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The Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education inaugural cohort with Lesley Litman,
Program Coordinator (top left), and Dr. Jonathan Krasner, Assistant Professor of the
American Jewish Experience (top right)
The Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) launched its inaugural cohort of students on May 31, 2011 with a three-day intensive seminar on its Cincinnati campus, followed by a two-week Summer Institute at the New York campus from June 20-30, 2011. The newly established Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education, a 24-month-long program of study, is made possible by the generous grant support of the Jim Joseph Foundation. The Jim Joseph Foundation has provided $15 million to HUC-JIR to increase the number and enhance the quality of Jewish educators working with Jewish youth and young adults through the development of new certificate and degree programs and training and mentoring new and practicing educational professionals over the next five years.
"The Executive M.A. Program builds on the 'wisdom of practice' that the students have developed during their years of service to schools and congregations. The program enables them to enhance their knowledge about Judaism, strengthen their understanding of education, and refine their leadership capacity," stated Dr. Michael Zeldin, Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at HUC-JIR/Los Angeles.
Lesley Litman, Coordinator of the Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education, explained, "Student excitement about their learning was palpable as they engaged in their first two courses on the HUC-JIR New York campus. This cohort is deeply inspiring both intellectually and spiritually. They blend the wisdom of their experiences with their coursework, thereby enriching both their academic learning and their workplaces."
Debbie Massarano is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education. She grew up in Southern California involved in Jewish camping (URJ Camp Swig), Temple Youth Group, and NFTY. She earned her B.A. in Child Development at California State University at Fullerton. In addition to her teaching experience in public schools, she has worked in several Jewish Day Schools as a teacher and Judaic Studies Coordinator and in congregational schools. Her teaching experiences include a specialty in working with students with learning differences. She served as Regional Educator of the Southwest and Midwest Councils of the Union for Reform Judaism consulting with congregations on educational programming from early childhood through adult education. In her current position as Director of Lifelong Learning at Temple Shalom in Dallas, she coordinates all the educational programming for the congregation and is the spiritual leader for the Shabbat morning minyan. Debbie has three children – Nathaniel, Micah and Abby.
The Executive M.A. Program is designed for educational professionals with a minimum of five years of experience working in the field who seek advanced academic and professional training through a part-time program that allows them to strengthen their skills and knowledge while continuing to live and work in their own communities throughout North America. The Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education offers a course of study that utilizes the cohort-based approach of many executive M.B.A. programs and high-quality doctoral programs in Education. Through a series of intensive on-site seminars at HUC-JIR's campuses in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, and Jerusalem, cohort learning with long-distance courses, and mentorship by veterans in the field, the students will emerge with enhanced knowledge, honed educational skills, and strengthened leadership capacity that will enable them to transform Jewish education in their own institutions.
The inaugural cohort's 16 students hail from throughout North America, span in age from their early 30's to late 50's, and reflect a diversity of professional experience ranging from congregational educators to a Hillel assistant director and synagogue executive director.
From May 31 to June 2, 2011, the inaugural cohort studied with HUC-JIR's leading education faculty, including Dr. Michael Zeldin, Director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education in Los Angeles; Professor Jo Kay, Director of the New York School of Education; and Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development in Cincinnati. In addition, they studied with Dr. Gary P. Zola, Director of the American Jewish Archives and Professor of the American Jewish Experience, and Dr. Mark Washofsky, Freehof Professor of Jewish Law and Practice, and met with their mentors who are guiding their journey throughout the program.
The goals of this first intensive learning experience were to build cohort relationships and connections with the academic and clinical faculty; establish familiarity with HUC-JIR's research resources, including the campus-wide system of the Klau Library, the second largest Jewish library in the world, and the American Jewish Archives, the renowned center of study, research, and publication in the field of American Jewish history; and synthesize and take home new learning in Jewish studies and education.
The cohort began their learning in earnest at a Summer Institute in residence at the HUC-JIR/New York campus with two intensive courses during the final two weeks of June. Dr. Jonathan Krasner, Assistant Professor of the American Jewish Experience, offered a course in the Jewish Historical Experience and Dr. Adriane Leveen, Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Lead Judaica Specialist in the Jim Joseph initiatives at HUC-JIR, taught a course on the Jewish Textual Tradition with a particular focus on Bible. According to the instructors, students have brought their great wealth of experience to bear on the learning thereby enriching the experience for all involved.
At the conclusion of Dr. Krasner's course, one student commented on the "paradigm shift" she underwent when it comes to teaching History: "I understand it totally differently now. I have to look at everything I do, everything I've been doing and rethink it in light of this course. History will never be the same for me, in a good way."
Beginning in August, students will continue their studies in an online course on Teaching and Learning with Dr. Lisa Grant, Associate Professor of Jewish Education.
The Jim Joseph Foundation Education Initiative at HUC-JIR expands HUC-JIR's education programs to reach a wide variety of people from across the United States with a broad range of interests in the field of Jewish education. In addition to generous scholarships, the initiative enables HUC-JIR to create an Executive M.A. Program; certificates in Jewish education of adolescents and emerging adults and in Jewish early childhood education; alumni induction and retention programs; and a joint rabbinical-education program in Cincinnati and cantorial-education program in New York (to complement the current rabbinical-education program in Los Angeles and New York).
For more information about the Executive M.A. Program and to inquire about becoming a member of the second cohort, please contact Lesley Litman, program coordinator, at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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- 2 Millions of years ago
- 3 Hundreds of thousands of years ago
- 4 Tens of thousands of years ago
- 5 Thousands of years ago
- 6 Indeterminate Past
- 7 External links
Billions of years ago
16 billion years ago
- The universe is formed in the instantaneous expansion that scientists call the "Big Bang". The "Big Bang" has been theorized to be caused by destabilizing Omega molecules. (VOY: "The Omega Directive")
- This point in time represents a hideout for members of the Q Continuum. The USS Voyager was briefly transported here by Quinn in order to escape Q, but he too had once used this hideout and was thus able to find the ship. (VOY: "Death Wish")
The age of the universe was given in VOY: "Good Shepherd" as 16 billion years. Current scientific evidence indicates an age of 13.7 billion years.
9 billion years ago
- Hundreds of protostars collapsed in close proximity to one another forming the astronomical phenomenon later known as a black cluster. (TNG: "Hero Worship")
7 billion years ago
- The Theta 116 system begins the process of becoming a planetary system. (TNG: "The Royale")
5 billion years ago
- The star Sol begins to form out of nebular dust and interstellar gases. (VOY: "Death Wish")
- Female Q is born. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
4.5 billion years ago
- The Guardian of Forever had been asked its last question (until 2267, when it told Captain James T. Kirk and Spock it had awaited a question "since before your Sun burned hot in space"). (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
- The star Sol takes form.
- The ancient humanoids, one of the oldest known sentient species, seeded the oceans of many worlds with DNA codes, directing the evolution of life towards a physical pattern similar to their own. The varieties of lifeforms that carried this seed code to fruition include the Humans, Vulcans, Klingons and Cardassians, and likely many other humanoid species of the galaxy. (TNG: "The Chase")
4 billion years ago
- Q and Q begin their romantic involvement around this time. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- The planet Pollux IV forms in the Beta Geminorum system. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
3.5 billion years ago
- On Earth, in a region later known as France, amino acids combine to form the first proteins. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
According to actual science, life already gained a foothold on Earth 4.1 billion years ago. However, this wasn't theorized until after the shooting of "All Good Things...".
2 billion years ago
1 billion years ago
- The Slaver Empire is the master of all intelligent beings in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Slavers and all of their subjects were exterminated in a massive war which caused all intelligent life to re-evolve. (TAS: "The Slaver Weapon")
Millions of years ago
400 million years ago
- In the Permian period, Eryops, the last common ancestor of cold-blooded and warm-blooded organisms, lives on Earth. (VOY: "Distant Origin")
300 million years ago
- An alien ship of unknown beings is invaded by a magnetic organism. Trapped in orbit of Questar M-17, the crew disable their own ship to prevent the spread of the entity. (TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star")
87 million years ago
65 million years ago
- Earth's dominant reptile superorder, the dinosaurs, are wiped out when an asteroid impacts the planet. (VOY: "Distant Origin"; ENT: "Azati Prime")
- Some of Earth's dinosaurs survive the asteroid impact and continue to develop and name themselves the Voth. Sometime thereafter they leave Earth and travel to the Delta quadrant where they create one of the first interstellar empires in the quadrant. (VOY: "Distant Origin")
20 Million years ago
- The recorded history of the Voth civilization begins in the Delta Quadrant. (VOY: "Distant Origin")
1 Million years ago
- On Earth, the ancestors of Humans begin to distinguish themselves from their primate ancestors by their intelligence and reasoning skills. (TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon")
- Construction of the vast city around the Guardian of Forever, stretching out to the horizon of its planet. Spock estimated the age of the ruins to be "on the order of ten thousand centuries" in 2267. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
- The inhabitants of Organia evolve to beings of pure energy. (TOS: "Errand of Mercy")
Ayelborne said that his people had evolved beyond the need for physical bodies millions of years ago.
Hundreds of thousands of years ago
600,000 years ago
- The Tkon Empire collapses. (TNG: "The Last Outpost")
- The humanoid ancestors of Sargon's race colonized the galaxy. Their colonists may have caused, or influenced, the rise of intelligent life on Vulcan. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
500,000 years ago
Ro Laren stated in a conversation with Captain Jean Luc Picard that the ancient Bajorans had flourished "when humans were not yet standing erect". Homo Erectus existed on Earth from about 1.8 million years to about 200,000 years ago. Homo Sapiens began to emerge at about 200,000 years ago.
- Sargon's species is destroyed in a massive civil war when the atmosphere is ripped from their planet. Only a few survivors escape by preserving their consciousnesses in a cave deep below the surface. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
- The planet Exo III becomes nearly uninhabitable after its sun begins to fade. The inhabitants resettle beneath the surface and construct androids to serve them. (TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
200,000 years ago
- The Iconians, a highly developed civilization, are destroyed in an orbital bombardment of their homeworld. (TNG: "Contagion"; DS9: "To the Death")
- By at least this point, the Borg have begun their evolution into cybernetic beings. (TNG: "Q Who")
Star Trek: Destiny presents a different point of origin for the Borg.
100,000 years ago
- The subspace network which will be later claimed by the Hirogen is constructed by an unknown race. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle", "Hunters")
- The ocean planet, later home of the Monean civilization, is created by extracting all water from a Class M planet and containing it inside an immense force field. (VOY: "Thirty Days")
Tens of thousands of years ago
50,000 years ago
- The Horta of Janus VI begin their latest cycle of rebirth. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
- Bele begins to chase Lokai, who has led a revolution on the planet of Cheron. (TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
45,000 years ago
- Extraterrestrial visitors, known as the "Sky Spirits", visit a people on Earth who become the indigenous inhabitants of America. (VOY: "Tattoo")
30,000 years ago
- The Verathan civilization, originally from the Verath system in the Gamma Quadrant, reaches its height, spanning two dozen star systems. (DS9: "Q-Less")
- An ancient city was built with walls and a tablet that were dated to be over thirty millennia old. This city was inhabited until twenty-five thousand years ago after which, sediment buried the ruins and the ancient city of B'hala was built on top of it. (DS9: "The Reckoning")
28,000 years ago
- On Earth, the Neanderthals become extinct. (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
22,000 years ago
- The first of at least 947 archaeological expeditions is conducted at the ancient ruins on Tagus III. (TNG: "Qpid")
- The Trill begin their life as a joined species. (TNG: "The Host")
20,000 years ago
- The Bajorans begin celebrating the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. (DS9: "Fascination")
12,000 years ago
- An artisan known only as the Master of Tarquin Hill on Kurl, during the Third Dynasty, creates small ceramic figurines, called naiskos, that embody that culture's belief that within each person is a community of individuals, each with its own desires, views, and voices. (TNG: "The Chase")
10,000 years ago
- According to Quinn, this was the last time that "ordinary" Q in the Q Continuum had to speak with each other. (VOY: "Death Wish")
- When their sun is about to go nova, the Fabrini leave their system on a propelled asteroid known as the Yonada. (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky")
- The machine-god Vaal on Gamma Trianguli VI is built. (TOS: "The Apple")
- The civilization on Sigma Draconis VI which is currently at its technological peak, advanced well beyond 23rd century Federation capabilities, experiences a catastrophic glacial age. As a result, the inhabitants of the planet begin to de-evolve to a primitive level, and the male and female inhabitants experience a great schism in their society. (TOS: "Spock's Brain")
- A species of intelligent spacefaring organisms which form symbiotic relationships with humanoid lifeforms that live within their bodies become nearly extinct. Gomtuu is the last known survivor. (TNG: "Tin Man")
- The first of the Orbs is discovered by the Bajorans in the sky above their planet. Over the next ten millennia, a total of nine of these extraordinary objects are discovered, inspiring revelations that shape Bajoran religion. (DS9: "Emissary")
- The Founders establish a new homeworld in the Omarion Nebula to escape prejudice and persecution founding the Dominion. (DS9: "The Search, Part II")
- The Ferengi discover currency and the concept of profit. (DS9: "Little Green Men")
- The Bajoran archaeologists begin their unsuccessful, ten thousand year search for the lost city of B'hala, which is not uncovered until the year 2373. (DS9: "Rapture")
Thousands of years ago
9,000 years ago
- The Zakdorn earned a reputation as brilliant strategists. (TNG: "Peak Performance")
6,000 years ago
- The Aldeans build a massive cloaking device that shields their planet, Aldea, from outside detection. (TNG: "When The Bough Breaks")
- circa 4000 BC
- Unknown aliens take or abduct several Humans from Earth to be eugenically bred on a distant planet, lest humanity destroy itself in its early technological age. Gary Seven, Agent 201 and Agent 347 will be among their descendants. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")
- Akharin is born in Mesopotamia on Earth. A soldier felled in battle, he soon realizes that no injury can kill him. He goes on through many aliases, becoming the immortal known as Flint. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- circa 3733 BC
- Landru of Beta III preaches peace and coexistence among his people, ending a period of savagery. He creates a powerful computer to guide and protect his people after his death. (TOS: "The Return of the Archons")
5,000 years ago
- circa 2700 BC
- Earth is visited by aliens who settle in the region near Greece and the Mediterranean, where they are worshiped by the Greeks as gods. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
- Sarpeidon experiences an ice age. Zarabeth is exiled to this time period, and Spock and Leonard McCoy are briefly stranded here as well. (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays")
- circa 2600 BC
- The Egyptians build the pyramids of Giza. They are observed by anthropologists from the future (specifically, the year 2769. (ENT: "Cold Front")
4,000 years ago
- Humans on Earth begin the tradition of confining law-breakers to prisons. (TOS: "Dagger of the Mind")
- circa 1800 BC
- The Xindi-Avians build a concealed fortress on a planet that will one day become the home of the Xindi Council. (ENT: "The Council")
3,000 years ago
- circa 950 BC
- Flint lives the life of King Solomon on Earth. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- circa 850 BC
- The Vulcan monastery on P'Jem is built. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")
- circa 730 BC
- The Kalandan outpost planet, "a few thousand years old" in 2269, may be constructed around this time. (TOS: "That Which Survives")
- circa 500 BC
- The Bajoran prophet Trakor first encounters the Orb of Prophecy and Change, and writes a series of prophecies concerning the Emissary of the Prophets. (DS9: "Destiny")
- The Battle of Thermopylae is fought on Earth between the Spartans and the Persians. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
- circa 400 BC
- Survivors from the Sahndara system supernova arrive on Earth. Their sojourn coincides with the time of the philosophers Socrates and Plato. "After the death of the Greek civilization they idolized" they move on to the planet Platonius.(TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
- Flint lives the life of Alexander the Great on Earth. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- Construction begins on the Great Wall of China on Earth. (VOY: "11:59")
- Parmen, future leader of the Sahndaran refugee community, is born on Platonius. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
- Philana, future wife of Parmen, is born on Platonius. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
- Philana, now 30, stops aging. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
Indeterminate Past
- An unknown race, possibly of extragalactic origin, builds a massive planet killer. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")
- The population of Talos IV is largely wiped out in a war. Forced to live beneath the surface, the Talosians develop their mental powers, while neglecting their technological knowledge and skills. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II")
- According to Klingon mythology, Kortar, the first Klingon, destroys the gods who created him. (DS9: "Homefront"; VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
- A neutron star in a binary star system in the Kavis Alpha sector begins exploding every 196 years. (TNG: "Evolution")
- A power struggle occurs within the highest ranks of a race called the Saltah'na, which ultimately destroys them. Before their extinction, the Saltah'na create a collection of energy spheres which preserve a record of the events leading to the species' destruction via a telepathic matrix, which can be transferred into the minds of some humanoid species, causing them to reenact the power struggle. (DS9: "Dramatis Personae")
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Commissioner's Network key to improving Connecticut's low performing schools in danger of drastic funding cuts
New Haven >> Governor Malloy and the General Assembly must protect the Commissioner's Network from future cuts in order to ensure that kids receive the high-quality public education they deserve, according to the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN).
The Commissioner's Network was created in 2012 as part the education reform law (Public Act 12-116). The Network aims to turnaround up to 25 of Connecticut's lowest-performing schools, and help thousands of students receive the quality education they deserve so they have a chance at a brighter future.
By 2014-15, dozens of chronically low-performing schools will be eligible to join the Commissioner's Network. Harfords Thurman Milner School, New Haven's High School in the Community, Bridgeport's James J. Curiale School and Norwich's John B. Stanton School are already part of the turnaround effort.
"When it comes to bolstering Connecticut's lowest performing schools and providing students with better options Governor Malloy has been the champion our kids desperately need," said Jennifer Alexander, Acting CEO for ConnCAN.
The Network was established as part of Public Act 12-116 last May. In Decemeber the General Assembly passed a deficit mitigation plan which slashed nearly one third ($2,425,000) of the Commissioner Network's budget - including $425,000 from planning grants. This mid-year cut could have a devastating impact on schools that are part of this program, as well as schools that plan to join for 2013-2014.
"With Connecticut suffering from the worst-in-the-nation achievement gap, our kids are counting on us to deliver on the promise we made last year to turnaround Connecticut's lowest-performing schools," said Alexander. "If state leaders are serious about protecting the progress we made last year, they'll protect this program and help thousands of kids across the state who are stuck in failing schools receive the high-quality public education the deserve."
The multi-million dollar decrease in funding to the Commissioner's Network is devastating to the four schools in the Network that have already made critical staffing and programming decisions.


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The Ministry of Justice has reported eight data breach incidents affecting around 45,000 people.
The incident affecting the most people, reported in the ministry's 2007-08 resource accounts (pdf), took place in June 2007. Discs containing 27,000 supplier records, including supplier names, addresses and in some cases bank details, were in the possession of a contractor to the ministry.
No notification steps were taken as a result. The document says that "the data was not lost or stolen but some examples were shown to a representative of a newspaper," adding that all the data was subsequently recovered or destroyed.
The ministry reported this and eight other incidents to the Information Commissioner's Office during the last financial year. Three involved the loss of laptops, one in January containing data on 14,000 fine defaulters. The data included names, dates of birth, addresses, offences and in a fifth of cases national insurance numbers. The laptop, described as inadequately protected, was lost within secured government premises.
Another incident in September 2007 involved a laptop lost outside government offices, and affected only 13 people – but they were applicants for judicial office, and the data lost included their suitability for that office. The individuals were notified, as well as the police.
Four of the incidents involved the loss of paper documents, with one incident in November 2007 involving data on 3,648 people including their alleged offences. One other incident involved the loss of storage devices.
In its resource accounts (pdf), the Department for Work and Pensions revealed three data losses, all of names, addresses and national insurance numbers, affecting in total more than 16,800 people.
The incident affecting most people took place in December 2007. It involved the unauthorised disclosure of data on 9,000 people and saw the department notify law enforcement agencies.
In December, the DWP confirmed that two discs containing details of thousands of benefit claimants had been mistakenly retained by a contractor. These reportedly contained 9,000 people's data.
However, at time of writing the department was not able to provide any further information on the December breach or the two others, one in July 2007 which potentially affected 7,800 people, and one in January when papers with data on 45 people were lost.
Meanwhile, the resource accounts (pdf) of the security and intelligence agencies will carry out work to improve their information security.
"This area will continue to demand significant senior management attention," cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell writes, in his capacity as accounting officer for the agencies in the public version of the accounts. "The agencies plan more internal reviews to support further measures for enhancing the effectiveness of their data security frameworks."
The document, a cut-down version of the full secret report, also says that the agencies formally reported "no protected personal data-related incidents" in the last financial year, and that in previous years, the agencies had focused on reporting incidents relating to national security.
This article was originally published at Kablenet.
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HOPE, B.C. - Homicide investigators say a double shooting in Hope, B.C., was a murder suicide.
Sgt. Jennifer Pound says officers have completed the crime scene examination at a rural property in the eastern Fraser Valley community, about 150 kilometres east of Vancouver.
She says police initially believed the incident early Sunday morning was a double homicide but have now determined that one man shot the other, before turning the gun on himself.
The men have been identified as 26-year-old Alex Lamb and 29-year-old Taylor Insley.
Pound says the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was not a random attack but a targeted shooting between two men who knew each other.
She did not release their hometowns or say which of the two men was the murder victim, but notes the incident remains under investigation and officers continue to probe the motive for the shooting.


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What is Power Controller?
A power controller is selection of transmitter power output in a communication system to achieve great performance within the system.
Features and benefits
Compact DIN rail and bulkhead mounting
Controls comprehensive range of loads: resistive, infrared, transformer, silicone carbide
Energy usage measurement
Advanced load diagnostics
Reacts quickly to customer needs while maximizing resources
Whether replacing an existing product or designing new process, the design of power controller has been carefully considered for fast and easy installation, commissioning and integration into wider systems, lowering equipment costs, and manufacturing times
Cost effective solution for the control of 3 phase loads
A wide range of alarms can quickly identify a controller detected fault which reduces downtime
Suitable in applications:
Annealing glass
Drying glass
Melting or heating glass
Plastic and metals for precise heating control


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A number of pressing issues face the new leader of the Catholic Church. Eight experts offer their advice on the best way forward.
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was to many a surprising choice when he emerged from the papal conclave in March as the church's 266th pontiff. The new Pope Francis, a down-to-earth Jesuit from Buenos Aires, Argentina with a keen sense of pastoral outreach, does not seem to fit the mold that many have come to expect in the successor to Peter—which may make him the ideal candidate for the job.
In a church wrought with division and plagued by scandals of corruption and sexual abuse, the so-called "pope of firsts" seems a breath of fresh air to many Catholics across the globe. But while his election was widely celebrated, he has been closely scrutinized as he begins his ministry for signs of how he might approach some of global Catholicism's greatest challenges.
According to Claretian Father Gustavo Larrazábal, an Argentinean priest who developed a close friendship with then-Cardinal Bergoglio as publisher of many of the pope's writings, Francis has a clear understanding of those challenges. "The great issues of the church in Argentina are very similar to the global ones," says Larrazábal, noting concerns about evangelization, marriage and divorce, and questions of clerical celibacy, among others. "For his part, he knows exactly what he needs to do, and he will be very firm."
Still, the new pope would do well to surround himself with trusted advisers who can help him navigate some of the complex challenges ahead. We asked eight experts well acquainted with some of those issues for their advice to Pope Francis, and on the following pages they provide the new pope with their thoughts on how best to address some of the church's most pressing needs.
Click below to see what advice these experts have for the new pope.
These articles appeared in the May 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 78, No. 5, pages 17-22).
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Park City Players to launch dinner theater in June
After a season of shows at the Bijou Theatre in Bridgeport, the Park City Players are getting into the dinner theater business.
"It's something you don't see much anymore, but we think it's overdue for a revival," director Nancy Lessard said in a phone interview last week.
The twist here is that the shows at Vazzano's Four Seasons in Stratford on June 6 and 7 won't be one of those 1970s belly-busting mixes of theater and an all-you-can buffet, but a more health-conscious affair.
The Shelton director is putting together a show made up of romantic songs and scenes that she is calling "True Love Doesn't Weight," which will be a fundraiser for the Obesity Action Coalition.
"The show will be a variation on the `Great American Love Songs' show we did at the Bijou," Lessard said, adding that the owner-operator of the Stratford restaurant has been asking her to do a Park City Players show there for a long time.
"Johnny and I have known each other for 30 years, and we thought we could come up with a different sort of dinner theater," Lessard said of the health-conscious menu.
"I think it's great that we can kick it off with a charity event," she added of supporting the work of the OAS.
Lessard said the show will be the first of three to be presented at Vazzano's over the next year. "White Christmas" will be the holiday attraction at the end of the year and a spring show is set for 2014.
"The idea is to do something seasonal three times a year," she said.
Cabaret master class
After three months' work in master classes under the auspices of Greenwich's Connecticut Playmakers, a cast of 18 singers will present a "Master Class Cabaret" of Broadway and American Songbook tunes May 17 to 26 at the First Congregational Church in the Old Greenwich section of Greenwich.
Jazz pianist Chris Coogan will accompany the performers throughout the evening.
Coogan and Playmaker artistic director Michele Grace, of Fairfield, have been working with the performers on an individual basis each week since February.
"After working as the director of Playmakers for the past four years with large casts, this year's opportunity to do an intimate evening has been fun and a welcome opportunity," Grace said.
Highlights of the evening will include songs from such classic Broadway shows as "Gypsy," "Finian's Rainbow," and "South Pacific," as well as the more recent musicals "Wicked" and "Les Miserables."
The cast will include Linda Colucci, Cathy Hickey, Jodi Maxner, Karen Joyce, Karen Mitchell, Di Longo, Ellynne Plotnick, Lucrezia Zichichi, Barbara Zichichi and Dianne Dadonna, all from Stamford; Rosalind Cormier, Dee Cassella, Pamela Gillmor and Laura Skutch, all of Norwalk; Melissa Middleton of Redding; Terry Le Bel of Shelton; Maryann Ramos, Sandra Benee and Alonso Martinez, all of Greenwich, and Vickey Gil, of Milford.
Grace will also perform in the show. She has a long list of cabaret credits that include opening for the legendary Bobby Short when he was in residence at Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle.
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VICTORIA — A program to prevent and control the spread of serious infections fails to meet "any modern staffing recommendations," found an internationally recognized expert called in to look at unusually high levels of C. difficile at Burnaby General Hospital in the Vancouver suburb.
"The number of trained infection control practitioners belonging to the (Fraser Health) program is less than half what would be considered acceptable by current standards," said Dr. Michael Gardam in a report completed Feb. 6.
"This directly impacts the control of organisms such as C. difficile as the (infection prevention and control) resources appear overwhelmed," he added.
"Burnaby Hospital and Royal Columbian Hospital currently have a total of four (infection control practitioners) who provide services for roughly 800 in-patient beds."
Fraser Health asked Gardam last November to look at the high levels of C. difficile at both Burnaby General and Royal Columbian hospitals, and to make recommendations on how the virus could better be controlled.
Gardam's report, which contained 13 recommendations, was released by Fraser Health on Thursday, one day after a harsh rebuke by doctors at Burnaby Hospital was made public. In a strongly worded January letter to the head of Fraser Health — which the provincial New Democratic Party obtained and released on Wednesday — the doctors expressed alarm over the fact that 84 people with C. difficile had died at Burnaby Hospital from 2009 to mid-2011.
Gardam is the director of infection prevention and control at Toronto's University Health Network and Women's College Hospital. In a news release accompanying his report, Fraser Health identified him as "an international authority on infection prevention and control practices."
On Thursday, officials at Fraser Health said they were working to immediately implement 10 of the recommendations, but not the other three.
One of those not getting an immediate response was the staffing deficiency Gardam identified in the regional infection prevention and control program.
"This one is one of the ones that (is) still under discussion," Fraser Health vice-president Dr. Andrew Webb said in an interview Thursday.
"We know we have low numbers compared to other health authorities or hospitals, but we also rely on the fact that infection prevention control is the responsibility of everyone who is touching patients," he said.
"One of the reasons we're not sure where to go with this is we've got to work out clearly whether we just put another 12 (infection control) practitioners in place, would that really make a difference?" he said, explaining that might dissuade others on staff from taking individual responsibility for the issue.
"We're not sure of that, and that's why we haven't raced to implement that."
Not good enough, said Health Minister Mike de Jong.
"I think when you call an expert in, you'd be well advised to follow the advice of that expert. That is what I have communicated to Fraser Health," he said Thursday afternoon.
De Jong said he has asked Dr. Doug Cochrane of the B.C. Patient Safety and Quality Council to work directly with Fraser Health on implementing all 13 recommendations.
"When you've got a facility that is showing improvement, but is still out of step with what we would deem acceptable levels of this infection, and you have recommendations from an expert about what is necessary to address that, I believe you have to follow those recommendations," he said.
New Democratic Party health critic Mike Farnworth said he agrees all 13 recommendations need to be implemented, especially the one relating to proper staffing levels for infection control.
"I think it's just unconscionable, appalling that one of the key findings is that we don't by any definition meet modern staffing standards," he said.
"I think that's outrageous and I think the government needs to be prepared to put resources in place to do that."
Farnworth said he is concerned about the obvious lack of communication between Fraser Health and de Jong regarding the recommendations.
"This just illustrates there's a disconnect between what's happening in the health authority and what the minister thinks is or isn't happening," he said, noting de Jong didn't know the letter from Burnaby doctors even existed until the NDP raised it in question period Wednesday.
While the doctors' letter said only that there had been 84 deaths associated with C. difficile — not caused by it — de Jong challenged a growing public perception that the deaths were attributed to the disease.
"To suggest that 84 individuals have died because of C. difficile is incorrect," de Jong told the legislature Thursday, adding the claim "unnecessarily causes concern."
In an interview, de Jong said he does not have a number for deaths caused by C. difficile in the 2 1/2-year period, but said that in 2010-11, there were 13 cases at Burnaby Hospital where C. difficile is believed to have contributed to a patient's death.
Of those 13 cases, officials at Fraser Health added, eight involved patients over the age of 80, and all had other complicating medical conditions.
Also on Thursday, representatives of the Hospital Employees' Union — which represents 1,200 workers employed by Fraser Health at the hospital and an additional 70 cleaning staff employed by Aramark — raised concerns about the validity of cleaning audits at the hospital. They noted Burnaby Hospital surpassed all cleaning standards in audits conducted in 2009 through mid-2011.
"Right now, the quality of hospital cleaning is based on visual appearances only," HEU secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson said in a news release.
"But there are a range of factors involved in ensuring that our hospitals are clean and safe including enough cleaning staff, with the right tools and training, to deliver this critical health service."
De Jong brushed aside the criticism, saying the province specifically monitors for infections like C. difficile using different measures than those contained in cleaning audits.
"Infection relates to microorganisms and that's why the monitoring that has taken place around C. difficile is so important because it goes beyond other basic monitoring from cleanliness," he said.


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Evidence continues to dribble in that Apple is planning to launch not only the iPhone 5 but also a new iPad this year.
The iPad was last upgraded as recently as March, but we're hearing from a well-placed source within the UK's biggest satellite broadcaster that a further - presumably pre-Christmas - iPad update is on the cards.
Likewise the next iPhone, which, had Apple followed tradition would have been announced earlier this month at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) but wasn't.
All the indicators are pointing to a September announcement, which will also feature what the mole identified as the "iPad 3".
Beyond a faster, more core-crammed CPU and a lighter chassis, the next iPad's key hoped-for feature is a high-density screen of the type Apple calls a "retina display", presumably with a 2048 x 1536 resolution.
Imagery from the pre-release version of iOS 5 suggest this could be so, but the evidence is circumstantial.
And since our mole hasn't actually had the new gadgets in hand himself, we have to take his claim with caution. Just as long as the iPad 3 doesn't sport the allegedly "dead cert" 3D display... ®


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In a Post-Facebook IPO World, SecondMarket Evolves Away From Internet Companies
Among many Internet investors in Silicon Valley, SecondMarket is a bad word these days. The company is closely associated with secondary stock trading of companies like Facebook and Groupon over the past few years, at prices that were out of whack with what the public markets will now pay.
But SecondMarket isn't dead yet. It's not necessarily zooming up the growth charts, but it's not dead. The company has done $418 million in business in the first three quarters of this year, down 3 percent from last year. However, the demographics of its customers are pretty dramatically different.
SecondMarket's largest category of clients is now consumer electronics; it was by far the biggest in the third quarter, with 75.8 percent.
Behind that are e-commerce and financial services; and behind that, the formerly giant category of consumer Web and social media, according to a quarterly report released today.
Instead of former employees, SecondMarket's largest selling contingent is now current employees.
Until the third quarter, there were always more former employees than current employees selling on SecondMarket — and, in 2010 and 2011, that was as high as 90 percent of sellers. In the third quarter of 2012, 75 percent of sellers were current employees.
"Companies are working with SecondMarket to incentivize, motivate and reward their current employees without having to face the wrath of the public markets," said SecondMarket spokeswoman Aishwarya Iyer.
Iyer called employee liquidity programs "morale boosters."
The demographics of the typical SecondMarket company has changed, as well. In the third quarter, the median valuation on SecondMarket was $538 million. That's much smaller than companies like Facebook and Groupon in their private-market heydays.
The median SecondMarket company in the third quarter had raised $145.7 million, and had 609 employees who have been there for 7.5 years. The median selling program was $7.9 million per company.


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Search for Amazing Amy continues in new Gone Girl poster
Nick Dunne's missing wife is ever present...
Ben Affleck looks troubled in new poster for Gone Girl.
Which is understandable. He's playing Nick Dunne – a man who comes under suspicion when his wife Amy disappears on their fifth wedding anniversary – in the big screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling crime novel.
The new poster continues to channel a live news broadcast as the "search for Amazing Amy" lengthens, though this time Affleck appears on screen, his brooding stance disrupted by lines of interference. And the creepy, omnipresent eyes of his missing wife, played by Rosamund Pike…
Directed by David Fincher, Gone Girl also stars Neil Patrick Harris and Emily Ratajkowski.
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Is that what it woulda been like to go to a house party at Gryffindor? If Hogwarts was university, I TOTALLY think Gryffindor would have had the best parties. Especially if Neville Longbottom took his shirt off.
I'm a couple of days late on this because it came out just as the weekend was starting but that doesn't mean the enjoyment won't last. Buzzfeed posted it on Friday – GIFs of Neville, muggle name Matthew Lewis, going full Village People on his new BBC show about bomb specialists in Afghanistan. Or Hogwarts the college years, whatever you want to call it.
What Neville lacks in rhythm, he makes up for in chest hair. And enthusiasm. And Gryffindor spirit!
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Can you experience Costa Rica without 'immersing' yourself into the culture or mastering the language? A lot of websites say, 'no'... I say, "BULLSHIT". Check out the video to see why.
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I don't have the foggiest idea about using your cell phone while traveling in Costa Rica. Luckily, D'Angelo does. Check it out. After the video, I quoted a guy who commented on the video for added information. Hopefully, the video and comments explain what it is you need to do.
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) are the phones with the "smart chip." If you're from the USA and want to purchase a prepaid Subscriber Identity Module (SIM card) from a Costa Rican cellular provider, you need an UNLOCKED phone from AT&T or T-Mobile. If your phone is uses CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) such as Sprint, Verizon or MetroPCS, then your phone does not use a SIM card and will NOT accept a pre-paid SIM card from a Costa Rican cellular provider.
In the USA, AT&T and T-Mobile sell their phones locked to their networks. A SIM-card from a different cell phone company will not work in your phone until you get your phone unlocked. AT&T will usually agree to unlock your phone at the end of your 2-year contract. T-Mobile will allow you to unlock your phone once your phone is fully paid for. AT&T and T-Mobile do not sell unlocked phones and they do not unlock them automatically, you must specifically request to have your phone unlocked.
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To the southeast of the Pyramids of Keiz lies the ruins of old. Stone, and what is left lie as a memory of the Keiz that was before it's revival to the northwest. Dangerous things now lurk here, roaming what used to be halls and what used to be alive, but silent.
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In the Northern side of the Pyramid stands the White Office and the Office of War and Peace. While the first is occupied by the current White Shrew, the second is occupied by its current governing Guardian, and is where the White Shrew and guardians meet to discuss threats, or other issues.
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LOS ANGELES, July 9 (UPI) -- Newcomer Sam Heughan is to play the role of Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser in the upcoming series "Outlander," Starz and Sony Pictures Television said Tuesday.
Based on Diana Gabaldon's international best-selling books, the drama is to premiere on the cable television network in 2014.
"Oh. My. God. That man is a Scot to the bone and Jamie Fraser to the heart. Having seen Sam Heughan not just act, but be Jamie, I feel immensely grateful to the production team for their painstaking attention to the soul of the story and characters," Gabaldon said in a statement.
"From the very beginning, I knew the part of Jamie Fraser would be difficult to cast," Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore said. "I had no one in mind for the part. I knew that someone would just come into the audition and be Jamie Fraser. And that's what Sam did."
"In 'Outlander,' Jamie Fraser strikes up a passionate affair with Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743," a synopsis said.
Heughan is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama who has appeared on the BBC soap opera "Doctors." He has also had roles in television series such as "River City," "Island at War," "The Wild West," "Midsomer Murders" and "Any Human Heart."


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Experience Fishing at its Best at One of Louisiana's Many Tournaments
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Fishing is a popular pastime, no matter the time of year, but summer brings one fantastic fishing tournament after another in Louisiana.
We encourage all fishermen, both novice and expert, to take the plunge and enter a local contest. The reward is meeting new fishing buddies, wining a range of prizes, and the possibility of having a new trophy on the wall.
The Louisiana coast has long been a popular fishing destination, and some of the biggest fishing tournaments in the state are held here during the summer months.
Tournament details and registration information are as follows:
Faux Pas Lodge Invitational
In its 14th year, the Faux Pas Lodge Invitational is fast becoming one of southeast Louisiana's most popular rodeos to fish, with the 2011 field including over 800 anglers. The rodeo will be held in Venice on Thursday, July 26 through Saturday, July 28. The tournament is comprised of four different divisions: inshore, rig, offshore and live redfish.
Registration begins July 1. To download an application click here: http://fauxpaslodge.com/index.asp?pg=registration.
The tournament will again be joined by the Recreational Fisheries Research Institute, a non-profit conservation, research and outreach group.
For more information contact Kleo Blue at [email protected]or (504) 834-8342.
Empire South Pass Tarpon Rodeo
The Empire South Pass Tarpon Rodeo is back again this year on Thursday, July 5 through Saturday, July 7 at the Delta Marina in Empire. The entry fee is $40.00 per angler with cash prizes issued on Saturday.
For more information contact The Delta Marina at [email protected]or (504) 657-5116.
Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo
The Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo was originally established in 1928 and is the oldest fishing tournament in the Unites States. The tournament will be held at the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo Pavilion located at the end of Highway 1 in Grand Isle. The tournament dates are Thursday, July 26 through Saturday, July 28.
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Post derecho: I realize I'm the eco-catastrophe
My name is Janis, and I'm an addict. No, not heroin or cocaine or meth. This is worse than a drug. With a drug addiction, you can tell yourself that the only person you're putting in peril is yourself.
What I'm addicted to is power: the power to animate all my modern conveniences, including electricity for my flatscreen, and gasoline for my Subaru.
For years, I've been thinking that I can quit anytime. You know, in case global warming gets to be too much, and we all have to pitch in, and conserve, for real.
I'd always thought that if need be, I could simply do without electricity and figure out how to get around without gas-powered wheels. And then came that bizarre storm, the Derecho. For the first time ever, my husband and I were without power for an entire week. Temperatures hovered around 100 degrees, and there was not the slightest breeze to provide relief.
Our nights were sleepless and sweaty– and not in the good way. No electricity, no generator, no AC, no running water. Downed trees blocked our driveway and surrounding roads. We were miserable, and we were stuck.
Cold-turkey withdrawal is no fun.
Of course, this addiction to power is one that I share with all of you who are reading this. It has allowed us to proliferate and prosper, while simultaneously weakening us. We have lost the skills possessed by our ancestors, who for millennia dealt more or less successfully with the challenges of daily living without disrupting the basic physical systems of our planet.
It's not as though I haven't tried to cut back. I have. I've got those ugly bulbs with the mercury inside, and sometimes I adjust the AC so it's not so frosty. In winter, I've been known to turn down the thermostat and put on a sweater. But total withdrawal? Can't handle it, apparently.
Meanwhile, the Arctic ice is disappearing, oceans are a shocking 30 percent more acidic, and our warming atmosphere now holds five percent more water (so areas not experiencing drought are more likely to endure devastating floods.)
And yet, we are steadily increasing our consumption of fossil fuels and pouring ever more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Thanks to people like me— who have to get into a vehicle and drive for miles to reach a grocery store, and who possess an array of electronic toys, as well as banks of overhead lights embedded in our ceilings (the better to see our computer screens)— we managed to pump a record 34 gigatons of CO2 up into the sky during 2011.
In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, there's an eye-opening article by Bill McKibben, in which he asserts that the enemy in this planet-altering drama is the oil companies. After all, Big Oil has vast heaps of money, which gives them election-changing political power.
At the United Nations Climate Conference in 2009, says McKibben, there was a single area of international agreement: Between now and 2050 (and think of all the people alive today who will still be around in 2050) our atmosphere will be able to handle no more than 565 additional gigatons of spewed carbon dioxide, in order for us to be able to carry on with life as we know it.
Even if we manage to hold the line at last year's rate of 34 gigatons, we'll reach the 565-gigaton limit in less than seventeen years.
(As it happens, even before we reach that 565-gigaton limit, much of Africa will be screwed, due to drought, and island nations will disappear below sea level. But hey, that's not us.)
And, speaking of maintaining life as we know it on planet Earth, we have enough reserves of oil, gas, and coal in the ground right now to exceed that 565-gigaton limit, five times over.
What are the chances that we will restrain ourselves, curb our addiction to power and leave 80% of those reserves in the ground?
If snowballs in hell are springing to mind, then you and I are on the same wavelength.
As with any addiction, a willingness to stop using is fundamental to kicking the habit. Are we willing to go without gasoline? To do without electricity to run our lights, computers, and AC? Our recent power outage provided a painfully clear answer to that question. It's "Hell, no."
In classic addict-denial mode, we tell ourselves that what we're doing couldn't possibly harm a big ole planet like Earth. And we don't want to hear what scientists have to say.
We think they're all dishonest and just making things up. Well, except for a few altruistic ones who happen to work for the big oil companies. They tell us we're doing just fine, and we want to believe them.
Like the heroin addict, you want to hear that your favorite substance isn't such a big problem, after all. Stop worrying! Just keep buying that junk and pumping it in. That money you're spending makes the world go 'round, you know. The economy depends, absolutely, upon your addiction.
Plus, it's not really an addiction, because we can stop anytime we really need to. Like if the ocean rises and engulfs low-lying places we care about. Maybe New York City or the Outer Banks. Then we'll buckle down and make some changes!
But until then, I'll stay tanked up on gas, and crank up the AC because this has been one hell of a summer.
You can blame the big oil companies if it makes you feel better, but just as the drug cartels would fall apart if we stopped buying illegal drugs, we are enabling Shell, Exxon, et al with our insatiable habit.
The painful truth is that I have seen the enemy: She's staring back at me in the mirror.
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Individuals altering their energy habits is not the solution, other than putting salve on a one's guilty conscious.
But there is something we can do, and it is the only thing. Elect people committed to government policies that mandate change. Even that may be too little too late, but it's our only chance.
Predictably full of lies and anti-human sentiment. Very trendy, though.
You're not an addict, and your energy consumption has absolutely nothing to do with climate, so go ahead and enjoy. NYC and the Outer Banks will be just fine. If you own a boat, you know this from tide charts that have been unchanged for hundreds of years.
I can never understand why so many believe everything from light bulbs, the cars we drive, and air conditioners affects the climate, but the largest source of heat affecting our planet - the sun - is conveniently overlooked. There has been plenty of reporting on the sun undergoing a very active solar cycle, but some reason too many think SUV's are instead affecting the climate.
And they're putting barium and aluminum oxide in the jet fuel of even passenger planes creating aerosol and particulat chemtrails everywhere in open view of anyone looking up (to say nothing of the high altitude chemtrail spraying blimps that fly so high the naked eye can't see them), there are HAARP style facilities all througout the world, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen admits there is open weather warfare going on, it's completely obvious governments throughout the world are engaging in weather modification, it's completely obvious that they're blaming the results of their own weather modification operations on industry to destroy what's left of the economy, and it's completely obvious that they think you're so stupid from the fluoride in the water, the mercury in the vaccines, the poison in the gmo, the dirty electricty from cell phones, base stations, and smart grid meters, not to mention the chemtrails themselves, that you will be physically, mentally and spiritually unable to resist the tyranny they plan to impose incrementally, with the help of the dumbed down trendies to keep the scam going.
Sorry, but I disagree with most of the above and agree with Janis. Janis can do better: and so can most of my neighbors Since 1987, I've owned two cars: combined mileage: not quite 160,000 miles. So an average of less than 7,000 miles per year for 25 years. And I've driven from Atlantic to Pacific at least three times during that time. And lived in Los Angeles for seven of those years. My pesonal household has reduced from five to three in the past two years, but my utilities are less that 30% of their 5 member level. The refrigerator & the water heater still work 24/7. It's simply a mindset: if I forgot to stop at the grocery store on the way home today, I wait until tomorrow to do it: I don't go out a second time. Plus, I'm a 40-year vegetarian, which consumes a lot less of everything (10 to 1 ratio: feed the person or feed to animal that feeds the person).
Burying your head in the same and buying everying that McDonalds and Walmart and Exxon tell you to is expensive: today and tomorrow.
Janis is right: she can do better by the planet and so can most of my neighbors.
Somebody needs to add another layer of tinfoil to their hat; the mind control rays are still getting through..
But seriously, the recent long midsummer power outage (a very rare event) drives home why this area and most of Crackerstan was so sparsely populated before the advent of cheap AC. Eliminate AC and watch Charlalbemarle's population drop from 125K to about 12K over the course of 10 years.
Humans really cant stand people. They blame them for everything and wouldn't be surprised if one day they rid the planet of them.
My father used to have a button that said "I love
humanity. It's people I can't stand." Thanks for
reminding me. I think living without AC is doable
but you have to change your life. One old trick
is to put ice in front of your fans=homemade AC.
Absolutely ridiculous. There is no reason whatsoever for Janis to do "better". She is doing just fine, and not doing anything wrong. It's called a modern lifestyle, and a modern lifestyle has absolutely no effect on the planet whatsoever. Try living in the many primitive societies around the world without. I'm sure it's not fun.
I drove my '93 Lincoln Town car over 300,000 miles in 11 years. So since I keep and maintain my cars a long time, I guess I'm saving the planet too. How ridiculous.
This is America. And for REAL Americans, America have never been about doing with less. When did all this Euro minimization start here?
Do you think any of the energy conservation efforts made any difference in Japan when that 9.0 earthquake and tsunami came along? All those compact florescent bulbs, solar panels, and hybrid cars really were insignificant against the power of mother nature. All it takes is one volcano or forest fire - both of which we have little control over - to undo years and years of turning down thermostats and changing light bulbs.
I cannot understand why people fail to see the logic of this and continue to wallow in absurd folly, thinking they're going to save the planet like some kind of superhero. When it comes down to it, we are all extremely insignificant relative to the planet and universe.
They love beings slaves and hating people who don't want to be slaves like them. It's what their friends believe, those friendships were bonded by the shared self-loathing and nature worship that they all were implanted during their "education" and countless subliminals they were subjected to listening to NPR and watching David Attenborough, and to admit it was all a lie to subjugate them would mean they would feel a responsibility to wake up their friends to the scam and subject themselves to the ridicule that would ensue and it's easier to continue to pretend, especially when all their friends are doing the same. Too much invested in the lie to turn back now.
And somebody might think they're a Christian conservative if they woke up. Not gonna do it.
@AngelEyes: Thanks for the first out loud laugh at a Hook post.
"But seriously, the recent long midsummer power outage (a very rare event) drives home why this area and most of Crackerstan was so sparsely populated before the advent of cheap AC."
Hey denialists, of course the sun affects the climate. So do we. It's not a sum zero game. It's real simple - we have sewers and toilets in because we need to keep our environment clean. Yes, mother nature can wipe us out in the blink of an eye, but we can still affect our environment.
The elite distract you with phony environmental issues while they use environmentalism to land grab and shut down competition while they always get the waiver because they bought the politicians who write the bills and head the agencies. It's not about the environment at the top, it's about control. We could be paying 50 cents a gallon at the pump and a nickel a kilowatt hour if people didn't accept paying more because of the "for the earth" fraud. The city council talks about the envrionment non-stop while they dump toxic waste marked with skull and crossbones directly into the public water supply. I guess that's good since humans are bad but it's poisoning the fish and birds and salamanders and box turtles too
I think if the government got OUT of the energy sector you would see more innovation in the green sector. If it truly works and is truly the best way to provide energy that we all need then the dollars will gravitate there. Money is always found were there is opportunity and potential.
Denialists... how I just love that term... a term that is often used to describe anyone who does not believe in something that cannot scientifically be proven.
It is truly amazing how the "non-denialists" believe in global warming - or "climate change" as they now conveniently call it to cover both their bases - don't believe in God, but they do believe in the word of some (not all) scientists.
Consensus is NOT science. Science is something that can be proven, like water boiling at 212F or freezing at 32F. It is consistent, and can be replicated. Global warming or man made climate change does not fit this criteria and therefore is not science, but religion... and a pagan religion at that.
I think the time of Prometheus's suffering for sharing with humans the secret of fire, may be coming to an end. Energy, or electricity, flows through matter, makes it dance, brings it to life, starts the phenomena of time. Fire is matter surrendering that force all at once. It manifests for an instant in a blaze of glory and then dematerializes, zaps out of the matrix, leaving what was once a log or a lump of coal, collapsed back to dusty ash, which is to say, carbon divorced from electricity.
Legend tells that once the Gods, Extraterrestrials, Bigger than the Matrix, walked the Earth. Humans were more like monkeys back then, wielding little power against the forces of nature. They were simple creations of the Earth without a clue to how greatly their species would in time shape this planet. What separates a God from a simple creation is that a God can harness the Direct Current of Life and use it to manifest his will in the matrix. Prometheus was one of such, and for some treasonous, treacherous, glorious reason he felt pity for those lowly cave-dwelling creatures who were slouchily starting to stand upright and communicate, starting cycles of tradition through generations. He gave them power, which the gods had denied them previously, out of fear that it would be too much for them to handle. It's said he's still being punished in another dimension.
The tale of Man's Progress has been one of ever-increasing fluency in the art and magic of hijacking the spirit flowing through matter and re-directing it to fulfill our (often violent and short-sighted) desires. It's been synonymous with the mastery of fire. Just a few generations ago we dreamed up a way to use fire to make engines spin, turning the gears of monstrous mechanical creations to work for us with strength and speed that made a man's body seem feeble in comparison. Then they discovered that coal and oil could be burned in these engines, and that the engines could be used to isolate an electrical current.
Now we're at a time when everything that we do in our lives is dependent on burning those fossilized remains of an extinct world. The utilization of fire is no longer a gift and a privilege- we think we need it for our basic survival, and we fear that this addiction will bring our world to extinction as well.
The reason I started this thought with the suggestion that perhaps poor Prometheus will soon be pardoned, is because I think it's necessary and inevitable that humans are now evolving to the point that we will no longer use combustion to redirect electricity according to our desires.
The harm which results from the use of fossil fuels far outweighs any benefit. The amount of carbon dioxide trapped in the stratosphere as a result of all this fire may or may not be the reason why the polar ice caps have suddenly melted and a huge hole is growing in the ozone layer. Because those issues are still up for debate, I won't even go into that. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the resulting mass-extinction and poisoning of the water (truly our most valuable resource,) the wars which Capitalist leaders are continuously waging on oil-rich third world countries as a means of stealing their bounty- those are some serious crimes whose only justification is that they helped us feed our habit for a little while longer.
This sin and suffering is completely unnecessary. There are so many alternative means of harnessing the electricity innately present in nature. People are used to having the system take care of them, but it's time to regain our independence. Like a cancer or a parasite, the system will continue draining its host right unto death. If we want a new world, we have to build it ourselves, starting at home. Research and invest in hydro, thermal, and solar energy sources. Research torus energy conductors that take a small electrical current and duplicate it exponentially by directing it through the center of a donut shape of coiled copper wire. Sell your gas car and buy diesel, run for free on waste veggie oil. Bring your own bag to the grocery store, bring your own containers and buy in bulk so you don't have to deal with all that hideous plastic packaging. Knowing we have a problem is the start to finding a solution, but don't just feel guilty and continue on the path that is wrong but easy because you've been doing it for so long. We still have inner strength and the ability to think independently, despite the fluoride laced water we've been forced to drink. Put it to use and take personal accountability for your energy consumption desires.


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Rep. James White, R-Hillister, is among a handful of Republicans who have voted with Democrats on failed efforts to put money into schools for deaf and blind Texans and college financial aid.
White said money should go to the schools for people who are deaf and blind if it becomes available, as called for in the amendments by Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston.
"Evidently that is a very exceptional case, and if we do have some monies left over, we should consider that situation. But we understand what this is about. This is about politics right now," White said.
He said that, bottom line, ""The money is not going to be there. This is an opportunity so they can get something and run back home and say you voted against something. This is ridiculous. I'm not playing that game.
"That's all they want to do. They want to get a vote record to say you allowed the governor to keep money instead of giving it to prospective college students.
I understand what they're doing. And I'm just not going to play that game."
Or maybe he can.
"These are political votes, and I can play the political game with them," he said.


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Main-event victor Urijah Faber ($56,000), main-card winner Joseph Benavidez ($35,000) and preliminary-card fighter Raphael Assuncao ($26,000) were the top earners at Thursday's WEC 52 event.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today requested and received the list of disclosed paydays from the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
The total disclosed payroll for the event was $284,500.
The show took place at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, and the night's main card aired on Versus. It was the second-to-last show before the WEC merges with its sister promotion, the UFC, in January. That's when, WEC fighters anticipate, their pay could increase substantially.
The full payouts included:
Urijah Faber: $56,000 (includes $28,000 win bonus)
def. Takeya Mizugaki: $10,000
Chad Mendes: $17,000 ($8,500 win bonus)
def. Javier Vazquez: $11,000
Erik Koch: $8,000 ($4,000 win bonus)
def. Francisco Rivera: $4,000
Joseph Benavidez: $35,000 ($17,500 win bonus)
def. Wagnney Fabiano: $19,000
Demetrious Johnson: $8,000 ($4,000 win bonus)
def. Damacio Page: $9,000
Raphael Assuncao: $26,000 ($13,000 win bonus)
def. L.C. Davis: $11,000
Anthony Njokuani: $14,000 ($7,000 win bonus)
def. Edward Faaloloto: $3,500
Dustin Poirier: $6,000 ($3,000 win bonus)
def. Zack Micklewright: $3,000
Michael McDonald: $6,000 ($3,000 win bonus)
def. Clint Godfrey: $3,000
Cub Swanson: $22,000 ($11,000 win bonus)
def. Mackens Semerzier: $4,000
Yves Jabouin: $5,000 ($2,000 win bonus)
def. Brandon Visher: $4,000
Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter's income. They also do not include any other "locker room" or special bonuses that are not disclosed by the organization.
They also do not include the WEC's traditional "fight night" bonuses. The $10,000 WEC 52 bonuses went to Koch ("KO of the Night"), Faber ("Submission of the Night"), and Swanson and Semerzier ("Fight of the Night").
In other words, the above salary figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Infielder Miguel Tejada joined shortstop Alcides Escobar as a no-show for the Royals' first full-squad workout on Friday.
Like Escobar, Tejada was excused by manager Ned Yost after calling from the Dominican Republic.
"He's at home. He was at the airport yesterday, throwing up, diarrhea. He said, 'I can't get on the plane doing this,' " Yost said.
Escobar called earlier in the week, explaining that he couldn't obtain a visa for his wife in Venezuela because the office was closed until Friday due to Carnival.
Tejada was on the Dominican team that played in the recent Caribbean Series in Mexico. He also played 63 games this winter for Aguilas Cibaenas in the Dominican and hit .269 with seven home runs and 32 RBIs.
"He's played winter ball and only had five or six days off. We told him to go home, see if you can come Saturday. He was sick," Yost said. "It's not an issue. He's not going to be behind."
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Tonight, VH1 premieres Couples Therapy (9 pm ET), a series from the creators of Celebrity Rehab that will trade drug-withdrawal seizures for sex-withdrawal whining. Ah, the lighter side of dysfunction. As is VH1 custom, the cast is full of persons of meh-trest like Linda Hogan and the man who's 29 years her junior that she calls love (Charlie Hill), perpetually returning trash lady Angelina Pivarnick (Jersey Shore) and her dude Chris Nirschel (The Next Food Network Star), some Bachelor/ette alums who aren't content to be undone by those shows' curse (Vienna Girardi and Kasey Kahl) and some gays (The A-List's Reichen Lehmkuhl and Rodiney Santiago).
But the crowning jewel of this cast is the couple of America's next top Drake-hater/Celebrity Rehab dodger DMX and his long-suffering wife Tashera Simmons. They previously shared their business on BET's little-watched/long-forgotten DMX: Soul of a Man. Relive that show's opening scene above, in which the inebriated rapper runs amok in a Jersey convenience store and explains why he'd fight a little person, while his producer Swizz Beatz waits for him in vain. X is willing to be unhinged while remaining aware of his commitment toward entertaining ("Gum anybody? Bazookas? I mean, come on: you get a joke and a piece of gum."). He is, in short, the perfect reality TV specimen. It's taken him way too long to return.


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The literature regarding the effect of violent gaming on a person's psyche is complex and often contradictory. Ultimately, many of the contradictions may result from differences in what's being measured and how those measurements are interpreted. These challenges are nicely illustrated by a paper in the most recent issue of the journal Emotion. The paper tracks the emotional responses of players of a first person shooter as they kill and get killed, but it leaves unanswered questions regarding what emotions those responses actually reflect.
The design of the study was pretty straightforward. A group of Finnish college students, lured with free movie tickets, were asked to play two games: the first person shooter James Bond 007: NightFire and the nonviolent Super Monkey Ball 2. While playing, skin conductance levels were monitored to track emotional arousal, while specific emotions were measured by electrodes that followed the activities of facial muscles. The students were also given a test (the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) that determined psychotic tendencies. According to the authors, those who get high scores on the test are, "impulsive, sadistic, hostile, aggressive, unemotional, and lacking in empathy." They also tend to find media portrayals of violence amusing, rather than disturbing.
When playing James Bond, both killing and being killed consistently triggered emotional responses. The big surprise came in the measurements of facial muscles: "instead of joy resulting from victory and success, wounding and killing the opponent elicited anxiety, anger, or both." In contrast, the subjects appeared to respond positively to being killed. This contrasts sharply with Super Monkey Ball, where events associated with gaming success caused a positive response.
One obvious interpretation of these results is a difference in game mechanics. Success, in terms of a kill in a first person shooter, often leaves the player with the tension of identifying the next threat in the game. Death, in contrast, relieves them of this concern, an aspect of gaming the authors themselves noted. In many nonviolent games, achievements and threats are not directly linked.
In this study, the test of psychotic tendencies argues against these mechanical differences accounting for the distinct reactions. Those who scored higher tended to have a more neutral emotional response to a successful kill. Of course, it's also possible to interpret this as indicating that psychotic individuals have a dulled response to future threats.
Fitting the results into the broader question of the link between violent games and violent behavior is even more complex. The authors actually note two potentially positive aspects of this study. For one, there was no drop in the emotional response to death events over time, suggesting that there's not a general desensitization to violence during violent gaming. They also state that "the fact that wounding or killing the opponent elicited negative, not positive, emotional responses might be reassuring." In contrast, they admit to having absolutely no idea of what the broader meaning of gamers finding death a relief might be.
Emotion. 2008. Vol 8(1) 114-120. DOI unavailable.


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As Congress headed off for its August recess, quite a few tasks were left unresolved, with the biggest by far being legislation to avert the looming fiscal cliff.
Most political watchers, including David Kelly, chief global strategist for J.P. Morgan Funds, believe Congress will come to some type of agreement regarding avoiding the fiscal cliff after the November election. As Kelly noted Monday in his Notes on the Week Ahead, without new legislation by the end of the year, "the Bush tax cuts, the temporary payroll tax cut and extended unemployment benefits will all expire just as higher Medicare taxes and both rounds of severe cuts to discretionary spending agreed to last August take effect."
The website by the Chamber of Commerce, a pro-business lobby, offering market, legislative and regulatory news, called FreeEnterprise.com, recently released its list of the top five pieces of "unfinished business" that Congress left undone before its Aug. 3 departure—which includes, of course, a remedy to the fiscal cliff crisis.
Read on for FreeEnterprise's list of Congress' top 5 "biggest failures":
1) Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff
Without congressional action, Americans will experience one of the largest tax increases in history and massive spending cuts beginning Jan. 1.
The Chamber of Commerce said that according to a study released by the Aerospace Industries Association, $1.2 trillion in automatic defense and non-defense discretionary spending cuts, known as sequestration, will reduce the nation's GDP by $215 billion, decrease personal earnings of the workforce by $109.4 billion, and cost the U.S. economy 2.14 million jobs in just the first year of implementation.
Combined, sequestration and the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts on income and investment will reduce GDP by 4%, according to economist and former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz Eakin. A growing number of economists and experts say that driving off the fiscal cliff would result in a recession in 2013.
The House passed legislation to extend current individual rates for all taxpayers; the Senate in a party-line vote passed a bill to extend rates only for individuals earning less than $200,000 and couples earning less than $250,000. Though a bipartisan agreement on AMT relief was reached by a Senate panel on Aug. 2, neither chamber took up tax extenders—provisions such as AMT relief, R&D credit, and the active financing exception that either expired at the end of 2011 or are expected to expire at the end of 2012. Also, neither chamber addressed the imminent $1.2 trillion in spending cuts.
2) Trade With Russia, PNTR
As a condition for joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Aug. 22, Russia was required to implement a far-reaching package of legal and regulatory changes that will further open its market to imports, safeguard intellectual property, and ensure greater respect for the rule of law.
Business opportunities in Russia are expected to grow substantially after Russia finalizes its accession to the WTO. The President's Export Council estimates that U.S. exports of goods and services to Russia—which, according to estimates, topped $11 billion in 2011—could double or triple once Russia has joined.
However, the United States won't get the full benefits of Russia's market-opening reforms unless Congress approves legislation establishing Permanent Normal Trade Relations with that country. Contrary to popular misconception, PNTR does not extend any "trade preferences" to Russia; rather, it exclusively benefits U.S. workers, farmers, ranchers, and companies selling their goods and services in the Russian market. The United States gives up nothing—not a single tariff—in approving PNTR.
Neither the House nor the Senate has passed Russia PNTR.
3) Cybersecurity Legislation
Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and the business community agree that federal cybersecurity legislation is necessary and that it must optimize cyber-threat information-sharing between government and the private sector. But progress stalled because of disagreement over who should monitor the information, with opposition by business groups in favor of industry policing.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the business groups wrote that "while the sponsors of the legislation have attempted to design a voluntary framework for the designation of 'critical infrastructure,' the text of the bill would likely create a mandatory regulatory regime that could displace robust efforts already being made in the financial sector to combat the risk of cyber-attacks."
The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 failed in the Senate. The House passed cybersecurity legislation in May.
4) Appropriations Bills
Congress has yet to pass a single appropriations bill to fund the government in fiscal year 2013, which begins on Oct. 1, 2012. The House has cleared six appropriations bills; the Senate has cleared none. Congress has agreed to pass a six-month continuing resolution when it returns from its August recess; however, that resolution would end at exactly the same time that Congress is supposed to start on appropriations bills for fiscal year 2014.
5) Drought Relief
More than one-fifth of the contiguous United States is experiencing an "extreme" or "exceptional" drought, and more than three-fifths is in at least a moderate drought, making the drought of 2012 the biggest since 1956. Farmers have seen their corn and soybean crops shrivel up, and ranchers are struggling to feed their cattle because of a lack of healthy pastures, water and feed. On the day it adjourned for its August recess, the House passed a $383 million drought-assistance bill to provide relief to ranchers and other livestock producers. The Senate did not take action.


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