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The Namcho (gNams Chos) cycle is a mind treasure revealed by the Terton Migyur Dorje (1645-1667) who was a disciple of the great Karma Kagyu lama Karma Chakme. It is the most important cycle of treasure teachings that he revealed in his life. For more information on the biography of Namcho Mingyur Dorje and the Namcho cycle: http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biograph ... Dorje/9190
The empowerments will begin on October 18th or 24th and are expected to last about 3 weeks. Please keep checking our website for further date changes.
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Sioux Falls Senior Wins Covenant Award for Service
Kayla Rockwell, a senior Business Administration and Classics major, is the recipient of the Augustana Covenant Award for Service, an honor that recognizes courageous students who are committed to making the community a better place through service.
Froemke Lecture Series to Discuss Impact of Simulation
Dr. Matthew Leininger '95, deputy for Advanced Technology Projects at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will discuss "Changing the Scientific Method: the Impact of Simulation on Scientific Discovery" at the John A. Froemke Chemistry Lecture Series on Friday, May 6.
Soldiers, Families to Reunite Today at Elmen Center
Welcome home to members of the South Dakota National Guard's 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade! The unit, which includes about 200 area soldiers, returned to the U.S. last week after a year-long deployment in Afghanistan. They will be reunited with their families during a ceremony this afternoon at Augustana's Elmen Center. Watch live streaming video at KSFY.com.
Augustana Grads to Discuss Experiences in Japan Following Earthquake
Two Augustana graduates who are teaching English in Japan will discuss their experiences teaching abroad, the Japanese culture and what life is like following last month's catastrophic 8.9-magnitude earthquake at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 2, in the 3-in-1 room.
Riddle, Brooks Win Augie Pride Awards
Associate Dean of Students Tracy Riddle and Office of Admission Coordinator Marsha Brooks received "Augie Pride" awards for exceptional service at the Augustana Service Awards Presentation and Celebration yesterday.
Hurley Wins Covenant Award for Excellence
Senior Rachel Hurley, a biology and ACS chemistry double major, has received the Covenant Award for Excellence. During her time at Augustana, she has been involved with the Augustana Band and Wind Ensemble, NSO, Outreach Ministries, Pre-Med Club and the Biology Honor Society.
Textbook Rental Program Coming to Augustana Bookstore
Beginning in June, the Augustana College Bookstore will offer a new, multi-channel textbook rental program that will allow students to rent select textbooks for less than 50 percent of the cost of purchasing a new printed textbook.
Theatre Season Concludes with 'The Winter's Tale'
The Augustana Theatre and Music Departments will present "The Winter's Tale," Shakespeare's classic tale of jealousy, love, loss and reconciliation, May 4-8 at the Edith Mortenson Center Theatre. The play is directed by Jayna Fitzsimmons.
Autism Conference to Feature Author, Advocate Eustacia Cutler
Eustacia Cutler, award-winning author and mother of animal behavioral scientist and autism advocate Temple Grandin, will speak at "Lighting the Way," an annual, two-day conference on autism spectrum disorders. The conference will be held at Gilbert Science Center June 9-10.
Six Students Named Christopherson Scholars
Six Augustana students who exemplify scholarship and campus/community service have been awarded Fred C. and J. Marie Christopherson Scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year.


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Sat Nam!
So, it's 10 days away from 11.11.11... And I'm afraid to break it to you... but the world is still... cozily sleeping...
There's a global revolution of consciousness happening right now... right here... on our land... and across the entire globe. This is the time we have all been waiting and training for... The time is now to make the connection to our deepest destiny... and take action... Because the Aquarian Age is RIGHT HERE.
But the truth is... I'm afraid to take the leap as much as you are... and it's because we're not living up to our highest potential and overcoming our fears on a day-to-day basis... We've gotten cozy... But that time for coziness is now over... we don't really have a choice... the world is at a tipping point, and it's going to need your positive energy for transformation... and that truly only can begin with the Victory of Spirit within you...
So tomorrow night, and every night until 11.11.11 we will be having special classes and teachers sharing the technology of Love, Fearlessness and Victory, right up to the day of 11.11.11, when we will have a full 11 hours day of yoga, guests, lectures, music and meditations for 11 hours... Classes, lectures, dancing, singing... Every hour, on the hour... From 11am to 11pm!!
ONLY at Occupy Wall Street, New York... and where ever your local Occupy Movement is.
To make this possible, we need people to get out the word... And we need service, and help. Building community in New York one of THE hardest things to do... Because we all have our super fast pace, our commitments, distractions and resistances... But imagine if WE got together, what WE could do in the spirit of building something new, and build an event right here... just the way WE want to.WE are the creators of our destiny... From now, until we die, we cannot let that be in anyone's hands.
This Wednesday we will be filming video of our class, and we have a special guest teacher coming to lead us... AND we need you to come out and fill out the space so we can have a great video to launch on 11.11.11
Let's start by getting inspired to come this Wednesday (11/2) at 6pm to join and hear a presentation on the Occupy Movement from a spiritual warrior and teacher with 35+ years of experience in personal commitment and spiritual revolution, our guest teacher, Harinam Singh. http://web.me.com/harinam56/Hari_Nam_Singh_Khalsa/Welcome.html
Wednesday Night @ 6pm at #OWS!
This will be followed by a planning meeting at 7:15pm to organize the events of 11.11.11 and plan out the day. If you know musicians, drummers, videographers, photographers, singers, dancers, fire-blowers, or even someone who can rattle a tambourine, spread the word, and ask them to join us on this special day! Please motivate and spread the word!
Let's make the impossible possible.
Twitter: @occupyyoga
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The Reality We Face
Andrew Sullivan
Politico has a classic piece today on the grim background for the president's re-election campaign next year. I think it overdoes things a bit - I guess they had to sell the piece somehow - but its content tells us something important, even if it's something we already know.
America has hit a wall. Its long term growth trend faltered at the end of the last century and has flatlined and then collapsed in this one, as Nate Silver grimly reminds us (also today). It is not as bad as the Great Depression (that's the only good news), but it is the next worst thing. You can attribute it to several things: the surreal debt-financing begun under Reagan and turned into "deficits-don't-matter" dogma under GWB; globalization which increased competitive pressure on the middle-class American worker more drastically than any other event in the nation's recent history; the resources gobbled up by a welfare state bequeathed when Americans saw it as their birth-right to get richer and richer and richer for ever; or something we don't quite yet understand.
But the upshot is that the music stopped on Bush's watch, like a needle scratching across a vinyl record, and the continued silence is deafening. It's foolish, I think, to believe that the stimulus hurt; it helped short-term and may well have prevented a second round of the 1930s. Ditto the astonishing turn-around of America's automobile industry (see today's GM news); and extension of unemployment benefits way past their due date. But none of this works up against the powerful forces now arrayed against higher growth or middle class revival.
For me, the scariest thing is that company profits are booming, and yet we still are trapped in this decline. The reason? Not just globalization, but our attempts to disguise the new challenges by bubbles: tech and real estate. These tonics gave us a temporary sense of still gaining wealth, but only intensified the crash when their snake-oil ran out. This seems to me to be the real issue here. It's deeper than Bush or Obama. The weak recoveries that follow financial crashes have made matters worse. The delusion that the US is still rich enough to police the whole world doesn't help either. And there's no reason this will end any time soon, except by a grim and difficult paying down of collective and individual debt, in the context of a depressed global economy (with China's growth still highly unstable).
Sorry, but elixirs won't change this. We have no money for them. There are things we can do - agree on long-term debt-reduction, reform taxes, cut the defense budget, hope education can help middle and lower middle class Americans compete better on a global stage. But until we get used to this new period of austerity, and accept it, we will bang our heads against walls.
I confidently predict that Americans have so little experience of stasis or relative decline, let alone long-term hardship, that they will continue to take out their woes on various presidents required to govern at a time like this. My fear is that this despond and despair will be exploited by crazies on the populist right, as they have been in history. But culture war won't create jobs. Even a civilizational war, as some on the far right are itching for, won't help. We are not in the era when mass mobilization can be achieved in war or peace.
The best outcome, I suspect, will be a return to American realism, a determination to do the things we can while avoiding the things that will only give us a temporary hit. In this, the president's best hope is continued honesty with the American people, calm, and resilience. In hard times, radicalism appeals. But so too does small-c conservatism. In dark economic times, people sometimes keep a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse. But all this requires a stoicism at odds with American character and history.
I guess I'm saying that the long great ride seems to be over. The question is simply whether Americans can or will handle it without losing their heads.


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U.S. EPA, Navajo Nation Celebrate First Superfund Job Training Graduating Class
Release Date: 12/04/2012
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Twenty graduates complete first Superfund job training program in a tribal nation
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Navajo Nation will recognize the first graduates from a tribal nation to participate in and complete EPA's Superfund Job Training Initiative (SuperJTI). Officials from EPA and the President of the Navajo Nation will attend the ceremony tonight at Gallup Community Service Center in Gallup, New Mexico.
"We provide Superfund job training to give the community an advantage when it comes to local cleanup jobs," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "This training helps develop the Navajo workforce for the future -- the life and job skills these graduates receive make them attractive candidates wherever cleanup work is being performed."
"The new graduates from the Superfund Job Training Initiative mark a new step for the Navajo Nation. For generations, our Nation has been finding new avenues to establish our Nation as a sovereign and independent tribal Nation. Having a qualified workforce is a part of establishing real sovereignty for the Navajo Nation. This is a step in the right direction and we are thankful to the U.S. EPA for helping our communities gain a 'leg-up' with cleanup jobs," said Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly.
In September and October 2012 a robust recruitment effort sought eligible area residents. Twenty candidates were selected from a highly competitive field of more than 150 interested residents to participate in the rigorous two-week training course. The course included three days of pre-employment training that covered interviewing skills and work readiness, followed by seven days of intense technical training including Radon Measurement and Mitigation, CPR/First Aid, and the 40-hour Hazardous Waste and Emergency Response course.
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Regular commentator, Shafiq, of The Student View, kindly sent along this article, Cover Girl. I found that the article, written for O Magazine, by American Krista Bremer about her own mixed family, her Libyan husband Ismail, and her daughter Aliya, gives a very good, personal perspective on some of the issues which face bi-cultural and interfaith couples, particularly in raising children. I have excerpted the article below, though I encourage you to read it in full; and, I will make some observations afterward before starting the discussion with some questions.
COVER GIRL by Krista Bremer
Nine years ago, I danced my newborn daughter around my North Carolina living room to the music of Free to Be...You and Me, the '70s children's classic whose every lyric about tolerance and gender equality I had memorized as a girl growing up in California. My Libyan-born husband, Ismail, sat with her for hours on our screened porch, swaying back and forth on a creaky metal rocker and singing old Arabic folk songs, and took her to a Muslim sheikh who chanted a prayer for long life into her tiny, velvety ear. She had espresso eyes and lush black lashes like her father's, and her milky-brown skin darkened quickly in the summer sun. We named her Aliya, which means "exalted" in Arabic, and agreed we would raise her to choose what she identified with most from our dramatically different backgrounds.
I secretly felt smug about this agreement—confident that she would favor my comfortable American lifestyle over his modest Muslim upbringing. Ismail's parents live in a squat stone house down a winding dirt alley outside Tripoli. Its walls are bare except for passages from the Qur'an engraved onto wood, its floors empty but for thin cushions that double as bedding at night. My parents live in a sprawling home in Santa Fe with a three-car garage, hundreds of channels on the flat-screen TV, organic food in the refrigerator, and a closetful of toys for the grandchildren. I imagined Aliya embracing shopping trips to Whole Foods and the stack of presents under the Christmas tree, while still fully appreciating the melodic sound of Arabic, the honey-soaked baklava Ismail makes from scratch, the intricate henna tattoos her aunt drew on her feet when we visited Libya. Not once did I imagine her falling for the head covering worn by Muslim girls as an expression of modesty.
Last summer we were celebrating the end of Ramadan with our Muslim community at a festival in the parking lot behind our local mosque. Children bounced in inflatable fun houses while their parents sat beneath a plastic tarp nearby, shooing flies from plates of curried chicken, golden rice, and baklava.
Aliya and I wandered past rows of vendors selling prayer mats, henna tattoos, and Muslim clothing. When we reached a table displaying head coverings, Aliya turned to me and pleaded, "Please, Mom—can I have one?"
She riffled through neatly folded stacks of headscarves while the vendor, an African-American woman shrouded in black, beamed at her. I had recently seen Aliya cast admiring glances at Muslim girls her age. I quietly pitied them, covered in floor-length skirts and long sleeves on even the hottest summer days, as my best childhood memories were of my skin laid bare to the sun: feeling the grass between my toes as I ran through the sprinkler on my front lawn; wading into an icy river in Idaho, my shorts hitched up my thighs, to catch my first rainbow trout; surfing a rolling emerald wave off the coast of Hawaii. But Aliya envied these girls and had asked me to buy her clothes like theirs. And now a headscarf.
In the past, my excuse was that they were hard to find at our local mall, but here she was, offering to spend ten dollars from her own allowance to buy the forest green rayon one she clutched in her hand. I started to shake my head emphatically "no," but caught myself, remembering my commitment to Ismail. So I gritted my teeth and bought it, assuming it would soon be forgotten.
That afternoon, as I was leaving for the grocery store, Aliya called out from her room that she wanted to come.
A moment later she appeared at the top of the stairs—or more accurately, half of her did. From the waist down, she was my daughter: sneakers, bright socks, jeans a little threadbare at the knees. But from the waist up, this girl was a stranger. Her bright, round face was suspended in a tent of dark cloth like a moon in a starless sky.
"Are you going to wear that?" I asked.
"Yeah," she said slowly, in that tone she had recently begun to use with me when I state the obvious.
On the way to the store, I stole glances at her in my rearview mirror. She stared out the window in silence, appearing as aloof and unconcerned as a Muslim dignitary visiting our small Southern town—I, merely her chauffeur. I bit my lip. I wanted to ask her to remove her head covering before she got out of the car, but I couldn't think of a single logical reason why, except that the sight of it made my blood pressure rise. I'd always encouraged her to express her individuality and to resist peer pressure, but now I felt as self-conscious and claustrophobic as if I were wearing that headscarf myself.
In the Food Lion parking lot, the heavy summer air smothered my skin. I gathered the damp hair on my neck into a ponytail, but Aliya seemed unfazed by the heat. We must have looked like an odd pair: a tall blonde woman in a tank top and jeans cupping the hand of a four-foot-tall Muslim. I drew my daughter closer and the skin on my bare arms prickled—as much from protective instinct as from the blast of refrigerated air that hit me as I entered the store.
As we maneuvered our cart down the aisles, shoppers glanced at us like we were a riddle they couldn't quite solve, quickly dropping their gaze when I caught their eye. In the produce aisle, a woman reaching for an apple fixed me with an overly bright, solicitous smile that said "I embrace diversity and I am perfectly fine with your child." She looked so earnest, so painfully eager to put me at ease, that I suddenly understood how it must feel to have a child with an obvious disability, and all the curiosity or unwelcome sympathies from strangers it evokes. At the checkout line, an elderly Southern woman clasped her bony hands together and bent slowly down toward Aliya. "My, my," she drawled, wobbling her head in disbelief. "Don't you look absolutely precious!" My daughter smiled politely, then turned to ask me for a pack of gum.
In the following days, Aliya wore her headscarf to the breakfast table over her pajamas, to a Muslim gathering where she was showered with compliments, and to the park, where the moms with whom I chatted on the bench studiously avoided mentioning it altogether.
Later that week, at our local pool, I watched a girl only a few years older than Aliya play Ping-Pong with a boy her age. She was caught in that awkward territory between childhood and adolescence—narrow hips, skinny legs, the slightest swelling of new breasts—and she wore a string bikini. Her opponent wore an oversize T-shirt and baggy trunks that fell below his knees, and when he slammed the ball at her, she lunged for it while trying with one hand to keep the slippery strips of spandex in place. I wanted to offer her a towel to wrap around her hips, so she could lose herself in the contest and feel the exhilaration of making a perfect shot. It was easy to see why she was getting demolished at this game: Her near-naked body was consuming her focus. And in her pained expression I recognized the familiar mix of shame and excitement I felt when I first wore a bikini.
I imagined Aliya in a string bikini in a few years. Then I imagined her draped in Muslim attire. It was hard to say which image was more unsettling. I thought then of something a Sufi Muslim friend had told me: that Sufis believe our essence radiates beyond our physical bodies—that we have a sort of energetic second skin, which is extremely sensitive and permeable to everyone we encounter. Muslim men and women wear modest clothing, she said, to protect this charged space between them and the world.
Growing up in the '70s in Southern California, I had learned that freedom for women meant, among other things, fewer clothes, and that women could be anything—and still look good in a bikini. Exploring my physical freedom had been an important part of my process of self-discovery, but the exposure had come at a price.
Since that day in Venice Beach, I'd spent years learning to swim in the turbulent currents of attraction—wanting to be desired, resisting others' unwelcome advances, plumbing the mysterious depths of my own longing. I'd spent countless hours studying my reflection in the mirror—admiring it, hating it, wondering what others thought of it—and it sometimes seemed to me that if I had applied the same relentless scrutiny to another subject I could have become enlightened, written a novel, or at least figured out how to grow an organic vegetable garden.
On a recent Saturday morning, in the crowded dressing room of a large department store, I tried on designer jeans alongside college girls in stiletto heels, young mothers with babies fussing in their strollers, and middle-aged women with glossed lips pursed into frowns. One by one we filed into changing rooms, then lined up to take our turn on a brightly lit pedestal surrounded by mirrors, cocking our hips and sucking in our tummies and craning our necks to stare at our rear ends.
When it was my turn, my heart felt as tight in my chest as my legs did in the jeans. My face looked drawn under the fluorescent lights, and suddenly I was exhausted by all the years I'd spent doggedly chasing the carrot of self-improvement, while dragging behind me a heavy cart of self-criticism.
At this stage in her life, Aliya is captivated by the world around her—not by what she sees in the mirror. Last summer she stood at the edge of the Blue Ridge Parkway, stared at the blue-black outline of the mountains in the distance, their tips swaddled by cottony clouds, and gasped. "This is the most beautiful thing I ever saw," she whispered. Her wide-open eyes were a mirror of all that beauty, and she stood so still that she blended into the lush landscape, until finally we broke her reverie by tugging at her arm and pulling her back to the car.
At school it's different. In her fourth-grade class, girls already draw a connection between clothing and popularity. A few weeks ago, her voice rose in anger as she told me about a classmate who had ranked all the girls in class according to how stylish they were.
I understood then that while physical exposure had liberated me in some ways, Aliya could discover an entirely different type of freedom by choosing to cover herself.
I have no idea how long Aliya's interest in Muslim clothing will last. If she chooses to embrace Islam, I trust the faith will bring her tolerance, humility, and a sense of justice—the way it has done for her father. And because I have a strong desire to protect her, I will also worry that her choice could make life in her own country difficult. She has recently memorized the fatiha, the opening verse of the Qur'an, and she is pressing her father to teach her Arabic. She's also becoming an agile mountain biker who rides with me on wooded trails, mud spraying her calves as she navigates the swollen creek.
The other day, when I dropped her off at school, instead of driving away from the curb in a rush as I usually do, I watched her walk into a crowd of kids, bent forward under the weight of her backpack as if she were bracing against a storm. She moved purposefully, in such a solitary way—so different from the way I was at her age, and I realized once again how mysterious she is to me. It's not just her head covering that makes her so: It's her lack of concern for what others think about her. It's finding her stash of Halloween candy untouched in her drawer, while I was a child obsessed with sweets. It's the fact that she would rather dive into a book than into the ocean—that she gets so consumed with her reading that she can't hear me calling her from the next room.
I watched her kneel at the entryway to her school and pull a neatly folded cloth from the front of her pack, where other kids stash bubble gum or lip gloss. Then she slipped it over her head, and her shoulders disappeared beneath it like the cape her younger brother wears when he pretends to be a superhero.
As I pulled away from the curb, I imagined that headscarf having magical powers to protect her boundless imagination, her keen perception, and her unself-conscious goodness. I imagined it shielding her as she journeys through that house of mirrors where so many young women get trapped in adolescence, buffering her from the dissatisfaction that clings in spite of the growing number of choices at our fingertips, providing safe cover as she takes flight into a future I can only imagine.
Krista Bremer is the winner of a 2008 Pushcart Prize and a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She is associate publisher of the literary magazine The Sun, and she is writing a memoir about her bicultural marriage.
I feel like we can all relate to Krista Bremer's description of the balefulness of the tween, the growing identification with peers, and the assertion of greater individualism that accompanies late childhood as a prelude to adolescence. Though in the case of Aliya, clothing choices and their implication for her, now and as a woman, are an obvious outward symbol of religious choices she seems to be making, little boys go through similar identification processes, symbolizing their identifications in ways that may or may not be less outwardly obvious for Muslims, especially in Western culture, but may still involve choices like dressing more modestly--no shorts except for sports, no muscle shirts, etc. Other religions require specific symbols to be worn by both girls and boys, or even boys especially, for example Sikhism, or Conservative/ Orthodox Judaism. So, in an interfaith family making the decision to raise the children in both faiths and let them choose later, such changes in apparel may signal a choice for either a boy or a girl. One that is followed by more steps like those that Aliya is taking in learning the Quran and the Arabic language.
On the other hand, tweenhood is a rather fluctuating time of taking up and dropping interests, moving from one social group to another, forming and unforming friendships, and beginning the dance of challenging the same gender parent. Perhaps Aliya will move away from Islam, and when she has finished her quiet rebellion against her mother, post adolescence, will move toward Christianity. Maybe she will go on to university and have any of the common undergraduate identifications with existentialism, Jungian religiosity, agnosticisim, indifference, comparative religious studies with no firm allegiance to any one, or (hopefully not) a cult. She may have an influential friendship or a romance with someone of another religion and take up that one. She is still quite young to be making lifetime choices of this nature--as she has been given a choice.
The writer, here and in the full article which includes more of her own experiences growing up, does address the issue of cover as covering insecurities.This can also be particularly common in mid-late childhood, as girls and boys go through an awkward stage of being neither fully childlike nor fully adolescent, and often have an unshapeliness that defies fashion. They may be too stick like, or too chubby in a late baby fat kind of way to be fitting properly into increasingly young adult styles. Adolescence has other body image issues, partly as a result of mentally accepting a changing body, emotionally dealing with hormones, and finding an adult identity within society with its now greater complication of romance along with other changing relationships (familial, and social).
However, this is not to reduce covering to a form of neurosis, which it clearly isn't. Never the less, Bremer does write as if her daughter has become more alien to her: "half of her", "a moon in a starless sky", "a four-foot-tall Muslim", "a child with an obvious disability" who makes her feel hypertensive, claustrophobic, self-conscious, and protective. Part of a child's evolution involves parents accepting that their children are different from themselves, and have different opportunities and choices to make, as Bremer acknowledges by the end.
I do find it particularly interesting that Krista Bremer recognizes that both parents seemingly agreed on raising their children in both faiths and letting them choose, while confident the child would choose their own religion and the culture that goes with it. Each then goes about doing the appropriate teaching of the faith but also probably some "suasion". Some are more "persuasive" than others. I do think all couples have some issues where they "agree" in this same manner, either consciously or unconsciously expecting a certain outcome. Usually, as long as they are cognizant at some level of the possibility that there may be a different outcome, and can handle the disappointment, this isn't too big an issue.
What are your impressions of the article?
Do the experiences described resonate with any you have had, or know of, as a child or a parent?
Is a 9-year-old mature enough to make such decisions? How old is old enough?
Do you have the sense that Aliya is making a firm choice, and following the path of Islam?
How accepting is Krista of her daughter's decision? Is she still hoping for a reversal?
What issues may come up with her son in the future?
How accepting do you imagine Ismail to be?
Do you agree with the idea of raising children in more than one faith and letting them choose?
What approach would you take/have you taken to the children's religious education in an interfaith family?
Religiosity, and sometimes even religion, changes over the course of a lifetime. How should parents react as their children go through this evolution? How do they/have they reacted in your experience?
Any other comments, thoughts, experiences?


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Statement: July 21, 2011Docket No. RM10-23-000
Statement of Commissioner Philip D. Moeller on Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
While I offer substantial praise for todays final rule, the Commission should have taken a different approach to several important issues. We must recognize that all of the nations difficulties in building needed transmission will not be resolved by this rule. Rather, this rule largely addresses planning for long-distance transmission lines, which is only a subset of the critical issues that are inhibiting needed investment.
This rule cannot address issues like the delays caused by other federal agencies in the siting of important projects, as this Commission lacks the legal authority to require other federal agencies to act. For example, see the comments of PJM in this proceeding at p. 17, which state that:
[t]he PJM Board approved the Susquehanna-Roseland 500 kV line in 2007. The Susquehanna-Roseland line was approved by the state regulatory commissions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for 2012. The line is currently delayed by the National Parks Service [sic] and is not expected to be in service until 2014 at the earliest.
And this rule also cannot address issues of state law, regardless of the reliability needs that are served by a new transmission line. Moreover, this rule did not address whether a transmission provider can thwart competitive options by refusing to upgrade its transmission system. For these reasons, this rule will not resolve all of the difficult issues that discourage this nation from constructing needed transmission lines.
Regarding the issues that the final rule does address, I believe that the owner of a transmission network should have been provided with greater flexibility to ensure the reliability of its own network. Moreover, the rule should have clarified that a right of first refusal is not a right of forever refusal. That is, a right to forever block a needed transmission project could prevent the lowest-cost power from reaching consumers.
New transmission lines can sometimes be the lowest-cost way to improve the delivery of electricity. By building needed transmission, our nations transmission network can be maintained at reliability levels that are the envy of the world, while simultaneously improving consumer access to lower-cost power generation. Plus, a well-designed transmission network can allow efficient and cost-effective renewable resources to compete on an equal basis with traditional sources of power. While todays rule moves us forward to achieve those goals, a different approach would have been better on these issues.


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Sunday, 01 April 2012 10:07 AM
MILWAUKEE — Rick Santorum said Sunday that his presidential campaign will continue even if he loses the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, and he balked at suggestions by fellow conservatives that he step aside so front-runner Mitt Romney can build momentum ahead of November's election.
The conservative presidential hopeful said walking away now would be like the Kansas basketball team giving up in the first half, when it trailed by more than 10 points Saturday night against Ohio State, before rallying to win and advance to the NCAA title game.
"Look, this race isn't even at halftime yet," Santorum told "Fox News Sunday."
Santorum faces an uphill battle for the nomination. With about half of the GOP nominating contests complete, Romney has won 54 percent of the delegates at stake, putting him on track to reach the threshold 1,144 national convention delegates in June.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, who has won 27 percent of the delegates at stake, would need to win 74 percent of the remaining delegates to cinch the nomination.
Santorum acknowledged on NBC's "Meet the Press' that the Wisconsin vote will send a "strong signal" about the direction of the Republican contest.
But he also dismissed the notion that a prolonged primary would harm the party's chances against President Barack Obama in November. Santorum says GOP establishment figures are making that argument to convince voters that "they need Mitt Romney shoved down their throats."
Santorum said on Fox that Romney "hasn't painted a positive vision of this country. He hasn't been able to close the deal with conservatives, much less anybody else in this party. And that's not going to be an effective tool for us to win this election."
Romney was given a boost on Friday when Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan endorsed him, and then Sunday, first-term Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., also said he was backing the former Massachusetts governor.
Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, said Sunday that he thinks Romney has a good chance of winning a lot of delegates in Wisconsin.
"I think conservatives should coalesce around the Romney campaign and move on to the general election. And I hope a big victory on Tuesday will do just that," Paul said on ABC "This Week."
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June 25, 2014
(Green Bay, WI) – For fans of Broadway shows, comedy, music icons and legends, family entertainment, celebrities and so much more the 2014/15 season will not disappoint.
The Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, located on the campus of UW – Green Bay, announced its new season June 25 during a special event for patrons, friends and the campus community.
"Last year's expanded lineup of offerings included more of the vibrant, diverse programming our audiences want, and this season offers even more with 27 titles," said Weidner Center Executive Director Kate Green. "Thanks to the input from our patrons and community members, we've developed another fantastic season of shows that we're excited to share."
The 2014/15 Performing Arts Season is as follows:
- Brian Regan, 7:30pm Thursday, September. 25. Tickets starting at $52.50.
- Camelot, 7:30pm Friday, October. 17. Tickets starting at $35.00.
- 360 ALLSTARS, 7:30pm Saturday, October 25. Tickets starting at $ 38.50.
- Dancing Pros: Live 7:30pm Thursday, November 13. Tickets starting at $41.50.
- Les Stroud: Survivorman – Live in Concert, 7:30pm Saturday, November 15. Tickets starting at $38.50.
- The Magic of Bill Blagg Live!, 7:30pm Saturday, November 29. Tickets starting at $34.00.
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, 7:30pm Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Tickets starting at $40.50.
- Sister Act, 7:30pm Monday, December 15. Tickets starting at $35.00.
- The Oak Ridge Boys Hits & Christmas Show, 3:00pm Sunday, December 21. Tickets starting at $34.50. Additional fees apply.
- Jim Brickman On A Winter's Night, 7:30pm Saturday, December 27. Tickets starting at $43.75.
- I Love Lucy – Live on Stage, 2:00pm & 7:30pm Thursday, January 15. Tickets starting at $38.50.
- Doctors In Recital, 7:00pm Saturday, January 17. Tickets $20.00. Additional fees apply.
- STOMP, 7:30pm January 27 – 28. Tickets starting at $35.00.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites, 11:00am Saturday, January 31, 2015. Tickets starting at $15.00.
- Dave Mason's Traffic Jam, 7:30pm Thursday, February 12. Tickets starting at $37.00.
- Alton Brown Live: The Edible Inevitable Tour, 7:30pm Friday, February 13. Tickets starting at $49.50.
- Sid the Science Kid: Live!, 11:00am Saturday, February 21. Tickets starting at $25.00.
- Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, 7:30pm Sunday, February 22. Tickets starting at $37.50.
- Over the Rainbow: Musical Tribute to the Artistry of Judy Garland, featuring Hilary Kole, 7:30pm Wednesday, February 25. Tickets starting at $38.50.
- Million Dollar Quartet, 7:30pm Wednesday, March 4. Tickets starting at $35.00.
- Dinosaur Train: Live! Buddy's Big Adventure, 3:00pm Sunday, March 8. Tickets starting at $25.00.
- The Priests, 7:30pm Friday, March 20. Tickets starting at $38.50.
- Moscow City Ballet's Swan Lake, 7:00pm Sunday, March 22. Tickets starting at $35.00.
- Orchid Ensemble, 7:30pm Wednesday, April 15. Tickets $22.00.
- The Best of The Second City, 7:30pm Thursday, April 16. Tickets starting at $38.50.
- Elling Swings Sinatra, 7:00pm Sunday April 26. Tickets starting at $41.50.
- Say Goodnight Gracie, 7:30pm Saturday, May 16. Tickets starting at $38.50.
Tickets are currently on sale via subscription. Patrons need simply to select three or more of the Performing Arts Season events listed above to qualify as a subscriber, buy before the general public, get the best seats and save up to 10 percent on their purchase. Subscription order forms reflect discounted prices. Orders of less than three events will be processed at full price August 1 when single tickets go on sale to the general public.


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Forrest Laws, associate publisher for Penton Media's Farm Press publications, was among those recognized when the Mid America CropLife Association honored industry, media, and academic leaders at its recent annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind.
Laws received the Ruth White Media Award, presented to an individual who has a proven understanding and track record in effectively reporting on the broad spectrum of activities involved in production agriculture — cultural, political, scientific, educational, economics, global, etc.
According to Bonnie McCarvel, executive director of Mid America CropLife Association, "Forrest was selected for the Ruth White Media Award because he has demonstrated an evidence of consistent, objective, and accurate reporting on American agriculture and the myriad of issues involved in modern agriculture, including the CropLife industry. He has also spent most of his career in agriculture, and MACA recognizes those people who do an excellent job of telling the story of agriculture, especially crop protection."
Based now in Cordova, Tenn., Laws joined Farm Press 20 years ago. He has written extensively about all phases of production agriculture including farm chemicals, marketing, and legislative/regulatory issues (including each of the farm bills since 1981).


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BANGKOK, THAILAND--(Marketwire - March 15, 2013) - As the 16th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok comes to a close, IFAW is celebrating an historic CoP that left polar bears in the cold but brought additional protection to an unprecedented number of species. In addition to numerous positive results the tone and level of the discussion, which has been rancorous in the past, was largely constructive.
"I've noticed two big shifts at this CITES CoP," says Azzedine Downes, CEO and President of IFAW and head of IFAW's CITES delegation. "First, things are shifting towards the precautionary principle. When in doubt people are choosing conservation. Second, delegates are talking about the first solution-oriented CoP in a long time and IFAW is proud to contribute to that."
The largest victory for animals at this year's CoP was likely the three proposals to uplist five shark species. "One of the keys of this victory for shark conservation is that we had strong support from countries in the Arabian Peninsula and West Africa. Years of work by IFAW and other groups to raise awareness on the issue and conduct the research and science on which to make a clear case for regulating the trade in shark fins," said Dr. Ralf Sonntag, IFAW shark expert.
"IFAW will begin to work immediately to organize workshops to ensure the proper implementation of these new regulations," said IFAW CEO and President Azzedine Downes.
For elephants developments came in the form of smaller, more incremental improvements such as requiring countries to send samples from large ivory seizures to established forensic analysis facilities. This will help trace the smuggling route of the ivory and track down those responsible. Ivory consuming nations such as Thailand mall and China are encouraged to engage in consumer awareness campaigns that will educate the public about ivory trade laws and reduce demand for ivory. Ensuring hunting trophies containing elephant ivory cannot be illegally laundered using an exemption to the CITES permit regime for personal and household items as well as delaying the creation of a Decision-making Mechanism to govern future ivory trade until at least CoP17 in 2016.
"These developments will not stop the current poaching crisis that is killing up to 25,000 elephants per year but they will help and they should save some elephants," says IFAW's Jason Bell, Elephant Program Director. "We continue to urge more countries to donate to the African Elephant Fund to pay for the Plan's implementation."
The polar bear, as one of the world's most iconic species, was under particular scrutiny as the bear was proposed for an Appendix I listing effectively banning the international commercial trade. "It is disappointing that the world has chosen to continue trading in endangered polar bears," said Jeff Flocken, North American Regional Director. "But range states are now thinking about next steps in polar bear protection and unfortunately the situation for polar bears is not going to get any better. IFAW expects to see them back at CITES in the future."
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It was going to happen someday. Nobody keeps a roll going like that forever, not even Zack Greinke. Inevitable as a spring breeze.
Greinke's streak of giving up two or fewer runs in 21 consecutive starts finally came to an end Thursday, if equipped with something of an asterisk. Only one of the three runs he surrendered was earned.
And even if Justin Turner made up for an earlier costly error with a two-run homer that tied the score, a struggling start by Greinke and another flat performance by the Dodgers led to a 5-3 victory for the Mets at Citi Field.
Greinke wasn't awful or anything, but he was far from sharp. He struggled with his control most of the night and left after the fifth inning having already thrown 101 pitches.
He gave up the three runs on four hits and a pair of walks. He struck out four. He still hasn't given up more than two earned runs in 22 consecutive starts, which according to ESPN, passes Roger Clemens for the longest streak in major-league history.
The Dodgers took an early 1-0 lead on an Adrian Gonzalez sacrifice fly in the first inning, but that's all they could manage against left-hander Jonathan Niese over six innings.
The Dodgers again failed to play sharp baseball. It certainly was not their best defensive effort, and the Mets tied the score in the second inning when Curtis Granderson doubled and Matt Kemp missed the ball for an error to allow Granderson to take third. He scored on an Eric Campbell sacrifice fly.
The inning could have been worse for the Dodgers, but Yasiel Puig made a highlight-reel diving, backhanded catch of a Wilmer Flores line drive to right-center field.
In the fifth inning, doubles by Anthony Recker and Niese scored one, and when Turner couldn't come up with a Daniel Murphy roller for another error, Niese scored.
Turner, who played for the Mets last season, tied the score with his two-run homer in the seventh inning, but New York regained the lead against Chris Perez in the bottom of the inning. Perez put the winning run in scoring position with a wild pitch before Juan Lagares singled.
In the eighth inning, David Wright singled and Granderson was credited with a triple when his drive went off the wall and got past Kemp and Puig.
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Indoor Window Box Ideas
Last week, while traveling the coast of Maine (Ogunquit and Kennebunkport), I found myself struck by the many lush and perfectly maintained window boxes. Unfortunately, living in a rented apartment the size of these homes' sheds, I don't imagine outdoor window boxes in my near future (landlord approval might be tough). But then I thought about indoor window boxes, which I can enjoy just as much as the pedestrians outside my windows.
Here are a few DIY ones that could work for any modern home or apartment. Have you tried to make one yourself? Share your window gardening tips below!
1. Wood Shim Window Box Planter by Centsational Girl
2. Smallest, Coolest Apartments 2007: 42anderson's Love, Eat, Party
3. 10 Best Weekend DIY Projects by Red Online
4. Christmas Window Box by Better Homes and Gardens
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Borde Hill 2017 Sculpture Exhibition
Sunday, September 17, 2017
An event every day that begins at 12:00am, repeating until Monday, October 2, 2017
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About the Event
Borde Hill's historic garden will be transformed into an outdoor gallery, providing the perfect backdrop for the 18th annual Sculpture Exhibition.
Opening on the 12th May, the exhibition will bring the Garden to life, showcasing works by established and up-and-coming artists from across the South of England.
Visitors will discover an extraordinary mix of figurative and abstract art in bronze, resin, stone, metalwork and ceramic, with a number of pieces commissioned especially to celebrate the 21st Anniversary of Borde Hill's Rose Garden.
The sculptures will be strategically placed to compliment the renowned plant collection, encouraging visitors to explore what Country Life has described as 'One of the country's truly great gardens'.
The exhibition will run daily from 12th May to 2nd October 2017, with admission included in the standard entry price. Families will be encouraged to explore the exhibition with our popular Kids Sculpture Trail.
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BOSTON - Around the turn of the 20th century, photographers called pictorialists combined fine arts sensibilities with new developing processes to infuse their images with allegoric imaginative power.
Working with black and white and innumerable shades of gray, photographers like Alfred Stieglitz, Frederick H. Evans and Gertrude Kasebier created visual poems meant to evoke moods and emotions rather than merely document the everyday world.
The Museum of Fine Arts has brought together masterpieces and lesser-known photos from that movement in "Truth and Beauty,�� an exhibit of sumptuous beauty that showcases newly acquired images by and of the region�s greatest pictorialist, F. Holland Day.
Organized by Anne E. Havinga, senior curator of photography at the MFA, the exhibit showcases 51 images by 23 artists from the U.S., England and Europe who were regarded as the giants of pictorialism that flourished from 1885 through 1915.
She explained as photography grew in popularity and the new Kodak box camera, introduced in 1888, made picture taking more accessible to the general public, the emerging pictorialists borrowed from then-current art movements, such as impressionism and symbolism, to create images that invited personal response and interpretation.
In contrast to today�s junior high students with cell phone cameras who document every aspect of their lives in bland and blaring color, pictorialist photos on display dazzle the inner eye as wonders of tonal subtlety and detail that suggest stories that stir viewers� feelings in complex ways.
In delicately nuanced photos like "The Hand of Man,�� Stieglitz, who became America�s dominant pictorialist,�� transformed a detailed photo of converging train tracks leading to New York City into a powerful statement about industrialism.
Sharing Day�s fascination with religious iconography, Kasebier dressed a woman in flowing clothes in what resembles a contemporary barn in "The Manger�� to create her own Nativity scene of haunting beauty.
Edward Streichen�s 1901 portrait of Day as a Bohemian artiste, dressed in black, conveys the pictorialists' signature fusion of rebelliousness and self-conscious theatricality.
In the exhibit, the MFA is showcasing a newly acquired gem of photographic history created by one of the state�s most original and audacious artists.
The museum purchased from the Norwood Historical Society Day�s emblematic treasure, "The Last Seven Words,�� a monumental seven-panel self portrait in which the Norwood resident photographed himself in seven close-ups as Jesus Christ on the cross.
Additionally, the MFA acquired three photos by other artists of Day, a controversial photographer who turned his own life into art.
Born in 1864 into a prosperous family, Day co-founded a publishing company that stylishly printed about 100 titles. By his 30s, Day had established himself among the nation�s preeminent photographers for his frankly sensuous studies of young, often nude males but over time was eclipsed by the competitive Stieglitz.
Patricia Fanning, Day�s biographer who serves on the NHS�s board of trustees, said members decided selling Day�s "masterpiece" and three other works was in the society�s "best interests.��
"We thought about it for a very long time and weighed the pros and cons. There were security issues as well as complications providing a controlled climate for a work that fragile. We hope to use interest from the sale to maintain the F. Holland Day house,�� at 93 Day St., Norwood, which houses the nonprofit NHS. Fanning said both the board of the NHS and membership approved the sale.
The author of "Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day,�� she declined to name the sale price.
Fanning said a fragment of the "crown of thorns�� Day wore in the 1898 work was given to the MFA as a gift from the Norwood Historical Society.
An audacious work in concept and execution, Day�s "The Seven Last Words�� takes its title from phrases spoken by Jesus from his crucifixion until his death, each matched with a self-portrait of Day in various stages of agony and, perhaps, the ecstasy of death.
There is lots to admire and enjoy in this exhibit beyond Day�s iconic image and portraits of him by J. Craig Annan, Edward Steichen and one by Clarence H. White in which Day appears in Bohemian costume beside the shadowy image of a naked black male who was likely his favorite model, Alexandre Skeete, an art student from British Guiana.
Photographs more than a century old retain their remarkable detail and tonal subtleties.
Alvin Langdon Coburn�s 1905 photogravure of "St. Paul�s Cathedral�� and Peter Henry Emerson�s 1886 platinum print are sumptuous examples of images by photographers who pioneered a form of rarely surpassed artistry that still dazzles the eye.
Chris Bergeron is a Daily News staff writer. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 508-626-4448. Follow us on Twitter @WickedLocalArts and on Facebook.
"Truth and Beauty: Pictorialist Photography��
WHEN: Through Feb. 16, 2015
WHERE: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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MGoHistory - The Year In Review - 1997
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As kickoff for Team 133 approaches, our MGoHistory journey continues. Our past stops in 1986 and 1971 found pleasant memories of Michigan glory past. Now let's set the Omni to a more recent time, a more familiar time. We're arriving just 15 years past (no way it's been 15 years!) and the Omni shows green, which means history is right….oh so right. We have arrived in 1997!
The 90's are in full swing and the PC has become as ubiquitous a household item as the television. This coupled with the rise of the World Wide Web on the internet has spawned the Dot Com boom. Speculation into online businesses drives financial markets into huge gains worldwide, making countless computer geeks into millionaires overnight. Riding the wave of this economic boom, Bill Clinton begins his second term as president after a landslide victory over Bob Dole the previous November. On the surface, things seem to be running smooth for the president, but the turmoil of the Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment trial loom just a year away.
In Great Britain, Tony Blair wins the general election, becoming Prime Minister and sovereign control of Hong Kong is returned to China. The British also cause a stir when Scottish scientists announce the successful cloning of an adult sheep, Dolly; and a little known children's author, J.K. Rowling publishes her first novel, "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone". Britain stays center stage on a sadder note when hundreds of millions mourn the untimely death of Princess Diana.
The Earth sees the return of comet Hale-Bopp for the first time in over 4000 years and NASA successfully lands the Pathfinder probe on the surface of Mars. Justice is served for many in Oklahoma with the conviction and subsequent death sentence of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. More positively, Steve Jobs returns to head a foundering Apple Computer where he will lead the next revolution in consumer technology that most of us take for granted today.
On the popular front, Americans line-up to see "Titanic" and Leonard DiCaprio becomes a star. Americans also line up to see "Batman and Robin" and it almost ruins George Clooney's career. Young people the world over inexplicably go crazy for the Spice Girls and Hanson while fans of hip hop and rap mourn the passing of the Notorious B.I.G. We all flock to our television sets on Thursday to watch "Must See TV" on NBC and see Ellen DeGeneres come out of the closet on ABC. Animated TV achieves a few hallmarks when "The Simpsons" become the longest running animated primetime show while another animated cult classic, "South Park", debuts on cable's Comedy Central.
Brett Favre leads Green Bay to their first Super Bowl championship in 30 years, the Red Wings bring the Stanley Cup back to Detroit for the first time in 40 years, and the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan win the NBA championship for the 5thtime in 7 years. Mike Tyson meets Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship, but rather than fight him, he tries to have him for supper.
For Michigan athletics, the 90's were one of the great decades of the school's history. By 1997 Jon Urbanchek has built Michigan Swimming into a powerhouse, winning his 11thBig 10 title in 12 years. Not to be outdone, the women's swim team under Jim Richardson wins their 11thstraight Big 10 title. Women's softball has also become the dominant program in the Big 10 under Carol Hutchins winning their 3rdstraight Big 10 tournament title and their making their 3rdstraight Super-Regional in the NCAA tourney. Mens Baseball under Geoff Zahn wins the Big 10 Conference title as well.
The men's basketball team also continues to be one of the elite teams in the Big 10 under Steve Fischer Featuring notable players such as Robert Traylor (may he rest in peace), Maurice Taylor, and Louis Bullock; Michigan hoops follows up an NIT championship in March by winning the inaugural Big 10 Tournament at the end of the 1997-98 season. This all becomes overshadowed though with the breaking of the Ed Martin story in June which costs Steve Fischer his job, Michigan all of the banners it won during the decade, and creates a vacuum in Michigan basketball recruiting that allows MSU's Tom Izzo to become a coaching legend.
In hockey, Red Berenson fields what is arguably one of the greatest hockey teams of all time. The 1997 Wolverines are the defending National Champions and sport a line-up that include All-Americans Brian Wiseman, John Madden, Marty Turco as well as Hobey Baker winner Brendan Morrison. The team also includes no less than 5 additional NHL players in Jason Botterill, Mike Legg, Bill Muckalt, Matt Herr, and Bubba Berenzweig.
The Michigan icers win both the CCHA regular season and tournament championships and are overwhelming favorites to repeat as NCAA champions going to into the tournament. Michigan cruised to the Frozen Four, dispatching Minnesota 7-4 only to lose in the semi-finals to Boston University in OT, 3-2 and illustrating the highlighting the frustrating fact about the NCAA hockey tournament, the best team doesn't always win because pucks bounce. This is why you must always hate BU…always….so much. In terms of Michigan disappointments in athletics, the 1996-97 teams' loss to BU has to rank near the top.
Michigan football in 1997 is lead by former assistant coach Lloyd Carr, who is in his third season as Michigan's top guy. Unlike the rest of Michigan athletics, the football team is in the midst of a malaise which has seen them finish four straight seasons with four losses. Grumbling has begun amongst the Michigan faithful and some in the media snidely comment that the "M" in Michigan has come to mean mediocre. With former walk-on Brian Griese being the starter by Carr over the stronger-armed Scott Dreisbach and Tom Brady and a meh 14thranking in the AP poll coming into their opener with #8 Colorado, expectations are guarded to say the least.
Of course, we all know how this turns out. Michigan, lead by the legendary Charles Woodson and All-American Glen Steele never let anyone score…ever and Brian Griese heads a workmanlike Michigan offense to an undefeated season, it's first Big 10 title since 1992. The regular season is highlighted by an epic shellacking of #2 Penn State and a defeat of #4 Ohio in Ann Arbor to clinch a Rose Bowl berth. Woodson goes on to win just about every award a player can earn, including becoming the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy, which Tennessee fans deem to be the greatest injustice ever….EVER! Coach Carr is named Walter Camp Coach of the Year and Defensive Coordinator Jim Herrmann wins the Frank Broyles Award as the top coaching assistant.
Michigan goes on to defeat Washington State, lead by future NFL super-bust Ryan Leaf, 21-16 in the 1998 Rose Bowl securing the AP Poll National Championship. Michigan enters the Rose Bowl the undisputed number one team in the country, but Nebraska splits the title off their impressive win over Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl and some strange final Coaches Poll shenanigans, prompting years of speculation from the Michigan fanbase over which coach screwed us. I'm not saying it was Phil Fulmer, but karma is a bitch and Tennessee has had a pretty precipitous slide in the past decade and a half…just sayin'.
1997 may seem too many to be not that long ago, but it was pre 9/11, pre-Google, pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter, pre-Apple iPod/Phone/Pad, pre-reality TV, pre-Great Recession, pre-WiFi. The world has changed a LOT in the past 15 years. 1997 was the culmination of a dominant era for U of M sports. An era that saw the football program tower over Ohio and MSU, hockey rise to become the preeminent power in college, and basketball being one of the great programs in the Big 10*. Let's hope that the current caretakers of our beloved Maize and Blue are ready to give birth to a new era of Michigan domination that will make our hearts soar and our enemies' heads explode in frustration. Enjoy the season and we'll pick this up again in the winter of 2013.


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The city of Independence is taking nominations for the Susan Paxton Block Distinguished Public Service Award, honoring a former City Council member.
Anyone can make a nomination. The award is for a city employee, volunteer or elected official who "has demonstrated outstanding public service, valor and job performance with leadership," according to the city.
Nominations are due by Aug. 15. Forms are available in several ways:
• On the city's website – www.independencemo.org. Go to the Susan Paxton Block Public Service story.
• The Independence Chamber of Commerce, 210 W. Truman Road.
• From city department heads.
• From Judy McNeel, past president of the Junior Service League. She's at 816-461-0027. Block was a president of the group.
Block represented the city's Third District from 1992 until her death in 1996. Her father, Bill Paxton, established the award. The award is $1,000, a sterling silver medallion and a sterling silver lapel pin. It is to be presented at a City Council meeting on Sept. 15.


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Microsoft finally has a browser that can actually play with the big boys. Since we've covered IE9 extensively already, I'm not going to rehash all the details, but here's a breakdown of the most important additions.
First up, Microsoft is the first browser to ship with hardware-accelerated rendering. The GPU is put to work through the use of Direct2D for drawing, and the new text renderer in Vista and 7, DirectWrite, takes care of text. This last thing causes what I believe to be a major issue: text rendering is absolutely horrendous on many websites. DirectWrite produces fonts that are shape-accurate - which is the way Mac OS X does it. This looks fine if the entire operating system uses it, but when only one application uses it, it stands out like an eye-sore. Windows' ClearType renders text in such a way that they are sharp - shape be damned. Mixing the two is sloppy.
IE9 might as well dispense rainbows and unicorns, but the text rendering is a definite deal breaker for me.
Another major consequence of the hardware acceleration is that Internet Explorer 9 doesn't run on Windows XP. I consider this to be a plus point - I find Windows XP intolerable and it needs to die - but those of you still clinging on to that piece of junk won't be able to use IE9.
Another major feature is the new JavaScript engine Chakra, which delivers some impressive performance gains over Internet Explorer 8. IT's multithreaded; one thread will run the script in realtime, while another thread compiles and optimises it in the background.
Of course, one of the major points of interest was support for modern web standards, an area where Microsoft has been lagging behind for almost a decade now. The details here can be found in the developers' guide for Internet Explorer 9, which details all the new things on this front.
There's loads of other nice tidbits as well, like the ability to pin sites to the Windows 7 taskbar where website developers can even create jumplists for their sites (pin Facebook to your Windows 7 taskbar and you'll see). The interface itself of course follows the trend set by Chrome of focussing on the content instead of the UI, and that's a good thing.
You can get Internet Explorer 9 for Vista and 7, so if you feel inclined to do so, give it a shot.


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Ganga Sagar Mela, also known as Ganga Sagar Yatra or Ganga Snan, is the annual gathering of Hindu pilgrims to take holy dip in River Ganga before She merges in the Bay of Bengal Sea during Makar Sankranti at Sagar Island or Sagardwip in West Bengal, India. Ganga Sagar Mela 2019 date is January 15. The day is of great importance to scores of Hindus and Sadhus.
People take holy dip on January 13, January 14, January 15 and Jan 16.
People take holy dip on January 13, January 14, January 15 and Jan 16.
The Gangasagar fair begins a couple of day early and ends on the day after Sankranti. Hindu pilgrims from
India and around the world arrive at Sagar Island to take a holy dip in sacred waters of Ganga River before She merges in the Bay of Bengal.
Thousands of Hindus take holy dip at the auspicious time on Makar Sankranti day morning and offer prayers to Lord Surya (sun god). The holy dip is believed to wash the sins away and lead to the attainment of Moksha.
After performing Ganga Snan, pilgrims visit the
situated nearby. This is an ancient temple and is one of its kind in Kapilmuni Temple . India
Devotees start to arrive in the first week of January and the venue attracts maximum pilgrims on the Makar Sankranti day.
Accommodation for pilgrims is provided on the transit camps set up on
. Sagar Island
Kapil Muni Temple at Ganga Sagar
Kapil Muni Temple at Ganga Sagar


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- Provide an e-mail comment box for convenient member feedback.
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My most recent post at Call to the Pen was about the New York Yankees and some baseball moves they should consider were the logic of Jon Heyman and some other mainstream writers to be mistakenly believed as sound. It was a wee bit satirical and there were some attempts at jokes and all that. It was also posted over a week ago. The day after my post I was contacted by a Call to the Pen editor-type and asked a series of questions in regards to my place on the site. Reading between the lines (I went to college, where I studied English and Creative Writing), it became readily apparent that they were very interested in internet-things like "relevant baseball news" and "traffic" and "page views" and all sorts of other insufferable garbage that I don't care to understand or think about. Metrics, perhaps. Click-Through Rate. I was also able to glean from the electronic mail that I probably wasn't the greatest performer when it came to all of this new and important stuff and that the editor-type wasn't all that keen on my choices of blog content and writing style. Some people don't find me funny or interesting, turns out. I'm just as shocked as you are. The end result is that I promptly tendered my resignation, or whatever, and the post you can click on and read right here will be my last at Call to the Pen. So it goes, a guy once said and continued to say for quite a long time.
I spent over a year at Call to the Pen. I wrote like, somewhere around 100 posts in that time. That strikes me as a lot. It was a lot of posts, and a lot of words, and a great deal more stress and anxiety and impending doom. The blessing of Call to the Pen was also its curse. I was expected to provide two posts per week. This kept me motivated, to a certain extent, and it forced me to write when I wouldn't have otherwise. I think I fared ok, despite the panic. It also made me more than miserable on select days. Many days. I suppose part of the idea of this blog is to show someone, anyone out there that I'm a person with a decently functioning brain who likes baseball and can write about it on a certain consistent frequency. Call to the Pen allowed me to publicly present that ability, and to do so on a stage marginally larger than the one I've fashioned for myself here, with internet comments, and on Twitter. For that I am grateful, and I think fondly of many of my co-writers, and to the people who originally gave me the opportunity to contribute. Thank you, people who deserve it. You were nice, and we posted some baseball shit, and it was good more often than it was not.
And now here I am, back where I started, and it's just fine. For one reason or the other, I felt a certain responsibility to Call to the Pen, a responsibility to cover topical subjects and newsworthy happenings, and I gave it my best shot and I wrote about things in such a way that I could live with myself. I was willing to write about a contract extension, or a free agent signing, or a steroids controversy, but I was going to couch it in a great deal of ham-fisted bullshit, and occasional satire, and a whole lot of tongue-cheeking, because I know what baseball news aggregation looks like and I don't find it particularly compelling or worthwhile. Unless it pays, in which case, I fucking love it. I'll give you Dan Haren's career trajectory and injury history and WAR/$ all day every day. Now, I'm a free man, burdened to no website or news cycle or misplaced sense of responsibility. It feels good and also not good, because I can do whatever the hell I want. Most days, whatever the hell I want to do is not write a baseball blog post. I've sat around for a week, lived life, breathed easy after work between the hours of 5pm-10pm, and now I suppose I'll attempt a return to the grind. Shit might get weird, or intermittent, or just plain awful. But writers write, and that's the delusion I'm grasping at for a least a while longer.


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At the end of February, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling declaring Florida's drug testing requirement for those who receive financial assistance from the state to be unconstitutional. This was an absolutely open and shut case, so it's not surprising that Mat Staver, the dumbest lawyer in America not named Larry Klayman or Orly Taitz, with the help of the Worldnutdaily, is spouting some serious nonsense over it.
The headline shows you the spin:
ACLU helps addicts go on state-funded highs
Oh, of course. That's what they did. It has nothing to do with the 4th Amendment requirement that the government have probable cause before you perform a search. Indeed, Staver carefully avoids even looking at that issue with this argument that even a 12 year old would find laughable:
Three federal court judges unanimously held that the contested law violated Florida citizens' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. But Staver told WND that the ACLU's interpretation of "unreasonable" is far from what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
"Accountability is a biblical principle that formed the foundation of America," argued Staver, who also serves as dean and professor of law at the Liberty University School of Law, specializing in constitutional law and foundations of law.
"The Founders believed in personal accountability," he said. "The lack of accountability causes one to become lazy and entraps people … and that is what has happened with our welfare system."
"Gov. Scott did the right thing," asserted Staver, director of the Liberty Center for Law and Policy. "His intent is obviously to address the drug problem among recipients of government programs."
No it wasn't. If that was his goal, he would have pushed for random drug tests for every state legislator, elected official and government employee. And for the executives of every company that receives taxpayer funds for any reason. But he didn't. Because it's really all about scapegoating poor people and making them look like shiftless and lazy bums. Never mind that study after study actually shows that people on welfare are about half as likely to use drugs than everyone else, or that the program costs far more than it saves.
And remember, this is an advocate of "smaller government" whose organization is called "Liberty Counsel." And here he is advocating that the government be able to force you to give them bodily fluids for a search that is not only done without a warrant, but without any reason whatsoever to even suspect that any individual might be guilty of someone.


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Phoniatric results of lipoaugmentation of the vocal cord
Phoniatrische Ergebnisse der laryngomikrochirurgischen Fettgewebe-Augmenation der Stimmlippen
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Introduction: The treatment of glottis closure insufficiencies by vocal cord lipoaugmentation is a debated question. The authors report their 10 years experience with this method.
Materials and Methods: Between 1995 and 2005 24 patients (in 23 cases unilateral vocal cord paralysis and 1 bilateral vocal cord atrophy) were operated on with a minimum of 6 months after the development of the paralysis if the voice therapy was unsuccessful. The surgeries were performed in JET ventilation and by Weerda-laryngoscope approach. In our cases approximately 30%-50% overfilling of the autologous fat was used.
Results: In 22 patients significant improvement of voice quality was measured by the subjective tests, and only 2 patients required reoperation. The preoperative objective phoniatrical parameters of the last 6 cases, compared to the postoperative results detected in the end of the 1st post-operative year are the following: Maximum phonation time 2,5/10,4 sec; Fo: 210Hz/203Hz; Jitter% 3,6/0,3; Shimmer dB 1,18/0,26; Harmonicity(harmonic to noise ratio) 15,5/23,4.
Discussion: The presented cases prove that this cheep, minimally invasive technique can provide significant improvement of the voice quality in the long run without the risk of foreign body rejection or allergic reaction. Hence this method is a suitable way of primary treatment for the glottic closure insufficiencies.


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Police in Longview found a truck belonging 27-year-old Ronnie Joe Gammage, who went missing Friday December 8, 2012.
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You are not Bruce Willis
But he's trying...
Gerard Butler made another movie.
I know!
I mean I don't!
I don't know why they keep hiring him either!
This time, as many people have already pointed it, it's Die Hard except without Bruce Willis, and Gerry Spittles is alone with the bad guys in the White House trying to rescue the President who might be mad at him for not saving his wife, Ashley Judd. Or maybe he's mad at himself. Like Clint Eastwood in In The Line Of Fire, or something.
That's already more plot than you ever needed to know.
All you need to know is the first 15 seconds of this trailer. From the minute Gerry opens his mouth, "Five minutes, sir", you will understand that this is pure comedy. Oh My God, I had to pause, reverse, and watch that sh-t again.
Is he talking like that because he's working an American accent?
How did anyone not laugh during ALL HIS SCENES?
How did the crew not laugh during all his scenes?
Those people, the Aaron Eckharts and the Morgan Freemans (who, at this point, is hustling like he's Nicolas Cage), at least these people are trained actors. The crew? That must have been hard to not lose it while this goddamn buffoon is masticating all his words.
Olympus Has Fallen opens in March. Which means they'll be trying to get Gerry a presenter spot at the Oscars, oh la.
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Questionable Site Claims To Legally Offer Unlimited MP3 Downloads... Record Label Lawyers Already Springing Into Action
from the sounds-dodgy dept
Well, it looks like we've got another similar situation, as some mysterious company called ZapTunes is claiming to offer unlimited MP3 downloads for $25/month -- with an initial "free" period, though you have to hand over your credit card details. The whole thing sounds highly questionable, however. The store claims to have licensed the work from all the major labels, including being able to offer Beatles MP3s and AC/DC MP3s -- which have not been offered in MP3 format anywhere.
In the comments on that Hypebot article, some point out that the company appears to just be scraping Last.fm data, as it found a track that one guy had created himself, which only lived on his computer (but which had been "scrobbled" and the info was sent to Last.fm). The company also claims to have raised "about $5 million in funding from various Venture Capitalists," but doesn't seem to name any of them.
Despite the claims from the company that they've secured the necessary licenses for this, it appears not everyone agrees. EMI is apparently already starting the legal process. The whole thing really makes me wonder if these sites honestly think that people will buy their claims when there seems to be little evidence to support them. There are plenty of sites out there that offer up such content in a clearly unauthorized manner -- but at least they're honest about what they do. It seems pretty silly and destined to fail massively to falsely claim the legal rights to music you almost certainly did not license.


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