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During the election, Democrats partied at Abe and Jake's Landing as the returns came in. More parties will be had for the inauguration — and Obama's impact on America will undoubtedly be felt here as well.
Obama supporters celebrate election locally
Not all of Obama's supporters will be able to go to Washington to watch the inauguration. Some will stay in Lawrence and celebrate, much like they did after his electoral victory.
Some blacks prepared for celebration for months
Asante Bradford gave his bosses nearly three months notice that he would not be at his desk on Jan. 20. A day after Barack Obama's historic presidential win, Bradford knew he wanted to be able to whoop it up when Obama was sworn in as the nation's first black chief executive — and that he couldn't do that at work.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Monday, it was very sad to hear the news of Gary Allan's
wife and mother to their combined 6 children died of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound. However, it seems when
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Pool A: China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea
Pool B: Canada, Mexico, South Africa, United States
Pool C: Cuba, Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico
Pool D: Australia, Dominican Republic, Italy, Venezuela
Rosters for teams in Pools B, C and D are here. Pool D's games will be played in Orlando, Florida:
March 7 1pm Dominican Republic at VenezuelaBefore those games, however, there are a few exhibitions:
8pm Australia v Italy
March 8 7pm Italy v Venezuela
March 9 1pm Italy v Dominican Republic
8pm Venezuela v Australia
March 10 7pm Australia v Dominican Republic
March 3 Canada v Toronto (ss)There's an article on the DR team in today's Times:
March 5 Dominican Republic v Houston (ss)
Australia v Boston (ss)
Dominicans Draw Crowd as Deep as Their LineupThe list is shrinking, but I think eight Red Sox are participating:
Within five minutes of the opening of the first practice of the Dominican national team, autograph seekers stand four rows deep. Jerseys wait folded over cardboard to facilitate signing. Sharpies are uncapped. It will be two hours before autographs are even possible, yet the fans wait. ...
"I would love to be an underdog and kind of sneak by some teams and win it," Manager Manny Acta said of the 16-team World Baseball Classic, which starts Tuesday for the Dominican team. "But it's impossible not to be a favorite with the kind of talent we have." ...
The red-and-blue quadrants of the Dominican flag are stitched onto caps so new that the one for first baseman Ortiz still displays the gold sticker identifying his as official merchandise. ...
The Dominicans open against Venezuela. Starter Bartolo Colon is expected to platoon with Miguel Batista. Acta expects each to throw only about 50 pitches, 15 below the imposed 65-pitch count.
United States: Jason Varitek, Mike Timlin
Dominican Republic: David Ortiz, Julian Tavarez
Canada: Adam Stern
Puerto Rico: Alex Cora
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 6, 2011) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team put up a fight, but in the end Russia, led by opposite Maxim Mikhaylov, was too tough and defeated the United States, 29-31, 25-16, 25-21, 25-22 on Wednesday in an FIVB World League Final Round match in Gdansk, Poland.
The U.S. Men (0-1) will play Brazil on Thursday (4:30 a.m. PT) in their second Pool F match of the Final Round. The Final Round matches are being shown live at laola1.com. The top two teams from both Pool F and Pool E will advance to Saturday's semifinals.
After fighting their way back from set point in the first set at 24-22 to win 31-29, the United States struggled to score points in transition and its block could not stop Russia.
Russia, meanwhile, found its passing rhythm and went to a quicker offense.
In the fourth set, the U.S. led 18-15 and 21-19, but could not shut the door on Russia.
"Russia applied a lot of pressure on us," U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said. "We had opportunities and point-scoring situations that we didn't take advantage of throughout the match. And there were a few runs that we gave up on serve receive that ultimately we could not overcome.
"This team has shown a lot of character and resiliency throughout World League and I have a lot of faith that we will be able to do that again and play a better match tomorrow."
Russia only led in kills 56-53, but out-blocked the United States 16-7, as Mikhaylov and Dimitriy Muserskiy each finished with five. Each team scored on five aces. Russia scored on 26 U.S. errors while the United States scored on 25 Russian miscues.
Mikhaylov led all scorers with 29 points on a match-high 21 kills, five blocks and a match-high three aces, including two straight in the fourth set.
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) led the U.S. with 17 points on 14 kills, one block and two aces. Opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) added 15 points on a team-high 15 kills. Middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) had 10 kills and a team-high four blocks for 14 points.
Outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) scored nine points on eight kills and one block. Middle blocker Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah) totaled seven points on five kills, one block and one ace and opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.), who played as a serving substitute, scored on two aces and a kill.
The U.S. led in digs 91-72, led by Priddy and libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.), who each had 18. Stanley and setter Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) each had 15. Thornton was credited with 35 assists.
Knipe started Anderson and Priddy at outside hitter, Lee and Millar at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite and Thornton at setter. Lambourne was the U.S. libero.
Patak and outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) played as serving substitutes while middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) also played as a substitute.
The U.S. took an 8-6 lead at the first technical timeout (TTO) of the first set, scoring on two kills and an ace by Millar along with one each from Stanley, Anderson and Priddy. Russia scored on a kill from Mikhaylov, Taras Khtei and Denis Biriukov, but Russia was struggling with serve receive. Russia immediately tied the score after the break, scoring on blocks from Mikhaylov and Muserskiy. With the score tied 9-9, the U.S. Men used a kill from Lee and Millar's block of Muserskiy to lead 11-9 and continued to lead at the second TTO, 16-14. But Russia scored on a U.S. hitting error after the break. Khtei took the serve and Russia tied the score on a U.S. net violation and Muserskiy. The U.S. called timeout, but Russia scored again on another Muserskiy block before Anderson ended the run with a kill off Mikhaylov's face. But Russia scored twice more on straight kills by Mikhaylov to lead 20-17 and the U.S. called timeout again. Russia scored again with a Mikhaylov block before Stanley came back with a kill to cut the Russian lead to 21-18. Russia scored again with a kill, but the U.S. came back on Russia's serving error and ace from Anderson to pull to within two at 22-20. Russia called timeout, but a Russian net violation make it 22-21 before the U.S. served out of bounds. Russia took set point at 24-22 on a kill by Mikhaylov, but Lee answered with a kill. Russia called timeout, but then hit the ball out of bounds. An ace by substitute server Patak that hit the net and dropped over gave the U.S. its first set point at 25-24. Russia's Khtei fought it off with a kill and the U.S. hit out of bounds to give Russia the 26-25 edge. Lee answered with his fifth kill of the set to tie the score. The U.S. reached set point three more times on Russian serving or hitting errors, but Russia answered each time. Finally, with the score tied 29-29, Anderson got a kill off the block and the Russia hit the ball out of bounds to give the U.S. the 31-29 set victory. Anderson and Lee each had five points in the set for the U.S. The U.S. also had three aces while Russia had none. But Russia out-blocked the U.S. 4-1.
Russia cleaned up its passing and serving in the second set while using the quick set more and jumped out to a 6-2 lead and led 8-4 at the first TTO. The U.S. scored on kills from Stanley, Lee and Priddy. Russia still led by four at 14-10 when Russia scored on a Sergey Grankin tip and Khtei kill to lead 16-10 at the second TTO. Khtei scored with another kill after the break and Knipe called timeout. Anderson scored with a back-row quick, but the U.S. could not put together a run of points. Russia came back with a Muserskiy kill and Khtei block. Russia went on to win the set easily.
The U.S. offensive troubles continued in the third set as Russia took an 8-5 lead at the first TTO of the third set. The U.S. scored on two Stanley attacks, two from Priddy and one from Lee while Mikhaylov scored two kills for Russia and Khtei had one. Russia still led by two at 11-9 when Khtei scored on a kill and Grankin won a joust to put Russia ahead 12-9. Knipe called timeout and Lee and Priddy combined on a block of Khtei to cut Russia's lead to 13-9, but Khtei came right back with an attack. The teams traded points to the second TTO, where Russia led 16-12. With Russia leading 18-14, Lee scored on two straight blocks to pull the U.S. to within two. Mikhaylov kept Russia ahead with a kill. The U.S., who had substituted Patak for Thornton at server, was not allowed to put Thornton back in after not being quick enough with the substitution. Knipe called timeout, but instead of putting Thornton back in, he ran a play to Patak with Priddy at setter and Patak responded with a kill. Russia's hitting error pulled the U.S. to within one at 19-18. Russia came back with a Biriukov kill and Mikhaylov block to increase the lead to three. Russia reached set point at 24-21 and a block by Biriukov won the set for Russia. Russia scored on seven U.S. errors in the set while committing only four.
The teams opened the fourth set even; with Russia taking an 8-7 lead at the first TTO on a block by Muserskiy. The U.S. scored on two kills by Millar, one from Lee and four Russian errors. After the break, the U.S. scored on another Russian serving error and kill from Anderson to lead 10-9. But then the U.S. served out of bounds and Mikhaylov moved into the serve for Russia. Alexander Volkov scored on a block and Mikhaylov followed with an ace to give Russia the 11-10 lead. Knipe called timeout, but Mikhaylov connected on a second ace. Anderson ended the run with an attack from the left and then an ace, but the U.S. trailed 13-12. With Russia leading 15-13, Priddy connected on a left-side attack and Patak was brought in to serve. Lee followed with a block to tie the score. A Stanley kill gave the U.S. a 16-15 lead at the second TTO and coming out of the break, Patak scored on an ace. Another Stanley kill gave the U.S. the 18-15 lead before Patak served out of bounds to end the run. Mikhaylov scored for Russia on a kill and block and Knipe called timeout. Russia's next serve went in the net and an Anderson block put the U.S. back up by two at 20-18. Russia tied the score at 21-21. At 22-22, Mikhaylov scored with his third ace and a Volkov block gave Russia match point. The U.S. ended the match by setting the ball into the net.
2011 FIVB World League
12-Player Roster for July 6 in Gdansk, Poland
(12-player rosters for each match are announced shortly prior to the match)
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Utah, BYU)
10 Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-7, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13 Clay Stanley (Opp, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Manager: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Assistant Coach: John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.)
Therapist/Trainer: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
World League Final Round Schedule (All times PT)
Pool F
July 6: Russia def. USA, 29-31, 25-16, 25-21, 25-22
July 6 at 4:30 a.m.: Brazil vs. Cuba
July 7 at 2 a.m.: Cuba vs. Russia
July 7 at 4:30 a.m.: USA vs. Brazil
July 8 at 2 a.m.: USA vs. Cuba
July 8 at 4:30 a.m.: Brazil vs. Russia
Pool E
July 6 at 8:15 a.m.: Argentina vs. Italy
July 6 at 11 a.m.: Poland vs. Bulgaria
July 7 at 8:15 a.m.: Bulgaria vs. Argentina
July 7 at 11 a.m.: Italy vs. Poland
July 8 at 8:15 a.m.: Italy vs. Bulgaria
July 8 at 11 a.m.: Poland vs. Argentina
Pool A Standings
Team record (points)
1. Brazil 10-2 (30)
3. Poland 6-6 (18)
4. Puerto Rico 0-12 (1)
U.S. Schedule and Results
Date: May 27-28
Opponent: Poland
Location: Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland
May 27: Poland def. USA, 25-20, 25-22, 25-19
May 28: USA def. Poland, 25-22, 25-19, 37-35
Date: June 3-4
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico
June 3: USA def. Puerto Rico, 24-26, 29-27, 25-17, 25-17
June 4: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-23, 26-24, 22-25, 25-12
Date: June 11-12
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Mineirinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
June 11: Brazil def. USA, 19-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-21
June 12: USA def. Brazil, 25-21, 25-22, 16-25, 26-24
Date: June 17-18
Opponent: Poland
Location: Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
June 17: Poland def. USA, 25-22, 25-19, 25-20
June 18: USA def. Poland, 25-21, 15-25, 25-18, 25-22
Date: June 24-25 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa (Okla.)
June 24: Brazil def. USA, 25-21, 25-20, 21-25, 25-19
June 25: USA def. Brazil, 25-20, 25-23, 22-25, 25-23
Date: July 1-2 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.
July 1: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-27, 25-22, 25-12, 25-27, 15-8
July 2: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-13, 25-22, 25-19


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Dorner manhunt: Charred remains found in cabin not yet confirmed to be fugitive officer's
Sheriff's investigators found charred human remains inside a burned cabin in Seven Oaks late Tuesday, but officials have not confirmed whether they belong to fugitive Christopher Dorner because forensic testing needs to be completed.
San Bernardino County sheriff's personnel remained at the property in the small mountain community near Angelus Oaks throughout the night, and waited until the cabin cooled down before searching through the rubble.
The fire erupted Tuesday afternoon after a man deputies suspect was Dorner got into a gun fight with Fish and Wildlife officers as well as sheriff's deputies.
A deputy was pronounced dead at 2:24 p.m. and another had undergone surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The deputies' names have not been released and officials did not discuss details about them because they were still notifying family members.
Officials did say Tuesday evening that doctors have a positive outlook on the surviving deputy's condition.
"The deputy wounded in today's incident has undergone surgery and medical personnel are optimistic as to his recovery. However, it is believed several additional surgeries will be required," sheriff's officials wrote in a statement.
Los Angeles police this morning released no updates on the case, saying only that the investigation is ongoing.
The Sheriff's Department plans to discuss the latest developments in the case at 4 p.m. PST today in San Bernardino.
While sheriff's investigators continue their investigation in the mountains, Riverside police and other law enforcement are set to hold services for fallen Riverside police Officer Michael Crain at Grove Community Church at 10:30 a.m.
Crain was one of two officers shot early Thursday while stopped at a red light in Riverside. The other officer survived the shooting.
Dorner, who has been charged by prosecutors in the killing, also wounded a Los Angeles police officer minutes earlier in Corona.


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Pope Benedict on God's Loving Creation: 'It Is Good to Be Human'
During his Feb. 6, the Holy Father focused his attention on the second phrase of the Creed: God is the 'Creator of heaven and earth.'
VATICAN CITY — Even with modern scientific advances, it is still right to speak of the beginning of life as "creation" because the world's origin is rational and motivated by love, Pope Benedict XVI said.
In today's "age of science and technology," the Pope asked, does it make sense to still speak of creation as Scripture does?
The Bible, he responded, "is not intended as a manual of the natural sciences; it wants to help us understand the authentic and profound truth of things. … So the Scripture tells us that the origin of the world, our origin is not irrational or out of necessity, but reason and love and freedom."
The Feb. 6 general audience was held in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, with approximately 8,000 people in attendance. As part of his ongoing series of reflections on the Creed during the Year of Faith, the Pope focused his attention on its second phrase: God is the "Creator of heaven and earth."
"God is manifested as Father in creation, as the origin of life, and in creating shows his omnipotence" as a loving Father, he said.
These attributes, the Pope noted, can be seen in creation and also serve as a "call to faith for believers."
The Pontiff then spent time on the meaning of man and woman being the apex of creation.
The Book of Genesis helps reveal God's plan for man, Pope Benedict stated. The first thing that it teaches is that "God formed man of the dust of the earth," which means "that we are not God."
It also tells us that humans come into being "because God breathes the breath of life into the body he molded from the earth. The human being is made in the image and likeness of God."
"And we all carry within us the breath of life from God, and every human life, the Bible tells us, is under the special protection of God. This is the deepest reason for the inviolability of human dignity against any attempt to evaluate the person in accordance with utilitarian criteria or those of power," the Pope insisted.
The final point the Pope focused on was the meaning of sin and the fallen world.
Walking through the imagery of the fall of Adam and Eve, the Holy Father summarized the temptation "as building their own world in which to live" and not accepting "the limitations of being a creature, the limits of good and evil, morality …"
In this case, "dependence on the creating love of God is seen as a burden to be freed of," he explained.
Moving on to the meaning of original sin, Pope Benedict said that the story of creation teaches that "sin begets sin, and the sins of history are interlinked."
"Once the fundamental relationship (with God) is upset, the other poles of relationships are compromised or destroyed; sin ruins everything. Now, if the relational structure of humanity is troubled from the start, every man walks into a world marked by the disturbance of this relationship," he said.
But Jesus Christ "takes the exact opposite path to that of Adam" and repairs the broken relationship with God and creation, the Pope proclaimed.
"Dear brothers and sisters," Pope Benedict concluded, "to live by faith is to recognize the greatness of God and accept our smallness, our condition as creatures, letting the Lord fill us with his love. Evil, with its load of pain and suffering, is a mystery that is illuminated by the light of faith, which gives us the certainty of being able to be freed from it, the certainty that it is good to be human."


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Tommy Thompson Urges President to Create Commission to Support Adult Stem-Cell Research
Former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary is in Rome for a conference on adult stem cells organized by Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture and the U.S.-based Stem for Life Foundation.
VATICAN CITY (EWTN News/CNA)—At the Vatican today, Nov. 8, former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson urged President Obama to establish a commission to support adult stem-cell research.
"I want President Obama to bring all this adult stem-cell research together," Thompson told EWTN News in Rome on Nov. 7.
Thompson says he wants a body created within the National Institutes of Health that will "be able to use the resources that we have in America to really put regenerative medicine into the forefront of therapies creating new breakthroughs in disease control."
Thompson is in Rome for a three-day conference jointly organized by the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture and the U.S.-based Stem for Life Foundation, which promotes adult stem-cell research. He will be joined by more than 350 other policymakers, medical experts, educators and religious leaders.
Thompson, who is a former governor of Wisconsin and planning to run for the U.S. Senate, outlined how a presidential commission could work.
The commission would bring together "private-sector business leaders," who would then "evaluate all of the federal efforts to date surrounding regenerative medicine," he said. That group would also make "specific recommendations to our president on how we can better coordinate these efforts and unite them with the best of private enterprise." He noted, however, that "to date, nothing has been done" by the Obama administration.
Thompson's idea was well-received by the rest of the launch panel, including Dr. Robin Smith, the president of Stem for Life Foundation. She told EWTN News that she found the concept "really interesting."
"I think it is very important to get Congress and different political leaders like President Obama to understand adult stem cells," so that "we can unite to get a more impactful outcome, decreasing needless human suffering by getting these therapies into clinics," she said.
Stem cells are the body's master cells. From them, all of the body's 200-plus types of tissue ultimately grow. Their incredible versatility means they have the potential to provide replacement tissue to treat numerous disorders.
The Catholic Church approves of stem-cell research but disapproves of those cells being culled from the killing of an embryo or fetus. "Adult" stem cells are taken from the patient's existing stem cells or from the placenta or umbilical cord at birth.
Smith explained that the use of adult stem cells avoids "the ethical dilemma posed by the use of embryonic stem cells," because adult stem-cell research and therapy "allows us to advance scientific knowledge while protecting every stage of existence."
She also explained that there are now more than 3,500 adult stem-cell clinical trials already creating "therapeutic benefits for things like diabetes, lupus, MS and blindness, just to name a few."
The conference, which begins tomorrow, is entitled "Adult Stem Cells: Science and the Future of Man and Culture."
"This conference is going to dispel a lot of the old myths and bring in a lot of education; a lot of new scientists and new reports are going to be discussed; that is going to help the world discuss adult stem cells in a new and better light," said Thompson.
"It's an incredibly exciting time to bring together different nations, different political leaders, different religious leaders to help us take adult stem-cell therapy to the public," said Smith.
She believes that the conference will educate society, advance people's understanding of the potential the research has to change culture, change lives and decrease human suffering.


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The Last Days of Club Hubba Hubba
After a thorough renovation, about all that's left of Honolulu's most infamous strip club is the legendary neon sign out front, and the memories of Hubba Hubba's lurid past.
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"About the time I started at Club Hubba Hubba, it was on its way out and so was my career." If there's an ounce of sentimentality in Gilda, a former stripper at the legendary Hotel Street landmark, it doesn't show. She talks about Club Hubba Hubba with the cold, forensic mien of a coroner conducting an autopsy. But in this case, the patient was still alive. Barely.
It was 1993 when Gilda landed at the Hubba Hubba, 40 years after it first opened its doors as the premier venue of burlesque in the Pacific. What she found was a broken-down strip joint, grossly accented with the miasma of stale beer, cigarette smoke, roach spray, cheap perfume and Pine-Sol. Aside from the rats that populated a basement flooded from broken water pipes, Club Hubba Hubba was home to a cast of characters right out of a Tennessee Williams play. There was the head bartender, "Apache," a blonde girl from Boston who fell in love with a local cop, which caused a scandal, since he was a married man with a family of five. There was Frank, who left his wife in New Zealand and moved into the club as a live-in handyman. He took cheesecake photos of all the dancers that he had to develop himself because Kodak wouldn't process naked-lady photos. There was the womanizing back-up bartender and stockman Harold, who liked to dance to "Achy Breaky Heart" and rented out mini-refrigerators to dancers for five dollars a week. There was "LeeAnne, the mahu barmaid," a guy who dressed as a woman but "liked the ladies."
And then there were the girls. The dancers. The talent. Gilda describes them as a rag-tag group of former porn actresses, burned-out, big-name strippers from Las Vegas and the less desirable strippers in Honolulu who couldn't get work at the hot clubs like Club Femme Nu or Club Rock-Za. They included the beautiful, yet obnoxious, Diamond.


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Scripture Already Knew What Science is Now Discovering
Recently almost 170 bishops from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines met for a week to study "Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors." The program was organized for them by the National Catholic Bioethics Center with a very generous grant from the Knights of Columbus.
The conference was, in many ways, an embodiment of the teaching of the Pope's latest encyclical, Faith and Reason. In that encyclical, the Holy Father explained why the Church has always taught that reason and faith are compatible, religion and science complementary. The Church has never shied away from the findings of science. How could she? Ultimately all truth has but one source, God himself. At this conference the bishops welcomed the findings of the Director of the Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory at Harvard just as they did the reflections of a Polish Dominican priest teaching moral theology at the Angelicum University in Rome.
The bishops are called by Christ to bring his liberating redemption to all people. In carrying out that task, the bishops must address the needs of the whole person, both body and soul. This is why the Church has not only preached the Gospel, but has also lived it by ministering to the physical and bodily needs of all people. After all, one cannot pray well when wracked with pain or tormented by a desire for drugs.
Medical science has made tremendous strides in learning about addiction. It was long thought that alcoholism and drug addiction were the result simply of a weakness of the will. Now scientific instruments allow researchers to take pictures of the activity within the brain itself that results from the use of different drugs. Researchers have come to see that these addictions are destroyers of the brain. Drugs actually change the way the brain works. If somebody has given up cocaine, for example, merely looking at a picture of the drug can trigger the brain to bring about changes in the body that are associated with the use of the drug. Again — this occurs simply by looking at a picture!
As researchers, physicians, and psychiatrists presented scientific findings on the nature of addiction to the bishops, one cannot help think of the timeless wisdom of our Faith which has long addressed these human realities quite accurately without benefit of electroencephalograms or positron emission tomography. As the bishops watched pictures of the brain being lit up and darkened by drug use, and heard about the ways the brain was actually changed, trapping the individual in bondage to an intolerable craving, the words of St. Paul came to mind:
"For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want. In doing what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. ... Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (Rom. 7:15-17, 24).
Regrettably some who are in the throes of addiction are never delivered from it. Even if a drug addict, a tobacco addict, or an alcoholic has been free of the drug for months, perhaps years, the sight of a street corner, the smell of a match, or the sound of ice in a glass can trigger once again an intense desire for the drug.
But long before researchers warned addicts of what are known as "cues" triggering a desire for destructive behavior, Christians knew of the dangers. As one inspired writer of Scripture put it: "Be sober, be vigilant, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, prowls about seeking someone to devour. Resist him steadfast in the faith" (1 Pet. 8-9).
The Catholic spiritual and moral tradition has known how to deal with those struggling against addictions and compulsive behaviors. We are warned time and again by the spiritual writers against placing ourselves in near occasions of sin. Indeed, our tradition has taught that it can be a sin simply to place ourselves in an occasion of sin, in a situation of temptation.
It is good to know that so many of our bishops are willing to take time to learn about recent findings in medicine and the life sciences so that they can more effectively reach out to those who suffer. Our bishops have always been ready to use science to help them bring the healing touch of Jesus Christ to those in need, a touch which can heal both body and soul. But the most reassuring fact of all to us Catholics is that the touch of Christ will provide spiritual healing even if, God forbid, the body remains diseased or enslaved.
Dr. John Haas is director of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston.
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The Internal Revenue Service needs to greatly expand the number of wellness plan incentives that will count towards the "affordability" standard to which corporations will be held by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
So argued the 1,500-member-strong ERISA Industry Committee in a letter this month to the IRS. The federal tax agency is responsible for overseeing corporate compliance with the affordability requirement of the PPACA.
Expanding the list wouldn't take much; it's currently a list of one.
The cost of smoking cessation programs is the only wellness plan incentive employers can count toward the 9.5 percent affordability ceiling when (and if) the act takes full effect as now scheduled in 2015.
The idea behind the incentive is to give employers who help workers quit smoking a bonus for doing so.
The program cost is subtracted from the overall cost of coverage when the IRS crunches the numbers to see whether an employer has offered an employee coverage that is less than 9.5 percent of his or her household income.
ERIC believes there are many more incentives that should be counted so that companies are encouraged to offer more of these opportunities to improve worker health.
"ERIC urges the IRS to modify the proposed rules to provide that the value of all wellness incentives – and not just those related to tobacco use – are taken into account for purposes of determining affordability of an employer-sponsored plan and whether the plan provides minimum value," the letter stated.
"Under the current proposal, affordability of an employer-sponsored plan and whether a plan provides minimum value are determined without taking wellness incentives into account, except those relating to tobacco use."
In the letter, ERIC President Scott Macey and ERIC Senior Vice President for Health Policy Gretchen Young underscored the need to reward companies that go the extra mile for employee health.
"The selective recognition of wellness incentives, as proposed in these regulations, discourages the most effective and efficient use of wellness programs by those employees who would most benefit from incentives to become healthier," they said. "Companies should not be penalized for trying to reduce the cost of health care through the effective use of wellness programs that comply with all the protections and safety valves required in the final wellness regulation."
To date, ERIC has not received a response from the IRS, ERIC spokesman Ted Godbout said.
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team earned a 63-53 victory over Sacred heart on Saturday afternoon at Detrick Gym. The Blue Devils (10-15, 3-11 NEC) were led by 20 points from senior Jessica Babe. The Pioneers fall to 11-15 and 8-7 with the loss.
The Blue Devils opened up a 29-20 halftime lead behind a combined 23 points from Babe and Jaleen Thomas as well as junior Kaley Watras. Babe led the group with nine points on three-of-four shooting from the floor and three-of-four at the free throw line.
Thomas was a perfect three-of-three from the floor and hit her only free throw attempt total seven points. Watras was three-of-six shooting and also scored seven in the half.
The Blue Devils dominated the glass in the first half (28-14), especially on the offensive end where CCSU grabbed 11 boards.
Sacred Heart closed the deficit in the second half and actually tied the game with 10:08 left to play.
However, the Blue Devils battled back to rebuild a double-digit lead, which they increased to 13 points on three occasions.
Babe scored 11 points in the second half to lead CCSU. Thomas also continued her scoring with eight points.
Babe led all scorers with 20 points. Thomas finished with 15 points and Watras 12. Sophomore TeJahne Malone had a solid game with eight points and eight rebounds off the bench.
Thomas added 13 rebounds to register the double-double, while Babe pulled down nine boards.
The Blue Devils shot 74.1% (20-of-27) from the free throw line and 35.1% (20-of-57) from the floor in the game.
As a team the Blue Devils held a 52-28 rebounding advantage, including an impressive 22 offensive boards.
Prior to the game the Blue Devils honored seniors Brooke Bailey, Lauren Arbogast, Thomas and Babe. All four players started the game and scored.
The Blue Devils return to action on Monday night against Wagner at 7 p.m.


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rug hunting
I've got an itch to find a new, better rug. I'd love something with more of a low pile, larger and something with a little pattern maybe. I was going to go with Ikea's Stockholm rug, which I feel like everyone has, but I know why now, because rug shopping sucks and this is actually a really great option and a really great price. But, it is no where to be found, maybe a problem with production or something.
I thought I found a solution with the Souk rug and only hesitated for a few days and bam! it's on backorder now! Sheesh. I don't want to wait 1/4 of a year for this rug.
So, my hunt continues, my perpetual quest to discreetly cover the carpet I despise so much. Wish me luck.
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I think this other Stockholm would look nice at yours.ReplyDelete
Love your living room.
Good luck searching.
Good luck searching, finding a rug sometimes is hard, in my country it is very hard finding a rug that we can actually be happy about, last time we found one that we like in West Elm, I know you are going to find a great rug because you have a great eye for design, take care.ReplyDelete
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Love the shelves!!! Where are they from??ReplyDelete
Mariela-thank you!ReplyDelete
Anonymous-the shelves are from Ikea, they also come in a larger size, the shelf brackets have more depth.
i'm in the same boat and have contemplated both rugs you mentioned. i actually bought the Stockholm at one point and brought it home but realized the pattern made me dizzy. bummer. i just saw the souk @ my local west elm...but in a size WAY too large for my house. looks good. pile is still pretty high and semi-soft. my hunt continues as does yours....good luck!ReplyDelete
we got the beautiful sweater rug from west elm about a year ago. as beautiful as it is, it SHEDS 24/7. freaking drives me nuts. don't recommend.ReplyDelete
I'm with you! Rug shopping does suck. And I like a bit of colour while most rugs seem to be very neutral colour palettes. Good luck!ReplyDelete
I'm always on the endless search for rugs. I actually just got a really great 8x10 black and white striped one from FAB and it was a really great deal too;)ReplyDelete
Have you seen the black Olin rug from Crate & Barrel? I haven't seen it in person, but it's a great price.ReplyDelete
I hate shopping for rugs, it's impossible, especially if you want something big.ReplyDelete
The Ikea Stockholm rug is great, I saw it instore last weekend and I wish i'd brought it as now they only have 1 left and I'm pretty sure it'll sell before I go back.
I think Ikea's discontinuing them now. I like the basnas rug at Ikea, it looks nice up close, I like wool.
I have a problem with rugs because the door opens into the room so the rug has to be an exact size and I too want to cover most of a carpet which I hate.
Good luck with your search.
Hi! Have you ever heard of the company FLOR? Lots of options and best of all, they're custom so you can go as big or as small as you like/need.ReplyDelete
Also, I meant to ask this a long time ago, but what kind of car seat does Jeremiah have? You posted a photo once and I remember thinking how perfect it looked! I have a Britax and it is so big and cumbersome in my tiny little car.
Thanks in advance. Oh, and I love your blog :)
What a lovely set up!ReplyDelete
I'm also rug hunting. I feel like I've been rug hunting for months now. I find that www.rugsusa.com has some great options and great prices....maybe too many options....ReplyDelete
Hi! Go take a look at Dwell Studio's rugs... They are very nice with pretty patternsReplyDelete
I've just bought one on http://aldeahome.com/rugs -who is delivering in Europe at a very correct price.
Hope you'le find the perfect rug !
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I had the same issue. Really wanted the Stockholm rug before Christmas but it was sold out everywhere! I ended up getting the Dwell Studio Draper Stripe Ink rug and really love it! It looks like it's on backorder until April from DwellStudio now, but maybe they have it elsewhere? http://www.dwellstudio.com/modern-home-decor/rugs/draper-stripe-ink-rug-8x10.html Or that Crate and Barrel striped rug looks like a cheaper priced alternative that may be nice.ReplyDelete
Love your home decor!ReplyDelete
Nice living room! Also love it with the current carpet. But black and white pattern will look even better for sure. Have a good weekend! (the poster is on its way)ReplyDelete
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Love love love your floating cabinet/credenza. Where is that piece from?ReplyDelete
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Officials will now stop games immediately to review whether players should be ejected under the NCAA's new targeting rule.
This season, the NCAA changed the penalty for targeting defenseless players with a hit to the head by adding an ejection to the 15-yard penalty. A player who is ejected in the second half must sit out the first half of his team's next game.
Rogers Redding, the NCAA's national coordinator of football officials, said the new process will allow officials to review the play quickly to determine whether the player should be ejected. It also will eliminate the need for coaches to use a challenge to review targeting calls.
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Sting: Complete Chicago Sessions. (Kiss The Stone :: KTS-275)
Recorded Live in Chicago, IL, USA - 1991-04-xx and 1993-06-xx.
Excellent Soundboard Recording :: Italian Bootleg :: Silver CD :: CBR 320 kbps.
01. If I Ever Loose My Faith In You
02. Love Is Stronger Than Justice
03. Fields Of Gold
04. Englishman In New York
05. A Day In The Life
06. Fortress Around Your Heart
07. Medley- Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me), Every Breath You Take
08. Jeremiah Blues
09. Mad About You
10. The Wind Cries Mary
11. Message In A Bottle
12. The Soul Cages
13. Every Breath You Take
14. Be Bop A Lula
15. I Miss You, Kate
16. All This Time
Files: 16. :: Size: 176,87 MB (mp3).
Total Time: 01:17:20 hour/s.
Personnel: Sting - Bass and Vocals :: Dominic Miller - Acoustic Guitar :: Vinnie Colaiuta - Drums :: David Sancious - Keyboards.
Notes: Tracks 1-7 were recorded during Sting's second Timothy White Session in June 1993. This was a couple of months after the release of the album Ten Summoner's Tales (which was released in March 1993). Tracks 8-16 were recorded during Sting's first Timothy White Session in March 1991. Both sessions were recorded in Chicago and were broadcasted by several U.S. radio stations. An excellent soundboard recording!.
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Trade Street Residential Announces Third Quarter 2012 Dividend
Dec 21, 2012, 07:35 ET
AVENTURA, Fla., Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trade Street Residential, Inc. (the "Company") today announced that it declared, as authorized by its board of directors, a cash dividend of $0.000507 per share of its common stock for the Company's third quarter ended September 30, 2012. The dividend is payable on December 31, 2012 to stockholders of record as of December 26, 2012.
In addition, the Company declared all dividends that are accumulated, accrued and unpaid on its Class A preferred stock be set aside for payment, as required by the terms of the Class A preferred stock in the Company's charter. Outstanding shares of the Company's Class A preferred stock are entitled to an annual dividend of $1.00 per share, payable quarterly, accruing from the date of issuance.
About Trade Street Residential, Inc.
Trade Street Residential, Inc. is a full service, vertically integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust focused on acquiring, owning, operating and managing conveniently located, garden-style and mid-rise apartment communities in mid-sized cities and suburban submarkets of larger cities primarily in the southeastern United States, including Texas. The Company's common stock is traded on the OTC-Pink market under the symbol "TSRE."
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Statements included herein that state the Company's or management's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations or predictions of the future are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, which by their nature, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the dates on which they are made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any guidance or other forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Fourteen students were recognized for their Honors projects during St. Bonaventure University's Honors Ceremony on Saturday, and all received Honors Degrees on Sunday at Commencement.
The students and their Honors projects are: Abhimanyu Aggarwal, a biology major and Franciscan Health Care Professions pre-med student from Leesburg, Va. He did a comprehensive study of Web 2.0 project management applications that are available on the Internet as cloud-based technologies, offer a collaborative user experience, and are cost effective. His research reviewed each of the web applications, their functional uses, a valuation of the cost structure, and offered access to tutorials in using the software effectively. Neil Batta, a biology major from East Amherst. His project involved identifying an ion channel that has the ability to reduce excitability in stem cells in the hippocampus of the brain. Research identified an ion channel from scratch that fit the criteria outlined for what was needed both for biological and experimental purposes. The end result of the project was an ion channel gene construct and a viral expression packaging system for introduction into the stem cells in vitro. Heather Creary, a psychology major from Penn Yan. She studied the influence of the proximity and visibility of fruits and vegetables on intake and purchasing behavior to test two hypotheses: one, that participants will eat more fruits and vegetables when they are more proximate and visible; and two, that consumers will purchase more proximate fruits and vegetables in a grocery store setting. Alicia D'Alessandro, a journalism and mass communication major from Niskayuna. Her project was titled "An Evaluation of Service-Learning at St. Bonaventure University, as Supported by Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory." It advocated for the increased implementation of service-learning at St. Bonaventure. The project concluded that a restructuring of the current system, including adding additional service-learning components to existing courses of St. Bonaventure's core curriculum, would be beneficial. Francesca R. DiCillo, an English major from Lockport. Her project was titled "Having it Your Way: The Food-Service Industry in Films," which explored the stereotypes people have about food-service workers based on how they were depicted in film documentaries, comedies and dramas. Terence Hartnett, an English major from Cazenovia. His project entailed writing the beginnings of what would become a novel as well as researching novel writing. The creative side of the project resulted in a substantial skeleton of a novel, with passages from the beginning, middle and end of the story. For his research, he read four instructional texts on writing and four novels by the authors of those texts, including Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and Virginia Woolf. Chloe Koerner Priester, a mathematics major from Franklinville. "Exploring the Hyperbolic Plane" touched on the history of hyperbolic geometry and continued with a survey of the hyperbolic plane. As the focus of the project, the isomorphism between the group of motions and the group of linear fractional transformations is demonstrated. Emilee Lindner, a journalism and mass communication major from Holland. "The Evolution of the Piano" focused on the technological advancements made in the piano over its 300-year lifespan. The works of seven composers were featured, from the great masters, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, through the innovative works of Bartok and Cowell. Manuela Marin Salcedo, a journalism and mass communication major from Weston, Fla. She did a demographic and ethnological case study of a small Colombian village over an eight-week period by immersing herself in their culture, their lives and their laughter, attempting not only to witness but experience what it is like to be a resident of Rincón. Elizabeth Moran, an education major from Niskayuna. Her project was "Teaching through Science: A Science-based, Technology-infused Curriculum." She argued that it is possible to meet standards for all subject areas through a science topic, and that teachers could feel confident spending a week or two on a science unit knowing that their students were working toward math and ELA standards simultaneously. Diana Phalon, a history major from Smethport, Pa. Her project was titled "World War II Through a Soldier's Eyes." It focused on the use of exhibits and oral history to educate people on World War II. Kaitlyn Reusch, a political science major from Depew. 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Dreambaby® Retractable Gate is one of the most versatile home safety gates available. Fits narrow to wider openings up to 140cm (55in)*.
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Samsung makes first PCIe-based SSD for Ultrabooks, we see one likely customer
Solid-state drives are so speedy these days that that even a SATA interface might not have the bandwidth to cope. It's a good thing that Samsung has started mass-producing the first PCI Express-based SSDs for Ultrabooks, then. The new XP941 series uses PCIe's wider data path to read at nearly 1.4GB/s -- that's 2.5 times faster than the quickest SATA SSDs, and nimble enough to move 500GB in six minutes. It also ships in a tinier M.2 format that makes past card-based SSDs look gargantuan, even when there's up to 512GB of storage. Samsung hasn't named laptop makers receiving the XP941, although it doesn't take strong deductive skills to spot one of the (probable) first customers. When Apple is shipping a new 13-inch MacBook Air that just happens to use a very similar PCIe SSD from Samsung, there's likely more than coincidence at work.
Filed under: Laptops, Storage, Apple, Samsung
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What is this project?
Installing 700 feet of new sidewalk on the south side of Mt. Comfort Rd. from Addington Ave. to Garland Ave.
What is the current status?
This project is upcoming.
How is the project being funded?
Funding for this project comes from the Street Fund. The Street Fund is financed through two sources:
1) Turn-back revenues from the State of Arkansas. The State collects motor fuel taxes, which are returned to the City on a per-capital basis.
2) Turn-back monies received from the County Road Millage Tax. The City receives 80% of the road millage levied by the Quorum Court on real and personal property located within the city.


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Teaching Rigorous and Reflective Thinking
Before we can enlist faculty across the disciplines to teach critical thinking, we must decide exactly what we mean by the term.
The first characteristic of an ideal critical thinker, we might say, is that he or she has excellent pattern recognition skills. The critical thinker sees that two arguments are both disjunctive syllogisms, in much the same way that most people in our culture can see, without thinking much about it, that two cars are both Toyotas.
The second characteristic that distinguishes the critical thinker is vocabulary. Imagine how awful it would be if we lacked the vocabulary that would enable us to think and converse clearly about some important part of our lives, such as our emotions. People whose vocabularies did not include words like "anger," "envy," and "compassion" would have difficulty reflecting on their feelings and talking about their emotional states with others. But many people are in exactly this situation with regard to reasoning. It is impossible to think and converse about thinking without the help of terms such as "inductive," "deductive," and "valid," and the concepts expressed by those terms.
Third, and most important of all, becoming a rigorous and reflective thinker means adopting a certain ethical stance: habitual skepticism with respect to one's own views, a charitable attitude toward the views of others, and a recognition that getting to the bottom of things together always matters more than winning a dispute. Critical thinking is responsible thinking.
Although the standard informal logic course is an important part of any college curriculum, all three of these elements of critical thinking—pattern recognition, vocabulary, and the ethical stance—can be taught outside of 100-level philosophy courses. Let's see how. What follows are two suggestions for using critical thinking in your own classes.
Teaching critical thinking through writing assignmentsIt is notoriously difficult to get students to revise papers in earnest, and reading their revisions can be a painful experience. Who wants to read two papers—the first draft and a revised version—side by side, scanning the edges of the page to see what changes the student has made? Too many students will make the bare minimum changes necessary to show that they have "addressed" the instructor's marginal comments, without really taking those comments to heart.
Instead of asking students to revise their papers, why not ask them to write replies to questions about their arguments? Here's how it works: Rather than making lots of marginal comments, type up five or six questions about each student's paper. Write numbers in the margins to indicate which question refers to which part of the text. Grade the papers as you ordinarily would, and then give the students another week to submit a set of replies to your questions. Give these answers a second grade that is completely independent of the initial paper grade. Let students know that these are two separate assignments, and that they cannot improve their initial paper grades by giving good answers to your questions. This guarantees that they will have plenty of incentive to work hard on the original paper. The two grades should be weighted equally, so as to send the message that taking responsibility for what you write is just as important as writing a good paper in the first place. The set of replies to questions should run to about the same length as the original paper, but the length of each reply will depend on the nature of each question.
When you hand the original papers back, let students know that you are looking for them to use their own judgment to determine how to reply to the questions. They may want to concede that they made a mistake, change their minds, or even try to explain how you misinterpreted their original work. There are many good ways of taking responsibility for one's thoughts. The idea is to set up a written dialogue between you and each member of the class. Students appreciate receiving individualized questions and are eager to engage in intellectual correspondence. Don't ask students about their writing; instead, ask them about their reasoning.
This "replies to objections" assignment virtually eliminates the threat of plagiarism. No one wants to write replies to questions about somebody else's paper.
This may sound like a lot of work, but typing questions does not take much more time than writing marginal comments, and reading the students' replies to the questions is thoroughly enjoyable. Moreover, much of the work that we would otherwise put into commenting on papers is wasted, because many of the comments go undigested. This assignment requires students to take the instructor's comments seriously.
You can also tailor the questions to each student's needs and abilities. If students have trouble putting a logical argument together, you can ask them to define technical terms, to explain which of several possible claims is the one they really want to defend, and so on. You can use the questions to challenge more advanced students to do some extra reading on the topic, or to think about more sophisticated counter-arguments that have not been discussed in class.
This assignment gives you an opportunity to model certain aspects of critical thinking: you can ask students about patterns in their reasoning, use logical vocabulary to talk about their work, present their arguments in premise-conclusion form before posing a question, and show through your questions what it means to adhere to the principle of charitable interpretation.
From peer editing to joint inquiryHere's another approach to using writing assignments to enhance critical thinking. One thing that students seem to enjoy even less than revising their papers is peer editing. Even the best-intentioned peer editing assignments place students in socially awkward situations. What is supposed to happen when a weaker writer swaps papers with a stronger writer? The weaker writer will probably not be much help to the stronger writer, while the stronger writer will worry about how to criticize the other's paper in a way that does not sound like a put down. The last thing that any teacher should want to do is to create an association between writing (which students should enjoy!) and socially unpleasant situations.
Instead of asking students to edit each other's papers, why not have them swap papers and raise questions about each other's arguments? Then give each student an opportunity to write replies to the questions, as in the previous assignment.
This works best if you instruct the peer commentators to begin by giving a brief summary of the other person's main argument. Have them identify the thesis of the argument and the main reasons that the author gives for accepting that thesis. Tell them that they are not, under any circumstances, to say anything about the quality of the other student's writing, or even to assess the quality of the paper. Require the peer commentators to adhere to the principle of charity: where there is some doubt about how to interpret another's argument, it is better to portray that argument in a more, rather than a less, reasonable light.
Requiring students to write replies to questions they receive from another member of the class sets up a situation in which students are reasoning with each other, rather than worrying about how to fulfill the requirements of the assignment without offending anyone.
References & Resources
There are plenty of good critical thinking textbooks out there. One of the best is Critical Thinking, 7th edition, by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker, McGraw-Hill, 2003; another is A Practical Study of Argument, 5th edition, by Trudy Govier, Wadsworth, 2001.
For a lively and readable introduction to the empirical research on human irrationality, see Stuart Vyse, Believing in Magic, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Two other entertaining (and good quality) books on critical thinking are Carl Sagan's Demon-Haunted World, Ballantine Books, 1997, and Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn, How To Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Anthony Weston's A Rulebook for Arguments (3rd edition, Hackett Publications, 2001) is an inexpensive little book full of tips for writing argumentative papers and could be used in any course that has a significant writing component.
Those who are more interested in critical thinking in scientific contexts might wish to look at Ronald Giere's Understanding Scientific Reasoning, 4th edition, Wadsworth, 1996.
Another helpful resources is the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/index.html).


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Beethoven Sketchleaf from 1807-1808
ABS ms1.1 written page (19 x 25.5 cm.) cut from a larger sheet, 8 staves, with Beethoven's handwritten musical notations in brown ink with one entry in pencil. Containing six sketches: 1) chordal passage for 4 horns in C and E flat, resembling the chords used in a section near the end of the Leonore Overture no. 1 (mm. 298-306); 2) unidentified passage of four bars in C major, probably for keyboard; 3) unidentified passage in bass clef (no clef present), probably in D major, written in pencil; 4) unidentified frament in G major, some writing in thirds, possibly for piano; 5) a passage of eight bars, written on the same line as the previous, prefaced with a time signature of 3/4 and concluding with a double bar and repeat sign; 6) the opening of the melodic line of the song "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt," with the word "Sehnsucht" changed to "Liebe" in Beethoven's hand, short instrumental flourish at the beginning.
Provenance: formerly in the possession of Giulietta Guicciardi; purchased by the Beethoven Center at Sotheby's (London) in 1985.


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Bonds got steroids, feds were told / Slugger's trainer said to have given substances to several athletes
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, New York Yankees stars Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield and three other major-league baseball players received steroids from a Burlingame nutritional supplement lab, federal investigators were told.
The baseball stars allegedly got the illegal performance-enhancing drugs from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative through Greg Anderson, Bonds' personal weight trainer and longtime friend, according to information furnished the government and shared with The Chronicle.
In addition to Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield, the other baseball players said to have received steroids from BALCO via Anderson were two former Giants, outfielder Marvin Benard and catcher Benito Santiago, and a former A's second baseman, Randy Velarde.
Oakland Raiders linebacker Bill Romanowski also was said to have received performance-enhancing drugs.
Anderson allegedly obtained a so-called designer steroid known as "the clear" and a testosterone-based steroid known as "the cream" from BALCO and supplied the substances to all six baseball players, the government was told. In addition, Bonds was said to have received human growth hormone, a powerful substance that legally cannot be distributed without a prescription, investigators were told.
Agents obtained the information about the baseball players and illegal drugs in September during a probe that resulted in the indictment of Anderson, BALCO owner Victor Conte and two other Bay Area men on steroid conspiracy charges.
The information shared with The Chronicle did not explicitly state that the athletes had used the drugs they were said to have obtained. Bonds, who is baseball's single-season home-run king, and Giambi, who won the American League Most Valuable Player award when he was with the Oakland Athletics, have publicly denied using steroids. So has Sheffield. All three declined to discuss the matter Monday.
Last week, attorneys for Anderson and Conte quoted their clients as saying Bonds had never used illegal drugs.
The information about Bonds provided to The Chronicle was corroborated by a source familiar with Anderson. The source told The Chronicle that the weight trainer had obtained steroids and human growth hormone for Bonds dating back to the 2001 season. That was the year the Giants outfielder broke baseball's storied single-season record for home runs -- hitting 73.
"We continue to adamantly deny that Barry was provided, furnished or supplied any of those substances at any time by Greg Anderson," Michael Rains, an attorney for Bonds, said Monday. He also questioned the credibility of the source familiar with the trainer.
Other attorneys interviewed Monday answered in the same vein.
Sheffield's attorney Paula Canny said, "Gary Sheffield has never knowingly ingested a steroid ... and Gary Sheffield has never knowingly applied an anabolic steroid cream to his body."
Santiago's attorney, David Cornwell, declined specific comment but said: "Based on my involvement in this matter, I know that many of the athletes involved did not know they were being given a banned substance."
Anna Ling, an attorney for Anderson, said the trainer had "never knowingly given any illegal substance to anybody."
Velarde did not respond to requests for comment. Benard could not be reached.
Investigators also were told that pro football player Romanowski had allegedly obtained both steroids and human growth hormone from BALCO. Romanowski was one of the early big-name boosters of Conte and his legal supplements, and the linebacker helped draw other elite athletes to BALCO. In 1999, Colorado court records show that Romanowski's wife, Julie, told investigators that the linebacker had obtained human growth hormone from BALCO. An attorney for Romanowski didn't return a reporter's phone call.
Bonds, Giambi, Sheffield, Santiago and Romanowski were among more than 30 of the world's greatest athletes -- stars of baseball, football, boxing and track and field -- who testified last year before the San Francisco federal grand jury that investigated BALCO and handed up the steroid conspiracy indictments.
The names of Benard and Velarde have never before surfaced in connection with the steroid investigation, which has roiled the upcoming 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and, increasingly, the world of American professional sports as well.
The probe began making worldwide headlines last October, after the head of the agency that administers drug tests to U.S. Olympians alleged that Conte and BALCO were at the center of an international sports doping scandal.
The scandal attracted the attention of President Bush, a former owner of the Texas Rangers, who in his State of the Union address in January denounced steroid abuse in baseball and football. Then, on Feb. 12, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft convened a nationally televised press conference in Washington to announce the 42-count indictment against Anderson, Conte, famed track coach Remi Korchemny and BALCO Vice President James Valente.
The men are charged with conspiring to distribute performance-enhancing drugs, including human growth hormone and a newly created steroid called THG that allegedly had been designed to help elite athletes pass doping tests.
All four men have pleaded not guilty.
Ashcroft vowed to crack down on steroid abuse, saying it threatens the integrity of sports and "fosters a destructive culture contrary to the values that make sports such an important part of American life."
But even as it promised to get tough on steroids, the government took unusual steps to turn the focus away from the elite athletes suspected of using the illegal substances that BALCO allegedly supplied. Early on, the government said it was not interested in prosecuting athletes for using steroids, instead granting them immunity when they were called to testify before the grand jury.
The government also has deleted from public court files the names of every athlete who allegedly obtained illegal performance-enhancing drugs from
Court records show that agents of the Internal Revenue Service and Food and Drug Administration had been investigating BALCO and Conte for 18 months when they served search warrants on the lab and on Anderson's Burlingame condominium Sept. 3. That was when agents were told the names of athletes said to have been provided the illegal drugs.
In affidavits that don't name the athletes, investigators allege that Anderson was the link between the baseball players and their source of illegal steroids at BALCO. The indictment alleges that on two occasions, once in November 2001 and another time in November 2002, Anderson distributed human growth hormone to a "professional baseball player."
Agents claim that Anderson, Conte and Valente admitted their roles in providing steroids to baseball players -- and in some cases named names.
Internal Revenue Service investigator Jeff Novitzky wrote that while agents were searching Anderson's home on Sept. 3, the trainer allegedly told them the names of the ballplayers to whom he had provided illegal performance- enhancing substances.
"Anderson admitted that he had given steroids to several professional baseball players whose names I was familiar with from my review of other documents in this case," Novitzky wrote. Another IRS investigator, Brian Watson, wrote that Conte, the BALCO president, had made a "confession" to illegal steroid dealing to elite athletes. That also came on Sept. 3, after agents had raided BALCO and Conte's San Mateo home.
Conte, the agent wrote, gave a "complete statement regarding his involvement in knowingly, illegally, distributing steroids to numerous professional athletes." Conte said he knew it was illegal and assumed Anderson knew that, too, when allegedly receiving the steroids for professional baseball players, the affidavit says.
Later, Conte is quoted as saying that in early 2003, he had given a "clear" steroid-like substance to Anderson to give to a professional baseball player. The agent acknowledges he was not sure whether the substance qualified as a banned substance under federal law.
J. Tony Serra, Anderson's attorney, said last week that the affidavit referred to a "100 percent legal" substance the weight trainer had offered to Bonds. Bonds declined it, Serra said. Conte's attorney, Robert Holley, couldn't be reached for comment. Last week, he told reporters that Conte knew of "no illegal activity that has ever been done by Barry Bonds."
Anderson, 37, is a beefy former collegiate second baseman who has been Bonds' friend since their boyhood days in the San Carlos Little League, according to people who know the men. In 1998, the Giants star hired Anderson as his weight trainer, and Anderson has been a presence in the Giants' clubhouse since the team moved to Pacific Bell Park in 2000.
Anderson often conducted workouts for Bonds and other training clients at the former World Gym near San Francisco International Airport, a few blocks from BALCO. Conte and Anderson met through the gym. Later, the trainer introduced Conte to Bonds.
Through Bonds, Anderson met several of the other baseball players said to have obtained illegal substances from the trainer, according to a source who knows the men.
Bonds befriended Giambi after the 2000 season, when Giambi, then the first baseman for the Athletics, had won the American League Most Valuable Player award, the source said.
After the 2002 season, Bonds and Giambi were part of a team of big leaguers who traveled to Japan on a baseball barnstorming tour. Bonds brought Anderson along on the trip, and the trainer got to know Giambi at that time.
Bonds also had been friendly with Sheffield since Sheffield's days with the Florida Marlins in the 1990s. After the 2001 season, Sheffield, then with the Atlanta Braves, moved to the Bay Area for several weeks so that he could work out with Bonds. A source said Anderson had supervised some of the workouts.
Anderson became acquainted with Benard and Santiago during the trainer's visits to the Giants clubhouse, the source said.
Benard left the Giants after the 2003 season and signed a minor- league contract with the Chicago White Sox organization. Santiago also left the Giants after 2003, signing with the Kansas City Royals. Velarde retired from baseball in 2002.
During spring training on Monday, Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield declined to discuss BALCO and steroids.
"You're asking me about something we don't want to discuss," Bonds said at the Giants camp in Arizona. "... I'm tired of all these games."
At the Yankees camp in Florida, Giambi and Sheffield also declined comment.
Giambi referred to a conversation with reporters last week in which he denied using steroids. "I addressed it," he said. "I've got nothing more to say."
Sheffield also referred to his earlier statements in which he denied taking steroids.
"The issue is done with, as far as I'm concerned," he said.
The BALCO case and its connection to some of baseball's biggest stars have increased pressure on the sport to become more aggressive in the commissioner's stated goal of zero tolerance toward steroids. Last year, baseball implemented its first-ever plan to test for performance-enhancing drugs, but the policy has been widely criticized as too soft by officials from the Olympic movement as well as other sports governing bodies.
Contacted for comment Monday, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig called steroids "sinister and seductive" and said he was distressed about the allegations about the players.
"We at Major League Baseball must strive for zero tolerance as it relates to the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs," Selig said in a statement. "We will do everything in our power to get to zero tolerance as soon as possible."


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #456
Teach me, O Lord, thy holy way
And give me an obedient mind;
That in thy service I may find
My soul's delight from day to day.
Guide me, O Saviour, with thy hand,
And so control my thoughts and deeds,
That I may tread the path which leads
Right onward to the blessed land.
Help me, O Saviour, here to trace
The sacred footsteps thou hast trod;
And, meekly walking with my God,
To grow in goodness, truth, and grace.
Guard me, O Lord, that I may ne'er
Forsake the right, or do the wrong:
Against temptation make me strong,
And round me spread thy shelt'ring care.
Bless me in ev'ry task, O Lord,
Begun, continued, done for thee:
Fulfil thy perfect work in me;
And thine abounding grace afford.
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The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History Announces Courses and Instructors for 2013 British Institute
WESTMINSTER, Colo., 3 April 2013—The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History announces the courses for the 13th annual British Institute, to be held 7–11 October in Salt Lake City at the Radisson Downtown, located two blocks from the Family History Library. Registration will open 9:00 a.m. Pacific daylight time on 8 April 2013 and class size is limited.
"The best kept secret is out for continuing education institutes!" said ISBGFH President Ann Lisa Pearson. "The British Institute is the place to be, providing students with a unique learning experience while working with their own research. Instructors will be available each afternoon to consult with students throughout the time of the Institute, applying classroom education and the opportunity to do more in-depth, on-site research in the records at the Family History Library."
"The opportunity to be taught by the best teachers in the presence of the largest genealogy library was a dream come true!" said Paul Hawthorne, 2012 attendee.
Featuring top-notch educators and British resources
- Award-winning genealogist: Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS
- Irish research expert: David E. Rencher, AG, CG, FIGRS, FUGA
- From England: Maggie Loughran, Paul Blake, and Graham Walter
- Personal research consultations
- Access and instruction with British collections at the Family History Library
- Morning educational program followed by afternoon research sessions in the library
The 2013 British Institute offers four tracks taught by expert genealogists:
From Simple to Complex: Applying Genealogy's Standard of Acceptability to British Research – Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS Through hands-on activities, lectures, and discussions, participants will learn how to use widely accepted standards to measure their genealogical work's accuracy and to assess others' genealogical conclusions. In the process they also will learn about genealogical research planning, its implementation, genealogical reasoning, and the preparation of credible genealogical products.
Irish Land Records and Fragmentary Evidence Correlation
David E. Rencher, AG, CG, FIGRS, FUGA This course is designed to address Irish genealogical research for both the landed and landless families in Ireland. When land records are meager, there are still methods to research the landless in the land records and the associated record fragments created from land use. Assembling this meager evidence provides the clearest picture possible for an Irish family in the 17th to 20th centuries.
Sources for Tracing Pre-mid-nineteenth Century English Ancestors
Maggie Loughran and Paul Blake
Concentrating on tracing pre-1850 English ancestors, this course will interest those whose ancestors emigrated to North America before English civil registration in 1837, or those who have traced their ancestors back to the early 1800s. For each record category, examples of original documents will be used to guide you through interpretation, locating, and lastly, how to access through the Internet, the Family History Library, and other available resources.
Using the Cloud for British Family History Research – Graham Walter, MBCS
This course will provide an introduction to "The Cloud" and how to use it to one's research advantage. Learn how to choose the right combination of computing devices to enhance any family history research trip. The Cloud allows moving data seamlessly between devices and the ability to share with family and other researchers.
Registration Information
Online registration is available at the ISBGFH's website:http://www.isbgfh.org.
If preferred, a mail-in registration form is provided. If you have any questions, please e-mail email@example.com.