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Students, sponsors experience changed lives after mission to Kenya
The world looks a little different these days for Lindsey King, a sophomore at Wayland Baptist University. And the change has nothing to do with her eyes.
King was one of 13 students from Wayland who joined Baptist Student Ministries Director Donnie Brown and science professor Dr. Vaughn Ross on a three-week mission trip to Kenya during July. During that time, the group did some construction projects at Nyeri Baptist High School, worked in several orphanages in the Nairobi area and did evangelistic work with members of the Samburu tribe in the village of Marala.
Students were exposed to some activities they had likely never done, like building a concrete sidewalk at the high school. Other activities, like a friendly game of basketball or hugging on orphaned children, came naturally. Either way, the trip made a huge impact, and King said she felt God affirmed her call to children's ministry.
"Overall, I feel like for the entire group, the trip gave us more of a world view. We've never seen anything from any other point of view than American," said King, a native of Amarillo. "And we learned that there really is such a thing as an unreached people group. They've literally never heard the gospel before."
King said she was struck by the poverty of many people the group encountered, yet their spirit impressed her.
"There's something they have that we don't: The kids have such a hunger to know," she said. "When they know, they're excited about it and joyful. They are satisfied with so little. Being over there made me realize what a need there is over here."
For the most part, the student missionaries worked alongside missionaries currently serving in Kenya on projects that were fairly well established. But students also got a glimpse of new efforts during the last week of the venture, when they broke into small groups led by missionaries and shared their faith door-to-door to the Samburu, considered an unreached people group in Africa.
"That's where I really saw us making a difference," King said. "In the half hour we did that, we visited three huts and five people were saved. At one hut, I just started talking about my testimony, not really knowing what to say, and the lady's face lit up and she started clapping. The eagerness just blew me away."
All total, the group saw two students at the high school accept salvation, while at least 20 in the village of Marala came to know Christ.
The experience also had an impact on sophomore Adam Gibbs, a native of Canyon. Knowing ahead of time that he's been called to foreign missions, Gibbs said witnessing among the Samburu affirmed that call.
"There are so many people out there who haven't heard and just don't know," he said, adding that he'd like to work with unreached people groups more in the future.
Gibbs also said visits to the orphanages and worship at the Baptist high school made an impression on him.
"It really hit me when we went to help out at an orphanage, seeing the kids that were dying of AIDS and the struggles they go through. It really changed my perspective on whatever suffering I end up going through," he said. "I also enjoyed the worship meetings at the school. being in a room with several hundred African high school students, with us all worshipping the same God. It kind of reaffirmed my feelings that I am called to go overseas."
According to Brown, the students benefited from being exposed to a different culture and have returned with a new view.
"They realized how blessed they were to be Americans and on the flip side, how much we waste and take our freedom and abundance for granted," he said. "Their view of God was stretched, too, because they had to process all the extreme poverty and extreme wealth in the world, yet we have the same Gospel. That caused a deeper compassion for those in need and a desire to see people come to Christ."
Brown said working with the orphans made a great impact on him as well. The group made frames out of tongue depressors and took the kids' pictures with a Polaroid, presenting the finished product to the orphans.
"The kids were so excited, because many of them had never had their picture taken before," he recalled. "Just to see the smiles and the little bit of happiness we were able to bring those kids was neat."
Brown also said he was impressed by how God put the students together for the trip, each with different talents and strengths that all seemed to be utilized during the trip.
"Some really got into the evangelism and going door-to-door with the missionaries, and some really got into working with the orphans," he said. "The students all went above and beyond what was asked of them."
Brown is confident the students' exposure to missions in Africa will benefit them for years to come and will spill into the Wayland campus when they return. Specifically, he said, the students have an increased desire to reach others for Christ, and they have a renewed burden for the children of missionaries.
Gibbs said the culture wasn't much of a barrier, since many of the children learn and speak English regularly. The group also benefited from classes during the spring, which introduced them to much of the culture and customs, as well as some of the food. Ross and his wife Johnene, former missionaries to the area, were helpful in sharing culture and a bit of the native language before the trip.
Brown credited much of the trip's success to churches and individuals who donated money and provided prayer support for the students, who each had to raise their own funds for the trip.
"Their investment has made an eternal difference in the lives of our students and of others," he said.
Others participating in the Kenya trip included Geoffrey Brocato, Mike Smith, Kaci Risser, Dawn Blanton, Donna Gleason, Francis Blair, Jodi Henderson, Crystal Morton, Krysta Williams, Zack Greer and Penny Greer


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Meow Meow to Bring FELINE INTIMATE to Indy's Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 3/27-28
Bustier-clad, singing sensation Meow Meow has wowed audiences globally with her provocative brand of post-post-postmodern performance. Expect sequins and satire; witty wicked Weimar; 60's French pop; Brel, Brecht, Kitt, and more, March 27 & 28, 2013 at 8:00pm at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, Indianapolis, IN.
Tickets: $35, $45, $55 ($12 food or beverage minimum). For tickets call 317.275.1169, or order online at www.TheCabaret.org. $10 valet parking is available for cabaret patrons.
Named top ten "Best of Cabaret " by Time Out New York, "cabaret diva of the highest order" by the New York Post and "A phenomenon" by The Australian, the "Post-post-modern cabaret diva" Meow Meow has wowed audiences globally with her unique brand of kamikaze cabaret and performance art exotica.She's won numerous Australian Green Room Awards and the New York Franklin Furnace Performance Art award. Her solo program has been curated by David Bowie for his NY High Line Festival (alongside Laurie Anderson, Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire and Ricky Gervais), and by Pina Bausch for her legendary dance-theatre festival 08 (alongside Baryshnikov, Sylvie Guillem, de Keersmaker and Paris Opera). The Sydney Opera House has presented several seasons of her works and Malthouse Theatre commissioned her full-length original music theatre piece VAMP!. Sydney Festival and NY's Performance Space122 have curated her piece "Insert the name of the Person You Love" - an ongoing work on the time it takes to fall in love - in collaboration with scientists and psychologists from Rutgers, Stonybrook and Oregon State Universities. Her concerts for the Carnegie Hall "Berlin in Lights" series at Neue Galerie NY have had sell-out performances. She has had extended seasons at the home of German cabaret, Bar Jeder Vernunft, Berlin. In collaborations she has worked with John Cameron Mitchell, Rodney Fisher, John Jesurun, Lance Horne, Anthony Coleman, Iain Grandage, toured the US with Amanda Palmer and the Dresden Dolls, and with Pink Martini's Thomas M Lauderdale has written and recorded the album Here Kitty Kitty...The Lost Sessions. She is a regular guest in the Olivier Award winning La Clique on the West End, and with the Weimar NY collective in NYC (with such performers as Justin Bond of Kiki and Herb, Penny Arcade, Taylor Mac and Julie Atlas Muz).Meow has also performed in venues as diverse as SF MoMA, Sydney Opera House, Joe's Pub NYC (her home in NYC), The Glamour Room Shanghai, London's West End and numerous international arts festivals including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Queensland Music Festival, New Zealand, Braga Portugal and Festival Estuaire, France. In 2013, Meow will appear in Paris and London with the London Philharmonic as Jenny in Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera.
The Cabaret is a professional, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The mission of The Cabaret is to elevate and promote the cabaret art form by presenting the finest in professional cabaret performances and developing the next generation of cabaret artists.

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• April 22, 2005 |
7:45 p.m. ET
Watch Einstein in his element: It was the ultimate meeting of the minds: In 1927, more than two dozen eminent physicists — including Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg (of Uncertainty Principle fame) and Erwin Schrödinger (known for his dead-and-alive cat) — gathered in Brussels to contemplate the mysteries of electrons and photons.
The 1927 Solvay Conference was where Einstein protested the probabilistic course of quantum mechanics by proclaiming that "God does not play dice." Legend has it that Bohr replied with a wisecrack: "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
A famous portrait of the group shows 29 scientists looking quite serious and sober — but a more animated view of the conference has come to light just in the past year, after languishing for decades in obscurity.
In the course of researching her biography of physicist Max Born, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan came across an exceedingly rare, two-minute-long "home movie," shot during an intermission in the conference by Irving Langmuir, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1932.
After showing the film at scientific conferences this year, Greenspan has made a narrated version of the footage available over the Internet.
It turns out that Einstein wasn't the only physicist of his day who liked to stick his tongue out for the camera. Paul Ehrenfest, a Vienna-born quantum theorist who corresponded with Einstein and other luminaries, pulls the same stunt on the Langmuir film. We can't hear what the scientists are saying, but Einstein looks positively dour during his brief appearance, while others seem to be having a wonderful time. Curie, for example, turns a little pirouette at one point.
Marie Curie was the only woman on the roster for the 1927 conference. Would it be any different if such an event were held today? I'm pretty sure the representation would be better in 2005. This week's look at a dozen females on the frontiers of physics demonstrates that women as well as men have the right stuff for math and science.
Cosmic Log correspondent Janice Hansen responded with her own nomination of an additional "intellectual heiress" to Einstein: astronaut/physicist/educator Sally Ride.
"I can pretty much guarantee that even if Sally Ride isn't Einstein's intellectual heiress, she's the force behind the development of the minds of the next generation of Ms. Einsteins. Best known for being America's first woman in space, Dr. Ride (a physicist, naturally) has made it her mission to encourage among middle-school girls exactly the kind of creative and collaborative approach to science you describe in your article.
"Her Sally Ride Science Club, Festivals, Science Camps and the amazing Toy Challenge program are exciting kids about science in a way that has not been tapped previously — through hands-on, interactive, collaborative, extended learning opportunities that take science out of the stale environment of the classroom and put it into the hands and minds of kids.
"Girls are eating this stuff up — and some intrepid boys are coming along for the ride and finding themselves hooked, too. I don't think you can approach an article on the next greatest thing in female scientists without exploring what Dr. Ride's been up to. ...
"And by the way, I don't work for Sally Ride or her company. I'm just a mom who has seen these programs spark an interest in my daughter and her friends that didn't exist before — and I'm excited about it!"
• April 22, 2005 |
7:45 p.m. ET
Weekend field trips on the World Wide Web:
• NASA: Movie clips track Red Planet whirlwinds
• 'Nova' on PBS: 'Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land'
• The Economist: Environmental economics
• The New Yorker: A planetary problem
• April 22, 2005 |
Updated 5:45 p.m. ET
Whales in space: In the movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," a super-powerful alien probe is poised to destroy Earth unless it hears from a particular breed of intelligent creatures. Unfortunately, the creatures that the aliens have in mind are not humans, but humpback whales, which were supposedly driven to extinction long before the 23rd century. Naturally, the only solution was sending the Enterprise's crew back in time.
On Friday, the Hawaii-based Sirius Institute and the Florida-based Deep Space Communications Network marked Earth Day 2005 by giving the humpbacks their own broadcast to the stars, if only for five minutes. Maybe that'll save Kirk and Spock the trip.
As we reported weeks ago , Deep Space is the outfit that uses a 16-foot-wide (5-meter-wide) TV transmission antenna to beam radio messages spaceward for a fee. The Sirius Institute, meanwhile, is a group of researchers who are studying whales and dolphins in hopes of setting up communication links between the cetaceans and us humans.
"We feel that it is important to invite the Cetacea, the oldest sentient race on the planet, to our Earth Day celebration and share their songs with the universe," Michael Hyson, the institute's research director, said in a news release.
Hyson told me that the institute's founding partner, Paradise Newland, came up with the idea of broadcasting whale songs to the stars years ago.
"It's something along the lines of 'Star Trek IV,'" he said. "We thought we'd do it early, before the whales left."
The institute paid the standard $99 rate for the five-minute live transmission, which took place shortly after 4 p.m. ET today, said Deep Space's director, Jim Lewis. An underwater microphone in the waters off Maui picked up the tweets of the humpbacks, and the Whalesong Project streamed them over the Internet. Deep Space then relayed the signals toward the star Sirius.
Whale songs weren't the only music transmitted on Friday. After the Sirius Institute's message was transmitted, Deep Space aired the debut of an entire album, "Sentimental Junk," recorded by the pop group Black Eyed Soul, Lewis said. Yet another transmission, commissioned by the Orange County Register, beamed out short messages from the newspaper's readers.
You can see and hear what Deep Space transmitted by logging onto the company's online archive (free registration required).
It's highly debatable whether any aliens could hear the songs, even assuming that aliens actually exist. Researchers specializing in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, say signals of the kind sent out by Deep Space would fade out just a couple of light-years away from Earth, but Lewis said civilizations more advanced than ours still might be able to make out even an ultra-faint signal. (For what it's worth, Sirius the star is 8.7 light-years away.)
Aliens may well hear from the humpbacks by another means: Whale songs were included on the "Golden Record" that was carried aboard each of the two Voyager deep-space probes launched in 1977.
For Hyson, it's the thought that counts. "We consider this event to be sponsored by what we call the Cetacean Commonwealth, the whales along with the people who support them in an attempt to give them legal status and a voice," he said.
The Sirius Institute has been working on several projects to bring humans and cetaceans closer together, including plans for dolphin-attended underwater births, interspecies concerts and experiments aimed at translating the pitch-based dolphin language into human phonemes.
"It's rumored that the Navy has interfaces similar to this going already," Hyson said.
If such experiments are successful, Sirius' ultimate aim is to extend the same type of protections to whales and dolphins that humans now enjoy. It's an intriguing thought that has been debated for decades, if not centuries: Do we already share the planet with alien intelligences? Or are the thought processes of cetaceans, chimpanzees and cephalopods too alien to be considered on a par with human intelligence?
The idea reminds me of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's famous pronouncement: "If a lion could talk, we would not understand him."
If this is a tangent you wouldn't mind going off on, check out this section from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Wittgenstein and this New York Times excerpt from the book "If a Lion Could Talk," as well as this Satya review of the book. Then let me know what you think about the prospects for communicating with aliens on planet Earth.
Correction from 10:35 p.m. ET April 21: A Cosmic Log correspondent points out that in "Star Trek IV," the Enterprise itself did not go back in time. "The crew actually used an old Klingon bird of prey that they had hijacked in the third movie in the series," Ed writes.
• April 21, 2005 |
8:45 p.m. ET
Comet crater contest: How big a hole will NASA's Deep Impact probe blow in Comet Tempel 1 on the Fourth of July? Today the Planetary Society announced the "Great Comet Contest," which will offer cool prizes for the best guesser.
Deep Impact, which was launched in January , is due to put a copper-sheathed impactor in the path of the zooming comet on July 4 for a fireworks show that just might be visible from Earth. If all goes according to plan, the impact should blast a crater on the order of 330 feet wide (100 meters wide) in the dirty snowball — spraying out bits that the main spacecraft will analyze for chemical clues to the solar system's origins.
The Planetary Society will be accepting predictions of the precise crater size from now until the big blast. After impact, the mission's science team will provide its assessment of how big the crater turned out to be, and the guessers who come closest to the mark will receive prizes including copper commemorative plaques, lifetime society memberships and paper models of the Deep Impact spacecraft.
Check out the Planetary Society's detailed rules and the online submission form — and while you're at it, keep tabs on the status of the society-sponsored Cosmos 1 solar-sail mission, scheduled for launch by May 31.
• April 21, 2005 |
8:45 p.m. ET
Scientific smorgasbord on the Web:
• The Guardian: The end of oil is closer than you think
• Wired.com: Hybrid could fill Humvee's boots
• Nat'l Geographic: Cavers reach new 'bottom of the world'
• The Globe and Mail: Bigfoot video wows Canadians
• April 20, 2005 |
8:30 p.m. ET
Mars rovers show their age: One year after their missions were supposed to have ended, NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers are still going and going ... but they're not going quite as well as they used to. In fact, it sounds as if the six-wheeled robots are experiencing some "senior moments."
Over the past week, Spirit suffered a series of software glitches and struggled through rough terrain in the Red Planet's Columbia Hills. Half a planet away, Opportunity is coping with a bum steering motor and encountered problems as it rolled through a wavy sandscape in Meridiani Planum.
It shouldn't be surprising that problems occasionally crop up, considering that the rovers have far exceeded their planned 90-day mission. And despite the robotic aches and pains, the rovers are still turning up fascinating finds.
During the early phases of the mission, Opportunity was the darling of the scientific set, coming across the first solid evidence for persistent water on ancient Mars. But now, after a long slog into the hills, Spirit seems to be grabbing more of the attention, at least from the growing legions of amateur rover-watchers.
Nowadays, if you're just checking NASA's official Mars rover Web site, you're not getting the whole story. On the Mars Forum, bulletin-board posters gush over features like the "right-angle rock" in this picture from Spirit's navigation camera. On Unmanned Spaceflight, the real prize appears to be an outcropping called Methuselah, or "Meth" for short.
One posting quotes Cornell University's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for rover science, as saying Methuselah is "a spectacular outcrop of layered rock, perhaps the best that Spirit has yet seen." Although NASA itself hasn't yet released any color imagery of the locale, amateurs have posted a jaw-dropping color panorama.
It's interesting to see how amateurs have really set the pace in distributing rover imagery, drawing upon the Exploratorium's excellent database. If you're an image-processing geek, or just someone who appreciates cool color pictures from Mars (and who doesn't?), be sure to check Daniel Crotty's "MER Color Imagery" page.
• April 20, 2005 |
8:30 p.m. ET
Great news for Genesis: It didn't look good when the Genesis solar-wind probe literally fell to Earth last September, due to a parachute glitch. Many of the delicate sample-collection disks were shattered by the impact. But now that scientists have had a chance to examine four key collectors placed inside an instrument called the concentrator, they say the most important solar-wind samples were intact after all.
Scientists will analyze the samples to measure solar-oxygen isotopic composition, one of the Genesis mission's top scientific priorities. The results could shed new light on how the solar system was formed billions of years ago.
"Finding these concentrator targets in excellent condition after the Genesis crash was a real miracle," Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory, principal investigator for the concentrator, said in today's NASA statement. "It raised our spirits a huge amount the day after the impact. With the removal of the concentrator targets this week, we are getting closer to learning what these targets will tell us about the sun and our solar system."
• April 20, 2005 |
8:30 p.m. ET
Your daily dose of science on the Web:
• Science @ NASA: Solar eclipse on the moon
• Moscow News: Astrologer sues over Deep Impact
• Discovery.com: Detector finds Earth's solid core
• Scientific American: How to build a nanocomputer
• April 19, 2005 |
9:45 p.m. ET
The pitfalls of physics: A century after his heyday, Albert Einstein is a true cultural icon , as shown in our special report marking the centennial of the physicist's "miracle year." He's been justly credited for the ideas behind lasers and photocells, and perhaps unjustly blamed for darker facets of modern life such as nuclear weaponry.
But it wasn't just his brilliance that set him apart from his contemporaries, according to University of Chicago physicist Robert Geroch, whose commentary appears in a newly published edition of Einstein's "Relativity."
"What was so special about him is that he did give a human face to science," he told me. "It would be great if people could get that as the legacy of Einstein: that science is a human process rather than something that's cast in stone or unchangeable. It doesn't fall from the sky. It's the result of people making hard decisions and spending long hours trying to find out how nature works."
Einstein made plenty of mistakes along the way, including his back-and-forth over the cosmological constant as well as his many false steps along the path toward the theory of general relativity. As detailed in "Reflections on Relativity," Einstein poked fun at his own willingness to admit mistakes in a 1915 letter to fellow physicist Paul Ehrenfest: "That fellow Einstein suits his convenience," he wrote. "Every year he retracts what he wrote the year before." (Discover magazine goes into more detail on "The Master's Mistakes.")
Einstein's playful image — with the unkempt hair and the bike-riding around Princeton — was a sure antidote for the usual stereotypes of his trade. In that, he was like a certain Polish pope who was known to hit the ski slopes and wear funny hats.
On that theme, Pope John Paul II's freshly named successor has decried what he sees as today's "dictatorship of relativism," but it would be a mistake to blame moral relativism on the theory of relativity: As a matter of fact, physicist Richard Wolfson, author of the book "Simply Einstein," notes that Einstein had considered calling it the "theory of invariance," since relativity's true bottom line is that the laws of physics are universal and unvarying. Now that's something that even Benedict XVI could get behind.
Even today, there are pitfalls awaiting would-be Einsteins, and not all of them have to do with physics. Here's a selection of the feedback sparked by this week's special report on Einstein's legacy:
Vijay Sreedhar: "Even though Einstein was only a clerk at the patent office, and even though he had no connections to academia, he was able to submit and get his papers published in a professional physics journal. All those papers were revolutionary. They began with destroying the accepted wisdom of academia. Yet, not only did the journal publish his submissions, but the editor and the reviewers did not even hesitate a bit.
"How could this be? We all know of the horror stories (actual documented facts) of the journals being so difficult to get published in: Only those who have been in the good books of the editors have an easy time. For others, it is hell. Not that the ones published are so watertight and the ones rejected are crackpots. It is very well known that favoritism, personal bias, revenge, etc., play the dominant role in technical publications. This has been going on for at least several decades. ...
"So the question to you is: How can a new truly revolutionary physicist break on to the scence today? The establishment crushes those who are outside of reputed academia. The majority of physicists are not objective, but bandwagon travelers. The science journalists are not persevering enough to follow through a newly revolutionary principle which has been ignored by the academic establishment. Einstein got his papers published, but if it were not for the liking and influence-wielding of powerful icons (such as Planck and Eddington), he would have bit the dust.
"So, it seems, there will not be any new Einsteins. Not because there is no one with such revolutionary ideas, but because the entire process makes sure he/she is ignored. The only ones who are crowned 'revolutionary' are the ones the establishment (some influential physicist who also knows how to do propaganda) picks up.
"It is so American, just like the political machinary that declares some presidents great, not because of their virtue, but because of the manipulated consensus managed by an unscrupulous political pundit."
It's important to note that Einstein's scientific career didn't begin with his "miracle year" in 1905. In fact, this Einstein Year timeline shows that he had at least five papers published in Annalen der Physik before 1905, and wrote a number of reviews as well. So when Einstein came up with special relativity, he wasn't quite as unknown as Vijay's message makes him out to be.
C.L. Omohundro, reflecting on the status of women on the frontiers of physics : "My sister-in-law is a civil engineer with a master's degree. She found out that she was being paid less than any of the four men she was supervising. When I asked her why she didn't file a federal complaint, she said, 'If you file a complaint like that in this business, you'll never work again.' Less than a year later the firm 'downsized,' and she was one of the first laid off.
"I studied nuclear engineering myself. One of my male professors told me to get out of the discipline — it was too dangerous. Genetically speaking, he was right. But it's just as dangerous for men — gamma radiation doesn't discriminate between testes and ovaries. I don't think he ever ran off any of his male students with that routine. I had a B-plus GPA, but I dropped out, because it was abundantly clear that women had no future in that field, regardless of their intellectual capabilities.
"The real issue in sexism, whether it's in the scientific community or any other, is pay. And if a group, any group, is discriminated against for reasons that have nothing whatever to do with the 'job,' then it's not simply sexism or racism or ageism, it's slavery. If one group gets a corner on the market, so to speak, and uses mythical reasons to discriminate against qualified workers, we have a slave state.
"If no one ever does a public survey of the comparative salaries and benefits for the Harvard faculty based on gender then there will never be public recognition of the existence of that particular slave state. And of course, no one ever will. At least, no one at Harvard. The male faculty want you to think they dominate the numbers and command the highest salaries because they are in some way superior, even though they aren't. To do a survey would cause everyone to recognize that and, even worse, that they are also running a state of slavery. Believe me, there will NEVER be a survey.
"I appreciate your articles about women in scientific areas (outside of pediatrics!) and hope your editor won't get too nervous if you do more. I see that you have touched on the subject of Einstein's first collaborator, [Mileva] Maric, whose name he removed from the manuscript he submitted to the Nobel committee. The local PBS station here ran a special on her, titled 'Einstein's Wife.' It should have been titled 'Einstein's Collaborator.'"
PBS offers a Web site for "Einstein's Wife," as well as the beginnings of a Web site for the upcoming "Nova" docudrama "E=mc2." And while we're on the subject...
Gildardo Rivas: "A lot of people mistake the influence of the famous equation E=mc2 in the development of nuclear physics. But I must point out the connection between that equation and nuclear energy is a tenuous one at best.
"It is true that the validity of the equation is manifest in nuclear reactions (the tenuous connection), which was noticed in the late 1930s when nuclear fission was discovered, but it was not envisioned by the people working it that field then. There is no logical or conceptual connection between nuclear energy and relativity, and there never was a physicist that read the 1905 paper and realized 'E=mc2, ergo we must have energy from the atom' — that just never happened, neither literally nor figuratively.
"The notion of nuclear energy came from the study of the atomic nucleus by means of quantum mechanics, which traces part of its conceptual lineage to Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect in his earlier paper of 1905, in which he used the particle description of light. It was the scientists who developed that notion that laid the groundwork for nuclear energy and weapons.
"The fact that an equation from relativity is obeyed in nuclear physics is simply a consistency check by nature, since other relativistic equations are also verified in other physical processes, the same way that the laws of thermodynamics are obeyed in nuclear physics and other areas of science. Nobody developing or using thermodynamics envisioned energy from the nucleus!
"I believe the confusion stems from the fact that Einstein's influence on quantum mechanics came from his photoelectric effect paper, written the same year as his relativity papers, and from his famous letter sent to President Roosevelt (written at the behest of Leo Szilard and Oppenheimer) urging him to do research to develop nuclear weaponry before Germany. Einstein himself remained skeptical of quantum mechanics, and therefore its explanation of nuclear energy, to his death. ..."
• April 19, 2005 |
9:45 p.m. ET
Wonder and whimsy on the World Wide Web:
• New Scientist: Computer generates verifiable math proof
• Times of London: Gibberish puts scientists to shame
• Slate: How much for that monkey?
• The Onion: Fifth-grade science paper flunks peer review
• April 18, 2005 |
8:30 p.m. ET
Constant controversy continues: Is the speed of light really constant, or does it change over time? Even as scientists mark the centenary of Albert Einstein's "miracle year" and today's 50th anniversary of his death, they're turning up new grist for the debate over the value of "c" in his most famous equation, E=mc2.
Over the years, some physicists have been developing evidence that a fundamental value known as the fine-structure constant wasn't really all that constant after all, but has been changing ever so slightly over the course of billions of years. That constant, known in the physics world as "alpha," has an indirect relationship to the speed of light and the charge of the electron.
If the fine-structure constant turns out to be inconstant, that could require adding unorthodox twists to Einstein's theories on relativity and quantum physics. In fact, Australian physicist/author Paul Davies has said such findings would require "giving up the theory of relativity and E=mc2 and all that sort of stuff."
The claims of inconstancy also give encouragement to those who read the Bible as a scientific text.
For years, physicists have been debating whether the differences truly represented a change in the constant or merely blips within the observational margin of error. Just last week, Cambridge astronomer Michael Murphy said a detailed study of distant quasars confirmed the view that the fine-structure constant was indeed changing. But he acknowledged that the change was incredibly minute — about one part in 200,000 — and said the case was far from closed.
"We are claiming something extraordinary here, and the evidence, though strong, is not yet extraordinary enough," he said.
Today, physicists involved in the wider-scale DEEP2 galaxy survey presented strong evidence on the other side of the debate: They saw no change over the past 7 billion years, within a 1-part-in-30,000 tolerance. Moreover, the scientists said their observational technique was a more direct way to measure the fine-structure constant than the quasar method used in the past.
"This null result means theorists don't need to find an explanation for why it would change so much," said Jeffrey Newman, an astronomer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The DEEP2 presentation was made during the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Tampa, Fla.
So there's no need to throw out Einstein's theories just yet. But Murphy was still probably correct last week when he said the debate wasn't over. In fact, future findings from the DEEP2 project could well address yet another of the mysteries hanging over the theories, relating to the nature of dark energy .
• April 18, 2005 |
8:30 p.m. ET
Must-see science on the World Wide Web:
• The Independent: Classical Holy Grail decoded
• Science News: Navigating celestial currents
• Times of London: Earth's gravity may lure asteroid
• Science Daily: Happiness may be due to biology
The fine print: Looking for older items? Check the Cosmic Log archive. Share your perspective on cosmic subjects with Alan Boyle. If you link to this page, you can use http://cosmiclog.msnbc.com or http://www.cosmiclog.com as the address. MSNBC is not responsible for the content of Internet links.


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The Leading Virtual World for Teenagers Creates New 'Heroes' Character
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - January 27, 2009 - NBC.com and Habbo, the largest online virtual world for teens, announced today the launch of a new, virtual 'Heroes' character, which was created by Habbo and will live on Habbo.com and 'Heroes' Evolutions, the on-air show's interactive Web site at www.nbc.com/Heroes/evolutions/.
While following directions from a mysterious virtual messenger, the new character will take the audience on an adventure as she discovers the history of 'Heroes' through a journey that travels back and forth between Habbo.com and the 'Heroes' Evolutions site.
"We're excited to work with Habbo to introduce a new character that will extend the enormously popular and Emmy� Award winning 'Heroes' interactive story beyond the official Web site on NBC.com," said Stephen Andrade, senior vice president, Digital Development and General Manager, NBC.com.
On Habbo.com, fans of the show will be able to interact with the new virtual hero through a variety of in-game activities. Habbos participating in a weeklong quest will discover their own special powers and will be recruited as new heroes. Those who successfully complete the mission will be awarded various virtual prizes.
On the 'Heroes' Evolutions site, the new virtual hero will be woven into several of the in-universe, interactive extensions of the on-air show, including a character profile, the Primatech Paper Assignment Tracker and new chapters of the 'Heroes' graphic novels.
"Habbo is taking an original approach to working with an incredibly popular TV show," said Teemu Huuhtanen, executive vice president, Marketing and Business Development, Sulake Corporation and president, North America, Sulake Inc. "By partnering with NBC.com, we are extending the 'Heroes' brand and connecting our audience to the television program in a unique and creative new way."
The agreement was brokered by the William Morris Agency and marks the first time 'Heroes' has partnered with a virtual world.
There are currently Habbo communities in 33 countries on six continents. To date, over 121 million Habbo characters have been created and more than 11.5 million unique users worldwide visit Habbo each month. (source: Google Analytics). More than 90% of Habbo users are 13-18 years old and the gender split is roughly equal (56% boys; 44% girls). Habbo users spend an average of 45 minutes on the site per visit.
About NBC.com
NBC.com, the Emmy Award-winning broadcast network website, is a leading online and mobile destination for television and interactive entertainment. With both derivative and web-exclusive programming, NBC.com pioneered the "360" experience with "Heroes 360," which gave viewers a way to extend their entertainment experience beyond the broadcast, and the first weekly social networking experience attached to a primetime entertainment program with "Dunder Mifflin Infinity." The site offers full episode streaming of many NBC Entertainment shows as well as short clips, interactive games and social networking, including user-generated content. NBC.com continually develops new ways for consumers to experience entertainment content on both existing and emerging platforms. The site is the recipient of multiple Emmy and Webby awards for its content and applications. Please log on to www.nbc.com to learn more
About Habbo
Habbo is a richly colorful, multi-dimensional virtual world and community for teens. Users join by creating a fully customized online character called a Habbo. From there, they can explore many public hang-outs, participate in a variety of activities, connect with friends, decorate their own rooms, and have fun through creativity and self expression. Currently there are Habbo communities in 33 countries on six continents. To date, 121 million Habbo characters have been created and 11.5 million unique users worldwide visit Habbo each month (source: Google Analytics).


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Breakfast and lunch service will be available to all students. Breakfast costs $1.75 and lunch costs $3.10 . Reduced breakfast costs $.30 and reduced lunch costs $.40. Acadiana Renaissance Charter Academy will participate in the National School Lunch Program and free or reduced pricing will be available to those students who meet the guidelines.
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To save you time and effort, the information you gave on your Free and Reduced Price School Meals Application may be shared with other programs for which your children may qualify. For the following programs, we must have your permission to share your information. Sending in this form will not change whether your children get free or reduced price meals. Download Authorization Release Form.
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ACAD_Health_Inspection_03.21.18 (pdf)
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The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act requires school cafeterias to meet new federal nutrition standards for school lunches and breakfasts. Read our "School Meals Have Changed!" to learn more!
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A stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe and Place de l'Etoile sits the latest work of Parisian architect and former WAN AWARDS winner Manuelle Gautrand. The marble-effect skin encloses the new home of Barclays Headquarters in the French capital, bathed in natural light which permeates through the double layer of glass and thin, printed panelling.
Manuelle Gautrand Architects originally intended to utilise 'real' marble in the construction of this daring street-facing façade, however opted for marble-patterned, screen-printed glass in order to operate full control over the aesthetics, prevent decrystallisation of overly-thinned marble slabs, and to ensure that the tones within the panels blended seamlessly with those of the neighbouring buildings. The symmetrical panels were created in an 'open book' format and fade in hue from a darker strip in the centre of the façade to lighter, more delicate tones on the peripheries.
This project is not a new build but a spectacular transformation of an existing structure, with a striking new extension to the rear. The additional volume has been inserted between two courtyard gardens and clad in a textured concrete façade. At the moment this concrete was poured, a crosspiece pattern was placed in the bottom of the form in order to achieve a thin and graphic texture. The façade was then coated in a holographic glaze to add a colourful aesthetic to the interior courtyard.
Located in a luxurious area of Paris, this renewed commercial building is comprised of high level offices, a welcoming lobby area, cafeteria, six meeting rooms, underground parking facilities, a courtyard garden, and a gardened rooftop. Due to the prominent, overlooked site location, Manuelle Gautrand Architects approached the rooftop design as a fifth façade and therefore ensured that all roofs were either accessible or pleasing on the eye.
The practice has also been careful to align the building's new form with the HQE standards (High Environmental Quality), fitting all fourteen criteria outlined by the NF bâtiments tertiaires - Démarche HQE®. These include the operation of a construction site with minimal environmental nuisance, the harmonious relationship of the building with its immediate environment, acoustic comfort, and the selection of sustainable products and construction methods.


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KDE to Demo at Montréal's Copyright and You Day
KDE will be present at the Droit D'auteur et Vous event in Montréal (Québec) on July 3rd. The event is to promote Free Software and Richard Stallman will be giving a talk on copyright. There is an expo for LUGs and other organisations where KDE has booked a stall to show off the latest KDE & KOffice and to hand out limited edition Kubuntu CDs. I will need people to man the stall and to print posters and flyers, please contact the kde-promo list if you can help.
Possibly Can Help
There is a POSSIBILITY I can be in the Montreal area that day.. although I don't speak French..
Please get in touch with me if you are interested in help manning the booth. Can't guarantee anything at this point, but I will be travelling to Ottawa for sure around that time, and if it works out, could drive on to Montreal.
By Ian Scott at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Re: Possibly Can Help
"please contact the kde-promo list if you can help."
By A non at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Re: Possibly Can Help
Anyone else lives in or near Montreal :)
By fp at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Re: Possibly Can Help
Yup. ME!!! Wheee!!!
By cowardus anonymous at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Re: Possibly Can Help
yes, you'll be welcome. It does not matter if you don't speak French, most people understand English. And we'll be complementary as my spoken English is quite awful!
By Anne-Marie Mahfouf at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Re: Possibly Can Help
Don't worry about the language issue, most people here speak and understand english no problem. Too bad I can't be there, I would have offered my help.
By Steven Hebert at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Wish I could be there.
Oh man.. I wish I could be there! I always enjoy Stallman's talks, and since KDE is both the first Free Software i startet taking interest in, and still is my most dearly beloved project, it would have been so nice to be there [*Sob-Sob*] :-)
But speaking of Copyright/Free Software/KDE, I would like to point out that I find the QPL/GPL -> LGPL situation with KDE more ideal for Free Software then the vanilla LGPL situation found in other popular DEs. Reasoning as follows:
Plain LGPL: ClosedCorp(TM) can pretty much give heck in our community.
Plain GPL : ClosedCorp(TM) can go hang, or play everything according to our rules, which they wont. So instead they try to out-lobby us and what-not.
QPL/GPL -> LGPL: Weee! ClosedCorp(TM) can choose a mixed situation as they see fit. They can go all Free Software, and they can go all Non Free too... But in any case that involves Non Free they pay runtime license to Trolltec, who in terms again uses [some of] that money on the X server, the KDE, on Qt itself..
*What a treat*! The latter situation is almost like having a Free Software Tax! Of course Trolltec is not "bound" by the wishes/demands of the community, but they have always played nice and fair with us, so we don't develop a reason to threatten them with a mulitplatform LGPL Qt-Clone ;-)
Have a Nice and Free Day(TM)
By macavity at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Re: Wish I could be there.
No dice for Stallman ever coming to the KDE side. No matter how much he is for pure GPL (which of course is the ultimate downfall of KDE), he is such a megalomaniac that anything that has GNU in its name GNOME will always have Stallman on its side.
By rogue at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Wish I could be there.
IIRC, there are NO runtime licenses for QT, only developer licences... Am I wrong?
By Renaud at Tue, 2005/07/05 - 5:00am
Re: Wish I could be there.
This is correct for the desktop products.
The embedded product has licences per unit if I remember correctsly, but that is common practice in that business sector.
By Kevin Krammer at Tue, 2005/07/05 - 5:00am
partly translated
Richard Stallman will give his speech in english, but the panel will be bilingual, and most of the kiosks will be hosted by bilingual people. Also, there's a translation of the site slowly being updated:
By Robin Millette at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
Re: partly translated
If you (or anyone else reading this) is going, and has acces to a video-camara, then please, please, please record his speach (and a lot from the kiosk too!) and make an/several ISO MPEG4 ;-) files. If nessecary you can contact me here, and get my e-mail (I have 4GB mail storage), or my physical address to send me a VHS if you dont have video-in gear. I will go bug my university for serverspace for it (they mirror mostly anything anyway).
By Macavity at Thu, 2005/06/23 - 5:00am
FILMING, was Re: partly translated
hey, just a note for those who are interested in getting footage from this event -- indymedia volunteers will be there to shoot film, and everything will be available shortly via http://quebec.indymedia.org
we will also try to provide translation / subtitles as necessary (and as time allows).
By simms [quebec.i... at Sun, 2005/07/03 - 5:00am
You can't get a more rational spokesman for open source than RMS.
By rogue at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: Great
RMS is no "open source" spokesman. Free Software Foundation, repeat after me ;)
By Robin Millette at Tue, 2005/06/28 - 5:00am
How about a better (closer) location?
I'd like to see one of these Linux-fests somewhere closer to Columbia, MO, where I live. St. Louis or Kansas City would also work. I have family in Atlanta- even there would be fine. It stinks that most of these events are hundreds or thousands of miles away from anywhere I have any excuse to go.
By SuSE_User at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
Re: How about a better (closer) location?
Just organize one yourself (like the two most recent KDE events were organized), I'm sure there are local people willing to join, and if you can organize funding get some 'higher rank' speakers as well.
By ac at Fri, 2005/06/24 - 5:00am
I'll try to be there
I'm currently in Montreal (for the summer) but... I'm going to Toronto next weekend (3 day vacation)! I wish I heard this before :( Oh well, I'll try to be back around 18h on sunday (I guess it would be too late to help unfortunately...), so mabye see you there!
By Pierre-Étienne ... at Mon, 2005/06/27 - 5:00am


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While the relationship between England and her American colonies was turning sour, a Scotch-Irish settler named William Bratton migrated to northwestern South Carolina, where he became a local officeholder, a slaveowner, and a colonel in the militia. His sons were substantial men in their own right; one of them, a doctor, built his own house a stone's throw from the one where his father had lived, and later descendants continued to build on and farm the land near William's original farm. This collection of homes, plantations, stores, and taverns acquired the name "Brattonsville" from the family that prospered there for several generations.
Today Historic Brattonsville is an outdoor museum and living history site, one of a chain of York County's Culture and Heritage Museums, which range in subject matter from local history to the environment. By preserving the homes and stories of successive generations of the Bratton family, the site allows visitors to explore the history of upper South Carolina from its settlement in the pre-Revolutionary years through the late nineteenth century. I'd always missed it on my trips through that part of South Carolina, so this time I made it a priority, and I'm glad I did. It's worth seeing.
The Revolutionary backcountry is only part of the story told at Brattonsville, but it's probably the one most familiar to many of the history enthusiasts who visit. In fact, the property includes the site of a small but significant Revolutionary War battle in which William Bratton participated. In the summer of 1780, as partisan militia rallied to harass the British who occupied South Carolina, a detachment under the command of the despised Captain Christian Huck of the British Legion came to the Brattonsville area looking to arrest Whig leaders. One Loyalist threatened William Bratton's wife with a reaping hook, an incident re-told in many accounts of the backcountry war. On July 11 Huck and his men camped at James Williamson's plantation, just a short distance from Bratton's house. Bratton himself was one of the militiamen who surprised them there the next morning. It was a short fight, lasting only ten or fifteen minutes, and there were only a few hundred men involved, but it cost Huck his life and was one of the first Whig victories following the fall of Charleston. It's the kind of thing that would have made a rollicking sequence in The Patriot, and indeed some scenes from that movie were filmed at Brattonsville. (Let me add a plug here for the thoroughly-researched book on Huck's Defeat by historian Michael Scoggins, who works for Culture and Heritage Museums.)
There are about thirty historic or recreated structures to see at Historic Brattonsville, many of them original to the Bratton plantation but others moved from the surrounding region to illustrate life in upper South Carolina from the 1760's to the late 1800's. They include William Bratton's Revolutionary-era house, the large two-story "Homestead" built by his son, a couple of later homes inhabited by other Bratton descendants, some representative examples of backcountry cabins, various plantation outbuildings and barns, and a few slave dwellings. The staff raise animals here, most of them breeds that were once common on American farms but are now quite scarce. Adjacent to the buildings are several trails that wind among lovely woods and ponds and past the Huck's Defeat battleground.
It's largely a self-guided tour. At the visitor center you pick up a walking map with information about the buildings, and a small exhibit area and orientation film help to provide some context for what you'll be seeing. A couple of costumed guides escorted me through the Homestead house, but you're mostly on your own, and you can therefore wander around the grounds and through the open structures at your own pace. The map and some signage provide the basics on names, dates, and uses, but you don't always get the rich depth that a guided tour provides, although I enjoyed the freedom to explore. The orientation room in the visitor center has some background information and a few display cases, including props from The Patriot. I'd advise you to visit Brattonsville's website, which has more detailed background material on the larger buildings and the Bratton family, so that you can get the most out of a visit.
That's not to say that there aren't many interpreters onsite. Brattonsville has an active and exemplary living history program. On the day I visited the focus was on antebellum slavery, and there were both lectures, demonstrations, and scripted reenactment scenarios, all of them very well-done. The personnel were knowledgeable and enthusiastic; they fielded questions with ease, and the visitors were interested and having a good time. The interpretations weaved the stories of the Brattons and their enslaved laborers together very deftly.
There is plenty to take in, but most of it's within a fairly compact area. To check out the buildings and hit the Huck's Defeat battleground took me a little over two hours. If you decide to hike the longer nature trails, expect to spend quite a bit longer, because they're quite extensive. The visitor center has a small shop, stocked mostly with gift and decorative items, but there are a few southern history books on sale, too. It's an extremely pleasant setting, in a rural part of York County; visiting would be an enjoyable experience even for people who aren't particularly interested in history.
What I find compelling about this site is the fact that it encompasses such a panorama of South Carolina history—the frontier backcountry, the furious partisan fighting of the Revolution, the antebellum years, the Civil War, and the troubled era that followed. Because the Brattons lived there during all these events, their story is essentially the story of the Carolina backcountry, from its settlement to the late 1800's. Historic Brattonsville is a fine example of preservation and interpretation, combining an intimate portrait of one family with the grand sweep of more than a century's worth of history in one of the most fascinating regions in America. Put this site on your itinerary when you travel to western South Carolina.


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NEW YORK -- Todd Frazier of the Cincinnati Reds and a native of Point Pleasant, N.J., has designated the Baseball United Foundation's "Grand Slam for Sandy" fundraising effort as the recipient of a $10,000 grant from the Major League Baseball Players Trust.
The donation is part of a $20,000 charitable contribution Frazier received for being named the 2012 National League Outstanding Rookie in Players Choice Awards balloting. 2012 Players Choice Award winners in all categories will designate charities to receive grants totaling $260,000 from the Major League Baseball Players Trust.
Through its "Grand Slam for Sandy" fundraising effort, the Baseball United Foundation is providing much-needed relief to families in Monmouth County, N.J., who were affected by Hurricane Sandy.
"When Sandy hit, I knew I wanted to help out in some way. Anytime you can help families get back on their feet after such devastation, it is a no brainer," Frazier said.
The "Grand Slam for Sandy" fundraiser was started by Boston Red Sox Minor League catcher Jayson Hernandez and his former Rutgers teammate Rob Corsi, in conjunction with the Baseball United Foundation. Many donations have come from the duo's connections in college and professional baseball.
"The Jersey Shore is my home, and it has been devastated," explained Hernandez from the Red Sox Spring Training complex in Fort Myers, Fla. "I want to thank everyone who has donated to the cause -- especially Todd Frazier and the Major League Baseball Players Trust."
The "Grand Slam for Sandy" fundraiser is raising much-needed funds for families affected by Hurricane Sandy. Money raised is being dispersed directly to families whose homes were badly damaged or destroyed by the storm, as well as organizations assisting those affected in Union Beach, N.J.
The Players Trust raises funds and attention for issues affecting the needy and promotes community involvement. Since 1992, the Players Trust has recognized the outstanding on-field and off-field performances of Players Choice Awards winners by contributing more than $3 million to charities around the world.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wordless Wednesday: J.V. Brinlee and Air Force Class
Here is a picture of my father, Junior Varnell "Barney" Brinlee, with his Air Force class. He is the second one from the right in the front row; the picture would have been taken in the early 1950s. My husband says that the aircraft you see in the picture is a B-47 Stratojet.
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I love these old group pictures. I just wish there was some way to follow all the stories.ReplyDelete
I do, too. I have my father's service records and I was thinking of trying to look his unit up - maybe there is something on it online. If not, maybe I should start something.ReplyDelete
This is a wonderful picture, Greta! Glad you posted it.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Becky. One of the reasons I decided to post it was the big smile my Dad has on his face in it.ReplyDelete
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CHICAGO (AP) — It was far from a quiet offseason for the Chicago Bears, and now they really hope to make some noise.
They committed long term to quarterback Jay Cutler. They brought in five-time Pro Bowl defensive end Jared Allen to ignite their dormant defense. And they set their sights on a playoff run after missing out for the sixth time in seven years.
Anything less would be a letdown for the Bears. With training camp set to start in Bourbonnais, Illinois, they envision bigger things after going 8-8 in their first season under coach Marc Trestman. If they're going to improve, a rebuilt defense has to step up.
Allen, 32, is the centerpiece of the makeover, the prized signing in free agency. The Bears lured him out of Minnesota to replace Julius Peppers with a four-year contract, hoping he can boost a defense that ranked 30th overall, had trouble stopping the run and pressuring the quarterback.
No question, he was the biggest addition. The biggest move, though, was locking in Cutler. The Bears kept him off the market with a seven-year deal. In doing so, they made it clear they are committed to Cutler, that they believe he can reach his potential under Trestman and lead them to a Super Bowl.
Having two elite receivers in Brandon Marshall, who signed a three-year extension while on ABC's "The View," and Alshon Jeffery along with a top running back in Matt Forte doesn't hurt, either.
With the offensive line holding its ground after getting a major overhaul, the Bears' offense ranked among the league's best in Trestman's first season.
Now, Chicago needs more from the defense. Here are some things to look for as the Bears open training camp:
• PRESSURE POINT: The Bears replaced one accomplished pass rusher with another when they brought in Allen. But unlike Peppers, he has shown no signs of slowing down. And if the defense can at least make the jump to respectability, the Bears could wind up in the playoffs for just the second time since the 2006 team's Super Bowl run. With seven straight double-digit sack seasons, Chicago is counting on Allen to ignite what was a nonexistent pass rush. The Bears tied Jacksonville with a league-low 31 sacks and ranked last against the run, another area where he can help.
• ON SECOND(ARY) THOUGHT: The Bears believe the improvements they made up front will take the load off the secondary, specifically the beleaguered safety spots. Major Wright and Chris Conte both struggled last season. Wright is reunited with Lovie Smith in Tampa Bay. Conte remains, but the Bears brought in some competition, drafting cornerback Kyle Fuller in the first round and adding safeties Adrian Wilson, Ryan Mundy and M.D. Jennings to the mix.
• OFFENSIVE ENCORE: How much better can the offense be? The Bears were second behind Denver in points last season, and with all their starters back, big things are expected again. Of course, it would help if Cutler stayed healthy. He has missed at least one game in each of the past four seasons; he appeared in only 11 last year. And the Bears don't have backup Josh McCown if Cutler gets injured again. They do, however, have a year in the system and a familiarity with their coach that they lacked when camp opened a year ago.
• BACKUP ARMS RACE: With McCown now the starter in Tampa Bay after filling in admirably when Cutler was injured, the backup quarterback spot is a question mark. The Bears brought in former Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen to compete with the returning Jordan Palmer. With no proven backup, Bears fans are holding their breath, hoping Cutler remains on the field. Then again, they were doing that a year ago.
• NEW POSITION, NEW LEASE?: A gamble when they drafted Shea McClellin in the first round in 2012, the Bears are hoping a move from defensive end to linebacker leads to a bigger payoff from him. That's because the returns were minimal the first two years. McClellin had just four sacks last season. Question is: Will the move to linebacker bring out his potential?


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb baseball team officially opened spring practice on Friday, as it prepares for the start of the 2014 season on Feb. 14 with the first game in a three-game series with Evansville at Dugan Field.
The frigid 20-degree temperatures forced the Bisons inside for the first part of the day for some batting practice. They then took to the field for a short 4-inning scrimmage.
"Our team has been practicing all fall and preparing for the start of the season," Forehand said. "But when the first practice of the spring rolls around, our guys definitely has a different pep in their step.
"Today it was a little cold outside so we started out with some batting practice inside before we finished up with a four-inning scrimmage on the field. We were able to get a few pitchers some work to just get their feet wet. Our guys did a pretty good job of fighting the weather elements, but that is probably a little easier with it being the first practice of the spring."
The Bisons have just as many new faces as they do upper classmen entering the spring. For those freshmen it could be overwhelming at first, having never taken part in a collegiate game. But it is up to the staff and the veterans to get them ready.
"We try every year to prepare our younger guys for what college baseball is about with the intensity and atmosphere they are going to see," Forehand said. "We try to talk them through it so they will know what to expect.
"They do get a big dose of it in practice throughout the fall, but nothing can compare to a live game. But they will all still have some butterflies come opening day no matter how much we prepare them for February."
Forehand talks about some of the players he and his staff will look to for leadership on and off the field this season. He first mentioned the hurlers.
"Hunter Brothers is coming off of a draft year and we hope he can come back with another strong season for us this spring," Forehand said. "Jacob Knott returns for a fifth year after having several starts in the mid-week games in 2013 and hope he can slide over to be a weekend guy for us.
"We feel we have a great pitching staff and will need them all to step up for us. Will Blalock returns for his junior season. Denton Norman looks to improve on a year where he was able to get into the weekend rotation as a freshman. Ian Martinez and John Pryor are two new additions that we are excited about and ready to see what they can do for us. Drew Adams is coming off of a 2nd team All-Conference selection last year and as a Dugan Award winner, we are looking for him and Knott to be leaders amongst the staff.
Last season the Bisons were one of the top fielding teams in the conference. A .972 fielding percentage placed Lipscomb tied for second, while finishing third in errors (63) and turning the fourth-most double plays (55). As good as the Bisons were defensively in 2013, Forehand thinks his squad has a chance to be even better this spring.
"Mike Korte and Grant Massey are two JUCO transfers in the middle infield we are excited about defensively," Forehand said. "Austin Sistrunk will swing back over to third base for us after playing some second base last season.
"Josh Lee and Johnathan Allison are expected to have good seasons along with Griffin Moore. We have some experience behind the plate in senior Nick Rome and love what he will do for us. I don't want to leave anybody out because every player is just as important as the next."
One player Forehand will look to for production is Tyson Ashcraft. The Brentwood native led the team with a .303 batting average in his sophomore campaign, while driving in 29 runs. Ashcraft collected seven doubles, one triple and five homers. In 225 chances in the field, Ashcraft finished with a perfect fielding percentage (215 po, 10 a). He also saw action on the mound, fanning 18 batters in 18.2 innings of work.
"Tyson was a team leader on the field and in the classroom for us last year," Forehand said. "He led us in batting and was named to the A-Sun All-Academic team. He will be heavily relied upon this season to manufacutre runs for us. Tyson is a guy that can also play mulitple positions - third, first, outfield and also some pitcher. He is primed for a big year in 2014 and we expect nothing less. It will be fun to watch him on the diamond this spring and we all are looking forward to it."
Every year fans like to debate how this year's team compares to last year's. With each season brings a new team and from a coaching standpoint, there is no sense in looking at the past.
"We talk about that every year and we don't want to try and compare last year's team to this year's," Forehand said. "But this year's team is a blue collar, hardnosed team that is going to fight for every victory.
"We really locked in with a common purpose as we worked during the fall and now we just hope to continue in the spring what we've been doing all along so that we will be successful each and every week."
Forehand believes after seven years he has learned to handle the anticipation of a new season and all he and his staff can do is prepare and put their trust in the players.
"As a veteran now I don't know if my sleep pattern changes any," Forehand said. "I have confidence in our guys that they have prepared themselves the best they can. I look forward to being with those guys every day. If we can put in action what we've prepared each day, then we should be in good shape. Practice hard, train hard and prepare hard and we will have nothing to worry about.
"We have to play the best we can each and every day and I feel like our team is prepared to play any team in the country at any time. No matter the size of the school, Lipscomb can compete with anybody."
The Bisons continue with intrasquad scrimmages on Saturday and Sunday. All scrimmages are open to the public. Saturday's practice begins at 1 p.m. and Sunday's at 2 p.m. All fans are encouraged to come out and attend to show support for the Bisons as the season beings in 20 days.


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So I had an interesting idea. I am not sure if this has been done and it may not be cost efficient but has anyone ever heard of cachers making like trading cards out of the pictures of their finds? I would think that if it could be done as like a signature item it would be pretty cool.