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The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a federal law that prohibits sports gambling made all kinds of legal sense if you consider just the interests of fairness among states and freedom for individuals.
But it was one more example of why doing the proper thing under the law sometimes can have disastrous moral and social welfare ramifications. Gambling inevitably has attached to it the corrosive and erosive barnacles of moral turpitude. It wastes time, money and other resources so people, some of whom are addicts waiting to trigger into addiction, can chase an ephemeral dream that many of them can't afford to chase.
My inner libertarian says they should be free to do that. You cannot, after all, legislate good sense and wisdom. And it's not the job of the government to teach people that time is a divine gift that should not be spat away by donating money to outfits that give gamblers very little chance of winning in the end.
So let the court's decision stand. But before the 49 states that don't yet have sports gambling jump into this sordid game with countless unforeseen and negative consequences, let's spend some time examining possible results and the public costs associated with those results.
I want you to know that I don't come at this matter as a gambling virgin, though I'm not terribly far from such purity on the issue. Decades ago, I several times went to the Batavia Downs race track in upstate New York with my then-in-laws and, while there, occasionally employed my highly conservative and ridiculous gambling technique of betting $2 that the horse with the best odds to win would at least come in third. Mostly that technique gave me back my $2 along with up to another 20 or even 60 cents.
In addition, when Missouri first began selling lottery tickets (in the 1980s, as I recall), I bought one for each of my two young daughters to show them what a waste of money gambling is. I was lucky that neither of their tickets was a winner, for it would have spoiled the lesson some. But I was confident enough to risk it. And I was right.
All of that said, I think gambling is a wasteful choice in a pile of wasteful choices created to keep us entertained to death. Its costs in addictions and in poverty-producing behavior, not to mention its destruction of time that could be spent in much better ways, is just not worth it to me.
To encourage you to think through the possible ramifications of sports gambling, I'm going to suggest that you read this piece about the ethics of gambling and this piece that raises the question of whether gambling is immoral. And finally I point you to this page, which describes why the United Methodist Church believes gambling "is a menace to society, deadly to the best interests of moral, social, economic, and spiritual life, [and] destructive of good government."
But dollars to donuts, none of this will stop an explosion of sports gambling. Will you take that bet?
IS RELIGION IN THE U.S. BOOMING?
I, too, was a little surprised the other day when Vice President Mike Pence said this in a speech: "Religion in America isn’t receding. It’s just the opposite. Faith is gaining new life across America every day." It seemed like a big stretch. But Politifact has done this careful analysis of Pence's contention and has concluded that what Pence said was "Half True." That doesn't seem like a compliment, but it's what we wish we got from President Trump.
My late father and late aunt, his sister, have told me the story of their mother giving birth to a still-born girl in about 1924 (when Dad was 14 or 15). Dad recounted the story this way in an oral history I did with him:
"I was out doing the chores and the doctor was there. When I came in it was hushed whispers and so on, and my Dad took me and showed me the baby on the bed and he said she didn't live. So it must have been somewhat of a shock to me because I went out of the house and I walked for about an hour around over the farm and didn't say anything to anybody.
"When I came back my Dad and my Aunt Fanny were there and he had gone to town and got a little paper mache casket and they put the baby in it. They set the casket on the back seat of our 1922 Chevrolet and went down to the cemetery southeast of San Jose (pronounced San Joe's -- in central Illinois) and buried her there."
I later learned that they buried her on top of the graves of Dad's grandfather and grandmother, and that there was no marker placed there for her.
Most of 100 years ago, that's often how people in America handled death. Not so much any more. Nowadays most deaths are handled by a professional funeral industry, and we've lost touch with what it means not just to prepare our loved ones for burial but also for how to return them to the earth in a way that doesn't do environmental damage.
A new book, The Green Burial Guidebook, by Elizabeth Fournier, is designed to help us recover the ability to bury our dead in ways that will be more ecologically friendly.
"Over time," she writes, "our society has dealt with death less and less openly, until we arrived at where we are now, largely ignorant of our options and our rights throughout the whole procedure." Others have dealt in print with this phenomenon, though without Fournier's focus on green burial. The theological book to read is Accompany Them With Singing: The Christian Funeral, by Thomas G. Long.
So what exactly is a green burial? The author says it "means a person is buried in a container that can decompose, along with their human remains, and return to the soil. Ideally, all aspects of a green burial are as organic as possible. The body is not filled with embalming chemicals, and it is placed in the earth without vaults or nonbiodegradable caskets. The end goal of green burial is that nothing is used that doesn't help replenish the soil."
And the good news is that green burials are growing more popular. You may have to search a little for a cemetery that allows it, but there's a helpful list in the back of the book showing burial grounds in the U.S. and Canada where green burials are welcome. One of the points of the book is to urge readers to know what the local burial laws are -- and aren't -- and not to assume that what they have in mind is illegal.
In some ways, I suppose you could consider the burial of my unnamed aunt in a paper mache casket in the ground above her grandparents a green burial. At least I'm happy to think of it that way now.
(My photos here show the family plot in the cemetery in San Jose, Ill. My father's still-born sister was buried with her grandparents, German immigrants, whose graves are seen in the photo on the right.)
THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANTI-MUSLIM TWEETS
A new analysis of Donald Trump's anti-Muslim tweets suggest that anti-Muslim hate crimes spike when he sends them out into the world. The British researchers who did the study say it's hard to conclude there's a direct, inevitable connection between the tweets and the hateful responses, but the pattern is pretty clear. And completely unsurprising. So click on the Daily Beast story to which I've linked you and tweet it out to @realDonaldTrump in case he hasn't read the story.
I want to introduce you to a new book today that is an excellent follow-up to yesterday's post here about the renewed Poor People's Campaign, led by two Christian pastors.
The book is called Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith & a New Way Forward. It's written by Skot Welch and the late Rick Wilson, with help from Andi Cumbo-Floyd, who filled in to help Welch when Wilson died before the book could be finished. Its official publication date is this coming Tuesday but it can be pre-ordered now.
The book is a clarion call to white Christians and others to understand the many ways in which the United States was founded on the basis of ideas that reflected white supremacy -- and how that repulsive beginning has helped to shape who we Americans are as a people today.
It's a short read -- about 170 pages including notes -- that includes some helpful "Resources and Exercises" toward the end meant to engage readers and get them to challenge their own assumptions and beliefs.
Welch, who is African-American, and Wilson, who was white, would describe themselves as evangelical Christians, though both with a heart for racial justice. For several years the authors were co-hosts of a show called "Radio in Black and White."
Although the book is sometimes annoyingly repetitious, it offers important information and analysis to help people -- especially white Christians -- understand the many ways in which white leaders of our nation from the beginning have violated essential Christian beliefs about the preciousness of every human being, regardless of race, gender or ethnic background.
Christians who get all or most of that wrong, they write, are not following the Jesus of the New Testament but someone they call Plantation Jesus.
And who is Plantation Jesus? ". . .a god who is comfortable with pain and suffering, an idol who can only exist in oppression and codified bigotry. Plantation Jesus provides a faith-based justification for racism. Plantation Jesus is a false god who lives within systemic and institutional racism, who continuously distorts an authentic Christian message and who is complicit with unequal treatment for financial gain. Plantation Jesus has been around since the earliest days of Colonial America. He made it possible for white Christians to participate in and bless the transatlantic slave trade, during which 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World."
In sum, they write, "Plantation Jesus is the god of white supremacy: the system that undergirds the belief that white people are more valuable than others. In many Christian churches, he still speaks. Plantation Jesus has allowed us to brutalize each other."
The problem with trying to understand how the system of slavery shaped America and continues to do so even today is that lots of people -- especially white people -- don't want to talk about it any more. But, the authors write, "Slavery was not an unfortunate brief, tragic left turn in American history. Slave systems were foundational to the United States morally, spiritually, sociologically, culturally and economically. . .So, no, we did not start the system of slavery, and we may not have directly participated in it (Tammeus parentheses: unlike most of our first 12 presidents, 10 of whom owned slaves while in office, the authors report). Yet across history, the slave system still reverberates and benefits still accrue on the basis of history's divided spoils."
In many ways, this book is a plea to Christians to think and behave the ways the real Jesus calls them to. And to do that will require knowing and remembering that "Jesus was not white. Eurocentric Christianity is not the global standard. Making God into our image does incredible damage to our Christian witness."
All of this would seem like old and unnecessary stuff to hear were it not for the fact that white supremacist language still can be heard from some Christians in the U.S. And what may be equally as harmful, silence about all of this is still a common response from some Christians -- this despite the fact that some of our Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson, author of the words "all men are created equal" in our Declaration of Independence, were unredeemed racists. As the authors of this book note, Jefferson once wrote about his "deep personal distaste for blacks, who, he asserted, smelled wrong, copulated with apes in African, and were incapable of intellectual achievement." (The authors there were quoting a 2012 Wall Street Journal article by Fergus M. Bordewich called "Monticello's Slave-Driver.")
The evidence of systemic racism continues to be all around us, despite some very real progress made in and since the start of the Civil Rights Movement. But if we had fixed everything -- racially, educationally, socially and economically -- we wouldn't be having renewed calls for reform and action. And there would be no need of -- and no market for -- books like Plantation Jesus.
(By the way, here is an unrelated-to-this-book video in which clergy make many of the same points the authors make.)
WHEN FAUX PROPHECY TURNS DEADLY
In addition to various political meanings, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem has theological implications for some Christians. They see it as one more step toward fulfillment of conditions needed for the Second Coming of Christ to occur. Lots of other Christians, including me, see that as a literalistic misreading of the enigmatic book of Revelation, leading to all sorts of mischief. So far responses to the protests by Palestinians against the move have resulted in dozens of deaths. Sigh.
Yesterday marked the official nationwide launch of what its founders are calling the "Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival." The campaign is calling for "40 days of nonviolent direct action."
Relying on locally based coalitions of activists in communities across the country, it aims to be a revival of the Poor People's Campaign that started in the late 1960s but fizzled when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago last month.
This revived campaign is being led by the Rev. William Barber II (pictured here), a Disciples of Christ pastor from North Carolina, and a Presbyterian pastor, the Rev. Liz Theoharis.
This New Yorker article provides an in-depth look at the campaign and especially of Barber and how he came to lead it.
Although I certainly support the broad goals of the campaign and hope it can make a difference in the lives of poor people, until I read Jelani Cobb's New Yorker piece, I had been feeling an odd mix of ennui and fatigue about a renewed campaign to address problems that have sometimes seemed perpetual in a political system that pays little attention to the most needy among our citizens.
As a boy and then as a young adult I lived through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s and I saw how frustratingly resistant our political and economic systems are to cries for racial and economic justice. That resistance has been especially acute during the Trump presidency.
So I've been wondering what possible good it will do for people to take to the streets again, to batter the doors of statehouses around the country, to cry out for justice and against oppressive systems. I've seen all that before and have been glad for the progress achieved but disappointed that the systemic problems still exist.
After reading the long New Yorker article, however, I am convinced that silence and inaction are not options.
What are the campaign's goals now? As Cobb reports, "This time, the demands include federal and state living-wage laws, equity in education, an end to mass incarceration, a single-payer health-care system, and the protection of the right to vote."
Among the things I like about Barber's approach is that it's theologically based and it's aimed at helping poor people no matter what race they might be. Cobb writes that "Barber has a particular disdain for politicians who use racial rhetoric and voter suppression in order to win elections, but whose agenda is broadly damaging to poor whites as well as blacks. 'They get elected using racial gerrymandering, then enact policies that affect everybody,' he said."
Both Missouri and Kansas have people active in this new campaign. Those links will get you to more details about that.
One of the deepest concerns expressed in the Bible has to do with the poor, the needy, the oppressed. The Bible says much, much more about that than almost any other subject. So for people of faith, working to alleviate poverty, racism and economic injustice isn't an option. If this new campaign isn't the way you'd choose to do that, find another way. Just don't do nothing.
A year ago I had a chance to interview the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Curry. You can read about that here. Now, it turns out, he's been asked to preach at the upcoming royal wedding in England. It's just a guess, but I bet he'll be terrific.
Some of you know that I have a collection of Bibles. They aren't rare and aren't especially valuable books in terms of their monetary cost. That's not why I gather them (a few are shown in this photo). Rather, I seek out different English translations so I can compare them as I seek to understand what was meant in the original Greek and Hebrew (and a bit of Aramaic).
The problem is that I have yet to find a translation that every single time renders a passage better than another translation. For some passages I prefer the New Revised Standard Version. For others the old King James Version. For still others the New Living Translation or the Common English Bible or the New International Version. Or the Jerusalem Bible. Or the J.B. Phillips version of the New Testament. And on and on.
Perhaps I should create my own version by pasting together what I consider the best translations from all these and others. But who has that kind of time?
I am thinking about English translations because a friend recently gave me a book called A Visual History of the English Bible, by Donald L. Brake. This is not an academic study but more like a love story by a collector of rare English Bibles who is also the dean of a seminary.
But toward the end of the book he writes this: "Bible students seeking sound exegesis, cultural clarity and theological accuracy will never be completely satisfied with a single English translation -- no matter how careful the word-for-word or thought-for-thought translation -- nor should they (be).
"No English word study, no diagramming of a sentence, no comparing of verses can substitute for an immersion in the original languages. The scholar must study the original documents in their original languages, cultural setting, theological worldview and biblical contexts. That does not mean nonscholars can't understand the Bible. It does mean they must pay careful attention to the translations they use."
The other thing using a variety of translations does is to help the reader see new things in familiar passages. Sometimes passages become so familiar that they lose their original freshness and even shock value. That's particularly true of the parables Jesus told. The book to read on that subject, by the way, is by Vanderbilt scholar Amy-Jill Levine and is called Short Stories by Jesus.
A BIT OF ANACHRONISTIC BIBLICAL FUN
And speaking of Bible translations, a Christian satire website called The Babylon Bee (you can read about it here) has posted this piece alleging that the old (1611) King James Version of the Bible finally has been translated into Greek and Hebrew. As the article reports, "'If only we had completed this translation before Koine Greek fell out of use, the people who lived during New Testament times could have heard the gospel,' Pastor Steven Anderson said in a YouTube video. 'Sad!'” Sad, indeed.
What Is The King James Version Of The Bible? - Bishop William B. Caractor's blog
Let's think about miracles this weekend.
Although I can find no source to prove he ever said it, Albert Einstein is often quoted this way: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” It's the kind of deeply unexamined thought that you're likely to see on needlepoint in kitchens of people who believe everything is a miracle.
The flip side of that view comes from the great humorist Elbert Hubbard, who once offered this definition: "A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it."
Into this mix now we add László Mérő, a professor at the Institute of Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, whose new book from Yale University Press is The Logic of Miracles: Making Sense of Rare, Really Rare and Impossibly Rare Events.
It's quite an intriguing book, full of discussions about happenings people might consider miraculous and the astonishing rarity of those happenings.
But if you are looking for a definitive answer to the question of whether there is divine intervention to create what many people would consider miracles, you won't find that here. And although that may be disappointing to some readers, I frankly was relieved that this books was not an apologetic for divine intervention. Such books tend to be too facile.
For Mérő, "miracles encompass phenomena that deviate from the laws of nature as currently understood by science (italics his)."
Therefore, he writes, "transcendent miracles are honest-to-God miracles in the strongest sense of the word. There is no science, mathematics or statistics to explain their existence, although for a person of faith, such divine manifestations seem explainable enough. I, however, being of a scientific frame of mind, shall not distinguish such manifestations from what I am calling true miracles, and I shall leave aside entirely the question whether there are in fact transcendent miracles or whether science will eventually be able to explain every single miracle. One thing is certain: science will have a hard time explaining genius."
Still, Mérő says that "miracles exist in our world." But if they do, he writes, "it means that they should, in theory, be accessible to scientific study. But how are they to be studied if what makes them miraculous is exactly that they are one-time events and thus by their nature irreproducible, and unreachable by scientific analysis?"
Mérő is reluctant to come up with a locked-in-stone definition of miracles, save to say that each is "a one-time, unpredictable and irreproducible event."
There's lots of math and statistical speculation in this book in the confines of two made-up countries -- Mildovia and Wildovia, which Mérő calls "the mild world and the wild world." And all of that is kind of fun and engaging.
But, as I say, this is not a book that will describe a series of alleged divine interventions and then argue that they are the result of God's choice to respond to prayer, perhaps, or to respond to God's own desire to make something happen.
And yet Mérő does get readers thinking about how our world is both ordered and odd, predictable and whimsical, fathomable and at least temporarily unknowable.
All of which should encourage the Benedictine virtue of humility among us, though it rarely seems to.
MORE EXAMPLES OF FAILURES TO LISTEN TO THE WOMEN
As we have moved through this painful time of a sharp focus on sexual harassment of women by various public figures, people of faith have not been excluded from the story -- nor should they have been. Just the other day, the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, issued a statement entitled “An Apology to God’s People.” The RNS story to which I've linked you said the statement was in response to a previous video in which (Paige) Patterson said he considered it unbiblical to recommend divorce, even in cases of domestic abuse. (Notice, however, that Patterson seems to apologize for the pain his words caused but he doesn't retract his views.) In another story of abuse of women, elders at the megachurch outside Chicago where Bill Hybels was the highly visible founder and leader for years now are apologizing to women for not taking seriously their allegations of misconduct against Hybels. Any culture that imagines women are less valuable than men inevitably will put at risk half the population. Faith communities have as much to answer for in this regard as the rest of society.

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Lila's Thoughts on Integrating Ways of Knowing: Geological Processes
Lila's Thoughts on Integrating Ways of Knowing
No rhyme or reason in this one... Just a bunch of stuff! An eclectic collection of artifacts from my life: teaching resources, beautiful Alaskan landscapes, poetry, science, fisheries tidbits, recipes, my kids and homelife... who knows what else!
The communities and cultures of Nanwalkek, Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands, and New Bedford, Massachusetts all share a lifestyle fundamentally dependent on the sea. Particularly in the Aleutian and Hawaiian communities, culture teaches to respect and honor nature and to use everything harvested, right down to fish skin and octopus ink.
Incredible fish skin baskets from Art Scene AK
New Bedford and other East Coast fishing communities were built much more recently in history, and as a result, the cultures that have developed there are “melting pot” cultures – families from cultures as diverse as Portuguese to Norwegian relocated there in the early 1900s in order to find work. Their cultures are still distinct, but over time, some of the customs have been melted together, and many modern day East Coast natives have a rich heritage of a combination of cultures.
Volcanoes are simultaneously violent and destructive and awe-inspiring and beautiful forces that demand respect and dictate lifestyle and culture for communities that live anywhere near them. Like other natural forces, volcanoes wait for no man.
Growing up between Alaska and Hawaii, I have a lot of jumbled memories of times that volcanoes dictated the lives of my family and families in our communities.
Mt. St. Helens eruption, 1980
The 1980 Mt. Saint Helens eruption in Oregon sent clouds of volcanic ash pouring down on our Kenai Peninsula home, burying, my mom swears, our front yard in several inches of dust and blowing up more than one vacuum cleaner.
Kilauea Volcano lava entering the ocean
The continuous eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island in the 1990s covered roads we drove on every day, ate the homes of some of my elementary school buddies’, and added acres of new land to our island on the Kalapana side.
Mt. Redoubt 2009
Just last year and the year before, the relatively mild eruptions of Mt. Redoubt, across the Bay from my current home, brought wonderful opportunities for online volcano-monitoring in my middle school science classes.
Stories are important to culture because through them, people pass on an oral tradition rich in history. They allow people to explain natural events that were – before (and even after) scientific explanation – very scary.
Western science offers other explanations for natural events and opportunities for further study. It expands on ideas indigenous people have been observing for hundreds of years.
However, when it ignores the sacred and sustainable aspects of culture in the name of progress and money - such as what is happening at the Mauna Kea observatories on the Big Island and at the possible site of Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska - it becomes a negative, destructive force.
Geological Unrest: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Hot Spots, Tsunamis
As the earth’s 29 tectonic plates continually shift and slide on the lithosphere, kinetic energy in the earth’s crust forms seismic waves similar to sound waves.
Use slinkies to demonstrate seismic waves
I have demonstrated these quickly to students of various ages using slinky, which can be compressed in different ways. P, or primary waves, which shake in a forwards-backwards motion, can travel through any type of material, including liquid. They arrive at the focus of an earthquake first because they travel about twice as fast as S waves.
S, or secondary, waves, which move side-to-side, travel more slowly and are thus felt after P waves. They bring much more violent destruction. The most destructive type of wave are surface waves, which travel like water waves along the earth’s surface.
Turagain Arm, 1964
The 1964 Alaskan earthquake was caused by the Pacific Plate subducting underneath the North American plate, where it was temporarily stuck. Valdez was sitting on top of the subducting plate, so when the stress was released, it was affected most greatly by the five minutes of violent shaking that occured on Good Friday, 1964.
Sediments saturated with ground water liquefied because of the shaking, causing 98 million cubic yards to break off and tsunamis waves as high as 30 feet. The ground dropped almost nine feet at the harbor and shifted 30 feet sideways in town.
One oil stove caught fire and the flames quickly spread to other tanks. 32 people died, and the town was evacuated by everyone except people cleaning up the debris and rebuilding the town. Eventually, Valdez was reconstructed on more solid ground three miles away.
Earthquakes often cause tsunamis like the one that began in Valdez in 1964. On July 9th, 1958, around 10:15 in Lituya Bay, which is in Southeast Alaska, an earthquake in the Crillion Inlet caused a landslide that generated a wave of 1,719 feet!
Volcanoes in the Aleutian Trench and Hawaiian Island Chain
The Aluetian Trench, which is about 2,448.95 miles long, is on a convergent boundary, where the Pacific plate is subducting underneath the North American plate. The Aleutian Archipelago is a chain of more than 300 islands born of volcanic activity that extend westward about 1,200 miles off the Alaskan Peninsula.
Many earthquakes occur here because of the kinetic energy that is building up as the earth’s crust moves. Most earthquakes, however, occur at transform boundaries because as two plates slide past each other, they bump over and over again, and the friction causes kinetic energy, which is released by seismic waves.
Click here for screen shots of the Aleutian Trench and the Aleutian Archipelago.
Hawaii Island/Emperor Seamount chain, which starts at the Big Island of Hawaii and continues on until the chain meets the tip of the Aleutian trench, is approximately 3,800 miles long. The Hawaiian Islands are different from the Aleutian Islands because they are being created by hot spot volcanoes, as opposed to the subducting of a plate in the deep-ocean Aleutian trench.
Click here for screen shots of the Hawaii Island/Emperor Seamount chain.
Creation of the Aleutian Islands
The northwest-moving Pacific plate is subducting beneath the North American plate. As the plate descends, the temperature and pressure melts the rock of the crust, creating magma, which erupts eventually out of the more than 40 volcanoes in Alaska.
As the Pacific plate travels northwest at about nine centimeters per year, it moves over a hot spot in the earth. The extreme heat may come from radioactivity at the earth’s core. It heats magma and convection currents cause this to rise and break through lithosphere, slowly erupting out of volcanic vents or side-vents and building islands from as far as 30,000 feet below the ocean’s surface over thousands of years.
As the plate continues to move, eventually away from the hot spot, the volcanoes eventually become dormant.
Like the Aleutian Island chain, the Hawaiian Island chain it is not straight; I think this is because of plate tectonics. The Hawaiian islands were and are currently being created by hot spot volcanoes. As the Pacific plate travels northwest over the hot spot in a curved shape, the islands are created following that path.
The Island of Hawaii and the in-construction island of Loihi (still 3,000 feet underneath the water to the east of the Big Island) are currently the only islands whose volcanoes are not dormant; these volcanoes are still over the hot spot.
Google Earth is an incredible resource for teaching science. As you and your class “fly" to different areas on the globe, students become more engaged because they can really see the area and topic being discussed. Earthquakes and other geological events that happened in the last hour are directly relevant to their lives – and that gets their attention! This morning, I was able to see that on Kodiak and near Cooper Landing, there were 2.9 magnitude earthquakes.
I think Google Earth is extremely valuable in teaching earth science because seeing things in real time and real space that are directly relevant to students' lives gets them interested and engaged.
The ruler feature allows students to get a concrete idea of the special relationships between places they are studying and the place they are standing. When students are able to use technology to “see things” like this, they want to pay attention to the rest of the lesson because they care about the information.
Then, when teachers use other digital media, like videos and interactives from Teacher’s Domain, You Tube, and Discovery Education (as well as other resources), to explain and demonstrate types of geological events, students already have a link in their schema – they understand that these things are really happening on the globe near them. Some may even seek out other resources.
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This blog has been created to comment on and respond to the content of the course Explore Alaska! - Alaska Native and Western Perspectives on Earth's Systems (http://alaskaculturesgeosciences.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html).
The ultimate goal of this blog is to answer the course's essential question, "How can teachers use digital resources, community resources and effective teaching methods [to] integrate Alaska Native ways of knowing with Western scientific methods [in order] to create greater student interest in, and understanding of, the geosciences?"
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Hyundai Cars News: US-market Fiesta likely to steal sales from Hyundai
US-market Fiesta likely to steal sales from Hyundai
New US-market Ford Fiesta looks great. But is this enough to steal sales from Hyundai?
Apparently, the all-new, US-market, Ford Fiesta sedan has made it unofficial US debut just moments ago, with the very first and exclusive images surfacing to the web. Scheduled to make its official US debut at the up-coming L.A. Auto Show next week, the all-new Fiesta sedan features a bit different front fascia design than its European five-door sibling model.
The most evident difference between the two is the front bumper design, which features massive air intake and large chrome intakes for the fog-lights. The US-market Fiesta also sports a redesigned front grille with nicely incorporated grille-bars. There are no pics of the rear-end at the moment, so its quite difficult to talk about the rear design, but we expect to see some traditional design DNA elements from latest Ford cars at the rear-end of Fiesta.
The all-new Fiesta will compete head to head against Hyundai's sub-compact Accent. The ageing Hyundai Accent, with not so appealing design will probably have some hard times competing against a brand-new Ford model with striking design and more modern powertrain technology, so question is how will the new Fiesta affect Hyundai Accent's 2010 sales? If priced reasonably, the Accent could loose several thousand units of sales next year.
Thankfully, Hyundai has an all-new Accent in the works, which should hit the market in late 2010 or early 2011. The very first spy shots reveal its going to look as hot as Fiesta four-door so you can expect the battle for the sub-compact car customers to intensify once Hyundai launches its new product in the US market.
Hyundai and Ford are currently in the "battle" for the fourth largest automaker in the world. According to figures released by the Automotive News, Hyundai's 2.153.000 units sold are 8.000 more than the US auto giant. Great Fiesta sales could catapult Ford past Hyundai to recap the fourth spot again, but be sure the roaring Korean auto maker will fight back and make FoMoCo hard time to sleep.
Update: We added some more pics including the one revealing the rear-end design, which is not as appealing as the striking front-end. But all-in-all, the forth-coming Fiesta is a great looking car (perhaps the best looking one in its segment) and should do really well for Ford Motor Company in the US market. Enjoy the images.
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Restaurant Review { Cacao 70 } |
Posted on August 8, 2013 by Seppy's Montreal
I have a serious sweet tooth, so when Cacao 70 opened its door a couple of years ago and it just so happened to be close to my apartment AND school, I knew that it could only mean one thing: trouble. (I might have gone three times in one week…)
The menu of Cacao 70 is overwhelmingly diverse (in a good way). Not only does it take a lot of time to choose what you want to eat, from waffles, sundaes, crepes, sweet pizzas, to s’mores and fondues, there is also an incredible amount of choices of drinks.
This place is always packed, which already is a good indication of the good food and great vibe. The crowd is mostly students since it’s close to Concordia University and Lasalle College, and the place is busy until closing time. Because it’s so packed and the place is smaller than the demand, there is usually a wait time (which has never been more than 15 minutes), which is actually relatively reasonable considering how busy it is. The service has always been friendly and efficient as well, which is another positive thing, also considering how busy it is – they still manage to provide good service.
There is also a brunch and lunch menu. I’ve had brunch there, which was really good. I also loved the fact that before your meal comes, you get a little platter of fresh fruits with dark chocolate for dipping.
I’ve also had a sundae there, which was really good but was too much to finish. My favorite is the fondue (the semi-sweet and the three chocolate are both good), which comes with fresh fruits, a few pieces of waffles, and a few bits of brownies. So you get your sugar fix without over-doing it.
Cacao 70 is a great hang out spot for a great ambiance and amazing desserts!
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So quiet around here!!
Wonder where all of the big mouths went. Must be hanging with boomeriz in the basement in the fetal position. As it seems, the decision isn't the best for SIGA, or at least the general market doesn't think so. The only thing to hope for now is that Parsons isn't such a d1ck that he wants to stick it to SIGA for making him look bad and do whatever he can, within his power, to screw them. That's next, watch. NOTHING goes right for this moldy, infested company.
you have got to be the most pathetic, laughable little man!! I actually laughed out loud at your post!! hello, pot, meet kettle. Geez, you are the mirror image of those you are talking about. you run when siga does well, they run when siga doesn't do well. you're all idiots but you win the high idiot award. at least they make sense. you claim to own siga but you are their biggest whiner of how horrible siga is. so, here's your gold "idiot award". the others will share the silver.
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The Sandy Relief Concert will feature 18 of the world's biggest stars in addition to a stellar musical line-up.
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The Rolling Stones will join the long list of famous performers at the 12-12-12 Sandy benefit concert, its producers announced today. Along with The Stones, 18 Hollywood stars have announced their participation in the universal event, to be broadcast world wide. The producers of 12-12-12- announced Friday that Steve Buscemi, Jessica Chastain, Chelsea Clinton, Sean Combs, Billy Crystal, Leo DiCaprio, Jimmy Fallon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Karlie Kloss, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Susan Sarandon, Jon Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Quentin Tarantino, and Brian Williams will participate at Madison Square Garden on December 12, 2012 to show their support for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Tommy Hilfiger has also generously agreed to donate t-shirts as part of the merchandise offerings for “12-12-12”. Many of the celebrities involved will also be on- hand to lend their star power and participate in a telethon during the “12-12-12” telecast. “12- 12-12” is presented by Chase and all proceeds will benefit the Robin Hood Relief Fund.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the start of the live concert, a phone bank will be set-up where musical artists and celebrity participants will take donations via phone over the course of the evening. Viewers from around the world will have the opportunity to call-in to help donate to the Robin Hood Relief Fund and assist those throughout the tri-state area who have been impacted by the storm.
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment will broadcast the concert live on its radio stations across the country, and will also video stream live on iHeartRadio, Clear Channel’s digital radio service, and across the websites and Facebook pages of its 850 stations. In addition, the concert will also stream live across several major online video providers, as well as being streamed and promoted by several digital media partners.
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Prior to independence, there were 255,000 Europeans in Tunisia in 1956.[1] In 1926, there were 90,000 Italians in Tunisia, compared to 70,000 Frenchmen, despite the fact that Tunisia was a French protectorate, as well as 8,396 Maltese.[2]
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NBA Playoffs: First Round | Analyze Sports
AnalyzeSports / April 15, 2017
The Playoffs have arrived! Sixteen teams will battle each other for the NBA Championship starting on June 1st. The best record in the league belonged to the Warriors (67-15) and the Celtics ended up clinching the #1 seed in the East (53-29). Russell Westbrook broke the NBA Most Triple-Doubles in a season with 42, beating Oscar Robertson’s previous record of 41. Lastly, the struggling Cavaliers went 11-14 over their last 25 games and according to ESPN.com, only two teams have ever had a winning percentage under .500 over their final 25 games and still won the title. But, LeBron hasn’t lost an Eastern Conference Playoff Series since the Celtics back in 2010. Luck could go either way for Cleveland, as they did end up second, but could rebound in the first round against Paul George and the Pacers.
(1) Boston Celtics v. (8) Chicago Bulls: The Celtics are one of the least dominant #1 seeds in a long time, but were led by Isaiah Thomas down the stretch to the one seed, while Cleveland decided to rest players. Thomas averaged 28.9 PPG this season, while hitting 46% of his shots from the field this year. The Celtics overall look more of a team than the Bulls, having more ability to work together and rally back if behind at any point. The Bulls on the other hand won seven of their last nine heading into the playoffs, led by 23.9 PPG Jimmy Butler. Butler is the Bulls’ best overall player at this point, even with the acquisition of Dwayne Wade last off-season and since inserting Rondo into the starting position for PG, they do look like a team that could extend the series. I expect the Celtics to take the series in six games and keep an eye out for Thomas for his elite ability to score and Rondo facing his former team.
(2) Cleveland Cavaliers v. (7) Indiana Pacers: As stated above, the Cavaliers went 11-14 in their last 25, but that was due party to resting LeBron, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving down the stretch, but backup players such as J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert looking lazy and disappointing on both sides of the ball. Hopefully this is not the same team that we will see in the first round, but with the rest that the “big three” has had, it most likely will be the dominant force that we know the Cavs are. It’s been three years since Paul George has had the chance to play LeBron in the playoffs again, but George is known for testing the patience and will of King James. Although LeBron has beaten George three of three times, 2012-14, George will look to test him yet again in the first round. I’m taking the Cavs in five, with the Pacers winning game one, but the two players to watch will be George and LeBron, seeing whether or not their “rivalry” is still good for the NBA.
(3) Toronto Raptors v. (6) Milwaukee Bucks: Wow. This is going to be an amazing, all out series from both teams. The Raptors battled injuries from DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry but still won a second best in Raptors history, fifty-one games. Coach Dwane Casey did a fantastic job using players off the bench and keeping the team afloat. DeRozan totaled 27.3 PPG along with four assists and five rebounds per game. But, the use of the bench that Casey showed throughout the season will need to work against Greek Freak and the Bucks. In only his fourth year Giannis Antetokounmpo almost averaged a double-double with 22.9 PPG and 8.7 RPG. He would also like to redeem himself as the last time he was in the playoffs did not go as planned, where he was ejected in game six versus the Bulls in 2015. Giannis is known for driving to the bucket, but the Raptors defense in the paint was in the top ten this year, so he will have to throw up some threes or drive and dish back out to an open shooter. Like I said, this series is going to be ridiculous, with the Raptors winning in seven. Watch for DeRozan and Giannis to lead their respective teams to wins.
(4) Washington Wizards v. (5) Atlanta Hawks: The last time the Wizards won the Southwest Division was thirty-eight years ago, but won the sweepstakes for it this year with fifty-one games victorious. Led by John Wall and Bradley Beal, who both averaged 23.1 PPG, the Wizards finally look to be on the same page winning seven of their last twelve. Beal was finally healthy this season, where he shot 48% from the field along with 40% from behind the three point line. I expect Wall to be able to drive to the dish and then kick it back out to Beal or even Otto Porter. Dwight Howard had a very depressing first season with the Hawks, averaging just thirteen PPG along with thirteen RPG. Paul Millsap was looking like he was going to be traded around the January deadline, but the team ultimately decided not to as they were looking on the upside around that time. I’m taking the Wizards in six and keeping my eye on Millsap and Wall from both teams.
(1) Golden State Warriors v. (8) Portland Trail Blazers: Winning seventy-three games last season and losing in the playoffs to the Cavs was something that the Warriors did not have in mind. Then they go out and sign Kevin Durant, after that it seemed that they would win all eighty-two games. This year they won sixty-seven games with an injured Durant for a while, but rebounded as the one seed yet again and as the favorites to win it all. I think that the Warriors are going to play small in the playoffs, with Curry and Thompson running the guards, Iguodala and Durant at three and four, and then Draymond Green running the five. C.J. McCollum definitely earned his four year, $106 million contract, being a valuable piece to Damian Lillard’s offense, averaging twenty-three PPG along with four assists and one steal per game. Lillard, averaged twenty-seven PPG, along with a steal and six assists per game. I’m predicting the Warriors in four games, expecting them to be a dominant force led by Durant and Curry. But, do watch for McCollum and Lillard on the Blazers to try and get something going early in games.
(2) San Antonio Spurs v. (7) Memphis Grizzlies: Despite the MVP race being headlined by Russell Westbrook and James Harden, Kawhi Leonard put up some fantastic numbers and did insert himself into the conversation at several points during the season. He shot about 50% from the field, while averaging 25.5 PPG, along with four assists, six rebounds and two steals per game. But with help from LaMarcus Aldridge, Danny Green, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili, they are looking to defeat the consistently in the playoff Grizzlies. Mike Conley and the Grizzlies led the team to the seventh seed overall in the West, which is much more of a competitive conference than the East. They squeaked in with a 43-39 record over the Blazers. Watch for Conley and Marc Gasol to help this team win at least one or two games against the difficult Spurs. I expect San Antonio to win in a clean sweep of four games, similar to the Blazers, look for early runs from the Grizzlies. Keep your eyes out for Conley and Leonard to dominate games.
(3) Houston Rockets v. (6) Oklahoma City Thunder: Similar to the other three-six match-up we have, this will be another phenomenal series. Russell Westbrook has my vote as MVP, period. The triple-double is something that was a rarity, but to average it for a whole season and break the record for most in a season, where you had more than half of the games as triple-doubles, you get my vote. Yes, Harden was excellent and held his own this year, but give it to Westbrook. As much as I hate to say it, I feel that whoever wins this series will be crowned MVP and that’s a shame because now the Thunder would be at a disadvantage because statistically, they are the lesser of the two. Westbrook rebounded losing Durant by proving to Durant and the world that he is the best. Harden can be in the same conversation as Westbrook regarding the MVP race, but only if you’re saying that he was bested by a man that had 42 triple-doubles in a season. I expect the Thunder in seven. Watch for both “candidates” of the award to dominate in this series.
(4) Los Angeles Clippers v. (5) Utah Jazz: The Clippers are a historically horrible team in the playoffs. In 2015, they blew a 3-1 lead against the Rockets and then last year, lost to Portland in the first round. DeAndre Jordan was stellar this year, averaging thirteen PPG, along with two blocks and fourteen rebounds a game. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin are also free agents after this season, so this could be the last time they will be together and to leave a legacy of no good playoff seasons wouldn’t be good for either name. On the other hand, there is the Jazz who could either win this series or be blown out. Led by Gordon Hayward and Rudy Gobert, they look to keep the Clippers playoff wins low this season. Hayward averaged twenty-two PPG, along with three and a half assists and one steal per game. However, this series is going to be extremely slow as neither team are speed demons that run the floor. I’m giving the Clippers in five. Watch out for Chris Paul off of the pick and roll and expect Gobert to give DeAndre Jordan a run for his money.
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Sheep for sale! | Dokmai Dogma
tags: animal, breeding, farm, farming, lamb
Dokmai Garden has decided to sell the sheep after a seven months experiment. The sheep are perfect in a pen with grass, but wandering about in the precious botanical garden they cause a lot of trouble:
They uproot aluminium signs and bend them, 1200 Baht a piece. It seems green grass is their least preferred feed and so they rather focus on shoots, banana leaves, garbage and chicken feed. They have twice attacked the mirror image of themselves in the glass door of the shop with 15000 Baht in repair costs. The jew Bebe makes loud noises at night irritating the gardeners.
We reject the academic view that sheep are mainly grazers. These sheep are pronounced foragers.
While the mowing problem remains (pollution, costs, time and noise) we have decided to sell the sheep. Anyone with a pen or the intention of breeding sheep is most welcome to give the sheep a home before they turn into meat. Two rams (1 and 2 years old) and one ewe (5 years) remain. If you are interested in buying the flock, kindly leave a message below.
Sometimes a simple solution is not all that simple. Maybe the archaic scythe is the solution to the mowing problem? More contemplation is needed….
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David permalink	May 3, 2014 5:37 PM	We crossed swords about the scythe before. I really don’t think that this is something you can stick in somebody’s hands and expect him to be able to use it just because it is an ancient tool. You need about a month’s experience before you learn what is good and bad about the ways of using it, how to bang out the edge (peening) what makes a good scythe and what is almost unusable,You also need a peening hammer and a peening anvil, peening is a skill in itself. Many people try to use it like a hoe. I inherited a horrible cheap scythe, probably imported from Sweden, and I wouldn’t use it to cut nettles.
Reply	dokmaidogma permalink*	May 4, 2014 5:12 AM	Indeed this is all experimental 🙂
Reply	Ricky Ward permalink	May 4, 2014 8:59 AM	Victoria in the South East of the Australian continent has a great sweep of land stretching from Melbourne all the way to the South Australian state border known as the basalt plains resulting from volcanic activity over the past 3 milion years. The land was covered with grasslands of Kangaroo Grass (Themeda triandra) which also grows in Thailand and East Africa, and grassy woodlands. On this country the Aboriginal people formerly had a good living with the starchy root of the Yam Daisy (Microseris lanceolata) as a staple item in their diet. When the white squatters came with their sheep to freely roam the plains however, the story goes that within two years the Yam Daisy was practically extinct from a huge area where they once had been abundant. The sheep had sniffed them out and eaten the tubers.
Reply	Ricky Ward permalink	May 4, 2014 9:03 AM	So rather than employ an inexpert sythesman why not try bringing in wallabys or kangaroos?
Reply	sabairichard permalink	June 25, 2014 1:00 PM	I suppose the sheep are chops by now??? Not sure how I would get them to Luang Prabang………..
Reply	dokmaidogma permalink*	July 1, 2014 7:24 PM	Sorry, yes they are gone. The gardeners are very happy, now they can grow vegetables without fighting.


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Archana CBengaluru, India1512Reviewed 22 August 2016 Good Place to go with Friends , not advisable for FamilyI went to this place with a group of friends and our room was on Ground floor . There was a stream flowing next to our room and we could hear the flowing water as well . They also arranged the camp fire for us...More1 Thank Archana C Balaji M15Reviewed 14 August 2016 via mobile Worst experience I with my wife and our family friend checked in on12/8/2016 for duplex room.they charged us rs3k with no complimentary breakfast. The a.c was so bad we had to the technician 3 times.the water was continuously dripping inside the room from a.c.on 1st floor a.c...More5 Thank Balaji M CynstpinBengaluru, India2Reviewed 18 July 2016 peaceful and relaxingthe space is unique as it has an unimpeded view of the river and their restaurant has a riverfront section. thier kitchen rustles up a variety of foods in relatively short order and as they are located on the highway to Mysore it is a...MoreThank Cynstpin vinodkumargbBengaluru, India1Reviewed 7 July 2016 Nice place for bachelors!Pros
8. Car...MoreThank vinodkumargb tildak2016Atlanta, Georgia5919Reviewed 25 May 2016 Not a Great Lunch ExperienceThe Resort set up wobbly tables for our group of 14 alongside the river on a downhill slope. Food, when it was served, threatened to roll into the river (or perhaps our laps first). Food was served in drips and drabs and we never really...MoreThank tildak2016 PreviousNext123456…16Updating list... Similar hotelsSee all 5 hotels in SrirangapatnaHotel Mayura Riverview Srirangapatna124 reviews#1 of 5 hotels in Srirangapatna Golden Landmark Resort260 reviews#22 of 101 hotels in Mysuru (Mysore) The Windflower Resort & Spa, Mysore791 reviews#7 of 101 hotels in Mysuru (Mysore) Grand Mercure Mysuru359 reviews#5 of 101 hotels in Mysuru (Mysore) About Amenities Top amenitiesPoolFree ParkingRestaurantRoom ServiceHotel AmenitiesFree ParkingRoom ServiceLaundry ServiceRoom amenitiesAir ConditioningThings to doPoolRestaurantDetails Number of rooms25 LocationIndia >Karnataka >Mandya District >Srirangapatna Show More Show Less Add Photo Photos All photos (45) Full view Traveller (45)Room & Suite (15)Dining (6)Pool & Beach (6)Hotel & Grounds (17)Family and Play Areas (1)
Nearby Nearby HotelsSee all 5 hotels in SrirangapatnaYoung Island Resorts62 reviews 2.37 km away Nearby RestaurantsThotada Mane23 reviews 3.30 km away Parampare Veg Restaurant10 reviews 1.14 km away Mosaic - The Global Cuisine Restaurant108 reviews 10.49 km away By the Way109 reviews 10.76 km away Nearby AttractionsSri Ranganathaswamy Temple147 reviews .42 km away Nimishambha Temple57 reviews 1.31 km away Srirangapatnam Fort27 reviews .63 km away Tipu's Death Place69 reviews .78 km away Questions & AnswersGet quick answers from Amblee Holiday Resort staff and past guests.Note: your question will be posted publicly on the Questions & Answers page.Verification: Posting guidelinesSubmit
Room Tips "if you not looking for lot of fun things in resort you can choose this."shiva k1 month agoRead review "Rooms with view to the river are most quiet"Zebulon14 months agoRead review "A pleasant stay at Srirangapatna"Saurabh M5 months agoRead review "Road side as well as river side"praveenindia1235 months agoRead review Show More Is This Your TripAdvisor Listing? Own or manage this property? Claim your listing for free to respond to reviews, update your profile and much more. Claim Your Listing Know better. Book better. Go better. © 2017 TripAdvisor LLC All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Site MapSome photos provided by VFM Leonardo.* TripAdvisor LLC is not a booking agent and does not charge any service fees to users of our site... (more) TripAdvisor LLC is not responsible for content on external web sites. Taxes, fees not included for deals content. EXPLOREAbout UsHelp CentreCURRENCY/COUNTRYUS$USDSingapore