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Niagara Falls has proclaimed Dec. 3, 2013, as #GivingTuesday - Niagara Falls' Day of Giving. The proclamation was made by Mayor Paul Dyster Tuesday afternoon, as he was joined at City Hall by representatives from Community Missions of Niagara Frontier Inc. and Niagara University, two local organizations taking part in the #GivingTuesday initiative.
#GivingTuesday is a first-of-its-kind effort that looks to harness the collective power of a unique blend of partners - charities, families, businesses and individuals - to transform how people think about, talk about, and participate in the giving season. Coinciding with the Thanksgiving holiday, the movement seeks to create a national moment around the holidays dedicated to giving, similar to how "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" have become days synonymous with holiday shopping.
Niagara University and Community Missions represent the lone organizations based in Niagara County planning to participate in the initiative, joining more than 7,250 partners nationwide.
Community Missions, within the theme of its "The Gift of Giving ... The Joy of Receiving" Christmas program, is encouraging people to support the agency in a number of ways on Tuesday, Dec. 3.
•Individuals (and businesses) are encouraged to make a tax-deductible financial contribution to the agency via its website, www.communitymissions.org.
•Individuals are encouraged to beat the end of year rush and donate clothes and household items, which are always welcome to be dropped off at the mission's main office at 1570 Buffalo Ave., Niagara Falls. Such donations are always tax-deductible.
•Individuals are also encouraged to volunteer their time to help spread holiday cheer at the mission.
"#GivingTuesday is a fantastic initiative in encouraging people to give back," said Christian Hoffman, communications and development manager of Community Missions. "Already, we have been so encouraged by the people wanting to support the mission in some way. We look forward to seeing the tremendous generosity of the people of Western New York once again on #GivingTuesday."
Those interested in joining Community Missions' #GivingTuesday initiative can visit www.communitymissions.org/about/givingtuesday.html.
Meanwhile, Niagara University representatives will be collecting monetary donations and nonperishable goods at several locations throughout the Buffalo-Niagara region. Proceeds will benefit a variety of local nonprofit organizations.
Niagara University
•All day - Stop by the Gallagher Center for a variety of #GivingTuesday activities. Drop off your nonperishable goods, purchase a Christmas ornament from NUSGA, and grab some hot cocoa.
Downtown Buffalo
•7:30-10 a.m. | Coffee Culture (50 Fountain Plaza)
•11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. | Hyatt Atrium (2 Fountain Plaza) - lunch and casual networking
•5-8 p.m. | Fat Bob's Smokehouse (41 Virginia Place) - Wear an ugly Christmas sweater to be entered into a contest for a Fat Bob's gift certificate and T-shirt. Drink and food specials will be provided until 8 p.m.
•11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. | Sean Patrick's Restaurant (3480 Millersport Highway)
•7:30-10 a.m. | Orange Cat Coffee (703 Center St.)
•5-8 p.m. | Lewiston Stone House (755 Center St.) - Most festive outfit of the evening will win a gift certificate to the Lewiston Stone House. Drink specials and light refreshments will be provided until 8 p.m.
Niagara Falls
•8-11 a.m. | DiCamillo Bakery (7927 Niagara Falls Blvd.)
•All day - Community Missions of Niagara Frontier (1570 Buffalo Ave.)
•6:30-9 a.m. | Bailly's Food Mart (3821 Lockport Road)
•7:30-10 a.m. | DiCamillo Bakery (5329 Main St.)
"This is another great way for Niagara University to fulfill our mission as a Catholic and Vincentian institution of higher learning," said Jaclyn R. Rossi, '08, M.S.Ed.'10, NU's associate director for leadership giving. "With such an emphasis being placed on shopping during the holiday season, we want to make sure that people are also presented with an opportunity to offer some of their money in a more humane manner - by supporting those in need."
Seeing an opportunity to channel the generous spirit of the holiday season to inspire action around charitable giving, a group of friends and partners, led by the 92nd Street Y in New York City, came together in 2012 to find ways to promote and celebrate the great American tradition of giving. The concept gained steam, and by bringing together a group of founding partners - including the United Nations Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and Groupon - a nationwide series of discussions about how to make #GivingTuesday a success is already underway.
"#GivingTuesday is a counter narrative to 'Black Friday' and 'Cyber Monday,' because it reminds us that the spirit of the holiday giving season should be about community and not just consumerism," said Kathy Calving, CEO of the UN Foundation. "The most meaningful gift we can give our children, loved ones, friends and neighbors is the commitment to work together to help build a better world."
For more details about the #GivingTuesday movement, visit the #GivingTuesday website (www.givingtuesday.org), or follow #GivingTuesday (www.twitter.com/GivingTues) and the #GivingTuesday hashtag on Twitter.


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Note: Dr. Langer mentions that using a "rebounder" (mini-trampoline you can 'walk' on) is a gentle way to get exercise that is so undemanding almost anyone can use it. Here for example is one small folding rebounder that we found on Amazon and here's another without the handrail.


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Congratulations! You've made it!
Click on the topics below to find out the important details on your upcoming graduation.
If you are an Undergraduate student receiving a Bachelor's degree, click here for more information.
If you are a Graduate student receiving a Masters, Specialist, or Doctorate degree, click here for more information.
If you are a Graduate student receiving a Certificate, click here for more information.
Jostens is an UWG approved vendor for graduation announcements. Students may place orders for personalized announcements online by accessing the UWG Jostens' website. The number of announcements ordered is a personal preference, but please note that the seating tickets are limited. See the Tickets section for more information.
Publications and Printing
Your On-Campus Copy Center, also offers commencement announcements and UWG thank-you note cards. For information and prices, you are invited to visit: http://www.westga.edu/pubprint/index_14746.php
PRE-ORDER Commencement Flowers for July 26th, 2018
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Appropriate dress for graduation includes dark shoes for men and women. Men should wear dark pants and a tie. Low-heeled and comfortable shoes are recommended for men and women. It is important that students do not bring handbags or personal items because there is no secure holding area.
Caps and gowns can be purchased at the UWG University Bookstore and should be done in advance. Students' tassel colors will vary based on the college of their major.
College colors to be worn by undergraduates and graduates are:
College of Arts and Humanities – White
Richards College of Business – Drab
College of Education – Light Blue
Tanner Health System School of Nursing – Apricot
College of Science and Mathematics – Yellow Gold
College of Social Sciences – Citron
Doctoral Candidates - Gold Metallic
Ceremony Details
Ceremony Details Summer 2018:
Date: Thursday, July 26th, 2018
Time: 11:00 A.M.
Location: UWG Coliseum
Number of Tickets Per Graduating Student: 7
Due to Fire Marshal regulations, all guests attending a ceremony must have a ticket to enter the Coliseum during graduation. This includes non-marching UWG students, children of any age regardless of if they need their own seat or not, and all other individuals not marching or working as ceremony staff and faculty. The number of tickets allotted are based on how many students are marching each term and the maximum capacity of individuals allowed by the Coliseum to be gathered during special events. For other questions concerning rules and regulations, please consult the Coliseum Policies.
If you have additional tickets that you will not be using for this ceremony, please drop those off at the Bookstore prior to Commencement or a guest may drop them off at Will Call on the day of the event.
If additional tickets are available, they can be picked up at Will Call 1.5 hrs before the ceremony on a first come first serve basis. Doors will open 1 hr prior to the start of the ceremony. Please note that tickets only for that ceremony will be available for pick up at that time. (example- you will not be able to pick up afternoon ceremony tickets before the morning ceremony)
*An overflow room will also be available to view each commencement ceremony.
Location: Tanner Health System School of Nursing Building Room 106
Attire: Appropriate dress for graduation includes dark shoes for men and women. Men should wear dark pants and a tie. Low-heeled and comfortable shoes are recommended for men and women. It is important that students DO NOT bring HANDBAGS or other personal items because there is NO SECURE holding area.
*It is important to report promptly at the time instructed. It may not be possible to include late-arriving candidates in the procession*.
You can find detailed ceremony instructions listed in the following document:
Live video on the day of graduation and archives of previous ceremonies are available at: https://livestream.com/uwg
Policies may be viewed at this web site: The Coliseum
Degree Audits (Undergraduates)
Undergraduate students should view their Wolf Watch degree audit online. To view audit:
1. Log on to the myUWG portal
2. Go to BanWeb tab
3. Go to Wolf Watch link
4. Student information will automatically populate
5. For more information about Wolf Watch, please visit the Wolf Watch section of our webpage.
*Undergraduate students who attended UWG before Fall 1998 will not be in Wolf Watch due to the change in quarter hours to semester hours. To determine undergraduate quarter hour equivalencies, please view our Undergraduate Equivalency Chart. To determine how quarter hours convert to semester hours, multiply by two the number of quarter hours and then divide by three.
Congratulations Spring 2018 Graduates!
Click the following Excel link Spring_2018_Undergraduate_Degrees_Awarded_05222018 (87.4K) for undergraduate list of degrees awarded May-10-2018
Click the following Excel link Spring_2018_Graduate_Awarded_05222018.xlsx (44.5K) for graduate list of degrees awarded May-10-2018
Diploma Pick-Up/Mail Information
Diplomas are generally available to be picked up or mailed 6-8 weeks after the commencement ceremony. Email notifications will be sent to your myUWG email account when the time comes.
We strongly encourage you to pick up your diploma to avoid the possibility of damage through the mail. The diplomas that are not picked up will be mailed to the address that you specified on your graduation application.
If you are unable to pick up your diploma, you have the option of having a third party pick it up for you. You must send a third-party authorization email to email@example.com from your myuwg email account identifying the individual authorized to receive your diploma. That person must bring their photo ID for proper identification. Diplomas will not be released without written authorization and proper ID.
Diploma Replacement Information
Please know that if changes are requested after the diploma order is placed, a Diploma Replacement Form and fee must be submitted to the Registrar's Office.
Name on Your Diploma
The name on your diploma will be the same as it appears on your official transcript; please check your transcript in Banweb. If you need to make changes to your name, then please complete a name change application, and return to the Enrollment Services Center.
Variations of a candidate's official name may be printed on a diploma. Variations of a name must be requested when submitting a Graduation Application. Acceptable variations are listed below:
- Middle names may be complete, initialed, or omitted, but must match the student record. (e.g., John Quincy Adams, John Q. Adams, or John Adams).
- Suffixes such as Sr., Jr., III, etc., may be used
- Hyphenated maiden-married last names may be used, provided the candidate's record has documentation to verify the names. A Name Change Form accompanied by a Certificate of Marriage will be required if a name change has not been processed since the marriage. In all cases, verification will be based on information that is in the candidate's record and not provided verbally.
- Special accent marks may be requested and recognized linguistic marks will be placed on the diploma, if possible. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com with your request.
The following variations are not acceptable:
- No nicknames or names enclosed by parenthesis or quotation marks will be included as the diploma name.
- No prefix or suffix relating to a title or credential is allowed (e.g., Dr., DMD, Esq., Mrs., Mr., etc.).
Final Grades
Grades are required for all classes taken and will be recorded on the academic transcript. This includes courses not necessarily applied to a degree. A candidate will not be certified to graduate with incomplete grades.
After the Registrar's Office receives final grades from faculty, a final audit of the student's academic record will be completed and diplomas will be ordered and issued to eligible graduates as soon as possible. For students completing transient work at an alternate university during their final semester, official transcripts must be received by the grade submission deadline for the current term. If transcripts are received after this date, degrees will not be awarded until the following semester.
Guests with Disabilities
ADA accessible parking spaces at the coliseum are limited and parking reservations are not available. Guests with disabilities are encouraged to arrive at the Coliseum at least 1 1/2 hours prior to the ceremony. Accommodations may include, but are not limited to, ADA accessible parking, special seating, sign language interpreting, Braille or large print programs. Go to Graduation Accommodations or contact the Coliseum at 678-839-5105 for additional information.
Additional ADA accessible parking is located in Lot 18C (Lower Level Z6 Lot)
Interactive & Printable Campus Maps are located on the Maps and Directions page.
Honors (Undergraduates)
The University of West Georgia awards baccalaureate degrees with honors to those undergraduates which have a minimum GPA of 3.50 on all courses attempted. For students who repeat courses for grade replacement, both courses will be calculated into the honors GPA. Those candidates who have transferred from other institutions will qualify for honors if they attain an honors grade-point average on all work attempted at UWG and combined total of all courses attempted at UWG and other institutions. Baccalaureate degrees are awarded with honors based on the following grade point average range for all courses attempted:3.50 - 3.79 GPA - honors (cum laude)3.80 - 3.89 GPA - high honors (magna cum laude)3.90 - 4.00 GPA - highest honors (summa cum laude)
Because grades are not official until after the commencement ceremony, the initial honors designation is based on the student's honors GPA at the end of the semester prior to the graduating semester. Students who have not met the GPA requirements to be designated as an honors recipient at the time of commencement will not be allowed to walk as an honors recipient or to purchase honors cords from the University Bookstore. Official honors designation will be determined after the commencement ceremony when term grades are official and the honors GPA is recalculated. GPAs are truncated to the second decimal place and will not be rounded (example, a 3.49 will not be rounded to a 3.50).
Students who graduate with honors will have their honors status (cum laude, etc.) notated on their official academic transcript and their diploma.
Please refer to the Undergraduate Catalog regarding the Honors policy for further clarification.
Graduation ceremonies are held in the UWG Coliseum. The Coliseum is a new 122,500 sq. ft sports and public assembly facility that is located on the backside of the main campus in Carrollton, Georgia (map). Please note that all students and guests should review our Parking and Traffic Instructions prior to arriving on campus for the ceremony. For directions to the Coliseum, click here, and for a listing of area hotels and motels, visit the Carrollton Convention and Visitors Bureau web site.
Arrangements have been made with Village Photographers to photograph each graduate as they cross the stage and receive their diploma. An individual photo will also be taken of each graduate as he or she exits the stage. There are no fees for this service and no obligation to purchase. Free proofs of these photos will be sent by mail and e-mail to graduates and their families approximately one week after the ceremony.
Graduates should register here http://villagephotographers.com/grad_form.asp before arriving on graduation day in order to receive a free proof. A variety of print packages are available starting at $6.95. If you have any questions regarding photographs, please email email@example.com. Since professional photographs will be available, family members and guests are encouraged to remain in their seats, relax and enjoy the ceremony.
At each commencement ceremony conducted in the Coliseum, tickets will be provided to each student who applies for graduation and indicates that they will march. The tickets are distributed by the University Bookstore with the cap and gown purchase or by picking them up separately.
The reception of tickets is not an indication that the student will be graduating. The number of tickets will differ each semester depending on the number of participating graduates. This is in compliance with fire marshal occupancy codes.
Every guest, including children and infants, will be required to provide a ticket upon entrance. Extra tickets, if available, may be picked up at the Coliseum beginning 1 1/2 hours before the ceremony.
If you have additional tickets that you will not be using for this ceremony, please drop those off at the Bookstore prior to Commencement or a guest may drop them off at Will Call on the day of the event.


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Nicolet College procurement staff purchases, receives, and records assets for the operation of the college.
In accomplishing these tasks, we are committed to the following:
- Employing fair and objective price competition and negotiation practices to secure the best value for the college involving the use of public funds.
- Leveraging technology for competitive advantage.
- Investing in training and professional development of staff.
- Networking with other colleges and purchasing associations for cooperative purchasing.
- Ensuring college assets are properly accounted for in their receipt and disposition by standards of the Wisconsin Technical College System and through best business practices.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn about about bidding opportunities and purchasing policies.
Surplus Property
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University of Vermont
Vermont Quarterly
On the Storm Front
Alumni take key roles in Sandy emergency efforts
- 12-17-2012
- By Tom Weaver
Departments /
Alumni Focus
On the Storm Front
Alumni take key roles in Sandy emergency efforts
by Thomas Weaver
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on New York City on Oct. 27, several hundred municipal, state, and federal staffers began to gather at the city's Office of Emergency Management Command Center in downtown Brooklyn. It's understandable Leon Heyward '81 was pre-occupied that Saturday morning as he set to work on storm preparations. A deputy commissioner for the NYC Department of Transportation, his duties include leading the department's emergency response team.
Heading up the stairs at the Brooklyn headquarters, he met another man, about his age, coming down. He gave Heyward a friendly hello and a hearty handshake. Heyward walked away with that nagging, "I should know who that is, but I can't quite place him," sense. But there were flood plans to activate — sweeping streets, clearing catch basins of debris, moving equipment to low-lying areas. Heyward put the mystery of who that guy was in the back of his mind.
That guy, Trevor Jackson '83, also got down to business a few work-stations away from Heyward. A National Guardsman since his days as a UVM undergraduate, Jackson is commander of the 53rd Army Liaison Team, a Manhattan-based unit of the Guard. A third UVM alum, Nancy Barthold '83, was focused on her own Sandy issues, representing the city's Parks Department in the emergency management operation.
Heyward, long active in leadership roles with the UVM Alumni Association, knew Barthold from university events in the city. Though he hadn't realized it yet, he also shared an alumni bond with the man who had greeted him on the stairs. A day later, when things quieted a bit on Sunday evening, it dawned on him. "I put together that he was in uniform… Jackson… then I said to myself, 'No way!'" I went over and asked him his first name. Trevor."
They'd known each other as UVM undergrads, but hadn't crossed paths since. "I'm so sorry I didn't recognize you," Heyward said.
Jackson joked, "I thought maybe I owed you money or something." Weeks later, Heyward laughs at the memory, an unlikely college reunion in the relative calm before a colossal storm.
Trees, streets, troops
Heyward and Barthold are both NYC natives and current residents; Jackson was born in Jamaica, but came to New York as a child and now lives north of the city. They all care deeply about the place and its people and have served through times of crisis before, most notably the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Barthold is assistant commissioner for recreation and programming with the New York City Parks Department. She currently oversees 35 public recreation centers and programs, but most of her career has been focused on maintenance operations and forestry. That experience led to her role with the city's Emergency Management Operation.
Pulling shifts from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. became the norm from the days leading up to Sandy until Thanksgiving for Barthold, much the same for Jackson and Heyward. Working from the office in Brooklyn and in the field, Barthold coordinated the myriad teams dealing with downed trees. The task was greatly aided, she notes, by a recently developed GIS/tablet-based system that seamlessly coordinated complaint calls and tree inspections on the streets.
Trevor Jackson is a claims manager for the state insurance fund in New York, but as Sandy approached he left his desk job at the office in White Plains, called into active duty with the National Guard. His initial mission was to act as a liaison officer, but for the first three days of the storm, Jackson stepped into the role of ground commander for several units involved with search and rescue efforts. Work in the field took him to the Guard's staging area at Fort Bennett Field, Brighton Beach, the Rockaways, and Staten Island.
"It was painful to see all the destruction," Jackson says. "These are our fellow citizens, and looking out and seeing the water at eye-level, just very daunting to see all the sand barriers being washed away."
Even on the sunniest of days, Leon Heyward's job sounds rather intimidating when you consider that New York City has 13,000 miles of sidewalks and overseeing their maintenance is just one aspect of his work. Post-storm, he set to work helping to lead and coordinate efforts to inspect and identify blocked roads and flooded tunnels and begin restoring traffic flow in one of the world's busiest cities.
On top of the storm recovery effort, Heyward and his staff were immediately on the ground from Tuesday to Friday assessing sidewalk damage and what would need to be done before the weekend's New York City Marathon. Ultimately, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed his call to run the race as planned and cancelled this year's event.
After the flood
All three of the UVM alumni are grateful to have escaped damage to their own property. Jackson, who lives in Rockland County north of the city, lost power at home for a few days. Heyward, who lives in the Bronx, lost power for a week and had some downed trees in his yard, one across a fence that he'll have to get fixed when things slow down. And Barthold, who lives in a Queens neighborhood that sustained significant damage to large, old trees, was fortunate not to lose any in her own yard.
All are united by their impressions of the storm's impact and the fact that they, like so many, had not seen such fury coming. "It was unbelievable," Heyward says. "There's the old saying that TV and the newspapers can't do justice to what you see out there. That was so true. The houses in different stages of devastation — chunks taken out of them, pushed off their foundations, or swept away. And with no power, once it got dark it was very ominous being out there."
A triathlete and open-water swimmer, Barthold has long told friends that the best views of Manhattan are to be had while swimming in the Hudson River. She'll always love the water and the city's waterfront, but has an even deeper respect now for its power. "I'm definitely humbled," she says. "The water by Staten Island is now so calm and bay-like. It's hard to believe it came in and took people's lives."
Barthold, Jackson, and Heyward, all express gratitude to have had roles that put them in positions to help immediately and tangibly during the storm and in its wake. It's an emotion they mutually connect to their experience after 9/11.
Though they're keenly aware of the loss of life and property and the challenges ahead — put in stark numbers by NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent request for $42 billion in federal support for relief and preparation for the next storm — all of the alumni trio were heartened by the cooperation of diverse agencies and individuals that was critical to the emergency efforts. And they are impressed by the strength of New Yorkers, something that Barthold suggests can be as difficult for the media to convey as the devastation of a neighborhood.
Jackson agrees. "No one's spirit was dampened," he says. "That's what was so awesome about the resiliency of everyone out there — even in the Rockaways — everyone was peaceful, grateful for the support, with an attitude of, 'OK, it happened. We'll pick ourselves up and move on.'"


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Message from WHSAA Commissioner Ron Laird
With the forecast for this Thursday and Friday still looking ominous, we are rescheduling the State Tennis Tournament for next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Please realize this is not what we enjoy doing, however, with the fact we are using 19 outdoor courts on Thursday and Friday, there is no way we can move all of those matches into the five indoor courts and have a quality State Tournament.
I know this is a hassle whenever a schedule is changed. We only do this as a last resort.
The Red Grade Grind to be held on October 5th. This will be the 36th running of the event.It starts at 9:00 a.m. at the last parking lot at the end of the pavement as you head up the Grade.
Rain or Shine. No entry fee. 2000' elevation gain in 3 miles. Runners and bicycles welcome.
Any questions, can contact Curt Schwamb 307-672-5416
LADY BRONC SWIMMING - The Lady Bronc Medley relay team set a new school record last Saturday team members are Mackenzie Dougherty, Emily Speigelberg, Payton Brilz and Gretchen Dougherty.
Head coach Brent Moore says it was a tremendous performance. And he says not only for the four team members but it really helped jump start the rest of the team for the meet.
The Lady Broncs host a double dual with the Casper schools and Moore says the dual with Kelly Walsh should be very competitive.
The weather conditions were unfavorable, the Sheridan College Men's team placed 3rd this weekend behind the University of Wyoming who won the event and Gillette College. The Women's team placed 5th this weekend.
The weather conditions were cold and rainy on Friday and with no facility to move the rodeo too, the coaches and judges decided to postpone the rodeo on Friday.
They were able to have the whole long round on Saturday, with the help of Devon Smith, Cody Wulff and the Sheridan College Rodeo team the rodeo went off without a problem.
The Lady Bronc Medley Relay team who placed first and broke the school record at Saturday's meet in Sheridan.
The old relay record of 2:11.88 was from 1999. They swam a 2:11.53.
Pictured from left to right is Mackenzie Dougherty (Butterfly), Emily Spiegelberg (Backstroke), Payton Brilz (Freestyle), and Gretchen Dougherty (Breaststroke).
The Bronc football team is 5-0 after shutting out Rock Springs 19-0. They were a little frustrated offensively but got the job done, Head coach Don Julian.
The Big Horn Rams won big at home over Wright, the Rams blasted the Panthers 57-21 to rebound from a road loss at Burns Head coach Micheal McGuire.
The Tongue River Eagles picked up their first win under Head coach John Scott, Ron Richter has the report.
Both Buffalo and Kaycee High Schools had busy weekends in sports.
The Bison football team dropped to 0-4 on the season as they fell to #2 Douglas 52-0 at the Bison Bowl Friday night.
The Tongue River Eagles football team hosted the Moorcroft Wolves Friday at Tongue River High School. Sheridan Media's Ron Richter was there and has this report.


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Communities with environmental justice concerns are invited by EPA to apply for funding
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now seeking grant applications for projects to assist low-income and minority communities to develop locally-based solutions to their sometimes disproportionate share of environmental and public health issues.
Nationally, up to $800,000 is available to non-profit organizations, a city, township, county government, or Native American tribal government through EPAs Office of Environmental Justice. Grants will be awarded through the Environmental Justice Small Grants Programs (EJSG).
For the Pacific Northwest, EPA anticipates awarding up to four grants in the amount of $20,000 per award. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis. The deadline for grant applications is June 30, 2008.
According to Elin Miller, EPA Regional Administrator in Seattle, EPA and Region 10 are committed to environmental justice, ensuring equal environmental protection under the law.
EPA has made progress at both the national level and in the region to ensure that all people receive fair treatment and meaningful involvement in our efforts to protect human health and the environment, said EPAs Miller.
The EJSG Program is designed to assist receipients in building collaborative partnerships that will help them understand and address the environmental and/or public health issues in their communities. Successful collaborative partnerships with other stakeholders involve well-designed strategic plans to build, maintain and sustain the partnerships, and to work towards addressing the local environmental and/or public health issues.
Two Pacific Northwest organizations have received these grants in the recent past:
Alaska Community Action for Toxics (ACAT) (Anchorage, AK)
Project Description: An ACAT research team will partner with the community to sample the water of the Suqi River, test for contaminants, and identify the existing toxics to be remediated. ACAT will work together with communities and partners to plan the restoration of the Suqi River. For additional information about ACAT, visit: http://www.akaction.org/ or (907) 222-7714.
Organizing People, Activating Leaders (OPAL) (Portland, OR)
Project Description: This project will focus on three national environmental justice priorities: (1) reducing asthma attacks; (2) reducing exposure to air toxics; and (3) revitalizing contaminated sites. OPAL will incorporate the first two priorities asthma and air toxics- within Portlands I-205 Breathe Campaign. OPAL intends to empower the community through education; training and outreach which will help stimulate leadership development; and proactive involvement around social and environmental justice issues. For additional information about OPAL, visit: http://www.opalpdx.org/ or (503) 997-3853.
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Download here: Episode 46 - Satellite Swarms
Alvar Saenz-Otero
Alvar Saenz-Otero is lead scientist of the SPHERES project at the MIT Space Systems Laboratory in the US. SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites) fulfill all the normal requirements of satellites in a small basketball-sized shape. This small size is what has allowed these robots to be tested in the lab, during parabolic flights and even on board the International Space Station (ISS).
The research question is how to make these satellites work together by flying in formations and physically connecting, or docking. Such swarms of satellites could be used to create giant telescope mirrors in space with nano-meter precision and assemble future space stations without human intervention.
Saenz-Otero also describes more generally how you get your robot into the ISS and his plans to motivate students about science or pursue his dream of large swarms in space.
What is a Robot?
This week we look at a traditional definition of a robot, coming straight from the Robot Institute of America. Acoording to their 1979 definition, a robot is:
"A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks"
What's interesting about this definition is how far we've come in the last 30 years in the development of robotics. In 1979 a robot was simply a manipulator used to move parts in pre-programmed motions, which brings to mind industrial robots used in factories. 30 years later robots are no longer simply manipulators, but can propel themselves in their environment, understand their surroundings and act accord to their particular situation and analysis of surroundings instead of simply enacting pre-programmed motions. This 30-year-old official definition no longer applies, so let's try to figure out what robots mean to us today! Keep sending us your answers by email at email@example.com and let's get closer to an all-encompassing definition of a robot for the 21st century.


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Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Why We Collaborate.
About Clay Shirky's TEDTalk
Social media guru Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy contributing to the web in our small ways, we're building a better, more cooperative world.
About Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky's work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks — using decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer sharing, wireless, software for social creation, and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in all fields as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures, which he sees as limiting.
Shirky is an adjunct professor in New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. He's the author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity And Generosity In A Connected Age.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Yellow Springs, Ohio edited Spanish language in the United States.
It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Ridgewood, New Jersey edited Guy Fieri.
RAZ: I'm Guy Raz and on the show today, ideas about the phenomenon of mass collaboration.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in San Marcos edited list of female drummers.
RAZ: When you put this out there, did you ask the question, all right, who's in charge of this, who's going to be in charge of this?
JIMMY WALES: Not really. I was in charge of it.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Athens, Greece edited Visa requirements for Zimbabwean citizens.
WALES: In the early days, I used to read every single edit. As they came in...
RAZ: Wow.
WALES: ...I would click and see what someone had done. That only lasted for a very short period of time. It got very...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Fort Collins, Colorado...
WALES: ...Fast, so, it was impossible to keep up with everything.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: ...Edited 2003 to 2004 United States network television schedule.
WALES: So we came up with the Arbitration Committee, the idea of administrators and what are the rules and what can administrators do or not do and so forth. So it really grew very organically...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts...
WALES: ...You know, over a long period of time.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: ...Edited unemployment.
RAZ: I'm looking at a Wikipedia Recent Changes Live Map right now and it just so happens that...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Birmingham, Alabama...
RAZ: ...Your home state edited the list of reportedly haunted locations in the United States.
WALES: Yeah, yeah. I've seen it. It's very cool. It's that little things pop up as people are editing.
RAZ: Yeah...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in...
RAZ: ...And the country flashes.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: ...Belgium...
WALES: Yeah.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: ...Edited dependency theory.
RAZ: It's incredible, isn't it?
WALES: Yeah, it's really nice to see.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Tel Aviv edited...
WALES: Tools like this are...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: SriLankan Airlines.
WALES: ...Interesting because they really help...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in Chicago...
WALES: ...you feel...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: ...Edited American Idol.
WALES: ...The aliveness of the community...
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: Someone in West Bend, Wisconsin...
WALES: ...That there's real people out there.
SYNTHESIZED VOICE: ...Edited Joseph McCarty. Someone in Hyde Park edited list of minor Power Rangers characters. Someone in the United Kingdom edited Of Monsters and Men. Someone in Winston Salem, North Carolina edited Brazil-Canada relations. Someone in edited...Someone in edited...Someone in edited...
WALES: You know, when I look and find some entry on something incredibly obscure and I realize, gosh, you know, six different people have had major input into this and it's just amazing. And they may have come from Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, England or who knows where.
RAZ: So that - you may have already figured out - is one of the founders of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. And way back in 2004, Jimmy Wales gave a TED Talk explaining his relatively new website.
WALES: So Wikipedia is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded, a nonprofit organization. And our goal, the core aim of the Wikimedia Foundation is to get a free encyclopedia to every single person on the planet. And so if you think about what that means...
RAZ: Now remember, this was Jimmy Wales speaking almost a decade ago. There was no YouTube; Facebook, sort of out there; and Wikipedia, not yet a household name.
WALES: So we're doing around 1.4 billion page views monthly, so it's really gotten to be a huge thing. And everything is managed by the volunteers and the total monthly cost for our bandwidth is about $5,000, and that's essentially our main cost.
RAZ: Just 5,000 bucks a month in 2004. Considerably lower than Wikipedia's current monthly costs of 2.25 million. Back then, Wikipedia had 1.4 billion page views a month. Now, 19 billion a month. And to make it all possible, the engine that actually runs Wikipedia - collaboration. It cannot work without a group of volunteers, about 80,000 of them, who update the site for free. So why? Why would they do it?
WALES: You know, people don't ask the question, you know, why do people play World of Warcraft? How come they don't ask to be paid to do it? And the answer is, it's fun. They do it because it's fun.
You know, I'm sure people at the end of an eight-hour binge of playing a videogame, they think, OK, that was really stupid, I just wasted eight hours of my life. Usually, when people have an eight-hour binge of editing Wikipedia they think, well, I made the world a little bit better place than it was when I started, so I feel happy about that. That feeling that this is something, culturally, that will be remembered in 500 years is something that people find very satisfying.
RAZ: And that might actually be the answer, because what would motivate thousands or even millions of people to contribute hours of their time to collaborate on something for free?
That's what we'll explore on the show today with TED speakers who all depend on that kind of mass participation and who have to figure out how to channel that mass chaos into order. Now in the case of Wikipedia, it actually became a big success because of a big mistake.
WALES: In the early days, we had the great benefit of no one paying any attention to us. So we were able to have, you know, some bad things happen until we figured out what we had to do about that.
RAZ: And that day came...
WALES: When we had a very serious error...
RAZ: ...In December 2005.
WALES: ...About a lovely guy.
NEAL CONAN: John Seigenthaler is a veteran journalist. He's the former editor and publisher of the Tennessean in Nashville, as well the first editorial page editor for USA Today. He is not, and let us repeat, not in any way connected to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy or his brother Robert. He was somewhat surprised, therefore, when he read his biography on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can write for or edit, which linked him to those murders...
WALES: You know, it was a poorly linked article. Probably very, very few people ever saw it and, you know, on we marched. But then he wrote this scathing editorial in USA Today, which then got picked up by lots of outlets and it was our first big splash of media coverage and...
CONAN: And Jimmy Wales joins us now on the phone. He's a founder of Wikipedia and he's with us from his office...
WALES: ...I got dragged on CNN and everywhere else to be yelled at about it.
CONAN: But this information about Mr. Seigenthaler is going to be - A, was copied, we certainly know, onto other websites and it could be bouncing around there for a long time.
WALES: Well, sure now it's...
RAZ: Wow. Yeah, I remember that.
WALES: This particular article is under intense attention from all over the world right now because there's been a lot of press coverage and so forth...
And our traffic tripled in about two months.
WALES: The typical case though is that, by and large, most people are not doing malicious things at Wikipedia.
That was the first time when I really felt we're not just this funny group of people off on the obscure corner of the Internet trying to work on a project. We're actually impacting the world. That was the moment when I said, oh, wow, this is really getting to be big.
RAZ: And it's amazing when you think about how fast things either take off or die on the Internet today. It's amazing that Wikipedia had already been around for nearly four years at that point. Four years earlier, in 2001, Jimmy and a group of collaborators were still trying to figure out what they wanted to do on the Internet.
WALES: I was interested in how programmers were coming together to create all the really great software, as volunteers, that really runs - even today, most of the software that runs the Internet is open source software that's created, not entirely by volunteers, but largely.
And I thought, gosh, this kind of collaboration is very interesting and it's a mode of cultural production that, to me, seemed like it could be expanded to other things. Why just software? And that was really the early beginnings of thinking about, what could people come together to do and build online.
RAZ: But I mean, you've heard this, this sort of foundational principle of economic theory, right? That human motivation is driven by incentive, usually financial, and it seems like your whole model just up-ends that principle, that theory.
WALES: Well, I don't think so. And what's interesting is that, yes, of course if somebody has a view that human beings are only motivated by money, then they're going to have a pretty blinkered view of how humans behave and also a fairly sad life, in my view. And I think that's important to realize, that the Internet, as a tool, allows for really brilliant people to do things that they weren't really able to do in the past.
One my favorite examples is to think about the best bloggers and I think the best bloggers are easily the equal of the best, say, New York Times columnist. That person always existed. 60 years ago, that person existed and all they could do, at that time, was be a, you know, fabulous person to have over for a dinner party. But now they can gain an audience of, well, maybe only a few thousand people, maybe millions of people. And they enjoy it and, you know, it is a remarkable shift in the world
RAZ: When you gave your talk in 2005, Wikipedia was a completely different thing than it is now.
WALES: We have exactly one employee, and that employee is our lead software developer and he's only been our employee since January 2005. All the other growth before that - so the servers are managed by a ragtag band of volunteers, all the editing is done by volunteers.
And the way that we're organized is not like any traditional organization you can imagine. People are always asking, well, who's in charge of this or who does that? And the answer is, anybody who wants to pitch in. It's a very unusual and chaotic thing. We've got over 90 servers now...
You know, I remember early, early days, looking at a list of the top 100 websites and I thought, well, if we do a really great job, we might make it into the top 100 or top 50, and now we're number five. So it's even exceeded my optimism.
WALES: First of all, how good is it? Well, it's pretty good. It isn't perfect, but it's much, much better than you would expect, given our completely chaotic model. So how do we do this? How do we manage the quality control? What makes - how does it work? So there's a few elements, mostly social policies and some elements of the software. So the biggest and the most important thing is our "neutral point of view" policy.
This is something that I set down from the very beginning as a core principle of the community that's completely not debatable. It's a social concept of cooperation, which basically says, any time there's a controversial issue, Wikipedia itself should not take a stand on the issue. We should merely report on what reputable parties have said about it.
So this neutrality policy is really important for us because it empowers a community that is very diverse to come together and actually get some work done. So we have very diverse contributors in terms of political, religious, cultural backgrounds...
RAZ: What do you think could be the next big, kind of - I mean, what are the potentials out there? What are the possibilities for massive participation and collaboration?
WALES: Well, I mean, there's a lot of things that are going on. One of the things that I always tell people is, you know, when I started Wikipedia back in 2001, all of the technology to create Wikipedia had already existed for several years. You know, Web server, Web browser, database, even the idea of wiki was six years old when I started Wikipedia.
Yet, it didn't start until I started it six years later. And so I always say, think of all the technology that we have today, that we've had for several years and what could be created with it that nobody has even really thought of yet.
RAZ: What was the first article put up on Wikipedia?
WALES: You know, that - what's interesting about that, that is lost to history. So the software originally only kept five revisions. I do know the first words in Wikipedia because I wrote them and that was, hello world. And that's something that programmers do. When you learn a new language, you always write a program called Hello world, where you just print out "Hello world," so that's what I did there.
RAZ: Jimmy Wales. Check out his TED Talk from 2005 at TED.NPR.org. Now you might not edit Wikipedia pages, but trust me you've participated in another massive-scale online collaboration without even knowing it, and it wouldn't be possible without Beyonce, Gmail and a lot of frustration. More on that in a moment. I'm Guy Raz and this is the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I hear it all the time and everywhere when the subject of Polyamory comes up, "what about jealousy?" or "do poly people get jealous" or the declaration, "I can't deal with jealousy so I could never be in an open relationship". At times these repeated questions and statements are heard so often that many poly people have almost rehearsed speeches to talk to people or reporters about poly and jealousy.
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The book is a novel created from fragments of incident, prose poems that ache to add up but can't quite get there. There are 58 chapters over the course of 114 pages, and a few of those chapters have a gnomic beauty to them, the beauty of roads disappearing over an untouchable horizon:
Thirteen. Life on Other PlanetsChapter after chapter is entrancing on its own, and they go down like bite-size candy, but the book only begins to reveal its best elements upon rereading, because to understand how all the strands fit together, it helps to have a sense of where the book is going, its contours and boundaries. Someone -- maybe Gregory Benford -- said writing fantasy is, compared to writing scientifically-based science fiction, like playing tennis with the net down. Robert Frost is reputed to have said the same thing of free verse poetry. But a book like Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf shows how narrow-minded such a view is, how obdurate and mulish and wilfully perverse -- because this is the sort of book that creates its own court, its own game: raquetball, not tennis. On a first read, it seems that anything could happen, any sentence would be allowed, but by the end we realize this isn't true. There is a structure here, a purpose and meaning. It's not a random sampling of strange imagery held together by bizarre characters and even more bizarre situations. No no no. It's a book that traps a universe in its pages, and though the physics may be unfamiliar, there are still at least a few scientific laws at play, even if they don't come from the science we know.
There's a way by which things get unsorted. A crucial button takes a gyre-dive down the sink's drain. A language vanishes, turns to babble.
Iple feels better. He doesn't miss his favorite shoes. In the evenings he uses his brain like a crystal ball to watch over the living world. He enjoys now understanding languages, the Bantu languages, the Mandarin dialects, the dialects of the owl, the dialects of water. There's a brook Iple watches over, that tells all at once the many interlocking stories of its polliwogs.
There's a boy who looks like Iple did, who takes naps by the brook in the afternoon. He wakes up from these naps feeling right and calm, then goes back into the world to get unsorted.
When someone is taking a trip, one way to wish that person off is to say, "in boca al lupo," which means, "travel in the mouth of the wolf." If the wolf's mouth will have you, it is the safest place to be. Just the world alone is so big that it's hard not to vaporize. But when traveling, there is also the giant emptiness between one place and the other to consider.
Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf is, ultimately, a book about time and memory and mortality and reponsibility. But, unlike so many doorstopping volumes of soon-to-be-remaindered lore, this is a tiny book with a comic, naive tone, a pixellated Rasselas. It ends, like all of us, with death, but we already know that after death the thing to do is ignore your neighbors and find some fish, so we're prepared.
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LONDON (AP) -- London Olympic organizers say they remain on course to break even on their operating budget.
The local organizing committee forecasts total revenue and expenditure will both be $3.8 billion. The privately financed LOCOG budget, which covers the running of the games, is met through sponsorships, ticket sales, television rights fees and merchandising.
It is separate from the government's public-sector budget of more than 9 $14.2 billion, covering venue construction, security and other infrastructure costs.
LOCOG's financial report covering the 18 months up to Sept. 30 shows a loss of $83.5 million but also shows $123 million of revenue in the bank that will show up in the final books later this year.
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The organization has already scheduled morning news conferences with the managing owner and Collins, who spent almost the entire game glued to his seat and spoke mostly with a hand covering his mouth.
Philadelphia (34-48) finished the season by winning three of its final four games but still out of the playoffs.
The Pacers (49-31) were led by Gerald Green who had a career-high 34 points. Lance Stephenson had 12 points, but the Pacers again failed to win their 50th game and head into the postseason with five losses in their last six games. Indiana rested four starters - Paul George, George Hill, Roy Hibbert and David West.
The game had no bearing on the playoff picture.
Indiana was already locked into the third seed in the Eastern Conference and will now face sixth-seeded Atlanta in the first round. The two teams split their four games this season. Philadelphia, meanwhile, had already been eliminated from the playoffs.
But the game did feature two intriguing story lines.
Sixers guard Jrue Holiday became only the second player in the franchise's 50-year history to average more than 17 points and eight assists for an entire season. He finished with five points and no assists, giving him single-season averages of 17.7 points and 8.01 assists. The only other Philly player to achieve that feat was Wilt Chamberlain in 1967-68.
And when Ben Hansbrough entered the game in the second quarter, it marked the first time in NBA history that two sets of brothers -- Jrue and Justin Holiday of the Sixers and Ben and Tyler Hansbrough of the Pacers -- played in the same game.
But the meaningless finale had little intrigue.
The 76ers scored the first 11 points and the Pacers spent the rest of the night futilely playing catch-up. They got within nine three times in the first half but couldn't get closer than that until Jeff Pendergraph's steal and layup made it 90-83 midway through the fourth quarter.
Notes: Philadelphia finished this season with one fewer win than it had during the lockout season of 2011-12. ... Indiana has had the league's top scoring defense most of the season but has allowed 97 or more points in six of its last eight games. ... The 76ers finished the season 11-30 on the road but went 5-5 in its last 10 games outside of Philadelphia.


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AICPA Expert Panel Discusses Pension Standards Implementation with GASB
September 5, 2013
Members and staff of the American Institute of CPAs' (AICPA) State and Local Government Expert Panel (Panel) met with members and staff of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) in June to discuss topics of mutual interest. Topping the list of discussion items was expected implementation issues associated with two new GASB standards on pensions (one for governmental pension plans and one for participating governmental employers).
These standards will require state and local governments, for the first time, to report significant pension-related liabilities on their balance sheets. GASB Statement No. 67, Financial Reporting for Pension Plans, is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2013, and GASB Statement No. 68, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions, is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2014.
The Panel presented an educational session to the Board on what it views as very important accounting and related audit issues associated with governmental multiple-employer plans (i.e., both agent and cost-sharing plans) and the governments that participate in those plans. The Panel also expressed concerns that without early planning, plans may not be adequately addressing the information that will be needed, beyond the plan financial statements, for employers to prepare their financial statements when GASB Statement No. 68 becomes effective. The Panel reported it is working on several whitepapers that further describe these issues and related best practices that it hopes to issue in the next several months.
Additionally, the Panel reported that a new chapter on governmental pension plans and related employer issues is currently under development for the 2014 edition of the AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide, State and Local Governments. In the meantime, all agreed that early discussion and interaction between plans and governmental employers is key to ensuring that implementation of the new standards by employers is successful.
For background information about the AICPA's earlier work regarding the new GASB pension standards, read the story in the August 2012 issue of The CPA Advocate. Information about the Expert Panel and its ongoing work, including the fact that the AICPA is preparing comment letters to two GASB due process documents, is available on the AICPA website. Also, watch the new AICPA video about the two new pension standards that discusses how their implementation will improve transparency of public pension benefits on the finances of state and local governments.


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By JOHN A. ZUKOWSKI
The Express-Times
Pete Hance said he didn't have a problem with his upbringing in the
United Church of Christ. He liked the people at the Allentown church
which he attended. And he had no bad experiences.
At age 14 he set out to read the Bible from cover to cover.
But something happened when he began reading it.
"There was so much that was in direct conflict with science that it
put the seeds of doubts in my mind," he says.
He didn't immediately become an atheist. That happened gradually,
over time, he says.
Hance says people have generally accepted his atheism. But he's
heard some criticism about atheists. The worst of it?
"If you don't believe in God you're not a patriot, or if you don't
believe in God you're evil and you're going to hell," he says.
He especially doesn't like the idea that atheists can't be
patriotic. So he displays an American flag at his Fogelsville home.
Something else bothers him. That's when he hears some people say
atheists are immoral and unethical.
"Atheists do the right thing and they would help a person in need
just because it's the right thing to do, not because they expect to
be treated favorably in the afterlife," he says.
He's even compiled some guidelines he likes to follow. He refers to
them as "Ten Ethical Principles for Atheists."
Among the principles are: "maintain and project an ethical outlook
in every aspect of one's life," "accept responsibility for one's own
actions," and "spend quality time with those closest to you."
Hance is part of the 11 percent of the U.S. population who identify
themselves as either atheists or agnostics, according to Barna
Research Group, a Ventura, Calif., organization which conducts polls
on religion topics.
The number of people who identified themselves as belonging to "no
religion" increased from 8 percent in 1990 to 14 percent in 2001,
according to a survey by the City University of New York. The people
who claimed no religious preference ranged from those who declared
themselves secular humanists to those who defined themselves as
While it's difficult to track if atheism is on the rise overall, a
spokeswoman for the New Jersey Humanist Network in Bridgewater says
membership in the group shot up after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"For a lot of people Sept. 11 was a concrete example of how religion
can give people the wrong motives," Tamara Mount says. "Considering
that the terrorists did it for God and to have a wonderful
Atheists -- who also sometimes call themselves humanists,
freethinkers or secular humanists -- also are in the news more
lately because they have been politically active.
Some observers say there's a renewed atheistic activism which
recalls the work of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American
Atheists. O'Hair's legal challenges led to a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court
ruling which banned mandatory Bible reading in public schools.
Ellen Johnson is now the president of American Atheists, which has
its headquarters in Cranford, N.J. She says atheists have become
more politically active recently. That's to counteract support by
some religious groups on issues such as faith-based initiatives and
vouchers for religious schools, she says.
Last year, atheist groups initiated some high-profile cases which
forced courts to define the separation of church and state.
A humanist group challenged whether a Ten Commandments plaque could
hang in the Chester County, Pa. courthouse.
The Supreme Court declined to hear about whether the Ten
Commandments can be displayed in government buildings or in public
spaces. For now, that leaves it up to lower courts to decide.
However, the high court agreed to hear the case of an atheist who
challenged the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
This year the Supreme Court will hear a case brought by a California
atheist who says the use of the words "under God" in his daughter's
class amounted to the government endorsing a belief in one God.
Although atheists say they have no creeds, dogma or religious
beliefs, some local atheists say that doesn't stop them from holding
regular meetings and social functions. In December, 130 members of
the New Jersey group gathered at a Parsippany hotel and celebrated a
non-religious winter holiday.
"There's a strong need to develop a sense of community with people
who don't believe in a deity," Mount says. "People like that sense
of community, particularly after they have children."
The reason some religious pollsters put agnostics and atheists in
the same category is that sometimes it's difficult to tell the
difference between them.
Agnosticism is a doubting or questioning if there is a God.
Agnostics usually say it cannot be proven one way or another if God
Some atheists completely reject the concept of any type of God.
Other atheists reject definitions of a personal or deistic god and
sometimes sound like agnostics stressing the uncertainty of knowing
if there is a god.
In some theology, both agnosticism and atheism are being viewed not
only as ideologies but as components of spiritual maturation. Even
some people who define themselves as religious or spiritual say
agnosticism or atheism is sometimes part of a person's spiritual
The Rev. Julie Newhall of the Skylands Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship in Hackettstown says she's heard people refer to
themselves as atheists or agnostics for a variety of reasons.
Sometimes people no longer believe in the same definition of God
they had when they were growing up. So they must outline another
one. Sometimes they grow up unchurched and have to explore their
views on religion. Sometimes they confront a tragedy or crisis in
their life and question their belief in God. Other times, people
stay committed to a belief there is no God or a doubt about the
existence of God.
But Newhall says she isn't shocked at people who say they experience
atheistic or agnostic feelings.
"I would reassure them that it's perfectly natural for someone to go
through it," she says. "You can see it in famous spiritual searches.
Sometimes it's a short phase, sometimes it's a lifelong position."
But for atheists who take that firm lifelong position, they
emphasize they don't follow any religion. But some atheists say that
they don't disdain all religious people or clergy.
"Those that encourage tolerance, understanding and community spirit
are good religious leaders doing good work," Hance says.
At the same time, some atheists work to promote atheism so people
can know it exists.
Johnson says that when she grew up, she didn't know what atheism
was. Although her parents weren't regular churchgoers, some of her
friends were strict Catholics and Lutherans. So when she was young,
she prayed. But she says she didn't get anything out of it.
Years later, she heard O'Hair on television.
"I never heard the word atheism once in my life, but she was not
religious and there was a name for it," she says. "It's almost like
being gay. When you growing up you know you're different and then
later you find out you're not the only one."
As for what she calls some of the "big questions" in life, she says
she's reached some resolutions about them. But she says she looks to
science to answer those questions, not to religion.
As for life after death, she believes this life is all there is.
She says even if it could be proven there was a God, she'd have some
"Where was God on Sept. 11?" she asks. "What about children who die?
If you or anyone in your office had the power, would they allow a
child to die from bone cancer?"
She says in some parts of the country, it's difficult to ask those
questions and to publicly declare oneself an atheist.
"It's similar to what happens to gays," she says. "They don't like
it when you come out of the closet. If you don't challenge the
status quo then it's not a problem. But once you do then it's a
Reporter John A. Zukowski can be reached at 610-258-7171 or by e-
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