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|Kibera school boys. Photo Credit: Flickr, Hunter David Lane
Voiceover: This is Jane Auma's eighth child - born in a slum called Kibera in the heart of the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Jane is too poor to pay hospital fees so all her children were born like this.
Her neighbours help out as best they can, but there's no one here with medical skills if things go wrong.
Jane's husband is not around for the birth either - in fact he's rarely at home - and when he does turn up - late and unannounced, she says - he refuses to use condoms/contraception.
Leaving Jane with the last thing she needs right now - another mouth to feed.
Jane: Giving birth is the easy part, the difficulty is feeding them. I want my kids to eat how other children are eating, to dress the way other children dress.
My eldest son has just finished primary school but there's no money for secondary school so he just stays here at home doing nothing.
I think my children will blame me for not helping them in the same way that I blame my father. Even though he's dead I still blame him. So my children will say: 'Mother never helped us'.
Their father should help but he has abandoned them. He likes moving around with other women and this has made him forget his children.
That makes me angry - very angry.
Voiceover: Some days, Jane gets work at an illegal alcohol brewery where she's paid little more than a dollar a day.
Worldwide, more than one billion people live in slums. As many as a million of them in Kibera. A majority of them are unemployed, meaning hundreds of thousands of people all struggling to survive.
Her husband sometimes leaves a little money, but for the most part it's down to her to keep her family alive.
Carol Wairimu fares no better. She has three young children, no husband and no permanent job.
Every morning Carol gets ready to go out in search of the casual work she needs to make ends meet.
It's a hand to mouth life. If she manages to find work she can buy food - if not, she and her children will go to bed hungry.
School books, sweets or clothing, are luxuries, not essentials in this household.
Carol: I hope you understand the problems of a single mother. She is the one who has to meet all the needs for her children and herself. The problems of a widow. She has to meet all the needs for herself and her children. So you do find a lot of challenges in life - difficulties, problems - and we still survive.
We hope that one day God will come down - we keep on saying that. One day God will come down and change our situations.
Voiceover: But for now, Carol must rely on herself to change her situation - so every day she braves the alleyways of Africa's most crowded slum hoping to find a job washing clothes.
Worldwide, more than one billion people live in slums. As many as a million of them in Kibera.
A majority of them are unemployed, meaning hundreds of thousands of people all struggling to survive.
So however little she's paid and regardless of the weather - Carol washes as if her life depended on it.
What the girls love most about the school is the chance to lead different lives.
In fact it does.
Like many women born to poor families, Carol has only a basic education to fall back on and in a country where university graduates work as street vendors, she must take whatever work she can get.
Carol: What normally makes me feel so down is when I don't have anything for the kids to eat. I don't have anything for me to eat, or hope of where I can get rent for the landlord, because he won't let you not pay for two months. Every time he's at your door, knocking, knocking. He doesn't want to know how you are, what you have or don't have.
I have these kids and I have to work for them so that in the future they will know that their Mum was working for them. If I could find some employment so that I can educate these children, so they can grow up to be people who are bright, people who are learned, people who are educated - people who can stand on their own two feet. So I can say that my future is most focused on my kids.
Voiceover: Carol doubts there's much she can do to turn her own life around but she's determined that life will be different for her children.
With a lack of proper education this vicious cycle of poverty will keep increasing, and that is why the only way to cut down this vicious cycle is really to educate these children.
If she can at least give them the chance of a better life, she reasons, then her own won't have been entirely in vain.
Carol and a friend are trying their luck in the wealthy Nairobi suburb of Langata - cold-selling their services door to door.
It's a typical day - knocking on doors and hoping that opportunity will answer.
No luck today, so Carol heads back to Kibera with empty pockets.
Carol has no one to fall back on for support - her husband and mother are dead, her father is an alcoholic.
Apart from her brother who's unemployed, Carol's had no help from the men in her life.
Carol: I like a hardworking man, who cares for his family, who minds about his family. But there is someone that I do hate and that is a man who forsakes his family. A man who is brutal, who is harsh, who is always drunk and fighting with his wife - I really hate such a man. In the world that we are living in today I can say that women are the ones who are working hard to make their families survive. So I don't value men … I don't value them.
Voiceover: For many of Kibera's men, this is a typical evening. Back from work or job-hunting they spend their nights and meagre earnings in illegal drinking dens like this.
Dennis Onyango has spent a large part of his life in Kibera and is a regular at this bar.
Home-brewed alcohol is sometimes deadly but it's also very cheap.
Dennis fell into poverty when his father left his mother for another woman. Forced out of school because of unpaid fees, he ended up in Mombasa where he found work as a DJ.
Life was good until inter-tribal fighting forced Dennis back to the safety of Nairobi.
Dennis: When I came back to the slum, life was difficult, I was used to having money and living the good life. I used to live in a room with its own bathroom, but when I got back to the slum I didn't have those things. I saw that some of my old friends were doing quite well and I realised it was because of the work they did.
Voiceover: Soon after he got back to Kibera, Dennis settled into a life of idle days spent smoking with friends and practising his rhymes.
Dennis: Many of my friends had guns. I had grown up in the hands of the police because my father was a policeman with the dog section. So I grew up with guns in the house. My father used to leave his gun on the table so I knew how to dismantle and reassemble guns so my friends used to bring their guns to me for cleaning, so that's how I got started.
One day some friends needed four people for a job but there were only three of them so they asked me to join them. They said: 'It's a five minute job - we'll be done quickly.' So I went, we did the robbery and it was successful. So then I did it a second time, then a third time and after the fourth time I was used to it.
Voiceover: With such high levels of unemployment many young men turn to crime as an obvious ticket out of poverty.
Many end up in prison or dead.
Leaving women like Carol to pick up the pieces.
Carol: As I said, I'm a single parent - I'm the only one to meet the daily needs of my kids - also I'm HIV-positive.
The biggest problem in this case of being positive is that most of the time you are very weak - you don't have enough strength to work or you don't have enough strength to meet all the daily needs that you are supposed to do.
And in this condition, to survive you have to work hard, you have to force yourself even if your body is not ok.
If there was an equitable distribution of resources around the world, chances are there would be a more peaceful world, because this inequality is what brings around hatred.
Voiceover: Carol had no idea that her husband was dying of AIDS until he finally confessed to her on his deathbed.
Overnight her life changed - and having already lost her husband, she then lost the support of her family as well.
Carol was living with her husband's family when he died but they threw her out of the house when she told them that their son had died of AIDS and that she was HIV-positive.
Carol was left with no choice but to go back to her own parents' house. The reception was not a warm one.
Carol: My Mum had passed away a year before my husband died so I stayed with my father who was so harsh - so harsh. He would insult me saying, 'You went to prostitution and that's why you contracted this disease.' But I know how I got it. I got married to a man who I never knew was HIV-positive, and that's how I happened to contract this disease.
So you find a lot of stigma upcountry. I came to learn that in the city there were some good facilities being offered to people with HIV. So I decided to dedicate myself to how I could regain my strength and prolong my life. I learnt that there were some tablets, medicines being given to people with HIV and that they were becoming healthy and strong. Upcountry you could not find any medicines so I decided that as I had lived in Kibera before, I decided to come back to Kibera.
I found that my neighbours could treat you well, could support you, help you and understand you. But upcountry there is a lot of stigma from your relatives, from everyone.
Voiceover: But reduced stigma and free access to anti-retroviral drugs are just about all that is good about Carol's life in Kibera.
If she succeeds in getting work three times a week she's doing well and even then the money's not enough - often the kids fall asleep waiting for food that will never come.
Carol: It's now 10 years since I became positive so now I can be thinking that my time is getting short, maybe now is my time to die - so it's very hard.
I had a very bad headache, a toothache and these eyes are still aching. I had a stomach-ache and other problems. I was asking God, 'What is happening?' That pain was too much so I decided to hang myself - first off I hang my kids and then I hang myself, so that if I die I don't want to leave my kids behind. So I decided to kill myself not for the first time, because me I hate pain.
Voiceover: But it's the thought of her kids and their future that gives Carol the strength to carry on.
So she keeps washing - and keeps hoping.
In overcrowded Kibera, where many households use naked flames to cook inside their wooden shacks, fires are common.
And given the lack of access - they're difficult to put out as well.
Looters are drawn to steal whatever escaped the fire and time was when Dennis would have been one of them.
But today he's come to help the shocked victims. Dennis is looking for a change - he wants to turn his back on crime and start afresh.
These days, he spends the morning cooking doughnuts - trying to earn an honest crust.
He never felt comfortable with the life of a criminal, he says, and the memories of his former life have left their scars.
"My life has been changed since I came to this school because the way that my parents are living I don't want to live the same life that they are living - I want to improve," says Dennis.
Dennis: I remember robberies when people were raped or killed. Memories like that must haunt you. You can't stop thinking about them. You see an innocent person killed - man or woman - and you can't help thinking about your own life. You are in a robbery and you find yourself thinking that could be my sister, my brother or my cousin.
I am haunted by the crimes I have committed. But if you are with a gang it's hard to stop it once it's started - you can't go against the wishes of the gang. If you're committing a crime and a beautiful girl is there and some members of the gang want to rape her you can't stop them because they will think you are weak. Those kinds of crimes haunt you afterwards. Every day I am haunted by these memories and that is why I am trying to change.
Gangster: Let him smile.
Voiceover: But Dennis finds it hard to break links with his past.
Here, he gathers with former gang-members to mourn a friend killed during a robbery. The violence of his former life is never far away.
Gangster: I'm going to go into someone's house, get a machete and cut someone. I will go out and shed blood for my friend.
Dennis: The boy who was killed was a good friend of mine. We grew up together and went to the forest together but greed and temptation led him to crime. Everyone has to look for money but he chose a shortcut. He fell in with a bad gang who used him as a diversion and while they were robbing he got shot by the police.
I tried to persuade him to stop thieving but once he had a gun in his hand he wouldn't listen. When someone gets a gun he thinks he's 10 years older, and when I reminded him that he was just a kid, I became an enemy in his mind. When I told him to change his ways he said: 'I am a man and I don't recognise the name boy any more.'
Voiceover: Every day, more and more young men flood into Kibera in search of a better life.
For a man committed to a new life, Dennis is still prone to the temptation of an easy buck.
A fence divides Kibera from the rapidly disappearing Ngong forest. Wood is a valuable commodity and Dennis braves armed forest guards most nights to cut trees for firewood and house building.
Dennis: Cutting trees in the forest is also dangerous, but the jail time is shorter than the sentence for robbery. And if you work hard while you are in the forest, you get more money than working on a construction site. If you work in construction you get up at 5am and work all day for 150 shillings. But in the forest, one branch alone is worth 200 shillings. You can make two trips to the forest and within four hours you've finished your work and made 400 shillings.
With such high levels of unemployment many young men turn to crime as an obvious ticket out of poverty. Many end up in prison or dead. Leaving women like Carol to pick up the pieces.
Voice over:Patrick Mburu also works nights.
Mburu: I was born and bred in Kibera - this is my home. It's the only place I know. From what I know, the worst thing about Kibera is crime. Many of the youth are jobless, but it's their own fault that they're jobless. Look at me, I'm self-employed yet I'm also a youth - why can't the youths do the same as me?
Voiceover: Mburu empties toilets for a living.
Most toilets in Kibera are privately owned and residents must pay to use them. Toilet owners usually wait until they are overflowing before calling Mburu in to empty them.
It's a dirty job but the money is good and Mburu says he's proud of the fact that it's a business he's built with his own sweat.
Mburu: Let me tell you the truth, my parents were alcoholics. They drank a lot and didn't care whether I ate or not. Just drinking … nothing else!
Voiceover: From a very young age Mburu had to fend for himself so he's used to taking opportunities wherever he can find them.
There are so few toilets in Kibera that on average, each one is shared by more than a thousand people.
They fill up quickly.
At the same place that Mburu has dumped his load the night before, people head off to work while the desperate scavenge behind them.
Most slum dwellers never finish school and end up trapped in poverty, and that's why Mburu is adamant that his kids will get an education.
Mburu: In Kenya, no education means you can't get a good job, that's why I send my son to a good school, because I want him to know that the job that I do is only for people like me who didn't go to school. When he is grown up and he sits down and remembers the work his father used to do and remembers that this is not a job for an educated person then hopefully this will motivate him to find a better job. So, I will struggle - I will carry a lot of shit, I will do anything but steal to keep him in school.
Voiceover: Abdul Kassim is another man who believes in the importance of education.
Abdul works as a telecoms engineer, but puts most of his income into a free secondary school for girls that he started in January 2006.
Primary education in Kenya is free while secondary is not, meaning most kids leave school with only a basic education.
Abdul: I saw that there was no gender equity between the boy child and the girl child here in Kibera, and at that small level that I was I thought we should start these girls doing something that these boys can do and they can do it fairly better, so we started a girl's soccer team.
Then as the girls went through their primary education - because I started it with girls of 13 or 14 years old, they went through primary but most of them never made it to secondary. Then all the challenges, all the bad things that happen within Kibera saw some of them getting into early marriages, some of them got pregnant - there was a time when I lost the entire striking force of my team and it brought into question the starting of another alternative which was nothing but education.
Voiceover: The school operates on a shoestring and relies entirely on the goodwill of Abdul and a few of his friends.
A donation just in means that Abdul can finally start work on the next classroom.
Abdul: I'm always under pressure, because it's the end of the month and as I go and pick my pay-cheque I keep asking myself what pay cheque do I have for the teachers? This is one constant challenge that I always have especially when it comes to the end of the month. Last month we got some little money to pay the teachers but as it stands right now and it's the 30th I have nothing, nothing coming up for the teachers.
Dennis is looking for a change - he wants to turn his back on crime and start afresh.
Voiceover: 17-year-old Christina is just one of 48 pupils at Abdul's school but her story is typical.
She lives with her mother, father and five siblings in a one-room shack. Her parents' relationship is fraught and Christina is often left alone in charge of the house.
When she finished primary school her father refused to send her to secondary school - educating girls, he told her, is a waste of money.
Staying at Abdul's school - even though it's free - is a constant battle.
Christina: My dad wants everyone to drop out of school. He complains that he has no money, or that he's sick … I don't know … I don't know why he doesn't want us to learn.
Like me, he wants me to go and look for a job to feed my brothers, but I'm too small to be going out earning money now.
Voiceover: Against her father's wishes Christina sets off for class knowing that Abdul's school is probably her last chance of a better life.
Christina has a hole in her heart - a serious condition for which she should take daily medication but the cost of the medicine - US$10 a day - is far beyond the means of her family.
School, a job and then a salary might just save her life.
Christina: I fear dropping out of school because if I stay at home, men will say, 'Here are some girls for us to play with.' So I fear dropping out of school because maybe I'll become a mother, be raped or go into prostitution. That's what I don't want to do because I fear those things.
Voiceover: The teachers at Abdul's school are all unqualified volunteers - so the school is some way from academic excellence - but that's not the point.
What the girls love most about the school is the chance to lead different lives.
Carol doubts there's much she can do to turn her own life around but she's determined that life will be different for her children.
Christina: My life has been changed since I came to this school because the way that my parents are living I don't want to live the same life that they are living - I want to improve.
I don't think it's a good thing for girls to drop out of school - not girls only, boys as well - we have to be educated so that for our future we may at least be good parents to our children.
Voiceover: Abdul has put not just his money, but his heart, into the school.
If he wanted, he could knock down the school tomorrow, build houses and rent them out for a tidy profit - but instead, he puts the girls' education first.
Abdul: With a lack of proper education this vicious cycle of poverty will keep increasing, and that is why the only way to cut down this vicious cycle is really to educate these children. Education is only replacing an empty mind with an open mind. We just need to make their minds open and show them that there are so many alternatives out there, so many opportunities out there, so many better ways of doing things out there.
Voiceover: If he wanted, Abdul could leave Kibera tomorrow but he thinks running away is not the solution.
Abdul: I don't see a reason why people are living the way they are living in Kibera, or in any other slums, there is no reason - there is no justification. If there was an equitable distribution of resources around the world, chances are there would be a more peaceful world, because this inequality is what brings around hatred.
And in Kibera, if this issue is not handled at some time, this problem is going to come knocking at people's doors - and those who think it's not their problem might be surprised one day when this problem comes knocking at their door.
Reprinted with permission from IRIN news service, the humanitarian news and analysis service, IRIN. © IRIN. This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies.
To read another Global Envision article about urban slums, see Mixed Blessings of the Megacities.
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Yesterdays Nintendo Direct presentation provided gamers with several 3DS announcements to get excited about, including the fact tat the fifth game in the Professor Layton series, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, will be making its way to North America in November.
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The Professor Layton series is famous for giving DS players a chance to solve large, overarching mysteries by first solving many, many, many smaller enigmas. This includes mixing and matching odd objects in the correct order to create a crafty device, completing perplexing math equations, recognizing patterns or thinking around corners to figure out why so-and-sos vase broke or how something went missing from another so-and-sos locked study. It's sort of like a handheld gamer's version of Nancy Drew except Nancy is replaced with Layton and the puzzles are a little bit more over-the-top and the realistic art-style is replaced with anime draws...well, I guess Professor Layton is nothing like Nancy Drew, but you get the picture.
This latest iteration has the top hat-wearing Prof and his young assistant, Luke, plowing through 150 new puzzles. What is the Miracle Mask? Well, thats a mystery even to me. Im guessing its a mask And that it is somehow miraculous.
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According to a report on Usmagazine.com, Nadya Suleman signed a deal Thursday to have film crews capture her life with 14 kids. Her lawyer, Jeff Czech, said the family's every move won't be filmed 24/7; production company Eyeworks has agreed to a "quasi-reality" series that would document milestones several times a year.
"[Suleman and the producers] are hoping to have an arrangement whereby several events in the children's lives would be filmed in a documentary series," Czech said. "One of the events in the children's lives might be their first birthday."
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OKLAHOMA CITY – For the 2014-15 season, the heritage jerseys of NBA teams will be converted to short sleeved jerseys, a league source informed CSNNW.com.
The source spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the plan being subject to change leading up to next season, but it's "highly unlikely," the source explained.
In the case of the Portland Trail Blazers, their popular white "Rip City" jersey will be converted to a short sleeve fit. The same goes for the Detroit Pistons and their blue "Motor City" jersey.
There's reluctance by some teams to switch up their look, we're told. However, this is something the league wants to occur and there's more teams in favor of the change oppose to the ones that are not, another source said.
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VR in Nascar, MONSTER asked him to do a promo by driving a Nascar car, VR probaly said Why Not and off he whent. These guys are never to do somethings like this in a season because they want to, they can't even go like skiing unless it is a promo stunt, Yamaha can't risk injuries while playing, but because Monster is paying they call the shots
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Sophomore Emma Betland led the Washington State University women's golf team as the Cougars concluded play Wednesday at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
After shooting its best round of the fall season Tuesday with a score of 297, WSU fired a final-round 314 (+26) and finished the three-day event at 920 and in 17th place.
Betland led WSU in the final round with a 4-over 76, ending her three rounds with a 222 (+6) total and in a tie for 24th. Teammate Kristen Allard had three birdies in her round and finished with a 6-over 78. The junior had a three-day total of 227 (+11) to finish in a tie for 49th.
Senior Allison Travis matched her first-round score of 79 (+7) to conclude her tournament tied for 71st with a three-day total of 233 (+17). Sophomore teammate Ali Thompson shot an 81 (+9) during Wednesday's round and finished the tournament in a tie for 80th at 238. Freshman Mallory Kent finished 92nd with a three-day score of 247 (+31) following an 83 (+11) Wednesday.
Sophomore Ellen Park is competing as an individual at the tournament and finished third round with an 80 (+8), giving her a two-round total of 230 and in a tie for 64th.
The Cougars are next in action Nov. 5 when they participate in the Pac-10/SEC Challenge at Stanford, Calif.
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TEAM SCORES: 1. Arkansas, 846; 2. Kent State, 869; 3. Arizona, 872; T4. Louisville, 876; T4. Washington, 876; T6. Oregon, 877; T6. Minnesota, 877; 8. Missouri, 893; 9. East Caroline, 894; 10. UNLV, 895; 11. New Mexico, 898; 12. Colorado State, 901; 13. San Diego State, 905; 14. Idaho, 906; 15. UC Irvine, 907; 16. San Jose State, 916; 17. Washington State, 920.
Individuals (Top 5 plus WSU): 1. Emily Tubert (Ark.), 205; T2. Martina Gavier (Kent St.), 210; T2. Corinna Rees (Ark.), 210; T2. Kelli Shean (Ark.), 210; 5. Teo Poplawski (Idaho), 211...T27. Emma Betland (WSU), 222; T49. Kristen Allard (WSU), 227; T71. Allison Travis (WSU), 233; T80. Ali Thompson (WSU), 238; 92. Mallory Kent (WSU), 247...T64. Ellen Park (Indiv.), 230.


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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0226457982, Hardcover)It is possible that no book written in the last 50 years has had an influence as profound and far-reaching as Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn's argument that scientific knowledge does not develop cumulatively, but rather proceeds by a series of "paradigm shifts," captivated not only philosophers of science, but scholars in a wide range of academic disciplines. The Road Since Structure is a follow-up to his landmark work and a look at Kuhn's theory since the book's original publication in 1962.
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"Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them."
Joshua Liebman, rabbi and author
"Tolerance is another word for indifference."
William Somerset Maugham, British playwright and author
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
Robert G. Ingersoll, American social activist, orator
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
John F. Kennedy, U.S. president
"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic and philosopher
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
Ralph W. Sockman, United Methodist pastor and author
"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival."
René Dubos, microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist and humanist.
"Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things."
E.M. Forster, English novelist
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher
What do you think of when you hear the word "tolerance"? Perhaps your local school has a zero-tolerance policy for drugs or violence. Perhaps you know someone with a high tolerance for pain or a low tolerance for alcohol. Some people consider tolerance a virtue, a quality to be praised. Other people equate tolerance with anything-goes permissiveness. The word is much debated and opinions differ, as the quotes in the sidebar show.
How we feel about tolerance also depends on whether we're on the giving or receiving end. Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi recognized rightly that the language of tolerance often implies a dynamic of superiority and inferiority: from my position of privilege, I get to decide whether to tolerate you — or not.
Being tolerated is better than being the victim of intolerance, but it falls far short of full acceptance and affirmation. If I have a different skin color or a different political affiliation or a different sexual orientation than you, I don't want you merely to tolerate me. I want you to recognize and welcome me for who I am.
A complex history
Throughout history, there have been attempts to legislate tolerance, but the results are mixed.
The Edict of Toleration issued by the Roman emperor Galerius in 311 ended persecution against Christians. We might not be believers today had it not been for this edict. But subsequent imperial laws went further. Christianity was promoted and the practice of other religions was forbidden. Tolerance for Christians quickly became intolerance for others.
On our own shores, the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 prescribed fines or even imprisonment for using offensive language against members of other Christian groups. Doubtless this was intended to ensure that people of differing beliefs could live together peacefully, without the fear of being verbally abused by others. This legally enforced tolerance extended only to Christians, however. The punishment for denying the Trinity or the divinity of Jesus Christ was death. Is that toleration?
The historical record is also mixed among Lutherans. When Martin Luther defended his views before the imperial Diet at Worms in 1521, he said it is "neither safe nor right to go against conscience." There was no tolerance for Luther, who was both excommunicated and outlawed. But as Lutheranism spread, Luther and his fellow reformers weren't always tolerant of other viewpoints, even though they continued to assert the right to follow their own beliefs.
The Evangelical Church in Germany, a federation of Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in Germany, designated 2013 as the year of "Reformation and Tolerance." This is part of its Luther Decade, 10 years of special emphases leading up to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. The theme "Reformation and Tolerance" provides Lutherans today — in Germany and in the U.S. — the opportunity to wrestle with our complex history of religious tolerance and intolerance.
Our failures
Anabaptists and Jews were two groups that suffered greatly from Reformation-era intolerance.
Anabaptists were Christians who rejected infant baptism. They thought baptism was something believing Christians needed to request for themselves once they had come to a mature faith.
The Anabaptist movement began in 1525, less than a decade after Luther launched the Protestant Reformation by posting his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Anabaptists considered their new understanding of believers' baptism to be a natural outgrowth of the Protestant belief in justification by faith alone, but this view was rejected by other Christians.
One thing that 16th-century Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Swiss reformers could agree on, despite all their differences, was that the Anabaptists were wrong. Church leaders were quick to condemn Anabaptist teaching, but political leaders also took action. Because Anabaptists chose to separate themselves from society (like the Amish and [Old Order] Mennonites today), they were considered a threat to the social order as well as to traditional church teaching and practice. In some territories, the punishment for being an Anabaptist was death.
The Augsburg Confession, the statement of faith that the Lutheran reformers presented to the emperor in 1530, explicitly condemns the Anabaptists in five of its 28 articles. The Formula of Concord, a later Lutheran confessional writing, states that the Anabaptists "profess doctrines of a kind that cannot be tolerated either in the church, or in the body politic and secular administration, or in domestic society."
This rejection of the Anabaptists was motivated partly by the Lutherans' desire not to have their teachings confused with the Anabaptists by the authorities who threatened them both.
While some Lutheran leaders argued against imposing the death penalty on Anabaptists, they were hardly lenient. In Eisenach, home to the Wartburg Castle where Luther translated the New Testament from Greek into German, a farmer named Fritz Erbe was imprisoned for 16 years because he refused to have his infant baptized. The freedom of conscience that Lutherans claimed for themselves didn't extend to other Christians.
Luther's attitude toward the Jews is another painful example of intolerance. Anti-Semitism was common in Europe long before the Reformation. The Town Church in Wittenberg where Luther frequently preached had an anti-Semitic sculpture carved into its exterior, dating back to 1305. The image, called a Judensau (Jewish sow), depicts Jews nursing from a sow alongside her piglets. It's hard to imagine a more deliberately offensive image, given that Jewish law classifies pigs as unclean animals.
Early in his career, Luther had written positively about Jesus' Jewish heritage. He believed that once Jewish people heard the gospel clearly, they would become Christian. When 20 years of evangelical preaching had not led to Jewish conversion, Luther's writings became hostile. He described the Judensau on the local church approvingly.
In a book called On the Jews and their Lies (1543), Luther recommended destroying Jewish synagogues and homes, forbidding rabbis to preach (on pain of death) and even abolishing safe conduct for Jews traveling through Christian territory. While Jews had already been expelled from Saxony several years before Luther wrote, that doesn't excuse the harshness of his words.
Adolph Hitler's persecution of Jews in the early 20th century was based on race rather than religion, but the motive for persecution matters little to the people who are being persecuted. German Christians used Luther's anti-Jewish religious writings to support the Nazi agenda of establishing a pure Aryan race.
In November 1938, a German Lutheran bishop celebrated the fact that Kristallnacht ("the Night of Broken Glass" characterized by violence against Jewish people and property) coincided with the anniversary of Luther's birth.
Going far beyond Luther himself, some Protestant theologians in Hitler's Germany argued that Jesus wasn't Jewish but Aryan. In 1939 they established an Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life in Eisenach. The word "Hallelujah," for example, was banned from Lutheran worship because it was of Hebrew origin.
Moving beyond failures
As Lutherans, we confess our need for forgiveness, not only as individuals but communally. In recent years we have not only learned from these failures in our history but have attempted to make amends for them.
In 1988, the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the congregation in Wittenberg asked if they should destroy the offensive Judensau carving on the side of the Town Church. In conversation with the Jewish community, they decided removing the image would make it too easy to forget the hatred and violence Christians had directed at Jews for centuries.
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Two years ago I wrote about a Kumal community that had been denied water for irrigation by a higher-caste community. This higher-caste community had illegally diverted water away from the Kumals' irrigation channel about 30 years ago, and the community had been without water for all that time. The original post is here.
I wrote an update to that post about a year later describing the efforts the Kumals had taken to mediate, to organise and to advocate for their right to water. That update is here. I came to the hopeful – but less than totally upbeat – conclusion that,
The Kumals hope that this information will be used to determine a fair allocation of water to each community and guide the engineers when they come to rebuild the two channels. Let's hope that's how it works. There are several ways that the Kumals could still be denied justice. The land tallies might be inaccurate or misrepresented. The work on the channels might be delayed. Or it might be done without proper regard to the communities' needs.
But by continuing to speak up the Kumals are paving the way for change. Not only a change in the irrigation infrastructure available in the village. Nor only the nutrition and health benefits that will come when the water is available. Also a change in the Kumals' own self-understanding and perception of their place in the world.
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Take a self-guided Art Deco stroll
Miami's South Beach is one of the best preserved Art Deco districts in the world and is easily navigable on foot, or local bus if you're pushed for time. The Miami Beach Architectural Historic District, to give it its proper name, extends from 5th St up to Dade Boulevard and from the ocean to Biscayne Bay, and comprises more than 800 examples of Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival and MiMo (Miami Modern) architecture, lending the whole area an effortlessly glamorous feel.
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Miami's Design District is approximately 18 blocks of old, low-rise warehouses and factories that fell victim to large-scale neglect and decay throughout the 1980s and 90s. Towards the end of the century and throughout the 2000s, the area underwent an intensive period of renovation and investment, and now houses a range of art galleries, design emporiums, furniture showrooms, luxury brand stores, excellent restaurants and a thriving pavement cafe scene. If you're there on the second Saturday of the month, check out the regular Art + Design night for a popular gallery walk featuring inspiring artists, local musicians and fine dining.
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The driver-less Metromover has been transporting people between Miami's downtown, Brickell and Omni neighbourhoods since 1986 and is completely free. Easy to use, with an inner and outer loop, it's a quick and convenient way of getting around the area between Bayfront Park (for the Bayside Marketplace) and other points downtown, but best of all for tourists, it offers the most fabulous views of Biscayne Bay and the city's skyscraper-filled skyline. Grab your camera and ride it as the sun goes down for the ultimate twinkling Miami-at-night shot.
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The lovely and diminutive 4.5 acre Miami Beach Botanical Garden has just undergone a $1.2 million transformation and now features an expanded water garden and a mangrove wetland along with its diverse collection of tropical plants, flowers, palms and sculptures. Lounge on the spacious lawn, admire the vertical 'living wall' or zone out in the Japanese serenity garden - entrance to the garden is always free. If you're visiting Miami in early December, the garden will be hosting an al fresco 'Garden Cafe' for the duration of Art Basel Miami Beach, the best known and most prestigious art event in America.
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Head to Miami's (mainly) Cuban district - it's also home to many Nicaraguans, Hondurans and other Latinos - for a real insight into Hispanic culture, food and people. What the area lacks in aesthetic charm, it makes up for in memorable moments and one-off experiences: sipping a sweet cafe Cubano in a local bakery, watching an intense game of dominos in Maximo Gomez Park, checking out the hottest Cuban grooves at Casino Records, learning how to hand-roll a Cuban cigar at the El Credito cigar factory or dining on ropa vieja (Cuban beef stew) at legendary diner Versailles.
Cultural Fridays, or Viernes Culturales, take place on the last Friday of every month, where main drag Calle Ocho comes alive with street performers, salsa dancing, Uruguayan drumming, tango classes, open artist studios and free walking tours of Little Havana.
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I love the Botanical Garden, such an unexpected little find in the middle of all the craziness. Thanks for stopping by!
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STARKVILLE – The food was weird, the sights were awe-inspiring, and the play was rough.
In all, it was a good trip to Europe for Mississippi State's basketball team. The Bulldogs went 5-0 during the week-long excursion earlier this month to Amsterdam, Belgium and Paris, and they talked about the experience Thursday afternoon.
The trip, which the NCAA allows a team to do once every four years, gave State a leg up in several areas, although it must wait to see how the long-term benefits play out.
"I feel like we got a little bit of chemistry, but it's still early," senior point guard Dee Bost said. "We've still got a lot more to do. The competition, it was pretty good, but once you get into college play, teams do scouting reports, and they know all the stuff you do.
"We'll see soon."
The teams MSU played weren't exactly SEC level, but they provided solid tests. Arnett Moultrie, the transfer from UTEP, averaged 16.8 points and 11.2 rebounds, and coach Rick Stansbury praised the improvement of senior guard Brian Bryant (7.8 ppg, 4.8 rpg).
The Bulldogs had to adjust to several things, from no practice opportunities to a very physical style of play by opponents.
"Overseas they're not really as athletic as us over in America, so they use little tricks like grabbing your shorts, little things like that," freshman guard Rodney Hood said. "It was a big adjustment for everybody, but as time went on we got better."
While the on-court play was encouraging, just as important was the bonding experience of being overseas as a team. The Bulldogs took in sights like the Anne Frank house and the Eiffel Tower, and there were few worries beyond basketball.
"Time away from the classroom, time away from study hall, where it's just basketball and hanging out – you don't get a lot of chances to do that," Stansbury said. "Even when we travel during the season, it's get on that plane, travel, hotel, and play that game. Here's a chance they got to go hang out and spend a lot of time together, so it was good."
EKU, Akron games added
Stansbury said MSU hopes to have its 2011-12 schedule completed by today. He announced two opponents Thursday: Eastern Kentucky on Nov. 7 and Akron on Nov. 9.
Those are the first two games of the season and will both be played at Humphrey Coliseum. They are part of the 2K Classic, which for MSU also includes two games in New York City on Nov. 17-18.
State begins conditioning work Monday, and preseason practices start Oct. 14.
Gardner to redshirt
D.J. Gardner was the 2011 Daily Journal Player of the Year and a first-team Parade All-American, but he's not quite ready for the big time.
The Okolona standout approached Stansbury before the Europe trip and asked to be redshirted this season. The coach said Gardner is simply behind in several areas.
"Most guys, you have to go them. Most of them will fight a redshirt," Stansbury said. "It's probably good he was able to evaluate some things and see he has a ways to go and wanted to redshirt."
Gardner is one of five scholarship freshmen on this year's squad. Hood, Deville Smith and Roquez Johnson are expected to contribute early, with Hood likely to start.
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1. Crack Eggs
Crack 4 eggs in a mixing pot.
To save time, you may preheat a skillet at low heat to start warming the skillet to cook the pancakes.
Please note the ingredients used to demonstrate how to cook pancakes are for 3-4 people.
Crack 4 Eggs
2. Beat The Eggs
Beat the eggs in the mixing bowl approximately 10-20 seconds.
Beat Eggs 10-20 Seconds
3. Add Milk
Add 2 cups of milk.
The eggs should be in a liquid form before adding 2 cups of milk.
Don't whip yet.
Add 2 Cups Milk
4. Add Oil
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Add 2 Tablespoon Oil
5. Whip The Eggs, Milk, and Oil
Whip the liquid mixture for approximately 10-15 seconds.
The finish should look like the picture which is a light tan, liquid mixture.
Whip Again For 10-15 Seconds
6. Prepare The Dry Ingredients
In another bowl, first add 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons of flour.
Second, add 4 teaspoon of baking powder.
Third, add 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Last, add 1 tablespoon sugar.
Reminder, the ingredients used to demonstrate how to cook pancakes are for 3-4 people.
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8. Beat The Egg, Milk, And Oil Mixture Again
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The reason for the second time is to mix the oil which settled on the top.
Beat Liquid Mixture Again
9. Add The Dry Ingredients
Add the dry ingredients to the liquid mixture.
Beat the liquid mixture and dry ingredients for approximately 1 minute.
Combine Dry Ingredients To The Mixture
10. Check The Batter
It's O.K. a few lumps exist. Make sure the lumps are not big.
The batter should be thick, not watered down.
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Don't overbeat such that the batter becomes too thin and chewy.
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11. Heat And Prepare Skillet
Increase the heat from low to medium low heat if the skillet was preheated in Step 1.
If the skillet was not preheated, then preheat the skillet at medium high for 1-2 minutes. Then lower to medium low heat.
Add 1 teaspoon of cooking oil.
Move the Oil around with a spatula to spread the oil.
Spread the Oil Around The Skillet
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Pour a very small portion of the batter on the skillet. Depending on the size of the skillet, you may add a bigger portion of the batter on the skillet.
When the batter begins to bubble around the edges and turn hard, flip the pancake over.
Approximately time of cooking before flipping the pancake is 2 minutes.
Cook For Approximately 2 Minutes And Then Flip Over
13. Cook The Other Side For Approximately One Minute
The pancake is flipped and the other side is being cooked.
Cook for approximately 1 minute depending on the size and temperature.
The pancake is ready to remove when the center is hard such that the pancake can be patted with the spatula and makes a nice hard, fluffy sound.
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Ready to eat.
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Republican nominee Bill Brawley is leading the State House District 103 race – which comprises Matthews, Mint Hill, and east Charlotte – against Democratic opponent Ann Newman according to a new SurveyUSA poll released today by the Civitas Institute.
According to the poll of 350 registered voters in that district, 45 percent of voters said if the election for state representative were held today, they would vote for Brawley who is looking to replace retiring Rep. Jim Gulley (R). Thirty-nine percent said they would vote for Newman, and 16 percent said they were undecided.
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Academy Award-winner Sidney Poitier will be honored at the 38th Annual Chaplin Award Gala, hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center on May 2nd, 2011, the New York-based organization unveiled. Styled by FSLC as an event "attended by a host of notable guests and celebrities," Poitier's career as an actor and director will be featured in film and television clips.
With a career spanning five decades in theater, film, and television, Poitier made his film debut in 1950 with "No Way Out." Poitier's films in the '50s, notably "Cry, The Beloved Country," (1952), "Blackboard Jungle," (1955) and "The Defiant Ones" (1958), for which Poitier was nominated for an Academy Award, were frequently controversial for the time and often addressed issues of racial equality both home and abroad.
In 1961 Poitier would reprise a role he played on the Broadway stage for the Hollywood adaptation of "A Raisin in the Sun." In 1963, Poitier's performance in "Lillies of the Field," earned him the Oscar for Best Actor, the first time a black man had been so honored.
Following this success, Poitier's film career continued to be marked by projects that were not shy to hold a mirror up to issues dealing with race. "A Patch of Blue" (1965), "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) addressed black/white conflicts and modern society's evolving thoughts regarding interracial romance as well.
The 1970s began a period in which Poitier made a shift from acting to directing beginning with "Buck and the Preacher" (1972), "Uptown Saturday Night" (1974), "Let's Do It Again" (1975), and the classic comedy "Stir Crazy" (1980), starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
After a decade away from acting, Poitier returned to the screen in 1988 for "Shoot to Kill" and "Little Nikita." Poitier also headed to television, notably portraying Thurgood Marshall in "Separate But Equal" (1991) and then Nelson Mandela in the 1997 television docudrama "Mandela and De Klerk."
"The board is very excited to have Sidney Poitier as the next recipient of The Chaplin Award," commented Ann Tenenbaum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Board Chairman in a statement. "His is truly a legendary career, in which he has not simply entertained audiences but been apart of films that indeed helped change our world for the better. It will be an honor to showcase his amazing body of work."
The Film Society's annual Gala began in 1972 and honored Charles Chaplin, who returned to the US from exile to accept the commendation. Since then, the award has been renamed for Chaplin, and has honored many notable talents, including Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Federico Fellini, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, James Stewart, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and most recently, Michael Douglas.


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Several legislators from Northeast Pennsylvania have declined to accept automatic pay raises provided by state law, choosing to return the raises to the state Treasury or donate the money to charities.
Those legislators are well-intentioned but the only true solution is to repeal the 1995 law that created the automatic raises.
This is a matter of accountable governance. Whether legislators deserve raises at any particular time is debatable, but the law exempts them from having to conduct that debate. Thus, there is no defense of their records, no rebuttal. Instead, there is simply an announcement that lawmakers, judges and nonunion executive branch officials will receive an increase.
Technically, the annual increase is a cost-of-living adjustment, but it's a raise in their baseline compensation. This year it is 2.2 percent, $1,776, bringing a rank-and-file legislator's base pay to $83,802 before benefits.
Regardless of what individual lawmakers decide to do with the increase, the meter is running. Next year's automatic raise will be based on the new baseline. If it again is 2.2 percent, for example, the baseline raise will be $1,843.
The increasing baseline also further increases the unconscionable pension benefits that lawmakers have lavished upon themselves.
And lawmakers have repealed the law of gravity; for them, what goes up doesn't necessarily come down. If the CPI index they have chosen rises, so does their pay. If it declines, their pay does not decrease.
Lawmakers who have declined the decrease recognize that the law is the wrong way to determine compensation. They should lead an effort to repeal the law and replace it with an independent commission to recommend compensation - recommendations that the Legislature would have to debate and vote upon in public.
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I'm familiar with this syntax:
cat << EOF | cmd text EOF
but just discovered that bash allows me to write:
cat << EOF | text EOF cmd
(the heredoc is used as input to cmd). This seems like a very odd syntax. Is it portable?
Yes, the POSIX standard allows this. According to the 2008 version:
And includes this example of multiple "here-documents" in the same line:
So there is no problem doing redirections or pipes. Your example is similar to something like this:
And the shell grammar (further down on the linked page) includes these definitions:
So a pipe symbol can be followed by an end-of-line and still be considered part of a pipeline.
Yes it's in the POSIX shell grammar. You can also have more than one here-doc for the same command (some other examples use two
This is contrived (using 2 here-docs for stdin), but if you think of providing input for different file descriptors it immediately makes sense.
There's also the possibility to drop the
Hmm, I suppose yes, according to the test in bash in POSIX mode:


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Eating in New York is no joke. With dozens upon dozens of ethnic groups living in the city, it stands to reason that there are just as many types of cuisine. Here in Bushwick, surrounded by African Americans, foreign-born black people, a Hasidic enclave, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans, I can find inexpensive fodder saddled right next door to a recent influx of more expensive hipster fare (i.e. the very tasty- but way overpriced-Robertas). I'm on a budget, and am saving up for a trip around the world, so cheap (but tasty) meals are right up my alley.
Here's a short guide to a few totally hole-in-the-wall, south-of-the-border Bushwick eats that you MUST TRY (I'll write about food from different parts of the world in subsequent posts). Warning- none of my recommendations have websites, have proprietors/proprietresses who speak only Spanish, and are not location specific, meaning that some of the street food options move from block to block depending on the weather and the heat of the sun. But if you're craving local adventure and a bellyful of amazing grub that will cost only a few bucks, then a good luck and a Dios te bendiga.
Does the word PUPUSA make your mouth water? It should. At El Salvador on Knickerbocker Ave, pupusas (El Salvador's version of the tortilla) are filled with fresh ingredients such as cheese and beans, queso blanco, chorizo, and a spicy coleslaw called curtido. Very filling and super cheap, right by the Myrtle/Wyckoff stop on the M-train.
Tacos La Hacienda
Tacos La Hacienda is a Mexican joint in a silver '50s dining car on the corner of Dekalb and Wyckoff Avenues (the Dekalb stop on the L-train) where you can order a house specialty such as mole poblano con arroz (around $6) or tasty and cheap tacos ($2.25). Get them on the go or sit at the diner windows and watch locals and neighborhood newcomers mingle outside on the sidewalk.
Los Tortilleria Mexicana
Tacos La Hacienda is great, but why go there when you can get tacos directly from the factory where they buy their homemade tortillas? If ambience isn't what you're going for, but if you'd like to sit and watch tortillas being packed for shipping by Spanish-speaking workers, then Los Tortilleria Mexicana is your kind of place. The tortilleria is located at 271 Starr Street (a hop, skip and a jump away from the Jefferson stop on the L-train), and yes, these tacos can also be had on the cheap.
Mexican Corn (and other street foods)
Street food, street food and more street food. Holy crap, do we love it! Last night we dined on Mexican corn, which are ears of hot corn rolled in butter, rubbed down with mayo, sprinkled with grated cojito cheese (found in all of our local groceries and nearly all of the bodegas) and sprinkled with red pepper and fresh lime. Where does one find a feast of this magnificence? Well, if you're not prepared to make your own (it's really as easy as I just described), then take the M-train to Knickerbocker, get off and ask a local. You're liable to find a stand just blocks away. The woman who sold us corn prepared it on what looked to be a grocery cart. She also laughed when I tried to order in Spanish (um, I don't yet know Spanish, but I gave it a go!). I noticed that she also sold slices of mango and bags of salted cucumber and lemon. Is this the healthiest meal on the planet? Nope. But a special treat? Oh hell yeah.
Look around also for carts selling shaved ice and all sorts of tacos and fruit.
El Salvador (718) 628-0606 1544 Myrtle Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237
Tacos La Hacienda (718) 821-8816 96 Wyckoff Ave Brooklyn, NY 11237
Los Tortilleria Mexicana
(718) 456-3422
271 Starr St
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Street Food Um, check, you know, the streets of Bushwick?


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Pete Hansen - October 31, 2009
Cecil LaVerne Hansen, known to most as "Pete" was born to Jesse G. and Grace (Dick) Hansen July 16, 1923 in Brandon, Neb. He died Oct. 31, 2009 under the care of John and Julie Adrian of the Lighthouse Eldercare in Fort Collins.
Pete was raised southeast of Venango, Neb., riding a horse two and a half miles to country school District 49 through the eighth grade. He then attended Chase County High School at Imperial, Neb. and farmed with his father until June, 1944 when he joined the Navy. He served aboard the USS Clinton in the Pacific until he was honorably discharged in June, 1946.
Upon returning from the Navy, Pete returned to Venango to farm with his dad during the summer and worked at Gates Rubber Company in Denver during the winter months. While in Denver, Pete met Marlys Folkers from Des Moines, Iowa.
Pete and Marlys were married June 15, 1947 in Denver. In 1949, they bought and moved to a farm located southwest of Holyoke near the Wages community. It was here that their two sons were born, Dale Eugene on Oct. 13, 1949 and Keith Alan on Oct. 11, 1950.
While farming southwest of Holyoke, the Hansens also ranched in the south St. Vrain Canyon west of Lyons and later bought the Spring Creek Ranch southwest of Laramie, Wyo. After selling the Spring Creek Ranch, Pete and Marlys moved to Fort Collins and later owned and operated the Executive Car Wash for ten years.
Pete was a lifetime member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion and enjoyed going to Cheyenne Frontier Days every year, especially when the grandchildren were younger. His favorite event was the bull riding, and he couldn't miss the free pancake breakfast or the parade.
His greatest pride and joy were his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Pete was preceded in death by parents Jesse G. and Grace Hansen, sister Twila Hogsett and brothers-in-law Oliver Hogsett and Merlin Folkers.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Marlys of Fort Collins; sons Dale and wife Shelley of Burlington and Keith and wife Celeste of Fort Collins; grandchildren Marcy Clements and husband Rich of Arvada, Mindy Stewart and husband John of Johnstown, Jeremy Hansen and wife Whitney of Burlington and Josh Hansen and friend Stacia Goble of Denver; step-grandchildren Mary and Matthew Belcher of Fort Collins.
Great-grandchildren Natasha and Colton Clements of Arvada, Hunter and Hayden Morris of Johnstown and Lear Hansen of Burlington; sister-in-law Pat Folkers of Cincinnati, Ohio; brother-in-law Lee Folkers and wife Bev of Des Moines, Iowa; sister-in-law Lucinda Palma and husband Victor of Santa Anna, Calif; niece Olive Fay Keefer and husband Ken of Denver; and nephew Dennis Hogsett and wife Karen of Loveland.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch, 2939 N. County Road 31 D, Loveland, with a reception and lunch to follow. Inurnment will be at the Fairview Cemetery in Burlington at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the "American Kidney Foundation" in care of Resthaven Funeral Home, 8426 S. Hwy 287, Fort Collins, CO 80525. Family and friends may view the online obituary, sign the guest book and send their condolences at www.resthavencolorado.com.


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Lorenzo Joins Snooki Backstage At Dancing With The Stars
October 28, 2013 06:00 PM by Stephanie Gustafson
Snooki certainly enjoys showing off her samba and rumba moves as a contestant on Dancing With The Stars, but the experience is marred slightly by the absence of her adorable son, Lorenzo. This week, the reality mom is happy to welcome her little meatball backstage for a first-hand look at all the performance night preparations.
Lorenzo is in town and ready to support his mommy during tonight's performance on Dancing With The Stars. Earlier today, the proud mom and surprisingly adept dancer posed for a makeup-free selfie with her son, adding the following caption: "#DWTS Day!!! Early morning hair with my nugget!! So happy he's here."
The cute Lorenzo snapshots certainly didn't stop there! A few yours later, Snooki once again posted a picture of her son, this time dancing with his mom on the DWTS stage. The caption for this photo read, "DWTS rehearsal with my nugget. SO HAPPY." Snooki also told fans to expect further pictures as the day goes on.
Perhaps the mom should spend a little less time chasing after son and concentrate a bit more of preparing for tonight's performance! Of course, given how much she misses her son, she might not be too worried about impressing the judges and remaining in the competition for another week. Either that, or she's using the adorable Lorenzo snapshots to drum up fan support!
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Small business owners may soon get a break from a program requiring them to pay taxes on their internet purchases.
According to the Sacramento Business Journal legislators have agreed to review the state's Qualified Purchaser Program, which was designed to generate extra revenue in the 2009 budget by requiring small businesses the generate more than $100,000 in gross revenue to pay use tax on items bought out of state going back to 2007. The provision is part of ABx1 28 signed into law at the end of June.
Small Business California founder and IBA West member Scott Hauge, Cal-Insure, says George Runner, a former state senator and current member of the Board of Equalization who authored an opinion piece called "A Qualified Mess" is urging the BOE eliminate the automatic registration of businesses and allowing the businesses to leave the program if they don't owe tax or their annual income falls below $100,000.
According to the Business Journal the program has collected an additional $56 million in taxes, but has cost $23 million in administrative costs and small business advocates say it has placed a huge burden on businesses that don't have accounting departments. It was expected to generate four times as much revenue for the state as it has collected.
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