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Not suggesting vote fraud, but that we make timely, persistent complaints
If it's true that we protect most carefully that which we treasure most dearly, we Americans must not treasure the right to vote nearly as much as we say we do.
All the hullabaloo over the last couple of weeks, supposedly about the sanctity of an individual's right to vote, was obviously not about that at all. All the caterwauling was about the worry of losing.
If we really thought an individual ballot was as sacred as we claim it to be, we would never have allowed ourselves to get into the pickle from which we may or may not have emerged when you read these words. We should have seen this smashup coming way down the road.
Oddly, of course, the loudest bellyachers now are the very people who helped get us into this mess. Folks who thought we could enact measures like the "motor-voter" bill or the "walk-up-register-and-vote" idea are the same kind of people who would try to run a bank by stacking $20 bills a foot high on the counter and asking customers to make their own withdrawals on the honor system.
But it's not an especially good time for finger-pointing. The fact is that all of us have been way too quiet for too many years while our society has increasingly trashed what we piously said we treasured. I have known, for example, for 10 years that the name of one of my daughters remained on the voter registration rolls of my precinct even though she had married and moved to another state. I grumbled and groused to the precinct officials-but confess that I never took the matter further.
My suspicions were aroused, however, a couple of weeks before the Nov. 7 election. We were encouraged in North Carolina to help reduce crowding at the polls by voting early. To do so, we had to go to unfamiliar voting locations-where the officials also were unfamiliar with us. I went, intent on testing the system.
"Belz," I said to the poll clerk, who sought to help me by rattling off three possible first names for me to choose from. "Joel," I responded. But then, instead of asking me to confirm who I was by giving my address, she read my address to me and asked for a simple yes or no. No other identification was asked for.
Mildly alarmed at the looseness of the process, I went back to my office and asked an adventuresome employee of WORLD to head for the same polling site and attempt to vote in the name of another of my daughters who is also still on the roll but no longer in town. She too was asked for no identification of any sort, was authorized in writing to vote, but prudently chose not to break the law by doing so.
And then on election day, still a third daughter, after voting at her own precinct, came back to our family's home voting location to try to vote in the name of her older sister. Once more, no checking of any sort occurred.
Net result: Within the scope of my own family, in just one election cycle, and with minimal effort, I could easily have arranged to cast at least two totally phony votes.
All that was before I had a clue what a historically beleaguered election this was destined to be. Butterfly ballots in West Palm Beach, illegally extended poll hours in downtown St. Louis, cigarette bribes in Milwaukee, motor voters turned away in Des Moines, and prematurely called Florida results by all the networks-what we had was an overwhelming portrait of a society that pretends to takes its electoral process seriously but in fact does nothing of the sort. Only when we find an important election slipping away from us do any of us on either side finally get serious about setting things straight.
My guess is that we'll feign incredible surprise, whistle in low tones, talk with great concern to each other about the near miss we barely survived, and then quite soon go on with business as usual. We'll do that in part because in this case, as in most of life, we're not really so concerned about the failure of justice as we are about losing the immediate round. Once the sting of loss has faded a bit, the important matters of righteousness and equity will also wilt and wither from our list of national priorities.
For those of us who are not just Americans, but biblically instructed Christians as well, the reminders are doubly ominous. For we Christians are too often experts at piously pretending to treasure the sacred things of life, but getting upset only when our personal comfort zone is invaded. We can hardly expect society at large to act on higher principle than we exhibit ourselves.


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On paper, Dananananaykroyd are Another Band.
On stage, they're The Only Band.
At least, that's the buzz surrounding the six-piece as we roll into 2009, memories of amazing nights in the band's company still fresh. Live, this Glasgow-based (ish) collective are more than electric; they stimulate the senses other bands can't reach. Smiles at your average Dananananaykroyd gig have been known to split faces clean in two, so wide have they stretched.
After a handful of singles and a well-received EP, 'Sissy Hits', the band is now readying their debut album, 'Hey Everyone!'. The album brings together a number of their older songs, combining them with blistering brand-new cuts sure to give established fans palpitations of admiration. It's double-thumbs-up great, as wildly acerbic as The Blood Brothers, as energetic as early-days Idlewild, and as sing-along friendly as the best Les Savy Fav.
The album is due for release in April, and ahead of that the band – Duncan, John, Laura, David, Paul and Calum – are touring both home and abroad, crisscrossing the continent as support to Kaiser Chiefs before headlining on these shores. If you're yet to see the band live, mark their next calling into your local venue of choice in your diary immediately. And if you've witnessed the joyous chaos of the Dana live experience at least once already, chances are you don't need anyone to tell you to do it again as soon as possible.
Clash spoke to John and David about their album, South By Southwest and their forthcoming tour dates, and what the year holds for the band beyond the spring…
Hello Dananananaykroyd... For the slow-pokes at home, please tell us who you are and what you do, and when this group of yours came to be...
John: Hello, my name is John Baillie Jnr and I sing and play drums.
David: Hello slow-pokes. My name is David Roy and I play the guitar in the rock band Dananananaykroyd. We started the band in 2006. Basically, on the internet (of all places), an invite was sent out between friends of the Glasgow music scene to join a brand new rock band focused on party fun-times and huge riffage, indie-pop slapstick guff too. Everyone we asked joined and we practised tons and played our first show in March of that year. Since then, we've gone through a few changes, but I won't bore you any further with that nonsense.
'Hey Everyone!' is coming out in April... You must be pretty excited to have an album almost out. Do you expect the record to meet, or even exceed, the expectations of your fans? Did it exceed your own expectations?
John: We are all very, very excited to have people hear it. I find it somewhat difficult to guess what our fans' expectations of us are sometimes – with six people in the band all contributing, what the essence of our sound is can change from person to person. We tend to try and make musical decisions without outside influence... this is a long way of saying: I REALLY HOPE PEOPLE LIKE THE ALBUM, WE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH IT.
David: So, so excited like you wouldn't believe. It's been a nightmare! But it's great to finally have this record good to go. Having lived with the songs for so long and knowing in my brains what I wanted it to sound like, the track listing, pretty much all the itty-bitty details and all that sort of thing, it has definitely lived up to how I had imagined it would be. Some fans will obviously have their own ideas and I hope they enjoy it. Some will be disappointed to find a bunch of tracks they already know all too well, but we're looking at the big picture of getting this record out to everyone all across the world and all the brand new, potential fans, I feel, are in for a treat. I'm really proud of the record. I mean, it's definitely not perfect, it has its flaws, but it wouldn't be a Dana record if it didn't arrive slightly soiled.
The album follows last year's 'Sissy Hits' EP, which racked up the plaudits rather brilliantly. Did the reception of that release make you think: 'Shit, there might just be something to this band thing'?
John: To be honest it made me excited because I knew that 'Sissy Hits' hadn't even scratched the surface of what we could do on a recording.
David: It got some great reviews and knowing that we could do so much better made it all the sweeter; but we take things slowly, and we don't get too ahead of ourselves. 'Sissy Hits' was, at the time, just the next step for us and it got us a record deal and, ever since then, we've gradually adjusted to being a full-time band. But we're still so incredibly small-time that we're not thinking that a few great reviews is the start of anything major; it's merely a nudge in the right direction. We always thought the album would be more of a stepping-stone towards that than the EP, and that is still a good few months off.
You're referred to, regularly, as one of the best live bands in Britain - a fair comment? Do you aim to always give 100 per cent, and if so have there been nights where you've struggled to give it your all? Is it hard postponing gigs, given your reputation and the excitement that seems to follow you?
John: Personally, it's not a choice to give 100 per cent or not sometimes. If I'm not feeling too good and I plan to take it a bit easier, it goes straight out the window two songs in. I always say the first and last songs are the toughest physically. Once you're on the second song your adrenaline has kicked in; by the time you are on the last, it's run out.
David: I don't know if it's a fair comment or not. I'm sure there are a lot of hard-working bands that would completely disagree. I'm flattered that people think that of us, though. We always aim to play every show as though it's our last and to give 20 people the same energetic and hard-rocking performance as we would 2,000. The fact that it's almost impossible to play so many shows in a row with that mentality means we sort of fail every now and then, and that can get us down. Sometimes it's just completely flat and we can't do it. So much of what we do can be reliant on an audience being there to see us, and an atmosphere, and when that doesn't happen we are most certainly not one of the best live bands in Britain. But we do try to give our all for every show and to make sure everyone there remembers us, even if it is simply for being annoying losers with horrible pain music. Why does that band exist and why are they touching me when I hate them? That sort of thing. As for postponing gigs, we'd still feel completely horrible about that inside, even if we were crap live.
You're playing some massive venues with Kaiser Chiefs... are you gonna pull out the Wall of Cuddles? Have you ever played a stage so big you've been, y'know, a little frightened of it?
John: We love a challenge, and frankly the Wall of Cuddles is usually a case of 'the more people the better'. I got nervous before the Barrowlands show in Glasgow with Foals, but other than that I rarely get scared, just really excited usually.
David: I'm never frightened by the size of an audience. We've already played some of the biggest stages in the UK and we lapped up every minute of it once we got out there. The Wall of Cuddles has maybe run its course; now, we're into making people get fake married than having them simply hug strangers, but you never know. Some Kaiser Chiefs fans might actually be into our music, so you never know what could happen in that weird and unlikely situation (laughs).
What's the comedown gonna be like when you headline again, calling at venues like the Adelphi in Hull?
John: Little venues are awesome. On our last tour we did a handful of shows where we were chatting with the crowd with no mics, because it was so quiet. It's great to be able to have that level of interacting and to focus your attention on a few people.
David: It's going to be so great getting back to a fired-up crowd who are paying to see us rock them all over that we will be so excited! Don't get me wrong, Hull is the epicentre of all that is evil and warped with the world, but what better place to start our next UK tour than that? Bring it on you amazing douchebags!
You're off to SXSW - have touring buddies of yours filled you in on that event? Excited or worried - there's a lot of meat out there.
John: We're pretty excited. It kinda feels like we are going to the competition at the end of The Karate Kid, in the way that it somehow feels like it will be competitive with so much going on. I'd be worried about it if we were the kind of people that took what we do really seriously, but we just want the people who see us live to have fun.
David: Our friends are telling us it's the best time of your life. I can't wait. It's going to be such a fine reward for such a grueling touring schedule beforehand. I'm a vegetarian, so I will admit to being a little worried by all the meat.
What's up for the band after April? Festivals? Any you really, really want to play?
John: I DJ'd at Glastonbury two years ago and it was special, so I'd like to go back there, but I'm up for as many festivals that will have us.
David: We really want to just play each and every one that will have us. We've never played any major festivals and have always felt that we'd go down quite well at them. So bring that on too! I guess a slot at T In The Park would be really special, but I can't see them caring too much about us quite yet.
Can you lend me a tenner?
John: Yeah, but I need it back on Friday because flanner nullerflops ida bingalongshlak. (WTF? – Ed)
David: No, sorry, I just bought a PlayStation 3 and I'm bit light.
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Dananananaykroyd's 'Hey Everyone!' album is released via Best Before on April 6; their track 'Pink Sabbath' was released as a single last year and features in our Clash Top 40 of 2008 HERE.
The band (MySpace) tours the UK as follows…
26 Hull Adelphi
27 Coventry Tin House
28 Oxford Bullhouse
29 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
31 Cambridge Portland Arms
1 Sheffield The Harley
2 London Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
3 Manchester Deaf Institute
4 Liverpool Korova
5 Newcastle The End
6 Glasgow Playroom @ The Arches
Get tickets to Dananananaykroyd HERE
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MIAMI (AP) — With three little words, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush set off a fury this week that served as a potent reminder of how difficult the immigration issue remains for the potential presidential contender and the GOP.
The Republican establishment's preferred White House hopeful described illegal immigration as an "act of love" by people hoping to provide for their families. The backlash from his own party was swift and stinging.
The issue could be one of Bush's biggest obstacles to the presidential nomination in 2016. But some Republicans see an opportunity to repair relations with the country's fast-growing Hispanic population, which spurned Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
Comprehensive immigration legislation remains stalled in Congress. That means the Republican presidential candidates are likely to face the issue again when they campaign.


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Orange Post 127 jumped out to an early lead, but was unable to hold on and lost 2-1 to Milford on Monday.
Milford took the lead in the eighth inning on an RBI single by Ryan Muir.
Tom Marchitto got the win for Milford. He allowed one run over eight innings. Marchitto struck out two, walked six and gave up seven hits.
Doug Rives (22) couldn't get it done on the bump for Orange Post 127, taking a loss. He lasted just 1 2/3 innings, walked one, struck out one, and allowed one run.
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The game was never in doubt after the eighth, as Milford scored one run on an RBI single by Muir.
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Six Butler athletic teams have received 2006-07 NCAA Public Recognition Awards for their latest Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores. The awards are given to teams that rank in the Top 10% of all squads in their respective sports.
The Butler teams honored were men's golf, men's swimming, women's golf, women's soccer, women's softball and women's tennis. Of the 10 Division I institutions in Indiana, Butler ranked third with six teams recognized. Notre Dame had 11 teams honored, while Valparaiso was second with nine. Purdue had four teams recognized, Evansville and IPFW had two each, and Indiana, IUPUI and Ball State had one each. Butler ranked first in the Horizon League in number of teams recognized.
"Butler University is an exceptional academic institution and our student-athletes are a big part of that academic excellence," said Butler Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance and Academic Affairs Julie Wooten. "Having six of our athletic teams receive an NCAA Public Recognition Award illustrates that not only are our student-athletes successful on the playing field, but they are also successful in the classroom. We are very proud of all of our student-athletes."
Butler was one of just 43 institutions to have more than five teams recognized by the NCAA.
The NCAA honored a total of 839 teams representing 217 Division I colleges and universities, or two-thirds of the 326 institutions that compete in NCAA Division I athletics.
The APR was developed as a more real-time assessment of a team's academic performance, than the six-year graduation-rate calculation. It measures retention and athletic eligibility of athletes. The APR awards two points each term to student-athletes who meet academic-eligibility standards and who remain with the institution. The team's APR is the total points earned by the team at a given time divided by the total points possible.


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A Year in Photos - Weeks 17 & 18
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that lemur is very laid back! and those Sundaes look like an amazing Easter treat. Some lovely pictures.ReplyDelete
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Love the lounging Lemur, what a great photo. Those sundaes look rather tasty! Great round-up :)ReplyDelete
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Why Is There No New Episode of Grey's Anatomy on April 21, 2011?
The wait continues until the next new episode of Grey's Anatomy. The hiatuses are endless this season, but the good news is that there's only one more week until Grey's returns on April 28, 2011. At least we ended on a good note and got to hear Callie (Sara Ramirez) say "yes" to Arizona (Jessica Capshaw)'s proposal on the musical episode, and more importantly, see Callie wake up after being thrown through the windshield of their car.
We can't wait to see if Callie's baby will be fine! Check out the preview vid below for the next episode:
We hope everything is OK with McBaby, but we're assuming the baby will be fine since a Calzona's Wedding is in the works on the May 5, 2011 episode of Grey's! Check out some spoiler links below!
Watch: Calzona Wedding Spoilers Roundup
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Prize Winnings Tax
Posted By Jim On 12/01/2008 @ 12:22 pm In Taxes | 27 Comments
Are prizes, lottery, and sweepstakes winnings taxed at some especially high rate by the IRS? For the longest time, I've had friend tell me that winning prizes and contests, while great, are often a mixed bag because of the taxes you have to pay – around 50% of the value of the prize. I've always believed them because I've never won anything, so I never had any reason to question it. Well as luck would have it, I won the lottery the other day! The surprising part about winning the lottery was that I had no idea I had even entered but the Emperor of Nigeria, or rather an emissary of the Emperor, notified me via email (look at the picture they sent of part of my loot!) that I had won some ridiculous sum. So I thought I'd dig a little deeper to see how I should make plans for my taxes next year.
Prize winnings are taxed at your regular marginal tax rate (the IRS tax bracket [3] you are in). They're not taxed at some special sweepstakes rate or anything like that, they're taxed as income and reported on Line 21 (Other Income) of your Form 1040. Other sources of income that get reported there are gambling winnings, jury duty fees, etc.
So why do people believe you're taxed at 50%? The winnings are considered income and if you win something substantial, chances are you'll be put into a much higher tax bracket. As of 2008, the highest tax bracket [3] starts at $357,700 and is 35%. When you start adding in state and local taxes, you could very well get close to 50%. If the prize is smaller, you probably won't be taxed at 50%.
Another wrinkle is that the organization or company doing the giving will have to report the prize on a 1099 form that is filed with the IRS. If you think back to any contests or giveaways, the prizes often have a valuation listed (X prize is valued at '$5,000'). One problem that people run into is that the valuation is wildly inaccurate, this is very common in the case of vacations or big-ticket items (it's as if every television is purchased from the most expensive place possible!).
There are a few solutions to this:
So, if you win the lottery, you're OK; if you win a prize, you might have some work ahead of you. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to send that Emperor of Nigeria about five thousand bucks to cover the shipping fees on my lottery winnings!
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Participants traveled from various parts of Africa to military bases in San Diego for a weeklong field learning and cultural exchange program from Aug. 11-16, 2014. In it's fourth year, this outreach effort is designed to extend the participants' knowledge of the U.S. military beyond the classroom for a hands-on exchange with Marines in a training environment. Interviews/CG info with: (reporting) U.S. Navy Lt. Amy Forsythe U.S. Africa Command Denis Gizinski Deputy Director, AFRICOM J6 Capt. Said Yasser Communications Officer, Comoros Chris Sampson Event Coordinator, AFRICOM J6 (location) Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at 29 Palms, Calif. (dates: Aug. 11-16, 2014)
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First of all, I'm a loyal UG Tab Pro iPhone user; I absolutely LOVE the app - great work! Well worth the price, by far. I have almost completely learned to play from your app alone. I'm a drummer and fluent in music notation - Tab Pro makes it almost too easy to have fun learning, and learning favorite songs extremely efficiently and fun!!
One suggestion, a toggle (radio) button for a click intro would be very handy
when learning certain sections of songs(and playing over and over). The tempo adjustment was a much-needed (and very helpful) update, but when learning certain sections, it would be nice to have a count-off click intro (4 beats for 4/4 etc) option. It's hard to press play on a challenging section and get ur hands back to the guitar to play along. A toggle for a (drum player stick click style) one measure count-off would be awesome. Sometimes you want to skip around and hear sections without the click intro delay; sometimes you want to start at a specific point to rehearse at normal speed and need a count off to start with the player and hands free to be ready with the tempo.
Yes, I can just skip to an earlier point and wait, but sometimes that's not helpful (especially when their are tempo changes).
A way to repeat or loop measures (sections) would be nice too, but I'm sure all of this will be challenging to fit into an iPhone/iPad app.
Also, I have a Kindle Fire and Tab Pro isn't offered for it, that's a shame because that would be soo much easier to use the app on a bigger screen. I would happily pay the costs all over again for a kindle fire app too. Can't afford an IPad
Thanks for making it easy to give feedback too!!
Thanks, keep up the good work!!
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Thanks a lot for your feedback!
"Count in" is a very useful feature indeed, we're planning to implement it in future releases of Tab Pro (as well as "loop segment").
As for the Kindle Fire, unfortunately it cannot be purchased from Amazon App Store, however you can obtain it from Google Play (if it's installed on your device).
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The Case for Talking about Adoption in Worship
Not talking about awkward emotions, say after infertility, pregnancy out of wedlock, or adoption, may seem kind. But it's better for churches to include adoption and related issues in baptisms, worship, and church life. A feature story exploring the case for talking about adoption in worship.
Howard Vanderwell had a lump in his throat when he baptized two children from Haiti in July 2004. For one thing, he felt moved to know that this little boy and girl would become part of Hillcrest Christian Reformed Church, a Hudsonville, Michigan, congregation that already included children adopted from Guatemala, Haiti, Korea, and Liberia.
What's more, in baptizing Isaac Kenny and Abigail Midjina, he was baptizing his newest grandchildren-welcomed into the family of Tom and Cheryl Vanderwell and their three teen daughters.
"They came from the God's Little Angels orphanage in Haiti. They were age two and three when they arrived, not siblings, and had not met each other till adopted. But Isaac and Abby are firmly bonded siblings now," their grandpa says.
Yet, for all the joy of baptism, Howard Vanderwell felt disquieted. "The needs of adoptees and their families are quite different from announcing a birth. I never felt we did justice to the situation. It kept rumbling in my heart as an unfinished agenda item that we need to find better ways to receive and assimilate them," he says.
For decades, churches have been silent about people most affected by adoption-including birth parents, adoptees, infertile couples, and adoptive families. Now congregations and denominations are beginning to include these joys and concerns in worship.
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Wanting to do better led Vanderwell to develop two litanies about adoption. He wrote them in consultation with adoptive parents and John Wynbeek, director of international services at Bethany Christian Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
One litany is for baptizing an adopted child. The other litany is for marking an adoption without baptism.
In both litanies, the pastor reminds the congregation, "All of us, as a congregation, are children of God by grace and adoption." The litanies include sections for the adoptees (if old enough), the parents, any siblings (if old enough), and the congregation to affirm the adoption.
The responsive prayer in each litany sets adoption in a larger context than one family's experience. The pastor and congregation petition God to:
- Bind everyone present together in love and nurture.
- Offer grace, healing, and confidence to parents who have relinquished children.
- Comfort married couples "who desire the gift of a child yet are disappointed."
- Show mercy to those who wait in orphanages for someone to come and love them.
Each week Vanderwell and Norma de Waal Malefyt, both worship consultants, post a complete, new worship service plan. They're working on a series of resources that will include adoption in more worship contexts.
Celebrate God's view of adoption
If you've never heard much about adoption in church and haven't thought much about it on your own, then chances are you've missed seeing what the Bible says about adoption.
Fellow believers often say to adoptive parents, "Too bad you couldn't have one of your own." They assume that adoption is a "second best" choice, says John Van Regenmorter, chaplain at Bethany Christian Services and director of its infertility ministry, Stepping Stones.
But in the four places where the Bible uses the word "adopt," it's always in a positive context. And when Pharaoh's daughter adopted Moses and Mordecai adopted Esther, those new family situations were clearly part of God's plan of deliverance for Israel.
In the family of God, Jesus is the only begotten son. The rest of us have been adopted into the family. Interestingly, Jesus was also adopted-by his earthly father, Joseph.
"Isn't this incredible? God chooses us to be his adopted children, not because he has to, but because hewants to..Whether one becomes a parent biologically or through adoption, the fact is that children are not a right-they are a gift from God," Van Regenmorter writes in a Stepping Stones Newsletter.
Besides paying special attention to adoption during baptism, there are other easy ways to celebrate adoption in worship.
If your church normally displays a rose for every new birth, how about displaying one to celebrate each adoption as well? Pastors can preach on biblical passages about adoption. Those who lead prayer can specifically pray for adoptees and adoptive families. They can also thank God for adopting all of us.
Remember all involved
Some churches put so much emphasis on family-and by that they mean a mom, a dad, and their biological kids-that they make other members feel there's no place for them.
Mother's Day can be especially painful for many churchgoers, say John and Sylvia Van Regenmorter in their book When the Cradle Is Empty: Answering Tough Questions about Infertility.
While they're all for celebrating mothers, and for remembering our own mothers, they ask worship leaders to acknowledge how Mother's Day can renew the hurt for some women who've never been mothers, single women, mothers who have lost children, and mothers whose children are not walking with the Lord.
"Worship planners should not arbitrarily acknowledge these experiences in worship services. Rather, they should make use of natural opportunities that occur in every congregation to remember those facing infertility, miscarriage, and adoption," John Van Regenmorter suggests.
These occasions include Mother's Day, Father's Day, and holidays when families typically gather. It also makes sense to specifically mention these needs in bulletin announcements, prayers, songs, or sermons when:
- A family in the congregation adopts a child.
- The pastor plans a sermon series on parenting or family issues.
- Someone in the congregation experiences a miscarriage or infant death.
- The congregation organizes a support group for couples facing infertility or pregnancy losses.
- The congregation observes Sanctity of Human Life Sunday-a prime time to pray for women who have had an abortion as well as "courageous birth moms who have made an adoption plan for their child."
Van Regenmorter adds, "All these provide a wonderful-and natural-opportunity for the congregation to 'Rejoice with those who rejoice [and] mourn with those who mourn,' as Romans 12:15 says."
Learn More
Read "This Little Child from Far Away: A Prayer and a Song for the Baptisms of Adopted Children" fromReformed Worship.
Feel free to use or revise these litanies when baptizing an adopted child or marking an adoption.
Read Ron Nydam's book, Adoptees Come of Age. Book him to speak on the pastoral needs of adoptees. Listen to audio excerpts of Nydam talking about:
Bethany Christian Services offers adoption resources for churches, including many worship elements for marking an adoption or baptizing an adopted child. You might also consider these Anglican (scroll down),Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed ideas for welcoming an adopted child in worship.
Here's how to plan services about lament or for troubled hearts or about faith that sighs and sings. You might also like these worship service or home ritual ideas to acknowledge birth parents who give a child to new parents in an open adoption, help older adopted children overcome negative messages, and annually celebrate a child's adoption day.
Consider reviewing and donating books about adoption to your church library. Gail Godwin's novelEvensong explores what it means to be a family, whether through adoption or other bonds. Evensong could also yield several anecdotes for sermons.
Read When the Cradle Is Empty: Answering Tough Questions about Infertility and find support fromStepping Stones, Bethany Christian Services' ministry to couples facing infertility and pregnancy loss.
To help adults in church education get a better grasp on adoption issues, you could:
- Watch and discuss easy-to-order Inner Compass adoption episodes on the parents' view (#304) and the child's view (#305).
- Gather a panel representing the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptees, adoptive parents), hand outone or more lists of adoption terms, and ask the panel to discuss which phrases they experience as positive or negative.
- Discuss this article about churches' insensitivity about adoption.
Browse these blogs and articles to understand
- the emotions of helping internationally adopted children reconnect with birth families
- birth mothers who have chosen open adoption (and who chose to raise children born later)
- the joy of adopting
- parents who adopt internationally
- experiences of adoptees around the world
- finding out-late in life-about your adoption
It may surprise you that though U.S. parents adopt many children from other countries, many children born in the U.S. are adopted by families in other countries. Check out surveys about Koreans who've been adopted and U.S. attitudes toward adoption.
Browse related stories on baptism and architecture, designing worship together, joy and lament in the Psalms, and seeing yourselves as God's people-together.
Start a Discussion
Talk about how to have a healthy discussion about including adoption and related issues in worship:
- Does your church have any special worship rituals related to adoption, infertility or pregnancy loss, or entrusting a child to new parents in an open adoption? Would you like to refine or add any worship elements related to these issues?
- How often are the joys and concerns of adoptees and adoptive families mentioned in your worship services?
- What do you think about the idea that faithful worship must sometimes include sorrow, lament, and anger?
Share Your Wisdom
What is the best way you've found to address and talk through worship and pastoral issues related to adoption?
- Did you find a resource-visual, online, printed, multimedia, or seminar-that helped your church meaningfully include adoption during worship services or adult education?
- If you have surveyed other congregations in your area or denomination regarding their outreaches related to unplanned pregnancy, infertility, or adoption, will you share the best ideas that you discovered?
- Did you ask elders or other pastoral leaders to note which members or families are affected by adoption? And, if so, what did you do next to better minister to their needs?


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A New Philosophy for the 21st Century
Briggle and Frodeman in the Chronicle
Adam Briggle and Robert Frodeman have written an excellent article for the Chronicle, A New Philosophy for the 21st Century. A stupid subscription is required, frustratingly, so let me excerpt some of the good bits for you here [update: here's a PDF]: It is time to reclaim the public role of philosophy. This does not mean rejecting rigor. By venturing… read more


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It's something to grasp on to!vanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253867020130053273.post-23094645579558996142008-06-05T18:21:00.000-07:002008-06-05T18:21:00.000-07:00She will definitely have a slam to her name one da...She will definitely have a slam to her name one day. I would love to see her do it here at the US Open.barcelona2012http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253867020130053273.post-61462772992371184942008-06-05T17:15:00.000-07:002008-06-05T17:15:00.000-07:00mos def - at the end the baller who wanted it mor...mos def - at the end the baller who wanted it more was ana. she totally deserves it. but jj will have her chances i think.Richhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253867020130053273.post-13627947511676432992008-06-05T15:26:00.000-07:002008-06-05T15:26:00.000-07:00This one has to hurt. A lot. :( She definitely ...This one has to hurt. A lot. :( She definitely had her chances. Ana played more like she wanted the win though. Now my super womens final is in place. :)barcelona2012http://firstname.lastname@example.com


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What do you think of the Specialized Sequoia or the Trek 1000C, both with 35C tires, as a road bike (for exercise)/cyclocross/touring/commuting/ all-purpose, lite bike? Value? Comfort? Durability? A century, perhaps?
What do you think of the Specialized Sequoia or the Trek 1000C, both with 35C tires, as a road bike (for exercise)/cyclocross/touring/commuting/ all-purpose, lite bike? Value? Comfort? Durability? A century, perhaps?
Those are big,slow moving tires.28's would be a lot lighter and work fine but if u feel better with a load of a tire,32's.
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My wife has a Specialized Sequoia Sport bike... Her bike came with 25C tires.. I believe.. maybe 28's... suspension seatpost... she seems to like it.. I've ridden it a bit.. pretty comfortable bike... I wanna say that out the door it was around $700... fairly lightweight... a good entry level bike... she likes the fact taht it also has brake levers on the tops, and in the drops... probably make a decent touring bike :-)Originally Posted by Urbanmonk
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The Trek 1000
has very tight tyre clearance for a general purpose bike. it looks like 25 is the limit, perhaps a 28. It is also a bit over-geared.
The Sequoia has long reach calipers (it says), so you should be able to fit 32mm + fenders, but check first. The front wheel (28 spoke radial) looks a bit lightweight for off-road, but it may be one of those funny designs.
You wont get a 35mm cx knobbly on any of these bikes, but I ride plenty of off-road using std 32mm touring rubber. I prefer 28 for general road riding.
The Sequioa gets my vote, but for better CX/touring capability in this price range, check out Fuji and Bianchi models.
Fixer, would any of the before mentioned work well for the purposes mentioned? What do you think about the distance issue?
The Trek 1000 isn't the same as the 1000C.Originally Posted by MichaelW
Trek's C series are =very= similar to Specialized Sequoias.
I suggest something with Canti-Lever brakes. Even with long reach calipers, they Specialized's and Trek's won't give you the flexibility to have 35c's and fenders, unless they're the CX or XO-1.
I have Bontrager Select Invert 35c on my Bianchi Strada and the ride is oh so comfy, yet corners well at high speed on damp roads.
If you're gonna go cross, go cross, not cross-like with calipers.
Forgot to answer your questions... I'd definitely rate a Bianchi Volpe a good value considering it's drivetrain and durable steel frame. If lightweight for you means 21-22lbs then it's great too. Bike companies are no longer listing weights for some reason but I think the Specialized's, Treks, and Bianchis in that price range have roughly similar weights. You may want to do centurys on narrower tires than 35c, but only a cross bike will let you have 35c's in the first place. Comfort for a century, or general riding for that matter, will depend on riding position and your flexibility. For $900, I'd consider the Fuji Cross (I've seen on sale), Bianchi Volpe, or Kona Jake.Originally Posted by BlastRadius


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Chat: What Have Been Your Favorite 2014 Badges?
Hey Gamers, so you know how you guys are CRUSHING the Summer Game this year? Record numbers of players, of badges, of codes, of points, of EVERYTHINGS? Since you seem to be so enjoying the Summer Game so much, we thought this would be a good time to ask you a little about what you ARE liking so much!
The AADL Summer Game crew got to talking about badges and we were wondering what YOUR favorite badges have been this year. What did you like about them? Clever clues? Interesting things you learned? Great game codes?
What about your families? What about your friends? What badges are THEY loving this year? WHY?
Ready to sate our curiousity? GO!
My favourite badges have been the Cryptid Cryptography ones - they combine my love of codes with my other favourite area of study, mythological creatures. They're a lot of fun to puzzle out, and the bonuses add an extra layer of excitement.
I'm also fond of the Constellation Consternation badges, and the Unearthed Unearthlies badges.
Another vote for the Park Explorer badges - I have driven by the entrance to Mary Beth Doyle park for *years* and never even realized it was back there!
Though the "Muskrat View" code for the Pittsfield branch was also a huge favorite - we not only saw muskrats from the library window, we saw a giant (and rather scary looking) snapping turtle swimming right there.
The Park Explorer badges are my family's favorite. After that, I always enjoy browsing oldnews.aadl.org, so I enjoyed "You Can Learn a Lot from Lydia".
Badges like Pokemon and Plant vs Zom-badges were difficult because I'm not familiar with the manga or video games, so it definitely was a great way to introduce me to both.
I love earning badges because it's a chance to learn something I didn't know. I generally love trivia, even if it's not incredibly clever. Cleverness most of the time provides a nice laugh or wink, There have been some times it's been a bit of an eye roll -- though isn't that always the case with cleverness?
Outside of the Park Explorer series, my family doesn't have a favorite badge set. My 3.5 year old helps type search words into the catalog, or asks Siri for wikipedia-like clues. I try to preview badges before completing badges with with preschooler so we don't run into too many inappropriate/uncomfortable conversations since we are heavily into the WHY? WHY? WHY? stage.
As always, thank you for working so hard on the summer game!
I've liked pretty much all of the badges! Although I've only done 2 so far, I hope to do more of the Park Explorer badges. I like the fact that the Polkemania badges are a little longer and tougher than most the others. It was also fun to learn about terrariums through the Terrific Terrariums badge, then go to the workshop on Sunday!
The Constellation Consternation series is probably my favorite. I like reading about their mythologies and back stories in in the wiki pages.
I would also like to give a special shout-out to the photoshopper of the Polkemania badges - it looks like Charizard is rocking/wailing it out with that accordion.
I would have to say the park explorer badges would be my favorite and my kids like them also. We went on a picnic to Barton nature area and we used our picnic blanket from last years summer game along with the cooler from last year. It was like an AADL sponsored picnic. I also like the badges for rating items and for reviews. Granted some people just type tiny one or two word reviews but others write very useful ones. I also like the star rating because it helps me decide things to request.
Wow it would be hard to saw which ones are my favorite ones. I think this years have all been a whole lot of fun! Like everyone else the Park Explorer ones are amazing. I would be great to get the whole town out and about exploring all 154 parks or green areas in Ann Arbor. I also really enjoy the old news hunts. It was fun to learn about all the ghosts we have!
I'd love to make one of the player pick badges but don't know how???
I enjoy the Cryptography and the Constellation series. The Constellations because that's a topic I'm interested in and the Cryptography because I'm learning about different ciphers. I also LOVE the park explorer badges. I haven't had a chance to do most of them, but I'm hoping to get around to it before my time runs out.
If you ask my 5 and 6 year old kids, the Angry Birds badge wins hands down. We went to the event expecting to lob some balls at stuffed animals so we couldn't believe all the craft opportunities and how we ran into friends from all areas of our past -- preschool, church, baby classes, etc.
If you ask me, I would say the park explorer ones are our family favorites. They encourage us to take a free, active outing to places we haven't been before. Writing down the codes has been great for my boys to practice their writing. I applaud the library for all its creativity, coordination, and sense of fun with this ambitious community game. It has helped create some fun memories for us this summer. Thank you!
Angry Bird Badge and Mer-Mayday are absolute favorites with my children. I really liked the Park Explorer badges. It gave our family an opportunity to visit parks that we had not thought of visiting before. We really enjoyed the outings. Although some park trails were "spooky" according to my children, they liked going to a new park and looking at plants and animals. I never realized AA had so many trails for walkers. Oh! I also enjoyed the Pop Music through the decades badges and Surfs Up. I knew some of the answers but if it weren't for the badges I probably wouldn't have looked for most of these music/musicians. Thank you, AADL for this opportunity!
To the people who are interested in writing a badge, do it! It's fun. I've written a couple, and the library vets them before posting them. It might be nice to have an off-season badge-writing workshop. There are a lot more parks out there to explore!
@sdunav - Yay! My "Muskrat View" code did exactly what I'd hoped it would do - it got people paying even more attention to the pond out the window and viewing some of the amazing wildlife out there. :) I'm glad you were able to see the muskrats & the snapping turtle. I enjoy watching them when I'm stationed at Pittsfield.
I enjoy so many of them that it's hard to choose!
I really enjoy the park explorer badges as it gets me out of my comfort zone and into parks I don't know much about. I usually split my time between Parker Mill (my favorite), Lillie Park & Gallup, so to have badges for things like Dolph Nature Area or Barton Nature Area which I wouldn't necessarily go to on my own, has been good at expanding my horizons.
I also really enjoyed the Pattern Familiars badge where you had to look through the JUMP brochure to find the various everyday items in the pictures. I like it when pictures have little hidden things in them that if you don't look closely at them, you might miss the object.
I was thrilled with the Waterloo badge. I had really hoped it would include a reference to one of my favorite movies and it didn't disappoint. A lot of my co-workers were all stumped on that one, but I knew what it was right away because it's a movie I've seen oh... more times than I can count.
The Angry Birds badge was a lot of fun. I was at the event as a staff helper and it was great to see the kids and even some of the grown-ups having fun launching the "birds" at the piggies and cheering on other players.
Finally, I have to say the Wild Kingdom ones are also a lot of fun for me as I love the natural world and learning about various animals not to mention many of the ones that have been chosen are animals I really like.
Park Explorer badges are my absolute favorites. I also like the branch explorer badges. All of them are fun, but it's great to do the ones that make you discover all different parts of the city and that the whole family can do together.
I have really enjoyed the park badges and Angry Birds, because both were activities that my family could do together. I will say that I have found it fairly hard to follow the directions given in the park badges. We couldn't even find the correct entrance to one, and several others have included vague directions that we misinterpreted, resulting in some frustration and wandering the wrong way. I think it would be helpful in the future to include clearer directions than terms like "main path," or "take the path into the woods," or other things that are subject to interpretation. Some parks have markings (numbered posts, for example) that could have been referenced.
There have been a few badges that my kids could work on with minimal help, such as the berry badge and the zombadge, but otherwise the clues often referenced things they were unfamiliar with or adult themed things. I think they found the old news ones workable as well. I have been pushed to complete the contributor badges by my kids.
I have enjoyed more the activities than searching the catalog after several years of doing this. Some of the clues are very hard to find because the clues are misleading or unclear (e.g. using the [incorrect] term "brussel sprouts" or not hinting at the actual thing being sought). It's easy for it to become tedious and good for someone who likes to click through and churn things out (all the one sentence or one word reviews, for example), and I think the activities help avoid that. I also have encountered other game players at the library and at parks, but wish there was a more communal spirit to this. I almost feel stalkerish if I talk to another person clutching their badge clues, or as if we're not supposed to talk. Why not a kick-off party, and then meetings throughout the summer? There could be activities, promotion of library events, and chitchat between players. We could share our favorite books, movies, CDs, talk about park passes and online databases. Why not a way for us to interact? It would make it less like a series of parallel solitaire games. After all, the point of playing games is often for the players to have fun together.
I think if AADL is reframing the concept of the library, then there should be a decrease in the hierarchical structure. Many library activities feel like something someone is giving us to do by ourselves all at the same time, from toddler storytime to kids' crafts and so on, instead of somethg that is building connections in the community in a really effective way.
I've enjoyed the Dynamic Duos series. I think in general I most like badges where I'm familiar enough with something that it gets me started and makes me feel knowledgeable, and then I dig deeper and start learning something new. I still like to search through the catalog occasionally because I wind up discovering things I've never heard of but then want to read,or rediscover things I've forgotten about and want to see or read again, or introduce to my children. I mean, I never would have thought to look for and read a book about the former Jacobson's department stores if I hadn't stumbled upon it searching for who knows which code.
On another note, does anyone know if we will be told where to find Terranuims around town, or if we just need to discover them?
What a great thread. I have really enjoyed seeing so many new players sharing their experience.
I think @willow has offered some great suggestions. It would be nice to have more in person interaction with the other players. It's not always easy to spot another player at events, and does feel kind of weird to walk up to a random person. Maybe aadl can offer name tags (design matching the summer game theme, or even the standard, hello my name is...) at events. I wouldn't feel so weird walking up to a fellow gamer who was wearing a name tag with their handle. I am looking forward to the wrap party so I can hopefully connect faces to handles.
I love that the summer game continues to evolve. It would be wonderful if we had an occasional meetup...kind of like the opportunity we got to speak at the board meeting, except less official and more of a dialogue. I am sure all of these ideas take a lot of time to organize, so hopefully they are possibilities to consider for next summer, and the players interested in helping can volunteer some time for the game we love!
I love the ones where we can go out and do things, instead of sitting at the computer all day. I used to do the catalog search badges, but then I realized that they were causing me to stay inside too long!
The park explorer ones are the best. Has there been scavenger hunts we could do Downtown? That would be great.
I'm loving all of the puzzle ones and the park explorers. For the new talking ones posted today, could those be expanded to include posting a picture to the AADL facebook page? I don't use twitter or instagram, and don't really want to make an account for this.
A vote from our house for games within The Game, along the lines of the Treasure Quest and Secret Shop tokens. It causes daily pangs of sorrow for years past that these subgames are no longer active.
Also, what exactly is the point of points-o-matic, and could it be arranged that "extra" players could participate? And what does one do with points that cannot be spent? We await your response, as it has been the subject of exhaustive (if not exhausting) discussion.
I wish to have a vote on if off-season games (meaning Treasure Quest, mostly) should always be active.
Me: Yes because I really want to complete it and it should be available as a challenge to those who might just have discovered the wonders of AADL games.
My absolute favorite badges are the ones that get me out of the house and exploring places that I might not otherwise have gone: Park Explorer, Branch Explorer, Terrarium Hysterium, etc. This summer I am also really enjoying the Constellation Consternation and You Can Learn a Lot from Lydia badge series. Keep up the great work AADL Summer Game Team!
Thanks for getting me back to County Farm Park. I haven't been there in years, even though it's just up the road from me. Last time I was there it was pretty much just trails. So many improvements have been done with a GREAT playground. After getting all the codes we spent an hour at the playground. The best part was as the end my almost three year old said "Mom, can I go okay now?" I said "yes" he said "THANK YOU!" and took of running. It was great! We'll be back more often now.
I love the Branch Explorer badges! It has been so fun to go from branch to branch playing the game - I've seen parts of the city where I don't usually go, and noticed new things at each branch. For instance, I hadn't known that there was an underground parking garage at Traverwood.
How little are the kids in question? County Farm has a sand "box" area where little kids can dig around in (bring your own sand tools) and another area has a small tractor structure with a mini-slide and barn structure that should work for toddlers: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iYHGpqgJdIE/U3RMgbisRSI/AAAAAAAALI4/ZUYhja9M_0E/s1600/county+farm+park+012.JPG
Hard to pick but Bizarre Botany and I Learned a Lot from Lydia are probably my favorite series. Nice to learn new stuff. As are most, I am also a big fan of the explorer badge series. But individually, the Death Worm badge was great.
I love all the badges. Some I love because they are challenging, some are fun because it let's me look at books, music, and movies I may not have known about. Others I love because it gets me and my family out of the house. I do find that the ones that use other websites or the JUMP are fun, too. I just love trying to figure them out! I thought the terrarium badges were fun and cute. So many fun badges! Taking selfies, going to parks, using the catalog... there truly is something for everyone!
The Cryptid Cryptography ones are my favorites-- even though it takes a little more work to make the cipher cheat sheets.
Also any game codes with thought-out puns-- it's nice when you can see someone put time into thinking of something clever to put there!
@beeniepie - I am looking for equipment for toddlers. We were there a couple days ago and tried out some of the stuff around the tractor. Where is the sand box area? Do you mean the sand between the red equipment and the garden entrance?
The Lydia badges are my favorite, and not just because they began with a Kate Beaton reference. The Constellation ones are a close second.
I like the idea of the Park and other exploration badges, but I'm mostly housebound so I really appreciate that there's a variety in each badge drop. :)
I have been loving the Polkemania badges- they are fiendishly difficult and a lot of fun. I knew absolutely nothing about Pokemon OR polka at the beginning of the summer and now I know a little (tiny bit) about both. Shout-out to the cryptid cryptography and park explorer badges as well. For a relative newcomer to Ann Arbor, the park badges are great- I didn't realize we had so much green space!
I see that more people are commenting after commenting badges are released. I think that commenting badges will be available every summer, so for those who only start commenting around now it's fine to start commenting at the beginning of SG since those comments will count towards the badges...
Some of those outdoor badges are tough! Especially the Dolph one. Got lost a few times only to realize we skipped ahead somehow. I've got one left, and I plan on getting that on Friday. The branch badges have all been very fun. It's always fun to see families wandering around getting the codes, although I feel a bit silly as I'm not playing the game with kids .
Re County Farm Park: I find the play structure is too big for toddlers; it's very high, so the ladders are scary for all but the most intrepid toddlers. There are, however, a little house that kids can go into and a train [tractor?] that can be climbed inside of (with stairs, and underbelly, and a wheel for steering), and several bouncing creatures to ride. They used to have the pig available for climbing on, but it's now behind a fence. I seem to remember that there used to be water to play in, but I don't think that's still there. There are also swings, but not, I don't think, the toddler type: just one chair type and the rest are regular swings. The adjoining sidewalk is often used for chalk, and there are lots of benches to picnic at.
I hadn't gone back to the trails in years, and they seem much more interesting than I remember them from then.
You can write a badge and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com. You know the format from playing the game. Write the clue, give the link to the item in the catalog (you can cut and paste this info), the code, and then the next clue.
@ Fevvers
I suggested a winter badge-making workshop at the library and was told that the catalog changes too much to make badges so far in advance. But, really, all you would have to do is double-check your badge before submitting it to email@example.com in the summer. It might even be helpful to the library to have people submit badges over the winter so they would be ready to go when the game begins. Park explorer badges could also be written over the winter using clues that are permanent. Or, as many have requested, a natural history museum badge would be prefect to write during the winter.


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Thousands of Israeli Arabs suffer humiliating security checks at the airport on their way abroad or back into Israel; hoping to improve situation, Airports Authority establishes joint team with Arab sector representatives
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The Israeli Airports Authority has established a joint project with representatives from the Israeli Arab community with the aim of improving the experience of Arab citizens when they travel abroad.
Renowned Arab author and journalist Salem Jubran spoke to Ynet about the initiative, saying he hoped it would improve the current "journey of tortures" facing Arab travelers.
Arabs undergo stricter security checks (Photo: Shaul Golan)
"When a plane lands at the Ben Gurion Airport, everyone claps but me. I know what a journey of suffering awaits me. I hope it improves," Jubran said.
"The team was established as a joint initiative between the Citizens' Accord Forum between Jews and Arabs in Israel and the Airports Authority in order to jointly examine ways of improving services and procedures involving Israeli Arabs at airports and border crossings," the Airports Authority said.
The team's first meeting took place last week and was attended by Israeli Airports Authority Director-General Gabi Ophir, Ben Gurion Airport Pperations Director Ze'ev Sarig, and directors of other divisions, who hosted businessmen, academics, education specialists and other public figures from the Arab sector.
Among the representatives of the Arab sector were Rahat mayor Talaal al-Qrinawi, businessmen from the tourism industry, Ahmad Afifi, journalist and author Salem Jubran and many more. Ophir and Sarig stressed to the participants that they were fully committed to cooperating in order to improve the situation and hoped all members of the team would extend the necessary effort to understand the challenges facing the other side. They said they were launching this initiative with full openness and added that the number of complaints in the matter had significantly decreased over the past year.
The two-year joint work plan will focus on several central matters: security, education – continuing and expanding relations with Arab educational institutions, and communicating with community organizations in the Arab sector.
Following last week's meeting, Jubran said there was a cautious optimism that maybe this time things would change.
"Gabi Ophir spoke fairly and I believe him. Up until now, I would land in my country without any happiness. We will apply pressures so that Arab citizens can land here with happiness in their hearts," he summed up.


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From: Samuel Thibault (samuel.thibault_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-13 12:35:11
Brice Goglin, le Tue 13 Mar 2012 17:10:45 +0100, a écrit :
> Le 13/03/2012 17:04, Hartmut Kaiser a écrit :
> >>> But the problems I was seeing were not MSVC specific. It's a
> >>> proliferation of arcane (non-POSIX) function use (like strcasecmp,
> >>> etc.) missing use of HAVE_UNISTD_H, HAVE_STRINGS_H to wrap
> >>> non-standard headers, unsafe mixing of
> >>> int32<->int64 data types, reliance on int (and other types) having a
> >>> certain bit-size, totally unsafe shift operations, wide use of
> >>> (non-C-standard) gcc extensions, etc. Should I go on?
> > More investigation shows that the code currently assumes group (and
> > processor) masks to be 32 bit, which is not true on 64 bit systems.
> No. What it assumes is that you have a sane compiler where ulong is not
> 32bits on 64bits systems :)
Nothing says that an ulong is 64bit on a 64bit system. Only intptr_t can
be assumed to be 64bit. That's why we have HWLOC_BITS_PER_LONG actually.
In my memory I took care in the windows case that longs are 32bit, and
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IBM recently announced that it will be extending its industry leadership with the opening of a European-based IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Data Center. The move aims to help business leaders, such as chief information officers (CIO), chief marketing officers (CMO), and chief human resource officers (CHRO), begin their organization's transformation with the adoption of social business technology.
Based in Germany and serving the needs of customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the new facility will help businesses follow the lead of customers such as Arnold Clark, Codorniu, Shanks, Centrax TCL and Development Alternatives Inc (DAI) who are using cloud-based social business offerings to build the 21st Century workforces that can more efficiently share knowledge to spark innovation and deliver their customers flawless experiences.
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Sunday's weather repeats today. Yet again, we have the warm and humid conditions with the high topping out at 86, under the mostly cloudy skies. We'll have some strong thunderstorms returning, particularly in the afternoon. Expect heavy rain, gusty winds, and lots of lightning with those storms. The clouds stay tonight and we drop to 72.
We'll have more storms for the first half of Tuesday. While the humidity stays, the high slips to 82. The storms will end Tuesday evening and some sun will break through the clouds by late in the evening. This marks the arrival of drier air. The drier air comes in with a cold front, which passes over us on Tuesday (sparking the storms). For the rest of the workweek, enjoy the less humid and sunnier conditions.
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I am upgrading a Rails application from 2.3.10 to 3.0.4 and am running into an issue with updating models in my controller. I have been "scoping" model finds in order to prevent users from updating objects that don't belong to them. It works as expected in 2.3, but I get an ActiveRecord::ReadOnlyRecord error with update_attributes in Rails 3.
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After reading this thread I recently contacted Lisa to get a price & see if she would ship to Australia.
Price was excellent & yes she would ship to Oz, so I boiught one.
Recieved it on Wed evening 5/12/12 & was very impressed with the fast shipping & the overall quality oif the whole kit.
Decided to do a bit o 'open fire' BBQing so put it to work starting the fire.
The flint & steel produce excellent sparks & it took next to no effort to get a good ember going in the char cloth.
Transfered that to my tinder & had dinner started cooking within 10 minutes.
First time try - total pass for sure. Easy as.
Many thanks to Lisa for a top quality product, great price, fast shipping, & excellent over-all service & communication.
An absolute pleasure to buy a top quality product from an excellent retailer.
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I own a Tomahawk striker crafted by Lisa and it works might fine....
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I am interested in pricing for a kit also. Please send a PM. Thanks. I am also getting one of your altoids knives so it could ship together.
Yes i would like to know pricing shipped for a striker too please. Thanks!
Also need a cost, love the "normal" double closed ones like in the fourth pic. Was going to do it on the cheap - break a file and go that route - but would rather support your craft if possible. PM or email gusstrand at gmail
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BollywoodNewsWorld.com, After singing for the big screen in films like "Singh Is Kinng" and "Khatta Meetha", Bollywood hero Akshay Kumar is going to lend his voice for the title song of his upcoming action-adventure reality show "Khatron Ke Khiladi 4″.
"Akshay is singing a couple of opening lines," said a source from Colors channel.
The title song will be turned into a music video featuring all the contestants for the fourth season of the show, which has been shot in Cape Town, South Africa.
For this season, the channel has chosen 13 female celebrity participants — each teamed up with a male partner.
The celebrity participants include former Indian women's cricket captain Anjum Chopra, models Diandra Soares, Alesia Raut and Poonam Pandey, actresses Aarti Chhabria, Smita Bansal and Aashka Goradia, item girls Sambhavna Seth and Kashmera Shah, two VJs – Bani and Mia Uyeda, singer Mauli Dave and Dina Singh who is actor Vindu Dara Singh's wife.
"Khatron Ke Khiladi" is the Indian version of the internationally hit show "Fear Factor", and involves dangerous tasks involving height and even creepy crawlies. It is expected to go on air in June.


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Business mobile phones – Nokia E97
If you are looking for business mobile phones than I think Nokia E97, latest design by Fabien Nauroy can suit your requirements.
This design have very unique features and envelope look make it more attractive. With this there is a LCD which can pull out from the phone and can be used as storage device. There is also facility of Dual Sim as well.
E97 have got the look which can be used as business mobile phones and can be handy as sporty look. Smooth operations and easy to use is another plus point of Nokia E97. There is one small screen about the keyboard and can display all normal functions and incoming and outgoing details.
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3-D printer company is taking digital fabrication to the next level
Three young MIT alumni want to help anyone, anywhere, make anything. And to do so, they are bringing high-quality, low-cost printers to the world through their company, Formlabs.
A printer that can print a fully functional clock, a prosthetic limb, or even food sounds fantastical. But, in just a few years it has become reality. Initially used by engineers and architects to produce prototypes, 3-D printers are now being put to work to create a variety of finished products.
As these digital fabrication tools become more affordable, 3-D printing promises to revolutionize the way products are designed and manufactured. It's no surprise that the MIT campus, with its strong maker culture, is a hotbed of 3-D innovation. Formlabs, a start-up founded by a trio of MIT Media Lab alums, is at the forefront of advancing this technology.
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Melrose feels Stevens' painby Dave Lozo / NHL.com
"I've been fired twice," Melrose said, referring to his stints with the Los Angeles Kings and Tampa Bay Lightning. "If you're going to coach, you've got to expect this. It's going to happen sooner or later. Even Lindy Ruff and Barry Trotz, who have been there 10-12 years, it's going to happen to them eventually too."
Melrose says every coach has a window of opportunity for getting through to his players, and sometimes it shuts on you despite the talent with which you have on your team.
"I've always said a coach has a three-year window. After that you've run out of new ways of saying what you believe in and players got tired of listening to what you believe in, and that's what happened to John Stevens," Melrose said. "And what happened was expectations. This is a good team, it's a talented team, they spent money this summer, they brought in Pronger, and this team is supposed to be one of the best teams in the East and it's one of the worst teams in the East. That's a recipe for the coach being fired.
"Peter Laviolette is a good coach, he's won a Stanley Cup, he's a little different than John Stevens, he's much more passionate, he's much more abrasive, angry, so he's an entirely different coach than John Stevens, and that's what you're looking for when you make a coaching change."
Sometimes one coach's success can be every other coach's nightmare. Last season, the Pittsburgh Penguins were scuffling and fired coach Michel Therrien. After replacing him with Dan Bylsma, the Penguins went on to win the Stanley Cup.
"Pittsburgh fires a coach, they're out of the playoffs, and bang, they end up wining the Stanley Cup," Melrose said. "So when that happens for one team, the other teams say if it worked in Pittsburgh it'll work in Philly."


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News: 1st MAW bids Owens farewell, welcomes Rudder
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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FUTENMA, OKINAWA, Japan - Maj. Gen. Christopher S. Owens relinquished his duties as the commanding general of 1st Marine Aircraft Wing to Brig. Gen. Steven R. Rudder at a change of command ceremony aboard Marine Corps Air Station Futenma yesterday.
Owens assumed command of the 1st MAW in June 2012. During his tenure, elements of 1st MAW participated in numerous exercises with allies and partner nations throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Owens led 1st MAW to numerous aviation awards and through the transition to the MV-22B Osprey aircraft, which significantly strengthens the United States' ability to respond to contingencies and natural disasters in the region. Owens also led 1st MAW during the December 2012 flood relief in the Republic of the Philippines, where 1st MAW aircraft and personnel moved 750,000 pounds of relief supplies. Owens will become the commanding general of U.S. Marine Forces Korea and the assistant chief of staff, C/J-5 plans, policy and strategy, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, U.S. Forces Korea.
Owens thanked 1st MAW Marines, sailors and civilians for their dedicated service and steadfast devotion to the unit's mission of maintaining the highest level of readiness in the Asia-Pacific region.
"It has been my greatest honor to serve as their commanding general," said Owens. "While commanders come and go, (those who remain with 1st MAW) will continue the mission day and night to ensure we are ready for whatever may come next."
Rudder's previous assignment was at Headquarters Marine Corps where he served as the legislative assistant to the commandant of the Marine Corps. Throughout his career, Rudder has participated in deployments to Okinawa, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, and Iraq, and has taken part in Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
"When the commandant and the other general officers back in D.C. talk about this MAW, they talk about all the great things that have been accomplished," said Rudder. "I intend to continue leading this MAW to greatness."
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The Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide provides the first complete visitors' guide to all of Wright's buildings in the United States and around the world. This new, single-volume edition is written and compiled by architect and Frank Lloyd Wright expert Thomas A. Heinz, AIA. In a highly readable and informative style, Heinz presents each building page by page, providing brief histories and background details, information on accessibility and viewing, and driving directions. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and location map. Buildings are arranged geographically. A cross-referenced index enables each building to be easily accessed by location or client or building name.
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