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Eric Huber's dream was to make a beer with high-quality ingredients and no artificial additives or enzymes.
The bottles of Kettle and Stone beer and the listings at the brewery's Gunbarrel tap room name each ingredient so customers know what they're putting in their bodies. And the brewery name was chosen to evoke the most basic elements of brewing — the brew kettle and the millstone.
But now the 10-month-old brewery will be changing its name after Escondido, Calif.-based Stone Brewing Co. gave it a difficult choice: change the name or agree not to expand.
"This is my business," Huber said. "I don't want to limit the growth. You work your hide off to get everything in place, and it comes down to a noun."
Huber and his business partners Marty Lettow and Sanjiv Patel said they got the phone call from a Stone executive in September when they were still dealing with the aftermath of the floods. The voice on the other end said he had a cease-and-desist letter sitting on his desk, ready to send.
"We had been in business four months at that point, and we had the 10th largest craft brewery in the country telling us to change our name," Lettow said.
"Non-competition is not the American way," Patel said.
A representative of Stone Brewing could not be reached before deadline, but after publication of this story, spokeswoman Sabrina LoPiccolo emailed a statement to the Camera in which the company thanked Kettle and Stone for changing its name.
"So what's in a name?" she wrote, after noting that Stone wanted to avoid any legal action if possible. "To both breweries, it's everything. A company's name is not only its identity, it also includes the integrity of its products – in this case beer. Intellectual property is something that may be protected and soon after Stone Brewing Co. was established in 1996, we set out to protect our identity (and integrity) by trademarking Stone Brewing Co.
"To this end, when an infringement on our intellectual property is identified, our first course of action is to approach those involved without lawyers to discuss and see what can be worked out. Trademark conflicts among craft brewers happen. It's up to the two brewing companies to determine that it does not have to be a point of conflict, but instead a point of cooperation."
'You don't want consumers to be confused'
The craft brewing industry generally has a reputation for camaraderie and a "more the merrier" spirit toward the explosion of new beers and breweries. When Boulder's Fate Brewing Co. discovered it had the same name as another new brewery in Scottsdale, Ariz., both breweries agreed to co-exist, at least for now.
But naming disputes and concerns about brand protection are increasingly common in the industry.
In 2011, Longmont's Oskar Blues Brewery renamed its Gordon Imperial Red ale to G'Knight Imperial Red after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from San Jose, Calif.-based Gordon Biersch Brewing Co. The local beer was named for the late brewer Gordon Knight.
Dale Katechis, Oskar Blues' founder, told the Camera at the time that he didn't want to have the fight, which is the same reason Huber gave for changing Kettle and Stone's name.
More recently, Longmont-based Left Hand Brewing filed for a trademark on the term "Nitro" and Oskar Blues followed with a trademark request for "Old Chub Nitro." Left Hand said it would not object to the Old Chub Nitro, but Anheuser-Busch, the nation's largest brewing company, has indicated it may object to the trademarking of "Nitro."
Professor Margaret Campbell of the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business said established brands tend to be concerned about customers getting confused and then losing business to the new brand.
When cases do go to court, both sides will bring in expert witnesses who have done tests on how customers understand the relationship between two products with similar or overlapping names.
"You would be surprised how often consumers are confused by similar names within the same product category," she said. "They might think it's a spinoff or a sub-brand. Personally, as a marketing professor, I think the notion that you don't want consumers to be confused is a legitimate one."
John Vaughn, an attorney at Caplan and Earnest, a Boulder law firm, said the issue of consumer confusion can be mitigated by, for example, different product labeling and logos. Stone uses a characteristic gargoyle on all of its beers; Kettle and Stone uses three hop buds.
But large companies tend to be aggressive in defense of their brand, and such cases are expensive to litigate, he said.
'There are only so many nouns'
Trademark infringement has been an issue in every industry for years, he said, but the growth of the craft beer sector means such cases likely will be more common.
"What the bigger brand is concerned about is that the smaller company will trade on their good will," Vaughn said.
Both Campbell and Vaughn had the same advice: If you want to be sure no one else has the name, use a made-up word.
Huber and Lettow said they aren't ready to announce the new name just yet. They're finalizing the paperwork and selling off the existing inventory of Kettle and Stone beers in the old bottles.
Coming up with the new name wasn't easy.
"For three months, it was like having a slot machine running in your head," Lettow said. "You think of something, and the first thing you do is look it up and you say, 'Oh, that word is in this beer's name or that brewery's name.'"
Huber said it was hard to find unused words.
"There are only so many nouns, and most of them have been used at some point," he said.
They said they're happy with the name and feel they found something that reflects the same underlying philosophy as Kettle and Stone.
With the decision made, Huber and Lettow said they're eager to get back to making great beer and introducing it to new customers.
Next weekend, they're hosting a big party with bands for a limited release of a newly coined American Bold Ale.
Huber said he wants customers to know that nothing will change about the beer.
"We're not going anywhere," he said.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Erica Meltzer at 303-473-1355 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Michael Jackson's entombment comes as a great relief to the entire Jackson family, but no one is more relieved to have this closure than family matriarch Katherine.
"Everyone's been telling her how strong she is, but even she said, 'It's not always easy to be this strong,'" said Jackson family friend the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Katherine Jackson has been involved in the decision-making process for all aspects of the entombment, and she's also been influential in which money-making deals some of her other children do — or don't — accept.
"She's put a stop to a lot of arrangements that could have resulted in some of Michael's brothers getting a paycheck," said a family friend. "There have been huge fights over it; she's stood her ground."
Much has been made about Katherine's age, 79, and whether she was up to caring for Michael's kids, Paris, Prince and Blanket. One person in direct contact with Katherine says she's feeling the stress of having the kids on a daily basis, and she might reach out for help.
She won't turn to Diana Ross, though. "There have been conversations about Debbie Rowe spending more time with the kids," said the source. "There's nothing set yet, but there are conversations within the family about Debbie being more involved. It's hard on Katherine."
After Oprah comments, Chris Brown is 'done'
In the new issue of People magazine, Chris Brown says he felt like Oprah Winfrey's show about domestic violence, which was dedicated to "all the Rihannas of the world," and aired after he assaulted ex-girlfriend Rihanna, was a "slap in the face."
"I commend Oprah on being like, 'This is a problem,' but it was a slap in my face," Brown told People. "I did a lot of stuff for her, like going to Africa and performing for her school. She could've been more helpful, like, 'OK, I'm going to help both of these people out.'"
Brown might come to regret speaking out on the issue. "He's done," said one well-placed source with direct connections to some of Brown's endorsement opportunities. "Whatever good will he had, he's totally ruined it by saying that. What was he thinking? And who the hell goes up against Oprah? It just shows he doesn't think. No one is going to want him as the face of their brand."
Brown's rep didn't return a call for comment. Winfrey had this to say about Brown's quotes to People: "Oprah is very appreciative that Chris Brown performed at her school, but she takes domestic abuse very seriously. She hopes he gets the counseling he needs."
Weekend box office
If "All About Steve" is going to dominate movie theaters this weekend, then it needs to be all about ignoring all the bad buzz surrounding the Bradley Cooper/Sandra Bullock rom-com. Its main competition is "Gamer," which is going to appeal to everyone in the mood to go to a movie on Saturday who's heard they should wait for DVD to see "All About Steve." It should also draw the date night crowd. Even though "Gamer" is an action flick aimed at men, it stars Gerard Butler… enough said. Expect "Gamer" to win.
Courtney Hazlett delivers the Scoop Monday through Friday on msnbc.com. Follow Scoop on Twitter: @ courtneyatmsnbc.

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Of all the nautical terms you'd think a franchise sailing along with a nickname like the Clippers would be most familiar with by now, it would be jibbing.
It means to change direction, go from one tack to another by turning the stern of the ship through the wind.
Until this point in their history, it's been one embarrassing charted course of disaster. A dysfunctional collection of Gilligans on the SS Minnow, from Benoit Benjamin to Wang ZhiZhi, with every other Olowokandi, Korolev and Closs in between.
There's really nothing to gain by rehashing that rotting pile of filet o' fish that floated up from San Diego and has been L.A.'s Titanic-sized sanitation issue since 1984.
Except the stern is about to turn. David Stern, that is, will be leaving as commissioner soon. Trusted assistant Adam Silver will be the new man in charge working with skipper Donald T. Sterling.
Here's the perfect way to turn this Sterling-Silver connection into gold: Change the team's name.
New coach and former Clippers point guard Doc Rivers already has lobbed the idea up there to change the culture and image by suggesting they cover up those Lakers championship banners up on the Staples Center wall whenever the Clippers are in the building for a home game.
Except everyone knows what's behind that curtain. And what the Clippers are trying to hide.
Why not spin the spinnaker. Drop the dinghy. Reboot the rudder.
The ex-schooner, the better.
Throw an anchor around the Clippers' nickname, and its miserable past will go to the bottom of the deep blue sea and into that garbage patch out in the Pacific, smell and all.
So, who's throwing on a lifejacket and joining us?
"You do not change your culture by changing your name," longtime Clippers broadcaster Ralph Lawler said. "You do it by changing the way you do business. In case you haven't noticed, that has been happening the past several years.
"Witness the league's seventh-highest payroll and the current streak of 98 straight sellouts, not to mention the product on the court and the upgraded front office."
Witness, too, a boatload of money to be made by changing things up. Fasten your seat belts on this one.
The New Orleans Pelicans, for example, already have seen an influx of new cash, and hope, since changing its name. Michael Jordan's Charlotte Bobcats were approved to go back to being the Hornets next season.
The NBA seems to be all kind of open in the name-changing business. The Clippers should seize the moment to rewrite history.
"A name change would signal to many that they are trying to run from their past rather than continue to ease into their future," said David Carter, the well-versed L.A. sports expert as executive director role for the Sports Business Institute and professor at USC's Marshall School of Business.
"Assembling a consistently competitive team with credible ties to the community achieves the same effect, namely a repositioning of the team in the eyes of fans, sponsors and others that spend time and money with the team."
Yeah, sure, but isn't that what their chief rivals, the Lakers, already have been doing successfully? Even during a lean season like this one?
"The Clippers have to worry about themselves," Carter said. "They aren't just competing with the Lakers and their own past, but also everything else going on in L.A. To simply rebrand because of a competitor's historic strength doesn't make sense when your own brand is strengthening on its own and differentiating itself in the market."
Here's what doesn't make sense. When discussing the dynamics of L.A.'s two-team NBA beachhead for the 2013-14 season, we asked TNT broadcasters and longtime L.A. residents Reggie Miller and Steve Kerr to assess just far ahead of the game the Clippers seem to be from the Lakers at this point.
"We're talking now about the Clippers as if they are the Lakers. It's astonishing," Miller said. "Doc Rivers is bringing that championship mindset to a team that has under-achieved for the last 20 or 30 years. We'll see if this team can bring it on a nightly basis."
"And even if the Clippers do that," Kerr added, " it's still a Lakers town. I don't think that will change."
"Unless," Miller countered, "(the Clippers) go out and sign Yasiel Puig right now."
Or change their name. C'mon, get creative here. You're the Washington Bullets of the late '90s. Your name has become offensive.
Where's Charles Barkley, the voice of un-reason, to make some sense of this?
"Naw, I don't believe in doing that," Barkley said of a name change the other day from Atlanta. "The guys who do that are just doing it to make money. The way the Clippers change is to start winning games. They've got a lot of talent. They just have to put it together to make it work."
This is from a guy who just referred to this roster as "soft as tissue paper" and sided with Matt Barnes in calling out teammates who aren't willing to fight their own battles. How long before the Clippers' winning overtakes the Lakers' losing on this graphic of intersecting lines?
"Oh, I always believe L.A. will be a Laker town, no matter what the Clippers do, even if they changed their name," Barkley added. "It's about living in the present, not in the past, to be the best team in L.A."
Before we decide this rebranding ship has already sailed, maybe we need to look at all this from the perspective of someone standing a good distance from the wreckage to better assess the damage.
David E. Johnson, the CEO of Atlanta-based Strategic Vision, LLC, specializes in crisis communication and is frequently quoted by major media outlets as an expert in corporate public relations.
He recently gave advice in an Associated Press story about how the NFL's Washington Redskins should change their name, even if owner Daniel Snyder takes a financial hit for a short time as fans fight the idea.
In the Clippers' situation, however, Johnson sees no downside to a nickname facelift.
"People will always think of the Clippers of the past, as the poor stepchild (next to the Lakers), because it's too embedded in the public perception," Johnson said.
"If I was giving them advice, I say make a clean break from that stereotype and re-introduce yourself. Establish your own brand DNA. Establish a new story to tell, a new vision of who you are, where you're going. Sell your new rationale.
"Start by giving fans ownership of a new name by polling them. Find a local artist, or have a contest with kids, to develop a new logo. Even if they're not fans of the team, they'll get excited with this creative rebirth and rebranding process.
"We've seen this with tech companies, lifestyle companies. You sell it to ownership by showing how this is also a great way of merchandising, and you'll see a great return on your investment. Put it in brisk terms."
At last, a man of principles and profits. A clear vision to seizing the moment and having the naming rights along with it.
Creative thinking like that, however, comes with a price.
In our due diligence to find out more about Johnson and Strategic Vision's track record, we got thrown off track a bit.
The Huffington Post questioned polling data that his company used in trying to insert itself in the recent New York City mayoral race. The American Association for Public Opinion Research has trust issues with them. Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight.com called the company "disreputable and fraudulent."
That's a little disconcerting. You'd think someone like Johnson would have figured a crisis communication strategy by now to clear his own name.
So, after all that, what have we seemed to learn here?
Trying to rock the boat when it comes to the Clippers' past, present and future, and it apparently necessitates large doses of Dramamine. It's too drastic. Too dramatic. Too diabolical.
But then, if this team capsizes despite all its "newness" in roster and coach transactions, what other cutting-edge techniques do they teach you to do in Marketing 101?
Name it. Own it. Buy into it. Unfortunately, just don't expect it to happen anytime soon. Then again, we've never really understood the cut of these Clippers' jib.


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Lost in wild thoughts…
With the first sunlight,
I opened my eyes
I breathe in the fresh air
And forget all my plights
The first chirp of the bird
That tingles my ears
The open window brings the freshness,
In my soul, longer that hovers
The cool breeze that stings me
Also brings the first scent of the beaut'l flowers
I want to be there
To free the shackle
To own my dream home
Beyond the concrete jungle
In the wild nature
I want to live in peace
Mountains, Woods, Birds, Rivers
One among them, is my fairy dream
- Megha, The Dreamer
P.S : I was posting this picture on Facebook. As I started to write the description, I don't know how, but the lines came out with a flow. Seems they were deep within me waiting for me to realise…It's a dream, a very fairy dream


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Today's soccer professionals have a battery of physios, fitness trainers and doctors all striving to fine-tune their players' physique for optimum performance.
But are football clubs missing a trick in overlooking dedicated training for the most important organ of all -- the brain?
Scientists at London's Brunel University believe the game's top talents, such as Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, have mental faculties that are better programmed to anticipate their opponents' moves.
Research published in the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology found that of 39 players tested, the more experienced footballers were able to suppress the urge to act instinctively, making them less susceptible to feints or tricks from their opponents.
Brunel's study reinforces the view held by one of the greatest players of all time -- Johan Cruyff, who said that football is a game you play with your brain -- and offers tantalizing prospects for clubs.
Neural activity
Should they be able to unpick the best way to condition the brain's ability to anticipate an opponent's trickery, it could lead to better players and a potential stampede as clubs rush to add a neuroscientist to their back-room teams.
"I can see top teams employing neuroscientists in the future," Dr. Dan Bishop from Brunel's Center for Sports Medicine and Human Performance told CNN.
"That's because we have the skills and resources to witness very subtle changes in perceptual abilities that may not initially manifest in performance data, because people can change their mind midway through a task and therefore give an erroneous response, when in fact their initial 'preattentive' brain response was the correct one.
"I imagine that this will be most useful at academy level, to assess the development of young players."
Bishop believes the findings could help nurture a new generation of young sports stars in Britain, which is seeking to capitalize on a potential increase in participation following the London 2012 Olympics.
"We believe this greater level of neural activity is something that can be developed through high-quality training, so the next step will be to look at how the brain can be trained over time to anticipate the moves of opponents," he said.
"Particularly following on from the Olympics, with more people being encouraged to take up sport, we hope that our findings can be used to refine and speed up training techniques to nurture the potential in budding young sports stars."
During the trial, players ranging from novices to semiprofessionals were placed in an MRI scanner and shown video clips of a player dribbling towards them. They then had to decide in which direction to move in order to tackle them.
The study found the better players were more sensitive to moves and tricks by an opponent than those at the less talented end of the scale, which came as no surprise to Bishop. "I am confident the findings would be even stronger with professional players," he said.
"Much of the activation we saw was comparable to the activations we had witnessed in our previous studies of badminton players -- which included a large number of international athletes."
Neurological track
There is growing group of coaches who need no convincing of the power of the brain in developing top players.
One of them is Kevin McGreskin, technical director at Soccer Eye Q-- a company that specializes in elite performance coaching.
"I think that coaches either forget, or don't even realize, that football is a hugely cognitive sport," he said in an interview with football magazine The Blizzard.
"We've got to develop the players' brains as well as their bodies but it's much easier to see and measure the differences we make to a player's physiology than we can with their cognitive attributes."
His views are shared by Michel Bruyninckx, formerly academy director for Belgian club Standard Liege and now at Qatar's Aspire Academy, who is something of a pioneer when it comes to brain training in soccer players.
He places huge value on "brain-centered learning" and devised a specific program designed to foster improvement in a young player's cognitive skills. Bruyninckx places the same level of importance of neuroscience as he does football tactics.
Both Bruyninckx and McGreskin have embraced "overload" drills to help tune players' brains, where some might be asked to speak in different languages during fitness training while others are asked to toss a tennis ball around and call out colors during sessions involving the football.
"We need to develop an engram -- a neurological track -- in the brain," Bruyninckx told The Blizzard. "We always thought that sporting activities were mechanical activities, but we know that there are interventions from the brain."
Bruyninckx's work has been acknowledged by one of the world's top soccer coaches, Jose Mourinho, the current manager at Real Madrid who has won titles in four different countries and lifted the European Champions League twice.
"Mourinho immediately understood what I'm trying to do and he asked a lot of intelligent questions," said Bruyninckx.
"He also noticed that the organization of the drills requires a greater team involvement, more concentration, attention, a continuous inciting of perception and that intelligent playing could grow a lot."
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/26/sport/football/football-brain-mourinho-messi/index.html


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St. Charles City-County Library District
Board of Trustees
February 12, 2013
The St. Charles City-County Library District Board of Trustees met at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at the McClay Road Branch of the St. Charles City-County Library District. The branch is located at 2760 McClay Road.
Board Members present:
· MyraCrook
· John Thoelke
· Mary Reese
· Georganne MacNab
· Jerry Cook
Board members absent:
· Joann Leykam
· Lisa Pelikan
· Gary Heggs
· Debbie Haupt
Library Staff present:
· Jim Brown, Director
· Maggie Preiss, Children's Resources and Marketing Coordinator
· Richard Schultz, Finance and Support Services Coordinator
· Frank Noto, IT Coordinator
· Pat Batzel, Human Resources Coordinator
· Kristin Williams, Planning and Development Coordinator
· Sara Nielsen, Adult Programming and Community Branches
· Ann King, Branch Manager, Kathryn Linnemann Branch
· Martha Radginski, Branch Manager, Middendorf-Kredell
· Tim Deghelder, Branch Manager, Deer Run Branch
· Vivienne Beckett, Branch Manager, Kisker Road Branch
· Amy Koester, Children's Librarian, Corporate Parkway
· Laurie St. Laurent, Branch Manager, Spencer Road Branch
· Asia Gross, Branch Manager, McClay Road Branch
· Tony Bryan, Extension Services Specialist
· Alison Griffith, Information Resource Manager, Consumer Health
President Myra Crook called the meeting to order at 7:02 pm with the Pledge of Allegiance. Five members responded to roll call. Ms. Crook opened the floor for public comments. No requests for time were received.
The following reports were included in the Board packet.
· Financial Report—Rick Schultz
· Director's Report—Jim Brown
· Strategic Initiatives and Planning Update—Kristin Williams
· Monthly Statistical Report
· Correspondence
Jim Brown introduced the Strategic Plan Quarterly Update agenda memo included in the Board packet. As part of staff's commitment to the Board, quarterly updates are provided in order to inform the Trustees of the progress being made in implementing the Strategic Plan. The committees, their meetings, solutions, and changes are all communicated via the timeline and spreadsheets for each objective attached to the agenda memo. Leadership meetings are scheduled for January, April, July, and October. Therefore, quarterly reports will be given at the Board meetings in February, May, August, and November.
Kristin Williams reviewed each of the Strategic Plan Initiatives, and gave an update on the progress of the team leading each one. At this time, she also reviewed the target dates for completion on each of the initiatives and any projects related to them. John Thoelke recommended utilizing firm projected completion dates versus 'TBD'(to be determined) for various projects and objectives. Kristin assured John that by the next quarterly update in April, the team will work to reduce the number of 'TBD's noted in the Strategic Plan. Kristin also verified that even though a status may be marked 'Completed', this does not eliminate the leadership team's commitment to review and assess that objective and its parts, to monitor its effectiveness, and make changes as needed.
John Thoelke inquired about the fact that money had been put into the FY13 Budget for a new process for the Finance department and the Human Resource department for their budget procedures.
Consent Agenda
· Minutes from 8 January 2013 Meeting
MOTION: Mary Reese moved to approve the Consent Agenda. John Thoelke seconded. Motion passed five affirmative, zero negative, zero abstentions, and four absent.
Old Business
13-21 Assistant Director Classification Specification
The class spec for the Assistant Director position has been updated to reflect the changes discussed at last month's open and closed sessions. The Trustees reviewed the updated document. John Thoelke recommended removing the word 'or' from the Education and Experience section. Georganne MacNab commented that the description seemed a bit excessive; as a District, we don't want to "be too restrictive that we lose quality candidates".
MOTION: John Thoelke moved to accept the Assistant Director classification specification as amended. Mary Reese seconded. The motion passed five affirmative, zero negative, zero abstentions, and four absent.
New Business
13-22 Strategic Plan
As mentioned in the review of the Strategic Plan, John Thoelke requested that the 'TBD' (to be determined) deadlines throughout the timeline be replaced with an actual goal date. Once that has been completed, Mr. Thoelke felt the Strategic Plan was excellent! Mr. Thoelke also recommends the leadership team for each initiative present a monthly update on their initiative of the Strategic Plan to the Board of Trustees; one initiative per month at the Board Meeting.
MOTION: Mary Reese moved to accept the Strategic Plan as presented. Georganne MacNab seconded. The motion passed five affirmative, zero negative, zero abstentions, and four absent.
13-23 Policy c260 Parental Responsibility—Unattended Minors
In 1993, the original Policy c260 Parental Responsibility—Unattended Minors was created to protect the District from any liability regarding children left unattended in the library. This revision to that policy is to give staff in the branches the ability to address children, or their caregiver, who are not adhering to the District's policy regarding acceptable behavior (c184). This new policy provides safety for both the District as well as the children. It also provides staff with a safety net whereby a parent or adult caregiver balks at their instruction.
Upon review of the new policy, there was concern regarding utilizing the age of 8 as the minimum age requirement for a child to be left alone in the library. There is no law in Missouri regarding the age of a child who is left alone. After much discussion, staff and the Board of Trustees determined that 12 years old was an acceptable age for both a caregiver's minimum age and for a child to be left alone in the library. It was also recommended that the time limit for a parent or caregiver to be located by staff be adjusted from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. Lastly, the sentence, "children aged 8 and older may use the library unattended for an amount of time appropriate to their age and maturity level" be removed from the policy completely.
MOTION: Mary Reese moved to accept Policy c260 Parental Responsibility—Unattended Minors as amended. John Thoelke seconded. Motion passed five affirmative, zero negative, zero abstentions, and four absent.
John Thoelke asked Jim Brown to talk about his timeline on hiring an Assistant Director, now that the Trustees have approved the class specs for the position. Jim indicated that his plan is to have the position filled in approximately 120 days. He would like to have the position posted by the end of this week. The posting will remain for 30 days. There will be a committee formed to review applications, screen, and select candidates. The committee will conduct three rounds of interviews: phone interviews, first round, and second round. The goal date is middle to end of June, 2013.
John inquired about the role of the Personnel Committee in the selection process. Jim indicated that there would be updates given to the Personnel Committee, but there was not a need for their involvement throughout the process. Pat Batzel, Human Resources Coordinator, suggested the possibility of a reception or a "meet and greet" with the final candidates once they are identified. Laurie St. Laurent, Spencer Road Branch Manager, also recommended that perhaps the Board of Trustees formulate questions to be posed to the candidates during the interview process. Georganne MacNab suggested that the Personnel Committee place this topic on their agenda for their meeting next week.
MOTION:John Thoelke moved to adjourn the meeting. Mary Reese seconded. Motion passed five affirmative, zero negative, zero abstentions, and four absent.
The meeting adjourned at 8:27p.m.
Respectfully submitted
April C. Wootten, Recording Secretary
Secretary Board of Trustees Date


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In a conservative province of Kenya, a football team Unicef organized six years ago to encourage girls to attend HIV education classes has spawned thousands of teams for women.
We mentioned earlier that efforts to increase the number of girls' football teams in Uganda are being met with resistance. Many traditionalists in the neighboring country of Kenya were also hostile to the idea when Unicef launched the Ukunda Queens football team in the Islamic province of Kwale, according to The Times of London. "Starting a girls' football league seemed like a crazy idea at first," said Roselyn Mutemi-Wangahu, the team's coordinator, "We had to reach those girls. They don't stay in school or go to organised groups. Their parents keep them at home," she explained. "We had to bring them together to raise their confidence and teach them about HIV. Here, the one thing that brings everyone together is soccer."
Girls in Kwale have some of the lowest levels of education in Kenya, and traditional views toward women are especially oppressive there. In the province, girls are not allowed to speak to their fathers directly, may be sent back to their parents if they refuse to have sex with their husband, and are often beaten. Teenage girls are seven times more likely to contract HIV than boys of the same age, and the "treatments" make matters even worse. Witchdoctors in Kwale encourage people to have sex with HIV-infected patients, and some believe girls should sleep with their father and uncles to "make them fat and strong" and "open the door to other men."
Initially locals were hostile to the idea of a girls' football league. Anisa Kombo, 23, who is on the Ukunda Queens said that older men used to harass them during their early matches. She said:
When they saw us playing they cursed us. Some Muslim leaders said that we were being led into prostitution. Other boys and girls called us lesbians. Here the idea is that the woman stays in the kitchen. A girl may never set foot in school and can be married off at 12.
But eventually, people started to accept the league because the girls on the team were receiving HIV/AIDS education. A local man said, "According to our traditions, what they are doing is wrong but if it's about HIV, it's acceptable."
After the foundation of the Ukunda Queens, football league district chairmen Mohamed Said Mwakulola says he started going door to door trying to persuade more parents to let their daughters join teams. "It took three years, one step at a time," he says, explaining that in some cases it took more than a year to build a full team. The league, which is part of Unicef's Kick Aids project, has expanded, and now there are thousands of women's teams in Kenya. "There has been a change in our community in letting the girls play football - and it gives me hope," said Mwakulola.
Kenyan Women United In Freedom And Football [The Times of London]
Earlier: Kicking Old Habits


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text: > Opterons will do better with a 2.6 kernel (2.6.9 and higher). If you > are going to use RHEL, you might want to look at Rocks (RHEL3 based) or > Warewulf which should be able to sit atop RHEL4. If you want to use a > Redhat work-alike, you might want to look closely at Centos4. why the heck does anyone care about distributions any more!?! distributions are all just repackagings of the same stuff, sometimes with extra magic in the form of slightly tuned desktop GUI decorations. > I am sure others will take issue with this, but I would strongly > advise against using a rolling beta OS (FC-x) as the basis for a > production cycle machine. If it is a purely experimental cluster, go calling a non-test FC release "beta" is just plain petty; all software is beta by that definition. regards, mark hahn.


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Hurricane Earl felt like a hot date that never showed. I mean I got a new outfit, bought these crazy bands to help me overcome any seasickness I'd encounter during my ferry ride over to Martha's Vineyard for our big date, and I went to the grocery store for provisions. I did all that, waited for two days, and instead of showing up, Hurricane Earl had the gall to send his little brother Tropical Storm to meet me on the Vineyard. To say I was disappointed is an understatement.
I left for the Vineyard on Thursday and after working roughly three days with maybe three hours of sleep, I was finally done with Earl.
The upside, I saw Martha's Vineyard for the first time. And when work was done on Saturday, hubby and Cricket came out to meet me on the island. It turned out to be a great weekend on the Vineyard.


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(someone's) take on (something)(redirected from what's her take on that)
(someone's) take on (something)
Someone's perspective, opinion, or idea(s) about something. Mr. Huxley, what's your take on the recent announcement from the White House? My take on the problem is that we need to devote more of our resources to expanding our marketing campaign.
take someone or something on
to accept the task of handling a difficult person or thing. I'll take it on if nobody else will do it. Nobody wanted to take on Mrs. Franklin, but it had to be done.
take someone on
1. to enter into a fight or argument with someone. I pretended to agree because I really didn't want to take him on.
2. to employ someone. I think we could take you on as an assistant editor, but it doesn't pay very well.
take on (so)
to behave very emotionally. (Usually negative.) Stop crying. Please don't take on so. I wish you wouldn't take on about this matter.
take on
1. Undertake or begin to deal with, as in I took on new responsibilities, or She took on too much when she accepted both assignments. [Early 1300s]
2. Hire, engage, as in We take on extra workers during the busy season. [Early 1600s]
3. Oppose in competition, as in This young wrestler was willing to take on all comers. [Late 1800s]
4. Display strong emotion, as in Don't take on so. [Colloquial; early 1400s]
5. Acquire as, or as if, one's own, as in He took on the look of a prosperous banker. [Late 1700s]
take on
1. To acquire some cargo or burden: The freighter took on 1,000 tons of wheat. The bus can't take any more passengers on. We hit an iceberg, and the ship is taking on water.
2. To undertake or begin to handle something: After her husband's death, she had to take on extra responsibilities. Only a few construction companies are big enough to take the project on.
3. To hire someone; engage someone: The farms take on more workers during the harvest. We took him on as a laborer but soon promoted him to supervisor.
4. To oppose someone in competition: The unions were prepared to take on the company bosses. I can't play chess, but I'll take you on in checkers.
5. To acquire some characteristic: Over the years, he has taken on the look of a banker. The competition takes on more importance now that the title is at stake.
6. Slang To display violent or passionate emotion: Don't take on like that.


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text: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Donald Becker wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Dale Harris wrote: > > > Just wondering if anyone is doing anything with Serial over LAN? I > > heard that H.J. Lu had written some driver for linux. I assume this is > > something you can use to do serial console redirect. Or at least that > > is some of the suggestion at: > > > > http://program.intel.com/shared/products/servers/boards/server_management/index.htm > > This is IPMI serial port redirect. > While it's not specifically part of IPMI 1.5, most IPMI 1.5 implementations > include it. > > Power control and serial port redirect (BIOS setup and boot status > monitoring) are the features that makes IPMI 1.5 really compelling > for cluster hardware (albeit with a ugly underlying implementation). > Combined it with serial port redirect for BIOS configuration, you can > manage everything on the machine over the network. Even without an OS > or a crashed system, you can still examine the hardware and control power. > > The implementation is challenging and varies by system. We implement it > for customers, but right now it would be a huge amount of work to > support it for aribitrary kernels and configurations. > > -- > Donald Becker becker at scyld.com > Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com > 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system > Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 A quick comment and a question. The serial port redirect available on the IPMI option cards on SuperMicro motherboards is significantly flawed, at least in the current implementation of the firmware. They are evidently using the BMC processor to snoop the memory area used by the standard BIOS text console. This snooping is quite disruptive - all cpu activity slows down considerably, perhaps as a result of halting the processor. I just did a quick experiment, and saw the time of day clock lose 15 seconds during just 60 seconds of serial port redirection. To notice this effect, you have to literally use wall time, as cpu-based timings show no change. Also, even in the BIOS screens the tool is almost useless because of slow performance and dropped characters. I was hoping to avoid wiring serial ports for BIOS access and a Linux serial console, but have now been forced into this. This is a pity since the ethernet solution is essentially free, and serial multiplexers for a large cluster are at least $50/port. Now the question - the ability to do remote reset and power cycling in IPMI is a great feature. I've been doing this for several years, going back to the old Nightshade and Lancewood motherboards with their IPMI access over the EMP, and now via the ethernet portal specified in the IPMI 1.5 specification. I'm currently using a Java utility which comes with the IPMI option card to issue the IPMI commands. However, the utility can't be scripted and is very cumbersome to configure. Does anyone know of available code to do the IMPI 1.5 communications over TCP/IP? OpenIPMI at SourceForge doesn't seem to address this (I may be wrong, but it seems to only handle local access to the BMC via the most commonly implemented internal mechanism, KCS). If not, I'll start on an implementation soon, but I'd love to bypass this bit of coding. Don Holmgren Fermilab


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The College of 'Pataphysics
A history of the College accompanied by its principal doctrinal and constitutional documents: statutes, manifestos, pronouncements of the Vice-Curators and the Testament of Sandomir, etc.
Even unconscious 'pataphysicians acknowledge that of all the sciences, exact or otherwise, history is among the most imaginary of solutions. The present history is an exception that is the rule, like all others. It is based on the following sources (but could equally have been based on others): L'Histoire du Collčge de 'Pataphysique in Monitoires du Cymbalum 'Pataphysicum, I, 14 July 1985 vulg. (updated from the same in Dossier 26), La Vie du Collčge published in the College reviews, a few of the internal publications of the College, and Clefs pour la Pataphysique by Roy Launoir, Seghers, 1969 (including a supplement written for the recent Argentinian edition supplied by the author). The principal bibliographic sources for the College are the Promptuaire (98 E.P.), the annual Circulaires Phynancičres sent to members, and the book catalogue Collčgues de 'Pataphysique issued by the Librairie Sylvain Goudemare in 1988.
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Unwelcome home
Wick's World
As we pulled in the yard Friday evening, my first reaction was, "Holy Cow! There's a lot of snow here."
The driveway was plowed and the sidewalks were shoveled, thanks to our friendly neighbors. The winter landscape was actually rather inviting and the kindness shown by our neighbors was a nice beginning to our first weekend up north since the winter solstice. I realized that yesterday, being the first day of spring, meant that we had not spent a single day in Moose Lake this winter. That had to be the first time since the 80s when we would annually fly south for the winter to Mexico, Belize, Texas or our other southern paradise of South Dakota. Although the calendar said spring, the yard said winter, with plenty of it left.
The unwelcome home came when we turned on the water. A mini-Niagara Falls came flowing from the upstairs bathroom. Earlier we had a momentary malfunction in our heating system shortly after leaving our Moose Lake home. Although the neighbors detected it in a matter of a few days, the house got cold enough to freeze. Our repairman quickly had the heat back on, but it was too late for many of our house plants and a few water pipes. We left the detection of the water damage until spring when we would be able to return and inspect the water situation first hand.
So, as it turned out, our first weekend home in three months was spent with no running water, no cooking and worst of all, no whirlpool to soak in. It also meant no shower or toilet to use. We couldn't even wash our hands or get a drink from the faucet. We didn't mind dining out. That meant no dishes to wash.
My wife and I reflected on the half dozen years we lived in our log cabin when we first called Minnesota home. We not only endured no running water, we also had no indoor plumbing, no electricity and no telephone. A wood stove fueled our heat and cooking. Propane and kerosene provided almost adequate lighting. There were no cell phones at that time in life, but I did build a nice A-frame outhouse complete with old Sears and Roebuck catalogues.
All was not unwelcoming on our first trip home for the weekend. Saturday morning as I stood outside breathing in the crisp, clean northern air, I heard it. The sound was the song of our male cardinal that has spent the past several years living in our woods. I feared that he and his mate may have flown south for the winter as we were not around to provide feed. He no sooner sang out that pretty love song of his when his mating call was answered by the female. While a male cardinal is a brilliant red color, the female is very different. She is a pleasant looking gray with a few slightly colored markings. A difference can also be detected in their mating calls and answers. Both are rather melodic and similar in tone, but with a quite different song.
All in all, it really was good to be back home again. We had breakfast with old friends and learned some details about their interesting winter. I received several greetings from well-wishers who read my column even though I had to take a two-month hiatus from story writing. My apologies, but I just didn't have my heart in it.
Next week, I am looking forward to the baseball opener for the Minnesota Twins. A backdrop of snow is certain to make this setting rather unique. Shortly thereafter, with the help of some warmer weather, Sand Lake will melt her ice. Then I can get my pontoon back on the water and really feel welcomed home.


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American Pima cotton producers and marketers are on track to export 70,000 bales of cotton this season, once again leaving virtually no American Pima carryover.
China, the biggest Pima buyer last season, has yet to come into the market this year.
And the long term interest in Pima cotton by world textile mills continues strong.
Yet the spot market price of Pima has been falling since January to a price now of just above $1 per pound, 17 cents below the January spot market price.
"Far too cheap," is the way Marc Lewkowitz, executive vice president of Supima, described the current price at a recent growers meeting sponsored by Delta and Pine Land Co. at Harris Ranch, Coalinga, Calif.
He expects it to rebound to $1.10 to $1.15 per pound. World demand is too strong to believe otherwise, he said.
China's largest Supima-using textile mill has yet to enter the American Pima market. Last year it bought 130,000 bales to support its Supima-licensed products.
China purchased 42 percent of all Pima exports last year, 250,000 bales.
"I do not know if China will reach that level this year," Lewkowitz added. However, the more traditional Pima markets in Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Pakistan are showing much better this year than last, when 581,000 bales of U.S. Pima were exported.
Lewkowitz says 700,000 export bales is attainable for the 2006/07 marketing year. This is 25 percent more than last season. Sales levels through mid-February were running almost 35 percent more than the same time last year.
The Supima executive vice president said Extra Long Staple (ELS) demand continues strong worldwide. He expects this season to end with just 700,000 bales worldwide in carryover compared to world stocks of 1.8 million bales at the close of the 1996/97 marketing year.
China's ELS
China's insatiable demand for ELS cotton spawned the largest production in that country's history, 700,000 bales. However, Lewkowitz said the cotton is not competitive with Supima cotton. It is priced much higher than American Pima and will likely go to the domestic market at season's end. He expects China ELS production to decline next season.
One thing that is driving Pima consumption is Supima's licensing program. There are now 270 licensees in 24 nations paying $5,000 per year to use the Supima label. To use the Supima moniker, 100 percent American Pima cotton must be used through the entire textile making process. Supima for the first time is auditing this.
Many Supima licensees are contracting products from China's textile industry, and the Chinese are also promoting Supima domestically.
Although the American Pima price is down right now, it is about the only cotton game in town for San Joaquin Valley producers. ELS is so hot that the National Cotton Council has forecast Pima acreage for 2007 at 320,000 acres, 16.5 percent more than last year's 275,000 acres, the largest ELS crop ever planted in the state. NCC predicts only 208,000 acres of Upland. However, seed marketers say that is too low. It may reach only 175,000, but not 200,000 for the San Joaquin. ELS is taking away some upland acreage, but alfalfa and other forage crops for dairies also are taking out cotton acreage.
Lewkowitz did not totally dismiss that NCC 320,000 acreage estimate, but he said to reach it would require additional rain this spring, more snowpack and ideal early planting weather. April 15-May 1 is about the last window for planting longer season Pima.
When he made his presentation at Coalinga, the first of a series of winter storms had not hit the valley. By late February, these storms had brightened the weather outlook. However, there was a lot of catching up needed to win farmers full irrigation water allocations.
The late February price situation also was taking the shine off the 320,000 acres figure.
Largest ever
"I would be happy with 275,000 to 290,000 acres," said Lewkowitz. These are still figures that could make the 2007 crop the largest ever. An average yield like '04 would push California production to more than 900,000 bales. California produces 90 percent of the U.S. Pima cotton crop.


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Due to the winter storm impacting the region, PennDOT will temporarily reduce the speed limit on several major roadways in south central Pennsylvania starting at 6 a.m.
PennDOT encourages motorists to avoid unnecessary travel but those who must head out will see speeds reduced to 45 mph on the following highways:
· Interstate 81 in Franklin, Cumberland, Dauphin and Lebanon Counties (reduced from 55-65 MPH),
· Interstate 78 in Lebanon County (reduced from 65 MPH),
· Interstate 83 in York, Cumberland and Dauphin Counties (reduced from 55-65 MPH),
· Interstate 283 in Dauphin County (reduced from 55 MPH),
· PA 283 in Dauphin and Lancaster Counties (reduced from 55-65 MPH),
· US 22/322 in Dauphin County (reduced from 55 MPH),
· US 22/322 in Perry County (reduced from 55-65 MPH),
· PA 581 in Cumberland County (reduced from 55 MPH),
· US 11 in Franklin and Cumberland Counties (reduced from 55 MPH),
· US 15 in Adams, York and Cumberland Counties (reduced from 55-65 MPH),
· US 11/15 in Cumberland and Perry County counties (reduced from 55 MPH),
· US 30 in York and Lancaster Counties (reduced from 55 MPH),
· US 222 in Lancaster County, north of US 30, (reduced from 55 MPH),
Although PennDOT has crews treating roadways around the clock, the department's primary goal is to keep roads passable, not completely free of ice and snow. PennDOT will continue to treat roadways throughout the storm until precipitation stops and roads are clear.
PennDOT recommends not traveling during winter storms. However, if people must travel, they can check road conditions on more than 2,900 miles of state roads by calling 511 or visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, average traffic speeds on urban interstates and access to more than 500 traffic cameras. The 511 site also provides easy-to-use, color-coded winter road conditions for all interstates and other routes covered in the 511 reporting network. Regional Twitter alerts are also available on the 511PA website.
The Department also asks motorists to allow plenty of space when driving near plow trucks. Also, for their own safety and the safety of plow operators, motorists should never attempt to pass a truck while it is plowing or spreading winter materials.
PennDOT reminds motorists to pack an emergency kit for their vehicles. A basic kit should include non-perishable food, water, blanket, small shovel and warm clothes. When preparing an emergency kit, motorists should take into account special needs of passengers such as baby food, pet supplies or medications and pack accordingly.
PennDOT also reminds citizens that downloadable materials, including home and car emergency kit checklists and emergency plan templates, are available at www.ReadyPA.org or by calling 1-888-9-READYPA. Citizens can find information about getting involved in local emergency response efforts and other volunteer opportunities through the Web site or the toll-free line.
For more winter driving tips and information on how PennDOT treats winter storms, visitwww.dot.state.pa.us/winter.
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Nov. 15, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's cross country squad saw its season come to a disappointing end Saturday at the New England Regional championship, finishing 8th out of over 50 teams and failing to qualify for the national championship meet. Despite entering the meet as the fifth ranked team in New England and No. 23 nationally, the Engineers failed to finish high enough to earn the program's first bid to NCAA championship since 2001.
Yermie Cohen was the top overall finisher for the Cardinal and Gray for the first time this season. Cohen was the only Tech harrier to place in the top 30, finishing 29th in 27:03. MIT's top two runners all season, Hemagiri Arumugam and Jake Ruzevick had uncharacteristic showings today, placing 46th and 49th respectively. Arumugam's time of 27:23 was 31 seconds slower than he had run 8,000 meters all season. Ruzevick (27:26) saw his remarkable MIT career come to an end today. The two-time NEWMAC Runner of the Year was unable to capitalize on the momentum he had generated since returning from injury midway through the season.
Gihan Amarasiriwardena (27:27) and Richard Prevost (27:28) rounded out the scoring for Tech, crossing the finish line just a second apart, in 51st and 52nd places.
With five runners in the top 14, Williams easily took home the top spot, as their 36 points were well ahead of second place Amherst (122). Williams junior Edgar Kosgey won the meet with a time of 25:52, almost 11 seconds ahead of second place.
This marks the end of an impressive run for the MIT senior class, who helped lead the Engineers to four consecutive conference championships and four top eight finishes at the New England regional championship.


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This thing resembling a foot file is actually a deep pore nose cleanswer! It's made of floppy rubber. You stick your finger in the end and scrub after you have put your cleanser on.
It's a no brainer really. It keeps you skin nice and clean, is good for targeting a greasy nose area. I quite like it although, I don't actually know where mine is. Kitty thief?
Lots of these on eBay for a few quid. This is good for upkeep basically and more effective then all those endless nose packs and strips I put on. This is a elbow grease product.
Off for my RMK facial now! Happy Saturday to those who are nursing a sore head!


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I needed to do a couple of mock ups of some parts for a console and found that the 1/2 rigid foam insulation board you can get at Home Depot or Lowes works very well. It's not as messy as styrofoam. HD here were I live sells the 1/2 4x8 sheets for about 10 bucks. Easy to cut with a utility knife and sands OK. Once you are happy with the template you can transfer it to your expensive foam and also use it mark the cloth. I have not found any 1/4 inch product but it's pretty easy to adjust your dimensions when you cut the expensive stuff if you only need 1/4 core.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eric Holder was sworn in Tuesday as U.S. attorney general, becoming the first African-American to lead the Department of Justice on a permanent basis.
Vice President Joe Biden swears in Eric Holder, left, as attorney general Tuesday at the Justice Department.
Vice President Joe Biden administered the oath of office after reading the Justice Department's mission statement.
"There's no mention of politics in that statement. There's no mention of ideology," Biden said. "And that's as it should be."
Loud cheers and long applause followed Holder's taking of the oath. Watch Holder take the oath »
"Nowhere but in this great country could a person like me or the president hope to achieve the positions we are now so fortunate to hold," Holder said.
By a 75-21 vote, the U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed President Obama's nomination of Holder.
Holder, 58, is a former federal prosecutor and served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration. He was briefly acting attorney general in early 2001.
Holder takes over a Justice Department battered by a series of controversies during the Bush administration, from questions about how it laid legal groundwork for harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists to the firings of top federal prosecutors in several cities.
"There's a big job to do, and it's going to be Mr. Holder's duty to turn this department around and restore its credibility," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California.
During confirmation hearings, Republicans questioned his role in former President Bill Clinton's widely criticized last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich and questioned whether he would be independent of the White House.
Holder had a testy exchange with the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Arlen Specter, who questioned Holder's "fitness" for the office.
Holder shot back that Specter was "getting close to the line in questioning my integrity," and Specter ultimately supported the nomination. But Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Kentucky, cited the pardons and what he called Holder's insufficient support for gun rights in opposing the nomination.
"Mr. Holder is supportive of old ideas for gun control that have never made people safer at the expense of taking away their rights," Bunning said.
All 21 of the "no" votes were Republicans, but more than a dozen GOP senators joined Democrats in confirming Holder. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond, R-Missouri, said Holder convinced him he would be "looking forward to keeping the nation safe."
Bond, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, raised concerns that the administration would seek to prosecute U.S. officials involved in using what the Bush administration called "alternative" interrogation techniques, measures that critics said involved the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody.
Holder unambiguously called the use of waterboarding against suspected terrorists a form of torture that violated the Geneva Conventions, but he has said that prosecuting intelligence officials who followed Justice Department guidance would be "difficult."
Bond said that while Holder's answer focused on U.S. officials who were following the administration's legal advice, "I told him, and I believe he understood, that trying to prosecute these lawyers or political leaders would generate a political firestorm."
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A church that Midnight Oil co-owner Jason Moore served did a series called "Divine Direction" where each week utilized a different direction-themed metaphor. The individual weeks were True North (a compass metaphor), Personal Navigator (GPS), Go West (cowboy riding off into the sunset), and Direction Unexpected (moss growing on north side of trees). Each week had its own look that kept momentum going and people engaged (Figure 1).
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The MO Guys said,
So, what did we miss? How have you used media in ways not covered here? Let us know by adding comments below.
Gene said,
Great article, guys. One thing you've mentioned elsewhere but I didn't see here was 'physical' media. Like a bookmark printed with something connecting to the service, or the coffee filter thing…something that people are given and either take away to remember the service or do something symbolic with.
The MO Guys said,
Definitely, Gene. We just talked about graphics and video on screen but you're absolutely right–there's a plethora of different things you can do with physical media as well.
Henrietta Kissel said,
Title is 18 ways and I only see 13. Where may I find the other 5?
thank you
The MO Guys said,
Henrietta, It's 5+13.
koc said,
one of the best ways we've used video in worhsip is to interview people telling their faith stories. It allows us to edit down a 30-45 minute interview into a concise 3-4 minute story. These 'real life' faith journeys are a very powerful part of our worship!
Craig said,
I've had an artist do a 'live' drawing on-screen using a drawing tablet – illustrating the scripture text as it is read. "Painter" is a great software program for this.
I've also experimented in a smaller church with a 'prayer window' setup in Powerpoint (but it could be done in Flash). One or more children are invited to come and click on a panel of the window (on a computer at the front of the sanctuary) – the panel contains an invisible action button that links to another screen. we've done this to focus our prayers on particular people and places around the world. (I've got an interest in 'interactivity' – there's an essay on my website in the downloads section).
I've also done a "pretend" live satellite cross, where the person is actually in a room nearby. It was very funny in the context of a drama where we crossed "live" to New York and the person on screen was standing in front of what was obviously a poster on a wall.
I've just started playing with a "VJ" program – Arkaos – http://www.arkaos.net – which some contacts in the US have used a lot for live vision mixing in young adult oriented worship. It allows for mixing pre-prepared and recent media elements (eg. images or clips from an event) with a live video feed if you want. used in dance club settings.
thanks guys – keep up the good work!
Bonnie Greene said,
We use all of these regularly, plus videos that convey a really powerful song, like Greg Ferguson's "Leave a Light on for Me". I've become aware that we're evolving to a different stage. Instead of video or media as illustration for the spoken message, it's that we have the Gospel "preached" in 3 different languages in each service: oral, visual, auditory (the featured music). Each is a sermon–on the same theme–but in a different medium. I think of this as a transition like the one made when we moved from "illuminations" of the first letter of a hand-copied book in the Middle Ages to a fully illustrated book in William Blake to comic novels today. Very exciting time.
The MO Guys said,
That is exciting. This is the ultimate goal, for us at least, of what we're talking about with media in worship…. to discover a visual language to communicate the Gospel, and to not just use the screen to support, or illustrate as you say, messages rooted in text and orality. The support mindset, which we call the AV Mentality among other things, fails to truly capture the power of the medium. It takes a while to begin to grasp this difference. Sounds like you guys are doing it.
paul bagley said,
Often we like to highlight lyrics in a familiar worship song by flipping to a scene from a movie. It works better with a worship song that the church can sing with out the words so that when you flip from the text on the screen to a movie scene the church will continue to sing the song at the same time as the scene.
Also we have enjoyed using a movie scene with no sound just the visual to highlight a point during the pastors message.
Paul Clifford said,
What about in-drama support? Game show spoofs need things like a Jeopardy board. A drama about a church that isn't welcoming might use a projected still of a church building as a set.
Additionally, IMAG (if done properly) can draw the audience into the experience of the service in ways that just having a small room cannot.
Susan Ewing said,
As a very small church >100 including children we have $$ issues but lots of ideas and talent. We are doing a mosaic July 30 with those old enough to write writing a word or two of what grace means to them on a broken piece of tile which will form the dove in the mosaic. Having attendees participate in something concrete that will be displayed as a work of art in the church adds much to the worship experience.
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Ronda said,
These are good ideas but can you address some rules for what not to use for song backgrounds or sermons. It seems to us that our media volunteer has a willing spirit but doesn't really understand the importance of the what/how of choosing slides. He chooses slides basesd on subject but doesn't consider the potential distraction they pose. Often the images are distorted, distracting, awkward. Just some basic "rules". A distracting, uncomfortable slide is more damaging than no slide at all.
Brian William said,
I know the article was posted a couple years ago, but one of my favorite uses for the screen has been for popular music. I've used the actual music videos at times — such as Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is the Love?" with key lyrics added over the top of the music video to emphasize the message. But then I've created my own music videos for a variety of other songs — "Watching You" by Rodney Atkins (the verse about the kid learning how to pray by watching his dad), "Let Love In" by the Goo Goo Dolls (the chorus about letting go of fear the 'moment we decided to let love in'), and "The Great Divide" by Scott Stapp. The one I liked the best was "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence, using a simple sunrise video while highlighting key lyrics over the top of it.
I've been surprised that with the number of books, websites, etc. that have used movie clips as sermon illustrations that there hasn't been anything similar (that I'm aware of) for popular music. Especially because pop songs are already perfectly edited for worship use — two and a half to three minutes is just about right for an illustration.


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