Hunter Pence so much. Today I was at an ice cream parlor on 9th ave, near Irving St and Nan King Restaurant. And this shop had all these super hero collectibles. So I asked the blonde lady working there what kind of theme this is. She laughed and told me quirky. Not knowing what that word mean, I said OHH.
I came back home later today and was looking up things to do in San Francisco and saw some cool things. There are a lot of different stairs and views and it said something about this or that being one of the many quirky things to do in San Francisco.
So then I realized that the world quirky came up twice today. I looked it up and found out that it means different, strange, but in a good way. I thought to myself, Ohh.... That's what it is about Pence that I love. Yes he is different. But not in a retarded way or a gay way or a boring way or an unattractive way. I just love the way he plays. Breaks the bat 3 times and gets 3 rbis. Makes the one handed catch. Makes the pre game speeches. Drives to the park in the scooter. The wide eyes. The hockey stick warm up swings, the baby warm up throws. Everything he does is just so different. In a cool way though. Just fricking LOVE Him!!!!! I mean he's not your typical player. You see, in this game we need guys that can entertain! Who cares 20 years from now that he didn't hit 300 in the last few weeks (but drove in just 104 runs) but it's what he does that makes him an Entertainer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Btw Pence loves to listen to Katie Perry!!!!!! Thata boy PENCE BOY!!!!!!!!!!
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Strong, effective and inclusive rural institutions are essential for food security, poverty reduction, economic development and the empowerment of small producers and of the rural poor. The Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division (ESW) works to advance FAO's Strategic Objective G to support governments to build enabling environments for the development of efficient and equitable producer organizations, which have a particularly important role to play in improving agricultural profitability and sustainability.
The Division provides policy advice and technical assistance to support the capacity of Member Countries and FAO Units to create an enabling environment for institutions and organizations serving small producers and to strengthen the participation of rural institutions in the design of agriculture and rural development policies and programmes. To this end, the Division works closely with FAO's Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension Capacity Development group to develop learning and capacity development modules on rural institution building.
The Division also acts as the focal point and Chair of FAO's Inter Departmental Working Group on Institution Building (IDWG) and supports the cross-departmental work of over twenty technical units engaged in strengthening rural institutions. The IDWG works to identify and overcome strategic challenges related to institution building, to promote institution building good practices across sectors, to strengthen existing and new partnerships that support producer organizations and other rural institutions, and to enable smallholders to integrate markets. The group disseminates FAO resources related to institution building and producer organization capacity development through FAO's Capacity Development Portal. As part of its role as focal point, the Division also represents FAO's work on institution building in meetings and events, including the inter-agency Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC).
The Division also works closely with the World Farmers' Organization (WFO), a global network of National Farmers' Organizations and agricultural cooperative organizations that advocates on behalf of world farmers and works to facilitate cooperation between member organizations and to improve the economic situation and livelihood of producers, their families and rural communities. The Division and WFO collaborate on a range of initiatives including sharing and raising awareness on good practices in institutional innovations.
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Any series that only covers the last thirty years can't really claim to be 'the best of Marvel'. But this isn't a bad way to acquire handsomely-bound versions of these stories at reasonable prices.
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Berkeley, A City in History
by Charles Wollenberg
Copyright 2002Chapter 4
In 1900 most Berkeley streets were unpaved, many homes were still not hooked up to water and sewer lines, and there were indeed farms in Berkeley. During the next two decades, however, the town became a city as a result of tremendous economic and population growth. From 13, 214 residents in 1900, Berkeley's population increased to 56,036 in 1920. Most of that growth occurred from 1900 to 1910, when the numbers of residents more than tripled, from 13,214 to 40,434. During that decade, Berkeley was the fourth fastest growing city in the United States, and by 1910 the fifth largest city in California. What Malcolm Margolin has called the town's "Bucolic Age" was over, and urbanization was well under way. The Berkeley of 1920 in many ways had more in common with today's urban community than it had with the bucolic town of 1900.
Earthquake Country
One of the major contributors to growth was the 1906 earthquake. Berkeley, like most of California, is earthquake country. The Hayward Fault zone runs along the base of the eastern hills, bisecting Memorial Stadium, passing under Bowles and Stern Halls and the Greek Theater, and heading north through the North Gate, Northbrae and Thousand Oaks neighborhoods. The last significant quake on the fault was in 1868 which, as we have seen, did little damage in Berkeley because there was so little to be damaged. Seismologists estimate there is a 40 per cent chance of a similar magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurring on the Hayward Fault in or near Berkeley in the next thirty years. This time there will be plenty of destruction, including possible collapse of several unsafe buildings on campus, and damage to unreinforced masonry structures on Telegraph and Shattuck Avenues and homes built on slide areas in the hills and filled-in creeks and marshes in the flatlands. In 1998 UC Chancellor Robert Berdahl announced that necessary seismic retrofits on campus alone would cost $1 billion.
The 1906 earthquake, however, occurred on the San Andreas Fault, on the west side of the bay. Although at magnitude 8.0 it was far stronger any quake predicted for the Hayward fault, the 1906 tremor's greatest impact was on north, south, and west bay communities, including, of course, San Francisco. The earthquake and subsequent fire devastated the city, forcing half the 400,000 residents out of their homes at least temporarily and leaving tens of thousands as long-term refugees. By comparison, the impact on East Bay, including Berkeley, and was minor. One source estimated that 5000 Berkeley chimneys collapsed and most others were damaged, including the large stack of the Standard Soap Factory in West Berkeley. Berkeley High had to close for a few months because of cracked walls, and several commercial structures, such as the new Barker Building on Shattuck Avenue, suffered visible damage. The university, however, came through virtually unscathed. On the whole, urban life in Berkeley was able to go on more or less normally after the quake.
This enabled Berkeley and other East Bay cities to care for tens of thousands of San Francisco refugees. The Southern Pacific gave free ferry and train passage to people leaving the devastated city, and between 10,000 and 15,000 took advantage of this to come to Berkeley. Many stayed with family and friends, but several thousand were put up in temporary shelters and camps on the UC campus. Included were refugees from San Francisco's Chinatown, which was completely destroyed by the quake and fire. The Berkeley Daily Gazette described a Chinese establishment on Dwight Way that had previously been raided by the police as "a notorious gambling den." Now it served as a nursery for refugee children from Chinatown, in which "more than forty babies from two weeks old to six years are safely housed and cared for ." Many of the refugees eventually returned to San Francisco or settled in other communities, but thousands stayed in Berkeley, moving into new housing that went up in the post-earthquake building boom. The city issued 1283 building permits in 1906, nearly twice as many as the previous year. Much of the new housing was built in the central section of town, finally filling in the open space that for so long had separated East and West Berkeley.
The earthquake also promoted the relocation of businesses to Berkeley from San Francisco's damaged industrial and commercial districts. "It is not Christian to seek advantage in another's misfortune," one Berkeleyan commented, "but there is nothing to be ashamed of in profiting from such misfortune if it comes unsought." And profit Berkeley did. A writer for Sunset Magazine said it gave observers "a queer and creepy feeling down the spine to drive along the streets of commercial Berkeley and contemplate the business signs" of former San Francisco establishments. In the four months following the earthquake, 37 new factories were built in Berkeley. Between 1906 and 1907, bank deposits in the city increased by 113 percent.
The Key System
But the earthquake was by no means the only reason for the dramatic population and economic growth of the early twentieth century. Berkeley and the rest of the urbanized East Bay developed new transit systems that would have promoted dramatic development during those years even if the earthquake hadn't occurred. We have already discussed the important role of Southern Pacific steam trains in Berkeley's late nineteenth century history. In 1891, electric rail systems, the latest idea in urban transit, made their debut in the Bay Area. The first successful trolley system was a line from Oakland up Grove Street (now Martin Luther King) to downtown Berkeley and the UC campus. The Grove Street line was an immediate success and stimulated the construction of additional East Bay systems. By 1893 an effort was already under way to consolidate the separate lines into a single, integrated electric rail system that would eventually cover the entire urban East Bay.
The chief consolidators were Francis "Borax" Smith and Frank Havens. Smith had already made a substantial fortune operating borax mines in southeastern California. He built a large estate in Oakland and looked for new investment opportunities. Havens, a San Francisco lawyer, had a particular talent for spending Smith's money, and together they made an ideal, if not entirely successful, team. In 1893 they formed a company called Oakland Transit Consolidated, which not only bought up existing street car franchises, but also built new lines and integrated them into a unified rail network. The small street cars became feeders for fast "interurban" trains that linked East Bay cities together.
The partners planned to compete head-on with the Southern Pacific ferry service to San Francisco, Smith even contemplating a transit tube under the bay three quarters of a century before BART actually built one. In the meantime, he had to be content with filling a significant piece of the Emeryville waterfront to create a new ferry terminal (near the present site of the Bay Bridge toll plaza). The Key System, as the new rail line came to be called, introduced fast, propeller-driven ferries onto the bay to compete with the Southern Pacific's paddle wheel craft.
The Key System was part of a larger Smith-Havens vision that included the Realty Syndicate, a huge land company that bought and developed thousands of acres of East Bay residential properties. Much of the land was in the hills, including parts of Montclair and Piedmont. In Berkeley, syndicate holdings included significant pieces of the Claremont, Northbrae and Thousand Oaks districts. The basic business plan was to extend the electric rails to the syndicate's undeveloped lands. This allowed the property to be subdivided for urban and suburban purposes, thus substantially raising its value. Eventually the whole corporate empire was placed under the control of United Properties, a giant holding company which also included prominent Berkeley developer John Spring as a major investor. Smith, Havens and Spring were instigators of the Claremont Hotel, whose construction began in 1906. By the time the hotel opened in 1915, however, the Smith-Havens empire had crashed and become mired in complex bankruptcy proceedings. This didn't stop Smith from starting all over again and making another fortune. Meanwhile, the Key System survived under various ownership structures, lasting until the establishment of the publicly-owned AC Transit agency in 1959.
The Key System's interurban mainline reached the downtown Berkeley station on Shattuck Avenue in 1903. Offering 36 minute service to San Francisco via the Emeryville ferry, trains initially ran once an hour. The route was so popular that service was soon increased to once every 20 minutes. The line eventually extended north to the Northbrae and Thousand Oaks neighborhoods and west to the Westbrae district. In southeast Berkeley, a Key System line up Claremont Avenue promoted the development of the Claremont district and the Claremont Hotel. Smaller feeder streetcar lines also stimulated the growth of several additional neighborhoods, including the northside hills and the north campus business district along Euclid Avenue. Similarly, the College Avenue line promoted the development of the Elmwood district and established what is today one of Berkeley's best-loved and most- protected shopping areas along College Avenue.
Competition from the Key System forced the Southern Pacific to electrify its branch line in 1911. Now the S.P. red cars and the Key System orange trains ran virtually side-by-side on Shattuck Avenue. The Southern Pacific extended its electric line north through the Henry Street tunnel to Solano Avenue and along California Street to the old Peralta Park district. Like the Key System, the S.P. developed its own network of streetcar feeder lines. Inevitably, the city annexed the new neighborhoods created by these new electric rail systems: the Claremont district in 1906, portions of Northbrae in 1908, the rest of Northbrae, as well as Cragmont, Thousand Oaks and Westbrae in 1920.
Many of the new residents of these areas commuted to work in Oakland and San Francisco, as the new rail systems made these commutes practical for the first time. The fast electric lines thus allowed Berkeley to function in part as a suburban bedroom community. Berkeley society was becoming more complicated, as growing numbers of suburban commuters and their families were added to the mix of West Berkeley workers, downtown business and commercial interests and university students and professionals.
The Great State U
The final reason for Berkeley's dramatic early twentieth century development was the evolution and growth of the University of California. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, UC not only increased the size of its student body and faculty, but also transformed itself into one of the nation's most distinguished universities. To fully understand this transformation, we need to go back to the university's nineteenth century origins. At the time of its founding in 1868, there were two primary models for American higher education: the classical liberal arts college inherited from colonial times and the new land grant university which included practical education in "agriculture and mechanics." Cal, of course, embodied both of these traditions. It started out as the private College of California and became the state's land grant university.
In 1872 another model of higher education arrived in California with the coming of the new university president, Daniel Coit Gilman. Gilman was a member of a generation of American educators who admired the German university, with its emphasis on seeking new truths and knowledge through research and the application of the scientific method. Gilman had pioneered this approach as director of the Sheffield School of Science at Yale. He believed that the new community of Berkeley, on the edge of a new American Pacific frontier, was the ideal place to promote and develop a new research-oriented American university. Gilman claimed to have no quarrel with the traditional liberal arts curriculum, but he wished to add more modern subjects and concerns, particularly in science. He also counted himself a supporter of the land grant college concept, but for him, "agriculture and mechanics" did not mean vocational training, but the latest research in agronomy and engineering.
Gilman was an articulate, able leader, and he got the university off to a flying start in its new Berkeley campus. He persuaded Dr. Hugh Toland to donate his San Francisco medical school to the university and received James Lick's bequest for an observatory on Mt. Hamilton. Gilman established the Berkeley Club to maintain connections between the university and prominent Bay Area citizens. He used such contacts to attract private donations that eventually led to the building of the original, octagonal-shaped Harmon gymnasium and Bacon Hall, housing the university library and art gallery.
But Gilman's educational philosophy came under sharp scrutiny. Conservatives attacked it as "godless," while populists criticized it as elitist. The populist challenge was particularly strong, given the social upheaval of the 1870s. Organizations representing labor and small farmers called for the abolition of the Board of Regents and advocated putting the university under the authority of the State Board of Education and the elected Superintendent of Public Instruction. The populist critics had an important ally within the university---Agriculture Professor Ezra Carr, who pushed for practical, vocational programs for farmers. Carr had plenty of time to make his views known around the state; in 1873 he had only one student taking his agriculture curriculum.
The debate over the university, its program and structure, came to a head during a series of legislative hearings in 1874. Gilman offered a masterful defense of his policies, and the legislature declined to tamper with the authority of the regents. Gilman persuaded the regents to fire Professor Carr, but Carr managed to get himself elected state superintendent of public instruction and thus became an ex-officio member of the very board of regents that had just dismissed him. Nevertheless, the result of the legislative inquiry was a major victory for Gilman. On campus, Carr was eventually succeeded by Eugene Hilgard, who did exactly the kind of rigorous research in agricultural science that Gilman had advocated. But Gilman's supporters didn't have much time to savor their triumph. Their hero was offered the presidency of the new Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and accepted in late 1874. At Johns Hopkins, Gilman built the kind of research university he had hoped to create in Berkeley.
During the decade and a half following Gilman's departure, UC suffered through a series of generally weak presidents, who were often plagued by interfering regents, rebellious faculty and rowdy students. Student disorders, from drunken battles during the annual "Frosh-Soph Rush," to food riots in the North Hall dining room, particularly affected Berkeley residents and kept the town marshall busy. The university thus did little to attract either public support or legislative confidence. The result was declining enrollments and inadequate funding. Some professors, like the LeConte brothers, John and Joseph, gained formidable reputations, but the institution as a whole had little prestige. In the 1880s Southern Pacific Railroad magnate Leland Stanford considered giving the university a sizable donation as a memorial for his late, beloved son. But the depressing state of the institution, combined with the legislature's refusal to ratify his appointment as regent, persuaded Stanford to start his own university in Palo Alto instead.
Things began looking up on the Berkeley campus during the 1890s. The presidency of Martin Kellogg finally brought some administrative stability to the institution. A veteran English professor who had long been active in Berkeley civic affairs, Kellogg had sufficient faculty, regent and community contacts to gain acceptance if not always support. The legislature passed a state-wide property tax of 1 cent per $1000 assessed valuation for university funding, and enrollment began climbing---from a low of slightly over 200 in the early 1880s to nearly 2000 by 1900. But by far the most important development of the Kellogg presidency was the growing influence and patronage of Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
The Hearst/Wheeler Era
Widow of mining magnate and former United States Senator George Hearst, and doting mother of future media mogul William Randolph Hearst, Phoebe Hearst was a formidable figure in her own right. She had been a teacher before her marriage and continued to be concerned about education and scholarship for the rest of her life. After her husband's death, she used her very great wealth and influence to promote various educational institutions and causes. She was a major supporter of the kindergarten movement, helped establish the Parent Teacher Association and sponsored schools for poor children. But most of all, she supported and promoted the growth and development of the University of California. She donated funds for a number of projects, including the Hearst Mining Building, the establishment of an anthropology department and numerous archeological expeditions. An advocate of female education and suffrage, she was also responsible for building a women's gymnasium and establishing scholarships for women students (which inevitably became known as "Pheobes").
Hearst interfered shamelessly, if benevolently, in the lives of the Phoebe recipients. One of her proteges was Julia Morgan, the first female graduate of the mechanical engineering program. Mrs. Hearst paid Morgan's way through the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris, then considered the world's finest architecture school. (Morgan finished the program with honors but was not granted a diploma because of her gender.) For most of her subsequent distinguished architectural career, Morgan was associated with Hearst family projects, including the San Simeon castle. Phoebe Hearst maintained a Berkeley home and was usually in residence for a portion of each year to keep a close eye on "her university." It is entirely appropriate that Hearst Avenue is named, not for the senator or newspaper publisher, but for the university's greatest patron, Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
Of all her activities on behalf of UC, none was more important than her role in promoting a master plan for the campus. In 1896, at the suggestion of architect and mathematics instructor Bernard Maybeck, Mrs. Hearst donated funds to support an international competition for the development of such a plan. The contest was significant because it committed the university to a policy of extensive expansion and brought Berkeley and the university widespread national and international attention. French architect Emile Bernard won the $10,000 prize, but after he declined to come to Berkeley for an extended period of time, the university persuaded another contestant, John Galen Howard, to supervise the implementation of the plan.
Howard, who served as university architect until 1924, drastically scaled down Bernard's proposal, in effect creating a Howard Plan that governed the university's physical expansion for more than a quarter century. While preserving much of Strawberry Creek and the campus's open space, Howard also developed many of the important structures that remain the university's most familiar and impressive landmarks, including Wheeler Hall, Doe Library, Memorial Stadium, Sather Gate, the Hearst Greek Theater and the Campanile. Architectural historian Loren Patridge argues that "the core of the Berkeley campus by John Galen Howard is one of the largest, most complete Beaux-Artes ensembles ever to be executed in permanent materials in the history of American architecture."
Not surprisingly, Phoebe Hearst was the first female member of the Board of Regents, and she was on the board in 1899 when it chose Benjamin Ide Wheeler as the new university president. A former German and Classics professor form Cornell, Wheeler was the first strong president since Daniel Coit Gilman and presided over the university for the next twenty years. Like David Starr Jordan, his counterpart at Stanford, Wheeler became an influential figure in Bay Area life. His advice and opinion were sought on matters of culture and public policy, and he served on a number of blue ribbon committees and advisory boards. With this prestige, he was able to expand the university's financial base, securing increased state funding and persuading other wealthy individuals to follow Phoebe Hearst's example. Jane Sather, for instance, contributed funds both for Sather Gate, in honor of her late husband Peder, and the Sather Tower ( the Campanile), as her own personal memorial.
Although he attacked fraternities as undemocratic, Wheeler was himself personally autocratic, often overriding long-established faculty prerogatives in pursuit of his ambitious goals. Nevertheless, he turned most matters of student discipline over to the students themselves, instituting an honor code for exams and strengthening student government. He strongly supported university athletics but, objecting to football's violence and commercialism, banned the game in favor of rugby for some years before and during World War I.
Most of all, Wheeler expanded programs and recruited promising young faculty members (often from Ivy League universities). In the process, he went a long way toward establishing the research university that Gilman had tried to create twenty-five years earlier. Among the distinguished recruits were Alfred Kroeber in Anthropology, Herbert Bolton in History, and Joel Hildebrand in Chemistry. The careers of these faculty giants extended well beyond the Wheeler era. Hildebrand, for example, was still doing credible research in the 1980s when he was in his nineties. Wheeler's reputation helped the university attract such distinguished visitors as President Theodore Roosevelt, who spoke in the new Greek Theater in 1903.
Wheeler loved German literature and culture, and partly for that reason, opposed America's entrance into World War I. Once the decision to go to war was made, however, he loyally supported the war effort and made the campus available for military programs. But the controversy over his political views weakened his prestige. Sensing an opportunity, the faculty pushed hard for restoration of its lost powers. In the midst of growing difficulties, Wheeler announced his retirement in 1919. As it turned out, that was the same year that Phoebe Apperson Hearst died. The two people most responsible for the university's extraordinary period of growth and development were no longer on the scene.
The university's enrollment had increased from less than 2000 to more than 7000 during the two decades of the Hearst/Wheeler era, a growth rate roughly equal to that of the city of Berkeley's population during those same years. Obviously, then, the expansion of the university was another factor in the urbanization of the community. Campus growth not only brought new residents, but the university's burgeoning budget and payroll contributed to the dynamic growth city's economy.
The university's most dramatic effect, however, was not on the material development of the city, but on the community's identity and image. In the nineteenth century, ambitious scholars regarded the University of California as a provincial backwater. Josiah Royce, UC graduate and future philosopher, couldn't wait to leave Berkeley and go to Harvard to establish his scholarly career and reputation. But by the end of the Hearst/Wheeler era, talented young Ivy League academics were coming to Berkeley to establish careers and reputations. Already, UC was considered one of America's major institutions of higher learning. The transformed university of the early twentieth century, then, put Berkeley on the map, giving the city a national and even international reputation as a seat of scholarship and learning. To its residents, Berkeley may have been a center of industry and commerce, a place of solid working class families and pleasant suburban homes, as well as a college town. But to the rest of the world, Berkeley was and still remains first and foremost the home of the University of California.
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Has anyone heard that when you beat it on legendary it says Feb.9th?Any info at all?
Oh and my gamer tag is Timorous Scott if you guys wanna play sometime.
Has anyone heard that when you beat it on legendary it says Feb.9th?Any info at all?
Oh and my gamer tag is Timorous Scott if you guys wanna play sometime.
Just finished the game myself last night and although the game is really short I simply loved it. The ending left me wanting to play more, can only hope the wait for a third won't be too long. Even though the Flood were back in this one they weren't as abundant as the first and the story was good. They went a little further in explaining things. Highly recommend it.
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Well, I gave this sucker a rent and put a good four or so hours into it (maybe a bit less, I lost track of time). My verdict: it's "okay". It's a solid FPS but doesn't deserve all the hype that's been generated by media and fans, at least based on the single player. When I first started playing the first thing that came to my mind was that I was playing a "Halo Expansion Pack" or a "Halo WAD". Everything was too familiar as I had played the first Halo. The city added some new environmental twists as did access to more vehicles but soon I was back on a Halo...pretty much fighting the same enemies. As I said earlier-it felt more like a separate missions pack than a full fledged new game.
Graphically it was a *bit* better. More textures, more bumps. The big problem I had was that many of the bump-maps "flickered" in and out of view, turning detailed kills into plain skinned models and then back. Somewhat annoying. Cutscenes also had the same problem but that doesn't matter so much.
I don't have Xbox Live yet (it's coming in the mail from SBC) and I my friends don't like Halo so I couldn't try that aspect out.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a *bad* game. It's enjoyable but for single player I've played better (so far it doesn't beat Riddick in my eyes). With all the bombardment of hype from practically everywhere it's hard not to have some expectations. Glad I rented it-I won't pay full admission for this ride.
I have a theory..........
I beat the game and was shocked to see credtis roll by when they did. I got to thinking about why they (bungie) would do this and came up with this:
So, Halo 2 was delayed like a year or two. Kinda fishy! I am guessing that When they were making halo 2, they decided that they didnt have enough room on the DVD to fit the whole story line. They then made the decisison to start work on Halo 3 (a continuation of halo 2). I think that Halo 2 has been ready for a long time and they have just been delaying it so that they can release halo 3 right after halo 2.....say just in time for christmass? Anyway, think about it...it is Microsoft, you know.
Just a theory......
How about this: XBL subscribers may be able to download future levels/additional story for $X.Originally Posted by jgenotte
The "Madden" route: they now release expansions each year to continue the story (unlikely but it's fun to theorize).
I didnt think about paying for future dowloads.....good call. This is my new theory.Originally Posted by YoshiM
therres no way Halo 3 is right around the corner...but yes downloadable levels would be a reasonable theory
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The downloadable content theory is pretty good. Now how many people here would pay to download new levels/story for a fee? Or would you prefer to have expansion packs released every few months or so instead of waiting years for an entirely new game?
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Damn I should have posted this sooner but someone over at the Bungie forums posted something about this and was later banned and the post was deleted twice.
Luckily, I saved its text. If you read it all, it makes very good sense, Its alot, but its VERY interesting.
Originally posted by a member on Bungie's forum.
"Make of this what you will, but maybe I said something a little too close to the truth and someone nervous. My original post on the bungie forums got 42 replies within 50 minutes and then the topic was locked. Shortly after that I was blacklisted (banned) from the forums. Keep in mind the bungie forums are automatically censored, so curse words appear as "-blam-", so I know I wasn't banned for language. I'll try to restate this word for word as best as possible, but I can't reference my original post because it has since been removed.
The game of Halo 2 as it exists now is not what bungie initially intended for it to be, nor is this close to the final product they worked three years on to complete. Lets start with the Halo 2 cinematic trailer (released in september of 2002). MC is on a ship and you can hear random chatter over his comm as he walks down a corridor: notice you'll hear things like "that's not enough to stop an assault carrier" and "its like the god damn apocolypse". They have called for reinforcements and the reinforcements are MC alone -- one man, exciting enough that it still gives me goosebumps. So then master chief ejects from the ships air lock and makes his dive towards earth. What do you see? A whole continent saturated with fire and nuclear explosions. That does seem pretty apocolyptic.
Now lets move on to the E3 demo (released in may 2003). MC flies into New Mombasa on a pelican with the sarge and a few ODSTs. When he exits the pelican, yes, it would appear to be a full-scale invasion of earth. Wounded soldiers all around, huge covenant artillery blasting buildings, etc... exciting! He makes his run through the city and then mans the gun on the back of the gauss hog. He rolls through New Mombasa with a couple marines, you see a few other hogs rolling around, streets intersecting in and out of one another, passages that lead to other areas... its a battle on a pretty large scale. A convenant invasion of earth.
Compare these situations to the actual game of Halo 2. Where is the "god damn apocolypse"? Earth isnt even being invaded. A few small covenant platoons go to earth for one reason or another and thats it. There isnt even a hint of earth being invaded in halo 2 until the very end, then the game ends. You can see earth from space station cairo and its untouched. When it comes to all this missing storyline, what went wrong? What changed? Who intervened?
The -single- level that does take place on earth is -OBVIOUSLY- a last minute change. Notice some similarities between this earth level and the new mombasa level from the E3 demo. MC still flies in on a pelican with the sarge and some marines, not ODSTs this time. If you really pay attention you can see the marines in the pelican doing the exact same movements as the ODSTs in the E3 demo -EXACTLY-. one marine shoves a clip into his rifle while another puts on his helmet, the same as the ODSTs in the E3 demo. Sarge even says the same stuff except this time he has a little monologue about 'regret'. Also notice at the start of this level, there is no text on screen telling you where you are headed. No mention of the city name, date or location. How odd is that? When the game starts and you see the opening cinematic, you get a date and you are told exactly what you are seeing; the covenant high charity. Even in the new mombasa level on the E3 demo, you are given the same information. Strangely enough this information is missing in the actual game. Minor inconsistencies like this can only mean a handful of things. This level was added at the last minute to replace the new mombasa level because the direction of the game had taken a serious change in direction because of something or someone. Load up the outskirts level and point your view to the rooftops and tell me what you see. You might not be looking for them but you'll see power lines. You have got to be kidding me. Its the year 2552... Power lines?! Things like this, the inconsistencies and missing -important- cinematic information just do not happen when you spend three years developing a game. It simply does not happen. You do not "hype" a game up to be an awesome showdown on earth between the humans and covenant and then make the -single- earth level in the game complete garbage. My god is that level ever so linear and boring. From point A to point B. Its not the "god damn apocolypse" its a god damn conspiracy.
Simply put, Microsoft is greedy. Microsoft made bungie change the direction of the game and gave it that awful cliffhanger ending. They ran out of time because they had to take out a lot of the content that was already in the game and replace it with whatever they could. Propbably why you end up playing as the arbiter so much. Its all filler for the missing content. Watch the limited edition DVD and check out the segment on the mongoose (the human atv). They say it was buggy and didnt handle properly, watch the video and decide for yourself, it was perfectly fine. There are a few misleading statements from bungie employees in this dvd. Its not their fault, they are just covering for microsoft. Like when they say that the new mombasa E3 level was the first thing they worked on. That is utter BS. All the vehicles had their physics and mass properties already. The character models and animations were finished. There were cinematics and scripted dialogue from all the real voice actors. There was an entire level designed. Don't tell me they spent the next year and a half to design the 6 other awful levels we got. Even with all the bug testing and all that, is not reasonable. 60+ people were working on the campaign mode while 4 people worked on the multiplayer. Too many things just dont add up. Nothing about it makes any sense at all. If there is truth in the fact that the E3 new mombasa level was the first thing they worked on... which already had so many features already implemented, what in the **** did they do with all that time in between may 2003 and november 9th?
Read any publication online or in real life dealing with halo 2 before its release. Whenever someone from bungie spoke about the game, the focus was earth. The cinematic trailer, focus: earth. The E3 demo, focus: earth. It was all supposed to be about earth. Would bungie intentionally mislead us to think that is was going to be all about earth and then smack us in the face with an awful game like this? I dont think so. You cant say that what i expected halo 2 to be was just what i had in my head. It is what we were -lead- to believe and what we were told it would be. This isnt me being disappointed because I believed too much hype -- this is me being disappointed because for one reason or another, "we" didnt the the game of halo 2 that was "promised" to us.
Think about it... the E3 gameplay demo was released in may of 2003, almost a full year a half before the release of the game. The new mombasa level was brilliant. They didnt have to keep the scripting for the level, just the level itself. Why take it out? Why not put as much as you can into halo 2 including that level, because it definitely had a place in the game. Oh, im sorry. It had a place in the game as it was originally conceived, but not the greedy stripped down micro$oft half-assed version that we got.
In conclusion... what do you think went wrong? You're a fool if you think they just couldnt fit one more level into the game, they could have put the game on two discs and added 20 (we wish) more levels very easily, and microsoft has the money for that. Don't tell me it was because of hardware issues, because its only a map. And dont tell me that you cant include a rocket hog or a personnel transport hog in the game because of hardware issues either, if you can support one vehicle, you can support another. You're being mislead in a number of ways to hide the fact that you've been shafted out of $55 for a game that is shorter than the original and far less enjoyable (aside form the multiplayer which is spectacular). Bungie wanted to give us everything we had hoped for, its just a shame we'll never get to see the godliness of what they had in store for us.
Go to www.bungie.net and look at the title for the halo 2 forums. They are called new mombasa. A level that doesnt even exist in the game (now). What kind of reasoning is there for that? Should that be reserved for halo 3 *cough* when you -might- actually get a chance to catch a glimpse of the city. Rubbish. Bungie said many times halo 2 would bringe closure and there would be no halo 3. Bungie also said they would "never specify a release date for halo 2 until we are certain we could release a finished product." That statement was on their main website the day that the release date was accounced. So why would they set a date for themselves where they knew they wouldnt finish in time and be forced to take out all kinds of content? They wouldn't."
Interesting huh???
@LiquidX01- Thanks for posting that. A pretty dang solid conspiracy theory. It does make sense as a lot of the screens and direction info we the public were given gave the impression that the battle would take place on Earth, or at least a good deal of it. Makes you wonder if Microsoft or Bungie were seeing the amount of self-made hype by the fans and decided to short change #2 and make for another sequel or downloadable content. Like Star Wars fans, the Halo crowds might eat it up.
oh my god that guy who posted that is a GENIUS! i felt EXACTLY the same...we are suppost to be defending earth, thats what the whole game was suppost to be about! and we get ONE shitty level on earth, with hardly any aliens...im so sick and tired of this Halo crap this will most likely be my last post about it...if Halo freaks woul open their eyes they would realize they have been F'ed in the A BIG TIME by M$...people loved Halo 2 before it even came out! they would never turn around and say otherwise....and the Halo conspiricy continues
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I do think that shed some light to the "cliffhanger ending". Maybe Bungie pulled a Konami on us. Remember MGS 2. Snake was the only one seen in all of the pictures, but low and behold we get to play as Raiden.
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It doesn't make any sense, because A) New Mombasa is the 2nd and 3rd actual levels, and because lots of things change from the original demos. I recall the needler being very fast. I also recall the scene from the old Halo demos not being in the game. Hell the Silent Cartographer was only in Halo because they needed to cram another level in the game, and the test one seemed good enough.Originally Posted by YoshiM
The covenant did invade Earth-Regret just did it ahead of schedule. That's why so few ships attacked. It's all explained in the damn game. I was disappointed that there was only 2 earth levels, but you know what? I'll live, because the story just wouldn't have worked if you were on earth the whole time, and even if it went on for a few more levels, it would've felt stretched.
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They did make the needler faster,but it was too good so they toned it down a bit.It still sucks,unless you use it against a brute.
What I'm wondering is why the heck they would choose Mombasa, some unknown city in Kenya, to be the only city on earth that you play in. Or for that matter why the aliens even choose to attack there? Because it has a weird name? Oh well, its probably the first time in a video game where you get to play in Mombasa. And does anybody know what that really tall building is supposed to be?
Anyway my "gamertag" on Xbox live is SkiDragon, if anyone cares.
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Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Who knows what the story would have been like if things were kept the way they were. The invasion on earth was so heavily keyed up that it seemed like that was going to be the crux of the game. Kinda like what happened with the movie Pearl Harbor-people expected it to be more of a war movie than the love story it pretty much was.Originally Posted by ubersaurus
Hey guys, update today:
- New map: Foundation
- HDTV fix (it was chopping off the HUD when in 480p, which pissed me off)
- Fixed matchmaking problems
You can find this more in depth across the internets, just thought I'd throw these little tidbits out there for those who weren't aware. You'll be prompted to update when you get online today.
So that's what that was for. I already had Foundation, but I understand that there was a glitch keeping most people from unlocking it like it was supposed to.Originally Posted by DrJustinRamone
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The matchmaking for me still takes awhile, though not as long as it was but still longer than it should. :/
The HDTV fix was a plus also. That shit was getting annoying.
And now for something completely different.
I finally got the free time to sit down and play this game. I was disappointed in the final shipped result.
I was very surprised to see pop-up, framerate dives, poor texturing, jaggies, out of sync voice track and CG that reminded me of the CG shown in PSX games. To have this product released in this form after continuous delay is questionable. IMO it wasn't ready but Microsoft put the thumbscrews to Bungie in order to ensure that their biggest Christmas seller was on the shelves, come hell or high water.
It's not all bad. The story is fantastic, the soundrack is killer, I liked playing as the other side...it's not all Master Chief, Master Chief, Master Chief, and the dual wield feature means that my weapons last a lot longer before I have to ditch them. Just as in the first Halo, I constantly wield plasma rifles from the earliest opportunity...it's just that this time it's great that I get two.
This game will most likely take home game-of-the-year for the XboX, flaws and all....but I most certainly don't think that it merits overall-game-of-the-year across all consoles. A game-of-the-year recipient should have all aspects of game creation done to higher levels than the competition. In order to do that HALO 2 needed much more polish.
It's too bad. No game can live up to the overwhelming amount of hype generated these days but I was expecting a superior experience to the original Halo. Playing the original game makes me realize....we got it all the first time around.
That's just the way I saw it.
When I try to join a party or accept a party invite it takes a while and then just says "The network is having problems".I already got the new download and it still doing this.It is getting pretty damn annoying,help?
You DO know there wasn't any CG in the game, right? The cutscenes are all done in-engine. The reason for the load times was because Bungie didn't want any load times to slow down the game. I personally wouldn't have minded a slight delay to get the textures in, but I didn't make the game.Originally Posted by jdc
I've never heard of the network problems error...I'd send a message to Bungie or something, see if they know what's up.
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I had my Xbox connected through a hub for a while, and it wasnt downloading the update. I found that connecting directly to the wall ethernet jack let me download, and when I hooked back up to the hub I was able to play. Until I had to download a second update...
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Alright, here's a question on the LIVe play... I was on there with a friend earlier, and he sent a party invite. From there he chose team slayer, and was trying to get us into a team game. No matter what we tried, we always ended up in the game alone. Any idea how we can enter the game together?
You get a party, go into game options, go into the game type listing and pick "Team Skirmish" or "Big Team Battle". You can't actually pick a team slayer game and play with random people, because there's no server list-Bungie expects you to invite people from the random games into your party and go from there.Originally Posted by ddockery
Personally, I just filled my list with people from message boards and play with them ;p
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February 10, 2013
- "One Billion Rising" Flash Mob Dance Practice
- Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
- Location: Multicultural Center 1st floor
- Description: In honor of V-Days 15th anniversary on February 14, 2013, V-Day International is inviting one billion women and those who love them to walk out, dance, rise up, and demand an end to this violence. One Billion Rising will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.
FAA is pleased to announce that we will be holding our own rising here on Western's campus this year! Were planning to hold a flashmob on Thurs., Feb. 14th in the University Union, and we'll have a table in the Union that day giving out information and inviting people to write their own reasons "Why I am Rising..." on a whiteboard and have their picture taken and posted on our facebook page. Anyone interested in participating can come learn the One Billion Rising dance in the Multicultural Center on Sun. Feb. 10 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Depending on interest and availability, a second rehearsal time may be held on Tues. Feb. 12.
- Related Web Site: One Billion Rising Flash Mob Video
- Contact Information:
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I was with my hair stylist the other day and we got to talking about hard work. We both agreed that whoever came up with the phrase, "Good things come to those who wait," was full of it. I saw this quote and I laughed because it represents our sentiments exactly.
The funny part is, I'm pretty sure I used to use this quote. In my head it made sense that if you keep on trying, eventually it will come back around to you. But, the truth is, there is no waiting. You can't wait for things you want to happen – you have to make them happen. You have to keep on keepin' on and force things to come back to you. Waiting just isn't part of the equation.
P.S. Hi! I still exist, I'm here. My life has stopped and taken an incredible turn and I can't wait to share every ounce of it with you. Until then, I'll be working my ass off – never giving up.


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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Happy Holidays and Joy to all of you in 2011!!!!!
20 comments:
- Debbie Clandening said...
Happy holidays. Your blog is so lovely and festive. Your joy to you is wonderful.
Thank-you for your lovely comments.
Deb - December 21, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- LadyCat said...
Have a wonderful Holiday Season! The girl in your drawing is so sweet...I really like the expression on her face. And I LOVE the lion sketch below. I'm going to check out your Etsy shop : )
- December 22, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- Diane said...
Isn't it wonderful what we can do when we open up a door, and there are so many more there to open up and explore. Congratulations on all you've accomplished this year, and Happy Holidays!!
- December 22, 2010 at 6:39 AM
- The Hermits' Garden said...
Congrats on a year of fabulous growth and success--may next year be even better, Heather!
Have a blessed Yule.
Jan - December 22, 2010 at 7:21 AM
- Beth Nicholls said...
It's been a big year for you - and 2011 might just be even bigger! Congratulations on awesome progress Heather!
BethXx - December 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- sonyamacdesigns said...
I love JOY!
- December 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Laura - Layers of Color said...
Bravo to you for a year of making dreams come true! May you have many more!
Merry Christmas! - December 22, 2010 at 11:35 AM
- Teddi said...
so pretty that joy grl is, ms. heather!
- December 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM
- milkcan said...
Sounds like it has been an amazing year! Congrats! I'm delighted that you'll be a part of Art Journal Every Day in 2011!
- December 22, 2010 at 10:45 PM
- Christine said...
Love your drawing. Merry Christmas and it was great to meet you at Sunday Sketches.
- December 22, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- Splendiferous Girls said...
Love this drawing. Merry Christmas..
- December 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM
- Cynthia said...
Happy Holidays to you as well! It will be great fun to see what the new year brings!
- December 23, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- miz katie said...
wow! Congrats for having such a successful year. You are doing fabulous!! Love this new painting.
- December 23, 2010 at 1:34 PM
- My Farmhouse Kitchen said...
hi heather...happy to see you at farmhouse...
and i am happy to follow...
sending you happy holiday wishes
kary and teddy - December 23, 2010 at 5:00 PM
- Jennifer MacNeill-Traylor said...
Happy Holidays to you too!! Beautiful painting:)
- December 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Attic Rat said...
Wishing you a wonderful 2011. I hope it's the best year that you've ever had!
Teresa - December 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- Amy Sullivan said...
~Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !~
Thanks for the wee visit to my bloggy~
Love your paintings & I 'll be sure to visit you next year~in 2011~;)
~amy~ - December 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM
- Two Happy Stampers said...
Love your painting...I wish you a great coming year! - Heidi
- December 27, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Sherry Lynn said...
Thank you for visiting my blog...Love this picture...Congrats on a great year..big things lay ahead.
- December 28, 2010 at 6:39 PM
- OF SPRING AND SUMMER said...
Hi Heather,
Have a very happy New Year!
Lots of love,
Ingrid - December 31, 2010 at 1:03 PM


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Teaching Literacy Through History
Helping K–12 Educators Connect American History to
the Common Core
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The Common Core State Standards have significantly raised the bar for student success, demanding new thinking and new strategies. To meet these benchmarks and prepare students for a 21st-century global economy while nurturing thoughtful, effective citizens, the Gilder Lehrman Institute introduces Teaching Literacy Through History.
Enhance instruction. Improve student literacy. Inspire a love of history.
Teaching Literacy Through History (TLTH) is a professional development program that trains educators to deliver rigorous instruction that develops students' reading, writing, and analytical skills emphasized by the Common Core through the use of historical texts and primary source documents.
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The American Indian Studies program provides opportunities for St. Scholastica students to study history, contemporary developments, tribal cultures, and to interact with Indian professionals and peers. Knowledge of the contributions to our social, political, economic and scientific development will enable students to develop a broader view and a deeper appreciation of our national heritage.
American Indian Studies offers a 24-credit minor designed to complement programs in a variety of different majors.
The objectives of the minor are:
Minor: INS 2201, 2202 (HIS 2201, 2202), and 3301 (RES/PHL 3301). Select one course from either 2203 or 2204 (ART 2204); and one course from 3308, 3320 or 4401. One additional course is needed to complete the minor. Students may petition American Indian Studies to take alternative elective courses.
All students, both Indian and non-Indian, are encouraged to select courses as electives from the core courses listed below. Students may also select courses to fulfill the curricular area distribution requirements.
Program Director: Barbara King, M.S.W.
American Indian graduates are currently employed in a variety of positions. These positions include education: teaching in nursing programs, Indian studies and elementary and secondary schools; administration: directors of health care programs, tribal leaders; health care service providers: reservation and Indian health service; social work: reservation, school and county social services.
Indian Studies Concentration in Social Work
The Social Work and American Indian Studies programs have collaborated to design a course of study that builds on traditional social work methods with specific knowledge about American Indians. The student is prepared to more fully understand the uniqueness of social work practice and American Indians through the study of cultural, social and political problems that face American Indians. The beginning social work practitioner learns to be sensitive and skillful in intervention with indi-viduals, groups, families, and large systems of this population.
Courses: American Indian Law and Policy, American Indian Families, Counseling the American Indian, Human Behavior and the American Indian Community, and a field placement that involves working with American Indian clients.
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Indian Studies offers a rich variety of classes. These courses will help meet some of the distribution requirements for the General Education program. Courses offered are:
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The faculty and staff reflect a diverse background that is in keeping with the College's focus on a strong liberal arts base. They are involved at all levels of teaching, administering, and counseling students. A special center, the Indian Cultural and Resource Center, serves as the nucleus of the various Indian education programs and activities. A student club involves itself in such activities as Indian Awareness Week, fund-raising, peer advisement and community outreach.
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OnSugar blog Between the Bread couldn't make it to Manhattan to try a sandwich at eclectic diner Shopsins, so she re-created one of the famous eatery's sandwiches at home.
Kenny Shopsin invented this sandwich — one of hundreds of items on his six-page, single-spaced menu — for a customer named Greg who is "trapped in shrimp land." Verbiage like that makes Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin a riveting book.
The cookbook/memoir by the eccentric owner of Shopsin's in New York reads like a weird friend dictating his home "recipes" to you. Naturally, the recipes sound weird, sometimes even off-putting, but this shrimp sandwich is wonderfully and weirdly delicious. I followed the directions almost to the letter but threw on some butter lettuce for good measure to cut the buttery, creamy richness and hint of hot sauce.
Enjoy Shopsin's recipe — sharp-tongued instructions included! — when you read on.


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The Final Entry.....
I just wanted to say Thank You for all of the pleasure I have been getting from reading Coffee Talk every morning. While I will miss this forum, its demise won't stop me from reading and enjoying FBoFW! There are so many still timely comments and reminders in this strip, even if it is 29 years old. Again, Thank You to all the commenters and to the staff for making this a very enjoyable way to start my day.
Jan C, Henderson, NV
Thank you for the beautiful strip on Dec.23 in the Chicago Tribune. The last picture that states "Happy Birthday Jesus" made my day. Thank you for putting in the real meaning of Christmas. It put a big smile on my face. Thank you. Have a healthy and happy new year to you all.Maryjo
Thank you for Coffee Talk...It was fun reading and responding to some of the issues covered in the chatter. Happy New Year... Thanks for the memories...(Bob Hope song) :DLara B.
I absolutely love the 'Happy Holidays' Christmas Memory Matching game this season! The format is large and the pictures are just beautiful! Well done! I do them all every day, including the crossword, word roundup, etc. Thanks for everything.Jody from Courtenay BC
Today's Saturday comic strip was very... Painful for me. I love this strip and I truly love the way true at-home life is depicted. This particular strip was especially poignant because it strikes at the very heart of my heart. Our little kids are getting introduced to sexual images younger and younger. It is a constant fight we battle and the look on Elly's face when she hears that he has already seen it twice..... Hurt! Keep speaking up!! It would be great to see Elly fight to keep her kids safe. That is what I am doing. We have to fight to get suggestive magazines covered in the check out line at our stores. We have to fight to have filters on the school computers. We have to write letters to our local stations about programming. If we don't fight, our kids will pay a heavy price. All of my family is paying that price right now....Holly from Sugar City
I think your comment on today's strip is more than a little rediculous. If you are complaining about explicit content on HBO, you have no grounds for doing so. HBO isn't by any means a family channel. The shows are all geared towards adults. If you don't want your children exposed to that sort of content, you don't allow them to watch HBO. And even besides this, it's not right to just shelter our children completely on the subject of how exactly we reproduce. We have such a high rate of teen pregnancies in the US mainly because of our demonizing something that isn't a matter of not doing, but doing when you are mature enough. A lack of education is the issue, not too much.Tom F.
I found the strip!I love the archive. Thanks for the challenge!Amy D. Vienna, Va
I see that the Dec. 31 strip has been updated so that John announces that it's 2013, instead of 1984. I'm afraid changes like this are just going to create anachronisms in the future. It's going to be strange to see Elly and other characters being uncomfortable using e-mail in later strips when she's living in the 2020s instead of the 1990s. And the references to Grandpa Jim serving in World War II won't make sense -- because the war will be 29 years further in the past than it was the first time the strips ran, and he'd have to be much older. I'd rather assume that the strips being run nowadays took place in 1983/1984, when they were drawn, rather than trying to force them into the context of the present day.Joshua, Chicago
Hurray! I saw "2013" in today's strip - Lynn, I am happy you are going to be bringing the Pattersons up-to-date, so my kids can enjoy them as I did, and see Mike and Lizzie, as friends they could meet! I am looking forward to seeing how you (or whoever you hire) will "tweak" the text and art to make certain things in the strip look modern. Retro-70's fashions may be "in" again, but we live in such a different gadget-and-tech world today than when this was first published! (My kids have never even seen those big old phones with the twisty cords, or a typewriter except in old movies; and you can't even buy a "fat TV" anymore instead of a flat-panel!) Happy New Year, everyone!Candice
I wish a very happy & blessed 2013 to all! I will miss this forum. There were times some did not get along and / or were a bit hard minded about some of the strips and I hope those things haven't driven coffee talk to come to an end. For the most part this has been a great forum with lots of awesome people. Thank's for all of the great coffee talk times!Beverly Ann Fournier
I'm not sure if/when the FBoFW studio shuts down for the holidays, but I wanted to send a quick "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays" to everyone up north, and all the regular posters on Coffee Talk. This is one of the first sites I visit in the morning (and pretty much the only comic I ever read any more). I appreciate the dedication to the strip, and the "rewind" back to the beginning. All these strips are new to me, so it's great to see the kids growing up again - and, in a sense, reliving good memories of my own. All the best to the FBoFW team!Rachel L., Ledyard, Connecticut
Friday December 28, 2012
I agree with Lynn that little girls can be quite conniving when it comes to getting attention from their mother. My daughter did the same thing with her big brother to get my attention. While Lynn's daughter Katie was pretending to be interested in her big brother Aaron's bombs and light sabers in order to get mommy time; my daughter pretended to be interested in her big brother's Pokemon cards and Harry Potter books. Can you imagine? Lynn was so right. Little girls are very tricky.
Denise S., Tucson, Arizona
Please do more strips about Elly being so overweight. A bunch of my neighbors and I are struggling with an end of Christmas' fat deposits and are encouraging each other to walk more for exercise. We need the laughs!Rachel L., Ledyard, Connecticut
Thank you for all the years of perfect entertainment and especially for reminding us that Dec 25 is a special birthday, not a day of material gain.Geri C
Mom having a fat day--boy did that hit home for me! Would you believe the same exact thing happened in my house, years ago? I remember my boy Mitchell saying that very thing when he was little. And I haven't lived that down since! Reading the strips is so much like reading my own diaries that sometimes I could swear that Lynn got her stories by stealing them! And you would think that my husband might have some sympathy for me every January, when I vowed to take off ten pounds, but no! Instead, he'd have something snarky to say. And if I didn't grumble and GROWL at him, you better believe I was thinking, "HATE!" :-PEmmy Y., Dundas, ON
I would like to complament you for your Christmas strip where in the last pictute you had April saying "Happy Birthday Jesus". This is what Christmas is about but so many people do not remember "the reason for the season". Thank you and may God be with you.Shawn Dougherty, Oriental, NC
Thank you for being supportive of teachers. Teachers spend a lot of time trying to do the right things. I appreciate that you have done this time and time again. Your life lessons have taught us well and brought us shared daily joy for decades. With much respect,Julie, Florida
Wednesday December 26, 2012
As I sit relaxing after Church service yesterday, reading the comics, I was so blessed that your comic recognized the true meaning of Christmas. MERRY CHRISTMAS and thank you.
Rhonda, North Carolina
I just wanted to say how much I've loved this strip over the years. I started reading it as a child when it came out in the local papers here in Michigan. The fact that the characters grew and aged, and that we could keep up with their progression through life, it was as if the Pattersons were part our family. I remember laughing at their joys, remarking at their accomplishments, and crying over their losses. I now find myself blessed to have found your web page here, and that I can reread the entire series. A Merry Christmas, indeed! Thank you for an amazing story!Jen C
Thank you for the privilege of having posted here on Coffee Talk, and I bid adieu to the regulars posters too. "For Better or For Worse" was my mom's favorite strip while I was still living at home. Every day she had a comment about it, usually "That's exactly how I feel." I wish you and your family the best of the new year and the new opportunities that await you!Barb B.
God Bless you Lynn, for having the courage to bring Jesus back in to Christmas (12/23/12 strip)! It was VERY heartwarming!!!!Val
Thank you. Hope you had a blessed Christmas, wishing you a very Happy New Year!Gypsy, Columbus, Ohio
Monday December 24, 2012
I have to get in my last comments with the impending demise of 'Coffee Talk'. I loved the gift-wrap scene. Wrapped gifts under our Christmas tree always took on a unique specialness. Beautiful paper and shiny bows certainly increased the receiver's curiosity and hope that something beyond wonderful was in that package. After the unveiling, I often thought some gifts would have been better left wrapped!
Diane Siracusa - Hollister, MO
Thanks you for having the true meaning of Christmas in your strip today.Doris
Thank you for reminding us this morning of what CHRISTMAS is all about !! God Bless !!!Tom Clune
I just finished reading the Sunday Comics and yours was the only one that mentioned Jesus's birthday. Thank you for that.Jayne Cage Sarasot, FL
It was nice to see little Lizzie realize that all of the get-togethers and hooplah around Christmas are, in essence, a birthday party. Thanks for the reminder, Lynn.Jan C, Henderson, NV
Sunday Dec 23, 2012 Strip: Thank you, Lynn, for today's strip. Your sensitivity, charm and thoughtfulness was truly revealed once more. In the late 90s I was looking for a copy of The Bestest Present and you made a VHS copy for me. I was delighted to receive that envelope with all the Canadian stamps on it! I still have it, along with a copy of the newer DVD format. I never forget a kindness extended. Merry Christmas form Ohio!Barbara Cooper, Springfield OH
Simply loved your Christmas message in today's paper 12/23/12. What a great message! I always look forward to reading your comic strips because it is one of my favorites, but today was inspiring and a great delight. Thank you so very much and Have a blessed Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Keep up the great work.Phyllis
I just wanted to thank you for your Sunday strip reminding us all that the real meaning of Christmas is the birth of Jesus, our most precious Gift! Thank you!gravec, Dayton OH
With all the commercialism of Christmas and the "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" attitude that kids have always had, the so-called emotional blackmail is about the only thing parents have to keep some kind of control over their kids. You can't reason with a 2-year-old, so you say what you do to make them understand. Kids grow up thinking they will never say to their kids what their parents said to them. But they do. Then they realize the reason they do is because it works. So, if you can't find a star in the sky to illustrate the point about the Star in the East, maybe a moon will do. The point is that you have to get the point of Jesus' birthday across somehow and clearly someone did that with little Lizzie. Right on, Lynn!Rachel L., Ledyard, Connecticut
I came across the comic strip in about 2001 maybe anyway It struck me as so different but yet so real and genuine now everytime I pick up the daily local paper I immediatley go to the comic section to read For Better or For worse. ThanksJared NB
The For Better Or For Worse comic published on December, 23, 2012 just made me go wow. I read the comics once in a while but today this one just stood out to me. I don't know if you're religious or not, but as a Christian, those 3 words "Happy Birthday Jesus" just gave me a really warm feeling inside. I saw the your note about the three kinds of mail you're expecting to get for the religion you put inside today's comic and I realized that I'm none of them. I'm just a Christian teen who'd like to say thanks for the shout out to Jesus on his special day and that it really made my day.clark, california
Friday December 21, 2012
My father was like Lynn Johnston's father. He did magic tricks too. My husband also does magic tricks for my kids, but no one ever seems to give him credit for it.
Denise S., Tucson, Arizona
Thanks so much to all for this wonderful way to connect with all of you. I do appreciate the background we get with each strip, Lynn. You are a wonderful artist and person. Happy Holidays!Kay, Chicago
Thursday December 20, 2012
Yaaaaaaaay! Its the happy ending that I was hoping for! Thank you Lynn for a lovely story :)
Bonnie Stokesdale, NC
I am very touched by the 12/19/12 storyline, and the image of the broken angel. The world has been captivated by the tragedy in Connecticut, and my first thoughts went to those left behind. Those treasured little gifts - with perhaps no real monetary value - will be so treasured for years to come. My dad bought my mother a little musical angel over thirty years ago. She holds a candle that "blinks" to the beat of the music. The volume doesn't work well anymore, but that little angel comes out every Christmas. While my dad is no longer around, that angel means the world to my mom. Thank you, Lynn, for the flood of memories.Jim Inman, Bloomington, IN
I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, A belated Happy Hanukah, And a very happy New Year 2013...Lara B.
Dear Lynn Johnston: I would like to commend you on your comic strip of 11/25/2012. It has a child getting dressed up and ends with O.K., GOD. YOU CAN MAKE IT SNOW NOW! I found the humor in it and appreciate the thought. We live near a levy that you can sled down with enough snow. I have with my daughter and enjoy it. It is a gift from God that all people can enjoy. Part of a Bible verse at Romans 1:20 says his invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world's creation onward. He allows Christians, Jews, Muslims and others to enjoy his handiwork. Thanks again for your thoughts and time. Sincerely,Ben Howells
I have a golden cherub fridge magnet with a missing wing that "flew into a different dimension" (never COULD find the wing) when it fell off the fridge and I cherish it even more now. I will miss coffee talk terribly and wish it could somehow stay. Love to all! <3Beverly Ann Fournier
Wednesday December 19, 2012
My mom was a master of repair with her "super Nana glue." Your recent strips have reminded me her, thanks, and also of the Japanese belief that a broken object carries the memory of the moment of breaking and is more precious. We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo I have an angel with a broken wing and now a cow (jumping over the moon) with a broken wing ... reminders of our dependence on each other.
Storyteller Mary, St. Peters, MO
Love the glass angel story line. My first thought - the dad should have turned the car around and replaced the broken gift, with a promise from Michael to eventually repay him. But, this is so much better.Diane Siracusa - Hollister, MO
Lynn, I cannot tell you how much pleasure you bring into my life (as well as others) with your column. You deal w/the daily parts of life that we all have, and you do it w/a sense of humor and warmth. Thank you again and again for that. Keep at it. We all need, and enjoy your gift. Merry Christmas, and the best in the New Year.Mary Lou La Com