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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893
Constructing Chicago
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In the spring of 1992, maintenance crews in Chicago found that a mysterious flood was filling the downtown area's extensive system of subbasements. There had been no rains to cause this, no rise in the Chicago River. Local columnist Mike Royko said Lake Michigan must have sprung a leak—and, sure enough, fish were soon spotted in the rising waters. Vulnerable underground electric cables and control panels were sputtering out. Thousands of tons of water were breaking through partitions, threatening the foundations of historic buildings. Even when the source of the water was found, the mystery was not dispelled. A puncture had occurred in an abandoned network of delivery tunnels, in the part that runs under the Chicago River. The river was coursing all through and under the downtown, through fifty miles of these labyrinthine conduits. Most Chicagoans had never heard of the tunnels, and even those who had were vague about their origin and purpose.
The builders of the tunnels had wanted it that way. They gave limited and misleading accounts of their purpose while wresting building permits from a suspicious (and venal) city government.1 Chicago was slow to develop subways, in part because of a high water table and recurring problems with sewage. Lake Michigan has a mushy shoreline here. The first skyscrapers had to be built on concrete "floating rafts" inserted in the ground to hold the buildings up.2
On the other hand, it was necessary to put some traffic underground by 1900 (when the tunnels were begun), since the congestion of the city streets had reduced walking to a form of slow-motion wrestling. By 1893, two people a day were being killed in the city by trains going through crowded crossings—and many more were maimed, prompting one dire vision of a city filling up with armless or legless people, their extremities sheared off in the insistent shove of trains through acres of human traffic jams.
The grade crossings were still being closed by hand at that time, and the bridges over the Chicago River were being turned by men stationed to let masted ships go through. Crowds huddled into a kind of human cheese. The hero of Theodore Dreiser's novel The Titan (1914) sees this human jelly and decides he can become master of the city if he threads trolleys through it, sorting the people out and speeding them along. He fights for tunnel rights under the river. His sense of power comes from literal manipulation of people, from his ability to remake Chicago, inch by inch, at its center:
Before the newspapers or the public could suitably protest, crowds of men were at work day and night in the business heart of the city, their flaring torches and resounding hammers making a fitful bedlamic world of that region; they were laying the first great cable loop and repairing the La Salle Street tunnel (Chapter 26).
Dreiser's hero is based on the financier Charles Yerkes, who helped take Chicago from horse-trolleys…
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Marc Bellemare at Duke has been using Delivering Development in his development seminar this semester. On Friday, he was kind enough to blog a bit about one of the things he found interesting in the book: the finding that women were more productive than men on a per-hectare basis. As Marc notes, this runs contrary to most assumptions in the agricultural/development economics literature, especially some rather famous work by Chris Udry:
Whereas one would expect men and women to be equally productive on their respective plots within the household, Udry finds that in Burkina Faso, men are more productive than women at the margin when controlling for a host of confounding factors.
This is an important finding, as it speaks to our understanding of inefficiency in household production . . . which, as you might imagine given Udry's findings, is often assumed to be a problem of men farming too little and women farming a bit too much land. So Marc was a bit taken aback to read that in coastal Ghana the situation is actually reversed – women are more productive than men per unit area of land, and therefore to achieve optimal distributions of agricultural resources (read:land) in these households we would actually have to shift land out of men's production into women's production.
I knew that this finding ran contrary to Udry and some other folks, but I did not think it was that big a deal: Udry worked in the Sahel, which is quite a different environment and agroecology than coastal Ghana. Further, he worked with folks of a totally different ethnicity engaged with different markets. In short, I chalked his findings up to the convergence of any number of factors that had played out somewhat differently in my research context. I certainly don't see my findings as generalizable much beyond Akan-speaking peoples living in rural parts of Ghana . . .
All of that said, Marc points out that with regard to my findings:
Of course, this would need to be subjected to the proper empirical specification and to a battery of statistical tests . . .
Well, that is an interesting question. So, a bit of transparency on my data (it is pretty transparent in my refereed pubs, but the book didn't wade into all of that):
- The data was gathered during the main rainy season, typically as the harvest was just starting to come in. This required folks to make some degree of projection about the productivity of their fields at least a month into the future, and often several months into the future
- The income figures for each crop, and therefore for total agricultural productivity, were self-reported. I was not able to cross-check these reported figures by counting the actual amount of crop coming off each farm.
- I also gathered information on expenses, and when I totaled up expenses and subtracted them from reported income, every household in the village was running in the red. I know that is not true, having lived there for some 18 months of my life.
- There is no doubt in my mind that production figures were underestimated, and expenses overestimated, in my data – this fits into patterns of income reporting among the Akan that are seen elsewhere in the literature.
- Therefore, you cannot trust the reported figures as accurate absolute measures of farm productivity.
- The data was replicated across three field seasons. The first two field seasons, I conducted all data collection with my research assistant. However, in the final year of data collection, I lead a team of four interviewers from the University of Cape Coast, who worked with local guides to identify farms and farmers to interview – in the last year, we interviewed every willing farmer in the village (nearly 100% of the population).
- It turns out that my snowball sample of households in the first two years of data collection actually covered the entire universe of households operating under non-exceptional household circumstances (i.e. they are not samples, they are reports on the activities of the population).
- In other words, you don't have to ask about my sampling – there was no sampling. I just described the activities of the entire relevant population in all three years.
- This removes a lot of concerns people have about the size of my samples – some household strategies only had 7 or 8 households working with them in a given year, which makes statistical work a little tricky 🙂 Well, turns out there is no real need for stats, as this is everyone!
- The only exception to this: female-headed households. I grossly underinterviewed them in years 1 and 2 (inadvertently), and the women I did interview do not appear to be representative of all female-headed households. I therefore can only make very limited claims about trends in these households.
- Even with completely new interviewers who had no preconceived notions about the data, the income findings came in roughly the same as when I gathered the data. That's replicability, folks! Well, at least as far as qualitative social science gets in a dynamic situation.
- Though the data was gathered at only one point in the season, at that point farmers were already seeing how the first wave of the harvest was doing and could make reasonable projections about the rest of the harvest.
I'm probably forgetting other problems and answers . . . Marc will remind me, I'm sure! In any case, though, Marc asks a really interesting question at the end of his post:
Assuming the finding holds, it would be interesting to compare the two countries given that Burkina Faso and Ghana share a border. Is the change in gender differences due to different institutions? Different crops?
The short answer, for now, has to be a really unsatisfying "I don't know." Delivering Development lays out in relatively simple terms a really complex argument I have building for some time about livelihoods, that they are motivated by and optimized with reference to a lot more than material outcomes. The book builds a fairly simple explanation for how men balanced the need to remain in charge of their households with the need to feed and shelter those households . . . but I have elaborated on this in a piece in review at the Development and Change. I will send them an email and figure out where this is in review – they have been struggling mightily with reviewers (last I heard, they had gone through 13!?!) and put up a preprint as soon as I am able. This is relevant here because I would need a lot more information about the Burkina setting to work through my new livelihoods framework before I could answer Marc's question.
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Career Profile: Robyn Wright Dunbar
Senior Associate Director for Science and Engineering, Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Education: B.A. Geology, Trinity University; M.A. and Ph.D. Geology, Rice University
Robyn Wright Dunbar provided the information for this profile for the 2004 Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences Workshop.
Jump down to: Description of current position * Career path * Advice for graduate students
Description of current positionMy job is to support and promote effective science/engineering teaching at Stanford through a combination of individual consultations, group services, and teaching orientations. I consult with faculty members about courses, observe classes, and assist instructors in both getting student feedback and in responding to that feedback. I consult with graduate students and post-docs on career development and teaching portfolios and I lead teaching workshops for faculty and graduate students.
What do you like best about your current work?I enjoy the diversity of people, disciplines, and teaching challenges that I encounter. I take great satisfaction in helping other people meet their teaching and learning goals.
What is most challenging about your current work?The need to be a credible and knowledgeable resource for science learning in a wide range of fields outside of the geosciences is my biggest challenge. This new learning curve is also the most engaging and vitalizing part of my job.
Which experiences that you had before do you find most useful in doing your job?My prior experience as a geology faculty member and my activity as a geoscience educator (both at the university level and in pre-college applications) best prepared me for this career change.
What do you see as the future of this career field?The field of faculty and graduate student development is well established, with centers at most major universities and professional organizations that support growth and best practices in the field. Some centers may close as others open anew, but the net change toward an increase in such campus resources is likely to persist.
Are there any myths about your job that you would like to help dispel?Myth: I "left teaching and research" for an admin position. I am teaching all the time and, through workshops, consultations, and pedagogy courses, my "teaching gene" is well satisfied. As for research, our center is a service-providing unit and we do a very small amount of educational research. There are, however, centers in which active research on teaching and learning is an integral part of the function. One need not give up substantive research to move into this career.
Career pathPassion for teaching binds my career path. My first job, Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of New Mexico, began the dual-career challenge (my spouse was then a geology prof at Rice University). After five years and an arduous decision process, I left the tenure track for a non-tenured position at Rice. There, I taught selected courses (hard money), maintained a research program (soft money), and began my work in geoscience education. To develop needed background, I established collaborations with local K-12 teachers and "apprenticed myself" to the Geological Society of America's education/outreach program. When we moved to Stanford (led by my spouse's job), I had an active K-12 outreach program going in addition to my faculty work.
How did you become interested in your current job? How did you get the job - who did you contact, were there particular ways that helped?A Stanford ad for a full-time position working with science/engineering TAs caught my attention. The job was consistent with my long-range goals, albeit not an attractive full time option for me. Not sure the job was a good match, I contacted the Center for Teaching and Learning. As our conversations evolved, the job "morphed" to become better aligned with my qualifications and I accepted an exciting offer.
What made you more competitive to get your job?What made me attractive for this job was my Ph.D. in a field of science, my ability to converse in the language of science education, my solid experience as a faculty member who had thought deeply about and practiced ways of effectively teaching science, and my public speaking skills.
Advice for graduate studentsMake things happen! The only job I ever filled that matched its initial description was that of Assistant Professor of Geology at UNM. There was no education outreach program at Rice, but with due credit to a supportive department, I grew it. There was no "faculty internship program" at the GSA, but we created a partnership that helped me learn the ropes. The position I now hold grew from one of limited scope into one better matched to my qualifications through dialog I initiated. Consider what you need to make it happen, and do it! If you are interested in a career in faculty or graduate student development, explore and utilize the resources that are already in place on your campus or in your area. Become actively involved if there are roles for graduate students or post-docs. Learn about POD, the Professional and Organizational Development network; get on the email list (podnetwork.org); attend an annual meeting. Study teaching center websites; see who is employed by them and what they do. Jobs in this field are advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education, through the POD email list, and by internal communication among center directors.


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A turnover. What a surprise. Empty net. Game over. Wait a second, the heavily criticized Brett Clark makes the save! HOLY SHAMOLEY. (I'm using hockey lingo, here). Then, with under 15 seconds to go, the Avs made it 6-on-3, Darcy Tucker and Ryan Smyth put themselves in front of Dwayne Roloson, and what do you know, the Avs actually scored thanks to a Jordan Leopold shot from the point and subsequent deflection by Tucker. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
In the shootout, Wolski scored on what appeared to be a half-slapshot move which we haven't seen from him before, and Tucker ended up scoring the winner in the fifth round on a nifty slapshot. Why Hejduk, Svatos, and Smyth all refused to deke, I don't know. 3-2 was your final score.
Shawn Horcoff must feel like crap today. I certainly don't. Peter Budaj and the Avs stole one last night against the Oilers and made it three straight games with a W. Boods is certainly winning me over, but like I said, I'm waiting until he's this consistent over a 6-8 game stretch.
The defense? It was ok. It could have been a lot better and I think all of them made a few egregious turnovers at one point. Right now, Budaj is bailing them out. How long that lasts, I don't know. They need to get it together. If that means benching one of them in favor of Cumiskey or Tjarnqvist, so be it.
Worthy of Note
Smyth finally scored his first goal against the Oilers. Thank you, again.
In the Doghouse
David Jones - Played under seven minutes, a -1, and only had one shot. He's been invisible this year and really hasn't developed a role on this team. I'd like to see Brian Willsie or Per Ledin get a shot while Jones works on getting his confidence up.
Tyler Arnason - It goes without saying that this guy stinks. I'll say it anyway. This guy stinks. He was his usual 0, 0, 0 with a -1 thrown in there for good measure. He turns it over on a consistent basis and when the camera showed the Avalanche bench at one point, he actually had the nerve to take a drink of water. I didn't see much effort on his part. The healthy scratch obviously meant nothing.
Hensick Report
Hensick failed to register a point for the first time since being called up. He was surprisingly invisible except for a hooking penalty in the second period.
Sakic Scratched
Sakic missed the second game of the road trip with his bad back. I don't know what's worse. The fact that our 39-year-old vet has a bad back or the fact that our 39-year-old vet with a bad back is still better than a fully healthy Tyler Arnason.
No Respect Roloson
Rolson's complaining after the tying goal was completely ridiculous. Smyth and Arnason didn't bump him. They screened him, but certainly didn't venture deep into the crease. Roloson was whining all night and was seemingly distracted during that final sequence. He should have been complaining to his defense who let the Avs run wild in front of him.
Three Stars of the Game
1. Peter Budaj (33 saves, brilliant in the third and in shootout)
2. Ryan Smyth (Finally scored, made Roloson look like a bumbling idiot)
3. Darcy Tucker (Trying to win back fans, scored tying goal and shootout winner)
Next Up
Colorado will look to make it a perfect road trip on Wednesday night against the Flames. The Flames have been hot at home this season (6-2-1) while the Avs will look to crawl above .500 in both their overall and road records.
Video Fix
Cody McCormick vs Jarome Iginla from the last Avs-Flames game. Perhaps we'll see a rematch?
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Avs/Clarke/Budaj Steal One vs Oilers
Posted by Geoff Rosenthal at 11:45 AM [Permalink]
2 comments:
- Mike at MHH said...
I don't want to give Clark TOO much credit. His stupid pass was the catalyst for having to bail the team out with a skate save. +1 -1 = even, IMO.
- November 16, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- Geoff Rosenthal said...
Completely agree. I was prepared to spend the entire post ragging on him after he made that pass. But hey, I'll just wait until the next time he turns it over and isn't there to block the shot.
Now let me ask you, would you be opposed to making Clark the backup instead of Raycroft?
- November 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM
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As book-lovers, many of us have a thing for words. This weekend I asked our wise & wordy Facebook and Twitter fans to vote on their favorite word in the English language. Here are the top 10 results and the definition described by Merriam & Webster.
1. Serendipity: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
2. Shenanigans: tricky or questionable practices or conduct; or high-spirited or mischievous activity
3. Love: strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties; or warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion; or unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another
4. Periwinkle: any of several trailing or woody evergreen herbs of the dogbane family; or a light purplish blue
5. Ephemeral: lasting a very short time
6. Hope: to cherish a desire with anticipation; or to expect with confidence
7. Curmudgeon: a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
8. Onomatopoeia: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it; or the use of words whose sound suggests the sense
9. Behooves: to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for
10. Yes: an affirmative reply
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Every December 17, National Air and Space Museum senior curator Tom Crouch attends the annual wreath-laying ceremony in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, to mark the anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. This year I tagged along. Our first stop was the Outer Banks History Center in nearby Manteo, where curator and archivist KaeLi Schurr treated us to a tour of the library and archive.
An inveterate researcher, Crouch is always on high alert for new findings about early aviation. I dove into the boxes of archival photographs, looking for buried treasure. There were many well-known images of the Flyer on the dunes, the usual stuff. Then I struck gold when I pulled out a photo of an elegantly dressed petite woman in a stylish cloche hat, laying flowers at the Wright Brothers National Memorial sometime in the 1950s or 1960s, from the look of the photo. Who was she? Schurr, the go-to gal for Outer Banks history, didn't know.
At the Wright Memorial early the next morning, after the wreath ceremony and flyover, we headed in for a luncheon. Schurr appeared, with a Xerox of the print that had captivated me—complete with the woman's name, Mrs. David Simpson. Turns out she is the granddaughter of Adam Etheridge, a witness to the December 17, 1903 flight. I searched out Lois Smith, another descendant of one of the witnesses, whose grandfather John T. Daniels took the iconic first-flight photo. "Do you know this name?" I asked. "Is this woman still alive?" I held out little hope.
"Why, she was here a moment ago, but she just left," Smith said. What a disappointment. I had missed her by seconds.
Moments later, as the crowd dispersed, I felt a tap on my shoulder. Said Mrs. David Simpson, "Are you looking for me?" She had never seen the photograph before. Although she was about to leave, she walked back over to the memorial, where I snapped another picture. A magic moment, where the past and future come together, and I was fortunate to be a witness.
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As I was reading the thread about Dave Navarro's Buick WE4/GN being for sale, it reminded me of another famous Buick GN owner - David Spade.
Yes I think Spade is hilarious, but I developed a bit more respect for him when I found out that he daily drives a Buick Grand National - and he actually seems to love the car to death.
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The show will go on for Lauren Alaina.
Less than an hour before Lauren and Scotty McCreery took the stage for Tuesday's "American Idol" finale, Access Hollywood had learned that Lauren had lost her voice during rehearsals earlier in the day and was in jeopardy of being able to compete on Tuesday night.
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However, Lauren and "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest addressed the issue at the top of the show.
"I'm here, I'm ready to sing. Don't worry about it," Lauren said with a smile, when Ryan asked if she would be able to perform.
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Ryan then called out "Idol's" house doctor, who explained what happened to the teen singer.
"During the rehearsal, Lauren was really pushing her voice to get the maximum sound out an doing that she kind of blew out one of her vocal chords, so her vocal chords were really rough and sprained, kind of like a runner with a badly sprained ankle" the doctor explained.
"Can she make it the entire hour in your opinion?" Ryan asked the doctor.
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"We gave her a lot of medicines… and she's going to do great," the doctor noted.
According to eyewitnesses who were present during Lauren's rehearsals earlier in the day, she lost her voice during her second song.
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The first song she sang was "perfect," according to the eyewitnesses, however, she lost her voice during her second song and did not sing the third.
Lauren left the stage in tears, the eyewitnesses noted.
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"Let's do it!" the country crooner told Ryan.
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Holy Rollers.
This is what I've called my set of hot rollers for years.
On days when I want Texas hair.
Or Holy hair.
Or Sunday School hair.
You know what they say "The bigger the hair the closer to God."
Or when "I want to be Southern Baptist Blonde." In color and style. I may have mentioned that...
He knew the exact shade.
With six children in this family, I don't get the chance to execute my Texas hair very often.
Most of the time I'm sporting the librarian. All pulled back in a tight bun at the nape of my neck.
But this isn't really a post about hair styles.....
It's more about those two little words at the top of this page.
I felt led to write about it just in case anyone attending The Pearl Event is worried that some of that
holy roller business is going to be going on from the front of the room.
The type of stuff that makes you feel "less than" as soon as they get started.
The type of stuff where teachers and speakers share about how perfect there life is.
How perfect their marriage is.
How holy and sanctified they are- and their marriage is.
How we are all going to hell if we don't do x,y and z.
It feels bad. Really bad.
Our heavenly Father is love. He is love personified. Love exemplified. He is love every which way including Sunday. He pours and woos and draws and calls us unto Himself....with L-O-V-E.
And that is all that should be coming from the front of any place talking about Jesus.
It is the LOVE of God that breaks every yoke....
So to ease any fears you may have, this event is going to be nothing but love, pearls and personal testimony.
And after I get done telling you about all the stuff God has brought me through- you are going to feel great about your own life. I promise.
I used to despise my testimony.
I refused to embrace it.
I wanted a new one. A different one. A better one.
I longed not to have the scarlet letter, so to speak, on my chest.
The girl who came from a broken home. The girl who was this or that. The girl who -----fill in the blank.
I wanted my testimony to be written in a happily ever after pink collection set.
But God had different plans.
In recent years I have become extremely grateful for my experiences in life.
For my chapters if you will.
When He prompts me to write a blog post...I draw from a deep well.
I have hundreds of crisis, experiences and unfortunate circumstances to draw from. :) Go Jesus.
I had to learn life the hard way and now I am grateful for my many life lessons.
Are there still pieces of me that long to be a Daddy's girl or a Mama's girl. Oh yes....
I was made to be somebody's girl.
But I'm His girl. His pearl. And that revelation alone has brought forth tremendous healing in my life.
Part of the reason it took me such a long time to realize this is I had some church experiences that left me feeling less than. I met some holy rollers. And I'm not talking about hot rollers this time.
I love the church and the Christian faith and God's people. So this is not meant to be offensive in the least. This is just one of my personal experiences and it must be for somebody because He isn't going to let me hit publish until I write it.
I remember one experience that kept me out of the church for quite some time. But worse than that-
It kept me far away from Him. Because I assumed that this woman in particular was right and if she "didn't know where to put me".......
Then a Holy God didn't either.
Many years ago as a young single mama, I somehow managed to scrape up the courage to attend sunday school.
This was huge for me.
I must have just gotten paid or something - always a good day for me- because I have no earthly idea how I had the confidence to do such a thing.
I filled out the forms and they handed me off to the chief Sunday School lady.
Serious business.
She walked me down one hall and then another and then stopped and looked at me and said in total disgust....
"I don't know where to put YOU!"
"You can't go into the married sunday school class because YOU are NOT married and you CANNOT go into the singles sunday school class because you are NOT single, you have a CHILD!"
I hated the church at that moment.
It crushed me.
To add salt to an open wound she decided it was BEST to go ahead and PUT me in the singles class.
Where the "lesson" that day was "What to wear to church and why".........
I wanted nothing to do with their Jesus.
Because if He really cared about what I had on then we were in big trouble.
And if they didn't know where to "put" me then I was certain He didn't either.
And I had enough problems already.
I spent years running from Him , then searching for Him and running again...
As God would have it....Eventually He wooed me unto Himself and I was able to see and feel and know and experience the wonder of His love.
And when you experience the real thing.....nothing can take that away from you.
Not a church lady. Not a holy roller. Not a church service. Not a friend or a family member.
Especially when it took you over half your life to find it in the first place.
So I am sharing these pieces with you today just to encourage you. To calm any fears you may have about the upcoming event. To confirm that this is nothing but love.....
God loves you so much He had me call Paige, Edie, Sarah, Jane and Brittany to be with you that day.
They are real life Steel Magnolia's. Steel Magnolia's who love Jesus and who love you....
I know every, single one of them and they absolutely exude the love of the Father.
There isn't a holy roller among us.
Come as you are. Wear whatever you want.
Paige and Edie wear cowboy boots so please, wear yours too.
Set all fears aside and know that you will be embraced. We are huggers and squealers....
We know where "to put you" sweet friends...and that is right smack in the midst of His love.
We are also planning to absolutely make a big 'ole southern fuss over every single one of you.
So brace yourself.
I am praying for you all and I'm praying that His love will absolutely saturate your hearts that day....
Two more weeks.
Love you so.....


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Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby Says Lee Rigby's Murder Condemned by Muslim Council of Britain
The head of the global Anglican Communion has released a statement on the recent brutal murder of British soldier Lee Rigby.
The Right Reverend Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, said on Friday regarding Rigby's murder that Christian and Muslim leaders in the United Kingdom have been helping to bring reconciliation. "I want to recognize the response of churches, mosques and other faith and civil society groups as well as those of brave individuals who have done so much to bring our communities together at this time," said Welby.
"The strong response from the Muslim Council of Britain and many other organizations has rightly emphasized that these acts have no place in Islam."
Welby also mentioned his involvement with the interfaith British organization the Christian Muslim Forum, which was founded in the 1990s and comprised of leaders from both faiths. "As Patron of the national Christian Muslim Forum I know that the Forum is offering support and encouragement for these meetings to happen and I continue to hold all those working in these efforts in my prayers," said Welby.
"This is very much a time for communities to come together."
Last Wednesday, Lee Rigby, drummer for the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and father of a two-year-old son, was attacked and murdered by a pair of Islamic extremists in the Woolwich district of London. The two perpetrators beheaded and mutilated Rigby at a busy street, claiming their allegiance to Muslim countries where Britain has deployed its military. According to The Associated Press, both suspects were already under surveillance by British authorities for suspected ties to terrorism.
Since the murder, others have been arrested by British officials for their connection to the very public killing of Rigby.
Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, co-chair of the Christian Muslim Forum and Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, said in a statement that the Muslim community was "appalled by the horrific murder in Woolwich."
"The murderers chanted slogans during their heinous crime claiming to do it in God's name. Far from it. As our Prime Minister rightly concluded, this is a betrayal of Islam," said Mogra.
"I am immensely grateful for the leadership of our Archbishop during this most difficult time and thank leaders of all our faith communities for their support."


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Bone and Body Comp: A Sub Study of the SECOND-LINE Study
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First Posted : January 20, 2012
Results First Posted : January 17, 2014
Last Update Posted : September 4, 2019
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The use of anti HIV drugs (ART), and in particular a class of drugs known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (N(t)RTI), has been associated with changes in body fat and in particular loss of peripheral fat in the limbs. Low bone mineral density and osteoporosis are also common in HIV-infected patients. There appears to be some association between ART and bone loss, but this is poorly understood and requires further research. The SECOND-LINE study provides an opportunity to examine if a new anti-HIV drug (raltegravir) can result in greater increase in limb fat than a drug regimen containing N(t)RTI, which is currently standard of care. This study also provides an opportunity to examine if additional bone loss occurs with the second regimen of anti-HIV drugs and whether non-N(t)RTI regimens of ART used in second line therapy result in more or less bone loss than use of other classes of anti-HIV drugs such as protease inhibitors or N(t)RTI combinations.
It is hypothesized that subjects randomised into Raltegravir arm will demonstrate greater increases in limb fat and smaller reductions in bone density at the proximal femur over 48 weeks than those randomised into the control arm (LPV/r + 2-3N(t)RTIs).
|Condition or disease
|Drug: Lopinavir / ritonavir Drug: 2-3N(t)RTI Drug: raltegravir
|Phase 4
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|Intervention Model:
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|Bone and Body Comp: A Sub Study of the SECOND-LINE Study
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Active Comparator: Arm 1. Lopinavir / ritonavir + 2-3N(t)RTI
LPV/r 200mg/50mg 4 tabs once daily or 2 tabs twice daily + 2-3N(t)RTI
Drug: Lopinavir / ritonavir
LPV/r 200mg/50mg 4 tabs once daily or 2 tabs twice daily
Drug: 2-3N(t)RTI
|Active Comparator: Arm 2. Lopinavir /ritonavir + raltegravir
Drug: Lopinavir / ritonavir
LPV/r 200mg/50mg 4 tabs once daily or 2 tabs twice daily
Drug: raltegravir
raltegravir 400mg 1 tablet twice daily.
- Mean Bone Mineral Density Changes From Baseline to 48 Weeks as Measured by DXA Scan [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Mean Limbs Fat Changes From Baseline to 48 Weeks as Measured by DXA Scan [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Mean Total Body Fat Changes From Baseline to 48 Weeks as Measured by DXA Scan [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Mean Triglycerides Changes From Baseline to 48 Weeks [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Mean Total Cholesterol Changes From Baseline to 48 Weeks [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Mean Glucose Changes From Baseline to 48 Weeks [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
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Second-Line main study identifier: NCT00931463
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 positive by licensed diagnostic test
- Aged 16 years or older (or minimum age as determined by local regulations or as legal requirements dictate)
- Have received first antiretroviral regimen consisting of an NNRTI plus 2N(t)RTIs for ≥ 24 weeks
- No change in antiretroviral therapy within 12 weeks prior to screening
- Failed first-line NNRTI + 2N(t)RTI combination therapy according to virological criteria defined by two consecutive (≥7 days apart) HIV RNA results of > 500 copies/mL
- No prior or current exposure to HIV protease inhibitors and/or HIV integrase inhibitors
- Able to provide written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
The following laboratory variables:
- absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < 500 cells/µL
- hemoglobin < 7.0 g/dL
- platelet count < 50,000 cells/µL
- ALT > 5 x ULN
- Pregnant or nursing mothers
- Participants with active viral hepatitis B infection defined by the presence in serum of hepatitis B surface antigen
- Use of immunomodulators within 30 days prior to screening
- Use of any prohibited medications (rifampicin, midazolam, triazolam, cisapride, pimozide, amiodarone, dihydroergotamine, ergotamine, ergonovine, methylergonovine, astemizole, terfenadine, vardenafil, and St. John's wort)
- Intercurrent illness requiring hospitalisation
- Active opportunistic disease not under adequate control in the opinion of the site Principal Investigator
- Participants with current alcohol or illicit substance abuse that in the opinion of the site Principal Investigator might adversely affect participation in the study
- Participants deemed by the site Principal Investigator unlikely to be able to remain in follow-up for the protocol-defined period
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01513122
|Buenos Aires, Argentina
|YRGCare Medical Centre
|Chennai, India, 600113
|University of Malaya Medical Centre
|Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 50603
|South Africa
|JOSHA Research
|Bloemfontein, South Africa
|Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation
|Cape Town, South Africa, 7925
|Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
|Soweto, South Africa
|HIV-NAT Program on AIDS - Thai Red Cross
|Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
|Principal Investigator:
|Paddy Mallon
|Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
|Principal Investigator:
|Waldo Belloso
|Hospital Italiano, Argentina
|Principal Investigator:
|Samuel Ferret
|Hopital Saint-Louis, France
|Principal Investigator:
|Praphan Phanuphak
|HIV-NAT Program on AIDS - Thai Red Cross, Bangkok
|Principal Investigator:
|Jennifer Hoy
|The Alfred
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2L body comp sub-study
|First Posted:
|January 20, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|January 17, 2014
|Last Update Posted:
|September 4, 2019
|Last Verified:
|August 2019
Raltegravir Potassium
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 28, 2013) – Four U.S. beach volleyball teams are in the Dominican Republic this week for the NORCECA Beach Circuit event in Boca Chica.
The U.S. will be represented on the women's side by the USA-A team of Jennifer Fopma (Bellflower, Calif.) and Brooke Sweat (Fort Myers, Fla.) and the USA-B team of Brittany Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.) and Summer Ross (San Diego, Calif.).
Fopma and Sweat won the bronze medal one week ago at the NORCECA event in the Cayman Islands.
Ross won gold medals on the 2012 NORCECA Beach Circuit with Emily Day (Torrance, Calif.) in Trinidad and with Tealle Hunkus (Girard, Ohio) in Aruba. She won a silver medal with Morgan Beck at the NORCECA Beach Circuit event in Chula Vista, Calif.
U.S. women's beach volleyball teams have won twice the gold medal in Boca Chica. In 2007, Paula Roca and Alizia Polzin triumphed in the inaugural female event while Jenny Kropp and Whitney Pavlik topped the field in 2011.
On the men's side, Brad Keenan (Westminster, Calif.) and John Mayer (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) will play their first NORCECA event as the USA-A team while Avery Drost (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Will Montgomery (Santa Barbara, Calif.) will play as USA-B.
As a team, Drost and Montgomery took the silver medal at the 2013 NORCECA Beach Circuit event in Aruba.
Montgomery also won gold medals at the event in Trinidad & Tobago with Tony Ciarelli (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and in St. Lucia with Jon Mesko (Traverse City, Mich.). Montgomery won a silver medal at the 2012 event in Chula Vista, Calif., with Tri Bourne (Aiea, Hawaii).
In the men's field, Roberto Rodriguez of Puerto Rico will defend the title he won last year when teamed up with Orlando Irizarry. Mexico's Juan Virgen, the 2010 winner with Aldo Miramontes, is another former champion competing in Boca Chica, this time with Lombardo Ontiveros as his partner.
For more information about the NORCECA Beach Circuit, visit NORCECA.net.


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More Anti-Youtube Whining: 'YouTube Complies With Our Takedown Requests Just To Make Us Look Bad'
from the youtube-doesn't-apologize-to-infringers,-you-whingeing-buffoons deptEvery so often you come across a conclusion so badly drawn it makes you wonder how the person got from point A to... well, not exactly point B but somewhere well past point B, off in an ethereal realm inhabited by the denizens of overly-complicated word problems and their constantly variable forms of transportation. ("If a premise leaves the train station [Point A] at 10AM riding a bicycle at 3 mph for the first hour and increasing speed by .25 mph every hour for the first four hours before decelerating at a rate inversely proportionate to the incline of the grade [17%], at what time will the bicyclist's speed be exactly 1/4 the average flight speed of the Africanized honey bee? Show your work.)
On even rarer occasions, you'll find this counterintuitive "conclusion" not only applauded for its immaculate "logic," but expounded upon as though it were the genesis of a world-breaking thesis. The obliqueness (and obtuseness) begins with a simple bit of rhetorical questioning by Larry Crane of Tape Op Magazine: "Why does Youtube apologize to people who have illegally uploaded my content?"
I politely asked Youtube to remove a song by my old band that someone had posted without permission. They took it down but then apologized "sorry about that" and ran my business name as if "blaming me" for removing content. Really? Wow. Pretty damn impartial, huh?
They also had the temerity to name the business that requested the takedown. What did you expect them to do? Just simply write "This video is no longer available" and be done with it? Of course they named who did it. Do you know why? It's not to "blame" you, which, as the party responsible for the takedown, the "blame" is wholly yours. No, it's to inform viewers and uploaders and other interested parties that this video was taken down to comply with a takedown request, which is something YouTube needs to do to retain its DMCA safe harbors.
The other reason the takedown party is listed is because, sometimes, in rare cases, the takedown isn't legit. Sometimes it's just a clerical error. Or maliciousness. Or a faulty algorithm. This way interested parties can contact the party listed if they feel the takedown is in error. Again, this is a rare occurrence, one that has only happened a handful of times. Like here, for example. And here. And here. And here. Oh, there's also this one. And this other time. Another rarity. Once-in-a-lifetime experience. Well below the expected margin of error. Nothing to see here either. Anomaly. Freak accident. Outlier. In short, it's a handy way to tell at a glance who took the video down and decide whether or not the takedown might be in error.
But, back to the big question: Why does YouTube apologize to the infringing uploader? Good question. But you'll never get an answer because that apology isn't for them. It's not for you, either. It's for the viewer who clicked play and got a dry slab of info rather than the tune/video he or she was expecting. YouTube doesn't apologize to infringing uploaders. They send notices to their account inboxes and email addresses informing them that a video is being removed by request of the rights holders and gently reminding them that if they don't knock this shit off, their account could be deleted.
I'm really not sure how anyone could read that screen and decide that YouTube is oh-so-sorry for being forced to end the uploader's infringement party because of a few rights-holding killjoys. This apology is for fans and potential fans -- the viewers who came here expecting to be entertained and instead got a face full of "NOTHING TO SEE HERE."
Let me ask you a question, Larry. What wording would you use? "YouTube is robbing this artist no longer. Praise Jeebus." "Sorry about all of our infringement, but we're really just a pirate site in corporate clothing." "Enjoy the silence." "'Enjoy the Silence has been removed due to a copyright claim by Warner Bros. Records."
This [waves black and white avatarial arms in the general direction of above] is ridiculous enough. It's just Google-hating in search of a point. But then, someone else decides "ridiculous enough" isn't ridiculous enough. Chris Castle adds some invaluable commentary:
Larry Crane of Tape OP Magazine highlights what must seem like a curious practice by YouTube. First thing--it's Google, so understand that they don't care at all what artists think. Having said that, it will not be surprising to know that YouTube has long employed a tactic that can be thought of as Chilling Effects Lite. acting out of enthusiasm for the artist's music.Google hate? Check. Moving on.
YouTube leverages the fact that most YouTube videos are embedded in a variety of places, including the artist's own home page.Why would an artist embed an infringing video on their own site, especially if they're considering sending a takedown notice? Do they just want their media page to have a sort of "going out of business look?"
This distribution was accomplished by the efforts of the artist or the artist's manager, or the artist's record company or by fans of the artist.So: if the person who uploaded the infringing video is a fan, you'll reinstate the video? Because the funny thing about uploaders, they don't tend to upload stuff they hate. They're usually fans and they upload songs that aren't on Youtube yet, not to violate copyright laws, but to share music they like. In this example, Chris lists fans as victims of Google's evil "name-and-shame" policy which leaves dead-end embedded videos littering their site but simultaneously wants to chastise fans for uploading the videos without permission, possibly to place on their fan sites. Which is it? Fans = victims? Or fans = infringers who don't deserve the apologies they're not actually getting?
Now, I really didn't want to include this much text, but I'm afraid that if I edited it in any way, I'd be accused of cherry-picking in order to obscure Castle's point. So, here's the whole thing and I welcome you to figure out the point on your own.
When YouTube gets a take down notice that actually results in YouTube removing the video–usually because the poster hasn't filed a counternotice (which in YouTube's case can be essentially anything from the poster indicating a pulse)–YouTube isn't satisfied to just remove the video. (This would cause the video to go dark everywhere it's embedded. Instead, YouTube takes it upon itself to post a notice to the World of Free that campitalizes on the efforts made by the artist and those working with the artist (including fans) to use those efforts to YouTube's benefit. How? YouTube uses the same embed codes to post a notice that YouTube had to actually comply with the law. If that notice comes from an artist's record company or the music publisher of the recorded song, then everyone who has the video embedded suddenly has a messge "apologizing" due to the fact that YouTube controls what replaces the embeded video that was removed. That "apology" is then flashed across the Internet including the band's own webpage if they have embedded any YouTube videos. YouTube then feeds that "story" to the Google press who dutifully report on the incident as manufactured news.The gist of it, if it even contains a "gist," seems to be that YouTube complies with the law in a way that is most advantageous to it, PR-wise. That's what I'm picking up and I had to cross out nearly every other word to do it. The specifics, all strung together, add up to nothing at all, other than a whole lot of words being wasted in order to state: "I greatly dislike Google and its subsidiaries."
"The video goes dark at every location it's embedded" because... it's embedded. Castle even states as much. But somehow, this devious code trickery adds up to something evil. And why is it evil? Because sometimes these videos are embedded at the artists' own sites. And when the artist (or their representation) issues a takedown, it causes videos on the artists' sites to go dark. Leading us back to one of our original questions: what the hell is this hypothetical band (let's call them "The Victims") doing embedding videos if it's just going issue a takedown anyway? It's like some bizarre copyright-infected murder-suicide, only with the murderer pointing the gun at his own head first.
And as for all the other verbiage about Google feeding the press reports about nefarious takedowns by evil labels, etc. etc. etc.? You know who usually alerts bloggers and musos and "the press" about overreaching or ill-advised takedowns? The fans. The same fans who are "victimized" by YouTube's takedown policy and the same fans who are being denied an apology by your insistence on playing the victim after YouTube did EXACTLY WHAT YOU ASKED THEM TO and COMPLIED WITH THE LAW.
Larry, Chris: You two deserve each other. Even when YouTube does everything right, it's still somehow a screw job.


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North Phoenix Auto Glass – What Should I know?
Simply put, this is glass that you would find in an automobile. Not too many know that in North Phoenix there are two major forms of auto glass. Each one is used on certain windows in the automobile. Both types of auto glass are more impact resistant and stronger than regular glass.
What Are the Different Kinds Of Windshield Replacement North Phoenix Services that are Available?
Laminated safety glass-this glass is generally used on a car's windshield. It is comprised of a couple of pieces of glass that has a slim layer of vinyl. The glass is then heated and pressed together in an autoclave, which is a type of oven. When this glass receives a tough impact it will shatter also but usually the shattered pieces will stick to the vinyl and not fall on the ground.
If the windshield just has a tiny vein or nick, the auto glass professional may be able to repair the tiny vein or nick to keep it from spreading further. The repair will generally take fewer than thirty minutes in North Phoenix. The vein or nick is cleaned thoroughly and dried. Resin is injected and a material like Mylar is used to hold it in place. The professional cures the resin by using an ultraviolet light.
Automotive Glass Replacement - How to Replace Car Glass
Despite what the kids might think, cars were around when their parents were young. Glass had been invented by then and was even around during their grandparent's time. Sometimes it comes as a shock that anything cool existed before video games and cell phones, but classic cars are definitely cool. When windows need to be replaced, lovers of classic vehicles cannot always turn to the regular auto body repair shop where they get their 2011 Ford windows fixed. The right pieces of glass are not typically in stock, and not all windows fit every make and model of car.
Patterns for auto glass were different forty, fifty, and sixty years ago. There are special patterns for each type of vehicle which specialist auto glass replacement and repair shops have access to. Although tools used to cut this glass are more technically advanced compared to those which cut glass 50 and more years ago, the glass is cut precisely to fit into the windshield of an old-fashioned Desoto, Hudson, Studebaker, or other pre-1960 model. A number of auto body shops specializing in repairing old automobiles possess a library of patterns. If the one a customer wants is not available on-site, they will order the pattern. These professionals appreciate the beauty of an older vehicle and the history around its creation.
If you are still uncertain about which company to give your business to, websites often post pictures of cars they have helped to restore. Use these to find out if a company seems to know what it is doing. Although there are specialist auto body outfits all over the country, finding exactly the right professional for the job is worth a road trip if you needed an excuse for one.
How to Find the Right Windshield Replacement Contractor?
Automotive window replacement can be done by the novice if he or she takes their time and has some instruction. It doesn't require any special knowledge or expensive tools to replace car glass, but it does take patience! Here we will talk about replacing a fixed car glass that is bonded to the car body instead of being set into a removable frame.
If you are going to replace car glass that is not set in a frame, then you will basically have to "cut" the old glass out of the car. This procedure requires a few inexpensive tools that are often not in a common tool collection. You need a piece of piano wire to use as a saw, and a couple of inexpensive suction cup handles to lift out the old glass (if it is still in one piece) and to place the new glass into position without touching the edges of the glass.
The first step is to remove any molding that goes around the window. Molding can be attached in several different ways. It may be attached with some sort of clips, glued on, or may be just pushed onto a lip on the car body. This is one place where factory service information comes in handy! Some glass is flush-mounted with the exterior surface of the body and does not have any molding to remove. You also may need to remove one or more trim panels inside the car. Before starting to cut out the broken car window, apply tape to the car body all the way around the window to protect the paint. Next, use an awl to create a hole through the adhesive between the glass and the body. Then push a piece of piano wire through the hole, grab a helper to work the other end of the wire, and use a sawing motion to cut the adhesive all the way around the window. Once you have completely sawn all the way around the broken car window, use the suction cup handles to pull the glass out of the car body.
After the new adhesive has been applied and any recommended curing times have been observed, use the suction cup handles to install the new glass into position. Evenly press the glass into the adhesive until it is fully seated all the way around. Do not disturb the vehicle for several hours according to the adhesive instructions, and then be careful not to slam the doors and or drive on any excessively rough roads for several days until the adhesive has had time to fully bond with both surfaces.
That covers the general procedure for auto glass installation. Automotive window replacement can certainly be done by a driver that doesn't have any experience or training in this area, but some jobs are definitely easier than others! If this procedure doesn't sound like something you want to tackle yourself, there certainly isn't any shame in taking your car to an auto glass shop for a replacement, and most shops will even come to your home or workplace to do it for you.


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Most of us are familiar with the story of Bethany Hamilton: In 2003, the then-13-year-old was surfing in Kauai, Hawaii, when a tiger shark attacked her and ripped her left arm off just below the shoulder. Less than a month after her accident, sheer will and determination had her back in the water and on her surfboard. She has since gone on to win numerous championships and accolades.
Bethany's story is coming to the big screen on April 8, when "Soul Surfer" opens nationwide. Ross Thomas — who most recently guest-starred on "General Hospital" as Abby's abusive ex-boyfriend Brandon — co-stars in the film, playing Bethany's older brother, Noah. Helen Hunt (below) and Dennis Quaid also star as Bethany and Noah's parents. I spoke with Ross recently, and he told me all about the experience of filming this movie.
Daytime Dial: I know "Soul Surfer" is about Bethany Hamilton, the shark attack and her inspiring recovery, but what can you tell me about the movie from your perspective?
Ross Thomas: Obviously the story is about Bethany and how she lost her arm in a shark attack, but it's also the story of how she overcame all of the odds to come back and become a champion surfer. The Hamilton family is such a strong unit; they have a deep set of family values. They are a Christian family with a deep faith, and they rely heavily on that and really promote that. As a family, they have really helped Bethany become who she is, and they've always been such a source of support for her. The film kind of spans the early years and how they were as children, all the way up through the attack and then the aftermath of that.
DD: Did Bethany and/or the family come to the set while you filmed?
RT: Yes. It was really kind of neat because the family was with us the whole time that we were filming, which, I have to admit, was kind of intimidating at first, because I haven't worked on a set where the real-life person I'm playing is right there. They were really respectful of the process. There was never any stepping on anyone's toes.
When we first got to the North Shore of Hawaii, we got to spend some time with the family. We had a week or so of rehearsal and preparation before having to go into principle photography. One of the ways we really bonded, right off the bat, was to go surfing together. That's such an awesome experience to go out and surf with Bethany Hamilton and with Noah and the whole family. That's how we all bonded and became friends. I got to learn a lot about who Bethany is from sort of an inside view and get to know her. She is such an incredible woman.
DD: Tell me about Noah.
RT: Noah is the oldest of the three kids. He's the quintessential big-brother figure. He was actively involved from the get-go with pushing Bethany to be the best that she could be and to dominate as a professional female surfer. When the accident happened, Noah was crushed to see her hopes and dreams come crashing down with such an unfortunate incident. However, that bond of the family and the strength of the family coming together really helped inspire Bethany to get back out on the board. About a month's time from losing her arm, she was already back out in the water learning how to surf again with one arm. Noah and Timmy and Sherry and Tom were all a part of that, and they were all out in the water together working on different ways to help her relearn how she'd be able to do what she loves again.
DD: This is such a great role in such an inspiring movie!
RT: Yeah, it really is. I've been following her story since it happened, and then all of these years later getting the opportunity to be a part of making her movie is so amazing. Bethany is such a source of inspiration to millions all over the world — her story of determination and faith and hope. It was such a pleasure making this film.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Interview: Catching Up With Ross Thomas
Most of us are familiar with the story of Bethany Hamilton: In 2003, the then-13-year-old was surfing in Kauai, Hawaii, when a tiger shark attacked her and ripped her left arm off just below the shoulder. Less than a month after her accident, sheer will and determination had her back in the water and on her surfboard. She has since gone on to win numerous championships and accolades.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Roger Howarth Returns to OLTL; Trevor St. John Not Going Anywhere
Emmy-winner Roger Howarth returns to ABC Daytime's "One Life to Live" and will begin taping in May. Howarth created the role of "OLTL's" Todd Manning in December 1992, turning what was originally a day-player into a compelling long-term character. He was awarded the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding younger Actor in 1994. Howarth last appeared on "OLTL" in 2003.
"We are thrilled to have Roger return to 'One Life to Live,'" said Frank Valentini, executive producer. "As 'OLTL' viewers know, Trevor St. John has been playing the role of Todd Manning since 2003. We have a great story planned that will involve both actors."
"I am looking forward to returning to 'OLTL,'" said Howarth. "We are going to have a lot of fun telling this story, and I am excited to see how it will unfold."
Roger was last seen on "As the World Turns" as Paul Ryan, a part he had been played from 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2010.


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The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery of God as Female
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Endorsements: "A calm, well-balanced, carefully prepared book. . . . Excellent for adult Bible discussion groups, for occasional sermons, for suggesting ways of inclusive language. This book teaches and directs without antagonizing." --The Bible Today "A persuasive book, useful for personal reflection and group discussion, and ideal for gift-giving." --Daughters of Sarah "This is no dry erudite volume. It rubs salve in personal wounds inflicted by centuries of biblical misreading." --Sojourners "The book reflects careful research; it is written in a style that will appeal to those interested in the implications of biblical research but without the time or inclination to follow the involved discussions of biblical scholarship." --National Catholic Reporter
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