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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
A while back, I suggested that EHR vendors might want to integrate Google Search into their EHR. I still think this is a really interesting idea since I'm sure that many are doing Google Searches regularly as part of the care they provide.
While I'm sure that many doctors use Google searches in their care, I was really intrigued by a demo video I saw of the Blausen Google Chrome extension. Rather than try and explain it, you can watch the video demo:
This is a really fascinating product and a simple way to distribute the content that Blausen has available in their library. While the Google Chrome extension is interesting, I could see something similar easily added to an EHR interface.
Imagine a doctor wanting to show a video demonstrating something to their patient. Straight from their EHR, they could pull up the Blausen video and show the patient in a really rich way something about their condition.
Of course, we're just at the start of what could be done with great visual education like this. Over time I'm sure we'll be able to get to very specific parts of a video or pieces of education. We'll be able to publish the educational information you saw in the office in your patient portal. Not only does that reinforce what was said in the office, but it also provides patients a great way to share what's going on with their loved ones.
I know Force Therapeutics is doing work like this with videos for Physical Therapists and Orthopedics. I think we're going to see a lot more video integration into our patient care over the next couple years and that's a very good thing.


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I have been making bread by following Chad Robertson after getting frustrated Peter Reinhart's Whole grain Breads. Not that its a great book, it's just that I don't bake frequently enough to follow his terms like preferment,poolish,soaker and what ever.
The missing information is the instructions for whole wheat bread p. 114 ,some bakers prefer an overnight rest for whole-grains as long as you wait to add the leaven until you give it a couple of turns. This sounds like you give the flour and water and over-night rest then add the leaven and knead it all together. Is this what Cad is saying, and what do you do?
FYI I just did a long bulk fermentation in my cool basement at 62 degrees over 6 hours then gave it a bench rest with plenty of stretch and fold, then in the proofing baskets lined with parchment paper,covered with plastic wrap to prevent drying out and placed in the refregrator for 16 hours , placed in kitchen for 3 hours to warm up and then bake.


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Jeffre Witherly, Ph.D., is the Senior Advisor for Science Education in the Education and Community Involvement Branch (ECIB) at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
The NHGRI was the lead federal agency charged with running, and completing (in 2003), the international Human Genome Project. During the Human Genome Project (1996-2003), he functioned as the NHGRI's lead science educator and directed the NHGRI Office of Science Education.
Dr. Witherly has created various educational tools designed to enable a better understanding of genetics by the general public. These include the Talking Glossary of Genetics (in English and in Spanish), the NHGRI Short Course for college teachers, and one of the world's largest color holograms — a 16sf hologram located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
He has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the National Health Museum to accomplish educational outreach goals. His book, "An A-to-Z of DNA Science: What scientists mean when they talk about genes and genomes" is now in its fourth printing, and is published in three languages.
Dr. Witherly holds Masters degrees in journalism and natural resources from Ball State University. His Ph.D. is from the American University. His dissertation examined K-12 standards-based educational programming at the NIH.
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Written by Jay Smith
As featured on page 72 of the August 2012 issue.
Read about Airborne Models and enter to win a P-47 D Thunderbolt EP.
World Models Manufacturing Company has been in existence for more than 15 years and has produced a wide range of aircraft for gas, glow, and electric power. Although the company is headquartered in Hong Kong, its US distribution is handled by Airborne Models in California.
Fai Chan, owner of Airborne Models, started the company when he moved to the US in 1997. Before moving, he worked as an engineer and enjoyed Slope Soaring, through which he met and became friends with Mr. Kong, the owner of World Models.
Fai shared with me that one of his responsibilities at Airborne Models is to assist in the designing of aircraft. His experience as an engineer, coupled with his love of RC aircraft, made it an easy transition.
His first design was the Super Sport 40, which he completed on his kitchen table. Fai told me it was a dream come true to be able to design model aircraft, but it also comes with a lot of pressure because it is so important that the designs be commercially successful.
When designing models, Fai believes the most important thing is an aircraft that flies well. His next priority is that the model be easy to assemble, followed by keeping the airplane as true as possible to the full-scale aircraft.
I asked Fai about the process of bringing a model to market. The procedure takes roughly six months. After the type of aircraft and size of the aircraft are determined, it's time to choose a color scheme. World Models is able to print on the covering, which allows for more options, especially with warbirds.
Fai works with the designers in China, and after they agree on a design, two prototypes are constructed. One is tested in the US and one in China. The prototypes are covered with clear covering on the bottom of the aircraft so that Fai can inspect the construction methods.
Both parties come together and determine if any changes need to be made to improve the model and another prototype is constructed. This process continues until everyone is satisfied.
Having a foundation as a modeler that dates back to building 3.5-meter gliders in his bedroom in Hong Kong, Fai considers himself more of a modeler than a businessman. Although he is modest, I found out through our conversation that Fai has designed nearly 80% of the models sold by World Models. He also designed the company's robot, the RoboPhilo, which is targeted at the hobby market!
While we were on the topic of aircraft design, I asked Fai how he felt about foam aircraft and the line of foam jets that the company sells.
"I didn't like foam at first, but improvements in the foam has made it more durable and better looking. It is the material of the future and you can adjust the density to make it stronger. EPO foam used in World Models aircraft and it is also very repairable. It is the best choice for the beginner.
"Foam jets are designed after the real plane and they need to have plenty of air intake. All of our jets use a 68mm [ducted] fan, so all the jets are built around that power system. We ensure that the jet can fly nicely."
Fai and I had the opportunity to sit down at the Toledo Expo to complete this interview (see video above). As we discussed Airborne Models and Fai's experiences, I was amazed. He shared with me what it was like to be a kid in Hong Kong. He had a strong desire to get into RC while in middle school, but the cost to get started in the hobby was equal to a month's salary for his father.
Knowing this, I asked how he felt when one of his designs makes it to market for all to enjoy at an affordable price. He responded, "The satisfaction comes when people say the plane flies good. I don't tell people that I design the plane and when I get the feedback, I know I am doing something right. I always try to do something to help the flier."
I asked Fai what his goal was for the company. "I would like to make the business grow bigger," he said, "but it is a shrinking market. The type of people that like to build aircraft is getting smaller. While we want to make things easy for the customer, it is also important to learn the basics of aircraft setup, especially when dealing with big aircraft."
My experience with World Models aircraft has been with the park flyer Cub, Zero, Texan, and TameCat models. All of them flew well and the warbirds even include retracts, which is a nice touch for a balsa model in this size range.
If you have also been successful with World Models aircraft or have any ideas for a new addition to the company's lineup of models, I'm sure Fai would be happy to hear from you.
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Nice Model!
Don't see too many covered P-47's and certainly not the attractive color scheme that this one is done up in - very nice. I'd own it!
How many different sizes of the P-47 are available from Airborne
There are three including the Aircombat EP
Hope to win! I also like the
Hope to win! I also like the AT-6 Texan EP (E269) and your Spitfire EP (40) E311XM.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this great plane!
Three if you include the Aircombat EP (P-47)
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It s looks like a well together magazine. but where doI get a hold of a copy.
Could you send my a copy so i can order a subcrition,these models can be ajusted into RC flyed ,yes . Looking forward in recieving a copy .Thanks


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How dare that the media didn't even mention what source they got the info from.. They said according to the 'report', which report Any other world wide web discussing TAR 22 besides us? Hemm...
I think her name is Jennifer Wayne?? I also think maybe Carolyn Cutbirth may be a better match? They're both in the band Stealing Angels
Interesting..........Jennifer Wayne is the Duke's granddaughter.
how many teams are we still missing the identity of?
Quote from: eddiethejet on December 06, 2012, 10:48:52 PMhow many teams are we still missing the identity of?The blond couple, a.k.a. Meghan-Cheyne lookalikes.
For the record, Winnie and Cam only identified by their nicknames, we haven't found their real biography yet, so I think it's a 50-50 progress..
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Instead of playing in the dirty streets after school, one hot afternoon kids in a local favela, or slum¸ are led into a giant space with bright, high white walls. Assistants lead them around, nudging them to engage with original artworks including reflections on graffiti in their neighborhood and huge collages created by celebrated New York-based Brazilian artist Vik Muniz.
A drum hangs from the ceiling, as do two wooden balls. A docent tells the kids they are free to throw them against the instrument and asks them what's the difference between them and an artist. They are artists now too, she says.
It's not just here at the Travessias 2 exhibition in the Maré favela, put on by the government, nonprofits and the Automatica production company, that the power of fine art is popping up in Brazilian culture.
Exhibitions put on here are among the world's most-attended and lines can stretch for hours as hot Brazilian artists sell for millions abroad and hundreds of local galleries now converge at one of two new art fairs in
"The only thing that hasn't changed is the amount of talent in the country," says Luiza Mello, director of Automatica. "What's new is the amount of investments, the movement in the market, and the interest in the art."
"There have long been music, dance and theater programs in favelas, but little with visual arts," says Mello. "So we came up with the idea with NGO Observatório das Favelas [Favela Observatory], and Petrobras just said yes." Petrobras is Brazil's state-run oil company. Elsewhere, the government gives direct support or big companies get tax rebates to support cultural projects from slums to chic galleries and big public museums.
The Brazilian government spends at least $1 billion a year on direct support for the arts, and companies use almost as much annually in tax-deductible projects, says a spokesman for the Ministry of Culture.
Something seems to be working. In 2011 the Rio cultural center of Banco do Brasil, a government bank, had the world's most-attended exhibition that year ("The Magical World of Escher"), and a show of famous Impressionists the center put on set records last year, according to the Art newspaper. Last year, Beatriz Milhazes' hyper-tropical "My Lemon" set a new record for Brazilian art, selling for $2.1 million at a
Hundreds of galleries now converge yearly on a new art fair in Rio, which has sprung up almost overnight alongside São Paulo's established event."It's completely different than it was just a few years ago," says Marina Romiszowska, head of curatorial affairs at ArtRio. "There's more each month than anyone could attend."
Over the last few years, Brazil's new prominence on the world stage, after a decade of growth and as it prepares to host the 2014
Some criticize the way the government supports the arts, since the tax-refund model allows big companies to slap their logos on projects that are essentially paid for with public money. And as the economy slows, there is worry the support may not last forever.
But the government is planning to soon launch a program that will give every worker in the country 50 reais ($25, or almost 10% of the monthly minimum wage) that they can spend exclusively on cultural activities, with the hope that it will allow average Brazilians to spend more time at museums, in the cinema, or at a live dance performance.
Art across society
Here in the favela, still plagued nearby by the dominance of drug gangs, they've put on an exhibition with 10 Brazilian artists, curated by the well-known Felipe Scovino and Raul Mourão. There are weekly talks bringing in people from all over the city as well as classes.
Just the day after Mello spoke in her office, there were two exhibition openings in Rio alone. At the Laura Alvim cultural center facing the beach in Ipanema, Marta Jourdan had put on a small show exploring permanent motion and French phenomenological philosopher Merleau-Ponty's thoughts on image. The next night, São Paulo artist Alexandre Orion had fashioned his city's famously aggressive graffiti, known as pixação, into garish neon light signs, to the delight of the young visitors who danced to hip-hop into the night.
These kinds of galleries have also benefited from special support from the state government, which granted a special tax exemption for all sales of art made during the new ArtRio fair.
Little more than an idea in 2009, the first edition of the Rio fair in 2011 secured the tax break and the participation of 83 galleries. By the next year, organizers had to turn down interested galleries, and Romiszowska now flies around the world checking up on which galleries will make the cut. About 40% at September's fair will be foreign.
"Even some really experienced curators and people from the art world had no idea about our scene and the way we do things until very recently," she says. "But in general people are paying more attention to Brazil now, and everyone knows it's nice to come to Rio."
But the center of art is São Paulo, South America's largest city, which holds the more established SP Arte, which showed more than 3,000 pieces last year in the building designed by Modernist
The cutting-edge Pivô gallery has just sprung up in an abandoned space in his bold Copan building, and down the road the Galeria Vermelho (Red Gallery) continues to impress with contemporary artists from around Latin America.
For large-scale commercial success, Adriana Varejão, Ernesto Neto, Milhazes and Muniz are some of the largest names. But Vermelho continues to push forward new artists.
"Vermelho seeks to act as a catalyst for what is most recent and innovative in art … creating new ideas and discourses developed by all kinds of artists," says Marcos Gallon at Vermelho, in language reminiscent of that used by students of art worldwide. "Art created by Brazilians has reached more visibility abroad, and not through expositions of so-called Brazilian art, but also through the inclusion of Brazilians into universal themes."
Modernism has deep roots in Brazil, which despite its 500-year history was not developed as a settlers' colony and never had traditional feudal aesthetics dominate official culture as they did in much of the continent. How else could Niemeyer have been able to design Brasília, the country's capital, in sculpted white concrete that looks more like a utopian settlement on Mars than any European parliament?
The Pinacoteca Museum of the State of São Paulo, considered by many the best in Brazil, seeks to balance the modernist impulse against works tracing the country's history back to colonial time. Currently, the massive building downtown is hosting works from local painter Sérgio Sister, alongside a temporary exhibition of centuries of Chinese painting and selections from the permanent collection including Jean Baptiste Debret's colonial era drawings of African slaves and Native American "savages."
In the last five years, yearly attendance has more than doubled to 500,000 a year, and the museum is planning to expand, says Paulo Vicelli, its director of institutional relations. "In some ways we're a very new country," he notes, "but people want to be in touch with our collective memory too."


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U.S. Suspects Syria Used Gas
The U.S. has "strong indications" the Syrian government employed chemical weapons in attacks that killed more than 1,100. Adam Entous discusses on the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the ... opposition groups claim this year in government ... the older more than eleven ... hundred people with chemical weapons really Wednesday claims that if verified would represent the largest use of chemical weapons Saddam Hussein ... launch chemical weapons attacks in the late nineteen eighties how will the US responded ... Adam and says joins us from our DC bureau added the morning ... the morning ... president Obama in off the cuff remarks said ... that using large quantities of chemical weapons was a quote redline ... we're seeing today ... oh I just what we don't really know um ... though the officials we spoke to last night's the indicated that said this EIA ... had dead a credible ... preliminary information ... that he had that there were chemical weapons that we use in the straight ... on Wednesday and if that if that would ... work confirms even really put a tremendous amount of pressure ... on the president to lead to respond in a more forceful way Danny has responded thus far ... Adam and says right there I wanna roll some footage ... they came after this attack just just a warning to view or is it is graphic ... and ... so Adam you are saying bad at this point ... the half to ... verify that this was in fact ... I guess attack of some kind potentially but if the ... if they do verify ... is there any prospect of intervention from the international community at this point ... well when we saw some love rather for the mean comments from the French ... government earlier this morning ... which shed which basically said that if this is confirmed ... in the international community should respond ... of the administration in the past is that sought ... to get any any UN Security Council resolution ... which would involve not going to ... to get rushes ... approval on this ... and of course that Russia ... all along has been blocking any resolutions to U S sanctioned or ... crackdown on a side who Russia has at hand is an ally of ... so ... the alternative to the UN would be yet would be doing the a ... multilateral a ... with the United States would ANA would work with that Britain and France most likely and maybe some Arab allies to do some some some response ... but this is a very complex situation and with chemical weapons ... you know you you really have to be at very careful about how you respond if you ... you can't day you can get on that from the air ... I and that that that issue risk exposing more people to the tothe agents ... this is a very very complicated ... situation ... and one that I'm sure we've we won't see an immediate response to ... although you can rule anything out ... you know this is really flaunting a kind of a challenge by SIV if it is true ... today consequences that the White House's said would come if there was such a mass ... use of chemical weapons ... Adam which we should note that this hearing government ... denies that this was ... a poison gas attack the chemical weapons attack ... but ... again even if it's verified as a part of the issue that sort of underlined the difficulty here I suppose is ... it seems the president is concerned that ... is arming the rebels risks re running ... the experience of Afghanistan in the nineteen eighties where we are in the movement of Mujahid was eighteen and in effect ... created a nanny for ourselves years later ... right ... well in in this isn't the case what happened was is that ... the intelligence community in June ... of provided the White House with an assessment ... that said this to a site had used at least four times ... this year between March and May chemical weapons but a very small ... quantities ... of killing up to one hundred and fifty people ... and that was the trigger that the White House cited ... for deciding to provide ... military equipment including small arms ... to rebels now that program as far as we can tell ... has that it's unclear where that program is if it's done under way as it's being Vancouver lead with this EIA ... um but nonetheless it's a very limited program and that was what the White House ... has said it was the lead in this one official said the White House had decided to do back in June ... so how can you have a scenario you have a scenario now where ... you know ... what impact has that had if any ... and all and why is this I've ... decided if he has decided to do this it is he would be a Celtic huge escalation ... business in the past its use chemical weapons in very small quantities okay Adam insists there's more to come on the story


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Fresh Fig, Walnut, and Chocolate Torte, for home or WFOvens
A very delicious recipe. This is my first test version using, fresh Black Mission figs, the orginal recipe from 'The Art of Wood Fired Cooking' by Andrea Mugnaini uses, dried figs and is baked in a wood fired oven '. This book has many of the basics for mastering your wfo and, full of tasty recipes and lovely photos.
A lovely torte that is at not at all to sweet. Wonderful for morning or, evening snack with a cup of coffee or tea. The flavors all blend perfectly together and the fennel is just right.
The recipe calls for bittersweet chocolate. I used pieces of my Dark Chocolate Godiva bar.
The dusting of powered sugar adds just the right amount of sweet to go with the fruit, nut and chocolate.
I baked at 375F convection setting for apx. 20-25 minutes in home oven. I also used a springform 9" pan.
Should still be delicious it says even after one or two days...I very much doubt it will last one day.
Recipe -
Bake Oven Environment in a WFO> Floor temperature of 350-450F with hot coals but no live flame
my home oven preheated 375F convection setting
8 TBsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled, divided
3/4 cup plus 1 TBsp AP flour
1 cup coarsely chopped dried figs - I used 1 cup chopped Fresh Figs
1 1/2 cups chopped Walnuts
4 Large Eggs
1/3 cup plus 2 TBsp. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
1/3 cup cup chopped bittersweet chocolate - sub. Godiva Dark Choc.
1 tsp. fennel seeds
Powdered sugar for dusting on cooled cake
Brush inside of a 9" cake pan - I used my 9" springform pan
with 1/2TBsp. melted butter. Line the bottom of the pan with a piece of parchment paper and brush the paper with another 1/2
TBsp. butter. Add 1 TBsp. flour and shake pan to coat completely.
Combine the figs and walnuts in a bowl and sprinkle over the bottom of the prepared pan, covering evenly.
Beat the eggs and sugar in a large bowl until creamy add the remaining butter and vanilla.
Sift the remaining flour and baking powder into a small bowl. Fold in the chocolate. Using a wooden spoon, add the flour mixture
to the egg mixture and sitr to combine. Stir in the fennel seeds and pour batter evenly over the figs and walnuts. Place in the oven
for 20 minutes. Check after 10 minutes...if the nuts are getting too brown, lay a piece of oiled foil over the top. The torte is done
when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool for 20 minutes on a wire rack. Place the rack over the pan upside
down and invert. Remove the cake pan and peel off the parchment paper. Place a plate on the torte and quickly flip right side up.
Once cooled, dust with powered sugar and serve.
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Melding Talents with a Career in Bioprocessing
July 15, 2011
Bioprocessing is an expanding field encompassing any process that uses living cells or their components (e.g., bacteria, enzymes, or chloroplasts) to obtain desired products, such as biofuels and therapeutics. As with other fields considered under the broader scope of biotechnology, bioprocessing draws upon multiple areas of knowledge, but especially molecular biology, chemical engineering, and manufacturing. With advances in biotechnology and an ongoing need for pharmaceuticals and sustainable forms of fuel as well as cheaper, more effective ways to make them, the opportunities in bioprocessing, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, are looking promising. ...
"The bioprocessing field spans processes yielding a few grams of product worth millions of dollars per gram (e.g., some pharmaceuticals), to processes yielding millions of tons of products worth a few cents per pound (e.g., some biofuels)," says Lee Rybeck Lynd, professor in environmental engineering design, at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.


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GR - "Twilight Princess has been retextured with the higher resolution graphics of Skyward Sword."
I wonder what kind of art style Ninty will go with on the Wii U title.
Imagine a Zelda game with "Okami" style visuals. That would be interesting.
My first Zelda game I played and an instant favorite, looks good.
I've liked TP's original art style more than SS's ...
Remember the techdemo of Zelda Wii U?
THIS is what I want for the next Zelda game!


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Ramettes scorched by ECC
JOHNSONBURG – Taylor Schlimm gave up only one hit Monday afternoon as Elk County Catholic won a 20-0 3-inning shutout over host Johnsonburg.ECC erupted for 18 runs in a marathon second inning while Schlimm systematically shut down the Ramettes in the 1-hit win. She struck out six batters en route to the shutout.The visiting Lady Crusaders opened up with a run in the first inning but broke the game open with an 18-run second inning.ECC led off the second inning with a single from Schlimm and a walk from Michelle Imbrogno. With two aboard, Sadie Viglione hit a single to left field and a walk to Stephanie Zimmerman gave ECC a 2-0 lead. Sierra Meyer would bring in a run with a single for a 3-0 lead and a single from Jessie Ginther brought in another run. Jena Struble and Kristy Hanes would connect with singles before Lyndsey Trumble reached on an error at third base. A Schlimm double gave ECC a 10-0 advantage as Imbrogno followed with a single. After consecutive groundouts by Viglione and Zimmerman, a single from Sierra Meyer got things rolling again for ECC. Ginther then reached on an error at third base and Struble's double cleared the bases for a 15-0 lead. Hanes would follow with a triple to bring home Struble and Trumbull followed with a double to plate Hanes for a 17-0 lead. Schlimm would later connect with a single off mound opponent Kiana Myers and would later score as would Imbrogno, who reached on an error at third base. After consecutive singles from Viglione and Zimmerman, Meyer rolled into a 6-4 fielder's choice to end the inning with ECC leading 19-0."Everyone had good at bats [Monday]," ECC head girls varsity softball coach Dr. Joe Coroso said. "Our power game is rapidly improving, the team showed great discipline at the plate and Taylor [Schlimm] hurled another gem."It was also satisfying to get all our players into the game."Schlimm set down the first six batters she faced. She got Kassa Kocjancic and Danie Jo Dwyer to go down swinging in the home half of the first inning and Tommi Wildnauer hit a flyout to second base to go down 1-2-3.Similar to the first inning, Myers and Brittany Watts went down swinging in the bottom of the second inning and Katie Galsick hit into a 4-3 ground out to end the quick inning.Looking for three more outs to secure a 3-inning perfect game, Elena Solorio connected on a slow roller that died in the dirt in the infield along the third base line. The throw to first base was not in time as the Ramettes had their first hit of the game."It was important to get on base but for me though as a pitcher, that breaks my heart for [Schlimm] but even though we lost, I was glad to see that we kept at it," said Johnsonburg head girls varsity softball coach Jenny Lewis.Solorio advanced to second on a 1-3 groundout from Cassie Biondi but would get no further as Schlimm caught Alexa Marciniak and Kocjancic both looking at called third strikes to end the game."I knew this was going to be really tough and I was glad we came out swinging but ECC really just hit like crazy off of us," coach Lewis said. "They had a bunch of bloopers behind second and short, and they had a couple nice hard hits, and it seemed like we couldn't catch a break there in the second inning."


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Shareholders' calls for higher returns from unconventional fuels investments are getting louder. There is a growing need for exploration and production (E&P) and oilfield services (OFS) companies that can handle quick-paced changes in resources, venues and priorities with almost military-like precision.
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You may have heard that losing weight is as easy as eating less and exercising more. It is true that taking in fewer calories than you use each day is the simplest way to lose weight. Never mind the fad diets, weight-loss pills, and herbal remedies—it all comes down to a balanced diet and a regular exercise program.
Using the Body Mass Index
The first step is determining your current weight status: Are you underweight, normal weight, overweight, or
A good measure for this is the Body Mass Index (BMI), a standardized method used by health professionals to evaluate weight and body fat. BMI is calculated by using your weight and height. It helps give you an indication of whether you are at risk of health problems that are related to being overweight or obese. If your BMI is 25 or higher, you are at risk for a number of serious health problems, including
high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, heart disease,
type 2 diabetes, pregnancy-related disorders, and
If you want to know your BMI, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website is equipped with BMI calculators for
childen and teens, and
BMI values are interpreted as follows:
Although this is a reliable method, it is not foolproof. Because muscle tissue weighs more than fat tissue, heavily muscled people may fall into the obese range when they are not obese.
Eating a Healthful Diet
To lose weight, you need to take in fewer calories than you use. This is where
your diet
comes in; which may be in need of an overhaul. Be aware that you do not want to lower your calories at the expense of nutrition. Think of your new eating habits as a lifestyle change.
Adding more fruits, vegetables, and
whole grains
to your diet, while cutting back on
animal protein, saturated fat, and cholesterol, are good for you no matter what your age. Creating a healthful diet that you can stick to throughout your life will help you achieve and maintain your desired weight. Losing even 10% of your body weight may lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk of diabetes.
It may also be a good idea to keep track of how much you eat and drink. It's better to eat smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day. Eating smaller portions has been linked to weight loss and maintenance over time. And of all the meals, breakfast is important. Skipping breakfast has been associated with increased body weight. Make sure your breakfast is packed with fruits and whole grains—think oatmeal with slices of apple, not bacon and eggs.
If you are having a hard time getting started, consider talking with a dietitian for ideas with meal planning.
Getting Regular Exercise
To lose weight, you need to use more calories than you take in; this is where exercise comes in. Not only does regular exercise help you get to an ideal weight, it can help you stay there too. Additionally, muscle burns more calories than fat, so building up your muscles will allow you to eat more while maintaining your weight. If you do not exercise already, it is time to get started.
There are several different types of exercise that you can do. An ideal exercise program combines four types of exercise:
A good goal for many people to work up to is exercising 4-6 times a week for 30-60 minutes at a time.
Some guidelines suggest that to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, one should consider doing 150 minutes of moderate to intense aerobic activity weekly. Make sure you talk with your doctor before beginning any kind of exercise program. Your doctor can help you develop an exercise routine that will meet your weight and health goals.
No Time Like Today
Now that you have the tools, getting started is up to you. Start slowly, have carrots or an apple for a snack, instead of a bag of chips. Take a walk around the block before or after work today. Just remember, the sooner you begin working toward your ideal weight, the sooner you can reap the healthful benefits.
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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William Jefferson Clinton, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Middlebury College Commencement
Middlebury, Vermont
May 27, 2007
PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you very much, President Liebowitz, Mr. Fritz, and the members of the board. My fellow recipients of honorary degrees. As I was listening to the other people getting degrees, I leaned over and said, "I wish all of them were speaking. I could learn more." I congratulate them. Vani Sathisan, you gave a great speech. You look better without your mortarboard. Don't worry about it. Let's give her another hand. I thought she was terrific.
I would also like to acknowledge a person who served in my Administration as Ambassador to Switzerland, former Governor Madeleine Kunin. Thank you for being here. Middlebury's ambassador in the White House when I was President, Andrew Friendly, who was my personal aide, I thank you for being here today.
The first person who introduced me to Middlebury was Ron Brown, who was my Commerce Secretary. He grew up on the streets in Harlem and found a home at Middlebury. He served on the board until his untimely death in 1996, while leading a delegation of Americans to the Balkans to try to help people put their lives together again after we ended the horrible Civil War in Bosnia. I loved Ron Brown. He was an unbelievable human being and like a brother to me, but his eyes would just light up every time he talked about Middlebury. I hope that all of you, for the rest of your lives, however long they may be, will feel some of that, because I can see that he found here what I want for everyone in the world. A kid who grew up in a hotel in Harlem found a home here, because there's a community here in the best sense, and that's really what we have to build in the world.
Every successful community has three things, whether it's a university, a sports team, a business, an orchestra, a family; you name it. They all have three things: a broadly shared opportunity to participate; a broadly felt responsibility for the success of the enterprise, whatever it is; and a genuine sense of belonging. That's what Ron Brown felt at Middlebury when he became the first African American member of his fraternity, and then his fraternity had to choose between kicking him out and being kicked out of the national fraternity. They chose him. Good for you, by the way.
Look around here. This is a much more interesting student body than it would have been if I had come here 30 years ago to speak. It's more diverse racially and religiously. Sixty-two percent of you studied overseas. You've got students from 74 countries here. You had a commencement speaker from Singapore of Indian heritage. You doubtless have Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and perhaps Shintos, Confucians, Jains, and goodness knows what else. But you're still in a community.
Now, the world has lots of problems. We have the existential problem of climate change, and you're on the cutting edge of that, and I congratulate you on your commitment to become carbon neutral in the next few years. We have the problems of resource depletion all over the world, unprecedented loss of topsoil, water, trees, plants, and animal species, just at the time when the world's population is expected to grow from 6.5 billion to 9 billion, almost all of it in the countries least able to take care of themselves today. Only Brazil and Argentina have significantly increased grain production in the last 10 years, because they still have more than 20 feet of topsoil. That's a huge problem. For all the people down in Washington who are so exercised about the problem of illegal immigration, you haven't seen anything yet if we go from 6.5 billion to 9 billion people on earth and our capacity to grow food is reduced, not increased.
We have legitimate problems with terror, weapons of mass destruction, and the potential spread of them. Our interdependence has made us more vulnerable than we have been since the end of World War I to a global epidemic like avian influenza, which is why you can turn on the evening news and see stories about chickens competing with Britney Spears' shaved head. First you see the local crime story, then maybe the fight over the remains of poor Anna Nicole Smith, and then I've seen stories about chickens in Romania, India, and Indonesia. Why? They all have avian influenza. It has a 60 percent mortality rate in people, and we don't have a vaccine or cure yet. It's a good story to be on the news, certainly more important than the other ones.
We have problems because the world that is now yours to command with your imagination is so beyond the reach of half the people on this planet. Half the world's people still live on less than $2 a day; a billion people live on less than $1 a day. A quarter of all deaths on earth are from HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and infections related to dirty water.
Even within rich countries, there's a real struggle to maintain anything like a sense of social cohesion as inequality in America runs rampant. We're now in our sixth year of an economic recovery. We have a 40 year high in corporate profits, the stock market reaching record levels, increasing productivity of people every year, but median wages are flat and poverty and the lack of health insurance have both gone up among working families. We're becoming more and more unequal.
So there are plenty of problems out there. Why would I come to you and ask you to think most about community? Because I believe questions of community and identity, personal identity, will determine our collective capacity to deal with all the problems. The most important thing you've got coming out of this Middlebury education is the understanding of the elemental value that makes all communities possible in an interdependent world, which is that our differences are really neat, they make life more interesting, and they aid in the search for truth. But our common humanity matters more.
So much of the world's difficulties today are rooted in the rejection of that simple premise. Think about all the political, the religious, almost psychological fundamentalism that drives the wars and the conflicts and the demonization in the world today. All of it is premised on the simple fact that our differences are more important than whatever we have in common. When the terrorist bombings hit London not so long ago, the most traumatic thing for many British citizens was that the people who set the bombs off were British citizens. It was in no sense an invasion. They felt somehow violated and disoriented, and I read painful article after article where people were saying, "I just don't get it. I work with these people. They're nice people. I don't understand it. My kids played with their children. We went to sporting events on the weekend. We had all this contact." What happened? The people who set the bombs off did not feel they belonged. They believed that their differences were more important than what they had in common.
Even though they lived and worked and sometimes played with other people, the same people somehow became less human to them. All this may seem completely alien to you, but we are all guilty at various points of doing the same thing. I'll give you a little test. When I was President, I strongly supported the sequencing of the human genome, which was completed in 2000. Lots of wonderful things have happened because of that. Just last week, we learned that the two genetic markers which are high predictors of diabetes were found. This is a huge discovery because of the rampant growth of diabetes along with childhood obesity in the United States. We have for the first time statistically significant numbers of young people with what we used to call adult onset diabetes. A lot of other great things have happened. We found the markers for breast cancer. We're getting close with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
But the most important thing I learned was that, genetically, all human beings are 99.9 percent the same. That is astonishing. Look at each other. Every difference you can see of gender, skin color, hair color, eye color, height, weight, you name it, everything you can possibly observe about another that seems different is rooted in one-tenth of one percent of your genetic makeup.
But most of us spend 90 percent of our time focused on the one-tenth of one percent, don't we? I'm 60 years old. Well, at least I'm not 80. I'm 10 pounds overweight. Well, at least I'm not 40 pounds overweight. I did a terrible thing, but at least I'm not as bad as she is or he is. How many times have you done that?
I met Rush Limbaugh the other night, and I was tempted after all the terrible things he said about me to tell him that we were 99.9 percent the same. I was afraid the poor man would run weeping from the restaurant, and so I let it go. On the other hand, a few weeks from now I'm going to South Africa, as I try to go every summer around the time of Nelson Mandela's birthday. He'll be 89 this year, and I try to share his birthday with him every year. I can't believe that he and I are 99.9 percent the same, because he's so much greater in every way than I could ever be. But it's true. So on the one hand, what you do with that one-tenth of one percent of you that's different makes all the difference, but if you think that it's more important than what you have in common, then the problems that bedevil the world are likely to overwhelm all the wonderful things that you might otherwise do.
If you think about what it would take for your grandchildren to be sitting here on a day like this 50 years from now, we have to deal with climate change and resource depletion; we have to reconcile the world and move it away from terror and the maniacal spread of lethal weapons; we have to develop cooperative systems to deal with disease; and we cannot continue to have this spreading inequality. We have to widen the circle of opportunity within and beyond national borders. And it all starts with questions of community and identity and the elemental knowledge that what we have in common is more important than what divides us.
I do a lot of work in Africa, as the President said, with my AIDS project. We sell medicine at the cheapest price in the world in 66 countries, and we have health projects in 25, and I never cease to be amazed by the intelligence of people with no money, no education, nothing, just lots of observation and received wisdom. In South Africa, in Mandela's tribe language, Xhosa, people discuss the idea of community in a fundamental, almost existential way. They use a word which was used as the motto of the youth service project he and I started for black and white kids in South Africa: "ubuntu." It simply means in English, "I am because you are." Our differences cannot be as important as our common humanity, because we couldn't even exist in any meaningful sense without each other.
A little north of there, in the central highlands, when people meet each other walking along paths and one person says, "hello, how are you, good morning," the answer is not "I'm fine, how are you?" The answer, translated to English, is "I see you." Think about that. Think about how empowering that is. Think about the difference between that and a world of people obsessed with concentrating power instead of empowerment, with control instead of freedom, with imposed ideology instead of reasoned evidence. "I see you."
Most of you don't have a racist bone in your body. Most of you don't have a sexist bone in your body. Most of you are probably as free of artificial categorical bigotry as any group of young people has ever been, but you have gifts. The gift of a fine mind, the gift of a chance to be here, the gift of all the choices you have when you leave. So the bigotry you will have to work hard to avoid is not seeing everyone else. When we leave here today, somebody's going to have to come in and fold up all these chairs and clean this place up, and a lot of people who do that work think no one ever sees them. They have to be involved in the fight against climate change too, or the fight against income and equality. They have to have chances in life.
If there's one thing I've learned traveling the world, it's that intelligence and effort are equally distributed; organization, investment, and opportunity are not, and so too many people remain unseen.
I believe you will live in the most interesting, peaceful, prosperous time the world has ever known. Even if we have to deal with terror for a few more decades, they're going to have to really work to kill as many innocent people as were killed from political violence in the 20th century in two world wars, the Holocaust, in the purges in the Soviet Union, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and all the tribal wars in Africa. You're going to have a better time of it, but only if, with all of our scientific advances, we can drive home the elemental requirement of community that will lead all of us to serve, whether we're in office or just in private life.
Our common humanity is more important than our differences. We must see everyone. That is what I wish for you. As you save the world, remember all the people in it. If you see everyone, if you believe that we are because others are, if you serve in that spirit, your grandchildren will be here 50 years from now, and it will be even better, because you will have fulfilled humanity's first obligation, to honor what is holy about it and to pass it on.
Thank you and God bless you.
Student Speech by Vani Sathisan '07
Middlebury College Commencement, May 26, 2007
Good morning, President Liebowitz, our distinguished guest of honor Mr. Clinton, esteemed faculty, to those of you parents, $200,000 poorer but nevertheless proud, dear friends, love-filled lovers, and to the star-studded and outstanding class of 2007. It's an absolute honor and pleasure to be here with you all today. I admit I lack the life experiences of Mr. Clinton, but my aim here is to use my sensational melodramatic skills, inherited from my dear mother, to convince you, that there's actually life beyond Middlebury, and you are going to rock that life.
The first time I had to give a graduation speech was back in 1990 when I was 6 years old, having completed two years of kindergarten education. Seventeen years later, it feels fantastic to deliver a college commencement address - but this time around, I wrote it by myself. I want all of you to pause for a moment and rewind about 15-17 years back into your life. Do you remember pitifully clinging on to your dad's shirt refusing to let him drive you to school? Now fast forward to this very moment, 17 years later, and reflect on who you are. Many of us are still clinging on to our dad's shirts, and their pockets too, but how far have we come!? I want to celebrate this journey with you today, by bringing in a few groups of people who have made this insane ride worthwhile and meaningful.
I heard somewhere that professors are people who talk in someone else's sleep. [1] Today, we couldn't thank them enough for all that excessive talking. Two teachers come to my mind instantly. In my pre-college high school, the United World College in Italy, I took an English class from a legendary teacher who had more influence on me than any adult, other than my parents. She was an animated woman, nearing her 60s, with a sense of fashion still stuck in the '70s, but under her inspiration, literature just grabbed my imagination. She was the polar opposite of cool, but she sure got us all excited about lit.
Since then, the next inspirational teacher I met was here at Middlebury College. Guiding me with excellent advice, making the study of global conflicts engaging and attention-grabbing, and always ready to harness our potential without spoon feeding us, Professor Quinn Mecham from the political science department, stands out. He epitomizes this "magic" - this magic which so many of our Middlebury professors possess -to spur the students to think beyond the textbooks and to be charged up about issues that matter,
I know, and he knows, that I'm not his best student in our Political Islam seminar, but I hope he knows that he has inspired me enough pursue a future career in a related topic. All of us sitting here today are silently grateful to so many of our professors out there, from political science to biology, computer science to Arabic, geography to women's and gender studies departments - we're indebted for your gentle direction and persuasive teaching. So, thank you, professors. All that talking has paid off.
To all our parents, siblings and extended family members, sitting in the crowd, leaning towards bankruptcy but beaming with pride, look at us and realize that you have invested in us with your unconditional faith and love, and it has all been worthwhile. It kills you to see us grow up, but I guess it would kill you quicker if we didn't. [2] Your unwavering support and believe in our potential has spoilt us enough to graduate from college today.
I read a quote once that said: "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf." [3] How beautiful to see so many of you busy dads and the ever-busy moms fly from all across the States, parents of us international students who have crossed borders from other continents to share this grand moment in our lives - and at this point, a big shout out to my dad, mum and big brother out there, as well as the host families of several international senior students who have been a family away from family and home - such as my fabulous host family sitting in the audience, Larry Novins, Misse Smith and Emma. They've helped me out through homeless Christmases and bad tooth extractions. It's great to see all of you here today.
We've heard that there are only two lasting gifts you can give your children: one is roots, the other wings. [4] Although you parents are trying to clip the wings of your crazily independent sons and daughters, I also know you're silently sitting in the audience, overwhelmed with so much pride and joy. Thank you for letting us go, parents. We will always carry a part of you with us as we succeed.
My graduating friends, today's a bittersweet experience of a sense of achievement mixed with the sadness of saying goodbye to our dear friends, not knowing when our paths will next cross. Many of you will go on now to conquer greater heights and excel in your respective fields. Just look at your class now:
1) You are part of MiddShift, a student organization whose plan the college has approved and accepted to become a carbon-neutral institution by 2016.
2) You are part of a class that has produced three Watson Fellowship winners from across the nation.
3) You are part of a class that has produced Step It Up, the groundbreaking group with the courage to shake the big bad guys for action on climate change.
You give kids from other schools a run for their money, just what will you do tomorrow? Maybe you will be the future secretary-general of the United Nations, a prize winning writer, or an Oscar winning actor, maybe a professional cage fighter or the star housewife raising seven kids, three dogs and two cats, and a husband ... maybe you've met the love of your life in Middlebury and you'll celebrate commencement getting married in Mead Chapel. There's nothing crazy about that but some of us will hide in a corner and secretly laugh at you. The point is, "Our time is limited and I hope we don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, and have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." [5] I try to live by this quote myself: "The tragedy of life is not that man dies, but what dies inside him whilst he's still alive." [6] So, while we all come out here with some specialty, I also hope that we will keep reinventing ourselves to be trendsetters, never mere followers.
Above all, we must realize the need to let others light their candles by our knowledge. We each have duties to fulfill as global citizens of this world, and I hope we will live our grand dreams with integrity and humility. By that, I do not ask you to be meek and to bow your heads in submission. But be quietly confident. Maintain your dignity in the darkest hours. "Defy the gods. You will be astonished how many of them turn out to have feet of clay." [7]
My mum always emphasized that "school is something you complete; life is something you experience." So "don't worry about your grade, or the results or success." [8] I'd like to think that I'm significantly smarter than what my GPA suggests. "Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency." [9] So, I guess at the end of the day, my message is: "Love what you do. Get good at it. And let the chips fall where they may." [10]
I know, we just cannot wait to graduate and go out and party, so allow me to end this spiel with my all-time favorite quote by Arundhati Roy, a prize winning writer: "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." [11]
May we never forget our years in Middlebury, and may we fall in love over and over again. Class of 2007, you are phenomenal. The world is waiting for you. Rock on.
Thank you.
[1] Auden, Wystan Hugh. "Brainy Quote." 2007. BrainyMedia.com. June 16 2007. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/w_h_auden.html
[2] Kingsolver, Barbara. "The Quote Garden." June 6 2006. Quotegarden.com. June 16 2007. http://www.quotegarden.com/bk-ad.html
[3] Russell, Bertrand. "Famous Quotations." 2007. AOL @ Research & Learn. June 16 2007. http://reference.aol.com/famous-quotations/_a/quotations-about-fatherhood/20060522175309990001
[4] Carter, Hodding: "Selected quotes about children." 2006-2007. Quotatio. June 16 2007. http://www.quotatio.com/topics/children.html
[5] Jobs, Steve. " 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says." June 12 2005. Stanford University. June 16 2007. http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
[6] Schwitzer, Albert. "Albert Schwitzer Quotes." 1999-2006. ThinkExist.com Quotations. June 16 2007. http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_tragedy_of_life_is_what_dies_inside_a_man/154512.html
[7] Rushdie, Salman. "Salman Rushdie and me." August 25 2006. Michael Diebert Blog. June 16 2007. http://michaeldeibert.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html
[8]Stewart, Jon. Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address. May 20 2004. The College of William and Mary. June 16 2007. http://www.wm.edu/news/?id=3650
[9] Ibid.
[10] Ibid.
[11] Roy, Arundhati. "Arundhati Roy." 2006. weroy.org. June 16 2007. http://www.weroy.org/arundhati_quotes.shtml
Bread Loaf commencement address by John Elder
Commencement Address
Bread Loaf School of English
August 11, 2007
By John Elder
Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies
Middlebury College
President Leibowitz, Director Maddox, Associate Director Bartels, esteemed colleagues on the Bread Loaf faculty, friends and family of this community, and, most of all, graduates in the remarkable class of 2007-please accept my warmest greetings and congratulations on this happy occasion.
I've been thinking about sequels since listening to Jim's appreciation of Joseph Battell's masterpiece Ellen, or The Whisperings of an Old Pine at our opening ceremony this year. Upon returning to our home in Bristol later that night, I decided, for reasons now hard to explain, that I would immediately begin re-reading the book again by starting at the last page and moving forward. While I may have thought I'd at least looked at every page of Battell's prose before, I now found myself staring at an unremembered advertisement for two projected sequels to Ellen. They were to be called, and I'm not making this up, Edith and Gertrude. I began to contemplate with mounting excitement writing a first chapter for the lost manuscript of Edith, for delivery upon this very occasion, but decided that we already had enough literary surprises and sensations around here.
One of the surprising pleasures in every Bread Loaf course turns out to be discovering which authors not on the syllabus will nonetheless end up entering into regular dialogue with the assigned books. In my seminar on the poetry of Robert Frost, one such writer turned out to be Virginia Woolf; this fact doubtless reflected, among other things, the exciting course simultaneously being taught on Woolf by Jennifer Green-Lewis. I'd like to reflect this evening about some of the ways in which our present, ceremonial afterglow relates to the core of our summer's program, and to frame these brief remarks with a passage from To the Lighthouse. Mrs. Ramsay is musing inwardly as her dinner party draws to a close:
Everything seemed possible. Everything seemed right. Just now (but this cannot last, she thought, dissociating herself from the moment while they were all talking about boots) just now she had reached security; she hovered like a hawk suspended; like a flag floated in an element of joy which filled every nerve of her body fully and sweetly, not noisily, solemnly rather, for it arose, she thought, looking at them all eating there, from husband and children and friends; all of which rising in this profound stillness (she was helping William Bankes to one very small piece more, and peered into the depths of the earthenware pot) seemed now for no special reason to stay there like a smoke, like a fume rising upwards, holding them safe together. Nothing need be said; nothing could be said. There it was, all around them. It partook, she felt, carefully helping Mr. Bankes to a specially tender piece, of eternity; as she had already felt about something different once before that afternoon; there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.
It's perhaps not so surprising that throughout this summer, having also been teaching a new course on the literature of farming and food, I've found myself thinking of Bread Loaf itself as a feast. Our school's very name brings eating to mind, of course, along with the accompanying bakery of metaphors-crumb, crouton, tortilla, nacho, biscuit, crumpet, hard-tack. Over the years more than one Bread Loaf speaker has reminded us, too, that the word "companion" has as its fundamental meaning one with whom we share bread. Here we are, then, companions, ballasted in our seats in the Burgess Meredith Theatre for a few minutes, after a splendid banquet in the Inn that in turn represented the end of this summer's feast.
When Gerald Graff spoke in this space earlier in the summer the question he posed was how to engage students energetically in literature when they may never have made a strong connection with it in the past; his own discovery as a teacher had been that this could be accomplished through criticism that was framed as an argument against other, specific points of view. I would like to ask a different, but perhaps still complementary question. How do we step away from literary experiences and conversation that have sometimes been intense to the point of incandescence? I tremble to express myself in this way, lest I sound sentimental or extravagant. In all honesty, though, it's felt harder than ever to let go of this summer's classes. If, as I suspect, such difficulty is widely shared among our student body and faculty, that very fact may cast light on the meaning our companionship that is rooted in a questing devotion to literature and language. I'd like to frame an exploration of this phenomenon by describing two particular class meetings that I was fortunate enough to participate in this summer. In each case, the most notable thing about the session was the way it ended.
In the second week of classes our seminar on agrarian literature focused on the fourth and final book of Virgil's Georgics-that tasty mélange of mythology, celebration of the beauty of Italy, and practical advice on everything from grafting fruit trees to crop-rotation. This last book, intriguingly, focuses exclusively on bee-keeping, and much of it is taken up by the epyllion, or inserted narrative, of Aristaeus. He is a farmer who complains to his mother, the nymph Cyrene, about the death of all his hives, with the destitution that seems to await him. She counsels him to grab the shape-shifter god Proteus and hold onto him until he finally explains where Aristaeus's woes have originated. Cyrene takes her son to the cave of Proteus, then withdraws to watch. After the struggling god has assumed his full repertoire of snakey and horrific forms to no avail, he finally lets his assailant in on the fact that his hives were cursed because of Aristaeus's role in the death of Orpheus's wife Eurydice. As the lustful Aristaeus was pursuing her she stumbled upon a poisonous snake and died from its bite. At this point Proteus is released and Cyrene steps forward to tell her son what to do next. He is to sacrifice eight oxen and return to their bodies nine days later. He will find swarms of bees emerging from the corpses and can then capture them to repopulate his hives.
In over an hour spent exploring this epyllion we had already considered it from the perspectives of Orpheus, Eurydice, Aristaeus, and Virgil-who seems to have invented this elaboration of the Orpheus myth. We had both appreciated the vigor of the poetry and related the death of the bees to the disappearance of colonies of honeybees all across North America. We had looked back over a range of political and economic challenges facing Virgil's farmers, anticipating modern versions of them in our subsequent readings. But then, when it seemed we were about done, one participant in the seminar, Marshall Schwarz, had called our attention to the unremarked fact that this entire epyllion is framed and managed by a female character, Cyrene; this was notable because the rest of The Georgics are thoroughly dominated by male characters and by Virgil's often militaristic similes. Two immediate benefits followed from this insight that was articulated just when the discussion was feeling done. One was that it opened a new perspective on Virgil's desire for control and effectiveness, both on the farm and in the nation. The difficulties of succeeding in both realms seemed tied, on the surface, to bad weather, pests, war, and the like. But on a deeper level, the framing of the epyllion suggested, they had to do with problems inherent in the very impulse for domination and control. Agriculture, technology, and the accumulation of land and wealth may sometimes be presented in Virgil as vehicles to recapture, at least temporarily, the plenty and wholesomeness of the Golden Age. But from another perspective they are themselves manifestations of a fall from such blessedness. Without communication with, reverence for, and intercession by the Mother, we are finally helpless. Such an understanding remains deeply rooted in Italian culture to this day. As this new aspect of our discussion opened, I remembered the painted terra cotta shrines Rita and I have often encountered when walking through the farmlands of Tuscany-with the blue-cloaked Mother fondling her infant son, and with sheafs of wheat, clusters of grapes, and flowers draped across those altars in season by the neighboring farmers.
When I mentioned this discussion to Heather James over lunch the next day, she told me about a recent article in Renaissance Quarterly that looked at this epyllion with specific reference to gender and the role of Cyrene. I e-mailed the PDF of this article to everyone in the seminar, and we all learned a new word, "bugonia"-meaning the spontaneous generation of honeybees from a sacrificed ox. We also learned that our own speculation about the significance of gender in the epyllion's framing character was currently of great interest to classicists far more deeply versed in The Georgics than anyone in our group.
This unanticipated turning at the very end of a conversation returned to mind just last Wednesday, when I was having lunch with a group of faculty colleagues that included Sara Blair, Jonathan Freeman, and Jacques Lezra. I was eager to ask them some questions about literary theory, in connection with my current collaboration with the ecologist, Glenn Adelson. My question for these colleagues was how we might better understand the theoretical implications and potential of this new joint-venture. While I was at it, I also asked for their perspective, as folks well versed in theory, on the sorts of close-reading that are central to my teaching. They offered a variety of highly interesting and encouraging replies in response to my foggy questions, and I left the table filled with new ideas and good intentions. As we were all saying goodbye and heading off to our classes Jonathan remarked, with characteristic grace, that he always found it best not to apply theories systematically but rather to view them as an array of options to consider when approaching a given work of literature. Pick a theoretical gambit that seemed promising, see where it goes, then abandon it and pick up another when that approach runs out of steam.
I loved this angle but also reflected wryly that it would be hard for me to follow, having essentially no theoretical arsenal at all-regardless of the literary work at hand. In this regard, I remembered my warm sense of kinship with Vice Admiral James Stockdale, the candidate for vice president on Ross Perot's ticket in 1992. In a nationally televised debate with the other candidates the conversation turned technical after the first round and Stockdale called memorably, "Out of ammo, out of ammo!" But the point I'm trying to make here is that, though I didn't invoke a feminist perspective in framing this discussion, such an insight arose from the class at a perfect time. In the context of Virgil, it deepened our interest in the issues of control, faith, and sponsorship. And when we moved on to works where I had already anticipated talking about farming and gender-such as Far from the Madding Crowd, the stories of Wendell Berry, and Jane Brox's saga of a failing family farm, Here and Nowhere Else, those conversations were now much more readily integrated with our Virgilian framework. Might this effect be called retrospective framing? At any rate, from that meeting onward, a number of our best sessions in that class included a final half hour of speculation that felt wild, totally beyond my own ability to synthesize, and as generative as Cyrene's classic recipe for bugonia. Hanging in there with each other and the book for just a little longer paid off.
The other class I'd like to tell you about was our final session of the Frost seminar. We began by focusing on "The Silken Tent," the single-sentence sonnet that figures prominently in Jay Parini's biography of the poet because of its association both with Frost's wife Elinor and with Kay Morrison. Here's the poem:
She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when a sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease,
And its supporting central cedar pole,
That is its pinnacle to heavenward
And signifies the sureness of the soul,
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To everything on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightest bondage made aware.
The folks in this seminar really had their chops as readers of poetry by now, and our conversation was a highly satisfying and expansive one. It ranged, in turn, from metrical and musical effects, to themes religious, sexual, and biographical, pausing over the cluster of images relating this sonnet to the process of composing poetry itself. Along the way individuals in the class also helped us all to hear some of the specific echoes this outwardly non-allusive poet so frequently achieves in his poetry. David McCullough recited the opening lines of Herrick's "When as in silks my Julia goes," while Kellam Ayres helped us recall Roethke's variant on that theme in his poem "I knew a woman." Katie Retalliata brought in Donne's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," in which the central cedar pole of Frost's poem has its equivalent in the fixed leg of a compass, as couple inscribes the circle of their love through the experience of separation and return. It was another feast, with numerous chefs companionably at work in a spacious kitchen.
But then, just as we were getting ready to move on to another poem, "Never Again would Birds' Song Be the Same," Cliff Gahan and Steve Suomi spoke up. They were both thinking about the passage at the end of Exodus when Moses has come down from the mountain with the tablets of the law and Yahweh commands him to build the Tent of Meeting, which would house the Tabernacle and which would both reveal and conceal the presence of God. This was an unexpected tug in one direction, just as the class and the poem seemed to be gently swaying at ease. As at the end of Virgil's Book IV, it both amplified and complicated the themes we had considered. We were reminded that Frost's silken art may be a discloser of form, human and divine, but it is also an encloser and a screen. Much of the power of his writing comes from the way in which, after having drawn us in with his limpid verse, he turns away so resolutely at the end from any implications of closure. Whatever the priestly poet may have glimpsed within the tent, our perspective on it remains from without-that's what we get, that's what we see. That's what keeps us swaying together instead of lifting the flap one at a time and getting on with our personal projects. In fact, bringing a wide variety of angles to bear on a work of literature can feel like Mrs. Ramsay's floating "element of joy." One of the many reasons for celebrating Jim and Dixie's sustained efforts, over so many years, to bring a greater diversity to the faculty, student-body, and curriculum of Bread Loaf is that it allows for a richer and richer experience of such suspension within the widening concord.
Just as we often emerge from an exciting discussion with no definitive line on the work in question, so too do we depart from Bread Loaf with no particular pedagogy or critical methodology. What we do have is the memory of moments when literature has been the catalyst for the conversations of true community. In one meeting of the Frost seminar we were talking about the word dialogue, and the fact that it derived not from the particle di, for double or two, but from dia, for across--as in a group's dialogue across a table. At this point one of our group's members, Marty MacMahon, said, "Yes, and the poetry we discuss is the table." Conversations fostered by literature may be luminous ones, living in us for many years, as Mrs. Ramsay's gift for gathering people together did for Lily Briscoe, as "globed, compacted things over which love lingers and thought plays." But such gifts finally have less to do with attachment to any one place, group, or book than they do with openness to whatever comes next. Upon the conclusion of this commencement ceremony we won't be marching down off the mountain in lock step, but we may still take a certain recognizable sway with us as we saunter away.
Just one final memory, from this Theatre, and I'll close. Every year we are transported by another of Alan MacVey's amazing productions, as we were this year by the endlessly thought-provoking Henry IV. The first such production Rita and I ever saw here was the 1980 staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream. So much about it was wonderful, but the moment that returns to mind now was its aftermath. After Puck's epilogue the audience still held together speechlessly in that circle of enchantment, when our eyes were suddenly drawn out onto the west lawn-where this present group will soon be exchanging farewells. That's where the fairies were scampering or floating away with their candles, toward the dark line of trees. It was a moment of breath-taking beauty, and I can still remember how long the audience remained looking into that mysterious and scattershot constellation toward which the whole play had moved. But when Rita and I finally made it to our car for the drive home to Bristol, we saw swirls of fireflies in the brushy fields on either side of Route 116. Bread Loaf's greatest gift may be an enhanced receptivity to the unexpected weathers and concords of an enlarged world.
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Pastors and the IRS Bogeyman
This is a critical election year. Some have said it may be the most important election in our life time. With so much at stake, how great it would be to hear from more pastors and priests, during these times when the government encroaches on more of our freedoms.
Some fear that to preach on the moral issues of the day, like abortion or marriage, might be construed as "preaching on politics." But they are moral issues addressed in the Bible. But I recognize that elements of our culture may have turned them into political ones.
I think part of the reason many pastors and priests are unwilling to speak out on "politics" (so-called) is because they fear the loss of their tax exempt status.
I believe that the perceived threat is far more insidious than the actual threat. The dog's bark is much more prominent than the dog's bite.
I also believe there are some who stoke this fear. For example, Rev. Barry Lynn (a liberal minister) of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State sends out letters like clockwork during election years, warning pastors to not say anything too political or he'll be sure to tell the IRS on them.
For example, during the last president election, Barry Lynn sent out a letter with the headline: "Election Season 2008." He stated, "Dear Religious Leader….The First Amendment protects the right of all Americans, religious leaders included, to speak out on religious, moral and political issues." So far so good.
He goes on more ominously: "However, houses of worship…are barred from endorsing or opposing candidates for public office and may not intervene directly or indirectly in partisan campaigns. Any activity designed to influence the outcome of a partisan election can be construed as intervention. If the IRS determines that your house of worship has engaged in unlawful intervention, it can revoke the institution's tax-exempt status or levy significant fines on the hour of worship or its leaders."
I asked Mat Staver about this letter. He heads Jerry Falwell's law school and also Liberty Counsel, his own organization fighting for religious liberty. He responded, "I think Barry Lynn's letter is bogus. It's basically full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Really? Staver continued, "Look at Barry Lynn---how many of these cases has he ever won? Zero. How many churches have ever lost their tax-exempt status since this was put into the IRS code in 1954? Zero. And in fact, if you have that kind of a track record, I don't think his advice is that strong."
Staver also clarified: "Churches can't corporately endorse---say that First Baptist or First Presbyterian Church supports so and so for President or opposes so and so for President. But what churches can do is they can educate, they can give out voter guides that are objective that indicate what the position the candidates [have]." Churches may certainly proclaim what the Scriptures teach on the issues of our day.
Even still, a pastor can endorse a candidate---when speaking only for himself, using this formula: "Rev. Joe Smith. First Church East. (For identification purposes only)." Many pastors I know wouldn't feel comfortable making such an endorsement in the first place. But legally they are free as citizens to do so.
The two hard and fast IRS rules are: A church cannot endorse a candidate, and they can't give money to a candidate. That's it.
I spoke recently with Dr. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of the huge First Baptist Church of Dallas, author of Twilight's Last Gleaming. He said he often receives letters like the one cited above from Barry Lynn. He views them as a badge of honor.
Dr. Jeffress told me, "Barry Lynn has been after me for years, threatening our tax exempt status as a church. Look, what Barry won't tell you is there is never any church in history that has ever lost its tax exempt status. There has never been a church that's even been fined by the IRS for anything that the pastor has said in the pulpit."
But one church in upstate New York apparently lost its letter of tax exemption ---for one day only---for placing an ad in 1992 saying that to vote for Bill Clinton was to sin against God. That's a far cry from what even bold pastors would want to do.
Dr. Jeffress fears that we have much more to lose from self-censorship in the pulpit than we do from any real threat by the IRS: "I think many pastors are shrinking from the role of being a prophet---some because they don't understand the Bible. You know in the Bible, the prophets didn't just speak to God's own people; they spoke to ungodly rulers, ungodly cultures. And without stuttering or stammering said, 'thus sayeth the Lord,' and today pastors are called to be prophets as well."
Martin Luther King, Jr. said the church is the conscience of the nation. Too bad that that conscience is often silent nowadays when it is most needed "for such a time as this."


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Back9Network Unveils PGA Merchandise Show Coverage Plans, Highlights Year of Progress at Exhibit Booth
Character-Driven Lifestyle Brand Prepares Multi-Platform Media Launch in 2013, Invites Everyone to Live the Golf Lifestyle
Jan 16, 2013, 07:00 ET
HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Back9Network, a new lifestyle television network and media company, today announced its coverage and exhibit plans for the 60th PGA Merchandise Show and 11th Annual PGA Merchandise Show Outdoor Demo Day and Indoor Demo Days, held this year from Jan. 23-26, 2013, at the Orange County Convention Center and Orange County National Golf Center in Orlando, Fla.
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"Last January, we gave PGA Merchandise Show attendees a first look at our plans for Back9Network and we're proud to share the enormous progress we've made in putting the personnel pieces in place and establishing the infrastructure to formally launch our lifestyle media brand in 2013," said James L. ("Jamie") Bosworth, founder and CEO, Back9Network. "Back9Network is inviting everyone into the golf lifestyle, from those who are already part of the game to those who aspire to live the golf life...even if they rarely pick up a club."
On Wednesday, January 23 (Demo Day), Back9Network will have four camera crews and a team of reporters, commentators and contributors covering all the different manufacturers and teaching exhibits. From Thursday through Saturday, Back9Network will have its crews scouring events and exhibits to cover all aspects of the year's top golf industry event. Back9Network's daily show coverage — available at the newly redesigned Back9Network.com, which launches at the PGA Show — will feature interviews with the industry's biggest stars and most interesting personalities and decision makers. Back9Network will also provide an insiders' look at the hottest new equipment, gear, fashion and apparel coming from the best-known golf lifestyle brands in the world.
Back9Network will be located at Booth #1153 on the show floor, flanked by Nike Golf, COBRA PUMA GOLF and Callaway Golf in the equipment hall. Live broadcasts of SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio's Fairways of Life with Matt Adams will emanate from the booth. Back9Network will also unveil sneak previews of new programming that is in development and provide a look at the nearly completed Back9Network TV and Video Production Studio and dynamic new Back9Network Corporate Headquarters in downtown Hartford, Conn., which features a working digital studio space and lounge with more than 15 different filming locations.
"The PGA Show is the one annual event where you can experience the incredible breadth and influence golf has on popular culture and life beyond the professional tours. We're eager to bring viewers inside this year's event," concluded Mr. Bosworth.
Back9Network.com, the online clubhouse of Back9Network, will offer frequently updated, daily coverage from the PGA Show, including:
- Back9 in 90: the daily online update from Back9Network, hosted by Jennifer Bosworth and Charles Everett, will provide hourly updates and interviews from Demo Day and the show floor as noted below:
- Wednesday, January 23 (Demo Day): 12pm – 6pm ET
- Thursday, January 24 & Friday, January 25: 10am – 6pm ET
- Saturday, January 26: 10am – 2pm ET
- Fairways of Life with Matt Adams: The popular SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio daily weekday morning program, Fairways of Life with Matt Adams, will be broadcast live from the Back9Network PGA Show booth and streamed live at Back9Network.com on Thursday, January 24 and Friday, January 25 from 7am – 9am ET. Later each day, from 11am – 12pm ET, Matt Adams will host a special edition of Fairways of Life from the Back9Network booth prior to SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio's live coverage of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines.
Since December, Fairways of Life with Matt Adams has been streamed live every weekday morning at BackNetwork.com with an archive of prior shows available on-demand, 24/7/365. Back9Network serves as the primary naming sponsor of the call-in phone lines (Back9Network Fan Line) and sponsors weekly appearances by iconic broadcaster Ben Wright. To listen, visit Back9Network.com and click on the Fairways of Life with Matt Adams audio player on the home page to tune in live or to access past shows.
- Back9Network Coverage Team: The network's four camera crews will be accompanied by Back9Network's on-air and online team of hosts, commentators and contributors, including:
- Tony Jacklin: legendary golfer, Global Brand Ambassador
- Jennifer Bosworth: co-host of Back9 in 90; Emmy nominated reporter, anchor and writer
- Charles Everett: co-host of Back9 in 90; reporter, writer and actor
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- Alison Waite: writer of Back9Network.com's Ask Ali relationship column, actress, reporter and host
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Back9Network plans to launch its full programming lineup via cable, satellite, mobile devices, and other content delivery platforms in 2013.
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Back9Network, based in Hartford, Conn., is a new lifestyle television network and media company. Back9Network was developed as a complementary alternative to traditional media's focus on professional golf tournament coverage. Focused on compelling storytelling, interesting personalities, features and fashions, interviews and instruction, travel, gear and so much more, fans of all kinds will want to hang with the Back9Network. Back9Network.com, the online clubhouse for Back9Network, delivers a fresh perspective on the golf lifestyle and its worldwide influence.
Back9Network's TV and Video Production Studio and Corporate Headquarters are a central part of the rebirth of downtown Hartford. Back9Network joins ESPN, NBC Sports and YES Network in Connecticut, which is quickly becoming the sports media capital of the world. Back9Network's leadership includes respected and outspoken executives from the golf and media industries. Clint Eastwood serves as chairman of the Back9Network Creative Committee. For further information, visit www.Back9Network.com.
About the 60th PGA Merchandise Show:
The 60th PGA Merchandise Show, held January 24-26, 2013, in Orlando, Fla., will welcome some 1,000 top golf companies and brands and more than 40,000 industry professionals from around the world to the industry's annual global summit for the business of golf. The PGA Show Outdoor Demo Day, the world's largest professional golf testing event, will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at the Orange County National Golf Center. During Show days, PGA Professionals, retailers and industry leaders will uncover the latest trends, source the newest golf merchandise, test the latest equipment, learn proven business best practices, network among peers and move forward the business of the game. Organized in partnership with The PGA of America as a trade-only event, the 2013 PGA Merchandise Show will be held in the Orange County Convention Center ~ 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Jan. 24-25; and 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on Jan. 26. For more information, visit www.pgashow.com.
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