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In partnership with other academic departments at Johnson State College, the JSC Education Department offers teacher endorsements at the middle and secondary levels in these areas:
English Education Typical undergraduate majors: B.A. in English or B.A. in creative writing
Mathematics Education Typical undergraduate major: B.A. in mathematics
Social Studies Education Typical undergraduate majors: B.A. in history or B.A. in political science
Science Education Typical undergraduate majors: B.A. in biology, B.S. in environmental science, B.S. in health sciences
Academic Requirements
Students seeking teacher endorsement in one of these areas must apply to the JSC Education Department for admittance to that teacher education program. See the Office of Educator Licensure for entry requirements, which include a minimum GPA, minimum scores on an academic exam (such as the SAT, ACT or PRAXIS Core) and an interview. Students accepted into a teacher education program at JSC must successfully complete three sets of academic requirements:
A major in the discipline of their endorsement, including all requirements for the bachelor's degree, including the general education and graduation requirements, with a cumulative 3.0 GPA or better and a 3.0 GPA in the major
Specific content-specific endorsement courses
A prescribed set of education courses
With careful planning, these requirements can be met for most programs within a typical plan of study.
Fieldwork at Partnership Schools
The best way to learn to be a great educator is to gain practical experience under the mentorship of a practicing professional at a JSC partnership school. Students accepted into JSC's teacher education programs undertake the following fieldwork experiences at our partnership schools:
Inquiry projects: Students complete 20 hours of observation and participate in teaching various courses.
Practicum I (Introductory Methods): Students teach lessons in English language arts and mathematics.
Practicum II (Advanced Methods): Students teach integrated lessons employing inclusive strategies.
Student Teaching: Students complete a comprehensive, 15-week internship (five days each week) focused on designing and instructing an integrated and inclusive unit of study.
Students are expected to complete fieldwork assignments during typical public school hours (Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) and to arrange their own transportation to fieldwork sites.
Teacher Education Workshops
Teacher Education students attend five Teacher Education Workshops (EDU-TEW1 through EDU-TEW5) throughout their program. These are one-time meetings held each semester in multiple sections; see the "Course Sequence Plans" in the Teacher Education Handbook for details. Each workshop provides guidance for completing the next set of requirements for the program. Students who do not meet the benchmark requirements may not proceed in the program.


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Aquafina® and "Project Runway" Call on Fans to Select 'Pure Challenge' Design Finalists
One lucky fan will receive a trip to Fashion Week to attend the Project Runway Season 11 finale
Jan 11, 2013, 08:00 EST
PURCHASE, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today through January 20, 2013, consumers can vote for their favorite Aquafina-inspired design submitted as part of the Aquafina 'Pure Challenge' at Facebook.com/Aquafina and be entered for a chance to win a trip to the "Project Runway" Season 11 finale. Narrowed down from the pool of design submissions gathered over the past month, the four designers who receive the most votes will compete in a one-hour, live design competition in New York City on February 6, 2013. The grand prize winner will receive $5,000, Aquafina for a year and recognition among the esteemed "Project Runway" and fashion communities.
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"We're thrilled that through our collaboration with 'Project Runway,' we were able to provide consumers with an opportunity to showcase their individuality and passions through design," said Galit Cann, Marketing Director, Aquafina. "Each design submission uniquely conveyed the pure essence of the designer and we're anxiously awaiting the voting results."
The Aquafina 'Pure Challenge' is inspired by Aquafina's commitment to providing pure water, perfect taste to help consumers feel their best every day. By working closely with "Project Runway," the platform provided aspiring designers an opportunity to celebrate the pure essence of who they are through fashion.
To vote, please visit facebook.com/Aquafina and join the conversation @aquafina #purechallenge.
No purchase necessary. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Legal residents of the 50 United States (D.C.), 18 years and older (19 in AL or NE) and who did not purchase any equipment for purposes of entering this contest. Void where prohibited. Enter Contest between 12/12/12 & ending 1/20/2013. To enter and for Official Rules and other important terms and conditions, visit Facebook.com/Aquafina.
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Aquafina (www.aquafina.com) is a product of PepsiCo Beverages Americas (PBA), a division of PepsiCo. PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of more than $65 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. Our main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola – make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world. PepsiCo's people are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet, which we believe also means a more successful future for PepsiCo. We call this commitment Performance with Purpose: PepsiCo's promise to provide a wide range of foods and beverages for local tastes; to find innovative ways to minimize our impact on the environment by conserving energy and water and reducing packaging volume; to provide a great workplace for our associates; and to respect, support and invest in the local communities where we operate. For more information, please visit www.pepsico.com.
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Instead of having a banquet for our 2011 Home School Graduation in Searcy, we are thinking about a BBQ instead. Do you know of any places in Searcy that would be sufficient for hosting a large BBQ? If so, please let us know and provide the contact information for potential hosts. You can either comment on this blog post, e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com, or give us a call at 501-978-5503. Thank you!
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Rib Crib BBQ & Grill
3204 East Race Avenue
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They cater and they have a fairly large resturant.


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A VoiceThread for Any Course
This is a guest post by educator and VoiceThreader, Dana Heimlich, MS,Ed. I love VoiceThread! I love it so much that I'm always tweeting my gratitude to them–which is how I ended up writing this guest blog post (seriously). I'm very excited to share my experiences in the hopes that it might inspire you to … Continued


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A volunteer emergency doctor assisted an elderly driver who became unwell in the Peak District.
Dr Chris Press, East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) attended the incident on the A57 near Ladybower Reservoir on Thursday. Dr Press gave the man in his 80s airway management and drugs to sedate him, he then escorted him to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital.


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Long Realty is pleased to bring you tips for Living in Arizona, courtesy of our local Long Advantage business partners. The articles below covers an array of helpful and insightful tips for the Arizona lifestyle. We hope you find this information useful.
Sprucing Up Your Landscape for Fall
October 30, 2015
Fall colors are upon us and we're starting to feel that crisp air that comes with lowered temperatures. With the changing of seasons comes routine house maintenance to keep in mind, including the transition from summer lawn to winter grass.
It will soon be time to reduce your irrigation timers for your landscape to a winter schedule. This will help to reduce your water bill and it is also not healthy for your plants to water them frequently during the winter. Also remember, when watering through your drip irrigation system it is better to water, whether it be winter or summer, for a longer duration rather than more frequent short spurts. Deeper soaking helps leach salts and establish a healthier, deeper root system.
Southwest Arizona has poor soil conditions. You want to grow a combination of plants and grass amidst rocks and stones, as they will add more depth to your garden and also break the monotony of the plants. Also, look to grow evergreen shrubs, such as Arizona rosewood and Chasteberry.
The seasonal annual flower change is also close at hand. Large variations are available. Be careful in your selections, as not all varieties do well here. What's listed on the label for full sun, comes from California. There are many plants that are well adapted to flourish and survive in Sonoran climate. Typically, bougainvillea, which can flower, even in winter if there is no frost, lilac vine, primrose jasmine and rosemary are great choices.
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A convicted sex offender has won a High Court order for the removal of a Facebook page set up to monitor paedophiles in Northern Ireland.
A judge ruled some content amounted to prima facie harassment of the man and risked infringing his human rights.
Facebook was given 72 hours to take down the page 'Keeping our kids safe from predators'.
The page has been taken down, but two with similar names then appeared on Friday afternoon.
Mr Justice McCloskey said: "Society has dealt with the plaintiff in accordance with the rule of law."
"He has been punished by incarceration and he is subject to substantial daily restrictions on his lifestyle."
'Degrading treatment'
The man, who cannot be identified, was given a six year jail sentence for a string of child sex offences committed more than two decades ago.
The man, known only as XY, issued proceedings against the social networking site after discovering his photograph and threatening comments posted on the page.
He claimed harassment, misuse of private information, and a breach of his right to privacy and freedom from inhuman or degrading treatment.
The court heard that he fears being attacked or burnt out of his home.
In a statement he described the published material as an attempt to vilify and stir up hatred against him.
Details of some of the comments posted about him since his case against Facebook Ireland Ltd gained publicity had been disclosed earlier in court.
One said: "So the man, or I mean mess of a human being, that's taken this page to court, he must want to be the head paedophile and rule over all sex offenders. He will be like a god to them."
Another stated: "Put him down like an animal."
Interim relief
It was also set out how he is suffering from ill health.
Although Facebook has already removed his photo and comments made about the man, his legal team insisted the page should be shut down down.
They are also seeking disclosure of the identity of those who set up and ran it.
Lawyers for Facebook argued that it was neither necessary nor proportionate to remove a page used by 4,000 people.
However, balancing the competing rights to privacy and freedom of expression, Mr Justice McCloskey ruled in favour of the plaintiff.
He pointed out that only interim relief was being sought at this stage, and that granting it would cause minimal disruption to Facebook.
"I conclude that the pendulum of the rule of law swings in the plaintiff's favour," the judge said.
"The order of the court will be that the removal from facebook.com of the page entitled 'Keeping our kids safe from predators'... is to be effected within 72 hours."


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January 21st: Eat Natural Selection 2011
It's been nearly two years since I last took a look at the Eat Natural range (See previous reviews HERE) but since the turn of the year I have received a few requests asking me to check out some healthier chocolate options. Back in 2009 the Eat Natural brand was still relatively unestablished here in the UK, but since then their range has grown quite considerably with several new variants and products (cereals etc).
These indulgent health bars aren't my usual choice of snack, but I was able to track down two new flavours with relative ease in my local Holland & Barrett health store. Both 45.0g bars came in at a pretty price £0.89, though I guess this was to be expected given the proposition and ingredients. If you look at the wrappers from the 2009 reviews you will see that little has changed in regards to the presentation, which I personally think is fair given that it was never bad in the first place. Puzzlingly the wrappers still lacked nutritional information (you would of thought consumers of these sort of products would be interested in that sort of stuff), but nonetheless every other detail you may ever wish to know e.g. ingredients, production method etc were included.
Here are my thoughts on the two flavours:
Eat Natural Dark 70% Chocolate Brazils & Apricots
Kcal ??? Fat ??? Fat(sats) ??? Carbs ???
I am sure you will agree that this was the uglier of the two bars :D the unidentified green bits caused me to quickly refer to the ingredients list upon where I quickly learnt that they were in fact pumpkin seeds. I'm sure someone will inform me of the health benefits, but I have to say they did little for the taste and proved more an annoyance getting trapped in my teeth. In regards to the other constituents this bar was a bit of a mixed bag, with some mouthfuls full of flavour, whilst others proving relatively tasteless depending on what was portioned where. The apricot cranberries and raisins were all plump and juicy, and provided the desired fruity sweetness to the very plain tasting rice base. On the flip side the brazil nuts were pretty lax in their flavour contribution, and it was only really where the coconut was present that a nuttiness came through. Billed as 70% dark chocolate I was hoping the base was going to contribute a grander chocolate flavour hit than it did. Unfortunately the chocolate came across very diluted in it's cereal bedding - I understand heavier portioning would have hampered the 'healthy' proposition, but it was begging out for a thicker chocolate base.
7.3 out of 10
Eat Natural Cranberries, Macadamias & Dark Chocolate
Kcal ??? Fat ??? Fat(sats) ??? Carbs ???
The less alien looking bar emanated some tempting nutty scents when unsealed from it's wrapper which was unsurprising given it's heavier portioning of nuts. Fundamentally this was largely the same bar as the one above, just with some minor differences in the portioning of some constituents. I don't know what strength the chocolate was this time, but it yet again cried out to be more generously portioned as the smokey cocoa flavours struggled to cut through the more dominant savoury rice cereal base. Although lacking the apricot of the above, the cranberry fruits took more of a leading role making for a tarter fruity taste than in the previous. As you may have guessed, it was the nuts where I felt this bar had more going for it, and this was mostly down to the copious amounts of coconut involved. Indeed, the shredded coconut added a very nice milky nuttiness to almost every bite, whilst the less prominent macadamias contributed some more additional subtle buttery nut flavours when encountered.
7.6 out of 10
Overall these where both sound offerings from Eat Natural, though both were crying out for a thicker layer of dark chocolate to supplement the tasty fruit and nut constituents. What with the company going from strength-to-strength and branching out in to new areas, I think it may be worth them considering making an an actual chocolate bar range. If they paired up the great quality fruit and nut produce with some high quality chocolate, then I think they could be on to something quite special. Do any of you have any favourites from Eat Natural? Have you tried either of these two bars?
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Inspiration Moves Me Brightly
Thursday, June 28, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized
As we all know abstract art has become quite the trend lately and I've enjoyed seeing all of those artists emerge over the past couple of years; so much so, that they've inspired me to get out my own paints and canvas' and go crazy with color. I've discovered two things: 1. These paintings are not as easy to do as they look (a lot of comments about how your children could create something similar) and 2. They've been adding some nice color to my space. Abstract art is where it's at. Take a look at some of my paintings below and see if they inspire you to get out the paints and do a little DIY!
beach bum
it's alright
sounds right
sailors delight
the wheel
fresh scent
This last piece was done by a friend of mine, Vanessa Bogosian — which is amazingly colorful and bold and has that oh so ikat effect that we all love!
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From the good to the bad to the downright sad (a viewing of Stepmom requires at least a box of tissues... per person), mother-daughter relationships on the big screen are never without drama—which is why they're so fun to watch, especially alongside your own queen bee.
So spend some quality girl time with a few of these flicks and a big bowl of popcorn. And tissues!


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Guns, jewelry stolen from home in Stokesdale
Guns, jewelry stolen from home in Stokesdale
Deputies are looking for whoever stole several guns, pieces of jewelry and electronic devices from a home Wednesday morning.
The break-in and theft happened sometime between 7 a.m. and noon Wednesday at a home on Osage Road, Rockingham County deputies said.
Jewelry stolen included several silver necklaces, and the electronics stolen included a Playstation 3 and a laptop computer, deputies said.
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Charmi was the tyrantical ruler of the Demension Of Morc, or the Land Of Monsters. Charmi used his Monster Riders to rule with an iron fist. Charmi was a master at controlling beasts with mind control.
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Charmi and his Monster Riders had overthrown the original rulers of the Dimension Of Morc. He sent his Monster Riders to Eternia, to lure He-Man to the Dimension Of Morc. Charmi's plan went as he desired. He-Man was captured by Charmi and forced to fight a huge beast in Charmi's arena.n the struggle with the monster, He-Man throws rocks at it until one of them bounces off in the direction of the balcony on which Charmi stood, causing him to fall down to the ground, where the beast steps on him and crushes him. The beast is now free of his mind control and goes on a rampage in the city, driving the Monster Riders out of the city and allowing the Humans to take back their home.
Trivia (Clawful94): The name "Charmi" is a translation from the word "Morc". Morc is often mistaken as the name of the Monster Riders' Leader. Morc is actually the dimension that took place in the story. The character is actually unnamed.
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- This article is written from an out-of-universe perspective.
- Ygritte: "Is that how you lot do your fighting? You march down the road banging drums and waving banners?"
- Jon Snow: "Most of the time, yes."
- Ygritte: "How do the men holding the banners fight?"
- Jon Snow: "They don't, really. It's a great honor to carry your House sigil."
- — Jon Snow explains to Ygritte the wildling the importance of heraldry in the Seven Kingdoms.[src]
The various noble Houses of the Seven Kingdoms use distinctive heraldry to identify their armies on the battlefield and as a sign of status for individuals.
Heraldic designs may consist of a simple pattern of colors, but also usually feature real or mythological animals or objects. Specific sets of formal rules govern what form a heraldic design may take.
Only members of noble families have the legal right to formally display their own heraldry. Knights also gain the legal right to formally display their own heraldry. Even when a commoner or lowly mercenary gets knighted, he legally becomes a member of "the nobility" and can invent his own personal heraldry - even if he is a poor hedge knight, and not a "Lord" that has the right to sit in judgement, and doesn't own or control land. The followers of a noble family can display their lord's heraldry (i.e. Lannister footsoldiers can carry banners with Lannister heraldry), but it is illegal for members of the smallfolk to just make up and use their own heraldry.
The heraldry of each noble House is also accompanied by a specific House motto, or "words". These typically take the form of boasts or battle-cries, such as House Baratheon's words "Ours is the fury!", or House Tully's words "Family, Duty, Honor". House Stark is a major exception in that unlike most other Houses, its words are not a boast but the ominous warning "Winter is coming". House words do not typically appear on a House's heraldry, in the books as well as the TV series.
Heraldry in Westeros and in the real-world
In the real-life Middle Ages, a specific set of rules governed heraldry designs.
The colors used in heraldry are formally known as "tinctures", though these are subdivided into regular "colors", "metals", and "furs". Red, Green, Blue, Purple, and Black are considered "colors". Certain other colors (i.e. Brown) were added in later centuries as new dyes became available to Medieval Europe. The two "metals" are Gold and Silver, though both of these actually encompass a spectrum of colors: gold to orange to yellow is all considered "gold", while white to grey is collectively considered "silver". A few fur patterns were also used, such as "Ermine" and "Vair". Ermine is supposed to look like the tail pattern of a stoat, and Vair is supposed to resemble the belly coloration of a kind of squirrel. Furs such as Ermine are technically patterns, not single "colors", but are arbitrarily lumped in with colors and metals as "tinctures". Each tincture officially consists of a specific shade of a given color and no other: there is only one shade of "blue" which can be used, with no variation between different shades of "light blue" and "dark blue".
The most important rule of heraldry is the rule of tincture:
- Metal shall never be put on metal, nor color on color.
It is against the rules of heraldry for a design to be half red and half blue, or for it to be half gold and half silver. For example, the sigil of House Lannister is a gold lion (metal) on a red field (color). It would not be permitted to have a gold lion on a silver background, because it is also a metal. Ostensibly this is because heraldry is supposed to identify different armies on the battlefield and should be easily distinguishable at a glance.
There is a major loophole to this rule, however, in the choice of color for the animal or object (the sigil) used in a heraldic design. An object may be depicted as "proper" - using the color it possesses in nature - regardless of what other colors it is touching. This explicitly allows the animal or object featured in a heraldic design to break the rule of tincture. For example, the sigil of House Stark is a grey direwolf on a snow-white field, which breaks the "no metal against metal" rule. However, direwolves are actually grey in nature, so it is simply being displayed "proper" - the rule of tincture does not apply, and it can be used on a white field. In contrast, it would still break the rules of heraldry to put a purple direwolf on a blue background, because direwolves are never purple in nature, and a purple direwolf cannot plausibly be said to be displayed "proper".
A problem presented in both the A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO's TV adaptation Game of Thrones is that a specific set of terminology is officially used in heraldry, describing the different tinctures as well as design motifs - and this terminology only exists in the French language. The official names for the various tinctures are: Gules (Red), Vert (Green), Azure (Blue), Purpure (Purple), Sable (Black), Or (Gold), Argent (Silver).
French does not exist in the fictional world of Westeros and Essos, however, so it may be impossible to use the real-life formal terminology of heraldry in this context. For example, no one within the narrative is ever going to say to Tywin Lannister that the sigil of his House is "gules, a lion or".
Different designs may be fitted into various shapes on flags or armor, but because they were originally painted onto shields, the official shape of an overall piece of heraldry is usually the shape of a shield (an escutcheon). This is the practice throughout most of the Seven Kingdoms, with the major exception of Dorne. Military tactics in the deserts of Dorne favor quick hit-and-run attacks, as opposed to columns of slow and bulky armored knights, who would soon suffer from lack of available water sources. Thus instead of using the full shields of heavy knights, the Dornish favor lightly armored and mobile riders who fight with spears and small rounded shields. This is reflected in the heraldry of Houses from Dorne, which are officially in the shape of a perfect circle, not an escutcheon.
Younger sons, variations, and personal sigils
Younger sons of noble Houses often prefer to use their own distinctive personal sigils, which are often a slight variation of the official sigil of their House. Sometimes even the oldest son and heir, or even the current lord, may have his own personal sigil - this is simply a matter of preference.
For example, while the official heraldry of House Tully is a silver fish on a red and blue background, Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully uses a variant of this for his personal heraldry, which consists of a black fish on a red and blue background.
Euron Greyjoy's personal heraldry (in the TV version) is the standard Greyjoy heraldry of a gold kraken on black, but with a red eye inscribed onto the head of the kraken (this is a simplification of Euron's more complex personal sigil in the books).
Acknowledged bastard children of a noble family are still not legally permitted to officially carry the heraldry of their noble parent's House. They may unofficially carry a flag displaying the heraldry on the battlefield or use weapons and equipment that display its heraldic symbol - but only as much as any common footsoldier in their noble parent's army may also carry such equipment. If an acknowledged noble-born bastard began openly wearing capes and armor displaying the heraldry of his noble parent's House, and using banners displaying the heraldry at formal social functions, he would face legal troubles and punishment.
For example, Jon Snow (before he joined the Night's Watch and forsook all family ties) was forbidden from officially "carrying" and displaying the Stark heraldry of a grey direwolf on a white field. One of House Stark's bannermen such as Ser Rodrik Cassel might physically hold a flag displaying the Stark heraldry, or even a common Stark footman might carry such a flag, and thus Jon may have carried weapons or equipment featuring the Stark direwolf design motif, but Jon was not allowed to use the Stark heraldry as a representation of himself, because this would be essentially making the false claim that he was a legitimized child who no longer bore the shame of his bastardy.
Noble-born bastards are in a legal state between fullborn nobles and simple commoners, however, and unlike the common smallfolk, acknowledged bastards are allowed to use their own heraldry - just not the heraldry of their noble parent's House. A custom very common in Westeros is for bastards to use the heraldry of their noble-born parent's House but with the colors inverted (which is known as "breaking" the design scheme). While the books and TV series never portrayed Jon Snow as using any kind of heraldry before he joined the Night's Watch, if he followed this custom his personal sigil would have been a white direwolf on a grey field, the reverse of the Stark colors. Thus the discovery of the six direwolf pups by Ned Stark and his sons is all the more considered a sign from the Old Gods: not only were there two female and four male pups (to match the Stark children), but the sixth was an albino - physically resembling the white direwolf design that Jon would use in heraldry as a bastard son. This is further signified when Lord Wyman Manderly dubs Jon "the White Wolf" during his election as the new King in the North.
One of the more infamous examples of bastard heraldry is House Blackfyre, a cadet branch of House Targaryen founded by bastard son Daemon Blackfyre when he was legitimized, over a century before the War of the Five Kings. Following the custom for bastards, Daemon inverted the color scheme of the Targaryen heraldry, so instead of the normal red three-headed dragon on a black background, House Blackfyre's heraldry consisted of a black three-headed dragon on a red background.
Exceptions: the Night's Watch and the Kingsguard
The Night's Watch has no heraldic symbol, to emphasize its sworn duty to be removed from petty politics of one lordly House or another, but to defend the lands of men as a whole. Thus, the Night's Watch uses solid black on its banner and shields, which symbolizes the erasure of any allegiance to noble Houses. Even the "uniform" of the Night's Watch is to wear solid black clothing; members from wealthier families often buy all-black clothing before leaving for the Wall, while poor conscripts have their clothing simply dyed black when they reach the Wall (clothing which isn't always well-suited for cold weather). Thus when new recruits join the Night's Watch, they are often said to "take the black", to take up the black uniform.
Solid black specifically denotes the rejection of heraldry, and is therefore strictly speaking not a "symbol" in and of itself, but the absence of a symbol. Even the seals on messages sent by the Night's Watch are simply made in black wax with no symbol on them. The wildlings have taken to calling members of the Night's Watch "crows" because like crows they are covered in black, but this is just a nickname - though it has also caught on a bit south of the Wall as well, as travelling Night's Watch recruiters such as Yoren are often called "wandering crows".
- The Night's Watch-related articles on the Game of Thrones Wiki make use of the black raven icon used for the Night's Watch and associated characters on the HBO Viewer's Guide, but this is only because it became too confusing to use a solid black navigation icon in different articles. The black crow icon from the HBO website is non-canonical and never actually used within the story.
Members of the elite Kingsguard are noted for their all-white cloaks and white enameled gold armor. In the novels, individual members of the Kingsguard, in private events such as tournaments, bear only solid white heraldry on their shields and banners - the opposite of how a knight with no allegiance will use solid black heraldry. Indeed, only members of the Kingsguard legally have the right to carry shields and banners emblazoned with all-white heraldry. Somewhat like the Night's Watch, they formally renounce their familial and political allegiances when they join the order. Unlike the Night's Watch, the all-white banners of the Kingsguard are technically not considered to be a rejection or absence of heraldry, the way black is.
The Kingsguard as an institution, however, does have a symbol, a triple-pointed crown made of swords, representing the crown of the King of the Andals and the First Men. They wear this on their armor, and carry it on banners when leading the king's armies in war, acting officially in their capacity as Kingsguard.
The novels have given somewhat conflicting statements about Kingsguard heraldry, saying at different times that they are the only men in Westeros legally allowed to display solid white heraldry, but at other times also saying that the symbol "of the Kingsguard" is a golden crown encircled by seven silver swords, on a white field. The apparent explanation is that the crown and swords are the symbol of "the Kingsguard" as an institution, but in private events such as tournaments, Kingsguard are not representing the king, so they display only solid white heraldry - given that they have formally renounced their prior family allegiances and heraldry. In the books, Jaime Lannister flagrantly violated this principle by wearing armor decorated with golden Lannister lions while in Robert's Kingsguard, but multiple characters point out that he shouldn't be allowed to do this (Robert can't complain because he is dependent on Jaime's father for financial support).
The TV series modified the "Kingsguard institutional symbol" from the novels: when it debuted in Season 1, it appeared as a triple-pointed crown with no swords. This continued until Season 4, when without explanation all of the Kingsguard shifted to use a new symbol of a triple-pointed crown shape formed by three interlocking swords symbols. The symbol did not change in-universe, this was a retcon: even carvings in the White Sword Tower and The Book of Brothers (a decades-old book) appear in Season 4 with the new symbol. The TV series has also not yet directly established that the Kingsguard are the only group allowed to display all-white heraldry at tournaments.
The North
Heraldry is closely associated with knighthood, which was introduced to Westeros by the Andals six thousand years ago. Northern warriors are not as flashy as southern knights, fighting over frivolous love feuds, but have to be dour and grim to survive the harsh winters which affect the North. Some of the heraldry from southern Westeros can be very ornate, which the Northerners see as frivolous. As a result, George R.R. Martin intentionally made heraldry in the North not as complex as heraldry from the south of Westeros.
The Vale of Arryn
The Riverlands
The Westerlands
The Crownlands
Three centuries before the War of the Five Kings, Aegon I Targaryen and his two sisters rode their dragons to conquer and unite the Seven Kingdoms. They then established a new heraldry design for the Targaryen royal line: a three-headed red dragon on a black field. The three heads represent Aegon I and his two sisters.
After Robert Baratheon became king, he continued to use the heraldry of House Baratheon of Storm's End, a black stag on a gold field, but with a crowned stag to signify the new royal status of his House. In Season 2, Joffrey's "House Baratheon of King's Landing" starts using a new heraldry design, with a Baratheon stag and a Lannister lion facing each other. The books more clearly explain that this is what Joffrey used as his personal heraldry, even before Robert died. When Joffrey comes to Winterfell at the beginning of the first novel, Jon Snow remarks on how arrogant it is that Joffrey gives equal standing to his mother's House in his personal sigil. By the second novel, corresponding to Season 2, Joffrey just used his personal sigil so prolifically at court that it became established as the new heraldry for his cadet branch of House Baratheon.
Stannis, as a second son, formally established the cadet branch "House Baratheon of Dragonstone", using as its heraldry his own personal sigil, the black stag of Baratheon surrounded by the fiery red heart of the Lord of Light. After Renly died, with Cersei's children really bastards of incest, Stannis's branch became the de facto main branch of "House Baratheon" (not that the Lannisters will admit it). As a result, in the books, at the Battle of Castle Black Jon Snow notices Stannis's soldiers carrying both Stannis's fiery-heart sigil, as well as the original black stag on a gold field version of the Baratheon heraldry (perhaps to emphasize that Stannis's branch is the "real" House Baratheon at this point).
The Iron Islands
Euron Greyjoy has his own personal sigil in the books, and Season 7 of the TV series introduced a simplified version. In the books, it is a red eye (with a black pupil), which is surmounted by a black crown being held aloft by two black crows (the background color isn't described). This is wordplay on his nickname, "Crow's Eye". Season 7 of the TV series also introduced a personal sigil for Euron, but because he isn't missing an eye in the TV version and is never called Crow's Eye, the crow element was removed, and just combined with the regular Greyjoy heraldry: as a result, Euron's personal sigil in the TV version is a gold kraken on a black field, with a third red eye inscribed onto the head of the kraken.
The Stormlands
Before the Targaryen Conquest, the independent Kingdom of the Stormlands was ruled by House Durrandon, but during the conquest the last of the Storm Kings, Argilac Durrandon, was killed in battle by the Targaryen general Orys Baratheon (rumored to be a bastard half-brother of Aegon the Conqueror himself). Aegon gave Orys rule over the Stormlands, which he secured by taking Argilac's castle-seat at Storm's End and his daughter (and only child) as his wife. Thus while House Durrandon officially became extinct, its bloodline continued in House Baratheon. Orys also took the old Durrandon heraldry as his own, so House Durrandon's heraldry was the same as the later heraldry used by House Baratheon.
A widespread fan assumption for some time was that because the Baratheons were not kings like the Durrandons had been, they stopped using a crown on their stag sigil, and just used a plain stag for the next three centuries - and only recently re-added a crown to the stag, after Robert's Rebellion when Robert Baratheon overthrew the Targaryen kings. However, when the Baratheons make appearances during the Tales of Dunk and Egg prequel novellas (particularly Lyonel Baratheon), they are consistently described as used a crowned stag, even though the Targaryens are still the royal family and they are not. Asked about this in 2015, Elio Garcia (owner of Westeros.org) stated that according to materials that George R.R. Martin sent him when co-writing the World of Ice and Fire sourcebook, the Baratheons indeed always used a crowned stag sigil, starting from when Orys founded House Baratheon and exactly copied the Durrandon heraldry, through Robert's Rebellion.[1]
The TV series, however, contradicted this in Season 1's "The Wolf and the Lion": when Bran Stark is being quizzed by Maester Luwin on the heraldry of the Great Houses, he explicitly says that the Baratheon stag only has a crown now, after Robert Baratheon became king. It isn't clear if this was a deliberate change for the TV continuity, or more probably, if the TV scriptwriters also made the common mistake of assuming the Baratheons didn't use a crowned stag before Robert seized the Iron Throne. The practical result of all of this is what exactly Baratheon heraldry should look like in any potential live-action adaptation of the Tales of Dunk & Egg prequels, with or without a crown.
The Reach
Beyond the Seven Kingdoms
Other regions of the Known World might not have the same rules and standards of heraldry as are used in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Even so, many groups in Essos use various heraldic designs to distinguish themselves. Sometimes these may be political entities, but it is most common in Essos to see heraldry used by independent mercenary companies, using distinct symbols on their banners in order to serve the original purpose of heraldry: so soldiers and captains can distinguish the movement of different forces on the battlefield.
The old Ghiscari Empire used Harpies as its symbol, until it was defeated by the Valyrian Freehold five thousand years ago. After the Doom of Valyria four hundred years before the War of the Five Kings, local city-states and former colonies of the region reasserted their independence, and became known as Slaver's Bay. The three major city-states of Slaver's Bay - Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen - like to think of themselves as continuations of the former glories of Old Ghis, so they also use harpies as their symbols, though each uses a slight variant. The Astapori harpy holds a chain with open manacles, the Yunkish harpy holds a whip and an iron collar, while the Meereenese harpy holds nothing.
So far (in both the books and TV series) no specific heraldry has been mentioned for any of the nine Free Cities (though Braavos mints its currency with a symbol of the Titan of Braavos , a famous landmark from the city). Individual noble families or wealthy ruling merchant families from the Free Cities do sometimes use their own heraldic devices but even in the books they have not been prominently mentioned. If anything, at one point in the books Illyrio Mopatis of Pentos remarks that he thinks the Westerosi take their heraldry much too seriously (i.e. Tywin Lannister's constant speeches about how "the lion does not concern himself with the opinions of sheep!") - so apparently, heraldry is simply not as important or developed in the Free Cities as it is in Westeros.
The Dothraki are an illiterate society but also do not use any particular banners or symbols. Dothraki khalasars do sometimes differentiate themselves by decorating their bodies and their horses with different colors of paint. For example, Khal Drogo's khalasar used blue paint. Blue is one of the most expensive dye colors available to the Dothraki, and thus its use it associated with great wealth and power (similar to how purple is the most expensive color dye in Westeros, and thus became associated with royalty).[2] In contrast, Khal Jhaqo's new khalasar, formed after Drogo's death, uses red paint to decorate themselves and their horses. Jhaqo may have initiated this switch to distance his new rule from Drogo's, and cheaper red paint was all they had available at the time.[3] However, individual khalasars have no names, nor particularly long-lasting or deep histories and affiliations, because they frequently dissolve on the death of their khal, or get conquered and absorbed by other khalasars. As a result, the paint-schemes used by individual khalasars do not usually last from one generation to the next.
As for the lands Beyond the Wall in Westeros, Ygritte specifically says that the Free Folk do not use heraldry, or wave banners around which make their forces easy to spot on a conventional battlefield. Instead, they prefer attack by ambush.
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While the heraldry designs used by each noble House were established by author George R.R. Martin in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, graphic artist Jim Stanes was tasked with taking Martin's textual descriptions and adapting them into the visual format of the TV series. Stanes achieved this after laborious effort, and comparisons with literally hundreds of examples from real-life medieval heraldry.
Stanes described the process of physically making the heraldic banners:
- "We basically sent digital files of the artwork to printers, with specific instructions about how big they are, color matching, we put a color system here, which the printer also has. So we print up banners, flags, tent materials, all sorts of things like that."[4]
He went on to explain that the sigils that appear on shields or armor are directly painted on, or applied by the production team. A few of the major Houses get their own molded shields, i.e. the Stark direwolf which appears on their shields is not simply painted on but a more detailed molding. Some of the major Houses also get their own custom armor which features their sigils as part of the design, i.e. the Lannister lions worked into Tywin Lannister's armor.
Stanes explained that the heraldry for the Great Houses were the first ones to be fully developed for Season 1, as well as for a few of the other major Houses which appear prominently in Season 1 (i.e. House Umber).
Stanes described the process of creating the heraldry for some of the Great Houses:
- "The Lannister lion, we went through hundreds and hundreds of versions. We looked at references from the ancient past, the Middle Ages, we looked at 20th century logos, all sorts of different ideas on how a lion could look."[5]
- "The Stark sigil took a long time to develop. The direwolf is a big symbol in the [TV series], so we needed to establish something that really felt right."[6]
- "Greyjoy, they're the kraken. I didn't even known what a kraken was: it's a giant squid, basically, that what's everybody says it is, so we did a big squid."[7]
In the books
The heraldry designs of certain noble Houses are depicted differently between the books and TV series.
In the TV series, many of the sigils used by the Great Houses have alternate versions, some showing the full body of the animal they represent, others just the head, i.e. a direwolf head for the Starks, a lion's head for the Lannisters, a stag's head for the Baratheons. The books clarify that the full-bodied running grey direwolf is the official heraldry design of House Stark: the variant using just a direwolf's head is Robb Stark's personal sigil. The TV series just uses various alternate designs, each of them considered "official" for their noble House.
Sometimes these are slight variations on the field, often adding an escutcheon on the bottom of large banners, though these additions are not seen in all versions. For example, House Stark's heraldry in the books only consists of a grey direwolf on a snow white field. In the TV series, large banners sometimes depict this surmounting a green escutcheon, introducing a new color that wasn't in the original heraldry. Some of the original House Baratheon banners (i.e. at the tournament in Season 1) use a black escutcheon on the bottom of large banners, but this is simply a re-use of colors already in the heraldry (from the black stag).
On a few occasions the heraldry of a noble House has been drastically altered in the TV series, possibly to make it more easily visible. The greatest example are the changes made to the heraldry of House Frey. In the books, House Frey's heraldry consists of the two towers and bridge of the Twins colored blue, on a silver-grey background. The TV series made the towers white, and over the same grey field, but now above a blue escutcheon which is drawn to resemble the waves of the Green Fork of the Trident River. The color change may be because after the blue river was added as an escutcheon at the bottom, it would have been visually confusing to have the castle be the same color as the water. Unfortunately, reversing the colors like this makes it vaguely resemble the reversed colors used in heraldry by bastard children (though in such cases, without the escutcheon, the entire background field is blue, not just the escutcheon).
The heraldry of House Tully, which is fairly important as it is one of the Great Houses, was significantly re-arranged in the adaptation. In the TV series, it is striped horizontally, with two wavy white lines separating a red top section (which contains a white fish) and a blue bottom section (the small space between the two white stripes is also blue). In the books, the stripes run vertically, and there are no white stripes. Rather, the heraldry starts as blue, but then two wavy muddy-red vertical stripes run through the blue, making for a total of five stripes - each of equal width - alternating blue/red/blue/red/blue. The white fish is set in the middle of this, and crosses through multiple stripes. Because the TV series just has two large red and blue sections, instead of five stripes of equal width, the fish in the TV series is entirely contained within the top red section.
House Arryn, also a Great House, also had its heraldry significantly changed. In the books, House Arryn's heraldry is a sky-blue falcon soaring against a white moon, on sky-blue. The TV series version, however, has a white falcon next to a white crescent moon, on a blue field.
In the books, the sigil of House Umber is a roaring giant in chains, but the TV series changed this to simply four linked chains connected by a central ring. It is possible there were concerns that the TV audience might not understand it was meant to be a giant and not just an odd-looking man. Earlier concept art by Jim Stanes (seen in production blogs) reveals that the TV version of the Umber sigil went through several versions, and an earlier version did contain a giant's arm (with its body out of frame) grasping the chains.
The heraldry of House Mallister in the books is a silver eagle on a purple field, but in the TV series the field is blue.
House Redwyne's heraldry in the books is a burgundy grape cluster on a blue field, but the TV series changed this to a burgundy grape cluster on a white field, probably because burgundy on blue is more difficult to readily distinguish.
The heraldry of House Florent is inconsistently described in the books, but apparently consists of a red-gold fox's head, encircled by lapis lazuli flowers, all of which is on an ermine background. The TV version simply omits the lapis lazuli flowers (and predominantly shows a full-bodied fox).
Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish prefers to use his personal mockingbird sigil, but as he is the only living member of House Baelish, he has functionally replaced the old version (which featured the head of the Titan of Braavos) with his own. The mockingbird heraldry has not appeared prominently in heraldry on the TV series so far (though Petyr does prominently wear a mockingbird-shaped broach, it doesn't feature colors). The one time it has appeared was on a ship's sail in Season 3, in which it seemed to be a black mockingbird on a yellow field. In the books, the sigil actually consists of a field of multiple silver mockingbirds, on a green plain.
The heraldry of House Corbray in the books is three black ravens in flight, each holding a separate red heart, on a white field. In the TV series continuity (as briefly glimpsed in an animated featurette), it is apparently a single black raven instead of three.
- ↑ Westeros.org's Twitter
- ↑ Season 3 Blu-Ray special features
- ↑ David J. Peterson's blog, Dothraki.com
- ↑ Game Of Thrones: The Artisans - Jim Stanes, Graphic Artist: Heraldry
- ↑ Game Of Thrones: The Artisans - Jim Stanes, Graphic Artist: Heraldry
- ↑ Game Of Thrones: The Artisans - Jim Stanes, Graphic Artist: Heraldry
- ↑ Game Of Thrones: The Artisans - Jim Stanes, Graphic Artist: Heraldry
See also
- Heraldry on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (MAJOR spoilers from the books)
- Heraldry on Wikipedia


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Jaynee Van Wormer, 2008 graduate of Houghton College, is helping to bring hope to children in Buffalo.
"I'm not just flitting in, doing something dramatic and then leaving," Jaynee said, "I'm someone who's there, and I'm on their side."
Jaynee serves at Cornerstone Manor, the Buffalo City Mission's women's and children's shelter. Cornerstone Manor is a Christian organization that supports homeless men, women and children seeking restored lives. Jaynee facilitates summer and afterschool programs for the children that reside within the shelter.
Jaynee describes how little Dave slumped to the corner of the shelter's white hallway during the mission's summer camp. Kids' laughter and chatter echoed from behind the classroom door. Dave's skinny arms enveloped his knees, and tears glimmered in his dark eyes.
"Nobody likes me," he told Jaynee. "I'm a bad kid, and I never do the right thing. Nobody loves me."
As tears dripped down his cheeks, Jaynee said, "This bad behavior is not who you are. The truth is that God loves you and nothing will ever stop that love."
Later, Jaynee brought Dave back to the classroom, and they played with a ball. Jaynee says, "I feel like I've been able to be a truth-speaker. These kids often come from domestic violence and other unstable living situations, and they're made to feel so small. I like to be able to tell them, 'This is who you are. ...'"
Each day, Jaynee teaches an afterschool program for kids who live in the shelter. Jaynee helps the kids with homework, leads academic games, teaches a short Bible lesson, and plays games with them.
Throughout the week, Jaynee also organizes whole-family activities, including field trips, cooking, and game days.
"We're trying to provide a program where the kids can feel secure and stable" Jaynee says. "Kids who are homeless tend to do so much worse in school, and it's really to do with the instability. I can be a stable person whom they can trust."
One of Jaynee's most motivational experiences while working with Buffalo's homeless children happened during the mission's summer camp. Jaynee ached for Mike.
"I always tried to include him and draw him out by asking questions and showing interest in his projects," Jaynee says. "He was really withdrawn and scared to try new things."
One day, the group traveled to a nearby campground. Several kayaks and canoes lay by the sandy lakeshore, and a counselor offered to teach Mike to kayak. Mike climbed into the kayak and soon began gliding across the rippling water.
"He was just grinning from ear to ear the whole time," Jaynee recalls. "It was so neat to see him coming out of his shell and finally having confidence in himself!"
At the end of the summer, the once withdrawn Mike received the "Mr. Popularity" award.
Jaynee was thrilled.
Jaynee's heart for people in Buffalo began in her sophomore year at Houghton College, as she participated in the Journey's End refugee tutoring ministry. After graduating, she then served more than two years with AmeriCorps in Buffalo before joining the Buffalo City Mission.
"In her quiet, unassuming way, Jaynee reached out in afterschool programs serving refugees and other English language learners and helped them connect with one another," stated Chuck Massey, director of the Office of Urban Connections for Houghton College.
Jaynee's supervisor, Penny Janson, director of education and training, says, "The goal of Jaynee's work is to help the homeless children learn about God and experience some of the normal joys of childhood. Jaynee is an amazing blessing to the education department of the Buffalo City Mission."
Through serving in the mission's summer camp, teaching in the afterschool program, and organizing family activities, Jaynee is helping to bring hope to "children in difficult situations." Children like Dave and Mike are receiving regular doses of genuine love, and they're thriving.
Jaynee's favorite verse is Philippians 2:5, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus."
"It's all about loving and serving people," Jaynee says.
Houghton College is a liberal arts institution that challenges students to academic excellence - in the context of a relevant Christian community - and empowers them to enrich the world. The college of 1,200 students is located in Western New York, just 65 miles from Buffalo and Rochester. For more information, visit www.houghton.edu.


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Calvert Marine Museum adds invader to teach about climate change
The lionfish invasion of Caribbean and southeastern U.S. is coming our way. When Calvert Marine Museum reopens this spring, a lionfish aquarium will show us a 360-degree view of the spiny, brightly colored invader.
With no natural predators in our part of the world, lionfish are eating up the environs. They consume just about every marine creature in range — more than 70 different types of fish, invertebrates and mollusks — plus the coral reefs supporting tropical marine life.
A lionfish's stomach can expand up to 30 times its normal volume. Each is able to devour prey over half its body size as long as it can get its mouth around it. A single, small lionfish may reduce the number of juvenile native fish on any given reef by approximately 79 percent in just five weeks. When food is scarce, the lionfish metabolism crawls to a stop. They can live without food for up to 3 months and only lose 10 percent of their body mass. So it doesn't look like we're going to be able to starve them to death.
In 2010, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched an Eat Lionfish campaign. The well-fed fish are reported to have higher concentrations of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids than snapper and grouper, tilapia, bluefin tuna, mahi mahi, wahoo and other table-fish commonly served in restaurants. Lionfish are also very low in heavy metals like mercury and lead.
Come spring, you'll see the controversial creature in captivity.
A $50,000 donation by a longtime museum supporter makes museum's renovations and the addition of the lionfish exhibit possible.
"We decided lionfish would be an excellent fit for our newly renovated exhibit because we are refocusing our content to increase awareness of issues related to climate change," said Estuarine Biology Curator David Moyer, whose presentation inspired the donation.
"We'll be seeking wild-caught specimens from the Atlantic," Moyer added. "Every lionfish removed from the ocean makes a difference."
This fish ranks in the "beyond bad news
category of fish. The more fish that can be caught before it destroys local stocks of other fish, the better. I had a conversation with a fisherman in the Turks and Caicos island of Providenciales this past summer about this fish. If campaigns are conducted to reduce the lionfish, more sharks move into the local waters.


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Distrust evolution? You need more 'imagination'
Ray Comfort's new movie project takes on faith in Darwin
A prominent anthropology professor at UCLA has the solution for anyone who doubts Darwinian evolution.
You need more imagination.
That's from Gail Kennedy, who was interviewed on the subject by Ray Comfort, veteran Christian evangelist and longtime evolution critic.
"The problem with those who are unable to see evolution, I think, is they don't have imaginations," she said in Comfort's new video, "Evolution vs. God."
Comfort's earlier projects have included "Nothing Created Everything," "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think," "Evolution: A Fairy Tale for Grownups," and "Intelligent Design vs. Evolution," his views are neither undefined nor hidden.
"Evolution vs God," a 38-minute video, now is available for download online, and Comfort plans to make it widely available in a few weeks on DVD.
Several of the scientists interviewed on the video already have spoken out about it.
According to Ken Ham's blog at Answers in Genesis, Minnesota professor PZ Myers, who was interviewed by Comfort, said: "Lie harder, little man … Ray Comfort is pushing his new creationist movie with a lie. … What actually happened is that I briefly discussed the evidence for evolution – genetics and molecular biology of fish, transitional fossils, known phylogenies relating extant groups, and experimental work on bacterial evolution in the lab, and Ray comfort simply denied it all – the bacteria were still bacteria, the fish were still fish."
Explore WND's complete collection of Ray Comfort books and videos here.
But Ham explained that Comfort "asks a question something like this: 'Is there scientific evidence – observable evidence – to support evolution?' Well, none of them could provide anything remotely scientific. Oh, they give the usual examples about changes in bacteria, different species of fish (like stickleback fish) and, as to be expected, Darwin's finches. But as Ray points out over and over again in 'Evolution vs. God,' the bacteria are still bacteria, the fish are still fish, and the finches are still finches!"
The movie will premiere July 22 at AIG's Answers Mega Conference at the Sevierville Convention Center in Sevierville, Tenn.
Other scientists interviewed are Peter Nonacs of UCLA and Craig Stanford of USC.
Said Nonacs: "I am one of the evolutionary biologists interviewed by Ray Comfort for his new DVD. First, Ray is a charming fellow and I greatly enjoy interacting with him. I do not expect that my words will be edited out of context or that I'll find myself somehow saying on camera that 'All of evolutionary biology is a hoax perpetuated in order to justify atheism.' In short, I expect that everything in the DVD will be an accurate reflection of my words."
Comfort explained: "I went to the experts with a camera and asked evolutionary scientists for scientific proof for Darwinian evolution, and the silence was deafening. They didn't have any, and the reason that they didn't have any is because there isn't any. If you don't believe it, watch the movie. If you are a believer in evolution, prepare to have your faith shaken."
Among the responses on Facebook:
- "He is a christian fundamentalist extremist who will tell any lie to further his cause. He is scum. A vile retch of a human being. He banned me from his website because I called him out continuously. Even though I was respectful. He is a coward."
- Ludwig R.: "The human race is doomed with people like Comfort walking around."
- From an atheist: "Worst documentary ever."
But apologist James White said: "Ray Comfort's ability to insightfully shred the vain reasonings of men is a gift, and this film is a tour de force exposure of the emptiness of humanism."
Ham said that when Comfort interviews university students, "you will quickly see they have no idea how to defend evolution."
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Moran fiddled expenses, jury rules
Former Labour MP Margaret Moran fiddled her expenses claims to receive more than £53,000, a jury has ruled.
The 57-year-old claimed nearly her entire annual allowance in one bogus expenses entry and forged invoices for more than £20,000 of non-existent goods and services.
Moran, who served as MP for Luton South from 1997 until the 2010 election, was found to have falsely claimed around £60,000 in parliamentary expenses between 2004 and 2008, of which she received £53,000.
Jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London were unable to return a guilty verdict after it was ruled that Moran was unfit to stand trial for mental health reasons. Instead, in a trial of issue, the jury found she had committed 15 counts of false accounting and six counts of using a false instrument over the claims for parliamentary expenses.
Mr Justice Saunders adjourned the disposal of the case to a later date after the jury reached a unanimous verdict on all counts.
Moran may be subject to a supervision order, a hospital order or absolute discharge, where no further action is taken against her, the judge said. She will not face a criminal conviction due to her ill health which meant she was unfit to stand trial, the court heard.
"She is presently being treated by psychiatrists at home and that treatment will continue," Mr Justice Saunders said.
Moran's false expenses claims are the largest amount uncovered in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal. Former Labour minister Elliot Morley was jailed last year for dishonestly claiming more than £30,000 in parliamentary expenses.
The court heard Moran submitted an invoice for £22,500 in August 2008 - just under the annual maximum expense allowance for an MP - to treat dry rot at her Southampton home, using the money instead to fund "home improvements". She was able to make the dry rot claim by "flipping" her two homes - changing which property was her second home and therefore allowing her to claim expenses on it.
Moran also changed dates on invoices for the work so that the money would be paid. One invoice in August 2007 was for £14,805 - apparently for boiler repairs and work on her conservatory in her constituency home in Luton, when it was actually at her house in Southampton, the court heard.
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The Lady Tornado had four players who scored in double figures, including Chelsea Bowling, who went 11-for-12 at the line as part of her 14 points.
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Trailing by as many as 20 in the second half, the Lady Tornado got to within five of Coker with 1:31 to go on sophomore Bonnie Durrett's (West Paducah, Ky.) layup. However, King could not get any closer, and the Cobras defeated King, 73-65, Saturday at the Student Center Complex.
King did have four players who scored in double figures though. Senior Chelsea Bowling scored 11 of her 14 points from the free throw line. Sophomore Alley Sprouse (Newport, Tenn.) had 12 on 6-for-10 shooting to go along with six rebounds. Freshman Stephanie Brantley (Pilot Mountain, Tenn.) came off the bench and shot 5-for-7 from the field to score 11. Durrett added 10 points for the Lady Tornado.
Amber Lau scored 21, and sister, Autumn Lau, had 16 to lead the Cobras. Both shot 8-for-12 from the field. Coker improved to 16-10 (12-8 Conference Carolinas).
King fell to 12-12 (8-12) and is now tied with North Greenville for the very important eighth spot in the conference. Only the top eight teams make it to the Conference Carolinas Tournament next month. The Lady Tornado will continue their home stand against Converse at the Student Center on Tuesday, February 26 with tip-off slated for 7:00 p.m.


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The Arctic Studies Center's research profile has four topical focus areas:
History of Northern Peoples and Environments
Over the past thirty years, Smithsonian research has helped revise early conceptions of circumpolar peoples as marginalized, impoverished inhabitants of worthless lands. Research has demonstrated that northern peoples adapted creatively to their difficult environment, developing ingenious technology, beautiful art and new forms of social and religious life. Arctic peoples maintained contacts and continuities across Bering Strait for thousands of years while other cultures of Eurasia and North America diverged in isolation. ASC research is also discovering new knowledge about responses of northern cultures, peoples and environments to climatic cycles and global change.
Perhaps more important than its research and exhibits, the ASC has developed new techniques that reconnect Smithsonian researchers, collections and archives with living knowledge-bearers of the North's native peoples. Community archaeology projects provide science training for northern students and teachers. Knowledge repatriation programs conducted by community scholars and museum researchers jointly study, publish and return archival information to northern villages and schools. By emphasizing access and equality with Native and northern peoples, the ASC has invigorated and redirected museum anthropology to serve the goals of scholarship and the aspirations and needs of today's northern people.
William Fitzhugh's work in Labrador, Baffin Island and Quebec reveal a long, complex history of Indian and Inuit (Eskimo) cultures adapted to climatically-sensitive forest and tundra zones of the Far Northeast. Aron Crowell has researched the history and environmental relationships of early cultures of southern Alaska and Kodiak Island with special emphasis on the impacts of geological instability and resource variations on coastal inhabitants. Stephen Loring studies Labrador Innu (Indian) and Inuit (Eskimo) culture history, working closely with Native people and biologists to investigate how humans have utilized caribou from Paleolithic times to the present. Research Associates Noel Broadbent, Daniel Odess and Douglas Siegel-Causey research history, ecology and subsistence adaptations of northern peoples from ancient times to the present in Canada, Alaska and the European Arctic.
Through its studies of ethnographic groups like the Siberian Nenets, the Native peoples of Bering Strait and Western Alaska, and the Labrador Innu and Inuit, the ASC staff and associates have revealed the beauty, tenacity and resiliency of traditional cultures adapting to the modern world. Most of these research programs are conducted in partnership with native or local communities.
Igor Krupnik has researched ethno-history and processes of cultural transformation in Russia and western Alaska. Research Associates Ernest J. Burch, Jr., Ann Fienup-Riordan and Norman Hallendy study ethnohistory, ritual and symbolic culture in Alaska and Canada. And ASC archaeologists have investigated Native-European contacts in Russian America, Labrador and Frobisher Bay as well as culture contact and change in Native traditions of Eurasia and North America.
The ASC's Anchorage office and the Smithsonian Alaskan Collections Project, conducted in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian, is dedicated to making these collections accessible to modern Alaska Native communities. In addition, the National Anthropological Archives houses both unpublished material from arctic researchers and many archival photographs, documenting traditional lifeways. ASC and Native scholars have found the archives a wonderful resource for research and for working with modern northern peoples to ensure cultural survival.
In recent years, ASC programs have emphasized collaboration with Native communities as an approach that offers exciting new research agendas and possibilities. A close relationship has developed with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian which, like the National Museum of Natural History, has valuable staff and collection resources representing northern regions.


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Miami football fans would face a depressing dilemma right now if they paused to consider this Weekend of Woe and compare which was worse between the sad option of two desolate defeats.
The collegiate Hurricanes getting the wind knocked out of them by Louisville 36-9 in their bowl game Saturday night in Orlando seemed about as bad as it gets.
Then came the Dolphins one day later, offering this sobering perspective:
Things can always get worse . . . as they so often seem to when it comes to our still-beleaguered NFL team.
The Dolphins did what they do Sunday: They disappointed. They broke their fans' hearts. The franchise that gave you the Perfect Season so, so long ago has since perfected the black art of betraying faith. Of letting you down so hard it hurts.
Sunday's 20-7 loss here to the New York Jets was beyond bad because Miami was the team playing at home and playing for everything — for the club's first playoff berth since 2008, in search of its first playoff win since 2000 — and yet Miami was the team that got handled, clobbered and dominated, seeming incapable of matching the Jets' urgency.
It was a precious opportunity, but the Dolphins treated this must-win game with what seemed like careless nonchalance, content to observe the playoffs from their couches after a season that ended with an 8-8 record.
"The definition of average," cornerback Brent Grimes rightly called that record. "We went into this season not thinking 'average.' "
The Dolphins' postgame Lockerroom & Mortuary was quiet, the hum of air conditioners in lieu of answers. The only loud thing in the room was Mike Wallace's salmon-colored slacks and sparkly pink sneakers. Wallace called 8-8 "a losing season," shouting over his attire.
"Disheartening," defensive end Jared Odrick half-whispered into the quiet. "You got to let this feeling leave a mark, and brand you hard enough that you don't let it happen again."
You wonder why most Dolfans have become calloused?
Theirs has become a franchise that measures its best days not by the years since, but by the decades. This is a club seemingly mired in quicksand, not drowning but not able to extricate itself, either.
You wonder why most Dolfans have become football fatalists who not only see the glass half-empty but are convinced it's cracked?
Think no further than the way this 2013 season ended. Hopes, fragile but real, had been raised, only to be crushed by the last two games.
You thought last week's 19-0 loss in Buffalo was awful?
Sunday was worse because it was against the hated, stinkin' Jets, but mostly because of the stakes, the opportunity. Miami began this season 3-0, had a three-game winning streak earlier in December, gave itself an opportunity . . . then collapsed.
Miami failed on a 4th-and-1 play Sunday when Charles Clay, a tight end, not a running back, carried for no gain.
Miami failed on a 3rd-and-3 when a lateral pass to Wallace lost four yards.
Things that make a fan want to scream.
The season saw one more win than a year earlier, but still registers as closer to an embarrassment than an improvement. The Richie Incognito/Jonathan Martin Bullygate scandal was part of that embarrassment. So was spending big on free agents and still missing the playoffs. So was the two-game self-destruction that culminated Sunday.
That the season ended badly for young quarterback Ryan Tannehill also is unsettling. He unquestionably improved over his rookie season — "I definitely think so," he said — but he was miserable in the last two games, when he was needed most.
His worst game was a week ago in Buffalo, but Sunday was hardly better, with three interceptions and a 42.1 rating. He was outplayed by the Jets' Geno Smith — never a good thing. Faith in Tannehill's moving forward remains justified, but games like his last two can take a jackhammer to a fan's foundation of faith.
It probably was just as well that the Dolphins lost and blew the playoffs, quite frankly.
It promotes a clearer, more accurate view of this team, this organization.
A playoff berth at 9-7 would have disguised the problems, hidden them in pancake and rouge.
Now all the warts are visible, and red. Now there's no kidding, no pretending that Miami is better than what the record says it is: Average. Flawed. In need of much improvement.
Owner Stephen Ross watched his team's playoff hopes slipping away from an end-zone sideline Sunday, his hands stuffed into his pants pockets. Later, Ross said he would "look at everything." This is what prudent businessmen say, and do. He was noncommittal on everything and everybody, which also is prudent.
Clearly, changes will be made, and should be, but I doubt they will be major. I think coach Joe Philbin and general manager Jeff Ireland will return.
I'm not as sure about offensive coordinator Mike Sherman, whose unit ended the season with one touchdown in its final 25 possessions. Sherman's relationship with Tannehill — he coached him at Texas A&M — may save Sherman, but I'd be doubtful.
Sherman may be sacrificed here, the lamb to sate the screaming masses of Dolfans who have nothing else to do with their disappointment, no other way to show it, than to clamor for change.
Meanwhile, one Dolphins fan, a young man in a Tannehill No. 17 jersey, ended Sunday's game with a paper bag fixed onto his head.
He just sat there, staring through small slits, one solitary man and one sadly noble little statement.
It was as good a snapshot as any for the way this Dolphins year ended and for the frustration that greets the latest long offseason.


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