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Throughout the year, the Office of Admissions receives
notices of scholarships that are offered through external
organizations. Information about the scholarship awards
that are currently available is listed below. Award
notices are listed in the order in which they were received.
You may also find information on other outside scholarship
awards on the Internet. The following sites are useful
for finding scholarship and financial aid information:
NEW! Northwest Suburban Bar Association, Timothy Evans Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 23, 2012
The Northwest Suburban Bar Association Foundation is pleased to announce that they are accepting applications for the "Honorable Timothy C. Evans Scholarship".� The scholarship was established to honor the commitment and dedication that Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Timothy C. Evans has devoted to the Northwest Suburban Bar Association (NWSBA) and the community of Cook County.
The scholarship is offered to currently enrolled law school students who reside in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division (this includes Lake, Kane, DuPage, Cook, Will, Kendall, Grundy & LaSalle counties). Scholarship awards range from $500 - $2500.
Interested applicants must submit the 2012 application by the March 23rd deadline.
Questions can be directed to the Northwest Suburban Bar Association Foundation at email@example.com or 847-221-2601.
NEW! Asian Law Student Scholarship
Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
The Asian American Law Scholarship was established by alumni and friends of Chicago-Kent, including the Chinese American Bar Association, to provide financial assistance to students of Asian descent. In awarding the scholarship, the association gives preference to students planning to serve the Asian community. Selection for this $750 award is based upon demonstrated commitment to serving needs of the Asian American community (most important factor) through pro bono and/or public interest work; good standing at his or her law school; financial need; and leadership potential. Applicants must submit a current resume, an essay describing their commitment to serving the Asian American community and addressing the other criteria for the award, and submit one letter of recommendation. The recipient is selected by the Chinese American Bar Association. All application material should be submitted to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by February 15, 2012.
NEW! The William McClain Scholarship funded by the Black Lawyers Association of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Bar Association
Application Deadline: February 13, 2012
The William McClain Scholarship is funded jointly by the Black Lawyers Association of Cincinnati (BLAC) and the Cincinnati Bar Association and awarded to a Black Cincinnati resident attending any accredited law school who demonstrates leadership potential, dedication to community, and a financial need. For additional scholarship information, please see the attached BLAC Scholarship application.
NEW! The Women Trial Lawyers Caucus of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), Mike Eidson Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 31, 2012
The Mike Eidson Scholarship Fund was established by the AAJ Women� Trial Lawyers Caucus in 2008, in honor of AAJ Past President Mike Eidson, whose vision and generosity inspired it. �The Scholarship, traditionally given in the amount of $5,000, is awarded annually to a rising 3L (or rising 4L in a night program) female student who has demonstrated a commitment to a career as a trial lawyer, along with dedication to upholding and defending the principles of the Constitution, and to the concept of a fair trial, the adversary system, and a just result for the injured, the accused, and those whose rights are jeopardized.
The application deadline is May 31, 2012 and the Scholarship will be awarded at the AAJ Annual Convention, which will take place this year in July in New York City. For additional information, please see the AAJ Scholarship Application.
NEW! ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 1, 2012
The ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund will award $5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school. An award made to an entering first-year student may be renewable for two additional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling $15,000 during his or her time in law school. Recipients will be selected based on their qualifications for the scholarship and not on the law school they plan to attend. Therefore law students applying to any and all-ABA accredited law schools may benefit from these scholarships. The application is available online at http://www.ambar.org/DiversityScholarship. Completed scholarship applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2012.
Application Deadline: January 30 and June 30, 2012
The Get Prepped LSAT Prep Law Student Scholarship is available to first, second and third year law students. One or more grants of $1000 are awarded twice yearly. Class rank, degree/major courses, LSAT test scores, best short personal statement and other review factors are used to determine awards. Request a full application packet using the online contact form at the Get Prepped LSAT Prep website www.GetPrepped.com.
Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
Educational scholarship funds from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago are available for the 2012-2013 academic year. Approximately $500,000 is available for Jewish students who are identified as having promise for significant contributions in their chosen careers, and are in need of financial assistance for full-time academic programs primarily in the helping professions. To be eligible a student must: be enrolling or enrolled full-time; be domiciled in the Chicago metropolitan community; establish financial need; and demonstrate career promise. The Jewish Vocational Service administers the scholarship program and personally interviews all applicants at one of its many offices throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. To apply, go to www.jvschicago.org/scholarship/. For additional information or questions, call the JVS Scholarship Secretary at 312.673.3434 or email email@example.com.
NEW! The Geri and Ron Yonover Fellowship
Application Deadline: February 1, 2012 - Deadline Extended
The Geri and Ron Yonover Fellowship was established to provide financial assistance to a full-time student who has completed his or her first year of law school and has primary custody of a child or children under the age of fifteen. The $2,000 fellowship will help defray the cost of the recipient's tuition in spring 2012. To apply, applicants should forward a letter of interest, copy of law school transcript, and current resume to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, email@example.com by February 1, 2012.
Nordic Law Club of Chicago Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 6, 2012 - Deadline Extended
The Nordic Law Club of Chicago has been a professional and social organization for lawyers for over 70 years. The club annually awards a $1,000 scholarship to one third-year day or fourth-year evening student from each of the six area Chicago law schools. The criteria for consideration include merit, financial need and a demonstrated interest in international law issues. Interested students should submit a letter of application to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, firstname.lastname@example.com by January 6, 2012.
The Michigan Auto Law Diversity Scholarship
Application Deadline: April 1, 2012
Michigan Auto Law is pleased to announce the firm's new scholarship program�open to students currently in their first or second year of law school.���The recipient�must be�a member of an ethnic or racial minority or demonstrate a defined commitment to issues of diversity within their academic career.� �One $2,000 scholarship is awarded each year.��Applicants must be a resident of Michigan OR attend a Michigan Law School.
�For more information visit the Opportunities section in the Michigan Auto Law website. (please link to http://www.michiganautolaw.com).
The Institute for Justice Center for Judicial Engagement Law-Student Essay Contest
Application Deadline: February 6, 2012
The Institute for Justice Center for Judicial Engagement law-student essay contest seeks to reward the best law-student writing designed to persuade the general public of the virtues of judicial engagement.� Entrants should write an essay of no more than 2,000 words concerning this topic:
Recent debates over the role of the courts in reviewing legislative enactments have focused heavily on terminology:� specifically, whether we should be most concerned with courts that engage in �judicial activism� or whether, as the Eleventh Circuit wrote in striking down portions of the Affordable Care Act, in cases of legislative overreach, �the Constitution requires judicial engagement, not judicial abdication.�� In an essay aimed at a popular audience, discuss the role of the courts in American government and the differences among judicial engagement, judicial activism, and judicial abdication.
Recent debates over the role of the courts in reviewing legislative enactments have focused heavily on terminology:� specifically, whether we should be most concerned with courts that engage in �judicial activism� or whether, as the Eleventh Circuit wrote in striking down portions of the Affordable Care Act, in cases of legislative overreach, �the Constitution requires judicial engagement, not judicial abdication.�� In an essay aimed at a popular audience, discuss the role of the courts in American government and the differences among judicial engagement, judicial activism, and judicial abdication.
Winners will be those who most clearly and persuasively articulate the principles and importance of judicial engagement.� Further explanation of those principles and their application can be found at www.ij.org/cje.
First prize will be a $3,000 award, along with a free trip to Washington, D.C. to receive your prize at IJ�s headquarters; second prize will net a $1,000 award; and third prize $500.
Students should email a Word version of their essay (no PDFs) to email@example.com no later than February 6, 2012.� Late entries will not be considered.� The Institute for Justice will announce winners by mid-April of 2012.�
The Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Contest
Intent to Enter Deadline: January 31, 2012
The Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Contest is a $5,000 cash award given to the author of the winning essay.� The 2012 topic is: Are Factory Farms Hog-Tying People�s Rights?� Any student currently enrolled in an accredited American law school may submit a legal essay for the competition.� Essays can only be written during the academic year covered by the competition and may not be prepared as part of paid legal work outside of law school.
The Intent-to-enter submission deadline is January 31, 2012 and the essay contest deadline is March 31, 2012. The competition will be judged by a panel of nationally known trial lawyers and law professors.� Information about the rules and criteria are posted on the Public Justice website www.publicjustice.net/What-We-Do/Awards/Law-School-Essay-Contest.aspx.�
The Public Justice Foundation is a non-profit membership organization of over 3,000 attorneys, law students and others supporting the national public interest law firm Public Justice, P.C.� For more information about the organization, visit their web site www.publicjustice.net.�
For a complete list of the awards that have been posted
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According to Sony Santa Monica, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is still being played by thousands of people, so one question I have in mind is, why isn't this "dedicated community" being supported with more content? Wouldn't it make sense to generate revenue from such a fanbase who craves new stages, characters, minions, costumes, etc? The last downloadable content released were Zeus and Issac, which were released back in March and the last update was a minor April release with very few changes to be had.
I actually have to applaud the people who are still playing...this was my most atticipated game last year, it could of been great but it was such a massive let down....when you use your favorite character and you have to watch their super's over and over...and over, it got extremely boring
The game was missing a ton of modes, features and characters
I mean we had New Dante when his game wasn't even out yet and MG Rising's Raiden instead of Old Snake. No Crash, no Spyro, no Gabe Logan, no FF character (not Lightning), no Croc, Tombi, Old Dante, Gex, Resistance character, Lara Croft...I could go on. Instead we get two Cole's, Big Daddy, New Dante, Fat Princess (should of been DLC), hardly any of the characters we wanted.
They should of just stuck to a health mode in the game in the form of a health bar (Green-Yellow-Red) and that Super mode should of been a mode in the Arcade mode you can select.
Even the last DLC was laughable...Issac (fair enough) and Zeus. Come on
This game did not have my favorite video game character since I was 10 yrs old...Crash Bandicoot
some of you younger gamers dont care
but not having Crash in a "PS all stars game" was disgusting.
and its your fault Sony..
why the hell wasnt Crash, Laura, and Snake bought out years ago to be exclusive to Playstation?
Game was fun but lack of modes, characters, and other ways to get kills kind of held the game back. Also the menus and overall presentation lacked in many departments, this was supposed to celebrate the PS brand and it really did need more polish.
Playing right now!
I want new characters! Crash, Syro, Cloud, sephiroth,
Game is really fun and the rank system although I have some complaints does work. It's always a good time, more balancing wouldn't hurt either and Host migration to combat rage quitters.

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Please welcome Angie Simbert to the virtual offices this morning! Angie is here to talk about The Meme Plague, and she has an awesome giveaway for you to enter, too!
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Describe yourself in 140 characters or less.
[Angie Simbert] Unrepentant geek who writes semi-cerebral tomboy science fiction and fantasy.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you tell us a little about The Meme Plague?
[Angie Simbert] This book picks up just as school starts, and there's an election looming where the TFC candidate looks like a shoe-in to win. This is primarily Micah's story, with the other main narrators being Nora and Velvet. He hears something important about his father that makes him investigate what happened back then. Meanwhile, he and the others are building something that might just thwart TFC's plans.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three words best describe Micah?
[Angie Simbert] Artistic, big-hearted, skater
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If Micah had a theme song, what would it be?
[Angie Simbert] Something with a comic book theme. Maybe "Superman's Song" by the Crash Test Dummies
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Name one thing Micah is never without.
[Angie Simbert] His sketchpad.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things will you never find in Micah's pocket?
[Angie Simbert] Food, money, sonic screwdriver.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What was the most difficult aspect of writing this series?
[Angie Simbert] The second book! When I wrote Memento Nora, I didn't have a series in mind. Near the end of the revision / editing process of the first book, my editor scribbled a question in the margins that made me realize that there needed to be a second (and third) one. However, it took me several rewrites (including a major overhaul of the plot and the addition of new characters) to get the Forgetting Curve right.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things do you need in order to write?
[Angie Simbert] Coffee, good chair, post-it notes
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?
[Angie Simbert] Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane. I'm really liking the Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker, but I haven't finished it yet.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How can readers connect with you?
[Angie Simbert] · My author site: www.angiesmibert.com
· Series website: www.mementonora.com
· Twitter: @amsmibert
· Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MementoNora
· Tumblr: http://angiesmibert.tumblr.com/
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Thank you!
Angie is proud to be partnering with Feeding America as part of the launch of THE MEME PLAGUE. To learn more about this virtual food drive, please visit: http://help.feedingamerica.org/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1140&pxfid=8980
About the book:
It begins with the name JONAS W. on the side of a cardboard coffin—right before the funeral procession blows up. Then it's the whisper in the back of Micah's head: Your father betrayed his country. You can't always trust your own brain. Not when you have one of the mayor's mandatory chips in your skull. Micah knows that the chip developed by TFC (the corporation that runs the Therapeutic Forgetting Clinics) does more than just erase unpleasant memories—it implants new ones. The MemeCast warns citizens to "fight the hack."
Micah and his friends have each lost something—a parent, a relationship, a home, maybe even their own identities as they remembered them to be. But together, they can make sure some things are never forgotten.
Election Day is coming, and Mayor Mignon is set to be elected to Congress. It's time to build a new electronic frontier, one that's not controlled by the mayor and his cronies. It's time to get out the vote and shake up the system. It's time to finally say enough.
Buy links:
B & N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-meme-plague-angie-smibert/1115263660?ean=9781477816608
Publisher website: http://www.apub.com/book-detail?asin=B00CEHQ484
Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.com/Meme-Plague-Angie-Smibert/9781477816608
Indiebound: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781477816608
Book on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14762237-the-meme-plague
Author on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3399621.Angie_Smibert
About the author:
Angie Smibert was born in Blacksburg, a once sleepy college town in the mountains of Southwest Virginia. She grew up thinking she wanted to be a veterinarian; organic chemistry had other ideas. But she always had stories in her head. Eventually, after a few degrees and a few cool jobs—including a 10-year stint at NASA's Kennedy Space Center—she wrote some of those stories down.
She's published many short stories, for both adults and teens. (You can read some of them on her website.)
You can also catch her blogging as part of the LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY WRITERS.
Check out her Amazon Author Central page.
THE MEME PLAGUE Giveaway Details:
Angie is giving away the following prizes during the blog tour:
Grand prize: (1) Kindle (courtesy of Amazon)—the basic 6" display / wifi one.
(1)Complete set of the series. (MN, FC, MP). Signed if in US; unsigned and delivered through Book Depository if outside US.
(3) Meme Plague (hard copy) plus swag.


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BONNER SPRINGS — Tractor enthusiasts plan to drive a 35-mile loop in Wyandotte County to raise funds for The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame in Kansas.
The event is scheduled for May 4 in Bonner Springs. The event begins at the Ag Hall and then heads to downtown Bonner Springs to join the Marble Day Parade. The tractors will then take a spin around Lakeside Speedway and make stops at Cabelas, Nuts & Bolts hardware and Wyandotte County Park.
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Law enforcement and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded Monday morning to multiple sightings of a monkey in Pine Ridge Estates, 7405 N. Socrum Loop Road in Lakeland.
LAKELAND | The leaves behind the house were noticeably rustled. The bird feeder was missing some feed. A lone fruit sat, torn apart, near the tree where it once grew.
A visitor, now long gone, made him or herself quite comfortable in Peggy Carter's backyard. But she got a glimpse of the culprit who was causing all the monkey business.
"He was sitting there like a person," Carter said. "His legs were crossed. He was just eating a grapefruit."
Law enforcement and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded Monday morning to multiple sightings of a monkey in Pine Ridge Estates, 7405 N. Socrum Loop Road in Lakeland.
Carter said her dad saw the creature Monday morning and got her attention. When she went to the window to take a peek, she made eye contact with it, and it sprinted back into the thick brush behind the home.
Fish and Wildlife Lt. Steve De Lacure said the process to catch a primate isn't quick or easy, but because of the kind of monkey they suspect it is, a Patas monkey, authorities aren't worried about public safety.
"I've been doing this for more than 20 years, and primates have been the most problematic of escape species," De Lacure said. "Right now we don't know where this animal came from, and we might never know. But it's our responsibility to capture it humanely."
North Lakeland residents might remember when escaped Patas monkeys made national news after getting away from the Polk County wildlife park Safari Wild in 2008.
Authorities said the last of those monkeys was found in December 2008 after eight months of attempts to recapture them.
Two infrared cameras were placed in Carter's backyard Monday in hopes of snagging a picture of the monkey. Once they gain confirmation of the species, authorities can craft a plan of action.
Patas monkeys are among the fastest species of monkeys, reaching speeds of more than 25 miles per hour.
The monkey Carter described was tan and between 2 and 3 feet tall.
"They can really move on the ground," De Lacure said. "It's going to be fast. You can count on that."
Another sighting was reported Sunday night a block away from Carter's home.
For now, all anyone can do is wait for the primate to make another guest appearance, maybe at the Carter grapefruit tree.
"The peelings are probably sour, but I guess he doesn't care," she said.
"I think he'll be back."
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2007 Municipal Election Update
Contact: Allison Fore
Indianapolis, IN (November 6) -- Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita and deputies from his office are fanned out across the state monitoring Indiana counties' election processes. Secretary Rokita is currently in Tippecanoe County to review Indiana's Vote Center Pilot Project and his office is also assisting Hoosiers calling the Hoosier Voter Helpline.
Wayne and Tippecanoe Counties are piloting the Vote Center concept in this general election-- an election model that allows voters to vote at the centralized polling place of their choice rather than being bound by the traditional precinct-based process. By late afternoon, both counties are showing a relatively smooth process.
The Hoosier Voter Helpline, 1-866-IN-1-VOTE, is staffed by employees of the Secretary of State's office and will remain open until polls close. Also available is www.IndianaVoters.com for Hoosiers to check polling place locations. As of 2:30 p.m. today, the site had received more than 8900 hits. Additionally, the voter helpline had received over 350 calls.
"Indiana's poll workers deserve praise for a job well done," said Rokita. "Nearly all of the counties in Indiana holding elections today have experienced smooth elections, and that only happens when poll workers are committed to running fair, accurate elections. "


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Holiday Travel Forecast
CONTACT: Doug Yakel
Public Information Officer
Communications & Marketing
San Francisco International Airport
Holiday Travel Season Takes off at SFO
Tips for Passengers; Parking Information; Live Music
San Francisco -- The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) announced the start of the holiday travel season with tips for passengers, information on parking, and a schedule of live music in the terminals. The holiday travel season will begin in earnest on Friday, November 22nd with more than 130,000 passengers arriving and departing SFO, making it the single busiest day of the period. In total, more than 1.2 million travelers will pass through SFO between Friday, November 22nd and Sunday, December 1st.
"We are committed to doing everything we can to make travel at SFO as enjoyable as possible," said Kandace Bender, Deputy Airport Director, Communications & Marketing. "We welcome the opportunity to help our guests to reunite with family and friends this holiday season."
Travelers at SFO can once again enjoy live music during the holiday season. The popular You Are Hear series of live music will resume, with a wide variety of Bay Area musicians performing in terminal locations around the Airport. A full schedule is available at www.flysfo.com.
Getting to SFO Quickly and Conveniently
Transit & Shared Rides
With holiday passenger volumes, SFO recommends that travelers take transit or share rides to the Airport. BART provides direct service from San Francisco and the East Bay, and there are several shuttle services to SFO. To learn more about transportation options and to plan your trip on to SFO, visit www.flysfo.com/to-from/overview. If travelers elect to drive, they should allow extra time for parking, or have someone drop them off. Travelers are encouraged to check with their airline to confirm their flight.
Parking availability will be tight this Thanksgiving
In anticipation of peak holiday parking demand, SFO strongly advises travelers to take an alternate mode of transportation to and from the Airport. All parking facilities are expected to be at or near capacity by Thanksgiving and the day after, so please plan accordingly. The daily maximum parking rate at Long Term Parking is $18 per day; the International Garages is $28 per day; and the Domestic Garage is $36 per day. Use FasTrak® available lanes to enter and quickly exit SFO's parking garages.
Kiss-and-Fly; Cell Phone Lot; Short-Term Parking for $2
During periods of peak traffic, SFO encourages people to drop off friends and family at the Kiss-and-Fly curb at the rental car facility, where they can catch the AirTrain and be at the Airport in minutes. SFO also offers a free cell-phone parking lot, located adjacent to the Long Term Parking surface lot just five minutes north of the terminals. The Airport also offers short-term parking at $2 per 20 minutes in the hourly terminal garages for people who want to park and help their arriving parties at baggage claim.
You Are Hear! – Live Music is Back at SFO This Holiday
The popular live music series at SFO, You Are Hear!, will return for the holiday with performances at several locations around the Airport. For more information on featured artists, locations and a full schedule, visit our website at www.flysfo.com/sfocheer/you-are-hear.
The "Wag Brigade"Stress-Relief Dogs
In December, SFO will launch a new program, titled "Wag Brigade," to bring trained dogs to the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will bring nine dogs, certified through their Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) Program, to roam the terminals to take the stress out of holiday travel. Carefully selected for their temperament and airport suitability, the dogs will wear vests that read "Pet Me!" identifying dogs of all sizes and breeds by name.
TSA Security Regulations
Passengers traveling during the holidays are strongly encouraged to arrive at the Airport at least 90 minutes prior to departure for domestic flights and two hours prior to international flights.
Passengers who pack liquids or gels as carry-on baggage are limited to amount of three (3) ounces or less. Such items should be packed in a single re-sealable quart-size plastic bag, with one per traveler. For more detailed information and the latest security rules, please visit: www.tsa.gov.
SFO on Social Media
For up-to-date information on happenings at SFO, including details on upcoming social media contests for the holiday, passengers can stay informed using the following channels:
About San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) offers non-stop flights to more than 31 international cities on 30 international carriers. The Bay Area's largest airport connects non-stop with 76 cities in the U.S. on 15 domestic airlines. SFO is proud to offer upgraded free Wi-Fi with no advertising. For up-to-the-minute departure and arrival information, airport maps and details on shopping, dining, cultural exhibitions, ground transportation and more, visit www.flysfo.com. Follow us on www.twitter.com/flysfo and www.facebook.com/flysfo.


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Opening Sequence
Dems Nelson, Gillum concede after Florida recount
Trump won't hear audio of Khashoggi murder
Grim search for missing amid California wildfires
VERBATIM: Climate skeptics will change tune -CA Gov.
Trump would not intervene if Whitaker moved on Mueller
Malta journalist murder masterminds "identified"
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Venezuela turns to urban ranching during crisis
Hockney painting smashes auction records
INSIGHT: Glacier gets climate change postcard
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Oilers aim to rebound in Anaheim
The Edmonton Oilers will try to avoid a potentially back- breaking third straight loss on Monday night when they wrap their road trip against the division-leading Anaheim Ducks.
The Oilers have lost two straight on the heels of winning five in a row and were outscored 8-1 on the brief slide. That leaves Edmonton tied for 10th in the Western Conference and four points back of the eighth-place Detroit Red Wings.
After beginning a four-game swing with an 8-2 win in Calgary, Edmonton has dropped contests in Vancouver and Los Angeles. The Oilers gave up two first- period goals in a 4-1 loss to the Kings on Saturday.
Magnus Paajarvi scored on the power play for Edmonton's lone goal, with Dubnyk stopping 35-of-38 shots in the setback.
"Penalties killed us, for sure," said Paajarvi. "We didn't match their intensity. We've got to do that to even give us a chance to win."
Edmonton now sits 8-10-3 on the road this season and visits an Anaheim club that is 15-5-0 as the host and leads the Pacific Division by nine points over the Kings. Their 57 points also have the Ducks second in the West and five back of the top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks.
Anaheim padded its division lead with a 4-3 shootout win over visiting Los Angeles on Sunday. Bobby Ryan, Saku Koivu and Corey Perry all scored in the tiebreaker, while Viktor Fasth made the one save he needed while facing two L.A. shooters in total.
Perry, Matt Beleskey and Kyle Palmieri all scored in regulation, while Beleskey added an assist and Fasth came up with 35 saves as Anaheim moved to 4-1-1 in its last six.
"Viktor played well," Perry said. "He's been doing it all year. Tonight he made some big saves for us and we got the win."
With leading scorer Ryan Getzlaf out a second straight game due to a lower body injury, Perry stepped up and matched Getzlaf for the team lead with 13 goals on the season.
The Ducks and Oilers are actually meeting for the first time this season and will conclude their season set with consecutive games in Edmonton on April 21-22.
The Ducks have won six of seven and 12 of the previous 15 encounters overall, though Edmonton snapped a two-game slide in Anaheim in the last meeting there.


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As the arid northern Arizona landscape whizzed past our observation car, our peppy hostess urged us to visit the train's bathroom before disembarking. To put it bluntly, she said, there weren't very many nice restrooms at the Grand Canyon, "So I want to make sure that you're all pottied up."
I sneaked a peek at my husband, who sneaked a peek back at me.
This kind of intimate attention wasn't exactly what we had anticipated when we decided to take the train to the Grand Canyon. We had thought riding the train meant we were ecologically responsible, cutting down on pollution, taking sensible mass transit across the fragile desert.
What it really meant, apparently, was that we were seen as old, feeble, perhaps with overactive bladders, and in need of assistance.
What had we done?
We got off the train shortly before noon. About a thousand people got off with us.
We had come to the Grand Canyon to see the most amazing natural vista in the American West.
Instead, we saw the wide backsides of tourists as they ate ice cream cones, perched on walls, swigged bottled water, played Frisbee, and — really bad idea at the edge of the Grand Canyon — zipped past on skateboards.
Our savvier friends had urged us to visit the more remote North Rim instead, and I was beginning to understand why. But the North Rim wasn't open in April, and it was hundreds of miles from where we had been staying.
Doug, who likes crowds even less than I do, did not look happy.
"It's like being at the State Fair, but with a canyon next to it," he muttered.
In front of us was the Grand Canyon. Directly behind us were lodges, souvenir shops, a museum of some sort called Hopi House, and — aha! A path! A soft pine-needle trail that led through the trees. We started walking. Within seconds, the path took us to the parking lot of a dormitory. Cleaners were hauling out bundles of soiled laundry. Idling trucks belched fumes.
We trudged back toward the rim. Long lines waited for the free rim-tour shuttle bus, and every bus was full. We only had three hours before we had to reboard the train. We weren't going to spend it standing in line, and we refused to spend it sulking about that Shangri-La, the North Rim.
Resolutely, we set out on foot along the Rim Trail. So did a million other people. For a while, we were trapped behind two teenage girls in sweatshirts, and in front of a family of six. But eventually, we all began to spread out. It got quieter. We could breathe again.
The paved trail was edged with small, sharp rocks. On our left were scrub brush, trees and rocks. Buses zoomed past, unseen, just beyond the trees.
On our right was a flat rocky buffer zone that kept us about 10 feet away from the canyon's edge. We stopped to take in the view, a mile down and 10 miles across.
It was hard to grasp its magnitude — the canyon looked flat in the strong midday light, like a theater backdrop painted in hazy pinks and greens. I could see the trails that zigzagged into the canyon, and I could see the long line of ant-like specks that were tourists trudging ever downward. Their trail looked just as crowded as ours, but they faced a steep uphill climb back.
We walked on. And then, a mile or so up the trail, the right side just fell away. There was no rocky buffer, no gradual slope with trees that you could grab if you fell. There was the trail, and then there was air. All I had to do was take one step to the right, and down I'd go, into the abyss.
I stopped. My head spun. I could not move. I tried, but I could not make myself lift my foot. I just kept thinking, one misstep, and down I'd plunge. I began to shake.
Doug helped me off the trail. "Vertigo," he said.
Families continued past us. Elderly women with handbags. A woman with her dog. A little girl ran up the trail. Her dad called to her, "Jenny! Stay on the inside of the path!"
A boy raced past and then turned and shouted, "Mom? Wouldn't it be a long time before you hit the bottom?"
"Look at your feet," Doug said to me as I struggled to breathe. "Don't look at the canyon."
"Kind of defeats the purpose of being here, doesn't it?" I grumbled, but I took his advice. Staring at the ground, I was able to shuffle forward. I felt like I was swaying. But I kept moving.
We crested a small hill and stopped. I looked toward the canyon. Crows wheeled and screeched on drafts of air. The flat colors had intensified as the afternoon deepened. It was mammoth, and it was magnificent.
That night, over dinner in Sedona, we lifted glasses of Oak Creek Pale Ale. We had survived the crowds and found beauty. I had survived vertigo and found my equilibrium. We clinked glasses.
Doug gave the toast: "Next time, North Rim."
For information on visiting the Grand Canyon (north or south rim), go to www.nps.gov/grca.
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DOVER — In a short session that lasted approximately 1� hours Friday, the state called two more witnesses in the trial of Christina Thomas, who has been charged with first-degree assault for allegedly starving a young boy between 2006 and 2010.
Thomas, 33, of 214 Birch Hill Road, New Durham, took many people into her home during those years, the Strafford County attorney's office says, including the victim in this case and his mother. Foster's is identifying neither the boy nor his mother to protect the juvenile, who today is 9 years old and was removed from the home four months shy of his seventh birthday.
Marlene Thomas, a Rochester woman who married Christina Thomas' father-in-law, told Assistant Strafford County Attorney Jennifer Chase in a line of questioning she had been to the New Durham home as many as six to seven times over the years, and once she saw the victim kept in a "wired cage" in the backyard during an outdoor family party.
The prosecution projected a photograph of a large chain-link fence structure up on a screen before the jurors in Strafford County Superior Court.
Marlene Thomas also said Christina Thomas was incredibly "bossy and controlling" and she didn't like visiting their New Durham relatives. She said the mother of the victim told her she was not allowed to sit on furniture inside the home either, which was stated earlier in the mother's own testimony this week.
"It was a zoo. It was chaotic," Marlene Thomas said. "I didn't like being there."
In cross-examination, Christina Thomas' defense attorney Steven Keable showed the witness previous statements where she told the New Durham Police Department she had only been to the property two times. Keable questioned whether in visiting the home such a few numbers of times, she had the ability to judge his client's character. Marlene Thomas said assuredly she was qualified "because of the way (Christina Thomas) acted, you knew she dominated that house."
The second witness called to testify was Michael Thomas, who is of no relation to Christina Thomas. He told Deputy Strafford County Attorney Alysia Cassotis in questioning he lived with the Thomas family for a short period of time and described several things he saw when living at the home, including Christina Thomas treating the victim's mother with disrespect. He said he heard "name calling" of both the mother and her son, and said racial slurs were uttered, similar to what other witnesses had said in their testimonies earlier this week.
"I've seen (the boy's mother) get smacked in the face. I've seen some gruesome stuff," Michael Thomas said, detailing times when both Christina Thomas and her mother, Peggy Starr, allegedly beat the victim's mother. He added at one point, Christina Thomas told the family "if anyone were to call the cops (about the alleged beatings), it would be (Michael)," he said.
Starr is set to go to trial for second-degree assault for her alleged treatment of the child some time this spring and the Strafford County attorney's office says several counts of misdemeanor simple assault and a felony count of criminal threatening are pending against Christina Thomas for her treatment of the boy's mother, who has a developmental disability.
Michael Thomas said in his testimony he also saw the young victim vomiting and then Christina Thomas placed him in a trash can where was allegedly allowed to eat his own vomit. And at dinner, he said the boy would have his food taken away from him and then he would be teased and taunted by Christina Thomas and others, who sometimes would give the meals back.
In cross-examination, Keable asked Michael Thomas about tofu blended milkshakes he saw the victim consume, because Christina Thomas told the approximate 10 to 15 people living in the house the boy needed to be on a special diet for allergies. The prosecution says the boy's doctors never confirmed the numerous allergies Christina Thomas said the boy had, including to gluten and lactose products.
Keable pressed Michael Thomas as to why, when he was tasked with feeding Christina's five children as well his own children in the home, he didn't also feed the young victim his special shakes. The defense previously stated Christina Thomas left frozen tofu meals in the fridge for people in the house to serve the victims.
Michael Thomas became heated during his testimony, stating he served in the U.S. Navy for five years, and defending his rationale for not helping the boy he said was treated so badly while in the New Durham residence.
"He was a special child and I'm not going to sit there and try to mix food up," he protested. "…It was not my place to do that. It was not my child."
Keable also asked Michael Thomas why he never confronted Christina Thomas or took pity on the child if he had so many doubts about the victim's treatment. Michael Thomas replied, "I needed a place to stay."
Before he exited the courtroom, Cassotis asked Michael Thomas if he was worried about testifying that day, to which the man said he was "scared."
"Because I know Christina and I know and I know Christina knows people," he said.
As jurors exited court early with snow falling fast before a weekend blizzard, Judge John M. Lewis stressed no members of the jury are to read newspaper articles or research the matter further, so as to not influence their decision-making.
Christina Thomas entered the courtroom Friday morning laughing with relatives and family members, and called a recess at one time and raced out of the room before the jury had been cleared. Since requesting a different attorney in the trial, but then opting to stick with Keable, Christina Thomas has called several recesses to speak privately with her attorney and to take breaks.


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From home and auto sales to jobs and tourism, the economy in the Volusia-Flagler area improved on a number of fronts in 2012 and may have "turned the corner."
From home and auto sales to jobs and tourism, the economy in the Volusia-Flagler area improved on a number of fronts in 2012 and may have "turned the corner."
The stock market as a whole also made gains, even amid uncertainty regarding the so-called fiscal cliff, the European economic crisis, tensions in the Middle East, and volatile gas prices.
But three-and-a-half years after the recession officially came to an end, the economy is still struggling to recover from what turned out to be the nation's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
So while there are no guarantees on continued improvement, a number of area business leaders and economists expressed cautious optimism that 2012 may very well be looked back on as a year in which the local economic recovery efforts finally gained traction.
They also expect the economy to pick up speed in the coming years, especially towards the latter half of 2013 and in 2014.
"Unemployment's going down, tourism, home sales and new home construction are going up — these are all positive signs that tell business leaders that we've turned the corner," said Keith Norden, president and CEO of Team Volusia Economic Development Corp., a public/private partnership group involved in efforts to recruit businesses to Volusia County.
Now Washington and Europe need to turn a corner on the recovery, too, other local officials point out.
Helga van Eckert, director of Flagler County's newly formed department of economic opportunity, said, "I think the local economy has been quietly marching ahead," adding that the fiscal cliff and other concerns regarding the national and global economy have been holding back the recovery from improving even further. "Once those macro issues have been resolved, I think we'll see an even better return on our economic development efforts."
Kent Sharples, president of the CEO Business Alliance, a group that works closely with Team Volusia and Volusia County's economic development division in business recruitment efforts, said, "There's a lot of pent-up energy, money that's been sitting on the sidelines," and that companies are finally starting to use some of that money to add more workers, especially in the manufacturing sector.
What's been holding them back from making even bigger investments in their future is lingering uncertainty, he said.
"Once a solution is found for the fiscal cliff, I think you'll see even more money sprung loose," by area companies and consumers, Sharples said. "I think things have already started to improve" with the local economy, he added.
Tourism is one area that's coming back to life, with Volusia collecting more bed taxes already in 2012 — $14.4 million — than in any of the previous four years. Flagler's smaller tourism economy, meanwhile, soared.
"It was a banner year, there's no other way to say it," said Georgia Turner, vice president of tourism development for the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates. She noted the county collected a record $1.5 million in hotel bed tax revenues, and attributed the uptick to a combination of the improved economy and stepped up efforts to promote Flagler County as a tourist destination. Flagler has also gotten a boost the last two years after increasing its bed-tax rate from 3 to 4 percent in January 2011.
Homebuyers added to the economic upswing, too.
Jamie Adley, the newly installed 2013 board president for the Volusia Building Industry Association, said in a recent interview that he has been hearing from area builders that "we're definitely experiencing greater sales (of new homes) than in 2011," thanks to a combination of the improving economy, low interest rates and low prices for new homes, and a shrinking of the available inventory of existing homes.
Adley, vice president of Winston-James Development in Port Orange, said sales of new homes for his company through the first 10 months of 2012 were up 70 percent from the same period in 2011.
Tony Amaral Jr. of Amaral Custom Homes in Palm Coast, a past-president of the Flagler Home Builders Association, said new home construction activity in Flagler County in 2012 was definitely up compared with recent years since the downturn began, but added, "are we where we should be? I'm going to say, probably not. We could easily do more."
Theresa Geyer, 2012 board president for the Daytona Beach Area Association of Realtors, said in a recent interview that sales of existing homes in her area have been up, compared with recent years, and that pending sales — homes put under contract, but not yet closed — in October rose to the highest level since at least 2008, which is as far back as her records go.
"We're ecstatic with where we are, but we don't have a crystal ball to say whether our pending sales are going to stay that way, but we really are in a stable market," she said.
Sean Snaith, an economist with the University of Central Florida, said even with the recent gains in a number of industry sectors, for the most part businesses and consumers are still in a "wait-and-see mode" regarding the economy. "Uncertainty is holding back some businesses from hiring and moving forward with big projects," he said.
"The recovery continues," Snaith said, noting in particular the steady rise in new car sales — an indication of growing consumer confidence — but added, "it's the pace of recovery that's the issue."
The economy and consumer confidence levels are "certainly better" than they were in 2008, when "the world was falling apart," Snaith said, but remain well below "what you'd equate with boom-time levels."
Snaith said he believes 2012 could very well be looked back on as "the year we set the platform for economic growth in 2013 and beyond."
That is, of course, barring a fiscal cliff catastrophe or an economic implosion in Europe.
Either one, Snaith said, "would certainly knock us back into a recession."
The unemployment rates in both Volusia and Flagler counties fell to their lowest levels since December 2008. Here's a look at where the unemployment rate currently stands, compared with the same month a year ago.
November 2012: 8.3%
November 2011: 10.3%
November 2012: 11.4%
November 2011: 13.8%
SOURCE: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
Hiring by area employers is up this year, compared with 2011. Here's a look at the most current job numbers.
November 2012: 231,200
November 2011: 228,175
November 2012: 30,043
November 2011: 29,440
*Not seasonally adjusted. Includes agricultural jobs.
SOURCE: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
Through the first 11 months of 2012, more existing homes have been sold in the Volusia-Flagler area than in any of the previous six years.
2012*: 9,357
2011: 9,010
2010: 8,488
2009: 7,934
2008: 6,087
2007: 6,737
2006: 9,032
*January through November only.
SOURCES: Flagler County Association of Realtors; Daytona Beach Area Association of Realtors; New Smyrna Beach Board of Realtors; West Volusia Association of Realtors
The number of building permits issued for new homes in Volusia County in the third quarter of 2012 (239) is the most in four years. Here's a look at the total number issued so far in 2012, through the first three quarters, compared with all of 2011 and 2010.
2012*: 575
2011: 477
2010: 734
SOURCE: Volusia County Economic Development Division
The number of new homes built or started so far in 2012, through October, has already exceeded the total in each of the previous three years.
2012*: 200
2011: 153
2010: 172
2009: 169
2008: 255
*January-October only.
SOURCE: Flagler Home Builders Association
The number of new cars and trucks sold in the Volusia-Flagler area so far in 2012, through November, is already more than the total sold in each of the previous four years.
2012*: 26,730
2011: 25,916
2010: 20,562
2009: 18,914
2008: 25,547
*January-November only.
SOURCE: Experian
Bed tax revenues collected from hotels and short-term rental properties in Volusia County hit a four-year high in fiscal 2012, which ended Sept. 30, and set an all-time record high in Flagler County.
2012: $14.4 million*
2011: $13.5 million
2010: $13.4 million
2009: $13.5 million
2012: $1.57 million**
2011: $1.27 million
2010: $902,857
2009: $787,341
*four-year high.
**Record high.
SOURCES: Volusia County Department of Revenue; Flagler County Office of Management and Budget
Through November, Daytona Beach International Airport has drawn more airline passengers than it did the same month the previous year 33 of the past 36 months. Through the first 11 months of 2012, the airport has drawn more airline passengers than in all of 2010 and 2009 and is expected to also surpass the total number in 2011 and possibly also in 2008.
2012*: 543,303
2011: 550,986
2010: 498,978
2009: 423,725
2008: 594,871
*January through November only.
SOURCE: Volusia County
Editor's note: Volusia County collected $14.4 million in bed-tax revenues in fiscal year 2011-2012, $13.5 million in 2010-2011, $13.4 million in 2009-2010 and $13.5 million in 2008-2009 and not as initially stated.


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Anne Mott, of the City and County of New York, being duly sworn, saith that during the Revolutionary war she resided in the city of New York; that she and her family being friendly to the Revolutionary cause, she often visited the provost in the said city of New York kept by the British and where the most distinguished of the American prisoners were confined; that same time in the beginning of the winter of the year 1779, she saw Joseph Youngs, Esq. of the county of West Chester, confined as a prisoner in the said prison; (D) that she often carried him, and the other prisoners confined in that prison, provisions and clothing furnished by her husband, and a few others of the Whig inhabitants of the city of New York. That sometime afterwards the said Joseph Youngs, Esq. was, for some cause unknown to this deponent, put into the dungeon or condemned room, as it was then called; that he continued there until he was in a very weak and debilitated condition; that her husband, Isaac Mott, and one John Franklin, of the said city of New York, solicited the commander of the British forces , in the said city of New York, to permit the said Joseph Youngs to reside at her house, in order to recover his health; that it was granted on condition of the said Isaac Mott and John Franklin becoming bound to the sum of three thousand pounds sterling for the good behavior of the said Joseph Youngs as a prisoner of the British army; that the said Joseph Youngs was permitted to be brought to the house of her husband, the said Isaac Mott, where he continued some time in a very weak and debilitated state; that she is unable to state, with certainty, how long the said Joseph Youngs was confined in the provost and dungeon as aforesaid, but she supposes it to be about one year or more and that she had a brother confined in the same prison some part of the time that the said Joseph Youngs was so confined.
Anne Mott.
Sworn this 16th day of January 1823, before me
Samuel B. Ruggles, Commissioner to take affidavits, &c."
19th Congress, 1st Session
The Committee on Revolutionary Claims
Report concerning the petition by Samuel Youngs, son of Joseph Youngs
Serial Set Vol. No. 142, Session Vol. No.2, H.Rpt. 154; pages 17 and 18
Apparently Samuel Youngs father, Joseph Youngs, owned a barn near Tarrytown and allowed American troops to stay there. When the British captured the American troops staying there, they also captured Joseph Youngs and took all the men to the prison in NYC where Joseph met Anne. Samuel Youngs, Joseph's son and the person who filed the petition, joined the war effort two years after his father was abducted by the British. Samuel filed a lengthy pension application in the 1830s (which can be viewed on Footnote.com) that included many testimonials which back up what he said in 1823 about what happened with his father and his father's property (the British burned the barn down after they captured the troops and Joseph Youngs).
What Anne's affidavit means for me:
- It establishes her residency, something I needed a proof for for my DAR application
- It establishes her relationship with her husband, Isaac Mott
- It further establishes and expands upon what was already known about her war service
- It is worth noting that in the winter of 1779 mentioned above, when Anne was caring for the men of the prison, she was pregnant with her youngest child (a son, Isaac, who was born in March of 1780 on the same day his father, Isaac Sr., died. Isaac Jr. is believed to have died young).
- The brother of Anne's mentioned was Jesse Coles, one of the first American spies and an aide and confident of Gen. Washington's
- 3,000 pounds wasn't a small sum then and it isn't a small sum now. The fact that they were willing to be bound to that sum tells me a lot. Namely, that they must have trusted Joseph Youngs a great deal and that they were charitable to a fault.
- About fifteen years after Anne gave this deposition, her great-granddaughter, Estrella Charlotte "Essie" Mott came to live her. Essie writes that by then Anne had pretty well lost her mind and was living in a fantasy world centered around the American and British troops she interacted with in her youth during the war.


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Italian born Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is a fine art photographer who's work carries strong surrealist themes, using photography to materialise his artistic visions and not for interpreting reality. His levitation series is inspired by the avant-garde movement of the early 1900s, and depicts well known architectural monuments of different eras on secluded rocks levitating above the sea. Taking these well known architectural symbols out of their ordinary contexts illustrates the freedom of imagination to 'levitate' and achieve cognitive levels that surpass reality. The seemingly impossible content of the photographs may at first seem unsettling, but their environment postitioned over still water is surprisingly calming.
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Dr. Dianne Cox and Dr. Barbara Birshtein are co-directors of the BETTR program.
Dr. Dianne Cox has used many models ranging from Dictyostelium amoebae to mammalian leukocytes and cancer cells. She is well known for her expertise on signaling requirements leading to alterations in the actin cytoskeleton necessary for macrophage functions like phagocytosis and chemotaxis. Much of the work in her laboratory is imaging-intensive and utilizes cutting edge technologies such as intracellular biosensors, FRET, FLIM, TIRF and multiphoton microscopy with live cell imaging.
Dr. Cox believes that training the next generation of scientists and physicians is a major responsibility of academic science. Dr. Cox has served as co-director of the Molecular Cell Biology Course since 2008, keeping the course fresh and exciting by assuring that the syllabus contains the latest research findings and by introducing alternative teaching methods. Recognizing that many women and under-represented minorities are not as competitive for faculty positions as their colleagues, Dr. Cox has organized a women's networking group at Einstein with the goal to aid in the development of skills necessary to succeed in a career in science. This group provides an informal forum for networking with members at all stages of scientific careers and opportunities for presentations of grant proposal, job talks and chalk talks. In addition to her educational activities at Einstein, Dr. Cox also lectures at undergraduate, middle, and elementary schools about pursuing a career in science and, since 2006, has judged a multi-school High School Science Competition in Nassau County.
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"It Is the Worst of Times; It Is the Best of Times." Such was the theme of the address by Dr. Kathryn Johnson at the Opening Convocation of the 159th Spring Semester at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary on Thursday, February 7. The day marked the beginning of classes for Seminary students.
"We can rejoice to see the Church in many places around the world living with a visible strength and joy that we cannot always see so easily in our own situations," Johnson said. "But it does not help us enough, I think, to say that the Church is doing well someplace oceans away if we cannot also point to reasons for joy and hope in our own contexts as well. And it is our task – and our opportunity – in theological education to nurture and lift up such occasions and promises."
Seminarian Rebecca Gresham-Kesner was awarded The Allen T. and Wilma L. Christy Memorial Scholarship. This award is given to a student who demonstrates academic excellence in his or her studies while also demonstrating commitment and perseverance in preparation for pastoral ministry.
Dr. Scott Williamson charged the congregation to stay strong in their faith and 'hold the line,' even in uncertain and complicated times. "My hope for the Church and for this seminary is that 25 years from now we will look back at these days and claim them as special. Not because they are difficult but because we found joy in rising together with skill and moxie to meet the needs of our communities and our congregations," Williamson said. "I hope that we will claim these days as special because they occasioned for us new ways of experiencing the grace of our baptism by the spirit."
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About Dr. Kathryn Johnson
Kathryn Johnson joined the Louisville Seminary faculty in 1984. She returned last spring after spending four years in Geneva, Switzerland where she served as Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Affairs and Interim Director for Theology and Studies for the Lutheran World Federation, the global body that includes the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Now back to her teaching at Louisville Seminary, Johnson continues to learn about world Christianity. In January, she traveled to Kerala, India, with a group from the Master of Arts in Spirituality program, a joint effort with Bellarmine University. She has a deepened commitment to faithful life in the Church - to honoring its diversities and seeking to heal its divisions.
About Dr. Scott Williamson
Scott Williamson accepted the call to the Louisville Seminary faculty in 1997. Williamson works in the field of narrative ethics, through which he seeks to contribute a new and critical appreciation of narrative as a source for moral reflection. Nineteenth-century African-American moral thought, stories, and sermons are a particular specialty. He and colleague Clifton Kirkpatrick are presently co-authoring a book on Christian ethics and foreign policy.


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GOP offers its Sandy relief package
Senate Republicans outlined a scaled-back $23.8 billion Hurricane Sandy disaster aid package Wednesday, but it was met with a cool reception from Northeast Democrats and triggered a fight that could turn — who'd have guessed? — on fish and milk.
The GOP proposal is little more than a third of the $60.4 billion request first made by President Barack Obama, and rather than accept the reduction, the New York and New Jersey delegations appear willing to risk defeat and fight anew next year.
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It's a gamble that rests on peeling off enough Republicans to get to the 60-vote supermajority in a showdown cloture vote, now expected Friday. And the fish angle comes from a $150 million provision to assist distressed fisheries not just in the Northeast but Alaska and Mississippi, home to salmon, oysters, crabs and Republicans.
Indeed, five Senate Republicans have signed up in support of the funding, which would be stripped out under the GOP alternative and was the subject of angry debate on the floor Wednesday. Together with concessions for Louisiana and North Dakota, Democrats led by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer see the makings of a coalition.
( Also on POLITICO: Sandy bill's extras draw attacks)
The entire debate has been thrown into confusion by last week's tragic Newtown elementary school massacre, followed by the sudden death of Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) on Monday. But if Schumer can get anything out of the Senate, it will put the onus back on Republicans and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to deliver in the GOP-controlled House.
There, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) is keeping his powder dry.
"We'll wait to see what the Senate comes up with," he told POLITICO.
But his fellow chairman, Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), already has his eyes on the Sandy aid as a way to move a farm bill extension and avert a spike in milk prices.
"I believe that Congress will work to address the suffering of our friends on the East Coast," Lucas told reporters. "We're a compassionate body. Those folks suffered tens of billions of dollars in destruction."
"He's looking at all trains," laughed Rogers in response. " I hear him."
Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) took the lead in crafting the Senate GOP alternative and said he was encouraged by discussions with his colleagues at a Republican luncheon meeting.
Coats said he had weeded out anything in the president's request that was not directly related to the hurricane. And almost $13 billion to pay for mitigation efforts to protect against future disasters would also be dropped. That represents a significant reduction in the transit funding, for example, and Coats signaled that he would also scale back an estimated $15 billion for Community Block Grants to assist in the immediate recovery.
He said his goal is to assure enough resources to carry programs through March and allow time for a more complete assessment.
"It gives us three months to collect the right documents, facts [and] so forth regarding future needs … give agencies time to sharpen their numbers," Coats told POLITICO.


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The 1893-CC $1 is an immensely popular coin because of its Mint of origin, the fact that it is the last of the CC Dollars, and because sufficient quantities remain to make it easy to obtain. The 1893-CC, along with the 1889-CC and the 1879-CC, is one of the three scarcest Morgan Dollars. Interestingly, the PCGS Population Report shows similar quantities of each, but breaking down the data shows dissimilar patterns. The 1889-CC is a great rarity in Mint State and is so valuable in all grades that thousands of circulated examples have been sent in for grading. The 1879-CC comes in two varieties (Clear and Capped Mintmarks) but, here again, a substantial percentage of submissions are of circulated examples. Not so with the 1893-CC, where the bulk of the population rests within the Mint State range. However, because of poor storage, the overall quality of the 1893-CC Dollars is lower than for both the 1879-CC and 1889-CC Dollars. The typical 1893-CC Dollar shows excessive bagmarks and sometimes comes weakly struck in the centers, as evidenced by flat hair over Liberty's ear and flat feathers on the eagle's breast. Gem 1893-CC Dollars are very rare, more so than the 1879-CC and 1889-CC, and the finest 1893-CC $1 is a single PCGS MS-66.
Branch Mint Proofs exist of this date (see PCGS nos. 7347 and 388529).
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Despite his improved national standing, Mitt Romney has failed to erase President Barack Obama's clear lead in two key battleground states, two new NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls show.
In Iowa, Obama leads Romney by 51 percent to 43 percent. In Wisconsin, the Democratic incumbent leads his Republican rival by 51 percent to 45 percent.
Both telephone surveys were conducted for NBC/WSJ by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. The margin for error in the Iowa survey is 2.9 percentage points; in the Wisconsin survey 3.1 points.
The findings point toward the continued challenge facing Romney even after his strong performance in the first debate left him with a lead in some national polls.
Iowa, with six electoral votes, and Wisconsin, with 10 electoral votes, are two of the states that Obama carried in 2008 that Romney hopes to win back in his attempt to amass the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
The surveys were conducted over a three-day period that included the second presidential debate, in which most observers concluded Obama delivered a stronger performance. But interviews conducted on the day after the debate showed no meaningful change from the ones conducted before that debate. (Read More: Obama Regains His Footing in Feisty Second Debate.)
In fact, notwithstanding the large viewership and media attention to both events, the surveys show little shift in voter preferences since before either debate occurred. Obama led in Iowa by 50 percent to 42 percent before the first debate, and in Wisconsin by 50 percent to 45 percent.
"You have to reset back to mid-September," said Lee Miringoff of the Marist institute. "There were two debates, but you can't tell it from the numbers."
The surveys show a couple of key factors in Obama's lead.
In both states, he runs even with Romney in assessments of who best can handle the economy — neutralizing what the former Bain Capital executive has hoped would be his critical edge in the race. (Read More: Obama, Romney Tax Plans: A Real Case of 'Go Figure'.)
Obama also enjoys an advantage in assessments of him personally in the two states. In Iowa, 54 percent of voters have a positive impression of the president, while 43 percent do not; in Wisconsin, 53 percent have a positive impression while 44 percent do not. A 51 percent majority of Iowa voters view Romney unfavorably, while in Wisconsin, voters split 47 percent to 47 percent on the matter.
And in both states, Obama's edge among women voters — 18 percentage points in both cases — far outweighs his single-digit deficits among men. (Read More: Romney's 'Binders Full of Women' Comment Goes Viral.)
Obama also holds narrow leads — 2 points in Iowa, 4 points in Wisconsin — among voters age 60 or older. Elderly voters are a key Romney constituency nationally.
Even more dramatically, the surveys point to a substantial organizational edge for the Obama campaign in harvesting the support of voters casting ballots early in both states.
In Iowa, for example, Romney leads by 54 percent to 39 percent among voters who plan to vote on Election Day, Nov. 6. But among the 34 percent of the electorate that has already cast a ballot under Iowa's early voting rules, the poll shows Obama received 67 percent to 32 percent for Romney. Among the additional 11 percent that plans to vote early, Obama leads by 55 percent to 39 percent.
In Wisconsin, voters who said they intend to vote on Election Day divide almost evenly — 48 percent for Mr. Obama, 47 percent for Romney. But among the 15 percent who have already voted early or say they intend to, Obama leads by 64 percent to 35 percent.
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WASHINGTON — Four years ago, many gay rights advocates shook their heads when super-lawyers Theodore B. Olson and David Boies announced they would challenge California's ban on gay marriages in federal court and take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It was too risky, the skeptics said. Voters in state after state were rejecting same-sex marriage, and no federal judge had said such bans were illegal. One liberal legal scholar called the lawsuit a "Hail Mary" pass.
But now that Proposition 8's ban on gay marriage is set for a hearing Tuesday before the Supreme Court, the lawyers and activists who started the case think they may be on the verge of a historic victory. Even the early doubters are hopeful. "We think the time is right," said Los Angeles lawyer Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., Olson's partner on the case. "Everything seems to be breaking in favor of marriage equality."
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Olson and Boies are urging the court to rule that gays and lesbians have an equal right to marry under the Constitution, a decision that would not only strike down the California ban but could make gay marriage legal nationwide. That is "the right result," Boies said last week. "There is no rational or legitimate reason for the government to deny marriage to these loving couples."