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Why does the dominant chord contain a flattened 7th while this tone is not even in the scale?
Let's take for example a C7 chord. It is a 1-3-5-b7 (C-E-G-Bb).
But the C major scale does not contain Bb. So why do we use a flattened 7th in a dominant chord? It sounds dissonant. I think it would be better if it would contain a 7th without an alteration, which produces a more pleasant sound.
Why does the dominant chord contain a flattened 7th while this tone is not even in the scale?
Dominant is the fifth chord of a scale. For example in the C Major scale,the G chord is called Dominant.
The 7th of G is F natural.
So the G7 chord would be G B D F, but if you wanted to have maj7 it would be G B D F#, but the C Major scale does not include F#.
The C7 would be in the F Major scale. The key to F Major scale is Bb, and the Dominant chord would be C E G Bb. (this doesn't mean that you can't play C7 in another scale)
Edit: Now that I re-read my answer, I think I wasn't really clear. I order to find a chord,you need to ascend 3rds from the note you start(for the most common chords).
So, in the C Major scale, the G chord,which is Dominant, will be: G (ascending a major 3rd) B (ascending a minor 3rd) D (ascending a minor 3rd) F, making it G B D F. That's the reason the Dominant chord contains a minor seventh.
It sounds dissonant because it is ! It is, and has been, for hundreds of years,the means of moving to the subdominant chord. Containing a most unstable tritone, as in E and Bb, in your example in Cmaj.,it needs to resolve to an F chord. Don't worry that Bb is not in the key of C, as it's in F, where the music is going, albeit briefly. Your idea of using a major 7th is fine, but it doesn't push towards the subdominant in any way. Think along slightly different lines - the chord that pushes back to C is actually G dom.7th, which contains a tritone, AND an F note, which isn't in the Gmaj.scale.
You'll find the #5th does the same sort of job (as in C+ - C,E,G# to move to F); again G# is not in the key. Just because you're in the key of Cmaj., doesn't mean you can ONLY use the 'white notes'.
The other answers to this are all good. However, I can see how they could be confusing to many people. So here is my attempt at explaining why the 7 in a dominant chord is lowered.
First off you need the definition of the dominant 7th chord:
♭7 Major 7th 5 contains 3 1
This means, as you already know, that building a Dominant chord off of a C, would result in
Now, to understand why the 7th is flat, you need to know that the dominant 7th chord only happens naturally on the 5th of a Major scale:
You can easily double-check me (to make sure that I am telling the truth) by first off knowing that a dominant chord consists of a M3 (1 to 3) a m3 (3 to 5) and another m3 (5 to 7).1 Now, what is the interval between G and B? Yep, a Major 3rd (M3). And between B and D? You guessed it, a minor 3rd (m3). And finally another m3 between D and F. You can also double-check me on all the other 7th chords by checking the intervals between the four notes to see if they contain the right intervals for the given chord. I.E. Major 7th: M3, m3, M3... Yep.
So now that we have proven that a 7th chord built off of the 5th of a key is truly a naturally happening Dominant (you believed me anyways, didn't you?), we can easily see how the B in a C dominant 7th would be a ♭.
Think about it. Since the Dominant 7th chord is naturally occurring on the 5th, let's find a fifth below C. That's F, isn't it? Here are the naturally occuring 7th chords in F major:
Look! The fifth is a naturally occurring dominant chord containing
So that is why we end up with a B♭ in the C major key signature. It's because the Dominant 7th chord is really based off of the Key a P5th below.
1 http://www.socraticmethod.net/music_theory/seventhchords.htm
The "dominant seventh" is so called because it is the result of adding a 7th to a V chord of a major key (called the dominant chord) without an accidental. For example, because C is the dominant chord of F major, the notes of a C7 chord should agree with the key signature of F major. The reason the 7th is a Bb is that that note is part of the F major scale.
I personally favor using the term "dominant seventh" only in cases where it is either the dominant chord of either the key signature or is dominant relative to the following chord, a concept called "secondary dominance". For example, if the song "All through the night" is played in C major, the opening chords are:
C F D7 G Peace, my child let God attend thee
The D7 chord is the dominant chord of G, which would be the dominant chord of C major. Because the D7 chord is going to resolve into G, it uses the nodes of the G major scale, which includes an F# but not a C#. That particular chord I would refer to as a "dominant 7th" because it is the dominant chord of the following chord to which it resolves. There are some other contexts, however, in which that same shape of chord is used but does not resolve in that fashion. In such cases, I prefer to refer to that chord shape as a "major minor seventh", meaning a major chord with a minor seventh [relative to the root] on the top.
Why does the dominant chord contain a flattened 7th while this tone is not in the scale?
Your're obviously not referring to the dominant chord (i.e the fifth chord) because the dominant chord of a major key is always part of the scale. You're referring to the 7 chord based off of the tonic (in your example, or some other note general) which does not function as the dominant chord of the scale (it could be, however, functioning as a secondary dominant: C7 is the dominant chord from the key of F, and it can help you modulate to F). Whenever you have maj min 7 chord that isn't the fifth chord, it may be explained by theory in several ways (secondary dominant, tritone substitution, etc... I'm not into that stuff).
In 12 bar blues, all chords can be played with an added minor 7th and it doesn't sound wrong, and the only explanation I can give for the fourth being played dominant is that it just sounds cool. The point is, if it doesn't have a simple theoretical explanation, don't look for a complicated one.
So why do we use a flattened 7th in a major dominant chord? All dominant chords have flatted 7s that are part of the scale (for example in the key of C, G7 is the dominant and it's 7th is F). You probably meant: why do whe play dom 7 chords that are not the fifths (functional dominants)? So again to summarize, it could be explained using theory (read about secondary dominants, modulation, tritone substitution...) or it can have no explanation at all. Some people like chicken with ice cream, why not? This is art, not math.
The flat 7th is in the overtone series of the root note. For example, let's say you play an A7 dominant chord starting with the A at 440 Hz. The frequencies in the overtone series for the A are:
Frequency Closest pitch 440 Hz A 880 Hz A 1320 Hz E 1760 Hz A 2200 Hz C# 2640 Hz E 3080 Hz G 3520 Hz A
Notice that A, C#, E, and G – the notes in the A7 chord – appear in the overtone series of A within 4 octaves. G#, the 7th in the AMaj7 chord, appears much, much later in the overtone series.
The flatted 7th is in the scale. You're just thinking about the wrong scale. The term "dominant" refers to the 5th note of a scale. In the case of C7, C is the 5th note of the F scale. The note Bb is in the F major scale.
Lets see what exactly is a dominant seventh.
It a is a chord which instead of three notes with one of the notes being doubled we have four different notes.
So instead of having four notes being C-E-G-C we have C-E-G-B. The seventh chord is a tetrad (Triad but four notes instead of four)
Now you could build chords with this added note on any scale degree. The tonic being the exception as its seventh is both the leading tone of the scale and the seventh of a chord. So there is issues regarding the resolving of that note.
You ask then why is the Bb in the C dominant chord flattened then. because when you play that chord typically in a classical harmony you are not in C major. It is a dominant chord. It is build on the fifth note of the scale. The tonic in which this chord would operate is F and F major has a Bb.


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So in my last beer, I added bourbon infused with vanilla bean. I started to wonder if this was "cheating" or frowned upon, as far as getting the bourbon flavor into the beer. Is there a better way to do it, or a correct way?
Whichever way you want to flavor a beer is fantastic! That's part of the fun with brewing. Unless you are concerned about following the Reinheitsgebot, don't worry about adjunct materials. I really like the way you decided to flavor your beer. If you're looking for further suggestions, try finding wood chips soaking them in your favorite bourbon, than throw the wood chips in a nylon sock. Tie up the top and place it in your beer during the conditioning stage. The flavor comes through nicely in the final product. If you can find some wood from an old bourbon barrel this technique works well. Just make sure you sterilize all surfaces that will come in contact with your beer by washing it with an alkaline based cleaner or under water that is at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit (71 Celsius).
Like I have said before, its the taste that matters in the end to me. Not some sort of right or wring way to get there.
I make a winter ale with oak ships soaked in burbon. To which I add my cinnamon and nutmeg as well. Let it sit for a few days then put it all in secondary.
You method sounds great to me.
I don't think there's any wrong way to add bourbon flavor to your beer other than adding something that hasn't been sanitized properly ;)
Jack Daniels sells wood chips made from their old barrels for smoking on the grill but I don't see any reason why you couldn't use them to add some oak and bourbon* flavor to your brew, just be sure to sanitize them properly first.
*technically Jack Daniel's isn't bourbon since it is not made in Kentucky; but as far as ingredients and flavor are concerned, it is basically bourbon.
First, I don't think it's cheating. I think adding bourbon to beer sounds delicious!
I guess it would help to break down what you want in a "bourbon" flavor. For my Scotch Ale, I wanted something smokey and peaty and oaky. So I used smoked malt and peated malt, and oak chips.
Using a barrel that was used for bourbon would work pretty well too.. Though that's difficult at the 5 gal range.


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Will the time to recompile invalid objects post upgrade decreased once fixed object stats have been gathered?
First of all fixed object stats on X$-tables won't be gathered by default. X$ structures are undocumented. V$ views are build on top of them and should only be used even though it might be sometimes useful to access X$ tables such as X$BH (buffer headers - contains information describing the current contents of a piece of the buffer cache) sometimes directly.
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In larger sized databases with many objects and components our recommendation is always to gather first fixed object stats prior to start the recompilation. Some time ago I've learned from to very different customer database projects that these stats will speed up the efficient job creation for recompilation. And last week I've got this feedback from an EBS 188.8.131.52 to 184.108.40.206 upgrade project:
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- Recompilation with fixed object stats: 12:09 hrs (!!!)
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Central America has fallen into a Hobbesian trap: the better-off make private arrangements—there are five times as many private security guards as policemen or soldiers in Guatemala, and four times as many in Honduras—and therefore block efforts to levy the tax revenues necessary to strengthen the state.
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My friend told me that the Manchus would link 4 horses together and fight. Yufei then cut off the horses feet and won anyway.
Is this true? Where can I learn about 4 horses tied together?
After doing a bit of research, I found nothing on the tactic of linking horses. I've read a bit of Chinese military history, and I mean no offense, but most of the stuff are lies. For example, 诸葛亮 supposedly created an perpetual motion ox to carry grain. This is impossible. Another example is 赵云 killed 100 people to save 刘备's son. A third example is that 关羽,killed numerous generals and their armies to get to 刘备。All of which are doubtful. These stories are like the story that King Arthur had a giant cross strapped to his back and killed the entire enemy army or the story that Lancelot killed a dragon. Chinese history up until maybe the Ming or Qing dynastes is cloudy and full of myths, and not very reliable.
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The lances next to the horses look about a horse and a half long.
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The World's Most Ridiculous Sports Team Names
It used to be easy to name your sports team; just pick a dangerous animal and go. Unfortunately, there are way more sports teams in the world than there are cool animals, and the result is a lot of names that range from lame to laugh-out-loud retarded.
Made-Up Words
Webster University Gorloks
Runners Up:
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL)
Key School Obezags (High school)
Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL)
From the Webster University website: "The Gorlok is Webster University's school mascot. It is a mythical creature that was designed by Webster staff and students through a school contest. It is reported to have the paws of a speeding cheetah, horns of a fierce buffalo, and the face of a dependable Saint Bernard."
The design team lovingly followed the instructions to the letter and came up with a lion:
The Key School Obezags meanwhile, have cleverly made an anagram of the word "gazebo," which would make no sense unless you knew that the school has a sort of obsession with gazebos, which it does. They don't seem to have a mascot, but with a name like "Obezags" they could have let their imaginations run wild and made it a ferocious clown with a barracuda for a penis. The merchandising would bring the school millions.
Meanwhile, Canada continues to have problems with words, inventing the puzzling "Tiger-Cats," and willfully pluralizing "leaves" wrong. This is a point of "dishonour" to their school system.
Trying Too Hard To Be Hip
Philadelphia Soul
(Arena Football League)
Runners Up:
South Dakota School of Mines HardRockers (College)
Indianapolis NW Space Pioneers (High school)
Cleveland Rockers (WNBA, defuncT)
Swing of the Quad Cities (Minor League Baseball)
"Soul" in this case doesn't refer to the eternal essence of self that many believe humans possess. Rather, it's a style of popular music in the 1970s known as Philadelphia Soul, making it highly relevant when this expansion team opened in 2004. This team was actually co-founded by Jon Bon Jovi, who is to soul what Arena football is to football.
Jon Bon Jovi, as relevant and hip as the team he co-owns.
The South Dakota School of Mines HardRockers and the defunct Cleveland Rockers of the WNBA do have legitimate connections for their wannabe-hip-sounding names. One is a pun on the school's mining focus; the other is located near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. However, they both end up reminding you of when a company tries to put forward a mascot with a backwards baseball cap, a skateboard and some kind of crazy-shaped electric guitar to appeal to "kids today."
The Indianapolis NW Space Pioneers, meanwhile, had the bad fortune to tie its name to the hot current event in the '60s, the space race, and have not mustered the energy to change it since.
Whoever renamed their team the "Swing of the Quad Cities" was obviously trying to go for something hip and fresh, but unfortunately swing is only hip and fresh to a demographic that is, for the most part, now dead.
Abstract Concepts
Thailand Tobacco Monopoly
(Thai soccer team)
Runners up:
Minnesota Wild (NHL)
Stanford Cardinal (College)
St. Louis College of Pharmacy Eutectic (College)
While the American teams put up one hell of a fight, they were no match for good old Asian wackiness, as the Thailand Tobacco Monopoly soccer team leaves us puzzled and nearly speechless. Being named after a tobacco company would be pretty hilarious in itself. But being named after the concept of the tobacco business being dominated by one corporate entity without any competition, this is truly a masterstroke.
The NHL's Minnesota Wild holds its own, however, being named after a concept whose definition could range from generally uncontrollable to areas untamed by man. Adjective? Noun defining a concept? Who knows. There's a team whose commitment to keeping its opponents guessing runs so deep as to extend to even its name.
Meanwhile, the Stanford Cardinal is named after a shade of red, a concept so difficult to personify that team boosters have just torn out their hair and made their mascot costume a shoddy-assembled tree.
And finally, the St. Louis College of Pharmacy has dug deep into its obscure word bank and come up with the "Eutectic," which turns out is either an adjective referring to an alloy combination with the lowest possible melting point, or sometimes a noun referring to the substance itself. What it really says, obviously, is "We don't have to be good at sports because we'll have nice pharmacist paychecks soon, so enjoy your meaningless victory."
Non-Threatening Animals
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
(Japanese Pro Baseball-NPB)
Runners Up:
Brevard County Manatees (Minor League Baseball)
UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs (College)
Columbia College Fighting Koalas (College)
Atlanta Thrashers (NHL)
Montreal Alouettes (CFL)
Listen, Hiroshima Toyo ... no one is scared of carp. No one is scared of manatees either, Brevard County, but they're bigger, so you slide out of the top spot. One might have hopes for a second that a Toyo Carp is some kind of carnivorous carp, but unfortunately Toyo is just a reference to the sponsoring company. So, they are indeed just carp.
Meanwhile, UC Santa Cruz has chosen the banana slug, mostly as a joke, which at least inspires revulsion if not respect.
Columbia College has made some kind of half-assed attempt to inject some threat by adding the "fighting" prefix to their koala name, but has only succeeded in creating a more ridiculous mental picture.
Two professional teams round out the list by inexplicably choosing small, non-threatening birds to represent themselves-thrashers ...
and skylarks (alouettes):
We can easily picture some team executive hearing "Thrashers" and, picturing fierce teeth and razor-sharp claws that thrash things, saying, "Yes! Go with it!" That guy was probably fired the first time somebody bothered to crack open an encyclopedia. There is no excuse for "Alouette," since it's most famous for having various body parts plucked off, verse-by-verse, in the well-known French song "Alouette."
Non-Threatening Humans
King Faisal Babies
(Ghana's Premier Football League)
Runners Up:
Centralia Orphans (High school)
Cordozo Clerks (High school)
Cairo Syrupmakers (High school)
Wikki Tourists of Bauchi (Nigeria Premier League)
We can only speculate why a professional soccer team would name itself the "Babies," but odds are they have an odd sense of humor, wish to lull their opponents into a false sense of security, or the ownership was so fed up with the players' whining that they changed the team name as a sort of punishment. Or, possibly it's all three.
Meanwhile, we assume the Centralia Orphans get pumped up for every game by thinking of themselves as impoverished waifs with nothing to lose, because everything they ever loved is gone, which must lead to some awesome pep rallies. The Cordozo Clerks are located near Washington D.C., which is still no excuse, because San Fernando Valley high schools never feel the need to name their teams the Pornstars. Still, the compulsion seems to be universal, vis-a-vis the Cairo Syrupmakers (Cairo being where Karo syrup is made, sadly).
Non-Threatening Inanimate Objects
Teutopolis Wooden Shoes
(High school)
Runners Up:
Presbyterian College Blue Hose (College)
Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes (College)
Frankfort Hot Dogs (High school)
Victoria Salsa (British Columbia Junior Hockey, defunct)
It's hard to explain why wooden shoes don't feel so threatening, as logically, they could be used to bludgeon someone over the head quite effectively. Nevertheless, the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes inspire a sort of stunned, mild lethargy that none of the others in this category were able to match.
The Blue Hose could arguably belong to the upcoming "Sounds Dirty" category, but we chose to take the high road in this case. Meanwhile, the "fighting" prefix does even less for artichokes than it did for koalas.
The Frankfort Hot Dogs continue to prove that the pun is the lowest form of humor, and the Victoria Salsa, whether referring to the dance or condiment, lose badly on either count.
Sounds Dirty
Butte Pirates
(High school)
(Due to forfeit by New Zealand Black Cocks)
Runners Up:
Cleveland Browns (NFL)
Rhode Island School of Design Nads (College)
Deportivo Wanka (Peruvian soccer team)
Chattanooga Central Purple Pounders (High school)
Young Boys Bern (Swiss soccer league)
Butte County High School takes the prize with their simultaneously appropriate and completely inappropriate team nickname of "Pirates." The New Zealand national badminton team, the Black Cocks, would have beaten them, only the name was shot down at the last minute by the international badminton authorities and the protests of many angry people with no sense of humor. Fortunately, they managed to cancel the naming just in time to save the world's respect for badminton.
It's hard to point out what's dirty about the Cleveland Browns nickname without being crude, so let's just say that one favorite euphemism for number two in the bathroom is, "Taking the Browns to the Superbowl."
The Rhode Island School of Design has an impressive entry with their "Nads" hockey team. It was only slightly diminished by the fact they obviously did it on purpose, which is somewhat atoned for by their team cheer, "Go Nads!" and their school's matching basketball team, the Balls.
The Nads mascot, forcing the team onto this list
Deportivo Wanka of Peru was a hit on their visit to the U.K., although admittedly somewhat puzzled by the snickers that greeted them. For those unfamiliar with zany Brit slang, the "Wanka" appear to be some sort of tribute to masturbation.
Beyond puzzling are the Chattanooga Central Purple Pounders, and last but not least, the Swiss professional soccer team with the vaguely disturbing name Young Boys Bern, who play in Wankdorf Stadium.
Read page two for the most racially insensitive nicknames, and the undisputed worst sports team name in the world.


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I really really really really like the new everyone can edit feature. Heck, I've almost approved 1,000 of them. But, some people don't understand how the system works, and could potentially cause 'harm' to the content of the site.
For an example, see these proposed edit:
To help avoid this, I think editors (under 2k) should only be able to change 50% (or some percent) of a post. This will prevent people for entirely mangling the meaning of a post.


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The collection of prime powers can be characterized in the following way:
There is a field with $q$ elements if and only if $q$ is a prime power. Furthermore if it exists then this field is unique up to isomorphism.
My question is,
Is there an analogous characterization for positive integers which are products of two distinct prime powers?
To avoid triviality let us say that the characterization should be presented independently of the prime factorization of the number involved. So we are looking for a statement like,
"There exists a set from a certain class which has property $P(n)$ if and only if $n$ is a product of two distinct prime powers,"
and both the set from the relevant class and the property $P(n)$ should be defined in a way that does not inherently depend on the prime factorization of $n$.


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By Pilar Abuin
January 21, 2011
ITS is pleased to offer Turnitin's OriginalityCheck, a plagiarism detection tool available to any NYU or NYUAD instructor with a current Blackboard course shell. By verifying originality of work at student submission prior to grading, faculty are able to not only prevent plagiarism in their classes, but also encourage proper research and citation methods. Students submitting papers to Turnitin can rest assured that their privacy and security are well protected, and that they retain copyright of all original work created and submitted to Turnitin.
When using Turnitin, it is important to understand FERPA disclosure implications regarding student education records. Student work submitted to the instructor is considered part of the student's education record and cannot be further submitted to a service such as Turnitin without written permission from the student. Only students may submit their papers directly to Turnitin, and, in those cases, their papers are not considered education records. Faculty members who create the assignments for the students to submit to Turnitin must be cognizant of FERPA disclosure rules and must make the following clear to their students:
For questions or more information on FERPA, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or read New York University Guidelines for Compliance with the Family Educational Rights And Privacy Act.
Turnitin assignments are easy to create and integrate into your Blackboard course shell and curriculum, syncing your assignments with your class roster and allowing for easy grading within the Blackboard Grade Center.
First, you must have a current and activated Blackboard course shell to utilize Turnitin, and you must activate the content type before you can add the assignment. If you have not already done so, activate your course through the ITS Course Request Form.
To activate the Building Block content type, go to the Blackboard Control Panel, and under the Course Options panel, choose Manage Tools > Building Block Tool Availability. From the list of options, select the two Turnitin Assignment check boxes, Turnitin Assignment List and Turnitin Assignments by Groups, to activate the Building Block within your course. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page to confirm the change.
To add a Turnitin assignment, choose a content area of your choice, such as "Assignments," from the control panel. From the drop-down menu on the top right-hand side of the content area screen, select "Turnitin Assignment," and choose "Go."
You will then be walked through a series of steps to set up your assignment. Choose an assignment type: Paper Assignment or Revision Assignment. If you would like to create a Revision Assignment to allow your students resubmit their work, you must first create a Paper Assignment as the parent assignment.
The assignment will need to have a title, a point value for grading, as well as a start date (when the assignment becomes available to the students), a due date (when the assignment is due), and a post date (for grading), which must be later than the due date.
Advanced options include making the originality reports available to students, setting the number of words considered a match, and selecting which repository the paper will be submitted to as well as the repositories you would like to check these papers against. The repository options include checking submissions against other papers submitted by NYU students to Turnitin, current and archived web pages, and Turnitin-partnered and publically accessible periodicals, journals, and publications.
Once the instructor submits the assignment, students can choose from a variety of file types to complete their work, but the file must not exceed 20MB in size.
For more detailed instructions, search the ITS knowledgebase for the keyword "Turnitin".
For training on integrating Turnitin into your Blackbord course shell, you can sign up for a one-on-one tutorial through NYUiLearn, the web-based training system accessed via the Work tab on NYUHome.
Pilar Abuin is a Faculty Technology Specialist within ITS Faculty Technology Services.
This Article is in the following Topics:
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One of my favorite Christmas carols is titled "I Wonder As I Wander." I first heard it several years ago on a local morning radio program. I would call every morning after that to request playing it again. The song opens and closes with "I wonder as I wander out under the sky; How Jesus the savior did come for to die; For poor on'ry people like you and like I; I wonder as I wander out under the sky."
It is the third line of this verse that gets to me: "For poor on'ry people like you and like I." I ask myself, first, what does it mean to be ordinary? As a noun, it means what is commonplace or standard. As an adjective, it means with no special or distinctive features. And then the writer adds poor to the ordinary. And then states that the poor ordinary people are like you and like I. I truly believe this writer is trying to give us a new look at being poor.
The staff of the Urban Mission works with those who are poor on a daily basis. Some are financially poor, some are spiritually poor and some are mentally poor. There are many levels of being poor. And some will not even admit to being poor. They will tell you we are just having some tough times right now.
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When I think back to the Christmas song the message to me is that I am an ordinary person. Am I a poor, ordinary person? Perhaps there are times when I am. And the song reminds us that we all are at some time or another. And as I ask you to help us with gifts for the children, I would like to offer all of you the following gift suggestions from Oren Arnold as you are giving to others: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
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What proof is there that the center of gravity of a disc is at its center when the gravitational field is not uniform, such as objects close to the edge of the disc, or lying within the body of the disc?
I assume here a general relativistic standpoint, as this is the most general case, and because it has interesting observational consequences.
The idea about center-of-mass is usually applied to calculate the gravitational field outside spherically symmetric matter distributions. This does not assume that the field is uniform. In particular it may decrease as a function of distance form the center of the disk or sphere.
In the theory of general relativity Birkhoff's theorem states (in simple terms) that the gravitational field outside a spherically symmetrical matter distribution is only a function of the total mass, and not the extend of the matter or its distribution as a function of distance from the center, or even as a function of time!
Note that this assumes a spherically symmetric matter distribution. Namely it has to be isotropic, and because of the symmetry it will thus have a uniquely defined center, which is completely analogous to the center of mass. Also it assumes that the test particle is outside the matter distribution. Inside there are higher order corrections to the gravitational field.
The physical consequence is that no measurement of only the gravitational field can be made to distinguish between a homogeneous sphere of mass M, a point (all located at the center of the sphere) gravitational source of the same mass (eg. a black hole) or a radially oscillating star.
This all assumes that the observer, or test particle, is in the same plane as the gravitating object. In the case of a 2D disk then, this assumes that the test particle is in the plane of the disk. Outside this plane, the theorem will not hold true. Surely enough, a particle initially traveling towards the center, may well end up intersecting the disk away from the center, because of the anisotropic gravitational field.
Actually, Center Of Mass is the only critical issue, symmetry is irrelevant. At the COM the gravitational field is flat, i.e. zero G, so COM is coincident with COG. Pretty much by definition.
The question is about G at the center of symmetry of a disc when there are other objects in the system. Since these will move the COM, the 0g point will move away from the center of the disc itself. So there is no such proof. There is only the integral of Gm1m2/r^2 of the delta masses over their radii from every point in the system, solved for the point where the integral is 0. This is only coincident with the geometrical center of a disc or sphere (or any symmetrical shape for that matter) when there are no other massy objects involved.


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Efficiency Consequences of Rate Regualtion in Insurance Markets
March 1, 2007
Despite the presence of many and diverse sellers of insurance in most
markets, insurance prices in some markets remain subject to regulation by state
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With the $12-billion valued Indian pharmaceutical industry expected to grow at an compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16%, the Indian government plans to capitalize on the growth potential in an effort to beat the competition from its Asian counterparts in the generic-drug and API manufacturing market.
Plans to increase pharmaceutical exports
"The idea is to double pharmaceutical exports to $25 billion by 2013–2014,'' says India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The Indian pharmaceutical sector has already emerged as one of the major contributors to the country's overall exports, with earnings rising from a negligible amount in the early 1990s to a value near the $12-billion mark. With generic-drug exports to the United States and Europe likely to increase, Azad says the time has come for India to be recognized as a global pharmaceutical manufacturing leader.India's Department of Commerce has advised its Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council (Pharmexcil) to undertake a Brand Pharma India campaign to improve the sector's global positioning. The campaign will raise awareness of the Indian pharmaceutical-sector success story and acquaint international audiences with India's growing expertise in generic-drug manufacturing. A component of the campaign will focus on improving the global perception of quality standards in India; much attention has been paid to counterfeit drugs in the region of late and the country is working to put an end to such practice.
"We need to establish India firmly as the first choice partner for the entire global pharma fraternity and with regards to the entire spectrum of pharma services. If aggressive growth drivers kick in, the domestic market is primed to reach $74 billion at a CAGR of 20% within no time,'' says P.V. Appaji, executive director of Pharmexcil.
In 2010, India exported $10.3 billion worth of pharmaceutical products, registering 17.5% growth since 2009. By March 2012, exports are likely to record a growth of 19%, says Appaji. India's largest export destination is still the US, followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, South Africa, and Russia. Segment-wise, generic drugs account for 58% of total exports, APIs account for 40%, and traditional medicines account for the remaining 2%.
"We need to aggressively promote export growth of high value products that have a strong domestic manufacturing base. This will be the lynchpin of our overall export growth strategy,'' says Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Vilasrao Deshmukh. He added that, with help from the government, India could easily take a large share of the API market from Europe.
India is currently at par with Europe in terms of the number of type II drug master file (DMF) applications submitted. In the second quarter of 2011, Europe filed 3150 DMFs and India filed 3084 to their respective authorities. "Moreover, the quarter-on-quarter DMF filing rate of India is slightly higher than Europe. The rate is continuously increasing,'' says Tarun Shah of MP Advisors, a specialized healthcare investment advisory firm based in Vadodara, Gujarat.
Glen Saldanha, chairman of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals based in Mumbai, agrees. "Today, many Indian firms have already established themselves as leading API manufacturers and generic players in the US and other western markets. Indian firms have made their presence felt in developed markets and if we continue to do quality work, then gaining market share in these markets should not be difficult. Government impetus is bound to boost the process.''
Incidentally, Glenmark has transitioned from supplying APIs to semi-regulated markets to servicing the regulated markets. The company claims it has the unique distinction of servicing nearly all the leading generic-drug manufacturers in the US.


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From pursuing business on a whim, to leading hundreds
Jared English has been the Shanghai general manager of CMP since November 2014.
June 23, 2016 | Jacquelyn Hubbard
An expert's take on Black Friday sales trends
Calvin business professor Tom Betts answers a few questions related to Black Friday sales trends and considers the reasoning for and impact of stores opening their doors on Thanksgiving Day.
November 24, 2015 | News & Stories staff
Detroit visionary replaces former Chicago mayor in January Series lineup
Josh Linkner, a driving force in the city of Detroit's comeback, will talk about the importance of reinvention for cities and individuals.
January 12, 2015 | Matt Kucinski
Calvin hosts Symposium on Common Grace in Business
Theologians, scholars and business people convened at Calvin College for conversations about the application of Abraham Kuyper's theological work on common grace to the business world.
November 01, 2014 | Grace Ruiter
Menlo Innovations CEO keynotes Calvin's Business Partners Awards Luncheon
The event honors business and individuals that have partnered with the college's business program to create outstanding learning opportunities for students.
October 07, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
U.S. News recognizes Calvin College for its undergraduate research
Calvin is on a short list of institutions that U.S. News & World Report highlights as outstanding examples of undergraduate research and creative projects.
September 09, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
We Are Calvin: Corrin Timmer
Senior Corrin Timmer spent this spring on Calvin's Washington D.C. semester as an events intern for United Nations Relief Works Agency USA.
May 19, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
We Are Calvin: Eric Seo
Sophomore Eric Seo is spending this Spring in the semester abroad program in York, England.
April 03, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
Jason Hanson talks faith, football
On Monday, September 16, 2013, former Detroit Lions kicker Jason Hanson gave a speech titled "Faith, Vocation and 21 years in the NFL" at Calvin College's annual Business Partners Awards Luncheon.
September 23, 2013 | Matt Kucinski
Faculty Profile: Marilyn and Jason Stansbury
Calvin business professors Marilyn and Jason Stansbury got the president of Calvin College's blessing before they got married.
August 14, 2013 | Grace Ruiter
Fiske Guide highlights Calvin's business, engineering programs
The 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges highlights Calvin's business and engineering programs as some of the best among small colleges and universities.
July 03, 2013 | Matt Kucinski
Finishing near the top
Calvin junior accounting major Jake Mantel took fourth place at the 2012 Regional Idea Pitch competition held on Wednesday, November 7, at Aquinas College's Wege Ballroom.
November 08, 2012 | Matt Kucinski
Calvin community remembers Margaret Edgell
Business professor Margaret Edgell died on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at her home in Seattle, Wash., after a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. The Calvin community shares their fond memories of their former colleague and friend.
October 19, 2012 | Matt Kucinski
Third Annual Regional Business Plan Competition
Calvin senior Jonathan Borak and junior Josiah Gamroth came in third at the Regional Business Plan Competition last Tuesday.
April 16, 2012 | Madeline Tracy
Uptown Kitchen opens
"I don't know in school if I ever thought I would do this so soon."
March 30, 2012 | Matt Kucinski
Immersion into India
During interim, some Calvin students worked in business internships in Hyderabad.
March 09, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Interim: Student blogs
Interning in India, excavating in Jordan, exploring development in Cambodia and engineering firms in Europe. And they're blogging!
January 06, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Student uses Pepsi grant to care for strays
Alissa Hoekstra's 5k grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project will be used to help her local animal shelter.
December 13, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
The Brigadiers: Calvin students in Panama
A group of Calvin students spent the last week of May in Panama with the Calvin chapter of Global Business Brigades (GBB).
June 06, 2011 | Andrew Steiner
A premiere business plan
Kelly LeCoy, a 2011 Calvin grad, has now won three business plan competitions in three months. On Tuesday, May 31, she won the 5X5, an initiative launched by ArtPrize founder Rick DeVos. She was awarded $5,000 to put toward her idea, "Uptown Kitchen."
June 01, 2011 | Matt Kucinski


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Soak up much of nature's beauty with Dan Kaercher as he visits one of the state's larges public gardens, including a stop in the butterfly wing at Reiman Gardens in Ames.
Hosted by Dan Kaercher, Iowa's Simple Pleasures features Iowa travel destinations, restaurants, events, parks, recreation and more. Produced by Iowa Public Television, the series highlights fun things for Iowans to do, see and taste, right here at home.
Kaercher: Simply defined, a garden is a plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruits. But far from simple is the transformation of 14 acres into one of the state's largest year-around public gardens. It would be hard to miss this sprawling 14-acre oasis near the campus of Iowa State University. As one of the largest public gardens in Iowa, Reimen Gardens has a lot to boast about. Teresa McLaughlin is the director here. Teresa, tell me a little bit about the history of the gardens.
McLaughlin: Reimen Gardens began as a kernel of an idea in about the early '90s. The first part of the garden, which was 4 acres, was dedicated in 1995. The gardens grew acre by acre pretty quickly, in fact. The entire campus is about 14 acres, and we've been going strong since then.
Kaercher: I'm ready for a look. Can you lead the way?
McLaughlin: I'd love to.
Kaercher: Tell me, Teresa, what area of the gardens are we in now?
McLaughlin: This is the children's garden. It's one of our best loved areas of the garden. Kids go in there and play forever. We have a corn crib. We have lots of events and birthday parties in there. We have a little antique lightning rod on top of a gazebo. We are always getting asked of people to come here. They pop the question to their future bride.
Kaercher: Teresa, tell me about the park here.
McLaughlin: Isn't it lovely? We have koi in there. We have a really nice representation of which you might plant around the edge of a water feature. In fact, we have 11 different water features here.
Kaercher: Beautiful waterfall.
McLaughlin: Don't you love that. It seems like every child that comes here has a rock or two to toss in there. It's a fun, fun place to be.
Kaercher: What's up ahead here?
McLaughlin: This is the Hunziker House. It is the center of what we call the town and country garden. There's about 14 different gardens surrounding this house. They're plants that would be the best kind of plants for you to consider when planting your own gardens around your house.
Kaercher: This looks like a beautiful, elegant area up ahead here.
McLaughlin: This is a very lovely garden. It's the Karen Ross Formal Lawn Garden. Look how it's so finely designed. We have a gorgeous weeping white spruce on the perimeter that encircles the garden. We have these lovely Frank Lloyd Wright containers that we plant.
Kaercher: This looks like something you'd see on a country estate somewhere. Let's go take a sit and pretend we're there, because this is one of the best places to sit down and have a conversation.
Kaercher: And it's shady.
McLaughlin: And it's nice and shady. There's so many great places. It's like you walk from room to room almost when you're here. We have gardens that highlight our roses. We have a wonderful rose collection. We have all kind of vegetables and fruit in our home production garden. There's a wonderful little canopy under the Dr. Buck Gazebo. You'll find perennials and annuals. You'll find trees, woody plants. We have pretty much a garden for everybody's interests.
Kaercher: What is that sound I hear? Are those chimes or something?
McLaughlin: Isn't that lovely. All of your senses are excited when you come here. That is a replica of the campanile that's on Iowa State University campus. To tie us into the main central campus, we built a wonderful, beautiful steel structure that also chimes.
Kaercher: As wonderful as all these outdoor features are, I understand there's some pretty special stuff going on inside.
McLaughlin: Let me show you. It's just great inside. In fact, it's year around. You can come here in January and enjoy flowers, but we have a conservatory that changes display. One of the best parts is a butterfly wing, and I'm going to introduce to you Nathan Brockman, who is in charge of that.
Kaercher: Are you Nathan?
Brockman: I am.
Kaercher: Dan Kaercher, Iowa Public Television. I understand you're the butterfly expert.
Brockman: Yeah, I'm the butterfly curator here at the gardens.
Kaercher: What's going on here?
Brockman: We're standing in front off our emergence chambers. This is where all of our butterflies that come in from a variety of different suppliers end up, where they sit and hang from their pupae and actually emerge out.
Kaercher: What's going on in the box?
Brockman: These are 32 of our individuals who are ready to come out. They already emerged and we are going to actually go in the butterfly wing and release these today.
Kaercher: Fine, okay. I'll follow you.
Brockman: Okay, let's go.
Kaercher: Oh, boy! Look at all these butterflies!
Brockman: They put on a good show, don't they?
Kaercher: They do. I didn't expect to see that many. How many are there here?
Brockman: At any given time we have up to 800 individuals, and of that, 80 different species.
Kaercher: Is that pretty consistent all year around?
Brockman: All year around but what's in here changes so there's always kind of a different flavor of butterflies in here.
Kaercher: Now, are some of these butterfly varieties more active? Does their behavior change, or what have you?
Brockman: Each species kind of has their own behavior, so you can actually come in here and watch them interact and interact with different species. It really makes a great show. What do you think about helping me release these butterflies?
Kaercher: You bet!
Brockman: All right. Why don't you put that under your knee --
Kaercher: Okay.
Brockman: We'll get these out.
Kaercher: Just get down right here?
Brockman: Yep, right there.
Kaercher: Okay.
Brockman: We'll take these off the lid first, is usually what I do. We're going to use the scissor method. We're gently going to move them over onto the plants. Some of them will be ready to fly and they'll take right off, but others will just sit. So if you want to try that one right there.
Kaercher: Just like that?
Brockman: Yep, just like that. Right there from the front. There you go. And then just place it on one of the plants or on the leaves. Outstanding.
Kaercher: What a beauty. What kind was that?
Brockman: That was our leopard lacewing. We've got a whole bunch of them in here we'll get out.
Kaercher: A white one.
Brockman: Yep. We don't get these very often, so this is really a special one to have in here this week.
Kaercher: You know, Nathan, what kind of comments do you hear from people?
Brockman: We get a lot of wows and ooos and aaahs when people first come in, but really what we hear a lot is questions.
Kaercher: For example, the types of plants you have in here obviously are dedicated to attracting butterflies. And look at that one on my knee! Oh, my gosh. So what type of plant?
Brockman: So our plant selection is actually kind of difficult for this space because we can't have any host plants. And a host planning being the plants that the caterpillars of these butterflies will eat. We can't have any of them in the ground because we're not allowed to have any caterpillars running around in here.
Kaercher: How do I discretely say good-bye?
Brockman: The best thing to do, what we always tell out visitors, is put your finger in front of it and then slide it up and it will be either crawl onto your finger or it will fly right off. Just like right on its feet, and there it goes.
Kaercher: Bye, friend. This has been so great. You've been terrific.
Brockman: Thank you.
Kaercher: Thank you. It's just fabulous.
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WACO (February 27, 2013)—Waco's first ALDI grocery store will open to the public Thursday.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Wednesday to welcome the store whose managers say they don't match other store's prices because that would mean raising theirs.
Many shoppers are familiar with their unique store practices that help keep their prices low.
"We keep our carts in one convenient place. You put a quarter in the cart, shop and then return the cart to get your quarter back. This helps to keep prices low because we don't spend time retrieving carts. Also, by only accepting cash, debit and EBT cards, it helps keep our prices low," the company's website states.
Other ways the store cuts on costs is by allowing customers to use empty food boxes or bring their own so that the company does not spend money on bags.
The store at 1220 N. Valley Mills Drive will open Thursday at 9 a.m.


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As we all know, English is evolving. Constructs considered repugnant 100 years ago are widely-accepted today. Thousands of words in our vocabulary have fallen into disuse while thousands more have been adopted.
My question: is English becoming easier to learn or harder? This is especially relevant given that--for better or worse--learning English is fast becoming a requirement for many non-native speakers.


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If you're a weather nerd, you might know that Jackson, Mississippi's Vivian Brown has been on The Weather Channel for more than 25 years. But if you're like most of us, you didn't even know the channel had been around that long. (They celebrated 30 years on air this summer.) No matter. While you sleep, Vivian Brown studies weather patterns and storms so that you can be prepared no matter what it's like outside. No winds, no rain and no winter cold stop this weather woman from getting the information out to viewers concerned about storms, floods, cold, heat, ice and all the other kinds of weather issues that can happen around the country. Brown, who earned a degree in Meteorology at Jackson State University, says she became a meteorologist because she was always fascinated with storms as a child, and that she saw the field as being open to minorities and women.
You can catch Brown every weekday on "Day Planner" from 11 to 2 p.m.
Vivian Brown on her favorite weather memories and why she enjoys her job.
Vivian Brown celebrates 25 years of outfits, hairstyles, pregnancies and forecasts on "The Weather Channel.
Watch a Weather Channel promo featuring Vivian Brown on the "NO BULL" initiative.


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Columbia College is proud to announce the receipt of a $250,000 gift for its science initiative from Web Bixby, president of Old American Insurance Company and a 1982 Columbia College graduate. Web Bixby is the national steering committee chairman for the science initiative and continues to play an active role in volunteering his time for the betterment of the institution.
"We are truly grateful and appreciate very much Mr. Bixby's loyalty as well as the depth of his support," said Dr. Gerald Brouder, president of Columbia College. "The success of the institution's Science Initiative is dependent upon the generosity of contributors who will enable us to strengthen and deepen the sciences here at Columbia College."
The college science initiative enables the institution to deepen the sciences through state-of-the-art facilities, laboratories, technology and scientific equipment while inspiring students to embrace scientific discovery. The science building, a major focus of the initiative, currently in the leadership phase, anticipates the construction of a 45,000 square foot building that will cost in the range of $13 million to $15 million. To date, the campaign has raised more than $1 million.
"Science is so central to our lives that it's difficult to overstate its importance," Bixby said. "All the things we take for granted have some scientific connection. From the computer screen to the telephone, every apparatus we depend upon was, at one point, a product of a scientific mind creating or developing new avenues of exploration."
Bixby is the son of Walter E. Bixby Jr., a college trustee emeritus and Mary Martha Musser Bixby '51, and whose great-great-grandmother graduated from the institution in 1908, then Christian College. Bixby has a history of supporting Columbia College as a trustee, a fundraiser, and a director of a foundation to develop the arts and education, established by his maternal grandmother. He has played an active role in the college's physical development and is involved in one of the college's next major milestones - a new science building.
Columbia College, a private, nonprofit institution founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., educates more than 26,000 students each year and has more than 64,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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Funeral services for Archie Brown, age 84, of Carmi, were held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 at First United Methodist Church in Carmi. Friends and family visited together from 5 until 8 p.m. Wednesday in the church.
Reverend Gary Feldman opened the service with a welcome and words of grace and scripture. Soloist Melanie Allyn then sang, "When He Was On The Cross." Reverend Mike Buckman delivered the message and sang, "Look At Us." Melanie Allyn then sang, "Crazy." Marjorie Brown provided the prelude and postlude music for the service.
Leon Barnard, Leon Koester, Greg Brown, Chris Brown, and Royal Alvey served as pallbearers at White County Memorial Garden where Mr. Brown was buried. Stendeback Family Funeral Home in Carmi provided the arrangements.
Condolences may be left at stendebackfamilyfuneralhome.com.
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The question is as in the title: what's the minimum of $\int_0^1 f(x)^2 \: dx$, subject to $\int_0^1 f(x) \: dx = 0, \int_0^1 x f(x) \: dx = 1$? (Assume suitable smoothness conditions.)
A problem in the textbook for the course I am TEACHING (not taking) reduces to minimizing $w_1^2 + w_2^2 + w_3^2$ subject to $w_1 + w_2 + w_3 = 0, w_1 + 2w_2 + 3w_3 = 1$. Of course there's nothing special about the number $3$ here, and so one can ask for the minimum of $\sum_{i=1}^n w_i^2$ subject to $\sum_{i=1}^n w_i = 0, \sum_{i=1}^n iw_i = 1$. At least when $n = 3, 4, 5$, we get $w_i = c_n(i-(n+1)/2)$, for some constant $c_n$ which depends on $n$. So for fixed $n$, $w_i$ is a linear function of $i$. (This is a bit of an annoying computation, so I won't reproduce it here.)
So it seems like there should be a continuous analogue of this. If we have $$ \int_0^1 f(x) \: dx = 0, \int_0^1 x f(x) \: dx = 1 $$ and $f(x)$ is linear, then we get $f(x) = 12(x-1/2)$, and $\int_0^1 f(x)^2 \: dx = 12$. Is this the function satisfying these integral conditions with smallest $\int_0^1 f(x)^2 \: dx$? That is, is it the case that $$ \int_0^1 f(x)^2 \: dx \ge 12 $$ for every $f(x)$ satisfying the two conditions above and whatever smoothness conditions are necessary?
I've tagged this calculus-of-variations because that's what it looks like to me. But I don't know the calculus of variations, which is why I can't just solve the problem myself.


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An annual tradition of the Steubenville Salvation Army gets up and running again this year with the launch of the Shepherd's Table at the Salvation Army, which is located at 332 N. Fourth St., Steubenville.
Maj. Earline May, corps commanding officer, explained the Shepherd's Table is a free hot meal served at the Salvation Army every Sunday from noon to 1 p.m., beginning Feb. 3.
"It's for anyone and everyone who, whether they're hungry or not or just want to come and have a meal and don't want to eat alone, they can come to the Salvation Army," Mae said.
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There's no paperwork connected to this annual lunch where the attendance averages around 60 people - "a little bit more toward the end of the month as money and funds run out, but we're here, and we encourage the community to come and participate," Mae said.
While the Salvation Army has volunteers who assist with preparing and serving the meal, anyone who wants to do likewise and help with cleanup also is welcome to attend this food-and-fellowship opportunity.
"Our church family takes care of it, but one or two extra volunteers is always helpful," Mae said.
For the most part, the food comes from the Mid-Ohio Food Pantry from which the Salvation Army makes purchases thanks to monetary donations from the community.
Anyone who would like to make a donation can do so by making a check payable to the Salvation Army and designating it in the memo line for "hunger program" or "Shepherd's Table."
The Shepherd's Table operates year-round except for the months of November and December.
The Salvation Army also has a food pantry that is open five days a week to the community, according to Mae, who on Friday was assessing food donations provided by Riesbeck's in Wintersville. The store makes weekly food donations to the Salvation Army on Thursday and Friday to help meet the food pantry needs. As the Shepherd's Table gets under way, some will be used for that as well.
"The demand has been significant," Mae said. "We've had about a 60 percent increase in clients since the economy has gone bad. That's over the past two years, a 60 percent increase, and that food from the food bank is funded through the generosity of the community who writes checks to the Salvation Army," she said.
"Hunger is definitely a concern for this community," Mae said. Testimony to that is that there are many churches and organizations providing a meal either lunch or supper throughout the community "so it's a concern, and we need the community to just get on board and help support it."
Beyond the Salvation Army meeting the physical hunger needs of individual, it exists to meet spiritual hunger as well, according to Mae.
The Salvation Army has a nondenominational Sunday service every week that begins at 11 a.m. and is led by Mae, who is a pastor. There also are Sunday school classes for all ages at 9:45 a.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.
"I absolutely am amazed that in the 41 years that I have been a pastor serving at Salvation Army centers in this great nation, that people still do not know the Salvation Army is a church, and we are a church," Mae said.
Attendance averages around 25 for the Sunday services. "We certainly want to build on that, so we just invite the community to come and worship with us. We're a friendly group," she said.
For information on the Salvation Army, call (740) 282-5121.


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UNLV's Great Unsolved Mystery
As the Final Four Looms, a Mystery Lingers—Did UNLV Players Plan to Boycott the '91 Final?
In the 75-year history of the NCAA tournament, few final four teams have created as much excitement as the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, who used a high-scoring, high-speed attack to win one national championship in 1990 and come within a game of playing for a second in 1991.
But unlike other iconic Final Four teams like Michigan's "Fab Five" or Houston's "Phi Slamma Jamma," UNLV has, for many years, been the focal point for one of the great unsolved mysteries of college basketball. The question, which has been gossiped about for years by basketball insiders, is what this team would have done if it had made it to the '91 title game.
A rumor, which has never been substantiated (and won't be in this article), is that some UNLV players made a pact at some point that if they made it to the final, they would refuse to play. In other versions of the story, the players would have simply delayed the start of the game as a form of protest.
Given that there's no proof the players made this pact, it's impossible to know what their motives might have been. But people close to the team say the players had a long list of gripes about the NCAA.
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Jerry Tarkanian, the team's head coach, said in an interview last month that he had not heard anything about a boycott of the finals. Evric Gray, a member of the team, said in a recent interview that he hadn't heard any boycott talk either, but that he didn't socialize with everyone on the team. Stacey Augmon, one of the team's stars, declined to be interviewed. Three other starters, George Ackles, Larry Johnson and Anderson Hunt, couldn't be reached for comment.
Greg Anthony, UNLV's star point guard, who is now an NCAA tournament commentator for CBS, passed on a chance to settle the mystery once and for all. Asked in a recent interview about the boycott rumor, all he would say about the matter was "anything's possible."
To be clear, the opportunity to do such a thing never presented itself. UNLV was upset in the tournament semifinal by Duke, the same team it had beaten in the title game the previous year. It's also important to note that if the UNLV players did consider this move—or had acted on it—they would not have been breaking any laws. The school might have disciplined them, or the NCAA might have disciplined the school, but college sports—even the NCAA tournament—isn't subject to any binding labor agreement.
The NCAA and college athletes have often found themselves at odds over the peculiar arrangement between them. While the NCAA and its members schools sell tickets and licensed merchandise and sell TV rights for huge sums (the NCAA's current broadcast deal with CBS for the NCAA tournament is for $10.8 billion), the players aren't allowed to receive any form of compensation beyond their scholarships and can lose their eligibility if they do so. In recent years, NCAA leaders proposed allowing athletes to receive a $2,000 annual stipend for living expenses, but the proposal has stalled.
In June, a federal court will decide whether a suit brought against the NCAA by former athletes, including UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon, will be granted class-action status. The suit argues that the players are entitled to a share of NCAA revenues. This complaint—that the NCAA treats players unfairly—is nothing new. In a 1985 book called "Rip-Off U," former Duke basketball player Dick DeVenzio railed against what he called the "theft and exploitation" college athletes face.
Danny Tarkanian, the son of the team's head coach—who was in his late twenties during the 1990-91 season—said in an interview that several UNLV players offered to sit out the 1991 NCAA tournament as a show of solidarity with his father, who had been battling the NCAA since the 1970s over alleged rules violations, but they opted to play. After the NCAA put UNLV on probation in 1976 for "questionable practices" involving recruiting, Jerry Tarkanian sued the NCAA in a Nevada court and won—only to have the ruling overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In later years, the NCAA would ban UNLV from postseason play and put it on probation again for rules violations. In 1992, Tarkanian sued the NCAA claiming it had harassed him during his coaching career. The NCAA settled the suit in 1998 without admitting fault. Because of its treatment of UNLV, "I really hate the NCAA to this day," said Evric Gray, the former player.
Sonny Vaccaro, a prominent representative for Nike NKE 0.09 % in the early 1990s who knew many of the nation's best players and top coaches—including Tarkanian—has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of college athletes and a supporter of the plaintiffs in the O'Bannon suit.
In an interview, Vaccaro said he would not discuss any issues he talked about in confidence with UNLV players. He declined to comment on whether the players had agreed to a boycott. But Vaccaro said that during that time period, he heard from "a number of athletes" who talked privately about boycotting the NCAA tournament.
Vaccaro said that word of a possible NCAA-final boycott during this era had reached at least one high-ranking university official. In 2001, Vaccaro said he had a conversation with Bill Friday, the co-founder of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and president emeritus of the University of North Carolina.
Vaccaro said that while Friday never mentioned a specific team or year, he understood Friday to be talking about a team that had considered a boycott in the early 1990s. In 2011, The Atlantic quoted Friday as saying that an unnamed team had made a plan to boycott the championship game. According to the story, Friday said he'd been "sworn to secrecy" about the team's identity—and that the team in question lost before the finals. Friday died last year. His daughter Frances said she had never heard him mention the subject of a boycott.
Anthony, the CBS analyst, said he's still not sure college basketball players are living in a fair world. They're "valuable assets that have not necessarily been treated as such."