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The conduct of each student at Pacific School of Religion shall at all times be consistent with the character and purpose of the school, as an educational institution committed to serving God by equipping leaders for ministries of integrity, compassion and justice. On rare occasions in every institution, questions arise about whether a student's conduct on the campus, in academic and non-academic settings, is compatible with the nature and purpose of the institution. When these questions arise, the School has established a Committee on Student Conduct to hold an objective assessment of the facts and make recommendations and/or decisions on what action should be taken.
In the case of theological students, the Special Needs Policy, a sub-category of the Student Conduct Policy, may be invoked.
Special Needs Policy
Pacific School of Religion (PSR) shares responsibility with the ordaining and commissioning agencies of churches and other religious communities for judgments concerning a person's fitness for professional religious leadership. Special needs policy and process involves, in part, the School's exercise of this responsibility. Master of Divinity students and other students preparing for ministry agree by their enrollment at PSR, to accept the policy and procedures described below as part of their education
and to be bound by the decisions. These standards do not preclude the School's application of other policies such as those pertaining to the occupancy of school housing, academic discipline, and student conduct.
Definition: Special Needs
A "special need" refers to any situation or condition which brings into question the personal and professional development of a student that makes consultation and/or intervention necessary beyond the usual teacher-student or advisor-advisee relationship. In such instances, this process assesses questions of fitness and of professional development for ministry.
Examples of possible special need situations include, but are not limited to: personal and professional difficulties arising from field placement; matters of character, self understanding or integrity that raise questions about the student's fitness, competencies, readiness or effectiveness for religious leadership; behaviors suggesting short or long term emotional difficulties which may impact the student's ability to attend to personal and professional development.
The primary purpose of this process is to identify needs relevant to the appropriate preparation for ministry, and resources to meet those needs for students in the professional degree programs. When it does not appear that a student in PSR's judgment, can appropriately attend to those needs, the policy may lead to limits on the range of the student's participation in PSR classes and other activities up to and including temporary removal from classes or permanent expulsion.
The following procedures refer to both Student Conduct and Special Needs cases unless a distinction is clearly stated.
Before the completing of either policy procedure, the student shall retain all rights and privileges as a student unless the President and/or Dean, with the consultation of the Committee, determine that immediate suspension from student rights and privileges or greater on different sanctions is in the best interests of the School. At all times in this process, the School has all rights and obligations otherwise imposed by law to notify law enforcement agencies if appropriate. See section on "Immediate Interim Suspension" for more details.
Specific reports about a PSR student shall be brought to the attention of the Dean's Office by one student, any faculty, staff, field education supervisor, other student, on-campus residential member, or others with whom the student associates.
Initial Respondent
Such reports may be referred to the Director of Community Life to be addressed informally and without reference to disciplinary measures (i.e. offering conflict management counseling, providing a referral to mental health services or substance abuse treatment). If such a report is not informally resolved through the involvement of the Director of Community Life, the report may be referred to the Dean, and a phase of more formal information gathering will follow.
Information Gathering & Policy Determination Phase
1. The Dean, or the Dean's designee, gathers preliminary information from relevant sources and decides if the situation warrants initiation of either the Student Conduct process or the Special Needs process, or not
2. The Dean, or the Dean's designee, notifies the student's advisor of the situation and meets with the advisor and one other member of the PSR faculty or staff (e.g., the Assistant Deans, Housing Director, etc.), selected by the Dean, normally within five business days following determination of either a Student Conduct or a Special Needs situation.
Consultative Phase
1. The information gathering phase leads to a consultation with the Dean, the student, the advisor, and if needed, one more appointment at the Dean's discretion in light of the type of issues raised by the alleged conduct. A course of action is outlined to define and deal with the student conduct.
2. If the proposed course of action is accepted by the student, then a written statement of the proposal, and a signed statement of the student's assent is placed in the advisor's file, the Dean's office, and a copy sent to the student.
Committee Phase
1. If the proposed course of action is not accepted by the student, or if the Dean thereafter determines that the action plan is not being followed by the student, or for other good reasons, the Dean may then convene a Committee, normally within 10 business days. The student will be notified in writing of the convening of the Committee.
2. The Committee shall consist of
a. For Student Conduct: the Dean, Director of Community Life, Advisor, faculty member,
and if needed, one more appointment by the Dean.
b. For the Special Needs: three faculty members appointed by Dean for the academic year.
The Dean serves as an ex officio member.
3. The Committee reviews the case, the steps taken to date, and any documentation considered relevant. The Committee chooses a chair for its work with the particular student. The Committee chooses a recorder/secretary. The Committee sets place, time, and date within ten business days for a hearing with the student.
Hearing of the Committee
1. The student is informed in writing of the time, date and location for the hearing with the special needs Committee; at least four business days in advance.
2. These proceedings may be conducted in the absence of a student who fails to appear after proper notice.
3. The Committee, together with the student's advisor, shall meet with the student in a hearing. Formal rules of evidence will not be used. Any person who disrupts the hearing may be excluded.
4. The student shall have the privilege of presenting to the Committee written or oral statements from others with knowledge of pertinent facts or of presenting other pertinent materials.
5. If a psychological or other professional evaluation has been requested by the Committee, the professional who prepared the evaluation may be requested to appear at the hearing and to respond to relevant questions, upon request of any party, if the chair of the Committee determines that such participation is important to the resolution of the case.
6. The Committee may require the attendance of persons from the PSR community. The Committee may also request the attendance of persons from outside the community, whose participation is deemed important to the adjudication of the case.
7. The student may choose to be accompanied by no more than one person, such as a family member, a licensed mental health professional, a member of the faculty or staff, or a fellow student. The student may consult with, but not be accompanied by, an attorney. The student shall communicate to the Committee chair the name of the person who will accompany him/her to the hearing, doing so two days in advance of the hearing.
8. The hearing may be tape recorded by the Dean or designee. This recording will be available only to the student, the Committee and, if needed for appeal, to the president. The Dean shall store this tape for 90 days following the hearing.
9. When the Committee determines by majority vote that it has received all information necessary to its determination, it shall terminate the process and, in private session, reach its decision with respect to the matter under consideration.
1. The Committee's decision shall be transmitted to the student in writing, by the Dean or designee doing so within five business days (if practicable) after the completion of the hearing. The written decision should contain a statement of reasons for the Committee's determination. In the case of a decision for expulsion, the student should be advised as to when or whether a petition for reinstatement would be considered, along with any conditions for petitioning for reinstatement. The student should also be advised of his/her right of appeal.
2. If the Committee makes a decision not affecting the student's matriculation, it may initiate a process of consultation and/or action which it considers appropriate to meet the student's need. Examples of appropriate action include, but are not limited to the following: special training in study skills; the requirement of additional course work in writing or academic research skills; an appropriate term of psychological counseling; removal from or change of field education or internship placement; specified medical treatment; etc.
3. When in the judgment of the Committee a process has met the student's need, no further action is needed. A brief report shall be made to the faculty, enclosed in the student's file.
4. If the Committee makes a decision affecting the student's matriculation, that is, expulsion or a conditional or non-conditional leave of absence, the chair shall present at the following executive faculty meeting as full a report as needed to inform the faculty of the case. The faculty may accept the report or, if presented with new substantive information within 30 days, ask the Committee to reconsider its decision.
Professional Evaluation
1. After initial review of the situation and at any time during these proceedings, the Committee may refer a student for appropriate professional evaluation. For example, a student may be referred to a mental health evaluation approved by the School..
2. Students referred for professional evaluation shall be informed in writing and shall be given a copy of these standards and procedures.
3. The cost of the professional evaluation is the responsibility of the PSR.
Immediate Interim Suspension
1. An interim suspension may be implemented immediately if the Dean determines that a student's behavior poses a danger of causing physical or emotional harm to the student or others; substantially impeding the academic or other lawful activities of others; or causing property damage.
2. The Dean shall determine whether the student will be suspended from classes, campus and/or housing.
3. A student subject to an interim suspension shall be given written notice of the suspension and shall be given a copy of these standards and procedures.
4. The student shall then be given an opportunity to appear personally or by conference call before the members of the special needs Committee (or substitute faculty members, if necessary), within five business days from the effective date of the interim suspension, in order to review the following issues only: the reliability of the information concerning the student's behavior and whether or not the student's behavior poses a danger of causing physical or emotional harm to the student or others, impeding the academic and other lawful activities of others, or causing property damage.
5. The student has the right to present a current professional psychological evaluation relevant to any and all of the issues listed above.
6. When appearing before the Committee the student may be accompanied by a family member, licensed mental health professional, a member of the faculty or staff, or another student.
7. The student will be allowed to enter campus to attend hearings, or for other necessary purposes, only if authorized by the Dean.
8. A student on interim suspension will remain suspended unless and until the suspension is reversed by this Committee (defined below).
9. The Dean will notify the student in writing of the decision of the special needs Committee.
1. The student may appeal the final decision of the Committee to the president, doing so within ten business days after the Dean's written communication of the decision to the student.
2. The president may consult with the Committee and any other persons of his/her choosing. The president shall have access to the tape recording of the proceedings of the informal hearing (if any exists) as well as any documentation pertinent to the case. The president may then meet with the party or parties involved in the complaint. If the president chooses to meet with them, the student or students involved may be choose to be accompanied by a family member, licensed mental health professional, faculty member, staff member or another student. Students may not be accompanied by an attorney. Students must communicate the name of the accompanying person two business days in advance of the meeting.
3. The president may affirm the decision of the Committee, overrule the decision, or return it to the Committee for further consideration and resubmission with appropriate time limits set by the president. The president's decision shall be final and conclusive and not subject to appeal within the institution.
4. If the matter before the Committee is one in which the president is directly involved, then the president shall delegate the review powers described herein to a member of the faculty, administration, Board of Trustees or third party unaffiliated with PSR who is not otherwise involved in the matter.
Records of proceedings under this policy shall be maintained in a manner calculated to limit access only to those persons with institutional need to know or right to know.
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The actor who played Ralphie's red-headed tormentor Scut Farkus in "A Christmas Story" 30 years ago is launching an anti-bullying campaign, in the hopes of using his best-known role for good, he told the CBC.
Zack Ward said he is now fighting to help work against bullies like the one he memorably played, taking his inspiration in part from his character — "a brutal, nasty little boy," as he describes it — in the movie.
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To help end bullying, he has begun an online fundraising campaign to prevent bullying, plus after-school programs in underserved schools throughout North America.
"I think both the bully and the bully's victim have an issue and it can be addressed, and we can help them get the support they need, see that they have other options and believe in themselves," Ward told the CBC. Those children, he suggested, might be unhappy themselves and not feel loved or supported.


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Shawn Camp is getting rewarded after a very solid 2012. Today the Cubs announced their plans to bring Shawn Camp back on a one year deal worth $1.35 MM, plus up to $200,000 worth of possible bonus money. Camp was one of the few bright spots on the team last year as he appeared in a career high 80 games out of the bullpen. Camp posted a 3.59 ERA last year, and actually tied the MLB lead for appearances, it's nice to see that his arm is actually still attached, I was worried in September..
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According to two fish-cutters at the New Square Fish Market, the carp was about to be slaughtered and made into gefilte fish for Sabbath dinner when it suddenly began shouting apocalyptic warnings in Hebrew.
Many believe the carp was channelling the troubled soul of a revered community elder who recently died; others say it was God. The only witnesses to the mystical show were Zalmen Rosen, a 57-year-old Hasid with 11 children, and his co-worker, Luis Nivelo. They say that on 28 January at 4pm they were about to club the carp on the head when it began yelling.
Nivelo, a Gentile who does not understand Hebrew, was so shocked at the sight of a fish talking in any language that he fell over. He ran into the front of the store screaming: 'It's the Devil! The Devil is here!' Then the shop owner heard it shouting warnings and commands too.
'It said "Tzaruch shemirah" and "Hasof bah",' he told the New York Times, 'which essentially means that everyone needs to account for themselves because the end is near.'
The animated carp commanded Rosen to pray and study the Torah. Rosen tried to kill the fish but injured himself. It was finally butchered by Nivelo and sold.
The most amazing thing about this story isn't that the fish spoke Hebrew its that they killed the prophet before he could appear on Larry King!


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2012 has already been a rough year for farming in North America, as crops withered under record heat, drought and wildfire, while others washed away in Hurricane Isaac's torrential rains. This followed similar problems in 2011, ranging from the historic Texas drought to Mississippi River floods and Hurricane Irene.
Despite all the recent setbacks, however, farmers were dealt yet another blow this week as Superstorm Sandy flogged and flooded a swath of crops along its 2,000-mile path. The post-tropical cyclone hit in late October, when many U.S. growers have already harvested summer produce, but it still found ways to wreak havoc.
Sandy got started in the Caribbean, killing more than 60 people before surging north toward the U.S. East Coast. The majority of those deaths were in Haiti, where heavy rainfall caused devastating floods and landslides that crushed buildings, wiped out roads and inundated farmland. "Most of the agricultural crops that were left from Hurricane Isaac were destroyed during Sandy," Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe told Reuters, "so food security will be an issue."
Cuba took a direct hit as Sandy grew into a category 2 hurricane, and 20 to 30 percent of the country's coffee farms were destroyed overnight, according to Food World News. The worst damage occurred in the Sierra Maestra mountains, where 92 percent of Cuban coffee beans are grown, and it came just as the harvest normally peaks in late October and early November. Experts say Cuba may now produce less than 4,000 metric tons of coffee in 2012, its lowest output in more than a century. Sandy also struck hard in the Bahamas, where farmers lost crops such as bananas, cassava, tomatoes and watermelons, the Eleutheran newspaper reports.
Damage assessments remain underway in the U.S., with many areas still in disaster-relief mode. At least 70 deaths are confirmed so far, and some estimates suggest damage could reach $50 billion. Yet the overall impact on U.S. agriculture may be less severe than in the Caribbean, since the summer growing season is over in cooler climates and many farmers sped up harvesting ahead of the storm. "Sandy is a big weather story, but it's mainly a human life issue on the East Coast — no real impact on crops or harvest," John Dee of Global Weather Monitoring tells the Economic Times.
That's not the case everywhere, though. Localized crop damage has been severe, including at some New York City outfits like Red Hook Community Farm and Battery Urban Farm, which were flooded by several feet of seawater. Many rooftop gardens escaped the floods and endured the winds, according to the New York Observer, but it wasn't just plants in the line of fire. "The bees got washed away, flooded out," says the chief operating officer of Brooklyn Grange, which had the city's largest commercial apiary. "It was pretty devastating."
It's important to realize Sandy didn't occur in a vacuum, points out ecologist Steven Apfelbaum of Applied Ecological Services in Wisconsin. "This isn't the only storm that's impacted agriculture in the U.S. this year," he tells MNN. "We've had intense, damaging storms over large areas of the U.S., one of the most extensive droughts in recent history, and we had nearly 500 heat records broken during just one day in August." Even small shifts have taken a big toll, he adds. "The fruit crops in Wisconsin and Michigan were blooming three weeks earlier than normal this year, then we got normal spring weather conditions and lost nearly 100 percent." Combined with the effects of Hurricane Sandy, Apfelbaum says U.S. crop-insurance claims in 2012 could be "profoundly larger than anything we've ever seen in this country."
While no one can directly link a single storm to global warming, the wild weather of 2011 and 2012 is exactly what climate models have been predicting for years: longer droughts and stronger storms. "Before, climate change was talked about as an abstraction, something that would happen in the future," Apfelbaum says. "But the changes we're experiencing now are not abstract at all. They're very real."
The issue of climate change has been conspicuously absent from this year's U.S. presidential race, but storms like Sandy are reminders that it can't be ignored forever. And while politicians dance around it, Apfelbaum says farmers should take initiative to protect themselves. "Build buffers into your farm plans where streams overflow, areas that are going to be able to absorb the recoil," he says. "Put in grassy waterways and native, deep-rooted perennial plant buffers. Take some of your land out of these row-crop uses and build intrinsic capacity for absorbing the impact on your own land."
Related hurricane stories on MNN:
- Climate vs. weather: Extreme events narrow doubts
- How Hurricane Sandy became a snowstorm
- The financial impacts of Hurricane Sandy
- Are hurricanes linked to global warming?
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You don't get bands like The Gaslight Anthem any more. Bands who follow in the great tradition of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and The Ramones by writing one great song and then re-writing it until they or everyone else gets bored of hearing the damned thing. This New Jersey four piece particularly relish in imitating the footsteps of their idols because their '59 Sound' is basically The Boss minus his E Street Band.
If Brian Fallon and his motley crew were Kings Of Leon massive by now, there'd undoubtedly be more of a pressure to abandon what has served them well so far. That is to say, hokey American imagery of rundown Cadillacs and small town girls baptised in all the fire that can be roused from two six strings, a bass guitar and one booming drum kit. As things stand, Handwritten is the band's first album on a major - Mercury Records - so the trick hasn't quite worn thin.
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The Gaslight Anthem are masters of the euphoric singalong where a twinge of romanticism collides with as fewer syllables as possible. There's "Oh sha la la, listen honey here comes my man" from 'Here Comes My Man', "I would just die if you ever took your love away" as roared in 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Howl's "ey ey eeeey ey ey" - my personal favourite. They're real feel good moments to restore a hungry heart back to its full chest-pumping vigour.
If The Gaslight Anthem are to conjure up their own Born In The USA, they'll need to muddy themselves in a quagmire that lies beyond Route 66. Only 'Biloxi Parish' spares its downtrodden damsel a Hollywood ending and, even then, the character herself is lifted straight out of an interstate diner. "Who else can take all your blood and your curses? Nobody I've seen you hanging around," bellows a refreshingly vulnerable Fallon from his barstool in the Last Chance Saloon.
With four albums in the can, The Gaslight Anthem hardly seem the types to change their tune. Rousing themselves to rock's high table requires breaking the mould they so desperately seek to emulate and what's the point in that when you're content to wash the feet of your heroes?
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Mike Pond-Stasis Coffee Table
At Design Interviews
Interview with Mike Pond : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Mike Pond : To explore and celebrate the capabilities of concrete. Hopefully to create a pristine, slender object from a material normally associated with mass and roughness. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Mike Pond : I hoped in many ways for it to be a reminder that as technology continues to advance our materials and change the way we approach functional design, that we don't lose sight of what we love about the material to begin with. Concrete has some special and unique characteristics that make it different from every other material, but we tend to use it like plastic, or granite. I hope the table will serve as a reminder to love materials also, not just shapes or space. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Mike Pond : I'm not sure, I would love to sell more of them, I think its a wonderful table, but I hope primarily to continue to explore the potential of concrete and other materials. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Mike Pond : Well, its only a few lines, so not very long to design. Once I had the picture of it in my head, I think maybe 30 seconds to draw it on a piece of paper. It took quite a bit more time and experimenting to learn how to be sculpt the molds so as to be able to achieve the shape I saw in my head. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Mike Pond : This began really as something I saw in my head, while thinking about molding opportunities. i couldn't figure out how to "flip" the mold and essentially pour concrete upside down. I guess I couldn't let that idea go, so i kept toying with it until this was produced. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Mike Pond : This is my own private design. I would certainly entertain an offer as to how this was produced and sell the rights accordingly, but as of right now I simply produce them independently. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Mike Pond : The impetus was that I was honestly trying to think of how to "pour" concrete upside down. This is the result. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Mike Pond : Sure, in the sense that we are always (hopefully) influenced by our peers and leaders of the industry, but this particular design began 100% in my head, and changed only slightly from its inception to execution. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Mike Pond : I would think that any collector that likes provocative furniture pieces would be interested in the Stasis Table. It is not cheap to produce them so I can't sell them inexpensively, which narrows the target quite a bit in terms of customer base. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Mike Pond : As near as I can tell, there are no resembling concepts. Certainly not from concrete, so I suppose that is the best answer to the question. The fact that this is being produced from a material largely associated with mass as opposed to grace, namely concrete, would set this apart. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Mike Pond : Stasis means "balance". It is one of the roots in the word "homeostasis", which is used to describe when a system is in balance with itself. That concept is very descriptive of the Stasis Table, as the individual elements are balanced themselves, as well in balance as a unit. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Mike Pond : Just a pencil, as far as the conceptual phase. Once I began fabricating it, I used standard wood and concrete working tools. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Mike Pond : I think that the shapes are quite lovely in and of themselves. They're sensual and confident, I am very pleased with how they look. I think that when it is discovered by an observer that it is fabricated from concrete, the Stasis Table really takes on a whole new definition in people's minds. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Mike Pond : No collaborations in the sense that outside companies or specialists were involved, but I certainly have people I work with within the construct of Solid and Void, namely Scott Soffer whom I have worked with for well over a decade. Scott is a carpenter and designer in his own right and he and I work very well together. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Mike Pond : No particular technology in terms of computer programs or anything like that, but absolutely in terms of concrete advances. This type of project wouldn't have been plausible even a few years ago, but with the modifier and fiberglass additives in concrete, a strength of 10,000 psi (compression) and a tensile strength of up to 3000 psi can be acheived. This reduces (or in this case, eliminates) the need for buried steel reinforcing, which would've been inordinately difficult to shape in a case like the Stasis Table. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Mike Pond : Yes, but not in the way you might be thinking. I spend a lot of time with a job like this experimenting. So they saying goes "close enough isn't good enough for mathematics, but is for engineering". So I don't spend too much energy on math that is probably out of my league anyways, as much as I do trying something, breaking it, observing how it breaks, try again. I'll continue to load something more and more until it achieves the strength I am looking for. I ultimately found the solutions to things I was looking for through deformation of what is otherwise a simple shape. The table is really just a few lines, so coercing those lines to distribute the weight properly was the challenge. In the case of the Stasis Table, I really wasn't satisfied until it could hold my full body weight and about 100 pounds of glass. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Mike Pond : Creating a shape that was strong enough to be functional, while maintaining a slender and elegant look. It couldn't be clumsy. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Mike Pond : I felt like I had a good product. I haven't seen many products like it, and so I researched what would give it the exposure I felt was warranted, and proceeded from there. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Mike Pond : I would think it was more a result of learning and improving 1,000 different ways prior to beginning this. 10 years ago I wouldn't have been able to produce this, because I didn't have the patience for it yet. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Mike Pond : Yes, actually. I would like to call attention to the prominence that the CNC router has taken in the design and fabrication industry in the last decade. I think it is a wonderful tool and I applaud its use the same as I would a hammer or a computer or anything other device that can help get good designs finished. However, I believe that the dependence on this tool has led to a diminished appreciation and love for the intrinsic characteristics of materials. I am most definitely NOT calling for the disuse of the CNC router but I am calling attention to the fact that this tool has allowed all manner of materials to be treated as plastic, where nearly any Euclidian shape can carved into nearly any material, for either the finished product of the form. This can lead to terrific advancement in design possibilities, but it can also lead to us as designers merely thinking in terms of SHAPE, not in terms of both shape and material. I would like to always remind ourselves to love one species of wood more than another, love what makes concrete so beautiful when it is broken, or polished or grinded. To just remember to always love materials also. .
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By the way, if you want to make Twinkies, you will need to buy a Twinkie pan. But you can make the Hostess Cupcakes or Sno-Ball Cupcakes with basic kitchen supplies. Amazon sells a "Cream Canoe Pan" that will work well.
Homemade Twinkies: This recipe doesn't try to be healthy, but it's rather similar to the original and is filled with fluffy, seven-minute frosting.
Healthy Twinkies: This dairy-free, gluten-free and grain-free version uses healthier ingredients and is suitable for those on restricted diets too.
Homemade Hostess Cupcakes: Here is a homemade version for Hostess Cupcakes, sans preservatives.
Healthy Hostess Cupcakes: This recipe remakes the cupcakes to include maple syrup, quinoa flour, coconut butter and other more healthy ingredients. They look the same, are sweet to taste — and delicious too.
Homemade Sno-Ball Cupcakes: Covered with fluffy frosting and pink coconut flakes.
Healthy Version: I couldn't find a specific recipe for healthier version of the Sno-Ball, however it would be easy to use the recipe for the Hostess cupcakes and adapt it to use for the Sno-Ball Cupcakes!
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Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, the President of FSTC, has been chosen for the third time as one of The 500 Most Influential Muslims.
The recently released third edition (2012) of The 500 Most Influential Muslims has bestowed a deserved distinction on Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, the President of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC). Professor Al-Hassani was chosen one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims before, back in 2010 and in 2011.
The publication is an initiative of the The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (MABDA), which itself is an independent research entity affiliated with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, headquartered in Amman, Jordan. Prof. Al-Hassani was selected as one of the Muslims who, by their work, represent a worldwide influence on the Muslim community, this influence being the power (be it cultural, ideological, financial, political or otherwise) to make a change that will have a significant positive impact on the Muslim World.
From the "The 500 Most Influential Muslims" book, p. 151.
Prof. Al-Hassani's message is short and simple: "To build a better future, we must learn from our past." Achieving this is not as easy as it seems, because history, as we know, is not a simple flow of events through time. There is a lot of information that has been lost, hidden, corrupted and biased. It is in this critical area of revisiting the history of what the Western education systems refer to as the Dark Ages, which Muslim history calls The Golden Age, that Professor Al-Hassani has devoted so much time and energy during the past two decades.
Prof. Al-Hassani founded FSTC with his colleagues around a new concept of charity and volunteer action aimed towards creating a solid ground for inter-community and inter-cultural understanding and cooperation, far away from political and religious boundaries. By choosing also to articulate the work of the Foundation around science and technology, rather than the classical initiatives of inter-religious and cultural dialogues, he proved to be sensitive to the call of the modern world. Science and technology represent our best tools to build a better future for the coming generations. But the history aimed at implementing such a nobel goal should not suffer from oblivions or gaps, nor be the locus where complexes are born. A complex of superiority on one hand, from the triumphant Western Civilisation, nor a complex of inferiority within the modern heirs of Muslim Civilisation. These complexes do not promote dialogue or self-esteem, but antagonism and extremism.
Turning his attention to the past, Salim Al-Hassani kept his eyes on the present. The central slogan of his work "Muslim Heritage in Our World" depicts this twofold and informed gaze. The present is built on the past, and in order to be able to learn from the latter, we must re-discover it and make clear the ties it has with the present. From this perspective we can all work together in the present to build a better future for all our heirs.
Projects like "FSTC", "1001 Inventions", "MuslimHeritage.com" and "CE4tF" represent this central tendency which guided the work of Salim Al-Hassani in promoting Muslim Heritage and its ramifications in our present day world. Phrases like "Cultural Cohesion", "Social Understanding", "Respect for Diversity", "Working Together", "Building Bridges", "Creating Awareness" and many more promoting inclusion found their real meaning through these projects.
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In 1999, Professor Salim Al-Hassani and other colleagues founded the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC). Professor Al-Hassani was, until the end of 2011, the Chairman of the Foundation. He is now the President of FSTC, Professor Mohammed El-Gomati is now Chairman. FSTC is a not-for-profit educational foundation which aims to generate social cohesion, inter-cultural appreciation, and to promote science and learning as an alternative to negative and extremist behaviour. It does this by illuminating the shared scientific heritage of humanity, with its initial efforts centring on uncovering the very significant scientific contributions by the Muslim Civilisation. In its various projects, from books to lectures, seminars, exhibitions, films and electronic publications, FSTC is supported by a large network of historians of science, academics, writers and intellectuals.
The projects carried on by FSTC are a compilation of stories that tell the history of science, technology and culture dating back to a thousand years, which are absent from school books, particularly in the West. This thousand-year time frame corresponds to a period after the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Renaissance in Europe, the period commonly known as the 'Dark Ages.' This is a misnomer, as this period was not really dark, and outside of Europe people were living in a golden age, in the sense that the age of discovery and science had never really ceased. This period also corresponds to a time when the Muslim civilization was flourishing. Yet, when we look at European sources on mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, technology and medicine, we find a one thousand year gap. Does this mean that the readers who derive their knowledge from these sources suffer from a thousand years amnesia? This amnesia is of a dangerous type, in that it both feeds the superiority complex, and introduces an inferiority complex among other nations, particularly within young Muslims.
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This gap in our history is destructive, rather than productive. Moreover, it will not help create or maintain peace in the world. Therefore, FSTC uses history of science as a new platform for dialogue. The Foundation is non-religious and non-political. Its researchers have chosen from among thousands of inventions to bring life to some of those that still are present in modern society. The research to document, verify and produce the content supporting the work of FSTC is carried out by a large number of academics and experts in this field to ensure that the information placed in the public domain meet high academic standards.
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The housing market is "unrecognisable from 12 months ago", said one property commentator last week, and a wealth of statistics bear him out. During 2013 house price growth has rippled out from the capital to touch every region. Mortgage lending and transaction volumes are dramatically increased. Rents are stable. Mortgage costs remain at record lows. Together these factors appear set to deliver an attractive rental yield plus the bonus of capital growth. Is it any wonder that two in three landlords plan to add to their portfolios in 2014?
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Other housing stimuli, such as the Government's Help to Buy scheme, are ongoing and, most believe, will stimulate demand.
That said, total lending remains around half pre-crisis levels. And the number of transactions this year, estimated by the Council of Mortgage Lenders to exceed one million, is far below the 1.6million figure for the boom years 2006 and 2007.
Rental values in 2013
The monthly lettings index from Countrywide, the national agency, showed average national rents up 4.2pc over the year to November. Regionally, all areas bar the South West reported an annual increase, with rents in Scotland, London, the North East and East of England growing fastest. But Countrywide's data showed house price increases outstripped average rent rises during 2013, suggesting landlords' yields – rental income relative to property value – were being squeezed.
Paragon, the specialist buy-to-let lender, agreed. Paragon said its average customer enjoyed a yield of 6pc in November 2013, down from 6.7pc a year before.
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The Office for Budget Responsibility, adviser to the Chancellor, now predicts house prices to rise 27pc by 2018. Landlords are expected to rapidly grow their borrowing to expand. David Whittaker, of specialist landlord broker Mortgages for Business, predicted a 25pc increase in business next year. "The intention of landlords to expand further demonstrates that demand for rental property shows little sign of waning," he said. A survey of 300 clients found 57pc wanted to buy further property in 2014. Of those already owning more than 10 properties the proportion was higher, at 66pc.
A rosy outlook does not mean all landlords make easy money. Problem tenants always cause difficulties, such as those faced by Vicky Moller (above). Tax treatment of Britain's 1.2million landlords is also expected to tighten. Capital gains tax reliefs were trimmed in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, and some expect further, similar measures to be introduced in 2014.
Landlords beware
When Vicky Moller agreed to oversee the investment property she bought with other family members she hoped it would be plain sailing. But the tenant paid only one month's rent and, before Vicky could get rid of him, he inflicted random damage on the six-bedroom property, which included tearing down doors and shelves. He even pretended to own the land, offering part of the garden to a neighbour.
Entrepreneur Vicky, who runs a number of businesses and sustainability-related projects in Carmarthen, Wales, said: "It was a mess. The tenant said he was a builder and I took him on trust. I was delighted when he left."
Her insurer covered some of the damage but Vicky lost several months' rent. The property is now relet. Background checks on tenants are essential for landlords wanting to avoid Vicky's nightmare. If you use a letting agent they may charge as much as £300 – and some charge the tenant as well.
Quicker, cheaper tenant reports can be obtained through websites such as 192.com, where a background report costs £30 and checks a person's age and property ownership details as well as any insolvency, court judgment, director disqualifications or other potentially relevant information.
The National Landlords Association also offers such a service, for a similar price, or a more basic version for less than £10. Credit agencies Experian and Equifax also offer tenant checks.
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Texans safety Daniel Manning took a stand against bullying Tuesday at Pine Shadows Elementary School.
Speaking before a group of about 400 children and teachers, Manning was joined by Texans mascot Toro during a presentation on the bullying epidemic in schools.
"The reason why I came out here and why this is so important to me is because I have kids myself and experience with (these) bullying instances going on," Manning said. "I think it's very important for athletes, any celebrities, to get involved with this, just to let them know exactly how this affects our kids and growing up. You can damage a kid (at) a young age. … In my life, I was able to stop some things that was going on and I think it's important to give back in that way."
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- House listed in Louisville but has not sold
- Fire damaged
- Avoiding foreclosure in Louisville
- Divorce
- Inherited an unwanted property in Louisville
- Own a vacant house or property in Louisville
- Short Sale
- Upside down in your mortgage
- Behind on payments
- Your house needs repairs you can't pay for
- Bad rental tenants
- Or you might be facing a situation that isn't listed
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