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Volume VII, No. 9
The Education Innovator will be published again on January 28th with a feature article about an exciting addition to the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, and before that next edition, we anticipate that the final i3 application will be made public. Don't miss this important development by visiting the Department of Education's home page with the start of the New Year.
What's New
- From the U.S. Department of Education
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- From the Institute of Education Sciences
- American History
- Arts Education
- Charter Schools/Choice
- Closing the Achievement Gap
- School Improvement
- Technology in Education
- Leadership
- Raising Student Achievement
- School Improvement
- Teacher Quality and Development
- Technology in Education
What's New
From the U.S. Department of Education
The Race is on! On Nov. 12, Secretary Arne Duncan released the final application for the Race to the Top Fund (RTT), which will reward states that have raised student performance and have the capacity to accelerate achievement gains with innovative reforms. The final application includes significant changes to the proposal from the Department in July. After reviewing responses to the draft proposal from 1,161 people, the Department restructured the application and changed it to reflect the ideas of the public. The Department will hold two rounds of competition for these grants. (Nov. 2009)
Earlier in November, in anticipation of the RTT application release, President Obama and Secretary Duncan visited James C. Wright Middle School in Madison, Wis., where they outlined the high expectations for Race to the Top. "We're putting over $4 billion on the table, one of the largest investments that the federal government has ever made in education reform," the President explained. "But we're not just handing it out to states…. We're staying to states, if you're committed to real change in the way you educate your children, if you're willing to hold yourselves more accountable, and if you develop a strong plan to improve the quality of education in your state, then we'll offer you a big grant to help you make that plan a reality…" (Nov. 2009)
While acknowledging the influence that the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) has had on President Obama and his Administration's plans for the Promise Neighborhoods initiative, Secretary Duncan addressed the HCZ's fall conference, posing the question: "How can government, non-profits, and community organizations successfully apply the core concepts of the Harlem Children's Zone?" The President "wants Promise Neighborhoods to build that seamless continuum of support and services for low-income children, from cradle to career," the Secretary noted, and to "break the cradle-to-prison pipeline that plagues so many poverty–stricken neighborhoods today." (Nov. 2009)
In his remarks before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's annual Education and Workforce Summit, Secretary Duncan addressed a wide range of topics, such as the federal role in education, the compelling case for reforming education at every level (featuring a range of important indicators), and the core ideas that are central to reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. "I believe that the quality of our education system says as much about the long-term health of our economy as the stock market, the unemployment rate, and the size of the gross domestic product," he stated. (Nov. 2009)
Eight public school principals received the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership at the 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools Award Ceremony, in Washington, D.C. Named for the former U.S. Secretary of Education, the award recognizes outstanding school leaders whose "vision and collaborative leadership styles have produced outstanding results for all their students regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status." (Nov. 2009)
Viewers of "Education News Parents Can Use" take special note: The show did not broadcast during the originally scheduled time in November. Instead, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. (ET), U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will host a special national town hall forum with students to discuss what is working and what needs improvement in our nation's schools. During the live broadcast, Secretary Duncan will take comments and questions from students in the studio audience and others throughout the nation via telephone and e-mail. The conversation will focus on improving the quality of student's educational experiences, their aspirations for college and future careers, contributions to civic life through volunteer service, and critical influences on young people's decision-making and academic choices. Click here to see viewing options for this live broadcast. To watch archived versions of past broadcasts, go to http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews. (Nov. 2009)
Your vote is needed! Following President Obama's challenge to America's students to take responsibility for their education, more than 600 students submitted videos about the importance of education in the "I Am What I Learn" contest. The Department has chosen the top 10 videos and now we need your help to select the top winners, each of which will receive a $1,000 prize. The criteria are use of creativity, strength of content, and ability to inspire. To vote on your favorites, go to http://www.ed.gov/iamwhatilearn/index.html by Friday, Dec. 4.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
As of September 30, 2009, the Department of Education awarded more than $67 billion in formula grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), according to a report issued on Oct. 30. These education stimulus funds resulted in the saving or creation of roughly 400,000 jobs. Of those, 325,000 are education jobs; the remaining portion is attributable to general public service positions. The report also contains a profile of each state that summarizes any restoration of education budgets by ARRA funds per program and compiles all reported information regarding the state's use of ARRA funds per program. (Oct. 2009)
From the Institute of Education Sciences
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has launched a newsletter to provide information on its programs, services, and publications. The November edition reports on the latest on research initiatives from John Easton, recently sworn-in as IES director, and news from the four centers of IES. Other items in "Education Research News" include an update on the 2010 research conference, a link to the new financial aid calculator, and new staff introductions. (Nov. 2009)
American History
K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers are invited to apply to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2010 Summer Seminars. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K., these one-week seminars give educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of topics in American history, while gaining practical resources and strategies to take back to the their classrooms. The application deadline is mid-February, but interested teachers are encouraged to apply early since seminar space is limited. (Nov. 2009)
Arts Education
First Lady Michelle Obama, honorary chair of the President's Committee on Arts and the Humanities, presented 15 programs from around the world with the Coming Up Taller Award. Bestowed to arts and humanities organizations that reach underserved youth, the award is a reminder of the meaningful role of cultural activities in the lives of children. This year's recipients include the Shakespeare Remix program in New York City, where inner-city teens adapt and perform Shakespearean texts to reflect their lives, and the Harmony Project in Los Angeles, which provides free music instruction to at-risk children. (Oct. 2009)
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a vision for 21st century education centered on the skills needed to be effective citizens, workers, and leaders. The arts – dance, music, theatre, and visual arts – are included as core subjects within the Partnership's Framework for 21st Century Learning. America's leading professional organizations for educators in these disciplines are involved in a project with the Partnership to demonstrate how an education in the arts develops essential 21st century skills. Writers for this project have drafted an "Arts Skills Map," which is a document to be read and understood by all those interested in the arts as a part of a full, balanced education. The writers are inviting comments on the Skills Map. All comments must be submitted by Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. (Nov. 2009)
The National Task Force on Arts in Education (NTFAE), comprised of leading educators and artists, was created by The College Board in 2008 to address the opportunities and challenges facing arts education in the U.S. The NTFAE advises the College Board by recommending strategies for placing the arts at the core of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education. The NTFAE's report PDF [2.39MB], "Arts at the Core: Recommendations for Advancing the State of Arts Education in the 21st Century," confronts challenges to the state of the arts in education, identifies the many benefits of arts learning, and details key recommendations for advancing the place of the arts in American education. (Nov. 2009)
The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts, located at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, applies an extensive knowledge of arts-based pedagogy to interdisciplinary professional development, creating integrated instructional strategies and curriculum that promote deep understanding through concept-based connections at the nexus of the arts and other disciplines. The report of its 2009 annual spring forum, "Arts Integration and Teacher Change," containing session accounts, lessons learned, and participants' ideas and questions, can be downloaded from the Center's Web site. (Oct. 2009)
High school graduation rates in New York City and access to arts education are closely linked, according to a new study by the Center for Arts Education (CAE). Using data from the city schools, CAE researchers determined that high schools in the top third of graduation rates had almost 40 percent more certified arts teachers as well as the same percentage more of dedicated instructional space for the arts than schools in the bottom third. "The findings strongly suggest that arts play a key role in keeping students in high school and graduating on time," according to CAE's executive director, Richard Kessler. (Nov. 2009)
Charter Schools/Choice
Public charter schools now enroll more than one in five public school students in 14 communities, according to a new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS). "Chartering is becoming a key component of the public education delivery system," said NAPCS president and CEO Nelson Smith, adding that charter schools are working at scale in a growing number of American cities. In New Orleans, where charters serve 57% of students, they are also the highest performing sector of public schools in the city. (Oct. 2009)
Charter schools in New York City are succeeding in closing the achievement gap with students attending schools in wealthy suburbs of the city, according to a new study. The study's author, Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and director of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research, used a random-assignment approach to compare the performance of students selected by lotteries into charter schools and those who applied to the lotteries, lost, and stayed in their traditional public schools. (Sept. 2009)
Closing the Achievement Gap
In another report on increasing the number of students graduating high school, the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) investigated the links between students at risk of dropping out, their families, and the communities in which they live. "Partners in Prevention: Community Partnerships in Dropout Prevention" calls for implementing comprehensive dropout prevention plans that include a strong school-community component to reach struggling students. The NASBE study group found that state school boards are in a unique position to help local districts and schools work together with governmental agencies, businesses, and associations to craft solutions to the dropout crisis. (Nov. 2009)
Failure to graduate high school, run-ins with the criminal justice system, and poor physical fitness are the subject of a report on America's 17 to 24-year olds from MSSION: READINESS, a group comprised of retired military leaders, including former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined members of the group on November 5th to release "Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve" PDF [174KB], and he stressed the critical role that early childhood education plays in later school completion and success. (Nov. 2009)
School Improvement
A new report from the Rural School and Community Trust, "Why Rural Matters 2009: State and Regional Challenges and Opportunities," analyzes the contexts and conditions of rural education in the 50 states and calls attention to the need for policymakers to address rural education issues in their respective states. The intent of the report, according to the Trust, is not to compare states' progress, but rather to highlight priority policy needs and to describe the complexity of rural contexts to enable better policy responses. (Nov. 2009)
The U.S. Chamber of commerce released the second in its "Leaders and Laggards" series of state report cards. The report cards examine the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the following eight categories: school management; finance; staffing: hiring and evaluation; staffing: removing ineffective teachers; data; pipeline to postsecondary; technology; and state-reform environments. Overall, the states posted mediocre results, and, across all the categories, not a single state earned top grades in more than one or two areas. (Nov. 2009)
The Center for American Progress, in a new report on community schools, cites England as a "model for the nationwide spread of community schools, which offer a venue for both academics and social services." The report, titled "A Look at Community Schools," provides an overview of community school strategies in the U.S., highlights research findings about the effectiveness of community schools, and discusses a number of lessons from successful community schools initiatives nationwide. (Oct. 2009)
Technology in Education
You no doubt know and associate the name Joan Ganz Cooney with Sesame Workshop and thus with the revolutionary role of television as a tool for children's learning begun four decades ago. Fast forward to 2009, and think about what ubiquitous communications tool has that same potential today – the cell phone and mobile technologies. It's very fitting then that the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop has released "Pockets of Potential" PDF [600KB], a report on instructional applications for mobile technologies and the factors that help or constrain their use for learning. (Nov. 2009)
Innovations in the News
The average tenure for elementary and middle school principals in Texas is just under five years and closer for three years for high school principals in that state, according to a study of more than 16,000 Texas principals by researchers at the University of Texas. Despite the fact that research indicates that principals, second only to teachers, may have the most influence on student learning, there are no nationwide studies about principal turnover and longevity. Aside from Texas, state-specific studies in a few other states – including Illinois, Missouri, New York, and North Carolina – provide limited insight on this subject. [More—Education Week] (Oct. 28) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
Raising Student Achievement
Elementary schools and teachers in Memphis have joined a small group of other districts that are experimenting with the use of departmentalization or "platooning," in which students change classrooms in order to learn from teachers who specialize in one or a few subjects, often dividing up elementary instruction in English language arts from math and science. The concept has been in place in the Denver and Palm Beach County Public Schools and other districts that constitute an estimated 20 percent of elementary schools nationwide. While research on the effectiveness of platooning is unclear at this point, Palm Beach County's Chief Academic Officer Jeffrey Hernandez sees it as a way to allow "teachers to become an expert in the field they are teaching" and to maximize available resources "to ensure teacher effectiveness." [More—Harvard Education Letter] (Nov. 1)
Students at 14 middle schools in Las Vegas get their sights set on college early on, thanks to the Crossroads program of the Nevada State College (NSC). Now in its third year, the program works with guidance counselors who identify up to 15 at-risk students who meet with their peers and NSC officials four times a year. At the annual kick-off meeting, NSC President Fred Maryanski hands out certificates that guarantee $500 scholarships to NSC, contingent upon them graduating from high school. In its first year, 77 percent of the participating students showed improvement in grades, attendance, or behavior. Recently, college mentors were added to provide one-on-one assistance, for which the NSC students receive a stipend and opportunity for community service. [More—The Las Vegas Sun] (Nov. 6)
School Improvement
The Ford Foundation is investing $100 million to transform urban high schools in seven cities. The initiative, which is expected to run seven years, will support research and reform in "teacher quality, student assessment, a longer school day and year, and school funding," and is intended, according to the foundation president Luis Ubiñas, "to shake up the conversations surrounding school reform and help spur some truly imaginative thinking and partnerships." The seven cities are Los Angeles, New York, Newark, N.J., Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, and Denver. [More—The Los Angeles Times] (Nov. 5)
A recent NAEP Assessment in the arts revealed that the number of eighth graders visiting art museums on field trips had declined to 16 percent nationally, and this decline appears to be true for field trips generally, according to a recent survey by the American Association of School Administrators. The survey found that 17 percent of schools plan to eliminate field trips this year, an increase of eight percent over last year. To fill the gap, schools are increasingly turning to parents and local businesses, such as Target, which is giving 5,000 local grants this year to support field trips. [More—The Wall Street Journal] (Oct. 29)
Anticipating that common core standards will be completed and ready next year, several states have either stopped work on or reduced the pace of the revisions to their standards for English/language arts or mathematics. Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania have halted their efforts, anticipating that the standards being developed under the aegis of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) will inform their own revisions. According to a CCSSO survey, at least 12 states are expected to adopt the common standards in the half year following their release, and another 15 could be ready to adopt them within a year. [More—Education Week] (Nov. 6) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
Parents in Los Angeles have new power in school reform, including the ability to call for use of outside management in schools in need of improvement. The "parent trigger," which has met with opposition from local teachers unions, is part of a set of new rules released last month by Los Angeles Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines. A concern for the unions is the potential for parents of children not yet attending a school to vote on the trigger. The larger set of regulations are in response to the school board's approval of a school choice policy that targets some 250 schools that are slated for new management because of poor performance or that will newly open in the next four years. [More—The Los Angeles Times] (Oct. 28)
According to new study on the availability of math and science students in postsecondary education and the workplace, America has a sufficient supply of potential STEM candidates. The break in the pipeline is "among the top high school and postsecondary students…who choose other studies and occupations," according to researchers at Georgetown and Rutgers Universities. Among the factors that may be causing highly qualified students to steer away from the math and science fields, the research suggests, are perceptions of higher pay, more prestige, and greater stability in other areas such as law, health care, and business. The study was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. [More—Education Week] (Oct. 28) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
An all-girls engineering club at Calvert Middle School in Prince Frederick, Md., is helping to counter the stereotype of "older men who build bridges," that many young women have, according to a school sponsor of the club. It is part of a district effort to get students interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that is supported by the STEM Education Coalition, which includes representatives from government, businesses, and higher education. Weekly club activities are usually hands-on and often involve female role models from area public agencies such as the National Museum of the U.S. Navy. [More—The Washington Post] (Nov. 12)
Students from rural America are becoming more aware of the potential of wind power and of careers in the wind industry, thanks to a program of the U.S. Department of Energy. Wind for Schools is installing small wind turbines at rural elementary and secondary schools and helping to develop K-12 curriculum for local schools. The objectives of the program, according to Larry Flowers of the Wind Powering America National Renewable Energy Laboratory, include "equip(ping) college students in wind energy applications and education to provide the growing wind industry with interested, equipped engineers." [More—KearneyHub.com (Neb.)] (Nov. 11)
In Oregon, middle school math teachers are finding that "less is more" is an effective way to increase achievement. Anticipating the implementation of new state math standards scheduled for next year, teachers in several districts are getting an early start with a four-prong strategy that calls for greater focus on fewer topics at each grade level. The other parts are going deeper with hands-on engagement by students, use of pretests and post-tests to gauge understanding, and more teacher collaboration to identify weaknesses in instruction and learn from one another. Early results are promising, with eighth graders doing math at the level of some sophomores in the state. [More—The Oregonian (Portland)] (Nov.7)
Teacher Quality and Development
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $290 million to three urban districts and five charter networks in Los Angeles to fund experiments in tenure, evaluation, compensation, training, and mentoring. The initiative will also include a $45 million investment in a study of teacher effectiveness. The strategy, according to Melinda Gates, is to "…focus on the things that actually matters the most, which is the teacher." The districts receiving the funds are Hillsborough County, Fla., Memphis, and Pittsburgh. [More—The Washington Post] (Nov. 20)
An education task force charged with looking at the needed improvements in teacher recruitment and preparation, evaluation, and compensation has issued a set of 20 policy recommendations for state- and district-level policymakers "aimed at improving the teaching corps in the nation's 100 largest school districts," along with some recommendations focused on the increasing the effectiveness of principals. Among other things, the report, "Taking Human Capital Seriously," calls for state-level adoption of a multi-tiered licensing system and performance-based evaluation and pay measures for both teachers and principals. [More—Education Week] (Nov. 11) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
"GenY" teachers may be more in favor of merit-pay plans than their older counterparts, according to a survey by Public Agenda and Learning Point Associates. Seventy-one percent of teachers who are 32 or younger strongly or somewhat favored merit pay for teachers who "consistently work harder, putting in more time and effort than other teachers." Of the older teachers surveyed, only 63 percent were in favor of such a differentiation in pay. [More—Education Week] (Nov. 11) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
Rowan University's College of Education is partnering with the Camden and Bridgeton school districts to establish residencies for five graduate students next year. The program will target math, science, and Spanish. The residency teachers will get six months of classroom preparation beginning in January, and will receive a masters degree in education at the conclusion of the residency year. This program and similar ones at William Paterson and Kean Universities are supported by a federal grant. [More—The Philadelphia Inquirer] (Nov. 2)
Technology in Education
Interest in online learning is growing in Yakima, Wash., where Yakima Online! is in its third year, offering an alternative to the district's brick-and-mortar middle and high schools. From four students who graduated in 2007, Yakima Online! expects to graduate up to 40 students this year. The online option is free to students and serves a range of students who fall behind in traditional school settings, including former dropouts, as well as accelerated learners and some who were formerly home schooled. [More—Education Week](Nov. 2) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
Florida Virtual School (FVS), a national leader in online learning, may be the first such provider to offer a game-based, credit-bearing high school course. "Conspiracy Code," developed by FVS in collaboration with Orlando-based 360Ed, features character assignments that students take on to "interrogate and eliminate conspiracy agents, filling out logs detailing what they found, and then write a speech for the mayor explaining the truth to the public." More than 200 students are involved in piloting the new course, which is instructed by Tennessee history teacher David Wilson, who sees himself as more a handler than instructor, helping students to "avoid the pitfalls of gaming that might hinder the learning experience." [More—The St. Petersburg Times] (Nov. 2)
As educators begin to embrace video games for instruction, a new generation of video games is adapting to the needs of the classroom and subjects like science, math, and history. Helping the games to move from extracurricular endeavors to the educational mainstream is a combination of academics, private foundations, and enterprising start-ups that include Quest to Learn, a New York City public school that uses game-based learning. With "Gamestar Mechanic," developed with support from the MacArthur Foundation, Quest to Learn students "use physics concepts to figure out how to get two players to arrive at the same point at the same time." [More—The New York Times] (Nov. 1)
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You have to love a company that can stand to be honest on its annual press day. If Sergy Brin's comment at Google's Mountain View headquarters last week didn't generate knowing guffaws, it really should have. "We probably abuse the word beta." Sadly, I wasn't there, so I can't tell you whether he said it with a straight face. But I'm pleased to report that the search engine giant released a number of new products and services that take it back to its core strength of search. And at least one of them even shows that Google is starting to "get it" when it comes to social search and the massive amounts of buzz surrounding Web 2.0.
Google representatives showed off four beta products to an eager press corps: Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4, Google Trends, and Google Notebook. The last of the four was so new that a working version was not available on the company's website at the time of the conference. At the time of this writing, the link to Google Notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook) delivered a generic 404 Not Found page, but it might be live by the time this article is published.
If you're the kind of person who likes to take running notes while you're surfing the web or involved with a number of different tasks, Google Notebook might have what it takes to make your life easier. This is especially true if you see something and think "Oh Aunt Marge would love to know about this" or "Jim was looking for something just like that" or "That's just what I need for that project I was going to work on next week" or…you get the picture.
Google Notebook is a tool you use with your browser. It lets you clip text, images, and links from pages you're browsing, then save them to an online "notebook" that you can access from any computer. You can also share the notebook with others. Matt Cutts reported on the demo in his blog, and noted that the public vs. private sections of the notebook were different colors, which should make it easy for users to tell them apart.
One nice part about Google Notebook is that you don't have to leave your browser to use it. Another nice part is that it can save images and similar information. I've used Notepad as a scratchpad for stuff I've found online, but of course Notepad won't save images. And you can't just make Notepad public; you'd have to email it to whoever you wanted to share it with. Google's demonstration of Google Notebook showed how someone might shop for shoes online, save an image and information about a particular pair, write a note about the shoes, and send it to their friends. That's utterly cool; I can imagine an engaged couple setting up their own private "bridal registry" that way, for example.
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Matt Cutts has been a hardcore hold out as far as sticking with the original version of Google Desktop, and even he admitted that the latest version of the software might be enough to push him into upgrading. The beta is available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese. But never mind the nice range of languages; Google Desktop 4 (http://desktop.google.com/) introduces something that some Yahoo users might find eerily familiar.
They're called gadgets. What they are is little applications that you can use to customize your desktop. One shows the weather; another one looks like a drop-down menu with news headlines; a third shows videos; another one delivers games. There are more than a hundred of these gadgets currently available, and with the Google Desktop Gadgets API, developers can make many more and share them with other users. To me this sounds an awful lot like the widgets that Yahoo made available after it bought Konfabulator. You can read my colleague Mike McEwan's article about the purchase here (http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-News/Yahoo-Assimilates-
That's not the only thing new with Google Desktop 4 of course. If you really like the gadgets and don't want to miss out on any chance to use them, well, Google Desktop can recommend new ones for you to use. It can also create a home page for you based on the topics you enjoy searching for regularly. Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, noted while showing off the product that "It has figured out that I'm a movie buff and that I use eBay and that I travel a lot." It would be nice if the product lets you save more than one personalized home page, so that you can, for instance, call up one that organizes information you need for work and another one for home.
There are a lot of other new Google Desktop features, many of them tied to gadgets. The new features allow users to:
- Access their Google Gadget content and settings from other computers and protect it from computer crashes by saving it online.
- Add favorite gadgets from their personalized Google homepage right onto their desktops.
- Access other Google services from their desktop. For example, users can view upcoming birthdays with the orkut.com gadget, see what's popular on Google Video, or access their Google Calendar directly on the desktop.
- Manually re-index their computers or remove deleted files from search results.
Network administrators that are particularly concerned about security will be glad to hear that Google Desktop 4 now offers an option for them to disable Search Across Computers on both the consumer and enterprise versions of the product at the network level. This is accomplished simply by blocking access to a specific URL.
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The new product that's most likely to cause a major stir among SEOs and advertisers, though, is Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends). One observer described it as rather like being given the keys to Google Zeitgeist. Mayer explained that "For the first time ever, Google is making it possible to sift through billions of search queries from around the world to see what people are thinking about."
So what exactly does it do? A user can type in a search term, or several search terms separated by commas. Hit "enter," and you get a page with several charts. The top chart shows how many searches were conducted for that particular term, and how frequently it was mentioned in the news, over a period of time. Drop-down menus let you adjust both the time period and the region of the world focused on, while if you use multiple terms they show up in different colors. Several clickable news items are highlighted to the right; letter-coded flags on the chart indicate when they were published, so you can match up certain spikes.
That's not all. Below the chart I just described is another one, with tabs for cities, regions, and languages. This is a bar graph that allows you to compare how frequently terms are searched for. So if you're comparing "boxers" vs. "briefs" for example, and you're looking at cities, you can see that boxers are a lot more popular in Tampa, but not nearly so much more popular in Austin. Clicking on the "Regions" tab compares the searches in various countries. The languages tab took a good bit longer to load, sad to say.
And one "bug" turned up – well, I guess that's why it's a beta. A search on boxers vs. briefs, one would think, would be focused on underwear. But, judging from the news stories turned up during this search, legal briefs were also drawn into the mix, as well as other kinds of briefs (news briefs, sports briefs, and so on). Even with that limitation, it should be very easy to see how any SEO or advertiser could make excellent use of this information. In particular, if you want to shift your advertising campaign to an area of the world where you have little knowledge or presence, this can give you some clues as to what kind of reception you will receive – and where you need to apply your efforts.
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But it's Google Co-op beta (http://www.google.com/coop) that should help convince the skeptics that Google really gets Web 2.0. "We're going to take the Tom Sawyer view and see how our users paint the fence," commented Mayer. The new service is designed to let businesses, organizations, and individuals share their knowledge by labeling web pages that relate to their areas of expertise. Users can subscribe to another user's content, labels, and links; these then get added to the subscribing user's search results when they put in relevant queries. So a subscriber to labels and links from the Centers for Disease Control, for example, could expect to get some really in-depth content when he or she searched on, say, "recent epidemics."
Or to take an example similar to one that Google itself used, a doctor could tag particular pages relating to his area of expertise. A patient could then subscribe to the doctor's information, allowing the two to become even closer collaborators in keeping the patient healthy. Reaching beyond this, if a doctor is too busy to take on more patients, or has a widespread reputation for being the best in his particular specialty, someone who is not a patient of his but suffering from an illness he is known to treat can subscribe to his links and still benefit from his expertise.
Google has already started working with partners to annotate web pages related to health and city guides. The search engine hopes that the broader online community will help build out new topic areas. Users that want to subscribe to content can do so by visiting http://www.google.com/directory. The new service is available on all English language Google domains including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
The service sounds reminiscent of most of the other tagged search engines I've heard of and tried before. I'm particularly concerned with how Google plans to make sure that anyone who claims to be an expert in a particular area really is an expert in that area. But it will certainly be interesting to see what is built up from this beginning; Google has already signed on the Centers for Disease Control, the Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente to provide health data. That sounds like a good start.


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NEW ORLEANS — BP could have ended its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sooner if it had built a capping stack before the 2010 blowout of its well off the coast of Louisiana, a company executive said under cross-examination today at a trial over the deadly disaster.
James Dupree, who led BP's efforts to seal its well, said engineers didn't have the equipment they needed to attack this particular well at the time of the blowout and had to formulate several possible solutions "on the fly." After several other methods failed, BP ultimately used a capping stack to seal the well 87 days after the blowout.
During cross-examination by a plaintiffs' attorney, Dupree said it would have been relatively inexpensive for BP to build a capping stack before the Deepwater Horizon disaster.


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By Ludwig Bemelmans , Ludwig Bemelmans
PreK-K, 1-2

In an old, vine-covered house in Paris live 12 little girls. They wear wide-brimmed hats and matching yellow outfits, and walk in two perfect rows. Madeline is the smallest girl, and the most daring. She's not afraid to touch a mouse or go near a tiger in the zoo.

But one night she wakes up in pain and Madame Clavel, the mistress of the house, can hear Madeline crying all the way from her own bedroom. Madame Clavel calls the doctor, and in no time, Madeline is rushed to the hospital to have her appendix removed. Everyone at the house misses Madeline, and Madame Clavel decides to take the 11 girls to visit their little friend in the hospital. They take her flowers and find Madeline in her hospital bed happily surrounded by the gifts of toys and candies she has received from well-wishers. Madeline even has a scar to show to them, which the other girls look at with awe, and a little envy. That night, back at the house, Madame Clavel again hears the crying of a little girl. She hurries to the bedroom where the girls sleep in two rows of beds and discovers every single one of the remaining girls crying in pain, all of them wanting to go to the hospital and get gifts, and a scar, just like Madeline!

Ludwig Bemelmans was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his classic story, the first in his highly-acclaimed and beloved Madeline book series. His verse is simple and fun and a pleasure to read. His illustrations, featuring famous Parisian landmarks like the Opera and the Place Vendome, are as charming and lively as the 12 little girls, including the precocious Madeline, at the heart of his story.

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Dr. Spinelli received her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College after a 15 year career in obstetrical nursing. She received additional training at the Mother-Baby Postpartum Unit of the Maudsley and Royal Bethlem Hospital in London. She then completed her Residency in Psychiatry at Cornell and completed a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at Columbia.
Dr. Spinelli's clinical, teaching, research activities and publications have focused on psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum periods. Spinelli's NIMH funded research is on depression during pregnancy ("Interpersonal Psychotherapy At Three New York City Sites"). The study is a 12 week bilingual intervention for Latina, African-American and Caucasian pregnant women with major depression. The study has a strong focus on the social support and economic status of minority women and how this impairs their ability to receive treatment. The patients are treated in primary care settings at the departments of maternal fetal medicine at Cornell, Columbia and St. Luke's. The goals of the study are 1) treatment of prenatal depression 2) ability to prevent postpartum depression 3) effect of psychiatric illness on the mother-infant bond 4) the feasibility of obtaining treatment for women of various races, ethnicity and socioeconomic status and 5) effect of bringing the psychiatrist into the obstetrical clinics and primary care.
Dr. Spinelli is a consultant for the New York State Dept of Mental Health's perinatal project. The importance of her work as a perinatal psychiatrist has gained her national and international recognition.
Dr. Spinelli's work on postpartum mental disorders has also focused upon infanticide in women with mental illness. Her book, "Infanticide: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers who Kill (American Psychiatric Press, 2002) was recognized when Dr. Spinelli was awarded the prestigious Manfred S. Guttmacher Book Award for "outstanding literary contribution to psychiatry and the forensic sciences" in the 2004 from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Association of Psychiatry and the Law.
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Cody (Corrine) Budd
Cody (Corrine) Budd passed away quietly Jan. 19, 2013, in Eugene, Ore.
Cody lived a full life. Five generations of family gathered together Nov. 5, 2012, to help celebrate her 100th birthday.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 72 years, Daniel Burr Budd, and two grandchildren, Bobbie Kate Budd and J Dimitre Nacheff.
She leaves behind a great legacy — three children, nine grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Cody died as she lived, on her own terms. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Her family will gather together in Oregon at a future date for a remembrance of her life.


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Smartshares Limited would like to report details of the Units on Issue for
the Australian Mid Cap Fund (MZY) as at 2 February 2018.
Units on Issue: 16,607,274
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ABC Adelaide Brighton Ltd.
ALQ ALS Ltd.
ANN Ansell Ltd.
AST AusNet Services Ltd.
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BEN Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd.
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BOQ Bank of Queensland Ltd.
BSL Bluescope Steel Ltd.
BTT BT Investment Management Ltd.
CAR Coca Cola Amatil Ltd.
CCL Challenger Ltd.
CGF CIMIC Group Ltd.
CHC Charter Hall Group
CIM Cochlear Ltd.
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CSR Crown Resorts Ltd.
CYB DuluxGroup Ltd.
DLX Dominos Pizza Enterprise
DMP Downer EDI Limited
DOW Evolution Mining Limited
EVN Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd.
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FXJ Graincorp Ltd.
GNC Healthscope Ltd.
HSO Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd.
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IFL Iluka Resources Ltd.
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EddieStorey necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
Global Enterprises
We are a wholesaling company that mainly deals with toys, trends, and fads ie the silly band craze that just happened. We buy and sell these toys all over the world. We do not want toys in the logo though.
The company name, Global Enterprises, was chosen to be universal. If toys and trends fail, we would find another way to do business and thats what we want our logo to reflect.
I will attach something I did in MS paint .... yes, paint. This is why I need you guys.
We are looking to attract new customers which will be anywhere from large toy expos to walking into stores and dropping off a flyer and a business card.
We need a simple logo that will be used on business cards, a website, flyers, pamphlets etc. We want the logo to be our company.
We used a simple picture of a globe as the logo before but we need something better. The name of the company can be used in the actual logo but it doesn't have to be. We are just interested in you being creative.
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2014 subaru impreza Model Overview
Vehicle Overview
Subarus have never been lookers. In fact, when the Japanese automaker first came to the U.S. with the 360 hatchback, it willingly advertised the car as cheap and ugly. Subarus often drive well though, and that's true for the compact 2014 Subaru Impreza.
The five-passenger 2014 Impreza is available in sedan or hatchback body styles in 2.0i, 2.0i Premium and 2.0i Limited trim levels. The hatchback adds 2.0i Sport Premium and 2.0i Sport Limited trims. All are powered by a 2.0-liter Boxer four-cylinder that produces 148 hp and 145 lb-ft of torque. Power is put down to all four wheels with Subaru's Symmetrical all-wheel-drive system through either a standard five-speed manual transmission or an optional CVT. In MT testing, a manual-equipped hatchback accelerated from 0-60 mph in 8.0 seconds, while a CVT-equipped sedan took 9.4 seconds. The Impreza is fun to toss into corners, especially the WRX and STI variants. Also available as a sedan or hatchback, the WRX and STI offer even more thrills.
The WRX steps it up with a 2.5-liter Boxer four that puts out 265 hp and 244 lb-ft of torque, paired to a five-speed manual. The STI kicks it up a notch by squeezing out 305 hp and 290 lb-ft of torque from the same engine. The STI also gets one more cog for a standard six-speed manual transmission. Both also get visual enhancements as well; WRX trim gets summer tires, sport-tuned suspension, sport front seats, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob among other things. The WRX STI further adds sportier 18-inch BBS wheels, Brembo brakes, tuned suspension, hood scoop, sunroof, and leather and suede seats. The WRX and STI trims are the ones to get if you're considering an Impreza, though we'd suggest waiting it out as a new and more efficient WRX is slated for the 2015 model year.
What's new for 2014
The 2014 Subaru Impreza gets a standard rearview camera on Limited models, while higher trim models also get an Aha infotainment system in addition to the navigation system. WRX and STI models also these new additions, as well as slight price bump.
You'll Like
- Smooth manual transmission
- Standard all-wheel drive
- Sporty handling
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When one declares himself (or herself) to be a wrestling fan, they do so with the full knowledge of being labelled as a "Lost Boy."
You remember the term -- berthed from Peter Pan, the Lost Boys were young lads who in and around their infancy fell from their trams and were whisked away to Neverland with the promise to never grow up.
For the majority of my teenage years I was a Lost Boy. Though most of my friends, even in the Attitude Era, had long passed over the time when they would watch Monday Night Raw or even consider ordering a pay-per-view, I continued watching and studying wrestling. There was something so addictive about it.
But as my mind matured, the Lost Boy started to fade. I became less the child who could watch the drama unfold and I began to analyze more than view, the same way, say, a hockey scout picks apart a player's game rather than watching the full contest.
The drama of Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart, even at the height of the Montreal Screwjob, came second to watching Dean Malenko or Chris Benoit execute a masterful match which met my now high criteria for an enjoyable match. To this day, I can't watch the Attitude Era matches without thinking "these angles suck." (And yes, they really did. Pull back the skinshow and chairshot layers of the onion and you'll see that the TV wasn't really that compelling.)
Even more influential was the day I joined the Internet Wrestling Community. In and around the time of that Screwjob I started going on wrestling dirtsheet websites like Scoops Wrestling, 1wrestling and Wrestleline. This, of course, was a time before the Wrestling Observer was online and the Pro Wrestling Torch was still primarily a paper mailout. This was a world I hadn't been exposed to before -- I never dreamed of reading anything but an Apter mag or the occasional WWF Magazine.
But the dirt sheets pushed that Lost Boy away. Suddenly, I was more interested in when Brian Adams was jumping to WCW or the WWF than watching his matches (yes, I'll admit to being a Crush fan when I was a kid).
The Lost Boy got dealt an even harder blow a couple years later when I started my Internet wrestling writing career with Scoops. Suddenly, I wasn't just a dirtsheet reader; I was a dirtsheet contributor. While I stayed honest in my work, culling real headlines for stories or reporting on what happened on TV with historical analysis built in, I was now becoming a grown up in wrestling.
What hid the Lost Boy forever was the next stage. When I officially joined SLAM! Wrestling, I almost instantly got the opportunity to not only report on my heroes, but talk to them. Chris Jericho, Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin, Trish Stratus, Kurt Angle... yep, I was sitting high in the saddle, doing what every child wanted -- to be able to meet their TV heroes.
Riding that crest has been incredible. Outside of a scant few wrestlers, I've pretty much interviewed anyone I've ever wanted to (and for those curious, the ones still on my hitlist are CM Punk, AJ Styles, Paul Heyman, Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Edge and Lita). Being a part of the SLAM! Wrestling book only pushed this further - taking my passion for writing and telling stories into the ultimate print form was incredible, as has been other projects I've been involved in.
It was somewhere around the time that I completed my latest (and perhaps last) interview with Chris Jericho that I really saw my attitude towards being a wrestling reporter turn. It happens no matter which area you work in or which beat you cover; you do the interviews often enough that you start to look back and say to yourself "here we go again." This isn't the fault of the wrestlers, nor the fault of being in the position I'm in at SLAM! Wrestling (which I'm forever indebted to Greg Oliver and the Johns, Powell and Molinaro, for); it's the reality of being here for a decade plus.
For those who know my work and the time and dedication I've put into SLAM! Wrestling, it probably seemed odd that I didn't appear much on the site (not to be egotistical). By the time my decennial rolled around I was exhausted on wrestling. I would routinely miss watching TV shows and felt I couldn't properly do PPV previews, something I used to love doing, and opportunities to do interviews with talent didn't appeal to me much.
So what did I do when the burnout happened? I went to YouTube, and man, that has been the single best tool a recovering wrestleholic can ever have.
Here's the reality of YouTube -- WWE, TNA, RoH and whomever else can block as much content as they want but for every clip they demand be pulled, five more spawn up on the video sharing site. I probably watched Bryan Danielson vs. John Cena (the original match) a dozen times, while watching highlight clips of Mistico, KENTA, The Great Muta and Rey Mysterio ad nauseum.
Essentially, YouTube brought back that Lost Boy. I was now no longer having to analyze Raw and Impact with a set of predictions in mind. Instead, I was literally sitting in front of my computer screen and for hours on end watching what I wanted to watch, when I wanted to watch it. Botch-a-Mania? Please sir, may I have some more? Kurt Angle vs. AJ? Can I get a side of Fallen Angel with that? Daniel Bryan vs. CM Punk in Ring of Honor? YES! YES! YES!
More than that, the Lost Boy and the adult are now able to co-exist. They can sit on the couch together and look at a match purely for enjoyment without saying, "Ah crap, here comes Cena's five signatures again."
So what does that mean for my contributions at SLAM! Wrestling? Well, first off it means a return to the PPV, and you'll see the Lost Boy there more often. I'll still do the occasional interview (especially if the above listed personalities are ever available on the other end of a phone call), but you're more likely to see me do these sorts of commentaries than hardcore journalism.
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Proposed FDA regulations would eliminate nearly all drugs for livestock
Someday, when a cattleman or pork producer goes to the refrigerator for a bottle of antibiotics, the shelf will be bare. New regulations proposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could eliminate nearly all antimicrobials now on the market for cattle and hogs. (Antimicrobials include most antibiotics plus other drugs like sulfa.)
No new products will replace these, either. Phar-maceutical companies won't research new antimicrobials for animals because the risk is too great that the products will never be approved for use.
What may be the ultimate outcome of this? Ironically, an unsafe food supply. FDA wants these stricter regulations to keep humans safe. It fears that the use of antimicrobials in livestock will trigger a resistant bacteria that may infect humans.
But livestock industry experts believe that the regulations go too far. They claim that producers won't have many drugs to treat their sick animals. This, in turn, means that sick animals could enter the food supply.
The resistance debate. The debate over antibiotic resistance is not new. Since the early 1970s, FDA has brought up the issue every 5 to 10 years, usually with little resolution.
This time may be different. The Animal Health Institute (AHI), representing manufacturers of animal health products, is braced for a big battle. Representatives of the institute testified before the FDA Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee about their concerns about the proposed rules. These rules have the potential to "really restrict the availability of those products," says John Keeling, AHI vice president. Such an action will "put animals and producers at risk, with no offsetting improvement in human health," Keeling asserts.
FDA's new tough rules create a framework for evaluating and ap-proving antimicrobial drugs for food-producing animals. The approval process will be stricter and considerably more expensive with on-farm trials required.
Drugs will be categorized according to importance to human health. Category 1 drugs are most important to human health, and these will not be available for use in animals.
"I don't know if there will be any antimicrobials that will not be under Category 1," reports Paul Sundberg, DVM, National Pork Producers Council. "Those are the restricted drugs and we won't have them. At this point, we don't think there is anything that will be available."
Fickle bugs. The battle over anti-microbials comes back to the fickleness of pathogens. When antimicrobials are introduced to pathogens, the pathogens begin to react, often developing different levels of resistance. But not always. Sometimes, the pathogens become more susceptible to a drug. But, Keeling notes, "antibiotic resistance is a fact of life."
The disputed question is, How much danger does the drug resistance in animals pose to human life? FDA believes a pathogen in animals will become resistant to an antimicrobial. Then people will eat food with the resistant pathogen, making them ill. Unfortunately, no antimicrobials will exist to treat the pathogen.
This scenario has never occurred. The Center for Disease Control has never documented a case where an animal drug caused a resistant food-borne pathogen to lead to a human death. Meanwhile, plenty of food-borne pathogens (not originating in animals) do cause deaths, between 2,000 and 9,000 a year. But FDA wants to make sure one caused by an animal drug never happens.
The livestock groups and AHI say they don't want a public health problem either. They just want FDA to base its regulations on science and good data, both of which, they claim, are missing in the proposed rules. Instead, they want to accurately assess the risk and then make rules to handle it.
"The bottom line here is food safety and public health," Sundberg says. "With our long history of safe drug use, we aren't ready to accept that we are the cause of all the evils of resistance. That's why we need to measure what the real risk is."


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Robert F. Hoffer, a former IRS Appellate conferee, died Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, after a short illness. He was 93.
Robert grew up on Timon Street in Buffalo, graduating from Masten High School in 1937. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1942 to 1945.
In 1946, he married Marcella Kirsch, to whom he was married for 67 years. He attended Canisius College and graduated with his business degree in 1951.
Robert worked at Bell Air Craft from 1950 to 1960 as an accountant. He left Bell Air Craft to work for the IRS until he retired from the Appellate Division in 1981. During his time with the IRS, he received many honors for his excellent work.
Robert enjoyed golfing, jogging and bowling up until his late 80s. He was an avid reader and could often be found at the Grand Island Library initialing his name in the 100s of books read. Grandpa Hoffer Ha-Ha loved spending time with his family and will be greatly missed by all.
Robert is a former member of the Knights of Columbus in Kenmore and the Grand Island Senior Center.
Robert is survived by his wife of 67 years, Marcella (Kirsch) Hoffer, daughter Marsha A. (Joseph P.) Pinzotti and son Robert W. Hoffer; grandfather of Marcella (Brian) Panaro, Christine (Shawn) Lodovico and Mary (Christopher) Burns; great-grandfather of Joseph, Louis and Vincent Lodovico, Dominic and Tessa Panaro; brother of Arlene (Walter) Walker and the late Lorraine Mangold, Adeline Schworm and Ralph Hoffer.
A Memorial Mass was celebrated Oct. 10 at St. Stephen R.C. Church. Memorials may be made to Niagara Hospice.
Arrangements by Kaiser Funeral Home.


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February and March Scrapgal newsletter layouts:
Big shock to learn that Scrapgal has been sold to a new owner. Not sure what that means for my position on the Design Team to be honest. Time will tell.
I'm loving my spot on the Buzz and Bloom DT. There is no greater pleasure than receiving an enveloppe every month stuffed with stuff you would have bought anyway! One happy girl here. You should really check out the blog on a regular basis as every couple of days there will be a new post up filled with inspiration. My latest one can be seen here. I've been struck by the worst tummy bug so am about to head back to bed. One of the hazards of working in a couple of Kindergartens: you catch just about every bug that goes around in the community. Ugh.


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Strictly speaking (proprie), the church is the congregation of saints and true believers. However, since in this life many hypocrites and evil persons (German text adds "open sinners") are mingled with believers, it is allowable to use the sacraments even when they are administered by evil men, according to the saying of Christ, "The scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses' seat," etc (Matt. 23:2). Both the sacraments and the Word are effectual by reason of the institution and commandment of Christ (propter ordinationem et mandatum Christi) even if they are administered by evil men.
Our churches condemn the Donatists and others like them who have denied that the ministry of evil men may be used in the church and who have thought the ministry of evil men to be unprofitable and without effect. (Augsburg Confession, Article VIII; Tappert, 33)
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Article VIII guards against the charge of Donatism, which the confessors at Augsburg were well aware was being whispered by the papal representatives who intentionally sought to lump the "evangelicals" with the radical reformation. This article flows out of the dynamic understanding of the church confessed in AC VII. If the church is infallibly recognized by the divine activities of preaching the Gospel and administering the sacraments, and these activities are going on concretely in the world, one can reasonably expect that false Christians, unbelievers, and evil men will also be found in the vicinity of these activities, even though they are not part of the church proper. Lief Grane states, "The means of grace certainly constitute the church, as through them the Holy Spirit creates faith. Nevertheless, the do not visibly mark the boundaries of the church over against the rest of humanity" (Grane, 100). As Christ's parable of the weedy wheat field indicates (Mt 13:24-30, cited in Concordia), the church as it is in this life is always a mixed body of believers and unbelievers associated with the sacramental Word in all its forms.
The stated purpose of this article is not to endorse the ecclesiology of Augustine, who posited a true "church of the elect" hidden within the "congregation of the called," but simply to state explicitly that the Word and sacraments are not compromised in their efficacy when they are administered by evil and wicked men. The Latin text is helpful in locating the basis of this confidence in the "institution and mandate of Christ."
The confessors follow Augustine's solution in his engagement with the Donatist party, rigorists who held as invalid the sacramental acts of the "traditors," pastors and bishops who had surrendered their sacred books and office in the persecution under Diocletian and subsequently returned to office and resumed their ministry under Constantine. Augustine argued the divine monergism of the Word over and against the personal worthiness of the officient. We need to remember that the Donatist controversy dealt with the worthiness of the men ordained to hold the office of the holy ministry. It did not, and does not, speak to such modern novelties as female ordination and "lay ministry," as is sometimes alleged.
As a sidenote, Augustine's struggle with the Donatists brought the language of "ex opere operato" into the church, and, in this context, the terminology can be understood properly and rightly. The Donatists argued that the sacraments were valid "ex opere operantis" (by the work of the one working), while Augustine argued that they were valid "ex opere operato" (by the work having been worked), that is, independent of the worthiness of the one administering it. This objectivity of the divine Word over and against the worthiness of the administrant reflects the understanding that the sacraments are Christ's work and not the church's or the ministers'. Where this is denied or compromised, the worthiness of the minister, or even the congregation, becomes a criterion for the sacraments' validity and efficacy.
The papal Confutation accepted this article without controversy; therefore Melanchthon has little to add in the Apology except to underscore the objectivity of the holy ministry by stating that the pastor does not represent his own person but speaks in persona Christi: "...for ministers act in Christ's stead (vice Christi) and do not represent their own persons, according to the word (Luke 10:16), 'He who hears you hears me.'" (Apology VII/VIII.47)
Friday, March 9, 2007
Roundtable 9: What the Church Is
Strictly speaking (proprie), the church is the congregation of saints and true believers. However, since in this life many hypocrites and evil persons (German text adds "open sinners") are mingled with believers, it is allowable to use the sacraments even when they are administered by evil men, according to the saying of Christ, "The scribes and Pharisees sit on Moses' seat," etc (Matt. 23:2). Both the sacraments and the Word are effectual by reason of the institution and commandment of Christ (propter ordinationem et mandatum Christi) even if they are administered by evil men.
Posted by WM Cwirla at 1:37 PM
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- Paul T. McCain said...
What has always really impressed me as I read the Book of Concord is how pastoral, practical and personal it is. Let me explain.
It is pastoral because the constant drum beat throughout is the issue of the comfort and care of souls. This is not a book of theological speculations or abstraction. The times in which it was written called for pastoral care on a scale that could only be likened to that of a big city trauma center. Souls bruised and bullied by legalisms and demands placed on them outside of, and beyond, the Sacred Scriptures were healed by the healing and life-giving Gospel.
It is practical because it goes right to the heart of the key issues and only very rarely could be said to be meandering about on side paths. It is a book on a mission and that is to deliver the Gospel: purely, cleanly, correctly and practically, again, for the care of souls.
It is personal. The Book of Concord was written by people who had first-hand experience with the various theological ills they are decrying and had first-hand knowledge of just how powerfully comforting and consoling the Gospel is. Therefore, when you read about monasticism in this book, always behind those words is the man who spent well over a decade of his life in this lifestyle, tortured and tormented to no end by the lack of Gospel: Martin Luther. The book could almost be said to be a spiritual autobiography of all those who contributed to it.
- March 10, 2007 at 4:58 AM
- William Weedon said...
My dear sister-in-law, who is Orthodox, is the first one to point out to me what should have been plain as the nose on my face (which is pretty plain, let me tell you):
The Lutherans use the word "church" in a different manner than the Orthodox do.
So half of the discussions between the two about "the Church" totally miss each other. And the Lutheran definition of Church is right here: "strictly speaking, the Church is the congregation (note the singular!) of saints and true believers."
Yes, it belongs to that "congregation of saints and true believers" to have those divinely appointed to preach, teach, and administer Christ's sacraments and those who receive this ministration. Thus, the Church may be divided into "teachers" and "hearers" a la Melanchthon/Chemnitz. That's the shape she takes on earth. But the fact is that the Church itself, properly speaking, does not know such a division: it is first and foremost the gathering of the believers around the throne of the Lamb - the Church as seen in Revelation.
Thus, Lutheran ecclesiology is eschatological. It sees the Church as she truly IS because it sees her from the END. And this seeing from the end is what enables the rest of this article: that there are those hanging around the Church properly speaking who don't belong to her. They lack the faith that makes them saints, and so members of that assembly around the Lamb.
The joy of the article is in the inability to destroy what God's up to in this assembly: the Word and Sacrament go on giving the gifts no matter how unworthy the preacher/celebrant or the people receiving. And that's a huge comfort to those - either as "teachers" or "hearers" who know darned well how UNworthy they truly are.
- March 10, 2007 at 9:59 AM
- William Weedon said...
Also, a problem arises (and sometimes I think Walther is guilty of this) when "the Church" is defined over against "the Predigtamt" as though the Church were the laity exclusive of those in the Office. It's the inverse problem of Rome - where the Church IS the hierarchy. Thus the nonsense translation of "super" as "above" - the Church is above the clergy - in Tractatus 11, which then has the clergy be something other than Church, other than "saints and true believers." The original Concordia got that one right, following the German: "the Church is more than the ministers."
- March 10, 2007 at 10:33 AM
- wm cwirla said...
Nicely put, Brother William! I have found in my own conversations with Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians that their view of "church" is much more static and institutional rather than the dynamic view of the Lutheran Confessions.
I would only add that an "eschatological perspective" has both a now and a not yet component. I would say that the Lutheran Confessions confess the Church as she now already is in Christ her Head, but has not yet been manifest in all her glory which is yet to be revealed. We believe and confess the one, holy Church but cannot see her. We can only see the divine marks.
This is why "hidden" is so much better than "invisible" to describe the eschatological reality of the church as we experience her now in the world.
In defense of CFW Walther, he does indeed follow Melachthon and Chemnitz (and cites them explicitly) when he states that the church "rightly ordered" (by divine command) consists of those who preach and those who hear. [I don't have Kirche u. Amt in front of me at the moment, but I'd be happy to supply the footnote, if anyone at the round table wishes it.]
Walther's difficulty, in my opinion, is that he sees the authority of the Office flowing out of the individual rights and authorities of the priesthood of believers, similar to the 17th/18th century social contract theory of government espoused by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
- March 10, 2007 at 12:31 PM
- wm cwirla said...
Please note: I have corrected my quotation from Tappert in the original post. I left out the phrase "since in this life." My apologies.
- March 10, 2007 at 12:53 PM
- Paul T. McCain said...
In Concordia, second edition, the text shows both the Latin and the German for the "more than" or "above."
At first we were told to remove the "more than" but after we prepared a study showing that one of the meanings of the word "supra" is clearly also "more than" and that the German "mehr denn" is clearly "more than" we were permitted at least to show the reader what the authoritative German translation of the original Latin chose to do.
It would actually conflict with Melanchthon's entire point in this article to impose simply another hierarchy on the Church. From "clergy over laity" to "laity over clergy." The German confirms this very point.
Thanks for mentioning this, Darth Cwirla.
- March 10, 2007 at 2:30 PM
- Paul T. McCain said...
I was talking with a friend the other day about pastors who are in fact evil men and how very, very difficult it is for people to receive their ministry. I think that is an understandable reaction. I do not believe this article should be any sort of "excuse" for the Church tolerating manifest and offensively sinful conduct among its clergy rank. St. Paul makes it very clear what the standards are for the men called to the Office of the Holy Ministry.
So, just to alert anyone following this conversation, none of us, nor the Augsburg Confession, is proposing that the Church should ever be unconcerned and permit immoral clergy to remain in office.
- March 10, 2007 at 2:40 PM
- wm cwirla said...
In the original Donatist controversy, the issue was clergy who betrayed their office under persecution, not their bad morals. This is not to say that the sacraments are effected by the morality of the administrators, but as scandals in the church repeatedly teach us, the office is greatly harmed and undermined by bad behavior on the part of pastors. With very good reason did the apostle Paul counsel that the overseer is to be "above reproach."
- March 11, 2007 at 7:51 AM
- Mike Baker said...
So for those of us who are more at the comprehension speed of Dr Seuss than Dr Luther...
Would it be proper to say that the existance of the church is defined by the presence of God?
Where the Holy Spirit is present in the faith of the believers, and at baptism, and the preaching of the Word, there is the church. Where Christ is truly present in the Holy Supper, there is the church.
So, the church is not defined by certain people and external acts, but rather by the presence of God who is present in true believers and at the places where He promises to be (i.e. in the Gospel purely taught and the Sacraments correctly administered.)
Is this what you mean by revealed? Is this anywhere close to what you are all driving at with this concept of "the church"?
- March 13, 2007 at 9:04 AM
- William Weedon said...
Now, Mike, I think Dr. Seuss is VERY profound, and to top it off - he was a Lutheran! So if you're at the level of Seuss you are doing fine. :)
One thing that my friend Christopher Jones alerted me to is that sometimes the way we speak of Church makes it sound as though the Church pops into and out of existence with the Divine Service - and that's nonsense, of course. The Divine Service MANIFESTS the presence of the Church, because hidden under that visible assembly is the invisible assembly of all saints around the throne. But just because the Church is not gathered together at a given moment does not mean that the Church has ceased to exist.
Church exists - to borrow from Dr. Hogg - both "gathered and scattered." And though most of our life as Christians is spent in the scattered state, Church remains because we remain united by faith to the Lamb of God who has taken away the sin of the world. The indisoluble connection to the assembly is that such faith is something we can neither create nor keep going on our own - it depends entirely upon the Holy Spirit's ongoing work in our lives through the means of grace. So, the Church scattered can only remain Church if she continues to gather - to manifest and live from the grace God pours out on her in the assembly.
So does the presence of God define the Church? Yes! For Christ is present to faith and where the Head, there the Body. FWIW.
- March 13, 2007 at 2:18 PM
- wm cwirla said...
Again, we're on the same page, paragraph, and line number, William. (I'm starting to worry here!)
You can see how the choice of words is so important here. The Gospel and sacraments are the "marks of recognition" (Kennzeichen) of the church (or Church, as Weedon likes to put it). As such, they manifest the Church's presence at various times and places. The Church in its essence is a mystery (corpus mysticum), something hidden from sight that is revealed to faith through the Word and confessed by faith ("we believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church").
The Church consists of all believers of every time and place united in Christ through baptismal faith and is visibly/audibly manifested in various times and places where believers are gathered about Word and sacraments among whom the Triune God is pleased to make His dwelling.
I especially appreciate the gathered/scattered distinction. The Church does not cease to exist after the benediction, but becomes hidden as the priesthood scatters into its various vocations in the world. Yet without the Church gathered, there is no concrete evidence for the existence of the Church, and therefore the reign of Christ, in the world.
- March 14, 2007 at 8:00 AM
- Paul T. McCain said...
So, is it so bad to talk about the Church becoming visible when people are gathered around Word and Sacrament? I still am enjoying Dr. Nagel's "And where does this invisible Church worship?" quip.
- March 14, 2007 at 10:30 AM
- William Weedon said...
Not wrong at all. That's it exactly. Look at the gathered assembly and you are looking at as much of the Church as can ever be visible this side of eternity. And yet the utterly cool thing is that what is visible is put the tiniest portion of what is actually there. Hebrews 12, dude. Angels and the spirits of the just made perfect and all gathered around that Lamb whose blood speaks better things than Abel's. And thus, the way we conduct ourselves should in all things confess this great reality - that we are receiving a KINGDOM that cannot be shaken, and so we offer to God acceptable worship in awe, in reverence. What's VISIBLE is a bunch of people attending to the invisible realities around which they gather, and it doesn't take long to realize - when looking at a given assembly - whether they are in fact attending to those invisible realities or attending just to themselves. And if the later, it becomes rather pointless. Not nearly as cool as worshipping with the saints and angels and all around the Throne of the Lamb.
- March 14, 2007 at 1:04 PM
- William Weedon said...
One more thought. To show what an utterly clear grip the Apostle had on this whole notion, think of how he could tell the ladies to cover their heads. Why? Well, we wouldn't want to be offending the angels. Or how he can tell the Corinthians to excommunicate that man: "when you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus *and my spirit is present*, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord."
- March 14, 2007 at 1:12 PM
- Paul T. McCain said...
Professor Kurt Marquart, may He rest in peace, was fond of reminding us that God and His saints are merely in another dimension of reality, not beyond it. I was always, and remain intrigued by, his keen insights. When He spoke on these issues you could in fact nearly see these realities, so beautifully and eloquently he described them.
- March 14, 2007 at 2:04 PM
- wm cwirla said...
The question, as I understood it, was framed around whether the Church "existed" only as it was gathered, or whether its "existence" was defined in terms of the visible gathering around the Word.
What I understand brother William saying, and what I also see the Confessions saying, is that the Church always "exists" in union with Christ her Head, but that existence is made visible by the visible gathering around the visible/audible Word. Even then, as William notes, only the marks of recognition are visible, since we can't really tell the "true believers" from the pious hypocrites. Nevertheless, the "fullness" (yeah, I got to use that word again!) of the Church is always manifest, even in so humble a gathering as "two or three."
- March 14, 2007 at 2:04 PM
- RevFisk said...
While we are venerating the resting Dr. Marquart, I'll chime in to add that there were 4 books that defined my Seminary education: (in order of encounter)
1. The Book of Concord
2. On Being a Theologian of the Cross (Luther via Forde)
3. The Quest for Holiness (Koeberle)
4. The Church (Marquart)
That's fine company!
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Works by Croce, Vecchi, Gabrieli, Marenzio, de Monte, Striggio, Anerio, Gastoldi, Porta, Palestrina and others; Gruppo Vocale Arsi & Tesi, Corradini, dir. Texts and translations online. Tactus TC 590003
Ask twenty-nine Italian poets for pastoral texts, commission twenty-nine Italian composers to set them to music for six voices, then publish the results as Il Trionfo di Dori. Doris is triumphant in this 1592 collection, each poem concluding with a laudatory phrase, "Viva la bella Dori," that probably referred to the bride in a then-recent society wedding. The publication was reprinted and copied, and served as the inspiration for The Triumphs of Oriana, Thomas Morley's better-known 1601 publication of twenty-five madrigals by twenty-three composers. Each of those pieces, most likely in honor of Queen Elizabeth, concludes with the phrase, "Thus sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana: / Long live fair Oriana."
While many of the English madrigals are well-known, the Italian originals rest in obscurity, even those of the celebrated vocal composers Marenzio, Vecchi and Gastoldi, and the supreme church contrapuntalist Palestrina. The Italian vocal ensemble Gruppo Vocale Arsi & Tesi presents the world premiere recording of Doris's twenty-nine Triumphs on the Tactus label.
A string of happy, graceful songs where nymphs, shepherds and friends of Venus cavort and sing in sweet accents by shining streams in breezy copses needs much more imagination and vocal variety than this ensemble musters. Smooth but stiff singing, faulty tuning, unmatched vibratos and stodgy tempos quickly wear thin. The lack of rhythmic life — in spite of the group's name — is reminiscent of those opaque 1960s baroque performances where everything chugged along correctly, without variety of attack or contrast in atmosphere.
The group is attentive to dynamics, but doesn't go far enough in shaping phrases or bringing life to individual musical motives. Where is the charm of the text-painting of "L'aria s'empì di vezzosetti Amori / et ogni nebbia sparve" (The air was filled with graceful little Cupids / and every mist disappeared) as the voices disappear into air? Why isn't the rare, minor-key setting of "Sù le fiorite sponde" highlighted? Why is every piece the same tempo? Why doesn't a livelier group record these pieces now?
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, kids of all ages....! Hiya!! I know it's been a little while since I last pushed out announcements, but as the world turns, events keep on coming, so here's the latest:
Our annual meeting is this Saturday in conjunction with the indoor fly. Both will be held at the Bay Area Community Church in Crownsville, Maryland. Bay Area Community Church is at 884 Chesterfield Road, Annapolis, MD. Despite the Annapolis address, it's actually closer to Crownsville, just near the Maryland Renaissance Festival grounds.
Boy howdy! With all the rain we're getting, it'll take days for us to dry out around here; I'd say the indoor venue was a good choice. The event(s) will be from Noon to 6:00 PM. My plan is to get the flying started (as we might have non-members there) and then do the meeting relatively early so people don't have to stick around if they're not so inclined. We'll shoot to start the meeting at 12:30 or 12:45 and get it done by 1:30-ish. This way, if there are members who are not inclined to partake of the indoor flying, they can cast their votes and/or participate in the meeting and depart at their leisure.
Rather than get into the details of the indoor fun fly here, see the previous post below regarding the same, see your email, or get back with me.
Our annual dinner and auction in January will again be held at the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, this year on January 30th. Times and specifics will be forthcoming shortly. We'll be asking everyone for FIRM RSVPs, as it is just too difficult on the organizers to shift on the fly for late comers. On that note, some of our regular organizers for the auction and bag raffle will be taking care of those things again this year, but we are looking for a volunteer to coordinate the catering/dinner service. We're not looking for anything too fancy, so it shouldn't be too hard. If you'd care to volunteer, let me know. Hope everyone will come out and participate!
Additionally, things are firming up for a kite making and kite repair workshop, hopefully on January 23rd; place, time, and additional details still to come.
So here's the "up and coming":
- First Sunday Fly on December 6th
- New Year's Day Foolish Hat Fly on January 1st (Get those silly hats ready!)
- First Sunday Fly on January 3rd
- Treasure Island (FL) Kite Festival (for those who have the moxy to go 1200 miles for a kite festival) on January 17th & 18th.
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- WOW Annual Dinner and Auction on January 30th
I know that some of these don't match up with what is on the club calendar right this second, but these are the correct dates. I'll be getting the calendar updated PDQ.
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John D. Roberts Awarded AIC Gold Medal
John D. Roberts, Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) received the 2013 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal. The AIC awarded the medal to Roberts at the Heritage Day event in April in Philadelphia hosted by its awarding partner, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF).
The AIC established the Gold Medal, its highest award, in 1926 to recognize service to the science of chemistry and to the profession of chemist and chemical engineer in the United States. The Gold Medal has been presented jointly by the AIC and the CHF since 2003.
"I am very honored to have been selected to receive the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal," Roberts says. "Throughout my career, I have been fortunate in being able to collaborate with the world's leading researchers, study and teach in highly respected institutions, and participate in some of the most important scientific discoveries since the middle of the 20th century."
Roberts is an expert on the leading research into the mechanisms of organic reactions, the chemistry of small ring compounds, and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to organic chemistry and biochemistry. He serves on the boards of directors of Organic Syntheses Inc. and University Science Books, and was a consultant to DuPont from 1950 to 2008.
Roberts received his Ph.D. in chemistry from UCLA in 1944. Following a period as an instructor in chemistry there, Roberts was awarded a National Research Council Fellowship at Harvard University in 1945. He joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1946, becoming an associate professor by 1950. In 1953, Roberts became a professor of organic chemistry at Caltech. In 1972, he was appointed Institute Professor of Chemistry and in 1988, Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus and Lecturer. From 1980 to 1983 he served Caltech as vice president, provost, and dean of the faculty.
In addition to his many scientific achievements and chemistry lab discoveries, Roberts also was responsible for breaking the longstanding gender barrier at Caltech by sponsoring Dorothy Semenow (PhD '55) to become the Institute's first female doctoral candidate in 1953. Bringing Semenow from MIT to study at Caltech is "clearly the best thing I have done at Caltech in the 60 years I have been here," he says.
Roberts is a recipient of the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1954), the Priestley Medal (1987), the National Medal of Science and the Welch Award in Chemistry (both in 1990), the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal (1991), the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists and the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society (both in 1994), the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences (1999), and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Chemistry in Service to Society (2009).
In 1998, Chemical & Chemical Engineering News named him as one of the 75 most influential chemists in the last 75 years. In 2008, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2009, Fellow of the American Chemical Society. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Roberts is the author, with M. C. Caserio, of Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry (1965 and 1977 editions) and has written other textbooks on NMR and Hückel molecular orbital calculations, and more than 500 scientific papers. ACS Books published his autobiography, The Right Place at the Right Time, in 1990.
The AIC is a professional organization dedicated to fostering the advancement of the chemical profession in the United States. Previous AIC Gold Medalists include Alfred Bader, Arnold O. Beckman, Paul Berg, Elizabeth Blackburn, Herbert C. Brown, F. Albert Cotton, Carl Djerassi, Walter Gilbert, Harry B. Gray, Ralph F. Hirschmann, Roald Hoffmann, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Glenn T. Seaborg, Oliver Smithies, Max Tishler, and George M. Whitesides.