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The win for the Matteson Democrat was widely expected as the Chicago-area district, which Jackson represented from 1995 until late last year, has been a Democratic stronghold for roughly six decades. Kelly emerged from a crowded field in the February primary by focusing heavily on anti-gun efforts and was helped by ads from Bloomberg's super PAC.
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Kelly, 56, vowed to become a leader in the federal fight for gun control legislation and echoed the promise after her win.
"I'll continue to speak about it in the district. I'll continue to be in touch with those who have lost their children. I'll speak out where I can in D.C.," she told The Associated Press before her victory speech in Matteson.
She easily won over Republican community activist Paul McKinley, three independent candidates and a Green Party candidate in the district that includes city neighborhoods, suburbs and rural areas.
Her win also marked the end of an era for voters who had supported Jackson at the polls with healthy majorities each election after he took office. The Chicago Democrat stepped down in November after a mysterious medical leave where full details were never disclosed to the public. He cited his health and acknowledged he was under federal investigation in his resignation letter.
Months later — as campaigning to replace him ramped up — he pleaded guilty to charges that he misspent $750,000 in campaign funds on everything from toilet paper to furs.
Jackson was the third congressman in the district to leave under an ethical cloud, and many voters said Tuesday that they were just ready for a change.
"It hurt my heart. I had him way up here on a pedestal," said Robert Pierson, a Dolton resident who cast a ballot for Kelly on Tuesday. "I hope this time we are going to get it right."
Other voters said it was Kelly's attention to anti-gun efforts that made her an attractive candidate. Guns became the top issue during the campaign — particularly before the primary — and ads from Bloomberg's PAC played up that Kelly supports an assault weapons ban. The television spots also targeted one of her primary opponents, former one-term U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson, who has received favorable ratings from the National Rifle Association.
Some voters, and certainly Kelly's political opponents, questioned the outside involvement. There were allegations of Kelly colluding with Bloomberg, which is prohibited. She dismissed those claims.
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"Mayor Bloomberg, he's for right," said 62-year-old suburban Chicago voter Ted Norwood, who cast a vote for Kelly. "He speaks for everybody."
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McKinley, 54, had portrayed himself as an anti-establishment candidate, blasting Chicago's machine politics. McKinley is an ex-convict who served prison time for robbery and other charges. On the campaign trail, he talked about his reintegration into society and how it made him a voice for inmates.
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When Kelly heads to Washington she will face other challenges. She'll be taking over after Jackson, a nearly 17-year incumbent with a spot on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
Despite Jackson's legal problems at the end of his career — he was under a House Ethics Committee investigation for ties to ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich — he brought home close to $1 billion in federal money to the district. He also had strong ties with community leaders and a family legacy. His wife was a former Chicago City Council member, and he's the son of civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Kelly said she's ready for the challenge and had already considered where to set up constituent offices in the district that overlaps with some of her old legislative district. Kelly served two terms as a representative in the Illinois House.
Voter turnout was low in several parts of the district. Tuesday's special election coincided with municipal elections — not including Chicago, which elected its mayor and City Council in 2011. Early estimates for city precincts were roughly 8 percent with an anticipated 12 percent by day's end. Election officials said turnout was expected to be higher than the 2009 special election to replace Rahm Emanuel, who left Congress to be President Obama's chief of staff. In that year, roughly 10 percent of city voters went to the polls.Next Page >
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I ran a contest last week to improve a graph from Swivel that showed immigration to the United States. FlowingData readers sent in lots of different approaches (that took me forever to get organized for this post), and I still stand by my statement that there's always more than one way to skin a dataset.
The winner of the contest is... *drumroll* ... Ben Parizek for his stacked line chart [PDF] annotated with significant historical events. While Jodi and me both agreed that the graphic is quite large, we also agreed that it had a nice polished look that did an excellent job of telling a story.
Thank you everyone for entering, and I hope you enjoyed making your graphs as much as Jodi and me enjoyed looking at and judging them. Here are all of the other entries in their entirety. Please let me know if I made a mistake in crediting any of the graphs. It's getting late and all the words on the page are starting to blur.
The Entries
To start things off Yoav sent in this suggestion:
The screen displays a world map, each continent in a different color. On the top there is a label with the current displayed year number, and within each continent there is a number that shows how many people immigrated form that continent to the US . On the bottom there is a scroll bar that allows to change the years, also, the size of each continent in each year is proportional to the number of people that immigrated from it to America in that year - so upon each scroll of the scroll bar the year number is changed, the size of the continents change and the number within each continent changes as well. Last but not least I'll display besides US on the map a pie chart that displays the aggregated number of immigrants (divided by continent) up to that year.
If we could add a wishlist to the data source, I'll add for each year a major historical event for each continent, and display! this info besides the continent, thus allow the viewers to also have a better understanding of the reasons for the immigration that year.
Neerav went with stacked lines in Excel:
Matthew used a logarithmic scale and did some smoothing:
Yihui used R and used arrows to indicate increases and decreases:
Larger version [PDF]
Bernard produced a series of graphs breaking the data down into different pieces:
Adelino actually made submitted this graph done in Powerpoint:
From Matt, "I used a log 2 scale on the y-axis since in my mine, a doubling of population is meaningful (as opposed to a increase of 1 or 10x increase)":
From Steve, "Log scale allows one to see what is going on with the 'lesser' categories (one of which appears to increase in a log-linear fashion). Gray scale make the image suitable for publication in non-color venues (and suitable for the color blind)":
Daniel used Tableau to create these bar charts:
Andy also went with Tableau. I appreciate the annotations:
Kester sent in this graph using proportions rather than counts:
Jerome compared counts against Europeans as percentage of all immigrants:
Taggart shows immigration as percentage of U.S. population and where immigrants are coming from:
Rik goes with the bubbles:
Mike elects to use a straight y-axis and puts annotation in the important spots. I like the dashes for projected values.
Marc went all out on the research and displayed immigration by percentage:
Full version [PDF]
Jie graphs with a stacked chart and some lead-in text:
Ian goes the animation route, showing streams of people shoot over to the U.S.:
Edgar used Flash and made his graphs interactive:
Parveen went with stacked bar charts:
Dibyo uses a stacked line chart and bright colors:
Erik also used a stacked line, but used a different labeling scheme:
Charles uses centered bars to show trends over time:
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Thank you so much for running this contest– even though I wasn't moved to submit an entry, I've been excitedly waiting to see how others approached the problem. Please run more contests in the future–even without a prize, the exercise is definitely a valuable one for everyone!).
I agree with Raymond, there definitely should be more competitions in the future, I enjoyed entering this competition as it gives me an excuse to do something creative with data for an end goal, rather than just fiddling around.
You should definitely link to bigger images though, my bubble one (which should have been the winner, of course) looks far better when it isn't squashed down to 500px wide: http://tinyurl.com/6afh3s
Nathan, contests are a great idea as it allow us to share different approaches and exchange ideas & best practices.
I think we all had a great time getting our teeth into this.
Looking forward to the next one
All the best
Thanks for running the contest!
A feast! Agree with all here, its a great idea. Pls run such contest regularly, prize or no prize.
Some good entries, and some less so. There were a lot of interesting approaches. I wish I'd had more time to work on this, but there are bills to pay. And I already have Teufte's books.
The winning entry is certainly polished and deserves to be published on nice stock in glossy finish. The Americas and Asia items in the Total stack are reversed, and the timeline distance between 2000 and 2006 is the same as that for all the ten year periods. The annotations were nicely done, and I wish I had a larger monitor that could do it justice.
Not to get technical, but I'd call this a stacked area chart. Interesting that many of the stacked charts showed the larger series stacked on the smaller ones.
The log scale is an interesting approach which is rarely seen in an infographic intended for general audiences. The log scale line chart with the circles with arrows had me searching at first for hidden male/female information, until I looked closely. The arrows show what can be seen by inspection, and actually detract from the chart.
A few of the charts used glaring colors, hmm. Some charts used dates along the vertical scale, and one of these, the centered bar chart, used different scales for each series.
Nobody submitted a stream graph, but perhaps there was not enough data.
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I think I should remind some readers of an important fact that the last five symbols in my graph are FEMALE signs! haha :) (that's why I said "because SHE was there")
Yihui –
SHE the statue? She's been there for longer than the last data point. You broke your convention in two ways: the symbol changed, and it no longer indicated up or down. All in all, the symbols are more of a distraction than a visual aid.
Whoah, Jon Peltier, settle down dude!
I'll try to do more of these in the future :). I've updated the post so that some of the images are linked to their larger versions.
Doug –
Was I harsh? Didn't mean to be, but this morning the coffee's taking a while to kick in. I was merely stating some impressions.
I liked the bubble display. Usually I'm not wild about this technique, because it hides the textures in a data set, but this data was very straightforward.
The Rorschach graphics took me a while to decipher. It's a clever idea, but in this case it was distracting.
Only a few submissions (by Mike, Jie, and Jerome) extrapolated the 2000-2006 to a projection for the full decade. Most others showed a decline for the last point, and a couple left it off.
This is an amazing exercise in creativity. The same data being seen through many eyes and what a treat to see what they see.
I liked the bubble chart the best – like Jon, I dont really like bubbles as much, but this is a great use of bubbles vs stacked (or concentric) bubbles.
Fascinated by data – maybe I will take part in the next competition.
Great work by all the contestants – remember there are no losers, it is just the representation is wrong !
I agree with the choice of winner, but I have to third the appreciation for the bubble chart. It's just so clean, and makes the patterns easier to see than with any other chart.
By the way, this seemed like a good exercise to learn something about Processing.js, so I made an interactive version of my solution.
I like large and annotated charts that tell a story. Annotations are important, specially if we are using a very long time series, but in this case I think that major world events like the world wars or the Irish Famine explain much better the levels of immigration than the immigration policies ("policies" is missing from the chart title).
Like Jon, I would reverse the series order.
@Michael – I like it!
@Michel: this is why I'm a little jealous of people using Processing… You may want to add a dummy series just to show that there was a new policy. Ben's idea of evaluating the impact is great, and you could perhaps use the background color to simplify the analysis.
I enjoyed looking at visualizations. It reinforces in my mind the fact that any visualization will make some compromise in that in will emphasize one thing or another. While this may be the intent of the graphic creator, it leads to bias. The original data should always be available as a reference.
Different people emphasized different aspects of the data. In whole, the different versions let me see things that I didn't notice when I first looked at the data. I didn't get a chance to play with the interactive versions, but that certainly seems a compromise between presenting a static interpretation of the data and forcing the user to pore through the data to create their own visualization. I guess in most cases, we all probably tried different approaches before settling on our final entry but that doesn't benefit the viewer. An interactive presentation bridges the gap.
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I enjoyed submitting and really enjoyed the many approaches taken, particularly the use of annotation to tell a story. Please, do more of these!
Great contest.Its a great idea. Pls make more contest regularly.


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economy. Among the key indicators are labour market data. The ABS
has been producing labour force data on a monthly basis for more
than 30 years.
It is not practical to ask every person in Australia their
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sample survey, the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The LFS survey
randomly selects a number of households from the population and
questions the occupants on their labour force status and
experience. There are about 30 000 households surveyed each
All people aged 15 years and over in these households are the
sample; in June 2008 this was 54 900 people. This sample
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number unemployed, the unemployment rate, and the labour force
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statistics calculated from that sample. In general terms a small
sample has lower statistical accuracy, a large sample has higher
accuracy. High accuracy is clearly desirable. However, surveying a
large number of people costs more than surveying a few people. So,
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decided to reduce the LFS sample size across Australia by 24 per
cent, i.e. from 54 900 in June 2008 to around 41 900 in
July 2008. With this has come an inevitable reduction in accuracy
which shows up as an increase in the standard errors associated
with each statistic.
This loss of accuracy can be shown in two ways. One is to
calculate what is called the relative standard error (RSE) which is
the ratio of the standard error to the value of the statistic. Thus
between June and July 2008, for the level of unemployment, the
relative standard error increased from 2.7 per cent to
3.3 per cent. The other way to show the loss of accuracy is to
simply use the standard errors which are conceptually easier to
grasp than RSEs and are published by the ABS.
Effect on estimates
Every statistic calculated from a survey such as the LFS has an
associated standard error. For the level of unemployment, for
example, the standard error was 12 400 in June 2008. This
meant that in June 2008, we could be 68 per cent
confident that the true value for unemployment lay in the range
12 400 less than the reported statistic to
12 400 more than the reported statistic. Thus at the
68 per cent level, we could say that the true value lay in a
range that was two times 12 400 wide, viz. 24 800 people
wide. At the 95 per cent level the true value lay in a range
from twice 12 400 less than the reported statistic to twice
12 400 more than the reported statistic; this made the range
49 600 people wide at the 95 per cent level.
In July 2008, the published standard error had grown by 2200
from the 12 400 of June 2008 to 14 600. This means
that the range had grown to 29 200 people at the 68 per
cent level and 58 400 at the 95 per cent level.
Not only is it possible to calculate standard errors for the
levels of the various LFS statistics, it is also possible to
calculate them for changes in levels, i.e. in movements. Movements
are often quoted in the media as, for example, the level of
unemployment rises and falls. Hence in July 2008 the published
standard error on the changes of level of unemployment was
15 300 which is an increase of 2000 from that for
June 2008 which was 13 300. This makes the range for one
standard deviation 4000 people wider and for two standard
deviations 8000 people wider.
The bottom line is that the accuracy of the estimates produced
by the LFS has declined. Depending on the certainty needed, the
width of the confidence intervals on levels and on movements have
grown, in the case of unemployment by as much as 8800, of
employment by as much as 28 800, and of the labour force as
much as 29 200.
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tables 1.1 to 1.5
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Monthly statistical bulletin tables 1.1 to 1.5. All data
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The advisory is in effect from midnight Tuesday, Dec. 10, through 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, according to the NWS. Snow will begin spreading east across the area between midnight and 4 a.m., peaking in intensity over the Chicago area between 5 and 8 a.m. Wednesday and affecting morning commuters. Up to 4 inches of snow accumulation can be expected, according to the advisory.
"Snow will result in treacherous traveling conditions for the Wednesday morning rush hour, with snowfall rates of up to a half-inch per hour possible with the most intense snow," according to the advisory.
Extreme cold temperatures will complicate the situation, causing immediate accumulation and reduced effectiveness of road salt, according to the advisory.
The temperature overnight Monday reached 2 degrees below zero, with a windchill of 14 below. Expect a high of only 18 on Tuesday, steady temperatures between 14 and 17 Tuesday into Wednesday, with lows bottoming out to 3 below zero Wednesday night after the snowstorm. Temperatures could reach 30 by Friday.


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Welcome to the world, baby Nicholai!
This cake has been a long time in the making… My friend Chris (a woodworker, no doubt) and his wife Karen just welcomed their first child, a baby boy! Not only did I want to make this new family of 3 a wood grain cake because Chris would think it was super cool, it just so happens that the baby's new nursery is painted with a fantastic mural of a big tree with a couple of owls sitting and keeping watch on the branches above the crib.
This cake turned out perfectly- a sweet, sweet celebration cake made with my best cocoa, favorite fudge frosting, and cute woodland owl. The owl itself is completely made of modeling chocolate, both semi-sweet and white (some of it colored to create that festive robin's egg blue balloon and the bright blue piping on top). My favorite wood-grain silicon mat was used to create the intricate wood siding, and I piped the top rings myself to give it a bit of a cutesy, cartoon feel.
This chocolate cake recipe is also the best I've found. It's rich, incredibly moist, bakes up evenly, and holds up well to handling- making it the perfect recipe for fudgy layer cakes! It's also incredibly simple to put together- just drop everything into a bowl, mix, and bake! Use good quality, dutch-processed cocoa and strong, dark roast coffee for best results. (Don't worry, there isn't a dominant coffee flavor- it's included to intensify the flavor of the chocolate.)
Even if you don't have a special reason to put this whole cake together, give the dark cocoa cake and fudge frosting recipes a try… you won't be disappointed!
Rich, Dark Cocoa Cake
adapted from AllRecipes
makes two round or square layers, one 13x9x2
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup cocoa powder, preferably dutch-process (I like Cacao Barry, extra-brute)
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup strong, hot black coffee
1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Choose your pans (I used 2 round, 7-8″ cake pans) and butter, line with parchment, and re-butter them.
In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients and mix until well blended.
In a separate, medium bowl lightly whisk the eggs, then mix in the rest of the wet incredients. Stir just to combine, then add to the dry ingredients. Process for 2-3 minutes, scraping the bowl to make sure it is thoroughly mixed.
Pour into your pan(s), weighing the pans if you're using more than one to make sure you divided the batter equally. (This will make sure you end up with 2 layers of the same size.) Bake for 25-30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean.
Remove from the oven and let cool. Turn the pans out on to a cooling rack to let the layers cool completely before trimming and frosting.
Favorite Fudgy Chocolate Frosting
adapted from AllRecipes
makes about 4 cups
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 1/3 cup cocoa powder, preferably good quality dutch-processed
2 1/2 to 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted, to taste
1/2 – 3/4 cup half and half, or whole milk
1 tablespoon corn syrup (light or dark, doesn't matter)
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Sift the cocoa powder into the large bowl of a stand mixer. Melt the butter in a small saucepan, and pour over cocoa
powder. Mix to form a thick paste.
Pour in 1/2 a cup of half and half, and mix to combine.
Sift in the powdered sugar in 1/2 cup increments, beating after each addition. Continue adding powdered sugar, checking (and tasting :-P) after each addition and mixing well. Once the frosting is sweetened to your liking, add in your corn syrup and vanilla extract and beat on high (speed 5-6 on the Kitchenaid) until it's smooth and shiny. It can be left, covered, on the kitchen counter for hours if you're not ready to use it yet. It is soft, spreadable, and won't ooze off your cake.
** As with the cake recipe, the cocoa powder you choose for this frosting makes a HUGE difference, since that's where your flavor will come from. I use Cacao Barry Extra-Brute, and it's amazing. Use the best stuff you can find for best results.


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French defender named Club's player of the month.
Sylvain Distin
Sylvain Distin has been named Everton's player of the month for February.
The French defender collected his award on Thursday afternoon at a special lunch held at the Hilton Hotel in Liverpool city centre.
Distin started four of Everton's five fixtures during February and became the first overseas outfield player to reach 400 Premier League appearances when the Blues played Norwich at the end of the month.
A summer arrival from Portsmouth in 2009, the 35-year-old has featured in 30 matches this season and signed a new one-year contract extension in January, extending his stay at Goodison Park until the end of the 2013/14 campaign.
Distin said: "It's really nice [to win the award] but I can't stop thinking about last weekend. I accept the award but I can't wait to be out on the pitch to try and put that game behind me.
"I'm rarely pleased with my own form, even if that sounds strange. After a game - no matter how good or bad I have played - all I remember is whether I made one little mistake, one moment in the game where I wasn't in the right place or didn't do the right thing.
"I've been like that for years, but maybe that is one of my strengths. I always look where I can get better or improve, even if it is by one, two or three per cent.
"But I have to be happy with my form because I am still playing and I know there is competition at the back. If I wasn't doing well then I wouldn't be playing."
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You would think that after 3 years of being a college student that I would be able to manage my time, but lately I have been having the hardest time getting into a routine. Time management has not always been my forte, but I find that the busier I am the more productive I am with my time. It's funny to think of the differences between my study habits between my first year at Luther, versus my study habits now. During my first year, my biggest worry was when my next paideia paper is due, who I was hanging out with that night, when I was going to find time to go to Wal-Mart, or what I was going to have to eat. As the years have flown by, I have gotten more involved on campus by joining groups and organizations, playing sports, and trying to maintain a balance between my academic, social life and alone time.
Now I have to use my time wisely to make deadlines for my senior paper, plan meetings, attend meetings, practice, lifting, etc. It is only the second week of classes and I feel like I am exhausting myself already by being involved in TOO much on campus. After discussing my dilemma with my friends and thinking about it all weekend, I realized that it's time for me to step down from some of the commitments that I had made in previous years in order for me to get through the semester. It was a tough decision to make but I feel like it will open up a little more free time during my week so I will be able to sit down and breathe for a second. It will be interesting to see if I will use that free time more effectively or not but I am hoping I will.
I think that by me being able to recognize that I have already exhausted myself this early has shown that I really have grown up and learned a lot about myself over the previous years. It's not easy to step down from leadership roles and organizations but sometimes you have to make sacrifices in order to get by. I think this further shows the transformation that you make as you spend more time at Luther learning about yourself and others around you. I am grateful for the people that I have met by getting involved in different organizations and I will still maintain the friendships that I have made, but I just can't commit to any more than I already have on my plate.


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Interview with Ronald Osborn
We must press beyond the various creation narratives in the Hebrew Bible, including the final chapters of Job, to the picture of God revealed in the New Testament—the Creator who does not rationally explain away the scandal of suffering but who instead enters into it.
Series: Creation, Evolution, and the Over-Active Imagination (2 entries)
"The Language of God" Book Club – Chapter 4
Some people who brook no "god of the gaps" arguments anywhere else look to these three moments as more reasonable places to insert God into natural processes: God spoke matter/energy into existence, God made life out of lifeless matter, and God breathed a soul into human beings.
Not All Doctrines Are Equal—Configuring Adam and Eve
Sometimes, out of fear or some sense of being required to defend our position, Church leaders and teachers have hastily set up a boundary marker around some doctrinal theory which they have confused as a core doctrinal issue.
Why the Church Needs Multiple Theories of Original Sin
"It's tempting to think that the church needs to decide quickly which of these [original sin] scenarios is right, and which ones must be wrong. I believe the church is better served by taking its time, holding several different scenarios in tension for a while as we think through the implications of each."
God's Extravagant Love in Creation
Critics of Christianity look to evolution to show how the emergence of human life on earth demanded enormous ruin and ravage, billions of years of apparent waste and futility, species extermination and organism road kill. Not only was the massive dying off rampant, it's mandatory too.
Belief in God in an Age of Science: John Polkinghorne, Part Three
The gift of Love must be the gift of freedom, the gift of a degree of letting-be, and this can be expected to be true of all creatures to the extent that is appropriate to their proper character. It is in the nature of dense snow fields that they will sometimes slip with the destructive force of an avalanche. It is the nature of lions that they will seek their prey. It is the nature of cells that they will mutate, sometimes producing new forms of life, sometimes grievous disabilities, sometimes cancers.
Series: Excerpts from "Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design" (7 entries)
These excerpts from Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design, written by BioLogos president Deborah Haarsma and her husband Loren Haarsma, offer a sampling of the book's many topics, from exploring our disagreements and agreements on origins as Christians to explaining scientific processes to looking at how we read Genesis.
Hydrology of the Bow River
There's a word beneath the water, and the Bow River belongs to God. Have you been listening?
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Were one to propose creation by means of theistic evolution, some of the presuppositions for these responses to the problem of evil no longer function. Therefore, advocating some form of theistic evolution poses problems for standard explanations of the problem of evil.
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The tension generated by our understanding of God's character, as revealed in the Bible, and by the reality of the natural world around us has been the focus of much debate within the Christian church since the first century. This series examines critically several of the proposed solutions to this problem, viewing them from the perspective of a geologist, paleontologist, and orthodox evangelical Christian.
Series: Southern Baptist Voices: Evolution and Death (4 entries)
This exchange brings together related essays on death in light of evolution and Scripture from Southern Baptist theologian Dr. John Laing. Laing argues that evolutionary theory requires death to play a central role in the creation of new life, but sees Scripture depicting death only "as an invader, disturber of peace, and a force of evil." A BioLogos response is given by Dr. Jeff Schloss.
The Questions Update: Did death occur before the Fall?
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Series: Asa Gray and Charles Darwin Discuss Evolution and Design (5 entries)
Many Christians believe that they face a painful choice-- either life was designed by God or it is an evolutionary product of natural selection. Charles Darwin himself believed in this dichotomy, and people ever since have felt the need to "choose sides". However, looking back at history, we find that one of Darwin's chief scientific colleagues, Asa Gray, did not share this perspective. In this three-part essay, part 1 charts the relationship of Asa Gray and Charles Darwin. Part 2 describes Darwin's struggle with the problem of natural evil and design in nature, and part 3 explores how Asa Gray was able to embrace evolution without rejecting the idea of design.
Fine-tuning and the "Fruitful Universe"
I ask the question, "Why is the universe so special?" Now scientists don't like things to be special; we like things to be general, and our natural anticipation would have been that the universe is just a common specimen of what a universe might be like.
Saturday Sermon: Over and Above Naturalism, Part 2
Barkley suggests that material creation is not the end of our understanding (as Naturalists think), but a beginning that unveils the majestic and power of a Creator who loves us.
Saturday Sermon: Over and Above Naturalism
Pastor Joseph Barkley of Ecclesia Church extols the greatness of the God who has brought forth incredible works and engaged humankind in relationship. In the first part of the sermon "Over and Above Naturalism," Barkley admires the factual knowledge unlocked by science, and yet reminds the Church that those material descriptions fail to answer the question of ultimate significance.
Caution! Design Arguments Ahead
Design arguments have been around forever and expressed in various ways. Most of them fall into what we call natural theology, which is the process of inferring something about the existence and nature of God by the inspection of nature.


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Lauren Bush Lauren: Fashioning a Social Enterprise
The FEED founder talks about how her fashion background and passion for fighting world hunger combined to turn her into a leading social entrepreneur.
A trip to Guatemala helped inspire Bush Lauren to join in the fight to end world hunger by creating FEED.
It took years of pitching FEED to Whole Foods before Bush Lauren finally succeeded--and learned a lot about business in the process.
It's important to choose strategic partners wisely, especially for businesses connected to social causes.
Bush Lauren talks about what helps the FEED brand appeal to millennials and hints at what might come next for the business.
Bush Lauren answers questions on strategic partnerships and structuring your company for maximum social impact.
Bush Lauren answers questions on creating an advisory board and on the challenges that can arise in giving back.
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We've Got The Scoop Grand Opening: Saturday, October 20, 1 to 4 p.m., 677 Peace Portal Drive, Blaine. Family fun including face painting and balloon hats by Zig Zag and Ragz Z clowns. Info: 306-8519 or scoopsofblaine.com.
Owning an ice cream parlor wasn't necessarily in Steve Hagen's plans, but it turned out to be a sweet opportunity that he couldn't pass up.
A chance conversation, a wish for a small town ice cream parlor and a space ready for the endeavor opened up door after door for the entrepreneur to pursue his new business venture. "I was talking to Ed at the city and said, 'This place [Blaine] needs an ice cream shop.' He told me Tony Andrews had already built one. Apparently everyone knew about it but me," Hagen said.
Fond memories of visiting Daffy's, an ice cream parlor that used to be the go-to spot in Blaine, spurred Hagen's decision to explore the business idea. "I had great memories of that, and I wanted other people to have the same experience and memories for years to come," Hagen said.
"I love Blaine. I've lived here most of my life, and I want my four kids to have that experience, too," he said.
With that in mind, it didn't take long for Hagen to backburner the other business he was working on and broker a deal with Andrews to rent the little shop next door to Tony's Just A Bite restaurant. Hagen made some adjustments to the design to get it up to health department standards and lined up Edaleen Dairy as a supplier. "I wanted local," Hagen said. It wasn't too much longer before We've Got the Scoop was up and running.
Right now, the shop offers eight ice cream flavors. Chocolate and vanilla are the stalwarts, while the rest are rotated on a weekly basis. "We're definitely going to be getting seasonal flavors," Hagen said. "We offer most drinks, too, such as floats, milkshakes, Italian sodas, chai, tea and espresso." Eventually, if space allows, Hagen wants to increase the number of flavors to 12.
Hagen is excited about the coffee, too. He's keeping it local with Fidalgo Bay Coffee Roasters, and offering espresso to keep customers happy during the dreary winter months that will soon be upon us. "I love my espressos," he said. One of the specials on the menu is a dessert that mixes the best of both worlds – a shot of espresso poured over a scoop of ice cream.
We've Got the Scoop is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday, and Hagen is considering expanding the hours depending on the community's response.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (December 21, 2012) Rutgers field hockey head coach Meredith Long and assistant coach Wesley Drew were tabbed as two of twelve members named to the Senior Women's National Indoor Team selected to participate in the RohrMax Cup in Vienna, Austria, January 4-6, as announced by the Team USA offices Tuesday. The tournament will feature teams from Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, exposing the U.S. to a variety of different playing styles.
"I am absolutely thrilled for Wesley and I to play alongside each other at the international level," said Long. "This is such a great opportunity to represent our country and to experience a high level of competition. I'm excited for what we'll be able to take away from this experience and for what we'll be able to bring back to the Rutgers team."
Long was named head coach of the Rutgers field hockey program in January of this year, and led the Scarlet Knights to a 9-10 season, falling just short of a BIG EAST Championship berth. RU faced six nationally ranked opponents, and kicked off the season against No. 19 Albany, taking down the Great Danes, 3-2. In Long's first season at the helm, she headed the development of Rutgers' first player in program history to be named BIG EAST Rookie of the year in freshman Alyssa Bull (Oakville, Ontario).
Long commenced her collegiate playing career at Boston University, earning a spot on the 2001 America East All-Rookie Team. She transferred to the University of Maryland and helped the Terrapins advance to the NCAA Final Four for three-straight seasons, including the 2005 ACC title and NCAA National Championship.
Drew, a first-year assistant, arrived "On the Banks" after experience as both an assistant coach and a standout from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Prior to her arrival to the Scarlet Knights program, Drew had a two-year stint as an assistant coach at her alma mater, assisting in all aspects of the Tribe's program.
Before her coaching days, Drew was a dominant four-year member of the Tribe's field hockey team from 2006-2009. As a two-time team captain and two-time MVP, she tied for third in school history in career assists with 19 and was a National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA)/Longstretch All-South Region Second Team selection in 2009. Among her other achievements, she was a NCAA Division I Senior All- Star Game selection in 2009 and a two-time VA-SID All-State selection in 2008 and 2009.
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Trade and Health Forum Activities at the Denver Annual
Environment Section members are invited to attend the activities
of the Trade and Health Forum this year in Denver. The Forum was established in 2005 to bring
together members from various sections who were concerned about the effect that
trade and trade policy have on public health.
Trade and trade policy have broad ramifications for
environmental health, including pollution and chemical exposures due to the
expansion and restructuring of agricultural and industrial production, water privatization and distribution, trade
in dangerous products or waste, and limitations on governments' ability to set protective regulations as a condition
of many bilateral and multi-lateral trade agreements.
Join us to learn about these issues and more in Denver:
Meeting, Sunday, Nov. 7, at 2:30 p.m.;
full program can be viewed at: http://apha.confex.com/apha/138am/webprogram/WGTH.html
Nov. 10, at 10:30 a.m., the Forum will be putting on one of nine
conference "Special Sessions." Five
speakers, including one from the Environment Section, will present on "Trading
Health? Envisioning Health Justice in a Globalized Economy" (Session 5093.0)
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Member Orientation: Sunday, Nov. 7, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
would love to meet you and find out what you are interested in! Environment
Section members will discuss ongoing interests and activities, including plans
for next year's 100th Anniversary Celebration. This session will
include small group conversations to introduce new members to the Section and
provide mentoring. We hope to meet you there! For more information, contact
Barbara Glenn at email@example.com.
Buddy Program
sure what the Environment Section is all about or how you might get involved?
Meeting a Section liaison could help you learn about opportunities organized by
our section and by other Association bodies and enhance your experience at the
Annual Meeting. Join our Buddy Program and get your questions answered.
Volunteers from the Section will meet with you during the Annual Meeting to
help you navigate the often very confusing meeting program, identify
interesting scientific sessions and events, and make sure you are invited to
our social events. If you are interested, contact Barbara Glenn at
forget to find the Environment Section booth in the new APHA Section area near
Everything APHA!
Denver Food System Tour: SATURDAY, Nov. 6
From thriving urban gardens to innovative community food projects,
Denver has a lot to share with those interested in a just, healthy and
sustainable food system. Join us on a visit to some of the fascinating projects
going on in Denver. We'll have lunch at a Denver public school working with
Denver SlowFood to improve school lunch; visit Delaney Farm, a project of
Denver Urban Gardens; and tour GrowHaus, an indoor farm, marketplace and
educational center.
Not only will you be inspired by what you see, but the tour is a great
opportunity to network and get to know diverse colleagues interested in food
systems and public health, as well as a chance for those new to APHA to come
into the conference with some connections already made!
Please note the tour will be on SATURDAY, so make sure your travel plans get
you to Denver by Saturday morning.
Nov. 6, 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Departing from and returning to the convention center
$35, lunch included
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include "Tour" in the subject line. Space is limited. If the cost is
prohibitive, please email Rebecca Klein, email@example.com
5th Annual Networking Reception, TUESDAY, Nov. 9
Join like-minded
colleagues for an evening of delicious, local, sustainable food and inspiring
dialogue. The reception will be walking distance to the convention center, and
will feature free hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar of local beer and wine.
Nov. 9,
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Walking distance from
the convention center, location TBD
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include "Reception" in the subject line.
Questions? Please e-mail Becca Klein: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Environment Section's Climate
Change and Health Topic Committee is working on several ideas to further
disseminate information on climate change and health, as well as looking
forward to our full session on Indicators of Climate Vulnerability and
Community Resilience (Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 10:30 a.m.) at
the APHA Annual Meeting. On the news front, an informal committee
subgroup has formed to discuss ways that public health professionals and
meteorologists might partner to get teams into K-12 schools to educate students
on the linkages between health and climate change. There is also a
subgroup to survey resources on climate change adaptation. Committee
comments on the proposed structure and process of U.S. Global Change Research
Program's "U.S. National Climate Assessment Objectives, Proposed Topics, and Next
Steps," were compiled via the APHA staff and sent in to USGCRP. Our Committee
is hoping to locate a venue related to climate change in Denver, where we can
plan an evening gathering and some quiet conversation after the excitement of
the meeting, so stay tuned for location postings.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT Tour
Tour of Globeville, Five Points and Stapleton
Globeville housed the stockyards and mine smelters for Denver in the early 20th
century, with many of the workers living in Five Points, Denver's historic
African-American neighborhood. This tour
visits these communities, and discusses how they are attempting to transform in
spite of environmental hazards, being a food desert, a lack of infrastructure and
overall neglect. The tour will be
facilitated by Daniel Scheppers from the state department of health, who led
the state's effort in addressing the Globeville environmental remediation.
The tour will end at the Stapleton Redevelopment Site,
a neighborhood located at the former airport designed following smart growth
Nov. 7
2-5 p.m.
Tour Bus at Convention Center at 2 pm
Discussion on Smart Growth and Social Justice
Community Center
Do Smart Growth concepts promote social harmony or
divide communities? Did the
redevelopment of Stapleton Airport enhance the neighboring communities or
separate neighborhoods. Come
participate in the discussion on Smart Growth's impact and Social Justice
following the tour of Globeville.
Councilman Michael Hancock, Denver District 11
Councilman Doug Linkhart, Denver Councilman at Large
Scheppers, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Sacoby Wilson, University of South Carolina
Host: Environment Section of APHA
Location: Colorado Convention CenterRm. 402700 14th StreetDenver, CO 80202
When: Saturday, Nov. 6, 4:00-7:30 p.m.
*FREE Environmental Justice and Health Forum*
Please join us as community-based organizations from across the country come together to discuss their local Environmental Justice (EJ) and Health Issues.
Overview of the meeting will include:
* Introduction* Roundtable discussion* Federal Panel on Environmental Justice Programs* Conversation on National Coalition Building and EJ Policy* Next Steps* Dinner Buffet/Networking
Forum Objectives:
1. Learn about environmental justice and health issues that impact communities across the United States.
2. Share experiences addressing local environmental justice and health issues.
3. Discuss challenges, lessons learned, and best practices to address environmental injustice and health issues.
4. Discuss ways that community-based organizations can collaborate/network to address environmental justice and health issues, impact local, regional and national environmental health policy, and hold federal agencies accountable in their efforts to integrate environmental justice.
5. Learn about federal initiatives to address environmental injustice and related health issues.
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Dr. Simone Charles - firstname.lastname@example.com Cuevas - firstname.lastname@example.com
From Nov. 6-10, 2010, join us in Denver for the APHA 138th Annual Meeting and Exposition. More than 1,000 cutting edge scientific sessions will be presented by public health researchers, academicians, policy-makers and practitioners on the most current public health issues facing the nation today. For more information about the Annual Meeting, visit www.apha.org/meetings.
Our section will have a strong presence at the meeting. View the sessions sponsored by our section by visiting the interactive Online Program. Search the program using keyword, author name or date. Don't forget to stop by our new booth in the Section and SPIG pavilion (booth 1370) in the Public Health Expo next to Everything APHA
Wow - the summer is gone, and we're
already gearing up for the Annual Meeting in Denver!
It's been a busy summer here, and we're planning on an even busier fall. In
the meantime we want to share some of our recent accomplishments with the Section.
Climate Change – We
experienced an amazing turnout for our webinar series "Climate Change:
Mastering the Public Health Role," which wrapped up in June. Archived webinars
are available on APHA's newly re-launched EPH website www.apha-environment.org. Look for
an announcement this fall about a second climate change webinar series. Our
legislative staff has worked hard to secure increased public health climate
change funding. Thanks to everyone for supporting their efforts and responding
to APHA Action
Food Policy – We
continue to educate policy-makers about the need for public health-based food
safety legislation. APHA is a member of the Make Our Food Safe Coalition, which
has been instrumental in pushing for new food safety legislation. Separately,
we are also beginning to work with members and partners to identify public
health priorities related to farm and agriculture policy.
Chemical Exposures – We supported
development of the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical
Exposures Community
Conversations Toolkit. More than 1,000 people from 25 states participated in
these conversations. Interested members will have an opportunity to comment on
draft workgroup reports in September and on the draft Action Agenda in
EPH in the Press – Our
new environmental health website was recently featured on Medscape! Our work
to collect stories from the field was also highlighted in the September issue
of The Nation's Health.
Please check them out if you haven't already.
We're expecting to be busy through the
year and look forward to continuing to work with the section.
See you in Denver!
EPH Staff
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