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I would appreciate a citation, if anyone finds one.
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The extension of SEPTA's Media-Elwyn Regional Rail line to Wawa took another baby step forward Thursday night when its board approved $282,788 for the purchase of 4.86 acres next to the former Franklin Mint site in Middletown.
SEPTA's plan is to use the land to build a 600-car parking garage, rail station and access road from Route 1. However, don't expect to see any kind of construction activity in that immediate area anytime in the near future.
"We're waiting for some kind of action from both Harrisburg and Washington," SEPTA Public Affairs Director Richard Maloney said. "At the moment, we don't have a dime to put into any major capital projects."
Maloney said if some federal or state funds were to come SEPTA's way, the Wawa station is probably No. 2 on the list of projects to be funded, behind the extension of the Norristown High Speed Line.
"It's up there pretty high," he said of the priority of getting the station built at Wawa. "One, we've got the ridership out there and we have the basic right of way. You've got the existing infrastructure out there, too, and getting that parking garage built would significantly help."
Maloney says the hope is the new parking garage would help ease parking issues at some of the stations in the western part of Delaware County, such as Elwyn.
"With Elwyn, we expanded that parking area a little bit with the stimulus money a couple of years ago," Maloney said. "Parking is the No. 1 hold up for us and that's true throughout the entire area, finding parking."
The Wawa project would cost about $90 million and would include building an access road from Route 1 to the station. SEPTA had what it called a temporary shutdown of the rail line to Wawa in 1986 as it had been using the old Pennsylvania Railroad route that went to West Chester.
About 3.5 acres are marked for the parking garage and 1.3 acres for the access road. The deal for the land is still in negotiation with Wolfson Verrichia Group Inc., of Plymouth Meeting, which is one of the developers involved in refurbishing the former Franklin Mint site. While SEPTA officials have said they would like to reach an amicable deal to buy the land, the board did approve to acquire the land by condemnation if the developer refuses to sell.
SEPTA's capital budget for construction projects and vehicles is $303 million this year, about $110 million less than three years ago.
One project that is nearing completion on the Media-Elwyn Line is the rebuilding of the station and platform in Primos. Maloney said the station is expected to be completed by the end of the year, with a grand opening ceremony in the spring.


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Harry Potter and the Instant Review
Can you really review a 784-page book in an afternoon?
In her early review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the New York Times' Michiko Kakutani explains that the paper scored its copy at a bookstore on Wednesday. Her 1,100-word review posted that evening. Wait, how can you read a 784-page book and write a considered take on it all in one afternoon? In a 2004 column reproduced below, Slate's Jack Shafer looked into the instant-review phenomenon after several critics pumped out their responses to Bill Clinton's My Life a mere 24 hours after getting their copies. The secret: Skip and skim. One writer told him, "Did I read the whole thing? No." Another writer said he had read the whole book, but with this caveat: "Closely enough to take a short quiz? No." Kakutani's working method may remain a mystery, though. She refused to dish on her quick take on My Life.
My Life, Bill Clinton's hulking, 957-page memoir, huffed into anchorage on June 22 where it was greeted by the press mob as if it were the Queen Mary II. The publicity wizards at Clinton's publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, had stoked interest in the admittedly newsworthy book by denying reviewers copies prior to the official June 22 release date. Also, Knopf's decision not to sell prepublication serial rights to a newsweekly or newspaper added to the mystique.
Every newspaper worth its salt published some sort of news story gleaned from the book's pages on June 23, but the Los Angeles Times, the New York Observer, and the Associated Press ran full-fledged reviews that day. Newsday published its instant review on June 24. The New York Times had beaten everybody by publishing its review on June 20, with its reviewer probably getting My Life on June 18 if her source was the same as the one who provided the Times news pages with a copy.
The 24- to 48-hour turnaround of these reviews poses the question of whether a barge-size book like My Life can be read in its entirety in such short order—let alone reviewed. How long might it take to read My Life? Slate assigned one-third of My Life to three staffers for our "Juicy Bits" feature, and they recorded 27 man-hours of reading and note-taking. Surely a full-fledged review of My Life by one person would require somewhere in the neighborhood of 27 hours for reading, plus sleep breaks, and maybe another couple of hours for composition.
Are the book blitzers Evelyn Wood speed-reading graduates, vampires who never sleep, corrupt book-skimmers, or hacks? All of the blitzers who spoke about their instant reviews defended their velocity, with some saying their assignment wasn't to judge a masterpiece of literature but to assess a public figure's retelling of events with which everybody is mostly familiar.
"This wasn't really a book book," says Robert Sam Anson, who says his design was to write a "news review" of My Life for the New York Observer.
"This is a political event more than it's literature," Anson says.
Anson prepped himself for the review by talking to people who'd been read long portions of the book, which gave him a sense of what it contained before he opened it. He then logged 26 straight hours producing his review.
"Did I read the whole thing? No. Lucky for [Clinton]!" says Anson.
Media columnist Tim Rutten, who reviewed the book for the Los Angeles Times, says yes, he read the entire book but adds, "Closely enough to take a short quiz? No."
Encouraged by his editors, Rutten has become the go-to guy at his newspaper for book turnarounds, writing rapid reviews of Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack and Joseph Wilson's The Politics of Truth. He pulled an all-nighter for My Life, spending about 26 hours reading and writing.
Rutten defends instant reviews as "a service to readers who are engaged by the 24-hour news cycle." Whether instant reviews are a service to letters or history, he says, is debatable.
Novelist Francine Prose spent 12 hours reading My Life—"The first 200 pages very carefully"—and a few hours at the keyboard composing her Newsday review. "It's the sort of book that's writing the review in your head while you're reading," she says. Newsday published her review in its June 24 edition; the Web version carries a June 23 12:33 p.m. time stamp.
Prose agreed to write the instant review in part because the paper offered a premium rate—which she won't confide. But her main motivation was the opportunity to write something political.
"I knew that regardless of the literary merits of the book, the human being that was going to appear from those pages would be superior to the people in the current administration," Prose says.
Washington Post editorial writer and columnist Anne Applebaum (a friend and former regular Slate contributor) wrote a sweeping assessment of My Life for her paper's June 23 op-ed page, and while it's not billed as such, it's a review in every respect but name.
"It isn't just that it's dull, like so many political memoirs, or that the sections on Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky are weirdly abrupt and uninformative; it's utterly lacking in perspective," Applebaum writes in her piece.
Did Applebaum read the whole thing? No. Just "600-odd pages," she e-mails.
"I read the early chapters on Clinton's childhood, high school, and Oxford experiences, skipped the Arkansas governorship, and went on to the presidency. Then I got stuck. Pretty quickly, it becomes obvious how disorganized the book is. As it happens, I do read unusually fast and always have. But even if I'd had six months, I wouldn't have learned more than in the several hours I had," she writes in e-mail.
(Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times, another blitzer, did not make herself available to discuss her piece. *)
Having written this column in my head before I started to report it, I expected to conclude that no book review should be written on amphetamines against a short deadline. Instead, I've concluded that blitz reviews have their place. To begin with, publisher Knopf encouraged the day-hits of My Life by breaking with the standard procedure in which publishers provide advance review copies to publications but request that no review run until the official publishing date—or until the book appears in bookstores. If Knopf—or Clinton—desire reviews benefiting from longer deadlines, they know how to make that system work. If they want to treat the book as a news event, there's no reason why reviewers shouldn't do the same.
But what really convinced me of the value of blitz reviews was the Washington Post review by Walter Isaacson. The Post gave Isaacson days rather than hours to write the piece, posting it to the Web on June 28 at 5:41 a.m.
At 2,000 words, Isaacson's slow-food take is much longer than its fast-food cousins. It's also better-written—the jokes are sharper, the allusions better-grounded, the rhythm better-paced. But Isaacson's basic takeaway doesn't differ much from that of instant reviewers Anson, Rutten, Applebaum, and Schwartz: Isaacson finds the first half of the book fascinating but complains that Clinton surrenders to his self-indulgent, psychobabbly, slapdash tendencies in the second half. Clinton should come back in 10 years and rewrite the second half of the book, Isaacson recommends in his conclusion.
From Isaacson's point of view, it sounds like My Life got the instant notices it deserved.
The "Juicy Bits" treatment of My Life mentioned above was removed from Slate after Knopf protested copyright infringement: See this note from Slate's editor.
Correction, July 1, 2004: In the original version of this story, Associated Press writer Jerry Schwartz was described as a blitz reviewer, and the piece stated that he did not make himself available for an interview. An AP spokesman says Schwartz obtained the book on June 18, so he was not a blitz reviewer. However, the AP did not respond to a request to interview Schwartz. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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The Thompson DNA Project web site is http://www.thompsonfamilies.org
The Thompson DNA Project uses Y-chromosome DNA test results with traditional genealogy to verify, document, and extend existing pedigrees and to make previously-unknown connections between families. Males with the surname Thompson (any variant) are welcome. Variant forms of the surname include Thompson, Thomson, Thomsen, Thomason, Thomazin, Taweson, MacThomas, MacTavish, MacCavish, Macomish, Macomb, McComas, McComb, MacCombie, and others.
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Comparison of my YDNA with Thompson on FTDNA
In looking at those matching me at 111 markers I note the following.
A MRCA with David Thompson at 4 generations 90%, 8 generations 99%. A MRCA with Lew Eric Thompson at 4 generations 46% and at 8 Generations 85%.
The interesting thing is that I have strong connections to several others on the list with David and Lew, especially Meadows. Of those in which I have autosomal data there seems to be a connection between my and several Meadows on Chromosome 8. Although David and Lew list that they have also taken the FF tests I have been unable to find them in the FF matches and/or Chromosome Browser. The Thompson of interest to Lew is Gordon Thompson, b 1815 Mercer Co., (VA) WV Many Meadows are from this area.
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By Sunday Holm
In a perfect world, the relationship between a yarn store's staff and the knitters who shop there is always warm and fuzzy. But any yarn lover who's dealt with a way-too-demanding customer or been dissed by stressed-out sales clerk knows that real life works out a little differently. I've been a knitter for more than twenty years and a worked and taught in a shop for ten of them. I loved my job, but had days when my customers drove me completely crazy. On the flip side, while most of the stores offered a great retail experience, there were a few where the service was less than stellar. My experiences (both good and bad) on both sides of the register have taught me that with a little understanding, good communication and a lot of honesty, the interactions between store and shopper needn't become a tangle. In an effort to soothe feelings and tempers here's my list of ten potentially combustible situations and how to diffuse them.
A Store's-Eye View
Knitters are generally nice people, as are the knitters manning your favorite LYS. But working in a yarn shop can be a very intensive service job, and nerves do get frazzled. During my years as a yarn shop clerk I encountered several situations that were particularly prickly, all of which can be smoothed over with a little patience and understanding from both parties.
Overhandling the merchandise. Knitting is above all a tactile experience and a faced with a shop full of beautiful colors and fibers, it can be downright impossible keep your hands to yourself. Shop staffers find the skeins they stock hard to resist as well, and encourage you to squeeze, fondle and caress the skeins that appeal to you—just please take care as you do so. Rub yarn on the inside of your wrist, not across your face (makeup, facial oil and sunscreen can soil the fibers) and please don't untwist hanks or unravel balls—it leaves the store with a big mess to straighten up and more often than not, a yarn that needs to be marked down or written off.
Asking the store to hold yarn or other merchandise, but never returning to purchase it. Most stores are perfectly happy to set a few skeins aside for you to pick up at a later date, but all too often, the customer fails to return to the shop to pick it up. Keeping merchandise behind the counter keeps it out of the hands of customers who have cash at the ready and can result in lost sales for a store. Here's a case where a little courtesy can go a long way. If you decide to buy the yarn elsewhere or simply change your mind about the project you had planned for it—give the shop a call and let them know. The staff will appreciate your courtesy, the yarn goes back to sales floor, and everybody's happy.
Seeking help with a project purchased elsewhere. Most shops will be perfectly willing to lend a helping hand, partly because they're nice that way and mainly because they're well aware that doing so just might encourage you to come back and buy from them the next time around. Retailers realize that you can purchase yarn just about anywhere these days, but you can't always get great service or a staffer patient or skilled enough to take you through the ins and outs of a complicated (or even not-so-complicated) pattern. Helping you out lets the staff show off just how special the store is. But that willingness has its limits. If you make a regular habit of bringing in patterns and yarns purchased online or at a different shop and then ask us spend hours teaching you how to use them, we're going to start feeling a little resentful. If you'd rather spend time than money in our shop that's fine, we enjoy your company. All we ask is that if you want an ongoing knitting tutor, either do at least some of your yarn buying with us or pay for one of our classes or private instruction. You'll get the support you need and we'll continue to operate a profitable business.
Requesting that the shop photocopy a particular pattern to avoid paying the full purchase price of a book. Sorry, but this is something shops just can't do—and with good reason. For starters, it's an infringement of copyright law. Pattern books, whether produced by a big-name publisher, yarn company or mom-and-pop press, are copyrighted and the only one who can give permission to copy the work is the copyright holder (usually the designer, the publisher or both). Copying a pattern from a book or leaflet and selling or giving it gratis to a customer is not only illegal, it also deprives designers and publishers of well-deserved proceeds from book sales. We understanding that laying out $30 for a book when you only like one or two patterns may be tough to reconcile, but consider the bigger picture. Creating a carefully edited and tested pattern book and making and photographing the sample garments showcased on its pages is both costly and time consuming. That $30 cover price helps keep designers, pattern writers and knitters employed and allowing them to continue creating new patterns for you to enjoy. If books aren't selling, because knitters are stealing patterns (and make no mistake, it's stealing) you can bet publishers will stop producing them.
Knitting "emergencies." It's a rare knitter who never gets tripped up by a particular stitch or technique and a rare shop owner who doesn't realize that lending a little friendly advice will keep customers coming back for more yarn. Any reputable shop will do its best to provide its customers with tech support, but please understand that staffers can't always drop everything to rip out your rows or fix dropped stitches. Besides, doing the work for you won't help you to solve the problem on your own the next time it crops up. If other customers aren't clamoring for attention we'll be happy to spend a few minutes to set your knitting straight—but if you require more time or more personalized attention, a private lesson or a class in a particular technique is a better option for both of us.
Customer Feedback
To keep a long line of loyal customers, pretty much all the average LYS needs (aside from a great selection of yarn) is a friendly staff, a modicum of encouragement, and willingness to problem solve. Like most knitters passionate about the craft, I'll gladly patronize any yarn store at least once, but there are a few issues that make me hesitate to come back.
Getting a less than warm welcome. Some stores make you feel right at home the minute you walk in the door; others not so much. Happening upon a store with standoffish staff or an established knitting circle in full swing can sometimes feel like walking into a party to which you weren't invited. Stores can ease the awkwardness by encouraging newcomers to pull up a chair and offering a friendly welcome and introductions all around.
Difficult displays. For the most part knitting customers don't care whether your stock is sorted by color, fiber or gauge, they just ask that it be organized in some recognizable way. Sure it can be fun to dig around in the bins looking for that great skein, but if we can't find what we're looking for we'll walk away frustrated and empty handed. Yarn that is organized and nicely presented makes it easier for customers to buy from you. On the other end of the spectrum, some stores set up shop so beautifully that the space looks more like a yarn museum than a retail store. Everything looks lovely, but we're afraid to touch, let alone buy.
Beautiful yarns with mystery prices. When there's no price tag in sight, the perfect yarn quickly becomes not so perfect. Some of us are shy about asking or simply don't want to spend the time seeking out a sales clerk to clue us in on the cost. Walking up to the register with an armful of yarn and discovering that it's going to cost $209 to knit a sweater is a surprise most of us can do without. Labeling every single skein isn't necessary, but a discrete sign with the yarn name and cost would save us both a lot of trouble—and likely sell more yarn.
Coming up short. Finding the perfect yarn in the perfect color only to discover the store doesn't have enough in stock for the project we want to make is incredibly frustrating. You can soften the blow by offering to order more for us or by calling around to others stores in the area to see if they can make up the difference. We'll be too impressed by your willingness to help out to jump ship to the other store and will no doubt be back for more. Oh and can we mention that we'd rather you stock deep in a few colors, rather than one bag of every shade?
Telling rather than showing. Most customers don't doubt that your staff knows how lovely that to-die-for merino or hand-dyed silk looks when knitted up, but we'd really rather see for ourselves. We know it's a big investment in time and money, but a single swatch (or better yet, a sample garment) can speak a thousand words, showing us how the finished knitted fabric will look and behave. Add in a note that gives the needle size and gauge for each sample (especially if it differs from that on the ball band) and we have everything we need to know to make an informed purchase.


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The Region I individual tennis tournament's first day looked a lot like the Bay Rivers District version, except in boys doubles -- where most BRD teams struggled.
In girls singles Monday, Jamestown High senior Leah Walter and her sister, freshman Anna Walter, won two matches apiece on their home courts to ensure a rematch of the district championship contest.
Leah won 6-0, 6-2 against James Monroe's Alicia Paulose, then 6-2, 6-3 versus York junior Teresa Alvarez.
Anna posted a 6-0, 6-3 win against Spotsylvania's Bailey Christoforatos, then overcame York's Gaby Tersigni 6-2, 6-3.
In boys competition, though, the singles title match well could be one of unfinished business.
BRD champion Kurt Mittmann, a Bruton junior, rolled into the final. He whipped Courtland's Marcus Mitra 6-0, 6-1 in the morning, then ousted York's Ethan Buck 6-4, 6-1.
On the other side of the bracket, Eagles exchange student Fabian Schleicher of Austria provided much of the day's drama. In the first round, he edged No. 2 Battlefield seed Matt Peacher of Eastern View 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 6-4.
Much as he did in the district tournament, when he survived late cramps to win a three-set match against Poquoson's Austin Gillem and eventually place second, Schleicher won a marathon early in the bracket. But this time, the road would be far rockier.
Fitzhugh Johnson, who already led James Monroe to the Region I team championship, manhandled Jamestown's Sam Ross 6-2, 6-0 in the first round and shut out the weary Schleicher 6-0, 6-0.
So the Johnson-Mitttmann championship singles match will be a rematch of a contest that didn't finish in the team tournament.
When Bruton traveled to Fredericksburg in a team quarterfinal, JM completed a 5-0 victory over the Panthers before Mittmann and Johnson could finish their match. Johnson -- a transfer from Fredericksburg Academy -- was leading 3-0 in the third set.
But at 9 a.m. Wednesday, the boys will start from scratch. The singles match of the Walter sisters -- Leah won the district final 6-4, 6-3 -- also will begin at that time.
After that, the doubles semifinals and championship matches also will be played Wednesday.
By Bay Rivers standards, the girls doubles quarterfinals went exceedingly well, but the boys doubles were forgettable.
BRD girls went 4-0, with the district champion Walters and runners-up Elizabeth Wallace and Kathy Sharp of Jamestown losing just two games in four combined sets.
Grafton's Sydney Short and Kayla Jefferson rolled 6-1, 6-0 to move into a match against the Walter sisters, and Alvarez and Kristin Dantzler won 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 against Eastern View's AnnaKate Tyler and Rose Bennett. The Falcons' pair will take on Wallace and Sharp.
Of the four BRD boys tandems, only the district champs -- Mittmann and Patrick Riley -- advanced. Two pairs of Eagles (Nathan Campbell-Derrick Neilson and Sam Ross-Mike Jones) lost in close fashion.
Only the winners in singles and doubles will advance to the state semifinals in the New River Valley. The Eagles are headed to team quarterfinals against Handley a week from Tuesday -- the Jamestown girls will be at home by virtue of their Region I championship, while the boys must travel to Winchester to meet the Judges.
Kurt Mittmann (Bruton, Bay Rivers No. 1) d. Marcus Mitra (Courtland, Battlefield 3) 6-0, 6-1;
Ethan Buck (York, Bay Rivers 4) d. Asim Brooks (Prince Edward, Southside 1) 6-3, 6-1;
Fitzhugh Johnson (James Monroe, Battlefield 1) d. Sam Ross (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 3) 6-2, 6-0;
Fabian Schleicher (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 2) d. Matt Peacher (Eastern View, Battlefield 2) 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 6-4.
Mittmann d. Buck 6-4, 6-1;
Johnson d. Schleicher 6-0, 6-0.
Mittmann-Patrick Riley (Bruton, Bay Rivers 1) d. Marcus Mitra-Miguel Mitra (Courtland, Battlefield 3) 6-1, 6-2;
Brooks-Kieston France (Prince Edward, Southside 1) d. Nathan Campbell-Derrick Neilson (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 4) 4-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-4;
Johnson-Walton Mahon (James Monroe, Battlefield 1) d. Buck-Vraj Gajjar (York, Bay Rivers 3) 6-1, 6-2;
Peacher-Jeb Carroll (Eastern View, Battlefield 2) d. Sam Ross-Mike Jones (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 2) 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (7-5).
Leah Walter (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 1) d. Alicia Paulose (James Monroe, Battlefield 3) 6-0, 6-2;
Teresa Alvarez (York, Bay Rivers 4) d. Melia Hill (Southampton, Southside 1) 6-0, 6-0;
Gaby Tersigni (York, Bay Rivers 3) d. AnnaKate Tyler (Eastern View, Battlefield 1) 6-4, 6-3;
Anna Walter (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 2) d. Bailey Christoforatos (Spotsylvania, Battlefield 2) 6-0, 6-3.
L. Walter d. Alvarez 6-2, 6-3;
A. Walter d. Tersigni 6-0, 6-2.
Walter-Walter (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 1) vs. Ashley Prosser-Brittany Tennant (Chancellor, Battlefield 3) 6-0, 6-1;
Sydney Short-Kayla Jefferson (Grafton, Bay Rivers 4) d. Kiana Hancock-Sierra Mitchell (Greensville County, Southside 1) 6-1, 6-0;
Alvarez-Kristin Dantzler (York, Bay Rivers 3) d. Tyler-Rose Bennett (Eastern View, Battlefield 1) 5-7, 6-3, 6-1;
Elizabeth Wallace-Kathy Sharp (Jamestown, Bay Rivers 2) d. Kursten Anderson-Kristen Ramey (Culpeper, Battlefield 2) 6-1, 6-0.


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When Shelby Hiatt entered six photos into the Photographer's Forum Magazine contest last fall, she thought her best chance at a prize would be the shot of her levitating above the treetops, a photo taken with the aid of a trampoline, tripod and timer.
But it was a simple black-and-white photo of a girl with her hair blowing in the wind that caught the judges' eyes.
"I was floored that I was selected as a finalist," said Hiatt, a first-year student at the Blinn College – Bryan campus.
Hiatt's photo was selected from more than 16,000 entries in the magazine's College and High School Photography Contest. All finalists, honorable mentions and winners will be featured in the Photographer's Forum "Winners Gallery" after Feb. 24.
"The wind blew and it was awesome and in-the-moment," Hiatt said of her photo of an 8-year-old family friend on the beach in Padre Island. "To me, the photo is about innocence and childhood. She's like my twin from the past. A little me."
Hiatt was drawn to photography at a young age after discovering her mother's camera. Once Hiatt's grandfather learned of her passion, he equipped Hiatt with her own camera and lenses.
Though her foundation in photography is long-established, Hiatt said the photography courses she has taken at Blinn College have taught her more than she ever thought possible.
"I've compared photos from the beginning of last semester and the end," she said. "Wow, it's a big difference. I would recommend Blinn's photography classes to anyone."
Hiatt hopes to be part of the College's newly-minted Photography Club between shifts at Brookshire Brothers grocery in Somerville and working toward her goal of transferring to Sam Houston State University, where she plans to major in photography and minor in business.
After graduating, Hiatt wants to turn her part-time photography business in to a full-time gig.
Tim Weaver, professor of Visual and Performing Arts and sponsor of the Photography Club, has no doubt Hiatt will succeed as a professional photographer.
"Shelby is rare. She's so passionate about what she does," Weaver said. "She's the student I don't have to assign work to because she's always making it. It's a testament to her desire to be creative. She's really motivated—the best student one could want."
More than 4,000 students are enrolled in Blinn's Division of Visual & Performing Arts, which offers 51 courses, including architectural design, interior design, drawing, painting, ceramics, digital art, photography, watercolor, music theory, music appreciation, voice study, the Select Choral Ensemble, acting, argumentation, professional speaking and introductory speech.


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September 25, 2007
Pinning down the properties of god
One of the difficult points on which discussions between atheists and religious believers flounder is that while there is a fair degree of uniformity amongst atheists as to what they do and don't believe, there is a huge diversity among religious believers about what they believe. This can be disconcerting because in the middle of a discussion, a religious person will often say, "Oh, but I don't believe in that stuff. My idea of god is quite different." Understandings of god tend to be so fluid that it enables believers to slide from one to another whenever one particular formulation comes under close scrutiny and is shown to be untenable. People tend not to want to be pinned down on what they actually mean by god. This is more so in the case of more sophisticated believers. Fundamentalists are more concrete in their beliefs.
When I was debating the intelligent design movement in Kansas, I would find that the views ranged from believing in the literal truth of the Bible in every detail to people who regarded the Bible as metaphors but still believed in a personal god who could intervene in the actions of the world. If one goes outside the world of intelligent design advocates, one finds an even broader spectrum, people who are what I call 'almost atheist believers,' who call themselves 'spiritual' and whose idea of god is so vague that no empirical statement can be made about it at all. For some, god is somehow synonymous with nature, for others it is the creator of the big bang and nothing else, and so on. They are the people whom Daniel Dennett describes as people who believe in belief, who need to feel that there is something transcendent in their lives and will construct it to meet their needs.
So in order to have a useful dialogue, it may clarify things and avoid misunderstandings if each person knew where the other stood. It is useful, for example, to see if someone accepts the idea that god has the qualities of being omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnibenevolent (all good).
We know that belief in this god immediately runs into the problem of theodicy, the problem of defending god's goodness and omnipotence when bad things occur, such as the death of an infant or widespread tragedy in the recent tsunami. Epicurus (341-271 BCE) posed the essential and, to my mind, the ultimate contradiction that believers in such a god face:
Is god willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is god both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?
This obvious logical contradiction has resulted in some theologians arguing against assigning all three qualities to god. But which one(s) should be jettisoned? Most people who are not theologians are reluctant to abandon any because it would seem to devalue their concept of god as someone to whom all positive superlatives should apply. Anything less than absolute perfection is seen as unworthy. Such people then have to resort to the 'mysterious ways clause' (MWC) which argues that that while god does have all those three qualities (and more), the reason that things appear to be contradictions to us is because our minds cannot understand god's plans or that he has not confided his plans to us in a manner that we can understand.
But the odd thing is that although believers, by invoking the MWC, have effectively argued that logic and reason and evidence (things they routinely value and use in other areas of their lives) cannot be used to argue against the existence of god, they still try to use evidence and reason to argue in favor of god, and resort to the MWC only when that attempt fails and they end up in a dead end from which there is no escape.
In an attempt to clarify what people mean by god, Victor J. Stenger in his book God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist (2007, p. 12) defines what he sees as the properties of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic god as gleaned from their religious texts and official doctrine.
[The Judeo-Christian-Islamic] God is not the god of deism who created the world and then left it alone, or the god of pantheism, who is equated with all existence. The Judeo-Christian-Islamic God is a nanosecond-by-nanosecond participant in each event that takes place in very cubic nanometer of the universe, from the interactions of quarks inside atomic nuclei to the evolution of stars in the most distant galaxies. What is more, God listens to every thought and participates in each action of his very special creation, a minute bit of organized matter called humanity that moves around on the surface of a tiny pebble in a vast universe.
Stenger spells out the basic elements that go into this model of god (p. 41):
- God is the creator and preserver of the universe.
- God is the architect of the structure of the universe and the author of the laws of nature.
- God steps in whenever he wishes to change the course of events, which may include violating his own laws as, for example, in response to human entreaties.
- God is the creator and preserver of life and humanity, where human beings are special in relation to other forms.
- God has endowed humans with immaterial, eternal souls that exist independent of their bodies and carry the essence of a person's character and selfhood.
- God is the source of morality and other human values such as freedom, justice, and democracy.
- God has revealed truths in scriptures and by communicating directly to select individuals throughout history.
- God does not deliberately hide from any human being who is open to finding evidence for his presence.
This seems like an accurate list to me, corresponding to my own understanding of what mainstream believers say. Stenger deliberately does not include the problematic trinity of omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient qualities (especially the ability to know the future) since those lead to immediate and severe logical contradictions in explaining away things like the tsunami, and makes religion too easy a target to attack. He also does not consider the views of scriptural literalists, the so-called fundamentalist Christians and Jews and Muslims, who take their creation stories and history and images of god straight from their holy books and argue (say) for a 6,000 year old Earth. Such people have abandoned science entirely and there is little one can say to them.
Stenger's book is a detailed analysis of the more sophisticated arguments put forward for a god and he argues that none of them stand up to scrutiny. He looks at all the things that we can infer from the properties of the above god and examines the commonly stated arguments and evidence in favor, some of which have been discussed here too: the appearance of design in nature and the universe; the sense that we have a mind and soul apart from the body; claims of immortality and the afterlife; the idea that the origin of the universe needs an initiator; the 'fine-tuning' or anthropic principle argument; the answering of prayers; and the morals and values argument. He finds that none of the evidence produced in favor of these stands up in the face of close scrutiny. The conclusion is simple: In the absence of evidence in support of it, the god hypothesis is rejected. As Stenger says (p. 71): "Earth and life look just as they can be expected to look if there is no designer God."
Stenger is careful to point out that this does not rule out all gods. The MWC enables you to define god any way you like and assign it any properties you wish and be immune from contradiction. But atheists see this exercise as a waste of time.
The problem that arises in discussions with believers is that defenders of god tend to shift around among these qualities so that when (say) feature #2 is shown to cause problems with logic and evidence, they shift to #3, and then when that is shown to be also fraught with problems, they move on to #6. And, when all else fails, there is always the fallback option of invoking the MWC (which is the same as abandoning #8) and serves as the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card.
Perhaps the discussions with religious people would be would be more fruitful if right at the beginning they listed which of the above properties of god they agree with. That would make for a far more focused discussion.
POST SCRIPT: Interesting short debate
Listen to this short debate between a biologist Lewis Wolpert and a Christian theologian William Craig Lane. It raises many of the issues discussed in this post. Listening to the arguments made by this sophisticated theologian you realize how weak the arguments for god are.
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A valid theory for the existence of God has to be testable, otherwise it is just superstition.
you have some interesting thought. I often think that Christians should state what they will and will not accept as God's attributes, so that everyone can be on the same page


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DJ Console Rmx
- Digital Core. Analog Roots™.
For more DJ Console 4-Mx videos, check out the Hercules DJ Mix Room Youtube channel by clicking here.
[View the product sheet - PDF]
Cutting-edge DJ controller with built-in audio for live and studio use
Audio built for DJing
- Mic input for talk-over
- Headphone output
- 2 stereo outputs
- 4 x ¼" jack mono out (+4dBu) for pro gear
- 4 RCA mono out (-10dBv) for standard gear
- 2 stereo inputs
- Plug & mix external sources with MP3s
Metal casing
- Aluminum plate on top
- Metal sheet on bottom
Comfortable controls
- 35x25cm / 13.8"x10.7"
- Comfortable mixing
- Space for your fingers
Technical specifications
Precise jog wheels and faders for mixing
- Functions
- Emulate vinyl turntables so that turning the jog wheel moves the cursor backward or forward within music tracks to select the cue point where playback will start for the audience.
- Add effects to music playback such as instant speed up, instant slow down, and scratching.
- Settings
- Adjustable resistance: makes the jog wheels more or less resistant, according to the DJ's preference.
- Adjustable accuracy: mix with jog wheels set at their default accuracy, or divide it by 2 or 4.
- Use with
- Scratch On/Off button: changes the jog wheels' function
- Fine tuning: slow down or speed up playback, like when a DJ gives a record a push.
- Scratching: makes a scratch sound, like when a DJ puts his hand on a record during playback (stopping the record's rotation) and moves it backward and forward.
- 1 Cross fader
- DJ Console Rmx plays 1 stereo music track per deck (2 stereo music tracks simultaneously). The cross fader moves between the left and right decks, allowing the DJ to adjust the mix between the 2 tracks.
- Setting the cross fader completely to the right means that the mix (the music the audience hears) comes 100% from the right deck: the audience doesn't hear the music played on the left deck.
- Setting the cross fader in the center means that the music comes 50% from the left deck and 50% from the right, and so on.
- 2 Pitch faders
- Change the pitch = change the playback speed of a track, increasing or reducing its BPM (Beats Per Minute) rate, in order to make dancing easy by setting new music tracks at the same BPM as the previous track so that dancers don't need to change their rhythm during the transition from one track to another.
- Changing the pitch changes the music's speed and tone: faster means higher tone, slower means lower tone. The DJ can keep the same tone by enabling the master tempo effect before changing the pitch so that the pitch slider only changes the tempo instead of the pitch.
- 3 Volume faders
- "Deck A volume fader" controls the volume of the music played on deck A.
- "Deck B volume fader" controls the volume of the music played on deck B.
- "Main volume fader" controls the master volume.
- Changing the volume on deck A or deck B lets the DJ adjust transitions between the 2 decks.
Rotary controls for adjusting audio
- 6 rotary equalization potentiometers (3 per deck: Bass, Medium, and Treble)
- Add color to your music with customs settings:
- Make dancing easier by enhancing the bass (the bass provides the tempo for dancing).
- Remix songs by boosting the mids (the mids contain the singer's voice) on 1 track and mixing it with another track on the other deck, where you've cut the mids.
- Make transitions between 2 music tracks using bass:
- Synchronize the 2 tracks: move the pitch fader to set both tracks at the same BPM.
- Cut off the mids and treble on both decks, keeping only the beat of the bass.
- Move the cross fader from the first deck to the second, while restoring the mids and treble.
- 6 kill buttons (3 per deck: Bass, Medium, and Treble)
- Push the buttons to cut off or restore the frequency band.
- This is a faster way to cut off or restore a frequency band than using the rotary potentiometers.
- 2 rotary gain potentiometers (1 per deck)
- Increase or decrease the level of the tracks on each deck to put the track played on left deck at the same volume as the track played on the right deck, even if they were recorded at different levels. Gain lets the DJ compensate for different levels between tracks so that the volume is the same on both tracks when the volume faders for both tracks are set to the maximum levels.
- When the DJ connects external sources to Deck A (left deck) or B (right deck), setting the gain makes it possible to compensate for differences in volume between external sources and computer audio files.
- 1 rotary balance potentiometer
- Sets the balance of the main output (1-2) between the left and the right channels.
- 1 rotary Monitor Select potentiometer
- The Monitor Select potentiometer lets the DJ select the music played on the headphone output, either:
- Previewing (the track selected with the Cue Select buttons), or Deck A + Deck B,
- Or a mix of the 2 tracks, when the Monitor Select position is between these 2 settings.
- 2 Cue Select buttons (1 per deck)
- Selects the deck the DJ previews on the headphones: Cue Select Deck A or Cue Select Deck B.
- 1 rotary Headphone volume potentiometer
- Sets the volume on the headphone output, whether the headphones are plugged into the top or front panel of the controller.
- 1 rotary Microphone volume potentiometer
- Sets the volume of the microphone input.
- 1 Microphone On/Off button, with talk-over control
- Enables/mutes the microphone, and simultaneously attenuates/restores the background music level.
DJ buttons for instant DJing controls
- 4 buttons for browsing within music libraries (Up, Down, Left, Right)
- Up/down buttons: move to the previous (Up) or next (Down) music file/directory.
- Left/right buttons: switch the root directory (Left) or enter a directory (Right).
- 2 load buttons (Load Deck A, Load Deck B)
- Load the highlighted music track on the left deck (Load Deck A) or the right deck (Load Deck B).
- 2 buttons: Source 1 and Source 2
- Replace the computer track played on Deck A with the audio source connected to inputs 1-2 when you push the "Source 1" button. Return to the computer track when you push the "Source 1" button again.
- Replace the computer track played on Deck B with the audio source connected to inputs 3-4 when you push the "Source 2" button. Return to the computer track when you push the "Source 2" button again.
- Enabling an external audio source requires adjusting the gain control for the deck in question.
- 6 buttons (3 per deck) in addition to the pitch faders
- Pitch Reset (1 button per deck):
- Gradually resets the pitch of the music to the original pitch, whatever the pitch fader position.
- Beat Lock (1 button per deck)
- In VirtualDJ 5 DJC Edition, this button switches the Master Tempo on/off. Master Tempo locks the music to its current tone, allowing the DJ to change the tempo without changing the tone.
- Sync (1 button per deck) = Synchronization
- Pushing the Sync button on a deck adjusts the speed (BPM) of the music played on the deck to the same speed (BPM) as the music played on the other deck.
- 6 buttons (3 per deck)
- Play starts the music playback, pause stops it at its current position in the track.
- Cue places a cue point (a marker where playback should start) at the current position in the track.
- Stop halts playback and places the cursor at the Cue point.
- 4 buttons (2 per deck)
- Quickly move the cursor within music tracks.
- 12 buttons (6 per deck)
- Loop In/Loop Out buttons (Buttons 1 and 4): Loop In button places a marker at the start point of a loop, Loop Out button sets the end point of a loop.
- Buttons 2, 3, 5, 6: special effects buttons to apply effects such as Flanger, Beat-grid, Flipping Double and Reverse to music tracks.
Audio interface tailored for DJing
- 2 stereo audio inputs: 2 pairs of dual RCA connectors
- The DJ can replace the computer audio track played on deck A with the music played on inputs 1-2, and replace the audio track on deck B with the music played on inputs 3-4.
- With these 2 stereo inputs, Hercules DJ Console Rmx provides hybrid mixing: the DJ mixes computer audio tracks on 1 deck with the analog audio source on the other deck.
- The DJ can equalize the external audio source or set its volume as with a computer audio track.
- 2 Phono/Line switches with a ground for each phono input
- The DJ can set the preamp level for each stereo input to line (CD/MP3 player) or phono (turntable) level.
- In addition to mixing analog vinyl records, the phono/line level lets the DJ mix time-coded vinyl/CDs.
- Use in conjunction with 2 Source buttons (1 per deck)
- These buttons enable/disable the audio inputs, replacing the computer audio track on each deck.
- Use in conjunction with 2 gain potentiometers (1 per deck)
- The DJ can adjust the level of the external source to match the level of computer audio playback.
- 4 x ¼" jack mono connectors (Outputs 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Play the mix at +4dBu on outputs 1-2 and the preview on outputs 3-4 with VirtualDJ 5 DJC to connect DJ Console Rmx to a PA system.
- 4 RCA connectors (Outputs 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Play the mix at -10dBv on outputs 1-2 and the preview on outputs 3-4 with VirtualDJ 5 DJC to connect DJ Console Rmx to a hi-fi system.
- Connect the ¼" jack outputs to a PA system to play the mix for the audience while simultaneously connecting the RCA outputs to the audio line input on another computer to broadcast the mix online.
- Play Deck A on outputs 1-2 and Deck B on outputs 3-4 (with VirtualDJ 5 Pro or another application) and export the mix to an external mixer.
- 1 headphone output (2 stereo ¼" jack plugs, located on the top and front panels of the controller)
- Preview music on your headphones.
- Set the headphone volume using the volume potentiometer located on the top panel.
- Made for DJ headphones (stereo, impedance from 16 to 64 Ohms).
- 1 microphone input (2 mono ¼" jack plugs, located on the top and front panels of the controller)
- Talk over the music (mix the microphone input with audio outputs 1-2)
- Use the microphone as a music track: replace the music on Deck A with the microphone input.
Minimum configuration
PC minimum requirements
- 1GHz CPU or higher / 512MB RAM
- MS Windows® XP / Vista / 7 (32/64-bit) / 8 (32/64-bit)
Mac minimum requirements
- 1.5GHz CPU or higher / 512MB RAM
- Mac OS® 10.4 / 10.5 / 10.6
"Its polished metal face and exterior immediately speaks "pro gear," and a quick glance at its audio connections on the back lets you know this bad boy is up to the task" (...) « it's a great deal that includes a solid build, flawless audio drivers and great sounding audio interface/ features."
Digital Music ha assegnato il marchio "BEST BUY" alla DJ Console Rmx.
Le site www.macgeneration.com dans son test du 4 août 2008, apprécie notamment "son tarif léger". Quant au magazine Only For DJ (dans son édition de juin 2008), il se laisse séduire par le "joli chassis en métal".
Et cette nouvelle DJ Console Rmx a plus d'un autre atout de séduction dans sa poche. Le site www.audiofanzine.com en témoigne dans son article et sa vidéo du 27 juin 2008. Le journaliste n'est pas indifférent à la "solidité du boitier en aluminium " et à "la stabilité de l'ensemble". Ce site spécialisé dans les produits audio et sono note également dans les points positifs la "double entrée ligne et phono". Pour terminer, dans son numéro d'août, STUFF indique qu'avec ce produit, "vous ferez un carton".
« With the Hercules, a laptop, and included Virtual DJ software, anyone could rock a party for hours. »
"Valoracion: 8,9 - Calidad/Precio: 8,5"
"Si te quieres iniciar en el mundo del DJing, una unidad facil de transportar para tus sesiones o une elemento technologico que complemente a tu equipo clasico y te permita conectarlo a un ordenador, DJ Console Rmx puede satisfacer sobradamente tus necesidades. »
The DJ Console Rmx received from Computer Shopper the ultimate 5 stars mark and the Ultimate Computer Shopper award!
'Great software. High quality sound. Excellent build quality'
'Top of our list of must have items (from NAMM show) is the new DJ Console RMX from Hercules'
" Een zeer betaalbare maar ook erg uitgebreide midi controller voorzien van goede hardware waar je als gebruiker alle kanten mee op kunt. Mede door de breed uitgemeten interne geluidskaart is de DJ Console RMX in vele situaties inzetbaar."
"Bei der Preisleistung ist Hercules, unserer Meinung nach, hier ganz sicher ein echtes Highlight geglückt."Beatcounter.de, März 2009-04-08


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As for myself, I use git. I like DVCS because they are much faster than centralized VSC and much easier to set up and use for small projects. The staging and partial commit features are also useful and I totally love local branches and git command-line interface.
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I actually can't stand git. Every time I try TortoiseGit I always find a big problem with it, git doesn't ignore line endings nor can it force them as SVN can with the svn:eol-style property, and I don't like how the whole branching thing works either. I make changes in one branch, checkout the master and do git add on a new set of independent files in a new branch are still there.
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Mercurial FTW.
Git is - in Thorvalds own words: a bunch of tools quickly cobbled together - although it has improved a lot since it was made public.
Nowadays, it's pretty damn hard to pick which one is the better: Mercurial or Git.
I prefer Mercurial.
Because it's written in Python and thus far more portable than Git.
Because the syntax is more forgiving - and easier for SVN veterans to get used to.
And the framework is more coherent, rather than a group of tools (like Git).
But - as I said: they are so awfully similar that it just boils down to preference.
I just want to say that submodules in Mercurial is better implemented than submodules in Git...
But I digress..
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I am living in all three world (Win, Mac & Linux) and the gui/cli experience is all the same, that is great!
At work we use SVN.
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SVN has more chances to compete with new centralized repos and features (1.7+). Needs however external server, like SVNServer for multiple repos. Plus file conflicts are sometime frustrating.
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Theo Epstein Contacted Ryne Sandberg Today to Tell Him He Wouldn't Be a Candidate for Cubs' Managerial Opening (UPDATE)
Theo Epstein does things the right way.
Everyone knew Mike Quade was out the door, but Epstein waited until the proper time, flew down to Florida, and let Quade know it was over in person.
Everyone knew that Ryne Sandberg would be a hot topic of speculation when the Cubs' managerial job opened up, but Epstein handled that the right way, too: today, he contacted Ryne Sandberg, with permission from the Phillies, to let the Cubs' legend know that he would not be a candidate for the team's managerial opening. Epstein wanted to squash speculation, and wanted to explain to Sandberg, directly, why he wasn't being considered.
Say what you will about the decision (for my part: I love Ryno, but I was never sold on him as THE guy), but clearly, Epstein is a guy who "gets it." When Sandberg didn't get the job last year, one of his biggest gripes was his belief that then-GM Jim Hendry didn't reach out to him to let him know the news, and welcome him back into the fold with open arms. Epstein is clearly trying to avoid a similar fate.
Sources say the conversation between Epstein and Sandberg – whom Epstein considered for the Red Sox's AAA managerial job last year – was professional, courteous, and well-received by Sandberg.
Well-done, Theo.
UPDATE: Sandberg explained how it went down, and how he feels about the process.
"Theo called me 10 minutes after they issued the press release [on Mike Quade] and told me that they have a list of guys and I'm not on it," Sandberg said Wednesday afternoon. "He wished me good luck and said he hoped I got a chance somewhere soon.
"He didn't owe me that at all. He didn't have to do that. It was a classy move and I'm very appreciative of the phone call. In the end, I wished him and everybody there good luck.
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Marnie MacLean is sort of a household name at Twist. She does lots of things for the magazine, not the least of which is designing beautiful and wearable garments. Today she tells us about her inspiration for Picard, a non-fatal red shirt. You can also find it here, on her blog.
We all know that in the first Star Trek series, wearing a red shirt, especially if you were a person of color, was a pretty fatal proposition. Don't leave the ship, unnamed security officer, just don't.
But then came The Next Generation. The prime directive stayed the same but the red shirt got a serious upgrade.
Riker was making it work, too.
I've never claimed to be a true sci-fi nerd (whatever that means,) but I was a huge fan of TNG, so when I was assigned some rich red yarn for my Winter 2012 Twist Collective project I didn't need a holodeck to picture my favorite starfleet captain. For sure, I wasn't going to mimic the color blocking and shoulder pads, but I loved the angular lines and slim fit. It had to be something wearable and practical and flattering, all at once.
And so was born Picard.
Picard is a top-down seamless raglan with short row shaping around the neck. This construction makes it really easy to modify the garment as you go, especially if you are a little tight on yarn. Once you get going, the stitch pattern is easy to memorize and flows smoothly into the hem ribbing. A little detailing on each sleeve cuff brings it all together.
I finished the garment with buttons, but this would be a great design for a separating two-way zipper or even hook and eye, if you prefer.
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The leader of the main opposition Libyan National Movement says President Barack Obama's speech late Monday demonstrates America's commitment to not abandon ordinary Libyans in their time of need.
Mufta Lamloom says America's intervention in the Libyan crisis has prevented forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi from massacring ordinary unarmed Libyans who are opposed to what he describes as Gadhafi's tyrannical rule.
"What I got from the speech is that he was very cautious trying to address the American people about what he did in Libya and that it was a decision that has to be taken without referring to anybody because there was a massacre about to happen in Benghazi," said Lamloom.
"It means a lot to Libyans. It means that the United States has not abandoned them in their hour of need because, despite all the obligations of the United States, despite all the hardships the whole world is going through, despite their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has found a way to intervene in the last minute to stop the massacre in Libya," he added.
In a nationally-televised address Monday from Washington, Obama accused Gadhafi of "brutal repression" and creating a "looming humanitarian crisis," which he said forced the international community to act.
Lamloom hailed Obama's speech saying Libyans are encouraged and pleased with America's intervention.
"[Libyans] will take from the speech that United States has obligations towards the people of the world, especially those who are seeking to liberate themselves from dictatorship and want freedom. This has been shown in a very precise and clear language. He said, whoever is looking for their freedom, they will find a friend in the United States," Lamloom said.
Obama's speech came 10 days after the Western air campaign against forces loyal to Gadhafi began. He pointed out that the campaign was authorized by what he called a historic vote in the U.N. Security Council and that NATO is to assume enforcement of the no-fly zone and the protection of the Libyan people.
Lamloom also says his expectations about Obama's speech were met.
"What Libyans see in it [the speech] is that what the coalition or NATO has done is that they have opened the way for Libyans to talk to the chief of the dictatorship. At one point, the Libyans were desperate because Gadhafi was actually massacring the people…he uses the pretext of fighting fundamentalists or al Qaeda," Lamloom said.
"But, nobody in Libya will believe that because we don't have those elements in Libya. What Gadhafi was doing was just killing his people systematically. He was encouraging his troops to rape women; that is something that should not be accepted in the Arab World," he added.
Obama repeated his pledge that the U.S. role would be limited and no U.S. ground forces would be used. The speech was designed to address the concerns of those in Congress and elsewhere who have criticized Obama for failing to clarify U.S. goals before involving U.S. forces in the air assault in support of Libyan rebels.
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Three St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute juniors – Bradley Kreppel, Connor Rosenecker and Nick Courtney – have started a not-for-profit organization that reaches out to people who have economic issues from all over the country.
"We don't [donate to] a specific area, we try and reach out to diverse places," said Bradley.
From an idea to a reality with the help of Bradley's dad, International Micro-Loans of Buffalo was created.
Initially intended to practice an interest of Bradley's, the organization grew when his friends wanted to help out.
"It helps us test out the business waters," said Nick.
The organization is surrounded by the idea of a micro-loan, which comes from the harsh reality that some people in other countries suffer greatly from poverty, destruction and lack of employment, but if a person could get some money to start a business, he or she could have the tools necessary to build a better lifestyle.
"We see it as service first, with the opportunity to learn about business," said Connor.
The three aren't traveling across the world, but they use another organization that allows them to successfully send their donations and allows them to carry out their organization's goal. It's called Kiva.
Kiva connects with many micro-loans organizations, schools and not-for-profit organizations all over the world. Organizations can go on Kiva's website and select people in need in a variety of areas across the world to send money to in order to help them with their needs. Then the people who get help pay back the money, little by little with no charges.
"We are a nonprofit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty," reads Kiva's website (www.kiva.org).
"We send loans to people, [for example], who desire to buy food, and then they send money back," Bradley said.
International Micro-Loans of Buffalo takes the same approach in running their business.
"We wanted to make sure everyone has a voice," said Nick.
"It was easy to start [the business], but we got lucky with having such nice donors," Connor said.
In order to keep up with donors, the group sends letters and maintains a Facebook page and a website.
The boys have met with Westminster Economic Development Initiative, a local organization that is trying to improve the lives of the people living on the West Side. At the meeting, the group was introduced to new ways of running their business.
"Overall it's not hard to start something like this," said Connor. "It's a great thing to do, [especially] when it's so easy to do."
But owning the business creates a lot of work for the already busy high school juniors.
"Most of the work comes from maintaining the website and sending letters," Nick said.
So far International Micro-Loans has issued about $5,000 over 20 loans and has more than 75 donors.
The boys are not only gaining the hands-on experience of running a business but the humbleness of service.
"We're deciding if we want to go through with it in college or hand it down to students in lower grades," Bradley said about International Micro-Loans' future.
For more information, visit www.bufmicroloans.org or like them on Facebook.
Evan Hayes is a senior at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute.