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Take foot off gas on bullet train
As a longtime opponent of the California High Speed Rail project, I was encouraged to see that both houses of
However, despite the clear signals coming from D.C. that there will be no federal funding, on Monday morning, the California High Speed Rail Authority unanimously approved a resolution asking state officials to sell another $8.6 billion in bonds to help keep the project afloat. That's on top of over $6 billion that has already been spent without a single piece of track to show for it. It's also a far cry from the current estimate of $68 billion to complete the first phase of the project.
The plan for the project has changed drastically since it was sold to voters in 2008. It will now cost more, take longer, and serve fewer people. As a result, the project is currently the subject of multiple lawsuits questioning the legality of the bait-and-switch that has been pulled on California taxpayers.
Unfortunately, members of the Authority are choosing to ignore escalating cost estimates and decreasing ridership projections, and instead keep their feet firmly on the accelerator as the "Train to Nowhere" carries California's fiscal future further toward the financial cliff. –
Tourism salary cap?
Concerning the article about Mayor Filner's proposal to cap the salaries of organizations that receive tourism monies from the city ("Mayor amends tourism demands," Local, March 18): Last summer, while visiting
I agree with both mayors. If an organization receives revenue from our city, county, or state that significantly supports its operation, then the salaries of the employees of those organizations should be commensurate to that paid to employees in the public sector, as they are funded the same way – with taxpayer dollars. – Andy Softley, Encinitas
Has Bob hit on a strategy for dramatically improving the city finances?
New plan: No employee paid more than $160K.
Not pensioner paid more than $128K (80 percent of 160). – David McCurry, Santee
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Why Che Guevara?
I almost threw up in my Cheerios when I opened the U-T and saw a large front-page picture of the Che mural in Chicano Park ("Hard-fought history," March 16). Why Che Guevara? There are dozens of murals that would not be offensive to those of us that have suffered from the evils of communism. The Che mural has his quote: "The true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love." Love of what – love of hate, murder, rape, torture, confiscating private property, imprisoning? Che's favorite pastime was watching summary executions of innocent men, women and children when he wasn't personally murdering and torturing. In the end this Marxist coward hid while his men fought and died. I hope the U-T discontinues profiling villains in a positive fashion in the future. – Rob Schick, Santee
Perversion of the process
In response to State picks unions over voters, again" (Editorial, utsandiego.com, March 17): An administrative judge from California's Public Employment Relations Board struck down as "illegal" San Diego's pension reforms enacted in Proposition B because former Mayor
It was a ballot initiative inspired by the people, who should have ruled on the contracts in the first place.
The judge should have ruled that San Diego public workers' pension obligations are "immoral" and "unenforceable" because previous city leaders had brokered those lavish contracts without the forethought of the city taxpayers' capacity to pay, or the foreknowledge of the onerous obligations which these entitlements would impose.
Instead of PERB, the Public Employment Relations Board, should be renamed PERV – Public Entitlements Ripping off Voters, since this one adjudicator has perverted the democratic process and the proper confines of justice, thus permitting the public sector unions to rip off the voters, not just by taking their tax dollars, which are needed for public services, but also frustrating their rights as citizens to ensure that the city of San Diego remains funded to provide essential services in the future.
I hope that city leaders, grass-roots organizers, and enough angry taxpayers launch a vital challenge to this judicial arrogance. Not just in California, but states across the country are waging a necessary fight to reform public sector pension obligations, including Wisconsin, Michigan, and even Rhode Island, where pension obligations are about to bankrupt the state and are forcing thousands to flee, just like in California. – Arthur Christopher Schaper, Torrance
Ride at your own risk
In the past few years bicycle traffic on rural east San Diego County roads has increased dramatically. I see quite a few pleasure riders almost every time I drive around Jamul where I live. Some of the roads out here are very dangerous to ride bikes on. All the time I encounter riders on parts of [state Route] 94 where there is no shoulder at all and no bike path. Same with Otay Lakes Road. Riding on narrow roads with blind corners and no shoulder is crazy risky. I came around a blind corner today in a 40,000-pound vehicle going under the speed limit and there are five bicyclists stopped on the road and traffic is coming the other direction. I almost had a collision with oncoming traffic.
I have been a cyclist since I was young. I frequently ride at places like Laguna Mountain Park on trails. I would never ride on narrow two-lane backcountry roads without shoulders that are frequented by large trucks and buses. If you decide to do this you are taking a big risk of injury or death. Scout out where you are going to ride in a car before you do it. Stick to the places where you will not be placing yourself in grave danger.
I know bicycle activists tout that "every lane is a bike lane." The problem is that accidents do happen and if you are on a bike and a bus hits you, you lose. – Bob Nelson, Jamul
Some electricity cannot be stored
Mr. Powell's article "Using solar power" (Opinion, March 16) is long on opinions and woefully short on facts. His distaste of "monopoly utilities" comes through powerfully and repeatedly.
May I start with some facts learned from 40 years in the electric business? Alternating current (AC), the kind our homes and businesses use, cannot be stored for later use. It must be produced at the instant it is used and in an amount roughly equal to the load.
Intermittent sources of AC power such as solar and wind can never replace centralized power sources. When the sun sets, and the wind dies – NO POWER IS PRODUCED!
Mr. Powell is proud of his "2.5kw solar power plant" on his roof. Readers, 2.5kw is only 2,500 watts! Check your nameplates on your air conditioners, your electric cook stove, your electric water heater! At peak output, his little rooftop "power plant" supplies only a fraction of his needs. (No cheating by using that nasty fossil fuel, natural gas).
Mr. Powell says it is a proven fact that energy efficiency and neighborhood solar is the most cost effective? Someone else can argue that one, but the studies I've seen say that without the huge federal/state subsidies, both solar and wind cost more. – Dennis E. Holland, San Diego
Review overlooked opera's atmosphere
In response to "'Mariachi opera' more of a concert with a good story" (Local, March 18): In his review of March 18, Mr. Chute spent too much time proving that "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna," offered by the San Diego Opera on Saturday, March 16, wasn't in fact "opera." His argument may be technically accurate, but he spent no time reporting what an occasion the evening was, and what a thrill.
The plaza in front of the opera house was packed, the opera house was packed, the entire event was festive, and there were many new audience members. I realize that standing ovations have become par for the course at performing arts events, but the ten minutes of cheers and applause offered by the audience Saturday evening was clearly enthusiastic and heartfelt.
"Cruzar" was a success, a sensation, a good piece of entertainment, and a touching story. I'm as fond of traditionally executed operas as the next patron, so if "Cruzar" wasn't opera, I'll open my mind to the idea of San Diego Opera offering more events that are not opera, and those events in turn may bring in a broader audience. Bravo, San Diego Opera! – Peter Bridge, San Diego
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The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short.
After 26 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 9 (code name
Stretch), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support team.
Debian 9 is dedicated to the project's founder Ian Murdock, who passed away on 28 December 2015.
Stretch, the default MySQL variant is now MariaDB. The replacement of packages for MySQL 5.5 or 5.6 by the MariaDB 10.1 variant will happen automatically upon upgrade.
Firefox and Thunderbird return to Debian with the release of
Stretch, and replace their debranded versions Iceweasel and Icedove, which were present in the archive for more than 10 years.
Thanks to the Reproducible Builds project, over 90% of the source packages included in Debian 9 will build bit-for-bit identical binary packages. This is an important verification feature which protects users from malicious attempts to tamper with compilers and build networks. Future Debian releases will include tools and metadata so that end-users can validate the provenance of packages within the archive.
Administrators and those in security-sensitive environments can be comforted in the knowledge that the X display system no longer requires
root privileges to run.
Stretch release is the first version of Debian to feature the
modern branch of GnuPG in the
gnupg package. This brings with it elliptic curve cryptography, better defaults, a more modular architecture, and improved smartcard support. We will continue to supply the
classic branch of GnuPG as gnupg1 for people who need it, but it is now deprecated.
Debug packages are easier to obtain and use in Debian 9
Stretch. A new
dbg-sym repository can be added to the APT source list to provide debug symbols automatically for many packages.
The UEFI (
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) support first introduced in
Wheezy continues to be greatly improved in
Stretch, and also supports installing on 32-bit UEFI firmware with a 64-bit kernel. The Debian live images now include support for UEFI booting as a new feature, too.
This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:
With this broad selection of packages and its traditional wide architecture support, Debian once again stays true to its goal of being the universal operating system. It is suitable for many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web, or storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure that
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Ratings from the 2013 Masters, for those of you that care… (Yahoo!)
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The fractious, chaotic parlay between aboriginal leaders and the government of Canada looks, at first blush, to have been another in a long string of failures on this file. Anyone who watched events unfold in Ottawa Friday could be forgiven for concluding this cake is baked, or unbaked, if for no other reason than that far too many aboriginal "leaders" can't take yes for an answer.
At times it was like a Fawlty Towers episode, writ large: All the vanity, self-delusion and foolishness of the human condition on cruel display. Manitoba chiefs, one moment angrily blocking access to Stephen Harper's offices in the Langevin Block, the next angrily pounding on the door to be allowed in, apparently oblivious to the fact that they'd already been invited, which was the whole point of the exercise. Madness.
And yet, there was method to it – not just the businesslike, nuts-and-bolts contingent of 20-plus chiefs from a majority of provinces who eventually talked turkey with the prime minister, the Indian Affairs minister and various staffers, but also the bellowing, drumming, chanting, weeping, speechifying, sloganeering and chest-beating in the streets.
For what better way to force the government's attention to the rational voices in the aboriginal leadership – including National Chief Shawn Atleo and Quebec Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come – than to hold the conversation against a backdrop of general nuttiness? Apres moi le deluge, Atleo may as well have said. If ever the Harper government needed an incentive to give this man tangible wins, in order to bolster his position vis-à-vis the radicals nipping at his heels, Friday's spectacle provided it.
The irony is that, possibly for the first time in the past 150 years, the government of Canada really requires no such incentive. It was Jim Prentice, a former Indian Affairs, Industry and Environment minister and one of the ablest administrators to have served in Harper's cabinet, who warned last fall that Western resource development, in particular pipeline construction, would grind to a halt unless aboriginals were brought onside.
That's because there is a "duty to consult," enshrined in law, confirmed by Supreme Court rulings, that requires the government of Canada to formally consult with aboriginals on resource developments, not only on or near reserves, but within the scope of their traditional territories – in other words, practically everywhere. This means that Canada's 600-odd aboriginal bands, certainly those in northern Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, hold a de facto veto on much of the Harper government's vaunted $650 billion in pending resource development and extraction. Never mind blocking the roads: The courts got there first.
Resource development forms the core of the Harper government's economic and political strategy. Indeed, in their first year of majority power the Conservatives revealed an almost monomaniacal obsession with easing resource extraction for purposes of bolstering future economic growth. Beginning with the first 2012 budget omnibus bill, reforms across the whole of government have shared a unipolar economic focus. One can fault the Conservatives' methods, but not their internal consistency when it comes to mining, oil and gas. This is their bailiwick.
So the chess board looks as follows, from the government's point of view: A tiny, dispossessed and legitimately unhappy minority of the population – the fewer than 500,000 aboriginal Canadians who live on reserves, which tend to be remote, northern and western, where the richest resource bodies lie – hold the power, depending on how they make their next moves, to indefinitely stonewall the economic aspirations of the majority of 34 million.
That's setting aside the spectre of insurgent actions against remote resource infrastructure, in the event the aboriginal population is further radicalized, and the only slightly less alarming prospect of blockades on the Trans-Canada highway, which could devolve into another Oka crisis. Such scenarios are no longer the stuff of dystopic fantasy. They lie just around the corner, should this go bad. This explains why Stephen Harper, who has in the past had a yen for striking the jugular when opposed, has not done so this time. Instead he has offered one concession after another, to his credit.
But therein lies the great emerging risk: Not that the Conservatives will be intransigent (they won't be, this time), but that they will lose their rational interlocutors on the aboriginal side. If Atleo, Coon-Come and their supporters are swept aside by hotheads; or if threats to block major transportation corridors are borne out, events could soon spiral out of control – with aboriginal Canadians the ultimate losers. For no amount of clear-eyed goodwill in government, or elsewhere for that matter, will hold in the face of a paralyzed Highway 401. The popular backlash would be fierce, and that would dictate reactionary political choices.
In other words, appearances aside, Friday was no failure. It was a difficult but vital first step. Get used to hearing about such partial victories. The search for solutions is real, this time – and it is just beginning.


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The protest took place on January 20, or Martin Luther King Day. Nearly 1,000 airport workers and supporters — including elected officials — protested poverty wages and a lack of benefits on a bridge leading to LaGuardia.
Since the arrest, airport workers have seen improvements and are now counting down to April 28, when the 90-day deadline set by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for major carriers and their contractors to have set a plan for improved wages and benefits will expire.
Included in those who marched from JFK to LaGuardia was Congressman Charles Rangel, who shamed those airlines that did not immediately respond to the rallies with improvements.
"You cannot ask these hardworking men and women at our airports to do important work, then turn around and pay them poverty wages," Rangel said. "Our city and our region deserve better and shame on the airlines that are still standing on the sidelines of this effort to improve the lives and communities of these workers."
Currently, certain airline employees struggle to live on their salaries because passenger services are subcontracted out to private firms, which hire workers for minimum wage and little to no benefits. There are about 12,000 subcontracted airport service workers at Newark, JFK and LaGuardia.
For the past two years, these workers have organized rallies and signed petitions, culminating in the protest in January. After the protest, the Port Authority called on American, Delta, JetBlue and United Airlines to give contracted passenger service workers at JFK and LaGuardia who make $9 or less an immediate $1-an-hour raise with a phase-in to $10.10.
They also requested for the airlines to recognize Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday and to develop a plan for improved wage and benefits packages for their employees within 90 days. That 90-day deadline arrives in a few short weeks, on April 28.
Delta signed the plan first and gave its contracted workers their dollar raise on March 1. American Airlines signed afterward, but still has not given its employees a raise. JetBlue refused to sign and United Airlines has yet to comment on the demands.
In the meantime, the Port Authority is working to develop a policy for wage increases and benefits for employees in all sectors of the Port Authority, beginning with airline workers.
For many, that policy will be life-changing. Michael Carey, a JFK security officer, said that significant progress has been made already, but emphasized the importance of continuing to fight.
"We are in a struggle for our very livelihood," Carey said. "Any plan, whether it's from the Port Authority or the airlines and their contractors, must offer us a collective bargaining process so we can negotiate for things like affordable health care and family-sustaining wages and, in the coming years, in response to what is happening in the economy, we can improve our situation incrementally through a contract that we bargain with our employers."


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As we drove through the outskirts of Rome, and then the heart of Rome, to our hotel, I knew I was going to have trouble understanding the personality of the city. It was a little provocative, a little intimidating, a little dangerous, a little sophisticated, a little provincial ... Some cities are in your DNA - they are your lifeblood, you take to them immediately, you feel at home.
Have you been in that spot? Where you've traveled somewhere new and thought, "Oh, this place. Somewhere in my spirit I've been here before," and it has been familiar and lovely and comforting?
Rome was not that place for me. Rome was the guy you date and you're not sure if it's a good idea, but it feels right in the moment. (and then you break up a few months later because you weren't truly a good fit but you're still left with some positive memories.)
(A few caveats? I am still not up to date on my Roman history. I would love to be able to put all of the following in context, but, I can't. Also, when I say "we drove through ... Rome," in no way do I mean we drove through Rome. Rome is a city with a magnitude of history, life and human experience crammed down into narrow Vias with suicide mission mopeds. I mean the cab driver or the bus drove through Rome.)
Layers and layers of human life upon human artifact. Apartment buildings next to Ristorantes next to Government Buildings next to the Spanish Steps next to Roman ruins next to the Gap (really) across the street from Vatican City. It is so much living and so much history crammed into the here and the now; a puzzle dumped out and all of the pieces, jumbled, mixed up, lying before you -- It almost makes sense. Almost.
Shoes and I set out on our own that evening, exhausted, jet lagged, and famished. Our first Italian language lesson? Although most native speakers seemed to appreciate the effort, it was often easier for them to address us in English. So much for those months of Duolingo ...
The next morning, still jetlagged and still confused from lack of sleep, we wandered around this confusing, hectic, slightly aggressive city.
And even though Rome was confusing, not at all familiar, and a little strange to me, I took Shoes' elbow as we walked and kept whispering, "I can't believe we're here. I can't believe we get to do this."
(I'm still high on just the fact that we had the opportunity to do this.)
And Shoes, in his Shoes way, gently told me I needed sleep. (and oh, how I needed sleep.)
But Shoes is the one who asked, upon seeing the following sign, what exactly Italians have against hip hop. I am certain I'm not the only one with jet lag brain.
The city was breathtakingly sexy, of course, in it's own right.
It is roped off, but it is just there. Ghosts of other lives, laid out so intimately that one could breathe it, touch it, live it.
Shoes and I walked for four hours that first day in perfect, drizzly 55 degree weather. We drank cappuccinos, meandered, absorbed, and attempted to avoid the extremely aggressive vendors. Found everywhere. I don't think vendors have an off season. (I had never heard of a selfie stick before this day.)
In the afternoon, we took a bus loop with Shoes' mom around the city for a 2 hour everything about Rome history lesson (of which I remember nothing but it was really a very lovely city tour), ate pizza, drank wine. And then ... we slept. Oh, sweet, sweet sleep.
I have never been so grateful for sleep before.


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"Experience, technique and solid team play - still viable in the long run†- Pires
Lausanne, Switzerland, July 4, 2013 – The much awaited Beach Volleyball World Championships are currently in progress and former Brazilian legend of the sport, Sandra Pires provides her views on the action so far.
"It has been a fantastic start to the World Championships and even the weather, which has been temperamental at times, has not dampened the tournament's spirit and atmosphere. And the sporting action just gets better and better with some of the more unexpected pairings challenging the established hierarchy on the sands.
"Latvia's Janis
Smedins and Aleksandrs Samoliovs have really come into their own since the
start of the season and they look set to top their pool in the competition. It
could not have been easy for Smedins to play a match against his brother or
Samoliovs to see his former partner on the other side of the net. But they kept
their focus and cohesion, two qualities which have allowed them to blaze ahead
of the competition this season even though they have only playing together
since the beginning of this year.
"Another new pairing that has achieved a remarkably high level of success this year is Brazil's Taiana de Souza Lima and Talita Antunes da Rocha. They will face some stiff competition in the elimination round of the World Championships from Germany's Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst, but having won gold at the Shanghai, Hague and Rome Grand Slams I think they know what they need to do to pull another victory out of the hat. They have superb technique and team play and they know how to keep their calm, motivate each other and work with the other's strengths when it matters most.
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that the more experienced pairs of the Championship are showing no signs of
backing down in the face of increased competition. If anything, it seems to
have steeled their resolve to continue winning and performing at the highest
level possible.
"And other members of the old guard like USA's Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal are also well placed to make it to the final stages of the competition. I do hope that Pedro Solberg and Bruno Schimdt will be able to add to their already impressive medal count from this season.
"It is difficult to identify a clear leader in these Championships. With so many quality teams on the sands this year our only assurance is that the competition will get more demanding as it does not appear to be stifling the talent of individual players but encouraging them to give their best. All players will be required to use their every reserve if they want to get to the podium. May the best team win.â€
Sandra Pires is a three-time Olympian from Brazil. She won gold with Jackie Silva at the 1996 Games in Atlanta – the first year beach volleyball was introduced as a medal sport – bronze with Adriana Samuel in 2000 in Sydney and fifth place in Athens with Ana Paula Connelly. As a commentator for Globo Sport TV, Sandra has covered the London 2012 Games and the 2012 Brazilian national tour.
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The 1996 Princeton Lectures on
Youth, Church, and Culture
"Christ and the Adolescent:
A Theological Approach to Youth Ministry"
I am honored to introduce the first volume of the Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture, presented in Daytona Beach, FL, and Princeton, NJ, in the spring of 1996 by James W. Fowler, Robin Maas, and Robert Wuthnow. The Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture are designed to foster original research on youth and the church. As part of a new venture in ministry sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary, the Institute for Youth Ministry they describe a shift occurring in the churches thinking about youth and ministry. Instead of ghettoizing youth into clubs apart from the congregation, the church's mission with youth views young people as integral to the total mission of the church, and youth ministry as a theological task which is not only about youth ministry, but about youth's ministry as well.
The 1996 lectures, titled "Christ and the Adolescent: A Theological Approach to Youth Ministry," address mainline churches who have suffered grievous losses in their attempts to address teens. These losses come at a time when public institutions are calling attention to the important role churches play in adolescent development. Churches agree: We believe we have something to contribute to youth in the person of Jesus Christ-‐and therefore Jesus Christ, not age-‐level education, pastoral counseling, or recreational programs, must be the starting point for youth ministry.
We asked each of our lecturers to approach this theme from the perspective of their own disciplines. James Fowler posits a new shape for youth ministry that recognizes nuances of human development; Robin Maas uses biblical exegesis to redefine the spiritual journey of youth and the adults who mentor them; and Robert Wuthnow analyzes the sociological significance of service learning trends for the church's ministry with teenagers. Together they point to a new direction for ministry with young people.
We approach this direction humbly and with hope. We know that the church's renewal depends not on the church of tomorrow, but the church of today-‐a church in which youth can be integral missionaries to their elders and world. May this volume challenge and nourish the ministry God has laid before you.
Director, Institute for Youth Ministry
1996 Lectures
- "Christ and the Adolescent: Piper or Prophet?"
- "Christ and the Adolescent: A Decision for Love"
- "Christ and the Adolescent: Written in Stone"
- "Perspectives on Adolescents, Personhood, and Faith"
- "Adolescence in the Trinitarian Praxis of God"
- "Grace, Repentance, and Commitment: Youth Initiation in Care and Formation"
- "Youth and Culture in American Society: The Social Context of Ministry to Teenagers"
- "Religious Upbringing: Does It Matter and, If So, What Matters?"
- "Unto the Least of These: Youth and the Ministry of Caring"
We begin with an exploration of adolescent experience through perspectives that are both timeless and timeful. On the timeless side, I want to share the theological significance of adolescence as an important period of our life cycles, constituted by biophysical changes that are universal and that have constituted part of human experience for as long as we have known it. On the timeful side, I will offer some perspectives on the experiences of adolescents in this late-twentieth-century era, and in this particular national and cultural setting of North America and the United States. Then, drawing on some limited but interesting windows into the theological world of contemporary adolescents, I will conclude with some reflections on the possibilities of doing Christian theology with our youth today.
My intent in these three essays is to keep a distinctively theological focus in addressing our concerns and tasks as ecclesial ministers with youth. I will attempt to keep my use of developmental and social scientific perspectives in the service of theological analysis and Christian formation, for us and for the youth with whom we minister.page 2
I have a growing friendship with a twelve-year-old boy whom I will call Tom. We have known each other for several years, but only recently have we had opportunities to interact in ways that really allow us to know each other. Tom is small for his age. His voice shows no signs yet of changing. You can see his preliminary interest in girls when he interacts with them in youth group meetings and in school. Developmentally I see Tom as being at the very peak of the virtuosity of the concrete operational thinking that shows up in bright youngsters of eleven or twelve. Right now, Tom spends hours working with a computer game called "Sim City," which simulates the building and development of a complex city. Tom seems to take naturally to the systems thinking involved in holding together the range of possible moves and the implications he might make from them to arrange the city's housing, manufacturing, financial, educational, and religious centers. But he is not reflexive in his use of these abilities. As Piaget might say, he does not yet "think about his thinking."
Similarly, Tom has not yet developed "mutual interpersonal perspective taking." So far as I can tell, he does not yet "see others seeing him" or "see the Tom that others see." The beautifully uncluttered clarity of his vision and assessment of situations—which gives his utterances and insights a kind of uncanny acuity—are formed without having to attend to his own or others' interiority. As Robert Kegan might say, Tom does not yet have his interests, his needs, his goals, and his experiences. He simply is these qualities. He has not yet reflectively identified these aspects of himself as part of what constitutes his uniqueness and singularity. Nor has he focused on the interiority others are or have—their uniqueness and singularity, due to their particular interests, needs, goals, and experiences. Thus, in a wondrously charming and intelligent way, for Tom—poised now on the lip of adolescence—the world, as seen through two-dimensional lenses, presents endlessly fascinating puzzles to solve, data to master, and techniques to learn. But the world he attends to with such engaging interest doesn't yet include attention to the continents and seas within persons—either Tom himself, or those who will most intrigue and confound him.
Tom stands on the threshold of a door that opens into a new kingdom of relatedness. From seeing his interactions with others like a chess game, where the rules are clear and where strategies and defenses obey patterns that can be seen and anticipated, he must move into a different world. We know that he must pass from the "flatland" of two-dimensional relations into a world of relational swamps and seas, into a kingdom of volcanoes and underwater continents that will require navigational skills and depth-sounding sensors which he will only gradually assemble and learn to use.
He will make this passage of mind and awareness even as he undergoes an equally dramatic transformation in his bodily and emotional experience.page 3Hormones—either natural or supplementary—will likely soon kick in to accelerate Tom's growth. From barely five feet in height he may stretch up as much as ten inches in the coming year. His piping, unself-conscious boy soprano voice probably will give way—either suddenly, with funny oscillations between high and very low, or more gradually with a steady deepening of its timbre—to a voice in the lower register of vocal range. He will begin to use deodorant, welcome pubic hair, and experience the ambivalent pleasure of erections at awkward times and places, as life energy surges into his expanding genitals.
Tom has been poised at this plateau of late childhood, expanding the virtuosity of late concrete operational thinking and not consciously embracing the new complexities that soon will come. In the last year his friend Leah has already crossed the threshold into this more complex, three- dimensional world of mental, bodily, and relational transformation. Recently she participated in the rite of buying her first bra and beginning to wear it with initial self-consciousness and pride. She is beginning to sense the rhythm of her menstrual periods and the painful cramps that mark their onset. With the relational orientation that Carol Gilligan, Mary Belenky, and others have helped us name, Leah spends a lot of her time and attention in conversations with her closest friends, sharing feelings and reactions and talking about the qualities of their friends and acquaintances that might help explain their actions and their reactions to things.
Leah is quite aware that she is being seen and reacted to by others. She is deeply into mutual interpersonal perspective taking. She brings living freshness to the couplet I once coined to try to capture how youngsters in Leah's developmental place let each other serve as mirrors for their first steps toward self-consciousness and self-reflection. "I see you seeing me; I see the me I think you see." She also exhibits something of the awareness—and the power—of being that kind of mirror for others: "You see you according to me; you see the you you think I see." Hers is a world beginning to be filled with the mystery of the depths and qualities of personality—her own and others. Hers is a world where an emerging sense of self- conscious "I-ness" is profoundly dependent upon an interactive, communicative "Thou-ness" she finds in her friends and other important relations. She senses how she can hurt and wound others with her mirroring; she perceives that she can also use that power to support and flatter. At the same time, her own emerging identity—the more-or-less coherent meaning she has to others and to herself—is profoundly tied up in her relational world. On some days she feels that apart from her relations to the friends who matter most to her, she has no being or meaning that can give her an identity of any consequence.
Studies in the construction of gender identity tell us that Leah and Tom are likely to have significantly different experiences as regards claiming their respective femaleness and maleness. If interpreters like Carol Gilligan and her colleagues like Sandra Bartky are right, Leah is already page 4 receiving direct and indirect mirroring and counsel that put substantial pressure on her to give up activities and ways of being she found satisfying at ages nine or ten. She will receive subtle and stronger feedback that urges her to curb her interest in competitive physical activities, and to develop a sense of relative incapacity in relation to study areas like mathematics and science. She will experience subtle pressure to cultivate a strange kind of dependence that leaves plenty of room for her male counterparts to assume initiative and control. Her teachers—even or especially her women teachers—may give unconscious signals that suggest they find the contributions of boys in her classes more interesting and valuable than they find hers. In the social construction of her female identity, she will experience pressure to make her face and body objects of art, and to shape her horizon of interests to complement, not compete, with those of the male world. All this, we say, is changing, and it is. But cultural patterns this deeply structured and this powerfully reinforced by an unending barrage of artful commercial images, do not respond quickly to real change.
In integrating these changes in mental, physical, and relational transformation, Tom and Leah will surely encounter many of the existential mysteries that led the great Augustine sixteen hundred years ago to write of his own youth: "And I became a problem to myself."
With both Tom and Leah we encounter bright youngsters from intact families, where fidelity and consideration mark the family's pattern of relationships. They belong to a community of faith where they experience being known and valued. They have educational advantages and encouragement. Tom's love for reading and his growing computer virtuosity mean that he lives in an expanding world of mind and experience. Leah's love for music and drama, as well as reading and social studies, find support and encouragement in her home and school. Leah and Tom will likely grow up to be among what William James called "the talented tenth" of their generation—young persons of whom leadership and contribution can be expected.
In introducing you to these two young persons, I have been trying to remind us of some of the timeless aspects of adolescence. In looking into these lives we see youth in the process of entering the remarkable phase where, in all cultures worthy of the name, young people are supported and held accountable in moving from late childhood into physical maturity and acquiring the necessary development and training to assume their places as adults in their societies. The middle class-ness, the intact families, the relation to their communities of faith in Tom and Leah's stories are not normative or universal factors in their content. Rather, the normative and universal features inhere in the factors that mark the end of childhood and the psycho-biological transformations that inaugurate movement into adolescence. The patterns and content of cultural preparations for entering preparatory adulthood vary from culture to culture and from class to class. But the need for them, and the nature of adolescence, show marked timelessness and universality.page 5
Before we turn to the timeful aspects of adolescence, as experienced in its diversity and challenge in North America and the United States, we need to reflect for a few moments on the spiritual quests and readiness that come with the developmental revolutions of adolescence. It should be instructive to us that in the period when Protestantism seemed most confident about how to build a fresh bonding with adolescents—with those who grew up in the church, as well as those who could be attracted to it from outside—it did so by way of intense religious experiences.
Institutionalized through the revivalist movements of the late nineteenth century, conversion-like experiences were also features of the first and second Great Awakenings of the 1730s and the 1830s. In these movements adolescents found themselves addressed deeply and personally by soulful, stirring music, combined with imagery and words that formed deep emotions in them. They heard preaching that personalized the possibility of a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. It offered forgiveness for their sins of omission and commission. It promised the possibility of walking with the Lord through the trials and triumphs of this life. Having watched adults and their older brothers and sisters "get saved" or "dedicate their lives to Christ," they felt the heart nudge of the Spirit's address many times. They knew their time would come. This revivalist culture of Protestantism also provided an honored way back to Christ and to the community of faith for those who had never belonged, or who strayed away for a time like lost sheep. Only those of us who know the hot tears, the feeling of a cleansed heart, and the sense of a commitment made and ratified by the love and affirmation of God in Christ can fully understand the power of this experience for generations of adolescents.
As a way of meeting adolescents at their points of readiness, the revivalist invitation to judgment and salvation was indeed powerful. It addressed the new capacity (and need) for seeing oneself in the eyes of significant others by drawing youth into the experience of being seen, known, and chosen by Christ. It addressed the newly emergent readiness for personal relations, where one has to own one's feelings, and where the sense of alienation, as well as the sense of restoration and blessing, register deeply in the newfound places of subjectivity. It told the story of God's love meeting our sin and separation from God by a costly grace in Christ's death. Christ's call to return and join in the bringing of God's kingdom gave youth a larger story in which to embrace and order the multiple stories of their young lives. These transactions took place in the high dignity and seriousness of congregations caught up in the flood tide of what Emil Durkheim called collective effervescence. The drama of an emotional encounter with the living God, leading to the making of a commitment to Christ, and then followed by the affirmations and rejoicing of family and friends, brought a new sense of identity and led to the forming of deep resolves in young hearts.
In a later lecture, I will return to the question of rites of initiation and the development of what I call commitment mechanisms. We will return page 6 to the question of how we may provide opportunities for the spirit of God through the people of God to address today's youth, creating the possibility for a life-reorienting encounter with the Most High. Now, however, I turn from this sketch of some of the timeless dimensions of adolescent experience to concern with some very timeful and particular features of the experiences of adolescents in the present diversity of our different societal settings. This section I call "Romance and Realism: Toward Theologies of Hope and Dread."
Students of the generations have characterized youths in today's United States as part of a cohort that has been the most aborted in history. Observers say that today's teens, whether conscious of it or not, carry a collective sense of survival guilt because of the large number of their brothers and sisters or agemates who died as fetuses, never having their opportunity at life. They are also part of a generation that has experienced an unprecedented amount of family fracturing, through the divorce of parents and the resulting absence of one or the other of their biological parents. Add to these factors the climate of violence that surrounds their lives. They see overwhelming violence, in quantity and destructiveness, in the media they watch; violence in the streets where many of them live; violence on roads and highways; violence in their schools. Then we note the reportage of an unprecedented level of domestic violence, including sexual abuse inflicted on one in every four girls and on one in every six boys. Even the violence in the talk shows around them and in the rock and rap music to which they listen floods them with verbal and visual images of the degradation of human bodies and dignity, and cultivates the sense of a "waste them," throw-away attitude toward human life and dignity.
Nowhere is this "waste them," throw-away attitude more present than among black youth—especially males—in our society. In a sadly familiar statistic, we are told that more than one quarter of all young black men are incarcerated, with many others involved in parole or under court supervision. The erosion of a culture that supports schooling, and the seductiveness of the economic payoffs of drug trafficking, have made creating alternatives to street life with its dangers difficult to successfully commend. For many black youth, the myth of the "pretty corpse" reinforces a sense that gang life and making it big in the streets is the best way to go, even if it leads to an early death.
Sexuality among many of today's teens has been stripped of its mystery and power. Exposed to unprecedented explicitness in the portrayal of sexual activity and innuendo, they have come onto the stage in an era when trends toward laxness and lack of sexual restraint may actually be reversing. The AIDS and HIV epidemic has finally begun to create an environment of caution. Coupled with this, a stiffening of parental and school page 7 attitudes which provide support for waiting and for safe sex seems to be taking hold. At the same time, the growing visibility and voices of gay and lesbian persons provide a new ethos of exploration of difference, and a widening of the available range of cultural models for the construction of gender among the young.
For many youths there seems to be growing caution about drug use. Use of beer and other forms of alcohol consumption, however, continues to grow rapidly and to involve children at ever-younger ages. Absence of supervision after school hours grows apace, and the ready availability of alcohol in many homes make addiction and alcohol abuse a serious problem in all sectors of the teen population. Tobacco companies have been astonishingly successful in recruiting younger and younger teens into the ranks of addicted smokers, with most beginning at about age twelve.
While there are substantial numbers of youth who resist addictive substances and who lead purposeful lives, the numbers of those who find it hard to connect with and flourish in the nation's schools seem to be growing. Economic challenges affecting the parent generations exacerbate the problems of parent-youth bonding. Widespread corporate downsizing in the nineties, coupled with changing technologies that require fewer employees and need from them much more specialized skills, has contributed to a shrinking of the middle classes in all racial and ethnic groups. With single or two parents working more of their time—often at two or more jobs—to make ends meet, teens are getting less quality adult time and attention. This carries over into the difficulty of recruiting volunteers for leadership in scouting, the YMCA and YWCA, church school and youth groups, and coaching for youth sporting leagues. These factors all represent challenges for the shaping and flourishing of our ministries with youth.
The kinds of factors I have been citing account for the fact that many of today's youth approach their world and their sense of the future with what I call "holocaust eyes." They sense the loss of many of their contemporaries to death or to prison or to a marginal quality of life with a limited future. They have had hammered into them a profound sense of concern about the ecological endangerment of our globe due to global warming and the excessive release of pollutants. They feel the increased crowding and competitiveness for life space in our cities and in the world. The feel the gap between a parental generation's moral teachings and their actual behavior and determinative values.
But the other side of the picture is equally impressive. Many of today's youth are growing up with a richly expanded knowledge of their world. More computer literate than any other generation so far, some of them have been the beneficiaries of the use of the Internet and the research possibilities it opens up. They frequently develop an impressive sense of sophistication and empowerment for modeling, understanding, and developing approaches to some of the biggest challenges our planet faces. Moreover, this set of viewers of the third generation of the Star Trek series page 8 and its reruns seem to have caught a deep sense of interest in persons and cultures different than themselves. Many of them have internalized the "Prime Directive" in their approach to those who may be different than themselves. They are sensitive not to disturb the natural evolution or development of another society or nature. They have developed a strong vision of a world where all persons and groups deserve respect.
Among their slightly older brothers and sisters whom we encounter through our work with undergraduates at Emory, we find that the students often present with a kind of rhetorical burnout—a fatigue with and suspicion of idealistic talk. They have a jaded sophistication born of watching too much TV where the commercials are more compelling than the programming, and where wry cynicism is the favored form of humor. They come to college filled with parental and guidance counselor injunctions that they choose their direction early and build a resume of extracurricular activities so that they can successfully "market their majors." Among these gifted young people, however, we have found an encouraging response to our program on "Leadership, Life Work, and Vocation." They have led us to expect that our retreats and seminars can help them get in touch with and bring from sparks to flame what I have come to call "the latent hope for a credible calling."
As part of a research team related to Emory's Youth Theology Institute, I reviewed interviews with a representative sample of "scholars" in the institute's first two years. I also read both sets of the long paper-and-pencil interview, the Life Meaning Inventory, which we administered to all the scholars. I want to reflect for a moment on what seemed to me the most characteristic theological responses of these talented seventeen-year-olds. The title of this final section of my talk reflects my dominant impressions: "The God of Rooftops and of Intimate Linkages."
As a generalization, one can say that a significant majority of the scholars interviewed believe in God. Most of them believe that God is faithful and can be counted upon to give them strength and support in their lives. What intrigues me, however, is that the God of most of them is a private God. They have a God who sustains them personally, but seems to have little or no impact on the larger patterns of society or in history. Moreover, their God, generally speaking, is a derivative of Benjamin Franklin's maxim: "God helps those who help themselves." While God may inspire and strengthen them, there seems to be little by way of a truly gracious God who loves and cares for us, not because of our achievements or productivity, but simply because, in God's view, we are of utmost value. Finally, for most of them, their God is a God who values achievement, can be counted on to support and encourage success, but seems to love conditionally.page 9
Within that general framework, boys and girls showed different emphases in their images of God. For boys, the times when they felt closest to God most often involved moments of solitude when they found themselves in a secure place, usually high—a rooftop or a mountain—where they prayed or meditated alone. For girls, on the other hand, God seems to be present in and through relationships of love and mutual support, whether with a mother or father, a grandparent, or with friends. Striking for both boys and girls was how much of their faith and concern involved their efforts to provide emotional support and care for a single parent who was leading their household, and for helping to deal with conflicts between the separated or divorced persons who are their parents.
Except for a few scholars who came from conservative religious backgrounds, most of the students lacked any order of words, religiously speaking, for articulating their meanings. Part of what we found exciting was the sense that for many of the scholars the interview provided a place where they made the effort to bring into words their images of faith and their experiences of the presence and reality of God. They found themselves stimulated by an environment where they were hearing presentations that offered resources and models for theological thinking. They also found stimulus from the discussion groups, where they digested together the thoughts and feelings generated by their classes, their service learning, and their conversations with friends.
We did not find much by way of resistance to thinking and articulating theological meanings. In fact, scholars showed a great deal of interest. What did strike me was the relative shallowness of their groundings in their own traditions, and their frequent surprise at elements of richness they began to sense there.
Now, as I bring this lecture to a close, let me reflect a bit out loud with you about where some of the openings for theological meanings and connections with today's youth may lie. Recently my pastor, John Simmons, shared a quote from a relatively young colleague from my United Methodist tradition. As the minister of a big and rapidly growing United Methodist church, this man was asked to address a large gathering of other clergy about how to attract young people to their churches. John found himself deeply disturbed when this church-growth expert shared his conviction that anyone who wanted to attract today's youth and young adults to their churches should generally avoid references to the cross or the crucifixion. The implication was that youth—and often their parents—want pizza, palaver, and positive thinking.
Young people, whether in the suburbs or the city, know that we are in a world where suffering and danger are real. Some of them may collude with conspiracies to ignore and screen out the threatening factors in our page 10 environments. Joyce Mercer has found in her research with adolescent girls that they seem to restrict their acknowledged experiences of violence to the overt expressions of physical attack or abuse they encounter. She believes that for them to acknowledge the day-by-day friction of conflict and threat, or the too-numerous incidents of verbal abuse or sexual groping in halls or other crowded places, would be to admit to themselves how truly violent their lives are. It would be too overwhelming. There must be a side of even our most privileged and protected youth where they admit to themselves that something seems to be deeply awry in our world.
Isn't this precisely the message of the cross? Isn't this what the death of Jesus unmasks and lays bare about our world? Is this not precisely where the Christian Gospel and the cross of Jesus Christ can make more sense of their real experience than any of the denial strategies or warm fuzzy spiritualities youth are offered? Wherever we take the cross seriously it shows us that many things are profoundly awry in our society.
It seems to me that today's youth may respond deeply to the church's witness that God is with us in the midst of this awry-ness in Jesus Christ. Because of Christ's presence in our world and through love's victory over death in him, we can listen with hope and trust to the more than thirty-eight times in the Gospel where he says, "Be not afraid."
In place of the God that loves us because of our achievements, it is freeing to know that God comes to us in Christ expressing an infinite cherishing. What worth it gives us to accept God's call to friendship and partnership! Through Christ a relationship of empowerment, by the power of God, is there for us. God would have each youth know and feel to the core the divine love that reaches out to us, confirms us, and calls us to covenant faithfulness in Christ.
The cross of Christ is crucial to Christian witness to youth because it shows the extent to which God's love and mercy goes in order to bring us back into relation with our creator, the one who made and loves us to the core. The Christ of the cross makes it emphatically clear to teens caught up in or threatened by violence that God is in solidarity with them. And to those who feel deeply alienated from power and wealth in this society, or from our Utopias of family life, the cross affirms that Jesus Christ stands with them in their suffering, and bids them trust in the God who brought him through crucifixion to new life. Jesus Christ shares in the losses, the fear, the suffering that children and youth experience in this land and in our world. Jesus Christ never gave up trust in the love and power and faithfulness of God.
But youth also require another kind of linking with Jesus the Christ. This must come at the point of his profound trust in the power of God to work with and through human beings to bring about a commonwealth of love and justice to fulfill creation. Their faith cries out for convincing testimony to that most neglected doctrine in contemporary theology, the doctrine of divine providence. "Is God powerful?" they ask. If so, why do so page 11 many people suffer and perish, and why do those opposed to God "get by with it?" They cry out for a credible witness to the presence and power of God in and over the processes of nature and history. We and they are in deep need of a viable way of imaging and resting our hearts on God's visible and invisible action that can undergird all human activity and commitment toward a kingdom of God on this earth.
Once in a round of interviewing young adolescents I spent an hour with a twelve-year-old youngster who grew up in an agnostic home. He had an older brother of fifteen who was a militant atheist. The older brother had a pet parrot that he had named "God." When the parrot squawked and made its grating parrot noises, the older brother shouted, "Shut up, God!" The younger brother would become furious and try to defend the sanctity of the divine name. In this hostile environment this twelve-year-old had developed one of the strongest sets of theistic convictions I have encountered in all my interviewing of youth.
As I began to realize how clear and strong was this young man's commitment to God, I asked him, "What difference do you suppose it would make in the world if the God you believe in did not exist? How would it be a different world if God were not?" He paused thoughtfully for a moment. Then he answered, "We can use the example of my fish tank, my aquarium. My aquarium is meant to be a perfectly balanced ecological system. The fish eat the plants and live on the oxygen the plants give off. The plants live on the waste from the fish and the carbon dioxide they put into the water. There are snails in the tank to keep the sides clean, and they live off the algae and the fish waste. So it is supposed to be a self-contained cycle, not requiring me to do anything." He continued, "But my aquarium is not perfect. Lots of times I have to do something to restore the balance. If I didn't, my fish would die." And then he looked squarely at me and said, "And we will never know how much God does every day to keep our world working as well as it does!" 1
In the next lecture I will pick up this theme of the providence—or as I like to call it, the praxis of God, and try to put it into trinitarian perspective. Until then, meditate, if you will, on "how much God does every day to keep our world working as well as it does."


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Kohl's coming?
Lovers of trendy discount department stores may soon have reason to celebrate (even as big box-haters may soon be gnashing their teeth): signs point to the opening of a Kohl's in Hollymead Town Center.
In February, the Wisconsin-headquartered chain applied for a building permit for a $5 million, 87,367-square-foot store to be built on a Hollymead parcel south of Harris Teeter and Starbucks–- and at a distance from the shopping center's northernmost anchor, Target.
According to County building records, the zoning and building plans have already been approved for Kohl's. Still awaiting approval are engineering plans for the site.
Despite this evidence, Kohl's spokesperson Elizabeth DeLuca declines to confirm the company's plans to open a store here.
"Kohl's has an ongoing real estate assessment process," she writes in an email. "At any given time, Kohl's is reviewing sites in communities nationwide. We do not comment on real estate speculation. When we have firm details, we are happy to share it at that time."
According to its website, Kohl's currently has 1,011 locations in 48 states. The closest Kohl's to this area currently are in Waynesboro, Harrisonburg and Richmond.
If Kohl's does open at Hollymead, shoppers can expect to find exclusive-to-Kohl's brands, including the Jumping Beans brand of children's clothes and the Abbey Dawn line, which, according to the Kohl's website, is "a juniors' lifestyle brand that blends authentic rock with a feminine edge, inspired by rock sensation Avril Lavigne." Like Target, Kohl's also teams with exclusive designers to bring fancy names to the masses. While Target has Isaac Mizrahi, for instance, Kohl's has Vera Wang.
Kohl's website also boasts of its support for children in the communities in which it has stores. And in fact, that claim seems to provide yet another clue that a store will indeed be opening nearby. According to several published reports, Kohl's has partnered with UVA for a "Growing Up Healthy" campaign to help childrenin the Charlottesville area make healthy food choices. The chain has already donated $80,000 to the program.
–The image accompanying this post was updated to reflect the current logo.
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Trader Joes is coming to the intersection of 29 and Hydraulic road next year
@scooby doo How do you know this?
I heard TJ's was coming too, just not at that location...
Scooby Doo Doo,
Hydraulic & 29 is the site of new WFM, slated to open Spring '10. TJs would not be next to WFM.
That intersection was also the site of the proposed "Albemarle Place," which is never going to be built.
All of this is according to the ex wife of my second cousin twice removed's neighbor's dog groomer.
shaggy told me.
but seriously, I have sister who works in California for Trader Joes main offices
What ever happened to the Home Depot coming to C'ville? Any update with that?
Is anybody excited about a Kohl's coming to Cville? That should be the headline here. Hollymead Town Center should be renamed "Little Fredricksburg". One more step towards making every town the same conglomeration of the same stores.
I'm excited it's coming. In fact, I can't wait for it to open. Oh yeah, I live no where near Hollymead but I'll still drive the 20 minutes to get there!


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Watch Donald Trump's first interview since Carrie Prejean's "Larry King Live" antics on HLN's "Showbiz Tonight," 11 p.m. (ET/PT) tonight.
(CNN) -- Mogul Donald Trump expressed shock at former Ms. California Carrie Prejean's attempt to end the interview with host Larry King during her appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Trump, who owns the Miss Universe organization, discussed his reaction in an exclusive with HLN's "Showbiz Tonight."
"Well, I actually was watching," Trump said. "I am a big fan of Larry King and I was watching this and I was very surprised to see it because she was talking about how inappropriate [Larry King] was."
Prejean was on the show Wednesday night to promote her new book and seemed to take exception to King's line of questioning regarding a lawsuit involving the former beauty queen and the Miss Universe pageant.
After telling host King that she wouldn't discuss what happened in mediation because it was confidential, Prejean called his line of questioning "inappropriate," removed her microphone and appeared to be ready to leave the set.
In speaking with HLN's "Showbiz Tonight's" Brooke Anderson, Trump said he just didn't get it.
" 'Inappropriate' is more of a sexual term, as far as I'm concerned," Trump said. "I mean -- inappropriate? He asked a very, very easy question and I was surprised that she just didn't say, 'Hey, listen, I can't answer that question.' Instead she wants to walk off the stage? It was very surprising."
Trump was not the only one to weigh in on Prejean's run-in with King.
Keith Lewis, executive director of Miss California USA and Miss California Teen USA, released a statement on Thursday.
"The public is finally getting a glimpse of the real Carrie Prejean who lives in her own delusional world," he said. "The childish behavior, her negative attitude, the sarcasm and condescending tone, the disrespect and continual lying she is demonstrating now is only a fraction of what we endured during her reign and after."
"Anyone who buys her book is supporting a woman who is actually the opposite of everything she claims to be," the statement went on to say. "I sincerely hope she is able to get the psychological help I believe she has shown to clearly need."
Prejean became enmeshed in controversy after declaring her opposition to same-sex marriage while answering a judge's question at the Miss USA pageant.
She was later dethroned by Trump amid growing complaints that she was uncooperative and not meeting her contractual obligations. She sued the pageant, claiming religious discrimination because of her opposition to same-sex marriage.
Pageant officials countersued, demanding the former beauty queen repay pageant money spent for her breast implants and give them all the proceeds from her book.
A settlement was reached, and the Web site TMZ reported the deal was sealed after pageant lawyers allegedly presented an "extremely graphic" home video involving Prejean.
The Capitol Hill Club in Washington confirmed to CNN that a speaking appearance by Prejean scheduled for Thursday was canceled.
The interview with Trump will air on HLN's "Showbiz Tonight" on Thursday.


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1. Advanced Language: Two Spanish language courses at the 300 level or above. These courses must include at least one literature course. You are encouraged to take conversation classes, but these courses may not be used to satisfy this requirement.
2. Study Abroad: The required study abroad experience must be directly related to the Latin American area of emphasis. The program, satisfied by one or two semesters in a study abroad program, must entail significant work in Spanish. The International Studies Program has a set of approved study abroad programs. Exceptions require International Studies Committee approval. You should discuss your plans with your advisor and receive the Committee's approval a year in advance of the experience.
3. The Latin American Area of Emphasis: Three courses on Latin America are required. These are in addition to the two taken in the disciplinary major. You should take courses approved as Latin American International Studies courses (see the list below) from at least two different disciplines in addition to your disciplinary major. One course on pre-1500 Latin America can be substituted for one of the approved International Studies courses listed below with the consent of the International Studies Committee.
In sum, the I.S. Program totals approximately 14 courses. At least 7 of those will be on Latin America and on Spanish language/literature. You will also be credited with a major on your transcript.
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What would you do if you were a ghost?
Posted 02 September 2007 - 01:42 AM
As long as I don't spend time as a preta in the bardo before being reincarnated, I'd go have fun on earth as a ghostie.
To contribute to the collection of evidence of the afterlife, I'd try to communicate with my friends in the ghost investigation group.
Then I'd haunt a few family members because that would be fun. But I'd come back and just do playfull pranks, move stuff, hide stuff, and make it reappear later.
Then I'd go traveling. See the world. Go to countries I didn't get to see when I was alive.
Then, I'd get to go to all the ghost conferences and go for FREE! No one has yet figured out how to charge admission for ghosts.
Posted 02 September 2007 - 07:48 AM
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Posted 02 September 2007 - 09:18 AM
If I were a ghost......I'd be on my best behavior. Well......I'd defiantely look over my children and try very hard to keep them out of harms way. But I'd hide the remote from my husband on a regular basis (LOL!!) and scare the crap out of my brothers & sister!!! Really though.....................in all honesty..........................yeah, I'd do the above mentioned, cain't help it!!!!
....I would try to definately let folks know I was around somehow. And hope they had a mind open enough for the such. I think being a spirit is very lonely, so I hope this doesn't happen anytime soon.
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Posted 02 September 2007 - 09:34 AM
Seriously, though, I think I would want to stay close to my family and friends to watch over them.
Posted 02 September 2007 - 10:25 AM
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 02 September 2007 - 10:42 AM
will stay to watch over my family and friends, I promise that to my son, one day when he told me that if I die... he was not going to be able to handle it... so I promise him that I would stay by him and when his time came up... I would be there to hold his hand.
If any of the Ghost Researches want an interview, I would give it to them if possible and tell them all about it.. just let me know on time so I can get nice and ready for a beautiful picture..
Ofcourse, I am not going to watch over no grave... I rather go on to my next level... if is not posible to stay for a while with my love ones.
I'll probably scare the the hell out of some of them just for the fun of it... specially the X's inlaws or not inlaws LOL
Posted 02 September 2007 - 10:46 AM
I would also take some time to watch over my son. Make sure he's not repeating the stupid mistakes I made.
Posted 02 September 2007 - 09:29 PM
I am sure I'll get the itch to play a prank or two, or three. Like turning off the tv, making things move while people are looking at them. Knocking shelves off the walls n such.
Things that I know would make my husband a believer. LOL
I wouldn't taunt the kids. Just the hubby. I know! thats so mean. I just love him so much I want to haunt his butt. LOL
I tell him all the time if I go before him, I'm going to haunt him big time. He laughs about it. But you just wait, I will do it. LOL
I also told him I better pass on first. I know I wont be able to live without him. He's stronger than I am. I'll wait for him on the other side. But first, I want to torment him. LOL
Posted 03 September 2007 - 12:29 AM
Reference to the movie "Ghost."
Posted 03 September 2007 - 10:37 AM
Id like to create havoc lol
No seriously, Id like to visit all the places I wanted to go and do all the things I never did when i was alive, because everything is free up there !!!
And of course catch up with past relations
Posted 04 September 2007 - 05:57 AM
Then I'd hover around my cats to make sure they go to good homes.
After that, I'd like to do a little guardian angel work with helpless, abused animals and children. That in itself is a huge job, and probably distressing, but if I can save some of them from nasty people, it's really worth it.
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Posted 04 September 2007 - 07:13 PM
Very funny! I'm really -ing out loud!
I'd take a picture of myself and post it on the spiritography forums. Then I'd wait to see how many people think I'm a reflection or a dust orb.
Posted 05 September 2007 - 04:25 AM
Id also raise cheerleaders skirts at half time and Id pants rich important people.
Im just kidding thought id lighten things a bit.
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The John Force Holiday Car Show
The forces of nature smiled bright on the John Force Holiday Car Show in Yorba Linda, California, on Sunday, December 11, 2005. Unlike the last couple drizzle-filled events, sunny blue skies and mild temperatures greeted upward of 18,000 participants and fans. Benefiting the California Highway Patrol's "CHiP's for Kids" toy drive, each year celebrants bring unwrapped toys to the show. According to event manager Craig Hoelzel, the 10,709 toys donated shattered previous years' contributions.
There was a huge pile of toys for youngsters-and king-sized ones, in the form of 780 show trucks, cars, boats, and motorcycles, for us full-sized kids to admire. We walked the grounds of the John Force compound and the surrounding streets with visions of billet wheels and overlap cams dancing in our heads. Even Santa couldn't fault us for wishing our various project trucks were done-the '34 Ford roadster pickup, the F-100 giveaway truck, the '74 Chevy stepside, the '40 Ford hauler of CCT's former editor-on Dasher, on Dancer, on Chevy, on Ford!
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Tickets for midway rides at the Georgia National Fair in Perry will increase in the wake of state budget cuts.
State funding for the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter was cut by 11 percent this year and 25 percent in fiscal 2014.
The board overseeing fair voted Wednesday to increase the price of tickets for midway rides.
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The Vampire Diaries Review: A Deadly MiStake?Matt Richenthal at .
It's done. It's over. I'm right back where I started.
I feel your pain, Stefan Salvatore.
Following "The Murder of One," for as much as I've tried to fight it over the past few episodes, I must now admit: The Vampire Diaries is running in place. It's not really going anywhere. It's burning through storylines so quickly that it's then forced to go back and recycle old ones... only to quickly finish those off and move on again.
Last week's TVD installment, for example, ended with the meant-to-be chilling line from Damon: let's go kill some Originals. Except all I could think at the time was: really?!? Why? What have the Originals even done in the recent past? Isn't that arc over with?
Heck, Damon has slept with Rebekah, Caroline has flirted with Klaus, Elena and Elijah have a cute little bond going... Aren't these groups practically closer to friends than enemies at this point?
Here, meanwhile, I experienced the same unfortunate feeling of deja eww, not again! Case in point: Klaus is now back to his plan of building a hybrid army using Elena's blood? Again, didn't this storyline come and pretty much go nowhere? Many weeks ago? Does the show expect us to get re-invested in it? Or to come up with a new way to tell it?
The fleeting/ever-changing stakes has been an issue for most of the season. Mikael came and went. Then the Original Witch came and went. Then the Originals were linked, only to be unlinked within a couple weeks. TVD keeps moving the target on us, unlike previous seasons where there was a consistent build-up to one or two major events: the tomb/Katherine on season one; the arrival of Klaus/his hybrid ceremony on season two.
I may have also been finally pushed over the edge when it comes to Ms. Non-Independent herself, Elena. One moment she's pleading with Stefan to change plans because Damon is in danger; the next second she's telling Stefan how worried she was that Klaus might kill him. She's torn. We get it. That's fine. It's even interesting when woven well into ongoing, overarching storytelling - but it's now become tiresome, shoved down our throats in what feels like every other scene.
I don't know what I feel, Elena told Stefan near the end of this episode. And it may have been a major blow to his ego, it may have been a total shock to his system (although, come on, he knew they kissed. Was Stefan really surprised his ex sort of has a thing for his brother?), but it's been hammered home to viewers for most of season three. Was anyone surprised to hear Elena utter these words? Did anyone feel like it moved the story along?
And this moment wasn't even the worst love triangle-based scene! That dishonor would fall to Damon's dream, where Elena came to save him, fed him her blood and was about to kiss him before we were snapped back to reality. Fantasy sequences rarely accomplish anything aside from filler. Again: what did we learn here? Damon fantasizes about Elena? Damon loves Elena, something he's already told her and the audience? It was simply a waste of three minutes.
One final gripe before I focus on the positives from the hour: Bonnie has to go. If she can be so easily convinced to use her magic for evil, she's a perpetual liability. All Klaus had to do was threaten Jeremy and her mother and - presto! - Bonnie is at his service? What would stop him from doing this at all times? Why not just have Bonnie living in his mansion, casting spells left and right that would help his cause?
Fortunately, her role did serve one purpose aside from irritation. It led to the funniest Vampire Diaries quote of the episode, courtesy of Rebekah: Thank you, Bonnie. See you in physics class.
What did I like about "The Murder of One?" The overriding narrative it left us with: kill an Original and all its bloodline members also perish. That was really the only takeaway from the episode, but at least it's an intriguing one. Where do the Salvatores go from here? How does Alaric's psycho alter ago possibly come into play? And, the question that will likely have many fans creating family trees tonight: WHO TURNED ROSE?
What did everyone else think? Are you still intrigued by Elena/Stefan/Damon? Or do you wish she'd hurry up and pick already? Do you, like Caroline, miss well-adjusted Stefan? Does this season feel far more aimless than seasons one and two? With just four episodes remaining, what is it all building up to?
And how much will you miss Troy?!? Let's all take a moment of silence now in honor of that brave vampire.
Check out the promo for The Vampire Diaries April 19 return now and sound off with your thoughts.
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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Here are some photos of the elementary school childrens' art on display at the Cape Ann Museum as a part of the "Gloucester Public School District Arts Festival" on Saturday, May 12. The museum put a lot of work into hanging all these creations!
(To get these big shots, I had to take several photos and use panorama software, which led to a bit of distortion and broken lines here and there… I need to get one of those special panorama tripods that eliminate parallax!)
I am not sure if any of this is still up. The brightness, simplicity, and freshness of it all created a real ambience of upbeat enthusiasm!


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Well, a good friend kindly reminded me that it was time for me to "turn down the suck" and update! So here I am with my latest and greatest...
The point of this blog is to express how I feel about living in Utah. I Love It!
Living in Utah is great. I love this state, I really do. I'm not the biggest fan of Provo, but she gets the job done. I have a pretty great job (tanning salon) who doesnt love getting their tan on? The girls are all super nice and the hours are great as well. I do miss my work friends back in Idaho...like that was really work...but im doing just fine.
Living in Utah is also great because I get to see Jon a lot! We spent the whole day together yesterday and it was amazing. We have so much fun together. Doing errands are even fun with him. It's just so nice being this happy. I hope it never ends!
Being away from Ally is quite annoying, i miss her a lot. I also miss Stephie. I just miss my girls. Its hard to come home to a somewhat stinky, lonely apartment. I miss being all up in each other's business. :)
Hmmm what else? The wedding planning is coming along...we've made lists and stuff and we are getting ideas of what we want. I am constantly looking at bridal blogs and mags and just getting SO excited! Nothing can be completely solidified until summer because we can't book places or buy stuff right now. I did find a GORGEOUS dress that I love. I'm a little huge though so I gotta shed some lbs, but im working on it...I stopped drinking soda..CRAZY, i know, but i did it. I feel skinnier kinda..and my gas is almost completely gone...WEIRD!!! I think thats probably a good thing...
My dad moved to NJ. Mom and Mads will be moving up there soon enough. I am way pumped! I think that it will be nice to be closer to family. Also, Jon and I are way pumped because we are gonna come for Christmas this year and that means we both get to experience NYC together for the first time :) Im excited for my parents and their new adventure.
Wow, this post is long and kinda boring. But I wanted to mention something else...how crazy is the world right now? Haiti, now Chile and the tsumani scares? Signs of the times. Just do the things you know to be right and you will be blessed. God loves us. He wants us to succeed. Don't let those praying knees get lazy.
until the next time. :)


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