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Well, its been over two months since I posted here...and it's good to be back. I have a good excuse, however, since I've been working on a new book project about state prohibition in Mississippi, due to be published in Spring 2015. The project is going well, and I hope to post more information here, as soon as the book's title is announced. So stay tuned.
And it's especially good to tell you about a brand new history book, simply titled Yazoo, about to be released just 6 days from now. The book's author is none other than John E. Ellzey, who has been the reference librarian for the historic Ricks Memorial Library in Yazoo City, Mississippi, for 40 years. Published by Arcadia Publishing, the 128 page softcover book contains approximately 200 black and white images of people and places in Yazoo County, Mississippi, and will sell for $21.99. Just in case you aren't familiar with Arcadia Publishing, you are in for a historical treat. I'm including a descriptive sentence found on the company's website, stating Arcadia is "the leading local history publisher in the United States, with a catalog of more than 8,500 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every years."
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YAZOO by John E. Ellzey was released about 2 weeks ago and is now available in stores. The initial book signing was Aug. 14 at Ricks Memorial Library in Yazoo City and there was a tremendous turnout--the book signing lasted 4 hours!! Another book signing will be this evening at Downtown Marketplace on Main St. in Yazoo City at 5:30 pm.ReplyDelete
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Most people are confused about natural family planning (NFP), because they assume that it is the Catholic equivalent of contraception.
Medical pamphlets and sexual education courses often list natural family planning at the bottom of a list of birth-control options, and generally describe its methodology, efficacy and cost in the same way that they describe the Pill or the IUD. Many Catholics think of it in a similar way. Even literature in favor of NFP tends to pander to the assumptions of modern sexual politics: it talks about how NFP is just as "effective" as the birth-control pill, and puts forward "success stories" of people who have used NFP to limit their family size to two or three kids. This approach completely misses the point, which is that NFP has almost nothing whatsoever in common with contraception.
Contraceptive practice is based on the theory that people have an inherent right to control their lives and their bodies. Sex is conceived of as a basic human need, but having a child is thought of as a life decision. A child who is conceived without conscious deliberation is thought of as an "accident," and the presumption is that couples, by default, intend not to get pregnant. In this view, science and technology have the ability, and also the obligation, to ensure that people are able to exercise their "reproductive rights" in order to attain complete control of their fertility.
Catholic sexual morality rejects all of these axioms. The Church teaches that a child is a gift from God. This is not merely a nice sentiment of the sort that one might find in a greeting card. It has serious moral implications. A gift is a thing which is given without the prior authorization or the deliberate will of the receiver. A person does not "choose" to have a gift, the gift is something that comes from outside, and which ought to be received with joy.
A child is the natural fruit of married love. "Sacred Scripture and the Church's traditional practice see in large families a sign of God's blessing and the parents' generosity" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 2373). The children who are conceived and ushered into the world are a concrete manifestation of the love that exists between their parents.
Furthermore, the body itself is a "temple of the Holy Spirit . . . you are not your own . . . you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body" (1 Cor 6:19-20). A person does not have an absolute right to self-determination.
The purpose of freedom is not to enable a person to undertake and accomplish whatever plans they happen to choose, but to create the conditions of exterior and interior liberty necessary for people to cooperate with God in doing His will on earth as in heaven.
This means that a couple should, by default, sincerely hope to get pregnant. Notice that this is exactly opposite of the presumption underlying contraception. In some cases, serious reasons may exist for a couple to choose to space the births of their children using NFP. In such situations, "it is their duty to make certain that their desire is not motivated by selfishness but is in conformity with the generosity appropriate to responsible parenthood" (Catechism, No. 2368). The conditions that make it imprudent for a couple to give birth result from the fact that human nature is fallen: the unjust distribution of goods, the psychological stresses of child-rearing, lack of community support and the physical strain of birth on a mother are not conditions that existed in the state of nature before the Fall. These conditions are a source of sorrow, because they prevent married couples from being able to fully and naturally express the generosity of their love for one another.
What this means is that whereas modern sexual thought construes birth control as a fundamental right, a normative practice and a cornerstone of family life, Catholic teaching construes natural family planning as an unfortunate emergency measure which some couples may need to practice due to circumstances beyond their control.
The distance between these two ideas is so vast that any comparison is practically meaningless. For example, it is reasonable to talk about the efficacy of birth control, because the purpose of birth control is to prevent pregnancy, period. It is silly to talk about the efficacy of natural family planning, because if a couple using NFP gets pregnant, it's not an "accident" or a "failure." It simply means that their discernment was wrong: they thought that it was not in accord with right reason for them to have a baby, and God thought otherwise.
Those who have not made a serious attempt to practice NFP may believe that the distinction is arbitrary or superficial. Please consider that if there really was no practical difference between NFP and artificial contraception any Catholic who had even a nodding respect for the authority of the Church would simply use NFP. The fact that there is widespread dissension on this point suggests that the differences are real and profound.
It is a typically Christian paradox that the very qualities which make NFP unattractive from a worldly vantage point are the qualities which make it spiritually beneficial. For example, one of the reasons that many couples reject natural family planning is that it is difficult and unpleasant. It reduces the spontaneity of sex and confines sexual opportunities to the period in a woman's cycle when she is least likely to be sexually aroused. On the other side of the bed, many men find it difficult to abstain as often or for as long as NFP requires.
What this means is that the couple who practices NFP will be forced to grow in self-mastery. Although sexual desire is good in and of itself, it has a tendency to produce a kind of love which is based on mere sentiment or pleasure. Such a love can easily grow at the heart of a marriage, particularly one in which the pleasures associated with sex are not adequately balanced by the practice of concrete responsibilities. Sexual responsibility cannot be vouchsafed merely by lofty ideals or profound sentiments; it must manifest itself in genuine acts of self-renunciation.
Another reason that many people reject NFP is that it is seen as "unreliable." Under ideal conditions, when a woman with regular cycles charts and follows the rules perfectly, methods of NFP such as Billings or Sympto-Thermal could be as high as 99 percent successful in spacing or limiting births. However, in real life the effectiveness for the average couple is significantly lower.
There are a number of reasons for this disparity. There are certain times in a woman's life, such as after giving birth before her period resumes, when it is either impossible or nearly impossible to use NFP effectively. Also, the methods that claim near perfect results generally involve a level of rigor that many couples simply find too onerous.
In some cases a couple lacks the necessary organizational skills to practice NFP perfectly, and in other cases one or both of the spouses lacks the self-control needed to pull it off. This means that, in practice, NFP demands faith. It requires the couple to abandon the desire for perfect control over their destiny, and instead it frames the regulation of births as a form of rational cooperation in a domain that is fundamentally under divine governance.
Finally, NFP teaches those who use it to view childbirth in an ordered way. It is possible that some, or perhaps even most, couples who first adopt the practice will do so for disordered reasons: a selfish fear of the sufferings associated with pregnancy, the avaricious desire to maintain an unnecessarily high standard of living, an unwillingness to open the heart to the demands of a large family. In the course of practicing NFP, however, the heart is necessarily purified.
Couples who undertake natural family planning for frivolous reasons will either end up abandoning the practice, or they will end up re-evaluating their decisions. The challenges involved in avoiding pregnancy present a significant incentive for couples to look forward to the time when they will be able to conceive another child.
NFP manifests that truth about the nature of human sexuality, whereas birth control obscures it. Birth control is, by nature, ordered toward the prevention of conception, the frustration of the natural process by which married love produces the fruit of new human life.
NFP is a completely different thing. It seeks to foster an authentic love, vouchsafed by interior freedom, through which couples are enabled to generously give life within the bounds of right reason.
Melinda Selmys is the author of "Sexual Authenticity: An Intimate Reflection on Homosexuality and Catholicism" and "Slave of Two Masters." She converted to Catholicism 12 years ago and lives in Ontario, Canada.
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No one here is suggesting that a lifetime full of temp jobs is worth doing. All we've ever said about "temping" can be summed up by saying that it's OK to do for a short while, to solve a problem, to get off the job market, to re-orient yourself into a new career niche, and so on. Not a place to work as a career because the pay, the zero benefits, etc, all make a ding in your lifetime earnings and job happiness. But, certainly a temp stint is not worthy of the damnation you apply to it. Agree it doesn't look good on a CV when you go for more than a few months.
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LIVERMORE — No matter what Maxime Rooney chose to swim this season, a meet record was always in jeopardy.
The Granada High sophomore tried out a variety of individual events in a dominant postseason run, rewriting the record book in each of them.
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Rooney sent off his senior teammates Nick Silverthorn, Bryce McLaggan and Trent Trump with a national public high school record, swimming the anchor leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay at the North Coast Section championships.
"This was the year and to send them off having it be their last swim is amazing," Rooney said. "I'm really happy that I could contribute."
The Matadors were on pace for the record when Rooney dove in the water. When he touched the wall, Granada had lowered the 2:59.36 mark set by Indiana's Chesterton High earlier this year by 0.36 seconds.
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Just wondering if anyone else from NET is going to be there. I am going with about 10 other people on a bus from Grand Rapids. We will tailgate before the game. Most of those folks are Lions fans but good personal friends of mine. Myself and my sister will be the only Hawk fans on that bus.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 trillion as he drew clear battle lines for next year's elections. He promised to veto any effort by congressional Republicans to cut government health care benefits for the elderly without raising taxes as well.
"This is not class warfare. It's math," Obama declared, anticipating Republican criticism, which was quick in coming.
"Class warfare isn't leadership," House Speaker John Boehner said, in Cincinnati.
Obama's speech marked a new, confrontational stance toward Republicans after months of cooperation that many Democrats complained produced too many concessions. While the plan stands little chance of passing Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public can support.
The president's proposal, which he challenged Congress to approve, would predominantly hit upper-income taxpayers and would also target tax loopholes and subsidies used by many larger corporations. It would spare retirees from any changes in Social Security retirement benefits, and it would direct most of the cuts in Medicare spending to health care providers, not its elderly beneficiaries.
Benefit programs wouldn't be unscathed. Obama's plan would reduce spending for those, including Medicare and Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor, by $580 billion. But with Republicans calling for massive cuts in entitlement programs, Obama said he would veto any legislation that cut Medicare benefits without raising new revenue.
His plan also would count savings of $1 trillion over 10 years from the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The deficit-reduction plan represents Obama's longer-term follow-up to the $447 billion in tax cuts and new public works spending that he has proposed as a short-term measure to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment. The new proposal also inserts the president's voice into the legislative discussions of a joint congressional "supercommittee" charged with recommending deficit reductions of up to $1.5 trillion.
Defending his emphasis on new taxes rather than only spending reductions, Obama said: "We can't just cut our way out of this hole."
The Republican reaction was swift and bluntly dismissive.
"Veto threats, a massive tax hike, phantom savings and punting on entitlement reform is not a recipe for economic or job growth_or even meaningful deficit reduction," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. "The good news is that the Joint Committee is taking this issue far more seriously than the White House."
The president announced his deficit reduction plan in a 20-minute speech from the Rose Garden at the White House. But even as he called for Congress to act and tackle the nation's escalating debt, he gave greater urgency to his separate, short-term jobs proposal. "I'm ready to sign a bill," he said. "I've got the pens all ready."
Indeed, the White House is determined not to let the president get trapped in a debate over austerity measures at a time that the economy is sputtering and unemployment doesn't appear to be budging from 9.1 percent.
Still, in calling for sizable tax revenue, Obama gave the congressional joint committee a choice: It could generate $1.5 trillion in new revenues through an overhaul of the tax code, or it could adopt his recommendations, most of them ideas recycled from his previous budget proposals, which were largely ignored by Congress. They include tax increases on high-income families, oil and gas companies and U.S.-based corporations that earn profits overseas.
Either way, Obama is unlikely to get his way. The committee would be hard pressed to undertake a wholesale restructuring of the tax code by its late November deadline. And the president's own proposals have little chance of making their way out of Congress intact.
But with Bush-era tax cuts set to expire at the end of 2012 and with deep defense cuts scheduled to take effect in 2013 if the joint committee fails to act, Obama set down clear lines for next year's elections. And by threatening to veto Medicare benefit cuts that aren't paired with tax increases, he raised the pressure on the committee to include revenues in its plan.
"I will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary Americans," he said.
The plan represents Obama's opening bid in the debate. Administration officials say he is not taking other deficit reduction measures, including a gradual increase in the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67, off the table. In deficit reduction negotiations in July with Boehner that centered on raising the nation's borrowing capacity, Obama had agreed to such an age increase. But other Democrats objected loudly and said it would neutralize their criticism of a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare.
The core of the president's plan totals just over $2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years. It would let Bush-era tax cuts for upper income earners expire, limit tax deductions for wealthier filers and close loopholes and end some corporate tax breaks. It also would trim mandatory programs, including Medicare. And it would target subsidies for farmers and retirement benefits for federal employees.
Officials cast Obama's plan as his vision for deficit reduction, and distinguished it from the negotiations he had with Boehner in July as Obama sought to avoid a government default. Those talks failed, but resulted in an agreement to trim $1 trillion from government programs.
Democrats, who had warily watched as Obama negotiated with Boehner, cheered the president's tough talk on Monday.
"The president put down a marker today, and he did it in terms more forceful than we have seen from him before," said Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York.
Illustrating Obama's populist pitch on taxes, he also suggested that Congress establish a minimum tax on taxpayers making $1 million or more in income. The measure — the White House calls it the "Buffett Rule" for billionaire investor Warren Buffett — is designed to prevent millionaires from taking advantage of lower tax rates on investment earnings than what middle-income taxpayers pay on their wages.
On average, however, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more in taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. This year, households making more than $1 million will pay, on average, 29.1 percent of their income in federal taxes. A household making between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15 percent of its income in federal taxes, which includes income taxes and Social Security payroll taxes.


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|As long as they can't see where they are going, they can't prove me wrong!
Let's be clear. No one says that faulty science in a holy book disproves the existence of a God. It has no bearing on that claim at all. What it DOES have a bearing on is the claim that the science revealed in the Koran IS proof of God's existence.
Before we get to the list I would like to briefly address this. There is not a single scientific revelation in the Koran.
Not one
|You sure? Are you saying this was a waste of time??
You can't claim that science was revealed in the Koran if people didn't understand it at the time. If it was not revealed by any means but in retrospect then it wasn't revealed at all. In order to "reveal" something, you must make it clear to the person, otherwise it is still hidden from us. Making claims to knowledge that wasn't exampled by men of that time because of a vague simularity in the text or a non-specific passage that may resemble modern scientific understanding is intellectually dishonest and rife with confirmation bias.
Get it?
If you think the Big Bang was revealed in the Koran because it talks about the expanses of heaven, but NOT ONE Muslim scientist ever actually spoke of that model for the universe in any way then your claim is a false one.
It wasn't revealed
|There is something behind this curtain... what is it? You'll have to wait 400 years to know what I have revealed today!
Enough of that.
Let's look at the 5 best examples of bad science in the Koran;
Men and women all came from a single pair? Not only is that pretty incestuous, but it is scientifically wrong. There was no first man and first woman and humans certainly weren't created in our current forms!
|Ok, maybe HIS ancestors were.
FAIL Islam!
The Universe was made in 6 days?
"And We did certainly create the heavens and earth and what is between them in six days, and there touched Us no weariness"
The Universe was created in 6 days??? Pretty sure that we all know that is not scientifically accurate. It took billions of years for the Earth develop after the Big Bang. Plus or minus a few million years. Do you know what number is really close to a few million??
"And the thunder exalts [ Allah ] with praise of Him - and the angels [as well] from fear of Him - and He sends thunderbolts and strikes therewith whom He wills while they dispute about Allah ; and He is severe in assault" -13:13
Ummm, really? There have been SCIENTIFIC hypotheses on the nature of Thunder since Aristotle in the 3rd Century...
|Sounds like a shock wave in the air due to the sudden thermal expansion of the plasma in the lightning channel, but what do I know? It's probably an Angel.
Sperm comes from behind the Ribs and the Spine??
"He was created from a fluid, ejected emerging from between the backbone and the ribs." -86:6-7
Many Muslims will steadfastly maintain the truth of this one, because some of the seminal fluid originates from that general area. But the damning part of the verse is that "he" was CREATED from this fluid. That part of the fluid is the sperm. That is the active ingredient of the seminal fluid and the only part needed to create life. The rest of the fluid is only a carrier and has no part in the actual fertilization process.
The crazy part of this one is that THIS too was a fact that was at least believed by very early man. Aristotle not only believed that the fertilizing agent came from the testicles but that each testicle was responsible for the birthing of one gender. So that tying the "male one" off (or cutting it off) would ensure the other one ruled sex selection and the woman would birth a girl. THIS was crazy, but at least they were on the right track.
|You want me to do what?!?
"Do they not see the birds controlled in the atmosphere of the sky? None holds them up except Allah . Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe" -16:79
Really? Is THAT what is keeping them in the magical skies? Not the nature of aerodynamics, lift or thrust, not any of those things?
|How do I do it? Well, it's a combination of pixie dust, angel spit, and a healthy distaste for science.
Seriously? Magic is the Islamic explaination for the power of flight in birds?
So this is a sign for unbelievers? Yea, the VERSE is a sign. A sign of the inaccuracy of the Koran, and one more reason to not believe anything it says.
What do YOU think?
Is this the word of middle age sheep herders or the word of a Supreme being?


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In partnership with the Astronomical Society for the Pacific (ASP) and NASA, The McCallie School invites you to the Galileo Educator Network (GEN) Professional Development Workshop on March 7th and 8th. Become a NASA Galileo Educator through this 15-hour workshop for pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers, and learn about implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and elements of the Common Core in your teaching. Within the context of astronomy and space science, you will experience hands-on inquiry activities, reflect on the nature of science, demonstrate how students can argue from evidence and even practice integrating NGSS into your existing science lessons.
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L.A. Times TV critic Robert Lloyd highlights the week's television:
"Drunk History" (Comedy Central, Tuesdays). A great and terrible idea that yields hilarity pretty consistently: Heavily intoxicated narrators (comics, comic actors) retell episodes from history as accurately as they can manage; other comic actors (and assorted ringers), costumed and bewigged, mouth the speaker's words as dialogue in what might be called ahistorical reenactments. Offering actual drunkenness rather than play-drunkenness as something to laugh at feels a little fraught, morally, and, indeed, there will be those for whom the whole enterprise (originally created by Derek Waters, who hosts, for the website Funny or Die) will seem distasteful and very wrong. Nevertheless, I did laugh. A lot. The debut episode (of eight) includes inebriated takes on the Watergate scandal (by Matt Gourley), the Lincoln assassination (Allan McCleod) and that time that Elvis met Nixon (Eric Edelstein), with Bob Odenkirk as Nixon, Stephen Merchant as Lincoln, Will Forte and Adam Scott as Edwin and John Wilkes Booth and Jack Black as Elvis. Also present: Jonathan Ames, Dave Grohl. Coming up: Kristen Wiig as Patty Hearst.
Friday Night Spotlight: François Truffaut (TCM, Fridays in July). Some of my fellow pensioners may remember Z Channel, an L.A. cable movie network that from 1974 to 1989 was the closest thing (local) TV had to a repertory art house -- a living-room cinematheque, and an education. (Alexandra Cassavetes made a whole film about it and its troubled chief, Jerry Harvey, the 2004 "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession.") The closest thing TV has to Z Channel nowadays is Turner Classic Movies, whose programming is at once more catholic -- as it apparently owns almost every movie made in America before 1970 -- and less adventurous, which is also a function of owning the rights to so many films. (You get around to the arty ones less often.) But this month the channel is getting its French on, devoting every Friday to Francois Truffaut -- the most lovable of Nouvelle Vague directors, to be sure -- and showing nearly every one of his feature films. (Only "Small Change," his study of children, and "Fahrenheit 451," his excursion into English, are missing.) The series will also include the short "Antoine and Collette" (the second film in the Antoine Doinel cycle, after "The 400 Blows") and the 1961 "A Story of Water," quickly made to take advantage of a flooded Paris, and whose directing credit Truffaut shares with Jean-Luc Godard, who also narrates.
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"Moone Boy" (Hulu). Chris O'Dowd (currently starring in Christopher Guest's "Family Tree," on HBO) co-created, co-writes and stars in this charming and fanciful but distinctly unsentimental memory piece -- something like a small-town Irish "Wonder Years" or "Everybody Loves Chris" crossed with something like a family-friendly "Wilfred," minus the psychosis. (Still, when I say "family friendly," I do not mean "G-rated.") O'Dowd narrates and plays the supportive imaginary friend of his dreamy and put-upon -- when not ignored -- yet self-contained and clever 12-year-old self (a marvelous David Rawle), whose notebook drawings also come to animated life. Steve Coogan, whose Baby Cow Productions has a hand in this, will appear. Streaming starts Wednesday.
"Endeavour" (PBS, Sunday). The "Inspector Morse" prequel, which floated a single movie-length episode at just this time last year, returns to "Masterpiece Mystery" with four more. Shaun Evans stars as the younger version of the older man played by the late John Thaw, a stripling police detective in mid-1960s Oxford, as yet only semi-irascible but already addicted to puzzles and opera and acquiring a taste for ale. The new episodes add the great Anton Lesser as a flinty, rule-hugging superior for Morse and his mentor, Detective Inspector Fred Thursday (Roger Allam, wonderfully substantial), and also introduce Sean Rigby as Police Constable Strange, who in "Inspector Morse," will be, or rather was, Chief Superintendent Strange. The mechanics of the plots are occasionally a little difficult to buy, but the atmosphere (moody without making a fetish of it) is effective, the dialogue well-wrought and the players first-rate.
"Legends of Chima" (Cartoon Network, Wednesdays). Based on a new series of Lego toys, which is to say, also an ad for them, "Chima" is a sort of "Game of Thrones" for small fry, sprinkled with essence of "Avatar" and with a wad of "The Return of the King" stuck to its shoe. If anything is ripe for CGI animation it is painted plastic figures -- they look oddly "authentic" in this mode -- and their toyness keeps things light here even after total war breaks out between the talking Lions and the talking Crocodiles, Wolves and Ravens. Its pre-teen protagonists speak the youthspeak of 10 minutes ago, with a vaguely California twang, saying things like "cool," "awesome" and "duh!," and there is a lot of racing around on scooter-things whose real-world Lego-kit counterparts your own kids can beg you to buy. What is notable here -- notably weird -- is the extended Drugs Metaphor the series seems to contain. (I say "seems.") Central to the story are the magic waters of "chi," which first turned the characters from ordinary animals into Lego pieces and form orbs that they press into their chests for a hit of energy. (This is called "plugging chi.") "What's it like?" a young wolf asks a young croc, who has sneaked a taste before reaching "the age of becoming." "Mother of mud!" exclaims the reptile. "It's the best thing ever -- like being born all over, but with superpowers." Or as one rhino declares when he receives his monthly (legal) allotment of orb: "Sweet! Got me some chi! Tonight's gonna be a goood night." I mean, what?
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Alright Alain, we got it.Potatoe1 wrote:And again, I think we would have been better off with Rome.
Rome's defensive game was relativity similar, he's more physical, and most importantly he can play both sides which would allow the teams top5 d-men to all pay on their natural sides.
I agree completely though. I wonder if the reason why Ballard is kept off the roster is not merely because Alain has an issue with him, it's some of the players as well. That would make a lot more sense than it simply being Alain's opinion of his work ethic. Completely unsubstantiated, although it wouldn't be the first time we've seen this, the team turned away Torres and O'Brien for similar reasons, did they not?


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Rare Apple 1 Built by Jobs, Wozniak Goes to Auction
As legend has it, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created only 200 Apple 1 computers in 1976. Only a few working models remain, one of which is going to auction at Christie's. Michael Hsu has the details. Photo: AP.
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For the sauce: Coat a large, wide skillet or saucepan with olive oil and add the onions and crushed red pepper. Season with salt and put the skillet over medium heat. Saute the onions until they are soft and aromatic, 7 to 8 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, another 2 minutes. Stir in the wine and cook until the wine has reduced by half. Pass the tomatoes through a food mill or puree them in a food processor and add them with 1 cup of water to the skillet. Season with salt, to taste, and simmer the sauce for 15 minutes.
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Vampires and zombies might be the supernatural creatures du jour, but witches are a true classic. There's no shortage of spellbinding films in which to choose wiccan inspiration, but we've called upon Bonnie, Sarah, Rochelle, and Nancy from the 1996 flick The Craft. Fitting in with their high school coven required more than the power to invoke Manon, it called for kohl-rimmed eyes, blood red lips, and frantic hair. Find out how to get the look above; after all, you'll need to look the part to practice their kind of dark magic.
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When Sarah (Robin Tunney) arrived for her first day of school she already had pale skin and natural powers, sealing the coven with Nancy (Fairuza Balk), Bonnie (Neve Campbell), and Rochelle (Rachel True). We can't help you with the powers, but you can get the group's milky white skin with daily SPF and Make Up For Ever's Mat Velvet + Matifying Foundation ($36) in Alabaster White. Skip under-eye concealer—dark circles are encouraged.
The students at St. Bernard are very cruel—especially Chris and Laura—so start practicing your evil gaze. You won't need magic to master this one, just a soft kohl eyeliner. Apply Rimmel's Special Eyes Precision Eye Liner Pencil ($4) in Black Magic on your waterline, close your eyes tightly to smudge the color, then line the outside of your eyes. Don't wash it off for days.
You might not want to copy everything Nancy does—or you'll be corrupted by your power, too—but we do recommend trying her deep, matte lip color. Line and fill in your pout with M.A.C's Lip Pencil ($15) in Currant then add a few coats of Kat Von D's Painted Love Lipstick ($19) in Homegirl. You won't need a spell to make it last, just dust on a little translucent powder between coats.
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While affirmative action is being attacked around the country as bestowing"special preferences" on minorities and women, many true "specialpreferences" in education and employment are being ignored. The AmericanCouncil on Education has exposed a "preference" for football players at theNaval Academy. The Academy recruits, prepares, and sometimes acceptsfootball players who do not meet the minimum academic qualifications for theAcademy. The majority of the Academy football recruits are white, and allare male.
Recruited football players (as well as other recruits) who do not meet Academystandards can be sent, attaxpayer expense, for 10 months of additional preparation to the NavalAcademy Preparatory School (NAPS). In 1995 the Academy sent 71 recruitedathletes, 87 minorities (some of whom were also recruited athletes), and 55previously enlisted servicement to NAPS.
In addition, football players who do meet academic standards receive specialAcademy admissions preference -- they do not need to compete with othercivilians for admission. And sometimes, recruited football players who donot meet academic standards, and who do not wish to attend NAPS, are acceptedinto the Naval Academy anyway, where they receive special study skillsinstruction.
The Naval Academy mission statement makes no mention of the specialpreference for football players and other athletes, although it does mentionrecruitment priorities for minorities and enlisted servicemen.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
LA Streetsblog Fundraiser At Library Ale House (Tuesday Mar. 26th)
I've mentioned on twitter a few times, that LA Streetsblog is having another fundraising event at Library Ale House on Main St. in Santa Monica, but realized I hadn't put up here on the blog yet. 10% of the proceeds for all food and drinks for the day and evening go to L.A. Streetsblog and there are special raffle prizes (including a whole bike) that will be up for grabs for those who buy tickets.
I made it to the evening portion of the same event last year and it was a great time catching up with other advocates and plan nerds of various stripes in LA. This year is of special significance for me, because I'm getting paid to write for Streetblog now, covering Santa Monica. This event will be pitching into the fund that is allowing LA Streetsblog to hire additional writers like myself to broaden their coverage.
So if you've appreciated the content I've been writing here and elsewhere over the years, stopping by the Library Ale House tomorrow is one way to support my writing pursuits. Hope to see some of you there, and I'm planning to be there most of the later evening.
And while you're there, you can check out the new permanent bike corrals installed on Main Street. Santa Monica is plowing ahead with it's new bike plan and it's really showing in the past few weeks.
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January 5, 2007
There are many rites of passage in a lifetime. For a Wabash man, there is Chapel Sing, the Monon Bell, and for seniors it's "comps."
Seniors face mid-semester written comprehensive testing in their majors and then later in the semester "oral comps" when they'll be questioned by a professor from their major, one from their minor, and a professor outside the disciplines they've studied.
Many Wabash seniors returned to campus early from the holiday break to prepare for Monday and Tuesday's comps.
Professor of Religion William Placher '70 has taken the tests as a Wabash student and been giving them for several years. He points out students take individual courses and then put those courses together to make a major or a college education.
"Comps are one of the places we try to see if that has happened," Placher explained. "It's a test of the students, but it's also a test of us and the curriculum. Are we creating a context in which at least a fair number of students can put the pieces together into some larger whole?
"The rest of life, after all, rarely comes with specific assignments for which one can prepare in advance. Rather, life comes at us with problems and questions which might call for drawing on anything we've learned or thought about. Comps provide on initial test of how ready students are to face such challenges."
Allen Chatt '07, a political science and biology major, is one of many students studying for his comps. "For me comps are the synthesis of everything we've done in the last four years," he said. "It's really more stressful than normal Wabash work because of the breadth of the fields we're tested over.
"The more I study the more I realize how much I've forgotten or feel I don't know and have to find out about – it's like finals week, but there's the realization these exams are more important determining whether we graduate or not."
Therein, is a measure of extra stress – even if self-imposed.
"Instead of being seen as yet another hurdle to jump before graduation," said Wabash Counselor Scott Cavins '84, "I would propose that comps be seen as an opportunity for each senior to show what, why, and how they know what they know. Perhaps the last part epitomizes the Wabash experience best – a place where seniors have 'learned how to learn" and be critical thinkers."
Cavins, like Placher, knows about comps first hand. "I found the experience to be challenging and intimidating," Cavins recalled. "I learned (particularly during orals) that I forgot it's not so important where one starts, it's where they end up."
Patrick Millikan '07, a pre-med student, has found preparing an interesting experience. "It has given me a chance to review the main points of what I have learned and has allowed me to see the commonalities in the material to which I have been exposed at Wabash. Specifically, it is very interesting for me as a religion major to discover the overarching similarities in what people believe and where they place their faith."
Even a football player who is used to pressure and stress feels a little extra anxiety prepping for comps. "In some ways the process has been strenuous, since none of us have ever taken a test quite like this," Millikan said. "It is very different from a normal midterm or final, since it asks us not only to recall information learned, but to make connections that range over a myriad of topics."
Cavins, in his college counselor role, has some advice for seniors working hard for comps.
"It is also important to eat well and get enough sleep," he said. "So an all-nighter needs to be for sleep rather than cramming for comps. Sometimes just talking with a fellow senior, professor, family, or even the college counselor can help take the edge off the stress with support to finish your journey at Wabash."
In photos: Top right, Professor Bill Placher. At right, Seniors Adam Hawkins and Allen Chatt make a classroom presentation.


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Susan Froehlich and her son Charlie Cannon have only been practicing Oriental medicine together a few months, but it's already working out very well, Susan said.
"Charlie is quite an athlete, and because of that also has an interest in helping other athletes become the best they can," she said. "I would say that my practice is geared more generally; women's health and for sure any kind of pain situation."
Traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM, encompasses acupuncture, Chinese herbs and some sort of bodywork such as shiatsu or tuina, Charlie said. Though they both practice all three, Susan said they each have strengths that will truly complement one another.
"I have more of a passion for dealing with musculoskeletal elements and combining body work with a specific type of massage called tuina, which involves a lot of stretching with the patient, combined with acupuncture protocols," Charlie said.
Susan said that one bonus to having him there is that they can treat each other.
"I was sick a couple of weeks ago — and I'm usually not sick; or if I'm sick, I'm sick for a day," she said. "But Charlie was able to treat me — which is going to be great, especially as I get older — and so my illness lasted three days; it did not last the weeks that people are sick now."
Another bonus to having a partner is being able to fill in for one another, she said.
"I think the best part will be as I have days off, Charlie will be able to see patients that I couldn't see, which is nice," she said. "Most acupuncturists in this area work singly; they don't work in clinics."
Froehlich has worked solo for 14 years, and Charlie just joined her practice in January after graduating from Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, or OCOM, last fall. OCOM is the same school his mother attended.
"Actually, Charlie was the first kid of an alumnus to graduate, so that was pretty special," Susan said.
"There were other students who had parents who practiced Chinese medicine, but not from OCOM," Charlie said.
Having shared the same school experience has given them a common frame of reference to draw from — including a four-week internship in a hospital in China that caps the OCOM training, followed by a week of free time. For Charlie, that week was spent learning about Chinese herbs.
"Bozhou is basically the hub of all herbal trade that's done in China," he said. "We did a tour of a lot of the facilities where they trade herbs and then saw where they process herbs. We visited the farms where they're actually growing the herbs, and then the treatment sites, where they're washing and cleaning — on a huge scale — truckloads of herbs."
One thing Susan remembers about her time in China is how differently hospitals operate.
"All of the hospitals have to have both Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine," she said. "So even if it's a Western hospital, they still have to have TCM; they cannot function without it.
"If someone has an injury, they'll go to a tuina clinic or an acupuncture clinic, but they don't tend to go to the hospital," she said. "If it's internal medicine, or they need herbs, they'll go to the hospital."
"The hospitals combine Western pharmaceutical drugs with acupuncture and Chinese herbs," Charlie said. "If someone has a very specific type of bacterial infection, they may use some antibiotics, but they've found that antibiotics alone won't give the patient the best results; it's combining the antibiotics with Chinese herbs.
"So they're much more of the mindset of looking at what works instead of 'We're just going to use Chinese medicine,'" he said. "They say, 'Oh, what is working? — from different areas — let's try to understand them as best we can to give the patient the best care they can use.'"
Traditional Chinese medicine can be used whether a person is in the acute stage of an injury, has chronic illness or wants to prevent illness or injury.
"I guess that's somewhere acupuncture and Chinese medicine really shine, it's that it's a complete medicine," Susan said. "It's the medicine that was used for thousands of years for everything, but you can do it without the side effects of different drugs."
"Or the side effects are really good," Charlie said. "Like you're coming in for arthritis, then as it turns out you end up getting a good night's sleep, and your mood overall is a little more even-keeled. While you may be treating arthritis, there are other elements there that are going to be addressed."
"Chinese medicine tends to treat the whole person, too," Susan said. "People don't want to just be treated as a 'sore throat' — they want to be treated as a person who has a sore throat.
"I think that's where Charlie and I work well together: We both have the same philosophy on respect for people and treating people with as much compassion as we can," she said. "Which means going the extra mile: If someone needs to be seen on a day that we aren't working, we see them."
Mother and son have two clinics; one in Mosier (302 E. Second Ave.) and one in Hood River (700 E. Port Marina Drive).
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Davises grow, work, together
By BEN MCCARTY
News staff writer
Janet Davis beams with pride as she watches small children swarm around Kristen, her daughter and co-worker at Our Children's Place in Hood River.
"Kristen is very good (with kids)," Janet said. "I would hire her even if she was not my daughter. If she wasn't good I wouldn't hire her even if she was my daughter."
After years of running Our Children's place by herself, Janet hired Kristen to be the child care business's toddler director in January.
Since the hire the business has expanded to become full-time childcare and preschool, able to take children as young as 12 months.
The mother-daughter team was not years (or even) decades in the planning like some other family businesses. It just worked out.
After graduating from Horizon Christian School, Kristen went off to school; first in Bend and then to Boise.
However, she missed her close-knit family and wasn't sure what direction she wanted to take, so she came back home.
"It was a combination between our family being so close and me being so far away … I wanted to stay at home and I wasn't sure where I was going to go to school next semester," she said. "It all fit together. It was a combination of me wanting be back but not really knowing what I wanted to do when I got back. It worked out really well."
Meanwhile, Janet wanted to expand her business and found the perfect person to help in that regard in her own house.
"She's been a mother's helper since she was 8," Janet said. "People would hire her and see how she would interact with the kids and then more people would hire her."
"A lot of the moms ask me how I'm getting used to it," Kristen says of spending her days looking after groups of toddlers. "It's kind of like second nature; working with babies and children has never been a scary thing for me. I've been around them so long I just know what to do."
In addition to giving Janet an able set of hands at Our Children's Place, the job has also given Kristen clarity on where she wants to go next in her education.
She would like to become a pediatric nurse, and is currently looking into OHSU's nursing program to continue her education.
"I want to do pediatrics, and eventually I'll be a nurse; but until then this will pay for nursing school and they really go hand in hand," Kristen said.
The success of the January expansion already has Our Children's Place thinking about another expansion and Janet said she intends to expand her staff even more.
"We have been blessed with an overwhelmingly positive response," Janet said. "We're considering hiring two more employees to work with us because since the change in January we have about been at capacity."
Working side by side has given mother and daughter plenty of insights into their own relationship and the way they can use their different skill sets to form an effective team.
Taking care of one child for a whole day can be exhausting, much less a few dozen, but even though they may be wiped out by the end of the day, they would not do anything differently.
"When 5:30 rolls around, we're exhausted," Janet said. "But we laugh so hard throughout the day. It's just fun."
They've learned to treasure the relationships with the kids and the parents and take joy in the time they get to spend together.
The kids in their care have also learned to appreciate both of them.
"I give out stickers every day constantly; they know I'm the one to give out stickers every day, so they will line up and tell me they have cleaned up three things — they are itching for a sticker."
"They know how to work us," laughs Janet.
One would think that it would be a difficult transition going from the college life to working alongside your mom, and getting up at 8 a.m. every day to take care of a bunch of active toddlers.
Kristen, though, is more than glad to do it and her mom is glad to have her helping out.
"I went from a college setting and hanging out with people my age to hanging out with babies," she said. "It's actually way more fun — it's really fun, actually."
Sheppards: Business success rests on enjoying each other's company
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
Their desks are idea-tossing close.
Craig Sheppard and his son, Ben, have enjoyed a happy working life together for the past seven years, when Ben joined the 93-year-old Sheppard's.
From its downtown State Street base, the company sells equipment and products to farms and businesses throughout the region.
Father and son work well together because they like each other and communicate well, even when they disagree.
Craig said: "You have to enjoy being together, and you have to be able to communicate. As long as you can do that, and you talk together, it'll be fine."
"It's nice to have someone who's done this before," said Ben, who works extensively in the field while Craig's duties are increasingly based in the office.
"There's not a whole lot I'm doing that he hasn't done before," Ben said. "So there's a lot of advice and a lot of good ideas, just from past history. I can do things my own way all I want, but there's a lot of good experience and advice there."
In turn, Craig said he has needed to "be willing to let loose of some things," such as decisions on "what's ordered, what you want to do and don't want to do."
"On day-to-day activities, we don't feel like we have to get an okay to X, Y and Z," he said.
Ben said, "You can't both do everything. You'd drive each other crazy. You take different parts of the business and focus on it and you talk about it."
Ben and Craig are perfecting the third intergenerational link in the Sheppard family business.
Craig's grandfather, William O., and uncle Charles M., started the business in 1919. Bill, Craig's father, owned the business until 1994, when he passed ownership to Craig, who started working at the downtown store in 1974.
In 2006, Ben moved back to Hood River to help manage the business.
Craig was frank about his expectations when Ben came to work for the family business.
"I didn't know when we first started the process if it would work out," he said. "Number one, someone's got to try it and if they like it, or it might not work out. But it has worked out well."
"I agree," Ben said. "I didn't know how it would work out. I didn't know how I'd fit in when I first started, but I was always treated the same as everyone else, as far as everyone here is expected to learn everything, which helped a lot in terms of my growth in the business"
Ben acknowledged his father's "ability to allow me to do different things and take the business in different directions if I thought it would be beneficial."
Asked about the biggest change in the business in the past 30 years, Craig said, "Time marches on, you do a lot more by computer than you used to, and less by hand.
Most of the younger farmers now like to take care of business on the phone, one way or another, "and that was not the case as recently as six years or so ago," Craig said.
Ben works in the field "as much as I can," and Craig is "doing less field work than days gone by, which is somewhat the same as my dad used to do."
"We still deal with a lot of the same people, and we deal with a lot of family businesses ourselves, especially around here, and in The Dalles."
Ben said telephone and on-line is the means of ordering, but "the personal touch and face to face is what we do," Craig said.
"It's the reason I'm in my truck so much," Ben said. "You couldn't possibly understand what peoples' needs are on their farm or business, if I'm not at their place of business."
What is the key, then, to parent and child working together successfully?
"You have to actually enjoy being around your Dad," Ben said. "I don't care what the business is, you have to enjoy being around him. And the fact that he's allowed me to take certain parts of the business and just go and… he's going to be supportive of that, it's been nice."
Craig agreed: "We have really good communication. We don't have to agree on everything, but we make the best decision we can and go forward."
Capovillas: 'Simple, straight-up' pub family
By JULIE RAEFIELD-GOBBO
News staff writer
Bring your thirst and hoist a hearty "Sláinte" when you slip into Marley's Corner, a cozy family-owned pub on the Heights. Or, drive through and grab a delicious homemade pasty (pass-tee) to carry the savory taste of the U.K. with you out to the open road.
Sited amongst the carefully laid paving stones on the spot of the family's former home, sits a welcoming, authentic and tiny Celtic pub, jointly owned and operated by Brian Capovilla and his parents, Martha and Charlie. As the weather warms, a snug outdoor patio will also invite people-watchers to stop in, sip and sup.
"I have a strong focus on Scottish, Irish and English imports," said Brian on his impressive beer array that includes 18 imports and several domestics. Along with the brews, the Capovillas offer wine and hard cider as well as non-alcoholic beverages to accent their delicious homemade pub food.
The family business opened about a year ago after a discussion on how best to use the family-owned building at the corner of C and 13th streets.
"We were thinking about some kind of small restaurant," said Martha, who, along with Charlie had run other restaurants in the past. "But, it was Brian's idea to serve pasties," said Martha, who retired in 2007 from her position as co-principal of Hood River Valley High School.
"Yeah, I had just gotten back from living in Scotland where I basically subsisted on pub food," said Brian. Capovilla's time in Scotland was spent completing a Master of Letters in Philosophy post-graduate degree at the University of Aberdeen.
According to Martha, Charlie, the more "back-of-the-house partner," had been itching to open a pub "for decades" and already had the name picked out — a creative interpretation of Martha and Charlie. When the former building tenant left, all three Capovillas joined in the remodel and restaurant design. The trio personally laid the sculpted pavers and stone walls that create the outdoor patio.
While Brian's philosophical nature is now serving him well as the lead "publican," it was a little tougher to secure a teaching position with his newly minted degree a few years back.
"I worked at Mt. Hood Community College but then came the budget cuts. I learned that most philosophy professors never retire; you have to wait until they die off," laughed Brian — ultimately a plus for anyone who likes good cooking and good talk.
Needless to say, the gift of gab and the well-honed ability to discuss the nuances of fine beer come in handy in a pub setting and make for some good conversation between Brian, his parent-partners and their customers.
While good humor and good talk add to the ease of running this family business, their success is tied to the family's recognition of each other's unique gifts.
"It's been a really great experience to work with Brian as an adult. I don't think we could have done this with anyone else," said Martha.
"We have complementary viewpoints," said Brian. "We usually can find a good middle ground in our decisions."
Martha tends toward the marketing aspects of the business while Brian manages the costs, ordering and recipe details. Charlie handles building maintenance.
"It's good because we seem to get along and if there is an issue, we don't have to worry about stepping on each other's toes," said Martha.
"We can be straight up and honest," added Brian.
Those words seem to be a motto for the family who jointly agreed to create a pub that would serve "simple, straight-up pub food."
"We want people to know that this is a pub — not a restaurant," said Brian. "It's a neighborhood place."
"And we are trying to keep things affordable. We even stock PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon) if you don't want to pay for an import," added Martha. That shared, clear vision also led the trio to decide to say "No coffee!"
"There is plenty of that around town," said Martha.
Perhaps the best review the family has received came from a visiting Brit who dropped in for lunch one day.
"He said, 'It's like I'm home!'" noted Brian, with just a hint of pride.
Marley's Corner is located at 1216 C Street and 13th Street. They are open Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Homemade soups, pasties, pub rolls and fish-and-chips are available daily inside, on the patio or via drive-through service. Call ahead for faster pick-up service at 541-386-0153. Look for occasional live music on the weekends.


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The USDA is providing funding for 12 flexible fuel pump projects in eight states. This brings the number of flex-fuel projects funded to 65 in fiscal year 2011, with 266 new pumps being installed in 30 states, the USDA reports. Flexible fuel pumps are designed to dispense fuel blends containing up to 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. They may also dispense mid-level blends, such as E15 and E30.
Farmers Union Oil Company of Velva, N.D., for example, has been selected to receive a grant of nearly $160,000 to buy and install six flexible fuel dispensers. Cory Schmaltz, general manager of the company's Velva, Butte, Drake and Martin locations, says the grant will go a long way in helping to purchase and install the flex-fuel pumps. The purchase and installation of such pumps can cost as much as $25,000 or more per pump, Schmaltz says. Current demand for flex fuels is not huge, Schmaltz says, but he sees it growing in time, particularly as more flex-fuel vehicles hit the market. "The world is changing," he says, adding that the company expects to complete a C-store next spring in Velva which will feature the flex-fuel pumps.
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