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Georgetown Basketball: April 2012 News Archive
Georgetown's participation in the 2012 Legends Classic in Brooklyn, NY will also come with two early home games to the schedule. WDAY-TV reports that one of these will be with North Dakota State. The Bison were 17-14 in the Summit League last season, with an RPI of 183.
The two schools have never met in basketball. An offer by the Bison to host the Hoyas in football fell short during the 2010 season.
The Georgetown Dish provides an update on some of the arguments put forth in the recent U.S. Commission on Fine Arts (CFA) debate on the proposed Intercollegiate Athletics Center. Once criticized for being too modern, it was then criticized for being too, well, traditional.
"It keeps looking like a dormitory wrapped around a gym," said committee chair Earl Powell. Added commission member Edwin Schlossberg, "It feels weird that a great big gym doesnÆt look like a great big gym.ö
Changes were made after officials complained of too much glass and not enough brickwork in an earlier proposal.
"A lot of this comes from the Old Georgetown Board,ö said architect William Gridley. ōThey told us to shrink the building footprint and raise the height.ö But the reviewers come at this from a different, well, angle.
"I donÆt like the massing,ö said commission member Witold Rybczynski.
Regulatory approvals for the proposed Intercollegiate Athletics Center (aka Athletic Training Facility) continued its deliberate pace Thursday when the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts (CFA) approved some, but not all, of the proposed facility.
"According to the commissionÆs secretary, Thomas Luebke, the board approved the buildingÆs location, overall shape and intended use as well as its architectural relationship to surrounding buildings," writes The HOYA, which noted that the commission chose not to vote on the exterior plans, sending this back to the Old Georgetown Board, which approved the prior exterior plans April 5 after three rounds of review, but must now re-review the changes proposed by the CFA before it would go back to the CFA for another round of approvals.
Assuming GU can make all the recommended changes, the earliest the University could get back on the Old Georgetown Board docket is June 7.
Seniors Henry Sims and Jason Clark were featured at the annual Hoop Club Banquet on Thursday. A recap follows at GUHoyas.com.
"It would be difficult to underestimate the role that our seniors played this season," said Georgetown president Jack DeGioia at the event. "Henry Sims and Jason Clark became the cornerstones of this team's trademark offense and its stifling defense. In their four years here, Henry and Jason have shared their talents, embodied hard work and determination, and provided the program with some impressive victories and exciting memories. But what we remember most and celebrate tonight is the quality of their character and the strength of their leadership. Thank you Henry and Jason; it's been a privilege to watch both of you develop, grown and succeed in tremendous ways."
Traditionally known as the awards banquet, the "award" portion of the program has been deemphasized by the staff, as no awards were announced for the second year.
Two courses short of his economics degree, Hollis Thompson talked to The HOYA on his move to the NBA draft.
"The Georgetown team Ś a lot of the guys were similar to me, focusing on school and basketball,ö Thompson said. ōWhen I came to Georgetown, it [had] the Ivy League feel, so outside of basketball, I could still work hard and focus in the classroom.ö
Thompson was the school's first "greenshirt" recruit, arriving to campus a semester early in the spring of 2009. Though he did not play for the team in 2008-09, it has allowed him to be within range to graduate a year early, perhaps by this summer, which may also have played a role in the decision to leave rather than pursue further studies.
ōI really want to thank everybody with me at Georgetown,ö he said. ō[It was a] great three and half, basically four years.ö
Playing basketball in New Zealand is literally a world removed from East Baltimore. For Kevin Braswell (C'02), he's fine with that.
A HoyaTalk reader alerted us to this article from Fairfax (NZ) Media, which takes a deeply personal look at the struggles Braswell, 33, overcame prior to arriving at Georgetown in the fall of 1998.
"Most of my friends I grew up with are in prison, dead, or playing [sports]," Braswell said. "The ones playing basketball or American football, I can count on one hand. The ones, who are dead, I need both hands and feet. The ones in prison, it's too many to count. Without basketball, I'd honestly be dead."
Braswell arrived at GU from Maine Central Institute. The article reports that Braswell was ineligible for play in Maryland following a misdemeanor drug charge while a senior at Lake Clifton HS.
Braswell often thinks about the streets of Baltimore he left behind.
"Basketball is a game to me," he continued. "Think about how small of a career basketball is in your lifetime. Fifteen years, if you're lucky. People should enjoy the game of basketball. I've faced my toughest battles."
Efforts to build the basketball training facility passed another hurdle when the project, officially known as the Intercollegiate Athletic Center (IAC), was cleared by the Old Georgetown Board on its third review.
A review of the plans in October did not pass muster by the board, a federal oversight committee, because the design slightly obscured the entrance to McDonough Gymnasium, reports The HOYA.
ō[The earlier version] was very real-estate intensive and did not have the best relationship to campus,ö said Secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Thomas Luebke.
The next step in the process is approval by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The status of fundraising for the facility, estimated at $55 million, has not been disclosed. Georgetown's last athletic project, the Multi-Sport Facility, stalled over fundraising and remains unfinished since initial construction began in 2005.
This site is built around links to news articles, not speculation, which is why we've spared our readers the litter of endless Twitter posts and "insider" claims on the recruiting status of 6-10 high school senior Nerlens Noel, who chose Kentucky over Georgetown and Syracuse as part of a 90-minute ESPN show Wednesday night.
Noel, who announced his decision for a college education via a "UK" carved into the back of his haircut, is widely perceived as a candidate to leave college after one year and join the NBA.
Georgetown still has one scholarship available, and in the end, coach Thompson will still add a great young freshman to the team. For now, best to Mr. Noel and his future endeavors.
The NCAA has denied an appeal by the University of Connecticut that stripped the Huskies of its post-season eligibility for the 2012-13 season.
UConn has struggled to maintain NCAA Academic Performance ratings for a number of years, with the NCAA having cited them for falling below the 925 threshold with an 826 in 2010. Writes the Hartford Courant: "In October, the NCAA approved new academic standards that required teams to have a 930 Academic Progress Rate over a four-year rolling average, up from the previous rate of 900, or face a post season ban. UConn's four-year average was 893, which is badly affected by an 826 score for 2009-2010."
"It's almost as if they've decided to get UConn one way or the other," said Connecticut governor Dan Malloy.
An NCAA statement on the matter, however, says otherwise: "Schools have known since 2006 that APRs below 900 could result in serious penalties including post-season restrictions. The same standards are applied to each institution; to ensure all data are comparable for each team, there is a necessary lag time in calculating all the scores at a national level. Also, in UConn's first waiver denial, NCAA staff noted the men's basketball team's overall lack of academic achievement and minimal academic progress over several years."
UConn officials say their expected APR for 2011-12 will be 978, the same as 2010-11, and they should be judged on two years, not the four as previously prescribed by NCAA rules. Low APR scores can come from transfers, early entries to the NBA, players that are not academically eligible at the end of a semester, or a combination of the three.
Also of issue:
"It is disturbing that our current players must pay a penalty for the academic performance of students no longer enrolled," said Connecticut president Susan Herbst. "As I have said repeatedly, no educator or parent purposefully punishes young people for the failings of others."
UConn is not the first school to be hit with such penalties, but the first among BCS-level conferences. In 2011, Portland State was ineligible for the NCAA tournament for low APR scores. In 2012, five schools (Cal State-Northridge, Chicago State, Grambling State; Southern University, Louisiana-Monroe) were also declared ineligible.
Some Big East news from ESPN.com, where Andy Katz reports that officials at Pitt and Syracuse will skip the Big East's spring meetings to attend Atlantic Coast Conference meetings instead. The two schools are obligated through June 2014 but officials are expected to push for a negotiated exit after the 2012-13 season.
"Hopefully, we'll get everything worked out here soon," said Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson. "Their league is reconfigured and ready to move, and when you get to that point where everybody is on the next page, everybody should move on."
A nationally televised matchup between Georgetown and San Diego State on the deck of the USS Midway to open the 2012-13 season has fallen through, only to see a rival school pick up the date.
Syracuse, not Georgetown, will compete on the historic carrier Nov. 9, as the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Georgetown was not able to get out of an undisclosed scheduling commitment.
"A different Big East school, Georgetown, was initially invited to play SDSU, but the Hoyas could not get out of a previous engagement over the same weekend," wrote the paper. "Instead, they got an even bigger name, and one that almost never plays on the West Coast."
Georgetown was invited late last season to participate in the event, to be a highlight of the city's Veterans Day weekend activities and be broadcast nationally. But last month, a quote from Georgetown athletic director Lee Reed did not commit to the event.
"It has the potential to be a phenomenal annual event for college basketball and for the local community," Reed said. "But itÆs still way too early. ThereÆs no commitment on our end."
New Auburn women's coach Teri Williams-Flournoy wasted little time in praising the resources of Auburn University in her introductory press conference Tuesday.
"It was a very tough decision. I built Georgetown," she said at the press conference. "We became one of the winningest programs in Georgetown history, but it wasnÆt a hard decision when Auburn University opened up."
"To be really honest with you I did not get fans at Georgetown University until we won. And when we win [at Auburn], they shall come," she said.
"Although Georgetown is in the Big East, a well-regarded basketball conference, Auburn offers two things the Hoyas couldn't: a sparkling new arena (Georgetown's women played in a building built in 1951) and an impressive compensation package," wrote the Birmingham News. "Williams-Flournoy has agreed to a five-year deal with a base salary package of $550,000 annually."
Williams-Flournoy compared the facilities at Auburn versus Georgetown.
"ItÆs not that much of a comparison," she said. "It wasnÆt the building that we could sell because there wasnÆt much of a building to sell. We began to sell getting a Georgetown degree, and we began to sell the success of our program and winning and going to the NCAA Tournament. Now my job just got a little easier because now I not only can sell getting your degree from Auburn University, I can also sell playing in the SEC and then to come and play in this arena and to walk around and see the facilities that are being built around here."
Williams-Flournoy did not disclose whether she intends to hire her former Georgetown assistants to the staff, said the news report.
Sports biographer Kyle Keiderling has published a book on the strategy behind the 1985 NCAA final between Villanova and Georgetown.
The book, titled "The Perfect Game: Villanova vs. Georgetown For The National Championship" covers the game from both sides of the court, though coach John Thompson did not participate in the book. "The author takes you behind the scene for the story of two coaches from two different backgrounds and styles who matched wits and strategy in a nail biting chess match in Lexington, Kentucky, for the national title," writes Amazon.com.
A hardcover or e-book download is available at Amazon.com and via the website Villanovamiracle.com.
In an unexpected turn of events, women's basketball coach Terri Williams-Flournoy was named head coach at Auburn University. A press conference will be held Tuesday afternoon.
Williams-Flournoy arrived at Georgetown in 2004 as an assistant coach from SouthWest Missouri State. The early years were a struggle, as Georgetown went a combined 50-63 (18-46 Big East) in Williams-Flournoy's first four seasons. The recruiting class of 2008, this year's senior class, began the turnaround, as the Hoyas posted a 20-14 record and an WNIT bid in 2008-09. Adding junior guard Sugar Rodgers the following season, the Hoyas earned three straight NCAA bids from 2010 through 2012 (versus one in the program's history up to 2009), with a four year record of 93-41 (40-24 Big East) and three seasons of Top 25 rankings. Her overall record at Georgetown was 143-104.
The move was a surprise to many. Williams-Flournoy had signed a five year extension in 2010 and turned down an offer to go to Virginia just a year ago.
"When we sat with Terri, it was evident. She set herself apart from everybody else,ö said Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs, though he did not indicate where and when the meeting took place.
In a brief statement, Georgetown athletic director Lee Reed said that "Finding a new leader for our program is the top priority. We are looking for someone who will embrace the high standards of academic and competitive excellence that defines Georgetown Athletics and Georgetown University."
The Post noted that the current staff may or may not be retained, which may affect a significant recruiting gap to fill. There are seven seniors graduating, and only four recruits have been signed to date.
"I'm very grateful to Georgetown,ö Williams-Flournoy told the Washington Post. ōI think we did accomplish a lot."
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A multimedia campaign has been launched to welcome Georgetown's next generation mascot to campus.
Jack Jr., or "J.J.", is a four month bulldog pup who will arrive on campus April 14, and it appears that it will be with some fanfare. A University web site has posted a video on the newcomer, complete with a interactive map on his travels next week.
The pup was donated by the Hochstetler family from California. "We are extremely grateful for the Hochstetlers' gift of a new bulldog puppy to the Georgetown community,ö says Stacy Kerr, a University assistant vice president for communications. ōWe are thrilled that J.J. will be joining Jack the Bulldog on campus.ö
The elder Jack will remain the official mascot, but will mentor the pup on what it is to be a Hoya, according to a report in the Washington Post
Jack injured his anterior cruciate ligament two weeks ago and will undergo surgery later this month. A full recovery is expected for the eight year old dog. ""Really excited about the new puppy, and, just to be clear, Jack is not being retired,ö wrote Rev. Christopher Steck S.J. in a Twitter post.
J.J. will mark the sixth bulldog on campus since the original Jack arrived 50 years ago in 1962, when a student committee raised funds to purchase and house a dog on campus. The tradition was dormant from the mid-1970's but was revived in 1999.
The Final Four has its share of Fred Brown (C'84) anecdotes referencing the final 17 seconds of the 1982 final, but a more detailed and introspective piece on the Georgetown guard follows in this link to the New York Daily News .
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How Ground types can still get paralyzed by Static. What kind of sense does that make?
How Ground types can still get paralyzed by Static. What kind of sense does that make?
I thought of another one: how cryptic evolutions can be sometimes. And how if you evolve a mon with a stone either too early or too late, it might have sucky moves.
In Gen I, it wasn't so bad... except for those that had to be traded. If you live with no friends and/or have only 1 Game Boy... hope you weren't wanting your Haunter to evolve anytime soon!
Now, we've got so many different ways to evolve mons, I'm amazed if someone with no prior knowledge got all of them without a guide. There's some that evolve when they learn a certain move, when they're in a certain place, when they're holding a certain item, at a certain time, and then there's those that don't evolve at all, meaning you might try everything to evolve them!
Good for you Yuyama. Too bad you've singlehandedly torpedoed any lingering respect I and anyone else had for you.Shokotan: "And then, in Extremespeed Genesect: The Awakening of Mewtwo, we meet another Mewtwo!"
Yuyama: "Yes, I thought it'd be better if it was a different Mewtwo."
When a Pokemon that is rated as outstanding by the judge ends up having a near zero IV in a stat that's essential to it.
the fact that i always think that fire-type moves are super-effective against koffing/weezing. they emit like... smoke and stuff, shouldn't that cause an explosion or at least be flammable?
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DexNav @ 252 encounters
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current hunt: marine life of hoenn, [moon ball] minior
Voltorbs that look like Pokeballs. Ugh. Do you know let down I feel every time I walk up to one and it isn't a fabulous prize?
I hate it when I'm walking and right when a Trainer comes in view, he's immediately in the line of sight and has the distance of a sniper rifle.
Haven't been on here since X&Y came out.
The opposing Metagross used Giga Impact!
I just thought of another thing that gets to me, the VS Seeker. It can really drive me crazy. The PokéNav was heaps more efficient. At your fingertips was the information of who was ready for a fight, and where to find them. In Sinnoh I'm stuck trying desperately to find points on the map with the largest number of trainers in the frame and a lot of the time will get the dreaded message that none of them are in battle mode right now, meaning I have to run in loops to charge the darn machine so I can inquire the trainers who were just out of frame, often only to get the same results.
In short, I'm glad I'm not a breeder. Footstep-powered devices are a pain in the neck.
All fear the vampiric ghost skeletal uber mr. mime caterpie!
Thank you Satomine Night for the awesome banner, and Mechadragon X for the sprite in it!
I think my biggest Pokemon related pet peeve is when people say that something in smash bros. is related to the anime (i.e. You can fight as Ash's Pikachu!).
Thank goodness Sakurai put the FR/LG Pokemon trainer in Brawl, but that led to "Why isn't it Ash?".
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One thing I don't like that's Pokemon-related, is how slow some turns can be in Gen IV ;____; I mean I love Gen IV itself, but I sometimes fall asleep while waiting for everything in just one turn xD It's often because my opponent and I are poisoned, then Rain continues to fall, and my opponent and I use some real strong move with a long animation etc. It's too funny yet I just don't like it! xDD
Its a really fickle thing but...
When I refer to Gary/Blue as Green and people always try to correct me and say "its not green its blue." NO! His original name was Green dangit. He was only called blue because we only got blue from Japan. And people tell me i'm wrong for thinking that way. I called Red Red, "Gary" Green, and the female protagonist blue [and sometimes leaf]. Its also kinda annoying when people say blue because I don't know what blue their referring to. Gahh I just wish Green has a consistent name like Reds D;
I kinda just wish everyone would call him green, including gamefreak. Cause red and green are complimentary colors =w=; and I like the name better.
My generation was so screwed up lol!
Its not like any of them are wrong it just comes down to being subjective...like everything else in pokemon XD. And then because a lot of people like to reference the pokemon manga [that I really need to start reading] The females name in there is blue and then it makes me all sorts of messed up when they talk about her in the manga cause i'm still thinking on game terms and that a lot of people use his English name and gahhh!! It gives me a headache. Just tell me if your talking male or female then i'll get it!
OK, three things:
1. Meloetta persists to be unavaliable in the UK and America.
2. The Japanese can unlock Genesect now, and us overseas 3DS owners can't even get Meloetta!
3. ...5 gens since the type was introduced, and there STILL isn't a Dark gym?!
Good for you Yuyama. Too bad you've singlehandedly torpedoed any lingering respect I and anyone else had for you.Shokotan: "And then, in Extremespeed Genesect: The Awakening of Mewtwo, we meet another Mewtwo!"
Yuyama: "Yes, I thought it'd be better if it was a different Mewtwo."
I get annoyed that a lot of Pokemon fans are so close minded and won't even think about a new Type and then they try to actually give a pitiful argument of why there shouldn't be a new Type. It's fine to have your opinion and all but it seems to me that they don't want change more than anything.
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My pet peeve would be people assuming the games are only for little kids. I've played since the first games so I'm going to keep playing!
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Good for you Yuyama. Too bad you've singlehandedly torpedoed any lingering respect I and anyone else had for you.Shokotan: "And then, in Extremespeed Genesect: The Awakening of Mewtwo, we meet another Mewtwo!"
Yuyama: "Yes, I thought it'd be better if it was a different Mewtwo."
Finally, there aren't really any types, at least that I can think of, that would make sense to be added. I mean, you kind of have sound, but that is covered by normal, light is pointless, air is covered by flying, and gravity just wouldn't work too well.
I hate when youre playing on the ladder or something and your opponent sees that you have Latios or Terrakion or whatever and theyre like "Oh noob you have a legendary you cheater." Or when youre playing on the Ubers ladder and you run into one of those idiots who has an OU team+Excadrill and say the same thing not even realizing they are in Ubers. Like seriously learn the tiers haha.
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I really hate critical hits! They always seem to come at the worst possible time like in a gym leader battle or in the elite four! I just feel like it makes the game unfair because the other pokemon just randomly decides to get stronger and attack twice as hard. I don't think pokemon battles should involve that much luck.
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What I really hate is when you go find a wild pokemon drop it to 1 health via false swipe and toss a pokeball with a +4 rating and it fails. That really annoys me to no end.
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Dw female
Dark Pulse
and Heal bell/Seismic toss Emerald Clones
Spikes/Leech seed
Outrage/Dragon dance
All Non-DW breedable Pokemon
DW females not listed
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People putting S an the end of a pokemon's name to make it plural.
All of my time belongs to ΩR & αS.
i hate how in the games all the professors are not even as smart as the 12 year old kid playing it.
LOVE MAKES UR POKEMANS STRONGER. bulllllsh*t
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I really crave balance and equality so for me when i see counterparts but is biased in someones favour it just feels weird, like rufflet and vullaby, no doubt they're counterparts, but vullaby's bst is higher than rufflett's. how are they counterparts now?
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Many parents have to suffer the death of a child, (during pregnancy) at birth or at a very young age. There probably is no greater suffering than losing a child, since it so radically interferes with the desire of a father and mother to see their child grow up to be a beautiful, healthy, mature, and loving person. The great danger is that the death of a child will take away the parents' desire to live. It requires an enormous act of faith on the part of parents to truly believe that their children, however brief their lives, were given to them as a gift from God, to deepen and enrich their own lives.
How to Share the Pain of Miscarriage and Grow
YES! the porch. i remeber both of those times…you for me and me for you. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.!!
Suzanne, thank you for sharing your story and opening your heart. I have not had a miscarriage but I have gone through pain and loss of self. After the birth of my second child, I experienced severe post partum depression and no, I did not ask for help at the time. I felt ashamed and alone and it was very hard for me to finally get help. Once I did, I got better but it was a very dark period for the first six months after the birth. I agree with what you said about learning and growing from that painful place in your life. I appreciate all of the sweetness life has to offer and you truly learn from the yin and yang and balance of happiness and sadness in our lives. I definitely learned a lot about myself and I am happy to share more about my story.
So glad this is here! I just got a really wonderful email from a friend today in which she wrote about her miscarriage experience that she just had. I will encourage her to share here, too.
I would like to share my story here, it was so amazing I had to write an article:
Our second pregnancy was planned and desired. After 3 months of trying it happened! I felt good, tired some times, lightheaded and irritable (oh, those hormones!) others. I ate really well, drank liquid chlorophyll and nettle tea – great sources of iron; and when my midwife checked the hemoglobin level it was well over the very good mark (10-14), it was 16!
I was planning a trip to homeland Russia where I haven't been for 3.5 years. I also wanted to show it to our 2,9 years old son Daniel. My husband George decided to stay home. Our trip was approaching and so was my 12 weeks mark. George who is very close with Daniel was not looking forward for being apart from us for a whole month. Then three days before the flight I spotted some blood on the toilet paper. My midwife Savita assured me that spotting was very common. Sometimes blood vessels on the outside of the cervix pop from the increasing blood volume. The nest day I had a little heavier spotting. Savita said that in this case I might be starting to miscarry.
Both of my mom and my friend in Russia kept assuring me that it happens and everything will be fine. My mom bled for 10 days and my friend spotted for 6 weeks and both had healthy babies. But my intuition was telling me different. Right when I had that first blood I was very surprised and thought about all the possibilities right away. I decided right then that I'm OK if that is a miscarriage. I just felt strongly that things happen for a reason, and was open to any experience. Of course I cried a little, and it was more of letting go, than being sad. To the delight of my husband we cancelled our plane ticket then – whatever was the case we needed to stay home and be all together at that time. George truly couldn't believe until the end that we were going, may be he knew all along? The next day (the day before the flight) spotting changed to drips of mucous blood. I took a really nice long nap, and started to get some cramps in the afternoon. They were getting stronger and stronger. We talked with Savita on the phone and tears of gratitude just kept coming when I heard her encouraging, warm, loving and supporting words just letting me know that my body is strong, healthy and wise and it knows what to do.
Then cramps changed into contractions. I felt the strong need to be alone and found myself in the dark bathroom with small light on and the door tightly closed. I asked George not to talk to me, not to come in there, explained that I was starting contractions and that it was painful. Myself, I felt ready. I knew exactly what was happening. Contractions were opening my cervix to let everything out, just like in labor. Having Daniel really helped my confidence and knowledge. I had him at home in the water with Savita present, so I knew what a pattern of a healthy labor was. The contents started to come out soon, and were free form, dark red blood clots size of a quarter, some smaller, some bigger. They were very soft and reminded me of pieces of liver. After a series of contractions I had a small break and thought: Is that all? And then more, stronger, closer together contractions, and more coming out, and then again, break, and contractions as strong as real labor, back to back, barely 1 minute apart. I was very comfortable on the toilet, and even thought: Next time I have a baby if I don't labor in the water, I can do it just like this! I rocked back and forth, buried my eyes in my hands during the contractions and slipped in somewhere for a moment. I felt good that I could do it. Sometimes I got up and rocked from one foot to the other like a duck, that was OK… At one point I wondered: "When is it going to be over?" really feeling like I need more energy. I asked George to bring me some honey and water, and that was exactly what I needed.
Daniel checked on me a few times, poking his smiley face in, sometimes kissing my knee. Later George told me that he came out and said: Mama is trying to poop. So I was "pooping" for 5 hours…
The last 30 minutes I still had contractions but nothing big was coming out, just mucousy blood. So I decided to call it a day, got up, cleaned the toilet, picked up the colander out of the toilet and wrapped it in a towel. I saved all the contents for a good reason. I wanted to take it to the river. It feels meaningful to do something like that. We saved Daniel's placenta and planted it near our garden. This time I wanted it to float away symbolizing the letting go. On a second day after the miscarriage it was a cool, wet, fresh, cloudy morning. We drove to Namekagon River and then stood on the bridge. By then all the pieces jellied together, so a big red clump fell in the river and was taken by the current. I went down to the water to wash the colander. I was crying a little bit, and everything around was just peaceful and magical. The birds were singing in the misty air, the river gently rushing by and a great blue heron flew right above our heads…All letting me know there is life.
Daniel knew about my pregnancy, we explained the miscarriage simply as that baby was coming out now, it was it's time. He was with us at the river and curiously looked in the colander. To a child at this age everything makes sense, is simply as is. There is no right or wrong, good or bad, he will take it the way the parent presents it. I think that including the child into such life's experiences will bring more harmony and understanding of the balance of life into his world.
I had some cramps for a full week after, they were gradually lessening; on the forth day, however, they got quite painful and sure enough the last bigger clot came out the next day. It can take 7 to 10 days for the body to expel everything, and after that still spotting for a couple weeks. Trusting your body, believing in its self-regulatory functions and having patience were the best things that helped me through the process. Most commonly women can complete a miscarriage at home, and many times now doctors send them home to wait until everything happens on its own. Watching the temperature afterwards and eating lots of natural yogurt to keep the possibility of an infection in check is very useful, as well as drinking raspberry leaf tea that is superb in regulating hormones and promoting the uterine health. In any case the plan of action should be determined with your particular health care provider.
I feel that I'm not pregnant anymore, but I don't feel empty. I feel that I gained all this experience! I had no idea how it was to miscarry until now, and I'm still amazed at the process (I understand that earlier miscarriages are not as intense). Analyzing everything made all the pieces fit together into a bigger image. George mentioned during the miscarriage that when I got pregnant, he had a darker feeling… I remembered having many dark violent dreams. I would wake up surprised, thinking: "I'm pregnant, it should be a light and happy feeling…" When I tried to imagine the character of the baby and how it would be when it's born, I had an uneasy feeling that I couldn't explain…Right now it feels to me that the sole purpose of this particular pregnancy was my chance to experience a miscarriage. May be to help me to be a better educator? I'm studying with Birth Works program to become a certified childbirth educator, so I can teach independent prenatal classes to pregnant women and couples (birthworks.org). Miscarriages are pretty common in a childbirth world, one in five pregnancies as statistics say. Some of them happen very early when women don't even know they are pregnant. And the fact of how common they are makes me think that it is a confirmation of a nature's perfect work to ensure that things are going to be just right.
Or maybe the purpose of it was to share this experience with others? People don't talk about this subject much, some might feel ashamed, or it is emotionally painful. We need to hear about the normalcy of a miscarriage as an important part of life. That way the shock, loneliness and wonder about what is normal and why will be eliminated.
Whatever your own personal experience and feelings about the miscarriage are, they are all valid and have the right to exist and be processed. I recognize that if that was my first pregnancy, my feelings would have been completely different. I can just hope that my story will bring some light, hope peace and reflection to your understanding of the spirit of the miscarriage…After all it shapes our womanhood and adds another beauty mark upon our souls.
Yuliya Welk, april 2009
Yuliya, thank you so much for sharing your story. You are right, not many people talk about miscarriage at all. It's something that is just swept under the rug. People pretend it just doesn't happen… right? Isn't that why you wait 12 weeks before you tell anyone you are pregnant at all? So in case something happens, you don't have to share or talk about that you had a miscarriage. And then if you do, everyone says well, it's common and normal. Maybe so but it seems like our culture doesn't give women much of a chance to FEEL it, which is also normal.
Kim, Heidi, Suzanne, Yuliya… such strong and beautiful women. Thank you for being here.
Miscarriage is actually why I think that women should tell their friends the second they know they are pregnant. Imagine miscarrying and not having anyone who knows? That would be horrible.
Granted, I'm giving my opinion from the side of someone who has never miscarried. But I have friends who have – and I was by their side to take care of them and help them get through the ordeal as soon as I found out. It's important to keep your girlfriends close. Pregnancy can be rough.
You know, I agree with you Shira, people should just tell about the pregnancy right from the start. Like my husband, he gets so excited he can't contain the news, and they need to be shared. And if it ends, so be it, friends will support and feel with them…
maybe wether or not one tells is really more about who they are. some people are so immensely private that it would be harder for them to have people saying "i am sooo sorry" and "how are you doing".
I myself had both experiences and I feel like for me it helped to tell the people i am close to "I'm pregnant!!!" :p so that they could share in my JOY. after so many losses…i knew this may be the only joy we'd share (as opposed to the joy of the birth). the people who knew I was pregnant really shared in my SORROW in a very deep way as well…a loss for THEM. anyway, such a personal decision but it is good to share about the benefits of telling eariler cause so many people wait.
SOOOOO awesome to see so many people in here chatting and sharing their stories . you are all WARRIORS to me. LOVE!@!! Yullya, can you contact me? I have written at book on miscarriage called "Let It Be" about acceptance, not yet published, and i would like to add your story ;p. it is so rich with the exp i had which is that we can get a blessing in all our pain…
ZenMommy, I'd love you to include my story in your book! The more people read all our insights, the easier the pain… When are you publishing? How does the whole publishing process look? I've always wanted to know what you do if you have something to publish…
I lost two pregnancies before my third one stuck. Eitan will be one year old on July Fourth 2009. I blogged about the miscarriages on My Space… Here are the entries I wrote:
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Knocked up…
I find myself once again pregnant. This is good news.
Yet I find myself riddled with anxiety. About money, about living in a concrete jungle with no trees or grass to be seen, but mostly about my lack of control over what might happen.
I think I will use this forum to get my feelings and thoughts out.
Six months ago I miscarried in my thirteenth week.
I woke up in the middle of the night bleeding, went to the hospital, and four hours later was told that there was something dead inside of me… in the hallway of the E.R.
Two nights after that, I went into labor on the toilet, and after two hours of bleeding and shitting and convulsing, I felt a pop, a gush, then I passed a mucousy ball the size of a large orange. It looked vaguely like a chicken embryo, with a little white string attaching it to a purple blob. I looked at it for a long time, then I flushed. All I remember thinking during the whole process was "good, my body knows what to do, and is taking care of itself. I am plowing the fields for the next sowing".
I wasn't in love with that blob of potential person. I was in love with being pregnant though. I was in love with having a baby, our baby, in my arms in august. And I had gotten used to thinking of myself as a we, to never actually being alone. to there being another someone there when Adam and I lay in bed.
It took me a while to get used to being alone again.
I am now at seven weeks. We found out right before my sister's wedding, and were able to tell our families in person. I have chosen to tell everyone again, because I was glad I had told everyone I was pregnant last time, even though having to announce that I was no longer was difficult. I wouldn't change it, so I'm not going to.
We haven't told any of our STL friends whom we miss so dearly, (though some of you will be reading this) mostly out of a fear of getting too excited. It doesn't yet seem real, and both of us are wincing in apprehension of all that could happen.
I know that anxiety is bad for my pregnancy, which of course makes me more anxious that my anxiousness could be harmful to the fetus…
I realize that this time is my time to learn how to be an adult. My marriage, my father's illness, my pregnancy, my miscarriage, my job, my weight… these are all things that are teaching me what it is to be responsible for myself, and I am grateful for the education – even if the means are painful.
I am grateful for the people whom I love, and who love me. I am grateful for my friends, even those who I haven't seen in a year. I am grateful for the many experiences I've had. I am grateful for the universe of potential that lives inside of me. As I approach a quarter of a century, I am learning to be grateful.
Friday, July 20, 2007
It occurs to me that this is the hardest thing I've ever done.
Pregnancy is hard. The thing is, we do it, and we like it, because we end up with a child to share genes and unconditional love with.
At least, we're supposed to end up with a child.
Miscarriage is like if someone were to promise you a million dollars, and then instead of a check, they send you anthrax with a note that says, "sniff this shit, then I'll give you a million dollars". Then you are sick as a dog for a few months, then you get a note with an address at which to pick up your check, but when you get there someone punches you in the face, calls you a sucker, and steals your wallet.
So now, I've fallen for the promise again, and I've been sick as a dog for a few months… and I've got this letter in my hand…
I have an appointment in two and a half weeks with the midwife, at which we will listen for the heart beat. Its either there or it isn't at that point.
I find myself expecting a punch in the face…
This sucks.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Spotting. Couldn't hear a heart beat. Ultrasound tomorrow morning.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
… We'll see
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Punch in the face.
your words pull to my core. your poem…your "anthrax"…your "punched in the face"… all speak to me of the deep HOPE/DESIRE and LOVE of an expectant mother and then the pain…
even your mention of the dreaded words…"no heartbeat". how those words ring in my ears. "no heart beat". …so many of us women that have lost a baby…we lay there thinking/praying/wishing for one thing as they put that gel on the tummy LET THERE BE A HEARTBEAT. then the words…or even the flat look on the nurse or doctors face. no heartbeat.
thank you for sharing these intimate details of your life and your pain with me and other women. i feel it will help many. what a blessing eitan is. happy birthday beautiful baby boy!!!
I don't even know how I could begin this. But, in a nutshell, I was crazy in love and started the process of moving in with the guy. At the same time I was experiencing pregnancy symptoms – morning (evening, afternoon) sickness, metal taste in my mouth, boobs the size of watermelons, all kinds of things. I knew in my gut what those symptoms were about. I was very open with him about it and we monitored everything closely. It was unexpected but we decided to take the joyful route.
There was someone in his life, a female, who caused us a lot of problems and I'm pretty sure she was jealous. I won't get into what she did but she caused me a lot of grief and it interfered with my concentration on how I felt about what my future might be like if I had a baby. I was very stressed out and unhappy because of her and what she was doing to us, when I could have been daydreaming and thrilled instead.
I lost the baby soon after and at the time I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It was really early and there were no complications at all – that's not to say it was a pleasure, because it wasn't! But I didn't have any physical/medical problems, thank god. But the dude didn't seem to understand where I was physically and mentally.
We had a big fight because of this female presence and also because he didn't seem to understand my hormone highs and lows that made me really emotional, and he kicked me out of his house (just days after I lost the baby). I promise I'm not insane, the guy really is a real dud !!
The two things I'm grieving over are the fact that he made me go through this alone, and the baby and our future that would have been.
It was so short-lived but I got to experience that physical and emotional change that comes with that first beginning stage of pregnancy. This primal, instinctive love that just erupts from your soul when that happens. NOW I know what love feels like.
So I'm coping with a breakup and that. It's… intense and powerful.
I've also now been left with the feeling that I really want to have a child in the future. I hope I can do that someday, when I'm in a really good place.
Thanks for opening this up!! I haven't had anywhere to really discuss this. There is a lot I'm leaving out for the sake of privacy but what I've written here is the main story. But anyway, I'm doing ok now. 🙂 The highs beat the lows.
My heart goes out to you in all of this. Thank you for sharng your life. I know so many can relate, without even having lived through what you have lived through…to the whole idea of not feeling we have "support" or supportive people at different and important times in our lives.
Surely our pain has to be eased when we find ourselves surrounded by loving, understanding people. Likewise, our pain seems to be doubled if and when we don't. I have never been in a more vulnerable or needy place then after the loss of our babies…and for this reason I want you to kow that you are not alone. No matter how insensative this man, this woman…anyone in your life treat you, know this for certain. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I hope you can feel me and know this in your soul. I hope you feel the big (((hug))) I am sending you as I type. Your story has brought tears to my eyes because I identify with that feeling of lonliness and lack of support you describe here… even in the midst of a loving marriage and suportive friends and family, I think it must be fairly normal for us to go there as grieving mothers.
There is nothing like the lose of a child, one that you dream of holding one day, of bringing up with the babies father…and then in the blink of an eye it is gone.
Do you ever talk to your baby? Know that this relationship is there for you and can be comforting…mine all have names and i think of htem often and now in a joyful way…but this took time. You can even name your little one :p, plant flowers that will come back every year. This has been very healing for me. We planted Lillies. I love to see them growing bigger and bigger as the years pass. When they bloom for me it's like a birth day of sorts every year. If you want to talk some more, feel free to post here or email me at suzanne @ mymommymanual.com *smils* *hugs* to you dear one…
I don't know if your conversations are still going, but I am beginning to write about my experience of delivering my baby girl–stillborn–on my blog. She was born/died exactly four weeks from her due date (8 months).
Amy, Thank you for sharing your story. (please click on amy's name above to visit her blog…)
so much heart. the pain you must be in. to have carried your sweet girl all those months. to deliver her. you share your thoughts and fears so openly… i know this will help many others to read who find themselves in a similar place of pain, grief and lose. the most striking words for me in your post are these, as they speak to our tendency as mothers to blame ourselves when something goes wrong-
"I hadn't been taking my prenatal vitamins… could that have caused it? What about the antidepressants I was on? I gained about 20 pounds more than I should have… maybe that killed her. Maybe all the stress I was under killed her. And, my most shameful, lifelong guilty conscience wonders if the occasional beer that I partook in may have had an affect."
I have miscarried 5 times and the first 3 or 4 i just knew i was doing SOMETHING wrong. by 5 it finally dawned on me… these were just the circumstances of my life. they were not my fault… and they sure as heck did not define me – who i am – who i can be. it has been a long, hard and at times hugely rewarding healing process. i pray for good friends to surround you, loving arms to hold you and a free flow of tears as often and as many times as you want to go there. i am crying now for you… and for me… even these few years later.
blessings- and may your heart find peace in all the pain.
Suzanne aka ZenMommy
I had a healthy baby in 2002, then got pregnant a little more than a year later. I couldn't wait to tell everybody in my life! But at 10 weeks, roughly, I started bleeding heavy and cramping. I went to the hospital and they pronounced what I already knew. I took it really hard, and my husband at the time cried for the second time since I'd met him. Then a few days later, his parents asked how I was doing and how'd my prenatal go the day before. I just started sobbing uncontrollably, and heard my husband tell the awful news. His mom started crying and hugging me. His dad replied "Thank God. You two kids can't even take care of the one you got. Everything happens for a reason, you know." My husband punched him in the face.
Six months later, another positive pregnancy test. We decide to wait this time because having to tell everyone about the miscarriage was almost as bad as the loss itself. We quietly celebrated it together, and prayed for a healthy child. But it wasn't to be. Five more miscarriages in four years – one fetus reaching 20 weeks and two requiring D & Cs. Then the rocky relationship crumbled under everyday stresses.
I met a new man, and when we became intimate I got pregnant right away. I warned him that I had had multiple miscarriages, but he told his family immediately anyway. The day before my first prenatal I lost the baby. We had to explain this to his family, and return some maternity clothes his mom had bought me. Two months later, I got a positive pregnancy test when I went to the hospital for a fall injury. I was by this time still not over the constant losses and didn't think I could take any more stress and worry. At my first ultrasound they saw the sac but no baby – and I should have been about eight weeks along. The ultrasound tech didn't say anything, but I knew there was something wrong when he left and my doctor came in a few minutes later. I was going to miscarry again. This time I opted for a voluntary D & C so they could examine the tissue.
Two years later, I got pregnant again, and all the symptoms came on strong, like with my daughter. We just knew this one was gonna make it. But we decided to wait awhile to spread the news. The day after I entered my tenth week, I woke up in a massive pool of blood, and it spilled to the floor when I sat up screaming. I was spending the weekend at his dad's place to help him out, but my fiance had to work that weekend so he wasn't there. I told his dad to call 911 and went to sit on the toilet with an icepack on my stomach. He opted to take me himself, so I called my boyfrind from his cell en route. As soon as I walked into the ER with blood gushing down both legs I passed out. When I came to, there were two IVs in me – one blood and one fluids – and my bed's head was as far down as it could go and the foot was as high as it could go. Shortly after, my boyfrend showed up just in time for the doctor to tell me I should be stable now but I had them worried for a while. My blood pressure was 57/21 the first time they took it, and it took them a while to stop the hemorraging. I said my head hurt from being upside down, but he said I had to remain so for another few minutes until they were sure my blood pressure was under control. An hour later I was having another D & C, and this time it wasn't outpatient. Instead of an hour to six hours of recovery in a room after coming out of he recovery room, I spent two and a half days in the hospital. And my boyfriend never left my room except when he was forced to leave for an hour when my roomate or I had another test.
Now I'm pregnant again, and when found out I bawled. I couldn't handle another miscarriage, especially after I almost died. So they put me on antidepressants and I started being super careful, super healthy, but we remained super secretive about the baby. I only told one person other than my fiance. Until the twelve week marker. Then we told our families. We're breathing a little easier now. There's still a chance, but it's made it this far, and the ultrasound looked promising. I'm at a high-risk clinic right from the start, and they said everything is as it should be. So I know it's not another tubal (one was) or empty sac (two were). And this one has made it farthr than all but one miscarriage now. So we're still not in the clear, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel after 10 consecutive miscarriages.
I'm not just venting the grief I still feel for each of my unborn children. And I'm not trying to tell people who have not been successful in their pregnancies that I can have a baby and they can't. I'm letting you all know that there is hope. And that I know how you are feeling. I've had ten miscarriages in less than seven years. My loss is no greater or less than the parent who's only had one miscarriage or stillbirth or SIDS baby. But you are not alone. And I know nothing will heal the pain, because I'm crying as I'm writing myself. Nothing anybody says will make the uncertainty go away about whether you could have done something differently, or is there something wrong with you. There is no answer to the question I have asked many times over: "Why did God let this happen?" But we can get through the pain. And there is still hope.


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FORSCOM Refers Extremely High Risk to Chaplains
The US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) has rolled out a new mandatory risk assessment that identifies chaplains as the primary referral for the most extreme risk cases. The assessment is a counseling form between a soldier and his or her … Continue reading
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Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative
To offer an insight into MAAF operations, the following article will put in perspective the collaborative efforts of MAAF. As listed on the site, MAAF is primarily about supporting and growing the community of atheists and humanists in the military. … Continue reading
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Atheists in Foxholes News 9 Dec 2011
MAAF has selected 43 recent articles of interest in the areas of atheism & humanism in the military, society, and government, both in the US and internationally. It was a big month as MAAF got a first interview directly with … Continue reading
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Army Chapel Welcomes All and Privileges None
Tim Mak at Politico reports a large cross adorning an Army chapel has been removed. Army Regulation 165-1, which governs Army chaplain operations, states "the chapel environment will be religiously neutral when the facility is not being used for scheduled worship" and … Continue reading
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Camp Pendleton Cross Privileges Christianity; Marginalizes non-Christians
I posted last week about religious memorials on veteran's day. The Camp Pendleton cross (technically located in the Camp Horno area) was one of two focus items in an article that referred to a long list of Christian monuments defended … Continue reading


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Niese's effort wasted
Mets' starter solid, but hitters futile vs. Bumgarner, Giants
Published 12:02 am, Friday, September 20, 2013
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Madison Bumgarner struck out 10 in seven innings of four-hit ball, outpitching Jonathon Niese (seven innings, two earned runs) to lead San Francisco over the New York Mets 2-1 Thursday.
Juan Perez went 3-for-3 with an RBI single in his hometown, and the World Series champions won for the eighth time in 11 games.
Josh Satin had a leadoff double in the fourth for New York's first hit. He scored on Daniel Murphy's single.
Dodgers 7, D'backs 6: Los Angeles became the first team to clinch a postseason berth, wrapping up its first NL West title since 2009 behind two homers from Hanley Ramirez. The Dodgers got off to an 30-42 start and were last in the division, 91/2 games behind the first-place Diamondbacks, before play on June 22. Los Angeles has gone 58-23 since.
Rockies 7, Cardinals 6: Corey Dickerson's RBI triple with one out in the bottom of the 15th inning gave Colorado the win. Charlie Blackmon had four hits and Troy Tulowitzki and Todd Helton homered for the Rockies. Matt Holliday had three hits for St. Louis, whose NL Central Division lead over Pittsburgh was cut to one game.
Pirates 10, Padres 1: Neil Walker had four hits, including his 11th homer, and drove in three runs to help Pittsburgh stop a three-game losing streak. Pedro Alvarez hit his NL-leading 34th homer for Pittsburgh.
Nationals 3, Marlins 2: Bryce Harper hit a three-run homer to back an effective pitching performance by Gio Gonzalez, and Washington kept alive its slim hope of reaching the playoffs.
Rangers 8, Rays 2: Elvis Andrus drove in three runs and Texas beat Tampa Bay for a four-game series split that left the teams tied atop the AL wild-card race.
Indians 2, Astros 1: Matt Carson hit a winning single with two outs in the 11th inning, and Cleveland closed to within a half-game of Texas and Tampa Bay in the wild-card race.
Tigers 5, Mariners 4: Prince Fielder had three hits and scored the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning.
Cubs 5, Brewers 1: Luis Valbuena, Nate Schierholtz and Brian Bogusevic homered.


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The Tech Effect | LeadershipJournal.net
The issues of how – and whether – to integrate technology into training go beyond the borders of corporate training or academia. The same issues confront other professions as well, such as pastoring a church, as covered in the article linked above. I was struck, as I read through the article, at how similar the issues are, in fact. How do you reach the balance of visual vs. auditory vs. written messages for maximum effect? When is one mode more effective than another? When does one interfere with another? Read some of the excerpts below and see if the issues sound familiar.
Has using visual technology ever backfired on you?
Stevens: I was speaking about worry and Jesus' words about the flowers of the field and how God cares for even the birds. During my message video clips of flowers and fields were appearing on the giant screen behind me, and there was a clip of a bird that we'd taken from stock video. It was a blackbird that looked like it was peering into your soul. It was really creeping people out. So every five minutes when the bird clip appeared, in the middle of teaching, I'd hear this reaction of fear and laughter. It was an Edgar Allan Poe moment. That creepy bird totally distracted people from the message.
The effect your visuals have on different people can be difficult to predict. I heard of a situation in our company where there was a picture of a person in handcuffs to underscore the potential legal troubles that could arise from ignoring the guidelines in a harassment awareness course. One woman called in genuinely distraught because the image triggered memories of the rather unsettling treatment her son had recently received from police. She asked us to consider the effect the images we chose could have on students. There is no way we could have predicted that that image, which was appropriate for 99% of our population, would be perceived in this case, but the point is valid. That woman was so distraught that she had difficulty completing the course, and it certainly was not an effective communication for her. Likewise, in the example above, the bird's image made it more difficult for the congregation to pay attention to the message being presented.
I occasionally use visual media and technology as a crutch to help keep what I'm saying interesting. But when an 80-year-old woman who lived through the Great Depression stood up in my congregation and told a story, she didn't use any technology, and everyone was on the edge of their seats listening to her suffering and what she lived through.
As the medium, she was infinitely more powerful than any technology I could bring.
But it is our responsibility to be resourceful and creative. If some technology is effective for communication, like a movie clip, great—use it. But if there's a story from a person within the community, a testimony, use that instead.
We use imagery. We use technology, but only to the extent that it enhances the message. If used too often, it can become more of a distraction.
Don't use technology just because you can. Look for the most effective method for your subject. A lot of people (particularly trainers) used to be afraid of e-learning because they thought it would replace classroom training and lower effectiveness. For the most part, we've now come to the understanding that both delivery methods have their pros and cons, and the proper application is both methods is frequently the most effective path.
Another thought to take from this quote is the idea of using a story for engaging the audience. A personal story is frequently most engaging, but anything with a narrative thread is typically better than the standard fact/concept, quiz, fact/concept, quiz presentation that permeates much of the learning/training field.
Is that why visuals are so popular—people now expect multiple forms of communication to happen at once?
Hipps: Whether attentions spans are wider or shorter, one thing is clear: the way we think has changed. In the 1980s the average cut in a TV program was about seven seconds. There was seven seconds of uninterrupted footage followed by a camera cut. By the mid-1990s it had dropped to two seconds. Images now change rapidly. Whether you know it or not, that actually re-forms neural pathways in your brain. For my generation in particular, the way we engage things has been fundamentally altered.
That's just scary information. Are we really so short on attention span that we can't concentrate on something for more than two seconds? While I have no doubt that the facts presented here are true, I don't think it means we need to follow suit. Some messages require more concentration from our audiences and I think we have the right to expect that they provide that attention without having something eye-catching thrown at them every few seconds. Yes, avoid being boring, but don't get caught in the trap of throwing in some 'bling' or drastically shortening your presentation (and compromising completion/effectiveness) just because statistics tell us we all have attention-deficit disorder.
A story or image is powerful, and it's going to do its own thing. It might take on a life of its own. So it must clearly fit the point I'm trying to communicate. If I use multiple images to illustrate multiple points, it's going to overwhelm people. So I try to have one idea and one image to illustrate it. Anything more is just going to get lost.
This point speaks for itself. Be efficient. Don't overstimulate.
Studies show that people learn best when they are actively engaged. With worship in many churches now focused on a screen, how do you avoid creating passive observers?
Stevens: Something we do that's insanely easy is just having people talk to each other. Typically the first five or ten minutes of a sermon I'll introduce an idea and then tell everyone, "Hey, turn to the person next to you and talk about the best Christmas gift you ever got." How simple is that? To actually turn 90 degrees and look at someone next to you in church is shocking to some people, and all the introverts freak out. But to engage and acknowledge that you are not anonymous is important.
This is such an important point. Again, it's engagement. At a conference I attended earlier this year, Elliott Masie had his audience turn and talk to each other about the topic he was going to discuss for 2 minutes out of his keynote speech. It totally changed the dynamics of the presentation from passive to active. We were engaged in the conversation, not just listening to him impart his wisdom from on high. It also made the room of a few hundred people seem a little more personable. We need to find ways to engage participants, regardless of whether we're all in the same room, or in a virtual classroom, or a discussion list, or even a self-study course. There has to be some way for the student to feel like a participant, not an observer.
If I need to do analytical exegetical work, words are absolutely the most effect medium. If I need to evoke an emotional visceral response, images work better. But you have to realize that once you use an image, you risk becoming manipulative.
An image pins the logical side of your brain to the back of your skull, and it doesn't matter how smart or analytical you are, an image will always penetrate behind your logic.
For example, if I put text on a screen that reads "naked woman," it will have one impact. If I showed an image of a naked woman, it would have a dramatically different impact. That's what we need to understand. Words and pictures are not interchangeable media.
Interestingly, the church I attend uses zero visual technology in its services: not a single piece of technology beyond audio amplification. I usually manage to get a lot out of the sermons (unless I stayed up too late the night before). It's also one of the larger and faster growing churches in my area, so it must not just be me. When I visit another church that does use multimedia presentations, I'm frequently turned off. I often feel manipulated, as if they don't want to allow me to rationally consider the message, but instead want to evoke a purely emotional reaction. In those cases it seems to me that the message is getting lost in the medium. Too much is concentrated on how to "get through to the new generation" and not enough on the message. (Yes, I recognize that this same phenomenon can occur in purely spoken delivery as well, but this article is about the use of technology so that's where I'm focusing.)
It's important to understand the usefulness of different media and engagement techniques, but don't forget: sometimes simpler is better.
In the end, balance the needs of your audience with the needs of your message – and in my opinion, the needs of the message gets more weight. If it's something that should be delivered visually, or as part of an immersive experience, by all means do it that way. If it's not, then don't. There's no shame in presenting a paragraph or even a page of text if that's the best way to impart your topic.
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Peace, nemeses
Garrison Keillor: The guy favored plaid dress shirts and a string tie with a tourquoise clasp and had an elaborate comb-over, a real piece of hair architecture.
Published 2:36 pm, Friday, November 13, 2009
There are some things we will never understand. Death, for one. I overheard a woman in the drugstore say, "He went in to the hospital yesterday and he was eating his supper and then he fell asleep and then he died. I don't get it." She didn't seem grief-stricken, just uncomprehending. (Why did it have to happen now?) The paranoia that has seized the Republican Party is beyond my understanding. So is the physics of cord entanglement: how two power cords set separately in a briefcase become so complexly intertwined in only a few hours. And why do you find the rudest people in first class? Passengers in steerage accept their misery with stoical grace, while the privileged sit in luxury in a cold rage.
And then there is Washington. I maintain that Congress would do better work if it moved to Buffalo, N.Y., and the Honorables had to experience blizzards and snow-shoveling and cold weather, which stimulate intelligence - SAT scores rise as you approach the Canadian border. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution says that Congress could not convene in Buffalo.
Any legislative body in which 41 senators from rural states that together represent 10 percent of the population can filibuster you to death is going to be flat-footed, on the verge of paralysis, no matter what. Anytime 10 percent of the people can stop 90 percent, it's like driving a bus with a brake pedal for each passenger. That's why Congress has a public approval rating of 25 percent.
Health care is much too complicated for Congress. The whole issue should've been handed over to a blue-ribbon commission of living, breathing economists - let them draw up a plan and defend it and stand up to the ranters and rug-chewers.
The Republican bulls remind me of an old coot who used to sit in my row in the Lutheran church, a guy who favored plaid dress shirts and a string tie with a turquoise clasp and who had an elaborate comb-over, a real piece of hair architecture. He muttered to himself through the sermon and never put more than one dollar in the collection plate. I guessed that he attended for the sake of his wife, a plump lady who sat between him and me. What he truly dreaded every Sunday morning was the exchange of peace. To shake hands with people nearby and say "The peace of the Lord" did not come naturally to him.
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I didn't like it either. I was young and idealistic and thought those Lutherans had more than enough peace, what they needed was some slapping around, not hand-shaking. But I was amused by how wary the guy got when the peace was exchanged and ladies went gallivanting around the sanctuary, hugging, having meaningful moments. He stood facing straight forward and wished everyone would keep their peace to themselves. One morning, during the exchange, the lady in front of me, turning to embrace me, lost her corsage. It fell at my feet and I looked down for it and accidentally kicked it and then went to retrieve it and stepped past the plump lady, and the old coot turned, horror-stricken, to see me coming. He tried to retreat but was blocked by other worshipers. My hair was a little long at the time and maybe he expected me to plant a major peace on him - and then he saw me bend down and pick up the flower. He looked disgusted. It was what they call a transforming moment. I had always looked down on the guy and here he was, upset, because he thought I was going to love him up. He stuck out his hand to fend me off and I shook it.
The way to pass health care is for the president to praise Republicans for their courage and foresight and compassion until he scares them to death and they let the thing pass. The way to fight these guys is to make them think you might like them.
Garrison Keillor is the author of "77 Love Sonnets," published by Common Good Books.


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The following are taping results (spoilers) for this Thursday's edition of "WWE Superstars" on WGN:
– John Morrison is out doing commentary with JR and Grisham.
– Rey Mysterio def. Shelton Benjamin
Post match Benjamin and Morrison face off. It ends with Morrison clocking Shelton and walking out with a cocky grin.
– Christian def. Mark Henry
– The Big Show vs. Hornswoggle. It was a pretty brief match which saw Big Show placing Hornswoggle on the top rope and asking him to do his "tadpole splash" on him as he laid down for him. As Hornswoggle went off the top rope, Big Show rolled away and Hornswoggle missed. Big Show laughed and set Hornswoggle on the top rope to do it again, but this time Goldust did a run-in and attacked Big Show. The two brawled and the match ended in a no contest.
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Eco-USA This site is maintained by a chemist from Indiana who previously worked for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. It began in 2000 as a repository for information about Indiana's superfund sites and the contaminants found within them. The site gradually expanded to cover neighboring states, environmental organizations, and images of various plants and animals.
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EIGHT juniors signed on for the annual Stokes Family Trophy competition and marked the 10th anniversary of this popular event.
Thankfully the weather was a good deal kinder this year with sunny spells and a calm sea.
Last year's joint winner Nathan McMaster kicked off proceedings with a corkwing wrasse but was later overtaken by Connor Hallett with a slightly heavier specimen.
All but one of the competitors landed fish with shanny, corkwing and ballan wrasse, tompot blenny, flounder and weever coming to the scales.
Weever fish are very prevalent this year around the harbour and several members of the public have been stung whilst unhooking them; these fish need very careful handling.
All fish were returned after weighing.
As the match continued, Ewan Chambers landed a fine legal-sized ballan wrasse which catapulted him into the lead, pushing Hallett into second place and McMaster down to third.
McMaster managed to regain second place with only 10 seconds of the match remaining with a sizeable shore rockling.
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The junior section would like to extend their gratitude to the Stokes family who generously support this event with tackle vouchers for the winners, with thanks also going to the other sponsors on the day.
1 Ewan Chambers 441g (327g legal weight), 2 Nathan McMaster 349g (205g legal weight), 3 Connor Hallett 458g (166g legal weight)
Heaviest flat: Caolan Ayers 40g flounder.
Heaviest round: Ewan Chambers 327g ballan wrasse.
First fish: Nathan McMaster
First round fish: Nathan McMaster
First flat fish: Kara Lynham
Heaviest weever: Kara Lynham 17g
Top lady: Kara Lynham 70g (sixth place)
Wooden spoon: Eden Lynham
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I am a strong beliver that once you go natural, your world changes. Not just because of your hair style – but a new desire to live healthier than you did before.
Co-owner of Natural Resources Salon, and creator of Earth's Nector – Tamika is no joke!
She knows her stuff. I've tried to watch ALL of Tamika video, and believe me there are many. The videos alone demonstrate her creativity for natural hair styles, innovation for diy products and the actual knowledge of the science behind product benefits.
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Name and What do you do at your salon… (owner, stylist, etc)
My Name is Tamika Fletcher and I the co-owner and a stylist at Natural Resources Salon.
What inspired you to do so [co-own Natural Resources Salon]?
When I went natural the DIY approach was close to my only option. I recognized a need for quality natural hair service as well as natural products that were natural and worked without excess chemicals and fillers. I also recognized the need for general natural hair education. Most cosmetology curriculum begins education with relaxers. I believe
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Natural Resources is the only Houston-base natural hair salon that offers safe, locally produced hair extensions called Wildflower hair.
Natural Resources has appeared on every news station in Houston offering expert advice on healthy haircare.
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What came first, creating natural hair products, or your natural hair journey and why?
My natural hair journey was first. I loved experimenting with products but I could never figure out which ones worked best for my hair. It seemed like after prolonged use of any product my hair rejected it. Understanding ingredients were the key to unlocking my search for better products. Once I understood which ingredients work best on curly hair the journey was much easier.
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What projects can we expect from you in the near future?
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Thread: Box v Pause squats
12/27/2006 10:07am, #11
Then it must be the powerlifters who've got it all ass-backwards again.
12/27/2006 10:09am, #12
Oh, they box-squat at Westside, so what?
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12/27/2006 10:18am, #13
The key quote in that article is:
"Box squatting is the easiest way to learn to squat properly."
You don't need to listen to old Louie Simmons, though, just google those same words and see what else turns up. Once again, this is an excellent tool for people new to squatting.
12/27/2006 10:19am, #14
Ummm arent box squats suppossed to be supplemental and not a rplacement? Thats what I get from reading about them. I realized I wasnt doing a box squat when my brother asked me if Im bending my back. He said if you bend your back its not a box squat. Your suppossed to go straight up and build power out of the hole. You have to use less weight and its like doing close grip bench as oppossed to regular bench.
12/27/2006 10:28am, #15Originally Posted by GIJoe6186
Edit: I assume he means arching your back. Yes, you need to arch throughout box squats just as much as you do regular squats. And while box squats can indeed be a supplemental lift (I personally mess around with them every three or four weeks on average), they can also be performed as your regular lift (the Westside guys do these pretty much all year long).
12/27/2006 12:30pm, #16Originally Posted by Repulsive Monkey
12/27/2006 12:38pm, #17
Jesus, man. I already called you a jerk. What do you want me to do? Come to your house, poke your mother in the eye and touch all the cutlery with warm, greasy hands? Would that make you happy, you sick son of a gun?
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There's a bit of controversy regarding box squats for non-powerlifter athletes. Some coaches think that the risks of the exercise outweigh the benefits. Try front squats -- its really, really hard to front squat badly. Or zercher/goblet squats.


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is .psd an another proprietary adobe format?
remember the crying adobe did when microsoft tried adding .pdf support into office (why oh why didnt go ahead and do it anyways)
other tools read and write the format.
Other tools read and write PDF too. And yet, Adobe felt necessary to throw a fit when Microsoft planned to do it...
well I could mention the addon that alows office to write pdf files that I can download from the msft web site but that's not staying on topic.
my OP and the topic is that there is a need for a tool or option.
if MSFT can not for some reason fill that then I am all for a 3rd party ISV app to do that ... seems like there should be a fair market for it *if* silverlight and expresssion are going to take off....
and I am hoping that you and other folks will read this and start talking to folks about this issue.
*IF* i had the right level of knowlege and the time and the $$$ I would build the tool ... but it's way out of my area of skills; So I am tossing it out to the C9 folks and any interested developers / ISV's and MSFT folks to see what they can come up with.
and it's intersting the number of folks from the "Adboe and flash" camp who have gotten so upset about silverlight....
makes me think that MSFT is on to something here if the tools and support keep up and we get to a classic MSFT V3 of SIlverlight and Expression
I have seen some really vitrolic posts and blogs from both camps


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We have a simple code
WAIT 500 ADD_SCORE player 100 WAIT 250 END_CUSTOM_SCRIPTit would compile to
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1=wait 2=add_score 3=end_custom_scriptCLEO when initialised knows all the original opcodes under their names+numbers (wait is 0001, jump is 0002, etc) and all the custom handlers (.cleo plugins). It reads the lookup table and replaces string names with actual opcodes
1=0001 2=0109 3=0A93We hook the CRunningScript::Process() and replace an index read from the script with the opcode from the lookup table, so everything works as usual.
So, CLEO plugins must expose custom opcodes with string names instead of indices. And the compiler should be able to read the plugins export before compiling to collect custom opcodes names and number of parameters (if we don't want to manually update the INI).