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Um, who's bought and paid for by the drug lobby?
We've endured a week's worth of Democrat demagoguery about how opponents of Obamacare are nothing but corporate shills for evil health care corporations (Pelosi: "villains!"; Gibbs questioning motives)
Well, I've pointed out the corporate funding of the health care czar and AG Eric Holder.
Now, this:
The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama's health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday.
The unusually large scale of the industry's commitment to the cause helps explain some of a contentious back-and-forth playing out in recent days between the odd-couple allies over a deal that the White House struck with the industry in June to secure its support. The terms of the deal were not fully disclosed. Both sides had announced that the drug industry would contribute $80 billion over 10 years to the cost of the health care overhaul without spelling out the details.
With House Democrats moving to extract more than that just as the drug makers finalized their advertising plans, the industry lobbyists pressed the Obama administration for public reassurances that it had agreed to cap the industry's additional costs at $80 billion. The White House, meanwhile, has struggled to mollify its most pivotal health industry ally without alienating Congressional Democrats who want to demand far more of the drug makers. White House officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Big Pharma + Dear Leader = Crazy delicious.
Hope and Change!
No less than Robert Reich engages in some "un-American" questioning of the White House:
How soon until big industries and their Washington lobbyists have become so politically powerful that secret White House-industry deals like this are prerequisites to any important legislation? When will it become standard practice that such deals come with hundreds of millions of dollars of industry-sponsored TV advertising designed to persuade the public that the legislation is in the public's interest? (Any Democrats and progressives who might be reading this should ask themselves how they'll feel when a Republican White House cuts such deals to advance its own legislative priorities.)
Ambassador Power suggests new 'handshake' in the age of Ebola
October 30, 2014 06:50 AM by Doug Powers
George Stephanopoulos: Ronald Klain is the communications and management expert government needs (wasn't Obama supposed to be?)
October 19, 2014 01:06 PM by Doug Powers
Great: CDC approved nurse with low-grade fever later diagnosed with Ebola to board commercial flight
October 15, 2014 07:47 PM by Doug Powers
The Centers for Everything But Disease Control
October 14, 2014 09:33 PM by Michelle Malkin
Ebola, electronic medical records, and Epic Systems
October 7, 2014 08:07 PM by Michelle Malkin
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Musings on the book industry, technology, women's issues and other important news in my world.
I finished Room by Donoghue a few days ago and I had a few observations that I wanted to share.
I'm not sure if everyone has read the book, but it's about a mother and her five-year-old son (told entirely from his perspective) who are held hostage in a 11x11 foot shed that is impossible to escape (the mother has tried everything). The boy, Jack, has only ever known this room because his mother was kidnapped while she was a 19-year-old college student. While being held hostage in his shed, she was raped (several times a week) and was twice pregnant. Her second pregnancy gave her Jack. So aside from the world of books, his mother's stories, and television, Jack knows nothing about the outside world, and doesn't even know there is a world outside the shed until his mother tells him shortly after his fifth birthday. In a brave attempt to escape, they pretend Jack has died by wrapping him in a rug, and their kidnapper/her rapist, throws his "corpse" in the trunk of his car. Jack and his mother are then able to escape, and the story then continues with their life settling into the world "Outside."
I've read a bunch of reviews of the book, but one thing I definitely think they missed: how being removed from society affected Jack's "gendering." One interesting thing that Jack notices when he's outside in the world is that people judge him for liking things he sincerely likes, like Dora the Explorer, and seem insistant that he conform to the "boy world" by playing with Legos and trains (though I get really annoyed when these are considered "boy toys"!!). His uncle asks why he wants a pink backpack, because in combination with his long hair (which has never been cut), people might think he's a girl. (This doesn't seem to bother Jack a whole lot because he loves the bag with Dora on it.)
In fact, people often mistake him for a girl (repeatedly!). The few kids his age that he does come in contact with all think he's a girl because of the length of his hair. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and neither does he (though he does correct them). He eventually chops his ponytail off himself with kitchen scissors one afternoon, but not because he is fearful people think he's feminine. Cutting his hair is primarily used as a sign of letting go of his past. He didn't cut his hair before because he wanted to be like Sampson (the hyper-masculine figure from the Bible who's power comes almost entirely from his hair) and was afraid that once it's cut, he'd lose all his strength. Unlike Sampson, when Jack cuts his hair, it is a symbol of his now-independence from his mother (he does it while away from her for the first time in his life — and the first week he has gone without being breastfed) and makes him a "man" by appearance and by this severance from his mother.
I'm sure I can unpack that even more, but it was an interesting (though fairly subtle) twist in the story and made me wonder what it really would be like to grow up completely removed from all socially constructed gender roles and identities. Of course in this story, he watches TV and is given (very typically "male" designated) gifts from their captor, but what if he had no toys and only books and his mother? I wonder how he would've emerged from the Room into the world if he had no sense of what he SHOULD like to wear, based on the fact that he is male. Or is he young enough where he will feel pressure from doctors and other family members to conform to their idea of male? Some things I began to ponder after reading. Of course, I have no clear answers.
Room is an unusual read, though I had some trouble getting into it at first (baby talk really irritates me, but it gets better after awhile). It breaks a lot of the tropes you'd typically find in other books about kidnapping/confinement. I'd say 3.5/5.

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MTV rounded up the troops to host an awards show to pay homage to something called a "music video" ... something that hasn't been seen on MTV in a very, very long time.
Still, the stars need an excuse to get together and rock out in wild outfits ... and TMZ has the photos of the craziness as it goes down outside the show!
**Be sure to refresh the page for the most recent VMA's looks from the red carpet!**
i am embarrassed watching mylie and ruining robin hit song. she is terrible get her off the stage
I can watch Kevin hart all day
I can't believe anyone would look up to or be inspired by any of these people. They all look ridiculous.
Taylor Swift? Seriously? KANYE! YOU'RE UP!
Who the hell is Ex Prod and or seg prod? Delays poor sound Kanye confused. only good so far Gaga.
Taylor Swift... Who the Hell does she think she is? When one of the Direction guys said that New York Fans are the best in the world and she said something like **** that!!! Little Bitch!
Myley Cyrus is just terrible.
Eminem is back, he just tweeted
i am new
JT has been the only act worth watching so far. But they keep zooming in on Swifty and it PISSES ME OFF, DAMMIT.
I liked Snookie better when she was chubby
Robin Thicke is untalented, arrogant and ugly. His untalented, arrogant, ugly father suckled a career out for his untalented, arrogant, ugly son.
I look at this & ? WHY is Amanda Bines n the mental health hospital system ALONE- lets see- Miley, Snooki, & the rest all need the rubber room treatment. Gross, psycho, ugh, & uglier... Dumb & worse...
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Fortis to add 280 hospital beds in Bangalore
Leading healthcare service provider Fortis Healthcare Ltd is expanding its presence in this tech hub with 280 hospital beds, a statement said here Tuesday.
This will include a 70-bed mother and child care facility.
"The 210-bed tower in the city's southern suburb will have a cancer-care facility, with additional operation theatres, a brain suite and intensive care units," Fortis said.
Company's top executive brothers Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh were present on the occasion when the foundation stone for the 70-bed Fortis La Femme and 210-bed tower hospitals were laid here for construction over the next two years.
"Both facilities will fill a vital need and complement our specialty offerings in the city to offer affordable medical care to patients across Karnataka, which is an important hub for us," Fortis chairman Malvinder said on the occasion.
The company, which already operates five hospitals across the city, did not disclose investment being made in the new facilities or its source of capital.
The 70-bed hospital will provide primary to tertiary medical care and surgical capability in gynaecology, obstetrics and cosmetology.
"The hi-tech facility will have in-vitro fertilisation clinic and a neonatal intensive care unit to provide holistic ante and post-natal services for women and day-care medical services to children," the statement noted.
The new specialty hospital will have a centre for oncology to provide cancer care from diagnostics to rehab, integrating medical technology and clinical expertise in medical, radiation and surgical oncology.
"The oncology centre assumes significance as Bangalore has the third highest number of cancer cases across the country, as revealed by the population-based cancer registry report 2013.
The report points out the city has more women affected by cancer than men. The twin-facility will serve as a preferred treatment facility for patients from across the state and neighbouring states such as Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The company's healthcare verticals comprise hospitals, diagnostics and day-care specialty facilities across the country besides Dubai, Mauritius, Singapore and Sri Lanka, with 66 facilities.
(Posted on 25-03-2014)
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Civil War VI INFORMATION
WHEN: April 12th- 13th 2014
Virginia Commonwealth University
Academic Learning Commons
1000 W Floyd Ave
Richmond, VA
HOW TO GET HERE: http://rvatournaments.tumblr.com/post/46970645402/transportation-to-civil-war-v-how-to-get-there
Room Rate: 99$/ night FRI/SAT/SUN
Team Spooky will be streaming
Street Fighter IV AE2012 (Xbox 360)
Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (Xbox 360)
King Of Fighters 13 (Xbox 360)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Xbox 360)
Super Smash Bros Melee (GC/Wii)
Killer Instinct (XB1)
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (supergun)
(X-mania/EVO Tournament of Legends qualifier)
How Much?
Event Badge (required to enter any tournaments)
Early Bird 25$ (until March)
Normal (until April 4th ): 30$
Week of/Door Fee: 40$
Spectators: 10$ for the whole weekend!
$10 per game
Rules: -
YOU MUST PROVIDE YOUR OWN EQUIPMENT. Not having proper, working equipment is not excused grounds for late arrival to a much and subject to disqualification. Borrow/Lend at your own risk!
In game button binding/macros are allowed.
-PS3 sixaxis and ds3 are HEAVILY discouraged.
-Turbos and hardware macros are banned.
-UMVC3 and ST are best 3 of 5 games
-All other games are best 2 of 3 games. 2/3 rounds.
-Double blind selection available upon request. The requester will secretly inform the judge of his character selection, then the other player will select his character. The judge then announces the other character. All other rules proceed as normal.
-Winner of matches must keep character and order. In AE, if the opposing players switches characters, they may switch ultra.
-Pausing a game is cause for forfeiture of the round except in cases of imminent victory. In case of dispute, the game's pause screen indicates the player that paused. The default ruling is match forfeiture and must be waived by the non pausing player for the match to continue.
-In case a pause occurs by neither players fault or a 3rd party, The judge or tournament organizer will either restart the match or advise the continuation of play from a neutral situation.
-Getting up from the playing area during match play or unplugging your control device willfully is considered a forfeiture.
-Players will be organized in pools. Pool size may vary depending on game and number of entrants. Pool start times will be posted online and in the venue. Pool check-ins will occur at that time. If a player does not check in, and is not present by the time the first round completes, you will be disqualified to losers. If a player has been disqualified to losers, they will be immediately DQ'd again if they are not present when that loser's match is called. Time conflicts with other tournaments or a personal emergency are the only valid reasons to avoid the DQ. Eating or sleeping are not personal emergencies.
- Draw rounds awarded by the game count. Draw games do not count. So in AE, a draw round at 0-0 or 1-0 counts, but one at 1-1 does not. Replay the entire game.
-No floating under any circumstances. All efforts will be made to seed and separate regions in the brackets, but this is a tournament, and sometimes you have to play friends.
-Collusion of any kind with your competitors is considered cheating. If the Tournament Director determines that any competitor is colluding to manipulate the results or intentionally under-performing, the collaborating players may be immediately disqualified. This determination is to be made at the sole discretion of the Tournament Director. Anyone disqualified in this manner forfeits all rights to any titles or prizes they might have otherwise earned for that tournament.
-Conduct detrimental to the tournament will not be tolerated. Any player or spectator found to be causing a disturbance will be asked to immediately stop or leave. Patrons visibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol will be asked to leave. Open containers of alcohol in the event halls will not be tolerated.
-All prizes for singles tournaments will be 65% of the prize pot to 1st, 25% to 2nd, and 10% to 3rd.
Game specific stuff:
Akuma is banned in ST.
IJ: Interactables and Transitions on.


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Colleen Scheck, Producer
Today I received an alert about a live Webcast scheduled for tomorrow, December 3rd, that relates to our ongoing exploration of the moral and ethical aspects of the current economic downturn. The John Templeton Foundation (full disclosure: a funder of Speaking of Faith programs on religion and science) is sponsoring a live conversation from London with three contributors to its latest "Big Questions" series, titled "Does the free market corrode moral character?" BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders will moderate a discussion between economist Jagdish Bhagwati and philosophers John Gray and Bernard-Henri Lévy. Follow this link if you're interested in listening to the Webcast or hearing the perspectives of other contributors to the series.
Krista Tippett, host
One of the great figures in public radio, in my mind, is David Isay; and one of the best things on the radio is his project StoryCorps, whose mission is "to honor and celebrate one another's lives through listening." This year, StoryCorps has declared November 28, the day after Thanksgiving, as the first National Day of Listening — encouraging all of us to sit down with the people we know, ask them about their lives, and record those conversations.
You'll find detailed instructions on their Web site for how to do these interviews and why they are important. As David Isay puts it, "By listening closely to one another, we can help illuminate the true character of this nation, reminding us all just how precious each day can be and how truly great it is to be alive." This project is very much in the spirit of what we do here at Speaking of Faith — so if you give it a try, let us know what happens.
—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, as tweeted by Rabbi Aaron Spiegel
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Today I viewed hundreds of photos looking for an image that might help convey the critical perspective of Binyavanga Wainaina in our upcoming program on the ethics of aid in Africa, and more specifically Kenya. I was left a bit heavy-hearted. And then I saw this inspiring quote from a new friend in Indianapolis. I can't thank him enough (and, if you're interested, he's got a great recommendation for cigars in Indy).
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Early this morning, the BBC World Service rebroadcast this CBC documentary about the uniquely American religion of Spiritualism. Lily Dale, a small town in southwestern New York state, was founded by a socially progressive group of Spiritualists in 1879 and is the epicenter for its practitioners.
Wondering what is a Spiritualist? Here's the town's definition:
One who believes, as the basis of his or her religion, in the continuity of life and in individual responsibility. Some, but not all, Spiritualists are Mediums and/or Healers. Spiritualists endeavor to find the truth in all things and to live their lives in accordance therewith.
To expand on that definition, Spiritualists believe in a divine power and the afterlife. The dead can be contacted through mediums, individuals given the gift of channeling and contacting these spirits. These spirits are in a state of evolution, and by contacting them, embodied people can gain greater understanding about moral and ethical issues.
If you've got 30 minutes, Frank Falk's doc is worth a listen.
(photo: srinehuls/Flickr)
Colleen Scheck, Producer
"The main creed that I like to refer to when I think of Vedanta is as Swami Vivekananda said: 'If you're a Christian, be a good Christian. If you're a Muslim, be a good Muslim. If you're a Hindu, be a good Hindu.'"
This is the comment of 17 year-old Akhil, a young man interviewed as part of a new study released by the Search Institute's Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence. The study is the first report from an ambitious project reaching across cultures, languages, and traditions to understand how today's global youth experience and think about their spiritual growth. Focused on advancing the scientific study of this area of human development, the guiding philosophy of the endeavor is that good science is the key to good practice in fostering the formation and growth of spiritual identity.
I attended a presentation of the study results this week, and walked away with increased curiosity about how young people around the world are shaping their spiritual sense of self and the overall importance of that dimension in their lives. The exploratory findings in the report include data from focus groups, interviews, and surveys with youth ages 12–25 across 17 countries from Cameroon to Syria to the United States. Some intriguing points include:
A panel of international advisors followed the presentation, providing additional context to the findings. Lori Noguchi of the Chinese-based Badi Foundation commented that there is a remarkable desire among youth in China to explore questions of spirituality when given the opportunity. In Chinese education, there is a strong moral component, but it is often scripted and doesn't match with young people's reality — and that creates a crisis for many around spiritual development.
Kelly Dean Schwartz, a Canadian social psychologist, remarked that areas of spiritual development that need much more attention include the role of doubt in adolescent spirituality, the role of arts, media, and technology, and the role of sexuality. He oversaw a focus group of Canadian youth for the study. When he stopped filming the group and tried to take their discussion to a deeper level, that's when participants opened up more and expressed a connection between sexuality and spiritual development in their lives.
A program on this topic is on our long list. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please share.
Rob McGinley Myers, Associate Producer
This past weekend, I kept mulling over the content of our recent show, "Getting Revenge and Forgiveness" — especially what Michael McCullough said about how easily parents forgive their children.
I forgive my seven-year-old son every day. … Because he's an active, inquisitive seven-year-old who sometimes accidentally elbows me in the mouth when we're cuddling and sometimes puts Crayons on the walls. And yet it seems demeaning to call it forgiveness. … It's just what you do with your children. You know, you accept their limitations and you move on.
As a father of two toddlers, the thing that amazes me is not how easily parents forgive their children, but how easily children forgive their parents. Every parent I know has had moments of utter exasperation and impatience with their kids that they later regretted. But when our children are little, they have an extraordinary capacity to forgive our mistakes. Krista once wrote about a Hebrew proverb that says "just before a child is born, the angel Gabriel tells her everything — all the secrets of God and the universe. Then he kisses her on the forehead, and she begins to forget it all." So it seems that, though our children will forget it by adolescence, they are apparently born knowing the secret of forgiveness.
The poet Robyn Sarah sums it up perfectly for me in her poem Nursery, 11:00 p.m. The speaker of the poem describes coming to the end of a day when she's been a terrible parent, wishing she could apologize for how she behaved, standing over her children as they sleep in their cribs. She likens the forgiving sound of their breathing to a shawl being knitted in the darkness.
How warm it is, I think,
how much softer
than my deserving.
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
At the end of each day (or often during), my spouse Shelley and I often talk about articles, blogs, and photographs we've read and viewed during work. Her reading anchors me to the world outside of the news and journalism business. In my circles so many times, the news is cited at you — 'Did you read the article about the Ugandan man in the Times?' 'Wasn't that report on breast cancer on CNN…' and so on — serving as fodder for a potential story we might cover.
This is as it should be, in some respects, but sometimes I feel like the larger point is lost — relating to others, to people and their joys and their sorrows. On Friday, while we were driving, Shelley told me this story about Eugene Allen and his wife:
They talked about praying to help Barack Obama get to the White House. They'd go vote together. She'd lean on her cane with one hand, and on him with the other, while walking down to the precinct. And she'd get supper going afterward. They'd gone over their Election Day plans more than once.
"Imagine," she said.
"That's right," he said.
On Monday Helene had a doctor's appointment. Gene woke and nudged her once, then again. He shuffled around to her side of the bed. He nudged Helene again. He was all alone.
"I woke up and my wife didn't," he said later.
Some friends and family members rushed over. He wanted to make coffee. They had to shoo the butler out of the kitchen.
The lady whom he married 65 years ago will be buried today.
The butler cast his vote for Obama on Tuesday. He so missed telling his Helene about the black man bound for the Oval Office.
Well, we looked at each other, found ourselves choked up, eyes welling and reaching for each other's hand, and our two boys in the back seat wondering why their mommy and daddy were sad. Through this story, we truly understood the power of this election and its impact on our sons' generation. But, as importantly, they'll know how their parents understood each other more deeply and more personally — all through several paragraphs of a single news story.
(photo: Kevin Clark/The Washington Post)
by Amara Hark-Weber, production intern
Over the past week, I have been collecting songs about revenge and forgiveness that were suggested by our listeners. Spending hours in the MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) music library, I thought not only about the artists and songs that I was looking for, but also about times in my own life were I have felt the sentiment of one of these songs or another. The most meaningful part of going through this music has been the reminder that I am far from alone in fierce rages that I have felt or gentle unclamping as I have let go of past wrongs. I've listened to scores of songs and looked across thousands of CDs, all the while thinking about the many ways that we think and talk about revenge or forgiveness. It has been startling to see how these complex sentiments apply themselves to my interactions with friends, family, and, of course, politics.
At the tail end of this project, I can honestly say that my thoughts about both revenge and forgiveness have changed greatly from the time when I set out. Several nights ago, as I received calls and texts from friends and family around the country and the world watching the election results come in and both candidates speak, I thought again about revenge and forgiveness. I cannot describe the spectrum of emotion that I have felt over the course of the past few weeks, and last night it came to a head when a Ghanaian friend called from Abuja, Nigeria where he is training with the BBC. He was weeping. We talked for some time about politics, but also hope and forgiveness, tolerance and revenge. We questioned the fine line separating our emotional responses from events that swirl around us, and the ways in which our gut reaction is often so far from the words that we use or the actions that we make.
As I spoke with my friend, I was glad to have these songs to draw upon as we discussed the many reasons why and how politics become emotional. By the end of the conversation we had agreed that forgiveness was not so different from tolerance, and revenge often like poison ivy — so satisfying to itch, but with each scratch spreading the rash. And politics, like religion, like love, family and so much else, is just a lens through which we see the others, ourselves, the past, our future.
Revenge and forgiveness are words of motion, although the songs that they inspire are emotional snapshots that do not move or change. Like the images in these songs, speaking with someone half way around the world about events that were unfolding in real time was something that I will not easily forget. This political season is not something that I cannot forget. This time in my life, when I am a newcomer in the city of my childhood is something that I do not want to forget. And the ties that we all have to people and events far, far away from ourselves is something that I must not forget ever.
I know that politics can be bitter, and that many people are elated and many disappointed. I also know that my emotional reaction is neither revenge nor forgiveness. It is not tolerance or hope or bitterness. It is still too raw for any of these polished words. It is something that will take time to shape. And eventually it will become polished. And then it will be tarnished. And I will move forward. And everyone will have moved forward. Emotion, events, persons, places, politics do not stand still, and although we may record songs that capture moments, and those songs remind us of this or that time, it is important to remember that everything is now different.
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Earlier this week, I wrote about a photograph of a Lubavitch assembly. In response to a comment in our Flickr community, I was doing some research and happened upon a couple of lists about the top 50 most influential rabbis and the top 25 rabbis from the pulpit. Sharon Brous, the Conservative rabbi of IKAR in Los Angeles, from our Days of Awe program was included in both. Not only is she young and vibrant, she's also one of the few women on these lists. She's worth paying attention to in the years to come.
Also, Ari (the aforementioned commenter) encouraged us to speak with some Orthodox Jewish voices for future programs. Perhaps Rabbi Schneerson would be a good biographical portrait to pursue. Any other suggestions? (Note, these don't have to be rabbis.)
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
OK. I'll admit it. I'm a lurker in the Jewish blogging community — my favorite being Rachel Barenblat's smart and always provocative Velveteen Rabbi. In a recent post, she wrote about a friend, Seth Brown, who has translated the Torah into rhyming verse and is releasing one chapter a week on his blog From God to Verse.
For the past five years, writing the annotated guide ("program particulars") meant to complement each week's broadcast has been a labor of love. I'm not theologically trained, so I wanted to better understand passing references made by Krista and her guests — particularly when it came to quoting sacred texts. The Web is handy, but, it lacks the depth of scriptural translations little known outside seminaries and divinity schools.
Occupants of my desk as I write. (photo: Trent Gilliss)
Aiding my research, Krista and Kate have kindly directed me to translations I wasn't aware of — everything from M.D. Herter Norton's rendition of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet to A.M. Silbermann's translation of the Pentateuch with Rashi's Commentary, from JPS' Tanakh to Everett Fox's The Five Books of Moses. Here, I discovered a world of poetic interpretation that surpassed the more literal translations I was familiar with. These translations seem to capture the spirit and cadence of the original language that might evade other versions.
Barenblat cited two phrases from Brown's work that struck my ear instantly: "when God was creating" and "all wild and waste" from the first chapter of Genesis. The sensibility of the Tanakh and Fox's translation are distinct. And sure enough, these were two of the four texts that Brown referenced.
The latter phrase is distinctly Fox, "when the earth was wild and waste." The former stems from a refreshing Jewish perspective. The past is present; God not only created the universe but continues to create today. It's an ongoing cyclical process:
First, the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible:
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,
And from Fox's The Five Books of Moses:
At the beginning of God's creating of the heavens and the earth,
And now from the Tanakh:
When God began to create heaven and earth—
Although I've handed off writing particulars to our younger, more intellectual producers, I still get excited (yes, this job has ruined my street cred with my friends) when I see endeavors like Seth Brown's. Once you traipse down this path of discovery, you'll be forever changed.
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
USA Today has produced a nifty interactive feature in which they've taken data from the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey and represented it graphically. The "topography of faith" section is a simple map that provides a breakdown of religious and denomination affiliations by state. I scrolled over my home state of North Dakota (yes, I'm a tad bitter that they statistically lumped it together with South Dakota as if it were a territory…) and was surprised to see the large percentage of Evangelical Protestants. And, as you canvas the states, take notice of the gold "unaffiliated" bar.
The section breaking down religious beliefs gives you an integrated comparison of how different faith traditions and denominations within American Christianity responded to specific questions. Tip: use the sort by button.
Some of my interpretive observations about the subtleties of responses:
Take a look and tell me what caught your eye.
Colleen Scheck, Producer
As part of her trip to Los Angeles to participate in the 2008 Women's Conference and lead a conversation of L.A. faith leaders at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, Krista was a guest on Tuesday's Patt Morrison program on KPCC (a regional public affairs program for Southern California Public Radio). Here Krista is the interviewee, responding to questions from Patt Morrison and her audience about such topics as the role of religion in government and society, the politics/religion dynamic in this year's presidential election, atheists and humanists in the interfaith spectrum, how we think about fundamentalism today, and listening and hearing as important virtues in our religious dialogue. Listen to their 25-minute conversation.
Shiraz Janjua, Associate Producer
I'd like to talk about some of the journalistic, editorial, and aesthetic considerations that go into using audio clips in Speaking of Faith. We're not a documentary program, so we use clips sparingly to keep the focus on the conversation. When we do use these elements, there are a number of reasons:
We had a couple of needs to satisfy in this program with Vashti McKenzie, and created room for two audio clips. One, we decided, had to be of Bishop McKenzie preaching.
I have to admit that I was breathless after watching her Easter sermon at Trinity. There's this hypnotic build-up to a series of emotional crescendoes. She's like an orchestral conductor at work. The most powerful, moving, and provocative parts of her sermon are, inevitably, the ones where she reaches those crescendoes. You can't take your eyes off her. She's forceful when she's up there. And it's tempting to use a clip of that moment in her sermon to illustrate her style of preaching.
The problem is that to go from an intimate interview with Krista to the middle of a highly emotional sermon is jarring to the ear. Worse still, there's the danger of taking powerful preaching out of its context, turning it into a sound bite, sensationalizing it, pushing people away from it, and hurting the people who are closest to it. That's exactly what happened earlier this year with the sermons of Jeremiah Wright. It's not something we want to contribute to.
Because of time constraints, we are looking for a quick snapshot, but a snapshot that tells a story. I use the word "snapshot" deliberately because of its ties to our journalistic cousin: photojournalism. Is it possible to tell the story of a complex issue in one photograph? Is it possible to capture the essence of a human being in one portrait? Maybe, maybe not. But to stretch the analogy further, think of a great photograph accompanying a great article — sometimes it tells its own story. Sometimes a photo or an image layers itself onto the richness of the text, helping to give it concrete shape.
In various sermons we considered excerpting from, there were positives and negatives. In one, she's putting out this intense call to a young generation to rise up and be heard, yet ironically her own voice is drowned out by an unfortunate echo, especially during moments of high intensity. Her Easter sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ is powerful, but does it work as well with an outside audience as it does to members of the church? Are there stories that are short enough and self-contained enough to illustrate her socially conscious preaching and her pulpit personality?
We had trouble isolating something like that from that Easter sermon. And really, because it touches upon the Jeremiah Wright controversy (something we delve into in the second half of the program), we couldn't use it at the end of the first half, where we had some time for a clip.
We needed to cap off the idea of her social activism, and the reference to "merry-go-round agendas" in her National Cathedral sermon seemed like a great fit. Plus, she talks about Moses, who was so important in abolitionist theology. She's also strong and forceful, and the audio quality is good.
It's not an exact science, and we do have a lot of back and forth for elements like these, listening to a clip by itself, listening to it with the preceding segment, talking it over, asking ourselves what works and what doesn't, and going forward until we're all satisfied that the clip has added something to the interview rather than detract from the Krista Tippett conversation that we all enjoy.
— Ryan Wilson, referring to tribal elders who were listening to young girls singing in Arapaho.
Trent Gilliss, Online Editor
Wilson, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and a board member of the National Indian Education Association, is working with the Northern Arapaho tribe to establish Hinono' Eitiino' Oowu', an Arapaho language immersion school on the Wind River Reservation in northwest Wyoming. Wilson's words remind me of something David Treuer said to Krista about his tribe's effort to preserve the Ojibwe language:
"What I really love about language revitalization, what is so key to it, is that it's always been ours and it's a chance to define ourselves on and in our own terms and in ways that have nothing to do with what's been taken. We can define ourselves by virtue of what we've saved."


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The Sleeping Mountain part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
In this role-playing scenario, students represent townspeople whose lives and livelihoods are endangered by an active volcano that may or may not erupt in the near future. They must debate whether to invest in or to abandon their town. The site outlines the roles and includes a description of the original, real volcano that inspired the scenario, Mammoth Mountain in California, with a list of links. Before the debate, the students must research monitoring volcano activity and write a paper about it.
See the activity page for details.
M & M Decay part of Cutting Edge:Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
This is a simulation of radioactive decay which illustrates what a half-life is and explains some of the challenges involved with radiometric dating. Pennies or other cheap coins can be substituted for M&Ms if needed.
Learn more about this review process.
Runaway Greenhouse Effect Exercise part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
"Why is Venus so much hotter than the Earth? You are a group of experts gathered from around the world to solve this long-standing mystery..." This is a collaborative problem-solving exercise about the greenhouse effect on Venus. Students role-play biologists, coal geologists, space warfare experts, astronomers, pollution-control scientists, and hydrophysicists. Each student gets a copy of the appropriate briefing sheet (there are 6) containing some information important to solving the problem, much of it quantitative.
See the activity page for details.
What Should We Do About Global Warming? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This 3-4 week science module is designed for introductory college courses and uses data to tackle questions related to global warming. The module includes short and long term temperature trend data, along with IR spectra, concentration trend data for greenhouse gases, and information about the Kyoto Protocol. Many of the data are in graphs that are part of Quicktime movies.
See the activity page for details.
Mock Environmental Summit part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
At the end of a six-week class or unit on global warming, students role-play representatives from various countries and organizations at an international summit on the Santa Barbara protocol, dealing with global warming. The students prepare by studying the IPCC report on Global Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and other information on human impacts on the environment. The course involves several writing assignments, presentations, and lab activities that help the students research their arguments.
See the activity page for details.
How Fast Do Materials Weather? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
In each activity described below, instructors giving a lecture on weathering ask students to calculate weathering rates from tombstone weathering data. Atmospheric (and precipitation) chemistry determines the rate of weathering for marble tombstones. Show the students data from a rural and an urban cemetery, ask them to estimate rates, and then have them speculate as to why the rates are so different.
Learn more about this review process.
Carbon Dioxide Exercise part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Students work in groups, plotting carbon dioxide concentrations over time on overheads and estimating the rate of change over five years. Stacked together, the overheads for the whole class show an increase on carbon dioxide over five years and annual variation driven by photosynthesis.
Learn more about this review process.
Building-Stone Geology part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
In order to study igneous and metamorphic rocks in central Florida (a huge area consisting solely of sedimentary rock), geology students examined building stones in downtown St. Petersburg. Each student picked a particular rock type used in a particular way (structure, decorative facade, etc.), performed geologic tests on it, read up on its properties, history, and uses, and prepared a paper on it. Part of the way through the project, the entire class held a walking tour, during which each students' building (and its stones) were visited, and the student studying that type of stone told the class what they had found out about it.
Learn more about this review process.
Personal Timeline part of Cutting Edge:Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
Students start this worksheet by listing the most important events in their own lives, plotting them on a timeline, and then doing the same with Earth history events. Usually, their personal timelines will resemble the Earth history, with most events clustered close to the present, and they need to explain why this clustering occurs.
Problem-Based Learning: UV Menace part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Cooperative Learning:Examples
A problem statement is a student-centered challenge requiring cooperative effort. For this project, the student group needs to assess the causes, effects, and possible solutions to ozone depletion. The student team: Brainstorms about their pre-existing knowledge and assembles a summary of what they (collectively) already know (some of it may be outdated or incorrect) and where they learned that knowledge. Works out what they need to know to go further (this may include checking pre-existing knowledge) Divides the knowledge needed to move on into discrete questions or areas of expertise (such as hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere) and assign different pieces to different team members. Individual team members head for the library and search the Internet for information about their aspect of the problem. They need to be in contact with their teammates in case they find something relevant to another part of the problem. Once research is done (or time runs out), the individuals write up their chapters and gather with their team to edit them for correctness and consistency and to write a collective introduction and conclusion. The instructor should make sure all of the students have a decent background in basic atmospheric chemistry and the effects of ultraviolet radiation. A lecture may be necessary. Students may also need help with chasing down sources and keeping their groups on track.
Wheel of... Geology! part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
Few classes are as well-attended or as dreary as exam reviews. In order to liven things up, divide your review questions (multiple-choice format) into categories and assemble the students into teams. Give the student teams names and allow them to study together before the review. During the game, the instructor spins the wheel with the categories written on it and reads a question from that category, and within 60 seconds, all of the students must give an answer, using classroom communication systems, many of which can be programmed for teams. The score for each team is the proportion of correct answers. The game can be as long or as short as desired and can be preceded, interspersed with or followed by questions from students. Geology Jeopardy is probably a more appropriate format for topic distribution, and less work than wheel-building, but seems less dramatic.
Rock/Mineral Scavenger Hunt part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
After some lab work teaching students to identify rocks and minerals from specimens, divide them into teams, and take them to a field site where you know what they are likely to find. Give them a time limit and list of rocks and/or minerals to find, ideally one they cannot complete within the time limit if you want competition between teams. Remind the students to use teamwork: have some students searching for items, and others using books to confirm identifications. Keep an eye on the students and discourage any unsafe behavior or scavenging off of other teams (threaten to dock points if need be).
Describe and Interpret Images: Folded Strata part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Have students describe and interpret images rather than doing the description and interpretation for them. In class, have students make a simple sketch of an outcrop shown in a slide (or computer projection) then discuss possible interpretations. For example, show them a picture of the Dent de Morcles, with its convoluted strata, ask them to do a rough drawing and to summarize the probable history of the rock exposed in that mountainside.
Transnational Pollution: Why Are You Dumping on Me? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize students with the different types of transnational pollution, and to give them an opportunity to role-play in a hypothetical case of transnational pollution involving the Danube River. The flow of pollutants across national boundaries has confirmed that pollution does not recognize geographical boundaries. Clearly, environmental degradation in one country can spread to another, reconfirming that now more than ever, the health of the global environment is the responsibility of all nations, whether vast or small, rich or poor. The major goal of this activity is to make students cognizant that an incident in one nation may well have serious environmental consequences for other nations. Additionally, it will also give students an opportunity to play complex roles that are meaningful and consequential to global concerns. The lesson plan and accompanying handout are highly detailed with a clearly described scenario and characters and detailed activities and questions for the students.
Changing With the Tide part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This lesson plan is written around a brief role-play in which students learn about and act out the behavior of plants and animals in a salt marsh habitat as the tides change. An unusual feature of salt marshes is the dramatic daily change in stresses and interactions that the organisms face.
Coral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This lesson plan deals with coral reefs and the recent increase in coral bleaching. The students will be learning about the ecology of reefs, the habitats they create, the algal symbiosis that ends with bleaching, and the role of human impact. The plan also outlines a role-playing debate for the students and an in-character written assignment to come up with a compromise to protect the reefs and the economies that depend on them.
Allosaur Survival Game part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
This online computer game deals with why allosaurs hunted as they did, as well as how. The student needs to balance the need for food for energy and growth with the risk of being savaged by one's potential prey or killed outright by another allosaur. The "Big Al" starts out as a 0.2 kg hatchling and ends up as a hunter of sauropods and a parent to the next generation of allosaurs.
Distribution of Active Volcanoes Exercise part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This worksheet is intended to direct students working independently in a 6-week volcano exercise within an online geology course. The exercise consists of a series of questions plus helpful links and a map. The students collect and plot data, then interpret the results and answer questions about the geologic causes and the human effects of volcanic eruption. The exercise includes role-playing (individual) and a virtual field trip.
Welcome to Planet Oit! part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
Planet Oit is an online computer game in which the students play interplanetary explorers as a means to teach the concepts and principles of physical geology. Planet Oit has been designed as a coherent geophysical space where geological regions (desert, mountains, plains) contain plausible phenomenon (mesa, playa, cave) which are populated with plausible objects (outcrops, boulders, veins), of plausible types. Planet Oit currently contains over 50 locations, nearly 100 rock and mineral types, 200 outcrops, veins, boulders and so forth, and over 40 instrument and tool types. The students' task is to obtain the appropriate equipment and perform tests on the samples they find before they can report their findings back to Earth. User registration is required but at no cost.
Virtual Oil Well Game part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
This online strategy game has the player as a prospector trying to find oil, working off a limited budget. The player collects and interprets seismic data to search for oil traps. They are required to file environmental impact statements before drilling and use drill logs to determine when to start pumping. The player has access to a library, with several pages on how oil is trapped and how to find the traps using seismic data.
GPS Treasure Hunt part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
This game is actually an on-campus field lab that has students using directions and a GPS receiver to make their way from one stop to the next. At each stop, they identify a building stone (or tree for an environmental studies or plant biology class). If possible, have the students work in small groups, taking turns using the GPS receiver and with each group having its own direction sheet. At the end, they collect a ticket for an edible prize.
The Grand Canyon part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This lesson plan deals with the consequences of damming in the Grand Canyon area. Students act as scientists investigating the damming of the Colorado River by the Glen Canyon dam and experimental flooding that took place in 1996. They then write a proposal as to whether or not more experimental flooding should be done on the area considering the ecological effects. This topic has great potential for an Earth Systems Science class, as the consequences of damming affect climate, ecosystems, sedimentation/erosion, and water quality.
Traditional NADS Scum Run part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
The North American Diatom Symposium takes place every two years and features and unusual academic sporting event. One description, from 1993, recounts that: "relay teams of three diatomists were required to run along the beach wearing chest waders, identifying diatoms shown in photographs along the way." The variant that I participated in in 1997 had us using actual microscopes. The instructor could have students identify photographs of thin sections, or microfossils, or answer questions or even do simple lab tests. Use different samples for each player. The important feature is the relay race format, which means all three players contribute to the effort and that the students are made to get out of their chairs and move around a little.
WorldWatcher Project: Global Warming Project part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
In this exercise, students role-play advisors to various heads of state on the subject of global warming. The web site offers a curriculum to help the students become experts on global warming. It offers lab activities, computer visualizations (using free WorldWatcher software), lots of background readings, and choose-your-own-adventure journeys through the carbon and water cycles. The unit concludes with a summit on global warming at which students give their presentations. For teachers, there is a pedagogical explanation for each activity and rubrics for the presentation and for an energy balance diagram assignment.
Ideas for Resources: Geology Lab Manual part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This site contains a partially-fleshed-out list of questions and situations dealing with water, minerals, and public policy intended to be incorporated into role-playing activities. It was intended for a lab manual to accompany a course on resource geology or environmental geology. Its message is that access to geological resources depends upon a complex interplay between economic, political, legal, environmental, and geological factors. The suggested exercises require students to gather at least some of the data needed to play their roles.
The Living Edens: Virtual Yellowstone Tour part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) website contains a virtual tour of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. In this tour, students act as park rangers to research geological features of Yellowstone, locate these features on maps, and describe and define associated geologic terms. The features discussed include geysers, hot springs, canyons, waterfalls and mudpots.
The Great Energy Debate part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This lesson plan explores the controversial issues surrounding the energy debate in the United States. Students will research recent initiatives being taken in this area and analyze their implications. They will then assume the roles of pivotal stakeholders in this debate and testify to a mock congressional committee responsible for making decisions about public lands and energy resources.
Eruption! part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
Eruption! is a volcanic crisis simulation model that showcases a series of villages that surround an active volcano that is part of the Interactive Models for Geological Education Online (IMGEO) series. The goal of the exercise is to preserve as many people and as much property as possible in spite of the threat from the volcano. Students role-play as villagers, the governor, volcanologists, or the press. Guides for teaching assistants and students, and the rules of the simulation are available on the site. Three different versions are downloadable, for different hardware and classroom situations (e.g. one computer per student, one computer and multiple students, and a networked environment). The activities in each are modified slightly to reflect the level of computer access for the student.
The High Plains: Land of Extremes part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This site covers the physical features of the High Plains (or Great Plains), the grasses and plants of the area, prairie dog ecosystems, riparian areas, mining, management, water resources, and fire cycles. Student activities are based on the study of groundwater movement, energy resources, wind energy, and riparian areas. A debate allows students to understand the viewpoints of different interest groups in considering whether the black-footed ferret should be reintroduced onto public lands.
The Forecast Factory part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
The Forecast Factory is an introduction to the topic of weather forecasting. Students role-play the various elements in forecasting process such as equations, announcers, data analysts, and airplanes. By following the script, the students will summarize the entire process in a single period. This lesson plan is well suited to large classes in lecture-hall settings. A discussion and summary of this teaching method are provided, as well as extensions to other topics, such as global climate modeling.
Collaborative Decision Making: NASA's Deep Impact Mission part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This is a highly-developed unit plan involving collaborative problem solving using data. The subject is the launch of a probe to investigate the composition of a comet. The students will engage in quantitative risk analysis, role-playing, persuasive writing and speaking, and group decision-making procedures. The students will study the objectives and the risks of the project and make decisions about how to deal with them from the perspectives of NASA scientists, engineers, and members of the public involved with the project.
Jurassic Park Debate part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This role-playing exercise casts students as scientific specialists, assigned to a group either supporting or opposing the cloning of dinosaurs. There are 4-6 specialists (or groups of specialists): geneticists, ecologists, etc., on each side. Each side researches for a couple of weeks and presents its argument in class (usually a single class period for each side), and other students can ask the specialists questions. Each student also turns in two pages summarizing his/her arguments as a specialist the day of the presentation. The material provided by the professor for research includes information about cloning technology and about dinosaurs.
Ocean Stratigraphy Challenge part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
This is a complex puzzle beginning with a description of a stratigraphic section from a deep-sea core. The students are asked to explain the sequence of rock and sediment types and to devise an experiment to test this hypothesis. It is intended for students with some prior knowledge of oceanography, sedimentary geology, and plate tectonics and requires them to synthesize all of this knowledge to answer the question.
Science in the Courtroom: The Woburn Toxic Trial part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
In this exercise, hydrology students role-play expert witnesses in a mock trial dealing with contamination of groundwater. Student prepare for the role-play by studying the movement of groundwater and the transport of contaminants through computational and map exercises and field trips. For the role-play, the hydrology students work with law students. The hydrologists divide up and serve as expert witnesses for the plaintiffs and the defendants; the law students are the attorneys. This exercise teaches hydrology students the value of integrating computational and communications skills in order to present and defend their understanding of a situation.
Annotating Change in Satellite Images part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
During this exercise, students compare a series of satellite images taken 3-4 years apart to investigate the effects of human land use. They will annotate the images using ImageJ software and use the annotated images to explain their findings. The LANDSAT images provided show an area near Hong Kong where land is being reclaimed from the sea by dredging. The students can use ImageJ to compare images from 1988, 1992, and 1995 and to mark areas of land that have been reclaimed between 1988 and 1992 and those that were reclaimed between 1992 and 1995. They will then add a legend to the map, which can then be used as part of report on land reclamation and its effect on the Earth system. Annotating Change in Satellite Images is part of the Earth Exploration Toolbook, a collection of detailed exercises which involve using data to teach about Earth systems.
Starting Out With Earth History part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Distribute a blank geologic-history timeline to pairs or small groups of students at the start of an Earth History unit or course and ask them work on it together. Ask them to make their best guess as to when 6-10 major Earth history events occurred and put those one the timeline. You can give them a list of events, such as the death of the dinosaurs, the invention of writing, the formation of the Earth, the origin of life, and the breakup of Pangea, or have them come up with their own. Let the students brainstorm for 10-15 minutes, then turn in the project. Rather than handing or showing them a correct/complete timeline, put up another blank geologic time line using the board, an overhead, or projected computer image and spend another 10-15 minutes having the class fill it in together. Then, through questions, bring up important points such as how certain events are dated, where humanity fits in, and so forth.
Order It Up! part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
A think-pair-share activity which involves putting solar system bodies in order based on various statistics: escape velocity, distance from the sun, mass, etc. -
The Use of a Piece of Land part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This activity is designed to engage students in a practical exercise in land use planning; to make the students aware of the positive and negative aspects of land use laws and local zoning ordinances through role-playing. The students represent groups interested in purchasing the same piece of land. Each group must research to devise a plan that is legal and attractive and present proposals to convince the current owners to sell the land to their group. The instructor is advised to use a real plot of land so that real land use laws can be researched.
Cloud Observation part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
In this short, serial basic-meteorology lab, students identify different cloud types and estimate cover over a period of several days.
Yellowstone Fires part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
Emphasizing an integrated approach to environmental earth science through problem-based learning, the module asks students to assume the role of environmental biologist, and help several government agencies resolve the debate surrounding "let it burn" policies in national parks. The government agencies would like to know whether or not to allow naturally occurring fires in Yellowstone National Park to burn to their natural conclusion. The agencies are particularly interested in student recommendations based on an Earth System Science (ESS) analysis of a fire's impact on the air, land, water, and living things. Many of the pages within the site provide hyperlinked background resources to investigate wildland fire issues in more detail. A glossary, references, related links, and a general description of the problem-based learning model compliment the site.
Mock Environmental Summit part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
At the end of a six-week class or unit on global warming, students role-play representatives from various countries and organizations at an international summit on the Santa Barbara protocol, dealing with global warming. The students prepare by studying the IPCC report on Global Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and other information on human impacts on the environment. The course involves several writing assignments, presentations, and lab activities that help the students research their arguments.
See the activity page for details.
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Role-Playing Exercises part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing
Created by Rebecca Teed, SERC, Carleton College "Walk a mile in my shoes" is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place. - ...
Interactive Lectures part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures
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Reactions to the speech today. I actually thought it was pretty good. He didn't convince me or anything, I thought he did a reasonably good job of explaining what he wanted to do and why.
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Coca Cola Youth Classic Tournament:
FC Mirage returned for the 3rd annual year to the Coca Cola Youth Classic Tournament in Milwaukee.
The U11 Boys team successfully defended their crown from last year. In 2013 the U11 team playing as U10s in a U11 division, won first place. At this weekend's tournament, the boys won …
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AUGUST SUMMER CAMPJune 18th, 2014
AUGUST: MONDAY – FRIDAY from 9 AM–11 AM
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TRYOUT RESULTS / Players for U15 Girls WantedMay 29th, 2014
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2014 – 2015 Soccer TryoutsMay 5th, 2014
FC Mirage 2014-2015 Soccer Team Tryouts
TEAM BIRTHDATE (Born on or after) DATE TIMES U8 Boys & Girls U9 Boys & Girls U10 Girls August 1, 2006 August 1, …
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Eclipse Spring Classic: U10 boys undefeated/win 1st place!April 30th, 2014
April 25-27 the entire club participated in the Eclipse Select Spring Classic, a US Soccer Sanctioned Tournament.
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Former Mirage Player, Jason Brown, wins Bronze at Sochi!April 30th, 2014
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Fall Season Ends: Undefeated U12s take 1st place!November 19th, 2013
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Varsity Captain, former Mirage player honors fallen coachOctober 30th, 2013
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Coca Cola Youth Classic in Milwaukee – U10 Boys Win 1st Place!October 16th, 2013
In a weekend plagued by heavy rain and cancellations the FC Mirage teams had a successful weekend.
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With the Detroit Tigers coming off winning 2 of 3 from the Boston Red Sox, they are looking to keep momentum on their side against their AL Central foe, the Chicago White Sox. After a disappointing and frustrating May, and a three game sweep at home to the Toronto Blue Jays to start June, everything began to click again(save for Joe Nathan) against the reigning World Series Champion BoSox.
Miguel Cabrera, who was removed out of last night's game for a tight hamstring, will be in the lineup tonight as the DH.
Detroit Tigers(33-26) at Chicago White Sox(31-33) 8:10pm EDT
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The Tigers last played the White Sox at the end of April, sweeping a short, two-game series in Chicago. While the first in the set was a hard fought battle with the winning run scored by the Tigers in the top of the ninth, the most recent game against Chicago featured domination of the White Sox lineup by Max Scherzer, who pitched 6 innings without giving up a run.
Pitching Matchup
Rick Porcello(8-3, 3.69ERA) looks to continue his upward trend after a quality start that unfortunately ended in a loss to the Blue Jays on June 4th. Though Rick did get the loss, his performance was much improved over the terrible 12 hit, 8 run outing against Texas on May 24th.
Porcello has not yet faced off against the White Sox in the 2014 season, but last season went 4-0 in 6 starts and posted a 2.13ERA against the White Sox. Porcello had a 1.64 ERA in 22 innings pitched at U.S. Cellular field.
Hector Noesi(1-4, 5.29ERA) started against the Tigers the last time the two teams met and took the loss, pitching 3.2 innings, and giving up four runs on five hits.
Noesi did not face the Tigers in the 2013 season, but didn't perform well against them in the 2012 season, pitching 5 innings and again giving up four runs on five hits.
Tigers Lineup
- Ian Kinsler-2B
- Don Kelly-RF
- Miguel Cabrera-DH
- Victor Martinez-1B
- J.D. Martinez-LF
- Nick Castellanos-3B
- Austin Jackson-LF
- Alex Avila-C
- Eugenio Suarez-SS
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- Miguel Cabrera — day-to-day
- Luke Putkonen – 15-day DL
- Joel Hanrahan – Out indefinitely
- Andy Dirks – 60-day DL
- Jose Iglesias – Out for season
- Bruce Rondon – Out for season
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- Matt Lindstrom – Status Uncertain
- Felipe Paulino – Out indefinitely
- Avisail Garcia – Out for season
- Nate Jones – June-ish
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Heavy Core® Strings are uniquely designed for the player that enjoys higher tension at standard tuning or normal tension at dropped tunings. Our proprietary core-to-wrap ratios are meticulously calculated so the player can really 'dig in' while retaining sound fundamentals. Heavy Core® Strings, like all Dunlop Strings are manufactured with the highest quality of...
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I have reviewed the Dunlop Nickel Plated Steel Electric Guitar Strings and when Jim Dunlop offered me the chance to review their new line of Heavy Core strings I just had to say yes. I loved the bright strong tone of the Dunlops, quick settling, and great longevity. I hoped for more of the same from the Heavy Cores, and they didn't disappoint.
Heavy Core strings feature a thicker core, which enable them to retain a standard tension for dropped tunings, or higher tension in standard tuning.
I used the 10-48 Heavy gauge tuned to standard E or dropped D on my 24.75" scale Les Paul style guitar. This is a little heavier than the standard 10-46 gauge most would use on a Les Paul type guitar, and it is definitely noticeable. As I expected ,bending strings required more effort then when using a standard 10-46 gauge, but it was worth it for the extra tone.
Dunlop also talk about their Heavy Core strings "adding more punch and growl to your tone", and "giving your guitar's voice more power, depth and strength". I did notice that my guitar's tone definitely sounded a little bigger and fuller when played acoustically. Plugging in and cranking up the dirt, I noticed the guitar roared a little more than previously with it's standard gauge strings. Clean tones yielded a little more aggression as well.
I've been playing this set of strings for a few weeks now, and they are holding up really well. No real corrosion has appeared on them, and they still sound as good as they did when I first put them on.
Dunlop also pack them using their "VCI Fresh" packaging, so they are as fresh as the day they were manufactured when you open the package up.
On the subject of stringing my guitar up with the Heavy Cores I found them to be just like the regular Dunlop strings, with a nice quick settling period
Harmonics of both the natural and artificial variety really pop from the Heavy Core strings. Zakk Wylde style pinch harmonics really blast out with great definition. The thicker core also seems to add sustain, throw some sweet vibrato in and your notes will sustain for days.
Overall the Heavy Core 10-48 Heavy gauge strings are a fantastic string for those into playing heavy music. Dropped tuners, and standard tuners looking for a set of strings with real power and sustain will love these. I particularly found that my tone really benefited from the extra tension when tuned to E standard, and the extra work required for bends was definitely worth it. These strings will really let your playing roar and scream where needed. I can imagine how great these will be at dropped tunings.
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Fast settling period.
* Fantastic heavy tone, and screaming harmonics.
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