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"When Jesus commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves, it was not just for our neighbors' sakes that he commanded it, but for our own sakes as well. Not to help find some way to feed the children who are starving to death is to have some precious part of who we are starve to death with them. Not to give ourselves to the human beings we know who may be starving not for food but for what we have in our hearts to nourish them with is to be, ourselves, diminished and crippled as human beings." -Frederick Buechner; from Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
God Cares about the Oppressed
God created us to live in relationship with others and to care for one another. As some people say, we are the hands and feet of Jesus on the earth. We are here to know God, make Him known and help people who have need. The quote from Buechner speaks to me because it connects with what I know to be true about God as is evident throughout the entire Bible, both Old and New Testament. God cares very deeply about those who are oppressed. Whether the oppression comes from tyranny, poverty, demonic presence, lies you are believing, or something else. He cares and wants to set us free. He sent Jesus to set us free and bring redemption and salvation. So, if we know Jesus and are following His personal example and teaching, I believe we will be moved to action to help others to become well and walk in freedom.
Love in Action
"Love in action" means lots of different things and looks different in people's lives. Whether its adopting a child, spending time with a lonely senior, cleaning the house of a sick friend, mentoring an at-risk child…..whatever it is, I want to encourage you this week to take what you read in the Bible, along with the passions and gifts God has given you, and look around your community and world and just do something! We can't do everything, but we can do something and that something is meaningful to the person we do it for. It is also meaningful to us because we are getting outside of our own little box and become more like Jesus in the process. Jesus said He came to serve others, not be served. He is our example.
Faith Should Compel You to Help
"What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds." (James 2:14-18, NIV) This isn't a theological debate between faith and works. James simply and clearly says that faith should compel you to move into action. It's not about keeping your faith to yourself or puffing up with biblical knowledge. Turn your good intentions into action, and change the world.
+What passions and gifts did God give you that will help other people?
+What are some long-term goals of how you can help others?
+What one small thing can you commit to doing this week to help someone in need?
+If you don't have much of a desire to help, ask God to give you compassion for people in need and to show you His heart on the matter. He will.
God, thank You for giving me Jesus as my role model of self-sacrifice and service. He came to serve and asks me to do the same. Enlighten my eyes to see the needs around me this week and give me a desire to take time to decide on an action plan of ways I can begin to reach out and help someone in need, in this city and around the world. Amen.
(The title of this devotional comes from a famous quote attributed to Gandhi, "We must be the change we want to see in the world.")


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Mr. Robert "Randy" Smiley began his professional career as a teacher in 1978 teaching biology and chemistry at Carolina Academy in Lake City. One year later, he began teaching at Hannah-Pamplico Middle School where he taught science and gifted and talented. Smiley remained at Florence Two for eleven years as a teacher and as staff development coordinator for three years. In 1993, he transferred to Florence School District Four to serve as assistant to the superintendent. He began serving as assistant superintendent at Florence School District Five in 2001. He was named superintendent of Florence County School District Five on January 2, 2012.
Mr. Smiley attended Francis Marion University receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1978 and Master of Education and Specialist Certificate in Elementary Education in 1990. While attending the University of South Carolina, he received a Master of Education in Administration Degree in 1993 and Education Specialist Degree in Administration in 1995. Currently, Mr. Smiley services as vice chairman of the Pee Dee Education Center.
Mr. Smiley is a native of Cades, which is located in Williamsburg County. He comes from a long line of teachers and farmers. He and his wife, Rebecca, have one daughter, Rachel.

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Basden, George Thomas, Among the Ibos of Nigeria, an account of the curious & interesting habits, customs, & beliefs of a little known African people by one who has for many years lived amongst them on close & intimate terms, by G. T. Basden. (published 1921), Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company; London, Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd., 1921.
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How does an MSer determine if they have moved from relapsing-remitting MS to secondary-progressive MS? I've had about a 50 percent loss in energy level and an increase in continuous neurological symptoms in just less than one year. I was diagnosed in 2004, am 55 years old and have had symptoms since about 1985. I only had one acute attack in 2004.
Secondary-progressive MS means that there is gradual progressive worsening of disability over time rather than relapses that improve. Loss of energy is a typical symptom of MS but does not mean that the MS is getting worse.
It is difficult for me to evaluate what you mean by "increase in neurological symptoms" since this could be just that — an increase in symptoms but not a progression of disability. Many patients confuse symptoms with worsening disability when they actually can be very different things. The best person to discuss the phase of your disease with you is your neurologist, who knows you best.
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
Butterflies: A Challenge... and a Special!
8 comments:
- Adriana Benitez said...
Congrats to your friend! She has a great smile :)
Great job with the envelope bag and card. Love the color combination and the unexpected (but good lookin') burlap ribbon. Tfs
- September 2, 2013 at 8:13 AM
- Pam Steckman said...
Great color combo! I love those butterflies! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Fab Friday!
- September 2, 2013 at 8:46 AM
- Amy O said...
Love the bright and fun color combo! And the butterflies are lovely. Thanks for joining us at Fab Friday!
- September 2, 2013 at 4:08 PM
- Tina Adams said...
Cute card and gift bag. The colors are perfect. Butterflies are welcome anytime.
- September 3, 2013 at 9:53 AM
Congrats to your friend!! I love that card and now you've made me want that set too!! ROFL Great colors too!
- September 3, 2013 at 10:02 AM
- Yapha said...
What a fantastic card and gift bag! Those colors are great together -- so bright and happy! Love it!
- September 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM
- Marla Reed said...
I love the sanded background on your card! The butterfly looks really cool layered over the scrap of ribbon and I wouldn't have thought to try that. Great card! Thanks for joining us at Fab Friday!
- September 3, 2013 at 5:32 PM
- Amanda Mertz said...
I really like how you layered the larger butterfly with the natural trim! Thanks for sharing at Fab Friday!
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Schouten claims District title
Warwick girls 200 medley relay shatters school record
Place in the top three.
That was the goal of the Warwick girls 200 medley relay last Friday night.
"We knew all we needed to do was just get to States," senior Emma Schouten said.
They did exactly that … and a lot more at the District Three Triple-A Swimming Championships.
The foursome of juniors Tyler Mandrell and Lauryn Ober, sophomore Emma Oberholtzer, and Schouten not only took the silver medal in 1:45.44, but shattered the school record (1:46.33) they set at Districts in 2016.
Governor Mifflin, the eventual District team runner-up, claimed gold in the medley relay in 1:45.19.
"It was fun because we went almost a whole second faster than last year," Ober said.
Seeded in 1:47.60, the Lady Warriors weren't even thinking about the record as the walked into Cumberland Valley High School.
"Not at all," Ober said.
"They sorta shocked everybody," Warwick coach Mark Daum said. "It's so hard to put it all together with four legs. If two are on, three are on, somebody's usually not quite on their game, but they were all on their game. Mifflin, obviously they're the District (runner-ups), so no shame in that, but to break the school record by almost a second … that's the way you want to get started in any sport."
It set a tone for the two-day meet in which the Warwick girls captured 10 medals, including gold from Schouten in the 100 breaststroke in 1:05.15, and finished fourth in the final team standings with 201 points. Hershey edged Governor Mifflin for the team championship, 331-329 1/2.
"As a team, we had a breakout season, so it's nice to finish on a high note," Schouten said.
With the top three finishers in each event from District Three automatically qualifying for States, Ober punched her ticket in the 200 I.M. as well, en route to winning the bronze medal in 2:05.65.
Others advanced based on times, as there was no shortage of PRs recorded by Warwick. Schouten also moved on in the 200 I.M., Tyler Mandrell in the 50 free and 100 backstroke, Ober in the 100 breaststroke and Schouten, Mandrell, Brina Uhlin and Ober in the 400 free relay.
"Almost to a kid, they came and did a personal-best in something," Daum remarked. "I couldn't be happier for them."
Schouten, seeded No. 1 in Saturday's 100 breaststroke in 1:04.61, was hoping for a better time, but it was still fast enough to get her to the wall just ahead of Hershey's Caylene Rippon (1:05.18).
"I think she tightened up a little bit on the last length," Daum said. "Fortunately, she had her press-on nails on because you saw how close it was. But a win is a win from that standpoint. Her time was up a little bit, but she gets to swim again at States."
"The first 50 felt really good," Schouten said, "and then the last 25 was brutal. I had nothing left in my arms. But I'm happy."
The Loyola University-recruit was on target to improve her seed time following the first 50, touching the wall with a split of 30.06, and then she posted a 35.09 over the next 50 yards.
"I still have States, so it's not over yet," Schouten said. "I still have work to do."
Ober gave Warwick a second medalist in the 100 breaststroke, placing sixth in 1:06.09, barely behind Mifflin's fifth-place Rachel Johnson (1:05.98).
"I was happy with that," Ober said. "I felt really good on the first 50 and then the last 25 was brutal, like Emma said. I just had nothing left in my legs."
There was nothing brutal about the 200 I.M., in which Ober held her No. 3 ranking, dropping exactly one second off her seed time of 2:06.65. Schouten was just a fingernail in fourth place in 2:05.67.
Ober got a strong start, holding a slim lead after the butterfly (26.64) over Muhlenberg's Cameron Gring (26.83). Then Gring, who eventually won the gold in 2:03.01, pulled ahead on the backstroke.
"(The key was) just to go out and try to keep up with everyone on the backstroke," Ober said. "That's not my worst stroke, but it's in the middle, it's not my strongest. Coming back on free is always the toughest for me. Free is by far my worst stroke, so just trying to finish it out is tough."
Following a strong split on the breaststroke leg, Ober battled through the 100 free to clinch bronze in a lifetime best finish.
"It was so exciting," Ober said. "Just to finish where I was seeded, I was happy."
The Warwick junior acknowledged feeling pressure as a top-three seed, but she overcame.
"First through fifth," Ober said, "you come in with a target on your back, everyone wants to be where you are."
Schouten felt like she had that target on her back in the 100 breaststroke. Not so much in the 200 Individual Medley, however. She brought home her fourth-place finish with a 29.98 split in the free.
"It was nice going in not having any pressure," she said. "That was an event to have fun."
Mandrell certainly had fun while setting a new personal-best time in the 100 backstroke, leading her to a fifth-place medal in 58.20 seconds. It was 3/10ths of a second faster than her seed (58.50).
"It felt good," Mandrell said. "I'm happy that it was a best time. I came up a little short of what I wanted to do, which was the team record, but I'm still happy with the best time."
The school record of 58.12 was just eight-hundredths of a second off of Mandrell's finish.
Asked what she could have done differently, Mandrell, who added a seventh-place finish in the 50 free in 24.07 seconds, said, "I think the one wall, I might not have pushed off hard enough. And just not focusing on getting that time, focusing on just moving my arms fast would've been helpful."
Brina Uhlin was moving her arms fast enough to earn an 8th-place medal in the 100 back in 1:00.30. The Warwick freshman was seeded 24th in that event in a time of 1:03.19.
"I was really excited," said Uhlin, who also took an eighth-place medal in the 100 butterfly in 58.97. "I really wanted to get a best time in that event because (Friday) I didn't get a best time in my 100 fly. So that was really my goal and to get that was really exciting."
"(Brina) just has it in her DNA from her brothers (Keir and Cade)," Daum said. "She's a great competitor. She had her head on straight. (Friday), she was a little disappointed. Her time was a little up (in the 100 fly) from the League Meet, but boy oh boy, to her credit, she turned it around and had an awesome swim."
Her split times were consistent with a 29.60 on the opening 50, following by a 30.70.
"I knew I was going fast," Uhlin said. "My legs were starting to burn the last 25, but I was just trying to keep going."
The Warwick girls closed out the District Meet with a fifth-place medal in the 400 free relay in 3:34.75. Seeded in 3:35.87, Schouten, Mandrell, Uhlin and Ober combined to drop a second.
"You can't ask for any more than performing at your best," Daum said. "It was great."
Girl Swimming caption": In her final individual event at Districts, Emma Schouten makes a final push to the wall in the 100-yard breaststroke. She took the gold medal in a winning time of 1:05.15. Photo by Mike Shull


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CYPRESS — A flawlessly placed bunt down the third-base line from Glendale Community College sophomore Nancy Pinedo broke up what was a perfect afternoon for the Cypress College softball team.
The single ended the perfect-game bid of Chargers pitcher Stephanie Luhmann and proved one of only a few highlights for the visiting Vaqueros, who struggled in Friday afternoon's California Community College Athletic Assn. Southern Super Regional at the hands of the two-time defending state champs via 7-1 defeat.
Glendale (29-14), which entered the double-elimination tournament seeded seventh, fell into the consolation bracket with the loss and now needs four victories over two days, beginning with a noon contest today versus either No. 3 Mt. San Antonio College (35-8) or No. 6 Bakersfield (29-13).
A win in the first consolation game would push Glendale into the consolation final, slated for half an hour after the conclusion of the first contest.
"We're playing with some big teams, some big programs that have won championships and we're going to have to play better than this," Vaqueros Coach Hawk Wilder said. "Their pitching was effective, but it wasn't anything we hadn't seen before."
If Glendale hopes to advance to Sunday's final day of tournament play, then the offense will need to improve after struggling for a second consecutive playoff game.
While Glendale bumped off Ventura, 1-0, Sunday in advancing to this weekend's tournament, on Friday the offense was down by seven when Pinedo registered the team's first hit.
The bunt single was followed by a strikeout from Luhmann, the final of eight for the hurler, who was replaced by reliever Monique Hernandez.
The Chargers sophomore wasn't nearly as accurate as her predecessor, as Hernandez walked Carley Zabka and Jena Kaser in between collecting the inning's second out on a grounder to third.
Hernandez then broke up her team's shutout when she walked Mynia Bogan to force in a run as Glendale trailed, 7-1.
Any ideas of a miraculous rally were squashed, though, two pitches later when Hernandez induced an inning-ending grounder to third from Adrienne Lozano.
"I don't think [Luhmann] was tough, we just didn't hit," Pinedo said. "We play small ball and that starts with getting hits and we didn't do that until I got that hit."
Prior to the top of the seventh, the second-seeded Chargers (39-4) flexed their muscles in dominating the contest.
Cypress opened with a three-run first inning helped along with two illegal pitches, a catcher's interference call, an outfield error and highlighted by a big two-run single from Morgan Wheeler.
"When have you ever heard of a pitcher being called for an illegal pitch?" Wilder questioned. "They said she was lifting her leg, crow-hopping and she wasn't. That threw [pitcher Brandy Morin] off today. It was just that type of day."
Cypress added a run in the second and fifth innings before designated player Courtney McGee connected on a two-run bomb in the sixth inning that extended Cypress' advantage to 7-0.
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When you login tomorrow to create your kingdoms, you will notice a couple different things. The first being, Guilds, Covenant, and Valid are no longer game options that you can create kingdoms in. I'm sure you are asking yourselves what the heck is going on, so here is my long drawn out response.
Eight to Nine years ago when this game was at its peak (14k+ active players), we featured three games. Guilded, Non-Guilded (Solo), and a game called Chaos. Over the years different games have popped up, from Dustin creating a playground with Mo'Pri which evolved to Maxim, to a Christmas game, Speed games, Last Man Standing games to different variation of our guilded games. Its no secret that our playerbase has dwindled over the years. Life happens. Change happens also.
There have been discussions over the past couple of months on how to address various issues and to some degree justification for keeping the games open. Sunny and Gili have debated the life of Covenant and came to the decision to shut it down. Kaz and I have gone back and forth over the Valid and Guilds games and have come to the decision to shut them down as well. We have three different games that have the guild option on it, and each age all three games get smaller and smaller. Over the years I've been given different reasons why people like to play Guilds over Valid, Maxim/Covenant over Guilds, etc. There is no fair way in determining what game stays, what game goes when they are all active. So with that in mind, Kaz and I have decided on a new approach.
When you login tomorrow after we open the games back up you will see a new option, a game called Unity. This game will be the only game which has the guild feature in it for the forseeable future. Kaz has worked really hard on developing this game, and trying to bring a happy medium of some of the features of Guilds, Valid and Covenant into one game. We have made changes to the game races, incorporated Kaz's Ultimabase into the game, made additions to the news system, changed the build rate, made changes to the guild screen and guild privledges system, and will be adding in different features for declaring war.
Some of you have already played Unity in a closed-beta scenerio. Others may be shocked to hear all of this. Whatever the case may be, we hope that everyone will give the game a try and help us develop it by offering suggestions and reporting bugs. All Guilds which were in Guilds, Valid and Covenant are welcome - there is a conversion script that will need to be run in order for you to bring your guild to Unity. There will be information posted on that tomorrow.
I will be archiving the Guilds, Valid, and Covenant message forums tomorrow. The top active threads will be moved into the new "Unity" forum so those roleplaying or posting can continue on doing so. If a thread does not get moved and you want it moved, just ask. Kaz or I will be more then happy to do so. Perhaps in the future all forums will be merged together.
Our overall goal with this is to create a totally new guilded game, not force people to play an existing one that they may not like.
Now for some other game news. Turmoil and Solo have been reset and will open tomorrow like normal. They will run the standard 2 months. Massacre will reset tomorrow (I believe, its on an automatic script) and will be open for playing as well. No changes have been made to these games.
Now for a personal note. For the past ten years this community and game has been constantly evolving. During its peak in the Monarchy days, we offered three games. Guilded, Non-Guilded, Chaos. That was when we had over 14,000 active players. Obviously our playerbase is not that large anymore, and that is one of the reasons we have decided to scale back. We could continue on the same route we have for over a year now, reset the game every two months and ignore the fact that its an old game that has become stale. We could easily just let people grow bored and leave, and when we felt the justification for shutting the game down was there - just do that.
But to me that is a cheap way out. I hold no illusion that we will ever return to the "glory days" of Monarchy, not when our competition for the demographic of players we had is games like WoW, EQ, DAOC and the like. But I also don't want to be this old ass game barely hanging on and wondering every other month if its time to pull the plug or not. I guess to some degree, how you all react to the Unity game will help dictate that thought process.
In any event, before you take a dump on the thought of Unity - give it a try. Give us suggestions that may make it better. If the community was meant to be stale and never-changing, I think we would of died off a long time ago.
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In seasons of change and transition, whether that be adding a new baby to the family, moving across the country, a job change, or even just coming off of the holidays, life can feel out of control. While I don't mind change – the necessary, needed and healthy changes that either happen on their own, or we implement for our good and the good of those around us – I will be honest with you…I do not like transition.
Transition is hard.
Transition can be painful.
Transition makes me feel like I'm losing my mind, my footing, my sense of equilibrium, my safety and security.
Transition feels like being tossed around in a raging sea like a lifeless rag doll.
Why is that?
Because once change happens, it is the season of transition, and the psychological impact that accompanies it, that brings uncertainty, unpredictability and internal instability. And, as difficult as it may be to believe, change is not the bad guy, and change should not be avoided on a account that the process of transitioning from one stage of life to the next takes us through some pretty rough waters for a period of time.
There are a couple of things we can count on as we wrestle the waves of transition: 1. It will not last forever and 2. Jesus is that anchor that will keep us from going under.
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.
Hebrews 6:19
This hope that we cling to is not wishful thinking, it is not a pie in the sky idea that weak people believe in because they just can't muster the inner fortitude to handle all of life's challenges. Rather, this hope is rooted in the absolute assurance that God has made a promise, and that promise is trustworthy and true because God can not lie.
Just as an anchor sinks deep in the the bottom of the sea, holding a ship steady and secure, so the anchor that we hold onto reaches high into God's very presence, keeping us firmly in his grasp – steady…secure.
Our hope is that we can be anchored in God himself.
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 4:16
Life will never give us a guarantee of smooth sailing. Life will forever keep us on our toes as we navigate the changes and transitions all around us. And while we can't control the next thing that is going to happen in our lives, we can live with the precious assurance that the very throne of God can be accessed with confidence. We can hold tight to the anchor that will bring us security, peace and steady our weary hearts and souls. And we know, with certainty, that in the midst of the storm, the raging seas of transition and uncertainty, we will receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
If you feel unsteady today, reach out to the anchor. He will steady you.
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Background on Our Efforts
Moving Towards Restorative Justice
Reforming Our Criminal Justice System
In 1970 there were about 700,000 people in American prisons and jails and forty years later that number had risen to almost three million. With one twentieth of all the people in the world, the USA holds one fifth of the world's incarcerated people. Our broken criminal justice system is a major breakdown in American democracy. This needs to change.
Working to change our criminal justice necessarily means working for fundamental social transformation. We must demand, as Reverend Martin Luther King put it fifty years ago, and as Reverend William Barber puts it today, "a revolution of values". And in this people of faith can take the lead, because we especially are able to give America the kind of tough love and compassionate realism that she needs in times like these. This kind of tough love emanates from a wide variety of spiritual traditions.
Just as with the abolition of slavery, many Christians now acknowledge responsibility for the shocking growth in what many writers call a "carcerative society". One writer calls for a prophetic vision by declaring that, "Jesus calls on us to be attentive to vulnerable demographics of society – the stranger, the poor, widows, and orphans. The church needs to speak and act to rectify the injustices of the American mass incarceration system. The writer quotes from Scripture; "He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the captives go free…." (Luke 4-18-19). (Antonios Kireopoulos et. al.. eds., Thinking Theologically About Mass Incarceration, New York: Paulist Press, 2017, pp. 350-351)
These sentiments are also reflected in Jewish traditions. The Hebrew words tikkun olam mean "healing of the world", and they are part of the campaign of Jews United For Justice, an organization based in Washington, D.C. and also in Baltimore. This organization has worked for legislation to increase police accountability, in the Baltimore City Council, and in the Maryland General Assembly. The Seder is a ritual meal to commemorate the captivity of the Jewish people in Egypt and their flight to freedom in Israel. In Baltimore, Jews United For Justice observed this ceremony in 2017 by focusing on police accountability.
Love Resists is a joint campaign of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) that activates people of faith and conscience to resist criminalization and build a safer and more just world. In advancing the concept of resistance with love this UU campaign casts a broad net to include various groups of people who have been targeted for their ethnicity as well as their gender identity. It seeks to build consciousness within congregations as well as to reach out for broader social alliances.
As Unitarian Universalists we hold that no one is disposable, and that we must be building connections with those who are most directly affected by the violence of the prison system. We recognize that there are diverse viewpoints on the solutions to our broken system, but part of the national conversation has got to involve mercy and compassion. In this national conversation, some approaches emphasize cost-saving factors while others stress the centrality of racism and white supremacism as the major explanation. Much of this discussion is based on secular legal and social science criteria. As patriotic people of faith, we of the UULM-MD stand with our sisters and brothers of other religions in basing our social justice advocacy on moral and spiritual values. Our tough love for America is based on our conviction that every human being possesses an inherent worth and dignity, as we seek to build a global beloved community of the interrelated human family.
Our Criminal Justice Task Force has decided to focus on four areas; (1) correctional education, (2) transparency in police complaint procedures, (3) excluding a checkoff on application forms that discloses criminal history, and (4) pre-trial release reform.
Correctional Education
Currently, people serving time in prison are allowed to earn days off their original sentences for good behavior. We are supporting an additional, new type of sentence diminution credits for successful attainment of major educational goals identified in an inmate's approved treatment plan. When incarcerated people are offered the chance to learn new things, their sense of hope and self-esteem is greatly enhanced. In a classroom environment, prisoners interact with teachers who have taken time to prepare relevant information, and who care about their students. In addition to vocational opportunities, workforce development also involves exposure to social science and humanities perspectives that contribute to self-reflection and civic responsibility. Research by groups like the RAND Corporation has clearly established that correctional education not only significantly reduces recidivism, but also returns five times the amount of money invested.
Transparency in Police Complaint Procedures
Under current law when a civilian files a complaint against a police officer, that action is not open to the public, and the only time it becomes open is after a decision has already been made. We are therefore advocating for a bill that would declare that a record related to a formal complaint of job-related misconduct against a law enforcement officer, including an investigation record or record of any discipline imposed, is not a personnel record under the Maryland Personnel Information Act (MPIA), making such a record subject to disclosure, except under specified conditions.
Excluding a Declaration of Criminal History
Also known as "Ban-the-Box". Marylanders reentering society from prison are required to declare their criminal history as part of the initial application to state colleges and universities. This practice greatly prejudices the acceptance rate for prospective applicants and also harms the ability of students to research grants and scholarships. Returning citizens are forced to bear an unfair mark based on their previous mistakes instead of being able to start with a clean slate. We are supporting the effort to override the Governor's veto of the bill passed during the 2017 session that removes this disclosure.
Pre-trial Release Reform
Pretrial decisions on whether to incarcerate or release a person should be based on risk assessment instead of money bail. Here in Maryland, thousands of people are held in prison without having been convicted of any crime, simply because of their inability of make bail, while some very dangerous people are able to buy their way out. After the Maryland Attorney General questioned the constitutionality of the cash bail system, the Maryland Court of Appeals (the state supreme court) implemented rules making the imposition of money bail conditions a last resort to assure appearance at trial. In the 2017 session of the Maryland Assembly, an effort was made to reverse these reform efforts with a bill that would have preserved the cash bail system. We are prepared to oppose any such an effort again, and will support legislative action to codify the court rules or even improve upon them.
In 2015, UULM-MD made Criminal Justice Reform a Priority Issue and joined with the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform (MAJR) in support of legislation in this area.
In 2015, UULM-MD supported a package of bills designed to reduce low-risk prison populations; re-purpose prison funds for screening, reentry, offender employment and other services to lower recidivism and increase public safety; expand the state's successful juvenile mediation and "restorative justice" programs to adults; allow eligible persons to shield certain non-violent misdemeanors from prospective employers; and allow partial or full restoration of employment rights, licenses, etc., if no unreasonable risk is found to public safety or others' welfare, among other provisions.
In 2016, UULM-MD continued working with the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform in support of legislation designed to repair gaps in MD's corrections system. SB 1005/HB 1312 - Justice Reinvestment Act proposed fixes to funding, risk-screening, diversion, reentry, employment and parole. This 96 page bill addresses and reduces over-incarceration in Maryland and creates programs and resources to help keep people out of jail and help prevent their return. You can find a summary of the bill here. The bill passed and was signed by the governor.
Police Accountability
In 2016, we worked with the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability in support of efforts to modify the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights to facilitate timely investigations of police misconduct (instead of shielding officers) and to make the process more transparent. Our efforts are ultimately aimed at raising awareness and promoting the discussion that Michelle Alexander advocated in her book, "The New Jim Crow". She told us that nothing will change unless America has a frank and serious discussion about race. We hope that pushing the issue of police accountability will help in that effort, and our support for criminal justice legislation, while important in itself, is ultimately a means toward the end of addressing the larger issues of race and privilege.
In May 2015, the Senate President and House Speaker created the joint legislative Public Safety and Policing Workgroup for the purpose of examining police training resources, recruiting and hiring practices, and community engagement policies; considering a statewide oversight panel for certain kinds of investigations; and reviewing the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights and its application and practice by law enforcement agencies across the State. The Workgroup issued its report in January 2016, and the House and Senate leadership introduced legislation to enact its 23 recommendations. While the reforms stopped short of requiring citizen participation in police discipline boards, it does allow local jurisdictions to include them. Additional reforms in the bill that make it easier to file police complaints and to ensure greater transparency in the complaint process are incremental. The bill passed and was signed by the governor.
Death Penalty
UULM-MD began supporting criminal justice reform when it backed the Maryland death penalty repeal campaign and joined MD CASE (Maryland Citizens Against State Executions), the statewide coalition working to abolish the death penalty. Death Penalty Repeal – Substitution of Life Without the Possibility of Parole (SB276) was signed into law by Governor Martin O'Malley on May 2, 2013. In May 2009, Governor O'Malley signed the toughest death penalty evidence legislation in the country. The measure required that capital cases be limited to those with biological evidence or DNA evidence linking the defendant to the act of murder; a videotaped, voluntary interrogation and confession of the defendant to the murder; or a video recording that conclusively links the defendant to the murder. Although full repeal was not realized that year, UULM-MD continued to work with MD CASE and its coalition partners over the next four years. Unitarian Universalists believe first and foremost in the inherent worth and dignity of every human being. For us, this means every human being has inherent worth, regardless of their beliefs or their behavior. Many UUs believe that we shouldn't put ourselves in the position of choosing who is worthy of life and who is not, because often we are wrong. Even when we are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, we can still be wrong – and the consequences of any error are too terrible to chance.


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I got my phone, and texted Hubby.
Her temp is 103.6. She doesn't want to eat. All she wants to do is sleep.
His response:
Call the doctor.
This was not the first time in the nearly seven years of her existance that Miss Priss has been sick. It wasn't even the first time she'd had a high fever.
But she it is extremely rare for her to have a fever this high. And she had been sporting a mild fever
Within the first week of our arrival to our newly adopted country, we attended the Health and Safety Seminar at the Embassy. A requirement for all newbies, the session reviewed all (and I mean ALL) the risks to our health and safety here in Honduras.
And what I was worried about, on that early Thursday afternoon, dialing the Embassy Clinic and asking for the Nurse Practitioner, was Dengue Fever.
Most Americans who have never been to a country closer to the equator than Florida have never heard of Dengue Fever. (I know I hadn't.) The mosquito-born illness that most Americans are familiar with is Malaria. We hear about Malaria on the news in the summer, and raise money for mosquito nets to send to Africa. Malaria is really quite the Media Darling.
But here in Honduras, Malaria only exists on the coast. As we learned in our seminar, it is advised for us to take Malaria pills if we ever travel toward the sea. But Tegucigalpa, the capital of the country and the city where we live, is at an altitude that Malaria Mosquitos do not enjoy. (I think it makes their little ears pop or something.) So Malaria is not an issue for us.
The types of mosquitos that prefer our altitude also prefer to carry Dengue Fever. (You know what they say, every region of a country has it's own sense of style!)
So my little girl - with her rapidly spiking fever on her fourth day home from school, too nauseas to eat anything and wanting to do nothing but sleep - was a major cause of concern for us.
In July of this year, Honuduras officials declared a State of Emergency, regarding the explosion of cases as an epidemic, and trying to draw attention to the disease at the start of the rainy season (July to November), when standing water would make super-sexy breeding grounds for the mosquitos that carry the virus.
By August, there had been 120,000 cases across Central America (20,000 in Honduras) resulting in 60 deaths (17 here). Dengue is rarely fatal, but with the increase in cases, the number of deaths increase as well. Death occurs when an unchecked fever becomes uncontrollably high, becoming Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, which is marked by internal bleeding.
The cure? Of course, there isn't one. As we all know from bouts with the flu, nothing can cure a virus except time. And Tylenol. And fluids. And lots of marathon television. (Unfortunately, SpongeBob is only in Spanish here at the hotel, including Netflix. The media of choice for Miss Priss - Funny Cat searches and Cake Decorating Tutorials on YouTube.)
The Nurse Pracitioner returned my call quickly and listened patiently to the details of Prissy's illness.
Push fluids, she told me. The most important thing is keeping the fever under control, and Tylenol and fluids will help do that.
"Let's wait and see how she is tomorrow morning. If her fever is still high, then bring her in and we'll do the bloodwork. Waiting 24 hours will not affect anything."
Oh, thank goodness! Because the only other thing I feared more than Dengue Fever was the screaming I would be subjected to if I had to take Wussy Girl in to get a blood draw.
The Tylenol brought her fever down rapidly. Long after her bedtime, when theTylenol's effects had worn off, Hubster and I checked her again. The temperature on our Little Furnace hovered at 100. She was safe.
Without a blood test, I can never be certain whether her young body was fighting off the Dengue Virus or not.
I am just very grateful that we never had to find out for sure.
(Photos courtesy of Miss Priss, and the Photo Booth app on my iPad.)


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I don't know about you, but I want to be healthy, and I want my friends and family to be healthy! It's super important to me. More and more I find myself reading labels on food packaging, trying to find the products with the fewest, simplest ingredients. I find myself trying to cut back on fatty foods while eating more nutrient-dense foods (Yeah Kale!). I find myself thinking a lot more about the amount of exercise I am getting. I also find myself encouraging those I love to keep an eye out for their health as well.
As I have conversations with friends about healthy living, though, so often I find that the conversation comes back to one thing: lbs lost or gained. When the conversation turns to weight, I definitely start to feel uncomfortable. After all, I have always been taught and felt that health has a lot more to do with how you feel and how you live than how much you weigh, yet our society seems to focus almost exclusively on dropping those pesky pounds. I had never paid much attention to the array of weight-loss television shows (The Biggest Loser, Dance Your Ass Off, Weighing In, Celebrity Fit Club, etc) until I received an email from a family member, asking if I would like to join a local version of "The Biggest Loser" where we would weigh in at the beginning, commit to working out and eating regularly, and then win prizes for those that lost the most weight. I thought this weird, so I started to look around, and I started to notice it everywhere! My apartment complex is even hosting its own version of "The Biggest Loser!"
Now, this is troubling to me on the base level that weight loss can, in most cases, be a really crappy way of measuring healthy living, especially as different people gain or lose weight differently in ways that can be both healthy and unhealthy based on their lifestyle choices, their body type, and their family histories. In fact, someone can be making an amazing transition to a healthy lifestyle (eating really well and exercising regularly), but their weight may not change – as they build muscle which weighs significantly more than fat or because they have a genetic constitution that does not lend to weight loss.
In turn, the focus of healthy living should be on feeling happy and healthy rather than on weight loss or even looking a particular way. After all, if you are exercising well and eating well, your body will find a comfortable medium, the place at which you are healthiest, but in that medium, you are not likely to look like the standard of beauty our society has created, and that medium is in no way going to reflect a specific number on a scale!
Now, I know that some of you are thinking, "Wow . . . this is new. Change From Within is not a healthy living blog, per se, so what does this talk of eating well and of exercise have to do with the usual theme?" Well, in the past I have written about the realities of "weight hate," or prejudice and bigotry toward those who are overweight or are perceived as overweight according to our unrealistic standards of beauty, and I have addressed some issues of body image, particularly as I tried to understand what are the larger issues at play when I am objectifying women. In addition, lately I have been having a lot of conversations with friends about the connections between gender, sexual violence, self esteem, weight, exercise, and healthy living.
As I mentioned in my post about "weight hate," I have had to be reminded that the way people are treated based on weight is surely a social justice issue. For some reason, though, in our culture, we find it acceptable to disparage and treat poorly those who are considered "overweight." I think that we do this and that it is more socially acceptable because we perceive obesity as an issue of personal choice. "People should take care of themselves! How could they let themselves get that fat!?" After all, it is not a bad thing to want others around us to be healthy, whether because we care about them or because health care costs in this country are affecting everyone, but very rarely do we approach these issues from a place of health and love – instead we approach them by comparing those who are overweight to an absurd standard of beauty and by telling them that they need to lose weight.
To demonstrate how absurd weight and body mass index (bmi) calculators that many use to determine "how healthy they are," consider my little case study. I am 6'0″ and weigh 185 lbs. I eat pretty well (though I could probably use to cut down on my sugar intake slightly), and I exercise regularly. Do I look "fat" or "overweight" to you?
Well, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's body mass index calculator, I am overweight. It doesn't matter that I am happy with my current health and the way that my body looks. By this absurd scale, I am overweight! Now imagine that an insecure middle school student who is healthy finds the same scale and it tells her that she is overweight. That's the problem with going strictly by the scale (or the bmi scale) to determine one's health.
Why, though, is this a social justice issue? Well, whenever a segment of our population is dehumanized, treated as less than normative or valuable, because of their physical appearance, we have a serious problem of social justice, and frankly, it's pretty darn socially acceptable to dehumanize those we deem "overweight."
To characterize those who are overweight (even morbidly obese) with such contempt, calling them "not normal people" is far from helping people find a healthier state of living! In discussing this issue, my friend Sheila pointed me to a Runner's World article about the show The Biggest Loser, the author, Ginny Graves, describes the show as follows:
They bully and browbeat the lumpish contestants to run faster and farther every day, forcing them to dig deep not just for the strength to keep going but also for insight into how they let themselves get so appallingly fat in the first place. As a result, contestants expose more than their sagging flesh to voyeuristic viewers; like it or not, they bare their souls.
The way Sheila put it was, "As someone who is new to running as a way to feel healthy and good about myself and my body, to hear someone described as 'appallingly fat' and 'lumpish' is not going to encourage me to keep running or to feel good about myself as I run." To better understand why The Biggest Loser is "bad for its contestants, the millions who watch the show, and the culture in general," I strongly encourage you to check out Golda Poretsky's piece in Jezebel about a Biggest Loser contestant who developed an eating disorder after her experience on the show.
The point here is that encouraging a healthy culture and encouraging people to become healthier individually is not an excuse to dehumanize people and degrade those who are overweight or obese on national television. Further, in almost every high school in which I work, I hear from young people – most often young women and often young people who seem to me to be pretty healthy from first glance – that one of the issues I need to make sure I address in helping the school build a more inclusive environment is the weight bullying that constantly occurs.
As we publicly humiliate anyone who does not fit into our absurd standard of beauty, do we even have to wonder why this is the reality?
– At age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.
– Five to ten million adolescent girls and women struggle with eating disorders and borderline eating conditions.
– According to The Center For Mental Health Services 90 percent of those who have eating disorders are women between the ages of 12 and 25.
In closing, I want to tell you about my friend Sheila. In both my personal life and in my work as a sexual assault survivor's advocate, I have spoken to far too many women who hate their bodies. Some hate their bodies because of the hurt that was inflicted upon them by a man, and some hate their bodies because they feel like they are constantly told by those around them and by society that they are ugly and inadequate. Undoubtedly with all of this cultural baggage, it is hard for women to have a healthy relationship with food and exercise. Thus, I find Sheila's story inspiring.
When Sheila was young, she had what she describes as a "rock star" metabolism. She was actually underweight until she was about 18, eating whatever she wanted and still never gaining any weight. The women in her family always commented on her weight, saying how great she looked. She even told me a story about the time when she, still underweight as a young teenager, had her grandmother pinch the skin around her waist and say, "Looks like someone's getting some love handles!" That stuck with her, and so did the comments about how small she always had been, and as she moved into her early twenties, she gained some weight and felt more and more unhealthy (both physically and emotionally). She struggled with dieting, yoyoing between her more "ideal" weight and the weights at which she felt unhealthy. Her family would often comment about those old days when she had been "skinny."
In the last year, though, Sheila has taken a different approach to her health. She decided that instead of wanting to lose weight, she wanted to simply change her lifestyle to feel healthy and happy. She decided that she wanted to run a half marathon (despite never having run much in her life), so she started a training program. Her approach to food has been that she wants to try to make sure she is eating healthily, but she shouldn't really deny herself the things she loves. If she wants some carrot cake with cream cheese icing, she's going to have some carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Though it was initially hard, the training and running has helped her to feel healthy and to have more energy as she goes to school and works full time. She stresses that in all of this, the feeling healthy part has been the most important! She has no weight goal in mind. Instead, she wants to exercise and eat pretty well and let her body find its ideal equilibrium, the place where it is healthy and where she is happy, regardless of what that equilibrium may look like or weigh. What inspires me about her is that she is working against the culture that is telling her that she must look a certain way or weigh this particular amount, and she is simply striving to be healthy.
Last weekend Sheila completed the Surf City USA Half Marathon in Huntington Beach, California. When I had lunch with her today, she was glowing . . . she is happy and she is healthy, and she attributes it to the love and support of friends and family and to her new approach to her health. I could not be more proud of her.


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Planning progresses on New England Highway upgrade between Belford and Golden Highway
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Michael Johnsen MP, Member for Upper Hunter today announced that planning for the New England Highway upgrade between Belford and the Golden Highway is progressing with work on the environmental assessment now being carried out.
Mr Johnsen said the NSW Government has committed $85 million under the Rebuilding NSW Plan for the upgrade to improve traffic flow, travel times and safety for motorists.
"The proposed upgrade would provide two lanes in each direction between Belford and the Golden Highway and a flyover for vehicles turning right from the Golden Highway towards Maitland and Newcastle," Mr Johnsen said.
"The upgrade would also include a road corridor for future development of the New England Highway toward Singleton."
Mr Johnsen said Roads and Maritime Services is working on an environmental assessment to improve understanding of any impact the upgrade may have on the project area.
"The assessment includes geotechnical investigations to determine ground conditions at the proposed site as well as investigations and consultation on any potential impact on our local Upper Hunter heritage," Mr Johnsen said.
"Flora and fauna investigations will also be carried out to minimise any potential impact on our local biodiversity."
Roads and Maritime will continue to work with stakeholders including nearby land owners and Singleton Council throughout the planning process.
"The environmental assessment and concept design for the proposed upgrade will be displayed for our community's feedback mid-next year," Mr Johnsen concluded.
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I've had it since I was a kid. It has a redline MX-II front-end (v-bars, forks and stem). It's been sitting (or hanging) in the garage for almost 30 years now. even the tires are original. The only thing I ever replaced were the grips.
I thought about restoring it for my oldest son, but I was afraid that someone who knew it's value would jack him while riding around the neighborhood.
so now I think I'll clean it up and keep it for a conversation piece. The good old days.
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Kim Kardashian makes every VIP list in Los Angeles and New York, and now, it seems, Washington, D.C., as well. The reality star will attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year, as one of the many celebrities invited by Fox News. She will be joined by her mother, Kris Jenner, Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Caroline and Al Manzo, and Gossip Girl''s Chace Crawford. Kardashian had gone to the dinner last year as a guest of Greta Van Susteren. This year, however, Van Susteren will be joined instead by actress Lindsay Lohan. Trading up, Greta!


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Hawera & Normanby Star, 7 September 1914, p 7
WELLINGTON, Sep. 7.
The Moeraki, No. 1 of the transport of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, arrived back in Wellington harbor from Samoa at 6.30 this morning, in charge of Commanders Ward and Stewart, with 21 invalided territorials and 15 of H.M.S. Sealark's company.
Sergeant Blackmore, in the course of a statement to a representative of the Press Association, stated that with the exception of two days, they had good weather during the whole of their trip. First of all they called at New Caledonia; then went on to Suva; and finally to Samoa.
At New Caledonia the troops were landed and a march inland extending over some six miles, made the French people wildly enthusiastic. They sang the "Marseillaise" and "God Save the King." In the evening the French held a patriotic concert on the wharf, which was attended by a very large crowd. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Sergeant Blackmore declared that never had he seen anything like it in his life.
At the conclusion of the concert the boats were anchored in the stream, and they sailed for Suva next morning. They reached Suva on Sunday morning, and took aboard a number of Samoan residents, and the Sealark's ship's company.
The transports left at 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning for Samoa which they reached on the 29th of August. The Psyche went into Apia and the transports landed at 12 o'clock. The Sealark's company worked all night landing baggage and equipment of the men from the Moeraki.
In the morning the Moeraki left for Wellington, convoyed by the Psyche, but was dropped at 6 o'clock next evening, and came on by herself, arriving at 6.30 this morning.
The Psyche, under the white flag entered Apia at 9 a.m. and demanded the surrender. Captain Marshall could not find the Governor, but the representative in power would not surrender. Eventually they found the Governor at a wireless station and landed the troops and formally annexed the town and Colonel Logan took command.
The Monowai took the German Governor to Suva the same night. Not a shot was fired. The natives seem decidedly favorable to the British.
The transports were convoyed by the Psyche, Philomel, Pyramtis, and at Noumea were met by the Australia, Melbourne, and the French ship Montcalm. The men landed all in good spirits and appeared to have suffered no particular hardship except a difficulty during the early days of getting proper meals.


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Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to announce that for the first time SLC was proud to present 3 Senior Journalist Outstanding Achievement Awards for their Extraordinary Years of Untiring Service and Dedication to their Profession & the Game of Cricket in Sri Lanka. The 3 Senior Journalist were Elmo Rodrigopulle, Nevile Anthony & Daminda Wijesuriya. They were from English,Tamil & Sinhala Newspapers in this country.
Mr. Palitha Perera was felicitated for his yeomen service of 50 Years of Untiring Service and Dedication in the Media field and taking the game to the villages through the Electronic media.
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Aadesh Poddar
Director SMS (Sahara Means Support) Non-Profit
H-590, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana-122017
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Aadesh Poddar was born on 13th October, 1944 in Delhi. Since childhood, she had a great inclination towards cultural and spiritual pursuits. She participated in various school debates and poetry competitions and excelled.
She did her post graduation in History from Miranda House, University of Delhi. She had a keen interest in learning different languages and has pursued Italian, French, Urdu and Bengali. She has written poems and articles for different magazines in different languages.
Aadesh was working as an entrepreneur, running her export house for 25 years. Life took a turn in 2006 when her spiritual journey became her prime focus. She got associated with Vastu and other alternate sciences. She has been a voracious reader of Indian Mythology, Kabir and Upanishads. She is a strong believer in the science of Jyotish and looks at it, as a window in the future which helps you to shape your life. She has been following the footsteps of Swami Niranjan Saraswati and is keenly interested in spreading his philosophy on "Improving life through yoga".
At present, she is associated with social-educational institutions for translation work in Hindi so that it can reach all the corners of the society.
Community Work
She has always believed in the theory of "bahu-jan sukhay, bahu-jan hitay" and has been involved in helping people from different walks of life. She worked for a Montessori school, Bal Kunj in Kolkatta. She later went on to work for school for differently-abled, 'Mano Vikas Kendra'.
To pursue her interest in community work further, she joined Rotary in 1993. She held important positions and excelled in her performance. She has worked on important projects in Rotary with Akshay Pratisthan, Mata Amrit Anandmayi Math. She also worked on literacy projects at Bhondsi jail and is helping in running Anubhav School- a school for children from economically weaker section. At present, she is working with Earth Saviours Foundation to help them establish their old age home.


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He is missing his arm just below the elbow and has been working with his mom Karen and one of our e-NABLE volunteers Karyn Traphagen – to come up with a device that will work for him. He has also been a big part of helping to put his own device together and was also out helping to run the e-NABLE booth at the North Carolina Maker Faire back in June!
Most would assume that he would be eagerly awaiting the chance to test out the new arm design that our team at MAGIC RIT has been working on – but Tully is more interested in strapping a simple e-NABLE hand to his elbow instead.
Because his entire life he has been using his "little paw" just below the elbow to do everyday tasks. For Tully – it makes more sense to him to just add fingers there instead of trying to adjust to having an extension where there hasn't ever been one before. He isn't concerned with how it looks – just that it works to do things he hasn't been able to without fingers before now. (Though he is extremely excited that his e-NABLE hand glows in the dark!)
Young Derek, who is working with Jon Schull and the team at MAGIC RIT – designed the "long version" of the arm. From Derek's perspective – he has been missing his arm his whole life…why not make it an extendo-arm instead?! Why stop at a matching arm length…when you can add inches to your reach? A reach you could never have been born with?
We are learning that the children who are getting these devices are not as interested in "Looking Normal" as most adults would be…they don't view the world the same way we do. They aren't constantly bombarded with what society tells them they should look like. Not yet anyway.
They don't care that these devices look like "Robot hands" or "Plastic Toy Hands" …Actually – they break out in full body smiles when you mention that they will now look like the coolest "Transformer" there ever was! You give a child the choice between a more "Normal" looking prosthetic hand and a "Cyborg Robot" looking device – and 9 times out of 10, they are going to go with the hand that makes them feel like a super hero.
Wouldn't it be nice if more adults were able to look at the world that way too? Being comfortable within our own skin and celebrating our differences…and allowing ourselves to do what feels right and true to ourselves – instead of what we think the world expects (and often demands) us to do?
Just picture the devices we could come up with over the next year…if we sat in a room full of children and created for them the hands of their imaginations!
"Too often we give children answers to remember – rather than problems to solve." – Roger Lewin


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"Black man, black woman, black baby /
White man, white woman, white baby /
White man, black woman, black baby /
Black man, white woman, black baby."
Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
There is no doubt that the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is historic. But does framing him as America's "first Black president" show that we have not come nearly as far as we'd like to think?
The mainstream U.S. news -- and the majority of the American public, whether for or against him -- consider Barack Obama to be the first African American President. While he is certainly a member of the Black community (and much more literally African-American due to his father being a Kenyan immigrant), he is also equally part of the white community. His mother was white. The grandmother who helped raise him (and whom he tragically lost to cancer on the eve of his election) was also white. But historically, and apparently to this day, to be Black to any degree is to be exclusively Black. Is our celebration of Barack Obama as the first Black president proof that we haven't moved very far past the "one-drop rule"?
A Drop of Black, and You Never Go Back
The one-drop rule is the perception that any amount of non-white ancestral heritage makes a person non-white. But there is more than one interpretation of the concept. For some, the distinction is based on physical traits. If you appear to have Black features, then you are Black, whether it is more or less than 50% of your ancestry. Slightly differently, some believe that if there is even the most dilute Black blood in a person's make-up, there will be a tell-tale sign of some kind that will prove the mixed heritage -- a birth mark, the shape of the crescent in the nail bed, or others.
But what we are seeing with the advent of Barack Obama as a national figure fits more within yet another third interpretation. Philosophy professor and author Naomi Zack defined it in her 1998 book, Thinking About Race. "One-drop rule: American social and legal custom of classifying anyone with one black ancestor, regardless of how far back, as black." I asked Zack for her comments about Barack Obama. She replied: "Why is someone with an African father and a white mother, who if race were real would be mixed race, considered 'Black?' Why is it not also absurd to refer to that person as 'a multi-racial African American'?"
In 1994, legal scholar Julie C. Lythcott-Haims wrote in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review that the one-drop rule "still exists today; Americans who are part-Black are socially considered Black, and only Black by most Americans. ... The one-drop rule is so ingrained in the American psyche that Blacks and Whites do not think twice about it."
In 1997, we saw Tiger Woods as a multiracial person being reduced to one facet of his identity. On Oprah Winfrey's show, he was asked if it bothered him to be referred to simply as African-American. He responded, "It does. Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian'" (meaning Caucasian-Black-Indian-Asian). "I'm just who I am," Woods told Winfrey, "whoever you see in front of you." Sportswriter Ralph Riley wrote about Woods' background and the one-drop rule, without naming it. "Tiger's Asian heritage defines him as thoroughly as any other aspect of his makeup, although we tend to throw everyone brown and American with nice lips into the black blender."
It isn't just white culture that follows the one-drop rule, as Tiger Woods experienced in 1997. A May 1997 article in Time magazine looked at the reaction to Woods' statement on Oprah. "Kerboom! a mini-racial fire storm erupted. Woods' remarks infuriated many African Americans who hailed his record-setting triumph at the Masters as a symbol of racial progress but see him as a traitor. To them Woods appeared to be running away from being an African American ... In their rush to judgment, the fearful apparently never stopped to consider that Woods was not turning his back on any part of his identity but instead was embracing every aspect of it."
Fast-forward to November 2006 and in a 2006 Zogby International poll, 55% of whites considered Obama as biracial after being told that Obama's mother was white and his Kenyan father was Black. Even more Hispanics -- 61% -- also saw Obama as biracial. But interestingly, 66% of the Blacks polled classified Obama as Black.
The October 23, 2006, cover story in Time magazine shows that we still have a hard time letting people of mixed racial backgrounds "embrace every aspect" of being "just who I am." In the story, titled "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President," reporter Joe Klein compared Obama to Colin Powell, and employed the one-drop assumption: "Powell and Obama have another thing in common: they are black people who -- like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan -- seem to have an iconic power over the American imagination because they transcend racial stereotypes." Although Obama and Woods are both multiracial, Klein referred to them solely as Black and even as "iconic" African-Americans.
What Race Is, and Isn't
Historically, race has been treated as a natural category for classifying human beings. The assumption that people can be grouped into distinct races has political overtones and motives. Activities such as slavery, domination, and oppression have been justified in large part by claims that those who dominate are inherently different (and superior) to those they dominate. Modern science, however, has shown that this system for classifying people has little if any basis in biology or genetics.
According to the current position on race of the American Anthropological Association, drafted in 1998, "The concept of race is a social and cultural construction... Race simply cannot be tested or proven scientifically ... It is clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. The concept of 'race' has no validity ... in the human species." According to the U.S. Census Bureau, race is "self-identification by people according to the race or races with which they most closely identify. These categories are sociopolitical constructs and should not be interpreted as being scientific or anthropological in nature. Furthermore, the race categories include both racial and national-origin groups." When speaking of human genetic variations, scientists today study "populations" rather than "races," a more precise term that avoids the misleading assumption that superficial characteristics such as skin color group automatically with other characteristics such as intelligence or character. In everyday life, however, "race" is still the most commonly used term and the most widely accepted concept.
Barack Obama's life experience makes him a particularly interesting case study in the problems inherent in trying to classify people by race. Obama is the son of a Kenyan man who came to study in the U.S. He was born and raised by his white maternal family in multiracial, multiethnic Hawai'i, and spent a portion of his young life living in Indonesia. He is "Black" in the sense that he has an African father, but his experience growing up is quite different from that of a "typical" African American. Of course, the idea that there is a "typical" African American experience is itself rather suspect. Generations have passed since the first Africans arrived on American shores, and many African Americans have a variety of non-African ancestors with Native American, Caucasian or other roots. Ironically, therefore, Obama's mixed ancestry may be the most "typical" characteristic he shares with other African Americans.
We're Not There Yet
Even when Obama's mixed racial background is mentioned, the one-drop assumptions and default terms come into play. In a November 8, 2008 article titled "'Mutts Like Me' -- Obama Shows Ease Discussing Race," writer Alan Fram focuses on a comment that the president-elect made about what type of puppy his girls would bring to the White House with them. "Obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me," Obama said. Fram seems to be getting to the heart of the matter, saying "The message seemed clear -- here is a president who will be quite at ease discussing race, a complex issue as unresolved as it is uncomfortable for many to talk about openly. And at a time when whites in the country are not many years from becoming the minority." However, old habits die hard. Fram also says, "By now, almost everyone knows that Obama's mother was white and father was black, putting him on track to become the nation's first African-American president."
Should embracing the multiracial background of people like Barack Obama or Tiger Woods take away from the pride and sense of accomplishment that different communities take in his achievements? Is it really less of a victory for Blacks if Obama's mixed race is acknowledged and celebrated? In a November 10, 2008, article for Salon.com titled "Our Biracial President," James Hannaham wrote, "Obama's biracial. ... This is not to say that he hasn't received some of the same treatment as black Americans, or that he is not welcome among them, or that people should denigrate his need to make his background understandable to people who think that 'biracial' means a type of airplane. It suggests something far less divisive. It means that black and white people (not to mention other ethnicities chained to the binary idiocy of American race relations) can share his victory equally."
In 1967, there were still sixteen U.S. states that had laws on the books banning interracial marriage. That isn't a typo -- 1967. It was in that year that the US. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws banning interracial marriages with these words: "The freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides within the individual and cannot be infringed on by the State." Barack Obama's parents met, married, and gave birth to him in Hawai'i in the early 1960s. It is a matter of chance that they were not in one of the states where interracial marriage and sex was illegal. In addition, the 2000 U.S. census was the first one in which respondents could choose to identify themselves as belonging to more than a single race. Given that recent history, perhaps we could all celebrate how far we have come by electing a biracial President.


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Banana, honey and olive oil conditioner:
This natural conditioner is great for soft, smooth hair and those who are looking for straighter styling can go for this one. The secret lies in the banana that minimizes shrinkage and the olive oil penetrates deep in to the hair to supply it with moisturizers.
– 1 ripe banana
– 2 tablespoon honey
– 2 tablespoon olive oil
Blend all the ingredients in a blender to make a smooth paste. Apply it to hair and leave on for half an hour. Wear a shower cap to avoid dripping. Rinse thoroughly with water.