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USA Cycling announced today 21 of its 24 nominees to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team, including 10 male and 11 female athletes across the disciplines of road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking and bicycle motocross (BMX).
Six of these were automatic nominees and 15 were nominated to the Olympic Team via discretionary selection. All of USA Cycling's discretionary nominations are made by a highly qualified, independent committee, facilitated by key USA Cycling staff, using the posted principles of discretionary selection which are centered on an athlete's capability to medal or otherwise enhance team performance and create a medal capable environment.
Road Cycling
In the discipline of road cycling a total of five men and four women were nominated to the Olympic Team, the maximum number allowed to qualify per nation.
On the Men's side, all five nominations were discretionary picks as no Men's road athletes met the automatic criteria. A Tour de France stage winner and one of the world's fastest finishers, Tyler Farrar (Wentachee, Wash./Garmin-Barracuda) will make his Olympic debut in the London road race after finishing 10th at last year's world championships. Following a win at the 2011 Tour of California and second place results at this year's Tirreno-Adriatico and the Vuelta al País Vasco, Chris Horner (Bend, Ore./RadioShack-Nissan-Trek) will bring experience to the American squad who will be looking for strong leadership in an event which restricts the use of race radios.
At 24 years of age, Tejay Van Garderen (Tacoma, Wash./BMC Racing) has accrued top five overall results at Paris-Nice, the Criterium du Dauphine, the Amgen Tour of California and the USA Pro Challenge and, along with current USA Cycling Professional Road National Champion Timothy Duggan (Boulder, Colo./Liquigas-Cannondale), will also join the team as a discretionary nominee.
Farrar, Horner, Van Garderen and Duggan will be joined by Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing) who, in addition to contesting the mass start road race, will also compete in the time trial. The youngest member of the Men's road race squad, Phinney will return for his second Olympic Games after finishing seventh in the individual pursuit on the track in 2008. Phinney proved his form this spring by wearing the pink race leader's jersey in the Giro d'Italia and finishing in the top 15 at Paris-Roubaix.
Since no Men's road race athletes met the automatic criteria to compete in the individual time trial, Phinney received a discretionary nomination to fill the United States' sole start position in the race against the clock. A former junior time trial world champion and one of the United States' most talented up-and-coming time trialists, Phinney earned the prologue win against the world's best in this season's first grand tour, the Giro d'Italia.
With the maximum number of start spots raised from three to four for the Women's road race, four women will represent the United States in the Olympic road race for the first time ever. After winning the UCI Women's World Cup #4, La Flèche Wallonne, and remaining inside the top 10 in the world cup standings, Evelyn Stevens (Acton, Mass./Specialized-Lulemon) earned an automatic nomination to the Women's road race squad. Shelley Olds (Gilroy, Calif./AA Drink-Leontien) helped secure her nomination after riding to victory at the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup #5 in China.
Kristin Armstrong (Boise, Idaho/Exergy TWENTY12) and Amber Neben (Irvine, Calif./Specialized-Lulemon) will join Stevens and Olds for the road race and will also contest the time trial as discretionary picks. The 2008 Olympic gold medalist, Armstrong proved to be one of the most dominant time trialists in the world in 2012, winning all eight international-caliber time trials she entered. Neben has also posted consistent top-level time trial results this season, including a gold medal at the Pan American Continental Championships.
Track Cycling
In the discipline of track cycling, a total of two men and four women were nominated to the Olympic Team.
Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling) was the only track cycling athlete to receive an automatic nomination. She did so by virtue of her omnium bronze medal at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and will contest both the Women's omnium and team pursuit in London. Hammer will join forces with Dotsie Bausch (Irvine, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling), Jennie Reed (Seattle, Wash./OUCH Pro Cycling) and Lauren Tamayo (Asheville, N.C./Exergy Twenty12) in the Women's team pursuit. Various combinations of the foursome have celebrated a string of successes in international competition, including a previous world record set in May of 2010 by Bausch, Hammer and Tamayo and a world championship silver medal in 2011 from Bausch, Hammer and Reed.
Bobby Lea (Topton, Pa./Pure Energy Cycling-ProAirHFA) received the discretionary nod for the Men's omnium spot and Jimmy Watkins (Bakersfield, Calif./Project London 2012) earned the remaining nomination for the Men's sprint.
Of the six track athletes nominated, Reed will be making her third appearance at the Games, while Hammer and Lea return for their second appearances. Reed, who contested the sprint in 2004 and the keirin in 2008, made a switch to endurance riding to contest the four-kilometer team pursuit.
As the discipline of BMX racing returns to the Olympic Games after its debut in 2008, the U.S. will field the maximum five-person squad which consists of three men and two women.
Automatic qualifiers include David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo./Free Agent-Rockstar) on the Men's side and Arielle Martin (Spanaway, Wash./Intense BMX) for the women. Herman and Martin earned automatic nominations as the top-ranked athletes in USA Cycling's BMX Power Rankings.
Herman will be joined by the winner of the U.S. Olympic Trials for BMX on June 16 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., as well as a discretionary nominee who will also be named and announced on the 16th. Martin will be joined by a single discretionary nominee on the Women's squad.
Mountain Bike
For the discipline of mountain bike, Georgia Gould (Fort Collins, Colo. /Luna Pro Team) earned the only automatic nomination and will be joined on the Women's squad by Lea Davison (Jericho, Vt. /Specialized Racing). Samuel Schultz (Missoula, Mont. /Subaru-Trek) and Todd Wells (Durango, Colo./Specialized Racing) both received discretionary nods and will make up the two-person Men's squad.
Gould automatically qualified by ranking inside the top 10 in the individual UCI World Cup rankings, in eighth, as of May 31, 2012. As the discretionary selection, Davison has finished inside the top 10 at three world cup or world championship events in the last 24 months.
After finishing in seventh place at the 2011 world championships and earning four top 20 world cup and world championship results within the past 12 months, the soon to be three-time Olympian Wells will fill the Men's mountain bike squad, along with Schultz who boasts the top American world cup average finish in 2012.
"We have a strong team going to London with a solid combination of experience, leadership and young talented athletes who are all capable of standout performances," said USA Cycling V.P. of Athletics Jim Miller. "Each member of the team is deserving, we're proud to welcome them as a part of Team USA and look forward to a promising Olympic Games."
All nominations are subject to approval by the USOC board of directors. More information on cycling in the Olympic Games, including complete selection procedures and athlete bios can be found at usacycling.org/olympics.
2012 Olympic Games, in London, UK, July 28 – Aug. 12
USA Cycling Nominees:
Men's Road Cycling
Timmy Duggan (Boulder, Colo./Liquigas-Cannondale)
Tyler Farrar (Wentachee, Wash./Garmin-Barracuda)
Chris Horner (Bend, Ore./RadioShack-Nissan-Trek)
Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing) – road race & time trial
Tejay Van Garderen (Tacoma, Wash./BMC Racing)
Women's Road Cycling
Kristin Armstrong (Boise, Idaho/Exergy TWENTY 12) – road race & time trial
Amber Neben (Irvine, Calif./Specialized-Lulemon) – road race & time trial
Shelley Olds (Gilroy, Calif./AA Drink)
*Evelyn Stevens (Acton, Mass./Specialized-Lulemon)
Track Cycling
Dotsie Bausch (Irvine, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling) - Women's team pursuit
*Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling) - Women's omnium & team pursuit
Bobby Lea (Topton, Pa./Pure Energy Cycling-ProAirHFA) – Men's omnium
Jennie Reed (Seattle, Wash./OUCH Pro Cycling) – Women's team pursuit
Lauren Tamayo (Asheville, N.C./Exergy Twenty12) – Women's team pursuit
Jimmy Watkins (Bakersfield, Calif./Project London 2012) – Men's sprint
Men's BMX
* David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo./Free Agent-Rockstar)
Spot #2 Olympic Trials winner
Spot #3 discretionary nomination following Olympic Trials
Women's BMX
* Arielle Martin (Spanaway Wash./Intense BMX)
Spot #2 discretionary nomination following Olympic Trials
Men's Mountain Bike
Samuel Schultz (Missoula, Mont. /Subaru-Trek)
Todd Wells (Durango, Colo./Specialized Racing)
Women's Mountain Bike
Lea Davison (Jericho, Vt. /Specialized Racing)
*Georgia Gould (Fort Collins, Colo. /Luna Pro Team)
*denotes automatic nominees
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Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.
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From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake: their own stories and teachings about joy, the most recent findings in the science of deep happiness, and the daily practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives.
Both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu have been tested by great personal and national adversity, and here they share their personal stories of struggle and renewal. Now that they are both in their eighties, they especially want to spread the core message that to have joy yourself, you must bring joy to others.
Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and humor how joy can be transformed from a fleeting emotion into an enduring way of life.
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1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God's elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Praise to God for a Living Hope
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
Be Holy
13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person's work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,
"All people are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25 but the word of the Lord endures forever."
And this is the word that was preached to you.


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227Hymn II.
Blessed be that Child, Who gladdened Bethlehem to-day! Blessed be the Babe Who made manhood young again to-day! Blessed be the Fruit, Who lowered Himself to our famished state! Blessed be the Good One, Who suddenly enriched our necessitousness and supplied our needs! Blessed He Whose tender mercies made Him condescend to visit our infirmities!
Praise to the Fountain that was sent385385 There is perhaps an allusion here to the pool of Siloam, which comes from the root employed in the original. for our propitiation. Praise be to Him Who made void the Sabbath by fulfilling it! Praise too to Him Who rebuked the leprosy and it remained not, Whom the fever saw and fled! Praise to the Merciful, Who bore our toil! Glory to Thy coming, which quickened the sons of men!
Glory to Him, Who came to us by His first-born! Glory to the Silence,386386 This name is given by St. E. to the Father, to suggest to the mind that there was a period when the Father had not begun to work by His Word. that spake by His Voice. Glory to the One on high, Who was seen by His Day-spring! Glory to the Spiritual, Who was pleased to have a Body, that in it His virtue might be felt, and He might by that Body show mercy on His household's bodies!
Glory to that Hidden One, Whose Son was made manifest! Glory to that Living One, Whose Son was made to die! Glory to that Great One, Whose Son descended and was small! Glory to the Power Who did straiten His greatness by a form, His unseen nature by a shape! With eye and mind we have beheld Him, yea with both of them.
Glory to that Hidden One, Who even with the mind cannot be felt at all by them that pry into Him; but by His graciousness was felt by the hand of man! The Nature that could not be touched, by His hands was bound and tied, by His feet was pierced and lifted up. Himself of His own will He embodied for them that took Him.
Blessed be He Whom free will crucified, because He let it: blessed be He Whom the wood also did bear, because He allowed it. Blessed be He Whom the grave bound, that had [thereby] a limit set it. Blessed be He Whose own will brought Him to the Womb and Birth, to arms and to increase [in stature]. Blessed He whose changes purchased life for human nature.387387 St. E. seems to mean, that whereas the alterations man undergoes in his body tend ultimately to decay the same when undergone by our Lord tended to life.
Blessed He Who sealed our soul, and adorned it and espoused it to Himself. Blessed He Who made our Body a tabernacle for His unseen Nature. Blessed He Who by our tongue interpreted His secret things. Let us praise that Voice whose glory is hymned with our lute, and His virtue with our harp. The Gentiles have assembled and have come to hear His strains.
Glory to the Son of the Good One, Whom the sons of the evil one rejected! Glory to the Son of the Just One, Whom the sons of wickedness crucified! Glory to Him Who loosed us, and was bound for us all! Glory to Him Who gave the pledge, and redeemed it too! Glory to the Beautiful, Who conformed us to His image! Glory to that Fair One, Who looked not to our foulnesses!
Glory to Him Who sowed His Light in the darkness,388388 Ps. xcvii. 2. and was reproached in His hidden state, and covered His secret things. He also stripped and took off from us the clothing of our filthiness.389389 Zech. iii. 3. Glory be to Him on high, Who mixed His salt390390 Mark ix. 49. in our minds, His leaven in our souls. His Body became Bread, to quicken our deadness.
228Praise to the Rich, Who paid for us all, that which He borrowed not;391391 Ps. lxix. 4. Comp. Luke xvi. 6. and wrote [His bill], and also became our debtor! By His yoke He brake from us the chains of him that led us captive. Glory to the Judge Who was judged, and made His Twelve to sit in judgment on the tribes, and by ignorant men condemned the scribes of that nation!
Glory to Him Who could never be measured by us! Our heart is too small for Him, yea our mind is too feeble. He makes foolish our littleness by the riches of His Wisdom. Glory to Him, Who lowered Himself, and asked;392392 Luke ii. 46. that He might hear and learn that which He knew; that He might by His questions reveal the treasure of His helpful graces!
Let us adore Him Who enlightened with His doctrine our mind, and in our hearing sought a pathway for His words. Praise we Him Who grafted into our tree His fruit. Thanks to Him Who sent His Heir, that by Him He might draw us to Himself, yea make us heirs with Him! Thanks to that Good One, the cause of all goods!
Blessed He Who did not chide, because that He was good! Blessed He Who did not spurn, because that He was just also! Blessed He Who was silent, and rebuked; that He might quicken us with both! Severe His silence and reproachful. Mild His severity even When He was accusing; for He rebuked the traitor, and kissed the thief.
Glory to the hidden Husbandman of our intellects! His seed fell on to our ground, and made our mind rich. His increase came an hundredfold into the treasury of our souls! Let us adore Him Who sat down and took rest; and walked in the way, so that the Way was in the way, and the Door also for them that go in,393393 John x. 9, xiv. 6. by which they go in to the kingdom.
Blessed the Shepherd Who became a Lamb for our reconcilement! Blessed the Branch Who became the Cup of our Redemption! Blessed also be the Cluster, Fount of medicine of life! Blessed also be the Tiller, Who became Wheat, that He might be sown; and a Sheaf,394394 Alluding to the wave-offering, Levit. xxiii. 11, which was ordinarily interpreted of Christ. that He might be cut! [Blessed be] the Architect Who became a Tower for our place of safety!395395 Ps. lxi. 3. Blessed He Who so tempered the feelings of our mind,396396 Prov. xviii. 10. that we with our harp should sing that which the winged creatures' mouth knows not with its strains to sing! Glory to Him, Who beheld how we had pleased to be like to brutes in our rage and our greediness; and came down and was one of us, that we might become heavenly!
Glory be to Him, Who never felt the need of our praising Him; yet felt the need as being kind to us, and thirsted397397 Mat. xxv. 40. as loving us, and asks us to give to Him, and longs to give to us. His fruit was mingled with us men, that in Him we might come nigh to Him, Who condescended to us. By the Fruit of His stem He grafted us into His Tree.
Let us praise Him, Who prevailed and quickened us by His stripes! Praise we Him, Who took away the curse by His thorns! Praise we Him Who put death to death by His dying! Praise we Him, Who held His peace and justified us! Praise we Him, Who rebuked death that had overcome us! Blessed He, Whose helpful graces cleansed out the left side!398398 Allusion is here made perhaps to Eccles. x. 2, "a wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left."
Praise we Him Who watched and put to sleep him that led us captive. Praise we Him Who went to sleep, and chased our deep sleep away. Glory be to God Who cured weak manhood! Glory be to Him Who was baptized, and drowned our iniquity 229in the deep, and choked him399399 Luke viii. 33. that choked us! Let us glorify with all our mouths the Lord of all creatures!
Blessed be the Physician Who came down and amputated without pain, and healed wounds with a medicine that was not harsh. His Son became a Medicine, that showed sinners mercy. Blessed be He Who dwelt in the womb, and wrought therein a perfect Temple, that He might dwell in it, a Throne that He might be in it, a Garment that He might be arrayed in it, and a Weapon that He might conquer in it.
Blessed be He Whom our mouth cannot adequately praise, because His Gift is too great for skill of orators [to tell]; neither can the faculties adequately praise His goodness. For praise Him as we may, it is too little.
And since it is useless to be silent and to constrain ourselves, may our feebleness excuse such praise as we can sing.
How gracious He, Who demands not more than our strength can give! How would Thy servant be condemned in capital and interest, did he not give such as he could, and did he refuse that which He owed! Ocean of glory Who needest not to have Thy glory sung, take in Thy goodness this drop of praise; since by Thy Gift Thou hast supplied my tongue a sense for glorifying Thee.
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God and the Pledge of Allegiance
Here we go again. A federal judge in Sacramento, California has ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the reference to "one nation under God" violates the constitutional right of students to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God" ("Federal Judge Rules…," 2005). Fortunately, there are those who recognize the audacity and absurdity of such an action—which entails the usurpation of the Constitution. The Pledge Protection Act, introduced by Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri, would restrict the jurisdiction of the federal courts from ruling on the constitutionality of the Pledge (Akin, 2003).
During the last 40 years or so, America has moved farther and farther away from God and its original religious moorings. A small but growing number of liberal politicians, educators, entertainers, and activist judges have been working feverishly to expel Christianity from public life and to transform American civilization into a religionless (or religiously neutral) country. Their central strategy has been their claim that the Founding Fathers (and the Constitution they wrote) rejected references to the God of the Bible or the Christian religion in public life—whether in the government, public schools, or the community. They claim that references to the Christian religion in schools violate the principle of "separation of church and state," and specifically, the "establishment clause" of the First Amendment.
It was Adolf Hitler who is purported to have said: "By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell—and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed." In actuality, the Constitution makes no reference to any notion of an alleged separation of church and state—a phrase which the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist labeled "a misleading metaphor," insisting that it ought to be "frankly and explicitly abandoned" (Wallace v. Jaffree). The Founding Fathers did not believe that the Christian religion should be banned from public life—since they, themselves, frequently referred to God in their official public actions, statements, and written documents. The Declaration of Independence, for example, refers to the "Creator," "Nature's God," "Divine Providence," and "the Supreme Judge of the world"—four unmistakable references to the God of the Bible.
While the Pledge was written in the late 1800s, the words "under God" were added in 1954 by Congress at the behest of President Dwight Eisenhower. At the time, he stated: "In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war" ("Pledge of Allegiance…," 2002). Yet a liberal, activist federal judge in 2005 would have us to believe that the Congress of the United States—the legislative body who made a law in harmony with the consent of the governed, those millions of Americans whom they represented at the time—as well as the millions of American teachers and students who have repeated those words for over 50 years now, have all been in direct violation of the Constitution and the will of the Founders? Ridiculous! Such foolishness flies in the face of voluminous evidence to the contrary (see, for example, Barton, 2000).
But what about all the atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Native Americans, et al. who do not share the Christian values and belief system that dominated the nation for the first 180+ years? Is not the use of the Pledge "insensitive" and "offensive" to them and their children? To put this question into perspective, consider another question: what about all the atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Native Americans, et al. who attended public schools from 1954 to the present—before "under God" was challenged? History records that America has always had individuals within her borders who have not shared the Christian worldview of the Founders (though they have always been in a minority). What about them? Were they treated "insensitively" in violation of the Constitution? Answer: the Founders certainly did not think so—nor did their judicial and political successors for nearly two centuries. While they did not advocate the persecution of atheists or those who embrace false religious ideologies, neither did they indicate that provision or adjustments were to be made in public life to accommodate such erroneous belief systems! In fact, they insisted that it was only because the American Republic was grounded on the free exercise of Christian principles that enabled non-Christian citizens not to be persecuted (see State Supreme Court cases City Council of Charleston v. Benjamin, 1846 and Lindenmuller v. The People, 1860). Imagine what would happen to an atheist if he went to a Muslim nation and insisted that they adjust their social policies in order to avoid offending his unbelief!
Did the Founders intend to create a nation that adjusts itself to accommodate every ideology, religion, and hair-brained philosophy that comes to our shores? They did not. To do so now is to undermine the foundations of the Republic. Besides, it is impossible to please everybody. The world religions conflict with and contradict each another. The only sane course to follow, the only one that will perpetuate the Republic, is the one articulated by the psalmist some three millennia ago: "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" (Psalm 33:12). "For the nation and kingdom which will not serve [God] shall perish" (Isaiah 60:12).
Akin Todd (2003), "We Must Keep 'Under God' in the Pledge," [On-line], URL: http://www.house.gov/akin/updates/20030825ed.html.
Barton, David (2000), Original Intent (Aledo, TX: WallBuilder Press), third edition.
City Council of Charleston v. Benjamin (1848), 2 Strob. L. 508 (S. C. 1848).
"Federal Judge Rules Reciting Pledge in Schools Unconstitutional" (2005), Fox News, September 15, [On-line], URL: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169379,00.html.
Lindenmuller v. The People (1861), 33 Barb (N.Y.) 548.
"Pledge of Allegiance Declared Unconstitutional" (2002), June 26, [On-line], URL: http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa062602a.htm.
Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 92 (1984).
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As far as I know, this is the first review of Neat speakers that includes measurements. I wonder why.
To my knowledge Neat designs their speakers mostly by ear. This approach does not seem very scientific to me and the poor measurements here are likely the outcome of this process.
I had a pair of Neats, but sold them when I could not find any reviews that included measurements (there was a lot of subjective reviews, but I don't care about those). I simply cannot trust equipment that is not thoroughly measured and it seems that I made the right decision.


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Naturally Ella
On her blog, Naturally Ella, Erin shares seasonal vegetarian recipes that are pantry-inspired and favorite recipes that are simple, fresh and exciting for her family. She's written two cookbooks, The Homemade Flour Cookbook and The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen.
I am so happy to have Erin Alderson of Naturally Ella here on the show today.
(*All photos below are Erin's.)
On Her Journey From Fast Food to Fresh and Seasonal:
It's definitely been a long journey, but one I'm glad I took. Through high school and part of college, we were a middle-class family who was always on the go. Had a lot of activities after school, during school and it just seemed like we never really had time to cook. Looking back I think we probably did have time. But like most people it's just convenient to eat out and grab food as we go.
It wasn't until in between my freshman and sophomore year of college that my father had a heart attack and had a quadruple bypass. He survived it all but it was definitely a wake-up call for my entire family. After that we changed our diets and we haven't looked back.
On Getting Started to Eating Healthier:
Baby steps. Definitely baby steps. Instead of eating out every day I'd eat out three times a week. I just stepped back slowly but surely. There were things I didn't like at first. I didn't always eat a lot of vegetables as much as I should have. It took time. It took time to really grow and get the process down.
I thought it might have been easier than I expected. I definitely had it built up in my head thinking that, "Oh, I'll be able to do it. It won't be that hard." But it definitely was a day-by-day experience and there were a lot of temptations and challenges around every corner.
I feel like a lot of time people think, "Oh, health food. That must mean salads." And really I don't know. I love eating whole grains I do a lot of noodles. Again everything in moderation. You can have a lot of fun with it.
On Some Good Resources for Starting to Eat More Healthy:
I think blogs are awesome. A lot of the healthier food blogs because there's just so much inspiration. And a lot of times those I feel like are recipes that people can really dig into.
Any of the Michael Pollan books are really a kind of good, swift kick in the rear. Because you read them and think, "Okay. This is why I should be doing this." Mark Bittman is also a good resource. I think he's the one that has the cookbook, How to Cook Everything.
I feel like those books can really be go-to references. They don't have to be something that you read cover to cover. It's just something that you can say, "Hey. I feel like trying this." And you can go and dig into it.
On Her Blog:
Originally I started as a healthy baking blog way back in 2007. This was towards the beginning of my healthy eating journey and I wanted to share. For whatever reason I thought blogging sounded like fun even back then.
But I soon realized I didn't like baking. And I fell in love with cooking. And that really took hold when I joined a CSA. And it was one of the ones where I could go out and pick. Every week I'd go out to the farm and I'd get to pick the produce that was ready. So I was getting my hands dirty.
It just really felt like connecting me to my food more. And forcing me to… instead of making a list of recipes and then going grocery shopping it was forcing me to say, "Okay. This is what I have. What can I make?"
It definitely opened my eyes to different varieties of things. I tried new things. Like kohlrabi was something that I would have never bought at the store but because it was there I tried it. And you learn about it and while sometimes at first you don't like it. You can try it a different way and prepare it a different way. I think it's a lot of fun.
In fact in the early days I would come back from the CSA and photograph everything. And I'd say, "This is what I got from the CSA this week." And then the recipes would be based on that. That's when my blog really turned seasonal.
On Essential Pantry Items for a Healthier Diet:
I always say that people need a couple, two to three, different kinds of grains. If you're a grain-eater. Obviously I know there are some diets out there that people don't eat grains. But for my purpose I'm going to say a few grains. Quinoa's always a nice one to have because it's quick-cooking. I love brown rice. That's a good base for things. I usually have some millet and oats on hand.
And then you need some legumes. I love black beans, chickpeas and lentils. I usually have one of each of those. When I say pantry-inspired, those are really the items that I'm thinking of.
On Her Cookbooks, The Homemade Flour Cookbook and The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen:
The first one the publisher actually reached out to me and said, "Hey, we think that you would be a really good fit for this concept we have. Would it be something you're interested in?" At first I'm, "Oh my gosh!" I've talked about milling flour. I had a lot of grains but I've never really put the two together. The more I thought about it, I was like, "No, this is a really good extension of my brand because a lot of times these are the ingredients I have in my house anyway. So what a cool way to show a second use for them." So that concept was interesting for me.
Then the second book was an idea that I had been playing around with for a while. Because it kind of goes back to that seasonal, "I have these things, what can I do with them?" And so for The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen, it's 50 base recipes that you can build upon with whatever you have. And so I keep it really open-ended but I do give some examples of what to do per season.
On Being in the Kitchen as a New Parent:
I don't blog full-time. I have never actually blogged full-time. Naturally Ella has always been my secondary thing that I do and I've kept up.
But as of January it's going to be my full-time because with having Mack around I've found that I can't continue to do about three different jobs. So I'm going to focus solely on the blog. I have been spending quite a bit of time in the kitchen. Primarily during nap times and on weekends when my husband's home.
But he actually loves being in the kitchen. I put him in the bouncer and I set him up on the kitchen island. And he loves to watch and really enjoys just being there. So that's nice. It's been very helpful.
My husband and I'll even put food up to his nose and say, "Hey, this is mint." And there was one time that he accidentally got parsley in his mouth and that was a really funny experience. Because he was, "Wait a minute, what is this?" We're really looking forward to when we can start solid foods and have him experience all of that.
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Which food shows or cooking shows do you watch?
We don't have cable. We only have antennae. AI still watch shows like MasterChef. I love Junior MasterChef just because I love seeing the eight-year-olds and the 10-year-olds just get in the kitchen. I think it's really inspiring for kids to see other kids be in the kitchen. And hopefully grow a generation that's used to cooking.
What are some food blogs or food websites we have to know about?
I love blogs. I've met a lot of friends through blogging. But the blogs I'm loving right now, who are doing some really creative vegetarian cooking, are, The First Mess, With Food + Love, Cookie and Kate, Love and Lemons. I'm sure there's about a dozen more I could name, but those are the four that I really love.
Who do you follow on Pinterest, Instagram, or Facebook or Snapchat that make you happy?
So on Instagram, I love following The Fauxmartha. She has a two-year-old at home who sometimes you see little hands in her shots. And I just love that.
What is the most unusual or treasured item in your kitchen?
I have a giant stoneware bowl that is made from a company where I used to live. And it's a pottery place that's no longer in business. I just love it. Because I feel like you can't buy bowls like that anymore.
Name one ingredient you used to dislike but now you love.
Oh. So many. I'm going to have to say goat cheese. For the longest time I was scared of any cheese that was white because I thought it was goat cheese. But now I love it.
What are a few cookbooks that make your life better?
First and foremost, The Vegetarian Flavor Bible is pretty much how I develop recipes. It's so great because you can look up an ingredient and get other ingredients. And I love both of The Sprouted Kitchen's cookbooks. There's a new cookbook out called, Rose Water and Orange Blossom. That's a Mediterranean/Lebanese cookbook and it's just wonderful.
What song or album just makes you want to cook?
Yo-Yo Ma did a collaboration with a few bluegrass artists. And it's called, The Goat Rodeo Sessions and it's my favorite one especially this time of year. It gets me in the mood to get in the kitchen and cook.
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A Supercomputing Journey Inspired by Curiosity
Extending the Boundaries of What's Possible
It started with the vision of a single individual. Seymour Cray loved the art of designing computers. He loved the challenge of coaxing more and more speed out of circuits and wires. And he loved the allure of doing it all with simplicity and grace.
Mr. Cray formed Cray Research in 1972 to ask new questions. To realise his vision of the world's fastest computing systems. He saw impossible, shrugged, and went back to his work.
With this vision and a small group of engineers, Cray produced the Cray-1 supercomputer. A masterpiece of engineering, the Cray-1 rewrote compute technology from processing to cooling to packaging. And it wrote a company and an industry permanently into history.
From the Cray-1 to HPE Cray
Cray Research's mission at its start was to build the industry's fastest computers and lead large-scale scientific computing. But as the company saw what people could do with those systems, the mission evolved. Simple speed expanded to include a commitment to helping solve scientific and industrial problems that make the world safer, healthier and smarter.
HPE shared the vision that began with Seymour Cray. In 2019, HPE acquired Cray and with it opened a new chapter in a vibrant, ongoing supercomputing journey.


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Why Do I Need to Wait to Stain My New Deck with TWP
After a new wood deck has been constructed it is important to protect it from the elements. Unprotected wood will be prone to graying, warping, cracking, splitting, and mold/mildew infiltration. Protecting your wood deck is easy with TWP Total Wood Preservative. There is however a waiting period to allow new wood to season prior to stain application.
New wood is commonly called "green" wood. Meaning it has not had time to season or dry. It has a very high moisture content. You may notice the difference in weight of a newer deck board and an older one. The newer one is much heavier due to all the moisture it is holding. As the wood dries it also shrinks. This is noticeable in the gaps between deck boards. They will be tight together after first construction and as the wood shrinks the gaps will become larger.
Applying TWP deck stain to a newer deck too soon can result in a failed deck coating. The stain will trap moisture in the wood, which can cause several problems. Mold and mildew can spread quickly underneath the stain eventually leading to rot and decay. The moisture will also keep the wood stain from penetrating properly and may cause it to peel and flake off the surface. TWP wood stain is designed to penetrate deep into the wood for maximum protection. If the wood has too high of moisture content the stain cannot penetrate correctly.
There are some people who believe you have to wait and entire season or 1 year before you can stain new wood. This is normally not true and actually a lot of the wood damage can occur in the first year if the wood is not protected. Most types of wood will be ready to stain within 4-12 months after being erected. All new wood should be prepped with the Gemini Restore Kit before staining. Wait time can vary depending on sun exposure, weather, and temperatures.
For TWP wood deck stain to give you the best results on a new deck, the moisture content of the wood should be 15% or less. This can be easily checked with a moisture meter. If you do not have access to a moisture meter and you have waited several months of hot summer weather, you can do a drop test with water. Sprinkle a few drops of water in several areas of the deck. If the water soaks in right away indicating the wood is dry it is probably okay to stain. If the water does not soak in right away, the wood may still be holding too much moisture.
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All Out May 1st
I'm planning to keep my kids out of school on May 1st (see: #AllOutMay1 and #SCforEd, and news coverage), but I've begun planning for mathematically themed activities for us to do together. Recognizing that I spend hours every day thinking about math, my kids, and math with my kids, I have a lot of resources and ideas about things to do, so I'm hoping to compile a list of resources here.
My goals for this list:
- Activities must be fun for both adults and kids. Fun is my top priority.
- My kids are young (age 5 and age 8), so I want things that don't require too much background.
- I want the list to be usable for parents of all sorts, not just those with backgrounds in STEM
- Everything required should be stuff available in your house, so no fancy classroom toys, expensive building blocks, board games, etc.
I'll toss together a few things I know about off the top of my head and I hope to add to this list as I find more resources! If you know of others that should be added, send me a tweet with a link: @katemath
Fun & Cheap Activities for Family Mathematics
- My favorite PDF ever is by Joel David Hamkins (@JDHamkins) and it's on the "Fold & Cut Challenge." All you need is to print it and find some scissors: PDF File for the entire project
- Alex Bellos (@alexbellos) has authored a couple of different pattern-based coloring books (like Patterns of the Universe), and they're fabulous for both kids and adults. PDF File of some Sample Pages ready to print.
- Paula Krieg (@PaulaKrieg) is constantly doing beautiful math, usually involving geometry, origami, and tiling projects. She has so much great stuff I don't know what to link to! Here's "Origami Boats and Meandering Number Lines with 4-year-olds" and here's a ton of materials about hexagons. Check the bottom for a link to a ton of PDFs for hexagon printing.
- Mike Lawler (@mikeandallie) is famous for Mike's Math Page & his enjoyment of math with his kids, with hundreds (thousands?) of videos as evidence. Here's his post "10 pretty easy to implement math activities for kids"
- Dave Richeson (@divbyzero) made a cool Rubik's Cube themed hexaflexagon. It's a fun paper-folding project and turns out really well. My kids thought I was a magician when I showed them the one I made from Dave's PDF.
- …stay tuned!
Right now I'm proctoring around 80 College of Charleston students working diligently on their Final Exams. They've all worked so hard this semester & I apologize for the typos in this post — it's difficult to blog while cheering students on at the same time!


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And so we come to the shortest day.
Villonaud for This Yule
by Ezra Pound
Towards the Noel that morte saison
(Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!)
Then when the grey wolves everychone
Drink of the winds their chill small-beer
And lap o' the snows food's gueredon
Then makyth my heart his yule-tide cheer
(Skoal! with the dregs if the clear be gone!)
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
Ask ye what ghost I dream upon?
(What of the magians' scented gear?)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun
And slay the memories that me cheer
(Such as I drink to mine fashion)
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
Where are the joys my heart had won?
(Saturn and Mars to Zeus drawn near!)
Where are athe lips mine lay upon,
Aye! where are the glances feat and clear
That bade my heart his valor don?
I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown meer
(Who knows whose was that paragon?)
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
Prince: ask me not what I have done
Nor what God hath that can me cheer
But ye ask first where the winds are gone
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Gonzo Magazine #212
In this poignant issue we say goodbye to the legendary Greg Lake, Doug goes
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mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we
mention Archie and the Cats?


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Tag: cold injury
The Big Chill — We Felt it through the Grapevine
It takes years of hard work to establish a vineyard, but only one bad night to lose it.
A week ago Wednesday, I thought that night was upon us. With subzero temperatures in the forecast, it seemed as though we might have been on the verge of losing our little hobby vineyard, which has been the focus of so much of our time and energy for the past four years.
To jump to the end of the story for just a moment, we spent a long day working in the vineyard on Thursday and a long night of checking the temperature on an hourly basis and begging the climate gods to show some mercy. And when I climbed out of bed Friday morning, I was feeling much more optimistic. We won't know for sure until later in the year, but I believe that our vineyard survived, though not without some degree of injury to the vines.
We had known for several days that severely cold weather was on the way, but it had seemed as though it would be manageable. We monitor a number of weather services – WxRisk, Weather Underground, and the Weather Channel among them – and the latter two provided forecasts that varied daily. (They also vary between each other. Sometimes I pick the one I like best and lull myself into a false sense of security.)
So, the outlook for early Friday morning looked very different on Wednesday than it had only a few days earlier. Negative five degrees had been scary enough. But I was really surprised to see forecasts that warned of temperatures as low as minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now, our vines can do just fine in freezing weather, and they'll even manage through sub-zero temperatures. At some point, though, you can expect injury. Everything I've read – I've never experienced it, but I've done a fair amount of reading – suggests that at negative five degrees we should expect to lose at least some of the buds that would produce shoots and grapes in the coming growing season.
And at negative 13?
Well, the damage could be catastrophic. Buds are more sensitive to the cold than trunks and canes, but only by a few degrees, according to Virginia Tech's Tony Wolf, who was good enough to put out an alert Wednesday with lots of information about the effect of freezing weather on vines.
Losing a significant number of buds and part of next year's harvest would be bad news. But it's one thing to lose part of the crop and quite another to lose the entire vine. At some temperature, the scion – the actual vine, which is grafted onto rootstock – could be killed. If that happens, there's little alternative but to replace the vine.
That would be disastrous for anyone, and my heart goes out to commercial vineyards that might have lost either a substantial portion of the 2015 crop or some part of their vineyard. For them, it's everything. For us, it's a hobby, not our livelihood, so it would be incredibly self-centered for me to complain too much about our potential loss.
Having said that, though, the prospect of losing vines hit me on a very personal level. We've spent more than four years getting to this point, and I feel like I remember almost every minute of the hard work and sacrifice.
But forget, for a moment, about the time we spent taking classes, reading and talking to vineyard managers to learn everything we could about viticulture. And forget about the cash outlays. Let's also put aside the hours of physical labor that went into establishing the vineyard. (Well, not too far aside – I can still remember a day last summer, working five hours with a backpack sprayer and thinking I was just about ready to die by the time I finished.)
As important as all those things are, what matters most to me is the time – the number of years it takes to order vines, plant them, and nurse them through to their first harvest. We all have only so much time in this life. And that means we get only so many chances to get it right.
So yes, we could start over again. We could order vines, but we wouldn't be able to get the vines we want this year, so we wouldn't be able to plant until the spring of 2016. And it would be another three growing seasons before we harvest again. That would bring us to the fall of 2018, which seems like forever.
We did have a couple of things going for us. First, we had a couple of weeks of freezing weather leading up to the big chill, which helped harden off the vines. That meant they should have been able to withstand lower temperatures than would have been the case if the deep freeze had hit all at once.
Second, we had a blanket of snow on the ground. Snow has an insulating effect, and if it's deep enough, it can protect the graft union, where the scion is joined to the root stock. In our first two years, we had hilled up around the vines, creating a mound of dirt a couple of inches above the graft union to provide the same kind of insulating effect. This year, with the harvest and all of the time and labor that goes into fermenting five different varieties of wine, we just didn't get to it. Lesson learned.
Third, we've planted varieties that are reasonably cold-hardy, including Cab Franc, Petit Verdot, Petit Manseng, and Viognier. The exception is Merlot, which is much more sensitive to cold injury. The Merlot is also the youngest of the varieties we planted and therefore the least able to take winter's punch.
For all that, though, we were pretty worried. By the end of the day Wednesday, the Vineyard Goddess and I had decided to spend Thursday doing everything we could to protect the vines. Our plan was to use mulched and partially composted leaves and grass to hill up around each vine, in the hope that we could insulate the graft union to the point that we could save the vine, if not this year's harvest.
We traveled to Afton Wednesday night so that we could get an early start the next morning. Sometime around 8 a.m. Thursday we made our first foray into the vineyard. It was about 3 degrees above zero and the wind was blowing. I was colder than I think I've ever been in my entire life, and we went back inside to add a couple of layers of clothing, have a cup of coffee, and wait for the temperature to reach a more civilized 6 degrees or so.
By 9 a.m., we were working in earnest. Over the years, I had dumped a large volume of leaves and grass clippings into a heap on the other side of our property, and we had a very large pile by this point that was just waiting to be repurposed. I used the front-end loader on my tractor to haul them into the vineyard where the VG mounded them around each vine. Here and there we added some snow to pack the mulch down, but mostly, we relied upon the organic matter to insulate the vine.
The overnight temperature readings were somewhat milder than the forecast, but they were still pretty severe. At 7 a.m., the temperature hit minus 6.1 degrees, according to the Weather Underground station closest to us. I would have preferred to have our own weather equipment in the vineyard, but this station is not only close, it's also at the same elevation as our vineyard, so I expected that the readings would be very close to what we would have gotten if we had a thermometer on our own property.
In the next week or so, we'll be sampling buds and canes to see how well we survived the big chill. This is a first for us, and I have no idea how we did. But I can say this: I feel a whole lot better because of the work we did. Even if we lose the vineyard – which I think is a low probability outcome – I'll feel better knowing that we did everything we could. If we had done nothing at all and lost only half the vineyard, I would feel much worse.
Wine grape growing is agriculture and like farmers everywhere, we live at the mercy of whatever Mother Nature throws at us. As Chris Hill, one of Virginia's vineyard pioneers, told me during one of our classes – and this is a major paraphrase – the averages (temperature, etc.) are important, but it's the records that kill you. And this year was one for the books.


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