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Friday, May 23, 2008
Washington D.C. in a Whirlwind
Today we ventured out to Arlington National Cemetary and the U.S. Capitol building. Tomorrow we will motor over to the Naval Academy in Annapolis to witness a special young lady marry a recent graduate (today) of the academy in the chapel on the Naval Academy grounds. Tonight we are having dinner with the young lady's two brothers. Both young men are currently serving their country. I've written about them before.
Pictures? Oh my, do I have pictures! Unfortunately, the connection in my hotel isn't cooperating with my computer as well as I would like for it to, so we might just have to wait until next week for visuals….but why am I saying this? You already know I'm going to tell you all about all of the interesting things I've done and seen. That's how I roll around here, isn't it?
In the meantime until I get to post more visit the education carnival to see what is going on in the education blogosphere. The carnival is currently posted over at Teacher in a Strange Land.
Also…..many, many thanks to all of the folks who voted for History Is Elementary in the category of education/homeschooling for Best of the Blogs. If you haven't voted or would like to vote again you can vote once each day between now and the 26th. You can vote here.
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- Gaspare Armato said...
I love this kind of post, they are post lived. Excellent.
Rino, from Italy.
- M-Dawg said...
Happy to hear you are having a wonferful time in DC.
Can't wait to see the pics.
I would love to go back - I was there in May 1985 (I was in 8th grade)! :-)
As a History teacher, I know that I would appreciate everything in DC so much more now.
- EHT said...
Yes, Babilonia61...I agree. I like posts that relate closest to real life in real time over content, content, content. I just need to get out more, so I can share. My trips certainly become fertile ground for me to share things with you, and they also serve as tools to regenerate my love of history.
Hi M-Dawg. I hope the end of your year is going well. I came to D.C. in the 7th grade, and while I left with several impressions of the memorials and the city itself I must say that I am getting more out of the trip this time around.
- Mz Diva said...
I just wanted to say that your blog rocks! So many great resources for teaching history or historical reading content. Have a great trip with the students and I hope you get best educational blog.
My 8th Graders and I just came back from D.C. on Friday. I'm still worn out from the trip but already planning next years'. It was a great time, but yes a whirlwind of activity. The kids had a great time and were moved by so much of our history, and by the sacrifice of our soldiers. Several were moved to tears at the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Vietnam Memorial and the Korean Memorial.

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Following on from this post a couple of months back, this week I am continuing my occasional series of posting a picture I took some time ago and including a few comments on it.
This picture was taken way back in 2006, when I'd just started getting into photography. If I took the same picture today, I might go for a quirkier composition with the subject more off-centre, or introduce some stronger contrasts in the processing. However, I'm happy with it the way it is overall, with the diagonal slant and the colours that come out in the cobbles. What's more, it's a picture that sums up quite a bit about Freiburg.
These cobbled streets are a feature of the entire city centre – you'll find them in the market place, and many of the streets have these built-in (and also constructed out of cobblestones) water channels – a hazard to tourists but – I am reliably told by M – something that born-and-bred Freiburgers can successfully negotiate without calamity. My entire walk to work is along cobbled streets, including some other quite impressive examples of decorative work and colour. It's amazing to watch the artisans as they create a new one or replace an old one after street repairs and to explore the older patterns in the pavement that reveal, by means of e.g. a pretzel-shaped design in the cobbles, that today's anonymous, one-size-fits-all mobile phone shop was once a bakery. There can be a tinge of sadness at this realization, but the pleasure that something historical has been preserved is normally the stronger feeling.
Bikes are another thing you can't fail to miss in Freiburg, though even locals find it hard at times to avoid (near) collisions and accidents given the challenges posed by narrow cobbled streets, tram-lines, sometimes not-very-visible water channels, exceptions to the one-way system for cyclists, and stand-offs with groups of tourists, delivery trucks, stray (mostly out-of-town) motorists and less roadworthy occasional cyclists in the pedestrian zone (where it is mostly OK to ride a bike, but there needs to be some foresight and care shown by everyone using the area). I always breathe a sigh of relief when I've successfully got beyond the urban ring road on my bike and have left behind the juddering, shuddering cobbles, motorized and two-legged (or occasionally four-legged) obstacles and the general noisy, seething mass of moving objects.
Dangers aside, we're actually jolly lucky to live in a city which is within easy striking distance of an elaborate mesh of purpose-built or dedicated cycle paths, and I rather wish I'd properly discovered the joys of cycling in the area rather earlier. Still, I'm enjoying it now, and long may that last. My only slight qualm is that it's hard to impossible to take pictures while cycling, but I find solace in the fact that cycling is perhaps healthier than photography. 😉


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Gameloft have revealed their starting lineup for tomorrow's release of the iPad. Not surprisingly, they include some of their best selling games, including:
- Asphalt 5 HD
- Dungeon Hunter HD
- Let's Golf HD
- Modern Combat: Sandstorm HD
- N.O.V.A. – Near Orbital Vanguard Alliance HD
- Real Soccer 2010 HD
- Uno HD
Judging from the video above, it looks like we'll be seeing much improved graphics compared to their iPhone/iPod Touch counterparts, as well as the implementation of the multitouch interface into the gameplay. And with the iPad's relatively large screen size (compared to that of the iPhone), it may take some time for gamers to get used to holding the device like a virtual controller. Full press release after this space.


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Study: Novice iPhone Users Text Like Novice iPhone Users
The iPhone's "virtual keyboard" technology presents early challenges for some users, particularly those accustomed to a physical keyboard. In a new study by usability consultancy User Centric, it took QWERTY users almost twice as long to create the same message on the iPhone as it did on their QWERTY phone. "For QWERTY users, texting was fast and accurate," said User Centric's Jen Allen. "But when they switched to the iPhone, they were frustrated with the touch-sensitive keyboard."
So there is some merit to those early concerns about the device's virtual keyboard after all. But just a bit. Because the methodology of User Centric's study didn't allow for much of a learning curve.
A total of 20 participants were brought in for one-on-one usability sessions with a moderator. All sent text messages at least 15 times per week. Ten of the participants owned a phone with a QWERTY keypad, and ten of the participants owned a phone with a numeric keypad. … During each session, participants were required to use their own phones. In addition, they were provided with an iPhone for use during the study. None of the participants were iPhone owners. … Although participants were given one minute to familiarize themselves with the iPhone's touch keyboard, their texting abilities on the iPhone were still at the novice level."
In other words, User Centric's study of iPhone keyboard usability didn't account for improvement over time, which most reviewers, and even Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself, have said is essential to its mastery.
"The iPhone has the best, most advanced keyboard in any mobile device," Jobs told Walt Mossberg back in June. "Like all small keyboards, it takes three or four days to get used to. IPhone users will quickly learn to trust its intelligence to correct their mistakes automatically. So far, everyone who has used it loves it and reports that they are typing as fast or faster than they did on their Treo or BlackBerry or other smart phone. … We think the iPhone's keyboard is one of its greatest assets and competitive advantages."


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Boston bombing suspect still held in isolation
A year after the Boston Marathon bombings, the lone surviving suspect in the case sits in isolation in a federal prison cell 36 miles northwest of Boston, at a facility designed for male inmates with long-term medical or psychological issues.
Federal prosecutors in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capital murder and terrorism case on Friday asked a judge to require his defense team to disclose by May 7 whether they'll present any mental health issues during his scheduled November trial.
As recently as late March, Tsarnaev's attorneys said in court filings that the 20-year-old could have been under the "psychological domination" of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed during the massive police manhunt for the pair last April.
Three people were killed and more than 250 injured in the twin April 15, 2013, blasts. Police say the pair built homemade bombs out of pressure cookers and later shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer while attempting to steal his gun.
Since the younger Tsarnaev was arrested, his defense team has complained in court filings that he has been held in "total isolation" and that the FBI has monitored jailhouse meetings with their client in which they discussed his defense strategy.
Tsarnaev is being held at Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Mass. The facility's inmate handbook, available on its website, says it offers psychological counseling, suicide prevention, drug treatment and sex offender treatment, among other services. It also offers religious programming and counseling. Inmates have access to parenting classes, GED and English-as-a-second-language classes and instruction in computer applications and culinary arts. They also may spend time tinkering in a craft shop, learning to play chess or bridge or playing music in a practice room.
Tsarnaev is segregated from other prisoners, and it's not clear what activities are open to him.
According to the handbook, inmates can't run or jog except in the facility's recreation yard, but the prison offers intramural team sports, including basketball, soccer and hockey.
The handbook says inmates are subject to random urine and Breathalyzer tests and are counted five times daily, including two "standing" counts, during which inmates must stand silently. Of the five counts, four take place essentially in the dark: 10 p.m., 12:05 a.m., 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. During the counts, the manual says, officers "must see living, breathing human flesh."
The Boston Globe in December reported that Tsarnaev's visits and phone calls are restricted to his immediate family and legal team, which also includes a mental health consultant. His mother, Zubeidat, who lives in Dagestan, told The Globethat she was in regular phone contact with him and had been advised by his lawyers not to say anything more about him.
Attorney General Eric Holder requested the restrictions on Tsarnaev's activities last year, saying he was sworn to violence even after his April 19 arrest. Holder cited an interview after Tsarnaev's capture in which he told investigators that he hoped "his actions would inspire others to engage in violent jihad."
In an Aug. 27, 2013, memo, Holder said Tsarnaev had gained "widespread notoriety" in jail and had gotten nearly 1,000 pieces of unsolicited mail. There was "a substantial risk" that allowing Tsarnaev to communicate with others "could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others, Holder said. He released the memo in October.
In December, after Tsarnaev's defense team complained, federal officials said they would ease the restrictions slightly, allowing his attorneys to discuss the case with third parties and allowing a mental health specialist to meet with Tsarnaev without an attorney present.
The federal public defender's office in Boston, which is representing Tsarnaev, said Monday that it won't comment on the case. But in a March 28 filing, the defense team said prosecutors have evidence that could shed light on whether Tsarnaev's older brother "supplied the motivation, planning and ideology" behind the Boston Marathon attack. They're seeking immigration records of the boys' family members and evidence they say shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev "to have had a substantially longer and deeper engagement than his younger brother with extremist and violent ideology."
Evidence from Tamerlan's file is "highly likely" to provide evidence that he was the instigator and leader of the plot and that his younger brother's role "was commensurately smaller," they wrote. Defense attorneys also said prosecutors may have access to evidence showing that the younger brother helped carry out the attacks under the "domination and control" of his older brother. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 19 at the time.
After the bombings, the older Tsarnaev was implicated in a 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Mass., and defense attorneys for Dzhokar said the younger brother's awareness of the crime could have led him to see his older brother "as an all-powerful force who could not be ignored or disobeyed." Five weeks after the bombings, a second suspect in the Waltham murders was shot and killed by FBI agents in Orlando, Fla., as he confessed to the killings and implicated Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the crime.
Of the 30 counts in Tsarnaev's June 27, 2013, federal indictment, 17 carry the death penalty.
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Men Have a Biological Clock Too, but Why Is That a Good Thing?
Aug 2012
This guest post was written by The Bump executive editor Rebecca Dolgin.
In case you missed it, last week a study published in _Nature _linked a father's age to autism, schizophrenia and other diseases. According to the piece, fathers passed on four times as many genetic mutations as mothers.
This is bad news. But, from the press coverage it got last week, you'd think this was the best thing to happen to women over 35 who want to have kids. Here's what CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield had to say, "I had my babies at 38 and 39 and I was terrified," she said on air. "Honey, you're in the conversation now. It's not just me." I don't mean to single her out — there were tons of comments just like hers. It seems like we (well, by "we" I mean " women" in general) almost seem happy about this report. Suddenly someone else can be blamed. Has it really gotten this bad?
I think this is really sad. And misses the whole point. Am I the only one who feels this way?
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Following last year's expansion to include three nights of music, America's premier rock festival -- ROCK ON THE RANGE -- has once again upped the ante by growing to three full days of music for this year's annual event, May 16, 17 and 18 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, OH.
Featuring headlining sets from Guns N' Roses, Avenged Sevenfold and Kid Rock, the lineup includes more than 60 of the World's hardest rocking acts including: Five Finger Death Punch, Slayer, Staind, Motorhead, Seether, Chevelle, Alter Bridge, Mastodon, Black Label Society, Killswitch Engage and many more (the full line-up is below). Beyond the expanded musical offerings, this year's festival will include the return of ROTR Comedy Tent, featuring Jim Breuer, Jim Florentine and many up-and-coming comedians.
Weekend passes including Field GA, Stadium GA, hotel and VIP packages and a stadium 4-pack go on sale Friday, January 24 at 10:00 AM (ET). Additional details about the variety of ticketing, hotel and camping packages can be found at RockOnTheRange.com. Visit the website, www.facebook.com/rockontherange and www.twitter.com/rockontherange for the most up-to- date information.Some of the ROTR 2014 artists weigh in with their thoughts on performing this coming May:
"We are so honored to be headlining Rock on the Range. We take pride in our show and always try to outdo ourselves from the time before. Rock on the Range will be the perfect place to celebrate with our fans from all over the world and put on the killer show that they have come to expect from us. We are pulling out all the stops."
--M. Shadows, Avenged Sevenfold
"We have had legendary shows at ROTR. We always try to arrange our tour schedules so we can be part of this festival. It's just a must do. Rock On The Range has become a destination event where people travel to from all over the country, if not all over the world."
-- Zoltan, Five Finger Death Punch
"Super excited to be a part of Rock On The Range this year!! I think it's awesome to have an edgy band like Slayer on board for this round. Can't wait to hit the stage!!!"
-- Kerry King, Slayer
The full ROTR 2014 Line-Up: Guns N' Roses, Avenged Sevenfold, Kid Rock, Five Finger Death Punch, Slayer, Staind, Motorhead, Seether, Chevelle, Alter Bridge, Mastodon, Black Label Society, Killswitch Engage, Bring Me The Horizon, Theory of a Deadman, Down, Black Stone Cherry, Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, Pop Evil, Of Mice & Men, Adelitas Way, Trivium, Gojira, Suicidal Tendencies, The Pretty Reckless, We Came as Romans, Fuel, Redlight King, Miss May I, Reignwolf, Thousand Foot Krutch, Texas Hippie Coalition, Rev Theory, Skindred, Kyng, Fozzy, Heaven's Basement, Butcher Babies, Nothing More, Exodus, King 810, Devour the Day, We As Human, We Are Harlot, Kvelertak, Jim Breuer Band, One OK Rock, Twelve Foot Ninja, Avatar, WERM, Monster Truck, Wilson, Crobot and Truckfighters with comedians Jim Breuer, Jim Florentine & more.
"Sure it's important to do this festival for the bands, but mostly we do it for the incredibly loyal rock fans...They truly are the lifeblood of Rock on the Range, and it's really all about the value proposition to them," commented Joe Litvag, Co-Executive Producer of ROTR for AEG Live. "So now we come with GnR, Avenged Sevenfold, Kid Rock and more than 60 other amazing bands starting at $99 to deliver on our commitment of 'value' to rock fans everywhere...It's going to be an unforgettable weekend!"
"When ROTR sold out last year we knew the bar had to be raised. With these headliners along with Five Finger Death Punch, Slayer, Motorhead, Staind, Seether and so many more, there is no doubt now that Rock On The Range has become THE #1 rock festival." said Gary Spivack, Co- Executive Producer of ROTR. "And since year one, Monster Energy has been a partner at the festival and we are excited to announce their expanding support; their dedication to the genre as well as breaking new artists is second to none."
"Rock on the Range has emerged as a powerhouse event for our organization, the City of Columbus and rock fans from around the country," said Columbus Crew President Mark McCullers. "We have invested in some significant facility improvements that will add to the Ranger experience and this year's event will be another blockbuster show."
Presented by Danny Wimmer Presents, AEG Live and Crew Stadium, ROCK ON THE RANGE is a multi-stage music and lifestyle event featuring a potent lineup of bands on three stages and is proud to be sponsored by Monster Energy, who return as the Main Stage sponsor; Crazy Dave's Music Experience (an interactive exhibit that features all the elements that are involved in making music in in a professional band setting); the Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands Contest (launching this Spring for your chance to play the stage at ROTR).
The nationally renowned festival, part of the World's Loudest Month Festival Series, is centrally located in the heart of the country and has annually drawn huge weekend crowds since its inception in 2007, including a sold-out crowd of over 103,000 fans in 2013.


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Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Tiffany Hayes lead UConn women in rout of Marquette
MILWAUKEE -- Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Tiffany Hayes provided Connecticut with a one-two scoring punch that was too much for Marquette.
Mosqueda-Lewis scored a career-high 27 points and Hayes added 20, including 18 in the second half, to lead fourth-ranked Connecticut to an easy 85-45 win over Marquette on Saturday.
"It's hard to beat us when those guys are playing like that," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said.
The Huskies (26-3, 13-2 Big East) have won all seven meetings against Marquette and will face No. 3 Notre Dame on Monday night to try and earn a share of the conference regular season title.
"You have to say to yourself, 'Will the same stuff that worked tonight work Monday night as well,''', Auriemma said.
Even with a victory Monday, UConn will be the No. 2 seed in the Big East tournament because of tiebreakers.
Hayes scored 13 points in the first seven minutes of the second half to help UConn blow the game open.
"I was moved to the post spot and they did a good job finding me. I was either driving and kicking or driving and finishing at the rim," she said.
Mosqueda-Lewis scored 15 points in the first half to lead the Huskies to a 34-21 advantage at the break. The freshman's previous career high was 25.
"It just feels good to be able to help the team. The main goal for all of us is to win a national championship," said Mosqueda-Lewis.
"But yeah, it does give me some personal satisfaction."
Connecticut shot 49 percent from the field while holding Marquette to just 21 percent shooting.
"They hit the shots, we didn't," Marquette coach Terri Mitchell.
"UConn does their work before they catch. They are great with their speed setting you up. We were catching and then doing the work. "That's why you get our shooting percentage."
Katherine Plouffe scored 16 points to lead the Golden Eagles (13-15, 4-11), who have lost five straight and nine of their last 10 games.
Mosqueda-Lewis scored eight points to spark a nine-point run that put the Huskies ahead 15-6 with 12:52 left to play in the first half.
Marquette pulled within seven at 21-14 on a pair of free throws by Arlesia Morse with 4:57 left. Mosqueda-Lewis immediately sank a 3-pointer and Marquette never got that close again.
Hayes's early second half scoring burst gave the Huskies an insurmountable 22 points lead with 13:19 remaining.
"We played really well today. We shot the ball pretty well in stretches. We didn't turn the ball over," Auriemma said.


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Do you have bare windows that need to be covered up? If you're not sure about which types of window treatments to use to maximize your money while improving your interior decor, you may want to look to some of the hot trends in window treatments. Here are three worth considering.
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A Message from EIF and Revlon
Over the past two decades, thanks to the commitment and profound generosity of our extraordinary community of supporters,
consisting of tens of thousands of dedicated groups and individuals like you, Revlon and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)
have proudly distributed more than $70 million raised through the Revlon Run/Walks to women's cancer research and support programs. Funding from the Revlon Run/Walks has accelerated critical research, including the development of a breakthrough breast cancer drug, and helped thousands of women diagnosed with cancer and their families get the support they need. We could not be more grateful for your incredible dedication to these efforts.
We are reaching out to let you know that Revlon and EIF have mutually decided to restructure our respective charitable efforts independently, and will no longer host the annual Run/Walk events in Los Angeles and New York.
Revlon will unveil a new campaign and engagement platform to harness the power of our supporters as the next phase in our fight against women's cancer. In addition, Revlon will announce an on-going financial commitment to leading cancer research institutions and women's health causes.
In the near future, The Entertainment Industry Foundation will be back in touch about our plans. EIF remains fully invested in its continuing efforts to fight women's cancers through our global Stand Up To Cancer initiative and other important cancer research programs.
We remain absolutely committed to the fight against cancer and to being leading supporters of women's cancer research and support programs. With you, we have improved the lives of women contending with cancer and the people who love and care for them, and we look forward to the research breakthroughs ahead.
- Entertainment Industry Foundation and Revlon


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Senator: Burton deserves all the accolades coming his way
All of my life I have taken pride in my relationships with people. My relationship with Executive Councilor Ray Burton began in 1968, when he was working in Gov. Walter Peterson's office and I was coaching basketball at New Hampshire College. The governor called me in to ask if I would accept an appointment to the Athletic Commission. He was a great basketball fan and had seen some of our games. Ray and I became friends at this time, and our friendship has lasted over these many years.
We were both elected to the Executive Council in the 1970s, and there began a long period of working together. No person took the job more seriously than did Ray. No task was too large or too small. The man who became known as the "Public Servant of New Hampshire" did his work in spades, representing 75 percent of the land area in the state.
The ever-present Ray never missed an event. His tours became famous and "Burton for Certain" became the bywords of the North Country and beyond. We made many airport tours, hit many events, and in every way Ray was the man to get things done. Now, after a lifetime of public service, Ray Burton is fighting one last time for all of us.
There was a wonderful program last Friday at the Mount Washington Resort honoring this most deserving man. A new scenic overview was dedicated in his name. The setting was super and all of New Hampshire's finest showed up – governors, senators, representatives, public officials and just plain folk – who were so supportive of this man who has given so much to the state. My friend Ray was given his just due. This great American was honored for doing what he loved to do – serve people. No greater honor can be given than to know how much love was flowing Ray Burton's way.
For almost 50 years, this great man has been my friend. I am honored to have known him, worked with him, and have been witness to all he has done for New Hampshire. New Hampshire has been blessed by his work and we are all thankful for what he has done. The results of his labor will last for many years. I will treasure his friendship all of my life. Thank you, Ray Burton, for a job well done.
Sen. Lou D'Allesandro


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Great amazing vacation in St. Maarten.
Fabulous 40th celebration for Nathan.
Shitty news about my brain. Six old lesions grew. Now a total of ten. Some on dura and some inside the brain. Consistent with leptomeningenial cancer. We have to attack the cerebral spinal fluid (csf) directly. Neurosurgeon will implant an Ommaya reservoir in my brain (see link below). Intrathecal chemo and Herceptin will be administered directly to the brain once a week every week. Duration undetermined. Will receive regular chemo same day with regular chemo schedule.
Freaked out, scared, angry, sad, worried and still positive. Good reason to believe that the Herceptin with be our miracle. It has proved to be so far.
Completed my pre-surgical testing today, met surgeon and got medical clearance for surgery on Wednesday. Surgery on Wednesday. Should be there at least 36 hours assuming counts are good. Thursdays my birthday :)))))!!!!
And here we go again. More prayers, more good vibes, more everything please.
xo, E


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"In Vence," said Herzog, "my parents left me under a crucifix. And I asked them, my parents, 'What happened to him?' I meant the man on the cross, the Christ figure. I was then ten years of age and had no idea what a crucifix was. We lived in Paris. After the liberation I was not yet fourteen. The prefect told me who I was. That I was a Jew. That my parents, my family, had been delivered to the Germans and murdered by them. And I felt—what can I say—a recognition."
"But you couldn't leave the Church?"
"Oh," Herzog said with a little shrug, "I didn't care much about the Church. The Church was men, people. Some good, some not." He looked at the floor.
"Then why?"
"Because I was waiting," said Herzog. "Waiting where I had been left. At the foot of the cross. Out of spite or devotion, I don't know." He laughed and put a hand on Lucas's shoulder. "Pascal says we understand nothing until we understand the principle from which it proceeds. Don't you agree? So I understand very little."
"We're supposed to believe that Christ has gone on to reign in glory," Lucas said.
"No," said Herzog. "Jesus Christ suffers from now until the end. On the cross. He goes on suffering. Until the death of the last human being."
"And that," Lucas said, "brings you here?"
"Yes," said Herzog. "To attend. To keep on waiting."
From the steps of the church, the evening smelled of car exhaust and jasmine.
"I realize that in this kind of world," Lucas said, "I have no business being so unhappy. I realize also that on a religious level I'll always be a child. It's absurd and I regret it."
For the first time Herzog smiled.
"Don't regret it, sir. Perhaps you know Malraux's Anti-memoires? His priest tells us that people are much more unhappy than one might think." He offered Lucas his hand. "And that there is no such thing as a grownup."


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The 1996 Princeton Lectures on
Youth, Church, and Culture
"Christ and the Adolescent:
A Theological Approach to Youth Ministry"
I am honored to introduce the first volume of the Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture, presented in Daytona Beach, FL, and Princeton, NJ, in the spring of 1996 by James W. Fowler, Robin Maas, and Robert Wuthnow. The Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture are designed to foster original research on youth and the church. As part of a new venture in ministry sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary, the Institute for Youth Ministry they describe a shift occurring in the churches thinking about youth and ministry. Instead of ghettoizing youth into clubs apart from the congregation, the church's mission with youth views young people as integral to the total mission of the church, and youth ministry as a theological task which is not only about youth ministry, but about youth's ministry as well.
The 1996 lectures, titled "Christ and the Adolescent: A Theological Approach to Youth Ministry," address mainline churches who have suffered grievous losses in their attempts to address teens. These losses come at a time when public institutions are calling attention to the important role churches play in adolescent development. Churches agree: We believe we have something to contribute to youth in the person of Jesus Christ-‐and therefore Jesus Christ, not age-‐level education, pastoral counseling, or recreational programs, must be the starting point for youth ministry.
We asked each of our lecturers to approach this theme from the perspective of their own disciplines. James Fowler posits a new shape for youth ministry that recognizes nuances of human development; Robin Maas uses biblical exegesis to redefine the spiritual journey of youth and the adults who mentor them; and Robert Wuthnow analyzes the sociological significance of service learning trends for the church's ministry with teenagers. Together they point to a new direction for ministry with young people.
We approach this direction humbly and with hope. We know that the church's renewal depends not on the church of tomorrow, but the church of today-‐a church in which youth can be integral missionaries to their elders and world. May this volume challenge and nourish the ministry God has laid before you.
Director, Institute for Youth Ministry
1996 Lectures
- "Christ and the Adolescent: Piper or Prophet?"
- "Christ and the Adolescent: A Decision for Love"
- "Christ and the Adolescent: Written in Stone"
- "Perspectives on Adolescents, Personhood, and Faith"
- "Adolescence in the Trinitarian Praxis of God"
- "Grace, Repentance, and Commitment: Youth Initiation in Care and Formation"
- "Youth and Culture in American Society: The Social Context of Ministry to Teenagers"
- "Religious Upbringing: Does It Matter and, If So, What Matters?"
- "Unto the Least of These: Youth and the Ministry of Caring"
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part: then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.(I Cor. 13:11-12)
When I was a child, and I suspect, when you were, too, what I spent a lot of time thinking about was a future self. My friends and I defined ourselves in terms of our future possibilities. "What are you going to be when you grow up ?" That was our big existential question. And because we were children, we always had a ready answer. We would answer confidently, "I'm going to be a pilot, a dress designer, a fireman, a ballet dancer, an astronaut, a doctor"—you fill in the blank. Our minds could change by the day, by the hour. The possibilities were apparently infinite; our hopes were unclouded by self-doubt or despair; and we certainly never stopped to worry about whether we were personally equipped with the necessary capacities and talents to be what we thought we wanted to be.
When I was an adult, things weren't so simple. When I was a young adult, the existential question became more nuanced:"When can I begin to be what I really want to be—whatever that is?" The infinite "yeses" and blissful certainty of childhood were replaced with a growing sense of frustration. Adulthood was harder than I had expected; the satisfying sense of having arrived still beckoned on the horizon—it was there but farther away than I had at first realized. Still, I had no serious doubts that what I really wanted to be I could eventually be.
As an older adult—on the cusp of middle age—I could no longer avoid facing the fact that time and resources and even my own capacities were limited. I began to recognize, but just barely, that when it came to page 58 being what I wanted to be, saying yes to one possibility usually meant saying no to another, and that choices I had made early on about the kind of person I wanted to be had had a lasting and defining impact, even if they weren't entirely "final." And some of those defining choices had started to feel very confining. Suddenly there seemed to be more noes than yeses. The big existential question then became "What have I done?!"
Now, as I approach my seniority, I sense that the perennial question of identity will be reconfigured once again. It is still too soon to say what it will be. The obvious possibility, of course, is "What have I become?" But we may be wrong about that. When we reach the end of our earthly existence, the question that haunts us may more closely resemble the question with which we began our lives:"What am I going to be when . . . ?" And I suspect the answer to the second question will depend largely on the answer to the first. What I am going to be "when .. ." depends upon what I have actually become, on the choices I have made up until "when" finally arrives.
Meanwhile, you have no doubt noticed that, like Paul, I have omitted that stage of life in which our identity is most fluid and therefore most at risk. I have not spoken about the adventure of self-discovery in adolescence—the time of life that remains largely veiled in Scripture, veiled in a very real sense to those who are passing through it, and completely obscured to those who live under the same roof with it.
When I was an adolescent, I spoke like an adolescent, I thought like an adolescent, I reasoned like an adolescent. . . . And here is what I thought about, here is what I asked myself, constantly:
Who am I, anyway? And how can I find out?
When I say "asked myself constantly," I don't mean that I was, moment by moment, conscious of not knowing the answer to this question. I suspect I was naively confident much of the time that I did know who I was and where I was going. The "asking" was going on "below"—in the subterranean depths of my driven adolescent psyche.
And this was another one of those times when the answer to the existential question seemed to hinge on the answer to the other, more immediately pressing question, namely,
"What are they saying about me? What are they thinking about me? Do they get it? Do they know who I really am ?"
Do you recognize this question?
Do you remember asking it yourself?
Do you remember worrying—a lot—about what the answer was?
Of course you do, because it mattered so much to you and to me at that time in our lives what people thought—and maybe it still does. It matters not simply because we want to be liked or admired; it matters, especially when we are fifteen, because we believe that what other people think about us is true—not just sometimes true, but always true. We count on the truthful reaction of others, especially our peers, to tell us who we are. And, like it or not, this counting on others for the truth is going to remain with us page 59 for the rest of our lives. We look to others to unveil what is veiled—to reveal the mystery of who we are. And at no time are we more dependent on others for this "unveiling" of the self than in adolescence.
What is more, much as we adults would like to feel detached from public opinion and from the need for public approval, we still tend to care what "they" say. And the less certain we are about the answer to that question—what are they saying?—the more we will care about what they say.
For many adults, those others about whose opinion they care tend to be relatively faceless and nameless—it's not just the Joneses, but society in general whose good opinion they value. What they say determines their sense of self-worth; and few things are feared more than the loss of one's good reputation. Those of us who call ourselves religious professionals tend to take pride in not being subject to this kind of pressure. Yet even if we have reached the point where we believe we no longer really care what they think and what they say, if we are not entirely self-absorbed and solipsistic, we recognize public opinion as something to be reckoned with, especially if we are concerned with keeping our jobs. At the very least, we tend to care deeply what those whom we care deeply about are thinking and saying about us.
For adolescents it is rather different. When you are in high school, they certainly have names and faces; and the power they exercise is akin to the power of blessing and cursing, of life and death. Indeed, the power of one fifteen-year-old over another is a terrifying thing. It governs not only what a young person wears and chooses for entertainment; to a large extent, it determines how she will think, how he will talk, how both of them will act. It is a power which lets people in and just as quickly shuts them out.
This power, which Sharon Parks has aptly termed "the tyranny of the they," 1 has been presented as a power lodged in the mind of the adolescent—and in the minds of many adults, for that matter. It represents a form of self-subjection which is, in theory, curable with a healthy dose of ego strength. The rise of what Fowler calls the "executive ego" signals that the hold of this pernicious form of tyranny over the self has been broken, or at least seriously weakened. And so those who work with the young labor to enhance what is now called "self-esteem"— what we used to call "self-confidence." Or they may, in a fit of hope and idealism, attempt to reason with teenagers as I used to do with my own daughter: "No, everyone is not looking at you and thinking about you. If they're looking at you, it's because they're wondering what it is that you're thinking about them!"
What I told her was probably true, but I had it all wrong. What the adolescent fears as a result of her own egocentrism has its actual, objective counterpart in the cruel reality of peer pressure. They exist. They are out there; and it takes a lot of courage, a lot of truth, for a fifteen-year-old to challenge their hegemony.
What courage to resist the young do have is usually hoarded so that it can be directed elsewhere. Ask any parent.page 60
What any parent will tell you is that adolescents appear profoundly impervious to what they, the parents, think. Parental authority is quickly identified as "tyrannical" and therefore unjust by many American teens, even while parental influence continues to exercise immense, mostly subconscious power—especially over the youth who labors actively to reject it.
And so it is the power of the parent to influence that is self-consciously foresworn by youth in the heroic effort to become an independent self: "Get thee behind me, Mother!" But since the self is not yet sufficiently strong or well defined to stand alone, another form of tyranny is sought out and willingly embraced; and this new form of fealty, while necessary, is fraught with danger. Because this form of subjection is exercised by the young, it is impatient and ruthless; because it is exercised by the inexperienced, it is untempered by wisdom and compassion. Its demand for loyalty is total and unforgiving; and its success rate with the young is astronomically high. Few indeed are the youth with sufficient ego-strength to resist today's predominant youth culture. Those who do are consigned to the deadly irrelevance of eternal nerd-dom.
Well, you say, it has been ever thus. Just look at the youthful Saint Augustine, who hung out with a nasty gang who called themselves the "wreckers" and pretended to be more sexually active and criminally degenerate than he actually was in order to win peer approval. Look at the gang violence on the streets of medieval Verona. Look at Romeo and Juliet—another tragic case of adolescent suicide in the pages of Shakespeare!
Yes, it has been ever thus in terms of the psycho-dynamics of adolescence; but today the stakes seem much higher than they have been in recent history. The social and spiritual cost of what Erikson calls the adolescent identity crisis has recently skyrocketed; and today's kids are spending their personal capital as if there were no tomorrow—which is another way of saying they are convinced that there will always be a "tomorrow."
A recent series in the Washington Post focused on the lives of teenagers in the national capital and its affluent suburbs. We can see in their responses the naive pleasure in the new-found freedoms that we would expect. "I don't want to ever not be a teenager," gushes "Becca," a fifteen-year-old girl from prosperous and hip northern Virginia. "Sometimes it's kind of rough, but that's part of growing up. My friends are just learning to drive, we're going around doing fun things. We're getting freedom to stay out later. . . ." This is innocuous enough. Nothing exceptional here. But listen to what she has to say about the wonders of self-discovery: "It's all about discovering yourself. If you want to be bisexual, snort coke, or stay at home and watch TV with your parents, you're finally discovering what you're really like." 2
A large part of this process of discovery apparently hinges on sexual activity. One of Becca's friends, a boy named Tony, reported the following: "I have this group of friends [ninth and tenth graders] who have grown up together; they sleep with one person one week, someone else the page 61 next. . . . It sounds bad, but they've all had tests. They just like sex."
You may no longer find this shocking, but I hope that you at least find it pathetic. For it is pathetic that the children of the privileged middle class seek to define themselves in such spiritually impoverished terms. Becca's mother was apparently shocked at the jaded, worldly-wise attitude of her daughter and her friends as they sat in her living room talking to the Post reporters. Yet Becca's mother has told her daughter that she prefers her smoking marijuana to her drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes. And Becca's mother believes that it would be stupid for her to actually forbid her daughter to try something. In her own words: "The more a parent says no, the more a child says yes. . . . This is a time in their lives when they try everything."
And there you have it. The modern parent of adolescents, typically a survivor of a morally chaotic youth and young adulthood, has foresworn the difficult but ultimately rewarding exercise of legitimate parental authority. She has robbed her children even of the "rite" of rebellion against an absolute "no." And in removing the absolute "no"—the clearly-defined boundary—the adult (who is not yet fully grown up) has essentially crippled her offspring in their quest to discover who, in fact, they really are.
Today's youth are having their moral horizons profoundly narrowed by the absence of authority, by the premature unveiling of what should remain, for the time being, "under wraps." But the modern parent has listened to the experts. She, too, is responsive to what they say and, as a consequence, her children are defenseless against this same insidious and oppressive tyranny.
Given all this, we should be intensely interested in that remarkable biblical passage in which Jesus wants to know what they are saying— about him.
You know the one I mean. In the sixteenth chapter of Matthew, Jesus asks his disciples this very question—What are they saying about me? (v. 13) He knows there's plenty of speculation, gossip, and scandal. And he wants to know whether people do know who he really is—do they get it? Is it possible that our Lord longs, just as we long, to be known for who and what he really is?
The disciples have heard some of this talk, of course, and they dutifully report what they have heard: "Some say John the Baptist, and others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." (v. 14) And so he has his answer: No. They don't really understand—not yet. They don't know who the "Son of man" is.
So Jesus asks his disciples, "But who do you say that I am?" (v. 16) This time the stakes are high. What will his own inner circle, his star pupils say? Simon, son of Jonah, is the one who answers, who takes what has to be a significant risk. And what Simon says is gratifying to Jesus, because it is the truth: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Listen carefully to how Jesus responds: "Blessed are you, Simon page 62 Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven." (v. 17) Did you notice? This is not something that has been told to him by "flesh and blood,"—it is not something they are saying about Jesus. Rather, it is the Father himself who has "revealed" or unveiled this reality to Simon. Matthew is telling us that the true identity of the man Jesus is something that can only be revealed from a divine source; and John's Gospel says essentially the same thing when Jesus tells his detractors "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him." (Jn. 6:44)
What we see next is that the witness of the Father, God's unveiling of the truth about the man Jesus, brings with it the bestowal of authority, of immense spiritual power. But first, the disciple who tells the truth about Jesus is himself renamed, and his new name is a revelation of identity: "You are Peter—petros," says the Lord, "and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it." (Matt. 16:18)
Voicing the truth about who Jesus is opens up something new for this disciple. He hears from Jesus what the Father has all along planned for him, that he himself is to be defined by the truth he has spoken about the Lord. Simon Peter is rock solid. Who he is, his very essence, is something so true and so firm that the Lord can now build his house—his church—upon it, so that when the rain falls and the floods come and the wind blows and beats upon this house, it will not fall. Not even the gates of hell shall prevail against it. And so Jesus tells Peter, "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (v. 19)
Think about it. Quite apart from what this text tells us about the origins of the ecclesiastical authority of the apostle Peter, it reveals a profoundly personal truth about every disciple. In a very real sense, the person who tells the truth about the Lord—whoever names him accurately— holds the "keys to the kingdom." Why? Because it is that truth—the truth of who Jesus really is—that does indeed give entrance to the kingdom for those who will accept it, just as truly as it refuses entry to those who cannot or will not receive it.
You may not be able to absolve people of their sins, but if you are someone to whom the Father in heaven has revealed the true identity of Jesus, then you have been given what is at least a potentially immense spiritual authority—and, along with that, an equivalent degree of responsibility. You can bind and you can loose; you can say No and you can say Yes. You must and You must not. I insist and I forbid.
Let us be clear. There is nothing tyrannical in the authority that is bestowed by Christ—the authority to say Yes and to say No. We can say this because the authority to do so resides not in our person (weak and sinful as we are), but in our commission. The power of the keys does not reside in us but in the truth we tell about the one who is truth itself and who entrusts those who know who he is with the power of binding and loosing—with the page 63 power of No and the power of Yes.
That is why a morally compromised past in a parent or in a pastor, providing it has been repented of, is no obstacle to the exercise of moral authority in the believing adult. That is why Becca's mother (and the legion like her)—no matter how many foolish choices she may have made in her own youth—does not have to be resigned to watching her daughter repeat the same mistakes. In fact, the repentant and forgiven adult sinner, the one who has previously experienced moral chaos and felt its power to destroy, has a special obligation to share, not all the gory details of his past, but the strength of his conviction. The power of the keys is the power of the person named Jesus; and if you get it, you've got it. You have the keys only because of what has been revealed to you by God. It's not what they say about you, but what the living God says about his Son.
Given the fragility of adolescence, the "tyranny of the they" appears to be the sand trap of adolescent identity formation. It provides the justification for much silly, risky, and increasingly destructive behavior, and serves as a major nexus of conflict between parent and teen. We know that youths require enormous amounts of external affirmation and confirmation from peers; and we know that they need empathetic adults in their lives who, although they remember what it was like to be fifteen, no longer have a need to behave as if they still were fifteen. Above all, a secure sense of self requires a degree of moral coherence between what the family, the church, and the culture each claim is true and worthy of our loyalty. And this, we know, is precisely what today′s youngsters do not have. This is why you, as ministers to youth, so often—and accurately—feel like voices crying in the wilderness.
The prototypical parent of the modern teenager belongs now to the generation we call the "baby boomers," who came of age in the sixties and seventies and who, as an age cohort, embraced a thoroughly individualistic, anti-authoritarian, and self-indulgent style of life. On the one hand, these parents are ambitious for their children to do well. They hope, as all parents do, that their children will be happy, healthy, and safe from harm. On the other hand, they exhibit a profound ambivalence, if not downright antipathy, to the rightful exercise of parental authority. Having lived with the belief that there are no absolute Noes but an inexhaustible supply of Yeses, they cannot now, with any confidence or enthusiasm, require obedience to standards which they as youths did not embrace and now, as adults, do not uphold. To do so would be to call into question their own histories, their major life choices, their personal values.
The children of such parents, today's teens, are being asked to define their own moral universe, to choose a self which, in the end, will be no better, no finer, no truer, than the self anyone else has chosen. Its only virtue will be its claim to having been chosen freely: "I can be bisexual, snort coke, or sit home and watch television with my parents. . . . I can sleep with a different friend each week. . . . I can be whoever and whatever I want to be. . . ."page 64
The irony in all this is that the surrender of parental authority to make moral claims on the conscience of the child is, at the same time, the surrender of the soul of the child—not to real freedom, but to the "tyranny of the they," to the power of worldliness, a kingdom over which the Prince of Darkness and the Father of Lies rules. Erikson, after all, was right. The youthful need for absolutes will impose itself no matter what; and whatever authority their parents surrender, their peers will seize upon with zest and zeal. They will gladly shoulder the responsibility of binding and loosing, but without divine authorization.
Our jobs as trustworthy guides to the young in their quest for an authentic sense of self has been made very much more difficult by a culture that denies there is such a thing as objective truth and invites youngsters to experiment with both safe sex and self-invention. The wise biblical admonition, "Judge not, that ye be not judged," has been twisted by cultural relativists to mean "You have no firm basis on which to make a judgment about good and evil, right and wrong. Therefore you may not make moral judgments." And absent the basis for making firm moral judgments, there is likewise no firm basis for establishing an identity that will not fall when the rain falls and floods come and the winds beat upon that house.
Erikson was right, but I wonder if we aren't barking up the wrong tree when we operate as if self-discovery is the single most important goal for the young person, and then pattern our schools and youth ministry programs around this assumption. When we make the individual self the goal of youthful or even adult questing, we are, I believe, missing the mark. A strong sense of self is a very good thing, provided it is rooted in reality, in truth.
And that's precisely what the young should be searching for: Truth. He said it: "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven—and all these things will be added unto you." But the search for truth—which is every young person's God-given right—is distorted and aborted when truth becomes something the self is responsible for choosing rather than finding—when there's my truth and your truth. Then there's nothing to build a self on but sand.
It is in the search for truth that the rock on which to ground a self is discovered and identity is secured. In reality, our identity is a by-product of the search for God, in whose image and likeness we have all been created. The Lord is the one who says who we are—at our beginning and at our end. He's the one we can count on to tell us the truth about ourselves when we have the courage to speak the truth about him.
Contrary to what Becca and her peers think, our true identity is not something invented, or even discovered, but conferred. Our names are given to us; our destiny is a gift from the living God, bestowed on those who have not been seduced by what they, the world, have to say, but who instead have listened to "what the Spirit says to the churches." To the one who "conquers," says the Lord," . . . I will give . . . a white stone with a new name written on [it] which no one knows except him who receives it." (Rev. 2:17)page 65
Written in stone: the commandments of God, the power of binding and loosing, and our true, but secret, selves. The Lord is the one—the only one—who knows what is written on that white stone he will someday hand to those of us who have "conquered;" and we will not know who we really are until that great day comes. To the extent that we try to discover prematurely what is written on that stone by searching through the dust and rubble of worldly pleasures and pursuits, we will be wasting our time and squandering our inheritance. This we have on good authority, apostolic authority.
Saint John the Evangelist assures us that the world, which did not recognize the Son of the living God, will not know who we are either—so what they are saying will ultimately do us little good when it comes to figuring out who we are. The one thing we can be certain of is that we are God's children, and that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree:
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. (I Jn. 3:1-3)
So although we are destined to search, we must be content, as was the apostle Paul, to know ourselves and our Lord only in part, to see what can be seen in earthly mirrors that dim and distort the imago dei , trusting all the while that we shall someday see him face to face. In that first and final seeing, face to face with our risen Lord, the apostle's promise will be fulfilled: "then [we] shall understand fully, even as [we] have been fully understood." (I Cor. 3:12) Then there will be no more existential questions.
There you have it—that's what they, the apostles, say. What we owe the young is the truth that their life, their name, their self is safely "hid with Christ in God." (CoL 3:3) This is the only rock on which they may safely build—where yes means yes and no means no. The world can't tell them this truth because it neither recognizes nor accepts it, just as it did not recognize or accept Christ. But there is a hope, as the Evangelist says, that "purifies"—and therefore clarifies. It is the hope that we shall someday see the Lord Jesus as he truly is. And in seeing him face to face we will meet ourselves as if for the first time.


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Privately and a bit publicly, I was told that I my comments were unwanted in the golf thread. I didn't post in there for a week, and decided to start my own thread so that people who "started the thread" could have their own space. I tried to give up the golf talk, but it started gnawing on me, both the castigation, and my desire to talk golf with other church golf guys, so... I'm trying to keep it civil with my own thread.
Please don't make a big deal of it, and maybe you could even edit your comment to reflect less controversy.
We're planning our vacations for the next year, and I think we want to try to get to Oregon or Washington somewhere in the RV. What would you recommend?
Somewhere along the coast might be nice but we're not set on that yet. I'm thinking about 3 or 4 nights.
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Risk of death increases in IBD patients with hospital-acquired infections
Death and length of stay are increased among hospitalized inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients who develop hospital-acquired infections, according to a study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Also, health-care-associated and hospital-acquired infections are most frequent in patients with severe liver disease, according to an additional study published in the journal.
"Our data demonstrate that inflammatory bowel disease patients with hospital-acquired infections are at increased risk of inpatient mortality and experience a significantly longer length of stay in the hospital," said Raffi Karagozian, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and lead author of this study. "Though hospital-acquired infections are low-frequency events, increased vigilance to avoid these infections among patients could improve outcomes."
Among the 2,324 patients with IBD examined in this study, there were 20 deaths and 22 reported cases of hospital-acquired infections (these types of infections occur in approximately 1 percent of hospitalized cases with IBD). The mortality from these infections among IBD patients was 13.6 percent, compared with 0.9 percent among controls.
The median length of stay for patients with IBD and hospital-acquired infections was 22 days, versus six days for controls. Of these 22 cases, 15 were urinary tract infections, five were blood stream infections and two were from multiple sources.
Hospital-acquired infections affect approximately two million patients each year in the U.S., resulting in 90,000 deaths with an estimated $4.5 to $5.7 billion per year towards patient care costs. Between 5 percent and 10 percent of patients admitted to acute care hospitals acquire one or more infections, and the risks have steadily increased during recent decades.
In a second study, researchers found that the large majority of total bacterial infections (54) in hospitalized cirrhotic patients were health-care associated (22) or hospital acquired (20). Bacterial resistance was also more frequent among patients with either of these infections. These infectious episodes worsened liver function in 62 percent of patients. In addition to the severity of the liver disease, protein malnutrition was an important risk factor for the development of infections in liver cirrhosis.
Cirrhosis occurs when the liver is permanently scarred or injured by chronic conditions and diseases. The scar tissue that forms in cirrhosis harms the structure of the liver, blocking the flow of blood through the organ.
"It is worth noting that in-hospital death was higher in cirrhotic patients with health-care-associated infections compared with those not infected. In addition, infected cirrhotic patients showed worse long-term survival (compared to those without infections) even if they were discharged from the hospital," said Manuela Merli, MD, of Sapienza University of Rome and lead author of this study. "Bacterial infections are in fact a frequent and serious burden among patients with cirrhosis because they can further deteriorate liver function."
Cases of infection are reported in 40 percent of hospitalized cirrhotic patients. As infections worsen, liver function deteriorates and mortality increases. Therefore, cirrhotic patients should be closely monitored for infections.
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What with so many wonderful looking cookies being made everywhere, I have decided to call these biscuits as they are not as thickish or crumbly as real cookies.
When I made and posted these, I got a mail from my regular reader D ( the shy girl is not comfortable with her her name here :-) ) asking me if she could use jaggery instead of sugar.
As I am not so rigid about cooking and exact recipes, I told her she can and asked her to go ahead and give it a try.
She did ... and wrote back that the cookies turned out very dry ... and something was wrong.
I myself had not made them with jaggery, so thought of trying them out myself first. So in the midst of packing and preparations last month ( it is another thing we never made that trip ... everything went against our plans ... sudden work load, then ill health, then the fog playing spoilsport and flights getting canceled in the last minute ... everything :-( ... all in all we rescheduled bookings and tickets thrice ! ... and still ended in a dud) , I baked them one morning and sent her the snaps.
She told me the snaps helped ... she got the idea what went wrong. I do not know if she ever made them again ... just hope she did and was successful ... else my posting recipes will be of no worth.
The one thing I have found out ( am speaking for myself ) is that when baking, you cannot use the minimum of shortening ... say butter / cooking oil, etc. and still hope to get a wonderful result.
True, baking ... or healthy baking ... does use less oil or fat ... especially if you are using it as a substitute to deep frying. But baking tends to dry stuff . So you cannot go completely minimalistic if you want that moist or perfect bake.
Well .... that's my take. Baking experts may feel differently. :-)
Here's the recipe.
Need : 1 and a half cup of whole wheat flour, a little cooking oil ... around 1 and 1/2tbsp, 1 tsp baking powder, around 5 tbsp jaggery granules, milk ... around half a medium cup ( use just enough to knead the dough ), 2-3 drops of vanilla essence.
If you want you can use powdered jaggery too ... or if you have the big sized lumps, break them down to granules.
I purposely did not melt the jaggery in the milk as I wanted bits of it in a bite. If you want to melt and use ... go ahead.
How to : Knead everything together to make a dough like we make for rotis.
Take a medium sized ball of dough and roll out a thickish circle ... like a big roti. You can use dry flour to dust when rolling.
Prick with a fork all over ( this way the biscuits won't puff up ).
Cut with a cookie cutter ... or any small sized bottle cap will do.
Oil a baking tray or use a baking sheet.
Arrange the cut out biscuits on it.
Pre heat oven at 160 degrees C and bake in the same temperature for around 20 minutes.
Done! :-)
I had made a batch in a muffin tray ... the one on the top is one of them ... slightly thickish.
These biscuits were pretty good ... not to mention healthy ... but not very soft and did not crumble on breaking.
In fact, on a bite, they broke into a half ... that tough ... which I'll attribute to the jaggery.
So the next time I made them, I added a pinch of baking soda ... and it did make a difference.
These stay well for about 2 to 3 days ... maybe more ... I just never got 'round to keeping them very long. Very healthy ... these are great as a snack to munch on anytime ... or with some spicy ginger tea.
Enjoy !! :-)
A few more of my cookies / biscuits / scones
Coffee Cookies
Onion Cookies / Crackers
Whole Wheat Eggless Banana Cookies
Cakes & Rose Cookies
Fruity Scone / Cookies with Strawberry Compote


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Paradise Auto Glass – What Should I know?
Simply put, this is glass that you would find in an automobile. Not too many know that in Paradise there are two major forms of auto glass. Each one is used on certain windows in the automobile. Both types of auto glass are more impact resistant and stronger than regular glass.
What Are the Different Kinds Of Windshield Replacement Paradise Services that are Available?
Laminated safety glass-this glass is generally used on a car's windshield. It is comprised of a couple of pieces of glass that has a slim layer of vinyl. The glass is then heated and pressed together in an autoclave, which is a type of oven. When this glass receives a tough impact it will shatter also but usually the shattered pieces will stick to the vinyl and not fall on the ground.
If the windshield just has a tiny vein or nick, the auto glass professional may be able to repair the tiny vein or nick to keep it from spreading further. The repair will generally take fewer than thirty minutes in Paradise. The vein or nick is cleaned thoroughly and dried. Resin is injected and a material like Mylar is used to hold it in place. The professional cures the resin by using an ultraviolet light.
Auto Glass For Classic Cars?
Windshield replacement can be expensive, especially if your insurance company will not pay for it. Replacing your windshield is usually covered if you have comprehensive coverage, which is other than collision, on your policy. It is best to check with your insurance company first before setting up an appointment to have it replaced. If you do have to pay for the cost of windshield replacement there are several factors involved in the final cost, which could cost over two hundred dollars. When you take your car in to have the windshield replaced, the company will first decide if it can be repaired instead of replaced. Not every cracked or chipped windshield will require replacement.
There is another choice for windshield replacement glass that does not meet the same standards as OEM windshield glass but it is cheaper. This glass is called aftermarket glass. Other than the more expensive dealer glass, OEM tends to be most popular choice.
In today's world, you may be able to save the cost of having your car towed to the auto glass repair shop by having a mobile unit come to your home to replace your windshield. The replacement does not take long but it needs a couple of hours to set up before you can drive the vehicle.
What Are Windshield Replacement Cost Factors?
There is a general consensus that windshield replacement can actually be performed by almost anyone. The glass pieces that replace it in your car are specifically shaped, and sized, to fit the make, and model of car that you drive. Almost anyone can remove the old piece and install a new one. It would be nice if auto glass replacement was that easy to do, but the truth is that you need a professional to replace any broken panels in your vehicle.
If the glass that is replaced in your car is not replaced correctly, using the proper glass pieces designed for your car, then you are in danger of them breaking at any time. When the weather heats the panels and cools the panels if they are not properly installed they can break, or fall out of the vehicle. If this happens while you are driving the car, you, or your passengers could be injured.
When you are looking for someone to do this glass replacement, or windshield replacement, you need to ask the following questions.
• How much experience do they have?
• Do they accept my insurance?
• What types of glass can they replace?
• Where is their shop located?
• Will they come to my location to replace my glass?
• How soon can they do the work?


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Casey Scanlon, a KU and SM Northwest alum, is fishing his first year on the Bassmasters Elite Series and qualified for the 2013 Bassmaster Classic before his 28th birthday.
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LONE STAR — The fish play hard to get at first on this windswept late spring day, one of at least 200 that Casey Scanlon will spend on a lake this year. Today it's Lone Star Lake in southwest Douglas County where the 28-year-old Lenexa resident and Kansas University alum will fish to tune up for June's three Bassmaster Elite Series tournaments — the first of which was fished over the weekend at Toledo Bend in Many, La.
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One of the items on sale this month at Costco is the Kirkland Signature Atlantic Salmon. This is a great product that is delicious and healthy and a serving only costs about the same as a Whopper or Big Mac. Below is a repost of a wonderful meal we made for the anniversary of our first date. We have since served this meal to both my mother and my father in law for their birthdays and they have also given it rave reviews. I hope you will consider making a meal like this because it is affordable, delicious, easy and elegant.
Now that I am settled into my new 1st shift job, I have a lot more time to spend with my lovely wife. Normally, to celebrate the anniversary of our first date, we go out of town or have dinner out. But my wonderful wife thought it would be romantic to have a nice dinner at home and watch a movie, and I concurred.
However, as much as we wanted a nice dinner at home, we had no desire to spend three hours in the kitchen, so we came up with this elegant, simple and quick meal to celebrate eight years together as a couple.
For the main course, my wife took some Kirkland Signature Atlantic Salmon and cooked it in parchment paper with butter, dried dill, salt, pepper and a little lemon juice. She set the oven to 350 and baked it for 20 minutes. While that was going, I snapped some fresh green beans and my wife cooked up some pancetta from the local Italian deli. After steaming the beans, we added the pancetta to them and they were good to go.
For the potatoes, I made some Honest Earth potatoes we bought from Costco and dressed them up with bacon bits and dried chives. The resulting dinner, along with being tasty, was also quite attractive.
The salmon comes in individually wrapped portions, which made the preparation of them simple, neat and quick. The potatoes were also a snap to prepare, but as I said, adding the chives and bacon (real bacon!) made them more upscale.
The salmon was tasty and a great value for the dollar and we have already decide to make a meal like this again for entertaining my mother.
Once again, Costco gave us some great food at a great price that was easy to cook with.


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The elderly residents of Prospect Park Residence (PPR) were unceremoniously told on March 5 that they had 90 days to move out of a building in which they had been promised they could age in peace.
In the ensuing months, many residents left, while others stayed to sue both PPR owner Haysha Deitsch and the state Department of Health (DOH). Of the 120 who were living in PPR in March, only a handful remain. For those few, the battle in court has been a lengthy one.
Services in the building — ranging from an activities director to air conditioning to the nutritional value of the food the seniors are served — have been declining since the eviction notice was given.
Even after receiving court orders to return services and make the building as hospitable as it once was, living conditions for the seniors continue to be sub-par, and the DOH, which is in charge of monitoring the services at PPR, continues to say that conditions are fine.
According to one daughter of a remaining resident, who has chosen to remain anonymous for the protection of her parent, Deitsch has orchestrated the court hearings such that he can continue to scare residents into leaving without repercussion.
"From the beginning, the last thing that the owner's management wants is witness and testimony," the daughter said. "Every time we have a hearing, they agree the first time to maintain services. They agree and then don't follow through, and the DOH has monitored in a very lax way, so they get away with reducing services."
This has resulted in worsened living conditions, which has scared or forced some residents out of the building, she said. She believes that as long as DOH continues to monitor the building, no improvements will be made.
"Unless there is a neutral court-appointed monitor with a time schedule for when these things need to happen, nothing is going to change," she said.
She explained that furniture and artwork have been removed from the hallways, the same movie is put in over and over again for entertainment and the cleaning women are teaching the seniors' exercise classes.
All of this while the residents continue to pay the full rate that they were paying before the eviction notice was given, when they had full access to all of PPR's services.
Judy Willig, whose 90-year-old mother lived at PPR until they decided to move her out a couple of months ago, said that the experience has been "awful."
Willig is a social worker who specializes in working with the elderly.
"You're dealing with people who are losing control of their lives in so many ways," she said, "and then to tell them they have to leave their homes, not by choice, is just another horrible assault.
"I think at least two of the remaining people are Holocaust survivors. You know, I can't imagine adding more trauma to the lives of people who have lived through so much," Willig added.
Willig's mother now lives in a residence at the other end of Brooklyn, cutting the time that the mother and daughter can spend together.
"I think it's done something to all of us who have lived through it," Willig said. "And essentially all we were trying to do was let our parents live out their lives near their families and in a community."
Councilmember Brad Lander, who has worked with the seniors on the court case all summer, called the owner of PPR "terrible."
"He has shown over and over again that he doesn't care about anything. He doesn't care about the law, he doesn't care about the opinions of people, he doesn't care about decency," Lander said.
While the residents must go back to court each time Deitsch fails to follow through with the promised service restorations, their court date regarding the merits of the case is in Sept.
In the end, Lander said, the ideal would be that the seniors would be allowed to remain in PPR, but at minimum, the goal is to "make sure that everyone has all the time that they need to find an appropriate alternative, that they're not harassed or pushed out and that services are maintained as long as anyone is in the building."
For Willig, the concern is not just for her own mother, but for elderly residents all across the city.
"I think the bigger story is if it can happen here, what's going to happen to the assisted living homes and nursing homes in Manhattan and the rest of Brooklyn?" she said. "What really concerns me is that this is an awful precedent. And what protection do our most vulnerable citizens have?"


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Horrific Events Coming to America
Horrific Events Coming to America | His Kingdom Prophecy
2 comments:
- Fallout said...
Last week I read this prophecy from TD Hale:
I had never heard his name B4 so I have no idea what his credentials are. Gene?
- February 15, 2013 at 3:30 PM
- Gene said...
I Don't Know Chuck. Hale is not known to me. This guy seems to be around as well. I guess I posted it for consideration and judgement by others.
- February 17, 2013 at 7:32 PM


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Inside Anacortes
Need-to-know info about living there.
Setting: On the inside Washington coast north of Puget Sound, Anacortes is 90 minutes north of Seattle and two hours south of Vancouver, British Columbia, via Interstate 5.
Attractions: Boats, boatbuilders, and boat-friendly waters. The small town (population 16,000) lies two hours or less from two major metro areas. Mild climate with one-third less rainfall than Seattle. A diversified economy. A stunning natural setting.
Drawbacks: High housing prices in comparison to local wages. Morning ferry traffic in summer.
Housing: A cannery-era cottage in old town might sell for $300,000 for a fixer-upper or $500,000 restored. As with all other properties in town, add another $100,000 for a water view. Homes in the brand-new San Juan Passage development range from $485,000 to $800,000 for bigger-view properties. Single-family houses dominate the market; condos range from about $250,000 for an older property with no view to $950,000 for a new one with a grand view.
Your next-door neighbors: A yacht designer, chemical engineer, teacher, artist, or telecommuting dot-commer. A Microsoft retiree, naval officer, or nurse.
How you'd spend your free time: Cruising the inland waterways. Volunteering with the arts festival or library, or rehearsing for the next play. Fixing your boat. Kibbitzing with friends around the communal table at Gere-a-Deli. Mountain biking, hiking, or kayaking. Watching the sun set from the deck of your boat in the marina.
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Is there a phrase or word to describe an algorithm or program is complete in that given any value for its arguments there is a defined outcome? i.e. all the ramifications have been considered whatever the context?
A simple example would be the below function:
function returns string get_item_type(int type_no)
if(type_no < 10)
return "hockey stick"
else if (type_no < 20)
return "bulldozer"
return "unknown"
(excuse the dismal pseudo code)
No matter what number is supplied all possibilities are catered for. My question is: is there a word to fill the blank here:
"get_item_type() is ______ complete"
(The answer is not Turing Complete - that is something quite different - but I annoyingly always think of something as "Turing Complete" when I am thinking of the above).