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If one word could summarize American education in the 20th century, that word would be "more." Today there are more students attending school for more of the year and for a longer period of their lives than at any time in our history.
It's a stunning achievement--yet one that is often overlooked, given Americans' rising educational aspirations.
"Education is opening the paths for people, and that's what our system of public education has done," says Daniel J. Boorstin, the distinguished historian and a former librarian of Congress.
At the beginning of the century, a majority of Americans ages 7 to 13 attended school. But only one in 10 remained in school beyond age 14, and fewer than 7 percent of 17-year-olds graduated from high school.
But while access to schools is no longer an issue, access to quality is. Despite enormous progress, the opportunities students have to learn, and how well they are expected to do so, vary significantly based on where they live, what their parents earn, and the color of their skin. It's as if, having invited everyone to the banquet, some are served an appetizer and others a five-course meal.
"I think the issue now," says John I. Goodlad, an education professor at the University of Washington, "is to make our schools commonly good."
New Role for High Schools
Early in the 20th century, "access" primarily meant securing enrollment in a public high school. By the late 1800s, reformers had largely won the battle for publicly financed elementary schools. But public high schools were still a rarity. They remained primarily an urban and middle-class phenomenon into the 1870s, with selective admissions based on entrance exams and modest enrollments. ("The Foundation of Universal Education.")
Where high schools existed outside the big cities, they were typically small and varied greatly in curriculum and organization, notes Marvin Lazerson, an education historian at the University of Pennsylvania. Most students left school by age 13 to get a job. And a high school diploma was not required for college or the workplace.
But from the late 1800s until 1940, high schools underwent a remarkable transformation. On average, the Stanford education historian David B. Tyack points out, Americans built one new high school a day from 1890 to 1918. High school enrollment swelled from about half a million in 1900 to 2.4 million in 1920 and more than 6.5 million in 1940. By that year, more than three-fourths of young Americans ages 14 to 17 were in secondary school. And, for the first time, more than half of 17-year-olds had earned a diploma.
David F. Labaree, an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University, captures the early years of that explosive growth in his history of Central High School in Philadelphia. When the school opened its doors in 1838, it was the only public high school in the city. Two-thirds of its students came from middle-class homes. By 1885, in response to a public clamor for secondary education, the school board had added Central Manual Training School a few blocks away, which served a higher proportion of students whose parents were among the "employed" middle class rather than proprietors or professionals. Five years later, it built Northeast Manual Training School, and the enrollment at Central High itself had doubled. By 1915, Philadelphia had 13 secondary schools, including two normal schools (for training teachers), a vocational school, and 10 regional comprehensive high schools, of which Central was one.
Historians point to a web of economic and social factors to explain the boom in secondary education. From 1890 to 1920, 18 million immigrants poured into the country, and many more Americans abandoned the farms for the nation's increasingly crowded and industrialized cities. Those population shifts provided the concentrated pool of young people needed to sustain large high schools. At the same time, new technologies replaced jobs once held by children, shrinking the labor market for minors. Laws restricting or banning child labor also pushed youngsters out of the workplace, while compulsory-attendance laws pulled them into the schools. Massachusetts enacted the first compulsory-attendance law in 1852. By the turn of the century, 33 states and the District of Columbia had followed, with laws aimed primarily at 8- to 14-year-olds.
Often, the targets of compulsory-attendance laws were the poor, immigrant children arriving daily on American shores. Many educators saw a desperate need to instill "civilized" values in these alien newcomers. Often, the concern was less to prepare an educated workforce than to preserve American democracy and morals.
In 1922, as part of a strategy to "Americanize" the Oregon schools, the Ku Klux Klan and the Scottish Rite Masons organized a voter referendum requiring all children between 8 and 16 to attend public schools. Parents or guardians who refused to comply were subject to a maximum punishment of a $100 fine and a 30-day jail term.
"The assimilation and education of our foreign-born citizens in the principles of our government, the hopes and inspiration of our people, are best secured by and through attendance of all children in our public schools," stated a resolution in favor of the ballot measure. "We must now halt those coming to our country from forming groups, establishing schools, and thereby bringing up their children in an environment often antagonistic to the principles of our government."
The measure was opposed--unsuccessfully--by members of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Seventh Day Adventists, private school principals, members of the Presbyterian Church, and the Catholic Civil Rights Association. But in 1925, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, saying it forced children to "accept instruction from public teachers only."
"Americanization," however, was never the only goal of public education. As the elementary schools filled up, parents also came to view the high schools as offering their children a distinct economic and social advantage.
As Robert S. and Helen Merrell Lynd observed in Middletown, their classic 1929 study of Muncie, Ind.: "This thing, education, appears to be desired frequently not for its specific content but as a symbol--by the working class as an open sesame that will mysteriously admit their children to a world closed to them, and by the business class as a heavily sanctioned aid in getting on further economically or socially in the world."
It was the Great Depression, however, that gave children a final shove out of the workforce and cemented the idea of high school as a virtual necessity in the minds of Americans. The value of children in the job market plummeted. And they competed with unemployed adults for those jobs for which they remained eligible. In response, many states raised the age of compulsory school attendance from 14 to 16.
"From my own experience at that time, all of a sudden, the enrollments above the elementary school began to increase enormously," Goodlad recalls.
Curriculum Wars
The question of what kind of education would suit this much larger and more diverse population of high school students had perplexed educators since the late 19th century. But the issue would become increasingly pressing as the ranks of students swelled.
On one side of the argument was the 1893 report from the Committee of Ten, chaired by President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. The group, composed largely of college presidents, argued that all students should master an equally rigorous curriculum: "Every subject which is taught at all in secondary school should be taught in the same way and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he pursues it, no matter what the probable destination of the pupil may be, or at what point his education is to cease."
The committee recommended at least four years of English, four years of a foreign language, and three years each of mathematics, science, and history.
Eliot was hardly a populist, however. At the time the committee wrote its report, only a small fraction of young Americans graduated from high school. And the committee itself described secondary schools as being for a small--but important--proportion of children who could profit from a prolonged education and whose parents could afford it.
Opposing the committee were men who favored a much more utilitarian curriculum for students who were not bound for college. In 1906, a report by the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial and Technical Education argued that the schools were "too exclusively literary" for the great body of youths. What most youngsters needed, the commission concluded, was "training of a practical character" that would prepare them for jobs in industry.
In 1918, the National Education Association published the "Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education," which endorsed different curricula for different students, with separate courses of study in such fields as industrial and fine arts. It suggested that secondary education be oriented around seven broad objectives: health, command of fundamental processes (literacy, numeracy), worthy home membership, vocation, citizenship, worthy use of leisure, and ethical character. The academic disciplines were barely mentioned.
Reformers of the day wanted to stem the tide of young people dropping out of high school, a problem they attributed to the dominance of bookish, academic coursework. By providing students with more options that would "best fit our boys and girls for life," the reformers saw themselves as increasing access to education. True, those pathways would have different standards and different academic content, but at least everybody would come away with a diploma.
Tracking Takes Hold
Over time, such arguments proved persuasive. High schools responded to the polyglot mix of youths by stratifying and diversifying the curriculum.
"At the moment that the expansion really booms, you find high schools like Central and a lot of the others that were already in existence shifting to a tracking system," Labaree observes. By 1919, the Philadelphia school had four courses of study: academic, commercial, mechanical, and industrial. Those would continue into the late 1930s, when Central High became once again a selective-admissions school.
To Labaree, tracking served an invidious purpose. It enabled public high schools to nominally meet their democratic agenda (serving all youths), while preserving the value of the high school credential for the few who made it into the academic track.
Tracking was reinforced--and made easier--by the new generation of intelligence tests, which purported to be able to assign children to different programs based on their abilities. In 1917, a Harvard psychologist, Robert Yerkes, devised the first multiple-choice intelligence test, called the Army Alpha, to help screen and place military recruits during World War I.
The use of multiple-choice tests that could be administered on a mass scale quickly spread to the schools. By 1932, three-fourths of large U.S. cities reported using such written, standardized intelligence tests to assign pupils. Typically, working-class, minority, and immigrant children scored worst on such exams and ended up in the lowest tracks.
On the 'General' Track
A national leader in the adoption of a differentiated curriculum was Detroit. In their forthcoming book, Democracy's High School Re-examined, historians David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel detail how the Motor City shifted from a predominantly academic curriculum in the high schools to a watered-down mixture of course offerings.
By the 1920s, they note, Detroit's system reflected that in many other big cities, with four tracks: college preparatory, commercial (or business), vocational (industrial arts and home economics), and general. Still, three-quarters of student course-taking remained in the academic categories.
Soon, though, the Depression brought thousands of working-class children into the schools. Between 1929 and 1934, enrollment in Detroit's comprehensive high schools jumped by more than 43 percent. And the general track, designed to serve students without specific college or career plans, boomed. "By the middle of the 1930s, educators have pretty much given up on vocational education because none of these kids were getting jobs," says Mirel, a professor of education at Emory University. "So the general track becomes a place where you can keep them in school, not demand a tremendous amount, and at least give them a diploma."
By 1934, only about 62 percent of student course-taking in Detroit was in the academic category. And school officials lowered standards and weakened the content of the remaining academic courses. Science laboratory courses gave way to large lecture classes in biology, chemistry, and physics. In social studies, required courses in civics and economics were replaced by classes that dealt with such topics as juvenile delinquency, finding a job, and traffic safety.
By the late 1940s, the general track was serving the largest percentage of Detroit students of any of the four tracks--a pattern that would do a long-term disservice to the African-Americans who were migrating from the South and filling the city's schools.
Decline in Academics
The same pattern occurred nationally. In 1928, Mirel and Angus say, more than 67 percent of the courses taken by American students were academic. Six years later, the proportion of academic course-taking had fallen to 62 percent. Over the next two decades, the proportion continued to drop, to 57 percent in 1961.
Winifred Weislogel, who was a teenager in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1943, remembers having to choose a high school track. "In 9th grade, you had to choose between a general course, a commercial course, or an academic course," says the 71-year-old Arlington, Va., resident. "The general course included things like basic shop and basic math and arithmetic," she recalls. The commercial course offered typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping, "and then there was the academic course, which was where you were expected to take at least one foreign language, mathematics, science, English, history."
"I took the commercial course and then switched" to the academic track, she adds. "In those days, not quite so many people thought they would go on to college, and a lot of us who did were the first in our families to do so."
Weislogel graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1949 and eventually went into the Foreign Service. She retired from the U.S. State Department in 1983.
Calls for Realignment
With the passage of the GI Bill during World War II, a college education suddenly became affordable for millions of Americans, and questions of access largely shifted to higher education. Those changes had two notable effects on the high schools. ("GI Bill Paved the Way for a Nation of Higher Learners.")
First, increased access to college devalued the high school diploma in the job market. Second, it temporarily resurrected concerns about the quality of the college preparation that many young Americans were receiving. A prominent historian, Arthur Bestor, led the attack against the "anti-intellectual" nature of high schools in his 1953 book, Educational Wastelands: The Retreat From Learning in Our Public Schools.
Bestor was particularly alarmed by the "life adjustment" movement of the 1940s, which involved lessons in "the problem of improving one's personal appearance," the "problem of developing and maintaining wholesome boy-girl relationships," and other practical-sounding studies. Such programs were primarily aimed at the "60 percent" of American youths whom educators assumed were not fit for either college or technical careers.
Bestor lambasted educators for de-emphasizing mathematics, science, history, and foreign languages in favor of such topics. The onset of the Cold War also created demands for reinvigorating the high school curriculum, particularly in math, science, and foreign languages. But as much emphasis was placed on accelerating education for the best students as on changing the content of what most young people learned.
Gross Inequalities
Even without tracking, access to education would hardly have been equal. For much of the century, large segments of the population were excluded from a high-quality public education.
Differences in educational opportunity based on race, class, ethnicity, geography, and gender would come to dominate the nation's consciousness from midcentury onward.
"It's hard for us to remember how fatally unequal schools were, say, about 1930 or 1940," Tyack of Stanford University says. "If you think, not of the big cities, but of the rural areas, there were whole big swaths of the country and whole groups of people--especially black people--who had no access to high schools."
Before World War II, he notes, many rural areas in the South, the Dust Bowl, and other impoverished regions had no public high schools. In 1899, the Supreme Court had ruled in Cummings v. School Board of Richmond County, Ga., that the doctrine of "separate but equal" did not mean that black students automatically had the right to a high school because white students had one.
In 1913, a survey of Atlanta's black schools found that enrollment exceeded seating capacity by 2,111 children, and that students without seats were forced to stand or sit on the floor. Because of the use of double sessions, 5,000 children received only three hours of instruction a day, in classrooms filled with 60 children per session. Despite repeated petitions from its black citizens, the Atlanta school board made no provision for black high schools until 1920, when the district had 7,100 black students and 21,300 whites.
In his book on education during the Depression, Public Schools in Hard Times, Tyack and his colleagues Robert Lowe and Elisabeth Hansot describe the conditions of black children in a Southern school, where they experienced an "educational inequality so gross that one questions whether the term 'education' is appropriate." Four grades of youngsters squeezed into an unheated shack, where they crowded onto broken benches. While the youngest children were learning to write their names and draw pictures of dogs and cats, the older ones memorized lines from an antiquated grammar lesson and multiplied and checked their sums by counting on their fingers.
Even into the 1960s, conditions in black schools, particularly in the South, remained grossly unequal. James D. Anderson, the head of the department of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recalls his years as a student at Carver High School in Utah, Ala., in a county that was about 80 percent African-American.
"The white high school had a gymnasium, science labs, football fields with lights--most of the things you would expect in an American high school," says Anderson, who was the valedictorian of the Class of 1962. Carver, which served grades 1-12, was an amalgam of brick and wood-frame buildings dating to the 1920s.
It lacked janitorial services, so Anderson and the other boys scrubbed and waxed the floors themselves and raised and lowered the high windows with long sticks. In the winter, they carried buckets of coal from a pile out back to keep the school warm. "We had only one science teacher, and he taught biology, physics, and chemistry. We didn't even have a gymnasium until my senior year," Anderson recalls.
"One of the things people don't realize," he adds, "is how recent access has been for some populations in this country. My mother's generation didn't even have a high school. They only went to 9th grade. And so it was really my generation, in the 1960s, that was the first generation of African-Americans to have universal public high school education."
Push for Quality
The civil rights movement that began in the 1950s and the federal "war on poverty" in the 1960s, combined with aggressive intervention by the federal courts, finally caused Americans to confront such inequities. Slowly, then with gathering speed, the schoolhouse door opened for large numbers of previously excluded youths: African-Americans; handicapped children; those who spoke little or no English. ("Immigrants: Providing a Lesson in How To Adapt,") and ("Bringing Special Education Students Into the Classroom.")
Through court battles and helped by federal legislation, poor children, migrant children, girls, disabled youngsters, and those wanting bilingual education clamored for--and got--special programs to serve their needs.
But the education historian Diane Ravitch argues that, while many Americans gained greater access to schools, too little attention was paid to the content of what they learned once they got there. In The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980, she writes: "Sometimes those who led the battles seemed to forget why it was important to keep students in school longer; to forget that the fight for higher enrollments was part of a crusade against ignorance, and that institutions would be judged by what their students had learned as well as by how many were enrolled."
Indeed, the social turmoil of the 1960s temporarily overwhelmed the schools, which tried to respond with a host of changes to make education more "relevant," more engaging, and less structured than it had been before. Often, though, such innovations came at the expense of a strong, core curriculum and an emphasis on high achievement. It wasn't until the 1970s, and the back-to-basics movement, that states began to impose minimum-competency tests to ensure that high school graduates could at least read, write, and compute at an 8th grade level.
The proportion of 17-year-olds with a high school diploma peaked in 1968-69, at 77.1 percent, in part as a result of the civil rights movement and federal anti-poverty efforts and in part as young people stayed in school to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War.
Although that figure had fallen to 69.7 percent in 1996-97, such figures do not include the many young people who obtain alternative credentials, such as a General Educational Development diploma. The United States, notes Cuban of Stanford University, is remarkable as a "second chance" system. The eventual graduation rates, including GED holders, are now "higher than they've ever been," says Tom Snyder, the director of annual reports for the National Center for Education Statistics. In 1996, 87.3 percent of Americans ages 25 to 29 had a high school diploma.
By the 1980s, most states were rushing to raise the standards for a high school education by mandating new tests, lengthening the school year, raising salaries and entrance requirements for beginning teachers, and tightening their graduation standards. There is evidence that this burst of activity, coming after the earlier gains from the civil rights battles and the war on poverty, has begun to pay off.
Test scores have risen gradually since the early 1970s. Academic course-taking among high school students is up. More than half of all high school graduates now take four years of English and three years each of math, science, and social studies. Some of the biggest gains have been posted by poor and minority students. From 1971 to 1984, black students ages 9 to 13 showed significant gains in scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal program that tests a sampling of students in core academic subjects.
The enormous performance gap between students in high-poverty and low-poverty schools--more than two grade levels in math--also has begun to close. And young African-Americans now graduate from high school at about the same rate as their white counterparts, although the rate for Hispanics remains significantly lower.
Dissatisfaction Continues
Despite these advances, Americans remain dissatisfied with their public schools. And their aspirations, both for themselves and for what schools should accomplish, continue to rise.
In part, that's because schools continue to reflect the inequalities in the larger society. "On the one hand, kids have gotten access to education, and that includes all kids," observes Kati Haycock, the executive director of the Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group for poor and minority students. "That said, if you ask the question, 'Do they have access to schools of equal quality?' the answer is decidedly not, and the results show that."
In particular, she argues, the rigor of the academic courses taken by many poor and minority students in urban areas does not match that offered in more affluent suburbs. Equally troubling, the neediest and least skilled students typically end up with the least experienced, least qualified teachers.
Meanwhile, the whole notion of "access" is shifting. An overwhelming majority of Americans now believe that a college education, not just a high school diploma, is necessary to get and keep a good job.
"Now, to get a good job, you need to go to college," Labaree of Michigan State says. "And now that college is filling up, you've got to go to graduate school. The race continues." President Clinton, for one, has declared: "Our goal must be nothing less than to make the 13th and 14th years of education as universal to all Americans as the first 12 are today."
Whether the goal of universal access to higher education is justified is hotly debated by academicians and economists. "It's nice to be worried about universal access to higher education," Mirel of Emory University says. "But there's only one way that's going to happen, and that's if we really begin to make a concerted effort to make our middle schools and our high schools institutions that offer outstanding college-preparatory education."
At the same time, the most highly educated group of parents in history has brought a demanding, consumer-oriented attitude to their relationship with the public schools. Increasingly, parents are clamoring not for access to a common school, but for access to the school of their choice--whether it's a private school, a charter school, or a magnet school in a neighboring district.
Labaree cautions that, as such attitudes deepen, there is a danger that public education may increasingly be viewed as "a public subsidy for private ambition."
If such views prevail, he and others caution, it could serve to widen the educational gap between the haves and have-nots in American society, rather than supporting the schools' traditional democratic purpose.
Focus on Standards
That's one reason Mirel and others contend the movement by states to adopt academic standards for what students should know and be able to do is so important.
By focusing on the substance of what young people are learning in their courses--and how well they are learning it--the standards movement has the potential to ensure that all students have access to a top-quality curriculum.
Standards, "wisely developed and applied, can greatly benefit American education," Mirel and Angus write. "Such measures could constitute major steps toward equalizing educational quality and ensuring that all American students, particularly poor and minority students, have access to the same challenging programs and courses that students in the nation's best schools now receive."
But others are skeptical that the movement will live up to its promise. By 2004, for example, all students in Virginia will be expected to pass new tests based on detailed academic standards to graduate from high school. Test results also will help determine whether students are promoted to the next grade, and whether schools maintain their accreditation.
"I think all kids can learn," says R. Wayne Ellis, a high school math teacher in Richmond, Va., "but I don't think they can all learn at the level we're setting right now, as far as everybody is going to learn algebra when they're in 9th grade, and everybody can learn geometry in 10th grade, and so on."
"I think we need to take a serious look at the rate of student learning," adds Ellis, who teaches at the city's Huguenot High School. "And I think the standards are not age-appropriate."
The declaration that "all children can learn" may be even more difficult to fulfill given the changing demographics of the United States. In 1997, the country's population of children roughly equaled the record set when the baby boomers were coming of age--69.5 million in 1997, compared with 69.9 million in 1966.
An increasing proportion of U.S. children are poor and minority, groups that historically have been the least well-served by the public schools.
"The unfinished agenda will continually be the low-income minorities, basically poor people," Cuban of Stanford says. "And that inequity, which reflects the larger inequalities in this society, will remain what I would call a persistent kind of illness in the American educational system and the body politic."
Vol. 18, Issue 17, Pages 25-31Published in Print: January 27, 1999, as The Common Good
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Church News: Jan 10, 2015
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Annunciation Catholic Church There will be confessions heard this morning in the Church from 9-9:30 a.m. After Mass Sunday morning, please stick around and help take down the Christmas decorations and store them away until next year. Many hands make little work!...
Residents invited to take virtual tour of coming facility
(Local News ~ 01/09/15)
Exceptional Living Centers invites Clay County residents 55 and older to a special event for the new assisted living facility. On Jan. 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Top Notch Family Restaurant, attendees will take a virtual tour of the interior of the soon-to-be-constructed $7 million facility on South Murphy Avenue, according to a news release from Exceptional Living Centers. Residents can learn about the interior design and layout of the facility...
Student-led project takes flight at meeting
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Clay Community Schools trustees took a virtual ride through the Swiss Alps on Thursday -- all from the comfort of their board room chairs. The tour was part of a presentation by Clay City and Northview high school students who have spent dozens of hours in recent months researching and developing the Aero Flight Project. ...
Students thank those who serve
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Forest Park Elementary students honored local law enforcement officers on Friday for the first National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Students made banners, cards and drawings to thank officers for their hard work and service to the community. From left, Brazil Police Chief Clint McQueen, Clay County Sheriff Paul Harden, Brazil reserve officer Casey Harder and city officer Ray Walters accept student-made drawings and thank-you cards during the event...
2 accused of burglarizing fire-damaged rural property
(Local News ~ 01/09/15)
Two Clay County residents face charges after allegedly burglarizing a home that had been lost to fire. Shawn Vernon Riggle, 39, Brazil, and Allison Lindsey Stevenson, 22, Center Point, were both charged with felony counts of burglary and theft and a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass. Both remained jailed Friday night, Stevenson's bond was $10,000 with no 10 percent allowed, while Riggle's was $7,000 with no 10 percent allowed...
Payton's career-high 23 points leads Northview girls to victory
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By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor SPENCER --The Northview girls moved another step closer to its first conference championship since the 2005-06 season by knocking off Owen Valley on the road Friday evening, 59-20. The Knights got a career-high 23 points on 5-of-10 3-point shooting from Stacy Payton and senior Mallory Smith added four 3-pointers of her own as Northview cruised to 4-0 in the Western Indiana Conference...
Northview boys open 2015 with WIC win
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By CAREY FOX Times Sports Editor SPENCER --The Northview Knights couldn't have ordered up a better way to start the new year as the squad nearly led from the opening tip in topping Owen Valley, 60-48, on the road Friday evening. The Knights led by as many as 10 points in the second half and then withstood a 3-point barrage by the Patriots by hitting 15-of-20 free throws in the fourth period to add its first conference win of the season...
Court News: Jan. 8
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Clay County Courthouse The following transactions took place at the Clay County Courthouse Jan. 8: Superior Court State Criminal Charges Sarah L. Sparks, 26, 1: Operating a motor vehicle without ever receiving a license Tamara L. Metz, 25, 1: Driving while suspended...
Jail Bookings: Jan. 8-9
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Clay County Justice Center The following bookings were reported at the Clay County Justice Center Jan. 8-9: Jace Chandler Snow, 18, was arrested and preliminarily charged with a probation violation. Rick Oneal, 58, was arrested and preliminarily charged with possession of methamphetamine...
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It's been over a year since The Walt Disney Company hit sci-fi fans with the double-whammy of announcements that the company had purchased Lucasfilm and was planning a brand new Star Wars trilogy. We've (more or less) finished reeling by now and Star Wars fans have been patiently waiting for more official news amidst a storm of casting rumors and story speculation.
Now an update from Disney Chairman Alan Horn has offered an explanation as to why no names have been named aside from director J.J. Abrams, who is rewriting Michael Arndt's (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) original script draft along with Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back). Horn also gave an update (of sorts) on the Indiana Jones franchise and how soon fans might see Indiana Jones 5.
Horn was speaking at Variety's Dealmakers Breakfast today, and Variety editor Marc Graser shared a few tidbits that were dropped regarding the development stages of the two Lucasfilm franchises. Unsurprisingly, the Star Wars franchise is priority number one with Disney expecting at least one new Star Wars film every year, including spin-offs.
The Star Wars movies got a lot more expensive to produce between the original trilogy and the most recent sequels, and while no budget for Star Wars: Episode VII has yet been fixed, Horn said that he wouldn't be surprised if it cost $200 million. That's a big step up from the humble $11 million sci-fi movie that George Lucas directed in 1977, but a bigger budget won't guarantee a better film.
As for Indiana Jones 5, we wouldn't advise Indy fans to start holding their breath for the next movie. Horn said flatly that aside from assuming full control of the franchise, "We haven't done anything... We don't have a story. We need a story." He hazarded a guess that it would be at least two or three years before a fifth Indiana Jones film comes out, but considering how fully engaged Lucasfilm is with the Star Wars universe, we estimate it will probably be longer than that.
Finally, for those who might have been concerned that Marvel Studios' place under the Disney wing might be impacting upon the creative freedoms of the various writers, producers and directors involved with building the Marvel universe, Horn made it plain that the profitability of Marvel's films has spared them from any kind of overhead interference. When asked what his plans for Marvel are, he joked, "I plan to bring them coffee."
Star Wars: Episode VII is out in theaters on December 18th, 2015.
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TN Quick Cash In Springfield Robbed At Gunpoint Friday Night
TN Quick Cash In Springfield Robbed At Gunpoint Friday Night
SPRINGFIELD TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn News) – Around 9:15 Friday evening Springfield police say a man walked into Tennessee Quick Cash located on Memorial Blvd showed a gun and demanded money.
According to police the robbery took place just as the business was closing and the suspect fled on foot. Tennessee Quick Cash is located at 904 Memorial Blvd.
According to Springfield Police Chief David Thompson, a female employee of the business had just closed up the store and was in the parking lot preparing to leave when she was approached by the suspect. The suspect then led the woman back inside the business and committed the robbery.
Police say the description of the suspect is similar to the robbery that took place at the Taco Salsa last night. MORE The suspect is described as being a black thin male wearing a mask and dark clothes. Police called in their special canine unit to track the scent of the suspect.
The last word we received from police was that there was no suspect in custody at this time. The only good news in the story is that thankfully the suspect decided not to discharge his weapon and no one was shot or injured during the course of this robbery.
The number of robberies is definitely on the rise in Springfield. We do know that the Springfield Police Department is putting special effort and attention toward solving these crimes and getting these criminals off the street. Police have not released to us whether or not the suspect escaped with any amount of cash.
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- Anonymous
Just because a bonding office says that they are open 24/7 doesn't mean there is someone in the office. All bonding agencies are this way. Who ever did this must have been smart enough to know this. Also, its kind of hard to dial the police with a gun in
- linda stiles
The Police departments and the /correctional Institutes are doing the best they can with the limited budget they have. How many of you would work for the low salary that these people get. I know the salaries and you canto so look them up before you judge them. they are doing the best they can. This isn't TV with unlimited resources this is Robertson County where everytime the taxes go up people get upset. For the system to get better we have to dig a little deeper. I pay property taxes and am proud to.
- You are 100% right Deborah. They are thugs. If you rob and threaten people with a gun, you are a thug.
You are 100% right Deborah. You're not the person that is wrong here. If you rob and threaten people with a weapon, gun in this case, you are a thug. I didn't know the word thug had a color.
- John B. Porter
All I want to know is how does a loan place with bullet proof glass windows that is conveniently connected to a 24/7 bail bonding company get robbed? I would have laughed at him while I was on the phone ringing the police. Something is fishy about this story possibly an inside job.
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New Mexico, 1867.
Months have passed since hexslinger Chess Pargeter sacrificed himself to restore the town of Bewelcome, once cursed to salt by his former lover, "Reverend" Asher Rook. Now a coalition led by Allan Pinkerton's Detective Agency lays siege to reborn Mayan goddess Ixchel's notorious "Hex City," the one place on earth where hexes can act in consort, and the desert just outside Bewelcome has become the front line in what threatens to become a new Civil War—one in which wild magic and black science clash headlong, producing carnage like nothing the world has ever seen.
Though reinstated with the Agency, Pinkerton-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow finds himself caught between factions, as Aztec trickster god Tezcatlipoca roams the battlefield wearing Chess's face and body, promising aid while sowing dissent. Further into the wasteland, spiritualist Yancey Kloves and her allies struggle to stop an ever-widening, monster-spewing crack from breaching the wall between worlds, while Ixchel ruthlessly exploits the hexes gathered around her in order to resurrect the rest of her dead pantheon, kicking off an Apocalypse fed by shed human blood.
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As ever, these gory, perverse, and world-wrenching schemes all hinge on "dead" Chess Pargeter's participation, though the man himself is currently trapped in an underworld dimension based on London's notorious Seven Dials slum, with only his oldest enemy—his similarly deceased mother, "English" Oona—for company. But Chess has fought his way out of hell before. . . .
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Cleaning Up Your Collection/
As I write this, there is a real disconnect in the coin market. Simply put, despite what is very probably the worst economic year since the height of the Depression, the coin market remains comparatively vibrant. I think this represents something that many collectors are overlooking: this could be a great opportunity to clean up some of the messes in your collection and come out without taking a nasty financial hit.
This statement is making a big assumption: that the financial mess we are in now will impact the coin market more intensely than it has so far. Who knows; maybe it won't. But my guess is that we will see a further drop in prices on coins that aren't really exciting, either off-quality, not rare or a combination of the two.
If you are like most collectors, you've probably made some mistakes over the years. And if you are like most collectors you may have hidden your mistakes in the back of your safety deposit box and figured "out of sight, out of mind." As I mentioned above, this might be a really good time to consider trimming the fat.
I have long been an advocate of the "quality trumps quantity" school of numismatics. In my experience, most collectors own too many coins. Some collectors own way too many coins and they have a considerable amount of money tied-up in "stuff" that has little relevance to their current collection. I think it's a great idea every few years to weed out some of the stuff that has accumulated in your collection.
The coins that are most likely to lose value in the coming year are coins that have either gone up too much in value in the last few years to sustain their market or coins that have a limited amount of demand. You might want to include these along with the "what was I thinking when I bought that..." coins.
When you look through your collection, you should use what I called the "ahhh.... test." Coins that you like are going to make you go "ahhh..." when you view them and you can probably remember the exact circumstances in which you purchased them. Coins that don't speak to you or which don't tweak your memory haven't passed this test and they might be candidates for a purge.
You might own coins that you don't really care much about but which are still strong. A great example of this is generic gold. Many collectors have salted away a few St. Gaudens double eagles or Liberty Head eagles over the years. They might not care at all about these but they might also be able to make a nice profit if they sell them at the currently-high premiums in the market. If I had a decent position of generics in my collection, I'd seriously consider taking a few and selling them right now.
I'd be even more interested in selling these Misfit Coins in my collection if I had an alternative coin coming down the pike that seemed like it was too good a deal to pass up...and I didn't necessarily have the ready cash to make this deal happen.
Here's another circumstance where you might have coins that are no longer useful to your collection. Let's say you started a collection but lost interest and now you have a 50% complete set lying around. If the coins are nice quality and price levels aren't way off on the series in question, it might not be a bad idea to sell the coins you have and use the money on coins in the set(s) you are actively collecting.
What is the best way to clean up your collection? You have a number of options and these options depend, at least in part, on the type(s) of coins that you own. If you live in a town with a reputable brick and mortar coin shop and you have pounds and pounds of "stuff" then selling this material outright or on consignment might be a good idea.
If what you have fits more into the specialist category, choose a specialist dealer to make an outright offer or to take the coin(s) on consignment.
And, of course, you can always go the auction route if you are thinking of selling very high-powered or highly specialized material.
In conclusion, this might be a good time to get rid of some of your less-exciting material at levels that aren't going to insult your sensibilities. For what's its worth, this is exactly what I've been doing with my own inventory for the last four to six months and even though I've had to make a few decisions that were painful at first, I'm very glad that I sold some of the coins I did at the prices they went away at.


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Well, it looks like all that talk about a triple-core A-series APU wasn't just idle speculation. A fellow by the name of bminggann on Chinese forum ZOL has posted pictures and details about a purportedly genuine triple-core Llano processor. He's run 3DMark on the thing and even tried his hand at a little overclocking.
The part has "A6-3500 Series" and "AD3500" laser-etched on its heat spreader. According to the forum dweller, the silicon beneath has a 65W TDP, a 2.1GHz base clock speed, a 2.4GHz Turbo speed, and Radeon HD 6530D integrated graphics with 320 stream processors running at 443MHz. In other words, it sounds like an A6-3600 with one core disabled, pretty much confirming what we heard last week.
The 3DMark scores aren't terribly exciting, but Mr. bminggann apparently managed to push the CPU to about 3.6GHz… with a little help in the voltage department, since his CPU-Z screenshot reports a 1.552V core voltage. We're talking about a 65W chip, though, so there could be some overclocking headroom for folks who don't mind sacrificing energy efficiency.
More exciting, as the forum post points out, is the possibility that some motherboard BIOSes will let users unlock one of the A6-3500's cores, as they do today with triple-core Athlon II and Phenom II offerings. Those are all quad-core chips with one core disabled, so there's always a chance one ends up with a perfectly functional fourth core—without paying full price for it.


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No trail too hot, no crag too tough.
Lightweight stretch nylon, a gusseted crotch, and articulated knees all add to the unrestricted feel delivered by the Arc'teryx Rampart Men's Pants. Designed for trails and cliffs, these pants can take on backpacking trips or a weekend of cragging without breaking a sweat. More importantly, you won't get sweaty, either.
- TerraTex stretch fabric
- Quick drying
- Slim fit
- Articulated knees
- Gusseted crotch
- Hand, back, and cargo pockets
- Item #ARC00G4
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Completely wrong sizing
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
- Fit: Runs small
The material is high quality and the color is a nice one but both the length (particularly) and the waist sizing or well off anything that I own in the same size. Made a prompt return. A week later I'm still waiting for the refund.
Don't buy !
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
I owned about 6 pairs of the old style , I read the poor reviews but gave it a shot coz I need a new pair. This new style has a different fit not the beloved old rampart fit, Arcteryx really screwed it up, they should name this different and keep the old style. If you own the older style you can really see and feel the deference , I'm retuning this and will get a Patagonia pant .
Why Mess With Perfection?
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
I have four pairs of the old style which are simply awesome! The new style does not fit like the old it's tighter, and they redesigned the cargo pockets not in a good way. I want the old style back please.
Skinny Jeans
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: 32/32
- Height: 5'8"
- Weight: 170lbs
I have 4 pair, used to my favorites. Sometime in the last years they got "redesigned" or a different manufacture. I am 31 waist and always buy a 32. Thighs are so tight forget about using the pockets. They fit like a North Face product. Did not use to be that way. If you are a 10 lb of potatoes in a 5 lb sack (birdlegs) you will love them. Otherwise they NOW suck.
Arc'teryx - Men's Rampart Pant - Wolfram
Lightweight, air permeable TerraTex™ nylon trekking pants patterned for maximum mobility. Redesigned for Spring 2016 with an updated fit and style.
size is different
- Fit: Runs small
I buy size 34 , size small
The fit gives you fits
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: 34 X 35
- Height: 6'3"
- Weight: 189lbs
These trousers are fine and I especially like the long 35 inch length for us door bangers. The issue with Arc'teryx in these guys is the fit. The first pair I ordered fit well but the next two in alternate colors were Capri pants. The cut is just so variable be prepared to return them. You'd think Arc would have these dialed in by now. The service, however, at Backcountry is decidedly "goatworthy". Awesome folks!
Way too big
My pair measured over 36" at the waist rather than 32", assume/hope this is a mislabel rather than tolerance issue
Great for hiking or climbing
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
A great pant for hiking or climbing and still comfortable enough to wear around the house.
The older model is better...
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: 34X30
- Height: 5'7"
- Weight: 175lbs
The previous model with the drop side pocket is my favorite pant ever. The new ones dropped that feature and changed the fit. IMO if you are going to change the design that much, then rename the pant, and most importantly KEEP SELLING THE OLDER ONE! Still, even the new ones are a solid pair of trousers, just not what they used to be. This takes it off being 5 stars.
Seriously. I should have read your review before I ordered mine. Sheesh.
Don't buy!!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Size Bought: 32-30
- Height: 5'9"
- Weight: 180lbs
Arcteryx has taken an iconic pant and ruined it. This latest version is completely inferior to the earlier designs. They've reduced it to one snap instead of replacing the weak snap on the previous design. They've eliminated the wonderful phone pocket and made the fit super slim. These have always been my go to pants but not anymore. I think they've done this to discourage returns for the weak snap. Who wants to replace them with the new ones? Nobody.
Love these pants!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: Runs large
- Size Bought: 32x32
- Height: 5'7"
- Weight: 155lbs
Great pants. Love the fit and feel. Nice and light but still tough. Mine ran a little large, but not much.
Greatness Compromised
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
Ramparts are the only pants I wear and I put them through everything. This latest version is inferior to the previous ones. Only one waist snap and they've taken away the slip pocket which was perfect for a phone. The new front pockets are ok, at least change doesn't fall out when you sit. Please go back to 2 STRONG snaps. And how about khaki color?
Awesome pants
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: 34X34
- Height: 6'0"
- Weight: 190lbs
Very nice fit, awesome mobility, and you could still wear them around town. Looking forward to putting some more miles on this pants
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: 32/35
- Height: 6'1"
- Weight: 185lbs
I've had these pants for 5 years. They have been around the world, many national parks, hikes of all sorts, a 10-day off-the-grid adventure, plus much more.
I cannot say a single bad thing about them. They are impervious to punctures, light weight, quick drying, comfortable, numerous in pockets and somehow have enough style to pull off walking back into civilization.
My favorite feature is going on a big hike, coming back to camp, lightly washing them and pulling them off the line dry in about 90 minutes, ready for more abuse.
Yeah I know, who pays $120 for a pair of pants? I feel you. Just quiet that part of your brain and buy them. They will be with you during your adventures for many years to come.


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ICEERS Ayahuasca Research Study
We are pleased to announce that we have accepted a proposal from ICEERS, who in collaboration with the Beckley Foundation, will be carrying out a scientific research study on ayahuasca treatment received by guests attending retreats at the Temple.
This is an exceptional opportunity to support a landmark study that will significantly advance scientific and academic understanding of ayahuasca. If the majority of the participants who visit the Temple over the next year take part in this study, the final outcome will be the single largest research project ever carried out on ayahuasca.
Social Need
Despite the remarkable technological, social and medical advances of the last 100 years, millions of people continue to struggle with a range of diseases and pathologies that arise out of family dysfunction and social disintegration:
- The World Health Organization has estimated that 450 million people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder or brain condition, and that by 2030 depression will be the most important health problem in first world countries.
- In the last 20 years, the rate of anti-depressant use in the U.S. among people 12 years of age and older has increased by almost 400%.
- From 1999 to 2010, the suicide rate among Americans aged 35 to 64 increased nearly 30%. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for those aged 15 to 24.
Beyond these statistics are the millions of people who suffer from unresolved emotional issues from childhood traumas, unhealthy relationships, social anxiety, chronic depression, disconnection and general imbalance. Conventional approaches for treating these conditions have shown limited efficacy. Over-medicalization focused principally on symptoms and often plagued by side effects masks the complexity behind them and often provides little long-term relief or healing. Traditional psychotherapy is helpful but limited and can take many years. New strategies of intervention are required to get to the root cause of these recurring psycho-social problems.
Motivation for Study
For thousands of years, indigenous and pre-industrial societies have applied their masterful knowledge of special plant species to emotional, psychological, and spiritual development and to issues critical to social harmony and cultural survival.
Ethnobotanicals such as ayahuasca have considerable potential for treating a wide range of conditions, from depression to stress disorders to substance abuse. Clinical research is also shedding light on the complex neuropsychological effects of these plants and the implications for improved cognitive function and integrative thinking that can help people deal with daily life issues in more effective and creative ways.
Scientific evidence available in the published literature about ayahuasca's psychological and physiological effects indicates an acceptable risk profile with no abuse potential and potential benefits in treating, for example, depression and addiction. However, national and international drug control bodies, such as the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), advocate increasingly for repressive measures to ayahuasca drinking practices. The INCB recommended in 2010 and again in 2012 that governments 'take action' against these ayahuasca drinking practices where needed.
In this socio-political environment it is crucial to advance scientific knowledge about ayahuasca drinking practices and the increased use in our globalized world, as well as a better understanding on the health implications of ayahuasca, to make sure that political decisions can be taken based on evidence.
What can Science do for Ayahuasca?
Science is a powerful tool to break through moralistic propaganda and stigmatization of practices that are labeled as 'irresponsible drug use' while having been an integral part of the well-being and survival of many indigenous communities of the Amazon basin for centuries. Science serves balanced educational outreach about both potential risks and benefits of such practices and helps shed light on how we can further reduce those risks and maximize those benefits.
Recent scientific breakthroughs have broadened our understanding of medicinal plants, such as ayahuasca, and their psychological and neurological effects on the human psyche. This research has complemented the vast ethnobotanical knowledge of the indigenous communities that have been working with these plants since antiquity, and has provided validation for the practices these communities have developed around these plant species.
Longitudinal Scientific Ayahuasca Study
While important clinical trials in laboratory settings and observational studies in natural settings have been conducted since the 1990s, scientific evidence for ayahuasca's therapeutic potential is still very limited. Small sample sizes, high numbers of variables, and lack of control groups are the most common limitations of ayahuasca research to date. Scientific research requires prolonged periods of observation and data collection with a large sample of participants in order to reliably evaluate and monitor its subject.
Unique Research Opportunity
Due to the high volume of guests each year who attend either our 12-day or 1-month retreats, and with an estimated 75% of visitors being first-time ayahuasca users, the Temple provides a remarkable research context from which to overcome the scientific limitations of past research.
- The risks related to ayahuasca in Western users: potential abuse and general health. Determining the motivations for ayahuasca's use outside its traditional socio-economic context in a large sample of Western users; degree of substance abuse; the frequency of consumption-related disorders; consumption patterns of other drugs; and physical and mental health in relation to their quality of life.
- The long-term effects of ayahuasca on personal and spiritual well-being of Western users, as well as potential therapeutic efficacy in emotional disorders such as depression, anxiety, grief and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A Longitudinal Study conducted with participants of the 12-day and 1 month retreats at The Temple of the Way of Light, in which assessments are conducted before and after the workshop, with a follow up at 3, 6 and 12 months. All participants respond to an online set of internationally validated questionnaires measuring quality of life and well-being, and a subgroup with emotional issues (depression, PTSD, grief and anxiety) also to specific questionnaires that measure these aspects. The results will be compared with a waiting-list control group.
Publications & Expected Benefits
- Publications and Dissemination
- Two articles in scientific journals
- Presentation of results at conferences, events, etc.
- Dissemination of articles in magazines, blogs, social networks, and other forms of media to announce the findings of the study to the general public
Expected benefits of the study
- The advancement of scientific knowledge on the effects, risks and benefits of ayahuasca
- Generate a solid response towards the claims from the INCB regarding the ayahuasca phenomenon
- Exploring the potential of the classification of ayahuasca as traditional medicine by the World Health Organization
What can you do for Ayahuasca?
We have started enrolling participants for the study. If you have been accepted for a workshop at the Temple of the Way of Light, please consider participation.
It only takes a little over 3 hours of your time over a one year period…
an easy way to make a significant difference!
All data is gathered in compliance with the Law for the Protection of Private Data (Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de 13 de Diciembre de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal, (LOPD), so your anonymity is guaranteed and gathered data protected.
- What is required of me to take part in the study?
Apart from completing the standard application process required to attend a retreat at the Temple of the Way of Light, and an understanding of the English language, you will be asked to fill out either five online assessments over the course of a year, or six online assessments over 14 months.
- How much time will participation require?
Each assessment takes between 20 and 40 minutes to complete. Depending on whether you undertake five or six assessments, this means a total of between 100 minutes and four hours. One or two assessments will need to be completed prior to your retreat, followed by assessments at one, three, six and 12 months after the retreat. The number of assessments will depend on how far in advance you book your retreat. If you book more than two months before the workshop starts, you will be given the first online assessment two months before the retreat and the second one 15 days before your retreat. If you book your retreat less than two months in advance, you will be given the first online assessment 15 days before your retreat.
- Can I opt out of the study at any time?
Yes. You can exercise your right of access (request information on your personal data), opposition (refuse to provide the data), cancellation (ask to destroy the data) and rectification (if any data changes over time or an error is detected). To do this, contact the researchers clearly explaining your request by email: [email protected]
- Does participating in this project guarantee my privacy?
Yes. ICEERS' data-collection system is installed on encrypted servers and is registered in Spain (where their office is located and where the data is collected and assessed) with the Spanish Agency for the Protection of Private Data. All of ICEERS' activities are compliant with the Law 15/1999 of December 13 for the Protection of Private Data. Your personal data (contact email and name) are kept confidential at all times on the Informed Consent and all scientific publications or other output materials are anonymous. The Temple does not offer your name or contact information to ICEERS. The only link between the results of the questionnaires and you is an anonymous reference code that only the Temple staff can link to you personally.
- I am stuck and can't pass to the next page of a questionnaire. What am I doing wrong?
Please make sure you have correctly completed each field. Some fields are required to pass to the next page and will be highlighted if they are not completed.
- Can I pause my assessment and continue later?
Yes, you can store your data by pressing the 'resume later' button at the bottom left corner on each page of the survey. You will then be asked for your name and email address. Your survey will be saved under that name and password, and can be completed later by logging in and clicking the 'load unfinished survey' button on the first page of the survey. If you also provide an email address, an email containing the details will be send to you. After clicking the save button, you can either close this browser window or continue filling out the survey. All assessments are hosted by a secure online data-collection system, so you can complete the assessments from your computer at home.
- How long can I store my assessment?
We ask you to complete all assessments within 15 days after receiving our email with the link to the survey. This research design has defined time periods between assessments that we have to follow strictly.
- Why do I have to fill in the psychopathology questionnaire even if I don't want to participate in the research project?
Completion of the psychopathology questionnaire is required of all registrants of Temple retreats. It offers you an extra layer of security to ensure your safety when drinking ayahuasca, and helps us provide support to you during a retreat. Having a better insight into your personality and psychological well-being allows us to give you better care and to identify any underlying psychological issues that could be potentially dangerous in combination with ayahuasca.
The assessment of the questionnaires is carried out by ICEERS, for which they only receive an anonymous reference code (not your name or contact information). Their assessment is passed to our facilitators prior to your arrival, and only the Temple has the ability to link the results of the questionnaires with you through the use of the anonymous reference code. This assessment is not part of the observational research project.
- Who can I contact for any doubts related exclusively to this study?
You can email the researchers at [email protected]. They can assist with any difficulties or doubts that you have.


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In the 1930s my folks lived on two different family farms just three miles north of Denver.
I was 10 or 11 when my dad would turn old Bossie and her yearling heifer calf out on the country road to graze all day. Towards evening she would head back home, but to hurry her up, I would have to go after her. After a few tries, I had gotten Daisy the heifer tamed so I could get on and ride her home.
Later, when I was 12 to 18, I worked in the fields with Dad until dark most days. After work, I would leave to walk a mile or so out in the pasture for the four or five milk cows. I always took my big, old yellow tomcat. He would follow along meowing and talking to me as we went. At times he would stop and sniff a gopher hole. Then, all of a sudden, he would come running past me, and then stop to wait for me. I don't know why, but I was never afraid of the dark as long as I had Tommy with me.
Theresa Stingerie Bainbridge
La Salle, Colorado
Back in 1955 a call went out from the editors of the then Capper's Weekly asking for readers to send in articles on true pioneers. Hundreds of letters came pouring in from early settlers and their children, many now in their 80s and 90s, and from grandchildren of settlers, all with tales to tell. So many articles were received that a decision was made to create a book, and in 1956, the first My Folks title – My Folks Came in a Covered Wagon – hit the shelves. Nine other books have since been published in the My Folks series, all filled to the brim with true tales from Capper's readers, and we are proud to make those stories available to our growing online community.


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DiRT Rally - Early Access Review
Quick Glance
- Platform - PC (Steam)
- Players - 1
- Steam Achievements - Yes
- Steam Cards - Yes
- Retail - 49.99
High Level Premise - True to life rally car racing experience with an emphasis on unique road conditions under various lighting and weather changes.
Graphics/Style - A truly beautiful game based on real world locations and authentic flora and fauna to drive through. This game is my new benchmark for video game beauty.
Music/Soundtrack - Only really heard while navigating the menus. During the game you hear the engine and your environment, and of course your co-driver calling out the obstacles and turns.
Story - Nearly non-existent but while playing you do level up your cars and your engineers improve their respective skills.
Replay-ability - High. This game is about the search for excellence and perfection. Can you set the best time for the course? Can you finish the course without taking damage? If you dig rally racing this game could be endless.
Time Commitment - Moderate. You can race a single event or marathon a series. Since the game is single player you can pause mid course if you need to step away for a moment.
Value - High. They release updates and new content weekly, and the existing game courses are magnificent.
Favorite Element - I love the lighting challenges like rolling through the shadows of a wooded course, or tackling a night race. The tension is real.
DiRT is just pretty, it is a beautiful game. However, it is also brutal. These courses are not for the faint of heart, you need to respect the road conditions and pay close attention at all times. I found playing this game i often went into a zen like zone where I knew nothing of the world except the car and the next hazard I had to overtake. It was a wondrous thing, but then you misjudge a turn and slide off the road and curse yourself. I did like the progression rewards so that even if you had a bad event you knew your crew and vehicle were leveling up in a way so you could do better next time. My only gripe would be that I think the game would benefit from a tutorial or something. I found that I early on established some bad habits or was not tackling some hazards in the best fashion and if I had some advice early it would have really improved my performance. Instead, I watched some online videos from people better than me to pick up some pointers. This type of game isn't made very often and has a somewhat niche audience, and I am really glad they made such a quality game for those fans. I would recommend checking the game out if you like racing simulators, if not watch a trailer at least to see those graphics in action.


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