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20 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 6, 1994
As local residents woke up to a "blanket of white" on Tuesday morning, many commented that last year's "Storm of the Decade" had barely faded from their minds as they hauled out shovels, salt and snowblowers to begin yet another cycle of "digging out." Although the first storm of '94 seemed to lack the "punch" of last year's March storm which dumped 24 inches on the county, at press time on Tuesday evening, 10 inches had fallen in McConnellsburg.
The First National Bank of McConnellsburg will open a First National Express Banking Center across from Penn's Village Shopping Center on Route 16. When completed three of the five lanes will come from Route 16 and exit through to old Route 30 while the other two lanes will enter from old Route 30 and exit through to Route 16.
Student Council President Rebecca Horton and MHS class officers displayed a check for $1,286.09, which was presented to the local chapter of the American Cancer Society recently.
Clarence and Mary Sexton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on November 26.
Deaths: Betty Brown, Orbisonia; Clarence Carbaugh, Mifflintown; Mary Chamberlain, Wells Tannery; Norman Wible, Chambersburg; Cecil Fetters, Hustontown; John Pine Jr., Greencastle; Mrs. Annalee Daniels, Beech Creek, Pa.; Edna Divel, Berkeley Springs; Eliza Rotz, Harrisonville.
Dennis Palmer, McConnellsburg, and Gina Kreps, Mc- Connellsburg, applied for a marriage license at the local courthouse during the past week.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 19, 1984
Robert Vores, McConnellsburg, was named Fireman of the Year at the 20th annual banquet of Mc-
Connellsburg Fire Co. held last Wednesday at the firehall. Ray Miller of Needmore, a five-year member of the fire company, was named Fireman of the Year by Needmore Fire Co. at its 14th annual banquet held last Saturday evening in the firehall.
A Needmore woman, Ethel Everts, and her six children were left homeless in an early Monday morning fire on the Mountain Road. The 130-year-old, two-story wood frame structure was totally engulfed in flames when firemen arrived on the scene. The structure, which was owned by Albert Clark, Warfordsburg, was completely destroyed. Damage was conservatively estimated at $15,000.
Violent crime in Fulton County did not increase significantly in 1983 in contrast to trends in surrounding counties, according to the 1983 annual report of Fulton County Probation Department.
Sgt. Edwin Souders, son of Tom and Janet Souders of McConnellsburg, was promoted to staff sergeant in United States Marine Corps on December 1.
McConnellsburg Lutheran Church was the setting for the wedding of Tracy Yvonne Kerlin of McConnellsburg and Troy Humphrey Yaukey of McConnellsburg on December 10. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kerlin of McConnellsburg. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey Yaukey of McConnellsburg.
Specials at the IGA: lettuce, 2 heads for $1; Pepsi-Cola, $1.79, six 12-oz. cans; paper towels, 19 cents, big roll; large eggs, 49 cents a dozen.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hull of Hancock on January 6; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Gelvin of McConnellsburg on January 12.
Deaths: Cora Hemminger, Hustontown; Murnie Raker, Waynesboro; Michael J. Bednar, Somerville, N.J.; Laura M. Watkins, Three Springs; Mary B. Hixson, Crystal Spring; Florence Hartman, Silver Spring, Md.; Nora Swartzwelder, Everett; Geraldine E. Humbert, Chambersburg; Dallas H. Edwards, Meadville.
Marriage licences: Stephen E. Lynch, Needmore, and Lucinda M. Keebaugh, Warfordsburg; Jeffery Breeden, Hancock, and Janet Truax, Warfordsburg.
40 Years Ago
From The Files of January 17, 1974
Morris Suders Jr., more familiary known as "Jute,"
McConnellsburg, was chosen by his fellow firemen as Fireman of the Year at the annual banquet of Mc- Connellsburg Volunteer Fire Co. held this week.
Clarence E. Dietz, well-known Bedford civic and business leader, sportsman and veteran, is the first Republican candidate to declare himself openly for the seat in the PA House of Representatives.
George L. Dungee, 35, received the same sentence as Carl Isaacs for his part in the mass murders of the Alday family, following his trial in Donalsonville, Ga., last week. He was sentenced to death in the electric chair.
Former resident Carl Paylor, representative for Har-Tru Tennis courts, and Richard Funkhouser Jr. of Hagerstown had the thrill of a lifetime last week. While lunching with Arnold Palmer at Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Fla., and discussing the possibility of building additional tennis courts for him, the subject of how they were returning to Hagerstown came up. Mr. Palmer offered them a ride to Latrobe, Pa., in his private jet. They readily accepted and with Arnold at the controls, it was easy to relax and chat with Mrs. Palmer, who accompanied them.
An autocar tractor and semi-trailer slid across Route 75 north of Fort Loudon early last Thursday and crashed into the car occupied by a father and a son. Taken to Chambersburg Hospital in serious condition were Woodrow Keefer Sr., 42, and his son, Woodrow Jr., 19, both of Burnt Cabins.
Several Fulton County farmers won awards at the PA Farm Show last week. Emil Mellott and son of Needmore walked away with most of the awards in the Corriedale sheep show. They had the champion and reserve champion ewe and the reserve champion ram. They took first place in these classes: ram, 1 year old and under 2; ewe, 1 year old and under 2; ewes, under 1 year; 2 ram lambs owned by exhibitor class; 2 ewe lambs owned by exhibitor; breeders flock pen of lamb, and get of sire and flock class. In addition to the first awards, they won second awards in the ram, under-1-year-old class and the ewe, 1-year-and-under 2-year class. They also won a third award in ram, under 1-year-old class. Other farmers were among winners in the hay show. They were: Robert Knepper, Three Springs, first in the first cutting alfalfa-grass class and fourth in the late cutting grass class; Boyd Cromer, Fort Littleton, second in the clover-timothy class; Fredric Knepper, Hustontown, third in the clover-timothy class; Wilkie Mellott, Harrisonville, fourth in the same class, and Ellis Knepper, Waterfall, fourth in the later cutting alfalfa-grass class.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown Miller of Hustontown left last week to spend the winter months in Florida.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward of Harrisonville on January 8; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. James Bradley of Mercersburg on January 9.
Marine Lance Cpl. James Exline, son of Mrs. Leotta Exline of Hancock, visted Genoa, Italy, while on a training deployment in the Mediterranean with the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit.
Specials at the IGA; Heinz ketchup, 15 cents, 14-oz. bottle; Tide detergent, 69 cents, 3-lb. box; chicken noodle soup, 15 cents a can; Nescafe instant coffee, 99 cents.
Deaths: Mrs. Martha Shaw, Three Springs; Mrs. Stella Blanche Steckman, Buck Valley; Cloyd Roy Plessinger, Warfordsburg; Gertrude M. Price, McConnellsburg.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 23, 1964
In listing financial gifts to the Medical Center from businesses and individuals, Woodrow Strait, administrator, included the estate of Anna May Snyder of Cumberland, Md., and a native of Thompson Township, which is expected to realize $27,500. The grandfather's clock at the Medical Center was also given by Miss Snyder.
McConnellsburg firemen held their first annual meeting on January 14 that was nearly an hour late getting started due to a fire alarm from a farm in Harrisonville. Reed Lynch was selected as Fireman of the Year.
Larry J. Mellott of Everett, and grandson of former Fulton County Sheriff Minnick Mellott, was instantly killed on January 8 in an auto accident on Route 30.
The Hays Store in McConnellsburg was sold "lock, stock and barrel" on Friday, January 17, to First National Bank, and the doors closed on a business that, according to records, had been in existence since 1817.
An 18-inch snowstorm on Sunday and Monday ruined the first two days' attendance at the Farm Show in Harrisburg.
Beginning February 1, the Post Office Department will eliminate stamping the time when cancelling letters and will use only a.m. or p.m.
There were five people killed in auto accidents in the county during 1963.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoffman, Harrisonville, on January 6; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Clair Lininger, McConnellsburg, on January 8; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Booth, on January 11; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waite, McConnellsburg, on January 13; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bookwalter, Mercersburg, on January 18; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Heidler, Hancock, on January 18.
Mrs. Cassie Mellott of Needmore, who was 100 years old last May, remains a patient at the Medical Center after breaking her hip in a fall.
Eliza Cook, Fort Littleton, celebrated her 93rd birthday on January 16.
Patty Hunter, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunter, was transferred from the Medical Center to Harrisburg General Hospital on Monday for treatment of a chronic kidney ailment.
Carter Bard of Warfordsburg was awarded the Keystone Farmer Degree at the FFA convention in Harrisburg last Wednesday.
New of men in service: Airman Clarence W.R. Mellott of Needmore has been assigned to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. John J. Peck of Needmore has been promoted to specialist five and is serving with the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C.
The budget for the United States for 1964 is $97.9 billion, $500 million less than last year and a tax cut will be passed promptly, according to Congressman J. Irving Whalley.
Deaths: Mrs. Robert W. (Bechtel) Lohr, Mercersburg, born at Websters Mill; Lillian E. Booty, Bedford; Mrs. Norman L. (Tritle) P. Foutz, Mercersburg, born in McConnellsburg; Mrs. John W. Dorty, Mercersburg; William Bryan Newman, Waterfall; Mrs. Elizabeth Goes, McConnellsburg; Mrs. Lois H. Shaw, Hopewell, born in Wells Tannery; Mrs. Charles (Keefer) Jones, Chambersburg, born in Fulton County.
Glen Strait of Hustontown has a 1958 Edsel for sale.
60 Years Ago
From The Files of January 21, 1954
Miss Martha Lodge entered Jefferson Hospital in
Philadelphia on Sunday, where she underwent surgery this week.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas McDowell of Mercersburg celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Linn left on Sunday for Pottstown, where Mr. Linn will be employed on a construction job.
Dr. Leo S. Shives, well-known veterinarian of Hancock, has been elected a director of Hancock Bank.
W. John Stiteler of Somerset County has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for state Senate from the 36th Senatorial District, which includes Fulton, Bedford and Somerset counties.
Bonds of the following justices of the peace have been approved: Howard Culler of Brush Creek; Paul S. Shimer of Todd; David P. Knepper of Taylor; and Grant Chamberlain of Wells.
At a student assembly of Chambersburg School of Business last week, two county students won awards as a result of entrance in national competition last November. They were Guy M. Hess of Needmore, who qualified by typing at the rate of 61 words a minute, and Delores Bivens of Mc- Connellsburg, who attained a certificate in Gregg shorthand theory.
During the weekend cold wave, the lowest temperature reported in the county was at Dan Montague's, north of Burnt Cabins, where the reading was 10 degrees below zero early Monday morning.
The public has been invited to attend the next meeting of the local fire company on February 2, where the discussion will center on the possibilities of erecting a building to house the company.
Fulton County is now one of the Pennsylvania counties listed for eradication of Bangs disease through a blood-testing program. To date, 91 percent of the livestock owners of the county have signed agreements for the testing program, which is already under way in Taylor, Dublin, Wells, Brush Creek, Union and Licking Creek townships. The remaining townships will be tested later.
The Covered Wagon Boys will again play for dancing at the local VFW home on Friday night.
Wishart Orth of Fort Littleton, who had been a patient at Fulton County Medical Center, returned home on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Verle Sheeders and six children moved on Friday from Clifford Miller's house at Warfordsburg to the farm near Amaranth formerly owned by Albert Schetrompf.
John Van Horn was discharged at Camp Meade last week.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Helman of Knobsville on January 12; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fix of McConnellsburg on January 17.
Union Sunday School at Warfordsburg is currently sponsoring a clothing drive for Korea. Each one contributing clothing is also asked to donate 8 cents per pound, which will be used to cover the overseas handling charge.
Students and teachers at Warfordsburg feted Homer Powell at a going-away party following the Warfordsburg- Saltillo basketball game last Wednesday night. Mr. Powell, a teacher and girls basketball coach, will soon become a member of Uncle Sam's Army.
Johnny and Tommy, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnston of Needmore, are recuperating from chicken pox.
Death: Clarence Brewer.
Last week, large brown eggs were 43 cents a dozen and medium brown eggs were 40 cents a dozen.
Deaths: Leibert Earl Foreman of Chambersburg; Mrs. Cora Bella King; Mrs. George Schetrompf of Bedford.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 20, 1944
'44 Two persons lost their lives early Monday morning in McConnellsburg's worst disaster when fire gutted the Fulton House, a historic landmark of Revolutionary War days. Miss Elsie Greathead, a retired school teacher of McConnellsburg, and Elmer R. Keim, a truck driver from Sacramento, Pa., were found in the ruins after firemen got the flames under control. The three-story, stone front and log structure was completely gutted. Also destroyed was Mrs. Vera James' collection of valuable antiques, one of the largest in this part of the state. The fire, of undetermined origin, was discovered about 4:30 a.m.
Other deaths: Nancy Jane Berkstresser of Waterfall; Mrs. Oscar Barney; Carl Edmond Pittman.
S-Sgt. Ralph E. Strait, a flight engineer and assistant gunner in the Air Force, has been awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded in action over Norfolk, England, on November 13.
Pvt. William J.. Harris, writing from a hospital, "probably in Africa," where he is hospitalized for injuries received in action, says he thought he recognized a nurse attending him. Further inquiry revealed that she was Miss Esther Mellott of Cito, a strange coincidence, a wounded soldier and a devoted nurse from little Fulton County meeting in far-off lands.
The Earl Swope home near Greenhill burned on Wednesday morning.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 18, 1934
Deaths: Mrs. Lydia Virginia Kendall of McConnellsburg; Mrs. William Brice Jr. of Bedford; Mrs. Violet
B. Breckbill of Breezewood; William Riley Myers of Thompson Township.
Several local high school students have signed up for jobs under the Civil Works Program, but they will not be hired because this program was designed only for the unemployed.
Weather conditions considered, work on the new auditorium in McConnellsburg is progressing rapidly. The excavation of the cellar is almost completed and three walls of the foundation have been put in.
Clyde Mellott, 23, a son of Richard Mellott of Needmore, was instantly killed in an automobile accident last Thursday.
Gilbert M. Mellott, 58, prominent farmer of near Amaranth, is being sought by police since his disappearance on December 22. Mellott left his home on that date, intending to buy a farm in Lancaster County for $10,000 cash. His wife received a letter several weeks ago, postmarked at West Chester, and since then no word has been received from him.
Mrs. Peter Kirk is seriously ill at her home in Big Cove Tannery.
Mrs. J.R. Guyer, daughter of county commissioner and Mrs. F.M. Taylor of this place, has been requisitioned to teach occupational therapy in Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon. Mrs. Guyer is the only woman teaching in this institution.
90 Years Ago
From The Files Of January 17, 1924
Deaths: Mrs.
Martha J. Akers of
Huntingdon; Leo Blaine Hixson, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine J. Hixson, who drank a small quantity of oil of teaberry that resulted in his death; Mrs. Clarence Knable of Orbisonia; Margaret Deshong of Wilmington, Del.
Last Sunday, Rev. James E. Springer called on his congregation in United Presbyterian Church to volunteer to work for the enforcement of the laws of the land, especially the enforcement of the 18th amendment and the Wolstead Act.
After objection by the WCTU and other moral organizations, Huntingdon Borough Council has banned all street fairs and carnivals from exhibiting at that place.
A Warfordsburg father, son and grandson were given a hearing before Justice Charles A. Lynch on Tuesday and held under $500 bond to appear in court on a mali- cious mischief charge. On an assault and battery charge, the defendants were dismissed because they were charged with assaulting four persons and the commonwealth only produced one victim. Later, the son and grandson were re-arrested for disturbing and interfering with a religious meeting and were again placed under $500 bond for a hearing.
Invitations are out for the silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Baltzer F. Cutchall of Ayr Township on January 26.
Mrs. Roy M. McGehee fell on the ice at her home at Burnt Cabins last Thursday and suffered a compound fracture of the leg.
Last Saturday night, Gilbert Bickel of Burnt Cabins was carrying a revolver and in some manner it went off, shooting Warren Mentzer in both legs.
Leroy Mellott of Amaranth has bought a new Ford roadster. Look out, girls!
Last week the stork visited the homes of Jerre Knepper and Daniel Wilson, leaving a boy at Knepper's and a girl at Wilsons.'
J.A. Rummel of Gettysburg, an ex-sheriff of Fulton County, visited here a few days this week.
W.H. Greathead received a telegram Friday telling him his nomination as postmaster of McConnellsburg had been confirmed by the Senate.
Death: Mrs. Steve Wilson of Wells Tannery.
Mrs. Lib Barnett of Center fell last week and broke her arm.
Fort Littleton Post Office was moved last week from the Dr. Hill building to the home of the postmaster, ex- Judge S.L. Buckley, who has served as postmaster at Fort Littleton since 1865, assisted lately by his daughter, Miss Anna.
Margaret Sigel of Amaranth marked her 34th birthday on Sunday.

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Center Adnan Hodzic and guards Josh Slater and Jordan Burgason have been carrying the load for the Lipscomb Bisons for most of the season. Coach Scott Sanders is preaching every day to his players that those three need some help, especially in the months of February and March.
"The other guys are critical every game whether it is rebounding, defending, getting loose balls, making a big free throw or making a big basket on a hustle play," Sanderson said. "The problem is that you end up adding three, four or five minutes to each guy and those three will wind up playing an extra game.
"I need to be able to play eight or nine guys and distribute those minutes so that once we get into March, which is the most important time, we will be fresh and not worn down. We have modified practice a little bit so we don't spend as much time on the floor."
There is no rest for the weary at this stage of the season.
"The biggest thing in February, whether you have a short bench or a long bench, is to have an understanding and knowledge of what the other team is going to do and to have fresh legs,"Sanderson said. "That is what we are trying to do to the best of our abilities."
The Bisons, 12-10, 9-4 in the Atlantic Sun, begin a busy and crucial weekend Friday night at Allen Arena when North Florida, 10-12, 5-7) visits. The tip-off is at 7. The Bisons beat North Florida 79-55 on the road Jan. 16. Sunday at 1 p.m. the Bisons will host Jacksonville.
The Bisons have won their last three games. North Florida has lost four of its last five.
"We are playing eight or nine guys," Sanderson said. "But if I could I get the No. 6 through No. 9 players to get me one to three more minutes each that would take 12 or 15 more minutes off of your regular starters."
Hodzic has scored in double figures in 49 straight games, the longest active streak in the nation. He has recorded double-doubles in his last three games. He leads the Atlantic Sun in scoring, and is also 13th in the nation, with 21.6 points per game. He is fourth in the conference in rebounding with 8.1 per game.
Slater is sixth in the A-Sun in scoring with 17.4 points per game. He is third in assists with 4.95 per game and fifth in steals with 2.05. In conference games only he is second in scoring with 21 points per game.
Burgason is averaging 12.2 points per game. His 43.5 3-point field goal percentage is tops in the conference and 12th nationally.
"Those guys are different," Sanderson said. "Adnan is going to score balls down low. Jordan is going to score a bunch of three and stretch the other team defensively. And Josh can shoot threes and drive the basket."
Sanderson is not overly concerned that Hodzic, Slater and Burgason are handling the bulk of the scoring.
"I know Michael Teller or Brian Wright can give you double figures at any time," Sanderson said. "We have a good mixture of guys who can score from the inside and score from the outside and drive the ball to the basket.
"Those three guys are scoring a lot. But if each one of the other guys can get six, eight or 10 points that will be big for us as well."
The biggest thing that Sanderson wants his team to focus on is why they are winning games and why they are losing games.
"All we can control is what we can do," Sanderson said. "We can control how we learn and how we listen.
"The three road wins have given us confidence. We were down by 13 at Belmont and down nine at both ETSU and Campbell. You can't simulate those things in practice."
When the Bisons and Ospreys played in Jacksonville there were 55 fouls called in the game. Sanderson expects another physical game Saturday.
"They are big and strong," Sanderson said. "They are an extremely physical team. It is one of those types of games that can take a toll on you. We have to be ready for it."
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Situated between Hawk Hall and the Commons, at the foot of the Hog River Bridge, Alumni Plaza has become a natural gathering place, a spot to play Frisbee or jump double dutch.
Fall Weekend encompasses Homecoming and Parents Weekend. Usually held in October, the weekend offers something for everyone, and all members of the University community are invited to participate in the wide array of events.
Feb. 21 marks the anniversary of the founding of the University of Hartford. The University began celebrating Founders Day in 2007, in honor of its 50th birthday, and the tradition has continued every year since. Read More
Hartt Patio, located near the Millard Auditorium entrance to The Hartt School, typically hosts music and drama students passing time in between classes. In the warmer months, one can often hear a steel drummer, or jazz band practicing its latest hits in the patio area.
The Hawk's Nest, located on the lower level of the University Commons, is open seven days a week from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. and provides late night food and entertainment.
Hog River Bridge, known as "The Bridge" to students, is what connects the residential side of campus to the academic side. When 'crossing over,' students are sure to run into someone they know.
The University's official spirit leader originated when the school competed as Hillyer College and spectators had to climb four flights of stairs in the old Chauncey Harris School on Hudson Street in Hartford to the "Hawk's Nest" to watch sporting events.
Midnight Breakfast is traditionally held as a study break for students nearing finals. Students are served breakfast by the Student Government president and other members of the executive board. It's a great time to mingle with others experiencing pre-final anxieties.
Midnight Mania is the kickoff to the men's and women's basketball season each October. Filled with rowdy fans, a ton of door prizes, and an exhilarating display of the athletes' talents, a good time is guaranteed for all.
The University observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day with inspirational programs of music and reflections commemorating the life and legacy of the civil rights leader. Read More
The Anchor, located near Bates House, has become a traditional spot for rival Sororities and fraternities to display their colors. Any club or organization on campus may sign up to "paint the anchor" through the Dean of Students office.
Spring Fling is perhaps the most anticipated event on campus each year. In addition to bands and other performers, there are free food, games, amusement rides, and many other activities.
At Convocation, freshmen sign their class banner. The banner then hangs in the foyer of Library for four years, until Commencement, when the banner adorns the graduation ceremony.
Village Lawn is a favorite spot, particularly in warm weather, to toss around a baseball, watch a flag football game, or just to relax on a picnic bench before class. The lawn, located between the residential apartments, is also where the annual Spring Fling is held.


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The Story Project Begins
It's one of the most exciting and fulfilling initiatives we've rolled out in years - we're calling it The Story Project. In short, it's a collection of stories as told by the listeners, sharing how God has blessed and changed them through Positive Life Radio. No actors, no scripts, just real people talking from the heart.
I don't want to give anything away, but these stories will display the ups and downs of life, the difficulties, the celebrations, the moments when God makes Himself known and draws us close. You'll experience the wonderful ways that God is making a difference through a radio station - that I believe He has put in place - "for such a time as this."
The familiar verse in Hebrews inspired The Story Project - "Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works" Hebrews 10:24.
It is my prayer, that as you celebrate these amazing stories with us, that God will bless you personally and that He'll use these stories to draw you closer to Him. I also pray that you, and many others, will be inspired to participate with us in this ministry as a financial contributor.
The first story will roll out tomorrow (Monday, Aug. 13). You'll be blessed by Lonna's story. Watch for an email with the link to a three minute video, and listen for a shorter version of her story on the air.
For each of the next five weeks, you'll be inspired by a new story from another Positive Life Radio listener. I invite you to watch each of the stories (they are all quite different) and be blessed.
In His service,
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I didn't know how to crochet at all until this year! Since I learned, I've made 5 scarves in different patterns and am working on my sixth, in a scallop pattern. Soon I'll move on to projects that aren't flat squares :)ReplyDelete
I have made hats for 3 grandchildren, scarves for DIL, Hats for the twins (3yrs) and hat for the ggdaughter. all of them gifts. One hat for hubby, made a total of 6 scarves, love that puff stitch, and 2 Christmas trees. Whew, it occured to me, I have not kept anything for me, so today I am working on a scarf and beret for myself. Love your instruction, and videos, as a lefty, they are easy to understand, and so helpful. I found you quite by accident, when i searched for how to do an afghan stitch, then I was totally hooked. thanks for all your hard work.ReplyDelete
I just learned to crochet 4 months ago thanks to your videos!!! I've already made lots of hats, fingerless gloves an scarves. I want to learn how to make a purse and maybe a cute bolero. Crocheting is very addictive!ReplyDelete
this year I learned how to do the bobble stitch,popcorn stitch, how to front post crochet,made better hats than last year, almost sold out at a craft fair before Christmas! Also...took up knitting again with giant size 50 needles!ReplyDelete
I would say that I have learned how to do a fallen scallop stitch, and also worked on a blanket. I say worked, because it's not done and I'm not done w/ it. haha.ReplyDelete
Teresa, I think my best accomplishment was finding your blog and your YouTube videos. I've been crocheting for many years but there's always something new to learn. Your video tutorials are the best - thank you so much for everything you do.ReplyDelete
I have learned a number of new stitches and and just this year, learned to read crochet patterns!!!! ;-) That was a big accomplishment for me. I look forward to what 2010 has in store.ReplyDelete
Before this year all I'd ever crocheted was the edging on baby blankets and burp rags that had been hem stitched. And my double crochet was horrendous! I've since figured those out, I made over 25 dishrags for Christmas gifts, bath hand puppet, baby beanie w/ brim (courtesy of you! thanks!!) and a couple dog sweaters.ReplyDelete
This next year I hope to achieve baby afghans - I have a niece on the way and would love to crochet her an afghan.
i'd never crocheted anything till august of this year, having been a knitter, but since picking it up i've completed a ton of hats scarves and socks, a few mittens/gloves, a shawl, a sweater and a poncho is in the works. i also made a few amigurumi and some ornaments and i've felted a pair of slippers :)ReplyDelete
I learnt to crochet christmas 2008 by watching your video's on youtube, and have not stopped since, have made so many things to many to list here,ReplyDelete
Thank You so much,
Happy New Year
crocheting - was something that had never crossed my mind before.ReplyDelete
i had never learned any crochet skill until one day i found few metres of yarn and one crochet hook while i was keeping up my mom's sewing stuffs and i found few metres of yarn and one crochet hook. and few days later i found your video tutorial on Youtube n i become excited after seeing your done projects. and that was the moment when i started crocheting, n now i keep borrowing crochet books from my University's library (apart from my study books of course :) ).
n i'd like to thank you very much for all tutorials you have posted up either on your youtube channel or in this interesting blog :)
the tuts are just like my crochet coach n they really helped me understanding how to do the basic stitches. n now my friends are impressed with my so call new skill. hehe
until now, i have made few crocheted flowers using your tutorial and i really hope that i can produce and create new things after this.
warm regards,
syazwani from Malaysia.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2009 at 4:45 AM
Thanks to you Teresa, I have managed to make 2 baby cardigans, several hats, a pair of mittens and a ton of baby booties. Thank you so much for being there when I needed something to focus on. Wishing you and your family a happy New Year.ReplyDelete
While I started crocheting in my school days, I didnot even know the terms like single crochet and double crochet. My mother used to crochet bags and I learnt from her the basic chain stitch and single crochet. Now I myself admire how I fell in love with crocheting and began exploring it. With a little pouch my journey commenced and now I have a handful of projects completed. Also,knowing the terms used in crocheting. Beanie caps, baby booties, toddler slippers, bookmarks, pouches and a yarn bag. Many of these projects' source were from your patterns on youtube and the blog. Foundation half double crochet, picot edging and star stitches were new to me. I pat myself that I have learnt all these in a short span of 6-7 months time.. all because of your clear explanations on net Terasa! Thank you very much!ReplyDelete
I like to try baby jackets and all baby stuffs this coming year..
Wishing you a very happy new year :)
I have made 5 set of baby booties and hats,6 different design of coin purses,15 set of hair clip, 5 units of cell phone holder,20 pieces of hair scrunchies,3 units of sling bag,3 units of drawstring bags, a dress and a cadigan for my daughter. Your blog always be my reference when I'm in difficulty. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Wishing you and your family a HAPPY NEW YEAR.ReplyDelete
I've only been crocheting for 2 years now and have learned so much from YOU, Thank You... I watch your youtube videos all the time... I made the puff stitch hat last night, so cute. I've made chunky style scarfs and beanies like crazy since Oct. I love it!ReplyDelete
I made a afghan out of granny squares of all of my scrap yarn. I started it last Christmas and finished around October. I have also begun crocheting a cover for my lazyboy, but just started. Then I started to make a sweater. I would like to make more clothing though. Things that I can wear, that is why I started the sweater, but with the holidays it has been put on the back burner. Hope to get it done soon though.ReplyDelete
I learned to crochet (single stitch only) from a VERY good friend/co-worker about 5 years ago. I haven't expanded my skills until I accidentally ran into your youtube videos (i was searching for how to make bows)3 months ago. I LOVE THEM. You are such a GREAT teacher! I've learned to do a half double crochet, and I've made 4 beanie hats, and a pair of mary jane slippers for a fellow blogger friends new born baby! All by watching and following your instructions. I am HOOKED!ReplyDelete
Thank you!! I look forward to learning more!
i haven't crocheted in years, and all i was able to do was a single crochet stitch to make blankets and scarves. i starting using your tutorials the beginning of this month to crochet some christmas gifts, and i've made some really cute hats, booties, thumbless mittens, and a headband. i'm hooked! =)ReplyDelete
i posted pics of some of my crochet accomplishments on my blog.
i want to say thank you so much for your helpful blog and tutorials. i owe my new-found skill and passion for crocheting all to you!
happy new year!
My accomplishments this year were less than normal which is disappointing. My mother was very ill, then past and my time to crochet was less. Also my motivation was less. Perhaps next year will be better.ReplyDelete
I'd like to do more in the coming year for charity, I'd like to have fewer un finished projects going at one time, and maybe actually make something for myself. lol
Happy New Year
I just found your website today, but I have been crocheting for at least 25 of my 32 years on this earth. I am really enjoying my visit to your site, and plan to stop by a lot more often.ReplyDelete
I would say that my biggest accomplishment this year was all of the crocheting that I did for charity. I have a severe crochet addiction, but no real place for all of the fruits of my labour. (I have tried selling, but have been frustrated with the results.) This year, I have crocheted several dozen hats and scarves for my church's "mitten tree", half a dozen caps for preemies, and my new favourite thing, snuggles for shelter animals! I have made at about 20 this year and have donated them to the Boston Terrier & Pug Rescue of Southern Manitoba. They are a very small organization with very large hearts & have been extremely grateful for them.
Next year, I am hoping to double my efforts & perhaps even get some things to the Project Linus chapter in my area. Another thing that I would love to do, is to donate caps to chemo patients. My family has been touched entirely too many times by cancer (fortunately, my brother & one aunt are both survivors). This year, another aunt was diagnosed with cancer & I got to see firsthand just how valued these chemo caps can be. Unfortunately, my aunt lost her battle, but I believe that her spirit will live on in all of the hats that I will make & donate. As an aside, I am usually able to purchase yarn from the Salvation Army Thrift Stores, so it helps them too!
Sorry to ramble so much on my first post! I look forward to catching up with all of you wonderful posters in the coming year.
This year I learned how to crochet. I have made lots of things like dish cloths, scarfs, a hat, granny squares, a water bottle cozy, hair scunchies, dish scrubbies, plarn items, swim suits for webkinz pets and many other things. One of my goals for the new year is to make a afghan.ReplyDelete
I learned how to crochet just this year as well. Since then I've made countless purses, a few cupcakes, a scarf or two, the crochet baskets for my nieces and nephews, hearts, flowers, countless hats, 1 afghan so far and am currently working on an afghan.ReplyDelete
The pattern for this afghan came from a blanket I saw at my sister's house. She had found the blanket at our local Good Will and I studied it for a bit and counted up the stitches, wrote it down, and am making it.
I would like to make the crochet stocking that uses the Galaxy Stitch and I'd love to make gloves/gauntlets. Especially for this time of year in Ohio.
i too just learned how to crochet this year. have made about 15 blankets 3 afghans dozens of hats 6 or 7 bags a few scarves and made some money doing it!!! my next adventure is a dress.ReplyDelete
Happy New Years to every one :)ReplyDelete
my acomplishmeny was to learn to crochet:) and I did so far I have made 7 hats 2 scarves and 2 head bands.
Am hoping that next year I learn defferent stiches :3
I have made a white baby afghan with pink scalloped edges and pink crochet flowers on the corners, 1 matching pink booties also had a smaller flower in front. I have also made a winter scarf for my son, 4 different styles of winter hats, I made a crochet sweater for my 5 year old son, it was supposed to be for my 7 years old son but even though I followed the directive from online it wasn't big enough but I also think that I made different yarn than indicated in the instruction. It doesn't really matter as I have 3 sons from 7 to 2 :) I really love all your videos on you tube and the crochet design and I am looking forward to make all iof you pattern. Thank you soo much.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2009 at 4:16 AM
This was the first year I had ever looked on the internet for crochet and knitting information. I have been crocheting for 65 years and this year I learned about foundation rows and the magic circle, which I had never heard about, and I love them. Your videos were wonderful teaching aids. I spend a lot of time making chemo hats every year and will continue to do this every year of my life. Also make gifts for my family and a few for myself.ReplyDelete
I learned to crochet about a year ago. I joined the prayer shawl ministry at my church and have loved it. I have made 5 throws (3 different patterns), 4 shawls (2 different patterns) 3 scarfs, and 2 lap blankets. I just finished a granny ripple lap blanket that was my favorite. thank you so much for your videos - my group only meets once a month and more than once I was able to 'figure' things out thanks to one of your videos.ReplyDelete
Hi Teresa!ReplyDelete
My crochet accomplishments for 2009 have to start with the chain stitch about 3 weeks ago!
Since then, I have made a flower, 4 hats (2 for me and 2 for my mother), and 8 large (12 x 12 inches) granny squares for a bed throw... the granny squares were only supposed to be about half that size, but I loved the idea of having huge patch-type squares.
As well, as still working on the bed throw, I started another throw (in a different color-way) made from a mix of different types of square, a hot water bottle cover for my son... and I've just subscribed to a crochet partwork (which no doubt I'll need your video tutorials to clear up the rather dodgy instructions!).
So, thanks again, Teresa, and all the very best for a happy and healthy 2010.
I made a belt and some baby booties.ReplyDelete
In 2010, I am going to make blankets.
I have decided to make various items such as hats, blankets, and slippers to give to the local orphanage at Christmas.
I am also planning on crocheting some toys.
Hi Just last week i started learning crochet. Now i am doing a hat foR MY 1 YR OLD SON. i have already did one. I would like do sweater for my son CAN u help me out.ReplyDelete
Wish u Happy New Year
I made a big triangle scarf(Don't know the english word for it, sorry) using the granny square from one of your videos. I also made two wine holders/bags(A little handbag like thing that has room for one bottle of wine) All things as gifts. I plan to do alot more this year.ReplyDelete
I am just smitten with tunisian crochet and attempted my first entrelac pattern...which I just love! The instant pattern that emerges is sooooo cool!ReplyDelete
Now, my goal for 2010 is to finally get the hang of crocheting cables -- ugh! There is the most delightful cable scarf pattern on Ravelry that I want to do, but can't because the pattern just boggles my mind! For example-- this is the second row:
Row 2 (right side) Ch 2, turn, hdc in first 2 hdc, FPdc
around next hdc 2 rows below; hdc in next 4 hdc, sk
2 hdc, FPtr around next 2 hdc 2 rows below; working
in front of previous 2 FPtr, FPtr around 2 skipped hdc
2 rows below, hdc in next 4 hdc; FPdc around next
hdc 2 rows below, hdc in last 2 hdc.
What does that mean???????? *grin*
Well, anyway. Deciphering this should keep me waaaaay busy this year.
Happy New Year Teresa! Your blog/posts/videos are such a wonderful resource for me!
Blessings for a creative 2010!
Well, I learned how to crochet in 2009! woo hoo. I've made about 10 scarves, different patterns, v stitch, double crochet, triple crochet, shell, I made a carseat blanket with sunrise pattern and I finished a baby blanket for my new niece coming in February!. This year, I've already started my Granny square blanket, just 30 more squares to go, and then hooking them together of course. What a year it will be. I want to make clothes, bags, anything as long as im crocheting!ReplyDelete
Teresa,... Just wanted to know if there are any yarn shops in Savannah.... My hubby and I are going to be in town toward the end of the month and I will be checking out the town while he is at business meetings... Maybe we can have lunch or just visit while I'm in town.. would love to... TamReplyDelete
My favorite stores are AC Moore, Michaels and Joann Fabric and Crafts. AC Moore is in the Savannah Mall and Michaels is across the street from Best Buy. There is also Wild Fiber but I have not been there.
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2010 at 7:05 PM
I croched scarves for my sisters this year for Christmas and also sent one to my husbands only sister. I had total knee replacement done in March 2009 and crocheted a full size fuzzy blanket, I pieced a full size throw (it was suppose to be back of sofa size, but it turned out larger.. to cuddle with) out of 6" blocks. I have learned how to created better bobbles and popcorn stitches as well as front post and back post crochet in 2009. I truly think I like the half double crochet stitch the best (does not allow for toes to slip through like a double crochet stitch would). I am working on blanket for my youngest son (he's 20) for his bed using strips about 6-8" wide and about 74" long. I have several other projects planned for 2010.ReplyDelete
Everything! I just learned this year. My good friend taught me the basics a few months ago, then I totally forgot how to do it, I then tried doing it again without looking up directions and totally messed up! I started searching You Tube and came across your channel. I since then have made several wash cloths for practice, a Hat with a brim, a scarf and fingerless gloves all that match :) I look forward to moving onto bigger things soon!ReplyDelete
I learned how to crochetknit.ReplyDelete


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Earlier in this series, we learned how C.S. Lewis viewed the inspiration of Scripture, the interpretation of Genesis, and the doctrine of the Fall. Today David Williams concludes this series by countering recent attempts to depict Lewis as a private skeptic of biological evolution and a firm believer in a literal Adam and Eve.
Mere Evolution: Lewis on Evolutionary Science versus the Myth of Evolutionism
For many American evangelicals it will come as a surprise to realize just how little Lewis thought was at stake in the scientific question of our biological origins. As we have seen, Lewis had no objection to the notion that "man is physically descended from animals." Four years after admitting to being shaken by some of the writings from Bernard Acworth's Evolution Protest Movement, Lewis could still write in a private letter, "I don't mind whether God made man out of earth or whether 'earth' merely means 'previous millennia of ancestral organisms.' If the fossils make it probable that man's physical ancestor's 'evolved,' no matter."1 So far as we can tell, Lewis never took the view that belief in mere Evolution, "Evolution in the strict sense,"2 "the Evolution of real biologists," which he took to be "a genuine scientific hypothesis" and "a purely biological theorem"3 was necessarily at odds with a belief in mere Christianity.
Indeed, the final chapter of his classic book Mere Christianity, "The New Men," assumes an evolutionary picture of life's origins and development throughout.4 He writes,
Perhaps a modern man can understand the Christian idea best if he takes it in connection with Evolution. Everyone knows about Evolution…: everyone has been told that man has evolved from lower types of life.5
While Lewis acknowledges that "some educated people disbelieve [the theory of Evolution]," he gives no hint throughout the rest of the chapter that he is one of their number.6 In fact, throughout the rest of the chapter he seems to simply assume a broadly evolutionary picture of natural history (as he does in The Problem of Pain and elsewhere). So, for instance, he writes:
Thousands of centuries ago huge, very heavily armoured creatures were evolved.7
At the earlier stages living organisms have had either no choice or very little choice about taking the new step [of development]. Progress was, in the main, something that happened to them, not something that they did.
Century by century God has guided nature up to the point of producing creatures(humans) which can (if they will) be taken right out of nature, turned into "gods."9
And he says much more in that vein. While it may be possible to read Lewis as invoking Evolution for purely illustrative purposes without actually believing in it, such a reading seems less than likely given his statements in this chapter and elsewhere. In fact, Lewis offers no hint anywhere in his public writings that he regards evolutionary theory as either untrue or conflicting with mere Christianity.
What Lewis did believe to conflict with Christian faith was what he called the great "Myth" of "Evolutionism" or "Developmentalism." But this is not the same as evolutionary theory per se. "[We] must sharply distinguish between Evolution as a biological theorem and popular Evolutionism or Developmentalism which is certainly a Myth," he writes in his essay "The Funeral of a Great Myth."11 Lewis believed that the great myth of "Evolutionism" conflicted not only with the Christian faith, but with Reason itself, undercutting the grounds for believing in human rationality and, therefore, in any human rationale that could be offered for believing in Evolutionism in the first place. According to Lewis,Evolutionism's chief premise, namely, Naturalism, invalidates human reasoning itself, amounting to "an argument which proved that no argument was sound—a proof that there are no such things as proofs—which is nonsense."12 "All possible knowledge…depends on reasoning," he writes in chapter III of Miracles.13 "We infer Evolution from fossils: we infer the existence of our own brains from what we find inside the skulls of other creatures like ourselves in the dissecting room." All sciences, including evolutionary science, depend upon the validity of human inference for their own validity. "Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true."14 Naturalism, however, with its grand Myth of Evolutionism explains all of reality, including human reason, in terms of non-rational natural causes and effects, reducing all human reasoning to being no more than the accidental byproducts of chance, matter and time, and thereby undercutting the validity of reasoning itself.
However, if one allows, as Lewis apparently did, that God guided the evolution of humanity so as to make us reasonable creatures, then humanity's descent from the animals in no way undermines the validity of human reasoning. By maintaining the distinction between Evolution as a scientific theory and Evolutionism as a popular Myth it becomes possible for one to be a full-blooded theistic evolutionist with both a robust belief in God and a robust belief in evolution. The distinction frees Christians to accept evolutionary science without knuckling under to reductionistic Scientism. Thus, in the very essay where Lewis most acerbically attacks Evolutionism, "The Funeral of a Great Myth," Lewis also clearly allows for a form of theistic evolution. Lewis writes:
I am not in the least denying that organisms on this planet may have 'evolved.' But if we are to be guided by the analogy of Nature as we know her, it would be reasonable to suppose that this evolutionary process was the second half of a long pattern—that the crude beginnings of life on this planet have themselves been 'dropped' there by a full and perfect life.15
As Lewis makes clear in another piece, "Two Lectures," the "full and perfect life" by which "this evolutionary process" was "dropped" exists outside of Nature, which is to say, exists outside of the purview of the natural sciences. "Is it not…reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?" he asks.16
Lewis, however, was no Deist. He clearly did not believe that the "crude beginnings of life" were simply "dropped" by God so that the "evolutionary process" would do what it would. Lewis seems to have thought that God at least superintended the evolution of humankind, particularly humanity's cognitive capacities, in a rather hands-on manner:
For long centuries God perfected the animal form which was to become the vehicle of humanity and the image of Himself. He gave it hands whose thumb could be applied to each of the fingers, and jaws and teeth and throat capable of articulation, and a brain sufficiently complex to execute all the material motions whereby rational thought is incarnated. The creature may have existed for ages in this state before it became man: it may even have been clever enough to make things which a modern archaeologist would accept as proof of its humanity. But it was only an animal because all its physical and psychical processes were directed to purely material and natural ends. Then, in the fullness of time, God caused to descend upon this organism, both on its psychology and physiology, a new kind of consciousness which could say "I" and "me," which could look upon itself as an object, which knew God, which could make judgments of truth, beauty, and goodness, and which was so far above time that it could perceive time flowing past.17
Whether this picture of hands-on divine guidance is friendlier towards present day Intelligent Design theory or towards theistic evolution, a la BioLogos, will be a matter for debate. Lewis does not draw the distinctions that are customary in contemporary debates surrounding evolution—macro- versus micro-evolution, Evolution qua mere common descent versus Evolution qua wholly unguided, random process, and so on—making it difficult to say with certainty what he would say if he were here today. It seems likely, however, that Lewis would not have expected the natural sciences to be able to detect God's supernatural guidance of man's evolutionary path any more than he expected the modern archaeologist to be able detect the moment when our ancestors crossed the threshold from beast to man, and that likelihood might count as a strike against the ID movement's claim on Lewis. In any case, Lewis plainly outlines a view that is quite compatible with the standard evolutionary picture of common descent and that hardly amounts to Scientistic reductionism. In short, Lewis made it quite clear in his writings that he believed that there is no real conflict between mere evolution and mere Christianity.
Surprised by Jack
Whatever Lewis may have believed in private, as a spokesperson for the faith, Lewis consistently allowed that mere Christianity was compatible with mere evolutionary science, and he even took the trouble to articulate his understanding of the Fall in such a way as to harmonize it with his belief in human evolution. While some recent writers have attempted to wield Lewis as weapon in intra-Evangelical debates around Evolution, to wield a thinker is, as Martin Buber says, to treat that thinker as an 'It' rather than as a 'Thou,' to treat him as an object to be used rather than as person with the right and capacity to defy our expectations.18 We evangelicals have become so accustomed to inserting quotable quotes from Lewis's corpus into our sermons, books, power-point presentations, Facebook walls, and Twitter feeds that we drowsily pass over the surprising elements of his thought—the elements not easily reconciled with our clean-cut theological shibboleths—without even noticing. This is an intellectual habit ripe to be broken, and it is high time we allowed the real Jack to shatter the cultural icon—indeed, the mirror—we have made out of him. At this watershed moment in the history of the Church, when so much seems to threaten to upend the faith once delivered—whether scientific or archaeological discoveries, cultural trends, or newfangled philosophies—there is doubtless much that the greatest modern exponent of mere Christianity can teach us to help us navigate these troubled times. But it is only by opening ourselves to being surprised by Jack that we will be capable of actually learning something from him.


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On Our Radar: The Case Against Tinker Time
Could you make a decent living by renting your place on Airbnb, completing small jobs on TaskRabbit and offering rides via Lyft? VentureBeat runs the numbers on the sharing economy. —Nikki Waller
Google and 3M have famously provided staffers with time to tinker, but the author of this Journal piece argues that the practice rarely sparks corporate innovation. Instead, they are often the "contemporary equivalent of the dreaded corporate retreat." —Rachel Emma Silverman
Looking for a way to spice up employee orientation? BusinessWeek tells the story of Rackspace's creative approach to initiating new hires, which sounds, um, interesting, thanks to icebreakers inspired by The Price is Right. "Think Color War in business casual; pledge week with Susie from accounting," the magazine says. —Melissa Korn
And finally…
Some concise advice from Lifehacker: How to not suck at meetings. —Nikki Waller


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- May 6:
- Boulder amends fighting words ordinance
- May 2:
- Boulder defendant proposes new 'fighting words' ordinance
- May 1:
- Boulder to fix fighting words ordinance by adding 'intent'
- Apr 30:
- Boulder to amend 'fighting words' law after 2nd judge finds ordinance unconstitutional
- Jul 12:
- Boulder appeals 'fighting words' ruling, says judge abused discretion
- Jun 27:
- Police: Boulder 'fighting words' law 'not very effective' after judge rules it unconstitutional
The city of Boulder presented its case Thursday seeking to overturn a municipal court ruling last year that found the city's "fighting words" ordinance violated the First Amendment.
In June, Judge Thomas Reed dismissed a fighting words ticket against Boulder resident Camille Lafont after her attorney filed a motion challenging the constitutionality of the city's 33-year-old ordinance.
The ordinance reads, "No person shall insult, taunt or challenge another in a manner likely to provoke a disorderly response."
Reed, a retired county court judge who at the time was filling in for Municipal Judge Linda Cooke, agreed with Lafont's attorney, Kevin Cheney, that the law was unconstitutional because it does not require the offender to intend to cause the disorderly response.
The city filed an appeal in July.
On Thursday, Assistant City Attorney Mike Whitney argued before a district court judge that Reed overstepped the authority of the municipal court in his ruling and that the ordinance is constitutional.
Whitney cited the background on the creation of the "fighting words" exception to the First Amendment's free speech guarantee through the U.S. Supreme Court's 1942 case Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire. He also described how that concept was brought before the Colorado Supreme Court in a 1976 case.
"Without examining the construction of the law to see if there is a way it can be salvaged, essentially — to see if there is a constitutional reading of that law — the court immediately leapt to striking down the law based on a reading of the law that was unfair and also contrary to Colorado Supreme Court precedent," Whitney said.
He added that the most someone could be fined under a fighting words violation in Boulder is $1,000, and intent must be shown in order for the municipal court to hand down any jail sentence.
Cheney, Lafont's attorney and a student lawyer with the University of Colorado Criminal Defense Clinic, said without an element of intent, the ordinance could be more broadly applied and therefore used to chill free speech.
"It would not have been proper for Judge Reed to add in an intent element which would have been necessary to make this constitutional," he said.
District Court Judge Bruce Langer said he will issue an order in the case "in as timely a fashion as I can."
In the aftermath of Reed's ruling last year, Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner, who has now retired from the force, said his department was advising officers that the "fighting words" ordinance was "probably not very effective."
However, the city is free to continue prosecuting cases under the ordinance until Langer makes his ruling on the appeal.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Joe Rubino at 303-473-1328 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Kernel 3.6.4 ([Testing] 3.6.4-ARCH & linux-ck-kx 3.6.4) panic:
PANIC: early exception of rip 10:fffffff81042e36 error 0 cr2 0
It's work fine for linux-ck-kx-3.6.3-2, any idea?
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 651 Quad-Core Processor (651K)
M/B: Asrock A55 Pro3 (BIOS v1.3)
* Upgrade to 3.6.5 solved the issues!
Last edited by jim1960 (2012-11-01 15:28:10)
Sorry for my poor english.
Some google hits (not sure about their applicability to you):
CPU-optimized Linux-ck packages @ Repo-ck • AUR packages • Zsh and other configs
I have the same problem. It will boot after adding mem=4G to grub.
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II P960 Quad-Core Processor
The same problem with linux-mainline-3.7rc2, but 3.7rc3 work again.
So i think it's kernel bug.
Sorry for my poor english.
I seem to have been hit by the same problem, thanks for the 'mem=4G' tip jqxl0205, I only have half my 8GB showing up, but at least I can boot to research it some more.
Not a solution, or even a workaround as such, but as it's a slight emergency:- anyone having the same problem, once at your GRUB menu press 'e', with the required kernel in selection, then add the line 'mem=4G' to the end on the boot line, press ctrl-X, and it will temporarily use this to boot for now.
Last edited by Peaceseeker (2012-10-31 10:25:31)
I'm having this same issue. I thought it was weird that a guest arch vm would boot but not the host... guest has much less ram. I could try the mem=4G kernel option, but my machine has 16gb of ram... I hope there's a more permanent fix soon.
Last edited by flrichar (2012-10-31 17:37:57)
Just upgrade to 3.6.4 from 3.6.3 and it appears I am experiencing the same issue with an AMD Turion II Neo K626. When I boot it just hangs on "Booting Kernel", so I went into syslinux and used "mem=3G" and my laptop booted right up. I have 4GB of RAM, though when I try anything higher then 3G it failes to boot, unless I use M instead of G, ex 3500M it boots a little bit further but still hangs.
Anyone with Intel CPUs experiencing this issue? It seems to only be effecting AMD machines.
Last edited by Brett VanKirk (2012-10-31 15:36:54)
"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." - Andrew Grove
I upgrade to 3.6.4 in laptop asus with 8 gb ram, and stop in: "Loading initial ramdisk ...", i try mkinitcpio -p linux and... pacman -U linux***3.6.3 and... no start... continue stop in: "Loading initial ramdisk ..."
Same problem with new kernel 3.6.4-1-ARCH ..The boot got stuck at loading initial ramdisk.. From this post i placed the option mem=4G in grub.conf. It booted and everything is fine.. but my ram is now only 4G.. Are there any fix for this bug...
Just upgraded to 3.6.4-1-ARCH and it just sits there doing nothng on loading init ramdisk
I see no error or anything
AMD Bulldozer 8150 not overclocked
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 BIOS 1006
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Coellobranco & gibz85, what CPUs are you guys running? As of right now I only know of two ways to fix the issue; follow jqxl0205 advice and add mem=xG (Replace x with how much memory, ex 4G), or downgrade your kernel using the steps in the Arch Wiki.
"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." - Andrew Grove
my cpu is AMD Quad-Core A6-3420M APU, in my netbook acer, linux 3.6.4 roolz perfect.
I see a pattern emerging. My cpu is an AMD A8-3870, quad core 3ghz.
coellobranco, how much memory does your netbook have?
I think to recreate it, you need > 8gb mem, and a recent AMD cpu.
Last edited by flrichar (2012-10-31 17:02:24)
Netbook acer aspire one, 1gb ram... upgrade correct.
Same problem, both with ARCH and ck kernels. Have to use mem=4G to boot.
CPU: AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 8Gb ram.
Someone filed a bug and I mentioned this thread.
I try with mem=4G and dont start... after pulse "e"... where line edit for: mem=4G???
I try with mem=4G and dont start... after pulse "e"... where line edit for: mem=4G???
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=06e1fc9b-dd0d-4c71-b16f-42d2a27a5e5f ro mem=4G
there u have it.. if it still don't work, try a bit lower, 3G or something.
OKKK..,... is OK... with mem=4G start system...thanks!
Now.. dont detect eth0, and dont start X...
I successfully booted with mem=4G as well and downgraded to 3.6.3-1 until they find a fix ...
I just miss 60GB of memory now.
I had this happen to me last night. Figured I'll just do a fresh install since I have all my stuff backed up. Did a fresh install and still getting stuck at "Loading inital ramdisk ..."
I'm running an AMD Phenom II x4 965 with 8gb of Gskill ram.
I just noticed 3.6.5 got released today as stable on kernel.org. Does it fix this issue?
Also, my other two machines that run Intel and have 8gb of ram are not suffering this issue. They boot up and operate just fine with the latest update.
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Marked out of date already on repo... just gotta wait now...
hopefully it fixes this issue... I want my 16GB RAM
I've downgraded to 3.6.3-1 for now
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Mine cpu
AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor
Anything more than mem=4gb wont work for me.. I have 16gb installed.. Guess i will be downgrading now
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it's all updated and I gave my shop a little makeover this week complete with a new name! yay for a productive morning! I have still a few more things to add to the shop this afternoon but so far it's coming right along. :)
If you have any questions about the shop, I'm going to be working all day and I have my computer next to me so feel free to drop me a line! Have a wonderful weekend ~ Oh! and I'll be doing a little Holiday Giveaway on Monday.... if you feel like popping back in! :)


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Marvel Comics Unlimited is a Netflix-like service that lets you subscribe to and consume huge quantities of catalog titles. Like Netflix, it isn't the new stuff, and the old stuff is rife with content gaps, but unlike Netflix, until now Marvel Comics Unlimited was locked into Adobe's Flash player, and that meant it couldn't work on the iPad. iBooks (pictured above), Kindle, and the ComiXology apps have all been options, though single purchase a la carte ones. That's starting to change, however, with a new, iPad-compatible version of the player now being offered as a beta to subscribers. Jason Snell of Macworld took it for a test-drive:
I found more than 300 issues of the 500-plus issue run of Uncanny X-Men, including the very first issues and the Byrne-Claremont run, but not my beloved Paul Smith issues (#154 to #166 are MIA), and most of the recent issues. You can search the catalog by character, series, event, or release date, so I was able to select "House of M" and see all the books in that event, not just the core eight-issue miniseries.
It wasn't polished or perfect yet, but the potential seems to be there. Of course, a native app would be even met (why not excelsior that, Marvel?) Check out the rest of Jason's preview to see where they are and how far they still have to go. Then let me know, would you drop $10 a month or $60 a year for all-you can eat Marvel comics?
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-The Glove- wrote:I like watching it at a home but with lots of friends. Kind of like the bar atmosphere, but without expensive drinks and idiots that try to talk over the game.
Hawk Strap wrote:I like to watch the game at JSeahawks' house. From bushes, across the street, with binoculars.


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October 25, 2012
To address unprecedented worldwide demand, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, L. Ron Hubbard's first book on the theory and practice of Scientology, is now available as a groundbreaking 90-minute book-on-film. The film was produced and released in response to the overwhelming interest in Scientology, manifested by the more than 160 million visitors to the Church's official Internet site asking the question: "What is Scientology?" The film, available in English and 15 other languages, provides the answer in an entirely new way.
As a uniquely modern world religion, Scientology is more than a system of beliefs. It contains a practical technology that any person can apply immediately and directly to improve any aspect of his or her life. The Fundamentals of Thought book-on-film takes the viewer through a compelling cinematic description of Scientology technology and practices. Here is the visual journey through which one can learn and understand the principles that define the primary architecture and essence of how life works along with the elements that comprise the "game of life."
A companion to Mr. Hubbard's seminal work of the same title, the film combines the power of the written word with the latest advances in cutting-edge computer graphics bringing the principles of Scientology to life in a way that was never before possible. Each discovery revealed in the book is illustrated by breathtaking computer-generated images interwoven with live action. The result is a revolutionary 21st century learning tool to achieve a comprehensive understanding of what makes up the mind, spirit and life.
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought film is available on Blu-ray and DVD. (Watch the Introduction from Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought. Watch an excerpt from Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought: The Affinity, Reality and Communication Triangle.)
This is the fifth of Mr. Hubbard's books brought to film in the last three years:
All of the above books-on-film are available in English and 15 other languages.
The Scientology religion was founded by author and philosopher L. Ron Hubbard. The first Church of Scientology was opened in the United States in 1954 and has today expanded to more than 11,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups, with millions of members in 167 countries.


text: Your BYOD Field Guide: Five Business Benefits of BYOD May 2, 2012 CIO Magazine | Jeff Vance Uplift Comprehensive Services provides mental healthcare to rural areas of eastern North Carolina. "We were early implementers of tele-psychiatry," says Garrett Taylor, CEO of Uplift. After testing out Skype and ooVoo, neither of which met HIPAA requirements, Uplift turned to Mirial (which has since been acquired by Lifesize, a division of Logitech). The solution gave Uplift a secure, regulation-compliant way to deliver services remotely to tablets or even smartphones.


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Tyson Gay Breaks The U.S. 100 - Meter Record @ 9.77 Secs!
Associated Press reports: " Tyson Gay set a new American record in the 100 meters, winning a quarterfinal heat at the U.S. Track and Field trials in a time of 9.77 seconds, breaking Maurice Greene's mark of 9.79 set in 1999. (June 28)There's a new American record in the men's 100 meters. Reigning world champion Tyson Gay sets the mark at the USA Track and Field trials.He hit the tape in 9.77 seconds, despite easing up a bit over his final few strides.That breaks Maurice Greene's U.S mark of 9.79 set in 1999. SOT: Tyson GayThe WORLD record is 9.72, set by Jamaica's Usain Bolt last month.Gay's performance came in a quarterfinal heat. SOT: Tyson GayBut he almost didn't get a chance to run in that race. Earlier in the day, Gay led by a large margin in his opening heat, but he eased up a lot with about 30 meters left. With the rest of the field catching up, Gay was forced to accelerate and he lunged across the finish line in fourth place, good enough to advance."
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This policy establishes four advisory councils and related bodies that will report to the OhioLINK Executive Director to provide advice and assistance to the Director and the Governing Board on policies, projects, activities, and fiscal plans.
- The four councils, their compositions, and roles are summarized in Attachment A.
- The general provisions for selection of members to each group are summarized in Attachment B.
- The major functions and responsibilities of these four groups and related groups with respect to financial and operating plans are summarized in Attachment C.
In addition to these attachments, which are the substantive components of this policy, these comments are provided.
- This policy does not specifically prescribe the process by which these councils execute their functions. The Executive Director is directed to implement, coordinate, and evolve such processes to maximum effectiveness as needed in conjunctions with the councils.
- Attachment A is meant to reflect two necessary tenets of OhioLINK's success. First, that its success requires broad participation and consensus from the member institutions. Second, that it also requires a clear decision making hierarchy, from the councils through the Executive Director to the Governing Board.
- In addition to the community college representation provided for on LAC, TAC, UAC, and SAC Attachment A provides for future community college groups that parallel the LAC and Lead Implementors in composition. The Executive Director is directed to activate these or similar groups as necessary to support the implementation of OhioLINK within community colleges.
- The Executive Director is required to enable the councils to perform their functions effectively through the provision of necessary management tools. These tools will manifest themselves differently over time as OhioLINK evolves, but includes these basic instruments.
- Regular financial reports of actual and planned operating and capital expenditures.
- Annual and multi-year operating plans, updated periodically
- Policy Manual
- Regular reports of OhioLINK operational activities and decisions.
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Lockdown on the Pipeline: How a Houston Businessman Helped Shut Down Keystone for a Day
Tar Sands Blockade activists halted Keystone XL construction for a full day on August 28 after locking themselves to a truck carrying pipes in Livingston, Texas.
As Hurricane Isaac made landfall in New Orleans on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's seventh anniversary, climate justice organizers in Texas were locking themselves to the axle of a massive TransCanada truck carrying 36-inch pipes intended for Keystone XL construction, in hopes that they might turn the climate crisis around.
Four activists were locked to the truck Tuesday, with two providing direct support—that is, up until the point of their arrest. Fortunately enough, TransCanada workers stepped in to fill their shoes by bringing water to the blockaders throughout the afternoon.
With help from TransCanada workers themselves, these six people were able to shut down operations at the Livingston pipe yard and cut off the transportation of pipes to construction sites across the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, after police were forced to dismantle the truck to make arrests.
"Growing up, I saw the social movements of the sixties as very inspirational. The climate justice movement is our generation's movement of that magnitude. It affects us all," said Chris Voss, a farmer from Fannin County who locked down Tuesday.
The action comes in response to a recent court ruling giving TransCanada the green light to seize a piece of Texas landowner Julia Trigg Crawford's home. Lamar County Judge Bill Harris informed her of this decision by sending a 15-word summary judgment to her from his iPhone in Washington, D.C., on August 15.
It was this mistreatment of landowners, among other reasons, that motivated Houston businessman Ray Torgerson to lock down. "The fact that this corporation can check a box on a form and steal someone's land is insulting," Ray said. "We are here to defend our homes and stand with landowners like Julia."
Julia Crawford is one of the few Texas landowners that never signed one of TransCanada's contractual agreements - holding out against blatant intimidation tactics that so many landowners have said coerced them to sign on to TransCanada's shady dealings. She sought to challenge TransCanada's claim as a "common carrier" in court.
Common carrier status is granted by the Texas Railroad Commission and allows corporations the power to seize private property through eminent domain. But, in Texas, all TransCanada had to do to apply as a common carrier was simply fill out a government form for a permit, known as the T-4 form, and check a box labeled "common carrier."
Crawford's case was backed up by the Texas Rice Land vs. Denbury Green decision in which the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the T-4 permit granted by the Railroad Commission does not conclusively establish the power of eminent domain.
The ruling is another example of a legal system that works against the interests of the many, and one more reason why Tar Sands Blockade organizers believe direct action is necessary. The lockdown at the pipe yard is only the first of many actions to unfold as we turn up the heat on one of the hottest summers ever recorded.
Denny Hook, a retired minister in Gainesville, Texas, describes himself as "an environmentalist that happens to be a minister." Hook hopes to inspire more people to join the movement. "Things are so dire that if all of us don't rise up, we won't make it. This pipeline means the difference between Earth on the edge and Earth over the edge."
The four blockaders were threatened with pain compliance and pepper spray, causing one person to unlock themselves. In addition to the six blockaders arrested Tuesday, Garrett Graham—the videographer for Tar Sands Blockade as well as my partner and friend—was arrested while filming the lock down.
With Mitt Romney talking dirty energy this week at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and President Obama walking back from his claim that he had rejected the pipeline altogether, both major political parties and the court system are backing a toxic tar sands pipeline that could spell "game over" for the climate.
But people like Tammie Carson, a lifelong Texan from Arlington, are willing to outlast them. Carson was the last blockader arrested Tuesday, earning herself a new nickname—Lone Star Tammie.
"I'm doing this for my grandchildren," Carson said. "I'm outraged that multinational corporations like TransCanada are wrecking our climate. The planet isn't theirs to destroy, and I'm willing to take a risk to protect my grandchildren's future."
Candice Bernd is an organizer with . She wrote this article for
Occupiers, Tea Partiers, landowners, and environmentalists are challenging construction of the Keystone XL pipeline's Gulf Coast segment—together.
The oil-dependent economy Romney supports is a step toward a less stable, more costly future. Renewables and energy efficiency offer real hope.
Sarah van Gelder speaks on FreeSpeech TV about Mitt Romney's energy plan and why a majority of Americans want cleaner, safer, and more reliable sources of energy.


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Monday Morning Offering - 60
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Good morning, good God!
A joyful reunion on Saturday night, Lord,
with a couple whose marriage I witnessed 33 years ago!
We've not seen a lot of each other over the years
but this was a time to pray together at Mass
and share a wonderful dinner -
and since all good gifts come from your hand,
I thank you, Lord!
As folks often do after many years,
the three of us remembered and told the old stories:
stories of how our faith brought us together,
how our friendship began and grew...
How much stronger, Lord,
grow the bonds of friendship
when entwined with faith;
how much deeper
grow the joys of faith
when shared with friends...
Like finding a box of old treasures in the attic,
our evening reopened many gifts
and reminded us of how the truly important things,
the really beautiful things,
are always there for the sharing...
So this morning, Lord,
I'm pondering what might be the old treasures
in the attic of my faith in you,
my friendship with you...
Have I forgotten some truly important moments
when our friendship, yours and mine,
was strong, solid and sustaining?
Have I stored away memories of really beautiful times
when your love and grace
brought me help and healing and hope?
Help me never forget, Lord, and teach me hold on to
the treasured memories of how you have loved me,
of my faith in you
of the bonds and joys I share with you…
For these memories
and the grace they bring anew
I offer you my thanks and praise...
And I pray for any who have forgotten your love, Lord,
and for any who may believe you have forgotten them…
I pray for your Spirit to open their memories and their hearts
to the gifts, old and new, you have to offer them…
Good God of Monday mornings,
receive the praise and thanks I offer you today
and every day this week…
Posted by Concord Pastor at 5:00 AM
3 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Thank you CP, for reminding me to reminisce with God a lifetime of love and friendship...it is only in hindsight that I see how sustaining the bond has been. It will be a delight to open up the box today and remember!ReplyDelete
We all should go and look for that old box of treasures in the attic!ReplyDelete
Don't let anything or anyone stop you, CC!ReplyDelete
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A very good question! Essentially, usage differs according to register, so that, while in informal, conversational usage, 'as well as' is normally treated as a phrasal preposition, giving e.g.
Peter knows what is happening, as well as me.
(= Peter knows, and I know…)
in formal usage, many speakers will prefer to use it (in accordance with its syntactic origins as an elliptical comparative) rather as a phrasal conjunction, giving e.g.
Peter, as well as I, knows what is happening.
(< as well as/to the same extent that I know…)
the position of the phrase being also variable (sometimes for reasons of euphony).
However, when collocating with a following verbal structure that is not automatically deducible from context (as in the case of your problem sentence), the expression has become obligatorily elliptical, so that we cannot grammatically/meaningfully reinstate a putative full form
*We will mark their scripts as well as we will provide comments by highlighting their mistakes.
In such cases, consequently, the prepositional reading of 'as well as' naturally prevails, yielding therefore either (on the typical model of [preposition+Ving]) the gerund form as well as providing or, alternatively (on the special model of [besides+V]) as well as provide (the latter being, in fact, preferable here on account of the infinitive form 'mark' earlier in the sentence).
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This unit consists of five activities, all of which focus on the response of plant life-cycle events to climate change. Students participate in discussions, field observations, data collection and analyses, plant identification, seed dispersal... (View More) comparisons, and graphing and analyses of plant phenology (timing of life-cycle events). Project BudBurst, a citizen science project which studies the impact of climate change on phenology, is integrated into this unit. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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This unit consists of four activities. Students begin by examining temperature cycles (current, recent and historical) then add in factors such as carbon dioxide, precipitation and cloud cover to discover regional and global differences in the... (View More) effects of climate change. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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This unit focuses on the impacts of climate change on humans. Students participate in activities using "Character Cards" (included with the unit). The cards introduce fictitious citizens who describe the local economic, social and political factors... (View More) that impact their country's climate change issues/responses. A second activity in the unit has students research, discuss and present their findings on the impacts of climate change - first at the global level then narrowed to a country, region and/or state level. In addition, students examine how their own energy and food choices impact climate change and then propose ideas to reduce their carbon footprint. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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This curriculum uses an inquiry-based Earth system science approach, and leverages Project BudBurst, a citizen science phenology project, to engage students in authentic research on plant and ecosystem responses to climate change. Students collect... (View More) local data then analyze that data in the context of NASA regional and global data sets and satellite imagery to understand their data in personal, regional, and global contexts. The curriculum is divided into four units: The Earth as a System; Identifying the key changing conditions of the Earth system; Earth system responses to natural and human induced changes; and Predicting the consequences of changes for human civilization. Each unit consists of several activities with accompanying teacher answer sheets. (View Less)
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This unit consists of two parts, each with several activities which require students to participate in investigations, discussions, computer data analysis, role-playing, and research. In Part 1, students examine the roles of Earth's energy balance... (View More) and the greenhouse effect in creating and affecting climate. Part 2 focuses on the biosphere as a system. Students examine the interactions of organisms, the effects of climate change on food webs, and the importance to humans of a healthy, intact ecosystem. The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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This is an activity associated with activities during Solar Week, a twice-yearly event in March and October during which classrooms are able to interact with scientists studying the Sun. Outside of Solar Week, information, activities, and resources... (View More) are archived and available online at any time. Learners will use SOHO spacecraft images of a coronal mass ejection and tracing paper to measure and then calculate the speed of the coronal mass ejection. This activity is scheduled to occur during Wednesday of Solar Week. (View Less)
This is an activity about image comparison. Learners will analyze and compare images taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. They will match four magnetic solar images, or magnetograms, to their corresponding extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, light... (View More) images by studying solar features in the images. At the end, they will recognize that areas of high magnetic activity on the Sun correspond to extreme solar activity. (View Less)
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This is an activity that compares the magnetic field of the Earth to the complex magnetic field of the Sun. Using images of the Earth and Sun that have magnets attached in appropriate orientations, learners will use a handheld magnetic field... (View More) detector to observe the magnetic field of the Earth and compare it to that of the Sun, especially in sunspot areas. For each group of students, this activity requires use of a handheld magnetic field detector, such as a Magnaprobe or a similar device, a bar magnet, and ten small disc magnets. (View Less)
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This is an activity about image comparison. Learners will analyze and compare two sets of images of the Sun taken by instruments on the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. With Set 1, they will observe the Sun in both a highly active and a... (View More) minimally active state, and be able to detect active regions and loops on the Sun by comparing the two images. With Set 2, they will identify areas of high magnetic activity on a magnetogram image and recognize that these areas correspond to highly active regions on the Sun. (View Less)
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This is an activity about forecasting space weather. Learners will use real-time data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, to identify a variety of solar features and active regions of the Sun, and then will use these observations to... (View More) predict the probability of a space weather event. This activity will require each student or group of students to have a computer with internet access. (View Less)


text: One dish CAN please both picky kids and gourmet grown-ups. These recipes can be tweaked for each. It's the classic family dinner dilemma: Finding a dish your kids will eat and you can enjoy, too. Don't dumb down your dinner or cook separate meals. Just pick recipes that can adapt easily for both picky eaters and sophisticated palates. Use each of these nutritious recipes as a starting point, then add a playful twist for a kid-friendly meal and an upscale adaptation for a gourmet dinner you'll love.