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Where once the island exported 250,000 tons of bananas, it now exports only about 60,000 tons. The current situation there is dire. We were about to experience the poverty firsthand as my husband and I arrived to join the Le Moyne Dominican Service Project there. We landed at Melville Hall just before dusk on a Tuesday to join the group of Le Moyne students on the second week of their volunteer project. As we waited for more passengers to fill up the van going to town, we talked to Moe, an American student at Ross University, the medical school on the island. He asked what we were doing there. "Pleasure," I said, not wanting to get into the volunteer aspect of our trip in case it proved controversial somehow. "Whoa," Moe said, whistling under his breath. "Let me give you a little piece of advice. Get the first plane out of here!" It was an ominous beginning to our stay, and later in the dark, as we tried to coax the driver into attempting the rutted, muddy two-lane path back toward a small light we knew was our B&B, I began to doubt the prudence of our decision to join students on this volunteer mission. The students, all part of living-learning communities at Le Moyne, had arrived the previous week and were led by the Rev. Donald Maldari, S.J. (or Don "Show-Me-The-Money" Maldari, as he was known during the fund-raising portion of the trip preparations.) The stated goal of the project in a covenant signed by the students before they left was to "promote growth in the participants as well as in those whom they serve by working with the poor and marginalized." The covenant asked participants "to live simply and in community with each other, to examine the causes of social injustice, and to experience, in the most real way possible, the reality of being a person rooted in a particular culture." Also accompanying the group was Patricia Schmidt, education professor at Le Moyne. In addition to volunteering alongside the students during the day, Schmidt met with them each night as a class to explore issues of multicultural literacy and to talk about the challenges of developing relationships with people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. My husband, Brad, and I were along as alumni of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, a program of prayer and reflection offered yearly to laypeople at Le Moyne. We had received an invitation from Father Maldari in December to consider participating in this service project and decided it was something we wanted to do. It was concrete, it was hands-on, it was more meaningful to us than just writing a check and leaving it in the offering plate on Sunday. The students had spent the first week in the capital of Roseau, serving at a number of sites, including Operation Youth Quake, a temporary home for troubled youth; Alpha Centre, tutoring developmentally challenged students; and the Massacre primary school, tutoring regular students. They also partnered with Reaching Elderly Abandoned Citizens Housebound (REACH) to finish a project begun by last year's students of building a new house for an indigent Dominican man. Now they were in Portsmouth, a smaller city of fewer than 4,000 people. That first day dawned bright and sunny, and we soon forgot the previous evening's misgivings as we walked down the long road to town past fragrant lemon grass, cashew trees, flowering angel trumpets, coconut palms and the occasional tethered cow. Partway down we encountered our first student, Emily Dilzer '06, who was on her way up to work at the Home for the Aged. Emily was the veteran of the group, having been to Dominica the previous year – all of the other students had just completed their freshman year. During the week I came to appreciate her unique insight into the Dominicans as a result of her experiences. As we got closer to town, the traffic increased. Foot traffic, that is. Although there are cars in Portsmouth and the narrow streets seem frequently crowded with them, many people walk, and walk for long distances. We encountered a farmer on his way up to the jungle, a huge machete in hand, to cut vines for his livestock. And everywhere we saw people walking with bundles carefully balanced on their heads – carrying coconuts, or wicker baskets, or in one case, three heavy cinder blocks. Portsmouth itself was crowded and noisy and colorful, with people calling to each other in patois, a French-based dialect commonly spoken on the island. Although there are panhandlers, as one might expect given the poverty, most people want to do something for you in return for the money. They don't just want a handout; they want to show you where you can buy a pineapple or lead you to a grocery store or to the post office. We saw children playing with old wheels and sticks or exploring under rocks in the stream, not seeming to miss at all what we would consider the necessary childhood toys of skateboards and bikes, computers and video games. Watching them, I was reminded that the most valuable thing you can possess on a hot summer afternoon is a good friend. Over the next several days, we visited the students at their sites and volunteered ourselves. We found Suhura Bernard, John Doyle (J.D.), and Adrian Lindsay tutoring students and teaching classes at St. John's Primary School; Ebe Osu and Emily O'Hara at the CALLS (Centre Where Adolescents Learn to Love and Serve) daycare center taking care of the babies; Marissa Citro and Nichole Nadermann working with children at the Portsmouth Preschool; Emily Dilzer serving at the Home for the Aged; Paul Biefeld-Kimm tutoring teenagers at the CALLS vocational school; and Dan Bayley working at the Northern District Progressive Women's Centre. Their help was much needed; in some cases, students were totally in charge of classrooms because teachers were out and no other substitutes were available. In addition to volunteering ourselves, we also sat in on one of the students' evening class sessions with Professor Schmidt. As they sat around discussing issues of diversity and culture, I couldn't help but reflect on the diversity of the group itself. There were several different cultures represented in this small group of 10 – Suhura's mother is Panamanian and her father is from Trinidad, Nichole's mother is Korean, Ebe's family is Nigerian, and there were students from rural areas like Saranac Lake, N.Y., and students from New York City. To see them all in dialogue with each other, laughing together, discussing serious issues together, as well as to hear how their own backgrounds informed their experiences in Dominica, leading them to develop feelings of compassion for those less fortunate, was heartening. One of the assignments Schmidt gave them was to interview a Dominican and write a biography from that, comparing it to their own life story. Dan had interviewed a man in a home for the elderly who had been abandoned by his family. Dan related how his own mother had been through cancer twice and how that challenge had brought his family closer together and how much that had meant to him. Talking to that man, he said, made him wonder if his children might one day abandon him and how he might feel if they did. There were challenges to the work. We would plan to accomplish one or another project in a specified amount of time only to discover roadblocks along the way. For example, the Women's Centre had received donations of computers, as well as two days of free Internet time in order to teach computer skills to women. Getting the computers online turned out to be a two-day project instead of a one-hour project as we had hoped because of problems with the hardware. My husband, Brad, and Dan volunteered to put up a fence that the Women's Centre wanted, only to discover that there were no shovels. They dug post holes in clay-like soil in the intense Dominican heat with crowbars instead. I washed dishes at the Home for the Aged; there was only bar soap and cold water available, and the water eventually stopped altogether because someone living farther up the mountain, closer to the source, was using it, I was told. The preschool just needed some rope to fix its broken swings, so Brad bought it for them, and he and Marissa and Dan worked on those, putting up two new swings as well. Then a tire swing on a chain broke. The hardware store in town didn't sell a C-clamp, so they improvised with a padlock. If the challenges were supplies and money, the rewards were the people, all of them friendly and welcoming and grateful for what help we could give. Despite their lack of material things, or maybe because of that, the Dominicans seemed to have such spiritual gifts to offer us, an appreciation of the truly essential things in life, and we all felt that we gained as much from them as they did from us. As Emily Dilzer said in one of the class sessions, "I've always tried to view all people as equal, but now I'm beginning to see the importance of cultural differences." We left feeling enriched by those differences. Paul, who volunteered with the teenagers at CALLS, summed up the experience best. When I visited him there and asked him what he was doing that day, he said thoughtfully, "Teaching. Helping. Learning." — Pamela Ethington is an editorial assistant in Le Moyne's Office of Communications.


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Beaver and Steve (short for The Unfeasible Adventures of Beaver and Steve) is a popular webcomic by James Turner. The comic, which debuted on September 10, 2004 and has continued since on a semi-weekly basis, chronicles the bizarre and humorous escapades of Steve, a green reptilian creature, and the aptly-named Beaver.
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The Patriots trailed after three quarters in Saturday night's contest that was a makeup from a Thursday weather postponement, but rallied back in the fourth for their first victory of the season.
Trailing 14-10, senior running back Austin Howard scored the go-ahead touchdown on an 18-yard run with 10 minutes 20 seconds left in regulation. Howard finished with 19 carries for 85 yards and the touchdown.
On the next series, Howard intercepted a pass on defense and it resulted in a five-yard touchdown run later by senior quarterback Taylor Wagner with 4:22 remaining to give Northern (1-1 overall) a 10-point lead and it would win by that margin.
Wagner completed 11 of 25 passes for 231 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. Senior wide receiver Adam Swann was Northern's top receiver on the night with five catches for 133 yards.
Sophomore defensive back Perrin Turner intercepted both of Wagner's passes, one of which was returned for a touchdown to give North Point a 14-3 lead with 5:09 to go in the third quarter.
Senior running back Marquel Dickerson led the Eagles (0-2) on the ground with 22 carries for 138 yards and a touchdown.
The Raiders moved to 2-0 overall after defeating the visitors from Prince George's County in a contest that was made up on Friday after a Thursday weather postponement.
Leonardtown scored the first 25 points of the contest and went on to the victory.
Senior running back Cortez Bush had a 24-yard touchdown run for the Raiders, while senior running back Dwight Heron caught a 27-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Zach Sparshott.
Senior kicker Doug Baumann connected on four of five field goals in the win, making from 32, 40, 29 and 32 yards out. His lone miss was a 51-yard attempt.
The Raiders scored 16 points in the third quarter to lead 22-0 and they led 25-0 with seven minutes left in the fourth. The team's defense forced four Potomac turnovers.
The visiting Panthers scored on their first two possessions en route to the victory over the Braves on Saturday night in a contest that was made up from a Thursday weather postponement.
The opening drive of the game saw Patuxent (2-0) score on a 52-yard pass from junior quarterback Tyler Crounse to senior wide receiver Laron Gross to give it a 7-0 lead.
The Panthers scored again on their second possession as Crounse got past a tackle and ran in for a five-yard touchdown with 3:17 left in the first quarter, putting the visitors up 14-0.
Chopticon (0-2) got on the board next with a 13-yard touchdown run from senior running back Braxton Powell with 49 seconds remaining in the quarter.
Patuxent added its final touchdown of the night when senior running back Tahir Tyler scored a nine-yard run in the third quarter. Tyler rushed for 36 yards on the drive.
After trailing 12-0 midway through the second quarter, the Warriors scored 28 unanswered points to earn their first victory of the season over the visiting Cavaliers in the only game that was able to be played Thursday night.
Weather, which canceled most of the games on the Thursday schedule, delayed the Calvert-La Plata contest for about an hour.
La Plata (1-1) avenged a 40-14 road loss to Calvert last season, its first win over the Cavaliers in four seasons.
Senior quarterback Alex Calvert completed 7 of 23 passes for 144 yards, including a 57-yard touchdown to junior wide receiver Jack Pilkerton with 4:17 left in the second quarter for the team's first touchdown of the game.
Pilkerton caught four balls for 106 yards, 80 of those yards came in the first half.
La Plata quarterback Calvert also had two rushing touchdowns, both from five yards out in the third and fourth quarters, respectively, to give the Warriors a 21-12 lead with 11:07 left in the game.
Senior running back Anthony Cable sealed the game for the Warriors with 3:27 remaining with a 14-yard touchdown run.
The Warriors defense recovered three fumbles and forced Calvert to turn it over on downs three times, while putting pressure on junior quarter Dakota Greening, who completed only two passes for 17 yards in the game.
Calvert took a 6-0 lead 54 seconds into the first period when junior running back MJ Wallace broke for a 77-yard touchdown up the middle. Wallace left the game shortly after with a hamstring injury and did not return.
The Cavaliers (1-1) took a 12-0 lead with six minutes left in first half on a nine-yard touchdown run by junior running back Troy Wade.
Hurricanes junior DeShawn Freeland scored three touchdowns on the ground and threw for another one in Saturday night's victory over the visiting Rams. The contest was a makeup from a Thursday weather postponement.
Freeland had 18 carries for 135 yards on the ground with the three touchdowns.
Freeland's first score, a five-yard run, put Huntingtown (2-0) up 7-0 with 9:42 left in the second quarter. McDonough (0-2) answered just before halftime as junior wide receiver Josh Teachey caught a one-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Demonne Cox with 16 seconds left in the half, tying the game at 7.
A Freeland 10-yard rushing touchdown put the Hurricanes ahead 14-7 in the third quarter. Freeland added his third score with 10:11 left in regulation from 17 yards out.
Then, on third down and 12 from the Rams 42-yard line, Freeland – on a halfback option pass – found senior Jayson Wood for a touchdown to cap the scoring with 5:03 remaining.
Huntingtown's defense limited McDonough to eight possessions in the contest. The Rams punted five times and turned the ball over on downs twice in seven of the eight, the eighth being the touchdown scoring drive.
The Knights traveled to Washington, D.C., in a scheduled game Saturday and posted its second straight shutout to improve to 3-0.
Senior running back Chazz Bradner scored two rushing touchdowns in the second quarter to put Ryken up 14-0.Later in the game, junior defensive back Kyle Goddard returned a 70-yard interception for a touchdown and senior fullback Kolby Taylor added a 13-yard rushing touchdown to cap off the scoring.
The visiting Cougars won for the second time in as many weeks against a St. Mary's County opponent in downing the Hornets on Saturday night.
The contest started on Thursday night, but was suspended in the second quarter with Stone (2-0) leading 7-0.
Junior quarterback Keiron Morsell rushed nine times for 153 yards and three touchdowns. Morsell had a one-yard touchdown in addition to scores from 47 and 40 yards out and added a two-point conversion score.
Sophomore Marquis Bundy scored on a 19-yard touchdown run.
Stone's defense limited the Hornets (0-2) to just two yards of total offense, and sophomore cornerback Juwann Briscoe had a 35-yard interception return for a touchdown.
One football game in the Southern Maryland Athletic Conference was not played Thursday night and it had nothing to do with the weather.
Westlake was scheduled to play at Lackey High School in a 6:30 p.m. contest, but the game was canceled, according to a Thursday morning press release from Charles County Public Schools.
The release stated that "the cancellation is a forfeit for Westlake as a result of a one-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct that occurred at a game last week."
There will be no makeup game, the release stated, so Lackey (2-0) receives a forfeit victory by the score of 2-0, its second straight win to start the season after a 47-0 shutout of La Plata on Sept. 7. Westlake now will be 1-1.


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Played in all 18 games, starting in 15 … Named to the Northeast Conference All-Second Team...Led the team in minutes (990), saves (174), save percentage (.510), goals-against average (10.12), and win percentage (.750)…Finished first among all NEC goalies in Conference games' goals-against average (7.83) and save percentage (.561)…Finished second in save percentage among all NCAA Division I goalies… Selected to the NEC All-Tournament Team following the Bobcats' victory in the NEC Championship game … Named the team's Outstanding Defensive Player following the 2011 season … Held Mount St. Mary's to three goals in the 2011 NEC Championship.
As a Sophomore in 2010:
Saw action in 11 games, making seven starts…Finished the season with a 2-5 record…Had a 10.88 goals against average…Made 68 saves for a .447 save percentage…Turned away eight shots in a 16-8 defeat on 3/3 against Connecticut…Turned away 13 shots on 3/7 against Brown in a 13-10 loss…Stopped 11 shots against Fairfield in a 14-12 defeat…Made two saves against Bryant in a 18-10 victory on 3/13…Made six saves against California on 3/19 in a 11-9 loss…Stopped three shots in three consecutive wins against Iona, Long Island, and Wagner…Made a season high 16 saves against Monmouth in a 8-4 victory on 4/23…Turned away three shots on 4/25 against Sacred Heart in a 12-7 defeat.
As a Freshman in 2009:
Appeared in nine games, making four starts for the Bobcats in her first season with the team...Posted an unbeaten overall record of 5-0-0...Finished the season with a 10.91 goals-against...Stopped 44 shots for a .423 save percentage...Made a season-high 12 saves one half of play against Central Connecticut on 3/10.
Before Quinnipiac:
Was All-County Honorable Mention two years...Was a two-time All-County member...Was an Academic All-American...Recorded over a 1,000 career saves...Part of the team that went undefeated in 2007, winning the conference championship...Also played varsity field hockey and bowling in high school...Was named All-County in field hockey two times...Named to the All-Conference team in field hockey.
A native of Westbury, New York...Daughter of Susan and Steve Martello...Has two siblings, Ryan and Taylor...Majoring in nursing.


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Even if you enjoy Florida and California citrus, you may be ready for something a bit more exciting...like juice from blood oranges and tangerines grown along the slopes of the historic Sicilian volcano, Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe. Fans of Organic Italian Volcano juices are truly devoted to them.
These juices are truly unique—not just because they grow within view of historic Pompeii and Herculaneum. These citrus fruits aren't your standard juicing oranges. They have a fragrance and flavor that we aren't used to finding on our supermarket shelves (although that's where we first found them, in the produce section of our local supermarket). They taste as crisp as they had been freshly squeezed, although they've been pasteurized so that they can sit on the shelf unrefrigerated until you are ready to use them. They're 100% juice: no concentrate, no additives or preservatives.
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Breakfast with Your Legislators
Local business professionals are invited to meet and discuss issues with Chicagoland elected officials at the Seventh Annual "Breakfast with Your Legislators" event on Thursday, Sept. 13 at Saint Xavier University's Chicago campus, 3700 W. 103rd St.
Elected officials scheduled to attend include State Sen. Edward Maloney (D-18th), State Rep. Kelly Burke (D-36th), State Rep. Bill Cunningham (D-35th), Cook County Commissioner John Daley (D-11th), Evergreen Park Mayor Jim Sexton, Oak Lawn Mayor Dave Heilmann and Chicago Ald. Matt O'Shea (19th).
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Butler Reception Room
Registration and networking begin at 7:30 a.m. in the Butler Reception Room located in the Warde Academic Center, followed by breakfast and the program at 8 a.m.
General admission for the event, which includes breakfast, is $30 per person and $20 for members of the following organizations: Beverly Area Planning Association, Evergreen Park Chamber of Commerce and Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce.
This event is expected to sell out. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required by Sept.10. Space is limited. Please register online at BAPA's website or by phone at 773-233-3100.
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I recently aquired a Syncrowave 350 LX. Finishing rigging it and turned it on. about a minute after it's on the cooling fans run about a minute or so after that the HL.P 5 message appears. Looked up HL.P 5 and it's a rectifier overheat. I can't figure out why the unit would over heat just turned on. haven't welded yet or put the machine under a load. I cleaned the dust off of everything so there is sufficient air flow. Has anyone had this issue before or can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Syncrowave issue.
Alot of variable, first was the unit working before you bought it, if so you may have the input jumpers in the wrong positions for your power.
IF not, or you don't know.
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Failed rectifier thermistor-- doult it--
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that's what it is. had a tech come to my shop. told me the price and im not to thrilled. he quoted the card at 1,100?


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All-Weather Wicker Patio Furniture: Storage Chest
Protects outdoor cushions and more in a classic trunk style.
The perfect all-weather storage for your outdoor cushions, patio accessories and more. When you want to protect outdoor items from sun and rain, this roomy, handsome storage chest is an attractive alternative to plastic bins. Constructed of mocha-hued PVC wicker over a rust-free, powder-coated aluminum frame for years of reliable outdoor use. Features a moisture- and insect-resistant liner and hinged piston lid closure. Measures 23 3/4" w x 49 1/4" l x 21 3/4" h.
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Continental tires has made great progress on the mtb market in the past few seasons with a combination on new, highly effective tread designs and use of their Black Chili rubber compound.
Black Chili brings the properties we are all looking for--faster, grippier, longer wearing--to a single compound through the use of nano technology. Carbon black, used to make rubber "tough" and wear well, has been ground to a very fine and consistent size (the nano tech), which allows better distribution in and bond with the rubber. The small size and shape makes the rubber more elastic with less shearing. The elasticity increase the grip while decreasing rolling resistance. Improved shearing extends tread life. Sounds impossible, but you can feel it on the trail and Black Chili has become the rubber of choice among many riders.
How to know that a Conti tire uses Black Chili is a bigger issue. Nowhere on the tire itself is there a BC label. The rubber looks and feels no different than non-BC tires. According to Brett Hahn, Continental brand manager, there is one sure way to know: the big "Handmade in Germany" label on the sidewall. Black Chili is produced and used only in Conti's own factory in Germany.
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In the meantime, look for 29er versions of the Trail King (nee Rubber Queen) in 2.2 and 2.4" widths by this fall. These tire may also be, a first for Conti, tubeless ready. No Black Chili yet, though. I am happy to see the Trail King coming as it may be the best all-round mtb tire ever from Continental.
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Monday, May 07, 2001ATLANTA - Jason Perry and Matt Murton each drove in two runs to back a solid pitching performance from freshman Matt Lorenze as 10th-ranked Georgia Tech (37-14) defeated visiting East Tennessee State (21-28) on Monday night in the final regular season game at Russ Chandler Stadium.
Lorenzo improved to 4-0 after holding the Buccaneers to three runs on five hits in six innings of work. He walked three batters and struck out a career-high eight.
ETSU took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first on a two-run homer from Andy Baxter, his 12th of the year. The Bucs made the score 3-0 with a RBI double by Ryan Hyder in the second.
Tech trimmed the lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the third on a RBI single from Matthew Boggs and a sacrifice fly from Richard Lewis. The Yellow Jackets took a 4-3 lead with two more runs in the fourth on a two-run single from Perry.
A five-run fifth inning by the Yellow Jackets made the score 9-3 and put the game out of reach. The inning was highlighted by a two-run single from Murton, while Brad Stockton and Victor Menocal each added RBI singles in the frame.
Tech had 16 hits in the game, all singles, led by two-hit performances >from Perry, Murton, Boggs, Stockton, Menocal, Derik Goffena and Jason Basil.
ETSU starter Matt Hensley (2-6) took the loss after surrendering four runs in four innings of work.
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St. Anton im Montafon (650 m) is a peaceful and family-friendly resort, lying at the entrance to Montafon Valley. All the facilities you could wish for in an active winter holiday are available in a radius of 2-6 km.
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The Montafon Alpine valley is 39 km long, its 11 villages, which offer 18,000 guest beds, lies at altitudes of between 600 m. and 1,450 m., surrounded by mountains as high as 3,312 m. (Piz Buin).
Winter transforms this Alpine valley into a fabulous ski arena. 62 cable-cars and chairlifts, 222 km of sign-posted and tended pistes, ski touring on Silvretta's white glaciers, 100 km of cross-country skiing tracks, 290 km of winter footpaths (partly illuminated) and snow-shoe hiking trails, sports and natural toboggan runs (some floodlit), 10 ski schools, 8 ski kindergartens, a covered artificial ice rink, 2 tennis halls and plenty of après ski make for a memorable and active winter holiday. Montafon's ski pass is an all-in-one ticket for all the valley's cable-cars and ski-lifts, the Bludenz - Schruns railway route and the valley's post busses.
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My Trip to the Creation Museum
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The idea of "research programs" helps explain why it's so hard for people of different origins perspectives to understand each other, and even harder to change positions.
Sometimes when I am studying evolution, I take a step back and worship my Lord because I am so in awe.
Many arguments claiming to prove the existence of God have been proposed throughout the centuries. A popular argument is that, since all effects come from causes, there must have been a "first cause" that is outside the material world—an "uncaused cause". The response to many of these arguments, however, is: "If God created the world, what created God?
A college student raised as a young-earth creationist shares his story of coming to understand and appreciate God's evolving creation.
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We need safe places in which to raise the complex issues of submitting wholeheartedly to the authority of God's Word in the Scriptures while wrestling with the important findings and perspectives in the natural sciences.
By getting rid of the miracle stories in the Bible, Bultmann and his followers hoped to make the Christian story more palatable to modern man. Although I recognize the emotional weight of this sentiment, I am not convinced that it is an intellectually coherent approach, mainly for reasons of self-consistency.
From 2012: The dictionaries I checked don't define the term, "theistic evolution," so I offer my own definition: the belief that God used the process of evolution to create living things, including humans.
I became such an expert in young-earth creationist theology and science that it turned into a wrecking ball for my faith.
From the archives: With From the Dust, it was our goal to help Christians see the complexity of the issues raised by modern science, as well as help them to courageously engage with the theological conversations happening within the sphere of Christian culture today.
My childhood in the evangelical church gave me the toolkit that led me to eventually accept the evidence for evolution, and marvel at the God who created it all.
Wright reminds us that robust Christian faith takes evidence on board, but fuses reason with faith, hope and love.
BioLogos president Deb Haarsma responds to Ken Ham's recent comments about Hugh Ross, and pleads for a more gracious conversation between Christians on issues of faith and science.
Recent high-school graduate Jacob shares about his journey from young-earth creationism to evolutionary creationism, and how his faith was challenged and strengthened along the way.
Read about the death of Wolfhart Pannenberg, still debating creation and evolution, and a really big dinosaur discovery.
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But what I heard on Sundays did not seem to fit with what I experienced of the world the rest of the week. Growing up in New Mexico in the cottonwood bosque of the Rio Grande valley provided everything for a kid to become a biologist. I roamed along the river, cooked over cottonwood fires, ate wild asparagus, watched clouds form thunderheads over the distant peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.


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Blumenthal, mentioned as a potential gubernatorial candidate, issued a press release calling on the ESRB to change the rating of Beer Pong from T (13+) to what the AG refers to as "adult" (presumably the ESRB's Adults Only rating). The A.G. is quoted in the press release:
The rating T 13+ -- suitable for teens 13 and older -- is absolutely inappropriate. The video game rating board is under the influence -- rating frat party video drinking games suitable for minors. Even as JV Games agrees to alter its Beer Pong video game, both it and the rating board stubbornly deny the damaging influence of alcohol depiction in video games.
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This issue is urgent because the 'Frat Party Ganes' promoted by JV Games may soon offer others in this planned series.
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Although we respect Attorney General Blumenthal's right to disagree, the fact is that ESRB's role is not that of censor. Our job is to impartially and consistently label content about which there may be a diversity of views so consumers can make informed choices for themselves and their families.
'Pong Toss' involves nothing more than players tossing virtual ping-pong balls into plastic cups, which hardly qualifies it for our most restrictive rating of AO (Adults Only 18+)...
In addition, GamePolitics has obtained a copy of a June 12th letter from ESRB President Patricia Vance to Attorney General Blumenthal on the Beer Pong issue. It reads in part:
While the assignment of ratings does require that judgments be made about the age-appropriateness of different types of content, it would be improper to assign ratings solely based on the depiction of behavior which may be understandably discouraged by society at large. To illustrate, many car racing games require players to barrel down city streets at high speeds – illegal behavior that certainly should not be encouraged... Still, none of this changes the fact that racing games... tend to be rated E... That actions in a game might, in the real world, be associated with minimum age requirements or be generally discouraged does not, in and of itself, relegate that game to the most restrictive ESRB rating category, Adults Only. Such contextual elements are weighed in the ratings process, however...
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A Kayaking Quest
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A lone kayaker goes on a summer-long expedition to find the places where dammed lakes turn back into rivers
by Kim Trevathan
I suspected I was onto something important when friends and relatives, some of them seasoned outdoors people, stared blankly or changed the subject when I described my project for the summer of 2007. Paddling upstream in a kayak to discover the exact point where dammed lakes turn back into rivers might not be for everyone.
My paddling partner, Jasper, a shepherd mix who had accompanied me down the length of the Tennessee River in my canoe, had died that spring at the age of 15, so in part these little voyages were tributes to him. I was looking for a quirky kind of solace in these quests, for the spot where rivers resurrected themselves.
I didnâ't have grandiose expectations about the transitional zones; I expected the changes to be gradual and subtle, perhaps in places already frequented by many. All of these questsâ"on lakes Tellico, Fontana, Nantahala, and Cumberland/Big South Forkâ"were within a half dayâ's drive of Maryville. My procedure: Camp near a put-in on the night before, launch on the lake just before dawn, and be home in time for a nap by mid-afternoon.
What I found ranged from the sublime to the bizarre to the devastatingly disappointing, but in this summer of drought and heat, when moving water was in short supply, it seemed fitting to paddle upstream until I could paddle no more.
Finding where to put in on Tellico to reach its transitional zone required several excursions on Monroe County back roads, a Tennessee Gazetteer open in my lap. I eventually found the right spot, off Belltown Road, a grassy turnaround and a beaten-down bank at the end of an unnamed dirt road.
At 8:30 on a cool May morning, it was so quiet the bumblebees seemed to roar. Woodpeckers rat-a-tatted and called out shrill and rooster-like, one pecking at a hammer-and-nail speed, the other going full-tilt staccato.
Stumps and dead trees protruded from Tellicoâ's surface or lurked just a few inches under the water, cattails thriving near the banks, thick dark forest on each side of the river. But no discernible current.
For the first couple of miles, I saw scant evidence of humanity: a rope swing, a lawn chair or two, a forked stick for a pole. A deer snorted indignantly from the bank, and instead of taking off, he stayed there, invisible, snorting more and more shrilly. I felt like a clumsy intruder.
By mid-morning the trees reached across and met above me, the lake/river restricted to 30 feet. I searched for signs of current in floating leaves or tree limbs that dipped onto the surface of the water. A pile of deadfall had snagged a childâ's plastic four-wheeler, the first substantial trash of the day, and against a fallen log that tilted toward me, I saw it, a stirring.
After another half mile, the riverâ's striated rock bottom came up to meet me, four or five feet below, and I struggled to move forward. No trumpets blowing, no fanfare, but Iâ'd found where the river revived itself, pastureland on both sides, the smell of freshly mown hay, the sound of a generator kicking in, a tractor coughing in the distance.
I left feeling like Iâ'd discovered something intimate about the Tellico, that Iâ'd reached a place worlds away from the reservoir just a few miles north.
Big South Fork of the Cumberland/Lake Cumberland
It was mid-June, and Jack Danielâ's distillers in south central Tennessee worried about their special spring drying up. If it does, they said, no more whiskey this year. I drove to the confluence of the Big South Fork (BSF) and the Cumberland at a state park named after Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside.
The lake was low, not only because of the drought but by design. Leaking Wolf Creek Dam needed some ease from the strain of holding back so much water, for the Corps of Engineers had recently determined that if its leaks turned into something more serious, like failure, things looked dire downstream.
I put in at the football field-sized ramp that had been extended to allow fishermen and 90-foot houseboats to put in at the low water level. In the desertion of pre-dawn, I was rewarded with the sighting of a vixen and two pups, high on the rocky bank below a large house.
The banks were a jigsaw puzzle of flat tan shale, brittle when you stepped on it, and sloped so steeply that disembarking from the low-slung kayak was a sport in itself.
My plan was to paddle to a place called Alum Ford up the Big South Fork in the Daniel Boone National Forest, camp there, then venture a little farther, if necessary, before floating back to Burnside the following day.
A forest service employee had told me over the phone that she had no idea where the current of the BSF started. She gave me the number of another ranger, Kevin Moses, who â"loved that river.â" I left a message, but Moses never called me back, and this encouraged me. Nobody, I thought, not even the experts, knew where the river resurrected itself from failing Wolf Creek Dam.
After about four and half hours of paddling, the sun worked its fever into my neck and shoulders and brain, and the wind was pure insult, gusts of 15-25 mph that twisted my course. I pulled over on the bank to reconsider my quest and cut my ankle on the shattered shale disembarking. Trying to get back in the boat, I dropped my paddle and the wind almost blew me downstream faster than I could retrieve it.
This, the blundered landing, not even halfway to Alum Ford, decided the issue. I would turn back.
I lifted my nylon hammock as a spinnaker and strained against the power of the wind. Jet skis and power boats appeared, throwing wakes at my little boat, heavily laden with camping gear.
I was near delirium when I returned to the boat ramp late afternoon after 10 hours of paddling. I remembered what a park employee had told me the day before when I asked how far Iâ'd have to paddle before I reached current.
â"Pretty far,â" he said.
Indeed. Too damn far.
Nantahala Lake/River
After a two-hour drive over the Smokies alongside lakes Chilhowee, Calderwood, and Fontana, I arrived at a hamlet called Aquone, where you could hardly get to the lake it was so clogged with gated communities with names like Arrowhead Point. At a bait store/fishing camp, a tough-looking teenage girl turned to an old woman in a rocker and asked on my behalf, â"Where could he camp in a tent?â"
â"In a tent?â" asked the woman with a contempt that made me smile. She reminded me of my own grandmother, throwing the words of your own life back at you so you could see its absurdity. Then she told me a place I could camp, for free: Old River Road, actually Forest Service Road 308; I took the site with the least trash.
Next morning, one car was parked at the boat ramp in the huge gravel parking lot. Nothing was stirring that morning. Above me rose high bluffs with majestic houses built close to the water, all wood and stone and glass. There were no big boats at the slips, and quite a few kayaks and canoes.
A wispy fog hung above the water, and up in the hills it gathered thickly along the receding and intersecting angles of the southern mountains. For the first two hours, there were no other boats, no human voices.
I entered a fjord-type environment that I was relatively sure was the mouth of the Nantahala, though it would have been easy to get it wrong. There was a big cove farther left and a couple of creeks to the right that might have fooled me.
The water turned turquoise up in the coves, different from the slate gray of the lake. Dead limbs reached out from the banks like the arms of ghosts, visible deep beneath waterâ's surface.
The river bent hard right, and an amber scooze appeared on the waterâ's surface. I thought I saw the scooze move in some current, but couldnâ't be sure.
The bottom came up at me suddenly, about five feet below, the banks maybe 20 yards across. The new cold of the river penetrated on the backs of my legs through the thin plastic hull. The water turned the color of strong tea.
There was a house with some steps leading down to a wooden platform 10 feet above the water, two padded chairs set up, the exact spot where these folks could get up each day and see where the river begins.
Up ahead the river flowed across shoals so shallow I had to raise my rudder. Here the Nanty roared low like static. I paddled hard and fast until I ran aground and let the current carry me back downstream.
Fontana Lake/Nantahala River (Tsali)
On the hottest day of the year, Aug. 7, the heat index was over 100 and I was at crowded Tsali Campground, a half mile or so from upper Fontana Lake. One of the guys at the site next to me was calling somebody possibly named â"Wiffleburg.â" It was a business call, sounded like. Then he told the guy heâ's sorry about his divorce. Heâ's going through a divorce as well and gave Wiffleburg the details. He said heâ's â"jazzed about it.â"
The camping sites at Tsali sit too close together for my taste. The evening had been full of action, too. There was the Edward Abbey type with a van, a canoe, and his sonâ's kayak on top. He had a sarcastic rapport with the teenaged son, but his wife hardly said a word. Another guy showed up around 10 in a white convertible, halogen headlights blaring. He had a long important conversation with someone on his cell phone.
I was the first one up at Tsali; I put in at Lemons Point at a concrete ramp. The reservoir was so low that peopleâ's docks stood up high out of the water. I paddled under the old railroad bridge and past a marina, hunkered low and still in the early morning haze.
A lone fisherman cast his line in the shade of the bridge. Above me, some kind of machine, invisible, was eating away at the trees along the little road up there. Something began to send bubbles to the surface like signals, all across the lake. It looked like rain, which would have been a blessing.
A fishy smell rose from the water. There was a long grassy point at the next left bend, two skeletal gray trees standing out on it alone. Gelatin-like tumors grew on dead limbs and on rocks. The bottom came up. I saw cans. Shoes. Rocks. I imagined screams, squeals of delight, rafters tossed by a river I was approaching.
A solid fog bank about two feet high guarded a concrete structure that extended from each bank, part-way across the river. The water refrigerated the air. I paddled 50 yards against the current, the river deep and strong here.
Then the sun struck the surface and revealed the bubble makers. It was if a curtain had been drawn. Carp, dozens of them. They swam right under the boat, fearless, a foot, a foot and a half long. I could see their square scales, sparkling in the sunlight. A good sized turtle poked his head out of the water, looked at me and said, â"Psssshhhhhhh.â"
On the way back, two kayakers approached, lean women in their 60s.
â"Are yâ'all from around here?â" I asked.
â"Yes,â" one said curtly. â"Are you?â"
I said no and they smiled at each other. I asked them about the concrete structure. One with a floppy hat said it was an old railroad bridge.
â"There were whole communities here,â" she said, â"before the dams.â"
I know all that, I started to say, feeling vaguely implicated as an ignorant tourist, a beneficiary of dams and marina culture. Instead, I changed the subject and marveled aloud about the fog, the carp, the turtles up ahead at the resurrection zone. They nodded and paddled on, either disbelieving me or unmoved by my description, a good thing, I thought, because local or not, I liked the idea of having the zone to myself.
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