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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BP)--Against the backdrop of a land as rugged and wild as it is spiritually lost, the North American Mission Board commissioned 30 new missionaries and chaplains, many of whom will serve Alaska and its northern neighbor, Canada.
The service took place at First Baptist Church in Anchorage, which was Alaska's first Southern Baptist church, started in 1943 by a small group of GIs stationed at nearby Fort Richardson. The church has since built a legacy of starting sister churches in Alaska.
"It's a real privilege for us to have this group of missionaries here at this point in your sending process -- to be a part of that is a wonderful blessing," FBC Anchorage pastor Ed Gregory told the audience. "Thank God for this privilege and for the fact that He is indeed at work across our land, and we get to be in on it."
"For 60 years the Alaska Baptist Convention has had a close relationship with first the Home Mission Board and now the North American Mission Board," said David Baldwin, executive director of the Alaska Baptist Convention. "I want to say on behalf of the 105 Southern Baptist congregations scattered across Alaska -- welcome. We are so happy to have this moment here tonight."
Baldwin told the new missionaries and chaplains, "You are in a friendly crowd. Probably every person here tonight has been touched by the Home Mission Board or the North American Mission Board because of the church planting and all that has gone into our state. We do not take that for granted."
Half of Alaska's population of nearly 700,000 is concentrated in the metro Anchorage area, with 365,000 people, in a state that is larger than Texas, California and Montana combined. Alaska's next two largest cities are Fairbanks (31,000) and Juneau (30,000).
Alaska's vastness creates formidable challenges for the 105 Southern Baptist churches and missions trying to reach the state's residents. Alaskan culture and lifestyle also bring challenges. Many of the state's citizens who transplanted from the "lower 48" came seeking solitude and independence, making evangelistic outreach difficult.
On the other hand, many of the state's native Alaskans live in remote villages that cannot even be accessed by car.
Luke and Sarah Stewart, Mission Service Corps missionaries, moved to the remote Eskimo village of Kobuk in 2008 to minister at an SBC mission church. The Stewarts and their young family faced temperatures during their first winter that plunged to 65 degrees below zero. The village is inaccessible by car, so supplies must be flown in when weather allows.
Stewart said ministry in Kobuk requires a slow approach, serving the village's citizens while trying to share Christ as relationships develop.
"I am trying to be an encouragement to the believers and help them grow in their Christian lives," Stewart said. "Beyond that, we are trying to serve the other people so they will see by the way we live and the way we treat them that we love them and that God loves them."
Other missionaries commissioned to Alaska during the Jan. 24 service will work in Kodiak and Girdwood. Others who were commissioned will be ministering in Oregon, North Dakota, Hawaii, Washington state, Utah, Canada, California and South Carolina.
Carlos Rodriguez and his wife Paola serve in Seattle as church planting strategists, nurturing new congregations for Hispanics, Slavic, Russian and Ukrainian people in the area.
"The Northwest is the most unchurched area of the United States," Rodgiguez said, describing Seattle is "a very diverse area of the nation and very multi-cultural."
"Many of the Ukrainians and Russians come from a Christian background," he noted. "Their parents and grandparents suffered for the Lord when they were a communist country. And some come from a Russian Orthodox background or communist background. Many of them have left the faith and are unchurched."
The Rodriguezes relocated to Seattle last fall, after serving as language church planter strategists in Portland, Ore., for five and a half years. Carlos said the area needs prayer for more church planters among the 1.5 million Hispanics living in the Northwest. In addition, he asked for prayer in reaching the second-generation Slavs, Russians and Ukrainians in Seattle. Rodriguez said he and other SBC church planters in the region are in a race with Mormon's and Jehovah's Witness missionaries actively working in the region.
NAMB's newest missionaries and chaplains arrived in Anchorage two days before the commissioning for a time of training and orientation hosted by leaders of the mission board, including Richard Harris, NAMB's interim president; Frank Page, vice president for evangelization; and Ken Weathersby, vice president of church planting. Tim Patterson, chairman of NAMB's trustees, also attended the sessions.
The missionaries fanned out across the greater Anchorage area on Sunday morning, visiting with and preaching in local Southern Baptist churches.
Harris voiced a charge to the newly commissioned workers: "Whatever else you are trying to accomplish in your ministry, as we send you out tonight, it is to proclaim the Gospel of Christ by way of life and by word of mouth."
Harris encouraged the missionaries to approach people with "gentleness and respect."
"You are going to confront all kinds of people with all kinds of backgrounds. Go to them in humility. Remember who you are. Remember whose you are."
But spreading the Gospel is not only a missionary responsibility. Turning to those from area churches who attended the commissioning service, Harris said, "Every year, 3 million precious souls are added to North America's population. You say, 'I can't reach everybody.' No, but you can reach somebody, and if you are willing to share, God will bring a harvest field into your life."
In all, more than 5,300 missionaries serve with the North American Mission Board, most of them through partnerships with state Baptist conventions. In addition to the missionaries, NAMB is the endorsing entity for more than 3,300 Southern Baptist chaplains in military, hospital, professional, corporate, public safety and institutional settings.
Mike Ebert is the communications team leader for the North American Mission Board.


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We have a black president.
Yes, we have a new president. We have a Democrat president. But we have a black president, and that's an important distinction to make, because it means something.
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Trace (Joe Gunther #28)
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Twenty-eight novels into his Joe Gunther series, Archer Mayor decides to give us an audition of sorts in his latest novel Trace. The series hero is gone for most of this novel tending to family leaving his three proteges (Sammy Martens, Les Spinney, and Willy Kunkle) at the Vermont Bureau of Investigations to take on three unique cases. It feels as though Mayor is testing the waters in a way. Will one of these characters end up taking Joe Gunther's mantle or inspire their own series? This will almost undoubtedly be in the back of the mind of any reader, whether you are new to the series (as I was) or a veteran of it.
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If Mayor is seeing what he can do with characters usually on the periphery of Joe Gunther, then he's succeeded. Each one of these cases could be their own book suggesting to readers perhaps Sammy, Les, and Willy ought to have exactly that. When the hero of the series does return in the forthcoming novels, readers will know just how talented his lieutenants are.
Author Bio
Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the Chicago Tribune describes as "the best police procedurals being written in America." His 28th book, TRACE, is due September 26, 2017 (Minotaur/St. Martin's Press). Archer was recently honored with the 2016 Robert B. Parker (aka 'The Dean of Mystery Writers') Award and the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction in 2012 —the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. In 2011, Mayor's 22nd Joe Gunther novel, TAG MAN, earned a place on The New York Times bestseller list for hardback fiction.
Before turning his hand to fiction, Mayor wrote history books, the most notable of which, "Southern Timberman: The Legacy of William Buchanan," concerned the lumber and oil business in Louisiana from the 1870s to the 1970s. This book was published in 1988 and very well received; it was republished as a trade paperback in 2009.
Archer Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a detective for the Windham County Sheriff's Office, the publisher of his own backlist, a travel writer for AAA, and he travels the Northeast giving speeches and conducting workshops. He has 25 years of experience as a volunteer firefighter/EMT. Mayor was brought up in the US, Canada and France and had been employed as a scholarly editor, a researcher for TIME-LIFE Books, a political advance-man, a theater photographer, a newspaper writer/editor, a lab technician for Paris-Match Magazine in Paris, France, and a medical illustrator. In addition to writing novels and occasional articles, Mayor gives talks and workshops all around the country, including the Bread Loaf Young Writers conference in Middlebury, Vermont, and the Colby College seminar on forensic sciences in Waterville, Maine. Archer's love of riding his motorcycle (Yamaha V Star 950) earned him a profile in Rider Magazine in the June 2017 edition.
Mayor's critically-acclaimed series of police novels feature Lt. Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont, police department. The books, which have been appearing about once a year since 1988, have been published in five languages (if you count British), and routinely gather high praise from such sources as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, and others, often appearing on their "ten best" yearly lists.
Whereas many writers base their books only on interviews and scholarly research, Mayor's novels are based on actual experience in the field. The result adds a depth, detail and veracity to his characters and their tribulations that has led The New York Times to call him "the boss man on procedures".


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July 21, 2009
Chicago media has caught onto the 75th Season fever. Various members of the Festival have been interviewed on WTTW Chicago Tonight, WGN Midday News, NBC 5 News, and ABC 7 News.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront co-authors Tony Macaluso and Julia Bachrach discuss the book and the history of the Festival during an interview with WGN's Steve Sanders. Watch the full interview at wgntv.com.
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But, playing the bass remained a hidden desire until my freshman year at engineering school in Massachusetts. I got my first bass and immediately started playing folk music and jazz in the Boston area. By the time my junior year came around I got up the courage to bring the bass home for summer vacation and break the news to my mother. Well, I will never forget it; we played together for the first time and that was it. She did nothing but encourage and help me after that. And so, during summer breaks, I began studying with Teddy Mayer and others in the Buffalo area.
Then I was drafted after engineering school. Well, it's a long, fascinating story, but would you believe that I ended up playing bass in the Army Band in Berlin Germany. What an experience, I was blessed to be able to get to play with Carmel Jones, Leo Wright, Slide Hampton and even Duke Ellington just before his passing. Along with playing with all kinds of Jazz groups in Berlin, I was most fortunate to be able to study with Prof. Rainier Zepperitz who was the Principal Soloist of the Berlin Philharmonic at the time. What an honor and fantastic experience that turned out to be. I just recently discovered that the Professor passed away in December 2009 at the young age of 79. The Professor was a remarkable Bassist and Teacher. He was a huge influence and inspiration in my earlier years. Check the link above to learn more about the Great Professor Rainier Zepperitz.
After the Army experience, I returned to Buffalo and very briefly studied music at UB and continued my studies with Mr. Mayor. But it wasn't very long before I got a call to play a jazz concert in Columbus, Ohio. Well, I ended up staying there for a little over a year playing 6 and 7 nights a week. After that year, I once again returned home, this time to stay. The rest, as they say is history, I settled in and started working with many of Buffalo's finest musicians. Just as note, my mother was right, I love playing music, but the music business is really a tough way to make a living.


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The city of Holyoke recently launched a new program to assist landlords in disposal of large items at the DPW Recycling Center.
This service has always been made available to the home owners of the city but through the efforts of Mayor Alex B. Morse and DPW Superintendent Williaml Fuqua, landlords are now included.
The program allows landlords to dispose of a range of "large items" (i.e. couches, mattresses, appliances, tires, etc.) for $10 each. A permit is required and property owners and managers can acquire one from the DPW office.
"I'm pleased to see this program being launched – it's a great resource to me as a landlord, and I believe that in general, barriers to disposal incentivize people to dispose of things in unauthorized ways (like dumping them in our alleys)." said Stephen Bosco.
From yard waste to hazardous waste, Holyoke has always been committed to providing innovative services that result in waste handling that is processed and disposed of in a proper and environmental friendly and economical manner.
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Archive for October 2009
Learning how to respect Love
Posted October 17, 2009on:
To My Friends Who Are…MARRIED
Love is not about "it's your fault", but "I'm sorry", not "where are you' but "I'm right here", not "how could you" but "I understand", not "I wish you were", but "I'm thankful you are."
To My Friends Who Are…ENGAGED
The true measure of compatibility is not the years spent together but how good you are for each other.
To My Friends Who Are…NOT SO SINGLE
Love isn't about becoming somebody else's "perfect person." It's about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.
To My Friends Who Are…HEARTBROKEN
Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut deep as you allow them to go. The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from them.
To My Friends Who Are…NAIVE
How to be in love: Fall but don't stumble, be consistent but not too persistent, share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand, and get hurt but never keep the pain.
To My Friends Who Are…SEARCHING
True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Love is magic. The more we hide it, the more it shows; the more you suppress it, the more it grows.
To My Friends Who Are…PLAYBOY/GIRL TYPE
Never say I love if you don't care. Never talk about feelings if they aren't there. Never touch a life if you mean to break a heart. Never look in the eye when what you do is lie. The cruelest thing a guy can do to a girl is to let her fall in love when he doesn't intend to catch her fall.
To My Friends Who Are…POSSESSIVE
It breaks your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else but it's more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.
To My Friends Who Are…AFRAID TO CONFESS
Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you. But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.
To My Friends Who Are…STILL HOLDING ON
A sad thing about life is that when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and we just have to let go.
To My Friends Who Are…SINGLE
Love is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you just let it fly, it would come to you when you least expect it. Love can make you happy but often times it hurts, but love's only special when you give it to someone who is worth it. So take your time and choose the best!
Wake up for Fajr Salaah
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Wake up for Fajr Salaah
A man woke up early in order to Pray
the Fajr Prayer in the masjid.
He got dressed, made his ablution and was on his
way to the masjid.
On his way to the masjid, the man fell and his
clothes got dirty.
He got up, brushed himself off, and headed home.
At home,
He changed His Clothes, made his ablution, and
was, again,
on his way to the masjid.
On his way to the masjid, He Fell again and at
the Same Spot!
He, again, got up, brushed himself off and headed
At home he, once again, Changed His Clothes,
made his ablution and was on his way to the
On his way to the masjid, He Met a Man Holding a Lamp.
He asked the man of his identity and the man
replied 'I Saw You Fall Twice
on your way to the masjid,
So I Brought a Lamp so I can Light Your Way.'
The first man thanked him profusively and the
two where on their way to the masjid.
Once at the masjid, the first man asked the man
the lamp to come in and pray Fajr with him.
The second man refused.
The first man asked him a couple more times and,
again, the answer was the same.
The first man asked him why he did not wish to
come in and pray.
He man replied
I am Shetaan(devil/ evil)
The man was shocked at this reply.
Shetan went on to explain,
'I saw you on your way to the masjid
and it was I who made you fall. When you went
cleaned yourself and went back on your way to the
Allah forgave all of your sins.
I made you fall a second time, and even that
did not encourage you to stay home,
but rather, you went back on your way to the
Because of that, Allah forgave all the sins
of the people of your household .
I was AFRAID if i made you fall one more time,
then Allah will forgive the sins of the people of
your village,
so I made sure that you reached the masjid safely..'
So do not let Shetan benefit from his actions.
Do not put off a good that you intended to do as
you never know how much reward
you might receive from the hardships you
while trying to achieve that good.
If forwarding this message will bother you, or take
too much time from you, then don't do it, but you
will not
get the reward of it, which is great. Imagine,
that when you forward this, you receive 240 good
and so will I for sending it to you! Wouldn't it be
easy just to
Press Forward ' and receive this Reward?
May Allah (Subhana Ho Wataallah) grant us
perfect Muslim Heart n we
all do Prayers with our Heart and Soul…
…………… ……… ……Ameen
Polish Divorce
Posted October 17, 2009on:
A Polish man moved to the USA and married an American girl.
Although his English was far from perfect, they got along very well until one day he rushed into a lawyer's office and asked him if he could arrange a divorce for him.
The lawyer said that getting a divorce would depend on the circumstances, and asked him the following questions:
L: Have you any grounds?
P: Yes, an acre and half and nice little home.
L: No, I mean what is the foundation of this case?
P: It made of concrete.
L: I don't think you understand. Does either of you have a real grudge?
P: No, we have carport, and not need one.
L: I mean. What are your relations like?
P: All my relations still in Poland.
L: Is there any infidelity in your marriage?
P: We have hi-fidelity stereo and good DVD player.
L: Does your wife beat you up?
P: No, I always up before her.
L: Is your wife a nagger?
P: No, she white.
L: Why do you want this divorce?
P: She going to kill me.
L: What makes you think that?
P: I got proof.
L: What kind of proof?
P: She going to poison me. She buy a bottle at drugstore and put on shelf in bathroom. I can read, and it say: Polish Remover". 🙂
True Story
Posted October 17, 2009on:
This is a true story from the Japanese Embassy in US!!!
A few days ago, Prime Minister Mori was given some Basic English conversation training before he visits Washington
and meets president Barack Obama…
The instructor told Mori Prime Minister, when you shake hand with President Obama, please say "How r u".
Then Mr. Obama should say, 'I am fine, and you?' Now, you should say 'me too'. Afterwards we, translators, will do
the work for you.'
It looks quite simple, but the truth is…
When Mori met Obama , he mistakenly said 'Who r u?' (Instead of 'How r u?'.)
Mr. Obama was a bit shocked but still managed to react with humor:
'Well, I'm Michelle's husband, ha-ha…'
Then Mori replied 'me too, ha-ha.. .'.
Then there was a long silence in the meeting room.
Mehndi Designs – Women's Hand Art of Mehndi Designs – Mehndi of A Bridal Hand – Mehndi Colors
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Glazing Expertise for Residential Properties
Our glazing expertise is used on hundreds of residential projects every year and the following illustrates a few of the jobs we have completed:
Our glazing expertise is used on hundreds of residential projects every year and the following illustrates a few of the jobs we have completed:
Pilkington Activ Blue glass is perfect for conservatories, the low maintenance, UV reflective surface ensures a comfortable temperature is maintained.
The photographs above show how glass balustrade panes can lighten a hallway. These are normally 8 mm toughened safety glass with polished edges secured between the newel posts using stainless steel 'D' clamps which are available in a variety of finishes, or can be powder coated to a specific RAL colour.
Juliette balcony panels are installed using stainless steel 'stand-off' fittings fixed, into woodwork or brickwork on either side of the door set at a height above internal FFL to comply with Building Regulations.
The photographs opposite illustrate a Lantern which provides a covered corridor between two adjoining pitched roofs. The owner of this charming large mid-Victorian property wished to fully utilise the space in two large attics and this is the way that it was achieved. Bespoke hardwood joinery and 6 mm toughened low-e, double glazed units with grey anti-sun tint, upto 3.2 metres long.
Barn conversions are highly popular and much sought after with home owners seeking a rural lifestyle. Oxfordshire Glass provide glazing expertise to all kinds of projects up to and including multi-million pound renovations.
Starting in mid 2013 and completed in spring 2014, this early Victorian greenhouse within a Gloucestershire walled garden was completely de-glazed and the steel frames re-furbished and powder coated.
Each of the 17 seperate 15 ft high frames along the frontage were re-glazed using over 3000 new horticultural glass panes hand finished with a curved lower edge to provide an exact replica of the original overlapping 'fish-scale' design.
A new aluminium frame with french doors with side lights was incorporated into the rear wall of the greenhouse.
Photographs of another Victorian greenhouse we re-glazed at a National Trust property can be seen in our Historic Buildings section.


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Our Mission at United Way of Pasco County
Our mission statement and our vision statement evolve as the United Way of Pasco County evolves. They are fluid statements of what we believe our role and goals to be in our community. As the community changes, it is possible that our role and goals within the community will change. That being said, we will always be dedicated to improving life in Pasco County.
Our Mission Statement
We improve peoples' lives in Pasco County by identifying the most important health and human service needs, advocating and developing resources and partnerships to address those needs, and producing measurable results.
Our Vision Statement
To advance the common good of all residents of Pasco County.


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In 2011 Amoral – bored by the limiting genre definitions offered to them to describe the band's sound – started calling their music "Classic Rock Of The 21st Century". Sure, the tongues were firmly on their cheeks, but there definitely were some valid points to the new, self-appointed title. If the likes of Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Queen and Sabbath could all venture into many different paths musically under the moniker of Classic Rock, then Amoral could simply not settle for any less.
The title has never been more appropriate than on the band's 6th album: Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows. After 2011's Beneath, with its rave reviews, great fan response and a tour that took the band everywhere from Europe to Japan, with debut shows in the USA and China, Amoral had a clear vision of what it wanted to do on the next album.
"Very early on in the writing process, we noticed we were leaning towards lengthier, 'proggy-er' songs, in the vein of Beneath's title track. Those type of songs were the ones we enjoyed playing the most on the Beneath tour, and the ones where we felt the band was at it's best. So it felt natural to try and focus on these aspects for the next album", says Ben Varon, guitarist and founding member of Amoral, who also acted as producer on Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows.
"Another defining guideline came to me a bit later, but made perfect sense with the material we were coming up with: this was to be a concept album. Not only were my lyrical ideas already intervening together, but the songs themselves were starting to paint a bigger picture."
In it's simplest form, Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows is about that one big mistake that cannot be undone.
"People like the idea of second chances, but sometimes that's simply not an option. There are points of no return, decisions you can never undo. You can read into the lyrics as a tale of a drug addict, a relationship gone horribly wrong, longing for days past, fear of getting old… the latter two are probably the ones hitting closest to home for me", Varon chuckles.
While Varon was responsible for the lyrics, writing the music was a fruitful collaboration between him and guitarist Masi Hukari, who joined the group just before the recording of Beneath in 2010.
"It was great to have Masi there from the very beginning of the writing this time around", Ben says.
"Some of the best moments on the album were written together, feeding off each others ideas. Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows also has our bassist Pexi (Pekka Johansson) chipping in with the writing for the first time, which is really cool."
Another first this time around is a collaboration many years in the works. Ever since singer Ari Koivunen joined Amoral in 2008, there has been talks of Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot) producing the vocals on an Amoral album. With the idea sabotaged by schedule clashes on the last two albums,
Marco was finally available to oversee the vocal sessions for Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows. Ben and Ari spent a week at Marco's home studio in Kuopio, and the stress-free environment and Mr. Hietala's input resulted in some of the best vocal performances heard from Koivunen to date.
But enough chitchat, let the music do the talking. Take an hour-long break from the laptops and smartphones, put Fallen Leaves & Dead Sparrows on your stereo and cross that bridge to The Other Side…


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Affirming Beauty
Posted by Darlene
There's been a whole lot of talk about hair over the last week or so – more specifically African American hair. First there was the Sheryl Underwood statement that shocked and offended quite a few folks. Then we go somewhat past/through that, only to finish the week out with a local school reported to have sent 7 year old Tiana Parker home, not for bad behavior, not for any type of contagious or communicable disease, nor for a school emergency, but because of the way her hair was styled. I always seem to have a hope when I read these types of stories that it just couldn't be true. Approximately 3 months ago, an Ohio school decided to ban Afro Puffs and braids/twists, and they have since apologized and an apology was in order along with the removal of the ban. And now it happens again with young Tiana.
I was pretty pissed off about the entire situation, hurt that a child was hurt in this way; and then I stumbled upon the most beautiful response to date, designed by Dr. Yaba Blay with contributions from a host of African American women with Locs and encouraging messages for Tiana Parker. Here it is.
There are many responses that are needed. Does pressure need to be put on the Debra Brown Community School administration? Absolutely. Should there be an outcry of injustice, discrimination and misuse of the establishing of policies? Most definitely!
Some would argue that the school was within their right because after all they did state in their policy that: "Hairstyles such as Dreadlocks, Afros or Mohawks and other faddish styles are unacceptable." To say that Tiana's dad, Mr. Parker should have known better and just submit himself and his daughter to the rules, is to miss a more serious offense – that this should never have been a policy in the first place, in that it is an objection to the type and texture of African American hair – hair that grows differently than straight hair, is curly and tightly coiled without any chemical alterations, and therefore by default must be styled differently.
The style of an Afro and/or Dreadlocks are not "faddish" by any stretch of anyone's historical awareness or imagination. What is the deal with African American hair and the interest and fascination? Why is it that I, even as an adult, whether in institutions of higher learning or interacting with some straight haired folks in other settings, can run into folks who feel the need to "touch" my hair and be somewhat offended and put off by my response of no?
Historically speaking, many Black folks began a process of straightening our hair in order to fit in and be accepted by a dominant, and racist society. Today, several African Americans still straighten their hair – chemically, flat ironed, etc – for most that I know who still straighten their tresses, it is not at all about acceptance, it is just what is normative for how we were raised or because of personal preference for a straight look. I don't knock them, I used to have my hair chemically relaxed too. As a teenager I waited in anticipation for getting old enough for my parents to allow me to "relax" my hair. So, I get it. We could talk about these types of surface aspects forever, but unless the underlying issues are addressed, such as why all this even matters in the first place and why policing hair styles/textures is wrong. As I see it the following are a few reasons actions such as those of DBCS and others matters.
Perhaps it is embedded in our psyche so deeply and for so long that it is almost impossible for some to unlearn it or even realize that something is wrong and of need of being unlearned. Who knows??? But, Tiana and others like her have a plethora of people in their corner, encouraging and holding them up.
Posted in Children, Race, Random, Social Issues
Tags: african american, beauty, Black, care package, coils, Debra Brown Community School, discrimination, Hair, locs of love, sheryl underwood, Tiana Parker, tresses, value, Yaba Blay
Who Cares?
Posted by Darlene
Two words have been on my mind for the last couple of weeks – "Trayvon Martin." I have turned the revealed details over in my head and heart and respond with an appropriate feeling of anger at the apparent injustice of it all. I did not know Trayvon and I do not know his family, causing some to ask why I care. The only response I can muster up to such wondering is "why don't YOU care?"
I have deeply spiritual and human reasons for caring. My heart aches as I wonder what it might have been like for Trayvon to journey from the store to his dad's home only to have the entirety of his being filled with fear as he peered down the barrel of George Zimmeran's gun, never anticipating that his trip to the store might be the last trip, the last pack of Skittles, the last bottle of iced tea.
In the Martin, Zimmerman case, it is difficult for me to believe that the "Stand your ground law" in Florida is designed for people like Zimmerman – based on the 911 calls, Zimmeran was following Martin even though instructed not to do so. Zimmerman is about 100lbs heavier than Martin was. Zimmerman was armed and Martin was not. The mere reality that Zimmerman followed this teen because, according to his perceptions, he looked suspicious is cause for the law being in place for people like Martin – who really seems to be the one whose life was in danger and threatened? And even if Zimmerman was in danger (which I doubt), did he need to shoot to kill?
Assumptions regarding racial motivation on the part of Zimmerman (whether false or true) serve as a reminder of the yet existent pain of racial inequality in the US. Being Black in America still means encountering individuals who will view your very existence as a threat and see your skin pigmentation and way of being as "suspicious." In many cases "looking suspicious" only means I look different than you, have different mannerisms, hair texture, and wardrobe.
Social stereotypes still exist – can't even where your hooded sweatshirt when it's raining, especially if you are an African American male. And rather than focus on the injustices surrounding Trayvon and other "Trayvons" of society, we still have individuals like popular TV personality Geraldo Rivera spouting nonsense that suggests that Trayvon's death was as much his own fault because he was wearing a hoodie. But as Eugene Cho says
Hoodies don't kill just as short skirts don't rape. Focus on the injustice and not the wardrobe.
The stark reality is that even without the hoodie, Trayvon still lived in his brown skin.
I love my lighter brothers and sisters – sincerely, but the subtle hints that we are overreacting and simply reading into things when we insist that racism and racial profiling are the real experiences of the African American race is an insult that only causes the societal realities to continue. We are not yet a post-racial society as some would suggest, therefore more work is yet to be done.
Dr. Martin Luther King's quest for "Strength to Love" reminds me to continue to love others even through the experience of anger and outrage – and this love is to be for all.
The question in all of this is will we care enough to be disturbed to the point where inaction is nearly impossible?
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Tags: african american, culture, ethnicity, florida, geraldo, hoodie, injustice, race, skittles, social justice, trayvon martin, zimmerman


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A collection of pages of the original version of the Constitution of Bangladesh, 1972 which was hand written on parchment. It was placed before the Constituent Assembly on November 4, 1972, and was made effective from December 16, 1972.
Handwriting – A K M Abdur Rauf; Design – A group of artists including Hashem Khan and others, supervised by Shilpacharja Zainul Abedin; Parchment work – Shah Syed Abu Shafi.
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Title: Relentless
Date: 1991
The setup: While he was alive, nobody, I suspect, had a higher opinion of Bill Hicks than he did. And certainly no other comedian inspires the same devotion among his fans that he still does today. (People actually sit down and transcribe his shows.)
One thing needs knocking on the head immediately. Early death does wonders for an artist's reputation, it is true, but Hicks was a major talent, and the world would still be saying so if the cancer hadn't got him in 1994, when he was just 32. Like the music scene that overlapped his short career, Hicks delivered a kind of grunge comedy: raw, angry, talented, sincere, unhappy, a weeping yell into the face of a complacent world. Nowhere in the recorded shows is he what you could call likable, but neither does he cease to mesmerise.
It's tough to choose one show to recommend, because there's barely a flaw in any of them. Relentless gets the nod for revealing a little more of his personal experience, and a little less of the great preacher-man. Although, that said, One Night Stand and Revelations share much of the same material. "I don't fit in anywhere, that's my problem," Hicks says in this show. "I'm the little dark poet, that's who I am."
Funny how? The way he conducts himself on stage, he ought to be unwatchable. There is the triumphalism, the egotism, the sneering, the scornful simulated laughter, the continuous deep sarcasm – not so much withering, more an industrial-strength defoliant. He could scarcely have done more, really, to dispose an audience against him. Yet he thrived because he was so exceptionally sincere, and so exceptionally skilful.
On the sincerity, consider how coldly determined you have to be to ridicule the suicides of two young Judas Priest fans, as Hicks did, with the words: "That's two less gas-station attendants in the world. I don't think we lost a cancer cure … Fuck them, they were idiots, OK?"
On the skill, he was just brilliant with a microphone, cleverly varying the volume of his speech and coaxing out a range of sound effects. (Robot feet, records playing backwards, windscreen wipers, oral sex with Satan, and the like.) A superbly animated facial actor, he was also a master of the long, long pause … and then the nailed punchline. (There's a strong influence detectable, I think, in Chandler Bing from Friends.)
Another distinctly Hicksian method is to present himself in dialogue, giving idiot voices to imagined questions from the crowd so he can cruelly put them down. On the subject of the-then recent fighting in Iraq, for instance: "There never was a war. How can you say that, Bill? Well, a war is when two armies are fighting." This keeps him in the role of an antagonist, instead of lecturing.
You can dispute points here and there (like his denunciation of a healthy lifestyle) but there's no doubt he meant it. And his wider point – that we're all going to die anyway – is difficult to argue with, bleak as it is. Indeed this makes his own death, as well as a terrible loss to comedy, also artistically right somehow. To quote Hicks exactly, on the subject of clean-cut pop music: "Fuck that! I want my rock stars dead! … I want someone who plays from his fucking heart!"
Comic cousins: Lenny Bruce, Doug Stanhope, Denis Leary, George Carlin, Richard Pryor.
Steal this: "If guys could blow themselves, ladies, you'd be alone in this room right now. Watching an empty stage."


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We, as gamemasters, have come to the conclusion that our existing Player's Handbook is not very user-friendly. So, we decided to do turn it into a pdf and do a small overhaul, but we would LOVE some feedback from our players on it.
The main new points, other than the skills (on which we also welcome comments and feedback) are as follows:
– Financial changes: Prices are more realistic for individuals and will be tracked. Financial matters are far more streamlined.
– More gear: We made some additional rules for special gear, and defined categories for them.
– Damage and healing are simplified and written down more.
– Character advancement rules have been streamlined and balanced.
– Spelling! It's terrible, and we really like if you pointed out any missing/misspelled/wrong words.
What you don't have to point out:
– The formatting is terrible! Yes, we know. Blame GoogleDocs.
Check out our new Player's Handbook via this GoogleDocs link!
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Review by John Hitzel
Chirp! Resounding: A Poetic Debut
Nicole Walker's debut poetry collection This Noisy Egg trembles with the intensity of a pot about to boil over—something inside wants out. Walker's speaker in "The Coroner Senses a Blackbird" intones, "I spoke, even without my tongue. / My body told a story my mouth could / not hide." Her speakers inhabits moments like the birds that occupy her poems do: caught in flight, wings splayed, talons prepared to rip something from the shadows that only bird-poet-vision can locate. In This Noisy Egg, Nicole Walker creates brief, unpredictable universes that are serious fun to inhabit.
In "Fall Service," the speaker addresses a bird. "O broke back swallow— / tuck your head into your breast. / A breeze will lift your wing. / It wants to fly you." The book roils with inversions like these. By reinterpreting the world, the poet rediscovers some of the mystery that civilization has either lost or intentionally left behind. Where we end up is nothing like where we begin. That unexpectedness allows these poems to go anywhere, and they do—they explore. In "As if a fact," "I cut my own hands off / to see what would flow / and out like gravel rolled bird and sunflower / seed…The world, revised, is beige not turquoise. / That is easier to swallow."
Walker likes to update myths and old stories by complicating them with concerns of contemporary life: what if Apollo had to deal with being made of neutrinos? What if someone literally dug a child's fantasy hole to China? What would a message from Persephone to a down-on-her-luck Daphne read like? Inside these unlikely circumstances, she places delicious images, as in the "Red pearl threatening bubble-burst" that opens "Persephone Envy," or at the ending of "Topography," where a carpenter can "owl the sky / and needle the moon." The speaker of "Winter Trees" asks for a bird's nest in her ear, "To hear the stick-cracking / ring my teeth / turn my tongue / to water." By traversing unexplored territory, armed with a microscope, Walker opens gateways to the grandiose where readers least expect them.
At times, Walker's poems move via suggestion and undercurrents—what is happening beneath, around, and between the words matters more than the language itself. Other times I felt as if I were caught in a language washing machine, tossed about and disoriented. Then the chaos would settle, and I'd feel refreshed, like something significant had happened. I enjoy the way these poems resist direct interpretation, how they don't allow neat little one-shot meanings or "This poem is about…" statements to be made easily after my first romp through them. I think that all poems, if you want them to, mean something, but I am not the sort of reader who cares too much about what poems "mean." I privilege the ride, the experience of immersing myself in these little emotionally-charged universes, and that is where Walker succeeds. If you want poems that will tell you to re-evaluate your philosophy, these are not them. If you want poems that will re-arrange the way you see the world, welcome.
Nicole Walker's freewheeling voice and fresh perspective conspire to create a truly original, invigorating collection of poetry. This Noisy Egg bursts with zaniness and emotional honesty. Don't let this osprey-eyed author escape your sights.
This Noisy Egg Barrow Street Press. 2010. 78 pages


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: San disk e280R can not install e200-manufac-driver update
Re: San disk e280R can not install e200-manufac-driver update
From: Pat Fletcher <patfletcher_at_cayjazz.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:50:21 -0800
Since my last mailing I was able to get the Sandisk e280R to see and install the USB drivers. When I did a run of the e200rpatcher.exe to unlock the player at first I received all sorts of errors. Another attempt gave a window on my computer saying software loaded sucessfuly press enter to exit. So After reading the next steps I will need to take to complete the Rockbox installation I am back asking for Humm( assurance) the darn thing is " patched or unlock". Does the message Firmware Unlocked indicating the firmware is indeed unlocked show up on the player or on the computer screen ( hopefully readable by a screan reader"?
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By Tony Attwood
1971 was a very curious year for Bob Dylan in that it contained, as far as I can make out, just four newly written pieces. Two were absolute masterpieces in my view, but the other two…
Maybe George Jackson can't appeal to me because I am too many thousand miles away from the action and my review of that song was criticised because of my lack of knowledge of the background to Jackson's imprisonment.
But Wallflower is slightly different. It doesn't appeal to me because it just seems like a country song not saying anything new. According to the official Dylan site it has never been played in public by Dylan, and I must admit, when constructing the Chronology, I completely missed the song from the rosta. I'll be going back and correcting relevant pages.
The idea with the song, (I have read elsewhere), was that Wallflower might be the B side of the George Jackson single, but it wasn't, and in terms of Dylan it was shelved. That is until it turned up on the opening box set of the Bootleg series (vols 1-3) with a second version turning up on Volume 10 (the "Another Self Portrait") edition.
Except that in October 1972, the song was recorded by Doug Sahm, with Dylan apparently singing backing vocal. Several copies of this version have been uploaded and then deleted. At the moment of writing this one is still up there. I believe it comes from Sahm's album Doug Sahm and Band, released in 1973.
Indeed just to show how far out of touch with many other people my feelings about country music is, the song has been recorded by many other artists and so I guess they all liked it. Here's a list that I found, although I haven't checked them all out. I shall leave that to a more dedicated researcher than I (and also someone who actually likes the song).
- David Bromberg, 1974, for Wanted Dead or Alive
- Buddy and Julie Miller, 2001 for Buddy & Julie Miller
- Uncle Earl, 2007, for Waterloo, Tennessee
- Diana Krall, 2015, for Wallflower
- Anna Elizabeth Laube, 2016, for Tree
The whole approach of the song is extremely simple
Wallflower, wallflower
Won't you dance with me?
I'm sad and lonely too
Wallflower, wallflower
Won't you dance with me?
I'm fallin' in love with you
Just like you I'm wondrin' what I'm doin' here
Just like you I'm wondrin' what's goin' on
It continues in this approach and then ends
I have seen you standing in the smoky haze
And I know that you're gonna be mine one of these days
Mine alone
Wallflower, wallflower
Take a chance on me
Please let me ride you home
Now just because Dylan wrote "It's all right Ma" and "Desolation Row" and the rest doesn't mean that simple songs are no good, and I only like complicated stuff. I can still, after over 50 years, listen to "That's Alright" by Elvis Presley and get a lot out of the song. It's just that somehow the simplicity doesn't seem to have anything else with it to make it worth hearing more than once. But I think it is just my lack of connection with country music – because clearly so many other people feel quite differently about it.
When Diana Krall included the song on her 2015 album she was asked by Billboard why she used the song and said, "I love Dylan and always have. I got stuck on 'Wallflower,' listening over and over again.
"We started playing it on gigs more than a year ago. "That's the one song I played all the piano on, me and [guitarist] Blake Mills sitting in a room, just playing. We didn't redo anything."
So there we have it. It needs someone who really does get something out of the song to explain to the rest of us what it is that makes it work for them. As for me, sorry, but no.
What is on the site
1: Over 400 reviews of Dylan songs. There is an index to these in alphabetical order on the home page, and an index to the songs in the order they were written in the Chronology Pages.
2: The Chronology. We've taken all the songs we can find recordings of and put them in the order they were written (as far as possible) not in the order they appeared on albums. The chronology is more or less complete and is now linked to all the reviews on the site. We have also recently started to produce overviews of Dylan's work year by year. The index to the chronologies is here.
3: Bob Dylan's themes. We publish a wide range of articles about Bob Dylan and his compositions. There is an index here.
4: The Discussion Group We now have a discussion group "Untold Dylan" on Facebook. Just type the phrase "Untold Dylan" in, on your Facebook page or follow this link
5: Bob Dylan's creativity. We're fascinated in taking the study of Dylan's creative approach further. The index is in Dylan's Creativity.
6: You might also like: A classification of Bob Dylan's songs and partial Index to Dylan's Best Opening Lines
And please do note The Bob Dylan Project, which lists every Dylan song in alphabetical order, and has links to licensed recordings and performances by Dylan and by other artists, is starting to link back to our reviews.


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"Ag conditions and crops look good," commented a South Dakota lender to the Minneapolis Fed's first-quarter agricultural credit conditions survey. Farm income increased in most parts of the Ninth District during the second quarter as spring rains gave a lift to crops in the western part of the district. Meanwhile, respectable prices pushed up financial conditions as farmers and ranchers increased household spending, capital investment and demand for new loans. Land prices continued to rise, even though interest rates increased. However, agricultural producers are cautious about the third quarter as farm profits are expected to stabilize and input costs tempered respondent enthusiasm for financial conditions in the second quarter. Farm profits and other indicators are expected to even out.
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Farm income and capital investment increased slightly during the second quarter of 2005. A quarter of the lenders reported higher farm income in the second quarter, while 17 percent of respondents indicated lower income. Spring rains reduced drought conditions in the western part of the district. "Very good growing conditions due to recent rains." This comment from a North Dakota lender reflects the general mood from Montana and the Dakotas as respondents from those areas were the most positive about income, spending and investment. However, dry weather in western Wisconsin and storm damage in isolated areas made some lenders nervous. "There is a considerable amount of crop damage and loss," commented a Minnesota lender in regard to storm destruction.
Meanwhile, a third of respondents reported higher household spending. The biggest increase was in Montana as 70 percent reported increased levels. In addition to higher farm income, the increase in household spending may be due to higher expenses and more off-farm income. "High fuel cost and health insurance increased family living costs," reported a South Dakota lender. Based on the responses to a special question, approximately 57 percent of the farms use off-farm income to substantially support farm income. "A majority of farm families have at least one person with nonfarm income," commented a Minnesota lender.
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Loan repayments were stable during the second quarter as 80 percent indicated no change in the repayment rate. In addition, 87 percent of respondents reported no change in loan renewals and extensions. A Montana lender commented that government payments have stabilized conditions.
Demand for loans, required collateral and interest rates
Loan demand increased during the second quarter. Thirty-four percent of lenders reported increases, and 61 percent indicated no change. Loan demand may be driven by the need to purchase additional capital equipment, a lender from Minnesota indicated. Interest rates increased during the second quarter, raising the cost of borrowing relative to the first quarter by about 25 basis points for operating and machinery loans and 20 basis points for real estate loans. Collateral requirements did not change, and only 1 percent of the respondents indicated that loans were refused due to a shortage of funds.
Land values
"Land values continue to rise based upon farm payments, interest rates, lack of confidence in the stock market, capital gains re-invested from investors and profits in the agricultural sector," commented a South Dakota lender. Ranch land values increased an average of 30 percent from the second quarter of 2004. Meanwhile, nonirrigated farmland values increased from a year ago by an average of 19 percent. The highest reported average increases were from lenders in South Dakota, who reported a 29 percent increase in nonirrigated farmland. However, the outlook for land prices is uncertain as the South Dakota lender noted, "If interest rates continue to rise, land values will soften starting 12 months from now." (Note: Land prices can vary significantly, not only from state to state, but also from parcel to parcel. For more detailed information on agricultural prices, see the Minnesota Land Economics Web site.)
The outlook for farm profits is fairly balanced as two-thirds of the respondents expect no change in income and the remainder is split between increases and decreases. Montana lenders are the most optimistic, while Minnesota lenders are the most pessimistic. The majority of respondents expect no change in capital and household spending. Bankers plan to keep the same collateral requirement for loans and expect steady loan renewals and repayments. However, loan demand should grow, as a quarter of the respondents expect increased loan demand in the third quarter.
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Divrei Torah
Thoughts on Sukkot
Saturday night, pulling into our darkened driveway on the way back from our break-the-fast meal, Tamar got spooked. Something in the dark, or some shadow passing by, made her exclaim, "I'm scared." Ayelet immediately comforted her: "Don't be scared, Tamar," she said. "None of the scary things are real. Bad things aren't real."
What Ayelet meant by this was, goblins and ghosts, specters and witches, the scary things in her imaginary world, aren't real. But as an adult, I knew full well that there are scary things which are very much real. They might not be ghosts or goblins, but there are real scary things out there.
I find myself frightened after the news from Las Vegas. There is important room for an active response, but I also think it's worth acknowledging the emotional fact that there are scary things and scary people in our world.
And this is what I'm carrying with me as we go into Sukkot. Sukkot is supposed to be the holiday of "zman simchateinu," the time of our rejoicing, and it is, certainly, a holiday of a fun and celebration. But it's also a holiday where we think about our human fragility and vulnerability. It's a holiday where we look at the world and recognize that we are vulnerable.
Looking at the devastation in Puerto Rico, I'm connected even more to a sense of human fragility. As we build our sukkot, we think of those who do not have a house.
One way to approach this fragility is to work on our own loving and kind behavior. On Wed., Oct. 18 at 7 p.m., Rabbi Dayle Friedman will visit our synagogue to teach about living lives of Hesed. She'll teach on, "Envisioning Caring Community: Our Texts Speak." One of the ways we must respond to violence in our society is by building caring communities in our synagogue, which I spoke about on Rosh Hashanah.
Sukkot begins Wednesday evening, with its first days of Yom Tov on Thursdayand Friday. We'll gather Thursday and Friday mornings at 9:30 a.m. to shake the lulav, and we'll dwell in our Sukkah all week, until the holiday ends next Wednesday evening and Shmini Atzeret begins. Dwelling in the sukkah and shaking the lulav are prayers in the form of deeds: mitzvot. They're ways that we pray for a redeemed and peaceful world.
So I return here with a blessing for Sukkot: that in a week where we have felt heartbreak, may we also feel joy. The weather of this week looks beautiful. Enjoy it. Go, eat your bread in joy and drink your wine in mirth, and then go into your internal Sukkah, and think about ways that you can help.
With blessings for a joyous Sukkot,
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Ophthalmology chair and BME professor is a pioneer in laser eye surgery
Hindsight, unlike many people's vision, is always 20/20. Laser eye surgery has become so common, it's easy to forget that just three decades ago a promising new treatment was greeted with skepticism and even fear.
"When the ultrashort pulse laser came along, we were excited that it was a more controlled, delicate way of cutting eye membranes and tissue. But the concept met with resistance," says UC Irvine ophthalmologist Dr. Roger Steinert. "Some critics said, 'That's just going to burn the retina.' They didn't understand that the mechanism of action was entirely different than the original lasers that worked by heating tissue, not cutting it."
Steinert, chair of ophthalmology and director of UCI's Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, is a pioneer in LASIK and excimer laser refractive surgery, developing techniques that have allowed millions to throw away their glasses and contact lenses — "crutches for the eyes," he calls them. He was one of the first to demonstrate that lasers could safely sculpt eyes and cure common vision problems such as myopia and astigmatism.
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