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This series takes viewers on a journey high above the American landscape to reveal the country as never seen before. With host Yul Kwon ("Survivor: Cook Islands"), it travels through time, space and systems to reveal a nation of interdependent and intricately interwoven networks that feed and power the nation, produce millions of goods, transport people great distances and still come together to make America work. These networks all rely on vast, complex and precisely calibrated systems, yet most Americans have never had the chance to observe or understand them. Until now.
America Revealed Previous Broadcasts
Made in the U.S.A. (Episode #104H)
KQED World: Sun, Aug 16, 2015 -- 4:00 PM
This episode examines how American industry creates, whether it's a simple cardboard box, a sleek new car, a jumbo jet or a tiny silicon chip, and how supply and demand, manufacturing and assembly are interconnected.
Electric Nation (Episode #103H)
KQED World: Sun, Aug 16, 2015 -- 3:00 PM
Our modern electric power grid has been called the biggest and most complex machine in the world -- delivering electricity to over 300 million Americans over 200,000 miles of high tension transmission lines. But even though the grid touches almost every aspect of our lives, it's a system we know very little about. In this episode, Yul Kwon will travel around the country to understand its intricacies, its vulnerabilities and the remarkable ingenuity required to keep the electricity on every day of the year.
Nation on the Move (Episode #102H)
KQED World: Sun, Aug 16, 2015 -- 2:00 PM
America is a nation of vast distances and dense urban clusters, woven together by 200,000 miles of railroads, 5000 airports and four million miles of roads. These massive, complex transportation systems combine to make Americans the most mobile people on earth, but much of this infrastructure, built in the 19th and 20th centuries, strains under the weight of our rapidly growing, constantly moving population. In this episode, host Yul Kwon journeys across the continent by air, road and rail. He ventures behind the scenes with the workers who get us where we need to go; he meets innovators creating ways to propel us farther and faster in years to come; and he uncovers the minor miracles and uphill battles involved in moving over 300 million Americans every day.
Food Machine (Episode #101H)
KQED World: Sun, Aug 16, 2015 -- 1:00 PM
Over the past century, an American industrial revolution has given rise to the biggest, most productive food machine the world has ever known. In this episode, host Yul Kwon explores how this machine feeds nearly 300 million Americans every day. He discovers engineering marvels we've created by putting nature to work and takes a look at the costs of our insatiable appetite on our health and environment. For the first time in human history, less than 2% of the population can feed the other 98%. How does this all work? Who are the men and women who keep us fed 365 days a year? Kwon embarks on a trip across the country to find out.


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Quantifying intraoperative fluorescence
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January 18, 2013
[A summary of advancements in fluorescence-guided neurosurgery research by MD/PhD candidate Pablo Valdés and professors Frederic Leblond and Keith Paulsen (et al.) originally published in Nature entitled, "Quantitative, spectrally-resolved intraoperative fluorescence imaging."]
One of the major problems facing developers of fluorescence imaging systems is accounting for intrinsic variations in a tissue's optical properties, such as its absorption and scattering, which attenuate and distort the emitted fluorescence. Without an accurate way to correct for these variations, the measurements made by today's commercial intraoperative visual fluorescence imaging (vFI) systems are qualitative, and therefore, purely subjective.
In what is viewed as a crucial step towards making fluorescence imaging a quantitative science, researchers in the US and Canada have unveiled a quantitative fluorescence imaging (qFI) approach that provides the absolute fluorophore concentration on a pixel-by-pixel basis across a wide field-of-view. The system runs in near real-time and has to date provided quantitative wide-field estimates of protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) concentrations in both rodent and human gliomas (Scientific Reports 2 798).
"Our qFI system integrates seamlessly into commercial surgical instrumentation and is also financially accessible," explained Pablo Valdés, from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. "We have used it in 12 human glioma cases to date, and our project's principle investigator David Roberts, chief neurosurgeon at Dartmouth, continues to move forward with its use."
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This latest work builds on the team's development of a handheld probe that provided point-based assessments of fluorophore concentrations in tissue. Although promising results were achieved with this probe, development work continued to produce a wide-field system that was ultimately more practical and amenable to the surgical workflow.
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Hit the Library Before You Hit the Road!
by Sherry Stocking Kline
First published "The Family Tree" column in Wichita Eagle's "Active Life" magazine – May 2004.
Before you hit the road this summer with ancestor files tucked into a suitcase and your favorite family tree program loaded onto your laptop, be sure to make one more stop at the library.
Librarians and volunteers experienced in searching for and finding lost ancestors can help you locate resources locally, so doing your homework before you head out the door can save you a lot of time when you get to your destination.
"Some of the information you need may be here at the library," said Michelle Enke, City Historian, Wichita Public Library, "we have all of the Kansas State and Federal Census, and the complete 1930 census for Oklahoma." Enke added that other states' census are available; check http://www.wichitagensoc.org/ for other records and microfilm.
According to Enke, a helpful new tool for Kansans is the Kansas Library Card. The library card will give you access to the Heritage Quest website where you can find U. S. Census images, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), and more than 25,000 genealogy and history books.
Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society Library is another "must stop" for before-you-go research. According to volunteer Sue McGuire, MHGS has many out-of-state books, more than 600 quarterly newsletters from different states and counties, county histories, and family genealogies.
Search the on-line catalogs of your destination libraries and check on-line at FamilySearch.org for books and resources that you might be able to order at your library or at the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 7011 E. 13th and read ahead of time.
To speed up research in all libraries, learn the Library of Congress numbering system used in academic libraries and the Dewey Decimal numbers for the state/city/county area(s) that you wish to research, Enke said.
"The Dewey Decimal number for Wichita, Kansas is 978.1861 all across the nation," Enke said.
Before you leave home, make sure that you have the addresses and hours of libraries, courthouses, and cemeteries that you wish to visit. It's also a good plan to call the Chamber of Commerce in your destination areas, get their hours, addresses, and ask for the names and phone numbers of the local funeral homes.
Both Enke and McGuire rely on Everton's "Handybook for Genealogists" to get courthouse and library contact information. Enke added that another important resource is the "International Vital Record's Handbook" listing where each state's vital records are kept.
And before McGuire or Enke hits the highway they take the information super highway to the USGenweb site to find state and county information.
"Each county web site is different, but many have library addresses, lists of books, courthouse hours, and maps/directions to the cemeteries," Enke said.
"I prepare as much as possible," Enke said, "I use the library, the Internet, make phone calls, ask questions, and I make sure that I have my ancestor's names, dates, and places. It saves time and effort once you get there."
Before she leaves home, McGuire makes a list of what she wants to find: obituaries, marriage records, land and court records, etc., packs her family group sheets and creates a what-happened-when-family-timeline to double check facts when she arrives at her destination.
"My husband and I spend a lot of time on our summer travels going to cemeteries and courthouses," McGuire said, "I've been to Missouri and several places around."
"You always have something to search for," McGuire said, "that's all a part of the fun of it."


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Heather Janisse
posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 9:43 am
I have a question about how to test a level three effect with a very small N. I hope someone can help. I have a basic, three-level nested design (longitudinal data collected from students nested within classrooms). My problem is that I only have four classrooms. It seems that I can not test for the effect of classroom assignment in level three with this small size. Can I put the classroom effect in at level 2? I am not sure how to handle this issue, but believe I am attempting to use the right analytic technique. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 5:48 pm
With only 4 classrooms, treating classroom as random - giving a 3rd level in the hierarchy - is not really feasible. Instead, treat classroom as fixed and use 3 dummy variables on level 2.
Heather Janisse
posted on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 9:46 pm
My intention was to do what you suggest. However, I was told by someone that that wasn't appropriate and perhaps I should run four 2-level models (one for each classroom) and compare the coefficients from each. Do you know of any reference saying what you suggest is okay to do? Thanks for your feedback
Heather Janisse
posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 7:58 am
I wanted to add a detail about my problem, in case it makes a difference. It's not just that I have a small number of classrooms, 4. I have 1 control classroom and 3 experimental rooms. I think the 1 control room may be the reason I can't run a 3-level model. Anymore input on the best way to test the classroom effect would be great.
Boliang Guo
posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 8:05 am
in this case, you can use 1 binary vaaibel indicating control and treatment class, 1 for treatment, 0 for control, as l2 variable in your analysis.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 8:26 am
Regarding your Nov 1 post, running four 2-level models separately is useful, but you certainly also want to analyze the four groups together - either using a multiple-group approach or with group as covariates. For a reference regarding choice between these two approaches, see e.g. my 1989 Psychometrika article on heterogeneity; it is not discussing the 2-level case, however.
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Find out how the working environment at the Museum has changed.More about Museum History
The development of the internet has changed and shaped the way in which the Museum's scientists communicate. For Neil, whose work has spanned across the Museum's Library, Archive and IT Department, these changes are considered essential in their enabling of greater collaboration and sharing of ideas with scientific institutions worldwide. He describes how technology development has simplified the collections management process, as catalogues moved from the cumbersome paper form to its digital equivalent.
Neil also considers how the Museum's work ethic has evolved around the development of information technology and speaks energetically about his own experiences of working behind-the-scenes at the Museum, though it remains very much a 'warren of a place' as it was when Neil first started work!
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Press Release for They Made It! and Communicating the American Way
Happy About Announces Release of 'They Made It!' by Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D.
Author Angelika Blendstrup interviewed successful entrepreneurs from around the world and compiled her findings in "They Made It!: How Chinese, French, German, Indian, Iranian, Israeli and other foreign born entrepreneurs contributed to high tech innovation in the Silicon Valley, the US and Overseas.
Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) — February 27, 2008
Happy About today announced the release of "They Made It!: How Chinese, French, German, Indian, Iranian, Israeli and other foreign born entrepreneurs contributed to high tech innovation in the Silicon Valley, the US and Overseas". Great leaders have been the stuff of many business books over the years with authors often promising to deliver THE key ingredients that can guarantee the readers success in their own careers.
As author Angelika Blendstrup shows, there is no "secret sauce", but a number of "recipes for success" with specific ingredients that if applied, may smooth the path upward. These recipes are the result of conversations with foreign-born (as well as US) Silicon Valley/US entrepreneurs who tell it as it is. Each leader tells a unique, personal story of how s/he came to the US and ultimately made it.
If you plan to immigrate to the US and establish yourself in Silicon Valley, or if you are just curious to find out what make these extraordinary individuals tick, you can listen to these foreign-born professionals and gain personal insight into the fulfillment of their ambitions and dreams.
"Immigrants from Andy Grove, to Vinod Khosla, to Sergey Brin have made Silicon Valley the extraordinary success it is today. This book provides valuable lessons learned from the successful entrepreneurs that will prove inspiring to people from every country."
— Steve Westly, Founder and CEO, The Westly Group, Former California State Controller
The book is available from Amazon.com and Happy About.
Happy About Announces Release of 'Communicating the American Way' by Elisabetta Ghisini and Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D.
In "Communicating the American Way" authors Elisabetta Ghisini and Angelika Blendstrup show what can go wrong as a result of cultural misunderstandings. Written in simple, accessible English, the book is packed with real-life anecdotes and compelling examples.
Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) — February 28, 2008
Happy About today announced the release of "Communicating the American Way" the first hands-on guide to U.S. business communication written in English (http://happyabout.info/communicating-american-way.php). The book helps readers understand why, despite their good language skills, they don't always get the results they want with their colleagues or their boss. The enjoyable style makes it easy for readers to learn proven techniques that will enhance their communication effectiveness. Each chapter has boxes and illustrations providing examples of typical pitfalls for international professionals in specific situations, such as meetings, presentations, email, job interviews, media interviews, networking etc.
By showing the readers how to crack the "code" of doing business in the U.S., the authors want to give them tools to improve their communication skills and to fulfill their potential. This book is a must read for those international professionals who want to propel their career forward.
"Whether they live in India, China, Russia or Brazil, global professionals know that their daily interactions with American employers or customers are a minefield of potential misunderstandings and missed opportunities. This hands-on book shows them how to communicate the American way and truly connect with their U.S. colleagues. Presentations, meetings, phone calls – and more: this book covers all you need to know to fit in smoothly into the American workplace."
— Markus Hoevener, CEO, Bloofusion Germany
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For some, accents are an acute challenge
By Marton Dunai
Contra Costa Times
October 13, 2006
Foreigners' efforts to shed heavy accents is not new. But immigration and globalization have exposed those in English-speaking workplaces to more accented speakers than ever before. The language differences have led to personal discomfort, students say; worse, those with a heavy accent or flawed grammar should expect to make less in lower positions than others with more polished diction.
Although they all speak the language of finance and technology, these professionals run into office-type trouble all the time, said Angelika Blendstrup, who has taught diction in the South Bay for a decade.
A few years ago, Blendstrup did an informal study, showing hiring managers tapes she had recorded with heavily accented students. The managers invariably said they wouldn't hire a worker with a heavy accent.
"It wasn't a racist comment," Blendstrup said. "They said, this is going to take a lot of time, the kind of time I don't have."
Blocked from advancing, fearful of having to face board meetings, clients sign up even if initially they decide against paying her $135 hourly fee and submitting to a mandatory minimum of eight classes, Blendstrup said.
Smoothing out a very different accent can ease everyday interactions, too. "One Indian engineer would ask for a 'dall goffey' at Starbucks for years," she said. "After visiting me a few times and finally ordering a tall coffee, he was relieved that for the first time in years he didn't have to repeat himself."
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By now, I'm betting most of you have heard the new Katy Perry song. It's called "Roar" and it came out on Monday, the same day that Lady Gaga's new single hit the Internet, and it is unquestionably better than Gaga's. (As much as it pains me to say that, being something of a Gaga fangirl at the beginning of her career.) With Katy doing so much press over the past few days in support of the new single, it occurred to me that we've yet to profile her handbag collection. Today, we fix that.
Katy's style is something we're probably all well familiar with at this point - boisterous, bright, the opposite of serious and conservative. Her bag choices are far more mainstream, for the most part, which just goes to show you that hardly anyone can resist a little Celine or Chanel here and there.
Let's start with a bag that's very Katy Perry, just in case any of you guys have been in a coma for five years and just came to and wanted to check on the latest in handbag news first thing. The Lulu Guinness Lips Clutch more or less epitomizes are cartoonishly feminine style. Buy through Lulu Guinness for $465.
This Valeria Pesqueira Teddy Bear Bag was an early indication of where Perry's style would head. (Heh. "Head.")
Even the most animated and colorful of starlets must have a minimal Celine bag in their collections. I don't make the rules, I just know them. Katy's choice was a black Celine Trio Bag.
Katy seems to have a pretty good relationship with the people at Prada and Miu Miu - she attends the brands' events regularly and carries their bags quite a bit. Here she was in head-to-toe Prada at a screening for The Great Gatsby, carrying a Prada Spring 2013 Flower Clutch. Shop Prada via Neiman Marcus.
Here's Katy, again in head-to-toe Prada, this time attending a Miu Miu fashion show in Paris. Her bag's the Prada Crystal Studded Pyramid Tote. Shop Prada via Neiman Marcus.
Katie patronizes Miuccia Prada's empire in her off hours, too, like with this Miu Miu Bicolor Madras Satchel. Shop Miu Miu via Net-a-Porter.
Chanel's another brand that took a shine to Katy for a while, inviting her to their shows and events and giving her bags. Not a bad gig, eh? She really loved her black Chanel Classic Flap Bag.
And when I say "really," I mean really. She carried that Classic Flap forever.
The baby pink version of the Chanel Classic Flap Bag makes a lot of sense with Katy's personal style.
While in attendance at one of Chanel's Paris fashion shows, Katy sported a Chanel Mini Flap Bag.
And then there's this adorable Chanel Miniature Metal Flap Bag, which Katy toted to a party sponsored by the brand.
Katy wasn't always so high-end, though. Here she is early in her career, wearing a bright pink track suit and carrying a Be&D Garbo Studded Shoulder Bag. Pick up a similar bag for $598 via Be&D.
Even now, Katy occasionally pulls out a reasonably priced favorite, like this Linea Pelle Dylan Crossbody. Shop Linea Pelle.
Alternately, the most expensive bag we could find in Katy's collection was this Christian Louboutin 20th Anniversary Pilule Pill Clutch, which retailed for seven grand. Shop Christian Louboutin via Net-a-Porter.
I've read that this blue bag is a Judith Leiber Minaudiere, but I'm not 100% sure I believe that. Thoughts? Shop Judith Leiber via Neiman Marcus.
On the other hand, we're sure that this seafoam green bag is a Gucci Studded Minaudiere. Shop Gucci Via Net-a-Porter.
And this glittery acrylic number? Gotta be an Edie Parker Lara Clutch. Buy through Neiman Marcus for $995.
Pink, like the shade of this Jimmy Choo Rosalie Bag, is a common occurrence in Katie's wardrobe. Shop Jimmy Choo via Net-a-Porter.
See? More pink with the Gucci GG Canvas Tote. Shop Gucci Via Net-a-Porter.
Katy also chose pink to attend Coachella with the Wayuu Taya Susu Shoulder Bag. Buy through Wayuu Taya for $160.
This Chloe Bianca Bag feels a little conservative for Katy, but we'll allow it. Shop Chloe via Net-a-Porter.
At first look, this ensemble, including the Yves Saint Laurent Roady Bag, also seems a little conservative. Until you realize Katy is wearing nude-looking lace pants. Shop Saint Laurent via Neiman Marcus.
I'm gratified to learn that Katy sometimes vacations how I do - in all black, with an Alexander Wang bag. Check out her Alexander Wang Diego Bucket Bag. Buy for $950 via Saks.
Katy might have been the only person to carry the Chloe Paddington revival that the brand tried to make happen. Shop Chloe via Saks.
And finally, my favorite picture of Katy in all of the hundreds that I looked through - on Halloween, dressed as Jane from Daria, with a custom-made costume and cartoonish messenger bag to match.
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text: Jul 01, 2011 We've (briefly) discussed the leadership positions and the MAE roles, but most of the jobs in IPT aren't really centered on the MAE disciplines. Here, we're going to outline the responsibilities of all the other various engineering positions you may encounter as an IPT team member. To be honest, these jobs are both the hardest and the easiest to perform; we understand that you might not really know too much about solar panels and batteries when you get to class, so we're not necessarily expecting the same level of detail that we will on the structural or propulsion systems. On the other hand, putting the most adaptable engineers on these jobs can really boost a team's overall performance. Systems Engineering Systems Engineer Systems Engineers are an exception to the general rule; while all the other engineers we've talked about work for the Chief Engineer, all the systems engineers work for the LSE. This position is only open to people in the ISE program. You'll be working with the LSE to quantify the costs and risks associated with a mission design, helping to verify and maintain requirements, or maybe compiling the overall schedule of events (called a "concept of operations" or ConOps) from the schedules maintained by other engineers on the team. Responsible for analysis of cost data in mission design. Responsible for identification of mission risks including severity and likelihood of occurrence. Responsible for documentation of mitigation strategies. Responsible for development and maintenance of mission schedule, including launch date and mission critical events. Power Engineering Power Engineer Power Engineers are responsible for keeping the satellite alive, making sure that enough electricity is available for all the tasks a satellite has to perform at a given time. This is a massively important position on the team; every system is going to have power requirements that must be met. The power engineer will select the type of power generator (nuclear reactors are sometimes an option), pick solar panels and batteries, and maintain the crucially important power budgets and power profiles for the entire mission. Responsible for design of power systems on spacecraft. Responsible for sizing of solar panels and batteries. Responsible for maintaining power budget and power profile throughout mission. Communications Engineering Communications Engineer The communications system is currently one of the most complicated tasks on an IPT team – this isn't necessarily because the work is hard, but the communications engineer will work closely with simulation personnel (either graduate research assistants attached to IPT or students in the UAH graduate modeling and simulation programs) to develop communications budgets. You'll develop the main elements of the communications architecture, defining how the different parts of the mission talk to each other and to Earth. The communications link budgets and schedules give important information to the power engineers, GN&C engineers, and the scientists. An IPT communications engineer should be one of the most adaptable members of the team. Responsible for design of communications systems on spacecraft. Responsible for definition and description of grounds systems requirements throughout mission. Responsible for antenna selection and sizing. Responsible for maintaining communications link budgets and availability throughout mission. Command, Data, and Handling Engineer (CD&H) The CD&H engineer works closely with the communications engineer to size the computers and data storage devices on the spacecraft. In some teams, one person has handled both communications and CD&H responsibilities. The most important part of the CD&H engineer's job is keeping the data budget – you'll have to figure out how much data is being collected by telemetry and science instruments and match that to the link budgets of the communications engineer. Responsible for design of command telemetry and data handling on spacecraft. Responsible for sizing and selection of computers and data storage devices. Responsible for maintaining data acquisition and transmission budgets throughout mission.


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A man�s death � ruled self-defense by police � has sparked widespread interest in and outside of Cleveland County, mainly through social media.
SHELBY � What happened at Ken and Mary�s Restaurant in Shelby on Nov. 23?
A man�s death � ruled self-defense by police � has sparked widespread interest in and outside of Cleveland County, mainly through social media.
Here is what is known about the case so far:
What happened?
Daniel Fowler, 39, of Indianapolis, Ind., took a trip to the county with his wife, Marla, and 8-year-old son, Logan, according to Josh Cathcart, his brother-in-law who lives in the area.
According to Shelby Police Capt. Rick Stafford, here�s what happened at the Dekalb Street restaurant:
Fowler entered the restaurant shortly before its 2 p.m. closing time and wanted to order lunch. He was told by co-owner Mary Donaldson that the restaurant�s grills had been turned off and that they were no longer serving.
Fowler started cursing and acting belligerent toward restaurant staff.
A kitchen employee told Fowler his behavior was unnecessary and asked Fowler to step outside and continue the conversation to prevent disturbing customers.
The only people outside the restaurant were Donaldson, Fowler and the kitchen employee.
Once outside, Fowler started to leave.
But he returned, approached Donaldson and the employee, reached into his pocket and said, �I have something for you.�
The kitchen employee felt threatened and punched Fowler in the face.
Fowler fell, hitting his head on the pavement.
No physical contact between Fowler and the employee was made before or after the punch. No weapon was found on Fowler or the employee.
Events recorded in a 911 call made by Donaldson, a copy of which was obtained by The Star, match Stafford�s recount and a Shelby Police incident report.
�(Fowler) come in here and said, �I want to get a hamburger.� I said, �No, we�ve already shut the grills off.�� He come, he come in the door and started cussing and acting like he was going to do something to us and a man hit him �,� Donaldson said in the call.
Donaldson asked the 911 dispatcher to hurry with help.
Fowler was transported to Cleveland Regional Medical Center. Then, he was taken to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.
Cathcart said doctors informed the family Fowler�s brain had swelled and he was inoperable.
Fowler died Nov. 24. Cathcart said Fowler was recovering from cancer in his lungs at the time of the altercation.
What�s the decision on charges?
So far, all known leads in the incident have been followed, said Stafford, who spoke with Fowler�s wife after the incident.
�She told me they had a witness they are using as their �secret weapon� (to their case). She won�t release the name,� he said. �That does us no good to investigate.�
Evidence from the scene, including interviews from parties involved in the incident, were given to Cleveland County District Attorney Rick Shaffer between Nov. 24-27.
Here�s what Shaffer wrote in an email to The Star:
�There is no evidence that the employee was the aggressor, which would take away his right to act in self-defense. The evidence is that the amount of force used was reasonable. There is no evidence that the employee did anything he was not legally justified in doing.�
Shaffer said the state would have to prove the employee did not act in self-defense. He wrote he understood the family�s loss regarding Fowler�s untimely death.
�However, it is the decedent�s actions that forced a law-abiding person to take legal and justified action that resulted in a death,� Shaffer wrote. �Based on the information provided to me, the decedent was responsible for his own death and loss to his family.�
Why�s the case still open?
Stafford said it�s the police department�s responsibility to hold people accountable for their actions, but based on evidence in this incident, no one has been deemed �accountable for (Fowler�s) death.�
�It�s a terrible situation for anyone involved,� Stafford said. �We owe it to them to keep looking into this case. We�re on their side.�
The Star contacted Donaldson on Monday, and she declined to comment. Her insurance lawyer, David Haugh, also declined to comment.
Fowler�s wife also declined to comment.
�Now, our hands are tied as to what we can share,� Cathcart said. �Marla is being asked by her legal team not to speak.�
Her civil attorney, Lynn Prather of Raleigh-based Kurtz and Blum, said Fowler�s death was a �terrible, senseless tragedy.�
�We are continuing to gather information about what happened � We plan to press charges against anyone that we find culpable or negligent,� Prather told The Star Monday.
Reach reporter Alicia Banks at 704-669-3338, email at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow on Twitter @TheStarAlicia.


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It's difficult to ignore the similarities between Republican legislators and their Democratic predecessors. Both seem to have perfected the art of sneaking controversial provisions into bills without prior notice to the public. The latest example is a bill that would impose regulations on abortion clinics that only one now meets, making abortion inaccessible to many women in North Carolina.
It's difficult to ignore the similarities between Republican legislators and their Democratic predecessors. Both seem to have perfected the art of sneaking controversial provisions into bills without prior notice to the public. The latest example is a bill that would impose regulations on abortion clinics that only one now meets, making abortion inaccessible to many women in North Carolina.
Without letting on whether he would veto the bill, Gov. Pat McCrory said this week that he's committed to protecting women's health but "there is a fine line between safety measures and restrictions." He hinted that he has some concerns about parts of the bill that could impede access but would not let on whether he would veto House Bill 695 should it arrive on his desk unchanged.
He was more emphatic last week when he objected to how Senate Republican leaders went about dropping the abortion provision into an unnecessary and completely unrelated bill prohibiting state courts from imposing or enforcing Islamic law. The move came in committee late on July 2, the day before the Honorables were set to recess for the Fourth of July holiday, and came as a surprise to many observers.
One of the sponsors, Sen. Buck Newton, R-Wilson, said that gee, sometimes these things just happen and don't come together until the last minute. Conveniently, lobbyists for anti-abortion groups were at the committee meeting where the revisions were debated. Opponents and the general public were not told the abortion provisions would be discussed.
The rewritten bill would require abortion clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgery centers, force doctors to sit with the patient throughout any abortion procedure, whether surgical or medically induced. The bill also included a ban on using abortion as a sex selection tool, a provision that will be nearly impossible to enforce, and would bar even private insurance companies from covering abortions.
Sen. Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, was the lone Republican to vote against the bill on its second reading but was listed as having an excused absence from the final vote, along with three other Republicans and five Democrats.
As the governor noted, this is the way the Democrats used to do things when they were in power. Instead of abiding by a promise to be more transparent, Republican leaders seem to be content to adopt the same methods as their predecessors, being open about what they're doing only when it is convenient.
Supporters of the bill made much of the state's order to close a recently opened abortion clinic that failed to comply with regulations regarding banking blood and doing a required blood test on patients. Which addresses the point: Abortion clinics are already heavily regulated, and doctors who perform abortions are unlike their peers in that the Honorables � most of whom have no medical training � have seen fit to tell them exactly what procedures to perform and to provide a script to read to their patients, whether they want to hear it or not.
Members of the House will sit down with state officials to discuss possible changes to address the concerns of the governor and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos.
There should be some. The proposed rules are aimed not at protecting women, but at shutting down abortion clinics � a move that could backfire and endanger women, some of whom will be desperate enough to self-induce or seek out an illegal abortionist. And the proposed restrictions do nothing to help women who decide to go through with their pregnancy and raise their child. In fact, many of the cuts to social programs may leave a weaker safety net for many new mothers.
A more constructive focus for legislators would be on policies that make it easier to raise a child, or provide strong financial support for adoptions � including prenatal care and support for the mother. But these options do not address every situation. Each woman is different, and each pregnancy is different.
This legislation oversteps. Worse, the Honorables apparently have decided that the best way to push through their agenda is by adopting the methods that they once denounced.


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For every reason the Julius Peppers signing doesn't make sense for the Green Bay Packers, there's another reason it does.
Some crtiics will point out that Peppers is over the hill at 34 years old. But with those years comes veteran savvy and experience, something new teammate Tramon Williams complained was lacking on this perpetually-young Packers team.
The argument can also be made that with big 325-plus lb. bodies like Ryan Pickett and Johnny Jolly currently no longer under contract, the Packers defense is getting smaller and less stout with Peppers replacing them on the roster. On the other hand, Peppers brings an element of pass rush those run stuffers never had.
But perhaps one of the best reasons the new $30 million investment makes sense for the Packers is that Peppers essentially improves two positions at once. Meet Clay Matthews, the Packers' newest inside linebacker.
Julius Peppers wasn't kidding when he predicted "something different" in the aftermath of the his signing.
No, Clay Matthews probably isn't about to become a true inside linebacker anytime soon. But for anyone wondering how the Packers are going to put their best pass rushers and arguably their best athletes on the field all at the same time, lining up Matthews at a traditional inside linebacker spot makes the entire Green Bay defense a whole lot scarier.
Skeptics will wonder why the Packers would move Matthews from his outside linebacker position as an edge rusher. "If it's not broke, don't fix it," they'll argue.
But the addition of an equally effective pass rusher like Peppers will essentially offset any concerns about where the pressure off the edge is going to come from.
When the Packers are in their nickel and dime packages (which is majority of the time), their front four players on the line of scrimmage could theoretically include some dangerous combination of Mike Daniels and Datone Jones as the interior rushers and either Mike Neal or Nick Perry lining up opposite Peppers on the edge.
Rather than have Matthews or any of the afore-mentioned players sitting on the sidlines, the Packers can instead take either A.J. Hawk or Brad Jones out of the game, replaced by Matthews.
As the saying goes, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And Matthews can get pretty darn close to the quarterback from inside linebacker, especially if the QB is lining up under center. With Matthews' cat-like quickness, the Packers can really take advantage of situational football.
Voilà. The Packers defense just got a whole lot more athletic, multiple and unpredictable.
Is Matthews going to blitz or drop into coverage? If he blitzes, is he going to the right side or the left side of center? Are Daniels and Peppers going to run a stunt? Or is it Neal and Jones?
No one knows the answers to these questions, least of all opposing offenses.
To think Matthews at inside linebacker is a stretch, it's not as if this isn't something the Packers haven't done already. Granted, it's not something they've done frequently, but they've already utilized Matthews as a pass rusher, charging up the gut. They've also used him there to spy athletic quarterbacks.
By no means is anyone suggesting a full-time conversion to inside linebacker is in the works. Matthews taking on guards, filling lanes and spilling runs probably isn't something the Packers are interested in seeing, or at least not very often.
Whenever the Packers are in their base 3-4 front, Matthews lining up at his old outside linebacker spot is still probably where he's his most effective. Maybe even at left outside linebacker, thereby allowing Nick Perry to rush from right side, where he seems to have his most success. And that's only if Peppers isn't there first.
The addition of Peppers also guards against injury, as observers of the Packers have become so used to seeing the past several seasons. If Matthews is hurt, the Packers can get by with Hawk and Jones at inside linebacker. But it's nice to know that could be Plan B, not Plan A.
The same goes for any of the edge rushers. If Perry, Neal or Peppers is hurt, Matthews can just as easily line up where he always has the first five seasons of his career too.
That's what makes the addition of Peppers such a genius move.
Brian Carriveau is the author of the book "It's Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America," and editor of Cheesehead TV's "Pro Football Draft Preview." To contact Brian, email [email protected].
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Miklós Lovász wrote:Great work, Mark!
Just one point: how d'you think the Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, etc would react to wearing a cross?
Or the Christians to wearing an inverted cross?
The four and five-dots ranks perhaps would do better with a circular or diamond-shaped arrangement... wouldn't you say?
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Where in the World?
Students will expand their knowledge of geography and culture by creating a global geography podcast.
- Students will write for a variety of occasions, audiences, and purposes.
- Students will listen and respond to a variety of oral presentations.
- Students will understand the world in spatial terms.
To participate in the creation of a Where in the World? podcast just follow these directions:
- Plan and create a short podcast featuring your students giving creative clues about were they are in the world.
- You may choose your actual location OR you can choose to describe somewhere else in the world.
- Describe your location ' you can use longitude/latitude information, as well as clues about continents, physical and historical landmarks.
- Describe unique cultural attributes of the area.
- Are there people in the area you describing? If so, what do they do? What brings them there? What would make someone want to visit this place?
- Are there any famous historical figures or events that originated in this place?
- You must include a contact email address at the end of the podcast, so that participants can email their guesses to you.
- Try to keep the podcast duration to 5 minutes or less.
- Once the podcast has been recorded, edited and compressed into an MP3 or AAC file, upload it to your school web server. If you dont have access, email firstname.lastname@example.com and they will find a place to post your file.
- Youll need to email the URL (Web Address) for your audio file and a title to the producers of Where in the World. This information should be emailed to the project coordinator, Anna Adam at email@example.com
- Anna will be producing and updating the RSS Feed for this project. The address for this podcast feed will be https://www.intelligenic.com/where/rss.xml
- If someone emails your class with an incorrect guess, you should respond with some additional clues to get them closer to the answer.
- If someone emails your class with the correct answer, you should send them a post card that represents your location. Ask them to send one back from where they live.
To participate in the quiz show for the, Where in the World? podcast just follow these directions:
- Subscribe to the podcast at https://www.intelligence.com/where/rss.xml
- Listen to each posting and use your best Internet research and deductive reasoning skills to figure out the location being described in the podcast.
- At the end of each posting an email will be given. Use that email to send in your guess. If you are wrong, you will get some additional clues. If you are right, you will get a postcard in the mail from your new podcasting pals.
- Questions and additional ideas can be sent to Dan Schmit (firstname.lastname@example.com) Kidcast: Podcasting in the Classroom.
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- Design, develop, publish, and present products (e.g.,Web pages, videotapes) using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom.
- Collaborate with peers, experts, and others using telecommunications and collaborative tools to investigate curriculum-related problems, issues, and information, and to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.
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PHP tool to display all Amazon reviews for specified product
Budget $30-250 USD
Looking for a PHP developer to build a simple interal tool to scrape reviews from [login to view URL] and present them to the user. The following brief is for the first version of the tool, with the scope expanding over time:
The user will first be asked to input the product code, known as the ASIN (example: B003BEDQL2).
The tool will then scrape, and store (MYSQL), all the reviews for that product. This could be the entry point:
[login to view URL]
Data points to record:
- Title (and link to review page)
- Body copy
- Review score (1-5 stores)
- Date of review
- Author name (and link to profile page)
- Number of comments (with link to comment page)
- If photos/video content (yes/no)
- If verified (yes/no)
- "Child" product being reviewed, also called "format"
The tool will need to scrape all the review pages until the very first review. This process make take some time to process. Therefore, I recommend it is completed asynchronously. Upon submission, the request could be entered into a queue. The user is returned to a page with a random value appended into the URL string. The user can bookmark and return to that page later (similar concept used here: [login to view URL]). On the server, we can create a cronjob to execute every 5 minutes to process new requests.
When complete, the user can see the data in a list format. Can copy similar Amazon format: [login to view URL]
Reviews are sorted by date, with most recent at the top.
There should be some input options at the top (with a Submit button to refresh) to filter results:
- Hide/Show Verified reviews (toggle)
- Hide/show each star (checkbox for each)
- Filter to select from specific child variation (or "All")
There should also be a summary at the top of the page:
- Total number of review (together with total verified and total unverified)
- Total number of votes per star rating (again with same breakdown of verified and unverified). Mockup: [login to view URL]
You will be more likely to be hired if you can demonstrate your skills be showing that you understand the requirements and have already planned out the task. Codebase must be developed using PHP/MYSQL, using Git for version control, and the FlatUI themed Bootstrap library ([login to view URL]) where a UI is required. Do not bid if you do agree to this.
Please include the password "maple syrup" in your bid. Proposals without the password will be ignored!
This should be a painless and fun project for someone who knows what they're doing. The above task is a fixed price project, but this will develop into a larger project over time.
You will see that I have a long standing reputation on Freelancer.com (since 2005) and that freelancers have had a successful working relationship with me.
To set expectations; this is a relatively simple task that doesn't require creative design skills and can lead to much more work. I expect the cost to be <$100. Additional milestones can be offered if the scope expands.
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Sounds simple enough. You make the big round bales and the big square bales, then you go out, stab 'em with the spear on the loader and take them back to the buildings to store. But, nooooo. Some people just have to make it difficult.
Here's a little-known fact. Being able to spear a bale, lift it onto some kind of transport vehicle, and then remove your spear from it, has a strong genetic element to it. Deep in all of those chromosomes, you either have both copies of the hay gene or you don't. As a high school biology refresher, you need both copies of the recessive gene — hh — in order to move hay effectively. Even if you have one copy of the dominant gene — H — you're not going to be able to both load and unload hay. It takes both little h's to get the job done. That means that only one-fourth of the population has what it takes to move hay.
I've always thought Guy No. 1 has two copies of the dominant hay gene. His DNA is HH when it comes to handling bales. In this case, and in our operation, that's not good. Not good at all. It means that when we go out to the field to pick up the several hundred cornstalk round bales we make each fall, GN1 should not be allowed anywhere near the loader tractor.
One of the problems is that all of our bales are made with net wrap. Unfortunately for the HH and Hh crowd, net wrap is not terribly forgiving. One wrong move and the next thing you know, you're looking at an enormous pile of chaff in front of you. Loose chaff. Properly made cornstalk bales simply explode when the net wrap doesn't hold. Hay won't explode, but it doesn't add value to it if the net wrap is torn. Showmanship counts big-time in the hay sales business.
We make somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 bales per year. That means each one is stabbed in the field, loaded on a trailer, hauled back to the buildings, stabbed again, placed in its neatly arranged row, and then stabbed again when it's either fed or sold. Of all these bales, approximately 90% are handled by me. That's why I'm known as The Hay Dude.
If you could buy package-damaging insurance on round bales, Guy No. 1 would be on a high-risk policy. His explosion rate with cornstalks has historically been excessive. His record with hay is better, but still not great. I've ridden along with him and given him pointers on the angle of the spear at the point of entry (level or slightly higher), the use of down-pressure to get in and out of the bale as you grab it, the need to keep your bale well off the ground as you transport it to the wagon (a foot, minimum), and the height at which the bale should be stabbed (always at the center of the bale or below). An effective bale handler can, in one smooth motion, drive up to the bale, stab it, and raise it off the ground without stopping. Once I get out of the tractor cab with GN1, it appears that my advice has fallen on deaf ears.
Hope springs eternal. Longtime employee Lorne has a better track record than Guy No. 1. Lorne doesn't handle that much hay, but he does understand the concepts involved. He's also witnessed the financial rewards of good handling and bale appearance. I was beginning to think that Lorne's DNA is hh . . . until an incident a couple of years ago.
Steady Eddie, a longtime customer, wanted some fourth crop round bales right away. I loaded up the trailer and took the load to the elevator to weigh it before I drove to Eddie's place. Lorne drove over with our tractor to meet me and unload the bales.
When we got there, I began to take the tie-down straps off while Lorne started to take bales off the trailer. (Remember class, always keep that load secured when you're traveling on pavement!)
As I reached under the trailer to pull off my last strap, I was hit by something. It sounded like a torrent of incoming sleet, but it wasn't wet. It was dry. It was also bright green. I had been drenched by a chaff thunderstorm! Oddly enough, it smelled delightful.
Once I got myself out from under the trailer, I looked up and saw the source of the occluded chaff front. A bale on the top row of the trailer was missing about half of its original volume. The missing half was scattered all over the top of the trailer and on the ground. The loader spear was sitting just above the carcass . . . at a pretty steep angle.
Lorne got out of the cab looking extremely embarrassed and sheepish. "I hit it too high and too steep," he said before both feet hit the ground. "The spear came right through the top of it before I could stop."
We looked around for our next step. The pile on the ground wasn't very big — maybe the size of a feed sack. The pile on the top of the load was huge. It was also loose and not easy to move with a spear. The remaining bale was too shattered to remove without serious transport losses.
Then it hit me. Sorry. Then it occurred to me. Steady Eddie hadn't fed his cows yet that day. He drives a milk truck as a full-time substitute driver, so he's never home before 2:30. It was 11:00 and his cows' round bale feeder in their pasture was empty. If we sneaked through the pasture and drove up next to the feeder, I figured we could quietly heave the bale mistake into the feeder. We'd just tell Eddie that his cows looked hungry, so we decided to feed them. It's all part of the customer service program at Two Guys Farming, Inc.
We made our way to the bale feeder in the pasture. The big screamin' diesel pickup doesn't have a stealth mode. Within seconds, the entire herd of cows had surrounded the vehicle, ready to munch at will. We pushed the bale stump into the feeder and gathered up the net wrap. Then we brushed all the chaff off the load and into the feeder. We were afraid they were so heavy because they were tough. Nope. Steady Eddie was buying somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% dry matter.
We went back to the usual load-out area and emptied the rest of the trailer. There were no more problems with explosions. Lorne had immediately recognized his error with the exploding bale and wasn't about to repeat it. "You can unload the rest," he said.
When we switched to cornstalks that fall, we bought new, smaller spears for the loader. GN1 felt it was an equipment problem, not an equipment operator problem that was causing all the explosions. Instead of a single, large spear on the top and two shorter ones at the bottom, we now have two small-diameter spears on top plus the two bottom spears. It's like stabbing cubes of cheese with a toothpick instead of a dowel rod. It not only spears the bales well, it also leaves no trace of the spear in the bale once it's loaded. Talk about maximizing the showmanship!
Alas, Guy No. 1 still wasn't able to escape the explosion curse that's on him. He was relieved of his bale-handling duties that fall and replaced by two other people. I'm not entirely sure, but I think their DNA is Hh, maybe HH for one of them.
Big squares are the same story, but in a different package. In addition, they also add the element of stacking and balance. See? And you thought all of that geometry and physics in school was a waste of time! This hay stuff can be tougher than brain surgery. Before you try it, be sure to ask yourself, "Does my DNA say hay?"
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Buzzz got more Aces!!!! Just saying. Lol
SMP? YUCK!^^^ what he said
Next time you wanna pick the 4 courses 2 in MO and 2 in KS, you run it ok? SMP isn't a bad little track at all...they do more work than most to keep it pretty out there, so why dis on a relatively good course the has probably more traffic in it than all other parks combined? You may be needling a new person that loves to play because they saw it there....
Can I get in?
Please keep "your god" off our disc golf course.Don't pray at our players meetings and we won't throw putters into their holy water font? =D
Fairy tales belong behind stained glass!
So that's 2 "no's" for mandatory KCFDC pre-tourney pray group. Aren't you two going to feel silly?
Yeh, hummers are always a good idea.
I witnessed the national anthem played at Sharks in the Water. Crazy John played trumpet. I thought it was a nice touch and have asked several times why not play it.
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St. Malachy's Church, located in the heart of New York's theater district
By Sopan Deb and Johanna Cerutti
Rock Center
It is about 10:30 on a Saturday night at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City and Andy Richardson is in the midst of his frenetic weekly routine. Richardson is tired, sweaty and bowing; soaking in the cheers from an appreciative audience to his eighth performance of the week playing Romeo in the hit Broadway adaptation of "Newsies the Musical." The curtain closes and he rushes off to the dressing room.
Richardson doesn't have much time. He tears off his costume – boots, knee-high socks, knickers, an undershirt, a vest, a microphone, a microphone belt, a hat and other assorted items.
The 17-year-old runs downstairs, out the stage door, where he stops to sign a couple of autographs. He continues to greet his fans while walking briskly at a pace resembling a jog.
He has to get to church.
"How many churches have an 11 p.m. Mass?" Richardson asks.
St. Malachy's Church, located in the heart of New York's theater district, is the only one.
Nicknamed "The Actors' Chapel," St. Malachy's has stood tall for more than a century as the spiritual home for actors, playwrights, directors, stagehands, stuntmen, pit musicians and anyone who is involved in the entertainment industry.
The list of well-known celebrities who have attended the church is long. Martin Sheen, Antonio Banderas and Mario Lopez are among those who have expressed their admiration for St. Malachy's.
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch," once wrote a letter to the church that said, "It's very hard for me to put into words what St. Malachy's has meant to me. It was 'my church' and my place to go and regain my strength, my confidence and my soul."
The Rev. Richard Baker has headed the church since 2003. The church was given its name because St. Malachy's was one of the many successors of St. Patrick and the church was located in a highly Irish concentrated neighborhood. One of St. Malachy's unofficial patrons is St. Genesius, who Baker refers to as the "Jay Leno of his time." Genesius was an outspoken comedian in the 3rd century who was put to death after declaring he was a member of the Catholic Church during a performance.
Thirty minutes before the curtain rises on Broadway, the church's bells ring and tourists on the street, in an odd moment of recognition, jerk their heads upward.
That's because the bells play "There's No Business Like Show Business" from the musical "Annie Get Your Gun."
The Rev. George Moore, who took over the church in 1976, installed the bells in the late seventies to serve as an audible reminder of the church's presence.
In those days, Times Square was ripe with drugs, pornography and prostitution – not exactly the ideal place for a church. There were questions raised as to whether St. Malachy's could even continue to survive. In the first two years of Moore's tenure, instead of shutting the church down, he reached out to the owners of pornography shops, the theater runners and local businesses in an attempt to change the area.
"I think maybe because he was a priest, he had the ability of bringing people together who were faced with a lot of challenges or struggles," Baker says. "Maybe he brought an element of hope to it."
"There is always going to be a revival if you bring that hope to it."
You might not know John Roney, but you have likely seen him – or at least parts of him. He is a stuntman with a diverse portfolio who appears in Tina Fey's new movie, "Admission." Like any good stuntman, he has been cast a victim on "Law & Order" multiple times. Roney started attending St. Malachy's more than 30 years ago after graduating from college in Philadelphia and moving to New York City.
He discovered the church after hearing the quirky bells outside his window.
"For me, Philadelphia was like Mars compared to here," Roney says. "And I think when I moved here, to find a place I could identify with, it's gratitude primarily."
"It's like this lightning bolt moment where I know it's something I can rely on."
After taking over the church, Baker learned that Roney was a stuntman and asked him to go above and beyond his normal churchgoer duties.
"To get to the light fixtures in the center of the church, you have to go to the crawlspace in between the actual ceiling of the church and the false ceiling that you see," Baker says. "The false ceiling is just a decorative gothic plaster work to make it look like there are these gothic arches that are holding the roof up. You have to go out on the roof of the church and climb up a ladder that is angled on the roof, you have to open the hatch and crawl into it."
"So, only the most daring of persons would do that. Well, who best than a stuntman?"
St. Malachy's might be the only church in the world where a professional stuntman changes the light bulbs.
Matthew Gumley, 15, has been attending the church almost as long as he's been on television, where he's appeared on Nickelodeon and the hit ABC show, "Modern Family." His first television appearance was when he was four on a Sci-Fi Channel show called "In Search Of."
The biggest draw for Gumley to St. Malachy's is the music. Gumley is a cantor on Sundays, which means he occasionally leads the music throughout Mass, a task usually performed by a choir.
"What keeps me going there is the fact that the music is just absolutely glorious," Gumley said. "With the new pipe organ, it sends chills down my spine every time I walk in that church and it's just someplace that I just want to keep going back and I want to keep hearing it."
The church choir is filled with professional Broadway singers, but Baker doesn't frame the music of St. Malachy's in those terms.
"Music is not performance when it comes to liturgy at all," Baker says. "It's a real transition from performance to service. Very, very different. It is very difficult even for some of our cantors, to get up there and to sing the song without performing. To not sing the notes, but to sing the words. It's very difficult to do, but it's an absolute priority here and I made that the basis of the music program here."
When Baker delivers Mass in front of hordes of professional entertainers, he has to, in essence, give his own performance. He is not a physically imposing presence. However, peering through his glasses, he delivers an animated sermon that fills the room and keeps the actors coming back for more.
Baker studied music in graduate school at Catholic University, specializing in voice and church music, which he says helped him relate to his parish.
"I understand what it means to practice, to rehearse, to keep an instrument up or talent up," Baker says. "So I guess I bring that integrity to the whole game. It doesn't bother me, per se, but when it comes to Mass itself, that's where I'm free to use my gift."
The demographic of the parish might make for some unique prayers.
"I think they're praying that they sustain their talent," Baker said. "I think they're praying to help them through the amount of rejection that comes with being in this field. They're praying that it is worth it, to go through it."
"Because I see the suffering these people go through for the sake of their craft – incredible. In society today, it's all about the star, and the real stars are the ones that nobody knows their names because they're the ones that are really, really struggling. They're the ones who really believe in their craft so much that they will give up so much to be able to sustain it and keep it going."
And through it all, Baker says he does not get caught up in the fact that he is the head of the so-called Actors' Chapel.
"I encounter real people. Real people with real faith and when I see them on TV - to know the person – 'That guy comes to church!' It's enriching. When they are here, are not treated in any different way."


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Finding place
For 14 years, I've been a wilderness ranger in a remote corner of southeast Alaska. What started as a summer job, something to fund my Western travel adventures, somehow turned into a career. Just as unexpectedly, I've learned about the powerful bond that can form between people and a place.
This wilderness I've come to know surrounds two fiords, narrow fingers of the Pacific Ocean that reach deep into Alaska's coastal ranges. Where they begin, the fiords resemble much of the Northwest Coast, with lush rainforest towering over steep shores. But the ends of the fiords, 30 miles away, are decidedly more Pleistocene in appearance, with glaciers pouring into the ocean from British Columbia's mountainous border. It's a paradise for kayakers, who can paddle from the rainforest to the Ice Age in a few days.
When I first came here as a restless 20-something, I wasn't looking for a relationship. But today I find myself entirely caught up in the place. The landscape, once mere scenery, has become rich with detail and infused with personal meaning.
This vast forest is an example. In the early years, I saw it from my kayak as a green blur, a verdant contrast to the snowy peaks above. But today, the same view carries images of specific trees I've come to know. There's the ghoulish old hemlock that overhangs a stream with outstretched branches, as if trying to spook the passing water. Or the straight, fat spruce scarred to 40 feet high by the claws of a black bear. I periodically visit these trees, just for the joy of seeing them again.
And here's a favorite meadow, tucked beneath abrupt mountains. Brown bears come here in spring to raise their cubs, and geese gather to molt in late summer. One year, wolf pups were denned under a big root wad in the nearby woods.
I can no longer see this landscape without such details. They fill my head as I paddle the fiords: A once-nondescript gravel beach is where life begins for young oystercatchers each June; in the woods behind a scenic cove, a well-worn bear trail climbs to secret beaver ponds. I know where to see avalanches tumbling down in the spring and spawning salmon in the fall. Each August, my wife and I return to favorite hills to gather blueberries.
The land is alive with history -- my history. Visiting one island, I still see the 25-year-old kid I used to be, running down a deer trail and arriving breathless on a beach, just in time to see my first breaching whale. Near one of the glaciers, I recall when collapsing ice sent out unusually big waves that nearly stripped me from the shore as I clung to a rocky ledge. There's the ice-peppered bay where my wife and I were married on a boat among our closest friends and family. With so much history here, I feel like the place owns me.
But it's also a part of me. I swig straight from the streams, sending the silty essence of glacier-carved granite into my body. The berries we pick flavor our cereal and pancakes all winter, tasty nutrition from this regal forest.
I've even gone to battle for this place. From the lower levels of a dysfunctional federal bureaucracy, I labor against all odds to fit wilderness stewardship among the agency's other priorities. I've nervously testified in front of the Alaska state Legislature, explaining why a state inholding in the middle of wilderness should not be turned over to a corporation for development. Today, the inholding remains the province of birds, bears and salmon because a group of us gave voice to the land.
All of this is still new to me, as I wasn't raised to value place. And herein lies the irony of my story. To learn about the bond possible between land and people, I had to cross the continent from my hometown and stumble my way into a job inside federally designated wilderness. In this sense, I'm very American, traveling to faraway parks and wilderness areas to connect with nature. But the bigger lesson, which took me years to learn, is how to make that connection at home, to the land already there, right under our feet.
Tim Lydon is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a wilderness ranger in southeast Alaska.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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The entire kitchen is buzzing with laughter and cries of joy; a bizarre group gathers around the oven, watched over by a kindly, attentive team. Plates pass back and forth, drenched in perfumes and colours, to end up under the surprised gaze of parents discovering their children's culinary talents… An annual event, sponsored by the property which is also an active member of the Adopt a School programme. Here the Chef and his team visit the local primary school each year to teach the young about eating healthy, tasty food.


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Barack Obama's One Month Anniversary as President
If one more person responds to one of my criticisms of Obama by saying "Oh yeah? Like Bush was any different," I'm going to stab myself in the eye with a ball-point pen. That's the point! If as a nation, we generally agree that Bush's presidency was bad for America, it is no defense of Obama to say that his policies are no different from Bush's. At this point in history, that should be one of the worst indictments against Obama.
After just one month of Barack Obama, it is abundantly clear that despite the hype, this administration is just more of the same. Here is a list of ten ways that the Obama Administration is shaping up to look a lot like the Bush Administration.
1. Lies and Broken Promises
The Bush Administration was characterized by lies and broken campaign promises. His administration looked nothing like the promises he made during the 2000 Presidential Campaign.
The Obama Administration is shaping up to be no different. He promised the following during his campaign and on WhiteHouse.gov after his inauguration: "we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it."
He has already broken this promise no less than three times, in signing SCHIP, the Lily Ledbetter Act, and The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the "stimulus package"). Meanwhile, he has "reneged on his promise to keep lobbyists out of his administration, appointed a number of scandal-tainted Washington old-timers to key posts and talked the bipartisan talk while walking the partisan walk."
2. Fear-Mongering
As I wrote in my criticisms of the "stimulus" package:
"There are many striking parallels between The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and such misguided policies as the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, and the Global War on Terror. They all: Expand the role, power, and influence of government; Drastically increase government spending; Diminish individual liberties; Have questionable aims and unresolved practical complications; Lack exit-strategies and clearly defined standards of success or accountability; Have been sold to Americans by manufacturing a crisis and claiming that we simply must act, that there is no other way, and that without these laws, the development of some kind of worst-case scenario is inevitable; Have official names that are confusing, misleading, and often contradictory to the real aims and results of the legislation itself."
We should be alarmed at the lack of transparency, the frantic rhetoric, and the shrill fear-mongering. If we have been paying attention these last few years, this should be an all-too-familiar tactic and we should not let ourselves fall for it again. We should call the President to account for himself, especially in light of his promises to change the tone of political rhetoric coming from the White House.
3. Disregard For The Constitution
As President, George W. Bush cared little for living up to the supreme law of the land- the United State Constitution. His record of illegal wire-tapping, undeclared wars, and runaway executive power are evidence of that. Obama's administration is no different. In only a month, he has managed to violate the Constitution more than once. His appointment of Hillary Clinton to the office of Secretary of State was unconstitutional, moving the Census to the White House was unconstitutional and politically motivated, his decision to continue funding faith-based groups that discriminate on the basis of religion was unconstitutional and just plain unseemly for a "progressive Democrat" like himself (more on that later), and as usual, he has received a free pass from the media. Few people seem to be aware that Barack Obama has violated the Constitution three times in just one month as President, and those that are aware don't seem to care. One commenter on this blog even told me that by mentioning it and criticizing it, I'm just "pissing in the wind." The Constitution is what's getting pissed on if you ask me, and I'm not "pissing in the wind," I'm just pissed.
4. Unlimited Executive Power
What was frightening about the Bush Administration was its vast expansion of executive power and usurpation of the system of checks and balances established by the Constitution to safeguard our nation from tyranny. President Barack Obama has continued this tradition by promising to ignore Congress and illegally extend TARP funds to non-financial institutions, despite the legislation specifying that the funds are for financial institutions only (this would actually be a fourth example of Barack Obama violating the Constitution, or at least promising to). Additionally, the Census grab mentioned above represents an unconstitutional assumption of power that will give the White House influence over the redistricting process, creating a glaring conflict of interests as the White House decides how to draw districts which will impact the electoral college and the 2012 election. In just one month, Obama has shown that he does not plan to reign in an out-of-control executive branch. He is more than happy to wield and expand the power handed to him by George W. Bush. One of the most chilling examples is in his policy to continue:
5. CIA Renditions
Says the New York Times:
In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama nominees endorsed continuing the C.I.A.'s program of transferring prisoners to other countries without legal rights, and indefinitely detaining terrorism suspects without trials even if they were arrested far from a war zone.
And the Chicago Tribune:
Under executive orders issued by Obama last week, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, or the secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the U.S.
The rendition program became a source of embarrassment for the CIA, and a target of international scorn, as details emerged in recent years of botched captures, mistaken identities and allegations that prisoners were turned over to countries where they were tortured.
Not so different from Bush after all? This is the change America voted for.
6. Utter Hypocrisy
Just like his predecessor in the Oval Office, Barack Obama is guilty of enough hypocrisy to make any honest person's stomach turn. Despite his claims that our environment is in crisis, Obama's inauguration alone emitted over 500 million pounds of CO2!
He made this statement in May 2008, Roseburg, OR:
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that every country is going to say okay.
Then Obama was photographed last month without his suit jacket in the Oval Office, in contrast to his predecessor's strict dress code. When asked about it, a senior Obama advisor explained that Obama had the thermostat cranked up! That changed this from an insignificant fashion controversy to an environmental scandal. How dare he lecture us then crank his thermostat?
Obama additionally opposes school choice (he is against a private voucher system that would help families choose the best school for their child, including a private one they can't afford), but enrolled his daughters in a private school both as Senator in Chicago and as President in Washington D.C. Top it off with a ritzy weekend vacation while he claims that millions are suffering and urgent action is needed, and Barack Obama does a pretty good Bush impression when it comes to hypocrisy.
7. Faith-Based Initiatives
Reports Scott Michaels at Perfect Sanity:
Proving he's no amateur when it comes to tacking as far right or left as necessary to capture some vital constituency, President Barack Obama recently upheld a key Bush administration policy allowing groups receiving federal dollars to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion.
During the campaign, Obama had assured audiences of his intent to keep the Bush White House focus on faith-based groups but with an end to the exception allowing those groups to decide who they might hire based on religious values or principles.
Do you seriously still think Barack Obama isn't Bush 2.0? Puh-lease! I am a person of faith myself, but I absolutely do not support using tax money to subsidize religion because it's immoral and unconstitutional. I thought "liberal" Democrats felt the same way, but I need to hear a little more outrage over this before I'm convinced.
8. Out-of-Control Spending
George W. Bush had the not-so-honorable distinction of being the President to run the biggest deficits in American history, but he didn't get to keep the title for long because with only a month under his belt, Barack Obama has replaced him as the new presidential record-holder for biggest deficits in U.S history. Barack Obama isn't just similar to George W. Bush in this respect- President Obama is much worse. There's simply no comparison:
(Source- PowerlineBlog | Hat Tip: David Boaz, The Cato Institute)
9. Warmongering
Make no mistake- Barack Obama is no dove. He's a warmonger and a hawk. His opposition to the war in Iraq (despite voting for every White House request to continue funding it) seems to obscure from most people the fact that he is otherwise very hawkish and spouts all kinds of war rhetoric. Suiting action to words this week, he "authorised the Pentagon to send an extra 17,000 troops to Afghanistan to tackle worsening insurgent violence." Isn't that what partisan Democrats opposed and ridiculed when Bush offered it as his solution to the deteriorating situation in Iraq? For goodness sake, can't you see that the two Presidents are identical(!)?
Maybe John Stewart can help you out:
10. Corruption
Think Bush was guilty of cronyism and corruption? After only a month, Barack Obama is giving him a run for his money. Obama's Administration has been stained by corruption from the moment he began vetting candidates for Cabinet-level positions. His pick for Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, didn't pay his taxes from 2001 to 2004 and hired an illegal immigrant. Obama stuck by his pick, and the man is Treasury Secretary today.
Tom Daschle, a former House Majority Leader for the Democrats, was Obama's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Surprise! He didn't pay his taxes either. He owed the IRS over $100,000 in back taxes. Obama was poised to continue defending this pick, like he did with Geithner, but Daschle chose to step down.
On the same day that Dasche withdrew his nomination, Nancy Killefer- Obama's pick for Chief Performance Officer- stepped down for failing to pay her taxes too! And it has come to light just last week, that Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel has been involved in shady dealings himself, failing to report five years of free rent at a US Congressman's property as mandated by congressional ethics rules.
This is the first month people! All of this in one month? My goodness, what are the people who voted for this thinking?
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Speaking of crossover comics, IDW Publishing is following up their "zombies versus Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Trek, and Ghostbusters" miniseries Infestation with an even nuttier sequel. From IDW's press release:
Coming in January, the kick off issue, INFESTATION 2 #1, will be written by best-selling novelist and comic-book writer Duane Swierczynski and feature art by INFESTATION/INFESTATION: OUTBREAK artist David Messina. This gripping issue sets the stage for Lovecraft's "Old Ones" to break through time and space and invade many titles, including TRANSFORMERS, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, and a special fifth-week one-shot, INFESTATION: TEAM-UP, featuring Bat Boy and GROOM LAKE's grey alien Archibald in February. Then in March, the Infestation spreads even further, infecting TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES and G.I. JOE. In April, vampires battle zombies in 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: INFESTATION, followed by the stunning closing issue, INFESTATION 2 #2.
Of course, licensing issues prevent Donatello from partying with Shipwreck and a gelatinous cube, but Bat Boy! Bat Boy versus H.P. Lovecraft! I have lived to see this day. The first issue of Infestation 2 hits stores January 25, 2012.


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Meditation and Lectio Divina
Our tradition is based on the teaching of Jesus and how that was lived by the Desert Fathers and Mothers of the 4th century.
For them, as is the case for John Main and Laurence Freeman, scripture forms the foundation of their life. When some monks came to ask St Antony, how they should live, they were told: "You have heard Scripture. That should teach you how."
Contemplative prayer goes hand in hand with reading scripture in a deep, attentive way, already known in the 2nd century as lectio divina. The qualities needed for meditation - attention, silence, leaving your own thoughts and opinions behind - are the same as those for reading scripture in a contemplative way. Moreover, both can lead to a similar, truly mystical experience. In meditation we trust we will meet the spirit of Christ within the silence in our heart.
Engaging with a scriptural text in this profound way also leads to having a personal encounter with the risen Christ, the Word. Laurence Freeman in his book 'Jesus, the Teacher Within' emphasizes that reading the gospels in this contemplative way leads to true insight into who Jesus was and into the essence of his teaching, because "In lectio we break through language and go beyond thought into insight." Not only do we come to know in a deep way, who he was but we also gain insight into our own essential nature: "we both read the gospels and we are read by them….This relationship with the Word allows the text of the gospel to become a pathway from the head to the heart….. it is an awakening of mystical intelligence, which when awakened benefits the whole of life." This encounter with Christ in the gospel text as well as in prayer is therefore seen as having a profound effect on the individual, altering their view of reality and leading to transformation, to communion of our true Self and the Christ within.
This way of deep reflective reading of the gospels has been part of the Christian tradition from the moment the gospels were written down. Prayer, the reading of Scripture and theology went hand in hand; theology emerged out of the contemplative experience and was a way to try to understand its significance, bringing together the mystical experience and the understanding of it, 'bringing the mind into the heart'. This continued to be so until about the twelve century, when rationality due to the rediscovery of Aristotle's philosophy started to be praised higher than mystical/spiritual thinking, leading to a separation between prayer and theology.
Interestingly there are now moves by some scientists to build bridges between the scientific, rational understanding of reality and the spiritual, intuitive way of experiencing it. What Laurence Freeman has described as an awakening of mystical intelligence in spiritual terms can now be explained in rational terms as the shift that has taken place towards the right brain intuitive way of perceiving reality.
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At this point, the adage that "David Stern doesn't want a Spurs-Pistons final" has become so commonplace as to become tired. But if you live in a world that pretends that Nielsen boxes actually mean anything — because no one's ever met anyone with a Nielsen box and you could track actual viewing patters using DVR and Tivo, but that would never happen because everyone pretends Nielsen knows what it's talking about, because without them there is chaos — Stern has good reason to want to see the Spurs go home early.
As FanIQ pointed out yesterday, the Spurs have played in three of the lowest rated series since 1982, and last year's series — which had freaking LeBron in it — was the worst ever. Even though we're somewhat sympathetic to the "appreciate the Spurs" sentiment, that doesn't mean we actually want to watch them play. From the looks of it — allotting for the usual Nielsen mystery — you don't either.
Keep The Spurs Out Of The Finals [FanIQ]