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At Work.
1. Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.)
2. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are.)
3. Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it "IN".
4. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears and grimacing.
5. Shout random numbers while someone is counting.
6. Follow delivery men around in pure James Bond style, but make it very obvious.
7. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.
8. Persistantly call your bosses "sweetcheeks" and wink at them in front of everyone.
9. Replace the mouse with a real mouse.
10. Make up insulting acronyms for all your collegues, and tell them.
11. End all sentences with ".co.uk".
12. In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, all of you just shut up!".
13. Poke holes in the bottoms of all the styraphome coffee cups in the break room.
14. Constantly speak in rhyme.
15. Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness level lights up the entire work area. Insist to others that you like it that way.
In a lift.
1. Walk in with a cooler that is labeled "HUMAN HEAD" on the side.
2. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?"
3. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
4. Just before leaving the lift, put superglue on all the buttons.
5. Say "Ding!" at each floor.
6. Stare at another passenger for awhile, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.
7. Try to make personal calls on the emergency phone.
8. Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.
9. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
10. Bring a chair along.
11. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
12. Tell people that you can see their aura.
13. Make spitballs and flick them at the other passengers while giggling insanely.
14. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"
15. Call out, "Group hug!", then enforce it.
Everywhere else.
1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hairdryer at passing cars, then see if any slow down.
2. On all your cheque stubs, write 'For Marijuana' or 'For Sexual Favours'.
3. Skip everywhere rather than walk.
4. Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat.
5. Ask random people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
6. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".
7. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the car park, yelling, "Run for your lives! They're loose!"
8. While riding an lift, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.
9. Go to a clothes shop and hide in the clothing rack. When people pass by, whisper, "Pick me!"
10. Finish all your sentences with the words, "In accordance with the prophecy."
11. Annouce in a demonic voice, "I must find a more suitable host body."
12. Buy one of those watches that has a built in remote control, go round a friend's house when the cup final is on, and change channels every time it looks like someone might score.
13. Go into a pub and stand behind someone playing a trivia machine, shouting out all the wrong answers in a very insistant voice.
14. Connect your brake lights to your horn so that every time you hit the brakes, you beep the car in front.
15. Pay for everything in one pence pieces.


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On TV shows like "CSI," viewers get to watch as investigators find and collect evidence at the scene of a crime, making blood appear as if by magic and swabbing every mouth in the vicinity. Many of us believe we have a pretty good grip on the process, and rumor has it criminals are getting a jump on the good guys using tips they pick up from these shows about forensics.
But does Hollywood get it right? Do crime scene investigators follow their DNA samples into the lab? Do they interview suspects and catch the bad guys, or is their job all about collecting physical evidence? In this article, we'll examine what really goes on when a CSI "processes a crime scene" and get a real-world view of crime scene investigation from a primary scene responder with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
CSI Basics
Crime scene investigation is the meeting point of science, logic and law. "Processing a crime scene" is a long, tedious process that involves purposeful documentation of the conditions at the scene and the collection of any physical evidence that could possibly illuminate what happened and point to who did it. There is no typical crime scene, there is no typical body of evidence and there is no typical investigative approach.
At any given crime scene, a CSI might collect dried blood from a windowpane -- without letting his arm brush the glass in case there are any latent fingerprints there, lift hair off a victim's jacket using tweezers so he doesn't disturb the fabric enough to shake off any of the white powder (which may or may not be cocaine) in the folds of the sleeve, and use a sledge hammer to break through a wall that seems to be the point of origin for a terrible smell.
Who's at the Scene?
Police officers are typically the first to arrive at a crime scene. They arrest the perpetrator is he's still there and call for an ambulance if necessary. They are responsible for securing the scene so no evidence is destroyed.
The CSI unit documents the crime scene in detail and collects any physical evidence.
The district attorney is often present to help determine if the investigators require any search warrants to proceed and obtain those warrants from a judge.
The medical examiner (if a homicide) may or may not be present to determine a preliminary cause of death.
Specialists (entomologists, forensic scientists, forensic psychologists) may be called in if the evidence requires expert analysis.Detectives interview witnesses and consult with the CSI unit. They investigate the crime by following leads provided by witnesses and physical evidence.
All the while, the physical evidence itself is only part of the equation. The ultimate goal is the conviction of the perpetrator of the crime. So while the CSI scrapes off the dried blood without smearing any prints, lifts several hairs without disturbing any trace evidence and smashes through a wall in the living room, he's considering all of the necessary steps to preserve the evidence in its current form, what the lab can do with this evidence in order to reconstruct the crime or identify the criminal, and the legal issues involved in making sure this evidence is admissible in court.
The investigation of a crime scene begins when the CSI unit receives a call from the police officers or detectives on the scene. The overall system works something like this:
- The CSI arrives on the scene and makes sure it is secure. She does an initial walk-through to get an overall feel for the crime scene, finds out if anyone moved anything before she arrived, and generates initial theories based on visual examination. She makes note of potential evidence. At this point, she touches nothing.
- The CSI thoroughly documents the scene by taking photographs and drawing sketches during a second walk-through. Sometimes, the documentation stage includes a video walk-through, as well. She documents the scene as a whole and documents anything she has identified as evidence. She still touches nothing.
- Now it's time to touch stuff -- very, very carefully. The CSI systematically makes her way through the scenecollecting all potential evidence, tagging it, logging it and packaging it so it remains intact on its way to the lab. Depending on the task breakdown of the CSI unit she works for and her areas of expertise, she may or may not analyze the evidence in the lab.
- The crime lab processes all of the evidence the CSI collected at the crime scene. When the lab results are in, they go to the lead detective on the case.
Every CSI unit handles the division between field work and lab work differently. What goes on at the crime scene is called crime scene investigation (or crime scene analysis), and what goes on in the laboratory is called forensic science. Not all CSIs are forensic scientists. Some CSIs only work in the field -- they collect the evidence and then pass it to the forensics lab. In this case, the CSI must still possess a good understanding of forensic science in order to recognize the specific value of various types of evidence in the field. But in many cases, these jobs overlap.
Joe Clayton is a primary crime scene responder at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He has 14 years of field experience and also is an expert in certain areas of forensic science. As Clayton explains, his role in laboratory analysis varies according to the type of evidence he brings back from the crime scene:
Depending on what scientific examinations are needed or requested, I may be involved in the actual "bench work" once the evidence is submitted to the laboratory. I have expertise in blood pattern identification (blood spatter), trajectory determination, serology (blood and body fluids), and photography. I also have knowledge in many other areas (firearms, fingerprints, questioned documents...) that may assist me at the scene. As a primary crime scene responder at the CBI, my role at the scene may involve one or more of my particular disciplines. While I would not do a functionality test on a firearm here at the laboratory, my role at the crime scene would be to collect the gun and understand its potential evidentiary significance.
Crime scene investigation is a massive undertaking. Let's start at the beginning: scene recognition.


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Mcollin3 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 441 designs submitted by 89 freelance designers.
My name is Mick and my business is delivering high quality education services for healthcare professionals. The REACH website will deliver a range of educational and tutorial services for mental health professionals - i.e. reaching out to support them
Healthcare professionals in the mental health environment who really need our high quality training solutions - mostly e learning tutorials.
I require a logo using only the word REACH. The idea is that we reach out to professionals to offer them high quality services and the new website will be titled REACH also. So really it's a play on the word REACH. I had an idea that we could use the two legs of the letter A to extend a pair of arms reaching out or round the word REACH - but I want it be embracing people. Demonstrating that we are reaching out but also want to bring them into the website - hope that makes sense. I am really open to suggestions here. I don't want a cartoon. We have a telephone service called REMIND and I have attached the logo. I would like the same colors and preferably a similar style - but ultimately different. Although it is a service for healthcare professionals I don't want to 'medicalize' the logo - this is about engaging people into a whole new world of clinical learning without making it feel medical! Look at the REMIND logo - it is also for healthcare professionals.
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A Breezy Point man was busted for breaking into his neighbor's storm-damaged beach bungalow the day after Thanksgiving, cops said yesterday.
Drew Cedo, 26, was charged with burglary. Cops said they spotted him poking around his neighbor's flooded Newport Walk home on Nov. 23.
He alegedly fled, but was collared the next day.
The owner said it did not appear anything was taken. Cedo has a record of three other arrests.


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Fuzhou OPEN | 23 - 28 April 2013
Lausanne, Switzerland, April 29, 2013 - Earlier this year, Australian beach volleyball legend Natalie Cook predicted that China's Chen Xue and Zhang Xi would be a force to reckon with in 2013. Following the Chinese pair's gold medal win at the recent Fuzhou Open, it looks that Cook's forecast for the season may be right on the ball.
In this piece, Cook provides her thoughts on last weekend's Fuzhou action and looks ahead to the first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour event of the year – the Shanghai Grand Slam.
"Chen Xue and Zhang Xi were deserved winners and I predicted the Chinese to be dominant this year. They breezed through this first event, played some very impressive beach volleyball on their way to winning the tournament and a China win in China is a great accomplishment.
"There were some interesting results, which is to be expected after a long break and post-London Olympics.
"The new teams from Brazil are finding their way, while some of the teams that have been together for a while have risen to the top, notably the Germans, the Spanish side of Liliana Fernandez and Elsa Baquerizo who won silver, Italy and the second Dutch team of Sophie van Gestel and Madelein Meppelink who overthrew the other higher ranked and more experienced Dutch pairing of Marleen van Iersel and Sanne Keizer.
"Summer Ross was one of the new faces that made a mark during the Fuzhou Open. She is only 20, fared well in age-group tournaments, has already played a few tournaments and in Fuzhou she and Brittany Hochevar enjoyed a good win over the Czech pair Marketa Slukova and Kristyna Kolokova in the pool stage.
"Her namesake April Ross and her long-time partner Jennifer Kessy will be hoping to bounce back at the next tournament, the Shanghai Grand Slam, the first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour competition of the year. They will be trying to make up for their elimination by Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler in Fuzhou, but I still think that Chen Xue and Zhang Xi will be too good for everyone.
"I also look forward to seeing how the Brazilian teams fare. They have led the way for a number of years now, but with Juliana Felisberta and Larissa Franca no longer still together there is the chance for one of the new Brazilian pairings to establish themselves at the top of the sport and I look forward to seeing which one breaks through first."
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Sandra Pires – "2013 can be anyone's year" says Sandra Pires
Andrea Zorzi – Andrea Zorzi looks forward to this year's World League action
Stacy Sykora – Women's volleyball looking forward to bumper year
Natalie Cook – Keep an eye on the Chinese in 2013
Hugh McCutcheon – Feeling good about US women's coach
Martin Laciga – It's time to pass the ball to younger players
Tom Hoff – This is volleyball, and anything can happen
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How should we prepare for apocalypse?
Before you hide under your bed, check out a few books by some of California's leading journalistic interpreters of the last 160 years.
You probably won't have to read very long before you're reminded that big deficits and threats of fiscal crisis aren't exactly new here. In fact, the notion of California as a place where current resources don't meet present needs is at least as old as the Donner Party. And the state's leaders have always been -- in the eyes of journalists -- fools and knaves, unable to resolve persistent financial problems.
"The scoundrels are in power, and they have wrecked the country," Hinton Helper wrote, after having spent three years reporting on the state, in his 1855 book "The Land of Gold," an early anti-California screed. "Today the State is lawless, penniless and powerless."
In California, it seems, Armageddon is always right around the corner.
As to why this is, nothing offers a better explanation than Carey McWilliams' 1949 classic, "California: The Great Exception." Sixty years after publication, it reads as though McWilliams, who died in 1980, turned in the manuscript last week.
"The state is always off balance, stretching itself precariously," McWilliams wrote. California, governmentally speaking, is "a giant adolescent" with a "notorious lack of social and political equilibrium."
As evidence, McWilliams listed the financial troubles -- he used the word "crisis" -- that faced California in his time. The schools lacked good teachers, proper resources and materials (particularly in the gigantic Los Angeles district). Health facilities couldn't keep up with rising medical costs. The state's roads and waterworks were outdated and decaying. The prison system was criminally overcrowded. All these deficits persisted, McWilliams lamented, despite big increases in state spending during a postwar boom.
"Even at the limping pace at which facilities have been expanded, and they have never kept abreast of current needs, governmental costs have skyrocketed," he wrote.
The list of major problems facing the state today, of course, is nearly identical.
This would not have surprised McWilliams. A lawyer and journalist who moved to New York in the 1950s to become editor of the Nation, he knew California and its government outside and in. Culbert Olson, the state's only Democratic governor in the first half of the 20th century, appointed McWilliams head of California's division of immigrants and housing in 1939. He advocated so aggressively for the rights of migrant workers that growers labeled him the state's No. 1 "agricultural pest."
Experience taught McWilliams that for all the apocalyptic rhetoric in the "short memoried press" ("There has always been something about [California] that has incited hyperbole," he wrote), the state's persistent fiscal shortfalls were part of its character -- a direct consequence of the size, diversity and dynamism that made California great.
McWilliams blamed the Gold Rush for shaping California in this way. Too many people had come too quickly for the state to constitute itself in anything approaching a normal manner. By the early 1870s, California was such a financial and political mess that the entire constitution had to be thrown out. California is "a community of irresponsible strangers," wrote Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce in his 1886 book, "California: A Study of American Character." The fortune seekers who moved here in search of gold lived and governed by a philosophy of "something for nothing." Miners took $100 million in treasure out of the ground without paying taxes on it.
"From that time to the present, governmental services have lagged far behind population growth," McWilliams wrote. "Other states have gone through this phase too, but California has never emerged from it."
Put simply, the state simply grows too fast for its government to keep up. No governing system -- and certainly no mere politician -- can manage constant revolution.
And so, a liberal giant, Gov. Pat Brown, taxed and spent. His successor, the conservative hero Ronald Reagan, inherited Brown's deficit and taxed and spent even more. Every generation of California interpreter, before or after McWilliams, has observed this dynamic. In her 2003 book, "Where I Was From," Joan Didion noted, "There had been then from the beginning, these obliterating increases, rates of growth that systematically erased freshly laid traces of custom and community."
Didion argued that Californians made this worse by sending conflicting signals to politicians. McWilliams saw this too. Voters, he wrote, "want the state to grow, and yet they don't want it to grow. They like the idea of growth and expansion, but withdraw from the practical implications. This ambivalence is so acute that it often results in paralysis, a suspension of the thinking faculty, a form of civic hypnosis."
He added: "This astonishing ambivalence, so amusing to watch, consistently undercuts any attempt to plan for the well-being of Californians, present and future."
What of solutions to these problems? In "The Great Exception," McWilliams offered little more than skepticism about the whole concept of "reform." For him and other California interpreters, reformers' efforts to scrub politics of politicians and money and interest groups usually backfired. The state's bureaucracy, its boards and commissions, even its initiative process, all were meant to reduce the influence of interest groups, yet all were captured by the same.
In his bestselling 1931 autobiography, Lincoln Steffens suggested that reformers opt for a strategic surrender: Cut out the middlemen (the politicians), and let the bad guys -- the lobbyists and wealthy influence buyers -- hold office themselves. "Being responsible and being not honest but intelligent, they will not do half the things they ask their good, honest, usually unintelligent dummies to do," Steffens wrote. "They would give better government than righteous men."
McWilliams wasn't that cynical, but he did warn that California, with its penchant for perpetual crisis, had a bad habit of adopting "perilous remedies for present evils." He would have been wary of the reforms under discussion during this year's budget Armageddon.
Republicans want a limit on state spending. Democrats are pushing for top-to-bottom reform of the state's tax structure to produce more revenues. But to be successful, a spending limit or tax reform would need accurate projections of the state's future, and in California projections almost always miss the mark.
"No calculus exists by which needs can be fully anticipated in California," McWilliams wrote. "Other communities can project a population curve, and, with fair accuracy, anticipate needs twenty and thirty years in advance; but it would be a brave man, indeed, who would undertake to chart California's growth for the next decade. There are too many unpredictable factors; too many variable elements."
That passage begs the question that's been posed recently by media analysts, and even by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in this month's state of the state address: Is California still governable? Reading McWilliams suggests the proper answer is another question: When was California ever governable?
In such a state, the best we can hope for is that our elected officials possess humility, caution and long memories. It might be a good idea if those in charge today would read McWilliams -- if only to be reminded that the best anyone ever does is to make sure government doesn't fall too far behind its citizens.
We citizens also should remember that California's advantages are not fundamentally financial. In 1868, Henry George, then a San Francisco newspaperman, published an essay on the original economic stimulus plan, the transcontinental railroad. Growth and prosperity were coming, he acknowledged, but they would not cure California of all that ailed it. The economic boost from the railroad might make hard times even harder and add to the perils of being short of cash, of being "broken."
"But," George added, "there never was a better country to be 'broken' in" than California.
Mathews, author of "The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy," is an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation.


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AIDS 2014 Video Blog #4: One World, One Place, Thousands of Voices -- The Awesome Advocates of HIV/AIDS
July 24, 2014
Try, if you can, to hold it together while hearing from a man from Nigeria who risks imprisonment simply by providing services to gay men; in his country, such a nefarious act is punishable by a decade in prison. Marvel at Wonder Woman, an Australian aboriginal drag performer who has taken on the mantle of a superhero HIV awareness figure. And hear the impassioned pleas of the disenfranchised -- including transgender people, those from remote locales of the planet, and those who feel as though they're still invisible even at the conference they're attending.
A willingness to help others is one of our most precious human traits. As you will see, it survives even the most dire life circumstances. I don't know about you, but after hearing these people's words, it's made me take stock of my own place in this world and the privileges I enjoy.
Among so many delegates who share a common energy for HIV advocacy, friendships easily develop -- and sometimes a lot more than that. And so my word of the day isn't simply Australian, it's universal: "love." I have a very special message at the end of this video that demonstrates exactly what I mean.
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Everywhere you looked last Saturday evening in the banquet room of the Dubose Porter Center, you saw legacies. There were legacies finished. And, there were legacies still in progress. Some legacies had yet to be started. In just eighteen years, the teachers of Oconee High School planted the seeds which grew into legacies of faith, hope, dedication and love of community and country. Barbara Sanders Thomas, the keynote speaker for the evening, spoke of where her desires to leave a legacy began and challenged her fellow alumni to do just that - to think back and to always think forward for the future of the world we all leave behind.
The Oconee High School National Alumni Association was organized by former students and faculty to preserve the OHS legacy of excellence, spirit, and pride through sponsorship of events and reunions; promoting education through scholarships and training; supporting the welfare of people and communities; providing a presence and voice when needed; and maintaining visibility in the city of Dublin at large. The theme of this year's reunion is "Building on the Trojan Legacy While Embracing Current and Future Challenges."
Presiding over the evening festivities with comical humor and charming wit, was Robert L. Brown, Jr., '69, a noted Atlanta architect and business leader. James Fambrough,'65, welcomed more than two hundred and fifty alumni, their guests and friends. Minister Cheryl May-Holmes, '66 gave an inspirational invocation. Another member of the Class of '66, Rosalyn Clark Gray, spoke of the occasion of the evening.
Introducing the keynote speaker for the evening was Ann Sanders Stephens, '60, who introduced her sister, Barbara Sanders Thomas. Mrs. Thomas, a 25-year veteran of CBS Radio and the company's first African-American female vice-president, challenged the alumni to keep the name of Oconee alive and to continue the legacy of building the Trojan theme. She thanked Cheryl May-Holmes and others for helping her to reconnect to the alumni organization.
"We are all warriors, we have been trained by the best, the teachers and staff of Oconee. They taught us to never give up even if we had to disguise our strength, as the Greek warriors did, to accomplish our goal," Thomas said as she spoke of the legacy passed to her while she was a student at Oconee. Her role models at Oconee were principal Charles Manning and teachers, Nellie Coleman and Marine Bacote. "They made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do," she fondly recalled. After serving with CBS in its finance department, Thomas took a new life course. "I took an early retirement and decided that what I wanted to do with my life was to go out and help nonprofit corporations," she proclaims. As for the future, Barbara proclaimed, "There's a lot of work ahead of me, a lot of work I want to do."
The theme of Thomas's speech was, "What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind when you die?" "Every life leaves a legacy. If you leave a legacy that is greater than you, and if you want to leave a legacy that will impact generation after generation, and if you live your life to leave something that will be great, all you need is wrapped up in three, profoundly simple yet inspiringly deep, thoughts: I fought the good fight. I finished the race. And, I kept the faith," Thomas asserted.
She called upon the legacy leavers and reminded them, "We are stewards of this world. We should leave this world better than we found it." In reminding those present of their legacy leavers, Thomas said, "We are the legacies of the teachers of Oconee High School. We are the fruits of their labor."
Although Barbara Thomas has enjoyed much success in her business career, she told all, "I don't want to be a legend, I want to live to leave a legacy." In comparing a legacy to a reputation, the Executive Director of the National MBA Foundation said, "A reputation is made in a moment. A legacy is built in a lifetime."
Thomas outlined the steps of determining your legacy; Understand your legacy. Chose your legacy. Focus on your legacy. Establish a life sentence. Live your legacy.
As a child Barbara wanted to be a pastor. Later she wanted to be a great communicator. Now she says, "I want to add value to leaders, leaders who will multiply value to others." She encouraged everyone to take time to learn as much as you can and to pass that knowledge onto your children and their children. "We are the baton passers who pass that information on." Mrs. Thomas concluded.
Robert L. Mason, Jr., '67, recognized the former Miss Oconees in attendance. President Darlene Blocker, '70 and 2nd vice-president Jerry Davis, '69, made special presentations to those in attendance, including John W. Tillman, who traveled the longest distance, all the way from Texas. The classes of 1966 and 1968 tied for the most members in attendance.
A special recognition was given to principal Charles W. Manning. Manning, who in 1959 succeeded Lucius D, Bacote, as the second and only other principal of Oconee High School, which opened in 1952 and closed in 1970 when Dublin city schools were integrated.
Eclemus Ricks was presented an award for his most generous contribution to the Alumni Association's work. The Trojan Award, which epitomizes the spirit of Oconee High School was awarded to Dublin city councilman, Jerry Davis, who tirelessly worked to put on the event and placement of the historical marker. President Blocker gave the President's Award to Jerry Chapman for his work on behalf of the Alumni Association.
Awards were presented to those who contributed to the placement of a historical marker on the site of the school. The ceremony took placed earlier in the day as scheduled. Unfortunately, the carrier lost the sign, which will be formally dedicated at a later date.
President Blocker thanked all of those who participated in putting the 2011 reunion together. The evening's ceremonies ended with a rousing rendition of Oconee's Alma Mater led by Odis Brower, '63. The school song was written by the late Lonnie Gene Woodum, USN, who lost his life aboard the U.S.S. Bennington in the service of our country in 1954.


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Sunday, 23 March 2014 08:03 AM
Authorities said that because of the quicksand-like mud, it was too dangerous to send rescuers into the stricken area. Searchers instead flew over the one-square-mile mudslide in helicopters, looking for signs of life.
Some of the missing may have been able to get out on their own, authorities said.
Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots said at a news briefing that authorities suspect "people are out there, but it's far too dangerous to get responders out there on that mudflow."
Authorities were also trying to determine how to get responders on the ground safely, Hots said, likening the mudflow to quicksand.
Officials described the mudslide as "a big wall of mud and debris" that blocked about one mile of State Route 530 near the town of Oso, about 55 miles north of Seattle. It was reported about 60 feet deep in some areas.
Authorities believe the slide was caused by groundwater saturation from recent heavy rainfall.
Several people — including an infant — were critically injured and as many as 30 houses were destroyed. The slide wiped out one neighborhood; "that neighborhood is not there anymore," Hots said.
Hots said the number of missing is fluid and could change because some people may have been in cars and on roads when the slide hit just before 11 a.m. Saturday.
The mud was so thick and deep that searchers turned back late Saturday after attempting to reach an area where voices were heard crying for help.
Rescuers couldn't hear any signs of life once they got closer, and the decision was made to retreat due to safety concerns, Hots said.
The slide blocked the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River. With the water rising rapidly behind the debris, authorities worried about severe downstream flooding and issued an evacuation notice Saturday.
Authorities said Sunday that residents could return home during daylight hours.
John Pennington, director of Snohomish County Emergency Management Department, said they were dealing with "a disaster within a disaster" — both the mudslide and the potential for a flash flood. He said there were concerns that the water could break downstream, as well as back up and flood areas upstream.
The Snohomish County sheriff's office reported that two people had been killed at the scene. Authorities later said one of the people who had been rescued died at a hospital.
Shari Ireton, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County sheriff's office, said Sunday a total of eight people were injured.
A 6-month-old boy and an 81-year-old man remained in critical condition Sunday morning at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said two men, ages 37 and 58, were in serious condition, while a 25-year-old woman was upgraded to satisfactory condition.
Bruce Blacker, who lives just west of the slide, doesn't know the whereabouts of six neighbors.
"It's a very close knit community. They're all our neighbors," Blacker said as he was waiting to talk with Washington State Patrol at an Arlington roadblock before troopers let him through. There were almost 20 homes in the neighborhood that was destroyed, he said.
"I'm hoping for the best," he said.
The American Red Cross set up at the hospital, and evacuation shelters were created at Post Middle School in Arlington and the Darrington Community Center.
One eyewitness told the Daily Herald that he was driving on the roadway and had to quickly brake to avoid the mudslide.
"I just saw the darkness coming across the road. Everything was gone in three seconds," Paulo Falcao told the newspaper.
Search-and-rescue help came from around the region, plus the Washington State Patrol and the Army Corps of Engineers. More than 100 were at the scene.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for Snohomish County through Sunday afternoon.
People who live in the North Fork's flood plain, from the small communities of Oso to Stanwood, were urged Saturday to flee to higher ground.
Snohomish County officials said Sunday morning that residents could return during daylight hours but that they would likely reissue the evacuation order Sunday night.
Dane Williams, 30, who lives a few miles from the mudslide spent Saturday night at a Red Cross shelter at an Arlington school.
He said he saw a few "pretty distraught" people at the shelter who didn't know the fate of loved ones who live in the destroyed neighborhood.
"It makes me want to cry, just looking at them," Williams said Sunday.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee proclaimed a state of emergency.
Bart Treece, spokesman for the Washington State Department of Transportation, said he didn't know how long the two-lane rural road would be closed. Drivers were advised to find another way to get between Darrington and Arlington, he said.
Snohomish County authorities said the area has a history of unstable land. He said a slide also happened there in 2006.
Pennington said Saturday's slide happened without warning.
"This slide came out of nowhere," he said.
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How do we support students developing as efficacious self-directed, social learners and involve parents as partners in that journey?
I struggle with balancing expectations for student independence and inquiry with the patience and nurturing needed to help students graduate from school work to their own work. In my own life, I tend to make changes cold turkey, but what works for me as a person isn't what works for my students as learners. Currently, I'm engaged in assessing the language I use in the classroom and the non-verbal cues I deliver, regardless of what I'm saying, to improve as a nurturer. Rather than act as a hang-gliding instructor ("Jump here; land there!"), I'm trying to act more like the hang-glider, lifting up students during their flights of learning.
I want to be Falkor instead of Carl Conrad Coreander.
Students bring their own curiosity and interests to class. I try to acknowledge and value these things through student-directed work aligned to student-selected reading and writing goals. For me, to communicate better how much I value what students bring to class, I need to slow down and match my nurturing words with patient, open nonverbal communication. I need to match speed with students. I need to lighten up. I need to be sure not to wound students through my impatience for progress. I need to become a learning platform.
I'm working on it. I'm kind of goal-oriented, so having a a particular end in mind ("Jump here, nurture there!") works for me. I think. I'll check with my kids and get back to you.
To help further a nurturing community of learning around students that rewards curiosity, inquiry, and communication about their work, here are some ideas I have for next year (or this Spring?) for involving students, parents, and experts in the work of our classroom:
- Continue student goal-setting and self-assessment. Keep embedding goal-setting in entrance and exit slips. Ask students to self-assess as pre-assessment for projects to set learning goals and decide on how to benchmark and measure their progress. Ask students to self-assess their learning and work at the end of projects. Ask kids to run student-led conferences twice per 9 Weeks, at both interim and report card times.
- Help students produce YouTube videos about a day in the life of our classroom. Share out the videos with parents, students' friends, and my colleagues, as well as with visitors before they come to class.
- Help students produce a wiki for parents, friends, colleagues, and visitors that teaches them how to sign-up for the social media tools we use and how to follow our work via social media.
- Maintain a collaborative blog with students that features weekly posts about what we're doing, why we're doing it, and why we're doing it our way.
- Maintain a collaborative Twitter account with students to share out daily work and discoveries.
- Establish a classroom Google Voice line for student and parent suggestions to be checked weekly.
- Write permissions forms that make it easy to say yes to social media. Include options for anonymous use of tools using randomized IDs. Include options for different levels of teacher oversight and input for social media accounts. Find a way for each student to participate in a personal learning network in a manner that's comfortable to both the student and his or her parents.
- Work with the parent-teacher organization to create a parent blog about experiences with class and the school. Hold quarterly information nights for parents to explain and teach the social media tools we use in class and train parent bloggers. During class time, invite students to comment and respond to parents' points of view on our learning.
- Create a visitor blog or map managed collaboratively by students, visitors and the teacher. Ask for introductions from visitors before they arrive – physically and/or virtually – and let kids comment on them. Ask visitors to write about what they've learned from our students and what they've learned about public education after their time in class
- Make Expo-Night an all day open-house to accommodate parents' schedules and draw in community partners and division personnel. Dedicate a day per semester to display, present, and play around student learning. Run the day from the beginning of school through 6:00 PM or so, and keep kids after school as necessary for parents to pick up after work. Schedule student project and portfolio presentations and performances throughout the day, including physical education demonstrations and open-studio times for students ready to talk about their processes.
- Meet with the parent-teacher organization to brainstorm fund-raising ideas for class. While policy commonly says that principals have final say over classroom fund-raising, the parent-teacher organization can sponsor events on its own. Imagine a student Etsy boutique or classroom Donors Choose page maintained by a parent volunteer in collaboration with students and the teacher. Parent-teacher organizations are oftentimes already authorized to fund-raise in ways classroom teachers are not; take advantage of that by forging partnerships with parent-teacher organizations.
How do you take advantage of social media to strengthen your relationships with students, parents, and learning? Is it even right to think of ourselves as learning platforms?


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Driving African development through gender equality and empowering womenJun 3, 2013
Africa's first and only women presidents joined UNDP Administrator Helen Clark on Sunday in calling for women and girls to be front and centre in Africa's development agenda.
"Women are at the center of our hopes for Africa," said President Joyce Banda of Malawi, speaking at a panel hosted by UNDP at the Fifth Tokyo Conference on African Development (TICAD V). She was joined by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, who said African women and girls must not be regarded as disadvantaged, but rather seen as "the greatest opportunity for unleashing the full potential of the continent."
The panel, "Driving African Development Through Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women," also featured African Union Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is the first woman to hold that position, and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who has put women at the center of his development agenda. President Kagame said that ensuring gender equality "is not just a moral issue, it is a rights issue and it is a shared responsibility that concerns every member of our society."
"Africa's women can indeed be the drivers of its development," Kagame said.
Panelists, who also included UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Babatunde Osetimehin, UNWomen Acting Director Lakshmi Puri and Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida, underscored that there is a rich body of evidence that demonstrates how gender equality drives development. For example, countries that eliminate gender disparities in education will accelerate progress towards eliminating hunger and will improve child and maternal health, as educated women and girls are better able to make informed choices about family planning, nutrition, health, and education.
With the existence of international, regional and national frameworks and commitments that lay out both a promise and a plan to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, speakers said what is needed now is implementation of the commitments, as well as dedicated budgeting that supports the rights and needs of women and girls.
"In all our policies and budgets, we should make sure there is enough money that goes to women," Dlamini-Zuma said.
Discussion focused on the necessity of women's economic empowerment and how even small investments have tremendous multiplier affects across a range of development goals. When a woman has more income, for example, she is better able to feed and educate her children and ensure their health and well-being. President Banda argued that getting income into the hands of women is the best way to achieve the Millennium Development Goals target on girl's education.
With women comprising the majority of the agricultural labor force in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as having the primary responsibility for feeding their families, there was a call for rural women, including those who work in fisheries in the "blue economy," to be at the center of approaches to food security. Despite their significant work in growing and processing food, women face significant barriers in owning, inheriting and controlling land and accessing credit and technical resources. Leveling the playing field for rural women would have a profound effect on food security. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, if women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20 to 30 percent, raising total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5 to 4 percent.
Also discussed was the importance of promoting women's participation in decision-making at all levels, addressing the challenges to maternal health, fighting violence against women and girls, as well as early marriage, and ensuring that responses to conflict and disaster have specific and targeted interventions to address women's security.
Foreign Minister Kishida noted the importance of incorporating women's perspectives in conflict prevention and peace building processes and involving women in the formulation of disaster risk reduction strategies.
In reporting on the results of the panel discussion to the TICAD Secretariat on Monday, Clark said that the discussion resonated with the debates now underway on the post-2015 development framework. Last week, a report was released by the independent High Level Panel of eminent persons appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General on the global development framework beyond 2015. It identifies the need to address violence against women and girls, empower women economically and to take on leadership roles in public life.
"Now is the time to move from rhetoric to action," Clark said. "That will require concrete plans with measurable outcomes and sufficient funding."
The report of the panel discussion will be used to inform UNDP, Japan and participating stakeholders in tailoring policy and actions towards gender equality and women's empowerment in Africa.
TICAD is a summit meeting on African development co-organized by the Government of Japan, the United Nations, the World Bank, the UN Development Programme and the African Union Commission.


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Melges Young Guns Regatta 2011 - Goes Off Like A Cracker
29 March 2011
It was like an all stars youth sailing reunion. The young guns lived up to their own hype at last Saturday's inaugural Melges Young Guns Regatta on Pittwater where conditions ranged from a confused sou-wester of 12 to 20kts with Pittwater's typical bullets flying from all directions slowly going left later in the day to present a full on southerly of 25kts+ to bring it on home.
What a fantastic day it was; the only thing that could have been better for the fifty odd young gun sailors aged 17-30yrs blustering around the dock with their Melges 24s and 32s for the day would have been a bit more sun from Huey.
Melges Asia Pacific and a handful of youth supporting owners generously provided the necessary hardware FOC (free of charge) to the sailors just dripping in talent from NSW, Queensland and Victoria. The glittering fleet consisted the likes of the Australian Women's Match Racing Team Nicky Souter, Nina Curtis and Olivia Price, current AUS WMR champion crew Natalie Greentree, past Farr40 World Champion crew and 16ft skiff sailor Daniel Turner, AUS World Youth Team's Annalise Gilbert, 49er State Champions Peter Kendall and Bryce Walters, YNSW's Development Manager and Balance centrepin stalwart crew Andrew 'Cribby' Cribb, World Championship 29er Sailor Ash Rooklyn and that's just to name a few!
The young organisers Penny and James Kendall ran through the day's proceedings at the sailor's bar of the RPAYC then jumped on board their allotted 'new' boats and headed out to the race area. RO and Melges donator Ian Greentree with RPAYC's Vice Commodore Rob Curtis set up shop just off Avalon Sailing Club whilst the eight crews trialled the boats in a spasmodic breeze that gave the fleets a full range of conditions to experience before lining up for the first start of the five race series just after 11am.
The two Melges 36s Funnelweb and Rock n Roll had their own separate starts and just reveled in the strong breeze in a thrilling match race style contest toward the top mark in a tremendous spectacle of tacking duels and cover manoeuvres from their excited young crews. Part of the deal with the event was that a mentor adult would be on board the 32s to provide assistance on these testosterone pumped vessels if required, with the owner of both the Melges 32s Kim William and Farr 40 World Champion sailor Bob Wilmot grinning from ear to ear overseeing the fine work carried out by their respective charges.
Meanwhile, the six Melges 24s were chomping at the bit back at the line and started five minutes after the bigger boats in a confident display, all settling down to a longish beat over to the first line of moorings off the ASC clubhouse.
The first race finished after two laps with Rock n Roll overcoming the challenge from Funnelweb in the Melges 32s while Ash Rooklyn and crew on Bandit outdid Nicky Souter and crew on Matilda followed by Sean O'Rourke's crew on Accru in the Melges 24s.
With the rules stipulating that races 2 and 5 require a female to helm, all boats now had new skippers and crew configurations. Despite the fresh mix no quarter was given in either fleet's start and crew work was again of the highest order. Of course, the butterflies in the stomachs had disappeared and racing became somewhat closer with Rock n Roll's crew again able to keep out Funnelweb who appeared to be a little light in comparison to the Qld led crew on Rock n Roll.
The Melges 24s first all girl skipper race left WMR Champ Nicky Souter to grab the win followed in by Bandit skippered by 29er sailor Anna Kendall with her sister and race organiser Penny Kendall skippering No Comment claiming the third spot.
By this time, the youth supporters/sailing stalwarts' spectator boat felt comfortable upping anchor from behind the start line and so headed to a greater vantage point right in the middle of the course and dropped anchor. Fresh supplies of cases of beer and the firing up of the BBQ got underway and by the time of the start of the third race, the strong aroma of garlic prawns cooking began to permeate the nostrils of the Young Guns downwind. A quick ferrying of freshly cooked prawns were delivered to the start boat by the photographers/runners vessel, albeit right in the middle of the start sequence of race 3. As one of the rules of the regatta was that – 'it must be fun' – there were bemused looks from the Young Guns but not for that matter the committee boat who managed to start the fleets with no trouble flying the flags, sounding the horns as well as feasting upon the hot garlic prawns all at the same time.
Back up the course on the spectator boat the second round of BBQ'd garlic prawns were being prepared as the fleet made their way to the top of the course, the wafting smoke of the BBQ fare offering up a navigation tool for those who were not distracted and overcome with hunger pangs downwind. One of the crews approaching the anchored vessel cheekily called for them to get out of the way, only to be told that they were cooking prawns and so could not possibly comply. The day just simply kept getting better and better for sailors and spectators alike.
By the final race, Rock n Roll had simply overpowered the other Melges 32 with their weight advantage and took the series with four bullets only allowing Funnelweb's crew to snare race 4.
It was certainly a lot closer competition in the Melges 24s with a point separating Matilda over Bandit leading into race 5, the breeze a feisty 20-25kts+ from dead south. The previous four races had given all crews a thorough grounding of the dynamic play these Melges had to offer, and with the strong winds stable from one direction it was gloves off in the final race of the day. The Melges 24s were literally leaping out of the water downwind and the smiles could not have been broader on the young crews' faces as they pummeled each other throughout the two laps to the finish.
The fifth race was eventually wrestled from the competition by Nicky Souter and the girls with their secret weapon John Dee on Matilda from Ash Rooklyn (wearing a skirt for race 5) and crew on Bandit followed by Sasha Ryan skippering Accru taking third place.
All crews heading back to the RPAYC to lift the boats out of the water were delivered appropriate refreshments in keeping with the – 'it must be fun' – statute and they all agreed the event was a huge success beyond their expectations.
The final rule of the regatta mandated that the crews travel to Avalon Sailing Club for the after party and presentation where Holey Dollar Rum sponsor Stuart Gilbert weighed in with his contribution to the event and proceedings, a most welcomed gesture by the Young Guns and all their supporters.
The scores were collated and the inaugural winners of the Melges Young Guns Regatta went to Rock n Roll in the Melges 32s and Matilda in the Melges 24s, these crews being presented with Gill and Holey Dollar Rum product and the two Young Guns perpetual shields.
The fantastic support and guidance from Heath and Tracey of Melges Asia Pacific and the Melges owners themselves who donated their boats to all the young sailors was gratefully acknowledged by the youth organisers. A simple regatta with simple rules and the only way it could possibly have been done was by means of their magnanimous support allowing our youth to compete.
The party continued on until the wheels fell off just before midnight. Everyone is eagerly anticipating next year's Young Guns and have already registered their interest to the organisers.
Full Results:
Melges 32
1. Rock n Roll - 1,1,1,2,1-6pts
2. Funnelweb - 2,2,2,1,2-9pts
Melges 24
1. Matilda - 2,1,2,1,1-7pts
2. Bandit - 1,2,1,3,2-9pts
3. Accru - 3,4,6,2,3-18pts
4. No Comment - 4,3,4,4,5-20pts
5. Arribba Arribba - 6,5,3,5,6-25pts
6. Amigos - 5,6,5,6,4-26pts
Facebook was just buzzing all Sunday night with many new profile photos posted by the crews from the hundreds of photographs which can be accessed via the Melges Asia Pacific page www.facebook.com/MelgesAsiaPacific
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I'm completely with you, Richard. I LOVE answering questions, when I know enough to answer them in the first place. As it comes to evolution ... hell, I'm an engineer, not a biologist. I have a rudimentary understanding of the mechanics regarding natural selection and mutation, and beyond that, I don't worry about it - it's just not a field I am much interested in.
I DO care about evidence and about the practices which make science effective (again, I'm an engineer!). Most of the arguments I've gotten into are with people who repeatedly and insistently want to cite facts not in evidence or allegations without foundation ... or simply cite the bible as absolute truth ... which it ain't.
BTW ... you ever make it to Cleveland, I know some fine examples of Thai, Indian and WAY above average Mexican!
Seems to me I ran onto that debate chart some time back ... and the fact is that your opponents have already violated the first decision box of that chart:
Can you envision anything that will change your mind on this topic?
NO ==> This is NOT a Discussion I will not talk to you about this topic.
I guess this is why I'm not much interested in debating theists any more. They don't move, nor can they see the problems with their own arguments, or they refuse to see them. Yeah, sure, the debate may be more for the benefit of those observing, but you know what? If those observers don't come up and say, "you know, I got something out of that," then I get nothing out of it, other than a lot of effort yielding nothing but frustration ... and frankly, I have better things to do with my time than to bang my head against an adamantine wall.
I admire you for your persistence, Richard, but I do not envy you.
P.S.: Keep the sushi. Indian, Thai, above-average Mexican will do.
Well, I sorta read at least SOME of this!
*sniff* - some of my best work! ;)
Though I admit I did lean rather heavily on my sources for the dendrochronology stuff, since I admit it: I am not a dendrochronologist! However I did go and read the scientific papers I was citing and they do in fact say what my sources said they said. And my creationist pair now have that link so they can go check for themselves (not that they ever will but we live in hope)
I'd say it's worth it for the final (most recent) entry from Micah when he tells me *exactly* what I have to do to get him to change his mind....
With this in mind...
... a re-occuring theme with this pair has been their inability to stick to a point.
So in the middle of my laying down the evidence of dendrochronology (which arguably falls into the school of Botany), they'd sudden bring up evolution! Likewise, the central issue at play in this discussion is the evidence for Noah's flood. And here he's telling me how he knows Jesus - okay...sure, whatever - but about the flood - you can't prove evolution - but about the flood. Uniformitarianism and maths are just assumptions! ... evidence of the flood.... Scientists are all atheists who conspire to make creationsm silly - yes but getting back to evidence of the flood - BURN SINNER!! etc...
Micah at least has shown some flexibility on some points (or rather I should say elasticity, since he seems to snap back into place right after), but that earnt him the scorn of Corey who says he's wavering in his faith, becuase faith, as we know, is the denial of evidence.
I'm still kinda proud I got Micah to admit there's no evidence of a global world-wide flood for 12,410 years.
I'd call that a win! (and it's why I like the dendrochronology example so much. Easy to explain and effective!)
On Eternity, I prefer:
"I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-"
"What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously.
"This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-"
"The same bird every thousand years?"
Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said.
"Bloody ancient bird, then."
"Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-"
"flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak-"
"Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe there's loads of-" The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy."
"But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered.
"It doesn't matter!"
"It could use a space ship," said the angel.
Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird-"
"Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to-" He hesitated. "What have
they got to do?"
"Sharpen its beak on the mountain," said Crowley. "And then it flies back-"
"-in the space ship-"
"And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again," said Crowley quickly.
There was a moment of drunken silence,
"Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak," mused Aziraphale.
"Listen," said Crowley urgently, "the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right, then-"
Aziraphale opened his mouth. Crowley just knew he was going to make some point about the relative hardness of birds' beaks and granite mountains, and plunged on quickly.
"-then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music."
Aziraphale froze.
"And you'll enjoy it," Crowley said relentlessly. "You really will."
"My dear boy-"
"You won't have a choice."
"Heaven has no taste."
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face."
Crowley and Aziraphale ("Good Omens" Pratchett / Gaiman)
Well, I sorta read at least SOME of this!
what u [sic] fail to realize is that I literally know God. Jesus lives inside of me. He is all of the evidence I need to know the bible is true
Oooooooooookay ... if he lives inside of you, let's DRAG HIM OUT for ALL to see and maybe EVERYONE could believe!
And as for having eternity to think about it, I wonder if he realizes just how long eternity is. Billions upon trillions upon quadrillions of years, to the point where recorded history to now doesn't amount to one second, by comparison, and all because of 70 or 80 or 90 years of behavior that some putative deity doesn't like? Man, that is the most fucked-up concept of justice I can hope to even begin to imagine!
True Believers are SCARY.
In the final analysis, Richard, neither Micah nor Corey want to hear it. The bible MUST be right and you MUST be wrong, and even if you are right, he will never acknowledge it, because if he does, then his faith has a crack in it, and I'm not certain even the slightest crack in his belief system is tolerable to him. This is why organizations like Creation Ministries, International and The Discovery Institute exist: to bolster the bible with put-up pseudoscience to provide the kinds of facades that Micah is standing behind.
And of course they start with god; they MUST. A clean sheet of paper would be anathema to them as regards study of a new phenomenon. Coincidentally, they can't see NOT having god in the discussion as a LACK of bias, which is why many believers see atheism as just one more form of religion. The old saw about "for a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" illustrates this pretty well.
Doubtless, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. It's just that I've been through discussions / debates like this before. They never go anywhere, nothing gets resolved, and I come away from them feeling as though I have wasted my time ... which is why I don't get into such discussions much any more.
I'll be interested to hear if you manage to get any concessions from either Micah or Corey, but I'm pretty dubious. Best wishes, though.
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Memory Lane Cruisers was incorporated in 1998 as a local club for car enthusiasts who wanted to display classic (and newer) cars.
You did not have to own a classic car to be a member. You just needed to love cars.
The club was also a way for car enthusiasts to give back to the community. We met once a month to fellowship and conduct business.
The club has held monthly cruise-ins from March until October of each year at different places including Heath Springs, the Sonic, Chick-fil-A, Barry's Classic Grill, and Hwy 55 Burgers Fries and Shakes.
Since Donald Trump was elected, the phase "drain the swamp" has become media/political shorthand for all the changes that he is going to bring to politics as usual in D.C.
Although I didn't vote for him, I do absolutely believe that there needs to be a lot of swamp draining in D.C. – and this got me to thinking about swamp draining in S.C. as well.
Back in February when Voters for a Town of Indian Land first announced its plans to swallow up our peaceful and splendidly isolated community (Van Wyck), a committee was quickly formed to combat its intentions. We essentially formed a board comprised of heads of various quickly formed committees that worked on various aspects of countering IL's attack. Rosa and I co-chaired that board, whose purpose was to launch a three-pronged counter-attack to the IL group's intentions.
"Christmastime is here, happiness and cheer" as the Peanuts crew sang on their traditional half-hour special.
A season of feasting and gift giving, of joy to the world and school vacation days. There will be pageants and cantatas and houses made up to look like candy-cane castles.
It is a magical time of year that is supposed to bring people together, but it also opens the door for scrooges and Grinches who seem to revel only in bubble bursting or maintaining the true meaning of Christmas.
With the state pension system underfunded by billions of dollars and getting worse every day, how is it that non-state agencies are being allowed into the public pension system?
That's exactly what's happening in South Carolina.
State employees can participate in the system, of course. That's what it's designed for. But the purpose gets murkier when others join in, such as special-interest groups and their lobbyists.
What might have been. These words often haunt us as we look back at decisions we've made. A single decision can sometimes save thousands of lives or cost millions.
Seventy-five years ago, the Japanese Navy sent warplanes from its carriers to destroy American forces stationed at Pearl Harbor. Our country was not at war with Japan. In fact, we were negotiating for peace.
Japan's forces came in two waves. The first wave came literally out of the blue, and our sailors and soldiers could do little more than scramble to meet it.
Recently, I was invited to speak to the Friends of the Edisto River and I met Hugo Krispyn, who lives on the headwaters of the North Fork of the Edisto. He wrote this about the dangers facing the Edisto and other S.C. rivers.
I have heard it all my life. Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Many changes have taken place at The Lancaster News during my 31 years at the paper. Most of them you never noticed. Like when we switched from manually pasting up pages to producing them on computers. Or when we installed one piece of state-of-the-art equipment that reduced our press start-up time, and another that increased our color capacity throughout the paper.
Mike Mayer is an extremely good coach.
When I was growing up, my mother, who was always concerned with good morals and ethics, said, "Jimmy, if you cannot say anything good about a person, don't say anything." I am sorry that some of you did not have that kind of upbringing. So I am going to say only good things about coach Mike Mayer. But before I do, I want to ask two questions.
The account of John the Baptist's birth in Luke 1 gives hope to believers in Christ who experience trials.
Zacharias and Elizabeth were an elderly Jewish couple from a small rural town in Judah. They believed in God and lived a godly life. Zachariah was a priest, and his wife came from a priestly family.
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Towers are no more, but Petit to walk the wire again
By Jerry Tallmer
After the first death, there is no other.
With those words, Dylan Thomas ended his great poem on the death of a child, by fire, in the London Blitz. But for Philippe Petit there was, after the first one, another death. Three thousand of them.
At 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 11, 2004, Philippe Petit, the man who 30 years ago astonished New York City and the world by crossing between, dancing between, the two towers of the World Trade Center on a wire he and a friend had flung from one building to the other, 111 stories into the sky, will materialize on his unicycle in Washington Square Park.
There he will draw a chalk circle around what he calls my spot near a statue on the southeast corner of the park a place from which one could in the past also view those twin towers far Downtown and assume the character of street juggler and magician which I have done for 40 years all over the world, and for 15 years, though not recently, in Washington Square.
Not recently because hes been too busy writing books and lecturing and building a barn.
But here he is, with his red hair and his blue-black eyes and his ever-young vivacity and his warming smile, sitting at a sidewalk table at the White Horse, one recent late afternoon, with the imprint of a deck of cards streaming down across his black T-shirt.
Its the accordion of cards, he says. Im a magician, so I do that. Maybe I start with that. You take a deck he acts it out, blank-handed and you throw it down, like this, and if you are lucky it lands in your other hand.
Then I juggle, and then I put my rope between a lamppost and a tree, a tiny tightrope like your little finger, and I walk on this little rope, and I dont talk, and I dont advertise, but maybe somebody will point the way they used to point to those towers far off behind me, and will say: You know who that guy is?
I hope not to be a disaster. Not to be a how do you say it in the theater? a lemon.
What brings him back to Washington Square is, of course, the third anniversary of 9/11, but its also as starring artist of the Shakespeare Projects first annual Play Outside Festival of free theater that runs from September 4 to September 26 in 22 public venues throughout the five boroughs.
The unicycle, he says, is my escape from the police who come to arrest me.
He has been arrested more than 500 times and I am proud of it, he says. In Russia, Australia, Japan, mostly in Paris, in New York, in the U.K., in Spain . . . everywhere around the world.
He has also, of late, been lecturing around the world: on creativity. How to be creative, because that is my life. And hes been writing a lot. To Reach the Clouds, the story of the World Trade Center high-wire walk, came out from North Point Press on September 11, 2002, and a new book, The Art of the Pickpocket, is looking for a publisher.
I learned pickpocketing by myself when I was 17, and Im now 55. If you find me a publisher I will thank you in the book and steal your watch.
So, Monsieur Petit, where were you and how did you find out about September 11, 2001?
I dont read newspapers. I dont watch television. I was at my hideaway in the Catskills, near Woodstock, N.Y., where I live with my companion and producer, Kathy ODonnell. We received a phone call from a friend who lives at the top of the hill: Philippe, do you know your towers have been attacked no, destroyed?
So Kathy and I ran 100 yards up the hill to the house of this friend, who was in fact Elaine Fasula, a painter, and the mother of my child, Cordia-Gypsy my child who died at 9 1/2 of a brain injury. And there, in that house, we all look at the unimaginable.
At that point the first tower was hit, but still standing, maybe just an accident. And then I see, live, on TV, the second tower being hit, and I look at the sky, the same sky in Woodstock as New York City, 100 percent visibility, and I see it cannot be an accident.
I am flabbergasted. There, at the White Horse sidewalk table, Philippe Petit stopped for a moment before saying: It is a very difficult thing to talk about. Because I studied the towers for six and a half years before my walk. Which means the towers werent even built yet when I had my dream.
So I saw them as they grew like children, and when they grew up, I married them with a cable in the shape of a smile, a catenary curve, not a straight line. Catenary is Latin for chain. I am a self-proclaimed engineer, said Petit with his own smile, from the school of daydreams.
The smile disappeared.
How can I talk about architecture, he said, when that day took 3,000 lives? You know, last September I was asked by Marlon Brando to come to his workshop on Lying for a Living. A workshop for actors. I was there a month, in Los Angeles. And Brando talked about evisceration.
Petit once again acted something out, his hands emptying his guts.
Exactly how I felt [about 9/11]. It pulled out my inwards.
Had Petit seen his daughter die? When was that?
Yes, of course, I was there at St. Vincents, six hours. I have a problem with that date, erased it from my mind, he said, touching a fingertip to his temple. Gypsy was born in 1982, so it was nine and a half years after that.
It was very sudden. Not a three-months waiting around. A little headache one night and next day, St. Vincents . . .
Very soon after 9/11, Petit said, he was allowed in to ground zero because of who I am. He has been there since. Now I dont call it ground zero. I call it a construction site. Now you smell concrete, not ashes.
No, he said that sunset hour at the White Horse, he had no intention of staying in the city for the Republican National Convention, and he had nothing whatsoever to say about the politics, if any, of post-9/11.
I am someone who lives in the clouds and have no respect for the way humanity organizes society on earth. If you ask me what left and right are in politics, I respond like an imbecile. I dont have a bank account, dont have a car, dont have a little box full of money.
You might want to say that I am artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for 25 years, and have done dozens of [high-wire] walks there. My office is there. On June 21, 2005, Sting and I are to give a big performance at the opening of The Sage, Gateshead, a $170-million music center in England designed by Norman Foster. I walk, Sting sings.
During the Republican Convention I will be in Woodstock, working on my barn. Not a modern barn, an 18th-century barn made with 18th-century tools: a chisel, a mallet and a T-auger, the ancestor of a drill.
So while you guys are in Madison Square Garden, said Philippe Petit, Ill be in Woodstock listening to the sound of the woods.
Until he pops up in Washington Square on his unicycle . . . You know who that guy is? That fellow on the rope . . . ?
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I read the EHLO post describing the problem Microsoft discovered with public folder mailbox permissions after a move with a sense of déjà vu and deep concern. Coming just three days after they had posted the news about Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 availability, I'm sure that the Exchange development group was not too amused when they discovered the problem either.
As everyone who's been awake over the last two years is well aware, Exchange's record of issuing bug-free updates is not sparkling. In fact, it's dismal. How fundamental issues like security (resetting permissions set on a secondary public folder mailbox) are overlooked by the testing regime is worrying, especially when Microsoft is urging its customers to deploy cumulative updates quickly to stay aligned with the version of Exchange running inside its Office 365 datacenters.
Moving on from the roll-up updates provided for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, the new servicing model for Exchange 2013 was supposed to prevent the kind of snafus that were experienced previously (like the DAG issue with Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5). Some of the underlying reasons for the quality problems seemed to lie in the fact that Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises used different code bases, meaning that a bug fixed in one had to be fixed (and tested) in the other.
The new servicing model emphasizes the use of a common code base. New code is rolled out into Exchange Online weeks before on-premises customers see it in the form of a cumulative update. The idea is that Exchange Online will act as a massive test-bed for the software and complement the automated test systems that Microsoft uses to ensure that no regression occurs through new code or bug fixes.
As the genial Ross Smith IV observed when writing about Exchange 2013 RTM CU2, "You can deploy a CU knowing it has already had datacenter scale validation in the world's largest and most demanding Exchange environment." Quite.
I hate writing about another problematic software release and would far prefer to write about something more productive and positive, such as how to use software to solve business problems. I hope that this turns out to be just a blip as the new servicing model beds in. Thankfully, the problem is in an area of new functionality where not many customers will have been affected as anecdotal evidence indicates that modern public folders have not yet been widely adopted. In addition, it's fortunate that the permissions can be reset quickly and easily on the secondary mailboxes by forcing a full synchronization with the primary public folder mailbox.
On a more positive note, it's good to see that MVP Michael van Horenbeeck (of UC Architects fame) has announced that the "Exchange 2013 Cookbook" that he's been writing with Peter De Tender will appear sometime in August. Michael is a pretty practical fellow and promises that this book is directed at the "accidental administrator" who needs help and guidance to complete tasks rather than someone who's looking for technical in-depth discussions of why Exchange works in the way that it does. Michael is one of the speakers who will be at Exchange Connections in October where he's speaking about "Building a hybrid configuration with Exchange 2013 in 75 minutes" and "Load-balancing Exchange 2013", which reminds me that the early bird discount for the conference expires on July 17!
Perhaps by then Michael will be able to explain how to move public folder mailboxes without losing permissions?
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In making the proclamation, the board noted that Small Business Saturday, founded in 2010 by American Express, is meant "to help small businesses get more exposure during one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year." The board noted that for every $100 spent in independently-owned businesses, $68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures, and urged "all residents to support local businesses that day and repeatedly throughout the year."
On hand for the proclamation presentation were, from left, Susan Berger of Flower A Day, Bonnie Sciuk of Brite Ideas, Town Supervisor Mary Cooke, Kim Kalman from Isledegrande, and Reg Schopp of deSignet International.