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Hunger Banquet 2014
Jesus in Isaiah 52:13-53:12
We in the Church—along with many other Christians—read the "Fourth Servant Song" in Isaiah 52:13–53:12 as transparently about Jesus. It's kind of hard not to: phrases like "Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows" fit the Christological narrative almost too perfectly. And yet the presence of this passage in the Hebrew Scriptures suggests the possibility of a reading that has nothing at all to do with Jesus, because Jews obviously do not accept Jesus as the Messiah. So what is this other reading? More pointedly, why should we as Christians bother to look beyond the seemingly straightforward identification of the "servant" in this passage with Jesus?
Martin Luther, Reformer
The Feast of Martin Luther, Reformer, 1546
Isaiah 55:6-11 (NRSV or in Luther's Translation, 1545), Psalm 46 (BCP Psalter, Coverdale, 1662 or Luther, 1545), John 15:1-11 (KJV or Luther, 1545), Doctrine and Covenants 93:39, 2 Ne. 25.23-25, Alma 29:8 [Read more…]
Transgressors in Eden
This Sunday in Sunday School, we're going to study the Fall.[fn1] The lesson quotes Elder Oaks distinguishing sin from transgression: [Read more…]
The Book of Mormon and the King James Version
Many people find problematic the extent to which the Book of Mormon quotes the King James Version of the Bible, because this practice can make the Book of Mormon look more like a cobbled-together 19th-century text than a translation of an ancient artifact (bearing in mind Joseph Smith's idiosyncratic usage of "translation"). Without claiming to offer a solution to this conundrum, I'd like to put forward an 1820s analogue, in which the translator of a recently recovered text relied uncritically on the King James Version, in the process masking some interesting details of the scriptural text presented.
A Mormon Homily for Rosh Hashanah
Leshana Tova Tikoseiv Vesichoseim Le'Alter LeChaim Tovim U'Leshalom — "May you be inscribed and sealed for a Good Year and for a Good and Peaceful Life"
The Body as a Temple
In 1 Corinthians 6:19, it says: "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" As some Mormon youth teachers used to like to say to encourage chastity: "Your body is a temple, and he doesn't have a recommend!" or as I saw on a tee shirt: "Your body is a temple, not a visitor center." This scripture is often trotted out in opposition to tattoos or piercings, likening those actions to vandalism of the exterior temple walls. It's also used to support the Word of Wisdom, and this interpretation isn't unique to Mormonism. Other faiths use it to enforce modesty, anti-smoking and temperance.
But what if this scripture is not referring to our individual bodies, but the body of saints? Consider this passage from 1 Corinthians 12: 12-14: [Read more…]
East vs. West: Spiritual Smackdown
As an American living in Asia, I often experienced cultural disconnects. A peer or friend would make a comment so obviously based on assumptions or values I didn't share that I realized that my own values and assumptions must sound equally foreign to them.
Last year, a colleague in India made a statement that I found very unsettling. He said: "When we focus on results nothing changes. When we focus on change we see results." Since this claim was made in a business setting in a results-driven culture, I was taken aback. I had to ask him to repeat it several times, yet it still flew in the face of everything I believe as a business person. I really was at a loss how to respond to someone who believed that. Was he really saying you should get an A for effort and that results didn't matter? If so, that explained a lot about the results I was seeing from his group! [Read more…]
Covenants — Is the Lord Bound?
This post began as a response to J. Stapley's recent post about Ordinances but quickly veered off in a tangent that would have constituted a threadjack of his post, so I've posted it as an independent contemplation.
J. was exploring possible origins of Mormon use of the word "ordinance" (or early influence as to the use and meaning of the word) in legal usage in his post and especially in the ensuing discussion in the comments (J. notes that he is beginning to think that "JS . . . was explicitly using legal language" when using the term "ordinance"). I think "covenant" also falls into this category of a term coopted from legal usage to express a religious teaching. [Read more…]
As Rebecca J just noted, the theme for youth instruction for the month of June is priesthood and priesthood keys. In the revelations of Joseph Smith, the Biblical leitmotifs of opening and closing, of binding and unbinding, and of sealing and unsealing all come to be associated in deeply significant ways with the priesthood orders of the Church. In this post, I will focus on the theme of opening and closing as it connects to the imagery of keys.
Mormon Maori Prophecies and Apostasy
I must admit, before my trip to New Zealand over the holidays I had never heard of the Mormon Maori prophecies. I knew that there are many Polynesian church members. I was aware that the most popular religion in the island of Molokai (the spiritual center of Hawaii) is Mormonism, and that there are many Samoan and Tongan church members. As for the Maori, I knew that they were Pacific Islanders. I knew the men danced the haka and the women danced with poi balls. I knew that they once practiced cannibalism (practice makes perfect!) and were considered fierce by early European seafarers who visited the islands. I knew that one of their greetings (touching foreheads and sharing a breath) is similar to the Eskimos (rubbing noses).
King Follett and Clouds of Meaning
We've just experienced the Mormon preaching festival. That is, general conference! In addition to inspired teaching, it gives the outside world a chance to experience some of the variety of Mormon address. And besides, I've been toiling over chapter 7 of the book, rewriting, rethinking some, and redoing other. This represents mental suds rising to the top of my brain-glass.
Texts are always encased by interpretation. Generations come and go, and interpretation floods over texts, at least those that rise to surface (paradoxically), via unearthing by graduate students or rediscovery by the public, or just constant devotion, etc. Scripture is no exception, and everyone, not just Nephi, deploys a kind of rationalization with circumstance and inspiration to come up with a correlated understanding, whether that be official, communal, familial, or even "backlistial." Among Mormons, Joseph Smith's sermons are quite often seen as doctrinal in some sense, a sense I won't attempt to make precise.
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UVU Conference Reminder: The Expanded Canon, April 4-5, 2013
This week, Utah Valley University plays host to what promises to be a fascinating conference on Mormonism's scriptural canon. Five reasons you should attend: [Read more…]
Groundbreaking scriptural heading changes: Official Declaration 2
Not since 1981 (and maybe even before, I'll let the textual/scriptural scholars determine the amount of change versus other scriptural compilations) have this many changes been made to our modern Mormon quad.
So needless to say (but I guess I need to say it anyway) it's incredibly exciting.
The Joseph Smith Papers lists many of the heading adjustments here. And here is the scripture comparison (warning, at least for me it was a long download.)
And while there is a lot of new scriptural commentary to peruse, compare, and explore, I'm going to jump right to Official Declaration–2 as it still is Black History Month for a few more hours here.
The new version now begins: "Book of Mormon teaches that 'all are alike unto God,' including 'black and white, bond and free, male and female' (2 Nephi 26:33). [Read more…]
A darn shame
I cannot, in good conscience, recommend that my gay friends investigate the church. [Read more…]
Gospel Doctrine Lesson #6: "I Will Tell You in Your Mind and in Your Heart, by the Holy Ghost"
Notes, commentary, and questions for LDS Sunday School teachers using the 'Doctrine & Covenants and Church History' manual. Feel free to share your thoughts or ideas regarding the lesson in the comments.
This covers much the same material as the last lesson, historically and thematically. The emphasis continues to be on Oliver Cowdery's experiences translating the Book of Mormon and, specifically, his attempts to recognize the spirit of revelation in his own life. While the emphasis of last week's lesson was more on preparing yourself to receive revelation, this week's lesson has more to do with recognizing what on earth is going on when it happens.
First of all, go to the new Revelations in Context resource at lds.org and read the article by Jeffrey Cannon on Oliver Cowdery's Gift. While you are hopping around, go to Robin Jensen's post on last week's lesson and read that as well. Now return to this post and feel bad; I'm neither as knowledgeable, nor as good a writer as those guys. Oh well.
If there is one message to take from all of the sections being covered this week (and last week) it is this: revelation is not easy work. [Read more…]
The Priesthood is not a superpower
I ordained my son a deacon a couple of weeks ago. The first thing he did when we got home was to facetiously wave his hands toward a chair and attempt to move it with the power of his mind and/or Priesthood. I immediately told him, "The Priesthood is not a superpower." It is something that, I suppose, bears repeating. [Read more…]
A Christmas memory: At some point in my teenage years my mother purchased a new nativity set, a Fontanini. I didn't eagerly await the unwrapping of the nativity scene in the same way I did the Dickens Village; it was a tradition each year for my parents to purchase one new piece for the village. Possibly my favorite Christmas memories consisted of watching the village grow year after year. When I finally left home the Village had become quite substantial. But the preparations for the traditions into which we spoke and enacted every Christmas were not complete until the Nativity had been unwrapped and carefully and lovingly arranged on the table. The placement of the Nativity allowed the celebration to officially commence.
What I want from a Nativity film
I find most Bible films to be unsatisfying. Here's what I would like to see in a Nativity film:
1. Authentic-looking actors. I realise that a film is by its very nature make believe, but any attempt to reproduce the biblical world has to look and sound right. [Read more…]
The Enduring Fragility of Love
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Christian love is not romance, affection, and sentimentality. It is transgressive, a love that disturbs and destabilizes as much as it binds and connects. Slavoj Zizek calls Christian love an unplugging or uncoupling [1] Love unplugs us from our original organic communities (families, circles of chosen intimate friends) in order to inscribe us within a larger community. Not that it severs all familial ties, but that it severs us from the belief that there must only be familial ties, or better: That familial ties must increase and expand, and do so exponentially. Love does this through re-orienting the ways in which we value and interact with knowledge.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [Read more…]
Review: Howard C. Stutz, "Let the Earth Bring Forth: Evolution and Scripture"
Title: Let the Earth Bring Forth: Evolution and Scripture
Author: Howard C. Stutz
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Genre: Evolution/Religion
Year: 2011
Pages: xvi, 87
Binding: Softcover
Price: $15.95 ($9.95, Kindle)
"One of the greatest tragedies in recent times has been the extensive promulgation of creeds that have created chasms between science and religion. At no time in the history of humankind has science provided a more comprehensible panorama of the universe in which we live. Nor has there ever been a time when God has more clearly revealed Himself and His purposes to His children. Why then should there be so much apparent conflict between science and religion?" (xix).
Let the Earth Bring Forth is the culminating testimony of a man who spent his life successfully exploring the realms of faith and science. In addition to earning a Ph.D in genetics at UC Berkeley and teaching at Brigham Young University, Howard C. Stutz (b. 1918) served in various church callings from bishop, to high councilor, to stake patriarch. In university and church settings he interacted with students who were unsure of how to make sense of evolution from a faithful perspective. Shortly before passing away in 2010, Stutz completed his manuscript to "point out the harmony which exists between the theory of speciation by organic evolution and revealed truths contained in hold scriptures" (xv).
Stutz repeatedly emphasizes a few guiding principles throughout the book: [Read more…]
Review: N.T. Wright, "Scripture and the Authority of God"
Title: Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
Author: N. T. Wright
Publisher: HarperOne
Genre: Bible
Year: 2011
Pages: 224
Binding: Hardcover
Price: $25.99
N.T. Wright has been called "the C.S. Lewis for our time." Like Lewis, Wright is Anglican. Like Lewis, Wright's overriding purpose is to demonstrate Christianity's relevance for our times (Lewis with modernism, Wright with postmodernism). Lewis wrote Surprised by Joy, Wright wrote Surprised by Hope. Like Lewis, Wright's style is cleverly engaging. This particular similarity is evident from the first line of Wright's latest publication:
"Writing a book about the Bible is like building a sandcastle in front of the Matterhorn. The best you can hope to do is to catch the eye of those who are looking down instead of up, or those who are so familiar with the skyline that they have stopped noticing its peculiar beauty" (ix).
Odds are, if you've enjoyed Lewis's theological or devotional writings, you'll enjoy Wright's. Some differences between the two deserve attention. Unlike Lewis, who was content to remain a lay Anglican, Wright once served as Bishop of Durham, and sat in the UK's House of Lords. Unlike Lewis, who was an armchair theologian and literary critic whose fiction largely outranks his non-fiction, Wright is a distinguished Bible scholar who takes higher criticism much more seriously than Lewis could have. Lewis still serves as a safe source for many Mormons who are pleased to find similar theological ground in the works of a non-LDS author. Wright can easily serve a similar purpose for Mormons in regards to contemporary biblical scholarship.1 He has a knack for making complex academic discussions comprehensible to regular folk like me. It is with this in mind that I recommend his latest book, Scripture and the Authority of God.2 It's a lot thicker than its 224 pages appear at first glance as evinced by this over-long, chapter-by-chapter review, but at least the prose is almost always accessible and the analogies creative! [Read more…]
Devotion, scripture and memorization: Elder Scott
Elder Scott, in his recent Conference address, extended a call to greater devotion of our scripture. This devotion, in his life, seems, in part, to have emerged from the practice of memorizing scripture. Within Mormonism memorizing scripture is tightly bound with seminary and the experience of Missionaries. The practice is often geared toward establishing as truth a particular doctrine or concept through a specific verse from the standard works. The ability to do this well seems to have become the Latter-day Saint definition of a 'scriptorian'. As such, I fear this association has lead some to conflate the practice of memorization with the act of proof-texting but this is not necessarily the case and it under-appreciates the religious value of this form of devotion.
Review: Ethics and the Old Testament
Ethics and the Old Testament by John Barton
Having had a go myself, I am always keen on efforts to talk sensibly about Old Testament ethics. Oxford professor John Barton's slim volume offers a collection of his own lectures on biblical morality and does a very good job moving the conversation beyond simple caricatures of the text. [Read more…]
"The scribe's collaboration was necessary to Allah"
Italo Calvino's If on a winter night a traveler is a novel of starts with no stops. Calvino explores language and the relationship between texts and readers. I happened to be reading it at the same time I was going through Brant A. Gardner's new book The Gift and the Power: Translating the Book of Mormon. I'll post my full review of Gardner tomorrow, but here's an excerpt from Calvino to ponder in the meantime. [Read more…]
The Scriptorian
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res]
My first encounter with Jim Faulconer came on my mission to South Korea. I'd been in the country about a year, and my companion at the time had an older brother who was studying philosophy back at BYU. He sent his younger brother a recent essay by Jim: "Self-Image, Self-Love, and Salvation", a masterpiece which has since been reprinted and celebrated and attacked many times. I don't know why this fellow thought his brother would like or need the essay: perhaps it just struck him as a great piece of writing, or perhaps he thought his brother would relate to Jim's own experiences as a missionary in South Korea more than 20 (now more than 40!) years before, or perhaps he thought his brother would value Jim's advice. If the last of these, he misjudged his brother greatly; my companion looked through the essay, turned to me and said (if my memory is accurate, which it probably isn't) "This guy just doesn't like people being successful and making money!", and threw it in the trash. I retrieved it, read through it, and realized several things, among them: 1) this man, James E. Faulconer, has put into better words than I ever could at least a portion of the many inchoate and confused thoughts I had about my situation as a missionary and a Christian, and 2) that I want to read everything he'd ever written, or ever would write.
As it turned out, Jim's thoughts, profound as they were (and are) didn't do much to prevent me from being a pretty crappy missionary, but I have attempted diligently to read just about everything Jim has written in the years since, and I have been blessed by that determination. Let me take a few moments to attempt to explain why.
Harmonizing the Text with History
Tomorrow is stake conference, and then a week from tomorrow I'll be teaching GD lesson 21, which is JS-M. I haven't actually prepared the lesson yet, but in pulling some stuff together I noticed something that was new to me and which I thought was interesting. [Read more…]
The Attraction of the Familiar: Scriptural Revelation
The notion that "all the answers are found in the scriptures" is an idea I've heard expressed in the church on many levels and times. I think this and some variations on it are commonly stated themes in assorted Church settings.[1] We can even find this kind of anchor text belief about just the Book of Mormon alone. It's all you need.
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Based in the village of Torphins, Platform 22 is a community based arts centre and cultural exchange with facilities that include an art gallery, ceramics studio and coffee house.
Platform 22 opened sits on the former site of Torphins railway station; remnants of the old Deeside line are still evident in the area. The centre is the perfect place to experience the culture and hospitality of rural Aberdeenshire and discover the rich and diverse heritage of the hills and glens of Deeside.
The gallery features work by local artists and craft-makers in a wide range of media and materials. The work on show changes throughout the year and the centre is also host to several special exhibitions.
Ceramics are something of a speciality at Platform 22 with their own studio where gallery owner and ceramicist Emma Pattullo produces a range of wares and from where she runs a variety of popular pottery classes.
There is also a coffee house onsite where visitors can relax and enjoy a steaming cappuccino or revive themselves with an espresso and one of the famous "gooey" chocolate brownies.

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, Volume 63, Issue 17, pp 1813-1820
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Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis During Pregnancy
- Pascal DemolyAffiliated withDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Arnaud de Villeneuve, University Hospital of Montpellier Email author
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Allergic rhinitis is a frequent problem during pregnancy. In addition, physiological changes associated with pregnancy can affect the upper airways. Evidence-based guidelines on the management of allergic rhinitis have recently been published, the most recent being the Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) — World Health Organization consensus. Many pregnant women experience allergic rhinitis and particular attention is required when prescribing drugs to these patients. Medication can be prescribed during pregnancy when the apparent benefit of the drug is greater than the apparent risk. Usually, there is at least one drug from each major class that can be safely utilised to control symptoms.
All glucocorticosteroids are teratogenic in animals but, when the indication is clear (for diseases possibly associated, such as severe asthma exacerbation), the benefit of the drug is far greater than the risk. Inhaled glucocorticosteroids (e.g. beclomethasone or budesonide) have not been incriminated as teratogens in humans and are used by pregnant women who have asthma. A few histamine H1-receptor antagonists (H1-antihistamines) can safely be used as well. Most oral decongestants (except pseudoephedrine) are teratogenic in animals. There are no such data available for intra-nasal decongestants. Finally, pregnancy is not considered as a contraindication for the continuation of allergen specific immunotherapy.
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- Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis During Pregnancy
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Volume 63, Issue 17 , pp 1813-1820
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- 2003-09
- 10.2165/00003495-200363170-00004
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- 0012-6667
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- 1179-1950
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- Springer International Publishing
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- Dr Pascal Demoly (1)
- Vincent Piette (1)
- Jean-Pierre Daures (2)
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- 1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Arnaud de Villeneuve, University Hospital of Montpellier, 34295 Cedex 5, Montpellier, France
- 2. Montpellier University Clinical Research Institute, Montpellier, France


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They should put it in South Lake Union. Or Interbay.
The last thing these nice white neighborhoods need is a jail.
Better to, you know, have those criminals on their streets, earlier, instead.
Dear people: You are fucking stupid, please diaf.
West Seattle itself is our best shot at a Escape from New York-style jail/island.
omg that woman is fucking sexy
@2 Clearly you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. These are some of the least "white" neighborhoods in the entire city. The only thing white about White Center is the the name. Highland Park actually HAS the diversity of races that lily white liberal Seattle seems to like to talk about, but the second a new jail or transfer station expansion is needed, that's where they are slated to go.
@4: She's a MILF, no doubt about it.
Well since this is basically my neighborhood as well, it can go in close to the psychiatric hospital that is located at the end of my block.
Add to that the transfer station in South Park, and it seems this area is the dumping ground for the "problem areas" the city has.
In reality I'm fine with a jail over here as long as the next wastewater treatment plant goes in at Laurelhurst, or a transfer station is stuck into Madison Park.
I agree, Interbay is the best choice.
I predict that no matter where they choose someone will be upset.
I live in Highland Park and attended the meeting with about 150 other fairly miffed folks. It would have helped if the elected officials who represent this group would have been there as well. Sharon Nelson and Dow Constantine were busy. Ms. Nelson WAS in West Seattle, she just had to go raise money from the RICH democrats to help re-elect her so she can do what? Attend meetings to boost morale of her VOTER BASE constituency perhaps? Oops. Do I sound bitter, slighted and forgotten?
Anyway, The Dow's Committee of the Whole is meeting Monday morning with the three other citys' jail groups within King County currently siting jails. Yes - three-count 'em-three misdemeanor facilities constructed at the same time. I think the term "economy of scale" is perhaps appropriate, in the sense that there ISN"T ANY. Oops. Do I sound irritated, aggravated and perplexed AGAIN?
Three jails to be build concurrently and then linked in operationally and administratively to the County court system.
I've lived here since birth. I am fifty and I am preparing to leave. Just in case. I cannot even believe HOW screwed up Seattle has become. This particular proposal will KILL these fragile neighborhoods for good, if a regional solution derails.
Oops. My anger turned into sadness.
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OMV First-Quarter Production Advances 3.5% on Libya Output
OMV AG's first-quarter oil and gas production grew by 3.5 percent on increased output in Libya.
OMV produced 299,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day from 289,000 in the previous three months, while its refining margin rose to $1.92 a barrel from $1.77, it said today in a statement.
Output in Libya, where operations resumed in November following a nine-month hiatus after contributing about 10 percent of 2010 volumes, averaged 25,000 barrels a day in the first quarter, OMV said. Average production was 7,100 barrels last year in the country, compared with 32,800 barrels in 2010.
Libya, with Africa's largest crude reserves, is expanding output after operations were halted during an armed rebellion to oust former leader Muammar Qaddafi. The country is currently pumping about 1.5 million barrels of crude a day.
Oil hedges crimped first-quarter earnings before interest and taxes by 64 million euros ($84 million), OMV said.
Exploration costs of 130 million euros also exceeded the prior quarter after the write-off of the unsuccessful Peking Duck well in Norway and Aberlour well in the U.K., it said. The company is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings on May 9.


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, Volume 123, Issue 1, pp 85-98
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The Means to Justify the End: Combating Cyber Harassment in Social Media
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Cyber harassment can have harmful effects on social media users, such as emotional distress and, consequently, withdrawal from social network sites or even life itself. At the same time, users are often upset when network providers intervene and deem such an intrusion an unjust occurrence. This article analyzes how decisions to intervene can be communicated in such a way that users consider them adequate and acceptable. A first experiment shows that informational justice perceptions of social network users depend on the format in which network providers present the decision to intervene. More specifically, if a decision to intervene is presented in the form of a story, as opposed to an analytical rendering of facts and arguments, decisions to intervene prompt more positive informational justice perceptions. A second experiment reveals that when users relate the experience to themselves, narrative transportation increases, which positively affects perceptions of the justice of decisions to intervene.
KeywordsCyber bullying Cyber harassment Identity Justice perception Narrative transportation Self-referencing Social media Storytelling
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Volume 123, Issue 1 , pp 85-98
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- 2014-08
- 10.1007/s10551-013-1806-z
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- 0167-4544
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- 1573-0697
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Cyber bullying
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Scholarship recipients honored at luncheon
Published: Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 1:23 a.m.
Although the event will have been reported on by the time this column appears, I want to begin today by thanking the scholarship donors who made possible Wednesday's Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon, one of the nicest and most moving events held on campus each year.
More than 300 students and donors attended the luncheon, which is designed to salute the scholarship recipients, thank the donors and give the two an opportunity to get to know one another.
The Foundation has awarded 217 scholarships, about $235,000, to BRCC students for the 2006-07 academic year. None of this would have been possible were it not for local residents who recognize that there is no better way to leave a legacy than by providing educational opportunity.
It's time to call attention to the Blue Ridge Center for Lifelong Learning, the college's member-financed and member-run educational program for people age 50 or over who want to keep learning in their retirement years. Lifetime memberships are a bargain at $35. With 1,750 members and no government support, the Center for Lifelong Learning is one of the most successful programs of its type in the country, even donating several thousand dollars in scholarship money to the college each year. Thanks to member Joe Giuffre, information on BRCLL and its fall course offerings can now be found on the college web site, www.blueridge.edu, under Continuing Education/Departments and Centers.
People with questions about programs or membership can direct them to coordinator Valerie Osborne, who is in the BRCLL office, in Room 223 of Patton Building, Monday-Thursday, 694-1740 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
BRCLL members may want to make note of the released date of the always popular spring retreat at Wildacres, May 21-25. Watch the Web page for more information.
The BRCC Lady Bears volleyball team broke into the win column last weekend with road wins over Rockingham and Guilford Technical Community Colleges. The team was to begin a four-match home stand Friday, with matches against Louisburg College Friday and Pitt Community College Saturday.
This afternoon, at 2 p.m., the Bears play Lenoir Community College, with a match against Spartanburg Methodist scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday. With no physical education facility on campus, home matches are played at the Flat Rock Middle School gymnasium.
The weekend will provide my first opportunity to see the team in action, but I am told that it is both competitive and fun to watch. The team is captained by East Henderson High School graduate Savannah Cagle and Rosman High graduate Brianna Phillips, with all seven players being from the local area.
Community Enrichment Director Martha Howell has booked an appealing-sounding guitar duo, Douze Cordes, with Corey Whitehead and Michael Bard, for an Arts and Humanities Series performance in Patton Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Hailing from the Washington, D.C., area, Douze Cordes features flamenco, classical and jazz music and has toured worldwide, including several trips as Cultural Ambassadors for the U.S. Department of State.
I hope that those of you who know Dean for Continuing Education Molly Parkhill will join in congratulating her on her selection as 2006 "Staff Person of the Year" for the N.C. Community College System. This is a signal accomplishment for both Parkhill and the college, and, to the best of my knowledge, marks the first time that a BRCC employee has been so honored.
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All Rise...
The Charge
The students at Herrington High always suspected their teachers were from another planet…they were right!
Opening Statement
Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Williamson team up to crank out another modern teen flick, this time with a sci-fi edge.
The Evidence
Upon first viewing this film I had the expectation that Williamson would do for the sci-fi genre what he did for the horror genre with Scream. I was wrong. Williamson does not set out to change the standards of your everyday Invasion of the Body Snatchers but, instead creates an intelligent and entertaining rip-off of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In combination with director/editor/composer/all-around-movie-handy-guy Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn) and a great cast of actors (Elijah Wood, Clea DuVall, Josh Hartnet, Jon Stewart, Usher Raymond, Robert Patrick, Piper Laurie, and Salma Hayek, just to name a few) you'd expect The Faculty to be one kick-ass film; unfortunately, it isn't. Don't go into this film with raised expectations like I did because you will only be let down. No, it's not horrible (it can be downright entertaining at moments), but it isn't what you'd expect to be produced from all the talent put into this film.
Plotwise, the film revolves around a group of high school students in Ohio who come to the realization that alien parasites are infecting their teachers and slowly taking over the school. Before long the faculty is able to infect the local police, students, and townspeople; until the few high school students who know the truth are the only humans left in Harrington, Ohio. Each group member brings their resources to aide in the fight against the aliens (from the sci-fi geek's knowledge about alien invasions to the drug dealer's alien dehydrating "magic dust"), which comes to a head at the weekly high school football game during which the students hunt for the "queen" alien.
The film cleverly plays on high school paranoia and stereotypes, bringing each to extremes for some good laughs and genuinely frightening moments. Much like Scream, The Faculty is an intelligent movie that recognizes itself as a cliché and constantly references other sci-fi films like Men in Black and Independence Day. What hurts The Faculty the most is the fact that it doesn't change the rules of alien invasion films like Scream did with slasher-flicks. It complains about rip-offs and clichés but ends up being a cliché itself. From anyone else, this film would get away fine with being unoriginal, but from Rodriguez and Williamson it is unacceptable.
Buena Vista is Buena Vista, and it doesn't appear as if their DVDs are going to change anytime soon. Therefore, as a Buena Vista DVD, can those playing at home guess what you get? That's absolutely correct! Solid video (non-anamorphic) and audio transfer with no extras (except for a trailer). The video is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen with very few flaws. The black level on this disc is perfect which works to help build suspense in many of the film's scenes.
Probably the best part of this disc is the audio, which is simply outstanding. The Dolby Digital 5.1 track makes great use of surround effects and generates some good scares that are difficult to do in 2 channel tracks. Also on the audio side is an awesome soundtrack, which seems to follow Williamson around on his movies and TV shows.
In comparison to the theater I saw The Faculty in (which was, and still is, really run down), the DVD almost surpasses it in quality.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
Those video problems I mentioned include brief (but visible) noise on the transfer during some of the lighter scenes and a good deal of bleeding around red titles at the end of the film. On discs with weaker audio tracks I wouldn't even care about these issues, however they take away from what would be an otherwise perfect transfer. The transfer is also non-anamorphic, which really doesn't concern me as of right now, but ten years down the road I'll probably be a little peeved that I have to see black bars on my widescreen TV (making me question why I bought a widescreen TV).
Then there are the extra features; rather, the extra feature: a trailer. Standard Buena Vista fare. But hey, they're Disney, they do what they want and we still buy it. I'd love to have more, however the movie still makes the disc. You put 2,000 features on a disc with a movie that sucks, and I won't even look at it.
Also on DVD is the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The film is dated but, for those who have not seen it, renting the DVD will do you a good service in seeing how a film can really build up suspense through paranoia.
Closing Statement
Creepy, entertaining, funny, and smart, but still clichéd to death. Go in with lowered expectations and you'll enjoy the film a lot more.
The Verdict
Narrowly acquitted on its high replayability factor. Suspense and humor are the true saviors of The Faculty, not originality.
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The Game from Where I Stand
The Game from Where I Stand
A Ballplayer's Inside View
Times Books, Hardcover, 9780805091595, 304pp.
Publication Date: May 11, 2010
An insider's revealing look at the hidden world of major league baseball
Doug Glanville, a former major league outfielder and Ivy League graduate, draws on his nine seasons in the big leagues to reveal the human side of the game and of the men who play it.
In The Game from Where I Stand, Glanville shows us how players prepare for games, deal with race and family issues, cope with streaks and slumps, respond to trades and injuries, and learn the joyful and painful lessons the game imparts. We see the flashpoints that cause misunderstandings and friction between players, and the imaginative ways they work to find common ground. And Glanville tells us with insight and humor what he learned from Jimmy Rollins, Alex Rodriguez, Randy Johnson, Barry Bonds, Curt Schilling, and other legendary and controversial stars.
In his professional career, Glanville experienced every aspect of being a player—the first-round pick, the prospect, the disappointment, the can't-miss, the cornerstone, the veteran, the traded, the injured, the comeback kid. His eye-opening book gives fans a new level of understanding of day-to-day life in the big leagues.
Doug Glanville played outfield for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers from 1996 through 2004. From 2008 to 2010, he wrote the online column "Heading Home" for The New York Times and provided baseball analysis for XM Radio's MLB Power Alley. In the spring of 2010 he joined ESPN as a baseball analyst, contributing to Baseball Tonight, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He serves on the executive board of Athletes Against Drugs, the fundraising committee for Boundless Readers, and advises high school student athletes as a special consultant to the Baseball Factory. Glanville grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his family in Chicago.
"Doug Glanville was always different from other baseball players -- in a good way. . . . He was more like one of us (regular folks) than one of them (exalted athletes). He saw himself the way you would if you made the majors: full of self-awareness and humanity, traits that are otherwise in short supply in the VIP-treated, image-conscious world of pro sports. It stood to reason, then, that Glanville's baseball memoir, The Game from Where I Stand, would be different as well. . . . [Glanville] is a witty, insightful writer. . . . Many times during the steroids scandal, it has seemed as if the players were on one side of the battle and the baseball writers were on the other. In Glanville, finally, we have someone who is of both camps, and everyone on either side would benefit from hearing what he has to say."—The Washington Post "Doug Glanville is a salesman. The former Cub is selling two of the most vanishing commodities on the contemporary American slipscape -- empathetic insight and independent thought….It's an engaging and thoughtful detailing of the way a smart, feeling player processed and parried with the realities of megabyte-era Major League Baseball."— Jim O'Donnell, Chicago Sun-Times "Glanville has an effective knack for unveiling the usually untold story of the tricky balancing act of real life -- ill family members, love life, confidence issues, lifestyle choices, injuries -- most players are constantly engaged in with varying degrees of success. . . . Generous, perceptive, wise (he's a Penn graduate, after all) and thoughtful, Glanville further distinguishes his career with this rich and rewarding look back at it."--Boston Herald "Like a player peering from dugout steps, surveying the field and the game, Glanville has a wonderful vantage."—Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Filled with sharp insights, keen observations, and great stories, his book is championship caliber."—The Philadelphia Inquirer "Doug Glanville . . . is as adept at thinking and writing about baseball as he was at playing it."—Men's Journal "The Game From Where I Stand. . . . is not just a riveting read; it's also a thoughtful and articulate examination of the game and the sometimes-fragile humans who play it."--The Pennsylvania Gazette "Glanville hits for the cycle with an elegantly written, up-close-and-personal, deliciously detailed, side-splitting and sad account of the day-to-day life of a journeyman ballplayer. . . . He reveals, as no one before has, what it's like to be a 'boy of summer.'"—Tulsa World
"The Game from Where I Stand is our must-read baseball book of 2010. . . . Glanville [offers] some of the most intelligent and insightful commentary on the game today."--The Kansas City Star's "Ball Star" blog
"The Game from Where I Stand is a book of uncommon grace and elegance. That alone makes it worth reading. But the lineage of the author Doug Glanville, a former major league baseball player with an Ivy League education, puts it in a class all its own. A book about baseball unlike any I have ever read, filled with insight and a certain kind of poetry in its spare and haunting prose."—Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August
"Most fans know us only by what they see in the highlights on TV. But as Doug Glanville knows so well, being a professional athlete doesn't make us exempt from the world that exists outside the lines – we are very much a part of it, but we can't let it show. (That's not professional!) In this book Doug goes beyond the playing field to bring into view the full reality of being in the major leagues."—Jimmy Rollins, Phillies, All-Star and former MVP of the National League "When I was a teenager, Jim Brosnan's The Long Season changed the way I looked at baseball, but over the years I tended to read books by players and managers as studies in self-interest. Doug Glanville's book is different. The Game from Where I Stand is an honest, thoughtful, and insightful perspective on baseball, and Glanville's unadulterated respect for the sport and its people never wavers. This isn't good, it is brilliant."—Peter Gammons
"Doug Glanville wants to tell fans about the texture of life—its stresses and pleasures—in the big leagues. Glanville, just your basic Ivy League-educated outfielder, has done fans a nifty favor."—George F. Will
"I have known Doug Glanville for many years and always enjoyed competing against him. Doug was a great student of the game and someone who seemed to enjoy his playing career and took a lot from it. That is demonstrated in The Game from Where I Stand. Doug paints a very entertaining and accurate picture of the game that we love. This book will make you laugh and provides wonderful insights about our national pastime."—Cal Ripken Jr.
Doug Glanville is a former major league baseball player with an engineering degree from an Ivy League school who writes about baseball for The New York Times. Glanville's new book, The Game From Where I Stand, is an insider's look at the world of professional sports. More at NPR.org
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IIM Trichy completes summer placements with 71% increase in highest stipend
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I have a picture I snapped with my iPhone that I set as the image for someone on my phone contact list. Now I've lost the original image out of the photo folders. Is there any way to pull it out of the contact list?
If you're syncing your iPhone with Address Book on a Mac then you can edit the contact in Address Book, click on the image to select it and then copy it to the clipboard.
Used this maybe a couple times before a restore.
If you're using your iPhone with a Mac, and syncing contacts between them, here's one way to get your hands on the photo, which I just tried. But this certainly is far from optimal; I hope there's some easier way.
[Edit: John Topley just described how to get the photo directly from Address Book's UI, without delving into its data folders; that is the easier way I was hoping for. So you'd probably only want to resort to the method below in some special cases, e.g. if you need all the contact photos at once.]
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If you have lots of contacts with photos, you wouldn't want to go through them manually like this, of course. But some scriptwork on the command line would make it easier; something like this:
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I would like a vanilla milkshake with breast milk from a brunette please
When it comes to PETA I can really take or leave them. I get their passion and they do stand up for some good causes but once and awhile they just cross that line from reasonable discourse to a complete WTF moment. They did it again the other day with a request to Ben & Jerry's to move away from using cow milk in their ice cream to human breast milk.
PETA cited a Swiss restaurant that switched their dairy products to human breast milk and the raving success it has been. PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman says. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."
At first I really looked down on the idea but I could be wrong. Maybe there could be great benefits to this program?
First of all think of all the mothers they would be able to employee. Instead of having cows hooked up to crazy milking devices they could have stay at home moms or other women looking for a career change. Sitting around and watching "The View" while having your breasts drained has to be vastly superior to whatever else they could be doing. (Mind you they would have to be paid minimum wage to keep the cost of ice cream down.) The presidential candidates talk about change and jump-starting our faltering economy, this could be it! I guess we really could prime the pump literally.
Think about the options you could have when ordering various products. We all know that chocolate milk comes from brown cows so it would logically mean that African American breast milk is chocolate. (Which explains the case of high heart disease rates for that race.) This program would reach across racial lines and get everyone involved! It has affirmative action naturally built right into it! No political wrangling needed!
So does that mean whole milk would be overweight women, 2% for women under a certain weight, 1% for slightly thinner, and skim from waifs and/or heroin addicts?
Cows can be freed from giving up their milk and doing more important things like grazing, walking through their own shit, and doing whatever else cows do. Really the comfort of the cows is the most important thing here. Ignore how this idea is completely illogical and impractical idea that we can somehow get enough breast milk to produce a major percentage of our dairy products.
We need to think about the cows.
Now that I have thought about it a bit maybe this is a horrible idea. I mean I like the movie "Lactation Nation" as much as anyone but this is going a bit far.
Doesn't PETA just shoot themselves in the foot every time they do something like this?
(Note: Here is the description of Lactation Nation according to a video site: "Milk and sex are two great tastes that go together like milk and cookies. It is as it should be: give a squirt, take a squirt. The sex in the Lactation Nation is wet… dripping wet… with sweet milk and cum mixed together. Yes, it's sloppy and it features some of the best lactating scenes in Totally Tasteless Video history. If you like leaky tits, this tape is for you.")
How it didn't win the best picture Oscar in 1992 I will never know.


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3B Josh Donaldson hit his 20th home run of the season Wednesday in an 11-4 win over Texas. Donaldson hit a three-run blast in the sixth inning off Rangers LHP reliever Robbie Ross. He leads the A's in RBIs with 80 and ranks third in home runs.
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CF Coco Crisp hit his 18th home run of the season -- an ongoing career high -- and drove in a season-high four runs Wednesday in an 11-4 rout of Texas. He has hit four home runs over his past five games, including a two-run shot in the eighth inning Wednesday.
1B Daric Barton went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer Wednesday in the A's 11-4 victory over Texas. The home run was Barton's second of this season and third since the start of the 2011 season. Barton is 8-for-25 (.320) with six RBIs in nine games since being recalled from Triple-A Sacramento.
1B/OF Brandon Moss, the reigning American Player of the Week, hit his team-high 26th home run of the season Wednesday, a two-run shot off RHP Yu Darvish in the first inning of the A's 11-4 victory. Moss is 4-for-13 with three home runs in his career against Darvish.
RHP Jarrod Parker won his career-high ninth straight game Wednesday, allowing two run on five hits over six innings in an 11-4 A's victory over Texas. Parker also extended his unbeaten streak to 18 games, the longest in Oakland history. He snapped a tie with Catfish Hunter (June 2-Sept. 3, 1973).
RF Josh Reddick (sprained right wrist) should be "pretty close to full go if not full go" on Sept. 10 when he's eligible to come off of the 15-day disabled list, A's manager Bob Melvin said Wednesday. "He feels good. As a far as what he's doing in the cage, soft toss and so forth, he's had no problems with it. so when the training staff is comfortable letting him taking batting practice on the field, we'll have a better timetable with that." Reddick missed his 10th game Wednesday since going on the DL on Aug. 26. He missed 22 games while on the DL with a sprained right wrist from May 7-30.


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if they would have waited a bit they could have gotten those bunnies for dirt cheap at an after easter sale.
HaHa...Hare-dryer. Was that mom with the iron?
that's bad for the iron.
great song though.
The music is from Todd Solondz's movie "Palindromes":
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|2 Tablespoon
|Pepper white
|1 Dash
|Reduced sodium soy sauce
|2 Teaspoon
|Rice wine vinegar
|1 Teaspoon
|Granulated sugar
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Small, sliced (For Garnish)
1) Take a sealed plastic bag of a gallon capacity and mix all the ingredients except chicken thighs in it.
2) Place chicken in it and seal it, squeezing out the excess air.
3) Turn the bag for coating chicken with the marinade within it.
4) Place in refrigerator for an hour, turning the bag once in a while.
5) Pre-heat a broiler to the desired temperature.
6) Take some nonstick cooking spray and spray the broiler rack with it.
7) Place the chicken on the rack retaining the marinade.
8) Cook for 15-20 minutes brushing it with marinade and turning once in a while until the chicken is done through and the juices clear.
9) Garnish with orange, orange rind and greens before serving.
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Calories 335 Calories from Fat 87
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10 g14.9%
Saturated Fat 2.4 g12.2%
Trans Fat 0.2 g
Cholesterol 188.7 mg62.9%
Sodium 615.9 mg25.7%
Total Carbohydrates 13 g4.5%
Dietary Fiber 1.5 g5.8%
Sugars 9.1 g
Protein 46 g92.8%
Vitamin A 4.8% Vitamin C 30%
Calcium 4.7% Iron 15.3%
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TUSCALOOSA | Tuscaloosa County Schools Superintendent Frank Costanzo received his report card Monday, and it had high marks.
According to the results of Costanzos Alabama Professional Education Personnel Evaluation, he received 49 out of 52 possible points.
Neil Hyche, who has evaluated superintendents for the Alabama Department of Education for years and administered Costanzos evaluation, said Costanzos score was very, very stable.
I cant give my opinion on what I think about the results, but his evaluation is above average for
superintendents in the state, Hyche said.
Three years ago, during his last evaluation, Costanzo scored a 48. He improved by one point on this go-round.
As I reflect on my evaluation, I am pleased with the confidence the board and system administrators have in me as evidenced by the evaluation summary scoring report, Costanzo said in a written statement.
It will be my personal and professional goal to work for continued improvement in the delivery of instruction and services to the students of Tuscaloosa County.
In nine of the 12 areas on which Costanzo was evaluated communication; assessment/measurement/
evaluation; organizing for results; planning; federal/state/local laws and policies; technology management; program operations and management; fiscal leadership and management; and management of professional responsibilities he scored 4 out of 4 points.
In the other three evaluation areas collaboration processes and skills; problem solving; and innovation he scored 3 out of 4 points.
Though Costanzo didnt score the maximum number of points in those three areas, the written critiques in those areas were still uniformly positive.
Tuscaloosa County Board of Education member John Hinton said he thought the evaluation reflected well on Costanzos performance as a superintendent.
[The evaluation] certainly showed his strengths and, of course, all evaluations point out some areas of needed improvement, Hinton said. But the evaluation was very strong, and it overall showed that hes doing a great job.
The Rev. Schmitt Moore, who is a school board member, said he was pleased with the results of Costanzos evaluation.
[The board] agreed that Dr. Costanzo has done a strong job for the county school system, Moore said. The areas that he is asked to work harder in, we can see how that can benefit both he and the school system. But overall, Im pleased with the work that he is doing.
Professional development will be planned for Costanzo in the areas in which he did not receive a top score.
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