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Grief and Loss
Often referred to as bereavement, meaning "to be deprived by death", the loss and subsequent grief after the death of a loved one can elicit a range of emotions in all of us. While some of these experiences are similar throughout the lifespan, it is important to consider the developmental stage in life as it relates to grief. For example, children's understanding of death and dying changes throughout their development and may influence the way they express their grief. Even very young children (under the age of 3) have reactions to the loss of a loved one. Although they don't have a cognitive understanding of death, they can be very sensitive to the reactions of those around them and may experience distress. As children grow and develop, their understanding of death and dying does as well. In addition, older adults experience grief and loss differently than their younger counterparts. For older adults, health problems, loss of independence, and other issues that go along with growing older can compound grief reactions.
What are some common grief responses?
It is important to know that the experience of grief is a natural reaction to the loss of a loved one. The loss of a loved one can be experienced in a multitude of ways that include emotional, physical, psychological, behavioral, and spiritual responses.
Emotional Responses
Shock or numbness may occur, regardless of the circumstance surrounding the death of a loved one, and is often the first stage of grief. Grief does not proceed in any particular order, and often immediately following a death, individuals report feeling numb or disconnected from their feelings. As the reality of the death is experienced, a range of emotions may arise, some more intense than others, and the feelings are a normal and expected part of the grieving process.
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In Massachusetts
Organizations with hotlines
Call2Talk is a confidential mental health and emotional support call line that assists individuals and families through stressful times in their lives, helping the despondent and those who may be suicidal. When calling Call2Talk, those who are struggling with mental health concerns have a safe place to call and will be encouraged to discuss their current experience. Some callers even talk openly about their thoughts of suicide and are in search of options. By sharing their personal stories of tragedy, recovery, despair and grief, callers feel relief, comfort and hope.
Samaritans Hope
Samaritans Hope works with families and friends who have experienced the loss of someone to suicide. They offer various services including SafePlace, which is an open group of caring people who have experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide.
SafePlace is not a professional therapy group; rather it is peer support. The facilitator is a trained Samaritan Befriender who has lost a loved one to suicide. Groups are currently available in Medford, Boston, South Boston, Quincy, Framingham and Worcester. Their website outlines specific times of the various meetings. They also offer Survivor to Survivor support in which trained volunteers, who have lost a loved one to suicide are available to to visit someone individually. Information is available about this service from the Director of Grief Support Services through their helpline or website as well. Finally, they offer a yearly Safeplace Memorial service for suicide survivors to honor those they have lost, which is typically held in January.
Tufts University Pet Loss Support Hotline
The Tufts Pet Loss Support Hotline seeks to serve the community-at-large by providing both a resource for people grieving the loss of a pet, and an opportunity for veterinary students to acquire the skills needed for pet loss and grief counseling.The Tufts Pet Loss Support Hotline's website also has resources on grieving.
Organizations without hotlines
Care Dimensions
Since 1978, Care Dimensions has provided comprehensive and compassionate care for individuals and families dealing with life-threatening illnesses. As the non-profit leader in advanced illness care, it offers services to more than 90 communities in Eastern Massachusetts. Care Dimensions help families understand what they've been going through, identify resources and provide options for learning more about grief and feelings, individually and in groups. Services include individual consultation and referrals, workshops and support groups, bereavement resources, community education programs, and remembrance and tribute programs.
Children's Friend's The Carriage House
Children's Friend has created that safe place. It's called The Carriage House. The Carriage House is a grief support center for kids from 3 to 18 years old and their families. It is the only program of its kind in central Massachusetts.
At The Carriage House, we believe:
- That grief is a natural, universal experience
- That when kids are grieving, the adults who love them often don't know how to help
- That kids grieve in different ways, but that each child's unique grief process should be respected and
- That peer support is the best way to help a grieving child or teen process the emotions that follow the death of someone close.
Children's Room, Center for Grieving Children & Teenagers, Inc.
The mission of The Children's Room is to provide a safe and caring place where grieving children, teens, and families can receive peer support and the guidance of trained volunteers. The Children's Room enables these families to express their grief and to adapt to the many changes that accompany the death. We serve children from ages three to eighteen. Children meet with other children their age (such as teen to teen) with similar losses and meet in small groups to encourage sharing and strong connections. While the children are playing, talking and doing crafts together, the adults are meeting on their own with other parents/guardians who have experienced a loss.
Services are provided free of charge, although families are invited to make a voluntary donation.
Comfort Zone Camp
Toll-free: 866-488-5679
MA local: 781-756-4840
Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit bereavement camp that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or primary caregiver. The free camps include confidence building programs and age-based support groups that break the emotional isolation grief often brings. Comfort Zone Camps are offered to children 7-17, and are held year-round in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia.
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The Experience Journals are designed to promote the healthy coping of children and their families who must contend with significant physical and emotional illnesses. The Experience Journals are collections of stories, pictures, and personal experiences from families about what it has been like to live with their children's illnesses. They represent the "collective wisdom" of these children and their parents as well as their health care providers.
Good Grief Program
The Good Grief Program provides workshops throughout the state for schools, parents and community groups, crisis intervention and development of a crisis protocol to help children develop coping skills around death, dying and loss.
The CIRCLE, a project of The Good Grief Program, provides a comprehensive family bereavement support program after the death of a loved one. The CIRCLE has programs in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Hingham and a CIRCLE for families who had a loved one die on Sept. 11th.
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Comfort Zone Camp, Inc. developed HelloGrief.org to start a discussion about the impact of loss, and how to help grieving persons cope; as well as build a community of support for those living with grief.
Jeff's Place
Office: 508-879-2800
Jeff's Place offers bimonthly open-ended peer support groups for children ages 3-19 and their caregivers who are coping with the death of a loved one. The groups are free, dinner is included and are held either in Framingham or Wayland. In addition, Jeff's Place posts articles and resources on their website for children, adolescents and adults around grief and loss.
Learn To Cope
508-738-5148 (Main Office)
508-801-3247 (Peer Recovery Specialist)
Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MADPH), LTC has grown to have a full-staff who collaborate with communities across the state to spread messages of prevention, education, awareness and advocacy. Learn to Cope has over 9,000 members on a private online forum, 25 chapters throughout Massachusetts and most recently 2 chapters in Florida and 1 in Boise, Idaho. LTC families receive unique support and education from professionals and their peers.
Parents of Murdered Children
888-818-7662 National Chapter
978-452-5858 Merrimack Valley Chapter
508-477-6290 Southeastern MA Chapter
POMC makes the difference through on-going emotional support, education, prevention, advocacy, and awareness. POMC provides support and assistance to all survivors of homicide victims while working to create a world free of murder.
The Massachusetts Center for Unexpected Infant and Child Death
(617) 414 - 7437
The Massachusetts Center for Unexpected Infant and Child Death supports families, communities, and professionals after an unexpected death during pregnancy, infancy, or early childhood. The Center's mission is to provide an individualized and compassionate response to bereaved families, offer integrated, meaningful, and professional resources, and help affected families and their communities grieve.
The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden
The Healing Garden is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing therapeutic services, educational programs, and a healing environment to people affected by breast cancer. The Healing Garden community extends beyond thier clients to include families, friends, and caretakers. They offer:
- Mind-body medicine for the relaxation and restoration of the body's energy flow.
- Education about choices that contribute to health, such as offerings on nutrition, stress management, and exercise.
- Expressive therapies for self-expression and processing/releasing emotions.
- Modalities that help clients regain control of their lives, both during and after medical treatments. [from the website]
Outside Massachusetts
Organizations with hotlines
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Office: 202-588-8277
TAPS is the 24/7 tragedy assistance resource for ANYONE who has suffered the loss of a military loved one, regardless of the relationship to the deceased or the circumstance of the death. Founded out of tragedy in 1994, TAPS has established itself as the front line resource to the families and loved ones of our military men and women. TAPS provides comfort and care through comprehensive services and programs including peer based emotional support, case work assistance, connections to community-based care, and grief and trauma resources. TAPS also conducts regional Survivor Seminars for adults and Good Grief Camps for youth at locations across the country.
Organizations without hotlines
ACCESS (Air Craft Casualty Emotional Support Services)firstname.lastname@example.com
ACCESS is an air disaster bereavement support network dedicated to connecting those who have survived or lost loved ones in private, military and commercial airplane crashes and other aviation tragedies with individuals who have lived through similar losses.
• We provide comfort and bereavement support through common understanding and shared experience by partnering survivors those who have lost loved ones in air disasters with trained Volunteer Grief Mentors who have been through a similar experience.
• We provide sensitivity training presentations and workshops to companies, agencies and airlines who work with those affected by aviation disasters.
• We provide consulting services to companies and airlines that respond to individuals affected by air disasters
Actively Moving Forward
Actively Moving Forward is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting young adults grieving the illness or death of a loved one. The organization accomplishes its mission by creating Actively Moving Forward Campus Chapters on college campuses nationwide that connect and empower grieving college students to support one another and participate in community service in memory of deceased loved ones, raising awareness about the needs of grieving young adults, including through the annual National College Student Grief Awareness Week, and hosting national grief support programs, such as the "We Get It" Supportive Blog, and events, such as the National Conference on College Student Grief. We also support non-collegiate young adults by creating a wealth of virtual information, programming, and community.
American Association of Suicidology
(202) 237-2280
The American Association of Suicidology works to promote the understanding and prevention of suicide and support those who have been affected by it. This organization provides training for a diverse audience from primary care practitioners, to students, and school staff. This organization applies research in developing and disseminating strategies that reduce the incidence and prevalence of suicidal behaviors as well as compiling, developing, evaluating and disseminating accurate information about suicidal behaviors to the public. In addition to their research, training and prevention efforts, the AAS also has information for those who have survived suicide attempts, or those who are suicide loss survivors. Their website includes a list of finding support groups for suicide loss survivors in their area.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
(212) 363-3500
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention compiles resources for survivors of suicide loss. The resources include books, poetry, and inspirational writing for children, adolescents, and adults. AFSP also comples a newsletter and comments on current and relevant media topics.
Amputee Coalition
Amputee Coalition empowers people affected by limb loss to achieve their full potential through education, support and advocacy, and to promote limb loss prevention.
Bereaved Parents of the USA
501-847-4102 (Chapter Development or Chapter Inquiries)
Bereaved Parents of the USA (BP/USA) is dedicated to offering support, understanding, encouragement and hope to bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents. It provides aid and support for those who are suffering the loss of a child, brother, sister or grandchild. BP/USA educates families about the grief process in all its complexities pertaining to the death of a child at any age and from any cause. The organization provides telephone numbers and email addresses of other bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents who are able to offer support to other more newly bereaved families. Chapters across the country hold monthly chapter meetings where sharing, support and encouragement can be provided. BP/USA produces a National Newsletter and individual chapter newsletters to aid with grief work. It also holds an Annual Gathering where helpful speakers, workshops, sharing sessions and much more will be provided. The BP/USA websites offers articles and other resources on family bereavement.
Best Grief Books
Stories are how we make sense of the world. When you read a book, watch a movie or listen to an audio—you expand your potential for healing.
Books, movies and audios help:
Unlock hidden feelings
Encourage insight and self-awareness
Stimulate dialogue
Provide reassurance
Offer hope
Promote continuity between sessions
Centering Corporation
The Centering Corporation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and resources for the bereaved. Centering was founded in 1978 by Joy and Dr. Marvin Johnson.
The Centering Corporation started with nine little coloring books for hospitalized children and two workshop offerings for nurses and families. In response to the need for support by families and caregivers while facing their grief experience many new resources were developed.
Today The Centering Corporation publishes hundreds of books for children and adults, plus thousands of books and resources from other publishers. Educational materials and workshops for caregivers and families are offered. The experienced staff brings new life and ideas to meet changing needs in today's bereavement experiences.
Compassionate Friends: Supporting a Family after a Child Dies
(877) 969-0010
When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
The Compassionate Friends offers "virtual chapters" through an Online Support Community (live chats). This program was established to encourage connecting and sharing among parents, grandparents, and siblings (over the age of 18) grieving the death of a child. The rooms supply support, encouragement, and friendship. The friendly atmosphere encourages conversation among friends; friends who understand the emotions you're experiencing. There are general bereavement sessions as well as more specific sessions.
The mission of Eluna is to support children and families impacted by grief or addiction. Our innovative resources and programs address the critical needs of children experiencing powerful, overwhelming and often confusing emotions associated with the death of someone close to them or substance abuse in their family. No child should have to face these struggles alone, and our unique programs bring kids together to ease their pain and provide the tools to help restore hope.
Family Lives On Foundation
Family Lives On Foundation supports the lifelong emotional well-being of children whose mother or father has died. The Tradition Program provides opportunities for intentional remembering, creating a safe haven for grief, communication and celebration. It serves all children ages 3-18 regardless of race, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, or the cause of the parent's death.
Grief Haven
(310) 459-1789
The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation dedicated to assisting parents who have lost a child, as well as family members, friends, professionals, and those who want to lend their support but don't know how.
Hospice Foundation of America
In 1990, with the help of a significant gift from Hospice Care, Inc., the Foundation expanded its scope to a national level in order to provide leadership in the entire spectrum of end-of-life issues. The Foundation board is a distinguished group of health policy experts which guide the Foundation as it explores efforts to: become a center of neutral, creative thinking on end-of-life issues for policy makers and opinion molders, raise the visibility and credibility of hospice in general, and become an advocate for those principles of hospice which may enhance the medical system in general.
My Grief Angels
If you are here, You are likely grieving or know someone who is, and our thoughts are with you and yours.
The My Grief Angels site, free grief online course/resources, mobile app and our online volunteer community of people grieving can never take away the pain you may be experiencing now, and our only hope is that some of our shared personal experiences, suggestions of grief support resources by type of loss experienced, challenges and strategies in getting thru our grieving process and grief attacks may be of some help to some of you.
We are not mental health professionals, only people grieving like yourself who found ourselves here in our own search for grief resources, information and education during one of the worst times of our lives.
Central to our mission is to provide 24/7 access to all these online resources at no cost to anyone anywhere, so no mandatory donations, subscription or membership fees, no mandatory sign up, product or service purchase or any other type of participation commitment is required at any time to access any of the resources on this Online Community, Online Course, Website & Mobile App
National Alliance for Grieving Children
The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC) provides a network for nationwide communication between hundreds of children's bereavement support professionals and volunteers who want to share ideas, information and resources with each other to better support the families they serve in their own communities. Through this network, the NAGC offers online education, hosts an annual symposium on children's grief, maintains a national data base of children's bereavement support programs and promotes national awareness to enhance public sensitivity to the issues impacting grieving children and teens.
Sesame Street: When Families firstname.lastname@example.com
Grief is complex; it encompasses a wide range of emotions that can come and go in waves. Sesame Street has created tips, videos, children's story, and guide to help your family communicate with one another, express emotions, and begin the process of moving forward. Information in the toolkit includes coloring books, a children's book, a caregiver's guide to grief, and videos are available online where Sesame Street characters discuss losing a loved one. All materials can be downloaded from their website or ordered from Sesame Street.
Survivors of Suicide Loss
(619) 482-0297 (Support Line)
(619) 752-4055 (Office Line)
SOSL reaches out to and supports those that have lost a loved one to suicide. Their goal is to give survivors a place where they can be comfortable expressing themselves, a place to find support, comfort, resources and hope in a judgment-free environment. Currently, SOSL is earnestly involved in educating the community about suicide and its effect on surviving family and friends ‐ providing information about grief‐related services. From its inception, the SOSL group goal has been to provide a relaxed, caring environment of mutual support and understanding in which to give comfort and help to one another ‐ a place to regain our sense of hope for future happiness.
The Association for Death Education and Counseling
The Association for Death Education and Counseling®, The Thanatology Association®, is one of the oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and bereavement. Its nearly 2,000 members include a wide array of psychologists, counselors, social workers, educators, researchers, hospice personnel, clergy, and volunteers.The primary goal of ADEC is to enhance the ability of professionals to meet the needs of those with whom they work in death education and grief counseling. Their website includes an extensive list of resources on coping with loss.
The Dougy Center
toll free: 866-775-5683
The Dougy Center provides a safe place for children, teens, young adults and their families who are grieving a death to share their experiences. This is done through peer support groups, education, and training.


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Hollywood's current zeal for building films around game and toy properties that have no discernible narrative has reached a natural apotheosis with Warner Bros.' upcoming movie based on Legos, those inherently formless and adaptable playthings that can be shaped into whatever your imagination desires, particularly if it's a laser gun or something to asphyxiate on. The studio has been building its live-action/CGI hybrid Lego movie since at least 2008, pausing a couple of times to smash it against the wall in frustration when it started to look sort of crappy, but has finally decided to pull out an instruction sheet and stick to it—Lego metaphors!—by targeting a 2014 release date, and putting a creative team together that now includes Robot Chicken director Chris McKay, who will share filmmaking duties with the previously announced Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
And while it's practically a Robot Chicken parody in itself, this idea of movie producers scraping the bottom of the proverbial toy chest and coming up with a few scattered Lego blocks (because Weirdly Moldy Showbiz Pizza Token would be a much harder sell), bringing in McKay to work with the duo behind the forthcoming 21 Jump Street suggests that the film will probably wink at some of the shamelessness of this pop-culture scavenging, which makes it okay, sort of. Or it could follow the Cloudy model of balancing subversive humor with a heartfelt message about, uh, how everyone has another piece out there that fits them perfectly, unless they're one of those stupid cone things.

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FAS Green Program Senior Coordinator, Brandon Geller, gives you these nine tips for creating a successful recycling competition in your office.
Students weatherize Harvard's Office for the Arts and Office of Career Services in an event sponsored by the FAS Green Program, Green Building Services, and the Office for Sustainability.
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Sleeperz Hotels to open in £1bn Dundee waterfront development
Company leading the revival of modern railway hotels to open 120 bedroom property above new landmark station concourse (Euston, London – February 4, 2014)
Sleeperz Hotels, the innovative UK budget hotel company, is to open its fourth UK hotel in partnership with Dundee City Council, as part of a £1bn regeneration of Dundee's waterfront and railway station.
Sleeperz Hotel Dundee will be a 120 bedroom property in a stylish curved concourse above a new £22m redeveloped rail station, with panoramic views over the River Tay and onto the new waterfront plaza.
David Myers, chief executive of Sleeperz Hotels, said: "Sleeperz Hotels is an innovative fast growing company with ambitious plans to expand our portfolio of UK lifestyle hotels and is delighted to secure such an exciting development.
Dundee's waterfront regeneration is one of the biggest of its kind ever to take place in Western Europe and will transform the city as a leisure, tourism and retail destination.
Dundee needs to increase its bed stock and visitors to the city will benefit from our distinctive brand of stylish contemporary rooms and ultra-convenient location at affordable prices."
Since opening its first UK hotel in Cardiff in 2008, less than 300m from Cardiff rail station, Sleeperz Hotels has been leading a modern revival of the classic British railway hotel.
The company specialises in building stylish and affordable city centre lifestyle hotels, often on awkwardly shaped land, close to mainline rail stations.
Sleeperz Hotel Cardiff was followed by the opening of a 98-bedroom hotel in Newcastle in January 2012 and the creation of a new 'rooms based' sister brand of budget hotel called Cityroomz – with a first opening in Edinburgh in May last year.
Sleeperz Hotels offer free and fast wi-fi, laptop safes, innovative space saving furniture, wet rooms and tea and coffee making facilities as standard in every room. Sleeperz offers its guests a cooked and continental breakfast and an all-day brasserie menu is available in its lounge and bar.
Sleeperz Hotel Dundee will sit at the centre of the 8km waterfront development next to its marquee attraction, a new £45m V&A at Dundee – a regional branch of the world famous Victoria and Albert Museum of arts and design – expected to open in 2016.
The waterfront development is a 30 year project to regenerate a 240 hectare stretch of the North bank of the River Tay.
The addition of restaurants, bars, hotels and the flagship V&A Dundee is predicted to create over 700 new tourism jobs, attract three million extra visitors and generate a further £1bn of spend in the city's visitor economy.
The opening of Sleeperz Hotel Dundee will create up to 30 local jobs and generate further opportunities for local hospitality industry and catering suppliers to benefit from working with the company.
Mike Galloway, director of city development at Dundee City Council, said: "We are delighted to have attracted Sleeperz to our waterfront redevelopment in Dundee. This new hotel will provide further high quality accommodation for the many hundreds of thousands of additional visitors to the V&A Museum and it will create a powerful new landmark entrance into our city."
Since opening for business Sleeperz Hotels has won a string of awards.
These include two RIBA awards for architectural excellence from The Royal Institute of British Architects, for Cardiff (2010) and Newcastle (2012) and recognition from LateRooms.com as one of Britain's Top-10 Family Friendly Hotels.
Both Sleeperz Cardiff and Newcastle have won TripAdvisor Certificates of Excellence for each year they have been in business, putting them in the top 10 per cent of all hotels worldwide rated by members of the travel review website.
To find out more, visit: www.sleeperz.com


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In The Name of God, Most Gracious Most Merciful
of the Holy Qur'aan
Humanity's exploration of space was accelerated with the Soviet satellite Sputnik on 4 October 1957, which carried aloft the first man to ever leave Earth's atmosphere: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. On 20 July 1969, the American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being ever to set foot on the Moon.
In fact, the Qur'aan revealed that such developments and achievements would one day be realised. For instance, Allah draws our attention to this in the following verse:
O company of jinn and human beings. If you are able to pierce through the confines of the heavens and Earth, pierce through them. You will not pierce through, except with a clear authority. (Qur'aan, Ar-Rahman Chapter 55 Verse 33)
The Arabic word sultan, translated here as "a clear authority," has other meanings as well: force, power, sovereignty, dominion, law, path, permission, give leave, justify, and proof.
Careful examination reveals that the above verse emphasizes that humanity will be able to move into the depths of Earth and sky, but only with a superior power. In all likelihood, this superior power is the superior technology employed in the twentieth century, for it enabled scientists to achieve this great feat.
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George Clooney's ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis has gone public with new beau Stev-O – the couple was snapped kissing on Monday.
The Italian model split from Clooney in June and was romantically linked to True Blood star Mehcad Brooks after the two made their red carpet debut in November.
But now it appears Canalis has moved on to the TV stuntman after they were spotted out and about in Los Angeles over the weekend.
The pair followed up the outing with a lunch date on Monday, during which Steve-O and the beauty were photographed sharing a smooch.
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In recent years, there has been increased discussion regarding the study of material culture within art education, yet more conversation about the collaborative alignment of these areas needs to occur. This book provides a forum and focal point for such exchange. Seventeen chapters address theoretical and practical issues, ideas, and questions related to the study of and teaching about a wide range of objects and expressions in our contemporary world. The readership of this book within art education includes those working in higher education, K-12 art teachers, preservice art teachers, graduate students in art education, museum educators, and art educators working in community-based settings. The audience outside art education includes, but is not limited to, individuals active in museum studies, anthropology, American Studies, folklore, popular culture, media studies, history, art history, and curriculum development and classroom instruction within various subject areas. Matter Matters provides readers with theoretical perspectives and practical instructional ideas related to teaching about and through objects and expressions from the surrounding world. The book is divided into two primary sections: Theoretical Perspectives on Material Culture and Art Education, and Practical Application of Material Culture Studies within Art Education.
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In celebration of the BET Awards this weekend, sbe's Hyde Lounge will be throwing a Pre-BET Party on Friday, June 28th with sounds by pop culture icon and DJ Nick Cannon. The multi-faceted entertainer will make his highly anticipated return to Hyde Lounge to kick off the blowout weekend. 10PM – 2AM. Hyde Lounge – 8029 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046. 323.525.2444. www.play.sbe.com
The XIV brand continues its Saturday night takeover at The Colony for sbe's XIV Hip Hop Sessions with a party hosted by Diddy this Saturday, June 29th. From 5:00PM to 10:00PM, this new Saturday ritual will give partygoers an opportunity to revel with the "Bad Boy" himself and will feature sounds by DJ Orator, Jayceeoh and Mike Danger. Tickets start at $100.00 and are available for purchase at www.colonybysbe.com The Colony - 1743 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90028. 323.525.2450.
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On June 28th and June 29th, the first annual BET Experience will take over downtown Los Angeles. Fans will be able to take in live performances, relax and recharge at the health and wellness booth and meet some of your favorite BET talent. On June 28th from 4pm-5pm there will be a Strive to Thrive session in the Centric Pavilion hosted by Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker. The BET and Centric Pavilions will take place on Friday, June 28th from 12pm-7pm and June 29th from 10am-6pm.


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We just gota 'heads-up' that the 2010 International Dance Music Awards were being held in association with the Winter Music Conference. FL Studio has been been nominated for in the "Best Studio Software", item #54. FL Studio 9 is facing off against Live 8, Logic 9, Cubase 5 & Pro Tools 9.
Click_here_to_vote, down the bottom at item 54.
There's 56 items you can vote for in total. These span everything from artists and their music, hardware including things like headphones through to our category Studio Software. If you have no particular preference in any category, simply leave it blank. One ballot per person. Multiple ballot submissions will be disqualified.
Voting ends Friday, February 18th, 2011. Winners will be announced live at the 26th Annual International Dance Music Awards on Thursday, March 10, 2011 in Miami Beach during Winter Music Conference.


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Gooood evening. I have so much to say, I don't even know where to start.
I guess I will begin with the internship I alluded to a few posts ago. I wanted to find a doctor that was familiar with the paleo diet and preferably had their own practice similar to what I would want to do. At first, I got all no's and I-don't-have-time's, but it is amazing what a bit of persistence will do. You have to show people that you really care about what they are doing and demonstrate your skill set in some way. The doctor I will be working with is located in San Francisco, which means I will need to move there in September!! I am so excited. Hopefully I will have my NASM personal training certification done by then so I can personal train on the side. Without saying too much (since I don't know what would constitute too much at this point), I will be teaching his patients how to use a technology to track various aspects of their life. The data will come from an assortment of gadgets, one being the BodyMedia. The BodyMedia is the armband I was wearing in the photo in my last post and it measures your heart rate, steps, calorie burn, etc. The other aspect of the job is to encourage patients to keep using the gadgets and software, as it can be a bit of a pain. I have been wearing the BodyMedia as well as the other devices so that I can get a feel for what I am supposed to be coaching and encouraging people to do.
At first, I was bummed about wearing the BodyMedia because it arrived right when I injured my foot. It would have been so cool to see the calorie burn and activity level when I was doing my crazy CrossFit workouts and two-a-day's. However, it turns out that wearing the BodyMedia when I am extremely inactive has been eye opening.
On a day where I did not work out and was seated or supine about 95% of the day:
1739 calories is pretty good for a small female sitting all day long. The blue spikes are calories burned per minute, which increases as my heart rate increases. This information made me think that I may not have been fueling enough when I was super active. I had this issue when I was on the triathlon team at UCSB and I do not want to suffer those consequences again.
On a day where I did one of my 30 minute injury-safe workouts. Keep in mind, I do as little walking/moving as possible!
Again, 2,000 calories for being basically immobile plus a 30 minute limited-ability workout is not bad!
Once I am back on my feet, I cannot wait to show you guys the data from CrossFit workouts versus lifting versus cardio. My guess is that after high intensity (but short) workouts like CrossFit and HIIT, there will be an increase calorie burn for the rest of the day. With long, steady state cardio, I imagine there will be a greater calorie burn during the workout but less calories for the day total. Why? Because long, steady cardio does not increase your fat and calorie burn after your workout – but high intensity (AKA sprints, weight lifting, CrossFit) does!
The workout I did today burrnnneedddd! Instead of rotating through a bunch of body parts to avoid fatigue, I wanted to really stimulate those muscles and stay on them for long periods of time. I used this tabata timer, set to 50 seconds work, 10 seconds rest, 30 rounds.
Injury Friendly Workout # 3
- 10 minutes of abs
- 1 minute V-ups
- 1 minute bicycles
- 1 minute cross toe-touches
- 1 minute sit ups
- 1 minute leg raises
- repeat
- 10 minutes of booty
- 2 minutes donkey kick back, left leg
- 2 minutes donkey kick back, right leg
- 2 minutes fire hydrant kicks, left leg
- 2 minutes fire hydrant kicks, right leg
- 1 minute donkey kick back, left leg
- 1 minute donkey kick back, right leg
- 10 minutes of chest and triceps
- 1 minute push ups
- 1 minute tricep dips
- 1 minute of ab or booty work
- repeat 3x + 1 more minute of whatever you feel like
On the recovery front, my foot is still being lame (ha…) but I have definitely continued to work through my goals list. I have been slow to start cooking more "real" meals again, but I'm getting there!
Breakfasts have been paleo waffles and protein pancakes.
The lunch recipe I have for y'all today is so easy it's not even a recipe, but it never fails to be delicious. It packs 40 grams of protein and can be as few as 400 calories or as many as you want, simply adjust the avocado and other fats to your needs.
Mini Paleo BLTs
fresh. saliva inducing. filling.
Recipe: Serves 1
- 4 butter or Romaine lettuce leaves, washed
- 1 tbsp paleo or regular mayo
- slather of your favorite mustard
- handful of baby tomatoes, sliced in half
- 4+ slices of roasted turkey (nitrate free)
- 2 slices of crispy bacon, split in halves (nitrate free)
- red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 of an avocado, sliced
Directions – Lay the lettuce on a large plate. Add a smear of mayo and mustard. Top each leaf with a slice of turkey. Arrange the tomatoes, bacon, avocado, and onion on each turkey slice. Add salt. Enjoy!
Best enjoyed eaten like a taco:
make this. you don't have an excuse not to.
Dinners have been inspired by other blogs, but I will save those for my next post!


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Congratulations to Preakness 2013 hero Oxbow. Nobody wanted the early lead and Gary Stevens was more than happy to canter around the track and win this second jewel of the Triple Crown.
Oxbow, owned by Calumet Farm, is a war horse for throwback connections Wayne Lukas and Gary Stevens. The Preakness Stakes was his 11th lifetime start and there is no rest in sight with the Test of Champions squarely on his radar screen.
Did Lukas scare everyone from a pace perspective? He entered sprinter Titletown Five and possibly fooled jockey Kevin Krigger aboard Goldencents.
Titletown Five did not go for the lead under Leaproux, and Goldencents failed to take advantage so Stevens and Oxbow walked the dog from start to finish.
I knew that Oxbow was best on the lead but did not think he was quick enough to get there. The pace figured to be slower than the Derby but I did not see the crawling Preakness pace coming.
Runner-up Itsmyluckyday was making his 12th career start in Baltimore so chalk another one up for experience. He got the best of the draw as an outside stalker and rediscovered his sharp Florida form.
Mylute picked up another minor check in stakes race. He was the only one making up any ground and the Preakness was his fifth place/show finish in the stakes ranks.
Kentucky Derby winner Orb seemed to be living a charmed life until he drew the dead rail. The outside closer never looked comfortable and went through the motions in a flat 4th place finish.
Granted, before the Preakness, Orb handled wet/fast footing and various pace scenarios but the Derby fell into the lap of a closer and everything went perfectly for Shug and company on the first Saturday in May.
Goldencents had one shot and that was to attempt a wire job but was ridden passively. He is a quality early runner with distance limitations and his best weapon was taken away at Pimlico.
Departing sat right outside of Orb and made a top three bid along the inside turning for home. He flattened out to finish 6th and was not disgraced in his toughest test to date.
Will Take Charge, Govenor Charlie, and Titletown Five trailed.
It is on the Belmont Stakes in 20-days and my top ranked sophomore Revolutionary looms large in the Test of Champions.
Early Belmont Stakes 2013 Hopefuls (in alphabetical order):
Code West (Lemon Drop Kid) – Baffert's runner followed up a place finish in the Risen Star with a 6th in the LA Derby. He finished 2nd on the Derby undercard and beat older allowance rivals to cap the Preakness Day card.
Freedom Child (Malibu Moon): Freaked in the muddy Peter Pan Stakes and looms a pace factor at the very least in the Test of Champions. Split Orb and Revolutionary in a maiden race at the Big A last November.
Golden Soul (Perfect Soul) – LA Derby 4th place finisher took advantage of a pace meltdown to land the place in the Kentucky Derby. Dallas Stewart's late runner is scheduled to work at Churchill next Wed. or Thurs.
Itsmyluckyday (Lawyer Ron) – Florida Derby runner-up flopped in the Derby and rebounded with a place finish in the Preakness. The Monmouth Park based colt is targeting the Haskell this summer but is still possible for the Belmont Stakes.
Micromanage (Medaglia d'Oro) – Finished 10th in the G2 Remsen to end his juvenile campaign. Returned with a game neck victory (wide trip) vs. allowance rivals at Monmouth May 11 and could go next in the Belmont Stakes.
Orb (Malibu Moon) – Everything went right in the Kentucky Derby but the wheels came off the cart in the Preakness, ending his 5-race winning streak. He may try to rebound in the Belmont Stakes but there is talk of resting him and waiting for Saratoga.
Overanalyze (Dixie Union) – G2 Remsen hero finished a wide, flat 5th from post 11 in his needed Gotham return. He bounced back nicely to win the Arkansas Derby and ended up 11th in the Kentucky Derby. Breezed 4f in :47.50 (3/34) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on 5-19.
Oxbow (Awesome Again) – Finished a solid 6th in the Derby after attending fast fractions from an inner post under Gary Stevens. Lukas trainee snuck away early and stole the Preakness for Stevens. He shows up for every dance so expect him to complete in the final leg of the Triple Crown series.
Palace Malice (Curlin): Risen Star show finisher ended up a troubled 7th in the LA Derby and rebounded with a 2nd in the Blue Grass. He set fast splits (blinkers on) before fading to 12th in the Kentucky Derby and is now targeting the Belmont. He breezed 4f in :47.49 (2/34) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on 5-19.
Power Broker (Pulpit) – $360k purchase graduated in style vs. graded foes in FrontRunner and raced wide and never got a chance to run his race in BC Juvenile. Baffert trainee finished 5th in his SA Derby return and won an allowance race at Churchill on May 10. The Belmont Stakes is a possibility.
Revolutionary (War Pass) – He has been my top ranked 3yo since February and my confidence has not wavered following a solid show finish in the Derby. I thought the Belmont Stakes was perfect for him after his smart Withers score earlier this year and he is bred to run all day on the dam side. He will work twice for the Belmont beginning Sunday, May 26.
Unlimited Budget (Street Sense) – 3-time graded winner lost for the first time after landing the show in the Kentucky Oaks. The Pletcher/Repole filly breezed 4f in :49.07 (14/34) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on 5-19.


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The first round of the 2013 Draft kicks off on April 25, and every team will look to build for both present and future. This is the 19th in a two-a-day, 30-part series that looks at each team and which potential first-round picks would be a good fit.
2012 record: 9-7
Key offseason acquisitions:
Dan Connor, middle linebacker
Brandon Myers, tight end
Cullen Jenkins, defensive tackle
Ryan Mundy, safety
Mike Patterson, defensive tackle
Aaron Ross, cornerback
Louis Murphy, wide receiver
Josh Brown, kicker
Key offseason departures:
Osi Umenyiora, defensive end
Michael Boley, linebacker
Chris Canty, defensive tackle
Ahmad Bradshaw, running back
Kenny Phillips, safety
Martellus Bennett, tight end
Chase Blackburn, middle linebacker
Domenik Hixon, wide receiver
Lawrence Tynes, kicker
Biggest holes in roster: Linebacker, defensive end, cornerback
General manager Jerry Reese knows how to find hidden talent.
Late-round draftees such as Ahmad Bradshaw (seventh round, 2007), Kevin Boss (fifth round, 2007) and Mario Manningham (third round, 2008) played key roles in each of the Giants' two Super Bowl championships. Guys such as Victor Cruz (undrafted, 2010), Linval Joseph (second round, 2010), Andre Brown (fourth round, 2009), Will Beatty (second round, 2009) and Henry Hynoski (undrafted, 2011) have ascended into prominent roles on the team within the past two years. Still others -- Jacquian Williams (sixth round, 2011) and Mark Herzlich (undrafted, 2011) -- could step into bigger roles next season.
So while the Giants have needs at a few different positions, don't be surprised if they don't address them until the second or third day in the draft. When it comes to the first round, the Giants may simply choose the best player available (like Jason Pierre-Paul in 2010) or a high-upside player who can make the greatest impact down the line (Prince Amukamara in 2011 and David Wilson in 2012).
Still, the Giants would have to at least consider first-round players who could fill needs, the biggest of which would be linebacker. Williams and Herzlich are expected to replace Michael Boley, and the Giants signed ex-Cowboys MLB Dan Connor, but the unit lacks a truly dominant impact player. Plus, with Osi Umenyiora gone, Mathias Kiwanuka will likely slide back into the defensive end rotation, further depleting the linebacker corps.
Georgia's Alec Ogletree may be the athlete the Giants have lacked for some time. Ogletree was recruited to Georgia as a safety but was moved to inside linebacker before his sophomore season, where he racked up 163 tackles (19 for a loss), six sacks and seven passes defensed in 18 games. Ogletree has sideline-to-sideline speed and flies to the ballcarrier, even when trailing the play. He's got a nose for the football and can force fumbles with his hitting power. He can also drop back in coverage.
Ogletree's biggest red flag, and the main reason that he projects to get drafted this low: the dreaded "character concerns". Ogletree was suspended twice at Georgia. He sat one game during his freshman year for reportedly stealing a motorized scooter helmet from a Georgia track and field athlete. He was then suspended for the first four games of the 2012 season for what reports said was a violation of the team's substance-abuse policy. He also was charged with a DUI in Arizona the week before the Combine.
The Giants aren't afraid to draft players with character concerns. Bradshaw was kicked off the Virginia football team before ever taking a snap after he was arrested for underage drinking and running from police. Manningham admitted marijuana use in a letter to all 32 teams after initially denying reports at the Combine. If Reese and head coach Tom Coughlin feel that Ogletree's worst moments are behind him and get a sense that he's willing to change for the better, they may overlook his past.
There's another inside linebacker that the Giants may consider. His name is Manti Te'o. You've probably heard of him, whether for his stellar senior season at Notre Dame or for the well-publicized Lennay Kekua-Ronaiah Tuiasosopo catfishing incident. Sources told Newsday's Bob Glauber that the Giants brought Te'o in for a workout earlier this month. It may be a little bit of a reach at No. 19, though.
Still, at 6-1 and 241 pounds, Te'o has a typical inside linebacker build. He is an instinctive tackler with good form and closing ability. He was a vocal on-field presence for the Fighting Irish during their run to the BCS National Championship Game and was considered a leader in the locker room. In four seasons, Te'o registered 437 tackles (34 for a loss) and seven interceptions (all of which came last year). He finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting and won the Maxwell Award as college football's player of the year in his senior season.
Te'o was considered a top pick before the title game. But Alabama contained Te'o with ease, holding him to just three tackles en route to a dominating 42-14 win. Scouts began to question whether or not he was just a byproduct of a strong front seven.
Then came the fake girlfriend drama. Te'o made the media rounds to say that he was the victim of a hoax perpetrated by Tuiasosopo, a former childhood friend. But that did little to allay concerns about his judgment.
Then came the Combine, that 4.82 in the 40-yard dash and scouts questioning whether or not he has NFL speed. He would clock a 4.69 at Notre Dame's Pro Day.
If the Giants feel like they can find a quality middle linebacker later, then they could pick up a long-term project at tackle in Florida State's Menelik Watson. Watson has perfect size and strength for either tackle position and could slide inside at guard if needed. However, he is extremely raw -- he's has only played organized football for two seasons after playing basketball in England and Spain during his prep years. The Giants like to take prospects with high ceilings and let them learn the playbook and develop, so don't be surprised if they take Watson.


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Like so many of us, whenever I get to the end of a calendar year, I am always surprised how quickly the year has gone by. I am not a big journaler of the pen and paper variety, but I have been known to tweet, blog and Facebook on occasion, so these three platforms are my de facto journal and scrapbook for the year. As I come to the end of 2011, I am taking some time to look back at these three platforms in order to remember the journey, introduce myself to new connections and keep some important conversations going. Each list will include 1o'ish offerings that evoked some meaningful memories for me.
JANUARY – Ten Ways Liberal Christians Lose Credibility
I think most folks have a sense of the general beliefs of a "liberal" Christian. As with "conservative" Christians who are seeking the will of God and the mind of Christ, most liberals have a common perspective with which faith is lived: Homosexuality is not a sin, but a gift; approach Scripture with a lens of Spirit of the law v. letter of the law; affirm reproductive options, etc. There is no "platform" per se, but there is a general openness and freedom with which faith is lived.
Honorable Mention: Bikram Yoga Newbie: Sweaty, Bendy and Spent – January Posts
FEBRUARY – My Apology to Justin Bieber, Sarah Palin, A-Rod and My Mom
I can hear my mother's gentle reprimand echoing as I type this. Throughout my life whenever her children would talk bad about someone with undue toxicity. Be it politics, sports or pop culture, she would say, "You know, even ______ has a mother who loves him." Eyes would roll and we would go on our way, but we would stop.
Honorable Mention: A Letter About Love to my Daughters on Valentine's Day – February Posts
MARCH – Why This Father Parents Without Fear
As I walked down the hallway towards the hospital room, I knew the next few moments would be difficult. It was not the fact that I was there to say goodbye to my grandmother who was laboring through her final hours on this Earth, for she had lived a good life that was flavored with grace and strength. It wasn't the familiarity of the hospital, as I had been there to say goodbye to many others before and I understand the grace and grief of death. Nope, it was the fact that "he" would be there, my step-father, D., would be there playing the role of diligent son as he waited for his mother to pass away.
Honorable Mention: The Big Sort of the Presbyterian Church – March Posts
APRIL – Why Easter Worship Service Should be Nothing Special
I am not talking about taking away the men's breakfast or canceling the Easter Egg hunt . . . as I would never encourage anyone to invite the wrath of a disappointed, empty-basket-holding toddler. Some of the special things that we do around this time are just lovely. What I would challenge us to think about is doing something radically different for our Easter worship services by not really doing anything radically different for our Easter worship service.
Honorable Mention: Girls Can't Play Baseball – April Posts
MAY – Pastoral Transitions in a Social Media World
Creating these boundaries are often difficult to maintain, especially when the pastor stays in the area. Most of us have heard of many a pastors have an unhealthy influence on a congregation after their time is as pastor is done. With the best of intentions and love, many pastors who can't let go can end up doing harm to the very community that are trying to help. Usually geography helps to build separation, but in this day and age of social media, geography no longer can be assumed to be a determining factor in creating healthy space between the pastor and the congregation.
Honorable Mention: Bobby Jindal, Birth Certificates and the Politics of Race – May Posts
JUNE – Reflection on "Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing" Study
We often treat our own ability to see people as complex and created human beings as some kind of commodity that is doled out based on merit and/or availability furthering the idea that if am going treat this person with a generous spirit, then I must have to take something away from someone. And even worse, we fall into the destructive trap of believing that if I see someone else being treated with a generous spirit, then obviously something is being taken away from me.
Honorable Mention: You Might be a Progressive Christian If . . . – June Posts
JULY – A Few Thoughts on Gun Violence and Liberty
Now I understand that any restrictions or regulations voluntary or otherwise, make some people cringe, but honestly, these seem like pretty reasonable practices and would not be that difficult to enact. Not only would I think any firearms dealer who adopts these would create better relationships with the community, but would also be able to rent knowing that they are helping to prevent death.
Honorable Mention: Puppies, Butterflies and Kum Bah Yah – July Posts
AUGUST – A Dog's Letter to Her New Family
As I have learned, the "We want a dog!" PAC made up of the three smaller girl humans has been diligently working on Mom and Dad for quite awhile. Thank you for proving to Mom and Dad that you were ready. I know you had to dog-sit for a month, be on good behavior and basically prove that you could be responsible for me. You all are awesome! But at the same time, don't let them fool you or milk it too much as I think they are pretty excited to have me too.
Honorable Mention: The Importance of Being Spiritual AND Religious – August Posts
SEPTEMBER – Words of Advice for Soccer Parents
At some point we can push our kids too far. Yes, we all want our kids to thrive and sometimes they do need to be challenged to keep moving forward, but knowing the difference between parenting that sucks the joy from an activity and parenting that helps them improve in ways to unlock new experiences is crucial. I know far too many adults who, as children, enjoyed playing an instrument or participating in an activity only to lose all enjoyment because of parental pressures to succeed. Sometime, our kids just need to do things because it's a fun thing to do.
Honorable Mention: Applauding Executions Might be American, but it is Not Christian – September Posts
OCTOBER – Reflections on Glee's Asian-F Episode
So yes, this was cliché and everything was tied up in a cute red ribbon at the end of the show, but sue me, I was moved by seeing a new generation get pushed on the realities of some – NOT ALL – Asian Americans today. Sure there is always a danger that now every Asian American must now claim Team Tina or Team Mike, but I think there were some great subtleties that were present that deserve notice.
Honorable Mention: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements: Similarities and Differences – October Posts
NOVEMBER – Latifundialization and the Future of Occupy Wall Street
There is something profound about the nature of land and space in movements that have taken place across the generations. From being able to sit at a lunch counter of one's own choosing to the owning of ones farming land, generation after generation across the world have found land and space crucial to the impact of any movement for social change. Today, just as in Biblical times, controlling land and space operates as a measure and statement of power.
Honorable Mention: The Unexpected Safety of the Radical Jesus – November Posts
DECEMBER – "You Can't Post That!" and the Future of What We Share on Facebook
At some point, the very people whom we have been warning about the evils of beer party picture posting will be in charge of the very hiring practices that so many of us are weary of today. I suspect as this transition happens, potential employers will not be looking for a complete absence of party pictures, but will be more likely to give an understanding "pass" for what they may see because, well, they remember doing the same thing and will not hold it against the applicant.
Honorable Mention: Dear God, I Would Like My Presbyterian Church (USA) Back – December Posts
For the future, all of my posts appear with some being reposted on various other blogging sites: The Huffington Post, SF Gate, Patheos, Day1 and others. Thanks to all who have commented and read over the past year, thanks for hanging out in 2011 and I can't wait to see what 2012 offers!


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Back the Copts: Muslims do.
by- 20th October 2011
The massacre of Copts last weekend in protests in Cairo is wholly ominous and I can add little to the best account of it I've read: New York Review of Books' writer Yasmine el-Rashidi's brilliant eye-witness account and analysis.
Why then do I feel the need to write anything at all about the 25 deaths outside the state TV station on Sunday? Is it really any of my business?
The cyber-air is bristling with speculation enough without me adding my tuppenny-worth.
But one thing else I must say: that Muslims marched with Copts into Tahrir Square that night, and want none of the sinister Islamism, whose political strength is nonetheless increasing in the shadows.
One of my advisors Ziya Meral was there and reports it – and religious literacy if it is to contribute anything to world affairs requires not just accuracy but nuance. He writes:
'I am currently in Cairo. Over the years, I have come to love this country and its people with all of it's complexities. And the experiences of tonight brings home all the good and the bad.
'When I heard the news that Copts were protesting by the television studio near Tahrir Square, I thought about how much things have changed here. Copts protesting was unheard [of] till very recently. The church leaders have always refused it, mostly out of fear and Copts never thought their exclusion will end anyway.
'As I walked towards the area, it became clear that the protests have turned violent. Smoke was everywhere, and people were running and shouting. Then came the military in their riot gears, firing rounds and tear gas. Soon, I had my own share of the gas and joined running crowds.
'Muslims were marching with Christians, defending rights and protection for all Egyptians. A Muslim told me that he is here to defend Christians. Then picked up empty shells on the road and showed them to me.
'Protesters grouped by Tahrir Square, and the military police sent more troops. More rounds.. More tear gas.. Then, a water cannon truck got stopped by crowds and torn down.
'A young girl ran to me and asked me if I was a foreigner. I said I am. In perfect English, she asked me to run and go to any hotel I can enter. She said it's not safe. And when I asked "What about you?", she said "This is my country. I will be here." Her genuine concern for me but disregard for her own life moved me deeply.
'Eventually, I walked away from the area as my eyes burnt and I kept coughing.
'Tonight, I saw first hand what I have been writing about and researching in Egypt for years now. Coptic youth are even coming against the Church's demands for calm and are now demanding a life equal with their Muslim compatriots. Since the impeachment of Mubarak, their situation only got worse. You can watch a TV debate I partook on the topic here!
'But tonight, I was also reminded that the deep human longing for freedom and dignity are universal and inherent to all of us, whether Muslims or Christians or atheists. When it is denied, people will eventually raise their voices.'
Scholars have traced Coptic liturgical forms back to Pharaonic temple worship, i.e. more than 600 years before the Arab conquest in 640, yet they are second-class citizens in Egypt in terms of religious freedom. There have been difficulties with church building, even building toilets and play facilities for churches for generations, as I saw for myself when I visited in the early 1990s. Neither new churches nor renovation of old ones are allowed without a specific permit from the President and very few are. Even when the permit is not denied outright, delays are usually equivalent to denial.
The feeling now is that the interim government could have wiped such prohibitions off the slate as an immediate gesture of goodwill and hope.
Yet they did not. So the resentment festers, and as in any relationship where one partner is seething with long-suppressed sense of humiliation and helplessness, the mood flips quickly over into anger.
These Coptic protests are unprecedented, and so was the state response to them.
So what can we do? I suggest we learn about the Copts and their historic patience and speak up for them and for the Muslims prepared to stand with them, while we can.
The West owes much of its Christianisation and its civilization to the Copts: the drafters of the Nicene Creed that fixed the faith and is recited every Sunday were Coptic bishops, Alexander and Athanasius (325AD); the Desert Fathers who established small communities in response to persecution, inspired 1,000 years of monastic civilization upon which Europe was built. They were Copts.
Archbishop Rowan Williams' office issued a statement on Tuesday about the massacre. It said: 'In modern times the significant Coptic Christian population in Egypt has been free from repression; Muslims and Christians have happily shared a loyalty to the one Egyptian state.'
The latter part of that sentence is largely true – I've witnessed SOAS' Egyptian Professor of Islamics Abdel Haleem OBE embrace the Coptic Chaplain of St John's College, Nottingham with real warmth. But the Archbishop's office must do a lot better on the question of repression if it is not to become a laughing stock.
The Copts' long struggle seems to be unknown among the Archbishop's ex-Foreign Office advisers and other elites who hobnob with wealthy sheikhs on the diplomatic circuit.
One very well-connected interfaith bureaucrat I spoke to this week, formerly with the Foreign Office, alluded knowingly to 'Coptic wealth' as the root of resentment against them.
Maybe it's true, but it's no excuse. That's what justified the extermination of another religious group in the 1940s.
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If you network a lot of computers together you can use them like one giant computer. If you're 6 you can hold them all together with Legos. Check out Professor Simon Cox's group at Southampton University; they put Legos and Rasberry Pis together to form a supercomputer and documented the process so you can make one yourself (2-64+ nodes).
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- Simon Cox. (SEP2012). Steps to make a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer. University of Southampton
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South Shore business owners have high hopes that tens of thousands of train passengers will stop and shop before and after they ride along the much-anticipated Greenbush line.
South Shore business owners have high hopes that tens of thousands of train passengers will stop and shop before and after they ride along the much-anticipated Greenbush line.
With those hopes has come economic development, including new and refurbished businesses from Scituate to Braintree. Prices of properties directly along the train route, as well as in nearby town centers and smaller shopping business districts, have risen as developers have sought to capitalize on the expected influx of commuters.
''I think there will be an immediate impact,'' said Joe Curran, who is developing a condo complex in East Braintree. ''People have been waiting a while for the convenience of taking the train.''
Others say it is too soon to predict how Greenbush will affect the local economy - and whether consumers will be lured in or turned off by the trains.
''People want to see what it will be like when the trains are running, and what it will be like in terms of noise,'' said Mary McCready, a Hingham-based real estate agent.
Weymouth Landing, along the Weymouth-Braintree line, has been a hotbed of Greenbush-related development. Several new stores have opened, joining a host of longstanding restaurants and businesses to alter the Landing's feel.
Earlier this year, a Boston-based realty group owned by Ted Ahern and Peter McLoughlin paid more than $1 million to buy the former Marion's Shoe building on Commercial Street.
The Marion's building has been reconfigured into eight storefronts.
Susan Czemmel, the owner of Woof and Whimsy in Weymouth, is one of the new tenants.
She said the Greenbush line was a major reason she chose the location, and is expecting new clients when the train starts running.
In the train's first week, Czemmel plans to stay open later and decorate the outside of the store to make it more welcoming for new customers.
''My business is doing well, and the commuter rail hasn't even started yet. Once it does, and people see that there is a lot of parking available in the area, I think it will just be gravy,'' she said.
Curran, owner of Brite-Lite Electric on Front Street in Weymouth, is building a 10-unit condo development on Brookside Drive in Braintree within walking distance of the Weymouth Landing/East Braintree train station. He expects his project to be done by spring.
Curran said the changes are positive for the South Shore.
''There's a lot going on. Some of it has been spawned by the train, and I think the Landing has a great opportunity to go through a sort of renaissance,'' he said. ''Over the next year or two years, it will be a nice area for people to live and commute from.''
Curran said Weymouth officials have been more concerned with the train line's construction than economic development. But he hopes that will change.
''I think they'll fill the train up really quickly and there will be an increase of people in the areas, both in foot traffic and drivers,'' Curran said.
Mary McCready, who manages the Jack Conway Realtor office in Hingham, said the South Shore has yet to see the complete impact of the trains on both residential and commercial development.
''Downtown Hingham has been under construction, so that has been more of a negative impact,'' McCready said. ''But because the train tunnel runs directly under the center, there will be very little impact on the stores and businesses.''
Home prices have risen in Hingham, Cohasset and Scituate - all considered prime commuting locations to Boston, especially with the Greenbush train. But, of late, the pace of home sales in the area has decreased significantly, as it has nationwide, said McCready.
Jack Conway's commercial division has been hurt by construction-related disruptions in downtown Hingham, said McCready. But she said that's temporary, predicting great sales.
''With the development at the Hingham waterfront and the end of construction, I think we're going to see a whole new area of business. I think it will be booming,'' she said.
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The 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) called for a 50 percent reduction in the number of undernourished people by 2015. In 2000, the Millennium Declaration (MD) recognized the value of hunger and poverty reduction by setting the MDG target of "halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger" (target 1.C).
To monitor progress towards the WFS and the MDG1 targets, FAO provides regular updates to the number and proportion of persons below the minimum level of dietary energy requirement (MDG indicator 1.9). Such estimates, which are produced at global, regional and country levels where reliable data is available, are presented annually in the State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) report.
According to the FAO, undernourishment is a condition of "continued inability to obtain enough food", and the Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU) measures the "probability that a randomly selected individual from a population is found to be consuming less than her/his requirement for an active and healthy life". This probability is assessed against a normative minimum threshold established by nutritionists for reference age and sex groups. While it is not possible to assess precisely the individual dietary energy requirement, the PoU is based on an inference at the population level in probabilistic terms. Indeed, the FAO methodology for estimating the prevalence of undernourishment refers to:
• a probability distribution of habitual Dietary Energy Consumption (DEC) of a representative individual in a population; and
• a cut-off point for intake adequacy – Minimum Dietary Energy Requirement (MDER) – specific for the same population.
In 2011-12 the FAO methodology for estimating the prevalence of undernourishment was deeply reviewed. The revised methodology was first introduced in the 2012 SOFI. Models adopted to describe the habitual dietary energy consumption in the population were reviewed and changed where national level survey data were available. The estimation of the parameters was also reviewed.
Parameters to characterize the distribution of food consumption employed to estimate the PoU are derived from different sources. To compute per mean or per capita DEC at a national level, FAO relies on Food Balance Sheets. The latest data from this source refer to 2011; therefore, additional sources were needed to estimate the DEC for the last 3 years, from 2012-14. The main source for 2012 and 2013 estimates were projections prepared by the Trade and Market Division of FAO. The Holt-Winters distributed lag model was instead used to project the DEC for 2014. In some cases, the same model was applied to compute projections also for 2012 and 2013, when data from the Trade and Market Division were not available. The Holt-Winters model uses a process known as exponential smoothing, which attributes higher weights to the more recent data and progressively less weight to the older observations. Weights decrease in each period by a constant amount, which lies on an exponential curve. For countries showing peculiar patterns, other simpler forecasting models were used, such as linear or exponential trends.
Two more parameters are required to characterize the distribution of food consumption: the Coefficient of Variation (CV) and the Skewness (SK). These are computed from national household surveys where they are available, which is the case for a wide sub-sample of the monitored countries. In recent years, thanks to the collaboration between FAO and National Statistical Offices, the Statistics Division has processed more than 100 surveys to obtain new parameters for about 50 countries that, together, cover more than 60 percent of the number of undernourished in developing regions.
When FAO started the regular monitoring of undernourishment, after the 1996 World Food Summit, the distribution of dietary energy consumption in the population was assumed to be log-normal. One of the main changes that FAO introduced in 2012 was the adoption, for the countries where adequate survey data were available, of a skew-normal distribution. This is fully characterized by the three parameters: the mean, the CV and the SK. The skew-normal distribution is more flexible than the log-normal and therefore better accounts for changes in the asymmetry that take place when food consumption changes, that is, when countries make progress toward greater food security.
In the SOFI 2014 edition, an even further refinement was introduced. The data are used to determine the appropriate distributional form for food consumption. In this way, the empirical SK from the distribution of per capita calorie consumption is derived from available national household surveys. The resulting model makes it possible to account for reductions in inequality of food consumption, such as those made by targeted food intervention programmes, thus ensuring a smooth transition towards a distribution in which food consumption is symmetric.
The 2014 edition of SOFI also introduced a new outlier detection method for consumption data derived from national household surveys. This is known as "leave-out-one cross-validation", and allows for a robust calculation of the parameters in case of noisy data. Excess variability was also controlled for by using a linear regression, linking the log of per capita income to per capita calorie consumption, along with indicator variables for the month the survey was conducted to control for seasonality.
The MDER is estimated according to the normative standards set forth in the 2001 FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation. To minimize the probability of overestimating undernourishment, the FAO method uses the minimum of the range of values consistent with adequate nourishment , therefore the lowest acceptable body weight for a given height and light activity. The cut-off point for a population is derived by aggregating sex and age-specific MDERs using the proportion of the population in the different sex and age groups as weights. Since the sex-age distribution of the population changes over time, the cut-off point is updated every year to reflect changes in the demographic structure of the population. This edition of SOFI uses updated population estimates from the latest revision published by the UN Population Division in June 2013. When data on population heights are not available, reference is either made to data on heights from countries where similar ethnicities prevail, or to models that use partial information to estimate heights for various sex and age classes.
Food losses occurring at the retail level were also introduced for the first time in 2012. Country-specific values regarding the average per capita loss of calories have been estimated taking into account data provided by a recent FAO study on food losses at various stages of the commodity chain.
SOFI 2014 also includes a new estimation of CVs for countries where reliable consumption data from surveys are not available. The method is based on a relationship between the CV due to income and macroeconomic variables – GDP per capita, and the Gini – and food prices. Finally, SOFI 2014 introduces a time-varying computation of variability in food consumption due to requirements in order to account for the world's rapidly changing population structure.
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TRIPOLI, March 3 (Reuters) - Libya has stopped gas exports to Italy from its Mellitah complex after fighting on Saturday between militias, Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Italy's Eni said on Sunday.
Libya's defence ministry sent security personnel to secure the complex, about 100 km (60 miles) west of the capital Tripoli, to ensure exports could resume soon, said Abdufattah Shagan, chairman of Mellitah, an NOC-Eni joint venture.
Mellitah supplies Italy with gas through the Greenstream pipeline, which at full capacity pumps at least 8 billion cubic metres. Italy gets most of its gas from Algeria, Russia and Norway, with Libya providing about 10 percent.
"Gas exports have been completely halted," NOC deputy chairman Mustafa Sunalla told Reuters on Sunday.
Saturday's firefight began after an argument between former rebel fighters from nearby Zuwara and others from Zintan over who should guard Mellitah, security officials said, adding the clashes were now over.
Deputy Oil Minister Omar Shakmak told a news conference in Tripoli one person was killed and several injured. Khaled Bukrayat, a member of Zuwara Media centre which compiles local news, said seven people were seriously injured.
It was the latest violent disruption to the energy industry in Libya where protests have shut down oil-export terminals in recent months and in the North African region following January's bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant.
Thousands of former rebels who fought to overthrow former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 have been employed in a protection force to look after Libyan oil and gas installations.
But in recent months activists and local militia have disrupted operations in Libya's main industry, pursuing goals such as better living conditions or more regional autonomy. In July they forced the closure of three major oil terminals.
This has hurt OPEC member Libya's oil output, which returned to close to pre-war levels of 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) faster than analysts expected after the 2011 conflict.
Eni said gas flows from Mellitah to Gela, Sicily, had been halted and Italy's industry ministry had been alerted.
Speaking from the complex, where only emergency staff were present, Mellitah's Shagan told Reuters defence ministry vehicles were on their way.
"As soon as they guarantee the security, we will resume exports in 48 hours," he said. Defence Minister Mohammed al-Barghathi told Reuters the armed forces were on their way:
"They are under instructions to allow (former rebels) there to leave and then the army will look after the facility."
Mellitah has two plants - one treating oil and condensate from the Wafa fields and another for gas and condensate from the Sabratha offshore platform, according to Mellitah's website.
A senior Libyan oil official said production at both Wafa and Sabratha had been affected by the Mellitah shutdown.
A Zuwara resident said on Sunday tensions had escalated for days before the dispute. "There were two bouts of fighting yesterday," said the resident, who gave his name as Ayub.
"From what I understand, some of the Mellitah staff were evacuated, others came to Zuwara by boat from there."
In December, protesters seeking jobs and better living conditions shut down the Zueitina terminal for around two months, halting around 60,000-70,000 bpd of oil exports.
While the return of foreign oil companies - including Eni - to Libya helped it increase its output after the 2011 uprising, foreign workers have been slow to return to the country, awash with weapons, because of precarious security.
"Such disruptions hurt the Libyan people's national income," Shakmak said. "Security is the basis of stability and is needed to ensure the presence of foreign companies here."
Separately, four security force members were injured during a failed attempt to evacuate protesters who have occupied the national assembly in Tripoli for weeks demanding compensation for injuries sustained in the 2011 war, the government said.
The group of about 30 war wounded have forced congress members to find temporary venues for sessions since last month.
When security forces tried to get them to leave on Sunday, the protesters fought back, throwing a grenade, officials said.


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Anne Hathaway is putting her money where her mouth is.
The newlywed has long been an advocate for LGBT rights. And now, the 29-year-old actress is donating a portion of the sales from her wedding pictures to nonprofits advocating for marriage for same-sex couples, according to FreedomToMarry.Org.
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When Hathaway accepted an award from the Human Rights Campaign in 2008, she recounted what it was like to grow up with a gay brother. "In my household, being gay was, and is, no big deal," she said. "When my brother came out, we hugged him, said we loved him, and that was that."