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We lived in two worlds in Chicago Tuesday.
We were there in the horror of New York, Washington, that field in Pennsylvania. We were safely home.
From the TV came the cries of people and of sirens so desperate they seemed next door. I looked out my window and heard only the rustling of September trees.
Over and over on the TV, a plane--a jet full of ordinary people trying to get somewhere on an ordinary Tuesday morning--flew purposefully into the World Trade Center. I looked out my window and saw only a woman with a stroller singing to a baby.
Over and over on the TV, the World Trade Center's twin towers--"the icons of American capitalism," intoned some broadcaster--crumbled; debris and smoke gushed skyward then tumbled, turning into a monster that chased New Yorkers between the buildings, through the streets. I stepped onto my back porch and smelled the potted rosemary.
"An unspeakable act of terrorism that will change this country forever," intoned some broadcaster. I looked down at the morning's front page and saw that Michael Jordan might come back to basketball.
And so we lived Tuesday in Chicago: in the stunned, confused grip of a spectacle that could leave you sobbing in your living room while surrounded by the mundanities and beauties of a perfect late-summer day.
Whatever had mattered Monday--Michael Jordan, a fight with a friend, your last stock statement, your weight--hardly mattered now. And still did.
Two worlds.
We learned the news while driving the kids to school, taking a shower, on our way to work. I didn't hear until I got into the car at 10. "Why are they broadcasting an old report on the bombing of the World Trade Center?" I wondered, half-listening to the radio. "Is it an anniversary?"
At the moment that the unthinkable truth came clear, I noticed a couple of cars pull into the parking lot of Crate & Barrel, shoppers getting an early start.
Two worlds.
The apocalypse had come. But not here. But, of course, it was here and it was to us.
That was part of the unique terror of this unique day. Americans are a traveling tribe, more connected across vast distances than we often realize. Tuesday's terrors reminded us the nation is a small town. If you live in Chicago, there's a reasonable chance you know someone--or know someone who knows someone--who works in or near the World Trade Center, in or near the Pentagon, who was on one of those kamikaze jets traveling between Boston, L.A., Newark, San Francisco.
And the passengers in those murderous, suicidal planes, whose awful final moments we are left mostly to imagine or try not to? They were members of the family, and not only because two of those doomed planes belonged to United, our hometown airline.
And so we grieved. Seethed. And the idyllic Chicago day went on.
By noon--when we still didn't know the killers or their reasons or where to point our fury--I walked downtown from my neighborhood. On the lazy streets, people ambled with their dogs. Carried bags of groceries. Sat in sidewalk cafes chatting about vacations and the Cubs. Kids laughed and raced around a schoolyard.
But then Chicago's skyscrapers, symbols of the city's strength, wheeled into view. How dangerous they looked, how vulnerable. "Duck!" I wanted to scream at the John Hancock Tower.
"Lovely day, isn't it?" said Katie Elmore, a doctor's receptionist, who sat reading "Encore Provence" on a nearby bench. Then a thought darkened her face. "What about that news?"
Lovely day. What about that news? Two worlds.
One world: On Michigan Avenue, hand-scrawled "Closed" signs hung in the store windows.
Another world: Shoppers tugged in disappointment at the doors.
I passed a man on a cell phone. "You know the Merc," he said cheerfully. "They'll be open tomorrow. Gotta get back to business."
We can only hope it's half that easy. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania on Tuesday happened everywhere in America. It happened everywhere in our one shared world. We can only hope the hatred that springs from this horror doesn't prove to be the biggest horror of all.


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The first three American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) NCAA Division III All-Americans in a single season at Hope College received their awards on Wednesday.
Jenna Grasmeyer, Lauren Hazekamp and Courtney Earles were recognized Wednesday night during the Division III Women's Volleyball Championship banquet.
Grasmeyer headlines a group of four Flying Dutch to receive All-America recognition from the AVCA.
The junior from Jenison (Hudsonville Unity Christian HS) has been selected a First Team All-American for the second season in a row and second time in her career.
Earles and Hazekamp have been chosen Second Team All-Americans, while Amy VanderStoep received Honorable Mention distinction.
The three All-Americans is the most for Hope in one season. The Flying Dutch now have eight All-Americans all-time.
"Jenna is a special talent and I am proud of her continued hard work both on the court and in the weight room," Hope coach Becky Schmidt said of Grasmeyer, pictured at right. "She is a kind and generous teammate, but a terminator on the court. Her improvements in passing, defense, and serving have made her a very well-rounded player."
The awards will be presented Thursday at the NCAA Division III Women's National Championship banquet at Hope College.
Earles is a senior middle hitter from Kentwood (East Kentwood HS).
"To come back from an ACL tear last year and have an All-American season is quite a story - and one attributable to her work ethic, commitment and motivation," Schmidt said. "I am so proud of her and feel that this honor is not just well deserved but an inspiration to anyone that has been dealt a blow of adversity. Courtney has not just brought an aggressive swing and strong block to our court but a composure that maintains our confidence even when we are struggling."
Hazekamp is a sophomore setter from Fruitport (Fruitport HS).
"While this might be Lauren's first year directing our offense, she came in with great experience playing in big matches," Schmidt said. "She is athletic and savvy, a dangerous combination for a setter. She consistently gives her hitters great balls and puts them in positions to be successful. On top of that, she is a terrific defender (averaging almost 3 digs/set). Lauren is a steady leader on the court and that translates into a team that is mentally tough."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The man who set the Jacksonville City Council into a religious and racial tailspin when he was nominated to the Human Rights Commission is set to be reappointed to that position.
Parvez Ahmed has served three years on the commission, and Mayor Alvin Brown wants him to serve three more.
Those who opposed Ahmed on the first go-round as well as his supporters spoke out Friday. It appears his reappointment won't be as controversial, but that could change.
During the first nomination, the opposition was not vocal at first, but it grew.
During his three-year term on the commission, Ahmed has spoken out on issues that have faced Jacksonville, such as the mosque bombing on St. Johns Bluff Road two years ago. But it was his nomination to that commission that most people recall.
It put religious rights and tolerance to the test in Jacksonville. Some claimed he had controversial ties to Muslim groups. Many recall the time Councilman Don Redman ask Ahmed to pray at a council meeting.
"I would like you to say a prayer to your God. Could you do that for us here," Redman said.
Other groups were pressuring the council not to appoint Ahmed, but after long debate and emotional discussion, Ahmed was approved.
Mayor Brown was not in office then, but has put Ahmed's name in for reappointment.
"I see no issue. I don't have any issue," he said, adding that he's hoping there won't be any problems.
Redman said he will vote against Ahmed's appointment again.
"I can't really say he has offended anybody," Redman said. "I can't say he has done anything worthwhile since he has been on the Human Rights Commission."
Redman doesn't believe there will be as big of an outcry this time around, and other council members agree.
"The council has grown, and those that had concerns about that recognize the majority of the council supports his nomination," councilman Warren Jones said. "They did it before, and I am sure they would do it again."
Redman has set a wider target -- not just Ahmed, but the entire commission.
"I don't think we need the Human Rights Commission in the city," he said. "It's duplicated, it's triplicate. We have the same thing with the federal government. We have the same thing with the state government."


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I hope you all had a wonderful time at Bootcamp! It was so inspiring to see so many passionate young leaders come together. Bootcamp was just the first step in the Collective Future campaign. The next is jumping on board for a campaign action session and helping us build a strong movement for the July-December campaigns. As a Community Leader, we need you to lead the charge towards a collective future we can be proud of. We need you to communicate your passion and energy for the movement across to all our audiences and get them on board too!
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Crown College will transfer up to 15-21 semester hours of Christian Studies courses from Crossroads College (depending on the student's chosen major) toward majors in the Undergraduate Program. Typically, the following upper level integrative courses must be taken at Crown College: Christian Ethics, Apologetics, Romans, and Faith Integration Seminar. The Crown VP for Academic Affairs has approved the transferability of Ethics and Romans from Crossroads College to satisfy these requirements.
Other courses that may meet general education or the student's designated major requirements will be evaluated on a course-by-course basis by the Registrar, Department Chair, and/or Vice President for Academic Affairs. Up to 90 credit hours may be transferred in if deemed acceptable for the student's particular program of study by the evaluators. Only the Vice President for Academic Affairs may grant an exception to these policies.
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Four recent studies by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS) at the CUNY Graduate Center show that among New York City's four major ethnic groups, Latinos rank:
Lowest in wage gain over the past five years (virtually none)
Lowest in percentage of students enrolled in private schools
Lowest in home ownership
Highest in birth rates
The studies were derived from census data by CLACLS' Latino Data Project, which continues to mine 2000 census information and updated reports for insights into New York City's Latino community. In addition to comparing the Latino community with other major ethnic groupings, the studies also analyzed comparisons among the various Latino nationalities in the city.
A summary of major findings from each of the four newly released studies follows. The complete reports of these and other Latino Data Project studies can be found on CLACLS' website at web.gc.cuny.edu/lastudies
New York Latinos Facing Wage Crisis
"Changes in Income Distribution Patterns, Wealth, and Poverty among New York City's Racial/Ethnic Groups between 1999 and 2004"
Latinos in New York City experienced almost no increase in household or family income between 1999 and 2004 while Whites, African Americans, and Asians saw significant rises.
This study found that household income for Latinos increased only 0.4% between 1999 and 2004 in the City, while among African Americans it rose 7.1%; 9.8% among Asians; and 12.4% among White households. Additionally, among Latino families, income increased only 3.6% over the same period, while among African American, Asian, and White families incomes increased over 13%.
"Latinos were the poorest of the city's major racial/ethnic groups in both years, with over 30% living in poverty," said Laird W. Bergad, Professor of History and Director of the CLACLS. "Nevertheless, we have also found a high degree of economic stratification among the Latino population, with over 25% of all households and families earning over $50,000 annually."
Among Latino New Yorkers, Few Private School Students "Private and Public School Attendance Patterns among New York City's Racial/Ethnic Groups and Latino Nationalities in 2000"
Fewer Latino children attend private school in New York City than any other ethnic/racial group.
This study found that in 2000 only 16% of New York City's Latino student population was enrolled in private educational institutions. The corresponding rate for African Americans was 19% while 25% of all Asian and 50% of all White students in the City attended private schools. The figures are for all levels, including pre-school through graduate school. When just considering grades K-12, the comparisons are 44% of white students, 12% of African Americans, 11% of Asians and 11% of Hispanics enrolled in private schools.
"We were very surprised to find so few Latino kids in private schools, especially given the work done by the schools of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York in the Latino community," said Laird W. Bergad, Professor of History and Director of the CLACLS. "It's clear from the data that the Latino community is putting the education of children in the hands of public school officials."
Bergad also noted that the data is a signal to public school administrators that the issues facing Latino students are critical to the success of the public school system at large. "Administrators need to realize that the issues of bilingual education and high drop-out rates—issues that have historically been linked to the Latino community—are problems that have an impact not just on one group of students but on the system as a whole. Latino kids are becoming the heart and soul of the New York City public schools and it seems from this data that they are in the system for the long-haul," Bergad said.
Among the Latino nationalities, Peruvians, Cubans, and Colombians had the highest rates of private school attendance while Mexicans, Dominicans, and Puerto Ricans had the lowest.
"I think that the differences in private school attendance speak volumes about the differences in economic mobility between different Latino groups," said Cecilia Salvatierra, a researcher on the study and a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
In the Aftermath of National Housing Boom,
Latinos in New York City Still Lag
"Home Ownership Rates among New York City's Racial/Ethnic Groups and Latino Nationalities in 2000"
Despite a national boom in home-ownership, Latinos in New York City are lagging far behind their fellow New Yorkers when it comes to owning a home.
This study found that in 2000 only 16% of New York City's Latino population owned their homes. The corresponding rate for African Americans was 31%, while 42% of all Asians and Whites in the City lived in their own homes.
"The data provides a contrast to arguments about increasing Latino home-ownership rates," said Laird W. Bergad, Professor of History and Director of the CLACLS. "In expensive urban housing markets such as New York, Latinos aren't able to compete for housing. It is a really difficult situation for many Latino families. They are caught between increasing rents and the inability to purchase a home or apartment."
Among the Latino nationalities, Peruvians, Cubans, and Colombians had the highest rates of home ownership with over 25% of each of these nationalities living in their own homes according to 2000 U.S. census data. Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Dominicans had the lowest home ownership rates among the Latino national groups.
"We need to do some additional work to see how Latinos have fared in this era of historically-low mortgage interest rates, but I suspect that we really won't see much change in New York City where prices remain high," said Laura Limonic, a researcher on the study and a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Birth Rates Among Latinas in New York
Highest of any Group in City
"Birth Rates among New York City's Racial/Ethnic Groups
and Latino Nationalities in 2002"
Birth rates among New York City's Latinas are rocketing past those of other racial/ethnic groups in the City.
"This data reveals that New York City is undergoing a rapid transformation not just because of immigration but also because of family-planning decisions in local neighborhoods," said Laird W. Bergad, Professor of History and Director of the CLACLS. "We are witnessing a fundamental shift in the demographic composition of the City."
The study found that in 2002 Latina women of childbearing age gave birth to 63 children per thousand women. The corresponding rate for African American women was 53 per thousand and among White women it was 51 per thousand. The report also examines birth rates by different age groups. In the 15 to 29 year-old age categories, Latina women had extraordinarily higher birth rates compared with their African-American and White counterparts.
Researchers also found that there were significant differences in birth rates with the Latino communities of the City. Among the Latino nationalities Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Dominican women had the highest birth rates while Colombian, Puerto Rican, and Cuban women had the lowest.
"While the birth rate among Latinas is higher than for any other group in the City, the differences within the Latino population show that length of residency in the United States does have an impact on lowering birth rates, even among Latinas," said Victoria Stone a researcher on the study and a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Support for this research was provided by the Somos el Futuro Foundation and the City University of New York.
The Graduate Center is the City University of New York's doctorate-granting institution. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, the school draws its faculty of more than 1,700 members mainly from the CUNY senior colleges.
Established in 1961, The Graduate Center has grown to an enrollment of about 4,000 students in more than 30 doctoral programs and six master's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Graduate Center also houses 28 research centers and institutes, administers the CUNY Baccalaureate Program as well as a number of other university-wide academic programs, and offers a wide range of intellectual and cultural programs of interest to the general public.
Further information on The Graduate Center's programs and activities can be found on its website at: www.gc.cuny.edu.
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Art and science are inseparable for IUPUI's RosenbergGary Rosenberg, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Department of Earth Sciences There is art and there is science. Most people think they are not related.
For Gary Rosenberg, they are inseparable. Rosenberg, an associate professor of Earth Sciences at IUPUI, has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, an honor that is reserved for the best in his discipline. Members of the society are elected to Fellowship in recognition of distinguished contributions to geosciences.
In his nomination of Rosenberg, Dr. Steve Rowland of the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, wrote, "Gary D. Rosenberg is a very innovative scholar whose research on the history of art and geology has shone light on cultural influences on the visual perception of the Earth. Especially significant also is his editorship of GSA Memoir 203, The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment."
The memoir was published at nearly the same time that Rosenberg was elected a Fellow.
The GSA honor is well-deserved, said Gabriel Filippelli, professor and chair of the Department of Earth Sciences in the Purdue School of Science at IUPUI. "Dr. Rosenberg has been at the forefront of integrating scientific thought with art history. His work has ranged from the European development of perspective and geological realism in parallel with the Italian Renaissance to idealized and geologically-rare landscapes in Chinese art. Dr. Rosenberg has also taught on this topic here at IUPUI, and is considered an international leader in this area with his own publications as well as the seminal monograph that he recently edited."
There are several criteria under which a member of GSA may be nominated for election as a Fellow. In Rosenberg's case, he was recognized for his accomplishment in the areas of dissemination of geologic knowledge contributing to the advancement of the science and his leadership of professional organizations, particularly GSA.
At IUPUI, Rosenberg's research includes the study of art history for clues that shed light on the origin of modern geologic thought in Western Europe. He has compared the geometric representation of spatial relationships in nature that European Renaissance artists developed with the meditative images that eastern cultures produced.
"I believe these different ways of viewing nature help to explain why the Scientific Revolution took place first in Europe and not in the East," he said.
Rosenberg also maps the distribution of trace elements in shells, teeth, and bone with digital electron microscopy to determine how both physiology and environment influence skeletal form, crystallography, growth, and composition. A long-term goal is to develop a generalized model of shell growth integrating skeletal composition, metabolism, and shape. He has also studied the microstructure and chemistry of teeth and bone in order to understand various afflictions of mineralized tissues.
Rosenberg regards all of Indianapolis as a resource for teaching and research. Especially relevant is the White River Parkway and corridor where he takes students. The Indianapolis Museum of Art along the White River has proved exceptionally important because it has several significant collections and because the entire staff generously advised and shared their expertise, Rosenberg said.
The 20 chapters in the GSA Memoir, The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, explore how modern geology began to take shape during a momentous period of Western civilization when a revolution in understanding spatial relationships transformed the paradigm of nature and the affairs of humankind, ultimately leading to the Western experiment in democracy. Rosenberg is the author of the memoir's introduction and one of the memoir's chapters.
Rosenberg's chapter explores how Renaissance artists' knowledge of anatomy facilitated the conceptualization of landscape. He asserts that explains how Nicholas Steno, a Baroque anatomist, could have discovered the founding principles of modern geology with his geometric studies of the hills of Tuscany. Other papers reveal that Isaac Newton's organic alchemy was a forerunner to modern geochemistry, and that Jesuit scholar, Athanasius Kircher's biologic analogies of Earth presaged the writing of British naturalist James Hutton who is generally credited with the first extensive writing in modern geology. . Papers on Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson's geological and paleontological studies, on British resistance to French evolutionary theory, and on Darwin's refutation of the argument that natural laws require a lawgiver reveal that, from the Enlightenment on, this spatial reorganization of nature facilitated the idea of evolution and of the individual's potential for change in the new social order of democracy. Other papers explore how anatomist, artist, and astronomer, Galileo's "il lume naturale" inspired Charles Peirce's modern essays on historical science that bring geologic thought to the debate over the anthropic principle in cosmology.
Rosenberg says the idea and encouragement for this volume stemmed from a sabbatical in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he met many of the scholars devoted to the life and accomplishments of Nicholas Steno, "preeminent 17th century Danish polymath and founder of modern geologic thought." Rosenberg's goal was to pursue the connection between Steno and art history. "Within art history," says Rosenberg, "lie clues that explain the breadth of Steno's accomplishments in fields that we now consider unrelated, anatomy and geology, but which were then considered integral exemplars of the same geometric paradigm of nature."
Spotlight Update: Gary Rosenberg retired from the School of Science and IUPUI in 2012.


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Two years ago, we strategically paired five groups together and invited them to create a new dance, film and/or live multimedia work that incorporates dance. Collaboration was a central component to the project, as the purpose was to build stronger ties between across artistic disciplines. The experience gave participants a rare opportunity to work together outside of their usual roles, in order to learn about each other's processes and art forms. These relation- ships developed into an expanded dialogue about how both media and performing art forms represent culture, histories, and identity. As a result, five new works highlight how film and dance have the power to influence social change, build community, and affect artistic and cultural discourse.
*All filmmakers and performing artists will be in attendance
Waack Revolt–A Dance Film
Sonia Hong, Emily Law (aka Em Fatale), Diana Reyes (aka Fly Lady Di) | 2013
In 1940s Hollywood, two lovers first meet. Their love is fueled by their passion for "Waacking." Outraged by their dancing, the public exclaims that they must keep it behind closed doors. In response, the couple escapes to different times, sliding, and interchanging between genders.
Sonia Hong is a Toronto-based film- maker who explores various elements of gender identity and empowerment. She has won numerous awards includ- ing WIFT-T's Most Innovative Film by a Female Director, Toronto Urban Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize, Best Up-and- Coming Toronto Filmmaker at Inside Out LGBT Film Festival.
Emily Law is a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and is a founding member of the Toronto house dance crew Warehouse Jacks. She has been nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore award and a Gemini for her work with Kaha:wi Dance Theatre.
Diana Reyes is a multi-disciplinary artist known as a professional dancer, visual artist, and actor. She is currently a member of b current's prestigious rAiz'n ensemble—home to some of Canada's most successful performing artists, playwrights, and producers.
Friend Dance
Tad Hozumi, Mark "Neo Boog" Cabuena | 2013
Learn to dance with your friendly neighbourhood dance crew, the MoonRunners, who specialize in poppin', a style characterized by the use of explosive muscle contractions. Including tips on how to listen to music and dance at a party.
Tad Hozumi was born in 1977 in Basel, Switzerland and grew up in Toronto. Hozumi is currently based in Vancouver and working on an interdisciplinary art work that explores the subversive history of street style dances.
Mark "Neo Boog" Cabuena has been a competitor of the street dance style poppin' since 2000. He recently won the Bust a Move popping 1 on 1 competition in Montreal. Cabuena is also a graphic designer.
The young experimental group Moon Runners is one of the top freestyle dance groups in Toronto, and include: Snap, Freakwen-C, and Shawn. They have formed a strong foundation in Toronto by providing workshops, hosting events, and mentoring young up-and- coming dancers.
Shasha Nakhai, Catherine Hernandez | 2013
A migrant nanny takes centre stage and externalizes her internal pain through dance, utilizing brilliant red fans in a dizzying and riveting blend of traditional Filipino and modern improvisational dance.
Shasha Nakhai's first documentary film, Baby Not Mine (2009), about Filipino caregivers in Canada, won awards at the Human Rights DocFest and Montreal World Film Festival. Nakhai was born in the Philippines, grew up in Nigeria, and is now based in Toronto.
Catherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of colour and single mom. She is the founder of Sulong Theatre. Her plays include Future Folk, Eating with Lola, and Kilt Pins.
Between Us
Randall Okita, Andrea Nann | 2013
An investigation takes place in and around the perimeters of the camera lens, in a minimally prescribed conceptual perfor- mance about a collaboration between strangers.
Randall Okita is a Japanese Canadian director born in Calgary and based in Toronto. He is a recent CFC graduate and has a broad range of experience in feature films, television, commercials, and documentaries.
Andrea Nann and the Dreamwalker Dance Company's creative mandate is to speak to the human experience and encourage investigation. Nann has a long history of artistic collaborations across multiple disciplines.
Déja Vu aka Restorative Structure
Dean Vargas, Tom Kuo, Lauren Cook (Alias Dance Project) | 2013
A combination of live dance, projected video, and interactive motion-sensor-based visuali- zation takes an immersive approach to mental health and the loss of memory. Embodying feelings of disorientation and alienation, the choreography ultimately aims to build great understanding and hope.
Dean Vargas is a young Filipino Canadian freelance director, editor, motion designer based in the GTA. His independent productions focus on social narratives and cover themes such as mental illness, environmental issues, and martial arts/dance.
Tom Kuo is an award-winning designer and creative director. Tom moves between scenes, trends, and subcultures–from electronic music to audio-visual design, to new media installations, experience design, and more.
Lauren Cook is a Toronto–based artist, teacher, and the artistic director of Alias Dance Project. Some of Cook's choreographic credits include Under the Mulberry Bush (2007), The Hidden Truth (2009), While You Were Sleeping (2010), Restorative Structure (2012) and A How To Guide (2012).
Alias Dance Project integrates communities by engineering collaborative relationships between diverse groups. Through their unique dynamic and physical risk, they explore the heart and soul of many dance vocabularies and create artistic works that are fresh, exciting, funky, and athletic. This project includes performing artists Sierra Chin Sawdy, Mayumi Lashbrook, Madeleine Shen, and Jen Hum.


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10 July 2010
Fjällbacka, Tanum, Sweden
The actress Ingrid Bergman spent many summers at Dannholmen west of Fjällbacka. The "town" square is named after her (Ingrid Bergmans torg). The path to Kungsklyftan starts in the background.
Kungsklyftan ("King's Crevice"), earlier names Ramneklovan or Korpklyftan, got its name after King Oscar II visited Fjällbacka in 1886. Kungsklyftan is known among others from the movie Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia The Robber's Daughter) based on the book by Astrid Lindgren. The place was also a crime scene in Camilla Läckberg's crime novel Predikanten ("The Preacher"), 2004. Kungsklyftan was closed in June 2010 due to security work.
locality of Fjällbacka in Tanum municipality, originally a fishing locality, has been visited by many Scandinavians (and others!) over the years, quite often arriving by sailboat. Nowadays the small place has also become known because of Camilla Fjällberg's crime novels, as almost all the plots have taken place there. If you didn't know it was fiction, you could have thought the place was rather dangerous, considering the number of murders!
I have read all the Läckberg novels and always imagined the place to be somewhat bigger than it is in reality. My wife on the other hand thought the place was smaller! It is a wonderful place to visit, first of all in the summer season. Fjällbacka is situated about 150 km north of Gothenburg and 165 km south of Oslo. If you travel by car from Oslo, it will take about 2 hours and 15 minutes to get there.
The oldest houses in Fjällbacka are from the 18th and 19th century. Some of them had signs revealing the history of the house and the families that lived in it. A wonderful idea - just a pity that I didn't take any photos to use as examples. I will surely visit Fjällbacka again later, so this blog article should be considered as Part I only... Don't forget to visit the photo gallery at Fjällbacka's official page!
Updated on 10 July 2010 at 20.00 (a few details were added).
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Hei Dag,ReplyDelete
These are the best photos I have seen yet of Fjällbacka, mange takk for dem. The pictures of Ingrid Bergmans Torg are especially great, I had imagined it was just a concrete square! I will bookmark your page and return to it often as I translate Tyskungen, which will be my 5th in the series. May I ask you any questions on Norwegian history if I find something incomprehensible?
Best wishes from Albuquerque, New Mexico!
Steve (Steven T. Murray)
P.S. The town will have to fix the English on their sign to say "steep areas"!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments! And yes, please don't hesitate to contact me by e-mail if you have any questions about Norwegian history etc. in connection with your work.ReplyDelete
Dag T. Hoelseth,
By the way, I didn't notice the "step areas" mistake before you mentioned it... :-)ReplyDelete
Concerning the "town square", you will see the rest of it on photo no. 4 (the two persons at the right are looking at the Bergman statue).
I will add your blog to my Selected blogs list soon!


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Here's some shaky Sacramento math for you. State Controller John Chiang announced Tuesday that tax revenues were actually up by $40 million in July, compared to a year ago.
So how is more considered bad?
Because the budget approved by the legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown assumed much higher projections. And those revenues are falling far short of what's needed to avoid deep spending cuts to California's classrooms and programs to treat the disabled.
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The July revenues were down ten percent from what budget-writers had projected.
"While we hope for better news in the months ahead, every drop in revenues puts us closer to the drastic trigger cuts that could be imposed next year," said Chiang.
Were the numbers overly optimistic? Or simply an expedient way to end this year's budget stalemate?
The spending plan signed on June 29 assumed that if the state didn't collect an extra $4 billion windfall this year, that would trigger more cuts. That scenario is looking more and more likely, especially since the July numbers were reported before this week's deep dive in the stock market.
California's public schools could face a $1.5 billion cut midway through the coming school year. And the University of California and California State University systems would have to face additional cuts of $100 million each.
Gov. Brown's Finance Department will finalize its projections in December. But the new numbers don't spell confidence when it comes to hopes that the budget axe won't fall again.


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If you are one who pays attention to the MMO community, chances are you have heard of Rift. I will admit that I have no first hand experience playing Rift. I know some other folks have, such as Rilgon who has shared some stuff over on his site. I read an article last night, which you can read here, about how the company behind Rift was going to revolutionize online games.
Revolutionize Online Games
That is a bold statement. Revolutionize. Big shoes to fill.
From the article: "For instance, if players fail to save a town that is being attacked, it will still be burned to the ground when players log in tomorrow."
It will still be burned down for who? For the player? For the whole server? Raise your hand if you participated in the opening of the Ahn'Qiraj gates. There are not many of us. And those who did may have had fond memories of it. But how often do you see a Scarab Lord or his mount? Players who join the game now will never experience that event. They will never have a chance to ring that gong. The gates are open, the event is done. They will also never be able to participate in the reopening the Dark Portal which only few of my characters can claim they did, with the tabard to prove it.
This alienates a huge portion of the player base. In a single-player game, the world can change as much as the developers wish. They don't have to worry about making anyone feel left out since the entirety of the game world consists of one person and their computer-controlled entourage.
But perhaps they mean that it changes for just the player? Perhaps the zone "phases" just for that person. And that is not unique. World of Warcraft does it (now). Lord of the Rings Online does it. That is not revolutionary. A good idea, yes.
The article also states the company is creating a second game, already in the works, that is suppose to coincide with a television show that is going to appear on SyFy. Interesting concept indeed. They state towards the end of the article "Likewise, if a player does something heroic during the game, they might find their feat being discussed on the show."
I think they overestimate the maturity of the population sometimes. Not every person loves roleplay quality names. You end up with names like Freshmaker, Bandaidspec, Drhorrible, Uglybear, or Toast. And then they devolve into names more cryptic or vulgar. I have my doubts that they will change their television show to tell everyone that the town was saved by the heroic endeavors of Iwhipmyhairbackandforth. I know that is a minor argument, as names are easily changed and enforced.
It would be awesome to see guilds fighting for a world first so it appears on the TV show. You can also imagine the fuss that people would raise if a server crashed and another guild got a world first kill and subsequently got mentioned in the TV show. Fun concept, but I see it merely as a ploy that says "We *may* mention you, but probably not since our scripts are written for the whole season already."
This might appeal to a lot of people, but I hardly watch television at all. It usually involves the Food Network on Sunday nights, and Psych when it is on. I tried to keep up with Chuck but slowly stopped watching. I am told I should watch the Bing Bang Theory as well. But ultimately, I have no desire to watch television. But a lot of people do so my personal opinion definitely doesn't speak for a majority.
The CEO makes this statement: "A traditional video game is played in your machine, in your local console, and is a static experience…the game does not evolve and it's also not really social because you cannot play with all of your friends against the environment that is created in the video game."
The definition of traditional video game is interesting. His definition fits Mario Brothers and other old-school platformers like Contra or Sonic the Hedgehog. Saying a game doesn't evolve poses a question. What is he expecting to evolve? If, as a player, a town burns down in my MMO, and it is only burned down for me since my friends were able to save the city, this isn't different than Aries getting killed in Final Fantasy 7 (I know, spoiler, but if you haven't played it yet there is no hope for you.) or failing to keep Jack alive in Mass Effect 2 because I sided with Miranda and my persuasion skill sucked at the time.
I know these are both single-player games, but the world changed with me and things I had access to at one point were no longer available. Creating a list of games and how the world "evolved" is extensive. And a lot of modern MMOs are already doing this.
But that is me being pessimistic about the capabilities of the company. Maybe the television show idea with turn out fantastic. In the same vein, however, there have been a lot of fantastic TV shows that have gone the way of the dodo for less than stellar reasons. I don't need to make that list for you, as I am sure you can come up with your own. What happens if the show receives terrible ratings? What kind of impact will that have on the game? If the TV executives decide that since the show is doing poorly, continued funding of the game isn't worth it either?
The Michael Jordan Syndrome
Everyone knows who Michael Jordan is. You would be hard pressed to find a person in a marginally developed country who didn't know who he was. While great players came before him, he transformed a sport. It became what it is today because of the dominance and excellence he exhibited.
And if you are old enough to remember when he played at the top of his game (I can't believe I am asking a "are you old enough" question about MJ) you will also remember that every year when new players came into the league, people were obsessed with finding the new Michael Jordan.
Afernee 'Penny' Hardaway, Grant Hill, Reggie Miller, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and Vince Carter were some of the people who were prophesied to be "the next MJ."
How many of them were actually the next Michael Jordan? Not a single one. Did many of them go on to be fantastic, dominant players in the NBA? Absolutely. Did some buckle under the pressure? Arguably, yes. There was plenty of room for great players in the NBA, but people were trying to force this mantle of being Jordan on to people.
Enter World of Warcraft. In a room of monkeys (I use the term monkeys lovingly, not as an insult), World of Warcraft is a 1,200 pound gorilla. And since Blizzard's entry into the MMO market has shattered what used to be preconceived notions of the mass appeal of the MMO genre, people have been quick to dub other games "the WoW killer."
Age of Conan, Aion, Warhammer Online, and Dark and Light are some games so lovingly bestowed with that title.
How many of them "killed" World of Warcraft? None. And this goes back to the Michael Jordan statement. Is there room in this world for other MMOs to be successful? Absolutely. Are they going get 12 million subscribers? Probably not, although I am sure their investors hope so.
But there are plenty of people looking for a different experience. Pirates of the Burning Sea is sailing along with it's player base (Pun totally intended). They recently went free-to-play and their doors are still open. Lord of the Rings Online tripled their revenue after going free-to-play but seem to be doing well and creating new content.
A unique challenge is distinguishing your game from all the others. A game like Pirates of the Burning Sea isn't going to be mistaken for World of Warcraft, and neither will be DC Universe Online. However swords, mythical beasts, spell casting, dragons, and demons tend to look the same to the untrained eye. I could show my mother screenshots from different fantasy-based games and ultimately the difference would be lost on her outside vague appearance variations.
The gameplay will distinguish the games from each other. You won't reach 12 million subscribers, no matter how unique your game is, if your user experience doesn't have the ability to reach out to a new player, take them by the hand, and show them your fantastic world.
If you've played any other MMOs recently, even their free trials, you will find that the beginner experience in WoW is second to none, and it's only gotten better. Once you reach past the beginner's level, what's left is the stuff that keeps people interested. Blizzard has an intricate set of mechanics, and regardless of what people say about 'balance', it keep folks interested. The subtle differences in the numbers following decimal points can make the difference in one spec being top DPS in comparison to another spec. Combat is responsive, feels fluid, and your character seems like it reacts to you.
In comparison, Lord of the Rings Online felt "rubber-bandy." While that's not a technical term, I am sure you have experienced the effect of pressing a button and the subsequent action not feeling natural. In Pirates of the Burning Sea, ship combat is fantastic if you have the patience for it, which I would imagine most of the population does not. But the avatar combat still feels like a relative afterthought and suffers from the same "rubber banding" I felt in Lord of the Rings Online.
If you already drive a Lamborghini…
It seems popular to make fun of WoW, but at the end of the day, Blizzard is raking it in, and that's not on accident. Ultimately the challenge other companies will find is convincing that their $15 dollar subscription fee is best used on their game instead of World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft is the Lamborghini of MMOs currently. The Michael Jordan. And if you are already paying $15 a month for that Lamborghini, you might be hard pressed to be convinced to spend that $15 (or another $15) on something that's not the Lamborghini. Sure, maybe a Lambo isn't everyone's favorite car. But the quality of the Lamborghini is not being questioned, as any level-headed individual can admit, it is a fantastic car most of us will never have.
That's why Lord of the Rings started doing so well. People didn't have to pay $15 to drive their car. I could go play the game at will. And if I wanted something extra for it, I could chip in a few bucks through micro transactions. More quests, more zones, whatever I felt like I wanted. Without the obligation of a monthly fee, since my $15 was already being given to my Lamborghini. But as they say, variety is the spice of life.
As I mentioned, this doesn't mean there isn't room for other monthly subscription games. Of course not. You can pay a monthly fee for Lord of the Rings. Or Pirates of the Burning Sea. Or Rift when it comes out. Each game bringing something different to the table. And maybe there is something you like a lot more in one of the other games. I also know that every MMO I play in the future will be held to a high standard. From the leveling experience, end-game content, PvP, content patches, and UI customization will always be considered and compared to what WoW offered me.
So I feel like I am rambling so I should close this novel. A lot of basketball players were heralded as the next Michael Jordan. But remember this:
There was never another Michael Jordan, and there probably never will be. Eventually Michael Jordan retired and left the door open for other great players to take the spotlight.
I expect many people share a very different opinion then I do and I am eager to hear your thoughts or comments!


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At a time when Hollywood has recently seen the likes of Taylor Kitsch and Ryan Reynolds suffer miserable high-profile failures in an attempt to reach the A-list, it seems almost impossible that Channing Tatum, an ex-stripper, may emerge as this year's box-office champ.
But with "21 Jump Street" taking in $35 million in its opening weekend, Tatum now finds himself the star of two of 2012's No, 1 films.
Does he have something that makes him stand out from the rest of the Six-Pack Pack? Will he emerge this year as the next "Marky" Mark Wahlberg? Or is he fated to be the next Taylor Lautner? If he continues to manage his career the way he has of late, he'll be just fine.
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In February Tatum starred with fellow Nicholas Sparks alum Rachel McAdams in "The Vow," the story of a man who must win his wife's heart again when a head injury erases her memory of their relationship. It's a tired piece of gooey romantic trifle, a chick flick of the highest order. But since coming out on Valentine's Day it's been the second-highest grossing film of 2012, taking in more than $121 million.
In "21 Jump Street" Tatum stars opposite Jonah Hill in an adaptation of the '80s TV show about young cops going undercover as teenagers, the same series that made Johnny Depp a star. They play a pair of baby-faced cops (under the command of a captain played by Ice Cube) who are sent to crack a high school drug ring.
The film is both laugh-out-loud funny and strangely touching, as the plot takes the characters to naturally comedic places the old show was never smart enough to consider. Playing former high school classmates, the nerd and the jock, Hill and Tatum find youth culture has been unrecognizably changed – the cool kids now are into the environment and tolerance, while the jocks are derided as hulking nimrods and cheerleaders are persona non grata.
Alex Pettyfer (front left), Matthew McConaughey (shirtless) and Channing Tatum (far right) star in "Magic Mike," based on Tatum's experiences as a young male stripper. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film opens June 29.
Tatum first started catching people's attention in 2006, as the lead "Step Up," the surprise hit dance film which was a natural showcase for his ex-stripper talent. But there was something more than just beefcake that caught the eye of LaQuishe "Q" Wright, founder of the blog Channing Tatum Unwrapped.
"He's an extremely attractive guy. But the reason I named (the site) Channing Tatum Unwrapped, it was that whole message that you have a gift (Tatum), and it's beautiful on the outside, but you never look on the inside, and that's stupid. When people get to know Chan, there's so much more on the inside. And at the time I didn't know him, it was just this vibe I was getting, like, 'This guy seems really real. This guy's not affected, he seems really cool," says Wright.
Wright is not your average fan-girl blogger. A businesswoman, she was in her early 30s when she learned her infant son had diabetes, a diagnosis that took an emotional toll. The first time she went out for the night without her baby boy after the diagnosis, she ventured into a movie theater and saw Tatum in "Step Up."
Eager to learn more, she took to the Internet but was frustrated by what she found, so she launched CTU. Some months later she received an email from his mother thanking her for her efforts, she said. A week after that, she heard from Tatum himself, who asked her to join Team Tatum as his official blogger. Soon mother Tatum was arranging for Wright to visit "Chan" on the set of "Fighting."
"He was exactly the person I'd hoped. I thought he seemed like a really cool, down-to-earth guy who really cared about his family and (then) girlfriend… Just kinda down-to-earth and cool, just got lucky and fell into this acting career. I hung out on-set for nine hours, he's in the middle of filming, I thought I'd probably just sit in a chair all day long and he'd just go about his business or go back to his trailer during breaks, and I'd still be sitting there, but no. He took care of me all day long, talking to me, checking in on me… I'd literally just met him that day. But that's Chan," said Wright.
It's not just that Tatum's looks, but his type, that attracted others, according to Dennis Warner of Hollywood Life.
"He's very attractive, but not in a pretty way," she says. "He's kinda big and handsome, but he's not gonna be prettier me, like Robert Pattinson. You want someone like Channing Tatum or Ryan Gosling – they don't look like pretty boys. I don't want a guy that's going to borrow my eyeliner. I like that he can dance, and I think it's so cute that he met his wife (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) on the set of that film, it's adorable. "
Traditionally, actors (like Pattinson, for instance) have tried to manage their image to make them seem as unattached as possible, but Tatum manages to play both ends against the middle, winning points for marrying his co-star while still seeming like at least a distant possibility.
"Since you don't see them out a lot together, you can almost forget that he's married – it's kind of appealing," says Warner.
But with the exception of "G.I. Joe," which had a built-in audience, Tatum's most successful films have been, for lack of a better word, chick flicks: "Step Up," the Nicholas Sparks adaptation "Dear John" and the might-as-well-be-Sparks "The Vow."
Luke Y. Thompson, who's been writing about film for more than a decade, most recently at Nerdist, sees "21 Jump Street" as a decisive step toward widening Tatum's fan base even further.
"I think Tatum appealed to women first, with the combination of a very masculine physique that he knew how to move, and a puppy-dog personality that does loyalty and focus very well," says Thompson. "That hasn't worked quite so well for him in guy movies like 'G.I. Joe,' where men want more of a bad-ass personality. However, when he spoofs that kind of character in '21 Jump Street' or 'The Dilemma' – by giving these buffed-up bad-boy characters a lost-dog pathos – it's hilarious. He'll win over guys through comedy."
Whether by luck or design, Tatum could be following a trail blazed by another shirtless wonder.
"Remember how Marky Mark (Wahlberg) used to be a white rapper known for dropping his pants?" asks Thompson. "He appealed to women first, and guys hated him. Eventually, he proved his chops as an actor in 'Three Kings,' exemplified deadpan comedy in the 'SNL' skit with Andy Samberg, and is nowadays just accepted as an action star in stuff like 'Contraband.' Tatum needs to age into his bad-assness, but I suspect he will."
"Jump Street" is Tatum's "The Other Guys," in which the hunk Wahlberg aligned himself with a talented comedic actor, Will Ferrell, making himself appear funny in the process. And now Tatum wants to take another page from the Wahlberg playbook.
"He wants to produce pretty much everything from here on out," explains Wright. "He wants to have his production company, Iron Horse, handle everything beginning to end. Their next movie, "Magic Mike," is coming out this summer—they wrote it, they funded it, they got it made, they worked with Soderbergh…they took it from point A to point B."Tatum will star in the film as a dancer who serves as a mentor to Alex Pettyfer at a club owned by ex-stripper Matthew McConaughey. "Magic Mike" and "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" are both coming June 29, meaning he could conceivably have four hits on his hands this year. Throw in "Haywire," the low-budget action film directed by Soderbergh, in which he most notably took a beating from real-life MMA star Gina Carano, and the guy's even got indie/art cred on his resume.
Tatum will go a long way toward establishing his crossover appeal with "21 Jump Street," and with the ladies already on board, just making men laugh like overgrown 12-year-olds should be more than enough.
As Warner notes, "You don't need to be a nuanced actor to be a success in Hollywood."


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Very Sad: Police Searching For Missing 15-Year-Old California Girl! (Found Cell Phone)
"Authorities in California said Tuesday that the father of a 15-year-old girl who went missing last week on her way to school is not a suspect in the ongoing search. "He is not a person of interest in Sierra's disappearance and has been fully cooperative since the beginning of the investigation," police said in a statement, according to MSNBC. Friends, family and Morgan Hill community members gathered for a vigil at Ann Sobrato High School to grieve and pray for Sierra Lamar, who vanished shortly after leaving her home around 6 a.m. last Friday. The girl's mother, Marlene Lamar, first learned that her daughter was missing when she received a message from the school's automated attendance system. As part of the investigation, authorities interviewed registered sex offenders in the area, among the girl's father, Steve Wayne LaMar. Police say that both parents have been accommodating to authorities and are not considered suspects at this time. Detectives are also poring over the girl's phone records and web history in search of any clues, Fox News reported. "I want her home. We love you so much, we really miss you," the girl's mother told the Morgan Hill Times. "If there's somebody out there that knows where she is, or is holding her against her will, please find it in their heart to let her go and let her come home to us.""- HuffingtonPost
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Watch: Q&A with Matt Smith of 'Doctor Who'
This whole business of splitting TV seasons into two halves that air months apart — I'm looking at you,
Breaking Bad is for the birds, really, so as we wait for Series 7 of Doctor Who to resume sometime next year, here's a little something to tide loyal Whovians over: 50 minutes of just-posted footage from London Comic Con 2012 last month featuring an audience Q&A session with star Matt Smith and executive producer Caroline Skinner.
As you can see from the clips below, Smith talks about his role as the Eleventh Doctor and his eventual departure ("My time isn't up yet. But, inevitably,every doctor has their day"). The best part may be when a very young-sounding boy asks about the whereabouts of Amy Pond, to which Smiths replies, "Amy is having a lovely time in New York somewhere and she's writing a book and she eats fish fingers and custard every Thursday night."
Should be enough to tide us all over until the Christmas special.
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Check out this article on the history of Civil War battlefield preservation at The Washington Post:
Despite admirable efforts to connect battlefields to the larger history of the Civil War, the one thing that battlefields can teach very well is the history of what happened in a particular place. If the goal is simply to inspire thoughts about the larger social history of the Civil War, one battlefield is pretty much the same as the next — and it becomes difficult to explain why we need to preserve so many of them, and with so much land taken off the tax rolls. If the goal is to make people passionate about battlefields and their preservation, visitors need to engage with the actual place to understand its strategic importance and the tactical back-and-forth.
I would argue that visitors need to get the strategic importance and tactical back-and-forth because they have intrinsic importance, not just because they inspire respect for preservation.
I seem to run across more discussions about how to effectively integrate non-military subjects into battlefield interpretation than about how to effectively interpret the battlefield itself. Don't get me wrong—I'm glad that battlefield interpretation is more well-rounded and contextualized than it used to be. We rightly emphasize the fact that the battles didn't happen in a vacuum, but that insight cuts both ways.
Just as the war's larger issues determined the conflict, the "tactical back-and-forth" determined the resolution of those larger issues. Emancipation, Union, and all the rest of it ultimately hinged on the stuff of old-fashioned military history: maneuver, terrain, firepower, etc. We preserve these places not only because people suffered and died there, but also because what happened there mattered. It mattered that such-and-such a colonel held a particular position, that such-and-such a general flanked an enemy. Determining the outcome of larger questions, after all, is why battles tend to be fought.


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For now just a todo list for a proposed new 'splitvertical' feature.
Initial patch by Christian Brabandt: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/7340b8005d1740d4
0. Write documentation for splitvertical, update interacting settings as we find them.
1. Update syntax files for [no|inv]spv and [no|inv]splitvertical
2. Add a :horizontal command
3. Trumps :set diffopt+='horizontal' right now; is this the right decision?
- I would think that it should work the other way around. Right now, diffopt can be used if the user wants to treat diff splits as special, and do something different with them (e.g. always open them vertically). I think this philosophy should continue, and if the user always wants horizontal diffs but in general likes their splits to be vertical, they can set splitvertical and diffopt+=horizontal to achieve this.
- On an unrelated note, you may want to move this discussion to your talk page, or maybe even a subpage of that. In general the user page itself provides a short, static bio, and the discussion takes place on the talk page. --Fritzophrenic 17:50, October 4, 2010 (UTC)


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My conclusion from writing three works on the Pastoral Letters (soon to be published in Chinese, probably next year) is that the preacher is a steward. Jesus had used a lot of stewardship language in his teachings (e.g. Luke 16.1-13). In that part of the world, during that time, stewardship was a fact of life. As Timothy taught the church in Ephesus, Paul used stewardship language to encourage Timothy (1 Tim. 4.6; 6.13-14; 2 Tim. 1.3). What is a steward? In the ancient household, there was a manager or several managers who took care of the business for the master. In some sense, stewards are those who are directly responsible to the master.
In our world of church affairs, there seems to be many masters. I've heard from one Baptist minister that his boss is every member. As preachers, we live in tension of whether we should please humans or God (or what we perceive to be God-pleasing). Humans pay our salaries after all. How do we solve such tension?
I think first and foremost, we are stewards of God. We answer to Him only. At the risk of sound both cliché and Reformed (I'm actually a closet Reformed Christian but very outwardly ecumenical), preaching is about being accountable to God. The goal is God's glory, not human's. Quite often, preachers have this fear of offending people. This fear is often more imagined than real. I would advise all beginning preacher to grow thick skin in order to preach. If not, this office is not for you. If you're still in seminary right now, you should either develop the thick skin or quit.
A very dangerous cult from China has been infiltrating Hong Kong churches recently, and I believe it will eventually penetrate US churches the way the Unification church has tried to do. It's called Eastern Lightning. The way they do it is this. They infiltrate churches by planting fake seekers or young believers who are attractive females. They would then come into contact with leadership and lure them in. The worst way they lure them in is first by flattering them and pretending to be very enthused about the Christian faith and then eventually have extramarital affairs with the leader. Thereafter, they would threaten the leader to expose him. By defecting to the cult, the leader still has a way of earning a living while saving his honor. This seems to have nothing to do with the pastor/preacher being a steward, but it has everything to do with it. The root cause of the problem is not sexual impropriety but approval of others, in this case, an attractive single female. Those who want and need approval from others are in grave danger when they perform the pulpit ministry. Who doesn't want human approval? Everyone does, but it is a temptation we must all resist.
What exactly is the preacher a steward of? The answer hits at two different levels. They are stewards of the Bible, viewed as the word of God in the evangelical tradition. They are also stewards of the people God has gifted them with.
As a steward of God's word, their preaching should be true to the text. They must teach the congregation what they do not know, not in a condescending way, but in a humble serving way because preachers are also mere servants, stewards of God's bequeathed inheritance. The preachers are the guards of the apostolic tradition. I don't mean that they're traditionalist by any means, but the Bible which has passed down to them through the Judeo-Christian canon is their bread and butter. They must preach it faithfully and continue to study and become progressive experts in it. In my consultation with preachers, I observe that many have stopped reading books after seminary. When I mention some of the essential reading in the NT, such as N. T. Wright or Larry Hurtado, many of them just give me a blank look. My observation is that if the preacher does not renew his reading list in the Bible, he will never be a good steward in renewing his preaching. Many look at quick-fix books on church growth and such. Once again, I'll encourage you not to look at numerical growth as the sign of true spirituality or spiritual health. Don't believe in statistics. Many lie with statistics and write books with them. Good stewardship has no quick fix. Some of us, as our careers find some fame, will begin defining ourselves by the kind of conferences in which we've spoken. Some of us who have scholarly careers may begin to define ourselves by the kind of conferences in which we have presented our papers. We can quickly get away from the real issue of stewardship. We can only define ourselves only by noting whether we have been good stewards to the God whom we serve.
The other stewardship is the preacher's audience. My friend Dr. John Byron who is a good NT scholar and a very thoughtful blogger points out the difficulty of preaching hard messages because sometimes our rhetoric unnecessarily offend the audience. When preaching hard subjects, I think the best guideline besides prayer is to understand your audience. When a person does not understand the audience, the packaging might actually prevent the message from getting through. This too is a failure of stewardship. Not every preacher is everyone's cup of tea. However, we should not unnecessarily alienate our audience just because we are careless with our rhetoric. In order to understand the rhetoric (and I'll blog more about this in the future), we should first understand the biblical text and its own rhetoric. How was the author addressing his audience? What kind of audience was he making his hard sayings to? These are just SOME of the important questions to think about. Upon understanding biblical rhetoric, we can then adjust our style so that our rhetoric both fits the spirit of the text and the spirit of our time. Usage of antiquated vocabulary sometimes causes further alienation to our audience. Preach with simple words, in short sentences and in singular idea. The audience can certainly grasp the message better. Preachers whose audience give a constant blank stare have not been good stewards of the audience God has given them.
If we Google "stewardship," most of the search comes down to giving to the church. The modern church has economized stewardship. This is why we haven't even addressed the real biblical issue of stewardship. The biblical definition is so much broader and is not just about money. Money is only one component. It is about accountability to God. In light of what is said above, it is also about accountability to God through a good stewardship of our people. Such stewardship will take the vigilance of a soldier. At the end of the day, does our preaching demonstrate that "Jesus is Lord"? That's the real question worth pondering.


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Liberty students bring home the most awards at district ADDYs
|Liberty University seniors Brianna O'Neal (left) and Meredith Long, along with recent graduate Danielle Echeverria ('13), won silver awards at the district ADDY competition for their advertising designs.
Following a superb showing at the 2014 American Advertising Federation regional ADDY Award competition in February — in which Liberty University Department of Studio & Digital Arts (SADA) students brought home more awards than any other institution — Liberty students stood out once again in the next round of judging at the AAF District 3 ADDY Awards. With four silver awards, Liberty won more awards than any other school in the district, which includes institutions across Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Senior Meredith Long, who reaped two silver awards, was the only individual in the competition to earn multiple recognitions.
"When we look at the work being produced by SADA students, and the fact that the department is relatively new in comparison to the schools we compete against, it really brings home the quality of instruction and strength of the department in this region of the country," said Todd Smith, chair of the Department of Studio & Digital Arts.
"I suppose we should no longer be surprised at the excellence of our SADA students and the recognition they're receiving from the prestigious ADDY Awards," added Dr. Norman Mintle, dean of Liberty's School of Communication & Creative Arts. "While we are grateful to God for these awards, I'm also very thankful for the creativity our faculty employs to help prepare our arts students every day. Congrats, award winners. Now, on to nationals!"
|Danielle Echeverria
Long's winning works were her illustrated campaign, "The Circus," and her poster, "Book Corner Online Library Poster." Senior Brianna O'Neal received silver for her campaign, "What if All You Ever Saw Was Darkness?" and recent graduate Danielle Echeverria ('13) won silver for her mobile app, "VENTURE Magazine App Design."
The ADDY Award competition, is the industry's largest competition worldwide, drawing more than 60,000 entries annually. Competitions are held at the local, district, and national levels. Gold award winners automatically advance to the next round and silver awards are eligible for resubmission at the next level. The national ADDY competition takes place May 28-31 in Boca Raton, Fla.
- The Liberty University Department of Studio and Digital Arts is part of the School of Communication & Creative Arts and offers majors in Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Studio Art with Teacher Licensure. The department also offers minors in Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Photography.


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With ominous acronyms being thrown about such as CIPA and FERPA and COPPA, it's no wonder educators are running scared when it comes to internet use and that filtering companies are profiting from the culture of fear that results. Unfortunately, doing what is most convenient (blocking and banning sites) is often not what is best for children or teachers. It is not uncommon for the tech-savvy teacher to throw up her hands because too many sites are blocked to be able to work effectively. Students have similar frustrations. The reality when it comes to filtering is that schools have not lost funding due to opening up access to valuable content for children. Of course this must be done responsibly, but it does not require the costly filters that don't exist in the real worlds of our children.
Here are some ways you can empower children to stay safe at school and in the world and they don't cost a dime.
It is important for schools to take responsibility for children's safety online. Here are some ways to get started.
Responsible Use
The most important thing we can do is teach children to be responsible online. I and several of my colleagues have experience teaching in a no filter zone where instead we focus on empowering students to use the most important filtering tool available: The one between their ears. The reality is that in most cases, students don't feel comfortable having inappropriate content come up in their searches. This is generally not something they want to engage in at a school setting. Empowering students to know how to do their own safe browsing is not only a good thing for them to know in school, but a good thing for them to know in life. Empowering them to know what to do when something inappropriate comes up is also a necessary skill for use outside of school.
When we stop fighting and start partnering with our students, the results will pay off. We can also empower students to self monitor by having discussions about responsible use, consequences, and asking them, rather than the teacher, to hold one another accountable. In my library media center, I had several students designated with badges as "Responsibility Officers." They supported other students in staying on track. These also often happened to be the students who typically might be more likely to get off track.
Responsible Teaching
One of the reasons I had few problems teaching in an unfiltered environment was because students knew exactly what to do. Part of lesson planning when using the Internet requires teachers to outline what sites students should be visiting and options for how to create meaning. I knew what sites my students were visiting and they were pre-screened and vetted by me in advance.
We can't make rules for that one child who may stray, but instead for the majority of the students that will be excited to learn relevant content using technology. That one child can get around the filters anyhow and likely one day will be employed by one of those filtering companies.
The Internet of the 21st century has safety features built in. Teach your parents and, if appropriate, your students how to use these effectively. Doing so will keep students safe at school and in the world for which we are tasked to prepare them.
Safe Browsing
Most web browsers have safety features installed. You can make your browser safe by activating its safety features. Here is how.
- Parental controls
There are a variety of parent control add ons available. Decide which one is right for you by doing a search in your browser for "Parental Controls" and your "Browser Name." Read the descriptions, install the one that best suits your needs and try it out.
- Internet Explorer
Check out this guide to discover how restrict web browsing in IE.
- Firefox
This article from Read Write Web suggests one option for safe browsing that looks geared toward elementary school students. Firefox also has suggestions for filtering inappropriate web content here.
- Chrome
Chrome doesn't have built in parental controls. Instead they recommend using an add on such as Web Filter pro or for Windows users installing something like Windows Live Family Safety which provides safe internet filters, reports to monitor computer activity and even set time periods when the computers can be used.
You can ensure your students search safely online with three simple steps.
- Activate it!You can go to Google advance settings and select SafeSearch which will filter out sites that contain content you would not be comfortable having children see. You can select strict filtering to help filter out explicit text as well as images. You can modify your computer's SafeSearch settings by clicking on Search settings at the top right of the Google homepage.
- Lock it!You can protect this setting with a password so it can't be changed without your knowledge, using SafeSearch Lock. Just click on Search settings in the upper right corner of the Google homepage. Choose "Strict Filtering" and then click "Lock SafeSearch." Once locked, the Google search results page will be visibly different to indicate that SafeSearch is locked.
- Customize it!Create a personalized, customized search engine that searches only across sites that you specify and displays results that you want your children to see with a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE). You simply choose the websites and pages you'd like then follow a few simple steps which you can find here to create a CSE. Search engines can be created by all the teachers in the school and can be aligned to various subjects or units of study. Some teachers might consider having students create custom search engines too.
Safety Features in Frequently Used Sites
Many frequently used sites have safety features. For instance, teachers know YouTube is the #1 tool for learning, but at many schools it is blocked due to unsafe content. Check the site's safety settings and activate them. Here is how to do this for YouTube.
- YouTubeWhen you opt in to Safety Mode on YouTube it means that videos with mature content or that have been age-restricted will not show up in video search, related videos, playlists, shows or films. It is also designed to hide objectionable comments. To activate it, click on the link at the bottom of any video page to select Safety Mode and lock it for that browser with your YouTube password.
- Other sitesDetermine what the frequently used sites are at your school and enable their safety filters. Empower your parents, and, if appropriate, students to do the same.
While it is certainly easier to plop down money for Internet filtering software, doing so is not what is best in preparing our children for success in the real world. In fact often there is a false sense of safety, and important conversations about responsible use are overlooked. Additionally, paying for filters in school does nothing toward preparing children for safety and success outside of school.
While it is true that outsourcing safety is easier than taking on the responsibility, it truly is not what is best for children.


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The Atlantik Wall In Normandy
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What remains of the Atlantik Wall in Normandy.
Each site has the French IGN map number
Where Possible I have included the German Wn Number on each site
And If Known the Guns and Bunkers That existed On D-day
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Sometimes a thing can just be over-thought. Y'know, like feminist mothering for example. Yes, guilty as charged. Oh, hush up.
But sometimes, there is simply a beautiful act of doing, of just getting on with it.
Like this from Made for Mums.
Just women who happen to be mothers doing the whole working thing, the whole life thing.
Like Katie Hislop, 32, from Wiltshire, a Major in the army;
'I've seen active service in Iraq, and I may again. Even though I can't deny it will be difficult leaving Sophie, I totally accept that responsibility.'
Like Sarah Hill, 38, from Wales;
'I've volunteered for my local lifeboat since I was 23 years old, and I've never considered stepping down now just because I'm a mum.'
Like Sarah Solheim, 31, from Essex;
'[Working with the Fire Service] I've dealt with house fires, road accidents and flooding. It's hugely rewarding, and [my son] is especially proud of me!'
As somebody who can get shoe-throwingly frustrated by 'The Juggling', I find these statements fall like drops of pure crystal triple-distilled-by-nature mountain stream water into the murky cesspool of my life.
And while I'm feeling cleansed by simplicity, I'm going to take a bath in this stunningly simple piece of sagesse from Musings of an Inappropriate Woman:
'But most of the time, getting what you want – especially if "what you want" is something really juicy – means pulling out all stops. And for most people (for me, at least) pulling out all stops requires being honest about what you want.
'It means standing up and acknowledging – at least to yourself, if not to other people – "hey, I really want that juicy thing and I'm not ashamed to admit it."'
What do you really want? I mean really, really want?
Me? I don't think 'rule the fucking world' really counts, so I'm taking some time out to think about it.


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These little showstoppers will incite a fried food frenzyeven though they're baked on party night.
- Yield
- Makes 24 meatballs
- 1/3 cup whole-milk ricotta
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil plus more for frying
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons fennel seeds, toasted, lightly crushed
- 1 1/4 teaspoons dried sage
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 8 ounces ground pork
- 24 fresh sage leaves
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg, beaten to blend
- 2 cups panko (Japanese breadcrumbs)
- Marinara sauce, warmed (optional)
- Special Equipment
- A deep-fry thermometer
- Line a baking sheet with parchment. Stir ricotta and 2 tablespoons oil in a medium bowl until smooth. Mix in garlic and next 5 ingredients. Add pork; gently fold until just combined.
- Scoop out scant tablespoonfuls of pork mixture. With dampened hands, roll portions between your palms into 1" balls; place on sheet. Wrap 1 sage leaf around each ball; press gently to adhere.
- Place flour, egg, and panko in 3 separate medium bowls. Working with 1 meatball at a time, dredge in flour, rolling between your hands to remove excess flour. Dip in egg; allow excess to drip back into bowl. Roll meatball in panko, pressing gently to coat. Return to sheet.
- Attach deep-fry thermometer to side of a large heavy pot. Pour in oil to a depth of 2". Heat over medium heat until thermometer registers 350°F. Line another baking sheet with parchment; set a wire rack inside.
- Working in batches, fry meatballs, turning often, until light golden and crisp, about 1 minute (they will finish cooking in the oven). Transfer to wire rack; let cool. DO AHEAD: Meatballs can be fried 1 month ahead. Store airtight in freezer.
- Preheat oven to 275°F. Bake meatballs in batches on wire rack in baking sheet until cooked through, about 15 minutes. Serve, or keep warm in oven for up to 45 minutes.
- Pour some warm marinara, if using, into a small bowl. Serve alongside for dipping.


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- Georgie Burgess lay in the clean white bed, relaxed and contented, glad to be alone and able to have a waking dream of what it would be like when he could be close to his rosebush again. After pain and a fear that had stayed with him con stantly until it wore him out and made his body sick, after all the terrible days, his rosebush was safe and because of that, it was safe for him to rest. Sister Mary Angela did not lie. He should have known she was not like his mother. She did not lie and he felt safe in believing that his rose was now where it belonged in the beautiful garden that was like a page in his flower book. Before Georgie Burgess came to live in the home for boys, his world had been a world of terror, anxiety, shame, and mistrust. The ugly scars and bruises that cov ered his body had not been inflicted by "some big kids" as he claimed, but at home, where he was regularly beaten and battered. The psychic wounds of that abuse were more devastating than the welts and broken bones. A powerful, timely novel about a young boy, who victimized by child abuse, makes his way back to a point where he can accept and give love, replacing suspicion with trust and friendship.
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Chess in the Park
It never fails: bring out the chess equipment and you draw a crowd. That's what happened at the neighborhood 4th of July celebration in Nichols Park. We put sets on the park's two chess tables, plus an oversized set on the ground. The kids were on it like a cheap suit. Adults, too. More photos here.


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Dulles SportsPlex Review
>> Sunday, September 30, 2012
Well, I had my first assignment as a mommy blogger for Washington Family Magazine online. I chose to write about The Dulles SportsPlex (DSP) in Sterling Virginia. Interesting how people who live and work in the area say, "Wow I did not know you were located here". It's an ironic statement, as the sportsplex is enormous measuring 79,000 square feet. You really could not miss it.
There are so many activities and events being held at the space. They have the usual after school programs, summer camp and birthday parties. Their specialty is soccer, basketball, volleyball and flag football. What is nice is they have sporting events such as the new favorite, dodge ball, karate and inline hockey; played on roller blades. Now the programs are not just for children. DSP has leagues for adults as well.
I was pleasantly surprised to find there was a free Dog Show for all the k9 lovers, which will be announced on their website and coming soon is a Consignment Sale (Thrift Shop) which has been hosting events within the facility, successfully for two years.
It's interesting that the first sporting complex was opened as a result of seeeing the need for an all inclusive sporting facility and out of a competitive spirit for building beyond the minimal standards of the local, existing, neighborhood sporting center. This gave birth to the sportsplex facility in Rockville, which opened in the year 2000. Jamie, who manages the Dulles site, opened in December 2003, started as a journalist, to using the services, while working in the Rockville sportsplex. The owners wanted to expand and they knew just the person to hire at Dulles. I liked the fact that the staff are just as friendly as Jamie the manager, even in the mist of being pretty busy.
To learn more about DSP you may go to their website at Dulles SportsPlex
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Why Toronto?
When you join the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, you're not just joining one of North America's largest medical schools, you're also joining the Toronto and University of Toronto communities - and both have a lot to offer!
What is the "Toronto Advantage?"
What you need to know about living in Toronto, Canada.
Video courtesy of the Postgraduate Medical Education Office at the University of Toronto.


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We are delighted to announce nine venues for the 1 July QUEST Quiz Events in Bristol, Canterbury, Cardiff (tbc), Edinburgh, Glasgow, London (x2), Oxford and Todmorden.
Please note that I've changed the registration times to close at 11.20. This is to help the proctors, especially at the larger events, as it's very difficult for them to be registering people who arrive at the last minute while they are trying to hand out papers to people who arrived earlier. Please could we all try to help the hosts by giving them enough time to deal with everyone? With the bigger venues, we are getting an additional person to help them, but even still, it will help greatly if you could bear this request in mind. Thank you.
Bristol: http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=655
Canterbury: http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=659
Cardiff: tbc
Edinburgh: http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=656
Glasgow: http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=654
London (Chiswick): http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=653
London (W1): http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=660
Oxford: http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=658
Todmorden: http://quizzing.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=657
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