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Welcome to the AAMA online store. There are a variety of books, course materials available.
Please NOTE that sales tax will be charged to anyone residing in the state of California.
By Bryan L. Frank, MD, FAAMA
Academy leaders have determined that the best care for patients includes a cooperative effort from the physician and non-physician acupuncture working together in greater accord. This presentation of The Best of Both Worlds is a brief review of the medical aspects of acupuncture in contemporary medicine. Dr. Frank encourages AAMA members to consider the great potential for professional satisfaction, potent patient care tools and personal rewards to be found in the field of medical acupuncture.
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The mailboxes download fine to the NE server and their sizes all match up as expected. However, they seem to be failing on the "upload" to the local server.
Some mailboxes have a few very old emails in them (like, 6-10 emails only) where there should be between 70 in one instance and a few thousand in another.
When working on a single mailbox, for example, I have noticed that it is a 12MB download which takes about 20 seconds. When it goes to "upload" it blazes through and all indications are that the transfer was a success.
Source and Target settings have been verified and nothing is showing in the FailedDirectory (but all accounts are in the SuccessDirectory).
I have tried it with resolve=reset and resolve=skip.
It is only a single domain which is listed in the Domains= line.
I have also tried it with and without DomainMap line (I have used DomainMap=domain.com domain.com)
Lastly, I have listed a few accounts, all accounts and one account in the Accounts= line (comma separated).
But for some reason the mailboxes are never uploaded.
I have the tgz files locally if that helps. I tried uploading them with this:
zmmailbox -v -u https://localhost:7071 -a [a valid admin account] -p [the password] -m firstname.lastname@example.com postRestURL "//?fmt=tgz&resolve=reset" /firstname.lastname@example.com
The above with localhost:7071 and the FQDN.
Running that I get this, regardless of account:
ERROR: service.FAILURE (system failure: POST failed, status=401 must authenticate)
com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException: system failure: POST failed, status=401 must authenticate
I'm pretty much at a loss here. Any ideas?

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Last week at the CASE district II conference I wrote a note to myself in one of the sessions about social media. I commented that people in the session seemed to think figuring this social media "thing" out was so hard. I had an experience this past week that makes it seem easy and just about connecting people.
You may have heard that we got a bit of snow here in the Mid-Atlantic region. A few of our alumni staff members built some snowmen outside of the main administration building and dressed them up in Gettysburg gear, and sent us a picture. (below) The online content editor used it as a photo of the day (http://www.gettysburg.edu/news_events/photo_archive.dot) and we posted the link to our Facebook Fan page. It took all of maybe 10 total minutes total to execute. What were the results?
14 likes and 2 positive comments on Facebook
The page on our photo of the day site that we linked to got close to 400 unique views (which is more than our average news story)
Social Media is all about connection. Connect people to what they remember, love, want to see about your school and you probably can't go wrong until the sun comes out and melts your snowmen away…


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (June 14, 2009) – It wasn't always pretty, but the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team came back from a 0-3 defeat on Saturday to beat Netherlands 3-2 (25-16, 30-32, 25-17, 20-25, 15-6) on Sunday and take a split of their first two 2009 FIVB World League matches.
Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) was the United States' lead scorer with 22 points on 17 kills, one block and four aces. Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) added 20 points on 19 kills and one block. Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) scored 17 points on 14 kills, two blocks and one ace and Andrew Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.) totaled 10 points on six kills, three blocks and one ace.
The U.S. Men out-blocked Netherlands 9-7 and had eight aces as compared to three for the Dutch. The U.S. Men converted 52 percent of their attack attempts while the Dutch were held to 47 percent.
"Yesterday we did not expect to lose, 3-0," U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) said. "We have changed our tactics and played with more aggression."
U.S. Men's Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) started Anderson and Rooney at outside hitter, David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and Hein at middle blocker, Patak at opposite, Suxho at setter and Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) at libero.
Middle blockers David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) all substituted for the U.S. Men.
Lee scored six points on four kills and two aces. Suxho had two points on one kill and one block and Smith had one point on one block.
Suxho was credited with 19 running sets (assists). Lambourne was credited with 15 "excellent" service receptions and 22 digs on 25 attempts.
The Netherlands' Robert Horstink led all scorers with 23 points on 22 kills and one block. But Netherlands did not get enough scoring from other players.
"We reacted very well after the match of yesterday," Lee said. "Today it was a real match. We have gained a lot of experience playing against a good team and in a great atmosphere."
The U.S. Men showed right away that Sunday would be different as they jumped to a 4-0 lead in the first set, including three points from Anderson's serves. Dutch Head Coach Peter Blangé called timeout, but things did not improve and he took another with his team trailing 6-11. Trailing 7-13, Blangé substituted setter Yannick van Harskamp for Roland Rademaker, but the U.S. Men led 16-8 at the second technical timeout (TTO) and went on to win the set 25-16.
Rooney and Patak kept up the scoring pressure in the second set and the U.S. took an early 6-4 lead. But the Dutch held an 8-7 advantage at the first TTO and a 16-14 edge on the second. A Patak ace gave the U.S. Men a 22-21 lead. But Netherlands reached set point first at 24-23. Anderson scored two points for Team USA as it took a 25-24 set point, but Netherlands held it off. At 31-30 the Dutch team had its sixth set-point. Jeroen Rauwerdink scored the winning set point for Netherlands.
The U.S. Men roared back in the third set and took a 6-2 lead. Holland did not have an answer for the pipe attacks of Suxho and Anderson. The gap increased to 16-10 despite attacks from left-handed opposite Niels Klapwijk who replaced 7-footer Kay van Dijk. Hein finished out the set with a block and a kill for the 25-17 U.S. set victory.
The Netherlands jumped to an 8-4 lead in the fourth set. Hein and Rooney helped keep the score close, but the Netherlands led 16-14 at the second TTO. The Americans even came back to tie it at 16-16. This woke the Dutch up and they accelerated to the 22-18 lead on the service of Klapwijk. Netherlands went on to win 25-20.
The U.S. Men quickly took control of the tiebreaker behind Rooney and Netherlands never recovered. Team USA won the set 15-6.
The U.S. Men will now travel to Italy for matches on June 19 and 21.
Read team leader Rob Browning's blog at http://usavolleyball.org/blog/blog/125.
World League Tickets: Tickets for the World League matches in San Jose, Calif., (June 26-27 against China), Hoffman Estates, Ill., (July 10-11 against Italy) and Wichita, Kan., (July 17-18 against Netherlands) are on sale.
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For more information on World League, please visit USA Volleyball's World League web site at http://usavolleyball.org/event/event/573.
To visit the FIVB World League web site, click here.
2009 U.S. World League Roster for June 13-14
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
7 Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8 Andrew Hein (MB, 6-11, Carol Stream, Ill., Pepperdine)
10 David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
11 Brook Billings (Opp, 6-5, Santa Barbara, Calif., USC)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
15 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
16 Jayson Jablonsky (OH, 6-5, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
19 Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawai'i)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato
Assistant Coach: John Hawks
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson
Team Doctor: Michael Terry
Medical Support: Aaron Brock
2009 FIVB World League Schedule and Results
Date: June 13-14
Opponent: Netherlands
Location: Rotterdam
June 13: Netherlands def. USA, 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 26-24)
June 14: USA def. Netherlands, 3-2 (25-16, 30-32, 25-17, 20-25, 15-6)
Date: June 19 and 21
Opponent: Italy
Location: Florence and Catania
Date: June 26-27 (7 p.m. both days)
Opponent: China
Location: San Jose State University Event Center Arena in San Jose, Calif.
Date: July 4-5
Opponent: China
Location: Nanjing
Date: July 10-11 (7 p.m. both days)
Opponent: Italy
Location: Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
Date: July 17-18 (7 p.m. both days)
Opponent: Netherlands
Location: Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kan.
Date: July 22-26
Event: Final Round (teams must qualify)
Opponents: TBD
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Winter Squash
By: Susan K. Wilkerson, RD, LD
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Squash comes in many different shapes and sizes. Different varieties are available throughout the year. Summer squash arrives in stores soon after harvest is meant to be eaten shortly there after. Winter squash is available in the summer and late fall. Winter squash are "good keepers" and became known as a winter vegetable because they would "keep" until December back in the days when refrigerators were not around. Winter squash is harvested when the "fruit" is fully matured. The skin is a deep, solid color with a hard skin. When you purchase them, the stem should be attached.
All varieties of winter squash are low in calories and are good sources for complex carbohydrates and fiber. They are excellent sources of Vitamin A and a very good source of Vitamin C, potassium, dietary fiber and manganese. They are also a good source of folate, omega 3 fatty acids, thiamin, copper, tryptophan, vitamin B6, niacin and pantothenic acid. They contain healthy supporting antioxidants – lutein and zeaxanthin.
It would take a whole page to describe all the healthy reasons to eat winter squash!
All varieties of winter squash are easy to prepare. For butternut and acorn squash, just cut the squash in half, remove the seeds and place in a baking dish with one inch of water to "steam." The squash is ready when it is fork tender. Remove the flesh from the skin with a spoon or just eat it out of it natural container. Spaghetti squash can be steamed whole in the oven or microwave. Once tender to touch, cut it in half, remove the seeds, and "rake" out the flesh with a fork. The flesh will look like spaghetti. You can serve it hot, tossed with a drizzle of olive oil and parmesan cheese or use it in place of spaghetti noodles and top with your favorite pasta sauce.
So, eat a variety of squash. They are delicious, good for you and add more color to you plate.


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Stevens Co-op Launches Hanh Schnell '91 into Lockheed Martin Senior Management
At just seven years of age, it was impossible for Stevens alumnus Hanh Schnell (B.E. in Electrical Engineering, 1991) to know that the giant Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft that brought her and her family from her native Saigon, Vietnam to her future New Jersey home was designed and built by the same company that would employ her for 21 years and counting.
But that's what happened.
The story began when Schnell arrived in the United Sates in 1975. Schnell entered the second grade knowing no English whatsoever, but she soon adapted easily the life in America. As she grew up, she abandoned her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut when she realized she suffered from motion sickness, but she continued to admire her male cousins who were studying engineering in college. She was the only girl enrolled in her high school's electronics electives. She even joined a Boy Scouts Explorers program to learn the basics of programming and circuits, when nothing similar was available for girls. Participating in a summer program sponsored by Fort Monmouth ensured Schnell that engineering was the right choice for her.
Stevens was Schnell's first choice for higher education because of its top-ranked engineering program and small size. She was also drawn to the Cooperative Education (Co-op) program, which officially launched when she was a freshman in 1986.
"As a member of Stevens' first Co-op class, I guess you could say I was a guinea pig," Schnell said. "But obviously it was an experiment worth doing – one that has paid off many times over for me and many other students in the 25 years since."
While holding offices in numerous student groups – including IEEE, Glee Club, Drama Society, the Vietnamese Students Association, Stevens Christian Fellowship and four honors societies – Schnell worked at three unique companies during her undergraduate years: Vista Research, Georgia Tech Research Institute, and GE Astro Space. She also took advance of the offer to take courses during her Co-op assignments to receive a Minor in British and American Literature.
During her first assignment at Vista Research, Schnell worked in a small group at an Environmental Protection Agency site in Edison, N.J. monitoring the vendors in charge of testing underground storage tanks for leaks.
"We would create controlled leaks and then do a lot of programming and number crunching to see if the vendors' testing data matched ours," said Schnell.
Her second, two-semester assignment at Georgia Tech Research Institute involved more complex research and design work alongside government engineers at Fort Monmouth.
"Mainly I helped to design a new chip and then do timing measures and run simulations," Schnell said.
Finally, Schnell spent eight months at GE Astro Space, where she created her own design for the U.S. Air Force GPS IIR satellite. It was one of the first times Schnell got to work closely with a female engineer in an industry that was still largely dominated my men.
"That was a chance to work not just on support, but on my own design," Schnell said. "It was amazing to be in this huge room alongside my lead, who was a woman, presenting a design to a room of more than 100 men."
Schnell said she learned many valuable skills from Stevens and from Co-op, including how to conduct a design review, do project planning, work in a team and interact with vendors. Many of those lessons closely complimented what she was learning in the classroom.
"Through Co-op I was exposed to radar frequency bands, importance of materials and communications technologies so when we got to those topics in class they weren't just concepts; I understood why we needed to know these things," Schnell said.
Upon graduation from Stevens, Schnell – who also earned her M.S.E.E. from Drexel in 1994 – joined the staff of Lockheed Martin, which designed the airplane that brought her to America. Over her 21 year career, she has moved from a digital design role to writing firmware at the operating system level into application software. Her broad education at Stevens allowed her to move easily from hardware, to firmware, to software, and finally systems design. In 2000, she became the manager of a software group in charge developing infrastructure middleware as well as cutting-edge research and design.
"These transitions allowed me to gain lots of technical expertise and also grow into a leadership position in the company," Schnell said.
Today, Schnell's position as a senior manager in a Lockheed Martin Systems Engineering department has her overseeing more than 100 engineers who design Command and Control products for the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Missile Defense Agency, and the navies of other countries like Japan, Spain, Norway, Korea and Denmark.
She even does rocket science. One of her team's greatest accomplishments, occurring about four years ago, was reconfiguring the Aegis Combat System on the USS Lake Erie to shoot down an errant, toxin-carrying satellite that was falling towards earth.
"We had one single shot, and we hit it," said Schnell.
Schnell, who lives in Marlton, N.J. with her husband, Vincent, and her two children, 15-year-old Nicholas and 9-year-old Jessica, remains heavily involved in the Stevens community. Every year, the avid volunteer – she's active in the Society of Women's Engineers, has earned President's Volunteer Service Awards since 2004, and was awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award from Stevens Co-op in 2007 – comes back to campus to conduct the Lockheed Martin Ethics Challenge to the incoming Co-op class. She also finds time to cantor for her church, and sing for her choir at work and the Ondrick Chorale. She even returned to Stevens to perform solos for the 40 Years of Women at Stevens celebration this March and Alumni Weekend this June.


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Dennis Van Roekel: Only Educator-Led Change Will Improve Student Success
Delivered July 3, 2013, at the NEA Representative Assembly in Atlanta, Georgia
Thank you, Lily, for that kind introduction. And thank you, delegates, for your warm welcome. Fifty years ago this summer, a preacher from Atlanta stood at the Lincoln Memorial in DC, and delivered one of the most famous speeches of the 20th Century. That great leader, of course, was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His church, Ebenezer Baptist, sits only about a mile from here.
His words that day, "I Have a Dream..." captured the heart and hopes of a nation. To this day, they inspire us, lift us up, and challenge us. And all these years later, Dr. King's Dream still calls to us. And so we maintain hope. We continue the struggle. We don't give up.
And we, the National Education Association, we understand that Dr. King's dreams and our values of equal opportunity, a just society, are inextricably linked to equity in public education. That connection – that link – makes us who we are.
When we talk about "DNA," specifically, NEA's "DNA," we mean the ideas and values that are central to our identity. As the science teachers in the room will gladly tell you, DNA comes in strands, and our DNA has three.
One strand is our work for social justice. This goes back to our beginning 156 years ago – before the Civil War – when 47 educators gathered for the call to create the NEA. Since then, we have been a strong and consistent voice for equal opportunity in education – economic, and education, and civil rights for all.
Another strand is standing up for the rights of our members and affiliates. We do this at the bargaining table, in the courts, and in the halls of state legislatures and Congress. We engage in collective action every day, fighting attacks against public education, attacks on workers' rights and the middle class, wherever and whenever they arise.
The third strand is our work as professionals – it's the reason we say, "NEA – We Educate America!"
It's what we do every day as individuals, but also what we do together as an organization – working to lead our professions, and taking responsibility for our own professional practice. We believe that each one of us, as an educator, plays a critical role in student success. If we didn't believe that, we wouldn't be here.
These three strands of DNA are part of our nature. They are embodied in our core values, mission, and vision. And what binds these three strands together is the passion our members have for students, and for public education. These three strands have guided us throughout our 156-year journey – even when the path at times was rocky. And at some points along the way, we reached crossroads – defining moments in our history. At these critical times, we always had the courage to pursue our dreams and demonstrate our commitment through actions.
The 1966 merger with the American Teachers Association, right here in Atlanta – was a pivotal moment in our work for social justice. That courageous action sent a message to the entire world about NEA and what we value. In the 47 years since, our commitment is evident throughout NEA's programs, activities, and training – from lobbying for civil rights legislation and fair immigration laws, to fighting discriminatory policies at all levels.
In the 1970s, NEA took another bold step and moved into the political arena and collective bargaining. NEA had always advocated for education professionals, but this courageous action transformed the NEA. Many of our members risked their jobs, and even went to jail, to win bargaining rights, to stand up against unfair labor laws, to fight for universal education, to lobby for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and to demand equal rights for women.
Those were defining moments for this Association. Our leaders and our members overcame opposition – internal and external. They defeated fear and dared to take a stand not only for themselves but also for their students.
Now we have reached another crossroads. For us, the current leaders in NEA – this is our defining moment. And we must show the same courage and commitment shown by our predecessors when they faced their own moment of truth.
You see, Dr. King not only spoke about his Dream, he called people to action. He warned that there was no time to "engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism." He spoke of the "fierce urgency of now." We must act with that same "urgency of now" because the struggle for equity in education has never been more urgent and our members have never faced a greater series of threats.
Our time is now. And it's time for ACTION!
It is time for us to transform public education – by taking charge of our professions, and that means taking responsibility for our professions – and not allowing others to define it for us.
We have laid the foundation throughout our history – this is not new work, but it is time for a bold step forward. We have three million members, and we have proved beyond a doubt that we are a powerful force for social justice, and for our members' rights. Now we must use our power, individually and collectively, to do what is important to every single one of us – do what binds us together more than anything else: Fulfill the promise of public education – prepare EVERY student to succeed.
If we are going to take charge of our own professions, if we want to move beyond the old debate that has been defined by others and replace their kind of solutions with our solutions, then we must decide how to define and achieve excellence in our own professions!
I spend a lot of time listening to higher ed faculty, teachers, and ESPs talk about the challenges they face, as well as their aspirations for what public education could be. And I am dismayed by the gap, the huge gap, between the realities we live with each day and our own Dreams for public education.
The realities of inadequate funding, overuse and misuse of testing, misguided and unproven policies – they consume our time and energy as we tackle problem after problem, stopping what we don't want and debating "other people's" solutions.
Meanwhile, our dreams – our dreams of success for all students, love of learning, collaboration, and respect for all educators – those dreams seem to be placed on hold, and seem too far away. The bad news is that our country has no shortage of people with ideas about how to change schools. They think anyone can be an "education reformer" – no experience or expertise necessary!
Who are these people?
Some are probably well meaning – they're just misguided.
Others are not well meaning at all! Many are driven by ideology – they don't believe in public education, or unions, or both. They'll jump at any chance to undermine public schools or weaken our unions.
And of course, there's good old-fashioned greed. Some people attacking public education say they care about student success – but their actions speak louder than their words – and their actions clearly say that they care about only one thing – profits! BIG profits – and they'll spend whatever it takes to divert public education funds into their own pockets. These people are in it for money and notoriety. They want to produce movies about privatization and distract the public from the good things educators do every day. For them, good news doesn't sell. That's not a money-maker.
And make no mistake – when we see the push for their kind of polices, in state after state, it is no coincidence. It is an orchestrated attack on public education.
So we must fight back – and we are.
In March we filed a lawsuit in Florida. One of the plaintiffs is Kim Cook, a first-grade teacher. Last year, Kim was Teacher of the Year in her school. This year she received an unsatisfactory rating – not based on her teaching, but on the test scores of fourth- and fifth-graders at a different elementary school!
Students she has never taught or met. Can you imagine a doctor being held accountable for a patient she's never treated? Or a lawyer disbarred because of a case that was mishandled by another firm? Those professionals wouldn't stand for that – and neither will we!
Let's be clear about this. We are not resistant to change. And we are not satisfied with the status quo. But we will resist short-sighted and damaging solutions for one simple reason –THEY DON'T WORK FOR STUDENTS!
But resisting is not enough. The fact is, even if we eliminated all the bad ideas, we still wouldn't be satisfied. We will never be satisfied until every student has a great public school. Good, sustainable change doesn't "just happen." Changing our complex education system will be difficult – and it will require much from us. Even leading change from within cannot succeed if we too are not willing to change.
We need to shift – shift from focusing on what we don't want – to focusing on what we do want. While some might be satisfied to talk about what's popular or profitable, we must engage in conversations about why we do what we do – why it's worth doing – and why we are willing to act on what matters to us and our students.
I've always been especially inspired by one Robert Kennedy quote: "Some people see things as they are and ask, why? I dream of things that never were and ask, why not?"
For those who "see things as they are," the conversation usually moves to blame and scapegoating, and to solutions that don't address the real needs of students, solutions that undermine our efforts for equity.
When I look at children who are just starting school, I can't help but think about the system as it currently is and I know that too many of them will not succeed – will not be given the opportunity to follow their dreams. A million drop-outs a year – and in 10 short years, 10 million young people facing the 21st century without hope or any real opportunities.
Frankly, I'm tired of the negative know-it-alls – tired of only playing defense and fighting to stop the bad ideas that seem to come from all sides. Don't misunderstand – of course we need to do that – and we will continue to do so.
But I also know that it drains me of my own dreams, of all the things that inspired me as a teacher.
And I'm tired of our nation accepting as good enough, a system that fails to deliver for all students – especially students of color and those who are poor.
I want more – I want NEA and our nation to stand up and declare that we will no longer accept nor tolerate an education system that doesn't live up to our American ideals! I want to dream and fight for what could be – to dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Each of you, think a moment about your greatest hopes and aspirations. Imagine in your mind the school where you want to work, where you want your kids and grandkids – and everybody's kids – to attend. Imagine how it would look. Imagine how it would feel to be there.
I know that vision, that dream, is not your current reality – and I need to ask you: "Why not?" Seriously, I mean, why not? If we can see and feel what we want to create, then what's stopping us? More important, what are we willing to do to make it happen? How committed are we to move our dream to our reality?
Commitment – an interesting concept. I often challenged my high school students to decide which level of commitment they were willing to embrace – whether in academics, athletics, music, drama, or life.
I'd ask them – how serious are you? Are you willing to "try"? Or maybe commit to "doing your best"? Or are you willing to really go after your dream – and do "whatever it takes" to achieve it?
When it comes to fulfilling the promise of public education – I say we must do more than "try," do more than "give our best." I say we must choose to do whatever it takes! That choice – to consciously CHOOSE to do whatever it takes – it empowers us in a way that fires me up, energizes, and inspires me.
Imagine one of your newer members saying, "My union helped me realize my professional potential. I'm better at my practice because we not only demand excellence from our students and schools; we demand it of each other. My union creates the conditions for my students' success and my success."
Imagine if all educators – including our ESPs – had real opportunities to improve their practice through professional development. Imagine if educators had the time to learn, time to grow, and time to collaborate. And not after work or on weekends, but as part of their professional day!
We need millions of educators to be given the opportunity to use their incredible talents and creativity to define solutions that work for students. We need to empower our members to create change: student-centered, union-led change!
We must embrace and engage all who work in public education – and that includes demanding the professional respect and professional compensation for our ESP members.
Want to transform a school? Bring together all of the adults who work there and empower them to define student success, to create a plan to accomplish it, and then get out of their way and let them go! Education professionals, working together, can change the world!
I believe that. I know that – because it's already happening.
- More students in New Jersey are taking advanced science courses thanks to a program of the NJ Center for Teaching and Learning – a Center created by the New Jersey Education Association. This program has prepared more physics and science teachers than all of the universities in New Jersey combined. It started at the classroom level, and now NEA is helping it expand to states across the country.
- Take a look at Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington. Suspensions are down and graduation rates are up, thanks in great part to a home visit program organized by Debby Chandler, WEA's ESP of the year.
- In Arizona, accomplished teachers at Pinnacle Peak Elementary School help new teachers learn by allowing them to watch their classrooms in real time, through webcams.
- In Montgomery County, Maryland, African American and Latino students are not only taking AP courses at much higher rates than the national average – the percentage of those who score a 3 or higher on the AP exam is double and triple the national average! That success was driven by collaboration and hard work. And they didn't just talk about cultural competence – teachers developed a graduate program in equitable instruction where teachers learned about the impact of ethnicity in classrooms and culturally reflective practice.
- In Columbus Ohio, students are staying in school and serving their community, thanks to a union-led collaborative project in service-learning.
- Our members – like math teacher Peggy Brookins of Ocala Florida – helped develop the new Common Core standards. And our members are helping one another prepare for the transition to these new standards.
There are hundreds more examples like these - in every corner of the country! That's the kind of change I'm talking about – Student-Centered, Union-led change.
And we need to do more – lots more! And I know we can. Not only because it's already happening in some places, but also because I know what's in your hearts. I know the kind of energy you bring to this challenge. I know the passion and commitment that called each of you to your profession – and what keeps you there, day after day, despite all the challenges and obstacles.
But good intentions are not enough. Hope alone is not a strategy. Wishing is not winning.
It takes time and money to create programs, to provide professional training and support, and to collaborate with other educators.
So we must empower our members to create change. Some don't like the Association's focus on quality, quality in the classroom and in schools. But if we don't empower educators to take control of how to define quality, then who will? Congress? Governors? State politicians? Michelle Rhee? Maybe the Koch Brothers?
No – it must be us.
This is about educators as leaders, not just doers. It's about making policy decisions, not merely carrying out someone else's ideas. It's about leveraging our work, creating solutions, so that it becomes greater than the sum of all our own individual efforts.
And there is an entity that can absolutely fill that role. Our union: the National Education Association. We can do it because "We Educate America" – from pre-K to graduate, in every state and around the world. We have the expertise, the know-how, the people, and we have the leaders!
We not only can do it, we must do it. That is what the Great Public Schools amendment is all about.
It's about creating a groundswell of alternatives to the corporate reformers and privateers – our ideas, our solutions – so we can drive them out – out of our classrooms, out of our profession, and out of our students' lives!
It's about giving our members resources and support to fight for their dreams of what education could be. It's about showing the nation that we are not only the experts in supporting student success but that we are willing and able to accept responsibility for that success.
I believe that over the long term, good ideas will drive out bad ideas. That's why fighting bad ideas is not enough. We must be champions for quality in every classroom, every school. And we must use every tool at our disposal – lobbying, organizing, bargaining, our ideas and our energy.
So If you are tired of a reporting system to parents that focuses only on test scores and not the whole child – then why not collaborate with your colleagues and create your own?
If you can identify students right now who you think won't succeed in the current system, then why not go to the bargaining table or the community and demand interventions? If your district isn't providing professional development for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, then why not create your own – using NEA support and resources? If kids in your neighborhood are denied the opportunity for quality pre-K programs, then why not sponsor union-led workshops for parents and provide them with ideas and tools to assist their children?
And stop asking or waiting for permission – Proceed until apprehended!
The amendment is about tapping into the passion and power of our members. The passion to care for ALL of our students. The power to make a difference in their lives. We are already creating ripples of change – now it's time to turn them into a tidal wave!
A tidal wave of change: student-centered, and union-led!
Since we met last summer, there have been some horrible tragedies involving public schools and students across the country. The shootings in Newtown, the abduction of a student off a school bus in Alabama, the tornadoes in Oklahoma. In every one of these tragedies, the whole country saw educators emerge as heroes: The bus driver in Alabama who gave his life to protect the kids. The teacher in Newtown who spent the last moments of her life hiding her students so they would be safe. The teacher and paraprofessional in Oklahoma who shielded students with their own bodies to protect them from the deadly tornado.
It's impossible to know what was going through their minds at the moments when they demonstrated such heroic courage. But I'm pretty sure that when they went to work that morning, none of them was thinking about being a hero. They were probably thinking what educators think every day: How can I help my students succeed?
I know that you, and millions of educators across the country, go to work every single day with that very same thought. And although most of us will never be called upon to put our lives on the line, you demonstrate every day that a hero is a person who will do whatever it takes to help their students. Every day you stand between them and the forces that would try to rip their dreams away. And you do it with courage, compassion, and dedication.
How many of you have ever stepped in to help a student who was being bullied – in the hallway, on the playground, on a bus? If you have, please raise your hand.
How many have comforted a student who was suffering because of trouble at home? Raise your hand.
How many have reached into your own pocket to buy supplies or food for students who couldn't afford it? Raise your hand.
How many chose education because you wanted to make a difference for students? Raise your hand.
Look around this room. Look at all the hands … thank you.
This room – our Association – is full of heroes, who every day show the courage to fight for their students' hopes and dreams. That courage is one of the first lessons we teach our students. Courage is not the absence of fear or uncertainty. Courage is the willingness to confront fear and uncertainty, and acting in spite of fear to pursue your dreams.
That courage can be found in even the smallest act. Think about children first learning to raise their hands in class. It can be a little scary! You think you know the right answer, but what if you're wrong? You want to ask a question but you're too afraid or too shy. So students learn pretty quickly: It takes courage to raise your hand.
It also takes courage for students to believe in their own dreams – and it takes courage for adults, too. It took courage 50 years ago, for those hundreds of thousands of people to march in Washington, DC, demanding Freedom, Justice, and Jobs. It took courage for Dr. King to stand before the nation and not only tell us his Dream – but to demand action – not sometime in the future, but now!
It took courage for NEA members to risk their jobs, and their freedom, to win the rights that we have today. And yes, it will take courage for us to raise our hands today and show the nation that NEA, the largest labor union in the country, is committed to change, that we take responsibility for student success, and that we will empower our members to make those changes!
So I ask you today: Do you believe that our three million members know how to improve student success? (Do you?)
Do you believe that this is our time to create union-led change in our classrooms?
Do you believe that NOW is the time for action?
Then I ask you – Raise your hand for the success of ALL students!
Raise your hand for Great Public Schools and Social Justice!
Raise your hand for America's Educators, for America's Future!
Raise your hand for NEA – We Educate America! Thank you!


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Our well-trained staff are affectionately known as Sea-cret Agents and they channel their passion, energy and dedication into ensuring that every guest will have a satisfying dining experience. The Manhattan FISH MARKET is also widely known to enthrall and whet its guests' appetite with on-the-spot flaming of the Manhattan Flaming Prawns.
In recent years, The Manhattan FISH MARKET brand has garnered numerous awards and accolades in the F&B industry. To name a few, we've been awarded the following:
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You're probably wondering, what the heck are Ecclefechan Tarts?! Well Steve and I only became aware of them last year when we attended a Sainsburys Christmas Press Show and we were offered one to try.
It is a traditional Scottish tart which is a combination of treacle tart and mince pie and it is a traditional recipe from Ecclefechan in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
Although they're available in Sainsburys all year round, we haven't actually bought any since we tried them. Instead I decided to try making them myself and I managed to find a recipe online. I plan to make these as Christmas gifts, so this is sort of a trial run to see how it works out.
Unfortunately the recipe didn't state how much pastry was needed or how many tarts it made. So I just used the 225g of homemade Pâte Brisée (Sweet Shortcrust Pastry) that I had in the freezer. I managed to make 12 tarts from this amount of pastry, but I had so much filling leftover that I think I could have made double the amount of tarts. I have put the leftover filling into a airtight container and stored it in the fridge for another time.
The recipe doesn't tell you to put a lid on the tarts and the ones we had at Sainsburys didn't have lids, but I had little bit of pastry leftover so I thought I'd made some little Christmas trees to put on the top and I think they look good. They don't look anything like the ones from Sainsburys as they're not as deep and the treacle has turned quite a dark colour on mine, but that is the most delicious part of it!
I wasn't sure how these were going to turn out as the recipe seemed a bit strange with the vinegar, but you can't taste it. I added less fruit than the recipe suggested because it seemed like too much. I also whizzed up the nuts using my mini-chopper so they were quite fine instead of just chopping them by hand as I think it gave the filling a better texture.
Steve and I really liked them and they tasted just as good as the Sainsburys ones (well we think they did, as we ate those ones back in July 2008 so it's hard to remember!) and Steve's Mum did like them but thought they were a bit too sweet. We all agreed though that they're much nicer than mince pies and would prefer to have these at Christmas!
- Makes: should make at least 24 tarts
- Oven temperature: Gas mark 5/375°F/190°C
- You will need: 2 x 12 bun tins
- At least 500g (I think!) Sweet Shortcrust pastry/Pâte Brisée
- 125g (4oz) melted butter
- 200g (6oz) soft brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 Tablespoon vinegar (I just used white wine vinegar)
- 200g (7oz) mixed dried fruit (I used sultanas and currants)
- 50g (2oz) nuts, finely chopped ( I used walnuts and almonds)
- In a large bowl mix the sugar and melted butter together, then add the beaten eggs.
- Stir in the vinegar, then add mixed fruit and nuts.
- Roll out your pastry to about 2mm thick and cut out circles to line your bun tins. (As you're not blind baking the pastry first, put your lined tins in the fridge for about 10 minutes to prevent them shrinking).
- Fill each pastry case with about a Tablespoonful of the mixture (give it a good stir first as the fruit and nuts will sink to the bottom of the bowl).
- If you have leftover pastry then you can cut out shapes to lay on the top as lids.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes at Gas mark 5/375°F/190°C until golden brown.
- Leave to cool in the tins for about 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack (I usually wait until the tin is cool enough to handle but don't leave them too long in the tins otherwise the treacle will set and you'll have a job getting them out!).
- Eat them whilst they're warm!
- I used up the other half of the filling by making 9 tarts, but this time I used a slightly bigger cutter so they were deeper and could hold more filling. I baked them for 25 minutes.
- As an experiment I have put one tart in the freezer and I will thaw it out and reheat in the oven to see if they can be successfully frozen. This will be handy as I plan to give these as gifts so I can make them in advance.
Watch this space!These freeze perfectly! Just defrost in the fridge overnight and then pop into a preheated oven at Gas mark 4/350°F/180°C for 15-20 minutes.


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There are four locations for Adult ESL classes: Alameda International Jr./Sr. High School, Thomson Elementary School, Stevens Elementary School, and the Jeffco Family Literacy Building in Lakewood.
Classes are offered for students with Beginning to Advanced English skills. The classes are designed to challenge the English language learner to improve listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar skills. Pre and post-test assessments are used to measure student progress and guide instruction.
For information and to schedule ESL classes call Karen Caddoo
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Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams Join David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars'
Mia Wasikowska, Olivia Williams and Evan Bird have joined the cast of David Cronenberg's thriller Maps to the Stars ahead of a July shoot in Toronto and Los Angeles.
Newcomer Bird will play a troubled, drug-addicted child star, while Williams will play his manipulative mother, and Wasikowska his disfigured, schizophrenic, fame-obsessed sister.
The trio join Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon who were earlier cast.
Longtime Cronenberg producer Martin Katz and his Prospero Pictures shingle are partnering with Entertainment One to finance the ghost story and critique of celebrity-obsessed Los Angeles.
The film is being produced by Katz and SBS Productions' Saïd Ben Saïd.
Sentient Entertainment's Renee Tab, Cronenberg's manager, will executive produce.
Entertainment One's Benedict Carver is also executive producing and will oversee the film for the producer, with Integral Films' Alfred Hurmer co-producing.
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On the heels of being investigated for domestic violence and being caught on tape saying pretty much every bad thing you really shouldn't say, Mel Gibson has now been dropped by WME, his talent agency. Deadline Hollywood says:
I've just learned that WME Entertainment actually fired Mel Gibson the day before his longtime Hollywood agent Ed Limato's death last weekend… Last Friday, WME board member Ari Emanuel "woke up at 3 AM and emailed his partner Patrick Whitesell that 'we can't represent a guy who said the N-word'." So the agency dumped Mel Gibson on July 2nd, and the next day, on July 3rd, his agent Limato died.
It takes an awful lot for a talent agency to not want to represent a major Hollywood superstar. You basically have to poison children, or do what Gibson did. And so it seems Gibson's long gestating fall from grace is about complete. Career obits for the man are pooping up all over the place.
The Examiner reports that Gibson had two movies in the can before this most recent contretemps: "The Beaver" directed by Jodie Foster, and an action movie called "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." "The Beaver," in particular, is intriguing because its screenplay has been lauded around Hollywood, and its premise – a man breaks down and begins communicating solely via a beaver hand puppet – is insane enough to match Gibson's apparent state of mind. It's a crucial role for Gibson because, as it stands right now, it's likely his last chance to get into the good graces of the American public, if that's still at all possible.
It's impossible to say someone's career in Hollywood is ever officially over. Hollywood isn't exactly run by one guy, and show business is by nature a comeback business. An actor and director of Gibson's stature and success isn't going to be left homeless on the curb any time soon. Shady foreign investors will still happily throw money his way to let him make movies. And look at Charlie Sheen. He's an arguably worse human being who remains gainfully employed by a major TV network. If you've proven you can make money, Hollywood will never turn its back on you.
But there's a palpable sadness to how Gibson's career has turned of late. He used to be so darn LIKABLE. So rakish. So charming. That's all over now. You're not gonna buy him in "Maverick 2" these days. Like so many before him, Gibson's offscreen baggage will now forever supplant whatever he throws up on the screen, no matter how good it is. Like Tom Cruise, we found out more about Gibson than we ever wanted to know, and now he's pretty much ruined for us. He'll now go to our collective discard pile: still working but, in our minds, a has-been. It's always disappointing when you realize the actor in real life doesn't live up to the giants he plays on screen. No actor ever can, but few actors have so quickly widened that gulf like Mel Gibson has in the past few years.


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Ikea Hacker recently posted a great idea for us microbudget filmmakers. It's your basic rollerblade wheel dolly that rides on a prefab Ivar side unit from Ikea. While the dolly still needs to be constructed (see the comments for a parts list), the track is ready to go.
I love stuff like this. I might even build this version with a few changes. The L-brackets that hold the wheels make the platform ungainly and trickier to transport. I'd attach the vertical wheels right to the sides and the horizontal ones to the bottom. This would make it more portable and give it a lower profile.
Take note that this dolly isn't really for a camera op to ride on (though I guess it's possible for you lightweights), but for just the camera. Check out the link above for some very nice test footage using this cool DIY contraption.


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Public health anthropologist uses ethnography to improve farmworker safety
Public health anthropologist uses ethnography to improve farmworker safety
We rely on them for virtually all of the fruits and vegetables that grace our tables. Yet our country's farmworkers are among the poorest of the working poor.
Often living in sub-standard conditions and with little access to healthcare, many travel from job to job, chasing the harvest across America's heartland. Working long hours in the fields, they are constantly exposed, not just to hardship and severe weather but to dangerous pesticides.
As Amy Snipes puts it, "Farmwork is more than an occupation. It is a condition of risk."
Snipes should know. An assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State, she spends months at a time with farmworker families, observing and recording their lives and concerns as she works alongside them in the field. Trained as an anthropologist, Snipes has built her career on the use of ethnography as a means for improving farmworker health.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that between 10,000 and 20,000 pesticide poisonings occur annually among the nation's two million agricultural workers, with acute effects ranging from rashes and nausea to respiratory problems and death. Cumulative long-term exposures increase the risks of cancer, birth defects and neurological impairment.
As a primary safety measure, the EPA mandates the use of Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, to minimize pesticide exposures. Yet the use of PPE -- gloves, goggles, hats, coveralls, boots -- is low among farmworkers, and intervention efforts have had only limited success in improving compliance.
"There are many reasons for this," Snipes says. Protective equipment may be difficult or uncomfortable to wear. It may slow the work, in a job where speed is of the essence. It is not always provided by employers, and even when it is, its use is not always enforced.
Below the surface, says Snipes, are other, cultural reasons. Over 80 percent of U.S. farmworkers are Latino, most coming from Mexico, so language can be a substantial barrier. But at least as important to understand, she says, are farmworkers' shared beliefs about risk.
Beliefs impact behaviors
"Anthropologists know that risk responses are embedded in a cultural framework," she explains. "I always tell this story about my grandmother. She taught me as a young girl that it's risky to wash your hands with cold water, that cold water is somehow associated with later developing arthritis.
"I'm an adult now, and fairly well-educated, and I know in my head that this is not the case. But if you ask me what I use to wash my hands, it's hot water. Because this is part of my belief system, something that was passed on to me. And it impacts my behavior.
"I'm interested in the same kind of phenomena among farmworkers. What are the widespread beliefs that are passed down regarding pesticides and exposure, and how do they impact behavior and, ultimately, health?"
She began as a graduate student at the University of Washington, following apple pickers in the Yakima Valley. Currently Snipes works mostly in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. For periods of three months to a year, she latches on with a group of farmworker families as a participant observer, moving along with them from crop to crop.
"I have picked just about everything," she says. "Apples, cherries, hops, asparagus, broccoli, raspberries, onions, squash, watermelon, cotton…"
Along with picking produce, she's gathering data: conducting interviews and focus groups, administering surveys and epidemiological assessments, and collecting biomarkers of pesticide exposure. "I want to have a comprehensive view of what's happening in their lives," she says.
Snipes brings to the field a special understanding that goes beyond her academic training. "My own grandmother worked picking cotton," she says, "so I have some understanding of the hardships, and I have those stories to share."
Among her findings is a common belief that danger attaches to the physical form that a pesticide takes and not necessarily to the chemical compound itself. "So if it's wet, a spray that people can feel landing on their skin, it's seen as harmful, and there is great concern. If it's dry, however, there is little or no concern. They call it 'powder,' and consider it almost like dirt."
A similar distinction is made between hot and cold. "Just like my grandmother, many farmworkers believe that if you wash your hands with cold water you'll end up with arthritis, or rheumatism. This type of belief is very common cross-culturally," Snipes says, "but in this context, it may have health impacts."
In the field, she explains, where workers are given cold water both to drink and to wash the residues of pesticide powder from faces and hands, they may rather wait until they get home to a hot shower, believing that cold water is to be avoided, and that powders aren't really harmful anyway. "That decision means eight to 12 hours of additional exposure."
Finding solutions that work
Two sources of inspiration flank Snipes on the walls behind her: a small photograph of herself with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers; and a large, brightly colored rendering of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of campesinos, painted by a farmworker's son.
Her ultimate goal, she says, is to translate her findings into an intervention strategy that improves farmworker health. "It's really about supplying people with practical solutions."
That means taking into account not only the cultural backstory but also the gritty realities of fieldwork. "Our population is severely below poverty level," she says. (Federal poverty level is $23,500 for a family of four; farmworkers average $10-15,000.) "And in many cases they are paid by how much they pick. A strong temptation, even for me, is to take off the extra clothes that slow you down -- because if you're slow you'll get fired and somebody else will replace you."
It can be suffocating wearing protective gear under the hot sun, she adds. And safety glasses tend to fog, making it difficult not only to see what you're picking but also to avoid snakes and other threats. "People are balancing these risks against the risk of exposure."
With a team of Penn State colleagues she recently tested a new multipronged strategy aimed at improving worker compliance. As Snipes explains, the intervention supplied workers with better PPE -- cooling fabrics, touch-sensitive gloves, non-fog lenses -- and also with tailored pesticide safety messages: frequent reminders about specific exposure risks. "We wanted to see how this combination might change behavior," she says.
One major challenge was how to communicate effectively with a mobile, low-literacy population. The answer, not surprisingly, was to adopt a mobile platform: the researchers gave farmworkers cell phones, enabling timely, two-way sharing of information. "We can use the phones not only to deliver messages," Snipes explains, "but also to receive health-related data from study subjects in their environment, and in real-time. We're the first to do this in this population." she adds.
The response has been gratifying: "Our farmworkers are using those phones, and they're using them daily. They're getting our messages and giving us back their data. And not just closed-ended data; they're giving us ideas. They are essentially part of our research team."
Results of the study are still preliminary, Snipes stresses. "But we're very excited about what we're seeing so far." Use of PPE has improved across the board, she says, and the approach itself has stirred interest among other researchers eager to learn more -- even from as far as South Africa. "They have similar exposure problems there and are really interested in using this methodology."
If it works, Snipes says, she would like to see the intervention scaled up to other, larger farmworker populations. Eventually, she hopes, it will inform public health policy across the U.S. and beyond. "That's what I want to accomplish before I die," she says.
For the moment she sits in her quiet office in University Park, but in a month or two she'll be back, quite literally, in the field.
"When I began this work I was very humbled to hear farmworkers say that they loved their jobs," she muses. "They love this work that is so tough and dangerous and doesn't pay much because, they say, 'Our hands feed the world.'
"I take that with me."
Shedra Amy Snipes is assistant professor of biobehavioral health, email@example.com. She was a fellow of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Education Career Development program in 2010, and won the Kaiser Permanente Minority Leadership Development award for 2010-2012.


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April 10, 2021 7:00am
Address: Cheyenne Mountain Presbyterian Church, 4450 Westmeadow Dr., Colorado Springs, CO US 80906
Band of Brothers (BoB) is a men's Bible study that meets each Saturday morning at the church from 7:00 - 8:30 am to pray and encourage one another. Join us for a study of the book of Proverbs.
This study takes place in our church building at 4450 Westmeadow Dr. Colorado Springs, CO, 80906.


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This article is SO relevant for me because I recently cut someone out of my life because I no longer wanted to hold my tongue on my Facebook and Twitter page for fear of offending her AND because I didn't want to hear her mouth whenever I criticized religion and theism.
No Atheists Don't Have to Show "Respect" For Religion
I'll try my best to respect people but respecting religion...nah.
My former friend just couldn't get this through her head and unfortunately, I had to cut her off.
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If christian can say: love the sinner, hate the sin.
Then we can say: love the believer, hate the religion
Works for me :D
There is little to disagree with about "Respect the person not the belief". We atheists are often confronted by religionists who try to demand respect for their beliefs in the mistaken belief that if we can be forced to "respect" those beliefs we must then never speak against them. Over the years I have developed some answers to anyone who tries to lay that on me.
1- I'll respect your beliefs as much as you respect my lack of belief.
2- I might respect your beliefs; would you care to tell me what they are? (oddly they seldom do)
3- What is it that I should respect about your belief?
4- Am I expected to respect all beliefs? If so, can I respect the belief that your beliefs are wrong?
5- Do you expect me to respect your beliefs more than facts?
6- If you respect your beliefs, why do I have to?
7- Why? Can't you do that?
8- Why should I respect something that I think is wrong?
9- Can you show me what there is about your beliefs that is worthy of respect?
10- What does "respect" have to do with anything? You believe - I don't. No respect involved.
I like the article and the steep crescendo in her conclusion:
"And this ecumenical attitude that reality is an annoying distraction from the far more important business of feeling good -- and that insisting on reality is an ugly form of bigoted intolerance -- is part and parcel of this unique armor religion has built against valid criticism, questioning, and self- correction.
It is not a protection against the evils of religion. It is one of them."
Iow you're not doing anyone a favor by treating convictions as if they had intrinsic value, rather than taking seriously the people that hold them, falsely, to be true.


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Notebook entry, Kyoto, 1967: Philip Whalen (Bancroft Library, U. of California)
I got into this pickle by starting a couple weeks ago with the notion that I must mend my prose style by perusing again the sedate pages of Johnson, the ironic epithets of Smollett, & the lively grace of Sterne. All that has resulted is an echoing of their sounds in my empty skull & bent reflections of their kinds of phraseology in current letters to my friends & in this place -- a dismal conclusion to my original plan. In addition (or in diminution, rather) I feel a great lapse of my inventive & authorial powers.
6/VII:65 In rage & panic, hungry, I sold half a dozen books for $2. I've eaten almost all of it: The Iliad, a contemporary verse translation with Wedgwood illustrations, THE DESERT MUSIC, JOURNEY TO LOVE, THE 100,000 SONGS (xlations from Milarepa), and a Dante illustrated by George Grosz...
Philip Whalen: from Notebooks (1957-1966), 2009
Here is Philip [Whalen's] CLASSICS SHELF (condensed).
When Philip recently moved into a smaller room with better sunlight in the [Hartford Street, San Francisco] Zen Center, it was necessary to reduce his immense library into something more portable. In addition to all of his Buddhist books, he requested the following books be kept as his own portable collection:
Wallace Stevens' Collected Poems
Paperback of Emily Dickinson Collected
Lloyd Reynolds' books
Copies of his own books
Large Print Bible
Copies of Joanne Kyger's books
1 volume edition of Plato
Krazy Kat books
Mountains and Rivers Without End, Gary Snyder
Thomas C. Wolfe, The Story of a Novel
1986 Edited Copy of Finnegans Wake, Random House (confused maybe with printing of Ulysses)
All volumes of Stravinsky's Letters
Edith Sitwell's Collected
Robert Craft's book about Stravinsky
Archie and Mehitabel
Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift
Collected Plays by W. B. Yeats
Selected Robinson Jeffers
Tristram Shandy
Annotated Wasteland in paperback
Humphrey Clinker
Old Collected Poems of W. Carlos Williams, 2 or 3 volumes
All books by Gertrude Stein: paperback of The Making of Americans, Narration, What Are Masterpieces?, Lectures in America
EE Cummings Collected
2 large volumes of Thoreau journal
-- Brit
Britton Pyland to TC, 17 October 2006
Notebook entry, Kyoto, 18 October 1967: Philip Whalen (Bancroft Library, U. of California)


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"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
I've had a few things running through my mind lately, so I thought I'd get them out of my head so that maybe they would stop picking at my brain and give it some rest! These are just my random thoughts, thrown together in a random fashion, likely in the same jumbled fashion that they are floating around in my head!
The Lich King
1.2% That was our wipe last night in our 25 man raid. He's a goner soon, no doubt about it. But why does it always have to be the 1% wipe? I'm actually pretty excited about this. Even if we don't snag the kill tonight, for whatever reason, he has been put on notice. I've been incredibly proud of our guild progress this expansion. Sure, maybe we are "months behind" on some things, but we've actually done just about everything available in the game thus far. Overall, I think we are in a pretty good place as a guild, and that makes me happy.
It's our gift, and our bane. We offer very flexible attendance to our raiders, because we draw exclusively from an adult fanbase. With that means that there are adult responsibilities that our members but attend to that will take precedence over the game. And I'm OK with that. But sometimes they all hit at once and it can be stressful trying to pull a raid together. We are fortunate to have a large friends and family core to draw from when we are short people, and rarely have to call a raid. But there are nights when I look at our absentee posts and my stomach twists. I know it's not my fault, it's nobody's fault. But I do feel a personal responsibility to keep things flowing smoothly. We do well, but it isn't always without some amount of stress on my end!
However, with Spring Break and vacations occupying people's time, topped with it being close to the end of tax season and the last minute OH GOD tax panic, both personal and professional, these past two weeks have been very slim for filling raids! Most nights we've run with fewer healers than usual, and a few friends filling in some DPS roles (or just running at 23/24 raiders). We've made some good accomplishments, and I am always very grateful how understanding people are, and how helpful our non-progression team is when we ask if anyone is interested in filling the open spots.
Alas, my least favorite chore. I hate recruiting more than just about anything else! We find ourselves in need of a healer, as the result of one of ours having ongoing, and seemingly unresolveable, internet issues. It happens, and I've probably put off filling the position for longer than I should have. So that being said, I'm looking for one healer, preferably a Disc Priest but might consider a very skilled Holy Paladin as well. We are also looking for one exceptional warlock to add to our ranks.
Did I mention how much I hate recruiting?
10 Mans
We've actually been chugging along on our 10 man hard mode work, which is nice. We are now 7/12, snagging two new hardmodes on Friday night. I've genuinely had a really good time with these over the past few weeks. The group of folks that have been interested in running them has been a lot of fun, and we've been ticking through them at a pretty good pace. We are hoping to get another end wing boss and Valithria in this weekend's run!
I've been popping about on my hunter here and there. I'm close to nicking level 71…and I'm pretty sure that will, if he hasn't already, surpassed me! But that's only because I've been enjoying my baby druid. She's up to level 28, although I must express my complete and total annoyance with the "satchel of helpful goods". Hi…there are lots of druids out there who aren't feral! Some caster gear would be quite "helpful", and very much appreciated. Thanks.
This is something that I've actually been giving a lot of thought to lately, and has been playing on my mind with some frequency. I've been giving a good bit of thought to transferring my baby druid back to my home server.
It's not that I don't care for the people, necessarily. It's not that I don't care for the environment, necessarily. It's not that it's a bad concept or idea, necessarily.
However, when I'm online over there, a few glaring things become very obviously aware to me:
· I am not an overly social person. Sure, I can be chatty. Sure, I can show the proper social graces that my mother raised me with. But, I find that I'm a bit of a loner who prefers to have a close knit social group that I can share my thoughts and opinions with rather than a giant room of strangers. And even though there are any number of people online at any given time with SAN, my loneliness while I am there is only amplified. People aren't unfriendly, or rude, but I find myself curling into my shell and not really participating in the conversation…or just speaking to those that I am comfortable with in tells. (And I do enjoy those conversations immensely).
Perhaps this is my own fault for not being as outgoing as I could be, for just questing along in solitude. Because by no means do I go out of my way to make a place for myself. Why? Because I feel out of place, and I am perfectly comfortable just minding my own business and quietly going about my way. I don't really know many of these people, and I find that makes me fairly shy. I mean…the other day I was planning on trying to cook bacon in the oven, as opposed to a fry pan, because I had this really delicious thick cut bacon from the meat counter at Whole Foods and it makes such an awful mess to fry it up. So I asked in guild chat if anyone had ever tried this method of cooking bacon before…and there were crickets. No, Really. Eventually someone spoke up with a "um…no", and there were maybe 4 lines of discussion about why you would cook bacon in the oven over a fry pan. But, it was like my question or topic was just…out of place. One of those comments that someone makes that causes everyone to stop talking, turn and look at you like you've 4 heads, and then starts chattering once again as if the comment was never made.
It's quite possible that had I asked the question at a different time, with a different group of people that were online the reaction would have been different, but the thing is…had I asked that question in my guild any number of people probably would have opined on the topic, regardless of if they had had any actual experiences cooking bacon in the oven or not! And perhaps that is it. Perhaps I am just used to my guild, my people, my comfort zone and I don't like stepping out of it. Perhaps it's just me. I don't know.
· The best thing about the guild is also the worst thing about the guild. That is to say that everyone has an opinion…and nobody is afraid to share it, often with disregard or respect of others thoughts, opinions, or feelings. I've witnessed, and been part of, a number of highly opinionated conversations where the parties involved are so unmovable in their opinions that the entire conversation is completely pointless, because you aren't going to have a conversation.
That's fine and I suppose a bit to be expected. However, I run a guild. I deal with stubbornness and sifting through conflicting thoughts and opinions and trying to smooth the road constantly. This is/was a nice escape from that. But it's not, really. It's just different people. More opinionated people. Lots of opinionated people. People with more thoughts. And while those thoughts can be expressed well on a Blog, when folks are expressing them contemporaneously, they aren't always as well thought through…and sometimes come out a bit wrong. And honestly, I think some people are controversial just to be controversial. To raise eyebrows. It's really not the humble meeting of the minds that it was the first few nights, now that everyone is settled in…and I find that a little bit disappointing.
Mostly, I find myself just tuning guild chat out and enveloping myself in solitude. And honestly, I can do that on my own server…where I can spoil my alt endlessly with heirlooms and gold, and epic flight form…
So I find myself wondering what it is I'm doing. I want very much to be part of the community, but I'm not entirely sure that this is the best way for me to be part of the community. I enjoy blogging, I enjoy reading others blogs, and I largely enjoy the community. But when I log in at SAN, I don't feel part of that community, per se. I truly think this may very much be a "it's not you, it's me" sort of thing.
· I'm already a member of a very active guild, both during raids and outside of raids. My guild takes up a lot of my time, and so I don't have an abundance of time to participate with SAN. That coupled with the fact that I do feel somewhat out of place while I am there have been nagging at me a little. I can't quite place my finger on it, other than to know that there are a handful of people that I really enjoy while I am online, and then a whole lot of people that I just don't know. That I don't have the time to get to know, because of my other commitments. And in part, that makes me feel a little bit like a stranger, looking through the glass at something that I am just on the outside of.
I can't help but wonder if the EU-SAN is quite different from the American SAN.
· The Role-play Server aspect of it really has me thrown through a bit of a loop, which has been escalated by recent happenings in the blogging community. I do not, and have never, really had any interest in Role Play. I feel a connection to my characters, maybe as I play them I wonder what their back story might involve. But I have never fully developed a character to an extent that would be sufficient to someone that takes the role play aspect of the game far more seriously than myself…and I don't really want to.
The other day while I was questing in Ashenvale, I came across a couple that was questing (a hunter and a priest), and as I was moving by one of them leveled. And being the friendly person that I am, I stopped briefly, did a /cheer, and I buffed the two of them and went about my way. A little bit later, I found the priest in a good bit of trouble, with her hunter not to be seen, and so I stopped and helped her shore up her mobs. But after the fact, I wondered if those things were acceptable behaviors. Neither party gave any indication that I even existed. No nod of gratitude, no emote thanking me for helping. And I thought, perhaps I just committed a faux paux. Perhaps I just broke the rules.
I'm really struggling. I don't want to feel that by leaving, I am giving up on being part of the community, and I do want to see the project out. But on the same token, I don't know that by being there I feel as if I were part of the community either. I think that for now, at least, I am going to stay and try to be a little bit more open, a little more outgoing, make a bigger effort to "fit in" and not be such a longer. I am going to see if those things help. It isn't as if I am not enjoying myself, and I truly enjoy talking with some other bloggers privately about things that have been addling my mind. However, sometimes I do miss my guild. I miss being able to be snarky and having people know that it's snark, and not my personality. I miss being able to ask about cooking bacon and not feeling like I've thrown the conversation off. Maybe I'm just "homesick", and I need to call my GM to come take me home because I need to sleep in my own bed.
I don't know, perhaps it's just me having these experiences. Does anyone else feel this way at all?
Playing Less WoW
So this weekend, I spent a good bit of time reading. I started the "In Death" series by JD Robb, and I'm really enjoying them. They are devilishly addictive. It means that I wasn't online quite as much, but it was also a nice, refreshing break from my usual pastime sitting in front of the computer. However, there are some 29 books in the series! My pocketbook is already cringing.
I also grilled this weekend. I was pondering the "if we didn't play so much WoW" or "if we didn't raid" question with Brade this weekend. I'd bet we'd cook more…and it would be fun. But, I also bet that we'd watch more TV and play more console games. Neither of us do well with being bored. Which is a large part of why we WoW so much, it engages us. But…from time to time, it's nice to be engaged by other things as well J
Pondering Cataclysm
I wish they'd announce the damn release date already. But every time I think about Cataclysm, I can't help but wonder how long I will be playing WoW. Which expansion will I decide that my time is done? Clearly it's not Cataclysm, because I find myself excited about it. I'm already making plans for the expansion. But every expansion brings the question, does it not?
I also what, if any, change we should make as a guild. Should we cut back to three raid nights, but have a far more strict attendance and performance requirement? Should we leave things as they are? Who is going to want to switch mains? How are we going to decide the new guild features? Will I like the changes be implemented?
So many questions! So few answers! I really need to find and polish my crystal ball!
And those are the rambling thoughts that have been plaguing my mind the past few days. Thoughts that are just floating and swimming about, nibbling here and there. Thoughts that I don't have answers to, and that perhaps don't even need to be answered. Perhaps some thoughts are just meant to be thrown about to be nibbled on, and never require resolution.
Please feel free to share if you have any thoughts on my thoughts. Or if you have any rambling thoughts that you'd just like to put out there as well! J