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The day after Thanksgiving is typically the beginning of Christmas season for retail stores, and others start with buying the perfect tree.
The day after Thanksgiving is typically the beginning of Christmas season for retail stores, and others start with buying the perfect tree. To get into the spirit and keep faith as part of the tradition, many local churches take part in the Jesse Tree, meant to inspire a season of giving.
From the last week in November to Christmas Day, local children in need anonymously list small items they'd like to receive as Christmas gifts, revealing only their genders. The requests are placed on a tree inside of area churches.
Members of the church congregations select a list and head to the nearest store to grant a holiday wish.
"This tradition is extremely important. The children in need that we help are always very appreciative," said Christine Naquin, St. Ann's Catholic Church's secretary. "We always have names. Some years we get more names than others. But no matter how many we get, we put these lists on the tree, and parishioners get names and buy gifts and bring them to the church. When these kids get their presents, they are so happy."
For more than 25 years, St. Ann's Catholic Church in Bourg has done the Jesse Tree. They initially partnered with Catholic Charities until church officials, though pleased with the work being done, decided to offer the services to Bourg children only.
"We would get a lot of requests from outside of the parish," Naquin said. "It was great, but we wanted to help out closer to home."
The Jesse Tree is not only a Catholic tradition. Anyone wanting to help by buying items, or anyone in need, can participate.
Also called the Tree of Jesse, the tradition is named from the Book of Isaiah 11:1, which says "A shoot will spring forth from the stump of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots."
The Jesse Tree has other names, like the Purple Heart Tree, part of the Catholic Charities program St. Ann's was once part of.
Maria Immacolata Catholic Church in Houma does the Purple Heart Tree.
"We find it gives us the opportunity to give back and help others who are not as fortunate," Maria Immacolata's business manager, Mona Moss, said. "It is always giving time, but Christmas is the perfect time to remember to give. And the sacrifice is always worth it."
Maria Immacolata receives about 65 purple hearts each year with Christmas lists. Moss said many families use the tradition to select a heart and shop with the whole family, instilling the spirit of giving in their children.
"It's really very rewarding," Moss said.
To find a Jesse Tree near you, call your neighborhood Catholic church.
Staff Writer Kris Johnson can be reached at 857-2207 or
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We are now recruiting remote contractors to become an agent. To get started please complete our contractor registration application and select the Email Marketing Specialist when you apply. Job Details: You will post our job ads, send email correspondences and send out new job alert notifications to jobseekers. Please visit mommyjobsonline.com and click on Internal Jobs and scroll down to How to apply and register. Please reference agent id code MJOLFELICIA3250. Pay: $10 per recruit, 1099 contractor status Location: Work remotely If you are seeking PT or FT employment, then please call 14054186160 between the hours of 10 AM to 6 PM CST, Monday - Friday. Email Marketing Processor - (Flexible Schedule) Mommy Jobs Online is now recruiting part-time and full-time Email Marketing Processors to work remotely. Great opportunity for the perfect person that has a home office setup to work remotely. At Mommy Jobs Online our qualified email marketing processors will enjoy the freedom and profitability while benefiting from the tools, branding and support of a national recruiting work at home job finder agency. Position Objective: You will need to be able to send out mass emails on a daily basis regarding our business services. There will be NO typing allowed for this position to avoid clerical errors, you will only copy and paste pre-typed text body messages into an email message. Must be able to send out a minimum of 600 pre-typed email marketing campaigns per day and answer any incoming emails related to our product or services. You must be able to log your production details into a spreadsheet and submit all work weekly via email. Hours are flexible and you can work 24/7. You must be able to work a minimum of 5 days per week - Monday through Sunday anytime of the day or night. Must be able to format letters and pay close attention to detail. Must have strong organizational skills and a motivated attitude to get the job done! No experience is required, we will train you and provide all getting started training details once you are hired! Must be able to pass a felony verification check and our registration pre-screening process. Location: Work remotely, 1099 Independent Contractor You can reside anywhere in the world as long as you can connect to the internet! Contractor Compensation Payment Structure: Increase and supplement your monthly income! We pay our remote contractors based on production not hourly, you will start out earning a $10.00 commission structure per sale that is generated. After 60 days of working with us you will be eligible for a pay production increase to $20.00 commission structure per sale that is generated. Contractors are paid bi-weekly on Friday by direct deposit (PayPal) or we will mail your pay check. To Apply: Please visit mommyjobsonline.com and click on Internal Jobs and scroll down to the registration application and select Email Marketing Processor to begin our hiring pre-screening process. Please refer to agent id code MJOLFELICIA3250 on your application when you apply. We will contact you back within the next 48 hours regarding our pre-screening process & online training session schedule details. Please feel free to contact our remote job line at 14054186160 if you have further questions.
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Docs take mHealth baby steps, use tablets for the basics
Whether it's due to skepticism or a lack of resources, not all doctors are sold on the prospects of mHealth. But for those looking to stick their toe into the pool, tablets are finding widespread adoption as a good entry point for clinics and doctor's offices.
Recent surveys have indicated roughly 80 percent of doctors use mobile devices, and between 40 percent and 50 percent are using tablets. With new tablets coming out almost every week, and surveys indicating almost 80 percent of consumers want to see their doctors using mobile health solutions, clinicians are turning to tablets for that most basic of functions: Patient registration.
Eric Esrailian, MD, vice chief of the Division of Digestive Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is using iPads loaded with Tonic software in a pilot program to capture patient information in the waiting room. The electronic questionnaires, he says, replace the tiresome, wasteful and not-always-accurate paper surveys and are boosting patient satisfaction to new levels.
[See also: mHealth app takes on nation's leading cause of death.]
"It's really a breath of fresh air for us," says Esrailian. "We're eliminating reams of paper with this. It's also really timely and efficient."
Esrailian says people of all walks of life enjoy using the tablets, and doctors are seeing advantages in that they don't have to pore over bad handwriting, and all the information is electronically accumulated and stored. That data could eventually migrate into an electronic medical record, he says, if UCLA wants to continue on the mHealth path.
"Mobile health is creating a new era of patient care and data collection," he says. "What we really want to do here is improve patient satisfaction by making it easier for them (to come into the clinic and register) and electronically gather all the information we need. There's a lot of potential here for data collection, and longitudinally entering other results."
At USF Health in Tamps, Fla., Lennox Hoyte, MD, director of obstetrics and gynecology, is using the Allscripts Wand application to enter patient information onto an iPad at the point of care. Since implementing the app in a beta test roughly three months ago, he estimates saving four to six minutes of time per patient, or two hours a day. That means he's getting home at 5 p.m., in time for dinner with the family, instead of 7 p.m.
[See also: As more consumers connect, mHealth market soars.]
More importantly, Hoyte says, he's actually "seeing" his patients, rather than talking to them over his shoulder as he tries to type information into a desktop computer.
"Patients don't care how you document – they really don't," he says. "They're coming in for the same things they came in for 200 years ago … but they do care about how they're treated."
The ability to use a tablet to document patient information and gain instant access to patient records "dramatically changes the patient interaction," Hoyte says. "It improves the conversation, and gives doctors a chance to get back in touch with the patient."
Hoyte says information entered into the iPad through the Wand app is loaded into the patient's electronic medical record, all part of the Allscripts platform. In the future, he sees physicians using tablets in the office "to address a whole class of problems we can't even touch today," like taking photographs and notes and accessing clinical data.
"The standard EMR is two things – data storage and data access," he says. "That second part is often neglected. We use apps now for data storage, but (in the future) we'll be finding ways to access that stored data and do something with it."


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Yuri Kozyrev, 47:
Chechnya / Kosovo / Afghanistan (held captive in 1992) /
Iraq / Bahrain /
Egypt / LibyaTyler Hicks, 41: Kosovo / Afghanistan / Iraq / Lebanon /
Libya (held captive, with Lynsey Addario, in March)
Kozyrev and Hicks were traveling together in Libya in March 2011 when Hicks and Lynsey Addario (slide 2) were captured by Qaddafi's soldiers. In the weeks before his friends were captured, Kozyrev says, it was really, really exciting. But it was not safe to stay there.
Note: Conflicts listed roughly in chronological order of the photographer's first trip there; many have made multiple trips to certain countries.
Michael Kamber, 47:
Haiti / Afghanistan / Iraq / Liberia / Ivory Coast / Israel and the Palestinian territories / Nigeria / Darfur / Somalia Lynsey Addario, 37:
Afghanistan / Iraq (held captive in 2004) / Darfur / Congo / Lebanon and Israel / Libya (held captive,
with Tyler Hicks,
in March) Ashley Gilbertson, 33:
Papua New Guinea / Indonesia /Philippines / Kosovo / Iraq / Afghanistan Alan Chin, 40:
Balkans / Afghanistan / Israel and the Palestinian territories / Iraq / China / Egypt / Tunisia
Mario Tama, 39:
Afghanistan / Pakistan / Iraq / Venezuela / Haiti John Moore, 43:
El Salvador / Nicaragua / Haiti / Somalia / Kashmir / Angola / Congo /
Sri Lanka / Croatia / Afghanistan /
Iraq / Pakistan / Libya Spencer Platt, 41:
Afghanistan / Iraq / Congo / Liberia / Israel and the Palestinian territories / Central African Republic / Juárez, Mexico / Sudan / Tunisia Carolyn Cole, 50:
Haiti / Balkans / Afghanistan / Iraq / Liberia / Israel and the Palestinian territories / Sudan / Lebanon / Pakistan / Egypt Joe Raedle, 45:
Haiti / Afghanistan / Iraq / Libya (held captive in March)
Hondros's fellow Getty photographers, plus Cole of the L.A. Times. Despite all of the dangerous assignments Chris had been on, I never expected to be going to his funeral, says Cole.
Gary Knight, 46:
Cambodia / Burma / Thailand / South Africa/ Balkans / Northern Ireland / Liberia / Zaire / Congo / Darfur / Israel and the Palestinian territories (held captive in 2001) / Kashmir / Iraq / Afghanistan Ron Haviv, 45:
Panama / Liberia
(held captive in 1990) / Haiti / Iraq (held captive in 1991) / Balkans (held captive in 1994) / Russia / Kosovo / Afghanistan / Darfur / Congo / Sri Lanka / Georgia / Egypt Benjamin Lowy, 31
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20 months) :
Israel and the Palestinian territories / Iraq /
Haiti / Darfur / Chad / Papua New Guinea / Afghanistan / Libya Stephanie Sinclair, 38:
Iraq / Afghanistan / Yemen / Lebanon Peter van Agtmael, 30:
Ivory Coast / Iraq / Afghanistan /
Uganda / Egypt
Lowy was with Hetherington in Libya on a different trip before he was killed. When he got the news, he immediately headed down to Texas to shoot a wildfire. I just needed to get out of town, go do something dangerous that, you know, wasn't the same as a war." (Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos)
Anderson, 41:
Balkans / Central African Republic / Haiti /
Israel and the Palestinian territories / Iraq / Afghanistan / Lebanon / Venezuela / BrazilMoises Saman, 37:
Haiti / Kosovo / Afghanistan / Pakistan / Israel and the Palestinian territories / Iraq (imprisoned in Abu Ghraib in 2003) / Lebanon
Anderson, who is semi-retired from combat photography, shot these portraits.
Appleton, 36:
Israel and the Palestinian territories / Iraq / Nepal / Afghanistan /
Lebanon João Silva, 44:
South Africa / Somalia / Sudan / Rwanda / Afghanistan (severely injured in 2010) / Israel and the Palestinian territories / Iraq / Lebanon / Kenya / Georgia
Silva, who has been shooting combat since the end of South African apartheid as part of the so-called Bang Bang Club, lost both his legs after stepping on a land mine in Afghanistan in October 2010. He wants to get back to work. I wish I was in Libya right now, he says.
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In Misurata, Libya, on April 18. He died on April 20.
Says Ron Haviv (slide 4), who met Hondros in Kosovo at the start of his career: As Chris became part of Getty and moved up the ladder, he understood the power that he had, because he had this great machine to distribute his work and to have a real impact with it. And I think that he was very conscious and responsible to that fact. The Tal Afar pictures are a good example of him causing a shift in the way that people thought about a conflict such as Iraq."
Hetherington with Sebastian Junger while making 'Restrepo', their Academy Award-nominated documentary about the Afghan war. Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.
September 2007
The country Hetherington photographed most was Liberia, where he lived after the end of the civil war. Monrovia was kind the end of the world at that point," says Michael Kamber. He'd covered the fighting, and now he wanted to get behind the fighting and see what had brought it on.
Libya, 2011. Rebels fleeing under fire from the Libyan army.
It was an amazing moment when the rebels were really pushing forward," said Moscow-based Kozyrev, who spent eight years shooting for Time in Bagdhad. Both he and Hetherington eventually got frustrated and left Libya, but Kozyrev was planning to go with Hetherington and Hondros to Misurata.
Afghanistan, 2009. An Army soldier runs under cover from a pink smoke grenade to escape an intense attack by Taliban fighters in which one soldier was killed by an IED.
The last time Hondros and Hicks saw each other was in the Paris airport as Hicks was coming back from being held captive in Libya and Hondros was escorting another friend of theirs, Joe Raedle (slide 3), after Raedle was captured in Libya. There's no bubble around you as a photographer. You assume the same risks as the people who you're photographing every time you go out, says Hicks.
Iraq, 2007. Soldiers marking their location with green smoke for a resupply chopper while on patrol for three missing U.S. soldiers.
One of Hetherington's closest friends, Kamber is unusual among this group in that he quit combat photography for many years after his first conflict, Haiti, in 1987. I almost got killed and my daughter was 4 at the time and it just didn't seem fair to leave her without a father, he says. He got back into it after 9/11 because, he says, every time I went back, I found stories that weren't getting told."
Afghanistan, 2007. Soldiers from Battle Company, 173rd Division, carrying the body of Sergeant Larry Rougle toward a medevac helicopter.
Addario and Hetherington were both on the companywide Rock Avalanche mission (seen in Restrepo) when their platoon got ambushed by the Taliban and Rougle was killed. In the retreat, Hetherington broke his leg and had to hike downhill for four hours till dawn.
Iraq, 2004
Marines from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, detain an insurgent after they shot him and his two comrades during the battle for Falluja. The insurgent claimed to be a student. The marines responded, Yeah, right, University of Jihad, motherfucker. Gilbertson spent six years in Iraq, but has been mostly stateside since 2008. He did an extended project documenting the intact bedrooms of men and women who'd died serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, called Bedrooms of the Fallen. Now he's examining post-traumatic-stress disorder and suicide among veterans.
Afghanistan, 2001. Taliban prisoners, some of whom later ended up going to Guantánamo and other prisons.
Chin last saw Hondros in Tahrir Square in Cairo in February. At one point we ended up on a rickety platform of toothpick two-by-fours jury-built on top of a fence, photographing the angry crowd right before Mubarak's downfall. We laughed about whether or not we were going to fall headfirst into concrete while discussing each breaking piece of news, says Chin.
Iraq, 2004. U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division soldiers stand guard near the area where a Blackhawk helicopter crashed while making an emergency landing, killing all nine people onboard.
One of Hondros's colleagues at Getty, Tama spent much of the last five years photographing New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He remembers that after the levees broke, Hondros showed up with a carload full of food and supplies and gasoline. I remember just being so thrilled to see his face, and he was carrying a six-pack of beer, which was like gold for us."
Pakistan, 2007. A survivor overcome with emotion at the site of a bomb-blast attack that killed former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
One of Hondros's colleagues at Getty, Moore was traveling with Hicks, Addario, and Kozyrev in Libya just before Hicks and Addario were captured, and took what might have been the last, haunting photos of them.
Gaza, 2005. Teenagers run past a fire blockade erected in a standoff with police.
I don't think Chris would consider himself a war photographer, says Spencer Platt. We're part of a dying breed of photojournalists, the all-arounders. We'll shoot anything: the Westminster dog show, business stories, fashion, sports. Platt was scheduled to go to Libya to relieve Hondros. It was a very tough week, but also a week where I think the profession, especially in New York, recalibrated itself and reminded itself of why we do this."
Liberia, 2003
Cole and Hondros were together in Liberia with photojournalist Martin Adler, who was killed in Somalia in 2006, along with French photographer Patrick Robert, who was shot and seriously wounded while working with Michael Kamber (slide 2 and slide 11) in Liberia. Says Cole, This was the first time I had been to Africa and seen close street fighting. I was there alone, and Chris was kind enough to guide me down to the front line, when I was unsure where to go. One of the most memorable moments was when a soldier came running towards us carrying his mortally wounded comrade, his T-shirt soaked in blood. Minutes later, Cole took this shot.
Afghanistan, 2009. A Marine takes up a fighting position after offloading a helicopter.
Raedle was taken captive in Libya in March, and when he got released, Hondros, who had been on vacation in Cairo after the revolutions, took it upon himself to escort Raedle back to the United States. He definitely didn't have to do that, says Raedle. That just kind of shows who Chris was. A great guy. Tyler Hicks was returning from his ordeal in Libya on the same flight, and he and Raedle swapped captivity stories in the Paris airport, with Hondros, of course, photographing the whole conversation.
Iraq, 2003. One of 57 photographs in a sequence taken during three days when a battalion of Marines attacked and captured the Diwanya Bridge prior to driving into Baghdad and pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein outside the Palestine Hotel.
Knight, like Chris Anderson, is now semi-retired from combat photography. I'm no longer interested into going to a war for the sake of going to a war, he says. I've seen a lot of violence in a lot of different places, and it keeps repeating itself, and after a while, I think, it's like radiation. It's like something you want to limit your exposure to."
Afghanistan, 2001 Northern Alliance soldiers show off Taliban POW on the old road to Kabul. Haviv has been held captive three times while on the job. Now he gives workshops to younger photographers and insists they take a survival course before going into a combat zone to learn combat medicine and how to read sketchy situations (example: If a field is empty during harvest season in a poor country, something dangerous lies ahead). Those courses didn't exist in Haviv's day, so he and Knight just took one a few years ago. A lot of what they taught us, we already knew, says Haviv, but it was only because we survived what we shouldn't have survived.
Iraq, 2007
A picture Lowy took when five out of ten cars in a convoy he was riding in got hit by IEDs. Three cars were destroyed, including the one Lowy was supposed to be riding in. I think all of us are intrinsically curious about violence. I mean, that would be the only reason to keep on going and photographing it," says Lowy. He has been taking stock of his job lately, but remains undeterred. I have my second child on the way, and my wife and I have had a lot of conversations about what I do and if I'm willing to leave them, in a sense, he says. And, you know, the excuse is very much the same as for a soldier or a police officer. That this is my calling. This is what I do.
Lebanon, 2006
Lebanese civil-defense workers remove bodies from an Israeli airstrike that killed more than two dozen people in a residential neighborhood.
Sinclair has lived in Iraq and Beirut, doing extensive photo series on female U.S. soldiers, prostitutes, and Afghan women who self-immolated, usually in an attempt to escape from abusive husbands.
Iraq, 2006
The aftermath of a suicide bomb that killed nine and wounded twenty.
In Egypt, van Agtmael got attacked by a mob after going down a road that Hondros had warned him against going down. I definitely fucked up, he says. And it made me realize that I'd gotten cocky and overconfident with my abilities in those situations."
Afghanistan, 2001A Taliban fighter, seen through the windshield of a Toyota Hilux that has been smeared with mud as camouflage from American bombers, surrenders to Northern Alliance troops. Anderson and Hetherington shared a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and were neighbors in the Williamsburg apartment building nicknamed the Kibbutz. There's a black cloud hanging over [the Kibbutz], he says. The place has always been a gathering place, a place of refuge, so to speak, and I think that's carried through into this tragedy. The day it happened, people gathered at our apartment and it just seemed like a natural place for people to come and gravitate to be together.
Afghanistan, 2010
Afghan soldiers carry a wounded comrade into an American medevac helicopter after a Taliban ambush near the village of Tsunek, Kunar Province.
A close friend of Hetherington's, Saman was driving down to Washington, D.C. with Chris Anderson to photograph João Silva for this portfolio when the news broke about bin Laden's assassination. They immediately went to the nearest bar to watch the story unfold. Like many of the other photographers in this portfolio, along with Hetherington and Hondros, Saman and Anderson got their baptism by fire covering the conflicts that were spurred by 9/11.
New York City, 2001
Appleton drove all night from Maine and spent the night at ground zero on 9/11 taking this picture of rescue workers at a makeshift morgue set up in a Brooks Brothers store. Although photojournalism, particularly in war zones, can be a macho profession, Appleton says that she gets much more criticism from outsiders than from her male colleagues. Those kind of guys don't question it, she says. Because they're in a car with us. They see our judgment. They know exactly who we are and what we are capable of. You prove yourself in such a pure way when you're in a combat situation. And they would know if you couldn't handle it."
Iraq, 2006A U.S. Marine sergeant drags a wounded comrade to safety. The wounded Marine was shot right next to Silva while on a foot patrol. Silva is one of two remaining members of the Bang-Bang Club, four friends who documented the end of South African apartheid. Silva says he'd seen enough mangled flesh in his lifetime to know immediately that he'd lost his legs after stepping on a land mine in Afghanistan. I wasn't surprised at all, he says. I was like, Okay, it's happened. My turn came up. I'm alive. Let's move on.' He's taking steps on his new prosthetic legs and hopes to be home in Johannesburg and working again soon, though likely not again in conflict zones.


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Holy Assumption Monastery (Calistoga, California)
Monastery Background (updated June 2006)
Holy Assumption Monastery
The Holy Assumption Monastery has been a living testament to the legacy and spirit of the Orthodox Christian faith for over 65 years. From its home on the banks of the Napa River in Calistoga, CA, the monastery welcomes faithful pilgrims and visitors of all backgrounds. It stands as the heart of a strong, multi-cultural community in northern California, upholding the vision of Orthodox Christianity in America and reflecting the rich fullness of Christian life in the daily worship of God.
Holy Assumption Monastery was founded in 1941 by a small group of nuns who fled from Russia and China with St. John Maximovitch in search of freedom to practice their faith. Originally settling in San Francisco, they soon discovered the quiet town of Calistoga 80 miles north of the city and, with the blessing of the local church hierarchy, purchased an old two-story property by the Napa River.
They were given permission to establish their new monastery and spiritual haven on the condition that they would finance and administer the community on their own and would dedicate themselves to the service of God with faith that He would take care of them. At first, the old building had to serve as both chapel and living quarters, but soon the nuns, with their own hands, built a separate small wooden chapel as their place of worship. They adorned it with their own icons and embroidered cloths and began to hold services, to which all those inside and outside their gates were welcome.
As the community grew, Orthodox Christians of all backgrounds came to attend the twice-daily services, and it was soon apparent that the chapel was far too small to hold the increasing number of faithful pilgrims. In 1959, a new chapel was built on the grounds--a replica of the 1812 Fort Ross chapel. Under the leadership of Andre Tchelistcheff, who was the enologist at Beaulieu Vineyards of Napa Valley, money was raised for this important project.
The community continued to thrive through the 1960s and 1970s, drawing people from all backgrounds through its serenity, beautiful surroundings, and spiritual presence. In the mid-1980s, the monastery extended its outreach far beyond its borders through the work of priest-in-charge Fr. George Benigson, who broadcast regularly on Radio Free Europe. His radio talks became known as an inspired voice of Orthodox Christianity that touched millions around the world.
Sadly, after Fr. Benigson, the monastery fell into disrepair. The nuns were gone, and buildings were dilapidated, even condemned. It was an unfortunate period where some took advantage and used the buildings as a free shelter. They disrespected and abused the monastery, piling enormous amounts of debris in the sagging buildings and grounds. The grounds themselves were barren; nothing grew. Perhaps, though, there were a few seeds of love and hope in the grounds somewhere, because on January 1, 1998 all of this began to change.
The New Beginning
Father Sergious Gerken arrived that day with the flu, two birds, an overnight bag, many talents, vision and a mission. With official blessings but without financial support, little by little the Holy Assumption Monastery began her transformation. The monastery has taken on a completely new focus and direction to better serve the faithful. She is not only being renovated but, God willing, will also become a major monastic center. Nuns will come from Greece to train American novices in the ancient practice of monasticism. In the meantime, the monastery has been here to feed the spiritual needs of the people. Remaining true to her roots, the monastery is a place where the faithful can come for spiritual renewal. Daily life revolves around worship services, tending to the needs of the community, offering hospitality to all visitors and pilgrims and providing spiritual counseling and pastoral ministry to those in need.
To this day, the monastery has relied solely on donations and charitable contributions for her support and financial livelihood. Her vision is to create the means for self-sufficiency and to become revitalized as a strong monastic community. Every part of this vision is to serve the faithful and to reflect the essence of Orthodox Christian spirituality.
The Restoration
An ambitious restoration of the entire property began in 1998 through the efforts of Igumen Sergious, Abbot of the monastery. Following the Encyclical and the advice of His All Holiness The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and his concern for the environment, the now glorified grounds have been transformed into a lush garden oasis, a tranquil place ideal for reflection and contemplation. Much needed retaining walls were built to hold back the annual flooding of the Napa River (one more is needed).
The historic chapel has undergone extensive renovation and improvements. A rectory was purchased and is being renovated. The main historical building which will house the nuns and serve as the hospitality center has been retrofitted and reinforced with concrete floors and steel beams which would withstand most any earthquake. A new roof was added and new cedar siding is being installed now. The grounds are graced with new statuary, church bells, and a koi pond, and the list goes on. A small community of dedicated monastery friends has formed. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been generously and sacrificially donated to this project through the love and efforts of Father Sergious. The project is nearly completed, and it is almost time for the nuns to come from Greece.
Yet, there is still work to do. All that remains to be finished is the interior of the nuns' quarters (the main building). This includes the kitchen appliances and professional equipment needed to feed the nuns and hundreds of guests. The interior walls, furnishings, appliances, curtains and other items remain to be completed as well. The nuns will need airfare, insurance, visas and other essentials. This money must be raised in advance. We are asking for your help to complete this vital project. The main building can be completed for about $450,000, a small price to pay to complete the dwelling-place and garden of our All-Holy Theotokos.
For eight years, Father Sergious has labored with the help of God and a few sacrificial friends and visionaries, on this miraculous project. The monastery has always been a blessing to those who visit. Until now, she has been unable to live up to her full potential. Will you help bring the dream to fruition?
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This story is like one of those surprises on "Antiques Roadshow."
A man buys some furniture at an estate sale from a former plantation and finds some papers more than a century old in a buffet drawer, including a bill of sale for four slaves. He puts the papers in a file cabinet, where they remain for nearly 35 years.
He finally decides to track down the family. The family is delighted to find out more about their ancestor. They hope the findings might boost an effort to restore a Berkeley County historic site, maybe even turn it into a tourist attraction. The man who found the papers feels better.
Such is the story of the long-forgotten documents of George Lynes, the minister who owned Foxbank Plantation between modern Goose Creek and Moncks Corner.
The story starts in 1978, when Russ Breault, who now lives in Peachtree City, Ga., found a bundle of papers in the drawer of a buffet he bought at an estate sale. He believed the furniture came from Foxbank Plantation.
Many of the papers related to George Lynes. An 1845 bill of sale for four slaves was nestled alongside an 1849 certificate of ordination of Lynes as a Baptist minister.
Breault said he knew the papers were valuable and put them in a file cabinet. He put the bill of sale between two sheets of plastic so he could show it off from time to time without damaging it.
"I certainly recognized that they had value, and my dilemma was I didn't really purchase these documents," Breault said by telephone last week. "They just happened to be in the buffet that I bought."
A few weeks ago, Breault felt it was time to look for Lynes' descendants.
He found Jack Lynes of Aiken, George's great-great-grandson, through an Internet search that led him to his genealogical website. They met in a restaurant near the Atlanta airport, and Breault turned over the papers, free of charge.
Lynes, an insurance inspector who had spent years studying his family tree, was thrilled.
"We haven't discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls or anything," Lynes said, "but it's still remarkable that a man, unknown to us, more than 30 years ago bought some old furniture and in them was discovered old family papers, and then all these years later has come forward to give them back."
Lynes points out that Breault knows the value of historic artifacts. He's spent much of his time since 1978 studying and lecturing on the Shroud of Turin. Many believe it to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, the image burned on it by the power of his resurrection.
"My position really on the shroud is that it's a great mystery," said Breault, an advertising salesman. "I compare it to the pyramids, Stonehenge, Easter Island, many of the great unsolved mysteries of the world."
Lynes, his wife, three children and a grandson were at The Charleston Museum on Wednesday morning, signing over the papers to the archives.
"I want to encourage other people who have this kind of stuff not just to keep it in drawers," Lynes said.
The stash includes a bundle of other papers, including a small notebook of 19th-century home remedies. For example, according to the notebook, the treatment for a lame horse is to pour two pints of turpentine in the bad hoof and set it on fire.
"People are interested in these details of everyday life," museum archivist Jennifer Scheetz said with a laugh.
George Lynes paid $2,800 for the four slaves, identified as plantation cook Delia and three others, Hannah, Judy and Dandy.
"That was a lot of money," Jack Lynes said. "It looks like he was keeping the family together."
Lynes didn't even know his ancestor was a pastor until he saw the ordination certificate.
George Lynes was a minister at Bethlehem Baptist Church. The church was built on the site of the St. James Goose Creek Chapel of Ease, a cross-shaped brick Anglican church destroyed during the Revolutionary War. Lynes, who died in 1870, is buried in the cemetery there.
Foxbank Plantation is off Cypress Gardens Road west of U.S. Highway 52. Now, it's the site of a development marked out for 2,400 houses and a town center. The chapel of ease site is on the other side of U.S. 52, in a more secluded area off Old Highway 52.
Jack Lynes has been working with a subcommittee of the Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce to buy the old chapel of ease site, get it on the National Register of Historic Places, and put in parking areas and kiosks to tell the story to visitors. That's one of the reasons he was so thrilled to get his hands on the old papers.
Michael Heitzler, an avid historian of the Goose Creek area and mayor of the modern city, was also delighted to hear about the Lynes papers. He cites two of the documents in his most recent book, "The Goose Creek Bridge: Gateway to Sacred Places," which is now in the hands of the editors at the University of South Carolina Press.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio – Led by 16 points from senior Kelsey Ploof, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology women's basketball team defeated Mount St. Joseph 58-51 in its regular-season finale Saturday to clinch the final spot in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Fightin' Engineers (10-15, 8-10 HCAC) earned the sixth seed in the upcoming league tournament and will face Franklin College in the quarterfinals Friday at tournament host Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m.
The two teams split during the regular season, with Rose-Hulman picking up a 65-61 victory over the Grizzlies Feb. 19 in Terre Haute. Franklin (13-12, 11-7 HCAC), which lost to Defiance 62-60 Saturday, won the first meeting over the Engineers, 51-31.
In Saturday's win, Ploof (Noblesville, Ind./Noblesville) shot 4-of-9 from the field and 8-for-10 from the free-throw line to go along with six rebounds in her final regular season game for the Engineers. Freshman Abbie Marshall (St. Louis, Mo./Nerinx Hall) added 11 points for RHIT, which included a 9-for-10 showing at the free-throw line.
The Engineers trailed at the break, 23-22, before taking control in the second half. RHIT opened the second period on a 5-0 run, sparked by two free throws from junior Gracie Gibbs (Parker, Colo./Ponderosa) and a 3-pointer by Carrie Morris (Altadena, Calif./Mayfield) to give the visitors a 27-24 lead at the 17:01 mark.
With 13:44 to play, Rose-Hulman extended its lead to eight, 33-25, fueled by two more free throws from Ploof and another jumper from Morris. Mount St. Joseph (3-22, 3-15 HCAC) made a run of its own, trimming the lead to three, 40-37, with a Tara Dennis layup at the 6:42 mark. Both teams traded baskets over the next two minutes before the Engineers pulled away with a 11-3 run to take its largest lead of the game (53-42) with 2:46 left.
Rose-Hulman made 7-of-9 free throws over the span, as Kristen Belyea (Mahomet, Ill./Mahomet Seymour) drained two shots from the charity stripe to go along with a layup, Marshall made two free throws and Ploof added a bucket and three free throws.
The Engineers finished the game 29 of 35 (82.9 percent) from the free-throw line, compared to 9 of 19 (47.4 percent) for the Lions. Rose-Hulman also won the rebounding battle, 42-25, led by 10 boards from freshman Jamie Loving (Normal, Ill./Normal West), who added eight points, all in the first half.
Morris chipped in nine points and Gibbs had eight points for RHIT.
Heidi McManus was the lone Mount St. Joseph player in double figures with 22 points.
Ploof and fellow senior Jaci Dalton (Hamilton, Mich./Black River) have reached the HCAC Tournament every year in their career for the Engineers, who reach the postseason tournament for sixth time under eighth-year coach Jon Prevo.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Tornado Men's Wrestling improved to 4-2 in an emphatic way with its 45-3 demolition of the Belmont Abbey Crusaders, Thursday night. King rolled out nine consecutive victories to run away with their largest dual meet win of the year.
Colin Crume (Mishawaka, Ind./UW-Parkside) earned the Tornado's first win of the night and one of three pins recorded by the team. In the waning seconds of the second period, he pinned Jacob Tutterow (133 lbs.) after battled to get his back on the mat before the buzzer sounded. The sophomore gave King a 6-3 lead and never looked back for the duration of the meet.
Of the four bouts decided by points, King won by no less than four points in every bout and greater than six in three of those.
Brandon Tressler (Orlando, Fla.) earned a technical fall over Wesley Buffer in the second period, sealing the meet victory when the whistle blew at 21-6. Freshman Cody Davis (Pigeon Forge, Tenn.) and redshirt-sophomore Garrett Fosdyck (Mathews, Va.) followed with pins over their opponents at 197 and 285. Davis notched his with five seconds left of the clock in the first period while Fosdyck recorded his fall just 46 seconds into the second period.
Also winning by pin was freshman John Austin Jones (Alabaster, Ala.) when he put down Markus Cromwell 54 seconds into the third period.
King is now 4-2 in dual meets this season with two left on the schedule. Both duals are on the road, and will take place on Feb. 9 beginning at Lake Erie College (Painesville, Ohio). The Tornado will take on host Lake Erie and then compete against Mercyhurst later in the day.
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As you may recall, there was an incident involving our treaty partner Athens, and some rather poor behavior on the part of their leader, Londo. In the wake of that situation, there was an unofficial survey regarding the IAA's thoughts on the treaty.
Now, the actual vote regarding the status of our treaty with Athens is up for vote. It also includes an option to vote for a treaty downgrade, if you feel that a full cancellation is too much.


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The Columbia Gorge Commission continues its series of Gorge management plan review meetings, with a scenic resource review scheduled for 4 to 7 p.m. on Monday at Skamania County Courthouse Annex.
The commission will discuss scenic standards as they relate to "key viewing areas" in the main agenda item for the Scenic Resources Committee. In an earlier meeting, the committee agreed that the current management plan system is working to protect scenic resources, but that implementation guidelines need some fine-tuning, according to Brian Litt, commission senior planner.
Congress requires review of the scenic area plan every 10 years to see how it is achieving the main purposes of the 1986 scenic act -- protection of gorge resources and promotion of economic development in urban areas. Commission staff will recommend that commissioners narrow the list, focusing on 26 land uses. The public will have an opportunity to comment before the commission makes a decision.
Some of the land uses to be recommended by staff for consideration include churches, events at bed-breakfast inns, cluster developments, commercial development in special management areas, fish-processing facilities, lot-line adjustments, replacement structures and temporary uses. Uses not recommended for change include cemeteries, clean energy production, docks, geologic hazards, and mining. "Most of the land uses we've recommended not to consider further did not meet evaluation criteria approved earlier in the plan review process by the Gorge Commission," said Allen Bell, a senior planner with the commission. "These issues, for the most part, haven't been the subject of many appeals, haven't presented many implementation problems, and are not a priority with gorge counties, tribes, other partner agencies or the public," he said. An exception to this is mining, according to commission staff. "More than 200 people submitted comments stating mining threatens scenic vistas, wildlife and plant habitat, water resources and other sensitive resources," Bell said. "But the guidelines in the management plant that regulate mining are rigorous and consistent with the purposes and standards of the National Scenic Act." After the Commission decides which land uses to consider in plan review, a technical advisory committee will begin exploring alternatives to those uses. Public comment will be heard on these options at open meetings.
For more information on plan review and to access related documents, visit www.gorgecommission.org or call 509-493-3323.
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The Neurobiology of Grace Under Pressure
8 habits that stimulate your vagus nerve and keep you calm, cool, and collected.
When was the last time that you had to perform gracefully in a high-pressure situation? How did you handle it? Did you choke or did you have grace under pressure? Researchers continue to confirm that daily habits of mindset and behavior can create a positive snowball effect through a feedback loop linked to stimulating your vagus nerve.


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Waterville Lake Stable's Final Escrow pushed past pacesetter
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STAFFORD - A crowd gathered outside of the historic old opera house Wednesday as the century old building gave its final performance with a crash of bricks and cloud of white dust.
"I should have sold tickets to this," said Stafford police Chief Doug Brown. "That way we could have used some of the money to pay for the demolition costs."
The old opera house was built circa 1911, on Broadway street just east of the Main business district. German immigrant August Weide organized the Stafford Opera Company in 1910 and the building followed shortly after. It was named the Weide in honor of August's efforts.
In its early days the Weide offered plays by the Morey Stock Company and other traveling shows, hosted graduations, poetry readings and other events.
In 1928 the town newspaper, The Stafford Courier took up residence in the basement and lower level with its printing presses and reporters desks.
But time and the elements were not on the Weide's side as it past the century mark. Roof damage was only part of the decaying process as the building crumbled with age, The Pratt Tribune reported.
"There were times when you could hear large chunks of plaster falling from the upper story," said Courier editor, David Green. "Once the roof went there wasn't much hope for it."
The city declared the building a hazardous structure and in 2013 gave the bid for demolition to Stone Sand Company in Great Bend.
There was a grassroots effort to save the building and get it on the historic building records, but the effort failed to come up with the needed capital.
"It's too bad," said Arlene Lickiss as the large crane dismantled the walls. "But how much money do you spend on trying to save something like that?"
The large crane pulled down another wall exposing part of the old stage to the crowd that had gathered to watch the demolition.
"Oh, there's the old stage," Lickiss said. "That is kind of sad."
Stafford business owner Clare Moore has revived four historic old houses and a church into a turn-of-the century neighborhood B&B style retreat known as the Henderson House Inn and Retreat Center.
"Yesterday, I was grieving the loss of the Weide Opera House," Moore said. "For some reason, things like this affect me. Perhaps it's because I have a vision for what such a building holds in potential value as a unique facility rather than what it might have looked like before demolition."


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Personal Statements, Resumes, and Letters of Recommendation / Re: Please critique my first draft!?« on: October 29, 2009, 12:02:02 AM »
Hey Lekowitz. I like it but it doesn't really make you stand out. I think most people attending law school, me anyway, have a thrist for knowledge. Also, by saying attending law school will satisfy your passion, it sounds like that could be the end (just sounds like and i am pretty sure that is not what you mean), but we know knowledge is ongoing an aquired throughout life.
The intro is really catchy and I think that will set you apart. I think you should focus on something unique within your family or those circumstances that sets you apart from most other applicants. this will be a big advantage for you becasue I don't think most people have experienced these things.....especially young people, that grew up in America applying to law school with those numbers you posted in the other thread
Also, I wouldn't bring up anything negative with regards to school (dropping out) in the statement unless it drastically changed something in your life. I honestly think that there must be something to write about that is more in line with the first paragraph and that experience that will be more "life altering" and set you apart much better. Or use the statement your mother said to you and show how that changed your attitude and wanted to prove something to yourself and family......just some ideas off the top of my head.
That is just my 2 cents and I hope it helps......not trying to hurt any feelings...... but if you wouldnt mind reading my statement and "butcher" it for me I would appreciate it. I have gone through about 20 drafts or so and you can see from the origional one I posted to now how it has really changed content and context. It is under my thread name....mlacroix.
Thanks for the advice. I was thinking the same thing; it just sounds so boring after the intro. I'll take a look at your PS and hope I can give you some good advice. BTW I had read it before and commented on your opening paragraph; your story is really inspiring, thanks for sharing.


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Robin Roberts is resting at home and off "Good Morning America" this week after another hospital stay as part of her recuperation from a rare blood disease.
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Roberts underwent a bone marrow transplant last September to treat MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease. She was off work for five months before returning in February on a part-time basis to the top-rated network morning show.
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I discovered the article below while searching for anything Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali activist against Islam, might have said about the current famine in Somalia. Despite gaining European residency by falsely claiming to be a Somali refugee from a previous Somali famine (1992)--and doing so illegally via the Netherlands (she should have made any refugee claims in Germany, her first entry point into the EU, on her arrival from Kenya where she had lived for years)--Hirsi Ali (the false name she used to hide her identity as Magan Ali) seems to have nothing whatsoever to say about the plight of the current, and most devastating, famine in Somalia in decades. She did, however, figure prominently in the article, which was published in the Huffington Post and is copied below for discussion, on atheists crusading against Muslim immigration in order to maintain a Christian Europe.
Hirsi Ali currently advocates that Muslims turn to Christianity, while remaining an atheist herself. She elaborated on this in a recent interview on Canada's new Faux News channel, Sun Television:
At 2:00ff on all Muslims living in all countries; 2:55ff on Muslims living in Canada
At 7:31ff on the Norway massacre; on Christians excluded from discourse in Europe to use peaceful means to combat Islam
At 10:30ff on her trajectory from being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporting the death fatwa against Salman Rushie to her present positions
At 13:33ff Hirsi Ali claims that Iranians, Egyptians, and Saudis are taking an intellectual journey via the internet from Islam to Christianity in significant numbers.
As usual there is faux information in Hirsi Ali's reasoning. Being a Muslim in Canada is not "extremely difficult". Most Muslims find it extremely easy. Canada is respectful of religious rights and accommodates the beliefs and practices of all religious groups, and ethno-cultural practices that don't contravene law. For example German-Canadians cannot put real candles on their Christmas trees because it contravenes fire regulations. On a deeper issue, no one in Canada can perform female genital excision for ethno-cultural reasons or in the false belief that it is a religious practice--Islam does not require or promote female genital excision; minimal cutting as a cultural practice is tolerated for Muslims living in areas where it is a cultural practice independent of religion--as it contravenes Canadian medical law.
There are false controversies in Canada about wearing the niqab--for example the political ploy of claiming Muslim women were trying to vote with the niqab on. No Muslim woman had tried or wanted to do so. Moreover, no one needs to reveal their face to vote in Canada. There are other security measures to ensure identity. The last time I voted (in the Federal Election this year), I specifically asked about it at the registration desk and at the voting booth. 3 attendants had the same reaction: calmly stating that 2 pieces of ID from a list they reached for would suffice. I was voting in one of 2 ridings I legally could vote in, the one with few Muslims. Still, the electoral officers were well trained and well prepared for this hypothetical question--thanks to the false controversy.
Hirsi Ali also agrees implicitly with the interviewer that honour killings are a serious problem in Canada, as if they were frequent. They are a serious problem in the sense that homicide is a serious act, but are rare statistically. They occur primarily among recent South Asian immigrants, and among Hindus more than Muslims. The Muslim ones make the most headlines though, and fuel the hijab-niqab fire.
Hirsi Ali previously gave this memorable interview on a similar theme to Stephen Colbert:
4:10ff on her not being a Christian and preferring Enlightment philosophers to Jesus Christ
5:40ff on going to Church and receiving "the little thing...thing", "the waffle", and putting it into her pocket
In this interview, Hirsi Ali advocates proselytizing Christianity as an antidote to Wahhabi proselytizers of "the true Islam". It is hard to know what to make of this statement, except to remember that when she was in a Saudi run school as an early adolescent she tried to out-Wahhabi the teachers. At best it is advocating something she does not believe in to counteract something she used to believe in. Proselytizing is inherently against the liberal thinkers of the Enlightenment and their advocacy of free speech and thought, and religious tolerance she does claim to believe in. Perhaps in this she is more of a utilitarian and cconsequentialist than a believer in freedom.
In citing her preference for Enlightenment philosophers John Locke and John Stuart Mill (and even Jewish comedian Jon Stewart) to Jesus Christ, Hirsi Ali implies that both were atheists. John Locke moved within Christianity from Calvinism through Socianism to Arian belief--but remained a Christian, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral. John Stuart Mill was an Anglican, and although he refused to join the Anglican priesthood, he was godfather to younger philosopher Bertrand Russel, and was buried in a Catholic cemetery in Avignon alongside his wife.
While Roman Catholic Stephen Colbert does an admirable and humourously accurate job of explaining the "host" of Holy Communion to Hirsi Ali, one would think that she would get a minimum of terminology and meaning correct before advocating proselytizing and converting to a religion to which she doesn't adhere, and about which she claims ignorance of a central premise--"I didn't know that so I put it in my pocket".
When I first saw this interview, I was struck that she seemed to imply someone had shoved a "waffle" into her hand, whereas one presents oneself for Communion in any Christian Church I have attended. Was her whole Church visit a fictitious anecdote? Or did she just present herself, an atheist, for Holy Communion--to what purpose?
The Christian-Atheist Crusader, or the atheist proselytizing for Christianity, as a strategy of Islamophobes, explains the otherwise confusing stance and manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. Breivik is calm, cool, organized, methodical, and unrepentant because he has chosen an extreme means to wage a Crusade against the Labour Party and its youth, its future leaders, as enablers of the contemporary Muslim invasion of Norway. The members of the Labour Party are traitors to the Christian way of life in Norway, or at least colluding with the enemy, and so must be assassinated.
As the article explains, Breivik, while extreme in his means, is not alone in his beliefs. He is joined by prominent intellectuals like Niall Ferguson, and preceded by others like the well-known late Italian journalist Orianna Fallaci.
A 'Christian' Europe Without Christianity
By David Gibson
Religion News Service
Huffington Post
First Posted: 8/13/11 08:32 AM ET Updated: 8/13/11 08:32 AM ET
(RNS) Does European Christendom need Christianity to survive?
It may seen an odd question for a religious culture that once stretched from Britain to the Bosphorus, born of a deep and diffuse faith that inspired great cathedrals and monasteries and filled them with believers for centuries.
But when right-wing extremist Anders Breivik killed 77 people in a horrific rampage in Norway last month, he highlighted a novel development in the history of the West: a burgeoning alliance between believers and nonbelievers to promote Europe's Christian identity.
"European Christendom and the cross will be the symbol in which every cultural conservative can unite under in our common defense," Breivik wrote in his rambling 1,500-page manifesto. "It should serve as the uniting symbol for all Europeans whether they are agnostic or atheists."
Whether Breivik himself can be considered a bona fide Christian given his lack of a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God," as he put it, was a topic of much debate. There was no doubt, however, that he was a devout believer "in Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform."
In fact, that's been the case for any number of unbelievers for more than a decade.
One prominent example was the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who spent her last years before her death in 2006 inveighing against a Muslim influx that was turning the continent into what she called "Eurabia."
Fallaci liked to describe herself as a "Christian atheist" -- an interesting turn of phrase -- because she thought Christianity provided Europe with a cultural and intellectual bulwark against Islam.
There's also Scottish-born historian and political conservative Niall Ferguson, who calls himself "an incurable atheist" but is also a vocal champion for restoring Christendom because, as he puts it, there isn't sufficient "religious resistance" in the West to radical Islam.
(Ferguson dedicated his latest book, "Civilization: The West and the Rest," to his new partner, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch atheist who has promoted the values of Christianity over those of her native Islam.)
The modern-day crusade for Christendom by nonbelievers tends to be rooted in fears about Muslim immigration, but it's also fueled by worries about the deterioration of European culture -- and nostalgia for the continent's once central place in world affairs.
For some atheists, retaining European identity is reason enough to set aside long-standing enmity between churches and nonbelievers that dates back to the secularism of the Enlightenment and the anti-clericalism of the French Revolution.
And unlike the persistent sniping between atheists and believers in the U.S., Europe's nonreligious conservatives have found ready allies in the continent's religious leaders -- most notably Pope Benedict XVI.
Even before he was elected pope in April 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was spearheading the Vatican effort, however unsuccessful, to have the European Union's new constitution recognize the continent's Christian heritage. He also rejected the idea of allowing Muslim Turkey into the EU. "Europe is a cultural continent," he told a French magazine, "not a geographical one."
As pope, Benedict eventually softened his opposition to Turkey's entry into the EU but continued to insist that Europe's Christian culture must be protected, even as religious belief among Europeans declined.
In August 2005, just a few months after his election as pope, Benedict met secretly with Fallaci, news that upset Muslims when it leaked out. Muslims were even angrier at the pontiff's controversial speech a year later in Regensburg, Germany, when he depicted Islam as prone to violence and alien to Christian Europe.
"Attempts at the 'Islamification' of the West cannot be denied," Benedict's closest aide, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, said in a 2007 interview. "And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect."
"The Catholic side sees this clearly," he added, "and says as much."
But some atheists see this as well, and are equally happy to say so.
One of Christendom's most prominent atheist advocates is the Italian philosopher and politician Marcello Pera. In 2004, he delivered a series of lectures with then-Cardinal Ratzinger that set out their shared view of the need to restore Christian identity in Europe in order to battle both Islam and moral degeneration.
Later, Benedict wrote a forward to Pera's book, "Why We Must Call Ourselves Christians," which promotes Benedict's argument that Western civilization can be saved if people live "as if God exists," whether they believe that or not.
It's not a new argument -- 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal held that even if God's existence cannot be proved, people ought to act as though God exists because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
But the updated version seems to be winning some converts. In a landmark ruling last March, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy could continue to display crucifixes in public school classrooms because the cross with Jesus on it is a "historical and cultural" symbol rather than a religious one.
While the Vatican welcomed that decision, others wonder whether the cost was too high -- essentially emptying a container of its meaning in order to preserve the cultural form.
And an empty container, no matter how attractive on the outside, can be filled with all manner of beliefs on the inside.
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Trackfs is a small program that tracks file system changes -- creation,
update and removal of fs objects -- of another program (or group of
programs). It is similar to `installwatch', but works quite differently:
While installwatch uses LD_PRELOAD to intercept library functions like
open() and unlink(), trackfs runs the child program(s) with tracing
enabled and tracks the system calls they make.
trackfs also includes "playback", which runs a program via trackfs
and creates a shell script which, when run, will reverse all filesystem
changes made by the program.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT women's track and field team, ranked No. 15 in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) poll, took on teams from across Divisions I, II and III at the NEICAAA championship at the Steinbrenner track over the weekend. The Cardinal and Gray received some impressive individual showings to finish 14 overall and fourth among Division III squads.
Senior Portia Jones (Queens, N.Y.) had a busy weekend, qualifying for the finals in three events, the 100-meter hurdles, 200 and 400 meters. Jones ran a season-best 14.28 seconds in the 100HH to take third. Her qualifying time in the 400 was the third fastest but the final was scheduled in between the hurdles and the 200, so the senior paced herself to an eighth-place finish. She then came back to earn fifth in the 200 meter final with a time of 24.51 seconds, a season-best that ranks seventh on the national qualifying list.
Seniors Martha Gross (Short Hills, N.J.) did not make the finals in the 200 but did post her fastest time of the year at 25.54.
Senior Jamie Simmons (Carlsbad, Calif.) ran extremely well in the 400-meter hurdles, nearly breaking the one-minute mark. Simmons finished in 1:00.84 in the finals to earn fourth place.
Freshman Michelle Johnson (Glendora, Calif.) set a new MIT freshman record in the triple jump, placing seventh with a leap of 37-7.75 feet. Junior Lauren Kuntz (Pittsburgh, Pa.) gave Tech a solid effort in the pole vault, clearing 12-1.50 feet to earn second place.
The Engineers will travel to RPI for the ECAC championship next weekend, the final competition of the year before the NCAA Division III championship in two weeks.


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When gastronomical delicacies are less than delightful
Italian State Television's recent suspension of a cooking show caused such an uproar that the Associated Press wire picked it up and a British newspaper wrote a feature article on the incident.
The Italians were so horrified over the content of the local cooking show that "hugely popular" TV chef, Giuseppe "Beppe" Bigazzi, was suspended for lauding one of Tuscany's lesser-known gastronomic delights.
Chef "Beppe" appears to have lost all credibility for featuring a recipe for "gatto in umido." For non-Italian speakers, that means, "cat stew." It seems that Italians hold their feline friends in high esteem and eating them is the "no-noest" of "no-nos" for Italian cat owners.
The 77-year-old TV chef shocked the nation when he unexpectedly began praising the pleasures of feline flesh on his late-morning program, "La Prova del Cuoco," which means, "Test of the Cook."
Loyal viewers were appalled when "Beppe" expounded on the Tuscan practice of "boiling up" stray cats during the povertystricken years after WWII. He claimed the dish was better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon. Of the three, chicken was the only inclusion favored by most Italians. Rabbits and pigeons are purported to be regional preferences.
One woman claimed to have become physically ill from watching the program while her cat sat contentedly on her lap.
Not that I don't have compassion for Italian cat fans, but what tastes good to one man can – and often does – taste vile to another for a variety of reasons.
For instance, inviting a Hindu out for a hamburger would certainly have negative results since Hindus consider cows sacred. Having a steak for dinner would be at least as repulsive and vile to them as cat stew would be for a cat lover.
I watched men prepare and eat rattlesnake in survival training, but I could not force myself to even get close to it. I hate snakes and the thought of ingesting one can give me nightmares for weeks. I didn't mind eating the fried grubs and grasshoppers, but the snakes? I don't think so. I would die of starvation before that was going to happen.
Many people from western states eat rattlesnake on a daily basis. It isn't even considered a delicacy. To many, it's a staple. They are plentiful and easy to catch and prepare.
Yummy? I think not.
Serving visitors regional fare in different parts of the country often results in mixed reviews.
A few years ago, when I lived in southeast Florida full time, I entertained friends and relatives who enjoyed going south during the winter to escape the cold. A family from the Midwest came to visit and I thought I would treat them to some local cuisine. The family consisted of a husband, wife, and their two children, a 10-year-old boy and an eightyear old girl.
Florida is renowned for its prize-winning giant bullfrogs and certainly for an overabundance of alligators. I served both. Frogs legs provincial and deep-fried 'gator steaks were the offerings of the day.
The frog legs were traditionally prepared in a white wine, tomato and garlic sauce, while the 'gator was left overnight to marinate in buttermilk before it was dipped in a light batter and deep fried until golden brown. The frog legs, 'gator, a fresh fruit salad mixed with crispy greens and key lime pie for dessert represented Florida fare at its best. The presentation was pictureperfect enough for a magazine cover.
We had just returned from an afternoon at the beach, so everyone was starving and looking forward to a sumptuous feast. The lady was cutting into her fried 'gator and her son was taking a bite of his frog legs when the husband asked, "So what are we eating?"
As soon as I said, "alligator," the woman literally jumped back from the table and started shrieking. When I said "...and frog legs," the boy couldn't spit the food out of his mouth fast enough.
How was I to know that his hobby was collecting rare frogs? I never did find out what the woman had against alligators. I hardly think she considered them sacred. Anyway, they were both highly offended and, as far as I know, they have never forgiven me.
Attempting to be hospitable can sometimes be difficult when you live in a system you can't understand.