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Since today is World Water Day, I thought that I would kick off my contributions to the Water Currents blog with a renewed wake-up call. It's one that you've heard before, from me and from many, many others — that groundwater is being depleted at a rapid clip in many of the world's major aquifers — but one that demands a fresh look and immediate action…and here's why.
Groundwater depletion is emerging as a global phenomenon, as well as one of the key socioeconomic-environmental challenges of our time. Our research with NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission is making this abundantly clear. The GRACE satellites can help monitor groundwater storage changes from space by accurately measuring changes in Earth's gravity field that result from mass changes at the surface – for example from removing trillions of gallons of water from an aquifer.
The picture that is emerging is one of a profound fingerprint of human water management on global groundwater storage. Groundwater is disappearing on 6 of the 7 continents as we continue to pump it from greater and greater depths to irrigate crops for our ever-growing population. Most of this depletion is occurring in the world's arid and semi-arid regions, where renewable surface water sources are less available. Unfortunately, climate change and population growth will greatly impact these areas, triggering an overreliance on groundwater and pushing this already stressed resource to its limits.
Most climate change scenarios indicate that dry regions will only continue to get drier, further limiting already scarce groundwater recharge. Moreover, since we love to live in sunny, dry climes, population will continue to grow in these regions, increasing demand for available water resources. The bottom line: we should fully expect that depletion of our groundwater reserves in the world's arid and semi-arid regions will accelerate in the coming decades.
It is time for us to consider what we will do when the wells run dry… or if we ever even want to get to that point. I'm sure we don't. I don't have the answers, but I hope to explore the issues from a scientific perspective in my future posts.
I am crystal clear on a few things however. First, we can no longer afford to pump the world's groundwater with reckless abandon. Those days are gone. In addition to depleting a finite supply, as water tables drop, so too does the quality of the extracted groundwater. The situation is simply unsustainable in both the developed and undeveloped world.
Second, the time to begin planning is now. Much groundwork needs to be laid to cope with the changing water landscape of our future. I fear that the global, international policy, legal, civil and perhaps even technological infrastructure is not yet in place to peaceably share, use and reuse water across political boundaries. These are no small problems. Inaction is no longer an option
Finally, the ball is in the court of scientists like myself to communicate key findings, in plain and understandable terms, to the general public. I'm doing my best to get the message out – by communicating our research findings here in Water Currents, and by giving as many university and public lectures as is humanly possible this year. I hope that you will follow my posts and those of my Water Currents colleagues as we, together, work to elevate the critical water issues that we face to the level of everyday understanding.
Perhaps one of the biggest messages that I can send is happening, on World Water Day, 2012. In collaboration with design professionals, our GRACE-based analyses of groundwater depletion were rendered for display on the giant, electronic billboards on Times Square. The animations of our data, and data from the U. S. Geological Survey, portray a compelling picture of a looming crisis that can no longer be ignored. Starting today, the message is being broadcast loud and clear, all over the world. I hope that someone is paying attention.


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Humboldt Photography necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Humboldt Photography is a Commercial, Portrait, Fashion, Headshot, Real Estate, and Event Photography house. Located in Northern California, Humboldt Photography brings a modern, cutting edge, minimalist approach to it's business and it's photography. Our boutique photography house caters to high end and elite clients.
My target audience is as follows:
-18-40 year old progressive men and women
-Digitally savvy
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Humboldt Photography (Optional Tagline: Images by Ian LeFever-Net)
About Our Logo
The logo should be combinations of blacks,whites, silvers, and grays. If you use color please use only a medium/light green. Maybe a gradient.
The logo should have both a badge and text. (See our present logo)
I have attached our old logo, (Which we like, but do not love) as well as many other logos we like and connect with. We think the Porsche logo is our absolute favorite minus the font.
A design element we like is the front of a camera lens. (See attached file).
I will be doing my best to post feedback on the site as well as providing detailed information on likes and dislikes so as to maximize your design efforts.
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With less than three months before filing officially begins for the office, there is finally an announced candidate for mayor of Kinston � and it�s a name that�s familiar to many in the city.
With less than three months before filing officially begins for the office, there is finally an announced candidate for mayor of Kinston � and it�s a name that�s familiar to many in the city.
Ralph A. Clark, the former city manager of Kinston, shared his plans with The Free Press last week in an exclusive interview. He said there were several reasons for announcing his candidacy.
�First of all, I think I can win,� Clark said. �Secondly, I think I bring a lot to the table that most won�t bring. � I have 30 years in local government and I think my philosophies have been consistent with what Kinston needs today.�
Mostly, Clark said he felt a sense of duty to Kinston.
�I want to give something back,� he said. �Not often in life can we take some of those expertises we have and give back somewhere. I think I have a lot to give back; I have a lot of understanding about local government and the citizens and how to serve.�
Clark, 66, served as Kinston�s city manager from September 1999 through February 2007. In that tenure, the South Boston, Va., native said he learned a lot about Kinston.
�The first thing I faced was Hurricane Floyd,� Clark said. �We spent basically five years trying to recover from Hurricane Floyd.�
He also cited his experience with WASA and his role in getting Kinston on board with that organization.
When he left Kinston in 2007, he joined PowerServices of Raleigh as the director of management services. Because of his mother-in-law�s advanced age, he bought a house in Roxboro a few years ago to be closer to her. Clark and his wife split their time between Roxboro and Kinston; he made his first foray into municipal politics when he was named to the Roxboro City Council in 2010 to fill an unexpired term.
He ran for the seat in 2011, but didn�t win.
�I was too much of an outsider in Roxboro,� Clark said.
Current Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy announced he was not running for reelection in February, while city council members Joe Tyson (who also serves as mayor pro tem) and Robbie Swinson have insisted neither is interested in the position.
Early last month, Danny Rice, the national director for Woodmen of the World and one of the catalysts for the Woodmen Community Center being built in Kinston, told The Free Press he is not considering a run for the office although he was considered the front-runner by citizens on both sides of the aisle.
Clark said he chatted with Rice, Tyson, Swinson and many others before making his decision to run.
He said he�s excited about this being Kinston�s first nonpartisan election.
�I am a registered Democrat, but it�s one of those things where if I�m elected, I will represent all the people in Kinston, not just one party,� Clark said. �I look at it from that perspective.�
Filling empty buildings in downtown, narrowing the gap between ElectriCities and Duke Progress in residents� utility bills and the city�s utility system reliability are some of the big issues he said is facing Kinston.
�The city has to focus on growing internally and find ways to do that,� he said. �There are some obstacles, but I think they can be overcome.�
The Kinston mayor�s race is one of the highlights of the 2013 election season. There are also two of the five city council positions up for grabs � those of Swinson and Bobby Merritt; neither has officially indicated whether or not they�re going to run for reelection. There are also municipal elections being held in Pink Hill and La Grange this year.
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Ralph A. Clark, candidate for mayor of Kinston
Age: 66
Family: wife, Edith Myers Clark; two daughters, Yvette and Sherri; five grandchildren
Education: Bachelor�s degree in business, Averett College
Employment: Director of management services for PowerServices of Raleigh
Party: Democratic
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I speak, of course, of the viral sex videos spreading across the Internet like a fire in Bill Clinton's pants. It's so prevalent, in fact, it's almost become PC to get it on on your PC. Who knows, you might even make a few bucks off it, like Rick Salomon's famous night in Paris.
I speak, of course, of the viral sex videos spreading across the Internet like a fire in Bill Clinton's pants. It's so prevalent, in fact, it's almost become PC to get it on on your PC. Who knows, you might even make a few bucks off it, like Rick Salomon's famous night in Paris.
At least that's the mind-set of Zack and Miri, lifelong platonic friends about to lose the lights and water in the apartment they share if they don't come up with a wad of cash fast. And what better way to rake in those greenbacks, they reason, than going bareback for the camera. But only if being intimate won't ruin the intimacy of their friendship.
Thus, the stage is set for the appropriately titled "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," the crudest, most hilarious R-rated flick since Sasha Baron Cohen and Ken Davitian wrestled au naturel in "Borat." It's one gross-out blast after another, punctuated with "dangling" participles and vivid "conjunctions."
But it's also incredibly sweet, and, dare I say, romantic once the filth and the flesh give way to profound truths about how sex can be so much more than just pleasure.
If this is beginning to sound like a Judd Apatow joint, a la "Knocked Up" or "The 40-Year-old Virgin," you're half right, in that it stars Apatow regular Seth Rogen, who also helped massage the script to a happy ending. But the bulk of the credit for "Zack and Miri" goes to Kevin Smith, who finally fulfills some of the promise he showed a decade ago with "Chasing Amy."
It's a real charmer, too. The kind that will cause you let out a loud contented "awwh" once the hirsute Rogen and his fetching costar, Elizabeth Banks ("W.", "Scrubs"), finish working their sodomitical magic as Zack and Miri.
They're the epitome of Beauty and the Beast. But as with Katherine Heigl in "Knocked Up," Rogen is so sweet and Teddy bear-huggable, you completely buy that a gorgeous woman like Miri would find his slovenliness attractive, hairy back and all.
More importantly, you buy that Zack and Miri have been best pals since grade school. Their relationship feels lived in and solid, so solid that you fully believe a great deal is at stake when they risk losing a 20-year friendship by dropping trou for the camera.
Although you wouldn't know it from all the bawdiness on display, both actors are well versed in the art of subtlety, employing little more than furtive glances and quiet asides to communicate the depth of Zack and Miri's unspoken feelings for each other, especially once their video grows into a full-length (no pun intended) feature with multiple partners for each to get nasty with.
Those "extras" include an eclectic mix of terrific character actors like Justin Long, Craig Robinson ("The Office") and Jason Mewes (Jay, from Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob" comedy tandem), and former (Traci Lords) and current (Katie Morgan) real-life porn stars.
The ease with which they all meld into one big happy family is so adorably old-fashioned, you might mistake "Zack and Miri" for one of those "lets-put-on-a-play" flicks Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland made in the 1940s – sans clothes, of course. But at the same time, it's just as much a hilarious send-up of the modern porn industry, from its goofy movie titles to its affected acting style to the acrobatic sex.
I didn't think it possible, but I laughed, I swooned and I cringed – often all at the same time. Bravo, "Zack and Miri," you've proven that when they're engaged in intelligent intercourse, porn and comedy can definitely strut around with a great big heart on.
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This is an exciting post for me as it will not only cover a topic that has framed most of my M.Arch education, but also because it is the first post of this blog's new format… the transition from education to profession and all the interstitial space in between. I can think of no better beginning to the blog's new format than to examine the idea of Design Intelligence as discussed by Michael Speaks.
I just finished reading Design Intelligence by Michael Speaks for the second time. The first time it was recommended to me by my Theory professor, Amy Kulper, and this time it was recommended by our visiting studio professor, Matias del Campo. The article starts like this…
"As postmodernism, deconstructivism, minimalism and super-postmodernism become more historical than contemporary concerns, professional trend setters in architecture are aggressively on the hunt for the next big thing"
Speaks then goes on to say that no dominant style looms on the horizon and that he sees a trend emerging whereby Globalization and the introduction of a "knowledge-based" economy is driving and defining new forms of architectural practice. Speaks draws on Peter Drucker to help clarify his argument. Drucker is concerned with the difference between problem solving and innovation. The main difference he sees is that problem solving involves accepting the parameters of a problem and then creating a solution within those given boundaries. Whereas true innovation is experimental, it is a rigorous analysis of the factors that led to the problem and discovers new opportunities and factors to be exploited.
The old paradigm of an idea which leads to a prototype which leads to a product is thrown out the window here and in its place is the notion that the prototype is the idea derived from the prototype. Innovation results in thinking through the prototype, innovation results in doing…making….creating.
Here at Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture, making is part of the game. Throughout my M.Arch education the idea of rapid prototyping and thinking through making has slowly began to transform the way I think about, and engage with design problems. Due in large part to this new way of thinking I have become increasingly interested in the design of small scale objects. This has materialized itself in a variety of ways including the fabrication of several furniture projects and other "architectural objects" as well as many more designs still patiently waiting their turn in one of my numerous sketchbooks. These endeavors have provided extreme amounts of joy and interest as they present a real and tangible avenue for design experimentation.
What I mean by this is that at this stage of my life/career there is no way anyone would let me actually build, and nor should they, full-scale architecture (or what is commonly referred to as architecture, meaning buildings, homes and other spatial containers). However, I can easily envision, sketch, re-sketch, detail, sketch again and finally fabricate any number of small scale objects or furniture pieces without applying for a single building permit.
After completing one of these projects, and after shamelessly self-promoting it all over the interweb, friends and family always ask the same questions...I thought you are in Architecture School?... So you are a product designer now?.... Do you not want to do Architecture anymore? And my answer to these questions is always the same….
When it comes to design and the process that goes into it, I do not see any difference between a building, a coffee table, a desk lamp and even the design of a company's brand identity. Design (and/or Architecture) as a creative endeavor should be scale less and lack a clear medium until absolutely necessary. These objects are prototypes of design ideas and my way of thinking through making. My way of testing out design ideas at a scale that is currently available and real. In the fabrication of a coffee table or a desk lamp I am able to think through design ideas that I hope if begin to shape how I practice architecture. These ideas are the foundation behind designGOOD, a new object design workshop born this summer out of a love of "making."
Speaks concludes his article by stating that in order to adjust to changing and often hostile economic conditions, design practices must be able to move between multiple categories of design and scale. They must view design as dynamic, non-linear and as a process with no clear beginning or end. Only those practices that blur the lines between thinking and doing will be able to manipulate problems in ways that create opportunities to be exploited.
Closing Image of some of the hundreds of models MVRDV made for their Cloud City project
I would agree with Mr. Speaks that "no dominant style looms on the horizon" but he immediatley contradicts his premis by continuing "he sees a trend emerging whereby Globalization and the introduction of a "knowledge-based" economy is driving and defining new forms of architectural practice." So my guess is he's one of the "professional trend setters in architecture are aggressively on the hunt for the next big thing".
The other thing I found confusing is the following paragraph, "Drucker is concerned with the difference between problem solving and innovation. The main difference he (Druker) sees is that problem solving involves accepting the parameters of a problem and then creating a solution within those given boundaries. Whereas true innovation is experimental, it is a rigorous analysis of the factors that led to the problem and discovers new opportunities and factors to be exploited." Who says that true problem solving accepts the parameters of a problem? Unbias problem solving (which I think is what you're aspiring to) finds solutions wherever they might arise, be that from the past, through innovation, or some blend of the two. His delineation of the issue belies a modernist bias that the past can never be a part of today's solutions, a concept which organic farmers among many would dispute. It's a shame to see your exploration be so constrained by hisorical and superficial attitudes of what constitutes innovation. A true problem solver wouldn't care a rat's hair about provenance, only in outcome.
Maybe I should just read his book like I have been meaning to but Speaks get into the US Military's interest/application of "Design Intelligence"? And of course there is their recent moves towards on battlefield rapid prototyping...
Also, any pictures of these fabricated objects/furniture/projects?
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Here's something I pieced together from GoogleBooks, the frustrating search engine that sometimes provides only part of the text from a book or journal, either a "limited preview" (of pages) or a "snippet view" (of sentences). It's a children's play from a 1954 issue (I couldn't figure out the exact publication date) of Grade Teacher magazine. I had to make an occasional educated guess about word order. Missing parts of the text that I was unable to retrieve are indicated by a [?].
The play definitely has some "Quiet, Please" connections, especially the basic idea of "two lost children on an adventure" which resembles "The Time of the Big Snow."
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Grade Teacher
Published by CCM Professional Magazines, 1954
Wyllis Cooper, author of "The Lost Place." Mr. Cooper is known to millions of Americans for his twenty-five years of outstanding accomplishments in radio and television. As an executive of NBC and CBS and variously acting as writer, director or producer, he is responsible for "Lights Out," "The Army Hour," "Quiet, Please," "We, The People" and "Stage 13."
His work has always been characterized by a poignancy and deftness of touch too rarely found these days. To our everlasting gratitude Mr. Cooper has been willing to turn his talents to a new field--writing for children. This new play, "The Lost Place," is the first of what we hope will be many words from his pen for your benefit.
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The Lost Place
A Play for Radio or the Classroom
By WYLLIS COOPER
The Lost Place may be used as a radio or television play. If, however, you prefer to do it "live," the action is dictated by the dialogue.
Penny; Eric; Moon People
The stage set is simple; an incline, representing a little hill, is at the left and there is a cardboard or
clump of "rocks" near the top of the hill, big enough for several of the characters to disappear behind.
The background is gray, probably made of paper or muslin. Otherwise the set is
quite bare; imagination supplies everything else. Penny and Eric come slowly up the hill and halt near the rocks. They are dressed as space travelers and they carry ray guns and each carries a staff, something like a Scout's, to help them up the hill. They look around cautiously.
PENNY: Let's sit down, Eric. I'm tired.
ERIC: That was quite a hill, since we left our rocket ship.
PENNY: Yes, it was certainly steep. I never knew there are hills on the moon. Did you, Eric?
ERIC: No, I didn't. I wonder what's behind those rocks.
PENNY: Nothing, probably. There couldn't be people. We're the first people that ever got to the moon.
ERIC: Well, there better not be any back there (He looks toward the rocks and motions with his ray gun) because if there are, this old ray gun of mine would handle them!
PENNY: My ray gun would too.
ERIC: If you could hit anybody with it.
PENNY: How many people have you hit with a ray gun, Mister Man-on-the-Moon?
ERIC: I haven't shot at any yet. Wait till I do. (Penny laughs.)
PENNY: You suppose there could be anybody behind those rocks, Eric? (Eric jumps, because she has spoken so quickly, and he aims his ray gun at the rocks and puts an arm protectively around Penny.)
ERIC: You said there's nobody else here! (There is the sound of wind now and they cling together, a little frightened. Suddenly a doll drops on the ground beside them.)
PENNY (frightened): Who's that? (Eric is frightened, too. He tries to aim his ray gun but his hand wiggles.
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ERIC: It's a Moon Person! Look out, Penny!
PENNY (looks again, and pushes Eric aside): No, it isn't, Eric.
ERIC (still frightened): Who is it, Penny? (But Penny pays no attention to him. She pushes Eric aside and goes to the doll and stops, looking at it.)
PENNY: Why, Brenda! Where in the world did you come from? I mean where in the moon? (She picks up the doll and holds it. She is glad to see it but Eric is still upset. The ray gun still shakes.)
ERIC: Look out, Penny! It's a Moon Person! Don't touch it!
PENNY (looks around at him, smiling): It isn't a Moon Person. It's Brenda! (She cuddles the doll and that makes Eric feel a little better. He comes up to her slowly and looks.)
ERIC: Who's Brenda? Where did she come from?
PENNY (pats Brenda): Brenda's my poor doll that was lost ever so long ago, when I was a real little girl! (To Brenda) How are you, Brenda? (But Brenda doesn't answer.)
ERIC: How did she get here, on the moon?
PENNY: I don't know, but here she is--and she was lost for so long! Oh, I'm so glad to see you, Brenda!
ERIC: Be careful, Penny. It may be a trap! (That doesn't bother Penny. She doesn't believe it.)
PENNY: Don't be silly! I know my Brenda. (She pats Brenda) Don't I, Brenda?
ERIC: Well . . .
PENNY: Well, what?
ERIC: Just well.
PENNY: That's silly.
ERIC: No, it isn't silly.
PENNY: It is too.
ERIC: It is not.
(The voices are those of the Moon People who appear later.)
FIRST VOICE: It is too silly. (Eric jumps and turns around to look--not at the
rocks. Penny is frightened, too. She squeezes Brenda closer.)
ERIC (looks at Penny): Who said that?
PENNY (as mixed up as he is, and as frightened, looks at Brenda): I don't think Brenda did. Did you, Brenda? (Brenda doesn't answer.)
ERIC (looks closely at Brenda): It couldn't be Brenda, Penny. Dolls don't talk. Hardly ever.
PENNY (suddenly discovers something on the ground): Look! (Eric looks to see what Penny is looking at.) See, on the ground!
ERIC (holds up his ray gun): What--what is it?
PENNY (picks something up): Look!
ERIC: It's money!
PENNY: It IS money! We're rich, Eric!
ERIC (starts to reach over and pick up some more. Now we notice that the ground is covered with money): I always heard that the moon is made of green cheese.
FIRST VOICE: Leave that money alone! (They both look up suddenly.) That isn't your money. Put it back! Put it back! (They drop the money they have picked up.)
ERIC (speaks softly to Penny): Whose do you suppose it is?
FIRST VOICE: It's somebody else's. Everything here is somebody else's.
PENNY: Except Brenda! (She hugs Brenda closer.)
FIRST VOICE: Sure, Brenda's yours. But you lost her, you know.
PENNY: But I've found her again and she's mine!
FIRST VOICE: Well, then, take care of her.
PENNY: I'm taking care of her. (She's pats Brenda.) Aren't I, Brenda?
FIRST VOICE: Well, you didn't. You lost her.
PENNY (to Eric): I couldn't help it.
FIRST VOICE: You were careless!
PENNY: Well, I found her, so there!
FIRST VOICE: We let you find her.
ERIC (a little frightened as he asks): Who--who are you?
FIRST VOICE: Wouldn't you like to know?
ERIC: No, thank you. (And the voice laughs.)
PENNY (a little braver now that she has Brenda): _I'd_ like to know, please.
FIRST VOICE: We live here. (a little pause) We think this is our home.
PENNY: That's what I thought, but that doesn't tell me who you are. Please.
FIRST VOICE (now sounds impatient): We're Moon People, silly. (That reply doesn't make a hit with Eric.)
ERIC: You don't have to call her silly, you know!
FIRST VOICE: Well, she acts silly. (As Eric is about to say something more) Besides, we live here. We're allowed to say anything we want to.
PENNY: I'm sorry. I've never been here before, you see.
FIRST VOICE: We know that.
ERIC (nudges Penny): Tell 'em we'd like to see 'em, huh?
FIRST VOICE: I heard that.
PENNY: You mustn't make them mad, Eric.
FIRST VOICE: No, don't make us mad, Eric.
ERIC: How'd you know my name?
FIRST VOICE: We heard Penny call you Eric.
ERIC: Well, how did you know her name's Penny?
FIRST VOICE: Oh, we know almost everything.
PENNY: Well, could we see you, please? It's awkward talking to somebody you can't see.
FIRST VOICE: Oh, we can see you, Penny.
PENNY: I mean we can't see you, sir--or ma'am. As the case may be.
FIRST VOICE: It's neither. I think you might be frightened if you saw us.
ERIC (waves his ray gun): Don't worry; we can take care of ourselves!
FIRST VOICE: Don't make us lose our tempers, Eric. (There is a big laugh from the Moon People, which angers Eric.)
ERIC: What are you laughing at?
FIRST VOICE: Oh, you can't make us lose our tempers. We don't lose things--we find them, Eric.
PENNY (whispers to Eric): Brenda was lost, Eric.
FIRST VOICE: And we found her, didn't we?
ERIC: Well . . .
PENNY (believes what she has heard): I looked everywhere for her, Eric. And she WAS here!
FIRST VOICE: Of course, Penny. Everything that gets lost is here.
ERIC: Everything?
FIRST VOICE: Everything, Eric.
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Continued from page 29
SECOND VOICE: Everything, Penny.
THIRD VOICE: Everything, Eric and Penny.
FIRST VOICE: Everything, Penny and Eric. Ladies first, remember.
THIRD VOICE: Excuse me.
ERIC: Don't lose your politeness, you know. Don't ever lose your manners.
PENNY: They'd find them right away, Eric.
FIRST VOICE: Thank you, Penny.
ERIC: My father lost a dollar once. Did you find it?
FIRST VOICE: It's right here. But it's your father's.
ERIC: He said I could have it if I found it!
FIRST VOICE But you haven't found it, Eric. So it isn't yours, you know.
SECOND VOICE: . . . sir.
FIRST VOICE: Thank you. See?
ERIC: Won't you let us see you, whoever you are, please?
FIRST VOICE: Well . . .
SECOND VOICE: Well . . .
THIRD VOICE: Well . . .
ERIC: Please?
PENNY: They said "Well."
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ERIC: Well.
ALL VOICES: Well . . .
PENNY: They're coming out! (So Eric lifts his ray gun against these terrible people.) Don't shoot, Eric.
ERIC: Well . . . (They wait a few moments and finally the Moon People come out from behind the "rocks." There are four of them, all wearing red wigs and silvery dresses or suits. Each carries a bag which is full of something. They all wear big glasses and they halt and stand in a line before Penny and Eric and stare at them solemnly.)
FIRST MOON PERSON: We won't hurt you.
SECOND MOON PERSON: No.
THIRD MOON PERSON: No.
FOURTH MOON PERSON: No.
ALL MOON PEOPLE: No, we won't hurt you! (Eric lowers his ray gun and they all look at each other.)
FIRST MOON PERSON: Hello.
PENNY: Hello, I think.
ERIC: What do you want?
FIRST MOON PERSON: We don't want anything.
SECOND MOON PERSON: We've got so much. (Eric looks at the money on the ground.)
THIRD MOON PERSON (patting her bag): We get so much.
FIRST MOON PERSON: All the time.
THIRD MOON PERSON (to Penny): We're glad you found Brenda. (The others nod gaily.)
ERIC (not satisfied): What have you got in the bags?
FOURTH MOON PERSON: Things and stuff.
PENNY: Like what?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Please.
PENNY: Excuse me, _please_.
FIRST MOON PERSON: Lost things.
ERIC: Lost things!
PENNY: Brenda was lost . . .
SECOND MOON PERSON: Everything that gets lost comes here to the moon.
THIRD MOON PERSON: This is the place where lost things go when they're lost.
ERIC: Is the dollar my father lost here?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Sure.
ERIC: What else?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Everything.
SECOND MOON PERSON: Here's the ball game your school lost last week. (She pats her bag.)
THIRD MOON PERSON: Here's that place you lost when you dropped your book the other day in school.
ERIC: Goodness.
FOURTH MOON PERSON: Guess what I've got here. (She pats her bag.)
ERIC AND PENNY: What?
ERIC: Shake the bag. (The Moon Person shakes the bag, which rattles.) I know.
PENNY: What?
ERIC: The teeth I lost when I was a baby! Am I right? (The Moon People shake their heads.)
FOURTH MOON PERSON: But you've just lost your guess. (Puts it in the bag.)
PENNY: What, then?
ERIC: Please?
FIRST MOON PERSON: You've lost your way. (Penny and Eric look at one another.)
ERIC: Our way back home?
PENNY: Oh, no!
ALL MOON PEOPLE: Oh, yes! (A coin falls on the floor.)
FIRST MOON PERSON (looking at it): Somebody on the earth just lost another
dollar. See? (Eric and Penny pay no attention; they're too worried.)
ERIC: Have we really lost our way home?
FOURTH MOON PERSON: Sure.
PENNY: How are we ever going to get home?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Well, you came to the moon in a space ship, didn't you? (Penny and Eric nod but not very hopefully.) Well, then, why don't you go back in it?
ERIC: We don't know where we left it. We're strangers here, remember.
PENNY: And besides, if we do find it, we've lost our way home.
FIRST MOON PERSON: Oh, yes. Well, then, you'll have to stay here.
PENNY: On the moon?
ERIC: Forever? (All the Moon People nod.)
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SECOND MOON PERSON: If you've lost your way, that's just too bad.
THIRD MOON PERSON: This is the place where things go that are lost, you know.
PENNY: Doesn't anyone ever get them back?
FIRST MOON PERSON: It's against the rules.
ERIC: But Penny found Brenda.
ALL MOON PEOPLE: Well . . . (They all shake their heads.)
PENNY: Do you have to be so terrible to us?
FIRST MOON PERSON: We're not terrible. We've just got a very important job to do.
SECOND MOON PERSON: You're lost, you know.
FOURTH MOON PERSON: Doesn't anybody know where you are?
PENNY: We didn't tell anyone where we were going.
ERIC (sadly): I guess nobody knows.
FIRST MOON PERSON: Well, then, you're lost.
SECOND MOON PERSON: And you'll have to stay here.
THIRD MOON PERSON: Forever.
FOURTH MOON PERSON: Like everything else that's lost.
PENNY: Won't we ever get to see our folks? (All the Moon People shake their heads and that makes Penny and Eric feel sad.)
FIRST MOON PERSON: Well, there's Rule 202.
PENNY: What's Rule 202?
ERIC: Please?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Well ... it says that if you find something somebody else has lost . . .
SECOND MOON PERSON: Not just money, Eric, that belongs to somebody else.
PENNY: What, then, please?
FIRST MOON PERSON: It has to be something very precious.
PENNY: Go on about Rule 202, please.
ERIC: Pretty please.
PENNY: With sugar on it.
FIRST MOON PERSON: What I was starting to say is, if you can find something . . . something very precious. . . . . something very, very precious that . . .
SECOND MOON PERSON: . . somebody else has lost . . .
THIRD MOON PERSON: . . . and never expects to find again . . .
FOURTH MOON PERSON: . . . . . and take it back to the one that lost it in the first place. . . .
FIRST MOON PERSON: . . . Then you can stop being lost yourselves, and go home. (Suddenly there is a great burst of happy laughter from somewhere. It startles
Penny and Eric.)
PENNY: What's THAT?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Nobody's laughing at you, Penny and Eric.
ERIC: What, then?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Something that was lost.
SECOND MOON PERSON: Something very precious.
THIRD MOON PERSON: Something they thought was gone forever.
FOURTH MOON PERSON: Something they wish they hadn't lost--something they want so much.
SECOND MOON PERSON: If they haven't forgotten it.
ERIC: What is it?
PENNY: Could we take it back? (The Moon People look at each other doubtfully.)
FIRST MOON PERSON: They thought they'd never get it back . . .
PENNY: Please? Please?
ALL MOON PEOPLE: Well . . .
ERIC: What is it, please? (The Moon People consult each other. They finally nod as if they'd decided.)
FIRST MOON PERSON: It's happiness.
ERIC AND PENNY (both astonished): Happiness!
PENNY: But isn't everyone happy?
FIRST MOON PERSON (shakes head sadly): It's the happiness that so very many children lost in a great war.
SECOND MOON PERSON: Dreadful things happened to them. Some of them lost their homes, some lost parents, some lost brothers and sisters.
THIRD MOON PERSON: They lost all their happiness.
ERIC (getting a sudden idea): Couldn't we take back their happiness to them, then--please?
FIRST MOON PERSON: How could you take it back? (That stumps Eric, but Penny comes to the rescue.)
PENNY: I know!
ALL MOON PEOPLE: How?
PENNY: We could WISH their happiness back! I wish right now that those children could have back the happiness that they lost.
ERIC: I wish people would give them things . . .
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PENNY: Things to eat . . .
ERIC: And friends . . .
PENNY: And play . . .
ERIC: And . . . just happiness! That's what we wish. (And suddenly the laughter fades out. The Moon People look delighted, but Penny and Eric are worried.)
PENNY: Where'd it go?
FIRST MOON PERSON: Where'd what go?
ERIC: The laughing. The happy laughing.
PENNY: The happiness, please. (They are pretty confused and disappointed, but the Moon People smile at them.)
FIRST MOON PERSON: Why, you wished it back. You wished the lost happiness back.
SECOND MOON PERSON: It's the way the rule says.
THIRD MOON PERSON: Rule 202.
FOURTH MOON PERSON: And so you're not lost any more--and here's the way home you lost. (Tosses a long rope she had in her bag, out to one side.)
PENNY (to Eric): We can go home!
ERIC (to the Moon People): Oh, thank you--but listen! (What he hears is the same gay laughter heard before, but now it is a long way away and very much gayer.)
FIRST MOON PERSON: You see, the poor children are starting to find their happiness again. So good-by, Penny and Eric, and thank you. (Penny and Eric look at each other joyfully as the Moon People point to the rope. Far away is heard the motor of a space ship starting. All the Moon People wave good-by to Penny and Eric as they start away happily.)
EVERYBODY: Good-by! Good-by!
FIRST MOON PERSON: Oh, yes, and here's the dollar your father lost. Eric. He said you could have it, you know! (She picks up the dollar from the ground and hands it to Eric.)
PENNY: Be careful, Eric. Don't lose your balance. (Everybody laughs and we can hear best of all the distant laughter of the distant happy children.)
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It's the spookiest month of the year. And while high school students may be too old for costume parades and cutting pumpkins out of construction paper, there are entertaining and effective ways to create effective and educationa Halloween Lesson Plans.
Zombies are extremely big in today's pop culture. Why not use them to teach science? Dr. Steven Schlozman, a Harvard Medical School professor, wrote a great book called The Zombie Autopsies that offers a potentially realistic explanation for how a disease could turn people into zombies. Check out this science teacher podcast in which he explains how to use zombies in the classroom.
Too gory for your taste? What about taking time in biology class to learn about the fungus that turns ants into zombies?
Still want to satisfy your science craving? We've got the Top 5 Halloween Lesson Plans/Science Tricks that will amaze your students.
Advanced English students offer struggle to identify the components of an author's style – pacing, word choice, tone, and other elements. Use mystery and horror short stories to help students grasp these more slippery concepts. Stories by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Rex Stout, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, or Raymond Chandler are easy to find. Mystery stories in particular are plot-driven and move quickly, and it's easy to identify the contrast in tone between Raymond Chandler's "mean streets" and Agatha Christie's genteel English village.
Looking for a fun way to review basic math concepts? Have students draw up plans to turn the school gym into a haunted house. Have students calculate how much material they would need to cover up all the windows, what their budget would need to be if they wanted to run the haunted house for a week, how much helium they need to blow up 50 balloons, or what they would have to charge as an entry fee to cover their costs.
A psychology or health teacher who's not too squeamish could do some interesting lessons on abnormal psychology by using carefully-selected excerpts from books, TV shows, or movies on serial killers – avoiding the gory scenes in favor of scenes that demonstrate characteristics of psychopathic or antisocial behavior, such as lack of empathy, recklessness, aggressiveness, and so on.
Have students watch or read the scenes and ask them to envision themselves as a psychiatrist who needs to treat this person. How would they diagnose the person based on these scenes (in other words, not by saying "he's crazy because he kills people")? Consider providing them with selections from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to help them make their diagnosis. As an alternative, use these characteristics to start a conversation about the kinds of behavior we want people to engage in – being empathetic, controlling anger/aggression, and the like.
History has provided us with many great mysteries – some solved (Napoleon's "poisoning"), some unsolved (Jack the Ripper, Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Roanoke's "lost colony"). Choose one that is appropriate for your class and have them explore it. To make this challenging enough for high school students, ask them to write a paper or give a presentation that not only explains the initial mystery, but its impact on/importance to society at the time it took place. For example, the Ripper murders captured a particularly Victorian attitude toward "loose" women and demonstrated the distinct class structure of England at that time. Students can have fun learning about a mystery while also working to understand the social and political climate of the era.
For even more activities, we've got Halloween Video Writing Prompts based off of The History Channels video on The Haunted History of Halloween.
On Halloween, everyone loves a scary movie. Using these Halloween Lesson Pans from the American Chemical Society, a special-effects-laden scary movie or two can teach basic chemistry concepts. Today, most students assume effects are created by a computer. But sometimes computer effects don't look "real enough," leading special effects technicians to use their knowledge of chemistry to create an apparently-out-of-control fire, a blizzard, or fog creeping along the ground. Chemistry also plays a role in developing prosthetics for actors to wear when they play ghouls, aliens, or other creatures.
If you prefer something that's more hands-on, try these Halloween Lesson Plans. Turning water into "blood" or holding fireballs in your bare hands is sure to make this Halloween a memorable one for your students! Just remember – even the simplest smoke machine will set off the fire alarms!
Give students a classic mystery story and ask them to adapt it into a movie. Explain that this story is famous, so students need to make their film as accurate to the original story as possible. Students need to create many documents to give the cast and crew the information they need: setting descriptions, character profiles, lists of props (with specific descriptions), as well as a script. If you've got the time and the technology, let them film their scripts and have a screening where the audience can vote on which one is the most accurate. The activity stretches their writing skills and encourages precision; using a "period" story from the 1930s or 40s also opens up the opportunity for research assignments on the era.
For those teachers looking for Halloween activities for students younger than high school, we've got Classroom Halloween Activities for Any Grade.
To liven up the dull days of October, mix a little Halloween magic into your curriculum and watch your students' eyes light up!
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Thank you, Cabbie!
The cab stopped for a moment next to a Jerusalem bus stop on a very busy thoroughfare. The driver called to a gentleman who was waiting for a bus.
Cab drivers rarely pause for even a moment, especially when there are impatient drivers behind them, unless they see someone flagging them down for a ride. The fellow waiting for the bus had no intention of spending money on a cab so his first reaction was to ignore the call as the desperate solicitation of a customer on a slow day for cab drivers. When the cabbie called again he suddenly realized that he was being informed that his wallet had fallen on the ground when he had reached into his pocket to take out his monthly bus pass.
For the fortunate retriever of his wallet this was a lesson in judging others favorably. For all of us it should be a reminder that cab drivers are not necessarily fare-hungry extensions of a steering wheel but are thinking, feeling creations of G-d and deserve a nice "thank you" at the end of the ride and not only when they help you retrieve a lost wallet.


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Clinical documentation improvement programs lie at the heart of quality patient care and should accurately show a patient's clinical status as well as inform which services were provided. According to the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), clinical documentation improvement programs transfer patient's medical information into coded data, which is then part ofquality reporting, claims reimbursement, public health information, and disease tracking.
Health information management (HIM) professionals work as both coding experts as well as clinical documentation improvement strategists within their organizations to ensure meaningful information is captured.
In particular, clinical documentation improvement experts remain dedicated to ICD-10 implementation and the adoption of strong EHR systems across the healthcare continuum. HIM professionals work to assist physicians in remaining compliant with all patient documentation requirements.
Some policies that need to be followed when implementing clinical documentation improvement programs are hiring staff with the right education, experience, and credentials as well as ensuring ongoing education and training for such staff, according to AHIMA. The major roles that healthcare providers have in ensuring their clinical documentation is solid are reporting medical decision making, diagnostics, treatment plan, and outcomes of tests, treatments, and other procedures.
One partnership that is targeting clinical documentation improvement is Nuance Communications, Inc. and medical care predictive analytics company Jvion, according to a joint press release. The two companies are looking to better assist healthcare providers in meeting the requirements of a value-based reimbursement model.
Many medical facilities will likely experience various challenges when transitioning from a fee-for-service payment model to value-based care. Advanced Practice CDI from Nuance Communications should assist providers in this transition.
"We want to get paid for the quality of care and services we provide," says Joann Hatton, director of Utilization Management and Clinical Documentation Management at Heritage Valley Health System, in western Pennsylvania. "It's not about the money, it's about improving patient care, but the positive financial impact of Nuance's CDI program was clearly evident."
When it comes to implementing clinical documentation improvement strategies and clinical quality metrics, Heritage Valley Health System saw a significant drop in their predicted mortality rate. This particular rate decreased by 27 percent after integrating clinical documentation improvement programs.
"Data drives our practice," explains Jennifer Woodworth, director of Clinical Documentation Integrity Program at Swedish Health Services. "Physician and hospital compensation is tied to quality metrics, which means to prove that you are providing high quality care you need data. This real-time reporting allows us to drill down to ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes, complications and other specialized details to see how we are doing with the accuracy of physician documentation, and this enables us to create proactive initiatives that maximize our current resources."
As more health IT tools are developed to assist providers with clinical documentation improvement programs, the healthcare industry will be ready to effectively transition to a value-based care payment model.


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Building on the Past
In New Missionaries: A Reflection on Native American Heritage in the Catholic Church (Part I) we explored the need to preserve Native histories and culture. As citizens of a nation that has, in the past, set up programs and laws such as the Indian Boarding Schools that denied Native Americans the right to express their cultural traditions and language, we have the daunting task of acting against such violent forms of racism in our United States. Once we have honored and treasured the rich past and culture of our Native American brothers and sisters, we must strive to incorporate them into our Catholic family.
Enriching the Present
In 1939, the Tekakwitha Conference was established. This Catholic organization was developed to give voice to our Indigenous Catholics. The Tekakwitha Conference offers support to those in ministry to Native Americans, educates others on Native American issues and culture, and even holds an annual conference where Native spiritual understandings are free to be expressed in the Catholic Church. The Tekakwitha Conference is a prime example of Catholics inviting our Native American brothers and sisters to partake at the table of our Universal Church. In the past and even now, the Catholic Church has been criticized, and at times rightly so, for demanding conformity. This would definitely be a fair criticism of the 17th Century friars of New Mexico; rather than welcoming the diversity and value that the Pueblo spiritual tradition had to offer, the Spaniards imposed brutal conformity.
At one of our friaries in New Mexico, the friars incorporated the customs of the Native community which they serve into the architecture of their chapel. The chapel was designed in the fashion of the prayer space traditionally constructed by the Natives of that region. The Natives would build a sacred room under the ground and the worshipers would gather in a circle. The chapel has a circular skylight to simulate the opening in the ground where worshipers would enter and seating that is placed in a circle around the altar. This is a wonderful example of how the friars incorporated the richness of the Native culture into their liturgical life. Instead of ignoring the Natives' spiritual tradition, the friars enriched the present by valuing and utilizing the dynamic and diverse culture that the Native Americans have to offer.
For all of us researching our genealogies, once we come to understand the culture and history of our ancestors, we must make it come alive again by incorporated our ancestral culture into our prayer, liturgy, and even theology.
Just as old traditions from England, Ireland, France, Italy, Poland, Germany, etc. are incorporated into the life of the Church, Native American culture has an equal right to be welcomed into the spiritual life of the Church. For all of us researching our genealogies, once we come to understand the culture and history of our ancestors, we must make it come alive again by incorporated our ancestral culture into our prayer, liturgy, and even theology. While this is easily done for western cultures, somehow, when Native American traditions are welcomed into the Church there seems to always be an opponent who calls the diversifying of worship and spirituality "liturgical abuse" or "pagan". Brothers and sisters, we are not a church of conformity, but of unified diversity.
It is our responsibility as the new Catholic missionaries to celebrate, understand, and incorporate Native American custom and tradition into the Body of Christ.
Working Towards the Future in Hope
Lastly, after preserving our history and enriching the Church with our ancestral traditions and understandings, we are called to lay the groundwork for future generations in the Church. When doing genealogical research, I am always reminded of my own mortality. For genealogical enthusiasts, we should ask ourselves how we will shape the world for our future generations who may be doing genealogical research on us one day. Will I be remembered for great suffering one day just as I remembered my Cherokee ancestors for the great suffering they endured? Will I be remembered by future generations with disappointment just as I remember my Franciscan predecessors of the 17th Century with disappointment? Questions like these call me to do my best to build up the Kingdom of God for those who will follow after me.
Let's say you are doing genealogical research and you discover that you have Irish ancestors who immigrated to America in the 20th Century. You gain some great family information and you discover the harsh prejudice that your Irish ancestors and many Irish immigrants faced at that time in history. Instead of just taking this as a historical fact to lament, the Catholic genealogical enthusiast has an obligation to respond. An appropriate response would be to work towards fighting the oppressive structures in place today that deny immigrants the human dignity that they deserve.
For me, the response is a daunting one. More than one quarter of the American Indigenous population lives in poverty. The Native American reservation population today is one that is immersed in realities of poverty, alcoholism, lack of education, shortened average life spans, and the list continues. It can be easily argued that the Native American population is the most disenfranchised and marginalized population in our nation. Native Americans remain on the margins of society where they were placed when the European colonizers first arrived in the New World. What could I possibly do to care for this family of people to whom my ancestors belonged? One way is through my Franciscan Fraternity. As I've mentioned, the friars still minister within Native American communities, and it is my hope to have the honor to serve my Native American brothers and sisters.
Additionally, as Catholics, we all have a responsibility to care for the temporal needs of our Native American brothers and sisters. Holy Mother Church has always upheld the principle of preferential option for the poor. We are compelled by the Gospels to care for the least among us, and I believe that it is clear to see that one of the least among us it the Native American population. Our Catholic Church should be dedicated to ensuring the rights and dignity of those Native American communities that are simply struggling to survive in a world where they have always been kicked to the curb.
Just as the Gospel Message leads us to care for those around us, genealogy research should lead us to care for the Children of God.
Just as the Gospel Message leads us to care for those around us, genealogy research should lead us to care for the Children of God. Genealogy is not simply a wonderful and insightful hobby, but like all things we do, it should ultimately lead us to better answer the Gospel's call to love and serve. With genealogy we come to appreciate the diversity, immensity, and beauty of all God's Children. We, as genealogical enthusiasts should take time to appreciate this fact and reflect on how we can build up a more sanctified Church and a more just world for the generations that will one day be researching us.
Go Forth And Preach the Gospel at All Times!
Well, my brother and sister missionaries, maybe this was the first time that you have ever thought about what role Native American heritage should play in our Church…maybe not. Just as in the days of exploration the Catholic Church went about telling the Native Americans of the Good News of Jesus Christ, we too must continue the responsibility to minister to our brother and sister Native Americans. While the Church has not always done the best in preaching the Gospel, today we have a new opportunity. We have the opportunity to use our gifts and love of genealogy to answer God's call to preserve the past, enrich the present, and work toward the future in hope.
We must be a missionary people to our Indigenous Catholics by educating ourselves on Native history and culture, welcoming Native spirituality at the table of the Universal Church, and by caring for Native American communities who act as Christ among us.
Go, therefore, and be the Gospel for all nations and peoples!


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After a tough start to its season, TSU's men's basketball team will look for new life when they begin conference play Saturday.
Tennessee State comes into the weekend meeting at Eastern Illinois (3-8) with a 1-12 record, including dropping its last two contests. On the year the Tigers have battled their opponents close, with five of the twelve losses being 10 points or fewer.
Senior point guard Patrick Miller paces the TSU attack, averaging 20.9 points per contest. The mark leads the OVC and ranks the Chicago native 23rd in the country. Miller has scored in double figures in 26 consecutive games dating back to TSU's Jan. 24 game at Eastern Kentucky.
The point guard also ranks sixth in the Ohio Valley in assists dishing out 4.3 helpers per game.
In the frontcourt junior M.J. Rhett carries the load, nearly averaging a double double on the year. Rhett comes into the weekend scoring an average of 10.3 points and pulling down 9.5 rebounds per contest. The Columbia, S.C. native has racked up six double doubles on the young season, which is the 12th best total in Division I basketball.
After dropping their contest last Saturday against Miami (OH), 79-64, the Tigers will take on a struggling EIU squad this Saturday in Charleston, Ill.
The Panthers are on a six-game losing skid dating back to the team's win over Roosevelt University on Nov. 23. On the year, EIU has only one win over a Division I opponent, an 86-66 victory over Illinois-Chicago on Nov. 16.
EIU features four players averaging more than nine points per game. Guard Reggie Smith leads the team in scoring (11.9), while also dishing out a team high 22 assists on the year.
Defense is the Panthers calling card, holding opponents to just 69.9 points per contest. The mark has the Panthers ranked as the second best unit in the OVC.
Eastern Illinois is aided by their presence in the post, with three players ranking in the top 15 of the OVC leaders in blocks. The three players include the Piotrowski brothers: Mat (1.4) and Luke (0.9), joined by Keenan Anderson's 1.1 rejections per game.
Saturday's contest will mark the first OVC matchup for each team this season. Last season TSU played host to the Panthers, a 67-59 win. Miller led the Tennessee State attack with 28 points, finishing 7-of-8 from the floor.
The Tigers narrowly lead the series between the two conference foes, 21-19.
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Monk is a glue framework for web development. It means that instead of installing all the tools you need for your projects, you can rely on a git repository and a list of dependencies, and Monk will care of the rest. By default, it ships with a Sinatra application that includes Contest, Stories, Webrat, Ohm and some other niceties, along with a structure and helpful documentation to get your hands wet in no time.
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Launch site
Hylas-1 was launched from Europe's Spaceport, which is situated in the northeast of South America in French Guiana, an overseas department of France.
In 1964 the French Government chose Kourou, from 14 other sites, as a base from which to launch its satellites. When ESA came into being in 1975, the French Government offered to share its Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) with ESA. For its part, ESA approved funding to upgrade the launch facilities at the CSG to prepare the Spaceport for the Ariane launchers under development.
Since then, ESA has continued to fund two thirds of the Spaceport's annual budget to finance the operations and the investments needed to maintain its top level services. ESA also finances new facilities, such as launch complexes and industrial production facilities, for new launchers such as Vega or for the exploitation of Soyuz.
Ideal launch site
Kourou lies at latitude 5°3', just over 500 km north of the equator. Its nearness to the equator makes it almost ideally placed for launches into geostationary transfer orbit because few changes have to be made to a satellite's trajectory.
Launchers also profit from the 'slingshot' effect, that is the energy created by the speed of Earth's rotation around the axis of the poles. This increases the speed of a launcher by 460 m/s. These important factors save propellant and money, and prolong the active life of satellites.
Thanks to its geographical position, Kourou offers a launch angle of 102° from east to north, enabling a wide range of missions. In fact, Europe's Spaceport is so well placed that it can carry out all possible space missions.
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For the first time in history, it seems that there might be enough momentum, enough communication, enough strength of individual convictions, and enough mass support to be able to have a world-wide, non-violent, revolution.
Taking the US as an example in this beautiful hope: imagine 2 or 3 million people showing up on the lawns of the US law-making machinery in Washington, D.C., issuing their declaration of independence and simply stating a fact: "Things are now going to change, we will not leave until we have the government that we want."
Far from mob rule, the 99 is intelligent, lucid, and a collection of THE overwhelming majority... regardless of old political parties. An enormous amount of discussion, insightful inspection, exploration of alternatives has been researched, written about, and promoted over the past 5 to 10 years, co-culminating in what we see around us today as the Occupy movement. I have the utmost faith in these thinkers (by which I mean everyone from Gar Alperovitz to my second cousins working in Detroit, MI automotive plants) and their (our!) ability to produce a new constitution that provides for the 99 fairly. Such a new system would stand in stark contrast to that of today's system: one that caters to policies driven by enormous, "legal" bribes or banking systems that continuously steal from the customers and shareholders, running off with the loot.
The 99 is saying it, and has been saying it for a while: "It's time for a change."
They've taken things further by showing an undeniable presence at the scenes of crimes (financial and governmental institutions). I say let's take the last logical step, and fix the problem: let's put a new system of government in place. Let's have radical, peaceful change. Let's do it with poise, grace, and while keeping the benefit of the entire planet foremost in our minds. Let's do it world-wide, and not stop until the job is done. Let's have a revolution.
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The 43 Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofia MAPFRE regatta ended with a blast, solid winds, sunshine and great sailing. For regatta leader Ben Ainslie (GBR) the medal race was a formality to complete the series, but there was plenty still at stake behind him. In the end, nothing actually changed in the medals with Zach Railey (USA) taking silver and Chris Cook (CAN) the bronze after an eventful medal race.
With huge seas and winds touching 20 knots, it was a great end to what has generally been a light wind regatta. Zach Railey (USA) led the fleet to the windward mark followed by Vasilij Zbogar (SLO) and Andrew Mills (GBR). Zbogar took the lead on the downwind only to lose it to Mills on the second beat.
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Also disqualified as early starters were Daniel Birgmark (SWE) and Matthias Miller (GER).
Mills said, "I had a good start, went right, and was third at top mark, and second at the leeward gate. It was awesome conditions downwind, big waves with the shallow water close to shore. I managed to get into first up the second beat then hold on for the last run."
"It was nice to finish with a fun race, but a bit frustrating to finish having got five boats between myself and Cook only to find four of them were OCS and I had not got the bronze. On the water I thought I had all the boats in the right position to get the bronze, so it's a bit frustrating."
Ainslie retains his Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofia MAPFRE title by 17 points. He summed up his regatta, "It's a real boost after a very difficult period so I'm very happy with the way I've been sailing and things in general, and my body seems to have held up reasonably well. I'm happy but there's a lot of work to do yet in the coming months in the build-up to the Games and I'll keep pushing to try and get better and be better prepared."
Eighth placed Høgh Christensen said, "I wouldn't say that Ben has been as dominant as the results look, but he has made almost no mistakes in a very tricky week. But if you want to beat Ben and the top guys you have to do better. Train more, harder and get better."
"In general I am happy with my performance. I am at 103 kg right know which is probably 8-10 more than Ben, Daniel and Zach, so keeping up with them in a week sailing in eight knots or less is pretty good. As it's Olympic year where people are training harder and working more on their gear. We decided to stick with a M-1 and my old boat and that worked. My speed was good, up and downwind."
As one of the few correct starters today, Dan Slater (NZL) moved up to fifth overall said, "This week has been OK for me. I sailed well to get out of some bad starts and come back. I normally like the shifty conditions but with the waves it's been really difficult this week. But it's been tough for everyone and Ben has made it look easy. He has started well all week and got the first beats right to be in the hunt almost every race. Each race the leader at the top mark has come from hard one side and I was no exception in the race I won. It's been a regatta for the edges and it's not really my style to get to far out to the sides and maybe that's why my first beats haven't been that great."
The fleet now has a two week break before gathering again at Hyeres in France for the Semaine Olympique Francais and leg 4 of the 2012 ISAF Sailing World Cup. Railey takes the lead in the Sailing World Cup standings from Høgh Christensen and Caleb Paine (USA).


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Which is the greater franchise in NBA history, the Lakers or the Celtics? "Bar room" debates like these are essential to our sports culture and the impetus for this website. In this case, it's East Coast vs. West Coast. It's 16 championships vs. 14. It's Hollywood glamour vs. New England grit. It's victory cigars vs. Showtime. It's the Garden vs. the Forum. Magic vs. Bird. Red vs. Riley (or Phil). Russell vs. Wilt (in this exercise at least). Cousy vs. West. And now, Kobe vs. the Big Ticket, the Truth and Jesus (Shuttlesworth). These two storied teams are facing each other in the Finals for the record eleventh time; but, they have never met like this...
To (attempt to) answer the debate, let's first phrase the question a little differently. "What if" a team of the greatest Lakers players of all-time faced a team of the greatest Celtics players of all-time? Not only does that sound like the perfect question to ask us, WhatIfSports.com, it is something that anyone can actually do on our site with our free SimMatchup and Dream Teams features. We've made use of that technology ourselves to "play" a seven game series between the two hypothetical all-time teams 10,000 times. Just as they do this season, Boston gets homecourt advantage in the series due to the edge in championships.The Rosters
We reached out to FOXSports.com NBA contributor Randy Hill to help us assemble the All-Time Lakers and Celtics teams. Only stats that a player accumulated while with the Lakers or Celtics are used. We did our best to give adequate playing time to everyone, with preference given to starters and those who played more of their careers with the franchise. Clearly, the Lakers are stacked in the paint with four definitive centers. However, they lack a "true" small forward and depth at power forward behind Elgin Baylor or at point guard behind Magic. Boston has a very strong starting five with some great role players and defensive specialists coming off the bench. Boston definitely does not appear as deep with star power, though. Nationally, names like Tommy Heinsohn and Jo Jo White may not be as well known as Michael Cooper and Byron Scott, but they are well-rounded players who know exactly what to do to improve the team. In fact, that is probably the biggest common factor amongst all of the great Celtics' squads: that no player is ever really bigger than the team and everyone contributes.
All-Time Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers:
Starters - Magic Johnson (PG), Jerry West (SG), Kobe Bryant (SF), Elgin Baylor (PF), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (C)
Bench - Gail Goodrich, Michael Cooper, Byron Scott, James Worthy, George Mikan, Shaquille O'Neal, Wilt Chamberlain
All-Time Boston Celtics:
Starters - Bob Cousy (PG), John Havlicek (SG), Larry Bird (SF), Kevin McHale (PF), Bill Russell (C)
Bench - Dennis Johnson, Jo Jo White, Sam Jones, Tommy Heinsohn, Kevin Garnett, Dave Cowens, Robert Parish
Disagree with the rosters? Build your own.The Results
So which is the greatest NBA franchise of all-time? According to 10,000 simulations, it's the Boston Celtics. The Celtics win 61.5% of the series. Boston's stellar defense, passing and rebounding at every position leave them without an exploitable weakness and, thus, with this distinction. The most common series result is a Boston win in six games (eerily similar to the actual Finals preview).
What follows is an example series based on the most common result of those simulations. It includes boxscores, play-by-play and stats for each game in the series. Click on the links after each brief summary to see the entire breakdown of the game.
Game 1
Los Angeles 107 @ Boston 108 - The first game in the Garden lives up to its billing and then some. Boston overcomes 13 blocks and 53.8% shooting by the Lakers to take Game One by just a point. Trailing by two with eleven seconds to play in the game, Kevin McHale tosses the ball out to Bob Cousy after being doubled on the block. Whether he's ever seen the line in front of him at his feet or not, Cousy nails a three-point jumper from the right wing to put the Celtics ahead. On the final possession of the game, Bill Russell's defense keeps Kareem Abdul-Jabbar away from the hoop, forcing him into a 14 foot miss. John Havlicek leads the team with 26 points in a game the Celtics really have no business winning.
Boxscore with play-by-play >>
Game 2
Los Angeles 98 @ Boston 99 - Another one-point nail-biter goes to the Celtics. This time, it's well-deserved as Boston shoots 50% from the field and holds all Lakers under 20 points. The Lakers' top scorer in the game, Elgin Baylor, actually has a chance to hit 20 points and win the game with four seconds remaining, but his eight-foot jumper goes awry. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar catches the errant shot and tries to throw it up off balance as time expires, but his putback is denied by Kevin McHale. John Havlicek again leads the victors in scoring with 22 points. Sam Jones' 12 points in 13 minutes provide a great spark off of the bench for the Celtics; while, Larry Bird earns Player of the Game honors with 17 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and three steals.
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Game 3
Boston 110 @ Los Angeles 114 - The Lakers' backcourt comes alive and the team shoots 57.1% from the field and 91.7% from the line as Los Angeles takes the first game played at the Great Western Forum. After two defensively oriented games with more balanced scoring, the stars come out in Game 3. Larry Bird leads five 20-plus point scorers with 30. Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson top the Lakers with 24 and 21 points respectively. The duo combines to shoot an astounding 18-for-25 against a great Celtics' defense. The win and offensive output breathes life in this ultimate version of Showtime.
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Game 4
Boston 112 @ Los Angeles 116 - And just like that, the series is even. Apparently, Boston is only capable of winning by one, while LA can only win by four. Six players from each team score in double figures as Red Auerbach and Pat Riley keep tinkering with the matchups to find something that works against such great players. James Worthy only plays eleven minutes for the Lakers, but his performance may be the most notable of the night. In those eleven minutes, Worthy puts up ten shots, making seven to score 14 points. Only Jerry West with 18 ends the game with more for LA. Also notable are Bill Russell's 22 rebounds in the loss. The Celtics do not shoot as well as the Lakers, yet keep it close with 19 second-chance opportunities against the likes of Shaq, Wilt, Mikan and Kareem.
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Game 5
Boston 110 @ Los Angeles 106 - "Havlicek steals the ball"...twice! John Havlicek comes up with two huge steals in the fourth quarter to seal the victory for Boston. The last steal comes with 2:14 remaining, the score tied and Jerry West looking to put LA ahead for the first time since midway through the third quarter. Havlicek takes "Mr. Clutch's" dribble and leads a break that ends in Magic Johnson fouling Bob Cousy for two go-ahead free throws. The game that Boston really needed before it headed back home is also Cousy's best game of the series. Mostly quiet for the first four games - outside of a game-winning three - the basketball pioneer and innovator scores 23 points to go with six assists and three rebounds. He hits seven straight free throws in the last 12:55 of the game. Who is Mr. Clutch?
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Game 6
Los Angeles 92 @ Boston 99 - The defensive superiority and the depth of the Celtics really shines in this decisive game. All twelve players score for Boston, with Cousy leading the way with 18 points. Eight Celtics grab four rebounds or more, including ten from shooting guard John Havlicek and nine from Bill Russell. Russell, who only averages 11.2 points a game for the series, has anchored the defense with 14.2 rebounds and 3.7 blocks - including six blocks in Game Six - per contest. Larry Bird narrowly edges Havlicek and Russell for series MVP honors. Does that mean he is the greatest Celtic of all-time and better than Magic, Wilt, Kobe, West, Kareem, etc.? I am not sure. But, 18.5 points, 7.3 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.7 steals per game (37.7 minutes played) on this team and against this competition is very good. Havlicek puts up 18.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists in 36.8 minutes a game for the series.
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Can a diverse community be a cohesive one?
According to a new study, The (In)compatibility of Diversity and Sense of Community, from researchers out of Michigan State University, the answer might not be an easy one.
As the Atlantic Cities blog breaks down, the researchers used a computer model to generate simulations of more than 20 million virtual neighborhoods, looking at how integration compared with social networks. The results were not terribly uplifting. After all the simulations, the results suggested that community and diversity may be fundamentally incompatible goals:
After 20 million-plus simulations, the authors found that the same basic answer kept coming back: The more diverse or integrated a neighborhood is, the less socially cohesive it becomes, while the more homogenous or segregated it is, the more socially cohesive. As they write, "The model suggests that when people form relationships with similar and nearby others, the contexts that offer opportunities to develop a respect for diversity are different from the contexts that foster a sense of community."
Clearly, virtual reality does not correspond to actual reality, and the dynamics involved here (especially relating to social connections and community) are very complex and don't necessarily translate neatly into a computer model. But do we still tend to arrange ourselves with others who think like us?
I was thinking how this information might translate to the community we develop in parishes. In our April 2013 Reader Survey, we learned that plenty of people travel outside of their geographic neighborhood community to find the "right" parish community fit for themselves. Additionally, 46 percent of our respondents indicated that diversity is an important factor for choosing a parish.
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