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I live west of " ROY " in Maine and it's just about torture when i go to games in Miami in September or October because of the heat and humidity....and I grew up in Miami so i know what i'm getting myself into so it's not about being tough.... It's about what you're use to, and no one from this far north is going to fly down there and watch a game and not say " OMG it's HOT ! God this S**** " about 100 times each to themselves and their friends/family and not get a nasty sunburn or the ever o' so lovely sun poisoning.
Still banging and laughing
I always thought the temp. in South Fla. was supposed to be part of our advantage. A dome would cancel that.
2015 Goals:
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We would have one of the most unique stadiums in the league with that. I love it and the fact that it keeps the phins here for another 30 years is even better!
How did they ever get fans to watch them play in the heat back in the 70s and 80s?

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Does Evolution Compromise Human Morality?
Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
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Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
In this three-part series, Cal DeWitt offers insights and examples of why science and ethics must work together to help us make informed, practical decisions within our society. DeWitt's science-ethics-praxis model provides a framework by which we can live more effectively as God's stewards.
In this series, David Buller pays careful attention to the original language and cultural context of Genesis 2, revealing that our responsibility to care for creation is a sacred task given to us by God, not merely a modern secular activity. By taking Scripture seriously, we learn that we have a God-given mandate to be diligent stewards of His creation.
In this video, physicist Ard Louis describes that our value and purpose do not come from whether or not we were created by an evolutionary mechanism. Evolution may tell us something about how we were created, but it is not the source of our worth.
We should not be ashamed of the fact that our faith integrates spirit and body; our faith calls us to regard the stuff of creation in all of its materiality as good, and thus offers the best starting point for the practice and pleasure of art.
It is precisely the recognition of the qualities of elegance, economy and naturalness which solves the problem of the under-determination of theory by experiment, so often pressed by philosophers of science, who sometimes speak of the process of discovery as if it were a dull routine of fitting curves to data points.
In his sermon, Dave Swaim discusses the early chapters of Genesis that seemingly contradict scientific evidence, and he suggests that Christians have simply asked the "wrong questions" about this ancient text, which has led to warfare between the two. In light of this, Swaim wraps up his sermon with the three concluding points that he feels sums up the Biblical truth of creation: there is an all-powerful God, he has a perfect plan, and he has given us his love through Jesus Christ.
Seven years ago, fellow filmmaker Terry Kay Rockefeller and I set out on a voyage of discovery that would result in RENEWAL, the first feature-length documentary about America's religious-environmental movement.
As we mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we'd do well to remember that it was successful because of its remarkable grassroots response. We've all become aware of the daily choices we encounter where we could all do our part.
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.
Today's Origins News Roundup features a tour of trending topics in neuroscience, from commentaries and questions made recently by popular media to developments in neuroengineering and the BRAIN initiative.
Collins poses, as the central question of his book: "In this modern era of cosmology, evolution, and the human genome, is there still the possibility of a richly satisfying harmony between the scientific and spiritual worldviews?"
"I believe it is fair to conclude that the supposed threat posed to human free will and moral responsibility from the very much work-in-progress social and cognitive human sciences is quite overblown."
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.
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.
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.
Is Genesis 1 describing material creation or functional creation? Pastor Richard Dahlstrom of Bethany Community Church beautifully articulates the insights he has received through John Walton's book The Lost World of Genesis One and probes deep into the Biblical text with us.
in Genesis two, God calls humankind to know and study the surrounding world. The scriptures say that Adam took on the God-given task of naming the animals, which is, in fact, science: the exploration of the natural world.
Of all the blessings to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day, none of them surpasses the riches of the eternal blessings which the Lord has bestowed on his sons and daughters in Christ Jesus.
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Conservation science is focused on studying the deterioration mechanisms of objects of art and—working with conservators—designing, evaluating, and applying conservation treatments that can provide long-term preservation and stability to objects. The ultimate objective of this research is to develop conservation approaches that can slow the deterioration of materials and, if possible, prevent further damage, with a primary emphasis on applicability and sustainability. Using a wide variety of instrumentation and analytical techniques, GCI scientists provide essential information to conservators about: 1) the principal factors influencing damage mechanisms; and 2) compatible treatment options.
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dark, forever, it seems, at least
to feel your warm hand upon my body.
Unbury me from this hovel of dampness
that infects my bones, my joints.
I need your electric balm to invigorate
my mind, my soul.
This gray shadow has cast its' net
too long, too far.
It has swallowed
too much of this earth
causing a great bulge
in yesterday's news.
One – sided blues
that propagates itself
over the tops of its citizen's moods
clamping down hard with its monotonous recital.
Sun! Unleash your soothing rays
for we cannot wait
patience has seen its overdue days.
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For 17 years, Sedearia Wilson-Jackson has worked for Montgomery County. Her husband, Sean Jackson, has been with the county for 16 years.
So when Montgomery froze both of their pay and started taking more for benefits, it forced the couple to make tough decisions.
Do they send their son to the college of his choice, or just down the road to Montgomery College? Do they stay-cation or finally make that trip to the Bahamas? Do they work overtime or take a second job?
Montgomery County closed $2.7 billion in budget gaps since County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) took office in 2006, in part by implementing what the county called a series of employee cost savings.
From fiscal 2010 to 2013, a mix of pay freezes, benefit contributions increases, unpaid furlough days and layoffs saved the county an estimated $469 million.
But for about 8,800 county employees, each gave up an average of $30,000.
"I do not feel the county played fair with us, with our raises. We could have gotten something. But they balanced the budget on the backs of their employees," Jackson said.
For the first time in three years, employees could see a pay increase. Leggett has recommended a 3.25 percent cost-of-living adjustment or general wage increase for most employees. For police, he has recommended a 2.1 percent increase and for fire and rescue service a 2.75 percent increase. For employees eligible for increment or step increases, Leggett has proposed those be paid at 3.5 percent.
For police and fire and rescue employees who did not receive increments due them in the past, Leggett is recommending the county pay those steps retroactively. Police will receive a 1.75 percent increment starting the first full pay periods of February 2014 and February 2015 while fire and rescue workers will receive a 3.5 percent increment the first full pay period in April 2014 and in June 2015.
For those eligible, Leggett also recommends paying longevity increases.
But the employees' earlier sacrifices will keep each of them short about $10,000 annually.
Since 2010, county employees have not received cost-of-living increases. Since fiscal 2011, step increases have been frozen. And in that year, employees were required to take from three to eight unpaid furlough days.
Freezing employee pay saved the county $224 million, according to Leggett's office. The furloughs saved $11 million.
The county also required employees to contribute more toward their retirement and health benefits, for a savings of $24 million.
Add it all together, and the county saved $259 million between 2010 and 2013.
Divide that total by the county's work force and county spokesman Patrick Lacefield said each employee sacrificed $30,000 in pay and benefits during the past four years.
But police and firefighters could have lost even more, according to the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 35 and the International Association of Fire Fighters local 1664.
A police officer with five years of service lost $43,355 during those four years, the FOP said in an email.
A eight-year veteran with the department lost $49,124 while only those with 18 years with the county lost $30,389, according to the union.
IAFF President John Sparks said an entry-level firefighter who started in 2010 would have lost $29,158 during those four years, but a firefighter with 15 years lost $44,613. The average loss among firefighters was $35,827, he said.
"The county has saved hundreds of millions of dollars on the backs of employees," Sparks said. "Now I think they recognize they can't keep doing it. Work force morale is at the lowest it's ever been."
However, the county will continue to save because of employee sacrifices — as much as an estimated $96 million more in annual savings going forward, Lacefield said.
For each employee, those future saving equates to $10,000 of annual pay sacrificed going forward.
On top of what employees sacrificed are the 1,254 positions — about 10 percent of the county's pre-recession work force — that were eliminated. Cutting those jobs saved the county $210 million plus $60 million annually going forward.
"These numbers show all of the pain we've extracted to close budget gaps," Lacefield said.
Leggett has said repeatedly the annually increasing budgets — some as high as 14 percent in one year — of his predecessor Douglas Duncan were not sustainable.
Together Leggett and the County Council reset the county's finances, Lacefield said putting it into a position to give its employees a bump in pay this year.
Lacefield said these proposed pay raises will cost the county about $31.4 million in fiscal 2014, an increase of about $16 million from 2013 when instead of pay increases, Montgomery gave employees a lump-sum $2,000. The pay raises also would make a $16 million dent in the county's ongoing savings from the pay freezes.
Numbers from the county council staff, however, show the raises costing the county $32.77 million in fiscal 2014.
For the employees who sacrificed $30,000 for the county's fiscal health, the damage already has been done.
For the Jacksons, of Silver Spring, their family of four has yet to see the Bahamas. Their son was unable to attend his four-year college of choice in Florida but rather spent two-and-a-half years at Montgomery College.
Jackson took on as much overtime as he could while Wilson-Jackson took on a second job.
"Financially, it hit us doubly hard," Sedearia Wilson-Jackson said.
As a police services assistant, Sedearia Wilson-Jackson's pay is listed by the county at $58,155. As a Ride-On bus operator, Sean Jackson's pay is listed at $51,864.
"I come from humble beginnings," Sean Jackson said. "This was challenging because I saw light at the end of the tunnel, then all of the sudden the light got cut off."
Sallie Haney, a school health room aide from Germantown who has worked for the county the past 10 years, said she has had to cut back on everything to make ends meet.
A single parent with two children, one who has special needs, Haney said she and her children have not taken a vacation since the county froze her pay four years ago.
"We can't do anything," she said. "I strictly pay the bills, and that's it."
Haney said she is considered part-time as she only works 10 months out of the year when school is in session.
Yet she receives county benefits, and Montgomery required employees to contribute more to their retirement and health plans.
Between the pay freeze and the benefit contribution bump, Haney said she was able to keep even less of her $26,000 county salary — shown on the county website at $30,911, the amount she would receive if she worked 12 months of the year.
"I now bring home almost exactly half of what I gross," she said. "It's really bad."
Leggett did not shy away from the difficulty of his decision, saying the most painful was eliminating jobs, but he worked to make the sacrifice of resetting the county's finances a shared one.
"It was tough decision under the circumstances," he said. "But I think it was the right decision."
Employees sacrificed to put the county on more solid fiscal footing, and the county is now far better for it, Leggett said.


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"...In the hardest of moments, we can also live the fullest of lives."
While perusing my Facebook page this afternoon, I learned that the friend of a friend—a woman named Maria—was recently hospitalized in her battle against an inoperable brain tumor.
Maria's name sounded familiar so I looked her up. I know her, I thought. But I don't know her. At least not formally.
I remembered her as Mari—her high school nickname. In my memory, she was one of those popular upperclasmen who roamed the halls of St. Brendan High School oblivious to people like me—the outcasts who generally blended into non-existence—more than 15 years ago.
That past became irrelevant as I read my friend's plea to keep Mari in our thoughts and prayers. Within minutes of reading the request, this same friend posted a link to Mari's blog, Grace, Joy, and Healing. I followed the link and read what Mari's written about her illness.
In 2008, Mari began experiencing neck pains that, over time, spread to other regions of her body and increased in severity. She began experiencing headaches, shoulder pain, a limited range of motion in her neck and right shoulder, a weakness in the right side of her face, hearing loss, pain in her jaw, and dizziness. "The symptoms," Mari wrote, "would come on gradually causing me to wonder if I had done something to cause myself an injury. There came a point where it was undeniable that something was not right."
In November 2010, Mari was diagnosed with a large, atypical tumor in her head and neck, according to her blog. After two MRIs, a CAT scan, an angiogram, a carotid angiogram, and a nuclear medicine scan, doctors found that the tumor, which is larger than six centimeters in size, runs from an area near her ears down to the base of her skull. In terms of depth, the tumor runs deep into Mari's skull just behind her right eye. It's encased the carotid artery, she wrote, and, consequently, affects several nerves, which has caused the pain and limited motion she's experienced.
Mari's doctors told her that a biopsy was too risky for a tumor like this and, given its placement, surgerically removing it is impossible. Since January, she has been undergoing radiation treatment in the hopes of shrinking the tumor, which would also alleviate the symptoms she's suffering.
Mari's about to turn 33 in two weeks. She's older than me by a year and three weeks.
I had been preparing to write this post, which was initially about rekindling a connection with one's true self based on the writings of author Parker J. Palmer, when I came across Mari's story. I knew I had to bring her into my narrative somehow, especially after I read her January 5th, 2011, post where she wrote:
"A mentor of mine told me that during the hardest of moments we can also live the fullest of lives. These words really resonate for me. The hardest of moments help us to appreciate and become present to the wonder of being alive, sharing with those we love, and the beauty all around us. It's put into perspective for me how precious things we often take for granted are."
It's amazing how we take life for granted on a daily basis. We do it so much, our lives become unsustainable, chaotic, and complex without us really knowing why until everything spirals out of control in some way or another. That's when our hardest moments force us back to our true selves.
In our daily lives, we take in external perceptions, ideas, and suggestions without question and make them our own. We do this until we begin living lives that aren't true or fulfilling to the yearnings of our own, inner selves. This pattern draws us inward causing a disconnect that, eventually, desensitizes us to others and ourselves. It makes us negative, short-sighted, and hard to be around.
Then hardship strikes. It hits us all differently, but serves the same purpose. It acts as the catalyst that jolts us back and begs us to, once again, live sustainably by embracing our true selves—the self that got eclipsed by those external perceptions, ideas, and suggestions.
The hardships I've experienced in recent years pale by comparison when I think about Mari's story. Someone who responded to my friend's posting about Mari summed my feelings up nicely: "...Here I am feeling sorry for myself for dumb reasons and then I go and read just a little [of Mari's blog] and it made me rethink everything."
In his 2000 book, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, author Parker J. Palmer wrote that life is like a pilgrimmage where
"...hardships are seen not as accidental but as integral to the journey itself. Treacherous terrain, bad weather, taking a fall, getting lost—challenges of that sort, largely beyond our control, can strip the ego of the illusion that it is in charge and make space for true self to emerge."
In my travels, I've learned that the road we follow on our pilgrimmage of human growth is unique to all of us and highly personal. But there's a systemic quality to the experience of traveling this road. What affects one person, affects us all in some way. We only feel the systemic effect when we lift "the ego of the illusion" that blinds us—the ego of the illusion that manifests when we take life for granted too much.
In her last post dated July 31st, 2011, Mari chronicled the pain of her radiation treatment and talked about the extreme amount of weight she's lost, dropping 13 pounds in three weeks. On July 31st, she weighed 92 pounds, according to her post, which she titled "My Darkest Times." In it, she wrote
"It feels unimaginable that my body would be wasting away right before my very eyes. Then there is the infection that rages in my mouth. There are ulcers that cover my mouth and throat. This makes it very difficult for me to speak at times. Food does not taste like food. It is disgusting. It tastes mostly like sand in my mouth mixed with the infection. ...Sleep is a huge problem for me as well. I can hardly sleep at all—mostly because I am so hungry I need to keep feeding myself and then the digestion makes it impossible to rest at all. I'll literally just sit and work for hours on end. But I can't manage to care about anything that I'm doing. I notice that I can't manage to care about other people. On top of that, I'm confused. I started to have cognitive deficits. I noticed that I started feeling disconnected all the time and it scared me. I would cry [at] the drop of a hat because I couldn't understand what was happening to me. I noticed that I stopped caring about psychology—something that I know is my passion—but I couldn't connect with it; it was an indescribable feeling of just not being able to associate to anything at all. ...I would look at myself in the mirror and I couldn't recognize the girl that was looking back at me. I hated looking at her—such a strong word and it's the only one that fits. She's ugly. She's emaciated. She looks like she came out of a concentration camp. Her legs are just bones. She's disgusting. She's bruised because of the blood thinners. All I can see is her ugliness. I would put on makeup to go to radiation; I would try to smile at people but I knew that was just being a total a fake. ...I was feeling so awful about having to go to radiation every day. They make me lay down on a machine with this huge face mask strapped down to a bed that burns me every single day. I feel it. I taste it. It's been mentally excruciating. I've just felt like screaming—somebody save me. ...Then there was God. I didn't know or remember that there was a God. I literally didn't stop to think of God. Who thinks of God when you're starving to death and burning? I couldn't even manage to get myself out of a chair without extreme effort. All I could do was wonder who was going to save me?"
If I said I can imagine the pain Mari's going through, I'd be lying. I can't. I've never experienced that amount of physical pain and anguish. It's a hardship that's unique to her experience; not mine.
I can say, though, that I'm experiencing something that's not unique to any one person. I'm feeling an extreme amount of empathy, which is the glue that systemically links our lives together in the human experience.
Through empathy, we're reminded that "...in the hardest of moments, we can also live the fullest of lives"—a lesson Mari's story teaches us all.
My thoughts and prayers are with her.
NOTE: If you would like to read more about Mari's experience and leave some encouraging words of support for her, please visit her blog Grace, Joy, and Healing.
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Why You Don't Need to be a Camper to Love a Safari
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This week we have the pleasure of speaking with a recent guest, Mackenzie, who recounts the safari adventure she experienced with her family. She shares helpful tips for those of you planning your own Tanzania…
The Lure of Zanzibar
What's the best way to wrap up your Tanzania safari or Kilimanjaro trek? By spending more time in Africa, of course. After an adventure in the bush or on the mountain, head to the archipelago of Zanzibar for…
Five Reasons to Travel to Tanzania Now
Tanzania is the best safari destination in Africa. Why? With more than 25% of the country preserved as national parks or conservation areas, the landscapes are vast and open. In fact, Tanzania is home to some…
What to Expect on an African Safari? A First Timer's Account
Noah recounts his journey in Tanzania – full of wildlife adventures, and warm and welcoming people.
This is where the journey began. Driving to our private camp from the airstrip (an ever-stretching field), I viewed hundreds, maybe even thousands, of animals—zebras, gazelles, warthogs, wildebeest—amassed…
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Radical Entrepreneurship at the First Annual Freecoast Festival
The Freecoast Festival was held Sept. 19-20 in Portsmouth and Newmarket, NH. Over 100 attendees enjoyed a range of events and presentations on radical entrepreneurship. More...
October 12 2014 Board Meeting Minutes
FSP Board Meeting
October 12, 2014
Venue: Aaron Day's house
Present: Aaron, Matt, Carla, Séamas, Jody, Sharon
Skype: Rich, Jason
Absent: Varrin
Meeting called to order at 3:43pm
1. President's report
2. LF budget
3. Financial policy/Q3 financial report
4. Marketing contract
5. Fundraising strategy
6. Letters of appreciation
7. Events survey
8. Strategic plan
9. Other business
President's report
• Liberty Forum: going well. A good number of confirmed speakers, some speaker requests still outstanding. Web site to launch this week.
• Need to focus on sponsor recruitment. $1600 to bring a speaker out.
• PorcFest 2015: no organizer identified yet.
• Ambassador program moving along.
• Fundraising. Need to do more. About to launch another round of support for Chris Lopez. She is willing (and there is work for her to do) to increase her number of hours.
LF Budget: Rich proposed approving it as is, Séamas seconded. 7 ayes, 1 abstention. Budget approved.
A Little Magic: FSP Still Going Strong
New Hampshire's largest newspaper, The Union Leader, weighs in with a balanced article about Free State Project participants who are building better lives in the Live Free or Die state.
From the article: "But a little magic did already happen, with about 10 percent of those people having moved to New Hampshire. They didn't want to wait.
'I think some people thought there is no reason to wait. New Hampshire is already a pretty libertarian state compared to the rest of the country. And I and a lot of other people thought why not move there and take advantage of what New Hampshire has to offer,' said Jason Sorens, who started the movement with an essay he wrote as a Yale graduate student in 2001." Read the entire article at The Union Leader.
Photo: Emily Smith and Jody Underwood of Bardo Farm. Photo credit: Meghan Pierce/Union Leader Correspondent
Free Staters Inspire Activism in Krakow
Polish liberty activist Marek Zemsta visited New Hampshire early in 2014, spending time with the Free State activist community. He was so inspired by the activities in New Hampshire, he started his own "Robin Hooding Krakow." Says Zemsta: "I would like to share my small success with you. At the end of July, we made our first official Robin Hooding event in Kraków. 6 people were saved from a parking ticket. Two weeks ago, I was finally able to prepare this video and post it on YouTube. Since then it has gained 50,000 views, which is my personal record. Moreover, our activism was described in two Polish news websites, and on Friday we will be doing another event with one of the biggest mainstream TV stations and their cameras. So once more thank you for tons of inspiration during my visit. (I made English subs for you.)"
September 2014 Newsletter
"Get Out of Doge!" Marketing Campaign
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Free State Project, in partnership with Blockchain, is pleased to announce our advertising campaign: "Get Out of Doge: Escape to the Final Frontier." A banner ad on Blockchain.info directs Bitcoin and alternate currency enthusiast to a special FSP landing page where you can read about the rich connections between Bitcoiners and Free Staters. Take a look, and help spread the word! Giddyup!
Freecoast Festival Schedule Filling Out
PORTSMOUTH - The Freecoast.org, which fosters the growing liberty movement in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, has released new details about the upcoming first annual Freecoast Festival.
The event takes place Sept. 19-20, 2014 in the towns of Portsmouth, Newmarket and Lee, New Hampshire.
The weekend's festivities kick off with a private screening of Hori Smoku: The Life of Norman K. Collins at the Hotel Portsmouth. This feature-length documentary explores the life of iconoclast Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins. Collins is the father of modern-day tattooing, whose uncompromising lifestyle and larger-than-life persona made him an American legend. Through rare interviews, photographs, and archival footage, Hori Smoku tells the story of this radical entrepreneur who built an underground movement that eventually went mainstream. Complementary rum-soaked Holy Donuts will be served. Coffee, beer & wine will be available at a cash bar. More...
August 2014 Newsletter
4th Amendment Dead Ahead
By Carla Gericke*
The mission? Protect the peaceful people of New Hampshire from the Thin Blue Revenue Seeking Line. How? More than 30 liberty loving locals, Free Staters and others alike, spent Friday night, July 25, 2014, warning motorists in Manchester of a suspicionless "sobriety" checkpoint. New Hampshire boasts many quaint laws, including one that requires police departments to announce the date, time and place of DUI checkpoints.
Around 10 p.m. on this balmy summer evening, activists started lining up along Elm Street, the main thoroughfare from downtown. From our vantage point, the single-direction suspicionless checkpoint was tucked behind an incline, hidden from view to approaching motorists. A coincidence? As someone who has only been fined for speeding on a downhill, I think not. More...
August 2 2014 Board Meeting Minutes
August 2, 2014
Venue: Aaron Day's house
Meeting called to order at 9:30am
Present: Aaron, Carla, Sharon, Varrin, Seamas, Jody
Varrin chaired in Rich's absence.
1. Board structure / Fundraising
2. Board / strategic
3. Insurance
4. 2014 Budget
5. Spending policy
6. Event proposal More...
Portsmouth to Get Its Own Liberty Meet-Up Space
PORTSMOUTH - On July 25th, Mike Vine, co-organizer of the Free State Project's PorcFest X, announced on Facebook that the Freecoast is getting its first liberty space this fall, expected to open Sept 1. I spoke with Vine about the new venue, dubbed the Praxeum.
SLN: Who's behind this venture?
Vine: A few partners, all in the Freecoast liberty community, put up the financing to get it rolling. We have a lot of space and hope to make it financially sustainable long term. For now, the partners view it as a combination space for us to do our projects and as a way to give back to the liberty community.
SLN: What's your vision for the venue?
Vine: My vision is to have a flexible use space for liberty-oriented people. It can serve as a co-working space for freelancers. It can be a classroom... a space for private events... a hangout for the local liberty community. More...
Bitcoin Embraced by New Hampshire Liberty Candidates
Bitcoin, the increasingly popular peer-to-peer, stateless cryptocurrency, has been embraced by New Hampshire political candidates. In May, the Federal Election Commission made Bitcoin a legal form of currency for campaign contributions. Since then, New Hampshire liberty candidates have wasted no time adopting its use in their fundraising.
According to a recent article on SYS-CON, about a dozen New Hampshire state senate candidates have begun to use PayStand to accept online campaign contributions. PayStand is a next generation online payment solution which accepts Bitcoin as well as traditional forms of payment. Among the New Hampshire senate candidates accepting Bitcoin are Eileen Landies, Chair of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, who is currently running for NH Senate District 20.
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July 2014 Newsletter
Ratification in New Hampshire
In 1787, when asked about his opinion of the Philadelphia constitutional proceedings happening in secret, Patrick Henry famously replied, "I smell a rat!" Henry opposed the proposed Constitution because he feared it would centralize power in a strong national government. This put Henry at odds with the Federalists, who viewed the existing Articles of Confederation as an insufficient yoke to bind the several states into "a more perfect union." But Henry was not alone in his opposition. Many throughout the newly independent states shared his fears. Collectively, they came to be known as Antifederalists, and New Hampshire had a strong contingent.
Economist Covers PorcFest XI
"New Hampshire is a natural stamping-ground for freedom-lovers. It has low taxes, lean bureaucracy and some of the loosest gun laws in America. Grown-ups can ride around without seat-belts or motorcycle helmets. The right to rebel when public liberty is 'manifestly endangered' is enshrined in the state constitution." Read more at The Economist... Photo credit: Vanessa Vine
June 2014 Board Meeting Minutes
FSP Board Meeting PorcFest 6/26/14 Meeting started at 10:10am
Attending: Carla, Seamas, Aaron, Sharon, Varrin, Rich (on phone), Jason Sorens (invited)
Agenda: 1. President's report 2. Sponsor relations 3. BoD/Sharon's proposal 4. State of PorcFest
President's report In addition to her regular reports of what's been done, Carla will also include gaps and things that were expected to be done but are not yet completed or need more resources. There was a request to have more structure in this report, including who is in charge of different tasks.
Sponsor relations 1. In addition to general event sponsors, a Mission Partner ("MP") category has been created to recognize long-term supporters. Mission Partners will have explicit sponsorship agreements so that terms do not have to be renegotiated for each event as is currently the case. 2. There will be levels with associated perks, going from $10,000 and down. It will be on the web site. 3. Jason Osborne proposed a plan to Carla for a FTL MP contract. Séamas will discuss the contract progress with Mark Edgington. More...
DIY Liberty
LANCASTER – Today is day five of PorcFest, the Free State Project's premier annual event designed to showcase the liberty community in New Hampshire. This year's event is the largest yet, featuring four tents plus the pavilion at Roger's Campground holding a nonstop array of lectures, panel discussions, hands-on workshops, live music and after-hours parties.
Here's just a small sampling of the over 100 scheduled events (these are ones I've attended myself!)... More...
June 2014 Newsletter
Forbes: FSP is "Hotbed of Libertarian Activism in the Country"
Kashmir Hill of Forbes covers the Free State Project: "When I speak to [Cody] Wilson months later by phone, he compares the Free State Project in New Hampshire with Silicon Valley; both places have libertarian-leaning techies trying to make disruptive technologies popular. 'Silicon Valley is more capitalized and less about practical liberty than the Free State community, which has a better stake in the freedom at the heart of these technologies,' he says. 'It's the hotbed of libertarian activism in the country.'" Read the whole article here.


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In late October, New York City corrections officer Justin Burton, 35, brought one-year-old Pit mix Tori to NYC Animal Care & Control. Staff immediately noticed that Tori's collar was deeply embedded in his neck, leaving an excruciating wound. They called ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement right away.
Agents took Tori to the ASPCA Animal Hospital for evaluation and treatment. Our veterinarians found Tori to be in severe pain from the wound, which was estimated to be three weeks old and caused by an embedded collar. Tori was treated with pain medication and antibiotics, and he is continuing to recover at the hospital.
As for Burton, Agents arrested him on January 5. If convicted, he faces up to one year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
Watch this blog for updates on Tori. He's getting better every day, and when he's fully recovered, he'll be available for adoption!
Tori came to the ASPCA just over a month after Briana, another dog who suffered a painful wound caused by an embedded collar. Briana is available for adoption at the ASPCA Adoption Center.
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"This is my dad's recipe. The entire family loves it! A flavorful spinach mixture fills a tasty bread bowl. Your family will love it, too."
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1 cup
1 (16 ounce) container
sour cream
1 (1.8 ounce) package
dry leek soup mix
1 (4 ounce) can
water chestnuts, drained and chopped
1/2 (10 ounce) package
frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
1 (1 pound) loaf
round sourdough bread
Very, very good. I also used the whole box of spinach. For those of you who tried onion soup & didn't like it, try leek. It's milder. Knorr's makes it, and it's usually in the same place where you find onion soup, ramen, etc.
I followed the directions to the letter and used the Knorr Leek Soup Mix. The water chestnuts gave it a nice crunch however all I tasted was onion dip. Served in a nice bread bowl too ($4.00 for a bowl). I don't remember this tasting this much like a traditional onion dip. Nobody ate it at my party.
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this is an easy and wonderful recipe and I hae been using it for years. It is often ruined by newcomers as they use whipped dressing (Miracle Whip type) instead of MAYONNAISE (Hellman's type). Makes a big difference -- use mayo!
I printed this recipe ages ago, but never had the need for the dip until recently. BOY am I glad I made it! I have now taken it to two parties and have been asked for the recipe by so many people. They are surprised at how easy it is. The leek soup mix is the key ingredient, and tastes so much better than the vegetable (IMHO). I used a full 10 oz. package of spinach (it needs it for texture), and I doubled the recipe. It works best if you squeeze as much liquid out of the spinach as you can. If not it could turn out too runny. Overall, it's quick, easy, delicious, and will become a staple in my entertaining!
I made this recipe for a job that I was catering and multiplied the recipe times three. But doing it just for one it just as good. This got rave reviews. I used only 3/4 cup mayonnaise and the whole package of spinach. I usually let the spinach thaw completely and then wring it out in a kitchen towel. The leek soup mix is the key to it. It taste so much better then the Knorr Vegetable soup mix. I would definitely make this again. Thanks for sharing.
This dip is excellent! I got many compliments that it was indeed the best spinach dip they ever had. I did make some substitutions though. Instead of the leek soup mix,I used:
1 large (or 2 small) garlic cloves, minced
1/4 onion, chopped fine
approx. 1 1/4 Tablespoons Janes Original Mixed-Up Salt (or to taste)
Also, I used an entire 10 ounce package of frozen spinach. I think it needs the extra spinach to have some in every bite.
It turned out fantastic. Several people even asked me for the recipe. This will definitely be filed in my 'Quick Party Dips' section.
This is a winner every time. I use light versions of everything I can and it always turns out awesome. I find that veggie soup and leek soup are interchangeable and both are always a hit with the "grazers". I also serve triscuits (or you might try any other sturdy large-ish crackers you like) to use when the bread is gone. I've also added chunky chopped artichokes to the recipe instead of the water chestnuts with good success. Thanks for the recipe!
This recipe is so easy - and the taste is amazing!! I used a whole package of spinach instead of the half a package and divided the dip between a loaf of sourdough and a loaf of pumpernickel.
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The Best Hip-Hop Aliases of All Time
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The Best Hip-Hop Aliases of All Time
Since hip-hop's inception rappers have been known to have multi-faceted characters, sort of like comic-book heroes. And like these heroes, often aliases are used to express different sides of the artist or to explore new concepts. It's why on any given day, Jay Z can be heard going by Hov, Jigga, S. Dot, to name a few. As this list indicates, it's one way rap artists have created such rich allure. These are the best and brightest of rap's nicknames.
Eminem as Slim Shady
Possibly the most famous of hip-hop's aliases is Eminem's Slim Shady, the side of Em that is the most controversial, wild, and hilarious. Though most people know that Em has the alias given his smash singles "My Name Is" from 1999's The Slim Shady LP and "The Real Slim Shady" from 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP, few know his origin. On the intro track of The Slim Shady EP, released independently in 1997, Eminem introduced Slim Shady as his alter-ego, a theme he would revisit throughout his career.
OutKast's Big Boi as Sir Lucious Left Foot/Daddy Fat Sax
OutKast's catalogue is so extensive it's even more difficult to pin down when Big Boi ascertained the above-mentioned aliases than it is to pick just two. General Patton and Billy Ocean are just two more among a long list. Where Sir Lucious and Daddy Fat Sax distinguish themselves is when they became fully-realized as the central focuses of Big Boi's solo albums — well, at least Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty did. Big Boi's follow-up, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Dangerous Rumors, was originally going to be titled Daddy Fat Sax: Soul Funk Crusaders, until he decided to save Daddy Fat Sax for his third, as-of-yet-unreleased album title. Here's hoping we get to meet him soon.
Tupac as Makaveli
Tupac's legend exploded after his tragic death in 1996, but it was the rapper's first posthumous album that got the conspiracy theorists going. On 1996's The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, recorded just one month before Pac's death, he assumed the role of Makaveli, which he had referenced on his prior album, All Eyez On Me. The character symbolized Tupac's "resurrection" upon being "crucified" by the media, bringing with it an almost-mystical aura that surrounds the never-ending narrative around Tupac to this day.
De La Soul's Posdnous, Dave, and Maseo as Plug One, Plug Two, and Plug Three
The concept of De La Soul's members as microphone plugs, transmitting vocals from Mars from separate plug connections originated on the trio's outstanding 1989 debut 3 Feet High and Rising. The concept itself wasn't explicitly used, but was referenced on the album's tracks "The Magic Number," "Transmitting Live from Mars," and "Plug Tunin'." Pos and Dave would later undertake the aliases on the 2012 concept album Plug 1 & Plug 2 Present…First Serve.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien as Deltron Zero
This rap alias may not be a major departure from the artist's original moniker, but Deltron Zero gets in on concept alone. On 2000's Deltron 3030, a concept album made in conjunction with Dan the Automator and DJ Kid Koala, Del is cast as Deltron Zero. The album is part 1984, part Star Wars, and all hip-hop as Deltron Zero embarks on a mission to battle against oppressive forces trying to subdue people and hip-hop. Deltron Zero embarks on his next journey on October 1, 2013 with Deltron Event II.


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ICBA Bancard Announces 2012-13 Board of Directors
Washington, D.C. (Sept. 13, 2012)— ICBA Bancard, the payments services subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), today announced four new appointments to its board of directors. Noah W. Wilcox, president, CEO and vice chairman of Grand Rapids State Bank in Grand Rapids, Minn., was elected chairman. Wilcox also serves as chairman for the Independent Community Bankers of Minnesota (ICBM).
An active ICBA member, Wilcox has served on the ICBA Executive Committee as at-large director for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 terms. Wilcox has also served the industry as an ICBA director for Minnesota since 2007. He has served on various ICBA committees, including the Congressional Affairs and Tax committees, and is currently a member of the Policy Development, Strategic Planning and ICBPAC committees. He is also a member of ICBM's Legislative, Membership and Executive committees and has served on its Technology and Operations Committee.
Other newly elected members to the 2012-13 board include:
- Jack A. Hartings, president, The Peoples Bank Co., Coldwater, Ohio;
- Donna Tanner, executive director, Community Bankers of West Virginia, Beckley, W.Va.;
- Joseph G. Pierce, president and CEO, Farmers State Bank, Lagrange, Ind.
Serving on the ICBA Bancard board of directors with Wilcox, Hartings, Tanner and Pierce include reelected members: John H. Buhrmaster, president, 1st National Bank of Scotia, N.Y., John V. Evans Jr., CEO of D.L. Evans Bank in Burley, Idaho; Jack E. Hopkins, president & CEO of CorTrust Bank, N.A., in Sioux Falls, S.D.; Mark A. Schroeder, chairman and CEO of German American Bancorp., Inc. in Jasper, Ind.; Samuel Vallandingham, CIO/senior vice president, The First State Bank of Barboursville, W.Va.; Camden R. Fine, president and CEO, ICBA; Gary Teagno, president and CEO, ICBA Services Network; and Linda Echard, president and CEO, ICBA Bancard.
"ICBA Bancard is fortunate to have such a well-rounded, experienced group of individuals to represent community bankers," said Linda Echard, ICBA Bancard president and CEO. "These progressive individuals will be an extraordinarily valuable resource for ICBA Bancard as we continue to advocate for community bankers and chart a roadmap that ensures their ability to profitably serve their customers and protect their positions as full-fledged participants in the card payments marketplace."
About ICBA Bancard & TCM Bank, N.A.
ICBA Bancard is the wholly owned payment services subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America. ICBA Bancard provides community banks with equitable access to cutting edge credit card options, debit card options, ATM and merchant processing solutions as well as exclusive services including the Fraud Loss Protection Plan, Portfolio Consultations and ACE Analytics program. For more information, visit the ICBA Bancard website at www.icbabancard.com or call (800) 242-4770.


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Rhône Whites
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Blending in with Champagne
While vintage Champagnes are often the darling wines for revelers who go shopping to ring in the New Year, this year non-vintage blends offer great...more
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2002 Vintage Champagne
James Bond understood the importance of vintage when it came to Champagne. When thugs drag off Honey Ryder in 1962's Dr. No, he brandishes a bottle...more
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Rosé Champagne
More and more Americans will be drinking pink when they pop a cork on Champagne this year. Rosé, with its range of berry and spice flavors and...more
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Vintage Champagne
Most years, Champagne lovers do well to buy the blends that come from this region. That's because its winemakers are so adept at maintaining...more
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2002 Burgundy
In the film Sideways, Miles praises Pinot Noir as thin-skinned, temperamental and in need of constant care and attention. In Pinot's ancestral home,...more
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Haut Future
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About Us
The Center for Comparative Education (CCE) is an interdisciplinary research center within the School of Education of Loyola University Chicago. Scholars in this area use the tools of the social sciences and the humanities to study educational issues that have a global or international dimension. At the CCE we are particularly interested in making social justice more prominent in education systems and discussions around the globe.
Established in 2006, the CCE is now directed by Dr. Noah W. Sobe, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies at Loyola University Chicago. As part of working to advance the comparative and international education professional community and advance teaching and research in this area at Loyola we sponsor lectures, host webinars, manage a blog, and support a number of publishing and research initiatives.


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A true work of cycling photographic art! This amazing piece takes you to a point in the Tour that the spectators don't have access to - a mountain road winding through a narrow grotto, where the riders get a break from the outside elements and enjoy the thrill of racing through the unique and beautifully-lit rock tunnel. With a sharp white border and simple commemorative title surrounding another classic image from world-famous cycling photographer Graham Watson, this is the perfect piece for the wall of home or office.
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Sunday, February 29, 2004JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 29, 2004) - The East Tennessee State baseball team, led by senior pitcher Tim Turner (Marietta, Ga.) and senior shortstop Andy Howdeshell (Maryville, Tenn.) played an excellent all-around game Sunday afternoon to defeat Central Michigan 13-3 from Cardinal Park in Johnson City, Tenn. With today's victory, the Bucs took two of three games from the Chippewas in the three-game Fairfield Inn Classic. East Tennessee State (6-6) got out of the gates quickly, scoring five runs in the first two innings. Sophomore center fielder Matt Traylor (Knoxville, Tenn.) led off the bottom of the first with a single to center. With one out, Traylor would score on a single by Howdeshell, followed by an error. Sophomore first baseman Blake Church (Roswell, Ga.) followed with a sacrifice fly to score Howdeshell from third. The Bucs continued their early rally, making the score 5-0 with three runs in the second. Sophomore third baseman Greg Roberts (Douglas, Ga.) hit an infield single then stole second. ETSU would load the bases as junior left fielder Richie Billings (Leesburg, Fla.) and Traylor followed with walks. Sophomore right fielder Shane Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.) scored Billings and Roberts with a single to center. Traylor crossed the plate on as Howdeshell reached on a fielder's choice and advanced to second on an error. Central Michigan (1-2) trimmed a run from the Buccaneer lead in the top of the fourth. Right fielder J.T. Jones reached on an error then stole second and advanced to third on a passed ball. He would score as the next batter, left fielder Jim Geldhof, grounded out to first. ETSU manufactured two runs in the bottom of the fourth to widen their lead to 7-1. With two outs, Byrne walked then stole second and third. Howdeshell hustled down the line to beat out an infield single to drive in Byrne. Howdeshell then stole second before scoring on a single to center by Church. The Chippewas got back in the game, scoring two runs in the top of the seventh. With one out, first baseman Kurtis Wells and second baseman Jeff LaFavors hit back-to-back singles. Then with two down, third baseman Ryan Peel hit a clutch double to score both baserunners. The Bucs put the game away in the bottom of the seventh, scoring five runs to open up a 12-3 lead. The first two runs scored as Church hit a double to score Howdeshell, then scored on a subsequent double by junior catcher Caleb Moore (Knoxville, Tenn.). Moore crossed the plate with the third run of the inning on an error during a fielder's choice by Roberts. Billings then drove in his first run of the season with a double to score freshman designated hitter Stephen Douglas (Kennesaw, Ga.). The same player that started the inning then concluded the scoring in the seventh as Howdeshell walked to force in a run after the Bucs loaded the bases. Moore put an exclamation point on the ETSU victory with his fourth homer of the season in the bottom of the eighth. Turner (2-1) had an excellent afternoon on the mound, allowing six hits and three runs (two earned) in seven innings pitched. He walked only one and struck out five Chippewa batters. Buccaneer pitchers Josh Kite (Greeneville, Tenn.) and Caleb Glafenhein (Knoxville, Tenn.) were effective in relief, allowing just one Central Michigan hit and striking out three over the final two innings. "I can not say enough about Tim (Turner)," said ETSU head coach Tony Skole following the victory. "He has been dominant over his last three outings." CMU starter Ty Dunham (0-1) was charged with the loss after allowing seven runs on nine hits in five innings pitched. Dunham also walked three and struck out three on the afternoon. Howdeshell and Moore led ETSU's 14-hit attack with three hits each. Howdeshell also scored three runs and drove in three more. Church and sophomore second baseman Josiah Glafenhein (Knoxville, Tenn.) each had two base hits for the Bucs. LaFavors paced the Chippewas with two hits while Peel had a team-high two RBIs. "Today was a huge win for our program," said Skole. "I am very proud of how our kids came out and played hard today. We swung the bats well and got up early, and got some excellent pitching." The Buccaneers return to action Wednesday at 2 p.m. as they travel to face Kentucky from Lexington, Ky. Live stats for the ETSU-Kentucky matchup will be available by visiting the baseball page of the ETSU athletic website, www.ETSUBucs.com.
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The 2014 Grinnell Prize — a $100,000 award honoring young innovators in social justice — will be presented by Grinnell College to founders of two organizations making the world a healthier, cleaner place. The winners were selected from among 211 nominees who represent 34 countries and serve a total of 43 nations through their work.
Lindsay Stradley and Ani Vallabhaneni, co-founders of Sanergy
Ani Vallabhaneni and Lindsay Stradley, husband and wife, founded Sanergy in 2010 and launched operations in Nairobi, Kenya the following year. Their sanitation reform model brings accessible, affordable, and sustainable sanitation to urban areas where waste is typically dumped into waterways, contaminating water supplies and spreading disease.
Lindsay and Ani are raising their family in Nairobi, where Sanergy creates professional jobs and healthy sanitation in the poorest communities. Sanergy builds hygienic, bright blue, Fresh Life toilets in town and then franchises the toilets to local entrepreneurs.
Residents pay a nominal fee to use the toilets, and the entrepreneurs earn approximately $1,000 a year, per toilet. Trained Sanergy staff members collect the waste daily and take it to a processing site, where the waste is converted into fertilizer and sold to local farmers.
In only three years, Sanergy has hired 163 local employees and expanded the Fresh Life network to more than 470 toilets, franchised to 245 local entrepreneurs. With Fresh Life toilets, more than 18,000 Nairobi residents have access to hygienic sanitation every day.
Sanergy's expansion plans call for providing Fresh Life toilets to more than 300,000 residents of Sub-Saharan Africa in the next five years, creating 2,000 jobs and making the region a cleaner, healthier, safer place to live.
Adam Kircher and Kiah Williams, co-founders and directors of SIRUM
In 2011, Adam Kircher and Kiah Williams turned a small student organization at Stanford University into SIRUM, a pioneering, technologically cutting edge non-profit. SIRUM is a nimble online platform that facilitates the redistribution of unopened, unexpired prescription medications.
Surplus medications are donated by manufacturers, wholesalers, hospitals, and nursing homes. The medications are swiftly mailed directly to clinics that serve adults who could otherwise not afford them.
To date SIRUM has overseen the redistribution of nearly $3 million worth of medications in California while reducing the volume of unused medications disposed of through incineration and other methods potentially harmful to the environment.
Adam and Kiah have already begun to replicate their innovative model in Colorado and aim to further reduce medication waste by expanding to the 40 states where drug donation is legal and protected.
2013 Grinnell Prize
Emily Arnold-Fernández and Asylum Access
Of the world's 16 million refugees, less than one percent of refugees find refuge in North America, Europe or Australia. The vast majority remain in first countries of refuge—the first places they flee to—within Africa, Asia or Latin America. There, refugees are almost never allowed to work, access local education and healthcare, or take any steps to rebuild their lives. Instead, they are interned in camps, imprisoned, or left invisible on urban margins, lacking the means to seek protection and rebuild a life for their families.
Asylum Access was founded to change this. In 2005, Emily Arnold-Fernández developed an innovative model to help refugees seek safety, secure lawful employment, access education, and obtain protection from further injustice. Their innovative model helps individual refugees respond to rights violations while transforming the human rights landscape for entire refugee populations, using four integrated tools: individualized legal assistance, community legal empowerment, policy advocacy and strategic litigation.
Instead of the traditional humanitarian aid model, Asylum Access works to build a durable solution for long-term refugee displacement. In Ecuador, Asylum Access successfully advocated for the right to work to be included in the Ecuadorian constitution, enabling refugees to work and feed their families for the first time. In Thailand, the organization advocated for refugee rights to be included in draft amendments to the Immigration Act, now due before parliament. If passed into law, this would be the country's first refugee law. In Tanzania, Asylum Access' legal advocates secured the unprecedented recognition of the urban refugee population. Today, the government is discussing an urban refugee policy that would allow refugees to live and work in local communities, instead of living in camps.
Asylum Access puts power back into the hands of refugees by giving them the tools to rebuild their lives themselves, with dignity. To build a world where all refugees can access their rights, Asylum Access is currently developing the Refugee Rights Toolkit, an office-in-a-box to enable advocates to launch their own refugee rights project in any country around the world.
Elizabeth Scharpf, Julian Ingabire Kayibanda and SHE
Millions of girls and women in developing countries lack access to affordable menstrual pads, which leads to significant costs in education, economic productivity, health and dignity. Most girls and women simply stay home from school or work while menstruating, missing up to 50 days per year of lost wages or school time. While interning for the World Bank in Mozambique in 2005, Elizabeth Scharpf overheard a local colleague remark that 20 percent of her employees missed work on a regular basis, up to 30 days per year, because of menstruation. The reason: menstrual pads cost more than a day's worth of wages.
After graduating from Harvard Business School in 2007, Scharpf founded Sustainable Health Enterprises, a social venture that invests in people and ideas that are typically overlooked (and often taboo) as vehicles of socio-economic change. SHE launched the SHE28 campaign to give girls and women greater access to affordable menstrual products and health and hygiene education. In 2009, Scharpf teamed up with SHE COO of Rwanda Julian Ingabire Kayibanda, a Rwandan national who left her home country in the 1990s because of the political situation and then returned to rebuild her country after the genocide.
SHE is increasing access to affordable menstrual pads, called LaunchPads, with a local, eco-friendly and scalable business model to affect social and economic change. With assistance from its partners, SHE developed a patent-pending, mechanical process to make an absorbent maxi pad core—the highest material cost driver—from banana fiber. SHE's LaunchPad doesn't use toxic chemicals, so it reduces the negative environmental impact of typical pads. The use of readily available banana fibers allows the SHE LaunchPad to be priced lower than multinational brands. SHE will deliver this innovation by investing in women entrepreneurs to jumpstart businesses selling and distributing locally produced, low-cost, eco-friendly SHE LaunchPads.
SHE is now replicating its patent-pending technology on an industrial scale during a pilot, mass-manufacturing 300,000 SHE LaunchPads for 3,000 Rwandan girls attending 10 schools. The pilot will also create 600 income-generating opportunities for people in the eastern region of Rwanda.
2012 Grinnell Prize
Cristi Hegranes and Global Press Institute
Cristi Hegranes and Global Press Institute have two major goals: to empower women by providing comprehensive journalism training which leads to employment with GPI, and using high-quality, locally produced journalism to address issues of large-scale, structural social justice.
Cristi Hegranes, executive director, Global Press Institute
Cristi Hegranes, 31, an award-winning journalist, founded Global Press Institute (GPI) in 2006 at the age of 25. While reporting from Nepal, Hegranes realized that local community members, if trained in responsible journalism, would be able to more effectively tell their own stories than a foreign reporter could. In addition to improving global journalism, Hegranes saw that journalism training could empower women with possibilities of long-term employment and fulfilling careers. As a result of this realization, she created Global Press Institute, initially working in Nepal and Mexico.
Today, Cristi Hegranes teaches journalism and entrepreneurship courses at California State University and continues to lead GPI in its mission of spurring social change through journalism.
More about Global Press Institute
Global Press Institute (GPI) works to empower women, improve global journalism, and spur wide-scale social change. After providing journalism training, including literacy and computer skills classes, to women across the globe, GPI employs these women as journalists—empowering individuals and improving the lives of their families. At the same time, GPI also improves global journalism by including the perspective of community members on the issues that impact them, including social injustices in their societies. Today, GPI operates news desks in 25 countries and employs more than 100 women around the world. GPI stories are accessible to over 5 million people monthly and can be found in English on the GPI news wire as well as on UPI, Reuters, and the Huffington Post. GPI stories also appear in local language in dozens of news outlets around the world. Recently, stories written by GPI reporters have been honored with prestigious journalism awards and have helped spur real social change in areas ranging from civil rights to maternal health in countries including Nepal, Zimbabwe, and Rwanda.
Jacob Wood and William McNulty's Team Rubicon
Jacob Wood and William McNulty's Team Rubicon uses the special skills of military veterans to rapidly respond to disasters across the world. Team Rubicon's model aids veterans with the process of reintegrating into civilian life, as well as providing effective and rapid disaster relief.
Jacob Wood, president, and William McNulty, vice-president, Team Rubicon
Jacob Wood, 29, and William McNulty, 35, are being honored for their work with Team Rubicon, the organization they co-founded in 2010. While watching coverage of the devastation in Haiti following an earthquake, Wood and McNulty realized that thanks to the skills they had gained in the Marines, they could help. In only days, they had gathered a small team of fellow veterans and they set off for Haiti. The two realized that deploying veterans in response to disasters as volunteers could not only improve traditional models of disaster response, but could also provide a meaningful experience for veterans struggling to reintegrate into civilian life. Wood and McNulty have worked since then to grow Team Rubicon, and continue to lead the organization.
More about Team Rubicon
Team Rubicon addresses the difficulties returning veterans face — as well as the "gap" of time between when disasters occur and when traditional aid organization can arrive — by pairing these seemingly unrelated issues. By harnessing the skills of veterans and putting them to use in rapid disaster response, Team Rubicon helps veterans continue their service and find a new sense of purpose and community and has created a new paradigm in disaster response that allows for more rapid response to complement traditional strategies. To date, Team Rubicon has deployed more than 800 veterans to Chile, Burma, Pakistan, Sudan, and other countries, as well as across the United States, and has more than 7,500 veteran volunteers. Its eventual goal is to involve at least 10,000 veterans in the dual missions of providing more effective disaster relief and helping veterans successfully transition back to civilian life.
Jane Chen and Linus Liang's Embrace
Jane Chen and Linus Liang's Embrace distributes an innovative low-cost infant warmer to low-income communities around the world, and is now working to develop new health-care products specially tailored for the developing world.
Jane Chen, CEO of Embrace Innovations and co-founder, Embrace, and Linus Liang, COO and co-founder, Embrace
Jane Chen, 33, and Linus Liang, 31, are honored for their organization Embrace, which they co-founded in 2008. As part of a Stanford School of Design class titled "Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability," Chen and Liang were tasked with designing a low-cost infant incubator suitable for use in the developing world. Chen and Liang not only met the challenge for the class, but their infant warmer, which costs about one percent the cost of a traditional incubator and is designed specifically for the needs of resource constrained conditions, became the basis for Embrace. Embrace now distributes the infant warmer in India, China, Somalia, Zambia and Uganda, and has saved the lives of thousands of premature babies by safely regulating their body temperatures. Chen and Liang have combined their complementary skills — Chen with a background in business and nonprofit health care work and Liang with a background in computer science and technology startups — and have grown Embrace into a thriving organization dedicated to providing health care solutions to the world's most vulnerable populations (along with two other co-founders, Rahul Panicker and Nag Murty). Learn more about both Chen and Liang.
More about Embrace
Embrace is dedicated to developing health care products tailored for the needs of low-income communities across the world. In addition to distributing its infant warmer, Embrace is now working to create additional products that address the problems of infant mortality and maternal health. Embrace has set the goal of impacting the lives of 1 million babies in the next five years. Beyond its innovative products, Embrace has adopted an innovative hybrid organizational structure — by combining a for-profit organization, Embrace Innovations, with the nonprofit Embrace, the organization hopes to be able to ensure its own sustainability, so it can create a platform for creating social impact that goes beyond a single product. Today, Embrace is also partnering with other health care providers in order to expand its impact.
Please follow these links to the historical site for interviews, photos, presentation, presentation Q&A, and Embrace Blog posts.
2011 Grinnell Prize
Eric W. Glustrom and Boris Bulayev, Educate!
Eric W. Glustrom, President, and Boris Bulayev, Executive Director, Educate!
Eric W. Glustrom, age 27, and Boris Bulayev, age 26, were honored for their leadership of Educate!. Glustrom started Educate! in 2002 at the age of 17 after filming a documentary in a refugee settlement in Uganda. Glustrom was inspired to start Educate! after recognizing the potential of youth to become leaders who could develop solutions to the challenges facing their country and continent. Boris Bulayev teamed with Glustrom to lead Educate! at the start of their sophomore year at Amherst College. Glustrom and Bulayev graduated from Amherst College in 2007 with degrees in biochemistry and economics respectively. More information on Eric W. Glustrom and Boris Bulayev is available on the team section of the Educate! website.
Educate! Blog Post
Read Eric and Boris's response to the impact the Grinnell Prize has made: 2012 Accomplishments: Educate!.
Eric's Blog Post
Read Eric's response to winning the 2011 Grinnell Prize: Telling Our Story: Educate!.
Eric and Boris' Full Presentation
See Eric and Boris' full presentation, "How getting cut from the basketball team led me to Educate!: Jumping in the Deep End" - presented October 26, 2011 in Herrick Chapel. (Note: Change from presentation title found in official program.)
Eric and Boris' Highlights/Interview
See the highlights of Eric and Boris' week on campus!
Additional Information on Educate!
Educate! empowers 1,400 youth across Uganda, where over half of the population is under the age of 15. The organization provides social entrepreneurship training, long-term mentorship, and access to capital to help youth create and lead solutions to poverty, disease, violence, environmental degradation, and the highest youth unemployment rate in the world, 83 percent. The model is exponential empowerment – investing long-term in youth so they can positively impact many others. The government of Uganda recently asked Educate! to incorporate its social entrepreneurship course into the national education system. It will reach 45,000 youth annually and be the first national social entrepreneurship curriculum in the world. Educate!'s work to empower Uganda's youth aims to help the country develop a generation capable of determining their own future and defining progress for their time.
James Kofi Annan, Challenging Heights
James Kofi Annan, Challenging Heights
A survivor of child trafficking and child labor, James Kofi Annan established Challenging Heights in 2003 to provide education and support for children who have returned from slavery and horrific forms of child labor. Now age 37, Annan leads Challenging Heights as president. From the age of six through 13, he worked as a child fisherman in more than 20 villages. After escaping slavery as an illiterate teenager, he befriended kindergartners and used their schoolbooks to teach himself to read and write. Despite severe poverty and abuse, he rose to become a university graduate and now holds a Master's degree. He eventually became a manager at Barclays Bank of Ghana, but resigned in 2007 to promote the mission of Challenging Heights full-time. More information on James Kofi Annan is available on the Challenging Heights website.
James' Blog Post
Read James' response to winning the 2011 Grinnell Prize: An Enduring Privilege to Serve.
James' Full Presentation and Q&As
See James' full presentation, "Passion, Commitment, and Innovation: The Critical Success Factors in Community Project Sustainability" - presented on October 26, 2011 in Herrick Chapel. The question-and-answer session following James' presentation is also available.
James' Highlights/Interview
See the highlights of James' week on campus!
Additional Information on Challenging Heights
Challenging Heights was founded to help give Ghanaian youth a secured, protected, and dignified future by promoting their rights, education, and health. The organization rescues children from slavery and provides education to those who have returned from horrific forms of child labor. Through education, economic empowerment and community mobilization, Challenging Heights works with at-risk and poor families to explain the dangers of child trafficking and address the root cause of slavery. The program also helps families improve their income levels, allowing their children to attend school. Challenging Heights provides educational support for survivors of child labor and other children in the most impoverished communities of Ghana. More than 400 children between the ages of four and 15 attend the Challenging Heights School. Approximately 50 of them would have been subjected to child labor had they not been rescued by the organization.
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, Encounter
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, Founding Executive Director Emeritus, Encounter
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, age 36, was ordained as a Conservative Jewish Rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary and has served as a Rabbinic Fellow in Conservative communities throughout North America. She co-founded Encounter in 2005. A noted speaker and educator, she has taught on four continents, including at the Parliament of World Religions, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Jewish Council of Public Affairs Plenum. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, she graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in political theory and women's studies. More information on Rabbi Weintraub is available on the Staff & Board section of Encounter's website.
Melissa's Full Presentation
See Melissa's full presentation, "Authentic Peace-Building: A Justice that's Not Just Us" - presented October 27, 2011 in Herrick Chapel.
Melissa's Highlights/Interview
See the highlights of Melissa's week on campus!
Additional Information on Encounter
Encounter is an educational organization dedicated to training Jewish leaders to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by providing them with firsthand exposure to Palestinian narratives and realities on the ground. Encounter's flagship program has brought more than 1,000 influential Jewish leaders on trips to Palestinian cities, representing the only significant non-military Jewish presence in Palestinian areas of the West Bank during the last decade. Through innovative methodologies geared towards producing civil discourse across political divides, Encounter seeds fruitful and vibrant conversations regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Encounter's past participants include rising and prominent leaders, opinion-shapers, and decision-makers. The program helps leaders on the right and left to gain a more nuanced understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and accordingly, to reshape their funding priorities, advocacy efforts, and policy decision-making.


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'''Summary:''' Beaver and Steve make a narrow escape from the snowman. Or do they?
'''Summary:''' Beaver and Steve make a narrow escape from the snowman. Or do they?
'''Cast:''' [[Beaver]], [[Steve]], [[Snowman]]
'''Cast:''' [[Beaver]], [[Steve]], [[Snowman]]
'''[[:Category:Onomatopoeias|Onomatopoeias]] used:''' "[[FLUMPF]]", "[[SLAM]]", "[[SPROUT]]", "[[GROW]]", "[[WRITHE]]", "[[CRASH|CRASH!]]", "[[GLOM|GLOM!]]"
'''[[:Category:Onomatopoeias|Onomatopoeias]] used:''' "[[FLUMPF]]", "[[SLAM]]", "[[SPROUT]]", "[[GROW]]", "[[WRITHE]]", "[[CRASH|CRASH!]]", "[[GLOM|GLOM!]]"
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Title: 'snow joke - part 4
Date: December 21, 2006
Summary: Beaver and Steve make a narrow escape from the snowman. Or do they?
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Snowman, Sun
Onomatopoeias used: "FLUMPF", "SLAM", "SPROUT", "GROW", "WRITHE", "CRASH!", "GLOM!"
Number of panels: 5
Panel 1
The Snowman FLUMPFs against two windows as Beaver and Steve SLAM the house door shut from the inside.
Beaver: "Phew! We made it!"
Steve: "But what do we do now?"
Beaver: "Don't worry Steve, we can just stay in here living off cold sprouts and Christmas cake until the snow melts in spring!"
Beaver: "Won't that be fun!"
Steve: "Is it too late to take my chances with the snowman?"
Beaver: "Don't worry Steve, we'll be quite safe in here"
Panel 2
Beaver: "After all, he's just a silly old Snowman, what harm can he do?"
Meanwhilst the Snowman SPROUTS and GROWS various snowy appendages and proceeds to WRITHE with them.
Panel 3
The wormlike Snowman CRASH!es through a window.
Snowman: "Oh what a lovely place you have here!
Beaver: "Yipe!"
Steve: "Don't worry Beaver, I have a plan! Fall back to the Christmas tree!"
Panel 4
Beaver and Steve have now fallen back to the Christmas tree.
Beaver: "OK Steve, what's the plan?"
Steve: "Actually 'Fall back to the Christmas tree' was pretty much my whole plan."
Beaver: "Oh."
Snowman: "Glaaa"
Beaver: "So this is how we meet our end: consumed by a giant mutant snowman with an eating disorder. I guess that fortune cookie was right."
Panel 5
The Snowman GLOM!s up all of Beaver, Steve and the Christmas tree.
Unseen Speaker: "Well this has to be our 3rd or 4th worst Christmas ever ..."
Fun Facts
- It's interesting to notice that, even having read the fortune cookie that stated they were gonna perish in the hands of a wicked snowman, Beaver still wished his to come to life. Which once again proves the unmeasurable power of fate... or just Beaver's stupidity anyway.
- Despite the fact that the sun it out, the snow is not melting and Beaver and Steve are freezing cold. Also, the sun is wearing winter gear as well as everyone else.
- Even though most people will never know what it feels like to be swallowed by a giant mutant horrible creature, this is not the first time it happens to Beaver and Steve. In Comic 55, they were eaten by a gigantic Rupert T. Roach and had to go to great lengths to break free - in that particular case, using a microwave.
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