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After keeping fans waiting years for a new album, Justin Timberlake could return in mere months with a follow-up album. Roots drummer Questlove said in an Okayplayer chat board posting over the weekend that Timberlake would release a second volume of "The 20/20 Experience" later this year, writing, "spoiler alert. 20/20 Vol 2 comes out in nov. (10 songs now . . . 10 songs later= 20 vision)."
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Questlove would be in a position to know: He spent last week with Timberlake on the set of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," and performed a DJ set before Timberlake performed Saturday night at SXSW in Austin, Texas. "He played me songs out of order and off both records so i don't know what made the final cut," Questlove said in the web post.
"The 20/20 Experience," which comes out this week, is Timberlake's first release since "FutureSex/LoveSounds" in 2006. He's spent much of the past few weeks promoting the album, performing in New Orleans during Super Bowl weekend and hosting "Saturday Night Live" for the fifth time, in addition to appearing for a full week on "Fallon" and performing at SXSW.
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It's practically a forgone conclusion that due to the Jets lack of an effective pass rush this past season (and pretty much every season Rex Ryan has been the Jets head coach) they will finally seriously address their pass rushing woes early in this April's draft ALONG with adding a few middle tier OLBs from FA as well (assuming the new Jets GM can actually come in and perform emergency surgery on a cap situation that's in critical condition) as some of the early draft season mock drafts have the Jets linked to some of the top pass rushers in college football from this past season. Names like Texas A&M's productive DE Damontre Moore, Oregon's athletic DE Dion Jordan and most recently, LSU's freakish DE Barkevious Mingo.
I personally see no reason why the Jets won't end up addressing the OLB position in the 1st round considering Jets OLBs Calvin Pace and Bryan Thomas will both most likely be released during the offseason and the position will immediately be severely thin, addressing the position is extremely urgent and drafting one of the "Top" pass rushers in the draft would certainly go a long way in helping solidify the position. It's a strategy I would encourage the Jets to utilize but the Jets do have other important areas to address and they could very well find themselves drafting another position outside of OLB in the first round OR for obvious financial reasons or any other logical reason you can think of (I can actually think of a few like the need for a RB and OT early) they may decide to trade back and garner more picks to not only get value from a financial cap impacting stand point BUT to also acquire more picks to help address depth issues at key positions.
Whatever the reason being, the Jets may very well find themselves waiting until rounds 2-4 to address the pass rushing/OLB position and believe it or not, that may not be such a bad thing as there are legit OLB options when you get past the "TOP" rushers in the draft. Keep in mind that the Jets have seem to have found 2 diamonds in Quinton Coples and Muhammad Wilkerson and with the way both of these players came on strong towards the end of the season, the Jets may certainly feel very good about pairing a young and talented pass rusher with Coples and Wilkerson and conventional wisdom says the Jets shouldn't really have to spend a 1st on a pass rushing OLB as they have every right to feel as though with Coples and Wilkerson dominating on the line, their consistent play can open things up immensely for a pass rusher plucked from the 2nd-4th rounds that carries at least adequate skills and attributes. It's a logical thought, a sentiment I personally wouldn't agree with but one can understand the thinking behind it with the elevated play of Coples and Wilkerson this past season. Let's look at FOUR legitimate pass rushing options the Jets should look at (in my opinion) if they decide NOT to address the position in round 1 OR if they find themselves trading OUT of the first round:

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"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
Adlai E. Stevenson III did more than listen to the words his famous father spoke in 1952, he lived them. With a pedigree of public service that dates back to Abraham Lincoln, and the example of his father before him, the Illinois native did more than sit at the elbow of history.
He rolled up his sleeves and dug in deeply in a political career that included two years in the Illinois Statehouse, stints as state treasurer and U.S. senator. Urged to run for president by the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley he was on Jimmy Carter's short list for vice president.
He twice ran for governor of Illinois, losing both times, but neither was entirely his fault. That first loss in 1982 came, not at the hands of voters, but a politically motivated Illinois Supreme Court. He had won the popular vote in unofficial totals and was armed with plenty of irregularities to challenge the official tally that gave the race to Jim Thompson. Rather than look at a mountain of evidence, justices rejected the state's recount statute itself, giving the contest to the Republican challenger. A second bid was doomed to failure because the presence of Lyndon LaRouche followers on the ballot forced him and other Democrats to run on a third-party label.
The Dispatch and the Rock Island Argus editorial board had the privilege of not only taking a walk through such history when he and wife, Nancy, visited with us Monday, but picking their brains regarding the present and future of our nation and our state.
Though Sen. Stevenson, now 82, has slowed down a bit from a busy professional life, he remains dedicated to bettering our nation their Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy.
Housed in his boyhood home near Libertyville, a landmark carefully maintained by the Lake County Forest Preserve District, the center got off to a slow start due to a tough economy.
These days, however, Nancy Stevenson tells us, the think tank aimed at exploring America's systems of government, identifying the most vexing problems facing it and searching for solutions to them is gaining steam. But it continues to need a broad cross-section of thinkers and doers to reach its full potential.
Among the things it already is doing is holding conferences and monthly programs on topics like Iran, presidential elections and campaign financing. The Stevensons' experience in American public life gives the center credibility as well as access to leaders who can help tackle today's problems, including the couple themselves. Consider, for example, Sen. Stevenson's take on today's politics.
"The Democrats used to win elections by campaigning," he told us. "When my father ran for governor, he spent $157,000. In his day there was no pay-to-play. He recruited the best leaders he could get, regardless of their party background. Now all the candidates do are flyovers and fundraisers. I wouldn't go into this kind of politics."
He adds, "We have lost our balance." Gridlock in Washington and Springfield and the resulting inability to tackle festering national and global problems show that we fail to address that imbalance at our own peril.
We cannot begin to do that without an army of wise and involved people willing to search for solutions.
We salute Adlai and Nancy Stevenson for providing such a place and gathering such people. Those efforts do matter.
As Sen. Stevenson's father noted, "I have learned that in quiet places reason abounds, that in quiet people there is vision and purpose, that many great things are revealed to the humble that are hidden from the great."
Visit www.stevensoncenterondemocracy.org and join the conversation.
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After the last decade the Lions GM position became associated with one-liners, punchlines and synonymous with failure. The Lions are 1-4 five games into the 2010 season but there is a definite sense that the culture is finally changing in Detroit.
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For the past four weeks, ever since Matthew Stafford went down with a shoulder injury, Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz started his Wednesday news conference by announcing that Shaun Hill would start at quarterback the coming Sunday.
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This is from a post I made only three weeks ago about Christians showing love to gay people.
Wow, Tumblr. Thanks.
This is from a post I made only three weeks ago about Christians showing love to gay people.
Wow, Tumblr. Thanks.
I just got an email from Tumblr that my blog is trending.
So to all my new readers out there, hello!
Let's catch you up.
My name is Justin Lee. This is me:
Fun facts about me:
So why is my blog trending? Well, here are a few things I wrote that have been popular.
You love gay people? That's great. Prove it. - This is one of the most popular things I've written. I wrote it to my fellow Christians about how they can treat gay people better, even if they don't necessarily approve of homosexuality. It's been going viral in LGBT circles and in conservative Christian circles. So… that's cool.
My mom just died. Here's what you should say. - Ever wonder how to respond to someone who's grieving? This is my advice.
Want to understand your gay family member? Go see Frozen. - Despite what some people say, Frozen doesn't have a "gay agenda." But when it first came out, I posted this about how I relate to it as a gay man, and it went viral.
Is it a choice? No. Does that matter? Absolutely. - This was popular after a big debate erupted online about whether gay people choose to be gay.
Sick of Christianity? This one's for you. - Sometimes I get frustrated with the human side of the church. But this explains why I'm a Christian.
Check out my Tumblr main page for more of my favorite posts, check out my book TORN, and welcome to the blog!
When conservative Christians find out I'm gay, they almost all say the same thing: "I know gay people think Christians hate them, but I don't. I love gay people. I may not agree with them, but I love them."
You'd be surprised how often I hear this. Christians are constantly telling me how much they love me.
If they treat me disapprovingly, it's because they "love the sinner and hate the sin."
If they preach at me, they're "speaking the truth in love."
If they distance themselves from me, it's because they're showing "tough love."
Yet they wonder why gay people don't feel very loved.
It reminds me of a scene from the 1960s musical film My Fair Lady. Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl, has worked hard to overcome her Cockney accent and pass as a proper English lady, but she eventually tires of being treated as a trophy by her diction teacher and others. So when a young suitor named Freddy—who barely knows anything about her—begins to sing a song professing his love, she humorously interrupts him with a song of her own:
Words, words, words! I'm so sick of words!
I get words all day through,
First from him, now from you!
Is that all you blighters can do?
Don't talk of stars burning above;
If you're in love, show me!
Tell me no dreams filled with desire;
If you're on fire, show me!
"Show me," she says. As a gay man, I feel the same way.
Do you love me? Don't talk about it. Show me.
Show me!
You know why LGBT people have such a bad impression of Christians? It's not because of protesters with "God hates fags" signs. We know they're extremists. It's because of daily being dehumanized by the Christians who lecture and preach at us, treating us as issues instead of as human beings—and because of the Christians we know who stand idly by, thinking that if they're not actively hating us, that counts as loving us.
That's not love. Talk is cheap. Telling me your opinion on my life is easy. Real love takes more than that.
Sing me no song; read me no rhyme!
Don't waste my time! Show me!
Don't talk of June; don't talk of fall;
Don't talk at all! Show me!
Never do I ever want to hear another word.
There isn't one I haven't heard…
It's true. Anything you could say, all that "speaking the truth in love," I've heard it all before. So if you're really serious when you say you love me, you're going to have to prove it. Show me.
Not sure how? Here are some ideas.
Most importantly, don't do any of these things with a hidden agenda. Do them because you love me. You said you love me, right? Okay, then. Show me.
A note: I'm now getting a lot of visits to this post from people who have never read my blog before. If this is your first time, I suggest visiting this welcome post to learn more about me and my blog before commenting. Welcome!
For more stuff like this, check out my book, TORN: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate.
Thanks for the question! I have a couple of thoughts on this.
First, I can't begin to speak for God; I don't know why God does certain things or doesn't do others. Some people say that a same-sex orientation is a gift from God, because it provides a unique perspective on the world, among other things. Others see it as a challenge, not a gift—something that's a result of living in a fallen world. (Interestingly, if you ask members of the Deaf community why they think some people are born deaf, you'll hear a similar spectrum of answers.)
Personally, I have no idea why gay people exist; all I know is that we do, and that we don't choose our orientation. I can say that I've experienced many blessings from being gay, including the fact that I'm able to understand and speak to a lot of people who are angry with the church in a way that I wouldn't have been able to otherwise.
As for procreation, I'd say that it was important for Adam and Eve to procreate when they were the only two people on the earth, but that doesn't mean that God requires every human being to procreate. We've done a pretty good job of populating the earth at this point, and in fact, many of the Bible's most important heroes either weren't married or didn't have children. My biggest concern is with sharing Christ's love with the world, and if being gay helps me do that, then I'd count it a blessing.
First, a little background. Michael Coren is a conservative Catholic TV host in Canada. He's known for being deliberately provocative at times, and he doesn't shy away from controversy. He's been called "Canada's Bill O'Reilly" at least once, though he doesn't see himself that way; he says he's less polarizing than that.
But when he recently took a public stand against Uganda's vicious new anti-gay law (and rightly so!), some of his viewers balked, saying he wasn't being conservative enough or Christian enough, even claiming he must be secretly gay himself. (He's not.)
So tonight he invited me on his show to continue the discussion and hear a gay Christian's perspective. Some of my friends were nervous for me, but Michael was actually super nice, and I really enjoyed the conversation. Check it out.
In the 18 years since I first came out as gay, I feel like I've heard discussions on "Is it a choice?" about a million times.
And for 18 years, my answer has continued to be the same:
You can choose your behavior.
You cannot choose your orientation.
People can choose who to date, kiss, or sleep with. They can also choose not to do any of these things.
But people don't choose who they're attracted to. Many people have spent their whole lives trying not to be attracted to the same sex. That's not a choice.
So if we define "gay" as "someone who is attracted to the same sex," then no, being gay isn't a choice. A gay person could choose to be celibate or choose to hide what they feel, but their orientation would still be the same.
Pretty clear, right?
But if that's true, then why are there a few gay people out there who say they "chose" to be gay?
I've seen it happen from time to time; someone will write an article or make a public statement claiming that they're "gay by choice." And people freak out: Gay folks get angry, anti-gay folks say, "I told you so!", and the person in question gets lots of attention for a little while.
But if it's not a choice, why would someone say that?
Well, there are a few reasons:
1. They don't want to be perceived as victims. For some people, saying, "I didn't want to be this way," sounds like there's something wrong with being gay. They don't think there's anything wrong with it, so they choose a message that sounds stronger: "Hey, there's nothing wrong with being this way! Actually, I like it! I choose it!" But what they're really saying is that they choose to embrace their sexuality; they didn't choose their orientation in the first place.
2. They might have had a unique experience. Some people experience "sexual fluidity" (an orientation that changes with time), or bisexuality (attraction to both sexes). They may mistakenly think this is how everyone feels, and this may actually be what they mean when they talk about "choice." Of course, even these people didn't choose to experience fluidity or bisexuality, because someone who isn't bisexual can't choose to become attracted to both sexes by force of will. (Many have tried!)
3. They're conflating behavior and orientation. Often, it's just a matter of confusing their terms. When you hear such a claim, look for how the person defines "gay." If they talk about being gay in terms of sexual activity, for instance, what they're really saying is that people can choose who they sleep with. I agree with that, but that's not the same as choosing your orientation.
4. It's psychology. Psychological concepts like cognitive dissonance and the illusion of control suggest that even when events are out of our control, we humans are very good at convincing ourselves that we were in control the whole time. It's like Aesop's fable of the sour grapes: "I can't reach those grapes, but that's okay, because I didn't want those anyway. It was my choice all along."
But imagine people making statements like these:
"I love coconut pie! And I choose to like it, because it's delicious!"
"I don't like coconut pie. But that was my choice, because it's disgusting."
What would such statements even mean? It's easy to see how someone who loves coconut pie might believe he chose to love it, but the reality is that if he didn't already like it to begin with, he wouldn't have made that choice, would he? (Trust me, there are some foods I really want to love, but no matter how many times I eat them, I still hate them.)
Anyway, does it really matter if orientation is a choice?
Yes. It does matter. Here's why.
Around the world right now, there are many people being abused, tortured, imprisoned, and even killed for being gay. A few days ago, I talked to a man whose good friend in Cameroon died earlier this month—starved to death by his family in an attempt to make him straight.
Even in America, where we have it comparatively easy, there are people contemplating suicide because they couldn't change their orientation, and there are people who have experienced severe psychological and even physical trauma at the hands of those who believed that putting enough pressure on them could convince them to make a different "choice."
Claiming that being gay is a choice causes two terrible harms: It convinces some straight folks to try even harder to pressure people into making a different choice (such as through Uganda's "Kill the Gays" legislation), and it says to the gay victims of such abuse that they could have "chosen" not to experience that abuse at any time by just "choosing" not to be gay.
This is wrong. It's dangerous. It's deadly.
And it's just not true.
Yes, if you're an openly gay man in New York City, I understand that you don't want people to see you as a victim or to give you equality just because you "can't help" being gay. I get that. But claiming that being gay is a choice is not the way to solve that problem.
So let me say this one more time.
Yes, you can choose how you live—who you have sex with, who you date, what you wear, where you go, and whether to tell anyone the truth about what you feel inside. You could choose to marry or sleep with someone you're not even attracted to. Many people do.
But no, you can't choose your orientation—the unchosen attractions we each have deep down inside. If you doubt that, just read the stories of people who spent their whole lives trying to change.
Because getting this right matters, and getting it wrong could quite literally cost people their lives.
Every year, the Gay Christian Network puts together a big conference of Christians who care about LGBT people. This year's theme is "Live It Out," and guess who's going to be there!
Author/blogger Rachel Held Evans will be keynoting.
So will Rev. Dr. Christine Wiley, pastor at the first black Baptist congregation in DC to call an equal husband/wife pastoral team.
And Rob and Linda Robertson, whose powerful story "Just Because He Breathes," about their gay son, was a viral hit on Huffington Post this year.
Did I mention the concert by popular singer/songwriter Derek Webb, formerly of Caedmon's Call?
That doesn't even count more music by Bobby Jo Valentine, a women's retreat featuring Rev. Audrey Connor, workshops by a bunch of amazing people, powerful worship, fellowship opportunities, and more. Oh, and I'll be there also.
This year will be our biggest conference yet, January 9-12, 2014, in Chicago. The current online registration rate ends December 15, so if you think you, your family, your church, and/or your friends might like to go and meet all these awesome people, head to the GCN conference website now to register!
Last year, I traveled to 20 American colleges as part of a speaking tour for the Gay Christian Network. We decided to take the opportunity to ask students some questions about their views, and what we found was pretty incredible.
Here are the results. Get ready to be shocked.
Folks, this is why I do the work I do. And this is why, as I show in my book, it's so important for us to have these conversations.
Part 6 in my series of questions Christians ask about gay people.
I talk to a lot of Christians about LGBT issues, and I always encourage them to ask the questions they've been afraid to ask. One of the most common is this one:
"Why do gay people make their sexuality the core of their identity?"
Um, we don't. At least, most of us don't.
In my experience, it's usually other people who make the biggest deal out of our sexuality.
One of the reasons many gay people prefer to be called "gay" rather than "homosexual" is that the term "homosexual" seems to focus unnecessarily on our sexuality, as if being gay were all about sex. (This is exactly why some anti-gay groups like to use that term so much, which just makes us dislike it all the more.)
As a gay man, I don't want to be defined by my sexuality. But I keep getting this question anyway from people who insist that if I describe myself as gay, my identity must be in my sexuality—and not in Christ.
So let's clear up three myths on this subject.
Myth #1: If your identity is in Christ, you shouldn't describe yourself with any other label.
"You shouldn't call yourself gay," a friend once said to me. "You should just say that you're a Christian, and nothing else. I don't call myself a straight Christian, or a white Christian, or a male Christian…"
But wait a second—if I asked that same friend "Are you straight?" or "Are you white?" or "Are you male?", he would surely say "yes." We all use many different adjectives to describe ourselves, and that doesn't mean our identities aren't still in Christ. People are complex.
I do agree with him on one point, though: There's no such thing as a gaychristian, some scary, one-word mythical being distinct from regular Christians.
I'm not a gaychristian. I'm a Christian who also happens to be gay.
Myth #2: If your identity is in Christ, you shouldn't talk about the things that make you different.
So what about my friend's other point? He doesn't go out of his way to call himself a "male Christian" or a "white Christian," so why do I need to bring up the fact that I'm gay?
I know where he's coming from. As a white guy in America, I hardly ever think about my race. It almost never comes up in conversation. But if I walk into a crowded room and I'm the only white person there, I suddenly become very aware of my race. Similarly, I don't think much about being male—until I find myself in a group where everyone else is female.
When you're in the minority, you think and talk about the things that make you different. That's not a bad thing; it's actually really great for the broader Body of Christ, because it lets other Christians hear new perspectives.
It also gives you a chance to connect with others in the same boat, which is important. I can't imagine anyone telling a Christian women's group that their identities aren't in Christ because they talk about their gender.
Myth #3: If there's any example of gay people obsessing over their sexuality, that means all gay people do, all the time.
I know, everyone's got a counterexample:
"I've seen the way gay people act in pride parades! Gay people are all about sex!"
"I have a gay friend who talks about sex nonstop! Gay people are all about sex!"
But it's never that simple, and gay people, like straight people, are very different from one another. It's easy to stereotype a whole group based on one person or event, but as I wrote before, hypersexualized pride parade images don't represent the average gay person's life any more than Mardi Gras represents the average straight person's life.
Gay people's lives are multifaceted, just like straight people's. I'm a Christian. An American. A writer. A speaker. A Southerner. An evangelical. I go grocery shopping, watch TV, read the Bible, chat with my siblings, play games with my friends, listen to music. I'm human, and a sexual being, no more and no less than my straight Christian friends. My life is interesting, and it's boring. Most of it has nothing to do with being gay, and even the gay stuff has very little to do with my sexuality.
I'm all of these things… and my identity is still in Christ.
(By the way, it's National Coming Out Day! Why do I need to come out as gay at all? I covered that here.)
For more in this "questions from Christians" series, click here.
Part 5 in my series of questions Christians ask about gay people.
An open letter to Christians everywhere about the "adulterous Christian" analogy.
Dear Christians of the world:
Please, please, please don't use this analogy. I know what you mean, but this one really ticks gay people off, and it gets you nowhere.
Here's why.
First of all, there is a huge difference between a loving, monogamous relationship—gay or straight—and adultery. One of them is two people selflessly promising love and faithfulness to one another; the other is the breaking of that vow through cheating. Even if you believe that gay relationships are inherently sinful, it's not a fair comparison.
For "Side A" gay Christians in committed relationships, the analogy itself comes across as offensive. How many straight people would be happy to have their marriages compared to cheating?
I get it, though. People who ask this aren't saying gay relationships and adultery are the same thing; they just believe both are sinful, and they're asking why Christians would identify themselves with a sin.
But here's the thing: Even celibate, "Side B" gay Christians like Ron Belgau and Wesley Hill—who both believe acting on their same-sex attractions would be sinful—still refer to themselves as gay Christians. So why do they do it?
Because there's another big difference between adultery and being gay.
Adultery is an act. It's something a person does: cheating on their spouse. But being gay isn't an act. It's what you feel, not what you do. A gay person can be celibate or promiscuous, but they're still gay.
You commit adultery. You can't commit "gay."
At most, you could say that gay and straight people have different sets of temptations. (I have never in my life been tempted to lust after a woman. Straight guys can't say that.) This is very different from calling yourself an "adulterous Christian," which would suggest that you're cheating on your spouse.
And in case you're wondering why I even need to tell you that I'm gay or straight at all, that was the subject of question #4 in this series.
So, my fellow Christians, please help me educate our brothers and sisters so that I don't have to keep answering this question for the rest of my life. With your help, someday I can introduce myself at church without having it turn into a 3-hour conversation about adultery. And that would make me so, so, so happy.
Your non-adulterous, Jesus-loving, Clue-playing, musical-humming, gay-and-shockingly-boring brother in Christ,
P.S. I apologize to all of my fellow grammar geeks out there who noticed the missing period in one of the gifs and couldn't concentrate on anything I said after that. I promise to make it up to you somehow. Someday.


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Speculation that the rapper's anger over a "Jimmy Kimmel Live" parody skit that mocked him was staged was immediate after West lashed out at Kimmel in late September. But both said on Wednesday night's show that their beef was authentic and discussed why West often comes off as arrogant after the rapper called himself a genius – "A lot of people think you're a jerk," Kimmel said.
West became upset after Kimmel hired a child actor to recreate his interview with BBC and called the comedian the next day, saying, "We kind of took it back to high school."


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I so enjoyed reading the story about Angelo Stabler ('09) ("Two Places at Once," fall 2009).
I have had the privilege of working with Mr. Stabler and I have seen firsthand how he has made a lasting impact on the NWU community and on the lives of the children he mentors. Mr. Stabler's experience at NWU is different from many in that coming here itself was an interaction with a different culture. Mr. Stabler is an ambassador for NWU; he gives hope and helps fulfill the dreams of our forgotten children who can now dream about going to college and graduating, like their leader, teacher and mentor, Angelo.
Three cheers to Angelo Stabler and three cheers to NWU for sharing his amazing story of determination, leadership and selflessness.


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Sophie Bouvier Ausländer
What is the particular status of the hand in world making? To what extent can analytic philosophy and phenomenology of perception clarify the image of the world epitomised through sculpture, its becoming, its recovering?
Sonia Bridge
This practice-related research is concerned with the shifts from Greenbergian abstraction and medium-specificity to the current 'post-medium condition' of art, and more specifically with questions in experimental animation of 'formal coherence' in light of the disputes over the ontological and categorical relevance of the medium...
Elisabeth S. Clark
My research seeks to further elucidate notions and questions circling the 'event' both in contemporary art practices and art writing. But what constitutes an artwork as event? And is the 'event' an act or trace or the inevitable dichotomy of the two?
Fiona Curran
Currently researching for a practice-related PhD that considers the role of fine art practices since the 1960s in relation to the environmental impact of new technologies...
Sarah Fortais
What is cool? The word denotes a certain socially desirable trait or characteristic that can apply to animate objects, like people or inanimate objects, like products.
Yva Jung
I was born in Seoul where everything changes so fast. Nothing waits to grow old or to become attached to the city. As I moved through four continents and the Arctic Circle, I made ephemeral art works.
Leah Lovett
My practice and thesis begin from an understanding of social structures as spatial and as performed.
Paul Magee
I love science. The big ideas, the big questions: time, space, consciousness, Grand Theories of This, That and The Other. Her scales and time-frames outstrip our capacity to experience her universe by orders of magnitude.
Ioana Marinescu
My work is based on stories about parts of cities annihilated by totalitarian interventions.
Onya McCausland
Turning Landscape into Colour is an investigation into the origins of earth pigments - 'ochres' found in landscapes across the UK that considers their significance as contemporary cultural materials.
Florian Roithmayr
The intention of this project is to examine the theory of the distributed object.
Henrietta Simson
Single point perspective and photographic technologies of sight have been implicated in a dominating western way of seeing, referred to here as 'natural vision' for the past 500 years.
Kay Tabernacle
My research investigates different concepts of imagination in Hannah Höch's independent and collaborative work. I ask where Höch locates her understanding of imagination within different conceptual frameworks.
Patricia Townsend
I work with video, photography and installation and am interested in the interface between the external world and the internal world of the imagination.
Graduate Research 2014, Drawing, Colour, Projection, Body
The research themes for the Graduate Research Weeks involve basic notions that continually inform the activity of art-making, and hence are key to the development of artistic research. The research themes this academic year were: Drawing, Colour, Projection and Body.
Graduate Research 2014, Difference or Sociality
Difference or Sociality was a student-led research project centred around the text 'Difference or Sociality' by Scott Lash, written in 1996 for symposium at the Jan Van Eyck Academie called 'Towards a theory of the image'.
Graduate Research 2013
The research themes for the Graduate Research Weeks involve basic notions that continually inform the activity of art-making, and hence are key to the development of artistic research. The research themes this academic year were: Drawing, Colour, Big and Body.
Pain: Speaking the Threshold
This is an interdisciplinary project between the Slade School of Fine Art and UCLH to further research the value of visual images in the diagnosis and management of chronic pain.
Bronze Lab 2013
The 'Bronze Lab' is a research project that will take place in the Slade Workshop during the Research and Development week 11-17 February 2013.
For this research event, 14 Slade students have been selected to participate in the bronze pour.
Graduate Research 2012
The Graduate Research Weeks' research themes involve basic notions that continually inform the activity of art-making, and hence are key to the development of artistic research. The research themes this academic year: Colour, Material, Body, Extra-Large, Light and Shadow.
Laura Cinti
Laura Cinti is a practicing artist working within the intersections of art, biology and nanotechnology.
Raimi Gbadamosi
The inter-relationship between race, power and language has been chronicled in various forms.
Mikhail Karikis
Mikhail Karikis' doctoral research was a methodological experiment, which employed academic writing, music composition and art practice to explore notions of the 'self' through the study of voice and sound.
Tim Long
My thesis examines work by Antonin Artaud, Henry Darger, Marcel Duchamp, and Pablo Picasso, with the intention of subjecting specific works by these artists to critical tests employing the idea proposed by Antonin Artaud's subjectile, that is a paradoxical fusion of both subject and object.
Eleanor Morgan
I create videos, sculptures and drawings that explore physical and mythical entanglements between humans and animals.
Deborah Padfield
Can photographs of pain mediate the space between patient and clinician to facilitate improved communication and rapport in facial pain consultations? Can an exploration of facial pain inform our understanding of portraiture and vice versa?
Theresia Peng
The aim of Theresia Peng's PhD was to investigate questions concerning the cross-cultural analysis and utility of images in Tibetan Tantric Buddhist art, as opposed to political conflicts that often arise in the media now.
Kai Syng Tan
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Aura Satz
This research project examined the concept of mediated presence through the perception of inanimate images coming to life, and the converse experience of human actors becoming inanimate images, whilst interrogating how this might articulate, substantiate or defy belief.
Elly Thomas
In this practice-related study I use a range of play theory to examine the creative processes behind the work of Eduardo Paolozzi, Philip Guston and Tony Oursler.
Making Space
A project exploring artistic process organized by Patricia Townsend and the Slade PhD students.
Notations 2008
To mark the 40th anniversary of John Cage's seminal publication Notations (Something Else Press, 1968-9) Notations 2008 presented a range of investigations into what notation is - and can be.
Postgraduate Research 2011
The aim was to present research themes, which could be productively explored in the space; basic notions which continually inform the production of art, and hence are key to the development of artistic research: Weight, Water, Touch, Body, Land, Air.
Speed, Light, Time/Colour, Scale, Space: A Two-Part Programme of Graduate Research
This project comprised six separate weeks of concentrated activity by clusters of graduate students electing to work under the respective umbrellas of specific research themes: speed, light, time, colour, scale and space.
The View From Here
Working with the Slade School of Fine Art, four artists – in China, Uganda, Israel and Australia –each filmed a 12 minute video in a locale connected to their work, under the title The View From Here.
The Voice and Nothing More
The Voice and Nothing More (vanm), curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck, is a week-long festival exploring the voice as both medium and subject matter in contemporary arts practices.
Topos - The Moving Image Between Art and Architecture, Research Spaces III
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By Martivón Galindo, HNU Study Abroad Coordinator
Central College Abroad, a partner of Holy Names University Study Abroad, offers a rich learning experiencein Mérida on the Yucatán peninsula. At their comfortable "Casa Central," they welcome U.S. language students who come for a semester of study, placing them in classes appropriate to their proficiency level. Although Spanish language fluency may be their first goal, students also study the history of Mexico as well as the art and literature of Latin America. Students are immersed in the Spanish language, and experience the Mayan culture in a safe and welcoming environment.
As the Holy Names University Study Abroad Coordinator, I was invited to visit the program by its director Valerie Grimsley. At the beginning of October, 2011, I spent eight days in the Casa Central, attending classes led by excellent teachers andtaking my meals with the students.
The school provides opportunities for students to acquire experience working with communities in need. I visited Indemaya, a governmental organization that serves Mayan people. Students of Central College help with translations from Spanish to English.
Central College students are encouraged to discover the beauty of Mérida's many cultural events and sites. Handcrafts and local products are sold on Sunday in the Plaza Grande, a park located in the heart of the city. Many stalls sell all kinds of crafts, candy and beautifully embroidered huipiles, blouses and shawls. On Thursday evening, the square of Santa Lucía hosts the traditional "Serenade of Santa Lucía." Valerie invited me to attend the event andlisten to Yucatecan singers and enjoy traditional dances. Attendees of all ages sat under the stars on a perfect temperate evening to listen to romantic boleros and the skillful guitarists of Yucatan.
Central College is affiliated with Universidad Marista de Mérida (also known as the Marist University of Mérida), and some Central College students takeclasses at the university.
I also visited "Amor y Vida," a non-profit organization that helps abused and abandoned children. Central College students volunteer there as tutors, helping children with their homework.
Mérida is at once old and modern, and it is full of life. Music can be heard everywhere on any given day. Free concerts, dances, museums and galleries contribute to a beautiful education environment.
Strolling in Mérida, I was captivated by its beautiful mixture of styles: pre-Columbian, colonial and modern. I encountered students from all over the United States who are studying Spanish in this tranquil, historic city in southern Mexico.
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As I have answered this question during the past, WPAU barely relies much on the essential code in WordPress and generally works on its own. So the solution to whether WPAU will work to upgrade WordPress 2.9 is a huge YES. I myself upgraded few of my blogs using WPAU, since I like it to the in-built upgrade. If you've been using WPAU, you can rest be certain that it'll keep working for any future updates in WordPress. I swear to update it, if and when it stops working with any new versions of WordPress. If you're looking to upgrade the manual way, visit the WordPress Codex entry and obey the directions to upgrade your blog to WordPress 2.9. Don't forget, whichever option you select to go up to WordPress 2.9, always make efforts to create backups of your database and theme files, WITHOUT FAIL. Asides, I've been monitoring the WordPress forums for any issues with an update to WordPress 2.9 and have not seen any major one's at this time.
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February 26, 2009 Twilight
Get ready to sink your teeth into something special, Twilighters... because "Extra" is bringing you closer than ever to your favorite vampires! We'll have surprise cast members from "Twilight" on our set next week -- and they'll be answering questions from YOU!
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It is a sad state of affairs that our world has gotten to a point at which an article such as this one even has to exist at all. You would certainly think that with all of the intelligent people out there who have kids, our species would be getting smart enough to just understand that you can not leave your children inside of a vehicle by themselves. Unfortunately, for reasons Charles Darwin would ultimately approve of, some people are willing to take absurd risks with their own offspring's safety. There are just too many things which can go wrong when a child is left in a car by themselves, whether you realize it or not.
For one thing, there are the extremes of heat and cold that you need to contend with. A child's body, while resilient, is often not as able to contend with these temperature extremes as the body of an adult can do. And in the case of heat, keep in mind that children need more fluids (because they lose them more quickly) than adults do, which means that heat stroke can strike them far more rapidly than they would an adult in the same situation.
Another thing that you have got to worry about is one that most people would never expect to happen. In a lot of situations, an adult thinks that they can save a little bit of time by leaving their car engaged while they run into a place to pick up something. Unfortunately, a lot of adults who get into this kind of situation forget that little kids can be extraordinarily resourceful, and that they like to play with things. Sometimes a gear shift can be manipulated, and your child can actually put the car in gear (mostly with older cars). And at the very least, they can pop the trunk and honk the horn irritatingly.


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Paid internships are turning into paying jobs for 2013 college graduates.
More than 60 percent of 2013 grads who snagged paid internships won at least one job offer. In addition, paid interns far outearned their counterparts with unpaid internships.
The findings are from the National Association of Colleges and Employers in its survey of college students in its 2013 Student Survey, announced Thursday.
The association collected responses from more than 9,200 seniors earning bachelor's degrees.
The survey found that nearly two-thirds of 2013 grads with paid internships 63 percent received job offers.
But just 37 percent of graduates who had unpaid internships received job offers, students told the survey.
About 35 percent of 2013 graduates without internships picked up job offers, the survey found.
This was the third year that NACE has collected data on paid and unpaid interns.
The results have changed little, said Marilyn Mackes, the association's executive director, in a statement announcing the findings.
About six in 10 2012 graduates with paid internships won job offers, with many working on tasks such as analysis and project management, the association reported in its 2012 survey.
But the results are clear, Mackes said.
"In each survey, paid interns exceeded their peers in job offers and starting salaries," Mackes said.
The median starting salary for new graduates who had paid internships was $51,930, according to the survey.
Median starting salaries for grads with unpaid internships was about $36,000 slightly less than grads with no internships, whose median starting salaries were about $37,000, according to the student survey.
But while graduates who held paid internships won larger starting salaries than their counterparts without paid-internship experience, average hourly wages for bachelor's and master's degree paid interns remained relatively flat, according to NACE.
The average wage for bachelor's degree interns rose slightly to $16.26 an hour, compared with $16.21 in 2012, according to NACE.
Meanwhile, master's degree interns dropped 3 cents to $21.90 an hour.
The top wage earners among bachelor's degree interns were in engineering ($20.36), computer science ($18.96), and mathematics ($18.15).
Among master's degree interns, engineering majors earned the highest hourly wage at $24.43 an hour.
Physical sciences at $23.58, mathematics at $23.40 and business majors at $23.02, followed close behind, according to NACE.
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The Golden Arches are the symbol of McDonald's, the global fast-food restaurant chain. Originally, real arches were part of the restaurant design. They were incorporated into the chain's logo in 1962, which resembled a stylized restaurant, and in the current Golden Arches logo, introduced 1968, resembling an "M" for "McDonald's".
The arches were introduced in 1953, when Richard and Maurice McDonald were building their first franchised outlet in Phoenix, Arizona. Architect Stanley Meston designed a walk-up hamburger stand with red and white tiles and a distinctive sloped roof, but Richard, wanting more visual appeal, sketched a pair of stylized yellow arches, one at each side. Meston accepted other changes but rejected the arches; in the end, sign-maker George Dexter was hired to construct the arches.[1] When viewed from an angle, the two yellow arches design was reminiscent of the two loops forming the letter "M" for McDonald's. A sign out front incorporated yet a third yellow arch along with the chain's signature character, a chef named Speedee.
In 1962, seeking to upgrade its image, the company sought a new logo. Fred Turner sketched a stylized "V", but the company's head of engineering and design, Jim Schindler, extended the "V" into an "M" resembling a McDonald's store viewed from an angle, with a red isosceles trapezoid "roof" serving as background for lettering.[1]
While McDonald's dropped the physical arches from nearly all of its restaurants in the 1960s, the Golden Arches have remained in the logo, and as a commonly understood term for the company. All McDonald's stores and commercials in Canada have a maple leaf in the middle of the Golden Arches.
The term "Golden Arches" is sometimes used as metonym, symbolizing capitalism or globalization in phrases such as the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention", since McDonald's is one of the more prominent American corporations that have become global in their reach (along with Coca-Cola and Nike).


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The roster the Flyers turned into the NHL Central Registry Monday afternoon isn't the roster they will open the season with on Wednesday against Toronto.
For now … the Flyers have assigned Adam Hall and Bruno Gervais to the Phantoms. They cleared waivers on Sunday.
General manager Paul Holmgren said the club's roster has 21 players: two goalies, 12 forwards (including Scott Laughton) and seven defenseman, in this case, Erik Gustafsson being No. 7.
Fellow defenseman Marc-Andre Bourdon is listed as injured, non-roster.
Here is the roster, as of now:
Sean Couturier, Claude Giroux, Scott Hartnell, Scott Laughton, Vincent Lecavalier, Matt Read, Zac Rinaldo, Jay Rosehill, Brayden Schenn, Wayne Simmonds, Max Talbot, Jakub Voracek
Braydon Coburn, Erik Gustafsson, Nicklas Grossmann, Andrej Meszaros, Luke Schenn, Mark Streit, Kimmo Timonen
Ray Emery, Steve Mason
Later this evening, the Flyers will place Chris Pronger on long-term injury (LTIR) which will given them enough salary cap room to move Hall back onto the roster on Tuesday. Holmgren said Hall would come back.
Pronger's cap hit is $4.9 million.
The LTIR move would also allow the Flyers to offer Hal Gill a contract as the club's eighth defenseman. If Gill's number is reasonable, that shouldn't be a problem.
"He said we would talk," Gill said.
Said Holmgren: "There is nothing really there at this point."
Holmgren was to speak with Gill later Monday. His tryout expires at midnight Monday but can be extended.
"Once we file Chris on long-term, we have more flexibility with our cap," Holmgren said.
You could sign Gill, too?
"Theoretically," Holmgren replied. "I like the way Hal played in training camp. He is a consummate professional and knows how to play the game."
By Wednesday, Holmgren said he wants to have at least 22 bodies on the roster. The limit is 23.
Right now, he said the Flyers are $25,000 under the $64.3 million salary cap.
As for Laughton, Holmgren said it was "too soon" to fully commit to keeping Laughton here a full season. In other words, a final decision on Laughton will be made after nine games are played.
"He's a 19-year-old kid and we want to make sure we do the right thing," Holmgren said. "For us, obviously, but also for him."
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Daniel G. Groody is a Catholic priest, a Holy Cross religious, a scholar, teacher, and an award winning author and film producer. He is currently an Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Drawing on years of work in Latin America, particularly along the U.S.- Mexico border, he has authored various books and articles which have been translated into five languages, including Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit, and Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace (2007). He is also editor of two books, The Option for the Poor in Christian Theology (2007), and co-editor of A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration (2007). He has worked with the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the World Council of Churches, and the Vatican on issues of theology, globalization, and immigration.
Professor Groody holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame in the Great Books Program, a Master of Divinity and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology, and a doctorate in theology from the Graduate Theological Union. In 2007-2008 he was a visiting research fellow at Oxford University at the Oxford Refugee Centre. He is also the executive producer of various films and documentaries, including One Border, One Body: Immigration and the Eucharist, and Dying to Live: A Migrant's Journey, which have received international acclaim and aired on various television stations including PBS. He teaches courses on U.S. Latino Spirituality, Globalization, Christian Spirituality and Social Justice, and lectures widely in the United States as well as Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
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Last week, Randy Houser scored his third consecutive number one song with "Goodnight Kiss" from his 2013 album, How Country Feels. "Goodnight Kiss" follows in the chart-topping success of his prior platinum singles, "How Country Feels" and "Runnin' Outta Moonlight."
If three number one hits in a row wasn't enough to celebrate, "Goodnight Kiss" also marks Houser's first number one as a songwriter. He co-wrote the track with Rob Hatch and Jason Sellers.
"I have been so blessed this past year to have such incredible success on country radio and have three number-one's in a row," said Houser. "But it's especially cool to see 'Goodnight Kiss' up there this week and to have that recognition now as a songwriter, too."
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