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Felicity Marshall is an author/illustrator with an honours degree in fine arts. She has also studied classical ballet, performed with the West Australian Ballet Company, children's pantomime, and worked in film production for 17 years. She was educated in the UK, USA and Western Australia. During the last 5 years she has lived for six months of each year in France. Her published books are You and Me Murrawee, Sage's Ark, and short story Bob's Place. She has also written My Brush with France — an artist's view of living in France. She is currently completing illustrations for her new book The Star.
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The topic of the talks will be "Civil War Hospitals and Medicine" and they will take place on Sunday afternoons in July at the Catoosa County Library.
Speakers will be Jim Ogden, July 8, "Beyond the Field Hospitals;" Connie Forester, July 15, "The Battle of La-Fayette and the Hospital at Presbyterian Church;" Jerry Tollinger, July 22, "A 10th Tennessee Cavalryman;" Pat and Harold Silcox, July 29, "Colonel and Mrs. Cloud."
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Should Kickstarter Have Taken Down Gross "Guide to Getting Awesome With Women"?
Posted Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at 5:15 PM
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It's been a busy couple of weeks in the world of social media and sexism. The latest company to feel the ire of online activists who are determined to deny sexist content safe haven is the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
A man name Ken Hoinsky recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $2000 to publish Above The Game: A Guide To Getting Awesome With Women, a collection of essays on the "art" of the "pickup" he'd written on forums like Reddit. His pitch is a fairly standard zero-to-hero story with a hefty dose of resentment. "I grew up in a small suburb. I sucked at sports and spent a lot of time playing video games and messing around on my computer," Hoinsky writes in his proposal. "I was always good at making connections with others, but I was riding purely on instinct. Always the nice guy, my first three girlfriends cheated and dumped me for the other guy. Ultimately I ended up getting pretty good with women, finding love, and living life."
If Hoinsky were a typical pick-up artist, this might only have inspired eye rolling, not outrage. But about ten hours before the end of the funding period for Above The Game, blogger Casey Malone found some of Hoinsky's posts on "seddit," the sub-Reddit devoted to pick-up and so-called "seduction" techniques, and archived them in case Hoinsky scrubbed them, which he in fact did.
Read More »How Not to Talk About Suicide
Posted Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at 4:11 PM
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On Monday Vice magazine published a photo spread that depicted seven woman writers before, during, or after their suicides. By Tuesday morning, it was taken down, amid outrage. But the images of models dressed like Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, the Taiwanese author Sanmao, Iris Chang, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elise Cowen, and Dorothy Parker posed with the instruments of their deaths (a gun, an oven, a chloroform handkerchief) live on around the Web, where writers have been wrestling, some more seriously than others, with whether it's ever OK to represent suicide in art.
Before we get to that question, though, a quick note about where it is not OK to depict suicide: a fashion spread. Using the personal tragedies of real people to sell clothes would be foul even if it didn't require Vice to glamorize suffering or enforce a connection between beauty and frailty or reduce literary icons to how they looked when they died. Vice magazine, please find a different way to be edgy.
Interestingly (predictably) Vice did not frame their decision to run the images as a commercial one. In the statement accompanying the removal of the spread, they invoked the Cause of Art.
The fashion spreads in VICE magazine are always unconventional and approached with an art editorial point-of-view rather than a typical fashion photo-editorial one. Our main goal is to create artful images, with the fashion message following, rather than leading.
Which, as flimsy as it sounds as justification, does prompt the question: Under what circumstances are we comfortable with representations of suicide? In a beautiful piece for New York magazine's The Cut, Michelle Dean argues that artistic portrayals of the act are more than OK—they're necessary. Authors such as Woolf and Plath endure in part for their unflinching honesty about what it is to face the dark. These writers break "social codes about depression and self-destructiveness," showing us that women needn't always be "quiet, demure, and obedient," that their problems don't always have tasteful resolutions.
Fine. Amen. But if Vice wished to shatter the guilty hush surrounding suicide, it could have been a lot more thoughtful about it. (Dean concurs.) Instead the magazine chose to aestheticize self-destruction, inviting us to sigh over these lovely, doomed creatures rather than take steps to address depression as a mental health issue.
Dean defends the Vice photos on the grounds that "they don't 'glamorize' anything. They are bland, anaesthetized, boring." I wish I agreed. But the models are lithe and attractive, in stylized postures. Some, such as the image of Sanmao pulling a noose of stockings around her neck, even look sexy. Add to this the fact that magazine photography in general is so tied to feminine aspiration, and you can't escape a kind of fetishization of the subject matter. Sure, one could argue the images have an ironic cast—they are commenting on the objectification of woman writers and the romanticization of their problems—but that seems like a cop-out: I didn't see any irony in the snapshots. I just see famous authors turned into beautiful, violated bodies: an exploitative impulse reproduced seven times and wrapped in fancy clothes.
Why Are Women so Easy to Sexually Assault, Wonder the WSJ and Serena Williams
Posted Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at 10:56 AM
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James Taranto, resident troll of the Wall Street Journal's opinion page, is at it again with a piece denouncing efforts to take sexual assault more seriously as a crime in the military—or, as he describes it, "a political campaign against sexual assault in the military that shows signs of becoming an effort to criminalize male sexuality."
Political? That implies that there are two partisan sides to the question of sexual assault in the military: those who are for it and those against it. Criminalizing male sexuality? Only if you think that violating women is an inherent, immutable part of male sexuality, a claim that isn't held up by the evidence that the vast majority of men haven't raped anyone.
Happy 30th, Sally Ride's First Space Flight. You Came Too Late.
Posted Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 4:45 PM
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Thirty years ago today, Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel into space. When Ride died in 2012, Laura Helmuth paid tribute to her by asking what the hell took so long. Her post is reprinted below.
Don't get me wrong. Sally Ride, rest her soul, absolutely rocked. She was smart and courageous, unabashedly a feminist, and she called out sexism before, during, and after her time as an astronaut. She was a great advocate for science and math education, especially for girls; she wrote science books for kids, and her organization runs science camps and fairs and trains science teachers.
The first American woman in space, Ride flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983. A few years later she helped identify the systematic failures that led to that shuttle's explosion. When the Columbia disaster killed another batch of astronauts, she served on an accident investigation board again (Ride was the only person to serve on both boards, which must have been incredibly grueling), and then she helped write NASA's plans for the future of human spaceflight. She arguably contributed more to NASA, and probably the world, than any other ex-astronaut. She was the Jimmy Carter of ex-astronauts, especially compared with Buzz "Show Me The Money" Aldrin or Harrison "Don't Fret Climate Change" Schmitt. She dedicated her career to science, space, safety, and girls' education, and I was crushed to hear of her death.
But back in 1983, when Ride made her historic trip into space, it was already too late. Judging by Google query completions, a lot of people think Sally Ride was the first woman in space. But that was cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who was also the first civilian in space. Do you remember how many years the Soviets beat us by in this particular race? Twenty. Tereshkova piloted the Vostok 6 into space in 1963. The first woman to walk in space was Svetlana Savitskaya, in 1982.
By the time Ride got there, we already had a lot of female "firsts," which made some of the attention lavished on her—what an amazing feat for a woman!—feel a little condescending to, say, a 14-year-old girl in Indiana. Sandra Day O'Connor had just been named to the Supreme Court in 1981—also sadly overdue. Janet Guthrie raced in the Indy 500—one of the most macho, daredevil, balls-scratching sports—in 1977, for crying out loud. And never mind that Amelia Earhart got her pilot's license exactly 60 years before Ride's flight.
The fact that it took until 1983 to have a female astronaut just emphasized NASA's nasty history of sexism. The United States could have sent the first woman into space much, much earlier. The Mercury program trained 13 women starting in 1961. They performed well, but despite their skills (or perhaps because of them), the program was eventually canceled. NASA redefined its astronaut prerequisites to include jet fighter experience, thereby ruling out any possibility of female candidates.
As much as I admire Sally Ride the person, do you know who should have been the first woman astronaut? One of the Mercury 13, definitely—all of whom by the way were honored guests in 2005 when shuttle commander Eileen Collins led the first shuttle flight after the Columbia disaster. But if not them, it could have been Janet Guthrie. She applied to an astronaut training program in 1964 and would have raced circles around those other guys.
Sibling Fights Might Be Bad for Kids. What's a Parent to Do?
Posted Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 3:26 PM
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Most people with siblings can remember an instance where their arguments escalated to inappropriate levels. I recall slamming my older brother's door so hard when we were teenagers that I splintered the door frame. Though some sparring is normal, aggression between siblings can have lasting negative effects—so says a new study in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics. According to the New York Times, one-third of the children in a study of more than 3,000 said they were victimized by a sibling at some point in the past year, and the victimized children reported higher levels of anxiety, depression, and anger.
Other studies have shown that sibling conflict occurs every day for 50 percent of young children, and 80 percent of siblings ages 3-17 reported experiencing at least one violent episode with their sister or brother in the year that study evaluated. So what are parents supposed to do? And how do we know what's detrimental bullying versus just regular sibling bickering? I asked Slate's resident bullying expert Emily Bazelon, the author of Sticks and Stones, and she said that the way to figure out if fighting between siblings is reaching the level of bullying is to see if there's a pattern.
According to Bazelon, you should ask yourself, "Is one kid (or group of kids) on a campaign to make another kid miserable? Is the aggression chronic, and one-way, as opposed to mutual, where the power shifts back and forth?" If the answer is yes, then it's important to talk as a family about what's going on—because it's a whole family dynamic. "It's not about just focusing on the bully or the victim," Bazelon says.
While this study should certainly inspire parents to keep an eye on the dynamics at play among their children, Bazelon cautions that most kids recover from sibling aggression. "These studies show that there's a risk of depression and other negative psychological consequences. That means a higher rate, not that everyone experiences it," she says. "Fortunately, most kids do bounce back. But it's important to look out for the kids who have a harder time doing that." So: No need to freak out. Look out for your more psychologically fragile offspring, but don't break up every argument over Legos.
Did Jonathan Franzen Just Make a Gay Joke in the New York Times?
Posted Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 12:50 PM
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Last week, Frank Bruni devoted his New York Times opinion column to the "puzzling stamina" of sexism in the United States and "all the recent reminders of how often women are still victimized, how potently they're still resented and how tenaciously a musty male chauvinism endures." He covered gender imbalances in the military, the Senate, corporate America, film, television, pro sports, and finally, books. "Even in the putatively high-minded realm of literature, there's a gender gap, with male authors accorded the lion's share of prominent reviews, as the annual VIDA survey documents," Bruni wrote. "Reflecting on that in Salon last week, the critic Laura Miller acutely noted: 'There's a grandiose self-presentation, a swagger, that goes along with advancing your book as a Great American Novel that many women find impossible or silly.' "
Naturally, Jonathan Franzen was moved to respond.
"There may still be gender imbalances in the world of books, but very strong numbers of women are writing, editing, publishing and reviewing novels," Franzen wrote in a letter to the editor. "The world most glaringly dominated by male sexism is one that Mr. Bruni neglects to mention: New York City theater." A note below his byline clarified that—lest we confuse him with some lesser Jonathan Franzen—"the writer is the novelist."
I'm wondering why the novelist—according to Time, the Great American Novelist—would be moved to file this limp non sequitur of an argument in the paper of record. (Franzen famously refuses to tweet all the half-baked thoughts that pass through his brain; apparently he prints them out and mails them to the New York Times instead.) If Franzen wanted to administer a sweet burn to Frank Bruni for calling out sexism in his profession, he could have criticized the male-dominated field of New York City restaurants. (Bruni served for years as the Times' chief food critic.) He could have dug into the demographics of the Times opinion page, where 10 of its 12 op-ed columnists are men. Instead, Franzen laid into theater with bizarre specificity. Why? I can only conclude that this was a conspicuously ineffective letter from a man considered one of the greatest writers alive. Or else it was a gay joke.
Frank Bruni is gay; Broadway is one of the few American industries that is perceived to be dominated by gay men. Franzen is smart enough not to explicitly chide Bruni for failing to singlehandedly resolve sexism in the gay community before speaking out against chauvinism in all other corners of the United States, but he may be just self-important enough to imply it. Then again, not everyone picked up on Franzen's subtext. "I applaud Jonathan Franzen for casting a spotlight on sexism in theater," Jenny Lyn Bader, a member of the executive board of the League of Professional Theater Women, wrote to the Times this week. In light of Franzen's little note, "maybe the public will finally take note hearing it from a man, who cannot be accused of speaking out of self-interest."
I'm not clapping. Instead of leveraging his clout to recognize gender imbalances in his own field ("there may still be, but" is an impressive hedge, but it does not count), Franzen deflected responsibility for resolving gender inequality onto gay men. Or maybe he just wrote a terrible letter that makes no sense. I'm not sure which accusation would bother the novelist more.
Texas Congressman Says Fetuses Have Rights Because They Masturbate
Posted Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 12:09 PM
Later Tuesday the House will vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a GOP-sponsored bill that aims to ban abortion after 22 weeks. As painful as the ongoing Republican battle to restrict access to abortion is, at least it's creating multiple opportunities for conservative legislators to share with the larger world their rather strange views. The latest politician to cause one to wonder what it is they're teaching in medical school is doctor-turned-Rep. Michael Burgess from (naturally) Texas, who trotted out a novel argument during a hearing on the GOP's proposed ban. Burgess argued that abortion needs to be banned even earlier, at 15 or 16 weeks, because:
Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful. They stroke their face. If they're a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?
The bill is expected to pass the House but has no chance in the Senate or with the president, which means that perhaps after this one dies, Burgess will be the inspiration for the next bill: Masturbation-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which under the Burgess "making it up as you go along" scientific standard will only apply to male fetuses, as female fetuses are definitely too modest to even consider such filthy behavior. (Scary side note: Burgess was actually a gynecologist before he decided to go into politics.)
Of course, what all this debate over pain and masturbation is meant to distract from is the very real, utterly indisputable fact that women feel pain: the pain of being so poor that you couldn't get the money together until 20 weeks for an abortion, the pain of being in denial about being raped and pregnant, the pain of discovering at 20 weeks that your fetus has serious birth defects. Also, if we're going be doling out human rights based on who touches themselves to feel good, let's start with actual born women.
Cleveland Turns Backlogged Rape Kits Into Stream of Indictments
Posted Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 10:54 AM
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The shocking case of Ariel Castro, who kidnapped three young women and held them for years as rape and torture objects, fascinated the nation when it broke last month. But Cleveland has had a problem with residents living in fear of sexual predators for a while now. As Phillip Morris of the Plain Dealer reported in April, the discovery of serial killer Anthony Sowell's collection of corpses in 2009 created a climate of fear that only escalated as other serial rapists terrorized residents. Clevelanders have been repeatedly reminded of how many monsters live among us, attacking women under the radar, and understandably they are worried.
But there is one item of good news: Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located, has decided to go Eliot Ness on rapists. The Plain Dealer reports:
Cuyahoga County prosecutors and investigators are revisiting decades-old unsolved rape cases, using DNA evidence to connect serial rapes, tracking down victims and sending cases to grand juries for indictment—often racing against a 20-year statute of limitations.
The Plain Dealer rightfully takes credit for this, having turned the pressure up for years on authorities. Efforts escalated in 2011 at the request of Ohio's Republican attorney general Mike DeWine, and the result has been a factory line of indictments, often against men who are accused of spending decades attacking women without facing any repercussions for it. Now the newspaper has created a clearinghouse page so readers can follow the stream of indictments since March, as well as other stories about the DNA testing, in one place. (The above screenshot is only part of the page—I couldn't get the entire thing into one screen—but gives you an idea of how many cold cases are being turned into indictments with this move.)
Many of these indictments open up multiple cold cases at once, which is to be expected, as most rapists are serial rapists. Cleveland set aside about 3,000 untouched rape kits to be processed, which is a massive amount of work, but it's hard to argue with results like this. Law enforcement nationwide has been responding to pressure to process their backlogged rape kits, often with mixed results due to poor handling of the kits in the first place. The relative success in Cleveland should serve as a reminder of how effective rape kits can be in getting justice for victims, but only if they're handled properly and law enforcement bothers to use them.
The Latest Geek-World Sexism Controversy
Posted Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 10:25 AM
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Debates about sexism in the geekier corners of the pop-culture universe seem to be operating at amplified volume—and in some cases, to good effect—over the past several years, from the woman dressed as Batgirl asking DC Comics executives tough questions at Comic-Con to the attacks on and outpouring of support for feminist video blogger Anita Sarkeesian after she Kickstarted a project to produce a series of videos about the depiction of women in video games. And in recent weeks, the question of who belongs in science fiction and fantasy has escalated beyond fans and critics into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the professional association for genre fiction writers.
At issue is a series of pieces that ran in the SFWA Bulletin, the association's publication. After a period of irregular publication, the publication was resurrected by Jean Rabe, a science fiction author and editor who has written for the Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars, and BattleTech franchises. Under Rabe's editorial leadership, Bulletin published a number of articles that lead some members to exit the association. The cover of one issue featured an image of a woman in a chain-mail bikini, a decided throwback to science fiction's cheesecakier days. That same issue featured a conversation between two male writers, Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg, ostensibly devoted to a discussion of the genre's female editors but that included odd comments about specific women's appearances. A subsequent issue featured another piece by a man praising Barbie as an image of female submissiveness. (Presumably, he missed the great young-adult novels in which Barbie jet-sets around in pursuit of modeling opportunities and her 2012 run for president.) Then, Resnick and Malzberg responded to reader feedback to their comments by crying censorship. Ultimately, Rabe announced that she would resign.
Read More »Sesame Street Creates a Muppet Whose Dad Is in Jail. Way Too Many Kids Relate.
Posted Monday, June 17, 2013, at 3:44 PM
Grab your hankies: To help kids coping with a parent in prison, Sesame Street created a Muppet whose father can't play with him because he's in jail.
Sesame Street has always made it part of its larger mission to address all children, not just the ones with traditional families or easily digestible experiences. In the latest move toward that goal, the popular children's program created an online toolkit, titled "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration," for those struggling to raise a child who has an incarcerated parent. Released just in time to help kids in need get through Father's Day, the toolkit has its detractors. Alex Jones naturally went into full-blown conspiracy theory mode, calling it a "propaganda program designed to help children accept the fact that daddy is in jail" by dangerously telling kids that "all you have to do is talk about your feelings, draw a few pictures, write letters to your dad, and toddle off to visit him in jail every now and then and everything will be all rainbows and lollipops." (Better to tell them ... what?) Mike Riggs at Reason was also angry, though not at Sesame Street but at the U.S. government for incarcerating so many people that these kinds of materials are necessary. He points out that nearly 7 million people are under correctional supervision in this country, writing, "congratulations, America, on making it almost normal to have a parent in prison or jail."
Obviously, Sesame Street can't do anything about the growth of the police state or the war on drugs that has resulted in the massive incarceration numbers in this country. The show is just trying to help innocent children deal with the repercussions. But Riggs is absolutely right: That this even has to exist in the first place shows how much pointless damage our prison system does not just to people who are caught up in the overly punitive, often racially biased justice system, but also to their families. As Jill Filipovic writes in the Guardian:
Since 1980, the US prison population has grown by 790%. We have the largest prison population of any nation in the history of the world. One in three African-American men will go to jail at some point in his life. Imprisoning that many people, most of them for non-violent offenses, doesn't come cheap, especially when you're paying private contractors. The United States now spends $50bn on our corrections system every year.
Sesame Street isn't the problem, but hopefully the very existence of this video and online toolkit can help wake people up to the way that excessive incarceration is destroying families and hurting the most vulnerable children.


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If your first choice doesn't work out, what can you do?
Appeal. Sometimes you can appeal a decision. If you have circumstances the school isn't aware of, such as poor grades because of a death or divorce in the family, you could make the school aware of it.
"It depends on the school—whether they'll consider something like this," says Martinelli, "and you should include the information with the original application."
Wait. Some schools have wait lists. They'll put you on the list if they think you're possibly a viable candidate, but they're going to wait to see how many accepted applicants decide to come to the university. You may have to write another essay or get another letter of recommendation.
"If you're not accepted, apply to more schools. You'll get in somewhere."—Erin
Ask the admissions department how likely it is you'll get accepted while on the wait list. Don't count on it.
"That's where it's important to have applied to a school you can definitely get into, as a safety net," says Martinelli.
If you're accepted to your "safety" school, you can delay replying for a while to see what happens with your favorite college.
Just don't miss your deadlines!
Transfer. If you do end up attending your second- or third-choice school, be sure to keep your grades up. You may be able to transfer to your favorite school after your freshman year.
"It's usually easier for transfer students to get in to colleges than for incoming freshmen," says Martinelli. "The requirements aren't as stiff, and they'll look more at your college grades than at your high school record."
Carli was accepted to her first-choice school, the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. "I was also accepted to my second-choice school. I'd have gone there otherwise, and probably transferred," she says.
Look for the positives
"No matter what college you go to, you'll find something to like about it."—Carli
"I didn't realize how common it is to transfer," Carli continues. "Many kids go to a community college for a year or two to get their liberal arts requirements out of the way. Then they transfer to a college that has their major. It saves a bit of money."
Erin was also accepted at her preferred school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "If you're not accepted, apply to more schools. You'll get in somewhere," she says. "Some smaller schools, especially private ones, accept applications until later in winter."
Many students who aren't admitted to their favorite schools end up staying at the schools they attend.
"When I talk to these students, they're content with their experiences. They establish relationships, and they find the quality of education is just as good," says Reason. "They have no reason to transfer back. It ends up working out just fine."
Carli agrees. "From what I hear, no matter what college you go to, you'll find something you like about it. It becomes the right place for you."
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About the College
The mission of the T. J. Smull College of Engineering is to engage students through personal relationships and balanced educational experiences to maximize their success.
Degree Programs
- Civil Engineering (BSCE)
- Computer Engineering (BSCPE)
- Electrical Engineering (BSEE)
- Engineering Education (BS)
- Mechanical Engineering (BSME)
- Computer Science (BS)
Common Minors
- Computer Science Minor
- Business Administration Minor (offered by the College of Business Administration)
- Entrepreneurship Minor (offered by the College of Business Administration)
- Biomedical Sciences Minor (offered by Biology Department)
- The BSCE, BSCPE, BSEE, and BSME programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
- The BS in Computer Science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
- The college maintains memberships in the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Recognized by the Ohio Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors
2012 Freshman Profile
- Average ACT Composite: 26.1
- Average ACT Math: 27.2
- 73% in top 25% of High School class
- 32% in upper 10% of High School class
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Just wanted to thank Dr. Mel White for his book
[Funny, I joined several years ago but now am finally posting]
Been reading Mel's book, "Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality" and his comparison of Nazi Germany to the radical Christian fundamentalist right has many comparative truths. I too was a fundamentalist many years ago until I came out, and acquainted with Falwell, Kennedy, Robertson, Graham & Dobson, even donated to their ministries. As the years passed, my eyes were finally opened to the twisted brainwashing they have come to believe. As Joseph Goebbels said, [not exact quote] perpetrate a lie enough and eventually it will be believed! The Christian Bible wants to surpass our Constitution and if in ANYWAY it disagrees with the Bible, the Bible MUST transcend our own government. How can they be so naive??? The bottom line, Without using violence, but using the voting system, they are desperately trying to "win" over the populous with their diatribe of evil falsehoods. Thank you Mel for a wonderfully insightful book. Can't put it down <> almost finished. I too have "been" where you have and as Paul in Acts stated, the Bereans searched the scriptures night & day to see if what he said was true. I too have searched and FOUND MORE TRUTH in WHAT YOU have said in your book then what those fundamentalists have ravaged the airwaves with for so many years. Sometimes it just takes folks longer than others to come around. Better late then never and again, Dr. Mel White, you are one of those Angels mentioned in Hebrews: Hebrews 13:2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. You ARE my Angel!! Thanks!! Also, I emailed a cousin about something from Mel's book that I want to include here: In reading the following book [under 2 titles]: 1. Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality 2. Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right [hard cover] The author, Mel White who ghosted for Jerry Falwell, D. James Kennedy, Pat Robertson, Billy Graham & others, came out late in life and has realized that the so called fundamental Christian right is as dangerous as Nazi Germany. So much to tell from his book but he compared the movie, "The Eternal Jew" and what Hitler & Nazi Germany did to convince German citizens that the Jews were a race of filthy, money hungry etc. [you're heard it, don't need to elaborate] animals, basically. He compared the radical right's desire of usurping the Constitution [USA] with the Bible. If the Constitution IN ANY WAY should disagree with the Bible, the Bible would be the higher law. They really want to "win" the battle over abortion & Homosexuality. Look at all the laws they are trying to pass regarding women's rights. But, anyway, found the link to the movie and man, how could anyone be convinced that we are how they "picture" us? Again, the same question is raised: How can anyone be convinced by the radical right of the falsified facts they perpetrate. Brainwashing . . . . Joseph Goebbels said, if a lie is told frequently enough, eventually, it will be believed! Just like I told you yesterday, people have really "dumbed" themselves down. When I'm told something, I don't just accept it verbatim as unequivocal fact, not disputable! With the Net, we can research so much and find the truth. Although, the truth now can be as gray as the lie because again, folks don't investigate to find all the details to prove false or true. Yea, I'm rambling here, kinda rant & rave thang. But anyway, watch the movie, absolutely an abomination to us JEWS!! Let me know if ya agree. sure ya will! http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...70629122885245 Maybe you all can watch the movie and see just what Mel is inferring. The rad-right want to convince the public we are evil, deviant, perverted, dirty animals, just like in this movie the Nazi's wanted to convince the German citizenry what the Jews were. HOW HORRIBLE, we must stop the lies! What would Jesus do? He is weeping today as He did 2000 years ago. Don't mean to sound so negative, I'm a very optimistic cwayzee fun loving individual. Just wanted to give a heads up here and READ Mels' book!!!!!!! Ellen
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I haven't been here in years, but the discussion of Mr. White's book has caught my attention, because I have read this book, under the original title "Religion gone bad," though, but the message is still the same. Just to be clear, Mr. White was not directly comparing well-known leaders of the Christian Right of the USA with Hitler and the Nazis, and he even stated so, but what he did, is that he pointed out what he saw as a similarity between the Eternal Jew (thanks to the link, btw) and similar anti-Jewish propaganda of that time with what these fundamentalists have been writing about homosexuality. He also offered a speculation, about whether the American gay community is planned on enduring the same fate that happened with European Jews.
As a reader of his book, I am also having a speculation after reading it. First off, I can only wonder where did Mel White get the idea that the leaders of Religious Right want to replace the Constitution with the Bible? As far as I remember, the late Jerry Falwell has said 30 years ago that conservative evangelical Christians should implement their belief into our lawmaking. This is their right, the same one given to all citizens, regardless of their religious beliefs, or beliefs in no god. Everybody has a right to participate in political process, and whoever gets the most popular vote would win. This is what our Constution allows us to do, so conservative evangelical Christians are not any different than people of other faiths, atheists, pro-choicers, gays, strarghts, etc. Mel White is also incorrect about saying that our Constitution guarantees secularism, aka separation of state and church, meaning that people are forbidden to put their diverse religious beliefs in shaping public policies. Quite the opposite is true, and it's been like that for 236 years. Thus, his argument about conservative Christians wanting to replace the Constitution with the Bible does not logically make sense. My speculation is that Mel White and Soulforce would dream about having a society where our religious freedom is being seriously altered, where conservative evangelicals cannot proselytize in public, because their preaching offend gays, people of other faiths, women, and so forth. In other words, based on the way the book is written, Soulforce would maybe like to have a society with "hate speech" laws (kinda like Canada and Western Europe) specifically targeting conservative evangelical Christians. I think that after this book got published, Soulforce started losing its popularity, which explains why today, there's hardly any postings, here. These days, many people, young and old, tend to follow other gay Christian leaders such as John Corvino, Justin Lee, and Ralph Blair. These individuals and others are focused on building bridges between people with different beliefs, by trying to figure out how to live peacefully with each other, despite having strong disagreements on the proper sexual relationshps and the definition of marriage, instead of assuming the worst possible things about each other. |
You need to understand the teachings of Rousas John Rushdoony & Reconstructionism
You need to read the teachings of Rousas John Rushdoony & Reconstructionism. His teachings have been embraced by D. James Kennedy [dead], James Dobson and others just to name a few. I have been acquainted with both, having tithed to them many years ago. Listened daily to them on AM radio for many years too. Now seeing through all their hype, I have "disowned" them because they believe in Rushdoony's teachings.
I'll still defend and embrace ALL that Mel states in his book because from all the brain washing I had to endure [thank God, never embraced] I know it's true. Another GREAT book with incredible insight: "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power": Jeff Sharlet Sorry to disappoint you but Mel's book IS ON THE MONEY. We can keep this discussion on going and defend our theories till Hell freezes over but since 1976 having given my life to Jesus Christ BUT NOT fundamentalist diatribe and knowing my Bible and the teachings of all the evangelicals in Mel's book [as I said, having tithed to many: BTW, even gave $400 once to Pat "Rubberhead" aka Robertson], their patriarchal roots run so deep it's sad & scary. They could never accept women in power as in President of the USA [Hilary? ] and are afraid of giving women their right place in society: along side men. That's why they are sooooo afraid of Homosexuality . . . one man "assumes" a feminine role in the relationship and that scares them. Simplistically speaking. Just look at what is happening in this campaign race!! Trying to put women back more than 5 decades of accomplishments!! Santorum and Akin <> need I say more. D-O-N-E. Just investigate further, MEL IS RIGHT, HASN'T EXAGGERATED AND HIS FACTS CAN & ARE BACKED UP. From one who has been there and now is "FREE AT LAST, GOD ALMIGHTY I'M FREE AT LEAST!!
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I don't like what Rushdoony says anymore what typical Radical Left is saying. For you, I highly suggest you check with Ralph Blair, another gay Christian leader, founder of Evangelicals Concerned. It will help you a lot as it did me.
Found his website [Ralph Blair]
Ever been acquainted with NARTH & their teachings [Joseph Nicolosi & reparative therapy]? Kennedy, Dobson, Falwell & Robertson literally "worship" NARTH & their teachings. Again, I just want to reiterate that from my opinion and my experiences with the radical right since 1976, I totally agree with Mel White and his theories. I have experienced what he theorizes and know it to be fact. His statements has been overwhelmingly proven T_R_U_E!! Ralph Blair & Mel White just come from two different perspectives. Look at it from that point of view . . . If you can.
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His book was nice, he sounded like a sensible guy, then i discovered he believes that God (love) WANTS to save His entire creation but cant and ends up burning most in a big fire. He accepts modern bibles mistranslate words like 'homosexual' but can't get his head around the fact that modern bibles also mistranslate words such as 'eternal' and 'hell'. Sounds a bit...PICKY to me. And you cant be picky with the word of God... Just another cult really, another denomination. There are already 30 odd thousand, youd think that would be enough.
Mell's Book
And Mel White doesn't believe that God will "end" the world in a great fire. Here's another author's works you could consider regarding the writing & interpretation of the Bible: http://www.bartdehrman.com/books.htm [Bart Ehrman]. A scholar of the Bible and here's three titles of his I have read and gleaned much: 1. Lost Scriptures [Gnostic books etc.] 2. Misquoting Jesus 3. Jesus Interrupted And if you have read any of his books and think he's way off base, sorry. His scholarly studies make sense to me especially about HOW the Bible was written & rewritten. They didn't have "copy" machines back then [LOL] and had to rewrite the papyras as the previous ones decayed. In those days, there were few scholars doing the rewrites, so laymen "tried" to interpret what they read to transcribe on the new papyras. Hebrew, when written back then only used the consonants and not the vowels. If the papyra was illegible, they "guessed" or "interpreted" what it said and well, it's like playing "Telephone" after hearing the 10th person "say" what the starter originally said, it gets "jumbled" and is not what originally was written [as in the Bible, not the Telephone game that is].
I really could go on & on etc.. Hate typing, better on the telly, but you're international LD and it would cost too much. Just a bottom line: I never knew the evangelists as intimately as Mel did [Dobson, Kennedy, Falwell etc.] but having tithed to them, read their books, listened to their radio broadcasts and videos from 1976 - 2004, I believe every word he wrote regarding how they conducted their lives and spewed their diatribe to their "constituents." And for many years I believed them too until, I finally "saw the light." Mel, is RIGHT ON THE MONEY, in my opinion. Ellen
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However, I'd really like to turn over a new leaf, and as Donna suggested to me, make some friends here. Currently I'm finding that very difficult to do, based on some of the immature tagging that is going on with threads I post on.
It's very immature, nasty, and unnecessary. Please stop. It's ruining the Murmurs experience for me.
We are all fellow REM fans here. If you are unhappy with me, just talk to me and you'll find I'm not unreasonable. This bullshit that's going on is unnecessary, and I don't deserve it - for that matter no-one does. Accordingly, I've complained to Admin about it, because it's bang out of order.
If you wanted to upset me, congratulations. I've been reduced to tears here before, well done. If you wouldn't treat me like this face to face, then don't gutlessly do it over the internet. I have nothing against you, and I'd like to improve the relationship if we can.
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PHILADELPHIA — It was indicative of the Monday Night mood when Troy Vincent, at a press conference announcing his Eagles Hall of Fame induction before a nationally televised football game between two almost historically bad teams, talked about one of his less-than-successful Philly football years.
Referring to a favorite neighborhood target in front of his Yardley home back in 1998, Vincent said something to the effect of, "They must have vandalized my house every single day until we put up a brick mailbox."
Fourteen years later, certain postal accommodations at mini-mansions throughout South Jersey and Southeastern Pa. should be considered prime targets, if for no other reason than some Eagles fans seem to have difficulty finding an outlet to their pent-up frustrations other than playing mailbox baseball.
As evidenced at Lincoln Financial Field Monday night amid a 30-22 loss to the Carolina Panthers, however, there are some ticket holders who would rather revel in the few morsels of competence that can still be drawn from what's left of Andy Reid's last Eagles team.
Sure, they booed. At least they did when their cupped hands would thaw enough to allow them that luxury.
But there were also plenty of cheers, most reserved for Bryce Brown, the latest feel-good story springing out of nowhere for this team.
You know, there have been so many.
And speaking of frustration...
"We've got to learn," Reid said afterward. "We've got young guys that are playing in here. ... We understand we've got eight losses."
Since 8-8 is the best record available for this Eagles team now, and considering that was the mid-water mark that owner Jeffrey Lurie said has to be improved upon to avoid sweeping changes through the cushy confines of One NovaCare Way... Continued...
"Listen, we're going to keep battling," Reid said. "I'm going to control what I can control. I'm not worried about all the other things. I'm worried about winning football games. We haven't really talked about that. (Lurie)'s been supportive. Obviously, he's as competitive as anybody. He wants to win games. But we haven't gone there. I'm trying to get this football team to win games."
Seven lucky losses in a row and counting down on Reid's Eagles career. Amid that, Brown was just beginning.
Given the chance to start via LeSean McCoy's concussion and rookie quarterback Nick Foles' uncanny ability to actually make Reid think run-first, Brown broke the Eagles' rookie rushing record with 178 rushing yards. Along the way, he had two touchdowns, bringing the house down. Then again, he had two fumbles in the second half, essentially bringing the Eagles down since the Panthers scored off the second turnover.
Brown showed great breakaway speed, so much so that special teams coach Bobby April might want to lobby Reid to try Brown's hand at returning punts.
Or maybe distressed defensive coordinator Todd Bowles might want him to line up in the secondary at practice this week.
Ultimately, Brown's starting debut would come down to a fourth-and-1 call at the Panthers 39 midway through the fourth quarter, one in which every vocal fan in the building knew was going to go the rookie running back's way.
No gain.
Such is the realistic fate and shared hard truths for a football team guided by a lame-duck coach, all realistic playoff hopes and many career aspirations having long since disappeared.
My, it's fun.
The laughs on this day started early, with the talk that strong-armed staffers at the Linc were going to prohibit fans from entering these hallowed grounds wearing paper bags on their heads. This from the team that always thought it necessary to have an old guy called a "security official" shadow Reid's every step. Continued...
Security on this night would mean all efforts would be made to avoid a Monday Night Football embarrassment. One thing to tick off the customers, but we can't let Boomer and the boys see this mess, you know?
At least not the one in the stands.
The fans, already cold and long since numbed to watching numbskulls dressed as Eagles do confounding things, didn't go much beyond the usual level of verbal discord.
So the Eagles threw away another game, this time to a two-win team. So what?
The big news, of course, was that ...
Alert the owner's box. That's the one with the plantation blinds drawn.
From there, all Lurie could have seen was more of the same. Offensively, the Eagles are hurting from so many key injuries, losing another prime piece early on in this game when DeSean Jackson went out with a rib cartilage injury.
As for the defense, well, that whole unit has been lost with a fractured dignity.
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My friend is a coke-head.
About a week and a half ago I ran into my friend J.B. at the gay bar. We've known each other for a few years. He's one of the nicest guys I know and one of my favorite people to hang out with. After the bar closed, we went to the house of one of his friends, and that's when I found out he does cocaine.
What's just as disturbing than J.B.'s coke habit is his habit of trying to talk others into using the stuff. J.B. thinks coke is the greatest thing since sliced bread. In his words, "It's such a fun drug to do." I spoke to my friend Rob about this earlier today, and he told me one of his friends used to do coke and she would try to get him to use it. Rob thinks maybe it's common for cocaine users to try to "convert" others. (Does anyone out there know anything about that?) J.B. is self-destructive in other ways. He gets drunk regularly, drives drunk, and uses coke while already drunk. He's told me depression runs in his family. His brother committed suicide a couple of years ago. I think maybe J.B. is self-medicating. I'm heart-broken about this situation and I have no idea how to handle it. I can't go to his family because they've never accepted his being gay and his Dad used to hit J.B. when he was a kid. I'm scared that he'll get arrested, or worse yet, hurt or kill himself or others. Does anybody out there have any advice? |
You have to pray for him. Just be there for him because one day J.B. Will crash. The people who do coke with him won't be there when he does. If you can, exrpess your concern for him about this habit. He's dealing with a lot of pain, hurt, and rejection.
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This is a sad situation and I am really sorry for you. I once had some friends who were addicted to different drugs. Someday I couldn't stand that anymore. I've always tried to talk and to convince but all I got was lies. An addict would always find excuses and apologies for his actions. For his friends and families it's really hard to get along with. But as a friend you should really try to express your concerns, I agree.
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In situ Spectroscopy
The In situ Spectroscopy group aims for developing strategies for in situ spectroscopic investigations of smart organic surfaces and hybrid-films, particularly with vibrational spectroscopy. The group develops methods in the areas of optical models, evaluation procedures and experimental equipment for in situ study of surfaces in liquid environments (Reflection-Anisotropy-Spectroscopy, Ellipsometry, Raman and Infrared (IR) spectroscopy, IR Microscopy, IR mapping ellipsometry at BESSY II). Combined lab and synchrotron measurements focus on functional films and molecule adsorption on functional surfaces, e.g. stimuli responsive polymer brushes or specific linkers for bio- and solar cell applications. Measurement concepts are developed in order to analyse faster, with higher sensitivity and higher lateral resolution.
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