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A Salisbury teen who recently got her driver's license got a lesson and a scare Friday afternoon when she accidentally drove her father's truck through the front window of the Nazareth Thrift Store.
Brittany Nicole Clark, 18, was parking the Dodge pickup in front of the store at 1800 E. Innes St. when she hit the gas instead of the brake, said Salisbury Police Officer M.P. Benjamin.
Clark panicked and kept hitting the gas, thinking she was hitting the brake, he said.
The pickup crashed through the front window, just to the right of the front door. The truck hit a shelving unit in the front of the store, sending glass and bricks flying.
Some customers were in the store around 2:20 p.m., but no one was injured.
The store is located in the 52 East retail center, across from the Rowan County Health Department.
Clark was not injured, just rattled. The teen has had her license for less than a month. She was not charged. The truck and building were insured, Benjamin said.
The Salisbury Fire Department checked the entrance to ensure the building was safe before the truck was removed. Clark's father, James, moved the truck once given the all clear from firefighters.
James Clark said he ran from the family's home on U.S. 52, several blocks down the road, after his daughter called him hysterical. The truck is his only vehicle, but he was worried she'd been hurt.
"She's pretty shaken," Clark said.
He said it's one of those things that can happen to young drivers. Clark said he was glad his daughter was fine. He was able to drive the truck from the parking lot.
Gloria Black, a store employee, said she was in the back when she heard the crash and breaking glass. She ran to see what happened and saw the truck inside the store.
A store clerk who did not provide her name said she was standing at the register when the pickup came through the window. She said she was worried because she initially thought a customer had been standing there. She looked underneath the truck to make sure. No one was in the area.
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In this thread I'd like to hear other's opinions. It's not about "X video by Stef changed my life" or anything. It's about people in general. Why some individuals find out that State is a massive scam, basically, worst religion ever while the majority still are strict believers who do not ever question the legitimacy of state. So how? Why and how some break out of the matrix? Discuss.
(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)
A nominalistic materialistic mindset that is interested in socioogy that asks the question "how do things work".
"As in a kaleidoscope, the constellation of forces operating in the system as a whole is ever changing." - Ludwig Lachmann
"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence" - GLS Shackle
When I changed my major to political science at the end of my freshman year, I decided to become a libertarian because the government was lying and murdering all the time and that people were being forced to pay for it.
in High school I thought bill clinton and the liberals were pretty cool because I thought they were so anti-racist, but then I realized they were nothing but hypocrites out to get power. In 2007, Ron Paul's ethics turned me to libertarianism and helped to set in stone my then-one year old realization that the Clintons and other liberals just wanted power. I realized they lacked ethics because they had enough money to give to the poor without advocating theft. After seeing what a good man Dr. Paul was, I didn't want to be associated with dishonest people like the Clintons.
In 2009 I simply realized that the Constitution was statist.
I'm still hesitant about diving into the full anarchist position, although I do call myself a voluntaryist. However, what made me skeptical of even minarchy was a couple of things. One, of course, was the breaking down of a lot of the myths and dogmas surrounding our current government. Two, understanding fully what democracy entailed. We always hear it's supposed to be bringing people together, but in reality it all too often sets them at eachother's throats because of rent-seeking activity, special interests, etc. Three, understanding social contract theory and how it's basically just used as cover by people who are trying to gain an unjust advantage, even if it's for a "good cause".
The biggest step, and one of the first, on the path to supporting a stateless society is to throw out the Nirvana Fallacy that "good government" is something that actually exists with any consistancy.
To answer the OP's excellent question about other people though, I guess it's just because a lot of people lack ethics or they want something for nothing. Also, some people are too emotional and not rational enough. For example, most peoples' reaction to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was "kill that evil bastard Bin Laden", without even knowing much as to who the hell he was, why he did it, that innocents could be slaughtered if war was the response, that it could put americans at further risk, that American foreign policy sucked, that the government could've done it, etc. However, I've never felt attached to this country (or any country really), so I wasn't like that. But now, I'm not only not a violent nationalist, I also think that if the government exists, then it should abolish the standing military and fight all of its wars on the continent.
I think some people never enter the Matrix to begin with. Most of them are probably in prison or living in inner-city slums on the boundary of civilization. I suspect that there is a dispositional tendency of some people to love to belong. They crave the feeling that someone is in control of the circumstances of their life. They feel that is what makes the world sane and bearable. If the Matrix did not exist, such people would create it from scratch just so they could live in it.
If true, I am not sure what percentage of the populace has this disposition but I suspect it is a majority by virtue of the persistence of the State over so many millenia. For this reason, I do not believe that the system is reformable, certainly not in this generation, maybe in the next probably not for a few generations yet. People have to start being free before people without the dispositional longing to belong will become a majority.
In the meantime, I think freedom is something you just have to create for yourself. If you wait for society to stop believing in its own taxation and enslavement, you will never be free. We can contribute to the eventual freedom of mankind by continuing to promote the ideas of freedom in the hopes that as people begin to be more free, they will change the constitution of future generations to be less innately disposed to enslavement.
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Tribal instincts account for the statist mentality. Tribal instincts are blind to scale; it worked to trust authority when the tribe was like an extended family, but humans are not evolutionarily adapted to thinking about modern conditions with millions or billions of people. At this scale our instincts still tell us to trust the tribal elders and medicine men, and that we need elders for the entire gigantic "tribe" of a whole country. Simple as that. To reject statism requires digging deeper and/or rejecting authority. The Internet is enabling the digging and fueling mistrust of authority as their propaganda support structures crumble. Plus the recent global chaos is making people want to find out how the world really works.
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Oh gag me.
thank you all for responses, many of them made me think and I a little bit changed my opinion. What I think is that one of the most important things is questioning and understanding authority, meaning, which authority is "good" (voluntary, like in medical practice, for example) and which is bad (imposed by force).
the other thing is simply being skeptical, like LogisticEarth said. Seeing not only scam in newspapers (especially their last pages, called "horoscopes") but in first pages too (A politician X attended event Y. Who the fuck is X? Why should I care about him? I don't care about supermarket owner's personal life and how he spends his free time, He doesn't affect me at all. I can quit going to his shop, but with the politics... you can't quit, you're in the game since the day you're born. Why is that?)
Still... I think it would be too arogant (and quite insane) to say, that we are somehow intellectually or physically different than other people. Maybe it's enviroment? Maybe the parenting? I don't think there's only one answer though. But yeah, vive la insurrection hit the point: "how do things work" is almost essential question in the road to anarchism.
Well if you ask progressives/leftists it's because of white privilege herp derp!
I think parenting, life experiences, educational opportunities/tone/method all have an effect. Personally, I have a feeling parenting, or at least interaction with adults during childhood, has a good deal to do with how someone takes in information. During my childhood, my parents rarely gave me "childish" explainations for things. My dad would always accept my questions and explain things to me, and my mom would too. If I stumped them, they'd tell me rather than flubbing it off. I think it lead to a really strong sense of curiosity and self reflection that helped me look back on what I'd been taught in school and question it. This didn't manifest itself in political theory so much until I was in college, and I didn't call myself a libertarian until a few years ago. Back to the point though, I still cringe every time somebody gives a wrong/terribly simplified answer to a kid, or toying with them. I think it does a great deal of damage.
I do think libertarians are a different breed of people. I think our minds work differently. That isn't to say we're superior, it's just that we think differently about topics. That's also not to say that we can't convince people, but when I see studies like the one that came out a little while ago about libertarian morality compared to conservative or liberal morality, I can't help but feel it's like Sisyphus pushing the proverbial boulder up a hill.
Prior to becomming increasingly aware of the libertarian mindset i was your typical in-your-face liberal, who everyone was wrong and heartly and discompassionate and the likes. Then, trying for a 5000 dollar or more scholarship i read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. While its not her capstone book, it still introduced to me a whole set of morality counter to the liberal, and gave me a different perspective to look at the world with. Also prior to this, i had, though, considered myself a "social libertarian," but being in highschool at the time was never exposed to anything that made fiscal libertarianism make sense to me until then.
To be clear, i wouldnt consider myself quite an anarchist, though if i was i would be more of the Bastiat variety. But even so anarchist theory inspires my ideology as much as any else.
A lot of it is simply ignorance, and not digging deep enough to find the root of current events or problems. I can tell you, just from posting links on my Facebook page, and some friendly debate, at least two of my friends have become anti-statists, one a Paulite.
Beyond knee-jerk appeals to emotion and morals, most statists have no resons to keep believing the myth, you just have to show them that.
As an aside, as a perpetual statistical outlier (how many prog rock nerd mystic Stirnerites do you know?) I've always considered Steppenwolf to be a great treatment of the struggle between being part of the herd, and being a lone wolf.
I think that genetics has something to do with it, but don't ask me how exactly.
I see the state as a type of domestication of the human animal. A bad type, obviously, but that's what it is.
If you think about dogs, it's obvious that selective breeding doesn't just change their physical attributes, but it also changes their basic personalities. You do get qualities and quirks specific to individual animals, and upbringing plays an enormously important role. Any dog will become vicious if it is raised abusively or traumatically.
However, "breeds" of dog do have very strong stereotypical traits that tend to be true across the vast majority of individuals within a "breed", and are more obvious if the dogs are all raised in a non-traumatic environment when they're young. Labrador retrievers tend to be very gentle and easy-going with everyone they meet, Doberman Pinschers will tend to be warier and more aggressive etc. Pretty much any dog can be raised to be friendly towards the people it bonds with early on, but there are many breeds which will always view strangers - both dogs and humans - with extreme prejudice; as the 'other' which threatens them.
It's not impossible to take a newborn wolf and raise it to be essentially domesticated, but it's not an entirely safe proposition, and it will never behave quite like a normal dog. If you ever encounter a "tame" wolf or wolfdog you will know what I mean... Whereas the first reaction for most dogs towards a strange human could vary from naive overfamiliarity and friendliness to wary shyness to wary aggression to conditioned wilful ignorance, you will never get the same impression one gets with a wolf - that it doesn't look up to you in either reverence or fear, but sees you as a peer in nature, and reacts accordingly. If it doesn't chew your arm off, it's because it took the cool-headed, measured decision not to. Maybe it had better things to do. You get a similar sort of impression when you encounter any very large wild mammal that won't instinctively flee when it detects a hominid, e.g. an elephant or bear. It will stare you down until you shit yourself, and then it will turn its back and slowly walk away when it smells you aren't a theat. :)
I think that the same selective breeding for juvenile traits that is done intentionally to breed dogs to be domesticable also happens to humans, but it's mostly a spontaneous process which has been going on naturally for a very long time. A normal adult Homo sapien naturally exhibits what might have been described as 'juvenile' physical traits in earlier hominids. "Civilisation" depends very much on a pervasive juvenile mindset - that we're all juvenile members of a tribe waiting around for food and everything else we need to descend upon us from our provident superiors returning from their hunt.
Belief in God is associated with this. If you believe in God, you believe that human beings are eternally, immutably and fundamentally juvenile spirits with God as their eternal parent. Theists do not generally believe that humans are destined grow up to become a God ourselves and have little humans of our own one day, which is a bit strange if you think about it. People apparently feel that in their souls, they are supposed to feel like children forever.
I think that it's the root of a lot of economic fallacy. People simply cannot shake the mindset that 'wealth' - that which is to be valued - is not just a wildebeest, i.e. a fixed quantity, waiting somewhere out there for the hunters to go out and kill it and bring it back for supper, and then divide it up 'fairly' between the rest of us. 'Wealth' is not a fixed quantity. We have the power - human beings have the power to breed wildebeest, or indeed cows, for food if they want to, and this changes the rules of the game completely. We actually have the power we attribute to God. But it doesn't change people's instincts. When there is no need to hunt wildebeest, people tend to hunt each other instead.
Sometimes, I think that the genetic precursors which make people susceptible to Pavlovian conditioning, i.e. behaving like dogs, are weakened or even non-existant due to a recurring mutation of some kind. I don't think that this will necessarily turn someone into an 'anarchist' - i.e. someone who has a highly developed ethical theory concerning 'punishment'. What happens from this point on depends on environment. Perhaps a number of things could happen to someone for whom punishment and reward simply does not work as effectively as it does for others.
They might become a "psychopath" - someone who is incapable of building an ethical theory outside their conditioning, and yet for whom the conditioning itself was ineffective. So they become an intraspecies predator.
Or they could react defensively in a "schizoid" or "schizophrenic" way - lose the ability to form proper object-relations, at least with regards to ethics, and descend into their own fantasy world as a defense against an unworkable reality.
Or, if they are lucky, there is a third option... They are able to recursively analyse their position, and escape the trap of Pavlovian conditioning. They are able to construct an ethic, based either on utilitarian or deontological reasoning, which does not incorporate the concepts of 'punishment' and 'reward' to achieve its desired outcomes.
Sadly, I don't think you can talk the good kind of 'anarchism' into most people any more easily than you can talk a gentle nature into an abused Rottweiler. The recursive analyses has its place, but it's only really going to work on a very small number of genetic mutations. For the rest, ethics will always be synonymous with reward and punishment. Virtue will always be synonymous with obedience.
A nominalistic materialistic mindset that is interested in sociology that asks the question "how do things work".
A nominalistic materialistic mindset that is interested in sociology that asks the question "how do things work".
Seems that most of the people I come across who actually end up taking sociology classes in college turn out to be leftists of some sort.
I think it falls on whether the person who has the question of "how things work" goes into it without bias, looking at the "mechanics" of society, politics, and economics objectively and accepting what is, compared to going into it with a view and agenda of what ought to be. This seems to be the line in those who favor some sort of centralization, state, government, collectivization, whatever. Some will take the role of government, and say "it should be like this" and "it world work if so-and-so was in control" as well as "this is needed to help [insert group here]" and so on, compared to those who say, "no, it clearly doesn't work, and changing the variables won't make it any better" as well as someone who's willing to trace the roots of how something works through it's entire "functioning system" and coming out with a view even if it goes against their previous stance.
+1 James.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome post.
If it doesn't chew your arm off, it's because it took the cool-headed, measured decision not to.
And that's exactly what I take the term "originary secession" to mean... it means gradually transitioning oneself out of the mindset of obedience to imposed authority out of either reverence or terror and into a mindset of measured indifference... the police officer pulling me over, armed to the teeth is a peer. He can threaten me, probably even beat me and cuff me and I will likely not respond with violence but it will be solely the result of a measured decision, not awe or terror at his uniform and institutional backing.
Stop being a lapdog, start being a wolf.
In this thread I'd like to hear other's opinions. It's not about "X video by Stef changed my life" or anything. It's about people in general. Why some individuals find out that State is a massive scam, basically, worst religion ever while the majority still are strict believers who do not ever question the legitimacy of state. So how? Why and how some break out of the matrix? Discuss.
In this thread I'd like to hear other's opinions. It's not about "X video by Stef changed my life" or anything. It's about people in general. Why some individuals find out that State is a massive scam, basically, worst religion ever while the majority still are strict believers who do not ever question the legitimacy of state. So how? Why and how some break out of the matrix? Discuss.
See: "The Reluctant Anarchist" by Joseph Sobran
Regards, onebornfree.
P.S. A good start can also be made by refusing to swallow, "hook, line and sinker" , any of the states bigger lies; for example, the official story about 9/11,or Pearl Harbor, or the Moon landings, [etc. etc.] and instead to automatically assume that every part of the states story is in fact an unmitigated pack of lies, until [if ever] conclusively proven otherwise.
For more information about onebornfree, please see profile.[ i.e. click on forum name "onebornfree"].
"I do think libertarians are a different breed of people. I think our minds work differently. That isn't to say we're superior, it's just that we think differently about topics. That's also not to say that we can't convince people, but when I see studies like the one that came out a little while ago about libertarian morality compared to conservative or liberal morality, I can't help but feel it's like Sisyphus pushing the proverbial boulder up a hill."
I'd like to see a link if you have one.
I honestly feel as though it primarily has to do with how open minded one is. Most people I've talked to have honestly been convinced or swayed to my viewpoint simply based upon my arguments. It sounds presumptuous but it is my experience. It all depends upon how engrained the idea of a government and 'intention makes reality' is engrained into ones brain.
Intellectually honest and open to reason.
This is the study: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1665934
This is the summary: http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/02/the-science-of-libertarian
The capacity use assumptions only after they are logically verified, I believe, is the capacity to realize the evil and uselessness of the state.
The Anarch is to the Anarchist what the Monarch is to the Monarchist.
-Ernst Jünger
Based on the summary article, I have problems with the study. I don't disagree that there may be some dispositional factors that influence the receptiveness of the individual to classical liberalism (libertarianism). But the theories mentioned in the article are weak. For example, they posit that perhaps libertarians are less opposed to victimless crimes because they experience less intense feelings of disgust. But it could equally be the other way around - libertarians experience less intense feelings of disgust precisely because they are less opposed to victimless crimes. This goes with the "mind your own business" orientation of most libertarians ... thinking in detail about a particularly disgusting sexual act may very well arouse the same intense feeling of disgust in the libertarian as it does in the conservative but the libertarian simply chooses to banish such thoughts from his mind for the simple reason that thinking about them is disgusting and useless.
Furthermore, the article seems to imply that morality is formed in the same way that food tastes are formed... a largely blind process by which preferences get expressed as "morals." But there are a lot of things that I find disgusting now (e.g. blind patriotic expressions of "my country right or wrong" "kill them all, let God sort them out" and so on) that I was perfectly OK with just four years ago. The shift in my view of what is right and wrong has altered how I feel about the very same actions, at a visceral level.
I was that way for a long time as well. What you said is probably true to some degree. I know, ever since early high school which is when I began developing my hardcore conservative beliefs, I was very conservative and I would have considered myself a Christian fundamentalist. I still had the personality traits of a libertarian though, at least according to this study. Socially, I'm an introvert. I still had relatively low levels of "disgust." I was more rational than emotional. I think I just hadn't been acquainted with the libertarian argument before.
A lot of opinion-molding is done because you accept certain positions by default and only can change them when you come across an argument so convincing that it is able to be dislodged. Personality traits could determine whether or not you dislodge one of these core beliefs when you stumble upon a fringe argument. It could be the case that I always had the capacity to become libertarian, I just hadn't been introduced to the argument, whereas someone who is predisposed to be a collectivist socialist with no respect for freedom may reject an argument for anti-statism the first time upon hearing it because it doesn't jive with them, for whatever reason.
Or not. Who knows
For instance though, a lot of computer programmers are libertarian. I don't think this is a coincidence. We most likely have similar personality traits.
How do people become anarchists?
You have to sign up for a card which holds all your biometric data. You'll be added to the National Register of Non-conformist Political Ideologues and need to log onto their website once a month to arrange a retina scan. Freedom awaits you.
Consumariat:How do people become anarchists?
You have to sign up for a card which holds all your biometric data. You'll be added to the National Register of Non-conformist Political Ideologues and need to log onto their website once a month to arrange a retina scan. Freedom awaits you.
... You have nothing serious to post in this thread? Really?
The keyboard is mightier than the gun.
Non parit potestas ipsius auctoritatem.
Voluntaryism Forum
Not really, no.
Why not? And why did you feel the need to post something non-serious when everyone else in the thread posted something serious?
The more that I look around 'mainstream' forums, the more that I'm convinced that the answer is not being an idiot. Anarchism is in a very real way a liberation through the death of three things
1. Aggregation of human affairs
Such as the belief that 'America' is all that meaningful a term except in describing whatever the government has done or general societal trends.
2. Questioning of government
Not just 'What should government be for?' but a real questioning of the institution as a whole. What it is, the means available to it, and why it's actually necessary
3. An understanding of free action
Whenever you look at anarchist solutions to problems, or an analysis of problems I usually see quite a praxeological method of cause and effect based upon individual desires. This manifests itself through actually thinking through things which are immediate deadfalls to most other people. For instance when talking about poverty the statist brain seems to generally just buzz out of existence at the idea that there are other ways to solving it. The answer for 90% of statists claims about things which can't be solved by markets is the democratic problem:
In order for something to be supported in a democratic society it must be supported by the majority.
If you're talking to an average statist then they will agree with this, if you're talking to a smarter one then they will state the reasons why this isn't necessarily the case, but then you can really challenge the efficiency of democracy in the first place.
In almost all countries the majority of people have a good deal of money, especially because the majority is unlikely to totally exclude the rich
In a free market society commercial or 'capitalistic' means are not the only means of action, other means are available so long as they are voluntary
Therefore if the majority of people want something, and they have a good deal of money then they can address the problem and they will want to as they support it happening. If the problem does not involve money and can be solved through simple labor, then they will do this to and the equality in society doesn't actually matter.
This then means that according to the statist's own argument people should come together in order to solve problems which are supposedly unsolvable through capitalistic means! If this is not the case then either the statist admitts that democracy doesn't reflect the will of the majority, or the matter is so massive that it requires coercion on others to come about, something which social austricism could usually bring about in the first place, and where cash payments and other forms of social pressure will work in almost all others.
Jeez! Lighten up mate. Not everything has to be serious.
Consumariat:Jeez! Lighten up mate. Not everything has to be serious.
"Jeez" yourself. How about you try to make me "lighten up", hmm?
Now can you actually answer my questions or not? What are you afraid of?
Well what?
Do I need to repeat myself?
Would you? Please. This all very entertaining for me.
Here goes:
Autolykos:"Jeez" yourself. How about you try to make me "lighten up", hmm?
Now can you actually answer my questions or not? What are you afraid of?
With that out of the way...
Consumariat:This all very entertaining for me.
So you admit to trolling here?
...I think their post was pretty obviously and honestly not serious. I'm not sure who appointed you the silly police, but as an outsider its hard to see why you seem upset about it.
Believe me, it's not me who is acting the troll. I certainly didn't post here expecting anyone to get all weird and aggressive. I think you need to lay off the coffee.
Birthday Pony:...I think their post was pretty obviously and honestly not serious.
By "trolling" I was referring to his refusal to answer my questions. I thought that was obvious.
Birthday Pony:I'm not sure who appointed you the silly police, but as an outsider its hard to see why you seem upset about it.
Am I supposed to be intimidated by this? Or otherwise care? Do you really think this is going to dissuade me here? Come on.
Consumariat:Believe me, it's not me who is acting the troll.
Really now? I'd love to see you expand on this. Surely you're able to.
Consumariat:I certainly didn't post here expecting anyone to get all weird and aggressive.
Then what exactly did you expect?
Consumariat:I think you need to lay off the coffee.
I couldn't care less what you think in this regard.


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Vikings too much for South Rowan
TROUTMAN — From the first play of the first series Friday, it was evident South Rowan was outmatched by South Iredell. The Vikings moved the ball with ease on that first possession.
It took only eight plays and 1 minute, 14 seconds for South Iredell to take an 8-0 lead on a drive capped by Briggs Lunsford's 1-yard touchdown run and Michael Fisher's two-point conversion.
Chris Holmes returned a South Rowan fumble by Eric Stowe for a touchdown on the first play of the ensuing drive, and South Iredell was on its way to a 44-9 season-opening victory.
"We were playing real well (at the start)," South Iredell head coach Scott Miller said. "We were playing fast."
Fisher, the Vikings' receiver-turned-running back, was the spark of the early dominance on offense. He needed only three carries to break the 100-yard barrier.
What looked like a touchdown run on the Vikings' first possession was called back for a holding penalty. On the first play of the second possession, a shoestring tackle by South Rowan's Peyton Penninger kept Fisher out of the end zone on that play. He scored his first touchdown of the game four plays later, and South Iredell was ahead 16-0.
He ended the game with 159 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries.
"Mikey did really good," Miller said. "That's why we moved him back there; to get a spark on offense. He has really good field vision.
"Anytime Bill Mayhew says they can do it, you trust that."
Quarterback Alex Crosby found a wide-open De'Andre Rankin about 33 yards down the field as the seconds ticked off in the final minute of the first quarter. Rankin caught the ball at the South Rowan 1 and back pedaled into the end zone. The Vikings led 30-0.
Crosby finished the game 11 of 15 for 156 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Ranking caught two passes for 71 yards.
Fisher's one-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, his second of the game, gave South Iredell a 37-0 lead at halftime.
The frenetic scoring didn't carry over to the second half.
South Rowan got on the board with a safety on a bad snap by South Iredell on a punt attempt from its 17-yard line midway into the third quarter.
Crosby hit Donshel Winford for an 8-yard scoring pass on the ensuing South Iredell possession for a 44-2 lead.
The Raiders were finally able to find the end zone late in the fourth quarter when Derrick Blackwell ran two yards for the Raiders' only touchdown of the game. The play capped a five-play, 36-yard drive.
"It's just you get hit like that first quarter, and the main thing is the kids kept fighting back in the second half," South Rowan head coach Jason Rollins said.
Blackwell was the workhorse for the Raiders' offense. His carry on the first play of the second half was a 67-yard run through South Iredell's secondary that ended four yards shy of the end zone. South Iredell's defense kept South Rowan from scoring, and the drive ended with an incomplete pass by quarterback Aaron Kennerly.
Blackwell ran for a team-high 135 yards on 20 carries. Kennerly had a 15-of-24 night for 178 yards.
South Iredell's defense registered eight sacks.


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Converse CONS Spring/Summer 2013 Collection
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Our last sizable update on Converse' catalog for the day comes in the form of a preview of the Converse CONS sublabel, the imprint under which their skate styles are born. The line sports some exciting updates to classics including the Converse Pro Leather and the Converse Star Player. What's more, the sneakers included borrow a bit of technology from Nike in the form of the Nike Lunarlon sock liner. Hit the jump with us to check out the full group and tell us in the comments if these Lunar-infused Converse pairs are something that you're looking forward to skating in.


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It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?
"Demented, twisted, sick and I loved it!"
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track - until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about.
"What's Up with Early Reviewers?"
Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the solar system.
"As Good As Book 1"
Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother's whereabouts. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest.
"Pickiest Reader Would Be Willing to Give 6 Stars"
Joey Shannon, an alcoholic whose life has been going nowhere for 20 years, returns to his hometown for the funeral of his father. As he leaves town, he gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night in 1975 when his life began its downward spiral: to both literally and figuratively take the road that he didn't originally take. On this road he is supremely tested by conflict with his successful and charismatic older brother P.J., by conflict between his cynicism and his lost faith, and by conflict between the ultimate good and evil.
"OK Koontz but Shorts not Included"
Man's struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world's most exciting stories. Now, in the tradition of Moby Dick comes a New York Times best seller destined to become a modern classic. Written by journalist Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm combines an intimate portrait of a small fishing crew with fascinating scientific data about boats and weather systems.
"Riveting Book, Mediocre Narration"
Why we think it's a great listen: Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand's done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.....
"Hillenbrand could make even laundry fascinating!"
The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
"Gothic Horror Never Sounded So Good"
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
"Holy Crap minus the Holy"
Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you're invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler's Yes Please. The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy's parents - Yes Please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza.
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade - a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
"Great Book"
General George S. Patton, Jr., died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost 70 years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident - and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton will take listeners inside the final year of the war and recount the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
"A good book with alot of flaws"
Why we think it's a great listen: An all-time Audible favorite that mixes historic fiction, adventure, and romance with one of the most fascinating literary devices: time travel. Outlander introduces an exhilarating world of heroism and breathtaking thrills as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love. In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall returns from World War II and joins her husband for a second honeymoon. But their blissful reunion is shattered....
"The Reason for the Existence of Audio Books"
For readers or listeners of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham - the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls - as one of the brightest and most original writers working today.
Pirriwee Public's annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. One parent is dead. The school principal is horrified. As police investigate what appears to have been a tragic accident, signs begin to indicate that this devastating death might have been cold-blooded murder. In this thought-provoking novel, number-one New York Times best-selling author Liane Moriarty deftly explores the reality of parenting and playground politics, ex-husbands and ex-wives, and fractured families.
"Great story. Genius writing"
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?
"A short history of digital technology."
This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.
"Pride goeth before the fall"
Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution - and rock and roll.
"Some good, some bad"
Gideon calls me his angel, but he's the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face his own. The vows we'd exchanged should have bound us tighter than blood and flesh. Instead they opened old wounds, exposed pain and insecurities, and lured bitter enemies out of the shadows. I felt him slipping from my grasp, my greatest fears becoming my reality, my love tested in ways I wasn't sure I was strong enough to bear.
Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover") and decrying the worst offenders ("kale is the early morning of foods"). Fans flocked to his New York Times best-selling book Dad Is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really crave - his thoughts on all things culinary(ish).
"Funny, but read more like a series of jokes"
Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds. For one thing, her father has disappeared, and the more she retraces his last steps, the more she learns he was conducting an investigation of his own, one that has Charley questioning everything she's ever known about him.
"Charlie really finds her power"
New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon enchanted scores of fans with Outlander, her electrifying historical saga set in 18th-century Scotland. Now this sequel sweeps listeners back into the past as Claire relates more of her perilous sojourn there with her Scottish warrior husband, James Fraser. Twenty years after her strange journey back in time, Claire has returned to Scotland with her daughter, determined to share with her the secret she has harbored since her time travel.
"I ADORE this series!"
In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case.
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. It's easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1.
"In my top 3 favorite Startup books"
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
"Sad Premise, Fantastic Story"


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LIVE! | Marilyn Manson & Rob Zombie
by Christophe Pauly
– Photojournalist –
December 1, 2012 at Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette in Luxembourg –
Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie joint headlining tour, "Twins Of Evil," travels across North America and Europe. Korn's Jonathan Davis opens the shows with a DJ appearing as his 'alter ego' J. Devil. Photojournalist Christophe Pauly caught up with the tour in Luxembourg.
Marilyn Manson set list:
Hey, Cruel World…
Disposable Teens
The Love Song
No Reflection
The Dope Show (with snippet of 'Happiness is … more)
Rock Is Dead
Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode cover)
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics cover)
Coma White
King Kill 33°
Antichrist Superstar
The Beautiful People
Rob Zombie Set List:
Jesus Frankenstein
Meet the Creeper
Living Dead Girl
More Human Than Human (White Zombie song)
Theme for an Angry Red Planet
Mars Needs Women
Drum Solo
Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)
Sick Bubble-Gum
Scum of the Earth
Pussy Liquor
Thunder Kiss '65 (White Zombie song)
Guitar Solo
School's Out (Alice Cooper cover)


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Sunday's final stage of the Tour of Switzerland traced its way from Altdorf, the town which served as the starting point for the Klausenpass climb, back to the Bern city center 168 rolling kilometers away.
Though there was hardly a completely flat section of road in the entire day, there was every expectation that this day should provide the stomping ground for the remaining sprinters in the race. However, the undulating parcours also served as a prime opportunity for a breakaway group which BMC was happy to join.
Sprinter's teams desperate to keep the break close
"Since we don't have a dominating sprinting card, we had to be represented in the break and gamble on that working," Gavin Chilcott said. "There were two early breaks that went away, both contained Alex Moos and Martin Kohler, which would have been very interesting for us if they had succeeded in establishing a good lead, but some other teams did the maths and didn't want to let those breaks get established." Even when a break was allowed to get a little daylight between itself and the pack, they were still given very little leeway. "Finally one break was allowed to go and that contained Darren Lill for us, which was the next best thing," Chilcott explained. "But even that one was never given much of a leash." Perhaps chaffing still from having a golden bunch sprint opportunity stolen from them on Friday, the sprinter's teams kept the pace high, never allowing the dangerous break which contained Darren Lill and four other riders too much rope. "There were still some teams interested in getting the final few King of the Mountain points, so as with the stage from Friday, the peloton was working to bring the break back before that final climb in the race," Chilcott reasoned. "Today the group was racing all out," Danilo Wyss reported. "That is evidenced by the fact that the break never got more than 4 minutes, proof we were going very fast." The day's heat also played a factor in the racing, making for very thirsty riders at the finish of the stage. "It was very difficult for me," Wyss continued, "and I am very dry now!" However in foiling any chance for the escape group to succeed, those keen for a sprint finish also facilitated another impressive display from Fabian Cancellara who attacked with under a kilometer to go, catching a tiring Phillip Gilbert, and taking his second stage in three days. "It was a shifting, narrow finishing circuit with hills and cobbled sections, which made for an exciting finish," Chilcott said. "Cancellara was a favourite going into the stage and certainly delivered an amazing performance."
Strong team performance portends optimistic future for BMC
"It's always this time of year that deals start being made for the coming seasons, and we are encouraged because there is a lot of interest in the team," Chilcott said. "Overall we had a successful week where we were visible in a break nearly everyday." The main disappointment for the management was the injury which prevented a very in-form Jonathan Garcia from finishing the stage race. "What was most disappointing for me was that Jonathan wasn't able to finish the race, as he is obviously a guy who belonged here, and was riding very strongly in spite of his crash," Chilcott said. "But it was nice to see the riders on our team, particularly the young ones, step up to this ProTour level and take responsibility for the unfolding of the race." Not only are the racers gaining a foothold in the extremely high sporting level, the support side of the team is also smoothing out their performance. "The operations side of the team is also working well and providing solid support," Chilcott explained. "We are getting even more organized and more prepared, learning how to cope with the transatlantic racing schedule we have this year." If not quite all the team's goals were met this Tour de Suisse, it will just leave the riders and management more hungry to succeed in next year's edition. "It would have been nice to have a rider in the top 10," Chilcott said. "Alex was really our only option for that accomplishment, and that is a lot of pressure to put on one rider; Alex handles the pressure really well, but the level of racing in Switzerland was so high, only a three week grand tour would have been more challenging."


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JONELL GALLOWAY Freelance food writer and translator, cooking instructor, recipe developer and tester
I ramble around the world, mainly in Switzerland and Europe, looking for good food and restaurants. Until recently, I shared my discoveries with my friends on my blog, The Rambling Epicure, on genevalunch.com, where my posts are still available for viewing. I develop recipes using local ingredients, write about restaurants and local products and just about anything that is food-related.
But I wear a coat of many colors, so I am available for food writing of all types, including writing of restaurant guides; private cooking classes using my Spontaneous Cuisine method; organization of wine and food tastings, cooking demonstrations, and all food-related events; recipe development using your products; translation (French-English-Spanish) of food- and wine-related materials; design and conception of restaurant menus.
I studied cooking at the Cordon Bleu and La Varenne in Paris, and wine tasting here, there and everywhere in France and at CAVE S.A. in Geneva and Gland. In France, I worked for some years as a contributing editor for the English edition of the GaultMillau guide and as a food translator, while I ran a small cooking school in a château near Paris. I now live in Geneva, where I have been discovering the Swiss approach to gastronomy and oenology. One of my many interests is promoting Les Artisanes de la Vigne et du Vin as an ambassadress for this Swiss women wine producers association.
My cooking method is "spontaneous cuisine." Lessons consist of writing out a tentative menu based on seasonal, local products; going shopping for the products, and adapting the menu according to what is available and fresh; going to the wine seller to select a wine to go with the menu, then going home and cooking all afternoon with my students. The day ends with a candlelight dinner at the château (in the past), and now, at my chapel converted into a house in Chartres or in your home.
I have recently started giving Mindful Eating seminars and therapy for those who have problem relationships with food and eating in general, helping them reconstruct their lifestyle and relationship to food and eating.
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I am trying to figure out a problem I am having. I have a Martin Mystic 2008 furious x system that is set 47 pounds. When I shoot 18 meter targets after I release I feel the bow pull to the left. I am working with coach and he has video taped me with a high speed camera and confirmed sometimes when I shoot the bow pulls to the left causing me to miss bull-eye by 1 inch. Currently bow is setup with 5 cable system and I am using a release. So far my coach thinks bow might not be sitting properly in hand, but I am not sure.
I am looking for advice to see if there might be a technical issue with my bow e.g. strings. If there is something else I should consider please let me know.


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dance Immersion - TRIBUTE: A Moving History of Canadian Blacks in Dance
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The 17th edition of dance Immersions annual showcase celebrates black dance artists who have contributed to the Canadian and global dance ecology using dance, film and spoken word.
February 23-25, 2012
Electro Swing
Saturday, February 25, 2012 8:00 PM
Having sizzled skaters last season with his electric blend of world beat and ethno groove, DJ medicineman joins us again to dazzle the rink with his latest passion, electro swing.
February 25, 2012
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Scroll down to see more original designs of Clementina in Japanese
Clementina as a non-Japanese name is properly rendered in Japanese using katakana. We also offer Clementina in hiragana which generally is considered to be more feminine. Clementina in hiragana is くれめんてぃいな and has the romaji kurementiina. Notice that the hiragana rendering differs from the katakana due to the fact that katakana has fairly recently evolved to better render non-Japanese sounds into Japanese.
Note that both katakana and hiragana only render syllable sounds. Either may be used and you don't have to worry about any bad or unintended meanings because they don't have any - they are like English letters and simply sound out the name in Japanese characters.
Clementina Japanese Tattoo and Kanji Artby Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase
Mercy 慈悲 jihi
Names often have meanings which translate nicely to kanji. The name Clementina originally meant "Mercy" which in kanji is jihi written 慈悲
If you are only interested in the meaning of the name Clementina then click on the kanji on the left for all the available options. Though remember that Mercy is a meaning of Clementina and not the name itself.
We also offer designs below that have both the pronunciation of Clementina kana and the meaning in kanji. These beautiful designs translate both aspects of the name to Japanese.
Learn more about the etymology of Clementina at Babynamer and BehindTheName.
Order as a Tattoo Design, Graphic Art or Art
For Tattoos: You immediately get your design when your order is placed. There is no waiting!And we provide you with everything you need for the perfect Japanese tattoo including the line art (also called a stencil) that your tattoo artist will need to correctly ink the design. Just print the design and take it to your favorite tattoo artist. Getting the perfect Japanese Tattoo is now safe and easy!
Original Art
You may also order your favorite design as an original work of art. These art pieces are individually created originals personally brushed and signed by Master Takase.
We have several options for art including unframed and framed. These options are on handmade Japanese paper which we purchase directly from papermakers in Kochi Japan. This unique paper is perfect for Western-style framing and truly brings out the beauty of the brush strokes.
And, along with the art on handmade Japanese paper, we also offer Clementina in Japanese as a Japanese Scroll. These beautiful scrolls which we import ourselves from the scroll makers in Nara, Japan have silk borders and come ready to display. Japanese scrolls are also affordable and will be a gift that lasts a lifetime.
While the download designs are available immediately, these beautiful works of art normally require two business days to be completed and mailed from Takase Studios in the beautiful state of Washington.
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The instructions in the District and Campus Coordinator Manual (DCCM) explain the responsibilities of testing coordinators for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®), STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR Modified, and the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) assessments. To view the DCCM as one file, use the following link: 2014 District and Campus Coordinator Manual (PDF). Please note that the file is 7.5 MB, and the download time depends on your internet connection speed.
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Showing 1 - 20 of 90 for "Student Philanthropy Council"
Student uses Pepsi grant to care for strays
Alissa Hoekstra's 5k grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project will be used to help her local animal shelter.
December 13, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Streetfest leaders re-vitalize Camp Waltman Lake
Streetfest leaders were scrubbing, remodeling and staying a step ahead of the beaver at Camp Waltman Lake: Calvin's 319-acre retreat.
September 01, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Rangeela 2013: Study Abroad
This year's Rangeela directors reflect on mastering footwork, dancing with fans and leading the show.
February 14, 2013 | Myrna Anderson
Senior wins regional Idea Pitch
Kim VandenAkker, the winner of this year's Elevator Pitch, recently won the regional Idea Pitch.
November 07, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Crow headed to Grove City Hall of Fame
Calvin's dean of student development will be inducted this weekend into his alma mater's athletic hall of fame.
February 13, 2008 | Myrna Anderson
Students boycott American Apparel
Hours after she found out she had been elected president of the Calvin student body, Abbie Belford was sitting behind a table in Johnny's, urging her peers to boycott America Apparel.
April 23, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Serving and learning in southeast Asia
When he is in Indonesia this summer, Kevin Van Harn will try to remember not to point with his finger.
May 28, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
No marks for trying
Seniors Kurt Van Allsburg and Betsy Sneller created propaganda to convince their fellow students to fill out course evaluations.
May 21, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Fulbright to teach English in Turkey
Emily Pope is captivated by the history, archeology and culture of the Middle East.
May 22, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Student lands prestigious theological fellowship
A fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education is helping Daniel Camacho to fulfill his call to the ministry.
May 20, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
A student's memory of Dexter, Mich.
A Calvin senior writes about his hometown, which was devastated by a tornado on March 15.
March 16, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Hendriksma wins Spoelhof Award
Jane Hendriksma, Calvin's dean of students for judicial affairs, won the 2011 William Spoelhof Lifetime Achievement Award.
June 10, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Student works on Historical Guide
A Calvin College student helped to create the 2008 edition of the Historic Michigan Travel Guide.
October 15, 2007 | Myrna Anderson
No marks for trying
The posters appeared around on bulletin boards around campus a few weeks ago. One features an exhausted student at her desk, and its tagline reads: "You get graded for your hard work … shouldn't your profs?" Another shows a happy-looking student with the tagline: "Like your classes? Tell your profs."
May 21, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
One Goldwater, three honorables
Last summer, as Cheri Ackerman was working to isolate a protein, she put in a lot of hours in the "cold room"—one of the walk-in refrigerators in DeVries Hall that are kept at four degrees Celsius (or 39 degrees Fahrenheit).
April 29, 2010 | Myrna Anderson
Researching the mighty phage
Summer research projects pair two students with two professors in the study of bacteriophages.
June 10, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Calvin Gives Back
Students will have an opportunity to thank donors during Thanksgiving Week.
November 16, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Celebrating black history
Throughout February, the Calvin community will feature four events in celebration of Black History Month.
January 31, 2013 | Myrna Anderson
Senior teaches GIS in Ethiopia
Emma DeVries taught the country's top geographers how to use global information systems software.
March 08, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Calvin premieres "A Shared Space"
A documentary about the Mustard Seed School by CAS prof Brian Fuller is premiering at Calvin on Friday, February 10.
February 10, 2011 | Myrna Anderson


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Fixing things – Eastwood style
Gran Torino ( Clint Eastwood, 2008)
"I fix things" – this is what morose and misanthropic
Korea veteran Walt Kowalski, portrayed very convincingly by Clint Eastwood,
has to say about himself in Eastwood's latest version of Dirty Harry
Introducing himself like that to a young woman in an awkward situation, the grumpy old man already qualifies as a Virgo-type. Furthermore he not only detests his self-indulgent and beefed up sons with their greedy, spoilt and heedless families, but also loathes his Asian neighbours with their – for him – inexplicable, seemingly fatalistic lifestyle.
Like most interesting stories "Gran Torino" is based on polarities that provide for tension and development. In Eastwood's latest picture we can capture those astrologically in terms of the Virgo-Pisces and the Cancer-Capricorn axis. Virgo-features can be found in Walt's dislike of chaotic and for him incomprehensible circumstances, which he observes in his increasingly violence-ridden and poor neighbourhood, but also in the first scenes of the movie, that show his disgust for the lack of modesty and decency that his family displays in so many ways.
Virgo and Capricorn here...
Walt Kowalski is a hard and strict man of conservative values and rigid
principles, in which also his strong sense of responsibility is rooted
and his hidden desire to still be of some use. His purpose in life is to
fix and restore things, things like his "Gran Torino", the
special old car coveted by both his granddaughter and the ghetto gang.
That, just as his collection of all kinds of tools (Virgo!) stands for
Walt's ability for mending and handling problems.
His passion for fixing things could as well be seen as an attempt of indemnification because of what he did in Korea many years ago as a soldier. It is mainly this experience, which makes Walt react with biting sarcasm to the young priest's insistent efforts to bring him back to faith and confession and a more joyful life, as he had promised to Walt's dying wife. Inexperience and ignorance on the elementary questions of life and death is what Walt holds against the young man and he therefore simply refuses to take him seriously.
...Pisces and Cancer there
The other side of the displayed polarity shows not only in the Pisces-images of a neglected poor neighbourhood falling into anarchy, the disorientation of young Thao, whose passive attempts to elude the coercive pull of the ghetto gang fail due to his helplessness, or the priest's water-like pliable yet persevering insistence, who tries to soften Walt's withdrawal into loneliness with religious means. It also shows in the – vehemently unwanted – gratefulness Walt's neighbours express with invitations and gifts of food and plants (Cancer!) after he helped them against the gang. The close family around Thao and his sister is all about caring and nurturing, thus clearly being an opposing image to Walt's Capricornian stubborn "lonerism".
The movie's title makes Walt's "Gran Torino", which he carefully restored with patience and love for detail, the central symbol for everything the old man has to offer: experience of life, a tough sense of taking charge and the ability for fixing things – his Virgo- and Capricorn-qualities. In the end Walt Kowalski nevertheless makes peace with caring Cancer and devoted Pisces in his own tough manner. And as a result fixes something.
Vesna Ivkovic studied literature and linguistics, sociology, philosophy and history and as well took a profound interest in psychology, mythology and different belief systems. Along the way she also explored various paths of body awareness such as the martial arts of Kung Fu, Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong and several other methods of body work and motion arts. In 1993 she discovered astrology as an instrument of knowledge and graduated in 2004 in Markus Jehle's and Petra Niehaus' master class at the Astrology Center Berlin. You can find out more about the author and her work on her own website www.astrosemiotics.de
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Will "disparate impact" fair-lending theory survive Supreme Court?
Court hears arguments in early December
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Editor's Update: In early November there were reports that the case described in this article had settled prior to the Supreme Court hearing the arguments.
On September 23, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for 2012, and strongly indicated its intent to use HMDA statistics in bringing fair-lending actions against banks and other financial institutions. Given the current regulatory environment in which high-dollar Department of Justice settlements have become relatively commonplace, together with the CFPB's self-expressed internal performance goals of identifying and prosecuting lending discrimination, banks have a renewed basis for concern.
Earlier this year, HUD formally published its rule implementing "disparate impact" (as opposed to "disparate treatment") as the standard for finding illegal discrimination under the Fair Housing Act (FHA).
The difference between "disparate impact" and "disparate treatment" is significant, and the failure to appreciate just how different can be fatal if an organization is caught unawares.
• Under the "disparate treatment" approach, the prosecution must prove that the bank acted with intent to discriminate. In other words, a bank must actually do something or take some action that is discriminatory.
• In contrast, if the "disparate impact" test is applied, the prosecution is relieved from having to prove that the defendant bank did anything intentionally discriminatory.
Under this rule, the prosecution must only show that there was a discriminatory effect based on a prohibited ground. In the words HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan: "As we've learned over the years, housing discrimination comes in many forms. Discrimination doesn't have to be intentional in order to have a damaging effect." [Emphasis added.]
Ostensibly, HUD's new rule makes it easier to prosecute lending practices that have a disparate impact, even if the practice is neutral on its face and void of bias or prejudice.
In reality, while the new rule was only recently made "official," it articulates a standard that has been in place for over 40 years. All of the 11 federal circuit appellate courts have previously addressed the fair-lending and fair-housing laws and have concluded that Congress intended for these laws to prohibit practices that result in disparate impact whether or not there is any finding of intentional discrimination.
But that's not the whole picture …
Enter the Supreme Court
"Not so fast," said the U.S. Supreme Court, in June of this year when certiorari was granted in Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc., the case that has the potential to reverse the disparate impact standard in fair-lending cases.
Typically, the Supreme Court avoids hearing cases where there is no division of opinion among the federal circuits. Mount Holly is somewhat of an anomaly, leaving enforcement officials shaking their heads.
As it happens, Mount Holly is actually the second disparate impact case undertaken recently by the Supreme Court. The question would have been decided last year had the City of St. Paul not settled the Magner v. Gallagher case some three weeks before it was set to be argued. Mount Holly is currently scheduled to be heard on Dec. 4, 2013. [Editor's note: The Magner case achieved notoriety due to the intercession of Administration officials. Also, ABA filed a "friend of the court" brief in this case in conjunction with several other business organizations. And a leading law firm produced a white paper for ABA attacking the disparate impact theory.]
Before Magner v. Gallagher became moot, it was widely speculated that the Supreme Court would strike down the disparate impact standard. Why the controversy? Unlike other anti-discrimination laws, such as employment laws, neither the Fair Housing Act nor the Equal Credit Opportunity Act explicitly covers disparate impact. The FHA prohibits discriminatory actions, but it does not prohibit discriminatory effects. And therein lies the problem.
Will the Supreme Court defer to the HUD regulation? Will the Court find that disparate impact goes beyond the plain wording of the statute? Will the Mount Holly case settle before December 4?
Handicapping the odds
The federal government clearly has much invested in the concept of disparate impact and much to lose should a Supreme Court decision come down. Of the Court's nine Justices, four, Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, and Alito are widely viewed as conservative, and four others, Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Ginsburg, are widely viewed as liberal. Justice Kennedy is often viewed as the swing vote.
So the question may well become "What would Justice Kennedy do?"
Appointed by President Reagan, how Justice Kennedy would vote is not easily predictable. More often than not, he votes with the conservative members of the Court and he has been labeled a "strict constructionist" vis a vis statutory interpretation. He and the other conservative justices are also proponents of regulatory deference.
However, Justice Kennedy is a far cry from Justice Scalia. The latter Justice once stated that he was open to an argument that disparate impact in any arena violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Court watchers have labeled Justice Kennedy a "libertarian"—but not a liberal.
A look at prior decisions written by Justice Kennedy leads one to believe that he is no fan of the disparate impact standard. In a previous employment law decision, he wrote that a finding of illegal disparate treatment is only proper when an employer has strong evidence that a facially neutral practice with a disparate impact on a protected class is not job-related and consistent with business necessity or if the employer rejected an equally valid, less discriminatory alternative.
Taken in the context of Supreme Court precedence, it is clear that the decision to hear the Mount Holly case was not good news to regulatory agencies charged with enforcing the FHA and ECOA.
A decision in Mount Holly could settle the issue, and even the fair-lending playing field between the regulators and banks. From this writer's perspective, the odds-on favorite is a timely settlement, preserving the disparate impact status quo.
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Le Creuset Signature Cast-Iron Rectangular Roaster
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Le Creuset continues nearly a century of culinary craftsmanship with its Signature collection, the next evolution of its classic enameled cast-iron cookware. Signature seamlessly blends Le Creuset's classic form and feel with the latest ergonomic and functional innovations.
- This deep-sided roasting pan is ideal for everything from oven-roasted meats and vegetables to baked casseroles and desserts.
- Optimized for steady, even heat, Le Creuset's improved enamel surfaces resist staining, dulling and wear and tear.
- Enamel interior's light sand color makes it easy to monitor food while cooking, ensuring less sticking and burning.
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- Enamel can chip or crack if dropped or banged on hard surface.
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